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September 15, 2018 05:06 pm PDT
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Emails show Berkeley police celebrated 'retweets' & 'engagements' from protester mugshots cops posted on social media
Internal emails show that the Berkeley, California Police Department (BPD) talked of building a counter-narrative on social media against anti-fascist protesters as BPD tweeted out their names and mugshots, then boasted of retweets and engagement metrics when mugshots went viral. This amounts to cops doxxing protesters and high-fiving each other over it. That's creepy, and seems like an obvious abuse of power, if not also an abuse of the law. (more…)
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