Pittsburgh, PA | "Demonstrators took over the steps of the City County Building Friday and called on District Attorney Stephen Zappala to prosecute and name the officers and first responders involved in the [torture & killing] of Jim Rogers." wpxi.com/news/local/all…
More details on the brutal torture and killing of Jim Rogers by Pittsburgh police in October:
UPDATE: Elizabeth City, NC | "Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man, was killed on April 21 by Pasquotank County deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as they were attempting to serve a warrant for his arrest." msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Dead cop previously participated in human rights violations and abuse, report notes she should've been fired *before dying on-duty* - and city officials clutch pearls that the report doesn't conform to their death cult pieties... Chicago, IL | centredaily.com/news/nation-wo…
The opposite of how they treat police victims; all dead cops were perfect angels and this narrative is enforced with very public disciplining like above...
Birmingham, AL | Off-duty pig moonlighting at a club shoots himself in the foot and club-goer in the leg. al.com/news/birmingha…
Sure are a lot of these "fights in school *requiring* police" stories going around these days... Can't imagine how that might happen. (Flint, MI) | abc12.com/2021/11/13/fig…
UPDATE: Las Vegas, NV | "Defense attorney Christopher Mishler told Westmeyer that Legried had 'serious mental health issues' and may have abused drugs or alcohol, but that his parents in Colorado were trying to get him into treatment." apnews.com/article/nevada…
Cleveland, OH | "Family and friends of Arthur Keith will gather Saturday to mark one year since he was shot and killed by a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority police officer." msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Los Angeles, CA | "for the revanchists of the ancien régime, multi-millionaire Westside homeowners addicted to the NextDoor app, and Fox News junkies, Gascón has become an avatar of liberal chaos, a scapegoat for everything wrong with L.A." thelandmag.com/gascon-da-publ…
Louisville, KY | "The two officers grabbed Means under her armpits and 'paraded' her naked through an open area 'for all to see, including male and female LMDC officers, LMDC non-officer employees, visitors, and detainees,'" richmondregister.com/kentucky/louis…
Context on Louisville's jail: "The way they're treating people is not right," he said. msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
More on conditions in the Louisville jail: “It’s awful in there,” Corrections Officer Sgt. Daniel Johnson said on Sept. 12. “I have been there 17 years and it’s the worst I have ever seen it.”msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Calling in a death squad for someone sleeping in a car. (Gunnison, CO) | "The [murderous piece of shit] who called authorities reported that a person in the parking lot was sleeping in his vehicle, and provided the license plate number to police." thedenverchannel.com/news/local-new…
Of course police are saying that. NYC, NY | "Authorities say 65-year-old Brian Astarita was holding a BB gun as he advanced on an officer, an apparent attempt to die by provoking police into opening fire." abc7ny.com/brian-astarita…
Guayaquil, Ecuador | Another massacre in Ecuador's prisons.
Freeport, PA hasn't had a cop on duty since November 3. Violence and terror reign. (Just kidding. Literally nothing changed.) | triblive.com/local/valley-n…
Palm Beach Gardens, FL | "Officer Bryan Broehm, 53, was taken into custody by Palm Beach Gardens police Wednesday on an arrest warrant from the Lake County Sheriff's Office." palmbeachpost.com/story/news/cri…
Fuck Joe Biden. (Michigan) | "About $156 million of the $250 million proposal would come from the state’s general fund. $93.8 million comes from federal funds that were authorized through the federal American Rescue Plan Act" mlive.com/public-interes…
"we, as a collective, have been *underestimating* racial disparities in police shootings"🧵:
From 2020: "Looking at the location of where dogs have been shot across the city and county of Los Angeles, what emerges is a map of deadly police use of force that is highly concentrated in the region’s most impoverished communities of color." slate.com/news-and-polit…
Portland, OR | "At the end, one man was left, drenched in rain, slowly removing his belongings. 'I’m just going to move around the corner, and come back later,' the houseless man said, without evident emotion. 'It’s just the game we have to play.'” wweek.com/news/2021/11/1…
All their trendy "reforms" were already in place *before* police murdered George Floyd. People had already seen bias training, chokehold bans, bodycameras, "warrior cop" training bans and even prosecutions of cops.
Nothing changed.
Derek Chauvin was a product of their most creative and progressive "police reform." That's kinda the point.
He really did it. He reenacted the "Nazi card" video as an argument. Lmao
Possibly the only thing more insulting than the proposition that Greenwald was ever a leftist is the insistence that he is also intelligent or talented.
Lunch break today. Finally digging into @Vinncent's "The Jakarta Method," which I conspicuously placed in this food porn picture to demonstrate that I am more than just any old Instagram influencer... 😆
Finished Dana Frank's "The Long Honduran Night" yesterday. Learned a lot. Highly recommend.
I was waiting and harassing @Vinncent for the soft cover for a year, so I feel obligated to prove I did buy and am reading it. 😆😆
Cris Chamorro cheered on the US-backed rightwing coup in Bolivia in 2019, saying it was an "example" for Nicaragua to follow. Maradiaga is a violent, US-paid Aspen Institute asset and fmr. Contra Cruz was getting off a plane from Washington when he was arrested. But "spurious."