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Young Russians in #SaintPetersburg, singing the #rap song "Cooperative #SwanLake"

(if you don't get it, ask me)

It's an anti-war song by #NoizeMC. #IvanAlekseev is an anti-#corruption, anti-#policeAbuse, pro-#Ukraine, anti-#Putin Russian #rapper forced to live in exile in #Lithuania

It's ok to dream that the #GenZ #Protests that are sweeping the globe and ending bad governments sweep up #Russia too

But remember, it's only a dream

For now

https://www.newsweek.com/videos-russian-youths-chant-anti-war-song-st-petersburg-10883035

#UkraineWar

Newsnight - Racism and misogyny exposed in Londons police - BBC iPlayer It is still happening. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #PoliceAbuse #PoliceAbuseOfPowers #PoliceViolence #Police

Newsnight - Racism and misogyn...

Newsnight - Racism and misogyny exposed in Londons police - BBC iPlayer

It is still happening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002k690/newsnight-racism-and-misogyny-exposed-in-londons-police

#PoliceAbuse
#PoliceAbuseOfPowers
#PoliceViolence
#Police

My Pixel 10 warned me that there was a rogue connection made on my phone.

A concerning thing happened today while I was walking through my building. I have a #Pixel 10 Pro XL phone, which may be the first phone to give warnings when the phone connects to a rogue cellphone tower or IMSI catcher. The OS cannot block it; it can only tell you that someone read information, and it presents an alert. It says,

"Your data may be at risk. Device ID accessed. At 6:57 PM a nearby network recorded your device's unique ID (IMSI or IMEI) while using your T-Mobile SIM. This means that your location, activity, or identity has been logged."

I didn't ever get an alert before walking through the building, but this time, during a 30-minute walk through the building, I got about 8 alerts, ranging between 1 and 3 minutes apart.

Using this information from repeated connections, someone can follow my movements and location; they can identify it's me because the IMSI number is unique to my phone, so it can be an indication that someone was collecting all the cellphone information in the area, most likely law enforcement.

It can also mean that I was connecting to a rogue cell phone tower, not just an IMSI catcher, and it was an attempted Stingray attack, likely also law enforcement. If successful, they can try to see and hear what I'm doing on my phone, as my phone won't know that it's a fake cellphone tower.

Be aware that a rogue tower will try to negotiate your phone's connection down to a 2G connection, which is unencrypted, providing them with access to everything that you are doing and saying. Please go into your phone's settings and disable 2G!!

It's been believed for some time that this technology has been used by law enforcement secretly and consistently. This is creepy and unnerving.

Turning off the phone, by the way, doesn't stop an IMSI catcher. Your phone still responds. You need to keep the phone in a Faraday bag if you're really concerned.

It's a good thing that phones are now starting to inform people that they are being watched and that people will begin to see how much of an issue this is. You can assume that your local law enforcement knows where you are all the time.

#CyberSecurity #LawEnforcement #PoliceAbuse #Privacy #surveillance

Today in Labor History August 7, 1971: Jonathan Jackson, aged 17, brother of imprisoned Black Panther George Jackson, raided a Marin County, CA courtroom with an automatic weapon, and freed prisoners James McClain, William A. Christmas and Ruchell Magee. He took a judge, Deputy DA, and three jurors hostage. He demanded the release of the "Soledad Brothers," including his brother. Police killed 3 of the hostages as they attempted to drive away from the courthouse, as well as Jonathan Jackson and the freed inmates. Angela Davis, who owned the weapons used by Jackson, was jailed for 2 years, but was later acquitted of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder. Prior to the escape attempt, Davis had organized a defense committee for the Soledad Brothers which included Noam Chomsky, Pete Seeger, Marlon Brando, Jame Fonda, the scientist Linus Pauling, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg.

In 1970, George Jackson had published his book, “Soledad Brother,” a collection of his prison writings from the 1960s, including numerous letters he had written to his then kid brother Jonathan. He also wrote critically about racism and white supremacy, class, and the brutality of the prison system. The Soledad brothers were George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, accused of murdering a prison guard at Soledad Prison, in California, in retaliation for the murder of three black inmates by prison guards three days prior. Clutchette and Drumgo were later acquitted. Jackson never got his day in court. He was murdered by prison guards, at San Quinten Prison, California, before his trial, exactly two weeks after his brother’s murder in the botched escape attempt. George Jackson had originally been imprisoned for the crime of stealing $70 from a gas station in 1961.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #georgejackson #angeladavis #blackpanthers #soledadbrothers #riot #sanquinten #prison #murder #police #policeabuse #conspiracy #racism #books #writer #author @bookstadon

Today in Labor History June 5, 1925: Mine owners in La Coruna, Chile, launched an attack on rebel workers in a nitrate mine encampment, killing over 2,000 workers. Over 500 workers were tortured in Iqueque. This came in the wake of an earlier massacre in March, in which 500 were slaughtered by the government.

#LaborHistory #workingclass #strike #massacre #PoliceAbuse #police #acab #chile #torture #rebellion

5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder

#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60

SPD says they "attempted de-escalation, including the use of a less-lethal device." Per the scanner, that was a 40 mm foam-tipped round.

Police assign lethal and less-lethal roles, and they often fire simultaneously or in quick succession in cases like this.

#Seattle #SPD #Police #PoliceAbuse #LessLethal

More recently, in LA, we saw LAPD fatally shoot Linda Becerra Moran, a trans sex worker from about 10 feet away for taking a few steps toward officers with a knife.

She was never an imminent threat to them.

Moran initially called the police reporting that she had been kidnapped and sex trafficked.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-09/linda-becerra-moran-lapd-shooting

#LA #LAPD #trans #LindaBecerraMoran #SexTrafficing #Police #PoliceAbuse

Topacio's misuse of ACCESS/WACIC was discovered while OPA was investigating his cryptic, anonymous texts to his stepson's girlfriend.

https://www.divestspd.com/p/detective-sent-menacing-anonymous

#Seattle #Police #SPD #Topacio #OPA #PoliceAbuse #creepy #cop #parenting

Topacio checked his wife’s criminal history and obtained her mug shot before their first date.

He later abused police databases to run background checks on his wife’s relatives and friends at least eight times at their request.

#AdonisTopacio #Seattle #PNW #Police #cops #policeabuse #spd

Please take some time to send a strong message about how invading our home was WRONG.
After I repeatedly told them everyone coming in MUST mask up because Dad had zero immunity & me & Mom are immunological compromised. My Dad was dying & that fucker chose to use ego/power of authority to abuse & traumatize my entire family. My Dad died with cops as one of his last living memories. I won't EVER forgive anyone who let that happen. My Dad had police traumas stemming back to his young adult years as a political university student activist in Saigon. He faced many brutal & violent police inflicted tortures. He still refused to stop fighting for what is right.

Reference date: June 8, 2023.

I take after my Dad. I will continue to fight for him & our family, even if people stop supporting us.

#Family #Loyalty #Justice #Injustices #PoliceAbuse #PleaseHelp

Today in Labor History February 1, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) started the San Diego Free Speech Fight in response to a city ordinance preventing public speaking in and around the Stingaree neighborhood (now known as the Gaslamp Quarter). The authorities were trying to squelch labor and radical organizing in the multi-ethnic, working-class neighborhood, infamous for its houses of prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens and Chinese ghetto. Even as late as the 1980s, it still had a skid row feel, with its multitude of tattoo parlors, bars, sailors, junkies and fascination parlors. As a kid, I remember watching the con artists running games of 3-Card Monte on the sidewalks there.

The IWW had been active in San Diego since 1906. They organized timber workers and cigar makers, as well as workers at San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. Their strike at the power company led to the formation of a public service union, which disbanded in 1911, when many Wobblies flocked to Tijuana to join the anarchist Magonista revolution there. For more on this, read “The Desert Revolution,” by Lowell Blaisdell.

As the Free Speech fight progressed, anarchists, socialists and liberals joined the struggle, deliberately speaking in the restricted zone so that the jails would overflow. And they all demanded individual trials in order to clog up the legal system. Jail conditions were horrendous. Prisoners were crowded into the drunk tanks and forced to sleep on vermin-infested floors. Beatings were routine. 63-year-old Michael Hoy died from a police beating in jail. The IWW called on members from across the country to ride the rails to San Diego to join the fight. At least 5,000 heeded the call.

The local papers, of course, ran countless editorials attacking the radicals and glorifying the police. This encouraged vigilantes, who’d patrol the rail yards looking for incoming Wobblies. They deported many across county lines where they forced them to kiss the flag and run through gauntlets of men who beat them with pick axe handles. On May 7, the cops killed another Wobbly, Joseph Mikolash. And on May 15, vigilantes kidnapped Emma Goldman and her companion Ben Reitman, who had come to show their support. However, before deporting them, the vigilantes tarred and feathered Reitman and raped him with a cane. Ben Reitman was a physician who focused his practice on providing treatment for tramps, hobos, prostitutes and the most marginalized members of society. He also wrote the book “Boxcar Bertha.” The July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” included the song: “We’re Bound for San Diego:”

In that town called San Diego, when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk.”
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans.
And they call that “law and order” in the city, so it seems.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandiego #freespeech #policebrutality #prison #IWW #anarchism #Revolution #socialism #strike #magonista #Tijuana #vigilantes #EmmaGoldman #policebrutality #policeabuse #acab #mexico #books #author #writer #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon

Today in Labor History January 30, 1970: 20,000 people rioted in Manila. They were protesting the regime of US-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos after his State of the Nation address. Over 2,000 attempted to storm the US embassy chanting “Down with imperialism!” Riot police and soldiers beat protesters with truncheons and rifle butts. At least 50 people were hospitalized and at least six died. Riots continued throughout the year. They were part of the First Quarter Storm.

In 1986, after ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Regan for advice. Regan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Although Grifter-in-chief Trump seems dead set on trying to break that record.

Speaking of which, if you are shocked and appalled that Americans could be stupid enough to reelect Trump, consider that the people of the Philippines somehow “forgot” about the years of brutal dictatorship by Marcos and elected his son Bongbong, who currently wants to meet with Trump to get foreign aid flowing again, so he can continue his family tradition of violent domestic repression.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #philippines #massacre #riot #FerdinandMarcos #policeabuse #dictator #trump #corruption

Today in Labor History January 14, 1914: The trial of Suhr and Ford began on this date in Marysville, California. Suhr and Ford were IWW organizers who were ultimately convicted for their alleged role in the gun battle at Durst Ranch in Wheatland. Four died in the so-called “Wheatland riots” (Aug 1913) when police fired into a crowd of California farmworkers trying to organize with the IWW. The dead included the district attorney and sheriff, as well as two farm workers. The governor called in the national guard to restore order. At the time, Durst Ranch was the largest employer of agricultural laborers in the state. They grew hops for the British beer industry. Durst regularly hired seasonal pickers in the summers, forcing them to live in tents on a hot, barren hillside. Conditions were unsanitary. The closest water was a mile away. Durst’s brother exploited workers further by selling them overpriced lemonade, in lieu of water. They had to pay 75 cents per week in rent. Wages were under $1.50/day and Durst withheld 10% of each worker’s wages as insurance against them quitting before harvest season ended.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #wheatland #riots #police #murder #acab #farmworkers #beer #prison #PoliceBrutality #PoliceAbuse

Former Lowell officer gets 120 days for sexually assaulting three children
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/crime/former-lowell-officer-sexually-assaulting-three-children/527-1c5747dd-bb3b-4541-a516-585a01cd820d
#acab #sexualassault #badcop #badcops #policeabuse #notadragqueen #sentencing #blueprivilege

In May 2023, LECC described a pattern of consistent, systemic noncooperation from NSW Police, effectively thwarting or delaying many of LECC's attempts at investigation. As a result, LECC described some of its own powers as merely 'illusory': “In every critical incident investigation to date, involved police officers have refused to consent to the commission investigator being present or to remotely observe their interviews.”

In New South Wales, the number of official complaints each year of police misconduct have more than tripled since 2015–16.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231023104458/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/23/nsw-police-watchdog-routinely-denied-access-to-internal-officer-interviews-report-finds

#NSWpolice #LECC #NSWpol #corruption #transparency #PoliceWatchdog #PoliceAbuse #ACAB

The police watchdog is called the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, or #LECC. LECC ought never be mentioned without also mentioning that the former #Coalition government established it in 2017 with such insufficient funding that it only has the resources to investigate 1-2% of the thousands of complaints made against NSW Police each year. Enormous numbers of complaints, including those involving serious #corruption, are either completely unaddressed or handed over for police to investigate themselves.

The Coalition founded LECC in 2017 as a replacement for multiple prior police accountability organisations, including the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) that was set up after the Woods Royal Commission confirmed longstanding allegations of serious and non-isolated police corruption in NSW. As it was being set up, the Police Union and relevant government minister sought to prevent anyone who worked at PIC from being hired for LECC, according to testimony under oath in 2018 from the newly appointed LECC head to parliamentary committee (claims denied by the then police minister).

#WoodsRoyalCommission #PoliceCorruption #PoliceAbuse #transparency #PoliceWatchdog #NSWpol #NSWpolice

@ai6yr and in Utah, police broke the leg of a woman who was settling in to sleep in her car - with her dog - they decided to be a$$holes and pulled her out and threw her to the ground

And now she’s had to have her leg AMPUTATED

#PoliceAbuse https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/salt-lake-city-police-broke-a-womans-leg-during-an-arrest-weeks-later-it-had-to-be-amputated/