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By VICE News
October 23, 2014 | 10:40 am
Officer Involved is VICE News' running blog covering police in America, where we will report news from around the US that highlights the changing landscape of contemporary policing. While questions of officer conduct, use of appropriate force, militarization, surveillance, and accountability occupy the news cycle, we will deliver the latest on significant officer involved incidents, investigations, shifts in policy, and offer up a broad and balanced picture of policing in America today.
Thursday 10/23A New York police officer has been stripped of his badge and gun following the emergence of a video showing him kicking another officer, having reportedly been aiming for an arrest suspect. The unnamed plainclothes officer was rushing to join uniformed colleagues attempted to arrest a fare beater at Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue subway station in January. According to DNAinfo, the undercover officer realized he had kicked a fellow cop and reached to rub the back of his colleagues head. The officer then reportedly turned to the suspect and punched him in the face.
Wednesday 10/22Advocates against police brutality launched a nationwide day of action today to "stop police brutality, repression, and the criminalization of a generation."
Groups from a number of social justice coalitions planned to take to the streets of New York City, Chicago, and dozens of other locations across the country, standing in solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri and demanding more police accountability.
The national call to action was bolstered by recent protests against police violence and a weekend of resistance that brought thousands of advocates to St. Louis earlier this month.
But the "October 22" campaign actually dates back to that day in 1996, when activists from a number of organizations joined hands for a National Day of Protest.
Social media users shared images and report of the action throughout the day under the hashtag #O22.
In New York City, protesters gathered in Union Square and marched to Time Square.
https://news.vice.com/article/offic...cking-colleague-in-head?utm_source=vicenewsfb
long thread
someone took a hatchet to a cop today
responding police shot a passerby...
October 23, 2014 | 10:40 am
Officer Involved is VICE News' running blog covering police in America, where we will report news from around the US that highlights the changing landscape of contemporary policing. While questions of officer conduct, use of appropriate force, militarization, surveillance, and accountability occupy the news cycle, we will deliver the latest on significant officer involved incidents, investigations, shifts in policy, and offer up a broad and balanced picture of policing in America today.
Thursday 10/23A New York police officer has been stripped of his badge and gun following the emergence of a video showing him kicking another officer, having reportedly been aiming for an arrest suspect. The unnamed plainclothes officer was rushing to join uniformed colleagues attempted to arrest a fare beater at Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue subway station in January. According to DNAinfo, the undercover officer realized he had kicked a fellow cop and reached to rub the back of his colleagues head. The officer then reportedly turned to the suspect and punched him in the face.
Wednesday 10/22Advocates against police brutality launched a nationwide day of action today to "stop police brutality, repression, and the criminalization of a generation."
Groups from a number of social justice coalitions planned to take to the streets of New York City, Chicago, and dozens of other locations across the country, standing in solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri and demanding more police accountability.
The national call to action was bolstered by recent protests against police violence and a weekend of resistance that brought thousands of advocates to St. Louis earlier this month.
But the "October 22" campaign actually dates back to that day in 1996, when activists from a number of organizations joined hands for a National Day of Protest.
Social media users shared images and report of the action throughout the day under the hashtag #O22.
In New York City, protesters gathered in Union Square and marched to Time Square.
https://news.vice.com/article/offic...cking-colleague-in-head?utm_source=vicenewsfb
long thread
someone took a hatchet to a cop today
responding police shot a passerby...
