#ACAB Daily Digest (March 14, 2023)🧵:
Respect.
Marielle Franco (July 27, 1979 - March 14, 2018). Assasinated by the state and its police forces in Brazil.
Respect.
Marielle Franco (July 27, 1979 - March 14, 2018). Assasinated by the state and its police forces in Brazil.
Brazil | They murdered Anderson Gomes as well.
https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR/status/1635618718104588288?s=20
Once again, the only journalism we have in the US is The Onion. Everything else is mostly, with few notable exceptions, total fuckery. (You will be seeing these images as Digest headers all week, I imagine. lol)
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1635675943900524545?s=20
Phoenix, AZ | Kristopher Bertz, the pig who killed Jacob Harris, was ruled "justified" in the summary execution. Harris' friends who were with him - Jeremiah Triplett, Sariah Busani, and Johnny Reed (20, 19 and 14 year old), were charged with murder. theappeal.org/phoenix-police…
“They were never going to hold the police accountable for Jacob’s murder. It was going to be us.”
UPDATE: LaKeith Smith. 15 at the time. Alabama | “This case needs public awareness. To remove the public from the process, it hurts everyone, not just LaKeith. It hurts everyone.” vice.com/en/article/dy3…
"Two of Smith’s most outspoken advocates are the parents of A’Donte Washington, the boy whose death set the felony murder charge in motion."
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If these "felony murder" stories outrage you, here's another one from Georgia that is currently underway and gets absolutely no attention whatsoever while the process is actively ongoing...
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1534919430030954496?s=20
I'm going to be so pissed when someone finally writes the story of this Camden County no-knock warrant raid killing of Latoya James and felony murder charge of her cousin, Varshaun Brown, ten years from now instead of today.
You have no fucking idea.
You have no fucking idea.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1534920671716843520?s=20
This, too, is Camden County, Georgia - where Varshaun Brown is currently being prosecuted for "felony murder" in the police killing of his cousin, Latoya James, in a NO KNOCK WARRANT RAID in May, 2021. From October, 2022. whio.com/news/national/…
It's literally everything activist journos want. It's a Black woman killed in a NO KNOCK WARRANT raid after Breonna Taylor and her cousin being charged with felony murder despite the fact POLICE MURDERED HER. But nah. Fuck it. Who cares? No story til there's a viable market.
I honestly don't fucking get it. I'll literally write the fucking thing for you, put your fucking byline on it and fucking get it out there. Jesus fucking christ. Why wait until dude is convicted? It's only harder after that.
Phoenix, AZ | As ghoulish as Phoenix police have been recently, and despite national scrutiny, they're absolutely undeterred.
https://twitter.com/phoenixnewtimes/status/1635748897761918978?s=20h/t @pinky_or_brain
On lawfare, "terrorism" and colonization. Palestine and beyond. | lpeproject.org/blog/terrorism…
I would think this might be of interest to #StopCopCity folks experiencing the "terrorism" designation themselves in service of a state land grab and yet another avenue to build solidarity between dometic movements and Palestinian liberation.
https://twitter.com/dialash/status/1635696143467261954?s=20
NYC, NY | Fascist cult symbols, intellectual property "stolen" from Disney with nary a word from that otherwise very litigious megacorporation
https://twitter.com/MaxRivlinNadler/status/1635762271132557313?s=20
Tell no lies, claim no easy victories. But this is an inarguable good. And if it's the only thing we ever did, it was worth it. NYC, NY |
https://twitter.com/Gothamist/status/1635763692829548544?s=20#CopsOffCampus
Today in #Pigtech: Fed spying and surveillance |
https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1635728084258226181?t=eZ799f1VmsPnq8wiA5saIQ&s=19
Another police pursuit. Over property. Another crash. (Miami, FL) | "The incident began when a license plate reader picked up a tag from a stolen car... two officers and woman were taken to a local hospital with injuries." msn.com/en-us/news/oth… #PigTech #ALPR
Surrounded. Contained. Killed. Everett, WA | "the incident started with a domestic violence call with injuries late Friday night. According to investigators, a 58-year-old man barricaded himself in a home and was pointing a gun out of a window." msn.com/en-us/news/cri… #SWAT
I'm not saying there haven't been any white people charged with felony murder after police kill someone, I'm just saying it's interesting that all three stories in this one digest alone are about Black people being criminalized *when police kill their friends and family.*
Dude is accused of fucked up shit, so police can do whatever they want, I guess. San Antonio, TX | "The man allegedly pointed a gun at his own head before pointing it at the officers... Police officers fired at the man multiple times, hitting him." msn.com/en-us/news/cri…
Anyway, they say he shot his girlfriend and when they pulled him over, he was pointing the gun at his own head. Then... when he pointed it at them (which they'll always say happened, even if it never did), that's when they shot him.
Tomorrow is International Day Against Police Brutality.
https://twitter.com/WpgPoliceHarm/status/1635650744425627649?s=20
Here is a brief history on March 15th's International Day Against Police Brutality origins. rabble.ca/anti-racism/in…
Police in Hawai‘i killed Kainoa Kahele-Bishop while looking for someone else. They claim he "ignored commands to show police his hands and began reaching for an object." No weapon is mentioned in this story, which almost always means there wasn't one. bigislandnow.com/2023/03/14/pol…
I don't know if this has been resolved since, but four hours ago there was still a 2 day "standoff" between police and a man in crisis in Charlotte, NC | carolinacoastonline.com/regional/artic…
There should be so many more stories like that. That stretch days. The fact that there aren't, that this kind of story is so unusual, is only because police do not prioritize life in a fascist death cult hellscape like the USA.
UPDATE: Sonoma County, CA | "Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Dietrick shot Pelaez-Chavez three times following a 45-minute foot chase through rough terrain in the rural Knights Valley. Law enforcement officials have said he appeared to be reaching for a rock." pressdemocrat.com/article/news/c…
The way US media doesn't say "unarmed" when someone was in fact and inarguably unarmed is a pretty fucking amazing feat of #copaganda. But Pelaez-Chavez was allegedly "reaching for rock" and definitely, absolutely on meth. Because that matters. But they won't say "unarmed."
Even in the police's best case, self-justifying version of events, he was "reaching" for "a rock" that he didn't yet have when they killed him. What's the word for when you don't have any weapon at all? Unarmed. Defenseless. Still. What they claim he was reaching for was a rock.
The police and their media partners are really just such fucking monsters that they even try to make that sound reasonable. Ever. And yet. They always fucking do.
Pakistan | Police serving anti-democratic forces, as per usual. A cop's boss is always and only whoever signs their check, really (and that is very often *not* civilian authority like city Mayors). Amazing that any cop anywhere thinks they're "good." voanews.com/a/pakistan-pol…
1,500. IN A SIX-MONTH PERIOD. (UK) | "More than 1,500 police officers were accused of violence against women and girls in a six-month period, figures for England and Wales suggest.
But of the resolved cases, only 13 were sacked" bbc.com/news/uk-649151…
But of the resolved cases, only 13 were sacked" bbc.com/news/uk-649151…
1,500 were officially accused. In six months.
1,500 victims went to the extreme length of formally complaining *to the police themselves about police abuse*, which you know has to be nowhere near an accurate number of police who committed violence against women and girls.
1,500 victims went to the extreme length of formally complaining *to the police themselves about police abuse*, which you know has to be nowhere near an accurate number of police who committed violence against women and girls.
The funny thing about Canadian fascists taking on fascist cult symbols from their USian counterparts is that the "blue line" shit doesn't make any fucking sense on the Canadian flag. They just add a bar across the real flag and do a blackout thing. ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-council…
Fascists don't revere the flags they otherwise so often claim they live only to fuck. They've invented entirely new (fascist) flags to fuck instead that have fuckall to do with their own, alleged nations and national allegiances. See Canada:
Here's @JeffSharlet from 2018 on the US version of the fascist Blue Line cult, its origins as a rabid, direct reaction to Black Lives Matter and on fascists' full, practical understanding "that swastikas undermine the breadth of their appeal." harpers.org/archive/2018/0…
Today in "Cops and the Klan Go Hand-In-Hand" | Taylorsville, Mississippi
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1635772464453021696?s=20
Bleak af. | “He was in so many different pieces,” said Yokena Anderson, a cousin to Carter’s mother. “They wanted to tell us that he went there and fell dead and the animals were feeding off him.” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…
They always say this is a police "failure," but they never ever consider that perhaps police are promoted to elite units, put in leadership and given awards and raises precisely to the extent they are actual monsters? That's more the rule than exception. edition.cnn.com/2023/03/13/eur…
"A monster in uniform." Totally unique. Otherwise unheard of. Exceptional. Absolutely not at all reflective of an institution that screened, selected, trained and promoted him for the very things they're now calling monstrous.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1271123089804464131
CNN doing copaganda???? Does a cocaine bear fuck the pope in the woods?
Sorry. It's late and I'm delirious and there are lots more police stories. Maybe I'll save them for tomorrow. lol
Sorry. It's late and I'm delirious and there are lots more police stories. Maybe I'll save them for tomorrow. lol
Gotta end shit on a positive note. Gonna RT some shit other people are doing and say, then sleep the sleep of the eternally tormented. Peace to you if you're willing to fight for it.
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