One of the most prominent Democratic Party-aligned law firms, Elias Legal Group—led by noted election lawyer Marc Elias—has waded into the legal battle surrounding the proposed ballot referendum for Atlanta’s Public Safety Training Center (PSTC), better known as “Cop City.”
I've just boosted this, but wanted to really stress how this simple message seems to me to sum up the manner in which the media colludes with our political elites to stifle & stamp down on dissent:
'Judging a demonstration by its most violent participants but NOT judging a policy force by its most violent cops is the language of the oppressor'!
We see this again & again, and I've seldom see the criticism so concisely or saliently put.
« La répression que subissent actuellement en Europe les militants écologistes qui ont recours à des actions pacifiques de désobéissance civile constitue une menace majeure pour la démocratie et les droits humains », alerte le rapporteur spécial des Nations unies (#ONU) sur les défenseurs de l’environnement, Michel Forst, pointe notamment.
Et ils vont pleurnicher ensuite qu'ils sont détestés ?
La vidéo d'un témoin innocente le jeune homme des faits de violence décrits par les policiers à Beauvais. La scène filmée est bien différente du récit des fonctionnaires.
A Retired Detective Says He’s Too Sick to Testify at #Murder Trials. Now Those Cases Are Falling Apart.
In St. Louis, murder investigations often rely on a single #detective, making them vulnerable if the detective is unable or unwilling to come to court.
But a former #homicide investigator said he has no obligation to cooperate, claiming that “retirement is meant to be retirement.”
As Erin Reed reports, when 16-year-old Nex Benedict died a day after having their head bashed on the floor of a school bathroom in Owasso, Oklahoma, local police denied that the death had anything to do with trauma. But now they're having to back-track.
Police forces in the UK are secretly ramping up their use of facial recognition – at the same time that many are denying they are using it at all.
‘Earlier this year, 13 of the 43 #UK’s territorial #police forces denied having used RFR in 2022, despite #HomeOffice figures showing that they had carried out thousands of searches between them.’
Today in Labor History November 21, 1921: The original Columbine Massacre occurred in Serine, Colorado. State police and company thugs used machine guns against the unarmed miners, slaughtering six striking IWW members, all of whom were unarmed. Dozens more were injured.
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Contrast: somewhat recently, a white woman marched into a police station, started shooting, and was captured alive.
If you are not white, police are a threat to life and liberty.
If you are white, police are a threat to your liberty, but at least they murder non-white people for trivial reasons, which will make you feel better if you are racist.
“‘People all across America are scratching their heads in disbelief about what’s happening in Jackson, #Mississippi , with this pauper’s graveyard [behind the jailhouse],’ said Crump during a press conference.
‘It went from talking about the water’ that was non-existent or contaminated ‘to now we’re talking about the graveyard. What is going on in Jackson, Mississippi?’” #police