Well, this certainly puts into perspective the thinly-veiled cop threats I received last week.

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Mary’s family accuse Avon and Somerset police of bullying and threatening them over the last three years in an effort to discourage them from speaking to the press.

Senior police, they say, warned them that if the public were to become aware of the 19-year relationship the revelation could spark riots. However, Mary’s family now believe this and other warnings were used to co-opt them into a “cover-up” of the scandal.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/06/revealed-undercover-uk-police-officer-deceived-woman-relationship

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FTP

(I apologize in advance for any duplicates or even triplicates of this post.)

Some people really seem to enjoy being wrong about everything.

And making sides out of shit that doesn't need sides, just so they can be on the wrong side of any situation.

A racist asshat covered me in paint.
How do you even GET on the wrong side of that?

More details in the coming days.

Latest here:
https://mstdn.ca/@joemorin73/110940098355858937

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Traffic Services (🤷🏾‍♀️) took to TikTok, a major source of calls.

Translation:
PLEASE STOP CALLING US.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Coverage weirdly reminding me of this old tweet.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/08/22/toronto-can-of-paint-assault/

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Shout out to my sister @Joyhenderson78 who was cuffed and tossed in a cruiser Sunday for the crime of Driving While Black.
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

Y'all clear on how it works in Canada yet?

Let's circle back to #RichardBilkszto —who is being held up by the right wing shitheads as having been ✌🏾"martyred"✌🏾 for saying Canada is much better than the US.

Canada is DIFFERENT from the US.
Different doesn't mean better.

#Racism #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
#TOpoli #Toronto

If you're interested, here is the update @joemorin73 worked on late last night.

It has been removed from TikTok, but it pushed the cops into acting, finally, so it did the job.

https://mstdn.ca/@joemorin73/110934938193524634

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

@GPJohnston @joemorin73

Yep.

TPS clearly had a time machine built with their astronomical budget, instead of spending it on dealing with victims in a timely manner.

The website has a correction of October 3.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime

O. M. G.
I love you all so much.

And I fully know that it is the most fucked up thing in the universe that I, an abolitionist, are thanking you for making the police do their fucking job.

I cannot say why this is important because of my role at MDC, but this is one of those situations where one arrest, the proper arrest, means correcting two wrong arrests.

If this asshole hadn't tried to escalate what HE HIMSELF had done TO THE COPS, there's no way in hell I would even have gone to the police station, even covered in paint.

More momentarily.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #WhoKeepsUsSafe

I wonder what the cops at 55 are too busy doing to take an incident report.

I just moseyed on over to these 14 division cops and told them the concentric circular tale of cops not doing their jobs (MB, 55 Division).

They were like, "Not our division! Lemme give you a number so you can ask for the GO number."

And then they ran away.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime

Meet Joseph Picken.
⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️

He threw white paint all over me, then claimed he was assaulted.

VIDEO:
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110918176093706754

55 division took his word for it and didn't even take a report on what he did. Maybe they would like to talk to some other people instead of me.

Here are some phone numbers:

Contact 55 Division
24 hours/day, 7 days/week
416-808-5500

Superintendent Kim O'Toole
Unit Commander
416-808-5514

Inspector Michael Hayles
2nd in Command
416-808-5500

Staff Sergeant Murray Barnes
Neighbourhood Officer Unit Manager
416-808-5437

https://www.tps.ca/my-neighbourhood/55-division/

#IAlreadyDidntLikeCops
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundThePolice

(Edited because it's "Picken" singular.)

@April_Sparkles

Yeah.
And as if I was already not a fan of cops, the motherfuckers didn't even take the report.

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

#AirplaneOrTimeMachine

Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/us/mississippi-white-officers-torture-black-men-federal-charge/index.html

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice #ACAB #YesAllCops

#NukeThePolice

Why are we* here?
This police presence is for a PRESS CONFERENCE.

Local AND Provincial cops here to intimidate people.

*Specifically Legal Observers from the Movement Defence Committee.

#LOLife #LegalObservers #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PrisonersRights #PrisonersJusticeDay

Presser is about to start.

No more deaths in custody.
At the Solicitor General's office.

#PrisonersRights #TorontoActions #CommunityDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #Abolitionists

Oh look!
The Self-Investigation Unit is on it.

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The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said a cruiser struck a 30-year-old man who was walking in the park.

The victim was transported to the hospital with serious injuries.

The SIU has assigned three investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.
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How long before they find themselves innocent?

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/man-seriously-injured-after-being-struck-by-police-car-in-toronto-park-siu-investigating-1.6509096

#SelfInvestigationUnit #FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

@CStamp @monicarooney

And the cops won't answer the question¹:
Who shot him?

It's okay. We already know.

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe — hell, they can't even keep each other safe.

#FTP #ACAB

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¹ Nor how many pets they shot last year. But here are US numbers.

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The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings. The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.
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https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/27/ohio-officer-fired-dog-black-man-speakman/

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Video footage of the dog attacking 23-year-old Jadarrius Rose, who was pulled over because his tractor-trailer was missing a mud flap, drew national outrage, with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and the NAACP among those criticizing the officer’s actions. In the footage, sergeants at the traffic stop repeatedly yell at Speakman to not release the dog, as the man had surrendered with his hands up. But their warnings go unheeded, and Speakman commands the animal to attack. The dog bites Rose, who was kneeling with his hands in the air, video shows.
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#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice

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A yearlong investigation by IndyStar and the Invisible Institute in Chicago, published in partnership with AL.com and The Marshall Project, found that most people bitten by IMPD dogs were unarmed, or their suspected offenses were traffic infractions, misdemeanors and non-violent Level 6 felonies, which are the lowest-level.

More than half of the 243 people bitten over the last three years, meanwhile, are Black, a disproportionately high number for a population that makes up just 28% of the city.
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https://www.indystar.com/in-depth/news/crime/2020/10/19/police-k-9-dog-bites-racism-indianapolis/5940236002/

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice

Because the ignorance is at legendary levels this week.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-police-dog-as-weapon-of-racial-terror/

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Some of the most horrifically indelible images of the Civil Rights struggle show police dogs attacking young demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Birmingham became emblematic of animalistic police brutality against non-violent protestors—but it wasn’t unique at the time. And the racial weaponization of dogs isn’t just something of that time, as examples from Abu Ghraib (2004) to Ferguson (2014) show.
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There were experiments with police dogs in England as early as the 1870s and Paris in the 1910s. Police dogs appeared on the streets of New York in 1907, but law enforcement “canine corps” didn’t become institutionalized until after Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956). Baltimore (1956) and St. Louis (1958) were the pioneers. By early 1960, at least twenty-four police departments had K-9 units. Many more would soon follow, by no means confined to the South.
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(And you absolutely know that Bingo got shot by a cop.)

#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #BingoTheDog #PoliceDogAttack

Anyone have the stats handy on how many pets the fucking 🐖🐖🐖 shoot each year?

Because this is some Grade A Hypocritical Shite.

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/officers-gather-for-procession-to-honour-toronto-police-dog-killed-in-line-of-duty-1.6496059

#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe
#acab #ftp #FuckThePolice