(BRUTALITY PROOF THREAD WITHOUT VIDEOS!! FOR SQUEAMISH PPL)

stop saying "a few bad apples". every single riot cop is using excessive force even by their standards. they shot at a member of the press recording over 30-50ft away on a private lot.
they shot at a pregnant woman while she and her boyfriend were stopped at an intersection in a car.
shot an unarmed man (out of harms way, standing still, behind police lines) with rubber bullets twice, making him bleed. he stepped away, but they fired the second shot next to an already bandaged area, creating a second wound
they forced down and arrested a non-protesting street medic wearing a helmet with a red cross on it.
they maced a young child's face at point blank.
they pulled a man's mask down (static, with his hands up) and maced his face at point blank.
they shoved down an elderly man with a cane attempting to walk away from them. he fell over, and it took about 10-20 seconds for another cop to walk over and help him up. the other two were just watching.
they threw tear gas at local reporters live on TV attempting to walk further AWAY from the police line. reporters could be heard saying "Helmets on" to protect them from rubber bullets as well.
They shot at a man recording with his phone with a pepper bullet, smashing the back of the phone, launching glass shards and pepper in his face.
most/all of these are before curfew, and most of the people who were attacked were static, passive and were following directions from law enforcement
Police shoot at people with dye packs on their *own decks* in residential Minneapolis. Cop could be heard saying "LIGHT EM UP"
Police spray from ground level at a man recording passersby from the second floor of his house
Minneapolis nurse shot at while attempting to treat a man's rubber bullet wounds in a tent off on the sidelines. The man put a bucket over the nurse's head to protect her from the incoming bullets
WCCO member is arrested forcefully on a private, pyloned off parking lot for filming riot police.
Rubber bullets fired at another news crew in a parking lot from over 50 meters away. The sound engineer is hit directly by one.
Photojournalist shot deliberately in the face by rubber bullet. Permanently blind in one eye
NYPD officer flashes white power OK hand symbol, other officer next to him laughs.
VICE reporter wearing press badge is pepper sprayed WHILE complying during his arrest. He was on the sidelines in another private parking lot
Officer replicates George Floyd neck kneel on a complying man's head in Seattle. Other officer pulls his partner's knee off of the man's neck after over 20 seconds goes by
Teenage girl taking groceries home shot almost directly at the eye, bleeding from the forehead. Almost close to permanently blinding her
Young boy is shot in the eye by rubber bullets directly. Carried away by protesters but still being chased by police while attempting to get the child medical attention
Police officer hits a man at over 10kph by opening a car door and slamming him in the face as he walks by in NYC
A woman over 50ft away from a police line, holding a sign silently is shot at with rubber bullets and falls to the ground.
LVPD yells "GRAB EVERYBODY" as a squad of police charge into a peaceful crowd and begin arresting people at random
A sitdown protest is approached by a police line and shot at with pepper bullets, tear gas and flashbangs at point blank
War zone reporter shocked when police deliberately shoot at entire news crew while reporting from the sidelines, over 50-60ft away from the police line
I watched the videos so you don't have to. RT if you want, honestly I just wanted to do this
For the record, police don't want safety, they want to inflict as much pain to as many people as possible. #BlackLivesMatter
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