Police open fire in a hostage situation and kill the 1 year old hostage.
In Canada!
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The insane part is when this was first reported here the story was âthey didnât know if a police bullet killed the babyâ!
watch a bit and then look at 3:55 and the statement from the National Fraternal Order of Police. Assume police are lying, always.
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Infuriating. All of it. The cops beat a mom. Traumatized her two year old. Broke her nephewâs hand. And then lied about it repeatedly, including claiming that her son had been abandoned rather than separated from her by force, and then investigating her for among other things assault on the cops. All of which is complete BS.
The police can not be trusted to reform themselves, they have no credibility.
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Goodson had put his keys into his door before he was shot and fell into the kitchen, where his 5-year-old brother and his 72-year-old grandmother saw him lying on the ground with a Subway sandwich, family attorney Sean Walton told CNN.
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I havenât read the ruling yet. Itâll be interesting to see what happens when Durkanâs term ends and a new mayor takes over, but Iâm not going to hold my breath for substantive progress.
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âWho will beat and shoot these people if you abolish the police?â - people on this forum
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maybe fits here
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A Year of Radical Political Imagination
Mass protest movements changed the worldâs attitude toward social justice.
By Nadya Tolokonnikova
Ms. Tolokonnikova is a founder of Pussy Riot.
Dec. 9, 2020, 1:00 p.m. ET
A protester shakes the hand of a member of the U.S. National Guard in Los Angeles on May 31, 2020, amid turmoil following the death of George Floyd.
A protester shakes the hand of a member of the U.S. National Guard in Los Angeles on May 31, 2020, amid turmoil following the death of George Floyd.CreditâŚBryan Denton for The New York Times
This is an article from Turning Points, a special section that explores what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead.
Turning Point: The death of George Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed and pinned down by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May, sparked demonstrations around the world.
In 2020 we were not only hit by a global pandemic, but also by police batons. We watched as protesters around the world breathed in air thick with tear gas, lost their eyesight from rubber bullets and endured torture and, in some cases, death. We desperately tried to find our loved ones among those arrested and imprisoned for participating in peaceful protests.
This was a year of radical political imagination: 2020 invited us to take our dreams seriously and inspired us to envision a better, alternative future.
Iâve been an active part of the anti-authoritarian, feminist and L.G.B.T.Q. communities since 2007. When I co-founded the activist band Pussy Riot in 2011, I could only dream of a time when feminist and queer communities would thrive in Russia, and when mainstream performers would be involved in our anti-Kremlin rallies. But global activists have achieved so much in recent years. My arrest and imprisonment with another Pussy Riot member in 2012, together with our stubborn refusal to back down after our release in late 2013, helped encourage our fellow artists and musicians to get involved in politics. Iâve learned that, while change may not happen overnight, in time small actions can build to something lasting and profound: One by one, police officers can be reformed or replaced, until the day arrives when the death of an unarmed man, woman or nonbinary person at the hands of law enforcement becomes a thing of the past.
The tragic death on May 25, 2020, of George Floyd, while in police custody in Minneapolis, led to one of the biggest social movements in Americaâs history. It reignited the Black Lives Matter movement, with polls suggesting that 15 million to 26 million people in the United States participated in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the weeks following Mr. Floydâs death.
Black Lives Matter will have a profound influence on the way we view justice in 2021 and beyond. Justice must mean racial justice. It must also mean economic justice, gender justice and environmental justice. The mass social movements of 2020 taught us to think holistically and intersectionally, to ask big questions and imagine a better future.
ImageCrowds in front of Independence Palace in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 30, 2020, protest the re-election of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.
This year we began to imagine very different paths for our civilization: What if we radically rethought public security? Could we benefit from less policing in our lives? Should we redirect police funds and resources to programs in marginalized communities, redistributing some law enforcement responsibilities to social workers? What if the police, an institution that has lost our trust, were to be dismantled, and another more accountable social organization were to take its place? Whom do police officers serve, and whom do they protect? Do they protect me? Do we still need to lock people up? Has the prison system rehabilitated anyone? Isnât using practically free prison labor a form of slavery? Can we imagine a post-police, post-prison world?
Governments, especially those with autocratic sympathies, have reacted nervously to the courageously radical political imagination of their citizens. President Trump has labeled social justice activists as âterroristsâ and said he wants to âdominateâ them. Russian President Vladimir V. Putin believes that if youâre critical of him, youâre an enemy of the state and must be silenced.
In my country, Russia, the law enforcement system has been preoccupied for almost 10 years with arresting members of Pussy Riot. Our music videos focus on police violence, both at home and abroad, because we believe itâs a widespread problem that can only be solved by the combined efforts of activists around the world. In February 2015 we released our first English-language song âI Canât Breatheâ in memory of Eric Garner, who had died the previous summer after a New York City police officer put him in a chokehold.
In August, the Russian government attempted to murder the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, a friend of mine, by poisoning him with a nerve agent. At around the same time in Belarus, the regime of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Mr. Putinâs buddy, was overseeing the arrest, beating and torture of peaceful protesters â which only made them more determined. When governments react with excessive force, as they have throughout the world, when they fail to protect peaceful protesters, it rightfully sparks more resistance. During 2020, anti-government protests and mass movements against police violence broke out in Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon, Mexico, Britain and France.
Covid-19 has exposed cracks in the worldâs political leadership, and made us question the economic, racial and gender inequalities we all live with. The way our governments have handled the pandemic has left many of us struggling for our economic and physical survival. In the United States, millionaires and billionaires have received massive tax breaks from the government, while far too many ordinary people have been left without access to affordable health care or enough money to pay rent.
The virus has sometimes limited our ability to protest in the streets, but weâve learned new ways to perform our civic duties and have become more effective digital activists. Keeping in mind the possible damage that social media can cause to our mental health, weâve been working on something I call âinternet hygiene,â the principled use of digital tools. Today, images and videos distributed online have an extraordinary ability to counter propaganda, fake news and the arrogance of those in power, with simple but telling visual facts. In Belarus, the Nexta channel on the popular messaging app, Telegram, plays a vital role in the resistance to Mr. Lukashenkoâs autocracy. Pussy Riotâs media agency Mediazona and Mr. Navalnyâs YouTube channel âNavalny Liveâ are changing the minds of millions of Russians by exposing the corruption, incompetence and cruelty of Mr. Putinâs political system.
Our future has yet to be written. When Pussy Riot writes new music, we ask ourselves: What will activist punk sound like in 2030? What will it talk about? In the spring of 2021, Pussy Riot will release its first studio album âRAGE.â The songs on the record reflect on global issues such as public security, mental health and the relationship of citizens to their government.
Sustained, organized, creative, peaceful and smart activism will bring us closer to realizing a fully democratic world in 2021, and in the years to come.
Nadya Tolokonnikova is an activist, artist and musician, and a founder of the feminist band and art collective Pussy Riot. She is the author of âRead & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism.â
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Yeah, thatâs why one of the churches they vandalized was a block away from the Conrad Hotel and the Hermes store. Thatâs where all the DC communists hang outâŚ
Chicago, meet the new boss, pretty much the same as the old bosses. Loves helping the CPD do coverups and stopping any type of progress while catering to developers and the rich. Also another case where identity politics just falls flat on itâs face if the persons politics suck in general
https://twitter.com/royalpratt/status/1338714706752790528?s=20
The video reveals on Feb. 21, 2019, nine body cameras rolled as a group of male officers entered her home at 7 p.m. Not long before, the licensed social worker finished her shift at the hospital and had undressed in her bedroom.
Thatâs when she said she heard a loud, pounding noise.
Outside, officers repeatedly struck her door with a battering ram. From various angles, the video captured the moments they broke down the door and burst through her home.
With her hands bound behind her back, the video shows an officer wrapped a short coat around her shoulders. But the coat only covered her shoulders and upper back â leaving her front completely exposed as she stood against the wall. Officers stood around her home â in the kitchen, the living room and the hallways â while she remained naked.
Maybe the cops did good work and made a mistake?
According to CPDâs complaint for search warrant, one day before the raid, a confidential informant told the affiant â or lead officer on the raid â that he recently saw a 23-year-old man who was a known felon with gun and ammunition.
The document said the officer found a photo of the suspect in a police database and showed it to the informant, who confirmed it was him. The officer then drove the informant to the address where the informant claimed the suspect lived.
Despite no evidence in the complaint that police made efforts to independently verify the informantâs tip, such as conducting any surveillance or additional checks as required by policy, the search warrant was approved by an assistant stateâs attorney and a judge.
But CBS 2 quickly found, through police and court records, the informant gave police the wrong address. The 23-year-old suspect police were looking for actually lived in the unit next door to Young at the time of the raid and had no connection to her.
CBS 2 also found police could have easily tracked the suspectâs location and where he really lived because at the time of the raid, he was wearing an electronic monitoring device.
LOL they couldâve found out where this guy was easily, nevertheless
The sergeant then told the affiant officer â the cop who got the warrant â to step outside.
âI want to have a conversation with you, letâs go talk outside,â the sergeant said.
But moments later, the officerâs body camera turned off. CPD did not respond to questions about why the camera was turned off â a pattern CBS 2 found both during wrong raids and in CPDâs every day interactions with civilians.
Glad reforming the police for body camera use has worked out so well, itâs great that these cameras always end up being turned off or âmalfunctioningâ during such important incidents
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Should be a crime to turn them off. Lock em up.
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This is a thing. Some guy photoshopped someone peeing on the grave of a dead deputy. The police flipped out wanting to charge him with desecrating a grave, but then realized it was not real. So they arrested him for harassment.
We need police for this?
Thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Scot_Blog/status/1352996376519585794
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Curious what the police abolitionist take is on what should have been done about the Capitol insurrection.
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Abolishment is an end goal, in the mean time we deal with on the ground reality with the institutions as they exist.
Abolishing the police does not mean that communities and societies would not have methods for organizing mutual defense. The police as currently organized are a force that in the United States perpetuates white supremacy, and the class warfare. Which is why abolitionists are for abolishing the police.
I was really looking forward to a bunch of MAGA deplorables getting tear gassed and beaten, but of course they didnât touch them. So abolish still seems about correct.
*Iâm not a true abolitionist but this incident brings me closer not further away