I spoke with a witness to the NYPD mass shooting on the Sutter Av L train yesterday. He shared what he witnessed & how, shaken, he walked home — more than an hour — flipping off every NYPD vehicle that drove past. “I'm still processing everything but I'm furious and scared.” 🧵

New video has emerged of NYPD cops brutally beating a man working at a homeless shelter. The cops didn’t have a warrant to enter the facility, and the workers’ boss told him not to let them in. So they attacked him. Trigger warning for the video.

Rene almost succeeded in getting this factoid removed from his wikipedia page, but thanks for the investigation bringing it up, wiki editors can no longer claim that it was just from a "tabloid"

What did we learn from the killing of James Chasse on the streets of Portland 18 years ago - September 17 2006? 1/

The perpetrators were three cops, who brutally beat a meek and quiet man who had schizophrenia to death in front of a crowd of witnesses. Who were they? 2/

Portland Police Bureau Sergeant Kyle Nice, who currently trains new recruits at the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. He brutally kicked Jim in the head. 3/

Multnomah County Deputy Bret Burton, who is now on the Portland Police Bureau Behavioral Health Unit - responding to people in psychiatric crisis. He repeatedly tased Jim. 4/

And Portland Police Bureau officer Christopher Humphreys, who now fashions himself as a trauma counselor working out of Heppner. He tackled Jim, breaking his ribs in 16 places, puncturing his lung and tearing his spleen. 5/

The cops hogtied him. They waved off an ambulance standing by to take Jim to a nearby hospital. Jail nurses told the cops to take him to an ER. Jim was too badly injured for jail. 6/

When witnesses asked what was happening, cops lied to them. They said they knew Jim. They did not. They said he was a drug dealer. He was not. That he might have urinated on a tree. He did not. 8/

The county DA did not press charges. Neither did the state AG. Elected city councilors & administrators did, effectively, nothing. The police oversight board did nothing. The state certifying body did nothing. Police colleagues did nothing. The US DOJ did, basically, nothing. 9/

We made a film - Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse. Pretty good. An adult horror documentary. Not for first dates. Watch it free on Kanopy tonight. kanopy.com/en/product/ali… 11/

Virulently misogynistic far-right activist Jon Miller defends domestic violence, saying that while "a woman every once in awhile needs a backhand" and that "errant wives" need to be "physically chastised," what Diddy did went too far.

Another PPB Human trafficking mission where the only arrests were ppl paying for sex.

Portland police Sgt Patrick Mawdsley was arrested in Minnesota for crashing his rental, drunk. He blew a .083, but wasn't charged with Drunk driving because later he blew a .06 in jail. He previously was sued for attacking a woman at a cops wedding with a bunch of other cops. 1/

Green Party candidate Jill Stein was interviewed by BlazeTV host and right-wing troll Alex Stein. Jill thanked him and his crew for "being real journalists."

Alex Stein is an admitted friend of white supremacist Nick Fuentes. angrywhitemen.org/2024/02/08/bla…

Ashli Babbitt’s brother, Roger Witthoeft, 34, was convicted by a San Diego jury of a misdemeanor battery count and a hate crime allegation for striking a Latino San Diego Gas & Electric worker in Point Loma and shouting racial slurs at the man. He was also convicted of violating