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Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee
when she asked the technician to get her husband, Keith McAllister, to help her get off the table.
She said she called out to him.
The man, 61, entered the MRI room while a scan was underway
The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by the metallic chain around his neck, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department.
He died Thursday afternoon

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-07-20 00:25:06

Ring to let police request user videos again
mashable.com/article/ring-vide

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-20 08:52:44

"Meanwhile, on the same day that people were arrested for holding a placard or chanting against mass slaughter, the UK welcomed Israeli air force head Major General Tomer Bar, the man considered one of the main architects of Israel’s #Gaza genocide, which has murdered around 400,000 people so far and maimed countless others."
Video: dozens arrested,100k threatened as police roll out p…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-20 22:31:52

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
prfmonthlytributeseries.bandca
open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zy

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-18 18:30:55

Ukrainian Police: from reform to the battlefront | Front Line with @StarskyUA : benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/ukrai

Trump’s fundamental problem:
He and his White House seem to think that the cost of their policies
— the fallout from their effort to mold the country to fit their nativist and mercantilist obsessions
— are indirect.
Who cares about a few thousand protesters in Los Angeles or even a few million undocumented immigrants out of the more than 340 million people in the United States?
But the reality is that to harden the border and more tightly police immigration

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-19 18:00:09

Now the unidentified secret police (the Miller-Noem - the "Millnos"?) are threatening to arrest people who ask them who they are...
"Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry"
theguardian.com/us-new…

@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-06-20 01:41:20

I cannot stress enough the stupidity of e.g. "ACAB" and "ABOLISH THE POLICE"
Get out of your feelings and get into your strategy -- it is undeniably true that there is a SEVERE need for police reform
But, tell me, who escorted ICE away from Dodger Stadium?
#uspol #blackmastodon

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-18 18:24:41

Police: Noose found at Titans' new stadium site espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/457698

@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world
2025-06-18 08:54:23

Flipper did half the voices on "Fish Police."

A colorful poster for the animated network show "Fish Police." Some of the characters are fish--these are the ones Flipper played--and the rest are other sea creatures. It really makes you appreciate the range of talent of a fish like Flipper.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-06-19 06:04:50

timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2025-06-17 03:53:16

«“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”»
«“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,”
she posted on Instagram.»
theguardi…

@spamless@mastodon.social
2025-07-18 12:19:30

Louisiana police chiefs among those arrested and accused in a bribery scheme to help foreign nationals get visas.
cnn.com/2025/07/16/us/louisian

@blaise@mastodon.cloud
2025-07-20 03:53:47

How the hell did I miss this?!?!?
theguardian.com/us-news/2022/f

@Adam@social.lein.us
2025-06-19 16:22:51

Anyone can buy those Police vests online and pretend to be ICE agents. youtu.be/FmpOZsjbCks

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-06-14 10:21:24

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-07-18 02:21:04

DOJ seeks a single-day prison sentence for an officer convicted in the Breonna Taylor raid (Cameron Peters/Vox)
vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-
memeorandum.com/250717/p151#a2

@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2025-06-14 14:45:45

Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.

@dsc@mastodon.scot
2025-07-20 02:10:14

This is fucking nuts. The UK has become a police state.
syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11488110

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-17 19:13:12

'In the local data that the audit examined from three [THREE] police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.
'However, the review also criticised the ongoing failure to collect ethnicity at a national level, with it not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, making it impossible “to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data”.'
Not so conclusive then.

@Billybobbell@twit.social
2025-07-19 00:34:21

What is this bullshit system that claims to evoke and champion freedom and liberty while at the same time constructing a surveillance and police state the likes of which the world has never seen before?
This is fucking mental and the pretence is over now. This is what neoliberalism has created.

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-06-15 19:47:09

Los Angeles checking in, repeating for the backrow... there was never, ever, EVER any need for the National Guard.
15,000 LAPD officers & 30,000 LA Sheriff's... we even have a SWAT team for God's sake.
#LosAngeles #trump

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2025-06-15 19:17:24

"On Wednesday, the museum announced that the rest of Tolokonnikova’s performance would have to be postponed indefinitely, because of “ongoing demonstrations and military activity”.
“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”"
...
“I guess the National Guard will be performing POLICE STATE instead of me this week,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram.
#NoKings #USPolitics
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-18 18:48:59

Japanese police release decryptor for Phobos ransomware after February takedown therecord.media/decryptor-phob

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-05-11 10:11:05

The only jury I've ever been on faced a question about resisting arrest. The defendant was tackled by an officer and initially fought back (or so the officer claimed). The officer was wearing a police uniform, but we acquitted on the charge, because the defendant was tackled from behind and there was reasonable doubt as to whether the officer actually identified themselves verbally in a way that made it clear to the defendant they weren't being tackled by some random dude.
This ain't legal advice, but in situations where a kidnapper refuses to identify themselves, show a warrant, or even a badge number, I suspect a sufficiently white bystander might not be convicted on interference charges if they did something like a citizen's arrest of a suspicious out-of-town paramilitary type who was in the process of an extrajudicial kidnapping. If there are multiple kidnappers, to be effective you might need multiple people willing to face jail time for such interventions to be successful...
#resist #ICE #kidnapping
Just thinking about this in light of the recent kidnapping in the next town over where some fools called the city police thinking they might actually protect the community from an unlawful assault. Can't blame the fools too much because of how deep positive portrayals of cops are embedded in our media diet though...

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-12 18:51:56

Soon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…

The image depicts a street scene with a car engulfed in flames, emitting thick black smoke. The car is covered in graffiti, including the words "Fuck Police" and "Anarchist." In the foreground, a person is seen riding a bicycle with a large wheel, wearing a mask. The background shows additional vehicles on fire, with people gathered around, some appearing to be observing the scene. The date "Jun 12" is visible at the topt. In the lower right corner, there is a screenshot of a computer terminal …
@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
:tardis:

A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
:tardis: :tardis: :tardis: :tardis: :tardis:

@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
2025-07-17 22:17:06

Hamburg police have understood what “defensive #democracy” means:
“Does flying the 🏳️‍🌈 flag violate the neutrality requirement? No! Our neutrality means political impartiality – but not neutrality in value. The flag represents values like diversity, tolerance & equality of rights, which are deeply embedded in our constitution.
Positioning ourselves against hate & discrimi…

@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-07-16 04:58:44

The article specifies the "admissible" evidence was insufficient to prosecute. And it sounds like Utah officers take the position that women are assumed to be consenting unless they can prove otherwise.
Were the involved officers fired? Are they prevented from being hired elsewhere?

Masked ICE agents are only the start of the assault on government transparency.
Now, government attorneys that are arguing to deport immigrants are doing so in secret.
The Intercept reports on two separate instances immigration judges in New York City declined to identify the government attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In the first case Judge ShaSha Xu said,
“We’re not really doing names publicly.”
But that’s not really true. Because she *did* ID…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-12 05:35:13

"The vast majority of arrests have been for failing to leave the area in defiance of requests from law enforcement, according to police."
The Latest: Los Angeles police have made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday - SooLeader
sooleader.com/michigan-news-ap

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-07-17 16:41:41

I am hearing the ticking away of the hours and days before our country breaks into violent reaction against the FFOTUS gestapo.
"DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor"
washingtonpost.com/nat…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-19 16:32:25

Shame on Greater Manchester Police: arrested 18 people on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/p

Nadya Tolokonnikova,
the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles
when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a
“durational performance” reenacting her two ye…

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2025-07-12 02:17:25

laist.com/news/politics/los-an

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-08 16:44:15

San Leandro teen charged with shooting & killing 17 yr old girlfriend in her bedroom, is freed from custody by empathetic judge who rejects #prosecution theory of intentional #murder.
#Prosecutors have refiled murder …

The Mevcury News - May 12, when Raquedan-Retuta staggered into her aunt’s room and collapsed on the bed following a gunshot. Ray came in behind her. The family had stationary cameras on inside the home that captured what happened next, authorities said. “She got shot,” Ray reportedly told Raquedan- Retuta’s aunt, who promptly jumped off the bed and began screaming for help, slapping Ray on the back on her way out. Two others in the home called police, while Raquedan-Retuta’s aunt demanded to kn…
Ray simply responded, “nobody cares,” according to police. Deputies found a Glock 17 9mm semi-automatic pistol inside the bedroom, along with a spent cartridge. The gun had no magazine inside but was equipped with a tactical strobe light, authorities said.

There was another thing noteworthy about the pistol: It had been reported stolen in Decatur, Georgia, back in 2013. Somehow, the pistol made its way to the Bay Area, where a high schooler purchased it from someone who hasn't yet been publicl…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-08 21:53:43

Repeat it like a broken record, tell your friends and neighbors who are not Extremely Online and are not getting these firsthand reports:
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-16 14:38:57

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Police:
🎵 Spirits in the Material World
#ThePolice
beats4djsrecords.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/track/4frelkL

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2025-06-13 03:21:41

Truck in Ontario CA “Rolls Coal” (blows burning oil/fuel out of an illegal modification to their exhaust system)
A saga in 48 seconds, watch to the end
#California #LosAngelesProtests

Video shows a group of protestors standing on a busy street corner. They have a hybrid US/Mexican flag when a huge black f350 pickup truck approaches and belches black smoke out of its exhausts at the protesters.
Cut to black truck coming other direction, and again belches smoke.
As the truck drives away you see 5 police cruisers in hot pursuit 
Final clip shows the huge truck comping by one more time, this time on the back of a flatbed Tow vehicle, having been impounded/seized by the Californi…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-12 22:24:48

Who could've guessed?
ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639

Technologies funded to police sex work now monitor everyone. ICE’s surveillance tools and ballooning budgets were built over decades by targeting sex workers under the guise of anti-trafficking.

The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (2015) authorized the creation of the Cyber Crimes Center within ICE, enabling wiretaps and internet surveillance. Between 2014 and 2018, DHS funneled over $3 million to local police for license plate readers to combat trafficking — now used in broader workp…
@johl@mastodon.xyz
2025-07-06 22:09:21
Content warning: Wels thing explained in English

“Wels” is the German word for catfish (the fish, not the deceptive online action). After a giant catfish nibbled on the the toes of bathing people in Bavaria, police shot the fish dead. Now there’s a second catfish on the loose. This is all very exciting in a country that sees relatively few police shootings of dangerous fish. Also, “Wels” is a fun word to say and sounds similar to “Welt” (world), great pun potential.

@wfryer@mastodon.cloud
2025-07-12 11:14:39

“Our republic is worth fighting for.”
Patrick G. Eddington
“Resist and Heal,” my friends. Citizenship is not a spectator sport. “Finding and sharing trusted voices” is a critical part of the anti-fascist work to which we are now called.
More on:

The image features a quote: "Our republic is worth fighting for," attributed to Patrick G. Eddington. It includes a photo of a man with glasses and a mustache, alongside the cover of his book titled "The Triumph of Fear,"
@Carwil@mastodon.online
2025-06-16 19:13:50

Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resi

@gratianriter@bildung.social
2025-06-08 10:02:59

"Es gibt einen Grund, warum man Militär und Polizei trennt. Das eine bekämpft die Feinde des Staates, die andere dient dem Volk und beschützt es. Wenn das Militär zu beidem wird, dann wird das Volk zum Feind des Staates."
- Admiral Adama, Battlestar Galactica

Pic of Admiral Adama mit dem Originalzitat auf Englisch: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-14 13:24:44

Police warn of SMS scams as ‘blaster’ is used to send thousands of texts
#fraud

The back of a hatchback where the hatch is up,  several large boxes with many cooling fans are connected with numerous cables including some really huge red and black power leads.
@ckent@urbanists.social
2025-06-14 01:10:33

Every time I walk past my local police station on the way to the bus stop, I think about others too afraid to do that.
I’m rewatching mid-1990s episodes of Thatcher-era UK copaganda “The Bill”, and noticing how “nobody else gets it” is the overarching theme. Having 3 weekly stories though, has enough writers to see a culture in transition, at the same time as the last ’70s-style detectives leave the cast (with their leather jackets and horseshoe haircuts). DV is finally getting a spo…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-16 16:05:51

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
404media.co/emails-reveal-the-
memeorandum.com/250616/p66#a25

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-06-11 14:21:33

USA Resources by city - Don't Call The Police dontcallthepolice.com/?utm_sou

@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13 14:53:32

“…declared in an article based exclusively on LAPD sources. It’s an understandable decision on their part … As of Tuesday morning, the LA Press Club documented over 30 injuries to members of the press. Easier and safer to parrot police talking points than face down their guns.”

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-07-13 11:35:21

It's hilarious that someone tried to get into the Oasis gig with a ladder over the perimeter fence; it's got to have been the most heavily policed event here ever, didn't stand a chance. Heck, I doubt the pope got this many police.

@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-10 23:07:31

"Although police officers per capita are above the median among OECD countries, the U.S. is an outlier in having few police per homicide. [This] is explained not by police staffing levels but by high levels of bureaucratic shirking... inefficient allocation, low effort, and the avoidance of bodily harm. We show that U.S. officers are paid significantly more (in relative and absolute terms) while not being at greater risk... than their international counterparts."

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-16 15:11:10

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police 404media.co/emails-reveal-the-

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 07:35:40

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Marius Mehrl, Mila Pfander, Theresa Winner, Cornelius Fritz
arxiv.org/abs/2506.10194

@jochenlingelba1@h-net.social
2025-07-10 20:09:12

A propos of nothing in particular:

"Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Herbert Lehman (D-NY) lamented that the act subjected deportees to the tyranny of bureaucrats and that deportations “without review, would be the beginning of a police state.”"
Reactions to the US Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
Source:

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 15:08:34

So the assassin in Minnesota was a wearing a police uniform and had a police car. Think about it...
#minnesota #killings #lawmakers

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-11 14:55:48

French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)
therecord.media/russian-basket

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2025-07-09 16:52:56

“The colossal buildup of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will create the largest domestic police force in the US; its resources will be greater than those of every federal surveillance and carceral agency combined; it will employ more agents than the FBI. Ice will be bigger than the military of many countries. When it runs out of brown and Black people to deport, Ice – perhaps under another name – will be left with the authority and capability to surveil, seize and disappear anyone the administration considers undesirable.”
Ice is about to become the biggest police force in the US | Judith Levine | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-07-17 12:17:17

So much cybersecurity news, so little time. Don't miss today' jam-packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Cops bust up NoName057(16) by seizing servers, issuing warrants, and raiding homes
--6.5m Co-op members' data were stolen,
--Cambodia busts 1k for cybercrime,
--Thai police raid Cambodian tycoon's homes in scam probe,
--DoJ busts one and charges three other alleged Ryuk actors,
--Au…

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-11 17:44:28

Moscow police intensify truck inspections in bid to thwart drone smuggling: benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/mosco

@bryanculbertson@mastodon.social
2025-06-13 18:07:32

If we had defunded the police and abolished ICE in 2020 after the cops rioted against us, then Trump would not have the troops for his Christian white nationalist project

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-20 05:23:35

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Police:
🎵 Landlord
#ThePolice
julianahatfield.bandcamp.com/t

@cheeaun@mastodon.social
2025-07-09 15:21:22

Cool that @… got mentioned in the "Pick of the week!" section of this "Smashing Security" podcast smashingsecurity.com/423-opera

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-14 10:28:59

Idea: the police should hang out right before the entrance to the tyre shop and fine/impound every vehicle that enters with too little tread

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-15 19:21:05

'Hortman played a central role in MN's pursuit of racial justice, actively participating in vital police reform legislation. [H]er efforts continue to shape the state. Significant reforms include prohibitions on neck restraints and chokeholds, banning "warrior-style" training, and the creation of an independent body to investigate police misconduct.'
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband 'Target of Political Assasination' but It Gets Worse | The Root
theroot.com/white-george-floyd

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-17 02:30:31

Vance Boelter has shown us the true face of the R-party: murderous, violent, gun-addicted, rampaging, and deceptive.
His act of disguising himself as a police officer in order to deceive his victims makes it beyond necessary for police and other law enforcement to have clear, readable, and accurate identity tags, front and back, that can be read at a distance. And such officers must not hide their identity by wearing face covering masks.
It is critical to both know that a law en…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-06-10 11:13:26

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
abcnews.go.com/US/massachusett
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

A demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon.
The man, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, had apparently been shot by a man who had been part of the event’s peacekeeping team.
“Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the Salt Lake City police chief, said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration.”
Arturo Gamboa, 24, was taken into police custody on Saturday ev…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-07 21:48:10

Say what you will about the police who supposedly maintain the rule of law (and I’m from Minneapolis, hoo boy could I say a lot), but keep this in mind:
The Trump administration is pumping up ICE to massive proportions and trying to give it absolute free reign because they find even the police — even the police! — too legally constrained for their purposes.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-16 01:14:57

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@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world
2025-07-17 19:49:14

If you are writing an article about the police officer Mel Gibson called a name and fail to state plainly that that name was "sugar tits," then shame on you.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-09 17:08:49

Um, CNN, the whole "secret" part of secret police is that they wear masks and operate outside of the law. There's no "but" there - they are secret police. Warrantless, going outside the purview of their mission by disappearing US citizens, and so on, it's pretty clear what they are. #FuckICE
Imagine being naive enough to write "apparently to protect age…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-09 10:05:39

Protesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is working with law enforcement (Los Angeles Times)
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In Little Tokyo, a five-block neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles that is among the country’s largest Japanese American enclaves,
news often gets delivered and shared at the century-old koban.
It’s a community security office similar to those in Japan,
housed in a former police substation and named after a local hero from World War II.

Brian Kito stood on the sidewalk outside the koban Wednesday,
surveying the street that’s become a hot spot of activity a…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-16 15:13:51

Italian police dismantle Romanian ransomware gang targeting nonprofits, film companies therecord.media/italian-police

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-14 16:28:10

Ukrainian Security Forces foil Russian intel's terror plots, arrest two agents: benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukrai

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-08 21:55:24

The protesters were angry. The protesters were loud. But the protesters were not really violent.
That tear gas you see? Police.
Those explosions? Police.
The flashes and bangs? Police.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-13 20:04:25

"..arrestees included four vicars, a lawyer, a civil servant, a social worker, a mechanical engineer and the daughter of a Polish resistance fighter."
London police arrest over 40 supporters of Palestine Action – DW – 07/12/2025
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@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-06-12 07:31:28

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-13 23:39:29

Has any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-07-08 18:15:45

The American Police State Is Here (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
thebulwark.com/p/the-american-
memeorandum.com/250708/p89#a25

Law enforcement official on Hortman shooting:
"It was knocking on the door and asking the person to come out.
Absolutely impersonating a police officer ... we have the suspect's car. The suspect is on foot."
skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:4

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-16 13:57:03

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The Police:
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@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-10 07:31:21

That's the way to do it!
French Police raid the HQ of far-right National Rally | Morning Star
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@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-07 23:29:15

LA CHIEF OF POLICE ISSUES "VERIFY CREDENTIALS" DIRECTIVE FOR LAPD OFFICERS ENCOUNTERING PURPORTED IMMIGRATION ACTIONS The LAPD has issued a policy that says that LAPD officers responding to the scene of potential federal immigration enforcement actions should a) request an immigration enforcement supervisor if one is not already present, b) verify credentials of the supervisor or federal agent in charge if the agents are not clearly identifiable, and... 1/2
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Find alternatives to calling the #SantaBarbara Police Department.
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@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-16 13:23:22

Police dismantle Archetyp dark web drug market, arrest administrator therecord.media/archetyp-marke

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to
decriminalise abortion
in England and Wales
to stop a growing number of women from being investigated by police
for terminating pregnancies
under legislation dating back to the mid-19th century.
Abortions have been legal in England and Walesfor almost 60 years
but only up to 24 weeks and with the approval of two doctors.
Women can face criminal charges if they decide to end a pregnancy after 24 week…

“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-16 17:23:48

International operation disrupts pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) therecord.media/international-

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-08 06:13:21

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Dicks:
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As unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
washington…

Top adviser to supreme leader dies in hospital following Israeli attack
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top adviser to its supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,
has died in the hospital a day after Israel launched airstrikes across the country.
Shamkhani had previously served as Iran’s top national security official for a decade and had represented Iran in the China-facilitated rapprochement talks with Saudi Arabia

Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
All of these women—including ‘B’—are women of color.
Three of the four are Black women.
As is often the case, racism and misogyny skewed these women’s interactions with police, hospitals—even the media.
All had their mugshots splashed across local media outlets, for example,
and their pregnancy losses turned into crime stories with salacious headlines.
Reporting in Ohio claimed Watts had “clogged” her toilet …

“What Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family is going through is just unimaginable,”
says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods,
“but it is also what we’ve all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police departments erode the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution,
which should protect us all from illegal search and seizure,
such as these seizures that ICE is committing all around the country right now.”

Two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes early Saturday
by a man who apparently posed as a police officer — and is still on the loose.
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was shot in her Brooklyn Park home,
while fellow party member Sen. John Hoffman was targeted roughly 8 miles away in Champlin.
A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.

For now the federalized troops appeared to have limited authority.
They will be able to protect ICE agents and federal buildings against attacks by protesters
but not to carry out immigration raids or police the city’s streets in general.
stevevladeck.com/p/156-f…

On June 13, military veterans and their families and supporters protested in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC,
-- demanding that taxpayer dollars for Donald Trump’s ill-fated military parade and his decision to send troops to Los Angeles should be used instead for housing, healthcare, food, and taking care of veterans.
Around 60 demonstrators were arrested by Capitol police

What is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…

All 242 people on board killed after London-bound Air India flight crashed in Ahmedabad, say police
– latest updates
Ahmedabad police commissioner says there appear to be no survivors from flight AI171,
with passengers including 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian

“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs [with] the LAPD,”
Pasadena City Council member Rick Cole said at the rally.
“So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out.”
Protests against federal immigration raids continued to rage Sunday after Trump ordered the National Guard to Southern California.
Mejia, Cole’s boss, is an outspoken critic of the Los Angeles Police Department.
On Fri…