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12/6/20
12/7/20. Los Angeles
After over a week of protesting to block mayor Garcetti’s nomination to the Biden cabinet, local police attacked non-violent protesters, including legal observers. After immense public backlash, the police were notably absent the next morning and the numbers of protesters increased.
February 15 2017 - Police gets chased out of Argenteuil, France during a protest against police brutality. France has seen widespread protests and riots after a young black man was raped with a baton by the cops during an arrest, and the police’s own investigation said it was “an accident” [video]
A Toronto councillors motion is asking that Black People should forgive police because ‘the police have supported pride since the beginning’.
Pride Toronto has its roots in a protest against Police Brutality; see the Bathhouse Raids.
Yikes.
mmmmmmm that’s good propaganda
Some extremely common lies used to turn the public against a protest
Like, if you don’t want to talk about how massive inequality is in France and how much more than effects people of color, how police brutality enforces that, how last year French police raped a man of color and got away with it, how basic human rights are being ignored by the French government in the name of ‘safety’, how two horrible racist parties are running against each other for the elections, how the French police constantly escalates protests themselves because they do not like the message, if you don’t wanna talk about all the danger protestors are in from police brutality and still they show up to fight for justice… then ya, an article like this will do nicely.
Almost one hundred demonstrators were wounded by cops in Paris this May 1st. 6 cops too - one got severly injured, by his own grenade.
The rags hide the very reason we have a modern may day n all - because of police brutality at haymarket in 1886
2017: cops post memes like this
2018: police departments take the denny’s/wendy’s route and hire marketing firms to run their social media accounts and post ironic/surrealist memes
2019: crytyping whenever a protest over police brutality breaks out
Facebook removed video of Police Brutality in the Netherlands.
This Saturday, November 12th 2017, hundreds of anti-racism activists gathered in Rotterdam to protest the common use of black face during the holidays in the Netherlands. They did this in defiance of a protest ban which they deemed an unlawful suppression of their right to free speech.
Dutch police cornered several of their busses and arrested all 200+ protestors inside, forcing those on the busses to watch and wait while the first groups were arrested. Passive resistance to arrest was answered with police violence.
Today, facebook removed all posts containing a video of this police brutality. On this video a black man can be seen being dragged away with his mouth covered while a terrified woman screams “He’s covering his mouth! he’s choking him! no!”. Activists from the bus then try to step in and are punched in the face and hit with battons. A second black man in dragged out of the bus and punched to the ground by half a dozen (all white) police officers. When further violence is treathened against anyone who leaves the bus, the activist at the door can be heard saying “we are complying, we are complying”.
Activist report that those arrested were kept in police vans and cells without food and without access to a bathroom the rest of the day, In the evening many were released after being pressured to sign a settlement which fined them 150 euros each for breaking the protest ban. Those who refused the fine and chose to await court action were released just before midnight.
Facebook has not released any statement on why they removed the video.
Two things:
The ban was recent and unknown to the protesters - quite possibly not even lawful.
The man who gets hit the most has been a figurehead for the current anti-blackface movement, he has been targeted and singled out by the police before.
From the Providence protest in solidarity with Ferguson on Tuesday 11/25.
This is what the Providence Journal called “zero physical contact” when reporting about how the police cleared protesters from the highway.
This is what police brutality looks like.
From the Providence protest in solidarity with Ferguson on Tuesday 11/25.
This is what the Providence Journal called “zero physical contact” when reporting about how the police cleared protesters from the highway.
This is what police brutality looks like.
