The Warrior cops are out of control

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Lawsuit filed against San Antonio police officer who pulled out woman's tampon on public street

A lawsuit against the city of San Antonio, Texas, was filed claiming that back in 2016,

San Antonio police officer Mara Wilson took a woman’s tampon out, on a public street,

in order to internally search her vagina—while standing on that same public street

This is sadly and disturbingly not the first or second or third time something like this has happened between law enforcement and women.

Wilson then dangled the bloody tampon and asked “rhetorical” questions in front of the other officers for half a minute.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/27/1752555/-Lawsuit-filed-against-San-Antonio-police-officer-who-pulled-out-woman-s-tampon-on-public-street

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Tools in Ordinary Criminal Investigations

The FBI’s Remote Operations Unit has hacking tools typically reserved for protecting national security. But an overlooked section of a new report says ROU has used these secret techniques in criminal cases.

The report also revealed that the ROU has used classified hacking tools—techniques typically reserved for intelligence purposes—in ordinary criminal investigations, possibly denying defendants the chance to scrutinize evidence, as well as destabilizing prosecutors’ cases against suspects.

“Using classified tools in criminal cases is risky for all sides,”

that line can be crossed with approval of the Deputy Attorney General to use the more sensitive techniques in ordinary investigations,

Using classified tools in a criminal investigation may pose issues for both prosecutors and defendants. If the FBI used a classified technique to identify a suspect, does the suspect find out, and have a chance to question the legality of the search used against them?

“When hacking tools are classified, reliance on them in regular criminal investigations is likely to severely undermine a defendant’s cons utional rights by complicating discovery into and confrontation of their details,”

if the FBI uses a classified and sensitive tool in an ordinary case, and has to reveal information about it in court, the exploit may then be fixed by the affected vendor

“It's also a risk for the government, who may be ordered to disclose classified information to the defense to satisfy due process, or face dismissal of the case,”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...perations-unit

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school as authoritarian hole

Mom Accuses Principal Of Cutting Her Son’s Hair Without Permission

“I needed something to be done, and I wanted some justice for my son,” the mother said.

Lattrice Averette told WDAM TV that the principal at North Jones Elementary School cut her 11-year-old son’s hair on Monday, in the process undermining his expression of cultural iden y.

The boy, T.J. White, told his mom that he was called to the office without being informed why. Once there, the principal allegedly removed portions of his hair that were hanging over his face.

Averette said her son’s guidance counselor had earlier objected to his locs covering his face and told him to do something about it.

“She came to his classroom and saw that he still had his hair in his face later on that day,” the mother told local station WJTV. “She told him to go to the office, and she walked him to the office where they had him sit down. The office ... the school counselor held his shoulders as the principal, he says, cut his hair.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__032918

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Watch: Drive-by video shows Texas cop beating a man pinned to the ground


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/wat...e+Raw+Story%29

Cops, are sicko mother ers, "I feared for my life" "followed dept protocol, one month desk job full pay"

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Supreme Court shields a police officer from being sued for shooting a woman in her front yard

The Supreme Court on Monday shielded a police officer from being sued for shooting an Arizona woman in her front yard, once again making it harder to bring legal action against officers who use excessive force, even against an innocent person.

With two dissents, the high court tossed out a lawsuit by a Tucson woman who was shot four times outside her home because she was seen carrying a large knife.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in dissent

the victim did not threaten the police or

a friend who was standing nearby.

This "decision is not just wrong on the law;

it also sends an alarming signal to law enforcement officers and the public.

It tells officers that they can shoot first and think later," Sotomayor wrote.
Civil liberties advocates on the right and the left sharply criticized the ruling.

"Today's ruling gives yet another green light to officers who use deadly force as a tool of first resort instead of last,"

"It does so based on a legal doctrine — qualified immunity — that the Supreme Court invented out of whole cloth to help

create a policy of near-zero accountability for law enforcement."

"Giving a free pass to officers under these cir stances will only exacerbate the problem."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...s=mcnewsletter

America slips further down the ed slope of un ability.

It is now the Law of the Land that law enforcement is essentially immune, making Cons utional what has been effectively the case.

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Police officer who went undercover in prison leaves the force to sell cars after his experience


A police officer from Texas named Alan spent eight weeks undercover in a jail as part of "60 Days In,"

the A&E do entary series that sent nine law-abiding citizens to go undercover at Atlanta's Fulton County Jail.

And when he got out, he said, he quit the force and became a car salesman.

"I couldn't go to bed at night

knowing that if I stopped somebody with a little dime bag of weed,

I were to arrest them and put them in a place like that —

I wouldn't be able to live with myself," he said.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

Well, that's at least one Good Cop in America.

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America The Beautiful?

rather, Inhuman Incarceration (Racist) Nation (for profit)

Inside a Private Prison: Blood, Suicide and Poorly Paid Guards

Surveillance footage recorded in East Mississippi Correctional Facility shows prison guards taking nearly 30 minutes to respond to an assault on an inmate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/u...?smid=tw-share

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Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and compile a database of journalists, editors, foreign correspondents, and bloggers to identify top “media influencers.”

It’s seeking a contractor that can help it monitor traditional news sources as well as social media and identify “any and all” coverage related to the agency or a particular event, according to a request for information released April 3.

The data to be collected includes a publication’s “sentiment” as well as geographical spread, top posters, languages, momentum, and circulation. No value for the contract was disclosed.

“Services shall provide media comparison tools, design and rebranding tools, communication tools, and the ability to identify top media influencers,”

according to the statement. DHS agencies have

“a critical need to incorporate these functions into their programs in order to better reach federal, state, local, tribal, and private partners,” it said.

The DHS wants to track more than 290,000 global news sources, including
online,
print,
broadcast,
cable, and
radio, as well as
trade and industry publications,
local,
national and international outlets, and
social media,

according to the do ents.

It also wants the ability to track media coverage in more than 100 languages including Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, with instant translation of articles into English.

https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/

George Orwell was incredibly, fantastically prescient.

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Here's how DAs, prosecutors, cops forum a corrupt system

DA gets $13,000 from police unions – and more protests – days after Stephon Clark's death

Sacramento County’s top prosecutor received $13,000 in campaign donations from two local law enforcement unions just days after Stephon Clark was killed by Sacramento police who shot the unarmed African American man,

timing less than a week after Clark’s death on March 18 an unfortunate coincidence.

But activists –

many of whom have repeatedly called on Schubert to file criminal charges against the officers –

are blasting the cash received on March 20 and March 23 as another

sign of collusion between prosecutors and police unions.

“It’s not an exception to the rule – it is the rule. Their relationships with each other are incestuous,”

“So the public perception is right.

(DA’s offices) are beholden to law enforcement unions.

You can’t engender trust when those relationships are so tightly wound.”

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/art...s=mcnewsletter

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They probably thought, hoped that he was non-white ...

Police responding to dying student’s 911 call stayed in their patrol car, body cam videos show

Officers responding to a 911 call from a high school student trapped and dying in his minivan stayed in their patrol car after arriving on campus, according to body camera videos released by Cincinnati police Friday.

The video comes a week and a half after the death of sop re Kyle Plush.

Hours after the officers’ unsuccessful search, the 16-year-old was found dead by his father in a Honda Odyssey.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nl_most&wpmm=1

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Jailed for life stealing fajitas?

Man jailed for 50 years for stealing $1.2m-worth of fajitas

Cameron County Assistant District Attorney Peter Gilman the case was exceptional and asked the judge to

sentence Escamilla to 50 years to send a message.

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/offbeat/man-jailed-for-50-years-for-stealing-dollar12m-worth-of-fajitas/ar-AAwaDRu

DAs and prosecutors are as corrupt as the cops, and play huge role in ramping up Incarceration Nation, the American Gulag even as violent crime has dramatically receded.

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'Use your fingers': Lawsuit alleges for-profit prison forces ICE detainees to work for toilet paper

Immigration violations are considered civil, not criminal cases, so ICE detainment is not supposed to be punitive.

Until private prisons took over the majority of immigration detention contracts, ICE detainment was never supposed to be profitable, either.

But with over 65 percent of all ICE detainees now housed in private prisons across the country,

ICE detainees are now at the mercy of companies who answer to shareholders, and oftentimes

cut corners to increase profit margins.

Serious violations have been uncovered not just by advocacy groups, but by Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General.

Overall, we identified problems that undermine the protection of detainees’ rights, their humane treatment, and the provision of a safe and healthy environment.

Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center, owned and operated by CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America), stands accused of violating federal anti-human trafficking laws through its “voluntary” work program.

The detention center characterizes its work program as voluntary.

But according to the lawsuit detainees are paid pennies per hour—generally $1 to $4 per day—for tasks such as mopping floors, scrubbing toilets, and serving meals.

Immigrants who resist participating in the work program can face criminal charges or up to 30 days in solitary confinement,

the suit says. They also are subjected to worse living quarters.

In addition to three hots and a cot, detainees are guaranteed basic necessities at zero cost. However, the OIG found that was not the case at Stewart.

Multiple detainees at the [...] Stewart Detention Center also complained that some of the

basic hygienic supplies, such as toilet paper, shampoo, soap, lotion, and toothpaste, were not provided promptly or at all when detainees ran out of them.

According to one detainee, when they used up their initial supply of certain personal care items, such as toothpaste,

they were advised to purchase more at the facility commissary,

contrary to the Performance-Based National Detention Standards,

which specify that personal hygiene items should be replenished as needed.

Denial of basic needs is allegedly served up with a dash of vitriol and humiliation as well, according to one of the plaintiffs, who has been held at Stewart for almost three years.

Denial of basic needs is allegedly served up with a dash of vitriol and humiliation as well, according to one of the plaintiffs, who has been held at Stewart for almost three years.

“In one instance, (Plaintiff Wilhen Hill) Barrientos ran out of toilet paper and requested another roll from a CoreCivic officer,” the lawsuit says. “The CoreCivic officer told Mr. Barrientos to use his fingers to clean himself.”

Despite being a product of the current administration, the OIG report delivers damning assessments about Stewart that include the

“delay and interruption of Muslim prayer times,”

unjust segregation of inmates,

moldy bathrooms, and

showers that only offer scalding hot water.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

American prisons-for-profit (capitalist shareholders) right down there with prisons in MX and Turkey, etc.

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Woman 'fined $500 over free Delta Air Lines flight apple'

She posted a photo on Twitter of the plastic bag and box which had contained the contraband sliced fruit, adding the hashtag

https://twitter.com/VeganQuesoHead/status/988163867132940288/photo/1?tfw_creator=BBCWorld&tfw_site=BBCWorld&ref_src=t wsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews %2Fworld-us-canada-43864113

When the apple was found, Ms Tadlock told the border agent that she had just received it from the airline and

asked whether she should throw it out or eat it.
Instead the agent handed her a $500 fine.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43864113

[DMC]

last 16 post by Croutons..

Living the dream!

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U.S. Border Patrol agent acquitted of murdering Mexican teenager

found not guilty of second-degree murder on Monday in the shooting death of a Mexican teenager through the fence between Arizona and Mexico.

Lonnie Swartz, 43, was acquitted by a federal jury in Tucson after four days of deliberations in the Oct. 10, 2012, death of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez.

But the jurors deadlocked on a separate charge of involuntary manslaughter against Swartz, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial on that count.

Swartz, who said that he shot Elena Rodriguez in self-defense after rocks were thrown at him, on trial a second time on that count. Swartz has been on leave without pay from the Border Patrol while facing the criminal charges.

he fired 16 rounds in 34 seconds from three different firing positions, emptying one magazine from his pistol, before he reloaded and firing three more shots.

Swartz then continued to fire on Elena Rodriguez while he was “still alive and fighting for his life after he was shot in the back,”

A final shot to the head killed Elena Rodriguez,

Prosecutors stipulated that Elena Rodriguez may have been

throwing rocks,

but argued that whatever his actions that night, they were

not a “capital offense.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...e=domesticNews

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Repugs' weaponized 1st Amendment target: wimmen cowbody s who can't keep their God-less calves together

Revenge pornography ban tramples free speech, law tossed out – where else but Texas!

Rules nixed by US state court over First Amendment fears

A Texas appeals court last week ruled that the US state's Relationship Privacy Act, which prohibits the disclosure or promotion of intimate images without the consent of those depicted, is uncons utional.

Enacted in 2015, the Texas law was intended as a way to stop what's known as revenge porn, in which a person discloses intimate sexual images, online or otherwise, to cause harm and embarrassment to another person.

The law covered images to those taken under cir stances when the depicted person had a reasonable expectation that the material would remain private.

It's one of 38 state laws that have been enacted in the US to combat revenge porn, also referred to as nonconsensual distribution of pornographic images because the perpetrator's motivation – revenge or otherwise – wouldn't mitigate the act.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...venge_x_rated/

I wonder if the ruling would have been the same if the predominant revenge porn was women publishing men's s and balls?

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The Renegade Sheriffs

A law-enforcement movement that claims to answer only to the Cons ution.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...M4MjEyMzMzMAS2

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Jailers charged with taking bribes, smuggling contraband into SC prisons

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/c...209781269.html

I'm so happy they caught these corrupt guards. They are the only ones in the USA.

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"I Feared For My Life", he'll be acquitted, at worst he'll be fired, or maybe just suspend with pay for a month

State Trooper Facing Murder Charges After Tasing A Teen Riding An ATV

More than two dozen hours of recordings and 600 pages of do ents obtained by the Detroit Free Press have uncovered disturbing details of the senseless killing of 15-year-old Damon Grimes by Michigan State Trooper Mark Bessner last fall.

Trooper Bessner decided against all policy and reason to

fire his Taser at Grimes while both he and Grimes -- riding an ATV -- were traveling at 35 mph down a residential street.

To add to the insanity of his act, Bessner was the passenger in the cruiser. Having initiated the pursuit, Bessner
decided to end it by tasing Grimes. The result was the complete, gruesome destruction of a human being.

Grimes had been driving about 35 mph on an ATV when Bessner — a passenger in a moving patrol car — fired his stun gun at the teen during a chase on Detroit’s east side.

Grimes slammed into the back of a parked truck and flew off his ATV. The impact of the crash ripped gashes into his forehead, both cheeks and upper lip and dislocated his skull. Doctors pronounced him dead on arrival at St. John Hospital.

There's a good chance Grimes never knew he was being pursued. Earbuds were photographed at the scene of the fatal crash.

footage shows the cruiser's emergency lights weren't activated until 24 seconds after the fatal crash.

Officers arriving at the scene expressed their disgust at Bessner's actions.

One officer in particular registered her disbelief at what she was witnessing.

“His pulse is weakening because he was on that in' thing, and you chased his ass,”

Detroit Police officer Kimberly Buckner muttered to herself as she stepped out of her vehicle, her body camera recording every step and word.

As she walked toward Grimes, an unidentified Detroit police officer reached out his hand to cover the lens of Buckner's body camera quietly saying:

"They in' tased his ass while he was cruisin'."

unidentified officer she spoke with later stated

police escorts for ambulances were reserved for injured officers not "bad-ass 15 [year olds]" who ran from the cops.

The officer went on to state he had "no sympathy" for the dead teenager.

Another unidentified officer is captured saying,

"Don't run from the State Police. You'll get ed up."

( Running is a capital crime, no jury, no judge, no appeal, immediate execution )

The Michigan State Police ... its refusal to deal with a problem trooper until he was charged with murder.

Bessner has a history of using excessive force and

has been reprimanded before for using his Taser inappropriately,

including using the device on handcuffed suspects.

The investigation into Bessner's conduct shows that over a four-year span ending in 2017,

he had 40 use of force incidents,

17 pursuits and

five car accidents.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180414/20031339629/state-trooper-facing-murder-charges-after-tasing-teen-riding-atv.shtml

A Bad Cop known to be bad, protected by MI State Police, that's BAD MI State Police.

How many other Bad Cops being bad behind the protection of MI State Police?

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Trash/Session DHS now fully Nazi SS

Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border

Officials have repeatedly declined to provide data on how many families have been separated, but suggested that the number was relatively low.

But new data reviewed by The New York Times shows that more than 700 children have been taken from adults claiming to be their parents since October, including more than 100 children under the age of 4.

Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security, which processes migrants at the border, initially denied that the numbers were so high.

But after they were confirmed to The Times by three federal officials who work closely with these cases, a spokesman for the

health and human services department on Friday acknowledged in a statement that there were “approximately 700.”
Homeland security officials said the agency does not separate families at the border for deterrence purposes.

D.H.S. must protect the best interests of minor children crossing our borders,

Trump administration officials have suggested publicly in the past that they were, indeed, considering a deterrence policy.

Children removed from their families are taken to shelters run by nongovernmental organizations.

There, workers seek to identify a relative or guardian in the United States who can take over the child’s care.

But if no such adult is available, the children can languish in custody indefinitely.

Operators of these facilities say they are often unable to locate the parents of separated children because the children arrive without proper records.

Once a child has entered the shelter system,

there is no firm process to determine whether they have been separated from someone who was legitimately their parent, or

for reuniting parents and children who had been mistakenly separated,

groups that support stricter immigration policies have stopped short of endorsing a family separation policy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/u...865AEC&gwt=pay

god ING damn, Trash/Sessions/DHS are ing Nazis. America-The-Beautiful NAZIS

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How ICE Is Gaining a Scary Amount of Data Through Police Data-Mining

A report released Thursday details the massive, complex police databases that local law enforcement in LA and Massachusetts use to investigate suspects.

Through a service known as COPLINK, the storehouses of data that local police use during investigations are being shared with a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations.

While ICE representatives in the report note the usefulness of the software, several privacy, immigration, and civil liberties advocates question both the accuracy of the software and the use of data to surveil people.

COPLINK combines information from multiple police databases, and then allows law enforcement to sort and filter through them in the course of their investigations. Injustice Today reviewed do ents from the Massachusetts and LA versions of the program.

The LA version combines information from the Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and Pasadena departments, while the Massachusetts version uses Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge police departments.

Using COPLINK, law enforcement can search through enormous amounts of data on

people, some of whom have contact with police but no convictions.

Police can search race, hair color, eye color, complexion, ethnicity, country of origin, and even tattoos and other distinguishing marks on their bodies.

Once selected, law enforcement can sort and display a person’s “associational data,” information on other people connected with the person, with the option to literally map out the person’s life by showing their network of friends and associates, vehicles, and organizations.

Privacy experts rail again this type of surveillance because it’s

possible to be included in both the local police and thus COPLINK databases without ever being convicted of a crime.

And because of family structures, employment and simple geography,

it’s entirely possible to be “associated” with a gang member or suspect without having ever been convicted of a crime yourself.
https://gizmodo.com/how-ice-is-gaini...+%28Gizmodo%29

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ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship



Immigration officers in the United States operate under a

cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans.

But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents

repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake,

making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations,

Since 2012, ICE has released from its custody more than 1,480 people after investigating their citizenship claims, according to agency figures.

hundreds of additional cases in the country’s immigration courts in which people were forced to prove they are Americans and sometimes spent months or even years in detention.

Victims include a landscaper snatched in a Home Depot parking lot in Rialto and held for days despite his son’s attempts to show agents the man’s U.S. passport;

a New York resident locked up for more than three years fighting deportation efforts after a federal agent mistook his father for someone who wasn’t a U.S. citizen;

and a Rhode Island housekeeper mistakenly targeted twice, resulting in her spending a night in prison the second time even though her husband had brought her U.S. passport to a court hearing.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...htmlstory.html

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Officer who shot at man in Walmart parking lot was previously fired for hate crimes and assault




Diante Yarber was killed when police fired an estimated 30 bullets into his car in a Walmart parking lot.

Police claimed to have been looking for a “su ious” vehicle with a “su ious” black male inside.

They came across a vehicle with a black man in it.

So, of course, they then decided to fire directly into it, in public, almost murdering everyone inside of it.

one of the officers involved in the shooting had been previously charged with a hate crime and was fired at one point.

Jimmie Alfred Walker had quite a record.

Walker, who is white, was charged in 2010 with hate crime and battery charges after the then 30-year-old officer allegedly used racial slurs against a man and assaulted him and a woman while off duty.

The officer eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of fighting in a public place and

being drunk in public,

while the battery charge and hate crime charge (“violating civil rights by force or threat of force”) were dropped

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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Miami cop caught on video kicking handcuffed man in the head. Of course, he's still receiving pay

In a speech last year, Donald Trump said he thinks the police should be rougher with people during arrests.

A Miami police officer has been relieved of duty after he was caught on video kicking a defenseless, handcuffed man in the head.

The incident happened Thursday morning after two officers pursued a Jeep Cherokee that was suspected of being stolen into an apartment complex, according to a police report obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The man behind the wheel allegedly crashed the Jeep into a concrete wall, then fled from officers on foot before he was finally restrained.

After one officer handcuffed the suspect, another officer ran toward the man and kicked him in the head. A bystander caught the moment on video and posted it to Facebook.

The video shows the man lying on the ground, face down, with his hands behind his back before he is handcuffed.

Then, from out of nowhere, another officer approaches and kicks the man—in the head.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1762059

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U.S. has paid $60M to settle wrongful detention, assault, death claims at hands of border agents

The US government has paid out more than $60m in legal settlements where border agents were involved in deaths, driving injuries, alleged assaults and wrongful detention, an analysis of more than a decade of official data reveals.

According to treasury payment records and court do ents spanning 2005 to 2017, the federal government has paid more than

$9 million to the families of at least 20 people who died at the hands of border agents since 2003,

“in incidents including shooting, beating, use of Tasers and collisions with vehicles.”

But by far the largest amount—more than 1,300 settlements totaling $47 million—have gone to

“damages resulting from alleged reckless driving by border agents,”

some of which resulted in death and maiming.

In one instance, do ents reveal that “there was no sign” a border agent tried to avoid Miguel Castillo Lopez, and in fact moved his body from where he was initially hit:

Longoria failed to call emergency services in a timely manner; instead, he called his co-workers and supervisors thereby failing to act within his duty to an individual he had struck.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1762006

CBP are ing sadistic, murderous cowboys.