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DC Police launch harassment campaign against transgender sex workers

Early AM on Sun, August 21, the entire area of K and L streets between N Cap st and 1st st NE was overrrun with cops while transgender sex workers were forced to move east to a temporary area to meet their clients. Presumably their clients knew to check further east if the normal area was overrun with pigs, as this is the direction cops have been pushing them since condos took over the old 5th and K area. Out of state cars seen parked near places like NPR radio were harassed with fake "crime alert" parking tickets whose real purpose no doubt was to warn that license plates were being logged by cops. The broken piles of car window glass indicating an active car break-in zone have never been evident in that area, thus casting doubt on any actual "crime" problem concerning anything other than sex work.

Reportback from Black August Town Hall

A Black August town hall at a church in NW DC on August 20th generated some very strong suggestions on what it will take to hold racist officials and killer cops responsible for their crimes. One speaker during the "aggressive protests and public relations" panel said getting the government to pay attention (at the Cabinet level) to say, anti-TPP protests would require shutting down the Port of Baltimore and all traffic on I-95 in both directions. In the final panel one speaker warned that both the 1st and 2nd Amendments are being ignored by police and courts where African-Americans are involved.

Speakers name Port of Baltimore as strategic target, suggest 1st and 2nd Amendments being treated as white-only

Blac kAugust Town Hall speakers: Port of Baltimore a strategic target,Black denied 1st and 2nd Amendments

Police harassing Black Lives Matter activists in SE

On the 16th of August, reports surfaced on Twitter of multiple instances of police harassment of Black Lives Matter activists in DC over the past year. An activist using the handle @agoggans has been repeatedly harassed by police, including at her home when police harassed a Black Joy Sunday event at her home last year. On August 16th she was harassed again, officers with badge numbers 3344 and 2520 were both involved and are reported to be harassing her every chance they get.Overt surveillance is also being reported and the overall situation should be considered a dangerous threat.

Black Lives Matter activists blockade, disrupt FOP conference in Baltimore

On the 14th of August, the Fraternal Order of Police held a conference at the Hyatt in Baltimore. Black Lives Matter activsts blockaded doors using lockboxes and dropped banners inside in a full court press disruption. Twelve protesters were arrested after police managed to saw through the lockboxes. One of the FOP attendees showed off the "Frat" part of "Fraternal Order of Police" by saying "Move or I'm going to piss on you bitch" to one of the women in the protest. The Hyatt was reduced to forcing people out of the conference-and the hotel and refunding money paid to enter.

Ahsa Rosa photo of lockdown at the doors

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