Police Respond to Protests With More Excessive Force

Cops are doing a great job convincing us they’re fascist thugs

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If the police want to convince us they’re a bunch of brutish, neo-fascists thugs they’re doing a great job of it. In the wake of the death of George Floyd, killed after he was held down by Minneapolis police officers, the police has gone on a spree of violence that includes, shooting and arresting multiple journalists, dousing a child with pepper spray, running over protesters in New York and kneeling on a protester’s neck in Seattle. (Wasn’t that the action that caused all the protests in the first place?)

I’ve already written about the arrest of CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, who was carted off and detained before being released. But since then there have been several more attacks.

Targeted Human Rights Abuse

Here are some examples:

• Photographer Linda Tirado’s eyeball was shattered after she took a pepper ball in the face.
• MSNBC reporter Ali Velshi…