#ACAB Daily Digest (May 19. 2022)🧵: 
The intersection where environmentalism, migrant justice and our malevolent tech overlords collide: CBP is deploying robot dogs to patrol climate-scorched borderlands. currentlyhq.com/global/border-…
Another "wellness check," another killing by police. (Malvern, PA) | "While officers were there, the subject allegedly *displayed a firearm* and a struggle ensued. An officer-involved shooting occurred and the subject was fatally shot" msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Traffic stop in Sequim, WA | "It’s unclear why but the Sequim officer fired his gun at some point... the officer involved was not injured. The city said the [victim] was taken to the hospital." msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
(Note: I don't usually slap a hastily-made logo or watermark on memes, but the group that *did* slap theirs on the above is a right-libertarian shitshow and I didn't want them to get even the slightest credit. So I covered it up.)
High-speed, reckless police pursuit and summary execution with no justification even offered in Parkersburg, WV | "Following the crash, officers *made contact with the suspect* and that is when shots were fired." msn.com/en-us/news/oth…
Always remember that #CopsLie: Atlanta, GA | “At that point, the suspect produced his firearm and fired one round, striking the security guard. At least one of our officers then discharged their weapon, fatally striking the suspect.” msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Warrant service, pursuit and shooting in Round Rock, TX | "The [victim] was injured and taken into custody soon after, police said. Life-saving measures were made and the suspect, a 41-year-old man, was taken to a nearby hospital for his injuries." fox7austin.com/news/police-in…
Indiantown, FL | “Fortunately for her, instead of re-engaging with the firearm, he goes for a Taser and ends it right there. If she had thrown that [toy] snake, when the gun was out, we may be talking about police officer-involved shooting right now.” wowt.com/2022/05/19/flo…
Cop spokesperson above seems almost wistful that there wasn't a *shooting* and instead only an electroshock torturing over a toy snake...
Didn't know there was a village called "Indiantown" in Florida, but the history probably won't surprise you. | "Tribes fleeing the U.S. Army found the area an attractive place to settle... It was then settled by white American migrants in the 1890s." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiantow…
UPDATE: Garretsville, OH | Police still won't confirm whether or not they shot and killed Cora Baughman or not. Very odd. yahoo.com/news/911-calls…
Houston, TX | Police press conference news.yahoo.com/houston-police…
Chicago, IL | "The 13-year-old boy was shot around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday after he jumped from the car and began running... no shots were fired at the officers (obviously - because) and no weapon was recovered." chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/5/1…
With all the talk of "curfews" (particularly in Chicago, but also in Petersburg, VA and other places heading into the summer), we were literally just talking about how long it would be before CPD shot a kid *yesterday.*
https://twitter.com/GrownRoom/status/1527063446285590530?s=20&t=xn4ViQBeYZZzLWVohWmH0Q
Apparently, the correct/ghoulish answer was "less than 24 hours." Sick.
#SpyCops #SpyCopsInquiry Obviously. (UK) | "Police leaders took a high-level policy decision not to place undercover officers in far-right groups at a time when fascists were intimidating and attacking ethnic minority communities in the 1970s" theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Delays and excuses in Massachusetts | "the department has been struggling to piece together data from hundreds of departments and with trying to ensure the information is accurate, particularly since many officers have worked for different departments" wbur.org/news/2022/05/1…
Today in #Counterinsurgency: Disarm and abolish, not "change their uniform color." (Maryland) | "In an effort to make officers look less “intimidating,” the Montgomery County Police Department could soon be shucking their black uniforms, WTOP reported." police1.com/local-governme…
Another "taser to fireball" story, this in Orlando, FL | "Jean Barreto suffered third-degree burns over 75% of his body during the incident on 27 February as he filled up his dirt bike at a Wawa petrol station in Orlando" news.sky.com/story/florida-…
Canada | "A woman who was selling detox tea outside White Oaks Mall says a police officer grabbed her without explanation and another officer punched her, leaving her with a black eye, before she was charged with various offences." cbc.ca/news/canada/lo…
You will recall the recent murder-by-taser of Jason Jones, who was in crisis, in Catskill, NY |
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1479877740048306181?s=20&t=xn4ViQBeYZZzLWVohWmH0Q
You can't fucking electroshock someone who is standing in *the most obvious, common* flammable vapor cloud that people might encounter (pumping gas at a gas station). Sure. Maybe you dumbass pigs don't think hand sanitizer is flammable. But GAS? What the fuck...
Pigs fucking hate dogs. Even their "partners." (Cocoa, FL) | "A Cocoa police officer is not facing charges in connection with the death of a K-9 named Zena almost a year after she was found dead in the back of her handler’s hot car" local10.com/news/local/202…
Every fucking summer, I tell you. Every fucking summer. And it's always the fucking pigs.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1478168736637112321?s=20&t=lT4sr2_HFex325qk1tUI1Q
If *you* kill a police dog while it's mauling your balls off, you get a 20+ year sentence. If police kill their own dog by the grossest negligence that literally every regular person understands is criminal... absofuckinglutely nothing happens.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/631957127934816256?s=20&t=lT4sr2_HFex325qk1tUI1Q
Meanwhile, they're churning out this "Look how much we love our K9 Units" #Copaganda | wmbfnews.com/2022/05/19/nc-…
I'm not a podcast person, but this one might get a listen. (Cleveland, OH) | “Chased,” a podcast series by Cleveland dot com and The Plain Dealer, examines the persistent issue of near-daily police chases in East Cleveland." cleveland.com/news/2022/05/c…
You'll never guess who is stonewalling the slightest, tiniest reforms in Massachusetts... Maybe you will? It's the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association. | masslive.com/news/2022/05/b…
East Lansing, MI Cops lie. |lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/202…
You might recognize the East Lansing police for a recent "running while Black" shooting.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1526596571298684929?s=20&t=lT4sr2_HFex325qk1tUI1Q
Canada | "The incident occurred on May 9 at around 8:30 p.m., and Kashif said his dreams of one day becoming a police officer were dashed that day. Now he hates them, he said, and the incident "still terrifies me." cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
Nygil Cullins, 22, in crisis in Atlanta, GA | "There have been 50 officer involved shootings so far in 2022... This is the second one this month involving an Atlanta police officer shooting and killing a man at a Buckhead restaurant." ajc.com/news/crime/its…
Chantel Moore in Canada | cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…
Another day, another pig *arrested for* assaulting an intimate partner or family member. (East Providence, RI) | "Stephen Evans, 41, was arraigned last week on a charge of assault and battery of a family/household member (his wife)." turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-…
Today in "no charges filed." Roseville, MI | "The Macomb County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday, May 18, that it had concluded its investigation into the fatal officer-involved shooting of Roseville man Frank Robles, 57." clickondetroit.com/news/local/202…
More in police murdering someone confused and agitated after just surviving a traumatic car accident.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1521233828441903110?s=20&t=lT4sr2_HFex325qk1tUI1Q
New Rochelle, NY | "Malik Fogg is accusing New Rochelle police officer Michael Vaccaro, who was off-duty at the time of the February 2021 encounter, of using excessive force by punching him repeatedly in the head." lohud.com/story/news/loc…
Callous disregard for life. Covington, VA | “I am quite concerned about the reports of a child being left alone at the Commonwealth Center (at 530AM). This was certainly not in the interest of the child and I am seeking an explanation for what happened,” wdbj7.com/2022/05/18/pol…
It isn't always murder (although it often is.) It isn't always spectacular brutality (although it often is.) Police are just shit human beings. And they demonstrate it at every opportunity, like in the story above - leaving a kid out in the dark for no fucking reason whatsoever.
You have to be a special kind of asshole to choose - every morning - to continue being a fucking police officer in 2022.
tRaNsPArENcY in Canada | "The Sault Ste. Marie police department is **refusing to disclose basic statistics** about how many officers have been internally disciplined over the past five years" sootoday.com/city-police-be…
This shouldn't even matter. | Patrick Lyoya was publicly and summarily executed by police after a traffic stop. Whether he drank alcohol (that day or ever), was an irredeemable villain or was a perfect angel is entirely fucking irrelevant. mlive.com/news/grand-rap…
Pig says "race was not a factor," proceeds to invoke zombies in killing of Sheku Bayoh in 2015. Scotland, UK | Bayoh was "physically capable of causing serious injury to someone and was clearly in some sort of rage or zombie state". news.sky.com/story/sheku-ba…
Like... "As with the emergence of the American zombie as an appropriation from its deliberately obscured origins in the enslavement of Africans who would later become Haitians, the power dynamics of racism were clear and present legacies of slavery" ds-pages.swarthmore.edu/zombies-reimag…
"Racial tensions are the zombie’s oldest theme." smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/zom…
Amazing. theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
Just amazing. Nothing to do with race. Calls the Black man he murdered a "zombie." Incredible, really.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1527415807638130689?s=20&t=lT4sr2_HFex325qk1tUI1Q
One of the dumbest sentences I've ever read in my life. My jaw may never come back up off the floor. Scottish pigs really going for it... "race not a factor, [he was in a] zombie state." I mean... dude. I got something to tell you about "zombies..."
I don't know if zombies are part of a "critical race theory" curriculum (or if Scotland has a reactionary push against any racial education comparable to what is going on in the US), but I'm a high school dropout and I know zombies are *often* if not always about white anxiety.
Ok. Enough digest for me... for now.
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