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VIDEO EVIDENCE OF COPS BEING AGGRESSORS: A THREAD
First, here is a CNN reporter being arrested on camera. When he asked if he could keep reporting, the cop replied "I don't know, I'm just following orders".
Who is ordering journalists' arrest? https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1266315061221613569?s=20
First, here is a CNN reporter being arrested on camera. When he asked if he could keep reporting, the cop replied "I don't know, I'm just following orders".
Who is ordering journalists' arrest? https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1266315061221613569?s=20
Protestors on the scene in Minneapolis claim that the police were the first ones to incite violence, and began attacking protestors needlessly. https://twitter.com/h_ewoo_/status/1266357760175808514?s=20
Here is a disturbing video of a cop jump kicking a surrendering, unarmed black man in the back. Video is highly racist and disturbing, I am only sharing for informational purposes. https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1266577416950079494?s=20
This is a video of two cops assaulting a protestor: one attempting to restrain him, and the other beating him mercilessly with a baton. Police later claimed he shouldn't have tried to get away.
...From being beaten with a nightstick? https://twitter.com/j0ncampbell/status/1266514356071735296?s=20
...From being beaten with a nightstick? https://twitter.com/j0ncampbell/status/1266514356071735296?s=20
This is a video of an NYPD officer brutally throwing a woman down onto the pavement. She suffered a seizure as a result of this violent attack and was hospitalized.
The officer has not been arrested or charged with any wrongdoing. https://twitter.com/jungkookmh/status/1266591303388860418?s=20
The officer has not been arrested or charged with any wrongdoing. https://twitter.com/jungkookmh/status/1266591303388860418?s=20
This is video of @phoenixpolice launching tear gas into the crowd last night, just miles from where I live. https://twitter.com/azcentral/status/1266601555878449155?s=20
This is a video of Seattle police assaulting unarmed peaceful protestors. https://twitter.com/daeshikjr/status/1266616109911797760?s=20
Here's the NYPD slamming a person with a car door as they drive by https://twitter.com/DriveWendys/status/1266555286678048770?s=20
Fort Wayne police tear gassed a peaceful crowd. https://twitter.com/blazedyukhei/status/1266533569029177346?s=20
All across the country, police officers can't wait to beat up some protestors.
And it's always been this way. Always. https://twitter.com/7interlude/status/1266598835213799424?s=20
And it's always been this way. Always. https://twitter.com/7interlude/status/1266598835213799424?s=20
This is a video of police officers looting & destroying civilians' water and medical supplies. In response to a nonviolent protest. In the middle of summer. In the middle of a pandemic. https://twitter.com/nataliealund/status/1266877181164089349?s=20
Here's some LAPD cops beating protestors mercilessly with batons. https://twitter.com/mkultranews/status/1266897337953054722?s=20
Here's just a quick rundown on police violence against journalists today.
@KillerMartinis, a photojournalist, was permanently blinded in one eye: https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669
A Swedish reporter was shot with rubber bullets: https://twitter.com/dodafageln/status/1266900717090091008?s=20
And more: https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA/status/1266898589281734657?s=20
@KillerMartinis, a photojournalist, was permanently blinded in one eye: https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669
A Swedish reporter was shot with rubber bullets: https://twitter.com/dodafageln/status/1266900717090091008?s=20
And more: https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA/status/1266898589281734657?s=20
Today an innocent civilian woman was shot on the street while walking home with her groceries.
Police have historically attacked & injured innocent bystanders as a tactic to justify intensifying the violence that they are inciting.
Source here: https://twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137?s=20
Police have historically attacked & injured innocent bystanders as a tactic to justify intensifying the violence that they are inciting.
Source here: https://twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137?s=20
According to @halsey and other eyewitnesses, LAPD deployed tear gas and opened fire on a crowd of unarmed, peaceful protestors, the majority of whom had their hands up and were pleading, "DON'T SHOOT!" https://twitter.com/halsey/status/1266913515052261376?s=20
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced the closing of ALL public COVID-19 testing centers in Los Angeles, saying "We're not going to stand for the burning of police cars."
He is condemning an entire city to infectious disease. https://twitter.com/safrazie/status/1266874958757523456?s=20
He is condemning an entire city to infectious disease. https://twitter.com/safrazie/status/1266874958757523456?s=20
They all start to blur together: here is yet another clip of police brutally attacking a helpless, unarmed protestor. https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266837637672960002?s=20
And here's police pinning down and beating a journalist on scene attempting to do his job. https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1266913490301792257?s=20
Here's a bit of insight into the police psyche: after falling off an armored transport, this cop's FIRST INSTINCT is to pepper spray the shit out of the air in front of him.
He just nonchalantly released a highly dangerous chemical weapon in a US city. https://twitter.com/AramShabanian/status/1266875523369562112?s=20
He just nonchalantly released a highly dangerous chemical weapon in a US city. https://twitter.com/AramShabanian/status/1266875523369562112?s=20
Here is a child who took some pepper spray to the face.
Say what you will about the parents here, but NO child should ever be in even *remote* danger of being pepper sprayed in the face while standing on US soil @ peacetime. Is that controversial? https://twitter.com/mkultranews/status/1266922186612199424?s=20
Say what you will about the parents here, but NO child should ever be in even *remote* danger of being pepper sprayed in the face while standing on US soil @ peacetime. Is that controversial? https://twitter.com/mkultranews/status/1266922186612199424?s=20
Police in multiple cities have been taping, jamming, or otherwise disabling their body cameras before violently attacking protestors. Here is photo evidence from Columbus, OH: https://twitter.com/ToneNinas/status/1266795583454556166?s=20
Here is #RentStrikeRicci, a well-known LA organizer, attempting to de-escalate and remove protestors from the scene.
Police attacked & arrested him, unprovoked. https://twitter.com/adrielhampton/status/1266878293724151808?s=20
Police attacked & arrested him, unprovoked. https://twitter.com/adrielhampton/status/1266878293724151808?s=20
Journalist @AliVelshi was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet. https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1266920629623681025?s=20
In Kansas City, police dropped tear gas on the WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT THE BACK OF THE PROTEST, leaving the canister to ignite, which was then put out by protestors. https://twitter.com/MyGayMarriage/status/1266905798703284235?s=20
Minnesota State Patrol fired tear gas at reporters & photographers at point-blank range. https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422?s=20
A journalist with her press credentials visible was tear gassed, beaten with a nightstick, and had the back window of her car shot out by police too, just for good measure... https://twitter.com/TinaDesireeBerg/status/1266922413591105536?s=20
less violent but still unjust: ICE has used the protests against brutal policing as an opportunity to hunt down, capture, and deport Latinx and other people of color. https://twitter.com/KALIUCHIS/status/1266890535307866112?s=20
And in Chicago, all the bridges surrounding downtown were raised immediately before the mayor announced a curfew -- about an hour before it was to take effect. Protestors were left stranded & trapped and subject to arrest for occupying public spaces. https://twitter.com/RichardERoeper/status/1266892959603097600?s=20
In Minneapolis, the National Guard is rolling tanks through residential neighborhoods and soldiers are yelling "light em up" https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225?s=20
in my own hometown of Phoenix, police fired on civilian cars driving on the highway. https://twitter.com/MrJoshuaBowling/status/1266947016434671616?s=20
Here is disturbing video of Salt Lake City cops shoving an elderly man with a cane down to the ground, unprovoked. https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1266908874105372672?s=20
Interesting side note: @kenklippenstein has revealed that the military's civil unrest response plans mysteriously became classified this weekend. https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1266944999180177408?s=20
Here is video from Detroit of a protestor's car that has been badly damaged. Most of the windows are completely destroyed, likely by rubber bullets. https://twitter.com/HisNameIsD/status/1266949083656327175?s=20
Former Armed Forces personnel implies the US military is more careful with Iraqi civilians' safety than US police are with American civilians' safety https://twitter.com/TrueBoots/status/1266915367995215874?s=20
Amidst all this horrifying violence, here is something encouraging: some present at the Brooklyn protest wanted to loot this Target, but protest organizers formed a human chain in front of the doors to protect it. https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1266924387795709954?s=20
@HuffPost reporter @letsgomathias was arrested by NYPD while on assignment covering the protests in Brooklyn. His press credentials are clearly visible in the photos below: https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1266936484692725766?s=20
Atlanta police stopped a black couple driving down the street, tazed them, and slashed their tires. On live TV. https://twitter.com/ASB_Breaking/status/1266957448885264385?s=20
This protestor had his hands up in surrender when an NPYD officer pulled off his mask to pepper spray him in the face.
Note that these officers are careful to cover their badge numbers. https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1266928343141752833?s=20
Note that these officers are careful to cover their badge numbers. https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1266928343141752833?s=20
In Richmond, VA a cop made multiple passes driving his car through a group of protestors, faster each time. https://twitter.com/roberthylton/status/1266960056425287680?s=20
According to those on the ground in LA, officers were ordered to turn off their body cams. https://twitter.com/elijahdaniel/status/1266884828353290241?s=20
Here's the NYPD violently throwing a man to the ground and kicking him. https://twitter.com/mkultranews/status/1266963344587583489?s=20
I have seen multiple reports of journalists in Minneapolis being assaulted by police and/or arrested. https://twitter.com/rljourno/status/1266966279719661568?s=20
Here's a video of a white officer flashing what appears to be a white supremacist hand sign: https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/1266953238835679234?s=20
Here's another thread on police violence against protestors: https://twitter.com/hxlenasromanoff/status/1266792748545445892?s=20
Here in Phoenix, the crowd was peaceful until planted undercover cops the firecrackers at the uniformed officers, giving them cause to deploy tear gas at the crowd. https://twitter.com/liam_guise/status/1266989919802552327?s=20
Here is a @Slate article that gets the headline right! https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-police-violence.html
Here is video of police in Minneapolis slashing people's tires. https://twitter.com/val_ebertz/status/1266975058230235137?s=20
Police are brutally murdering civilians nationwide. https://twitter.com/MykelGadson/status/1267003001014640646?s=20
Seattle PD turned off their body cams before inciting violence. https://twitter.com/stephglascock/status/1266914932991221760?s=20
In Seattle, a cop places his knee on a restrained black man's neck, eerily similar to the way George Floyd was murdered. https://twitter.com/aturtlenamedbo1/status/1267021577201180673?s=20
Police officer mounted on a horse tramples defenseless woman https://twitter.com/blinksaturn/status/1266544395677040642?s=20
People upset with the destruction of property will be enraged to know that Minneapolis Police slashed every tire on every car in this parking lot. https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1266987126467461120?s=20
Journalist @cerisecastle was attacked by the LAPD while holding her press badge over her head. https://twitter.com/cerisecastle/status/1266878695555231747?s=20
A lot of this police brutality has been framed as a response to violent/aggressive protestors, but here is another example of protestors being peaceful, and an entire community showing solidarity. https://twitter.com/KatBrezler/status/1266875739783204864?s=20
Meanwhile, Minneapolis police opened fire on a @Reuters TV crew. Two journalists were injured by rubber bullets. https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1266994093529464833?s=20
There are multiple reports of police attacking protestors' medical tents and the medics themselves, which is defined as a war crime under the Geneva Convention. https://twitter.com/ziibiing/status/1266921240872341505?s=20
CW: gore, blood
Sacramento police shot a 13-year-old boy in the face with a rubber bullet. https://twitter.com/SonOfAssata/status/1266990799604125703?s=20
Sacramento police shot a 13-year-old boy in the face with a rubber bullet. https://twitter.com/SonOfAssata/status/1266990799604125703?s=20
Police in Erie, PA violently kick a defenseless woman after throwing her to the ground https://twitter.com/the7goonies/status/1266989439160590336?s=20
LAPD brutally grab and drag away a man just walking down the street. https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1267210841595604992?s=20
Police in Columbus OH tear-gassing medics at point-blank range https://twitter.com/joshfitz/status/1266873339542470656?s=20
Atlanta police deployed tear gas, only to get a taste of their own medicine when the wind blew the gas back in their direction. https://twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC/status/1267251347163877376?s=20
Chicago police have reportedly shot and killed a pregnant black woman. https://twitter.com/awkwardblkfem/status/1267215284525584384?s=20
Richmond police pepper sprayed a man while he was in his own home. https://twitter.com/GrandDaDSac/status/1267138854378631170?s=20
In New York City, a wall of police eagerly rush and attack protestors. https://twitter.com/drivenbyboredom/status/1267263490009546753?s=20
It's like the crave violence. An excuse to hurt people. https://twitter.com/McAuleyATL/status/1267276427667390471?s=20
This is a great thread with more info about the technique of ramming vehicles into crowds, which police have been filmed doing several times over the past few days -- and which was originally popularized by far-right white nationalist hate groups. https://twitter.com/AriWeil/status/1267271819817480193?s=20
