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solarbird- Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...
- Police Lounged, Napped In Congressman’s Office For Hours As Looters Destroyed South Side Businesses, Video Shows
- The Seattle Police Department has been engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at delegitimizing protesters and fomenting violence
- NYPD disciplinary proceeding records to be public once again. Supports of police violence very unhappy.
- The lie that put CHAZ in the national spotlight and led the President of the United States to threaten military violence in Seattle
- Louisville, Kentucky police seem to be engaged in a MASSIVE coverup of the events surrounding Breonna Taylor's murder on March 13th
- New video reveals Layleen Polanco's death at Rikers was preventable, family says
- The Floyd Protests: The South Korean Police are Far Less Belligerent than US Departments
- A thread of newspaper articles on why Portland PD is so violent and terrible
- Unicorn Ninja reporter ordered by police to leave protest scene or be arrested
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Paul Manning
twitter.com/mobinfiltrator
12 June 2020
https://twitter.com/mobinfiltrator/status/1271432151142223872
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Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...
It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and
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blood was everywhere. The kid was handcuffed and the officer enquired of me “what should ‘we’ arrest him for?” “What did he do?” I enquired. “He called me a name.” he said. After 20 mins of him trying to persuade me we should fabricate a crime he had to let the kid go. “We need
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to do notes, get our story straight” he then told me. I don’t need assistance in writing what happened. I found a quiet place and wrote the facts. As I wrote I was joined by a female A/Sgt who knew this officer. She spent 20 mins trying to convince me this kid was a “shitbag” &
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Police Lounged, Napped In Congressman’s Office For Hours As Looters Destroyed South Side Businesses, Video Shows
Video shows officers napping and making popcorn in a South Side congressman's office while looters destroyed local businesses nearby, Rep. Bobby Rush and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
Published on Jun 11, 2020
by Kelly Bauer
11 June 2020
https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/06/11/police-lounged-napped-in-congressmans-office-as-looters-destroyed-local-businesses-video-shows/
CHICAGO — A group of Chicago Police officers entered Rep. Bobby Rush’s closed Englewood office and lounged, napped and made popcorn, doing nothing while looters destroyed South Side businesses nearby, video shows.
Rush, whose office is at 55th Street and South Wentworth Avenue, said he got a call his office had been burglarized during the widespread looting and vandalism that took place throughout the city early June 1.
After viewing security footage, Rush’s staff saw a group of about eight uniformed police officers enter the office while looting took place nearby. The officers napped, made popcorn and coffee, played on their phones and generally lounged, the congressman said.
At one point, as many as 13 officers — including three supervisors — were in the office relaxing, officials said. Officers were in the office for four to five hours.
At the same time, nearby businesses were looted and burned down. More than a dozen people were killed throughout the city that night.
“Clearly, I believe that they tarnished the badge,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during a press conference Thursday. “Looting was going on, buildings were being burned, officers were on the front lines truly taking a beating … and these guys were lounging in a congressman’s office.”
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Spek
twitter.com/spekulation
10 June 2020
https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1270900664822951936
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In the days since abandoning their East Precinct, The Seattle Police Department has been engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at delegitimizing protesters, fomenting violence, and repairing their murderous public image.
Here are the details...
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First, the narrative they put forth as they were moving out... For days, they claimed there was a "credible threat" the building would be burned down. They used it to justify widespread violence and gassing, and ultimately framed moving out as giving in to this "credible threat".
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Of course it was nonsense. The community showed within minutes that, not only did they not intend to burn the building down, they planned to repurpose it as a community resource, and a platform from which the movement could be educated and communicate with one another.
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Later that night, Seattle Police officers used public police scanner frequencies to make it appear as if 30 armed white-supremacists were moving towards the East Precinct, intent on starting violence with the protesters. This went on for hours, clearly intended to cause chaos.
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Ask yourself...How does perpetrating a threatening hoax on protesters serve the public? How does it make our city safer? Why are city employees using our resources in an attempt to foment violence, chaos, and anxiety about gun-toting racists? It is unconscionable.
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
twitter.com/doctorow
12 June 2020
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1271436265196384263
Since the pre-internet days, the NYPD had posted its "Personnel Orders" (reports from closed-door disciplinary proceedings) to a clipboard in its public information office, explicitly so that journalists could look at these reports.
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In 2016, the NYPD abruptly stopped. Their excuse? They needed to "save paper."
No, really.
https://techdirt.com/articles/20200609/19164444678/new-york-legislators-dump-law-that-allowed-pds-to-withhold-officers-disciplinary-records.shtml
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But the real reason came out later, as twitter.com/TimCushing recounts: "An NYPD spokesman said someone in the PD's legal bureau had re-read the 1976 law and realized the NYPD had no obligation to turn over this info to the public. So it stopped."
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Spek
twitter.com/spekulation
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1271212753831620608
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The Seattle Police Chief just attempted to walk back her lies about armed guards checking IDs and extorting businesses for protection money. She claims she heard it through the media.
Do you know who the media heard it from? Her police department.
Are you seeing how this works?
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I'll say it again: this is the lie that put CHAZ in the national spotlight last night, led to it being featured on Tucker Carlson, which led the President of the United States to threaten military violence in Seattle.
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Padma Lakshmi
twitter.com/PadmaLakshmi
13 June 2020
https://twitter.com/PadmaLakshmi/status/1271523237328039938
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Thread: According to the twitter.com/courierjournal the twitter.com/LMPD & twiter.com/KYFOP614 seem to be engaged in a MASSIVE coverup of the events surrounding Breonna Taylor's murder on March 13th.
A motion filed in court by her family's legal team on June 9th alleges the following:
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New video reveals Layleen Polanco's death at Rikers was preventable, family says
Footage from outside trans woman Layleen Polanco’s cell reveals guards tried to wake her for approximately an hour and a half before calling for help.
June 13, 2020, 2:05 AM PDT
By Kate Sosin
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-video-reveals-layleen-polanco-s-death-rikers-was-preventable-n1230951
New footage outside the Rikers Island jail cell in New York City where transgender woman Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco died last June reveals that guards tried to wake her for approximately an hour and a half before calling for help.
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The Floyd Protests: The South Korean Police are Far Less Belligerent than US Departments
by Robert Kelly
13 June 2020
https://asiansecurityblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/the-floyd-protests-the-south-korean-police-are-far-less-belligerent-than-us-departments/
The protests in the United States over George Floyd’s death have been gone global. The debate over racism and policing has spilled into other countries, as has a corollary debate about police tactics. Polling consistently shows greater concern about American police behavior than the actions of the protestors, and the list of incidents of police brutality is growing. As police behavior appears unchanged after two weeks of harsh tactics, the demands against the police are now spilling into full-blown efforts to defund departments altogether. A large debate about policing will grip the US in the coming months.
As an American residing in South Korea, the difference in police behavior has long struck me as one of the largest institutional differences and one almost never remarked upon. The following points stem from this sprawling tweet thread on this issue. As Americans look for new models of policing short of the extreme choice of closing departments altogether, South Korea is a nice example of what humane, community policing can be.
During its period of dictatorship, South Korea’s police were quite harsh. (Check this valuable thread for the long take, and this superb movie.) In the 1990s, as democracy enrooted itself, police reform followed. The South Korean police now practice a low-intensity, de-escalatory fashion of community policing I daresay would stun – and delight – most Americans.
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Alex Zielinski
twitter.com/alex_zee
12 June 2020
https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1271541703749459968
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Hi Portland! I see a lot of you are getting interested in how our police bureau works. As someone who’s reported on Portland cops for a few years, I’m THRILLED. To help get you up to speed, I thought I’d share some past stories I’ve written on policing in Portland:
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AntiFash Gordon
twitter.com/AntiFashGordon
13 June 2020
https://twitter.com/AntiFashGordon/status/1271972392324272128
After being attacked by a white vigilante gang skulking around the Christopher Columbus statue, an twitter.com/UR_Ninja reporter was ordered by police to leave or be arrested.
The cops aren't even trying to police reactionary gangs or preserve the 1st Amendment rights of the media.
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Unicorn Riot
twitter.com/UR_Ninja
June 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1271968811886022656
We are no longer able to document the ongoing, escalating Marconi Plaza South Philadelphia vigilante incident after twitter.com/PhillyPolice ordered us to leave or be arrested. We were told we no longer had the right to document this event.
