Guardian: Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups in major US cities, according to a new investigation.

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Some of America’s largest oil and gas companies, private utilities, and financial institutions that bankroll fossil fuels also back police foundations – opaque private entities that raise money to pay for training, weapons, equipment, and surveillance technology for departments across the US.

The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its research database project LittleSis, details how police foundations in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron, Shell and Wells Fargo.

Police foundations are industry groups that provide substantial funds to local departments, yet, as nonprofits, avoid much public scrutiny. The investigation details how firms linked to fossil fuels also sponsor events and galas that celebrate the police, while some have senior staff serving as directors of police foundations.



The report portrays the fossil fuel industry as a common enemy in the struggle for racial and environmental justice. “Many powerful companies that drive environmental injustice are also backers of the same police departments that tyrannize the very communities these corporate actors pollute,” it states.

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  1. I see a familiar pattern: Problem … systemic racism. Reaction … riots … defund the police. Solution … we need stronger police protection.

    • In an interview with DOJ investigators today, they were very clear. They believe the heart of the protest violence is political, right wing, well financed and tied to supporting Donald Trump. I wasn’t talking to beat cops here. (These guys worked for Barr)

  2. Isn’t this how corporate fascism has aways worked? If it isn’t the Israelis training our local police to be para-military goons and our military giving them the latest weaponry, it’s the big corpse bankrolling them to be hit men for the Military Industrial Complex.

    Now, Trump has his personal Storm Troopers to back them up, and in conjunction with paid agents provocateurs, turn legitimate protests into riots, all the excuse he needs to declare a “national emergency’, martial law, and suspend the November elections. I have to think this was his plan all along.

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