What is with this fetish the police have with looking like soldiers?!?! 🤔
#militarizedpolice — Public Fediverse posts
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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#ICE as #MilitarizedPolice For Decades ❓
#PoliticalCommunication
#Contracts"Why is #ICE stockpiling weapons?"
#Paramilitary
#Violence against #Civilians
#Dictatorship
#Authoritarianism #Trumpismhttp://youtube.com/post/UgkxBaHKykLvRlrkxp83l_u8DLsyCgkIObm4?si=riDEQPNtf6rhzcnG
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“It’s the transformation of DHS from an entity that protected the homeland from external threats to one increasingly policing American society." #TrumpDictatorship #DHS #ICEGestapo #PoliceState #MilitarizedPolice #CivilLiberties
#ResistFascism #Resisthttps://newrepublic.com/article/206994/ice-stockpiling-military-weaponry-trump-forever-war
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ICE Is A Paramilitary Force, And Those Don’t End Well
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Trump Deploying The National Guard To Fight Crime Blurs The Legal Distinction Between Police & Military
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Trump Deploying The National Guard To Fight Crime Blurs The Legal Distinction Between Police & Military
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Defendants in Georgia ‘Cop City’ case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue
By R.J. RICO
Updated 12:26 AM EDT, May 12, 2025ATLANTA (AP) — "Single mother Priscilla Grim lost her job. Aspiring writer Julia Dupuis frequently stares at the bedroom ceiling, numb. Geography and environmental studies researcher Hannah Kass is worried about her career prospects after she graduates from her Ph.D. program.
"The three are among 61 defendants accused by Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr of participating in a yearslong racketeering conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility just outside Atlanta that critics pejoratively call 'Cop City.'
"Their cases are at a standstill, 20 months after being indicted under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO, which is likely the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history, experts say.
"Trial for five of the defendants was supposed to start last year but got bogged down in procedural issues. The judge overseeing the case then moved to another court. A new judge has set a status hearing for Wednesday.
"The delays have left people in limbo, facing charges carrying up to 20 years behind bars for what they maintain was #LegitimateProtest, not #DomesticTerrorism. The case also has suppressed a movement that brought together hundreds of #activists to protect a wooded patch of land that ultimately was razed for the recently completed $118 million, 85-acre (34-hectare) project.
"Officials say the project is sorely needed to replace outdated facilities and boost officers’ morale. Opponents say it will be a training ground for a #MilitarizedPolice force and its construction has worsened #environmental damage in a poor, majority-Black area.
"Protests escalated after the fatal 2023 shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as #Tortuguita, who was camping near the site when authorities launched a clearing operation. Officials said they killed Tortuguita, 26, after the activist shot and wounded a trooper from inside a tent.
"A family-commissioned autopsy concluded Tortuguita was killed with their hands in the air, but a prosecutor found the officers’ use of force was 'objectively reasonable.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-rico-charges-61-atlanta-be5ef1ed1951a73870656f61fbbc567b#ACAB #StopCopCityQueens #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #JusticeForTort #USPol #StopCopCity #WeelauneeForest #DefendTheForest #CopCity #SilencingDissent #CiminalizingDissent #MilitarizedPolice
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Trump's recent executive order to "unleash" police in America is actually a paint-by-numbers recipe for an authoritarian police state operating under a perpetual condition of martial law; and given the Swine Emperor's history, that should alarm Americans more than their media is letting on.
Nina-Bytes: A Road to Martial Law
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/02/nina-bytes-a-road-to-martial-law/
"Even if we didn’t know Trump is an unhinged fascist with a penchant for punitive violence, the combination of material state support for police criminality, arming up and training to occupy American communities, and the unification of military, police, and national security assets, including personnel apparently, into a single ad-hoc domestic security force would all be ominous signs of an impending dictatorship under martial law. If I’m being honest I don’t think the author of this piece is being alarmist enough given the scope of this executive order."
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #MartialLaw #ExecutiveOrder #ICE #DHS #DoD #DoJ #MigrantJustice #Police #MilitarizedPolice #GOP #Jan6 #Coup #Panopticon #Counterterrorism #WarOnTerror
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Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran http://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/17/samuel_sharpe_shooting #SamuelSharpe #BlackLivesMatter #BlackVeterans #veterans #uspoli #RINC #MilitarizedPolice #policebrutality #PoliceMurder
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The dignitaries have gone home and de-militarization has begun. The question remains, were they caged in or were we? #apec #sanfrancisco #SF #militarizedPolice #oligarchy
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day 2 walking to work during the APEC summit: I was promised rain, protestors, and traffic, all I got was my neighborhood on lockdown
#NobHill #SanFrancisco #PlaygroundForTheRich #Oligarchy #PoliceState #EatTheRich #MilitarizedPolice #PrisonPlanet -
'Stop Cop City' petition campaign in limbo after signatures presented to Atlanta officials (video)
https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-referendum-signatures-4b617a220807b6701c9f46745e4762c4
Officials from the City of Atlanta have refused to verify tens of thousands of signatures submitted by activists who have been trying for two years to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training center.
#Atlanta #citygovernment #corruption #profit #developers #military #contractors #militarizedpolice #processviolation #referrendum #publicdemand
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#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023
"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.
"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'
"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."
Background: Back to Fairy Creek
"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.
"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.
"Until now.
"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."
Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy
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CW: Content Warning: alleged Cop City Perpetrators named. #communitydefense
“There are People Destroying the Atlanta Forest and They Have Names and Addresses” Zine
→ https://scenes.noblogs.org/files/2023/08/document.pdf
#atlanta #forest #stopcopcity #policestate #militarizedpolice #environment #civilsociety #fascism #greed #death #criminal
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French police (Genderm) has deployed armored vehicles never used in action before according to ACTU17
This is an escalation of the conflict and one step before martial law is called.Several communes have enforced curfew between 10PM and 5AM.
French judiciary said during a press conference that families of minors letting their kids participate in riots will be prosecuted and fined 1000s of Euros.
Le gouvernement va déployer pour la première fois ce soir les nouveaux blindés de la gendarmerie. (Actu17)
#France #Police #Genderm #MarrialLaw #militarizedPolice #FranceRiots #Nahel #BLM #BLMFrance
