#police state
Two days ago, in Vila-real (País Valencià), the members of the Bultzada fan club were attacked by Spanish National Police officers. The reason? Being Basques:
Vila-real is a safe space for Real Sociedad fans since there isn’t animosity between the teams. The Basque fans were having a few drinks with their families, children included of course. The officers entered the bar in an intimidating fashion, and began to ask for the IDs of the fans that wanted to exit the bar - mind you, this isn’t common, police officers only ask you to show your ID because they want to report you. When the organizers asked why they were doing that, policemen began charging.
Real Sociedad fans managed to control the situation and agreed to leave the bar surrounded by the officers, that then proceeded to lead them to an alley - searching for privacy - and began to beat them again. Neighbours of the surrounding buildings got to record it.
As you can see, the football fans were unarmed and the officers were many more than them. They beated them while on the floor and even the ones who put their hands up were beaten. Fans also reported being attacked with pepper spray and that the officers, after the attack, went raiding bars looking for more members of Bultzada. Policemen were heard screaming at the fans: “f*cking Basques, you haven’t the balls now, huh?”, implying that since the Basques were unarmed and obviously not terrorists they weren’t to be feared and the policemen could take revenge.
The result? Open head wounds, a broken wrist, stitches, tens of wounded people and 5 arrested.
Inside the stadium, Basque fans reported to have been frisked, had their wallets examined and been told the banners and scarfs featuring the ikurriña weren’t accepted. They also heard that most policemen were brought from Valencia because “it was going to be a brawl”.
Fans also comment that the fans of Vila-real were completely welcoming and that the atmosphere between the two groups of supporters was incredibly nice.
Just hatred towards Basque people by the Spanish National Police, as usual. And, as usual, no consequences.
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens — Many Are Black Girls | The Marshall Project
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.
Black youths make up the majority of kids on the receiving end of police violence — and a striking number of them are girls, our investigation found.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, banning the book ‘Maus’ is a modern-day tragedy
Opinion | Banning a seminal Holocaust book ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day is a modern tragedy
Reading “Maus” was formative for me. But decades later, other public school students in Tennessee will be denied that same experience. Despite it being part of a state-approved eighth grade curriculum, the members of the school board in McMinn County, outside of Chattanooga, banned “Maus” in a unanimous vote earlier this month.
The vote finally received media attention Wednesday, just hours before the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Christmas Eve in Hong Kong
Police celebrated by shooting teargas, even in crowded area like Tsim Sha Tsui, where people go to celebrate.
Hong Kong police accused Spark Alliance, a group that provides humanitarian support to the arrested protesters, of money laundering.
Over $70m donation from HongKongers had been frozen.
The government is trying to take away the protesters’ resources and force the people to stop protesting, rather than finding a way to communicate.
Police claimed they had uncovered over 3,000 petrol bombs in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, below is a picture of the ‘weapons’
Lies after lies to justify their attack on the university…
Vote rigging is a serious problem in Hong Kong, plus the low voter turnout, it’s easy for the pro-Beijing / pro-government camp to win the election.
In this clip, the staff from Food and Environment Hygiene Department are removing the pro-democracy candidate’s promotion banner, but the election is still ongoing, and the pro-government candidate’s banner remain untouched.
The police are murdering us slowly
Teargas is the most popular choice for the police to disperse the protesters, also their preferred weapons.
Since June, there are cases where people (including protesters, journalists and passersby) were hit by the teargas can and injured.
The worst thing is, the latest batch of teargas used by the police is made in China, and journalists and experts have noticed the dioxin it releases is high, whenever the police use the teargas, they are poisoning all the people in the scene. And the chemical is also affecting the ecological environment in Hongkong.
(Trigger warning)
Dead bodies of birds, squirrels and hawks are founded in districts that were bombarded with teargas.
The use of teargas not only is damaging to people’s health (dioxin can caused cancer and miscarriages) , it is having an irreversible impact on our environment.
hello all and especially those who do not live in america. do you know how fucked up this country really is.
this clip might possibly begin to give you a real idea of the scope of the problem (even though it is just about one of our many, many issues).
watch john oliver discuss the role of police in american schools:
On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post
First the surveillance state came for the terrorists, and I did not speak out—because I am not a terrorist.
Then it came for those who appear vagely Muslim, and I did not speak out— because I am not a Muslim.
Then it came for impoverished minorities and dissidents, and I did not speak out—because I am white and not a dissident.
And now, Trump and the Republican Party want to expand use of the surveillance state against people with disabilities.
I say this because a lot of Americans believe that the surveillance state–or a form of police state, for that matter–doesn’t exist in this country; that is a myth held by those fortunate enough to not be one of the millions of people who experience America as a surveillance state and/or a police state.
It is incumbent upon all of us to agitate against the further growth of the surveillance state not only for our own interest but for that of our brothers and sisters whose lives are adversely affected by its existence and perpetual growth.
https://medium.com/@rml12488/why-im-an-angry-afrikan-b79dadea7e06
Wrote about some of my first hand ordeals with systematic racism about 5 years ago inspired by the work of a young black woman who wrote on the same subject matter.
Certainly a hot topic right now.
“The End of Policing” by Alex S. Vitale
“The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last forty years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”
Again, hand in hand with a lot of the other books currently added to my bookshelves. The need to study intersectionality and how it affects all aspects of our lives from the way we conduct business, to the way we socialize, to the way we’ve allowed the police to evolve into a borderline military industrial complex. We border on living in a police run state.
The problem with that is the origins on the police force and basically how it never really evolved, it just learned to cover its tracks. And boy did it cover its tracks POORLY.