May 31, 2020
Utah Man Aims Bow And Arrow At Protesters
The Grio reports:
A white man declaring “All Lives Matter” during demonstrations in Utah on Saturday was detained by police after he aimed a bow and arrow at protesters.
Video footage of the shocking Salt Lake City incident shows Brandon McCormick standing in the street beside his vehicle as he begins to prepare his bow and arrow to apparently use it on a protester.
Just as he begins to shoot his hunting bow, protesters dashed toward him and attacked him in a chaotic scene. It was not clear, however, if he successfully fired an arrow. Another angle shows protesters hiding behind vehicles to protect themselves.
The Daily News reports:
“First, I got beat up when I yelled ‘All Lives Matter’,” McCormick told KSL-TV on Saturday. “Then I pulled out weapons and I got beat up some more. The cops grabbed me and my car got totaled. I lost everything, coming down here to try to protect [officers] with what weapons I had.”
McCormick added: “I back up the law enforcement. I know some cops are bad. I know some people are racists are bad.” He later told Deseret News: “I came down here originally to help the cops. But, all I did was yell out, ‘All lives matter’ and I got beat up by black people.”
The man claims all lives matter as he prepared and it appears did fire an arrow at people. What the heck goes through the minds of these people. In his mind trying to kill those he disagrees with is not a bad thing. Hugs
Trump Supporters Strike Protesters With Jeep [VIDEO]
https://www.joemygod.com/2020/05/trump-supporters-strike-protesters-with-jeep-video/
The Metro reports:
Shocking footage has emerged of Donald Trump supporters running over two protesters who had taken to the streets calling for justice over the death of George Floyd.
The footage, which was shared on Twitter, appears to show three people driving through the protests in a blue Jeep with a US flag and a Trump ‘Keep America Great’ flag attached to the rear of the vehicle.
Several protesters are seen holding placards in the road, before the driver of the Jeep comes to a stop in traffic. He then accelerates and plows into a young woman, who appears to be struck front-on by the vehicle and is mowed to the ground.
The Fresno Bee reports:
The Visalia Police Department said it is investigating the incident but no arrests have been made. Video shows three people in the Jeep, which had an American flag, as well as a Trump “Keep America Great” flag, attached and on display. Visalia police declined to release any names of the suspects, citing an ongoing investigation.
But Visalia police public information officer Celeste Sanchez did add that none of the occupants in the Jeep are children of Visalia police officers, as inaccurately claimed on social media. The women who were hit by the Jeep suffered minor injuries, according to Visalia police.
There are tweets and video at the link above. Hugs
Reporters Gassed, Hit With Rubber Bullets, Arrested
Police are targeting the reporters as a warn to them not to report police bad conduct. The White House people keep saying this was a bad apple, yet the actions of the forces acting during the protests shows it is systemic in all the law enforcement groups. Hugs
https://www.joemygod.com/2020/05/reporters-gassed-hit-with-rubber-bullets-arrested/
The Hollywood Reporter reports:
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, CNN commentator Keith Boykin were among journalists recounting being hit by rubber bullets, attacked, and in some cases arrested while covering protests.
As tensions escalated across the United States during protests over the death of George Floyd, many journalists found themselves in the crosshairs of covering an unprecedented moment with some getting hit by rubber and pepper bullets.
MSNBC host Ali Velshi, who has been reporting live from Minneapolis, tweeted Saturday that he had been hit by rubber bullets “but I am fine,” he posted. “State police supported by National Guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally.”
There are about a dozen really good tweets from reporters who were shot, some with video, all while displaying their press credentials. One reporter who was arrest, Keith Boykin, describes how the police held him for 6 hours, the first two in hot uncomfortable conditions. He never was read his rights, and instead of a serious charge gave him a summons for blocking traffic, something he not only claims he did not do but couldn’t because the street was already blocked by police. It is important to address police power now, before it is too late. Remember the police are not the military, the police do not have a normally dangerous job, and they have forgotten what policing was really for. Hugs
Escalating protests force Omar Jimenez’s crew to flee to safety
This was a peaceful protest. The authorities asked for a peaceful protest. They got it. Then they reacted like this. Are we a police state yet? We all watched the treatment of protesters in Hong Kong and were angered at the way the government there harmed and threatened the protesters. Well here we are, in the US, with mistreatment of peaceful protesters. Hugs
Barr trying to shift the blame
Please understand what is happening. The administration, the president, is trying to shift blame from their protected thugs who are trying to create trouble / start their desired race war to their political enemies. This is real nasty shit. Their people stir up the trouble, then they blame the people who are against them politically. Left wing groups do not stand to gain from a race war. Look at who gains from this, look at why the administration is using the top law enforcement agency in the country to lie about what is happening to shift blame. Hugs
May 30, 2020
4 white Missouri cops sued for alleged brutality on 68-year-old black woman and son in a Sam’s Club
Four white police officers allegedly used excessive force on a 68-year-old black woman and her adult son after the son was wrongly accused of stealing a TV in a Missouri Sam’s Club, a new lawsuit claims.
Marvia Gray suffered “mental anguish” as well as injuries to her tailbone, back, shoulder, knees and arms when she was thrown to the ground and handcuffed March 23 inside the Des Peres store, the lawsuit filed Monday in St. Louis County alleges.
Her 43-year-old son, Derek, suffered a concussion, three shattered teeth and other injuries, the paperwork obtained by the Daily News states.
Marvia was especially traumatized during the incident because she feared for her son’s life following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, her lawyer Andrew M. Stroth told the Associated Press.
“Mrs. Gray thought her son was about to be another black man unjustifiably shot and killed by the police,” Stroth said in a phone interview. “You can see in the video that she is terrified with respect to what they’re doing to her son.”
Cellphone video shot in the store and obtained by the AP begins with Gray and her son already on the ground. Derek tries to sit up at one point, but two officers forcefully push him back down, according to the video.
“Get off me,” he is heard yelling. “I’m humiliated.”
Marvia screams throughout the videos, yelling at officers, “Please leave me alone!”
When they tried to load the massive TV in their 2018 Lexus SUV and realized it wouldn’t fit, they asked the store to hold it until Derek could retrieve it later.
A Des Peres Police officer in the store mistakenly thought he was stealing the TV when he returned later. The officer followed Derek to his SUV and voiced his suspicion before a store employee intervened and explained the TV was paid for, the lawsuit said.
Despite receiving this information, the officer still called the Des Peres Police Department and “falsely reported that he had ‘witnessed Gray steal a TV and place it in the parked vehicle,’” the lawsuit states.
When Derek reported the incident to his mom, they decided to return the TV due to the experience with the false allegations, the lawsuit states.
While the Grays were at the store seeking a refund, the four officers, including the one who made the emergency call, “violently and physically seized Marvia Gray and Derek Gray, throwing them to the floor, beating them, handcuffing them, then arresting them,” the paperwork states.
OK to recap a black man bought a TV for his mom, it wouldn’t fit in the vehicle, so he asked them to keep it until he came back with a bigger vehicle. I have done that. I did not get beaten and arrested, but I am white. He goes back and the police officer now there seeing a black guy take a TV out with out paying decided he stole it. Employees said no he paid for it, it is paid for earlier ( again I have done that). Nope says the cop, I see a black guy with a big TV so I know he stole it. The cop calls for reinforcements because he is a chicken shit or he wants his other racist buddies in on the beating, and they find the man and his mom deciding they want a refund because they do not like getting accused of theft. Maybe because of what happened next. They were violently grabbed and we see from the picture what happened. The store cameras captured it. This is why POC are protesting and burning a city down. They are tired of this shit and I don’t blame them. All because a racist cop thought a black man shouldn’t have a huge big screen TV! It really pisses me off. Hugs
‘Brutal and unacceptable’: Calls for arrest of NYPD cop who put woman in the ER during protests
Serve and protect … not according to their actions. Hugs
‘Brutal and unacceptable’: Calls for arrest of NYPD cop who put woman in the ER during protests
There are several videos. The cops intention was to harm this woman. His boss was with him. He angrily slammed away her phone before he acted out by violently shoving her. WTF, is this a police officer in the US or one in a dictatorship on orders to beat up protesters. He acted like he was above both law and any decency. Hugs
I want people to remember that there are racist “brothers in arms” in the police departments that protect and assist each other
Undercover police officers in new york have been caught using white arms bands / ties on their arms and wrist to signify to officers in uniform that they are not actual protestors, they are all armed
they are using “color a day” tactic, wearing different colors or ties to show other officers that they are cops as well, they are purposefully trying to incite violence within crowds while pretending to be protesters so people can be arrested
It was on live TV. Just admit you fcuked up and targeted a black person out of habit/protocol
It was on live TV. Just admit you fcuked up and targeted a black person out of habit/protocol. #cnn
We have no President. We have a grifter and abuser who has gamed the rural Republican rubes
We have no President. We have a grifter and abuser who has gamed the rural Republican rubes.
How is Trump’s trade war and tariffs working as China takes over Hong Kong?
