One of my neighbors has their flag upside down.

[conuly]

They weren't out, so I didn't ask if they were sending a message about police brutality, or something else, or if they were just remarkably careless.

I have a number of links from marshallprojectemail_feed, and rather than linking to each one individually I thought it was easier to link to their lists. If you're at all interested in the subject of prison reform in America, or the related subjects of policing, police brutality, immigration and ICE, or occasionally poverty then you should either subscribe to the feed or sign up to get the same things sent to your email.

https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/pp5byt7jqr

https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/vhoiqeia1q

Additionally, minoanmiss has a specific letter writing suggestion which I will copy in full:

To a professional who teaches police to be violent, specifically. One of the major proponents of training police to 'shoot first and ask questions later/never' is William J. Lewinski, whose Force Science Institute conducts trainings all over the US in justifying police violence. Perhaps people should point out to him and his organization their part in the deaths of countless people, including George Floyd and Brianna Taylor.

https://www.forcescience.org/contact/

NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html

If you're already sending one such note, you may as well copy it and send it to your local police department. Police officers in the US have actually been fired for successfully de-escalating situations involving unarmed people rather than going in guns blazing.

Finally, from Teen Vogue, which continues to knock it out of the park, How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct. (Safety tips include social distancing!)

Comments

[conuly]

On the flipside, protesters mobbed a Fox News reporter, confirmed that he WAS from Fox News, and chased him away.

I shouldn't laugh.

[zesty_pinto]

It's okay, cats can have little a schadenfreud as a treat.

[marahmarie]

I don't support this. He might have been spouting an absolute shitstorm of falsehoods, inaccuracies and opinion in place of any factual news but he still had the right to be there as long as he wasn't directly harassing or bothering anybody else.

Relatedly (sort of) I don't understand the burning down of the CNN building. That needs looking into, as to who and how and why (hint: why would legit protestors do it? Arguments could be made that NO mainstream big media outfit supports them in any form or fashion save lip service and I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but still, I do wonder).

[conuly]

Didn't say I supported it, just said I laughed.

[marahmarie]

I meant I don't support the protestor's actions. But would you have laughed if it was a CNN reporter? If your answer's yes we don't have the same sense of humor, I have nothing to say. But if it's no, why would you laugh at a Fox reporter getting chased off? They're one and the same person, to my mind. They support each other, be they competing outfits reporting from either side of a sometimes vast political divide or not, so in turn we should support them. All of them. OAN. Fox. Whomever. Freedom of the press because we are *nothing* without it.

Sorry, I just have strong feelings on this.