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NEW: Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment with Weapons // Thread 🧵
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Racist vigilantes gathering with bats and guns at the statue of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Square in South Philadelphia, some of them just assaulted our reporter
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Police have lost all control in South Minneapolis 3 days after their horrific murder of
#GeorgeFloyd
.
Masses of people have entered the 3rd Precinct, redistributing police equipment and setting fires. We’re live:
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We are no longer able to document the ongoing, escalating Marconi Plaza South Philadelphia vigilante incident after
@PhillyPolice
ordered us to leave or be arrested. We were told we no longer had the right to document this event.
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Police no longer respecting freedom of press in Minneapolis, SWAT just forced our reporting team into a business and slammed the door
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#Breaking
: Fired Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested by the
@MnDPS_BCA
. Chauvin murdered unarmed and handcuffed
#GeorgeFloyd
four days ago.
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A tanker semi truck has rushed into a crowd on the I-35W bridge - very serious situation
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Philly police pin young black man to the ground with their knees, swat our field reporter with a baton for filming the scene.
"Beat it."
"I'm a journalist, sir!"
"I don't care what you are. Beat it."
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South Philly Columbus statue enthusiasts got very upset once again when police told them they aren’t allowed to physically stop us from filming them
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#BREAKING
: We’ve exposed the identity of an Ohio National Guard soldier deployed to DC
#GeorgeFloyd
protests who was withdrawn after evidence surfaced of his neo-nazi views:
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Several guns, bats and sticks carried by white vigilantes here at Columbus square in South Philly to “protect” the Columbus statue. Police have been visibly quite friendly with this group
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Additional “Cop City” construction defense infrastructure appears to have been destroyed by fire as forest defenders overrun the outpost.
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This man in first photo is who initiated the group assault on our reporter - he noticed he was being filmed and instantly bee-lined for us to demand we stop filming him. As he left, police passively watched him strike our reporter’s bike with a metal bat.
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In a milestone achievement for student organizers, the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education has voted this afternoon to terminate SRO officers inside schools as well as the Minneapolis PD contract.
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One of the most far-right federal politicians in America, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, has been defeated in a primary election, after years of incendiary white supremacist rhetoric.
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Minneapolis Police killed a man this evening by fatally shooting him while he was in a car in the Holiday gas station parking lot at 36th Street and Cedar Avenue.
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Before incidents shown in this thread, we spoke w some ‘statue defenders’ about why they were there. Many said the statue represented Italian heritage. Some justified Columbus’ rape and slavery etc by saying “the natives were savages”. Others denied these atrocities took place.
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About 100 almost exclusively white vigilantes our by Columbus Statue at Marconi Plaza in Sourh Philly. When police arrived after we were assaulted, one cop accused us of instigating the crowd.
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Shortly before
@PhillyPolice
ordered us to cease our on-site reporting under threat of arrest, the crowd was cheering as a man with a Trump 2020 flag arrived.
Police were also shaking hands with some of the white vigilantes as this was happening.
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We’ve ended our ground reporting from Philadelphia for the night due to repeated assaults by officers on our reporter making it unsafe and impractical to continue. Our Philly staff is safe at home now but Philly Police made it clear our 1st Amendment press freedoms are suspended
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Most of the all-white crowd at Marconi Plaza now seems mostly interested in confronting our lone reporter on the scene. Many invitations have been given to engage in hand-to-hand combat. As journalists we are obliged to decline!
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#BREAKING
: Judge Leibovitz just threw out the felony charge of inciting a riot against all 6 current
#J20
defendants. Motions to acquit on other counts now being considered as well.
#J20trials
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In a scene echoing George Floyd’s death, tonight
@PhillyPolice
kneeled on a young black man’s neck as another officer already had him pinned. Officer w knee on neck called him a “pussy” shortly before other cops batoned our camera away fom the scene
Philly police pin young black man to the ground with their knees, swat our field reporter with a baton for filming the scene.
"Beat it."
"I'm a journalist, sir!"
"I don't care what you are. Beat it."
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LIVE: Riot cops are confronting a grieving community after police just shot and killed 20-year-old Duante Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota - close to Minneapolis
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"You are part of the problem, if not the entire problem." - MPD officer
Minneapolis Police called our journalist the "entire problem" & threatened he "would get baked" as he filmed them at 31st & Blaisdell after curfew a block away from
#GeorgeFloydProtests
at the 5th Precinct.
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#LIVE
Keystone, South Dakota:
#Indigenous
Activists Assert Right to Unceded Land At Anti-Trump Protest
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Trump just said antifa started fight on sat by "charging in swinging clubs" at racists. Video shows the opposite
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NEW: Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns
An extensive leak from inside the neo-nazi group exposes their coordinated national efforts to engage in racial intimidation:
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Police in Minneapolis have kettled upwards of a thousand people on the freeway, and have begun making arrests of trapped protesters. They’ve stated that everyone attending the protest is under arrest for unlawful assembly and public nuisance.
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This man by the Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza is armed with some kind of rifle
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Our small team in the Twin Cities is resting up right now, we will be back out reporting as soon as it’s humanely practical. Thanks to all our new followers and supporters for supporting our coverage!
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NEW: Alan Ditty, a Minneapolis city employee blew the whistle of a potential raid on a protest site. He was outed by Kare 11 to the MPD. Ditty killed himself after he was identified & fired.
Here's the story of how the press & the city failed Alan Ditty:
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Here’s what the Minneapolis PD 3rd Precinct, where
#GeorgeFloyd
’s killers worked, looks like right now:
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More agitated white men with bats and sticks are continuing to arrive at Marconi Plaza outside the Columbus statue. Philly Police faced some backlash recently after they appeared to tolerate and endorse similar activity in Fishtown on the north end of the city recently.
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This police vehicle that was just guarding access to the proposed “Cop City” site is now engulfed in flames.
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A huge crowd of protesters is currently marching around Philadelphia city hall.
This group gathered on North Broad earlier today before marching south and ending up here.
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Two years ago today, Daunte Wright, 20, was fatally shot by former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop.
Potter was convicted of 1st & 2nd degree manslaughter & given a downward departure sentence by Judge Regina Chu & she'll be free in two weeks.
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NEW: Our report on tonight’s incident with racist vigilantes at the Christopher Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia
Includes raw video compilation of all our available footage from the event (before police forced us to stop reporting)
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At the Capitol building in
#SaintPaul
,
#Minnesota
the
#ColumbusStatue
came down within the past hour.
More than 30
#StateTroopers
have arranged themselves around the statue, which is lying toppled on the ground.
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#BREAKING
: An independent autopsy has found that forest defender Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terán was sitting down with their hands up when they were shot and killed by Georgia State Patrol during raids on
#StopCopCity
tree-sits on January 18.
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Sheriffs deputized as federal agents ambushed & killed 32 y/o father of 3,
#WinstonSmith
on June 3 in his car in Uptown Minneapolis.
Initial claims by authorities & corporate media said he was a "murder suspect" & he "produced" a gun. Both were false.
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Going back over our footage and stills of this incident - we observed at least 2-3 open carried long rifles, and overheard that many present were concealed carrying.
Some showed up with improvised weapons, like this man who was standing alone with a golf club.
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Minneapolis: Protesters are holding space outside the remnants of the Third Precinct, demanding all felony & misdemeanor charges be dropped from the Nov 4 protests where >600 were mass-arrested on I-94.
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Breaking: Around 20 neonazi Patriot Front members detained then arrested in Coeur d'Alene Idaho (vid:
@alissaazar
)
Last months we released 17 hrs audio from PNW chapter's meetings:
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This huge mural of
#GeorgeFloyd
was completed yesterday, May 29 by artists Xena Goldman, Cadex Hererra, and Greta McLain.
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3 people are charged with felony intimidation of a police officer, a Georgia law never used before, for allegedly placing flyers notifying residents that their neighbor is a SWAT trooper involved in killing a
#StopCopCity
protester. They face 20 years.
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Clip from our stream earlier shows when Minnesota state police in riot gear & SWAT w assault rifles pushed UR off an empty street, threatening our reporters w arrest. At the time were were interviewing Louis Hunter about his restaurant, Trio Plant Based, which he's been guarding.
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The identity of the forest defender who was shot and killed by police in Atlanta, Georgia yesterday morning has been released. Their name is Manuel Teran, aka Tortuguita or Tort.
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Correction: Ongoing vigilante incident in South Philly is located at Marconi Plaza
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Current scene approx 8:25 PM by Columbus Statue in Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia
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#BREAKING
: Activists w Extinction Rebellion shut down intersection of 16th & K in Washington, DC by parking a sailboat in the street.
This is part of several disruptive
#ClimateStrike
actions working to
#ShutDownDC
this AM.
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Video: Protesters at march to defund/disband the Minneapolis Police pause to bust some moves to the remix track of
#YouAboutToLoseYoJob
by
@Remixgodsuede
.
This remix has become a viral anthem representing the defiant spirit of youth resisting police repression across the USA.
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MPD has maybe abandoned the 3rd Precinct? People just broke in and fires being lit in multiple rooms
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The crowd of aggravated South Philly Italian Columbus statue defenders applaud and cheers for the police as some officers leave the area
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After clearing protesters from blocking UA Tech/Raytheon's entrance road, Pima County Sheriffs also insisted on also arresting
@kjzzphoenix
journalist
@AlisaReznick
despite Reznick clearly carrying media equipment and repeatedly identifying herself as press.
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#BREAKING
:
100s-deep
#StopCopCity
protest marching down powerline clearing towards police set up doing surveillance by the forested site of the proposed urban warfare campus. There is a police helicopter overhead.
“The biggest march in the forest thus far,” one activist says.
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Hundreds of water protectors from across the U.S. are taking part in a large action to
#StopLine3
in Northern MN.
The road is blockaded & many are locked down to pipeline construction equipment thruout a large pump station & construction yard.
#LIVE
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Federal Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Shut Down
After years of litigation from Native tribes threatened by DAPL, today Judge James Boasberg ordered the pipeline be shut down and emptied of oil within 30 days.
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Two more photos we forgot to post in the heat of the moment earlier - these were taken at 7:54 PM and show Philly cops were present at the statue enthusiast gathering *before* a group of men with bats was allowed to assault our reporter
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Flashbangs, tear gas, and pepper spray are descending onto the solidarity with
#GeorgeFloyd
protesters in
#Denver
outside the
#Colorado
State Capitol
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Big protest still underway in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota (close to Minneapolis) where today officers shot & killed 20-year-old
#DaunteWright
.
People moved to surround the police station & have been met w tear gas, riot cops & and an armored vehicle:
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Nearly two months after the brutal police killing of
#GeorgeFloyd
, a massive
#BlackLivesMatter
mural was painted on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in front of Minnesota's only Black History Museum by 16 artists (some with the help of their friends and family).
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As President Joe Biden arrived in Minnesota for a political stop, demonstrators protested at the main terminal of the MSP Airport calling for an end to the siege on Gaza and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Protesters are now in Northfield at a farm where…
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On day 5 of
#GeorgeFloydProtests
, we spoke with a team medics who have been working to treat people’s injuries on the streets of
#MInneapolis
. They say that sometime after sundown on May 30th police and national guardsman indiscriminately attacked their medic station on Lake St.
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#BREAKING
: A federal jury just returned a verdict in the civil rights lawsuit against the organizers of the 2017 'Unite The Right' neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville.
Individual defendants are liable at least $500k in damages, neo-nazi orgs involved are liable for $1M each.
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In Philly tonight we repeatedly saw some officers charging ahead to beat people with batons while their commanders yelled at them to stop and hold their line. Police personnel generally seemed quite on edge and quick to verbally insult, taunt, and push/strike protesters
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We’re still live outside the burning Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct. National Guard has reportedly been staging nearby
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NEW: Leaks Expose Conservative Movement Funders Prince and DeVos Family Offshore Money
Unicorn Riot located offshore corporate entity records supporting the activities of private military businessman Erik Prince and the DeVos family
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LIVE: Cops at the Brooklyn Center, MN police department just declared an unlawful assembly where protesters outraged by tonight's police shooting of Duante Wright have been gathering
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After nearly 700 attend
#Kenosha
solidarity rally in
#Minneapolis
, police sought out & swarm-arrested a group of protesters leaving the demo.
The group was tackled & bloodied over potential misdemeanor charges. Some were let go uncharged.
Many more were arrested thru the night.
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Minneapolis - Around 1:45 pm as pro-Palestine demonstrators held a 'die-in' at Lyndale/Hennepin, an alleged counter-protester drove into the crowd, possibly firing a a gun or firecracker while driving away.
Our drone footage paired w/ audio from on the ground shows the incident:
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After Philly cops just mass arrested several dozen people at ‘Defund the Police’ protest at Municipal Services Building, another large protest march is arriving in the same area
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One Atlanta Police vehicle got its driver's side window smashed and another one was set on fire.
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Protesters by the White House have been placing "Murdered By Israel" posters featuring the names and pictures of Palestinian children killed in the ongoing Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza.
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Whether police command structures can actually control their rank and file during these escalating protests is a question we find ourselves asking a lot
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#BREAKING
: Jurors in the
#DerekChauvinTrial
say they have reached a verdict. It will be announced in approximately an hour. Check back here then for a video feed from the court
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#Philadelphia
: Protester with Elmo head on dances while chanting "Fuck 12" with the crowd of protesters.
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Masses of people chanting
#GeorgeFloyd
’s name as the Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct building burns
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Live from Minneapolis, Minnesota: mass protest after last night’s police murder of George Floyd
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This clip clearly shows one man yell “kill him” as a group of right-wing Columbus statue protesters charge our reporter and beat him.
We will release footage soon showing repeated violent threats made towards reporters and anti-racist protesters in Marconi Plaza -we lost count.
SCENES IN SOUTH
#PHILADELPHIA
: Crowds have now decended at Marconi Plaza where Christopher Columbus statue stands.
A very different scene from 24 hours ago.
Some in crowd turning on man that was seen filming last night and was asked to leave by police.
*language warning
@6abc
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BREAKING: This morning protesters blockaded the Raytheon facility within the University of Arizona Tech Park in Tucson, AZ. At the UA Tech Park, Raytheon, which supplies the Israeli military, works in close collaboration with the university of Arizona to design weapons of war.
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#BreakingNews
A protester was shot and killed by police Wednesday morning, January 18, in the midst of a multi-jurisdictional raid on the Atlanta Forest, also known as the Weelaunee Forest, in DeKalb County, southeast of Atlanta.
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⬇️Thread of HD stills from tonight in
#Minneapolis
, taken during the ongoing
#GeorgeFloyd
uprising in the
#TwinCities
.
Slides 1–2: maX it PAWN, 28th Ave & Lake Street
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NEW: Using leaked footage, Unicorn Riot has identified 5 members of the neo-nazi group Patriot Front who filmed themselves committing an apparent hate crime against an LGBTQ youth center in Springfield, IL last November.
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