A COLLECTION OF DISTRACTIONS

3liza:

collaterlysisters:

Reports of LRAD, beatings, unprovoked taser use on subdued protesters, and a fucking tank.  Apparently a 19 year old woman with leukemia was beaten.

This is a screenshot of an infrared live video feed by broadcaster OakFoSho.  It shows hundreds of arrested protesters handcuffed and sitting on the sidewalk in rows, waiting to be taken away to jail.  The police surrounded the protesters in a “kettle”, read a dispersal order, then refused to allow them to disperse, which is required by law.  Arrests and beatings began shortly thereafter.

A woman with leukemia was likely brutalized.  The police also knocked out a medic’s teeth before arresting them.  Arrest count is estimated at between 300 and 700.  Many of the arrested protesters are ‘missing’—they do not appear in the police department booking system; the police claim not to have them, and they were witnessed being arrested.