Protester Gets a Flash-bang to His Face After Getting Pepper Sprayedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/gv8hsi/protester_gets_a_flashbang_to_his_face_after/A flashbang is just a grenade without shrapnel. Flashbangs are lethal at close range, like many exploding things, it can pierce your internal organs and can even lead to death. Cops are explicitly instructed and aware of that fact.
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Protesters Across US Attacked by Cars Driven Into Crowds and Men with Gunshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/protests-us-america-cars-weaponsAnti police-brutality protesters have been confronted by armed men in cities around America in recent days, with some brandishing firearms or other weapons, some driving vehicles at crowds, and others – including members of the so-called “boogaloo movement” – claiming they have come to help anti-racism demonstrations.
... On Sunday, in Seattle, a man drove at speed towards protesters, while several protesters tried to slow or stop the vehicle.
... In Lakeside, Virginia, an armed man named Harry “Skip” Rogers, was arrested on charges of assault and battery after he allegedly drove his truck at protesters, hitting a cyclist.
... Other vehicular attacks have also occurred, among other places, on 29 May in Bakersfield, California and day before in Denver. On 30 May an armed man pulled a gun before driving through a crowd in Gainesville, Florida.
In Minneapolis, a man in a semi-trailer truck parted the crowd on an overpass when he drove towards them.
Further incidents involving firearms and other weapons have also occurred.
In McAllen, Texas, last Friday, a lone man threatened Black Lives Matter protesters with a running chainsaw, first screaming “go home” before shouting racial slurs.
In Upland, California, on 1 June, a man pulled an AR-15 from his truck and brandished it at protesters, and was subsequently arrested.
In Chicago on 31 May, a lone man armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a sidearm pistol was led away from the scene of a protest by police. Earlier, protesters say, he had brandished the weapon at them.
In Boise, Idaho, on 1 June, two armed men disguised with skull masks similar to those favored by some neo-Nazi groups counter-protested a local Black Lives Matter march. One, Michael Wallace, 19, was later arrested after what police were investigating as an accidental discharge of his weapon.
In Salt Lake City on 31 May, a man was arrested after threatening a crowd of protesters with a hunting bow.
... So-called “boogaloo bois” are members of a loose-knit, pro-gun, anti-government movement, which is preoccupied with what they believe to be a looming second American civil war.
Last week, three former armed servicemen associated with the movement were arrested and charged over an alleged plot aimed at vital national infrastructure.
... “The ‘boog movement’ has many bad actors within its ranks proliferating antisemitic, racist and QAnon dogwhistles, either deliberately or inadvertently, but the movement has also scooped up legitimately disillusioned people,” the spokesperson said.
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'That Was Crazy to Me': Black Film-maker Captures Own Pepper-Spraying by Policehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/protests-pepper-spray-police-george-floydThe wrenching agony caused by excessive use of force by riot police on media people and protesters has been captured by an African American film-maker who was temporarily blinded after he was pepper-sprayed in the face.
Christopher Frierson, 37, managed to keep his video camera rolling after he was sprayed by a riot police officer in Brooklyn from just feet away. A cordon of police suddenly charged at him after a woman was captured on film throwing a water bottle at them, and Frierson was pepper-sprayed even though he was clearly displaying a press badge.
The footage shows the toxic spray hitting the camera lens; simultaneously you hear Frierson utter visceral groans of pain as he stumbles and falls to the ground. Within moments he was dragged by protesters to the curbside.
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Activist Gave Police Anti-bias Training. Officers Still Brutalized Him at Protesthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/san-jose-police-shooting-implicit-biasA 27-year-old community activist who helped train police officers on implicit bias was shot with a rubber bullet while attempting to de-escalate a confrontation between police and protesters during a demonstration in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Derrick Sanderlin, who for years has helped train police officers in San Jose, was shot in the groin as he held a sign that said “WE R WORTHY OF LIFE”, suffering injuries that could leave him unable to have children.
Sanderlin told ABC7 News, the first outlet to report the story, that amid an escalating protest on 29 May he saw police officers firing rubber bullets at protesters from close range, some of them young women, and stepped in.
“I really just couldn’t watch it anymore,” Sanderlin, who is black, told ABC7. “And just kind of made like a parallel walkover, put my hands up, and just stood in the line of the fire and asked them to please not do this.”
The video shows officers leveling weapons at Sanderlin, who raised his hands and made no aggressive movement toward officers.
Moments later, police unleashed rubber bullets, one of which struck Sanderlin in the groin, rupturing a testicle.
“I pause for a moment like maybe this isn’t, maybe this doesn’t hurt and falling afterwards is like the most painful experience,” he told ABC7.
The injury required emergency surgery and doctors told him he may no longer be able to have children, he said.
... “What happened to Derrick Sanderlin was wrong,” tweeted the San Jose mayor, Sam Liccardo, adding that he proposed a ban on police use of rubber bullets and encouraged a review of police tactics.
https://twitter.com/sliccardo/status/1269336251317932033
