A freelance photographer captured an incident near J.C. Nichols and Ward parkways, showing a Kansas City Police officer pepper spraying a protester. The protester is standing several feet away and holding a sign above their head.
tags: arrest, less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, spray
id: mo-kansascity-5
geolocation: 39.0408207, -94.587949
Links
- https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article243188436.html
- https://www.facebook.com/KuhlPics/photos/a.467614509924515/3214027235283215/?type=3&theater
A line of police stand well apart from a crowd of protesters, one of whom is speaking about the police's use of excessive force. Several officers move in to arrest the speaking man, pepper spraying him and others at point-blank range. The arrested man is dragged/pushed/falls face down onto the road and is pinned there by police.
tags: arrest, less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, shove, spray, tear-gas
id: mo-kansascity-3
geolocation: 39.0425846, -94.5880446
Links
- CNN Report
- https://twitter.com/weslyinfinity/status/1267321172309544960
- https://twitter.com/Elise_Villa/status/1266923192612016129
A video linked shows the police pepper spraying some protesters who don't seem to be doing anything particularly wrong and we see a black woman in a black top with a bright yellow design on the back being sprayed in the eyes. In a separate video we see that same woman being arrested.
tags: arrest, less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, spray
id: mo-kansascity-6
geolocation: 39.0452546, -94.588827
Links
- https://twitter.com/RayVaca/status/1266959833753890816
- https://twitter.com/whoareyoujudy_/status/1266968858159702017
Video shows the police tear gassing an entire park, including one baby in Kansas City. The incident appears to take place around the J.C. Nichols Memorial fountain.
tags: child, less-lethal, protester, tear-gas
id: mo-kansascity-1
geolocation: 39.0426191, -94.5875483
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Footage shows a protester speaking to other protesters on a megaphone. Police grab him and drag him to arrest. Other protesters come to his aid and are pepper-sprayed.
tags: arrest, less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, spray
id: mo-kansascity-2
geolocation: 39.043128, -94.5882934
Links
- https://twitter.com/Elise_Villa/status/1267310319526989824
- https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/guswxo/he_wasnt_even_addressing_the_police/
With tactics remarkably similar to mo-kansascity-2, police grab a protester standing alone in the street. Other protesters come to aid him and are summarily pepper-sprayed. He is taken behind the police line and arrested.
tags: arrest, less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, spray
id: mo-kansascity-8
geolocation: 39.0421858, -94.5890322
Links
- https://www.tiktok.com/@keraclark2/video/6833017428105055494
- https://twitter.com/lovlitae/status/1268676585269473280
A police officer pulls away a protester standing still. When others come to the protester's aid they are pepper sprayed.
tags: grab, less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, spray
id: mo-kansascity-4
geolocation: 39.0425007, -94.5880276
Links
- https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/gut8n1/in_kansas_city/
- Location via Google Street View
A couple states that they attended a peaceful protest in the early afternoon with their dog. After seeing police allegedly beat a trumpeter, they took their dog home and returned.
Around 9pm, one victim, Sean, states that police began pepper-spraying without warning. He states that police knocked his partner, Sydney, to the pavement and she fell unconscious. Sean dragged her away to a nearby park. Shortly after she awoke, a rubber bullet struck Sean in the face.
After arriving at the hospital, Sean was told he would be permanently blind, but had been spared broken bones or death by a matter of inches.
tags: less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, rubber-bullet, shoot, spray
id: mo-kansascity-7
geolocation: 39.0430404, -94.5882485
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At protests honoring the 6th anniversary of Mike Brown's death, police charged at protesters, pushing them from one side of the street to another. Police discharged pepper spray en masse and tackled numerous protesters to make arrests. One protester is seen helping another over a short fence; an officer grabs this protester by the backpack and hurls them to the ground. The officer continues to yank the backpack. The protester slips off the backpack and runs away.
tags: less-lethal, pepper-spray, protester, push, shove, spray
id: mo-ferguson-1
geolocation: 38.7406715, -90.3034495
Links
- https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1292669449624068096
- https://twitter.com/search4swag/status/1292665603904462849
- https://twitter.com/RachelDRice/status/1292663621852573696
Chris Philips, a well known member of the media in the Ferguson area, discusses being pepper sprayed by police without and order to of dispersal. He states that he was not recording at the time and was preparing to head home when police decided to rush at protesters. Pepper spray is visible on his face and torso as he walks away and tries to recover
tags: journalist, less-lethal, pepper-spray, spray
id: mo-ferguson-2
geolocation: 38.7406715, -90.3034495
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A resident's door bell camera captures a officer running over a man, who is heard screaming "I don't have anything" and attempting to escape after getting hit. The officer kicks the man while he is down once and then hits him again with his forearm.
Later updates note that the victim has taken to the hospital and the officer has been suspended. There is no body cam footage because the officer was not wearing one at the time. There is also no dash-cam footage.
The officer has since been fired.
The incident occurred in Dellwood, Missouri, a small St. Louis County town west of Ferguson and Southwest of Florissant. However, Florissant police confirmed a member of their staff struck the individual.
tags: beat, body-cam, drive, kick, non-protest, strike, vehicle
id: mo-florissant-1
geolocation: 38.7470515, -90.2771242
Links
- https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/video-shows-florissant-officer-in-unmarked-car-hit-man-who-appears-to-be-running-away/63-5db688ff-2f31-4e55-9d24-0707ecdb677f
- https://www.facebook.com/realstlnews/videos/2610967669219012/
- https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/florissant-officer-fired/63-022e88b0-2926-4716-9576-de0f212f52e7
Protesters gathered in the parking lot of a Florissant police station. Officers declared the assembly unlawful and began to push protesters from the lawn into the parking lot. Officers used shields & batons to strike and shove protesters. Numerous protesters were arrested. Footage shows one arrested protester hurled violently to the ground. Footage also shows police targeting individuals taking photos and video on the side of the protests; these individuals were pushed back among the protesters as well. Additionally, multiple witnesses state protesters with megaphones were targeted.
Police continued to push protesters into the road. Filmers state that police maced them. Protesters responded by splashing police with water and throwing empty water bottles.
Police continued to snag protesters and arrest them.
tags: arrest, baton, less-lethal, mace, pepper-spray, protester, push, shield, shove, spray, strike, throw
id: mo-florissant-2
geolocation: 38.7984162, -90.3194466
Links
- https://twitter.com/NassimBnchabane/status/1277054826858323969
- https://twitter.com/theMARCHstl/status/1277129811245359104
- https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOr_banJbIy1zUzs7rrCC9y664etyqDFjDlxAEdtDNweyuf7CnEQQlMpUXA0aU-xw/photo/AF1QipNFR-GR4frZPlo3vhGFwO_4uPBljOgyllYce3GP?key=azVZQUNIakFDMFVtbDhCS3BPaTlMWXBjd1R0RzN3
- https://twitter.com/search4swag/status/1277059423966507008
- https://twitter.com/search4swag/status/1277059423966507008
- https://twitter.com/NassimBnchabane/status/1277056390314541056
Footage shows police using shields and batons to shove protesters. Protesters attempting to flee are pepper sprayed. At least one protester is tackled to the ground and arrested. Police continue pushing protesters out of the precinct and into the street. More arrests are made and more pepper spray is deployed.
tags: arrest, baton, less-lethal, mace, pepper-spray, protester, push, shield, shove, spray, strike
id: mo-florissant-4
geolocation: 38.7984162, -90.3194466
Links
- https://twitter.com/xshularx/status/1279961776050917376
- https://twitter.com/xshularx/status/1279970172955230210
- https://twitter.com/Ohun_Ashe/status/1280150603839295490
Police created a designated protest zone for protesters. Protesters allegedly stepped outside the protest zone, so the protest was deemed an unlawful assembly. However, protesters state that police continued to fire at them after they returned to the protest zone.
Footage shows police shooting riot rounds at protesters in the zone. The account that posted the first link states that police were using rubber bullets; the second states that they were using rubber bullets or pepper balls, and that police also maced protesters.
Footage from the second link also shows violent arrests where police force protesters to the ground, pulling on limbs, punching and kneeling on protesters.
tags: arrest, less-lethal, mace, pepper-ball, pepper-spray, projectile, protester, rubber-bullet, shoot, spray
id: mo-florissant-3
geolocation: 38.7984162, -90.3194466
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