Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Where is that Brooklyn footage exactly?

A civilian brought a hunting bow to the #slcprotest and began shooting it at protesters. pic.twitter.com/UYZFtISb9I

— Titania v. 2.0 (@Gingersonfire) May 31, 2020

Just got an alert that Chicago is now on curfew, as well.

Be well, everyone.

<3 collardio

I really really hope the people go off the streets tonight, have it on good authority that Guard will use lethal force

caek, it’s the intersection of Flatbush and St. Marks

prospect heights/park slope

Nashville protest appears to have started positive, turned ugly at the end.
https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/05/30/nashville-protesters-gather-solidarity-over-george-floyd-case/5286344002/

Black Hawk helicopters flying overhead

Thanks xxp

ums apparently they're putting out car fires with some of them! lifting the water out of lake nokomis : D

crazy

been amazed the NBC affiliate has gone out of its way to emphasize how peaceful the protests in Miami were until tear gas got fired

The media kept showing shots of a damn burning police car, though.

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55

— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

A lot of footage on twitter of cops beating people up in Brooklyn. Surreal.

Uh... @NYCMayor this is happening right here in #Brooklyn. Looks like people are being beat by #NYPD! Hope you take action immediately like you said yesterday you would. #JusticeForGeorge #BarclaysCenter pic.twitter.com/E3KXU1LTJW

— Murad Awawdeh (@HeyItsMurad) May 30, 2020

Right near the barclays center. The guy runs away and they chase him with clubs???

A man just got into a flaming cop car and drove it down the street in Madison, WI pic.twitter.com/aRaLNGZ3HI

— Lawrence Andrea (@lawrencegandrea) May 31, 2020

Does the minneapolis mayor condone the national guard shooting paint cannisters at people standing on their porch?

2020 devolving rapidly

the minneapolis mayor is not exactly calling a lot of shots rn i think

this seemed like a significant day. some sort of turning point. i'm probably just feeling that way because i went out and did something today. but i don't know...in general it seems that way, too.

Very ominous.

i see a lot, a LOT of people who feel the same way i do, today.

Did the obama administration ever attempt serious police reform? Why not?

i don't see it as ominous

xp

i felt uplifted today

XP Republicans

I find the actions of the police and national guard ominous

Oh my God it’s happening in Flint too.

Protesters chanted: “WALK WITH US!!”

So the sheriff and his men joined the protest.#GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/igRsMyD5aD

— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) May 31, 2020

Oh wow. Nice

treeship. at 10:38 30 May 20

Does the minneapolis mayor condone the national guard shooting paint cannisters at people standing on their porch?

I think this was MPD

The Alexander McQueen store on Rodeo Dr in Beverly Hills was looted.

xp yeah looked to be, with a guard escort

still, i don't think that means frey has to be doing much

Stolen from fb:

"I'm just going to go ahead and get ahead of this now...Derek Chauvin didn't kill himself."

xpost j. - get the sense Frey got sent to the kid's table

exactly

Protestors having Intense confusion about which way to go, greeted by group of people with bats and clubs pointing away, yelling To get F out of our neighborhood. Say they are Protecting their homes. 26th and Longfellow pic.twitter.com/AZ2kPVEiZZ

— bengarvin (@bengarvin) May 31, 2020

the directive from the cities today has been for residents to batten down hatches, fireproof, form watches with neighbors, etc. this is up the road a ways from where the worst rioting was the other night.

Just got an alert that Chicago is now on curfew, as well.

As I heard it the word didn't get out to the protestors, who were left stranded when they stopped the trains and raised the bridges.

My daughter asked to go to a local (right outside the city) protest tomorrow, told her it's cool with me.

Jesus Christ that hunting bow dude in salt lake... holy shit.

xps i assume these are protesters who were going to cross the lake street bridge over the mississippi into st paul (east of the earlier rioting site by a dozen or two blocks) and were blocked by the guard or cops or whoever

I've got friend in Duluth that just posted on FB that she & her husband can hear commotion and breaking glass outside their apartment (I think they live downtown). They're scared, obviously.

Did the obama administration ever attempt serious police reform? Why not?

― treeship., Sunday, May 31, 2020 3:44 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink]

federalism?

he had a beer with that guy and henry louis gates

Did the obama administration ever attempt serious police reform?

The Obama Justice Dept. investigated civil rights abuses in many city police departments and obtained consent decrees from many of them to pursue specific reforms and take steps to reach measurable milestones. They were pretty active on that front, but there are, oh, tens of thousands of police departments and sheriff's departments in the USA.

We've got wrecked cars set up to block neighborhood streets with slashed tires. @WedgeLIVE @annapoetic my neighbors don't know where they're from. pic.twitter.com/F8WwVLzryW

— Kenneapolis (@kenny_fennell) May 30, 2020

'I notified on duty @MinneapolisFire personnel nearby and they said they've seen this all over the city. I don't know what it means if anything but I worry it's a war tactic.'

xp: obama also inaugurated a 'task force' on police brutality and race by executive order, but only a fraction of police forces put its recommendations into place and following the 2016 elections it seemed dead in the water

Cornel West and Killer Mike speeches both v strong I thought. I'm glad CNN gave the former free reign for a few minutes.

Cornell still a force of nature

Incredible

Obama wasn't really worried about the extra judicial killing of civilians by military drones, why would a militarised police force be any different?

Sleeve linked this on FB last night and it’s fascinating in re the drives behind the b00g4100 thing. God speed to my twin cities crushing the fuck out of these pieces of shit.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/

#BlackLivesMatter protest today in Peckham, South East London - led by young, mainly black people. Upcoming protests also happening tomorrow and 7 June on central London pic.twitter.com/YVUKwJLnBS

— Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (@CharlieBCuff) May 30, 2020

Yesterday there were a couple in Toronto and Berlin as well.

And a vigil for George Floyd in Iran:

https://i.redd.it/i0weomgbhv151.png