In today’s special, we found Twitter user @greg_doucette who found supporting Tweets and evidence that police brutality is on the rise. It does not seem to be winding down. Not all cops are bad and not all cops abuse their power. But the ones that do abuse their power, are making its very citizen that they swore to protect fed up. By now you may have seen all the looting and burning down of buildings. It’s becoming chaotic out there and the president’s response is to send in the military. Granting the military to use brute force if needed. It’s questionable that if the military steps it will only make things worse. We hope that the media covers more of the good cops that are out there kneeling and protesting against police brutality. We saw members of the Miami Police department hugging it out with its community and promising the people to use less force. If we can’t de-escalate this situation we are looking at what can become the next civil war. I leave you guys with this famous quote- ‹America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves› – Abraham Lincoln. Enjoy today’s special and remember not all cops are bad.
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To simplify following the criminal justice news of the last 36 hours, I posted a set of 10 links to police brutality videos on Facebook
Can't do that here, obvs
So I'm putting them into a thread
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#1:
1️⃣ Houston TX: trampling a peaceful protestor with a horse
(If you can’t control it in a crowd, you shouldn’t be riding it; if you *can* control it, then the trampling was deliberate)https://t.co/9QRscHGQKR
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#2:
2️⃣ New York City, NY: Shoving an unarmed woman to the curb, prompting a seizure that put her in the emergency room
(3 different videos in this same thread with different angles of the assault)https://t.co/bKrkLdsHjY https://t.co/WSD7nP25Ej
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#3:
3️⃣ New York City, NY: doing an intentional hit-and-run with a car door to an unarmed protestor standing in the non-vehicular bike lane https://t.co/QOlTCWqWi4
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#4:
4️⃣ New York City, NY: beating a variety of unarmed protestors for sport https://t.co/nGARHwEhwg
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#5:
5️⃣ Las Vegas, NV: beating a variety of unarmed protestors for sporthttps://t.co/c7Sdf0QnEy
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#6:
6️⃣ Fort Wayne, IN: pepper-spraying a variety of unarmed protestors for sporthttps://t.co/Uam7whcd8n
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#7:
In today’s criminal justice news, the 1st Rule of @fsckemall remains undefeated as a Minneapolis PD officer in an SUV indiscriminately sprays random citizens with pepper spray from his car window
This is a §1983 violation btw https://t.co/sHDIl5agMF
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 29, 2020
#8:
8️⃣ Minneapolis, MN: detonating flashbang grenades in a docile crowd of unarmed protestors for sport
(Note: this was from the first day of protests; the police are firing from the roof of the 3rd Precinct, which is now ash)https://t.co/WuqL2IkfsG
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#9:
9️⃣ Minneapolis, MN: shooting a random protestor in the neck with a rubber bullet, then detonating more flash-bangs
(Note: this was from the first day of protests; the police are firing from the roof of the 3rd Precinct, which is now ash)https://t.co/0hUiiGcpIg
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#10:
Also in today’s criminal justice news, police in Denver CO are shooting reporters with paintballs for sport https://t.co/GsNlupkvQN
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#11:
1️⃣1️⃣ Denver, CO: police shooting reporters with paintballs, live on-airhttps://t.co/HoEPojUrFV
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#12:
1️⃣2️⃣ Louisville, KY: police shooting reporters with pepperballs, live on-airhttps://t.co/VQpfcNTcR5
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#13:
1️⃣3️⃣ Denver, CO: intentionally pepper-spraying anyone recording police brutality, outside the state’s capitol grounds
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#14:
1️⃣4️⃣ Lincoln, NE: doing a Tiananmen Square with a police SUV through a line of unarmed protestorshttps://t.co/9GWn664AOq
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020
#15:
1️⃣5️⃣ Atlanta, GA: deploying a… kid militia?
This boy looks like he’s about 11-12. Outfitted in full riot gear.
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020