Police Brutality Protests Thread

[danielravennest]

People will be filming, there will be plenty of video evidence to call them liars, as there is now. And the "great job" Dump says they did is going to bring them a fckton of lawsuits and has brought more people out to protest. They haven't quelled anything. And it's lousy optics. Had no one told him that?
But then, this is a guy who thinks no one is more patriotic than he is.....

In Portland, the local prosecutors are preparing cases, and I expect the people who were kidnapped will be suing for wrongful arrest, etc. by the federales.

Hopefully by the time they get to Chicago there will be people calling the local cops as soon as these goons are spotted outside federal buildings. Inside federal buildings they have a legitimate role, like the guys who run the metal detectors in court buildings.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Well Trump really fucked up on this because I know a lot of conservatives who voted for him last time - and were planning to vote for him again this time - who are really not happy about this. I don't know that they'll vote for Biden - they'll probably go 3rd party - but still those are votes Dump Truck will not be getting.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Romana]

 

[bubblesort]

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Proactively arresting people like in Minority Report? From the Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons... against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..."

Another day, another violation of the Constitution in Trump's America. Yet he continues to get away with it. Where are all the 2nd Amendment people who claim they need to own AR-15's to protect themselves from a tyrannical govt? Where are those so-called lovers of liberty; the NRA? I guess a tyrannical government is okay if it's your party committing the tyranny?

I swear, they just want complete power and are willing to accept anything as long as it target "other" people. They seem to WANT a dictator/despot.

 

[Kara Spengler]

It also sounds like in other cities they will be on even more shaky ground. No major protests lately and no threats to govt buildings.

 

[Cristiano]

Navy vet beaten by federal agents: 'They came out to fight'

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Navy veteran stands passively in Portland, Oregon, amid swirling tear gas. One of the militarized federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump swings a baton at him with full force.

apnews.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Department of Pre-crime.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Proactive.
By now Bubba, who hasn’t been seen since President Cuck did nothing about Russia putting bounties on American soldiers, should be exercising his 2nd Amendment stick against the tyranny of government overreach.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Myradyl Muse]

These obvious abuses of power and brutality by brutish thugs are horrifying. The scenes are identical to ones seen around the world from dictatorships, warzones, coups. My heart extends to all those enduring this in Portland and anyone fearing the potential onslaught to come for their city. It reminds me of folie a deux, a term used for shared psychosis between two people in close contact. This horror show is more like a 'folie a hundreds', aka shared Trump Derangement blind obedience. Do they not comprehend that this nightmare is being witnessed and railed against around the sane world?

 

[Eunoli]

This deployment is getting us numbed to the idea of fed goons in our cities and meant to stoke violence so that he can declare martial law in the fall. It is all about either cancelling/delaying the elections or limiting the ability of liberal voters to vote at all.

 

[Fionalein]

Do they not comprehend that this nightmare is being witnessed and railed against around the sane world?

... so was the Tiananmen Massacre, so was the beat down of the Prague Spring ... sadly no one cares - at least no one with the power to change things.

 

[Free]

Push back is starting to happen in some places.

Philly DA Threatens To Charge Fed Law Enforcement If Trump Deploys 'Fascist Playbook'

Philadelphia’s district attorney on Wednesday decried President Donald Trump’s threats to send federal agents into his city, saying that Trump’s...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Philadelphia is one of a number of cities on which Trump has threatened to sic federal agents, arguing that local Democratic leaders aren’t responding to protesters forcefully enough. Krasner’s response is part of a wave of local officials telling Trump’s flashy federal force to, essentially, keep out.

Federal law enforcement routinely works with local authorities on cases involving things like drugs and gun offenses, Krasner told Bloomberg CityLab Wednesday.

But, he said, “what’s unusual here is the fluffy rhetoric about taking over cities.”

“What’s unusual is the politicization of a normal relationship between federal law enforcement and local law enforcement. And what is really unusual is the apparently illegal Stormtrooper tactics that have been used by federal law enforcement in Portland.”

 

[Kara Spengler]

One of the shitty things (and they probably know it) is a lot of the excuses they are giving for going into other cities is black people being killed.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What would the US be doing if Portland was a counter-insurgency operation overseas and the US forces were following the manual?

Very interesting discussion


The manual:

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR200/RR291z1/RAND_RR291z1.pdf

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Soen Eber]

BREAKING: Former Minneapolis officer Chauvin, wife charged with tax fraud

Link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Federal agents retreat to Portland base as protesters control streets

Donald Trump’s shadowy police taskforce has given new life to protests and may not be succeeding in PR terms either

www.theguardian.com

The DHS officers dispatched by the president to put down the demonstrations have instead become prisoners of the building they are ostensibly there to defend.

“The feds don’t have control of the streets,” said a woman holding a sign, “100% not a terrorist”, who gave her name only as Shannon. “I think they’re more scared than us. They’re hiding in there. They don’t know what they’re doing.”