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probes โ€™s office that had โ€˜โ€™

Authorities said the probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted *minorities* w/excessive force.

The Dept announced the federal civil rights investigation Thurs, months after 5 fmr sheriffโ€™s deputies & a local police officer who called themselves the โ€œGoon Squadโ€ received lengthy prison sentences for a vicious assault on 2 Black men.โ€ฉ

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/19/rankin-county-goon-squad-justice-department-investigation/

Support a Black Protester Assaulted while Defending Housing Rights

https://chuffed.org/project/114004-support-a-protester-assaulted-while-defending-housing-rights

As inflation, price gouging, and skyrocketing home prices have affected the nation, the city of Seattle has become increasingly hostile to low-income and middle-class populations.

As more and more USian folks post their interactions with cops I hope this is becoming clearer to everyone:

while Black folks and brown folks still experience an outsized amount of contact with LEOs (which often leads to unjustified death and murder of Black folks), the risk is spreading to everyone, including white folks.

Traffic stops escalating, egregious arrests for minor things (like trespassing when you're waiting for a bus you missed or providing translation help when a cop isn't listening to a woman struggling with English), wellness checks going horribly wrong, school discipline turning into child abuse quickly -- cops are a direct threat to *every* community.

Engage with them (if one must) as you would a wild, unpredictable animal.

> A 30-foot obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur Square for more than 110 years.

> It featured text inscriptions on all four sides of its base, celebrating the ideals of the . The inscriptions claimed those who erected the monument were bearing witness to the future, unaware it would one day be torn down, replaced by a new symbol of peace and progress

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/us/john-lewis-statue-atlanta-confederate/index.html