"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
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
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
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/newsmd/policy/6851158-Minneapolis-crowd-control-overkill-caused-blindness-brain-injuries-report-shows
Duluth News Tribune
Minneapolis crowd control overkill caused blindness, brain injuries, report shows | Duluth News Tribune
With no help from city or state, doctors take up the work of tallying harms of police violence on crowds .
Forwarded from Seattle BLM Scanner
#livestream Another dispersal order. Crowd instructed to leave to the north or else be arrested.
Forwarded from the left can't meme🚩 (Bray)
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If you have an iPhone, update it immediately. Pretty large security issues have been patched that were being actively exploited in the wild.
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“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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/26/ghislaine-maxwell-asks-to-throw-out-case-over-epstein-plea-deal
the Guardian
Ghislaine Maxwell lawyers say jurors who indicted her not diverse enough
Legal team makes series of arguments to dismiss case, including that 2008 Epstein plea deal should shield Maxwell from prosecution
Forwarded from Syndiegram (Devin)
The Appeal
Austin May Use Money Cut From Police Budget To Establish Permanent Supportive Housing
The City Council will decide whether to buy two hotels and use funds diverted from its police budget to set up wraparound services for the homeless people who will live there.
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.
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"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
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/daniel-baker-florida-case-fbi-capitol
Jacobin
To See the Danger of a Domestic “War on Terror,” Look No Further Than This Florida Case
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