City fundraises for "the homeless," money goes direct to police. St. Petersburg, FL | "SPPD's numbers say that since 2019, just $1,716 has been spent on the homeless community out of about $11,497 in revenue raised." cltampa.com/news/st-pete-p…
"#Copaganda not only diverts people from existential threats like imminent ecological collapse and rising fascism, but also boosts surveillance and repression that is used against social movements" - @equalityAlecjacobin.com/2022/07/copaga…
UPDATE on serial killer cop, Andrew Hall, who murdered two (Laudemer Arboleda and Tyrell Wilson) in Danville, CA in 2018 and 2021 | eastbaytimes.com/2022/07/22/he-…
Norfolk, VA | Pigs "declined to comment on why Portsmouth officers were in Norfolk. He also declined to specify how many officers were involved in the incident.
I love dogs, but two people are dead and the K9 unit being shot *leading* the story is fucked up. Jacksonville, FL | msn.com/en-us/news/us/…
South Carolina | 65-year-old Ronnie Dewayne James, of Hartsville, [was murdered by police today.] Authorities added that James was armed at the time of the incident... the incident is the 20th shooting involving law enforcement in South Carolina this year" msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Chicago, IL | “The Alvarez family continues to reel from Anthony’s death. They are appalled by Mr. Block’s decision to merely recommend a 20-day suspension of a police officer who violated numerous policies and directives before killing Anthony Alvarez,” msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Springfield, VA | "Fairfax County Police released body-cam footage on Friday in connection with the fatal police-involved shooting of 37-year-old Christian Parker of Reston in the parking lot of Springfield Town Center." msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Sioux City, SD | "the shooting occurred at around 7:50 p.m. as officers were responding to a call about a possible overdose at an apartment complex" nonpareilonline.com/news/state-and…
Kenya | "Three police officers in Kenya have been found guilty of murdering three men, including human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, six years after their bodies were found in a river." theguardian.com/global-develop…
Sunrise, FL | "Sunrise police Sgt. Christopher Pullease was charged Wednesday with battery on a law enforcement officer, tampering with evidence, assault on a law enforcement officer and assault on a civilian" rawstory.com/florida-cop-ar…
Previous digest entry on roid-raging, Sunrise, FL pig Sgt. Christopher Pullease attacking other cop for daring to question his violence.
Officer down! in Rochester, NY | Also, for what it's worth, ambushes are pretty brave, actually. And just the smart play when your adversary has overwhelming resources. abcnews.go.com/US/police-offi…
They would still call it a "cowardly ambush" if you raised an army, announced your intentions to lay siege to a police headquarters and then followed through and literally attacked them at their strongest point.
Vevay, IN | "A Tri-State police officer, Christopher Pellant, was fired after he was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated on duty less than a month after he was sworn in." fox19.com/2022/07/22/tri…
Real "bash mob" and "wilding" panic energy here. Anything but blaming police violence squarely on the shoulders of police.
You have to know a reform measure is particularly pathetic when 46 states already do that and police are still police. | "making the Garden State the 47th in the country to allow for the licensing of police officers" police1.com/police-trainin…
"Look at this bold action we are taking to hold police accountable! Sure, 46 fucking other states already do this thing and they're still full of cops killing people, but it's gonna work now that we're doing it in New Jersey!"
Cop mayor says cops not responsible for thing cops absolutely caused. (Pearl, MS) | "Mayor Jake Windham, *a former police officer himself*, told reporters the officer involved in the pursuit followed policy by the book." wlbt.com/2022/07/22/pea…
Oakland, TN | "while returning from the delivery, Brandon Calloway, who is Black, allegedly ran a stop sign and was followed by police. The officers chased him into his father's house, beat him with a baton and shocked him with a Taser." nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…
Australia | "people – including children – were told to lift or move their genitals, strip naked, and squat and cough during searches.
Another day, another rapist pig in the UK | "PC Matt Tregale has been summonsed in connection with charges of attempted rape, false imprisonment, sexual assault, sexual assault by penetration and coercive and controlling behaviour." bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Canada | "Drug charges have been dropped against an Ottawa man whose home was raided by a rifle-toting SWAT team, but he says he's not satisfied because there's been no accountability for a police operation that... was based on flimsy evidence" cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
Sri Lanka | "Hundreds of riot police wielding batons and shields raided Sri Lanka’s Presidential Secretariat and a nearby site occupied by protesters, stoking fears of more unrest that could complicate urgent talks over a bailout with the IMF." ft.com/content/d1c2ff…
UPDATE: Drunk pig who menaced a family over their "Black Lives Matter" sign sentenced in Forest Grove, OR | "Steven Teets was found guilty of second-degree criminal mischief and sentenced to 24 months of probation" opb.org/article/2022/0…
Now-former pig Steven Teets is an actual murderer, but he got probation for "criminal mischief" when he menaced a terrorized a family over a "Black Lives Matter" sign.
Panama | Protesters demanding lower fuel, food and medicine prices have blockaded the crucial Pan-American Highway and other major roads with stalled trucks and burning tires, and some have clashed with police. voanews.com/a/new-talks-be…
Southport, NC | "The former law enforcement officers were accused of working for a trucking company during hours they claimed to be policing in Southport." wect.com/2022/07/22/tri…
smh Georgia | Stacey Abrams is fighting back against allegations that she's anti-police by attacking her Republican opponent, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, as weak on crime and pledging to give more money to some law enforcement officers if she is elected. nbcnews.com/politics/abram…
Haven't seen this in any US media whatsoever. Sparta, GA | "Brianna Grier, 28, had been in a coma since July 15 — when the incident occurred — and was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation." globalnews.ca/news/9008515/b…
The LAPD did something like this, too, back in 2013. A cop was assaulting a woman and she "fell" out of the car. Luckily she survived.
Chicago, IL | Can almost guarantee that everyone shot was shot by police. Looks like they've already changed the headline to reflect it, but the story still says: "it was unclear if [the bystander] was shot by the suspect or police." chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/7/2…
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If you, like others, are wondering: "what is a 'gang-suppression police car," that's a good question. My guess is the OC Weekly hack who wrote the article I quoted took the term directly from his police source, because it appears literally nowhere else on earth.
I think it's reasonable to assume that whatever pig was feeding this fucker talking points slipped that "gang-suppression police car" line in and the hack ran with it. It's also more generous to police than saying "undercover car" or "unmarked car."
10 years ago, "on the afternoon of July 21, 2012, two Anaheim cops and a civilian on a ride-along rolled up on an Anna Drive alley in a gang-suppression police car." When 25-year-old, unarmed Manuel Diaz ran, Anaheim pig Nick "Buckshot" Bannallack shot him twice, killing him.
When the community immediately gathered to discover what police had done - and as Diaz's body laid handcuffed and lifeless in the sweltering, summer sun nearby - Anaheim police then unleashed rubber bullets and a vicious K9 on the neighbors, including a child in a stroller.
CN: death, victim, police, shooting, dead body
“it appeared as if he had removed the object that I believed to be a firearm from his waistband,” Bennallack said... [but] there was no gun. A cell phone and a glass pipe were said to have been recovered..." ocweekly.com/manuel-diaz-oc…
Actual nazis and their NATO handlers dragged civilians into a tunnel system under a steel factory to use as human shields as they hid there for 80 days and this is how the NYT describes it...
This is maybe the least murky, most-easily-understood and straightforward event of the entire war and prestige US media is still actively sanitizing the literaly wolfsangel and swastika-saluting fascists involved in it. Amazing.
Sure, not all Ukrainians are Nazis. Good nuance. And Russia is bad, too. Full of fascists itself. Yes. But these goons? These were 100% blood & soil, "glory to Ukraine," actual fucking sieg-heiling Nazi scumfucks and every one of their deaths was an unmitigated win for humanity.
If the world had shaken out a little differently, you could have scholars writing about "copologism" (incessant media apology for police abuse) instead of "copaganda."
It was still up in the air which portmanteau I was going to push harder back in 2012. lol 🤣😉
I'm glad this tweet exists. It jives with my recollection of having heard the word first from Bilal (while at the militant, Home Foreclosure Defense called "Fort (later 'Fuerza') Hernandez" in LA (Van Nuys, specifically) around this exact time.
As I recall, we were sitting around behind the barricades, maybe drinking beer (hey, that's what you do when you're behind actual barricades waiting on an imminent LAPD raid) and Bilal sneered something about #copaganda. Maybe I misheard him. Maybe his speech was slurred.
When you read about Albuquerque police in the coming days, remember that the Obama/Biden-favored "consent decrees" we're starting to see again in 2022 have been in place there since 2014.
Related | “The tragic death of this 15-year-old is a serious matter that warrants a comprehensive review,” the attorney general said. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…