Wondering about the Movement Defence Committee of the Law Union of Ontario (MDC) and what we do? Today we look at out most visible team: Legal Observers.
Legal Observers are the eyes and ears of the off-site legal team. We are there to document abuse by the state against progressive protestors.
We operate from the understanding that police in Canada have been used to advance the colonial project and displace Indigenous communities from the beginning, and took on the role of criminalizing and exerting control over Black people once slavery was abolished.
Police exist to defend private property and our capitalist system.¹
We exist to document the gap between your rights in law and the actual behaviour of the police, with regard to those rights. Too often rights are breached in the moment and only corrected later — and without proper support, sometimes not at all.
¹ "To Protect and to Serve", the motto of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1963, subsequently adopted by many other police forces, was the result of a marketing contest.
@Radical_EgoCom Anti-gun people keep using that picture without mentioning that it was during a 2A rally where the express purpose was to show off one's weapons. Also #ACAB
I’m going to make myself perfectly clear. I’m not the problem here. Me wanting a #fediverse that is open to everyone as long as they aren’t conducting themselves in harmful manners isn’t wrong. People shouldn’t have to conform to the fediverse. The fediverse was made up by various people from all over. The fediverse should be flexible and versatile. Something for everyone. It’s not real freedom when being told to get away from Big Social but you have users telling you how to be within the Fediverse. There should be opt-in/opt-out experiences. As long as transparent & not harmful instances should be able to provide for themselves as they see fit, without backlash. Who are you to tell anyone how to keep their lights on? This gatekeeping & HOA attitude also has to stop, it creates an unsafe environment. It’s sad when people choose to go back to Big Social b/c at least they have safety in using the platform how they see fit. They shouldn’t have to be the product of predatory practices b/c of jerk behaviour from members of the Fediverse. This place is evolving irrespective to those that don’t like it. #mastodon#calckey#lemmy#kbin
Cops put dogs (K9s) in tear gas chambers to test how tear gas affects them because cops fucking suck. Good news, it doesn't affect them like it does people but it has bad long term effects. This lines up with what anarchists say about stray riot dogs. #ACAB
Having lived in #Southampton for perhaps far too long, this doesn't surprise me.
The only question is whether Soton does something substantive about it.
"#HongKong protesters allegedly attacked by #Chinese activists in Southampton...
"...One of the attackers, some of whom were said to be #UniversityOfSouthampton students, could be heard shouting in Mandarin: “Hong Kong belongs to #China” and waving what appeared to be the Chinese flag..."
The Trump indictment is very funny, and the boxes in the bathroom are very funny, and the obscenely tacky decor is very funny, so you might think this cannot get any funnier.
I assure you it can. It can get much much funnier.
Trump could try to flee the country. Just think of the comedy that would bring. Please Jesus I have never prayed, but I ask only for this thing
@emilygorcenski They stopped him from going to the capitol building on #Jan6! Absolutely, in this narrow instance of upholding the Constitution of the US. Are they Bastards? Yes, because #ACAB.
I mean, this is cool, but can we please retire this fucking misogynist “virgin birth” language? It’s makin’ me nuts. What happened here is parthenogenesis, not some hokey miraculous divine intervention, and reptiles do it all the time. The whole benighted concept of “virginity” has for eons been nothing but an instrument of violent patriarchal abuse.
And while we’re at it: crocs lay eggs, they don’t “give birth.”
@futurebird Ha! I’m all #ACAB all the time these days, but back in the Aughts the commentariat of my radical feminist blog nearly canceled me for flippantly using the word “bastard” in some jokey pejorative context one time. Those ladies were hardcore.
Maybe I'm just overtired, but I'm getting exasperated with all the discourse about whether some other R can get nominated instead of #Trump. The media narrative question of "Can some other R dethrone Trump?!" is irrelevant.
Maybe someone can, probably they can't, but WHO FUCKING CARES? Whoever they are, they will still be a #GOP candidate and therefore will be promoting #racism, #bigotry, #sexism, inaction on #climate, wealth inequality, #deregulation, #VoterSuppression, immunity for cops and the wealthy, and outright #fascism.
It's not like if DeSantis gets the nom somehow the GOP will stop working towards any of those goals. It's all just thumbsucking centrists asking a question that doesn't matter. As per usual. #USPol#ACAB#EatTheRich
@rodhilton If ye hand o'er yer phone then you just helped the fascist cunt violate yer 4th Amendment rights. They can see the screen but cannae tooch the phone wi'oot expressed probable cause or a search warrant specifying yer phone, signed by a judge. #FourthAmendment#ACAB
Unveröffentlichte Studie: 12.000 Verdachtsfälle unrechtmäßige Polizeigewalt pro Jahr
"Unrechtmäßige Polizeigewalt kommt in Deutschland deutlich häufiger vor als bisher bekannt.
Strafrechtlich geahndet werden sie nur selten. Weniger als zwei Prozent der Fälle kommen vor Gericht, weniger als 1 Prozent enden mit einer Verurteilung, so Singelnstein. Oft stehe das Wort der Bürger gegen das der Beamten."
Nach mehr als 30 Polizeischüssen: 19-jähriger Autofahrer gelähmt
"Ein 19-jähriger Autofahrer wird von mehreren Polizei-Projektilen getroffen. Er schwebt tagelang in Lebensgefahr. Jetzt ist sein Zustand stabil, doch er wird wohl querschnittgelähmt bleiben. Anderthalb Wochen nach den Geschehnissen ist noch vieles ungeklärt.
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Jakob Reimer ist noch immer fassungslos. Der 70-Jährige wohnt am Ende der Sackgasse. Sirenen, Blaulicht und schreiende Polizisten schrecken ihn aus dem Schlaf. Er schaut aus dem Fenster, sieht, wie ein schwarzer PKW versucht zu wenden, das Zivilfahrzeug der Polizei rückwärts rammt und dann versucht loszufahren. In diesem Moment fallen zahlreiche Schüsse. "Ich verstehe nicht, warum überhaupt geschossen wurde. Der konnte doch nirgends hin, er steckte fest. Die Straße war dicht mit Polizeiautos." "
FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year (archive.ph)
How a Chicago Cop got out of 44 Traffic Tickets (www.propublica.org)