This is the kind of stuff pushing me to the abolish side of the ledger. If the police don’t even understand what they are enforcing, what is their point?
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If you’re carrying an anti-police sign, I suggest keeping your head on a swivel and being ready to get the hell out quickly if a police riot starts. Family friendly or not.
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“We Feel Your Pain”
I was going to balk at that being worse than him wearing costumes of human skin, but I can not. The birthday cake thing is much weirder.
White sheet cake doesn’t even make the top 100 of deserts.
The cop in this video was a criminal before these riots lol
https://twitter.com/tippedminimum/status/1268666087912214529?s=21
Also Joey Baloney gets paid $126k by us to do this lol
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1268937594454396928?s=21
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Yet the fucking protest in Prague was canceled.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a counter protest given the racism here.
“I’m not the one who is armed.”
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Oh and for all the people that wanted to hand over people to the police for bad protesting, if he doesn’t get killed by the cops he can end up dead in one of our inhumane prisons so think twice before becoming a volunteer deputy
https://twitter.com/lechaiamet/status/1268655281757700097?s=21
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Are you protesting yourself? If so, here’s the list I’ve made:
Phone number for the NLG
Water & baking soda for tear gas exposure
Water to drink
Snacks
Mask to protect from COVID, latex gloves to remind me not to touch face
Face covering for privacy from doxxing, maybe hat & sunglasses too (we had police taking pictures of everyone marching in Philly the other day)
Eye covering for tear gas exposure
NO cell phone or anything w/ location data, or leave it turned off
Sign
A sign with Jesus flipping the table except with the ridiculous arsenal of swat teams, and with cops kneeling in humility.
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That is a delicious cake given to you on your birthday. Not a white sheet cake, which is not good and which is the standard birthday cake”.
I don’t think I had a non chocolate birthday cake in my life (accept for a couple awesome jello cakes).
Thanks. Good list, though I struggle with the cell phone–I know it makes me easier to track, but I also want it to record anything that happens.
There are no innocent police officers in America. There are just ones who have committed fewer crimes.
Cuomo is like the Rudy Giuliani of New York.
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Yeah, I agree. Given the stuff about planes with dirtboxes and seeing two Cessnas circling Philly the other day, plus seeing pictures of Philly police photographing the entire crowd, police somewhere else painting blue stripes on cars to track them, etc, I’ve decided that protecting my identity is really important with these. Maybe take your sim card out and just use your phone as a camera?
Oh, I also would carry cash for any needs, so you don’t have to use plastic.
Police have started raiding gay bars
https://twitter.com/aaronpcalvin/status/1268708285517004801?s=21
Good call, I have an old phone that I can throw in airplane mode to use as a camera 
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UN experts condemn modern-day ‘racial terror’ lynchings in US
Monitors made direct link between police killings of unarmed black American men and racial lynchings in segregation era
A group of 66 United Nations human rights monitors have issued a devastating critique of what they call modern-day “racial terror” lynchings in the US in the form of state-sponsored police violence against black Americans.
The group released two joint statements on Friday, prompted by the wave of protests against police brutality that has swept the nation in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
The action marks an almost unparalleled outpouring of criticism by the UN’s independent body of human rights experts. Rarely have so many come together to speak as one voice. The language they deploy is also highly unusual in its excoriating critique of what the monitors state is the “fundamental racial inequality and discrimination that characterize life in the United States for black people”.
Most piercingly, the experts make a direct link between police killings of unarmed African American men today with the spate of thousands of racial lynchings that terrorized black communities in the era of segregation.
“African Americans continue to experience racial terror in state-sponsored and privately organized violence … In the US, this legacy of racial terror remains evident in modern-day policing.”
The authors, who have sent an official complaint to the US government via diplomats in Geneva, also specifically refer to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man in Georgia. He was allegedly chased down by three white men and shot three times as he was out jogging.
On Thursday, a court heard that the white man accused of wielding the pump-action shotgun that killed Arbery used the N-word as he stood over the victim’s body.
“The last few moments of Ahmaud’s life involved pursuit by a lynching party identical to the lynching parties of the Jim Crow era,” the UN monitors write. They add that the video showing white men “chase, corner and execute a young man who was out jogging, evoke the very terror that the lynching regime in the US was intended to inspire”.
The group of 66 experts, known as “special rapporteurs” in the UN system, also have unbridled words for Donald Trump. They heavily criticize his threat to deploy the US military against peaceful protesters as well as his glorification of violence in a tweet in which he said “when the looting starts, shooting starts”.
The UN monitors state: “The response of the president of the United States to the protests has included threatening more state violence using language directly associated with racial segregationists from the nation’s past. We are deeply concerned the nation is on the brink of a militarized response that re-enacts the injustices that have driven people to the streets to protest.”
The signatories include more than two-thirds of human rights watchdogs who form the backbone of the UN’s monitoring of human rights abuses around the globe. They include Agnès Callamard, who acts as observer on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Tendayi Achiume, the special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia; Felipe González, on the human rights of migrants; and Nils Melzer, on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Callamard told the Guardian that the joint statement came at a critical time for the UN. “There has never been a more urgent moment for us, UN independent experts, to stand together, speak together and act together. I cannot think of more crucial issues than those we are confronting as a global community.”
The joint statements raise powerful concerns about other aspects of modern life in America. They say there are “significant rule of law concerns” in the way the current crop of anti-police brutality protests have themselves been policed with many incidents of teargassing of peaceful protesters.
They also note that the coronavirus pandemic has ripped through African American and Latino communities in the US, producing a death rate three times that of white people. They also point to “staggering police and military budgets” at a time where healthcare, education, housing and pollution prevention are all suffering depleted resources.
The UN monitors propose a series of profound reforms to policing in America, including the appointment of civilian oversight boards, mandatory use of body cameras and an end to the provision of military equipment to police forces.
“This is a time for action and not just talk,” they say, “especially from those who need not fear for their lives or their livelihoods because of their race or ethnicity.”
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