solarbird | Today's News (2020/5/31): Morning Police Violence Edition

So much more. So very much more. Some of this, I had last night, but lacked video, or good video. Some of it I didn't have at all. It's horrific, of course.

Police violence, firing at journalists: Minneapolis
Police violence, attacking journalists: New York City
Police violence, random attack by police while departing: Denver
Police violence, attack on journalist: Minneapolis
Police violence, attack on still protester with arms up: New York City
Police violence, attack on "young boy": Sacramento
Police violence, attack on old man with cane: Salt Lake City
Police violence, drive-by attack on young man: New York City
Police violence, attack on young woman holding sign with rubber bullets: Columbus, Ohio
Police violence, kneeling on neck (like George Floyd), stopped by partner: Seattle
Police violence, kneeling on neck (like George Floyd) against clearly identified medic, attempts to video chased away: Brooklyn, New York
Police violence, tear gas in young child's face: Seattle
Police violence, lone assault (from crowd of police) on bystander: San Antonio, Texas
Police violence, charge into peaceful crowd, arrest journalists, random bystanders: Las Vegas, Nevada
Police violence, attack on cars stopped at intersection: Denver

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Molly Hennessy-Fiske
twitter.com/mollyhf
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422

Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range.

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Brandy Zadrozny
twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1266926816146739201

Not long after twitter.com/letsgomathias filmed this scene, he was detained.

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Rachelle D'nae

heyydnae

https://twitter.com/heyydnae/status/1267139396278661121

my older brother went to a protest in Denver last night. as the police were leaving, one of them shot him with a pepper pellet that smashed the back of his phone and exploded in his face. they were ~30 feet from each other and it looks like the officer aimed directly at his face

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 March 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267005812444037122

Minneapolis police march on a parking lot where VICE reporter twitter.com/MichaelAdams317 is sheltering. He is wears a press badge.

“I’m Press! Press! Press!”

Cop shouts “I DON’T CARE” and throws him to the ground. Another cop pepper sprays him directly in the face.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267016644842287104

New York: #BlackLivesMatter protesters demonstrate peacefully with their hands up.

An NYPD cop pulls a man’s facemask down and pepper sprays him directly in the face for no reason.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267029301389492224

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Video shows aftermath only. I saw this erupt on Twitter but didn't get anything with video until today. Aftermath only.]

CW: lots of blood.
Sacramento: A young boy is shot in the eye by police during a peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protest tonight at the State Capitol.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267033010295042048

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I have seen other versions of this, forgot to include it last night]

Salt Lake City: Police violently shove an elderly man with a cane to the ground, for the crime of standing and watching.

He couldn’t hear their commands.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267048521787531267

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I saw only poor video of this last night. This video is better.]

NYPD cop casually slams a man with his car door as he drives by.

The police are angry for being exposed. They want blood.

twitter.com/NYCMayor de Blasio uses the NYPD as his personal army, even getting them to move his daughter and her belongings out her apartment.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
31 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267033010295042048

Columbus: A group of peaceful protestors stands before a line of police.

A young woman stands still, holding a sign above her head. You see the police take direct aim and shoot her with rubber bullets. She falls to the ground.

Crowd: “SHE IS PEACEFUL”

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267011092045115392

#Seattle. Police throw a man to the ground. A cop kneel on the man’s neck, the same exact way they murdered #GeorgeFloyd.

People can be heard screaming “GET YOUR KNEE OFF HIS NECK! GET YOUR F*CKING KNEE OFF HIS NECK!” before his partner finally intervenes.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267118313466822656

Brookyln: Cop pins a medic face-down on the ground with his knee pressing on him.

The medic is not resisting and he is clearly wearing a medic’s uniform while crying “I’m a medic! I’m a medic!”

Onlookers attempt to film but cops shove them away.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267119621951217667

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Seattle twitter lit up with this when it happened, but I didn't have video. This video is aftermath only. Literally this is when things started getting violent.]

cw: police violence, children
Seattle: At a rainy and peaceful rally yesterday.

Police advanced and pepper sprayed a young child in the face.

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[SEE ALSO

PHOTOS:
https://twitter.com/queenofcode/status/1267121153044213760

VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/vonkayvon/status/1266981757263310850

Officer JARED CAMPBELL (#8740) refusing to give his clearly covered badge number:
https://twitter.com/vonkayvon/status/1266981759033409536

]

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267124991809609728

cw: blood
San Antonio: A young man stands peacefully with a cigarette and phone.

He is not a threat, just recording the police walking by. One cop walks up to him, takes aim; and deliberately shoots him twice from point-blank range with rubber bullets.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
29 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267168204863926274

Las Vegas: Police charge into a peaceful crowd shouting “GRAB ANYBODY! GRAB ANYBODY!”

LVPD attacked and then wrongly jailed dozens of protesters, including two photojournalists from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Ellen Schmidt and Bridget Bennett.

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Chad Loder
twitter.com/chadloder
30 May 2020

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267176238960922624

Denver. Police were firing pepper bullets and tear gas at cars stopped at an intersection, targeting a car with a pregnant woman.

A man yells at them “You’re shooting my car with my girlfriend in it? My pregnant girlfriend in it?”

The cops open fire on him with pepper rounds.

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