A Brooklyn Center resident talks about dangers faced by her mixed young children and the mutual aid now in the community - more unicornriot.ninja/2021/daunte-wr…
Ohio State Patrol has been reportedly requested to police Minnesota - in 2016 we covered the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) system that drew Nebraska state troopers to policing #NODAPL at Standing Rock unicornriot.ninja/2016/nebraska-…
A protester criticizes Mark Zuckerberg and actions of police around the January 6th attempted insurrection at the US Capitol
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More Unicorn Riot stories about police 'mutual aid' and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) system tagged here
An aircraft hiding some transponder signals, non-ICAO hex 2A84B9 has been around Brooklyn Center and Minneapolis this evening
A mother with a sign saying a badge is not a license to kill is out encouraging more mothers to show up - refers to George Floyd calling out for his mama. Live now: unicornriot.ninja/2021/daunte-wr…
[LIVE] Coverage continues in Brooklyn Center, MN on day seven of Daunte Wright protests #DaunteWright
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA43) says re abolition question that policing has to be re-imagined in the U.S., for example mental health crises on the street should not involve police
Young activist is amazed U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters told her to run for office - jokes she plans to run for president in 2024 - press gaggle continues ( @RepMaxineWaters )
Justice Frontline Aid update - Church beseiged last night - judge refused to give warrant that would have led to raid on church that was sanctuary for protesters and community members
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Speaker says they are antifascists here tonight - live from Brooklyn Center stream continues twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
A source tipped us that large numbers of tow trucks may be used later tonight in case any vehicles are parked in towable locations
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Protests continue in Brooklyn Center after curfew - no major police actions here recently
In the early hours of Apr. 16 people protested "Operation Safety Net" in North Minneapolis outside an MPD facility. Other anti-@MinnesotaOSN protests picked up on Friday & Saturday
[LIVE] Coverage continues from Brooklyn Center tonight after curfew - subscribe to our YouTube and get notifications when we go live
State Patrol N115SP took another flight and circled the protest recently tonight - see our report for more on its capabilities including infrared unicornriot.ninja/2021/exclusive…
Live now in Brooklyn Center - woman from Kenya says people need to educate themselves twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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🧵: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff (now Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens) oversaw the failed prosecution of over 200 Trump inauguration protesters on felony conspiracy riot charges, with demonstrators and journalists facing ~80yrs for being around when others broke windows.
The #J20 case collapsed when it came to light that Kerkhoff, working with her star witness DC Police Detective Greggory Pemberton (also a police union official), had *altered and deleted exculpatory evidence* and lied about it to the court repeatedly:
The hidden evidence was portions of an undercover video taken by an operative of right-wing disinformation group Project Veritas during a planning meeting for Trump inauguration protests, which Kerkhoff said implicated all protesters present that day in a violent conspiracy.
A march of several dozen Palestine protesters is moving near the Morton Salt Shed (@saltshedchicago) which is a heavily secured location where Democratic delegates are partying on night 2 of the #DNC - an entry point to the convention is also nearby
The venue is hosting a large party hosted by the Pritzkers with John Legend reportedly performing tonight per corporate media reports - protesters chant “if we don’t get no justice, you don’t get no peace” as CPD on bikes form up to separate them from #DNC partygoers
A noise demo outside a DNC event at the Salt Shed where John Legend is performing as part of convention programming tonight - 10 Illinois State Police just turned up
On the evening of June 28, Mway and his friend were stopped by three police officers from the Utica Police Department and two Oneida County Deputy Sheriffs on their walk home from a Bible study class and a graduation party.
Body camera footage was released by UPD, but only from three of the officers who were on the scene. The footage shows a pedestrian stop, otherwise known as a stop-and-frisk — a controversial tactic of interrogating and searching someone based solely on “reasonable suspicion.”
The two French police officers who killed Nahel Merzouk on June 27, 2023 initially stated that they were in danger of being run over and fired in self-defense. However, video footage from witnesses shows a different version of the story. Both officers were standing to the side of the car as it started moving again and one of them fired the shots. The car continued to move for about 50 meters and then crashed into a pole. The driver was killed instantly, one of the two other passengers escaped and the third was arrested.
The arrested passenger in the car says one officer urged the other to shoot Nahel at point-blank range. The youth alleged that “the first officer asked Nahel to roll down the window. He told him ‘turn off the engine or I will shoot you’. And he hit him with the gun. Then the second officer arrived and stood in front of the windshield at Nahel’s height. From there, the first officer standing at the level of the window put a gun to his temple and said “don’t move or I’ll put a bullet in your head.”
He went on to report that the second officer told him “shoot him,” and when a frightened Nahel let his foot off the pedal, which was an automatic and not in a parked position, it started moving and the officer in front of the vehicle fired point blank.
The man who killed Nahel Merzouk is 38-year-old police officer Florian Menesplier. Menesplier previously served in Afghanistan under France’s 35th infantry regiment and was a motorcyclist with the Direction de l’ordre public et de la circulation (DOPC, Directorate of Public Order and Traffic). Before that he belonged to the compagnie de sécurisation et d’intervention 93 (CSI 93, Security and Intervention Unit 93), which was ordered to disband in 2020.
The unit was the subject of 17 judicial investigations for “violence, racist remarks, unlawful arrests, extortion of dealers” and more. He was also a member of the BRAV-M (Motorized Brigades for the Repression of Violent Action), a unit decried for its violence during the Yellow Vests movement, which he joined shortly after its creation on October 1, 2020.
🔎 New investigation 🔎
Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters:
Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed
Israeli Firm “Cobwebs” Linked to 2020 Protests, Provides Monitoring Services to Homeland Security for Tracking Dissenters
An Israeli spy software tech firm licenses web surveillance tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The software contract shows new details about this sensitive technology DHS has used to spy on activists during the last several years. Story: unicornriot.ninja/2024/cobwebs-s…
Last year, Unicorn Riot reported how Cobwebs, a privately owned Israeli spyware firm, helped the Department of Homeland Security monitor the online presences of Americans—including protesters and journalists.
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For 5+ hours last night in Los Angeles, pro-Israel Zionist agitators violently beat, pepper sprayed & threw fireworks at hundreds of college students & protesters as they held UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment while security & police stood by idly. 🧵 unicornriot.ninja/2024/masked-is…
Despite the prolonged, violent attack on UCLA students by masked pro-Israel vigilantes, the Palestine solidarity encampment stayed intact with students repelling the continuous onslaught as they defiantly chanted “we’re not leaving” & “Free Palestine.” 🧵