Tag Archives: police brutality

The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department

Posted on December 27, 2014 by olaasm

The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department – But Definitely Theirs Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged Al Sharpton, Antonio French, Bill Bratton, broken windows, Chief Beck, Community Policing, Connie Rice, copaganda, Darren Wilson, Every 28 Hours, Ezell Ford, Ferguson, I Can't Breathe, Jasmyne Cannick, Jessie Jackson, Kroll, lapd, los angeles, model, Najee Ali, negotiated management, police brutality, PredPol, propaganda, Ron Johnson, This Stops Today, Tom Jackson, white supremacy, Zero Tolerance | 7 Comments

The People v. Charlie Beck: An Indictment of Five Years of LAPD Abuse

Posted on May 20, 2014 by olaasm

Shortly after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck submitted formal notification of his intent to serve another, 5-year term atop the United States’ third largest police force, the sycophantic, Los Angeles media – long-storied and ever-faithful propagandists to the city’s powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, BRLP, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, Skid Row, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged activism, Alesia Thomas, BRLP, broken windows, Bruce Beaird, Charlie Beck, Chief Beck, corruption, Drone, Joel Rubin, la, LACAN, lapd, los angeles, OLAASM, organizing, police brutality, Reggie Doucet Jr, Safer Cities Initiative, Shaunn Hillmann, SO1, Steven Eugene Washington, Stingray, Stop LAPD Spying, surveillance, war on the poor, white supremacy, William Bratton | 8 Comments

“While Their Eyes Were Watching Don: On the Systemic Supremacisms That Really Run LA”

Posted on May 14, 2014 by olaasm

“It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few.” – 1 Maccabees, 3:18 A racist, real estate tycoon and a beautiful young woman far his junior enjoyed prime, courtside seats … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Patriarchy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged capitalism, Charlie Beck, Chief Beck, Clippers, colonialism, corruption, domestic drones, Donald Sterling, drones, eric garcetti, Fascism, FIDF, Horace Frank, IDF, Israel, LA Clippers, lapd, LAPPL, los angeles, Maccabees, Maccabiah Games, Max Blumenthal, myLAPD, myNYPD, nepotism, police brutality, police drones, police spying, public relations, real estate, Rudyard Kipling, settler colonialism, speculation, Steve Soboroff, surveillance, surveillance state, Tyler Izen, venality, White Man's Burden, white supremacy, Zionism | 3 Comments

White Supremacy: Polishing the Police Brass on the U.S. Titanic

Posted on April 30, 2014 by olaasm

“I got my black shirt on/I got my black gloves on/I got my ski mask on/ This shit’s been too long/I got my twelve gauge sawed off/I got my headlights turned off/I’m ’bout to bust some shots off/I’m ’bout to … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, Bethania Markus, Bill Bratton, broken windows, Chimurenga, ftp, Ice T, James Boyd, Jason Conoscenti, Jim McDonnell, Justice for Jason, la, lapd, LASD, Long Beach, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Los Angeles Rebellion, murder, myNYPD, NWA, police, police brutality, police violence, racism, white supremacy | 2 Comments

The Blister

Posted on February 21, 2014 by olaasm

“The Blister” – a report from 2012’s NATO SUMMIT in Chicago (ed. find out how you can still support the #NATO3 – here!) The city is draped in police. The kings of empires are meeting here. The coalition of … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor | Tagged chicago, demo, globalization, marching, medics, mutual aid, NATO3, police brutality, solidarity, summit, summit hopping | 1 Comment

“Watchdog or Lapdog?” (1991 Revisited)

Posted on February 15, 2014 by olaasm

[ed. After talking to a veteran comrade about our most recent posts (on Sheriff Baca, Fullerton and the LAPD), he dug through his archives and produced the following long-form article about police accountability, originally published in 1991 in “Minority Trendsletter,” a … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged 1991, accountability, AIM, California, Charlie Beck, civilian review board, copwatch, eric garcetti, fpd, fullerton, kelly thomas, lapd, los angeles, movement, murder, NCOPA, pigs, police, police brutality, police commissions, rodney king, Steve Soboroff, violence | 2 Comments

A Comedy of LAPD Errors

Posted on February 5, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Thanks to @LAWSICK for the quick photoshoppery!) Abbott & Costello. Burns & Allen. Martin & Lewis. The Smothers Brothers. Aykroyd & Belushi. Pryor & Wilder. And of course, Laurel & Hardy. When it comes to comedy, polyamory-proselytizers can shut … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, California, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, attempted murder, Charlie Beck, Chief Beck, Chris Dorner, comedy, comedy of errors, FIDF, ftp, lapd, Laurel and Hardy, manifesto, pigs, police brutality, police violence, shooting, Steve Soboroff, unaccountable | 6 Comments

Why We Go: On Taking the “I” Out of Nietzsche and Becoming Wetzscheans Together

Posted on January 29, 2014 by olaasm

If you were in the streets of Fullerton on Saturday, January 18th, 2014 – you assuredly encountered a strange tension. No, it didn’t come from the Fullerton Police, who made a tactical decision to avoid any overt presence at the … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, occupy, Skid Row, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, Brown Berets, community, fpd, ftp, fullerton, kelly thomas, liberal, liberalism, march, martin luther king, Nietzsche, oscar grant, peace policing, police brutality, resistance, ressentiment, sidewalks, states of injury, streets, the families, violence, wendy brown | 12 Comments

From Saying ‘Officer’ to Screaming ‘Pig’; How I Learned to Stop Equivocating and Hate the State (Part 1)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published December 10, 2013 – here!) [Introduction] Four days after I got out of the LA County Jail, released on my own recognizance after a brief three day stint there, an unarmed 19-year-old was shot and killed by … Continue reading →

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“Lipstick on a Pig: The LAPD’s Much Improved PR Machine and the Legacy of Saint Bratton”

Posted on January 3, 2014 by olaasm

“Lipstick on a Pig: The LAPD’s Much Improved PR Machine and the Legacy of Saint Bratton” (ed. Originally published February 26, 2013 – here – and presented before the Los Angeles Police Commission orally.) In January of 2010, a woman … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, accountability, bank, banker, bath salts, beaten, Brian Mulligan, Charlie Beck, Chris Dorner, confidential informant, corruption, Eric Rose, ftp, Izen, James Nichols, LA Times, lapd, LAPPL, lawsuit, lipstick on a pig, los angeles, murder, Officer Jim Nichols, pigs, police, police brutality, police commission, PR, rape, sex work, sexual assault, thin blue line, William Bratton | 5 Comments