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Portland: “Wall of Moms” mobilizes to protect protests from police violence
Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many.
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‘No tactics… just seemed like a gang’: Navy Veteran speaks out after attack by secret police in viral video viewed nearly 10 million times
They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David.
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Solidarity with the people in the streets of Portland
Against the Federal Occupation and the Police.
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Leaked documents show police knew far-right extremists were the real threat at protests, not “ANTIFA”
We’ve seen the way that the police responded to nonviolent civil disobedience at Standing Rock or in Ferguson versus the laissez-faire approach they’ve used in a number of these white supremacist riots. They clearly can regulate their behavior. Why they choose not to when it’s groups protesting police violence is what I think local government needs to understand.
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USA: ‘Qualified immunity’ is how the Police state stays in power
Make no mistake about it: this is what constitutes “law and order” in the American police state.
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Anatomy of a counter-insurgency
The defanging of the George Floyd Uprising was not accidental but was rather a deliberate attempt on the part of the American ruling class to regain social control in the wake of the largest and most militant protests in recent memory. This article examines the dimensions of how this defanging took place: how, within the space of two weeks, we went from burning down a police station to making small budgetary demands.
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Abolition will not be randomized
In the wake of the current uprising in support of Black Lives Matter, there has been increasing interest in the use of mainstream empirical methods in economics–like randomized control trials (RCTs) and administrative data evaluation–to address issues of racism and violence in the institution of policing.