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#ACAB Daily Digest (March 15, 2022)🧵:

Today is International Day Against Police Brutality. screencap of page from The Onion. Title reads "Officer
"March 15 is the International Day Against Police Brutality... It has its origins in 1997 through the work of the Montreal-based Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COPB) and the Black Flag group in Switzerland." libcom.org/article/intern… via @libcomorg
That's a calendar of events that @libcomorg provided last year, not this year. I couldn't find one for today, unfortunately. But the history of the day being observed since 1997 and coming from anarchists in Canada and Switzerland is important to know.
Important edit to The Onion's wildly-charitable and entirely-inaccurate cop "quote":
On bodycameras | "Absent structural organizing and actual political change, societal consumption of anti-Black violence instead reinforces the dehumanization of Black people that is central to white supremacy." theappeal.org/tyre-nichols-e…
Anyway. We were saying this before, during and ever since the rollout of bodycams.
2015 and the rush to give every cop a camera felt, to me, exactly like watching post-9/11 global unity and compassion be purposefully and devastatingly redirected into endless war. It was absolutely horrible. All over again.
I said this several times in 2015. I'm sure others felt the same. And here we are.
People haven't yet come around to understanding this, but it seems like they're starting to figure it out. Neat.
Alberta, there's still time to resist this. And you should. Bodyworn cameras are not about transparency. They are about giving police more control, resources and power. winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2023/03…
If your city, town, province, state or county doesn't yet have bodyworn cameras, there is still time to stop it. You should try.
NYC, NY | #NYPD
Salt Lake City, UT |
#StopCopCity, a thread tailor-made for your liberal/progressive friends who are unlikely to stomach me stammering "fuck the pigs" over and over again. lol. 😉
Cops and the Klan, hand-in-hand as always (Mississippi) |
#StopCopCity | "The search warrant underpinning Saturday’s raid can be seen as the state “trying to build a conspiracy case, similar to Rico cases”, said Marlon Kautz, an organizer with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund" theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
Similar "lawfare" tactics seen in Phoenix, AZ previously. Would not be at all surprised to see Cop City defenders described as a "gang" in the near future, if it hasn't already happened.
This is actually a really great, concise clip on how the copaganda sausage usually gets made. A little access. A little flattery. "Maybe we can work together on teaching people how to protest responsibly?" Really amazing to see so candidly exposed.
Mesa, AZ | "A suspect is down after a Mesa police officer shot a suspect who allegedly fired toward officers near a busy Mesa intersection early Wednesday." azfamily.com/2023/03/15/off…
What does "justice" look like after you've already taken thirtysomething years of someone's life from them? Florida |
Senegal | "Security forces fired tear gas at reporters interviewing a member of parliament who had come to support Ousmane Sonko" africanews.com/2023/03/15/sen…
UPDATE: San Diego, CA | "The lawsuit filed Monday in San Diego federal court names the city of San Diego, San Diego County and five lawmen as defendants in the March 3, 2022, death of 47-year-old Yan Li, a Yale-educated scientist." kpbs.org/news/public-sa…
Related, mental health crisis/eviction/property over people/police San Diego, CA |
"Unbiased review." Please. Tallahassee, FL | "When Biro brought a cup with an antipolice expression (Abolish The Police) on it to Review Board meetings, she spoke in a manner inconsistent with the City’s interest in maintaining an unbiased Review Board," tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…
100% guarantee there's someone on that very same Review Board with a Blue Line sticker or pin adorning their person, but they'd never get fired for that to test whether this "interest in maintaining an unbiased Review Board" is real or total bullshit (it's total bullshit.)
Reminder on CRB's that the Tallahassee story above only further emphasizes.
Another mental health crisis, another shooting in Fort Worth, TX | "officers... told (a suicidal man) to put the gun down, "but he refused to comply."

The man then "presented officers with a deadly threat which resulted in three officers firing" wfaa.com/article/news/l…
This was just last week.
6,200 killed. | "A police officer in the Philippines has been found guilty of murdering two teenagers in a rare conviction linked to the country’s so-called “war on drugs” in which former President Rodrigo Duterte urged officers to eliminate drug suspects" aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/14…
*At least* 6,200 people killed.
Twisted. But "the law is the law," right? (Duluth, MN) | "Minnesota law doesn’t grant exceptions for people convicted of violent felonies to accidentally or briefly possess firearms." h/t @disorderlyswine
UPDATE: Canada and the "blue line" fascist symbol being used by police and their fascist supporters there. |
From yesterday's digest:
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Podcasts. Some are brazen copaganda, others are (always unintentionally) the antidote.
UPDATE: Oxnard, CA | "60-year-old Adam Barcenas, approached with a 5-foot steel bar. Barcenas... ignored their warnings to drop the bar and the trio of officers drew weapons — two stun guns and a firearm. police said they believed Barcenas was homeless" vcstar.com/story/news/cri…
NYC, NY #NYPD | settlement season

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How the copaganda sausage gets made. A little flattery. A little access. And, more often than not, local reporters happily play ball with the offer to join forces with power on a future story rather than continue pushing...

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Neat First Amendment you have there. Would be a shame if a Supreme Court were deliberately installed in a specific, rightwing project spanning decades precisely for their commitment to not giving a flying fuck about it or precedent, either.
Now what, lawdogs?
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His brother sucked, too.
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The concept you're struggling with here is the foundational anti-Blackness of the United States. Ain't no "I think" to be thought. This is exactly (if limited in scope) where it came from.
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