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solarbirdThere are so many reasons to completely tear down policing and start over. The cops-slashing-tyres example in this edition of the Police Violence news is in so many ways trivial, given everything else, and yet it's one more demonstration of pure immunity from consequence.
They can do whatever the fuck they want, and they know it, and want you to know it.
That has to end. Now.
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Buffalo Police ERT members say resignation was not in solidarity with suspended officers
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-police-ert-members-say-resignation-was-not-in-solidarity-with-suspended-officers
5 June 2020
By: Madison Carter
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-police-ert-members-say-resignation-was-not-in-solidarity-with-suspended-officers
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — “It went bad. It went bad.”
Two officers of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team spoke with 7 Eyewitness News under the condition their names not be used.
The officers are part of the 57-person volunteer assignment team that resigned Friday, following an incident involving two of their members Thursday night in Niagara Square. They did not resign from the police department, only from their roles on the team.
The officers we spoke with said the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association’s statement asserting all 57 officers resigned from ERT in a "show of support” with the two officers that were suspended without pay is not true.
“I don’t understand why the union said it’s a thing of solidarity. I think it sends the wrong message that ‘we’re backing our own’ and that’s not the case,” said one officer with whom we spoke.
“We quit because our union said [they] aren’t legally backing us anymore. So why would we stand on a line for the City with no legal backing if something [were to] happen? Has nothing to do with us supporting,” said another.
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SlothBorne
twitter.com/CaseyExplosion
7 June 2020
These lying cops have absolutely no dignity whatsoever.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Spokane Police
twitter.com/SpokanePD
7 June 2020
#SeeSomethingSaySomething Thanks to alert citizens, this bucket of rocks staged downtown was secured so it could not be used for violence.
[IMAGE: Small plastic plant pot with thin layer of drainage gravel at bottom. Someone's geranium is dying somewhere.]
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Seattle Police Dept.
twitter.com/SeattlePD
6 June 2020
[EDITOR: It's a fucking prayer candle. Possibly from a little memorial shrine they knocked over, but we don't know.]
https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/1269474731717087233
At about 7:30 p.m. demonstrators outside the East Precinct began moving barricades at 11th and Pine despite multiple requests from police to stop. Individuals began throwing rocks/bottles/and explosives at officers. Several officers injured due to improvised explosives.
[IMAGES: Two views of a smashed prayer candle, on the ground, and then again in a box. In the first one, you can see part of the label from the jar with the word CANDLE.]
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Reuters
twitter.com/Reuters
7 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1269612572719951873
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Some protesters stood their ground as Seattle police tried to move them down the street using flash bangs
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Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
twitter.com/IwriteOK
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1269892128550731778
A member of the press was arrested tonight by asking a member of the Portland Police Bureau his name. You can see her arrest at about 18 minutes into this video. The Portland Police are arresting journalists for politely asking questions now, twitter.com/tedwheeler
twitter.com/sarahforpdx
[QUOTED TWEET]
Sentient Property That Can Experience Violence
twitter.com/45thabsurdist
8 June 2020
LIVE on #Periscope: Civil disturbance declared at the portland justice center again. Night 10
https://pscp.tv/w/cayD6DFvUEtM
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Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
Officer A. Cab
Jun 6, 2020
[EDITOR: Being anonymous, this is, of course, unverified and should be treated as such.]
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
[EDITOR: Being anonymous, this is, of course, unverified and should be treated as such.]
I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.
This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I’ve never felt confident enough to write it. It’s a time in my life I’m ashamed of. It’s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It’s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people’s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.
But enough is enough.
The reforms aren’t working. Incrementalism isn’t happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.
American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth.
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WorriedPotato
twitter.com/velaharigaming
https://twitter.com/velaharigaming/status/1269685373816332289
[THREAD]
A documention of Seattle PD’s bullshit.
Follow along.
I volunteered as a medic last night at Cal Anderson and got there for the 3:30 shift. We had an area with a medic tent, tons of donated supplies, about 10-15 medic personnel from all different backgrounds giving their time.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest
State Patrol and Anoka County deputies acknowledged targeting vehicles. Dozens were damaged.
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
June 8, 2020
https://www.startribune.com/officers-slashed-tires-on-vehicles-parked-during-mpls-protests-unrest/571105692/
Video and photo images posted on the news outlet Mother Jones show officers in military-style uniforms puncturing tires in the Kmart parking lot at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue on May 30.
Images from S. Washington Avenue at Interstate 35W, also showed officers with knives deflating the tires of two unoccupied cars with repeated jabs on May 31. Department of Public Safety spokesman Bruce Gordon confirmed that tires were cut in “a few locations.”
“State Patrol troopers strategically deflated tires ... in order to stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement,” Gordon said.
Gordon said the patrol also targeted vehicles “that contained items used to cause harm during violent protests” such as rocks, concrete and sticks.
“While not a typical tactic, vehicles were being used as dangerous weapons and inhibited our ability to clear areas and keep areas safe where violent protests were occurring,” he said. As in all operations of this size, there will be a review about how these decisions were made.”
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The crackdown before Trump’s photo op
What video and other records show about the clearing of protesters outside the White House
By Dalton Bennett, Sarah Cahlan, Aaron C. Davis and Joyce Lee
June 8, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/06/08/timeline-trump-church-photo-op/
Late in the day on June 1, demonstrators gathered near the White House, on the edge of Lafayette Square, to protest police abuse following the death in custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Similar protests had erupted across the country. Many were peaceful, but some included property destruction and clashes with police.
Earlier in the day, President Trump berated local and state leaders as “weak” for not doing more to quell unrest, and in a call with governors he pledged decisive action. “We’re going to do something that people haven’t seen before,” he said, “but you got to have total domination, and then you have to put them in jail.”
At about 6:30 p.m., just north of the White House, federal police in riot gear fired gas canisters and used grenades containing rubber pellets to scatter largely peaceful demonstrators. Their actions cleared the way for the president, surrounded by the nation’s top law enforcement and military leaders, to walk to the historic St. John’s Church for a three-minute photo op.
Drawing on footage captured from dozens of cameras, as well as police radio communications and other records, The Washington Post reconstructed the events of this latest remarkable hour of Trump’s presidency, including of the roles of the agencies involved and the tactics and weaponry they used.
Watch the reconstruction above to see how it unfolded.
They can do whatever the fuck they want, and they know it, and want you to know it.
That has to end. Now.
- EXCLUSIVE: Two Buffalo Police ERT members say resignation was not in solidarity with suspended officers
- Spokane PD try to pass off a small plant pot with a thin layer of drainage gravel at the bottom as a "bucket of rocks staged downtown" for violence.
- Seattle PD try to pass off a prayer candle (that they may have knocked over from a memorial?) as an improvised explosive device.
- [SEATTLE] WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Some protesters stood their ground as Seattle police tried to move them down the street using flash bangs
- A member of the press was arrested tonight by asking a member of the Portland Police Bureau his name.
- Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
- [SEATTLE] A documention of Seattle PD’s bullshit.
- [MINNEAPOLIS] Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest
- The crackdown before Trump’s photo op
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Buffalo Police ERT members say resignation was not in solidarity with suspended officers
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-police-ert-members-say-resignation-was-not-in-solidarity-with-suspended-officers
5 June 2020
By: Madison Carter
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-police-ert-members-say-resignation-was-not-in-solidarity-with-suspended-officers
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — “It went bad. It went bad.”
Two officers of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team spoke with 7 Eyewitness News under the condition their names not be used.
The officers are part of the 57-person volunteer assignment team that resigned Friday, following an incident involving two of their members Thursday night in Niagara Square. They did not resign from the police department, only from their roles on the team.
The officers we spoke with said the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association’s statement asserting all 57 officers resigned from ERT in a "show of support” with the two officers that were suspended without pay is not true.
“I don’t understand why the union said it’s a thing of solidarity. I think it sends the wrong message that ‘we’re backing our own’ and that’s not the case,” said one officer with whom we spoke.
“We quit because our union said [they] aren’t legally backing us anymore. So why would we stand on a line for the City with no legal backing if something [were to] happen? Has nothing to do with us supporting,” said another.
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SlothBorne
twitter.com/CaseyExplosion
7 June 2020
These lying cops have absolutely no dignity whatsoever.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Spokane Police
twitter.com/SpokanePD
7 June 2020
#SeeSomethingSaySomething Thanks to alert citizens, this bucket of rocks staged downtown was secured so it could not be used for violence.
[IMAGE: Small plastic plant pot with thin layer of drainage gravel at bottom. Someone's geranium is dying somewhere.]
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Seattle Police Dept.
twitter.com/SeattlePD
6 June 2020
[EDITOR: It's a fucking prayer candle. Possibly from a little memorial shrine they knocked over, but we don't know.]
https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/1269474731717087233
At about 7:30 p.m. demonstrators outside the East Precinct began moving barricades at 11th and Pine despite multiple requests from police to stop. Individuals began throwing rocks/bottles/and explosives at officers. Several officers injured due to improvised explosives.
[IMAGES: Two views of a smashed prayer candle, on the ground, and then again in a box. In the first one, you can see part of the label from the jar with the word CANDLE.]
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Reuters
twitter.com/Reuters
7 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1269612572719951873
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Some protesters stood their ground as Seattle police tried to move them down the street using flash bangs
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Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
twitter.com/IwriteOK
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1269892128550731778
A member of the press was arrested tonight by asking a member of the Portland Police Bureau his name. You can see her arrest at about 18 minutes into this video. The Portland Police are arresting journalists for politely asking questions now, twitter.com/tedwheeler
twitter.com/sarahforpdx
[QUOTED TWEET]
Sentient Property That Can Experience Violence
twitter.com/45thabsurdist
8 June 2020
LIVE on #Periscope: Civil disturbance declared at the portland justice center again. Night 10
https://pscp.tv/w/cayD6DFvUEtM
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Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
Officer A. Cab
Jun 6, 2020
[EDITOR: Being anonymous, this is, of course, unverified and should be treated as such.]
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
[EDITOR: Being anonymous, this is, of course, unverified and should be treated as such.]
I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.
This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I’ve never felt confident enough to write it. It’s a time in my life I’m ashamed of. It’s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It’s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people’s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.
But enough is enough.
The reforms aren’t working. Incrementalism isn’t happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.
American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth.
----- 7 -----
WorriedPotato
twitter.com/velaharigaming
https://twitter.com/velaharigaming/status/1269685373816332289
[THREAD]
A documention of Seattle PD’s bullshit.
Follow along.
I volunteered as a medic last night at Cal Anderson and got there for the 3:30 shift. We had an area with a medic tent, tons of donated supplies, about 10-15 medic personnel from all different backgrounds giving their time.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
----- 8 -----
Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest
State Patrol and Anoka County deputies acknowledged targeting vehicles. Dozens were damaged.
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
June 8, 2020
https://www.startribune.com/officers-slashed-tires-on-vehicles-parked-during-mpls-protests-unrest/571105692/
Video and photo images posted on the news outlet Mother Jones show officers in military-style uniforms puncturing tires in the Kmart parking lot at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue on May 30.
Images from S. Washington Avenue at Interstate 35W, also showed officers with knives deflating the tires of two unoccupied cars with repeated jabs on May 31. Department of Public Safety spokesman Bruce Gordon confirmed that tires were cut in “a few locations.”
“State Patrol troopers strategically deflated tires ... in order to stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement,” Gordon said.
Gordon said the patrol also targeted vehicles “that contained items used to cause harm during violent protests” such as rocks, concrete and sticks.
“While not a typical tactic, vehicles were being used as dangerous weapons and inhibited our ability to clear areas and keep areas safe where violent protests were occurring,” he said. As in all operations of this size, there will be a review about how these decisions were made.”
----- 9 -----
The crackdown before Trump’s photo op
What video and other records show about the clearing of protesters outside the White House
By Dalton Bennett, Sarah Cahlan, Aaron C. Davis and Joyce Lee
June 8, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/06/08/timeline-trump-church-photo-op/
Late in the day on June 1, demonstrators gathered near the White House, on the edge of Lafayette Square, to protest police abuse following the death in custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Similar protests had erupted across the country. Many were peaceful, but some included property destruction and clashes with police.
Earlier in the day, President Trump berated local and state leaders as “weak” for not doing more to quell unrest, and in a call with governors he pledged decisive action. “We’re going to do something that people haven’t seen before,” he said, “but you got to have total domination, and then you have to put them in jail.”
At about 6:30 p.m., just north of the White House, federal police in riot gear fired gas canisters and used grenades containing rubber pellets to scatter largely peaceful demonstrators. Their actions cleared the way for the president, surrounded by the nation’s top law enforcement and military leaders, to walk to the historic St. John’s Church for a three-minute photo op.
Drawing on footage captured from dozens of cameras, as well as police radio communications and other records, The Washington Post reconstructed the events of this latest remarkable hour of Trump’s presidency, including of the roles of the agencies involved and the tactics and weaponry they used.
Watch the reconstruction above to see how it unfolded.
