Tagged: Police brutality
EXTREMISTS MINGLE WITH L.A., RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNARDINO SHERIFFS AT FIRST TRI-COUNTY FORUM
VISHAL P. SINGH | May 2, 2022
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 […]
“I HAD SNIPERS ON ROOFS”—FLYNN, TRUMP SPAWN & ANTIVAXXERS CONVERGE IN KEIZER, OR
ABNER HÄUGE | JAMES CROXTON | April 6, 2022
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.) […]
PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE
JAMES CROXTON | ABNER HÄUGE | March 1, 2022
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. […]
SDPD OFFICER TRIES TO FOLLOW PROTESTER HOME WITHOUT CAUSE
JOE ORELLANA | October 4, 2021
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 […]
BERKELEY POLICE HIT CIVILIAN WITH PATROL CAR
MARK MISOSHNIK | July 30, 2021
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 […]
OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURES SHOUTING MATCH BETWEEN PRO-COP PROTESTERS & ABOLITIONISTS
ABNER HÄUGE | July 11, 2021
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. […]
HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB-PLOTTING RACISTS AT “SHADOW MOSES”
JAMES STOUT | May 1, 2021
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 […]
RACIST UTAH COP HAS LONG HISTORY OF TRAINING ALPHABET AGENCIES
LCRW STAFF | January 14, 2021
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 […]
ELECTION WEEK IN LA: CELEBRATIONS, PROFILING & MASS ARRESTS
OWEN GRADY | November 10, 2020
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 […]
FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH
ABNER HÄUGE | October 20, 2020
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 […]
MOUNT SHASTA POLICE TORTURE MAN WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS BEFORE ARRESTING HIM
ABNER HÄUGE | September 30, 2020
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 […]
EYEWITNESS: MULTIPLE CAR ATTACKS AT MONDAY SACRAMENTO TRUMP EVENT
ABNER HÄUGE | September 17, 2020
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 […]
SAN DIEGO: OFFICERS ASSAULT PROTESTER HAVING A SEIZURE
ROSE HENNA | August 29, 2020
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 […]
OAKLAND RAGES OVER SHOOTING OF JACOB BLAKE
JUNGHO KIM | August 28, 2020
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 […]
AUGUST 15: WARWOLVES OF PORTLAND
JAMES O’RYAN | August 25, 2020
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 […]
PORTLAND, AUGUST 9TH–PROTESTERS COMPLY WITH DISPERSAL ORDER, POLICE ASSAULT THEM ANYWAY
JAMES O’RYAN | August 11, 2020
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 […]
PORTLAND POLICE PROMISE VIOLENCE, DELIVER
TJ PARTRIDGE | August 8, 2020
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, […]
“IT CONSUMES YOUR LIFE”. INTERVIEW WITH A PORTLAND PROTESTER
ABNER HÄUGE | July 25, 2020
‘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 […]
INTERVIEW: ROSA FROM THE WITCHES PDX ON POLICE BRUTALITY, HEXING FASCISTS AND MORE
ABNER HÄUGE | July 23, 2020
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 […]