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  1. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  2. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  3. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  4. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  5. ‘I didn’t go looking for trouble’: Protester sues NSW after allegedly being punched by police at Herzog rally

    Shadid had requested officers to stop advancing as people were on the ground praying.

    "Const Daniel Stewart then allegedly dragged Shadid, who had travelled from Parramatta, to the ground and punched him in the face and twisted his wrist. Another officer kneeled on his head"

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #nswpol #nswpolice #policebrutality #israel #sydney #herzog

  6. In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to #ICE issued a dire warning.

    The #Trump admin, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the #law & fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency—& its law enforcement operations—to “grave national security risks.”

    #immigration #Sturmabteilung #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy

  7. In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to #ICE issued a dire warning.

    The #Trump admin, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the #law & fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency—& its law enforcement operations—to “grave national security risks.”

    #immigration #Sturmabteilung #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy

  8. In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to #ICE issued a dire warning.

    The #Trump admin, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the #law & fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency—& its law enforcement operations—to “grave national security risks.”

    #immigration #Sturmabteilung #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy

  9. In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to #ICE issued a dire warning.

    The #Trump admin, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the #law & fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency—& its law enforcement operations—to “grave national security risks.”

    #immigration #Sturmabteilung #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy

  10. In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to #ICE issued a dire warning.

    The #Trump admin, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the #law & fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency—& its law enforcement operations—to “grave national security risks.”

    #immigration #Sturmabteilung #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy

  11. How tight is the #RightToProtest?

    From 418 arrests in 1977 to fresh clashes in Sydney: Debate over #Australia’s right to protest continues

    "What many may not realise is that the right to protest in Australia is not protected by one simple law. It’s implied in the constitution under freedom of political communication and exists under international human rights law, which Australia has agreed to uphold. Only #Queensland, #Victoria and the #ACT explicitly protect the right to peaceful assembly, freedom of association and freedom of expression. And laws protecting the right to peaceful protest in Australia can be limited."

    By Rhiannon Stevens
    Sat 14 Feb, 2026

    " 'The day of the political street march is over,' Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared. 'Don’t bother to apply for a permit. You won’t get one. That’s government policy now.'

    "A few weeks later, thousands of people defied then-Queensland premier Bjelke-Petersen’s proclamation and gathered in Brisbane for an #AntiUranium march.

    "Ian Curr remembers an intense, unrelenting heat on that day nearly 50 years ago. It was 'boiling hot', the long-time #AntiNuclear activist says. So hot that when protesters sat on the road, arms linked in passive defiance, it was 'not very pleasant' because the tarmac was scorching. Other memories emerge from the haze: lines of police, three and four deep, surrounding protesters; a woman with tears streaming down her face who had just heard her partner was arrested.

    "Fear swirled up spines and into the air. These were the years after the #Springbok tour #AntiApartheid protests had been violently suppressed.

    "That afternoon in October 1977, 418 people were arrested and Queensland’s 'RightToMarch' movement quickly entered a new era. #CivilLiberties demonstrations continued until the ban — originally enacted to curb a growing anti-nuclear movement — was lifted two years later.

    "Ross Gwyther was exhilarated seeing some 5,000 anti-nuclear marchers turn out that day. But the sensation was tempered by an 'intense fear because there’d already been many cases of #PoliceBrutality'.

    "These were extraordinary times, as the Fitzgerald Inquiry would later attest. For Gwyther and many of the #ratbags, #activists and #CivilLibertarians of Queensland it was a defining moment. That era in Brisbane radicalised a lot of people, Gwyther says, who embarked on a lifetime of 'political activism, both through parliamentary politics or by grassroots politics'.

    "These moments mark you, Curr says, turning to the events in Sydney this week. 'The people who saw that violence in Sydney, in 40 or 50 years, they will not forget it. In the same way I do not forget police brandishing batons and punching and throwing people into paddy wagons. It’s something you do not forget.'

    "In the aftermath of last Monday’s protest against Israeli President #IsaacHerzog’s visit in #Sydney, shaky, chaotic videos began to emerge online. A man lies on tram tracks, restrained by officers who punch him 18 times. #Protesters are pushed, they struggle to their feet, crowds stumble around them. Men bowed in prayer are wrenched from their worship by police. A grandmother is in hospital with a spinal injury. She says she feared being suffocated in a stampede as she lay on the ground in agony. She alleges she was pushed over by police."

    Read more:
    abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/rig

    #ACAB #AustraliaPol #AusPol #CriminalizingProtest #Australia #AntiProtestLaws #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #UraniumMines #WorldPol #IsraeliWarCrimes

  12. Fleming represents the two men — a Venezuelan man & a Mexican man both in the country illegally — in the ongoing litigation that claims the #FederalGovernment continues to violate the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement agreement, which limits #ICE's ability to #arrest people without #warrants or #ProbableCause.

    #Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #CBP #Sturmabteilung #USpol

  13. The #House #HomelandSecurity Committee is holding a hearing right now on #DHS #oversight, but #ICE acting director Todd Lyons refused to come.

    Rep. #BennieThompson (D-MS), the top Democrat on the panel, in his opening remarks calls Lyons’ absence, "an absolute disgrace."

    #law #Trump #immigration #Congress #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST

  14. After #GeorgeFloyd’s #murder by a #police officer 6 years ago in #Minneapolis — less than a mile from where an #ICE agent shot & killed #ReneeNicoleGood last week — police departments & federal agencies banned #chokeholds & other moves that can restrict breathing or blood flow.

    But those tactics are back, now at the hands of agents conducting #Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

    #law #ExtraJudicialKillings #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #ICE #CBP

  15. “I felt like I was going to pass out & die,” said a 16-year-old citizen.

    ProPublica showed former #police & #immigration officials videos of incidents. They said agents are out of control. One said it’s “the kind of action which should get you fired.”

    There is a federal ban on #chokeholds & similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who’ve used them.

    #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #ICE #CBP

  16. The Spanish-speaking agents told them to go back to their country & made a #sexualized remark about #Venezuelan #women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son, & she begged him to stop, she said.

    "My son was traumatized," said Naudelys, who requested her last name be withheld.

    She said authorities alleged her friend's partner is a member of the gang Tren de Aragua, something she disputes.

    #Trump #law #immigration #Chicago #DueProcess #PoliceBrutality #SexualHarassment

  17. @Lana @anubis2814 @stux He follows her, destroys her ticket machine (city property), arrests her. What do you think are the legal consequences?

    Full video here: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=u6mCsfF

    Commented video here: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HiJPvDn

    Unfortunately I haven't found reliable journalistic news on it yet.

    #PoliceBrutality #PoliceWrongdoing #PoliceError #PowerTrip

  18. #UNH drops charges against 7 out of 12 people arrested during #ProPalestine #protests

    By Jeremy Margolis, Concord Monitor
    Published August 1, 2024

    "A University of New Hampshire prosecutor this week dropped criminal charges against seven of the people arrested during a May 1 pro-#Palestine protest after they reportedly accepted plea agreements.

    "The seven cases were dismissed nearly three months after UNH police charged 12 people with disorderly conduct and trespassing, nine of whom were set to be arraigned in Dover District Court on Wednesday.

    "The agreements involved 30 hours of community service and a period under which the arrestees must remain in 'good public standing', according to Adeena Ahsan, a UNH graduate student who was not arrested but had been in communication with those offered plea deals.

    "UNH prosecutor #FrankWeeks [who is also a police captain] declined to comment on the nature of the plea deals.

    "Of the other five people arrested, charges had already been dropped against a 'counter-protester' after a friend of his emailed then-President of UNH James Dean that he had been 'mistaken for a protester,' according to a report from the Boston Globe.

    "Cases remain pending against the other four, including against two students who are also facing assault charges. One of them, 21-year-old rising UNH senior #AidanTurner, has said he was mistakenly identified and then violently #arrested by Weeks, the UNH prosecutor who is also a police captain. His case is currently set to go to trial on Sept. 10.

    "The other, 29-year-old graduate student #SebastianRowan, has been charged with two counts each of assault on a police officer and #ResistingArrest. His case is currently before a grand jury with an indictment decision expected by Aug. 21, according to court records.

    "The other two people – 21-year-old #JasonPerra and 19-year-old #LoganONeill – have trials scheduled for October 2 and 9, respectively. Both have been charged with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. It was not immediately clear whether they had been offered a plea deal or not."

    nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-08-01/un

    #ACAB #NewHampshire #FreePalestine #PoliceBrutality #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CivilDisobedience #StudentsForPalestine

  19. Victim ‘converted Christian’, can’t get aid under SC/ST Act in Balveer case: Madras HC

    Additional advocate general filed a counter affidavit, stating Kumar is neither a member of a SC nor a ST community and that he is a converted Christian, and not entitled for compensation.

    #TamilNadu #MadrasHC #MaduraiBench #CustodialTorture #ambasamudram #dalits #DalitChristians #SCSTAct #CasteViolence #casteism #caste #PoliceBrutality #torture #india

    newindianexpress.com/states/ta

  20. I dig into this civil rights cold case in “A Death Ruled ‘Justifiable’: The Killing of #JohnWesleyWilder,” my contribution to “Still Paying the Price: #Reparations in Real Terms,” a new #podcast series from #LWCStudios. I reported, produced and wrote the episode, which was made in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom #TypeInvestigations and with support from the #FundForInvestigativeJournalism. benlog.net/2023/07/24/podcast- 7/7

    #history #BlackHistory #PoliceBrutality #Ruston #Louisiana #ColdCase