Police/Legal/Prisons

July 4 pot legalization march faces fences, checkpoints, troops

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 13:54

Every July 4 there is a cannabis legalization march from the White House to a concert on the Mall near 23ed st. The march demands an end to all federal, state, and local laws persecuting pot users. Since 2002 the march has had to pass through police checkpoints to get to the concert site. This year there were an unusual number of troops and military vehicles in the streets as well as all those "Freedom American Style" bag search checkpoints.

Video of the pot parade on the Mall(2 min 15 sec)

Drugs
Police/Legal/Prisons
Pot parade passes fence, troops, checkpoint

Protesters at DOJ lay flowers for those tortured to death in US custody

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 23:37

On the 26th of June, Amnesty International, Witness Against Torture, and others showed up at the Dept of Justice to denounce continuing US torture. The DOJ was called out not only for refusing today to prosecute torture at Guantanimo Bay and elsewhere but also for explicitly authorising it during the Bush years. During the protest, flowers were laid on the concrete barrier planters outside DOJ memorializing those who died under torture in US custody.

Video of protesters laying flowersat DOJ and of the tools of force-feeding at GITMO

Anti-War/Peace
Police/Legal/Prisons

DC Ferguson shuts down Chinatown demanding Lanier actually end jump-outs

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 00:29

On the 16th of June, DC Ferguson returned to the streets and shut down Chinatown, demanding not only that Police Chief Lanier keep the de facto promise she just made to end jump-outs, but also an end to gentrifcation and homelessness. The 16th of June was the 39th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising that marked the start of the movement that ultimately ended Apartheid in South Africa.

1 min 30 sec video of DC Ferguson march in Chinatown

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

#JusticeForMuslims protests police shootings, FBI entrapment

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 23:54

On the 11th of June, both Muslim activsts and DC Ferguson activists showed up at the Dept of Justice to protest the recent spate of police shootings of Muslims in the US and the FBI's well-worn resort to entrapment. The tactics now in use by the FBI are essentially those of the Green Scare coupled to a quick willingness to open fire. African-American activists against police brutality fear they are next in line for FBI entrapment and murder, this has happened before.

Video of some of the speakers

Philosophy/Religion
Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Treesitter, police liason arrested for blocking Spectra's fracked gas pipeline construction

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 05/19/2015 - 14:56

On the 19th of May, FANG (Fighting Against Naturals Gas) launched a treesit to block construction of Spectra Energy's fracked gas pipeline in Rhode Island insultingly named "Algonquin" after the rightful owners of the whole region. Not only was Rhode Island resident and FANG activist Sherrie Anne Andre arrested, so was her police liason!

Environment/Food/Health
Police/Legal/Prisons

PCJF and U.S. Gov't reach $2.2 million settlement over 2002 mass arrests, includes landmark reforms in U.S. Park Police practices

Submitted by repost on Mon, 05/18/2015 - 14:01

Model for 'best practices' in policing demonstrations U.S. District Court issues preliminary approval for class action settlement After more than 12 years of class-action litigation, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has reached an unprecedented settlement with the Justice Department and the Department of the Interior that will significantly change the handling of mass protests. Presiding Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued preliminary approval for the settlement.

Civil Liberites/Constitution
Local News/Neighborhoods
Police/Legal/Prisons
World Uprisings

Anonymous claims DC cops ordered to arrest homeless between midnight and 5AM

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 05/13/2015 - 13:27

A Twitter message from Anonymous claims that DC police have been ordered to impose an illegal, de facto curfew on the homeless, arresting them between the hours of midnight and 5 AM. It does not cite a context nor a location. Since there is no legal curfew, these arrests would have to be on made up or spurious "charges of convenience." Alternately they use "evidence" from illegal stop and frisks, known as jumpouts in DC. This kind of spurious arrest was how Freddie Grey got killed. Does DC want a week of protests, riots, and no baseball too?

Police/Legal/Prisons
Poverty
Race/Racism

The Twitter post from Anonymous

"Million Moms March" against police brutality during National Police Week

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 05/09/2015 - 19:03

On the 9th of May, mothers of African-American men murdered by police marched at the head of a column of supporters from John Marshall Park by the courthouses to the Dept of Justice and back. Marchers demanded an end to police murder violence in the wake of police brutality cases and uprisings from Ferguson to Baltimore.

30 seconds video of the march

Youtube video of meeting of mothers with the DOJ:

youtube.com/watch?v=hIwwxSujFe4&

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Baltimore abandons curfew after repeated civil disobediance arrests

Submitted by Luke on Sun, 05/03/2015 - 14:33

On Sunday, the 3ed of May, Baltimore's Mayor announced she was giving up on the 10PM curfew and lifting it effective immediately. Also, the National Guard and out of jurisdiction cops are now supposed to be "drawn down." Since Tuesday, April 28 the curfew had been directly responsible for provoking civil disobediance protests, arrests, and fighting that at least once escalated to "rubber" bullets. The last two nights of the curfew featured civil disobediance arrests of mostly white allies near City Hall and police assaults on African-American curfew protesters elsewhere

RT Liveleak video: police fire pepper spray point blank at African-American curfew protesters Saturday night

Civil Liberites/Constitution
Civil Rights/Equal Rights
Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Cops fire pepper spray at peaceful African-American anti-curfew protesters Saturday night. Photo by Harris from the Post

Mayday reportback from Occupied Baltimore

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 05/02/2015 - 00:01

On May 1, 2015, Mayday,the occupation of Baltimore by the National Guard and out of state cops completely failed to deter protesters from taking ov A march so large that nowhere could both ends be seen marched on the jail, on City Hall, and on the Western District police station in West Baltimore near wher Freddie Grey was murdered. Later that night protesters staged a sit-in at City Hall in defiance of the Mayor's curfew. Police reponded with beatings and arrests to the sit-in.

Update May 2:Thousands march again on and around City Hall

Mayday protesters march on Baltimore City Hall and Jail past riot cops and armored vehicles

RT Youtube video of police attack on marchers defying curfew

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Protesters and two armored vehicles in West Baltimore

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