Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

yes, thank you

i hope chaz develops some kind of democratic committee to effectively, and safely govern the area

I wandered through the zone the other night, it was pretty chill, no one stopped me and I didn’t see any aggressive behavior, though there’s a public speaking area that got mildly contentious but was peaceful. Lots of art, memorials, free food and supplies available, I venmoed some money to a few of the people providing them.

Also realized that I had gone to a screening of Stalker at a theater inside the Zone.

they've been having town meetings treesh. Really tho it's by and large a protest with distributed leadership settling in to an occupation with "defund the police" as the top line demand and (probably) not like, suddenly morphed into a self-contained anarchist project.

I live in a town that's about about 70% white and old. I went on nextdoor.com today. I'm sad now.

why did you do that

know yr enemy

A few people from the facebook groups* for our majority white neighborhood got together and hosted a protest march in support of Black Lives Matter last weekend. I'm really proud of them, and several dozen people turned out. However, in planning for a second march this weekend, their posts began to attract comments from bootlickers, and the ensuing confrontations managed to get the original posts, comments, and in some cases original posters banned from the group. As a response to this, the people who led the march created a 3rd FB group, called Edgewater for Change, which is planning the next protest and sharing general anti-racist information. Some people slipped into Edgewater for Change with nefarious purposes and were banned. This in turn has led to the creation of a 4th neighborhood group titled All Lives Matter (how original), which is centered on "free speech".

*(there were two - one for the general town and one for our specific neighborhood)

Also realized that I had gone to a screening of Stalker at a theater inside the Zone.

that's amazing

Raz's music is good, check him out!

Chicago Cops Burglarized U.S. Rep’s Office as Protest Raged. They Made Popcorn, Drank Coffee, Napped.

https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-cops-broke-u-rep-191648031.html

I mean, small potatoes and insignificant compared to the brutality we've seen from them during the protests, but jesus that takes some very secure knowledge that you are way above accountability when you break into a congressperson's office like that.

That's insane. What was the quote? If this is what they're doing during rioting and looting, what are they doing on an average day?

this is some Super Troopers shit

I'm sure we'll get the "our hardworking officers deserved a break, blah blah, taxpayers paid for the office anyway so it's fine, blah blah" excuse any minute now.

Mayor Daley is smiling in hell

just got threatened by an ex-military guy who lives here for calling out his racism when he infiltrated a friend's thread with his racist shit. FB profile is a treasure trove of anti-black protester sentiment, and he went after my friends with sexist barbs.

I immediately called him out on what it was, and he backed off of it ("what threat, we're just talking, you civilian!"). but i'm plenty taking it serious.

reported him to FB - what's the over/under on whether they actually remove his shit and ban him, or if they ban me instead for the names i called him?

― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, June 5, 2020 4:20 PM bookmarkflaglink

so he has been calling BLM an "anti-white hate group" and I blocked him a week ago, but he has been harassing and tagging my other friend with lots of photoshopped fake news shit and saying "u support that", and then today made a creepy note that he was making a list, and he should be careful, because "we are watching".

between that, and all of the racist shit on his profile, a bunch of us decided to try and publicly shame dude today. we all contacted his school, reported him to authorities for a cyberthreat, have all been targeting his profile to get it taken down. Then one of my good friends joins the fray and says he knows the dude, that he's a gigantic weiner, and he got him fired from a job years ago for calling him a "kike". and then he keyed the friend's car, so the friend has been looking for him ever since.

calling BLM an "anti-white hate group"

no! no! it's an anti-white-hate group.

Mayor Lightfoot to CPD officers on footage shown lounging, napping, snacking while rioting ravages neighborhood: "We know who you are. You know what you did. Don’t make us come find you. Come in and identify yourself. But we will find you."

further Seattle context here:

https://medium.com/@emilypothast/what-the-f-ck-is-going-on-in-seattle-48efbe6214f8

He also added: “ Sundown you better take care - If I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs”

Ugh xpost

*cough* "she"

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-investigating-alleged-police-beating-bronx-teen

The giant fuck you that came in the form of the police report regarding Breonna Taylor’s murder has been received loud and clear. See you in the streets.

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 11, 2020

Breonna's Law passed unanimously by the Louisville Metro Council, 26-0.

It bans no-knock warrants, which cops used to barge into her home and murder her.

Now arrest the cops who killed her.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 12, 2020

If it were torn down, how could it be renamed? https://t.co/p2NUNHEDtH

— David Gura (@davidgura) June 12, 2020

Racist Statue Defending Racist Statues.

i for one would be fine with renaming the Washington Monument the OBELISK OF WOKENESS, how is that not cooler?

what if we rename it "Our National Looming White Penis" on weekdays and "OBELISK OF WOKENESS" on the weekends, is that fair Tom?

Yeah, Obelisk of Wokeness sounds absolutely rad

Obelisk of Wokeness is my favorite Krallice album

and the most powerful track on Owen Pallett's Islands imo

I used to have an apartment at the top of a hill in DC that had a perfect view of the national monument. it has these two red lights that look like creepy eyes that are constantly blinking. one night me and friend were having beers and he said it was like we put a big halloween klansman in america's front that says white power every time the eyes blink. haven't seen it as anything other than that since

Here's an alternate suggestion that probably won't be powerful enough to override the klansman imagery, but it's worth a try. Obelisks originated in Africa as a symbol of a powerful African empire and in copying it white Americans have acknowledged their inability to improve on it and placed themselves in creative subservience to the African original.

christo-style kente cloth yarnbomb that fucker

"If we tear down confederate statues, what's next, I'm not allowed to have hands anymore?"

My housemate went to pick up food from a restaurant in the zone last night and had a chat with the guy ringing him up, who had nothing but good things to say about the CHAZ. He (the guy behind the counter) said, "It's been a lot quieter around here since the cops left."

This article on the situation in Vallejo is stunningly horrific:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/13/vallejo-california-police-violence-sean-monterrosa

Public opinion didn’t even shift this fast in support of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. https://t.co/Glt7xckjjI

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 11, 2020

no thanks to you, fucking frank luntz

please pass that on to frank

good thread

Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...

It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and

— 𝙿𝚊𝚞𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@mobinfiltrator) June 12, 2020

the cops are a gang. if you fuck with the gang, either from inside or outside the gang, they fuck you up. i have had minimal personal exposure to cops in my life and, even so, that couldn't be more clear on the face of it. it's consistently surprising to me those facts come as a surprise to anyone in america.

Jay Pharoah opens up about being held at gunpoint by the LAPD: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBVo2bJn-wZ/

In police departments all over the USA the code of silence among cops is at least as strong as among the mafia. No matter how criminal a cop is, if you're another cop the pressure on you to turn a blind eye is overwhelming. Being a snitch and informing on another cop's criminal behavior is a one-way ticket to ostracism, hostility, and retaliation until you quit or are fired.

and we've known the whole time

"In order for a Homicide conviction, of any kind, to happen, the defendant must have CAUSED the death of another. The defendant’s action must be the proximal cause of death. I dealt with that issue many times. I was a traffic homicide investigator. I had to prove that the injury sustained by the victim is what killed him. I had one case where a hospital-borne infection went to toxic shock, and the accident victim died. The prosecutor said I had no case. The injuries were survivable, he was recovering, but an intervening condition killed him. Not a vehicular homicide.

Actions of a defendant, particularly if they are well-intentioned, such as holding down a suspect suffering from a drug overdose, that”Contribute to” a death are not usually successfully prosecutable as homicides. The legal term is “Sine qui non,” or, without which, nothing."

Got this from some racist pro cop dickhole. Am i missing how this is even relevant to the Floyd case?

Well they're trying to advance the argument that having a cop kneel on his neck for 8 minutes 46 was just something which incidentally happened to him on his way to dying from ... the coronavirus he'd already recovered from? Blackness? Cardiovascular problems?
I am sure there are many assholes out there who would try to make this assertion with a straight face.