LAPD Officer Shawna M. Stevenson https://copblaster.com/blast/52627/lapd-officer-shawna-m-stevenson?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LAPD #LosAngeles #PoliceForce #LawEnforcement #OfficerStevenson
The moment when you learn something cool about a friend that you didn't know before. I was hanging out with a friend before today's Pride Parade and saw that he had a special issue of the "#EarthFirst Journal" on his coffee table. Having been in an EF affiliate group in the northeast, I asked if I could thumb through it. When I got to a certain page, my friend pointed to photograph of some people at an action. "Recognize that nerd?" he asked. "OMGs! That's you!" He then proceeded to tell me what it was like being at the tree sittings in Eugene, Oregon when they were trying to save a forest from being cut down. The cops went crazy with pepper spray, attacking the protestors in ways I won't detail (but very #ACAB). Un-armed protestors. In trees. My friend tells me that this incident radicalized a LOT of folks -- as did some of the subsequent ones that soon followed...
From Wikipedia: Eugene Oregon - 1990s: #Anarchist activity
"Attempts by the city to remove a forest grove at downtown Broadway and Charnelton were met with protests on June 1, 1997. Forty trees in downtown Eugene were cut down to make way for a housing, retail, and parking project and were met with community resistance.
"The Eugene [#policeforce] was accused of overreaction and excessive use of force for their flagrant use of pepper spray, which was defended by Republican mayor Jim Torrey. In the Whitaker District, citizens were further radicalized by the incident and helped spur the activist community, which was already burgeoning due to a lack of affordable housing and growing income inequality in the area."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_activism_in_Eugene,_Oregon
Disgusting police behavior👎🏽 #linestepperchallenge #police #1stamendment #policeforce https://youtube.com/shorts/jq7L33f7qqs?si=4Gix7318VJ203BD6