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solarbirdSeattle PD are so pissed off their little plan to empty the East Precinct building, wait for someone to burn it, then sweep in and do a live-fire or gods know what ultraviolent crackdown didn't pan out. So mad.
(If you're wondering: it's fine. The protesters aren't stupid. They've been guarding it and talking about turning it into a community centre, but now that their big plan didn't work the cops want the building back.)
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Erica C. Barnett
twitter.com/ericacbarnett
https://twitter.com/ericacbarnett/status/1271209836575813632
Chief Best attempts to walk back her claims (reiterated in her video this morning) that armed guards are posted up extorting people and forcing them to show IDs to enter the CHAZ, saying they had heard about this "anecdotally" and "through the media."
[SEE ALSO:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-protests-updates-for-thursday-june-11/
]
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CHIKA
twitter.com/oranicuhh
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/oranicuhh/status/1271072725910487045
good morning! here are some posts from LAPD officer Melanie Senneff that i’m sure she wouldn’t want the world to see, oops.
twitter.com/MayorofLA this is who you’ve trusted to serve without bias and protect people of color.
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Spek
twitter.com/spekulation
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1271150639410589696
Nikkita Oliver just confirmed that Laura Eberhart, the young mother who was pepper-spayed by Seattle Police while her small child was in the car, had court yesterday and was not charged with a single thing. Police accused her of assaulting an officer at a protest days before.
[NEXT]
Please understand, if Seattle Police are allowed to resume business as usual, they will extend this reign of terror and violence to countless other people who protested the past couple weeks. This is just their first attempt. We cannot let them win.
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Police Tactics Are Putting Protesters at Higher COVID Transmission Risk
Cops are forgoing masks and other PPE, and violating protesters' boundaries by pulling masks down, forcing them into crowded spaces, and more.
by Nico Lang
Jun 11 2020
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ayx3b/police-tactics-put-protesters-at-higher-covid-transmission-risk?utm_campaign=sharebutton
When Keith Boykin was arrested and thrown into the back of a police van, his first thought was of Freddie Gray. Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, sustained fatal damage to his spine while being transported in a Baltimore police vehicle in May 2015.
Boykin, a Black journalist and CNN commentator, was accused of blocking traffic while covering a May 30 protest of George Floyd’s death in New York City. He said “the thought never even occurred” to him that he could be targeted by police just for doing his job. “I’ve covered anti-war protests, Occupy Wall Street protests, and Black Lives Matter protests,” Bokyin said. “I got tear-gassed in Ferguson. I've never been arrested at any protest in my entire life.”
Boykin soon realized that overt police violence wasn’t the only threat to his safety. After he was arrested, an officer removed the mask he was wearing to protect himself from COVID-19. She placed it around his chin so she could take his photo, and he was not given the opportunity to put his protective gear back on. Boykin’s hands were zip-tied behind his back. After sharing a van with another unmasked detainee, Boykin was moved to a prisoner transport bus, and the other dozen passengers held in individual cages did not have the option to put personal protective equipment on, either.
At NYPD headquarters, he was placed in a holding cell with 34 other inmates and recalled that the “overwhelming majority did not have masks.” While Boykin was able to put his mask back on after his hands were cut loose, it was impossible to keep six feet of social distance from other detainees. There was no soap or hand sanitizer available, and Boykin said the officers weren’t wearing any form of PPE. Boykin said the NYPD treated the situation “as if there was no pandemic going on.”
If police officers aren’t wearing PPE, they could risk transmitting COVID-19 to members of the general public. There have been dozens of confirmed cases of coronavirus among police precincts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., and the NYPD has reportedly lost at least 43 of its members to COVID-19, with thousands of officers infected. Numerous reports indicate law enforcement officials across the country are not wearing masks at protests against police brutality after Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis patrolman on May 25, and that routine negligence could expose members of the public.
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Social Distance Warrior
twitter.com/vixy
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/vixy/status/1271128143550537728
Cops literally abandoned the building, moved out everything of value, openly shredded documents, & then waited in force nearby, b/c they were CERTAIN the locals would burn it down.
Locals set up a peaceful zone, watched documentaries & discussed what kind of city they want.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Omari Salisbury
twitter.com/Omarisal
June 11, 2020
#CHAZ - twitter.com/SeattlePD and Chief twitter.com/carmenbest have entered the East Precinct to inspect their building. Officers have made it clear they want the building back.
(If you're wondering: it's fine. The protesters aren't stupid. They've been guarding it and talking about turning it into a community centre, but now that their big plan didn't work the cops want the building back.)
- [SEATTLE] Seattle PD reports of "armed guards" at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone "extorting business" a complete and total lie, as literally anyone not them could tell you
- [LOS ANGELES] Collection of racist posts by LAPD officer Melanie Senneff
- [SEATTLE] Laura Eberhart, the young mother who was pepper-spayed by Seattle Police while her small child was in the car, had court yesterday and was not charged with a single thing. Police accused her of assaulting an officer at a protest days before.
- Police Tactics Are Putting Protesters at Higher COVID Transmission Risk
- [SEATTLE] Their plan to get someone to burn the empty East Precinct building down, Seattle police now want their building back
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Erica C. Barnett
twitter.com/ericacbarnett
https://twitter.com/ericacbarnett/status/1271209836575813632
Chief Best attempts to walk back her claims (reiterated in her video this morning) that armed guards are posted up extorting people and forcing them to show IDs to enter the CHAZ, saying they had heard about this "anecdotally" and "through the media."
[SEE ALSO:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-protests-updates-for-thursday-june-11/
]
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CHIKA
twitter.com/oranicuhh
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/oranicuhh/status/1271072725910487045
good morning! here are some posts from LAPD officer Melanie Senneff that i’m sure she wouldn’t want the world to see, oops.
twitter.com/MayorofLA this is who you’ve trusted to serve without bias and protect people of color.
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Spek
twitter.com/spekulation
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1271150639410589696
Nikkita Oliver just confirmed that Laura Eberhart, the young mother who was pepper-spayed by Seattle Police while her small child was in the car, had court yesterday and was not charged with a single thing. Police accused her of assaulting an officer at a protest days before.
[NEXT]
Please understand, if Seattle Police are allowed to resume business as usual, they will extend this reign of terror and violence to countless other people who protested the past couple weeks. This is just their first attempt. We cannot let them win.
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Police Tactics Are Putting Protesters at Higher COVID Transmission Risk
Cops are forgoing masks and other PPE, and violating protesters' boundaries by pulling masks down, forcing them into crowded spaces, and more.
by Nico Lang
Jun 11 2020
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ayx3b/police-tactics-put-protesters-at-higher-covid-transmission-risk?utm_campaign=sharebutton
When Keith Boykin was arrested and thrown into the back of a police van, his first thought was of Freddie Gray. Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, sustained fatal damage to his spine while being transported in a Baltimore police vehicle in May 2015.
Boykin, a Black journalist and CNN commentator, was accused of blocking traffic while covering a May 30 protest of George Floyd’s death in New York City. He said “the thought never even occurred” to him that he could be targeted by police just for doing his job. “I’ve covered anti-war protests, Occupy Wall Street protests, and Black Lives Matter protests,” Bokyin said. “I got tear-gassed in Ferguson. I've never been arrested at any protest in my entire life.”
Boykin soon realized that overt police violence wasn’t the only threat to his safety. After he was arrested, an officer removed the mask he was wearing to protect himself from COVID-19. She placed it around his chin so she could take his photo, and he was not given the opportunity to put his protective gear back on. Boykin’s hands were zip-tied behind his back. After sharing a van with another unmasked detainee, Boykin was moved to a prisoner transport bus, and the other dozen passengers held in individual cages did not have the option to put personal protective equipment on, either.
At NYPD headquarters, he was placed in a holding cell with 34 other inmates and recalled that the “overwhelming majority did not have masks.” While Boykin was able to put his mask back on after his hands were cut loose, it was impossible to keep six feet of social distance from other detainees. There was no soap or hand sanitizer available, and Boykin said the officers weren’t wearing any form of PPE. Boykin said the NYPD treated the situation “as if there was no pandemic going on.”
If police officers aren’t wearing PPE, they could risk transmitting COVID-19 to members of the general public. There have been dozens of confirmed cases of coronavirus among police precincts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., and the NYPD has reportedly lost at least 43 of its members to COVID-19, with thousands of officers infected. Numerous reports indicate law enforcement officials across the country are not wearing masks at protests against police brutality after Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis patrolman on May 25, and that routine negligence could expose members of the public.
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Social Distance Warrior
twitter.com/vixy
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/vixy/status/1271128143550537728
Cops literally abandoned the building, moved out everything of value, openly shredded documents, & then waited in force nearby, b/c they were CERTAIN the locals would burn it down.
Locals set up a peaceful zone, watched documentaries & discussed what kind of city they want.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Omari Salisbury
twitter.com/Omarisal
June 11, 2020
#CHAZ - twitter.com/SeattlePD and Chief twitter.com/carmenbest have entered the East Precinct to inspect their building. Officers have made it clear they want the building back.
