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.
Read more about the extremely-suspicious, in-custody "death" of Brianna Grier here: essence.com/news/brianna-g…
Policing, particularly in a fascist police state, is more than just "the police." |
Today in #PigTech: "Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, which encompasses more than 90,000 square miles, is one of the most surveilled areas in the country. More than 3,000 agents work the sector." theverge.com/c/23203881/bor… [h/t @trash_whisperer]
Fairfax County, VA | "undercover narcotics detectives were conducting an investigation in the Falls Church area when they identified a group of people in a vehicle they say were allegedly involved in illegal narcotics distribution." fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-c…
Utah | "Troopers arrived at 7:38 a.m. and located an adult male “acting erratically” and brandishing a weapon... 'Despite officers’ efforts to de-escalate the situation,' the man was shot by an officer and died at the scene." abc4.com/news/local-new…
Spokane, WA | A man suspected in a series of crimes that ended with a downtown Spokane standoff is dead. He was shot before 6 am by officers from two local agencies. kxly.com/suspect-in-rob…
Port Allen, LA | Pig Zachary Sibille flashed his badge, assaulted and straight up robbed a group of people outside a bar because he wanted one of their chains. wafb.com/2022/08/03/pol…
Sacramento, CA | The 11-year-old "was horseplaying while in line while [he and friends] all pretended to be cutting in front of each other. Elijah was tackled by police, and his friends were not. Elijah is Black, and his friends are white," nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1…
New Orleans, LA | "The NOPD said on-duty Traffic Division officer Denzel Millon was taken into custody around 4 a.m. last Thursday (July 28), after “striking multiple vehicles.” fox8live.com/2022/08/03/nop…
Unarmed man killed by police in Las Cruces, NM was accused of stealing beer from a gas station | lcsun-news.com/story/news/cri…
Cop who killed Saudi Arai Lee in Savannah, GA in June. | "Ernest Ferguson's employment record at Coastal State Prison marked by violent incidents, reprimands. Yet corrections officials promoted him, recommended him for job with SPD." savannahnow.com/story/news/loc…
The media saying police "didn't fully vet" a hyperviolent CO they hired is #copaganda. It's just as likely, if not more so, that he was selected by Savannah police precisely because of his propensity for violence.
But the media say, "oh, they must have missed this information" is extremely generous. And equally dubious.
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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.
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.
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…
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.
I'm joking. Relax. But as a fellow 40+ person, I make this kind of mistake frequently, so I feel I'm entitled to joke. The CIA has been propping up fascists for 70+ years (including when it was the OSS.)
1980 was twenty years ago and you can't tell me fucking otherwise, ok?