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"Protester" Misconduct Catch All Thread

BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS ‘MOB MENTALITY’ OF BOSTON POLICE WHO RESPONDED TO GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS, LAWYER SAYS

Hours of video given exclusively to The Appeal show police officers bragging about attacking protesters and multiple instances of excessive force and the liberal use of pepper spray.
As demonstrations against police brutality and abuse of Black Americans spread across Boston on the night of May 31 and early morning of June 1, the city’s police department was out in force.

Many officers wore body cameras. During the unrest, the cameras recorded hours of footage that the department subsequently stored.

That footage was given to attorney Carl Williams, who is representing some protesters arrested that night, as part of a discovery file encompassing 44 videos and over 66 hours of footage. Williams assembled a team of volunteer lawyers and law students to pore over the videos to find exculpatory evidence for his clients. What they found, however, was something more.

The hours of video, given exclusively to The Appeal by Williams, show police officers bragging about attacking protesters, targeting nonviolent demonstrators for violence and possible arrest, discussing arrest quotas and the use of cars as weapons, and multiple instances of excessive force and liberal use of pepper spray.

“It’s this mob mentality,” Williams said of the police behavior. “And I use ‘mob’ as a sort of a double entendre—mob like the mafia and mob like a group of a pack of wild people roaming the streets looking to attack people.”

The Appeal shared sections of the footage with Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who said that in her view, police behavior in the videos is indicative of the very issues that demonstrators were marching to bring attention to.

“I have not watched the entire video, but the snippets that I have seen are incredibly troubling,” said Rollins, adding that she has sent the clips to her special prosecution team.

The Boston Police Department has opened an investigation into the revelations in the videos, Sergeant Detective John Boyle told The Appeal. Citing the investigation, Boyle declined further comment.
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“It’s this mob mentality,” Williams said of the police behavior. “And I use ‘mob’ as a sort of a double entendre—mob like the mafia and mob like a group of a pack of wild people roaming the streets looking to attack people.”
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Um, tell this guy, dude, just say "pun."
A double entendre has two meanings, one of which is sexual. Or at least sexy. Not an image i needed for excessive force allegations....
 
Armed Anti-Lockdown Protesters Just Tried to Storm Oregon's State Capitol

Right-wing protesters, including many armed with AR-style rifles, angrily faced off with riot police in and around the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on Monday morning, as lawmakers gathered to consider extending a moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The event was billed as an anti-lockdown protest, and intended to coincide with the lawmakers’ presence for a special legislative session. Right-wing activists, including Joey Gibson, who leads “Patriot Prayer,” a far-right group, seized on the closed-door event as an opportunity to protest ongoing lockdown orders and drum up complaints about transparency.

Protesters started gathering at 8 a.m. local time and by 9 the crowd had swelled to about 300-strong, judging by livestreams at the scene.

Some of the protesters were able to enter the building, and were seen on video walking around heavily armed. When riot police arrived, tensions escalated quickly and police deployed pepper spray, forcing protesters who were inside to leave. Meanwhile, protesters identified alternative entrances to the building.
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Oregon police make at least 4 arrests amid COVID protests at Capitol
A special session of the Oregon Legislature was disrupted on Monday by protesters who appeared to oppose policies designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Protesters broke glass doors at the largely-empty Capitol building, tore tarps from the marble reliefs on the front steps and engaged in a brief standoff with Oregon State Police and Salem Police Department officers.

Police made at least four arrests during the six-hour rally that included more than 100 protesters, including members of the far-right Patriot Prayer group.
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Heavily Armed Far-Right Mob Descends on Oregon Capitol - "The crowd was a loose collection of members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and others far-right groups, many of them are armed with pistols and rifles. It got ugly fast."
 
Zipr and lpetrich, I am sure the Multnomah County DA will prosecute these people to the full extent of the law.
But he is pro-Anifa and so he is refusing to prosecute Antifas and other leftists who have been occupying a few city blocks on behalf of a sovereign citizen.

Surely you two don't approve of such blatant viewpoint discrimination by local prosecutors, do you?
 
Protester Misconduct - Arkansas edition

Suspect in police vehicle burnings is former Little Rock radio station reporter

KATV said:
An Arkansas State Police vehicle was burned on Aug. 28 at agency headquarters in Little Rock. Another vehicle was vandalized with spray paint and several others had punctured tires. An exploded Molotov cocktail made from a bottle of brandy was also found at the scene.

Witnesses reportedly told police that Renea Goddard, 22, was one of three people responsible for the incident. Authorities tracked the group's cell phone locations back to the Arkansas State Police headquarters that night. Goddard and three others were arrested and charged with malicious destruction of property belonging to an entity receiving federal funding, conspiracy to commit those acts and possession of a destructive device.

Goddard was also arrested in June for violating curfew during Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Little Rock, according to court records.
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Protester misconduct - Minneapolis Edition (yet again)

So police shot and killed a man during a felony stop in an exchange of fire.
Minneapolis police fatally shoot man during stop

Surely a case of "police brutality" according to the anti-police left. So these idiots promptly got into the streets and started blocking traffic.

[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There are well 200 protesters now at Cedar and 36th in Minneapolis with all roads leading to the intersection blocked by BLM... more & more, mostly young, people are arriving. <br><br>I have felt this before, the same uneasiness I experienced during the the riots. Not looking good. <a href="https://t.co/QPLCN5spCO">pic.twitter.com/QPLCN5spCO</a></p>— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) <a href="https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1344495230213566464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]

Hopefully things don't escalate beyond this, but with #BLM and Antifa you never know. If I was in the Minneapolis area, I'd stay away from the city for a while.
 
Update about Minneapolis. The dead perp is one Dolal Idd.

Family identifies man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police

The family supposedly doesn't believe that the perp fired at the police. They are also already grifting with over $17k raised on GoFundMe. They figure getting shot by police is the best thing he's ever done for them, given his history.

Father's claim that they don't believe their son fired his gun is strange given his history. This happened two years ago.
Man charged after allegedly firing gun in Eden Prairie home where he isn’t allowed
SW News Media said:
charged with one-count dangerous weapons-reckless discharge of firearm within a municipality, according to the criminal complaint.
Eden Prairie Police were called 1:10 a.m., July 12, on report of a gunshot at a residence along Lee Drive in Eden Prairie. People inside the house said 21-year-old Dolal Bayle Idd fired the gun when he was at the home earlier. Idd’s mother said he isn’t allowed in the house because he “scares the children.”
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He had a conviction from a robbery case a few years before then too.
2 Charged With Beating, Robbing Man At Life Time Fitness

Charming man!
 
And NYC ....

NYPD: Vandals Tagged St. Patrick's Cathedral During New Year's Protest

NBC New York said:
Vandals tagged St. Patrick's Cathedral with anti-police graffiti early on New Year's Day, according to the NYPD.

Police say they found the acronym "ACAB" tagged on the cathedral after responding to a protest on Fifth Avenue around 1 a.m.

Video from the scene posted to Twitter shows protesters blocking two NYPD cruisers -- both of which had lights and sirens on --- and banging on the hood of one of the vehicles. Several also shouted expletives at officers on the scene.
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Yet another day in DeBlasio's New York ...
 
ORGANIZED GROUP STORMS L.A. GROCERY STORE ...
More Stampedes Planned

Despite COVID-19 cases surging in Los Angeles, hospitals overrun and a rising death count, there's a sick group of people storming grocery stores without masks ... and it appears they are part of a group that is targeting stores to wreak havoc.

30-50 members of this group stampeded the Erewhon Market near The Grove shopping center a few days ago, demanding to be allowed to shop without their masks.

The anti-maskers were seen forcing their way in and harassing workers while flouting the city's face-covering safety guidelines. Some even tried to get the employees to join them ... encouraging them to remove their masks and "live their lives."

Their stupidity and recklessness cannot be overstated ... they are screaming, defying and pulling penal code sections out of their asses, none of which makes any sense. Watch how they confront cops ... the police exercise remarkable restraint.

They took their stampede to other stores in the area, including a Trader Joe's.

The demonstration seems to be linked to a Facebook group that describes itself like this -- "So here we are, shopping around LA maskless, witnessing the unraveling of hijacked minds right before our very eyes."
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Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi's $5m San Francisco home is VANDALIZED with red paint, a pig's head and a spray-painted message about $2,000 checks during battle with Republicans over stimulus payments

Police sources told TMZ that cops were called out to reports of vandalism at the House Speaker's property around 3 a.m. New Year's Day

DailyMail.com has contacted San Francisco Police Department for comment

A photo posted on social media shows a white garage plastered in graffiti

'2k' is written on the garage and then crossed out, in what appears to be a reference to the $2,000 stimulus checks Pelosi is pushing for
The graffiti also reads 'cancel rent' and 'we want everything'

Red paint covers the driveway and a pig's head sits on the paving slabs
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Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home was vandalized overnight with a pig's head surrounded in a pool of red paint, as well as a spray-painted message appearing to allude to the failed $2,000 stimulus checks.

Photos of the disturbing scene shared on social media by conservative filmmaker Maggie VandenBerghe on Friday showed the House Speaker's white garage door defaced with black graffiti text reading: '$2k Cancel RENT! We want everything!'

The message appeared to be in reference Pelosi's recent efforts to increase the second round of COVID relief checks to $2,000, which have been repeatedly rejected by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The vandals also spray-painted two letter As enclosed in circles, most commonly known as the symbol for anarchism.

Underneath the disturbing message on the driveway was a pool of red paint with a pig's head placed at the center of the pavement.
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This one stinks to high heaven of being a right wing plot.
 
ZiprHead said:
This one stinks to high heaven of being a right wing plot.
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"Cancel rent" is really a lefty rallying cry.
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Rent is Due Despite the Pandemic. Why?
By Shahid Buttar, who tried to primary (sort of, they have a jungle primary) Nancy Pelosi from the Left.

Besides, there are hardly ant right wingers in San Francisco and even conservatives are rather sparse. The most parsimonious explanation is that it is some unhinged SanFran lefties.
 
Almost ten percent of voters in San Francisco voted for Trump. That's not "hardly any".

And "We want everything" definitely sounds like a parody.
 
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