The Warrior cops are out of control

[boutons_deux]

California attorney general to investigate LAPD gang-framing scandal

The California Department of Justice announced Monday it will conduct its own investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of a statewide database of alleged gang members (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-03/california-attorney-general-xavier-becerra-changes-course-on-revamping-the-states-gang-database)

after allegations that officers falsified records to enter people in it.

Becerra said that someone’s erroneous placement in the database could

lead to them being subjected to unwarranted scrutiny by law enforcement agencies.
“Right now, the LAPD’s inputs are under the microscope (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-24/lapd-chief-moves-to-discipline-metro-officer-in-gang-framing-scandal),” said Becerra.

The LAPD previously announced it was investigating up to 20 officers (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-16/how-camera-exposed-lapd-falsification-gang-affiliations-after-decades-of-questions) in its inquiry of officers that

allegedly fabricated information from field interviews to enter people into CalGang.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-10/california-attorney-general-lapd-gang-scandal-calgang?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=418d234d03-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_11_12_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-418d234d03-80027601

[boutons_deux]

Meet the 'Mafia' That Plunged the Border Patrol Into Crisis

Deputy Chief Scott Luck ... in the crystal-chandeliered ballroom of the Trump National Golf Club, to celebrate his retirement after 33 years in the U.S. Border Patrol.
(https://www.truthdig.com/articles/meet-the-mafia-that-plunged-the-border-patrol-into-crisis/#)
The party was adorned with a who’s who in Border Patrol leadership, past and present.

Chief Carla Provost

Andrea Zortman

A full contingent of retired former chiefs-turned-consultants were on hand, too, including

David Aguilar, 64, who’d headed the Border Patrol as well as its parent, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and

Michael Fisher, 55, who’d succeeded Aguilar as Border Patrol chief.

Rowdy Adams, 59, another retired senior-level CBP official, also attended the celebration.

It wasn’t just the end of Luck’s career, it was the end of an era at the agency — their era.

The group, called “the Douglas mafia”

by some agents, began climbing the ranks together after the 9/11 attacks as the Border Patrol nearly tripled in size and budget.

they’d had a hand in shaping virtually every aspect of the agency’s leadership and culture.

The group had overseen or witnessed crises in the past —

including lawsuits over excessive use of force and

revelations of corruption within the patrol’s own ranks.

catalyzed by ever-harsher Trump administration policies, had thrust the insular agency into unprecedented turmoil.

A series of high-profile scandals had focused scalding attention on the agency:

Children died in its custody.

Reporters uncovered a racist, misogynist private Facebook page (https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes)

with some 9,500 current and former Border Patrol members,

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/meet-the-mafia-that-plunged-the-border-patrol-into-crisis/ (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/meet-the-mafia-that-plunged-the-border-patrol-into-crisis/)

[boutons_deux]

Uncle Sam takes $181,500 from trucker at Tampa airport and refuses to give it back (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919820/-Uncle-Sam-takes-181-500-from-trucker-at-Tampa-airport-and-refuses-to-give-it-back-lawsuit-alleges)

Can you imagine airport authorities seizing $181,500 from you, deeming it illegally acquired, and refusing to return it?

sue the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection over money taken from the company in September at Tampa International Airport,

The Tampa-based company reportedly sent Boris Nulman, one of its employees, on a trip to Cleveland with $191,500 in a carry-on bag to buy four big rigs, and

when TSA agents pulled Nulman aside for a bag inspection, he was only allowed to take $10,000,

Nulman was reportedly given a receipt for the confiscated $181,500, but now federal authorities are claiming that they only took $159,950

“There is nothing dirty about this. We have evidence to show we took this out of our business account. Something is fishy here.”

After the company turned in a verified claim form in an attempt to retrieve the seized funds,

a Customs and Border Protection representative described the $159,950 as

derived from “specified unlawful activity” and

didn't address the $21,550.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1919820 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1919820)

[boutons_deux]

Video shows 26-year-old man who died of sepsis and pneumonia in jail pleading for help for hours (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918153/-Video-shows-26-year-old-man-who-died-of-sepsis-and-pneumonia-in-jail-pleading-for-help-for-hours)

In October 2015, 26-year-old Terral Ellis Jr. turned himself into Ottawa County officials on an outstanding DUI warrant he had. Six days later he was dead from sepsis and pneumonia.

His family filed a lawsuit (https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/29/us/ap-us-jail-death-lawsuit-video.html)against

the sheriff of the county,

the former jailers, and

nurse

who were there during the last week of Ellis Jr.’s life, and allegedly did not heed his calls for help just hours before he was found unresponsive in his cell.

According to his family, Ellis went into jail healthy.

a nurse—identified as former jail nurse Theresa Horn—

responding to his pleas by telling him that the EMTs found nothing wrong with him and that

she was “sick and tired of fucking dealing with your ass.

Ain’t a damn thing wrong with you.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918153/-Video-shows-26-year-old-man-who-died-of-sepsis-and-pneumonia-in-jail-pleading-for-help-for-hours?detail=emailLL (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918153/-Video-shows-26-year-old-man-who-died-of-sepsis-and-pneumonia-in-jail-pleading-for-help-for-hours?detail=emailLL)

[boutons_deux]

6-year-old Florida (black) girl committed to mental health facility for 'temper tantrum at school'

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919651/-6-year-old-Florida-girl-committed-to-mental-health-facility-for-temper-tantrum-at-school?detail=emailLL (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919651/-6-year-old-Florida-girl-committed-to-mental-health-facility-for-temper-tantrum-at-school?detail=emailLL)

[boutons_deux]

oligarchy's 5 SCOTUS whores grant License To Kill ( 5 - 4 of course)

Supreme Court Rules Against Family Of Teen Killed In Mexico By Border Patrol

In 2010, a Border Patrol agent fired a bullet from U.S. soil that killed a 15-year-old Mexican boy in his own country.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-hernandez-v-mesa_n_5e553bd7c5b66729cf62b95b (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-hernandez-v-mesa_n_5e553bd7c5b66729cf62b95b)

America, fuck yeah! shoot 'em up, cowboy

American now have the Constitutional right to murder non-Americans, who have no "right to life", in foreign countries.

Also, American lady kills a British bicyclist, flees to USA for protection, USA will not extradite her.

[RandomGuy]

Video shows 26-year-old man who died of sepsis and pneumonia in jail pleading for help for hours (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918153/-Video-shows-26-year-old-man-who-died-of-sepsis-and-pneumonia-in-jail-pleading-for-help-for-hours)

In October 2015, 26-year-old Terral Ellis Jr. turned himself into Ottawa County officials on an outstanding DUI warrant he had. Six days later he was dead from sepsis and pneumonia.

His family filed a lawsuit (https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/29/us/ap-us-jail-death-lawsuit-video.html)against

the sheriff of the county,

the former jailers, and

nurse

who were there during the last week of Ellis Jr.’s life, and allegedly did not heed his calls for help just hours before he was found unresponsive in his cell.

According to his family, Ellis went into jail healthy.

a nurse—identified as former jail nurse Theresa Horn—

responding to his pleas by telling him that the EMTs found nothing wrong with him and that

she was “sick and tired of fucking dealing with your ass.

Ain’t a damn thing wrong with you.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918153/-Video-shows-26-year-old-man-who-died-of-sepsis-and-pneumonia-in-jail-pleading-for-help-for-hours?detail=emailLL (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918153/-Video-shows-26-year-old-man-who-died-of-sepsis-and-pneumonia-in-jail-pleading-for-help-for-hours?detail=emailLL)






9-year-old Oregon girl handcuffed; outraged mom wants policy changes
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/9-year-old-oregon-girl-handcuffed-mom-outraged-article-1.1784479

[RandomGuy]

Heartbreaking Video Shows Officer Arresting Crying 6-Year-Old Girl at School Using Zip Ties

Dennis Turner, one of the officers involved in the arrest, was fired by the Orlando Police Department after it was revealed that he also arrested another six-year-old from the school on the same day.

Meralyn Kirkland, grandmother of Rolle, said the 6-year-old has a sleep disorder which caused her to act out, News 6 reports. She explained that the family was working on solutions and that she was disturbed by the way the incident was handled.

"No 6-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them and they were riding in the back of a police car and taken to a juvenile center to be fingerprinted, mug shot," Kirkland told reporters.

Watch the bodycam footage of the shocking arrest below.

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/02/26/heartbreaking-video-shows-officer-arresting-crying-6-year-old-gi.html

[boutons_deux]

U.S. NEWS (https://www.nbcnews.com/us-news)


Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.

"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.

https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2020_10/3259061/200306-geofencing-mn-1132_56f9dbad5a588f0a60ca9bf0166a899a.fit-760w.jpg

the burglary of an elderly woman’s home

10 months earlier.

The warrants, which have increased dramatically in the past two years (https://twitter.com/jonschuppe/status/1208394894458474496),

can help police find potential suspects when they have no leads.

They also scoop up data from people who have nothing to do with the crime,

often without their knowing ─

which Google itself has described as “a significant incursion on privacy.” (https://twitter.com/jonschuppe/status/1208394931859050496)

Google geofence warrants have been used by police (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/nyregion/proud-boys-antifa-trial.html) agencies (https://www.wral.com/scene-of-a-crime-raleigh-police-search-google-accounts-as-part-of-downtown-fire-probe/17340984/) around (https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/07/google-location-police-search-warrants) the country (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#312f9d027dc3), including the FBI (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/10/23/feds-are-ordering-google-to-hand-over-a-load-of-innocent-peoples-locations/#1947c0c45a0d).

Google said in a court filing last year that

the requests from state and federal law enforcement authorities were increasing rapidly:

by more than 1,500 percent from 2017 to 2018, and by 500 percent from 2018 to 2019.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761

The militarizd police state is totally out of control

So who paid the biker's, or anybody's when FALSELY accused, legal fees? $100s? $1000s?

The biker's geodata in Google was 10 months old when the police went after him.

[boutons_deux]

Ex-cop and his son claim self-defense after chasing down black jogger and shooting him to death


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/ex-cop-and-his-son-claim-self-defense-after-chasing-down-black-jogger-and-shooting-him-to-death/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4456

[boutons_deux]

WATCH: Black man pleads that he can’t breathe while cop keeps a knee on his neck — and dies shortly after


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/watch-black-man-pleads-that-he-cant-breathe-while-cop-keeps-a-knee-on-his-neck-and-dies-shortly-after/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4625

[Trill Clinton]

1265176544072302592

[boutons_deux]

Manley exonerates Mike Ramos' shooter in report to Ken Paxton filled with false statements

Ramos was standing beside his car with his hands up talking to the officers

when a rookie three months out of the academy fired on him with a shotgun loaded with a bean bag round

while bystanders screamed "don't shoot."

Ramos got into his car and drove away from officers down a dead end to keep from being killed.

It didn't work.

Another officer, who just ten months before had killed a university professor suffering from a mental health crisis in another dubious shooting, shot Ramos multiple times with a rifle.

how does Chief Manley describe the episode in the death in custody report?

Asked what were the reasons for the contact, Manley wrote "Alcohol/drug offense."

No drugs or alcohol were found at the scene, so this is pure victim blaming which frankly is reprehensible.

Whatever the 911 caller said,

Ramos had committed no offense when officers surrounded him with guns drawn and began screaming at him.

Why is the chief still pretending otherwise?

Another question asked, "At any time during the incident and/or entry into the law enforcement facility, did the decedent display or use a weapon?"

Manley replied, "Unknown."

Again, this is a flat-out lie.

Manley admitted at a press conference (https://www.statesman.com/news/20200511/man-killed-in-police-shooting-last-month-did-not-have-firearm-chief-confirms) that Ramos had no weapon, which is also quite clear from the bystander video.


Next, the form asked, "At any time during the incident and/or entry into the law enforcement facility did the decedent attempt to injure others?"

Once again, Manley simply lied, declaring "Unknown."

This is, in fact, known.

Ramos attempted to injure no one, and was driving away from officers when he was shot.

The only "unknown" here is what the hell the chief is thinking by answering these questions in such a disingenuous way.

Similarly, Manley declared it is "unknown" whether Ramos assaulted a police officer during this incident.

From the video, clearly he didn't, and

if he had, it would have been listed at the top of the report as the most serious charge against him.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/05/manley-exonerates-mike-ramos-shooter-in.html

[boutons_deux]

Ex-Miami Gardens cop charged after video shows him shocking pregnant woman in stomach with Taser (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/28/1956552/-Ex-Miami-Gardens-cop-charged-after-video-shows-him-shocking-pregnant-woman-in-stomach-with-Taser)


https://images.dailykos.com/images/825352/story_image/Sofia-arrest.jpg?1593354466

A now-fired Florida police officer faces battery and official misconduct charges after video shows him

dragging a pregnant Black woman out of her SUV,

holding his knee on her neck and

shocking her in the stomach with a Taser twice.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/28/1956552/-Ex-Miami-Gardens-cop-charged-after-video-shows-him-shocking-pregnant-woman-in-stomach-with-Taser (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/28/1956552/-Ex-Miami-Gardens-cop-charged-after-video-shows-him-shocking-pregnant-woman-in-stomach-with-Taser)

[boutons_deux]

Most State Police troopers implicated in overtime fraud scandal will keep their jobs

Massachusetts State Police Colonel Christopher S. Mason announced in January that the department would move to fire 22 troopers that had committed overtime fraud (https://www3.bostonglobe.com/section/state-police-turmoil?arc404=true&p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link), and were found to have

collected thousands of dollars in pay for hours they never worked.
But this week the department revealed that most of the troopers implicated — but never criminally charged in a widespread payroll scandal — will get to keep their jobs after all.

The department announced Thursday that 15 troopers will be suspended for various lengths of time and ordered to pay restitution.

One trooper has been fired, and

the department intends to fire five more once their disciplinary cases come to a close.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/10/metro/most-state-police-troopers-implicated-overtime-fraud-scandal-will-keep-their-jobs/?et_rid=769135622&s_campaign=globesmostpopular:newsletter&et_rid=769135622&s_campaign=globesmostpopular:newsletter

[boutons_deux]

CBP says it’s ‘unrealistic’ for Americans to avoid its license plate surveillance

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/10/cbp-license-plate-surveillance/

[boutons_deux]

POLICE SURVEILLED GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS WITH HELP FROM TWITTER-AFFILIATED STARTUP DATAMINR

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

[boutons_deux]

Not Enough Training

a patchwork of training requirements that vary state by state.

Minimums can range from seven months of basic training in Maryland to no months of required basic training in Hawaii.

“You can become a cop in six months and

don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist.

https://www.trainingreform.org/not-enough-training (https://www.trainingreform.org/not-enough-training)

[boutons_deux]

Companies Are Selling Cops Access To Personal Data Harvested From Malicious Hacking And Data Breaches

Hackers break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data all the time, with other hackers or scammers then using it for their own ends. But breached data now has another customer: law enforcement.
Some companies are selling government agencies access to data stolen from websites in the hope that it can generate investigative leads, with the data including passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and more.

one-stop shopping for a wealth of personal data -- including login info and passwords -- that agencies can't find anywhere else. SpyCloud says

it's "empowering" investigators by giving them data they can "use against criminals."

Using a third party like SpyCloud allows law enforcement to bypass judicial review of warrants and subpoenas,

which are normally used to obtain information directly from relevant companies once investigators have the reasonable suspicion needed to move ahead with this step.

This new method of collecting information ignores all of that to give investigators a stock pond for fishing expeditions.

This may streamline things for investigators,

but law enforcement isn't supposed to be easy.

It's supposed to be reined in by checks and balances.

SpyCloud says the hell with all of that,

allowing agencies to get everything in one place without having to check with a judge first.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200708/12352844866/companies-are-selling-cops-access-to-personal-data-harvested-malicious-hacking-data-breaches.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200708/12352844866/companies-are-selling-cops-access-to-personal-data-harvested-malicious-hacking-data-breaches.shtml)

[boutons_deux]

ICE Just Became Even Less Transparent

The new classification protects the identity of officials from public disclosure.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ice-security-agency/

[boutons_deux]

Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland

In a dangerous authoritarian move,

federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens.


https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-secret-police-portland/

[boutons_deux]

The Michigan Supreme Court Is Reviewing the Case of a Teenager Incarcerated After Not Doing Online Schoolwork During the Pandemic

Attorneys for a 15-year-old sent to juvenile detention for not doing her schoolwork argued

the teenager is not a threat to the community,

contrary to a judge’s ruling.

Now Michigan’s Supreme Court is stepping in.

has been in detention since mid-May after a judge determined she

violated her probation by not doing her online schoolwork during the pandemic.

The girl, Grace*, was a high school sophomore in Birmingham Public Schools when she was

charged with assault and theft last year.

She was placed on probation in mid-April and, among other requirements, was to complete her schoolwork.

Grace, who has ADHD and receives special education services,

struggled with the transition to online learning and fell behind.

was “detained based on incomplete schoolwork, which hardly presents a risk of harm to either the community,” or herself.

“The record is entirely devoid of facts to support the actual threat of harm presented by (Grace),”

“The suggestion that (Grace) is so dangerous she needs to be detained and separated from her mother for … months

is not supported by the evidence available.

If there is additional information that has not been disclosed, I look forward to reviewing that documentation,”

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-michigan-supreme-court-is-reviewing-the-case-of-a-teenager-incarcerated-after-not-doing-online-schoolwork-during-the-pandemic?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

"Grace" is, of course, black

[boutons_deux]

Methuen’s police chief is one of the highest paid in the country — and he says he deserves more


https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/_XyB6MPTFuL5VXbt8ifrDFjuBQ0=/1440x0/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/Y6VTYEWIWHK7XQASKY5MPUDYUA.jpg

METHUEN — This community on the New Hampshire border may be smaller than 772 other American cities, but the salary of police Chief Joseph Solomon is anything but small.

His salary of $326,707 in 2019 made Solomon one of the highest-paid police chiefs in the nation,

paid more than his counterparts in Boston, New York, Chicago, and many other major urban areas.

Methuen had one murder last year.

He is refusing to take 10 unpaid furlough days to help the cash-strapped city work down a $7 million shortfall.

He is the only department head to refuse the request from

the city’s mayor, Neil Perry, who recently cut his own pay from $80,000 to $68,000 a year.

Under Solomon’s unusual and complex five-year contract —

which gives him a myriad of perks and a guarantee he is paid at least 2.6 times more than any patrol officer —

the chief believes Methuen has underpaid him by at least $50,000 a year since 2018.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/01/metro/methuens-police-chief-is-one-highest-paid-law-enforcement-officers-country-he-wont-take-unpaid-days-off-help-tiny-city (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/01/metro/methuens-police-chief-is-one-highest-paid-law-enforcement-officers-country-he-wont-take-unpaid-days-off-help-tiny-city/?et_rid=769135622&s_campaign=globesmostpopular:newsletter&et_rid=769135622&s_campaign=globesmostpopular:newsletter)

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgqm3vY7nh0

Defund these tyrants

[boutons_deux]

'Our kids almost lose their lives to go to a football game':

Georgia cops fire into car of children

police in the area fired into a car with children inside of it after earlier suspecting the car’s driver of a traffic violation.

all five children were riding in a vehicle together when older teens in the vehicle noticed a police car tailing them with no lights on and got scared.

The teens told the younger children to get out of the car, and police ended up shooting at the remaining children, Goodman said.

The children were trying to return home to go to a football tournament two of the children were playing in Saturday in Jacksonville,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/9/1967869/--Our-kids-almost-lose-their-lives-to-go-to-a-football-game-Georgia-cops-fire-into-car-of-children?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/9/1967869/--Our-kids-almost-lose-their-lives-to-go-to-a-football-game-Georgia-cops-fire-into-car-of-children?detail=emaildkre)

white cops shooting at blacks, yep.

[boutons_deux]

Boston police fired 31 rounds in 3 seconds, killing man after wild chase from hospital, lawsuit claims









Juston Root, a 41-year-old with a long history of mental illness,

had led police on a wild chase to Brookline on Feb. 7

after brandishing a replica semi-automatic gun at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Officers swarmed the scene at a shopping center on Route 9.

One raised his foot,

kicked Root over and,

in unison with the other officers,

took aim at him and

fired 31 rounds in three seconds,

https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=6c131c885c&e=3ae3948659

[boutons_deux]

'What did I do?':

Cops surround Black Lives Matter activist on suspicion of using megaphone (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/10/1968072/-Using-megaphone-deemed-assault-when-Black-Lives-Matter-activist-does-it)

A Black activist at the forefront of New York’s Black Lives Matter protests was met with police helicopters, police dogs, and banging at the front door of his Manhattan apartment Friday

Protesters had shown up to advocate for Derrick Ingram amid the dozens of responding officers, some in tactical gear, employed to arrest the 28-year-old man.

Police spokeswoman Jessica McRorie told The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/nyregion/nypd-derrick-ingram-protester.html) the offense Ingram was guilty of was yelling in an officer's ear :lol

with a megaphone, :lol

which police deemed assault. :lol

Ingram turned himself in Saturday on a charge of second-degree assault stemming from a protest on June 14.

The prosecutor, however, agreed to have the charge reduced to misdemeanor assault,

“Our office does not condone the extraordinary tactics employed by police on Friday,”

“These actions were disproportionate to the alleged offense that occurred two months ago, and unjustifiably escalated conflict between law enforcement and

the communities we serve.” :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1968072

[boutons_deux]

The incredible saga of Baltimore's worst gang:

an elite police squad gone bad

Imagine the fall of a major gang in an American city.

A notorious gang,

convicted of robbing drug dealers and then selling their drugs,

along with racketeering,

extortion,

dressing as a mailman to robbing citizens,

stealing tips from strippers minutes after they left the pole and

various other crimes that caused people to die


(https://www.salon.com/2020/08/10/the-incredible-saga-of-baltimores-worst-gang-an-elite-police-squad-gone-bad/)that gang was the Gun Trace Task Force (https://www.salon.com/2018/02/19/baltimore-police-corruption-myths-dirty-cops-dont-just-target-criminals/),

made up of numerous celebrated police officers, including

Evodio Hendrix,
Maurice Ward,
Daniel Hersl,
Marcus Taylor,
Wayne Jenkins,
Thomas Allers,
Jemell Rayam and
Momodu Gondo.

These guys used their badges to rob and pillage for years,

while receiving praise and rewards from Baltimore City's highest officials.

(https://www.salon.com/2020/08/10/the-incredible-saga-of-baltimores-worst-gang-an-elite-police-squad-gone-bad/)https://www.salon.com/2020/08/10/the-incredible-saga-of-baltimores-worst-gang-an-elite-police-squad-gone-bad/

[boutons_deux]

the unregulated, unaccountable police state in special needs schools

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


All Lives Matter crew conspicuously silent after (WHITE) 8-year-old handcuffed at school

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/11/1968398/-All-Lives-Matter-crew-conspicuously-silent-after-8-year-old-handcuffed-in-school?detail=emaildkre

[boutons_deux]

Former Boston police union head ordered held on $100,000 bail on multiple charges of assaulting young girl

Patrick M. Rose, a former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, is facing charges that

he sexually assaulted a girl when she was 7 to 12 years old,

according to a police report filed in court.

-- Boston Globe

[boutons_deux]

AmeriKKKa's Finest

Cop caught fondling dead woman;

‘some are even sexually victimized after their deaths,’ lawyer says
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/12/1968658/-LAPD-officer-s-own-body-cam-caught-him-fondling-dead-woman-s-body-family-sues?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/12/1968658/-LAPD-officer-s-own-body-cam-caught-him-fondling-dead-woman-s-body-family-sues?detail=emaildkre)

[boutons_deux]

Police officers set dog on black man and say ‘good boy, good boy’ as it bites his leg

The 36-year-old, who was dressed in a white vest and dark trousers, was visibly startled by the officers’ arrival, and one of them shouted at him: “Get on the ground or you’re going to get bit.”

A dog was heard barking as Mr Ryans responded to the officers and told them: “I’m just going to work” while they shone torches into his eyes.

The officers then rushed into Mr Ryans’s back garden, as one of them claimed that he was trying to escape by
climbing over the fence.

After being asked to get on the floor,

the 36-year-old knelt down and put his hands in the air, but the officers kept threatening to have the dog bite him if he did not comply.

Although the footage showed that Mr Ryans complied with their order,

the officers ordered the dog, named Tuco, to attack him.
They told Tuco to “hit” Mr Ryans and

the dog attacked his leg, as he asked the officers to “stop” and shouted: “I’m on the ground, why are you biting me?”

The officers then appeared to encourage the dog to continue, and

Tuco bit Mr Ryans again, who screamed out in pain.
They praised the dog and said “good boy” repeatedly as Mr Ryans shouted:

“Why are you doing this?” and asked: “What did I do?”

https://news.yahoo.com/police-officers-set-dog-black-170803956.html (https://news.yahoo.com/police-officers-set-dog-black-170803956.html)

[boutons_deux]

State Police lost :lol

thousands of e-mails related to trooper overtime fraud case

The lack of evidence could put the prosecution of the high-profile criminal case in jeopardy.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/14/metro/state-police-lost-thousands-e-mails-related-trooper-overtime-fraud-case/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

[boutons_deux]

Georgia State Trooper Charged With Murder After Fatal Traffic Stop Shooting of Black Man

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/georgia-trooper-murder-shooting-1.jpg?w=280&quality=85
"Don't I look stupid in this silly hat?"

A Georgia state trooper was fired and charged with murder Friday a week after he shot a 60-year-old man who allegedly tried to flee a rural traffic stop,

the slaying of Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis

another chilling example of a Black man being killed unlawfully by a white law enforcement officer.

the trooper initiated the traffic stop over a burned-out tail light and

Lewis was shot almost immediately after the trooper forced his car into a ditch.

“Mr. Lewis never got out of the vehicle and the investigation will show that, mere seconds after the crash, he was shot to death, shot in the face and killed,”

the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which arrested 27-year-old Jacob Gordon Thompson on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault Friday.

The agency did not include those details in its own statement on Thompson’s arrest. :lol

https://time.com/5879794/georgia-cop-murder-shooting-black-man/

It's Georgia, "the only good knitter is a dead knitter"

[boutons_deux]

Secret Service Paid to Get Americans' Location Data Without a Warrant

A newly released document shows the U.S. Secret Service went through a controversial social media surveillance company to purchase the location information on American’s movements, no warrant necessary.

Babel Street (https://www.babelstreet.com/) is a shadowy organization that offers a product called

Locate X that is reportedly used to gather anonymized location data from a host of popular apps that users have unwittingly installed on their phones.

When we say “unwittingly,” we mean that not everyone is aware that

random innocuous apps are often bundling (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html) and anonymizing their data to be sold off to the highest bidder.

Protocol reported (https://www.protocol.com/government-buying-location-data) that U.S. Customs and Border Protection had a contract to use Locate X and that sources inside the secretive company described the system’s capabilities as

allowing a user “to draw a digital fence around an address or area,

pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area, and

see where else those devices have traveled,

going back months.”

https://gizmodo.com/secret-service-bought-access-to-americans-location-data-1844752501?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-08-18

[boutons_deux]

Shitbirds Of A Feather Flock Together: ICE Signs $274,000 Contract With Clearview

ICE continues to not care what anyone thinks of it.

Its tactics over the past few years have turned it into one of the federal government's most infamous monsters,

thanks to its

separation of families (https://time.com/5866659/ice-parents-children-detention-coronavirus-release/),

caging of children (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/25/18715725/children-border-detention-kids-cages-immigration),

unfettered surveillance (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191003/13484443117/working-with-private-sector-hundreds-law-enforcement-agencies-ice-has-assembled-massive-surveillance-network.shtml) of undocumented immigrants,

its fake university sting (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191202/16161843489/ice-says-students-duped-fake-college-sting-should-have-known-it-was-sting.shtml) created to punish students trying to remain in the country legally,

its sudden rescinding of COVID-related distance learning guidelines solely for the purpose of punishing students (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200714/17244044902/facing-multiple-lawsuits-ice-decides-not-to-punish-foreign-students-furthering-their-education-during-pandemic.shtml) trying to remain in the country legally… well, you get the picture (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180623/17171740098/leaked-ice-manual-shows-govt-allowing-informants-to-engage-illegal-behavior-impersonate-lawyers-journalists-doctors.shtml).

Perhaps it's fitting ICE is buying tech from a company that appears unconcerned (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200811/10003245090/clearview-hires-prominent-first-amendment-lawyer-to-argue-right-to-sell-scraped-data-to-cops.shtml) that most of the public hates it. Clearview (https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=clearview) -- the facial recognition software that matches uploaded facial images with billions of images scraped from the open web -- is one of the latest additions to ICE's surveillance tech arsenal (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368930/clearview-ai-ice-contract-privacy-immigration).

That its new partner is being sued (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200127/20405043812/lawsuit-says-clearviews-facial-recognition-app-violates-illinois-privacy-laws.shtml) in multiple states (including a suit (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200527/17193244591/clearview-says-section-230-immunizes-it-vermonts-lawsuit-over-alleged-privacy-violations.shtml) filed by the Vermont Attorney General) doesn't appear to concern ICE

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200817/09173945127/shitbirds-feather-flock-together-ice-signs-274000-contract-with-clearview.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200817/09173945127/shitbirds-feather-flock-together-ice-signs-274000-contract-with-clearview.shtml)

Militarized, tech-enabled, snooping police state is unstoppable

[Trill Clinton]

defund the police. Oakland sheriff's dept bodycam confirms they LIED. Mind you the chief has seen this footage and still went on with his deputy's lie that Ujiri started the encounter. Cops like this cost their citizens millions of dollars every year but as long as they uphold the values of white supremacy they don't mind paying the price.

1295912276243828738

[Trill Clinton]

tyrant cop unlawfully arrests a man for walking down the street


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pfsQBfbB8

[ChumpDumper]

defund the police. Oakland sheriff's dept bodycam confirms they LIED. Mind you the chief has seen this footage and still went on with his deputy's lie that Ujiri started the encounter. Cops like this cost their citizens millions of dollars every year but as long as they uphold the values of white supremacy they don't mind paying the price.

1295912276243828738:lol How did they think this story would work with literally hundreds of video and cell cameras recording every angle?

The deputy already has a conviction for insurance fraud on his record. Stupid hill to die on.

[RandomGuy]

Virginia state senator, NAACP leaders charged with felony 'injury' to Confederate statue

he arrest of Virginia's Senate president pro tempore is raising suspicions from the state's top Democrats.

Louise Lucas, the legislature's top ranking Democrat, who represents Portsmouth, was charged with felony "injury to a monument" and conspiracy Monday, as were the city's NAACP president and vice president, a school board member, and four others. The charges stemmed from a June protest where protesters tore down a statue of a Confederate soldier, though it's unclear if Lucas played a role in taking it down, per local station WAVY.

The timing of the arrest raised questions from Virginia House Rep. Lee Carter (D), given that the state legislature was set to reconvene this week for a special session on criminal justice reform. Virginia's constitution bars the arrest of General Assembly members during or 15 days before their sessions, except for "treason, felony, or breach of the peace."

If you're wondering why they dug up an obscure crime like "conspiracy to commit injury to a monument," it's because they need a felony to arrest a Senator within 15 days of a session.

It's not supposed to stick. The purpose is to prevent her from voting to rein in the cops. https://t.co/RRNHq4EDIo

— Lee J. Carter (@carterforva) August 17, 2020

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) echoed Carter's suspicion.

If you're wondering why they dug up an obscure crime like "conspiracy to commit injury to a monument," it's because they need a felony to arrest a Senator within 15 days of a session.

It's not supposed to stick. The purpose is to prevent her from voting to rein in the cops. https://t.co/RRNHq4EDIo

— Lee J. Carter (@carterforva) August 17, 2020

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) echoed Carter's suspicion.

------------------------------------------------------

https://news.yahoo.com/virginia-state-senator-naacp-leaders-234716449.html

[boutons_deux]

State Police lieutenant, a top earner, retires amid internal probe into paid detail violation

'Did I shortcut the process? I did, but there was nothing unethical intended,' he said

Paid detail shifts are supposed to be assigned first to troopers who have worked the fewest detail hours in the previous five weeks.

The shifts pay $50 per hour.

Lombardi made $297,252 last year,

the fourth-highest pay total in the department,

including $38,885 in overtime pay and

$112,321 in detail and “other” pay.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/18/metro/state-police-lieutenant-top-earner-retires-amid-internal-probe-into-paid-detail-violation/?p1=HP_Feed_ContentQuery (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/18/metro/state-police-lieutenant-top-earner-retires-amid-internal-probe-into-paid-detail-violation/?p1=HP_Feed_ContentQuery)

[boutons_deux]

Her Former Colleagues Called In a “Wellness Check.” Then Police Shot Her to Death.

The killing of Sandy Guardiola at the hands of a cop illustrates the limitations of brutal, armed police responding to community needs.

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2020/08/Sandy-Guardiola-feature-2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=1024&h=690

a police officer was sent to their mother’s apartment in Canandaigua, New York, to carry out a wellness check on October 4.

Neither of them had been called, although they were listed as her emergency contacts at work.

All they know is that

Scott Kadien of the Canandaigua Police Department entered Guardiola’s home

without her permission and

shot her three times while she was in her bed.

She died in the hospital that afternoon.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/22/police-shooting-wellness-check-sandy-guardiola/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

[boutons_deux]

TILTING AT WINDMILLS:

THE FBI CHASED IMAGINED ECO-ACTIVIST ENEMIES

At the wind energy industry’s behest,

the FBI and DHS gamed out attacks against targets that they acknowledged face no threat.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/24/fbi-fusion-center-environmental-wind/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

DHS has mission-creeped into a Federal police force, armed with all kids of shit, fully militarized, whose target is Americans, not foreigners.

[boutons_deux]

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

A former FBI agent has documented

links between serving officers and racist militant activities

in more than a dozen states

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report

"just a couple bad apples"

[boutons_deux]

The Loophole the DMV Uses to Sell Your Data to Private Investigators

Some private investigators told Motherboard that the reasons they can give to DMVs to access drivers' personal data are too broad.

As Department of Motor Vehicles (DMVs) around the country sell drivers' personal information (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-private-investigators-making-millions-of-dollars) to private businesses, including names, addresses, and more, ... leaving open the possibility of abuse.

Private investigators can buy this data because of the

Drivers' Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), a law written in the 1990s

before privacy became the stronger cultural focus that it is today and which governs how DMVs can sell driver data.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep47na/dmv-dppa-drivers-privacy-protection-act-buy-data-private-investigators (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep47na/dmv-dppa-drivers-privacy-protection-act-buy-data-private-investigators?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=curated_vice_daily_1023202&experimentID=eKHMOHYPTJCJSqzqCWSZjA&variantID=)

[boutons_deux]

US Law Enforcement’s Warrior Complex Is on Full Display in the Streets—and in Leaked DocumentHacked documents from the early weeks of the ongoing protest movement illustrate one of Black Lives Matter’s central observations:

Policing in the United States functions as a military occupation.


domestic law enforcement agencies, especially those on the federal level, put on display

their zeal for War on Terror–style counterinsurgency,

their propensity to portray themselves as under constant threat by conniving aggressors, and

their willingness—even eagerness—to signal-boost disprovable rumors of dissenters’ violent intentions.

federal agencies, at least in the early days of the protests, were relying on public sources of information to fill the pages of their daily briefs—thus creating a messy feedback loop between federal law enforcement, local police, and the press that was ripe for amplifying misinformation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/blueleaks-law-enforcement-blm/

The militarization of law enforcement as warriors against US citizenry will only get much worse, completely irreversible.

America is fucked and unfuckable, in so many ways.

[boutons_deux]

THE THIN BLUE LINE BETWEEN VIOLENT PRO-TRUMP MILITIAS AND POLICE

Police in Kenosha told armed vigilantes,

“We appreciate you guys. We really do.”

Then one of them killed two protesters.

In a third video, shot before the killings took place,

the same young gunman is seen interacting with law enforcement in an armored vehicle,

accepting a bottle of water as thanks for the efforts he and others in a group of armed vigilantes were putting in.

An officer in the vehicle says over a loudspeaker:

“We appreciate you guys. We really do.”

Days before the killings in a Wisconsin, a so-called Back the Blue (https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/gilbert/gilbert-protests-lead-to-punches-and-arrests-investigation-ongoing) rally in Gilbert, Arizona, saw

armed pro-police demonstrators beating counterprotesters

while law enforcement looked on.


https://theintercept.com/2020/08/28/kyle-rittenhouse-violent-pro-trump-militias-police/ (https://theintercept.com/2020/08/28/kyle-rittenhouse-violent-pro-trump-militias-police/)

[Winehole23]

nOtHiNg WiLL hApPeN tO yOu If yOu fOllOw iNsTruCtIoNs

1299982749332365312

[Winehole23]

(in b4 "that's not a drop kick")

[ChumpDumper]

Her Former Colleagues Called In a “Wellness Check.” Then Police Shot Her to Death.

The killing of Sandy Guardiola at the hands of a cop illustrates the limitations of brutal, armed police responding to community needs.

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2020/08/Sandy-Guardiola-feature-2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=1024&h=690

a police officer was sent to their mother’s apartment in Canandaigua, New York, to carry out a wellness check on October 4.

Neither of them had been called, although they were listed as her emergency contacts at work.

All they know is that

Scott Kadien of the Canandaigua Police Department entered Guardiola’s home

without her permission and

shot her three times while she was in her bed.

She died in the hospital that afternoon.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/22/police-shooting-wellness-check-sandy-guardiola/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter


I'm in favor of defunding the police's shooting people in their beds.

[boutons_deux]

Why does the number of Texas police shootings keep increasing?

police shootings had increased (https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-increase-in-number-of-texans-shot.html) over the course of the prior decade.

Now, the Texas Justice Initiative analyzed police shooting reports (https://texasjusticeinitiative.org/publications/officer-involved-shootings-in-texas) and found that they continued to rise from calendar-years 2016 through 2019.

during a period when traffic enforcement has plummeted (https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/05/austin-traffic-stop-totals-remain-low.html) compared to not very long ago.

The number of fine-only criminal cases filed in municipal courts (Class C misdemeanors) statewide has dropped to well below 1990 levels,

when Texas' population was 17 million compared to 30 million now.

(See p. 20 of the latest OCA Statistical report (https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1445760/fy-19-annual-statistical-report.pdf).) Overall arrests statewide peaked in 2009 and have declined since then (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2016/07/16/fatal-encounters-suspects-deaths-rise-across-texas-even-as-arrests-drop/).)

Couple these reduced contacts with the public with crime drops across the board since the '90s and

the growth of Texas' police force to 80,000 officers, their numbers swelling (https://www.tcole.texas.gov/content/current-statistics) every day, and

the overall picture emerges over the last three decades that ever-more officers are responding to less and less crime.

A recent analysis of Austin patrol calls found that 2/3 of officer time was spent responding to non-crimes (https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/07/three-quarters-of-austin-pd-911.html), often because there was no one else available.

this sort of large-scale government waste rooted in mission creep is generally something conservatives criticize.

It's an oddity to me that evaluating and then

cutting the police budget has become this partisan heresy conservatives are supposed to abhor.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/08/why-does-number-of-texas-police.html?fbclid=IwAR27DU_ZTENk_cXFavNArY1mQY3ny IOh0ViPSJ88IUO0lSqxB2xaZQS63og

Repugs won't cut law enforcement funding, nor MIC funding, but they will and do cut social safety net.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118640604_3255379281175026_7641369028053445658_o.j pg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=mu4PjsYGQHEAX9GA9IT&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=d636b9cb4cce7452386df8dffe9738dd&oe=5F71FCF4

[boutons_deux]

More proof that law enforcement is in fact the official govt expression of America's deep, pervasive racism

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and

racist militant activities in more than a dozen states

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report

[Ef-man]

More proof that law enforcement is in fact the official govt expression of America's deep, pervasive racism

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and

racist militant activities in more than a dozen states

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report




Great post..

Just wait for derp to deny it.

:lmao

[Winehole23]

LA police gangs


The deputy who shot and killed 18-year-old Andres Guardado outside a car shop in Gardena was a prospective member of a violent clique inside the Compton Sheriff’s station, according to the sworn testimony of a whistleblower.


“It is very disturbing – to say the least – that gangs are commonly known to exist within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. These reports go to the heart of our concerns that the Sheriff’s Department promotes and harbors a culture of violence against the public. Make no mistake, we have every intention of conducting a thorough investigation into the potential involvement of any Sheriff’s Department gang in the shooting of Andres Guardado.”

More than a dozen deputies have matching tattoos and belong to a violent clique called the Executioners at the station, according to Deputy Art Gonzalez, who filed a whistleblower complaint regarding the Executioners in June.



The sheriff said his department is investigating the claims and has already relieved two deputies of duty and transferred six others.


Gonzalez’s testimony casts a cloud over other cases, including the shooting of 18-year-old Andres Guardado, who was shot five times in the back by a sheriff’s deputy earlier this year. Gonzalez claims Vega was a prospective member of the Executioners.

Spectrum News 1 requested a comment from Vega’s attorney but did not hear back.

As for Gonzalez, he’s now on leave from the department and in fear for his life, he said. His testimony has inspired two more deputies to come forward with similar stories of the Compton station.
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/public-safety/2020/08/30/whistleblower-testifies-deputy-who-shot-gardena-teen-was--chasing-ink--

[Winehole23]

background:

https://losangeleno.com/features/secret-lasd-gangs-cost-county-millions/
https://www.courthousenews.com/la-sheriff-vows-to-discipline-officers-in-deputy-gang-linked-brawl/
https://www.laweekly.com/l-a-sheriffs-gang-jump-out-boys-reportedly-prides-itself-on-officer-involved-shootings/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/l-deputies-secret-club-demanded-sex-female-trainees-says-suit-n66026
https://theappeal.org/deputy-gangs-los-angeles-banditos/

[boutons_deux]

LA police gangs




sheriff gangs, which is not to say the cops don't have their own gangs.

[Winehole23]

sheriff gangs, which is not to say the cops don't have their own gangs.That's a fair distinction. LAPD isn't immune to cop culture, but LASD is the snakepit.

[Winehole23]

defund this shit

1301558770414346240

[boutons_deux]

When Asthma in Jail Becomes a Death Sentence

Deaths like Savion Hall’s are tragically common in Texas jails.

What’s unusual are the criminal charges against the people responsible for treating him.

https://www.texasobserver.org/when-asthma-in-jail-becomes-a-death-sentence/?utm_source=mc (https://www.texasobserver.org/when-asthma-in-jail-becomes-a-death-sentence/?utm_source=mc&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=sept_5_2020&goal=0_975e2d1fa1-2913b1e3e9-34733575&mc_cid=2913b1e3e9&mc_eid=b9077e7e26)

[boutons_deux]

Even a Federal Judge Agrees That the FBI and NSA Are Flouting Civil Liberty Safeguards

The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation

violated thousands of people’s civil liberties

by exploiting systems intended for sussing out foreign intelligence and criminal activity

the FBI violated the law and the

NSA ignored regulations

when these agencies hoovered up emails and other forms of electronic communications from U.S. companies under a law meant for collecting specific intel.

Boasberg noted that “there still appear to be widespread violations” aka UNSTOPPABLE

even after the same federal court denounced these agencies over the very same violations in the past.

https://gizmodo.com/even-a-federal-judge-agrees-that-the-fbi-and-nsa-are-fl-1844963050?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-09-05 (https://gizmodo.com/even-a-federal-judge-agrees-that-the-fbi-and-nsa-are-fl-1844963050?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-09-05)

An OBAMA JUDGE, of course.

A Trash/Moscow Mitch/Leonard Leo would have ruled the opposite

[boutons_deux]

Mayor suspends officers involved in man’s suffocation death

Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York, were suspended Thursday by the city’s mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter.

Prude, 41, who was Black, died when he was taken off life support March 30. That was seven days after officers who encountered him running naked through the street put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then

held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing.

Warren acknowledged that Prude “was failed by the police department, our mental health care system, our society, and he was failed by me.”


The videos and other records detailed how police had gone looking for Prude after he bolted from his brother’s home early on March 23, hours after receiving a mental health evaluation at a hospital.

When officers found Prude he was completely naked, on the street in a light snow.

He lay on the ground as they handcuffed him, then grew agitated, shouting and writhing and demanding that the officers give him a gun.

Officers put a hood over his head because he had been spitting and then

pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, police video shows.

https://apnews.com/b85795102acbc0c867d6bfd155b501b7?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningwire&pnespid=jeJ.seBDBw6NuMrhMz93IQqfVO2pJ0xvWe0t9EWs

Mental health care from police therapists, just another dehumanized chunk of black meat to be slaughtered.

[boutons_deux]

ABQ in top national rank in deaths by police

Albuquerque Police Engaged in Secret Intelligence Gathering Operation

Albuquerque Police Department (APD) has engaged in a large-scale data and intelligence gathering operation since 2006

carried out entirely by private citizens and corporate partners.

This privatization of data-gathering means

APD has avoided community oversight and judicial review in the acquisition of this information,

some of which would have required a warrant to collect.

In addition, documents show this operation has been used on

at least two occasions for explicitly partisan political purposes.

Big Box retailers upload photos, video, descriptions, license plate numbers, and more to a database owned by APD.

Leaked files reveal a membership roster that includes

thousands of Albuquerque residents,
business organizations,
neighborhood association block captains,
apartment managers,
hotel clerks,
bank tellers,
pawnshop owners, and
more who have been, or currently are, engaged in information gathering for APD.

And internal emails show that the operation

was not solely about the investigation of alleged retail or property crimes but

focused also on general data and intelligence gathering.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/07/albuquerque-police-engaged-in-secret-intelligence-gathering-operation-leaked-documents-show/ (https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/07/albuquerque-police-engaged-in-secret-intelligence-gathering-operation-leaked-documents-show/)

ABQ PD appears to be a totally corrupt, criminal outfit, needs disbanding.

[boutons_deux]

Florida sheriff mimics dystopian scheme to arrest people before crime happens and creates a dystopia

a candidate for Florida sheriff went all in on predictive policing in 2011. And after a decade,

actually promising to stop crime before it happens. :lol

A decade later, the results are amazing … but not in a good way.

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco

https://www.flsheriffs.org/images/sheriffs/pasco-cropped.png

... created a intelligence department :lol

that includes 30 crime-busting programmers and analysts—

more people than the total number of employees in many sheriff departments.

Nocco hasn’t stopped with trying to predict crime before it happens.

He’s determined to carry out

persecution of people who haven’t committed a crime—and

to convict them of something, even if it’s nothing.

his department has become “a system of organized harassment.”

red ball” turns up naming someone as a potential criminal, deputies from Nocco’s department respond in force.

They swarm homes inthe middle of the night,

waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors.

They write tickets for missing mailbox numbers and overgrown grass,

saddling residents with court dates and fines.

They come again and again,

making arrests for any reason they can.


one kid, who was 15 and had a single arrest for stealing bikes,


Pasco Sheriff’s deputies appeared at his home 21 times in a year.


They also appeared at his school.


And at his mother’s job.


And even at his gym.


Not because he had done anything, but because their system said he was a “target.”

the purpose of the program is to “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”



Families across the country have found out that Nocco can still pursue them,

even when they are several states away from Nocco’s supposed jurisdiction.


a list of people considered “likely to break the law.”


This list appears to be based in part on past arrests,


but it also includes a secret sauce of other data and analysis that Nocco will not reveal.


the sheriff’s department actually sends out deputies to find and interrogate people not just without a search warrant,


but without evidence of any crime.


They feed in names of people who targets were associated with, mostly friends and family.


Then those people become targets, and the system expands.


Taking Pasco County with the seven nearest counties of equivalent size,

Pasco is the only one where violence crime has increased.

the sheriff’s office is also going to start adding people who had been committed to psychiatric hospitals to their data set of targets.


Because what anyone suffering from mental illness needs, is repeated, unexpected visits from armed deputies.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1974962 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1974962)

Any guess the skin color most of Nocco's victims are? hint: FL is racist, shitbag Repug shithole.

"The current Sheriff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff) is Chris Nocco, who was appointed by Repug shitbag Governor Rick Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott)." :lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasco_County_Sheriff%27s_Office#Sheriff_Chris_Nocc o

[boutons_deux]

‘He’s a small child’:

Utah police shot a 13-year-old autistic boy

after his mother called 911 for help


https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/FP3VUCB465DVDAPNNTYXKYGGUE.png&w=767

a Salt Lake City police officer

repeatedly shot Linden Cameron after he ran away,

leaving the boy in serious condition with

injuries to his intestines, bladder, shoulder and ankles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/08/linden-cameron-utah-autistic-shooting (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/08/linden-cameron-utah-autistic-shooting/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most)

[boutons_deux]

More than half of all wrongful criminal convictions are caused by government misconduct, study finds

Misconduct can be intentional or unintentional, but either way innocent people are found guilty

54 percent of those defendants are victimized by official misconduct,

with police involved in 34 percent of cases,

prosecutors in 30 percent,

and some cases involving both police and prosecutors.

a 2014 study found that

4.1 percent of all death sentences between 1973 and 2004 were imposed on innocent defendants,

in cases presumably with much more legal work involved.

“What does that tell you about non-death cases? We don’t know,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/09/16/more-than-half-all-wrongful-criminal-convictions-caused-by-government-misconduct-study-finds

America is fucked and unfuckable

[DMC]

SpursTalk police semenshielders ignoring this one.
White people :lol

[boutons_deux]

GOP State Officials Threaten Violent ‘War’ Against Black Lives Matter (https://www.nationalmemo.com/gop-state-leaders-threaten-violent-war-against-black-lives-matter)

two local Republican leaders published and then deleted social media posts which

threatened violence in an imminent right-wing clash against Black Lives Matter and Antifa (anti-fascist) activists.

First, Iron County, Utah commissioner Paul Cozzens published a now-deleted picture (https://www.newsweek.com/utah-commissioner-posts-meme-threatening-violence-against-antifa-blm-police-defunded-1532532) showing a soldier with a gun and the words:

"Warning to BLM & Antifa—Once you've managed to defund & eliminate the police, there's nobody protecting you from us. Remember that."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiAAiCZXkAI_WbJ?format=png&name=360x360


Michael Brown — a Republican member of the Johnson County Commission in Kansas City, Missouri — published a now-deleted Facebook message (https://www.newsweek.com/republican-county-commissioner-urges-americans-arm-coming-war-1532354) in which he

urged his followers to "buy a firearm and ammunition" for "the coming war" that is both "inevitable" and

caused by left-wing police reform activists and Democratic leaders who are "silent" and "weak."
"[This] isn't a joke or hyperbole," Brown wrote.

"I'd rather fight and die than live in their dictated world."

https://www.nationalmemo.com/gop-state-leaders-threaten-violent-war-against-black-lives-matter

[Ef-man]

Sounds like something derp would do for attention :lol

“A Louisiana officer who claimed someone shot him actually shot himself, police say“

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/us/louisiana-police-officer-fake-ambush-trnd/index.html

[boutons_deux]

TEXAS DEPLOYED SWAT, BOMB ROBOT, SMALL ARMY OF COPS TO ARREST A WOMAN AND HER DOG

She had done nothing wrong. State troopers started following her because of “anti-law enforcement rhetoric” on her car windows.

She started to suspect that it might have something to do with the slogans soaped all over the windows of her 2001 Toyota 4Runner. In addition to

“BROWN PRIDE” and

“BLACK LIVES MATTER,”

written across the rear window were the words

“FUCK THESE RACIST POLICE.”

She panicked, and instead of pulling over, she came to a dead stop in the middle of the First Street Bridge, blocking the inside lane.

The state trooper, Garrett Ray, was joined by a second DPS officer, Jason Melson.

Instead of approaching the 4Runner, they drew their service weapons and took cover behind the open doors of their patrol vehicles.

According to Ray’s incident report, it was an “HRS,” or high-risk stop, also known as a felony stop: a procedure employed when an officer believes that someone in the car has committed a serious crime and could be dangerous.

I was riding my bike around Ladybird Lake, and I counted at least 40 DPS vehicles blocking the south end of the First Street Bridge.

There had to be 80 cops on scene by that time, if not 100.

The emergency vehicles included a fire truck,

an ambulance, and

two BearCat armored personnel carriers.

on one rear window I distinctly made out the acronym ACAB, which stands for “all cops are bastards.”

Other agencies were present as well.

A U.S. Marshal in boots and jeans suited up in a bulletproof vest alongside his Ford F-150 4×4.

Texas Army National Guardsmen patrolled the side of the bridge,

lest an amphibious threat come from the paddleboarders on Ladybird Lake. City bike cops in blue polo shirts held the outer perimeter.

Overhead, a police helicopter circled.

Technicians in T-shirts and camo pants were unpacking a drone the size of a coffee table on the pavement.

A smaller police drone, consumer-grade, already hovered above the beleaguered 4Runner.

I had only been there a few moments when

an APD SWAT team arrived.

They pulled up in eight blacked-out Chevrolet Tahoes with all the insignia removed, and

commenced to unload an arsenal of military weapons and body armor from big drawers that pulled out of the beds.

The sound of multiple firearms being locked and loaded echoed from the face of the apartment building across the street.

One SWAT officer with tribal tattoos had his shirt off as he changed uniforms.

A SWAT sniper with a heavy backpack went trotting off in the direction of Aussie’s, the sand volleyball bar, presumably to find a shooter’s nest in the urban terrain.

A vehicle like a refrigerated truck pulled up, and

police technicians placed an antenna on the roof and busied themselves assembling some kind of machine in the cargo area.

A potbellied DPS officer in a felt cowboy hat walked up to those who remained and began

to take photos of us with a digital camera.

It was an unexpected thing to do to unoffending pedestrians, and

chilling the way he went about it,

coldly making eye contact with each person in turn.

Shortly before noon, the SWAT team — about two dozen men — stacked behind one of the BearCat armored vehicles and began to advance on foot toward the stationary 4Runner.

Behind them, a line of half-ton police SUVs crept forward at a walking pace, their bright LED light bars flashing silently in the heat.

The two BearCats boxed in the 4Runner, front and rear, and physically sandwiched it in place,

crushing both bumpers.

The big gray police drone hovered directly above, like a UFO about to abduct the driver.

Finally, the bomb robot moved in and used its mechanical arm to smash a window that said “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.”

The SWAT officers instructed her to reach with her left hand and open the door from the outside, step out slowly, and lie face down on the ground.

She was wearing a stretchy black dress and boots, and the hot pavement burned her bare knees.

Next, they had her crawl backwards toward the sound of their voices.

“They’re shouting all this stuff at me: ‘Go forward. Now actually back up. All right, go forward. No, no, no, wrong. Go back.’ I’m like, ‘What do you want me to do? I’ll do it.’”

She was released without charges within the hour.

DPS returned her 4Runner with the window broken and both ends crushed.

She was not offered compensation for the damage

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/22/texas-austin-police-militarization-budget/

[boutons_deux]

UNREDACTED FBI DOCUMENT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON

WHITE SUPREMACIST INFILTRATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years

but failed to warn the public.

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist-infiltration-fbi/

More evidence that the law enforcement is corrupt, out of control, ready to obey and assist a fascist takeover by Trash or a subsequent Repug Pres

[boutons_deux]

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do?

Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

The Los Angeles Police Department has run facial recognition algorithms a whopping 29,817 times over a decade in an attempt to identify suspected criminals captured in CCTV footage,

despite promising it wouldn't.

Officers used software built by DataWorks Plus,

the same biometrics company whose technology led to two wrongful arrests by the Detroit Police Department,

Technically the LAPD does not have its own tools,

it instead outsources the use of machine-learning algorithms through a database of mugshots compiled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/27/in_brief_ai/

[boutons_deux]

Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd’s Burial

Records obtained by VICE News show

police in Pearland, Texas, invited federal agents to surveil Floyd's burial and authorized them to open fire in the event of unrest.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz7zd/border-patrol-snipers-were-authorized-to-use-deadly-force-at-george-floyds-burial?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=curated_vice_daily_1023202&experimentID=eKHMOHYPTJCJSqzqCWSZjA&variantID=

[boutons_deux]

A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans

An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.


stewart rhodes was living his vision of the future.

He answered his phone. “Let’s not fuck around,” he said. “We’ve descended into civil war.”

Rhodes had been talking about civil war since he founded the Oath Keepers, in 2009.



https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/CDglYZzLcwpKeVaIzEWaWx0XEt8=/1920x1080/media/img/2020/09/30/sRGB_Montgomery_Atlantic_OathKeepers_CROP/original.jpg
Rhodes scholar shot out his own eye.

whereas Rhodes had once cast himself as a revolutionary in waiting,

he now saw his role as defending the president. :lol

He had put out a call for his followers to protect the country against what he was calling an “insurrection.”

The unrest, he told me, was the latest attempt to undermine Donald Trump.

when a Trump supporter was killed later that week in Portland, Oregon,

Rhodes declared that there was no going back. “Civil war is here, right now,” he wrote,

Rhodes published them on his blog:

“Your message is spreading and I will make sure it gets to more Marines.”

“Not only will I refuse any unlawful order that violates the Constitution I will fight the tyrants that give the orders. Rest assured that me and my brothers in Law Enforcement talk about this subject on a regular basis.”

“I fully support you and what you stand for and I do talk about these things with some of my subordinates,” an Air Force officer wrote. “Those who I trust that is.”

When Trump warned of civil war, Rhodes voiced his assent. “This is the truth,” he wrote. “This is where we are.”

Rhodes wrote a creed listing 10 types of orders that members vow to resist.

new members signed up at recruiting events or on the Oath Keepers website.

They hailed from every state.

About two-thirds had a background in the military or law enforcement.

About 10 percent of these members were active-duty.

There was a sheriff in Colorado, a SWAT-team member in Indiana, a police

There were Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers,

a 20-year special agent in the Secret Service, and

two people who said they were in the FBI.

David Hines, a conservative writer, has called

guns the right’s most successful organizing platform.

The issue demands local involvement, to closely track not just federal but state and municipal laws and politics.

Guns are also social. To shoot them, you’ll likely head to a range, and to buy them, you’ll likely visit a store or a gun show where you’ll find people who share your mindset.

“Guns,” Hines writes, “are onramps to activism.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/

A mob of self-important, gun-fellatin-obsessed whackos lost in a fantasy world. It's a circle jerk

[boutons_deux]

17 San Antonio-area first responders arrested so far in 2020

Sixteen law enforcement agents and one firefighter in the San Antonio area have been arrested so far 2020.

The men worked for various agencies, including the

Bexar County Sheriff's Office,
the Kirby Fire Department,
the Border Patrol and
the U.S. Marshals Service,
the San Antonio Police Department and
the Cibolo Police Department.

Their alleged offensives range from possession of child pornography to intoxicated manslaughter.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/jim-carreys-joe-biden-silences-trump-as-the-audience-roars-during-snls-season-opener

IIRC, in 2019, 20+ Bexar cty deputies were arrested for drunk driving.

[boutons_deux]

One of the most corrupt federal agencies in the U.S. wants to destroy its internal records

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has asked (https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cbp-wants-to-destroy-records-of-misconduct-we-cant-let-them/) the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for the green light

to erase its paper trail and destroy internal documents,

including records concerning alleged misconduct,

as soon as four years from now (https://theintercept.com/2020/10/06/homeland-security-dhs-misconduct-records-erasure/).“CBP misconduct often only becomes public via leaks, investigative reporting, or lawsuits,”

, “meaning the loss of internal records could forever bury unknown abuses.

For example, the first death of a child (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/7-year-old-migrant-girl-taken-into-border-patrol-custody-dies-of-dehydration-exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909e356-ff03-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html) in CBP custody in over 10 years was revealed by journalists,

after CBP failed to report the death to Congress, as required.”
Congress gave the agency emergency humanitarian funds for food and medical supplies in an attempt to prevent further tragedies.

But in a blockbuster report this year (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/12/1952605/-Government-report-says-CBP-violated-law-by-spending-humanitarian-funds-on-dog-program-and-dirt-bikes), the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) said

the agency violated law by spending some of those funds

on dirt bikes,

computer network upgrades, and

a canine program.

A possible end to the Trump administration within the next couple months could mean we begin a true period of accountability.

CBP knows that too.

“With systemic failures of oversight,

CBP’s abject failure to hold its own personnel accountable, and

a complete lack of transparency,

the last thing the agency should be permitted to do is purge its own records,”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1984402

The out-of-control DHS Schutzstaffel is what "what what the military risks and loses its lives for"

I bet the CPB documents are already rotten with lies, with missing records, etc.

[boutons_deux]

Ex-jail employees charged for playing 'Baby Shark' on repeat

Two former Oklahoma jail employees and their supervisor face misdemeanor cruelty charges after investigators found they forced inmates to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to the children's song “Baby Shark" on repeat

At least four inmates were secured to a wall with their hands cuffed behind them while the song played on a loop at a loud volume for hours,

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Ex-jail-employees-charged-for-playing-Baby-15624991.php

as always, just a couple bad apples

[Ef-man]

Long arm of law:

Former Philadelphia officer is indicted for murder in 2017 shooting of unarmed Black man



http://https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/10/us/philadelphia-officer-indicted-murder-unarmed-black-man/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/10/us/philadelphia-officer-indicted-murder-unarmed-black-man/index.html)

[boutons_deux]

Black man led by white police on horseback sues for $1m

Galveston Police apologised last year after footage emerged of Donald Neely, 44, arrested for criminal trespassing.

A lawsuit filed this week alleged the officers' conduct was "extreme and outrageous" and caused Mr Neely injury and emotional and mental anguish.

The trespass charges against Mr Neely were later dismissed in court.

Many people on social media compared the footage of Mr Neely to the slavery era, an allusion referenced explicitly in the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, the officers should have been aware that Mr Neely, "being led with a rope and by mounted officers down a city street as though he was a slave, would find this contact offensive".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54514313



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GNv6I5ZurE&ab_channel=TODAY

[boutons_deux]

Location Data Obtained By CBP Comes From Phone Apps,

Is Capable Of Tracking People On Both Sides Of The Border

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201011/15350245480/location-data-obtained-cbp-comes-phone-apps-is-capable-tracking-people-both-sides-border.shtml

I assume entire law enforcement can know where anybody with a personal tracking device, aka phone, is.

[boutons_deux]

Efficient mental health care by blood-thirsty, racist cops

Police Shot a Black Man 10 Times

While His Mother Begged Them to De-Escalate

“Why didn’t they use a Taser?” his father said. “His mother was trying to defuse the situation.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mgj9/philadelphia-police-shot-a-mentally-ill-black-man-10-times-while-his-mother-begged-them-to-de-escalate-walter-wallace

[Winehole23]

SCOTUS reversed CA5 on a qualified immunity case that should have been a no-brainer

1323277425854369793

[dbestpro]

Policing the police needs to be better. The idea that a gun is needed for every altercation is a bad idea. The idea that the moment a guy pulls a knife is open season to fire away is just wrong. Anyone in police needs to have routine psych evals. The culture needs to switch from catching the bad guy first to helping people first. Catching the bad guy is still important but it should never be done when it puts innocent people in jeopardy. It is also just as if not more reprehensible when cops are on the take or being bought off. Cops need to be above reproach, otherwise all the bluster about safety is a faux message.

The policing of America needs a culture change.

[boutons_deux]

Texas Cops Engage In Millions Of Roadside Searches, Find Nothing Illegal 80 Percent Of The Time

Pretextual stops (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) are bread-and-butter for cops.

There's plenty of real crime out there waiting to be solved, but that requires time and attention that law enforcement apparently just doesn't have.

So, a lot of what passes for "law enforcement" is just officers rolling the dice on vehicle searches, hoping to find something illegal (or at least some cash) to justify the roadside harassment.

In 2018, the most recent year for which data is available,

just 45.5% of all violent crime cases reported to police in America were "cleared,"

typically meaning a suspect was arrested, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/tables/table-25).

When it came to property crimes, the clearance rate was much lower, at just 17.6%.

There are plenty of traffic stops. But there's actually very little "crime solving" happening.

The Houston Chronicle has looked into local law enforcement activity (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/why-police-vehicle-searches-in-Texas-nothing-15631045.php) and found

almost nothing that justifies pretextual stops or

the extended amount of time that elapses between when the lights go on and citizens are free to go.

Training seminars and Dunning-Kreuger :lol

have convinced cops they can do something almost no person can:

determine guilt just by talking to people.

Evidence of criminal activity is almost nonexistent.


Statistically, police are terrible at determining which motorists are worthy of being detained and searched.

Most turn up nothing.

Often relying on signs of a driver’s deception that research has long debunked,

officers distinguish liars from truth-tellers at a rate barely above chance, studies show.


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201020/10094045543/texas-cops-engage-millions-roadside-searches-find-nothing-illegal-80-percent-time.shtml

[boutons_deux]

Officers from department that killed Breonna Taylor

hid at least 738,000 records of sexual assault

the corrupted mindset the department has.

the department concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts, a youth program for minors interested in law enforcement, by two officers.officers Brandon Wood and Kenneth Betts were accused of sexually abusing youths in the Explorer program.

"LMPD does not have possession or control of the records.”

contradicted by Louisville Sgt. Robert Banta, who told Taylor in an email he could provide "any and all documents involved in the Explorer investigation up until April 1, 2017,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/12/1995250/-Officers-from-the-department-that-killed-Breonna-Taylor-hid-at-least-738-000-cases-of-sexual-assault?detail=emaildkre

[boutons_deux]

Utah Senator Tells People To Stay Home If They Don't Want To Be Mauled By Police Dogs

When cops can't do the brutalization themselves, they send in man's best friend (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/14553030595/new-jersey-cop-demands-camera-eyewitness-after-police-dog-allowed-to-maul-prone-suspect.shtml).

Best friend to The Man, that is. K-9 "officers" aren't just for illegally extending traffic stops (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160209/09322733559/drug-dogs-dont-even-have-to-be-right-half-time-to-be-considered-reliable-courts.shtml).

They're also capable of maiming people for the offense of not being respectful/subdued enough for an officer's liking.

cops are more than willing to use police dogs to inflict pain on arrestees,

even when there's nothing about the situation that demands such a violent response.

Just being a suspected criminal is enough to trigger dog handlers,

who appear to feel any amount of damage to another human being is justified.

The dog lunged, found a man and bit down, according to court records.

It took almost two minutes for the handler to pull the dog off.

And before long, their suspect, a 51-year-old Black man, bled to death. The dog had torn an artery in his groin.

The burglary suspect actually had permission to be in the house.

These dogs, whose jaws and teeth are strong enough to punch through sheet metal, often produce severe injuries.

Police employ them not only in emergencies, but also for low-level, non-violent incidents.

The dogs bite thousands of Americans each year, including innocent bystanders, police officers, even their own handlers.

And there is little oversight, nationally or in the states, of how police departments use them.

Police dog bites can be more like shark attacks than nips from a family pet, according to experts and medical researchers (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572346106000596).

A dog chewed on an Indiana man’s neck for 30 seconds (https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/lafayette/2020/07/24/lafayette-police-officers-investigated-k-9-attack-suspect/5481294002/), puncturing his trachea and slicing his carotid artery.

A dog ripped off an Arizona man’s face (https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-claim-police-dog-brutality-bite-degloving-face-injury-11324799).

A police dog in California took off a man’s testicle.

Dog bites cause more hospital visits than any other use of force by police (https://www.iup.edu/criminology/research/policek9/),

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201108/12400445670/utah-senator-tells-people-to-stay-home-if-they-dont-want-to-be-mauled-police-dogs.shtml

[boutons_deux]

A Watchdog Accused Officers of Serious Misconduct.

Few Were Punished.

An analysis by The New York Times found that the

N.Y.P.D. has reduced or rejected recommendations for stiff discipline of officers in about 71 percent of 6,900 serious misconduct charges.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/nyregion/ccrb-nyc-police-misconduct.html

cops everywhere know that they essentially immune to displine, punishment, dismissal

Just another symptom of a very sick country

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/fp1LdbN/20201115-141939.jpg

[boutons_deux]

'Unacceptable': :lol

Body camera shows a New Braunfels officer using a stun gun during traffic stop

Mayor Rusty Brockman and City Manager Robert Camareno said in a joint news conference that

the type of behavior seen in the video will not be tolerated. :lol

They called Meyer's actions "unacceptable" and not representative of the men and women of the NBPD. :lol

Meyer tells a supervisor that he was going to "go give him a warning, :lol

you know just tell him hey clean his plates :lol

and he started acting ridiculous." :lol

He also said Crawford had been driving "weird." :lol

He was never placed on administrative leave and Camareno said

there was no initial internal investigation because

Meyer's actions were viewed as a "training issue." :lol

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/Unaccepable-behavior-Body-camera-footage-shows-15730811.php

[boutons_deux]

DHS PLANS TO START COLLECTING EYE SCANS AND DNA — WITH THE HELP OF DEFENSE CONTRACTORS

As the agency plans to collect more biometrics, including from U.S. citizens,

Northrop Grumman is helping build the infrastructure. to collect unprecedented levels of biometric information from immigration applicants and their sponsors — including U.S. citizens.

THE PROPOSED RULE represents a significant departure from current practices, where only certain applicants for visas, residency, and naturalization must submit photographs and fingerprints.

Under the new regime, practically
everyone presenting an application with USCIS, and
their U.S. resident or citizen sponsors,

will be expected to provide
iris scans,
voiceprints (https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/voice-recognition-technology-nsa/) —
which can be used to identify an individual by the sound and tenor of their voice alone —
palmprints, and
DNA in cases where they are attempting to prove a genetic relationship.

As written, it leaves the door open for adding an unlimited amount of other characteristics without further public discussion, including

“behavioral characteristics” such as gait recognition (https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a).

https://theintercept.com/2020/11/17/dhs-biometrics-dna/

[boutons_deux]

If the hilarious (Priscilla Owen) right wing fringe 5th says this, you know the crime is real

Fifth Circuit Denies Immunity To Cops Who Beat And Tased An Unresisting Man To Death

After a middle school official reported a man "acting strange" near the school grounds, the "strange" man -- Kendole Joseph -- ran into a nearby convenience store and hid behind the counter.

The two school resource officers were soon joined by twelve(!) Gretna police officers.

Some of these 12 officers severely beat Joseph, ultimately ending his life.

The first officers went over the counter to "secure" Joseph. Somehow this involved multiple tasings and a nearly uninterrupted beating.

The convenience-store manager, who was behind the counter at the time, testified that

Joseph looked scared and immediately “went face down.”

Once on the ground, Joseph covered his face with his hands and assumed the fetal position.

Seconds later, Officers Martin and Leduff followed Joseph over the counter.

Officer Martin, weighing 300 pounds, immediately placed his full weight onto Joseph, who was still lying on the floor with his legs bent toward his chest.

Officer Leduff began holding Joseph’s upper body down.


Apparently, this wasn't enough restraint. More force was deployed on the Joseph.

At that point, approximately thirty seconds after Officer Martin jumped over the counter, he ordered Joseph to put his hands behind his back and deployed his taser for eleven seconds.


As more officers poured into the store, the assault continued.


Officer Dugas handed a baton to Officer Martin, who jabbed it downward, striking Joseph at least twice with the pointed end.


Apparently nothing else was happening in Gretna that afternoon.

A few seconds later, Officers Varisco, Costa, and Rolland entered the store, followed shortly by Officer Faison. Officers Varisco and Faison observed from the front side of the counter, and Officers Costa and Rolland walked behind the counter.

Officer Varisco reached over to offer his taser to the officers behind the counter.

Officer Costa briefly observed from behind the counter, then entered the scrum, holding Joseph’s lower body down.


Yet another officer entered and the Taser was deployed again.

Officer Verrett then entered the store. Two seconds later, Officer Martin deployed his taser again, for three seconds.


The officers attempted to pull Joseph out from behind the counter. The methods used were… questionable.

Officers Martin, Thompson, Dugas, and Costa began attempting to drag Joseph from the narrower area behind the counter to the wider area, on the path to the door.

Officer Costa then kicked Joseph twelve to thirteen times while holding onto the counter.

During this time, Officer Verrett entered the scrum.

Officer Martin then punched Joseph in the head three times.

Officers Martin, Thompson, Dugas, Costa, Faison, and Verrett resumed their efforts to drag Joseph toward the wider area,

while Officer Leduff observed. Once in the wider area,

Officer Martin punched Joseph in the face three times.

Officer Bartlett then jumped over the counter and began holding Joseph down.

Seconds later, Officer Costa punched Joseph in the head six times.


A little over three minutes later, the beaten man was in cuffs and lying prone in the backseat of a cop car, face down.

Medical professionals noted Joseph was unresponsive and performed CPR. Two days later, Joseph died

from injuries suffered at the hands of these officers.

The injuries were extensive.

In total, Joseph endured twenty-six blunt-force injuries to his face, chest, back, extremities, scrotum, and testes.


And it doesn't appear any of them were justified.

Throughout the eight-minute encounter, Joseph was on the ground, experiencing acute psychosis, and continuously yelling.

Officer Bartlett recalled Joseph “yelling random things” and pleading for someone to “call the police.”

Officer Faison and the store manager recalled him pleading for someone to “call the real police.”

Officer Leduff recalled Joseph calling for his mother and “saying all types of things,” including that he was “about to be killed.”

The store manager recalled Joseph calling out for his mother and repeatedly yelling,

“My name is Kendole Joseph,” and “I do not have a weapon.”


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201121/16372645749/fifth-circuit-denies-immunity-to-cops-who-beat-tased-unresisting-man-to-death.shtml

[boutons_deux]

This guy again





Methuen police chief doled out favors to councilors

after they made him one of the nation's highest paid law enforcement officials









The Methuen city council had just approved a contract that would make police chief Joseph Solomon one of the highest paid law enforcement officers in the country,

setting him up to earn $326,707 in 2019.

Councilors would later say they didn’t know what was in the contract,

but not a single member asked any questions before the February 2017 vote.

Over the next six months, the police chief handed out extraordinary favors to members of the council or their relatives.

Now, an auditor hired by Mayor Neil Perry is putting Chief Solomon’s management style under the microscope,

raising hopes among current city councilors and many officers that Solomon could finally face a day of reckoning after 18 years of maintaining power through what they see as favoritism and micromanaging.

-- Boston Globe email






https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/30/metro/methuen-police-chief-doled-out-favors-councilors-after-they-made-him-one-nations-highest-paid-law-enforcement-officers

[boutons_deux]

Officials drop marijuana charge against Zekee Rayford,

teenager kicked and tased by Schertz police

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/15/37/20/20313126/13/1200x0.jpg


The misdemeanor marijuana charge against a teenager who was tackled, kicked and tased by Schertz police officers during an arrest last month has been dropped,

dismissed because officers conducted a "premature search." :lol

officers Frank Chavarria and Megan Fennesy chase Rayford to the door, where they repeatedly kicked and tased him.

Rayford was arrested on suspicion of

evading arrest with a vehicle, a felony,

evading arrest by foot,
resisting arrest, and
possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana, all misdemeanors.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Officials-drop-marijuana-charge-against-Zekee-15767363.php

[MultiTroll]

In total, Joseph endured twen



https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201121/16372645749/fifth-circuit-denies-immunity-to-cops-who-beat-tased-unresisting-man-to-death.shtml
What century will the Warrior Pigs trial be?

[boutons_deux]

A Black man was shot three times for carrying a Subway sandwich outside of his home in Ohio

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/7/2000489/-Authorities-call-fatal-shooting-of-Ohio-Black-man-justified-even-though-he-wasn-t-their-suspect (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/7/2000489/-Authorities-call-fatal-shooting-of-Ohio-Black-man-justified-even-though-he-wasn-t-their-suspect?detail=emailLL)

[boutons_deux]

Kendole Joseph, father of 2, beaten and tasered to death by police: Judge denies cops immunity

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/3/1999745/-Fifth-Circuit-denies-police-immunity-in-deadly-beating-of-unarmed-Louisiana-man

[boutons_deux]

Dallas City Council approves $8M deal for police ammo, tear gas, other less-lethal supplies

Two city council members raised questions about the agreement while

police said they need the supplies to properly train officers :lol

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/12/09/dallas-city-council-approves-8m-deal-for-police-ammo-tear-gas-other-less-lethal-supplies

[boutons_deux]

It's Good to be White In America (when driving into a cop, on video, and "did nothing wrong")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_zi9ZqP0CE&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=v-v9jDcylEQk2os2%3A6&ab_channel=LateNightwithSethMeyers

[boutons_deux]

'Worst managed jail in Texas':

BCSO deputy association says there is low morale among jail staff

Payne said more than 500 deputies have left their jobs because of working conditions at the jail.

During a news conference Wednesday afternoon,

Salazar said that the jail had lost about 200 deputies this year,

"A chicken plucking plant in Mississippi has better working conditions and better protection than a Bexar County deputy."

detention deputies often report issues with domestic violence, depression, suicidal tendencies and alcoholism.

The survey also revealed concerns about racial and gender bias

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/It-is-the-worst-managed-jail-in-Texas-BCSO-15788775.php

[boutons_deux]

U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists

According to the arrest affidavit, investigators discovered the student and teacher frequently messaged each other, “I love you.”

Two days later, the teacher was booked into the county jail for sexual assault of a child.

school districts have been quietly purchasing these surveillance tools of their own for years.

In March 2020, the North East Independent School District, a largely Hispanic district north of San Antonio, wrote a check (https://www.neisd.net/cms/lib/TX02215002/Centricity/Domain/261/AP%20Check%20Register%2003-31-20.rpt.pdf) to Cellebrite for $6,695 for “General Supplies.”

Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts, seven of which are in Texas, showing that

administrators paid as much $11,582 for the controversial surveillance technology.

Known as mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs),

this type of tech is able to siphon text messages, photos, and application data from student’s devices. Together, the districts encompass hundreds of schools,

potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of students to invasive cell phone searches.

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393

[boutons_deux]

Two former State Police supervisors indicted on federal fraud, theft charges

in alleged years long payroll scheme

Federal agents arrested two retired Massachusetts State Police supervisors Friday morning on fraud and theft charges tied to an alleged, years long overtime payroll fraud scheme, according to court records.

http://click.email.bostonglobe.com/?qs=96fad4efe27f80c0a50125029c41e537a31a46cd31a386 bfa6a3dc8be3f35247052c24ca8a7097704c2f91b90bb5809d 24a932267bee029d32412b75a28941e8

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What we really need from police training reform

Any honest assessment of American policing would conclude that

its problems begin with what cops are taught in the academy about what the job is,

what they should expect, and

how they should behave.

Police are trained poorly, often by amateurs, and for too short a time.

in Texas, the Commission on Law Enforcement has insufficient staff or expertise to exercise meaningful oversight over police training and curriculum.

And even if training were excellent, there's too little of it.

Cosmetologists must undergo more basic training in Texas than police officers (https://t.co/CfjNwtHaUE?amp=1).

By contrast, in Germany police officers train 2.5 years (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/germany-police.html) before being deployed in the field.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/12/beyond-bait-and-switch-what-we-really.html

Safe bet is that "training" for CBP / ICE / DHS / sheriff depts is much worse.

[boutons_deux]

Eighteen Sheriff's Deputies Waited 500 Yards Away

While A Burglar Terrorized A 70-Year-Old Disabled Man

There is no legal obligation for police officers to protect citizens.

It wasn't just Norkunas involved in this.

The man trying to break into his home had attempted to do the same thing at other houses in the neighborhood.

911 was besieged by calls from Norkunas' neighbors.

But apparently nothing they said made the Broward County Sheriff's Department any more willing to confront the reported burglar.

For this entire ordeal, deputies waited hundreds of feet away, apparently waiting for the problem to solve itself.

Instead of stopping the would-be-intruder at Norkunas’ door, witnesses said,

the deputies stayed down the street and around a corner, some 500 yards away

while Norkunas and his neighbors flooded the 911 emergency communications system begging for help for almost 15 minutes.


18 deputies stood by while this information was relayed, never moving for the fifteen minutes it took for

the burglar to give up and surrender to law enforcement.

Broward County Sheriff's Department --

the same department that received deserved heat (https://abcnews.go.com/US/cop-fired-parkland-shooting-job-back-back-pay/story?id=70678466) for its inadequate response to the Parkland school shooting (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180808/11042340394/school-board-demands-journalists-be-punished-reporting-school-boards-redaction-failure.shtml) in 2019 --

has offered no satisfactory explanation for this lack of effort when citizens' lives were on the line.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201201/13125145804/eighteen-sheriffs-deputies-waited-500-yards-away-while-burglar-terrorized-70-year-old-disabled-man.shtml

[boutons_deux]

New York: Inquiry Confirms Police Misconduct at Protests

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was “sorry” :lol

and acknowledged that some “individual officers did something wrong” :lol

and that “there has to be discipline.” :lol

the mayor has given no indication :lol

that senior level commanders would be held to account for their roles in

planning, overseeing, and

spreading misinformation about the brutal police assaults on protesters

the NYPD’s “mass arrest of protesters for curfew violations, in the absence of evidence of actual violence, was disproportionate,”

the arrests were “accomplished in part by using physical force against protesters, including striking them with batons.”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/18/new-york-inquiry-confirms-police-misconduct-protests

The only "change" will be for the worse.

Cops, protected by their unions and the Blue Wall, are untouchable, unaccountable.

Cops join the police for the unbridled, criminal brutality whenever they feel like it

[Winehole23]

This can't be reformed.

Take the power out of their hands.

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[Winehole23]

seldom see this :tu

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[Winehole23]

Can this be reformed?

ok for police spy on journalistw?

1342009435493969920

[boutons_deux]

'I hunt people—it’s a great job':

Ohio deputy/pastor brags before killing Casey Goodson Jr. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2004342/-Ohio-deputy-pastor-bragged-about-being-able-to-hunt-people-years-before-killing-Casey-Goodson-Jr)

The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/7/2000489/-Authorities-call-fatal-shooting-of-Ohio-Black-man-justified-even-though-he-wasn-t-their-suspect). on December 4 was also a pastor who two years earlier bragged to a congregation about being able to “hunt people,”

“I worked this job 14 years, you know I ain’t never been hit clean in the face one time?

It’s a fact. It ain’t ’cause I’m so good. . . . You know why?

I learned long ago I gotta throw the first punch.

And I learned long ago why I’m justified in throwing the first punch.

Don’t look up here like, ‘Oh, police brutality.’

People I hit you wish you could hit, trust me.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2004342/-Ohio-deputy-pastor-bragged-about-being-able-to-hunt-people-years-before-killing-Casey-Goodson-Jr

[boutons_deux]

POWERFUL MOBILE PHONE SURVEILLANCE TOOL OPERATES IN OBSCURITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY

CellHawk helps law enforcement visualize large quantities of information collected by cellular towers and providers.

CellHawk has been in wide use by law enforcement, helping police departments, the FBI, and private investigators around the United States convert information collected by cellular providers into maps of people’s locations, movements, and relationships.

Police records obtained by The Intercept reveal a troublingly powerful surveillance tool operated in obscurity, with scant oversight.

CellHawk’s maker says it can process a year’s worth of cellphone records in 20 minutes, automating a process that used to require painstaking work by investigators, including hand-drawn paper plots.

The web-based product can ingest call detail records, or CDRs, which track cellular contact between devices on behalf of mobile service providers, showing who is talking to whom.

It can also handle cellular location records, created when phones connect to various towers as their owners move around.

Such data can include “tower dumps,” which list all the phones that connected to a given tower — a form of dragnet surveillance.

The FBI obtained over 150,000 phone numbers from a single tower dump undertaken in 2010 to try and collect evidence against a bank robbery suspect, according to a report (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cellphones-law-enforcement-and-right-privacy) from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/police-phone-surveillance-dragnet-cellhawk

[boutons_deux]

Black man left to die by cop who shot him in Columbus, mayor says

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2004318/-Andre-Hill-left-bleeding-without-aid-more-than-5-minutes-after-Columbus-cop-shot-him-mayor-says

[Winehole23]

1344042633216229376

[spurraider21]

1344042633216229376
some of the most irresponsible policing i've ever seen

[Winehole23]

He moved off a pathway because other people were on it and he wanted to socially distance himself. That's a violation of park rules.

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[boutons_deux]

Barr/Repug DOJ greenlights cops killing knitters, esp boy knitters

The 2 cops who killed of Tamir Rice? no Fed charges due to lack of evidence. :lol

[Winehole23]

this is from the Independence OH, PD report from the time Timothy Loehmann was fired there. Columbus PD hired him anyway.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqdPLA3XMAEZ9P4?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

[boutons_deux]

this is from the Independence OH, PD report from the time Timothy Loehmann was fired there. Columbus PD hired him anyway.



Ohio's Finest, fired for cause, then re-hired

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=w7jItUujzBo&feature=emb_l ogo


I'd like to see the full tape and not a snippet before calling for this officers job tbh. This dog was probably overly aggressive and threatened the cops safety.

[boutons_deux]

Keller PD arrest puts a family face on 64k Class C arrests at Texas traffic stops

The Texas Legislature bears as much responsibility for this episode as the officer.

The US Supreme Court ruled 20 years ago in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (a seat belt violation case) that whether officers could arrest for Class Cs is a legislative decision, and that state lawmakers would need to change the statute.

Legislation to restrict the practice passed in 2001 (https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=77R&Bill=SB730) (immediately after Atwater) but was vetoed by Gov. Rick Perry at the behest of police unions.

In 2003, Perry vetoed another bill (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=78R&Bill=SB1597) which would have required law enforcement agencies to have written policies stating when their officers could arrest for Class C misdemeanors.

Since then, it's become common for police to arrest for Class Cs when drivers refuse consent to search.

It's considered one of the "tools in the toolbox," as the practice was described after Sandra Bland's high-profile arrest (launched over her failure to signal) and death.

Police officers arrested people at traffic stops for Class C misdemeanors - either traffic violations or local, municipal ordinances -

64,100 times in calendar year 2019.

This use of Class C arrests

to get around the Fourth Amendment results

in millions in jail expenses,

hundreds of thousands of wasted officer hours, and

tens of thousands of Texans being taken to jail over petty bullshit.

The officer who arrested Dillon Puente and used unnecessary force against his father deserved the demotion he received,

but mainly for how he treated Dad while he was filming.

The reality is,

the son's arrest, as unfair and inappropriate as it may seem,

for the most part comports with state law and

represents the system working as it was designed.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/12/keller-pd-arrest-puts-family-face-on.html

Shithole Texas with shitty Jim-Crow laws by shitbag Repugs

[tholdren]

U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists

According to the arrest affidavit, investigators discovered the student and teacher frequently messaged each other, “I love you.”

Two days later, the teacher was booked into the county jail for sexual assault of a child.

school districts have been quietly purchasing these surveillance tools of their own for years.

In March 2020, the North East Independent School District, a largely Hispanic district north of San Antonio, wrote a check (https://www.neisd.net/cms/lib/TX02215002/Centricity/Domain/261/AP%20Check%20Register%2003-31-20.rpt.pdf) to Cellebrite for $6,695 for “General Supplies.”

Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts, seven of which are in Texas, showing that

administrators paid as much $11,582 for the controversial surveillance technology.

Known as mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs),

this type of tech is able to siphon text messages, photos, and application data from student’s devices. Together, the districts encompass hundreds of schools,

potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of students to invasive cell phone searches.

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393




Chumpdump the biggest warrior

[ElNono]

^ gossip

[Winehole23]

Keller PD arrest puts a family face on 64k Class C arrests at Texas traffic stops

The Texas Legislature bears as much responsibility for this episode as the officer.

The US Supreme Court ruled 20 years ago in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (a seat belt violation case) that whether officers could arrest for Class Cs is a legislative decision, and that state lawmakers would need to change the statute.

Legislation to restrict the practice passed in 2001 (https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=77R&Bill=SB730) (immediately after Atwater) but was vetoed by Gov. Rick Perry at the behest of police unions.

In 2003, Perry vetoed another bill (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=78R&Bill=SB1597) which would have required law enforcement agencies to have written policies stating when their officers could arrest for Class C misdemeanors.

Since then, it's become common for police to arrest for Class Cs when drivers refuse consent to search.

It's considered one of the "tools in the toolbox," as the practice was described after Sandra Bland's high-profile arrest (launched over her failure to signal) and death.

Police officers arrested people at traffic stops for Class C misdemeanors - either traffic violations or local, municipal ordinances -

64,100 times in calendar year 2019.

This use of Class C arrests

to get around the Fourth Amendment results

in millions in jail expenses,

hundreds of thousands of wasted officer hours, and

tens of thousands of Texans being taken to jail over petty bullshit.

The officer who arrested Dillon Puente and used unnecessary force against his father deserved the demotion he received,

but mainly for how he treated Dad while he was filming.

The reality is,

the son's arrest, as unfair and inappropriate as it may seem,

for the most part comports with state law and

represents the system working as it was designed.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/12/keller-pd-arrest-puts-family-face-on.html

Shithole Texas with shitty Jim-Crow laws by shitbag Repugs


threadworthy, tbh

[ElNono]

Keller PD arrest puts a family face on 64k Class C arrests at Texas traffic stops

The Texas Legislature bears as much responsibility for this episode as the officer.

The US Supreme Court ruled 20 years ago in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (a seat belt violation case) that whether officers could arrest for Class Cs is a legislative decision, and that state lawmakers would need to change the statute.

Legislation to restrict the practice passed in 2001 (https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=77R&Bill=SB730) (immediately after Atwater) but was vetoed by Gov. Rick Perry at the behest of police unions.

In 2003, Perry vetoed another bill (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=78R&Bill=SB1597) which would have required law enforcement agencies to have written policies stating when their officers could arrest for Class C misdemeanors.

Since then, it's become common for police to arrest for Class Cs when drivers refuse consent to search.

It's considered one of the "tools in the toolbox," as the practice was described after Sandra Bland's high-profile arrest (launched over her failure to signal) and death.

Police officers arrested people at traffic stops for Class C misdemeanors - either traffic violations or local, municipal ordinances -

64,100 times in calendar year 2019.

This use of Class C arrests

to get around the Fourth Amendment results

in millions in jail expenses,

hundreds of thousands of wasted officer hours, and

tens of thousands of Texans being taken to jail over petty bullshit.

The officer who arrested Dillon Puente and used unnecessary force against his father deserved the demotion he received,

but mainly for how he treated Dad while he was filming.

The reality is,

the son's arrest, as unfair and inappropriate as it may seem,

for the most part comports with state law and

represents the system working as it was designed.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/12/keller-pd-arrest-puts-family-face-on.html

Shithole Texas with shitty Jim-Crow laws by shitbag Repugs




Ehhh... the Atwater ruling actually affirmed officers do have the discretion of making such arrests...

[Winehole23]

Ehhh... the Atwater ruling actually affirmed officers do have the discretion of making such arrests...The lege has tried to change it twice. I hope they keep trying, there's no public safety value here, it's pure flexing.

[Winehole23]

If a person can't be jailed for an offense, what sense does it make to arrest them for it?

[boutons_deux]

If a person can't be jailed for an offense, what sense does it make to arrest them for it?

esp if they are non-white, non-male, it blocks the racist, sadistic, power-drunk cop's victim from getting jobs, rentals, loans.

An arrest record really fucks up your life.

[ElNono]

If a person can't be jailed for an offense, what sense does it make to arrest them for it?

It enables a search. I’m not saying I support that, just pointing out what it does.

[Winehole23]

It enables a search. I’m not saying I support that, just pointing out what it does.I get why it's done. I think it's offensive to the rights of citizens, maybe someday the Texas lege will stand up for us against arrogant, contemptuous police.

[ElNono]

I get why it's done. I think it's offensive to the rights of citizens, maybe someday the Texas lege will stand up for us against arrogant, contemptuous police.

Well, when it comes to cops and abortion, bigger government is better government, tbh

[Winehole23]

Well, when it comes to cops and abortion, bigger government is better government, tbhAll the bureaucracies are supposed to shrink except LE.

[boutons_deux]

Florida gave thousands of tarnished officers a second chance.

Hundreds blew it again.

More than 500 officers who were allowed to continue their law enforcement careers went on to commit offenses that resulted in their decertification.

https://www.nwfdailynews.com/in-depth/news/crime/2020/12/29/hundreds-florida-officers-given-second-chance-blew-again/3764571001/ (https://www.nwfdailynews.com/in-depth/news/crime/2020/12/29/hundreds-florida-officers-given-second-chance-blew-again/3764571001/)

[boutons_deux]

Blue Wall News

When Boston police officers fail to tell the truth,

the department rarely calls a lie a lie

If citizens lied on the witness stand, they could be prosecuted for perjury.

And if they lied in their work reports, they could be fired.

But police officers don’t always face that fate.

The practice of

police officers fudging the facts is common enough that it even has a name — “testilying” —

and it has plagued the Boston Police Department for decades.

Police Commissioner William Gross said “honesty and integrity are the core values of the Boston Police Department,” :lol

and that police officers must be held to the highest of standards. :lol

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/02/metro/when-boston-police-officers-fail-tell-truth-department-rarely-calls-all-lie-lie/

We should all be thrilled, relieved that “testilying” only happens in Boston PD.

[We Are All Witnesses]

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI0ODIxMS9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzOTI2MTEyMH0.1Aqm4Qsni 15tKPFesgomBtnuAPutCqGB-iYPDL3mtLA/img.jpg?width=980

https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-supporters-clash-with-police-in-dc-protest

[Will Hunting]

Nice to see Metro PD putting in work against the Nazi scum that’s invaded DC. Hopefully Bowser allows them to use lethal force soon.

[Dirks_Finale]

Nice to see Metro PD putting in work against the Nazi scum that’s invaded DC. Hopefully Bowser allows them to use lethal force soon.

Police good now? :lol

[Will Hunting]

Police good now? :lol
In all seriousness since I’ve lived in DC, metro PD has been fine. They’ve had a rash of shit they’ve had to deal with in the last year with all the protests from both sides and they’ve done a decent job preventing the city from falling apart.

[Spurtacular]

Police good now? :lol

Chumpettes said don't bring in the national guard during the riots cos people could get hurt.

If you haven't figured it out yet, these people are psychopaths or something of the sort.

[Spurtacular]

In all seriousness since I’ve lived in DC, metro PD has been fine. They’ve had a rash of shit they’ve had to deal with in the last year with all the protests from both sides and they’ve done a decent job preventing the city from falling apart.

Brushing the Seth Rich murder under the rug and doing false flag operations to try and invalidate Pedogate is hard work.

[ElNono]

Brushing the Seth Rich murder under the rug and doing false flag operations to try and invalidate Pedogate is hard work.

https://news-artnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2019/01/conspiracy-theory-meme-salvator-mundi.jpg

[Will Hunting]

Brushing the Seth Rich murder under the rug and doing false flag operations to try and invalidate Pedogate is hard work.
:lmao “invalidate pedogate”

What specifically did MPD do to invalidate the conspiracy theory about a child sex ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant that doesn’t even have a basement?

[Trainwreck2100]

Brushing the Seth Rich murder under the rug and doing false flag operations to try and invalidate Pedogate is hard work.

:lol Seth rich

[DMC]

I love to see people get the shit beat out of them because they're stupid enough to go up against a whole fucking gang of cops

[FrostKing]

Ashli Babbitt

#sayHerName

[Dirks_Finale]

But I'm sure those cops were actually aiming for a person of color and inadvertently hit Mrs. Babbitt, tbh.


Ashli Babbitt

#sayHerName

[ChumpDumper]

Ashli Babbitt

#sayHerNameAshli Babbit































lost. Good.

[Will Hunting]

Ashli Babbitt

#sayHerName
She was a right wing terrorist who got what she deserved. I’ve been triggering retards on twitter about it and their reactions are hilarious.

[SpursforSix]

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI0ODIxMS9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzOTI2MTEyMH0.1Aqm4Qsni 15tKPFesgomBtnuAPutCqGB-iYPDL3mtLA/img.jpg?width=980

https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-supporters-clash-with-police-in-dc-protest

Ah...I thought it was from a new Taken movie. That's not Liam Neeson?

[FrostKing]

She was a right wing terrorist who got what she deserved. I’ve been triggering retards on twitter about it and their reactions are hilarious.
Hero fighting for democracy fell victim to the Establishment

Join me in taking this knee for her

[ChumpDumper]

Hero fighting for democracy fell victim to the Establishment

Join me in taking this knee for herShe lost.

Just like you.

[FrostKing]

She lost.

Just like you.
Life isn't a basketball game kiddo

[Warlord23]

Hero fighting for democracy fell victim to the Establishment

Join me in taking this knee for her

She died trying to interfere with a dry, mundane ritual that had nothing to do with democracy. She might as well have interrupted a cleaning crew replacing toilet paper or mopping floors

[ChumpDumper]

Life isn't a basketball game kiddoExactly.

She got killed.

You both lost.



















































Kiddo.

[DMC]

She was a right wing terrorist who got what she deserved. I’ve been triggering retards on twitter about it and their reactions are hilarious.

Did they put you on ignore?

[Will Hunting]

Did they put you on ignore?
One of the people I doxxed did :lol

[DMC]

One of the people I doxxed did :lol

Lol losers

[boutons_deux]

New York City Paid an NBA Star Millions After an NYPD Officer Broke His Leg.

The Officer Paid Little Price.

Five years ago, NBA guard Thabo Sefolosha was standing outside a nightclub when he was tackled by five New York Police Department officers, one of whom broke his leg with a baton.

Sefolosha sued, and

the city paid its largest settlement for alleged police brutality in years, $4.5 million.

After all, Sefolosha had to have surgery and couldn’t play basketball for a year.

And a jury had acquitted Sefolosha of the charges against him for allegedly resisting arrest. The whole incident had been caught on tape.

New York City has paid more than $1 billion over the past five years to settle lawsuits against the NYPD

Again and again, the officers faced minimal or no discipline.

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-an-nba-star-millions-after-an-nypd-officer-broke-his-leg.-the-officer-paid-little-price

[boutons_deux]

No Qualified Immunity For Cops Who Made Stuff Up To Justify Seizing A Man's Phone For Twelve Days

cops can possibly hassle people for filming them (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140530/10054127413/appeals-court-reaffirms-public-has-right-to-record-police-except-all-times-when-it-doesnt.shtml) if they can find almost any reason at all to justify it. On the other hand, it says they definitely cannot take people's property (cameras, phones) just because their nearly unjustified hassling gave them the opportunity to seize it.

Here's the setup for the multiple rights violations, courtesy of the Appeals Court:

Daniel Robbins was recording illegally parked vehicles from a public sidewalk adjacent to the Des Moines Police Station

when officers approached him and asked him what he was doing.

Robbins was uncooperative, and the officers temporarily seized him and his camera and cell phone.


as officers should be painfully aware -- anything they do on public property is observable by the public (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160209/16522733566/court-says-10-weeks-warrantless-surveillance-is-perfectly-constitutional.shtml). The presence of recording equipment shouldn't change a thing.

Robbins refused to identify himself or respond to law enforcement inquiries, explaining “I’m taking pictures because it’s perfectly legal for me to do so.” Lieutenant Leo initiated physical contact when he lifted the back of Robbins’s shirt, grabbed his forearm and placed it above his head, and patted him down.

Robbins repeatedly asked what about his conduct was illegal, and the officers responded that while he was not doing anything illegal, he was suspicious.


Detective Youngblut suggested that the officers “just make a suspicious activity case . . . [and] confiscate the camera until we have a reason for what we’re doing.” :lol


Swell. If you don't have a REAL reason for doing something, just find ANY reason.

According to the court, Robbins' filming of police was suspicious enough to justify this interaction.

But it was not suspicious enough to justify the seizing of his recording equipment.

And definitely not enough to justify holding onto it for 12 days.

Under the facts of this case, the governmental interest, presumably to dispel whatever suspicion the officers had about Robbins, does not outweigh the intrusion to Robbins. The seizure was unreasonable in the absence of arguable probable cause.

The defendants alternatively argue that Robbins’s uncooperativeness gave them probable cause to seize his property. This argument fails for the reasons stated above.

The defendant officers violated Robbins’s clearly established right to be free of unreasonable seizures of his property, see id., and are not entitled to qualified immunity.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210106/18521446009/no​-qualified-immunity-cops-who-made-stuff-up-to-justify-seizing-mans-phone-twelve-days.shtml (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210106/18521446009/no-qualified-immunity-cops-who-made-stuff-up-to-justify-seizing-mans-phone-twelve-days.shtml)

[boutons_deux]

Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants, Memo Says

The disclosure comes amid growing legislative scrutiny of how the government uses commercially available location records.

A military arm of the intelligence community buys commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searches it for Americans’ past movements without a warrant,

Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have searched for the movements of Americans within a commercial database in five investigations over the past two and a half years,

The disclosure sheds light on an emerging loophole in privacy law during the digital age:

In a landmark 2018 ruling known as the Carpenter decision,

the Supreme Court held that

the Constitution requires (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-warrants-cell-phone-privacy.html) the government to obtain a warrant to compel phone companies to turn over location data about their customers.

But the government can instead buy similar data from a broker — :lol

and does not believe it needs a warrant to do so.

(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/dia-surveillance-data.html)https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/dia-surveillance-data.html

[Winehole23]

"exonerative tense"

TW on the Tacoma vid, it's gnarly.

1353368595817000962?s=20

[boutons_deux]

video or it didn't happen

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/article248727075.html

[boutons_deux]

Man who sued 2 Keller officers after being arrested, pepper-sprayed reaches $200K settlement with city (https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=14290A14828A15A586123)

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=14290A14828A15A586123

[Capt Bringdown]

1353469929874477059

[ElNono]

1353469929874477059

lmao, healthcare and a living wage... what does he think this is, a first world country? :lol

[Winehole23]

Do any of Elon Musk's businesses make money?

Not rhetorical.

[boutons_deux]

Do any of Elon Musk's businesses make money?

Not rhetorical.
When Will Tesla Make A Profit?


https://www.forbes.com/sites/woodmackenzie/2020/01/20/when-will-tesla-make-a-profit (https://www.forbes.com/sites/woodmackenzie/2020/01/20/when-will-tesla-make-a-profit/?sh=5362bc581ba9)

[Trill Clinton]

Defund the police. Tyrant costs the city $200K.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOGV4AN4Es

[boutons_deux]

Video shows New York officer pepper-spraying handcuffed nine-year-old girl

Video released by police (https://youtu.be/ku41-899CHo?t=349) showed the girl being restrained after officers were summoned to a family disturbance on Friday.

Crying and shouting “I want my dad”,

the girl was led to a police car and was sitting in the back seat when a male officer told his colleague:

“Just spray her at this point.”

Police proceed to pepper-spray the nine-year-old,

who screams and shouts: “Wipe my eyes, please.”

An office then closes the door to the car.

The video shows at least seven officers were present.

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

Rochester police were already under scrutiny over the death of a mentally ill black man in March 2020. :lol mental health care by cop

Daniel Prude, 41, died of asphyxiation (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/02/new-york-police-spit-hood-black-man-died-asphyxiation) after officers put a hood over his head and pressed his head to the pavement for two minutes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/01/police-pepper-spray-girl-new-york-rochester-video-incident

[Trill Clinton]

Video shows New York officer pepper-spraying handcuffed nine-year-old girl

Video released by police (https://youtu.be/ku41-899CHo?t=349) showed the girl being restrained after officers were summoned to a family disturbance on Friday.

Crying and shouting “I want my dad”,

the girl was led to a police car and was sitting in the back seat when a male officer told his colleague:

“Just spray her at this point.”

Police proceed to pepper-spray the nine-year-old,

who screams and shouts: “Wipe my eyes, please.”

An office then closes the door to the car.

The video shows at least seven officers were present.

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

Rochester police were already under scrutiny over the death of a mentally ill black man in March 2020. :lol mental health care by cop

Daniel Prude, 41, died of asphyxiation (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/02/new-york-police-spit-hood-black-man-died-asphyxiation) after officers put a hood over his head and pressed his head to the pavement for two minutes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/01/police-pepper-spray-girl-new-york-rochester-video-incident

Demonic...only way to describe it.

[boutons_deux]

Demonic...only way to describe it.

Blacks are subhuman dogmeat to the cops, just like browns are to CBP/ICE, and both are governmental/societal expression of White Male Supremacy

[boutons_deux]

HOW THE LAPD AND PALANTIR USE DATA TO JUSTIFY RACIST POLICING

In a new book ... details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.

software vendors routinely show up at the department to peddle their wares,

police used an automated license plate reader mounted outside an emergency room to build out networks of victims’ associates.

A sergeant explained that family or friends would often drop off an injured person and then speed away.

With the automated license plate reader, he said, police could use plate numbers to determine who else was connected to the victim, even if there was no other evidence linking them to a crime.

They often increased that to 80 to 90 flyovers for good measure, meaning that many residents’ days were regularly interrupted by the noise of buzzing choppers.

They dubbed the copters “ghetto birds.”

“Surveillance is basically the tip of the policing knife,”

it’s not about public safety when it comes to nonwhite folks. It’s about the content? intent? to cause harm.”

Big data, he added, simply gives police more ways to do that.

The union opposed officers being tracked, he explained. While predictive policing systems had caught average citizens in an opaque dragnet, police grew squeamish when the technology was turned back on them.

The militarization of police accelerated during the 1960s and has continued to the present day,

to the point where even departments in placid American suburbs now have armored vehicles, night vision viewers, and bayonets (https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/878782600/twin-cities-area-police-forces-loaded-up-on-war-surplus-under-president-trump).
“That’s a very visible manifestation of the militarization of policing,” said Brayne. “

But something that’s more invisible is this creep of surveillance software into the daily operations of policing.”

individuals in overpoliced neighborhoods can easily get caught up in a vicious cycle where they are, as Brayne writes,

“more likely to be stopped, thus increasing their point value, justifying their increased surveillance, and

making it more likely that they will be stopped again in the future.”

The goal, one captain told her, was simply to get people “in the system”:

to capture larger and larger amounts of data on seemingly harmless individuals

in the hope that the data would help solve a crime later on.

Once an officer had a person in the system, they could set an alert to automatically track changes in that person’s profile.

cops run the plates of law-abiding drivers stopped at traffic lights, just in case the numbers turned up a record.

Palantir’s technology came in for special praise.

When management was out of the room, police were honest about their doubts. “Looks bitching, but it’s worthless,” one sergeant told Brayne of the LAPD’s data analysis infrastructure,

A captain told Brayne that person-based predictive policing was “a civil liberties nightmare” and that he would never adopt it. (His division adopted it after he left.)

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/30/lapd-palantir-data-driven-policing

Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft in the law enforcement business, "big tech a threat to are country"

[boutons_deux]

'What the f--k is wrong with you':

Onlookers shocked when Florida deputy slams student on concrete

https://images.dailykos.com/images/911087/story_image/Student-slammed.jpg?1611787613

1354447797416833024


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/28/2012306/-Disturbing-video-shows-Florida-deputy-slamming-Black-high-school-student-to-the-concrete

[Trill Clinton]

RIP Warrior


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xkUKO5aU0&t=330s


Before deputy Clyde Kerr III took his own life Monday outside the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, he left haunting final words in a series of social media videos.

Kerr, a father and military veteran, was 43 years old.

In Kerr’s videos, he talked directly to the camera on a range of issues, from police brutality against Black people and mental health needs in policing, to division in society and children’s exposure to murder, violence and other negative or traumatic influences. He also describes his struggle to reconcile his identity as a Black man with his profession while hinting at his impending suicide.

He then went on to call for an end to the drug war, lambasting the fact that police will kidnap, cage, and kill people “for a plant.”

“The countless people who are doing time for [the war on drugs]… how do you make amends for that?” Clyde said rhetorically. “You can’t. You can’t.”

“If this feels right to you as a person, then something is wrong with you,” he said. “Y’all are radicalizing people and then when they get upset and end up going against the system, you come down on them with a hammer.”
Clyde then goes on to describe how the job of policing needs to change — specifically in regards to mental health. His death is a chilling reminder of this dire need.

“You have one psychological eval as a cop, and that is when they hire you. That is not enough,” he said. “We need at least an annual, every six months, or maybe even quarterly. The stigma on this needs to stop.”

For the second half of the video, just hours before he would end his own life, Clyde lists a number of solutions that he says could fix so many of the problems. He started out by saying police need better training in regards to dealing with the public. Just because this job is difficult, he says, doesn’t mean you get to be a monster.

He then calls for society to come together and put aside their political differences.


“So many people in this country are so caught up in whether they are a Republican or a Democrat that they forgot how to be a decent human being.”
In a follow up video, Clyde assured people that he is not “crazy” or “on drugs” and that he feels like this act of self-immolation is necessary to change the paradigm within the system. He took his own life to attempt to change the system which drove him to this point.

“I know what people will say but I am in my right state of mind. I need to do this to protest this broken system. If I don’t do this, who will?” he said.

Being a Black man in law enforcement can be difficult, said Lafayette City Marshal Reggie Thomas, the first Black person elected to a citywide position in Lafayette.

Thomas said he watched some of the videos Kerr posted and could tell the man was deeply concerned about the way police work is going. One video that particularly resonated was of Kerr relating a conversation he had with his son in the aftermath of George Floyd's death at the hands of police.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/clyde-kerr-660x330.jpg (https://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/clyde-kerr-660x330.jpg)
"He had to talk to his son about how you have to react with a police officer," Thomas said. "Nobody should have to have that conversation."

Kerr’s videos have garnered thousands of views since his death and are catalyzing conversation online and in the community about addressing mental health needs and the current state of policing.

Kerr said he was done serving a system that doesn't care about people like him.

"You have no idea how hard it is to put a uniform on in this day and age with everything that's going on," he said.

"My entire life has been in the service of other people ... y'all entrust me to safeguard your little ones, your small ones, the thing that's most precious to you, and I did that well. I passed security clearance in the military ... but that has allowed me to see the inner workings of things."

The videos show a man who professed he was upset by the state of society: “I’ve had enough.”

While Kerr’s videos focused on the outside world, he made small statements referencing personal turmoil. He spoke on the trauma of working the night of Lafayette Police Cpl. Michael Middlebrook’s death and persevering through struggles in his life. According to court records, Kerr and his wife divorced in 2016, reconciled and again divorced in 2020.

But in his videos Kerr insisted, repeatedly, that his decision to kill himself was a conscious choice made in his right mind as a “protest.” He also said the need for “dramatic and bold” action was made clear to him a week before his death and intimated it was part of a higher calling. He said he would “pass this baton to the next guy” if he could, but this was his mission.

Will Sutton: Lafayette deputy Clyde Kerr's 2020 heartbreak, racist 'justice' and our pain (https://www.nola.com/opinions/will_sutton/article_8d801e0e-670d-11eb-8a77-37a4a762b8d8.html)

He cited the deaths of Black people at the hands of police: Botham Jean, shot in his own apartment in Dallas in 2018; George Floyd in Minneapolis; Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky; and Trayford Pellerin, who was killed by Lafayette Police Department officers in August.

"If this feels right to you as a person, then something is wrong with you," he said.

"I understand we have a tough job, but we signed up for this. We need help. Because when you deal with the bottom rung of society, that does not give us an excuse to just do whatever you want, and that's what we're doing and we're not being held accountable."


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[boutons_deux]

Drunken Cop Crashes Into Home At 70 MPH Killing Dog And Leaving Woman With Broken Legs

https://jalopnik.com/drunken-cop-crashes-into-home-at-70-mph-killing-dog-and-1846230009

[boutons_deux]

ICE THREATENED TO EXPOSE ASYLUM-SEEKERS TO COVID-19 IF THEY DID NOT ACCEPT DEPORTATION

Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that

guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/06/ice-covid-threat-asylum-deportation

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/protest-arrests/phoenix-police-department-trophy-celebrates-shooting-man-in-groin-during-protests

After shooting a protester in the groin, a special team of Phoenix Police officers celebrated the shot with commemorative coins to sell and share.

The “challenge coins” clearly depict the man being shot on the front and have the date of the protest on the back, according to images and photos obtained by ABC15.

This story is part of an ABC15 investigation series titled "Politically Charged"

The coins also have the following two phrases: “GOOD NIGHT LEFT NUT” and “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ONE NUT AT A TIME.”



the good night left nut is also based on a neo nazi logo that says "good night left side"

and PHX is not the only PD in arizona confirmed to have challenge coins rewarding violence either...

[Trill Clinton]

Part-time cop, Part-time ST poster


https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-fires-high-ranking-officer-accused-posting-bigoted-comments-online (https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-fires-high-ranking-officer-accused-posting-bigoted-comments-online)


Deputy Inspector James Kobel, who was responsible for overseeing harassment claims within the NYPD as head of the Office of Equal Employment, was fired Wednesday following an investigation that he repeatedly posted racist, homophobic, and misogynistic comments (https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-anti-harassment-executive-prolific-racist-council-investigation-finds) to an anonymous online message board.

Kobel’s firing was first reported by The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/nyregion/nypd-james-kobel-racist-fired.html).
According to the City Council report (https://council.nyc.gov/press/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2020/11/PDF-FINAL-combined-Clouseau-Report-public-11-5-20-1-1.pdf) released in November, investigators found that Kobel, under the name Clouseau, had described two female police officers of color as "f—cking animals” and a Palestinian-American Muslim lieutenant as a “goat-f**king Palestinian scum bag.”


Posts by Clouseau also denigrated Eric Garner as “a morbidly obese, diabetes havin’, high blood pressure ignorin’, asthma havin’, chicken wing eatin’, grape soda drinkin’, loosie sellin’ fat bastard,” according to the City Council investigation. The racist posts also targeted President Barack Obama, Representative Ilhan Omar, and even Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son, Dante, calling him a “brillohead.”

[boutons_deux]

In show of unbelievable inhumanity, cops reportedly caught with George Floyd Valentine's Day 'joke'

Los Angeles police are investigating an officer's complaint that a photo of George Floyd is being passed around with the words

“You take my breath away” in a Valentine's Day message

the officer who initiated the complaint will be interviewed on Monday and

if Moore is able to confirm the allegation, “people will find my wrath,” :lol

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016033

[boutons_deux]

White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often Than Black Officers



New study of the city's policing also shows differences between male and female cops

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-chicago-cops-use-force-more-often-than-black-officers/

[boutons_deux]

Why Does USC Hire People Fired by the LAPD?

Since 2002, USC has spent more than $550 million on its police force.

Community critics say armed officers feel more like an occupying force than a security necessity.
https://capitalandmain.com/why-does-usc-hire-people-fired-by-the-lapd-0211

[boutons_deux]

Police Deployed Potentially Lethal Chemical During Black Lives Matter Protests

For $33, you can buy a Defense Technologies hexachloroethane (HC) smoke canister for crowd control purposes.

This is what the City of Milwaukee (https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/doaPurchasing/BidTabs/2020/B17339BidTab.pdf) paid per unit for 60 “Max Smoke” canisters in preparation for the Democratic National Convention in August 2020.

It is what Portland Police (https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/01/portland-researcher-finds-federal-agents-used-toxic-smoke-grenades-during-summer-protests.html) bought in 2018, and what Denver Police (https://denverite.com/2020/08/11/as-protesters-chanted-i-cant-breathe-denver-police-fired-weapons-that-made-it-hard-to-breathe-and-now-we-know-exactly-what-they-used/) likely used on Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters this summer.

However, nowhere in the U.S. experienced more HC smoke during the summer of 2020 than Portland, Oregon (https://www.koin.com/news/protests/military-grade-hc-smoke-used-against-portland-protesters/#:~:text=Defense%20Technologies%2C%20which%20manuf actures%20the,environment%20and%20could%20be%20car cinogenic.), where Homeland Security and Border Patrol forces deployed at least 26 (https://www.chemicalweaponsresearch.com/files/hc_press_release.pdf) such munitions against BLM protesters in July 2020.

People reported new, strange effects (https://theintercept.com/2020/10/10/portland-tear-gas-chemical-grenades-protests/) that lasted days or weeks after exposure. “I puked. All night,”

“This gas feels different and sneaks up on you.”

Other protesters and journalists on the ground (https://www.chemicalweaponsresearch.com/files/press_conference.pdf) reported similar bouts of

nausea and vomiting, along with

loss of appetite,

hair loss and

a burning sensation that lasted days after exposure.

scientists and doctors have known about HC smoke — and its potentially lethal side effects — for nearly a century.

In 1943, 70 people exposed to HC munitions smoke developed nausea, vomiting, chest tightness and a cough.

Ten victims died in the incident.
According to a study published in 1954, an 18-year-old man spent six weeks in the hospital after 10 minutes of HC smoke exposure in an enclosed space.

A 1963 report found that a fireman died after exposure to the smoke.

The clear and well-established danger of high concentrations of HC smoke inspired the military to issue strict guidelines around its use in 1983.

https://truthout.org/articles/police-deployed-potentially-lethal-chemical-during-black-lives-matter-protests/

Warrior cops committing chemical warfare on protestors. Goddamn America.

[DMC]

Part-time cop, Part-time ST poster


https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-fires-high-ranking-officer-accused-posting-bigoted-comments-online (https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-fires-high-ranking-officer-accused-posting-bigoted-comments-online)


Deputy Inspector James Kobel, who was responsible for overseeing harassment claims within the NYPD as head of the Office of Equal Employment, was fired Wednesday following an investigation that he repeatedly posted racist, homophobic, and misogynistic comments (https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-anti-harassment-executive-prolific-racist-council-investigation-finds) to an anonymous online message board.

Kobel’s firing was first reported by The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/nyregion/nypd-james-kobel-racist-fired.html).
According to the City Council report (https://council.nyc.gov/press/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2020/11/PDF-FINAL-combined-Clouseau-Report-public-11-5-20-1-1.pdf) released in November, investigators found that Kobel, under the name Clouseau, had described two female police officers of color as "f—cking animals” and a Palestinian-American Muslim lieutenant as a “goat-f**king Palestinian scum bag.”


Posts by Clouseau also denigrated Eric Garner as “a morbidly obese, diabetes havin’, high blood pressure ignorin’, asthma havin’, chicken wing eatin’, grape soda drinkin’, loosie sellin’ fat bastard,” according to the City Council investigation. The racist posts also targeted President Barack Obama, Representative Ilhan Omar, and even Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son, Dante, calling him a “brillohead.”

Lol

[Winehole23]

I hope these animals lose everything they have.

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[Winehole23]

We ask police to deal with too many things. Lightening their burden may improve their safety and ours.

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[boutons_deux]

PRISONS ARE SKIMMING BIG CHUNKS OF CARES ACT STIMULUS CHECKS

A September court ruling promised incarcerated people their slice of the federal stimulus. Some prisons still took a cut.

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/17/stimulus-checks-cares-prisons-skimming-irs (https://theintercept.com/2021/02/17/stimulus-checks-cares-prisons-skimming-irs/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter)

[boutons_deux]

Here's The Police Cam Footage Of Texas Police Arresting A Black Man For Walking On The Street During A Snowstorm

Police arrested Rodney Reese after they received a call saying

a Black man was stumbling on a street during the Texas snowstorm last week.

The police has since dropped charges of Reese.

https://digg.com/video/police-cam-footage-of-texas-police-arresting-a-black-man-for-walking-on-the-street-during-a-snowstorm

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUnaPbLmSs

[Trill Clinton]

Arrested for walking home from work in the snow. Lawsuit def on the way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wBqtf5DtX0&feature=emb_logo

[Trill Clinton]

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This is what they're doing with taxpayer dollars?https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/gucci3.png

[boutons_deux]

New Videos Show BLM Protester Running Away From Cops Before Being Fatally Shot

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers said Jorge Gomez pointed his rifle at them.

Surveillance video provided to VICE News appears to show him tripping and falling without a gun in his hands.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy89em/new-video-jorge-gomez-blm-shooting-las-vegas

[boutons_deux]

Records provide Louisiana State Police's 1st acknowledgement Black man who died in custody was mistreated

first public acknowledgment that Ronald Greene, a 49-year-old black man who died in custody, was mistreated.

the footage — which has not been released — shows Master Trooper

Kory York dragging Ronald Greene "on his stomach by the leg shackles"

after a violent arrest and high-speed pursuit,

York, who turned his own body camera off on the way to the scene

(he said it was beeping loudly and he forgot to turn it back on), was suspended (https://apnews.com/article/arrests-us-news-louisiana-york-4a755f3307479b5dd8adbbcbc65cdebf) without pay for 50 hours after an internal investigation.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/969439/records-provide-louisiana-state-polices-1st-acknowledgement-black-man-who-died-custody-mistreated

[boutons_deux]

The Best People

Ex-Police Chief Charged With Attempted Murder After Arson Spree

Investigators said David M. Crawford, who resigned as the police chief of Laurel, Md., in 2010, had

targeted “victims with whom he had previous disagreements.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/us/former-police-chief-maryland-arson.html

[boutons_deux]

House passes major police reform bill, but qualified immunity will be a sticking point in the Senate

the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-floyd-police-reform-bill-vote/2021/03/03/5ea9ba3a-7c6c-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html).

The bill includes the

creation of national standards for policing,

bans on chokeholds and some no-knock warrants,

measures against racial and religious profiling,

a registry of officers dismissed for excessive use of force,

eases standards for prosecution of officers, and

overhauls qualified immunity.
The doctrine of qualified immunity (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/9/1951855/-Police-are-losing-public-trust-especially-among-young-voters) protects police and other officials from facing lawsuits over abuses they commit in their official capacities.

It tells police officers they will not face repercussions for even truly gross abuses,

like a case where a group of officers debated where to tase a woman for the offense of refusing to sign a speeding ticket,

then tased her three times while she was seven months pregnant.

Interestingly, after years of expanding qualified immunity, the Supreme Court recently sent a signal (https://www.abajournal.com/columns/article/chemerinsky-scotus-hands-down-a-rare-civil-rights-victory-on-qualified-immunity) it might be ready to rein it in somewhat,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019301

[boutons_deux]

State Police colonel tasked with reform is accused of breaking rules to promote his allies

Lawsuit alleges colonel rushed process to promote his driver, who’s accused of cheating


https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/RrWaT_cTHgDreLINsMNKiZ-_IT8=/1440x0/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/F3VUMTDJAJAUVFVD54SMVHSJ7Q.JPG

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/03/metro/state-police-colonel-tasked-with-reform-is-accused-breaking-rules-promote-his-allies

He has a driver? WTF, it's just fucking corrupt cop

[boutons_deux]

Dallas police officer who faces 2 capital murder charges ordered pair of hits in 2017, authorities allege

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=15076A15627A15A655973

[koriwhat]

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This is what they're doing with taxpayer dollars?https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/gucci3.png

Our Taxes!

[koriwhat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUnaPbLmSs

Lmao What a dipshit cop that dude is. Nothing but a power hungry reject.

[boutons_deux]

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c5ffe9fe07&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r-4900918577373357085&th=178004f414b96033&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ8Ot4i36js6xcIBid5CSW_8Pn-uWyHSMhywIck79LgJT0U8j9l49kVczCvgGA8aeSo0Vb8jC-X9iP219yrdtrM14lCChKL3ujEmBYYkksM8RevulhS1nUHJQc8&disp=emb&realattid=ii_klvpfppi0

[boutons_deux]

A SWAT Team Tore Down This Woman’s Home and Left Her With a $50,000 Bill


Police

blew open her garage door,

shot her house full of tear gas canisters, and

drove an armored vehicle over her fence.

by the time cops stormed the property, the fugitive had killed himself in Baker’s bedroom.

Baker’s belongings, some of them irreplaceable, were ruined by tear gas.

Even her daughter’s dog, which came running out of the home during the standoff, ended up nearly blind and completely deaf.

“There was two days that I couldn’t get off the couch, that I cried,” she said.

She’d recently signed a contract to sell the property, too.

The 76-year-old needed the money to fund her retirement,

but thanks to the extensive damage, the sale of the home quickly fell through.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdw3e/a-swat-team-tore-down-this-womans-home-and-left-her-with-a-dollar50000-bill

[boutons_deux]

A video obtained by a TV station appears to show an

officer in Salisbury, N.C., hoisting a police dog off the ground by its leash and shoving it into the side of an S.U.V.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/us/salisbury-north-carolina-k9.html

[Winehole23]

a nod is as good as a wink, to a dead man.

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[boutons_deux]

Cops Caught on Video Pepper-Spraying a Black Mom in Front of Her Crying Toddler


The incident comes just weeks after another officer in the same police department pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old Black girl.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzyR51_FvrA&ab_channel=RochesterNYPolice

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxe75/rochester-police-pepper-spray-black-mother-with-toddler-video

[Winehole23]

Manley exonerates Mike Ramos' shooter in report to Ken Paxton filled with false statements

Ramos was standing beside his car with his hands up talking to the officers

when a rookie three months out of the academy fired on him with a shotgun loaded with a bean bag round

while bystanders screamed "don't shoot."

Ramos got into his car and drove away from officers down a dead end to keep from being killed.

It didn't work.

Another officer, who just ten months before had killed a university professor suffering from a mental health crisis in another dubious shooting, shot Ramos multiple times with a rifle.

how does Chief Manley describe the episode in the death in custody report?

Asked what were the reasons for the contact, Manley wrote "Alcohol/drug offense."

No drugs or alcohol were found at the scene, so this is pure victim blaming which frankly is reprehensible.

Whatever the 911 caller said,

Ramos had committed no offense when officers surrounded him with guns drawn and began screaming at him.

Why is the chief still pretending otherwise?

Another question asked, "At any time during the incident and/or entry into the law enforcement facility, did the decedent display or use a weapon?"

Manley replied, "Unknown."

Again, this is a flat-out lie.

Manley admitted at a press conference (https://www.statesman.com/news/20200511/man-killed-in-police-shooting-last-month-did-not-have-firearm-chief-confirms) that Ramos had no weapon, which is also quite clear from the bystander video.


Next, the form asked, "At any time during the incident and/or entry into the law enforcement facility did the decedent attempt to injure others?"

Once again, Manley simply lied, declaring "Unknown."

This is, in fact, known.

Ramos attempted to injure no one, and was driving away from officers when he was shot.

The only "unknown" here is what the hell the chief is thinking by answering these questions in such a disingenuous way.

Similarly, Manley declared it is "unknown" whether Ramos assaulted a police officer during this incident.

From the video, clearly he didn't, and

if he had, it would have been listed at the top of the report as the most serious charge against him.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/05/manley-exonerates-mike-ramos-shooter-in.html


Charged with murder, a super rare outcome of excessive force cases.

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[Winehole23]

LA County police gangs are murdering Latinos.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-vargas-paul-rea-sean-monterrosa-andres-guardado-los-angeles-sheriff-lawsuit/

[Spurtacular]

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uGcC8_1615389662

[boutons_deux]

'He gonna be sore': Louisiana troopers brag about 'whoopin' inflicted on Black man for running

A Louisiana State Patrol trooper, reportedly caught bragging in text messages about beating a suspect, was arrested with two other troopers on excessive force allegations.

Troopers Dakota DeMoss, Randall Dickerson, and George Harper were arrested on February 8 on criminal charges associated with not only excessive force but allegedly trying to hide their actions, the media site Sound Off Louisiana reported.

The site revealed a telling text thread that was part of the arrest warrant for DeMoss.

In the thread between DeMoss, Harper, and fellow troopers Larry Shappley and Jacob Brown, the men joked about the "ass whoop in" 29-year-old Antonio Harris was subjected to before being taken to jail.

“How was his attitude at the jail?” Brown asked in one text message. “Complete silence,” Harper responded. DeMoss: “lol he was still digesting that ass whoopin”

The exchange happened after Harris, who was identified in court documents (http://www.laboards-commissions.com/TRO_and_support_LSP_Troopers.pdf), surrendered to authorities following a high-speed chase last May in Franklin Parish.

DeMoss, Harper, and Brown were

accused of deactivating body-cameras and beating Harris after he “immediately surrendered,”

The Associated Press reported (https://apnews.com/article/police-arrests-louisiana-monroe-police-reform-d5a9e35316747a3aa37e83ba717f9c0e).

Brown, who faces allegations in that case and another, resigned Wednesday, while DeMoss and Harper were put on administrative leave.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021129

[Winehole23]

LA police gangs doing LA police gang things

https://la.streetsblog.org/2021/03/17/officer-fires-8-wildly-out-of-policy-shots-at-man-fleeing-pretextual-stop-evolving-lapd-statements-attempt-to-pin-blame-on-driver/

[Trill Clinton]

5 white STL officers on trial for nearly beating black undercover cop to death. As usual, blue lives matter is silent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09J6x1b-wo&t=73s

[boutons_deux]

Minnesota Supreme Court Throws Out Rape Conviction Because Victim Chose to Get Drunk

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/minnesota-supreme-court-rape-victim-drunk.html

... had the victim been a voluntarily drunk guy raped by queers? conviction would have been thrown out?

[boutons_deux]

No convictions for ex-officers accused of beating colleague at St. Louis protest

Officer Luther Hall, who was mistaken for a protester during the demonstration, described the 2017 attack to jurors as a “free-for-all.”
No convictions were returned for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague

so severely during a protest over another officer’s acquittal that

he had to undergo multiple surgeries.

Defense lawyers said that police department chaos and dysfunction meant that officers and supervisors on the street didn’t know undercover officers were working that night.

Defense lawyers also challenged Hall’s ability to identify his attackers. :lol

The verdicts reignited criticisms that an all-white jury was picked to decide the case.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-convictions-ex-officers-accused-beating-colleague-st-louis-protest-n1262482

Once a slave state always a slave state.

[boutons_deux]

He died in jail hours after a minor pot arrest.

Now 7 corrections officers have been fired.

Seven Collin County detention officers have been fired for their role in

allegedly restraining Marvin Scott III,

blasting him with pepper spray and

placing a hood over his head

as he suffered through what his family has described as a mental health emergency.

https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/M_koaPG_OwjD0_5AsNwjrWWQ37g=/850x1062/smart/https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/2NfnuIRQdKFEDC_7gwjNeB32BCY=/filters:quality(70)/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/665eddf5ca0d713b1554a5576f43a4b9/Marvin%20D.%20Scott%20TT.jpg

police searched him and allegedly found less than 2 ounces of marijuana.

They arrested him and eventually took him to the local jail.

Hours later, the 26-year-old was dead.

detention officers have been fired (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/04/01/7-detention-officers-fired-after-investigation-into-death-of-marvin-scott-at-collin-county-jail/?outputType=amp) for their role in allegedly restraining Scott, blasting him with pepper spray and placing a hood over his head

Scott’s family and local activists

question why he was arrested for such a small amount of marijuana

— a drug soon to be fully legal in 16 states (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/01/new-mexico-recreational-cannabis-marijuana/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10) and widely decriminalized elsewhere —

and why he was subject to force in jail rather than immediately taken for medical treatment.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/02/texas-marvin-scott-death-collin-county/

As always, law enforcement has been fantastically successful in winning the War on (Blacks with) Drugs

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpmZysUkY4

[Winehole23]

5 white STL officers on trial for nearly beating black undercover cop to death. As usual, blue lives matter is silent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09J6x1b-wo&t=73sSt Louis related: "residents" wait up to five years for court dates.


Burris said his latest review shows that out of the 1,003 St. Louis County Justice Center residents:




319 have been waiting more than one year for their trial
127 have been waiting more than two years
1 resident has been waiting for more than five years

https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/jail-population-audit-finds-hundreds-locked-up-for-more-than-a-year/

[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

NYPD “GOON SQUAD” MANUAL TEACHES OFFICERS TO VIOLATE PROTESTERS’ RIGHTS

Exclusive:

Internal NYPD documents shed new light on the Strategic Response Group, or SRG,

the heavily militarized police unit behind the crackdown on George Floyd protesters.

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/07/nypd-strategic-response-unit-george-floyd-protests

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGRDe24Bxg

Cop's favorite saying "what are you so nervous for?"

umm because y'all kill innocent people, give confusing instructions that can get us killed, pull us over for no reason, violate our constitutional rights...

[Trill Clinton]

Tyrants arrest innocent black man while searching for a white suspect


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AbZXifLi-o&t=148s


LAPD video shows arrests of the wrong people in racial profiling lawsuit

A federal judge has unsealed Los Angeles Police Department body camera video showing an incident where a Black man who alleges he was racially profiled by officers was arrested in Hollywood, according to documents obtained Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge ordered the release of police body camera video that shows two Los Angeles Police Department officers arresting a Black man near his home in Hollywood even though they were looking for a white domestic violence suspect.

The 11-minute video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AbZXifLi-o) was disclosed as part of an ongoing lawsuit accusing the LAPD of racial profiling and civil rights violations.




The video shows the chaotic arrest of music producer Antone Austin, known as Tone Stackz, and his girlfriend.

The incident happened in May 2019 in Hollywood. Austin, 42, was taking out his trash outside his apartment when two LAPD officers suddenly pulled up and ordered him to turn around.


Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter (https://www.foxla.com/email). And, get breaking news alerts in the FOX 11 News app. Download for iOS or Android (https://foxla.onelink.me/s6uV?pid=Web&c=in_article&af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxla.com%2Fapps).

Without explanation, the officers immediately attempted to handcuff a struggling Austin and became upset with him when he didn't comply, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the city of Los Angeles one year ago.

As Austin was being detained, his girlfriend came running out of the apartment and was also arrested without cause, the pair alleges in the legal claim. Both Austin and the woman were held in jail for hours, paying a total of $57,000 in bail, according to the suit.

Prior to — and during — the arrest, the officers are heard saying they don't know who they were looking for.

As the patrol car passes Austin and then turns back, one officer asks, "This dude?" and his partner responds, "Probably."

They didn't even have a description of the domestic violence suspect.

It turned out that the real domestic violence suspect was the white ex-boyfriend of Austin's neighbor.

The couple's media representative said Austin was initially charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police officer, but the assault charge was eventually dropped.

His 30-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Michlewicz, was charged with interfering in the arrest, a charge carrying a prison sentence of up to four years.

The status of the charges was not immediately available Wednesday. An LAPD spokesman said that according to policy, the department does not comment on pending litigation.

In court filings, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office argues that the couple's claim is without merit and should be dismissed, and that Austin and his girlfriend are to blame for the incident. Attorneys for the city also allege that the two LAPD officers are immune from liability.

The lawsuit is set for jury trial in October in downtown Los Angeles.

The couple's attorney, Faisal Gill, said the officers didn't know who they were looking for when they arrived at the scene in response to a domestic disturbance call involving the white neighbor.

"It was racial profiling,'' Gill alleged. "No question about it and to add injury to insult they arrest my clients, put them in jail ... Even the woman who called 911 tried to tell the officers that they had the wrong person."

Cannick said that "just because someone didn't die, it's still serious. Here we voted for body cameras, and they're fighting to keep them secret."

CNS contributed to this report.

[Winehole23]

they didn't see see an Army LT going home, they just saw a black man in a new Tahoe.

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[DMC]

The Amazon river runs for thousands of miles. At some points it runs through areas of the rain forest that are almost untouched and have been barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth, and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface. Over thousands of years, small blind transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human. These fish care more about this than I do.

[Winehole23]

a caringly crafted "I don't care"

[Winehole23]

the blue wall of silence protects criminals

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[boutons_deux]

Mom demands answers after Minnesota cop shoots her son — pulled over for air-fresheners on his mirror

https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNjA0MDI1OC9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMDAwMzMwMX0.qWtfnxONQ NeWiW7AUYDWUMyttd4m_1UeBQlcB1UFxLw/image.jpg?width=1200&height=675

Another Minnesota man is dead after another police shooting of an unarmed civilian in Brooklyn Center.

Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright called his mother at approximately 1:40 p.m. telling her that he was being pulled over.

He had an outstanding warrant but police didn't know that when they pulled him over. they said it was for a "traffic violation,"

The violation was that he had air fresheners hanging from his mirror.

Police-ese euphemism alert with grammar error of number disagreement! :lol

"One officer discharged their firearm, striking the driver," :lol cop shot that knitter dead, executed for entering car, following protocol

https://www.rawstory.com/minnesota-police-shoot-another-man

[Trill Clinton]

Killing kids for having air fresheners in the rear view? Tyrants do have shit else better to do? https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/snoop.png

[boutons_deux]

Killing kids for having air fresheners in the rear view? Tyrants do have shit else better to do? https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/snoop.png

More precisely, he committed the capital crime of being black while getting back into his car.

No arrest, no charges, no trial, immediately executed.

[Trill Clinton]

More precisely, he committed the capital crime of being black while getting back into his car.

No arrest, no charges, no trial, immediately executed.


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[boutons_deux]

Boston Globe email

"Police in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop say

the officer who fired intended to use a Taser, not a handgun.

Police Chief Tim Gannon described the shooting as “an accidental discharge.”

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-0/p526x296/172828109_5018833394876341_7941961855711960499_n.p ng?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=5RiKb1s_uUoAX9_XosQ&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&tp=30&oh=ba2deed0af6bffe64a703b848024c9b5&oe=60987CE6

[boutons_deux]

boston globe email

"Monday’s game between the Red Sox and Twins in Minneapolis was postponed “out of respect for the tragic events that occurred yesterday in Brooklyn Center.”

Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died Sunday when he was fatally shot during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb by a police officer who apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, the city’s police chief said Monday."

[Winehole23]

1381658210378088448Brooklyn Center PD is apparently standing behind the mistake.

[Winehole23]

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[Trainwreck2100]

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No you watch the video it was clearly an accident

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[spurraider21]

No you watch the video it was clearly an accident
did you misread the tweet?

[Trainwreck2100]

Killing kids for having air fresheners in the rear view? Tyrants do have shit else better to do? https://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/snoop.png
just to update, it was driving with expired tags while having a warrant

[Winehole23]

just to update, it was driving with expired tags while having a warrantby releasing the police cam footage today Brooklyn Center PD is basically copping to manslaughter.

[Trainwreck2100]

boston globe email

"Monday’s game between the Red Sox and Twins in Minneapolis was postponed “out of respect for the tragic events that occurred yesterday in Brooklyn Center.”

Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died Sunday when he was fatally shot during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb by a police officer who apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, the city’s police chief said Monday."


This some bullshit, ain't got nothing to do with someone getting clapped, they don't want 10000 people gathering together right now.

[Trainwreck2100]

by releasing the police cam footage today Brooklyn Center PD is basically copping to manslaughter.

that's cool, but he was driving with expired tags while having a warrant the air fresher narrative was booty. Also the left ran into the issue of it being a woman, who the good ol boys happily threw under the bus.

[Winehole23]

that's cool, but he was driving with expired tags while having a warrant the air fresher narrative was booty. Also the left ran into the issue of it being a woman, who the good ol boys happily threw under the bus.last I checked, having a warrant for unpaid tickets doesn't warrant a summary execution, and believe it or not, neither does trying to flee the cops.

[boutons_deux]

just to update, it was driving with expired tags while having a warrant

capital crimes, so they executed the knitter

Y'all always blaming the victim, never the perps. as in "she asked for it, looking so rape-able"

[Trainwreck2100]

last I checked, having a warrant for unpaid tickets doesn't warrant a summary execution, and believe it or not, neither does trying to flee the cops.

didn't say it did, but to say that he got pulled over for "air fresheners" when he actually got pulled over for being a dumbass is disingenuous.

[FrostKing]

> Minnesota few days ago

We need to help them keep Father in the house and this is cultural. We need to raise them like the successful brothers in Europe. Culture change.

The reason they run is conspiracies about the system/authority and our civilization

[Winehole23]

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[Trainwreck2100]

capital crimes, so they executed the knitter

Y'all always blaming the victim, never the perps. as in "she asked for it, looking so rape-able"

did i say he deserved to die? did i say he deserved to get shot? I don't recall saying that

[Winehole23]

didn't say it did, but to say that he got pulled over for "air fresheners" when he actually got pulled over for being a dumbass is disingenuous.quoting the mother, I believe.

the story is a little bit more fleshed out now, but still doesn't look very good for Brooklyn Center PD.

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[Trill Clinton]

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Smh damn shame.

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[Spurs Homer]

He didnt get shot because of unpaid tickets, air fresheners or because of his skin color...
he got shot because an officer panicked and tried to tase him with a gun instead of a taser and she will rightfully pay the price...

and i don’think he deserved to get shot - to be clear

but - HE DID RESIST ARREST and tried to flee a lawful arrest- however petty the charges may or may not have been
he resisted arrest, jumped into his car and tried to flee

in fact he fled after getting shot

so HIS actions contributed to his demise. Just being honest. He didnt deserve to die - but he could have acted differently and lived to see another day.

Same with Floyd. Floyd did not deserve it either but same as above - HIS actions CONTRIBUTED to his demise. (Although there is zero excuse for the fact that the cops bungled his arrest so badly that 4 of them could not make a simple arrest and place floyd on his side within 1 minute and get him transported to jail safely)

The black military dude that got pepper sprayed


ALSO Contributed to his getting pepper sprayed.

When the cops ordered him to pull over- he continued to drive until HE DECIDED WHERE HE WANTED to pull over....

then when the cops got full of adrenaline and jumped out of their car- he continued to resist their commands and answering cops commands with stupid questions like “why” “can you calm down”

instead of following the cops directives


he also contributed to his fate - why is everyone afraid to state this fact: your actions CONTRIBUTE to the incident.


When will the media begin to advise viewers, “whenever you get pulled over- DO EXACTLY AS THE COPS TELL YOU TO DO!”

Then if you get abused you can sue the cops afterward!

Why do we never hear ANYONE SAY THIS?

[ChumpDumper]

Sorry, all these are the cops' fault.

[Trill Clinton]

He didnt get shot because of unpaid tickets, air fresheners or because of his skin color...
he got shot because an officer panicked and tried to tase him with a gun instead of a taser and she will rightfully pay the price...

and i don’think he deserved to get shot - to be clear

but - HE DID RESIST ARREST and tried to flee a lawful arrest- however petty the charges may or may not have been
he resisted arrest, jumped into his car and tried to flee

in fact he fled after getting shot

so HIS actions contributed to his demise. Just being honest. He didnt deserve to die - but he could have acted differently and lived to see another day.

Same with Floyd. Floyd did not deserve it either but same as above - HIS actions CONTRIBUTED to his demise. (Although there is zero excuse for the fact that the cops bungled his arrest so badly that 4 of them could not make a simple arrest and place floyd on his side within 1 minute and get him transported to jail safely)

The black military dude that got pepper sprayed


ALSO Contributed to his getting pepper sprayed.

When the cops ordered him to pull over- he continued to drive until HE DECIDED WHERE HE WANTED to pull over....

then when the cops got full of adrenaline and jumped out of their car- he continued to resist their commands and answering cops commands with stupid questions like “why” “can you calm down”

instead of following the cops directives


he also contributed to his fate - why is everyone afraid to state this fact: your actions CONTRIBUTE to the incident.


When will the media begin to advise viewers, “whenever you get pulled over- DO EXACTLY AS THE COPS TELL YOU TO DO!”

Then if you get abused you can sue the cops afterward!

Why do we never hear ANYONE SAY THIS?

Cops can just stop killing unarmed people and violating our constitutional rights. Seems easy.

[Chinook]

Basically, resisting arrest needs to stop being a defcon 1 level crisis for officers. Like is the dude a suspected serial killer? If so, yeah, you don't let him get away. If he just has some misdemenor warrants out, you follow him or shit just arrest him at his home. What this should've been is them adding on resisting arrest to his record, probably bumping up his warrant enough to where they'd actually go up to his house and arrest him soon after. Like, I think there's definitely a point where it's fine for an officer to feel threatened and use deadly force to protect themselves. But somehow despite the overabundance of militarized training, cops keep coming out as whiny, trigger-happy bitches who immediately escalate whenever the slightest bit of adversity comes into the picture.

Yes, it was an accident and probably should just be manslaughter. Yes, dude could've probably saved his life by not fleeing. Both made mistakes, but like almost every fucking time, the cop's the one who gets to live with their mistake while the civilian is the one who dies for theirs. The police should be the one who take the greater risk and face the harsher consequences for their actions. That they don't is basically at the heart of every problem with law enforcement nowadays.

[Spurs Homer]

Cops can just stop killing unarmed people and violating our constitutional rights. Seems easy.

I agree.

And...

civilians can save their own life by just complying with cops directives and if the cops violate their rights —they can hire a good lawyer and get paid

instead of resisting arrest and winding up dead.