Today's News (2020/7/19): Police Violence edition
A Mega-Thread of Greg Doucette's police violence posts, for easier navigation. But it's not up to date. This is the latest post at time of edit.
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Scott Hechinger
twitter.com/ScottHech
15 July 2020
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1283425336412307458
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The twitter.com/ManhattanDA charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take it in. Then read this: This happens routinely. Prosecutors are shameless enablers of police violence.
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Rosa Goldensohn
twitter.com/RosaGoldensohn
15 July 2020
https://twitter.com/RosaGoldensohn/status/1283374981704044545
A homeless man left a crowded shelter the night of May 25 and sat on the train with a few tote bags. Cops told him to leave. Then:
https://thecity.nyc/2020/7/14/21324745/video-shows-cop-punching-man-on-manhattan-subway
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Scott Hechinger
ScottHech
15 July 2020
Taxpayers are paying NYPD $494 million this year to police transit. That money could instead pay rent for every single one of the 14,000 homeless families living in NYC for a full year at the median rent for NYC. And theyd still have $74 million leftover. We need to talk.
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AK
twitter.com/allykerans
15 July 2020
https://twitter.com/allykerans/status/1283563591900164096
during a peaceful protest in LA this week the LAPD knocked a disabled man out of his wheelchair, and then they broke it. there is absolutely no excuse for this - it’s disgusting.
who exactly are they protecting & serving???
DEFUND THE POLICE twitter.com/MayorOfLA twitter.com/GavinNewsom twitter.com/KTLAnewsdesk
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Zane Sparling
twitter.com/PDXzane
18 July 2020
https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1284726088187310080
Federal police strike protester with baton, use pepper spray and tear gas outside courthouse in Portland
[EDITOR: Portlandia is now calling this ex-Navy guy Captain Portland because the lack of fucks he has for that baton is amazing.]
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Breonna Taylor was briefly alive after police shot her. But no one tried to treat her
Tessa Duvall
Darcy Costello
Louisville Courier Journal
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/17/breonna-taylor-lay-untouched-20-minutes-after-being-shot-records/5389881002/
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Just after midnight March 13, three Louisville police officers fired more than 20 bullets into Breonna Taylor's apartment, striking her five times.
But she was still alive - at least briefly.
For at least five minutes, she was coughing as she struggled to breathe, according to her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who told investigators she was alive as he called her mom and yelled for help.
"(Police are) yelling like, 'Come out, come out,' and I'm on the phone with her (mom). I'm still yelling help because she's over here coughing and, like, I'm just freaking out," Walker said in a recorded police interview three hours after the shooting.
The Jefferson County coroner disputes that account, telling The Courier Journal that Taylor likely died within a minute of being shot and couldn't have been saved.
But records show that no effort was made to save her.
For more than 20 minutes after Taylor was fatally shot at approximately 12:43 a.m. by Louisville officers, the 26-year-old emergency room technician lay where she fell in her hallway, receiving no medical attention, according to dispatch logs.
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- NEW YORK CITY: Police charge homeless man they punched in the face with violent felony assault on the officer, specifically for the officer's hand "swelling" as a result of the punch.
- LOS ANGELES: Police attack wheelchair-bound man, break his wheelchair
- PORTLAND: Federal police occupation forces strike ex-Navy protester with baton, use pepper spray and tear gas outside courthouse in Portland
- LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Breonna Taylor was briefly alive after police shot her. But no one tried to treat her.
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Scott Hechinger
twitter.com/ScottHech
15 July 2020
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1283425336412307458
[THREAD]
The twitter.com/ManhattanDA charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take it in. Then read this: This happens routinely. Prosecutors are shameless enablers of police violence.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Rosa Goldensohn
twitter.com/RosaGoldensohn
15 July 2020
https://twitter.com/RosaGoldensohn/status/1283374981704044545
A homeless man left a crowded shelter the night of May 25 and sat on the train with a few tote bags. Cops told him to leave. Then:
https://thecity.nyc/2020/7/14/21324745/video-shows-cop-punching-man-on-manhattan-subway
[NEXT]
Scott Hechinger
ScottHech
15 July 2020
Taxpayers are paying NYPD $494 million this year to police transit. That money could instead pay rent for every single one of the 14,000 homeless families living in NYC for a full year at the median rent for NYC. And theyd still have $74 million leftover. We need to talk.
[THREAD CONTINUES AT URL]
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AK
twitter.com/allykerans
15 July 2020
https://twitter.com/allykerans/status/1283563591900164096
during a peaceful protest in LA this week the LAPD knocked a disabled man out of his wheelchair, and then they broke it. there is absolutely no excuse for this - it’s disgusting.
who exactly are they protecting & serving???
DEFUND THE POLICE twitter.com/MayorOfLA twitter.com/GavinNewsom twitter.com/KTLAnewsdesk
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Zane Sparling
twitter.com/PDXzane
18 July 2020
https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1284726088187310080
Federal police strike protester with baton, use pepper spray and tear gas outside courthouse in Portland
[EDITOR: Portlandia is now calling this ex-Navy guy Captain Portland because the lack of fucks he has for that baton is amazing.]
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Breonna Taylor was briefly alive after police shot her. But no one tried to treat her
Tessa Duvall
Darcy Costello
Louisville Courier Journal
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/17/breonna-taylor-lay-untouched-20-minutes-after-being-shot-records/5389881002/
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Just after midnight March 13, three Louisville police officers fired more than 20 bullets into Breonna Taylor's apartment, striking her five times.
But she was still alive - at least briefly.
For at least five minutes, she was coughing as she struggled to breathe, according to her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who told investigators she was alive as he called her mom and yelled for help.
"(Police are) yelling like, 'Come out, come out,' and I'm on the phone with her (mom). I'm still yelling help because she's over here coughing and, like, I'm just freaking out," Walker said in a recorded police interview three hours after the shooting.
The Jefferson County coroner disputes that account, telling The Courier Journal that Taylor likely died within a minute of being shot and couldn't have been saved.
But records show that no effort was made to save her.
For more than 20 minutes after Taylor was fatally shot at approximately 12:43 a.m. by Louisville officers, the 26-year-old emergency room technician lay where she fell in her hallway, receiving no medical attention, according to dispatch logs.
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