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#Georgia: Influential #Hispanic #reporter who tracks #ICE agents arrested at #protest

#MarioGuevara was livestreaming for his hundreds of thousands of followers when he was arrested in #DeKalbCounty.

By Lautaro Grinspan, June 14, 2025

"Mario Guevara, the metro #AtlantaGA-based Spanish language reporter who built a mass audience with his coverage of immigration raids, was arrested at a protest in DeKalb County on Saturday.

"The DeKalb gathering was one of many across the metro area as thousands took to the streets to protest President Donald Trump’s administration and its immigration enforcement policies.

"Roughly two hours into the rally, police in #RiotGear arrived to prevent demonstrators from marching on the road.

" 'I’m here in Chamblee where the authorities are trying to hold back the protest which is turning a bit violent,' Guevara said in Spanish during a livestream, which has racked up over one million views on Facebook. He could be seen wearing a helmet and a vest that identified him as press.

" 'Don’t touch me,' Guevara later tells a police officer in the video as the feed cuts off.

"Later, amid glitches in the video, Guevara can be hearing saying, 'Officer, officer, I’m with the media.' Moments later, the video shows Guevara had been brought to the ground.

"Online police records show Guevara was booked into DeKalb County Jail at 4:49 p.m. with a charge of 'obstruction of law enforcement officers' and a charge of 'pedestrian walking on or along' a roadway.

"In a statement on its Facebook page, the firm of Diaz & Gaeta Law, which represents Guevara, said it was 'taking all measures to defend Mr. Guevara and protect freedom of speech as provided by the #FirstAmendment.'

“It has come to our understanding that the reporter Mario Guevara was arrested recently … for merely videotaping the protests today.”

"At least seven other people were arrested at the site of the DeKalb protest, county leaders confirmed Saturday evening."

Source:
https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/06/influential-hispanic-reporter-who-tracks-ice-agents-arrested-at-protest/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wiP39

#ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent #Georgia #AntiProtestLaws #NoKings #ICERaids #NoICE #TrafficInterference #GeorgiaResists

CNBCTV18: "ICE Protests LIVE: Protesters Clash With Police Outside Federal Building In Los Angeles."

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2bv_m_IR0

🏷️ #ice #raids #immigration #crackdown #2nd_day #protest #police #riotgear #repression #teargas #losangeles #california #us #trump #news #livefeed #cnbctv18

May 21, '79, brought the White Night #Riots in #SanFrancisco. #DanWhite (a former #cop) killed 2 people but his "#Twinkie defense" got him only 7 1/2 years #jail. Tension between #police & #gays was already high; the ex-cop getting such a soft #sentence set off the riots (police were openly wearing "Free Dan White" T-shirts). Biggest gay #protest in US since #Stonewall. Police retaliated a few hours later, raided a gay bar in #RiotGear, beat the crowd badly; several sued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Night_riots

'Peace' Officer

#Uniform #Police #PoliceWoman #RiotGear #Militarized #PeaceOfficer #Seattle #RoboCop #TacticalGear #Nikon

Photograph of a Seattle policewoman wearing tactical gear.

Something Happenin'

“There's somethin' happenin' here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-tellin' me I got to beware”
-Buffalo Springfield

#Seattle #CapitolHill #BLM #Protest #SocialJustice #Urban #Justice #StreetPhotography #TearGas #ACAB #Barricades #Police #RiotGear

A phalanx of police in riot gear move thru clouds of tear gas to clear barricades erected by BLM protesters in Seattle, WA.

Hundreds of thousands #protest across #Greece over deadly #TrainCrash

Story by Reuters
Published 6:19 AM EST, Fri February 28, 2025

"Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Greece on Friday to demand justice on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest-ever train crash, and striking workers grounded flights and halted sea and train transport.

"Fifty-seven people were killed when a passenger train filled with students collided with a freight train on February 28, 2023, near the Tempi gorge in central Greece.

"Two years later, the safety gaps that caused the crash have not been filled, an inquiry found on Thursday. A separate judicial investigation remains unfinished and no one has been convicted in the accident.

"#MassDemonstrations were planned in dozens of cities across the country. All international and domestic flights were grounded as air traffic controllers joined seafarers, train drivers, doctors, lawyers and teachers in a 24-hour #GeneralStrike to pay tribute to the victims of the crash. Businesses were shut and theatres canceled performances.

"By early morning, tens of thousands had gathered in #SyntagmaSquare in the center of #Athens, watched by police in #RiotGear. A sign read: 'Government of murderers.' Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right government, which won re-election after the crash in 2023, has faced repeated criticism by relatives of the victims for failing to initiate a parliamentary inquiry into political responsibility.

"The government denies wrongdoing and says it is up to the judiciary to investigate the accident. Friday’s protests reflected mounting anger over the disaster in Greece, where mistrust of government is common following a 2009-2018 debt crisis in which millions lost out on wages and #pensions, and #PublicServices suffered from underfunding."

Police in #RiotGear face-off with protesters in downtown #LosAngeles

Story by Josh DuBose, February 3, 2025

"Police in riot gear moved in on protesters in downtown Los Angeles after a daylong demonstration against Trump’s #immigration policies and mass #deportations.

"The #protest, which was organized and promoted on social media, originated on the Placita Olvera on Olvera Street near DTLA and saw demonstrators on the 101 Freeway at Alameda Street blocking both sides of roadway by 12:30 p.m., causing massive gridlock.

"Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department assisted by California Highway Patrol were able to clear the freeway as protesters took to downtown surface streets, but then quickly got back on the major artery through downtown at Los Angeles Street.

"Many of the protesters were carrying signs, some of which were speaking out against Trump’s policies regarding immigration.

"'The real criminal is in the White House,' one sign read. Another read
'Jesus said ‘Love Thy Neighbor,’ not deport them.'"

Crackdowns on #ClimateActivists are happening in a lot of places -- including the #US! NYPD in riot gear! For a 63 year old cellist!!!

via @verdantsquare

#Cello-playing #ClimateActivist arrested at #NewYork #Citibank #protest as crackdown escalates

Second activist also arrested during ‘summer of heat’ protest against second largest financier of #FossilFuels

Nina Lakhani in New York
Thu 8 Aug 2024 19.13 EDT

"A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in #prison after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York.

"#JohnMarkRozendaal, a former Princeton professor, and #AlecConnon, director of the climate nonprofit group #StopTheMoneyPipeline, were arrested for criminal contempt in the public park at the bank’s global headquarters as the crackdown against #nonviolent climate protesters escalates.

"Rozendaal was handcuffed and led away to the police vehicle singing 'we are not afraid, we are not afraid, we will sing for liberation because we know why we were made'. The crowd of protesters chanted 'let him play' and “ shame on you Citibank”.

"Thirteen other climate activists, who had linked arms in a circle around Rozendaal to protect him as he played Bach’s suites for cello, were detained for alleged obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor criminal charge. 'People are dying … today is my birthday,' said Mike Bucci, 77, teary eyed as the police in #RiotGear broke up the protest.

"Since 10 June, climate activists have been peacefully protesting against Citibank’s record financial support for new fossil fuel projects as part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street campaign. At least 3,700 people have participated in the nonviolent civil disobedience, repeatedly blockading the entrance to its global headquarters. More than 475 people including faith leaders, scientists and elders have been arrested while calling on Citi to stop bankrolling new #coal, #oil and #gas.

"Citi is the second largest financier of fossil fuels and the largest financier of fossil fuel expansion since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to the latest Banking on #ClimateChaos report.

"The latest arrests come as climate advocates accuse Citibank and the #NYPD of coordinated and escalating efforts to suppress nonviolent protests in retaliation for drawing attention to the banking giant’s key role in funding fossil projects globally."

#SummerOfHeatIOnWallStreet #SummerOfHeatProtests #NYC #ACAB #NonViolentProtests #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #Fascism #ExtinctionRebellion #ExtinctionRebellionNYC

Die #RiotGear der Polizisten sieht ja gut aus. Frage ist: Ist sie funktionabel?
Viele Leute können froh sein, dass die Polizei hier eben keine amerikanischen Ausfälle zeigt...
#Gelsenkirchen

#DartmouthCollege professor arrested during protest: 'It's really shameful'

Story by Hannah Cotter
5/2/2024

"Video captured by News 9 showed the moment #Orleck was arrested by police during the protest. She said she was among a handful of professors who showed up to support students at what she called a peaceful protest until law enforcement arrived in #RiotGear.

"'And it's really shameful in a sleepy little campus, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this ridiculous show of arms and strength and violence,' she said.

"She also wanted to address Gov. #ChrisSununu calling the protests against the war in #Gaza #antisemitic. She said she's a #Jewish woman and did not feel safe after last night's police response.

"'As a Jewish woman of an age that I grew up in a neighborhood full of #Holocaust survivors and knew Holocaust survivors, I have to say that I think this is disingenuous,' she said. 'It's a weaponizing of #antisemitism for their own #political purposes, which is to #SuppressDissent. And if, in fact, as the governor and the college president said, the point is to make the campus safer for the Jewish community members, I have to say that what happened next made it decidedly less safe for all of us.'

"Orleck, who has been a professor at Dartmouth for more than three decades, said as part of her bail condition, she is being banned from Dartmouth's campus. She said her emails to the institution have gone unanswered."

#JewishVoiceForPeace #GazaSolidarity #AntiWar #AntiGenocide #NewHampshire #Protest #ACAB

In Backlash to Campus #ProPalestine #Protests, Echoes of #StandingRock and the Global Crackdown on #ClimateProtest

The use of #militarized police and “#antiterrorism” laws against #activists is not new in the U.S.

by Alleen Brown, Drilled
This story is co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy and #CensoredNews

May 3, 2024

"As soon as a single #Palestinian activist showed up at an anti-#DakotaAccessPipeline camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence analysts for the mercenary security firm #TigerSwan were on alert.

"El-Zabri, the Palestinian activist surveilled at Standing Rock, was among 79 people arrested this week while protesting at the #UniversityOfTexas at #Austin. 'It really felt like the same as Standing Rock, when we were facing the police,' he said.

"''There was a whole army that looked like it was at war in #RiotGear. They eventually used #TearGas and #PepperSpray.'

"'They're afraid of what we have to say and the people that we can touch,' said Cornell senior Yanenowi Logan, who is Deer Clan from the #SenecaNation and has been negotiating with campus administrators.

"Logan said that by standing up for Gazans, she and other Native organizers are also standing up for themselves. 'We want to be able to show them that, hey, we're still here,' she said. 'You can try to kill us. You can burn our crops. You can do whatever you want to do, but we're still going to persist.'"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/drilled-in-backlash-to-campus-pro.html

#Genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaSolidarity #NoDAPL #Colonialism