Delivery rider sideswiped by a lane-changer on the M4, thrown off his scooter, then killed when he’s run over by a police car.
Police do the DARVO thing and say he was riding too slowly. It was obviously a tragic accident and they didn’t need to deflect like that, but it’s so totally normal for them to blame the victim when they kill someone, so here we are.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/nsw-western-sydney-m4-motorcycle-crash-police-critical-incident/105561850 #acab
Black people give this country far too much grace.
#BlackLivesMatter#ACAB#FilmThePolice#FL#Florida#Police#AbolishThepolice#DefundThePolice
Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:
“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”
“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”
A month later, he was gone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-deportees-trump-immigration-asylum-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Immigration#Trump#Deportation#ICE #ElSalvador#Venezuela
A symbol of sovereignty...
Gang-related.
That's maritime trivia you know? The only way to legally board a ship in international waters is by permission of captain, or owner, OR nation of the FLAG you're flying. If you're either of the former and your vessel is flying the #JollyRoger, on the high seas, you are a soverign entity. Nation-states hate that shit.😎
Last night, Covington police beat and arrested peaceful protesters. Some of these are my comrades that didn't deserve the awful treatment doled out by the police.
You can see the rapid escalation in these videos.
https://x.com/nswartsell/status/1945998758619058303
There is a GoFundMe to help make bail for the protestors.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-defense-for-arrested-individuals
Please donate if you have the means, and share widely.
Sucesos Murcia | Condenado un policía que entraba armado a un burdel de Murcia y tenía sexo sin pagar
https://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/sucesos/2025/07/16/condenado-policia-entraba-armado-burdel-murcia-119730770.html
“In England and the United States, the police were invented within the space of just a few decades—roughly from 1825 to 1855. The new institution was not a response to an increase in crime, and it really didn’t lead to new methods for dealing with crime. The most common way for authorities to solve a crime, before and since the invention of police, has been for someone to tell them who did it. Besides, crime has to do with the acts of individuals, and the ruling elites who invented the police were responding to challenges posed by collective action. To put it in a nutshell: The authorities created the police in response to large, defiant crowds. That’s — strikes in England, — riots in the Northern US, — and the threat of slave insurrections in the South. So the police are a response to crowds, not to crime.”
— Origins of the Police by David Whitehouse
But this incident with the Irish gentleman illustrates a seeming paradox in criminal justice: why adding more US cops cannot reduce domestic violence.
1. Incidents of domestic violence involving Black women are under-reported.
2. Because Black women are less likely to call the police. But why?
The woman in this case called 911 on her Irish boyfriend. Because she thought cops were here to help.
But instead of helping, they started a nightmare spiral of false imprisonment, wearing unsanitary prison clothes with knife holes and blood stains from previous victims.
He could have died.
Her bar for calling 911 on her Irish boyfriend is now much higher. She's forced to make an awful choice between balancing her safety, and the safety of a potentially abusive domestic partner.
If she gets this balance wrong, and waits too long? The results for her own safety could be disastrous.
If you can understand why she would be less likely to call 911 on her Irish boyfriend in future, then you can understand why Black women in the US are less likely to call the cops on their Black boyfriends in similar situations.
(We haven't even talked about the dynamic of cops abusing their wives)
If you read the story carefully, you'll notice that his harshest and scariest treatment happened when he was transferred to... a bureau of prisons facility in Atlanta Georgia.
Basically, they treated him like a Black US citizen who is presumed innocent and is awaiting trial. 🤷🏿♂️
Like I said, there is no person that has been to ICE detention, and a US pretrial facility, be that federal or county jail or Rikers, that thinks that the ICE conditions are worse.
Roughly 1 in 5 Black men in the US will experience this Kafkaesque unfair imprisonment mistreatment in their lifetime.
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WTF!!! #DHS Tells #Police That Common #Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even #skateboarding and #livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
By Dell Cameron, Jul 10, 202
"The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a #bike or livestreaming a police encounter, WIRED has learned.
"WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests [#FOIA]. Please consider subscribing to support our journalism.
"Threat bulletins issued during last month’s '#NoKings' #protests warn that the US government’s aggressive immigration raids are almost certain to accelerate domestic unrest, with DHS saying there’s a 'high likeliness' more Americans will soon turn against the agency, which could trigger #confrontations near federal sites.
"Blaming intense media coverage and backlash to the US military deployment in #LosAngeles, DHS expects the #demonstrations to 'continue and grow across the nation' as #protesters focused on other issues shift to #immigration, following a broad 'embracement of #AntiICE messaging.'
"The bulletins—first obtained by the national security nonprofit #PropertyOfThePeople through public records requests—warn that officers could face assaults with fireworks and improvised weapons: #paint-filled fire extinguishers, smoke grenades, and projectiles like #bottles and #rocks.
"At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of #nonviolent behavior and common #ProtestGear—like #masks, #flashlights, and #cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare 'from the point of view of an adversary.'
"Protesters on #bicycles, #skateboards, or even 'on foot' are framed as potential 'scouts' conducting reconnaissance or searching for 'items to be used as weapons.' #Livestreaming is listed alongside ' #doxxing' as a 'tactic' for 'threatening' police. Online posters are cast as ideological #recruiters—or as participants in 'surveillance sharing.'
"One list of 'violent tactics' shared by the Los Angeles–based Joint Regional Intelligence Center—part of a post-9/11 fusion network—includes both protesters’ attempts to avoid identification and efforts to identify police. The memo also alleges that face recognition, normally a tool of law enforcement, was used against officers.
"Vera Eidelman, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU], says the government has no business treating #constitutionally protected activities—like #observing or #documenting police—as threats.
"#DHS did not respond to a request for comment."
Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/
#ACAB #FusionCenters#Fascism#Authoritarianism#Resistance#Journalism#PoliceState#CriminalizingDissent#Protestors#Protest#USPol#CriminalizingProtest#Orwell#BigBrother#DoublePlusUngood#SurveillanceState#NaziPatrol#NineteenEightyFour
"Fusion centers like #JRIC play a central role in how police understand #protest movements. The intelligence they produce is rapidly disseminated and draws heavily on open-source data. It often reflects broad, risk-averse assumptions and includes fragmentary and unverified information. In the absence of concrete threats, bulletins often turn to ideological language and social media activity as evidence of emerging risks, even when tied to lawful expression.
"DHS’s risk-based approach reflects a broader shift in US law enforcement shaped by post-9/11 security priorities—one that elevates perceived intent over demonstrable wrongdoing and uses behavior cues, affiliations, and other potentially predictive indicators to justify early intervention and expanded surveillance."
#ThoughtCrime#ACAB#Fascism
#Authoritarianism#Resistance#Journalism#PoliceState#CriminalizingDissent#FreeSpeech#Protestors#USPol#CriminalizingProtest#Orwell#BigBrother#DoublePlusUngood
#SurveillanceState#NineteenEightyFour
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Elle permettra à tes collègues de faire ce qu'il faut faire.
Elle rendront les porcs fous de rage.
«Je ne souhaite pas faire de déclaration»,
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