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daughterofdessalines · 1 year

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#keenan anderson #black lives matter #black twitter #police terrorism #end police brutality #jaheim mcmillan

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uninterruptedafricans · 8 months

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I am the mother of a 14-year-old son, and I constantly send him out to take out the trash.

No one talks about how terrifying it is to be a Black mother.. to constantly have to worry about your child being traumatized, harmed, killed or incarcerated just for knocking on someone’s door, taking out the trash….. etc.. etc..

#i fucking hate it here #Lansing Michigan #protect black kids #police terrorism #black children

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serious2020 · 1 year

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Viola Ford Fletcher, 108 years old & the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre writes in her memoir, ‘Don’t let them bury my story.’

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dialecticalmadness · 1 year

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This is how Tyre Nichols should be remembered. For the life he lived, not the unjust death he died. Rest In Power

#genocide #police murder #police terrorism #occupation #national oppression #national resistance #national liberation #blacklivesmatter #memphis #sacramento

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commiepinkofag · 11 months

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AC-a-a-a-a-B, screamed the goat

again, we see the police PR machine & a complicit press present the innocuous, bumbling barney fife ‘we’re here to protect’ trope.

the ubiquitous coverage of the screaming goat has reached an international audience [if the BBC counts in that regard].

it reminds me of the ‘ah, look! cops dance with ice cream’ which should have been ‘two scoops of fuck you.’

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one of the more recent and disgusting examples of police PR/media collaboration has been the ‘viral’ PR: ‘Police dog in Wyandotte accused of stealing fellow officer's lunch.’

this ‘story’ originated from a facebook post by the Wyandotte PD, with an accompanying image edited to appear as a mugshot of a black police dog – named ‘Officer ICE.’

however, i found this posted on a ABC affiliate news website, on the same page as an article about Tyre Nichols’ family pleading for justice and calls for the bodycam footage to be released.

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the timing and content of these press releases is no coincidence.

on august 1 2016, within weeks after the series of murders by police of Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling and Philando Castille, the cop PR machine rolled out #copsgiveouticecream.

one particular headline — ‘these cops pranked drivers by giving them ice cream instead of tickets’ — fell under the ‘feel good’ category, much like ‘officer ice’ and case of the screaming goat.

text beneath the image reads: "You can see the sense of relief when the officers explain this ‘violation’ to the anxious drivers who all got a big laugh out of it."

i can see intimidation, fear, injustice…

‘no cameras!’ — nor accountability

social media has changed the playing field in the propaganda war for policing. like in the instances of feel good news, cops only like social media when it works in their favor.

the fbi has warned about ‘cop baiting,’ ‘viral attack’ and potential liability. [Social Media and Law Enforcement: Potential Risks; leb.fbi.gov]

unsurprisingly, this particular article expresses an overarching sense of fear and need for control:

Empowered by social media, cop baiting presents a crisis for law enforcement. Questionable videos of police officers are popular on sites, such as YouTube, and can be financially rewarding to malefactors who file claims or lawsuits. For some individuals, a citation or jail time is worthwhile if a cash payoff results. Cop baiting could become so common that officers may not know whether they are facing a situation that is legitimate, staged, or exaggerated for someone else’s benefit. This puts officers’ personal and professional well-being at stake.

so strange, their fave defense for surveillance [search, et al] isn’t mentioned: ‘if you’re not doing anything wrong, why worry…’

copspeak + providing those good feels

i posted the link back in 2016, but i find it’s still relevant:

Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth [fair.org]

FAIR’s CopSpeak series is good for examining the media-PR symbiosis:

“The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder."

privatization of public policy has helped drive much of this. [Meet the Company That Writes the Policies That Protect Cops; motherjones.com], [Police Policy For Sale; theappeal.org/].

the lexipol rabbithole can take you through an insular cop-cult[-ure] & convenient shopping for all of your militarized force needs.

‘Police Chief Magazine’ run by a 503c lobbying group, International Association of Chiefs of Police [IACP], reveals some PR tactics in ‘Media Coverage: When It Doesn’t Work Well… and When It Does’ [policechiefmagazine.org]

The Secrets to Success “It is the role of the public information office to push the positive stories to the media,” says Sergeant John Roth, Glendale Police Department’s public information officer (PIO). His office publicizes the department’s Coffee with a Cop events, as well as other newsworthy items, such as when major cases are solved. …

it is imperative to develop a rapport with media representatives. He makes a point of meeting with them and establishing relationships built on trust.

‘trust us,’ said at gunpoint…

[btw, national police week 2023 has begun]

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kingbynature · 2 years

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The amerikkkan way! ONLY in amerikkka...

Now where is the outrage from the Black male/female police officers? Speak out against this...good cops right???

#police terrorism #fuck the police

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hedgehog-moss · 1 year

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[...T]he state’s monopoly on violence is legitimate only insofar as legal and judiciary regulations enable [the people], formally and on principle, to wield power. [...] And this is where the problem lies in France in 2023. [...] Macron’s government has gone to great lengths to close all possible avenues through which society could warn it, control it, bring it to a compromise. As though there were room for nothing between obedience and riots.

The pension reform crisis is a perfect illustration of the state’s lack of capacity and willingness to obtain popular consent through peaceful, rather than brutal, means. Police brutality [against protesters], far from conferring any legitimacy, betrays the glaring lack of legitimacy of government policy. It’s because Macron’s government has become unable to legitimise its power in more subtle ways that it imposed this praetorian turn to the regime, leaving nothing but police force between itself and the people.

— Fabien Escalona, 1 avril 2023 (source in French) (text without paywall)

Not a very good translation but yeah that’s basically what I wrote after Sainte-Soline last week. When it comes to the pension reform, Macron’s government has dismissed unions, opinion polls, petitions, strikes, and massive peaceful protests, then they imposed it without letting the National Assembly vote, then they sent police to tear gas protesters and break strikes. Now they try to dismiss the protest movement by instrumentalising instances of violence and destruction which were rendered inevitable by the government’s rejection and repression of democratic processes and peaceful recourses.

#and the minister of the interior yesterday dismissing criticisms of police brutality against protesters #as ''intellectual terrorism from the far-left''...#this is fine. not fascist rhetoric at all

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nando161mando · 8 months

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girlactionfigure · 5 months

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There was a terrorist stabbing attack in Jerusalem.

2 people are wounded, one female border police officer is in a critical condition.

The 16 year old runt terrorist was shot dead

#Israel #Jerusalem #Terror Stabbing #Border Police

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fuzzyghost · 6 months

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#terror squad #80s movies #vhs #80s #police #ouchie #gif

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daughterofdessalines · 1 year

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AMERICA IS TRAGEDY

#black lives matter #america was never great #black twitter #instagram #police terrorism #twitter #end police brutality #biden administration #this is america #powsolution #nypd

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workersolidarity · 15 days

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🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸 🪖 🚨

ZIONIST SOLDIER ABUSES A PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN AT AN ISRAELI CHECKPOINT

📹 A Palestinian civilian is assaulted and abused by an Zionist soldier indiscriminately at an Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.

Clearly Palestinians have "democratic" rights inside the occupied Palestinian territories.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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robinlovexo · 17 days

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✨👁️👄👁️✨

#anti zionisim #zionistterror #zionazis #zionsim is terrorism #fuck the idf #fuck the police #fuck the patriarchy #fuck the republikkkans #fuck the israeli government #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #freepalastine🇵🇸#free gaza #free palestine

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serious2020 · 9 months

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SF to dismiss almost all cases against Dolores hill bomb teens

San Francisco officials to dismiss cases against 79 of the 81 teenagers arrested for hill bomb rioting. Status of arrested adults is unclear. — Read on missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/

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tomorrowusa · 23 days

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Living in a police state means you're governed by criminals who ignore threats to public safety.

It turns out that the four terror suspects were from Tajikistan though living in Russia. This is essentially an internal matter. Putin's secret police were too busy murdering political opponents and harassing dissidents to be concerned about the threat of terrorism from within.

Moscow terror attack: Russian massacre suspects’ homeland Tajikistan is plagued by poverty and religious strife

Putin buddy Emomali Rahmon is Tajikistan's kleptocratic “Leader of the Nation” – essentially dictator for life. Like Russia, the country is undemocratic but holds sham elections for window dressing.

The pro-democracy organization Freedom House lists Tajikistan as a Consolidated Authoritarian Regime. It's a place only a dictator would love.

Tajikistan: Nations in Transit 2023 Country Report | Freedom House

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maaruin · 5 months

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can you explain the bin laden thing and answer the questions you posted that should be "attached" to the letter? im kind of ashamed to admit how little i know about bin laden, but i was also only born in 2001... id appreciate some context on why people are into his letter, why leftists are latching onto it, and how this connects to what's going on in gaza. i'll read as much as you wanna write. thanks so much.

in reference to my previous post Yes, I can do that. Thank you for the ask. And I can assure you, many people who lived through 9/11 as adults don't really understand Bin Laden's motivations all that well either. If you want to read the letter yourself, you can find it here on WikiSource.

First for the questions: 1. Are bin Laden’s descriptions of political events and relations in this letter accurate? What could he have misunderstood? What could he be lying about?

When bin Laden lays out his reasons for attacking America, he says America attacked first and then claims that America is responsible for basically every bad thing that his happening to Muslims (in his view) anywhere. So America is not only responsible for its interventions in the Middle East and military aid to Israel, but also for the Russian suppression of the Chechnyan attempt at independence, Indian control of Kashmir, the Philippine government fighting Islamist rebels, and governments in the Islamic world not implementing Sharia. He implies hostility towards Islam is the reason for America's actions, for example, he thinks American soldiers in Saudi-Arabia were stationed there so that the mere presence of non-Muslims in the country with Islams most holy sites will humiliate Muslims. (When in fact they were stationed there in 1991 at the request of the Saudi government to protect it against a possible invasion from Iraq after Iraq had already invaded Kuwait.) This is classical conspiracy-theory-thinking: Assuming that behind all the bad things that happen to your group there must be a plan by someone (often a particular group) to hurt your group and that the motivation is hatred towards you. You will find bin Laden parroting conspiracy theorist talking points in the later sections of the letter as well, for example that America created AIDS, or that Jews are secretly controlling American politicians. The problem with conspiracy theories is very simple: they tend to be wrong. For example, if you want to explain the actions of the Russian military in Chechnya around 2000, don't look at America, look at Putin's ruling ideology. If you want to explain why Muslim governments don't implement Sharia, think about if it would help or hurt their ability to stay in power. Many problems all around the world start from local conditions, not because there is an evil mastermind behind them. I don't think bin Laden is lying very much in this letter, except maybe to himself. He is just falling to his own pattern matching bias that wants to ascribe all bad thing that happen to Muslims to a single cause - America. (Probably because that would mean if you could just defeat America, all the problems in the Islamic world would go away.) 2. Are bin Laden’s goals outlined in the letter worthwhile? Should Americans implement his suggestions? The latter has bin Laden's requests for Americans. Some are goals that an American may support as well, like stop military interventions in the Islamic world or ending support for countries that oppress Muslims. Though even there he sees American support where there wasn't really support, like the Russian operation in Chechnya. The US government did in fact condemn Russian actions. So this goal is not worthwhile because it is based on false assumptions about reality - the conspiracy theory about American Influence listed above. The hugest chunk of requests however is the demand for America to convert to Islam, end the separation of religion and state, and adopt social conservative policies (ban alcohol, ban sex work, ban homosexuality, ban interest on loans, stop employing women in service industry jobs where they serve man, etc - but he also mentiones that he wants the US to sign the Kyoto protocol, so it isn't 100% identical to what US conservatives want). Arguments for or against social conservatism would make this post far too long, but I doubt many left leaning Americans would be on board for these policies. Right leaning Americans might support some of these policies, but they would certainly not want America to make Islam the state religion.

3. Were the 9/11 attacks and similar operations by al-Qaeda an effective way to achieve his goals? Did the terrorist attack on American civilians lead to Americans wanting to convert to Islam - NO, it made Americans hate Islam. Did it make America withdraw from Islamic countries - NO, it made America invade Afghanistan and Iraq. I have read a bit of context on Bin Laden's goals in the past. During the Lebanese Civil War, a number of US soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing (iirc) and after that the US withdrew its soldiers. Bin Laden misjudged this and thought that an even larger attack on American civilians within the borders of the US would have the same effect on a larger scale. He was wrong and caused the opposite reaction. Killing American troops that are deployed in/are occupying another country does make Americans sour on the war if you can keep it up over time. But attacking civilians, especially in their home country, tends to increases the will to fight in the West (with few exception - spain pulled out its troops from Iraq after a terrorist attack on trains in Madrid). In the last decade the Taliban managed to make the US retreat and took over Afghanistan again by limiting their attacks these way, constantly killing US soldiers and their allies, but leaving civilians in America alone. The Islamic State on the other hand got the whole world into uniting against it by its display of cruelties like the beheading of journalists and aid workers and by its terrorist attacks in France and other countries. So even within his own values Bin Laden made the wrong choice when he initiated the 9/11 attacks. Context on why the letter may have had a sudden spike in popularity recently

The more immediate reason is that the letter talks quite a bit about American support for Israeli oppression of Palestinians. And that is one of the statements in the letter that are based at least somewhat in truth - yes, Israel does oppress Palestinians and yes, the US government generally supports Israel. It is somewhat doubtful if America withdrawing support would make Israel oppress Palestinians less. (In fact, it might make Israel more aggressive because it felt more threatened, but that also isn't for certain.) This is, I suppose, the reason why people ended up reading the letter. But the reason for them saying things like "I now realize he was right" is a specific kind of leftist gullibility/refusal to think. Leftists are opposed to oppression. They see that the United States is the most powerful country in the world and is involved, directly and indirectly, in a number of cases in which people are oppressed around the world. And then they think "If oppression is bad and the US oppresses people, people who fight against the US must be good." But the world of international politics cannot just be divided into good and evil. There are in fact things like better and worse. Bin Laden's letter overestimates the influence the US has and that its ability to change things, his vision for the world is worse than the world looks under US hegemony, and the means he chose to pursue his goals did not even help him achieve these goals - instead it just caused a number of bloody wars that got many Muslims (including himself) killed.

And I just wish leftists would think such things (statements like "Bin Laden was right") through. This isn't the first time. During the protests of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd the statement "Abolish the Police" gained tractions. Probably brought into the protest by some anarchists, other leftists thought "well, if the police oppresses people, abolishing it is the obvious solution". Without considering a) how much support by less ideologically committed people it cost them (it was an extremely unrealistic goal) and b) the risk of institutions arising in the vacuum left by the police could be worse (would private security beholden to cooperations be better than the police?, would a mafia that demanded protection money from you be better than the police?). And right now with Gaza we see the same thing: Does calling the 7/10 massacres "decolonization" make people likely to support decolonization? - NO Does Hamas have a shot at conquering Israel and restoring a Palestine "from river to sea" and did the attack further this goal? - NO If Hamas controlled all of current Israel, would the situation be better for the people who live there or would return there, even if you only consider Palestinians ? - DOUBTFUL

I think some leftists latch on to this letter because they have the same conspiracy-theory-thinking bin Laden had and saying "bin Laden was right" sounds really really radical and that makes them feel good. Their politics are very emotion driven with insufficient though put into it. Well, I hope my long post helped to a better understanding.

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