Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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Fuck cop-kneeling PR. Turn in your badge or admit you're the enemy of the people, pig.

jfc

UPDATE: If you are in need of a ride, use code CHICAGO2020 to receive $5 off your @Uber. Valid until 6AM Monday.

— City of Chicago (@chicago) June 1, 2020

Does Uber have an armored vehicle class?

I have never seen this in my entire life. I lived in DC and worked at a restaurant two blocks from here and rode my bike by the White House every night at around 2am. The lights were always on. This absolutely sums up this administration. Nobody’s home. https://t.co/Uk2rhxE1Wj pic.twitter.com/ACjZtaaRPR

— Duff Goldman (@duffgoldman) June 1, 2020

"Valid until 6 AM Monday" lmfao; Ignoring the opaque ghoulishness and the sheer nerve that goes into unironically sending a tweet like that out after closing the CTA... they couldn't even extend their "promo" for more than 5 hours in the middle of this night??? Even the sale promo codes from shit like Xbox Live or Dominos are valid for longer than that. And it's still not even free!!! Ugh..

The complete lack of empathy, self-awareness, and just general all around cartoon-level villainy that's been on display so shamelessly from almost every US bureaucratic institution during all of this is depressing and infuriating.

Imagine being the TIME or AP editors who have to make “photo of the year” decisions*

*And, yes, that’s a first world problem and millions of Americans are facing much more serious situations right now

I'd have posted this on the June politics thread but as far as I can see we don't have one yet

unironically sending a tweet like that out after closing the CTA... they couldn't even extend their "promo" for more than 5 hours in the middle of this night???

I'm only catching up on last night's news this morning, but I'm going to repost what my WaPo reporter friend posted. He was in the middle of everything a couple of nights ago, and this is what he said:

The trains, LSD southbound, and river bridges are shut down to prevent more hordes from coming IN. I got out easily by heading north. There are plenty of arteries to get out of the city in all directions and THEN grab a bus, cab, uber, whatever.

The challenge is to keep the crowds lower while allowing people to get out, that's why so much stuff is shut down and I assume why they are offering Uber coupons or whatever shit to use in the middle of the night. I mean, they blocked a major road 10 minutes from my house to prevent more people from flowing into the city, which may have had unintended consequences by encouraging looting caravans to head west, away from the city, yesterday, and loot and break into stuff in the (relative) middle of nowhere where I am. fwiw my friend was out again last night, getting footage of all sorts of far flung mayhem on the west side, south side ...

So the guy that burnt down the Nashville Courthouse is a 3 percenter.

But yeah, this is just Antifa

Raymond, I just wanted to say I ache for your family and its legacy in particular. I'm agnostic but I wish blessings on all of you, and your future.

So the guy that burnt down the Nashville Courthouse is a 3 percenter.

Damn. Source?

I haven't seen that confirmed, but it's a 25 white asshole that did it.

BREAKING: Specialized Investigations Division detectives & SWAT officers moments ago arrested Wesley Somers, 25, on charges of felony arson, vandalism, & disorderly conduct for setting fire to Nashville's Historic Courthouse Saturday night. pic.twitter.com/tg0AFrU3OP

— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) June 1, 2020

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/state/suspect-arrested-on-multiple-charges-for-fire-at-nashvilles-historic-courthouse/51-7b962566-76ba-46d7-b072-f95d74b116cf

He was identified by his 3 Percenter tatt, which Nashville journalists shared with police

https://i.ibb.co/5TwcdN5/FB-IMG-1591018080334.jpg

BREAKING: @PhiladelphiaGov has delayed the budget hearing on @PhillyPolice. Our pressure to #DefundThePolice is working:
Click here and tell @PhillyMayor and @PHLCouncil: no new budget with a $14m increase for police and big cuts for the services we need: https://t.co/p3OvGqGuQd https://t.co/islqcAeJOP

— Philly We Rise (@phillywerise) May 31, 2020

boom

THREAD: President Trump says these protests are professionally organized and the result of domestic terrorists and anarchists. Based on my reporting on the ground today, the vast majority of people gathering outside of the White House are everyday Americans demanding change.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 1, 2020

https://preview.redd.it/pi0qzmgml7251.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=982fb2e17d8a7b122e193e8e0fd9ba8428e59679

A good twitter about what's happening in Richmond/DC.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BreRVA

I'm seeing reports/footage of purported gang members protecting stores and chasing off looters, a rare instance of a neighborhood protection racket actually coming into play. Also saw an insane clip of a looting squad grabbing stuff from a moving freight train!

From that photo, the III% tat looks like it could be a Monster Energy Drink tat.

Right wing XTREME-ist.

Anyway,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrFsEqVS7A

apparently that's a thing 3%ers do, which makes total sense *shrugs* xp

Wayne Campbell's home town of Aurora looted last night.

I can't keep up with all the monikers for US Nazis, cant they just pick one?

General Mills cereals are conducting a naming contest.

Garbage Wites

GOP

Sorry if this has been posted before:

please watch. please listen closely. if anyone has any information on this man / a link to his go fund me please let me know. this is absolutely not okay. we will not be silenced. pic.twitter.com/t2h6FovmoL

— (っ'-')╮ (@sweeeetdee_) June 1, 2020

what the FUCK

heartbreaking

Some more background:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gug7i4/young_man_gets_arrested_for_exercising_his_first/fsiecc8

I can't keep up with all the monikers for US Nazis, cant they just pick one?

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, June 1, 2020 11:24 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

boogers

that video is by far the most visceral thing i've seen from all of this

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Officials with the Charleston Police Department say a total of 35 people were arrested on Sunday in connection to protests in downtown Charleston. Arrests began early Sunday afternoon when police responded to Marion Square for what they said was an illegal gathering. The arrests began shortly after authorities gave warnings that arrests would begin if protesters did not disperse. Pictures and videos from the scene showed several people being taken into custody. Police said protesters were illegally gathering on the square. City of Charleston spokesman Jack O’Toole said the protesters did not have a permit to assemble on the square, making their gathering illegal. Police ordered them to disperse and when protesters did not do so, police began arresting them for disorderly conduct.

Is the bolded bit true, that you need a special permit from the cops to have a demonstration even if it's a public space?

In the States, I mean.

The number of posts I've written itt and deleted so as to keep me off a watchlist must be in the triple digits at this point.

wtf

xpost - That reddit link just posted goes into some research - apparently that park in Charleston is privately owned but leased to the City and that's the loophole the cops used to justify their actions. (not agreeing with those, just passing along the context)

nobody gives a shit about the legal technicalities. that video is a declaration of war

Ok, thanks for the info. I was baffled by that detail.

(xpost)

His message was beautiful, i shared on my wall both to share the injustice but also that people would hear what the young man had to say

@Tuomas re that reddit link for context:

some parks in the US (Bryant Park in NYC by the Public Library with the lions for ex) are privately funded even tho they are "public spaces" which means they usually have their own funding arm and mall cops (you need specific permission from BP Conservancy to film there for ANY reason, whereas you can lumber into central park and do a news interview, for example)

So yeah, there's a peacetime world where cops could have bagged those people ANYWAY, protests or not, if the organizing group that manages the park wanted them arrested for trespassing

this is not said to justify cops doing cop things ever, and if a space is presented as "public" (ie not gated) then those spaces should be equal under the law but here we are

another example are some of the plazas that surround buildings in NYC. they are built with plazas bc of incentives that came into play following the success of the seagram building in midtown and the additional daylight that you got from having a building setback from the edge of the sidewalk. those plazas are "public" spaces but they still belong to and are maintained by the building managers and can revoke that access if you, say, protest or setup showtime or start busking. the lobby of trump tower is such a space as well, if you wanna wrap your head around all that

Thanks for the info, I've been to Bryant Park, but I had no idea it's "private". What's the history behind such places, how did something that clearly should be a public space become privately owned?

Xpost

because lol america

Capitalism

This week, I am introducing the Ending Qualified Immunity Act to eliminate qualified immunity and restore Americans’ ability to obtain relief when police officers violate their constitutionally secured rights. pic.twitter.com/PiNYP8cX8i

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 1, 2020

But even in lol America most parks are owned by the city/municipality, no?