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[timjustice4]

PA State Police Corruption

PA State trooper Joseph Yingling was arrested for felony aggravated assault strangulation on video and had his mugshot online for months and is still a trooper.

He was also involved in the death of a man named Hakim Jackson who died from "swallowing drugs" but had blunt force trauma to the neck, brain stem herniation, brain hemmorging, and was tased 9 times up to 19 seconds each time.

[opercursocomplexodeumamulhe-blog]

Time; A Radical Analysis

Time isn’t neutral. In radical work, time is often the difference between life and death. I learned this not through theory, but through lived experience — through every second wasted in pointless meetings while lives in our community hung in the balance. Time is a material condition. It’s a resource. It’s a tool. And when it’s misused — whether by the state or by so-called comrades — it becomes a weapon.

Time and space away, taken out of necessity because of dangerously high blood pressure, chronic pain, and a body battered by years of surveillance and burnout, gave me perspective. A painful but transformative one. From the beginning, MANY proclaimed social justice groups showed me that they did not understand or respect time as a survival tool. They wasted hours arguing over things that could’ve taken minutes. They avoided urgent matters. They created chaos.

There was never any discipline or structure — not because it couldn’t be built, but because they didn’t care to build it. This refusal to create collective discipline was violent. It allowed infiltrators to thrive, like in the case for that group, the co-director who embezzled money for nearly two years while I was expected to quietly take over her work — for a fraction of the pay — while still risking my safety filming the police and having other jobs to keep a roof over my head as renter.

“Activists” played with people’s lives every time they delayed, every time they made me the enforcer of their conflicts, every time they avoided accountability and pushed it onto me. That’s how we got scammed. That’s how people got harmed. That’s how my labor was exploited.

If you want to understand the cost of that waste, look at the case of Richard Price. As captured in this video, the events leading up to him being unalived happened within seconds — while my partner was just blocks away, on his way to film. My time, my presence, could have made a difference. But mismanagement and disorganization meant I was forced to waste precious hours navigating their internal dysfunction. And because of that, I wasn’t there.

Not to mention, a serious-almost deadly incident involving a killer cop that happened just feet away from our home, which my partner also unfortunately got caught in the crossfire of. I wasn’t able to be fully there for him due to everything happening around us.

Just a couple of examples of the chaos that kept me from showing up when it mattered most. It bled over to everything, including onto my partner. I just couldn’t do that anymore.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore means when she talks about organized abandonment — that systems (and sometimes, movements) organize neglect, chaos, and disrespect into our daily lives in such a way that it becomes lethal. Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police” 11.9.15 on Vimeo

People didn’t just waste my time. They stole my capacity to respond, to care for my partner, for myself, for my community. When my partner was set up to be shot outside our home, or when I was stalked and hacked, or when I nearly died from sepsis, I was already worn down by the very groups that claimed to have my back. Their refusal to respect my time, body, and safety was a betrayal — and it was deadly.

When I had to take a medical leave — after a years-long campaign of being stalked, entrapped, burglarized, surveilled, and abandoned — it wasn’t just burnout. It was survival. I had no support from MediCAL, no help from disability services, and no solidarity from a movement infiltrated by agents and opportunists. I had no choice. I had to save myself. Self-preservation.

If I am to do this work — if anyone is to survive this work — we need to treat time like the radical tool it is. The very thing that stands between harm and healing. Between presence and loss. Between life and death.

[copewatch]

Ricky Lee Pinzon ambush on #lasd

[daviddavi09]

HIGH-SPEED CHASE | Man Flees Police with Pregnant Fiancée & Kids in Car | Cop Cam Nation

A routine traffic stop became a high-speed chase for life when deputies tried to pull over a driver on Interstate 95. Rather than pull over, the suspect accelerated to 110MPH, cutting through traffic, passing cars on the shoulder, and endangering several lives—including his pregnant fiancée and two children in the backseat. In spite of his desperate bid to flee, there was no place to go.

[amazing-video-shares]

James Bond Gets Pulled Over: You Won't Believe What Happens Next!"

The Unexpected Consequences of Sharing a Name with a Famous Spy"

A Copwatch Chronicle exclusive article.

[unitedagainstpoliceterrorsd]

Man Shot in Chest at City Heights Smoke Shop | Copwatch

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[garthnadermemestash]

Careful, the fake as fuck whiny bitch might file a frivolous lolsuit and restraining order & he will lose.

[copwatch2024]

2X Felon Ricky L Pinzon pattern of contempt of court.

Sovcit guru, paranoid meth tweaker ricky lee pinzon records a pamona courtroom without the judge permission.

This is not the first time ricky L pinzon has illegally recorded court proceedings to benefit his youtube channel.

The pro se vexatious litigant practices law without a license simply to post his illegal recordings to his demonetized youtube channel.

It is illegal to record court proceedings without the permission of the judge. In this case, the pamona court judge can be reached at (909) 802-1105 and mention Ricky Lee Pinzon vs CA Secretary of state 23pscv00725

[agp]

dude i post from church and this guy calls me cause he thinks i came back home. i have to leave the congregation to call him again to say dude wtf i told you i was going to church i even fucking invited the guy but hes terrified of black people and i guess the french too he wouldnt have understood anything anyway but this fucking devil and his devil energy oh my fucking god guys youre this close to setting the next poor black victims vehicle on fire cause i wasnt giving you enough attention right

[trans-axolotl]

getting arrested brought up a lot of psych trauma for me and there's so many things from years ago that are just playing on repeat in my mind right now. i haven't been this fucked up about solitary confinement for a long time. I've spent the first two weeks after getting arrested sleeping on the floor of my friends rooms because I can't be alone in a room without freaking out. and getting arrested wasn't anywhere near as bad as solitary in the psych institution or getting brutalized by the cops when they sectioned me. But it was just close enough to remind me of how fucking scared i was back then. how many fucking times i lost my mind. how the worst part wasn't even the assaults but that knowledge that by getting those diagnoses on my chart, i would never be seen as credible again. I had to lie there, understanding that psychiatric authority could rewrite my every action into a symptom that justified increased confinement. It didn't matter that parts of my madness were in response to the carceral violence i was surviving and that i had been placed in a situation where self-destruction was my only path for demanding autonomy. it did not fucking matter, because i had become a "patient" and that meant i would never be believed again in a system that prioritized social control over any real safety, care, or healing.

last week when they got me alone in a cell with five cops i started to feel that same type of fear that i felt all those years ago when i had to prepare myself to survive some pretty fucking unspeakable things. the moment it sunk in i would be there alone, with no witnesses, i started to feel that same type of powerlessness again. those labels of patient and criminal are weaponized in the same way to create a situation where your words, your protests, your actions are not legible or believed in any way (civil death is how the philosophers would probably describe it. "world-destroying world" is how they refer to solitary confinement.) Sitting in court for hours this week feels the same--seeing dozens of cases each day where the judge is just destroying people's lives and doesn't even fucking care.

i am so angry. i am so fucking angry. i've known all this shit for years, i've joined programs to learn to copwatch and courtwatch and inside-outside organizing and hours and hours of anti carceral suicide support training, harm reduction organizing, trying to build similar stuff for my institutionalized comrades. but i am just so fucking angry every day about the amount of people whose lives are destroyed, who are murdered by the state in these fucking places. it's the same fucking shit over and over again and like, this time i had comrades and community and knowledge and had that type of support I could rely on even when I was in there alone. but I want to scream when I think about how many people don't have any of that shit going through the same fucking thing day after day, who are as alone as I was four years ago, who disappear and are cut out of our communities day after day and we don't always even know whose missing. i want to scream and just keep screaming. i want to tear all this shit down, i don't want the world where I live in to be one where prisons and jails and institutions and any fucking form of confinement still stands.

[copewatch]

Let me be very clear Ricky L Pinzon,

[daviddavi09]

Crime Caught on Cam | Woman Attacks Pregnant Clerk Over Loose Change | Cop Cam Nation

She thought she'd get away with it—but the cameras have another story to tell! Deputies were called to a Dollar General following reports of a shoplifting that turned quickly into a scene. A woman reportedly tried to steal a lighter, but when confronted by the pregnant employee of the store, she pushed her out of the way to get away. What she didn't anticipate? The push escalated a minor theft into a felony charge of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman.

[unitedagainstpoliceterrorsd]

Hot Stop on Shooting Suspects Brother Turning Himself in at Midcity Sub Station | Copwatch

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[dailyanarchistposts]

What’s the general attitude anarchists have of neighborhood/community watch organizations?

In my experience, neighborhood watch programs are really nothing more than narcs, off-duty police, superiority-complex-ridden people that try to be police, and then the occa-sional person who just wants to make sure no one is being harmed. It’s this last group of people that give me hope for watches, and I think community watches can fit nicely with anarchism; it’s volunteer, there are different watchers every night (or week or whatever), and no one has authority over others. The Highway Helpers in Iowa and other states are slightly reminiscent of this organization (volunteers drive around the highways in trucks with car-repair equipment and help anyone in need, free of charge). I can easily see some anarchist societies having such organizations (people patrolling to make sure no one is harming another or being harmed), and I have heard Christiania has similar coordina-tion among residents, although I can’t confirm this. But with incidents like that of the recent Trayvon Martin shooting and many others like it, there’s legitimate concern regarding these watches. On top of the original question, what do all of you think?

blq

Don’t forget—a neighborhood might need a fire watch, a medical watch, a kiddy watch... a garden watch in freezing weather if folks are away... there are a lot of negative connota-tions because of the way it gets used. That doesn’t keep us from using it for constructive purposes...

Old folk hasn’t been seen in a few days? Did s/he fall down and get hurt?

rby

I mean, as of right now, the term “neighborhood watch” carries a lot of baggage—usually that of property owners, middle-class professionals, and small entrepreneurs banding together to keep certain elements out of their neighborhood. This usually translates to harassing poor people, young people, and people of color (and especially combinations of the three).

But the organizational structure is plenty anarchistic in theory, sure. It’s non-hierarchical and based on mutual aid. The problem is the context in which it occurs.

To clarify, when I say that “the organizational structure is plenty anarchistic”, I mean it in the sense that you could use a similar organizational structure for wildly different things, such as the ones illustrated in Asker’s comment—CopWatch, community defense vigilantes committees, emergency response networks, etc.

The Neighborhood Watch, as it exists today, is obviously totally incompatible with any kind of anarchist society or organizing, but that much should be obvious since they’re basically amateur cops.

asr

To offer an alternative answer: I can’t really imagine how a neighborhood asr watch could ever be anything but a threat to us, much less a helpful aspect of an ‘anarchist society.’ It seems to me that even if the form a neighborhood watch took were totally inclusive, par-ticipatory, and whatever, that wouldn’t matter. There are plenty of organizations that work like that, (rotary clubs, alcoholics anonymous, even some workplaces) but I would never think to link those organizations to the anarchist project. In each case their purpose is opposed to mine or at least unrelated.

As far as I can tell, the purpose of a neighborhood watch is surveillance: they try to make sure that any crime that occurs in a certain area is observed, so that it will be easier for the police to deal with it. The assumption is that the neighborhood watch somehow has the ability to determine what behaviors are appropriate within a certain area (a side note: what the fuck is a neighborhood?).

In a situation where there are police available, people who do this are straight up snitches. In a situation without police, I guess they would simply be nosy ass-holes. I certainly can’t think of any stateless group I have read about where people thought that one of their biggest problems is that people are committing crimes without being observed.

To complicate this, I can think of some situations where we might want to organize in a somewhat analogous way, given the reality that right now we live in a world with lots of enemies. For instance, copwatch, neighborhood defense committees, barricades—things that might help us keep police out of places...

[agp]

yeah whatever im friends with vampires we possess each other at night and try to be less shy around all the shy ppl downtown and try to deescalate shit when police start brutalizing people on that corner once an hour or two