Today several community members went to @lapdcommission to condemn LAPD collaboration and trainings with IDF. @SteveSoboroff and Commission President @lapdcommission immediately moved to silence them, saying this criticism was irrelevant.
Israel’s ties to LAPD and other police forces run deep, and the learning goes both ways. Since 2002, thousands of US police and federal officials have travelled from the US to Israel to train with Israeli forces.
Israel is one of the world’s most violent, lethal frontiers of settler-colonial violence. Police everywhere are eager to adopt their tactics and technologies, and Israel is happy to advance white supremacist policing everywhere.
LAPD first sent officers to train in Israel in 2002. Many of these trips were run by the think tank @jinsadc, including a visit by LAPD Deputy Chief Michael Bostic who later told @JewishJournal that the trip was "opportunity to be a real police officer again."
LAPD’s Ralph Morton, a detective on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, trained more than 25,000 law enforcement and military personnel based on what he learned on multiple exchanges in Israel since 2002.
In 2014, LAPD officer Horace Frank led an exchange of eight officers to tour Israeli surveillance firms. They came back raving about Israel’s drone and surveillance technology. The same year, LAPD announced a drone program. 
These law enforcement delegations to Israel have included not only police but also representatives from US campus police, MTA, airport security, as well as US judges and prosecutors.
To learn if Israeli occupation forces teach your police department on the violence they test on Palestininians, visit: palestineishere.org.
LAPD’s kinship with the Israeli Defense Forces aren't just professional and tactical but also personal. @SteveSoboroff, who interrupted @stoplapdspying organizer Tiff sharing facts about Israel, has been honored as a “Brigadier General” donor to the Friends of IDF @FIDF.
Likewise, @CaseyWasserman who has donated millions to LAPD's foundation and runs @LA2028, gave @FIDF $2.1 million in 2015. @NOlympicsLA fidf.org/news/annual-20…
Exchange between LAPD and IDF facilitate help advance the worst violence our communities face, including racial profiling, mass surveillance, police slaughter, and violent suppression of dissent.
Tune into our weekly KNOW YOUR FIGHT webinar tonight 6pm (IN 30 MINUTES!) learn more about relationships between state violence in Los Angeles, Colombia, El Salvador, and Israel.
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