The LAPD have chosen their side.

So protesting against fascism is “unlawful”?

all

Police when they are supposedly taught de-escalation:

Where is @mayor.lacity.gov ?

Donald's doing exactly what he said he would do. bsky.app/profile/oeis...

Time to choose sides I think.

Trump [Strumph] SS squad on the move!

Badge toting KKK on the march....

Surely, someone, at some point, for the love of fuck:

I need you to listen to me. They will *NEVER* engage with this sort of self-reflection. They are not capable of it. It’s part of the reason they were hired in the first place. If any of them had any shred of empathy within them, it was stamped out long ago.

The ones who do invariably quit.

If you score too high on your IQ test the police will not hire you.

They're pushing hard expecting the public to crack and turn violent so they can declare martial law

In a city that’s so heavily populated it would basically push American the breaking point to control.

Yeah they may think they want that, but I’m not sure they actually will like the outcome

Folks, we've been here before and it's on its way back. youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?...

Are they arresting or just abducting? I doubt these people are being mirandized. I know it’s nitpicky but I think it’s important to note these are state-sponsored abductions.

Are the LAPD the worse police dept in the USA?

I don’t think that’s a competition we want to find a winner for

Right up there.

Honestly, the police are doing a great job in and of themselves at making an argument for their abolishment/defunding than any local activist could ever The 2020 protests should’ve been a wake up call for cops; instead they just doubled down & done what they’ve always done

It should have been a wake up call to all of *us* to recognize that they did win. No cops besides Chauvin faced any consequences for their atrocities in 2020, police budgets kept climbing higher and higher, no real reform happened besides in one or two PDs, and life carried on

It was a wake up call. They think they can win.

I mean, politically they have. There's no current political option to vote for that will strip them of their funding. Schumer and Jeffries will come out against any Dem that would.

This is true, but we're also clearly at the point where politics-as-usual is fundamentally changing. It may not even survive the summer. Building influence may be less important than having the ability to directly enforce your will, which unfortunately is also something they're well set up for.

They know that there’ll be collateral damage & that people will be horrified by the violence & bloodshed required to make change. They have power. They have weapons & protection. They have propaganda machines that will demonize the resistance. Don’t let them stop you from doing right. Fight back.

Why? Police budgets increased after 2020

uh oh

It's summer 2020 all over again

Welcome to The Golden Age🤢

That’s what fascism looks like

OMG fucking traitorous scum.

youtu.be/af95-Kji5zU?...

I'd feel ashamed if I helped people kidnap even 1 innocent person. 🤷‍♂️ I guess those cops can't feel shame.

The last revolution started on the east coast. Looks like the west coast may start this one. Wonder where they'll say "the shot that was heard around the world" will be fired from in California?

Not Shocked Face

It's an age old rule. People will follow orders.

"just following orders"

And they say my home state is so liberal and once again, evidence it is totally fucked up in Cali. I got pulled over three times as a minor only for the purpose of those cops to hit on me. Predatory mother fuckers in every way.

ACAB:AICEAB fuck all these “officers” If my kid ever becomes a cop I’m disowning them.

You guys plan to send anyone down there or just going to interview a local reporter?

getting to that point when we should start firing back.

Fascism.

#BBC #Spiegel #France24 #Guardian #NOS #NU #Toruw #Parol #Volkskrant #Gazeta #Aftenbladet now the #police #LAPD is firing at protesters f #DHS #ICE #arrests #MSNBC the #Trump #fascism #racism is a prelude to #CivilWar

'Less lethals'

Almost like those who work forces, are the same who burn crosses

We don’t even need the song lyric anymore. ICE is now just about as masked as the KKK ever has been.

It’s a song lyric?

We’ve taken a left at Rage Against the Machine, driven straight back past NWA, and we’re almost all the way back to Spike Jones territory.

Police state

Seattle PD committing atrocities in 3, 2, 1...... Wtf am I talking about? They never stopped.

JFC We need a bunch of these www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/a6Vr...

They seem almost excited and eager to fire anything at people here. Like they can't wait for it knowing that they are the only ones with weapons. I wonder how brave they'd be if the other side were armed?

To serve and protect. They just didn’t say whom.

FU LAPD. You are to be protecting people. Get your heads straight. Fvcking nazis

Then when Trump locks the country down. Fires all the cops and replaces em with military. The cops are clueless

Why would he fire his willing and eager flunkies? The cops want to crack heads and kill people.

Trump wants forces out there that can ended the protest as fast as possible, even with mass murder. Cops don't have the numbers, training, or willingness to go that far. Dictators routinely start with police force, get mad at the lack of results, and switch to military.

Sick fucks

Everyone should be wearing eye protection Many corrupt officers aim for the head with these

What a disgrace! LAPD bowed to Trump and against its own residents.

This is happening in the US?! Id be terrified

Fuck them!

For those who wondered it the army would fire on Americans if ordered by Trump and the republicans...yes, yes they would. See the LAPD attacking their fellow citizens.

LAPD is from Idaho tho

And Corona, which tbf, is a suburb of Idaho.

LAPD & LASD have always thought of the residents as targets practice.

Pieces of shit..

Yea. Good luck with the Olympics an all

A pig is a pig. The cops are not your friends.

Making America great again 🫡 Pretty sure we’ve seen this before somewhere #ArrestTrumpNOW

I can’t remember if it’s the LADP, the LA county sheriff’s department, or both that have the gang problem in their ranks?

It's the sheriff, but lapd is awful too.

It was mostly tongue in check, because I knew the answer… Your point stands, fuck ‘em all.

Shut this city down. Nobody works.

What happened to the LA tradition of robbing banks and having shootouts with the LAPD in full body armour and assault weapons???

LAPD has always been gestapo adjacent. This is just them moving fully into the gestapo lane.

Are the same that burn crosses

This is civil war, isn't it? A heavily armed dangerous fascist army is showing up in every city and town. Arresting at random, threatening everyone. No law, no rules. That army will get bigger and bigger until everyone is afraid. And when somebody gets angry and shoot a fascist, hell breaks loose.

They WANT Leftists and Liberals to start shooting. It'll give them a justification for crackdowns like we've never seen before, including sending mass numbers to concentration camps and wholesale killings. The Republicans have wanted this for years.

Right. Be quiet and give them what they want instead. Hell, turn in your neighbours too why don't you? Always pays to play nice with fascists. Well done for obeying in advance I guess! /s

They are totally prepared to be shot wearing those bulletproof jackets. The first to be shot will be honored like the hero of the century.

The crackdown is already underway, that's literally what the attacks in LA are a part of, if you can't understand that shooting back is an appropriate response to these violent incursions then one has to assume you are pro-ICE.

Looks like that’s the plan.

Fucking shit dudes. Why cops gotta love acting fascist so much. 🫤

Cops like acting fascist because fascists become cops.

I hate the LAPD.

📣In just 6 whole months, you too can become the gestapo... join the LAPD where the corruption is deep and the budget is endless.

"Why are you helping the fake cops out?" 🤣

They wish they were firing real ammo so badly.

Here is a video in the german DER SPIEGEL showing the protests in LA. Also the LAPD involved. www.spiegel.de/ausland/los-...

Almost starting to seem like the cops aren't our friends!

That’s a reputation builder in action there. Not ever to be trusted.

Looks like Putin's Russia.

In the 90’s The people of LA rioted over less

So tiny, funny to see from France 🤣

These men are cowards

Inflection point, it's on.

Get violent with them! We need 20000 people to respond and beat them into the ground. The time for violent revolution is upon us. Respond accordingly

Isn’t this why Americans have guns? Constitutionally speaking.

Constitutionally, state militias were supposed to have guns to stop the federal gov from taking too much power from the states (an individuals needed to them to kill Indians and hunt slaves), but most of the 2A folks who claim we have them for fighting the gov are being awfully quiet right now.

So, a shorter answer would still be “yes” in this case

Like even if you think only state militias were intended to have the right to bear arms, this is what the plain language of the amendment suggests that right was meant for

Certainly genocide and slavery were also on the list but even back then they didn’t spell it out in the actual constitution

Well not in that part anyways

The plain language doesn't spell out rights of individuals to have guns. "The People" doesn't mean "all the individuals," it means "the nation (a a group)."

Reread what I said. My point was that the “militia” language is not relevant in this case, not to take a position on the question

Got it.

For the civilians here less lethal doesn’t mean nonlethal. There are projectiles that 100% kill people with headshots.

Yeah those robber bullets can 100% kill when used incorrectly. Which cops always do intentionally.

Another note: less lethal rounds are a cop culture way of practicing shooting live human beings without getting in trouble. They get off on this stuff and it emboldens them for killing later on. What you are seeing in the warm up practice round. Also fyi, that body armor they wear doesn’t do much. 🤷

I’m not sure if the USA is a failed state yet but it’s certainly in a state of failure.

The reason All Cops Are Bastards is that any Cop who tries Not Being A Bastard will get spat out of the Bastard System and replaced with a More Willing Bastard. The Bastard Police cannot be reformed until the Bastard System is a thing of the past.

not just replaced, I suspect many police in 'Australia' who commit suicide are being murdered when they learn too much about the inner workings of the police force. How's the police suicide rate there?

I don't know the suicide states, but there's a famous statistic in the US where 40% of officers ADMIT they were physically abusive with their spouses or children, so there must be more who don't admit it. policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/files/origin...

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WTAF! This is Stephen Millers plan. Go hard cause a riot And violence so they can declare Marshal Law. Be peaceful and do.sit ins and Human chains. Then when the time is right strike them with vengeance

If the time isn’t right for vengeance at this point, it’s never going to be.

Good time to put on 'Full Metal Jacdkoff' by Jello Biafra and DOA.

Fucking fascists

Is it the Bell Riots yet?

From what I've read, many of these cops live outside their jurisdiction because they hate the locals, whom they view as "other." Even with the pre-existing self-selection for the job, they are further motivated to cause harm.

That's all big-city cops. White racists from the suburbs who collect 6-figure salaries for coming in and acting out their occupying army fantasies on the city's population.

yet somehow Democrats are always like "we need to hire more cops and give then more money with less oversight"

Literally paying people who hate them to harass and brutalize their own voters.

i mean at the current pace theyre literally paying for the domestic right wing militias that will overthrow them and create a one-party state

If there's a violent fascist coup in America's future, the police will be the footsoldiers that carry it out and/or stand down to let it happen

Cowardly inhuman gestapo

Can you and the ICHH gang post info on protest safety and stuff? I know @miawong.bsky.social will say DON'T GET KETTLED but beyond that. I'm trying to compile resources for our border community. It's always been very low engagement here so nobody's ready

Everyone should get on their phones to the LA Mayor and demand she fire the Chief of LAPD.

Smells like Portland in 2019.....

Not enough tear gas or bug sprayers, so maybe Portland lite

Kinda feel like LA needs another round of 1992 to calm things down

Kinda feel like it’s starting to look likely

fucking boot lickers

Fucking losers

Thank you, I wasn't sure if anyone was talking about this on Bluesky yet 💔. saw updates from an account an acquaintance recommended to fillow. They're there and got pelted with a canister

They really love their jobs.

How much longer until martial law is declared.

I cannot believe this is America today. So proud of the protesters in LA standing up to this tyranny. Stay strong folks!!

I can't believe this is happening in America. It's horrible, absolutely unbelievable, and scary! We all need to fight this BS!

Wake up babe new Ordnungspolizei just dropped

🚨 WARNING 🚨 The LAPD is not your friend or ally They are the enemy

Law and order. You don't have the right to commit crimes because you are a leftist.

They’re using them like shotguns. You don’t direct fire gas canisters at people. That’s how you kill with “less than lethal”

But Wil they can't see any dogs to aim at so they are confused

They fired such "less than lethal" weapons at protesters in Minneapolis 5 years ago defending the 3rd precinct ... before the protesters set it aflame. And they definitely aimed directly at people--there were many injuries.

Rapidly descending into warlord politics

Jackasses, always.

Failed humans in the march.

Ahh! Summertime! (Portland area folks, among others, recognize police violence season.)

LAPD should be firing on the Gestapo

They’d be committing suicide

they need numbers, and maybe the national guard, but eventually our institutions need to stay up to the Gestapo.

Proud of you, the bruised and the bloodied. You stepped up. Rest up heal up ✊❤️

Surely this has to be the last straw. Right?

There will never be a last straw. By the time anyone realizes it's time to rise up the moment will have passed months if not years before and we'll be in a full-on fascist state and will stay that way for a generation. The time to rise up, by the way, was when the first judge was arrested.

Big props to everyone protesting because that's a tough spot. I attended a demo there back in the 1990s and it was way too easy for the cops to block off Temple, Alameda, and L.A. streets and pin you against the highway with nowhere to go.

God damn coproaches

They are the ones escalating this!

Really gives me that 2020 feeling rn

FUCK THE POLICE

We did this the first time Trump was in office… why did anyone think this was a preferable way to handle things again? 🤔

Can Martial Law be far behind?

You can always count on the LAPD to jump at the opportunity to inflict violence.

Fucking fascists will always side with fascists.

What I don't understand is why they're even allowed to? I thought this was a sanctuary city and we don't cooperate with ICE here, no?

This is the Bunker Hill moment in the fight against MAGA. Unfortunately, no one in the Trump regime has the decency of the British during the Revolution.

Mayor Karen Bass & #LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell LIED 🧵thread bsky.app/profile/edhi...