From: Ivan Jaigirdar <ivan@atasite.org> Date: 31 May, 2020 8:03:32 AM GMT-7 To: Obaid Jaigirdar <obaid.jaigirdar@gmail.com>, Onu Jaigirdar <onujaigirdar@gmail.com> Subject:As Protests Ramped Up Across The Country, So Did Police Brutality | HuffPost
As Protests Ramped Up Across The Country, So Did Police Brutality
Officers arrested reporters, attacked citizens and clashed with protesters as Americans demonstrated in memory of George Floyd and others killed by police..
NYPD officers arrest protesters in Brooklyn, New York, during a May 30 demonstration against the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
As protests against police killings and inequality stretched into their fifth night in cities across the U.S., law enforcement officers geared up to go to battle with their own citizens. And in some cases, police brutality was on full display.
It was a weekend of violence between American authorities and the citizenry. Over the course of several days of protests ― prompted by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other deaths and instances of injustice ― major cities burned as protesters lashed out at police and the government.
The authoritarian response to those demonstrations was often cruel.
Linda Tirado, a freelance writer in Minneapolis, says she's "permanently blind" in her left eye after allegedly being hit by a rubber bullet or tracer round fired by authorities on Friday. Tirado said she'd identified herself as press but was shot with a projectile anyway.
Reports and videos have emerged from all over the country of police firing so-called "less-lethal" rounds at protesters, shoving them to the ground or otherwise beating them, and using other means of force.
On Saturday, the reports were similarly dire.
In Louisville, Kentucky ― where people have taken to the streets in memory of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old former EMT shot and killed by officers serving a warrant at her home ― reporters posted video of officers apparently confiscating and destroying water stores held by protesters.
The night before, Louisville police fired what appeared to be pepper balls directly at Kaitlin Rust, a journalist at WAVE 3, and her crew. The company caught the attack on camera.
In New York City on Saturday, an NYPD cruiser was caught on video careening into a crowd of protesters. It was unclear how many were injured. Mayor Bill de Blasio reportedly called the incident "troubling" in an interview with NY1, but it wasn't clear whether there would be an internal investigation.
"NYPD officers just drove an SUV into a crowd of human beings. They could've killed them, & we don't know how many they injured," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted Saturday night. "NO ONE gets to slam an SUV through a crowd of human beings."
Officers in various places reportedly continued to target journalists on Saturday. HuffPost senior reporter Chris Mathias was detained amid protests in Brooklyn, New York, after reportedly identifying himself as a member of the press. Mathias, who covers the far right, disinformation and hate, had been reporting for days on the protests, and was wearing a press identification card around his neck at the time of his arrest.
In Minneapolis, police reportedly fired tear gas at reporters "at point blank range," and a Vice News reporter says he was thrown to the ground, held down and pepper sprayed by police after identifying himself as press.
MSNBC host Ali Velshi, an NBC News reporter and their crews were reportedly tear gassed and struck by rubber bullets in Minneapolis. Separately, a CBS News crew was shot with rubber bullets despite being nowhere near protesters.
Early Sunday morning, another reporter in Minneapolis said authorities shot out his car window with "live rounds," and posted pictures of himself bleeding from his face and arm.
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In Denver, Rev. Melech E. M. Thomas tweeted that police had fired rubber bullets at his sister, even after she had fallen to the ground.
Studies have repeatedly shown that rubber bullets and other so-called "less-lethal" rounds are in fact deadly. One review of dozens of studies found that 15% of those injured by those projectiles were left permanently disabled, while 3% died, according to The Guardian.
President Trump has for years been stoking violence between authorities, protesters and especially the press, which he deems the "enemy of the people." In the week leading up to the clashes between protesters and cops, Trump tweeted a racist call for authorities to shoot demonstrators, saying, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." He also implored authorities to "get tough and fight (and arrest the bad ones)."
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AOR UMMAHAATUL MU'MINEEN AOR SAHABAH A'LAIHIMURRIDHWAAN KI HATAK KARNE LAG JAATE HAIN AOR APNE EIMANON KO BARBAAD KAR DETE HAIN.
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From: qaseem39us <qaseem39us@yahoo.com>
To: Khan <zina.khan@yahoo.com>; Azim Jamal <sajamal396@gmail.com>
Cc: Maryam Bakshi <pardah52@gmail.com>; Shuja Ur Rahman PA <goodbusinessgroup@gmail.com>; akbarkhojaa@gmail.com <akbarkhojaa@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020, 7:11:43 AM CDT
Subject: Re: you are the worst and the biggest revilers of all Ummatul Momineen and the sincere and loyal Sahabas..
QUOTE:I agree with you.
UNQUOTE:Azim Jamal! Kiya tum khatmal (shia) ho?
Zina khan mardood toh khatmal hai and you are so boldly agreeing with her, Are you in your senses?
Yeh naalayiq khan swine agakhani is accusing Sunni Muslims as the biggest revilers of Ummahaatul Mu'mineen and the Companions. Do they really revile or REVERE them from the core of their hearts.
It is the fatwa of all 4 Grand Imams of Ahlassunnah wa jama'ah, whosoever reviles them is a certified kaafir.
Pl. don't believe in this kaafirah agakhani swine, who is a shia, and don't agree with her or you will be in fire for sure.
Ahlesunnah (Hanafi, Shafey'i, Maliki and Hanbali) are faithfuls of Nabi Sallallahu A'laihi wa Sallam and not in Betrayal as this dude agakhani is very wrongly saying.
She is lying when she accuses of giving by'ah to Hazrat Umar RaziAllahu A'nhu whom this shia swine is accusing that he mua'adhAllah killed Ummahaatul Mu'mineen RaziAllahu A'nhunna......do you agree he killed them? Are you sure?
Did we Sunnis rejected(Mua'adhAllah) the Quran compiled by Hazrat Abu Bakar and Umar RaziAllahu A'nhuma??
Pl. reject her this blatant accusations or you will die a kaafir.
QUOTE:you gave loyalty to Ummayad the arch enemy of Nabi and Islam.
UNQUOTE: See this agakhani swine is accusing Imam Hasan and Imam Husain both of giving their own Khilafah to Ameer Mu'awiyah RaziAllahu A'nhu to reunite 2 large groups of Muslims to avoid the blood shed.
DO YOU DUDE AGREE WITH HER?
ARE YOU IN YOUR SENSES?
QUOTE:you are just a worthless piece of dung....just get lost A-Hole...or else I will undress your kufr and the gutters you come from....buzz off !!!
UNQUOTE: DO YOU AZIM JAMAL AGREE WITH THIS OF HER DIRTIEST LANGUAGE? ARE YOU IN YOUR SENSES??
ACHCHHEY BHALE LOG KHATMALON SE AGREE KARNE LAG JATE HAIN, SHARM UNKO MAGAR NAHEEN AATI.
ISI TARAH abida shytani, yasmin fi sabilishshytan, kaukab the pig KI TARAH KE KHAWARIJ BHI ZINA SHYTAN SE AGREE KARNE LAG JATE HAIN............HAI NA HYRAT KI BAAT??
On Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 8:09:06 PM CDT, Azim Jamal <sajamal396@gmail.com> wrote:
"..UMMAHAATUL MU'MINEEN AOR SAHABAH INSULT KO TUM NE MA'MOOLI SAMJHA HUWA HAI KIA??..."
Aree Nalayak...you are the worst and the biggest revilers of all Ummatul Momineen and the sincere and loyal Sahabas....you are the biggest and the best betrayer of Islam, Nabi, and you gave bayah to the Killer of Ummatul Momineen...you rejected the Quran compiled by Caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar....you betrayed Caliph Abu Bakr by giving bayah to the killer of his children....you gave loyalty to Ummayad the arch enemy of Nabi and Islam...you are just a worthless piece of dung....just get lost A-Hole...or else I will undress your kufr and the gutters you come from....buzz off !!!
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