Notices by McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)

Police badges are not that hard to come by. That said, it has become much easier to impersonate cops because in most communities you have numerous agencies, many of whom wear tactical kit all of the time, and many of whom are not in any particular uniform. Tacticool clothing, armor carriers, and velcro- on “police” patches are cheap and easy to obtain online. Even body armor can be shipped to many states.

There is no way to know who is and isn’t a cop.

Someone at my ER today said

“Have you seen all the riots planned for tomorrow?”

No. Sure haven’t. I’ve seen plans for a fuckload of protests. Only motherfuckers I’ve seen planning to dress for a riot are the cops 🤷♂️.

If an ambulance or fire truck is trying to drive through your protest, please for the love of all that is good in the world, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY.

Yes, EMS and fire do at times cooperate with cops. Yes, they are gonna provide care to cops too. They also are usually there because someone called for a medic. Make a fucking hole.

For the jackaloon wanting to flame EMS here — at one of my agencies I went to use the ambulance cell phone, and the medic informed me the passcode was 1312.

Pepper spray on your shit? When you get home strip that down and drop it straight into the wash. Scrub you and anything you didn’t put into the wash with detergent. If your eyes have it, gently run clean cold water over them for a while.

Pepper spray comes in a few forms. Bear spray is often oil. It offgases for hours (days IMHO). Gotta use detergents to get it out of stuff, or flush it for a long time with water. Pepper balls are often pepper dust, so rinsing and brushing can help.

If you are zip-tied after being detained, and have any numbness/tingling/weakness in the wrists/hands, DEMAND medical care. DEMAND an ER visit. Do whatever you can to get it documented. The “temporary” nerve injury is not always temporary. You may not know for weeks. It can be disabling. I see it. Not often, but occasionally. When dipshits mass-arrest people and use non-standard restraints with no re-assessment, people get hurt. Make sure you have a paper trail.

Teargas grenades are usually hot. Don’t grab them with bare hands.

If cops are shooting at you with what looks like a regular gun, GTFO of there. Rubber bullets can kill you.

If a crazy redneck shoots up your protest, apply direct pressure to bullet wounds. Apply tourniquets “high and tight” to uncontrollable bleeding on extremities. Set up a casualty collection point where an ambulance can get to it, and drag wounded there. Dead people are dead, save the alive wounded.

In case anyone was wondering, it is in fact illegal for active duty military to detain Americans on the sidewalk. It’s also fucking abhorrent. The Marines following these orders are first class fuckups.

@dalias I’m saying Iran is the reason Ukraine gets hit this way most nights for the last two years, so if you want to be upset about it, by all means do that, but recognize that Iran has filthy hands here.

As for Israel once again targeting civilian dwellings to target people? Yeah, still trash.

Israel can go fuck themselves, but before anyone gets too upset at images of apartments in flames in Tehran, just remember that most of the similar videos from Ukraine are because of Iranian Shahed drones.

Mike Lee wants to sell public lands, so let me just remind everyone to boycott Utah for your National Parks vacations this year, and then email the Utah Chamber of Commerce to tell them why you didn’t spend money there. Assholes.

Show the video of Senator Padilla being illegally handcuffed for asking a question during a press conference to all of your crazy right wing “I have guns to fight oppressive government” friends and relatives. If they are anything but outraged, they’re just racist bootlickers.

BTW, wearing stark red, white, and blue striped facepaint probably defeats facial recognition about as well as the KISS makeup. Gotta break up those features, and it looks much more friendly on the news.

So CBP officers in CA rammed a vehicle with kids in it, then teargassed everyone in the car, before dragging a US citizen out, and then fleeing the scene before EMS or local police could arrive. Multiple witnesses reported that the agents refused to show any warrants.

Remind me again how the fuck people are supposed to know they aren’t being kidnapped? If I were carrying a firearm and a bunch of dudes in civvies did this, I would absolutely engage them. Why would anyone think it was the cops?

Robert Malone, one of the quacks that RFK just put in charge of your vaccines, spent 2021 telling people that:
1. Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were effective for COVID
2. COVID vaccines were dangerous and made infection worse

Both of these claims were bullshit. These claims killed people I cared for. I had many patients come in with severe COVID who had avoided vaccination because of Malone’s bullshit, and then took ineffective drugs instead of getting the care they needed. Fuck that guy.

If you are talking to anyone who is in favor of deploying Marines to LA, you should ask them if the next democrat should deploy Marines to Dallas or Oklahoma City or Tallahassee to combat the gun violence emergencies there. That simple. That’s the litmus test.

Also, if we survive this shit and dems win back the government, I hope we can all come together to demand such actions until Republicans agree we need better safeguards.

My shit is on auto-delete, but here’s a sampling of what is in my backpack when I go to protests:
1. NAR-brand CAT tourniquets
2. Roller gauze (wound packing)
3. Gloves
4. Goggles
5. Mole foam and mole skin
6. Athletic tape (cloth med tape)
7. A few ACE wraps (pressure dressings)
8. Bandaids
9. Tampons and pads
10. Candy and snacks
11. Gatorade (the small bottles)
12. Fresh water in squeeze bottles
13. Extra masks for folks
14. Sunscreen
15. Trauma shears (never a knife!)

Guess we all just need to start carrying “Don’t tread on me” flags to protests. Really mindfuck these assholes. Yeah there boys, you are the baddies.

The President of the United States just told US troops he is going to liberate a city in the United States.

Any Republican supporting the rat bastard is a coward and a traitor.

Oh Fuck to the No with this nonsense.

Anyone arguing that anti-Trump protests are just feeding the beast and should be avoided is a fucking Trump stooge.

Trump’s guys are gonna make up a reason to do bad shit no matter what. The more pushback they get, the more cities up in arms, the more economic disruption, the better. You win this by making it hard, expensive, and dangerous.

If thousands of citizens protest and a few burn things down, that isn’t any more of a riot than it is to say that a few cops deliberately shooting reporters is a coordinated assault on the press.

Put thousands of people on the streets, there will be bad actors. I’ve yet to run a road race where people weren’t going off course, peeing in yards, jumping fences, or whatever. People break rules, especially when there is some anonymity in a crowd.