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Overview updates of the BLM Protests in 2020.

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Livestreamer: "This is actually one of the most aggressive crowds I've seen going back to like May or June" #Tacoma
"NO COPS, NO PRISON, TOTAL ABOLITION" enthusiastic chanting in #tacoma in the energetic crowd
Bail bondsman's office windows smashed in #Tacoma
A cheer goes up as the crowd reaches the jail, makes a whole lot of noise, and flashes lights in solidarity with those imprisoned inside. #FreeThemAll
"Free Them All"
"Abolish Prisons"
"Burn It Down"
Pierce County Corrections, Jan 24, 2021 #Tacoma
Forwarded from Seattle BLM Scanner
#ground Tacoma - Bike cops moving slowly towards 9th now, vehicles with lights on also heading that way
Bike cops are holding this line on the street across from protestors (behind camera) right now #tacoma
Riot police units have arrived on the scene #Tacoma
Forwarded from Seattle BLM Scanner
#livestream cops not wearing masks- ~50 cops on foot in riot gear gathering behind bike line
"We were surprised to see that 40 percent of the impact injuries were to the head, face and neck," says Erika Kaske, a medical student at the University of Minnesota and coauthor on the paper. "That's pretty high when you look at guidelines that say, basically, that shots to the head, neck and face are potentially unlawful."
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/newsmd/policy/6851158-Minneapolis-crowd-control-overkill-caused-blindness-brain-injuries-report-shows
Forwarded from Seattle BLM Scanner
#livestream Another dispersal order. Crowd instructed to leave to the north or else be arrested.
If you have an iPhone, update it immediately. Pretty large security issues have been patched that were being actively exploited in the wild.
Forwarded from Strike Force
“The fact that Ms Maxwell herself is neither Black nor Hispanic does not deprive of her of standing to raise this challenge,” the attorneys wrote in court papers, arguing that the US constitution “entitles every defendant to object to a [pool] that is not designed to represent a fair cross section of the community, whether or not the systematically excluded groups are groups to which he himself belongs”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/26/ghislaine-maxwell-asks-to-throw-out-case-over-epstein-plea-deal
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When Wallstreetbets gets banned on discord for raid spammers sending hate speech, it makes televised news. But when Black Lives Matter chats get banned on Telegram for the same thing on Martin Luther King Day, there was no media coverage at all.
Forwarded from Strike Force
"Convinced his state capitol was set to be attacked by violent, far-right extremists, a Florida man called for armed resistance on social media and was promptly jailed. The episode is a case study of how easily a domestic "war on terror" will be turned on the Left."

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/daniel-baker-florida-case-fbi-capitol