Creds and copyright Alex Kent over at Twitter. He also posted a picture of Fedorova’s arrest, with her press credentials at full display.
The context is, of course, the ongoing anti genocide protests.
you need to sign in to even look at shXitter now? Thank fuck, it’s finally dead.
You’re better off, the comment section is full of bootlickers anyway.
Here’s the tweet:
#NYPD knocking down and arresting credentialed journalist Olga Fedorova in New York, NY on May 8, 2024.
There are two attached images. The second photo should be accessible through the link even without signing in, but I attach it here for good measure.
On desktop Firefox, using the Imagus add-on, I can still see the image by hovering over the link.
Thanks
A link is great but xitter doesn’t let anyone without an account even look at content from their page anymore. Is there an alternate place to see these?
It’s just two images, I’ve posted the second one here. :)
And straight to a different loggin…
Jesus. Everything needs a fucking account anymore.
If you’re not signed in, its harder to track you.
I thought the federation was against this type of stuff! :(
This has nothing to do with that. Signing in with an account other than OP’s wouldn’t have done anything.
Oh bother - I tried the direct link to the post, apparently that’s for my eyes only. Fixed it now, thanks for pointing it out! :)
It was worse than what the picture shows.
There’s a bunch of videos on Twitter/X showing how they pushed her into that position, turned her around, and hauled her off before cuffing her and detaining her. She was thankfully released later, but this is just far too much. All of it is.
Welcome to freest country in the world. We will support genocide and still somehow convince own delusional selves that we are good guys.
What is it that we’re free to do again? I have honestly forgotten what all these implied freedoms are actually supposed to entail.
You’re free to love white Jesus
Ooh you’ve reminded me of this comic! Good 'ol S-S Jesus https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx
Rich, privileged white people are free to do anything. The rest of us are oppressed, beaten, and thrown in prison unless we obey.
You’re free to choose from 48 different flavours of corn syrup filled packaged food.
gun
Not even. One police officer decides your sus while you’re armed and that’s it. They’re allowed to execute you on the spot. That’s not a right, that’s a privilege with a death sentence for anyone who mistakes themselves as part of the privileged class.
They are allowed to execute you on the spot regardless of what you may or may not have on you. All they have to do is to say they were scared.
Yes but 80% of the time they cite their belief someone had a gun. To the point that once a gun is found at the scene everyone tunes out. (Other made up offenses include having a knife and having nothing but walking toward them)
Which brings us back to the point of a gun being an excuse to execute you on the spot. Which also means you don’t actually have a 2nd amendment right. Rights that you only technically have, aren’t actually extant.
It’s okay though, we don’t actually have any of the rights from Amendments 1-8. So it’s not unusual for the second amendment to only technically exist either.
Other made up offenses include having a knife and having nothing but walking toward them
Or having a seizure on your kitchen floor.
Or having dementia and ending up at the wrong house because you think you live there.
If you have forgotten Feedom, you must be a Russian shill. /s
Will you’re free to get fat, put on a blue uniform, and beat the fuck out of journalists and black people.
If that’s not freedom, I don’t know what is.
If “freedom” and “American exceptionalism” wasn’t dead on arrival it certainly was tossed off a high bridge when Trump was elected.
Here’s a short video of the arrest, via @StatusCoup on Twitter:
Wow
Huge guts to snap the cop after getting pushed. Taunting a bear (if bears carried mace and had some of the world’s worst PR).
I know. I absolutely adore that their finger is still firing off that shutter. A huge fuck you with each press.
Not related at all. How can I disable gifs in comment sections. It’s super distracting for me and I would love to not have anything animated at all when I’m reading.
The link didn’t post
It seems videos don’t federate to all platforms - I added a direct link to the post now. :)
Thanks!
For some strange reason clicking the link says address not found
Looks like an awful lot of Freedom©®™ going down there 😂
If you’ve never seen Team American: World Police look it up and you’ll better understand what Americans think about American “freedom.” Which funnily enough recieved a NC-17 rating due to an explicit sex scene involving puppets.
As they say, Americans want “freedom to…”
Modern societies want “Freedom from…”
The above pic is a good example
Yes Aunt Lydia
Dunno who Lydia is but she probably can’t get an abortion 😂
Yep. Welcome to America, where all bald eagles live free.
That Police logo on the holster looks incredibly fascisty
Is there a front shot of this? Taking bets he has a punisher patch and a thin blue line patch somewhere on him.
Looks like Olga is taking the front shot herself
She’ll be lucky to get the camera back, let alone the sd cards in it.
“Are we the baddies?”
“No! Of course not!”
“Are you sure? Our
uniformscaps have skulls on them.”Edit: Whoops, not uniforms. Also, for those who haven’t had the pleasure: https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY
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makes aeroplane noises while gesturing above head
It may not technically be part of the uniform, but most of them are usually wearing a Skull.
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I can’t tell if you’re being pedantic or just stanning cops.
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OK, so then pedantic. Because the first guy made a joke about cops uniforms having skulls on them, and I pointed out that the punisher logo is often used by cops, and you’re reaction is, “show me that this cop has one!” So, either you’re being pedantic, you don’t get how jokes work, or you just don’t want to admit that cops using the punisher logo is a thing. A very common thing. That’s very widespread. And sometimes officially sanctioned.
ACAB
America: Can you believe what China and Russia is doing to people expressing free speech.
Also America: criticizing Israeli is antisemitic and will arrest you for it!
Some Americans say several of those things. Millions of other Americans also say different things. Millions of us are better than that fascist bullshit, and we are not going anywhere.
Except maybe to prison 😅🥲😢😭
Nah, there are not enough cops in the USA to arrest us all. The ratio of population to police is overwhelmingly vast. For every 1000 Americans there are only 2 or 3 police.
I’m not one for conspiracies or whatever, but I do worry about escalation. I’m not worried too much about the cops themselves, most of them are just bullies and not that bright. I’m worried about who the government sends when the cops can’t contain a situation.
It will be PMC, and they will execute us. All republicans and conservatives will cheer.
It hit me like a truck back in 2020 how Trump could hire goons to execute my young children in front of me, or even do it himself, and everyone who voted for him would cheer it. That is who Trump voters are at their core.
Cute to think they’ll arrest us
Don’t forget, Russia is invading ukraine because they are antisemitic.
cue white/black arm meme with russia and usa using antisemitism as an excuse to do authoritarian shit.
It’s a scene from Predator, FYI.
Dylan, you soon of a bitch!
Wait… if I criticize Israel I’m going to get arrested? Like… standing on my lawn?
That’s one fat, dumpy, ACAB fascist right there.
But you repeat yourself…
The camera adds 50 pounds. That’s why he wants to eat it.
Aww shit is it time to link that afroman song again?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo
P.S. this matters to no one but somehow afroman is somehow in my phone’s dictionary which i believe to be based
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://m.piped.video/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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How many cameras are on him?
On him, or on his belt?
Multiply n by 50? Or you still don’t get the joke?
Does he have enough shit hanging off his belt?
Those are “de-escalation devices”. First, you beat them with thing 1. If that doesn’t calm them down, you stun them with thing 2. If they are still not calm, you shoot them with thing 3. Repeat until America great again.
I know you’re joking but this is basically how police operate
Satire is dead
It doesn’t help that they took the “the beatings will continue until morale improves” as a rule.
This “rule” is highly accurate for recent events in the USA.
Oh, so like a WoW player’s hotkey-bar. 👍👍
But it’s tactical!
It’s not like he plans to move quickly anyway. Hasn’t in a while.
that’s what the gun is for, the bullets can outrun anyone, even an unarmed child
Dun matter how pumped up your kicks are. :(
his donut holster is empty, so no, it needs a refill
Nope. It should have his home address too.
Which part of this image is the “freedom”?
Conservative politicians are a disease, these are the scars of that illness defacing the body ferociously and actively since Nixon.
I’m not entirely sure how hashtags render in Lemmy, but I added that one because I think fundamentally it’s what the picture is about: Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, press freedom, freedom from arbitrary violence.
Of course it’s a case of freedom being infringed upon, but I nevertheless think it’s a central theme.
The “land of the free”? Whoever told you that is your enemy?
LOL. Yes. Conservatives are responsible for corruption in New York… A completely blue state.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-liberal-states
NEW YORK - The city’s major police unions forcefully endorsed Donald Trump’s failed bid for re-election.
"In the New York City PBA, Mr. President you earn the endorsement and you’ve earned this endorsement,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association.
"I’m proud to give it,” he said in August.
But, Joe Biden won decisively in the city, putting the police unions and the officers they represent on the opposite side of the political fence from the majority of New Yorkers they serve.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jan-6-police-unions_n_65d67a16e4b0b65d69218857
Trump Picks Up Police Support Even As He Glorifies Those Who Assaulted Police On Jan. 6
Michael Fanone, a former metro police officer who on Jan. 6 was attacked with a stun gun by a Trump follower until he suffered a heart attack, said the reason is as simple as it is disturbing: “Lots of officers are ideologically aligned with the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6,” he said. “I get more threatening phone calls from people who identify as police officers than anyone else. We’ve been dismissed and vilified by even our police union.”
Now imagine this image came out of Russia, it would be plastered on the covers of all magazines as the western world would stroke its ego dick around this image. But I guess it’s not coming out of Russia now, so it’s irrelevant. (Not that I support Russia lol, fuck their fascist regime too)
Maga like Russia though, so it’s all good.
Would it? Was it plastered all over magazines when they were arresting people for holding signs that say things like ” I will be arrested for this sign”
When the war with Ukraine started, people in Russia went to protest it. Thousands were arrested on day one. No one remembers that now and it wasn’t reported much in the West.
I think your memory is betraying you here, because all the big media outlets were talking about the protests going on in Russia at the time
Are you sure? Because I clearly remember the whole internet and Western media joking how Russia will collapse in 24 hours instead of reporting what was actually going on. And then people shitting on Russians for not doing anything to stop the war.
The NYPD is one of the biggest gangs in the US. They get paid the best, by those they don’t protect of course.
That’s a horrifying image. She’s got some serious footwear. Fuck cops. I’m big and you’re small! I’ll hit you with this stick!
Fascist fuck.
Except if you have guns then we will be pussies of highest order. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/27/uvalde-shooting-police-gunman-shot-olivarez/
Except if you have guns then we will be pussies of highest order.
THAT’S how the 2nd amendment and much else of the Constitution was intended to be used, I feel. Y’know, before the people lost their damn minds for various reasons, and maybe they understood the importance of backing each other to keep the power-hungry at bay.
But now we’ve stood aside as we got things like State-defined rules for having proper unobtrusive protests, and unions that must be “authorized” and promise not to get in the way too much, binding arbitration without a right to a jury trial, and police shove and beat journalists while a loud chunk of the population says “He must’ve had a good reason! What’d you do?”
God help us.
Your monthly reminder here that forced arbitration is unconstitutional under the plain text of the 7th Amendment.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Wow, that’s an awesome reminder! TIL. Thank you kindly!
It was in my head because recently I had to send like 4 “Oh no you don’t” emails to like 4 or 5 companies that tried to pull that with a little ToS edit. It seems to be all the rage these days. :(
Damn, I want to be so composed when the SS finally haul me off to the prison camps.
Fascists gonna fascist.
Aaah, she’s getting the sweet taste of American freedom
