This 420-pound cop robot is patrolling Atlanta neighborhoods, surveilling, recording and reporting to police. It can even read cell phones wirelessly. Film The Police LA ajc.com/news/crime/mee…

Israeli military bulldozers continue their destruction spree in Jenin for sixth day in a row.

The Police Are Defunding You

“They’re students, these are kids! Take it easy on the students” a bystander pleads as this violence ensues at the hands of the NYPD. The students will not stop they will not rest and Columbia University⁩ is shameful as ever. Video sent by a friend.

I don't know if I want to laugh or cry when I hear every reactionary populist politician in SF cry for increasing funding to police to rile up votes in an election year when we have 4 schools closing and 9 cops made over $600k last year:

Pittsburgh cops with their infinite intelligence databanks could not figure out for 2 weeks that the 13-year-old girl in their jail cell was the same kid they were looking for separately as a missing person.

To understand why things are happening, it’s always helpful to examine where the money is coming from. Proposition 36 in California’s upcoming election would dramatically expand prison, and look at the cash behind it:

The OPOA, who called for Mayor Thao to resign for no real reason, is being hit hard by this ethics investigation.

Former Mayor Libby Schaaf faces thousands in ethics fines. The chamber of commerce, Oakland police union, and city contractors also allegedly violated city election laws alongside Schaaf during the 2018 and 2020 elections. oaklandside.org/2024/09/06/for…

Police didn’t “betray” union workers— police are simply the enemies of organized labor. Just cops doing what cops are paid to do: enforce the social hierarchy of racial capitalism and settler colonialism.

Rachel Corrie’s parents on a call, helping young WA activists navigate the death of one of their own at the hands of the IDF two decades later shows just how unreal this world is.

ABOLITION NOW

americans talk about demonstrations being 'disruptive' to their day to day, but i feel like most americans haven't once had to consider how disruptive their bombs and drones and militaries have been for our day to day.

Video shows San Francisco police pin a woman on the ground and handcuff her on the Embarcadero this morning as her young daughter cried hysterically — during a confiscation of a hot dog stand. missionlocal.org/2024/09/female…

The more time passes the worse this story gets and the Biden admin still doesn’t care that Israel killed (another) American.

Israel has damaged 63% of Gaza's farmland and totally destroyed 49% of tree cover. Israel is committing violent ecocide in Gaza, backed by the United States.

Police killed more people in 2021 than in 2020, the year of George Floyd's murder. They killed more people in 2022 than in 2021. They killed more people in 2023 than in 2022. And they are on pace to kill far more in 2024 than 2023.

Online MH First training opportunity for BIPOC people in Oakland and Sacramento! Sunday, Sept. 15 10 am - 5 pm Priority will be given to those who are able to start volunteering as responders in Oakland & Sacramento in the next 3 months. Register at: bit.ly/mh1-0915