Chad Loder
Chad Loder

@chadloder

33 Tweets 235 reads Jun 01, 2020
National Guard marches through a quiet residential neighborhood in #Minneapolis, screaming at citizens to get inside.
Soldiers stop to point their guns at residents on their balcony.
They yell “LIGHT THEM UP” as they fire riot control rounds at them.
A reporter interviews a #Minneapolis nurse who was working at the medical tent, treating a man bleeding badly from a rubber bullet wound.
Military police opened fire on the nurses, storming their tent. “I told him I wouldn’t leave him, I feel so bad” 😔
Ali Veshi and his CNN crew come under fire from #Minneapolis police with tear gas and rubber bullets.
“There was absolutely no provocation. The police just drove up, split the crowd in two and started firing in both directions.”
A WCCO reporter is arrested for filming the #Minneapolis police.
He clearly identifies himself and asks them where he is supposed to go. “GET ON THE GROUND!” they shout at him as he backs up trying to get out of their way.
Mike George’s CBS news crew comes under rubber bullet fire from #Minneapolis police. His sound engineer is hit.
The news crew is credentialed, has their cameras out, and not near any crowds.
“They’re sighting us in!” as you see them take deliberate aim.
The police are out of control. They want to punish citizens for criticizing them, for filming them, for exposing their violence.
Police targeted my friend, a photojournalist. Shot her in the face with rubber bullets. Doctors couldn’t save her eye. 😔
NYPD officer in Union Square throws down a “White Power” sign and his fellow officer cheers him on. #NYCPROTEST
“Outside Agitators” was a lie. Of course.
Minneapolis police march on a parking lot where VICE reporter @MichaelAdams317 is sheltering. He is wears a press badge.
“I’m Press! Press! Press!”
Cop shouts “I DON’T CARE” and throws him to the ground. Another cop pepper sprays him directly in the face.
#Seattle. Police throw a man to the ground. A cop kneel on the man’s neck, the same exact way they murdered #GeorgeFloyd.
People can be heard screaming “GET YOUR KNEE OFF HIS NECK! GET YOUR F*CKING KNEE OFF HIS NECK!” before his partner finally intervenes.
New York: #BlackLivesMatter protesters demonstrate peacefully with their hands up.
An NYPD cop pulls a man’s facemask down and pepper sprays him directly in the face for no reason.
Dallas: A teenaged girl was walking home with her groceries, not part of any protest. The police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet. Half an inch lower and she’d have lost her eye.
CW: lots of blood.
Sacramento: A young boy is shot in the eye by police during a peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protest tonight at the State Capitol.
Salt Lake City: Police violently shove an elderly man with a cane to the ground, for the crime of standing and watching.
He couldn’t hear their commands.
Dallas: Another image of the young girl who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the police.
She is still holding her grocery bags.
NYPD cop casually slams a man with his car door as he drives by.
The police are angry for being exposed. They want blood.
@NYCMayor de Blasio uses the NYPD as his personal army, even getting them to move his daughter and her belongings out her apartment.
Linda Tirano, a photojournalist in #Minneapolis who has worked for The Guardian, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the police.
The doctors performed emergency surgery, but they were unable to save her eye. She is now permanently blind in that eye.
Minneapolis: CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his entire crew is arrested and handcuffed by the police while they are broadcasting live.
“We can move back to where you like. We are live on the air here... Put us back where you want us,” Jimenez says calmly.
NYPD police captain goes berserk, shoving the police barricade into the protesters.
He breaks ranks and charges into the crowd to assault a young woman. #nycprotest
Columbus: A group of peaceful protestors stands before a line of police.
A young woman stands still, holding a sign above her head. You see the police take direct aim and shoot her with rubber bullets. She falls to the ground.
Crowd: “SHE IS PEACEFUL”
Brookyln: Cop pins a medic face-down on the ground with his knee pressing on him.
The medic is not resisting and he is clearly wearing a medic’s uniform while crying “I’m a medic! I’m a medic!”
Onlookers attempt to film but cops shove them away.
cw: police violence, children
Seattle: At a rainy and peaceful rally yesterday.
Police advanced and pepper sprayed a young child in the face.
cw: blood
San Antonio: A young man stands peacefully with a cigarette and phone.
He is not a threat, just recording the police walking by. One cop walks up to him, takes aim; and deliberately shoots him twice from point-blank range with rubber bullets.
Las Vegas: Police charge into a peaceful crowd shouting “GRAB ANYBODY! GRAB ANYBODY!”
LVPD attacked and then wrongly jailed dozens of protesters, including two photojournalists from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Ellen Schmidt and Bridget Bennett.
Omaha: Demonstrators sit peacefully while a wall of police marches towards them, spraying them with pepper bullets.
The police march through and OVER the sitting protesters, launching flashbang grenades and tear gas at bystanders and journalists.
Denver. Police were firing pepper bullets and tear gas at cars stopped at an intersection, targeting a car with a pregnant woman.
A man yells at them “You’re shooting my car with my girlfriend in it? My pregnant girlfriend in it?”
The cops open fire on him with pepper rounds.
Minneapolis: Police deliberately shoot foreign press crew from @DW with rubber bullets.
“We’re press! We’re media! Stop shooting at us, we’re in the middle of a live shot!” This journalist has covered war zones for years and he is shocked.
Santa Monica: @SantaMonicaPD shot rubber bullets through this young man’s #BlackLivesMatter sign at a peaceful rally.
Notice the bullet holes in the sign and the rubber bullet in his hand. 📸 @bradleybermont
cw: police violence
ATLANTA: Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim were returning home when police smashed their car windows.
The cops pepper spray and taser the terrified young couple, then drag them out of the car & arrest them.
You sure this is #Wakanda?
cw: blood, severe injury
DALLAS: @DallasPD shot a Black man man in the eye with a wooden round.
The man’s condition is unknown. In the next video you will hear the cops laughing and singing “America, Fuck Yeah!” seconds after shooting him.
DALLAS: @DallasPD officers laughing and singing “America, F*ck Yeah!” seconds after shooting a Black demonstrator in the eye with a wooden round, severely injuring him.
FORT WAYNE: @FortWaynePolice fired tear has canisters at protesters’ heads, hitting Balin Brake (@notbalin) in the eye.
Doctors tried to repair his eye but were unable to. He is now permanently blind in that eye. (selfie cam flips the image).
SAN DIEGO: @LaMesaPD shot rubber bullets from a rooftop into a group of demonstrators, striking Leslie Furcron in the face.
She’s in the ICU in stable condition. Leslie buried her 38-year-old son Jabar in February. Her niece @SaudiaSakari made a GoFundMe.gofundme.com

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