Another roundup of police violence videos collected from last night and today that are reposted on my Twitter for those who do not see them elsewhere.
Thursday:
- Police in Buffalo shove a very elderly man onto the cement in full view, who hits his head and begins to bleed and lay still. The shover starts to bend down for him, but another officer keeps him in line and walks forward, ripping signs out of other protestors hands
- NYPD arrest a food delivery driver (essential worker) who is dropping off an order after curfew
- Secondhand word that NY police academies are graduating new officers early, meaning undertrained officers may be out on the street soon
- A policeman gropes an unarmed woman, who is then baton-ed by two men and held down
- A NYPD officer says live on camera that he has orders from above to cover his badge and remove his name tag
- Several police watch from feet away as a person drives their Jeep into a crowd of protestors, seriously injuring at least 2. They tell the protestors to get back and do not approach the driver or injured persons
- Denver police shoot pepper balls at a car, not protesting. The driver opens his door and yells that his pregnant girlfriend is in the car. They then open fire on him
- NYPD blocks off a subway entrance with railing before curfew sets, blocking protestors from going home
- Detroit officers shove unarmed protestors onto the cement with disturbing force several times while they try to back away
- Buffalo officers approach a man with his hands up who is being interviewed by the press live on camera, and arrest him
- A dozen police in Stockholm block an entrance to the subway and spray young protestors with pepper spray
- Four San Francisco officers pin down a black man with his face in the pavement, the officer in front puts her weight on his neck with her knee
- More than a dozen officers destroy a medical tent, including the water and medicine
- El Centro, CA officers aim their assault rifles at young people filming from their balcony apartment
- A Philadelphia officer pulls down a woman's face mask and then pepper sprays her
- A first-person story of four officers stealing a reporter's bicycle as he puts his notebook away, saying "it's not your bike anymore"
- A Salt Lake City officer shoots an unarmed protestor with a rubber bullet at point-blank range
- A Chicago officer runs ahead of his men to push down a protestor and then brutally beat them
- A Portland officer smashes their vehicle through a barricade next to protestors, nearly hitting them
- A NYPD officer flings a man into a patrol car with such force that he's knocked out cold
- Officers in Huntington Beach, CA open fire on a group of unarmed protestors lying flat on the ground
- Des Moines police pepper spray into an elevator towards apartment residents going home, including a mother holding her small baby
- A San Jose officer hits a man with his motorcycle, sending him to the asphalt
- A female cyclist is grabbed by NYPD without cause, and then beaten
- LAPD arrests random motorists for driving after curfew, dragging them out of their vehicles
- A DC officer pepper sprays a CNN crew as they film live on air
- Orlando police tackle a man walking away with his hands up and beat him for sport, pepper-spraying the onlookers
- Protestors carry an injured man towards help while officers shoot them with rubber bullets
- And many, many more
Tomorrow is another day.