(17.12.2018)
Archiv: police violence
Yellow vest demonstrator injured by grenade as protesters try to storm French National Assembly
Mobile phone footage shared on social media showed a protester crouched in pain as medics tended to his severely-damaged hand.
Police said the grenades, which scatter rubber pellets and emit tear gas, were used to disperse protesters after they tried to storm the parliament building.
🇫🇷 [#ActeXIII] Précisions à propos de la main arrachée à #Paris : la grenade GLI-F4 a été lancée „au hasard“ par des gendarmes, elle a rebondi et le #GiletsJaunes a instinctivement voulu l’écarter pour ne pas qu’elle la heurte. Elle a alors explosé. #9fevrier #Acte13
GRAPHIC: Protester has hand ripped off during Yellow Vest march in Paris
The right hand of one of the Yellow Vest protesters has been blown off, reportedly by a grenade, during Saturday’s #YellowVests demonstrations in Paris.
US: Tasers Claimed 49 Lives in 2018 Through Police Violence
The California county board of supervisors and the district attorney launched ongoing reviews of the use and safety of Tasers, which were touted by police and the weapon’s manufacturer as a near-perfect, “non-lethal” weapon when they began coming into widespread use more than a decade ago.
France’s highest administrative court upheld the police use of rubber bullets during the „Yellow Vest“ protests, despite complaints that they had caused serious injuries
#JéromeRodrigues „I am the 20th to have lost an eye so it is important that I come, if only to support this event and reassure all those who supported me, they can see me on my 2 feet. “ #ActeXII #Acte12 #Yellowvests #ViolencesPolicières #GiletsJaunes
Recensement provisoire des blessé-es des manifestations du mois de novembre-décembre 2018
(4.1.2019) Nous dressons ici un bilan non exhaustif des blessures graves occasionnées depuis le 17 novembre 2018 à l’occasion des manifestations de gilets jaunes et lycéennes. Nous n’avons répertorié que les blessures ayant entraîné des fractures des os, la perte totale ou partielle de membres ou l’incrustation dans les chairs d’éclats de grenade. Nous appelons toutes les personnes concernées à nous apporter des précisions et à rectifier notre article en cas d’erreur ou d’oubli. Par ailleurs, nous invitons toute personne blessée à nous contacter pour s’organiser ensemble sur les suites juridiques, le combat contre les armes et la rencontre entre les personnes blessées. Notre contact : desarmons-les@riseup.net / 07.58.67.20.60
N’hésitez pas également à visiter le site LE MUR JAUNE qui effectue le même travail de veille que Désarmons-les!
You’d be forgiven for thinking this is some Middle East crackpot dictatorship. It’s not, it’s France, where the neoliberals’ wet dream, Macron, treats students like this. Ah, ‘moderate’ centrism.
French police detained peacefully protesting students and treated them like criminals #France #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests #MacronDemission
Police violence in #France is escalating day by day… A #YellowVests protester was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by French police. The video shows how he was massively bleeding in the face afterwards.
France fuel protests: 80-year-old woman killed in Marseille
An 80-year-old woman has died after being hit by a tear gas canister at her window during Saturday’s fuel protests in the French city of Marseille.
The woman, who lived in an apartment near to where the protests were taking place, was hit in the face while closing the shutters.
Police violence in the middle of #Europe The harsh intervention of the French police against the #YellowVests continues… A single protester was insensibly beaten up by 8 police officers during #GiletsJaunes in #Paris #France
Cop Abuses Man With Stun Gun (VIDEO)
(29.6.2018) Cops really love to use excessive force.
Cop Murders Fleeing Black Teen (VIDEO)
(21.6.2018) This killer is already back on the streets.
Video of Mesa Police Beating is Why People HATE Cops
(7..6.2018) This shocking viral video of Mesa PD officers ganging up on and pummeling an unarmed victim after he gets off his phone is the textbook definition of why people hate cops.
Police Department’s Bloodbath Continues
(6.6.2018) At what point do we classify the Mesa PD as organized crime?
Cops Beat Disabled Man
(6.6.2018) America has a serious police problem.
Public Security, Justice Ministers Snub Meeting of Police Brutality Lobby in Knesset
(4.6.2018) The lobby brings together groups from the whole political spectrum, from minority communities such as the Arabs and Ethiopians, the ultra-Orthodox, LGBTQs, settlers, the disabled, representatives of people slated for eviction from the Tel Aviv neighborhood Givat Amal, and more.
At the meeting on Monday, protesters, their families and representatives of social organizations testified on cases in which police officers allegedly used excessive force.
The murder of Stephon Clark and the fight against police violence
Clark’s murder was caught on video by the police officer’s body cams and a police helicopter that was hovering overhead. The footage shows that the officers unleashed the barrage of bullets as soon as they rounded the corner of the house.