#tw: police brutality

[un-mare-di-stelle]

If you're wondering what's happening in France this week : the cops murdered a teenager, lied about him being a threat to them, a video proving otherwise circulated on social media, young people from our version of ' housing projects' are taking to the streets and instead of dealing with police brutality and why poc youth might feel so outraged, angry and ready to burn every cop they cross path with, our government is shutting down city trains and buses and sending riot forces. Oh and also our president is blaming video games, cause that's what happened when you're married to an old groomer bat and you have no idea what young people are like cause you're 'step-kids' are older than you.

At fucking least the cop who shot Nahel, who was ONLY SEVENTEEN is being charged with manslaughter (might even be 1st or 2nd degree murder ? I'm more familiar with American law than French law at this point so idek) and is in jail.

France has always been problematic, has always had a problem of police brutality, has always been racist but is bothering less and less every day to even hide it. Don't be fooled into thinking France is still a democracy, we're right on schedule with the rest of Europe and the world for the fucking fascist comeback of doom.

Also fuck Gérald Darmanin, always.

#tw: police brutality #tw: death #tw: murder #tw: racism #france

[worlds-smallest-epsilon]

Kinda wild that “I’m gonna call the cops on you” isn’t seen as the threat of violence that it really is. Against a trans woman, no less.

#tw: police brutality

[ansu-gurleht]

minneapolis police killed somebody again

posting this for a friend from this city (minneapolis, mn). mpd killed another person and their family needs help with funeral expenses. tw: police brutality, police violence, death

please consider donating to his family here

#tw: police brutality #tw: death #tw: police violence #minneapolis #minnesota

[magicalgirlchar]

Sand running to check on Ray and assist in hiding the drugs when he heard the police had arrived as recent argument or not no one deserves be brutalised by the police. Sand then still screaming for Ray as he is restrained by the police and they proceeded to kneel on his neck. Ray looked terrified.

#only friends #tw police #tw: police brutality #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #firstkhao #only friends the series #ofts #sandray

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

On Wednesday January 4th, Sayed Arif Faisal, a member of the Bangladeshi community, was murdered by Cambridge Police in Massachusetts. He was 20 years old, a college student, the only child of his family, and in clear distress. Please help us in demanding Justice for Arif! Help us spread this story so we can put pressure on the CPD, support his family and community and make changes so that these horrific murders do not continue.

His family has set up a GoFundMe for funeral and legal expenses. Please donate if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Support-Sayed-Arif-Faisals-Family

If you are in the Boston, MA area and want to keep in touch, the Muslim Justice League has been working with the family and organizing for justice for Arif: https://www.facebook.com/MuslimJusticeLeague/

These murders have to stop. No family should have to deal with a tragedy like this.

#acab #justice for arif #justice for faisal #defund the police #tw: police brutality

[thisisnotmyname]

The police has murdered another garment worker in Bangladesh. They opened fire on a group of protesting garment workers in Gazipur. Over thirty were injured as well.

The victim's name was Anjuara Begum. The police are as usual denying she was killed by their bullets, even though shotgun shots were retrieved from her body. The mainstream media is avoiding words like murder or kill while reporting incidents like this, and some news is not being made available in English. The ongoing garment workers' strike is being ignored as well.

#garment workers' strike #Bangladesh #tw: murder #tw: death #tw: police brutality

[schrijverr]

Page 74-75

[Page 74 has one photograph on it of a police station. Eddie, Nancy and Steve all have bruised faces as they stand on the steps, likely just released from custody. Eddie is giving the station the finger with a big grin, other arm slung around Steve, who has his arms crossed and has a hip cocked. Nancy is turned towards Argyle, who is cupping one of her cheeks to check her over. Her eyes are hard and she is staring back determinedly. Robin is running towards Steve, one arm outstretched.]

Bailed Out

Jonathan Byers, 1990

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[Page 75 has three portraits in a row of Eddie, Nancy and Steve from when they had just been released and text under it. Eddie is flashing devil horns and dimples in his portrait, cap perched precariously on his head. His right eye is starting to bruise and there are marks around his wrists from the cuffs, a smear of blood is still under his nose.]

Eddie Munson after Encountering the Police in 1990

Jonathan Byers, 1990

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[Next to Eddie is Nancy. She is looking straight into the camera with the same hard look from before, it feels like a mugshot. Her eyes have always had a doe-like quality, almost innocent, which is offset by the bruise underneath her left eye.]

Nancy Byers after Encountering the Police in 1990

Jonathan Byers, 1990

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[On the far end is Steve, the first of the three to be arrested. His left eye is swollen shut, but he doesn’t seem to care, grinning widely and showing off a missing tooth. There is dried blood in the corner of his mouth. His hair is mussed up more than ever seen before and blood splatters line his polo. He is the image of a marred goody two shoes.]

Steve Munson after Encountering the Police in 1990

Jonathan Byers, 1990

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Steve was arrested when covering for Robin, so she wouldn't be arrested for public indecency, she had a scholarship to hold onto. Dykes with their tits out was a privilege to behold, they risked being arrested and seen even more as perverts in the eyes of society because of it. Defiance is what marked many of us.

Eddie and Nancy went to defend Steve, so he wouldn't be carted off. However, neither had success and it ended in swinging fists before both were taken in as well.

The action got Steve fired from his job and it took six months to save up for a new tooth. Eddie was lucky enough to work in a queer friendly bar and to have his music start to go somewhere. Nancy managed to spin it as being there professionally to her college and keep her scholarship.

In the end we were as lucky as we could have been. Steve found a new job as a mechanic, bruises faded and life went on.

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#rr writing #a collection of queer photography by jonathan byers #tw: aids crisis #tw: aids crisis mention #aids crisis #tw: police brutality #tw: d-slur #d-slur #spicy six #steddie #platonic stobin #jargancy #steve harrington #eddie lives au #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #robin buckley #argyle stranger things #stranger things #st post season 4

[ellieellieoxenfree]

one of the special features on the benny's bathtub blu-ray is a trio of episodes of cirkeline/circleen, a danish kids' show from the late 60s/early 70s. they specifically point out the episode 'escape from america,' which was so controversial it was banned from danish public broadcast.

'surely it can't be THAT insane,' i said.

well, in the span of 15 minutes, we go from 'elf and her mice buddies enjoy a mug of honey' to 'elf and mice buddies are separated while soldiers and pig-faced cops shoot at them, the statue of liberty brandishes a gun (a line from 'all you need is love' plays here), an unseen black mouse who claims to be a member of the black panther party sings a song about racism (with lines like 'so hard is my life because i'm not white' and 'in darkness, all things can happen / and you never know it before / you hear a shot') played over photos of police brutality, culminating in a gunshot and the mouse's death, and a group of native americans engage in a tomahawk-vs-guns fight with the american military while the protagonists talk about how they nearly died.'

sorry i doubted you, denmark.

(benny's bathtub is available directly from deaf crocodile's website or from vinegar syndrome. i highly recommend picking up a copy; it's expensive, but limited-run, and deaf crocodile does great restoration work for obscure media.)

#benny's bathtub was incredible and worth the purchase but this blew my mind in a different way #this was for kids!!!!!! #cirkeline #circleen #deaf crocodile #tw: police brutality

[90363462]

#heartbreaking 💔 #black lives matter #important #tw: discrimination #true crime #topic: discrimination #tw: oppression #youtube #topic: oppression #blm #blue lives don't matter #blue lives dont exist #black lives movement #black lives have always mattered #black lives are important #black lives fucking matter #blue lives matter #stop police brutality #blue lives murder #Youtube #police brutality #defund the cops #defund 12 #defund police #tw: racist #topic: racism #topic: racist #tw: racism #topic: police brutality #tw: police brutality

[guardian-angle22]

Hello! I really hope this doesn't come across rude or anything because it's absolutely not my intention, out just of pure curiosity and not related to ls: you mentioned not being comfortable with the cop side of the show and I've seen that a lot among american viewers. i'm not american and in my country we don't have a big issue with the police (there're of course some imbeciles here and there but we don't have civilians randomly being killed). i absolutely agree with the need of having only the right people doing the job since they hold a lot of power what I don't really understand is, who should then protect the people from burglars or abusers or scammers if there's not police? sorry if this is inappropriate, I always wonder if I missing something because I don't trust (some) people to behave appropriately in society without surveillance.

I don’t mind the question, you seem very nice about it and also seem to be coming from a place of genuinely wanting to learn.

It’s a very complicated answer but it truly boils down to: the American police force as it is now is corrupt. Point blank. There’s not good apples and bad apples, the system itself is not just and is not fair and is racist. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The police have slowly throughout the course of American history been given more and more power (and more and more money) and have become even more corrupt as a result, while their power has gone unchecked and their violations of their duties to “protect and serve” have gone unpunished. This post here is short and to the point and I fully agree. Highlighting this part here as a summed up reason as to why ACAB and I hate things glorifying the job of police: “All cops have signed up to enforce a system which is oppressing marginalized people in this country on a daily basis.”

I’m going to share some Info-graphs I have saved (I wish I could credit the source but I just had them in my screenshots), because I feel like they answer part of your question about protecting people a little more eloquently than I could (specifically the last two): 

#anon answered #tw: police brutality #tw: politics #(kind of? idk just trying to filter this out for people who don't want to be triggered) #I hope this answers your question anon! I truly am not the best person to be asking about this probably #also as important as this topic is.. #... me answering this ask is not at all me welcoming a free-for-all in my ask box to argue the merits of cops #this is my fandom space and while I felt comfortable answering this ask in this moment - usually I want to escape the shitty world here

[kamari2038]

Their Worst Regrets - Markus pt.2 (Markus pt.1)(Connor)(Kara)

Screenshots from VGS

#dbh #dbh markus #markus rk200 #dbh lucy #dbh jericho #tw: explosions #tw: gun violence #tw: major character death #tw: police brutality

[princessbubblegumandjustice]

Tyre Nichols: Five Memphis police officers charged over death

The five officers, all of whom joined the Memphis Police Department in the last six years, were fired last week after an investigation found them to be "directly responsible for the physical abuse of Mr. Nichols.”

What charges do the ex-officers face?

Second-degree murder - defined in Tennessee law as a "knowing killing of another", which need not be premeditated

Aggravated assault - meaning an assault committed knowingly, which causes serious injury

Aggravated kidnapping - false imprisonment of a person. It is "aggravated" if the victim suffers an injury or happens if the assailant has a deadly weapon. Each officer faces two counts of this

Official misconduct - covers a range of wrongful acts by those acting as public servants. Again, each officer faces two counts

Official oppression - an offence which happens when a public servant intentionally subjects a victim to mistreatment, such as arrest or detention

#tyre nichols #police brutality #police violence #tw: murder #tw: police brutality #memphis

[kazuwhora]

just found a tiktok account dedicated to exposing the police in the city I live in and I found a video of my ex beating the shit out of an indigenous girl with his partner one like and I’ll send the department all his violent texts he sent to me 😇

#tw: police brutality #tw: abuse #tw: cops #LMAO fucking dirtbag #I am triggered

[zainekabang]

Two years ago today, George Floyd was murdered in an event of police brutality. There is a website that you can go to so you can learn more.

https://www.georgefloydmemorialfoundation.org/

#george floyd #please reblog #blm #tw: police brutality #tw: murder #tw: racial violence

[tarrare-big-naturals]

I can't do read more on mobile so TW for talk of suicide and crisis hotlines, as well as police brutality.

Please allow me to preface this by saying that I'm not anti-recovery or some bullshit, however I do believe that we as a society need to stop propping up hotlines as the end all be all of suicide prevention and need to acknowledge the very large problems and flaws they have, one of those being non-consensual active rescue.

Hey. US friends, as you may know the new crisis hotline number has rolled out (988) and not to scare anyone or anything but I just wanted to let y'all know that it's a shortcut to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which uses non concentual active rescue, meaning they can and will send the pigs to your house if they feel like it's necessary. (988 says there is currently no geolocation being used when you call or text but it seems it's most likely being implemented very soon)

I understand hotlines help people but for a lot of people going through consistent crisis this tends to not be the case. Also, sending cops to the houses of people in crisis and forcing them to get hospitalized tends to have detrimental effects (While there is no consistent national data collected on police killings of those experiencing a mental health or suicidal crisis, it is estimated that they comprise as much as one third to one half of people killed by cops each year, with disabled Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other POCs in particular danger, and while coercive measures such as involuntary transport and involuntary inpatient hospitalization may prevent a person from killing themselves in the short term, research indicates that such practices can result in a “significant increase” in suicidality over the long term. See more on that here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sltb.12560)

Below I will list a few articles about geolocation with the NSPL and 988, and non consensual active rescue, (including the article i copied everything in parathesis above from as well as some lines that to my knowledge, don't use geolocation and non consensual rescue tactics.)

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2021/04/19/the-new-national-mental-health-crisis-line-wants-to-track-your-location/

https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/01/roll-988-threatens-anonymity-crisis-hotlines/

https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/crisis-lifelines-surveillance-geolocation-algorithms.html

And now for some hotlines (Note: i have also heard peer warmlines don't call the pigs but those numbers vary by state so i didnt list em):

#tw: suicide #tw: police brutality #988 #suicide prevention #mental health #crisis hotline

[just-positivity-stuff]

#topic: black lives matter #tw: black lives matter #tw: police brutality #topic: police brutality #tw: transphobia mention