CALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICER IN SPOTLIGHT FOR BODY SLAMMING LADY OUTSIDE GROCERY STORE
A police officer’s violent actions in southern California are being investigated after video footage showed the white cop brutalizing an unarmed Black woman for the apparent offense of recording officers detaining her husband.
The video footage recorded by a witness began by showing the woman holding a cell phone and filming officers handcuffing her husband, who can be heard repeatedly asking “why” he was being detained outside the supermarket in Lancaster.
After two officers struggled to handcuff the husband, one walked directly to the wife. When the camera follows the officer, he’s shown grabbing the wife by the back of her neck before violently flinging her to the ground.
The person recording can be heard yelling for the cop to “get off of her” and not to hit her to no avail.
The cop is next shown kneeling on the wife’s neck, evoking horrific imagery from Derek Chavin’s police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
As with the woman’s husband, the officer struggled to place her in handcuffs even though she wasn’t resisting.
Her husband can be heard in the background pleading for the officer to stop. He also said she has cancer. Neither claim prevented the officer from accosting the woman standing at least 20 feet away from the officers when they were handcuffing her husband.
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UPDATED REPORT ADDED REGARDING AREA WHERE ALLEGED ASSAULT TOOK PLACE
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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/1/27/has-the-war-on-gaza-hurt-israels-economy
(DISCLAIMER: I'm going thru. a bunch of BDS targets, to redouble efforts, examining workarounds as a layperson, no expert. Just please think over how aggressively, extensively you approach this, take action at your own discretion. I feel compelled because of the sheer desecration of the Palestinians. I know I'm compromised, and I feel disgusted, mocked, insulted by politicians, war mongers, profiteers, states, upperclass folk in media, business, who have acted with impunity, who are indifferent to people, snub them, beat peaceful marchers. They expect our passivity. So, I want to hurt their prospects. Do you?)
This article^ from Jan. says that the Zio-state economy has suffered, in tourism, construction, exports. The only thing that's doing well is tech/digital investments. That's got to change; I neglected to add switching to open source apps like Telegram, or Signal in the screenshot below. (I've done so now for myself, deleted WhatsApp, IG.) Back up your SM stuff, contacts, than if you can afford to, jump ship. (I get certain people, like journalists, some businesses, digital jobs can't readily do so, but if SM is just recreational to you, don't add to the traffic, views, maybe deactivate indefinitely, delete accounts, or go to a competitor.) For Microsoft, try canceling your XBox season passes, get off of Bing/MS Edge browsers, use an alternative browser. Buy old used games instead, or borrow from friends instead of buying new games/DLC, digital downloads. Don't buy a new Windows PC, or Mac computer; buy a refurbished or used computer, phone, tablet instead, secondhand. (Speaking only for myself, I gotta spend more time off the phone.) Same goes for HP products, buy old/used. Google's ubiquitous, so just focus on what's easiest, go from their.
These are the biggest companies in America, consider avoiding them, buy local or from their competition, small/family businesses. Instead of ordering off of Amazon, using UPS, commit to going to physical/local/small stores only, or just hold off on any splurging, unnecessary purchases (if applies to you.) Consider canceling your Prime sub, Audible, Kindle, memberships avoiding WholeFoods altogether, (at your discretion.) Just use the library, or small bookstores. Sites for reselling, small sellers, maybe like Kijiji, craigslist, will be a good workaround. Your network/contacts can help.
Buy from smaller, specialty stores instead of big box stores like Wal-Mart, Costco. Grow your own veggies, turn to kitchen gardening if that's an option. Minimize your wants, stick to what you need.
For Disney, keep your money, cancel your Disney streaming service, don't support their movies in theaters, don't buy their merch, toys. Don't support their other platforms like ESPN, ABC News, etc. (I'd go so far as to say don't support Hollywood, globally, big/state media/business, turn theatres into no-shows, because the affluent bureaucrats in those sectors hate you, think you're stupid, want you to be passive, distracted, thru. entertaining yourself. Send the message by hurting their bottom line. (Read Chomsky's Media Control, other works)
Edit: Consider abstaining from watching new Star Wars, Marvel, or Pixar movies, shows. Companies dropped a ton of game, movie trailers to excite, entice you; don't be duped.
For banks like Bank of America, hypothetically, you'd have to switch banks, like going to a smaller competitor, or digital bank app, but I can't verify/speak to that. I understand not everyone can or should do that. New customers, sure, old customers with seniority/loyalty benefits, probably not.
Sorry if this is redeundant.
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