#end police violence

[alwaysbewoke]

#police brutality #police corruption #police misconduct #acab #end police violence #justice for victims #police accountability #stop the abuse #cop watch

[personal-blog243]

Branding message to U.S. republicans:

There are republicans who are proud to be the “party of Lincoln” and have been gaining in the polls among African Americans and Latin Americans. I understand that there have certainly been democrats through history who have held racist views. You are definitely within your right to criticize Democratic leadership of some blue cities.

However, I can’t help but notice that a lot of right leaning people are still a little too quick to assume any POC killed by the police was “asking for it” or they will pivot to criticizing protesters instead of addressing the root issues.

Also republicans should not shy away from the teaching of history from a non white perspective. If you believe that racist atrocities in our history were mostly committed by democrats, why not run with that?

#teach black history #end police violence #racism #politics #political #anti racism #republicans #democrats

[intersectionalpraxis]

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At noon today, my doorbell rang, and three plainclothes police officers introduced themselves. "Mr. Abou Jahjah, we are here at the request of Dutch authorities, acting through Interpol, to request that you delete this tweet concerning complaints against IDF soldiers by the #March30Movement."

I was taken aback. I asked for more details.

They responded that they were not sure of the details; they were merely following orders received through Interpol. My children were questioning, "Daddy, why are the police here? What did you do, Daddy?" The neighbors peered out from their windows... Although the officers maintained professionalism, I sensed they too felt somewhat uncomfortable, indicating the awkwardness of the situation. I ponder who directed them to undertake such an action on a Sunday and in such a manner. This feels like intimidation; it's political. It's not illegal to file complaints and discuss them publicly. This incident speaks volumes about our current state of affairs.

IDF soldiers from the Netherlands, Belgium, and other countries are involved in war crimes and genocide, boasting about their actions on social media, showing genocidal intent, and posing next to dead bodies and destroyed homes, including personal items of victims. Yet, the police show up at my door because I lead a movement that is legally filing complaints against these actions?

The Dutch authorities are mistaken if they think they can intimidate me or the #March30Movement. If anything, this incident only strengthens our resolve.

No tweets will be deleted. Our freedom of expression is not debatable. Our right to denounce attrocities even less. Our lawyers in many countries are preparing more complaints. We will communicate on all of them.

Nothing can halt our momentum. Even if they target me, our movement is not reliant on just one individual; it is a collective effort, and more people are joining every day. We are resolute. Bring it on!

#EndImpunity #FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #current events #settler violence #settler colonialism #netherlands #defund the government #defund the police #defund the cops #defund the military #end the occupation #end the genocide #israel is a war criminal #israel is evil #israel is a terrorist state #human rights violations #gaza genocide

[intensepokerface]

Okay look, I understand that really important things are happening in the world at the moment, the queens’s funeral, Trump getting sued, Adam Levine cheating on his wife… but people in Iran are being murdered. This began by the cruel murder of a 22 year old girl, Mahsa Amini, last week by the police because she wasn’t wearing appropriate hijab. This has been going on in Iran for decades, women have been going through this.

Some people will want to jot this down as islamphobia, but that is nothing even close to reality. If women are burning their headscarves now, it’s not out of the hatred of Islam, it’s an act of protest to the loss of religious freedom. It’s not just that, if someone is born from muslim parents in Iran they are automatically assumed to be a muslim and they have no right to changing their religion without serious persecution. The Islamic Republic has given an evil face to Islam. The poeple of Iran don’t hate Islam. We hate governments who will force religion on women. Historically this has been a recurring event. Before the revolution in the ‘30s Reza Shah forced women to discard their hijab and now for decades the opposite is happening. All the people of Iran have ever asked for is freedom and all they’ve got in return has been cruelty, violence and death.

The cruelty doesn’t end there. Few months ago the southern and western parts of Iran had no water, they also did peaceful protests against that situation and they too were awarded with fire arms and violence. All for asking for the most basic need a person has. A need for water. Iran may not have a lot of water but there is enough for this not to happen. This is evident by the fact that the government is now using that said water against the protesters by blasting them with it.

For the past week the people of Iran of all races and ages and religions are fighting against the regime. The government has been imprisoning defenseless people. They are killing people to show the world they didn’t kill Mahsa Amini. They are using military grade equipment. In some cities they are using tanks, they are using guns and tear gas and batons. They may be using acid in some areas. They are using ambulances to arrest protesters and bring soldiers into crowds. They are doing this so that if the protesters attack these ambulances to free innocent people, they can have proof of people destroying public property. The only weapon people have against this immense level of violence is their bare hands and their courage.

Tumblr has a community of people who pride themselves on social justice and wanting to help people’s voices be heard. What is happening in Iran is no less than what has happened in other countries during the past few years. Iranians are so alone, they have no help. No country is out there helping the people of Iran. At least their voices can be heard. At least people should be aware of what is happening. Tens of people have been killed and hundreds injured just for protesting police brutality, the irony is evident.

Right as all these things are happening, the president of Iran another pillar in this evil government is in the US, talking about the freedom of Iranians and their fortunate lives.

About five years ago after a protest in Tehran; Telegram and Instagram, platforms that were widely used by Iranian were blocked by the government. They were added to the list of social media platforms that were blocked then, like Twitter and Facebook and Tumblr. After a while Instagram was unblocked but Telegram has been blocked since. All of this is just so people from the outside of Iran don’t find out about what is really happening in Iran so the government can lie on their behalf. Like they are doing right now, lying about how Iranian women wear hijab out of sheer will while the reality is that they are dying to gain freedom. About 4 years ago, the internet was completely shut off for about a month. This was following a protest regarding the extremely high price of gas in a country that has all the gas to last a hundred lifetimes. When the internet was shut down people didn’t know for how long. We were kept in the dark and the government was reining while ensuing terror in people with the threat of more restrictions. Just imagine having no internet, it was an insane time. They are restricting the internet again. Last night they shut off the internet partly and they may do it again indefinitely and the voices of the people may not reach anyone again. There isn’t much time.

Then they shot two rockets at a Ukrainian plane that had lifted from Iranian grounds. There were Irannian students on the plane, 176 people who all died for no reason. The government of the Islamic Republic killed all those people for nothing. And all the world did was light a few candles. They need to be held responsible for all these lives they are taking away. All these young people they are killing.

I know that this is long. I know that this is inconvenient. It’s upsetting and I get that but help is truely needed. People can’t keep dying for nothing. The government can’t keep getting away with everything. They have no one to answer to and they can do anything. They kill and torture and imprison. I am just asking people to educate themselves and maybe help spread the word. Go on Twitter and watch the videos if you can. I won’t put them on here because it may be too upsetting. There is blood, there is gunshot wounds, there is violence and there is terror.

#Iran #social justice #police brutality #help #help needed #mahsa amini #end violence #Queen Elizabeth

[handweavers]

lets turn this conversation back to asia lmao. i also find it interesting how these terms have shifted here in seasia. grew up pretty much understanding that asians that come here are immigrants while white people that come here are expats, even if the white people give up their citizenship. what i find interesting is that recently there has been a shift, rich people from other asian countries are also being labelled as "exapts" whether or not they plan to migrate back. however the racism still prevails - people who were completely fine with white expats are complaining and protesting about asian expats stealing their jobs. you'll never see a poor asian person get the expat treatment though, even if they are only here to make some money and go back in a few years. there's your nuance random commentor

exactly, like you'll never see an indonesian or filipino woman who comes to work as a maid in malaysia or singapore to make some money and go back in a few years being called an expat, she is always an "immigrant" but a wealthier person from south korea or japan doing white collar work may now be described as an "expat" much like westerners. like you said, white people who immigrate permanently and even take up citizenship are still called "expats" and not "immigrants" because the word "immigrant" has racial and class connotations. my mom is a white canadian who immigrated to malaysia and has had PR for 20+ years but she's only ever called an expat, not an immigrant. whereas my (malaysian indian) dad in canada has held canadian PR for 40+ years and he's only ever been called an immigrant, even though he had no intention of staying permanently.

#i have so much love and respect for foreign maids/domestic workers they are treated so poorly and face so much police violence too #they are in such precarious situations and are just trying to make ends meet and employers & the cops are so cruel to them #so few legal protections and they are culturally villified. its so bleak

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

#police violence #police brutality #law enforcement reform #end qualified immunity

[clonehub]

"andor is trying too hard to be dark and gritty! star wars was never like this! this doesn't fit star wars!" sorry they can't make police brutality comfortable for you to watch

#ch posts #just saw my first bad take for andor #like idk man if you see a very clear metaphor for racist harassment at the hands of a white supremacist/racist police force #and you see the kind of violence that ends in #and then later on you see a woman of color get brutalized by police #and say ''this is too much''--says a lot about you im just saying! #also why the hell does cassian need to have been morally clear on all fronts for you to feel for him #andor #andor spoilers

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#police state #police violence #police brutality #law enforcement reform now #goon squad #end qualified immunity #ACAB #republican hypocrisy #republican assholes #maga morons

[hack-saw2004]

ONE HOUR AGO: things are escalating at indiana university, students and faculty are being arrested with extremely violent force. at least 24 comrades have been arrested so far.

#cw police brutality #cw police violence #free palestine #end aid to israel #current events #palestine genocide #let gaza live #west bank under attack #save palestine #bds movement #end the genocide #end the occupation #campus protests #indiana university #indiana university palestine solidarity committee #students for justice in palestine #gaza solidarity encampment #acab #boycott divest sanction #from the river to the sea #free palestine in our lifetime #no one is free until we are all free #america is a fascist police state

[v-arbellanaris]

To be clear, I'm sending this ask not to start an argument but because talking about S/amson's morality as a subject interests me. This is all intended politely, though I am bad at tone. While my personal thoughts on S/amson's stuff in act 3 are a little complicated (shit of him to do, and they have him be excited about the annulment on the templar route, the latter of which I do have to wonder if they did simply bc the writers hate addicts (they do) or not. Still it did happen and it IS odd when people try to act like he had less part in the attempted genocide of the gallows than C/ullen, who was way more hesitant than S/amson), how did you come to the conclusion that he was purposefully throwing mages at slavers? He says pretty explicitly that he didn't know and was trying to get mages out of Kirkwall, are you assuming he's lying or is there some extra information I'm missing? I guess I could see why he might lie here if that was his intention, but I don't… really think he is? there's nothing to point to it? I see "he gave mages to a slaver" as a point a lot in the S/amson discourse, but I don't know how people are coming to the conclusion that he wasn't genuinely doing the best with the no resources he had at that moment, and the smuggler he was using ended up being a slaver without his knowledge. This being said, the fandom posing him as super good compared to C/ullen is really weird, and while I understand why it happens, it is frustrating seeing people ignore his blatent flaws.

do i think he deliberately gave mages over to slavers? no, i don't think that. i also don't think a lack of deliberateness absolves him of blame. k/irkwall is notorious for slavers - how many do we kill in game? we find a bunch just hanging out in lowtown, and the docks, and near the wounded coast. but the guy who lives on the edge of the docks never suspects that the man taking runaways for free is a slaver?

with regards to f/eynriel, s/amson is very explicit about how he didn't help f/eynriel as much as possible because he didn't have money. instead, he directs f/eynriel to a ship captain he knows. he knew the slaver, and he sent both o/livia and f/eynriel to him. when h/awke says "of course your friend's a kidnapper", s/amson quickly says r/einer's not a friend, but someone who "isn't scared to try out this business". but what business is he referring to? f/eynriel doesn't have coin, that's the entire reason s/amson turned him away. what other reason does a ship captain in kirkwall HAVE to take people on for free? s/amson deliberately sends f/eynriel to someone else to deal with. and when he heard rumours that person was selling people, what did he do? nothing, until h/awke comes looking.

#asks #i think he wants to think he's a good person who is trying his best to do good and be good #and so that's how he defends himself and the harm that comes as a result of his actions #and in THAT way he parallels c/ullen actually #but. even as far back as act one. his ambient dialogue already indicates that he's mostly extremely bitter abt being kicked out of the orde #he has dialogue that's like 'people wouldn't treat me like this if i was still in the order'. the nerve of saying this to a FERELDAN REFUGE #and keran exists RIGHT THERE as a counter-example for the quest in act 3. s/amson straight up BETRAYS THE MAGES TO THE TEMPLARS #keran fucking LEAVES THE ORDER bc he refuses to be part of that kind of violence anymore. samson betrays the mages and then will GO BACK #if you advocate for him. #he likes to think he's a good person. that doesn't mean he is one. #i think he THINKS he's very sympathetic to the mages. but then you get that line in act 3 that's like 'but at the end of the day they have #options we don't' which is yknow. an insane take. to go from 'mages deserve to be free and live unafraid' #to 'maybe i WILL rejoin the police state currently trying to g*nocide them'. like that's a HUGE LEAP that doesn't come out of nowhere. #anti chantry #fandom critical #samson critical

[alwaysbewoke]

Stole his adult whole life 😢

After serving 44 years for a rape and burglary he did not commit, 68-year-old Ronnie Long reached a settlement with the state of North Carolina for $25 million - the second largest wrongful conviction settlement in U.S. history. Long was initially given only an insulting $750K in compensation. But after filing a civil lawsuit, he was awarded an additional $25 million along with a formal apology.   In 1976, Long was only 21 years old when an all-white jury that was “hand-picked by local law enforcement” convicted him of raping a “prominent” 54-year-old White woman in Concord, NC. He was given two life sentences. An appeals court finally overturned his conviction in 2020, citing jury tampering by the police chief and false testimonies from detectives. Prosecutors also deliberately suppressed evidence that could have proven his innocence, including: a rape kit that collected 43 different fingerprints and a suspect’s hair that did not match Long’s. Semen samples also “disappeared” from evidence.   After his release, Long was eager to spend time with his family, including wife Ashleigh, who he married from prison in 2014. Sadly, both of Long’s parents died before seeing him freed and exonerated from this American nightmare. His mother passed just 30 days before his release. He told CBS News, “I know my mother and father died with a broken heart...I’m gonna tell them now, when I visit the gravesite, ‘Your son is clear.’”

#police brutality #police corruption #police misconduct #acab #end police violence #justice for victims #police accountability #stop the abuse #cop watch #white supremacy #racism #social justice #equality #end hate #anti-racism #racial equality #stop racism #no to hate #dismantle racism

[aseriesofunfortunatejan]

I honestly don't know how to preface this or what I'm going to say at all... but I am known to be a citizen of France, and you may have heard that we're facing a bit of a Situation at the moment.

I can't really explain everything right now, I wouldn't know how to go about it and it is unfortunately my bed time. Please try to learn about the situation from other sources and give it the respect it deserves.

The short of it: a cop shot a kid.

Nahel was 17 years old. Though the cop first claimed he acted in self-defence (and the media ran with it immediately - a mix of the horror that is the quest of a constant stream of live news, and the media's willingness to defend the police force) there was video evidence of him threatening Nahel with a gun alongside a colleague, being in no danger whatsoever. This was a racist crime.

Racism, notably racism towards Arabic people, is rampant in France. Police violence has also been rampant since Macron was first elected.

This has led to an outcry notably from teenagers - some very young - who live in impoverished areas. On top of many other protests, there have been many reports of violent degradations in the streets. Lots of fires. Many stores broken into and ransacked. The situation is very messy, with local populations unfortunately being the first victims of these acts of violence - most notably because our recent protests (due to Macron's government abusing Article 49.3 yet again to force a retirement law the majority of the population was against) brought light (...yet again, but in this case, very recently) to the fact that our government literally does not give a shit about protests or what happens in the streets.

The biggest problem here, however, is that those degradations are extremely over-represented by the media, while the ongoing acts of police violence... simply aren't. You have to be involved, know an organisation that's in the know, or generally be involved in leftist political spaces at least online to be aware of it. Over 3 times the amount of cops that was sent to repress the recent protests about the retirement law is currently being sent to go after minors in the streets. Cops have been reported to use lethal weapons. Portrayed below: witnesses in Marseille state that a random young individual who wasn't doing anything wrong was beaten by at least 5 cops. Video evidence shows him on the ground, unconscious, abandoned.

From a compilation by Révolution Permanente. Translations by yours truly.

And this is just a random example. Young people, most of them minors are being arrested en masse, a lot of them at random. As was already the case during our recent protests, but is worsened by the fact that our police is deeply racist, living conditions in police custody are indescribably bad. Lawyers in Paris allege that they were not let in at first (supposedly to "protect them") and as such, many minors were left in police custody for 24 hours without being able to speak to a lawyer, despite many of them having a clean record. Due to requests from our minister of justice, those who are put on trial are given much harsher sentences than they would have been for the same offenses under other circumstances - many minors are being given prison sentences. Witnesses allege that defendants are being judged unfairly, punished without sufficient proof, and given harsher sentences by Judges than were requested by the prosecution.

What Macron wants and has always put in action is for France to be a police state. He encourages police violence, gives more power to the police, and ignores protests until they go away. He has done it many times. During our recent protests, members of the government themselves stated that they were simply waiting for the population to get tired. It's worked before with the gilets jaunes protests.

And the propaganda, with help from unfair representations of what is happening in the streets by the media, is working. A GoFundMe was started by a member of the French alt-right to support the ("family of the") cop who killed Nahel and currently has over 1 million euros in donations. (GoFundMe has stated that this fundraiser does not go against their ToS - though from reading their ToS, by being in support of a criminal act, abuse of power and discrimination, it... should.) The fundraiser for Nahel's mother, who just lost her 17 years old son, only has a little over 300 000€ right now. I have no words for how I feel about how deeply racist our population is... how comfortable people are in spreading copaganda and racist rhetoric online... but one thing is for sure: if anyone needed any help, the propaganda is everywhere, and it's working.

(Edit: One last note. Just two weeks ago, a 19 year old black man was shot in extremely similar circumstances. Until protests started following Nahel's death, it wasn't covered by the media. No one heard about it.)

#france #police violence #tagging because i ended up writing a lot

[intersectionalpraxis]

⚠️huge tw: police brutality, physical assault, and violence⚠️

'IOF soldiers train with US cops/military officials.' Watching that evil scum put his leg on that journalist's body like that (the way we see cops do in the US) is just beyond horrifying. I want to assume those are fellow journalists towards the end trying to intervene. IOF are terrorists.

Thankfully, The Times of Gaza on X reported that he was receiving treatment -they were paramedics that were rushing forward:

#feminist #feminism #social justice #freepalastine🇵🇸 #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #settler colonialism #settler violence #colonial violence #end the occupation #end the genocide #defund the police #police brutality #tw police brutality #defund the cops #defund the military #current events #jerusalem

[vertigoartgore]

Publicity still of John Pankow as John Vukovich and William Petersen as Richard Chance from William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A. (80's american cinema at its finest, at its darkest also).

#to live and die in l.a. #william friedkin #rip #william petersen #john pankow #police #los angeles #drugs #violence #dark ending #willem dafoe #80s #80s cinema #neo noir #thriller #1985 #wang chung #80s asthetic #cigarette #shocking ending #fire #painting #counterfeit money #secret service agents

[inquisitiveheretic]

luv the 16 candles mv flashbacks of pete getting turned he’s shot exactly like the dead wife in horror movies. slightly out of focus, soft hazy light, her beautiful eyes ...

#i do like that he's a clear victim in the narrative which makes a point to show the way he is toyed with n brutalized while ALSO doing all #the classic brooding tortured badass tropes. its an interesting metaphor all around especially w the police violence/corruption at the end #lee.txt #fall out boy

[masquenoire]

Roman's last memory of his parents back when they were still alive were ones of fear, the difference being that this time it was they who were the ones that were afraid and not him. Furious at having caught him sleeping with the company's top model, Mrs. Sionis went to strike Roman, only for him to snap her wrist and send her flying into a nearby bookcase where her head was cut open by a sharp wooden corner. Roman was no longer a small child they could push around without consequences; at 17, he was already far too big for even Mr. Sionis to handle and the fear they showed that night was the push their son needed to know he was ready to kill them. He still remembers the sight of fear in their eyes, how powerful it made him feel. In his opinion, it was the first time they'd ever shown him the slightest damn bit of respect and even today, in his eyes, fear is respect.

#💀 || musings #💀 || headcanons #child abuse tw #child abuse cw #Mr. and Mrs. Sionis raised their hands to him one too many times oops #Except by that age Roman could demolish the pair of them without effort #The accident when he was born and the rabies bite turned Roman into a powerhouse without even needing to work out #Of course his parents were socialites and not exactly strong but Roman felt like the king of the world putting them in their place #Let himself get chucked out of the family home but he knew they'd never report him assaulting them to the police #If word got out that their child was a freak who'd slept with their top model they'd never hear the end of it #But to Roman their fear was a tool of manipulation #Came back two nights later and burned them and the family mansion down #Never felt happier in his life :') #But YEAH he likes it when people are afraid of him #To Roman fear equals respect #Another reason why he hates Batman the bastard doesn't show any respect #domestic violence tw #domestic violence cw #Just covering all my tags just in case