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Update: Entire Buffalo police department emergency response team (57 officers) resigns to support the two officers fired for shoving this 75-year-old to the ground & leaving him bleeding from the head.

A sickening defence of police brutality.
amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
Again, we see that the problem with US policing is not “a few bad apples”; it is a culture of systemic viciousness & impunity: cops are quick to use violence, especially (but not exclusively) against Black Americans, and cops know the system let’s them get away with murder.
So, it’s really no wonder that so many Americans are now saying #DefundPolice & #AbolishPolice instead of calling for bits-and-pieces reforms that will not do enough to stop systemic police brutality.

Here’s a long thread on the current discussion:
Buffalo update: Two police officers have been arraigned on felony assault charges.

The 75-year-old victim, Martin Gugino, remains in critical condition.

Other police officers have gathered to defend police brutality towards the elderly.
mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
If all those uniformed officers with all that equipment cannot handle one 75-year-old man without splitting his head open on the sidewalk, you can see why more and more Americans are saying #DefundPolice
Switching to Minneapolis but staying with the theme of #DefundPolice and #AbolishPolice, this video is quite remarkable:
This NY Times piece also looks at the push to #DefundPolice & #AbolishPolice in the US and “dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response.”
nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/…
Here’s my colleague on these issues and why piecemeal reforms of policing in the US is not enough:
A straightforward take on #DefundPolice...
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Thread on how we see it at Human Rights Watch:

1: #GeorgeFloyd’s family should see swift and complete justice for his killing, including the prosecution of all officers connected with his death.
2: The problem in Minnesota goes far beyond one officer, it’s about a law enforcement system that does not value all citizens equally and allows the lives of Black Americans to be sacrificed as a result.
3: Day-to-day abuse by police, especially towards Black people, is pervasive. It often escalates and leads to killings.
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Minneapolis police here aiming directly at clearly identified journalists...

Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and injured.
mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
Minneapolis police also shot a Swedish journalist with rubber bullets bit.ly/3eDTpGn
Los Angeles police also shot a journalist with rubber bullets - also apparently deliberately.
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Trump glorifying violence yet again...

...and the deranged language reveals he is scared out of his mind.

Every bully is a coward.
He glorifies violence.

He threatens violence.

He clearly wants violence.
So his strategy is… what? Keep encouraging police violence, which builds protests, and riots too - make the summer as bloody as possible, so he can head into election homestretch with "chaos or me" - when he's been a key accelerant of the chaos? Doesn't seem well thought through
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