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solarbirdLong live the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone! Which will live on until the police decide the protesters aren't going to build down the temporarily-abandoned East Precinct building. Then they'll move in and make mass arrests. Or try to.
This tweet is absolute peak Seattle. I love it.
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Black Lives Matter sues over violent Seattle police tactics
Gene Johnson, Associated Press
Updated 12:28 pm PDT, Tuesday, June 9, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Black-Lives-Matter-sues-over-violent-Seattle-15327796.php
SEATTLE (AP) — A Black Lives Matter group sued the Seattle Police Department Tuesday to halt the violent tactics it has used to break up largely peaceful protests in recent days.
Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County filed the emergency lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
“These daily demonstrations are fueled by people from all over the city who demand that police stop using excessive force against Black people, and they demand that Seattle dismantle its racist systems of oppression," Livio De La Cruz, board member of Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, said in a written statement. "It is unacceptable that the Seattle Police Department would then respond to these demonstrations with more excessive force, including using tear gas and flashbang grenades.”
Officers have used tear gas, pepper spray and other less-lethal weapons against crowds that have demonstrated against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best have apologized to peaceful protesters who were subjected to chemical weapons, but even after they promised a 30-day ban on using CS gas, one type of tear gas, last Friday, officers used it again two nights later, saying unruly demonstrators were encroaching on their position.
Under pressure from city councilors, protesters and dozens of other elected leaders who have demanded that officers dial back their tactics, the police department on Monday removed barricades near its East Precinct building in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where protesters and riot squads had faced off nightly. Protesters were allowed to march and demonstrate in front of the building, and the night remained peaceful.
The lawsuit alleged that the use of chemical agents and less-lethal projectiles police violated the Fourth Amendment's protections against excessive force as well as the First Amendment's free speech protections. It also said the use of tear gas and pepper spray was especially reckless during a respiratory pandemic and could increase risks related to COVID-19.
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OSU graduate, 22, dies after attending protests in Columbus
BOB JACOB | MANAGING EDITOR
Jun 5, 2020
[EDITOR: A MORE CORRECT HEADLINE WOULD BE: OSU graduate, 22, killed by police tear gas at protest]
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/osu-graduate-22-dies-after-attending-protests-in-columbus/article_dcadd6b2-a75d-11ea-94c3-e7751ddd6d55.html
A 22-year-old Ohio State University graduate died May 30 following protests in Columbus, according to television station WCMH.
The woman was identified on Instagram as Sarah Grossman, who was among protesters showing support for George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis when white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25.
This led to protests across the state and the country, including in Columbus.
Grossman was in a group sprayed by a chemical agent, according to reports. She may have had respiratory issues, according to social media posts. [EDITOR: UNTRUE - but a person did say that, before retracting it. She did not have respiratory issues. Source: https://twitter.com/zayer_dounya/status/1269504142634102784 ]
She died at Sycamore Hospital in Miamisburg, a suburb of Dayton.
The city of Columbus posted on Twitter it had seen social media reports of a young woman passing away as the result of being sprayed during a protest in Columbus, but it had no reports of EMTs being dispatched to the scene.
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FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?
Nation
Oct 21, 2016 4:10 PM EDT
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This was four years ago. Nothing has improved.]
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
Increased attention toward the killing of black men and women by police throughout the past year has ignited national conversations on racism and law enforcement. From Freddie Gray in April 2015 to Deborah Danner — an “emotionally disturbed” woman fatally shot this week by an NYPD officer — protests around the country have forced many Americans to reassess how police engage with communities of color.
In light of — or perhaps despite — the increased scrutiny, FBI director James Comey told police officers at a national conference last Sunday that because of insufficient data on use of force, “Americans actually have no idea” whether racial bias in policing is really an epidemic. Pointing to current public outrage over police killings of African-Americans, Comey said “the absence of good information” and data has aided in the growing belief that police officers target particular communities.
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Spek
twitter.com/spekulation
June 8, 200
https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1270114467024642050
Just heard! The woman intentionally shot with the canister last night, from the reddit story, is alive and awake! She's still in the hospital. But she made it.
[EMBEDDED IMAGES RELATING THE POLICE SHOOTING AND THEN OVERRUNNING THE MEDICAL STATION TREATING HER]
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New York Post
twitter.com/nypost
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270134904752234496
NYPD finds concrete disguised as ice cream at George Floyd protests https://trib.al/e0MJ9jN
[SEE ALSO]
Venture Communist
twitter.com/venturecommunis
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270132473259651072
these are samples used for testing the adhesion of polymer and other coatings to concrete surfaces using a method called the simple cup adhesion shear test. look at the markings on the cups you idiots; don't believe the cops.
[NEXT]
Venture Communist
twitter.com/venturecommunis
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270134904752234496
the instructions are literally cut off the top of a coffee cup to use as a form for testing the concrete
[IMAGE SHOWING INSTRUCTIONS]
[SEE ALSO]
AntifaCandle
twitter.com/antifacandle
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/antifacandle/status/1270210267654139904
Ice cream by candlelight is delightful, but these are concrete pour tests my dudes. Not antifa affiliated, but I wouldn’t expect the cops to know the first thing about actual labor.
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SPD Arrested Man Who Shot Video of Kid Allegedly Pepper Sprayed by Cops
by Rich Smith • Jun 8, 2020
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/08/43864118/spd-arrested-man-who-shot-video-kid-allegedly-pepper-sprayed-by-cops
Early Sunday morning the Seattle Police Department booked Evan Hreha into jail on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a laser pointer, according to the King County jail register.
Hreha shot the video of a young girl who was allegedly maced by an SPD officer during the second day of protests against police brutality in Seattle.
His mother, Barb, said she was "concerned" about the police arresting Hreha in retaliation for sharing the video, as "he’s never been in any trouble" before.
Barb said Hreha texted her on Saturday evening, around 8:00 p.m., to say he was giving out hot dogs for free to protesters at 11th and Pine. At 1:15 a.m, she said she got a phone call saying he was arrested. Later that morning she got in touch with her son, who told her he was walking home Saturday evening by himself and "all of a sudden he was surrounded" by police. He told her he didn't have a laser.
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Nox
twitter.com/AnoxiaRope
9 June 2020
https://twitter.com/AnoxiaRope/status/1270266440751345665
All of the police comms heard on scanner from trailing the Proud Boys group, between 10:30pm and 12:30am. No visual confirmation of this group was ever made.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19SibZX05xWvf_-RKX1bxJMnAHHJ7ecTI?usp=sharing
#seattlescanner
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"Round Up The Green Hats": NYPD Accused Of Deliberately Targeting Legal Observers In Brutal Bronx Mass Arrest
By Jake Offenhartz
June 8, 2020
https://gothamist.com/news/round-green-hats-nypd-accused-deliberately-targeting-legal-observers-brutal-bronx-mass-arrest
On Thursday evening before curfew, Rex Santus was standing alone on a quiet Mott Haven street corner when he caught the attention of NYPD officers passing in an unmarked minivan. As eight officers surrounded him, the 28-year-old CUNY law student identified himself as a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, and explained his intention to monitor a nearby protest against racist police brutality.
The officers accused him of “illegal counter-surveillance against police,” Santus said. They seized his notebook, reading from it and mocking him for writing that some cops had obscured their badge numbers. As the officers feigned ignorance about the role of legal observers, Santus recalled, an apparent warning blared from their police radios: “A lot of LOs out tonight.”
The National Lawyers Guild’s legal observers (“LOs”), instantly identifiable in their neon green hats, have served as a consistent presence at New York City protests for decades. The NYPD patrol guide acknowledges the observers' right to monitor police activity and record the names of arrestees. Like medical and jail support workers, legal observers were exempted from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 8 p.m. curfew.
But none of that seemed to matter when the NYPD carried out its violent mass arrest of peaceful marchers in Mott Haven on Thursday. Just before 8 p.m., hundreds of protesters — as well as journalists and legal observers — were suddenly trapped on a narrow street by officers, who charged them from either direction while wielding batons and bikes. On top of the 260 people arrested, at least 11 legal observers with the National Lawyers Guild were detained, in some cases violently.
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Portland police chief resigns amid George Floyd protests
Andrew Selsky, Associated Press
Monday, June 8, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/20-arrested-in-Portland-Oregon-other-protests-15324914.php
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Portland's police chief resigned on Monday, just six months into her job, amid criticism of her department's handling of protests in Oregon's largest city. An African American lieutenant on the force replaced her.
The shakeup came as police have been sharply criticized for using what has been called inappropriate force against some protesters as huge demonstrations continue in Portland.
“To say this was unexpected would be an understatement,” new Police Chief Chuck Lovell said at a news conference. “I’m humbled. I’m going to listen. I’m going to care about the community, and I’m looking forward to this journey.”
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Snohomish County deputy’s use of force under review after video shows him striking a prone suspect repeatedly
June 9, 2020 at 4:52 pm
By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/snohomish-county-deputys-use-of-force-under-review-after-video-shows-him-striking-a-prone-suspect-repeatedly/
A Snohomish County deputy who was fired last year and then rehired after a new sheriff was elected is now being scrutinized for a May 28 video showing him repeatedly striking a suspect who was lying face-down on the ground as officers handcuffed him.
The video was shot from a nearby home and shared around social media as protests against police brutality spread worldwide. It shows a man being pulled out of the back of a minivan in a residential neighborhood near Mill Creek and forced to the ground with three deputies around him.
In the video, one of the deputies, now identified as Deputy Evan Twedt, delivers a rapid series of blows to the man on the ground, who was wanted as a suspect in a domestic violence case and vehicle theft, and on a felony warrant. Both Twedt and the suspect are white, according the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
The angle of the video does not show the arrestee’s movements or hands, but he can be heard saying, “Hey I’m not resisting, guys.”
This tweet is absolute peak Seattle. I love it.
- Black Lives Matter sues over violent Seattle police tactics
- "OSU graduate, 22, dies after attending protests in Columbus" [EDITOR: "Was killed by police tear gas" would be the correct headline. This passive voiced removal of responsibility from police violence is a constant in media coverage.]
- FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? [EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was four years ago. Nothing has improved.]
- [SEATTLE] The woman intentionally shot with the canister last night, from the reddit story, is alive and awake
- [NEW YORK CITY] NYPD lie, claim concrete test samples from a construction site were staged weapons, New York post reports it unquestioned
- [SEATTLE] SPD Arrested Man Who Shot Video of Kid Allegedly Pepper Sprayed by Cops
- [SEATTLE] Despite all the talk on SPD scanners last night, Proud Boys were never actually seen. Were they actually there?
- [NEW YORK CITY] "Round Up The Green Hats": NYPD Accused Of Deliberately Targeting Legal Observers In Brutal Bronx Mass Arrest
- [PORTLAND, OREGON] Portland police chief resigns amid George Floyd protests
- [SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON STATE] Snohomish County deputy’s use of force under review after video shows him striking a prone suspect repeatedly
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Black Lives Matter sues over violent Seattle police tactics
Gene Johnson, Associated Press
Updated 12:28 pm PDT, Tuesday, June 9, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Black-Lives-Matter-sues-over-violent-Seattle-15327796.php
SEATTLE (AP) — A Black Lives Matter group sued the Seattle Police Department Tuesday to halt the violent tactics it has used to break up largely peaceful protests in recent days.
Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County filed the emergency lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
“These daily demonstrations are fueled by people from all over the city who demand that police stop using excessive force against Black people, and they demand that Seattle dismantle its racist systems of oppression," Livio De La Cruz, board member of Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, said in a written statement. "It is unacceptable that the Seattle Police Department would then respond to these demonstrations with more excessive force, including using tear gas and flashbang grenades.”
Officers have used tear gas, pepper spray and other less-lethal weapons against crowds that have demonstrated against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best have apologized to peaceful protesters who were subjected to chemical weapons, but even after they promised a 30-day ban on using CS gas, one type of tear gas, last Friday, officers used it again two nights later, saying unruly demonstrators were encroaching on their position.
Under pressure from city councilors, protesters and dozens of other elected leaders who have demanded that officers dial back their tactics, the police department on Monday removed barricades near its East Precinct building in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where protesters and riot squads had faced off nightly. Protesters were allowed to march and demonstrate in front of the building, and the night remained peaceful.
The lawsuit alleged that the use of chemical agents and less-lethal projectiles police violated the Fourth Amendment's protections against excessive force as well as the First Amendment's free speech protections. It also said the use of tear gas and pepper spray was especially reckless during a respiratory pandemic and could increase risks related to COVID-19.
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OSU graduate, 22, dies after attending protests in Columbus
BOB JACOB | MANAGING EDITOR
Jun 5, 2020
[EDITOR: A MORE CORRECT HEADLINE WOULD BE: OSU graduate, 22, killed by police tear gas at protest]
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/osu-graduate-22-dies-after-attending-protests-in-columbus/article_dcadd6b2-a75d-11ea-94c3-e7751ddd6d55.html
A 22-year-old Ohio State University graduate died May 30 following protests in Columbus, according to television station WCMH.
The woman was identified on Instagram as Sarah Grossman, who was among protesters showing support for George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis when white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25.
This led to protests across the state and the country, including in Columbus.
Grossman was in a group sprayed by a chemical agent, according to reports. She may have had respiratory issues, according to social media posts. [EDITOR: UNTRUE - but a person did say that, before retracting it. She did not have respiratory issues. Source: https://twitter.com/zayer_dounya/status/1269504142634102784 ]
She died at Sycamore Hospital in Miamisburg, a suburb of Dayton.
The city of Columbus posted on Twitter it had seen social media reports of a young woman passing away as the result of being sprayed during a protest in Columbus, but it had no reports of EMTs being dispatched to the scene.
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FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?
Nation
Oct 21, 2016 4:10 PM EDT
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This was four years ago. Nothing has improved.]
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
Increased attention toward the killing of black men and women by police throughout the past year has ignited national conversations on racism and law enforcement. From Freddie Gray in April 2015 to Deborah Danner — an “emotionally disturbed” woman fatally shot this week by an NYPD officer — protests around the country have forced many Americans to reassess how police engage with communities of color.
In light of — or perhaps despite — the increased scrutiny, FBI director James Comey told police officers at a national conference last Sunday that because of insufficient data on use of force, “Americans actually have no idea” whether racial bias in policing is really an epidemic. Pointing to current public outrage over police killings of African-Americans, Comey said “the absence of good information” and data has aided in the growing belief that police officers target particular communities.
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Spek
twitter.com/spekulation
June 8, 200
https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1270114467024642050
Just heard! The woman intentionally shot with the canister last night, from the reddit story, is alive and awake! She's still in the hospital. But she made it.
[EMBEDDED IMAGES RELATING THE POLICE SHOOTING AND THEN OVERRUNNING THE MEDICAL STATION TREATING HER]
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New York Post
twitter.com/nypost
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270134904752234496
NYPD finds concrete disguised as ice cream at George Floyd protests https://trib.al/e0MJ9jN
[SEE ALSO]
Venture Communist
twitter.com/venturecommunis
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270132473259651072
these are samples used for testing the adhesion of polymer and other coatings to concrete surfaces using a method called the simple cup adhesion shear test. look at the markings on the cups you idiots; don't believe the cops.
[NEXT]
Venture Communist
twitter.com/venturecommunis
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270134904752234496
the instructions are literally cut off the top of a coffee cup to use as a form for testing the concrete
[IMAGE SHOWING INSTRUCTIONS]
[SEE ALSO]
AntifaCandle
twitter.com/antifacandle
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/antifacandle/status/1270210267654139904
Ice cream by candlelight is delightful, but these are concrete pour tests my dudes. Not antifa affiliated, but I wouldn’t expect the cops to know the first thing about actual labor.
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SPD Arrested Man Who Shot Video of Kid Allegedly Pepper Sprayed by Cops
by Rich Smith • Jun 8, 2020
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/08/43864118/spd-arrested-man-who-shot-video-kid-allegedly-pepper-sprayed-by-cops
Early Sunday morning the Seattle Police Department booked Evan Hreha into jail on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a laser pointer, according to the King County jail register.
Hreha shot the video of a young girl who was allegedly maced by an SPD officer during the second day of protests against police brutality in Seattle.
His mother, Barb, said she was "concerned" about the police arresting Hreha in retaliation for sharing the video, as "he’s never been in any trouble" before.
Barb said Hreha texted her on Saturday evening, around 8:00 p.m., to say he was giving out hot dogs for free to protesters at 11th and Pine. At 1:15 a.m, she said she got a phone call saying he was arrested. Later that morning she got in touch with her son, who told her he was walking home Saturday evening by himself and "all of a sudden he was surrounded" by police. He told her he didn't have a laser.
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Nox
twitter.com/AnoxiaRope
9 June 2020
https://twitter.com/AnoxiaRope/status/1270266440751345665
All of the police comms heard on scanner from trailing the Proud Boys group, between 10:30pm and 12:30am. No visual confirmation of this group was ever made.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19SibZX05xWvf_-RKX1bxJMnAHHJ7ecTI?usp=sharing
#seattlescanner
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"Round Up The Green Hats": NYPD Accused Of Deliberately Targeting Legal Observers In Brutal Bronx Mass Arrest
By Jake Offenhartz
June 8, 2020
https://gothamist.com/news/round-green-hats-nypd-accused-deliberately-targeting-legal-observers-brutal-bronx-mass-arrest
On Thursday evening before curfew, Rex Santus was standing alone on a quiet Mott Haven street corner when he caught the attention of NYPD officers passing in an unmarked minivan. As eight officers surrounded him, the 28-year-old CUNY law student identified himself as a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild, and explained his intention to monitor a nearby protest against racist police brutality.
The officers accused him of “illegal counter-surveillance against police,” Santus said. They seized his notebook, reading from it and mocking him for writing that some cops had obscured their badge numbers. As the officers feigned ignorance about the role of legal observers, Santus recalled, an apparent warning blared from their police radios: “A lot of LOs out tonight.”
The National Lawyers Guild’s legal observers (“LOs”), instantly identifiable in their neon green hats, have served as a consistent presence at New York City protests for decades. The NYPD patrol guide acknowledges the observers' right to monitor police activity and record the names of arrestees. Like medical and jail support workers, legal observers were exempted from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 8 p.m. curfew.
But none of that seemed to matter when the NYPD carried out its violent mass arrest of peaceful marchers in Mott Haven on Thursday. Just before 8 p.m., hundreds of protesters — as well as journalists and legal observers — were suddenly trapped on a narrow street by officers, who charged them from either direction while wielding batons and bikes. On top of the 260 people arrested, at least 11 legal observers with the National Lawyers Guild were detained, in some cases violently.
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Portland police chief resigns amid George Floyd protests
Andrew Selsky, Associated Press
Monday, June 8, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/20-arrested-in-Portland-Oregon-other-protests-15324914.php
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Portland's police chief resigned on Monday, just six months into her job, amid criticism of her department's handling of protests in Oregon's largest city. An African American lieutenant on the force replaced her.
The shakeup came as police have been sharply criticized for using what has been called inappropriate force against some protesters as huge demonstrations continue in Portland.
“To say this was unexpected would be an understatement,” new Police Chief Chuck Lovell said at a news conference. “I’m humbled. I’m going to listen. I’m going to care about the community, and I’m looking forward to this journey.”
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Snohomish County deputy’s use of force under review after video shows him striking a prone suspect repeatedly
June 9, 2020 at 4:52 pm
By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/snohomish-county-deputys-use-of-force-under-review-after-video-shows-him-striking-a-prone-suspect-repeatedly/
A Snohomish County deputy who was fired last year and then rehired after a new sheriff was elected is now being scrutinized for a May 28 video showing him repeatedly striking a suspect who was lying face-down on the ground as officers handcuffed him.
The video was shot from a nearby home and shared around social media as protests against police brutality spread worldwide. It shows a man being pulled out of the back of a minivan in a residential neighborhood near Mill Creek and forced to the ground with three deputies around him.
In the video, one of the deputies, now identified as Deputy Evan Twedt, delivers a rapid series of blows to the man on the ground, who was wanted as a suspect in a domestic violence case and vehicle theft, and on a felony warrant. Both Twedt and the suspect are white, according the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
The angle of the video does not show the arrestee’s movements or hands, but he can be heard saying, “Hey I’m not resisting, guys.”
