Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

22%. 28%. 30%. 30%. There's Trump's unshakable base.

30 percenters.

What isn't helping my sanity today is having every co-worker that lives anywhere in Chicago sharing every single Facebook group rumor or "intel" they come across.

According to the screenshots and emails I've been copied on, there must have been at least five dozen U-Haul trucks filled with "mollitive" (my favorite misspelling so far) cocktails and bricks discovered so far today. And approximately 55% of the gas stations in the city are now closed because they ran out of gas due to "Antifa/white supremacists/looters/out-of-state people" filling up hundreds of containers each.

There's a reason I don't look at Facebook, I don't want to see this shit.

Live Stream of the Houston March

https://abc13.com/?ex_cid=ktrkspdns

I, for one, am shocked that 14-worders would ever stoop to such underhanded tactics!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-fake-antifa-acount-white-supremacists-removal/

Hahaha a screenshot of that exact Tweet is what one coworker shared last night, apparently used by their building's management as an example of "intel".

In front of a Parisian courthouse thousands of protestors gather in homage and protest for Adama Traoré. A young black man killed by French police in 2016. #JusticePourAdama https://t.co/JMtEQ20tdl

— #ftp wave (@prolewave) June 2, 2020

If you have French, this is a very good interview on police brutality in France and the US:

https://www.marianne.net/societe/mort-de-george-floyd-en-france-la-police-blesse-beaucoup-mais-elle-tue-peu

thanks for the link, ums

Those in power who want us to focus on looting and property damage instead of the thousands peacefully protesting are trying to distract us from the terrible violence that engulfs the lives of working people every day. As Coretta Scott King reminded us, violence takes many forms. pic.twitter.com/Gz66Q2VWXs

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 2, 2020

what a terribly wasted opportunity for this country

Politicians who cross the MPD find slowdowns in their wards. After the first time I cut money from the proposed police budget, I had an uptick in calls taking forever to get a response, and MPD officers telling business owners to call their councilman about why it took so long.

— Steve Fletcher - Minneapolis Ward 3 (@MplsWard3) June 2, 2020

Good old mob style racket

this is amazing

Hey! This was me. I was glad to get time and criticize these losers, but there are other voices that deserve attention more than mine.

Including @ayoedebiri @ayobrobro @BLMLA @zachsherwin @safrazie

Also please do check out https://t.co/EH4NYTLvTX https://t.co/0QvOK3kfIz

— Jon Barr (@JonBarrTweets) June 2, 2020

(context: LAPD had a (prescheduled?) public meeting today via zoom.)

They just announced that 60,000 people are at the Houston march/rally (3x the expected turnout).

that meeting is still going on, i had to check if it was real after caek's tweet. everyone calling in is just ripping the police chief and it's amazing.

LA public meetings are always insane circuses but mostly because they attract people who like to yell racial slurs (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-city-county-meetings-expletive-curse-racial-slur-language-20190419-story.html). Making them more productive is one good thing to come out of this. Of course non of this will be reported on local tv which doesn’t report on local politics at all and right now is only interested in looters in Beverly Hills and the valley.

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-man-shelters-protesters-home-curfew
landowners sheltering protesters from being brutalized by DC cops is now passing as a feel-good story

LA BLM demo forming up now at the mayor's residence with the plan to ignore curfew, so 1) thanks to people putting their bodies on the line 2) look for that on your tv in 2 hours.

Apparently Elizabeth Warren is protesting at the White House fence

hop the fence Liz!

Um

Also: 700 members of the 82nd are at Joint Base Andrews and Fort Belvoir. 1,400 more soldiers are ready to be mobilized within an hour. Soldiers are armed and have riot gear. They also were issued bayonets—standard issue but some feel could be inflammatory https://t.co/Ieo86bc4yF

— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) June 2, 2020

I've got a student filming the rally in Naples (!), Florida on Instagram. So proud of her.

christ those LaPorta tweets are disturbing

Alfred, this thread made me feel better than I'd felt all day:

would love to see more visibility for the protests happening in smaller cities and towns. if one is happening/did happen in your area, tell me about it. https://t.co/LKdp19B3Mf

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) June 2, 2020

preceding any military deployment would have to begin with a proclamation ordering "insurgents" to disperse within a specified (limited) period of time, giving them time to cease their activities. troops could then only be sent in with an Executive Order only after the "insurgents" failed to disperse within the declared amount of time has passed.

Obviously, I wouldn't put it past Trump to do something he can't legally do and wait for the court challenge (which in this case, would be horse/barn door), but I don't get the impression he actually wants to do this, or he'd have done it (the rumors have been going back to Friday). He seems like he'd rather get credit for stopping the riots with his speech threatening federal action rather than actually having to take it, which would bear out why he congratulated several states as having 'stepped it up' in his Tweet this morning, and focusing his ire mostly on New York.

But, being that Trump is almost impossible to predict, who knows?
There are several Governors who have indicated they would fight Trump on this, so

wow:

The Minneapolis school board just voted to terminate the school district's contract with the city's police department, and to end the use of police officers as "school resource officers."

The vote was unanimous.https://t.co/bvjuIowfZN

— Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) June 2, 2020

previously the University of Minnesota has also cancelled their contract with the MPD. Pretty unprescendented.

To use one of my Minneapolis maps, pay mind to how the police , in two phalanxes, drove the protest and then riot around the 5th precinct up to east lake and then split the group in half, driving it in separate directions from eachother on the streethttps://t.co/s2YmX3Q3mg

— ✈️ 𝕻𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖆 ᴿᴬᴳᴱᑫᴰᴬᴱⱽᴬ 𝕾𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖔𝖎𝖓 ✈️ (@PartyPrat) June 2, 2020

So, curfew has come and gone in several cities, like DC. But the crowds are still there, right?

some in DC are still voting

Bravery.

looks like everybody I know is in full on "report everything you hear as if it is gospel" mode. just going to scour news and journalist twitters and this thread from here on out, pls nobody make anything up

Meanwhile, in Houston

This feels like when the Riders of Rohan arrived to save Helms Deep pic.twitter.com/tUf8DQNz7l

— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) June 2, 2020

MOUNT UP

Hearing reports of kettling, tear gas, and riot gear in Downtown Houston after the rally. Public transport was cut off, streets are closed, it's looking like if you didn't get out early, you're S.O.L.

That’s great

I meant the horses. Fuckin xp

Dorsey & Whitney, in response to George Floyd's death while in police custody, says it is ending its decades-long Minneapolis City Attorney’s program, through which the law firm's lawyers provided legal services to assist the city in misdemeanor prosecutions. #mnlaw pic.twitter.com/2ZFBfJx2Fd

— Kevin Featherly (@kevinfeatherly) June 2, 2020

XP Oh yeah, the horse crew was awesome. They led the way for the March.

MOUNT UP

Hoos posted a terrifying map of protestors and police locations/numbers in DC at 7 PM versus 9 PM on FB, can't deal with uploading the images but shit is going down and the cops are swarming the entire protest

50 cops in riot gear showed up to arrest 14 high school students for breaking curfew in hoover, alabama

congrats to hoover for this being the way you entered my consciousness

DC map link

https://mobile.twitter.com/sharkespearean

FBI found "no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement" in May 31 violence, per FBI report leaked to me.

That was the same day that Trump vowed to designate Antifa a terrorist organization.https://t.co/Nh2RNTO1NK pic.twitter.com/EmLZE7nkjl

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 2, 2020

Duh.

people apparently blocked in on the Manhattan Bridge for the last hour or so.

curfew in Oakland went into effect last night. Currently there are people standing in the intersection in front of the police station protesting. Tomorrow there is a planned "sit in" starting at the time of the curfew in city hall plaza ... like, who thought it would be a good idea to impose a curfew on Oakland? It's just making shit worse.

wonder if the big storms in the Midwest are affecting this at all

xxxpost re: the Antifa thing, the infuriating thing I've found among some people sympathetic to the protests is their suggestion that we should stop pushing back so much on the idea that "Antifa" has involvement in the riots, because they "probably have some involvement" and "it comes across as 'he started it, no HE started it' bickering."

and somehow they don't see it's actual an act of political other-ing, meant to serve as a dog whistle and direct crackdown on Trump's "political enemies". it's pretty easy to claim anybody on the street is "Antifa", considering Antifa is a weakly-defined umbrella term to begin with. Law enforcement is infested with Trump toadies who wouldn't mind arresting or beating a few folk on the street and just saying they were Antifa, or finding some rando hanging around a group of people with Antifa gear on and deciding he was part of them and carrying out extrajudicial punishment.

like I'm just losing patience with normally-intelligent people who keep want to suggest it's just "casting blame" when really, a President trying to direct action against left-wing protesters in general by using "Antifa" as a convenient excuse.

LMAO MY MAN REALLY SAID "GO FUCK YOURSELVES, I'LL SEE YOU ALL IN HELL" AT THE OFFICIAL LA POLICE COMMISSION MEETING pic.twitter.com/1jNNAkofAZ

— steph #BLM #ACAB (@kdpanthera) June 2, 2020