#policebrutality — Public Fediverse posts
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The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)
A very strong point:
Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”
The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:
May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”
“The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “
“He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)
June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””
Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.
Racism and general politics:
April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”“
June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”“
August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.“
“Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “
#gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender -
The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)
A very strong point:
Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”
The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:
May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”
“The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “
“He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)
June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””
Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.
Racism and general politics:
April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”“
June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”“
August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.“
“Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “
#gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender -
The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)
A very strong point:
Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”
The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:
May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”
“The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “
“He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)
June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””
Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.
Racism and general politics:
April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”“
June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”“
August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.“
“Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “
#gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender -
The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)
A very strong point:
Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”
The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:
May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”
“The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “
“He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)
June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””
Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.
Racism and general politics:
April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”“
June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”“
August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.“
“Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “
#gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender -
Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/portland-press-herald-biddeford-library-to-archive-memorial-items-honoring-ice-shooting-victim/ -
Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/portland-press-herald-biddeford-library-to-archive-memorial-items-honoring-ice-shooting-victim/ -
Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/portland-press-herald-biddeford-library-to-archive-memorial-items-honoring-ice-shooting-victim/ -
Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/portland-press-herald-biddeford-library-to-archive-memorial-items-honoring-ice-shooting-victim/ -
Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/portland-press-herald-biddeford-library-to-archive-memorial-items-honoring-ice-shooting-victim/ -
The official, a unit chief who directly oversaw more than 100 employees who evaluated thousands of #ICE applicants, was so troubled by what he saw that he outlined these concerns not to his superiors, but in a formal #whistleblower complaint to the Office of #InspectorGeneral in the #DHS.
#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-whistleblower-complaint.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.Kf_q.RleXDEq3_hqW&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, #Whistleblower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
#Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-national-security-risk-whistleblower.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.oxVd.ttgirG3H-EEE&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
… “The concern here is that #ICE is going above & beyond to guarantee law enforcement does not have even the slightest risk of #liability for violating Americans’ rights while helping ICE arrest people,” said David Bier, director of #immigration studies at the Cato Institute, who has called on #Congress to make it easier to sue ICE agents for wrongdoing.
#Trump #law #Sturmabteilung #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
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A brutal #beating by deputies was caught on tape. They were cleared by state #police anyway.
The strip search lasted just 6 minutes, but when it ended, Jarius Brown had a broken nose, fractured eye socket & a badly swollen face.
#law #PoliceBrutality #Louisiana #LouisianaStatePolice #sheriff #SystemicRacism #ACAB #PoliceReform #QualifiedImmunity
https://apnews.com/article/beating-custody-brown-louisiana-desoto-parish-1bd6d145dfa9316c44c3e51a10a0f7da?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-21-AP+investigation+ -
@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: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=u6mCsfFlkN4
Commented video here: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HiJPvDnRVnY
Unfortunately I haven't found reliable journalistic news on it yet.
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Muscle Cars, Balaclavas and Fists: How the Scorpions Rolled Through Memphis https://news.yahoo.com/muscle-cars-balaclavas-fists-scorpions-175810374.html
For 14 months, officers from the high-profile #ScorpionUnit of the #MemphisPolice Department in Tennessee patrolled city streets with an air of menace, zooming up on targets, jumping out of their Dodge Chargers at a dead run, shouting at people to get out of their vehicles, lie down on the ground #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceShootings #GeorgeFloydPolicingAct #PoliceReform -
#WashingtonDC #PoliceBrutality
. @DCPoliceDept has a Crime Suppression Unit, similar to Memphis #ScorpionUnit. Terrence Sutton worked for that unit the night Karon Hylton was killed. He was found Guilty on all charges for Karon’s death. Sutton and Zabavsky are in the comfort of their homes, FREE not in a cage.
https://twitter.com/HarrietsDreams/status/1619783064087064576
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"The SCORPION unit, which stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, was announced in October 2021 and launched a month later. It encompasses 40 officers split into four teams who patrol "high crime hotspots" throughout the city, the police department announced in November 2021."
From ABCnews https://abcnews.go.com/US/scorpion-unit-memphis-police-task-force-center-tyre/story?id=96720313
