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.

Compilation

Note: All text on this wiki is in the public domain - the video content is not. 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

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

1. New York City, NY: how many NYPD cops does it take to beat one woman? Seems like at least 4-5 here
2. Asheville, NC: police destroy medical supplies and cut open all the water bottles creating a tremendous plastic mess outside of Farm Burger
3. Walnut Creek, CA: police using teargas and bullets on a peaceful protest in broad daylight
4. Athens, GA: more indiscriminate teargas use
5. Athens, GA: policing firing teargas and bullets near the UGA campus
6. 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