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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.’

www.instagram.com/p/CpvQioIrkNk/

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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 · 1 year

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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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intersectionalpraxis · 2 days

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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 · 6 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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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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fuzzyghost · 7 months

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

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archive-pl · 1 day

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#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #palestine genocide #genocide #usa #police brutality #iof #iof terrorism #israel #iof war crimes #war crimes #palestinian genocide #scholasticide

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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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workersolidarity · 22 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 · 24 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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