Share this page!

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
Twitter logo
Feb 1 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
Last May we requested all of LAPD's communications with @deray. LAPD told us they have 57 pages of records that they'll start turning over later this month.

Stay tuned.
Read more on how @deray met with city officials to sanitize LAPD violence early during the 2020 uprising:
Deray told @MrErnestOwens this week that the #8cantwait reforms he was peddling were "the largest rollback of the power of police in a generation."

Yet LAPD had long been compliant with #8cantwait's bullshit, as the Mayor announced after meeting
@deray:

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @stoplapdspying

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
Dec 23, 2021
THREAD: Much like the FBI in Portland, LAPD also infilitrated protests during the George Floyd uprising, with dozens of "Shadow Teams" (LAPD's term) entering crowds to surveil people and plot mass arrests.
According to LAPD documents that we obtained using the Public Records Act, "Shadow Teams" infilitrated crowds during the George Floyd uprising in order to "identify plans for civil disobedience" "document crowd behavior" and "report spontaneous celebrations."
These were protests where LAPD brutalized and arrested over 4,000 of their critics.

LAPD's 2022 budget proposal demands new technology to expand surveillance and infilitration of protests:
Read 8 tweets
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
Jul 12, 2021
Jeffrey Katzenberg, a billionaire Hollywood mogul, has been pressuring City Council to increase criminaliation of unhoused people. Katzenberg has a long history of using his obscene wealth to fund criminalization and surveillance in LA.
In 2014, Katzenberg helped fund LAPD’s body cam surveillance program. @ladailynews reported that Katzenberg was a "rich friend" of Police Commission President @SteveSoboroff, who got him to make the donation “as a way to avoid bureaucratic red tape.” dailynews.com/2014/12/22/how…
After LAPD used Katzenberg’s donation to test out body cams, the city went on to pay over $36 million on the body cam program. This is a common pattern: rich people “donate” harmful new LAPD tools, which later become budget items.

From our upcoming LAPD'S BUDGET CREEP zine:
Read 9 tweets
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
May 19, 2021
In 2014, LAPD brass went on a tour of Israel where they "visited private security firms and drone manufacturers." They "lit up when talking about a new tethered drone that was just released to IDF."

A few months later LAPD announced a drone program. jewishjournal.com/news/united-st…
Israel has one of the most advanced weapons industries in the world, exporting technology to police everywhere. How long before we see these tear gas drones, used this week in the West Bank, by US police? haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
This trip to Israel also covered data systems, with LAPD officials attending a Big Data Intelligence Conference. "That’s the wave of the future," LAPD's deputy chief said.

Data-driven policing is now a cornerstone of LAPD violence and dispossession. jewishjournal.com/news/united-st…
Read 4 tweets
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
May 19, 2021
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.
Read 12 tweets
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
Mar 22, 2021
We recently found emails between @Target executives and @LAPDChiefMoore from last summer. They’re part of Target's long history of working closely with police forces across the country. Thread:
Barely 48 hours after George Floyd’s murder, Target emailed Moore: “Issues in Minneapolis - Translating to LA?”

The email began, “At Target HQ we often discuss that when all is said and done, we believe history will say that California got it right.” The fuck does that mean?
A couple hours later, @LAPDChiefMoore writes that “a BLM organized demo" with "verbal assaults on our people.” As people across the country were starting to condemn policing, Moore was whining to @Target that people yelled at cops.
Read 17 tweets
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Profile picture
Mar 16, 2021
BREAKING: Along with @LACANetwork @BLMLA and 39 other community groups, we just sent City Council a letter about the new City Council report on LAPD's violence last summer. The report is a bold attempt to win LAPD more resources and spy powers. drive.google.com/file/d/1MCQIgu…
As we wrote in @KNOCKdotLA today: “It should surprise no one that this investigation, featuring almost zero effort to hear from the community, offers nothing but calls to expand policing. It’s hard to see this review as anything but a police coup.” knock-la.com/lapd-report-pr…
This report was written by a team of six LAPD veterans and insiders after interviewing 100+ police (and exactly 10 community members, all handpicked by City Council).

What does their police-fed investigation conclude? They say LAPD needs more resources and surveillance powers.
Read 11 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @stoplapdspying has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @stoplapdspying!

Read all threads by @stoplapdspying

:(