Cop Watch DC

Watches and documents the police criminalizing, brutalizing, or harming members of our communities.
Offers copwatch trainings
Mobilizes community when necessary

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

Cop Watch DC documents police violence & brutality. pls note tht we repost videos only w/consent of impacted party. if you would like CWDC to store ur video, help u file a complaint, or follow up w/ u, a friend, or loved one, pls DM us or email [email protected]

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

some #MorningHistory for you. the origins of amerikkkan policing is firmly rooted in a desire 2 control Black bodies. this account of Louisiana’s history of policing & the tale of Bras-Coupé shows how the creation & arming of cops is linked to portraying Black ppl as dangerous

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

The little-known, slavery-era story of one of the first documented police shootings of an American Black man and why police made him a criminal.

By @dd_writes

https://t.co/J7bPHGij1X

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

everyone, meet Aaron Hoffman. @PWCSheriffsOfc “human interaction specialist” by day. Proud Boy supporter threatening to murder governors, nurses, “mentally ill people”, state representatives, and encouraging others to join him by... well every other part of the day. watch out VA

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

i hope you all will join me in wishing a merry christmas to the prince william county sheriff's office's "human interaction specialist," deputy aaron hoffman. or, as he's known on parler, "wethepeoplewarrior."

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

(but actually don’t pitch it to them, the OP and anyone who has ever been a reformist has already done that shit for you so that you can skip right to defunding the police and abolition #YoureWelcome)

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

the idea of anti-bias trainings for police really brings to life assata’s assertion: “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has evr gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” srsly pitch it 2 a cop, they r complete asses abt it

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

“They didn’t lock [Officer] Sutton up, but they locked me up!”

UPDATE: Mother of #KaronHylton (Karen) released to swarm of hugs from crowd #DCProtests #DefendDC

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

this is fucking ridiculous. MPD murders #KaronHilton in cold blood and spends the next three months terrorizing his family. #FuckMPD #FuckNewsham and especially #FuckBowser, shit asshole mayor. #DefundMPD #FreeHerNow

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

This is crazy. MPD snatches and arrests mother of #KaronHylton who is grieving police killing of her son and has not gotten any answers.

This comes week after MPD let Proud Boys riot, run wild, and assault people in DC Streets. #DCProtests #DefendDC

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Here's a Boston cop bragging & laughing about hitting protesters with his car before he realizes the cop he's bragging to has his bodycam on https://t.co/AyKgmWfiRf

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

in seattle, police are further displacing unhoused people during a pandemic using flash bangs and pepper spray. but defunding the police is absurd?

[Omari Salisbury @Omarisal]

#CalAndersonSweep - In my live stream earlier I said the only less than lethal munitions I witnessed was a flash bang. We are now reviewing the footage from team members GoPro’s and we see the use of Pepper Ball Launchers deployed as well. Video also shows an arrest.

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

"Let’s be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It’s racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism. And for decades, police have harmed Black and brown communities by manipulating the media with half-truths or outright lies." https://t.co/z175hNxU5O

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

Look who is racking up MORE overtime this morning...

#Coming in at Number 5 on the list is Kirk Del Po, a Detective Grade II. His base salary was $95,515 in FY2019. How much overtime did he make? $145,265. He went from a $96k a year job to a $241k job. #DefundDCPolice #DefundMD

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

check out this 🔥 thread from our comrades in @DMVBlackLives, @mdc_dsa, @StopCopTerrorDC, @byp100 and so many others. support #DefundMPD. dc’s terror squad is making a hefty profit off of the brutalizing and murdering of Black and brown DC residents #AbolishMPD #BlackLivesMatter

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

Police overtime is a BIG deal in DC. You may have heard about @MayorBowser and @councilofdc robbing health care funds during a pandemic to pay a $43 million @DCPoliceDept overtime bill, but do you know how much overtime individual cops make? (1/11)

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

right like within the last 40 years the police have openly conspired to kill people for calling out police brutality, worked with the FBI to obliterate organizer networks AND THEY STILL DO THESE THINGS but yeah tweet #ACAB and you’re a monster 😒

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

that so many people think calls to defund or even abolish the police are unprecedented beyond-the-pale outer-limits inflammatory ultra-radical extremist slogans and literal violent attacks on police officers really underscores how much public memory has erased the '60-'70s

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

in case anyone forgot why DC says #NeverNewsham

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

DC’s @ChiefNewsham knocked his ex-wife’s teeth out then was promoted to #DC’s top cop and proud protector of the cops who murdered #MarqueeseAlston #JeffreyPrice and #DQuanYoung. #StopMPD #NeverNewsham

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

we are very happy to see you gtfo of dc @ChiefNewsham tho sad to know you will terrorize prince william county just as terribly as you have done to DC and your family. #DefundMPD #PWCountPD #DefundNoVAPolice #ACAB #ByeNewsham #SomeAbusersKeepTheirJobsHuh

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

DUECES little peter!

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

on top of @MayorBowser’s silence as white supremacists tore down memorials for Black DC residents murdered by @DCPoliceDept, she said nothing as they physically assaulted DC residents, stabbing at least 3 people, breaking a Black woman’s teeth, and leaving folks w/ concussions

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

We want everyone to memorialize the fact that DC’s @MayorBowser was silent as white nationalists destroyed art and signs including those on private buildings/ business #BlackLivesMatterPlaza all weekend. Tweet & tell her silence is consent. @CNN @TheRoot @MSNBC #BlackLivesMatter

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

Proof again that DC’s racist terror gang aka @DCPoliceDept has no problem brutalizing the community. If this is what they do when everyone is watching imagine what happens when the cameras aren’t filming #DefundMPD #StopMPDTerror #AbolishMPD

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

We need all hands on deck @MayorBowser and @ChiefNewsham terror gang is literally at war with the community at 4D police station. They shooting teargas and rubber bullets @charlesallen #WeKeepUsSafe #BlackLivesMatter @wusa9 @fox5dc @nbcwashington

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

Please give what you can! https://t.co/CWcyqZ2SO5

[Cop Watch DC @copwatch_dc]

Cop Watch DC is enraged at Washington Metropolitan Police Dept.’s murder of #DeonKay last Wednesday. We are honoring Deon’s life with his family & community #EOR 2 share this fundraiser to support his loved ones. Deon should be here. Deon’s life mattered and still matters.

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

A young Black man life was suddenly taken way to soon. Join the family, friends and community of #DeonKay for a Vigil on September 5th, 2020. If you would like to donate cash app $chocolatedrip40 #Justice4Deon #BlackLivesMatter

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

RT If you are tired of negotiating whether a Black child deserved to be killed by police. If you are tired of paying the salary of our executioners. Regardless, what you see in the tapes, you know Black people deserve better than this #DefundPolice #RefundBlackCommunity #DeonKay