what the hell is going on in Milwaukee jfc
https://medium.com/@streetlightalchemist/unheard-voices-are-police-participating-in-sex-trafficking-in-milwaukee-742880d1ac0f
On Tuesday night, the mother of one of the missing girls was able to ping the cellphone of one of the missing girls to a two story townhouse in Milwaukee. The mother, along with several others went to the property, in addition to calling police, who ignored them for 10 hours. An attempt at entry was made, and someone from within the house shot at the group, no injuries were reported. The shots were heard much louder than the phone call, and police arrived at the scene. The people within the home were taken into custody. Immediately after, the report from people on the ground starts to diverge from the police and media narrative.
― sleeve, Friday, 26 June 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link
WtFUCK!
― DJI, Friday, 26 June 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
I'm wary of Medium articles as they aren't well-vetted. I responded to a few tinfoil-hatty COVID articles on there a few months ago.
The sources in that Medium article are almost all Tweets, many of them secondhand, from people who weren't there (though some were from people who were reportedly there). And a lot of conclusions drawn seem a stretch based on what is known now.
I couldn't find many articles that didn't just repeat what the police said, and every other article, including this one, shows the situation is a confusing mess, where both sides can't even agree whether any victims were present in the house or if any sex trafficking was going on.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/watch-milwaukee-crowd-burns-down-suspected-sex-trafficking-house/
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 June 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
urbanmilwaukee.com seems to have the best coverage on this.
there were multiple units in the house - the people in the upstairs unit (probably not who the activists were looking for) made comments today: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/25/residents-of-burned-home-speak-out/
This house has had 27 service calls over the last several years: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/24/burned-home-had-27-police-service-calls/
and here's another: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/24/activists-clean-up-around-burned-house-as-questions-remain/
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 June 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
thanks for the additional links there
― sleeve, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
Yeah, thanks. It's really hard to find good, solid information on this. As Neanderthal points out, it's either news based on second-hand tweets or literally word-for-word the cops' side of things. This story has been on my mind as we watched the last half of season 2 of Mindhunter, which does a pretty good job of how the police completely ignored, then completely mishandled, the 79-81 Atlanta child murders.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
Two female protesters injured in a hit and run in Seattle yesterday--one died.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/seattle-protesters-car-death/index.html
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 July 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Fuck :(. I knew about the incident, did not realize one died.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
i know they haven't determined if it was 'intentional' yet, but it doesn't matter, Trump will say some shit like "she shouldn't have been in the road", and her poor family is going to have to listen to her get excoriated in the press :(
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 July 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
The driver drove the wrong way on an off-ramp to get to the protesters, and they've said he wasn't impaired, so it seems pretty intentional.
The police are now saying protests won't be allowed on the freeway in future, and basically if you go on the freeway you take your chances with getting hit.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 5 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
yes, that's the changed that needed to happen. the protesters need to change their ways.
fuck the police.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 July 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
and yea seeing the video (or the screenshot,I can't watch the video rn), there's no way it wasn't intentional.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 July 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Belgrade riots: Police approaches and brutally beats 3 guys on a bench for no reason. pic.twitter.com/d7ABrNpboX— Sergej Dojcinovic (@Serdjosega) July 7, 2020
Attacks by police in Belgrade
― anvil, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/andres-guardado-autopsy/index.html
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
five times. in the back.
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
LASD is the worst police force in the country, but luckily the DA responsible for handling this case and all others in LA county ... has a section on her wikipedia page titled "Refusal to prosecute law enforcement", and has a record of going to the trouble of seeking to prosecute exactly one (1) of the 600+ sherrif's deputies and police officers who have killed people since she became DA.
― đ đđąđš (caek), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
I had to step way back from Twitter this weekend, all of the "well they shouldn't have been in the road" shit was making me physically ill.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-10/3-lapd-officers-charged-with-falsifying-records-to-claim-people-were-gang-members-associates
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 July 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Not surprising at all but idk where else to put this. Not Apolitical enough for the Apolitical venting thred; too New York is Alive for the is NYC dead thred:
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-accused-protecting-violent-blue-lives-matter-marchers-bay-ridge
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 13 July 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
I thought this was quite good, and a nice piece of context for how we got here: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888184490/the-long-hot-summer
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:47 (three years ago) link
breonna taylor was alive for five minutes after being shot; no one tried to treat her for 20 minutes
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/17/breonna-taylor-lay-untouched-20-minutes-after-being-shot-records/5389881002
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 July 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
this seems to be the case in every one of these police murders. Are they trained not to assist people they've shot for liability reasons?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 17 July 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
I believe so, but also they are all fascist pigs so there's that, too.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 17 July 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
thread
As someone about to publish a book about Baltimore cops with the title "I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad," I gotta (briefly) address Bret Stephens' op-ed about Baltimore which does not reckon with the full extent of police corruption here— brandon soderberg (@notrivia) July 18, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Good thread
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 18 July 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Oh wow, hadnât thought about Soderberg in forever, good for him, good dude.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-commissioner-rails-against-cowards-who-have-screwed-city-police-reforms
"We're not giving this goddamn city back to criminals. We're not," Shea said in a Compstat meeting, according to video obtained by the Daily News. âI donât know if thereâs ever been a period like this where so many systems of government are literally cowards who wonât stand up for whatâs right. Theyâre failing at every possible measure to be leaders and they throw it on the backs of the men and women of this police department. And curse them with one hand and then blame them with the other. How dare they."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 18 July 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
#fireshea
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 July 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
ftp
― ian, Saturday, 18 July 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
http://rules.cityofnewyork.us/content/amendment-rules-suspension-or-revocation-press-credentials
https://gothamist.com/news/the-nypds-new-rules-for-journalists-are-actually-a-huge-step-forward
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/nyc-police-journalists.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Seems really bad
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/judge-rules-seattle-media-companies-must-hand-over-protest-images-to-police/
― JoeStork, Friday, 24 July 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah. It's bad, and also why people in far left movements have been telling journalists and photographers to not take photos for years, but were always shouted down by the 'but journalistic integrity and documentation and free speech blah blah.'
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
I did appreciate that im the local protests here, organizers were adamant about warning everybody not to take pics, and compliance was near unanimous, but I never thought about Journalists taking pics and exposing everybody
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
Phones at home.Bring a change of clothes.No photos. Cover yr face.Have a buddy and discuss boundaries.Bring water and a snack.
Basic protesting 101 stuff, but so many people are engaging in street struggles for the first time, it's hard to get this sort of basic precautionary stuff out
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
I think a lot of organizers did a great job of communicating it, at least here. cell phones/pics were a problem early on here, and organizers quickly put an end to it very quickly through mere communication on social media/videos etc.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Free speech blah blahâ new board description
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
Lol
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
Phones at home.Bring a change of clothes.No photos.Cover yr face.Have a buddy and discuss boundaries.Bring water and a snack.
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Indeed
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
haha
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
Flawless
― TĆne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
How does 'phones at home' and 'no photos' protesting 101 work in capturing evidence of ongoing police brutality?
― ăȘăăą (onimo), Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
not sure how useful that is in the actual cases (where they just lie and hairsplit anyway), and it's not like we need more documentation to find out what's wrong.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/03/1002587/sousveillance-george-floyd-police-body-cams/
After years of police body cams and bystander cellphone video, itâs clear that evidentiary images on their own donât bring about change. Whatâs missing is power.
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
on their own, no. but the images are still important.
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
really not so sure about that given the nature of the modern media landscape
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
the people who would be swayed by the images don't see them
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
this entire wave of consciousness and protest is dependent in part of there being video of floyd's death.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
in part ON there
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
Yeah so much of public response has been shaped by videoâ like the old man being shoved over, the veteran getting clubbed, etc.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 26 July 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
true
I need that list of "things that have actually changed" again to cheer me up
― sleeve, Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link