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solarbirdThe "cold" civil war seems to be warming up a bit. This update is just police and MAGA/neofascist violence.
This is extremely bad. Particularly the arrests of and attacks on journalists by police. Police tend to be Trump supporters, and/or MAGAts. He's been calling journalists the "enemy of the people" for years now. It's had the desired effect.
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Keith Boykin
twitter.com/keithboykin
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1266933018570219520
[THREAD]
So here’s what happened today. The NYPD arrested me at 96th Street and West Side Highway while I was taking photos and video to post to Twitter. I told the police I was with the Press, they walked by me and then turned around and arrested me.
8:22 PM · May 30, 2020
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WCCO Photojournalist Tom Aviles Arrested In South Minneapolis
30 May 2020
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/wcco-photojournalist-tom-aviles-arrested-in-south-minneapolis/
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO’s award-winning veteran photographer Tom Aviles has been struck by a rubber bullet and taken into custody by the State Patrol Saturday night.
During the arrest, they forced him onto the ground.
Aviles is OK. We’ve called our CBS attorneys, and they’re working on freeing him.
The arrest happened at Nicollet and Franklin at about 8:45 p.m.
He was with veteran producer Joan Gilbertson, who is OK.
They both identified themselves clearly, that they were members of the local media, and WCCO journalists.
Joan told us the patrolman said, “You’ve been warned, or the same thing will happen to you. Or you’re next.”
Joan says she had her hands up and said, “Don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me.”
Thanks to Joan for grabbing the camera and bringing this video back so we can show you it all.
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Tanya Kerssen
twitter.com/tkerssen
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225
Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
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Ruthie
twitter.com/XruthxNthr
30 May 2020
WTF
[EMBEDDED VIDEO of police assaulting sitting protesters in street]
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Rob Bennett
twitter.com/rob_bennett
30 Msy 2020
https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/1266894785375240193
[EMBEDDED VIDEO of police car charging into crowd, knocking protesters around]
[SECOND ANGLE: https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266917228752056320 ]
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Kevin Krause
twitter.com/KevinRKrause
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137
She says she was walking home with her groceries when police fired some sort of pellet in her face. Says she’s not a protester. #DallasProtests
Oh my god. What is the twitter.com/NYPDnews doing?
[IMAGE: Woman would large, bloody forehead wound]
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Linda Tirado
twitter.com/KillerMartinis
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669
[THREAD]
an update: I am permanently blind in my left eye, and the docs absolutely refuse to let me go back to work for they say six weeks. I’m definitely not allowed to be near smoke or gas.
Usually if I had to stay home I’d spend a lot of time amplifying folk but reading hurts today
[FOLLOWS EARLIER TWEET ABOUT GOING TO ER AFTER HAVING BEEN HIT BY POLICE PROJECTILE]
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Lynnell Mickelsen
twitter.com/lynnellmick
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/lynnellmick/status/1266489791018721280
My dental office in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis is boarding up their windows this afternoon. We are a long way from the protests, so let's be clear about what's going on here. We don't have a protest problem. We have a policing problem. A thread: 1/
[THREAD]
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Noelle Stevenson
twitter.com/Gingerhazing
30 May 2020
[EDITOR: I'm including this one because she is literally the showrunner/reboot creator for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. She and her wife went out and protested and were assaulted.]
https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1266893161026158592
Got hit with a baton (I'm fine) and my phone was taken. If any friends need to get in touch please DM me here or email!
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Anna Kendrick
annakendrick47
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/AnnaKendrick47/status/1266963846649933824
I mean. They couldn’t stop themselves from blatantly escalating things. Even for a few days, even cynically, even for the optics.
[EMBEDDED COMPILATION VIDEO. INCLUDES HORSE TRAMPLING PROTESTER.]
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John Cusack
twitter.com/johncusack
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266938983575101441
Cops didn’t like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike.
Ahhm herea the audio
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Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266910910137995264
MSNBC reporters were just almost hit with some sort of explosive device by law enforcement officers in Minneapolis
Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266912009083326470
"Get back. Get back. You're hit. You're hit. He's hit ... we got gas here." -- twitter.com/AliVelshi reporting from Minneapolis
[EXTENDED FOOTAGE IN THREAD:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1266912018595905536
]
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Michael George
twitter.com/MikeGeorgeCBS
https://twitter.com/MikeGeorgeCBS/status/1266919447970942986
This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews
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Matthew Gertz
twitter.com/MattGertz
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1266913484408832001
[MSNBC's] Ali Velshi in Minneapolis: "This was a 100% peaceful march and the police opened fire into it. There was no reason to do so, there was zero provocation."
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Adam Parkhomenko
twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1266899556995862530
This guy started shooting a hunting bow at protestors? WTF
[EMBEDDED VIDEO as described]
[SECOND ANGLE: https://twitter.com/princesslondyxx/status/1266893071821635585 ]
[SHOOTER released to lie about events on television. His story directly contracts actual events as recorded at above link. Video:
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1266914746416193536 ]
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Left Coast Right Watch
twitter.com/LCRWnews
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1266509747169005569
#HOUSTON #TEXAS #BOLO “WarHippie”—“a committed nazi accelerationist with a gunsmithing degree” just posted this on a telegram channel. I’ll contact some serious researchers with the channel soon. I don’t want to give it new followers.
[THREAD WITH MANY EMBEDDED VIDEO SEGMENTS]
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Ashish Malhotra
twitter.com/amalhotra2
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/amalhotra2/status/1266944374115569670
White man tells protestors to “go back to their country”
[EMBEDDED VIDEO - extended confrontration]
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Asia
twitter.com/AsiaJannelll
29/30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/AsiaJannelll/status/1266626927885873152
I was at Downtown Oakland protests a little while ago. Let me say something; the people breaking glass, breaking into windows & starting fires were WHITE men wearing all black. They had hammers and walkie talkies. They were organized. BLM protestors did not start the violence!
[EMBEDDED VIDEO, as described]
This is extremely bad. Particularly the arrests of and attacks on journalists by police. Police tend to be Trump supporters, and/or MAGAts. He's been calling journalists the "enemy of the people" for years now. It's had the desired effect.
- Journalist arrests: Keith Boykin (NYC)
- Journalist arrests: Tom Aviles (Minneapolis)
- Police violence: Minneapolis residential neighbourhood
- Police violence: Omaha, Nebraska
- Police violence: New York City
- Police violence: Dallas, Texas
- Police violence: Minneapolis
- Police violence: Minneapolis
- Police violence: Los Angeles (Noelle Stevenson, She-Ra)
- Police violence: Compilation video
- Police violence: Chicago (John Cusack, yes that one)
- Police violence against journalists: Minneapolis (Police attack MSNBC crew)
- Police violence against journalists: Minneapolis (Police attack CBS crew)
- Police violence: Minneapolis
- MAGA/neofascist violence: Man screams "all lives matter," attacks with bow (Salt Lake City)
- MAGA/neofascist violence: Neo-Nazi went in with intent to shoot, got intercepted, all on video (Texas)
- MAGA/neofascist violence: White man confronts POC protestors, screaming “go back to your country” (Atlanta)
- MAGA/neofascist violence: Oakland, California
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Keith Boykin
twitter.com/keithboykin
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1266933018570219520
[THREAD]
So here’s what happened today. The NYPD arrested me at 96th Street and West Side Highway while I was taking photos and video to post to Twitter. I told the police I was with the Press, they walked by me and then turned around and arrested me.
8:22 PM · May 30, 2020
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WCCO Photojournalist Tom Aviles Arrested In South Minneapolis
30 May 2020
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/wcco-photojournalist-tom-aviles-arrested-in-south-minneapolis/
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO’s award-winning veteran photographer Tom Aviles has been struck by a rubber bullet and taken into custody by the State Patrol Saturday night.
During the arrest, they forced him onto the ground.
Aviles is OK. We’ve called our CBS attorneys, and they’re working on freeing him.
The arrest happened at Nicollet and Franklin at about 8:45 p.m.
He was with veteran producer Joan Gilbertson, who is OK.
They both identified themselves clearly, that they were members of the local media, and WCCO journalists.
Joan told us the patrolman said, “You’ve been warned, or the same thing will happen to you. Or you’re next.”
Joan says she had her hands up and said, “Don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me.”
Thanks to Joan for grabbing the camera and bringing this video back so we can show you it all.
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Tanya Kerssen
twitter.com/tkerssen
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225
Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
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Ruthie
twitter.com/XruthxNthr
30 May 2020
WTF
[EMBEDDED VIDEO of police assaulting sitting protesters in street]
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Rob Bennett
twitter.com/rob_bennett
30 Msy 2020
https://twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/1266894785375240193
[EMBEDDED VIDEO of police car charging into crowd, knocking protesters around]
[SECOND ANGLE: https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266917228752056320 ]
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Kevin Krause
twitter.com/KevinRKrause
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137
She says she was walking home with her groceries when police fired some sort of pellet in her face. Says she’s not a protester. #DallasProtests
Oh my god. What is the twitter.com/NYPDnews doing?
[IMAGE: Woman would large, bloody forehead wound]
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Linda Tirado
twitter.com/KillerMartinis
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669
[THREAD]
an update: I am permanently blind in my left eye, and the docs absolutely refuse to let me go back to work for they say six weeks. I’m definitely not allowed to be near smoke or gas.
Usually if I had to stay home I’d spend a lot of time amplifying folk but reading hurts today
[FOLLOWS EARLIER TWEET ABOUT GOING TO ER AFTER HAVING BEEN HIT BY POLICE PROJECTILE]
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Lynnell Mickelsen
twitter.com/lynnellmick
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/lynnellmick/status/1266489791018721280
My dental office in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis is boarding up their windows this afternoon. We are a long way from the protests, so let's be clear about what's going on here. We don't have a protest problem. We have a policing problem. A thread: 1/
[THREAD]
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Noelle Stevenson
twitter.com/Gingerhazing
30 May 2020
[EDITOR: I'm including this one because she is literally the showrunner/reboot creator for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. She and her wife went out and protested and were assaulted.]
https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1266893161026158592
Got hit with a baton (I'm fine) and my phone was taken. If any friends need to get in touch please DM me here or email!
----- 10 -----
Anna Kendrick
annakendrick4730 May 2020
https://twitter.com/AnnaKendrick47/status/1266963846649933824
I mean. They couldn’t stop themselves from blatantly escalating things. Even for a few days, even cynically, even for the optics.
[EMBEDDED COMPILATION VIDEO. INCLUDES HORSE TRAMPLING PROTESTER.]
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John Cusack
twitter.com/johncusack
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266938983575101441
Cops didn’t like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike.
Ahhm herea the audio
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Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266910910137995264
MSNBC reporters were just almost hit with some sort of explosive device by law enforcement officers in Minneapolis
Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1266912009083326470
"Get back. Get back. You're hit. You're hit. He's hit ... we got gas here." -- twitter.com/AliVelshi reporting from Minneapolis
[EXTENDED FOOTAGE IN THREAD:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1266912018595905536
]
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Michael George
twitter.com/MikeGeorgeCBS
https://twitter.com/MikeGeorgeCBS/status/1266919447970942986
This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews
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Matthew Gertz
twitter.com/MattGertz
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1266913484408832001
[MSNBC's] Ali Velshi in Minneapolis: "This was a 100% peaceful march and the police opened fire into it. There was no reason to do so, there was zero provocation."
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Adam Parkhomenko
twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1266899556995862530
This guy started shooting a hunting bow at protestors? WTF
[EMBEDDED VIDEO as described]
[SECOND ANGLE: https://twitter.com/princesslondyxx/status/1266893071821635585 ]
[SHOOTER released to lie about events on television. His story directly contracts actual events as recorded at above link. Video:
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1266914746416193536 ]
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Left Coast Right Watch
twitter.com/LCRWnews
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1266509747169005569
#HOUSTON #TEXAS #BOLO “WarHippie”—“a committed nazi accelerationist with a gunsmithing degree” just posted this on a telegram channel. I’ll contact some serious researchers with the channel soon. I don’t want to give it new followers.
[THREAD WITH MANY EMBEDDED VIDEO SEGMENTS]
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Ashish Malhotra
twitter.com/amalhotra2
30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/amalhotra2/status/1266944374115569670
White man tells protestors to “go back to their country”
[EMBEDDED VIDEO - extended confrontration]
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Asia
twitter.com/AsiaJannelll
29/30 May 2020
https://twitter.com/AsiaJannelll/status/1266626927885873152
I was at Downtown Oakland protests a little while ago. Let me say something; the people breaking glass, breaking into windows & starting fires were WHITE men wearing all black. They had hammers and walkie talkies. They were organized. BLM protestors did not start the violence!
[EMBEDDED VIDEO, as described]
