Tagged: Police brutality

• EXTREMISTS MINGLE WITH L.A., RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNARDINO SHERIFFS AT FIRST TRI-COUNTY FORUM

  May 2, 2022 | VISHAL P. SINGH

  Upon arriving at the first-ever Tri-County Sheriff’s Forum in California, you might find yourself asking whether you’re at a community forum or a spy convention. Supercars, guns, gadgets, snowmobiles, helicopters, military-grade special operations gear, armored vehicles, scuba-diving equipment, and even a rocket propelled grenade launcher? There was quite a militarized spectacle on display at the… Continue reading EXTREMISTS MINGLE WITH L.A., RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNARDINO SHERIFFS AT FIRST TRI-COUNTY FORUM

• “I HAD SNIPERS ON ROOFS”—FLYNN, TRUMP SPAWN & ANTIVAXXERS CONVERGE IN KEIZER, OR

  April 6, 2022 | ABNER HÄUGE | JAMES CROXTON

  It was, as one local activist accurately described it, “Warped Tour for QAnon.” All-stars from Q-world and the antivaxx/COVID conspiracy theory scene took their big-tent revival, “ReAwaken America,” to Keizer, Oregon (just outside of Salem, the state’s capitol) this past weekend, selling out about 4,000 tickets for $250 a pop (half-off if you’re a pastor.)… Continue reading “I HAD SNIPERS ON ROOFS”—FLYNN, TRUMP SPAWN & ANTIVAXXERS CONVERGE IN KEIZER, OR

• PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE

  March 1, 2022 | JAMES CROXTON | ABNER HÄUGE

  On the evening of Feb. 19, a regularly-scheduled Black Lives Matter march was supposed to start out near Normandale Park in North-East Portland. Instead, someone came out of a building, approached a group of women volunteering with the march and shot them. One woman, June Knightly, age 60, who went by “T. Rex,” was killed.… Continue reading PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE

• SDPD OFFICER TRIES TO FOLLOW PROTESTER HOME WITHOUT CAUSE

  October 4, 2021 | JOE ORELLANA

  On September 30th, an SDPD officer with a history of racist commentary on social media attempted to tail a protester back to their home. At an anti-police brutality protest in front of SDPD Central Division Substation that evening, officer Adam Devor got into and escalated verbal disputes with protestors, then proceeded to try to follow… Continue reading SDPD OFFICER TRIES TO FOLLOW PROTESTER HOME WITHOUT CAUSE

• BERKELEY POLICE HIT CIVILIAN WITH PATROL CAR

  July 30, 2021 | MARK MISOSHNIK

  On July 14, 2021, Officer Tyler Moore with the Berkeley PD hit a pedestrian in his SUV. I happened to be driving down Sacramento Street, a main thoroughfare, when I noticed it was being blocked off by a patrol car. As we made the turn for the detour, my partner, an EMT, noticed that there… Continue reading BERKELEY POLICE HIT CIVILIAN WITH PATROL CAR

• OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURES SHOUTING MATCH BETWEEN PRO-COP PROTESTERS & ABOLITIONISTS

  July 11, 2021 | ABNER HÄUGE

  Oakland Police Department sponsored a rally Saturday with the hashtag “#safeOakland.” The headline speaker was OPD’s police chief LeRonne Armstrong with “invited guests” speaking as well. OPD’s event was to start at 12pm, presumably in response to the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), which had previously scheduled an event at Lake Merritt for 1pm that day.… Continue reading OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURES SHOUTING MATCH BETWEEN PRO-COP PROTESTERS & ABOLITIONISTS

• HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”

  May 1, 2021 | JAMES STOUT

  In late July 2020, activists in San Diego were planning a BLM march in La Mesa. There hadn’t been a large action there since banks burned and the cops shot a grandmother’s eye out (within policy apparently) in late May. After those banks burned, a group of anti-BLM locals had sprung up under the name… Continue reading HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”

• RACIST UTAH COP HAS LONG HISTORY OF TRAINING ALPHABET AGENCIES

  January 14, 2021 | LCRW STAFF

  In May of 2014 Dan Watson of Kanab, Utah posted a photograph on his personal Facebook page of a line of armed men silhouetted against a sunset. The man at the far right of the photo holds the leash of a dog – probably a German Shepherd. Overlaid on the photo are the words “There… Continue reading RACIST UTAH COP HAS LONG HISTORY OF TRAINING ALPHABET AGENCIES

• ELECTION WEEK IN LA: CELEBRATIONS, PROFILING & MASS ARRESTS

  November 10, 2020 | OWEN GRADY

  On Tuesday, November 3rd, Los Angeles Police Department preemptively announced a citywide tactical alert. L.A Sheriff’s Department had done the same the previous Sunday. Both law enforcement agencies were preparing for possible unrest during the election. Black Lives Matter Los Angeles hosted a celebratory all-day election viewing party which was interrupted when LAPD stormed in… Continue reading ELECTION WEEK IN LA: CELEBRATIONS, PROFILING & MASS ARRESTS

• FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH

  October 20, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  Saturday about 20 fascists gathered in San Francisco under the pretext of complaining about their accounts being banned from social media websites like Twitter. Philip Anderson, a MAGA influencer and self-professed member of the Proud Boys who previously assaulted a friend of LCRW’s editorial board in July in Portland, organized the event–poorly. Most of the… Continue reading FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH

• MOUNT SHASTA POLICE TORTURE MAN WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS BEFORE ARRESTING HIM

  September 30, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  Video from Monday night shows an unhoused man who later identified himself as Trevor Hanson on the ground and wailing in pain as two Mt. Shasta police officers repeatedly shock him a taser. “I didn’t do anything! I didn’t do anything!” Hansen cries as officers pin him to the ground and repeatedly shock him with… Continue reading MOUNT SHASTA POLICE TORTURE MAN WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS BEFORE ARRESTING HIM

• EYEWITNESS: MULTIPLE CAR ATTACKS AT MONDAY SACRAMENTO TRUMP EVENT

  September 17, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  On Monday, Trump came to Sacramento in between campaign events to be briefed on the massive wildfires happening across the West Coast and hold a press conference. His supporters and counter-protestors both showed up outside Sacramento McClellan Airport where he landed. At least Three civilian drivers and one highway patrolman used their vehicles to attack… Continue reading EYEWITNESS: MULTIPLE CAR ATTACKS AT MONDAY SACRAMENTO TRUMP EVENT

• SAN DIEGO: OFFICERS ASSAULT PROTESTER HAVING A SEIZURE

  August 29, 2020 | ROSE HENNA

  On Monday, August 24, 2020 at approximately 1:00 PM a flyer began circulating on popular social media sites calling for a protest at 1401 Broadway in San Diego, California (San Diego Police Department Headquarters at 5:00 PM to show solidarity with protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Outrage over the August 23, 2020 police shooting of Jacob… Continue reading SAN DIEGO: OFFICERS ASSAULT PROTESTER HAVING A SEIZURE

• OAKLAND RAGES OVER SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE

  August 28, 2020 | JUNGHO KIM

  Tensions were high as hundreds of people marched through Oakland on Wednesday evening to protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 23. Speakers led the crowd in chanting the names of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Oakland’s own Oscar Grant who was killed by BART police in 2008. Several… Continue reading OAKLAND RAGES OVER SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE

• AUGUST 15: WARWOLVES OF PORTLAND

  August 25, 2020 | JAMES O’RYAN

  An unusual scene began during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. Among the activists manning the western barricade, word rapidly spread that Proud Boys or some other form of alt-right militia was approaching the edge of the action in a limousine with a camera crew. Protesters and press alike couldn’t… Continue reading AUGUST 15: WARWOLVES OF PORTLAND

• PORTLAND, AUGUST 9TH–PROTESTERS COMPLY WITH DISPERSAL ORDER, POLICE ASSAULT THEM ANYWAY

  August 11, 2020 | JAMES O’RYAN

  Kenton Park is a rolling, twelve acre, green-space in this tightly-packed city. People from the neighborhood had begun quietly assembling on Sunday, August 9 2020, in socially-distanced and masked groups at the north end of the park since around 6 PM. Unlike the visually packed spaces in the city center so famous from national and… Continue reading PORTLAND, AUGUST 9TH–PROTESTERS COMPLY WITH DISPERSAL ORDER, POLICE ASSAULT THEM ANYWAY

• PORTLAND POLICE PROMISE VIOLENCE, DELIVER

  August 8, 2020 | TJ PARTRIDGE

  On the heels of a night wherein the Portland Police Bureau beat, flashbanged, and gassed a crowd through the streets of outer Southeast Portland, the teenage-led activist group Youth Liberation Front posted a follow up call to action in the East Portland neighborhood. The announcement, of course, was not unnoticed by the Portland Police Bureau,… Continue reading PORTLAND POLICE PROMISE VIOLENCE, DELIVER

• “IT CONSUMES YOUR LIFE”. INTERVIEW WITH A PORTLAND PROTESTER

  July 25, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  ‘TRANS RIGHTS’ is, in my opinion, a brilliant alias. That’s what my interviewee chose to call herself for this article. Before I even asked a question, there were a few things TRANS RIGHTS wanted to make clear: She’s white. She’s trans. She lives in Portland. Portland is stolen Chinook land. Oregon was founded as a… Continue reading “IT CONSUMES YOUR LIFE”. INTERVIEW WITH A PORTLAND PROTESTER

• INTERVIEW: ROSA FROM THE WITCHES PDX ON POLICE BRUTALITY, HEXING FASCISTS AND MORE

  July 23, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  At one point during our conversation, Rosa cleared her throat. “Excuse me,” she said. “It’s the teargas, not COVID.” Rosa is a lead organizer with The Witches PDX. She spoke to LCRW about the group’s mutual aid work, the brutality of the state and federal law enforcement’s response to the now over 50 days of… Continue reading INTERVIEW: ROSA FROM THE WITCHES PDX ON POLICE BRUTALITY, HEXING FASCISTS AND MORE