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solarbirdGreg Doucette's twitter collection of police violence is up to 700 incidents as of tonight. Here's the latest tweet, which is an update on case 699.
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Police in riot gear confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray
29 June 2020
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-in-riot-gear-confront-peaceful-violin-vigil-for-elijah-mcclain-with-pepper-spray-86434373957
Chris Hayes: “People congregated to pay tribute to him, to call for accountability for his death, and to play their violins in his honor. And then Aurora police basically recreated the dynamic of McClain's death.”
[VIDEO AT LINK]
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Brian Maass
twitter.com/Briancbs4
1 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Briancbs4/status/1277812007895306240
[THREAD]
#Breaking: multiple sources say 3 twitter.com/AuroraPD officers under investigation for taking inappropriate photos at a memorial for #ElijahMclain. Aurora PD tells twitter.com/cbsdenver "An IA is in progress regarding photographs that were taken at that location". Statement coming soon from APD Chief
[NEXT]
My sources say the photos were disseminated within twitter.com/AuroraPD to other officers and showed the officers reenacting the hold that preceeded McClains death. Question: were the officers on duty and in uniform? Its hard to believe this story could get worse. It just did.
[NEXT]
I have asked twitter.com/AuroraPD if they will be releasing the photos and identity of the officers who posed. Official response: 'Since it’s an active IA I can’t give you any other details. We have a statement that should be coming out shortly from the Chief.'
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Jake Goldstein-Street
twitter.com/GoldsteinStreet
1 July 2020
https://twitter.com/GoldsteinStreet/status/1278413785133248512
Fair amount of police haven’t had their masks on today outside the #CHOP. Lots of demonstrators have asked them to put them on, but several have said they have medical conditions or that they’re outside and adequately distanced from others. #seattleprotest
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Seattle police clear CHOP protest zone
By Brendan Kiley, Ryan Blethen, Sydney Brownstone
and Daniel Beekman
Seattle Times staff reporters
July 1, 2020 at 5:28 am
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-clearing-chop-protest-zone/
“Entering Cop-Free Zone. Long live CHAZ,” the faded pink sidewalk chalk still proclaimed on East Pine Street at 13th Avenue on Wednesday evening. A group of at least 50 protesters stood at Pine and Broadway, distributing pizza, sometimes shouting at the officers on the other side of the police tape.
But the tents, the graffitied barricades, and the co-op shops that have marked the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) — or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, aka CHAZ, as it was named at the start of the occupation — were gone. After about 3 1/2 weeks, after the protest zone became the subject of heated national debate and the scene of violence and tragedy, Seattle police and other agencies swept in early Wednesday with heavily equipped officers and tactical vehicles, clearing the area with threats to arrest anyone who stayed behind.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order at 9:28 p.m. Tuesday, declaring that gathering in the area is unlawful assembly, requiring immediate action from city agencies.
Police moved in around 5 a.m., issuing dispersal orders and arresting at least 44 people throughout the day, the department reported Wednesday evening. At least 100 police officers equipped with body armor, batons, helmets and weapons pushed forward as protesters slowly retreated, some yelling, “We’ll be back.”
Protesters occupied several blocks around Cal Anderson Park and the Police Department’s East Precinct in a 24/7 demonstration-slash-encampment that sprang up during the wave of national protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Seattle police left the precinct in early June after standoffs and clashes with protesters.
- Police in riot gear confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray
- Aurora, Colorado PD officers photograph themselves mocking Elijah McClain's death at the memorial, share photographs around
- Seattle PD not wearing masks, despite Governor Inslee's order
- Seattle police clear CHOP protest zone
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Police in riot gear confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray
29 June 2020
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-in-riot-gear-confront-peaceful-violin-vigil-for-elijah-mcclain-with-pepper-spray-86434373957
Chris Hayes: “People congregated to pay tribute to him, to call for accountability for his death, and to play their violins in his honor. And then Aurora police basically recreated the dynamic of McClain's death.”
[VIDEO AT LINK]
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Brian Maass
twitter.com/Briancbs4
1 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Briancbs4/status/1277812007895306240
[THREAD]
#Breaking: multiple sources say 3 twitter.com/AuroraPD officers under investigation for taking inappropriate photos at a memorial for #ElijahMclain. Aurora PD tells twitter.com/cbsdenver "An IA is in progress regarding photographs that were taken at that location". Statement coming soon from APD Chief
[NEXT]
My sources say the photos were disseminated within twitter.com/AuroraPD to other officers and showed the officers reenacting the hold that preceeded McClains death. Question: were the officers on duty and in uniform? Its hard to believe this story could get worse. It just did.
[NEXT]
I have asked twitter.com/AuroraPD if they will be releasing the photos and identity of the officers who posed. Official response: 'Since it’s an active IA I can’t give you any other details. We have a statement that should be coming out shortly from the Chief.'
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Jake Goldstein-Street
twitter.com/GoldsteinStreet
1 July 2020
https://twitter.com/GoldsteinStreet/status/1278413785133248512
Fair amount of police haven’t had their masks on today outside the #CHOP. Lots of demonstrators have asked them to put them on, but several have said they have medical conditions or that they’re outside and adequately distanced from others. #seattleprotest
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Seattle police clear CHOP protest zone
By Brendan Kiley, Ryan Blethen, Sydney Brownstone
and Daniel Beekman
Seattle Times staff reporters
July 1, 2020 at 5:28 am
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-clearing-chop-protest-zone/
“Entering Cop-Free Zone. Long live CHAZ,” the faded pink sidewalk chalk still proclaimed on East Pine Street at 13th Avenue on Wednesday evening. A group of at least 50 protesters stood at Pine and Broadway, distributing pizza, sometimes shouting at the officers on the other side of the police tape.
But the tents, the graffitied barricades, and the co-op shops that have marked the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) — or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, aka CHAZ, as it was named at the start of the occupation — were gone. After about 3 1/2 weeks, after the protest zone became the subject of heated national debate and the scene of violence and tragedy, Seattle police and other agencies swept in early Wednesday with heavily equipped officers and tactical vehicles, clearing the area with threats to arrest anyone who stayed behind.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order at 9:28 p.m. Tuesday, declaring that gathering in the area is unlawful assembly, requiring immediate action from city agencies.
Police moved in around 5 a.m., issuing dispersal orders and arresting at least 44 people throughout the day, the department reported Wednesday evening. At least 100 police officers equipped with body armor, batons, helmets and weapons pushed forward as protesters slowly retreated, some yelling, “We’ll be back.”
Protesters occupied several blocks around Cal Anderson Park and the Police Department’s East Precinct in a 24/7 demonstration-slash-encampment that sprang up during the wave of national protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Seattle police left the precinct in early June after standoffs and clashes with protesters.
