Abusive Cop Tracker

The 2020 protests show that cops do big oopsie when they think nobody is watching.

This is a compilation of those "oopsis" to help with research efforts on a project I am working on.

Video Compilation

Note: These are just links to content on different sites that typically go to their original author. All credit is given to those that recorded the works. If you are the owner of a video and do not want the item listed on the wiki, feel free to remove it and simply add the reason in the subject line.

@greg_doucette on Twitter did an amazing job of cataloging a lot of content.

1. Des Moines, IA: police use pepper-spray in an elevator on apartment residents trying to go home, including on one woman carrying a baby
2. Kalamazoo, MI: protestors lay on the ground, so cops start shooting teargas canisters at their heads for sport
3. Columbus, OH: more police destroying private property without due process
4. San Diego, CA: peaceful protest – downright festive really – interrupted by tear gas and bullets
5. Boston, MA: cop destroying private property without due process
6. Cincinnati, OH: the casual banality of evil
7. Multiple: mashup of several videos at once, locations are at the bottom of each panel
8. Originally I thought police were just shooting and it happened the 16yo boy got hit. Turns out the Austin cops deliberately sniper-shot him in the head with nobody else around him.
9. Walnut Creek, CA: cops casually threatening to murder citizens 👮🏼‍♂️: "IF YOU DO NOT MOVE, YOU WILL BE DEAD."
10. Note the person on a motorized scooter getting caught in a cloud of gas
11. Seattle, WA: another night of indiscriminate flash-bang and teargas use on peaceful protestors
12. San Jose, CA: cop casually hitting a guy with his motorcycle and sending him to asphalt as 3 more cops pile on
13. Portland, OR: casual war-zoning as police shoot into a crowd for fun
14. Portland, OR: cops defacing private property with spray paint
15. New York City, NY: asked this before, but how many NYPD cops does it take to beat a woman? Bicyclist abruptly arrested without cause, as at least two cops beat her for sport
16. Washington, DC: police leaving unexploded ordnance laying around. This one is a Stinger (not flash-bang): it's a glorified IED that shoots rubber bullets
17. Los Angeles, CA: protestors shot in the head at 3rd & Fairfax by the Grove. Per the journalist who got the video, police shot first, *then* gave order to disperse
18. Portland, OR: indiscriminate teargas and flash-bang grenade use
19. Los Angeles, CA: at least 6 cops destroy a car, breaking out its windows to drag out the occupants
20. Wilmington, NC: police kneel "in solidarity"...so protestors will get closer...for the police to shoot them.
21. Washington, DC: cops pepper-spray a CNN crew as they're broadcasting live on-air
22. Los Angeles, CA: police doing casual drive-by shootings from the comfort of their SUV
23. Seattle, WA: police pre-beatings huddle. 👮🏼‍♂️: "Don't kill 'em. But hit 'em HARD!"
24. Austin, TX: police shoot a 16-year-old boy in the head and leave him for dead on the side of the road
25. Dallas, TX: police shoot out the left eye of 25yo Brandon Saenz
26. San Antonio, TX: police abruptly open fire into crowd of peaceful protestors. 🗣: "Everybody put your hands up!" 👮🏼‍♂️👮🏼‍♀️👮🏼: ::starts shooting::
27. Police looking like invaders
28. San Diego, CA: no video, but the woman is an employee of Child Protective Services, shot as she was leaving work
29. Orlando, FL: overhead view of when bike cops started beating protestors with their bikes for sport
30. Orlando, FL: 7-8 police officers pile on to one guy who's already on the ground not resisting
31. Charlotte, NC: police kettle protestors in between two parking decks, then open fire on them
32. Orlando, FL: you see a protestor in gray hoodie walking away with his hands up. A cop rushes into the crowd to grab him so some officers can beat him for sport, then other officers indiscriminately pepper-spray everyone else
33. San Diego, CA: One set of cops kettle protestors toward another set of cops, so the second set of cops can shoot them
34. Seattle, WA: not a brutality video, but instead showing the scale of the protestors. *Years* of data – decades likely – have repeatedly proven that crackdowns radicalize people and lead to more protestors
35. New York City, NY: how many NYPD cops does it take to beat one woman? Seems like at least 4-5 here
36. Asheville, NC: police destroy medical supplies and cut open all the water bottles creating a tremendous plastic mess outside of Farm Burger
37. Walnut Creek, CA: police using teargas and bullets on a peaceful protest in broad daylight
38. Athens, GA: more indiscriminate teargas use
39. Athens, GA: policing firing teargas and bullets near the UGA campus
40. Hoover, AL: when people say "defund the police," this is the type of overreactive Pile of poo they're talking about. 14 high schoolers. 50 cops
41. Portland, ME: Too far away to tell if this is police or a vigilante, but either way they've got snipers casually aiming from hotel rooftops
42. Denver, CO: y'all have seen me tag @elisabeth a number of times over the years, who's been working with the city on police use of force. So Denver police shot her 2x. From behind.
43. Police casually aiming their guns at kids recording on their phones from the roof.
44. Washington, DC: no identifiable insignia, so people don't know who to sue when they get brutalized
45. San Luis Obispo, CA: police open fire on peaceful protestors with their hands raised. The juxtaposition is striking... 🗣: "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!" 👮🏼‍♂️👮🏼👮🏼‍♀️: ::starts shooting::
46. Los Angeles, CA: extended montage (15+ minutes) of police violence footage out of LA
47. New York City, NY: police beat the everlasting sh*t out of a hospital worker as he walks to his hotel. Video in the article; he ended up getting stitches and 2 CT scans at the hospital where he works
48. Hollywood, CA: guy is live-streaming his walk home from work when police show up and start arresting everyone. Listen close to the officed's radio. "You should not be driving past anyone. Stop where you are, and take someone into custody."
49. Philadelphia, PA: cop pulls down a protestor's mask to pepper-spray her in the face as she's kneeling with her hands up, then the cop sprays another one, then he pushes over a third to make sure he can pepper-spray them in the face too
50. Los Angeles, CA: police open fire for sport on two guys standing still yards away having a conversation with each other
51. Denver, CO: Colorado State Patrol shoot a Denver reporter (who didn't realize at the time that the camera was still recording)
52. Richmond, VA: police fire teargas on peaceful protestors for sport, a half-hour before curfew
53. Columbus, OH: police pepper-spray members of the news media so they'll stop reporting. News media are exempt from the city's curfew
54. Washington, DC: video elsewhere in the thread, but here's the @DCist write-up on police pepper-spraying inside a private residence that they didn't have a warrant to enter
55. Joliet, IL: Protestors arrested as they're leaving, including one grabbed by the neck and dogpiled by at least 3 cops
56. West Philadelphia, PA: police shooting teargas down empty streets for sport? I assume there's a purpose for this
57. Atlanta, GA: four police team up to arrest a photographer, as the nightly news broadcasts it
58. Seattle, WA: overhead view of Seattle PD pepper-spraying protestors, then indiscriminately firing flash bang grenades deep into the crowd
59. Seattle, WA: police shoot a teargas canister at a reporter – live on-air as she's reporting
60. Riverside, CA: police destroying private property while being filmed live on the nightly news
61. Washington, DC: by now you've probably seen this one on the news, but they decided to gas clergy and other protestors so the Yapping Yam could get a photo op at a church
62. Sacramento, CA: police open fire on a peaceful crowd – *before* issuing a dispersal order (you'll hear that near the end) – and one of the first things they do is shoot a non-protesting legal observer (and US Navy veteran) in the face
63. Washington, DC: borrowing a page from the best authoritarian regimes across the globe – didn't Hosni Mubarak do this in Egypt a few years ago? – the military hovers a helicopter low over a crowd of peaceful protestors as a "show of strengt
64. Los Angeles, CA: black store owners call the police to get help with looters. So the police arrest the black store owners who asked for help
65. Buffalo, NY: police and National Guard swarm in like Keystone Kops to beat and arrest some people, but then run away as an SUV drives through them and hits at least one officer
66. Pittsburgh, PA: police pepperspray and shoot peaceful unarmed protestors as they chant
67. Omaha, NE: police shoot protestors with pepperballs, kick several repeatedly after tackling them
68. Washington, DC: peaceful protestors try to go home to comply with curfew. Police block them in until after curfew so they can arrest everyone
69. Richmond, VA: no video for this, but a long thread on Richmond police flagrantly violating citizens' constitutional rights. Going to RT the whole thing separate from this thread
70. Little Rock, AR: peaceful protestors, kneeling with hands raised, get blown away by LRPD
71. The DC cop punches the camera man first, before hitting him with his shield
72. Richmond, VA: another video where everything was peaceful, it wasn't curfew yet, and police started gassing everyone for sport
73. Philadelphia, PA: all-white vigilante groups now roaming the streets
74. Los Angeles, CA: LAPD officers beat the sh*t out of several unarmed peaceful protestors for sport, while other cops in the pack shoot them at close range
75. Richmond, VA: police start using tear gas at peaceful protest near Monument Avenue
76. Atlanta, GA: police beat the sh*t out of one person, then a male officer breaks away to beat, tackle, and mount the unarmed woman behind him
77. Washington, DC: one cop repeatedly beats the sh*t out of a cameraman with his riot shield, as another beats the reporter next to him with a baton while they flee
78. Los Angeles, CA: LAPD beat the sh*t out of well-known actor Kendrick Sampson (@kendrick38). Then once they're done beating him, the baton cops back away so another cop can shoot him at close range
79. Los Angeles, CA: LAPD scanner chatter. 👮🏼‍♂️: "$100 for a n*gger! $50 for a Mexican! Kill 'em all!"
80. Denver, CO: DPD no video for this one. DPD conducting an investigation after one of its officers posts an admission on Instagram that police are deliberating instigating riots
81. Philadelphia, PA: four cops brutalize and arrest a man. Notice how one cop deliberately put the man's hand on the baton / stick / whatever, just so he could then beat the guy for touching it
82. Denver, CO: casual conversation between a protestor and riot cop: "Can I ask you what's going to happen at 8? Sir?" 👮🏼‍♂️: "What's gonna happen is we're gonna start beating the fuck out of you."
83. Chicago, IL: nearly a dozen police officers team up to destroy a car and pull at least one of the occupants out by their head. Original poster indicates police stole the car soon thereafter, leaving the driver and another passenger in the lot
84. Philadelphia, PA: police deliberately herd protestors up an embankment against an unclimbable fence – and then repeatedly gas them all for sport
85. Des Moines, IA: police teargas and arrest a Des Moines Register reporter so she'll stop tweeting updates
86. Indianapolis, IN: a half-dozen police repeatedly shoot and club a protestor for sport
87. Columbus, OH: police officer peppersprays 2 people in the face as they silently kneel. Then another officer takes their water
88. Long Beach, CA: police point a gas canister launcher at folks as a young child sits atop dad's shoulders
89. Los Angeles, CA: police shoot a USMC veteran in the head for sport
90. Austin, TX: Police shoot a pregnant black woman in the abdomen for sport
91. Los Angeles, CA: LAPD sharing a jovial chuckle with a white woman as she spraypaints a building to make it look like it was done by protestors. You can even hear police suggest she write "Floyd" too
92. Dallas, TX: police shoot out the eye of an unarmed black man for sport
93. Boston, MA: multiple police officers beat the everlasting sh*t out of two people for sport, apparently for crossing the street?
94. Raleigh, NC: audio from police communication, admitting to using expired tear gas for crowd control
95. Seattle, WA: police appear to be trying to break the glass window of whatever business this is at 2nd and Pine?
96. Washington, DC: police pin a CNN reporter against a wall while another one clubs him in the knee with a baton
97. Miami, FL: police burst out of their SUV to tackle and arrest a peaceful unarmed protestors talking to them. The man was charged with violating the 8:00pm curfew; original poster says the arrest happened ~5:45pm
98. Louisville, KY: police shoot – and kill – renowned local chef David McAtee

News Compilation

1. I’m a priest. The police forced me off church grounds for Trump’s photo op.
2. Video shows police destroying medical station at North Carolina protest; mayor looks for answers
3. California police officer kills man on his knees, mistaking hammer for gun

Useful Links

• Attacks against reporters
• Here's a Google Sheets document that is being updated more.