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07-28-2017, 12:27 PM

‘We’ll never be the same’: How a hydroponic tomato garden inspired cops to raid a family’s home

Bob found himself flat on floor, hands behind his head, his eyes locked on the boots of the officer standing over him with an AR-15 assault rifle.

“Are there kids?” the officers were yelling. “Where are the kids?”

“And I’m laying there staring at this guy’s boots fearing for my kids’ lives, trying to tell them where my children are,” Harte recalled later in a deposition on July 9, 2015.

“They are sending these guys with their guns drawn running upstairs to bust into my children’s house, bedroom, wake them out of bed.”

Harte’s wife, Addie, bolted downstairs with the children. Their son put his hands up when he saw the guns. The family of four were eventually placed on a couch as police continued to search the property. The officers would only say they were searching for narcotics.

Addie had a thought: It’s because of the hydroponic garden, she told her husband, they are looking for pot. No way, Harte said, correctly reasoning marijuana wasn’t a narcotic. And all this for pot?

But after two hours of fruitless search, the officers showed the Hartes a warrant.

Indeed, the hunt was for marijuana. Addie and Bob were flabbergasted — all this for pot?
“You take the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, all the rights you expect to have —

when they come in like that, the only right you have is not to get shot if you cooperate,”

Harte told The Washington Post this week.

“They open that door, your life is on the line.”

Not only were the Hartes upstanding citizens with clean records, they were also both former Central Intelligence Agency officers.

And they were not marijuana growers.

Rather, the quick-trigger suspicion of law enforcement had snagged on — it would later turn out — tea leaves and a struggling tomato plant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/28/well-never-be-the-same-how-a-familys-hydroponic-tomato-garden-led-cops-to-raid-their-home/?utm_term=.a3542afd1a20&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/28/well-never-be-the-same-how-a-familys-hydroponic-tomato-garden-led-cops-to-raid-their-home/?utm_term=.a3542afd1a20&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1)

boutons_deux

07-28-2017, 02:48 PM

As if the blood-thirsty, trigger-happy cops needed any encouragement

Donald Trump Endorses Police Brutality In Speech To Cops

The president said law enforcement officers shouldn’t protect suspects’ heads when putting them into police cars.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-police-brutality_us_597b840fe4b02a8434b6575a?utm_medium=e mail&utm_campaign=__BREAKING__%20Donald%20Trump%20Endor ses%20Police%20Brutality%20In%20Speech%20To%20Cops&utm_content=__BREAKING__%20Donald%20Trump%20Endors es%20Police%20Brutality%20In%20Speech%20To%20Cops+ CID_fdc7798ecaad97b6ba40f75146f5d49e&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20More&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__BREAKING__%20Donald%20Trump %20Endorses%20Police%20Brutality%20In%20Speech%20T o%20Cops

As he said in his campaign, "rough 'em up", why like Freddie Gray?

boutons_deux

07-28-2017, 06:51 PM

The Police Department Trump Ordered To Abuse Suspects Just Issued The Perfect Response

Matthew Gertz (https://twitter.com/MattGertz)
(https://twitter.com/MattGertz)✔@MattGertz (https://twitter.com/MattGertz)

President urges officers to commit acts of brutality, officers laugh and cheer wildly.

Beginning to think problem isn't a few bad apples.

1:42 PM - Jul 28, 2017 (https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/891005850420224001)

In response, the Suffolk Police Department, the organization Trump spoke to, took to Twitter to disavow his goonish comments:

Suffolk County PD (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)
(https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)✔@SCPDHq (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)

The SCPD has strict rules & procedures relating to the handling of prisoners. Violations of those rules are treated extremely seriously.
3:53 PM - Jul 28, 2017 (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq/status/891038815003062272)

(https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=891038815003062272)

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000694910323/6d9ff31d28596a0614ac158ca9aa435e_normal.pngSuffolk County PD (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)

(https://twitter.com/SCPDHq) ✔@SCPDHq (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)

The SCPD has strict rules & procedures relating to the handling of prisoners. Violations of those rules are treated extremely seriously.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000694910323/6d9ff31d28596a0614ac158ca9aa435e_normal.pngSuffolk County PD (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)
(https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)✔@SCPDHq (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq)

As a department, we do not and will not tolerate roughing up of prisoners.
3:53 PM - Jul 28, 2017 (https://twitter.com/SCPDHq/status/891038888315244544)

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07/28/police-department-trump-ordered-abuse-suspects-just-issued-perfect-response/

boutons_deux

07-29-2017, 04:36 PM

The Police Dept. Trump Told To Be More Violent Just Had A Cop Arrested For Raping A Prisoner

it was revealed that a policeman of this very police department had been arrested literally the day before Trump’s speech for raping a woman who had been brought in on traffic charges. (http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/the-day-before-trump-told-ny-cops-to-rough-people-up-one-was-arrested-for-rape/)

Not for any kind of any real crime. Nothing that hurt anyone, not any kind of morally reprehensible act – traffic charges. The simple violation of arbitrarily defined civil regulations for vehicle operation specifically designed to produce revenue.

The FBI report states that (http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/the-day-before-trump-told-ny-cops-to-rough-people-up-one-was-arrested-for-rape/) Officer Christopher McCoy of the Suffolk County Police was arrested for the following heinous act:
“Her attorney Brian Egan said she was taken into custody then searched in a way that

“involved the grabbing of her chest area. :lol where? :lol aka language abuse! :lol

Jane Doe was transported to the First Precinct in Wyandanch [Suffolk County]. During arrest processing, while McCoy and Jane Doe were alone in the precinct’s juvenile room,

McCoy forced Jane Doe to perform oral sex.”

McCoy, a ten-year-veteran, admitted to the crime. The FBI is now trying to determine who else he might have raped over the years.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07/29/police-dept-trump-told-violent-just-cop-arrested-raping-prisoner/

boutons_deux

07-29-2017, 05:00 PM

Predator-in-Chief

After President Trump asked cops to rough up arrestees in their custody (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-speech-ms13-long-island), he wrote in yesterday …

I’m fucking furious.

This two-bit gangster, would-be dictator just set police-community relations back by a quarter of a century.

“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over,” he mimicked an officer putting a handcuffed person in the back of a squad car, the officer’s hand over the suspect’s head.

“Like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody? Don’t hit their head?”

“I said, you can take the hand away, OK?” he concluded, to laughter, and then loud applause.”

The reaction of officers in the room to the President’s words as described is troubling and embarrassing.

Any officer who causes injury to a person in custody is open to

internal disciplinary charges,

criminal Assault charges,

Official Misconduct, and

Federal civil rights violations,

as well as civil liability.

This is NOT the Wild West, as POTUS seems to imagine.

Police Officers are not judge and jury. We do not meet out punishment. Every person has the constitutional right to a presumption of innocence.

We are authorized to use minimum force necessary to take a person into custody.
Once in custody, police are responsible for the health and well-being of the arrestee.

I would direct the POTUS to the definition of the word “custody”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/predator-in-chief?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

This anonymous cop makes reasonable, THEORETICAL points, but he must know cops are almost always totally immune from abuse and murder of arrestees, prisoners.

5 magic words: "I feared for my life"

DMC

07-29-2017, 05:38 PM

52% of murders are perpetrated by a group that is 13% of the population.

Although I get your point, what percentage of the population are murders in general?

Fabbs

07-30-2017, 08:36 AM

tweet of cop planting drugs
34 cases dismissed after video appears to show officer planting drugs

Approximately 123 cases are*under review after body camera footage appeared to show an officer planting illicit drugs at a crime scene in January, said Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore's state's attorney.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/34-cases-dismissed-after-video-appears-to-show-officer-planting-drugs/ar-AAp1V49?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

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07-30-2017, 11:05 AM

34 cases dismissed after video appears to show officer planting drugs

Approximately 123 cases are*under review after body camera footage appeared to show an officer planting illicit drugs at a crime scene in January, said Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore's state's attorney.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/34-cases-dismissed-after-video-appears-to-show-officer-planting-drugs/ar-AAp1V49?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

I too saw this. Chilling. The slight coverage indicative.

boutons_deux

07-30-2017, 01:28 PM

Trump says mystery biker can fix Chicago crime in a ‘couple of days’

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his claim that he last year identified a mystery Chicago cop to Mayor Rahm Emanuel who could solve the city's crime problem in "a couple of days."

But the president told an audience of cops on Long Island, N.Y., that he never heard back from Emanuel —

a claim disputed by the mayor's spokesman Adam Collins, who said Emanuel never received the name.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-says-mystery-biker-can-fix-chicago-crime-in-a-couple-of-days/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol Presidential! :lol

boutons_deux

07-30-2017, 01:45 PM

Hilarious shit

The NYPD Bragged About Seizing A Handful Of Drugs, So Twitter Lit Them Up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF0oGFDV0AAy0b_.jpg

http://lawnewz.com/crazy/the-nypd-bragged-about-seizing-a-handful-of-drugs-so-twitter-lit-them-up/

https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/890912389608210432/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Flawnewz.com%2Fcrazy%2Fthe-nypd-bragged-about-seizing-a-handful-of-drugs-so-twitter-lit-them-up%2F

boutons_deux

08-03-2017, 07:46 AM

Sessions cites mysterious 'task force' as justification for his racist, anti-immigrant policies (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/2/1686343/-Sessions-cites-mysterious-Task-Force-as-justification-for-his-racist-anti-immigrant-policies)

, Sessions is far more focused on accomplishing his ends and he's created a so-called Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety that he is crediting for many of his policy changes at the Justice Department. But who exactly is on that task force and

what supposed expertise they're employing to reach their conclusions is pretty much a total mystery,

writes (http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/08/sessions-claims-a-mysterious-task-force-is-behind-his-most-controversial-reforms/) Mother Jones' Pema Levy.

The Justice Department has declined to disclose the task force’s
membership,
its meeting agendas, or
its recommendations to the attorney general.

The task force was slated to deliver

a report to Sessions last week, but it has not been made public.

Instead, the group supposedly behind some of the Trump administration’s most consequential policy moves

remains an almost complete mystery.
The involvement of Cook, a proponent of harsh sentencing and a foe of criminal justice reform, was a signal that the group would take a hardline stance on law enforcement.

Here's a glimpse of the reforms Sessions has implemented at the direction of his mystery task force:

Sessions sent a memo (https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/946771/download) instructing US attorneys to pursue federal gun charges that carry mandatory minimum sentences whenever possible;
heannounced (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-immigration-compliance-requirements-edward-byrne-memorial) a policy to force local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials;
he announced (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/the-trump-administration-just-made-it-easier-for-law-enforcement-to-take-your-property/) the department would increase its use of civil asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize private property and cash from suspects without even bringing criminal charges against them.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/2/1686343/-Sessions-cites-mysterious-Task-Force-as-justification-for-his-racist-anti-immigrant-policies

boutons_deux

08-04-2017, 02:37 PM

Trump’s Attorney General Just Threatened To Arrest Reporters If They Don’t Give Up Their Sources

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that there were “limits” on press freedoms (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345316-justice-to-review-media-subpoenas-policy-in-crackdown-on-leaks)and that he would be “reviewing” the Justice Department’s policies on subpoenaing reporters – essentially forcing the brave journalists leading the resistance to give up their sources or face prison.

The notorious racist went on to say that more resources would be spent fighting the leakers

and that he “will not hesitate to bring lawful and

appropriate criminal charges against those who abuse the public trust.” :lol :lol

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/04/trumps-attorney-general-just-threatened-arrest-reporters-dont-give-sources/

boutons_deux

08-04-2017, 03:10 PM

Just another bad apple, move along, nothing to see

http://washingtonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/DGLPQpbXsAALK9Z-576x1024.jpg

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/02/assistant-police-chief-just-resigned-sharing-shockingly-racist-facebook-post/

Trill Clinton

08-04-2017, 03:39 PM

887504546074939393

Another one

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boutons_deux

08-06-2017, 01:23 PM

Oligarchy, prison-for-profit division, extorting longer, more prison terms.

Private prison demands New Mexico and feds find 300 more prisoners in 60 days or it will closeCore Civic isn't making enough money after sentencing reforms

The nation’s second-largest private prison corporation is holding New Mexico politicians hostage by threatening to close unless the state or federal authorities find 300 more prisoners to be warehoused there,
it will close the Torrance County Detention Facility and lay off more than 200 employees unless it can find 300 state or federal inmates to fill empty beds within the next 60 days,”

a privatized prison by an operator that has been sued many times (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-corrections-corperation-america-private-prisons-company-profile/) for sexual harassment, sexual assault, deaths, use of force, physical assaults, medical care, injuries and civil rights violations.

This is a perfect snapshot of what’s upside-down with privatization: the lack of economic opportunities and politicians who genuflect at providing jobs, regardless of the larger social implications, pushing law enforcement into the dirty business of ramping up arrests and convictions so private firms and shareholders can make more money.

The statement by county officials said that most of the 700-bed facility’s prisoners were federal inmates. Company officials in local meetings said (http://www.mvtelegraph.com/news/torrance-county-detention-facility-to-close-sept/article_ba32c118-7170-11e7-b4b1-13482c0e2fd6.html) federal sentencing reforms has led to a shrinking prisoner population.

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/04/private-prison-demands-new-mexico-and-feds-find-300-more-prisoners-in-60-days-or-it-will-close_partner/

no worries, racist J-Beau is on the case, more prisoners, maximum sentences coming up soon.

boutons_deux

08-06-2017, 03:14 PM

Screening Out Family Time: The for-profit video visitation industry in prisons and jails

While virtually no state prisons ban in-person visitation,

we found that 74% of jails banned in-person visits when they implemented video visitation.

Though abolishing in-person visits is common in the jail video visitation context, Securus is the only company that explicitly requires this harmful practice in its contracts

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/visitation/report.html?link_id=1&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-27-million-kids-have-parents-in-prison-they-need-your-help-firstname-default-friend-add-your-name-3&email_referrer=27-million-kids-have-parents-in-prison-they-need-your-help-firstname-default-friend-add-your-name-3&email_subject=fcc-commissioner-this-is-the-greatest-form-of-regulatory-injustice-i-have-seen-in-my-18-years

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08-09-2017, 02:45 PM

HOW PETER THIEL'S SECRETIVE DATA COMPANY PUSHED INTO POLICING

When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad’s Palantir data analysis system in November 2014, he expected key details to remain hidden from unauthorized users’ eyes. In police work, this can be crucial—a matter of life and death, even. It often involves protecting vulnerable witnesses, keeping upcoming operations hush hush, or protecting a fellow police officer who’s working undercover.

someone working in the gang crimes division ran a car license plate mentioned in his case and was able to read the entire file. “Can you please look at this?”

Two weeks after he made his first complaint, his sensitive case was still an open book to other detectives at Long Beach PD. “I went over to Gangs and had them run the plate since they are not listed in our confidentiality group, and sure enough the plate was found within the narrative of the very report we want to keep tight control on,” he complained in an email to Palantir.

Four months later, his case was still visible to other officers, and he was still sending emails to Palantir to fix the problem.

Law enforcement accounts for just a small part of Palantir’s business, which mostly consists of military clients, intelligence outfits like the CIA or Homeland Security, and large financial institutions.

In police departments, Palantir’s tools are now being used to flag traffic scofflaws, parole violators, and other everyday infractions.

But the police departments that deploy Palantir are also dependent upon it for some of their most sensitive work.

Palantir’s software can ingest and sift through millions of digital records across multiple jurisdictions, spotting links and sharing data to make or break cases.

The scale of Palantir’s implementation, the type, quantity and persistence of the data it processes, and the unprecedented access that many thousands of people have to that data all raise significant concerns about privacy, equity, racial justice, and civil rights.

But until now, we haven’t known very much about how the system works, who is using it, and what their problems are.

And neither Palantir nor many of the police departments that use it are willing to talk about it.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-secretive-data-company-pushed-into-policing/

Thiel doesn't mind widely "outing" personal data to police (and probably corrupt PIs), but he was sure pissed at Gawker for outing him as gay.

boutons_deux

08-15-2017, 04:26 PM

Bexar County Sheriff's Office identifies deputies allegedly involved in hazing incident

The seven deputies were placed on administrative leave after a hazing incident at a house party that involved county-issued handcuffs, shackles and a taser, Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday in a news conference.

Salazar said criminal charges are being considered, including hazing, unlawful restraint and child endangerment.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/Bexar-County-Sheriff-s-Office-deputies-involved-11821324.php?cmpid=breakingnewsletter&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=mySA%20-%20BREAKING%20NEWS&utm_campaign=mySA%20-%20Breaking%20News

San Antonio's FINEST! :lol

btw, SAPD has a 100+ vacancies, a great opportunity for you rightwingers to get union jobs for beating up blacks and browns.

boutons_deux

08-17-2017, 05:01 PM

Welcome to Georgia, the epicenter of the private probation

After pleading guilty and serving ten days in jail over the DUI, he was put on probation to ensure he paid off the $3,385 he had racked up in fines. The judge turned him over to a probation company called Sentinel Offender Services. Sentinel was just supposed to make sure Slider paid his fines.

Instead, it outfitted Slider with a bulky ankle bracelet that would check his sweat for alcohol every half hour, even though his sentence didn’t forbid him from drinking, and charged him more money.

Slider was required to pay $330 a month for the device, on top of the $708 per month he had to pay toward his fines. Throw in $450 a month for child support, and Slider’s obligations nearly exceeded his total monthly income. Hundreds of dollars in these monthly costs went straight to Sentinel.

In theory, probation in the U.S. is a way to give people a chance to rehabilitate outside of an institution. Misdemeanor probation is presented as a gentler sentence than jail. But in practice, much of misdemeanor probation is just a prolonged, expensive payment plan for people who can’t afford fines.

And for Fred Slider, the whole system backfired. He fell deeper and deeper into debt until he ended up back in court in late 2015 over non-payment and a monitoring violation; Sentinel said the ankle monitor showed evidence of tampering, which Slider denies. The judge sent him back to jail. After he got out, he lost his job, fell into a depression, and started drinking a lot, his mother said. One night he got drunk and ran his car off the road, suffering a traumatic brain injury.

Sentinel, the company that put the ankle monitor on Slider, was founded in 1993.

It boasts contracts in 48 states for a variety of “offender services” (https://www.sentineladvantage.com/) many of which are “offender-funded.” The company does probation supervision, GPS ankle monitoring, and even anger management classes (https://www.sentineladvantage.com/community-based-programs/),

all for a fee to defendants.
The private probation industry has grown over the last two decades:

In Georgia alone, there are dozens of companies like Sentinel. They contract directly with municipal courts, dealing mostly with cases of traffic violations and petty crimes, replacing what used to be court-run probation offices.

The companies charge the probationers themselves a monthly fee, selling the model as a money-saver for cities and counties.

But much of the time, the original probation is due simply to an inability to pay fines to the court.

In other words, private probation is an expensive substitute for a payment plan.

The result is nothing short of a racket.

https://theoutline.com/post/2103/welcome-to-georgia-the-epicenter-of-the-private-probation-racket?utm_source=NL

$330/month for a bracelet would pay for a loan for a BMW or Mercedes.

boutons_deux

08-18-2017, 06:53 AM

‘We were guinea pigs’: Jailed inmates agreed to birth control

In a small county in rural Tennessee, inmates were offered 30 days off their sentences

in exchange for a vasectomy or a long-acting birth control implant.

County officials say it was a tool in the fight against opiate abuse -

opponents call it eugenics.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40955288

fucking slave states, as backward, retrograde as ever, esp the rurals.

boutons_deux

08-19-2017, 08:56 AM

O.C. mass shooter is spared death penalty in case tainted by jail informant scandal

The county’s beleaguered law enforcement leaders received their most stinging rebuke yet on Friday, when Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals blocked prosecutors from pursuing the death penalty against a man who confessed to slaughtering eight people in a Seal Beach salon, ruling that

the county’s mishandling of information regarding informants would prevent a fair trial.

As he has through years of hearings, Goethals sharply criticized the conduct of sheriff’s officials and prosecutors. Time and time again, he said,

the Sheriff’s Department failed to comply with his orders to turn over information about the use of informants in the county jail.
“The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has consistently responded to this court’s lawful orders with such indolence and obfuscation

that this court has lost confidence that it can ever secure compliance from the prosecution team,” Goethals wrote in his 19-page decision.

If not for missteps by prosecutors and sheriff’s officials, Goethals wrote, Dekraai “would likely today be living alongside other convicted killers on California’s Death Row.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-informant-scandal-20170818-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

08-23-2017, 06:22 PM

As Taser warns of more risks, cities bear a burden in court

“I did not in my wildest dreams expect this kid to die,” Haas, a certified Taser instructor, told Reuters.

As Tasers have become a common weapon in U.S. policing, so too have legal cases like Everette Howard’s.

And as the human toll mounts, the litigation toll is increasingly borne by the public.

At least 442 wrongful death suits have been filed over fatalities that followed the use of a Taser, almost all since the stun guns began gaining widespread popularity with police in the early 2000s,

Police departments and the municipalities they represent have faced 435 of these suits.

The manufacturer was a defendant in 128 of them.

In all, wrongful death lawsuits were filed in at least 44 percent of the 1,000-plus incidents Reuters identified in which someone died after being stunned with a Taser by police.

In nearly 75 percent of the suits, the Taser was one factor alleged in a broader array of force applied, such as punches, baton strikes and pepper spray.

Reuters documented at least $172 million in publicly funded payouts to resolve the litigation.

Behind these legal battles is a troubling truth: Many officers aren’t aware Tasers have the potential to kill.

Some officers still fire their Tasers at the chest. Since the 2009 warning, 44 of the 199 wrongful death lawsuits filed against police, or more than 20 percent, have included allegations that an officer's Taser shot hit that part of the body,

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taser-legal-specialreport-idUSKCN1B315U?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29

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08-24-2017, 03:36 PM

Judge orders DreamHost to hand over anti-Trump website records to Justice Department

the government backed down somewhat (https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16186474/justice-department-trump-ip-addresses-requests), clarifying that it would not ask for IP addresses. The Justice Department said it was only looking for records on how

the website was allegedly used “to organize, to plan, and to effect a criminal act — that is, a riot.” :lol

In today’s ruling, a DC Superior Court judge ordered DreamHost to comply with the amended warrant, although the court will oversee how the data is searched,

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/24/16199474/judge-order-dreamhost-trump-warrant

blatant intimidation by the racist Sessions/Trash police state, blatant abuse of the law for political ends.

no IP addresses, so that means names, tel nr, addresses, connection log, etc, etc. will still be handed over?

boutons_deux

08-26-2017, 07:03 PM

DAPL SECURITY FIRM TIGERSWAN RESPONDED TO PIPELINE VANDALISM BY LAUNCHING MULTISTATE DRAGNET (https://theintercept.com/2017/08/26/dapl-security-firm-tigerswan-responded-to-pipeline-vandalism-by-launching-multistate-dragnet/)

Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

the work of TigerSwan, the private security company hired by Energy Transfer Partners to guard its property, appeared to be nearly done. Then the pipeline was hit by several acts of vandalism targeting valve sites along the route. Starting in mid-March, saboteurs snaked down the line, piercing holes in exposed parts of the pipeline and setting equipment on fire.
The vandalism, which disrupted completion of the pipeline, created new work for TigerSwan. But the company did more than deploy additional guards along the line — it also embarked on a multistate hunt for the culprits.

TigerSwan was founded amid a private security industry boom, its business driven by U.S. government contracts supporting the nation’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. With its Dakota Access Pipeline contracts, agents applied the tactics they had honed in wars abroad to an environmental and indigenous rights movement based in the rural American Midwest.

“Our concentrated focus is the massing of intelligence (digital and ground) to find, fix and eliminate one person from the ‘detachment’ who will lead us to the arrest and conviction to the remainder of these terrorists,” TigerSwan wrote on May 4 (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3940287-Internal-TigerSwan-Situation-Report-2017-05-04.html), echoing a phrase (https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/a-visual-glossary/), “find, fix, finish,” used by U.S. special operations forces in so-called targeted killing campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan. The firm used the term “detachment” to refer (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3940280-Internal-TigerSwan-Situation-Report-2017-04-23.html) to a group of anti-DAPL activists they believed were operating outside of protest camps.

TigerSwan’s surveillance operation frequently reached far beyond its mark, sweeping up dozens of individuals in its hunt for a few and casting suspicion on pipeline opponents who say they were uninterested in property destruction.

while protest activity had substantially died down, TigerSwan only escalated its efforts to convince Energy Transfer Partners that threats remained. In its reports, TigerSwan indicated to its client that agents could keep the pipeline safe by deploying infiltrators to influence activists’ actions, monitoring private residences connected to pipeline resistance, and recruiting employees at local businesses to help keep watch.

the threats described in the situation reports were often inflated. Reports were framed based on “whatever sounded better for the company to put forth to ETP,” the former contractor said. “They were using scare tactics.

around the time that Little Creek opened in February, videos began appearing on Facebook pages called Defend Iowa (https://www.facebook.com/defendiowa/) and Netizens for Progress and Justice (https://www.facebook.com/NetizensForProgress/) featuring an individual named Robert Rice, who failed to disclose his link to TigerSwan. A September 22 document (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3755589-Internal-TigerSwan-Situation-Report-2016-09-22.html) noted that Rice had assisted TigerSwan in developing an information operations campaign. He didn’t just warn area residents that Little Creek members might be dangerous — at least one video also encouraged people to send tips to the administrators of the Facebook page on what they were seeing and hearing about the camp.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/26/dapl-security-firm-tigerswan-responded-to-pipeline-vandalism-by-launching-multistate-dragnet/

ETP hires TigerSwan as its own, private EXTRAJUDICIAL militarized goon squad.

boutons_deux

08-28-2017, 10:07 AM

and FUCK YOU, posse comitatus

Trump to restore program sending surplus military weapons, equipment to police

President Donald Trump plans to resume the transfer of surplus weapons, vehicles and other equipment from the nation’s military to its state and local law enforcement agencies, reviving a program that was sharply curtailed by President Barack Obama two years ago.

The program launched in 1990 but was greatly limited after public reaction to images of heavily militarized police in the streets of Ferguson, Mo., and other sites of civil unrest.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the move Monday morning at the Fraternal Order of Police convention in Nashville, and said the president would do so by executive order. The police union had lobbied for the restoration of the program, and Trump said he would do so during his campaign.

“Protective equipment :lol :lol is essential to officer and public safety in a wide variety of life and death situations,”

Obama said in 2015 that

“militarized gear sometimes gives people a feeling like [police] are an occupying force as opposed to a part of the community there to protect them. Some equipment made for the battlefield is not appropriate for local police departments.” ( sometimes? :lol )

“represents a policy shift toward ensuring officers have the tools they need to reduce crime :lol and keep their communities safe. :lol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/08/27/trump-restores-program-sending-surplus-military-weapons-equipment-to-police/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_police-weapons-955pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c8d92487de21

boutons_deux

08-28-2017, 04:23 PM

Well, it's fucking Oklahoma, no surprise (google the Tulsa massacre)

An Oklahoma Police Chief Was Just Busted For Owning Neo-Nazi Websites

A local news station in Colbert, Oklahoma, KXII News (http://www.kxii.com/content/news/New-Colbert-police-chiefs-name-linked-to-neo-Nazi-websites-441804593.html), has exposed a newly appointed police chief for his links to websites that sell skinhead and white nationalist paraphernalia.

KXII News tracked down the certificate of ownership (http://media.graytvinc.com/images/cart+ownership.jpg) for ISD Records; the owner was a local man named Bart Alsbrook.

The Colbert Police Department named Bart Alsbrook interim police chief (http://www.kxii.com/content/news/Colbert-hires-third-police-chief-of-the-year-441469523.html)this week.

After KXII News called to confront Alsbrook about the website, he denied it was him.

After a nationwide search for another Bart Alsbrook returned absolutely no results, the news station again called Alsbrook, who now

“claimed a group of skinheads (http://www.kxii.com/content/news/New-Colbert-police-chiefs-name-linked-to-neo-Nazi-websites-441804593.html) stole his wallet and began using his name after a fight at a heavy metal concert in the 1990’s.” :lol

Within hours of KXII News calling Alsbrook, his website was taken offline.

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/08/26/oklahoma-police-chief-just-busted-owning-neo-nazi-websites/

Trill Clinton

08-31-2017, 10:43 AM

903044035740393472

Thread

08-31-2017, 10:45 AM

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08-31-2017, 10:51 AM

Trill Clinton

08-31-2017, 10:51 AM

What'd you think, Trill? tee, hee.

‘Kill all white people’: Suspect in killings of five white men made threat in 2014

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article170340652.html#storylink=cpy

I think that young man has very serious mental health issues and I hope he is given psychiatric treatment before he hurts himself or anyone else.

Look at this psycho.
892165782867771394

Thread

08-31-2017, 10:54 AM

I think that young man has very serious mental health issues and I hope he is given psychiatric treatment before he hurts himself or anyone else.

I'll just bet you do.

Trill Clinton

08-31-2017, 10:55 AM

I'll just bet you do.

What do you think about the thug posing with the two pistols?

Thread

08-31-2017, 10:56 AM

What do you think about the thug posing with the two pistols?

Ask me when the count is even.

Trill Clinton

08-31-2017, 11:00 AM

Ask me when the count is even.

Lol smh

boutons_deux

09-01-2017, 11:31 AM

‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, arrests her for doing her job

the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital’s burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn’t allowed to draw blood from a badly injured patient.

The detective didn’t have a warrant, first off.

And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent.

Without that, the detective was

barred from collecting blood samples — not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law.
Still, Detective Jeff Payne insisted that he be let in to take the blood, saying the nurse would be arrested and charged if she refused.

Nurse Alex Wubbels politely stood her ground. She got her supervisor on the phone so Payne could hear the decision loud and clear.

“Sir,” said the supervisor, “you’re making a huge mistake because you’re threatening a nurse.”

Payne snapped.

He seized hold of the nurse, shoved her out of the building and cuffed her hands behind her back.

A bewildered Wubbels screamed “help me” and “you’re assaulting me” as the detective forced her into an unmarked car and accused her of interfering with an investigation.

Wubbels was right. The U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly ruled (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/supreme-court-requires-warrants-for-some-but-not-all-drunk-driving-tests/2016/06/23/fa1033dc-395f-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html?utm_term=.fbd9873e82e5) that blood can only be drawn from drivers for probable cause, with a warrant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/this-is-crazy-sobs-utah-hospital-nurse-as-cop-roughs-her-up-arrests-her-for-doing-her-job/?undefined=&utm_term=.69e3193bd5e0&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

I bet tubby wubby Wubbels gets off with a reprimand, or he does like most bad cops, joins the sheriff's posse.

Trill Clinton

09-02-2017, 10:56 AM

kWtY8MEJgBY

boutons_deux

09-02-2017, 12:09 PM

the miliatarized police state (includes prosecutors, DA, elected judges, incarceration nation), 99.9% immune from prosecution, has really fucked over what was left of the myth of American "civilization"

Trill Clinton

09-07-2017, 01:45 PM

las vegas police department asks the nfl to investigate michael bennet. just take the L, man http://i66.tinypic.com/141744.jpg

905845854128529408

boutons_deux

09-13-2017, 12:35 PM

Mississippi cop tasered pregnant woman in the stomach even as she begged them to stop: witness

A police officer from Pass Christian, Mississippi, is being accused of tasering a pregnant woman in the stomach even after she implored him not to because of the harm it could do to her unborn baby.

The Miami Sun Herald reports (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article173028961.html) that 27-year-old Aviana White got into a confrontation with police after they pulled over her brother’s car and discovered that he did not have a driver’s license.

White, who was a passenger in the car, had an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor domestic violence charge from 2014, and refused to tell officers her name.

At some point during the confrontation, White walked away from the car and placed a phone call to the Pass Christian Police Department to complain about her treatment.

At that point, witnesses say an officer “charged” toward her while holding a stun gun before grabbing White.

Witnesses tell the Sun Herald that White then told the officer to be careful with the taser because she was pregnant.

Witness Alicia Burton says that the officer didn’t listen to her, and proceeded to taser her three times in the abdomen, and once in the leg.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/mississippi-cop-tasered-pregnant-woman-in-the-stomach-even-as-she-begged-them-to-stop-witness/

official report will say something like: "Fantastic, Wonderful, Perfect officer did not violate any dept protocols. Case dismissed"

boutons_deux

09-13-2017, 04:58 PM

EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border

Lawsuit on Behalf of 11 Travelers Challenges Unconstitutional Searches of Electronic Devices

The plaintiffs in the case are 10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident who hail from seven states and come from a variety of backgrounds.

The lawsuit challenges the government’s fast-growing practice of searching travelers’ electronic devices without a warrant.

It seeks to establish that the government must have a warrant based on probable cause to suspect a violation of immigration or customs laws before conducting such searches.

The plaintiffs include a military veteran, journalists, students, an artist, a NASA engineer, and a business owner. Several are Muslims or people of color.

All were reentering the country from business or personal travel when border officers searched their devices.

None were subsequently accused of any wrongdoing. Officers also confiscated and kept the devices of several plaintiffs for weeks or months—DHS has held one plaintiff’s device since January. EFF, ACLU, and the ACLU of Massachusetts are representing the 11 travelers.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-media-conference-call-today-announce-lawsuit-over-warrantless-phone-and

boutons_deux

09-13-2017, 05:07 PM

Kansas Bank Has Entire Arab-American Family Arrested After Father Tries to Deposit Check from Home Sale

“I would expect this in the 1950s. Not now.”

Kansas City resident Sattar Ali, an Iraqi-American doctoral student, was arrested along with his family after Ali attempted to deposit a large check from the sale of their home.

took a check for $151,000 from the sale of his family’s old house in Michigan to Wichita’s Emprise Bank.

As he told local news station KAKE (http://www.kake.com/story/36316591/wichita-family-arrested-making-bank-deposit), he brought verification documents along with him, but a few minutes after he presented tellers with the check, he was in handcuffs.

After being taken outside, Ali discovered his wife Hadil and their 15-year-old daughter Hawra were in the backseat of the police car waiting for him.

Sometime during their three-hour detainment, Ali said

police called his 11-year-old son’s school to tell them to hold him because his parents had been arrested.
He said he didn’t discover until after they were released that he and his family had been arrested because the bank claimed they could not verify the large check and believed it was fraudulent.

“No one told me why I was being arrested until we were being released,” Ali told the Sunflower. “They didn’t read me rights or anything.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/kansas-bank-has-entire-arab-american-family-arrested-after-father-tries-deposit

Yep, something's "Really The Matter With Kansas"

boutons_deux

09-15-2017, 01:25 PM

ICE Wants to Destroy Its Records of In-Custody Deaths, Sexual Assault, and Other Detainee Files

As ICE steps up enforcement operations—and abuses—the agency is simultaneously asking to cover over its own history

In July, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)—the agency charged with maintaining records produced by the federal government—

published a request made by

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin destroying detainee records,

including those related to

in-custody deaths,

sexual assault, and the

use of solitary confinement.

The request (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5722daf11d07c02f9c1739cc/t/599c58c859cc682fb9ff93b7/1503418568853/ICE_NARA-request_detainee-records.pdf) has been preliminarily approved (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5722daf11d07c02f9c1739cc/t/599c58dc579fb35b895fa6fd/1503418593227/ICE_NARA-appraisal_detainee-records.pdf).

The petition to destroy records comes at a time when ICE has been tasked with increasing its enforcement operations,

widening its apprehension net to include groups of previously protected people,

even those benefiting from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that was rescinded on September 5.

Unless Congress passes some version of the Dream Act, DACA recipients will see their protection begin to expire next March.

ICE petitioned to begin destroying some types of records as quickly as three years after they are created, 20 years for others.

https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-wants-to-destroy-its-records-of-in-custody-deaths-sexual-assault-and-other-detainee-files/

What is ICE intending to COVERUP, to hide from citizens?

https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-wants-to-destroy-its-records-of-in-custody-deaths-sexual-assault-and-other-detainee-files/

boutons_deux

09-21-2017, 10:46 PM

Officer Riley, fucking St Louis, of course

https://am22.akamaized.net/ln/cnt/uploads/2017/09/Deron-Riley.jpg

Chucho

09-21-2017, 11:34 PM

Officer Riley, fucking St Louis, of course

https://am22.akamaized.net/ln/cnt/uploads/2017/09/Deron-Riley.jpg
So what? He's right, you twit.

boutons_deux

09-23-2017, 06:25 PM

D.C. Appeals Court Rules Sting-Ray Devices Unconstitutional

We agree with Mr. Jones that the government violated the Fourth Amendment when it deployed the cell-site simulator against him without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause.

Further, we reverse the trial court‘s inevitable-discovery ruling and reject the government‘s argument (not resolved by the trial court) that the good-faith doctrine precludes applying the exclusionary rule in this case.

Because the admission at trial of the evidence obtained as a result of the unlawful search was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we reverse Mr. Jones‘s convictions.

The devices are small enough to fit in an undercover vehicle.

The device creates a very strong but fake cell tower signal which causes phones nearby (perhaps in the whole neighborhood) to connect to it.

When the phones connect, the device then captures a lot of personal information.

This is particularly helpful to police when they suspect a certain person of say dealing drugs, and know where he is, but don't know his phone number, because he gets a new throw-away phone every few weeks.

But it's problematic because the device is capturing the same personal information from all phones in the area.

It's a dragnet.

Put another way (http://www.talkleft.com/story/2014/11/7/141334/970/crimepolicy/FBI-Director-Justifies-Agency-s-Impersonation-of-Media):

[stingray devices] are used to locate a suspect's phone but in the process, capture phone numbers and data from the cell phones of everyone in the neighborhood.

A stingray device simulates a cell phone tower and by its strength, tricks all cell phones in the area into using it.

Since it's not really a cell phone tower, the cell phone's information goes right to the stingray device.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2017/9/21/163443/103/civilliberties/D-C-Appeals-Court-Rules-Sting-Ray-Devices-Unconstitutional

Splits

09-24-2017, 05:54 PM

911516909891354624

Now that's the shit.

boutons_deux

10-01-2017, 03:50 PM

Mich. House speaker pushes driver debt forgiveness plan

GOP House Speaker Tom Leonard announced a bipartisan plan Thursday to repeal “driver responsibility fees,” or extra fees some drivers must pay in addition to a traffic ticket.

More than 300,000 Michigan drivers owe nearly $600 million collectively to the state due to such fees, according to the state Department of Treasury.

A report issued Tuesday by the Virginia-based Legal Aid Justice Center found Michigan is one of five states that require judges to seize people’s licenses if they fail to pay court fees after a trial or hearing — even if they can’t pay and their case didn’t involve a traffic violation.

Michigan has currently suspended the licenses of more than 100,000 drivers for an indefinite time, according to the report.

“As a prosecutor in Genesee County, I saw every day the awful impact these unfair fees had on Michigan families,” Leonard, R-DeWitt, said in a statement. “Far too many working people who received a ticket and paid their fine were hit with new, impossible surcharges, often costing them their licenses, and then their jobs, and then their ability to ever pay off the mountain of debt.

“These are good people who just want to get to work and drive to school to pick up their children.

They want to do the right thing, but the government has them trapped in a cycle of failure from which they can never escape. That is not right, and it is well past time we repealed this unjust mistake,” he said.

Former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation in 2003 enacting the fees.

Leonard and others argue that they penalize drivers and can lead to a cycle of more court fees and fines that stop many Michigan drivers from getting back on the road.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/28/house-driver-debt-forgiveness/106075174/

boutons_deux

10-01-2017, 03:52 PM

Lawmakers say Driver Responsibility Program repeal unlikely this session

A measure to repeal the widely unpopular program made it out of the House but died before hitting the Senate floor.

The Driver Responsibility Program, created in 2003 to help cover a budget shortfall, requires drivers convicted of certain traffic offenses, such as speeding and driving while intoxicated, to pay additional annual surcharges on top of any court fines and criminal penalties to maintain their driver’s licenses.

More than 1 million Texas drivers have had their licenses revoked because of the program, and DPS has collected hundreds of millions of dollars since its inception, money that goes toward funding trauma centers.

The widely unpopular program has been in legislators' crosshairs for several sessions, but the biggest obstacle to its abolishment has been the possibility of losing trauma center funding.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/26/lawmakers-say-driver-responsibility-program-repeal-unlikely-session/

boutons_deux

10-05-2017, 04:26 PM

GA sheriff, deputies face charges after high school lockdown to search all 900 students for drugs (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/4/1704148/-GA-sheriff-deputies-face-charges-after-high-school-lockdown-to-search-all-900-students-for-drugs)

In March, the Sylvester Police Department entered Worth County High School in Georgia to conduct a drug search. The officers used a K-9 and came up empty, as no drugs were found.

Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby didn’t believe the Sylvester police had done a thorough enough job, so he and deputies Tyler Turner and Deidra Whiddon entered Worth County High School,

put the school on lockdown for two hours,

separated the boys from the girls,

ordered them up against the wall, and

searched all 900 students for drugs. (http://www.walb.com/story/35168276/worth-co-sheriff-defends-controversial-school-search)

This week a grand jury returned six charges against the sheriff and two deputies: (http://www.walb.com/story/36521132/worth-grand-jury-returns-six-indictments-after-controversial-school-search)

Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby is being charged with violation of oath by a public officer, two counts of false imprisonment under color of law and one count of sexual battery.

The indictment says the Sheriff violated the terms of his oath by ordering deputies to search students at Worth County High School on April 14, 2017 without probable cause or any other legal basis and without due process.

It goes on to say that

he and one of his deputies intentionally made physical contact with intimate parts of a male student’s body by touching the student’s groin.

Worth County Deputies Tyler Turner and Deidra Whiddon, also known as Deidra Tucker, are also facing charges.
Turner for sexual battery and violation of oath by a public officer and Tucker for violation of oath by a public officer.

No drugs were found in the search.

The lawsuit claims the deputies conducted the search without individualized suspicion.
"The Fourth Amendment requires individualized suspicion before a police officer would be able to touch the child,"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/4/1704148/-GA-sheriff-deputies-face-charges-after-high-school-lockdown-to-search-all-900-students-for-drugs?detail=emaildkre

boutons_deux

10-05-2017, 08:19 PM

Session DoJ in action, intimidating citizens on behalf of the oligarchy

The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms (https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/)

the rescue of these two particular piglets has literally become a federal case — by all appearances, a matter of great importance to the Department of Justice. On the last day of August, a six-car armada of FBI agents in bulletproof vests, armed with search warrants, descended upon two small shelters for abandoned farm animals: Ching Farm Rescue in Riverton, Utah, and Luvin Arms in Erie, Colorado.

The attachments to the search warrants specified that the FBI agents could take “DNA samples (blood, hair follicles or ear clippings) to be seized from swine with the following characteristics: I. Pink/white coloring; II. Docked tails; III. Approximately 5 to 9 months in age; IV. Any swine with a hole in right ear.”

the FBI used a snare to pressurize the piglet’s snout, thus immobilizing her in pain and fear, and then cut off close to two inches of the piglet’s ear.

Several volunteers at one of the raided animal shelters said they were followed back to their homes by FBI agents, who dramatically questioned them in front of family members and neighbors. And there is even reason to believe that the bureau has been surveilling the activists’ private communications regarding the rescue of this piglet duo.

Subsequent events confirmed that this show of FBI force was designed to intimidate the sanctuaries, which played no role in the rescue.

Obviously, the FBI and Smithfield — the nation’s largest industrial farm corporation (https://www.peta.org/features/smithfield/) — don’t really care about the missing piglets they are searching for.

What they care about is the efficacy of a political campaign intent on showing the public how animals are abused at factory farms, and they are determined to intimidate those responsible.

The Times article was published July 6. The search warrant against the sanctuaries was obtained the following month, in mid-August, and then executed on August 31. In the interim, the piglets had become stars of a clearly effective campaign against Smithfield Foods.

Government power abused to intimidate and punish activists

The Justice Department’s grave attention to a case of two missing piglets reflects how vigilantly the U.S. government uses extreme measures to protect the agricultural industry — not from unjust economic loss, violent crime, or theft, but from political embarrassment and accurate reporting that damages the industry’s reputation.

A sweeping framework of draconian laws — designed to shield the industry from criticism and deter and punish its critics — has been enacted across the country by federal and state legislatures that are captive to the industry’s high-paid lobbyists. The most notorious of these measures are the “ag-gag” laws, which make publishing videos of farm conditions taken as part of undercover operations a felony, punishable by years in prison.

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/

Trill Clinton

10-06-2017, 03:09 PM

white privilege caught on film

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then we have this

vRCl_LJVs-4

boutons_deux

10-25-2017, 12:22 PM

ICE/CBP ignore the Constitution up to 200 mi from USA border.

'We don’t need a warrant': ICE agents illegally enter Oregon home to arrest man later released (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/23/1709066/--We-don-t-need-a-warrant-ICE-agents-illegally-enter-Oregon-home-to-arrest-man-later-released)

One of the agents insisted that there was no one living in the house and, because it was vacant, they didn't need a warrant.

But Cardenas said he never invited any of them inside and continued to ask them to leave.

They refused.

"At what point did I say he is here?" Cardenas calmly asked the agents, who are dressed in plainclothes.

"At what point did I say come in? At what point, can you please tell me?"

Cardenas asked repeatedly for the agents' names, but they stood silent or declined to provide them.

"We don't need to introduce ourselves by our names.

There's no law that says we have to," one of the agents said.

"There's a law that says you can't come into private property. Did you know that?" Cardenas asked.
"
That is correct and you are right," the agent replied.

While the agents stood around, the co-workers said they were calling the homeowner to come to the property.

Cardenas warned them that the owner would tell them to leave.

But by the end of the nearly eight-minute video, ICE agents had removed the paintbrush and cell phone from Bolanos’ hands to cuff him and place him in an ICE vehicle.

“Oregon’s two U.S. senators denounced the agents’ actions. Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Democrat representing Portland in the Oregon House of Representatives, tweeted: ‘They had no warrant, ICE is out of line.’”

this sort of incident, “all too common. We see it time and time again where ICE officers actively engaged in pursuing someone show up in plain clothes,

don’t display badges, and

get incredibly aggressive

when met with natural shock by those they are targeting.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/23/1709066/--We-don-t-need-a-warrant-ICE-agents-illegally-enter-Oregon-home-to-arrest-man-later-released?detail=emaildkre

The unstoppable, unaccountable police state is fundamental to America's unfuckability.

boutons_deux

10-25-2017, 10:19 PM

DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet

If you can't see that, it's a subpoena asking for information on the following five Twitter users:

@dawg8u (https://twitter.com/dawg8u) ("Mike Honcho"),
@abtnatural (https://twitter.com/abtnatural) ("Virgil"),
@Popehat (https://twitter.com/Popehat) (Ken White),
@associatesmind (https://twitter.com/associatesmind) (Keith Lee) and
@PogoWasRight (https://twitter.com/pogowasright) (Dissent Doe).

And what info does the DOJ want on them? Well, basically everything:

Names (including subscriber names, user names, and screen names);
Addresses (including mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, and e-mail addresses);
Records of session times and durations, and the temporarily assigned network addresses (such as Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses) associated with those sessions;
Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;
Telephone or instrument numbers (including MAC addresses, Electronic Serial Numbers ("ESN"), Mobile Electronic Identity Numbers ("MEIN"), Mobile Equipment Identifier ("MEID"), Mobile Identification Numbers ("MIN"), Subscriber Identity Modules ("SIM"), Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Numbers ("MSISDND"), International Mobile Subscriber Identifier ("IMSI"), or International Mobile Equipment Identities ("IMEI"));
Other subscriber numbers or identities, or associated accounts (including the registration Internet Protocol ("IP") address);
Means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number) and billing records.

Why the hell would the DOJ want all that?

Would you believe it appears to be over a single tweet from someone to each of those five individuals that consists entirely of a smiley face?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-subpoenas-twitter-about-popehat-dissent-doe-others-over-smiley-emoji-tweet.shtml

dickless liddle Sessions intimidating, harassing gratuitously, because he can

boutons_deux

10-26-2017, 12:01 PM

Mississippi judge resigns after barring mother from seeing her baby for 14 months over unpaid court fees

The Clarion-Ledger reports (https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/10/26/unpaid-court-fines-block-mother-from-child/802254001/) that Pearl Youth Court Judge John Shirley has resigned under pressure from local activists who decried his decision to impose a no-contact order on a resident of Jackson, Miss., who is identified in court documents only as “Mother A.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/mississippi-judge-resigns-after-barring-mother-from-seeing-her-baby-for-14-months-over-unpaid-court-fees/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Judge is white, any bets on the race of the mother? in Mississippi? :lol

boutons_deux

10-26-2017, 12:06 PM

Trump’s Deportation Cops Just Arrested A Ten-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Right After She Left Surgery

the sadism and unnecessary cruelty with which the United States Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency eagerly employs in their “work” is horrifying to behold.

Their most recent victim is Rosamaria Hernandez, a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was brought to the United States when she was three years old. ICE stopped her ambulance, followed the ambulance to the hospital, and waited for her to have surgery. (http://thehill.com/homenews/news/357274-immigration-agents-detain-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy-after-surgery)

Once she was released from the hospital, the agents arrested her and took her to an internment camp for migrant children – not back to her parents, who are undocumented immigrants living in Laredo, Texas.

As if that wasn’t enough, Hernandez’s family told reporters that ICE agents lied to them and said the girl had been taken to a hospital in Mexico and not to Corpus Christi, where she actually was.

http://verifiedpolitics.com/trumps-deportation-cops-just-arrested-ten-year-old-cerebral-palsy-right-left-surgery/

Godwin says these sadistic, bullying CBP/ICE motherfuckers would robotically gas immigrants if ordered to.

boutons_deux

10-27-2017, 10:20 AM

Man shot by Chicago police officer is awarded $44.7 million

a Chicago police officer shot him in the head after a night of heavy drinking and that the troubled Police Department enabled the off-duty patrolman's violent behavior.

jurors said it took them less than 20 minutes to determine Officer Patrick Kelly fired a bullet into his best friend Michael LaPorta's skull in January 2010 and then misled investigators by insisting LaPorta tried to kill himself.

Because the jury found that the Police Department has a widespread problem with disciplining officers and failed to maintain an early-warning system, the city of Chicago is responsible for the $44.7 million award and LaPorta's legal fees, which likely also will be millions of dollars.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/man-shot-by-chicago-police-officer-is-awarded-44-7-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

10-30-2017, 10:07 PM

Trash's gestaop goons

Immigration agents have skirted policy in order to stalk people outside schools, hospitals, churches (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/30/1710980/-Immigration-agents-have-skirted-policy-in-order-to-stalk-people-outside-schools-hospitals-churches)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is also feeling the heat following Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents detaining (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/27/1710311/--This-is-an-immoral-travesty-Legislators-condemn-detention-of-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy) Rosamaria Hernandez, a 10-year-old child with cerebral palsy, in Texas last week after her emergency gallbladder surgery.

“ICE doesn't make arrests at sensitive locations like hospitals, schools, or churches,” the agency tweeted the day after the child was taken into custody (https://twitter.com/ICEgov/status/923537507828031488), “except in the case of a serious public safety threat.”

now that federal immigration agents under Border Patrol and ICE have been unshackled by Donald Trump

Just weeks after Trump took office: (https://thinkprogress.org/ice-agents-arrested-6-men-as-they-left-a-church-run-hypothermia-shelter-1d1c09f4c2b2/)

A group of men were reportedly arrested by immigration agents as they left a church-run hypothermia shelter last Wednesday, hinting that federal officials may be targeting houses of worship as they continue a recent wave of deportation raids.

ICE has flouted its policy in other “sensitive locations”

ICE agents in California also stalked and arrested an undocumented immigrant dad who was dropping two of his children off at their schools. (http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/us/california-father-ice-arrest-trnd/index.html) Agents again flouted the “sensitive locations” policy by arresting the undocumented dad after he drove off from the first school and before he arrived to the second one:

A 13-year-old girl on her way to school wailed as immigration agents took her handcuffed father away in a black car.

ICE agents yet again flouted the “sensitive locations” policy to swoop in and arrest an undocumented woman “who was awaiting emergency surgery for a brain tumor” at a hospital in Texas:

Sara Beltran-Hernandez, 26, a mother of two young children, was

bound by her hands and feet and removed by wheelchair

from Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth late Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who brought her to a detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1710980

boutons_deux

10-31-2017, 04:45 AM

racist Sessions has every intention of locking up 100Ks more of non-whites for posessesion

Can Someone Get Sentenced To Life For Selling A Dime Bag Of Pot? Yes

In 2008, Winslow was homeless on the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana. One night, an undercover cop approached (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16386384537685210068&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr) and asked him for “a girl” and some pot. Winslow got two dime bags of weed from a white dealer he knew and sold them to the officer. In all, he made five bucks from the sale, money he needed to buy food, he says.

Police arrested Winslow, but not the dealer, even though he’d profited more handsomely from the sale; the marked $20 bill was found on him.

During Winslow’s trial, prosecutors pointed to his long criminal history as a reason to put him away. But court records show he was far from a criminal mastermind. He had two nonviolent priors and a drug charge, which is not uncommon for poor people living on and off the streets.

Still, after the predominantly white jury voted (https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/111213a-lwop-complete-report.pdf) guilty, he was deemed

a habitual offender. Under Louisiana law, that meant an automatic sentence of hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.
According to the ACLU’s “A Living Death (https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/111213a-lwop-complete-report.pdf)” report, as of 2012, 3,278 people were serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes—and that’s just federally and in nine states.

The states that have locked away the most people per capita are Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. :lol

a Gallup poll released (https://news.gallup.com/poll/221018/record-high-support-legalizing-marijuana.aspx) Wednesday found that 64 percent of Americans want legal weed

A slew of factors contributed to long sentences for drug crimes, but it mostly comes down to

aggressive prosecutors and the legal tools lawmakers have given them in the past few decades.

There are the mandatory minimum and habitual offender laws passed (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/pot-prisoners-meet-five-victims-of-the-war-on-drugs-w502337/fate-vincent-winslow-w502338) at the height of the crack panic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Because of mandatory minimums, often well-meaning reforms end up empowering

police and prosecutors in ways that target people of color and poor people at disproportionate rates.

Take gun charges;

aggressive prosecutors can stack up gun charges to inflate sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.

Michael Thompson got 40-60 years after selling a few pounds of weed to a police informant in a sting in 1994, in part because some guns were found in his house (two were antiques and one allegedly belonged to his wife).

Another reason someone might get a long sentence for marijuana crimes is through the use of conspiracy charges.

conspiracy charges can trigger an automatic LWOP sentence. “If you know anything about the 1960s…people didn’t go to prison for doing lots of things that they get buried for now,”

Yet, because of how conspiracy charges work, he was on the hook for all the drugs sold over the years by others involved in the operation.

“Everything that was done by anybody during that time was attributed to him when he was indicted,”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/can-someone-get-sentenced-life-selling-dime-bag-pot-yes/

America's so-called "justice" system is fundamentally, pervasively corrupt, a big reason why America is fucked and unfuckable.

boutons_deux

10-31-2017, 04:54 AM

Christian Taliban in DHS enforcing Christian Sharia in violation of the Constitution.

Scott Lloyd Must Be Stopped

A Trump administration official may have broken the law in blocking undocumented minors’ access to abortion. Will he face any consequences?

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/171026_JUR_scottLloyd.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg

Lloyd has prohibited (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/11/trump_administration_won_t_let_unaccompanied_immig rant_minors_get_abortions.html)undocumented minors in federal custody from obtaining abortions.

He has instructed subordinates to prevent these minors from meeting with attorneys and from going to court to request permission to terminate their pregnancies.

He has personally met with multiple minors to coerce them to carry their unwanted pregnancies to term.

A federal court ruled on Tuesday (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/24/d_c_circuit_allows_undocumented_minor_to_obtain_ab ortion.html) that Lloyd violated the Constitution (https://www.scribd.com/document/362508573/DC-Circuit-En-Banc) when he refused to let an undocumented minor known as Jane Doe obtain an abortion.

This ruling casts serious doubt on the constitutionality of ORR’s broader policy, which bars federally funded shelters from taking “any action that facilitates” abortion without approval from Lloyd (which he will never provide).

The Jane Doe case also raised questions about the broader legality of Lloyd’s actions.

An ethics watchdog group and two congressional representatives are now looking into whether Lloyd should be charged with abuse of public office.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/will_scott_lloyd_face_any_consequences_for_his_ant i_abortion_crusade.html

boutons_deux

10-31-2017, 04:57 AM

Atlanta hospital blocks father from donating kidney to his 2-year-old son because of a parole violation

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/atlanta-family-slams-hospital-and-police-for-preventing-a-father-from-donating-a-kidney-to-his-2-year-old-son/

... blacks, of course, in fucking Confederate Georgia

boutons_deux

11-01-2017, 07:06 AM

It’s completely legal for NYPD cops to have sex with someone under arrest; this could change that

After two Brooklyn cops were accused of raping detained teen, a New York politician is proposing legislation

Two NYPD officers were charged Monday with rape and kidnapping, after allegedly forcing an 18-year-old woman to have sex with them while she was detained in their custody The New York Times reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/nyregion/nypd-detectives-rape-kidnapping-charges.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2 Fnyregion).

The incident occurred in Brooklyn on September 15. The two detectives, Edward Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, claimed the sex was consensual. Both officers pled not-guilty and were released on bail.

While New York State law outlines that incarcerated individuals are unable to give sexual consent to corrections officers (and the same for those on parole to their parole officers) there is currently no law that bans sexual activity been officers and individuals under arrest or temporarily detained.

It is against NYPD policy to have sex on duty, and officers can be charged with official misconduct, but it is not actually illegal — a loophole that officers Martins and Hall attempted to exploit.
New York City Council Member Mark Treyger wants to change that. Representing the same district of Brooklyn in which the alleged rape took place, he has

proposed legislation that would make it illegal for an NYPD officer to engage in sexual activity with someone in police custody, in a police car, under arrest or during any police interaction whatsoever.

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/31/its-completely-legal-for-nypd-cops-to-have-sex-with-someone-under-arrest-this-could-change-that/

boutons_deux

11-01-2017, 05:49 PM

Denver to pay $4.6 million in black inmate's death

The city of Denver has agreed to pay $4.6 million to relatives of a black inmate who suffocated after jail deputies subdued him during a psychotic episode in 2015,

Denver will revise its policy on how deputies deal with mentally ill prisoners,

”If Michael could have been treated as a man in medical need, instead of like a criminal who was disobeying orders, he would still be alive today,” Rodney Marshall

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-denver-inmate-death/denver-to-pay-4-6-million-in-black-inmates-death-idUSKBN1D15ZG?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

boutons_deux

11-01-2017, 11:14 PM

APPEALS COURT LETS OFFICER OFF HOOK FOR ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL ARREST’ BECAUSE HE COULDN’T HAVE KNOWN IT VIOLATED RIGHTS

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of an officer in Colleyville, Texas, who used “excessive force” against an 18-year-old woman after police shot and killed her father.

The court asserted the officer could not have known force was “clearly unreasonable” in this situation, given the “lack of guiding precedent,” and granted him immunity for his actions.

Even though Erin Lincoln “sufficiently alleged violations of her right to be free from unreasonable seizure and excessive force,” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a district court and agreed the officer could not be sued.

The decision indicates Lincoln alleged the police shot and killed John Lincoln, her father, while she was standing next to him.

She fell to the ground and cried. Immediately,

Officer Patrick Turner handcuffed and tossed her over his shoulder.

“Turner carried her into the backyard,

hung her roughly over the back gate, and

then threw her onto her feet.

Erin was then put in the back of a police car in handcuffs,” she alleged.

She was in the car for a couple hours before

police took her to a station for a five-hour interrogation.

https://shadowproof.com/2017/11/01/appeals-court-lets-officer-off-hook-for-rough-and-unconstitutional-arrest-because-he-couldnt-have-known-it-violated-rights/

boutons_deux

11-02-2017, 07:03 AM

Report Finds DHS Terrible At Keeping Track Of Agents' Badges And Guns

Not really sure why we're putting the Department of Homeland Security (https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=dhs) in charge of securing anything.

Between fiscal years 2014 and 2016, the Department of Homeland Security personnel lost a total of 2,142 highly sensitive assets — 228 firearms; 1,889 badges; and 25 secure immigration stamps.

That's from the latest Inspector General's report (https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2017-10/OIG-18-05-Oct17.pdf) [PDF] on DHS components' ability to secure items that might wreak havoc -- ranging from inappropriate access to multiple deaths -- if left improperly secured.

This includes current presidential faves CBP and ICE -- both DHS components.

The bad news is it's good news:

Although this represents a slight improvement from our last audit, more than half of the lost items we reviewed (65 of 115) revealed that component personnel did not follow policy or used poor judgment when safeguarding these assets.

The IG should probably not expect more year-to-year improvements, no matter how slight.

In these cases, components did not always hold personnel accountable nor did they receive remedial training for failing to safeguard these sensitive assets.

Even with new controls designed to strengthen the security of sensitive assets, lost or stolen Federal firearms continue to be used to commit serious crimes. For instance, a media article reported a September 2015 robbery in which an attacker killed a man with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) firearm that was stolen from an unattended vehicle. The ICE agent failed to properly secure the weapon inside the vehicle in a high crime area.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171101/08402938526/report-finds-dhs-terrible-keeping-track-agents-badges-guns.shtml

DHS furnishing criminals with guns.

boutons_deux

11-02-2017, 01:03 PM

US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars (https://gizmodo.com/us-homeland-security-wants-facial-recognition-to-identi-1820070071)

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to develop technology that scans the faces of travelers as they enter and leave the US. The difficult part? The agency wants to do it without anyone needing to get out of their cars.

First spotted by Nextgov (http://cdn.nextgov.com/b/nextgov/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextgov.com%2Femerging-tech%2F2017%2F11%2Fdhs-wants-tech-scan-your-face-you-drive-mexico%2F142218%2F%3Foref%3Dng-HPriver), DHS has posted a public notice calling on technology companies to submit proposals for the system by January 2018.

The proposed program would allow Homeland Security to maintain a database of everyone who leaves and enters the US that would now include photos taken by spying robot-cameras at every border crossing.

Not only does DHS want this new facial recognition program to work without anyone having to exit their vehicle, the agency wants it to work even if the travelers are wearing things like sunglasses and hats. DHS also wants it to work without cars having to stop.

https://gizmodo.com/us-homeland-security-wants-facial-recognition-to-identi-1820070071

boutons_deux

11-02-2017, 10:09 PM

Another Stash House Sting Criticized By The Court... But Lengthy Sentences Left Untouched

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has let some more stash house sting convictions stand.

But not without considerable discussion of the government's tactics (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160809/14081135202/judge-says-stash-house-sting-operations-allow-prosecutors-to-be-judge-jury-executioner.shtml).

And not without one judge appending a long rebuke to her reluctant concurrence.

Once again, the ATF has managed to secure multiple convictions predicated on nonexistent evidence.

The sting, helmed by veteran ATF agent Richard Zayas, involved

a made-up drug stash house "containing" at least enough drugs to trigger 10-year mandatory minimum sentences for the defendants.

Zayas' sting operations always include fictitious armed stash house guards, otherwise the ATF's involvement would be unnecessary.

The end result is multiple convictions. But other than a few seized weapons,

nothing contributing to public safety was achieved.

No actual drug dealer was targeted,

nor was the sting linked with any larger ATF/DEA/FBI operation aimed at curbing inner city drug trade.

Nonetheless, the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court upholds everything, rejecting multiple due process challenges from the defendants.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171029/16431538509/another-stash-house-sting-criticized-court-lengthy-sentences-left-untouched.shtml

boutons_deux

11-04-2017, 02:52 PM

The US's Secretive Private Prison Industry Is About to Become Much Less Secretive

The private prison industry, which briefly went into free fall after President Obama's Justice Department announced the government would end its use of private prisons in August 2016, has found

new allies in President Donald Trump (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-business-booming-under-trump-private-prison-giant-gathers-at-presidents-resort/2017/10/25/b281d32c-adee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.57c70c6871d0) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- and is making fast dividends on the new deal (http://theweek.com/articles/684103/private-prisons-are-already-booming-under-president-trump).

Giants like GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) have received billions in taxpayer dollars for renewed government contracts, and have leveraged their private status to closely guard the details of each deal.

That's All About to Change, Though

On Oct. 10, the Supreme Court ruled against CCA and GEO (https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/supreme-court-rules-favor-government-transparency-against-private), which attempted to block Freedom of Information Act requests by government watchdog groups.

The decision marked a breakthrough for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the lawsuit in 2013 after two government agencies refused to release information about the detention bed quota --

a little known mandate that requires government agents to fill 34,000-bed immigrant detentions centers across the country.

The detention bed quota, which dates back to 2009, has inflated the incarceration rates at detention centers, including the Dilley complex, which is managed by CCA. CCA and GEO profit enormously from the policies; and

considering the amounts that these companies pay to lobby Congress (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/?utm_term=.899b1eb9b617), it's no wonder government officials are so averse to sharing their secrets.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42496-the-us-s-secretive-private-prison-industry-is-about-to-become-much-less-secretive

So public police state is obligated contractually to keep filling the prisons of the private police state.

Goddamn, America is so fucked and corrupted.

And as we've seen on so many occasions, targets of FOIA requests are often extremely slow, like years, to respand, and/or find some reason to deny the requests, and/or charge prohibitive fees to requestors, $1000s even $10Ks in fees, just another profit center.

boutons_deux

11-05-2017, 01:40 PM

Oklahoma City police officer handcuffs woman for riding a bike and handing him her ID (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/27/1710299/-Oklahoma-City-police-officer-handcuffs-woman-for-riding-a-bike-and-handing-him-her-ID)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/465428/story_image/Oklahoma_City.jpg?1509116404
Woman VIOLENTLY threatens cop with her locked-and-loaded driver's license. :lol

After a local resident called 911 to complain that a white man and a white woman were riding bikes looking at driveways, :lol

Officer James Herlihy stopped Kelsey Pierce because she was a white woman in a dark shirt with a backpack.

Within moments after Herlihy stopped Pierce, he was threatening to put her in handcuffs, which is exactly what he did after she complied with his instructions and showed him her drivers license.

Herlihy told Pierce that he had cuffed her “because you were throwing stuff at me. You handed the ID card to me like you wanted to use it as a weapon and throw it at me.” :lol :lol :lol :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/27/1710299/-Oklahoma-City-police-officer-handcuffs-woman-for-riding-a-bike-and-handing-him-her-ID?detail=emailclassic

Cops consider Driver Licenses as "mortal weapons" :lol

Fucking Oklahoma :lol

:lol asshole cops' 5 magic words that justify, exonerate brutality, murder "I Feared For My Life"

boutons_deux

11-07-2017, 07:13 PM

Concern Grows Over Youths at Juvenile Correctional Facility Being Sent to Adult Prison

Juvenile justice officials, advocates and a federal judge expressed worry over legal representation for youths.

State officials, advocates and a federal judge on Thursday proposed remedies to better deal with youths accused of assaulting staff members at a southern Illinois juvenile correctional facility, including finding youths outside lawyers instead of local public defenders and conducting additional training for correctional officers.

“The children don’t get any justice in that courtroom. That’s the primary concern,” Ben Wolf, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said following a hearing in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

“These cases are not handled the same way when they pop up in other counties. There’s more of a review process. There’s more fairness.

These young people just get railroaded for the most part.”
ProPublica Illinois reported last week (https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-youths-adult-prison) that guards and other employees from the Illinois Youth Center at Harrisburg have pursued

more criminal charges over alleged assaults in the past two years than staff at the state’s four other juvenile facilities combined.

https://www.propublica.org/article/youths-sent-to-adult-prison-concern

boutons_deux

11-08-2017, 06:54 AM

DOJ Finally Drops Case Against Protester Who Laughed During Jeff Sessions' Confirmation Hearing

Fairooz, a retired children's librarian and demonstrator affiliated with the organization Code Pink, let out a laugh during a Senate hearing back in January after Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said Sessions had a “clear and well-documented” record of “treating all Americans equally under the law.” (Sessions had faced strong opposition from civil rights organizations and was rejected as a federal judge in the 1980s over concerns about his past comments on race.)

She was convicted in July by a jury -- but supposedly not because she laughed out loud (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-laugh-congressional-hearing_us_590929bbe4b05c39768420ef).

Desiree Fairooz, an activist associated with the organization Code Pink, was found guilty on two counts (https://beta.code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/10-503.16.html): one for engaging in “disorderly or disruptive conduct” with the intent to disrupt congressional proceedings and a separate count for parading, demonstrating or picketing.

Several jurors who spoke with HuffPost after the verdict emphasized that they were focused on Fairooz’s actions after a rookie Capitol Police officer approached Fairooz when she laughed at Sen. Richard Shelby’s (R-Ala.) claim…

The jurors made this assertion post-conviction but the government appeared to believe laughter was enough of a crime in and of itself to justify pursuing a conviction. The judge disagreed.

[A] judge tossed out (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protester-laughed-jeff-sessions-sentenced_us_5967de92e4b0d6341fe7a9e2) the jury’s conviction in July, finding that prosecutors had improperly argued during the trial that “laughter is enough, standing alone (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-laughter_us_5908c55ee4b0bb2d08726a91),” to merit a conviction. D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin said he found it “disconcerting” that the government had explicitly argued during the trial that laughter in and of itself was enough for a guilty verdict.

The hasty decision of a rookie Capitol cop pretty much defeats that line of reasoning by tainting the arrest itself.

With nowhere else to go and faced with an arrestee unwilling to cave, the DOJ has decided to exit this debacle as gracefully as possible.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171107/12054738565/doj-finally-drops-case-against-protester-who-laughed-during-jeff-sessions-confirmation-hearing.shtml

but how much was her legal bill?

Session has proved to be a LIAR and a BAD joke, as was his confirmation.

Laughter, ridicule all around.

boutons_deux

11-11-2017, 03:29 PM

Philly cops threaten to ‘b*tch slap’ newly elected DA Larry Krasner who was backed by Black Lives Matter

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Larry-Krasner.png
Larry Krasner, who strikes fear into the armed ranks of the Philadelphia Police Department, seen campaigning with a puppy.

Civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner is the target of a temper tantrum (https://twitter.com/nerdythor/status/929188284970033152) by Philadelphia Police who are angry voters ignored fear-mongering from the police union and elected Krasner in a landslide victory, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

About 300 members of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 5, unanimously endorsed Republican nominee (https://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/philly-fop-backs-republican-beth-grossman-for-da-20170628.html) Beth Grossman. The police union also donated $12,500 and issued an October letter (https://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/city/larry-krasner-wins-race-for-philly-da-20171107.html) accusing Krasner of “an open hostility against police and law enforcement in general.”

Despite the support of FOP, Grossman received only 25 percent (https://phillyelectionresults.com/) of the vote. With the support of Black Lives Matter, Krasner received 75 percent of the vote. :lol
Philadelphia Inquirer feature writer Samantha Melamed exposed (https://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/city/philly-police-larry-krasner-district-attorney-civil-rights-20171110.html) police anger at citizens rejecting their message and electing Krasner.

“He doesn’t give me my arrest powers so don’t care.

No blood on my hands when he lets the sh*tbags out,”

Officer Marc Marchetti reportedly posted on Facebook.

“He’s got that look on his face you just wanna wipe off with a b*tch slap,”

Officer Steve Mancuso posted. [I]The Inquirer noted,

“Mancuso has been accused of such rough handling, in a ‘violent takedown’ of an Eagles fan during a game; the case was settled out of court.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/philly-cops-threaten-to-btch-slap-newly-elected-da-larry-krasner-who-was-backed-by-black-lives-matter/

boutons_deux

11-14-2017, 01:52 PM

Low-income SF students from Mission nonprofit ejected from Dreamforce conference

“You don’t belong here.”

That phrase was allegedly spoken by a security guard to 20 low-income, mostly Latino students Nov. 6, who were ejected from the giant Dreamforce conference on its opening day, the San Francisco Examiner has learned.

The students are members of the nonprofit dev/Mission, which teaches coding and other technology skills to disadvantaged youth.

They were invited by Salesforce to attend its annual tech conference, Dreamforce, but a pair of

security guards mistakenly ejected the students from the conference

after allegedly singling them out for their appearance and

“fake”-appearing conference attendance badges, which were issued by Salesforce.

“They looked funky. They don’t look like everyone else’s badge,” Sosa said.

This led security to question the student group early on, which a Salesforce staffer, Angelica Pineda, straightened out, Sosa said.

You don’t belong here,” and, allegedly,

“Your kind don’t belong in here.”

http://www.sfexaminer.com/low-income-sf-students-mission-nonprofit-ejected-dreamforce-conference/

boutons_deux

11-15-2017, 11:29 PM

Texas sheriff threatens criminal charges for driver of a truck with ‘Fuck Trump’ sticker

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sheriff-Troy-E-Nehls.png

The Republican Sheriff of Fort Bend County, Texas is threatening criminal charges against the owner of a pickup truck with a sticker against GOP President Donald Trump,

Sheriff Troy Nehls posted a photo of a pickup truck’s back window sticker that reads,

“Fuck Trump and Fuck you for voting for him.”

KPRC legal analyst Brian Wice explained Sheriff Nehls was wrong about the law and that the 1971 case of Cohen v. California settled the issue before the United States Supreme Court.

Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/texas-sheriff-threatens-criminal-charges-for-driver-of-a-truck-with-fck-trump-sticker/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/texas-sheriff-threatens-criminal-charges-for-driver-of-a-truck-with-fck-trump-sticker/)

boutons_deux

11-19-2017, 04:46 PM

US military snooping on Ms of Americans

Pentagon contractor leaves social media spy archive wide open on Amazon

A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon account in what appears to be a military-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation that targeted people in the US and other parts of the world
The three cloud-based storage buckets contained at least 1.8 billion scraped online posts spanning eight years, researchers from security firm UpGuard's Cyber Risk Team said in a blog post published Friday (https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-centcom). The cache included many posts that appeared to be benign, and in many cases those involved from people in the US, a finding that raises privacy and civil-liberties questions. Facebook was one of the sites that originally hosted the scraped content. Other venues included soccer discussion groups and video game forums. Topics in the scraped content were extremely wide ranging and included Arabic language posts mocking ISIS and Pashto language comments made on the official Facebook page of Pakistani politician Imran Khan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Khan).

A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon account in what appears to be a military-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation that targeted people in the US and other parts of the world.
The three cloud-based storage buckets contained at least 1.8 billion scraped online posts spanning eight years, researchers from security firm UpGuard's Cyber Risk Team said in a blog post published Friday (https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-centcom). The cache included many posts that appeared to be benign, and in many cases those involved from people in the US, a finding that raises privacy and civil-liberties questions. Facebook was one of the sites that originally hosted the scraped content. Other venues included soccer discussion groups and video game forums. Topics in the scraped content were extremely wide ranging and included Arabic language posts mocking ISIS and Pashto language comments made on the official Facebook page of Pakistani politician Imran Khan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Khan).

?https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/vast-archive-from-pentagon-intel-gathering-operation-left-open-on-amazon/?amp=1

Spurminator

11-24-2017, 06:31 PM

The forum conspiracy theorists don't want anything to do with this one? Seems like a no brainer for 4chanfoWars types.

Unless, you know, they're full of shit.

http://amp.wbaltv.com/article/slain-detective-shot-with-his-own-gun-davis-says/13868062

933464016546074624

boutons_deux

11-24-2017, 06:34 PM

One Officer, Scores of Tickets and a Familiar Racial Disparity

C.J. Brown wrote four times as many pedestrian tickets as any other officer in Jacksonville over the last five years. Most of them went to blacks. His boss says he’s just “good at his job.”

Brown wrote more pedestrian tickets than any other member of the sheriff’s force over the last five years. And so at 8:58 a.m. on July 19, 2017, he issued a $62.50 citation to Martinez: “Pedestrian failed to use sidewalk. Walking in roadway where sidewalks provided.”

“I’ve never been stopped for anything and you’re going to stop me for walking, when I was doing everything right,” Martinez recalled saying to Brown. “He stopped me as if I was a criminal.”

more than 2,200 pedestrian tickets issued to people in Jacksonville from 2012 to 2017, and found that 55 percent of them were issued to blacks despite the fact that the city’s population is just 29 percent African American.

Records show Brown issued 198 pedestrian tickets over five years, four times the total of the next most prolific officer.

Slightly more than 60 percent of his tickets went to blacks, meaning

one of every 10 blacks to receive a pedestrian ticket in Jacksonville from 2012 to 2017 was cited by Brown.

https://www.propublica.org/article/walking-while-black-tickets-officer-brown#137129

boutons_deux

11-24-2017, 06:37 PM

Pennsylvania Cops Abuse Senior Couple Because They Think Hibiscus Is Marijuana

Trained drug detection officers couldn't tell the difference between hibiscus plants and pot plants.

Edward Cramer, 69, and his wife, Audrey Cramer, 66, were quietly enjoying their golden years this fall when they called their insurance company about a neighbor's tree that had fallen on their property. That's when things started going wacky.

The insurance company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, sent its local agent, Jonathan Yeamans, to the Cramers' place, but Yeamans apparently had more than insurance claims on his mind.

According to the lawsuit,
Yeamans surreptitiously took photos of flowering hibiscus plants in the backyard,

then sent them to local police as evidence of an illegal marijuana grow.

The Cramers claim that Yeamans

"intentionally photographed the flowering hibiscus plants in such a manner as not to reveal that they had flowers on them so that they would appear to resemble marijuana plants."
Yeamans' photos went to Buffalo Township Officer Jeffrey Sneddon, who claimed to have expertise in identifying marijuana, and who, after incorrectly identifying the plants as marijuana, applied for and received a search warrant for the Cramers' property.

And the raid was on! According to the lawsuit, Audrey Cramer was home alone, upstairs and only partially dressed when police arrived around noon on October 7.

She went downstairs to open the door, only to be confronted by a dozen or so officers pointing assault rifles at her.

https://www.alternet.org/drugs/pennsylvania-cops-abuse-elederly-couple-marijuana-plants-raid

boutons_deux

11-24-2017, 06:45 PM

The Fragmented Surveillance State

Forget Big Brother surveillance. We have thousands of little brothers and sisters.

In Chicago, every person arrested (https://southsideweekly.com/predictive-policing-long-road-transparency/) over the past four years has received an algorithmically generated “threat” score (from 1-500) to determine his or her risk of being a perpetrator or victim of a future crime. Those individuals with the highest scores on the Chicago Police Department “heat list (http://time.com/4966125/police-departments-algorithms-chicago/)” get extra attention in the form of home visits or increased community surveillanc

In Baltimore, for months Cessna planes equipped with wide-angle video cameras (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/) capable of filming entire segments of the city flew overhead. A private security company—Persistent Surveillance Systems (https://www.pss-1.com/)—connected its aerial video with ongoing police reports and handed the footage over to the Baltimore Police Department to assist in investigating past crimes. Using the surveillance video, one could literally map the comings and goings of everyone—criminals and innocents alike.

The only problem was that

no one had informed (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bpd-surveillance-20170214-story.html) the Baltimore City Council or the mayor of this arrangement.

The Los Angeles Police Department—in partnership (https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-secretive-data-company-pushed-into-policing/) with the private technology firm Palantir—is currently mapping criminal associates and gangs using new social network technologies (https://www.palantir.com/solutions/law-enforcement/). Data about targets and their associates, families, and friends are fed into a growing police investigative database.

These social network systems, which target “chronic offenders,” also include information about innocent associates (http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/11/technology/future/lapd-big-data-palantir/index.html), family members, and friends, creating extensive human maps of connections and patterns of contacts.

Big data policing means that new privacy-invading technologies are now a local problem. Instead of one frightening big brother surveillance state, the reality is really more like thousands of little sisters and brothers (and cousins) all reporting fragmentary bits of bad behavior. The result may be no less oppressive, but the solutions to challenge this growing privacy threat are far more difficult.

these technologies challenge traditional conceptions of privacy and raise issues of racial bias.

Mass surveillance systems capture not just crimes, but the privacies of life: Where you go, whom you associate with, and the patterns of your daily interactions can be recorded and mapped.

If the inputs (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/predictive_policing_is_too_dependent_on_historical _data.html) that go into this prediction model include data that can be subject to human bias (like police discretion in arrests (https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/925846/download)),

then the outputs will reflect that biased data (https://medium.com/equal-future/how-strategic-is-chicagos-strategic-subjects-list-upturn-investigates-9e5b4b235a7c).

right now society is not even having that debate.

Ask yourself two very basic questions: What police surveillance technologies are currently being used in your home town?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/11/the_united_states_fragmented_surveillance_system.h tm

(http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/11/the_united_states_fragmented_surveillance_system.h tml)

boutons_deux

11-24-2017, 06:48 PM

African Americans Are Disproportionately Arrested for Low-Level Marijuana Violations—and the Disparity Is Growing

Blacks are nearly four times more likely than whites to be arrested for minor pot possession violations.

https://www.alternet.org/drugs/african-americans-are-disproportionately-arrested-low-level-marijuana-violations

An arrest for mj on your record? good luck getting, or keeping, a job

Easy to see why life-long racist and sexual predator Sessions is pushing police to be even more aggressive, and of course, more aggressive arresting blacks.

boutons_deux

11-24-2017, 06:52 PM

Cops went Freddy Gray on him.

Incapacitated California man arrested 2 days after suing cops for brain-damage injuries suffered in previous arrest

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/John-Hernandez.png

A disabled northern California man finds himself behind bars only days after filing a civil rights lawsuit against excessive force by police that allegedly caused his brain damage.

John Hernandez is “totally disabled” and has trouble speaking. He has only recently relearned how to walk again.

Two days after filing his lawsuit, Hernandez was arrested (https://fox40.com/2017/11/10/woman-claims-tracy-officers-used-excessive-force-while-arresting-her-disabled-son/), and his mother claims the six police officers sent to arrest her disabled son again used excessive force.

“In a situation where we have a person that is likely to run, we have a responsibility to not only establish containment around the residence, but also have sufficient officers to search a residence and affect an arrest inside,” :lol

“John can’t run, doesn’t know how. Not anymore,” his mother said.

Video from a police cruiser documented the initial encounter, where Hernandez is simply sitting on the curb.

The victim had a long history of drug abuse, but had no record of violent crime. Hernandez ran from police, seeking sanctuary inside a medical center.

Surveillance video of the lobby showed Hernandez running inside to an elevator and also captured video of a large group of police leaving the lobby later with Hernandez on a stretcher.

According to the lawsuit, four officers smothered Hernandez, depriving him of oxygen for 10 minutes. The lawsuit also cited repeated Taser and baton strikes.

“He’ll never be John again,” the victim’s mother said.

Hernandez told Fox 40 on Tuesday that he sometimes wishes police would have used even more force and killed him.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/incapacitated-california-man-arrested-2-days-after-suing-cops-for-brain-damage-injuries-suffered-in-previous-arrest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-24-2017, 06:56 PM

DOJ Still Demanding Identity Of Twitter Users Because Someone They Shouldn't Have Arrested Tweeted A Smiley Emoji

Last month, I had two blog posts about a particularly insane lawsuit being pushed by the Justice Department against a computer security researcher, Justin Shafer.

As we explained, the arrest and prosecution of Shafer appeared to be the result of a truly ridiculous vendetta against Shafer (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171025/11290738482/dojs-bizarre-subpoena-over-emoji-highlights-ridiculous-vendetta-against-security-researcher.shtml) by the FBI because Shafer got angry over a previous (and totally misguided) decision to raid his home,

after he properly disclosed security problems involving some dental practice software.

It seems clear that Shafer never should have been arrested (and never should have had the FBI raid his house three times over just a few months).

the DOJ had sent a subpoena to Twitter (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-subpoenas-twitter-about-popehat-dissent-doe-others-over-smiley-emoji-tweet.shtml) demanding basically all info on five Twitter users --

even though two of them don't hide their identity --

because Shafer tweeted a smiley emoji at them.

the case involved the DOJ demanding the identity (and more) of five Twitter users because someone else (who they're railroading over bogus charges) sent a smiley emoji to them on Twitter where they were discussing a different lawsuit altogether.

two updates on that story:

(1) Shafer is appealing the fact that he's still in jail, months later and

(2) the DOJ has refused to withdraw the emoji subpoena.

Yes. You read that right. The DOJ is doubling down, demanding the identity (and more) of Twitter users because someone they never should have arrested,

sent a smiley emoji to them.

We can cover that second point first because there's not much more to say beyond

"What the fuck is wrong with the DOJ?"

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171112/01041238593/doj-still-demanding-identity-twitter-users-because-someone-they-shouldnt-have-arrested-tweeted-smiley-emoji.shtml

Such is American life under Sessions' DOJ

boutons_deux

11-26-2017, 07:11 AM

'Death threats' follow report into Indio and Coachella prosecutors, who billed residents high 'prosecution fees'

A law firm contracted as city prosecutors in Indio and Coachella claims it has received “harassing emails” and “death threats” because of a Desert Sun report that revealed they were taking residents to criminal court for small crimes then charging them thousands in “prosecution fees.”

Silver & Wright issued a statement on Thanksgiving calling the article “inaccurate” and “misleading,” but identifying no actual inaccuracies.

a Desert Sun investigation revealed that Silver & Wright had

repeatedly filed criminal charges against residents and businesses for small public nuisance crimes – like overgrown weeds, a junk-filled yard or selling popsicles without a business license – then billed them thousands of dollars to recoup expenses.The Desert Sun ivestigation identified 18 cases in which the firm

charged defendants more than $122,000 in “prosecution fees”

since it was hired by Indio and Coachella a few years ago.

If the property owners don’t pay, the cities can put a lien on their land and seize their homes.

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/11/24/death-threats-follow-report-into-indio-and-coachella-law-firm-who-billed-residents-high-prosecution/892968001/#nws=mcnewsletter

Taxpayer-financed DA's out-sourcing their jobs to for-profit goons, masquerading as lawyers, to bully, criminalize, and fleece taxpayers.

boutons_deux

11-29-2017, 06:35 AM

Court Says Cop's Theft Of Evidence Shouldn't Have Any Effect On Man's 15-Year Drug Sentence

from the nothing-but-flagmen-on-the-legal-railroad dept

Texas criminal justice blog Grits for Breakfast is highlighting a recent court decision in which several judges

somehow found a way to uphold a conviction directly predicated on law enforcement deception (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-amazing-lengths-texas-cca-will-go.html).

The Government-Always-Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrangled a four-member plurality (http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=cf07e723-2b4d-47b0-b20e-9a56e2d58da7&coa=coscca&DT=OPINION&MediaID=38bb6a06-ca15-4afd-bb24-bd007683925d) on a habeas corpus writ to overturn the trial court's recommendation and uphold a conviction in which law enforcement misrepresented the weight of drugs found on a defendant, calling it 26 kilos when the real amount of actual cocaine was likely less than a gram.

The reason for the discrepancy:

A police officer stole the drugs and replaced them with sheetrock powder laced with cocaine so it would trigger a field test.

While the defense stipulated Mr. Pena intended to transport cocaine, we don’t really know how much because

the cop stole it before they ever got to weigh it.
The case continues the CCA's longstanding penchant for finding excuses to compartmentalize severe police misconduct and uphold convictions in spite of it.

The trial judge recommended the defendant be granted relief, but four members of the high court found excuses to tolerate this sordid situation.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171126/11071238678/court-says-cops-theft-evidence-shouldnt-have-any-effect-mans-15-year-drug-sentence.shtml

boutons_deux

11-29-2017, 12:29 PM

Trash/Sessions' DoJ just like a tin-pot, 3rd world dictatorship against political opponents

the 'Evidence' They're Using to Prosecute Trump's Election Day Protesters

Several J20 protesters could be facing 60-year prison sentences.

Federal prosecutors targeting anti-Trump protesters are relying on video evidence from Project Veritas :lol

The US attorney’s office submitted the footage in court on Tuesday as part of an ongoing trial against activists who protested Donald Trump’s inauguration and now face conspiracy and rioting charges that could lead to decades in prison.

Prosecutors played the video – which reportedly showed undercover footage from a meeting of activists

civil liberties groups, who have argued that the federal government under Trump is aggressively prosecuting activists who oppose the president (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/25/yvette-felarca-trump-protest-charges-activism).

The US attorney’s office has also submitted video (https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-use-right-wing-militias-video-to-prosecute-trump-protesters) from the Oath Keepers, :lol a rightwing militia group (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/03/oath-keepers-militia-portland-free-speech-rally) that has been present at “alt-right” rallies.

“The government is untroubled by their collaboration with authoritarian rightwingers,”

“The fact that they have to fall back on using these far-right trolls,

which are widely discredited,

not only speaks to the illegitimacy of their case, but also

a fundamental relationship between the Trump administration and the alt-right,”

“They’re using whatever stuff they can drag up,”

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/you-wont-believe-evidence-theyre-using-prosecute-trumps-election-day-protesters

boutons_deux

11-29-2017, 12:33 PM

FBI Racially Profiling “Black Identity Extremists

In early August 2017, the counterterrorism division of the FBI released a report (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4067711-BIE-Redacted.html) warning of the danger of “Black Identity Extremists.”

Jana Winter and Sharon Weinberger reported for Foreign Policy that,

as “white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August,

the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated.

Only it wasn’t white supremacists; it was ‘black identity extremists.’”

categorized a range of activists, not by their common ideologies or goals, but by race.

Corporate media coverage has covered the FBI report on “black identity extremists” in narrow ways.

http://projectcensored.org/fbi-racially-profiling-black-identity-extremists/

and White (Male) Identity Extremists?

nope, White Man gotta keep a close eye on the those crazy, pissed-off knitters.

boutons_deux

12-05-2017, 07:01 AM

ICE Is Falsely Accusing Undocumented New Yorkers of Being Gang Members in a Plot to Deport Them En Masse

When the Trump administration can't find crimes to detain undocumented immigrants with, it invents them.

That's exactly what activists fear is occurring in Long Island, NY with Operation Matador, :lol

under which Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims to have arrested nearly 350 people (https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ms-13-gang-ice-crackdown-thomas-homan/) for being members of MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadorean gang whose violence is spreading across America.

Advocates believe undocumented residents of Suffolk and Nassau counties are being erroneously arrested for being gang members so they can then be deported.

https://www.alternet.org/activism/project-matador-ice-falsely-accusing-new-yorkers-being-gang-members-deport-undocumented

btw, in the 80s, St Ronnie the Diseased "meddled" in San Salvador's civil war on the side of the fascists. The breakdown of San Salvador, won by the fascists, helped give rise to the MS-13 who had learned how to murder, terrorize, extort, control the population and drugs, human trafficking, etc with assistance from USA. Had St Ronnie not intervened and the socialists had overthrown the military coup, would MS-13 been formed?

Maybe MS13 is blowback for USA fucking around in other countries, just like WTC was blowback for USA occupying Saudi Arabia.

https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/ms-13-long-island-know-gang/

boutons_deux

12-05-2017, 05:46 PM

WATCH: Graphic body cam footage of sheriff’s department siccing an attack dog on an inmate

“We do what we can to minimize the length and intensity of these confrontations to protect the staff AND the inmates from severe injury.” :lol

“Incident reports indicate Christopher Bartlett, an inmate who had been combative with deputies and may have a history of mental illness, needed to be moved to a different pod in the jail,” the Columbia County Spotlight reported.

“Dickerson says the August incident with Bartlett, who resisted and was documented to be combative, was reviewed and deemed a justifiable use of force.

In fact, Dickerson says, it went exactly as it should have, :lol iow, mentally ill patient with his forearm chewed to shit :lol

with Lars seizing the inmate, and the inmate being removed ‘without serious injury.'”

The video shows the K9 leaping to bite the inmate’s arm, pulling him to the ground. The dog can be seen shaking its head back and forth while clenching the man’s arm. Approximately 20 seconds pass before the dog releases its grip on the inmate.

The video then shows the handler heaping praise on the dog for attacking the inmate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH7om7vlb78 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH7om7vlb78)

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/graphic-body-cam-footage-of-sheriffs-department-siccing-an-attack-dog-on-an-inmate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/graphic-body-cam-footage-of-sheriffs-department-siccing-an-attack-dog-on-an-inmate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Humans are just so much dog food to the warrior cops

AaronY

12-05-2017, 11:23 PM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQUWEEjXkAATzvE?format=jpg

boutons_deux

12-13-2017, 09:10 AM

Trumped-up charges: Feds try to criminalize Inauguration Day protest

federal prosecutors in Washington have been hard at work trying to convict six people who were present during a demonstration against the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

prosecutors are trying to redefine the rules governing public demonstrations.

Federal authorities have admitted they have no actual evidence that the defendants on trial committed acts of vandalism,

but want to convict them of serious crimes anyway.

“I’ll be very clear. We don’t believe any of the defendants personally engaged in property destruction,” :lol :lol

U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff admitted in her opening statement in mid-November.

Prosecutors have also utilized footage from other far-right figures and organizations, including Project Veritas, the activist group founded by James O’Keefe.

the Project Veritas video by pointing to indications that it had been altered.

“It’s indefensible for the Trump administration to spend millions of dollars to try nearly 200 people on several felonies for property damage.”

https://www.salon.com/2017/12/13/trumped-up-charges-feds-try-to-criminalize-inauguration-day-protest/

:lol Criminalization of Constitutionally protected Freedom of Assembly by the militarized, out-of-control police state.

If the "we have no evidence" prosecution fails, will the defendants still be stuck wit $10Ks of legal bills?

Sort of SLAPP action by Sessions/Trash?

boutons_deux

12-13-2017, 02:58 PM

Michigan police open investigation after child detained

A Michigan police department has opened an internal investigation after officers held an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint, handcuffed her and put her in the back of a cruiser.

The girl's mother said officers ordered her daughter to come down from the porch with her hands up.

"The whole time they are telling her to come down, I'm telling them, 'She's 11 years old. That's my daughter. Don't cuff her,'" Whitney Hodges said.

Grand Rapids Police Chief David Rahinsky said Tuesday that his officers should have exercised discretion, :lol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/michigan-police-open-investigation-after-child-detained/ar-BBGEMPz

"should have exercised discretion" :lol Salutary discretion for not shooting the 11-year-old BLACK girl on sight. Hats off to those officers.

"I Feared For My Life"

boutons_deux

12-13-2017, 04:04 PM

Deputies Involved In 62,000 Criminal Cases Shown To Be Liars, Frauds, Domestic Abusers, And Sexual Predators

After Sheriff Lee Baca resigned in disgrace following his department's implication in widespread jailhouse corruption (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141019/18042528882/obstruction-convictions-uncover-recordings-la-sheriffs-dept-officers-threatening-fbi-agents-federal-witnesses.shtml) and

its tendency to hire some of the worst people possible (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131202/12090125435/documents-show-la-sheriffs-department-hired-thieves-statutory-rapists-bad-cops.shtml) to staff its jail, new sheriff Jim McDonnell wanted to make this list of questionable officers public.

He wanted to hand it to prosecutors so they'd know which deputies to avoid if they wanted honest, untainted testimony. He didn't go so far as to offer the same list to defense attorneys, but it was one step further than any sheriff before him had taken.

The sheriff's union sued, claiming handing the Brady list to prosecutors violated state confidentiality laws.

In July, the LA County Appeals Court agreed with the union (http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-brady-decision-20170612-story.html).

The case has been taken up by the California Supreme Court, but it won't be discussed or decided until next year.

Meanwhile, the ~300 deputies whose names are on the Brady list may have been witnesses in a combined 62,000 cases since 2000.

And still, nobody is allowed to access their disciplinary files.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171209/16113838774/deputies-involved-62000-criminal-cases-shown-to-be-liars-frauds-domestic-abusers-sexual-predators.shtml

boutons_deux

12-14-2017, 08:31 AM

Racism is fundamental to American culture, so police are racist, and the Repugs are the party of racists
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/13/1724146/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-100s-lose-FL-driver-s-licenses-for-pedestrian-tickets-blacks-hit-hardest)
Open thread for night owls: 100s lose FL driver's licenses for pedestrian tickets—blacks hit hardest (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/13/1724146/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-100s-lose-FL-driver-s-licenses-for-pedestrian-tickets-blacks-hit-hardest)

More than half the 2,000 people who received pedestrian tickets in Duval County, Florida, from 2012 to 2016 saw their driver’s licenses suspended or their ability to obtain one limited, according to an analysis by the Florida Times-Union and ProPublica.

Over five years, a total of 2,004 pedestrian tickets were issued in Duval County, which is comprised almost entirely by the city of Jacksonville. Of those tickets, 982 people who failed or were unable to pay the fine lost their driver’s licenses or their ability to obtain one,

55 percent of the tickets given in recent years went to blacks despite the fact that they make up only 29 percent of the city’s population. Blacks were similarly overrepresented in the 932 tickets that led to license suspensions — 54 percent.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1724146https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1724146

pgardn

12-14-2017, 08:39 AM

Bout time for some cop killer push back!

-Boots

boutons_deux

12-14-2017, 07:56 PM

WIDESPREAD DETAINEE ABUSE AT ICE PRISONS CONFIRMED BY INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT

The inspector general for the Homeland Security Department conducted unannounced inspections of six immigrant detention facilities overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It uncovered glaring examples of detainee abuse and mistreatment at four of the facilities.

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

The problems included:

abuse of solitary confinement (or “segregation”) and lockdown of detainees,

abuse of strip searches,

intimidation and threatened retaliation against those with potentially serious concerns about confinement conditions,

lack of interpretation services during medical exams, and

deplorable bathroom maintenance,

as well as a refusal to properly supply detainees with hygiene items.

https://shadowproof.com/2017/12/14/widespread-detainee-abuse-at-ice-prisons-confirmed-by-inspector-general-report/

Sounds like Mexican jails! :lol

I bet 1000s of ICE/CBP assholes signed up just to abuse, bully, brutalize, rape immigrants.

boutons_deux

12-15-2017, 08:08 AM

Shot by Cops and Forgotten

POLICE SHOOT FAR MORE PEOPLE THAN ANYONE REALIZED

An exclusive analysis of data from the 50 largest local police departments in the United States shows that

police shoot Americans more than twice as often as previously known.
Police shootings aren’t just undercounted — police in these departments shoot black people at a higher rate and shoot unarmed people far more often than any data has shown.

Recent reform efforts have already worked to bring down police shootings, our investigation shows.

Yet Attorney General Jeff Sessions is moving away from these reforms

VICE News examined both fatal and nonfatal incidents to determine that cops in the 50 largest local departments

shot at least 3,631 people from 2010 through 2016.

That’s more than 500 people a year.

On more than 700 other occasions, police fired at citizens and missed.

Two-thirds of the people cops fired at survived

Police shootings on the whole are rare, but experts say nonfatal shootings are just as important to understanding police violence as fatal encounters are.

“We should know about how often it happens, if for no other reason than to simply understand the phenomenon,”

But just 35 police departments participate in the federal initiative (https://www.policedatainitiative.org/) today, out of 18,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies.

And as VICE News found,

some departments don’t have systems in place to track nonfatal shootings by their own officers.

Others wouldn’t provide data on demographics or whether the people they shoot are armed, making it hard to judge why and how often cops use deadly force or the efficacy of reforms.

https://news.vice.com/story/shot-by-cops (https://news.vice.com/story/shot-by-cops)

For Good ol' Alabama racist boy Sessions, the only good knitter is a dead knitter (that still applies to Native Americans)

For the cops, the only Lives That Matter are Blue Lives.

Everybody else in the militarized police state is target practice under the magic words "I Feared For My Life"

boutons_deux

12-19-2017, 05:18 PM

Just your typical county jail

Disabled Prisoners Sue Over Santa Barbara County Jail Conditions

One plaintiff, Maria Tracy, lost the vision in her right eye as a result of inadequate medical care,

while 52-year-old Raymond Herrera died inside in 2015 while serving a ten-day sentence because staff didn't give him his anti-seizure medications and he sustained a fatal internal injury during a seizure.

https://rewire.news/article/2017/12/19/disabled-prisoners-sue-santa-barbara-county-jail-conditions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhrealitycheck+%28RH+Reality+ Check%29

Trill Clinton

12-19-2017, 09:29 PM

942565324616097792

boutons_deux

12-21-2017, 08:20 AM

Driving While Black ... Windows in white MB

A video captures police beating that left a man with a broken leg. He's filed a claim against them

“I was beaten that day as if I was a runaway slave,” Ballew, 21, an assistant director at a marketing firm

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-pasadena-police-beating-20171220-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

Hilarious how it always take 5+ cop cars and 10+ cops to take down one person. They don't want to miss a to brutalize or, even better, kill.

Grinding his face on the asphalt into a bloody mess was a nice touch.

Just walking from car to store while black. Criminal racial profiling

boutons_deux

12-21-2017, 10:29 AM

Former trooper charged with murdering 15-year-old black teenager by firing Taser from moving squad car

Former Michigan State Police Trooper Mark Bessner was charged with one count of second-degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the death of a 15-year-old,

Trooper Bessner and his partner were in pursuit of teenager Damon Grimes for an alleged traffic citation. Trooper Bessner fired his Taser out the window of their moving vehicle, striking Grimes and causing a fatal crash into a parked truck.

“Trooper Bessner unnecessarily deployed his Taser at Mr. Grimes without legal justification or excuse as Mr. Grimes was traveling at least 35 to 40 miles per hour,”

It is against Michigan State Police policy to fire a Taser from a moving vehicle.

“We are alleging that Trooper Bessner created a very high risk of death or great bodily harm, knowing that death or such harm was the likely result, by firing his Taser from his moving police vehicle at Damon Grimes who was also on a moving ATV,”

Trooper Bessner had been sued two previous times for allegedly using excessive force.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/ex-trooper-charged-with-murdering-15-year-old-black-teenager-by-firing-taser-from-moving-squad-car/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

12-26-2017, 09:53 AM

They confessed to minor crimes. Then City Hall billed them $122K in 'prosecution fees'

IN INDIO AND COACHELLA,

PROSECUTORS TAKE PROPERTY OWNERS TO COURT FOR SOME OF THE SMALLEST CRIMES,

THEN BILL THEM THOUSANDS AND

THREATEN TO TAKE THEIR HOMES IF THEY DON'T PAY.

When Cesar Garcia pulled the letter out of his mailbox, he immediately recognized the name of the law firm on the envelope – Silver & Wright.

Eighteen months ago, they had dragged him to court, called him a criminal, cost him thousands of dollars and made his life hell. What did they want now?
Garcia opened the letter, prepared for the worst, but was still shocked by what he found inside.

The law firm had sent him a bill for $26,000.

When he protested, the price climbed to $31,000.

“I thought it was a mistake,” Garcia said. “But then they told me no. They said I had to pay.”

Cesar Garcia, 41, of Coachella, built an addition on to his home without proper permits. Now, Coachella City Hall wants him to pay $31K to prosecute himself.

Garcia, 41, a longtime desert resident, had been snared by the lowest level of the eastern Coachella Valley's criminal justice system, where

homeowners who commit some of the smallest crimes can be billed for the cost of their own prosecution.

Empowered by the city councils in Coachella and Indio, the law firm Silver & Wright has repeatedly filed criminal charges against residents and businesses for public nuisance crimes

– like overgrown weeds, a junk-filled yard or selling popsicles without a business license – then billed them thousands of dollars to recoup expenses.

Coachella leaders said this week they will reconsider the criminal prosecutions strategy, but the change only came after defense attorneys challenged the city in court, saying the privatized prosecutors are forcing exorbitant costs on unsuspecting residents.

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/11/15/he-confessed-minor-crime-then-city-hall-billed-him-31-k-his-own-prosecution/846850001/#nws=mcnewsletter

27.9% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachella,_California#2010

boutons_deux

12-26-2017, 05:22 PM

FBI Celebrates Taking Down A 'Terrorist' Who Told Undercover Agents He Couldn't Go Through With An Attack

from the wherein-'thwart'-means-'standing-by-idly-while-events-take-their-course dept

The FBI has proudly announced (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-man-arrested-attempting-provide-material-support-terrorist-organization-0) its kicking of another goal (https://www.techdirt.com/search-g.php?q=fbi+own+terrorist) into the unguarded War on Terrorism net

Very few have dug into the charging documents.

If they had, they might not have depicted

a terrorist attack that was never going to happen

as somehow being "thwarted" by the arrest of a 26-year-old man reeling from the recent loss of his children in a custody battle (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sf-terror-20171223-story.html).

According to the criminal complaint (https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1020676/download) [PDF], Everitt Jameson was planning to detonate explosives at Pier 39 in San Francisco, a popular destination for tourists.

The lead-up to Jameson's arrest (and supposed "thwarting") was filled with FBI informants and undercover agents,

but not a single actual member of a terrorist group.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171224/17211038879/fbi-celebrates-taking-down-terrorist-who-told-undercover-agents-he-couldnt-go-through-with-attack.shtml

boutons_deux

12-30-2017, 12:32 PM

Police kill a man at his home while responding to a fake call

A prank call to police led to a man's death at a home in Wichita, Kansas -- and a man in California has been arrested in connection with the crime.

It's another example of swatting, or a prank in which people falsely report horrific crimes to draw large numbers of law enforcement.
In Wichita, a 28-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday after police responded to a call about a shooting involving hostages.

In the prank call, the caller said someone had an argument with their mother; that the dad was accidentally shot; and that a brother, a sister and the mother were held hostage,

"Our officers came here preparing for a hostage situation. Several got in position. A male came to the front door, and

one of our officers discharged his weapon." :lol :lol :lol ( iow, the blood-thirsty, trigger-happy cop shot dead an unarmed, innocent, non-threatening man :lol )

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/us/kansas-police-shooting-swatting/index.html

Magic Incantation: "I Feared For My Life"

100K SWAT raids / year. America is fucked and unfuckable.

Trill Clinton

12-30-2017, 01:26 PM

I need more info. Did he have a gun when he answered the door, did he make a threatening gesture, did he follow orders?

boutons_deux

12-30-2017, 03:35 PM

Gamer alleged to be behind Kansas ‘swatting’ call resulting in innocent man’s death taken into custody

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tyler-800x430.jpg

Tyler Raj Barriss, 25, was booked in Glendale, California the day after a police killing that started with an argument over video games became national news.

Barriss, who was thought to have gone by “SWAuTistic” in online gaming communities,

was accused of calling in a fake, elaborate report to the Wichita Police Department.

Finch’s mother said (http://www.kwch.com/content/news/Andrew-Finchs-mother-Police-gave-no-warning-before-deadly-shooting-467187823.html) Finch was unarmed and was not given a verbal warning before being shot.

The Wichita Police Department posted the 911 call and body cam footage of the incident to its Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WichitaPolice/videos/10155490668424514/).

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/gamer-behind-kansas-swatting-call-resulting-in-innocent-mans-death-taken-into-custody-police/

boutons_deux

12-31-2017, 04:21 PM

Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick

Lapses in food safety have made U.S. prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population.

new evidence suggests that the situation is worse than previously thought, and not just because prison food isn’t winning any James Beard awards. It’s also making inmates sick.

a Michigan judge dismissed a suit (http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/01/inmate_loses_suit_over_rotten.html) brought by an inmate who said he’d been repeatedly served moldy bread and spoiled hamburger meat. (According to U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist, the complaint was without merit: In his view, the Eighth Amendment does not entitle prisoners to “tasty or aesthetically pleasing” food, only to a diet that allows them to “maintain normal health.”)

there are often systems of perverse incentives in play: The more cheaply prisoners can be fed, the more money can often be made by the people charged with their care.

Ernest Rich says he served 19 years of a 24-year drug-related sentence in the California state correctional system, and most of the time he worked in food.

“I can tell you one thing ... Nobody has food-safety training,” he says. “You’ve got people coming in there all the time who know nothing about cooking. They’re learning as they go. They don’t know nothing about what you should do, what you should not do.”

In Rich’s experience, that lack of training means mistakes are common. “They don’t label things. They don’t rotate the stock the way it’s supposed to be. Those kitchens aren’t ran like ordinary kitchens should be ran,” he says.

That, according to Rich, means people get sick “a lot.”

“You may hear about people, 15 or 20 people get sick on one yard,” he says. “That’s stuff that you hear about all the time.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/prison-food-sickness-america/549179/

boutons_deux

12-31-2017, 08:37 PM

NYPD promised to retrain police officers after Eric Garner’s death in 2014 — but not a single officer has taken the training

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Eric-Garner-arrest-Screenshot.jpg

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/nypd-promised-to-retrain-police-officers-after-eric-garners-death-in-2014-but-not-a-single-officer-has-taken-the-training/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

01-03-2018, 11:54 AM

948014337377087489

boutons_deux

01-09-2018, 09:54 PM

'Outrageous': Demanding Pay Raises for Educators Over Superintendent, Teacher Pushed to Ground and Arrested

"I feel like it's a slap in the face to all the teachers, cafeteria workers and any other support staff we have,"

A middle school language arts teacher was handcuffed and pushed to the ground in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana on Monday night after being removed from a school board meeting for questioning her district's decision to give its superintendent a raise while teachers' salaries remain stagnant and class sizes soar.

Deyshia Hargrave asked several questions about the superintendent's $38,000 raise before the board voted in favor of the salary increase.

When she spoke after being recognized by the board for a second time during the meeting, a city marshal approached Hargrave and ordered her to gather her belongings and leave the room, before handcuffing her in the hall.

The superintendent was evidently deemed deserving of a higher salary because the district's performance targets have been met in recent years—a fact that Hargrave argued should prompt raises for teachers, not administrators.

"We're doing the work, the students are doing the work," she argued. "At the top, that's not where kids learn, it's in the classroom. And those teachers like myself are not getting a dime from that, and that is unspeakable."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/09/outrageous-demanding-pay-raises-educators-over-superintendent-teacher-pushed-ground

Live and learn, lady. The managerial/executive class always fucks over Labor. Labor is simply a cost to minimized, if not zeroed.

koriwhat

01-09-2018, 10:03 PM

boutons_deux

01-19-2018, 01:07 PM

Suspected of a crime? Own a computer? Now police can search your home (in KY, MI, OH, and TN) (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/17/1733671/-Suspected-of-a-crime-Own-a-computer-Now-police-can-search-your-home-in-KY-MI-OH-and-TN)

On Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit decided (http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/18a0013p-06.pdf) that if law enforcement officers can connect a suspect to a crime involving a computer, no matter how minor its role, they can search the suspect’s home.

In the instant case, a suspect’s home was searched because the alleged crime involved computer-generated flyers.

In upholding this bizarre overreach, the court analogized computers to guns.

It is clear that the use of a gun in the commission of a crime is sufficient to establish a nexus between the suspected criminal’s gun and his residence.

Computers are dissimilar to guns in many ways, including the nature of the crimes in which they are used and the relative ease with which guns can be transported and discarded.

Computers are similar to guns, however, in that they are both personal possessions often kept in their owner’s residence and therefore subject to the presumption that a nexus exists between an object used in a crime and the suspect’s current residence.

This is borne out by our cases involving the consumption of child pornography via computer.

law enforcement made no effort to so much as suggest that the suspect owned a computer, electronic storage device, or printer;

instead, they assumed that if he did have one and had used it in a crime it would be in his home.

Almost every home would be fair game if this pernicious reasoning were to spread.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/17/1733671/-Suspected-of-a-crime-Own-a-computer-Now-police-can-search-your-home-in-KY-MI-OH-and-TN?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/17/1733671/-Suspected-of-a-crime-Own-a-computer-Now-police-can-search-your-home-in-KY-MI-OH-and-TN?detail=emaildkre)

boutons_deux

01-22-2018, 12:42 PM

Illinois woman faces felony drug charge after cops mistake pistachio shells for marijuana

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/pjimage-2.jpg

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/illinois-woman-faces-felony-drug-charge-cops-mistake-pistachio-shells-marijuana-lawyer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

59-year-old WHITE woman, for a change

http://www.nwherald.com/_internal/cimg!0/glwj0k9i2tpm15olhbxokjyalxviop0

boutons_deux

01-23-2018, 06:49 AM

Trash's GESTAPO / Schutzstaffel doing ETHNIC CLEANSING

Police board bus demanding proof of citizenship from every passenger—it’sthe GOP ‘Land of the Free’ (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/21/1734672/-As-if-we-are-WW2-Nazi-Germany-Police-board-bus-in-Florida-and-demand-ID-proof-from-every-passenger)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/21/1734672/-As-if-we-are-WW2-Nazi-Germany-Police-board-bus-in-Florida-and-demand-ID-proof-from-every-passenger?detail=emaildkre

Like the Jews in Germany forced to wear Yellow Stars of David, Trash should make Hispanics wear sombrero or red chili pepper badges.

boutons_deux

01-28-2018, 07:12 AM

7-year-old Florida boy handcuffed and taken for psych evaluation after altercation with teacher

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Boy-arrested-at-Miami-school-WSVN.png

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/7-year-old-florida-boy-handcuffed-taken-psych-evaluation-altercation-teacher/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Damn! Cops now going after white kids, too! :)

boutons_deux

02-04-2018, 10:33 AM

Report Alleges Police Use Secret Evidence Collected By Feds To Make Arrests

Branches of America's federal law enforcement and intelligence services may be secretly helping state and local police arrest suspects every day in ways that raise fundamental questions about defendants' civil and due process rights,

The report makes the case that

federal law enforcers, police and local prosecutors are

concealing the origins of evidence and intelligence in scores of criminal cases, especially drug arrests.

The intelligence may include

National Security Agency mass surveillance programs (https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702/), wiretaps, computer and phone surveillance, and physical surveillance.

Defendants, the report says, often have no idea about the underlying investigative tactics and constitutionally dubious methods, including warrantless searches, that may have been used in gathering evidence against them.

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/578369420/report-alleges-police-use-secret-evidence-collected-by-feds-to-make-arrests?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180204&utm_campaign=&utm_term=

But a national, electronic database of guns and gun owners? Hell no, BigGun paid Repugs to block the database and keep all gun records only on paper.

boutons_deux

02-08-2018, 03:23 PM

There are way too many people going to jail because they’re too poor to pay a fine

The United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world, climbing from 600,000 to over 2 million in just a few decades.

Nearly 5 million people are under some sort of parole or probation supervision in the United States. That’s a fourfold increase since 1980,

the requirements for people under judicial supervision have become more stringent.

The number of conditions people must adhere to has increased, for example, as has the length of supervision required. As a result, many people wind up in jail—not for committing another crime, but for a technical violation of probation or parole conditions.

In fact, from 1990 to 2004, the rate of people on probation who were sent back to jail for non-compliance grew by 50 percent, from 220,000 to 330,000, according to the report.

the infractions that send someone back to jail are as simple as coming late to a meeting with a parole officer or failing to make payments on a fine. Being a person of color increases the odds of winding up in prison for a parole violation,

One of the most chilling reasons for being

sent back to prison is failure to pay a fine or court or supervision fees,

payments that can be out of reach for the low-income people most likely to be caught up in the criminal justice system.

In some jurisdictions, about 20 percent of those serving time were incarcerated because they didn’t pay their criminal justice debts,

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/way-many-people-going-jail-theyre-poor-pay-fine/

boutons_deux

02-14-2018, 07:43 AM

An emboldened ICE reportedly wants to become a part of the U.S. intelligence community (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/8/1739815/-An-emboldened-ICE-reportedly-wants-to-become-a-part-of-the-U-S-intelligence-community)

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should be able to join the U.S. Intelligence Community and get access to spy agency secrets and tools that would help them surveil millions of Americans regardless of their immigration status”

is something no decent person has ever said,

but ICE officials emboldened under the mass deportation policies of Donald Trump’s administration are actively exploring the possibility (https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump):

Internal advocates for joining the America’s spy agencies—known as the Intelligence Community or the IC—focus on the potential benefits to the agency’s work on counterproliferation, money laundering, counterterror, and cybercrime.

The official added that joining the IC could also be useful for the agency’s immigration enforcement work––in particular, their efforts to find and arrest undocumented immigrants with criminal arrest warrants (known in ICE as fugitive aliens).

But civil liberties advocates and government watchdog groups—as well as some current and former U.S. officials—are concerned at the prospect of the nation’s immigration enforcers joining the ranks of America’s spies.

“The idea that ICE could potentially get access to warrantless surveillance is frankly terrifying,”

“The prospect of ICE joining the Intelligence Community, if true, should sound alarm bells,” he said.

“Such a move threatens to give an agency responsible for domestic immigration enforcement access to a vast pool of sensitive information collected by our spy agencies for foreign intelligence purposes.

Those spying tools do not belong in the hands of ICE agents.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/8/1739815/-An-emboldened-ICE-reportedly-wants-to-become-a-part-of-the-U-S-intelligence-community?detail=emaildkre

My $0.01 bet? Trash/Sessions will give ICE whatever it wants.

boutons_deux

02-14-2018, 07:54 AM

John Kelly’s true self and ICE’s mission creep: Tyranny is spreading

Darkest side of the Trump agenda: Kelly reveals his true colors and ICE seeks to join the intelligence communit

Many of us were actually slightly relieved to see [Kelly] leave his former post as the secretary of Homeland Security, where his hardline anti-immigrant attitudes were being implemented in ways that had direct effects on people's lives.

Unfortunately, DHS, and particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is still eagerly carrying out his mission.

ICE officers were reportedly giddy with excitement at the election of

Donald Trump, who promised to let them "take the gloves off"

and go after any undocumented workers and their families they choose.

His promise to crack down on sanctuary cities had them over the moon.

ICE agents ... (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-veteran-ice-agent-disillusioned-with-the-trump-era-speaks-out)

pushed hard for the authorization to increase harassment, pursuit and incarceration

of people for the "crime" of being a non-citizen in America.

It's not as if ICE wasn't busy under the previous administration.

They deported a whole lot of people. (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/10/16119910/trump-deportations-obama) Millions. But it wasn't enough.

ICE demanded the authority to go after law-abiding workers who've been in the country for decades and have families.

They wanted to raid businesses and homes and arrest people who were minding their own business, paying taxes, going to school, joining the military and otherwise behaving as ordinary members of society.

Immigration arrests have increased by 42 percent since Trump took office and they are getting more and more aggressive.

ICE is very serious about chasing down every immigrant who has entered the country illegally or overstayed a visa.

Its agents want to use every possible means to get that job done, which explains why they are now pushing to have ICE reclassified as an intelligence agency and get access to all that surveillance data they are collecting on average people going about their business.

Apparently, there can't be too many law enforcement agencies rifling through the private lives of average people.

You can bet that these ICE agents would not just be invading the privacy of undocumented immigrants.

That's not how "raw intelligence" works.

... results in people being unable to get due process and a fair trial under the guise of protecting national security.

Homeland Security officials are already using junk science (https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/leaked-dhs-report-uses-junk-science-argue) to justify long-term surveillance of Muslims.

This group of eager beavers have little or no training in the required constitutional procedures and are unlikely to be apt pupils.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/09/john-kellys-true-self-and-ices-mission-creep-tyranny-is-spreading/

For libertarian frauds, coservatives, Trash fellators, Repug, "big government" is ALWAYS bad,

but the monstrously huge, metastasizing, lawless, unaccountable, no-oversight BigPoliceState is never big enough

boutons_deux

02-14-2018, 07:58 AM

ICE Lawyer Charged With Trying To Defraud Immigrants By Stealing Their Identities

A top attorney with Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly resigned this week after being charged with stealing several immigrants’ identities to obtain money and property.

Raphael A. Sanchez, the agency’s chief counsel in its Seattle branch, was charged Monday with one count wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, court documents (https://www.scribd.com/document/371497163/Raphael-A-Sanchez) show.

During a four-year period, he allegedly attempted to defraud American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Citibank, Discover, and JPMorgan Chase by using the personal information of seven people whose cases were being processed by ICE.

He even sent emails from his official ICE address to his personal email containing a copy of someone’s energy bill, as well as photos of a U.S. permanent resident card and a Chinese passport, prosecutors say.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ice-attorney-steal-immigrants-identities_us_5a83e552e4b02b66c51350c1?utm_medium= email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__021418&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__021418+CID_6dfcb57b f5cc189e8cfea59abf356575&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__021418

Stealing from immigrants? no problem

but defraud BigFinance? BIG problem

Chris

02-14-2018, 11:30 PM

Critics blast all-white jury for Oklahoma cop accused of raping black women and teens

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kwtv_holtzclaw_141105c-800x430.jpg

The trial of the former Oklahoma City police officer accused of a string of sexual assaults against black women began this week with an all-white jury.

Daniel Holtzclaw is alleged to have sexually assaulted 12 women and a 17-year-old girl while on duty. Prosecutors have said (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/daniel-holtzclaw-alleged-sexual-assault-oklahoma-city#.orJlQvO6w)he targeted middle-aged black women of limited means who had cause to want to avoid the police, such as outstanding warrants.

Though African Americans make up 16% of the population of Oklahoma County there are no black people among the eight men and four women on the jury.

Holtzclaw faces 36 charges, including rape, forcible oral sodomy and sexual battery, and could be sentenced to life imprisonment. He has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors contend that Holtzclaw began committing sex crimes in December 2013, when he coerced a hospitalised woman who was high on drugs and handcuffed to a bedrail into performing oral sex, with the promise that the charges would be dropped.

His youngest accuser said she was 17 when he raped her on her mother’s porch after groping her, ostensibly to search for drugs.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/critics-blast-all-white-jury-for-oklahoma-cop-accused-of-raping-black-women-and-teens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

spurraider21 this case is interesting to me. If you're not familiar with Holtzclaw, I highly recommend watching his interrogation on youtube. Is this guy innocent based on the evidence here below?

Anti-Cop Frenzy Led to This Officer’s Wrongful Conviction. Prosecutors Should Be Ashamed.

As the Oklahoma attorney general’s office fights to keep hidden from public view the results of secret hearings on the DNA science flaws and falsehoods in former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw’s case, two prominent experts have stepped forward to shed bright light on the government’s myriad mind-boggling failures.

Forensic scientist, criminal profiler, and crime reconstructionist Dr. Brent Turvey and independent forensic DNA consultant Suzanna Ryan spoke out about the Holtzclaw case for the newest episode of my investigative program on CRTV.com.

Reflecting on the confirmation bias that drove the investigation, the elementary failures of evidence collection, and the forensic missteps, Turvey told me that he and his colleagues “cannot understand how this case got into trial at all.”

Holtzclaw is the wrongfully convicted Oklahoma City patrolman caught up in the nationwide anti-cop frenzy and social justice riots of Ferguson and Baltimore.

After initial accuser Jannie Ligons—who is suing Holtzclaw in a high-dollar lawsuit represented by Al Sharpton 2.0, Benjamin Crump—went public with her sensational sexual assault claims in June 2014, Oklahoma City sex-crimes Detectives Rocky Gregory and Kim Davis solicited a field of 13 total accusers. They were all black women and almost all had histories of drug abuse, mental illness, prostitution, and multiple crimes.

No “linkage analysis” was done to establish a factual basis for the alleged victim profile, Turvey told me. The profile was created from gut feelings, not science or professional expertise.

Seven additional accusers, including one male, told such preposterous stories that the cops were forced to reject them out of hand. Only one was prosecuted for lying to police. Of the 13 who went to trial, the jury rejected five of the accusers’ stories and cleared Daniel of their charges (18 out of 36 total).

Detectives Gregory and Davis preemptively told accusers they were searching for sexual assault victims of a “bad guy” on the police force and badgered women who repeatedly had denied they were victims of any sexual improprieties, refused to look at lineups, or described an alleged attacker as “short” and “black” or “dark-skinned” (Daniel is 6-foot-1, pale, and half Japanese).

Turvey—who has worked for government agencies and universities across the world and authored multiple peer-reviewed textbooks on criminal profiling and investigation, forensic criminology and victimology, forensic science, criminal justice ethics, and law enforcement corruption—called the Oklahoma City detectives’ approach “one of the most biased ways of approaching criminal investigation that (he’d) ever seen.”

“You have detectives who have started with the notion that Holtzclaw is guilty,” Turvey recounted, “searching through as many potential contacts as he’s ever had” to confirm their narrative.

Detectives weren’t interested in pursuing other leads who matched accusers’ descriptions. They were “just interested in making their case against Officer Holtzclaw. That’s the definition of confirmation bias.”

It’s a major red flag, Turvey (whose most recent textbook is on false allegations) told me, “because the possibility that you’re dealing with somebody who’s falsely reporting the crime goes way up when you approach the case in this fashion.”

Out of the eight remaining accusers’ claims and alleged crime scenes, there were zero corroborating witnesses, and there was zero direct forensic evidence.

The Oklahoma City Police Department’s crime lab identified what it characterized as “epithelial cell” DNA from one lone accuser—a troubled 17-year-old girl with a history of violent crime who called Daniel a “hot cop.” Her trace DNA became the linchpin in the case.

At her lab in Carlsbad, California, Ryan showed me how Oklahoma City police crime lab analyst Elaine Taylor neglected to perform simple serological and forensic tests on Holtzclaw’s uniform pants.

She explained that Taylor did not use an alternate light source, “which is a very common practice” in sexual assault cases to detect saliva or vaginal fluid stains. Nor did Taylor conduct basic saliva tests (which she oddly told the jury she “refused” to do) or a presumptive vaginal fluid test, which Ryan demonstrated.

Ryan also noted how Taylor “incorrectly stated that no male DNA was present in two” of four DNA samples taken, “when in fact there was.”

The reason the error was so grave is that prosecutor Gayland Gieger (who has zero training in forensic science) used Taylor’s false characterization to argue and bolster his own unscientific conclusion that because Holtzclaw’s DNA was not found in the minuscule mixtures of multiple contributors, the DNA could have only gotten there through sexual contact via the teen accuser’s vaginal fluid.

“Well, you can’t say that,” Ryan commented. “If you don’t do a test for something, you can’t make a statement like that. … There was absolutely no body fluid identification,” she told me. “It’s not scientifically sound.”

Moreover, in reaction to Gieger’s mockery of transfer DNA at trial and Gregory and Davis’s claims to me that it is “almost impossible” to transfer DNA indirectly, Ryan, who has worked as a DNA analyst for both public and private DNA labs and served as an expert witness in forensic serology and DNA analysis more than 100 times, forcefully responded:

That’s not what the journal research shows. There are article after article after article talking about not just primary transfer—we directly contact each other—but secondary transfer. Now we’re discovering there’s tertiary transfer. A study by Dr. Peter Gill, who’s one of the co-authors of our paper (on Holtzclaw) as well as a co-author of a recent journal article, found quaternary transfer.

Both Turvey and Ryan point to the incompetent mishandling of the evidence bag containing Holtzclaw’s pants by Rocky Gregory (who is the son-in-law of forensic analyst Elaine Taylor) as a potential route for DNA transfer and contamination.

While watching video of Gregory sticking his bare hand in the evidence bag, Turvey remarked:

This shows somebody who doesn’t understand physical evidence, doesn’t care about the physical evidence, so it’s not just creating an environment where contamination is likely, but also showing a culture where they don’t care about physical evidence at all.

Turvey and Ryan, who do not know each other and who have had no contact with Holtzclaw or his family, are two of six internationally renowned experts including Dr. Peter Gill who released a public report on scientific issues in Holtzclaw’s case last summer.

Because of systemic failures in the basic testing, handling, collection, analysis, and interpretation of evidence, the scientists determined that Holtzclaw “was deprived of his due process right to a fair trial” and that his “conviction should be overturned and he should be given a new trial.”

Scientific and ethical lapses before, during, and after the Holtzclaw trial should raise alarm bells across forensic and investigative communities inside and outside the Sooner State. Repeated evasions of transparency by Oklahoma prosecutors and police brass about their handling of the Holtzclaw case should trouble criminal justice watchdogs on all sides of the ideological spectrum nationwide.

Justice, like democracy, dies in the darkness.

http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/14/anti-cop-frenzy-led-officers-wrongful-conviction-prosecutors-ashamed/

boutons_deux

02-15-2018, 12:36 AM

ICE PUT IMMIGRANT WOMAN, WHO ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE, IN SOLITARY TO MAKE HER RECANT CLAIMS

An incarcerated immigrant woman, who alleged sexual harassment and assault by a corrections officer, said she was thrown in solitary confinement for 60 hours and was told she would not be released until she publicly recanted her accusations.

Laura Monterrosa is a 23 year old immigrant from El Salvador detained (https://shadowproof.com/2017/11/16/hutto-detention-center-woman-alleges-sexual-assault-guard/) at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a private prison operated by CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America).

Grassroots Leadership, a Texas-based immigrant rights group advocating on behalf of Monterrosa, said she was isolated between 11:00 PM on Friday, February 9, and 11:00 AM on Monday, February 12.

She was threatened with more isolation if she didn’t publicly state she was not sexually abused by staff.

https://shadowproof.com/2018/02/14/ice-put-immigrant-woman-who-alleged-sexual-abuse-in-solitary-to-make-her-recant-claims/

America The Shit Hole

spurraider21

02-15-2018, 01:24 PM

spurraider21 (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=31905) this case is interesting to me. If you're not familiar with Holtzclaw, I highly recommend watching his interrogation on youtube. Is this guy innocent based on the evidence here below?
man, the two sources i have in that link are rawstory and dailysignal

:lol might need to do some independent research given what i have to work with here. though the rawstory article mainly just says "the prosecution contends," etc while the dailysignal one is much more hyperpartisan with the "wrongfully convicted, sensationalist claims" language

also i haven't seen the interrogation video and don't really know much about this case at all

boutons_deux

02-19-2018, 09:44 PM

Fourth Circuit: It's not okay to handcuff school children, but go ahead and do it anyway (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/19/1742887/-Fourth-Circuit-It-s-not-okay-to-handcuff-children-but-go-ahead-and-do-it-anyway)

The Fourth Circuit, which hears federal appeals from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, determined that handcuffing E.W. violated her Fourth Amendment rights. (In fact, handcuffing children is just about uniformly unconstitutional.)

But this Court has never held that using handcuffs is per se reasonable. Rather, the Fourth Amendment requires us to assess the reasonableness of using handcuffs based on the circumstances.

A lawful arrest does not categorically legitimize binding a person’s wrists in chains.

And the troubling facts of the present case highlight why such a per se rule would be ill-advised.

the Fourth Circuit ruled that Dolgos is off the hook courtesy of an oft-abused legal doctrine, “qualified immunity.”

Qualified immunity protects officials from liability as long as they don’t violate clearly established rights, or rights that the officials should reasonably have known about.

Somehow, the Fourth Circuit panel decided that, despite how well-established it is that handcuffing children violates their constitutional rights,

Dolgos couldn’t be expected to know that handcuffing a completely compliant 10-year-old girl on whom she had one foot and 60 pounds in the presence of two other adults constituted excessive force.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/19/1742887/-Fourth-Circuit-It-s-not-okay-to-handcuff-children-but-go-ahead-and-do-it-anyway

Insanity, inanity in Federal appeals courts will be horribly worse, for decades, as the oligarchy/Repugs stuff the Fed appeals courts with right-wing ideologues, extremist, and incompetents.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/19/1742887/-Fourth-Circuit-It-s-not-okay-to-handcuff-children-but-go-ahead-and-do-it-anyway

boutons_deux

02-20-2018, 07:22 AM

NYPD Case Calls Attention to 'Consent Defense' That Can Be Used by Officers Accused of Rape in 35 States

"It should be clear across the state for officers from every department, that when someone is in custody they do not have the ability to consent to sexual activity."

in 34 other states where police officers are legally allowed to sexually assault people they take into custody.

While New York makes it illegal for corrections officers to have sexual contact with inmates,

police officers can legally claim that detainees consented to sexual activity,

protecting them from sexual assault charges.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/19/nypd-case-calls-attention-consent-defense-can-be-used-officers-accused-rape-35

:lol America The Beautifully Untouchable Militarized Police State

boutons_deux

02-20-2018, 07:32 AM

Michigan prisoner turned celebrated author may face incarceration bill

Curtis Dawkins wrote The Graybar Hotel while serving a life sentence. Now the state says proceeds from the work belong to them

Curtis Dawkins, a Michigan (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/michigan) prisoner and publishing sensation, could be forced to repay the costs of his incarceration from the proceeds of his literary work.

The convicted murderer is serving a life sentence for a 2004 crime spree on Halloween night that left one man dead.

His debut collection of short stories, The Graybar Hotel (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/08/the-graybar-hotel-curtis-dawkins-review), was written in a Michigan penitentiary and published in July.

But now the Michigan department of treasury is seeking 90% of Dawkins’s assets, including “proceeds from publications, future payments, royalties” from the book.

Michigan puts the cost of his incarceration at $72,000;

Dawkins, 49, received a $150,000 advance from Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

The state claims that Dawkins, who is representing himself at a hearing next week in Kalamazoo, has no right to pass his literary earnings to his family.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/19/curtis-dawkins-the-graybar-hotel-michigan-prison-bill

Dawkins will be screwed out of his money is a safe bet.

boutons_deux

02-24-2018, 07:04 PM

When She Pursued A Rape Charge, The Cop On The Case Pursued Her

The Florida woman felt she had to have sex with detective Michel Toro to ensure he worked on her case.

Investigators agreed and said he'd violated state law, but Toro was never charged.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/when-she-pursued-a-rape-charge-the-cop-on-the-case-pursued?utm_term=.ypzp6ewpQ#.ex7J26lJX

Another case of a cop or deputy fucking an arrestee or plaintiff or victim, exploiting his power over her, legal in majority of states.

boutons_deux

03-05-2018, 05:14 PM

Black Mother Charged with Homicide After Off-Duty Cop Slams Into Her Car at 94 MPH

Officer Christopher Manuel, 28, struck a Nissan carrying four adults and four children about 8pm on Oct. 12

while driving his Corvette at speeds approaching 100 mph, police said.

The posted speed limit for that road was 50 mph.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/black-mother-charged-homicide-after-duty-cop-slams-her-car-94-mph

boutons_deux

03-05-2018, 05:22 PM

Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs

Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers' lives.

from 2011 to 2015 at least 319 New York Police Department employees who committed offenses serious enough to merit firing were allowed to keep their jobs.

Many of the officers lied, cheated, stole, or assaulted New York City residents.

At least fifty employees lied on official reports,

under oath, or

during an internal affairs investigation.

Thirty-eight were found guilty by a police tribunal of excessive force,

getting into a fight, or

firing their gun unnecessarily.

Fifty-seven were guilty of driving under the influence.

Seventy-one were guilty of ticket-fixing.

One officer, Jarrett Dill, threatened to kill someone.

Another, Roberson Tunis, sexually harassed and inappropriately touched a fellow officer.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious?utm_term=.obKmoDYrgm#.va2jA9E1dj

boutons_deux

03-05-2018, 05:47 PM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Flag_of_the_Schutzstaffel.svg/200px-Flag_of_the_Schutzstaffel.svg.png

Court Says Arizona Residents Hassled By CBP Encroachment Can Move Forward With Their First Amendment Lawsuit

About a half-decade ago, Customs and Border Patrol turned roads in and out of a small Arizona town into East Germany.

The backstory to the lawsuit is stunning, in a "surely this can't be happening in America" sort of way.

what can happen when the federal government is allowed to turn large swathes of American soil into a proto-DMZ with armed guards and "papers, please" checkpoints.

Every time Jack Driscoll drives the 32 miles from this remote outpost in southeastern Arizona to the closest supermarket,

or to doctor’s appointments,

or to a pharmacy to fill his prescriptions,

he must stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint and answer the same question:

“Are you a U.S. citizen?”

Sometimes, Border Patrol agents ask where he is going or coming from,

the type of car he is driving,

what is in that bag on the back seat or

what brings him to these parts,

even though he has lived here for more than a year.

none of these residents ever leave the country.

All of this activity --

this constant monitoring of 800 residents of a small Arizona town --

targets US citizens going from place to place entirely within US borders.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180217/10303039257/court-says-arizona-residents-hassled-cbp-encroachment-can-move-forward-with-their-first-amendment-lawsuit.shtml

Godwin alert: DHS/CBP have literally become America's SchutzStaffel

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180217/10303039257/court-says-arizona-residents-hassled-cbp-encroachment-can-move-forward-with-their-first-amendment-lawsuit.shtml

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Flag_of_the_Schutzstaffel.svg/200px-Flag_of_the_Schutzstaffel.svg.png

and of course, as with all of law enforcement, prison/jail staff, it attracts real sickos into the force.

CosmicCowboy

03-05-2018, 07:26 PM

Boo, you've never been to Laredo? You need to get out more, Boutplug.

CosmicCowboy

03-05-2018, 07:38 PM

Theres one on 90 out past Langtry too.

boutons_deux

03-09-2018, 08:32 AM

Of course not ...

D.A. declines to charge former LAPD officer in fatal shooting of homeless man near Venice boardwalk

Officer Clifford Proctor — who resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017 — shot and killed Brendon Glenn, a New York native who was staying near the famed boardwalk.

The shooting of the unarmed, black homeless man drew scrutiny from the start,

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-shooting-glenn-20180307-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

03-14-2018, 07:23 PM

Sheriff who pocketed $750G from inmate food fund bought beach house for $740G

http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/03/14/sheriff-who-pocketed-750g-from-inmate-food-fund-bought-beach-house-for-740g/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/1862/1048/1521036649604.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

Entrekin like other Alabama sheriffs believe a pre-World War II state law allows them to keep any “excess inmate-feeding funds” for themselves.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/14/sheriff-who-pocketed-750g-from-inmate-food-fund-bought-beach-house-for-740g.html

boutons_deux

03-14-2018, 10:15 PM

Police Department With Eight Full-Time Officers Acquired 31 Military Vehicles Thru DoD's Surplus Program

An 11-member police force (http://police.deweytown.us/) for a Delaware town with 400 residents has availed itself of more than $3 million in 1033 gear over the last five years.

This first came to light late last year when documents obtained by Muckrock (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/aug/15/we-have-pentagon-1033-program-data/) prompted town officials to wonder why they hadn't been notified of the department's stockpile (http://www.doverpost.com/news/20171107/dewey-beach-police-dod-surplus-accounting-under-scrutiny).

When asked if the Dewey PD could account for all of the items by providing the physical location of items in their possession and paper trails for items sold, Sgt. Cliff Dempsey said, “We’re not going to comment on that matter at this time.”

On the agenda for a Nov. 11 Dewey Beach commissioners’ meeting is the discussion of three options for to the 1033 program:

1. require the DBPD to provide complete accounting for property received through any federal or surplus property program,

2. accept a recommendation from the town’s audit committee to utilize the town’s auditors, or

3. hire an independent consultant to conduct a more comprehensive review.

Some of the military equipment can be located. :lol

A recent report by the Milford Beacon contains a photo (http://www.milfordbeacon.com/news/20180302/piles-of-surplus-dewey-pd-stalls-on-full-transparency?start=2) showing five military trucks and two ATVs parked in the department's storage lot. But that is only a small part of the Dewey PD's total holdings.

[A]mong hundreds of line items turned over between March 2013 and December 2017, the police acquired

a total of 12 ATVs,

51 jackets or parkas and

13 space heaters, and

19 trucks of all kinds.

Dewey’s department has just eight full-time and three part-time officers,

the town population is less than 400 people and

the town itself is a just mile long and two blocks wide.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180304/13285739352/police-department-with-eight-full-time-officers-acquired-31-military-vehicles-thru-dods-surplus-program.shtml

boutons_deux

03-21-2018, 04:23 PM

Unarmed black man carrying only a cellphone when he was shot by cops

22-year-old Stephon Clark is the latest black man to be unfairly targeted by the police. He leaves behind two sons

Stephon Clark was gunned down in the backyard of the south Sacramento home he shared with his grandparents and siblings, his 25-year-old brother Stevante Clark told (http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article205818424.html) The Sacramento Bee.

The police department said officers were responding to a call that a 6-foot-1 black man wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and dark pants was taking cover in a residential backyard after shattering car windows with a toolbar.

https://www.salon.com/2018/03/21/unarmed-black-victim-carrying-only-a-cellphone-when-he-was-shot-by-cops/

AKA, Living (and dying) While Black

The assumption is always that the two shooters are lying, no witnesses.

boutons_deux

03-21-2018, 04:32 PM

For Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped

Minorities are pulled over by police at higher rates than whites. Many see a troubling message: You don't belong.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/the-stop-race-police-traffic/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Look_Newsletter_20180320&utm_campaign=Look_Newsletter&utm_rd=1495010081

==============

For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/from-the-editor-race-racism-history/

Trill Clinton

03-21-2018, 05:56 PM

koriwhat

03-21-2018, 06:00 PM

this pisses me off. only positive here is it was caught on camera...but we know how that goes.

976592092851003393

those cops deserve the same treatment they gave clark.

boutons_deux

03-22-2018, 07:04 AM

Ex-Minnesota officer charged with murdering Australian a flight risk: prosecutors

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Justine-Damond.png

Damond, who was living in Minneapolis, called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her house, and she approached the police after their arrival, authorities said.

Matthew Harrity, the officer driving the police car from which Noor shot, said he was startled by a loud sound and both officers “got spooked” when Damond appeared out of nowhere, prosecutors said.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-minnesota-officer-charged-murdering-australian-flight-risk-prosecutors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-minnesota-officer-charged-murdering-australian-flight-risk-prosecutors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

boutons_deux

03-27-2018, 02:03 PM

Of course, what else in a slave state?

No charges to be filed against officers in Alton Sterling death, Louisiana attorney general says

Sterling, 37, was shot and killed by one of two police (https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/baton-rouge-shooting-alton-sterling/index.html) officers who confronted him outside a convenience store in July 2016.

Cell phone video showed Sterling, a black man, pinned to the ground by the white Baton Rouge police officers before he was shot;

police said :lol :lol ... Sterling was shot because he was reaching for a gun (https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/us/police-shootings-investigations/index.html).

video evidence couldn't prove or disprove Salamoni's assertion that Sterling was reaching for a gun.

Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge where Sterling was shot, also sued Baton Rouge and its police department.

Muflahi accused authorities of illegally taking him into custody and confiscating his security system without a warrant.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/us/alton-sterling-investigation/index.html

did the police present (or plant) Sterling's gun?

racist JeBo's racist DoJ of course played along with cops killing a knitter face down on the ground.

boutons_deux

03-27-2018, 02:18 PM

the militarized police state implemented on TX school kids

Texas schools suspended tens of thousands of students in second grade or younger, report says

The report warned educators and policy leaders of the risks that in-school suspensions continue to have on pre-K to second grade students in Texas public schools.

Texas schools issued more than 64,000 in-school suspensions to students in second grade or younger during the 2015-16 school year, and

a disproportionate number of those students were black, male, in foster care or in special education,

more than 36,000 students received out-of-school suspensions during that time.

The following year, lawmakers passed a bill that banned out-of-school suspensions for students up to the second grade.

“Schools are suspending little kids as young as four years old, many of whom are in a classroom for the first time in their lives,”

Texans Care for Children CEO Stephanie Rubin said in a statement.

“Suspending our youngest students interrupts their education,

communicates to them that they don’t belong, and

misses a critical opportunity to actually address why they might be acting out.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/26/texas-youngest-public-school-students-still-risk-suspensions-report-sa/

American civilization, brutality reigns.

boutons_deux

03-28-2018, 10:52 PM

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

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 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/8/1458068/-California-cop-rapes-21-year-old-with-internal-cavity-search-department-attempts-to-bribe-her) or second or third time (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/8/4/1228854/-2-More-Women-Internally-Probed-On-Public-Road-By-Texas-Troopers-Video)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

boutons_deux

03-29-2018, 03:37 PM

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 (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3bmk/how-a-child-porn-case-became-a-battle-over-government-secrets-playpen-hack)—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 (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pgkqq8/hacking-is-a-search-according-to-federal-judge) used against them?

“When hacking tools are classified, reliance on them in regular criminal investigations is likely to severely undermine a defendant’s constitutional 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/article/7xdxg9/fbi-hacking-investigations-classified-remote-operations-unit

boutons_deux

03-31-2018, 05:54 AM

school as authoritarian shithole

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 identity (http://www.wdam.com/story/37823845/student-says-his-principal-cut-his-hair).

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 (http://www.wjtv.com/news/pine-belt/north-jones-elementary-student-claims-faculty-member-cut-his-hair/1085752426) 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/mississippi-boy-hair-locs-cut-principal_us_5abbfa33e4b03e2a5c78e34d?utm_medium=e mail&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__032918&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__032918+CID_2ccd800f b49a1068130d509c87c6cc4b&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=cutting%20her%20sons%20long%20hair&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__032918

boutons_deux

04-01-2018, 08:58 PM

Watch: Drive-by video shows Texas cop beating a man pinned to the ground
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/watch-drive-video-shows-texas-cop-beating-man-pinned-ground/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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

boutons_deux

04-03-2018, 09:24 AM

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 circumstances will only exacerbate the problem."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-supreme-court-police-shooting-20180402-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

America slips further down the fucked slope of unfuckability.

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

boutons_deux

04-05-2018, 07:35 PM

Police officer who went undercover in prison leaves the force to sell cars after his experience (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/4/1754409/-Police-officer-who-went-undercover-in-prison-leaves-the-force-to-sell-cars-after-his-experience)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/527907/story_image/Screen_Shot_2018-04-04_at_11.06.57_AM.png?1522865237
A police officer from Texas named Alan spent eight weeks undercover in a jail as part of "60 Days In (https://www.aetv.com/shows/60-days-in),"

the A&E documentary 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/2018/4/4/1754409/-Police-officer-who-went-undercover-in-prison-leaves-the-force-to-sell-cars-after-his-experience?detail=emaildkre

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

boutons_deux

04-06-2018, 11:38 AM

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/us/mississippi-private-prison-abuse.html?smid=tw-share

boutons_deux

04-06-2018, 01:34 PM

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 documents.

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.

boutons_deux

04-08-2018, 11:51 AM

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. :lol

But activists – (http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article207935124.html)

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/article207924559.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

04-22-2018, 10:56 AM

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 sophomore 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/post-nation/wp/2018/04/21/police-responding-to-dying-students-911-call-stayed-in-their-patrol-car-body-cam-video-shows/?utm_term=.a1a47de1dba7&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

boutons_deux

04-23-2018, 11:12 AM

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.

boutons_deux

04-23-2018, 01:14 PM

'Use your fingers': Lawsuit alleges for-profit prison forces ICE detainees to work for toilet paper (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/17/1757826/--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 (https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2017-12/OIG-18-32-Dec17.pdf).

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/2018/4/17/1757826/--Use-your-fingers-Lawsuit-alleges-for-profit-prison-forces-ICE-detainees-to-work-for-toilet-paper?detail=emaildkre

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

boutons_deux

04-23-2018, 06:27 PM

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=twsrc%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

04-23-2018, 06:50 PM

last 16 post by Croutons.. :lol

Living the dream!

boutons_deux

04-24-2018, 07:32 AM

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-arizona-borderpatrol/u-s-border-patrol-agent-acquitted-of-murdering-mexican-teenager-idUSKBN1HV02D?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

boutons_deux

04-24-2018, 07:43 AM

Repugs' weaponized 1st Amendment target: wimmen cowbody sluts 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 (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/84R/billtext/pdf/SB01135F.pdf), which prohibits the disclosure or promotion of intimate images without the consent of those depicted, is unconstitutional.

Enacted in 2015, the Texas law was intended as a way to stop what's known as revenge porn (https://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=revenge+porn&results_per_page=20&site=&sort=rel), 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 circumstances when the depicted person had a reasonable expectation that the material would remain private.

It's one of 38 state laws (https://www.cybercivilrights.org/revenge-porn-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/2018/04/24/texas_first_amendment_revenge_x_rated/

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

boutons_deux

04-24-2018, 05:06 PM

The Renegade Sheriffs

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

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/the-renegade-sheriffs?mbid=nl_Daily%20042418&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=13377657&spUserID=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&spJobID=1382123330&spReportId=MTM4MjEyMzMzMAS2

boutons_deux

04-25-2018, 03:23 PM

Jailers charged with taking bribes, smuggling contraband into SC prisons

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article209781269.html

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

boutons_deux

04-26-2018, 06:33 AM

"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 documents obtained by the Detroit Free Press (http://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/trooper-tases-teen-on-atv-police-video-reveals-what-happens-next/507-537954082) 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 fuckin' 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 fuckin' 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 fucked up."

( :lol 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?

boutons_deux

04-26-2018, 12:42 PM

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.” :lol
Homeland security officials said the agency does not separate families at the border for deterrence purposes. :lol

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

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/us/immigrant-children-separation-ice.html?mtrref=www.facebook.com&gwh=2018502F753CECCCBE3324346D865AEC&gwt=pay

god FUCKING damn, Trash/Sessions/DHS are fucking Nazis. America-The-Beautiful NAZIS

boutons_deux

04-28-2018, 01:48 PM

How ICE Is Gaining a Scary Amount of Data Through Police Data-Mining (https://gizmodo.com/how-ice-is-gaining-a-scary-amount-of-data-through-polic-1825613345)

A report released Thursday details the massive, complex (https://injusticetoday.com/new-documents-reveal-how-ice-mines-local-police-databases-across-the-country-660e2dfddbe3) 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 documents 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-gaining-a-scary-amount-of-data-through-polic-1825613345?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

boutons_deux

04-28-2018, 01:52 PM

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

http://www.latimes.com/resizer/7wR1onZd0KtgDmslnQRAFTbKhJI=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/GE3VZ7L5PRDQJD7RTHH57WPK3A.jpg

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/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html

boutons_deux

05-02-2018, 01:31 PM

Officer who shot at man in Walmart parking lot was previously fired for hate crimes and assault (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/1/1761282/-Officer-involved-in-Walmart-parking-lot-shooting-was-previously-fired-for-hate-crimes-and-assault)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/537891/story_image/Screen_Shot_2018-05-01_at_4.14.14_PM.png?1525205869

Diante Yarber (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/17/diante-yarber-police-fatal-shooting-barstow-california)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 “suspicious” vehicle with a “suspicious” 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 (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/barstow-police-officer-charged-with-hate-crime-battery.html) 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/2018/5/1/1761282/-Officer-involved-in-Walmart-parking-lot-shooting-was-previously-fired-for-hate-crimes-and-assault?detail=emaildkre

boutons_deux

05-04-2018, 07:00 PM

Miami cop caught on video kicking handcuffed man in the head. Of course, he's still receiving pay (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/4/1762059/-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 (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/28/16059536/trump-cops-speech-gang-violence-long-island) 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

boutons_deux

05-05-2018, 04:18 PM

U.S. has paid $60M to settle wrongful detention, assault, death claims at hands of border agents (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/4/1762006/-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 documents spanning 2005 to 2017, (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/01/border-patrol-violence-us-paid-60m-to-cover-claims-against-the-agency?CMP=share_btn_tw) 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, documents 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 fucking sadistic, murderous cowboys.

boutons_deux

05-05-2018, 05:20 PM

The NSA tripled its surveillance of U.S. phone records in 2017
(http://theweek.com/speedreads/771718/nsa-tripled-surveillance-phone-records-2017)
The National Security Agency collected 534 million records of Americans' calls and texts in 2017, an annual agency report published (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/spy-agency-nsa-triples-collection-of-u-s-phone-records-official-report-idUSKBN1I52FR) Friday indicated, tripling its 2016 collection rate.

The surveillance in question focuses on metadata, which means the NSA records the source and recipient of each communication rather than its content.

The agency is also able to collect details like the time, duration, contact information, and even the number of characters in a text message.

The millions of records the NSA collected in 2017 stemmed from the agency's targeting of the communications of just 40 people (https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-managed-to-collect-500-million-us-call-records-1825789394) — and, by extension, everyone they know.

While this mass surveillance remains substantially less than the NSA's spying on U.S. communications before the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden,

privacy advocates are alarmed by the new escalation.

"The intelligence community's transparency has yet to extend to explaining dramatic increases in their collection," said (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/spy-agency-nsa-triples-collection-of-u-s-phone-records-official-report-idUSKBN1I52FR) Robyn Greene of the Open Technology Institute.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/771718/nsa-tripled-surveillance-phone-records-2017 (http://theweek.com/speedreads/771718/nsa-tripled-surveillance-phone-records-2017)

boutons_deux

05-07-2018, 08:53 AM

racist Trash's Schutzstaffel fucking over non-whites

ICE is wrongly designating immigrants as gang members to deport them

According to one report, gang databases maintained by states and ICE are often “riddled with error”

https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/847/height/395/https://media.salon.com/2018/01/ice-agent.jpg

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has repeatedly used ambiguous criteria to wrongfully accuse undocumented Latino immigrants of being affiliated with gangs — often the brutal, Los Angeles-founded street gang MS-13 — as a pretense to arrest them.

Right-wing media outlets have responded by hyping the narrative of the prevalence in the U.S. of MS-13 to promote ICE.

There have been a number (https://thinkprogress.org/immigration-enforcement-gang-database-58512b0f4bcd/) of (https://twitter.com/georgejoseph94/status/989508010040061952) reports (https://www.nilc.org/2018/01/25/how-ice-uses-databases-and-information-sharing-to-deport-immigrants/) that ICE uses vague and sometimes overly broad (https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ilrc_gang_advisory-20170509.pdf)criteria (https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/02/is-gang-affiliation-being-used-to-round-up-daca-recipients/517212/) to wrongfully (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-gang-victims-are-labelled-as-gang-suspects) label a person as affiliated with a gang, which

allows officers to arrest people without a criminal warrant.

The result is unjustified arrests of law-abiding undocumented immigrants and

overinflated numbers of how many undocumented immigrants are gang members,

which right-wing media broadcast to their audiences without proper context.

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/07/ice-is-wrongly-designating-immigrants-as-gang-members-to-deport-them_partner/

AmeriKKKa

boutons_deux

05-07-2018, 01:23 PM

Trash's SS: echoes of "Sophie's Choice"

Children likely to be separated from parents under new border enforcement policy (http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-children-could-be-separated-from-parents-1525702928-htmlstory.html#nt=card)

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-children-could-be-separated-from-parents-1525702928-htmlstory.html

Terrorize, traumatize the kids, they're just brown shit, no better than animals, right?

boutons_deux

05-08-2018, 04:30 PM

Woman jailed in US for driving with Canadian licence

Emily Nield, 27, was on a student visa when she was pulled over for speeding in Georgia on her birthday in April.
When she could not produce hard copies of her passport or birth certificate, she was handcuffed and taken to jail.

Charges were eventually dropped and her record cleared, but Ms Nield says she is still waiting for an apology.

After Ms Nield was pulled over for driving 87 mph (140 km/hr) in a 70 mph zone, the officer told her she could not drive with a Canadian licence.

"I tried to tell the officer this isn't right, my licence is legal, if she had just done a simple Google search, this would not have happened," she told the BBC on Monday.

According to the Georgia Department of Driver Services website, non-US citizens holding a valid foreign driver's licence are allowed to drive in the state of Georgia, but may be asked for proof that they are citizens of the country that issued it.

The highway she was driving on is frequented by many Canadians who vacation in Florida.

The officer did ask for proof that she was Canadian, and

would not accept photographs of Ms Nield's immigration documents and passport.

She was then arrested for driving without a licence.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44032839

boutons_deux

05-08-2018, 06:12 PM

Minority Report

The LAPD Uses Palantir Tech to Predict and Surveil 'Probable Offenders' (https://gizmodo.com/the-lapd-uses-palantir-tech-to-predict-and-surveil-prob-1825864026)

Analysts with the Los Angeles Police Department are reportedly using Palantir software to direct officers to surveil “probable offenders” throughout the city,

many of whom are not criminal suspects but

have been spotlighted by the company’s predictive technology, according to LAPD documents.

The LAPD used Chronic Offender Bulletins before Palantir’s involvement, but the report notes that

the process is both increasingly automated by its software and per-infraction penalties are more severe.

https://gizmodo.com/the-lapd-uses-palantir-tech-to-predict-and-surveil-prob-1825864026?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29 (https://gizmodo.com/the-lapd-uses-palantir-tech-to-predict-and-surveil-prob-1825864026?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29)

boutons_deux

05-09-2018, 10:11 AM

cop escalates to slaughter the victim for refusing direct orders, a capital crime

WATCH: Maryland sheriff shoots and kills a groundhog that was ‘not responding’ to his directions

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/watch-maryland-sheriff-shoots-kills-groundhog-not-responding-directions/

If the ground hog were white ...

boutons_deux

05-09-2018, 10:24 AM

Panel finds 12 LAPD officers violated department policy in 2017 shooting from helicopter

It was a first for the Los Angeles Police Department: A helicopter was dispatched to where a 29-year-old man was barricaded inside a home on the top of a hill, surrounded by brush and debris.

During the hours-long standoff, the man fired at SWAT officers and they fired back from the helicopter (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-shooting-helicopter-20170509-story.html), striking Anthony Soderberg. He died at the scene.

This week, an oversight panel determined in closed session that 12 officers violated department rules on lethal force in the incident.

One officer fired as many as 14 rounds, according to the report. At least 40 rounds were fired during the standoff and

multiple rounds were fired from a distance of 500 feet or more.
It's unclear why the commission found the 12 officers out of policy. President Steve Soboroff declined to comment on the decision, and other commissioners did not respond to a request for comment. The office of the inspector general is expected to issue a report on the shooting shortly.

The police union that represents rank-and-file officers said in a statement that it is "extremely disappointed with the commission's decision" and that the officers involved should be getting a "thank you" instead of a rebuke. :lol

http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-lapd-helicopter-shooting-20180508-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

05-10-2018, 04:31 PM

North Carolina Police Officer Chokes and Slams Black Man to Ground for Arguing with Waffle House Employee

Yet another appalling display of unnecessary force.

A North Carolina police officer put a black man wearing a tuxedo into a chokehold — and then slammed him to the ground — during a violent Waffle House arrest.

Police were called to the Warsaw restaurant Saturday after 22-year-old Anthony Wall got into an argument with some of the servers,

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/north-carolina-police-officer-chokes-and-slams-black-man-ground-arguing-waffle

boutons_deux

05-11-2018, 05:52 PM

Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance

Exclusive: Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted under a secretive US effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’

thought he was dreaming when armed agents in tactical gear stormed his apartment. Startled awake by a large crash and officers screaming commands,

“It’s tyranny at its finest,” said Balogun, 34. “I have not been doing anything illegal for them to have surveillance on me. I have not hurt anyone or threatened anyone.”

Balogun spoke to the Guardian this week in his first interview since he was released from prison after

five months locked up and denied bail

while US attorneys tried and failed to prosecute him, accusing him of being a threat to law enforcement and an illegal gun owner.

Balogun,

who lost his home and more while incarcerated,

is believed to be the first (http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/30/is-a-court-case-in-texas-the-first-prosecution-of-a-black-identity-extremist/) person targeted and prosecuted under a secretive US surveillance effort (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/fbi-black-identity-extremists-racial-profiling) to track so-called “black identity extremists”.

Keighley, however, later admitted the FBI had no evidence of Balogun making any specific threats about harming police.

The government’s own crime data (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/16/us-police-deaths-decline-2015-fbi-data) has largely undermined (https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/fbi-setting-stage-increased-surveillance-black-activists?redirect=blog/fbi-setting-stage-increased-surveillance-black-activists) the notion of a growing threat from a “black identity extremist” movement, a term invented by law enforcement (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/22/identity-extremists-donald-trump).

In addition to an overall decline in police deaths (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/12/20/crime-police-killings-both-down-in-2017/?utm_term=.754d33785427),

[B]most individuals who shoot and kill officers are white men (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-cops-killed-white-men-conservatives-silent-article-1.2632965), and

white supremacists (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/california-police-white-supremacists-counter-protest) have been responsible (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/finsbury-park-terrorist-attack-far-right.html) for nearly 75% of deadly extremist attacks since 2001.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-interview-black-identity-extremists-fbi-surveillance?CMP=share_btn_tw

boutons_deux

05-11-2018, 05:55 PM

"Minority Report" fiction become real

AIDED BY PALANTIR, THE LAPD USES PREDICTIVE POLICING TO MONITOR SPECIFIC PEOPLE AND NEIGHBORHOODS (https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/)

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/

boutons_deux

05-12-2018, 09:02 AM

Pulling guns on Mentos thieves and murdering groundhogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peg0Aw3c6ZE&feature=em-uploademail

boutons_deux

05-12-2018, 09:27 AM

Ex-Leader Of Rogue Baltimore Police Unit Gets 15-Year Sentence For Robberies

The disgraced leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to nine robberies while on the force.

Former Sgt. Thomas Allers is the first member of the

brazenly corrupt Gun Trace Task Force to head to prison.

He pleaded guilty to nine robberies during his time leading the since disbanded unit.

Allers joined in with corrupt activities and

“emboldened what other people on the task force were doing,”

A jury found two task force detectives guilty of robbery and racketeering earlier this year.

The explosive federal investigation has seen six law enforcers plead guilty.
Several cooperated with the government. Allers did not.

it’s an open question :lol WTF? :lol the answer is FUCKING NO

as to whether the force’s command structure had enough integrity to expose them. It was a federal investigation that brought them down.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/former-leader-corrupt-baltimore-police-unit-sentence?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

the police and sheriffs don't don't police themselves

I bet JeBo's DoJ wouldn't have gone after these corrupt cops. In fact, JeBo has blatantly shutdown investigations of the police and certainly won't be starting up any of his own.

boutons_deux

05-12-2018, 09:31 AM

'You Watch Too Much Movies': Watch ICE Refuse to Produce Warrant, Then Barge Into Home With Guns Drawn as Terrified Children Cry in Background

"An ICE warrant does not allow officers to enter a home without consent."

A woman in southern California repeatedly told Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that her seven children were present and

demanded to see their warrant

as they forced their way—guns drawn and using heavy shields—into the family's home.

The agents were attempting to arrest Brianna Alonso's husband, Alberto Alonso-Hernandez, using a crowbar to pry open the home's back door.

The agents had their guns drawn and began screaming at the family after entering the house.

When Alonso asked to see their warrant,

one of the ICE agents said, "Ma'am, you're watching too much movies. We'll show you the warrant when we're done."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/10/you-watch-too-much-movies-watch-ice-refuse-produce-warrant-then-barge-home-guns?utm_term=%27You%20Watch%20Too%20Much%20Movies %27%3A%20Watch%20ICE%20Refuse%20to%20Produce%20War rant%2C%20Then%20Barge%20Into%20Home%20With%20Guns %20Drawn%20as%20Terrified%20Children%20Cry%20in%20 Background&utm_campaign=The%20Banality%20of...%20Us%20%7C%20Y our%20Week%20in%20Review&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email&cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-The%20Banality%20of...%20Us%20%7C%20Your%20Week%20 in%20Review-_-%27You%20Watch%20Too%20Much%20Movies%27%3A%20Watch %20ICE%20Refuse%20to%20Produce%20Warrant%2C%20Then %20Barge%20Into%20Home%20With%20Guns%20Drawn%20as% 20Terrified%20Children%20Cry%20in%20Background

Trash's AmeriKKKa and Trash's Schutzstaffel

Winehole23

05-12-2018, 09:40 AM

994636043684057088

boutons_deux

05-14-2018, 01:00 PM

Researchers Find Breathalyzers To Be Just More Faulty Cop Tech Capable Of Putting Innocent People In Jail

Good news for motorists:

law enforcement is using something just as unreliable as $2 field drug tests (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160712/15543134951/field-drug-tests-2-tool-that-can-destroy-lives.shtml) to justify arrests and searches.

Field drug tests have been known to declare donut crumbs meth (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171024/16042838475/man-gets-37500-payout-after-field-drug-test-says-donut-crumbs-are-methamphetamines.shtml) and drywall dust cocaine (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside-drug-test-sends-innocent-people-to-jail.html?_r=0).

Yet they're still in use (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161103/14011635959/las-vegas-pd-continues-to-use-faulty-2-drug-field-tests-because-convictions-matter-more-than-justice.shtml), thanks to their low price point. A costlier apparatus, used to determine blood alcohol levels during sobriety tests, appears to be just as broken as cheap drug tests.

the report showed the breathalyzer "tipped the scales" in favor of prosecutors, and against drivers.

One section in the report raised issue with a lack of adjustment of a person's breath temperature.

Breath temperature can fluctuate throughout the day, but, according to the report, can also wildly change the results of an alcohol breath test. Without correction, a single digit over a normal breath temperature of 34 degrees centigrade can inflate the results by six percent -- enough to push a person over the limit.

The quadratic formula set by the Washington State Patrol should correct the breath temperature to prevent false results. The quadratic formula corrects warmer breath downward, said the report, but the code doesn't explain how the corrections are made. The corrections "may be insufficient" if the formula is faulty, the report added.

The Washington State Patrol also disabled another feature that might have prevented false positives.

The code is also meant to check to ensure the device is operating within a certain temperature range set by Draeger, because the device can produce incorrect results if it's too hot or too cold.

But the report said a check meant to measure the ambient temperature was disabled in the state configuration.

"The unit could record a result even when outside of its operational requirements," said the report.

If the breathalyzer was too warm, the printed-out results would give no indication the test might be invalid, the report said.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180511/11181839820/researchers-find-breathalyzers-to-be-just-more-faulty-cop-tech-capable-putting-innocent-people-jail.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180511/11181839820/researchers-find-breathalyzers-to-be-just-more-faulty-cop-tech-capable-putting-innocent-people-jail.shtml)

boutons_deux

05-14-2018, 01:03 PM

an oldie, but always goodie.

CSI Is a Lie

America's forensic-investigation system is overdue for sweeping reform.

"Nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000,"

the newspaper reported, adding that

"the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death."

admissions from the FBI and Department of Justice "confirm

long-suspected problems (http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/local/crime/forensic-techniques-are-subject-to-human-bias-lack-standards-panel-found/2012/04/17/gIQADCoMPT_story.html)with subjective, pattern-based forensic techniques—like hair and bite-mark comparisons

—that have contributed to wrongful convictions in more than one-quarter of 329 DNA-exoneration cases since 1989."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/csi-is-a-lie/390897/

spurraider21

05-14-2018, 01:43 PM

994636043684057088
good

boutons_deux

05-15-2018, 07:25 PM

Cops indicted for beating homeless black man with flashlights and letting dog bite him

29-year-old Kyron Dwain Hinton was crossing the street when he was approached by officers from the Wake County Sheriff’s office.

Hinton had just left a sweepstakes parlor, according to the News Observer (https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article211184779.html). He was homeless at the time.

The three officers allegedly attacked him with their flashlights and

allowed their dog to bite him.

Today, a Wake County grand jury indicted them on charges of felony assault and the failure to willfully discharge duties.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/cops-indicted-beating-homeless-black-man-flashlights-letting-dog-bite/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

convictions coming? probably not. Kyron is black, cops always have the right to beat shit out of blacks, comes with the badge.

boutons_deux

05-16-2018, 11:17 AM

Virginia police justify fatal shooting of black science teacher — who was naked and unarmed

Richmond police have doubled down on the department’s justification for shooting and

killing a black high school science teacher while he ran down I-95 in the nude (https://wtvr.com/2018/05/15/naked-man-killed-i95/).

WTVR reported that Marcus-David L. Peters, a 24-year-old black man who was unarmed when police shot him earlier this week,

crashed his vehicle on the busy interstate and then ran from the car while not wearing any clothes.

A now-suspended officer described only as “a male with ten years of service”

attempted to use a Taser to disable him, and when that did not work, opened fire.
“Our officers do not take the use of deadly force lightly,” :lol G M A F B

a statement by Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham read.

“I think it’s important to remember that being naked does not remove a threat.” :lol G M A F B

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/virginia-police-justify-fatal-shooting-black-science-teacher-naked-unarmed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/virginia-police-justify-fatal-shooting-black-science-teacher-naked-unarmed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Nothing scares obese, white, dickless cops more than a black man's hyper-dangerous dick :lol

boutons_deux

05-18-2018, 10:54 AM

Judge Reams ICE’s Ass For Perjuring All Over Dreamer Kid

ICE detained a Seattle man, Daniel Ramirez Medina, and tried to strip him of his DACA protection because,

they say, he’s actually a dangerous gang-affiliated Bad Hombre who has to be hustled out of the country to keep Americans safe.

Thing is, there’s no evidence Ramirez has any gang connections at all, and

ICE altered Ramirez’s own statements to make it look like he admitted the very gang affiliations he was denying.

The good news:

A federal judge just set things right (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/federal-judge-accused-ice-of-making-up-evidence-to-prove-that-dreamer-was-gang-affiliated.html) and told ICE to quit trying to make “gang affiliation” happen in Ramirez’s case,

because ICE was clearly lying.

The bad news:

It happened in the first place,

we have NO IDEA how many other similar cases there might be where ICE may have done this to people who lacked excellent volunteer lawyers, and, oh yes, the ICE agents who tried to railroad Ramirez will almost certainly not face any consequences.

The full horror show is detailed in a brilliant story at Slate (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/federal-judge-accused-ice-of-making-up-evidence-to-prove-that-dreamer-was-gang-affiliated.html) by Mark Joseph Stern that will have you saying “HOLY FUCKING SHIT” every other paragraph, if not more often than that.

https://wonkette.com/634049/judge-reams-ices-ass-for-perjuring-all-over-dreamer-kid

Bad Liars

ICE claimed a Dreamer was “gang-affiliated” and tried to deport him. A federal judge ruled that ICE was lying.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/federal-judge-accused-ice-of-making-up-evidence-to-prove-that-dreamer-was-gang-affiliated.html

Trash's Sshutzstaffel Making AMeriKKKa White Again

boutons_deux

05-18-2018, 12:48 PM

America's Mayor Julie Annie's broken windows

Want to See How Biased Broken Windows Policing Is? Spend a Day in Court

In New York City, the overwhelming majority of misdemeanor arraignments are of people of color.

If you’re a person of color in New York, one of the country’s most policed cities,

you’re disproportionately likely to wind up in court for a minor charge.

Though you’re almost certainly going to walk that day,

you’ll probably still have to pay a fine, or

lose a day of work to muddle through an arraignment hearing.

While the inner machinations of the city’s justice system are opaque, the numbers in court don’t lie:

A new analysis of court proceedings across the city reveals stark patterns of structural bias that have historically defined the city’s police-civilian power structure.

The field research of the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) (http://www.policereformorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Court-Monitoring-Report-Spring-Summer-2017.pdf) shows how

on any given day a typical city courtroom may see dozens of arrestees,

jail virtually none of them, and

churn people needlessly through a dysfunctional legal bureaucracy.

Although the city has pledged to sharply limit marijuana prosecutions (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/manhattan-da-announces-it-will-no-longer-prosecute-marijuana-possession-to-correct-racial-disparity-in-arrests.html)—

a promising reform given the pervasiveness of racial profiling for minor drug crimes (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/nyregion/marijuana-arrests-nyc-race.html)—

advocates say the courtroom, even without an actual conviction, has become a different kind of criminal justice gauntlet.

PROP sent researchers to attend misdemeanor arraignments in every borough from January through August 2017, witnessed more than

1,600 proceedings, and observed that across all five boroughs,

1,438, nearly 90 percent, involved New Yorkers of color.

About the same number of the defendants, 1,437, “walked out of the courtroom.”

In every borough, people of color and whites face disparate treatment from the criminal justice system for minor infractions.

So compared to the total population of the city—which is about 44 percent white, 25 percent black, 25 percent Latino and 13 percent Asian American—

the prevalence of non-whites among the arraigned was vastly disproportionate.

That is,

while people of color are three times as likely as their white peers to be arraigned in court, the vast majority of all arrestees walk out,

either pending another court date or pleading guilty to a minor charge, without detention.

https://www.thenation.com/article/want-to-see-how-biased-broken-windows-policing-is-spend-a-day-in-court/ (https://www.thenation.com/article/want-to-see-how-biased-broken-windows-policing-is-spend-a-day-in-court/)

boutons_deux

05-22-2018, 06:55 PM

Trash's schutzstaffel no longer follows "prioritization" (bad people deport as priority). Der SS takes anybody, long time residents, no criminal history, parent of US citizens

Why Spanish speakers in US are getting into trouble

Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez were queuing inside a petrol station in rural Montana when a Border Patrol agent demanded to see their identification.

The two US citizens were told they had been stopped because they were speaking Spanish in a "predominantly English-speaking state".
In a video of the 16 May incident, Ms Suda asks the agent if he is racially profiling them.

"It has nothing to do with that," the agent replies. "Ma'am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and

I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here." :lol fucking rednet cop
The women were detained for around 35 minutes before being allowed to go. US Customs and Border Protection says it is reviewing the case.

Ms Suda told the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/20/a-border-patrol-agent-detained-two-u-s-citizens-at-a-gas-station-after-hearing-them-speak-spanish/?utm_term=.c4a2d54bd847) the incident left her feeling uncomfortable speaking her own language.

Are US immigration authorities allowed to stop people for speaking Spanish?

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a nondiscrimination policy (https://www.cbp.gov/about/eeo-diversity/policies/nondiscrimination-law-enforcement-activities-and-all-other-administered)in place that prohibits using racial and ethnic stereotypes to conduct stops or searches.

But the language remains vague over how agents actually decide to question individuals.

The agency told the BBC in an emailed statement that

"agents have broad law enforcement authorities" and that

"decisions to question individuals are based on a variety of factors for which

Border Patrol agents are well-trained". :lol

How many Spanish speakers are there in the US?

The US is home to 41m native Spanish speakers, according to census data - that's 13% of the population.

And with another nearly 12 million bilingual Spanish speakers, the US is the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, ahead of Spain itself.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1693C/production/_101667429_chart-spanish_language_usa-8ff3e-nc.png

Anti-Hispanic incidents (https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime) have made up around half of all reported ethnic-bias hate crimes since 2004, according to FBI data.

The debate over immigration and language has only intensified under President Donald Trump whose tough stance on undocumented migrants was at the heart of his successful election campaign in 2016.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44201444

boutons_deux

05-23-2018, 10:12 AM

NBA rookie files civil rights suit as Milwaukee cops brace for outrage over release of arrest vide (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/22/1766239/-NBA-rookie-files-civil-rights-suit-as-Milwaukee-cops-brace-for-outrage-over-release-of-arrest-video)o

Brown was arrested in the early hours of January 26, after police found his parked car straddling two handicapped spaces in a Walgreens parking lot. According to the arrest report (http://www.wisn.com/article/arrest-report-brown-physically-resisted-officers-attempts-to-handcuff-him/16752938), it was Brown’s behavior that escalated a simple traffic citation into a Taser situation (https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-01-26-source-bucks-sterling-brown-tased-arrested/).

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the video portrays a much different version of events (https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/21/milwaukee-police-release-arrest-video-nba-player-sterling-brown/628128002/).

Brown did not appear combative or threatening when officers questioned him about a parking violation in January, according to two sources who have watched the video. The sources asked that their names not be used because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about it.

Police officials have been preparing community leaders for the release of the body-camera footage by showing it to selected local officials, including a closed session of a Common Council committee. Bucks officials have reportedly watched the video as well.

"This could be bad," said one source who watched the video. "The player doesn't appear to be provocative at all."

Brown also was visibly injured when he showed up for work.

Brown played in a game later that day and had bruises and marks on his face. He told reporters then it was a "personal issue" and declined to discuss it further.

Brown’s legal team confirmed Tuesday that the NBA player will be pursuing a federal civil rights lawsuit (https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/05/22/bucks-player-who-tased-file-suit-against-milwaukee-police/633051002/) against the Milwaukee Police Department.

The promised of a lawsuit comes just weeks after MPD made headlines for the violent arrest of Demetrious Lowe (https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/07/milwaukee-man-center-viral-violent-arrest-charged-battery/585831002/),

months after a $1.9 million dollar settlement for racial profiling as pertains to stop and frisk rates, and

less than three years after the city settled 14 federal lawsuits with 74 black men (http://wuwm.com/post/milwaukee-settlement-5-million-end-case-alleging-mpd-illegally-strip-searched-black-men),

paying out $5 million as punishment for unlawful strip and body cavity searches.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/22/1766239/-NBA-rookie-files-civil-rights-suit-as-Milwaukee-cops-brace-for-outrage-over-release-of-arrest-video?detail=emaildkre

Milwaukee is Sheriff Clark country, and WI is racist Kockistan, with a Kock whore as governor.

boutons_deux

05-24-2018, 07:23 AM

Milwaukee Police Release Footage Of Cop Using Taser On Sterling Brown

Police Chief Alfonso Morales said officers “were recently disciplined,” without providing details.

one officer can be heard ridiculing Brown after learning he plays for the Bucks.

The 30-minute video the department released corroborates that Brown was indeed approached by the officer outside of the Walgreens. After that, the accounts differ.

the officer tells Brown to “back up,” then asks his name, then quickly accuses him of failing to answer before Brown had a chance to respond, the officer calls for backup. At least four additional squad cars and a handful of officers arrive minutes later, four of whom surround Brown and begin questioning him.

“Take your hands out of your pockets now!”

Brown responds, “I’ve got stuff in my hands,”

at which point at least five officers immediately tackle him,

then proceed to use the stun gun on him as he’s groaning on the ground.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sterling-brown-body-camera-footage_us_5b058380e4b0784cd2b08997?utm_medium=ema il&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__052418&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__052418+CID_f0dd1728 6d171d2d3cb2786f163c708b&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__052418

boutons_deux

05-26-2018, 02:36 PM

Court to Anchorage prison: Stop starving Muslim inmates (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/25/1767030/-Court-to-Anchorage-prison-Stop-starving-Muslim-inmates)
Most facilities accommodate inmates (https://www.cair.com/cair_files_emergency_lawsuit_on_behalf_of_muslim_i nmates_in_alaska_being_starved_and_fed_pork_during _ramadan) by providing pre-dawn and post-sunset meals.

Instead, Anchorage Complex officials were giving those observing Ramadan meals of just 500 to 1,100 calories (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/muslim-inmates-sue-alaska-corrections-officials-over-policy/2018/05/23/0603e760-5eac-11e8-b656-236c6214ef01_story.html?utm_term=.91e5f7616b5e) each evening, well short of the 2,600 to 2,800 calories each should be receiving.

Providing just a fraction of the calories inmates need each day would have been bad enough if they could have eaten what was being provided.

What’s worse is that these meals included pork. Islam forbids the consumption of pork at all times.

The problem doesn’t lie with the law:

It was purely human indecency.

Both state and federal law require officials to respect religious practices.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/25/1767030/-Court-to-Anchorage-prison-Stop-starving-Muslim-inmates?detail=emaildkre

Any employee of a prison, an employer of last resort, like TSA airport workers, is a criminal sadist bully until proven otherwise.

boutons_deux

05-28-2018, 07:32 AM

Witness recounts fatal Border Patrol shooting of young Guatemalan woman in Texas

The agent, a 15-year veteran, was responding to a report of illegal activity near a culvert when he discovered migrants around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Border Patrol said in its initial statement.

The statement said the agent fired after being attacked by migrants armed with "blunt objects," which officials described as "two-by-four" pieces of lumber.

The agent then "fatally wounded one of the assailants," the statement said.

On Friday, the agency released a second statement saying the migrants "rushed" the officer after ignoring orders to get on the ground.

The second statement did not mention blunt objects

and called the gunshot victim a "member of the group."

http://www.latimes.com/resizer/8a9YRqZKeclOKZf_9ObiH_aFyJ0=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/WLNINXTMANBGNM2UXRDF7WZXCY.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-shooting-20180526-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

So the probably fat or obese CBP/ICE asshole "I Feared For My Life (c)" from an unarmed 20 year old girl, probably 5' tall, 100 pounds?

My guess is that The Agency's "group rush" and "2x4" are bullshit to justify immediately escalation to killing.

boutons_deux

05-29-2018, 11:34 AM

Video Shows Police Officer Punching Woman On New Jersey Beach

The woman said the officers tackled her to the ground after she refused to provide her name.

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b0bd0a41e00002c008e6c1e.png?cache=oepwtphgdk&ops=crop_13_145_580_467,scalefit_720_noupscale

< there's a video. :lol >

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-jersey-police-punch-woman-wildwood-beach_us_5b0bc5a8e4b0802d69ccdd39?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__052918&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__052918+CID_221908e9 30f8592286d6ba13f447cef7&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__052918

boutons_deux

06-02-2018, 01:37 PM

WATCH: Florida cops’ beating of mentally ill man was so bad that bystanders tried to intervene

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-florida-cops-beating-mentally-ill-man-bad-bystanders-tried-intervene/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Sadistic cops are how AmeriKKKa cares for the mentally ill.

boutons_deux

06-02-2018, 06:49 PM

AA's taking it up the orifices, again

'Are y'all serious?' US Jury Awards $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy

Jurors agreed that Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr's mother and his three children should receive US $1 each.

Jurors in a Florida courtroom saw fit, after hours of deliberation Friday, to award the family of 30-year old Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr, who was fatally shot through his garage by a sheriff deputy,

US $4 in compensation after they filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

The family's lawyer, John Phillips, said

“I think they were trying to insult” the family and Black community as a whole. "Why go there with the $1? That was the hurtful part."

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Are-yall-serious-US-Jury-Awards-4-to-Family-of-Man-Killed-by-Sheriffs-Deputy-20180602-0001.html

Living (and Dying) While Black, in a slave/Confederate state

"Trying" to insult? :lol

Closing Your Garage Door While Black is a capital offense in racist FL.

boutons_deux

06-06-2018, 11:13 PM

I Am Not Resisting!

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/users/user1368/oregon_big_punch.jpg

Another ugly, fractious day in a falling empire. Marion County Sheriff's deputies near Salem, Oregon were caught (http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/06/video_of_marion_county_deputy.html)on video arresting and brutally assaulting Kevin Straw, 28, a slight, homeless, clearly mentally ill man after he kept yelling outside a police command post where they were coordinating a search for two missing people

four sheriffs threw him to the ground;

within seconds, one beefy thug began punching (https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/nation-now/video-shows-police-hitting-homeless-man-as-he-says-i-am-not-resisting/465-f9bc564a-c1fd-46d8-8107-b29f1b7d072e)him up to 20 times in the head

as Straw screamed, "I am not resisting! I am not resisting!" and "Help!"

"I came to warn you about the cougar," he yelled at one point.

"It's hurting people."

The sheriff's office said (https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/marion-county/deputy-reassigned-as-review-continues-into-repeated-punching-of-homeless-man/283-561326780) deputies "were left with no choice but to" arrest Straw for

disrupting a search and rescue mission, :lol

resisting arrest, :lol

and having a fixed-blade knife (which he didn't use). :lol

Officials said Straw is homeless, and

was diagnosed (http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/what-happened-to-kevin-straw/)in 2016 with

anxiety, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and

being on the autism spectrum.

< you #BlueLivesMatter assholes have fun watching the beat down >

https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/06/06/i-am-not-resisting

Sadistic criminals just following police/sheriff protocol, administering mental health care.

Goddamn, AmeriKKKa fucking sucks

boutons_deux

06-09-2018, 12:28 AM

‘What the h*ll do you think she’s going to do?’: Family furious after TSA patted down 96-year-old grandmother for 6 minutes

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TSA-800x430.png

a 96-year-old woman in a wheelchair was carefully searched at a TSA checkpoint in Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., reports CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-agents-search-96-year-old-woman-wheelchair-dulles-airport-outside-washington/)

Jeanne Clarkson, the woman’s daughter, complained that the security check was “prolonged and repetitive.”

“What the hell do you think she’s going to do? Set off a shoe bomb?” she says in a video she took.

“I was just shocked. I’ve traveled with her before, I’ve been in a wheelchair myself unable to walk through the machines and I’ve never had that kind of a pat-down ever.

I was just shocked. I couldn’t believe they were doing this to my 96-year-old mother,”

Jeanne Clarkson told CBS News.”It was just shock, and frustrating because they would not talk to me. I felt helpless.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/hll-think-shes-going-family-furious-tsa-patted-96-year-old-grandmother-6-minutes/

Give state power to shitty people and they will abuse it.

ducks

06-09-2018, 12:30 AM

Would not happen if they were here legally
Or get that wall built

boutons_deux

06-09-2018, 07:39 PM

Minneapolis police chief orders cops to stop marijuana stings after noticing that 46 of 47 arrested were black

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/minneapolis-police-chief-orders-cops-stop-marijuana-stings-noticing-46-47-arrested-black/

ducks

06-09-2018, 08:35 PM

That is not even half that are black

koriwhat

06-09-2018, 11:23 PM

boutons_deux

06-15-2018, 07:17 PM

A Border Patrol agent was just caught in brutal hit-and-run attack on Native American [WATCH]

But ICE and Border Patrol are an especially inhuman breed, with only one goal in mind: harass and imprison migrants at any cost –

even if that requires a trip to the ER, and even if those people are not only legal Americans,

but the original inhabitants of the land conquered after white America’s successful genocide of Native American people.

Most recently, a member of the Topoawa Community Tribe, one of several tribes in residence at the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham_Indian_Reservation) on the border of Mexico and Arizona.

The tribe member in question caught footage of a large Chevy SUV,

owned by the U.S. and operated by a border patrol agent running them over and driving away.

The imagery is nothing short of shocking as it depicts the massive grill of the hefty SUV approach, then overtake, the lens of the camera and the person holding it before they ultimately roll underneath the massive chassis of the Chevy.

Afterwards, the car speeds away, leaving a trail of dust and the man laying helplessly in the dirt.

This is Trump’s America.

check out the video Hasan Piker of The Young Turks made available for all to see:

https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1007695981444411392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwashingtonpress.com%2F2018%2 F06%2F15%2Fa-border-patrol-agent-was-just-caught-in-brutal-hit-and-run-attack-on-native-american-watch%2F

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/06/15/a-border-patrol-agent-was-just-caught-in-brutal-hit-and-run-attack-on-native-american-watch/

boutons_deux

06-21-2018, 08:16 AM

Running from cops, yet again, is a capital crime.

"just following department protocol for slaughtering black people"

""While we await more details of what happened, it appears through the cell phone video that the victim was running away from the police."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/20/police-fatally-shoot-17-year-old-antwon-rose-fleeing-traffic-stop-east-pittsburgh/719334002/

boutons_deux

06-22-2018, 07:40 PM

Bail Bond Company Let Bounty Hunters Track Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Phones for $7.50

Low-level enforcement were able to monitor phones nationwide with minimal legal oversight.

But the predatory bail bonds industry provided a similar, and cheap, service to bounty hunters to track down individuals.

it wasn’t just cops.

Before going through what appears to be a serious rebranding and discontinuing the product, at least one company,

Captira, was selling phone geolocation to another market, according to website archives: bounty hunters.

The online records highlight the wide spread of use cases for phone location information;

data that customers and ordinary citizens likely did not understand has been sold and re-used by multiple industries for years.

Captira caters to the bail bondsman market.

That is, people who put money forward to pay for a criminal suspect’s bail and demand a percentage of that bail amount as payment, and those who hunt down defendants to make sure they attend a court date.

The industry has faced intense criticism due to concerns its for-profit motive may push low-income defendants (http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2018/03/01/north-carolinas-bail-industry-draws-severe-criticism-criminal-justice-experts/) into debt as they feel pressured to take money from a bondsman that they ultimately may not be able to pay back.

In other words, low-income defendants don't only end up in debt because they can't afford bail (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/us/bail-bonds-extortion.html),

but those who used bail bond agents could face a bounty hunter who then tracks their phone’s location.

Captira allowed customers to “instantly locate defendant cell phone,” for as little as $7.50,

according to a July 2011 archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20120217232904/http://captira.com:80/cell-phone-locator.html) of the company’s website.

The “Cell Phone Locator” product worked on all major carriers, such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, and

displayed results in a Google Maps interface, the website adds.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k873e/captira-phone-tracking-verizon-tmobile-sprint-securus-locationsmart-bounty-hunters

boutons_deux

06-22-2018, 08:01 PM

Teen Jogger Detained Two Weeks for Accidentally Crossing Canada Border.

Border Patrol "Searched Me Everywhere" (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/22/1774651/-Teen-Jogger-Detained-Two-Weeks-for-Accidentally-Crossing-Canada-Border-BP-Searched-Me-Everywhere)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/556689/story_image/12442383_web1_roman4.jpg?1529709109

While visiting her mother in British Columbia from her home in France, 19 year old Cedella Roman went for a jog on the beach and inadvertently ran into the U.S.

What happened next will really piss you off.

CBC Canada (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jogger-accidentally-crosses-u-s-border-from-b-c-gets-detained-for-2-weeks-by-authorities-1.4717060)

“Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C.,

when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it.

That began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.

Roman, 19, didn't know it at the time,

but as she ran southeast along the beach on the evening of May 21,

she crossed a municipal border with the City of Surrey —

and, shortly after, an international border.

As the tide started to come in, she veered up and onto a dirt path before stopping to take a photo of the picturesque setting.

She turned around to head back — and that's when she was apprehended by two U.S. border patrol officers.

"An officer stopped me and started telling me I had crossed the border illegally," she told CBC News.

"They put me in the caged vehicles and brought me into their facility,"

she said.

"They asked me to remove all my personal belongings with my jewellery, they searched me everywhere.

"Then I understood it was getting very serious, and I started to cry a bit."

There is no fence, the signage is well off the beach on a busy highway.

< unlinkable map, where French visitor invaded AmeriKKKa and got abused for two weeks by the Border Patrol >

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/22/1774651/-Teen-Jogger-Detained-Two-Weeks-for-Accidentally-Crossing-Canada-Border-BP-Searched-Me-Everywhere

Trill Clinton

06-22-2018, 08:09 PM

uiSfTuKjEgE&t=38s

boutons_deux

06-23-2018, 08:23 AM

Riverside County Sheriff’s in-custody 'justified homicides' outpace other large California departments

Between 2005 and 2016, 41 percent of people who died while in custody or in the process of arrest by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department died from a “justified homicide” by officers,

a greater portion than every other large sheriff’s office in the state.

Statewide, only about 15 percent of in-custody deaths result from a justified homicide,

putting the portion of self-reported justified homicide deaths for the

Riverside County Sheriff's Department at nearly three times the portion for all police, sheriffs’ departments and state prisons in the state,

according to data compiled by California Office of the Attorney General’s OpenJustice initiative.

Among California’s most populous 10 counties, the next sheriff’s office on the list is the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department with 27 percent, then the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department with 22 percent.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2018/06/21/riverside-county-sheriffs-department-share-justified-homicide-high/707238002/#nws=mcnewsletter

Winehole23

06-23-2018, 11:12 AM

Baltimore PD Gun Trace Force going down:

Of the officers sentenced so far, former Sgt. Wayne Jenkins received the longest sentence (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gttf-jenkins-taylor-sentencing-20180606-story.html)at 25 years. Taylor received 18 years; former Sgt. Thomas Allers received 15 years (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gttf-allers-sentence-20180510-story.html). Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward each received seven years (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gttf-hendrix-ward-sentencing-20180608-story.html).

Two officers — partners Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam — have not been scheduled for sentencing, suggesting the government intends to continue to use them in ongoing investigations. Federal prosecutors said earlier this month that they continue to probe additional allegations.

Bail bondsman Donald Stepp, who helped Jenkins redistribute drugs, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 3. Philadelphia Police Officer Eric Snell, who allegedly conspired with Rayam to redistribute drugs, has a fall trial scheduled.http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gttf-hersl-sentencing-20180621-story.html

boutons_deux

06-26-2018, 08:30 PM

WATCH: Phoenix cop beats blind man in bathroom — but blind man gets charged with aggravated assault

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-26-at-8.12.10-PM-800x430.png

Marco Zepeda, a blind man was using the bathroom when he was attacked by a police officer. (https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/blind-man-claims-he-was-slammed-to-the-ground-falsely-arrested-by-phoenix-officer/75-567141949)

He just came out of nowhere,” Zepeda said.

Zepeda said he was using his fingers to look around for urinal when the police officer shoved him back.

“He grabbed and he screamed at me ‘I told you I was the police.’ But he never did it. I swear to God he never did it,” Zepeda said.

Walter Gastelum, was in the bathroom at that time, and record a video and uploaded it to Snapchat.

Zepeda can be heard yelling “I’m blind” in both English and Spanish.

“Marco kept screaming, ‘I’m blind. I can’t see. I’m blind. I’m blind,'” Gastelum said.

“You can clearly see that he’s blind. I don’t know how you can miss that.”

“After I opened the door, the police officer stood up, looked up at me, he’s like, ‘He hit me first,'” Gastelum said. “And I was like, ‘He’s blind.'”

The Phoenix Police Department confirmed that the officer hit Zepeda. They also claimed that the officer suffered minor injuries because Zepeda fought back.

Zepeda was charged for aggravated assault,

but later the police department dropped the charges.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-phoenix-cop-beats-blind-man-bathroom-blind-man-gets-charged-aggravated-assault/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

06-29-2018, 12:25 PM

Man gets thrown back in jail because he couldn’t afford to pay cab that took him home from prison

Folk was apparently counting on his sister to have enough cash to pay for the ride, which wound up costing $70.

However, upon arriving at his destination, he found that no one in his house had enough cash on hand to cover the fare.

The driver subsequently called the police, who came to arrest Folk and take him back to jail on Thursday morning.

He now faces a new charge of petty theft and is being held on $2,000 bail.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/man-gets-thrown-back-jail-couldnt-afford-pay-cab-took-home-prison/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/man-gets-thrown-back-jail-couldnt-afford-pay-cab-took-home-prison/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

boutons_deux

06-29-2018, 12:40 PM

BCSO IDs off-duty deputy authorities say shot a woman in Medina County after stopping to help her

Doege, who was off-duty at the time,

pulled over near U.S. 90 and Mechler Lane around 11:50 p.m.

to assist the woman, whom he thought was stranded.

The woman became aggressive, and Doege shot her multiple times, officials said. :lol

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/Off-duty-deputy-shoots-woman-in-Medina-County-13036700.php?utm_campaign=mysa_breakingnews&utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter

boutons_deux

06-29-2018, 08:51 PM

PA police officer commits one of the most egregious Taser attacks ever captured on video (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/29/1776692/-PA-police-officer-executes-one-of-the-most-egregious-taserings-ever-captured-on-video)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/559397/story_image/Screen_Shot_2018-06-29_at_11.47.26_AM.png?1530298097https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1776692

boutons_deux

06-29-2018, 09:28 PM

WATCH: Fresno cops make black men crawl at gunpoint after T-Mobile employees falsely accuse them of burglary

Dorian Johnson, 26, was held at gunpoint by police officers in California after being racially profiled by a T-Mobile employee who falsely accused him of burglary, reported the FresnoBee. (https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article214080189.html)

His uncle, Vincent Lemar captured a video showing him laying on the sidewalk with his arms spread out.

Johnson can be seen crawling as police point a gun towards him.

“All I saw was guns pointed at my babies’ daddy, and he was on the ground. I didn’t know if they had already shot him,” his girlfriend Gloria Bush said. “I said, ‘Tell me what’s going on. I know he’s a good man. I know he wasn’t here with bad intentions.”

While Johnson is on the sidewalk crawling, he can be heard talking to Bush. “Calm down babe, let them do what they gotta do.”

The video then shows the officer asking the men questions.

“What are you guys doing in there?” one officer asks.

“Just trying to get a new phone,” Vincent replies.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-fresno-cops-make-black-men-crawl-gunpoint-t-mobile-employees-falsely-accuse-burglary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-fresno-cops-make-black-men-crawl-gunpoint-t-mobile-employees-falsely-accuse-burglary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

boutons_deux

07-04-2018, 06:11 PM

PROSECUTORS WHO BREAK THE LAW FACE NO PUNISHMEN

What happens when prosecutors break the law?

Almost nothing.

homicide prosecutors like Glenn Kurtzrock face few consequences when caught concealing exculpatory evidence from defense attorneys.

Kurtzrock — who was fired by the district attorney in Suffolk County, NY, after his misconduct was exposed —

has never been charged with a crime, and

has not faced any disciplinary action from the New York Bar Association.

https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/07/03/prosecutors-who-break-the-law-face-no-punishment/

That's specific to New York. Anybody heard that law-breaking prosecutors anywhere get punished?

boutons_deux

07-05-2018, 06:31 AM

Cops Are Telling Paramedics To Inject Arrestees With Ketamine. Worse, EMS Crews Are Actually Doing It

Something strange and disturbing is going on in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cops have been instructing paramedics to use certain drugs to subdue arrestees,

cops telling EMS personnel what to do has put people's lives in jeopardy (http://www.startribune.com/at-urging-of-police-hennepin-emts-subdued-dozens-with-powerful-sedative/485607381/).

Minneapolis police officers have repeatedly requested over the past three years that Hennepin County medical responders sedate people using the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, at times over the protests of those being drugged, and in some cases when no apparent crime was committed, a city report shows.

On multiple occasions, in the presence of police, Hennepin Healthcare EMS workers injected suspects of crimes and others who already appeared to be restrained, according to the report, and the ketamine caused heart or breathing failure, requiring them to be medically revived. Several people given ketamine had to be intubated.

The paramedics are fully complicit in this horror show. They're overriding their own knowledge and medical training with catastrophic results.

Ketamine is a dangerous drug. The police know this. They classify it as a "date rape" drug, capable of putting people into deep sedation and altering their memories.

Allowing police to "prescribe" sedatives is a horrible idea.

The report shows Minneapolis cops nuked arrestees with a powerful sedative just because.

In many of the cases examined, there appeared to be no reason to escalate to a dangerous sedative.

To evaluate how the sedative was being used, the Office of Police Conduct Review investigators looked for mentions of the word in police reports, and then reviewed body camera footage from those cases.

“Multiple videos showed individuals requiring intubation after being injected with ketamine, and [police] reports indicate that multiple individuals stopped breathing and/or their hearts stopped beating after being injected with ketamine,” the report said.

The police encounters that led to EMS using ketamine ranged from cases of obstruction of justice to jaywalking, according to the report.

One man was dosed with ketamine while strapped to a stretcher and wearing a spit hood.

Those dosed with ketamine at the suggestion of police officers suffered rude awakenings at Minneapolis hospitals.

Hennepin Healthcare went ahead and enrolled detainees in its ketamine study without their consent (http://m.startribune.com/patients-sedated-by-ketamine-were-enrolled-in-hennepin-healthcare-study/486363071/).

Supposedly consent isn't actually required by law, which makes a sort of cosmic sense when you're studying the effects of a date rape drug.

"Enrollees" could opt out afterward, but that offers little comfort when you've been sedated so heavily you need a machine to breathe for you.

allowed this to carried over to day-to-day work, resulting in EMS personnel using ketamine whenever possible, even without verbal shoves from under-educated cops.

Body camera footage from one case showed a woman,

after being Maced by police, asking for an asthma pump, the draft report said.

Instead, a paramedic gave her an injection of ketamine.

“If she was having an asthma attack, giving ketamine actually helps patients and we’re doing a study for agitation anyway so I had to give her ketamine,” the unnamed paramedic told a police officer, according to the report.

After receiving ketamine, the woman’s breathing stopped, and medical staff resuscitated her, according to the report.

there's the skewed incentives of Hennepin Healthcare, which has found

a way to gather subjects for studies by sedating them so heavily they can't possibly object to anything.

There should be a whole lot of people in both fields filing for unemployment. But that isn't how thing work when cops are involved.

New policies will be put in place and

everyone who fucked citizens with unneeded ketamine injections

will just go back to work

with a mental note in place reminding them to be a bit more careful when abusing the public's trust.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180703/15383240171/cops-are-telling-paramedics-to-inject-arrestees-with-ketamine-worse-ems-crews-are-actually-doing-it.shtml

Nobody fired, nobody disciplined, so cops, EMS, Hennepin Healthcare keep rollin

boutons_deux

07-06-2018, 12:42 PM

Police Union Upset Not All Books Paint Cops As Heroes, Calls For Removal Of Titles From School's Reading List

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) brings us the ridiculous news that the protective coating (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170908/09340538170/las-vegas-police-union-fire-off-whining-flag-dripping-request-to-nfl-to-investigate-michael-bennett-saying-things.shtml) serving the thinnest skins in the public sector has feelings about teens thinking about stuff (http://cbldf.org/2018/06/35034/).

Community members, cops, and parents in one South Carolina school district are all pushing back against two summer reading books they believe propagate anti-police feelings.

The books, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely,

were on a list of four titles for students taking an English 1 College Prep course.

Both books mentioned have received numerous awards and accolades, including the Coretta Scott King Honor.

All it has are the assertions of the local police union boss.

President of the Fraternal Order of Police Tri-County Lodge #3, John Blackmon, says,

"Whether it be through social media, whether it be through text message, whether it be phone calls, we've received an influx of tremendous outrage at the selections by this reading list."

He says in just the past two days, he has received hundreds of messages from police and community members.

That's what bothers the union: plausible plot lines.

Blackmon says, "There are other socio-economic topics that are available and they want to focus half of their effort on negativity towards the police? That seems odd to me."

It's not half. It's one-quarter.

(Reading comprehension appears to be only one of the union's problems.)

But even if it were half,

the union apparently believes no one should be letting teens know not all cops are heroes.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180702/09545940155/police-union-upset-not-all-books-paint-cops-as-heroes-calls-removal-titles-schools-reading-list.shtml

boutons_deux

07-07-2018, 01:45 PM

SCOTUS Ruling on Police Brutality Eliminates Right to Due Process for Disabled Black Men

The officer refused to release Graham and Berry — and Graham’s “unreasonable” behavior began to escalate. He was becoming impatient and incoherent. His frustration level noticeably increased. Assuming that he was at risk of being harmed by at least one of the two irrational black men, the officer called for back-up.

In a state of panic and confusion, Graham got out of Berry’s car, ran around it twice, sat down on the curb, and passed out cold.

Seizures and loss of consciousness are also predictable symptoms of an escalating insulin reaction.

Rather than call for an ambulance, Connor called for back-up.

Four more officers arrived at the scene. Instead of medical assistance,

Graham’s fate was left in the hands of 5 white police officers that saw him as nothing more than a fucked up black man.

One of them even had experience with diabetics.

His professional opinion guided what would happen next. Despite another friend arriving at the scene with juice for Graham, the back-up officer confirmed for Connor,

“I’ve seen a lot of people with sugar diabetes that never acted like this.

Ain’t nothing wrong with the motherfucker but drunk.

Lock the son-of-a-bitch up.”

The officers rolled him over, cuffed him, lifted his unconscious body, and slammed his body on top of the cop car.

Dethorne Graham regained consciousness on the hood of the police vehicle and once again began pleading with the officers for orange juice.

He told the officers that he had a diabetic decal in his wallet that would prove his condition and confirm that he needed to counter an insulin reaction. He pleaded for assistance.

The officers told him to “shut up.”

Next, they lifted his body off of the police car and threw Mr. Graham into the backseat — headfirst — slamming his head into the doorframe.

Another friend of Graham and Berry arrived at the scene and also tried to explain to the officers what was happening to Mr. Graham. Convinced the black man was just a drunk criminal, they also told this person to “shut up” and awaited confirmation from the store that Mr. Graham should be taken to the precinct and jailed for the commission of a yet unknown crime.

Instead of releasing Graham, they insisted to driving him home themselves. When they reached their destination,

they grabbed the battered and half-conscious man in medical crisis and tossed him into his yard.

Mr. Graham sustained many injuries to his head and body, including a bruised forehead,

cuts on his wrists from his handcuffs, and

a broken foot.

He also sustained a blow that caused him permanent hearing damage.

Dethorne Graham filed suit against the officers that restrained him, broke his bones, and refused him aid.

The Courts Decide Who is Above the Law

42 USC 1983 stood in the way of the goals of both politically conservative and racially biased Republicans.

It would take a multi-part strategic effort to neutralize this policy and

re-energize law enforcement as a tool for the advancement of white nationalism and Confederate policies.

And this effort would only succeed under a conservative administration and a conservative Court.

SCOTUS used these cases as an opportunity to clarify the two types of immunity given to federal officials and other actors operating under the color of law. They are

absolute immunity and qualified immunity.

Through the case of Nixon v Fitzgerald (1982), the

Court affirmed that the president had absolute immunity from civil damages, and

that criminal damages were only recoverable through acts of Congress.

Through the case of Harlow vs. Fitzgerald, the Court affirmed that certain government officials enjoyed a more limited form of immunity called qualified immunity.

the ruling in Harlow repositioned

law enforcement as part of a protected class of state operatives

that were allowed to deny someone their rights —

if they argued that it was unclear to them what they were doing was wrong.

And they did so by citing the language of the Fourth Amendment and due process.

SCOTUS held:

“…government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”

These two cases provided government officials and law enforcement with

protections that not only placed them above the law,

but places citizens in their presence below it.

The only thing that law enforcement officers were not allowed to do was violate clear rights of citizens.

The most commonly denied rights of minorities faced with excessive and deadly police force are

the 14th Amendment right to Equal Protections and

the 4th Amendment right to due process.

The legal strategy used to dismantle these protections

was to first assert that in cases brought to court under 42 USC 1983, the Court should use the test for due process under the fourth amendment

rather than analyzing the incident in the context of the test for equal protections under the 14th Amendment.

Once that was accomplished, they would

argue that due process claims should be analyzed in terms of “objective reasonableness” and not “due process.”

In doing so,

conservative legal strategist would be able

to effectively eliminate the 14th Amendment

by blocking it with the 4th Amendment.

Then, they would weaken the 4th Amendment to the point of neutralization.

In this way, they could render 42 USC 1983 completely useless and

undo 100 years of federal protections

from both police brutality and

the advancement of Confederate politics through armed local control.

It took them just a few years and

two Court rulings to get it done.

The first key ruling was issued by SCOTUS in the case of Tennessee v Garner. This case involved a police shooting that killed a 15-year-old unarmed black child named Edward Garner.

ruling effectively removed the legal standard that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty,

reinstated lynching as the rule of law, and

neutralized the ability for the federal government

to prevent law enforcement from acting as an extension of white supremacy or treason.

The case of Graham v. Connor also

gives police officers the right to use excessive and deadly force without legal consequence

on any of the 30 million people living with diabetes that may need assistance during a medical crisis.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on a black person that goes into a store but doesn’t make a purchase.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on any person living with physical or mental disabilities whose non-normative behaviors can be labeled abnormal and suspicious in a court of law.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on individuals that are unarmed but holding an object.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on a black man exercising his Second Amendment right to bear arms.

And it gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on any person of color or person with disabilities that may exhibit signs of nervousness in the face of armed law enforcement that had the power to take both their rights and their lives away.

Under the current interpretations of 42 USC 1983 and the 4th Amendment,

people of color,

people living with disabilities, and

anyone living outside of the constructs of

neo-Confederate and white nationalist meritocracy is suspect.

Because they are suspect,

they automatically hand over their rights under the 14th and 4th Amendments.

And because

they have no ability to prove their rights were violated,

they have no ability to secure a conviction under 42 USC 1983.

the police will be allowed to operate as an extension of not only white nationalism,

but the current expressions of white nationalism under Donald Trump and the far-right GOP.

Until our rights are restored in court,

the police can kill whoever they want.

And they can get away with it.

https://medium.com/@SIIPCampaigns/scotus-ruling-on-police-brutality-eliminates-right-to-due-process-for-disabled-black-men-3813b20d1283

boutons_deux

07-08-2018, 07:40 AM

JeBo's intimidation, criminalization of dissent

Prosecutors Will Drop Remaining Cases Against Inauguration Day Protesters

The statement noted that 21 people pleaded guilty to "charges for their conduct that day, including one to felony offenses."

But prosecutors struggled to convict defendants in the cases that were brought to trial. The statement goes on to say that, in light of the results at trial, "the U.S. Attorney's Office has now moved to dismiss charges against the 38 remaining defendants in this matter."

"I think they finally realized that they had made a big mistake,"

"The
charges from the beginning were overly broad, and filed against far too many people,"

Michelman says.

More than 200 people were arrested and charged with felony rioting,

though many of those cases were dropped before going to trial.

While looking for evidence in some of those cases, the Justice Department issued a warrant demanding that the web hosting company DreamHost hand over all files related to a website used to plan protests called Disruptj20.org.

As NPR's Laurel Wamsley reported (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/557222814/enter-title), a Washington, D.C. judge found that warrant to be overly broad, writing that

"while the government has the right to exercise its Warrant,

it does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity,

particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities."

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626728667/prosecutors-will-drop-remaining-cases-from-inauguration-day-riots?sc=tw

Defendents probably paid $1000s on legal fees

boutons_deux

07-08-2018, 01:10 PM

Watch: Texas cop points gun at young children who taunt him during violent arrest of their friend

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ElPasoCop-800x430.jpg

A police officer in El Paso, Texas was captured on video as he pointed his gun at a group of young children who taunted him as he made a violent arrest of their friend.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/watch-texas-cop-points-gun-young-children-taunt-violent-arrest-friend/

If he had shot a couple kids, no problem. Everybody there was "suspect" of "putting the cop in danger of his life" so no 4th, no 14th Amendment rights

boutons_deux

07-14-2018, 07:47 AM

L.A. sheriff watchdogs alarmed about new claims of secret deputy clique at Compton station

allegations of a secret society of deputies that brands its members with matching skull tattoos.

a deputy admitted to getting inked (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-compton-sheriff-shooting-20180710-story.html) two years ago as part of a ritual within the Compton station has raised concerns that

deputy cliques, long part of a controversial agency subculture, have persisted despite the department’s reform efforts.

The department has a long history of clandestine groups (http://articles.latimes.com/1999/mar/24/news/mn-20461) —

with names like the Regulators, Grim Reapers and Jump Out Boys (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/06/local/la-me-jump-out-boys-20130207) —

that have been accused of promoting highly aggressive tactics and perpetuating a code of silence among members.

Nearly 30 years ago, a federal judge said

the Vikings club was a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-tattoo-compton-investigation-20180713-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

07-14-2018, 08:26 AM

This Disgusting Scheme to Enrich Cops by Starving Prisoners May Soon Be Scuttled

Alabama’s sheriffs have been getting rich off of prisoners for decades thanks to pre-World War II statutory language.

Alabama’s sheriffs have been getting rich (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/14/1748937/-Meet-the-Alabama-sheriff-who-kept-hundreds-of-thousands-in-inmate-food-funds-for-personal-use) off of prisoners for decades thanks to purportedly

ambiguous pre-World War II statutory language that lets them keep “excess” food funds.

With that distorted incentive to keep expenditures low, sheriffs have been subjecting prisoners to sustenance that ranges from unappetizing to inadequate to unsafe.

“This archaic system is based on a dubious interpretation of state law that has been rejected by two different Attorneys General of Alabama, who concluded that

the law merely allows sheriffs to manage the money and

use it for official purposes not to line their own pockets,”

“It also raises grave ethical concerns,

invites public corruption, and

creates a perverse incentive to spend as little as possible on feeding people who are in jail.”

Consider this statement (https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/alabama_sheriffs_pocket_tens_o.html) from former

Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin, who misappropriated at least $750,000:

"The law says it's a personal account and that's the way I've always done it and that's the way the law reads and

that's the way I do business,"

[Entrekin] said in a phone interview Friday.

"That's the way the law's written."

Of course, Alabama sheriffs face another form of accountability: elections.

After news of his $750,000 grab—

and $740,000 beach house—broke,

Entrekin was voted out of office by a two-to-one margin (https://www.waxahachietx.com/news/20180618/mangino-alabama-sheriff-pays-price-for-profiting-on-inmate-meals).

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/disgusting-scheme-enrich-cops-starving-prisoners-may-soon-be-scuttled

boutons_deux

07-14-2018, 08:32 AM

Pennsylvania man bulldozed to death for growing 10 marijuana plants

Getting caught growing a few pot plants in Pennsylvania could lead to a criminal charge and a likely sentence of probation, but for a Lehigh Valley man, it was a death sentence.

This past Monday, 51-year-old Gregory A. Longenecker was

found dead under a bulldozer (https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/man_found_dead_under_bulldozer.html) operated by a state Game Commission worker and

carrying a state trooper hunting for two men spotted near a freshly-discovered marijuana grow.

“An attempt to hail the other male was unsuccessful,” :lol cop poetry! :lol

Confronted with a small-scale illicit marijuana grow on public land,

the State Police deployed a helicopter and the on-scene bulldozer and managed to kill their target.

But that’s not how the cops tried to spin it.

First, Trooper Boehm denied that Longenecker died as a result of a police pursuit.

Then he suggested that Longenecker may have died of natural causes (https://splinternews.com/pennsylvania-police-say-man-found-dead-under-cop-driven-1827522250).

But that attempted diversion was foiled on Tuesday when the preliminary autopsy report came out.

That report found that

Longenecker died of traumatic injuries (https://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/autopsy-reveals-traumatic-injuries-in-bulldozer-case) after being run over by the bulldozer.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/pennsylvania-man-bulldozed-death-growing-10-marijuana-plants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

07-15-2018, 05:35 AM

State prisons fail to offer cure to 144,000 inmates with deadly Hepatitis C

The drug cost to cure Hepatitis C can cost $90,000 per treatment. This why many states will deny treatment

Nationwide, roughly 97 percent of inmates with hepatitis C are not getting the cure,

Advocates say this ignores a 1976 Supreme Court ruling that determined an inmate’s medical care is a constitutional right.

“Gilead provides public and private payers substantial discounts :lol

and is committed to working with individual state departments of corrections to help ensure patients receive the treatments they need,” :lol

Mark Snyder, public affairs director, wrote in an email.

it would “stand behind the pricing” of its antiviral drugs because it would pay off in the long run, compared to “the long-term costs associated with managing chronic HCV.” :lol

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/15/state-prisons-fail-to-offer-cure-to-144000-inmates-with-deadly-hepatitis-c_partner/

boutons_deux

07-16-2018, 08:07 AM

Judge orders L.A. Times to alter story about Glendale cop, sparking protest from newspaper

described a plea agreement between prosecutors and

a Glendale police detective accused of working with the Mexican Mafia,

a move the newspaper decried as highly unusual and unconstitutional.

“We believe that once material is in the public record,

it is proper and appropriate to publish it if it is newsworthy,”

said Norman Pearlstine, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times.

the 1st Amendment includes a strong presumption against government actions that prevent someone from speaking or publishing information.

Judge Walter did not explain in his order the legal justification for demanding that The Times withdraw the article.

The detective, John Saro Balian, pleaded guilty on July 12 to three counts:

lying to federal investigators about his links to organized crime,

accepting a bribe and

obstructing justice by tipping off a top criminal target about an upcoming federal raid.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-legal-dispute-20180714-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

Walter is Repug appointee, very probably way to the LEFT of the extremist rightwing assholes that Repugs a polluting Federal judiciary with now,

in their judicial coup d'etat

Tell us again how Federal district courts are not important :lol

boutons_deux

07-17-2018, 08:54 AM

News from Incarceration Nation

Defendants on Probation Can Be Jailed for Drug Relapse, Court Rules

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/07/17/science/17ADDICTION/17ADDICTION-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

Julie Eldred argued that requiring defendants to be drug-free as a condition for probation was cruel and unusual given her severe addiction. A Massachusetts court disagreed, but declined to rule on whether addiction is a brain disease that affects a person’s ability to comply with the requirement.Credit

The top Massachusetts court unanimously ruled (https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2018/07/16/12279.pdf) on Monday that a judge can require defendants with substance use disorders to remain drug-free as a condition of probation and send them to jail if they relapse.

The case, which challenged a requirement routinely imposed by judges across the country, had been closely watched by prosecutors, drug courts and addiction medicine specialists.

For many, it represented a debate over the nature of addiction itself.
The defense argued that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that compromises an individual’s ability to abstain.

The prosecution maintained that addiction varies in intensity and that many individuals have the ability to overcome it and can be influenced by institutional penalties and rewards, like incarceration or a cleared criminal record.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/health/addict-relapse-probation-jail.html

Moralistic, Christian, venal America would rather waste taxpayer $Bs on incarceration rather than mental/detox health care for addicts.

boutons_deux

07-25-2018, 05:52 PM

Four years after he killed Eric Garner, NYPD officer is finally facing charges (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/21/1782506/-Four-years-after-he-killed-Eric-Garner-NYPD-officer-is-finally-facing-charges)

Anyone who’s seen the video will never forget

Garner’s cries of “I can’t breathe.”

Those final words quickly became a Black Lives Matter rally cry for activists around the world,

Pantaleo faces two separate charges -- for use of a chokehold and for restricting the man's breathing, said an NYPD official with knowledge of the investigation.

Adonis, a supervisor and one of the first officers to respond, also faces departmental charges for alleged procedural infractions, city officials said.

The United States Department of Justice immediately issued a statement, claiming that the city was told months ago to pursue charges against Pantaleo and Adonis. The city denies this, and reached out to the DOJ to confirm the statement.

Only then were charges filed.

Both Pantaleo and Adonis remain employed by NYPD, though if found guilty, Pantaleo could face termination.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/21/1782506/-Four-years-after-he-killed-Eric-Garner-NYPD-officer-is-finally-facing-charges?detail=emailLL

I'll go WAY OUT on a limb here, both, (being cops they are 100% immune) will be acquitted, with hand slaps at most.

And what EMS shown standing immediately around Garner as he gurgled to death.

Were they under NYPD orders to let him die?

boutons_deux

07-30-2018, 07:35 AM

TSA Has Been Secretly Monitoring Travelers Who Aren’t Listed On Government Watch Lists

Passengers added to the “Quiet Skies” program are tracked by air marshals, who write minute-by-minute reports about their behavior.

Federal air marshals have been secretly tracking dozens of American travelers (http://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/?p1=HP_SpecialTSA) each day who aren’t listed on government watch lists or suspected of a crime,

The Transportation Security Administration (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/tsa) program, dubbed “Quiet Skies,”

has existed since 2010 as an effort

to mitigate the threat “posed by unknown or partially-known terrorists” after identifying people based

on their travel history or other criteria.

Air marshals then track such passengers and document their behavior

at airports and in-flight, including

how often they go to the bathroom,

how many hours they sleep,

if a traveler has “strong body odor” or

“wide open, staring eyes.”

the TSA tracks around 35 people every day. Which means thousands of Americans have been surveilled under the program since its inception.

TSA defended it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/air-marshals-have-conducted-secret-in-flight-monitoring-of-us-passengers-for-years/2018/07/29/b50ffe94-9370-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html?utm_term=.4e312fc0e846)in a statement to The Washington Post on Sunday, comparing the marshals to neighborhood law enforcement.

“We are no different than the cop on the corner who is placed there because there is an increased possibility that something might happen,” agency spokesman James Gregory told the Post.

“When you’re in a tube at 30,000 feet ... it makes sense to put someone there.” :lol (that's not the problem)

“If that person does all that stuff, and the airplane lands safely and they move on, the behavior will be noted, but they will not be approached or apprehended,” :lol (but I bet they will in the national Fusion databases)

Every American is automatically screened for the Quiet Skies program when he or she enters the country

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/quiet-skies-air-marshals_us_5b5e8897e4b0fd5c73d09f15?j25&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__073018&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__073018+CID_8daef42e 6fe3f0cafc9a6d789e0d7d87&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__073018

Fabbs

08-02-2018, 08:50 PM

Prosecutors on Thursday officially dropped criminal charges against a former Las Vegas police officer in the death of an unarmed man on the Strip.

The dismissal follows an announcement by the Clark County district attorney’s office on Wednesday that it would stop pursuing charges in the case.

Last week, a grand jury decided not to indict former Metropolitan Police Department officer Kenneth Lopera in the death of 40-year-old Tashii Brown. Lopera was arrested last year, about a month after Brown’s May 14 death.

Surveillance video showed Lopera shocked Brown with a Taser seven times, punched him in the head repeatedly and put him in a chokehold for more than a minute. Brown would not have faced charges had he survived, police said.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/charges-dropped-against-ex-las-vegas-officer-in-chokehold-case/

Pig Kenneth Lopera
https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10909318_web1_Kenneth-Lopera.jpg

Fabbs

08-02-2018, 08:59 PM

continued:

Still, civil rights groups are awaiting a full investigation into the death of 40-year-old Brown — who police said committed no crime that night but had a history of DUI convictions.
"We are on alert," Story said. "The situation is awful and tragic and we believe never should've happened, and we will see how the process plays out."
Just before 1 a.m., Brown approached Lopera and another officer at a coffee shop in the Venetian hotel casino. According to police, he appeared to be agitated and acting erratically. He told Lopera that people were chasing him.
Then Brown — also referred to as Tashii Farmer in police accounts — took off into an employees-only area of the hotel, and Lopera chased him. Once outside, Brown attempted to open a tailgate on an occupied truck before moving to the driver's side. Lopera shot him with a taser seven times.
On the video, Lopera yells for Brown to listen to his commands. Brown can be heard saying, "I will, I will," while on the ground. Lopera, aided by hotel security staff, continues to try to subdue Brown.
McMahill said Lopera struck Brown in the head with his fist several times before applying a "rear naked choke" — a banned technique in the police force — for about a minute.
He was pronounced dead at 1:39 a.m.
Tynisa Braun, a cousin of Brown who lives in Hawaii, said the family was distraught over his death.
Having a 21-year-old son, she said, she is on heightened alert with police.
"When you look at the news, there it is — an African-American getting shot," she said. "I'm always going to be afraid of what the police could do because of the color of our skin."
She said she wasn't sure why there hadn't been widespread protests over her cousin's death. She couldn't bring herself to watch the body camera video but blamed the death on a police officer who didn't appear to be trained in how to deal with someone who was mentally ill.
The ACLU and the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People have been pushing for years for the Police Department to eliminate an approved technique called the lateral vascular neck restraint, and were also troubled by the admission that Lopera used an incorrect version of it.
An investigator said the number of times Brown was tasered is also at issue.
"You heard on the body camera he's saying, 'Yes I'll comply,' and when he does try to roll over, he gets tasered," Sgt. Jerry MacDonald said. "Not a good choice by the officer, and I've got no problem saying that."
Roxann McCoy, president of the Las Vegas NAACP, said that kind of frankness was unheard of before the 2012 reforms.
"It was the wild, wild West here," she said. "It was open season on minorities."
Things came to a head for the department after two high-profile shootings and an investigation by the Las Vegas Review-Journal that highlighted the incidents.
The key event happened on June 11, 2010, when Officer Bryan Yant shot and killed 21-year-old Trevon Cole during a drug raid.
The attorney who represented Cole's family, Andre Lagomarsino, now represents the Brown family.
He said he was reluctant to call the Brown case a test of the 2012 reforms and was waiting to see whether charges are filed against the officer.
But William Sousa, a criminal justice professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said the reforms had created growing community trust in the force.
"The department did a lot since the DOJ reviewed them," he said. "They now have an ongoing review of use-of-force policy.… Police have become much more transparent; there's more emphasis on accountability to the community."
Except in rare cases, Las Vegas publicly releases police footage of controversial or deadly altercations involving officers, distinguishing the city from others that cite ongoing investigations or family privacy as reasons to keep videos shielded.
There have been other protests in Las Vegas over deaths of black men at the hands of police in high-profile incidents in Baton Rouge, La., and the St. Paul, Minn., area. But in interviews, locals who took part in those demonstrations said they had not yet planned any over Brown's death.
"Police definitely mishandled this," said Samantha Robinson, a 25-year-old travel coordinator who moved to the city in 2015 and organized a rally of 50 demonstrators on the Strip last year in response to police shootings in other states. "Now they better show us they will do us right."
Montero reported from Las Vegas and Kaleem reported from Los Angeles.
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boutons_deux

08-02-2018, 09:07 PM

The police are immune, can fucking do anything, and SCOTUS has granted Constitutional immunity.

Fabbs

08-03-2018, 10:18 AM

:lol Can't wait to hear the Police Union liarwyers spin this one.

A Detroit police officer has been suspended with pay after a bystander's video showed him punching a possibly mentally ill woman at least 10 times at a hospital, the police chief said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/detroit-police-officer-suspended-after-video-shows-him-repeatedly-punching-woman-in-a-hospital/ar-BBLr3BI?ocid=spartanntp&fullscreen=true#image=1

Hmmn actually the defense liarwyer will have something to work with: When the woman -- who has not been named -- arrived at the hospital she became agitated and took off the robe, Craig said. She spat on hospital employees, bit a security staffer twice, and tried to bite the officer who later repeatedly punched her, Craig said. :wakeup

boutons_deux

08-09-2018, 09:11 AM

Ninth Circuit: Border Patrol Agents Can’t Shoot Mexican Citizens Across the Border for No Reason

Taking all of the facts in the case as true, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that an on-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a 16-year-old boy, whom the agent gunned down.

Swartz’s argument that when he fired a dozen or more bullets across the border at J.A. without warning or provocation,

it was not clearly established that he couldn’t shoot someone on the other side of the border. :lol

“Qualified immunity exists to protect mistaken but reasonable decisions, not purposeful criminal conduct,” Judge Kleinfeld wrote.

“We are unable to imagine a serious argument that a federal agent might not have known that it was unlawful to shoot people in Mexico for no reason.” :lol

https://rewire.news/article/2018/08/08/ninth-circuit-border-patrol-agents-cant-shoot-mexican-citizens-across-the-border-for-no-reason/

Trash's Schutzstaffel loses one, but his radicalized SS brutes win 1000s times more often.

boutons_deux

08-13-2018, 10:25 AM

JeBo Sessions doesn’t want Americans to read these 24 government documents anymore
Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinds “24 Guidance Documents,” the DOJ’s 4pm press release said, adding that Sessions was “rescinding 24 guidance documents that were

unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.” :lol

Sessions blamed “previous administrations,” :lol

for trying to “impose new rules on the American people :lol

without any public notice or comment period, simply by sending a letter or posting a guidance document on a website.”

these documents provide guidance to homeowners, school admissions offices, law enforcement, and small businesses. They include an explanation of what a Supreme Court decision on racial diversity means to schools, an informal guide to preventing employment discrimination, and even a mortgage guide for homebuyers that encourages them to “shop, compare, negotiate!” The first seven refer to how juveniles should be treated by courts and in detention facilities.
This isn’t the first time Sessions has deleted guidelines issued by previous justice departments. Last December,

he purged a trove of legal advice (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/politics/justice-dept-guidance-documents.html) including a Ronald Reagan-era notice :lol

saying it was illegal to ship certain guns across state lines, part of his stated policy (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-ends-department-s-practice-regulation-guidance) to purge what Sessions called “defacto regulations.”

https://qz.com/1320612/jeff-sessions-doesnt-want-americans-to-read-these-obama-and-bush-era-guidance-documents-anymore/

JeBo right up there, will probably take top spot eventually as WORST fucing Repug AG, worse the corrupt Meese, St Ronnie's brutal enforcer.

Trill Clinton

08-13-2018, 10:41 AM

https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1028408945956794369?s=19

boutons_deux

08-13-2018, 10:54 AM

yep, police culture, institutional racism

black cops got good jobs, good pay, union benefits, pensions, and operate with impunity behind the Blue Wall.

boutons_deux

08-13-2018, 11:45 AM

THE OUTRAGEOUS SCAM OF “FREE” TABLETS FOR THE INCARCERATED

The devices are little more than an exorbitant paywall for education and communication.

Since 2016, prison telecommunications companies like JPay and Global Tel Link have been

giving out thousands of free tablets to inmates in several states,

including New York, Florida, Missouri, Indiana, Connecticut, and Georgia.

While the tablets are marketed as ways to let inmates educate themselves, prepare to re-enter the workforce, and communicate with their loved ones, the economics behind what has become a free-tablet imbroglio suggest that in some cases

the operation is no more than a money grab for every player in the chain, from state governments to the distributors.

the prices are eye-raising for anyone, but especially for people earning 40 cents, $2 a day.”

gave out 52,000 free tablets in February 2018. By 2022, it expects to make all of that money back plus $9 million in profit,

JPay charges (https://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2018/02/company_giving_tablets_to_ny_inmates_expects_to_ge t_9m_from_inmates_over_5_years.html#incart_river_h ome) an additional $4.15 service fee to transfer $20 from the outside to an inmate.

Sending one email costs $.35, double that to include a photo, and quadruple to include a video.

A song can cost up to $2.50,

and an album can be — somewhat inexplicably — as much as $46.

Chat with a loved one? That’ll be $18 per hour (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/07/24/no-cost-contract/).

But even these prices fluctuate during busy seasons. For instance, WIREDreported (https://www.wired.com/story/jpay-securus-prison-email-charging-millions) that

the price of an email might increase from $.35 to $.47 around Mother’s Day, when inmates most want to communicate with loved ones.

https://theoutline.com/post/5760/free-tablets-in-prison-nightmare?zd=3&zi=fh2j6zb6

Just another way America, American so-called business, brutalizes Americans.