#police state
Two days ago, in Vila-real (País Valencià), the members of the Bultzada fan club were attacked by Spanish National Police officers. The reason? Being Basques:
Vila-real is a safe space for Real Sociedad fans since there isn’t animosity between the teams. The Basque fans were having a few drinks with their families, children included of course. The officers entered the bar in an intimidating fashion, and began to ask for the IDs of the fans that wanted to exit the bar - mind you, this isn’t common, police officers only ask you to show your ID because they want to report you. When the organizers asked why they were doing that, policemen began charging.
Real Sociedad fans managed to control the situation and agreed to leave the bar surrounded by the officers, that then proceeded to lead them to an alley - searching for privacy - and began to beat them again. Neighbours of the surrounding buildings got to record it.
As you can see, the football fans were unarmed and the officers were many more than them. They beated them while on the floor and even the ones who put their hands up were beaten. Fans also reported being attacked with pepper spray and that the officers, after the attack, went raiding bars looking for more members of Bultzada. Policemen were heard screaming at the fans: “f*cking Basques, you haven’t the balls now, huh?”, implying that since the Basques were unarmed and obviously not terrorists they weren’t to be feared and the policemen could take revenge.
The result? Open head wounds, a broken wrist, stitches, tens of wounded people and 5 arrested.
Inside the stadium, Basque fans reported to have been frisked, had their wallets examined and been told the banners and scarfs featuring the ikurriña weren’t accepted. They also heard that most policemen were brought from Valencia because “it was going to be a brawl”.
Fans also comment that the fans of Vila-real were completely welcoming and that the atmosphere between the two groups of supporters was incredibly nice.
Just hatred towards Basque people by the Spanish National Police, as usual. And, as usual, no consequences.
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens — Many Are Black Girls | The Marshall Project
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.
Black youths make up the majority of kids on the receiving end of police violence — and a striking number of them are girls, our investigation found.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, banning the book ‘Maus’ is a modern-day tragedy
Opinion | Banning a seminal Holocaust book ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day is a modern tragedy
Reading “Maus” was formative for me. But decades later, other public school students in Tennessee will be denied that same experience. Despite it being part of a state-approved eighth grade curriculum, the members of the school board in McMinn County, outside of Chattanooga, banned “Maus” in a unanimous vote earlier this month.
The vote finally received media attention Wednesday, just hours before the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Christmas Eve in Hong Kong
Police celebrated by shooting teargas, even in crowded area like Tsim Sha Tsui, where people go to celebrate.
Hong Kong police accused Spark Alliance, a group that provides humanitarian support to the arrested protesters, of money laundering.
Over $70m donation from HongKongers had been frozen.
The government is trying to take away the protesters’ resources and force the people to stop protesting, rather than finding a way to communicate.
Police claimed they had uncovered over 3,000 petrol bombs in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, below is a picture of the ‘weapons’
Lies after lies to justify their attack on the university…
Vote rigging is a serious problem in Hong Kong, plus the low voter turnout, it’s easy for the pro-Beijing / pro-government camp to win the election.
In this clip, the staff from Food and Environment Hygiene Department are removing the pro-democracy candidate’s promotion banner, but the election is still ongoing, and the pro-government candidate’s banner remain untouched.
The police are murdering us slowly
Teargas is the most popular choice for the police to disperse the protesters, also their preferred weapons.
Since June, there are cases where people (including protesters, journalists and passersby) were hit by the teargas can and injured.
The worst thing is, the latest batch of teargas used by the police is made in China, and journalists and experts have noticed the dioxin it releases is high, whenever the police use the teargas, they are poisoning all the people in the scene. And the chemical is also affecting the ecological environment in Hongkong.
(Trigger warning)
Dead bodies of birds, squirrels and hawks are founded in districts that were bombarded with teargas.
The use of teargas not only is damaging to people’s health (dioxin can caused cancer and miscarriages) , it is having an irreversible impact on our environment.
16-year-old queer Latina Jessie Hernandez killed by Denver police
January 29, 2015
Jessie Hernandez’ friends describe her as goofy, lovable, with an infectious smile. On Monday morning, the Denver police officers saw in Jessie — a Latina, queer-presenting young person — a threat. For this reason, Jessie is now dead. Just another person extrajudicially killed by a police officer.
On Monday morning just after 7am, police officers from the Denver Police Department arrived in an alley where Jessie Hernandez and a few friends were parked on a call of suspicious activity. When the officers determined the vehicle had been reported stolen, the officers approached the vehicle. Police said that when they approached, the driver hit one of the officers with the car. Both officers fired several shots, struck, and killed Jessie. It is the third time in seven months that the Denver Police Department has claimed that suspects shot by officers have used cars as weapons. When a young woman who pulled out her phone to film the aftermath, she said an officer yelled at her: “Don’t you dare!”
Denver Police Chief Robert White said he believed the shooting was justified. He is not alone — a cursory look at the discussion of the murder on Twitter yields many victim-blaming and demonizing sentiments from people who apparently believe that it is appropriate for a police officer to act as judge, jury, and executioner. At least one media piece calling Jessie a pot-smoking, underage-drinking lesbian has already popped up. New person, same old victim-blaming story. Rinse, repeat.
Run-ins with abusive policing are not unusual for LGBTQ youth of color, and in fact, criminalization plays a huge role in the lives of LGBTQ people of color. LGBTQ people of color experience policing in many of the same ways other people of color do: we are stopped and frisked, we are racially profiled, we are victims of laws that bring together our nation’s draconian and increasingly criminalizing immigration laws with discriminatory policing, like Arizona’s SB1070.
But LGBTQ people of color also experience discriminatory policing that is very particular to the ways officers perceive sexual orientation and/or sexual identity and expression. One of the ways this happens is through the use ofcondoms as evidence: LGBTQ people, especially trans women of color, are profiled as trading sex, and can have condoms confiscated and used as evidence of prostitution-related crimes in jurisdictions across the country. LGBTQ people experience sexual harassment and assault that is very particular to sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, like being asked by police officers for sexual favors. And LGBTQ people, particularly gender non-conforming LGBTQ people of color, are often subject to humiliating strip searches, the purpose of which are to determine a subject’s “real” gender.
LGBTQ people of color, and particularly youth and trans and gender non-conforming people, are often read as “off” or suspicious, and are consistent targets of discriminatory policing.
I’ve written before that women who are targeted by the police, particularly trans and gender non-conforming women, are rarely candidates for “innocence.” They are seen as disposable, far from being moral actors. Jessie Hernandez is already being painted negatively, already being blamed for her own death at the hands of the state. To the police, and surely much of the media that will cover her death, she was a wild, pot-smoking lesbian who used her car as a weapon against the police.
And what if she was? Does that truly justify being killed?
Let’s talk for a moment about what constitutes “justified.” I recall a white man in Aurora, CO — just outside of Denver — getting out unscathed after shooting up a movie theater, killing and injuring dozens. If an armed, dangerous person can be apprehended safely — as surely he should have been — why wasn’t this possible for the unarmed Jessie Hernandez? Why does this seem so impossible for people of color in general? How is it that the bodies of people of color are, on their own, a bigger threat to officers than a white guy with multiple firearms?
White supremacy is how. A system meant by design to exert control over communities can do little else.
Jessie Hernandez did not deserve to die. She did not deserve to have her bleeding, dying, body handcuffed and searched, being flipped lifelessly on the street, before she got any medical attention. Her friends did not deserve the lifetime of trauma this incident will provide them. Even if the car was stolen. Even if Jessie did injure an officer with the car.
“I mean, with everything that’s going on,” a friend said in tears at a vigil, “it wouldn’t be a surprise that she got scared, you know?”
Women’s deaths and abuse at the hands of the police rarely make the news in the same way that the deaths of some men do, but today we speak Jessie Hernandez’s name. Today we remember.
Rest in peace, Jessie.
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redid this from 4 years ago & it’s crazy to think things are just about as horrible as expected, yet in many ways just the same.
I hope all my USAmericans out there are staying safe tonight & not letting these fascist cowards intimidate you into accepting inaccurate election results, not voting or anything else for that matter!
Keep in mind we will not know the true outcome until mail-in ballots are in. This could take anywhere from days to weeks.
We may not live in a democracy, but we can sure as fuck demand one. Chile just rewrote their constitution. Polish women have brought the country to a standstill demanding restoration of reproductive rights. Have hope. The power is in the people. Keep in touch with your loved ones and have a plan!
Peace out for now.
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hello all and especially those who do not live in america. do you know how fucked up this country really is.
this clip might possibly begin to give you a real idea of the scope of the problem (even though it is just about one of our many, many issues).
watch john oliver discuss the role of police in american schools:
On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post
First the surveillance state came for the terrorists, and I did not speak out—because I am not a terrorist.
Then it came for those who appear vagely Muslim, and I did not speak out— because I am not a Muslim.
Then it came for impoverished minorities and dissidents, and I did not speak out—because I am white and not a dissident.
And now, Trump and the Republican Party want to expand use of the surveillance state against people with disabilities.
I say this because a lot of Americans believe that the surveillance state–or a form of police state, for that matter–doesn’t exist in this country; that is a myth held by those fortunate enough to not be one of the millions of people who experience America as a surveillance state and/or a police state.
It is incumbent upon all of us to agitate against the further growth of the surveillance state not only for our own interest but for that of our brothers and sisters whose lives are adversely affected by its existence and perpetual growth.
cops out there killing innocent black people in broad day light during a pandemic when crime numbers went down and yall including them in your lil poems ??? fohhhhh
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https://medium.com/@rml12488/why-im-an-angry-afrikan-b79dadea7e06
Wrote about some of my first hand ordeals with systematic racism about 5 years ago inspired by the work of a young black woman who wrote on the same subject matter.
Certainly a hot topic right now.
“The End of Policing” by Alex S. Vitale
“The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last forty years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”
Again, hand in hand with a lot of the other books currently added to my bookshelves. The need to study intersectionality and how it affects all aspects of our lives from the way we conduct business, to the way we socialize, to the way we’ve allowed the police to evolve into a borderline military industrial complex. We border on living in a police run state.
The problem with that is the origins on the police force and basically how it never really evolved, it just learned to cover its tracks. And boy did it cover its tracks POORLY.
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