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.
- Des Moines, IA: police use pepper-spray in an elevator on apartment residents trying to go home, including on one woman carrying a baby
- Kalamazoo, MI: protestors lay on the ground, so cops start shooting teargas canisters at their heads for sport
- Columbus, OH: more police destroying private property without due process
- San Diego, CA: peaceful protest – downright festive really – interrupted by tear gas and bullets
- Boston, MA: cop destroying private property without due process
- Cincinnati, OH: the casual banality of evil
- Multiple: mashup of several videos at once, locations are at the bottom of each panel
- 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.
- Walnut Creek, CA: cops casually threatening to murder citizens 👮🏼♂️: "IF YOU DO NOT MOVE, YOU WILL BE DEAD."
- Note the person on a motorized scooter getting caught in a cloud of gas
- Seattle, WA: another night of indiscriminate flash-bang and teargas use on peaceful protestors
- San Jose, CA: cop casually hitting a guy with his motorcycle and sending him to asphalt as 3 more cops pile on
- Portland, OR: casual war-zoning as police shoot into a crowd for fun
- Portland, OR: cops defacing private property with spray paint
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Portland, OR: indiscriminate teargas and flash-bang grenade use
- Los Angeles, CA: at least 6 cops destroy a car, breaking out its windows to drag out the occupants
- Wilmington, NC: police kneel "in solidarity"...so protestors will get closer...for the police to shoot them.
- Washington, DC: cops pepper-spray a CNN crew as they're broadcasting live on-air
- Los Angeles, CA: police doing casual drive-by shootings from the comfort of their SUV
- Seattle, WA: police pre-beatings huddle. 👮🏼♂️: "Don't kill 'em. But hit 'em HARD!"