I want to show this to an animal crossing player 10 years ago

State machinery always goes easy on its defenders

just a reminder to everyone that those warnings to cover up tattoos and wear nondescript clothing are serious

FYI

Yike

she’s facing a huge fine and about 45 years in prison, as are anyone they could trace to messing with a cop car. i don’t know what jail support/legal support stuff they’re doing but please donate to your local NLG if you can. <3

What "abolish the police" doesn't mean:

What it does mean:

ok there’s a video going around of someone advising protesters on how to stop a horse should they find themselves up against mounted police but the advice they give is just…literally shit that will get people killed i feel like i have to pick it apart 

SIGHS OK so this is the video in question.

“i am not a horse trainer, i’ve just been around horses my whole life” SHOULD give you enough warning to not take this person’s advice, like. i don’t give a fuck if that’s gatekeepy to you or whatever but that really sums up why you shouldn’t be listening to their advice in the context of these protests. you cannot make light of the situation, and as an extension, do not settle for who is giving you advice

“push your weight against their chest” what’s missing here is either a lack of understanding of what makes horses so powerful, or a lack of context given depending on what that horse is even doing. a horse moving towards you at any sort of speed is not going to be deterred by you trying to place pressure on it. you’re gonna be mush before that horse even registers you’re even there, particularly with all the stimulation of a crowd and having to listen to its rider through that.

“some horses are trained to ignore their natural instinct” YES. GUESS WHICH HORSES. SPECIFICALLY. ARE TRAINED. TO IGNORE THEIR INSTINCTS? a police horse is not going to listen to you, a person out of hundreds or even thousands surrounding them, because you want to try and lean against their withers or something. not stationary, and definitely not at speed. your own pet horse, or your favourite horse at the stables you ride at, is NOT analogous to a horse conditioned into being used as a weapon. would you look at a police dog and think, “well fluffy back home listens to me when i tug on his collar a bit, surely this police dog will respond the same way and not rip my arm to shit if i do the same thing”? 

if you see this video going around i IMPLORE you to report the shit out of it, this is the kind of video that gets people killed. i wouldn’t try this shit with someone else’s domestic horse, i dread to think what would happen if someone took this advice against one of the behemoths ridden by the cops. it’s ignorant both in terms of horse training and protest, and it’s dangerous to the point where it can get people killed. 

here’s the real advice on how to use your body to stop mounted police: you fucking DON’T 

The only decent way to use white privilege

#BlackLivesMatter

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Now that’s what I like to see, Boston!

FUCK YES

‘I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.’ John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park

Solomon’s Shield is the name of the app

OMG Download this!!!! Stop Police Brutality!

‘Boro coming in clutch

this feels like an important time to bring this back

thank you! I was looking for this!

Alberta CANADA is making it ILLEGAL to protest

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

The Alberta government passed Bill 1: Critical Infrastructure Defence Act in order to allow RCMP and other officers to arrest, fine, and jail protestors who occupy places the government deems a place of “critical infrastructure” and includes legislative buildings, mining sites, railways, and PUBLIC ROADS in or outside cities!  This is likely in response to the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs protests and the solidarity protests across the country which blocked railways and pipelines in early 2020.

It will likely also effect future BLM, environmental, and other human and land rights protests.  I think this is a very relevant and scary bill right now, and we need to tell the Premier that we will not be silenced!  

Please share, read the petition, and sign!!!

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

http://chng.it/tbQDqVq6jQ

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@allthecanadianpolitics @torontopoli 

Fuck Jason Kenney and the United Conservatives Party!

The bill wasn’t likely in response to the protests this January, it was made in response to the railway blockades that happened in JANUARY OF THIS YEAR to stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en. Kenney made that bill to silence Indigenous voices and he’s ramming it through now to silence Black voices and their allies because there is a rally planned this Friday June 5th at 6:30pm at the Legislature Grounds. He wants to silence us and use the Covid-19 social distancing public health orders to stop the protests too! (No gatherings over 50 people and you need to be 2m apart)

Please signal boost and sign the petitions. Kenney doesn’t speak for Albertans. He is a mediocre white man from Ontario who came out here in Alberta to stir shit up and use populist tactics to turn people on each other so he can control us. I never voted for him and I miss Rachel Notley every single day. 

the lea michele situation is actually a prime example of why we should be wary of performative activism right now. if you are supporting the cause by protesting, donating, posting your support, etc. that’s great! but this problem goes so much deeper than just police brutality.

every single non-black person who has posted #blacklivesmatter this week needs to take a step back and analyze whether or not their actions (not just their words) have shown that they truly believe that statement. it’s a clear and obvious choice to speak out against the brutal murder of an innocent man. however, if you are not making the obvious choice every day to speak up for us when your friends/relatives make racist jokes, if you are not listening to and respecting the black people you know in real life, if you have not sat down to analyze the ways you actively benefit from this system, if you have not worked to start unlearning the biases you were raised with, or if you thought “black lives matter” was a controversial statement until this week, do not pretend to care just because everyone is talking about it right now.

when these protests are over, there will still be many battles to fight. this is not a game, and this is not something you post about just for likes and clicks. if you are resting easy right now thinking that you’re “one of the good ones” for showing public outrage over a situation that should anger any reasonable person, you need to do more. racism is not something you can pick and choose when to be against. we don’t get to pick and choose when we experience racism. so if you’re going to get involved with this situation right here, right now, then you need to be ready to hold yourself and others accountable for anti-blackness in all other areas of your life.

white people can and SHOULD reblog!

haha what if we looked up police scanners on broadcastify…..and then updated protestors with the pigs’ locations/plans on twitter with the #[city]scannerduty and #[city]protest tags…….haha just kidding….unless?

Anyways, real talk, this is a really good way to help from home, so here’s https://www.broadcastify.com/ . Make an alt account if ur going to scan. You can find the PD stream for pretty much any major city on here. Keep protestors informed!!!

Also, it’s completely legal to listen to a scanner within your own home, so. There’s that. Not that legality matters lol

10-4: Acknowledged

10-5: Repeat

Airmail: Ppl throwing bricks/garbage/etc

FD: Fire department

MOS: member of service

10-85: need additional units

SRG: special response group

pwagon/pvan: prisoner wagon / prisoner van

Anyone know if it’s legal to record these with software like OBS?

It’s legal

please do, this is an excellent way to safely be an active participant. live tweets and discord updates on scanners and police activity you see are so helpful during marches

If this is your first time protesting, here is a comprehensive guide on how to prepare, what to do, police tactics, etc. Please share this

Protest. Don’t riot.

Shut the fuck up

THE FBI HAS A WEBSITE TO LEAVE TIPS ABOUT LOOTING AND THE PROTESTS IN GENERAL IN THE FORM OF DIGITAL FILES AND I’M NOT SAYING GO AND SPAM THEM WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I AM SAYING

GO FORTH AND CRASH THIS SHIT

Memes, vines, music videos, concert videos, random cat pictures, PDF files of whatever you want renamed to shit like “protest looting plan” or something like that idk, whatever the hell you like, just go and crash that site

If you do decide to do this, please scrub your metadata, use a secure VPN, and don’t hand over anything you wouldn’t be cool with being on the front page of a newspaper and archived in every library in the world.

Tactics like this work because being part of the swarm makes the chances that you will be specifically picked out very low. It’s the same strategy that makes fish schooling such a popular and effective survival method in the open ocean. But most aquatic species don’t live in open ocean, because it’s basically guaranteed that any time a predator comes by, the school will lose some portion of individuals.

The more care and thought you put into protecting yourself, the less likely it is that you will be the one chased down by the FBI in retribution. They’ll be as lazy about it as any other massive, comfortable predator. Don’t be the easy catch.

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