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tools for commensality 🧿 and 2 others boosted

"the feds might send active duty military to 'secure and protect' #Minneapolis"

active-duty military were already sent to LA!!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marines-high-alert-deploy-los-angeles-ice-protests/

as it happened, Marines & NG mostly stood around near fed buildings while LAPD & LASD unloaded projectiles on protesters--which Newsom and Bass are fine with as long as it's homegrown cops

(redid this to not seem subtoot-y, we shouldn't let media erasure erase our own recent historical memories)

#uspol #ice #policing #LosAngeles #California

700 Marines arrive in L.A. area amid ICE protests as Newsom files suit to block deployment

Some 700 Marines have arrived to join National Guard troops in Los Angeles. California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked a court to block the deployment.

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es · 3 days ago

"the feds might send active duty military to 'secure and protect' #Minneapolis"

active-duty military were already sent to LA!!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marines-high-alert-deploy-los-angeles-ice-protests/

as it happened, Marines & NG mostly stood around near fed buildings while LAPD & LASD unloaded projectiles on protesters--which Newsom and Bass are fine with as long as it's homegrown cops

(redid this to not seem subtoot-y, we shouldn't let media erasure erase our own recent historical memories)

#uspol #ice #policing #LosAngeles #California

700 Marines arrive in L.A. area amid ICE protests as Newsom files suit to block deployment

Some 700 Marines have arrived to join National Guard troops in Los Angeles. California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked a court to block the deployment.

tools for commensality 🧿 and 1 other boosted

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es · last week

Who ever could have foreseen this outcome??!

"law enforcement and LA officials are declining to enforce the mask ordinance"

https://lapublicpress.org/2026/01/la-mask-law-ice-immigrants-sheriff/

#LosAngeles #ICE #policing #uspol

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es · last week

Who ever could have foreseen this outcome??!

"law enforcement and LA officials are declining to enforce the mask ordinance"

https://lapublicpress.org/2026/01/la-mask-law-ice-immigrants-sheriff/

#LosAngeles #ICE #policing #uspol

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es · 2 weeks ago

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es replied · 2 weeks ago

Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police is in Minneapolis, MN
January 8, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "FOP Stands with ICE"

Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Condemns Rhetoric (Minneapolis, MN) The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with the men and women of Law Enforcement across the country. Over the past month, while Federal law enforcement has been doing their job in Minnesota, political and community leaders have condemned and vilified them. The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by Mayor Frey and other politicians have made their jobs and those of local and state law enforcement more difficult and dangerous. The job of law enforcement is difficult and dangerous enough without the agitation by leaders in our state and communities. When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning. The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police condemns these attacks on law enforcement and calls on politicians and leaders to stop the anti-law enforcement rhetoric and to ask for calm while the facts come out. — Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police is in Minneapolis, MN January 8, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "FOP Stands with ICE" Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Condemns Rhetoric (Minneapolis, MN) The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with the men and women of Law Enforcement across the country. Over the past month, while Federal law enforcement has been doing their job in Minnesota, political and community leaders have condemned and vilified them. The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by Mayor Frey and other politicians have made their jobs and those of local and state law enforcement more difficult and dangerous. The job of law enforcement is difficult and dangerous enough without the agitation by leaders in our state and communities. When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning. The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police condemns these attacks on law enforcement and calls on politicians and leaders to stop the anti-law enforcement rhetoric and to ask for calm while the facts come out.

Em :official_verified: boosted

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · last month

Facial recognition not only harms people right now, but feeds into’ crime-predicting’ tech that turbo charges existing bias.

Sign our petition to ban Predictive Policing in the UK to push back on this dystopian vision of a fully monitored Pre-Crime future.

Act now ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech

#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #bancrimepredictingtech #safetynotsurveillance #predictivepolicing

Em :official_verified: boosted

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · last month

Facial recognition is biased. The police know it. The UK Home Office knows it. And they don't care.

This dangerous, intrusive tech produces more false positives for women, young people and members of ethnic minority groups.

We need Parliamentary scrutiny now!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/10/police-facial-recognition-technology-bias

#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #safetynotsurveillance

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · last month

Facial recognition not only harms people right now, but feeds into’ crime-predicting’ tech that turbo charges existing bias.

Sign our petition to ban Predictive Policing in the UK to push back on this dystopian vision of a fully monitored Pre-Crime future.

Act now ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech

#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #bancrimepredictingtech #safetynotsurveillance #predictivepolicing

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · last month

Facial recognition is biased. The police know it. The UK Home Office knows it. And they don't care.

This dangerous, intrusive tech produces more false positives for women, young people and members of ethnic minority groups.

We need Parliamentary scrutiny now!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/10/police-facial-recognition-technology-bias

#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #safetynotsurveillance

Chip Butty boosted

Wen

@Wen@mastodon.scot · last month

Facial recognition and the English maladministration

Two stories that cover some government approaches. I am not surprised about the Home Office though - 11 years ago or so, I was seconded there for a year as we provided some technology. Part of my role included looking at the potential (and state) of new technologies, one of which was ‘predictive crime prevention’. Our report was suppressed. Too much hard evidence.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/ico_home_office_rfr/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/uk_cops_facial_recognition/
#FaceRecognition #Policing #UK

Wen

@Wen@mastodon.scot · last month

Facial recognition and the English maladministration

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/ico_home_office_rfr/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/uk_cops_facial_recognition/
#FaceRecognition #Policing #UK

Chewie boosted

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 months ago

Expanding facial recognition without proper safeguards in place puts our rights on the back foot.

We should be able to walk down the street without being ID’d at every step.

The UK Parliament must wake up and halt the march of this tech with its questionable accuracy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r7pwpgeweo

#facialrecognition #police #policing #ukpolitics ukpol #surveillance #privacy

Cory Doctorow boosted

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 months ago

Last week the Safety Not Surveillance coalition hit the streets of London.

We sent the message that so-called 'crime-predicting' tech must be BANNED!

Because we have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.

This tech fuels racism, enables unchecked police power and threatens all our rights. Ban it!

#SafetyNotSurveillance #BanCrimePredictingTech #PreCrime #police #policing #justice #ukpol #ukpolitics #criminaljustice

Photo of a van with digital displays reading 'Ban Crime Predicting Tech' on a green background with checkered borders. The van is photographed crossing Westminster Bridge and moving towards Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London, UK.

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to · 2 months ago

When you tell someone you’re an abolitionist, usually the first response is something about “bad apples” and how “it’s not all cops.”

Whether or not you believe that, you must see that the system itself is rotten to the core. Policing is a cult. Cops will protect cops for no other reason than their uniform. That’s a problem. A big one.

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-police-department-sexual-misconduct-promotions

#Abolition #ACAB #AbolishThePolice #Patriarchy #Policing

Open Rights Group

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 2 months ago

Expanding facial recognition without proper safeguards in place puts our rights on the back foot.

We should be able to walk down the street without being ID’d at every step.

The UK Parliament must wake up and halt the march of this tech with its questionable accuracy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r7pwpgeweo

#facialrecognition #police #policing #ukpolitics ukpol #surveillance #privacy

Chip Butty boosted

COPS campaign

@copscampaign@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Reaction at the end of the day at the #spycops public inquiry after hearing the harrowing story of the racist murder of Michael Menson & the relentlessly racist policing of the family's campaign for justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPgV29X0LGk

#undercoverpolicinginquiry #ucpi #police #policing #undercover #undercoverpolice #undercoverpolicing #activism #cointel #corruption #spy #spying #racism