Woke America News

2021-02-22 20:22:47 NO SWEEPS, NO EVICTIONS

The city of Austin intends to sweep 17 camps starting tomorrow. Residents are still recovering from the deep freeze and many are still sheltering at hotels or warming centers. Just as the city swept camps in the first days of the freeze and refused to open cold weather shelters 24/7 they are proceeding as if all this were “normal”.

Many of those who are in hotels have not even gotten to return to camp to survey the damage. The city crews will almost certainly use this opportunity to throw away crucial life-saving gear they deem unsightly, as they have in previous cases. This is an almost unthinkable act of cruelty.

Residents of hotels are also facing a deadline. Mutual Aid Funds have brooked hotels through Tuesday and the city refuses to step in to keep people sheltered there. Open / Comment

2021-02-22 20:22:31 Call City Manager Cronk and demand the city Stop The Sweeps and ensure no-one is evicted from hotels. Call the Hotel associations and demand they keep people inside for free until the city acts. This crisis is in their hands!

Defend the camps and hotels!

Mayor Adler: 512-978-2100
City Manager Cronk: 512-974-2200
Austin Hotel & Lodging Association
Public Affairs Committee Leaders:
Joe Bolash, joe.bolash@hilton.com
Jennifer Currier, Jennifer.currier@hyat.com
Texas Hotel and Lodging Association
Phone: 512-474-2996
Fax: 512-480-0773

Original post: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=457902248980965&id=113223363448857 Open / Comment

2021-02-20 00:11:51 Chicago police showed "confusion and lack of coordination" in their response to last summer's protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, according to a new watchdog report, which said officers frequently did not understand who was in charge or how to handle sometimes violent demonstrators.

The report released Thursday by the city's inspector general, Joseph Ferguson, amounts to a stinging critique of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown, saying the direction the police were given led to "strategic and tactical incoherence." I wonder what would happen if cops were "well" prepared... Open / Comment

2021-02-19 21:05:50 The Milwaukee police officer accused of assaulting two photographers while off-duty during a protest against police brutality last summer was charged with misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct Wednesday.

Matthew Willmann, a 14-year veteran of the department who received a 45-day suspension for his role in the altercation, now faces up to one year of imprisonment and up to $11,000 in fines if convicted on both counts. Open / Comment

2021-02-19 17:36:51 Another broken promise of the Biden administration. The seven-page guidance can generally be characterized as a return to form viz. immigration enforcement under the Obama administration. Open / Comment

2021-02-19 14:38:21 CNN: 6 Capitol Police officers suspended, 29 others being investigated for alleged roles in riot Open / Comment

2021-02-18 01:45:51 WTF is the point of government at this point? Open / Comment

2021-02-17 23:03:51 A second person has come forward with brutality accusations against a Paterson police officer who already is facing a state investigation for beating a man in December.

The attorney for 18-year-old Rosdward Hernandez said he was beaten on Thanksgiving while trying to help a homeless person having a mental health crisis. Open / Comment

2021-02-17 20:41:51 If this is the standard going forward, a whole lot of people across the political spectrum are going to find themselves in trouble. Meanwhile, the work of stopping actual terrorism and violence will be made harder, as federal agents spend increasing amounts of time investigating, targeting, and prosecuting people for harmless posts. Open / Comment

2021-02-17 17:35:07 Police shot and killed another person in Seattle tonight, only hours after the vigil for the last person murdered by SPD.

https://twitter.com/seattleylf/status/1361942486076198913 Open / Comment