A peaceful protest was dispersed with tear gas and flash bangs, with police shooting a man giving them the middle finger with pepper bullets from a paintball gun.
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This account describes police firing teargas at protestors and beating them 30 minutes before curfew.
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Officer swings baton at protesters, beats one who is trying to keep crowd back | believed to be May 30th
Police are seen arresting a protester while an officer wildly swings his baton at others. At roughly 1:00 the officer can be seen beating a protester who is trying to keep the crowd back.
Joyce Beatty, an African American congresswoman from Ohio, was sprayed with mace or pepper spray at a protest in Columbus.
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- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/joyce-beatty-ohio-pepper-sprayed-columbus-protest/index.html
- https://twitter.com/politico/status/1266866982919516160
- https://twitter.com/TimWCBD/status/1266787064735043591
- https://twitter.com/KRobPhoto/status/1266796191469252610
Seemingly without warning a protester simply holding a sign was maced in the face.
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Unarmed protestors peacefully chanting when an officer starts randomly pepperspraying them.
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Police point blank pepper spray a medic who was tending to a protestor
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- https://twitter.com/Katy38105157/status/1266816739444166656
- https://twitter.com/SAColumbus/status/1266867613872857094
Police pepper spray a woman who was walking away from the confrontation
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- https://twitter.com/lalaitskelcey2/status/1266821476122058752
- https://twitter.com/MarioLeUgly/status/1266933807929798656
Police drive their car towards protestors in order to disperse them
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Location: Intersection of E Broad Street and S Grant Avenue
Two protesters are kneeling in a crosswalk across the intersection from a line of police. A police officer walks over and pepper sprays them.
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- https://twitter.com/DabinDhillo/status/1266892095702392832
- https://twitter.com/taesvangogh/status/1266907922308558848
Photographer being sprayed while seemingly calmly standing 10 feet away from the police line.
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- https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpg
- https://old.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/gtk192/photographer_being_pepper_sprayed_by_police/
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CA03DsTByLn/
Police pepperspraying peaceful unarmed protestors as they sit on the ground.
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A woman standing alone holding a sign is shot with rubber bullets. She falls to the ground and is carried away by other protestors.
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- https://mobile.twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267113315613806592
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1267122343454953472
Protestors kept in a courtyard with no bathroom breaks, water, or food, for nine hours | May 31st-June 1st
A protestor describes being forced to wear handcuffs, kept in a courtyard for nine hours in the Justice Center. Sixty protestors have allegedly been kept without bathroom breaks, water, or food.
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- https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gusqeg/video_from_inside_the_concrete_courtyard_peaceful/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
- https://i.imgur.com/mECPaWe.jpg
Location: Starbucks at the intersection of Lane Avenue and North High Street
Three reporters repeatedly tell police that they are members of the press and show their passes. Reporters are exempt from curfew but the police instruct them to leave regardless, then spray the Lantern reporters with pepper spray.
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- https://www.thelantern.com/2020/06/columbus-mayor-police-chief-address-protest-policing-pepper-spray-of-lantern-journalists/
- https://twitter.com/TheLantern/status/1267644471317090305
- https://twitter.com/maevewalsh27/status/1267646128289447939
Protesters are trying to leave at curfew and are offered a ride. They get into a car. One woman identfies that she is diabetic and needs her insulin. Police make them exit the vehicle. We then see the protesters sitting on the ground surrounded by police. The woman again explains to an officer that she needs her insulin from her bag as she is diabetic. The officer refuses.
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