Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
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Peace Is Killing Us, So Stop Asking For Calm: Anaheim & Solidarity In A Violent World
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 8:56pmJul 26th, 2012 @ 12:28 pm @RobtheIdealist
I'm really tired of people calling for “peace” in the midst of the uprising occurring in Anaheim. Peace, for them, is a return to “normalcy”. Well, normal isn’t really working out. “Peace” is an ineffective and arcane drug policy that disproportionately imprisons poor people of color and subjects the public to the murderous whims of both street gangs and police. “Peace” forsakes resistance, while leaving structural violence intact. Peace is killing us.
Homicide Rate Among Males 10-24 by Ethnicity & Means, 2005-2007 c/o CDC
US policing: Institutionalising brutality? Al-Jazeera "Inside Story"
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 4:02pmIn the wake of the killing of an unarmed man in California, Al-Jazeera asks if US policing is becoming increasingly militarised.
It's the Guns – But We All Know, It's Not Really the Guns
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 10:57am"...they are half right when they say 'Guns don't kill people.' I would just alter that slogan slightly to speak the real truth: 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'..."
by Michael Moore, published on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 by Common Dreams
Since Cain went nuts and whacked Abel, there have always been those humans who, for one reason or another, go temporarily or permanently insane and commit unspeakable acts of violence. There was the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who during the first century A.D. enjoyed throwing victims off a cliff on the Mediterranean island of Capri. Gilles de Rais, a French knight and ally of Joan of Arc during the middle ages, went cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs one day and ended up murdering hundreds of children. Just a few decades later Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Dracula, was killing people in Transylvania in numberless horrifying ways.
In Arizona, Undocumented Immigrants Take Action Unafraid; NO PAPERS, NO FEAR Ride For Justice Begins July 28th!
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 9:57pmOn July 24th, undocumented members of Puente came out at the racial profiling trial of Sheriff Arpaio and were arrested in civil disobedience.
Democracy Now! on Anaheim Killings (July 24, 2012)
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 3:41pmAnaheim killings discussed @ 32:35 but the whole show is worthy
https://www.freespeech.org/video/democracy-now-2012-07-24-tuesday-5
OUR DOG NAMED "DUDE" KILLED IN PEOPLE'S PARK ON 7/21/12; JUSTICE FOR DUDE!!
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 10:10amHis name was "Dude". He was a dog. He was owned by Wesley Simmons, a summer traveler in Berkeley. Dude was a beloved member of the People's Park community.
On July 21, 2012 at 12:30 a.m. Dude was chained to the water spigot on the west end of People's Park near his owner, Wesley Simmons. Uniformed UC Berkely officer Kevin Doughty came into the park near Wesley and Dude barked. Officer Doughty pulled his gun and shot Dude twice killing him instantly.
People in the Park feel this is ONE MORE ACT OF INTIMIDATION OF PEOPLE IN THE PARK LETTING THEM KNOW THEIR PETS CAN BE KILLED IN THE PARK WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND IS ONE MORE STEP TO KILLING ONE OF THEM. Every person we talked to said the UC Berkeley Police has been even more aggressive than usual trying to intimidate the people in the park. This is an on-going problem and is perpetuated by UC Berkeley Police as well as Devon, the director of the People's Park.
Witnesses Richard Knowles and others have confirmed that Dude was chained up when he was killed and there was no reason to kill Dude other than the fact Officer Doughty could do it.
Anaheim police kill another man, cops filmed firing on women & children at protest (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 2:54pmJuly 23, 2012 : Anaheim police have shot dead yet another man just a day after killing 24-year old Manuel Diaz. The previous day's shooting sparked a protest against police brutality that was violently broken up by authorities.
Anaheim Police KILL AGAIN, July 22, 2012
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 1:23pmThe Fire Next Time: 24 Hours After Murdering Manuel Diaz, Anaheim Police Kill Again
By @RobtheIdealist July 23, 2012
When I last spoke about the riots in response to the Anaheim Police killing Manuel Diaz, I told you a love story. It was a beautiful scene of a community that was motivated by love for their families, friends and neighbors as they stood against police violence in their neighborhood. Children and parents were unified, taking the streets as if the shackles of police repression no longer bound them. This Anaheim neighborhood was living, if only for a moment, as if the police no longer had the right to kill and victimize them. It was a story about love’s boundless energy. That was then.
ANAHEIM KIDS vs. Anaheim Police Department (VIDEO)
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 1:21pmChildren speak out against police brutality.
Police Murdered Manuel Diaz in Anaheim CA on July 21, 2012
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 07/22/2012 - 9:58pmRest In Peace, Manuel.
We will fight for Justice.
