Today's roundup of police violence videos and news, which are reposted on my Twitter.
Sunday:
- A first-person story from a reporter detailing an attack by police against protestors (who were demanding justice for the 27 people that have been killed inside Buffalo's holding center) and himself after a man drove his car through the crowd. Police shot gas into the crowd to disperse them, and later Buffalo SWAT pointed their rifles at the reporter's head and said "fuck your first amendment" before putting him in handcuffs
- Seattle PD drags a mother out of her car while her 9-year-old is in the backseat, telling her she had assaulted the officers several days ago at the protest. This was revenge
- A video of Seattle police kettling protestors and forcing them to disperse through gas, mace and flash bangs
- A reminder that the NYPD's budget is $6,000,000,000, more than the city spends on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development combined
- A video of Minneapolis officers driving by peaceful demonstrators and pepper-spraying them from their moving vehicles
- Video of a white man who had just run over black protestor Robert Forbes with his car. He is standing un-handcuffed behind police, protected, allowed to smoke a cigarette
- A video of a Bellevue officer choking out a black woman (the mother of the person recording the video) because of a title transfer
- A video of a black business owner being kicked out of his office space by his landlord, who saw the man attending a peaceful protest on the news
- A very small selection of outright lies coming from police departments over the past week about their use of force and indiscriminate arrests
- A video of a man driving into a crowd of protestors in Seattle, then shooting a man that approaches his window before exiting the vehicle, still brandishing the gun. He walks through the crowd straight toward police, who do not move a muscle throughout the encounter, and gives them a thumbs up
- Another video from Seattle, where police blanket an entire street with gas against the same group of protestors driven into by the armed man in his car earlier that day. This also came after being promised a 30-day ban on gas from Seattle PD
- And much more
Tomorrow is another day.