The individual was sitting on the ground peacefully, yet the police maced her, and since she didn't move, they kicked her in the head.
tags: mace, pepper-spray, spray, kick
id: pa-erie-1
Links
- https://twitter.com/ItsKadynC/status/1266967646345613317
- https://twitter.com/the7goonies/status/1266989439160590336
- Article on the event from PAPost
Protesters try to help someone stand up; police wait until the person is halfway up before pepper-spraying the helpers.
tags: pepper-spray, spray
id: pa-harrisburg-1
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The journalist was trying to get a closer look at the police, while they were beating an individual.
tags: arrest, journalist, beat, threaten, baton
id: pa-philadelphia-1
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A black SUV stops while at least a dozen police on bicycles pull up to it. The police open the vehicle's front doors. The passenger is pulled to the ground and then cuffed by several officers. The driver is pushed against the side of the vehicle and cuffed. As both are led to an area behind the vehicle, one officer yells inches away from the passenger's face, then punches him in the face. After the passenger is led away, the same officer walks back up to the passenger, grabs his shirt, and yells at him at close distance.
tags: arrest, shove, push, threaten, punch
id: pa-philadelphia-2
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A man is being held on the ground by a police officer, who forces the man's hand onto a baton. Another officer joins in to force the man flat on the ground, kneeling on either the man's head or neck. The second officer then begins to strike the man on the head. A third officer joins in and grabs the man's arms. The police yell at witnesses to "back off", while someone yells "he can't breathe".
tags: knee, knee-on-kneck, beat, baton, strike, threaten
id: pa-philadelphia-3
Links
- https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/01/cop-put-baton-george-floyd-protesters-hand-put-knee-neck-12789427/
- https://twitter.com/mkultranews/status/1267305587206807553
An officer mounted atop a personnel carrier fires several tear gas rounds down an empty street without apparent justification
tags: tear-gas
id: pa-philadelphia-9
Links
- https://twitter.com/cynthiaschemmer/status/1267199590987714560
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1267859272639164416
Philadelphia Police Trap Protesters on Highway, Then Tear Gas Them and Shoot Rubber Bullets | June 1st
An estimated 3000-5000 protesters moved onto Interstate 676, stopping traffic. Protesters move into a tunnel under 20th street. An eye-witness states that officers inside the tunnel (eastbound on I-676) began shooting rubber bullets and macing protesters without any warning or any instructions to halt the protest on the highway. Protesters clear the tunnel, many kneel and put their hands up. Police shoot tear gas at protesters to disperse the crowd, they escape to the hill between 20th and 21st street as there was tear gas westbound on the interstate and they were still being fired at by officers in the tunnel to the east. Some throw canisters back. Officers chase protesters up the hill and appear to detain a number of them. Other officers continue to fire tear gas on to the hill, despite the only visible escape from the tear gas being over a ~10 ft fence.
tags: tear-gas, rubber-bullets, shoot, tear-gas-canister
Location: Interstate 676 between N 20th/21st St
id: pa-philadelphia-4
Links
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/guve5f/philadelphia_police_traps_protesters_on_highway/
- https://twitter.com/bbcease/status/1267582823428501508
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXzWicPCNQg
- Aerial footage
- https://vimeo.com/425235774
- https://youtu.be/srC5l--cn14
Three protestors kneeling on the ground with their hands on their heads/covering their faces are pepper-sprayed directly in the face by a cop.
tags: pepper-spray, spray
id: pa-philadelphia-5
Links
Police shove a group of protestors. A particularly aggressive police officer in a white shirt runs and shoves someone, then grabs another man. He is then approached by a young man with long hair whom he strikes with his baton, at full strength, in the head before jumping on him and cuffing him. He has assistance from another officer who presses the man's face to the pavement using his knee on his neck. Twitter accounts misreport the individual as female; later accounts in media report the individual is a male Temple University engineering student.
tags: shove, baton, strike, beat
id: pa-philadelphia-7
Links
- https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-temple-student-evan-gorski-protest-20200604.html
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268766216161763328
- https://twitter.com/Peopledelphia/status/1267588991655784448
- https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-temple-student-joseph-bologna-protest-20200605.html
- https://whyy.org/articles/philly-police-commander-videotaped-beating-protesters-linked-to-narcotics-scandal-misconduct/
An officer in a white shirt is seen grabbing a woman and then attacking her before dragging her into custody. The woman did not make any apparent provocation towards the officer.
tags: shove, arrest, push
id: pa-philadelphia-8
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Police kneel on man who says "I can't breathe", officer yells profanities back | believed to be June 3rd
At least 6 officers surround a handcuffed man who says "I can't breathe". Officer replies "Shut up asshole. Are you fucking stupid? Shut up, that shit don't work here."
tags: threaten, arrest, knee
id: pa-philadelphia-6
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A woman in East Liberty gets onto her knees and puts her hands in the air, while repeatedly yelling "we're peaceful, don't shoot!" Officers approach her and one of them sprays pepper spray onto her. The woman who recorded the video, Abigail Rubio, claims the police returned the next day and claimed they had video evidence of her throwing items off her balcony at them, a claim she denies and says was meant to intimidate her after posting the video. She filed a complaint with the local Citizen Review Board
tags: pepper-spray, spray, threaten
id: pa-pittsburgh-1
Links
- Video of the incident
- Twitter link alleging intimidation
- Post Gazette article about alleged police intimidation
Police declare a peaceful protest an unlawful assembly. They then escalate the situation by firing tear gas and rubber bullets on the crowd.
tags: shoot, tear-gas, rubber-bullets
id: pa-pittsburgh-2
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