NYPD officer in Union Square throws down a “White Power” sign and his fellow officer cheers him on. #NYCPROTEST
“Outside Agitators” was a lie. Of course. https://twitter.com/davidbegnaud/status/1266879497355309057
Minneapolis police march on a parking lot where VICE reporter @MichaelAdams317 is sheltering. He is wears a press badge.

“I’m Press! Press! Press!”

Cop shouts “I DON’T CARE” and throws him to the ground. Another cop pepper sprays him directly in the face.
#Seattle. Police throw a man to the ground. A cop kneel on the man’s neck, the same exact way they murdered #GeorgeFloyd.

People can be heard screaming “GET YOUR KNEE OFF HIS NECK! GET YOUR F*CKING KNEE OFF HIS NECK!” before his partner finally intervenes.
New York: #BlackLivesMatter protesters demonstrate peacefully with their hands up.

An NYPD cop pulls a man’s facemask down and pepper sprays him directly in the face for no reason.
Dallas: A teenaged girl was walking home with her groceries, not part of any protest. The police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet. Half an inch lower and she’d have lost her eye.
CW: lots of blood.
Sacramento: A young boy is shot in the eye by police during a peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protest tonight at the State Capitol.
Salt Lake City: Police violently shove an elderly man with a cane to the ground, for the crime of standing and watching.

He couldn’t hear their commands.
Dallas: Another image of the young girl who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the police.

She is still holding her grocery bags.
NYPD cop casually slams a man with his car door as he drives by.

The police are angry for being exposed. They want blood.

@NYCMayor de Blasio uses the NYPD as his personal army, even getting them to move his daughter and her belongings out her apartment.
Linda Tirano, a photojournalist in #Minneapolis who has worked for The Guardian, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the police.

The doctors performed emergency surgery, but they were unable to save her eye. She is now permanently blind in that eye.
Minneapolis: CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his entire crew is arrested and handcuffed by the police while they are broadcasting live.

“We can move back to where you like. We are live on the air here... Put us back where you want us,” Jimenez says calmly.
NYPD police captain goes berserk, shoving the police barricade into the protesters.

He breaks ranks and charges into the crowd to assault a young woman. #nycprotest
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