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So when these protests started I never thought that they would go on for this long or that there would be SO many human rights abuses by the Police.

This is now going to be an updated thread of everything I have found so it is all in one place:
Minnesota police arrest Afro-Latino CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, and his camera crew, live on air.
Police shoot WAVE 3 News reporter, Kaitlin Rust, with pepper bullets, live on air
Seattle PD body slams & beats a protester.
NYPD officer pushes woman to the ground.
NYPD helicopter flies low over protesters.
Louisville police speed into park & destroy water & milk that protesters prepared.
Salt Lake City SWAT team pushes an old man, with a cane, to the ground.
LAPD officers punch & baton protesters.
Two NYPD police cruisers ram protesters.
Dallas Police shoot a teenager who was walking home in the head with rubber bullet.
NYPD officer shoves protester with their hands up to the ground.
Minneapolis PD fire tear gas & rubber bullets at MSNBC reporter, Ali Velshi.
National guard and MPD fire rubber bullets at residents on their front porch.
NYPD officer pulls the mask off of a protester who had his hands up & then pepper sprays him in the face.
Minnesota State Patrol fire tear gas at a group of twelve reporters, including LA Times reporter, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, who was hit in the leg.
Photojournalist, Linda Tirado, loses an eye after police shoot her with rubber bullets.
APD officers break into a car & dragge occupants into the street.
Minneapolis police fire tear gas into a group of MSNBC reporters.
Indiana student loses an eye after FWPD fires tear gas at his head.
Minneapolis police throw VICE News reporter, Michael Anthony Adams, to the ground & pepper spray him.
CW: BLOOD AND GORE

Protester hit by a rubber bullet.
Austin Police pepper sprays protesters after they carry a man who was knocked unconscious by a rubber bullet to safety.
State Police shoot WCCO photojournalist with rubber bullets & then arrest him after he asks where he is supposed to go.
NYPD flashes the "Okay sign" used by White Natalists.
Young protester shot in the eye by Sacramento Police.
Military police in Minneapolis fire at medics, operating a field medical bay, who clearly identified themselves.
NYPD officer coughs in a protester's face.
NYPD officer hits a protester with their car door as the drive-by.
NYPD officer shoves a woman to the ground.
NYPD cruise speeds through crowded intercession.
NYPD officer throws & shoves protesters who were walking away.
NYPD officers take away another officer who was actually de-escalating the situation.
NYPD officers rush woman who was walking away & throw her to the ground.
NYPD arrest HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias after he identified himself.
NYPD pin a medic to the ground & shove bystanders as they arrest him.
NYPD officers push barricades into protesters & try to pull a woman from the crowd.
Police officer in Erie Pennsylvania kicks a girl who peacefully protesting.
NYPD pepper sprays protesters who were filming an arrest.
NYPD handcuffs & pepper sprays a New York State Senator.
NYPD rush & pull a protester, who was walking away, to the ground & hit them with batons.
NYPD officers corner a protester & beat them with batons.
NYPD officer points his service weapon at a crowd of protesters.
Memphis police rush & grab a woman who was walking away & then push protesters out of the way.
Minneapolis Police fire rubber bullets at CBS News reporters & hit their sound engineer, John Marschitz.
San Antonio police shoot a man recording them with a multiple rubber bullets.
Minneapolis Police shoot two members of Reuters TV crew with rubber bullets.
Denver Police officer shoots a peaceful protester with a pepper pellet.
LAPD hit a protester with their vehicle & speed away.
Police firing tear gas into residential neighborhoods in West Philadelphia.
Dallas PD shoots a black man in the eye with a wooden round.
Video of Dallas officers singing "America, fuck yeah" & hearing after shooting the man's eye.
Minneapolis Police fire rubber bullets at foreign press from DW News after they identify themselves.
Lubbock Police arrest a homeless man after he tackled a gunman who was threatening protesters.
Long Beach Police shoot reporter in the throat with a rubber bullet.
LAPD trap protesters & hold them until they can be arrested for breaking curfew.
LAPD shoots a resident in his home as he was recording arrests.
Charleston Police arrest a peaceful protester for speaking.
Lancaster Police shoots an unarmed blind Latino man.
Police hit MSNBC reporter with a rubber bullet.
DC Police try to hit a protester in the head with a tear gas canister.
Grand Rapids PD pepper sprays a protester & then shoot him in the face with a tear gas canister at point-blank range.
Police destroy protester's bottles of water.
RPD vehicle drives off the road into a crowded median.
DC Police assault an Australian new crew.
LAPD shoots protester in the head with a rubber bullet.
Police push, baton, & fire pepper pellets into protesters.
DC police fire tear gas & ride mounted units into protesters so President Trump can do a photo op.
Philidelphia Police fire tear gas into trapped protesters.
Illinois Police allow a heavily armed White man to walk away, despite the fact that open carry is illegal in Illinois.
DC Police fly a helicopter low over protesters.
Buffalo NY Police along with attack dogs rush & tackle a peaceful protester as they fire tear gas & projectiles into the crowd.
Indianapolis police beat a woman with batons & shoot her with pepper pellets as other officers push a non-violet woman to the ground.
Philadelphia Police put a man's hand on their night sick so they can beat his hand against the ground.
Seattle Police hit MSNBC reporter with a tear gas canister.
Columbus PD officer sprays a metic in the face with pepper spray after she identified herself.
LAPD arrest store owners who called the police for help.
Tear gas canisters explode right next to kneeling protesters as Arkansas State Police disperse a peaceful protest.
Seattle Police pepper spray protesters & fire tear gas into the middle of the crowd.
DC Police corner protester, after homeowners, let them in the house police surrounded the home, tear-gassed it, tried to break in the back gate, & lied about getting a call for medical attention.
LAPD tasers a woman on the ground & then fires rubber bullets at people who are watching.
Kansas City police arrest a peaceful protester & pepper spray a woman in the face.
Columbus Police officers pepper spray journalists.
Police soot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets.
Richmond Police fire tear gas into peaceful protest.
Asheville Police destroy medical supplies.
NYPD police trap protesters on the Manhattan Bridge.
Armed officers in DC refuse to give their names or what department they are from.
Officers seem to kneel & then fire tear gas at protesters when they come closer.
State Trooper orders, "Don't kill them, but hit them hard."
NYPD officer lies & tries to make a reporter leave the area, where she is authorized to be.
Walnut Creek Police officer, from inside of an armored humvee, threatens "If you do not move, you will be dead." to an unarmed protester.
LAPD fire pepper pellets at teens standing on a corner.
Police spin on a protester during a global pandemic.
Police chokehold a protester, push the woman filming, & then point rifles at the crowd.
Chicago Police officer pushes & beats protester.
Asheville Police assaulted medics & destroyed yet another medical center.
Three Police officers hide a protester behind a wall so they can beat him up.
NYPD beating random people with batons.
Alabama police officer casually pepper sprays protesters at random as other officers fire tear gas.
Dallas PD shouts out a man's eye with a rubber bullet.
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DC Police shoot man in the eye with a pepper bullet.
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San Diego Police shoot woman in the head with a rubber bullet from rooftop.
Denver Police shot a man in the face with a rubber bullet.
Minneapolis PD shot a woman in the face with a rubber bullet.
New Orleans Police fire tear gas into a peaceful protest.
NYPD pushing & batoning peaceful protesters.
NYPD stealing bikes form people who are trying to get home.
Buffalo PD push an old man to the ground & then arrest bystanders.
Philadelphia police brutally beat protesters with batons.
Police pepper-spray peaceful protesters from their cruiser.
Austin Police open fire on protesters carrying the body of someone who was knocked out by a rubber bullet.
Protesters beg police to help a woman who is having an asthma attack while in custody.
A reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer was tear-gassed & handcuffed.
LAPD shoots a wheelchair-bound homeless man in the face.
Police Chief of Salem Oregon, Jerry Moore, apologized after one of his officers was caught on camera warning two heavily armed Proud Boys to go inside because they were about to start gassing protesters.
57 police officers resigned to defend the officers who almost killed a 75-year-old man.
Chicago officers hit the Chicago Police Board President five times on his legs with their batons during a protest on Sunday in Hyde Park.
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First police knock down a man who was peacefully protesting.

Then the woman in the red helmet is pepper sprayed & tackled by multiple police as she tries to get to the other side of the police line.
A San Jose officer grabs & throws a protester's phone. Then another officer accidentally knocks out a near by cop as they try to hit the protester with a baton.
Lakewood police fire tear gas & rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, who were already walking away.
Bronx police kettle(surround), protesters & start beating them with batons.
Police arrested a legal observer from the National Lawyers Guild in the Bronx as well.
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The video from outside of the kettle is even more horrifying.
San Diego Police throw a protester into the back of an unmarked car & drive away.
The NYPD arrested a couple who were on the stoop of the building where they live.
Sanger, CA, four cops, with dogs, punch a man's head & allow dogs to bite his legs.
Portland PD fires massive amounts of tear gas fired into a peaceful protest.
Portland Police officer shoves & points pepper spray at a reporter clearly identifying himself.
NYPD officers chase & hit a protester, who was non violent & walking away, with batons.
Atlanta Mounted Police officer tramples over a woman who was peacefully protesting.
One of the first clashes between Atlanta PD & protesters.

Atlanta Bike Cop hits protester with their bike.
Philadelphia Police officer pepper sprays peaceful protesters.
Seattle Police officer pushes his knee into the neck of a protester.
Denver Police shoot pepper pellets at a car & after the driver yells that there is a pregnant woman in the car multiple officers open fire on the vehicle until the driver is forced to leave.
Police officer choke holds a black woman on the ground & then pushes his knee into her neck.
The Mayor of Joliet Illinois was out with police & threw a protester to the ground.
Another angel on the peaceful protester who was tackled in Buffalo.

At the time he was being interviewed by a news crew.

Police fired tear gas & rubber bullets into a crowd in an active street.

Multiple officers were run over by a car in the chaos.
Massive show of police in Merrick NY to arrest a few peaceful protesters.
Providence police racially profile an on duty fire fighter.
Police in multiple cities have begun to deploy LRAD, which can permanently destroy hearing.
Portland PD deliberately paper spray a journalist who was holding his press pass out.
Las Vegas police wrongly jailed 2 photojournalists.
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Protester asks how he can de-escalate & Seattle Police fire on him & shoot tear gas into crowd.
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