Police tell protesters blocking road to disperse and then immediately use tear gas on them.
tags: tear-gas, protester
id: oh-beavercreek-1
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During a BLM protest in Bethel, Ohio, protesters were met by a substantial counter-protest, which allegedly harrassed and assaulted them. In one particular video, a counter-protester strikes a BLM protester on the back of the head and walk away. There are police officers directly in front of and behind the incident. The man tells the officer he just got punched. The officer's response is difficult to hear above the crowd, but he appears to offer little help, instead telling the protester he is not allowed to demonstrate there (on a public sidewalk).
News report includes footage of counter-protesters using racial slurs, harassing protesters and rip signs out of protester hands while police look on.
tags: abuse-of-power, protester
id: oh-bethel-1
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Police spray mace, fire tear gas and flashbangs at protesters, even after they have dispersed | May 29th
Police warn protesters blocking road that chemical agents will be deployed. The crowd mostly disperses after the warning, but police start using mace anyway. Police continue to use tear gas, flashbangs, and mace, even after protesters are out of the roadway. In part 2 of the video at 7:58, one of the used flashbang canisters is shown. It is labeled 5440 Launchable Flameless Expulsion OC.
tags: pepper-spray, stun-grenade, tear-gas, protester
id: oh-canton-1
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A peaceful protest was dispersed with tear gas and flashbangs, with police shooting a man giving them the middle finger with pepper bullets from a paintball gun.
tags: pepper-ball, tear-gas, stun-grenade, shoot, protester
id: oh-cincinnati-1
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Footage from a news report shows a protester standing on the sidewalk with his hands on his head. An officer passing by unholsters his pepper spray and discharges it into the man's eyes, seemingly unprovoked.
The reporter states that rubber bullets and flashbangs are also being used on the crowd.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, protester, stun-grenade, rubber-bullet, shoot
id: oh-cincinnati-7
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Police use tear gas to disperse a crowd before curfew. No provocation is mentioned in the news article; a first-hand account posted to facebook claims there was none. The account posted to Facebook claims that no order to disperse was given; local news coverage does not mention any order to disperse being given. Mass arrests were conducted at some point the night of the 31st. The account posted to Facebook claims that police surrounded and trapped protesters before curfew, and beat some protesters.
tags: tear-gas, beat, protester
id: oh-cincinnati-2
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Protesters describe being zip-tied and held for ten hours without food, water, or (in some cases) bathroom breaks. In total, 307 protesters were detained, around 60 of them in the Justice Center courtyard.
tags: arrest, inhumane-treatment, zip-tie, protester
id: oh-cincinnati-5
Links
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gusqeg/video_from_inside_the_concrete_courtyard_peaceful/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
- Screenshot of Facebook post
- Local news coverage
Jamison Walker, a Cincinnati tattoo artist, with the owner's permission, was painting the outside of the shop where he works after curfew. He alleges that a police officer told him he could finish his work. The Instagram video begins at some later point as several cops approach. They tell Walker (and at least two other persons present) to "get inside." For around 12 seconds, two police officers, Walker, and one other tattoo shop employee are talking simultaneously; Walker told local news he tried to go inside but one officer blocked his path. One officer can be heard to say "I'm giving you a chance, go in," then another can be heard to say "That's exactly what's going to happen -- no -- no no -- inside, go inside, inside -- go inside, there's no debate -- no, you may not." Said officer then begins arresting Walker. Officers shove Walker against a wall and grab his arms; they yell for him to put his hands behind his back. One officer draws a taser and holds it near Walker's shoulder. Meanwhile, one of Walker's colleagues is filming; police scream at her to "get the fuck back -- get back." It's unclear whether she's standing in a doorway or backed up against a wall. Another officer is acting very aggressively and has his taser drawn until the cop next to him taps him on the arm, at which point he holsters his taser and steps back. In total, at least eight police officers are present, of whom at least two draw their tasers, despite facing little to no resistance.
NOTE: While curfews in many cities exempted anyone going to or from work, Cincinnati's exempted only essential workers. Tattoo artists are not essential, so Walker's arrest was likely lawful, though officers unnecessarily escalated the situation as they were arresting him.
tags: arrest, bystander, taser, abuse-of-power
id: oh-cincinnati-6
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- Instagram post
- Video from Instagram post
- Corresponding Reddit post
- Fox 19 Coverage
- WCPO Coverage
- Curfew exempts essential workers, not all workers
Video shows multiple police seizing a reporter and forcing him to the ground. The source claims he was grabbed by his bandana and pulled into multiple officers as well.
tags: journalist, arrest, shove
id: oh-cincinnati-3
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Protesters are trying to leave at curfew and are offered a ride. They get into a car. One woman identfies that she is diabetic and needs her insulin. Police make them exit the vehicle. We then see the protesters sitting on the ground surrounded by police. The woman again explains to an officer that she needs her insulin from her bag as she is diabetic. The officer refuses.
tags: arrest, inhumane-treatment, protester
id: oh-cincinnati-4
Links
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gvte8e/cop_refuses_to_give_diabetic_woman_her_insulin/
- Part 1
- Part 2
Officer swings baton at protesters, beats one who is trying to keep crowd back | believed to be May 30th
Police are seen arresting a protester while an officer wildly swings his baton at others. At roughly 1:00 the officer can be seen beating a protester who is trying to keep the crowd back.
tags: arrest, beat, baton, protester
id: oh-cleveland-1
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Without warning, police fire tear gas at peaceful protesters.
tags: tear-gas, protester
id: oh-cleveland-2
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Twitter user who relays Cleveland police scanner says transmission went over radio stating a protester's "eye was dislodged" by a rubber bullet. Later reporting notes that an eyewitness say a man with his "eyeball dangling from his socket" and states that police waited several minutes to call EMS.
Additional footage shows a street medic patching a wound in the back of a protester. The description of this footage states that police were aiming at the crowd.
tags: medic, rubber-bullet, shoot, protester
id: oh-cleveland-3
Links
- https://twitter.com/NEO_Scan/status/1266848874163027970
- https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/06/cleveland-police-gave-order-for-george-floyd-protesters-to-disperse-legal-observers-witnesses-said-no-one-heard-it.html
- https://twitter.com/AntonioAlan216/status/1266877225707745280
- https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/06/man-who-lost-eye-to-police-fired-bean-bag-round-during-clevelands-george-floyd-protests-i-did-not-deserve-this.html
Images of a protester who was shot with a rubber bullet in the head.
tags: rubber-bullet, protester, shoot
id: oh-cleveland-4
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Footage shows a protester show in the eye with a less-lethal round. Additional images show the aftermath with small pellets embedded in the protester's eye. Another image from the protester shows what appears to be a bean bag round. A news report states the man has lost his eye and that he was shot with a "cloth bag full of pellets."
tags: shoot, protester, bean-bag
id: oh-cleveland-5
Links
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOKsLpsP4Y
- https://twitter.com/OGJohnTee/status/1283816646864523264
- https://twitter.com/OGJohnTee/status/1283816652199669765
- https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/06/man-who-lost-eye-to-police-fired-bean-bag-round-during-clevelands-george-floyd-protests-i-did-not-deserve-this.html
Footage from a body cam captures an officer approaching a woman standing still with a sign at her feet. The officer then discharges pepper spray at her without warning. This led to an escalation, where less lethal shots can be heard fired. The officer was allegedly aiming for an individual carrying a handicap parking sign several feet from the protester who was pepper sprayed. A police official also suggested that the woman may have been providing cover for agitators behind her. No evidence of this can be seen.
tags: protester, pepper-spray, spray
id: oh-cleveland-6
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- 2:00
- https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/08/body-camera-video-shows-cleveland-police-officer-pepper-sprayed-peaceful-protester-in-the-face.html
A cop hits a protester in the face. Then a different cop pepper-sprays the person hit, as well as nerby protesters. It escalates to a lot of cops pepper-spraying the larger surrounding crowd. The person recording goes to film someone being arrested and a cop approaches and pepper-sprays the person recording multiple times.
tags: strike, pepper-spray, spray, arrest, protester
id: oh-columbus-1
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Joyce Beatty, an African American congresswoman from Ohio, was sprayed with mace or pepper spray at a protest in Columbus.
tags: politician, mace, pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-2
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- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/joyce-beatty-ohio-pepper-sprayed-columbus-protest/index.html
- https://twitter.com/politico/status/1266866982919516160
- https://twitter.com/TimWCBD/status/1266787064735043591
- https://twitter.com/KRobPhoto/status/1266796191469252610
Seemingly without warning, a protester holding a sign was maced in the face.
tags: mace, pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-3
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Unarmed protesters peacefully chanting when an officer starts randomly pepper-spraying them.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-4
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A student journalist identified herself as a journalist, and when attempting to leave was told "It's too fucking late to leave". She was then chased by a police officer, who pepper sprayed her three times.
tags: journalist, threaten, pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-15
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- https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/student-journalist-chased-pepper-sprayed-during-protests-columbus/
- https://twitter.com/julialwashere/status/1266730657436315649
Police pepper spray protesters walking away from them. One protester shows the police his middle finger. An officer responds by shoving the man and ripping his mask off.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, shove, protester
id: oh-columbus-16
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Police point blank pepper spray a medic who was tending to a protester
tags: medic, pepper-spray, spray
id: oh-columbus-5
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- https://twitter.com/Katy38105157/status/1266816739444166656
- https://twitter.com/SAColumbus/status/1266867613872857094
Police pepper spray a woman who was walking away from the confrontation
tags: mace, pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-6
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- https://twitter.com/lalaitskelcey2/status/1266821476122058752
- https://twitter.com/MarioLeUgly/status/1266933807929798656
Police drive their car towards protesters in order to disperse them
tags: vehicle, drive, protester
id: oh-columbus-7
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Location: Intersection of E Broad Street and S Grant Avenue
Two protesters are kneeling in a crosswalk across the intersection from a line of police. A police officer walks over and pepper sprays them.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-8
Links
- https://twitter.com/DabinDhillo/status/1266892095702392832
- https://twitter.com/taesvangogh/status/1266907922308558848
Photographer being sprayed while seemingly calmly standing 10 feet away from the police line.
tags: journalist, pepper-spray, spray
id: oh-columbus-9
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- https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpg
- https://old.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/gtk192/photographer_being_pepper_sprayed_by_police/
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CA03DsTByLn/
Police pepper spraying peaceful unarmed protesters as they sit on the ground.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-10
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A woman standing alone holding a sign is shot with rubber bullets. She falls to the ground and is carried away by other protesters.
tags: rubber-bullet, shoot, protester
id: oh-columbus-11
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- https://mobile.twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267113315613806592
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1267122343454953472
Image shows a police officer pepper-spraying a man with his hands up at a short distance. Exact date is unknown, but earliest appearance found on Twitter was May 31st.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-17
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- https://twitter.com/snowmanonfire/status/1267122517614964743
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1269118992540749831
Police fire at protesters on the sidewalk while giving dispersal order. The filmer is shot in the hand with a wooden bullet. Several images show the recovered round and the damage to her hand.
tags: protester, shoot, wooden-bullet
id: oh-columbus-25
Links
- https://www.facebook.com/meatambulance/videos/10220498765450514/
- https://www.facebook.com/1573913165/posts/10220477908769110
Two squad cars full of police arrive at an intersection, sirens wailing. Police get out and start pepper-spraying people. Notably, there are two people on a fire escape who look like they may be treating two others for pepper-spray or tear gas exposure. Police pepper-spray them. Police later pepper spray one a second time, as she's in the process of retreating and rinsing her eyes with milk due to the first pepper spray exposure.
tags: pepper-spray, spray, bystander, protester
id: oh-columbus-22
Links
- https://twitter.com/aaron_rigg/status/1267814008859443202
- https://twitter.com/aaron_rigg/status/1267649768668495878
Location: Starbucks at the intersection of Lane Avenue and North High Street
Three reporters repeatedly tell police that they are members of the press and show their passes. Reporters are exempt from curfew but the police instruct them to leave regardless, then spray the Lantern reporters with pepper spray.
tags: journalist, pepper-spray, spray, push, shove
id: oh-columbus-13
Links
- https://www.thelantern.com/2020/06/columbus-mayor-police-chief-address-protest-policing-pepper-spray-of-lantern-journalists/
- https://twitter.com/TheLantern/status/1267644471317090305
- https://twitter.com/maevewalsh27/status/1267646128289447939
In an article from the Columbus Dispatch, a veteran, Ryan McMullen, recounts injuries he sustained at police hands from the beginning of protests up to Friday, June 5th.
He states that he was maced, hit by a police officer on a bicycle, struck by ricocheting tear gas canisters, and shot 6 times with wooden pellets.
In the interview, he stated: "This is worse than anything I received in an actual war zone,” citing special forces and contractor work in Afghanistan and East Africa.
tags: mace, pepper-spray, tear-gas, tear-gas-canister, bike, shoot, wooden-bullet, protester
id: oh-columbus-18
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- https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200607/bronze-star-veteran-ryan-mcmullen-served-in-afghanistan-but-didnt-get-hurt-until-protesting-in-columbus
- Reposted on military news site
Footage shows two police SUVs accelerating past the police line, knocking over a trash can in the process. They pull up next to protesters and jump out of the car. Police from the vehicles and on the street charge protesters, tackle them, and arrest them. Police appear to kneel on protesters while making arrests.
tags: vehicle, tackle, arrest, knee, protester
id: oh-columbus-24
Links
- https://www.tiktok.com/@frecklesandstitches/video/6835226979596340485
- https://twitter.com/TrekkieByBirth/status/1276719505528492033
Footage shows the aftermath of police macing a man with prosthetic legs. Protesters have gathered to give medical aid to the man. His prosthetic legs appear to have been disconnected. Users on Reddit and Twitter state that police disconnected the man's legs.
Additional footage appears to show the prosthetics disconnect when the man was shoved by police. That same footage shows officers spraying other unrelated protesters.
Body cam footage later surfaced showing the man tossing a scooter in the direction of officers. A reporter states no officers were harmed. Body cam footage provided does not show the interactions between the toss and the protester-provided footage.
tags: mace, pepper-spray, spray, shove, person-with-disability, protester
id: oh-columbus-19
Links
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/hdf4hu/cpd_just_hit_and_maced_a_double_amputee_bravo_you/
- Man seen in background around 0:14
- Body cam footage
Footage depicts multiple police officers grabbing a protester. They drag the protester into the street and one officer flips the protester over his knee onto the ground. He then kneels on the protester to arrest them while other officers form a barrier around him.
Post title states the protester is a medic, but visual evidence is unclear.
tags: shove, grab, throw, knee, arrest, protester
id: oh-columbus-20
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In an apparent attempt to clear a street, police have formed a bike line. They shove protesters with shields and ram their bikes into the crowd. Protesters can be seen throwing water at officers. Officers then discharge pepper spray.
tags: shove, bike, pepper-spray, spray, protester
id: oh-columbus-21
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Footage shows a protester seated on the edge of the road. An officer drags the protester into the street and forces her to lay down to arrest. As other protesters express frustration, another officer runs over, lifts a protester off the ground and slams her on her back. Police kneel on both protesters to make arrests.
The second clip is a lengthy (53 minute) account from the original filmer.
tags: arrest, push, shove, throw, knee, protester
id: oh-columbus-23
Links
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1277660155354796033
- https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCAZGCWjqG1
- vm.tiktok.com/ZMJBcq7Kn/
Police fire several cans of tear gas, engulfing the intersection of 3rd & Ludlow. Shortly after the tear gas started, someone shot a can of yellow gas at the police. The police continued to shoot tear gas and some protesters grabbed the cans and threw them back toward the police. The protesters mostly disperse, but once the gas clears they return. The police then fire more tear gas.
tags: tear-gas, protester
id: oh-dayton-1
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Footage shows peaceful protesters occupying a road. They are chanting. Without warning, police fire tear gas, scattering the protesters
tags: tear-gas, protester
id: oh-dayton-2
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Around 7:30pm, the police used tear gas on protesters after a couple water bottles had been thrown at them. In the video, one officer is seen firing something from a gun, possibly rubber bullets, at protesters. Later, in the second video, the police use tear gas on the protesters shortly before 9pm. According to the news article, this was because of the 9pm curfew in place.
tags: tear-gas, rubber-bullet, protester
id: oh-toledo-1
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