#Archives Above all, police proclaim the necessity of their own existence—no matter what violence that may entail. From @PatBlanchfield, 2020:
https://t.co/Ny0TQPlHpK— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 3, 2021
Category: Police State
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Here's how many NYPD cops are on unpaid leave over vax mandate https://t.co/6fw9VoRXot pic.twitter.com/JGnOwnfrsI
— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2021
BREAKING – After threats that 10,000 NYPD officers could quit the force over the NYC vaccine mandate, the actual number going on unpaid leave today was 34.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) November 1, 2021
When I went in for my booster shot Friday, the pharmacist told me that a lot of the city workers who came in for shots were practically in tears. Well, I guess if you listen to news that tells you about the microchips that change your DNA and make you drop dead within five years, you might be a little upset. Maybe change the channel?
Snowflakes
The NYPD and other municipal workers just blocked traffic on the Brooklyn bridge, not to protest murders, but to protest vaccine mandates.
— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) October 25, 2021
Police state
When your governor’s recruiting cops by telling them they’re above the law, well, citizens are even less safe:
https://twitter.com/ReportsDaNews/status/1452315384393183235
The police, um, fabricated this story
I’m happy to hear that my fellow citizens aren’t quite as depersonalized as I thought! As Atrios wrote, “Cops lie all the time, journalists dutifully type it up, and no one gets in trouble and few hear the retractions.”
#BREAKING: Passengers didn't sit around and “callously” record video of a rape aboard a SEPTA train for their own gratification without contacting authorities, Delco DA says, reversing police narrative. https://t.co/rvf8pxC3Gv
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) October 21, 2021
Good riddance
Key point about these cops and their performative acts of vaccine refusal: "They’re both products of the Fox News propaganda that convinced them to do it, and participants in that propaganda’s ongoing production."https://t.co/4MVgUu0KHf
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) October 20, 2021
What a shock
Called it. Cop family connections.
Texas Cops Botched Investigation Into Teen Who Mowed Down Six Cyclists, Prosecutors Say https://t.co/lv1ifValr7 via @thedailybeast
— watertigernyc 🌻 watertigernyc@spoutible.com (@watertigernyc) October 12, 2021
RICO RICO RICO???
FBI Agents Descend on Headquarters of NYPD Sergeants Union https://t.co/TbV2wSvfSs via @thedailybeast
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) October 5, 2021
Jeeze
Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters – The Guardian
Enbridge picked up the tab for police wages, training and equipment – and let county police know when it wanted demonstrators arrested https://t.co/F6Dvabwgpl
— DrJX1555 (@DJx1555) October 5, 2021
Of course
Even in states where weed is legal, Black Americans are still getting arrested for ithttps://t.co/S3onxItXAZ
— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) September 28, 2021