Seattle PD sent seven police cars to arrest the guy who filmed them macing a child and are holding him without bail on trumped up charges of “Unlawful discharge of a laser pointer.”

Seven police cars. No bail. This is retaliation.

Link to Twitter thread

Hey Y’all, Sonne here - I’m a street medic in the city of Tucson who often works with legal observers from the local NLG chapter.  This has definitely been a topic of discussion for us recently, but our lawyer friends have assured us that the actual verbiage of this bill, while it is definitely unconstitutional, says the cops now have total freedom to establish the safe distance for bystanders during any arrest.  What this means is that normally, if you step back five feet, the cops can’t make a fuss about you filming.  (They will anyway, but they’re not supposed to.) Now, however, they’re able to tell you that you have to be a hundred or two hundred feet away because that is ‘minimum safe distance’.  If you don’t comply, you’re considered to be ‘interfering at a crime scene’. They’ve already been keeping press and cameras away from protests, ostensibly for the safety of those press members.

I just want to add some clarity because I’ve seen this all over twitter and facebook.

just a few short days ago bpd was all “we support your right to be heard uwu” and now they’re slamming elderly people’s heads into concrete. fucking inhuman.

fyi the man who was injured is Martin Gugino, a longtime activist who’s well known in the city. he was taken to a hospital and his condition is stable. the two pigs who shoved him and then watched him fucking bleed on the ground were only suspended from the force which is unacceptable–they need to be fired and charged

please consider donating to the gofundme set up to assist Martin in paying his medical bills

Well, shit.

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