Police Used 'Rape As Punishment'

THE ACLU HAS FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY OF DC, THE
CHIEF OF POLICE THERE, AND SOME OF THE SPECIFIC POLICE OFFICERS
ALLEGING THAT COPS USED RAPE AS A PUNISHMENT FOLLOWING AN
INAUGURATION DAY MASS ARREST.
HERE YOU CAN SEE A PICTURE OF THE PROCESS THAT WAS HAPPENING
WITH THESE BLACK CLAD MARCHERS WHO BEGAN SMASHING WINDOWS
IN WASHINGTON DC ON INAUGURATION DAY.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT OPTED TO KETTLE
EVERYONE WHICH BASICALLY MEANS TO CORRAL EVERYONE ON THE
STREETS NEARBY THIS AND DARKEST DRIVEN PROPERTY DESTRUCTION.
THE MASS ROUNDUPS LET THE ANSI FILE OR THE ANTI-FASCISTS
ROUTING TYPES TOGETHER WITH MANY PEACEFUL PROCESSORS,
JOURNALIST, AND VOLUNTEER LEGAL OBSERVERS TO TURN OUT IN
BRIGHT GREEN HATS TO HELP UPHOLD FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AS
SUCH EVENTS IN THE CAPITAL.
THE ACLU IS ALREADY QUESTIONING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF
THIS SORT OF MASS ROUNDUPS, GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION BUT
FURTHER THAN THAT, INDEPENDENT PHOTOJOURNALIST SHANE HORSE
VOLUNTEER LEGAL OBSERVER TO DO AERIAL AND PEACEFUL
PROTESTERS ELIZABETH LEAGUE ESSAY AND MILA GONZALES
SUGGEST THAT THE MPD SOUGHT PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL
RETRIBUTION ON THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE KETTLE.
IS ABOUT 200 PEOPLE.
AN OFFICER ALLEGEDLY ORDERED HORSE, FLIPPED BELOW
PLAINTIFF GONZALES AND THREE OTHERS TO TAKE THEIR PANTS
OFF BEFORE GRABBING THEIR TESTICLES AND THEN INSERTING
A FINGER INTO THEIR AMOS IS THAT WHILE OTHER OFFICERS LAUGHED.
APPARENTLY, THERE WERE SOME OTHER DETAILS THAT THEY
DIDN'T CHANGE GLOVES BETWEEN THIS.
A LOT OF ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE VERY DISTURBING.
HORSE SAID I FELT THEY WERE USING MOLESTATION AND RAPE
AS PUNISHMENT.
THEY USE THOSE TACTICS TO INFLICT PAIN AND MISERY ON
PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
THE MPD IS DEFENDING ITS REPUTATION AND MAINTAINING
THAT ALL OF THEIR REST WERE PROPER.
THEY ARE ALSO SAYING THAT ALL OF THE ALLEGATIONS INTO MISCONDUCT
WILL BE FULLY INVESTIGATED BUT OBVIOUSLY, IF THIS DID HAPPEN,
THIS IS HORRIBLE ABUSE OF POWER IN THE SITUATION.
FIRST LET ME BE A LITTLE BIT CLEARER ABOUT KETTLING.
IF YOU WERE AMONG THE MANY PROTESTERS IN THE TRUMP NOT
GRATIAN OR LET'S SAY YOU ARE A TEA PARTY PROCESSOR AGAINST
OBAMA CARE AND SOMEBODY DID SOMETHING STUPID AND THEY
THREW SOMETHING, THEY BROKE SOMETHING.
KETTLING IS COMMON, THEY JUST HOLD EVERYONE IN THAT AREA.
THEY DON'T GO THAT IS THE GUY WHO DID IT, THEY'RE THE THREE
GUYS WITH THEIR.
I KNOW IT'S A CHAOTIC SCENE AND I AM NOT TOTALLY
UNSYMPATHETIC TO THE OVERALL SITUATION OF THE COPS.
I'M NOT SYMPATHETIC AT ALL TO WHAT THE COPS ALLEGED TO
HAVE DONE BUT OKAY, THEY KETTLE THEM AND THEN THEY ARRESTED
200 OF THEM INCLUDING THESE GUYS WHO ARE PHOTOJOURNALIST,
ETC. AND BY THE WAY, JUST A YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR, GUYS
LIKE HORSE WERE RELEASED AND NEVER CHARGED BECAUSE THEY
WERE INNOCENT.
THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG.
BUT IT'S NOT GUILT BY ASSOCIATION BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
ASSOCIATED AT ALL TO THE GUY WHO THROUGH THE ROCKS OR WHATEVER
THEY DID.
ITS GUILT BY LOCATION.
THEY JUST HAPPEN TO BE AT THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG
TIME AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, THEIR PANTS ARE DOWN
AND SOMEONE IS TOUCHING THEIR TESTICLES AND PUTTING A FEE
IN HER FINGER IN THEIR A NEST.
THAT IS PRETTY BAD.
MOST PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE IN FAVOR OF THAT.
ONE OF THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS, ELIZABETH, IS
STILL FACING FELONY CHARGES.
THEY CHARGED ALL 200 PEOPLE THAT THEY KETTLE FELONY CHARGES THAT
SHE IS STILL FACING THOSE IN TRYING TO GET OUT OF IT OBVIOUSLY
WITH THE HELP OF ACLU AND SHE SAID SHE WAS KETTLE IN THE
SITUATION, SHE SAID THEY SIT TIGHT HER SO TIGHTLY THAT IT WAS
BLEEDING AND CUTTING HER WRIST OUT THERE ALREADY SO MANY ASPECT
OF THIS THAT WERE HORRENDOUS AND WRONG AND THEN TO ADD INSULT TO
INJURY QUITE LITERALLY, THESE ALLEGATIONS OF MOLESTATION
ARE ADDED ONTO IT.
IT'S PRETTY TERRIFYING WHAT COPS WILL DO WHEN THEY THINK
THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH SOMETHING.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THEY JUSTIFIED THE PROBING.
WELL, WE KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO DID HAD STUFF IN THERE BUT SO
WE DECIDED TO CHECK.
THAT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION, WELL WE HAD TO LOOK IN
THERE TO MAKE SURE YOU WEREN'T THE PEOPLE WHO DID. AND THEN
KETTLING, THE IDEA, IS A REALLY DANGEROUS TACTIC.
YOU HERE DURING THESE TIMES OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE OR CHAOS IN
A SITUATION YOU WANT TO DE-ESCALATE THINGS AND COOL
THINGS DOWN.
KETTLES DON'T COOL THINGS DOWN.
YOU PUT SOMETHING IN A KETTLE'S YOU CAN HEATED UP SO I CAN
GET MORE AND MORE ANNOYING UNTIL IT SCREAMS THAT YOU.
THAT IS RIDICULOUS.
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.
THAT IS A DETERRENT AGAINST REALLY ALL MAJOR PROTESTS
BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IN A MAJOR PROTEST WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH
PEOPLE TOGETHER IS THERE WILL BE JACKASSES WHO SHOW UP AND IT
JUST TAKES ONE PERSON TO THROW A BOTTLE OR GO PAST A RANDOM
BARRIER FOR THE POLICE TO SAY NOW WE FEEL LIKE WE ARE IN
DANGER AND NOW, WE'VE KIND OF DE FACTO TURNED THIS GROUP OF
LARGELY PEACEFUL PROTESTERS INTO 200 ARRESTS.
THERE IS ONE OTHER ASPECT OF THAT.
AND THIS CASE THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THIS, BUT
HISTORICALLY, THERE HAS BEEN AGITATORS PLANTED INSIDE OF THE
CROWDS ON CIVIL RIGHTS PROTEST IT WAS A WELL-KNOWN TACTIC OF
THE POLICE TO PUT AN AGITATOR INSIDE THE CROWD WHO THEN BREAK
SOMETHING IN A NONVIOLENT PROTEST WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO
ARREST ALL OF THE NONVIOLENT PROTESTERS AND THE TURF FURTHER
PROTESTS BECAUSE IF YOU COME TO A PROTEST, WE WILL ARREST
YOU ALL BASED ON SOMEONE WE PLANTED IN THE CROWD.
AGAIN, THESE ARE HISTORIC TACTICS USED BY THE GOVERNMENT
AND SOMETIMES BY RIGHT WING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO INFILTRATE
NONVIOLENT PROTESTS AND THEN YOU WILL SEE, THE ONLY PERSON NOT
ARRESTED IS THE GUY WHO THREW THE THING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THAT'S A WHOLE ANOTHER ANGLE TO IT THAT IN THIS CASE, THERE
IS AN EVIDENCE OF THAT.
WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY THAT THEY REALLY
WERE ANTI-FIVE GUYS THERE WHO WERE BREAKING WINDOWS.
THOSE OF THE GUYS YOU WANT TO TARGET BY THE WAY, FELONY
CHARGES ARE REALLY SERIOUS.
IF YOU BROKE A WINDOW OR YOU DESTROYED PROPERTY, YOU SHOULD
GET FELONY CHARGES.
BUT FOR 200 PEOPLE, ALL 200 WERE PART OF ANSI FOR, MY
PRONUNCIATION ON THAT IS BORDERLINE HILARIOUS NOW, OR
VIOLENT PROTESTERS YOU'RE LIKE I DON'T KNOW I DON'T KNOW WHO
DID IT.
LET'S JUST CHARGED 200
PEOPLE IN THAT LOCATION WITH FELONY CHARGES.
THAT JUST SEEMS LIKE ABOUT IDEA.

Police Used 'Rape As Punishment'

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