The person has been given water and some electrolytes.

This is incredibly dangerous and willfully so. They’re choosing to put this person at great risk, and many of the people participating are contractors along side cops from both sides

A couple of years ago I had to go and demand an ambulance for a guy in their care who was having a heart attack. I’ve also seen them scream a hypothermic little girl and her mum in a language neither of them could speak. Seems like they know that the law isn’t something they have to worry about

And he’s got very poor taste in all of them. FWIW the blue one is a 1:1 replica you might use it for practice I guess, or for forming a holster

This immediately brought to mind the way Border Patrol monopolizes the 911 emergency response systems for migrants, ignoring calls from people presumed to be crossing the border, then leaving them to die in the desert.

They’ve had so much success getting feckless journalists to fall for this I guess they thought they’d try it in court. As I said the other week, anyone opposing the wall on migrant traffic grounds is making a cowardly argument to begin with. We should oppose the wall because it’s wrong period.

They generally use encounters, but yeah they’ve got so many journalists to fall for this

they use water cannon and foam impact rounds

All along the border, regular folks who don’t get paid respond to rescue people in distress. despite a basically unlimited budget, people look out for each other.

BP are technically first responders, but as we can see here and we have seen countless times through the years, they do not respond to help people who they don’t think need help. Because of international cell phone agreements, it can also be very hard to call 911 in remote border areas.

There’s something particularly vicious about the intimate and personal nature of state violence in European riot policing

I want to believe most cis people don't fully grasp why agreeing with the "biological men in women's sports" framing is inherently transphobic, and then some of them go ahead and do this, giving the game away that they understand the relationship between these two concepts perfectly.

Whoa, these were two of the biggest H1-B sponsors!!! A third tho is Oracle... Which is NOT being punished this way, guess why?

Oh yeah I’ve done exactly that. It’s the worst. I do the same. Medium size saddle bag and bar bag. I don’t mind the weight, I like to go places where I can’t get a ride home.

This is a thing that’s been happening in the streets for as long as I’ve been in the streets and I’m getting old

Days like this are the ones where you order a giant saddle bag while waiting for a ride. Hopefully you can get home okay.

Nothing more perfectly sums up the institutionalization Of revolution more than French riot cops attacking French youth in a place they’ve been taught to celebrate revolution for their entire school career.

I've been looking for this facility in the detention book ins data that's available and I cannot find it. It should be there.