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Today's News (2020/7/23) Police Violence edition
It's getting harder to differentiate between the fascism and police violence editions.
Here's the current end of Greg Doucette's thread on police violence.
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Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
twitter.com/IwriteOK
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1285072079096692736
[THREAD]
I am here outside the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Portland, where a crowd of mothers have gathered again after being tear gassed last night by feds.
This is one of the largest Portland crowds we have seen this month.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
[NEXT]
You can see how the moms, in yellow, are creating a defensive human wall to protect the crowd in the intersection.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
[NEXT]
It is beginning to look like repeatedly tear gassing a crowd of moms may have been a tactical error.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE]
[SEE ALSO:
Garrison Davis (Teargas Proof)
twitter.com/hungrybowtie
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1285070461538201600
[THREAD]
Back in front of the Justice Center, Sunday July 19th. The Moms Aganist Police Brutality are here. #MomsAreHere #blacklivesmatter
#protest #pdx #portland #oregon #blm #acab #PortlandProtest #PDXprotest #PortlandPolice
[EMBEDDED IMAGES AT LINK]
]
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'They just started whaling on me': Veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him at Portland protests goes viral
'I stood my ground at that point and just stayed there,' Christopher David, 53, told The Independent
Danielle Zoellner
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/portland-protests-trump-veteran-christopher-david-federal-officers-oregon-a9627466.html
Christopher David, a 53-year-old disabled Navy veteran, was so angry at the sight of federal officers sweeping up protesters in the last few nights on the streets of Portland, Oregon, that he decided to go and talk to them about it.
The city resident, who served more than eight years with the US Navy, got on a public bus on Saturday and headed to a protest in front of the city courthouse in the hope he could ask them some questions.
“I was enraged simply because I did not think they were taking their oath of office seriously or they were compromising their oath of office,” Mr David told The Independent. “So I actually went down because I wanted to talk to them about it.”
His advances were rebuffed, however, and he was the victim of a brutal attack that was caught on video and went viral on Sunday.
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The police have long been a reliable source for some. But it’s time to reexamine that trust
July 20, 2020 at 6:00 am
By Naomi Ishisaka
Seattle Times columnist
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/stories-the-police-tell-and-how-to-resist-them/
I can’t stop thinking about Manuel Ellis.
I keep wondering if it weren’t for the global uprising for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, whether Ellis’ killing would have passed by mostly unnoticed — as so many have before him — with just the word of the police satisfying a not particularly curious public.
It’s high time for the public — and the media — to interrogate police statements more aggressively.
Tacoma police killed Ellis on March 3, but it wasn’t until early June that his case started to get attention. Initially, as is all too common, early stories reported just the Police Department’s narrative. Police said Ellis harassed a driver, struck their police car and “slam dunked” an officer to the ground. They attributed his actions to “excited delirium,” a term used by police to justify deadly force but described as “pseudoscience” by critics.
It wasn’t until mid-June that it was revealed that the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office investigating the case — supposedly to create investigatory independence — was at the scene of the killing as well. Video began to emerge that showed officers pummeling Ellis as he gasped, “I can’t breathe,” words now tragically familiar. The medical examiner ruled Ellis’ death a homicide from oxygen deprivation due to physical restraint.
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“Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency’s Reputation
"We have a lot of work ahead in terms of repairing the public’s trust."
Hamed Aleaziz BuzzFeed News Reporter
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/dhs-employee-anger-over-portland-protest-response
Federal officers launch tear gas and other crowd control munitions near the federal courthouse in Portland, July 20.
The Department of Homeland Security’s response to anti–police brutality protests in Portland, Oregon, has disturbed and angered many employees, who called the deployment of the federal force an unusual maneuver that could do long-term damage to the agency’s reputation.
In recent days, Oregon leaders, including the governor, have called on DHS officers to leave Portland as nightly protests have grown in size. Videos captured by protesters and media have shown the consistent use of tear gas and other "less than lethal" weapons from officers guarding the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse in downtown Portland amid a backdrop of federal officers outfitted in camouflage snatching people off the street in unmarked vehicles.
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Feds object to exempting journalists, legal observers from crowd dispersal orders
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
21 July 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/feds-object-to-exempting-journalists-legal-observers-from-crowd-dispersal-orders.html
Journalists and legal observers should have to follow lawful orders by federal officers to disperse when violence erupts outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, federal lawyers argue in new court papers filed Tuesday.
Any court-ordered exemption for journalists and the observers would be improper and impractical, the lawyers said.
The response follows a motion filed by 10 journalists and observers with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon seeking a temporary restraining order to hold federal officers to the same restrictions that a judge recently placed on Portland police.
A hearing will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Portland.
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Andrew Crespo
twitter.com/AndrewMCrespo
22 July 2020
https://twitter.com/AndrewMCrespo/status/1285738001004482561
[THREAD]
Today on TV, the Deputy Director of the federal paramilitary force in #PDX discussed the infamous van video. He described a textbook example of an unconstitutional arrest.
But... he doesn’t seem to know it.
That is a BIG PROBLEM. Let’s unpack this. It’s important.
(thread)
[THREAD WITH CITATIONS CONTINUES AT LINK]
Here's the current end of Greg Doucette's thread on police violence.
- I am here outside the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Portland, where a crowd of mothers have gathered again after being tear gassed last night by feds.
- 'They just started whaling on me': Veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him at Portland protests goes viral
- The police have long been a reliable source for some. But it’s time to reexamine that trust
- “Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency’s Reputation
- Feds object to exempting journalists, legal observers from crowd dispersal orders
- Today on TV, the Deputy Director of the federal paramilitary force described a textbook example of an unconstitutional arrest but doesn't seem to know it. That's really bad.
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Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
twitter.com/IwriteOK
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1285072079096692736
[THREAD]
I am here outside the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Portland, where a crowd of mothers have gathered again after being tear gassed last night by feds.
This is one of the largest Portland crowds we have seen this month.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
[NEXT]
You can see how the moms, in yellow, are creating a defensive human wall to protect the crowd in the intersection.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
[NEXT]
It is beginning to look like repeatedly tear gassing a crowd of moms may have been a tactical error.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE]
[SEE ALSO:
Garrison Davis (Teargas Proof)
twitter.com/hungrybowtie
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1285070461538201600
[THREAD]
Back in front of the Justice Center, Sunday July 19th. The Moms Aganist Police Brutality are here. #MomsAreHere #blacklivesmatter
#protest #pdx #portland #oregon #blm #acab #PortlandProtest #PDXprotest #PortlandPolice
[EMBEDDED IMAGES AT LINK]
]
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'They just started whaling on me': Veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him at Portland protests goes viral
'I stood my ground at that point and just stayed there,' Christopher David, 53, told The Independent
Danielle Zoellner
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/portland-protests-trump-veteran-christopher-david-federal-officers-oregon-a9627466.html
Christopher David, a 53-year-old disabled Navy veteran, was so angry at the sight of federal officers sweeping up protesters in the last few nights on the streets of Portland, Oregon, that he decided to go and talk to them about it.
The city resident, who served more than eight years with the US Navy, got on a public bus on Saturday and headed to a protest in front of the city courthouse in the hope he could ask them some questions.
“I was enraged simply because I did not think they were taking their oath of office seriously or they were compromising their oath of office,” Mr David told The Independent. “So I actually went down because I wanted to talk to them about it.”
His advances were rebuffed, however, and he was the victim of a brutal attack that was caught on video and went viral on Sunday.
----- 3 -----
The police have long been a reliable source for some. But it’s time to reexamine that trust
July 20, 2020 at 6:00 am
By Naomi Ishisaka
Seattle Times columnist
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/stories-the-police-tell-and-how-to-resist-them/
I can’t stop thinking about Manuel Ellis.
I keep wondering if it weren’t for the global uprising for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, whether Ellis’ killing would have passed by mostly unnoticed — as so many have before him — with just the word of the police satisfying a not particularly curious public.
It’s high time for the public — and the media — to interrogate police statements more aggressively.
Tacoma police killed Ellis on March 3, but it wasn’t until early June that his case started to get attention. Initially, as is all too common, early stories reported just the Police Department’s narrative. Police said Ellis harassed a driver, struck their police car and “slam dunked” an officer to the ground. They attributed his actions to “excited delirium,” a term used by police to justify deadly force but described as “pseudoscience” by critics.
It wasn’t until mid-June that it was revealed that the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office investigating the case — supposedly to create investigatory independence — was at the scene of the killing as well. Video began to emerge that showed officers pummeling Ellis as he gasped, “I can’t breathe,” words now tragically familiar. The medical examiner ruled Ellis’ death a homicide from oxygen deprivation due to physical restraint.
----- 4 -----
“Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency’s Reputation
"We have a lot of work ahead in terms of repairing the public’s trust."
Hamed Aleaziz BuzzFeed News Reporter
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/dhs-employee-anger-over-portland-protest-response
Federal officers launch tear gas and other crowd control munitions near the federal courthouse in Portland, July 20.
The Department of Homeland Security’s response to anti–police brutality protests in Portland, Oregon, has disturbed and angered many employees, who called the deployment of the federal force an unusual maneuver that could do long-term damage to the agency’s reputation.
In recent days, Oregon leaders, including the governor, have called on DHS officers to leave Portland as nightly protests have grown in size. Videos captured by protesters and media have shown the consistent use of tear gas and other "less than lethal" weapons from officers guarding the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse in downtown Portland amid a backdrop of federal officers outfitted in camouflage snatching people off the street in unmarked vehicles.
----- 5 -----
Feds object to exempting journalists, legal observers from crowd dispersal orders
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
21 July 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/feds-object-to-exempting-journalists-legal-observers-from-crowd-dispersal-orders.html
Journalists and legal observers should have to follow lawful orders by federal officers to disperse when violence erupts outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, federal lawyers argue in new court papers filed Tuesday.
Any court-ordered exemption for journalists and the observers would be improper and impractical, the lawyers said.
The response follows a motion filed by 10 journalists and observers with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon seeking a temporary restraining order to hold federal officers to the same restrictions that a judge recently placed on Portland police.
A hearing will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Portland.
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Andrew Crespo
twitter.com/AndrewMCrespo
22 July 2020
https://twitter.com/AndrewMCrespo/status/1285738001004482561
[THREAD]
Today on TV, the Deputy Director of the federal paramilitary force in #PDX discussed the infamous van video. He described a textbook example of an unconstitutional arrest.
But... he doesn’t seem to know it.
That is a BIG PROBLEM. Let’s unpack this. It’s important.
(thread)
[THREAD WITH CITATIONS CONTINUES AT LINK]