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‘It’s a very serious matter’: Australian government to probe U.S. law enforcement violence against news crew

Correspondent Amelia Brace and cameraman Tim Myers of Australia’s 7NEWS were charged Monday by police officers and National Guard units who fired rubber bullets, deployed flash bangs and set off tear gas bombs to force protesters from Lafayette Square across from the White House.

The tactics by law enforcement, applied indiscriminately against protesters as well as members of the media, cleared the way for Trump and top administration officials to venture across the street to St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he posed with a Bible.

Video of the encounter between the Australian journalists and U.S. law enforcement, which was broadcast live on-air and circulated on social media, seemingly depicts an officer outfitted in riot gear bludgeoning Myers, who Brace previously reported had already been struck by a rubber bullet.

 

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U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 120 times since May 28

 

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I think that needs repeating: Police have attacked journalists 120 times in the last 5 days. Do you want to know what is really happening or do you want to just believe your “news feed”?

 

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Oh, pepper balls!! That’s different! Ha ha ha! And it was ordered by the attorney general of the United States. If that doesn’t tell you fascism is here then nothing will.

 

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Ex-Defense official resigns from Defense Science Board, accuses Esper of violating his oath

James Miller, who served as the undersecretary of Defense for policy from 2012 to 2014, resigned from his position on the Pentagon’s science board Tuesday, accusing Secretary of Defense Mark Esperof betraying his oath of office by backing President Trump on the forceable removal of peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C., the previous day.

 

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Esper has already referred the streets of some of these demonstrations, especially DC, as battle zones. Fascism. Here. Now.

 

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Facebook shuts down far-right group planning to bring weapons to protests - CNN


Facebook said Tuesday that it had shut down pages and accounts associated with what it said was a hate group, whose members were discussing bringing weapons to the protests that are happening across the country.

The company said it had observed people associated with the group American Guard discussing such action.
The group says it is about American constitutional nationalism, but the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says American Guard "has a background with connections to anti-immigrant extremism, hatred, and violence. Indeed, before the American Guard was the American Guard, it was actually the Indiana chapter of a group called the Soldiers of Odin USA, a branch of an extreme anti-immigrant and anti-refugee group that originated in Finland in 2015 and has spread to many other countries."

 

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Yesterday - McConnell on white president* trump pepper spraying citizens for a cheap photo op.

"I'm not going to critique other people's performances,"

Three weeks ago - McConnell on Black President Obama critique of white president* trump’s response to pandemic.

“I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut.”