bangarang

omg I want some of these!

@halodite​

YEP! These are meant to be skipped into the ground and then spin into people's legs and dissuade people from advancing or move them away. FIRING THEM AT PEOPLE'S HEADS IS 100% AGAINST THE PROPER USE. AND THEY ARE SHOOTING THESE AT MEDICS. DOCTORS, EMTS, AND NURSES. AT CLOSE RANGE. THESE CAN BREAK YOUR SKULL. THEY ARE NOT A JOKE. THIS IS LESS LETHAL LIKE A BASEBALL BAT IS LESS LETHAL THAN A SWORD. BOTH STILL CAN KILL.

I only found out today they’re meant to be fired at the ground to bounce back at protesters... I don’t think  I’ve ever seen the cops use them that way

I was corrected on Twitter by someone from the community — they’re actually Old Order Mennonites! Although they follow that ‘plain living’ doctrine that the Amish do, they also carefully allow technology into their communities. Televisions are one of the few pieces of modern tech that’s allowed in certain Mennonite sects. The Mennonites and Quakers are no nonsense when it comes to oppression of any kind. Google more about them and you’ll quickly find out that it’s no surprise they showed up. They always show up.

after hurricane sandy, mennonites came through Far Rockaway, NY and rebuilt houses and Black churches that were devastated for free, the ones i’ve met have always been down to do real work for the cause

It gets better. He's gonna get charged with brandishing/assault with a deadly weapon.

Reblog if politeness to retail and service workers is important to you.

honestly 

Considering Omar Jimenez was arrested when literally politely asking cops what he should do, the idea that peaceful protesting would fix anything is ridiculous. The cops blatantly lied about his reason for arrest too. The whole fucking thing was caught on camera and they still claimed he had to be arrested because he “wouldn’t move”, which makes no sense in the first place but is even worse considering he was asking where he should move and didn’t get an answer.

That reporting team and others have been kettled live on camera multiple times now. Kettling is when cops form walls in front of and behind protesters, tell them to "move back" when they have nowhere to move back to, and then attack them for "resisting orders" when the orders were impossible to comply with. The sticky situation that you can see is that the capitalist guard dogs know they're on camera, and they glance stupidly at each other in silence because they don't know how to make those lies look real on camera, but they roll with them anyway because enough people are still complacent enough to trust what they're told before trusting what is actually in front of them. It's easier to see when there is aerial footage, which has been caught a couple times by citizen's who have remote drones w cameras over diff locations, because cameras on the ground can understandably only get one eye-level angle at a time. Remember, if they're telling these lies when you can SEE what they're doing, you have to assume that the reality is much worse when the cameras aren't there.

Cops murdered a black girl in Toronto this week too but Canadians are too up their own asses about how we’re “Not the racist ones! That’s only America! We’re the nice ones :)” to acknowledge it or do anything about it

Cops in Canada are just as racist and evil please Canada wake the fuck up

molly ostertag’s wife, noelle stevenson, had her phone taken from her. be extra careful recording cops.