All of fuck sticks in uniform deserve a year's jail time at a minimum. Assaulting peaceful protesters? Fuck that.
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As someone who lives near Portland, the fact that Portland police even testified about excessive force means it's bad.
I mean, they clearly just tackle a guy from behind out of nowhere. A guy who's minding his own businesses and just standing there in the least threatening manner possible.
Also very revealing that they specifically target the guy wearing hippie-looking clothes, most likely because they associate that with left wing ideology and their remit is to remove "undesirables" regardless of whether or not they're a threat to anyone.
So yeah, this is so blatant that it's frankly not surprising that even the fascist PPD consider it beyond the pale/giving away the game.
They'd lose their minds at Becky's Drive-in. During the labor day movie marathon, they sell tie-dyed t-shirts. Tons of people are wearing them. They wouldn't be able to figure out whose rights to violate first.
I'm kidding of course. They'd be outnumbered, so they'd just run away.
Seriously, the whole reason the right is obsessed with Portland now is that the Portland police used incredible levels of excessive force to put down BLM protests. And since they believe the police are always in the right, then Portland must be a hellhole. I used to live in one of the smaller towns in Oregon and mentioning that I went up to Portland for a day would typically result in someone telling me I was lucky I wasn't shot. Never mind that the PPB is so brutal that the federal government sued them for excessive force back in 2012. To unfortunately minimal effect. That you can be too brutal for Portland police is just insane.
"I am just doing my job!"
Yes, and we can see what your job is.
Wasn't a valid defense at Nuremburg. Won't be a valid defense now.
75 million people died to make the Nuremberg trials possible. Facists don’t leave without a fight
Holy shit. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that. WOW. Fuckers.
It is fucking wild we've all lived long enough to see the POLICE start to speak out against authoritarianism.
[serious question]
What is the government suggesting is the justification for this particular abuse of power?
I know it's bullshit. I'm just curious what bullshit they're using for this.
What a shithole.
This whole country? Unfortunately, yes.
I just hope there is some level of accountability once we emerge from this fascist regime.
All these nazis need to end up in those private prisons they’re building
Now, I'm not saying anything at all, but those helmets they use are terrible against blunt force hits from a baseball bat repetitively swung at full force, theoretically speaking.
Your average ICE officer has the mind of a 3rd grade bully with a racist dad.
These people were Given BILLIONS of Dollars to Kidnap Children to Undisclosed locations! THANK YOU REPUBLICANS! WE LOVE YOU!
.........I don't love them.
They need to be locked up with multi-decade long sentences.
The giy was just standing there and they sucker punched him from the back. Wtf
Right now the source is hosted under v.reddit.it. is there a mirror we can link to or use?
Reddit being reddit can quickly get rid of that video. And removing that dependency would be so nice.
I don't like or trust reddit either. I post videos like this as I find them to the Fediverse as soon as I can.
I found it at that URL in the source, however I posted the video to Mastodon. For this post, the video link is coming from the Mastodon post.
I only include the place where I found it just incase it can help give some context to others.
Only the protesters with masks on actually.
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