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CW: Police violence This appears to be a teen being beaten by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s NYPD around the block from IS 051 Edwin Markham middle school.

5 minutes into @nycforabortion.bsky.social’s monthly clinic defense, 30+ officers with the NYPD’s SRG arrived with zip ties and lined go across the street.

Over the night, activists at Campamento Pelicano were attacked by Aguadilla Pier Corp’s security guards with what seems like a baton or a pipe. (Video from Campamento Pelicano’s IG)

Activists attempted to stop a pick up truck from entering, wherein security guards started attacking activists w/ (what seems like) a baton and pepper spray. One guard chased down an activist to beat him into the street. (From Campamento Cangrejo on FB)

to demolish has been in place for a while. If you want to learn more about how police help privatize public property, read this Copwatch Media copwatch.media/2022/11/how-th…

Por décadas, el Departamento de Policía de Puerto Rico (PRPD) ha custodiado la propiedad pública que ha sido ilegalmente privatizada por el estado y la empresa privada. Lean sobre esto en Copwatch Media

Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants. This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.

A reminder to journalists and everyone else that police lie, all the time. Repeating or parroting police narratives is dangerous. Please read our resource Don't Be A Copagandist, which aims to help journos and media disrupt copaganda and tell the facts: bit.ly/NoCopaganda

Today the Week of Action to Close the Rikers Island Death Camp begins with the public launch of rikersisadeath.camp, an online memorial to ensure those whose lives were taken by New York City Department of Correction are never forgotten + to demand that #NYC #ShutDownRikers #ClosetheDeathCamps NOW.

Our podcasts and video interviews from the last half of 2022 are now all available on our website ==> copwatch.media/podcasts/

My latest for The Daily Beast on the militarization of the police, the criminalization of protest, and the state's escalating use of deadly force against antiracist, antifascist, and environmentalist activists like Manuel #Tortuguita Terán. #CopCity #StopCopCity #PoliceBrutality

Some news: I'm writing a book about exposing fascists & the people who expose them. It's a collection of antifascist detective stories, a narrative history of antifa in America, & a look at the impact of doxes in communities across the country. Can't wait for you all to read.

In the police killing of Tyre Nichols, an MPD-controlled street camera captured the full extent of what cops did. We spoke to Jerome D. Greco & our own Dennis Flores Miranda about best practices for copwatchers & activists on how to get footage from street cameras. copwatch.media/2023/02/how-to…