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eager_pebble
@eagerpebble.com

This thread could easily have been pulled out of 2020 Twitter from Portland or Seattle. This shit doesn't change. Police actions are arbitrary, violent, and unconstitutional.

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social

Hello from downtown LA, where the helicopters are circling and sayimg they got the protesters surrounded. Flash bang echoes. They're pushing protesters back There won't be a lot of pictures today for reasons I assume are obvious Let's do this 🧵

eager_pebble
@eagerpebble.com

And also a reminder that consent decrees (even under Democratic administrations) make this worse. The DOJ, consent decree monitor, and the judge pushed back on Seattle's attempts to restrict use of less lethal weapons, saying that cops would just use batons and break people's arms and legs.

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