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#ACAB Daily Digest (Black August 1, 2022)🧵:

This is the one and only correct way to film a demonstration. Not only was the technique (film cops, not protesters) perfect, the result allows us to enjoy the footage of petrified pigs pelted with debris guilt-free for years to come.
Related: "We must love and support each other."
If you're wondering why the top of the thread says "Black August" and not just "August," but are too shy to ask...
#ICYMI | A good tweet from over the weekend:
Minneapolis, MN | MPD officers continue building their Florida retirement homes with tax-payer-funded payoffs for the "trauma" of traumatizing others.
#CopsLie Rochester, NY | "reports indicate the suspect got out of the van with the ax and charged toward an officer. The officer shot the suspect." He died. postbulletin.com/news/local/roc…
Well, that's not at all suspicious. I, for one, trust everything our honest and respected police say. (Newton, NJ) | "A 71-year-old man died after shooting himself in the head behind the Newton police station on Friday" nj.com/news/2022/08/m…
Lorain, OH | "Charles White was found in the basement with a knife and stabbed the dog multiple times, authorities said. An officer then shot White, who was pronounced dead at the scene." The dog is recovering. White is definitely not. Nobody else hurt. sfgate.com/news/article/A…
I love dogs. A lot. But police use dogs like very violent weapons without a second-thought. Did you see this recent story from Gainesville, FL? I can easily understand why someone might defend themself from a K9 unit attack.
Man, allegedly with knife, shot by police in Fremont, NE after he "absconded" from police custody. | fremonttribune.com/news/local/cri…
Correction of previous tweet: this police shooting was in Rochester, MN. My bad. kimt.com/news/olmsted-c…
Washington, DC | “[The officer] gave a command,” Benedict said. “Those commands were not complied with, and [the officer] discharged his weapon one time.”

multiple people who said they are family members of the man [said] that he died." msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Cedar Rapids, IA | kcrg.com/video/2022/07/…
Interestingly doesn't say "responded to a call about a suspicious person." A patrol officer harassed him? (Greenville, SC) | "Chief Thompson said the situation began when a suspicious person in the neighborhood ran away when officers tried to talk to him." foxcarolina.com/2022/07/30/sle…
St. Louis, MO & Venice, IL | SLMPD chased a car into Illinois and shot at the passengers as they fled after crashing. msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Crook County, WY | Apparently, pigs got into a shootout with a guy on July 29th after harassing him for walking on the highway. He got away. Then they spotted him the next day a mile down the same highway and killed him. newscenter1.tv/male-with-warr…
Today in #CopsLie | CBP:
Greenfield, IN | Police shot and killed a man who was actively assaulting a woman in her home and who (allegedly) had a gun. At least that's how this *police press release* reads. It happened so it goes in the digest. wbiw.com/2022/08/01/ind…
I feel like I have to write posts that way sometimes because - when I don't - someone invariably interjects, "you're defending *this* guy?" No. I'm not. I don't think the police should summarily execute anyone and I know they lie. But police shot and killed someone so in it goes.
Officer down in Elmwood, IN | Imperialism veteran turned domestic state enforcer waxed in Indiana. wbiw.com/2022/08/01/ind…
We're now up to 14 *voluntary* referrals to the Met's watchdog about their pattern and practice of strip searching kids. (UK) | bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
The LAPD is within percentage points of perfectly reflecting Los Angeles' racial diversity. The LAPD still violently serves white supremacy. Thinking women would somehow do otherwise is magical thinking of the worst liberal kind. Abolition not reform. npr.org/2022/07/31/111…
Source: trust me, bro (but also, you should *trust me, bro* because I've kept the actual charts for years and mention it every time liberals insist a new diversification push is all that's needed to fix police.)
Watertown, NY | Legend of the day. Handcuffed and stuffed in the back of a cruiser, this motherfucker somehow still stole the cop car and made a run for it. Never give up. wwnytv.com/2022/08/01/she…
😢Canada | "I still feel a burden because I'm the one who called 911. I am not well. Every day, I cry. Every day … the way they murdered him, it's unacceptable."

Bence called police, hoping they would get her son to a hospital because he was in distress. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
Police in Canada shut down a lemonade stand run by two kids who were raising money to find a cure for MS *because their Mom has MS*. And when the Mom confronted the cops, they said, "You think that because you’re in a wheelchair, you’re above the law.” globalnews.ca/news/9028191/m…
Yonkers, NY | "The city of Yonkers has made at least 102* payouts for incidents since 2007 (while being investigated by the DOJ for "patterns and practices) where a plaintiff alleged police misconduct. Those payouts cost the city more than $5.5 million." npr.org/2022/07/31/111…
Los Angeles, CA |
👀Australia | "A man in his 20s was shot in the torso when, according to police, he ran towards a responding officer in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region during the early hours of Sunday morning." abc.net.au/news/2022-08-0…
Related | "The decision in March sparked outrage and disappointment in Australia’s Indigenous communities, many of whom saw the acquittal as yet another injustice in a long colonial history of police violence against First Nations peoples."

aljazeera.com/features/2022/…
Australia | "Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission received *six domestic violence-related complaints about police officers within two weeks* of allowing such matters to be treated as corruption instead of misconduct" theguardian.com/australia-news…
Another chase, more needless death. Canada | "The collision took the lives of two teenagers who were driving home from soccer practice; Samir Olyad Suleiman Ali, 18, and Yasbrat Habtamu, 17, died in hospital shortly after the crash on Tuesday night." cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Officer really, really down in Australia | "It appears he's conducted this (parachute) manoeuvre a bit closer to the ground and wasn't able to slow down enough before impacting with the ground." abc.net.au/news/2022-08-0…
Today in #Copaganda |
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UPDATE: Wichita, KS | Justin Rapp and Wichita continue to fight for qualified immunity to protect him from civil consequences for murdering Andrew Finch in 2017. archive.is/TnhZs
Just one precinct clearly wasn't enough.

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#ACAB Daily Digest (August 3, 2022)🧵:

Brianna Grier, a 28-year-old mother of two with schizophrenia, was killed by police in Sparta, GA in July when police *claim* to have accidentally left the cruiser she was being transported in completely open and she "fell" out. Briana Grier smiling broadl...
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The discourse isn't an indictment of "the left," it's an indictment of liberal bloggers, writers and other aspiring take-havers who have built entire personas, readerships and professional networks over decades around their little fiefdoms of very public, radlib posturing.
It will continue because this is a micro-blogging site where people can and do build entire livelihoods, these professionals are deeply networked and, besides their penchant to defend each other and their shared liberal project, it's good for their own brands to keep it going.
If they really wanted this to go away, they'd stop gabbing about it and let it die as all things here eventually do. But no serious leftist thinks working for murder merchants for damn near 20 years while deceiving people for your other very lucrative, online hustle is right.
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goddamn, that trevor noah set about marikana was some fucked up shit...
i'm listening to it in the background and it's shockingly fascist. "teargas doesn't work anymore. what strike was ever ended with teargas?" what a sick, pig-serving fuck.
Every penny this scumfuck ever made should go directly to the Lonmin miners and their families and anything short of that is a gross injustice.
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#ACAB Daily Digest (August 2, 2022)🧵:

The Simpsons are always relevant...
San Diego, CA | "deputies arrested Gilbert Gil twice in a span of three days in February of this year for being under the influence when in fact he suffered from dementia and was diabetic... [After the 2nd arrest,] Gil [was killed in jail by] asphyxiation" cbs8.com/article/news/i…
Look at all that "reform!" Chicago, IL |
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Aug 2
From 2012: "South African police have been accused of planting weapons near the bodies of workers killed during strikes at the Marikana platinum mine.

Photographs taken by police suggested large knives had been placed near the bodies after they had been shot"
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This, too, is copaganda
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Aug 2
People need to stop taking fascists at their word. That should be a mantra these days.

Cryptocolonizers don't see "the Block Chain" as a solution to a real problem, they use *the claim that it is* to obscure their efforts to register/commodify land in Fiji and other places.
"90% of Fiji’s land is held in indigenous communal trust, a legacy of sabotaging the British land commission of the 19th century... [This isn't] a problem that needs solving; it’s what [kept] those lands outside of extractive property relations." the-crypto-syllabus.com/blockchain-imp…
The whole El Salvador Bitcoin project threw the kitchen sink of these bullshit cover stories at what was (and still is), at its heart, just another rightwing utopian fantasy of carving out an autonomous zone for the rich in Latin America.
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