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How is this any different from the doctors who sold fake COVID immunization cards, injected children with saline solution rather than the COVID vaccine, threw out thousands of COVID vaccines, fraudulently billed the government, and, on the eve of trial, got their charges dismissed by the Trump DOJ?

I mean ...

#USPolitics #PublicCorruption #ACAB

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Plaque commemorating the 1934 San Francisco General Strike.

Reads: In memory of Howard Sperry and Nick Bourdoise, who gave their lives on Bloody Thursday July 5, 1934 so that all working people might enjoy a greater measure of dignity and security.

Sperry and Bordoise were fatally shot by San Francisco police at the intersection of Mission and Steuart Streets, when longshoremen and seamen attempted to stop maritime employers from breaking their joint strike. Community outrage at these killings sparked a General Strike by all San Francisco unions.

The maritime strike continued through the middle of summer, concluding with a union victory which brought decent conditions to the shipping industry and set the stage for the rebirth of a strong and democratic labor movement on the west coast.

"An Injury to One is an Injury to All"

Today in Labor History July 16, 1934: The San Francisco General Strike began, with 150,000 workers participating. The longshoremen’s strike actually started on May 9 and lasted 83 days, leading ultimately to the unionization of all West Coast ports. The strike grew violent quickly, with company goons and police brutalizing longshoremen and sailors. They hired private security to protect the scabs they brought in to load and unload ships, housing them in moored ships and wall compounds that the strikers attacked. In San Pedro, two workers were killed by private security on May 15. Battles also broke out in Oakland, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. On Bloody Thursday, July 5, in San Francisco, police attacked strikers with tear gas and with clubs while on horseback and later fired into the crowd, killing two and injuring others. A General Strike was called on July 14 and began on July 16, lasting 4 days. Many non-unionized workers joined the strike. Movie theaters and night clubs shut down. Many small businesses shut down & posted signs in solidarity with the strikers.

On July 17, the cops arrested 300 people they accused of being communists, radicals or subversives. The National Guard also blocked both ends of Jackson Street that day with machine gun-mounted trucks to aid vigilante attacks on the Marine Workers Industrial Union headquarters and the ILA soup kitchen. They raided many other union halls and communist organizations. Vigilantes kidnapped and beat a lawyer for the ACLU, as well as 13 radicals from San Jose, CA.

“In England and the United States, the police were invented within the space of just a few decades—roughly from 1825 to 1855. The new institution was not a response to an increase in crime, and it really didn’t lead to new methods for dealing with crime. The most common way for authorities to solve a crime, before and since the invention of police, has been for someone to tell them who did it. Besides, crime has to do with the acts of individuals, and the ruling elites who invented the police were responding to challenges posed by collective action. To put it in a nutshell: The authorities created the police in response to large, defiant crowds. That’s — strikes in England, — riots in the Northern US, — and the threat of slave insurrections in the South. So the police are a response to crowds, not to crime.”

— Origins of the Police by David Whitehouse

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#Breaking news from Spokane as 9 anti-ICE protesters have been arrested by Federal authorities.

The nine are being charged with various conspiracy charges stemming from an anti-ICE protest last month.

This marks a massive escalation in federal authorities arresting non-violent protesters for using their 1A rights to speak out against ICE.

rangemedia.co/spokane-activist

RANGE Media · At least 9 Spokanites arrested by federal agents in connection to ICE protests – RANGE MediaThe arrestees include Justice Forral, Erin Lang and former city council president Ben Stuckart, who were all arrested during the June 11 protests. Organizer Jac Archer, who was not arrested June 11, was also arrested this morning.
#ICE#CBP#WA

Today in Labor History July 15, 1927: The July Revolt of 1927 began in Vienna. It ended with police firing into the crowd and killing 89 protesters. Additionally, five police died. Over 600 protestors and roughly 600 policemen were injured. The clash was the culmination of a conflict between the Social Democratic Party of Austria and a right-wing alliance of wealthy industrialists and the Catholic Church.

Doesn't matter how "blue" your state is, your cops will literally break the law to help the gestapo send immigrants to concentration camp.

The #PNW really needs to see this story our cops are likely doing the exact same thing.

sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakl

The San Francisco Standard · Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with fedsThe illegal data sharing started soon after Oakland's cameras went live in August 2024.
#SF#sanfrancisco#CA
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@nando161 How very unusual for the 'police' to not want to appear to be favouring one of their own. The public experience the opposite...the force (it's rarely a service) appear to close ranks, and protect their own...at the expense of truth and justice.
#ACAB until proven otherwise.

Today in Labor History July 13, 1917: A 3-day General Strike began in São Paulo, Brazil, following the killing of the anarchist shoemaker, Antonio Martinez on July 10. Martinez was killed by police during a demonstration in support of textile strikers. The strike wave continued into 1919, with an attempted Anarchist Revolution in November, 1918.