Miami police say this fully-uniformed officer’s wearing of a Trump mask in a polling station violates public policy https://t.co/OX37XH261h pic.twitter.com/sn7M5PRusB
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 20, 2020
Category: Police State
Not to sound paranoid
But I have my suspicions that this man was a federal informant and was killed to shut him up. Too much that was unusual about his case:
Trump on a purported antifa sympathizer who allegedly killed someone in Portland being killed by federal forces: "This guy was a violent criminal, and the US Marshals killed him. And I'll tell you something — that's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution." pic.twitter.com/WfIP9b37sA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2020
Would you like to guess his skin color?
After an argument over "a lack of sex," a Minnesota man fatally shot his wife in the garage. He then shot his neighbors – Makayla, 12, and Canisha, 29 – who he said "were not good neighbors." He fired 40 rounds at police before being captured: https://t.co/9hhioQEnlt #mnleg pic.twitter.com/Rzzo7xP1uX
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 1, 2020
They should be indicted themselves
Breonna Taylor's former boyfriend was offered a plea deal by prosecutors earlier this summer that would have forced him to implicate her in an "organized crime syndicate," his attorney said Monday. https://t.co/UvvfTsWHKQ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 2, 2020
Wildcat strike
Black Lives Matter: It’s scrawled across the courts in the NBA bubble and visible on the backs of players’ jerseys. And after police shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, the Milwaukee Bucks took action to prove it.
— The Recount (@therecount) August 26, 2020
Here’s what happened when the Bucks decided to strike: pic.twitter.com/Y0wCbTlzGH
To protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the Milwaukee Bucks sat out Game 5 of the NBA playoffs—and forced the entire league to shut down. The Bucks players are workers who shut down their workplace with a strike. Workers everywhere can do the same. https://t.co/rpPww06x2x
— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) August 26, 2020
In the wake of the Milwaukee Bucks’ Game 5 playoff strike and the NBA’s ensuing decision to postpone all Aug. 26 games, other professional athletes are starting to react.https://t.co/9XfKhRdVMr
— Front Office Sports (@frntofficesport) August 26, 2020
Chris Webber holds back tears while speaking about NBA players’ strike after the police shooting of Jacob Blake pic.twitter.com/wowdpF9adg
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 26, 2020
“As a Black man, as a former player, I think it’s best for me to support the players and just not be here tonight.”
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 26, 2020
Kenny Smith walked off the TNT set in solidarity with the NBA players’ strike of tonight’s games. pic.twitter.com/HgurJPqHKB
If not now, when https://t.co/iNLKJdlXhY
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) August 26, 2020
2 dead in Kenosha
And apparently it just… happened! There was a result! They were all out after the curfew, it wasn’t that a 17-year-old white militia members has an assault weapon and murdered two people in cold blood. Who can say? “Persons were shot.” Yes, they were. By a white punk with an assault weapon.
Blaming the victims, this is pretty shocking
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) August 26, 2020
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How can the sheriff characterize a 17 year old unlawfully carrying a weapon (18 is the legal age) “attempting to resolve the conflict.”
— Pat Schiek (@SkanLabLife) August 26, 2020
Rittenhouse lives in Illinois. How are armed insurrectionists organizing and learning about calls to action in places like in Kenosha? On Facebook. https://t.co/04hq0nJ5s2
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 26, 2020
A white 17 y/o w/ a shotgun kills 2 people. Cops show up. People scream that he shot people. White teen puts his arms up, thinking he’s being arrested. Cops pass him by even though he’s holding a shotgun. He keeps walking & goes on his way. https://t.co/mF90wroeKV
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) August 26, 2020
This appears to be the Tik Tok account belonging to Kyle Rittenhouse. He’s a misogynist and a Trump supporter. Waiting for you and other Republicans to fully and unequivocally condemn the rioting and murders in Kenosha. https://t.co/4ZCJpJ8ctm pic.twitter.com/rMjxo8gaqG
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 26, 2020
If the cops are lining up with armed vigilantes, we’d all better start fireproofing the Reichstag. https://t.co/kAZJr2KHZO
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 26, 2020
The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January https://t.co/e5Njjmuhfh
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) August 26, 2020
Cell phone footage shows Kenosha police telling armed insurrectionists, “We appreciate you guys. We really do,” and giving them bottles of water. Shortly after this video was taken, one of these men shot and killed two protesters and wounded another.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 26, 2020
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To serve and protect
https://t.co/aDIB38nbHe White South Jersey Cop Charged After Pepper Spraying Black Teen Who Was Just Sitting on a Stoop. Cop has quit or been fired from 8 other police departments
— Karl (@JerryMander) June 15, 2020
I guess this is why we need cops?
“Yeah, there’s a hatchet on the bus — with a bunch of wood sitting next to a wood-burning stove. Well, duh. The rocks were crystals and fossils. They emptied out a knife block [from the kitchen area] and said they found a meat cleaver.”https://t.co/i9Vz1xMrQl
— Andy Downing (@andydowning33) June 12, 2020
When you’re explaining, you’re losing
Almost as swiftly as the demand to defund the police has spread, a swell of new voices have moved in over the last few days to soothe the public by arguing that when Black Lives Matter say they want to defund the police, that’s not what they really mean. https://t.co/VXcL03zAcP
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) June 9, 2020
I can see why Minneapolis is disbanding their police department
"Two law enforcement agencies acknowledged Monday that officers patrolling Minneapolis during the recent protests knifed the tires of numerous vehicles parked and unoccupied in at least two locations." https://t.co/RrZjdtGWx7
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) June 8, 2020