Today's roundup of police violence videos, which I repost on my Twitter. The Associated Press sent out a push notification saying, "For another night, calm reigned across U.S. cities." Here's why that's incorrect.
Saturday:
- LA Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske updates us with photos of her legs, which police beat with batons nearly a week ago. They are still purple, bloody and misshapen
- NYPD officers hit a man with batons who appears to be doing nothing wrong, then later, another shoves a reporter with a baton as she holds up her press pass
- A visual reminder from mappingpoliceviolence.org that there were only 27 days in all of 2019 where cops did not kill someone
- LAPD officer Frank Hernandez punches an unarmed man in the head 19 times with full strength while his fellow officer stands by. She only stops his hand as he goes for the 20th shot. More officers arrive and they all arrest the man
- Listeners of the Seattle police scanner say the department has run out of tear gas
- A harrowing story of the hellish abuses and brutality of corrections officers against inmates
- Footage of a large group of unmarked officers in riot gear holding off protestors blocks from the White House. No badges, insignias or name tags. Noticeably, they're also not clean cut or in good shape
- An ABC news story describing a man who trains San Jose's police about bias as he tries to de-escalate a situation involving those same officers, when they shot him in the groin on purpose
- An update on the man whose car was shot at by officers with pepper balls after he told them his pregnant fiancee was inside: she was out delivering food before curfew, and was hit in the abdomen at least three times
- Footage of the mayor of Joliet joining the cops in beating up protestors on the street and throwing them to the ground
- Horrifying footage of officers in London charging at protestors on horseback
- A story about Ed Mullins, president of the second largest police union in NYC, who tweeted out the Mayor's daughter's address and license info upon her arrest last week, as well as a statement proclaiming that the NYPD will "win the war in New York City". Yesterday the NYPD also sought and was granted the right to arrest anyone and hold them for more than 24 hours in crowded jail cells without arraignment while Covid-19 continues to linger
- London police tell a man to move his car from a single yellow line. He refuses because he has a blue badge and is parked legally. They then beat him until he's unconscious
- The story of Adrian Schoolcraft, an officer who decided to speak up about abuses in his department, and the hell/danger he was put through by his fellow officers in the wake
- An interview with the delivery driver who was arrested on the Upper West Side yesterday
- Finally, thousands of protestors in MN boo and chant "shame!" at Mayor Jacob Frey as he is forced to exit through the crowd alone. He had earlier told 'DefundMPD' marchers that he favors reforms over disbanding
Tomorrow is another day.