A 68-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly setting a dumpster on fire in downtown Nashville as a protest against the city’s homeless policies. He is being held on a $20,000 bond.
Authorities say he admitted to setting the blaze intentionally in Arcade Alley, a popular pedestrian corridor in the city’s downtown area.
He claimed it was an act of protest directed at Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell over the city’s approach to homelessness.
No injuries were reported, but the fire prompted a swift response from fire crews and police due to its location in a high-traffic area near businesses and residential buildings.
The Metropolitan Police Department is on the lookout for a suspect involved in the vandalism of a marked police vehicle.
It was on Wednesday, June 11, at around 6:00 p.m. when the suspect approached the unoccupied vehicle parked on the 1200 block of North Capitol Street. Utilizing a sharp object, the suspect deflated one of the vehicle’s tires.
Vandals smashed out every window at Hillboyz Wing and Burger Bar over the weekend. This was the second time in just four months the restaurant on Lamar Avenue had been targeted.
This time, the damage was estimated at $36,000, according to the Memphis Police Department. Officers were called to the business just before 1 a.m. Sunday and found every window had been shattered, police said.
We mapped the street-level surveillance of so-called atlanta. Our goal is to make offensive and defensive approaches to surveillance technology more possible and for this work to be replicable.
We prioritized collecting data on ALPRs (Automatic License Plate Readers) and the city’s ‘Shield Program’ cameras. We recorded 872 Flock, 450 Motorola, and 2,316 city-owned cameras across all of fulton county and some parts of dekalb (ideally we would like all of metro atl– gwinnett, cobb, clayton, in addition to the rest of dekalb county– mapped out).
The files are organized by camera type and can be found here:
The .kml files can be imported in Organic Maps, OSM (Open Street Maps), or GIS software. In Organic Maps, they will show up as layers that can be shown/hidden as lists under the bookmarks tab (star icon). The .csv files are spreadsheets of the raw data. Feel free to publish this data on other platforms.
Each camera is identified according to type and labeled with its orientation. We used the term “dingleberry” to specify the PTZ (Point-Tilt-Zoom) cameras affixed to hanging pipe (most often seen at intersections). “Shotgun” refers to directional cameras also often seen at intersections. The “Red Light” camera list contains cameras suspected to be red light cameras, but we actually have no clue what they are (small gray rectangular cameras). While we carefully reviewed all collected data, there may be some redundancies and inaccuracies, so don’t solely rely on this data to plan actions. Do your own scouting first.
We also wrote a guide (below) on how we went about collecting and organizing this data, with the hope that it might be useful to anyone interested in doing this work in their own area.
We desire the complete destruction of the entire panopticon and all of the colonial infrastructure it seeks to safeguard. May this information aid in that project.
against borders and hope, some nihilist secretaries
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expanding its processing center in Folkston, Ga. to double the current capacity, establishing the largest ICE detention center in the country.
The federal government brokered a deal with private prison company GEO to contract a now-defunct prison in Folkston as an additional holding space existing ICE facility.
“They’re going to be brought together, and when they come together, some it will be a detention center. Some of it will be a processing center, and some of it will be just for them to get ready to transfer,” Rep. Buddy Carter (GA-01) said.
According to GEO, the facility is under contract with ICE as of June 6.
Inmates at a Tennessee prison sought to destroy property, compromised security cameras and set a few fires during a riot that took several hours to contain and caused minor injuries to three inmates and one guard, the facility’s private operator said.
On Sunday evening, a large group of inmates at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center from several housing units left their cells and accessed an inner yard, becoming “disruptive and confrontational” and refusing to follow the staff’s directions, according to CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin. The prison in Hartsville, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Nashville, is the subject of an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice investigation.
One correctional officer was assaulted and released from the hospital. Three inmates were being treated for minor injuries, Gustin said.
The prison’s staff used chemical agents on the inmates, who were secured by early Monday morning. They did not reach the perimeter and state troopers and local law enforcement officers were positioned outside the facility. The Tennessee Highway Patrol deployed about 75 troopers and the agency remained on site overnight until “every prisoner had been accounted for,” Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security spokesperson Jason Pack said.
The prison remained on lockdown while CoreCivic and the Tennessee Department of Correction investigate the riot, Gustin said.
The incident followed an assault by two Trousdale inmates Saturday that injured a correctional officer who remains at the hospital, Gustin said.
A protest against federal immigration enforcement escalated Saturday afternoon along Chamblee Tucker Road, where police used tear gas and arrested multiple demonstrators after declaring the gathering an unlawful assembly.
The protest, organized to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies and ICE operations, drew dozens of people waving flags and chanting along the road near a shopping center. The crowd soon filled the sidewalks.
The central effort of the DeKalb protest, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation and local activists, was a march down Chamblee Tucker Road. The protesters reportedly wanted to march onto I-285, but a large law enforcement presence was massed to block them.
DeKalb County police say the demonstrators ignored repeated orders to stay on the sidewalk, prompting officers—many in riot gear from both DeKalb County Police and the Georgia State Patrol—to respond with crowd control measures.
Around 1:45 p.m., [news source] reporters saw officers in riot gear shooting tear gas to break up the rally.
After police threw the gas and moved the crowd, protesters could be heard chanting, “oink, oink piggy, piggy” and “stop cop city.”
DeKalb officials reported at least eight arrests as of 5 p.m.
Among those arrested was Mario Guevara, a prominent metro Atlanta journalist known for his reporting on immigration raids. Attorneys for journalist Mario Guevara say he was here on a work authorization and is trying to get a green card, but remains in the DeKalb County Jail on an ICE hold despite being granted a signature bond following his arrest on Saturday.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Tuesday night along Buford Highway in Brookhaven to protest recent immigration raids and deportations carried out under the Trump administration, joining a wave of unrest that has swept across the country.
The protest, held outside Northeast Plaza, drew a large and passionate crowd of activists, families, and community members. Many carried signs, chanted in English and Spanish, and shared personal stories of family members detained or deported.
Officials say they arrested one person around 7:30 p.m. and five people were arrested after the protest continued past the time that officers and organizers agreed for the rally to end.
Charges range from disorderly conduct to assaulting a peace officer.
In a press release Wednesday, the Brookhaven Police Department said their officers responded to the organized protest in the 3300 block of Buford Highway, which was led by the Atlanta branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Police said the demonstration began peacefully, and Brookhaven officers “maintained open and constructive communication” with organizers throughout the protest, which remained nonviolent for most of the evening.
Around 7:30 p.m., police said they made their first arrest of the night – a man who allegedly walked into the road despite multiple warnings from officers to stay on the sidewalk.
[News source] cameras were on the scene as clashes between officers and the protesters began around 9:30 p.m.
Protesters set off fireworks as officers moved to break up the remainder of the rally.
Brookhaven police say that the officers made multiple announcements of the agreed-upon cutoff, telling the remaining group that the “assembly would be deemed unlawful” after that time.
Once the cutoff arrived, authorities say several people began throwing rocks and shooting firework mortars, which led to the officers using tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Officials say that three Brookhaven Police vehicles were damaged in the incident; they described that as including “multiple windows being smashed in.”
On the eve of Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, under a full moon, we disabled 10 police surveillance cameras here in New Orleans. We’re inspired by the uprising in Los Angeles, by Weelaunee Forest defenders facing repression in Georgia, by all people under occupation fighting to be free. We encourage like-minded folks to find each other in the night and attack–for the wild joy, for the burning rage, for Mother Earth. Fuck city council and their facial recognition bullshit. Fuck the police. Fuck a “peaceful” protest. There is no peace! Free Palestine! Free Turtle Island! Free Planet Earth!
In San Antonio, Spectrum said five vandalism incidents have caused service disruptions, damaging its fiber optic network infrastructure across the metro area.
The incidents include:
March 5: Around the 23000 block of U.S. Hwy 281 April 7: Along the U.S. Hwy 90 and Loop 1604 access road April 26: Along Loop 1604 near Spanish Grant Road May 3: Around the 8800 block of Presa Street May 9: Along Loop 1604 near Spanish Grant Road
In Kansas City, three Spectrum fiber optic lines were cut in the area on May 17, according to a spokesperson for the company. One cut was to the primary network and another to a third-party network that was in place to provide backup. This disruption impacted thousands from homes near KCI Airport to restaurants south of the Plaza. Restoration to the lines began that Saturday and was completed early Sunday morning. Crews say they worked a 30-hour shift Saturday to restore access to customers.
Google Fiber lines in the Kansas City area were also purposely cut, and a police report was filed, a company representative said. In a statement, Andy Simpson, the general manager for Google Fiber’s central region, pointed to “strong evidence of vandalism.”
On May 29, another fiber cut by vandals impacted some customers in the Kansas City area. The fiber that was cut is located in a difficult-to-access wooded area.
