Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

jesus christ

police chief says they think there might be a bomb in play. they are calling in federals apparently

but who fucking knows

This seems pretty well organized to just pop up literally a day after these shootings

people have so much lying around though

feel like there's going to be further clampdowns on people's right to protest now

Could be the motivation behind a right wing or govt or police affiliated provocateur - not to get the tinfoil out, but anything seems possible. the timing of this all is insane

Yah I was wondering that, but didnt want to sound all grassy knoll

i mean, it is Dallas!

a 4th officer has died

if these ppl hit 10 cops and no one else in that crowd they r prob very good at sniping this is bizarre and terrible

meanwhile the cops put out a picture of a black guy at the rally open carrying a rifle as a person of interest and it took twitter like 90 seconds to find footage of him innocently standing in the crowd during the shooting

Yes, that's a life ruiner. Apparently the guy was a speaker at the rally and this being Texas open carry of rifles has always been legal and open carry of anything newly legal.

Dallas also has an active New Black Panther group that's been armed at more than one protest, not that I'd expect many of the people on Twitter to know that though maybe someone at DPD should have.

This whole thing is happening about 3 blocks away from Dealey Plaza.

Repeal the Second Amendment

Important to follow local affiliates during times like this. These guys are interviewing the brother of the 'person of interest' right now, it's obviously a red herring, now just hearing that whoever this guy is turned himself in to the police to clear up any confusion. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Protests-in-Dallas-Over-Alton-Sterling-Death-385784431.html

I'm was marching with the Portland demo earlier. White dude who had been filming things drew a gun, and was moved away from the crowd. Cops eventually arrested him.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/751254710934315008

Portland Police
Portland Police‏ @PortlandPolice

Officers have arrested a man in Downtown Portland after he was displaying a gun during a demonstration. No shots were fired by anyone.
Jul 7, 2016, 8:20 PM
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Here's vid of the arrest:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/751254607301672961

I'd love to know what all those false flag nutbags are thinking of this turn of events.

its a false false flag

Don't be naive. What if it's a false false false flag? Eh?

False flag to distract from Roger Stone's AMA tonight about men's style on *nfowars.

the zeitgeist is feeling like the late '60s this week; blood after blood

Next up, Weather Underground

Video of one of the shooters supposedly. Not a sniper, on the ground. https://twitter.com/CainRaisin/status/751285500846026752

Good Grief, the press conference...

false flaggers can assimilate any new piece of information into their theories, it's like a superpower

If that's the video that was aired on the news, a cop is killed in it, FYI. Heads up for people who don't want to see that.

didn't see anyone get killed but that is some pretty precise looking shooting

Shit, I thought I put a graphic tag before that link. Sorry about that. My observation about the shooter being on the ground was just that, not trying to suggest it's false flag evidence.

Apparently suspects are still on the loose?

1 still in garage 'negotiating' with police while shooting at them, 1 woman who was nearby under arrest, 2 people who fled the scene with camo bags were pulled over and arrested

According the the Police Chief, they've got a suspect cornered in a parking garage whom they've been exchanging fire with, and who claims that they've got bombs all over downtown and war is declared on cops etc.

XP The camo bag people have been released.

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/751268398890229760

what the fuck is happening with this country

http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2016/07/07/18347709/a-man-was-arrested-for-pulling-a-gun-on-black-lives-matter-protestors-in-portland-thursday-night

Here's the dude who pulled a gun and got arrested. Naturally, he runs a blog called Laughing at Liberals and is not helping anyone's confirmation bias.

i've heard about that dude. he targets young pdx trans women and posts videos of them on youtube encouraging likeminded assholes to mock them irl. special place in hell.

Apparently he was spotted at the Orlando memorial by Embers, too.

Vigil, rather. Not necessarily memorial.

fuck a john walsh

John Walsh is a good reminder that the other side is just flat wrong.

Here's Periscope vid of the guy pulling a gun.

https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins/status/751248080121442304

The portland event is still going on, btw. Cops have apparently threatened chemical weapons now.

https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins

We are so fucked. I'm feeling sick.

What if this ends up being some supremacist group trying to give Helter Skelter a head start? How is that going to go down...

Ugh...

Wow, I picked a hell of a time to stop paying attention to the news last night. This fucking country.

Just FYI, y'all who are excoriating John Walsh upthread, that Twitter account belongs to the non-Eagles-affiliated Joe Walsh. I'm glad at least to realize that John Walsh hasn't turned into a racist scumbag.

when a white guy shot up Dallas police HQ last year

i dont know all the details about the sniper, but it was just waiting to happen. i dont want to see people die, but when police dont take this kind of thing seriously, it creates the right environment for this kind of thing to happen. erykah badu on facebook was suggesting its a setup, but i dont buy it. when people can arm themselves, its only natural that someone would eventually organise themselves in this way. and IMO, someone enacting revenge killings in this way is more organised, and knows his targets better than people rioting aimlessly, etc.

i dont want to watch the snuff videos of the men being killed, but i saw a brief bit of one on the news (thank god they stopped it before the actual shooting), and that was enough. police have an unchecked combination of fear, hatred, and abuse of power.

I can't help but be sadly amused and disgusted by Dallas police attempting to blame the first black guy they could plausibly blame. They apparently even told him they had video of him shooting.

http://gawker.com/dallas-police-just-released-the-man-they-wrongly-identi-1783329739

Cops always tell suspects that they have evidence that they did it. I was in a traffic stop once where a cop told me that he had sent a bong (found in the car - not mine) back to the crime lab and my fingerprints were all over it. I had only been sitting on the curb for ten minutes. I guess it gets some people to confess quicker. I was pretty insulted.

i feel physically ill from the last few days

xp yeah, that's how a lot of innocent people end up in prison