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I'm sure blacks know that. Being stopped by cops put blacks in danger of detention, jailed without charge, tazing, punitive brutality, framing, death. A complicated calculus to make in a panicked instant.
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I'm sure blacks know that. Being stopped by cops put blacks in danger of detention, jailed without charge, tazing, punitive brutality, framing, death. A complicated calculus to make in a panicked instant.
Certain cops will use those people as target practice.
your original, creative analyses, investigative journalism, and commentary are breath-taking
The Rise of Privatized Policing: How Crisis Capitalism Created Crisis Cops
On February 13, 2014, Thomas Michalak and Cheryl LaBash, who organize with Moratorium NOW!, a coalition fighting foreclosures, evictions and water shutoffs in Detroit, fired off some quick tweets encouraging others to join their group in a demonstration opposing the state-appointed emergency management of Detroit's bankruptcy. They'd planned the protest for the next day, at Detroit's Campus Martius Park.
LaBash, a retired city employee, tweeted from Moratorium NOW!'s account that activists were planning to meet at the park to hand out flyers and circulate the group's pe ion calling on Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to make big banks pay the brunt of Detroit's debt obligations, and to protect the city's pensions (including her own).
What the two didn't know was that operators at a private surveillance center in downtown Detroit's Chase Tower were watching their tweets closely behind their bevy of computer monitors.
The surveillance center is operated by a subsidiary of Rock Ventures, which serves as the umbrella en y for Quicken Loans CEO and mega-developer billionaire Dan Gilbert's business and real estate investments. The center works in partnership with the Detroit Police Department (DPD) and private security firms to monitor surveillance footage from 300 cameras covering more than 2 million square feet of property Gilbert owns in downtown Detroit.
The next day, when a group of four activists, including Michalak and LaBash, headed over to the park's historic Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument to pass out flyers as planned, they were quickly confronted by a private security guard with Guardsmark, the security firm hired by Detroit 300 Conservancy, which privately manages the city-owned park. The guard asked the group to leave and warned them they would be arrested if they refused.
"I said, 'Isn't this public property?' and [the security guard] said, 'Yes, but it's privately managed,'" Moratorium NOW! organizer Abayomi Azikiwe told Truthout about the confrontation.
... etc
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3...ed-crisis-cops
NYPD officer reportedly shot in the head, in critical condition
race baiting causing a war on police
police started a war on its citizens. Shooting unarmed men in the back, arresting a man without probably cause and giving him a rough ride that severed his spine and caused his death. Shooting at a couple 137 times because their car backfired. Murdering a kid with a toy gun, lying about it and the city blames the kid for his own death or shooting a man that was buying a toy gun at Walmart.
Don't condone police being shot but as a whole the police are far from victims.
... offered in defense of cops harassing, brutalizing, killing unarmed, innocent blacks?
criminals killing cops is what cops expect when the voluntarily sign up.
cops killing unarmed, innocent blacks is not what blacks should be forced to accept when they are born.
Sheriff Shoots Real Estate Agent as She Shows House, Then Walks Away Because 'He’s the Sheriff'
Gwinnett County, GA — Clayton County Sheriff, Victor Hill, has not been charged with a crime and was allowed to leave the scene after shooting a woman in the stomach on Sunday.
According to Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Brian Doan, Hill accidentally shot a woman at a model home located at 2567 Britt Trail Drive in Lawrenceville at around 7 p.m. Sunday.
The woman Hill shot is in critical condition at Gwinnett Medical Center. She was the real estate agent who was showing the home. How someone can “accidentally” shoot a woman as she shows a house remains a mystery.
When police arrived on the scene they said Hill refused to cooperate with the investigation and did not give a statement nor answer any questions. Citing the fact that he was the sheriff, Hill simply left the scene.
Let that sink in.
This man shot and may have killed a woman as she was showing a house to two potential home-buyers.
He gives no reason as to why or how he shot her and simply leaves.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...er1035861&t=23
I bet he's an Oath Keeper, who "believe" sheriffs are the supreme law enforcers of the land.
DEA agents jail student 5 days with no food, water; get slap on wrist
Federal agents responsible for leaving a 23-year-old UC San Diego engineering student in a holding cell for five days without food or water received only reprimands or short suspensions from the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the Justice Department.
Daniel Chong was swept up in a 2012 DEA raid on his friends' house, where he had gone to smoke marijuana. After an interrogation, he was told he would be released.
But the agents responsible forgot about him, according to a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General report last summer, leaving him to drink his own urine to stave off dehydration.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...505-story.html
He got $4.1M, which is more per hour than he may ever make working hours.
American justice: Couple faces 15 years for beach sex — pastor faces 4 months for molesting girl
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/amer...e+Raw+Story%29
Ancestry.com Caught Sharing Customer DNA Data With Police With No Warrant
Police investigating the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge targeted the wrong man as the suspect, after looking to Ancestry.com owned Sorensen Database labs for help. The labs look for familial matches between the murderers DNA and DNA submitted for genealogical testing after failing to find a match using traditional methods.
According to The Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The cops chose to use a lab linked to a private collection of genetic genealogical data called the Sorenson Database (now owned by Ancestry.com), which claims it’s “the foremost collection of genetic genealogy data in the world.” The reason the Sorenson Database can make such an audacious claim is because it has obtained its more than 100,000 DNA samples and do ented multi-generational family histories from “volunteers in more than 100 countries around the world.”
Some of these volunteers were encouraged by the Mormon Church—well-known for its interest in genealogy—to provide their genetic material to the database.
Sorenson promised volunteers their genetic data would only be used for “genealogical services, including the determination of family migration patterns and geographic origins” and would not be shared outside Sorenson.
Its consent form states:
The only individuals who will have access to the codes and genealogy information will be the principal investigator and the others specifically authorized by the Principal Investigator, including the SMGF research staff.
Despite this promise, Sorenson shared its vast collection of data with the Idaho police. Without a warrant or court order, investigators asked the lab to run the crime scene DNA against Sorenson’s private genealogical DNA database.
Sorenson found 41 potential familial matches, one of which matched on 34 out of 35 alleles—a very close match that would generally indicate a close familial relationship. The cops then asked, not only for the “protected” name associated with that profile, but also for all “all information including full names, date of births, date and other information pertaining to the original donor to the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy project.”
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...er1035914&t=17
FBI Admits to Using High-Tech Spy Planes to Monitor Freddie Gray Protests
FBI won't say whether Joint Terror Task Force was used.
Baltimore joins a growing list of cities where anti-police brutality protests have fallen under the purview of FBI’s surveillance apparatus. According to yesterday’s Baltimore Sun, federal authorities used their sophisticated fleet of spy aircraft to “watch over Baltimore in the wake of rioting”. FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson insisted the aircraft were used to help Baltimore Police “keep an eye out for criminal activity”:
"The aircraft were specifically used to assist in providing high-al ude observation of potential criminal activity to enable rapid response by police officers on the ground," Thoreson said. "The FBI aircraft were not there to monitor lawfully protected first amendment activity."
The admission was in response to amatuer sleuths noticing unsual flight activity about the Baltimore area. As the Washington Post reported on Tuesday:
Discovery of the flights — which involved at least two airplanes and the assistance of the FBI — has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to demand answers about the legal authority for the operations and the reach of the technology used. Planes armed with the latest surveillance systems can monitor larger areas than police helicopters and stay overhead longer, raising novel civil liberties issues that have so far gotten little scrutiny from courts.
Civil libertarians have particular concern about surveillance technology that can quietly gather images across dozens of city blocks — in some cases even square miles at a time — inevitably capturing the movements of people under no su ion of criminal activity into a government dragnet. The ACLU plans to file information requests with federal agencies on Wednesday, officials said.
The airplane’s surveillance technology, as Astechnica point out, was perfected overseas in US wars Iraq and Afghanistan. It comes equipped with high-defintion day and night surveillance systems as well as Stingray or “dirtybox” cell phone interception capacity - devices that can target mobile phones andlisten to phone conversations in real-time.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...-gray-protests
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/us/san...xts/index.html
"At least 3,000 arrests in the past decade are under review in San Francisco in a widening scandal over how police officers allegedly wrote racist and phobic text messages."
In arrest of cop for kicking black man, signs of shift on prosecuting police
A Dover, Del., police officer who faced no criminal charges in 2013 for knocking a surrendering man unconscious with a jaw-breaking kick could face jail time, after all.
see the vid
“Where in the past juries have been deferential to official statements and generally discounted statements from citizens who might be a suspect, or portrayed as a suspect, these videos are now proving very transformative, because they diminish that deference that juries have for the official version of events,”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice...g-police-video
Warrior Employers policing employees round the clock
Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day
A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for money transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to hersuit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court:
After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone.
Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion…..
Intermex did not immediately respond for comment.
The suit, which claims invasion of privacy, retaliation, unfair business practices, and other allegations, seeks damages in excess of $500,000 and asserts she was monitored on the weekends when she was not working.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...4-hours-a-day/
FBI Spied On Activists Because Protecting Corporate Interests Is Roughly Equivalent To Ensuring National Security
That whole thing about the FBI not surveilling people based solely on First Amendment activity? The thing that's been in all the (FISA) papers (and agency policies)? Yeah, the FBI hasn't heard of it either.
The FBI breached its own internal rules when it spied on campaigners against the Keystone XL pipeline, failing to get approval before it cultivated informants and opened files on individuals protesting against the construction of the pipeline in Texas, do ents reveal.
Internal agency do ents show for the first time how FBI agents have been closely monitoring anti-Keystone activists, in violation of guidelines designed to prevent the agency from becoming unduly involved in sensitive political issues.
"Unduly involved" is right. First of all, a majority of what was monitored was First Amendment activity, something no federal intelligence or investigative agency is supposed to be doing. Certainly, there can be law enforcement monitoring of protests as they occur, but there's no provision in the law that allows the FBI to monitor people solely because of their activism.
Unless, of course, these activists are declared "extremists." Then all bets (and Cons utional protections) are off.
“Many of these extremists believe the debates over pollution, protection of wildlife, safety, and property rights have been overshadowed by the promise of jobs and cheaper oil prices,” the FBI do ent states.
"Extremists" are often mentioned in the same breath as "domestic terrorists," so with a little bit of rebranding, the FBI is now able to surveill people solely for their First Amendment-protected activities.
That's handy and not totally unexpected, given the agency's long history of eyeballing activists who run contrary to its view on How Things Should Be. At one point, it was uppity blacks and encroaching sexuals. Now, it's people who don't want an oil pipeline running through their neighborhoods.
And, even though we know the FBI has clearly taken a stance on controversial issues in the past and shaped its surveillance activities accordingly, it's rather jarring to see an investigative agency decide who's right and wrong by issuing a statement (wrapped in a self-justifying plan of action) on behalf of one side of the issue.
“The Keystone pipeline, as part of the oil and natural gas industry, is vital to the security and economy of the United States.”
Having decided that protecting corporate interests was roughly aligned with its "national security" purview, agents then routed around any internal controls that might have restricted its plans to break FBI policy.
[T]he partially redacted do ents reveal the investigation into anti-Keystone activists occurred without prior approval of the top lawyer and senior agent in the Houston field office, a stipulation laid down in rules provided by the attorney general.
But, hey, no problem because the FBI totally fixed things in-house and in post.
Confronted by evidence contained in the cache of do ents, the agency admitted that “FBI approval levels required by internal policy were not initially obtained” for the investigation, but said the failure was remedied and later reported internally.
The supposed extremists it monitored the longest were part of an organization known as the Tar Sands Blockade, a group committed to nonviolent protest. While minor crimes such as trespassing were committed by members of the group, nothing rose to the level of what one would normally associate with an FBI investigation. And it went on for 11 months after the "error" that allowed the investigation to exist in the first place was discovered.
Mike German, former FBI agent and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice lays out the obvious problem with the FBI's behavior:
“It is clearly troubling that these do ents suggest the FBI interprets its national security mandate as protecting private industry from political criticism,” he said.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...security.shtml
we need more cops like this. it isn't hard to get out of your vehicle and interact with the community peacefully. less robo cops and more tommy norman's.
the lady was an job applicant to border partrol
Border Patrol Agents Tase Woman For Refusing To Cooperate With Their Bogus Search
She nevertheless became subject to the arbitrary orders of CBP agents by driving through one of the country's many internal immigration checkpoints, which can be located anywhere within 100 miles of the border (a zone that includes two-thirds of the U.S. population).
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...s-search.shtml
BREAKING: Obama Bans Some Military-Style Equipment Provided to Police Through Federal Program
Source: Associated Press
@AP: BREAKING: Obama bans some military-style equipment provided to local police through federal programs
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Obama bans some military-style equipment provided to police
BY NEDRA PICKLER
MAY. 18, 2015 6:04 AM EDT
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/10785...rovided-policeWASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise announcement coming nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is banning the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and gear distributed to law enforcement.
The announcement comes after the White House suggested last year that Obama would maintain programs that provide the type of military-style equipment used to respond to demonstrators last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, because of their broader contribution to public safety. But an interagency group found "substantial risk of misusing or overusing" items like tracked armored vehicles, high-powered firearms and camouflage could undermine trust in police.
With scrutiny on police only increasing in the ensuing months after a series of highly publicized deaths of black suspects nationwide, Obama also is unveiling the final report of a task force he created to help build confidence between police and minority communities in particular. The announcements come as Obama is visiting Camden, New Jersey, one of the country's most violent and poorest cities.
Obama plans to visit Camden police headquarters before heading to a community center to meet with youth and law enforcement and give a speech. "I'll highlight steps all cities can take to maintain trust between the brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line, and the communities they're sworn to serve and protect," Obama said in his weekly address out Saturday.
Turns out that the USA NATIONAL POLICE GESTAPO, the Dept of Heimat Security, created by the Repugs, has been giving $Bs to local police forces to buy more military gear than they get from the Dept of Imperial Defense.
Memorial vigil planned for shot Wallsend cow Bessie
s a "massive police presence" with more than 15 police vehicles, a helicopter hovering overhead, and three or four officers in sniper gear.
He originally thought it could have been terrorist-related, rather than, as he then realised, a "docile little cow standing in a field".
A Northumbria Police spokesman said Bessie was destroyed after becoming "increasingly distressed" and "causing dangerous and severe obstructions" on a major road.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-32800365
#bikerlivesmatter
no charges for cop who killed unarmed mexican immigrant.
Bet he got a nice paid vacation. for his heroism. Seriously they really need to start keeping track of how many unarmed people are killed by the police. Minorities are ed when they got stopped. If they are unarmed they can get shot and then blamed for doing something minor that caused their death.
If they have their hands raised and get shot in the chest someone will say they deserved it because they put their hands down to cover the wound.
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