Police

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• police brutality
• police misconduct
• police sousveillance

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• 2026-02-07 20:09 UTC [L..T] (social post) «The police shut down First Friday here in Phoenix at 9pm yesterday. They ended up using chemical weapons on people (ie: assaulting hundreds or a few thousand ppl with gas). Vendors were upset because they paid for stalls and their very LEGAL and COMMERCIAL gathering was shut down, harming them as well as the innocent people brutally attacked by police. They justified their actions because there was a shooting NEAR First Friday last month.» (short thread)
• 2022-12-04 [L..T] Armed Fascist Group Terrorizes Church, Shuts Down Youth Story Hour «Armed fascists successfully intimidated a church in Ohio into cancelling a Drag Queen Story Hour event yesterday. A group of masked fascists paraded in paramilitary style chanting “Life, Liberty, Victory” while others wore camouflage and military gear. Many openly carried long guns, and protest signs accused organizers and participants of this costume, dance, and story-reading event of child abuse. Terrorized participants were forced to make the call to cancel in light of lackluster police involvement in security and fears from performers that they would not be safe.»
• 2018-08-09 [L..T] Protester Maimed by Portland Police: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’ «Anthony, who asked to be identified only by his first name, was injured last weekend when cops in riot gear unleashed flashbangs, pepper spray, rubber bullets and other less-lethal weapons as local protesters demonstrated against far-right groups massed downtown.»
• 2018-06-27 [L..T] Portland Police Saw Right-Wing Protesters as "Much More Mainstream" Than Leftist Ones «Newly released draft reports from a city review of how Portland police handled dueling demonstrations last summer reveal cops admitting what activists have long suspected: They saw right-wing protesters as less of a threat than leftist ones.»
• 2014-04-21 [L..T] Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City «In a secret test of mass surveillance technology, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sent a civilian aircraft over Compton, California, capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality.»
• 2011-05-13 [L..T] Court denies right to resist illegal cop entry into home
• 2008-03-11 [L..T] GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com «A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious[ly] pulled the plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.»