Police have been arresting journalists AND attacking them with rubber bullets and pepper spray.
Police hit Linda Tirado, a photojournalist, in the left eye with a rubber bullet, and she has been permanently blinded.
cpj.org/2020/05/cpj-sa…
Here's Linda's thread about her eye:
@KillerMartinis - if you know someone who witnessed her attack or who knows her EMTs, she'd appreciate contact
Three years of @realDonaldTrump's ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric made these men think they had a right to attack journalists.
I want to believe that these police are a minority, as are those disrupting peaceful protests. I am PISSED OFF at an apparent code of silence.
I type "men" deliberately. I have seen no video of women LEOs attacking protesters - by pushing an elderly man to the ground (Utah) or kicking a young woman (NY) or removing a man's mask to pepper spray him for no reason.
It's not like we don't KNOW that bad actors in the police corps exist:
@guardian Dec 2019
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/d…
DC, 2017
theappeal.org/the-epidemic-o…
We've known for a LONG time. 2006 FBI assessment during the BUSH administration. Another report in April 2009 (which means it probably started under Bush)
@JustSecurity
justsecurity.org/70507/white-su…
AND we've done NOTHING to address this very real problem.
INSTEAD, we give police departments military-grade armaments leftover from the (undeclared) Iraq War.
And then we have Trump flooding the zone with 💩 like this >
In rational times, with a working Republican Party rather than one run by #RichMitch, today's rhetoric would trigger the 25th amendment.
"You have to dominate"
"put [protesters] in jail for 10 years."
#trumpIsUnfit
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