The Warrior cops are out of control

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Unarmed Mississippi man died after 20-minute police chokehold,

Witnesses have told Mississippi state investigators that an unarmed black man died after being kept in a chokehold by a police officer for more than 20 minutes and denied CPR, according to his family’s attorneys, who said an autopsy confirmed he was fatally strangled.
ississippi police accused of choking unarmed man to death with flashlight

Stonewall police chief denies claims made by attorney for family of Jonathan Sanders, 39, who suffered ‘some kind of asphyxiation’ during altercation

State medical examiners provisionally found Jonathan Sanders died through homicide by manual asphyxiation, according to attorneys Chokwe Lumumba and CJ Lawrence.

Sanders, who was 39, repeatedly told Stonewall police officer Kevin Herrington “I can’t breathe”, according to one witness.

According to the attorneys, one witness alleged that Herrington said he was “going to get that n!gg@” seconds before confronting Sanders in Stonewall on the night of 8 July, and several said the officer was the aggressor. Police have described the encounter as “a fight”.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...sppi-chokehold

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Woman Dies In Jail After Being Roughed Up During Traffic Stop. Police Say It Was Suicide.




pulled over on Friday for improperly signaling a lane change.

A witness said he saw the arresting officer pull Bland out of the car, throw her to the ground and put his knee on her neck while he arrested her. She was then charged with assaulting an officer and taken to a jail in Waller County, Texas, where she was found dead Monday.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...a-bland-video/

aka, changing lanes while black

coincidentally, she's a anti-police-brutality activist.

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New report highlights cases of police brutality inside middle and high schools

In a new report written by Jaeah Lee of Mother Jones led "Chokeholds, Brain Injuries, Beatings: When School Cops Go Bad," at least 28 cases of extreme police brutality in American middle and high schools are highlighted, including one death.With the United States now averaging four people killed by our police per day, more time and attention is being given to the cause of police brutality than ever before.

Yet, another disturbing police problem has drawn far less attention: Use of force by cops in schools. According to news reports and data collected by advocacy groups, over the past five years at least 28 students have been seriously injured, and in one case shot to death, by so-called school resource officers—sworn, uniformed police assigned to provide security on K-12 campuses.

Indeed, it was only a matter of time until police officers who were violent outside of schools began imposing their violence on students inside of schools.

In Lee's report, she details incredibly disturbing cases of middle school students being choked unconscious by officers, students who were breaking up fights receiving traumatic brain injuries after being Tasered, and even a student being shot by an officer who claimed to fear for his life while pursuing a student who had been in a fight earlier that school day.

While these reports are disturbing, they aren't surprising. This past week in Troy, New York, two elementary school-aged boys were put handcuffs when police thought they matched the description for someone they were looking for in a robbery—only to let them go later.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...s?detail=email

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Denver police caught telling key lies about their fatal shooting of Native American Paul Castaway

Castaway's mother, Lynn Eagle Feather, says she called the police for help on Sunday after her son threatened her with a knife, telling cops he was mentally ill. Police allege Castaway charged at them with the knife, but according to witnesses and a surveillance video seen by a local reporter, Castaway was holding the knife to his own neck when he was shot four times.

The manager of Capital City mobile home park at 4501 W. Kentucky Ave. has the video. He wouldn’t give it to FOX31 Denver, but he did show it to reporter Tammy Vigil.It shows Paul Castaway, 35, coming up from behind a white mobile home, through a black iron fence onto the street and around a wooden fence, which is a dead end.

He then turned back around onto the street with a knife to his neck the whole time, when an officer shoots him. The video seems to not match what police say happened.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...28Daily+Kos%29

[Trill Clinton]

Woman Dies In Jail After Being Roughed Up During Traffic Stop. Police Say It Was Suicide.




pulled over on Friday for improperly signaling a lane change.

A witness said he saw the arresting officer pull Bland out of the car, throw her to the ground and put his knee on her neck while he arrested her. She was then charged with assaulting an officer and taken to a jail in Waller County, Texas, where she was found dead Monday.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...a-bland-video/

aka, changing lanes while black

coincidentally, she's a anti-police-brutality activist.

this story and the one about the brother being drug off his horse and choked to death hurt

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speaking of CO

Colorado laws allow rogue officers to stay in law enforcement

Colorado's lenient police discipline system allows rogue officers to jump from department to department despite committing transgressions that would bar them from law enforcement jobs in many states.

Michael Jimenez resigned from the Denver police force in 2008 after he allegedly had sex with a pros ute he picked up in his squad car. But that did not stop the Custer County Sheriff's Office from hiring him in 2009. He lost that job, too, in less than a year.

Then the Fowler Police Department, whose chief knew Jimenez from Denver, hired him. Jimenez never showed up for work and was later fired after pleading guilty to driving while ability impaired.

Still, his certificate to work as a police officer remained active.

It was not until he pleaded guilty again, this time to vehicular assault while driving drunk, that the panel that decides who can and cannot work in law enforcement in Colorado finally revoked Jimenez's certification. Jimenez had plowed his van into a car driven by a 27-year-old man, leaving the man temporarily in a medically induced coma with a shattered pelvis and broken left leg.

Jimenez, who declined comment, got pass after pass because Colorado requires a felony conviction or a conviction of one of 44 misdemeanors specified in statute to bring an end to an officer's career in law enforcement.

In Colorado, a police officer can be fired or resign for egregious violations of moral turpitude, such as destruction of evidence, lying under oath or excessive use of force. But so long as there is no conviction of a felony or one of the misdemeanors, the officer is free to seek employment at another agency. Small towns, eager to find officers willing to work for low pay, sometimes will hire them despite their past.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28...aw-enforcement

Sheriffs seem to hire a lot of Bad ex-Cops, sheriff staffs seem to populated with garbage deputies.

Paradise town hired ex-cop Jesse Stone, an alcoholic from Los Angeles, and he got nominated for an Emmy.

[Trill Clinton]

[Trill Clinton]

[Splits]

Jesus . Slamming a handcuffed teenager face first into the ground. What a ing pussy. Good thing it's a white girl, maybe it will get some attention.

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Dashcam Video: Cops Kill Unarmed Mother, Brag About Marksmanship Afterwards


During the chase, which never exceeded 35 mph, Small’s tires were blown out by e strips. She was then pinned by two cruisers and a utility pole and riding only on her rims. Her car was effectively rendered immobilized.

However, Small, who was in the midst of a mental crisis, continued pressing the accelerator, even though the car was not able to move but a few inches.

At this point, Georgia State Patrol Trooper Jonathan Malone is seen running behind Small’s car in an attempt to remove her from the vehicle. But Malone quickly runs away after he notices Glynn County officers Sgt. Robert C. Sasser and Officer Michael T. Simpson with their service weapons pointed direct at him, with Small’s head being the primary target.

Malone pleaded with the officers to let him get Small out of the vehicle.

“Let me get out there and get her out,” Malone calls out to the other officers, according to the GBI audio transcripts.

“Hold on, hold on,” one unknown officer responds.

“If she moves the car, I’m going to shoot her,” Simpson says.

Seconds later, Sasser and Simpson unleash a volley of gunfire into the face of Caroline Small.

After the shooting, Sasser and Simpson can be heard discussing their kill.

“Where did you hit her?” Simpson asks, according to a GBI transcript.

“I hit her right in the face,” Sasser says.

“I watched the bridge of her nose…I pulled the trigger and I watched it hit her at the same time I think I fired,” Simpson says.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...er1039669&t=19

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FEDS REGULARLY MONITORED BLACK LIVES MATTER SINCE FERGUSON

The Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring the Black Lives Matter movement since anti-police protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, according to hundreds of do ents obtained by The Interceptthrough a Freedom of Information Act request.

The do ents, released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination, indicate that the department frequently collects information, including location data, on Black Lives Matter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful. The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York.

They also show the department watching over gatherings that seem benign and even mundane. For example, DHS circulated information on a nationwide series of silent vigils and a DHS-funded agency planned to monitor a funk music parade and a walk to end breast cancer in the nation’s capital.

The tracking of domestic protest groups and peaceful gatherings raises questions over whether DHS is chilling the exercise of First Amendment rights, and over whether the department, created in large part to combat terrorism, has allowed its mission to creep beyond the bounds of useful security activities as its annual budget has grown beyond $60 billion.

The surveillance cataloged in the DHS do ents goes back to August of last year, when protests and riots broke out in Ferguson the day after the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

According to two August 11th, 2014 reports, a DHS FEMA “WatchOps officer” used information from Twitter and Vine to monitor the riots and reproduced a map, originally created by a Reddit user, of conflict zones.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...ince-ferguson/


Posse comitatus?

DHS is fully militarized, heavily equipped, anti-American domestic army. EVERY American is a suspect.

[Saved By Zero]

There are good cops out there doing the right thing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-with-him.html

US police officer buys homeless man breakfast and sits down to eat with him.

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There are good cops out there doing the right thing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-with-him.html

US police officer buys homeless man breakfast and sits down to eat with him.

Telegraph is a Murdoch toilet paper, so of course it will promote the cops as faultless, empathetic protectors of the rich, protecting them from the non-rich.

US cops abuse, beat up, murder more homeless people than they buy, eat breakfast with.

And let us know when good cops rid their police forces of bad cops, rather than protect them. Not holding my breath

[JoeChalupa]

Telegraph is a Murdoch toilet paper, so of course it will promote the cops as faultless, empathetic protectors of the rich, protecting them from the non-rich.

US cops abuse, beat up, murder more homeless people than they buy, eat breakfast with.

And let us know when good cops rid their police forces of bad cops, rather than protect them. Not holding my breath

There are plenty of good cops out there and they have been there for me when I needed them. I know there are bad ones who cross the line and take their badge for granted but don't lump them all as bad. They are human you know. They pull people out of wrecks, arrest criminals, bring justice to the victims of crime everyday.

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don't lump them all as bad

I don't, but I expect the good cops to defend their reputation by ridding their ranks of the bad cops (who then go join the even tier sheriff's gang).

If policing turns good cops bad, nobody forced them to become cops. They must know how tough policing can be before they sign up. Policing and law enforcement does attract racists, less bullies, losers, sadists along with the altar boys.

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Cop Caught On Video Pepper Spraying Attendees Of Black Lives Matter Conference




A conference protesting police violence against African Americans ended in police violence against African Americans on Sunday, when at least one officer deployed pepper spray against men and women protesting the arrest of a 14 year-old teenager.

The arrest occurred in Cleveland, across the street from Cleveland State University, which washosting a conference sponsored by The Movement for Black Lives. Currently, there are conflicting reports regarding why the teenager was arrested. Cleveland’s ABC affiliate reports that the teen “was accused of having an open container at the bus stop when he was approached by officers,” while numerous sources on Twitter claim that he was arrested because he did not have a bus ticket.

Police reportedly “slammed the teen to the ground while making an arrest and pepper spray was used.”

After this arrest, protesters rallied near the scene, and one video of the protest shows them linking arms in an apparent effort to prevent police from breaking up the protest. According to reporting by Jonathan Walsh, a reporter with the ABC affiliate, that’s when a white officer began to pepper spray the crowd.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...er-conference/

[TheSanityAnnex]

Cop Caught On Video Pepper Spraying Attendees Of Black Lives Matter Conference




A conference protesting police violence against African Americans ended in police violence against African Americans on Sunday, when at least one officer deployed pepper spray against men and women protesting the arrest of a 14 year-old teenager.

The arrest occurred in Cleveland, across the street from Cleveland State University, which washosting a conference sponsored by The Movement for Black Lives. Currently, there are conflicting reports regarding why the teenager was arrested. Cleveland’s ABC affiliate reports that the teen “was accused of having an open container at the bus stop when he was approached by officers,” while numerous sources on Twitter claim that he was arrested because he did not have a bus ticket.

Police reportedly “slammed the teen to the ground while making an arrest and pepper spray was used.”

After this arrest, protesters rallied near the scene, and one video of the protest shows them linking arms in an apparent effort to prevent police from breaking up the protest. According to reporting by Jonathan Walsh, a reporter with the ABC affiliate, that’s when a white officer began to pepper spray the crowd.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...er-conference/

thinkprogress
At 4:40 p.m. today, July 26, Transit Police officers on routine patrol peacefully removed a intoxicated 14-year old male from a bus. Police said the juvenile was intoxicated to the point where he was unable to care for himself.

Police escorted the youth from the bus to a bus shelter on Euclid Avenue at East 24th Street.

Transit Police followed normal procedure, which is -- after police collect pertinent information, juveniles are transported to police headquarters to await release to a parent or legal guardian.

Within minutes, a large crowd had gathered. For the safety of the juvenile, Transit Police moved him from the open shelter area into a police cruiser. The crowd then surrounded the car, and attempted to remove the juvenile from the car. By this time, several other law enforcement agencies had also responded.

The crowd kept the police car from leaving the area. A Transit Police officer used a general burst of pepper spray in an attempt to push back the crowd, to no avail.

The juvenile was escorted from the police cruiser to a waiting EMS unit to be examined at the scene. He was then released to the custody of his mother at 5:47 p.m.

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thinkprogress
At 4:40 p.m. today, July 26, Transit Police officers on routine patrol peacefully removed a intoxicated 14-year old male from a bus. Police said the juvenile was intoxicated to the point where he was unable to care for himself.

Police escorted the youth from the bus to a bus shelter on Euclid Avenue at East 24th Street.

Transit Police followed normal procedure, which is -- after police collect pertinent information, juveniles are transported to police headquarters to await release to a parent or legal guardian.

Within minutes, a large crowd had gathered. For the safety of the juvenile, Transit Police moved him from the open shelter area into a police cruiser. The crowd then surrounded the car, and attempted to remove the juvenile from the car. By this time, several other law enforcement agencies had also responded.

The crowd kept the police car from leaving the area. A Transit Police officer used a general burst of pepper spray in an attempt to push back the crowd, to no avail.

The juvenile was escorted from the police cruiser to a waiting EMS unit to be examined at the scene. He was then released to the custody of his mother at 5:47 p.m.

The white cops PEPPERED SPRAYED a peaceful crowd of blacks.

The black kid didn't beat to because of the attention of the crowd.

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From Yesterday's NYT: Sandra Bland Prosecutor Inadvertenly Shows His Cards


Here's the passage that screamed "WTF??" at me when I read it just now:

An initial toxicology test also indicated that Ms. Bland had recently smoked or eaten marijuana, Mr. Diepraam said. He noted that because traces of marijuana leave the body quickly, she had to have consumed it not long before she died, and he said it could have been used in the jail.Inmates near Ms. Bland’s cell did not smell marijuana smoke, and the cell contained no evidence of the drug, he said. He raised the possibility that she could have ingested it right before the traffic stop to avoid being arrested for drug possession. Explaining why the information was relevant, he said, “It is a mood-altering substance and a mood amplifier.”

More extensive drug tests may shed more light on that question later, he said.

The emphases are mine, obviously, but those lines are the ones that screamed at me, for what I assume most of you reading this already know: pot does not leave your body quickly, it stays in your system for up to a month, long after the effects of the high have completely dissipated. That this DA would insert that obvious bit of misinformation into his "finding" would be totally mystifying...if it weren't for the second set of bolded sentences in that blockquote, which can be summed up as:

"We think she killed herself because she was high after eating a bunch of pot during the traffic stop to prevent herself from being busted for drug possession."

Why the "paper of record" failed to note the completely obvious factual misstatement by the DA regarding the time it takes for trace marijuana to leave the system is confounding but hardly surprising these days. The propensity for MJ to hang in the bloodstream for much longer than other drugs is general knowledge, not something on the cutting edge of medical science that has yet to be determined for crissake.

Final note: I wonder if this is what the "defective" autopsy thing is all about? Does the Waller Co DA need to have a higher than "trace" amount of pot in Sandra Bland's blood in order for them to bolster their suicide finding with pot as a mood enhancer, the evil weed driving her deeper into depression?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...s?detail=email

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Fox News suggests Sandra Bland could've used her lit cigarette as a weapon against police

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...8Daily+Kos%29#

[Clipper Nation]

Fox News suggests Sandra Bland could've used her lit cigarette as a weapon against police

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...8Daily+Kos%29#

It's happened before:

Upon deputies and other police arriving at the scene, Murphree was combative and resisted arrest during the officers’ initial contact with him. During the struggle, Murphree burned a sergeant from the South Haven Police Department with a cigarette.

http://fox17online.com/2014/04/07/teen-burns-spits-in-face-of-van-buren-county-police-officers/

"Warrior cops are out of control"

FailyKos

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It's happened before:

Upon deputies and other police arriving at the scene, Murphree was combative and resisted arrest during the officers’ initial contact with him. During the struggle, Murphree burned a sergeant from the South Haven Police Department with a cigarette.

http://fox17online.com/2014/04/07/teen-burns-spits-in-face-of-van-buren-county-police-officers/

"Warrior cops are out of control"

FailyKos

the nasty, bullying cop had no right to demand her cigarette to be put out, there was no struggle at that point.

you ers and Fox ALWAYS blame the (black) victim. The police are always right

[spurraider21]

the nasty, bullying cop had no right to demand her cigarette to be put out, there was no struggle at that point.

you ers and Fox ALWAYS blame the (black) victim. The police are always right

i dont know about them. i think in many of the situations, both parties are at fault. i also agree that officers should be held to a higher standard due to their position of power

[Clipper Nation]

A REVELLER ground a lit cigarette into a police officer’s hand and spat in his face, Newbury magistrates heard on Thursday, October 10.Victoria Griffiths, prosecuting, said the drama happened as officers tried to arrest 18-year-old Ashley Steven Birmingham for causing a disturbance outside The Hatchet pub in Newbury town centre. She added: “He resisted arrest, pushing a burning cigarette into the officer’s hand, causing a painful blister. He then began spitting directly into the officer’s face.”

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/9027/Reveller-burned-policeman-with-cigarette.html

[Clipper Nation]

Fisher may have been hankering for a nicotine fix, given that he allegedly tried to burn a police officer with his cigarette during pat-down — which triggered the entire incident.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2015/04/24/burglary-victim-gets-suspect-can-coke/26314087/