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COPWATCH VIDEO:Copwatcher Jacob Crawford Assaulted by Plain Clothes Officers in SF Mission

by Jacob Crawford
Copwatcher Jacob Crawford Assaulted by Plain Clothes Officers in SF Mission
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On November 18th I (Jacob Crawford) was assaulted by Plain Clothes Officers. We started off our shift at 16th in Mission in Sf by seeing several strange people. I assumed them to be plain clothes officers because I could see vests under their shirts. When they refused to identify themselves I wondered whether indeed these were "on the job" cops. Many cities around the country are known for having rogue units that take the "law" into their own hands, or are involved in organized crime. As I questioned a woman on her involvement she grabbed my camera and ran at me. From all directions came men who neither identified themselves as cops or gave orders. I assumed I was getting attacked, and I was unsure of by who. As I ran into 16th street two cops cars pulled up with lights on, it was at that point that I stopped and let the arriving officers take me down. Within seconds they could see that the move was faulty, and they released me with no charge
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by deanosor (deanosor [at] mailup.net)
Heavy. I hope you're okay. If not please get medical attention.
by STOP PIG VIOLENCE
THE PIGS GOT EVERYTHING BUT ENOUGH TO DO!
Yeah,the cops now and always have been ady to jump off the chain given the slightest opportunity or motivation. As preface, let me also say that I well understand that the institutions role is essentially to maintain a status quo however fucked up, it may be, and to defend power, property and privilege... so FTP now as always.

But what predicated this contact? ON whose cspecific case or behalf was this approach initiated? And to suss out they were obviously cops by way of their vests (and everything else !) then just flip the script flimsily (when it suited you, to rationalize your running AND THIS IS TO THE VERY PEOPLE WHO JUST ATTACKED YOU!?!) claiming that you thought they might be uh kriminals instead of the undercovers you just outed just getting ugly. on your ass..???

You sticking to that story?

Cuz from here -while I'm not ready to call definitive "bullshit" just yet - I sure am smellin some in the air though.

And wtf Jacob? ...Jacob of Jacobs Ladder Productions who we might also have seen in "Police Shot at in West Oakland", another Jacobs Ladder joint , this time with a cooked title to maximize hits... Is Copwatch not righteous enough or real enough or meaninhgful enough for you to driop the weaselly, self promotional pimp job?

Hurray for you being a bulldog fucking with Officer Friendly's day but I gotta call for a little peer review or accountability here. Some round here have pulled more than a few shifts for Copwatch and personally my first kicking down of real support for them was about 21 or 22 years ago - So there are those of us out here who are not only down for the community and the fight against the cops but are real about watching out for the the Copwatch groups that you are claiming .

So , just a suggestion ....but check yourself, man. You might as well cuz we already are and have startedl asking relevant people questions about your ass.
by cousin
cunado writes like a paid disinfo cop. read uh em COINTELPRO.

Keep up the awesome work Jacob.
by bacon stinks
I think cousin was right. who else would write what cunado said besides a cop, except maybe a tool.

If that piece of bacon fat really wasn't going to do anything bad, she would have ignored the camera.

Good work Jacob.
by obviously another cop
yeah who would write critically about anything we do but a cop? Reflection or self-criitique or rigor or always wanting a little bit more IS OBVIOUSLY COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY!! As long as I get to posture like a in -the-know super badass on an anonymous board, I'm gonna keep on circle jerkin until this delusion gets boring or utopia falls from the sky because I wore a self-aggrandizing smirkiness.
by deanosor (deanosor [at] mailup.net)
And, I have no special knowledge whether Cunado is a cop or just a plain asshole. But that piece has cop written all over it. Except for the first line pro-forma radical 'disclaimer', the piece reads like all the cops who defend Mehserle. It has cop language: "Predicated this contact". It has a cop story, ie. that we can't just watch the cops whenever we choose but have to do it on some crime. It has a cop's question, "Why did you change your story?" when it seems obvious that he was thinking about all the possibilities. And it has a cointelpro-style 'research'. Who cares what name Jacob used-i think Jacob's ladder is pretty cleaver. This is no radical critique but has the flavor of something else.
by snazzmadazzle
dude sue them. they knowingly and willfully violated your rights and you have all the evidence you need
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