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boutons_deux

08-16-2018, 07:33 PM

Relatives outraged after police use Taser on 87-year-old grandmother

Martha Al-Bishara was held at gunpoint before being stunned.

https://i0.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screenshot-522.png?w=1280&ssl=1

Martha Al-Bishara was cutting plants with a kitchen knife in Chatsworth, north of Georgia, last Friday, when she went to a wooded area near a Boys and Girls Club.

An employee then called 911 to report an elderly woman walking around with a knife who wouldn’t obey requests to leave the property.

The caller said the woman appeared to be gathering vegetation and that she didn’t seem to be a threat, CNN reported (https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/us/georgia-police-taser-woman-dandelions-knife/index.html).

“There’s a lady walking on the bike trails, she has a knife and she won’t leave,” the caller told 911.

“She told me she doesn’t speak English, and she’s walking up the trail with a knife towards me.”

they drew their guns on her before using a Taser to bring her to the ground.

Al-Bishara is from Syria originally (https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/cops-defend-taser-use-87-year-old-syrian-immigrant-martha-al-bishara-picking-dandelions-georgia), and

like the 911 caller, relatives said she does not speak English.

The 87-year-old was charged with trespass and obstructing and officer, :lol (JeBo/Miller gonna deport this criminal)

it was the lowest use of force we could have used to simply stop that threat at the time. And I know everyone is going to say, ‘An 87-year-old woman? How big a threat can she be?’ She still had a knife.”

https://thinkprogress.org/relatives-outraged-after-police-use-taser-on-87-year-old-grandmother-e08a1adc7656/

:lol police are fucking bullies, sadists, chicken shits

DarrinS

08-16-2018, 07:59 PM

Portland police chief brags to right-wing radio host that cops ‘kicked the butts’ of anti-racist protesters
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/portland-police-chief-brags-right-wing-radio-host-cops-kicked-butts-anti-racist-protesters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Black female police chief brags about kicking antifa (white rich kids) ass? I love it. :lol

boutons_deux

08-19-2018, 09:29 AM

Law enforcement is one of sickest, perverted, criminal American institutions, and psychopaths know it, and enlist to satisfy their psychopathic whims.

'Shocked and humiliated': Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border officers of invasive searches of minors, women

From New York to San Diego, government pays thousands to settle allegations of stripping, body cavity probing, forced hospital procedures

“Don’t you think you’re spending too much money traveling?” Lovell, 34, recalls him asking.

What allegedly happened next is outlined in a harrowing civil lawsuit Lovell filled in March in federal court. And the assertions aren’t unique, based on

allegations in similar suits filed not just in New York but also in California, Arizona, Texas, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Inside a secure room, Lovell’s litigation asserts, one of the female officers searched Lovell’s belongings, presumably for illegal drugs, and

asked Lovell if she were using a tampon or sanitary pad.

The question upset her, but she replied “no” and complied when told to remove her shoes, lift her arms and spread her legs.

As the other female officer observed, hand on her firearm, the suit says, the first touched Lovell from “from head to toe,” before ordering her to squat.

The officer squeezed Lovell’s breasts “hard,” and

allegedly “placed her right hand into her [Lovell’s] pants ‘forcibly’ inserting four gloved fingers into plaintiff’s vagina”

before parting Lovell’s buttocks with her hand “for viewing.”
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/08/19/21864/shocked-and-humiliated-lawsuits-accuse-customs-border-officers-invasive-searches

boutons_deux

08-23-2018, 09:24 PM

Muslim American woman sues US border cops: Gimme back my seized iPhone's data!

Legal action seeks info copied during airport search

An American woman is suing the US government's Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection to get the data border agents copied from her phone.

Rejhane Lazoja said that when she landed at Newark Liberty International Airport on February 26 after a nine-hour transatlantic flight,

she was subjected to a secondary screening by CBP agents who, over the course of the inspection, seized her iPhone 6S Plus.

While the phone was returned to Lazoja in July, her attorneys want to know what data was copied.

Believing the search to have been illegal, she is now suing the CBP to have any copied data from the phone returned to her as personal property.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/23/woman_iphone_border_patrol/

FrostKing

08-23-2018, 11:05 PM

Black female police chief brags about kicking antifa (white rich kids) ass? I love it. :lol
https://i.imgur.com/QONVIyz.gif

boutons_deux

08-24-2018, 06:31 AM

Another Prison Phone Service Caught Recording Privileged Conversations And Passing Them On To Law Enforcement

another prison phone company has been caught recording privileged conversations (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-pivileged-phone-calls-20180817-story.html#) and turning them over to law enforcement.

An Orange County Sheriff’s Department employee revealed this week during a court hearing that the department improperly recorded more than 1,000 privileged phone calls between county jail inmates and their attorneys over a three-year period.

An employee with Global Tel Link Corp., a contractor that oversees the jail phone system, wrote in a July 27 letter to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens — obtained by the Daily Pilot on Thursday — that

an update in the company’s system in January 2015 caused “a technical error” :lol

that led to 1,079 such phone calls being recorded, in violation of state law.”

In violation of state law. It violates a lot of things, not just state law.

But that's OK, state law enforcement was there to make sure laws were enforced.

Senior Deputy District Atty. Cynthia Nichols, the prosecutor in Waring’s case, became aware of the issue during Boston’s testimony Monday in Orange County Superior Court.

Nichols asked him during the hearing whether the Sheriff’s Department has made any effort to contact the district attorney or defense attorneys whose phone numbers and client communications were compromised.

“Not to my knowledge,” [director of inmate services Greg] Boston responded.

The law was broken and no one on the law enforcement side did anything to fix it.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180822/08151040483/another-prison-phone-service-caught-recording-privileged-conversations-passing-them-to-law-enforcement.shtml

LE is polluted with lawlessness

boutons_deux

08-28-2018, 10:59 AM

Five Arizona police cleared in viral beating of unarmed man

Five Arizona police officers who were shown on camera pummelling an unarmed man last May will not face any charges, authorities have announced.

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The beating of the 33-year-old man by Mesa Police Department officers was legally justified, investigators from another police force determined.

Video shows Mr Johnson being hit repeatedly in the face and body.

"no criminal charges are warranted against the involved officers as the use of force was legally authorised and justified under Arizona State Law".

"The video flatly contradicts the self-serving accounts of the police officers involved.

"The use of government violence against co-operating citizens, who have committed no crime and who pose no threat, is a crime without justification or legal authorisation."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45323939

Violent American unending, unwinnable wars, special ops overseas mirrored by extreme official state violence at home.

boutons_deux

08-29-2018, 08:21 AM

Texas cop gets community service for destroying woman’s eyeballs with pepper spray because she ‘annoyed’ him

A former Texas police officer was sentenced to community service after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to the blinding of a woman he arrested for drunken driving.

Enoch “Jeremy” Clark pleaded guilty this month to one count of assault by a public officer, and felony use-of-force charge was dismissed was dismissed as part of a plea agreement,

Hernandez and her family settled the case for $18.5 million in 2014.

Prosecutors said Clark, a Beaumont police officer at the time, became “annoyed” when 32-year-old Monique Hernandez resisted his attempts to place her in handcuffs during a Feb. 21, 2012, arrest.

Clark fired a JPX pepper-spray gun about 10 inches from the woman’s face —

which sliced her right eyeball in half,

fractured her right orbital bone, and

severed the optic nerve in her left eye

— and prosecutors said Hernandez had done nothing to justify the gunpowder-powered device.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/texas-cop-gets-community-service-destroying-womans-eyeballs-pepper-spray-annoyed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

https://www.amazon.com/JPX-Pepper-Spray-Standard-holster/dp/B06XVKKTC2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535548844&sr=8-1&keywords=jpx+pepper+gun

boutons_deux

08-30-2018, 07:38 PM

Florida girl yanked out of class and humiliated after teacher caught glimpse of her sports bra strap

A 12-year-old Florida girl was removed from class and humiliated after school officials determined she violated the dress code by wearing a sports bra.

Christine Barnhill was called Aug. 23 to R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Lakewood Ranch to bring new clothing for her daughter, who was placed in a “holding room” until she arrived, reported the Bradenton Herald (https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/education/article217518695.html).

“I saw a couple of girls walk out of the bathroom with new shirts on and then hand their moms the clothes, and the moms putting them in these plastic bags and leaving,”

Principal Scot Boice explained the dress code prohibits visible bra straps, even for a brief moment.

“He started rattling off these examples of

reaching for something in the lunchroom,

bending down to get a book,

slinging a backpack over their shoulders, and

then if an undergarment shows, that’s a violation,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/florida-girl-yanked-class-humiliated-teacher-caught-glimpse-sports-bra-strap/

American schools thinking that K-12 should be run like military or prisons.

boutons_deux

08-31-2018, 04:22 PM

Just an error of youth

A South Carolina cop set his ex-girlfriend’s house on fire — with her kids inside of it

Dylan Ellis, 22, was charged with four counts of attempted murder and arson.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/south-carolina-cop-terminated-after-setting-ex-girlfriends-house-on-fire-with-kids-inside/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Winehole23

09-01-2018, 02:13 PM

five of nine Llano,Texas officers indicted for abuse of power and misconduct:

Asked if there was a climate of corruption within the department, City Manager Scott Edmonson replied, "Uh, no."https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/28/llano-police-department-abuse-of-power

boutons_deux

09-02-2018, 06:27 AM

Watch D.L. Hughley talk about being stopped by cops at age 8 — they called him the N-word and threatened to kill him

“I’m coming from school, getting a free lunch in the summer, and

the police pull up and they pull to me and my friend and they’re asking us questions about a cat that lived in my neighborhood and they’re like ‘Where is he?’ and we’re like ‘We don’t know.’

And they’re like ‘Put your hands on the car,’ and I’m like ‘sir this car is hot.’

And he said ‘N*gger, if you take your hands off this car I’m goin to blow your heard off.’

Now, eight years old.

Flash to, you know, a couple weeks ago, when a young kid in Chicago is handcuffed and peeing on himself.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/watch-d-l-hughley-talk-stopped-cops-age-8-called-n-word-threatened-kill/

boutons_deux

09-04-2018, 10:17 PM

Three months later, the killing of Claudia Gómez by Border Patrol remains shrouded in secrecy (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/4/1792425/-Three-months-later-the-killing-of-Claudia-G-mez-by-Border-Patrol-remains-shrouded-in-secrecy)

Border Patrol leadership at first claimed that Gómez González and a group others ambushed a lone agent with “blunt objects” in the Rio Bravo area of Texas last May.

But, this was a lie.

Marta Martinez, a resident who live streamed the arrests of men who were with the young woman, disputed Border Patrol’s claims from start (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/border-patrol-agent-shot-killed-migrant-woman-in#.nrpklkqZK), (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/border-patrol-agent-shot-killed-migrant-woman-in#.nrpklkqZK) saying that she believed the young woman was hiding from Border Patrol, not attacking.

The agency not only ended up dropping any mention (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/29/1767896/-Border-officials-claimed-Claudia-G-mez-Gonz-lez-was-shot-because-she-attacked-an-agent-They-lied) of her attacking the agent with “blunt objects” from a follow-up statement,

it also cancelled a planned press conference on her killing. Gómez González was just 20 years old.

Other unpublished footage shot by Martinez and turned over to the FBI seems to back up her claims that it was Gómez González who was the victim.

“For one, several agents are visible, though whether they arrived before or after the shooting isn’t apparent,” Buzzfeed, which got to view the footage, reported. (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/border-patrol-shooting-immigrant-texas)

“For another, Claudia’s body is in the bushes near the fence that separates the empty lot from Martínez’s. Martínez thinks Claudia probably was hiding.”

The Guardian reported this past May (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) that the government has, over a decade,

“paid out more than $60m in legal settlements where border agents were involved in deaths, driving injuries, alleged assaults and wrongful detention.”

In fact, the U.S. has paid more than $9 million to the families of at least 20 people who died at the hands of border agents since 2003.

We know about those incidents because of paper trails, but a shroud of secrecy continues to hang over Gómez González’s death.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1792425 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1792425)

dickless white men murdering unarmed young brown women, yep, what's the problem?

boutons_deux

09-06-2018, 08:28 AM

Court Shuts Down Feds' Attempt To Expand The 'Border Search' Exception To Cover Inland GPS Monitoring

At the heart of it is a GPS tracking device.

The government installed it on a truck driven by suspected drug smugglers when it crossed the Canadian border into the US.

It then used that device to track the truck as it traveled down to California.

The resulting bust only uncovered some bags of sugar, but a previous stop of the same truck had turned up 194 kilos of cocaine.

The government argued it didn't need a warrant because it placed the device on the truck at the Canadian border. This would be the "border exception (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160419/10290134211/court-border-search-warrant-exception-beats-riley-constitution-free-zone.shtml)" to the Fourth Amendment -- one carved out by the courts which allows all kinds of warrantless searches to be performed in the name of border security.

But the judge doesn't buy this attempt to salvage ill-gotten evidence. The government cites a number of cases involving searches of vehicles performed at the border -- some more invasive than others -- where warrants weren't needed. The court finds these citations unavailing because they don't actually address what happened here: the placement of a GPS device at the border which was subsequently used to track a vehicle as it traveled far beyond the Canadian border.

The Court doubts that an analysis dependent on the physical aspects of the search is appropriate here where the search extends beyond the initial installation of the device.

And, having taken the Jones decision into account, the court definitely isn't going to allow the government to effectively expand the border search exception to cover searches performed well within the nation's borders.

[T]his Court is hesitant to mechanically apply the border search doctrine where the search stretches far beyond the conduct at the border to create a "precise comprehensive record of a person's movements." [...] Ultimately, the Court concludes the placement of a GPS device on a vehicle at the border, combined with the subsequent tracking of data over a prolonged period away from it, cannot be justified by the border search exception.

Wait, says the government, what about the extended border search doctrine (https://wustllawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/6-117.pdf), where we can perform warrantless searches so long as someone or something came across the border recently and we think something criminal is going on?

The court says continuous monitoring isn't the same thing as a search dependent on two separate, but linked, predicates.

This was a search that began at the border and never stopped.

While the initial placement of the GPS devices on Defendants' truck occurred at the border, the subsequent monitoring of the data over the almost 48 hours constitutes a continuous search…

[I[t is this unceasing search over that period that precludes application of the extended border search doctrine.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180902/16180240569/court-shuts-down-feds-attempt-to-expand-border-search-exception-to-cover-inland-gps-monitoring.shtml

Winehole23

09-10-2018, 08:56 PM

members of Baltimore PD's Gun Trace Task Force were ordered to keep throw down guns:

Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial (https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbpzx8/how-a-corrupt-baltimore-police-task-force-tainted-thousands-of-cases) involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people—a failsafe they could use if they happened to shoot an unarmed suspect, the Baltimore Sun reports (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun-trace-task-force-gttf-testimony-highlights-20180126-story.html).

Detective Maurice Ward, who's already pleaded guilty to corruption charges (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-rearraignments-20170720-story.html), testified that he and his partners were told to carry the replicas and BB guns "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them." The directive allegedly came from the team's sergeant, Wayne Jenkins, the Washington Post reports. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/their-job-was-to-take-guns-off-baltimore-streets-they-admitted-stealing-drugs-and-cash-instead/2018/01/30/336eed26-029a-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.80ec699a3c4b)

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-carried-toy-guns-to-plant-on-people-they-shot-trial-reveals-vgtrn

boutons_deux

09-24-2018, 07:46 AM

California police uphold few complaints of officer misconduct and investigations stay secret

Angry that she had been falsely accused of a drug crime, Tatiana Lopez filed a complaint against a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who had arrested her on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine.

But when Lopez met with a sheriff’s lieutenant to discuss her accusation, he urged her to drop her complaint, she said.

After a preliminary investigation, the Sheriff’s Department ruled the deputy had done nothing wrong, without giving her any explanation.

It would take years of legal battles before a judge exonerated Lopez and a new

internal investigation led the department to fire the deputy for lying about her arrest.

Lopez is one of nearly 200,000 members of the public who filed a complaint against California law enforcement officers in the last decade. Her initial complaint ended the way most did — with police rejecting it without saying why.

California Department of Justice shows law enforcement agencies across

the state upheld 8.4% of complaints filed by members of the public from 2008 to 2017.
In a state with some of the strictest police privacy laws in the country,

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-police-misconduct-complaints-20180923-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

09-26-2018, 09:42 AM

Shit Hole Oklahoma News

US: Devastating Impact of Jailing Mothers

Even Short Stays in Jail Can Cause Permanent Harm to Families

Mothers in jail are being torn from their families and losing contact with their children even before they have been convicted of a crime,

jailing mothers even for short periods of time can result in overwhelming debt and loss of child custody.

the harms experienced by women with minor children jailed pretrial in Oklahoma – which incarcerates more women per capita than any other state.

“Every day they are jailed, they are missing out on their children’s lives, and many have limited means of remaining in contact.

This creates enormous pressure to plead guilty, even if they are wrongly charged.”

An estimated 80 percent of women in jails in the United States (https://www.hrw.org/united-states) are mothers with minor children and

are more likely to be single parents or provide primary care to their children than jailed fathers.

When moms are incarcerated, their children are more likely to end up in foster care.

“Jail stays can snowball into long-term family separation as moms struggle to overcome obstacles to regain custody of their children and get back on their feet.”

Women are the fastest growing correctional population nationwide.

Local jails are a major driver of that growth. The number of women in jail has increased from approximately 8,000 in 1970 to 110,000 in 2014.

And over the past 15 years, 99 percent of jail growth has been a product of pretrial incarceration.

Women may have more trouble affording bail than men because of higher poverty levels and the gender pay gap.

Oklahoma also imposes significant costs on criminal defendants and upon conviction, often

including a bill for time spent in jail,

any medical expenses incurred during that time,

fines,

fees, and

court costs,

supervision fees and

other costs associated with probation or rehabilitation, and

significant costs to reinstate drivers’ licenses if their license is suspended or revoked.

When attempting to regain custody of children in the state’s care,

costs can also accumulate for psychological evaluations,

mandated drug testing, and

child support,

placing poor parents at a significant disadvantage when attempting to reunite with their children.

Many told us the obstacles seemed insurmountable.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/26/us-devastating-impact-jailing-mothers (https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/26/us-devastating-impact-jailing-mothers)

AmeriKKKa The Fucking Ugly

boutons_deux

09-27-2018, 05:31 AM

Ten Years After Not One High-Level Banker Sent to Jail for Tanking Global Economy,

This Man Gets 20 Years in Prison for Stealing Cigarettes

This is America.

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/spellman_robert_florida.png?itok=vNI94Xkx

Ten years after the behavior of over-leveraged and

fraudulent banks created a global financial disaster that resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/who-lost-the-most-in-the-financial-crisis-ordinary-americans/2018/09/13/07a57370-b73c-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html) in losses;

a multi-trillion bailout using public money (https://www.cnbc.com/id/45674390);

and millions of people losing their homes to foreclosure (https://www.wsj.com/articles/many-who-lost-homes-to-foreclosure-in-last-decade-wont-return-nar-1429548640),

but saw not one high-level financial executive go to jail,

a man in Florida has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term for stealing $600 worth of cigarettes from a local convenience store.

"Robert Spellman, 48, received the lengthy sentence after a jury in Pensacola convicted him of burglary and grand theft last month."

He went into the Circle K in the 200 block of West Cervantes Street and took 10 cartons of cigarettes from a locked manager's office in the stock room.

He was found nearby, matched a description of the suspect, was wearing the same clothing and had the cigarettes, according to the State Attorney's Office.

Spellman had 14 felony and 31 misdemeanor convictions prior to this charge, so his 20-year sentence qualifies him as a habitual felony offender.

While the average carton contains 200 cigarettes, that means Spellman will now serve approximately 3.65 days in prison for each of the 2,000 cigarettes he allegedly stole.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/24/ten-years-after-not-one-high-level-banker-sent-jail-tanking-global-economy-man-gets

$6M to confine him for 20 years, and we know the Fed won't print money to pay for it. Hard taxpayer $ will pay using $6M from safety net.

boutons_deux

10-06-2018, 08:48 PM

Deputies Made Jokes About a Veteran Thrashing in His Cell Before He Died

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/06/us/00XP-OVERDOSE1/merlin_144917160_3940e648-a94b-4a9c-a6f9-edcb8df71035-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

Two years ago, a man died of an apparent drug overdose after being held at the Clackamas County Jail in Oregon City, Ore.

This week, video emerged in which sheriff’s deputies could be heard laughing as the man thrashed uncontrollably

in a padded cell before he died. They joked that he could be used as a cautionary example to warn students about the dangers of drugs.

“Should we just take him and put him in front of the classroom?” asked one of the officials.

“If you could just wheel him in a cage and wheel him back out,” said another.

“Look what I brought for show and tell today,” one deputy said while laughing.

The one holding the cellphone could be heard saying: “I wish we could show this to his girlfriend like, ‘You love this?’”

He was then taken to a high-security padded cell.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/07/us/07xp-overdose/07xp-overdose-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

The video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFjlPNdI0A) was recorded by one of

several deputies who, at one point, stood outside of the cell looking in as

Mr. Perry moaned, yelled, flailed his limbs and somersaulted off his padded bed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/bryan-perry-army-veteran-overdose.html?partner=rss&emc=rss (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/bryan-perry-army-veteran-overdose.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)

the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFjlPNdI0A

boutons_deux

10-08-2018, 08:18 AM

L.A. County watchdog investigating team of deputies that stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on 5 Freeway

The move comes after The Times reported that nearly 70% of drivers stopped (http://www.latimes.com/la-me-sheriff-latino-drug-stops-grapevine-20181004-htmlstory.html) from 2012 through last year were Latino and that two-thirds of them had their vehicles searched — a rate far higher than motorists of other racial and ethnic groups.

Sheriff Jim McDonnell (http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/law-enforcement/jim-mcdonnell-PEGPF000055-topic.html) said he was proud of the team’s work, which includes confiscating 3,500 pounds of drugs and rescuing six victims of human trafficking.

The Times analyzed data from every traffic stop recorded by the team from 2012 through the end of last year — more than 9,000 stops in all — and found that Latino drivers accounted for 69% of the deputies’ stops.

Though two-thirds of Latino drivers who were pulled over had their vehicles searched, cars belonging to all other drivers were searched less than half the time.

Deputies found drugs or other illegal items in the vehicles of Latino motorists at a rate that was not significantly higher than that of black or white drivers,

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-stops-latinos-20181008-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

10-15-2018, 11:31 PM

AmeriKKKa is one, bit stinkin asshole

Screened at U.S. border, Canadians who are honest about using marijuana could be banned from the U.S.

Bill Powers flipped through the sworn statement he gave to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the printed pages taking him back to that August afternoon — back to the border checkpoint into Washington state where agents asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.

Yes, he answered, not initially thinking much of the question.

The 57-year-old Canadian has a license for medical marijuana, and pot had been legal in Washington for six years.

Like that, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents turned him away with an extreme decree:

He had been banned from the United States.

With Canada set to legalize recreational marijuana nationwide on Wednesday — only the second country to do so, following Uruguay — many Canadians, especially those who live near the border, face growing anxiety over what to say if U.S. customs agents ask them if they’ve ever consumed marijuana.

Lying to a border agent can result in a person being denied entry. But so too can being honest about past marijuana use.

While nearly every state along the U.S.-Canada border has legalized marijuana, at least for medical use,

ports of entry fall under federal jurisdiction, meaning cannabis is still viewed as a Schedule I drug — just like heroin.

U.S. border agents — who have broad discretion in what questions they ask people seeking entry — can

turn away noncitizens who acknowledge having used a controlled substance, ever.

“Business is booming as Canadians are being turned away for simply admitting to taking a drag of a joint 20 years ago. It’s that silly,” Saunders said.

“They’re being penalized for honesty. No one wants to lie to a border agent.”
His clients often face a pricey workaround, Saunders said.

They can apply for a waiver — about $600 in addition to legal fees

— that grants entry into the U.S. for up to five years.

The individual must carry the waiver at all times when in America.

The process must be repeated when it’s time to renew.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-canada-marijuana-immigration-20181015-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

Repug AmeriKKKa is such shit hole

boutons_deux

10-15-2018, 11:39 PM

Over 100 drug warrants served by Little Rock Police Department were illegal

According to the Washington Post, since 2016 the police department has raided homes with illegal warrants

Roderick Talley was awakened at 6:30 a.m. to a giant boom and his door flying toward him.

The LRPD had set an explosive on his door to serve a no-knock warrant claiming he had drugs.

He was confused, and the door had landed on him when it was blown off of its hinges.

It took him several seconds to understand what was happening.

The police didn’t find much.

They claimed the officers discovered a “green leafy substance” on his living room floor and in his car.

Officers claimed they found enough marijuana to charge Talley with a misdemeanor.

However, the so-called informant said he purchased cocaine from Talley.

They said that they found three digital scales, but Talley said he only owned one and it was broken.

Having a digital scale isn’t illegal unless they find it with drugs.

For owning the broken scale, Talley was charged with possessing an “instrument of a crime.”

They also claimed that they found plastic bags.

Talley said he uses them to pack his lunch, but the police claim it’s about drugs.

They finally claimed “paperwork” was found, which Talley said he has no idea what they mean.
When officers discovered Talley had security cameras, one ordered the video footage be played up so they could watch it.

While Talley was handcuffed,

the cops laughed at the video showing the raid and remarked about what they’d just put Talley through.

“That was worth coming to work for,” one officer said.

When they said they found enough pot to charge him with a crime, he asked if he could come to the station later.

“I can’t let you do that,” one said. “We have to take you to county in cuffs.”

“I got the impression that since they had just done this big raid and scared all of my neighbors, they felt like they had to bring out someone in handcuffs to make it all worthwhile,”

“According to policing and Fourth Amendment experts,

these interviews and warrants show that the LRPD narcotics cops and SWAT teams are

routinely violating the Fourth Amendment rights of Little Rock residents.

They’re also putting people at unnecessary risk.

And there’s strong evidence that, in some cases, officers have made demonstrably false statements under oath.”

Most don’t turn up anything or what they find is a small amount of pot or a few prescription drugs that may not be legal.

Most aren’t charged with a crime, but they’re left with “shattered doors, broken windows, floors scorched by flash grenades, and plenty of trauma.”

https://www.salon.com/2018/10/15/over-100-drug-warrants-served-by-little-rock-police-department-were-illegal_partner/

boutons_deux

10-16-2018, 12:00 AM

In Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women

Cosby was playing Scrabble in her cell once when a guard asked what she was doing.

She responded sarcastically: "What does it look like I'm doing?" He wrote her up for "contraband" (the Scrabble set) and for "insolence."

Williams got written up once when her cellmate, who had diabetes, passed out and Williams cursed at the officer she thought was too slow to help.

Colon got a disciplinary ticket for "reckless eye-balling." She had made a face when a corrections officer gave her an order. She says she ended up in solitary confinement as a result.

"You could get a ticket for anything," Colon said.

Especially, it turns out, if you're a woman.

Across the country,

women in prison are disciplined at higher rates than men — often two to three times more often,

and sometimes more — for smaller infractions of prison rules.

In 13 of the 15 states we analyzed, women get in trouble at higher rates than men.

The discrepancies are highest for more minor infractions of prison rules.

In California, according to our data analysis, women get more than twice the disciplinary tickets for what's called "disrespect."

In Vermont, women are more than three times as likely as men to get in trouble for "derogatory comments" about a corrections officer or another inmate.

In Rhode Island, women get more than three times the tickets for "disobedience."

And in Iowa, female prisoners were nearly three times as likely as men to get in trouble for the violation of being "disruptive."

In Idaho and Rhode Island, for instance, women are more likely than men to end up in solitary confinement for violations like disobedience.

Women can lose "good conduct credits" that would shorten an inmate's sentence, causing them to spend more time behind bars. In California, between January 2016 and February 2018,

women had the equivalent of 1,483 years added to their sentences through good-credit revocations,

and at a higher rate than for male prisoners, according to the data we collected.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/15/647874342/in-prison-discipline-comes-down-hardest-on-women?sc=tw

More evidence that American LE attracts sickos, maybe converts originally healthy, good-faith people into sickos, wife beaters, sadists, murderers.

boutons_deux

10-16-2018, 07:36 AM

How This Red State's Cruel Meth Laws Are Putting Women Behind Bars in Record Numbers

In South Dakota, testing positive for drugs is a felony.

South Dakota has a methamphetamine problem. But it's becoming increasingly evident that South Dakota also has a problem with the way it deals with meth.

Because of its strict drug laws, the state is seeing a dramatic spike in women being sent to prison for meth.

According to a new report (https://www.sdnewswatch.org/stories/meth-epidemic-strict-laws-fuel-dramatic-growth-in-female-inmates/)[3] from the non-profit news organization South Dakota News Watch,

the number of women in prison in the state has jumped 35 percent since 2013,

while the male prison population has increased at only one-quarter of that rate.

Nearly two-thirds of all women prisoners in the state are there for non-violent drug offenses.

The state now has the fourth-highest incarceration rate for women in the country, trailing only

Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Kentucky. :lol Misogynist, racist Repug states!

Overall, about one-third of all inmates in the state are doing time for drug-related offenses, the majority of them for simple drug possession.

The state has not moved toward the defelonization of drug possession, as at least 16 other states (http://www.ajc.state.ak.us/acjc/drugs/misdechrt.pdf)[4] have. Instead, it has moved in the opposite direction.

South Dakota has mandatory sentencing laws that include prison not only for the manufacture and distribution of meth but also for simple possession.

Criminalizing addiction, especially among women who are mothers, Kraemingk said, creates

a situation where the children are more likely to end up in prison themselves.

He pointed to national studies showing that

up to 80 percent of children who have parents behind bars will end up there themselves.

https://www.alternet.org/print/drugs/how-red-state-south-dakota-cruel-meth-laws-women-behind-bars-record

By race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census)
White
Black
AIAN*
Asian
NHPI*

2000 (total population)
90.36%
0.90%
9.06%
0.80%
0.07%

2000 (Hispanic only)
1.21%
0.04%
0.24%
0.02%
0.01%

2005 (total population)
89.64%
1.17%
9.43%
0.92%
0.06%

2005 (Hispanic only)
1.83%
0.07%
0.23%
0.02%
0.00%

Growth 2000–05 (total population)
1.98%
33.36%
7.02%
17.99%
-9.87%

Growth 2000–05 (non-Hispanic only)
1.25%
31.10%
7.20%
18.58%
-5.69%

Growth 2000–05 (Hispanic only)
55.60%
78.64%
0.17%
-6.21%
-41.54%

* AIAN is American Indian or Alaskan Native; NHPI is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Dakota

AaronY

10-16-2018, 07:49 AM

AaronY

10-16-2018, 07:52 AM

Fucking 14 felonies dear God bouts

Boo gonna abolish the 3 strikes rule and replace it with the 300 strikes rule lmao

boutons_deux

10-16-2018, 08:01 AM

After emancipation, slave states passed laws to CREATE bullshit felonies exclusively to go after so ex-slaves, to be locked up and forced back into slave labor.

I can't find it now, but I read that, eg TX, created 7000 state felonies to go after ex-slaves.

Maybe you can find this guy's state so-called "felonies".

The guy obviously has mental problems, but mentally ill people in USA, esp blacks, are "treated" aka murdered by police, or locked up.

AaronY

10-16-2018, 08:13 AM

boutons_deux

10-16-2018, 11:52 AM

Hundreds of CBP employees were arrested for crimes, including domestic abuse, in past two years (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/15/1804536/-Hundreds-of-CBP-employees-were-arrested-for-crimes-including-domestic-abuse-in-past-two-years)

more than 500 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees were arrested

for incidents ranging from bribery to domestic abuse in 2016 and 2017,

CBP’s own investigation finds. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/politics/border-agency-employees-arrested.html)

“The most common arrests were related to misconduct involving drugs or alcohol;

the reports concluded that 109 employees faced those kinds of charges in 2016, and 119 in 2017.

Domestic or family misconduct was the second most common reason for the arrest of the border agency employees—51 in 2017, up from 44 the previous year, the data show.”

in September, Juan David Ortiz, a 10-year veteran of CBP, confessed to killing four women during a 10-day murder spree.

Law enforcement believes Ortiz “probably used his government-issued, semiautomatic weapon” (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/5/1801870/-Border-patrol-serial-killer-who-murdered-four-women-may-have-used-government-issued-gun-report-says) to kill Guiselda Alicia Hernandez, Claudine Ann Luera, Janelle Ortiz, and Melissa Ramirez, and nearly kill Erika Peña, his would-be fifth victim.

Yes, Border Patrol had a serial killer in its ranks—“the prosecutor says he feels comfortable describing Ortiz as a serial killer,”

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) own report found that

corrupt border agents are so dangerous that they “pose a national security threat,” (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/12/1756508/-What-s-dangerously-out-of-control-are-federal-immigration-agents-not-the-border)

yet the Republican-led Congress has done next to nothing to rein in abuses.

The federal government has already paid out (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) tens of millions of dollars to settle wrongful death lawsuits at the hands of border officials since 2005.

Yet

Trump officials have sought to lower hiring standards (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/6/1669338/-Advocates-slam-bill-watering-down-hiring-standards-CBP-needs-more-not-less-accountability)

in order to hire thousands more agents.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/15/1804536/-Hundreds-of-CBP-employees-were-arrested-for-crimes-including-domestic-abuse-in-past-two-years?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/15/1804536/-Hundreds-of-CBP-employees-were-arrested-for-crimes-including-domestic-abuse-in-past-two-years?detail=emaildkre)

boutons_deux

10-16-2018, 11:58 AM

Astounding Bexar County Sheriff's deputy arrest rate continues to skyrocket

https://static-38.sinclairstoryline.com/resources/media/658dd15c-fbcd-4a09-bd94-0be2c9b846b3-large16x9_Arresteddeputies.PNG?1536342340411

SAN ANTONIO - Twenty-one Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputies as well as a dispatcher have now been arrested this year, double the total from 2017. And it's only mid-October.

With 1,374 deputies in the county, that is an arrest rate of 1.5 percent.

By comparison, three of the 2,329 officers in the

San Antonio Police Department have been arrested this year, a rate of 0.13 percent.

Salazar said his department will no longer hire jailers with criminal records. :lol

In Dallas County, where there are 518 deputies, one has been arrested this year. That department had two arrests in 2017.

In Travis County, two of the 251 deputies have been arrested in 2018, one more than in 2017.

"We're taking a proactive stance. :lol

Cadets in the Bexar County Sheriff's Department earn a starting annual salary of $34,656.

That is over $10,000 less per year than the $45,000 salary SAPD cadets are paid.

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/bexar-county-sheriffs-deputies-being-arrested-at-prolific-rate

boutons_deux

10-16-2018, 12:53 PM

racist sheriff deputies

L.A. County watchdog investigating team of deputies that stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on 5 Freeway

The Los Angeles County inspector general has launched an investigation into whether a Sheriff’s Department highway enforcement team engaged in racial profiling when it stopped thousands of innocent Latino drivers in search of drugs on the 5 Freeway.

The move comes after the Los Angeles Times reported that

nearly 70% of drivers stopped (http://www.latimes.com/la-me-sheriff-latino-drug-stops-grapevine-20181004-htmlstory.html) from 2012 through last year were Latino and that

two-thirds of them had their vehicles searched —

a rate far higher than motorists of other racial and ethnic groups.

Sheriff Jim McDonnell (http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/law-enforcement/jim-mcdonnell-PEGPF000055-topic.html) said he was proud of the team’s work, which includes confiscating 3,500 pounds of drugs and rescuing six victims of human trafficking.

He said he looks “forward to working closely with the inspector general to examine any issues of concern.” :lol

“As someone who has dedicated my career to protecting the civil rights of all people, :lol

I am personally concerned about any allegation of racial and ethnic profiling :lol

and take very seriously questions about race and police procedures,” :lol McDonnell said.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-stops-latinos-20181008-story.html

Winehole23

10-17-2018, 09:28 AM

Florida cops go to jail for framing a black kid for burglary:

By helping the feds make a case against a corrupt ex-Biscayne Park police chief, two convicted former officers were hoping to avoid prison time for their roles in framing a black teenager with a string of burglaries.

Instead, Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez were handcuffed and led by U.S. Marshals into custody on Tuesday after U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced them to the maximum: one year in prison for the false arrests.

As family members cried in disbelief, Moore chastised federal prosecutors for agreeing to recommend eight months of home confinement for Dayoub and one year of probation for Fernandez based on their grand jury testimony and other assistance in helping target former Chief Raimundo Atesiano, who had pressured officers in the mostly white suburban town to pin property crimes on people of color. He pleaded guilty last month. (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article218261470.html)

“It would have been a slap on the wrist, and it would have sent entirely the wrong message — particularly to the minority community,” Moore told Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Wallace. “To think that they can come into court and get a slap on the wrist is insulting to the men and women in law enforcement.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220091145.html

Winehole23

10-21-2018, 10:56 AM

Detroit cops got this one right, ain't no law against raking leaves

https://www.metrotimes.com/table-and-bar/archives/2018/10/18/detroit-judge-tosses-gardening-while-black-case-brought-by-three-white-women

boutons_deux

11-04-2018, 01:21 PM

‘If you don’t get at that rot, you just get more officers like Josh Hastings’

The Little Rock police shooting of 15-year-old Bobby Moore revealed a horror show

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/littlerock-illustration-whitebg.jpg
“All I know is this.

If you’re the kind of police department that would hire someone who attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting,

you knew something like this was going to happen.

How could you not know that?” duh :lol because the cops (virtual) KKK members, sympathizers, racists.

Fifteen-year-old Bobby Moore was fatally shot in 2012 by Josh Hastings, a police officer with the Little Rock Police Department.

Despite serving on the force for only five years, Hastings’s tenure would prove to be enormously consequential.

He had been hired over the objection from a high-ranking black police officer, and

that objection was well-founded:

Before his hiring,

Hastings had once attended a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan,

then lied about it on his application.

He went on to accumulate an astonishing disciplinary record,

usually resulting in lax punishment for misconduct.

Hastings once boasted about body-slamming a homeless black woman to the ground.

Video footage showed he had lied about a burglary investigation.

He slept on the job,

drove recklessly and

had problems activating his dashboard-mounted camera. :lol

He admitted to using racist language.

He sometimes needed help writing reports, and

colleagues described him as lazy,

incompetent and

unfit to be a police officer.

Disturbing as Hastings’s disciplinary record may be,

other officers in the department have even thicker personnel files.

In fact, many of the very officers who trained and supervised Hastings have

had lengthy histories of misconduct —

including domestic violence,

lying, and

the use of excessive force.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/02/feature/if-you-dont-get-at-that-rot-you-just-get-more-officers-like-josh-hastings/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eed73221857e&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

iow, Hastings is Trash's, Steven Miller's, JeBo's, KKK's, rightwingnutjob STers', most qualified cop.

One a shithole slave state, always a shithole slave state

boutons_deux

11-13-2018, 07:07 AM

A Black Security Guard Was Killed By Police As He Tried To Stop A Shooting

Witnesses say a cop shot Jemel Roberson as he held down a suspect in a shooting at the bar.

Roberson, who was armed at the time, grabbed one of the men, held him down and waited for police, according to witnesses.

“He had somebody on the ground with his knee in back, with his gun in his back like, ‘Don’t move,’”

Adam Harris told WGN-TV (https://wgntv.com/2018/11/11/multiple-wounded-in-robbins-bar-shooting-police-say/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5be90a0c04d3010e98049d31&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter).

But witnesses said Roberson became the victim as soon as police arrived. A responding officer with the Midlothian Police Department immediately shot Roberson,

Harris said the officer shot an innocent man and that

people on the scene tried to warn police that Roberson was a security guard.“Everybody was screaming out, ‘Security!’

He was a security guard ... and they still did their job, and

saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him,”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-chicago-security-guard-shot-by-police_us_5be9a032e4b0caeec2bbcbb3?utm_medium=emai l&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__111318&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__111318+CID_4889d6ce 0e117bf67b4bd5130822b158&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__111318

boutons_deux

11-13-2018, 11:43 AM

ICE is helping 7-Eleven corporate in its war against store owners (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/12/1812323/-ICE-is-helping-7-Eleven-corporate-in-its-war-against-store-owners)

Back in January, ICE conducted (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/11/577271488/ice-targets-7-eleven-stores-in-nationwide-immigration-raids) nationwide raids of 7-Eleven franchises.

These sweeps terrified and intimidated members of immigrant communities. What made these raids especially painful in the larger sense was that, for decades, 7-Eleven had been a very immigrant-friendly company, one that drew people newly arrived in this country.

As more information about the raid, and about 7-Eleven corporate’s involvement, has emerged,

the story has become ever more troubling.
Daily Kos’s Gabe Ortiz followed up (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/10/1731610/-ICE-raids-nearly-100-7-Eleven-stores-in-largest-workplace-crackdown-of-Trump-era) at the time:

”This is yet another example of the

escalating attacks from the Trump administration and its rogue ICE agency on immigrant communities,” said immigrant rights group Make The Road New York.

“This is a family separation tactic—nothing more, nothing less—meant to stoke fear in the hearts of our community.

But we also know that workers have rights in this country, regardless of immigration status.

We encourage all workers to review their rights in case of an ICE raid.”

Nearly one year later, one version of events is this:

While ICE targeted employees and managers, 7-Eleven is using the fallout to prey on franchise owners.

The more likely version, it turns out, is that

7-Eleven cooperated with ICE and directed the agency to specific franchises,

If franchises are being very publicly investigated for immigration law violations, 7-Eleven might as well cooperate with ICE and squeeze what benefit they can from the situation, i.e., franchise takeovers.

Turns out, this tactic is very much in line with DePinto’s leadership historically.

Corporate’s openly seeking excuses to seize franchises.

Since DePinto took over 7-Eleven, the corporation has moved away from celebrating diversity, increased demands on franchises, and

invested millions in investigating franchise owners.

The corporate investigators have used tactics including

tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles,

planting hidden cameras and listening devices, and

deploying a surveillance van disguised as a plumber’s truck.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/12/1812323/-ICE-is-helping-7-Eleven-corporate-in-its-war-against-store-owners?detail=emaildkre

boutons_deux

11-24-2018, 06:49 PM

Alabama Cops Kill 21-Year-Old After They Say He Opened Fire In A Mall. Now They Say He Didn't (https://www.theroot.com/alabama-cops-kill-21-year-old-after-they-say-he-opened-1830629001)

https://www.theroot.com/alabama-cops-kill-21-year-old-after-they-say-he-opened-1830629001?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-11-24

BTW, the UA plantation's knittas are beating the shit out of the Auburn plantation's knittas

boutons_deux

11-25-2018, 08:20 PM

again, cops kill the wrong guy

Police admit a mall shooter is still on the loose after they shot the wrong man

In Alabama, EJ Bradford was killed by a police officer who claimed he mistook Bradford for a shooter who injured 2.

https://thinkprogress.org/police-admit-a-mall-shooter-is-still-on-the-loose-after-they-shot-the-wrong-man-39a6b42f55aa/

Good Guys with guns (and no experience shooting people) would obviously shoot only the Bad Guys, are much better than the cops.

boutons_deux

11-28-2018, 02:29 PM

Milwaukee said officers justified in shooting of unarmed black man, new video destroys that story (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/27/1815543/-Milwaukee-officials-covered-up-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-but-new-video-destroys-that-story)

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that

(black) Smith had no weapon,

was charged with no crime, and

doesn’t even have one of those “no angel” police records that racists like to point to justify murdering black men. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/16/1644302/-New-information-in-Michael-Brown-s-murder-raises-questions-and-infuriates-us-even-more)

...
According to the criminal complaint, officers found

Baker with a rifle and armed with three other guns.

When they told him to drop the gun,

he refused and

said he was running for governor and

that he was going to start a militia.

Mr. Baker was finally “tackled” by police officers and taken into custody.

Besides the fact that Baker was actually armed with a truly dangerous weapon, and

the fact that he refused to comply at all with police officers’ requests,

there are only two other differences between Baker’s case and Smith’s case:

Baker was white, and in his case,

the police officers didn’t feel the need to use deadly force.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/27/1815543/-Milwaukee-officials-covered-up-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-but-new-video-destroys-that-story?detail=emaildkre

Black Live Don't Matter to Cops

Black Smith is alive, but now really fucked up from the cop fusillade.

boutons_deux

11-28-2018, 09:58 PM

Florida Police Chief Gets 3 Years for Plot to Frame Black People for Crimes

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/13/us/14xp-florida-copy/14xp-florida-copy-jumbo-v3.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/us/florida-police-chief-frame-black-people.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

koriwhat

11-28-2018, 10:06 PM

The guy obviously has mental problems...

and so do you unfortunately. this is what happens when you virtue signal for a 14 times felon, you end up looking exactly like the mentally ill you advocate for.

koriwhat

11-28-2018, 10:07 PM

boutons_deux

11-30-2018, 12:41 PM

‘It’s still a blast beating people’:

St. Louis police indicted in assault of undercover officer posing as protester

the city’s police braced for massive protests. But St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Dustin Boone wasn’t just prepared for the unrest — he was pumped.

“It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” he texted on Sept. 15, 2017, the day of the verdict.

“It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s---heads

once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!”

Boone, 35, and two other officers, Randy Hays, 31, and Christopher Myers, 27, threw a man to the ground and viciously kicked him and beat him with a riot baton,

even though he was complying with their instructions.

the three police officers had no idea that

the man was a (black) 22-year police veteran working undercover,

whom they beat so badly that he couldn’t eat and lost 20 pounds (https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-police-officers-indicted-accused-of-beating-an-undercover/article_4a82d209-b3cd-565e-9a97-309cf1c2a5af.html).

Prosecutors released text messages showing the officers bragging about assaulting protesters, with Hays even noting that “going rogue does feel good.”

“If it was not a police officer — and particularly a black police officer — who was the victim of this assault, would we be at this juncture?”

“We’ve had several incidents of protesters and activists being the victims of excessive use of force and

police abusing their authority without ever seeing charges like this.”

the three police officers gave false statements about the arrest and

even directly contacted Hall to try to dissuade him from pursuing charges.

Myers also destroyed Hall’s cellphone, prosecutors say.

Colletta, who was romantically involved with Hays, also lied to investigators about the assault,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/its-still-blast-beating-people-st-louis-police-indicted-assault-undercover-officer-posing-protester/?utm_term=.ae1242e0a9ec&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/its-still-blast-beating-people-st-louis-police-indicted-assault-undercover-officer-posing-protester/?utm_term=.ae1242e0a9ec&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

boutons_deux

12-03-2018, 07:01 PM

Autopsy on Black Alabama Man Killed at Mall on Thanksgiving Finds Police Shot Him From Behind

https://compote.slate.com/images/c3e5d0ba-442a-4847-8fed-c7f8fde93044.jpeg?width=780&height=520&rect=468x312&offset=1x0

the victim was shot three times from behind, casting more doubt on the official justification for the shooting,

Some witnesses have said the officer gave no verbal commands (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/ej-bradford-jemel-roberson-police-shootings-good-guy-with-gun.html) to Bradford before shooting him.

In the aftermath, Hoover’s police chief praised (http://www.unionleader.com/news/national/police-said-they-killed-a-mall-shooter---then/article_f87fc920-d146-5133-99cf-10fcf9144d9d.html) the police at the scene for stopping the gunman.

the 21-year-old

had been hit in the back (https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/12/private-autopsy-of-emantic-ej-fitzgerald-bradford-expected-to-be-released.html) of his head,

the back of his neck,

and in his back

He also had a wound around his right eyebrow, indicating that he fell forward when shot.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/alabama-mall-shooting-ej-bradford-autopsy-police.html

boutons_deux

12-11-2018, 01:25 PM

Atlanta Cops Caught Deleting Body Cam Footage, Failing To Activate Recording Devices

Officials are promising more transparency on the part of law enforcement, and

greater trust between cops and the community.

The body cameras “will strengthen trust among our officers and the communities they serve

by providing transparency to officer interactions,” said Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed this past week in announcing a purchase.

Oh, we were all so very young then. Look at us (including me (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170303/12152936833/new-accountability-add-on-triggers-cameras-when-police-officers-unholster-their-guns.shtml)!), pointing to the increasing adoption of body cameras as the ushering in of a new era of transparency and accountability. Didn't take long (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160415/06324134189/illinois-police-department-pulls-plug-body-cameras-because-accountability-is-bit-burdensome.shtml) for this lily to get unceremoniously de-gilded.

Cameras are great tools of accountability. They just can't be controlled and maintained (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160810/07315035207/if-police-officials-wont-hold-officers-accountable-more-cameras-will-never-mean-more-recordings.shtml) by cops.

Two years after promising a better police force brimming with accountable officers steadily working to rebuild relationships with the citizens they police,

Atlanta residents are being informed their servants/protectors are cheats and liars (https://www.officer.com/on-the-street/body-cameras/news/21035783/audit-atlanta-police-routinely-failed-to-turn-on-body-cameras).

The audit looked at a random sample of 150 videos from officers’ body cameras.

In more than half the cases,

officers failed to activate and deactivate their cameras at the required time, the audit said.

Officers also miscategorized 22 of the videos, including a use of force incident.

Auditors said mislabeling the videos may have led to some being deleted prematurely.

And the audit said that officers failed to capture two-thirds of dispatched calls between November 2017 and May 2018.

These results shouldn't shock Atlanta residents or readers of this site.

It doesn't even shock Atlanta Police officials.

Police Chief Erika Shields says she's "not happy" with the results of the audit, but also "not surprised."

She excuses her officers actions in the worst possible way:

"I knew that what we are asking of officers is a culture shift." :lol

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181207/11242241179/atlanta-cops-caught-deleting-body-cam-footage-failing-to-activate-recording-devices.shtml

no police culture gonna "shift". Cops join to enjoy, profit from that criminal, sadistic corrupt cop culture

boutons_deux

12-24-2018, 08:30 AM

Inglewood to destroy more than 100 police shooting records that could otherwise become public under new California law (https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-city-of-inglewood-to-destroy-more-than-1545504782-htmlstory.html#nt=card)

has troubled civil liberties advocates who were behind the state legislation, Senate Bill 1421, which takes effect Jan. 1.

The law opens to the public internal investigations of officer shootings and other major uses of force, along with confirmed cases of sexual assault and lying while on duty.

“The legislature passed SB 1421 because communities demanded an end to the secrecy cloaking police misconduct and use of force,”

“Inglewood PD’s decision to purge records undermines police accountability and transparency against the will of Californians.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-city-of-inglewood-to-destroy-more-than-1545504782-htmlstory.html#nws=mcnewsletter

:lol "blue" CA's cops are as murderous, racist, brutalizing, secretive Blue Wall-ish, militarized as any red state cops.

boutons_deux

01-31-2019, 04:13 PM

Ph.D. student tackled by cops for 'stealing' own car

settles lawsuit for $1.25 million

https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/pGnXiooqG963Hf43le8n8BRnIWo=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c49170c/turbine/ny-1548293896-whkr1qalc4-snap-image

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-illinois-student-to-get-million-in-police-settlement-20190123-story.html#nws=true

boutons_deux

02-01-2019, 01:12 PM

Man Hiding Face From Police Facial Recognition Test Fined for Telling Cops to 'Piss Off' (https://gizmodo.com/man-hiding-face-from-police-facial-recognition-test-fin-1832264524)

https://gizmodo.com/man-hiding-face-from-police-facial-recognition-test-fin-1832264524?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

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02-05-2019, 12:31 PM

DNA-Matching Company Decides To Open Its Doors To The FBI Without Bothering To Inform Its Users

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190203/13203241520/dna-matching-company-decides-to-open-doors-to-fbi-without-bothering-to-inform-users.shtml

MultiTroll

02-05-2019, 12:36 PM

SpursforSix

02-05-2019, 12:44 PM

boutons_deux

02-07-2019, 05:35 PM

Dozens of Cities Have Secretly Experimented With Predictive Policing Software

Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol.

PredPol claims to use an algorithm to predict crime in specific 500-foot by 500-foot sections of a city, so that police can patrol or surveil specific areas more heavily.

PredPol contract negotiation emails with government officials—were obtained from the police departments of
South Jordan, UT;
Mountain View, CA;
Atlanta, GA;
Haverhill, GA;
Palo Alto, CA;
Modesto, CA;
Merced, CA;
Livermore, CA;
Tacoma, WA; and the
University of California, Berkeley

using public records requests.

When reached for comment by Motherboard, PredPol CEO Brian MacDonald said that the number of active PredPol customers is a "confidential internal metric."

Predpol explicitly encouraged police departments (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3k5pv/predpol-predictive-policing-broken-windows-theory-chicago-lucy-parsons) to dedicate their resources towards petty crime,

"Problem solving... that is oriented towards reducing misdemeanor crime may also reduce felony crime,”

“PredPol's boxes are chosen using only the what, when, and where of incidents that have already occurred in your city,”

We take anywhere from 3-10 years of crime data and run the relevant points of information through our algorithm. Long and short term trends, recurring events, and environmental factors are all taken into account.”

Predictive policing is “driven by what seems to be objective historical data that itself reflects longstanding and pervasive bias,” Buttar said.

“If you overpolice certain communities, and only detect crime within those communities, and

then try to provide a heat map of predictions,

any AI will predict that crimes will occur in the places that they’ve happened before.”

(https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3m7jq/dozens-of-cities-have-secretly-experimented-with-predictive-policing-software)https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3m7jq/dozens-of-cities-have-secretly-experimented-with-predictive-policing-software

boutons_deux

02-13-2019, 11:44 AM

Volunteers, activists, journalists interrogated at border about caravan

Many who know they are flagged now think twice before crossing the border,

recognizing they will have to give up time and information each time they head to the U.S.

They wonder whether CBP’s intelligence gathering might be

meant to intimidate them or prevent them from doing the work they had been doing south of the border.

Exactly how much authority border officials have to search and interrogate versus how much civil rights protect individuals passing through is still being litigated in court, particularly when it comes to cellphone and laptop searches.

“It’s a very tricky area of law because it’s developing, and we’re seeing

a highly aggressive series of behaviors,”

The way journalists and humanitarian activists described being targeted by CBP

could be infringing on their constitutional rights under the First Amendment,

a volunteer and photographer who didn’t want his last name used because he worried about retaliation from CBP, said he hasn’t gone back to Tijuana since he was stopped at the border.

“I’m very intimidated at the moment,” said Rodrigo, who is also a U.S. citizen. “I don’t feel safe going across the border. I really don’t.”

Jake Harris, another U.S. citizen ... He’s been sent to secondary inspection seven times, every time he’s crossed the border since the beginning of January.

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-immigration-activists-journalists-interrogated-20190211-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

CBP is an extrajudicial, non-Constitutional Schutzstaffel

boutons_deux

02-14-2019, 02:20 PM

Incarcerated women have to work two weeks to buy a box of tampons

across the country, imprisoned people earn as little as $0.09 an hour (https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/-AA/ni0YAA/t.2p4/FbSlEu8BTOOH-1U9g5z7Xg/h1/IQIT1ZiIomIrvVS-2BQWbVNbNFEn5BtietzppMfD3Dd9j7lwnDsVeOTUuPZsfGPMw8 7t2RCnk0RirNk7R6UAb91SPCHC9UxjIMGE45x02thVePq0e10E WFaWKdUQbrHVl-2F9YAB7d79jI0m1x-2FwCh4WuAa7eWvzuw9J3Odl9QSQhE7N-2BroKoMgUPOhfVwkDy2h3M-2FnvhjHjSFgSvgJZSy1HxnpE3WC9Z-2F5Fg0U7mCAj3DqOUi5Qo04muJrpkQzyLAXJ15vWPtpnorZ7pW 3z22M6v-2FWS1BaLJ71DEyD-2FYW85pCjKMIjl0ldLqrhjMAyYff1FPGob9a2vnebzXqEs27w-2F3eeVL8LppUoaDtUludgSWy7p4XF5iPyMmZH33khafWouv6U5 T094zea-2FImzRb0YGq6wcC9BAIBEVsRdlZxocMgep-2FaneoIvDgzg1fu-2FV6JE3) for mandated labor.

In some states, like Texas, Georgia, and Arkansas, it’s legal to not pay them (https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/-AA/ni0YAA/t.2p4/FbSlEu8BTOOH-1U9g5z7Xg/h2/4cCqVOVkRCGEzEkI41B3Fc6voKyGvm19ZCKICW1kcVypR-2BeimUMUNCjbYbOoA-2B4mGVzwxto8EWuJRhWA1eRIj5p-2FDefOgH3onttXYvbrOGReabmGJ1uRiIeW6i7FGiY2k3hGZk-2BzAwfC73Y34bC87rHvkLX0GYSzQA-2Fht4LSYA8kfOPPiehGQ0q1gfSDlmLFARS50gtTEiYLJ7PuDMR JzZ2CYSfolwGgrebdLKV-2BvGwfCVXC5aKMKuIs7TN6fhzj4wTYdg7RxDdu2O6-2BydiNUOVLggNT-2FelhZZDo5ZH-2FAWqotDZ1rnmJs9XBhX888CivbTRjHFdrPv3D67XSaqUon4l9 xtHWA0ITQCOG664opc1ayy9VY8hgXdwp0T3dtSXX-2BCzX2N1ZaoE-2BQ6qnoXkorxzrZqxZkxSgCPUHa8ZNNyVR-2F-2F4nDUEhZ32WcAltp5-2BKU5KqNgm0tFsxS8tsw4jcrg-3D-3D) anything.

Yet, a majority of them are required to work 40 hour work-weeks and are punished if they don’t.

In New York, the State legislature just introduced (https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/-AA/ni0YAA/t.2p4/FbSlEu8BTOOH-1U9g5z7Xg/h3/k-2BEHbjmTSRrdU89hU37tY1PIGH1tbuojQ249ngNQ1EO3W7LHCH QfubtI81qhT1OnGWOdb-2FP-2B9HSWvcp8iqCp2Vi2T-2Bj61a3cDySycuriK8KoDtUzL15-2BRpbFO2BZ6qjxZBJEpIn3dyYqIUIgUJVHW4ZqqHrs-2FnNFWdiJinxznXxiOU1I3wMsiGqq2ScZ38yui56DqW5rdOBA3 2bvD0qI9VK6uW6e4HY4LWkjoLCV4GNuMGWvtXaixOT-2BLkaTZbTClVP-2BlvXdH2u6id6lMJMja5UIeOd0LfBTa2W9ZtZYF53-2BRKIs6GhwmyOhDYeD722D9A8lgt3l36etcNB3hsLPrDYulNwj mR-2Fk69i7EPPM3eCIgS9kq5Ab1RJ1QE0dJwnhl5UK6A99adb2sGl LQRpkD4eWZ2vvhuYkpXEU9nilcBa1Ql-2F07nlpqSp1QsfasSLie21-2BdOs-2F-2BhcnoFaHFimlQ0kDXmLnVMdVnqDn6hkEuCpZt0dgRvHdP-2B91-2FbxPvbyY) the “Prison Minimum Wage” Act

to finally increase the wages incarcerated people earn to $3.00 an hour.

Representatives have done so

to recognize the labor, goods, and millions in revenue incarcerated people contribute to the state, and

acknowledge they deserved to be treated with respect and dignity for their work.

-- email from Kos Liberation League

=================

Prison Labor

A CURATED COLLECTION OF LINKS

https://washingtonpress.com/2019/02/13/trumps-evangelical-advisor-just-launched-a-personal-attack-against-anti-trump-christians/?fbclid=IwAR0nLL4OIpS-wXmbyq3BovT8gBGqzUpetcTWxcAqLIXVrqWoVBaroL7Drr0 (https://washingtonpress.com/2019/02/13/trumps-evangelical-advisor-just-launched-a-personal-attack-against-anti-trump-christians/?fbclid=IwAR0nLL4OIpS-wXmbyq3BovT8gBGqzUpetcTWxcAqLIXVrqWoVBaroL7Drr0)

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Amendment XIIISection 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,

except as a punishment

for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,

shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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So slavery and enforced servitude are Constitutionally LEGAL in the USA as "punishment" in the American Gulag.

boutons_deux

02-15-2019, 10:43 AM

Women Complain Of Humiliating, Illegal Strip Searches In San Francisco Jail

Female inmates claim they were

forced to get naked,

squat and cough

while male deputies watched.

In California, strip searches of inmates must be conducted in an area with privacy, and with no one of the opposite sex within sight.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/san-francisco-public-defender-jail-strip-searches_n_5c658e39e4b0bcddd40f78a0?ncid=newsltush pmgnews__TheMorningEmail__021519

boutons_deux

02-15-2019, 02:41 PM

you rightwing assholes are fine, upstanding people

Bodycam records white Florida woman threatening black cop:

‘My KKK friends will burn your family' (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/14/1834763/-Bodycam-records-white-Florida-woman-threatening-black-cop-My-KKK-friends-will-burn-your-family)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/14/1834763/-Bodycam-records-white-Florida-woman-threatening-black-cop-My-KKK-friends-will-burn-your-family?detail=emaildkre

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY0ODUwNDc3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE3NTU4MDE@._ V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg

Trill Clinton

02-15-2019, 02:57 PM

boutons_deux

02-16-2019, 12:53 PM

U.S.-born Latinas, harassed by border agent for speaking Spanish while grocery shopping, sue (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/15/1834995/-U-S-born-Latinas-harassed-by-border-agent-for-speaking-Spanish-while-grocery-shopping-sue)

Mimi Hernandez and Ana Suda, the two U.S.-born Latinas who were illegally targeted (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/21/1765946/-Border-Patrol-agent-harasses-two-Latinas-both-U-S-citizens-for-speaking-Spanish-while-shopping) by an out-of-control federal immigration agent after he eavesdropped on them speaking Spanish while shopping

“Ana and Mimi refuse to accept an out-of-control CBP as a fact of life. “

Patrol officer Paul O'Neal decided not to mind his own business last May when he was in line behind Ana and Mimi and

overheard them speaking Spanish: He demanded to know where they were born and to see their identification.
“He detained them by his patrol car, in full view of neighbors, for an extended period before finally letting them return to their homes and families,”

Suda, a nursing assistant, said the repercussions from the incident continue to this day.

She’s been harassed by people since going public, and

her 8-year-old daughter is now scared to speak Spanish

I think about my kids. I want them to not only be proud of being bilingual, but I also want them to know that they live in a country where people can’t just be stopped and interrogated based on how they look and sound.”

“Within the 100-mile zone,” the ACLU told Mother Jones last year, (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/8/1739770/-200-million-Americans-live-in-the-100-mile-zone-where-Border-Patrol-can-ask-for-papers)“CBP agents can set up permanent and temporary checkpoints and

have some ability to circumvent the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/15/1834995/-U-S-born-Latinas-harassed-by-border-agent-for-speaking-Spanish-while-grocery-shopping-sue?detail=emaildkre

"God Damn America" -- Jeremiah Wright

boutons_deux

02-18-2019, 07:53 AM

11-Year-Old Arrested At School After Refusing To Stand For The Pledge

The sixth-grader’s refusal reportedly led to an argument with his teacher, leading to his arrest.

The teacher asked him: “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live.”

He replied: “They brought me here.”

She then suggested that he “can always go back.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boy-arrested-after-pledge-protest_n_5c6978f4e4b05c889d2021a2?ncid=newsltushp mgnews__TheMorningEmail__021819

Teacher got fired out of the entire school system. :lol

boutons_deux

02-22-2019, 03:40 PM

goddamn, sheriff depts seem rotten with dickless sadists and casual brutality

Florida Deputy Resigns After Video Shows Him Striking Handcuffed Teen

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lee-county-sheriff-deputy-resigns-striking-teen_n_5c6efcebe4b0e2f4d8a3ecce?ncid=newsltushpmgn ews__TheMorningEmail__022219

I bet he beats his wife and kids, as is common among LE.

boutons_deux

02-23-2019, 01:13 PM

An Arizona cop threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist. She wasn’t backing down.

So naturally, she didn’t back down when Joseph Patterson, the town marshal in Patagonia, Ariz., allegedly

threatened to throw her in juvenile jail on Monday,

then falsely claimed it would be illegal for her to film him and publish the video on the Internet.

Instead, she posted their exchange on YouTube and in the Orange Street News — which in turn prompted

town officials to discipline Patterson, :lol

she was riding her bike :lol

to investigate a tip at around 1:30 p.m. on Monday when Patterson, whose position in the small town is equivalent (https://patagonia-az.gov/patagonia-departments/emergency-services-department/) to that of a police chief,

stopped her and asked for identification. :lol

The 12-year-old gave her name and phone number and

mentioned that she was a member of the media.

She said Patterson told her,

“I don’t want to hear about any of that freedom-of-the-press stuff”

and added that he would have her arrested and thrown in juvenile jail.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/22/an-arizona-cop-threatened-arrest-year-old-journalist-she-wasnt-backing-down/?utm_term=.65a0d1c2dc13&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

12 year old GIRL bitch slaps dickless ignorant fat cop bully :lol

MultiTroll

03-03-2019, 12:29 AM

These journalists have a list of criminal cops. California is trying to keep it secret.

Two California journalists requested and were given data on police officers’ arrests and convictions over the past 10 years. What they found was surprising: domestic abuse, child molestation — even murder. They were given these documents through a public records request, something journalists exercise frequently. But California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says it was a mistake, and they never should have received it in the first place. Becerra — whose office was responsible for maintaining the information — said the center that distributed it was not authorized to do so. He wants the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California at Berkeley, and its two journalists, to destroy the files and refrain from publishing them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/these-journalists-have-a-list-of-criminal-cops-california-is-trying-to-keep-it-secret/ar-BBUhv8v?ocid=spartandhp

DMC

03-03-2019, 12:42 AM

totally worth it for 1.25 mil

It's amusing how the narrative is "Ph.D student" as if "innocent man" isn't good enough, they have to qualify it with something "good" for society. Otherwise it's not as interesting. "What? A fucking Ph.D. Student? What a waste, he was going to be a good tool for society!"

DMC

03-03-2019, 12:43 AM

White supremacy is everywhere.

If it was this wouldn't be a story.

boutons_deux

03-05-2019, 05:53 PM

Undercover police: Women were 'victims of co-ordinated rape'

A woman who found out her partner was a policeman paid to spy on her group of activists has said she is the victim of a "conspiracy to rape".

An ongoing public inquiry into undercover policing has seen several women get apologies and compensation.

Police said officers who had long-term sexual relationships with their targets "abused their positions".

"They know there was no informed consent.

"It's the whole gang of them, and there's no other way of terming it for me than a gang.

"You've got mentors, you've got handlers a whole backroom team of people monitoring - and directing it would seem - their relationships, their activities."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-47240670

boutons_deux

03-06-2019, 08:57 AM

Jury Recommends 20 Years For Security Guard Who Killed Grandpa Playing Pokémon Go

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5c7ef0c324000006054b8bbb.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_nou pscalehttps://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5c7ef1d82500000103c8bad1.png?ops=scalefit_720_noup scale

“Mr. Cromwell confronted Mr. Chen by stopping his vehicle directly in front of Mr. Chen’s,” Parr said in a statement.

“Mr. Chen backed up and turned his vehicle around …

Mr. Cromwell had exited his car and did say ‘stop’ before he fired his weapon.”

The security guard said he “kept shooting until the vehicle stopped,”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/security-guard-charged-in-murder-of-grandpa-playing-pokemon-go-to-bond-with-grandkids_n_5c7eb7b7e4b0e62f69e70ab2?ncid=newsltus hpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__050619

boutons_deux

03-06-2019, 09:03 AM

American Airlines Apologizes After Kicking Woman and Her Child with Rare Skin Condition Off Flight

The woman and her son have a rare, genetic skin condition called Ichthyosis

“We boarded our American Airlines flight where everyone smiled and talked to Jackson. Before take off a man (employee called on flight to handle the situation)

came up to my row and asked the 2 men sitting next to me to get up,” Flake wrote.

“He then quietly asked me about ‘my rash’ and if I had a

letter from a doctor stating it was ok for me to fly." :lol

Flake then went on to share that she and her son have Ichthyosis — a genetic skin disorder characterized by dry, scaling skin that may be thickened or very thin.

He walked up to the front to talk to the crew. He apparently googled it during that time. He came back and said he apologized but we wouldn’t be able to fly and we had to get off the plane.”

the flight attendant rudely said (without even acknowledging me)

‘Well she doesn’t have a letter from a doctor, so…'”

https://people.com/travel/american-airlines-apologizes-for-kicking-woman-child-off-flight-skin-condition/?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__050619 (https://people.com/travel/american-airlines-apologizes-for-kicking-woman-child-off-flight-skin-condition/?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__050619)

America The Beautiful produces 10Ms of asshole companies and asshole people

boutons_deux

03-06-2019, 09:29 AM

L.A. to pay nearly $2 million in suit over sexual assault by LAPD officers

Los Angeles will pay nearly $2 million to settle a lawsuit from a woman who

was sexually assaulted by a pair of LAPD officers,

the fourth such assault case L.A. has settled (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-sexual-assault-20170802-story.html) in recent years.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-doe-settlement-20190305-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

boutons_deux

03-06-2019, 08:44 PM

Incarceration Nation? It's Multi-Billion $$$ Business

Nearly Half of Americans Have a Close Family Member Who Has Been Incarcerated

A new study highlights the sheer scope of mass incarceration in the United States

“having a family member incarcerated is a ubiquitous experience in the United States,”

one that reflects the reality of living in a country with unmatched incarceration rates.

The rate was particularly high among

African Americans, 63 percent of whom have family members who have been in jail or prison.

For Hispanics, the rate was 48 percent, and

for whites it was 42 percent.

People without a high school degree had the highest cumulative risk—60 percent—of having an incarcerated family member.

That risk declined as education level increased,

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nearly-half-americans-have-close-family-member-who-has-been-incarcerated-180971645/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190306-daily-responsive&spMailingID=39070419&spUserID=NjY0ODU0NTQ2Mzk1S0&spJobID=1480558118&spReportId=MTQ4MDU1ODExOAS2 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nearly-half-americans-have-close-family-member-who-has-been-incarcerated-180971645/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190306-daily-responsive&spMailingID=39070419&spUserID=NjY0ODU0NTQ2Mzk1S0&spJobID=1480558118&spReportId=MTQ4MDU1ODExOAS2)

Trill Clinton

03-08-2019, 08:30 AM

https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1103533204592623617?s=19

SpursforSix

03-08-2019, 04:27 PM

Cops search stage 4 cancer patient's room

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2019/03/08/bolivar-missouri-police-search-terminal-cancer-patients-hospital-room-marijuana-cannabis/3104191002/

boutons_deux

03-19-2019, 09:25 AM

NEVER SENTENCED, NEVER RELEASED

Terry Allen was 23 when he was arrested for an alleged sexual assault.

Although he was never convicted of the crime, Allen was sent to an Illinois prison,

where he has remained for nearly four decades with no release date.

Across the country, hundreds of people are incarcerated without convictions for the alleged acts that landed them in prison. Reporter Max
Green tells the story of one such man.

This episode was produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago. You can read WBEZ’s in-depth report here (https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/terry-allen-has-been-locked-up-in-prison-for-36-years-without-a-criminal-trial/22042417-388e-4289-a9ea-40af02c1d3b5).

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/terry-allen-has-been-locked-up-in-prison-for-36-years-without-a-criminal-trial/22042417-388e-4289-a9ea-40af02c1d3b5

The "Christian" American Empire's brutal, racist, sadistic, torturing gulag

"correctional" facility? G M A F B

boutons_deux

03-19-2019, 09:44 AM

100 million traffic stops show massive racial bias in policing (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/14/1842101/-100-million-traffic-stops-show-massive-racial-bias-in-policing)

There is racial bias in policing (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/inside-100-million-police-traffic-stops-new-evidence-racial-bias-n980556), and a team of Stanford University researchers has erased any shadow of reasonable doubt about it.

While “officers generally stop black drivers at higher rates than white drivers,

and stop Hispanic drivers at similar or lower rates than whites,”

there could conceivably be multiple explanations for that.

But once a driver has been stopped,

black and Hispanic drivers are much more likely to be ticketed, searched, and arrested than white drivers.

In fact,

black drivers are 20 percent more likely and Latino drivers are 30 percent more likely to be ticketed than white drivers.

It doesn’t stop there, though—

they’re also twice as likely to be searched as white drivers.

And are searches of black and Latino drivers more likely to turn up contraband? Nope.

White and black drivers were about equally likely to be found with contraband: 36 percent and 32 percent, respectively.

Just 26 percent of Latino drivers were found with something illegal.

The Stanford researchers designed a test of the data that found that

“police require less suspicion to search black and Hispanic drivers than whites. This double standard is evidence of discrimination.”

The researchers looked at

whether black drivers are equally likely to be pulled over at night,

when it’s harder for police to see drivers as cars go by. And guess what!

“After adjusting for the variation in sunset times across the year,

researchers found a 5 to 10 percent drop in the share of stopped drivers after sunset who are black,

suggesting black drivers are being racially profiled during the day.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/14/1842101/-100-million-traffic-stops-show-massive-racial-bias-in-policing?

Law enforcement, polluted with sadists, racists, criminals, wife beaters. simply expresses the White Male Privilege as fundamental to the American so-called Dream.

boutons_deux

03-21-2019, 07:07 AM

Man framed for murder gets $13.1-million settlement from San Francisco

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $13.1-million settlement for a man who spent six years in prison after

police officers framed him for murder.

Jamal Trulove was convicted in the 2007 killing of his friend, but a state appeals court overturned the conviction in 2014 and he was acquitted in a retrial in 2015.

A federal jury last year awarded Trulove $14.5 million in damages, according to the Associated Press.

At the time, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that jurors found

the two lead homicide inspectors on the case had violated Trulove’s rights by

fabricating evidence against him and

withholding evidence that might have helped him.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jamal-trulove-20190320-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

And what happens to the two CORRUPT cops, and their supervisor?

boutons_deux

03-21-2019, 08:23 AM

ICE Has Been Wrongly Detaining U.S. Citizens In Florida Jails, Says ACLU

The agency is unlawfully detaining Americans and threatening them with deportation — not just in Florida, but nationwide

many U.S. citizens — potentially numbering in the hundreds — are being wrongly detained for deportation every year after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/ice) misidentifies them as undocumented immigrants.

“ICE appears to be asking Miami-Dade County to jail a number of U.S. citizens every month, even though citizens can’t be deported or held by ICE,” the ACLU said.

Between February 2017 and February 2019,

ICE issued detainers for 420 people listed in Miami-Dade County jail records as U.S. citizens,

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-detainers-miami-florida-aclu_n_5c92c7c3e4b01b140d3536d9?ncid=newsltushpmgn ews__TheMorningEmail__032119

boutons_deux

03-24-2019, 05:35 PM

The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/the-growing-epidemic-of-cops-shooting-family-dogs/)

“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority.

It trumps the rights and safety of suspects.

It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders.

It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/25/cops-shooting-at-dogs/),

in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl.

And this isn’t the first time.

In January, an Iowa cop shot and killed a woman by mistake (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kill-family-dog-kills-woman-instead-front-husband-4-year-old-son/) while trying to kill her dog.

Other cops have shot other kids (http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/15/cop-tries-to-shoot-dog-plugs-kid-instead#.npxdn2:fgZj),

other bystanders (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Cops-Shoot-Innocent-Bystander-Dog-Bushwick-Brooklyn-Pitbulls-165323736.html),

their partners (http://www2.fox16.com/news/story/Police-officer-shot-by-partner-trying-to-kill-dog/tNWAt4krZEqfO37zRTlxkQ.cspx),

their supervisors (http://abc13.com/news/cop-aiming-for-dog-accidentally-shoots-sergeant/523510/) and

even themselves (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/04/16/sheriffs-deputy-hospitalized-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-in-leg/) while firing their guns at a dog.

That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people.”
—Journalist Radley Balko (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/25/cops-shooting-at-dogs/)

The absurd cruelties of the American police state keep reaching newer heights.

Consider that if you kill a police dog, you could face a longer prison sentence than if you’d murdered someone or abused a child (https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/10181-man-who-killed-police-dog-gets-extremely-long-sentence/).

If a cop kills your dog, however, there will be little to no consequences for that officer.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/the-growing-epidemic-of-cops-shooting-family-dogs/ (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/the-growing-epidemic-of-cops-shooting-family-dogs/)

boutons_deux

04-03-2019, 12:15 PM

West Virginia cops minimize woman’s gun-waving and lies that resulted in arrest of Egyptian citizen (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/2/1847316/-West-Virginia-cops-minimize-woman-s-gun-waving-and-lies-that-resulted-in-arrest-of-Egyptian-citizen)

a woman who pulled a gun on a man she accused of trying to abduct her daughter has completely recanted her story,

In a press conference Tuesday, Barboursville Police Sgt. Anthony Jividen announced the news with something resembling a straight face and nothing resembling contrition.

The wrongly accused man, a 54-year-old Egyptian national in town on business, (https://wchstv.com/news/local/man-arrested-after-police-said-he-tried-to-abduct-a-child-inside-the-huntington-mall) required an Arabic translator when he was

arrested,
arraigned,
forced to surrender his passport, and
held on $200,000 bond
within seven hours of the crime
that did not happen—
as well as subjected to a widely publicized perp walk.

Why?

Because he patted a 5-year-old girl on the head, and smiled.

The complaint says

the suspect "grabbed the child by the hair and

attempted to pull her away," and

then the little girl "dropped to the floor

with the male still pulling her away."

Police say the mother then pulled out a handgun and told the suspect to let go of the child.

The mother told police the man then let go of the girl and ran out of the store into the mall.

During the interview with the mother, detectives say they discovered more inconsistencies to the original statement. :lol

She eventually told detectives that she might have misjudged the suspect’s actions,

overreacted to the uninvited touching of her daughter, and

misinterpreted the intentions of [the man].

The mother also told police

the more she thought about it, :lol

the more she realized it might have been a cultural misunderstanding and [the man]

might have just been patting her daughter on the head and smiling.
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/2/1847316/-West-Virginia-cops-minimize-woman-s-gun-waving-and-lies-that-resulted-in-arrest-of-Egyptian-citizen)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/2/1847316/-West-Virginia-cops-minimize-woman-s-gun-waving-and-lies-that-resulted-in-arrest-of-Egyptian-citizen (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/2/1847316/-West-Virginia-cops-minimize-woman-s-gun-waving-and-lies-that-resulted-in-arrest-of-Egyptian-citizen)

boutons_deux

04-04-2019, 01:31 PM

A Rural County Owes $28 Million for Wrongful Convictions. It Doesn’t Want to Pay.

Ms. Gonzalez was one of six innocent people who collectively spent 77 years in prison in the murder of a 68-year-old woman named Helen Wilson, whose death haunted this rural county for decades.

Now, years after DNA evidence exonerated the defendants,

they are about to collect a $28 million civil rights judgment against

Gage County, which prosecuted them based on false confessions.

nearly all of its 22,000 residents must foot the bill by paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in higher property taxes.

The Beatrice case is an extreme example of the difficulties faced by those who have been promised compensation for being wrongfully convicted and spending years behind bars.

residents say they should not be held financially responsible for an investigation and prosecution that unfolded more than three decades ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/beatrice-six-nebraska.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/beatrice-six-nebraska.html)

boutons_deux

04-22-2019, 07:23 AM

Deputy On Leave After Video Shows Officers Slamming Teen’s Head, Punching Him

South Florida sheriff’s office has placed a deputy on administrative leave after a video appeared to show officers pepper-spraying a teenager,

tackling him to the ground, and

one deputy slamming the teen’s head on the ground and punching him.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/broward-deputy-on-leave-after-arrest_n_5cbc75c6e4b068d795cd9c7d?ncid=newsltushpm gnews__TheMorningEmail__042219 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/broward-deputy-on-leave-after-arrest_n_5cbc75c6e4b068d795cd9c7d?ncid=newsltushpm gnews__TheMorningEmail__042219)

see the video, VERY clear

boutons_deux

04-22-2019, 07:49 AM

Five years later, some fear Orange County jail snitch scandal will go unpunished

Nearly five years have passed since a lawyer representing the man who slaughtered eight people inside a Seal Beach salon first raised questions about the way investigators used informants inside Orange County’s jails.

The accusation — that sheriff’s deputies planted a prolific snitch in the cell of confessed killer Scott Dekraai in the hopes of eliciting information without his lawyer present, and then covered up their unconstitutional actions — seemed outlandish at the time. But jailhouse records soon proved otherwise

But to date, no one has been disciplined, fired or prosecuted for misconduct.

And on Friday, a deputy attorney general (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oc-jail-informant-investigation-20190419-story.html)said that

the state investigation into the case — the only avenue for criminal charges — has been closed.
Meanwhile, some individuals who oversaw the jails or Dekraai’s case at the time of the alleged misconduct have received promotions.

In March, two deputies under investigation for their role in the scandal quietly retired.

For those closest to the case, there is a fear that the public will never truly know what went on inside Orange County’s jails.

Local watchdogs and civil liberties advocates have long contended

there are more cases tainted by informant misuse — affecting more than 140 additional defendants, according to some court filings.

Information that spilled out of the Dekraai hearings already has

led to retrials in more than a dozen criminal cases, including several murders.

“I’m trying to get closure. There is no doubt.

But the amount of resources and time that this agency is investing in complying is really intense,” :lol

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-orange-county-informant-scandal-answers-20190421-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-orange-county-informant-scandal-answers-20190421-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter)

boutons_deux

04-22-2019, 07:57 AM

...

Trill Clinton

04-23-2019, 01:20 PM

Race soldiers almost executed black couple

https://twitter.com/thesavoyshow/status/1120429242154659842?s=19

boutons_deux

04-25-2019, 04:55 PM

one in a million

Ex-Officer Sentenced to 25 Years in Black Motorist's Killing

A former Florida police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for the fatal on-duty shooting of a black musician whose SUV had broken down after a late-night concert.

Former Palm Beach Gardens officer Nouman Raja was the first person in Florida in nearly 30 years to be convicted and sentenced for an on-duty killing — and one of only a few nationwide.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ex-officer-sentenced-to-25-years-in-black-motorists-killing/

boutons_deux

05-05-2019, 11:19 AM

A pregnant inmate came to term in jail. Lawyers say she was forced to give birth there — alone.

the full-term 34-year-old with a mental illness began complaining to officers about contractions around 3 a.m., April 10, the Miami Herald (https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article230002894.html) first reported.

More than four hours later, members of the sheriff’s office spoke to the on-call doctor, who said "he would check when he arrived,” according to Finkelstein.

And when the physician clocked in, he did.

That was around 10 a.m.

For the seven preceding hours, Jackson was locked in a jail cell, alone.

She was bleeding, in labor, and then forced to birth her baby on her own —

conduct which Finkelstein called “outrageous” and “inhumane” treatment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/04/mentally-ill-woman-gives-birth-alone-broward-county-jail-attorney-says/?utm_term=.8cd3c5e9e58c&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

.... if she had been white

a777pilot

05-05-2019, 11:30 AM

.... if she had been "white" she might have been smart enough not to get thrown in jail in the first place.

Trill Clinton

05-07-2019, 02:55 PM

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1125764019061710854?s=19

boutons_deux

05-09-2019, 01:43 PM

Video shows Anaheim police firing 76 shots during ‘alarming and irresponsible’ chase

Orange County prosecutors Wednesday released dramatic video showing two Anaheim police officers firing 76 shots at a suspect during a high-speed pursuit that the district attorney’s office called “alarming and irresponsible.”

One of the officers has been fired, and the other faces potential internal discipline after firing through the windshield of a police cruiser at a man they believed to be armed, ultimately killing him.

Eliuth Penaloza Nava, 50, was struck by at least nine bullets.

“The fact that the two involved officers discharged their weapons 76 times,

from a moving patrol car at Nava’s moving car,

at approximately 9:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning,

in a residential neighborhood where residents, including children, were home and on the streets,

was alarming and irresponsible based on the totality of all the circumstances in this specific case,” the report stated.

The “conclusion that all of the available

evidence is insufficient to warrant the filing of criminal charges against the two officers

should not in any way diminish the fact that [this office] is alarmed by this conduct,”

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-anaheim-police-dramatic-video-investigation-shooting-driving-20190508-story.html (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-anaheim-police-dramatic-video-investigation-shooting-driving-20190508-story.html)

All perfectly legal and according to police protocol

boutons_deux

05-09-2019, 01:54 PM

New Police Misconduct Database Shows Thousands Of Violations, Very Little Accountability

Public records requests have resulted in thousands of documents detailing at least

200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, along with more than 100,000 internal investigations.

The database is completely searchable (https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/biggest-collection-police-accountability-records-ever-assembled/2299127002/) and leads readers, reporters, researchers, etc. directly to the underlying documents.Here are the morbid stats this database has produced (https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/04/24/usa-today-revealing-misconduct-records-police-cops/3223984002/):

Most misconduct involves routine infractions, but the records reveal

tens of thousands of cases of serious misconduct and abuse.

They include

22,924 investigations of officers using excessive force,

3,145 allegations of rape, child molestation and other sexual misconduct and

2,307 cases of domestic violence by officers.

Dishonesty is a frequent problem. The records document at least

2,227 instances of perjury, tampering with evidence or witnesses or falsifying reports.

There were

418 reports of officers obstructing investigations, most often when they or someone they knew were targets.

Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct.

Yet some officers are consistently under investigation.

Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges.

Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190428/12142842105/new-police-misconduct-database-shows-thousands-violations-very-little-accountability.shtml

MultiTroll

05-14-2019, 03:21 PM

Police chief, friend charged with raping child over 7 years

Harrisburg, PA

(AP) — A small Pennsylvania town police chief and his friend were charged with raping a child over a seven-year period when they were teenagers starting when the girl was 4 years old, state prosecutors said Wednesday.
Brent Getz, 27, was arrested and charged Tuesday along with Gregory Wagner, 28. The alleged victim said both men sexually assaulted her, often at the same time, from 2005 to 2012. The investigation began in 2012 when the child, who was 12 at the time, reported Wagner had been assaulting her, prosecutors said. No charges were filed following an investigation.Three years later, a criminal complaint was prepared charging Wagner but it was dismissed due to a paperwork error. Charges were never refiled.More and update:

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/nation-world/police-chief-friend-charged-with-raping-child-over-7-years-03-28-2019

boutons_deux

05-16-2019, 09:23 PM

‘Not a Big Deal,’ Police Commander Said as Eric Garner Died (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/nyregion/eric-garner-pantaleo-trial.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)
The revelation provoked gasps at the disciplinary hearing for the officer who applied a chokehold to Mr. Garner, who died after exclaiming, “I can’t breathe.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/nyregion/eric-garner-pantaleo-trial.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/nyregion/eric-garner-pantaleo-trial.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock)

Trill Clinton

05-16-2019, 09:34 PM

https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1128583301965520897

MultiTroll

05-22-2019, 06:05 PM

Bitch ass Nazi (literally a Hilter worshipping German phuck) cop beats confessions out of young blacks then has similar minded Nazi prosecuters make the false charges stick. All done on the regular in New York state, folks.

Concealed evidence, a coerced confession and a biased detective sent an innocent 17-year-old to prison for murder, prosecutors say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/concealed-evidence-a-coerced-confession-and-a-biased-detective-sent-an-innocent-17-year-old-to-prison-for-murder-prosecutors-say/ar-AABJWDn?ocid=spartanntp

MultiTroll

05-23-2019, 06:13 PM

Failure to show up to court for a speeding ticket violation.
Wow that sounds like a scary dangerous criminal. Sure am glad this white pig used the taser on this vicious female criminal in front of her 4 year old daughter.

Police officer fired after punching, using Taser on woman in front of her daughter
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AABNFv0.img?h=400&w=300&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=162&y=147

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-officer-fired-after-punching-using-taser-on-woman-in-front-of-her-daughter/ar-AABNImE?ocid=spartanntp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-officer-fired-after-punching-using-taser-on-woman-in-front-of-her-daughter/ar-AABNImE?ocid=spartanntp)

boutons_deux

05-29-2019, 09:37 PM

Inmate murdered by jail staff / privatized jail operator

Terrill Thomas death: Family to receive $6.75m settlement

The family of a US man who died of dehydration while in jail will receive $6.75m (£6m) from Milwaukee County and a private company that ran inmate care.

Terrill Thomas, 38, was found dead in his cell in Milwaukee County Jail in 2016 - seven days after officers shut off his water supply as punishment.

His death was later ruled a homicide by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner, the result of "profound dehydration".

Thomas suffered from bipolar disorder and was in the midst of an "acute mental health crisis" when he arrived at Milwaukee County Jail.

Thomas was soon moved to an isolation cell as punishment for flooding his first cell with a mattress, which his lawyers said was evidence of his deteriorating mental state.

As further punishment, Thomas' only source of drinking water was deliberately cut off - a "common and widespread practice" at the jail,

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48454224 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48454224)

boutons_deux

06-02-2019, 02:42 PM

False Confessions and the Jogger Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/opinion/false-confessions-and-the-jogger-case.html?module=inline

boutons_deux

06-07-2019, 08:17 AM

Cop Accused of Baselessly Searching Black Motorist’s ‘F***ing Ass Crack’ Will Get No Immunity

For at least the second time this week (https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/passing-motorist-arrested-for-yelling-f-you-at-state-trooper-vindicated-in-federal-court/), an American police officer has been denied qualified immunity after a civilian alleged that their First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated.

Officer Daniel Mack violated his (victim's) constitutional rights on June 7, 2016 by baselessly pulling him over and subjecting him to a shockingly invasive strip search and cavity search — only to find no drugs whatsoever.

qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that shields government officials from civil liability for actions performed within their official capacity — unless those actions violate “clearly established” constitutional rights.

Mack, still standing behind Campbell, then pulled down Campbell’s pants and underwear again, bent down, and visually examined Campbell’s buttocks.

Mack then stated, “You’ve got it f***ing tucked in your f***ing ass crack, that’s where you got it.”

Mack pulled up Campbell’s pants, searched Campbell’s pant legs and ankle area, and, finding no contraband, stood up and told the second officer,

“He’s got it tucked in his f***ing ass crack.” Campbell replied, “I ain’t got nothing tucked.”

A third officer came to the door of the booking area.

Mack announced to the officer, “He’s got it tucked underneath his balls.”

Campbell complained that Mack had “just got done looking under my balls” and did not uncover anything.

Mack repeated that Campbell still had drugs “tucked underneath” his “balls” or his “ass.”

But wait — there’s more:

Mack believed that Campbell was hiding contraband and decided to perform a strip search.

Mack did not obtain a warrant prior to strip-searching Campbell. Mack ordered Campbell to enter a cage in the booking area and remove his pants.

Campbell entered the cage but objected to removing his pants.

Mack ordered Campbell to “get naked” and “drop” his “drawers.”

Campbell continued to protest and incredulously asked, “You want me to get naked?”

Mack replied, “Yeah, you’re getting naked. You’re in holding facility. You’re getting naked.”

According to Campbell, Mack then inserted his finger into Campbell’s anus.

Mack then pulled up Campbell’s pants, slapped Campbell twice on the chest, and told him “you can keep it,”

ostensibly referring the drugs that Campbell had purportedly hidden inside his anus.

No drugs were found.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cop-accused-of-baselessly-searching-black-motorists-fing-ass-crack-will-get-no-immunity/?utm_source=mostpopular (https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cop-accused-of-baselessly-searching-black-motorists-fing-ass-crack-will-get-no-immunity/?utm_source=mostpopular)

If Campbell had been white ... ?

boutons_deux

06-07-2019, 11:20 AM

The Details of Johana Medina’s Detainment and Death Matter

A 25-year-old trans woman from El Salvador entered federal immigration custody April 11.

Seven weeks later, she died in a Texas hospital.

Johana Medina, known as “Joa” to her family and friends, migrated to the United States seeking safety. Instead, according to advocates,

she was criminalized and denied medical care.

Medina’s treatment in custody and her death illustrate a larger pattern of

systemic abuse by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against immigrants in its custody and, more specifically, against LGBTQ asylum seekers.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/06/the-details-of-johana-medinas-detainment-and-death-matter/ (https://rewire.news/article/2019/06/06/the-details-of-johana-medinas-detainment-and-death-matter/)

ALL law enforcement, the "hit man" for haters, is an expression of the HATE that pervades and energizes America.

boutons_deux

06-07-2019, 03:50 PM

Horrifying video shows Ohio jailers beating helpless and restrained black man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=PXeEqIGlZoc

They also left him in the chair for two hours without medical attention, adds News 5. He suffered a concussion.

Jail officers Nicholas Evans and Timothy Dugan were each indicted on charges of

unlawful restraint,

felonious assault, and

two counts of interfering with civil rights.

They both pled not guilty. :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/horrifying-video-shows-ohio-jailers-beating-helpless-and-restrained-black-man/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=304

boutons_deux

06-14-2019, 02:50 PM

Florida cop arrested along with son after punching woman in wild restaurant brawl

long video of obese white cop and obese friends beating down a black guy, punching white woman

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/watch-florida-cop-arrested-along-with-son-after-punching-woman-in-wild-restaurant-brawl/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=350 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/watch-florida-cop-arrested-along-with-son-after-punching-woman-in-wild-restaurant-brawl/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=350)

boutons_deux

06-14-2019, 07:50 PM

THE NATIONAL SHERIFFS’ ASSOCIATION ALIGNMENT WITH FAR-RIGHT GROUPS UNDERMINES PUBLIC SAFETY

https://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/National_Sheriffs%E2%80%99_Association_32727169726 .jpg :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol Fucking 19th century dimestore cowboys lost in a Macho Man fantasy world

heightening concerns regarding law enforcement’s targeting of minority communities.

But the troubling alignment between far-right movements and the NSA may pose a more endemic threat to racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. today.

Nearly a quarter of the leadership of the NSA have ties to the far-right

Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (https://www.politicalresearch.org/2019/06/10/how-a-right-wing-network-mobilized-sheriffs-departments/) (CSPOA).

A right-wing network of sheriffs founded by Richard Mack in 2011,

CSPOA’s ideology is rooted in a reading of the U.S. Constitution which

prohibits almost the entire structure of the current U.S. federal government (https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/10/31/trumps-second-amendment-people-the-u-s-patriot-movement-today/), :lol

especially its regulatory bodies. :lol

CSPOA sheriffs tend to

endorse (https://www.politicalresearch.org/up-in-arms/) the transfer of federally-owned lands to county level government, :lol

harsher anti-immigrant enforcement (https://www.politicalresearch.org/2019/06/06/the-national-sheriffs-association-strengthens-the-deportation-machine/), :lol duh

collaboration with militia, :lol

and nullification, the notion that federal laws can be ignored by local governments at either the county or state level. :lol

seven of NSA’s 30 Board of Directors and Executive Committee leadership

were designated as so-called “Constitutional sheriffs” by the far-right Patriot movement group,

https://www.politicalresearch.org/2019/06/14/the-national-sheriffs-association-alignment-with-far-right-groups-undermines-public-safety/ (https://www.politicalresearch.org/2019/06/14/the-national-sheriffs-association-alignment-with-far-right-groups-undermines-public-safety/)

Deluded fringe assholes like these are one of the many reasons America is fucked and unfuckable

Trill Clinton

06-15-2019, 02:59 PM

1139413707996319745

1139922742046838785

boutons_deux

06-17-2019, 08:31 AM

‘Guats,’ ‘Tonks’ and ‘Subhuman Shit’: The Shocking Texts of a Border Patrol Agent

How an Arizona officer accused of hitting a migrant with his truck could put his agency’s toxic culture on trial

Bowen railed against unauthorized migrants who’d thrown rocks at a colleague as “mindless murdering savages” and

“disgusting subhuman shit unworthy of being kindling for a fire.”

The text message also includes a plea to the president:

“PLEASE let us take the gloves off trump!”

Bowen, now 39, was indicted in May 2018, on two counts — one, a civil rights crime, for what prosecutors call Bowen’s choice to use “deadly force against a person who was running away from him and posed no threat,” and the other, an obstruction charge, for his alleged effort to “cover up his crime.”

the case is already shining a spotlight on a troubled culture at Border Patrol,

the law enforcement arm of Customs and Border Protection,

at a moment when both agencies have been grappling with a surge in migrants, and

faced allegations of widespread wrongdoing, ranging from

physical (https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-obtains-documents-showing-widespread-abuse-child-immigrants-us-custody) and sexual (https://www.aclunc.org/news/settlement-reached-cbp-sexual-assault-case) abuse of minors to

housing migrants in substandard shelters, including one likened to “a human dog pound.” (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/border-patrol-outdoor-detention-migrants-el-paso/)

a work environment in which demeaning epithets, ranging from “guat” to “fucking beaners,” are common, and in which violence against undocumented border crossers is treated as a joke.

illegal border crossers are referred to as “tonks.”

“tonk” as “the sound heard when a ‘wetback’ is hit over the head with a flashlight.”

of undocumented migrants in relation to Border Patrol agents.

“They’re hittable people.”

Bowen’s story changed quickly after he realized the incident could result in serious consequences, the government alleges.

Prosecutors quote a text sent roughly a week later in which Bowen tells another agent:

“I submitted a supplemental report that documents how it was unintentional, accidental and

I was not familiar with how responsive the acceleration was on those new F-150s etc.” :lol

a colleague appears to joke with Bowen about using oil to intensify the effect of an electrical shock from a Taser:

“Did you… use regular peanut oil while tazing??” the agent asks Bowen.

“For a frying effect.”

Bowen replies: “Guats are best made crispy with an olive oil from their native pais.”

“The men and women of CBP perform their duties professionally and treat everyone equally with dignity and respect.” :lol :lol :lol

Interviews with 1,000 recently deported migrants revealed that

11 percent claimed physical mistreatment at the hands of U.S. authorities — and that

two thirds of the time (67 percent) that alleged abuse was perpetrated by Border Patrol.

“abuse of migrants while in U.S. custody is a systematic problem relating to an ongoing institutional culture.”

the example of a boy who was observed with a head laceration, closed with three staples, who claimed to have been hit over the head with a flashlight.

“Other children reported being punched, shocked with Tasers, and denied food and medicine. Many described being bludgeoned with flashlights.”

(https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matthew-bowen-border-patrol-trial-847878/)https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matthew-bowen-border-patrol-trial-847878/

"a systematic problem relating to an ongoing institutional culture" ?

LE has systematic problem as an expression ongoing AmeriKKKan white male supremacy culture

boutons_deux

06-17-2019, 10:36 AM

Of course, there are Capitalist corporate cops, pimps, corrupters, spies, infiltrators

600 people on Monsanto 'watch lists' in Germany, France: Bayer
US seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto kept lists of around 600 key pro- and anti-pesticides figures in Germany and France alone, its German parent company Bayer said Monday amid a widening probe.

Bayer has admitted the lists covered politicians, journalists and others across seven European countries and in Brussels.

Bayer's admission adds to the company's woes that have piled up since it acquired Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018—one of the largest in German corporate history—

which has also lumbered it with a massive burden of health-related lawsuits.

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-people-monsanto-germany-france-bayer.html (https://phys.org/news/2019-06-people-monsanto-germany-france-bayer.html)

MultiTroll

06-17-2019, 11:38 AM

1139413707996319745

1139922742046838785
All because the 4 year old daughter carried a doll out of a Dollar store? :lmao

You've got to keep the board up to date on what happens to these two pricks.

boutons_deux

06-21-2019, 07:29 AM

Video shows deputies firing 34 shots at car in killing of unarmed man, prompting questions

The unarmed driver, Ryan Twyman, 24, was hit multiple times and would later die at a hospital. A passenger in the car was not struck.

Department policy says (http://shq.lasdnews.net/shq/mpp/3-10.pdf) deputies should not fire at a moving vehicle, or its occupants,

unless a person in the automobile is “imminently threatening a department member or another person present with deadly force by means other than the moving vehicle.”

The policy states that the vehicle itself “shall not presumptively constitute a threat that justifies the use of deadly force.”

https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sheriff-shooting-ryan-twyman-video-20190620-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter (https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sheriff-shooting-ryan-twyman-video-20190620-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter)

"policies? we don't need no steenkin policies"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Gold_Hat_portrayed_by_Alfonso_Bedoya.jpg

boutons_deux

06-22-2019, 05:58 PM

https://www.facebook.com/washingtondcpress/videos/2408112022793863/

The sadist pig is charged, but will he be punished?

koriwhat

06-22-2019, 06:12 PM

1139413707996319745

1139922742046838785

that's sickening.

koriwhat

06-22-2019, 06:17 PM

https://www.facebook.com/washingtondcpress/videos/2408112022793863/

The sadist pig is charged, but will he be punished?

i hope street justice finds his ass tbh.

boutons_deux

07-06-2019, 06:50 PM

Just a few bad apples, the rest of DPD are angels

25 Dallas police officers investigated for racist FB posts, mocking pepper-sprayed protesters (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/6/1869928/-25-Dallas-police-officers-investigated-for-racist-FB-posts-mocking-pepper-sprayed-protesters)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1869928

boutons_deux

07-09-2019, 01:42 PM

FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches

A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans’ faces without their knowledge or consent.

federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.

Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data” taken from criminal suspects.

But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.

federal investigators have turned facial recognition into a routine investigative tool. Since 2011, the FBI has logged more than 390,000 facial-recognition searches of federal and local databases, including state DMV databases,

The records show the technology already is tightly woven into the fabric of modern law enforcement. They detailed the regular use of facial recognition to track down suspects in low-level crimes, including cashing a stolen check and petty theft. And searches are often executed with nothing more formal than an email from a federal agent to a local contact

“It’s really a surveillance-first, ask-permission-later system,”

“People think this is something coming way off in the future, but these [facial-recognition] searches are happening very frequently today. The FBI alone does 4,000 searches every month, and a lot of them go through state DMVs.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/07/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-gold-mine-facial-recognition-searches/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f41a7341f6d6 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/07/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-gold-mine-facial-recognition-searches/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f41a7341f6d6)

boutons_deux

07-10-2019, 10:01 AM

Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt

For as long as he would wear it,

he would be required to pay $10 a day to a private company, Eastern Missouri Alternative Sentencing Services, or EMASS.

Just to get the monitor attached,

he would have to report to EMASS and

pay $300 up front —

enough to cover the first 25 days,

plus a $50 installation fee.

Over the past half-century, the number of people behind bars in the United States jumped by more than 500%, to 2.2 million.

This extraordinary rise, often attributed to decades of “tough on crime” policies and harsh sentencing laws,

has ensured that even as crime rates have dropped since the 1990s,

the number of people locked up and the average length of their stay have increased.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics,

the cost of keeping people in jails and prisons soared to $87 billion in 2015 from $19 billion in 1980, in current dollars.

politicians on both sides of the aisle have joined criminal-justice reformers in recognizing

mass incarceration as both a moral outrage and a fiscal sinkhole. :lol duh

More than 125,000 people in the criminal-justice system were supervised with monitors in 2015, compared with just 53,000 people in 2005,

Many local judges, including in St. Louis, do not conduct hearings on a defendant’s ability to pay for private supervision before assigning them to it

Without judicial oversight, defendants are vulnerable to private-supervision companies that set their own rates and charge interest when someone can’t pay up front.

can be punished for breaking the lifestyle rules that come with the devices.

A survey (https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Report_Final_Electronic_Monitoring.pdf) in California found that juveniles awaiting trial or on probation face especially difficult rules;

in one county, juveniles on monitors were asked to follow more than 50 restrictions,

including not participating “in any social activity.”

For this reason, many advocates describe electronic monitoring as a “net-widener":

Far from serving as an alternative to incarceration, it ends up sweeping more people into the system.

When cities cover the cost of monitoring, they often pay private contractors $2 to $3 a day for the same equipment and services for which EMASS charges defendants $10 a day.

To come up with the money, EMASS clients told me,

they had to find second jobs,

take their children out of day care and

cut into disability checks.

Others hurried to plead guilty for no better reason than that

being on probation was cheaper than paying for a monitor.

With all of the restrictions and rules, keeping a job on a monitor can be as difficult as finding one.

The hours for weekly check-ins at the downtown EMASS office — 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Mondays — are inconvenient for those who work.

In 2011, the National Institute of Justice surveyed 5,000 people on electronic monitors and found that

22% said they had been fired or asked to leave a job because of the device.

https://www.propublica.org/article/digital-jail-how-electronic-monitoring-drives-defendants-into-debt (https://www.propublica.org/article/digital-jail-how-electronic-monitoring-drives-defendants-into-debt)

boutons_deux

07-12-2019, 09:44 AM

Florida deputy busted for planting drugs on drivers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/11/1871051/-Florida-deputy-busted-for-planting-drugs-on-drivers)

Wester, who was fired last September, was arrested Wednesday and

charged with 52 counts of racketeering,
false imprisonment,
official misconduct,
fabricating evidence and
possession of controlled substances,
among other charges.

He’s accused of indiscriminately targeting innocent drivers and hauling them off to jail after planting meth or marijuana in their vehicles while feigning a “search."

“There is no question that Wester’s crimes were deliberate and that his actions put innocent people in jail,”

This whole imbroglio started with a prosecutor who remembered that

his duty is not to punish the guilty,

but protect the innocent.

He noticed that Wester, who had been on the force since 2016, had a bad habit of keeping his body camera off.

When he turned it on, the footage often didn’t match what he wrote in his reports.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/11/1871051/-Florida-deputy-busted-for-planting-drugs-on-drivers?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/11/1871051/-Florida-deputy-busted-for-planting-drugs-on-drivers?detail=emaildkre)

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boutons_deux

07-14-2019, 07:33 PM

Undercover Cop Runs Stop Sign And Causes Crash — And Then Arrests The Other Driver
http://digg.com/video/detroit-crash-cop-stop-sign

trashed two cars, plus medical, taxpayers pay

boutons_deux

07-15-2019, 07:44 AM

Deputy gangs have survived decades of lawsuits and probes. Can the FBI stop them?

For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been under pressure to break up tattooed gangs of deputies accused of misconduct.

But senior department officials, county leaders and prosecutors have failed to root out a subculture of inked clubs that pervades the nation’s largest sheriff’s agency.

Now, the FBI has opened an investigation of these secret societies (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fbi-investigating-sheriff-20190711-story.html) that

seeks to accomplish what high-powered sheriffs, blue-ribbon commissions and millions of dollars in lawsuits over the last 50 years have not:

identify deputies who brand themselves with the matching tattoos and determine whether the groups they belong to encourage or commit criminal behavior.

The FBI probe into deputy gangs spotlights the shortcomings of local efforts, which have mostly been piecemeal, often resulting in investigations that focus on isolated acts of wrongdoing.

The FBI may have the means to discourage participation in the

clandestine gangs that commonly sport ink featuring imagery of skulls and weapons

Each deputy’s design often includes a unique number (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-tattoo-liability-20181027-story.html) denoting his place in the lineage of lawmen chosen as members.

The groups are said to extract taxes, disguised as fundraisers for good causes, from other deputies.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-gangs-fbi-inaction-20190714-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-gangs-fbi-inaction-20190714-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter)

boutons_deux

07-15-2019, 11:25 AM

‘Racist Police Officer’ Stereotype May Become A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

may become a self-fulfilling prophecy for law enforcement officers and lead to increased support for forceful or threatening policing tactics

“Officers who were highly concerned about appearing racist reported lower confidence in their moral authority, and that

led to them reporting more support for using coercive policing while on the job,”

both white and non-white officers were equally likely to be concerned about appearing racist.

The potential negative influence of stereotype threats such as the ‘racist police officer’ should be a concern to all officers and communities.”

“Police are typically trained to use their moral authority :lol

as peace officers to resolve conflicts, but

if that moral authority is called into question,

they may feel they have limited tools to gain compliance,

leading to more harmful actions with potentially disastrous results,”

https://scienceblog.com/508937/racist-police-officer-stereotype-may-become-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28Science Blog.com%29 (https://scienceblog.com/508937/racist-police-officer-stereotype-may-become-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28Science Blog.com%29)

Trill Clinton

07-15-2019, 08:38 PM

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boutons_deux

07-16-2019, 11:34 AM

cops, a little one, choked a big, non-violent, non-threatening knitter to death with an illegal choke hold.

For the cops and Repug DoJ, just another dead knitter whose Life Didn't Matter. Get over it.

Justice Dept. will not charge police in connection with Eric Garner’s death

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-will-not-charge-police-in-connection-with-eric-garners-death/2019/07/16/f5188d84-a761-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0d61baf32e0e&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-will-not-charge-police-in-connection-with-eric-garners-death/2019/07/16/f5188d84-a761-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0d61baf32e0e&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

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07-16-2019, 03:29 PM

boutons_deux

07-16-2019, 04:02 PM

Trash president, not Obama

boutons_deux

07-16-2019, 04:16 PM

"Lynch authorized the department to move forward with the case, but made that decision so late in her tenure that lawyers and investigators could not take all the necessary steps to procure an indictment. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/loretta-lynch-will-leave-office-without-eric-garner-case-being-resolved/2017/01/13/ee362f4a-d9db-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.806cdfba99be (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/loretta-lynch-will-leave-office-without-eric-garner-case-being-resolved/2017/01/13/ee362f4a-d9db-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.806cdfba99be)

This was after the NY grand jury didn't do it.

btw, both dubya's and Trash's AGs destroyed their Civil Rights Divisions. Repugs, the Party of Racists, now more than ever.

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07-16-2019, 04:27 PM

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07-16-2019, 04:28 PM

boutons_deux

07-17-2019, 06:32 AM

Just a single rotten apple, of course

Women in jail endured group strip searches.

L.A. County to pay $53 million to settle suit

During her brief incarceration several years ago, Jessica Almaraz said she was ushered into a dirty bus garage with 60 or so other inmates at a women’s jail in Lynwood.

The inmates, some of whom were menstruating,
were told to remove their clothes and lift and spread their body parts, in full view of one another.

Deputies yelled degrading comments and profanities as they made their orders. Some laughed.

A judge found the invasiveness of the strip searches —

that the women had to expose their genitals in large groups, without any privacy —

violated their 4th Amendment rights.

Now thousands of former inmates, including Almaraz, are eligible to collect a share of a $53-million settlement as part of an agreement filed Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit.

The county does not admit wrongdoing and said in the settlement that the agreement was to avoid the cost of further litigation.

(https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=1289613959-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-1289613959-80115881) the strip searches are reflective of a rampant culture of abuse that has persisted in the jail for years.

the attitude of deputies is that inmates really aren’t human,”

“If you don’t transform the culture, the problem pops up again.”

(https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=1289613959-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-1289613959-80115881)tens of thousands of women were strip-searched with intrusive methods and inadequate privacy.

jail officials told the attorneys that installing curtains was “not feasible,”

the jail’s inmate sewing group to make the partitions — at a cost of $4,000

inmates were ordered to bend over and spread their genitalia with their hands — in full view of other inmates — so deputies could inspect their bodies.

Those who were menstruating were told to remove their tampons, which left them bleeding on themselves and the ground.

“What stands out in most of their minds is the really dehumanizing language that the deputies used to them during the strip searches,”

Deputies called skinny women “crackheads” and

heavier women “two tons of fun,” the filing said.

They criticized women for their pubic hair or body odor.

When deputies thought a woman smelled bad ,

they sometimes sprayed Lysol or air freshener on her body.

(https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=1289613959-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-1289613959-80115881)One inmate ... lost control of her bowels during a search, according to the plaintiffs’ filing. She tried to tell deputies that she carried hepatitis, but they did not make an effort to clean up the feces.

(https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=1289613959-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-1289613959-80115881)hundreds of inmates described the lot as dirty, with trash strewn across the ground, overflowing garbage bins and piles of leaking trash bags. Some saw urine, vomit and feces on the concrete.

ttps://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=1289613959-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-1289613959-80115881 (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lasd-womens-jail-settlement-20190716-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=1289613959-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-1289613959-80115881)

Have all the sheriff's deputies have been fired?

American LE is out of control, staffed by sadists, racists, murderers. but it's a expression of American civilization, paid for by US taxpayers.

boutons_deux

07-17-2019, 06:43 AM

A Florida cop planted meth on random drivers, police say.

One lost custody of his daughter.

(deputy) Wester, who was fired last September, was arrested Wednesday (https://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Former-deputy-arrested-by-FDLE-after-allegedly-planting-drugs-during-traffic-stops-512526081.html) and

charged with 52 counts of racketeering,

false imprisonment,

official misconduct,

fabricating evidence and

possession of controlled substances,

among other charges.

He’s accused of indiscriminately targeting innocent drivers

and hauling them off to jail after planting meth or marijuana in their vehicles while feigning a “search."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/11/florida-cop-meth-drugs-arrests-scandal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e2418f469f5 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/11/florida-cop-meth-drugs-arrests-scandal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e2418f469f5)

Will Wester have to pay all costs he caused, as do FL ex-cons must do before they can vote?

And somehow Wester's police dept suspected nothing?

boutons_deux

07-17-2019, 07:11 AM

DOJ Won’t Charge New York City Police Officer In Eric Garner’s Death

The decision came just before the five-year statute of limitations on the case expired.

Garner’s cries of “I can’t breathe” as he choked to death prompted a national outcry over the use of force against him.

The incident shouldn’t have ended in Garner’s death but

the DOJ was charged with determining whether Pantaleo’s actions purposefully violated federal civil rights law

DOJ officials did not feel convinced that there was evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the officer acted willfully

It’s hard to thoughtfully apply specific techniques during physical confrontations with resisting parties

The most challenging part of the case, according to the official, was proving Pantaleo’s state of mind when he put his arm around Garner’s neck and restricted his airflow.

The official said the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York had differing views on the case.

EDNY prosecutors consistently believed the evidence was not enough,

while Civil Rights Division officials thought there could be a case.

Attorney General William Barr was the ultimate decision-maker on the case, and he adopted the EDNY’s position. :lol

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-garner-police-officer-daniel-pantaleo-charge_n_5d2dd26ee4b085eda5a207c1?ncid=newsltushpm gnews__TheMorningEmail__071719 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-garner-police-officer-daniel-pantaleo-charge_n_5d2dd26ee4b085eda5a207c1?ncid=newsltushpm gnews__TheMorningEmail__071719)

boutons_deux

07-17-2019, 07:14 AM

Daniel Pantaleo declines to testify at NYPD trial over Eric Garner death

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/pantaleo-trial-158.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1

Embattled NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo declined Wednesday to testify at his departmental trial (https://nypost.com/2019/06/05/ex-nypd-instructor-at-garner-trial-cops-use-tactics-without-training-all-the-time/) over the fatal arrest of Eric Garner, citing a statute of limitations for fed

“It would be reckless for me to put him on the stand.”

https://nypost.com/2019/06/05/daniel-pantaleo-declines-to-testify-at-nypd-trial-over-eric-garner-death/ (https://nypost.com/2019/06/05/daniel-pantaleo-declines-to-testify-at-nypd-trial-over-eric-garner-death/)

Black Lives killed, cops immune

Spurtacular

07-17-2019, 07:58 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=6A_jLgTaRjQ

boutons_deux

07-17-2019, 08:13 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=6A_jLgTaRjQ

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219383&p=9880741&viewfull=1#post9880741

Spurtacular

07-17-2019, 08:16 AM

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219383&p=9880741&viewfull=1#post9880741

Wow, how'd I miss one of your two hundred daily links?

boutons_deux

07-18-2019, 07:31 AM

LAPD officer charged with rape after ‘cold’ DNA match

Officer William Rodriguez, 33, a 10-year LAPD veteran most recently assigned to the Valley Traffic Division, was

taken into custody Tuesday and

relieved of his police powers. The L.A. County district attorney’s office on Wednesday charged Rodriguez with

two counts of forcible rape in a case

with a special allegation of multiple victims.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-17/lapd-officer-accused-of-multiple-sexual-assaults-authorities-say?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=86d6c31a66-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-86d6c31a66-80115881

boutons_deux

07-22-2019, 02:57 PM

LAPD Infiltrated An Anti-Fascist Protest Group Because

The First Amendment Is Apparently Just A Suggestion

The Los Angeles Police Department ordered a confidential informant to monitor and record meetings held by a political group that staged protests against President Trump in 2017,

On four separate occasions in October 2017, the informant entered Echo Park United Methodist Church with a hidden recorder and captured audio of meetings held by the Los Angeles chapter of Refuse Fascism, a group that has organized a number of large-scale demonstrations against the Trump administration in major U.S. cities,

Police reports and transcripts documenting the informant’s activities became public as part of an ongoing case against several members of Refuse Fascism who were charged with criminal trespassing…

a police official said no attempt was made to infiltrate any far-right protest groups. :lol

the Major Crimes Division did not send its informant in until

after the demonstration was already over,

the freeway had already been blocked, and

criminal trespassing charges had already been brought.

This wasn't an investigation.

It was a fishing expedition targeting people who don't like fascists that used the First Amendment as a doormat.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190719/19211642618/lapd-infiltrated-anti-fascist-protest-group-because-first-amendment-is-apparently-just-suggestion.shtml

boutons_deux

07-29-2019, 07:41 PM

Court: No Immunity For SWAT Team That Hurled A Flash-Bang Grenade In The General Direction Of A Two-Year-Old Child

It usually takes very extreme behavior from law enforcement officers to punch holes in the qualified immunity shield (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180901/17202640564/appeals-court-judge-qualified-immunity-is-rigged-game-government-almost-always-wins.shtml).

Fortunately/unfortunately, there's seems to be no shortage of extremely-badly-behaving law enforcement officers.

Once the SWAT team arrived, it decided to do SWAT team things, even though it only had a normal warrant that didn't authorize the things it chose to do.

Because the warrant did not authorize a “no knock” entry, the SWAT team knocked on the door and announced:

She then held up the keys to the door in her hand and jingled them for the SWAT team to see in order to indicate that she was going to open up the door.

Before she had the opportunity to open it, the SWAT team knocked out the screen and

threw in a flash-bang grenade over Carla’s head into the living room of the house.

Carla testified that she would have opened the screen door had she been given the opportunity to do so.

the team couldn't immediately discern what the waving of keys by the resident meant,

but that the introduction of a flash-bang grenade would clear up any confusion. :lol

Why the flash-bang? Well, habit, apparently. The SWAT team always has them, and pretty much always finds a reason to use them.

As the district court noted, the Board did not have any policy about the use of flash-bang grenades —

such as when their use is appropriate and how to use them safely.

One officer estimated that

in executing search warrants, flash-bang grenades were used 80-90% of the time;

another officer estimated that in his experience they were used about 50% of the time;

and a third officer estimated they were used about 75% of the time.

The SWAT team members asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed,

claiming qualified immunity shielded their attempt to set someone's living room on fire during normal warrant service.

The record evidence shows the flash-bang grenade used here is

four times louder than a 12-gauge shotgun blast and

emits a light 107 times brighter than the brightest high-beam vehicle headlight.

It has a powerful enough concussive effect to break windows and put holes in walls.

The flash-bang burns at around 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit,

creating an obvious and serious risk of burning individuals, damaging property, and starting fires (as occurred here).

In some cases, they can even be lethal.

Whether the use of the flash-bang grenade here was reasonable is not a close question.

The SWAT team knew the suspect, Charles, was already in custody.

. The police may have already had a suspect in custody but the sued officers

theorized the homicide could have been part of a larger criminal conspiracy,

which could have meant the residence housed even more dangerous criminals. :lol

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190725/14363942655/court-no-immunity-swat-team-that-hurled-flash-bang-grenade-general-direction-two-year-old-child.shtml

We'll see if they are convicted, what punishment. The probability is that the sadistic goons won't be punished.

Winehole23

07-29-2019, 11:17 PM

White power gangs in LA County have basically been on the rampage for 30 years.

https://theappeal.org/claims-of-racism-brutality-dog-los-angeles-county-sheriff-deputy-gangs/#.XT-ren3aKan.twitter

boutons_deux

07-30-2019, 02:32 PM

police state + private megacorps = you cannot escape

Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement

The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.

Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted

local police departments around the country

to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and

a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras,

The agreement also requires police to “keep the terms of this program confidential.” :lol why?
Dozens of police departments around the country have partnered with Ring, but

until now, the exact terms of these partnerships have remained unknown.

A signed memorandum of understanding between Ring and the police department of Lakeland, Florida, and emails obtained via

a public records request, show that Ring is using local police as a de facto advertising firm.

Police are contractually required to "Engage the Lakeland community with outreach efforts on the platform to encourage adoption of the platform/app.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_720747 (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_720747)

Winehole23

07-31-2019, 09:50 AM

A mentally ill man in Dallas called the police for help because he felt threatened.

DPD crushed the life out of him and jeered at his dead body for four minutes before calling for assistance.

A Dallas County Grand Jury returned a true bill against officers involved, but the DA declined to prosecute because three medical examiners refused to testify against cops.

Dallas kept the video of the incident under seal for three years until a federal judge ordered it made public.

1156356573045956608

Trill Clinton

07-31-2019, 09:59 AM

1155605686127976448

1155983834405429250

boutons_deux

07-31-2019, 10:01 AM

American mental health care by murderous cops with plenty of accomplices

no accountability, no punishment, lots of laughs for the cops.

boutons_deux

08-06-2019, 07:14 AM

Galveston police apologize after photo surfaces of horse-mounted officers leading handcuffed suspect

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r6233418181008980138&th=16c66d78b5671dce&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ8gcy5IqBQ9FMz-P4tR7a7vWMKRvmUuHalPowTysinR406TFB6CE7KMDSMlUWubX9 xlEa4_UDBhLvak2-ShQAd9IGMWbwEmEodF744C4e2nAGAEMDGESFwWSV0&disp=emb&realattid=ii_jyzs8xy80

A man is escorted by two Galveston police officers on horseback on Saturday. On Monday, a statement attributed to Chief Vernon L. Hale III said,

"Although this is a trained technique and best practice in some scenarios,

I believe our officers showed poor judgment in this instance and

could have waited for a transport unit at the location of the arrest."

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Galveston-police-apologize-for-photo-of-14282778.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mysa_morningheadlines&utm_content=news#photo-18033055 (https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Galveston-police-apologize-for-photo-of-14282778.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mysa_morningheadlines&utm_content=news#photo-18033055)

Fuck the Jim Crow slave-driver cowboy cosplay cops

boutons_deux

08-06-2019, 01:43 PM

Police use of fatal force is identified as a leading cause of death in young men

Black men face a 1 in 1,000 chance of being killed by police compared to about 1 in 2,000 for all men,

Police violence is a leading cause of death of young men in the United States with black men 2.5 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement over their lifetime than white men,

African-American men and women, American Indian/Alaska Native men and women and Latino men face a higher lifetime risk of being killed by police than do their white peers.

The highest mortality rate for men is between the ages of 25-29 when police use-of-force is deemed to be one of the leading causes of death,

behind accidents - including drug overdoses, motor vehicle traffic death and other accidental fatalities - suicide, other homicides, heart disease and cancer.American Indian men were 1.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men and American Indian women were about 1.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white women.

While Latino men were 1.4 times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts,

Latina women were about 1.2 times less likely to be killed than white women.

Black women, however, were 1.4 times more likely to be killed by police than white women.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ru-sip073119.php

So the data show that law enforcement implements the white male supremacy of America, which is why police were created in the 19th century, to go after blacks

boutons_deux

08-08-2019, 07:32 PM

NYPD, Prosecutors Illegally Using Expunged Criminal Records To Perform Investigations, Ask For Longer Sentences

The NYPD and city prosecutors are using supposedly expunged arrests to push for plea deals, longer sentences, and the denial of bail.

In one case examined by The Marshall Project, a man arrested for being in a vehicle that also contained an unlicensed handgun assumed he'd get cited and fined because of his lack of a criminal record.

Instead, the man (referred to only as J.J.) watched as the city prosecutor produced printouts of expunged charges from back in the PD's stop-and-frisk heyday to argue for a prison sentence.

J.J. had never been convicted of a crime, but the city was presenting records that should have been removed from the system to argue he was a career criminal.

Sgt. Mary Frances O’Donnell, an NYPD spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement that despite the Bronx Defenders’ claims, the department is in compliance with New York’s sealed-records statutes because it does not disclose sealed data to any third parties and only uses the records for investigative purposes, consistent with its public-safety mission.

Using expunged records to argue for heavier sentences is not, by any stretch of the imagination, "using records for investigative purposes."

The fact that the NYPD can pull up sealed/supposedly destroyed records at the touch of a screen is disturbing. It tells officers more than they're legally allowed to know about the person they're dealing with.

As for the "no third parties" claim,

the plaintiffs argue anyone outside of the PD -- like prosecutors -- are very much "third parties"

who should not have access to these records. And they're not the only ones obtaining these records that shouldn't even exist.

The Bronx Defenders has countered that the

NYPD does in fact routinely disseminate sealed data to third parties, including
prosecutors,
the news media and
housing, immigration and family-court officials.

This has left some New Yorkers at risk of losing their homes, getting deported, or

having their children taken from them due to long-ago, dismissed arrests not being properly erased, the group says.

The NYPD has argued the law doesn't actually require it to stop using expunged records this way.

The court, in denying its dismissal, called the NYPD's interpretation of the law "strained."

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190804/14433942716/nypd-prosecutors-illegally-using-expunged-criminal-records-to-perform-investigations-ask-longer-sentences.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190804/14433942716/nypd-prosecutors-illegally-using-expunged-criminal-records-to-perform-investigations-ask-longer-sentences.shtml)

Just a few bad apples among 10Ks of NYPD copts.

boutons_deux

08-09-2019, 08:22 AM

Illinois Cop Shot Unarmed Black 12-Year-old in Bed During Botched Raid

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_746,w_1327,x_0,y_102/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_1044/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1565286102/Amir_Worship_Hospital_2-page-001_scubuh

nearly two dozen Country Club Hills and Richton Park SWAT officers entered Crystal Worship’s home in May with exploding flash-grenades and automatic rifles to execute a search warrant intended for her boyfriend.

During the raid, her black son, Amir, was allegedly shot by a white officer as he sat on his bed with his hands in the air and suffered a shattered kneecap.

“There is a silent epidemic of trauma being perpetrated upon the children and families of color by Chicago and South Suburban police

barreling into the wrong homes,

handcuffing innocent adults,

holding guns on children,

handcuffing children,

trashing their homes,

refusing to show warrants, and

screaming dehumanizing commands,”

officers dressed in “army fatigues with black cloth covering their faces and wearing goggles” entered the family’s home at about 5 a.m. while Crystal Worship and her three sons—Amir, 13-year-old Eric, and 18-year-old Robert—were asleep,

the officers “battered open the two entry doors and set off between two and five flash-bang grenades,”

while executing a search warrant for Crystal’s boyfriend.

The boyfriend, Mitchell Thurnam, was arrested and charged with drug possession in a case that was dropped weeks later.

After the officer shot Amir in the knee, shattering his kneecap, he allegedly “covered his badge with black tape and covered his body camera.”

“Mom, they shot me,” Amir started to yell, according to the documents. “I can’t move it.”

Officers allegedly refused to tell her what happened and “lied to her and told her they shot someone walking past outside.”

Eric heard his brother being shot while another officer pointed an assault rifle at him.

He was handcuffed and placed in a squad car alone for an hour before officers held him at the station for five hours,

The boy was initially hospitalized for four days after the surgery, and later returned after he “developed complications from infection” which included a high fever, blurred vision, and blacking out twice,

“According to an orthopedic doctor,

Amir will not be able to play any sports again,

will have difficulty in physical education,

will walk with a limp, and

will have difficulty walking and running for the rest of his life,”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/illinois-cop-shot-unarmed-black-12-year-old-in-bed-during-botched-raid-lawsuit (https://www.thedailybeast.com/illinois-cop-shot-unarmed-black-12-year-old-in-bed-during-botched-raid-lawsuit)

Capt Bringdown

08-11-2019, 12:26 PM

1160206301772701697

FrostKing

08-11-2019, 12:49 PM

1160206301772701697
"Big loud cars"

Haha hippies?

boutons_deux

08-20-2019, 07:37 PM

The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/the-growing-epidemic-of-cops-shooting-family-dogs/)

“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority.

It trumps the rights and safety of suspects.

It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders.

It’s so important, in fact, that

an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/25/cops-shooting-at-dogs/),

cops have shot
other kids (http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/15/cop-tries-to-shoot-dog-plugs-kid-instead#.npxdn2:fgZj),
other bystanders (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Cops-Shoot-Innocent-Bystander-Dog-Bushwick-Brooklyn-Pitbulls-165323736.html),
their partners (http://www2.fox16.com/news/story/Police-officer-shot-by-partner-trying-to-kill-dog/tNWAt4krZEqfO37zRTlxkQ.cspx),
their supervisors (http://abc13.com/news/cop-aiming-for-dog-accidentally-shoots-sergeant/523510/) and
even themselves (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/04/16/sheriffs-deputy-hospitalized-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-in-leg/)

while firing their guns at a dog.

if you kill a police dog, you could face a longer prison sentence than if you’d murdered someone or abused a child (https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/10181-man-who-killed-police-dog-gets-extremely-long-sentence/).

If a cop kills your dog, however, there will be little to no consequences for that officer.

Not even a slap on the wrist.

the courts have ruled that the cops have qualified immunity,

a legal doctrine that incentivizes government officials

to engage in lawless behavior without fear of repercussions.

The Department of Justice estimates that at least 25 dogs are killed by police every day (http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2014/10/can-police-stop-killing-dogs.aspx).

The Puppycide Database Project estimates the number of dogs being killed by police to be closer to 500 dogs a day (http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/dog-police-shot-safe-how-to-guide/) (which translates to 182,000 dogs a year).

In 1 out of 5 cases (http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/dog-police-shot-safe-how-to-guide/) involving police shooting a family pet, a child was either in the police line of fire or in the immediate area of a shooting.

For instance, a 4-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the leg (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/25/cops-shooting-at-dogs/) after a police officer opened fire on a dog running towards him, missed and hit the little girl instead.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/the-growing-epidemic-of-cops-shooting-family-dogs/

boutons_deux

08-23-2019, 02:47 PM

Franz Kafka would be amused

Innocent man spent months in jail for bringing honey back to United States

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/95rvNbsRn0qIEDROH72K5Jn5p7U=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/QDOY4ODBFII6TPZE3NFZ7NRKUI.jpg
Of course, black and legal immigrant with green card

Customs officers detained Haughton and police arrested him, accusing him of smuggling in not honey, but liquid meth.

Haughton spent nearly three months in jail before all charges were dropped and

two rounds of law enforcement lab tests showed no controlled substances in the bottles.

By then, Haughton, who according to his lawyer had no criminal record, had lost both of his jobs as a cleaner and a construction worker.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/SS8jR0ayB5MPui26rjEXss5hIK4=/240x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/TFKG4OWELII6TC7XZXRNTYEQKU.jpg

Haughton’s statusas a legal permanent resident with a green card complicated his case.

Because he was arrested at an airport for alleged drug felonies, his case triggered a federal detention order that extended his time in jail,

a state police lab test looking for drugs in the bottles came up negative.

Yet the 45-year-old father sat behind bars for two more months total before the last of the

charges were dropped after a second all-clear in a federal lab test.

The bottles with gold-colored screw tops labeled “honey” in his bag, they told him, had tested positive in a drug field test for methamphetamine.

The green card holder never had any problem returning to Maryland until last year, when a K-9 unit started sniffing around his bag.

“Inside the bag were three large plastic bottles labeled as ‘honey’ of suspected liquid methamphetamine,”

facing at least 25 years in jail

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/innocent-man-spent-months-in-jail-for-bringing-honey-back-to-united-states/2019/08/22/6c5c538c-71c3-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?noredirect=on (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/innocent-man-spent-months-in-jail-for-bringing-honey-back-to-united-states/2019/08/22/6c5c538c-71c3-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?noredirect=on)

boutons_deux

08-23-2019, 06:48 PM

Former police officer charged with murder for botched Houston raid

Goines and his Houston narcotics squad entered the house without knocking, as allowed under the warrant.

In the chaos that followed, the house’s occupant Dennis Tuttle, 59, opened fire on the officers, wounding four, and they returned fire,

Goines admitted to investigators he had invented an allegation that a confidential informant bought drugs at the house,

Because the search warrant for the raid was based on that fabricated information provided to a judge and two people died,

prosecutors have charged Goines with two counts of murder,

He faces a possible maximum sentence if convicted of life in prison.

Goines was among those shot and wounded in the raid.

Another officer, whose name has not been released, was paralyzed from the waist down,

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-police/former-police-officer-charged-with-murder-for-botched-houston-raid-idUSKCN1VD2N8?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

boutons_deux

08-25-2019, 12:36 PM

California deputy made up sniper story, was not hurt

A Southern California sheriff’s deputy made up a story that a sniper shot him in the shoulder, an incident that sent police SWAT teams hunting for the gunman,

The deputy, Angel Reinosa, 21, admitted to investigators he was not shot as he walked to his car on Wednesday outside the sheriff’s department office in Lancaster City, California, police said.

Reinosa had earlier said he was saved by the ballistic vest he was wearing.

“There was no sniper,

no shots fired and

no gunshot injury sustained,”

“Completely fabricated.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-police/california-deputy-made-up-sniper-story-was-not-hurt-authorities-say-idUSKCN1VF0J8?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-police/california-deputy-made-up-sniper-story-was-not-hurt-authorities-say-idUSKCN1VF0J8?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)

WTF

boutons_deux

08-25-2019, 05:20 PM

Florida Prison Guard Broke Neck of Disabled Female Inmate

A Florida prison guard on Wednesday allegedly broke the neck of a female inmate who suffered from both mental and physical disabilities

a correctional lieutenant allegedly slammed her onto the floor multiple times before dragging her out of the prison.

the guard became angry and Weimar was slammed to the ground and then dragged to a wheelchair, “with her head bouncing along the ground.”

She was eventually taken to the hospital where she was placed in intensive care and initially deemed to be suffering from a possible broken neck.

The Herald said that it received confirmation that Weimar’s neck was broken.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/report-florida-guard-broke-neck-of-disabled-female-inmate/?utm_source=mostpopular (https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/report-florida-guard-broke-neck-of-disabled-female-inmate/?utm_source=mostpopular)

boutons_deux

08-27-2019, 08:12 AM

Costco shooting: Family of man killed describes begging officer not to shoot

the parents of a man with schizophrenia who was shot and killed by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-costco-shooting-corona-20190614-story.html) at a Costco in Corona described begging the officer not to open fire after he pulled out his gun and identified himself as police.

Kenneth French, 32, was killed in the shooting on June 14. His parents, Paola and Russell French, were severely injured.

“I was pleading for our son and our lives, but was still shot in the back. What threat did I pose to him?”

The bullet went through her back and exited her stomach, said civil rights attorney Dale K. Galipo, who is representing the family.

The shooting left her in a coma for a prolonged period of time.

She has had seven surgeries and is scheduled for more.

“I said, ‘We have no guns, and my son is sick.’ He still shot. I thought people don’t do that.”

Russell was shot in the abdomen and has also had multiple surgeries, including one to remove his kidney, according to a legal claim filed on behalf of the family.

Both he and his wife now require extensive home healthcare,

When the man identified himself as a police officer, the parents began pleading with him not to shoot.

“Despite their pleas for him not to shoot he fired multiple rounds,

Kenneth French’s schizophrenia left him unable to verbally communicate (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-costco-shooting-off-duty-officer-intellectual-disability-20190616-story.html), and his injuries included shots to his back,

The French family posed no threat of serious injury or death to the officer, and he failed to warn them before using deadly force, the claim states.

“I would say there’s evidence to support murder in this case,” Galipo said.

An attorney for Sanchez said that his client was attacked from behind and acted under a

“reasonable belief” that he was being assaulted and that his life was at risk. :lol

“It’s just a terrible tragedy that we have two sets of well-meaning, good parents who were trying to help their children,” :lol

Though parts of the incident were captured by Costco security cameras, the videos have not been made public.

After The Times requested a copy of the surveillance footage, prosecutors sought a court order to prevent its release, and a judge complied (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-06/costco-video-deadly-shooting-off-duty-lapd-officer-disability).

Police are now barred from releasing the footage for one year from the date of the shooting.

(https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-26/costco-shooting-kenneth-french-family?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=ae8b51d368-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-ae8b51d368-80027601)https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-26/costco-shooting-kenneth-french-family?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=ae8b51d368-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-ae8b51d368-80027601

A fucking cops letting loose with multiple shots IN COSTCO on unarmed people. Fuck The Cops

boutons_deux

08-27-2019, 07:31 PM

Carpentersville family sues after video shows police raiding home, grabbing teen by neck

https://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=5487234

A family in north suburban Carpentersville is suing police officers, claiming they raided their home without a search warrant while their teenage son was home alone.

In video of the raid, the 16-year-old boy, who wishes to remain anonymous, was knocked off his feet by the officer, who charges through the doorway. The teen ends up on a couch.

the result of a search for a missing girl who is friends with the boy.

As the officer's partner searches upstairs, there's more grabbing and pushing.

Twice the officer grabs the boy's neck, and then he throws him on the couch again.

The missing girl is not at the home, but the officers handcuff and arrest the boy, whose mother is at work.
"It was an illegal search of this home," said Keenan Saulter, attorney for the family.

"It was an illegal seizure of that minor, and

ultimately it was a false arrest."

Video shows the officer had opened the unlocked door himself.

The family is now suing, alleging police had no warrant and no probable case.

The officer is heard claiming the door has been open.

"Hello, your door's open," the officer says on a Snapchat video.

"Yeah, sir, I don't feel comfortable opening this door without my parents here, sir," the teen answers.

The family said police had already searched their home a day earlier. The boy's mother, who was at work, said she talked to an officer on the phone.

"I told him to wait for me," Violeta Hernandez said. "You're not to supposed to be in my house. They are minors. I'm not there."

The family said the missing girl was a runaway who did come to the house only to be put in an Uber by the teen.

He said she showed police a record of the ride, but that didn't stop them from returning the next day.

"They said that she was still in here, that people were saying she was still in here," he said.

The family said the missing girl ended up back at her home that very afternoon

https://abc7chicago.com/family-sues-after-video-shows-police-raiding-home-grabbing-teen-by-neck/5487140/ (https://abc7chicago.com/family-sues-after-video-shows-police-raiding-home-grabbing-teen-by-neck/5487140/)

boutons_deux

08-28-2019, 11:39 AM

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08-28-2019, 12:06 PM

Doorbell-camera firm Ring has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance reach

The doorbell-camera company Ring has

quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces :lol why quietly?

across the United States, granting them access to homeowners’ camera footage and

a powerful role in what the company calls the nation’s “new neighborhood watch.”

The partnerships let police automatically request the video recorded by homeowners’ cameras within a specific time and area,

helping officers see footage from the company’s millions of Internet-connected cameras installed nationwide, the company said.

Officers don’t receive ongoing or live-video access, and

homeowners can decline the requests,

which Ring sends via email thanking them for “making your neighborhood a safer place.” :lol

The number of police deals, which has not previously been reported, is

likely to fuel broader questions about privacy, surveillance and the expanding reach of tech giants and local police.

The rapid growth of the program, which began in spring 2018, surprised some civil liberties advocates, who thought that fewer than 300 agencies had signed on.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbell-camera-firm-ring-has-partnered-with-police-forces-extending-surveillance-reach/?noredirect=on&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://beta.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbell-camera-firm-ring-has-partnered-with-police-forces-extending-surveillance-reach/?noredirect=on&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

I'm sure if a Ring owner declined, the police would find judge and subpoena. Bezos, being a Capitalist and employee slave driver, is not a democrat.

It's THE by-product of 9/11. Gov't jockeyed right on in there, quietly. & solemnly, stoically, even respectfully while the pile smoked in the six month afterward. "Now is our chance. GO!" Laid a camera on every fuckin' pole sea to shining sea.

Gov't ain't no country preacher, not by a jugful they ain't. While we were in shock & awe, Gov't was busy little bee's, never more active inside nor outside the Congress & the WH. There was nary back biting then, by God. They got along famously, rigidly, religiously, comprehensively.

The motherfuckers.

ADDENDUM:::& they're doing it to US again as we spar on our Board. Arresting whitey left, I mean right & right for even thinking about doing something against the law. Ain't nary umbrage raised as 30+ lay in Texas & Ohio. Laying that ground work, that foundation, that paper trail. "Well, you didn't say a word when we did it to ya." - F.B.I..

"Well, we was in national mourning, busy adjusting our flat to half mast & taking q's on how to conduct ourselves from the CNN." - Us.

"Solly Cholly, you snooze, you lose." - F.B.I..

They took our liberty & our justice in broad daylight, not once, but, now twice since the century turned.

Trill Clinton

08-28-2019, 05:01 PM

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boutons_deux

08-29-2019, 04:38 PM

Are US border cops secretly secreting GPS trackers on vehicles without a warrant? EFF lawyers want to know

Uncle Sam sued by rights warriors probing claims of silent snooping on suspicious rides

find out more about a program where, it is claimed, officers secretly stick GPS trackers on vehicles they are suspicious of as they come through the border.

has been stonewalled, with Homeland Security's responses claiming any information would contain “sensitive information” that could lead to “circumvention of the law.”

main concern (https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-dhs-uncover-information-about-border-agents-using-gps-devices-without) is that Homeland Security is carrying out its secret tracking without a warrant, or even anything beyond a single officer’s suspicion.

And it points to a recent

US Supreme Court decision where it ruled that warrantless GPS tracking was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.

customs officers revealed in court filings that they had used GPS trackers without a warrant at the border.

a California court ruled that government officials’ use of GPS devices to track two suspected drug dealers without getting a warrant violated the Supreme Court decision, made in 2012, and was government misconduct.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/28/eff_cmp_gps/

boutons_deux

08-29-2019, 08:38 PM

After Rape Case Unravels, Ex-Detectives Plead Guilty to Lesser Crimes

The two had been accused of assaulting a handcuffed 18-year-old. Now, the plea deal will result in probation.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/08/29/nyregion/29nycops/merlin_129466283_bdf3e021-aeed-4f93-876b-6317a44ee943-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale

In 2017, two New York Police Department detectives

faced more than 40 sexual-abuse charges and 25 years in prison

after they were accused of handcuffing an 18-year-old woman (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/nyregion/nypd-rape-brooklyn.html?module=inline) and raping her in the back of a police van.

Over the course of nearly two years, the case slowly unraveled as lawyers in the case disclosed cellphone records and other evidence that punched holes in the woman’s inconsistent timeline and description of events (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/nyregion/detectives-rape-defense-new-york.html?action=click&module=inline&pgtype=Article&region=Footer) that night, forcing prosecutors to discard her testimony and indict the officers on lesser charges.

On Thursday morning, the two detectives, Edward Martins and Richard Hall,

pleaded guilty to bribery and official misconduct charges in a deal that called for five years probation — and no jail time.

the plea will send a message that

sexual misconduct between officers and people in custody will not be tolerated. :lol

“These defendants engaged in a shocking abuse of power, which they finally acknowledged,” Mr. Gonzalez said.

“They are no longer members of our Police Department and with today’s plea are convicted felons.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/nyregion/nypd-rape-guilty.html?emc=rss&partner=rss (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/nyregion/nypd-rape-guilty.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)

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08-29-2019, 08:41 PM

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08-29-2019, 08:43 PM

boutons_deux

08-30-2019, 07:25 AM

Woman gave birth alone in Colorado jail cell after cries for help were ignored

Diana Sanchez screamed as she writhed on the small bed inside her cell at the Denver County Jail.

Gripping the thin mattress with one hand, she tried to use the other to take off her white cloth pants, only managing to free her left leg.

Her face glistened with sweat. She had been in labor for hours, and now her baby was coming.

At 10:44 a.m. on July 31, 2018,

in a moment captured on surveillance video, Sanchez gave birth to her son alone

in her cell without medical supervision or treatment, despite repeatedly telling the jail's staff that she was having contractions, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Colorado on Wednesday.

The suit alleges that instead of "ensuring that Ms. Sanchez was able to give birth in a safe and sanitary medical setting,"

nurses and deputies "callously made her labor alone for hours," forcing her to endure a "horrific experience."

"That's just emblematic of how broken the system really is," Newman told The Washington Post.

"They claim to have done a review and their conclusion is that

nothing was wrong with the fact that a woman was never taken to the hospital and

ended up giving birth in a dirty, cold, hard jail cell.

It's really unfathomable."

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Woman-gave-birth-alone-in-Colorado-jail-cell-14396998.php#photo-14900133 (https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Woman-gave-birth-alone-in-Colorado-jail-cell-14396998.php#photo-14900133)

The American gulag is run by sadists, in the tradition of slaveowners and US military.

boutons_deux

09-03-2019, 05:26 PM

USA has a secret police force, it's very own STASI

Police avoid requests for their records by simply not keeping any

The futility of open-records requests makes it difficult, if not impossible, for journalists to report on aspects of the criminal justice system.

“I’m calling from the Sheriff’s Association of Texas,” the strong Western drawl on the other end said, “now, I’m tryina figure out why you’re harassing my sheriffs.”

I told him that I was a journalist investigating how the departments work and their relationships with local jails.

With strange confidence, he informed me that I was breaking the law.

I laughed.

Government agencies, big and small, love to reject records requests.

There’s

no universal method of record keeping,

no standard practice, and

no required IT training for the officers or clerks expected to manage these records every single day.

On top of that,

police aren’t required

to record or report the vast majority of their operations internally or

to any federal agency;

things like the deployment of weapons,
use of fatal force, or
arrest totals go virtually uncounted.

many law enforcement and corrections departments use outdated software that they have no idea how to operate.

From Wichita to Reno, police chiefs and sheriffs have called me personally to say that they don’t record the kind of information I’m asking for.

the last person to be able to access their online filing system quit years ago.

Frederick, a small town in Maryland, quoted me $3,910 in fees in order to find, compile, and release their traffic tickets database.

Not knowing how to use technology,
using outdated technology, or
blatantly choosing to misuse technology

means that even when records are located and released, they could be unusable.

In one jurisdiction, “marijuana” was misspelled so many times,

When the Justice Department asked the jail
to hand over records of the more serious incidents, like instances in which force was used,
they found that the jail simply wasn’t keeping track.

“Jail policy does not require correctional officers to report every use of force, and staff interviews confirmed that written reports are not regularly generated,”

“Either the Jail has intentionally ignored the multiple instances we found of excessive force contained in its own incident reports, or has failed adequately to review, monitor, track, supervise, and/or investigate [them].”

we only get an inkling of what’s actually going on.

racial bias,
excessive force, and
even cruel and unusual torture

are taking place at the behest of America’s uniformed.

https://theoutline.com/post/7901/the-police-avoid-requests-for-their-records-by-simply-not-keeping-any?utm_source=NL&zr=cnegbb57&zd=1&zi=wfs2bsud (https://theoutline.com/post/7901/the-police-avoid-requests-for-their-records-by-simply-not-keeping-any?utm_source=NL&zr=cnegbb57&zd=1&zi=wfs2bsud)

Even the funds and modern systems were available, I have no doubt that LE was not use them, misuse them, or abuse them to coverup their crimes.

DMC

09-03-2019, 06:40 PM

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He's naked. Notice he didn't reach for his cell phone or wallet?

boutons_deux

09-03-2019, 08:51 PM

Florida prison trying to cover up guards’ beating of inmate that broke her neck

In August, four guards at the Lowell Correctional Facility in Marion County, Florida were

accused (https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/report-florida-guard-broke-neck-of-disabled-female-inmate/) of beating Cheryl Weimar, a disabled inmate,

so savagely that they broke her neck and rendered her quadriplegic. ! the old Freddie Gray "corrections" treatmen

tthe attorney representing Weimar in a federal civil rights lawsuit has sought an emergency order from a judge,

alleging that the Florida Department of Corrections is refusing to allow Weimar to be photographed as evidence in the case.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/florida-prison-trying-to-cover-up-guards-beating-of-inmate-that-broke-her-neck-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/florida-prison-trying-to-cover-up-guards-beating-of-inmate-that-broke-her-neck-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

4 sadists beating up a woman in jail and breaking her neck? we are shocked beyond belief

boutons_deux

09-04-2019, 10:04 AM

The 'code of silence' killing US police officers

The death of nine New York police officers this year has left family members, law enforcement and politicians pointing fingers and placing blame.

But suicide is a more profound problem, deeply entrenched in police culture.

hundreds of officers across the US who have taken their own lives and left behind a trail of questions.

more law enforcement officers died by suicide than in the line of duty.

Researchers say that police officers are at a higher risk of suicide than in any other profession due to a combination of the intense stress, pressure to conceal emotional distress and easy access to deadly weapons.

In fact, 13 out of every 100,000 people die by suicide in the general population. But that number climbs to 17 out of 100,000 for police officers

Last year 167 police officers took their own lives while 130 have done so this year, with four months left on the calendar,

current estimates could be higher as some families choose not to report the cause of death or instead describe it as accidental.

"We need to change the culture," he told reporters in June.

"We need to make sure that our police officers have access to mental healthcare.

Earlier this year, the Chicago Police Department, the nation's second largest force with 13,000 officers, was forced to confront its own spate of police suicides.

A similar trend is cropping up in other countries where officers are armed with a gun.

nature of the job as part of the equation that leads to suicide.

"They see abused kids,

they see dead bodies,

they see horrible traffic accidents.

And what that means is that the traumatic events and stressful events kind of build on one another."

"We have political conflict.

We have societal conflict.

We have groups at each other's throat all the time.

And the cops get stuck in the middle of all of this stuff," he says.

"So sometimes they're pulled in different directions and they really don't know what their role is."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49503972

boutons_deux

09-09-2019, 11:45 AM

Disabled woman now paralyzed after being beaten close to death by prison guards—inmate speaks out (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/8/1884266/-Disabled-woman-nearly-beaten-to-death-by-prison-guards-now-paralyzed-inmates-speak-out)

Weimer, 51, is now suing the institution. The lawsuit claims (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cheryl-weimar-prison-beating-female-inmate-woman-lawsuit-florida-lowell-correctional-institution-a9095221.html):

“One or more of the John Doe Defendants slammed Plaintiff Cheryl Weimar to the ground … while down,

they brutally beat her with blows to her head, neck, and back,” it continued.

“At least one John Doe Defendant elbowed Plaintiff Cheryl Weimar in the back of her neck,

causing her to suffer a broken neck.”

“Under FDC policy and procedure, (http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/fdc)prison officials should have called medical personnel to intervene once Plaintiff Cheryl Weimar declared an inmate medical emergency,” the lawsuit read.

“The more Plaintiff Cheryl Weimar complained of her physical condition, the more angry, aggressive, and violent the John Doe Defendants became.“

https://images.dailykos.com/images/716020/large/ScreenShot2019-09-08at8.47.38PM.png?1567993707

Cheryl Weimer, who was already physically and mentally disabled (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article234830817.html) before the beating, is still in the hospital under guard supervision.

Andrews believes his client will need round-the-clock care for the remainder of her life and added (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cheryl-weimar-prison-beating-female-inmate-woman-lawsuit-florida-lowell-correctional-institution-a9095221.html),

“It was one of the most sad meetings with a client I ever had – she couldn’t talk… I had to write the alphabet out so she could nod and wink and tell me what to do,” he added. “It’s the worst case of prison abuse in Florida I’ve ever seen.”

reports from this incident are concerning,” :lol the department’s statement read.

“We’re committed to examing all the details regarding this situation and ensuring appropriate action is taken.” :lol

“Lowell Correctional family, friends and formerly incarcerated have sat silent long enough while our daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, grandmothers and other women incarcerated in Lowell Correctional Institution have been harmed in one way or another.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/8/1884266/-Disabled-woman-nearly-beaten-to-death-by-prison-guards-now-paralyzed-inmates-speak-out?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/8/1884266/-Disabled-woman-nearly-beaten-to-death-by-prison-guards-now-paralyzed-inmates-speak-out?detail=emaildkre)

Murderers, sadists, psychopaths from all over must be rushing to sign up as prison guards and get in on safe jobs and the fun.

boutons_deux

09-10-2019, 02:32 PM

These Cops Are Seizing Cash from People Who Smell Like Weed Before They Fly to California

Smelling like cannabis and

buying your ticket right before your flight from this Florida airport

are apparently great reasons for cops to take your stuff.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgvvm/cops-seizing-weed-cash-flying-fort-lauderdale-to-california-lax?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_777491

boutons_deux

09-10-2019, 09:45 PM

BUSTED: Philly police commissioner caught wearing T-shirt promoting racist ‘Rodney King’ violence by cops

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Christine-Coulter-1.png

“The shirt Coulter wore says, ‘L.A.P.D. — We Treat You Like A King.’

The shirt references Rodney King, a black man, who was severely beaten by four white police Los Angeles officers,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/busted-philly-police-commissioner-caught-wearing-t-shirt-promoting-racist-rodney-king-violence-by-cops/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/busted-philly-police-commissioner-caught-wearing-t-shirt-promoting-racist-rodney-king-violence-by-cops/)

boutons_deux

09-12-2019, 06:02 PM

Officers Said They Smelled Pot. The Judge Called Them Liars.

Courts in New York have long ruled that if a car smells like pot, the police can search it. But now, a backlash is mounting.

Police officers can often justify a search with six words:

“I smelled an odor of marijuana.”

Courts in New York have long ruled if a car smells like marijuana smoke, the police can search it — and, according to some judges, even the occupants — without a warrant.

But in late July, a judge in the Bronx said in a scathing opinion that officers claim to smell marijuana so often that it strains credulity, and she called on judges across the state to stop letting police officers get away with lying about it.

“The time has come to reject the canard of marijuana emanating from nearly every vehicle subject to a traffic stop,” Judge April Newbauer wrote in a decision in a case involving a gun the police discovered in car they had searched after claiming to have smelled marijuana.

She added,

“So ubiquitous has police testimony about odors from cars become that

it should be subject to a heightened level of scrutiny if it is to supply the grounds for a search.”

It is exceedingly rare for a New York City judge to accuse police officers of routinely lying to cover up illegal searches,

but Judge Newbauer’s decision does exactly that. Her decision also shows how

marijuana’s status as contraband remains deeply embedded in the criminal justice system

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/nyregion/police-searches-smelling-marijuana.html

another magic cop catch-all magic phrase: "I feared for my life" (so I immediately escalated to shoot 'im dead)

It helps if the driver is black or brown. Put an arrest on record to screw them out of jobs.

boutons_deux

09-12-2019, 07:05 PM

Corpus Christi fat, skin-head white cop de-escalates by shooting unarmed mentally ill black guy in the back

https://www.facebook.com/washingtondcpress/videos/541353660006660

boutons_deux

09-16-2019, 10:25 AM

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boutons_deux

09-17-2019, 04:58 PM

BUSTED: Trump-loving sheriff tried to murder deputy who caught him on tape making racist remarks

reportedly plotted to murder a man who had a tape of him making racially offensive remarks,

Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins was indicted Monday, based on a recording of Brindell advising a man on how to kill a former deputy who accused him of racist language.

According to court records, the

sheriff told another person to “take care of it” and

“the only way you gonna stop him is kill him.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/busted-trump-loving-sheriff-tried-to-murder-deputy-who-caught-him-on-tape-making-racist-remarks/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/busted-trump-loving-sheriff-tried-to-murder-deputy-who-caught-him-on-tape-making-racist-remarks/)

boutons_deux

09-21-2019, 12:37 PM

HOW CHICAGO POLICE CREATED A FALSE NARRATIVE AFTER OFFICERS KILLED HARITH AUGUSTUS

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/19/harith-augustus-shooting-chicago-police/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=48e4ab363f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-48e4ab363f-133929861 (https://theintercept.com/2019/09/19/harith-augustus-shooting-chicago-police/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=48e4ab363f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-48e4ab363f-133929861)

boutons_deux

09-23-2019, 12:21 PM

Florida police handcuff and arrest 6-year-old because she threw a 'tantrum' at school (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/22/1887137/-Florida-police-handcuff-and-arrest-6-year-old-because-she-threw-a-tantrum-at-school)

the child had been arrested.

Six-year-old Kaia Rolle was

handcuffed,

fingerprinted,

had a mug shot taken, and

was charged with battery.

No, that’s not a typo. Rolle is six years old.

Officer Dennis Turner had been on duty as the school resource officer when he arrested the 6-year-old.

That same day, in an unrelated incident, Turner also arrested an 8-year-old on the same charges.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/22/1887137/-Florida-police-handcuff-and-arrest-6-year-old-because-she-threw-a-tantrum-at-school?detail=emaildkre

just a bad apple cop

boutons_deux

10-06-2019, 03:31 PM

Journalist says a CBP officer withheld his passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’

t took a moment for Ben Watson to realize the officer was not joking.

Watson had just told the Customs and Border Protection staffer reviewing his passport that he works in journalism.

Then the seemingly routine Thursday encounter at the Washington Dulles International Airport got tense.

“So you write propaganda, right?” Watson, the news editor at the national security site Defense One, recalled the CBP officer asking.

“No,” Watson says he replied. He affirmed again that he was a journalist.

The officer repeated his propaganda question, said Watson, who was returning from a reporting trip in Denmark.

“With his tone, and he’s looking me in the eye — I very much realized this is not a joke,” Watson told The Washington Post on Friday.

Watson said he got his passport back only after agreeing with the “propaganda” charge.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/04/journalist-says-cbp-officer-withheld-his-passport-until-he-agreed-he-writes-propaganda/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/04/journalist-says-cbp-officer-withheld-his-passport-until-he-agreed-he-writes-propaganda/)

Like Trash, CBP hires only The Best People

boutons_deux

10-09-2019, 07:32 AM

LAPD searches blacks and Latinos more.

But they’re less likely to have contraband than whites

The analysis, the first in a decade to calculate racial breakdowns of searches and other actions by LAPD officers after they pull over vehicles,comes amid growing nationwide scrutiny over racial disparities in policing.

The Times analysis found that across the city,

24% of black drivers and passengers were searched, compared with

16% of Latinos and

5% of whites, during a recent 10-month period.

That means a black person in a vehicle was more than four times as likely to be searched by police as a white person, and a Latino was three times as likely.

Yet whites were found with drugs, weapons or other contraband in 20% of searches,

compared with 17% for blacks and 16% for Latinos.

The totals include both searches of the vehicles and pat-down searches of the occupants.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-searches-20190605-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=24f4ec90bd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-24f4ec90bd-80027601 (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-searches-20190605-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=24f4ec90bd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-24f4ec90bd-80027601)

boutons_deux

10-10-2019, 05:18 PM

The Blue Wall in action

Chicago Releases Investigation Showing

16 Police Officers Helped Cover Up the Killing of Laquan McDonald (https://splinternews.com/chicago-releases-investigation-showing-16-police-office-1838923957)

https://splinternews.com/chicago-releases-investigation-showing-16-police-office-1838923957?utm_source=splinter_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-10-10 (https://splinternews.com/chicago-releases-investigation-showing-16-police-office-1838923957?utm_source=splinter_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-10-10)

Remember Laquan? Killer cop unloaded shot him 16 time into a dead Laquan

DMC

10-10-2019, 09:47 PM

https://i.imgur.com/fNm6XWT.png

:lmao

Bots Deux

boutons_deux

10-14-2019, 08:31 PM

City of San Antonio Plans to Pay Settlement to Woman After Detective Searched Her Vagina in Middle of the Street
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/10/14/city-of-san-antonio-plans-to-pay-settlement-to-woman-after-detective-searched-her-vagina-in-middle-of-the-street (https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/10/14/city-of-san-antonio-plans-to-pay-settlement-to-woman-after-detective-searched-her-vagina-in-middle-of-the-street)

DMC

10-14-2019, 08:37 PM

https://i.imgur.com/NSrdoZK.jpg

"Dozens of police vehicles"

:lol Fox News/Fake media

RIP Officer

boutons_deux

10-16-2019, 11:45 AM

Fort Worth police had problems way before the Atatiana Jefferson shooting

The killing of Jefferson in her own home marks the latest in a string of incidents that have made black residents wary of local officers.

it has placed renewed scrutiny (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/it-triggers-trauma-atatiana-jefferson-shooting-fuels-tensions-police-fort-n1066626)on the actions of the Fort Worth Police Department,

which has faced criticism several times in recent years for its handling of other local police shootings and high-profile incidents of excessive force.

the Fort Worth Police Department has moved to show the public that it understands and shares their concerns over the death of Jefferson, :lol

I hope it shows the community that we take these incidents seriously,” :lol

“I want to go ahead and dispel the myth that this is somehow a one-off —

that this was just a bad-luck incident from an otherwise sound department,”

Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing Jefferson’s family, said at a press conference (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/14/fort-worth-officer-who-fatally-shot-atatiana-jefferson-has-resigned-chief-says/) on Monday.

“The Fort Worth Police Department is on pace to be one of the deadliest police departments in the United States.”

Jefferson’s death —

which is the sixth fatal police shooting in the city since June and the ninth shooting this year,

according to the Associated Press — cannot be separated from other instances of police violence in the area.

recent history, ranging from police shootings to controversial arrests caught on video to the use of Tasers on civilians,

as evidence that the incident fits into a much larger pattern,

one that has been disproportionately used on the city’s black residents.

these incidents of police violence do not happen in a vacuum and cannot be separated from other actions of local police departments.

Fort Worth police have been involved in several high-profile incidents in recent years

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/16/20916101/fort-worth-police-department-atatiana-jefferson-shooting-history

I don't know why people are picking on Cow Town racist sadists because they are no more abusive than any cop operation.

Trill Clinton

10-24-2019, 12:15 PM

Pjc9M46ihhc

boutons_deux

10-25-2019, 07:48 AM

Officer Resigns After Being Filmed Slamming 11-Year-Old Girl To Ground

The New Mexico police officer accused the girl of assaulting a school administrator. “This proved not to be true,” his police chief later said.

<includes great video for all you cop-fellating racists>

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cop-out-after-aggressive-student-arrest_n_5db1afece4b0d5b789473f62??ncid=newsltushp mgnews

boutons_deux

10-25-2019, 08:59 AM

‘This was an execution’:

Outrage as video shows California police officer shooting unarmed teen in back of head

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/this-was-an-execution-outrage-as-video-shows-california-police-officer-shooting-unarmed-teen-in-back-of-head/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2799&recip_id=298460&list_id=1

running from cops is a capital crime, no trial, no defense, no jury, no judge, immediate execution..

boutons_deux

10-25-2019, 10:34 AM

ICE wipes surveillance video that showed final days of trans asylum-seeker who died under custody (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/24/1894784/-ICE-wipes-surveillance-video-that-showed-final-days-of-trans-asylum-seeker-who-died-under-custody)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/24/1894784/-ICE-wipes-surveillance-video-that-showed-final-days-of-trans-asylum-seeker-who-died-under-custody?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/24/1894784/-ICE-wipes-surveillance-video-that-showed-final-days-of-trans-asylum-seeker-who-died-under-custody?detail=emaildkre)

ICE acting on behalf of hate-driven Bible humping evangelicals.

SnakeBoy

10-27-2019, 02:24 PM

Video shows Fresno police fatally shoot fleeing teen. Was the shooting unjustified?
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article236551058.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=RNBXj90Z0Kw

boutons_deux

10-29-2019, 05:15 PM

Officer fired after threatening to shoot parents of 4-year-old who 'stole' doll from Family Dollar (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/23/1894469/-Officer-fired-after-threatening-to-shoot-parents-of-4-year-old-who-stole-doll-from-Family-Dollar)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/730858/story_image/ScreenShot2019-10-23at5.57.16AM.png?1571835474

one of the Phoenix police officers who pulled a gun and threatened to shoot a pregnant mother of two,

while she held her one-year-old in her arms and her four-year-old by the hand—

all because the four-year-old walked out of a Family Dollar store with a doll—will be fired.

Officer Chris Meyer, who was on leave while a department Disciplinary Review Board investigated this event, has been fired.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/23/1894469/-Officer-fired-after-threatening-to-shoot-parents-of-4-year-old-who-stole-doll-from-Family-Dollar?detail=emailLL (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/23/1894469/-Officer-fired-after-threatening-to-shoot-parents-of-4-year-old-who-stole-doll-from-Family-Dollar?detail=emailLL)

boutons_deux

10-30-2019, 06:27 PM

Cops: People In Their Own Homes Are In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time Whenever A Cop Enters Unlawfully

You're the enemy, even when you're in your own home (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140219/13105826286/cop-shoots-teen-holding-wii-controller-his-own-home.shtml).

That's the arguments cops are making for killing or maiming people who had no idea law enforcement officers had entered their residence.

There's no evidence no-knock raids are safer.

In fact, many high-profile stories show the opposite (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190206/15085441544/after-no-knock-raid-goes-horribly-wrong-police-union-boss-steps-up-to-threaten-pds-critics.shtml): performing an armed home invasion can often result in an armed response.

The residents don't know cops are entering their house violently.

All they know is people with guns are suddenly in their home shouting threats.

They respond appropriately.

This is a direct result of the militarization of police (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140818/00030228237/police-militarization-escalates-even-as-violence-declines-theres-good-chance-its-going-to-get-worse.shtml),

aided greatly by the Defense Department's 1033 program, which encourages cops to partake of the military's surplus. The addition of military gear, tech, and vehicles has allowed

cops to view themselves as combatants in a war zone (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140814/13131328215/ferguson-law-enforcement-occupying-force-with-special-rights.shtml), with everyone who isn't a cop a potential enemy.

Even when they don't have the explicit permission to enter a residence without knocking and announcing their presence,

cops do it anyway.

In Julian Betton's case, cops served a warrant by crashing through his front door unannounced and

shooting at him 29 times (hitting him nine times) (https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article212419634.html) when he confronted the home invasion with a gun in his hands.

The gun was at his side but it made no difference to officers who kept firing until they felt he no longer "posed a threat."

Betton was paralyzed from the waist down and suffered numerous injuries to his internal organs.

Betton's security camera.

The recorded footage flatly contradicted multiple officers' sworn testimony.

They claimed they knocked and announced their presence before entering.

The tape shows no knock, no hesitation, and not a single officer moving their lips to announce their presence.

A total of nine seconds elapse between the officers' arrival and their entry into Betton's home.

To paraphrase the oral arguments concisely, this is what was said:

OFFICER BELUE'S LAWYER: Citizens have no right to defend themselves from armed intruders in their home.

COURT: What the actual fuck

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191012/18373443184/cops-people-their-own-homes-are-wrong-place-wrong-time-whenever-cop-enters-unlawfully.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191012/18373443184/cops-people-their-own-homes-are-wrong-place-wrong-time-whenever-cop-enters-unlawfully.shtml)

boutons_deux

10-31-2019, 05:26 AM

Police Owe Nothing To Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

An armed shoplifting suspect in Colorado barricaded himself in a stranger's suburban Denver home in June 2015.

In an attempt to force the suspect out,

law enforcement blew up walls with explosives,

fired tear gas and

drove a military-style armored vehicle through the property's doors.

After an hours-long siege,

the home was left with shredded walls and blown-out windows.

In some parts of the interior, the wood framing was exposed amid a mountain of debris.

A federal appeals court in Denver ruled this week (https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/18/18-1051.pdf) that

the homeowner, who had no connection to the suspect, isn't entitled to be compensated,

because the police were acting to preserve the safety of the public.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-to-man-whose-home-they-blew-up-appeals-court-says (https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-to-man-whose-home-they-blew-up-appeals-court-says)

Destruction of the innocent person's house was the only solution the warrior cops could think of, sooner the destruction the better.

boutons_deux

11-06-2019, 09:14 AM

‘Game-Changer’ Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database

Privacy experts say it could set a precedent, opening up all consumer DNA sites to law enforcement agencies across the country.

The two largest sites,

Ancestry.com and 23andMe, have long pledged to keep their users’ genetic information private, :lol

and a smaller one, GEDmatch, severely restricted (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/05/19/gedmatch-reverses-course/)police access to its records this year.

Last week, however, a Florida detective announced at a police convention that

he had obtained a warrant to penetrate GEDmatch and search its full database of nearly one million users.

Legal experts said that this appeared to be

the first time a judge had approved such a warrant,

and that the development could have profound implications for genetic privacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-search-warrant.html

A Repug judge appointed by fucking criminal Rick Scott.

As Repugs/Federalist Soc continue to pollute the Federal judiciary with young, incompetent extreme right ideologues, expect Americans to be fucked harder and deeper by The Law for decades.

boutons_deux

11-07-2019, 06:00 PM

Homeland Security will soon have biometric data on nearly 260 million people

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expects to have face, fingerprint, and iris scans of at least 259 million people in its biometrics database by 2022,

That’s about 40 million more than the agency’s 2017 projections (https://www.eff.org/document/dhs-identity-applications-homeland-security-slide-presentation-91217), which estimated 220 million unique identities by 2022,

https://qz.com/1744400/dhs-expected-to-have-biometrics-on-260-million-people-by-2022/ (https://qz.com/1744400/dhs-expected-to-have-biometrics-on-260-million-people-by-2022/)

boutons_deux

11-07-2019, 06:07 PM

NYPD’s Secret Gang Database Targets Minorities and Children

The New York Police Department has a rapidly-growing, secret database of almost 20,000 suspected gang members, which includes mostly minorities and many children as young as thirteen.

“a dangerous form of police overreach, subjecting black and brown New Yorkers to surveillance, harassment, and criminal jeopardy based on factors as innocent as who they walk to school with and what colors they wear.”

Criminal defense lawyers argue that prosecutors refer to the database often and use it against their clients. Children who are arrested go to juvenile detention centers where they become friends with other juvenile offenders.

https://www.projectcensored.org/nypds-secret-gang-database-targets-minorities-and-children/

boutons_deux

11-18-2019, 09:22 AM

Fired for speaking the truth, but on video

I can ‘do anything I want, I’m a police officer’:

Indiana cop fired after racially profiling black men in mall parking lot

A white police officer working for Lawrence Township in Indiana has been fired after he was filmed accosting two black men sitting in their car outside of a Nordstrom Rack and accusing them of being “suspicious.”

According to WTHR (https://www.wthr.com/article/deputy-constable-fired-confrontation-nordstrom-rack-customers), Lawrence Township

Deputy Constable :lol Daryl Jones approached cousins Aaron Blackwell and Durell Cunningham on the north side of Indianapolis

but was filmed on a cellphone that eventually led to him losing his job.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/i-can-do-anything-i-want-im-a-police-officer-indiana-cop-fired-after-racially-profiling-black-men-in-mall-parking-lot/

no worries, a sheriff will hire him :)

boutons_deux

11-25-2019, 11:37 AM

Kentucky white male cop, black female victim, cops keeping those knitters down

Video: A Cop Tased a Woman for Complying. He Was Fired...Two Years Later (https://www.theroot.com/video-a-cop-tased-a-woman-for-complying-he-was-fired-1839928031)

A Kentucky police officer tased a black woman for doing exactly what he told her to do.

His police-issued body camera captured the entire incident on video.

Over the course of a two-year “investigation,”

the cop remained on patrol and

used excessive force on at least two more people before he was eventually fired.

He was not arrested and his official police certification was not affected.

https://www.theroot.com/video-a-cop-tased-a-woman-for-complying-he-was-fired-1839928031 (https://www.theroot.com/video-a-cop-tased-a-woman-for-complying-he-was-fired-1839928031)

Perfect candidate for sheriff deputy

boutons_deux

11-25-2019, 11:33 PM

Hundreds of Louisiana cases possibly sullied by ex-sheriff's alleged 'knitter knockin' norm (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/25/1901783/-Hundreds-of-Louisiana-cases-possibly-sullied-by-ex-sheriff-s-alleged-n-r-knockin-norm)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/741463/story_image/Ackal.jpg?1574701172

a federal court is tasked with deciding just how deep misconduct reaches in a Louisiana sheriff’s office about 120 miles southwest of Baton Rouge

The federal case could impact more than 700 other cases that the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office filed

after several deputies were convicted of assaulting and harassing men in the parish jail, the site reported.

This brings into question exactly how much abuse former Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal allowed.

The federal probe has already resulted in more than 100 criminal cases decided during Ackal’s time in office being tossed out,

Ackal, who told (https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/crime_police/article_7637a812-ec16-11e8-b82f-9b135d793f43.html?2312) the local Acadiana Advocate last November he was “done,” did not seek re-election.

“I’m beat up. I’m tired,” he said.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/25/1901783/-Hundreds-of-Louisiana-cases-possibly-sullied-by-ex-sheriff-s-alleged-n-r-knockin-norm

boutons_deux

12-01-2019, 08:13 AM

After 36 Years In Prison For 'Georgetown Jacket' Murder, 3 Men Are Exonerated At Last

Investigators reinterviewed witnesses and looked anew at the evidence, and

Mosby's office says the findings were troubling:

Witnesses were coached and coerced by investigators to say they'd seen the three,

after twice failing to pick them out of a lineup.

Witnesses identified a different young person as the shooter, but police instead focused on

Chestnut, Watkins and Stewart.

Defense attorneys had asked for evidence that might exonerate their clients, but prosecutors had said they had none.

The man now suspected of committing the murder was shot to death in 2002.

"Present day, all four of those witnesses have recanted,"

"There is evidence of coerced pretrial preparation. ...

One former student told the state that they were told quote 'Get with the program.' "

"These three men were convicted, as children, because of police and prosecutorial misconduct.

The exonerations bring to nine the number of people freed since 2015 owing to the efforts of the Conviction Integrity Unit (https://www.stattorney.org/conviction-integrity), a division dedicated to uncovering wrongful convictions.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782941770/after-36-years-in-prison-for-georgetown-jacket-murder-3-men-are-exonerated-at-la?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20191201&utm_term=4258700&utm_campaign=best-of-npr&utm_id=10200903&orgid= (https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782941770/after-36-years-in-prison-for-georgetown-jacket-murder-3-men-are-exonerated-at-la?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20191201&utm_term=4258700&utm_campaign=best-of-npr&utm_id=10200903&orgid=)

boutons_deux

12-01-2019, 09:07 AM

America's "correctional" system

Books Have the Power to Rehabilitate. But Prisons Are Blocking Access to Them.

No Ulysses, Where’s Waldo?, or The New Jim Crow: Welcome to “the nation’s largest book ban.”

California has one of the better prison library programs. The state spends $350,000 annually on recreational books for prisoners, much more than other states do.

Citing concerns about contraband, officials around the country are ratcheting up restrictions on what gets into prison libraries.

Florida blocks 20,000 titles and

Texas blocks 10,000 titles

they claim could stir up disorder.

A recent report by PEN America decried (https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-report-explores-pernicious-practice-of-banning-books-in-nations-prisons/) similar restrictions around the country as so arbitrary and sweeping as to effectively be

“the nation’s largest book ban.”

Texas prisons have prohibited Where’s Waldo? :lol and a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets :lol with racy illustrations.

Illinois, meanwhile, spent $276 (https://illinoisnewsroom.org/2018/04/16/illinois-prison-system-spent-less-than-300-on-books-last-year/) on nonlegal books across 28 correctional facilities in 2017, compared with about $750,000 annually during the early 2000s,

inmates can choose from more than 8,500 e-books (https://www.cor.pa.gov/Inmates/Documents/master-ebook-list.pdf) through the vendor GTL, but they come at a hefty price:

Tablets cost nearly $150 and

some e-books—many of which can be downloaded for free outside of prison—cost as much as $24.99. Popular titles like The
Autobiography of Malcolm X and Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl aren’t always available,

though inmates can download Diary of a Mistress for $14.99 or

Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife for $20.99.

“That is not a library,”

inmates receive tablets at no cost but are charged three cents a minute to read on them,

even when the books would otherwise be free online.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/11/prison-libraries-book-bans-california-sacramento-reading-rehabilitation/ (https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/11/prison-libraries-book-bans-california-sacramento-reading-rehabilitation/)

Prisons are not "correctional" but a playground for sadistic brutality, physical and mental, and just another for-profit scam.

baseline bum

12-01-2019, 09:40 AM

boutons_deux

12-01-2019, 10:05 AM

...

boutons_deux

12-01-2019, 10:23 AM

Incarcerated people in West Virginia to be charged 3 cents a minute to read ebooks from free source (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/27/1902216/-Incarcerated-people-in-West-Virginia-charged-3-cents-per-minute-to-read-ebooks-from-free-source)

Incarcerated people in some West Virginia prisons will reportedly be charged to read ebooks.

The magazine Reason (https://reason.com/2019/11/22/west-virginia-inmates-will-be-charged-by-the-minute-to-read-e-books-on-tablets/) reports that inmates will

have to pay 3 cents per minute to use tablets that have been provided to them for free to access books, music, or games.

The ebooks that they would be reading are available through Project Gutenberg, an online library that offers roughly 60,000 ebooks, all of which

are free to the public.

But charges for using the tablets to read those free books will bring in money for

Global Tel Link, the private company that has the contract to provide them.
That’s right:

These incarcerated people are reportedly to be charged to read books that are free to everyone else.

inmates who read can end up paying more money to use the tablets than they make in wages.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1902216 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1902216)

boutons_deux

12-02-2019, 08:13 PM

Oregon Supreme Court Shuts Down Pretextual Traffic Stops;
Says Cops Can't Ask Questions Unrelated To The Violation

The Supreme Court's Rodriguez decision (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150422/08105530754/supreme-court-rules-that-traffic-stop-ends-when-objective-is-complete-rather-than-whenever-officer-feels-it-is.shtml) took a lot of fishing line away from law enforcement officers.

Thousands of traffic statutes are violated every day. (Or not broken (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/13582142921/court-shoots-down-cops-assertion-that-driving-without-breaking-any-laws-is-suspicious.shtml), in some cases.)

All an officer needed to do was follow someone around (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180415/18361039635/govt-to-court-driving-car-iowa-with-valid-iowa-temporary-tag-is-traffic-violation.shtml) until they violated one and

then turn the traffic stop into a Q&A session with an eye on obtaining consent to search drivers, passengers, and vehicles.

The Supreme Court said pretextual stops are fine,

but once the objective has been achieved (citation or warning given), the stop is over.

No further questions.

No calling for a drug dog.

Nothing.

Some officers took this to mean they could violate the Fourth Amendment as long as they did it quickly enough.

Some courts allowed them to get away with speedy Constitutional violations.

But, more often than not, courts interpreting the Supreme Court decision have read it as saying

there's no extending a stop (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161117/12245036074/another-state-court-says-speedy-fourth-amendment-violations-are-still-just-fourth-amendment-violations.shtml) without reasonable suspicion to do so.

The Supreme Court of Oregon has almost completely revoked law enforcement's fishing license.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191125/15400643456/oregon-supreme-court-shuts-down-pretextual-traffic-stops-says-cops-cant-ask-questions-unrelated-to-violation.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191125/15400643456/oregon-supreme-court-shuts-down-pretextual-traffic-stops-says-cops-cant-ask-questions-unrelated-to-violation.shtml)

boutons_deux

12-03-2019, 09:51 AM

DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens

Homeland Security wants to expand facial recognition checks for travelers arriving to and departing from the U.S. to also include citizens, which had previously been exempt from the mandatory checks.

In a filing (https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201910&RIN=1651-AB22&=biometric-collection-data-citizens), the department has proposed that all travelers, and not just foreign nationals or visitors, will have to complete a facial recognition check before they are allowed to enter the U.S., but also to leave the country.

Facial recognition for departing flights has increased in recent years as part of Homeland Security’s efforts to catch visitors and travelers who overstay their visas.

The department, whose responsibility is to protect the border and control immigration, has a deadline of 2021 to roll out facial recognition scanners to the largest 20 airports in the United States, despite facing a rash of technical challenges (https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/watchdog-says-face-scanning-at-us-airports-is-plagued-with-technical-problems/).

But although there may not always be a clear way to opt-out of facial recognition at the airport, U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — also known as green card holders — have been exempt (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/americans-opt-out-facial-recognition-airport/) from these checks, the existing rules (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/biometrics/biometric-exit-faqs) say.

Now, the proposed rule change to include citizens has drawn ire from one of the largest civil liberties groups in the country.

“Time and again, the government told the public and members of Congress that U.S. citizens would not be required to submit to this intrusive surveillance technology as a condition of traveling,”

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/02/homeland-security-face-recognition-airport-citizens/ (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/02/homeland-security-face-recognition-airport-citizens/)

Trill Clinton

12-06-2019, 02:12 PM

Trigger happy cops got a UPS driver and an innocent bystander killed during police chase in Miami.

5c41W99g9RU

n6gJw9BwUP8

boutons_deux

12-10-2019, 08:39 AM

A DNA Firm That Caters to Police Just Bought a Genealogy Site

In 2018, GEDmatch played a key role in reopening the 40-year-old Golden State Killer case.

Now a company that serves law enforcement is gobbling it up.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-dna-firm-that-caters-to-police-just-bought-a-genealogy-site/ (https://www.wired.com/story/a-dna-firm-that-caters-to-police-just-bought-a-genealogy-site/)

Information is power, and all power is abused.

The above is accelerating as the police amass massive information and power.

boutons_deux

12-17-2019, 04:14 PM

10 years.
179 arrests.
No white defendants.
DEA tactics face scrutiny in New York.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/10-years-179-arrests-no-white-defendants-dea-tactics-face-scrutiny-in-new-york/2019/12/14/f6462242-12ce-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html

boutons_deux

12-25-2019, 09:27 PM

Court Grants Immunity to Guards Who Kept Naked Inmate in Cell Covered with ‘Massive Amounts of Feces’

https://am23.akamaized.net/lc/cnt/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-21-at-11.24.59-AM.jpg

A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of several prison guards who

forced an inmate to sleep naked on the floor of a prison cell that

was covered in human waste and raw sewage, reasoning that the

conditions did not violate the inmate’s “clearly established” Eight Amendment rights.

John T. Montford Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (Montford) violated his Eight Amendment rights by forcing him to live for nearly a week in utterly squalid conditions.

According to the complaint, which the officials did not dispute, in September of 2013,

Taylor was stripped naked and

forced to stay in a cell where “almost the entire surface—

including the floor, ceiling, window, walls, and water faucet

was covered with ‘massive amounts’ of feces.”

couldn’t drink any water because feces were “packed inside the water faucet.”

Taylor was moved to a “seclusion cell” that didn’t have a toilet, water fountain, or bed, but did have a drain in the floor where he was told to urinate.

Taylor alleged that the floor drain was clogged, leaving raw sewage on the floor. The drain smelled strongly of ammonia,

THE COURT’S REASONING

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals :lol of course! :lol

granted summary judgment for the guards, finding that while Taylor’s Eight Amendment rights were violated,

the guards were entitled to qualified immunity because

the guards didn’t have “fair warning” that “their specific actions were unconstitutional.” :lol :lol :lol

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/court-grants-immunity-to-guards-who-kept-naked-inmate-in-cell-covered-in-massive-amounts-of-feces/

Trent Michael Taylor was VERY lucky to have such lenient treatment, he's white! :lol

https://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-prisons/inmates/trent-michael-taylor/1200611/

boutons_deux

12-31-2019, 08:31 AM

Kansas Police Chief:

Officer Fabricated Story About McDonald’s Employee Writing ‘Fucking Pig’ on Coffee Cup

https://am14.akamaized.net/med/cnt/uploads/2019/12/mcdonalds-kansas-cops-1200x675.jpg

"McDonald’s have the utmost respect for all members of law enforcement and the military and were troubled by the accusation made.

We thoroughly reviewed our security video from every angle,

which clearly shows the words were not written by one of our employees."

concluded no McDonald’s employees were involved and that

the whole thing was “completely and solely fabricated by a Herington police officer who is no longer employed with our agency.”

“This is absolutely a black eye on law enforcement,”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/kansas-police-chief-officer-fabricated-story-about-mcdonalds-employee-writing-fcking-pig-on-coffee-cup/ (https://www.mediaite.com/news/kansas-police-chief-officer-fabricated-story-about-mcdonalds-employee-writing-fcking-pig-on-coffee-cup/)

boutons_deux

12-31-2019, 08:37 AM

Florida Woman Tased by Police Three Times in Her Own Home on 70th Birthday

https://compote.slate.com/images/d6ff6c02-279c-43d4-8235-449172f8088a.png?width=780&height=520&rect=1458x972&offset=0x0

A sheriff’s deputy in Florida used a stun gun on a woman on her 70th birthday after she refused to let them inside her home to look for her grandson (https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/manatee-county/70-year-old-woman-tased-by-manatee-county-deputies/). Barbara Pinkney of Bradenton, in Manatee County, was then arrested for

felony battery :lol on a law enforcement officer and obstructing justice.

Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said they were there to serve an arrest warrant to Tevin Turner.

Pinkney’s grandson was wanted for carrying a concealed firearm. (same sheriff's treatment for white guys :lol )

Pinkney said her grandson didn’t live there and refused to let the officers inside without a search warrant,

but the officers explained they didn’t need one because they had an arrest warrant.

. An officer tased the woman three times (https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article238785958.html),

including twice using the stun gun directly against her body rather than firing probes.

One officer then used his knee to hold the 70-year-old grandmother to the ground.

The confrontation was filmed by Pinkney’s granddaughter-in-law, Elizabeth Francisco (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZrU-oNJQo).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZrU-oNJQo

The sheriff’s office wrote in an affidavit that Turner may have been inside the house but escaped amid the “chaos.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/florida-grandmother-tased-police-70th-birthday.html

Winehole23

12-31-2019, 09:16 AM

https://am14.akamaized.net/med/cnt/uploads/2019/12/mcdonalds-kansas-cops-1200x675.jpg

Investigators blow up barista anti-cop conspiracy: it was fabricated by a cop.

Remember the cop who put out an APB on the missing bite of his sandwich? Also McDonald's related:

https://wtkr.com/2019/07/29/officer-forgot-he-took-bite-of-sandwich-he-accused-mcdonalds-workers-of-eating/

boutons_deux

12-31-2019, 09:54 AM

Entire West Virginia Correctional Officer Class Fired Following Investigation Into Nazi Salute Photo

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2019/12/29/west_virginia_nazi_salute.w700.h700.png

“Hail Byrd!” referring to (https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792503476/west-virginia-governor-approves-firing-all-cadets-who-posed-in-nazi-like-salute-) the trainees’ instructor Karrie Byrd,

who claimed in the investigation that

she was not familiar with the “historical or racial implications of the gesture” and :lol

that it was “simply a greeting.” :lol

after conducting over 50 interviews, investigators determined that

she “encouraged it,

reveled in it, and at times

reciprocated the gesture” and

“assured the cadets the behavior was acceptable.”

One employee said that Byrd claimed the practice came about “because I’m a hard-ass like Hitler.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/west-virginia-c-o-class-fired-after-nazi-salute-photo.html (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/west-virginia-c-o-class-fired-after-nazi-salute-photo.html)

Why in SICK and so-called Christian America is all such training, indoctrination, sport team and school hazing, based on power games of brutality, sadism, denigration?

Trill Clinton

12-31-2019, 10:01 AM

Entire West Virginia Correctional Officer Class Fired Following Investigation Into Nazi Salute Photo

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2019/12/29/west_virginia_nazi_salute.w700.h700.png

“Hail Byrd!” referring to (https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792503476/west-virginia-governor-approves-firing-all-cadets-who-posed-in-nazi-like-salute-) the trainees’ instructor Karrie Byrd,

who claimed in the investigation that

she was not familiar with the “historical or racial implications of the gesture” and :lol

that it was “simply a greeting.” :lol

after conducting over 50 interviews, investigators determined that

she “encouraged it,

reveled in it, and at times

reciprocated the gesture” and

“assured the cadets the behavior was acceptable.”

One employee said that Byrd claimed the practice came about “because I’m a hard-ass like Hitler.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/west-virginia-c-o-class-fired-after-nazi-salute-photo.html (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/west-virginia-c-o-class-fired-after-nazi-salute-photo.html)

Why in SICK and so-called Christian America is all such training, indoctrination, sport team and school hazing, based on power games of brutality, sadism, denigration?

They weren't being racist. They were just playing the Hi game!

Anyways, why blur these cowards faces out?

Winehole23

12-31-2019, 10:56 AM

They weren't being racist. They were just playing the Hi game!

Anyways, why blur these cowards faces out?To protect the guilty, as we do.

SpursforSix

12-31-2019, 01:23 PM

They weren't being racist. They were just playing the Hi game!

Anyways, why blur these cowards faces out?

Uh...because it's possible that a lot of them didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Even though it's now most associated with Hitler, it's a salute that's been used for centuries.
And even those that knew the Nazi tie in were likely doing it as a joke. Would be pretty unfair imo to subject them to the harassment that would surely follow if they were exposed.
Anyway, it's probably not hard to find out who they are if someone really wanted to.

boutons_deux

01-02-2020, 07:35 PM

LAPD officer accused of fondling dead woman’s breasts is arrested and charged

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-12/lapd-officer-accused-of-fondling-dead-womans-breasts-arrested-charged (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-12/lapd-officer-accused-of-fondling-dead-womans-breasts-arrested-charged)

boutons_deux

01-05-2020, 09:19 AM

Traffic stop ends in black man shot in head and killed by Texas police (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/2/1909050/-Traffic-stop-ends-in-black-man-shot-in-head-and-killed-by-Texas-police)

Michael Dean “did not carry, exhibit, or use a deadly weapon”

Carmen DeCruz, shot Dean in what investigators said was the result of a “traffic stop/evading."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/2/1909050/-Traffic-stop-ends-in-black-man-shot-in-head-and-killed-by-Texas-police (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/2/1909050/-Traffic-stop-ends-in-black-man-shot-in-head-and-killed-by-Texas-police)

“traffic stop/evading." is a crime (by blacks, esp young ones) that is punishable by immediate death

the so-called investigation, no witnesses except DeCruz, will drag on for a long time, so everybody but blacks forget about it.

DMC

01-05-2020, 11:46 AM

Everyone is offended these days. What a bunch of pussies.

Winehole23

01-06-2020, 09:05 AM

Everyone is offended these days. What a bunch of pussies.Your continual whining about the whining of others makes you just as big a pussy, tbh.

boutons_deux

01-12-2020, 12:47 PM

A police officer fatally shot a service dog over a bite the department now admits never happened

https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletter/science/2020/01/11/police-officer-fatally-shot-service-dog-over-bite-department-now-admits-never-happened/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletter/science/2020/01/11/police-officer-fatally-shot-service-dog-over-bite-department-now-admits-never-happened/)

DMC

01-12-2020, 02:01 PM

Your continual whining about the whining of others makes you just as big a pussy, tbh.

That's poor, self-serving reasoning. I am not offended by you being a pussy.

Winehole23

01-12-2020, 06:04 PM

^^^still whining

boutons_deux

01-13-2020, 08:09 PM

SAPD fecal sandwich incident recirculates online, with new calls for officer's termination

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/07/77/62/18873511/3/920x920.jpg

A 2016 case involving a local police officer allegedly

attempting to give a homeless man a sandwich containing dog feces

has recirculated, sparking new conversations online about the state of policing in San Antonio.

The outrage surrounding bike patrol officer Matthew Luckhurst is that he "got his job back," as U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro tweeted on Sunday, after being fired in October 2016.

"Police unions too often stand by bad officers regardless of how bad they’ve acted. It severely undermines public trust," Castro said

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Conversation-on-SAPD-officer-who-allegedly-served-14971653.php?utm_campaign=mysa_breakingnews_202001 13&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email (https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Conversation-on-SAPD-officer-who-allegedly-served-14971653.php?utm_campaign=mysa_breakingnews_202001 13&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email)

boutons_deux

01-14-2020, 12:27 AM

Gov't puts non-violent climate activists on list with neo-Nazis (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/13/1911366/-Monday-night-owls-open-thread-Gov-t-puts-non-violent-climate-activists-on-list-with-neo-Nazis)

Climate Direct Action members who shut off tar sands pipeline operations in an act of civil disobedience in October 2016, were called "suspected environmental rights extremists" by DHS.

equal treatment of climate campaigners and violent racists was called "highly misleading"

"There is little evidence that environmentalists have engaged in the types of deadly violence that would meet the statutory definition of domestic terrorism, as codified by Congress,"

federal government's apparent effort to "criminalize and suppress dissent."

Foster, who turned a valve in North Dakota, spent six months in jail and is now serving probation.

During his trial, prosecutors compared (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-extremists) Foster to the Unabomber and the 9/11 attackers.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1911366 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1911366)

boutons_deux

01-14-2020, 12:08 PM

Once a sadistic, brutal slave state, always a sadistic, brutal slave state

Mississippi Supreme Court upholds

12-year sentence for father of 3 who had cell phone in jail

convicted of violating a Mississippi statute of illegal possession of contraband while incarcerated.

On Aug. 23, 2018, Mississippi judge Mark Sheldon Duncan sentenced Willie Nash to 12 years in prison.

He said that Nash should “consider himself fortunate,” for not receiving a maximum 15 years in prison …

for possessing a cell phone in jail.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1911259

SpursforSix

01-14-2020, 02:07 PM

DMC

01-14-2020, 02:53 PM

That's incredibly fucked up.
:lol the article refers to a 1972 code that mentions cell phones. I will let you figure that one out.

SpursforSix

01-14-2020, 03:16 PM

:lol the article refers to a 1972 code that mentions cell phones. I will let you figure that one out.

Are you disputing the article? Why don't you tell me what you're getting at.
My guess is the code was introduced in 1972 and was amended over time.

DMC

01-14-2020, 03:30 PM

Are you disputing the article? Why don't you tell me what you're getting at.
My guess is the code was introduced in 1972 and was amended over time.

Reads funny

boutons_deux

01-15-2020, 11:07 AM

LAPD scandal over alleged gang framing expands; chief sees a ‘criminal aspect’

The investigation into allegations that members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metro Division

falsely portrayed people as gang members or associates

has expanded into a criminal probe and forced LAPD leaders to inform community members about the scandal.

It has also raised questions about the criminal cases brought by the officers under scrutiny.

Officers assigned across the city are suspected of falsifying field interview cards during stops and entering incorrect information about those questioned in an effort

to boost stop statistics.
“This definitely has a criminal aspect. Falsifying information on a department report is a crime,” Chief Michel Moore told the Police Commission on Tuesday.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-14/lapd-scandal-lapd-gangs (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-14/lapd-scandal-lapd-gangs)

TheGreatYacht

01-16-2020, 07:54 PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/ZionistReport/status/1217753993537052672

spurraider21

01-16-2020, 07:55 PM

stick to your designated thread

TheGreatYacht

01-17-2020, 10:21 PM

"Shoot First, Think Later!" Jews Turn To Guns

https://youtu.be/jeIKZe4r1PY
Miami Jewish Federation to "Train Law Enforcement"

https://youtu.be/6it1n2KyxLo

And people wonder why cops are trigger happy smh...

boutons_deux

01-19-2020, 08:18 PM

sickos attracted to law enforcement

Retired LAPD officer charged with revenge porn after sharing colleague's images with department (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/19/1912546/-Retired-LAPD-officer-charged-with-revenge-porn-after-sharing-colleague-s-images-with-department)

The lawsuit filled in March 2019 alleged that

Villegas was raped, beaten, and threatened with cyber exploitation,

Reedy at the time still maintained employment at the LAPD

despite a five-year restraining order against him,

"He released intimate photos of me, extorting me.

He was extorting and harassing me, and

then released the photos in November because I broke up with him in August.

It was revenge to ruin my reputation and embarrass me in front of our peers."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1912546 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1912546)

boutons_deux

01-22-2020, 09:01 PM

Houston Officer Behind Deadly Botched Raid Hit With Two Felony Murder Indictments

The victims of Goines' botched no-knock raid -- Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas -- don't have the luxury of watching justice be done.

The residents of the house were killed by police officers

performing a raid targeting heroin that never existed,

utilizing a warrant filled with lies

based on statements made by a confidential informant who didn't exist, and

drugs pulled from a cop car console (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190215/13325441605/fatal-houston-pd-drug-raid-apparently-predicated-drugs-cop-had-stashed-his-car.shtml).

Goines is facing both state and federal charges.

And the charges are still coming in.

Multiple investigations (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190225/09172141668/fbi-das-office-open-investigation-fatal-houston-pd-drug-raid.shtml) are still ongoing.

Nearly 14,000 cases linked (https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/criminal-cases-dismissed-related-officers-charged-harding-street-raid/285-c7aac68c-1dd7-4503-9275-478d554870ce) to the now-disbanded Squad 15 (of the Narcotics Division) are under review by the District Attorney's office and dozens of pending cases have already been dismissed.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200119/12285743763/houston-officer-behind-deadly-botched-raid-hit-with-two-felony-murder-indictments.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200119/12285743763/houston-officer-behind-deadly-botched-raid-hit-with-two-felony-murder-indictments.shtml)

boutons_deux

01-23-2020, 02:57 PM

Two more Mississippi inmates are dead. That’s at least 7 in January, and people want answers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/22/1913286/-Two-more-Mississippi-inmates-are-dead-That-s-at-least-7-in-January-and-people-want-answers)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/22/1913286/-Two-more-Mississippi-inmates-are-dead-That-s-at-least-7-in-January-and-people-want-answers?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/22/1913286/-Two-more-Mississippi-inmates-are-dead-That-s-at-least-7-in-January-and-people-want-answers?detail=emaildkre)

boutons_deux

01-24-2020, 02:21 PM

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/stormy-daniels.jpg

Ohio vice police officers fired for wrongfully arresting Stormy Daniels

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/ohio-vice-police-officers-fired-for-wrongfully-arresting-stormy-daniels/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3574&recip_id=298460&list_id=1

boutons_deux

01-26-2020, 10:15 AM

Analysis shows unarmed young black men are 13 times more likely to be victims of police shootings (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1914028/-Analysis-shows-unarmed-young-black-men-are-13-times-more-likely-to-be-victims-of-police-shootings)

A statistical review (https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877?ijkey=7d1dbf1f15dc47d62d64c7bba093122257e765 6a&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha) published by psychologists from Michigan State University made headlines in 2019 when it claimed to find that

“no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across [police] shootings, :lol

and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. :lol

the new analysis shows is that the “no disparity” findings of the previous paper were created only by ignoring major contributing factors that disguised the truth about police violence.

Factors like whether

the victim of the shooting was armed.

Factors like whether that person was trying to commit suicide.

Remove that fog from the data, and young black men are 13 times more likely to be the victim of a fatal police shooting than their white piers.

When that inflation-by-crime-rate is removed, and the way the suicide rate actually skews older, and white is factored out,

the new analysis brings a startling different conclusion.

Except the conclusion isn’t startling, because it’s the same one we see on television and social media day after day.

Young, unarmed black men are much more likely to be the subjects of fatal police shootings.

In fact young, unarmed, male victims of police shootings are “13.67 times more likely to be Black than White, 95% confidence interval.”

The original authors of the first study have responded (https://www.pnas.org/content/117/3/1264), admitting that the original paper was wrong in claiming there was no evidence of police bias

they say, because “it is already widely known that Black citizens are shot more than White citizens on a per capita basis.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1914028/-Analysis-shows-unarmed-young-black-men-are-13-times-more-likely-to-be-victims-of-police-shootings

boutons_deux

01-29-2020, 06:08 AM

Maryland policeman charged with murder in shooting of handcuffed man

A Maryland police officer was charged with murder on Tuesday after he fired seven shots at a man who was sitting in a patrol car with his arms handcuffed behind his back.

Police Chief Hank Stawinski announced the charges less than 24 hours after the shooting took place on Monday night in the Washington suburb of Temple Hills.

“I have concluded that what happened last night is a crime,” Stawinski told a news conference.

“There are no circumstances under which this outcome is acceptable.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maryland-shooting/maryland-policeman-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-of-handcuffed-man-idUSKBN1ZS0DJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maryland-shooting/maryland-policeman-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-of-handcuffed-man-idUSKBN1ZS0DJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)

... and restrained with seat belt

boutons_deux

01-29-2020, 12:38 PM

D.C. cops to stop handcuffing children 12 and under after incidents involving innocent boys (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914686/-D-C-cops-to-stop-handcuffing-children-12-and-under-after-incidents-involving-innocent-boys)

an officer was caught on video chasing and handcuffing a 9-year-old boy for what proved to be no reason, according to (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-police-will-no-longer-handcuff-children-under-12/2020/01/28/d7b63c40-4154-11ea-b5fc-eefa848cde99_story.html) The Washington Post.

Just weeks earlier, police had handcuffed and accused (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/10-year-old-boy-handcuffed-in-robbery-case-was-totally-innocent-authorities-say/2019/04/05/c05d4062-57de-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html) a 10-year-old boy of robbery in an incident D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said the child was "totally innocent" in.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914686/-D-C-cops-to-stop-handcuffing-children-12-and-under-after-incidents-involving-innocent-boys?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914686/-D-C-cops-to-stop-handcuffing-children-12-and-under-after-incidents-involving-innocent-boys?detail=emaildkre)

rascal

01-29-2020, 06:50 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/25/us/connecticut-state-police-teen-fatal-shooting/index.html

phxspurfan

02-03-2020, 11:36 PM

Fresno, CA policeman under investigation after handcuffing/hitting 16 year old boy having an Autistic seizure in a bathroom at El Pollo Loco

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/us/fresno-police-handcuff-autistic-boy/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2793834417376400&set=pcb.2793836524042856&type=3&theater

/that chicken looks good af tbh

https://img.grouponcdn.com/deal/34hnei76Ssrbnrtd4cfEcADwapQA/34-960x576/v1/c700x420.jpg

SpursforSix

02-06-2020, 05:36 PM

EXCLUSIVE: Mother Says School District Called Police After 6-Year-Old Daughter With Down Syndrome Pretended To Shoot Teacher With Fingerhttps://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116066/2020/02/Margot-Gaines.jpg?w=420

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/02/04/exclusive-maggie-gaines-says-tredyffrin-easttown-school-district-called-police-after-6-year-old-daughter-with-down-syndrome-pretended-to-shoot-teacher-with-finger/

spurraider21

02-06-2020, 06:07 PM

:lol thats a pretty unflattering picture to use

DMC

02-06-2020, 06:30 PM

:lol thats a pretty unflattering picture to use

Not really. Careful, you're still eating shoe leather from that comment you made about Pop's wife getting over herself. Stay in the safety zone lest your wife have a kid with Downs.

spurraider21

02-06-2020, 07:07 PM

Not really. Careful, you're still eating shoe leather from that comment you made about Pop's wife getting over herself. Stay in the safety zone lest your wife have a kid with Downs.
oh no, a joke made in poor taste on spurstalk!

Spurtacular

02-06-2020, 07:41 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnnhU2vBRug

DMC

02-06-2020, 07:44 PM

oh no, a joke made in poor taste on spurstalk!

You'll grow out of it.

boutons_deux

02-07-2020, 03:24 PM

Exclusive: Customs and Border Protection Gains an Extra Layer of Secrecy

By gaining a “security agency” designation,

the border police can further shield themselves from public view.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cbp-security-agency/ (https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cbp-security-agency/)

The secretive American corrupt police state recedes further out of view from the citizenry, who are nothing but an afterthought, at best.

boutons_deux

02-07-2020, 03:28 PM

Feds Find Fourth Amendment Workaround, Buy Phone Locations From Marketing Firms (https://gizmodo.com/feds-find-fourth-amendment-workaround-buy-phone-locati-1841516436)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been accessing phone location data belonging to millions of Americans by buying it straight from private marketing firms.

The data is drawn from seemingly ordinary phone apps, including mobile games and weather apps,

DHS uses the data purchased from private marketing companies to generate law enforcement leads and search for undocumented immigrants,

In a landmark 2018 decision (https://gizmodo.com/cops-need-a-warrant-to-collect-your-phone-location-data-1827050891), the Supreme Court ruled that

the Fourth Amendment protects cellphone location information.

As a result, police are required to obtain a warrant before obtaining location data. But according to the Journal,

government lawyers have argued that a warrant is not required because the data is already commercially available.

https://gizmodo.com/feds-find-fourth-amendment-workaround-buy-phone-locati-1841516436?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-02-07

So information secretly ripped from citizens is now available to law enforcement.

Two wrongs make two wrongs

boutons_deux

02-07-2020, 04:56 PM

Sen. Dianne Feinstein calls on ICE to suspend move lowering detention standards (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916884/-Sen-Dianne-Feinstein-calls-on-ICE-to-suspend-move-lowering-detention-standards)

to stop a recent move (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914385/-Advocates-warn-ICE-s-move-lowering-detention-standards-could-have-disastrous-consequences)to further weaken detention standards, including a decision that

will allow detention facility officers to hog-tie people in their custody.

the revisions—

which the administration quietly rolled out (https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-immigrant-detention-low-standards/) just a few days before Christmas as many folks were tuned out from the news—

which, in addition to allowing inhumane restraint methods,

allow medical staff to put detainees who refuse medical examination or treatment

in solitary confinement.

“ICE has also eliminated standards that help to preserve detainees’ basic dignity,”

the Inspector General found

egregious violations of detention standards in facilities, including one in California where

there were ‘nooses in detainee cells,

overly restrictive segregation,

inadequate medical care,

unreported security incidents, and

significant food safety issues,’”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916884/-Sen-Dianne-Feinstein-calls-on-ICE-to-suspend-move-lowering-detention-standards?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916884/-Sen-Dianne-Feinstein-calls-on-ICE-to-suspend-move-lowering-detention-standards?detail=emaildkre)

Trash/Miller concentration camps

boutons_deux

02-08-2020, 12:05 PM

+ ICE agents just shot two brothers, one in the face,

while attempting to serve a deportation order in Brooklyn.

Both were unarmed (https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-ice-agent-shoots-man-in-face-in-brooklyn-20200206-7db5cmlbqff2hflbs5pnssipuu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1OAHHuli34cIoiI1XUXFjEp3uqhi MTUDUBWaZ2EXyTGQVj6Lhj3XIpBQA).

Neither was the man they were actually looking for.

ICE agents, while arresting undocumented Mexican immigrant,

wind up shooting second man in wild Brooklyn street brawl

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-ice-agent-shoots-man-in-face-in-brooklyn-20200206-7db5cmlbqff2hflbs5pnssipuu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1OAHHuli34cIoiI1XUXFjEp3uqhi MTUDUBWaZ2EXyTGQVj6Lhj3XIpBQA (https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-ice-agent-shoots-man-in-face-in-brooklyn-20200206-7db5cmlbqff2hflbs5pnssipuu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1OAHHuli34cIoiI1XUXFjEp3uqhi MTUDUBWaZ2EXyTGQVj6Lhj3XIpBQA)

boutons_deux

02-08-2020, 05:57 PM

Homeless man sues Honolulu police, says

officers made him lick public urinal to avoid arrest

https://images.dailykos.com/images/763176/story_image/Licked-urinal.jpg?1580837317

A homeless man who was looking for shelter in a public restroom said (https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-sues-honolulu-police-city-forced-urinal-licking-68730420) that Honolulu police officers humiliated him and forced him to buy his way out of being arrested by licking a urinal in the facility.

Police officer John Rabago, who was named in the suit, was put on restricted duty and pleaded guilty in December to deprivation of civil rights, the AP reported.

The other officer named in the suit, Reginald Ramones, resigned his position in August and pleaded guilty to knowing that Rabago had committed a civil rights violation and not telling officials.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/4/1916530/-Homeless-man-sues-Honolulu-police-says-officers-made-him-lick-public-urinal-to-avoid-arrest?detail=emaildksp