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Protests against police brutality are being met with police brutality. It’s difficult not to conclude that they don’t understand any other way to do their jobs. They are, themselves, again and again proving the urgency of these demonstrations. https://twitter.com/whitney_hu/status/1266540710188195843
Another. Senseless. https://twitter.com/zeeshanaleem/status/1266562022398926848?s=21 https://twitter.com/zeeshanaleem/status/1266562022398926848
More. https://twitter.com/voltairelaflare/status/1266527926675296256?s=21 https://twitter.com/voltairelaflare/status/1266527926675296256
Hitting a protester with a bicycle. https://twitter.com/brittm_tv/status/1266497944796225538?s=21 https://twitter.com/brittm_tv/status/1266497944796225538
Threatening journalists. https://twitter.com/sfreemark/status/1266610636173324288
The NYPD has just driven an SUV directly into a large group of protesters. Utterly reckless and, frankly, reminiscent of Charlottesville. https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/1266894785375240193?s=21 https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/1266894785375240193
There’s no end of examples. https://twitter.com/jordanuhl/status/1266837637672960002?s=21 https://twitter.com/jordanuhl/status/1266837637672960002
Another angle on NYPD deliberately slamming into protesters. Horrific. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1266910534055669762?s=21 https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1266910534055669762
Jesus. https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/1266895719455248385?s=21 https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/1266895719455248385
The police brutality just keeps on coming. https://twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137
Journalists targeted again. https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422
An old man with a cane. https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1266914525560942594
“We kept saying we were media.” https://twitter.com/ryanraiche/status/1266919035033264130?s=21 https://twitter.com/ryanraiche/status/1266919035033264130
Pulling down someone’s facemask in order to better pepper spray them as they are moving backwards with their hands up. https://twitter.com/sifill_ldf/status/1266928343141752833?s=21 https://twitter.com/sifill_ldf/status/1266928343141752833
Another journalist arrested. https://twitter.com/huffpost/status/1266936484692725766?s=21 https://twitter.com/huffpost/status/1266936484692725766
Photographer Linda Tirado has been permanently blinded in her left eye after police shot her with what appeared to be a rubber bullet. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1266935666274906113?s=21 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1266935666274906113
https://twitter.com/killermartinis/status/1266786161143537669?s=21 https://twitter.com/killermartinis/status/1266786161143537669
https://twitter.com/killermartinis/status/1266880944998244352?s=21 https://twitter.com/killermartinis/status/1266880944998244352
“Light ‘em up!” https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266940018196692995?s=21 https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266940018196692995
Yet another case in which a clearly identifiable journalist appears to have been directly targeted. https://twitter.com/jeremyjojola/status/1266945562957484032?s=21 https://twitter.com/jeremyjojola/status/1266945562957484032
As the tweet says, it's exactly this sort of behavior that has protestors on the streets fighting for justice. And they seem completely fine about doing this in front of a crowd/cameras. https://twitter.com/thedailyangle/status/1266917131653910529
John Cusack gets chased away by baton-wielding police who sound like WWE wrestlers shooting a promo. https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266938983575101441?s=20
A Vice News reporter targeted. This one is outrageous. He is holding up his press card. He repeatedly identifies as press. He complies when asked to get on the ground. And, despite that, the police pepper spray him. https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317/status/1266945268567678976?s=20
These arrests and attacks on clearly identifiable journalists don’t happen in a vacuum. Years of “fake news” and “enemies of the people” talk, misinformation and lies on social media and the very *idea* of verifiable facts under attack. It’s all related.
This is New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie. https://twitter.com/zellnor4ny/status/1266802303807500288?s=20
Indiscriminate drive-by pepper spraying. https://twitter.com/stribrooks/status/1266186985041022976?s=20
"What the fuck you gonna do about it?" https://twitter.com/arlenparsa/status/1266820422856826880?s=20
Windows smashed, tasers, pepper spray, cable ties. https://twitter.com/KCJ_Swish/status/1266913464234237954?s=20
CBS journalists, nowhere near protests, shot at with rubber bullets. https://twitter.com/MikeGeorgeCBS/status/1266919447970942986
Ryan is a journalist with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. https://twitter.com/RyanFaircloth/status/1266961134751449089
ffs. https://twitter.com/steelbrooks/status/1266966177718427648?s=21 https://twitter.com/steelbrooks/status/1266966177718427648
“They didn’t care. They didn’t care that he was hurt.” https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1266957030285127687?s=21 https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1266957030285127687
