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Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters’ Rights
"Exclusive: Internal NYPD documents shed new light on the Strategic Response Group, or SRG, the heavily militarized police unit behind the crackdown on George Floyd protesters."

theintercept.com/2021/04/07/ny

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Ariadne · @ariadne
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" wants to let a group teach to . This is appalling

In July, the Florida department of education announced that it had approved the use of content by Kids for the coming school year.
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PragerU Kids’ cartoon videos for children as young as kindergarten age not only soft-pedal the history of , , and brutality – they show sympathy for them. In one video, Leo and Layla Meet Christopher Columbus, Columbus tells young Leo and Layla: “Slavery is as old as time and has taken place in every corner of the world … Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?

Another PragerU Kids video describes George Floyd, who was murdered by the police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020, as a “Black man who resisted arrest”. Another features a cartoon version of the Black American educator and author Booker T Washington comforting white children by saying, “Future generations are never responsible for the sins of the past.” To which his young listener responds: “OK, I’ll keep doing my best to treat everyone well and won’t feel guilty about historical stuff.”

Another video says that colonialism transformed “in many positive ways”.
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"And climate change denial? A PragerU video for kids compares pushing back against the science of the climate crisis to Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprising who fought the ."
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"PragerU Kids’ videos for teens often focus on sexuality and gender, promoting traditional gender roles in ways that could be considered anti-feminist. In one, How to Embrace Your Femininity, a young blond woman with perfect hair and makeup tells viewers: “Most gender stereotypes exist because they reflect the way that men and women are naturally different. And those differences aren’t bad … So don’t let anyone tell you it’s bad to fit stereotypes. Those people are just trying too hard to be cool.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Tou Thao, who was found guilty of aiding and abetting the second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd, was sentenced to four years and nine months in state prison. Anna Betts reports for the New York Times.

#GeorgeFloyd #justice

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Trumpbert · @Trumpbert
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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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Judge CAHILL: I was hoping for a little more remorse, regret, acknowledgment of some responsibility and less preaching.

npr.org/2023/08/07/1192557981/

#GeorgeFloyd #abolishthepolice

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Raymond Scott Pert · @raymondpert
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George Floyd killing: ex-cop handed state sentence – DW

>Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill wrote in his May ruling that Thao separated the officers from bystanders who could have performed first aid, including an emergency medical technician.

>"There is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Thao's actions were objectively unreasonable from the perspective of a reasonable police officer, when viewed under the totality of the circumstances,"
dw.com/en/george-floyd-killing

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democracynow.org/2023/8/2/head

sued the FBI, the Colorado Springs Department and local officers for illegally searching the private of a local and the Chinook Center, a community organizing hub in Colorado Springs. The police also accessed the activist’s cellphone, laptop and external hard drives. This comes after revelations the FBI had infiltrated the Chinook Center by sending an Colorado Springs to volunteer at the center in 2020. This was part of a broader FBI effort to groups in Colorado after the police of .

#police #facebook #messages #activist #undercover #detective #infiltrate #racialjustice #killing #GeorgeFloyd #defundthepolice #qualifiedimmunity #corruptscotus

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Alice Dubiel · @odaraia
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Was the FBI spying on activists as part of attempts to suppress protests about the murder of by in 2020? sues police and on behalf of activists in Colorado Springs. democracynow.org/2023/8/2/head

#GeorgeFloyd #minneapolis #police #aclu #coloradosprings #fbi #chinookcenter

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