State Violence

US And Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent And Repressive Tactics

December 13, 2018 By Noah Habeeb and Craig Willse, Truthout.org Organize! Israel, Police, Repression, State Violence, United States

In communities throughout the United States, law enforcement agencies are choosing to send officers to Israel on exchange programs to share violent practices of surveillance and repression. But as communities learn of these trips and their content, they are quickly backing out. Just last week, the Vermont State Police and Northampton Massachusetts Police Department pulled officers from a recent trip sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a self-proclaimed “civil rights” organization. Yet, in the face of community outrage and criticism, the ADL continues to stand by these deadly exchanges.

I Am On The Refugee Caravan And Saw The Tear Gas Attack

December 2, 2018 JuanPablo Ramirez-Franco and Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Resist! Border Patrol, Immigration, Mexico, State Violence

On Sunday, the United States fired tear gas on asylum seekers—including children—at the San Ysidro crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. In the days since, the Trump administration has doubled down on its violent stance on the southern border. President Trump has smeared the refugees as “stone cold criminals,” while Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan hit the media circuit to defend the attack. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen made the outrageous—and baseless—assertion that children are being used by refugees as “human shields,” echoing rhetoric used to justify Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

Mapuche Nation Fights Back Against Government Repression

November 28, 2018 Diana Porras, Resumen-english.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Repression, State Violence

A public statement by Native leaders calling for a new meeting December 1 in Temucuicui, is warning, “We call on all territories to remain mobilized.” After holding a meeting within the community of Temucuicui, chiefs (lonkos) and Mapuche leaders assured that “as long as the government persists in its repressive policy and they keep going with the Araucanía Plan, which only seeks to favor entrepreneurs, the conditions do not exist to engage in a dialogue. In addition, they asked the Executive to withdraw and dissolve the so-called “Jungle Command” of Carabineros, the Chilean national police force, who have jurisdiction over the entire national territory of Chile. And they called for an end to the militarization of the southern territory of Wallmapu which is historically Mapuche land.

Israel Has Injured 24,000 Gaza Protesters

November 27, 2018 Maureen Clare Murphy, Electronicintifada.net Educate! Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Protests, State Violence

Palestinians have paid a great price for their call for life with dignity during mass protests held along Gaza’s boundary with Israel over the past eight months. Some 180 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli occupation forces and nearly 6,000 others injured by live fire during the Great March of Return. “The vast majority of casualties were unarmed, and were fatally shot from a distance while in the Gaza Strip itself,” according to a new report by the Israeli group B’Tselem, confirming previous findings by other rights organizations. “As a general rule, the protectively clad troops sniping at them from other side of the fence were not in any real danger,” B’Tselem added.

Tucson Demonstrators Wheatpaste In Intersection After Second Border Patrol Agent Not Guilty Verdict

November 27, 2018 Tucson Anarchists, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Arizona, Border, Border Patrol, State Violence

On Wednesday, November 21st, a jury in Tucson, Arizona found Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz not guilty of involuntary manslaughter for his 2012 shooting of 16 year old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez. Though Lonnie Swartz’s killing of José Antonio is only one among many murders committed by Border Patrol, the particularly egregious nature of the shooting made it the first time in history that a BP agent has faced criminal charges after killing someone. Swartz shot through the border wall from Nogales, Arizona into Nogales, Sonora, hitting the unarmed teenager ten times in the back and killing him instantly. A previous trial had already found Swartz not guilty for second-degree murder, but could not come to a decision on manslaughter charges...

Haiti: Police Repression Escalates On Anniversary Of The Battle Of Verieres

November 21, 2018 Staff, Resumen-english.org Resist! Haiti, police terror, State Violence

Sunday November 18, 2018, was the 215th anniversary of the victory at the battle of Vertieres when Haitians won a decisive battle against French forces in 1803, leading to the declaration of Haitian independence. People all over Haiti marked the occasion with massive protests against the theft of billions of dollars of Petrocaribe funds provided to the Haitian government by Venezuela. The demonstrators continued their call for the end to the murderous UN/US occupation and the imposed, illegitimate government of president Jovenel Moise and prime minister Jean-Henri Ceant.

Why “Countering Violent Extremism” Programs Won’t Stop White Supremacists

November 19, 2018 By Fatema Ahmad, Truthout.org Educate! FBI, Nationalism, Repression, State Violence, White Nationalism

As the daughter of Muslim Egyptian immigrants, I’m used to getting surprised looks when I tell people I grew up in a small Appalachian town in Western Maryland. A town where teens dared each other to drive up to the old church where local KKK members would supposedly meet. Boys I knew and rode the school bus with would go on to become Neo-Nazis. I had just started high school in 2001, making me — the only Muslim girl in high school in our county — a walking target after Sept. 11. I know the violence of white supremacy intimately. But I disagree with those who are currently criticizing the Trump administration for defunding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs that supposedly target white supremacists.

More Than A Dozen Navy SEALs May Get Caught Up In War Crimes Investigation

November 16, 2018 Carl Prince, Navytimes.com Educate! Investigation, Murder, Navy, State Violence

Military officials are prepared to call nearly a dozen past and present Navy SEALs to testify in the case of one elite Navy commando accused of fatally stabbing an Islamic State detainee in Iraq last year, according to documents obtained by Navy Times. The records related to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service’s probe offer new insight into the probe that will be aired publicly when the case against Special Operations Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher goes to an Article 32 hearing Wednesday morning in San Diego. The documents suggest that military officials have obtained cellphone text conversations showing Gallagher allegedly sought to cover up the fatal stabbing.

Increased Restrictions On Protest Won’t Keep Communities Safer

November 6, 2018 Shane Burley, Wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Class Struggle, Police State, Protests, Repression, State Violence

On Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau held a press conference to announce a new ordinance that would expand police power to limit protest activity. The proposal comes after two years of catastrophic attacks poised as political theater, including mass melees downtown that left people in the hospital, white nationalist contingents taking the streets and an acolyte murdering two people on public transportation when interrupted in the middle of an Islamophobic attack. Every time Patriot Prayer, the Trumpian far-right group who allies with white nationalists, takes to the streets, the entire city revolts. On Aug. 30, Patriot Prayer returned to Portland after a rally a month earlier where attendees brutally assaulted counter-protesters.

America Is On The Brink Of A Nervous Breakdown

November 2, 2018 John W. Whitehead, Rutherford.org Educate! Class Struggle, Repression, State Violence

Yet another ratcheting up of the calls for the government to clamp down on the citizenry by imposing more costly security measures without any real benefit, more militarized police, more surveillance, more widespread mental health screening of the general population, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more gun control measures, more surveillance cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more “See Something, Say Something” programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at so-called soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do more stop-and-frisk searches...

Does Domestic Use Of The Military For Immigration Violate The Posse Comitatus Act?

November 2, 2018 By Heather Timmons, Qz.com Educate! Border, Immigration, Repression, State Violence, US military

The US is sending thousands of troops to “harden” the border with Mexico, Pentagon officials said today (Oct.29), as thousands of asylum-seekers approach on foot from Central America. The armed forces will send 5,200 personnel, three helicopters, several military planes, and more than 150 miles of razor wire to border locations, starting in Texas, Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command, told reporters Monday (Oct. 29) afternoon, confirming earlier reports. Customs and Border Protection officers will continue to enforce immigration law on the border...

Report Shows That US Police Militarization Does Not Reduce Crime

September 20, 2018 Erik Schreiber, Wsws.org Educate! Militarized police, police brutality, Racism, State Violence

“On average, militarized police units do not appear to provide the safety beneﬁts that many police administrators claim,” said Jonathan Mummolo, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, the study’s author. The results of Mummolo’s research may not seem surprising, but they directly contradict the assertions of law enforcement officials across the country, from the local to the federal level. After police responded to the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri with assault rifles and tanks, Col. John Belmar, the top police officer in the county, claimed that military equipment had kept civilians and officers safe during the protests.

Vigilantes With A Badge: Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives And Freedoms

August 30, 2018 John W. Whitehead, Rutherford.org Educate! Police, Police violence, State Violence

I have known a lot of good cops, I have defended a lot of good cops, and I have been fortunate to call a number of good cops friends. So when I say that warrior cops—hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge—have not made America any safer or freer, I am not disrespecting any of the fine, decent, lawful police officers who take seriously their oath of office to serve and protect their fellow citizens, uphold the Constitution, and maintain the peace. My beef is with the growing squads of warrior cops who have been given the green light to kill, shoot, taser, abuse and steal from American citizens in the so-called name of law and order. These cops are little more than vigilantes with a badge. Indeed, it is increasingly evident that militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impunity have not made America any safer or freer.

Newly Released Documents Show Gina Haspel Oversaw Torture, & Sen. Burr Knew

August 14, 2018 Ray McGovern, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Government, State Violence, Torture

Newly released declassified documents prove once and for all that CIA Director Gina Haspel oversaw torture in Thailand, which the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee knew all along. Newly released official documents obtained by the National Security Archive showing that CIA Director Gina Haspel directly supervised waterboarding at the first CIA “Black Site” simply confirm what Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr (R-NC) already knew as he orchestrated the charade that was Haspel’s confirmation hearing. Burr allowed her to “classify” her own direct role in waterboarding and other torture techniques so that it could be kept from the public and secure her confirmation—-further proof that this Senate oversight committee has instead become an overlook committee.

Anonymous Snipers And A Lethal Verdict

June 7, 2018 By Amira Hass, Haaretz.com Educate! Israel, Repression, State Violence

We know her name: Razan al-Najjar. But what’s his? What’s the name of the soldier who killed her, with direct fire to the chest last Friday? We don’t know, and we probably won’t ever know. In contrast to the Palestinians suspected of killing Israelis, the Israeli who killed Najjar is protected from exposure to the cameras and an in-depth breakdown of his family history, including his relatives’ participation in routine attacks on Palestinians as part of their military service or their political affiliation. Demanding Israeli microphones will not be pushed into his face with probing questions: Didn’t you see she was wearing a paramedic’s white robe when you aimed at her chest?

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