Protesters on I-676 were hit with rubber bullets & gassed in 2020. Philly PD Commissioner John Timoney organized police protest dispersal during the Republican Convention in 2000. Timoney left U.S. to work for the Emir of Bahrain to suppress “Arab Spring.”

VIOLENT CLASHES AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PHILADELPHIA 2000 JOHN TIMONEY IS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF PHILADELPHIA:

Peaceful protesters on I-676 in Philadelphia are correct. Teargas can be a lethal weapon.

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"Activists in Bahrain pointed to a more direct connection too. In late 2011, the Persian Gulf monarchy’s interior ministry boasted that it had hired an American “supercop,” John Timoney, as an adviser. Mr. Timoney was once a senior officer in the New York Police Department, and later served as the police chief of Philadelphia and then Miami.

At the time of his appointment, American journalists noted that Mr. Timoney had been criticized for the forceful way officers infiltrated protest groups at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000 and used paramilitary tactics to break up demonstrations at the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit meeting in Miami in 2003."

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Former Philadelphia Police Commissioner & "super cop" John Timoney's "Miami Model" of police dispersal of demonstrators was used in Bahrain on "Arab Spring" demonstrators and spread worldwide. 

"Maryam Alkhawaja, a rights activist whose family played a leading role in the 2011 uprising in Bahrain, pointed out that there were connections between the militarized police units protesters were facing in the United States and the brutal crackdown in her country.

Not least, the fact that the monarchy in Bahrain, like the security forces in Egypt, another American ally, tried to clear the streets night after night in 2011 with wave after wave of tear gas manufactured in the U.S.

Ms. Alkhawaja also detected a painful visual echo of the protesters in Ferguson approaching officers with their hands in the air, and Bahrainis who were gunned down making the same gesture and chanting, “Peaceful! Peaceful!”

Activists in Bahrain pointed to a more direct connection too. In late 2011, the Persian Gulf monarchy’s interior ministry boasted that it had hired an American “supercop,” John Timoney, as an adviser. Mr. Timoney was once a senior officer in the New York Police Department, and later served as the police chief of Philadelphia and then Miami.

At the time of his appointment, American journalists noted that Mr. Timoney had been criticized for the forceful way officers infiltrated protest groups at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000 and used paramilitary tactics to break up demonstrations at the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit meeting in Miami in 2003.

Jeremy Scahill, a journalist who covered the Miami protests, explained that year that what became known as Mr. Timoney’s “Miami Model” of crowd control involved the heavy use of concussion grenades, pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges to disperse protesters.

The comparison between the heavy-handed policing in Ferguson and scenes familiar from news broadcasts from the Middle East was not lost on the protesters either. Matt Pearce, a Los Angeles Times reporter, recorded Instagram video on Tuesday night of a man shouting at officers, “You gonna shoot us? You gonna shoot us? Is this the Gaza Strip?”

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“Timoney's hiring demonstrated that the ruling Al Khalifa family was "more concerned with maintaining absolute power as they continue to lose further legitimacy, rather than implementing any real reforms to move past the country's political crisis.”^[20]”

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John Timoney trained Bahrain police in the use of teargas to disperse protesters. In Bahrain high speed teargas canister guns were fired at the heads of protesters. 

The use of police vehicles as weapons to run down demonstrators might also be a John Timoney idea:

In 2019 high speed teargas launchers were fired into the skulls of protesters:

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The Miami Model (2003) FTAA Summit Indymedia documentary

Produced by Indymedia - The documentary with an $8.5 million security budget. In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and public services like health care, education, and water, and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diversity across North, Central, and South America. Thousands of union members, environmentalists, feminists, anarchists, students, farm workers, media activists, and human rights activists who gathered in Miami to struggle against the FTAA were brutally attacked with rubber bullets, pepper spray, electric guns and shock batons, embedded reporters and information warfare, all coordinated by the new United States Department of Homeland Security. Against Capital's model of paramilitary oppression, information warfare, and corporate rule, we offered models of grassroots resistance, creative action and solidarity. Breaking the Media Blackout Collectively, Indymedia activists shot hundreds of hours of video footage documenting the FTAA protests in Miami. This footage has been edited by the FTAA Miami Video Working Group into a documentary that cuts through the mass media blackout to reveal the brutal repression and assault on civil liberties that took place, as well as the life-affirming and inspiring alternatives to capitalist globalization that were also in full effect in Miami. The FTAA IMC video working group is proud to present The Miami Model.

Forward to 2021 Republicans clearly want a strong man king. Journalists need to ask, Do Philly police back a QAnon military coup like Myanmar in the United States to replace President Joe Biden with King Donald Trump?

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