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boutons_deux

04-16-2015, 02:02 PM

Racist Posts on NY Cop Blog Raise Ire at Time of Tension

Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant (http://theerant.yuku.com/forums/58), a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; a Middle Eastern cab driver berated by an officer is termed a “third worlder” who should have his “head split open.”
And week after week, the department’s top officials are, at once, embarrassed and powerless.

“It’s very disturbing stuff. Outrageous stuff,” said Stephen Davis, the chief spokesman for the NYPD. “We see it. It’s a problem.”
At the heart of the problem are the limits the department faces in what it can do.
“Monitoring these things is challenging,” Davis said. “There are privacy issues involved. We can’t go and peel back email names and tags and try to find out who these people are.”
The issue of the blog, started by former NYPD officer Ed Polstein in 1999, has gained notoriety (http://www.businessinsider.com/an-nypd-message-board-lit-up-with-racist-comments-following-the-shooting-of-an-unarmed-black-man-in-south-carolina-2015-4) most recently after a white South Carolina police officer shot a black man to death. Shortly after a video of the officer appearing to shoot the fleeing man in the back went viral on the Internet, Thee Rant blew up with comments.
“Cop looked good in his stance,” read one post.
Polstein, who did not respond to requests for an interview, has said previously that anyone wishing to post on the blog has to provide proof that they are a current or former member of the NYPD. But whether they are, and how many have signed up, are among the many mysteries surrounding Thee Rant. The blog says it garners 120,000 page views daily.
Leonard Levitt, a respected former Newsday reporter who runs the website NYPD Confidential, said he has stopped assigning much significance to Thee Rant.
“To be honest, I don’t read it,” Levitt said. “I’d say these guys represent the worst elements of the department. I don’t think they speak for the average cop. I have a feeling it’s four or five guys doing most of the yowling.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/racist-posts-on-ny-cop-blog-raise-ire-at-time-of-tension?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=&utm_name=

Cops bitching about citizens being fat? :lol

boutons_deux

04-16-2015, 02:38 PM

The Orwellian Police Tactic that Targets Black Americans Just for Existing

'No Trespass Letters' allow police to decide who looks like they're trespassing. Guess who they choose.

Kirk McConer was arrested and jailed while talking to a friend outside a convenience store, where he had just purchased a soda.

Tyrone Hightower was arrested and jailed after sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nightclub, as he waited to make sure his friends were admitted to the club.

And Jacob Manyong was stopped and placed under arrest after the back tire of his car barely crossed the property of a private business, as he drove out of an adjacent public lot.

The charges against McConer, Hightower, and Manyong? Trespassing.Although the charges against each of them were eventually dropped, memories of the experience still linger—so much so that each of them remains fearful that he could be victimized again at any moment.

And they’re scared for good reason. Their respective ordeals were the product of a practice introduced by the Grand Rapids Police Department decades ago, which relies on the use of generalized “No Trespass Letters” to justify arrests for criminal trespassing on commercial property. But more to the point, the policy gives police in Michigan’s second-largest city an excuse to stop and search people immediately based on nothing more than a gut reaction to the way someone looks or acts—without bothering to determine whether the person is actually trespassing.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/orwellian-police-tactic-targets-black-americans-just-existing?akid=13013.187590.M6Fykf&rd=1&src=newsletter1034933&t=5 (http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/orwellian-police-tactic-targets-black-americans-just-existing?akid=13013.187590.M6Fykf&rd=1&src=newsletter1034933&t=5)

Surprised? Police in USA originated as slave patrols at the behest of the 19th century 1%.

Nbadan

04-17-2015, 01:24 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3ThTtQoWs
Marana police chief Terry Rozema claims the violent takedown by officer Michael Rapiejko likely saved Valencia’s life.

boutons_deux

04-17-2015, 05:40 AM

"So if he ends up dying in that situation, (then) he ends up dying, and that's unfortunate, (but) that's not the desire of everybody," the chief added.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/arizona-police-run-over-suspect/

"unfortunate" :lol

"not the desire of everybody" :lol

but killing people is the number one burning desire of the cops! :lol

Plus the chief cop get his talking head on national teevee.

boutons_deux

04-17-2015, 01:14 PM

Cops murdering unarmed, kids, running away, is an OLD STORY

A Police Shot to a Boy’s Back in Queens, Echoing Since 1973

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/17/nyregion/17ABOUT1web/17ABOUT1web-articleLarge-v2.jpg

It was 1973, long before anyone could imagine hashtag declarations of solidarity and protest, the kind of message to the world that today might read, #IamCliffordGloverInTheFourthGrade.

No one could pull out a phone to make a video of Clifford Glover, a 10-year-old running from a plainclothes police officer with a gun who had just jumped out of a white Buick Skylark in Jamaica, Queens, on a spring morning in 1973.

“I am sure a camera would have helped, but the ballistics were clear,” Albert Gaudelli, a former Queens prosecutor, said this week. “The bullet entered his lower back and came out at the top of his chest. He was shot T-square in the back, with his body leaning forward. He was running away.”

That bullet killed Clifford Glover (http://nyti.ms/1EP7qfd). Its trajectory — through a family, a neighborhood, a generation — can be traced to this day, in injuries that never healed, in a story with no final word.

Clifford, a black boy, had been shot by Officer Thomas Shea, a white man, who said he had tried to question him and his stepfather because they fit the descriptions of cab robbers. They ran. The officer said he fired when Clifford, in flight, pointed a gun at him, which the mortally injured boy had then managed to toss or hand to his stepfather.

In the hours and days that followed the shooting, armies of investigators scoured the streets and sewers, pored over court records and arrived, without warrants, to search the homes of Clifford’s family and relatives.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/nyregion/fired-at-queens-boy-fatal-1973-police-shot-still-reverberates.html?_r=0

boutons_deux

04-17-2015, 03:28 PM

Dying On Tulsa Time: The Ballad Of Robert Bates

Last night, I chatted with Chris Hayes on the electric teevee machine about the sad saga of Robert Bates, the septuagenarian lawman who shot Eric Harris to death in Tulsa. If the consequences of Bates's actions weren't so awful, I'd almost feel sorry for the guy. As the smarter member of the firm put it the other night, this is the firearms equivalent of the elderly driver who "hits the accelerator instead of the brake" and T-bones a McDonald's. Even though I'm still wondering how in the hell nobody's been fired behind this nonsense yet, I'd like to be able to give this story a good leaving alone, except that it keeps getting better, which is to say, it keeps getting horribly worse. On Thursday, we learned that the local sheriff's department fudged Bates's qualification documents. Now, Bates has emerged from seclusion to make his own case (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tulsa-deputy-who-killed-unarmed-man-finally-speaks-out-it-can-happen-to-anyone/) and, well, wowser.

"First and foremost, let me apologize to the family of Eric Harris," Tulsa reserve deputy Robert Bates said of the 44-year-old black man he fatally wounded. "This is the second-worst thing that's ever happened to me or the first that ever happened to me in my life. I had cancer a number of years ago. I didn't think I was going to get there… I'd rate this as number one on my list of things in my life that I regret." Asked by Matt Lauer how he could make the fundamental mistake of grabbing his gun instead of the taser, Bates replied, "This has happened a number of times around the country. I have read about it in the past. I thought to myself after reading several cases, I don't understand how this can happen."

Please stop helping yourself. Listen to your lawyer.

Lauer took the opportunity to grill Bates on several stories that have come out about his relationship with the Tulsa police: Allegations that he was allowed to "play cop" because of his financial support of the sheriff's deputy; and claims that the sheriff's department falsified Bates' training records to give him unearned credit for firearm certification. Of the former, Bates said, "That is unbelievably unfair. I have donated equipment as I saw fit."

He added that his main motivation has been to assist the department in fighting a local drug problem.

And on the latter accusation, Bates asserted that he has it "in writing" that he completed the required firearms training.

His lawyer jumped in to dismiss the credibility of the report, noting it originates with records from seven years ago and comes from a source he says was recently charged with first-degree murder and is being represented by a firm also representing the Harris family.

Wait, what?

"...comes from a source he says was recently charged with first-degree murder..."

That's what I thought you said.

This is going to get very, very weird.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34434/the-tulsa-shooting-story-gets-better-and-worse/

Trill Clinton

04-20-2015, 02:39 PM

NYPD OPENS FIRE ON DOG AT POINT BLANK RANGE AROUND CHILDREN AND MISSES SMH

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22qbZ6Qccdw

pretty damn reckless if you ask me.

Trill Clinton

04-20-2015, 02:44 PM

COP ACCUSED OF DRIVE BY SHOOTING OF ELDERLY COUPLE

http://media.mlive.com/news/detroit_impact/photo/17524185-large.jpg

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but for one Detroit police officer, words allegedly led him to shoot at a Ray Township couple's home.

Officer Clifford Gullion, 32, was charged Thursday with two counts of discharging a weapon into a building and two counts felony firearm during a video arraignment in 42-2 District Court of Romeo.

Bond is set at $250,000. He is being held at the Macomb County Jail. He faces possible jail time of 10 years for discharging a weapon and an additional two years for the felony firearm charges.

Gullion of Ray Township was arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly firing five shots from a .40 caliber handgun after his wife was involved in a dispute with the homeowners, Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said during a press conference. No one was injured.

Wickersham added it is not known if the handgun was department issued.

"It is extremely bizarre," Wickersham said of the crime. "It sounded like someone's feelings got hurt. He took it upon himself that he was going to send a message to those individuals ... that being firing into the house.

According to Wickersham, Gullion's wife provides in-home medical care to the 62-year-old female who lives with her 61-year-old husband in a house in the 16000 block of 29 Mile near Romeo Plank.

The sheriff said a third party told Gullion's wife the husband made disparaging remarks about her. When Gullion was told of the comments, he began texting and calling the older couple Wednesday evening.

Wickersham said they received a call about the shooting at 2:12 a.m. Thursday. After investigating, deputies went to the officer's home, where he agreed to go to the sheriff's office for an interview.

The officer indicated to deputies he was on a leave of absence from the Detroit Police Department.

Gullion was arrested after the interview.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Gullion has been with the department since 2009 but has been on medical leave for several months. The officer most recently worked in the 9th precinct on the city's east side.

The Macomb County Sheriff's Office is handling a criminal investigation into the incident, Craig said. The Detroit Police Department will complete its own internal investigation.

The officer, Craig said, will be placed on unpaid suspension.

Wickersham said: "I truly believe that in law enforcement we all should be held to a higher standard and we have to be able to control our emotions."

Gullion is scheduled to appear in 42-2 District Court on April 28.

boutons_deux

04-20-2015, 03:10 PM

"I truly believe that in law enforcement we all should be held to a higher standard and we have to be able to control our emotions."

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

believe? faith-based policing! :lol

boutons_deux

04-21-2015, 05:13 AM

Keep the faith, baby! For you "believin" racist, cop suckers:
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent)
Officer Bill Melendez charged with three felonies in brutal beating, planting evidence on Floyd Dent (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/138522/large/Dent-brought-up-bloodied-to-car-window-640x422.jpg?1429035277

After being fired from the Inkster Police Department, Bill "Robocop" Melendez has officially been charged three charges including felony assault, mistreatment of a prisoner and misconduct in the brutal beating of Floyd Dent, an upstanding grandfather and Ford Motor employee, outside of Detroit, Michigan.

A drug possession charge against the man, Floyd Dent, 57, will be dropped, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. Dent's treatment by Inkster police during a Jan. 28 traffic stop sparked outrage after the video was released by NBC affiliate WDIV."We cannot turn our heads when the law enforcer becomes the law breaker," Worthy said during a news conference Monday. "The alleged police brutality in this case cannot and will not be tolerated."

Melendez is one of the most corrupt police officers in America (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/26/1373429/-Why-is-William-Bill-Robocop-Melendez-still-a-police-officer). It's important to note that 12 years ago he was charged by the federal government as the ringleader of a band of corrupt officers in the Detroit Police Department, but he was able to beat the charges. He has been accused in wrongful deaths, planted evidence, and false reports over a dozen other times.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

Melendez years long corruption didn't exist in an innocent vacuum, he wasn't the single bad apple.

boutons_deux

04-21-2015, 05:38 AM

Judge finds Chicago police officer not guilty in fatal shooting

Prosecutors said Servin was in his car when he shot Boyd with an unregistered semiautomatic handgun after an argument with a group of young people in an alley.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/us-usa-police-chicago-trial-idUSKBN0NC02O20150421?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

off-duty, but still policing and killing blacks, killing with an unregistered gun.

Trill Clinton

04-21-2015, 12:43 PM

NORTH CAROLINA MAN ATTACKS OFFICER WITH KNIFE.

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Trill Clinton

04-21-2015, 12:49 PM

CosmicCowboy

04-21-2015, 01:02 PM

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

spursncowboys

04-21-2015, 01:14 PM

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.
the very example of justice.

Trill Clinton

04-21-2015, 02:17 PM

PIECE OF SHIT COP IS BACK ON DUTY AFTER KILLING 7 YEAR OLD CHILD

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Weekley was originally charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and misdemeanor careless discharge of a firearm causing death after young Aiyana took a fatal bullet to the head during a botched raid on her home.

The officer has already been on trial twice for this crime, both ending with deadlocked jurors and mistrials. The judge in the second trial shockingly dropped the manslaughter charge due to a motion by the defense. The same motion had been denied by a judge during his first trial.

boutons_deux

04-21-2015, 02:45 PM

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

99% of them are acquitted, even fewer jailed.

charging them is a sop to the aggrieved, outraged.

boutons_deux

04-21-2015, 03:37 PM

Feds probe video showing officer slamming woman's phone in South Gate

http://www.trbimg.com/img-55366d38/turbine/la-me-ln-feds-probe-video-phone-in-south-gate--001/750/750x422

In the 53-second video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-J-6SkuKJ0&sns=tw), a woman is shown standing on the sidewalk aiming a cellphone toward two men standing a short distance away in black shirts with tactical vests reading “Police” across the back.

As the men stand with their backs to the woman, she can be heard saying, “I do not feel safe with you” and “You are making me feel unsafe and I have a right to be here” and “You need to stay away from me, I don’t feel safe with you closer to me,” among other statements.

The two men don’t appear to face the woman or make any movement toward her. The incident appears to be recorded by a person across the street from the woman.

About 27 seconds into the video, a third man wearing a tactical vest and carrying a rifle walks across a front lawn toward the sidewalk where the woman is standing. The woman appears to point her handheld device toward the third man as one of the other men motions toward her with his arm. What everyone says in the video at that point is unintelligible.

At 32 seconds, the woman takes a couple of steps away from the men. The officer crossing the lawn then rushes toward her and grabs the device from the woman’s hands as she gasps.

“Oh! No! Don’t do that!” the woman is heard yelling as the man wrestles the device out of her hand and smashes it to the ground. He then kicks it down the street and the three men walk way.

“Did you record that?” she shouts to the person filming the incident.

(http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-feds-probe-video-phone-in-south-gate-20150421-story.html#)On Tuesday, South Gate police confirmed the U.S. Marshals Service was involved in an operation within the city that day. A U.S. Marshals Service official acknowledged that the agency is aware of the video, confirmed that the operation involved the Marshals Service and was investigating whether the man seen slamming the device is employed with the Marshals Service.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-feds-probe-video-phone-in-south-gate-20150421-story.html

fatass wannabe bully, shaving his head and growing a chin beard to show what hardass he is. And of course, breaking Constitutional law, of which he is certainly ignorant

boutons_deux

04-21-2015, 03:41 PM

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

Anger follows acquittal in rare trial of Chicago cop

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-detective-manslaughter-trial-0421-met-20150420-story.html#page=1

cops have WIDE LATITUDE to be a brutal as they wanna be, with no fear of reprisal, usually rewarded 1 month+ of paid vacation

boutons_deux

04-21-2015, 04:06 PM

‘I’ll drop your ass': Video catches LAPD cop turned GOP congressman threatening protester

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/ill-drop-your-ass-video-catches-lapd-cop-turned-gop-congressman-threatening-protester/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

FuzzyLumpkins

04-21-2015, 04:12 PM

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

the very example of justice.

The issue is the extra rights cops get through the LEBOR and the processes and conflicts it creates just as much as it is institutional racism. Charges or accusations are reprised by the not so thin blue line.

cd021

04-22-2015, 03:38 AM

Seems like most of these links show that the cops that are in the wrong get charged.

or paid vacation...

spurraider21

04-22-2015, 03:46 AM

boutons_deux

04-22-2015, 03:40 PM

WATCH: Cop chases motorcyclist 38 miles for running stop sign — then shoots him and kicks him off his bike

The Austin American Statesman stumbled across footage of a high-speed police pursuit (http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/crime-law/high-speed-dps-motorcycle-pursuit-ends-with-a-guns/nktP9/?icmp=statesman_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013 _statesmanstubtomystatesmanpremium#a5c4d8f4.355483 0.735707) that lasted 38 miles and ended when the cop shot the suspect and forced him off his motorcycle with what the New York Daily News colorfully describes (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-trooper-leaping-karate-kick-caught-video-article-1.2193743) as a “leaping karate kick.”

Just past midnight on December 23, 2012, in unincorporated Chambers County, Texas, 25-year-old Steven Gaydos ran a stop sign on his Suzuki 750. DPS Trooper Abraham Martinez, who happened to be waiting in a nearby parking lot, pulled out in his cop car in pursuit of the scofflaw motorcyclist.

But Gaydos didn’t stop. And neither did Martinez. Hitting speeds of up to 130 miles an hour, Martinez followed Gaydos through nearly 40 miles of east Texas highway, and finally pulled alongside his target and, from the window of his vehicle, fired his .375 handgun four times. One of the bullets penetrated Gaydos’ right thigh.

Injured, Gaydos finally pulled over and sat on his motorcycle to wait for police. Gaydos had been driving with a suspended license, and he hadn’t wanted his motorcycle confiscated by police, but Gaydos’ ability to flee had suddenly become more limited, what with the cop firing at him and the gunshot wound in the leg.

Martinez approached Gaydos on foot and launched an aerial kick directly into Gaydos’ back, knocking the wounded motorcyclist onto the ground. Martinez promptly called for medical assistance, but the officer did receive three days of unpaid probation from DPS for violating excessive use of force regulations.

DPS instructors told the Statesman (http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/crime-law/high-speed-dps-motorcycle-pursuit-ends-with-a-guns/nktP9/?icmp=statesman_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013 _statesmanstubtomystatesmanpremium#a5c4d8f4.355483 0.735707) Martinez had received training on things like not shooting motorcyclists who run stop signs. Per DPS, Martinez would have learned that skill when studying “the agency’s ban on using tire-deflating devices on fleeing motorcycles so as not to cause a high-speed, possibly fatal crash.” But, the Statesman reports, “Martinez said he didn’t recall that part of the class.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/watch-cop-chases-motorcyclist-38-miles-for-running-stop-sign-then-shoots-him-and-kicks-him-off-his-bike/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

spurraider21

04-22-2015, 08:59 PM

NORTH CAROLINA MAN ATTACKS OFFICER WITH KNIFE.

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:lol i dont get the point of this... did you watch the video? the officer already had his taser out and pointed at the guy before he was attacked.

spurraider21

04-22-2015, 09:01 PM

OFFICER SHOWS ULTIMATE RESTRAINT WHEN HE IS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH MAN WHO JUST KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND AND EX GIRLFRIEND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJKyK6VqDI

http://i58.tinypic.com/294rnko.png
so if he shoots him, this vid goes on thread because of brutality

if he doesn't he gets here because http://i58.tinypic.com/294rnko.png

there's no pleasing some people

cd021

04-22-2015, 10:02 PM

:lol i dont get the point of this... did you watch the video? the officer already had his taser out and pointed at the guy before he was attacked.

unarmed men getting shot, this guy runs at a cop with a weapon and lives to tell...

spurraider21

04-22-2015, 10:03 PM

unarmed men getting shot, this guy runs at a cop with a weapon and lives to tell...
did you watch the video? the cop had his taser out and pointed at the guy the entire time. if he tried to drop his taser and pull out a gun, he probably woulda gotten stabbed and/or killed

cd021

04-23-2015, 04:07 AM

did you watch the video? the cop had his taser out and pointed at the guy the entire time. if he tried to drop his taser and pull out a gun, he probably woulda gotten stabbed and/or killed

The cop had a gun, not a taser. And I watched the video several times.

"He got towards my face right as I lost balance," Kidder said "I'm thinking, at this point, that if he goes in to attack me that I'll have to use deadly force to defend myself."

"The suspect eventually charges but Kidder again refuses to pull the trigger. The officer stumbles and falls backward but when he gets up the suspect finally complies."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/watch-ohio-officer-refuses-shoot-charging-murder-suspect-article-1.2190739

cd021

04-23-2015, 04:11 AM

so if he shoots him, this vid goes on thread because of brutality

if he doesn't he gets here because http://i58.tinypic.com/294rnko.png

there's no pleasing some people

It wouldn't go on this thread, not by me at least. This guy is suspected of killing two people and was running at an officer.

Not the same as a kid playing with a toy guy and having the cops pull up and unload two shots in his stomach. They lie about how it went down and the city blames the kid for his death.

or the dozens of ridiculously over the top uses of force by the cops. Such a 10 cops beating the shit out of a man who was on the ground surrendering.

spurraider21

04-23-2015, 04:18 AM

unarmed men getting shot, this guy runs at a cop with a weapon and lives to tell...
you are referring to the wrong link... check the post log and look at the comment i was initially replying to

Trill Clinton

04-23-2015, 07:31 AM

:lol i dont get the point of this... did you watch the video? the officer already had his taser out and pointed at the guy before he was attacked.

man, you're slow. of course he has his taser out and ready, he was responding to a WHITE family. he knew better. if the guy was black, he would have used his gun and killed him, word.

boutons_deux

04-23-2015, 08:26 AM

Cops Kill Man for Refusing to ID as He Dropped Off Stray Cat to Animal Shelter, Police Remain Silent

In late December of 2014, Robert Earl Lawrence, 30, in an act of compassion, took a stray cat to the Dothan Animal Shelter. What was a seemingly selfless act of kindness would subsequently end with Lawrence being fatally gunned down by a cop.

Almost four months after that fateful day, police have provided the public with no more answers (http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/editorials/our-view-secrecy-on-fatal-police-shooting-erodes-public-confidence/article_71e3733a-d1a4-11e4-b6e0-07766cc93bc0.html) than were given the day after the killing. They have maintained a blanket of virtual silence surrounding the incident.

As we reported previously (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-killed-police-showing-id-turning-stray-cat-animal-shelter/), the

staff at the shelter, rather than simply accepting the cat, proceeded to demand that Lawrence show government issued identification. WTF?

Per shelter policy, they demanded Lawrence show ID, prior to being allowed to leave, ???? according to information released by police immediately after the shooting.

Lawrence showed them a notarized legal identification in the form of an affidavit, rather than the standard Department of Motor Vehicle issued ID card. In what would prove to be a fatal move, shelter employees refused to accept his form of ID and called the police.

“After repeatedly being told to calm down, Lawrence was advised he was being placed under arrest. A physical altercation ensued, to which Lawrence was shot in the abdomen (by an officer),” Police Sgt. Maurice Eggleston told AL News. (http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2014/12/dothan_police_officer_shoots_i.html)

After the shooting the police spin machine went into overdrive as they attempted to portray the victim in a negative light. They highlighted past run-ins with the law and labeled him a “Sovereign Citizen,” a claim which his family disputes.

http://www.alternet.org/cops-kill-man-refusing-id-he-dropped-stray-cat-animal-shelter-police-remain-silent?akid=13030.187590.smcijB&rd=1&src=newsletter1035255&t=19

spurraider21

04-23-2015, 02:18 PM

man, you're slow. of course he has his taser out and ready, he was responding to a WHITE family. he knew better. if the guy was black, he would have used his gun and killed him, word.
in the recent carolina shooting the cop had his taser out first

Trill Clinton

04-23-2015, 03:22 PM

in the recent carolina shooting the cop had his taser out first

really?http://i61.tinypic.com/2udx15j.png

and instead of chasing him, calling for backup and setting up a perimeter, he shoots at the fleeing suspects back 8 times

spurraider21

04-23-2015, 03:28 PM

really?http://i61.tinypic.com/2udx15j.png

and instead of chasing him, calling for backup and setting up a perimeter, he shoots at the fleeing suspects back 8 times
i've already said that cop deserved prison for what he did.

but you saying "this guy only had his taser out first because the perp was white" is just moronic and wrong. if the taser wasn't knocked out of his hand, thats probably what he would have used (considering that's what he took out first). doesn't justify the ensuing events, but that's not the point i'm making here.

boutons_deux

04-23-2015, 03:48 PM

How the NYPD Is More Humane to (Unarmed) Coyotes Than African-Americans

Earlier this month, the police captured a coyote in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan by shooting it with a tranquilizer dart after a pursuit.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-nypd-more-humane-coyotes-african-americans

Trill Clinton

04-23-2015, 03:48 PM

i've already said that cop deserved prison for what he did.

but you saying "this guy only had his taser out first because the perp was white" is just moronic and wrong.

that's your opinion and i respectfully disagree. peace.

spurraider21

04-23-2015, 03:52 PM

that's your opinion and i respectfully disagree. peace.
in both cases the cop took the taser out first. that's not an opinion

Trill Clinton

04-24-2015, 02:16 PM

591675865634840579

tulsa sheriff's department being investigated for a history of misconduct.

boutons_deux

04-27-2015, 05:28 AM

Settlement Won’t Even Cover Medical Bills for Baby Whose Face was Blown Apart by Police Grenade

No officers were charged for their near-deadly negligence, and the department claimed that they did not know that there were children in the home.

http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/settlement-wont-pay-medical-bills-baby-bou.jpg

http://www.alternet.org/settlement-wont-even-cover-medical-bills-baby-whose-face-was-blown-apart-police-grenade

... and they did not care. Militarized, extremely violent SWAT team was their only option. Boys just gotta dress up and have fun.

boutons_deux

04-27-2015, 08:06 AM

Trill Clinton

04-27-2015, 02:24 PM

The Myth of Police Reform

The real problem is the belief that all our social problems can be solved with force.

There is a tendency, when examining police shootings, to focus on tactics at the expense of strategy. One interrogates the actions of the officer in the moment trying to discern their mind-state. We ask ourselves, "Were they justified in shooting?" But, in this time of heightened concern around the policing, a more essential question might be, "Were we justified in sending them?" At some point, Americans decided that the best answer to every social ill lay in the power of the criminal-justice system. Vexing social problems—homelessness, drug use, the inability to support one's children, mental illness—are presently solved by sending in men and women who specialize in inspiring fear and ensuring compliance. Fear and compliance have their place, but it can't be every place.
When Walter Scott fled from the North Charleston police, he was not merely fleeing Michael Thomas Slager, he was attempting to flee incarceration. He was doing this because we have decided that the criminal-justice system is the best tool for dealing with men who can't, or won't, support their children at a level that we deem satisfactory. Peel back the layers of most of the recent police shootings that have captured attention and you will find a broad societal problem that we have looked at, thrown our hands up, and said to the criminal-justice system, "You deal with this."
Last week I was in Madison, Wisconsin, where I was informed of the killing of Tony Robinson by a police officer. Robinson was high on mushrooms. The police were summoned after he chased a car. The police killed him. A month earlier, I'd been thinking a lot about Anthony Hill, who was mentally ill. One day last month, Hill stripped off his clothes and started jumping off of his balcony. The police were called. They killed him. I can't see the image of Tamir Rice aimlessly kicking snow outside the Cleveland projects and think of how little we invest in occupying the minds of children. A bored Tamir Rice decided to occupy his time with a airsoft gun. He was killed.
There is of course another way. Was Walter Scott's malfunctioning third-brake light really worth a police encounter? Should the state repeatedly incarcerate him for not paying child support? Do we really want people trained to fight crime dealing with someone who's ceased taking medication? Does the presence of a gun really improve the chance of peacefully resolving a drug episode? In this sense, the police—and the idea of police reform—are a symptom of something larger. The idea that all social problems can, and should, be resolved by sheer power is not limited to the police (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/06/texas-school-district-arms-teachers-and-posts-warning-signs/). In Atlanta, a problem that began with the poor state of public schools has now ending by feeding more people (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/sentencing-begins-for-atlanta-educators-in-schools-cheating-scandal.html) into the maw of the carceral state.

There are many problems with expecting people trained in crime-fighting to be social workers. In the black community, there is a problem of legitimacy. In his 1953 book The Quest For Community, conservative Robert Nisbet distinguishes between "power" and "authority." Authority, claims Nisbet, is a matter of relationships, allegiances, and association and is "based ultimately upon the consent of those under it." Power, on the other hand, is "external" and "based upon force." Power exists where allegiances have decayed or never existed at all. "Power arises," writes Nesbit, "only when authority breaks down."
African Americans, for most of our history, have lived under the power of the criminal-justice system, not its authority. The dominant feature in the relationship between African Americans and their country is plunder (http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/), and plunder has made police authority an impossibility, and police power a necessity. The skepticism of Officer Darren Wilson's account in the shooting of Michael Brown, for instance, emerges out of lack of police authority—which is to say it comes from a belief that the police are as likely to lie as any other citizen. When African American parents give their children "The Talk," they do not urge them to make no sudden movements in the presence of police out of a profound respect for the democratic ideal, but out of the knowledge that police can, and will, kill them.
But for most Americans, the police—and the criminal-justice system—are figures of authority. The badge does not merely represent rule via lethal force, but rule through consent and legitimacy rooted in nobility. This is why whenever a liberal politician offers even the mildest criticism of the police, they must add that "the majority of officers are good, noble people." Taken at face value this is not much of a defense—like a restaurant claiming that on most nights, there really are no rats in the dining room. But interpreted less literally the line is not meant to defend police officers, but to communicate the message that the speaker is not questioning police authority, which is to say the authority of our justice system, which is to say—in a democracy—the authority of the people themselves.
Thus it was not surprising, last week, to see that the mayor of North Charleston ordered the use of body cameras for all officers. Body cameras are the least divisive and least invasive step toward reforming the practices of the men and women we permit to kill in our names. Body cameras are helpful in police work, but they are also helpful in avoiding a deeper conversation over what it means to keep whole swaths of America under the power of the justice system, as opposed to the authority of other branches of civil society.
Police officers fight crime. Police officers are neither case-workers, nor teachers, nor mental-health professionals, nor drug counselors. One of the great hallmarks of the past forty years of American domestic policy is a broad disinterest in that difference. The problem of restoring police authority is not really a problem of police authority, but a problem of democratic authority. It is what happens when you decide to solve all your problems with a hammer. To ask, at this late date, why the police seem to have lost their minds is to ask why our hammers are so bad at installing air-conditioners. More it is to ignore the state of the house all around us. A reform that begins with the officer on the beat is not reform at all. It's avoidance. It's a continuance of the American preference for considering the actions of bad individuals, as opposed to the function and intention of systems.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-myth-of-police-reform/390057/

ta-nehisi the gawd with another gem

boutons_deux

04-27-2015, 02:53 PM

Model sues, says Bay Area police broke bones in her face during arrest

A model has filed a suit in which she claims Bay Area police officers slammed her to the ground and broke four bones in her face. Footage from police security and body cameras recorded at least part of the incident.

Body camera video footage obtained by KGO-TV on Saturday shows officers grabbing Sheehan’s arms and appearing to push her to the ground (http://abc7news.com/news/exclusive-woman-files-suit-against-east-bay-police-alleging-excessive-force-/681205/) while the model was being booked in Santa Rita jail. In the background, someone says “Ooh,” after she was thrown to the ground. Another voice says, “You might want medical.”

Photographs taken at the hospital show Sheehan’s bloodied, bruised and swollen face.

she was arrested on suspicion of battery on an officer and resisting arrest, according to the lawsuit.

Once she arrived at the Santa Rita jail, she claims four assailants beat her unconscious. As a result of the beating, four bones on her face were broken. Her front tooth was cracked and her molar was split.

Sheehan was taken to a hospital, where she spent two days receiving treatment.

She was returned to the jail and later released on bail. She says criminal charges were never filed against her.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bart-police-model-face-20150427-story.html

spurraider21

04-27-2015, 05:40 PM

Why Blacks Running From Cops Is Entirely Logical -- and So Common

I know this guy driving his 11 year old brother to school in his girlfriend’s car when he got stopped.

Turns out that the car was stolen, so the cops charged the guy with receiving stolen property. And then they charged the 11 year old with accessory to receiving stolen property, and gave him 3 years of probation.

So from now on this 11 year old is in legal jeopardy.

Any less-than-positive encounter with the police could mean a violation of his probation, and send him straight to juvenile hall for the entire three years. He could be out past curfew, or sitting on the stoop with his brother’s friends, or asked to inform—anything could lead to a violation.

http://www.alternet.org/why-blacks-running-cops-entirely-logical-and-so-common
while that story is fucked up, it has nothing to do with running from cops, and its laughable to suggest that it's a logical move. i hope american youth dont take the article title seriously, for their own safety. but in general, yes... somebody driving a stolen car, even if not theirs, could be legally liable... if he knew or thought it was stolen. i'm assuming if his girlfriend had stolen a car, he would know it was stolen.

although it would be cool to actually have a verifiable story instead of "i know this guy"

boutons_deux

04-28-2015, 08:33 AM

while that story is fucked up, it has nothing to do with running from cops, and its laughable to suggest that it's a logical move. i hope american youth dont take the article title seriously, for their own safety. but in general, yes... somebody driving a stolen car, even if not theirs, could be legally liable... if he knew or thought it was stolen. i'm assuming if his girlfriend had stolen a car, he would know it was stolen.

although it would be cool to actually have a verifiable story instead of "i know this guy"

yes, driving a stolen car, if you know it was stolen, if the person you borrowed it from knew it was stolen and didn't tell you, is stupid.

putting an 11 year old kid on probation for 3 years as "accessory to receiving stolen property" is beyond stupid. It's police brutality, harassment of innocents, criminalization of childdren.

And the rest of the article you conveniently ignore.

Innocent blacks KNOW for sure the police will very probably fuck them over, so running gives them a chance to not be fucked over.

Sheriff Hoyt

04-28-2015, 10:21 AM

Running from the cops will put your life more in danger.

Clipper Nation

04-28-2015, 10:39 AM

What will the next libtard article be? Putting Your Hand on a Hot Stove is Logical? Driving Drunk is Logical?

boutons_deux

04-28-2015, 12:15 PM

Police withheld video of officers laughing, mocking, re-enacting brutal beating of Floyd Dent (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380698/-Police-withheld-video-of-officers-laughing-mocking-re-enacting-brutal-beating-of-Floyd-Dent)

Police officers in Inkster, Michigan pulled Floyd Dent over for maybe, possibly not completely stopping at a stop sign and then brutally beat the 57-year-old man (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/25/1373295/-Worse-than-Rodney-King-Shocking-dash-cam-video-shows-suburban-Detroit-police-brutally-beating-man) who had no prior arrests or convictions of any kind.One of the officers, Bill "Robocop" Melendez has since been fired and charged with felony assault, mistreatment of a prisoner and misconduct in the brutal beating of Floyd Dent. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent)Prosecutors dismissed the drug charges against Dent.

Now Inkster police have released an equally disturbing video, one they apparently didn't want to see the light of day: (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders-exclusive-new-video-shows-inkster-cops-laughing-while-floyd-dent-bleeds/32581034)

“He is bleeding like a sieve, there is blood everywhere,” said Rohl. “The officers don’t seem at all disturbed by what happened at the scene. They appear happy, pleased, even celebratory over the arrest of Floyd Dent—a man who was just beaten kicked and tased.As the officers continue wiping Dents blood off them, an officer decides to do a little acting. He lies down on a bench and imitates Dent being on the ground at the scene choked by Officer William Melendez. His acting seems to thrill rather than disgust his audience.

At the same time, Dent is suffering from a closed head injury, broken ribs, and a fractured orbital but had not been allowed to see a doctor for his injuries.

Watch the police laughing, fist-bumping and re-enacting the beating, all while Floyd Dent sits just off-frame, with several broken ribs and bleeding everywhere, pleading with them to call for medical attention.

see video:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380698/-Police-withheld-video-of-officers-laughing-mocking-re-enacting-brutal-beating-of-Floyd-Dent?detail=email

FuzzyLumpkins

04-28-2015, 02:39 PM

detail=email

:lol spoonfed simpleton

boutons_deux

04-28-2015, 03:11 PM

Running from the cops will put your life more in danger.

I'm sure blacks know that. Being stopped by cops put blacks in danger of detention, jailed without charge, tazing, punitive brutality, framing, death. A complicated calculus to make in a panicked instant.

cd021

04-29-2015, 06:43 AM

Running from the cops will put your life more in danger.

Certain cops will use those people as target practice.

boutons_deux

04-29-2015, 08:29 AM

:lol spoonfed simpleton

your original, creative analyses, investigative journalism, and commentary are breath-taking

boutons_deux

04-29-2015, 04:33 PM

The Rise of Privatized Policing: How Crisis Capitalism Created Crisis Cops

On February 13, 2014, Thomas Michalak and Cheryl LaBash, who organize with Moratorium NOW!, a coalition fighting foreclosures, evictions and water shutoffs in Detroit, fired off some quick tweets encouraging others to join their group in a demonstration opposing the state-appointed emergency management of Detroit's bankruptcy. They'd planned the protest for the next day, at Detroit's Campus Martius Park.

LaBash, a retired city employee, tweeted from Moratorium NOW!'s account that activists were planning to meet at the park to hand out flyers and circulate the group's petition calling on Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to make big banks pay the brunt of Detroit's debt obligations, and to protect the city's pensions (including her own).

What the two didn't know was that operators at a private surveillance center in downtown Detroit's Chase Tower were watching their tweets closely behind their bevy of computer monitors.

The surveillance center is operated by a subsidiary of Rock Ventures, which serves as the umbrella entity for Quicken Loans CEO and mega-developer billionaire Dan Gilbert's business and real estate investments. The center works in partnership with the Detroit Police Department (DPD) and private security firms to monitor surveillance footage from 300 cameras covering more than (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-ann-thompson/rescuing-americas-inner-c_b_5526012.html) 2 million square feet of property Gilbert owns in downtown Detroit.

The next day, when a group of four activists, including Michalak and LaBash, headed over to the park's historic Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument to pass out flyers as planned, they were quickly confronted by a private security guard with Guardsmark, the security firm hired by Detroit 300 Conservancy, which privately manages the city-owned park. The guard asked the group to leave and warned them they would be arrested if they refused.

"I said, 'Isn't this public property?' and [the security guard] said, 'Yes, but it's privately managed,'" Moratorium NOW! organizer Abayomi Azikiwe told Truthout about the confrontation.

... etc

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30467-the-rise-of-privatized-policing-in-the-us-how-crisis-capitalism-created-crisis-cops

spurraider21

05-02-2015, 08:25 PM

NYPD officer reportedly shot in the head, in critical condition (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/02/nypd-officer-reportedly-shot-in-head-in-critical-condition/)
race baiting causing a war on police

cd021

05-02-2015, 10:50 PM

NYPD officer reportedly shot in the head, in critical condition (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/02/nypd-officer-reportedly-shot-in-head-in-critical-condition/)

race baiting causing a war on police

:lol race baiting.

police started a war on its citizens. Shooting unarmed men in the back, arresting a man without probably cause and giving him a rough ride that severed his spine and caused his death. Shooting at a couple 137 times because their car backfired. Murdering a kid with a toy gun, lying about it and the city blames the kid for his own death or shooting a man that was buying a toy gun at Walmart.

Don't condone police being shot but as a whole the police are far from victims.

boutons_deux

05-03-2015, 07:22 AM

NYPD officer reportedly shot in the head, in critical condition (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/02/nypd-officer-reportedly-shot-in-head-in-critical-condition/)

race baiting causing a war on police

... offered in defense of cops harassing, brutalizing, killing unarmed, innocent blacks?

criminals killing cops is what cops expect when the voluntarily sign up.

cops killing unarmed, innocent blacks is not what blacks should be forced to accept when they are born.

boutons_deux

05-05-2015, 09:49 AM

Sheriff Shoots Real Estate Agent as She Shows House, Then Walks Away Because 'He’s the Sheriff'

Gwinnett County, GA — Clayton County Sheriff, Victor Hill, has not been charged with a crime and was allowed to leave the scene after shooting a woman in the stomach on Sunday.

According to Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Brian Doan, Hill accidentally shot a woman at a model home located at 2567 Britt Trail Drive in Lawrenceville at around 7 p.m. Sunday.

The woman Hill shot is in critical condition at Gwinnett Medical Center. She was the real estate agent who was showing the home. How someone can “accidentally” shoot a woman as she shows a house remains a mystery.

When police arrived on the scene they said Hill refused to cooperate with the investigation and did not give a statement nor answer any questions. Citing the fact that he was the sheriff, Hill simply left the scene.

Let that sink in.

This man shot and may have killed a woman as she was showing a house to two potential home-buyers.

He gives no reason as to why or how he shot her and simply leaves.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/sheriff-shoots-real-estate-agent-she-shows-house-then-walks-away-because-hes?akid=13072.187590.B2Fcst&rd=1&src=newsletter1035861&t=23

I bet he's an Oath Keeper, who "believe" sheriffs are the supreme law enforcers of the land.

boutons_deux

05-05-2015, 10:02 AM

DEA agents jail student 5 days with no food, water; get slap on wrist

Federal agents responsible for leaving a 23-year-old UC San Diego engineering student in a holding cell for five days without food or water received only reprimands or short suspensions from the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the Justice Department.

Daniel Chong was swept up in a 2012 DEA raid on his friends' house, where he had gone to smoke marijuana. After an interrogation, he was told he would be released.

But the agents responsible forgot about him, according to a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General report last summer, leaving him to drink his own urine to stave off dehydration.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-dea-chong-20150505-story.html

He got $4.1M, which is more per hour than he may ever make working hours.

boutons_deux

05-05-2015, 11:13 AM

American justice: Couple faces 15 years for beach sex — pastor faces 4 months for molesting girl

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/american-justice-couple-faces-15-years-for-beach-sex-pastor-faces-4-months-for-molesting-girl/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

05-06-2015, 08:34 AM

Ancestry.com Caught Sharing Customer DNA Data With Police With No Warrant

Police investigating the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge targeted the wrong man as the suspect, after looking to Ancestry.com owned Sorensen Database labs for help. The labs look for familial matches between the murderers DNA and DNA submitted for genealogical testing after failing to find a match using traditional methods.

According to The Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/how-private-dna-data-led-idaho-cops-wild-goose-chase-and-linked-innocent-man-20):

The cops chose to use a lab linked to a private collection of genetic genealogical data called the Sorenson Database (now owned by Ancestry.com), which claims it’s “the foremost collection of genetic genealogy data in the world.” The reason the Sorenson Database can make such an audacious claim is because it has obtained its more than 100,000 DNA samples and documented multi-generational family histories from “volunteers in more than 100 countries around the world.”

Some of these volunteers were encouraged by the Mormon Church—well-known for its interest in genealogy—to provide their genetic material to the database.

Sorenson promised volunteers their genetic data would only be used for “genealogical services, including the determination of family migration patterns and geographic origins” and would not be shared outside Sorenson.

Its consent form states:

The only individuals who will have access to the codes and genealogy information will be the principal investigator and the others specifically authorized by the Principal Investigator, including the SMGF research staff.

Despite this promise, Sorenson shared its vast collection of data with the Idaho police. Without a warrant or court order, investigators asked the lab to run the crime scene DNA against Sorenson’s private genealogical DNA database.

Sorenson found 41 potential familial matches, one of which matched on 34 out of 35 alleles—a very close match that would generally indicate a close familial relationship. The cops then asked, not only for the “protected” name associated with that profile, but also for all “all information including full names, date of births, date and other information pertaining to the original donor to the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy project.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/ancestrycom-caught-sharing-customer-dna-data-police-no-warrant?akid=13077.187590.9wiMns&rd=1&src=newsletter1035914&t=17

boutons_deux

05-07-2015, 03:47 PM

FBI Admits to Using High-Tech Spy Planes to Monitor Freddie Gray Protests

FBI won't say whether Joint Terror Task Force was used.

Baltimore joins a growing list of cities where anti-police brutality protests have fallen under the purview of FBI’s surveillance apparatus. According to yesterday’s Baltimore Sun (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-fbi-admits-providing-air-support-to-baltimore-police-during-freddie-gray-unrest-20150506-story.html), federal authorities used their sophisticated fleet of spy aircraft to “watch over Baltimore in the wake of rioting”. FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson insisted the aircraft were used to help Baltimore Police “keep an eye out for criminal activity”:

"The aircraft were specifically used to assist in providing high-altitude observation of potential criminal activity to enable rapid response by police officers on the ground," Thoreson said. "The FBI aircraft were not there to monitor lawfully protected first amendment activity."

The admission was in response to amatuer sleuths noticing unsual flight activity about the Baltimore area. As the Washington Post reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/surveillance-planes-spotted-in-the-sky-for-days-after-west-baltimore-rioting/2015/05/05/c57c53b6-f352-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html) on Tuesday:

Discovery of the flights — which involved at least two airplanes and the assistance of the FBI — has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to demand answers about the legal authority for the operations and the reach of the technology used. Planes armed with the latest surveillance systems can monitor larger areas than police helicopters and stay overhead longer, raising novel civil liberties issues that have so far gotten little scrutiny from courts.

Civil libertarians have particular concern about surveillance technology that can quietly gather images across dozens of city blocks — in some cases even square miles at a time — inevitably capturing the movements of people under no suspicion of criminal activity into a government dragnet. The ACLU plans to file information requests with federal agencies on Wednesday, officials said.

The airplane’s surveillance technology, as Astechnica point out (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/the-fbis-secret-air-force-watched-the-streets-of-baltimore/), was perfected overseas in US wars Iraq and Afghanistan. It comes equipped with high-defintion day and night surveillance systems as well as Stingray or “dirtybox” cell phone interception capacity - devices that can target mobile phones andlisten to phone conversations (http://www.12news.com/story/news/12-news/2015/02/23/12news-stingray-cellphone-tracking/23912647/) in real-time.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/fbi-admits-using-high-tech-spy-planes-monitor-freddie-gray-protests

cd021

05-08-2015, 09:52 PM

www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/us/san-francisco-police-texts/index.html

"At least 3,000 arrests in the past decade are under review in San Francisco in a widening scandal over how police officers allegedly wrote racist and homophobic text messages."

boutons_deux

05-09-2015, 09:38 AM

In arrest of cop for kicking black man, signs of shift on prosecuting police

A Dover, Del., police officer who faced no criminal charges in 2013 for knocking a surrendering man unconscious with a jaw-breaking kick could face jail time, after all.

see the vid

“Where in the past juries have been deferential to official statements and generally discounted statements from citizens who might be a suspect, or portrayed as a suspect, these videos are now proving very transformative, because they diminish that deference that juries have for the official version of events,”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0508/In-arrest-of-cop-for-kicking-black-man-signs-of-shift-on-prosecuting-police-video

boutons_deux

05-15-2015, 11:37 AM

Warrior Employers policing employees round the clock

Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day

A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for money transfer service Intermex (http://intermexonline.com/), claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora (http://www.xora.com/) app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to hersuit (http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Intermexcomplaint.pdf) (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court:

After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone.

Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion…..

Intermex did not immediately respond for comment.

The suit, which claims invasion of privacy, retaliation, unfair business practices, and other allegations, seeks damages in excess of $500,000 and asserts she was monitored on the weekends when she was not working.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/worker-fired-for-disabling-gps-app-that-tracked-her-24-hours-a-day/

boutons_deux

05-15-2015, 03:24 PM

FBI Spied On Activists Because Protecting Corporate Interests Is Roughly Equivalent To Ensuring National Security

That whole thing about the FBI not surveilling people based solely on First Amendment activity (https://books.google.com/books?id=dz82cma16CgC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=not+based+solely+on+first+amendment+activity&source=bl&ots=J0RGyP8s7e&sig=xEouAO295jnhFw8QQFWSy_Jfx78&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5F9SVZeWOYPvoATApIDoCA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=not%20based%20solely%20on%20first%20amendment%20 activity&f=false)? The thing that's been in all the (FISA) papers (and agency policies) (http://justsecurity.org/14418/fisc-law-abiding-americans-subject-section-215-orders-amendment/)? Yeah, the FBI hasn't heard of it either (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents).

The FBI breached its own internal rules when it spied on campaigners against the Keystone XL pipeline, failing to get approval before it cultivated informants and opened files on individuals protesting against the construction of the pipeline in Texas, documents reveal.

Internal agency documents show for the first time how FBI agents have been closely monitoring anti-Keystone activists, in violation of guidelines designed to prevent the agency from becoming unduly involved in sensitive political issues.

"Unduly involved" is right. First of all, a majority of what was monitored was First Amendment activity, something no federal intelligence or investigative agency is supposed to be doing. Certainly, there can be law enforcement monitoring of protests as they occur, but there's no provision in the law that allows the FBI to monitor people solely because of their activism.

Unless, of course, these activists are declared "extremists." Then all bets (and Constitutional protections) are off.

“Many of these extremists believe the debates over pollution, protection of wildlife, safety, and property rights have been overshadowed by the promise of jobs and cheaper oil prices,” the FBI document states.

"Extremists" are often mentioned in the same breath as "domestic terrorists," so with a little bit of rebranding, the FBI is now able to surveill people solely for their First Amendment-protected activities.

That's handy and not totally unexpected, given the agency's long history of eyeballing activists who run contrary to its view on How Things Should Be. At one point, it was uppity blacks (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance) and encroaching homosexuals (http://todayinclh.com/?event=fbi-investigates-actor-rock-hudson-for-homosexual-tendencies). Now, it's people who don't want an oil pipeline running through their neighborhoods.

And, even though we know the FBI has clearly taken a stance on controversial issues in the past and shaped its surveillance activities accordingly, it's rather jarring to see an investigative agency decide who's right and wrong by issuing a statement (wrapped in a self-justifying plan of action) on behalf of one side of the issue.

“The Keystone pipeline, as part of the oil and natural gas industry, is vital to the security and economy of the United States.” :lol

Having decided that protecting corporate interests was roughly aligned with its "national security" purview, agents then routed around any internal controls that might have restricted its plans to break FBI policy.

[T]he partially redacted documents reveal the investigation into anti-Keystone activists occurred without prior approval of the top lawyer and senior agent in the Houston field office, a stipulation laid down in rules provided by the attorney general.

But, hey, no problem because the FBI totally fixed things in-house and in post.

Confronted by evidence contained in the cache of documents, the agency admitted that “FBI approval levels required by internal policy were not initially obtained” for the investigation, but said the failure was remedied and later reported internally.

The supposed extremists it monitored the longest were part of an organization known as the Tar Sands Blockade, a group committed to nonviolent protest. While minor crimes such as trespassing were committed by members of the group, nothing rose to the level of what one would normally associate with an FBI investigation. And it went on for 11 months after the "error" that allowed the investigation to exist in the first place was discovered.

Mike German, former FBI agent and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice lays out the obvious problem with the FBI's behavior:

“It is clearly troubling that these documents suggest the FBI interprets its national security mandate as protecting private industry from political criticism,” he said.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150512/12214830978/fbi-spied-activists-because-protecting-corporate-interests-is-roughly-equivalent-to-ensuring-national-security.shtml

Trill Clinton

05-19-2015, 11:16 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4igWBtCoiI

we need more cops like this. it isn't hard to get out of your vehicle and interact with the community peacefully. less robo cops and more tommy norman's.

boutons_deux

05-19-2015, 11:27 AM

the lady was an job applicant to border partrol

Border Patrol Agents Tase Woman For Refusing To Cooperate With Their Bogus Search

She nevertheless became subject to the arbitrary orders of CBP agents by driving through one of the country's many internal immigration checkpoints (http://reason.com/archives/2015/03/04/unchecked-checkpoints), which can be located anywhere within 100 miles of the border (a zone that includes (https://www.aclusandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Border-Patrol-Checkpoint-FAQs.pdf) two-thirds of the U.S. population).

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150516/12473831030/border-patrol-agents-tase-woman-refusing-to-cooperate-with-their-bogus-search.shtml

Nbadan

05-20-2015, 12:18 AM

BREAKING: Obama Bans Some Military-Style Equipment Provided to Police Through Federal Program
Source: Associated Press

@AP: BREAKING: Obama bans some military-style equipment provided to local police through federal programs

m.twitter.com/AP

Obama bans some military-style equipment provided to police

BY NEDRA PICKLER
MAY. 18, 2015 6:04 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise announcement coming nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is banning the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and gear distributed to law enforcement.

The announcement comes after the White House suggested last year that Obama would maintain programs that provide the type of military-style equipment used to respond to demonstrators last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, because of their broader contribution to public safety. But an interagency group found "substantial risk of misusing or overusing" items like tracked armored vehicles, high-powered firearms and camouflage could undermine trust in police.

With scrutiny on police only increasing in the ensuing months after a series of highly publicized deaths of black suspects nationwide, Obama also is unveiling the final report of a task force he created to help build confidence between police and minority communities in particular. The announcements come as Obama is visiting Camden, New Jersey, one of the country's most violent and poorest cities.

Obama plans to visit Camden police headquarters before heading to a community center to meet with youth and law enforcement and give a speech. "I'll highlight steps all cities can take to maintain trust between the brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line, and the communities they're sworn to serve and protect," Obama said in his weekly address out Saturday.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/10785eac6d3e4c26a1baed8f0d796b48/obama-bans-some-military-style-equipment-provided-police

boutons_deux

05-20-2015, 05:27 AM

boutons_deux

05-20-2015, 03:30 PM

Memorial vigil planned for shot Wallsend cow Bessie

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83119000/jpg/_83119668_cow1.jpg

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83118000/jpg/_83118014_cow2.jpg

s a "massive police presence" with more than 15 police vehicles, a helicopter hovering overhead, and three or four officers in sniper gear.

He originally thought it could have been terrorist-related, rather than, as he then realised, a "docile little cow standing in a field".

A Northumbria Police spokesman said Bessie was destroyed after becoming "increasingly distressed" and "causing dangerous and severe obstructions" on a major road.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-32800365

SupremeGuy

05-20-2015, 03:32 PM

#bikerlivesmatter

Trill Clinton

05-22-2015, 09:50 AM

no charges for cop who killed unarmed mexican immigrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=663&v=nDvI0F4diGs

cd021

05-22-2015, 10:14 AM

no charges for cop who killed unarmed mexican immigrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=663&v=nDvI0F4diGs

Bet he got a nice paid vacation. for his heroism. Seriously they really need to start keeping track of how many unarmed people are killed by the police. Minorities are fucked when they got stopped. If they are unarmed they can get shot and then blamed for doing something minor that caused their death.

If they have their hands raised and get shot in the chest someone will say they deserved it because they put their hands down to cover the wound.

boutons_deux

05-22-2015, 04:08 PM

Texas makes money by prosecuting truancy twice as much as all other states combined (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/22/1386935/-Texas-makes-money-by-prosecuting-truancy-twice-as-much-as-everyone-else-combined)

Texas appleseed (http://www.texasappleseed.net/) released a report on Texas's truancy policy and practices. (http://www.texasappleseed.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=1209) The findings are alarming:

• Texas currently prosecutes more than twice the number of truancy cases prosecuted in all other states combined. These students are sent to adult criminal courts, unlike almost all other states, which send them to civil juvenile courts.•

While some Texas school districts have implemented effective school- and community-based programs to address truancy, these approaches are not the norm. Children rarely get the individualized attention that research suggests is most effective in intervening with truant youth.

• Four in five children sent to court for truancy are economically disadvantaged, according
to TEA—yet fines are the most common sanction for children charged with truancy.

• Due process protections are often ignored in the courts where these cases are prosecuted, with children (who are rarely represented by counsel) pleading guilty or no contest to charges they often do not understand, even when they may have a valid defense.

• In some jurisdictions, judges order children charged with truancy to withdraw from school
and take the GED; this resulted in 6,423 court-ordered dropouts who failed the test over a three-year period—a number likely to grow significantly in the face of plunging passage rates for the GED.

• African-American and Hispanic students are overrepresented in truancy cases statewide, as are special education students. Finding more effective ways to intervene with these youth is critical, since these students are among those most vulnerable to poor educational outcomes.

The only other state to apply criminal justice to truancy is Wyoming. If you're running your state with policies championed by the legislators of Wyoming you're basically living in a prison state. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/18/1385683/-Wyoming-can-now-put-you-in-jail-for-sharing-nature-photos-with-the-government) Here's an example of how this super brilliant system works: (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/21/in-texas-courts-turn-truancy-cases-into-cash.html)

Raquel was 14 when she had her first hearing in truancy court. She says she knew what “truancy” meant but was confused when the judge asked her to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty or no contest. “I was looking at my mom for all the answers, and she couldn’t talk,” Raquel remembers. Children charged with truancy, unlike those facing more serious crimes, have no right to court-appointed counsel if they can’t afford it, and many judges will not allow parents to speak for their children. A frustrated but helpless Yolanda says: “You’re standing there in silence. You want to say something, but you’re not allowed.”

Yolanda and Raquel are poor. This was followed by three more court cases, a conviction, and a $180 fine and court cost decision. They didn't have that money.

In September, with $107 still unpaid and two more unexcused absences, she was summoned to court again. This time, the judge ordered her to do community service in lieu of paying the fine and threatened to hold her in contempt of court if she missed any more days of school.

On Feb. 19, 2014, he followed through on that threat, and sent Raquel to Dallas County’s Truancy Enforcement Center.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/22/1386935/-Texas-makes-money-by-prosecuting-truancy-twice-as-much-as-everyone-else-combined

boutons_deux

05-23-2015, 10:42 AM

Slander On The Cuyahoga: What Cleveland Police Tried To Do

Here's the kind of thing that Trey Gowdy and Sheriff David Clarke would rather you not think about.

Back in May, a Cleveland police officer named Timothy Loehmann rolled up on a 12-year old boy named Tamir Rice, who was in a public park with an air rifle. In less than a minute, Loehmann sized up the situation and shot the boy to death. And today, thanks to Shaun King at Daily Kos, we learn that the first impulse of the Cleveland P.D. was to charge the dead boy with crimes. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/20/1386356/-Cleveland-Police-charged-12-y-o-Tamir-Rice-w-the-crimes-of-aggravated-menacing-inducing-panic#)And, if there wasn't video, they would have gotten away with it.

Recently obtained documents from the Cleveland Police Department, displayed below, show that Tamir Rice was going to be charged with the outrageous crimes of "aggravated menacing" and "inducing panic."

This should embarrass any sentient primate. The officers involved in the killing of Tamir Rice took less than a minute to kill him and considerably more time concocting the preposterous cover story that, in less than a minute, they felt so "menaced," and so much "panic" had been "induced" in them that Rice had to be put down like a dog. What are these especially delicate blossoms doing in the police business in the first place?

This is the kind of thing that was supposed to be the point of the hearings before the House Judiciary Committee this week. Not merely the hairtrigger response of an incompetent cop, but the conditioned reflex inbred in too many of them to cover up their crimes. That is not a "problem" among some bad apples. That impulse drives a culture of deadly corruption.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35170/speaking-ill-of-the-dead/

The bogus criminal report for Tamir is below.

Notice the following three points.

1. They list three victims of Tamir Rice:

a. The State of Ohio

b. Officer Loehmann (who shot and killed Tamir)

c. Officer Garmback (who drove the vehicle)

This is essential. They are not claiming Tamir was a menace or induced panic to other people in the park, but to the officers. ABSURD.

2. At the end of the report, notice that they say this complaint was "abated by death."

3. Notice the officer who shot and killed Tamir claims to have had minor injuries.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/20/1386356/-Cleveland-Police-charged-12-y-o-Tamir-Rice-w-the-crimes-of-aggravated-menacing-inducing-panic#

boutons_deux

05-23-2015, 11:05 AM

cops slaughter 2 unarmed blacks

Ohio Patrolman Acquitted In 2 Deaths Amid 137-Shot Barrage

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michael-brelo-aquitted-137-shot-deaths?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

boutons_deux

05-24-2015, 07:52 AM

WATCH: Virginia cop uses pepper-spray, Taser on unresisting black man having stroke

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/watch-virginia-cop-uses-pepper-spray-taser-on-unresisting-black-man-having-stroke/

boutons_deux

05-24-2015, 06:09 PM

Cleveland cops involved in 137-shot barrage claim they're victims of discrimination

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/24/8652603/cleveland-police-lawsuit

boutons_deux

05-26-2015, 06:26 PM

Texas SWAT breaks 81-year-old man’s hip, family finds him lying in his own feces: lawsuit

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/kvue_crisp_150526a-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/texas-swat-breaks-81-year-old-mans-hip-family-finds-him-lying-in-his-own-feces-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

TheSanityAnnex

05-26-2015, 08:33 PM

no charges for cop who killed unarmed mexican immigrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=663&v=nDvI0F4diGs
Do you even watch the videos before you post them?

boutons_deux

05-27-2015, 09:35 AM

boutons_deux

05-27-2015, 02:35 PM

Body cam video catches Barstow cops slamming black pregnant woman to ground, letting white woman go free
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/body-cam-video-catches-barstow-cops-slamming-black-pregnant-woman-to-ground-letting-white-woman-go-free/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

cd021

05-28-2015, 05:21 AM

Photo shows rifle-toting Chicago cops posing with a black drug suspect like a hunting trophy

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Chicago-police-hunting-photo-800x430.png

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/photo-shows-rifle-toting-chicago-cops-posing-with-a-black-drug-suspect-like-a-hunting-trophy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

... if he had been white?

To Serve And Protect :lol

To be fair at least the cops aren't pointing their guns at the unarmed black man, all the black guy had to do was take part in a racist pic.

:lol at the police board needing to go 5-4 to uphold the firing, should have been a no brainer and it barely got upheld.

boutons_deux

05-28-2015, 11:12 AM

What Amazon Taught the Cops

cops of the future will be able to use complicated statistics to racially profile people in their homes. In the summer of 2013, for instance, the Chicago Police Department implemented a pilot program intended to reduce violent crime.

It used an algorithm developed by an engineer at the Illinois Institute of Technology to generate a “heat list” of roughly 400 people who were most likely to become perpetrators or victims of violence.

Cops tracked down some of these individuals, showed up at their homes, and warned them they were being watched. Similar programs using technology have been tested in recent years, all under the rubric of what’s been called “predictive policing.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/208457/what-amazon-taught-cops#

Predictive policing not applied to the financial sector? :lol

boutons_deux

05-29-2015, 05:34 AM

Complaints Rise Against Nation’s Railroad Police

Since the days when Jesse James robbed trains in the Old West, obscure police forces run by the nation’s railroads have operated with the power to make arrests, issue warrants and perform undercover work.

These railroad police officers, who have been licensed by states, have been accused of physical assaults, racial profiling and harassment of railroad employees, according to lawsuits,

While police departments across the country face increasing scrutiny and demand for reform after several cases of brutality, the railroad authorities appear to operate with near impunity.

“No one knows what they do or how they operate outside of people at the company.”

Since 2009, the railroad police have arrested more than 300 residents in Overtown, a predominantly black neighborhood in Miami, on charges of trespassing. Nearly 90 percent of those charges have been dismissed.

In Oklahoma in 2010, a Union Pacific railroad police officer was captured on video choking a woman he accused of trespassing and resisting arrest.

Of the eight largest private railroads that were contacted by The Times, only two — Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific — would provide crime statistics. They gave information only on arrests on railroad property, not on complaints or disciplinary actions against their police officers.

Federal authorities have ceded oversight of the railroad police to the states, and few states, if any, keep data of complaints against the railroad police.

a spokeswoman for the railroad, said public safety, not race, was the issue. But about 87 percent of those arrests were dropped by prosecutors or dismissed by judges.

Records show that nearly 90 percent of all of the trespassing arrests in the Miami area since 2009 were made by one officer Raul Guerra, who was fired in 2011 from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for what the department called “a pattern of gross negligence.” Mr. Guerra could not be reached for comment.

Even some railroad employees have complained about their treatment at the hands of the railroad police, lawsuits show.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/complaints-rise-against-nations-railroad-police.html

Police power without oversight or accountability, ALWAYS a great combo.

cd021

05-29-2015, 12:58 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/police-misconduct-settlements_n_7423386.html

Breaks down cash totals payed out by tax payers for cop misconduct.

LAPD, NYPD ,Cleveland:lmao

every one loses: people that aren't getting their ass whooped by warrior cops still having to pay for cop misconduct. They get usually get paid vacations while the incidents get reviewed.

boutons_deux

05-30-2015, 09:24 AM

Cop Caught On Video Telling Black Teen ‘If You Fuck With Me, I’m Going To Break Your Legs’ (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/05/29/3664008/cop-caught-video-telling-black-teen-fuck-im-going-break-legs/)
“Can you tell me why I’m being arrested?” Hamza Jeylani asks an officer in a video captured on his cell phone.

“Because I feel like arresting you,” the officer, who the American Civil Liberties Union identifies as Officer Rod Webber (https://www.aclu.org/feature/picking-pieces), replies in the short video.

This exchange happens after Webber calmly threatens Jeylani, who does not appear to be offering any resistance whatsoever.

“Plain and simple,” Webber tells Jeylani, “if you fuck with me I’m going to break your legs before you even get a chance to run.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/05/29/3664008/cop-caught-video-telling-black-teen-fuck-im-going-break-legs/

Bad news: the 4 guys were black

Good news: cops murdered none of them (yet)

boutons_deux

05-30-2015, 09:48 AM

racism doesn't exist, it's created by media inflaming black people into anger

Conservative broadcaster ‘whitesplains’ to caller the media has turned him into an ‘angry black man’

white female host who told him that the media was to blame for turning him into an “angry black man.”

Sandy Rios, director of governmental affairs for the American Family Association and host of a daily radio program, began her program by defending comments made by Fox’s Sean Hannity, who said race relations in the U.S. have eroded under President Obama.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/conservative-broadcaster-whitesplains-to-caller-the-media-has-turned-him-into-an-angry-black-man/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

cd021

05-30-2015, 09:49 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html

400 people shot by cops in 2015

boutons_deux

05-31-2015, 07:31 AM

Man shot to death in confrontation with Oklahoma troopers during flood

A man was shot to death by at least one Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper after he was told to get away from rising flood waters on a road and began fighting with a trooper, an official said on Saturday.

Two troopers who responded to an emergency call about a stalled vehicle northeast of Okmulgee, less than 30 miles south of Tulsa, saw two men trying to move a pickup-truck on a flooded road, said Highway Patrol spokesman Captain Paul Timmons.

The troopers told the men to walk to where they were on dry land, and when they did as ordered a fight broke out and one trooper was pushed to the ground, Timmons said.

At least one and possibly both troopers opened fire, and one of the men who had been pushing the truck was shot to death, Timmons said. He could not say if either of them was armed.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/man-shot-to-death-in-confrontation-with-oklahoma-troopers-during-flood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Don't Mess With white boy Nehemiah Blessed Fischer while he's trying to save his truck.

Shoot first, last, always, because you're immune to prosecution and your bad and good cop buddies will always lie for you.

boutons_deux

05-31-2015, 08:58 AM

seems to be mindless fad among police forces nationwide, probably ignorant, herd mentality.

"I ain't a cop if I don't kill someone. Every cop does it."

U.S. Police Have Shot Dead 385 People In Five Months: REPORT

U.S. police have shot and killed 385 people during the first five months of this year, a rate of more than two a day, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The death rate is more than twice that tallied by the federal government over the past decade, a count that officials concede is incomplete, the newspaper said.
The analysis is based on data the Post is compiling on every fatal shooting by police in 2015, as well as of every officer killed by gunfire in the line of duty.

Federal Bureau of Investigation records over the past decade show about 400 fatal police shootings a year, or an average of 1.1 deaths a day. Reporting of shootings by police agencies is voluntary.

But the Post's analysis indicates the daily death toll for 2015 is close to 2.6 as of Friday. At that pace, police will have shot and killed nearly 1,000 people by the end of the year, the paper said.

The Post's analysis showed that about half the victims were white, half minority. Among unarmed victims, two-thirds were black or Hispanic.

The victims ranged in age from 16 to 83. More than 80 percent were armed with potentially lethal objects, mostly guns. Ninety-two victims were identified as mentally ill.
Police are authorized to use deadly force when they fear for their lives or the lives of others. Three of the 385 fatal shootings have resulted in an officer being charged with a crime.

Current and former police chiefs and other criminal justice officials told the Post police must begin to accept responsibility for the killings. They said that many deaths could be blamed on poor policing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/31/police-fatal-shootings-20_n_7477658.html#slide=start

To Protect (our asses) and Serve (you yours in coffin).

boutons_deux

05-31-2015, 07:18 PM

Kentucky police shipped mentally ill inmate to Florida by Greyhound bus — then charged him with escape

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/kentucky-police-shipped-mentally-ill-inmate-to-florida-by-greyhound-bus-then-charged-him-with-escape/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Clipper Nation

05-31-2015, 07:24 PM

Look no further than Baltimore to see what a world without :cry the warrior cops :cry would look like.

boutons_deux

05-31-2015, 07:39 PM

Look no further than Baltimore to see what a world without :cry the warrior cops :cry would look like.

Baltimore cops "on strike", refusing to their jobs correctly, correctly meaning NOT rogue, warrior policing.

Blizzardwizard

05-31-2015, 07:39 PM

Look no further than Baltimore to see what a world without :cry the warrior cops :cry would look like.

Yeah, like the UK, where all the cops sit around and scratch their asses. Look at all the violence and destruction that has been caused because of the lack of police control :cry

Clipper Nation

05-31-2015, 09:45 PM

Baltimore cops "on strike", refusing to their jobs correctly

More like unable to do their jobs correctly.

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"Our officers tell me that when officers pull up, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them at any time," Batts said.

Batts provided more details at a City Council meeting Wednesday night, saying officers now fear getting arrested for making mistakes.

"The criminals are taking advantage of the situation in Baltimore since the unrest," Ryan wrote. "(Police) are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty."

https://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-residents-fearful-amid-homicide-spike-083758282.html

Clipper Nation

05-31-2015, 09:47 PM

Yeah, like the UK, where all the cops sit around and scratch their asses. Look at all the violence and destruction that has been caused because of the lack of police control :cry
Yeah, if only we could have a massive child rape, child abuse, and human trafficking scandal like they do in the UK :cry

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

Or steadily increasing violent crime rates, for that matter :cry

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10784396/Violent-crime-on-increase-England-and-Wales.html

TheSanityAnnex

05-31-2015, 10:42 PM

Yeah, like the UK, where all the cops sit around and scratch their asses. Look at all the violence and destruction that has been caused because of the lack of police control :cry
:lol have you checked your violent crime stats in the last five years :lol

cd021

05-31-2015, 11:02 PM

Look no further than Baltimore to see what a world without :cry the warrior cops :cry would look like.

:lmaoor look at the article above where it breaks down all of the payouts the states have to pay to the victims of police violence.

Boston-$36 M, (2005-2015)
Chicago $521 M 2004-2014
Cleveland-$8.2 M 2004-2014

LA. $101 M- (2002-2011)
Oakland-$74 (1990-2014)
New York-$348 M 2006-2011
Philadelphia $40 m (2009-2014)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7423386.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/police-misconduct-settlements_n_7423386.html)

the warrior cops are being bailed out by the tax payers yet repubs aren't saying shit about that bailout.

cd021

05-31-2015, 11:06 PM

More like unable to do their jobs correctly.

592862801732993024

To think all of this started because an unarmed man was illegally arrested man and died in police custody via a spinal cord injury. Because people severe their spine in everyday interactions with police. At least in Baltimore where that was the 3rd instance where a man was paralyzed after being in police custody. Both times they were rewarded massive payouts.

Every cop needs body cams. To protect the citizen and protect themselves as well, in he said-he said situations.

Blizzardwizard

06-01-2015, 01:52 AM

:lol have you checked your violent crime stats in the last five years :lol

Have you checked the US gun death stats in the last five years.

Blizzardwizard

06-01-2015, 01:54 AM

Yeah, if only we could have a massive child rape, child abuse, and human trafficking scandal like they do in the UK :cry

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

Or steadily increasing violent crime rates, for that matter :cry

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10784396/Violent-crime-on-increase-England-and-Wales.html

'Massive scandal' :lol Only people who are making it massive are the UKIP fascists "muh foreigners raping our women and children, they all need to be killed :cry"

boutons_deux

06-01-2015, 04:49 PM

Denver Ex-Cop Says He Was Fired for Refusing to Destroy Video Evidence of Abuse of Inmate

The inmate was paraded naked in handcuffs

A former Denver internal affairs investigator says he was fired after refusing to destroy video evidence showing cops subjecting an inmate to inhumane treatment, CBS Denver reports (http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/05/29/denver-sheriff-whistleblower-i-was-ordered-to-destroy-videotape/).

Brent Miller, who worked for the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for nearly 26 years before retiring, took a job with the Denver Sheriff Department as a civilian internal affairs investigator to help clear up a backlog of internal affairs cases. One of the cases involved complaints by inmate Christopher Colbruno. Sheriff’s deputies were transporting Colbruno to the Denver Health Medical Center when he defecated on himself at some point. Deputies removed his clothing before he entered the hospital. He was handcuffed but was walked through the hallways naked. Hospital staff believed Colbruno was subjected to inhumane treatment and filed a complaint with the Denver Sheriff’s Department.

According to reports, Miller and another investigator obtained video of the incident on May 11. He was soon approached by Captain Paul Ortega, who leads the Sheriff Department’s internal affairs bureau, and asked if he uploaded the video yet. Miller said he didn’t.

“(Ortega) told me don’t upload it they’re making it go away,” Miller told CBS Denver. “Who is they? He said the sheriff then told me to get rid of the video. Do not upload it get rid of the video and I immediately told him that’s not ethical to get rid of evidence in a case.”

Ortega, according to Miller’s account, said that he agreed but, “That’s the way it is.”

Miller said he refused to destroy the tape and gave it to another investigator so that it would not be destroyed. On May 12, he said Ortega requested a meeting in his office.

“I was told I was being terminated by the Denver Sheriff Department because I was too opinionated and they wanted to go in a different direction,”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/denver-ex-cop-says-he-was-fired-refusing-destroy-video-evidence-abuse-inmate?akid=13170.187590.zWrfHl&rd=1&src=newsletter1037201&t=3

boutons_deux

06-02-2015, 04:10 PM

Is the FBI Flying Secret Spy Planes in Your City?

The FBI is operating a number of low-flying planes across the country with video and cellphone surveillance technology. All of these operations are taking place behind fake companies which serve as fronts.

Early this month, Adam Clark Esteswrote (http://gizmodo.com/the-fbis-secret-aircraft-are-watching-us-1702799186) about how Baltimore residents had spotted a number of suspicious aircrafts buzzing overhead during the protests over Freddie Gray's death. Last week independent journalist Sam Renegade reported (https://medium.com/@MinneapoliSam/fleet-of-government-aircraft-flying-secret-missions-over-u-s-cities-84cbdf57dfbb) on the fake company angle, writing that the United States Department of Justice was operating a number of aircrafts which were registered to corporations that do not exist.

Renegade wrote that, "The flight patterns of the aircraft indicate they are most likely conducting surveillance, much like the controversial aircraft caught flying circles over the city of Baltimore which has seen many protests recently."

The story has now cracked the mainstream media and an AP review (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/fbi-behind-mysterious-surveillance-aircraft-over-us-cities-070836765--politics.html) has discovered that over a recent 30-day period, the agency flew aircraft in over 30 cities, across 11 states. U.S. law enforcement officials have admitted that the program is taking place but the FBI has carefully avoided mentioning details about the flights in court documents.

"The FBI's aviation program is not secret," spokesman Christopher Allen pointed out in a statement, "Specific aircraft and their capabilities are protected for operational security purposes."

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/fbi-flying-secret-spy-planes-your-city?akid=13172.187590.GSVW1U&rd=1&src=newsletter1037260&t=9

boutons_deux

06-03-2015, 01:25 PM

‘Nobody knows what happened': Florida inmate mysteriously dies after ride in sheriff’s van

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Brad-Martinez-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/nobody-knows-what-happened-florida-inmate-mysteriously-dies-after-ride-in-sheriffs-van/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

06-04-2015, 04:38 PM

Underage Girl Brushes Off Cop’s Flirting Attempt, So She’s Swarmed by Cops, Groped and Arrested

A teenager from the Bronx was recently paid $45,000 after she was wrongfully arrested and sexually harassed by a police officer. The officer was also assisted by a number of other NYPD cops who helped him take her into custody.

The incident occurred on November 4th of 2013 when a young girl named Natalie Erlich, who was 17-years-old at the time, was walking home from school. During her walk, she was approached by Officer José Peinan and another cop who were not in uniform and did not identify themselves as police officers.

According to court documents, Peinan made several attempts to flirt with the girl but was immediately brushed off, much to his disappointment. After the rejection, Peinan became aggressive with the girl and arrested her on bogus charges. The officer claimed that since the girl asked if he was a police officer, that she had “blown his cover.”

“I had on a camouflage hat and [Peinan] had on camouflage pants. He said, ‘We match.’ I brushed him off and I laughed,” Erlich told The New York Post (http://nypost.com/2015/06/02/teen-busted-after-refusing-cops-advances-gets-45k-from-city/). After that, she said that she attempted to walk away and avoid him, and that is when he became more aggressive.

“He said something slick like, ‘Where are you going?’” she said, adding that she told Peinan that she was going home and asked if he was a cop.

When the officer replied by saying “maybe,” she then told him that was “a cop answer,” and at that moment a swarm of officers descended upon the girl, and Peinan told them to handcuff her and take her into custody.

When asked why she was being arrested, Peinan told her that “You know why, you’re being a smartass.”

Erlich and one of her friends were then taken to jail and not released until 11 a.m the following day.
When she was finally released, Erlich decided to file a lawsuit against the officers and the police department for wrongful arrest and sexual harassment. According to the lawsuit, the girls were arrested because the officer was“angered at having his advances rebuffed.”

The lawsuit also states that the Erlich was groped by police while they were arresting her.

To avoid more details coming out in court, the city agreed to settle the case with a $45,000 hush payment.

Officer Peinan is currently the target of 3 other lawsuits and has reportedly not received any disciplinary action.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/underage-girl-brushes-cops-flirting-attempt-so-shes-swarmed-cops-groped-and

boutons_deux

06-04-2015, 09:19 PM

DEA Wiretaps Triple Over Nine Years

DEA wiretaps have tripled over the last nine year (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/drug-enforcement-wiretaps-triple-in-9-years-agents-avoid-federal-oversight/)s. Of particular concern: It is increasingly bypassing the Title III requirements by applying for wiretaps in state courts.

USA Today reports (no link due to ******** video)

The DEA conducted 11,681 electronic intercepts in the fiscal year that ended in September. Ten years earlier, the drug agency conducted 3,394.

The statistics are here (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2080958/dea-wiretap-statistics-c-fakepathfoia-request-15.pdf).

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2015/6/4/153648/5236/crimepolicy/DEA-Wiretaps-Triple-Over-Nine-Years

I always wondered how the DEA won the War on Drugs.

boutons_deux

06-05-2015, 04:07 PM

No Charges For Denver Cops Who Shot And Killed Unarmed 17-Year-Old

http://a2.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/c_fill,fl_keep_iptc,g_faces,h_365,w_652/yjgxdae0addco7ouvpwr.jpg

officers came up on the car from behind and fired four times into the driver's-side window.

The passenger also said the officers did not yell any commands before they fired, and that the car may have struck the officer after Hernandez was shot and lost control of the vehicle.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jessica-hernandez-no-charges-police-fatal-shooting-denver?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

of course, unarmed. cops shooting into a car with several other girls. In cop think, murdering the kid was justified.

boutons_deux

06-08-2015, 04:03 PM

‘Paramilitary thugs': Colorado man livid after SWAT blows up his entire home in pursuit of shoplifter

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/kmgh_swat_home_150608a-Edit-Edit-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/paramilitary-thugs-colorado-man-livid-after-swat-blows-up-his-entire-home-in-pursuit-of-shoplifter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

06-08-2015, 04:50 PM

John Oliver: The bail system destroys the poor and turns bounty hunters into reality show ‘vigilantes’

On Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took on the devastating impact our bail system has on the poor, locking many of them up regardless of guilt and potentially destroying their lives.

Saying, “increasingly, bail has become a way to lock up the poor, regardless of guilt,” Oliver before explaining that your options when arrested is to “Go to jail, plead guilty to avoid waiting in jail for a trial, or pay a bail bondsman to front the bail costs.”

As pointed out here (http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/here-are-40-reasons-our-jails-and-prisons-are-filled-with-black-and-poor-people/), this can lead to the poor often taking the guilty plea even when they’re innocent, because the alternative may be worse, even though a guilty plea can have an impact down the line when applying for a job.

“Poor people are regularly choosing to admit guilt just to get out of there and that isn’t good,” Oliver said. “The only time that’s appropriate is in a Catholic confessional. ‘What do you mean is there anything else? I don’t know, I masturbated into a kiwi fruit. Is that what you wanted to hear? Just let me leave, I have stuff to do.'”

As a public defender explains, people incarcerated because they can’t afford bail risk losing their jobs, or even spots in public housing or shelters, meaning a short stint in jail can completely ruin their lives.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/john-oliver-the-us-bail-system-destroys-the-poor-and-turns-bounty-hunters-into-reality-show-vigilantes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

06-08-2015, 04:52 PM

Wrongly Imprisoned for Three Years, Kalief Browder Commits Suicide

A 21-year-old New York man who spent three years in a city jail as a teen and was subjected to beatings by guards but never charged with a crime has committed suicide, the New York Daily News reports (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ex-rikers-inmate-beaten-jail-commits-suicide-article-1.2250130).

Using an air-conditioning cord, Kalief Browder hanged himself at his family’s Bronx home Saturday night. Before he took his own life, Browder told his mother, “Ma, I can’t take it anymore.”

In 2010, Browder was arrested after a teenager accused him of robbing him of his backpack, which Browder denied. His family didn’t have the $10,000 bail money to get him out of jail, so the teen stayed at Riker’s Island awaiting a trial that never arrived. After 33 months, Browder was offered a plea deal that he ended up rejecting. During that time, he spent more than 400 days in solitary confinement, endured beatings by jail guards, was abused by other inmates, and attempted suicide several times.

The robbery charges were dropped and Browder was released in May of 2013.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wrongly-imprisoned-three-years-kalief-browder-commits-suicide

boutons_deux

06-08-2015, 05:33 PM

South Carolina Police Officer Who Shot Unarmed Man Charged With Murder
http://www.nationalmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/MichaelSlager-screenshot-668x501.jpg

http://www.nationalmemo.com/south-carolina-police-officer-who-shot-unarmed-man-charged-with-murder/

boutons_deux

06-09-2015, 04:59 PM

Police Officers in Schools Are Proving to Be a Nightmarish Reality in the U.S

On May 8, at Kissimmee Middle School, a 13-year-old boy and his mother were meeting with the school resource officer, officer Mario Badia.

The meeting followed a domestic disturbance at the home of the boy. During that meeting, Badia claimed that the 13-year-old attacked him and that he had to use force.

However, after school officials saw the surveillance footage of the incident, they called the Kissimmee Police Department. According to the department, they launched an internal investigation and found probable cause to arrest Badia and charged with child abuse.

According to the arrest affidavit, (http://www.clickorlando.com/news/officer-arrested-on-child-abuse-charge-kissimmee-police-say/33294598)

Badia tried to get the boy’s attention by reaching for his chin so he would look in his direction.

Police said the boy stepped away from Badia and reacted to the hand coming at his face by trying to block it with his arm.

Badia then shoved the boy in the chest, knocking him off balance, according to the report. Surveillance video allegedly shows Badia body slam the boy, who was not resisting, along with yelling at him.

In an interview with WKMG, (http://www.clickorlando.com/news/officer-arrested-on-child-abuse-charge-kissimmee-police-say/33294598)resident, Ezekiel Morgan explained that Badia was confrontational and would often get in the face of other students.

“He’s disrespectful, he doesn’t know how to talk to these kids, so I’m glad that happened to him,” explained Morgan.

Badia was booked into the Osceola County Jail and his bond was set at $5,000. He immediately posted the bond and has been placed on paid vacation, pending the results of the pending criminal and internal investigation.

Apparently the video of Badia brutally assaulting a child wasn’t enough to get this officer fired, or even suspended without pay.

Police officers in schools are proving to be a nightmarish reality in the US. Just in the last year we’ve seen a school cop who raped 22 boys. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/worse-sandusky-school-cop-job-protect-students-repeatedly-raped-22-boys/)

We’ve seen an autistic 6th grader assaulted by a cop become a convicted felon for kicking a trashcan at school. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/autistic-6th-grader-assaulted-school-cop-convicted-felon/)

...

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/police-officers-schools-are-proving-be-nightmarish-reality-us-watch-video?akid=13181.187590.pAmrhR&rd=1&src=newsletter1037376&t=19

spurraider21

06-09-2015, 05:45 PM

no charges for cop who killed unarmed mexican immigrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=663&v=nDvI0F4diGs
why would there be charges for that?

TheSanityAnnex

06-09-2015, 06:11 PM

why would there be charges for that?
He won't reply he's too embarrassed. I asked him if he even watched the video before posting it and he never returned. Pulled a classic boutons.

SupremeGuy

06-09-2015, 07:25 PM

He won't reply he's too embarrassed. I asked him if he even watched the video before posting it and he never returned. Pulled a classic boutons.:lol

boutons_deux

06-10-2015, 08:15 AM

Jim Crow, for BIG profits and huge destruction

When Bail Is Out of Defendant’s Reach, Other Costs Mount

Dominick Torrence, who has lived in this city all his life, has a long rap sheet for dealing drugs but no history of violence. So when he was charged with disorderly conduct and rioting on April 28, a night of unrest after Freddie Gray was fatally injured in police custody, he was shocked to learn the amount he would need to make bail: $250,000, the same amount as two of the officers facing charges over Mr. Gray’s death.

Although a bail bondsman would charge only a fraction of that, normally 10 percent, for many defendants $25,000 is as impossible a sum as $250,000. “That’s something you
get for murder or attempted murder,” Mr. Torrence, 29, said from Baltimore Central Booking. “You’re telling me I have to take food out of my kid’s mouth so I can get out of jail.” He spent a month in jail on charges that would later be dropped.

Defense lawyers, scholars and even some judges say the high bail amounts set for some Baltimore protesters highlight a much broader problem with the nation’s money-based bail system. They say that system routinely punishes poor defendants before they get their day in court, often keeping them incarcerated for longer than if they had been convicted right away.

“It sets up a system where first there’s the punishment, and then there’s the opportunity to go to court for trial,”

The money bail system is supposed to curb the risk of flight by requiring defendants to post bond in exchange for freedom before trial. But critics say the system allows defendants with money to go free even if they are dangerous, while keeping low-risk poor people in jail unnecessarily and at great cost to taxpayers.

For those who cannot afford to post bail, even a short stay in jail can quickly unravel lives and families. Criminal defendants are overwhelmingly poor, many living paycheck to paycheck, and detention can cause job losses and evictions. Parents can lose custody of their children and may have a difficult time regaining it, even when cases are ultimately dropped. And people in jail who are not guilty routinely accept plea deals simply to gain their freedom, leaving them with permanent criminal records.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/us/when-bail-is-out-of-defendants-reach-other-costs-mount.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003&_r=0&referrer=

boutons_deux

06-10-2015, 09:54 AM

WATCH: Frustrated Texas cop smashes car window after driver insists speed limit is only a suggestion
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/watch-frustrated-texas-cop-smashes-car-window-after-driver-insists-speed-limit-is-only-a-suggestion-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

If a sovereign citizen voted, would he voted Repug or Dem?

boutons_deux

06-10-2015, 10:44 AM

Georgia Woman Charged With Murder For Taking Abortion Pill

Even opponents of abortion say it may be hard for Georgia authorities to follow through with prosecuting a woman who was charged with murder because she took a pill to terminate her pregnancy.

"I have been involved in the pro-life movement for well over 20 years, and I'm not aware of a situation like this ever," said Genevieve Wilson, a director of the anti-abortion group Georgia Right to Life. "I'm very surprised by it."

Kenlissia Jones, 23, of Albany was being held at the Dougherty County jail on charges of malice murder and possession of a dangerous drug. Albany is about 180 miles south of Atlanta.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/georgia-woman-charged-murder-abortion-pill?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

boutons_deux

06-10-2015, 07:44 PM

FBI Successfully Stonewalls Inspector General Into Irrelevance By Withholding Timely Section 215 Documents

from the you-can't-oversee-what-you-can't-actually-see dept

The FBI doesn't just stonewall FOIA requesters (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150602/19141431200/pentagon-offered-foia-terrorist-jason-leopold-stack-documents-to-just-shut-up-go-away-forever.shtml). It also stonewalls its in-house investigator. Remember all those deferrals to "lawful authority" and "rigorous oversight" the agency makes when not commenting on controversial surveillance programs? Those really don't mean anything if you lock out the oversight and prevent his office from verifying whether surveillance is being carried out in accordance to laws and FBI policies.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been fighting a courageous, but losing, battle against FBI secrecy. As the head of the DOJ's OIG office, you'd think FBI officials would throw a small amount of deference his way. But no. They don't. It has obstructed his investigative work "for years," leading to this sort of thing (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140910/13382528484/doj-inspector-general-says-fbi-actively-preventing-him-doing-his-job.shtml):

[Horowitz] said the refusal to grant routine requests stalls investigations, including a recent one on FBI material witnesses, such that officials who are under review have sometimes retired or left the agencies before the report is complete.

The FBI won't even release an organizational chart to him. Horowitz took these complaints to Congress earlier this year in hopes of prompting FBI document production by threatening its annual budget (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150225/07523630139/doj-inspector-general-tells-congress-that-fbi-isnt-letting-his-office-do-its-job-again.shtml).

Section 218 of the Appropriations Act does not permit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Justice to deny the OIG access to records in the custody of the Department unless in accordance with an express limitation of Section 6(a) of the IG Act. The IG Act, Section 6(a), does not expressly or otherwise limit the OIG's access to the categories of information the FBI maintains it must review before providing records to the OIG. For this reason, we are reporting this matter to the Appropriations Committees in conformity with Section 218.

This, surprisingly, failed to have any effect -- not because the FBI might have deduced Horowitz was actually serious about obtaining the long-delayed documents, but because if there's anything government agencies fear more than a loss of power, it's a loss of funding.

Marcy Wheeler points out that -- during the ruckus surrounding (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150531/16461531165/three-patriot-act-provisions-likely-to-sunset-briefly-usa-freedom-will-pass-shortly.shtml) the expiration of Section 215 --the FBI again passed several of its self-imposed deadlines for document delivery (https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/06/03/fbi-successfully-runs-out-the-clock-on-dojs-inspector-general-review-of-use-of-phone-metadata-until/).

The OIG has sent four letters to Congress to report that the FBI has failed to comply with Section 218 by refusing to provide the OIG, for reasons unrelated to any express limitation in Section 6(a) of the IG Act, with timely access to certain records in ongoing OIG reviews. Those reviews are:

Two FBI whistleblower retaliation investigations, letter dated February 3, 2015, which is available here;
The FBI documents related to review of the DEA’s use of administrative subpoenas, letter dated February 19, 2015, which is available here;
The FBI’s use of information derived from collection of telephony metadata under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, letter dated February 25, 2015, which is available here; and
The FBI’s security clearance adjudication process, letter dated March 4, 2015, which is available here.

As of March 31, 2015, the OIG document requests were outstanding in every one of the reviews and investigations that were the subject of the letters above.

Of particular importance is the delay of documents related to the FBI's use of Section 215 collections. Obviously, having the chance to review this before the vote on reauthorization would have been preferable. If there were any questions about the FBI's involvement, or its use of the collected data, these observations could have potentially played a key role in the provision's renewal, not to mention contributed to the debate surrounding the USA Freedom Act.

Obviously, the FBI preferred to keep legislators in the dark about its participation in Section 215. An ill-informed legislature is more prone to rely on fear-mongering (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150528/06051531134/nytimes-plays-role-keeping-fear-alive-with-pure-fearmongering-over-patriot-act-renewal.shtml) and other baseless assertions. With nothing stating otherwise, the FBI is free to operate under the illusion that its use of the program is by-the-book and that the program itself is effective and useful.

Horowitz is one of the few government officials willing to stand up to the FBI. Unfortunately, it hasn't resulted in better behavior by the agency. Apparently, the FBI feels it does best with minimal oversight and isn't inclined to let anyone -- not even its in-house inspector -- in on its domestic surveillance tactics.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150603/13065631211/fbi-successfully-stonewalls-inspector-general-into-irrelevance-withholding-timely-section-215-documents.shtml

When you promote to and anoint yourself as one of A Few Good Men, you are above and beyond all laws.

cd021

06-11-2015, 09:27 PM

http://us.cnn.com/2015/06/11/us/tamir-rice-judge-recommendation/index.html

Judge suggests that two cops be charged for the death of Tamir Rice.

:lol cleveland letting two murderers walk their streets.

They pulled up on a kid playing with a toy gun and with warning out warning him to drop the weapon, shot him, then lied about it. The City then blames the death on the kid. Not to mention one of the cops tackled his sister to the ground after she came to the scene.

boutons_deux

06-12-2015, 05:43 AM

Black men are target practice: America’s grotesque history of racist games

http://media.salon.com/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-10.37.57-AM-620x412.png

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/12/black_men_are_target_practice_americas_grotesque_h istory_of_racist_games_partner/

boutons_deux

06-12-2015, 06:09 AM

Grand jury indicts Virginia cop for fatally shooting mentally ill black man ‘like a dog

A grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia indicted a local police officer on Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a mentally ill man last June, WTKR-TV reported. (http://wtkr.com/2015/06/08/police-officer-indicted-on-involuntary-manslaughter-charges/)

The panel opted to charge Officer Michael Carlton Edington, Jr. on one charge of voluntary manslaughter for shooting and killing 35-year-old David Latham.

The grand jury selected the manslaughter charge instead of two heavier charges, second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/grand-jury-indicts-virginia-cop-for-fatally-shooting-mentally-ill-black-man-like-a-dog/

boutons_deux

06-12-2015, 06:44 AM

Missouri state trooper disciplined after blowing the whistle on in-custody drowning death

A Missouri highway patrol officer who criticized the department after a handcuffed man fell into water and drowned has been more harshly punished than the officer who failed to secure a life vest on the deceased man.Veteran state trooper Randy Henry was demoted from sergeant to corporal and transferred from his post of nearly three decades at the Lake of Ozarks, the Springfield News-Leader reports (http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2015/06/11/missouri-trooper-who-spoke-out-after-drowning-demoted/71076428/).

In March, Henry told public officials during a committee hearing that lack of training, but also recklessness and poor judgment contributed to the death of 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson last year.

Ellingson had been pulled over in the Lake of Ozarks and arrested by water patrol officer Anthony Piercy last May on suspicion of boating while intoxicated, the News-Leader reports. Instead of properly securing him with a life vest, Piercy pulled an already-buckled vest over Ellingson’s head and upper torso. Ellingson’s wrists were handcuffed behind his back.

The college student tumbled from the boat and the life vest slipped off quickly. He drowned and died.

A special prosecutor declined to charge Piercy in the death, and it was ruled accidental. Sources told the Kansas City Star (http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article3373299.html) that he was suspended for five days.

“It was a slap on the wrist,” a former water patrol officer told the Star. “It was nothing.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/missouri-state-trooper-disciplined-after-blowing-the-whistle-on-in-custody-drowning-death/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Don't EVER tell the establishment they fucked up, they'll fuck you back.

boutons_deux

06-12-2015, 03:41 PM

OTOH :lol

White Georgia man opens fire on state troopers, dares cops to kill him — and survives

http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Leighton-Marchetta-800x430.png

A white Army veteran ambushed a Georgia State Police post earlier this week, opened fire on troopers, dared them to kill him – and was captured with a shoulder wound (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/shooting-reported-gainesville-post/nmYBw/).

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/white-georgia-man-opens-fire-on-state-troopers-dares-cops-to-kill-him-and-survives/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Clipper Nation

06-12-2015, 07:16 PM

cd021

06-13-2015, 08:28 AM

At least 55 people, the highest pace since the early 1970s, have been killed in Baltimore since May 1, when the state’s attorney for the city, Marilyn J. Mosby, announced the criminal charges against the officers. Victims of shootings have included people involved in criminal activity and young children who were simply in the wrong place.

A 9-year-old boy was shot in the leg over the Memorial Day weekend. Another boy, Kester Browne, 7, a Chinese-language student at an international school, was fatally shot along with his mother, Jennifer Jeffrey-Browne, 31. They were two of the city’s 42 homicide victims in May.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/after-freddie-gray-death-west-baltimores-police-presence-drops-and-murders-soar.html

:cry Warrior cops are out of control :cry

Amount police have had to pay in settlements...

Boston-$36 M, (2005-2015)
Chicago $521 M 2004-2014 :lmao
Cleveland-$8.2 M 2004-2014

LA. $101 M- (2002-2011)
Oakland-$74 (1990-2014)
New York-$348 M 2006-2011
Philadelphia $40 m (2009-2014)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7423386.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/police-misconduct-settlements_n_7423386.html)

the warrior cops are being bailed out by the tax payers

boutons_deux

06-13-2015, 08:33 AM

Amount police have had to pay in settlements...

Boston-$36 M, (2005-2015)
Chicago $521 M 2004-2014 :lmao
Cleveland-$8.2 M 2004-2014

LA. $101 M- (2002-2011)
Oakland-$74 (1990-2014)
New York-$348 M 2006-2011
Philadelphia $40 m (2009-2014)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7423386.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/police-misconduct-settlements_n_7423386.html)

the warrior cops are being bailed out by the tax payers

.... settlements should be paid from police retirement fund.

pgardn

06-13-2015, 09:39 AM

Don't worry boots, people are fighting back.

http://news.yahoo.com/gunshots-fired-near-dallas-police-headquarters-071556687.html

pgardn

06-13-2015, 09:40 AM

.... settlements should be paid from police retirement fund.

Yeah.

Because they are all bad and all in on it.

Clipper Nation

06-13-2015, 09:48 AM

Amount police have had to pay in settlements...

Boston-$36 M, (2005-2015)
Chicago $521 M 2004-2014 :lmao
Cleveland-$8.2 M 2004-2014

LA. $101 M- (2002-2011)
Oakland-$74 (1990-2014)
New York-$348 M 2006-2011
Philadelphia $40 m (2009-2014)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7423386.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/police-misconduct-settlements_n_7423386.html)

the warrior cops are being bailed out by the tax payers
55 people dead and counting since May 1st.

:cry "Fire all the racist thugs with badges, we can police ourselves!" :cry

cd021

06-13-2015, 10:22 AM

55 people dead and counting since May 1st.

:cry "Fire all the racist thugs with badges, we can police ourselves!" :cry

They had beef with the six cops that illegally arrested a man and caused him to severe his spine and die a week later ( the 4th time someone has become paralyzed in Baltimore by the police) 3 of those cops were black btw.

Warriors cops costing tax payers millions and you don't seem to care. How about they actually do there job while using appropriate force and not complain when the get caught on camera beat peoples asses or murdering unarmed citizens.

There really isn't another side to the argument police brutality is rampant. New York just paid out $350 million in settlements in just five years. That $70 million a year from 06-11, including $7 million for shooting 3 unarmed black men. the cops walked and got their pensions (of course).

boutons_deux

06-13-2015, 10:52 AM

Yeah.

Because they are all bad and all in on it.

good police have to police their bad buddies, because nobody else can or will.

cd021

06-13-2015, 11:03 AM

Yeah.

Because they are all bad and all in on it.

Tax payers aren't killing unarmed people or using excessive violence to subdue a suspect should they have to pay for officer's misconduct?

pgardn

06-13-2015, 11:36 AM

Tax payers aren't killing unarmed people or using excessive violence to subdue a suspect should they have to pay for officer's misconduct?

So punish all cops because they need to self investigate better?
This is what Boots proposes.

Btw I am one of the people who thinks the fire and police unions are way out of line in SA. They took this city for a ride.

Clipper Nation

06-13-2015, 11:57 AM

They had beef with the six cops that illegally arrested a man and caused him to severe his spine and die a week later ( the 4th time someone has become paralyzed in Baltimore by the police) 3 of those cops were black btw.

Warriors cops costing tax payers millions and you don't seem to care. How about they actually do there job while using appropriate force and not complain when the get caught on camera beat peoples asses or murdering unarmed citizens.

There really isn't another side to the argument police brutality is rampant. New York just paid out $350 million in settlements in just five years. That $70 million a year from 06-11, including $7 million for shooting 3 unarmed black men. the cops walked and got their pensions (of course).
How about the Baltimore residents let the police do their job? That means not throwing bricks at innocent officers. That means not ganging up on officers and trying to pick a fight every time they stop somebody.

The cops involved in the Freddie Gray incident have been indicted and are being put on trial. It's already being addressed. Baltimore residents are using it as an excuse to drive police out of town so that they can commit crimes with impunity and then turn around and blame the police for "not doing their jobs" when it hits too close to home.

Keep spinning and deflecting, but the numbers don't lie. Most murders since the '70s. These people didn't want better or more accountable police. They want NO police so they can live the thug life unimpeded.

cd021

06-13-2015, 10:52 PM

So punish all cops because they need to self investigate better?
This is what Boots proposes.

Btw I am one of the people who thinks the fire and police unions are way out of line in SA. They took this city for a ride.

Cops go unchecked internally. I posted a link where a cop had 10 complaints before someone captured him smacking and pushing a homeless man. The cop who murdered Eric Garner had to complaints against him prior to that. I don't know if pensions are the way to go but its still a better option than citizens having to pay for cop brutality. While bail out bad cops?

cd021

06-13-2015, 11:07 PM

How about the Baltimore residents let the police do their job? That means not throwing bricks at innocent officers. That means not ganging up on officers and trying to pick a fight every time they stop somebody.

The cops involved in the Freddie Gray incident have been indicted and are being put on trial. It's already being addressed. Baltimore residents are using it as an excuse to drive police out of town so that they can commit crimes with impunity and then turn around and blame the police for "not doing their jobs" when it hits too close to home.

Keep spinning and deflecting, but the numbers don't lie. Most murders since the '70s. These people didn't want better or more accountable police. They want NO police so they can live the thug life unimpeded.

I really don't think you understand the citizens beef. Cops treat everyone from the inner city as if they are criminals because they live there. They illegally arrested someone and caused his death that's outrageous. Baltimore has a long history of using excessive force again them and that was the straw that broke the camels back.

The funny think is that cops are acting like they are the victim, they caused the unrest because of their heavy handed policing that lead to mistrust. They caused this problem, some of the citizens are responding in an over the top manner but they have a right to be pissed off by the cops. The actual criminals are having a field day, People living in bad parts of town want police. They want ones that don't treat everyone as if they are suspects, shoot unarmed men or use excessive force, that's really not that much to ask ( considering its the cops job).

Instead they a police department that rather back its bad cops and pay out settlements (via tax payer money).

Worst part of it is that these settlements have strings attached. The victim is bared from taking about it afterwards.

Freddie Grey was the 4th person to become paralyzed in police custody,that's unbelievable. There are clearly criminals wearing blue in Baltimore.

As for deflecting, you've yet to comment about the money the warriors are costing tax payers? Thoughts?:rolleyes

pgardn

06-13-2015, 11:29 PM

Cops go unchecked internally. I posted a link where a cop had 10 complaints before someone captured him smacking and pushing a homeless man. The cop who murdered Eric Garner had to complaints against him prior to that. I don't know if pensions are the way to go but its still a better option than citizens having to pay for cop brutality. While bail out bad cops?

Why punish Cops that have done nothing wrong?

Clipper Nation

06-13-2015, 11:36 PM

I really don't think you understand the citizens beef. Cops treat everyone from the inner city as if they are criminals because they live there.
And the community is doing nothing to prove them wrong by murdering people at a rate last seen in the 1970s.

The funny think is that cops are acting like they are the victim, they caused the unrest because of their heavy handed policing that lead to mistrust.
And look at how "great" life is in Baltimore right now without that so-called "heavy-handed" policing!

People living in bad parts of town want police.
If they really wanted police, they wouldn't have done everything in their power to make it almost impossible for the police to do their jobs.

boutons_deux

06-14-2015, 05:45 AM

And the community is doing nothing to prove them wrong by murdering people at a rate last seen in the 1970s.

And look at how "great" life is in Baltimore right now without that so-called "heavy-handed" policing!

If they really wanted police, they wouldn't have done everything in their power to make it almost impossible for the police to do their jobs.

arresting a black and breaking his back isn't the job of the police, it's murder. Police job isn't impossible, and nor is it instant escalation to brutality and shooting, nor non-stop harassment, nor gratuitous arrests.

By stopping policing in Baltimore, the police are ACCOMPLICES to the spike in murders. As if they gave a shit ...

cd021

06-15-2015, 04:51 AM

And the community is doing nothing to prove them wrong by murdering people at a rate last seen in the 1970s.

Don't think you get the concept that the community at large isn't a bunch of killers. If 1 million people live in a place and 100,000 are doing criminals activities that doesn't make the other 900,000 guilty as well. Sounds as though you share the same belief as the BPD.

And look at how "great" life is in Baltimore right now without that so-called "heavy-handed" policing!
:lol its not up for debate whether the BDP used heavy-handed policing, its well known. They've had 317 complaints in recent years with about a 3rd being settled, costing tax payers millions. The DOJ is investigating. They was one complain where a 70 year old grandmother had her leg broken ,after she attended to the grandson, by the police. They wound up giving her family a cash settlement.

If they really wanted police, they wouldn't have done everything in their power to make it almost impossible for the police to do their jobs. I'm not following your line of thinking here its like A+B= 19.

Because some protestors are making things hard on police doesn't mean the entire community doesn't want policing. That idea is illogical, A few hundred people doesn't necessarily represent thousands. Again the police started this fiasco with the death of Freddie Grey and the hard earned bad reputation built over years. They can't cry victim because their job is harder now.

Still waiting on your thoughts about the hundreds of millions The boys in blue are costing citizens. Find it hilarious that some of theri bigger supporters complain about high taxes but don't realize some of that goes to bailing bad cops out. Thats the definition of irony.

boutons_deux

06-15-2015, 03:59 PM

Private Prison Van Guards Allegedly Locked Man In Cage And Urinated On Him

Darren Richardson of Florida says he was urinated on and denied food during a 10-day trip in a private prison transport company’s van, after he was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.

Richardson was arrested for an outstanding warrant for an unpaid probation fine of $250 after police pulled him over. According to the federal lawsuit (http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1-main.pdf), Richardson spent 8 days in a Florida jail before being handed off to the private company Prisoner Transport Services of America. Richardson was shackled and loaded into a van headed to a prison in Pike County, Pennsylvania. During the trek north, the guards allegedly put a shotgun to Richardson’s head, urinated on him, and tried to extort him. The lawsuit also claims that the guards forced the inmates to give them their debit cards so the guards could buy cigarettes and withheld food when Richardson refused to hand over his jewelry.

The inmates were allegedly kept shackled in cages with no room to move around. After a few days, Richardson says his legs started deteriorating from the lack of circulation and he had trouble walking and standing.

“Mr. Richardson’s legs were purple from the knee down and his feet were black when he arrived at the Pike County Correctional Facility,” the complaint reads. But when he arrived at Pike County Correctional, the nurse tending to his injuries allegedly told him they “had seen much worse come off that bus.”

Prisoner Transport Services, based in Nashville, TN, has managed to survive several scandals. A 54-year-old woman died in one of their vans (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/03/3575788/woman-arrested-for-probation-violation-dies-in-private-prison-transport-van/) last fall after she was arrested on an outstanding warrant for a shoplifting fine. Another ongoing lawsuit (http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/07/11/69415.htm) charges that the company kept a woman shackled and denied her water for two sweltering summer days in Texas. The firm has also lost several high profile inmates during transfer. Prisoner Transport Services still touts itself as “the nation’s largest prisoner extradition company,” perhaps because its competitors have similarlydismal records (http://www.justice.gov/usao-nd/pr/us-attorney-s-office-announces-settlement-claims-against-private-prisoner-transport). Another company’s employees have been caught raping inmates (https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-sues-private-prisoner-transport-company-over-sexual-assault-and-death-threats-against?redirect=prisoners-rights-prisoners-rights/aclu-sues-private-prisoner-transport-company-over-sexual-assault) and threatening them (https://www.fbi.gov/louisville/press-releases/2010/lo092010.htm) with guns. In 1997, six prisoners were burned alive (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=863) in a debilitated van owned by a company operated by a former bounty hunter. Yet these companies have to worry about fewer regulations than they would if they were shipping cattle.

Many states and municipalities have outsourced various aspects of their criminal systems besides extradition to the private prison industry, including probation (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/15/3647374/private-probation-lawsuit-ransom/), healthcare (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/04/08/3643636/prison-nurses-california-threaten-strike/), food (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/07/13/3459601/emails-aramark-prison-food-michigan/) and the prisons (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/28/3345921/private-prison-firm-agrees-nationwide-settlement-widespread-claims-violence/)themselves. Across the board, these companies tend to cut corners to boost their bottom line, endangering inmates and routinely violating their constitutional rights. Despite attractingfrequent (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/21/3417212/debtors-prisons-alabama/) lawsuits (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/09/11/3566347/doctors-arizona-prison-health-care-abuse/), the largest contractors have continued to rake in massive profits (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/20/3309511/private-prison-firm-ceo-earned-22-million-compensation-2008-2012/).

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/06/15/3669685/private-prison-transport-lawsuit/

America The Beautiful, God Shines His Light on Thee

TheSanityAnnex

06-15-2015, 04:45 PM

Why punish Cops that have done nothing wrong?

double standard much lol

If 1 million people live in a place and 100,000 are doing criminals activities that doesn't make the other 900,000 guilty as well

boutons_deux

06-18-2015, 03:49 PM

Seattle taxpayers getting screwed

Seattle settles $2 million lawsuit for excessive force by police

Seattle has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to a man who was shot in the face by police, the largest known settlement in the city's history for excessive use of force by police, an official said on Thursday.

Nathaniel Caylor, 35, had filed a federal lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department arguing that officers Eugene Schubeck and Don Leslie used excessive force and violated his Fourth Amendment guarantee against illegal seizure during a 2009 incident in which he was badly wounded.

The officers had gone to a Seattle home to check on Caylor after a family member called 911 saying he was suicidal and had his 20-month-old son in his care, court records show.

They engaged Caylor, who was not holding a firearm, in discussion, the records show. Both officers had their guns drawn and Schubeck fired a bullet that struck Caylor in the lower jaw.

Neither officer had warned Caylor they could shoot him, the court documents said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/18/us-usa-washington-settlement-idUSKBN0OY2Q720150618?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/18/us-usa-washington-settlement-idUSKBN0OY2Q720150618?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)

Clipper Nation

06-18-2015, 04:04 PM

^ Libtard suddenly concerned about taxpayer money

boutons_deux

06-18-2015, 04:12 PM

^ Libtard suddenly concerned about taxpayer money

any taxpayer money wasted by murderous cops should be everybody's concern.

cd021

06-18-2015, 10:31 PM

^ Libtard suddenly concerned about taxpayer money

Still haven't responded to cops costing tax payers hundred of millions.

Aren't you conservatives on the lower taxes kick? I would think putting pressure on the police to do their jobs properly would be an effective way of reducing payouts on the tax payers dime

Then again you guys support the boys in blue no matter what.

Funny that Repubs aren't going off on police brutality too :rolleyes

I'd much rather be a libtard (i'm not) then a full of shit conservative

boutons_deux

06-21-2015, 04:14 PM

Black Arizona churches reject racial profiling sheriff Joe Arpaio’s armed posses

Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County sheriff infamous for racial profiling, is sending an armed posse of volunteers into black churches for the nominal purpose of protection. Many are not pleased.

Arpaio was asked for the protection by Baptist preacher Rev. Jarrett Maupin on Friday after a gunman killed nine in a racist attack on Charleston’s landmark Emanuel AME. But the request was quickly condemned by other black church leaders, who said Maupin doesn’t represent the community.

“[H]is partnership with Sheriff Arpaio is an affront to all who oppose civil-rights violations,” reverends Reginald Walton and Warren Stewart Jr. and Angeles Maldonado said in a statement, reported by the Arizona Republic. (http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/06/20/phoenix-civil-rights-leaders-clash-over-arpaio-abrk/29039663/) “The Maricopa County sheriff has been adjudicated as a racial profiler. He is the last person we would look to for help.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/black-arizona-churches-reject-racial-profiling-sheriff-joe-arpaios-armed-posses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

JA always ready to help non-EAs.

boutons_deux

06-22-2015, 08:42 AM

Watchdog: Is DPS ‘surveillance detection’ just plain spying?

Is the Texas Department of Public Safety spying on law-abiding Texans?

The surveillance detection program is run by TrapWire, a Virginia-based company that is a key player in DPS’ intelligence operations.

WikiLeaks revealed that TrapWire paid Stratfor an 8 percent commission to help it sign the Texas account in 2010.

TrapWire president Dan Botsch told me his program is designed “to help detect indicators and patterns of an attack, enabling security and law enforcement to prevent terror and criminal acts.”

As best I can tell, the way it works is like this: Surveillance cameras placed around vulnerable locales such as the State Capitol Complex, the Governor’s Mansion, possibly the Houston Ship Channel and other unknown places look for potential terrorists who may be scoping out targets for attacks.

TrapWire, which also employs former CIA agents, doesn’t run the cameras. State and local law enforcement does. But if someone shows up at a protected location and appears to be studying a target, the system will capture that and report it to TrapWire, which conducts deeper analysis and shares the information with appropriate law enforcement.

Botsch, the TrapWire president, said, “Our entire program is based on the fact that terrorists, including professional organizations and those described as ‘lone wolves,’ conduct extensive surveillance of their targets prior to an attack.”

Clients such as DPS, he said, use his system “to detect surveillance and criminal activity, not to conduct surveillance.”

You can see what a thin line this is, and how easy it would be to cross it and look at innocent people. Tourists taking photographs, for example, could be confused with potential criminal activity.

If that were to happen, Botsch says, “any report can later be deleted if the incident is determined to be nonthreatening.”

Who deletes? Who decides?

DPS spokesman Tom Vinger referred me to his department’s 27-page privacy policy (http://www.dps.texas.gov/docs/TxFCPrivacyPolicy113010.pdf) as its guidepost.

“TrapWire does not perform surveillance,” Vinger said. “The system does not have cameras. And it does not target individuals or groups. Anything that goes into TrapWire has to be entered manually by DPS.”

He added, “It also helps identify patterns that might suggest pre-surveillance of DPS facilities. And it ties into data from other users on the TrapWire system.”

In Texas, Vinger said, TrapWire led to 44 arrests. He did not answer (https://www.scribd.com/doc/263098922/TxDPS-Tom-Vinger-responds-to-TrapWire-Questions) my question about how much money is spent on the program.

DPS personnel praise TrapWire. A vendor performance report states that TrapWire “is used every day to help protect our State and its citizens from terrorism. The staff is always clear on instruction and they answer questions very quick. They are a great company to work with.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/investigations/watchdog/20150425-watchdog-is-dps-surveillance-detection-just-plain-spying.ece

44 arrests? how many convictions?

boutons_deux

06-23-2015, 04:58 AM

Protesters block Louisville police station after union letter threatening ‘race-baiters’

Dozens of demonstrators forced the temporary closure of the Louisville Metro Police headquarters on Monday afternoon in a protest that sought the firing of the local police union leader for his reaction to an officer-involved fatal shooting.

“Your idiocy and lies are what caused the destruction in Ferguson and other cities around our country and we won’t be tolerating that here,” the letter from FOP local 614 said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/protesters-block-louisville-police-station-after-union-letter-threatening-race-baiters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

06-23-2015, 05:20 AM

Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power

The New York Post, the notorious right-wing tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, inspired a media stampede of stories highlighting increases in New York City’s crime statistics. The hysterical headline “You’re 45% More Likely to Be Murdered in de Blasio’s Manhattan” (5/26/15 (http://nypost.com/2015/05/26/youre-45-more-likely-to-be-murdered-in-de-blasios-manhattan/)) served as a springboard for other local media outlets to question if the city was suddenly a crime-ridden hellhole under Mayor Bill de Blasio–presented by the Post as a liberal on policing.

The Post's story reported that there had been 16 murders so far this year in Manhattan, one of New York City’s five boroughs, versus 11 during the same time period in 2014 (when, the Post failed to note, de Blasio was also mayor—he took office on January 1, 2014). An increase of 45 percent naturally sounds much more alarming than the flat numerical increase: five more.

These homicide figures are actually so low historically in the city that you’d have to go back to the 1960s for comparable numbers. For a city that once had upwards of 1,000 and sometime 2,000 murders a year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City#Murders_by_year), a time from the 1970s into the ’90s often referred to as “the bad old days,” 16 in Manhattan in five months is remarkably low.

If instead of comparing de Blasio’s second year in office to his first year, the Posthad compared the rate of killing so far this year to the 102 Manhattan homicides (not counting 9/11) in 2001–the last full year of the mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, celebrated by the Post for his crime-fighting triumphs–the headline would have had to read,

“You’re 63% Less Likely to Be Murdered in de Blasio’s Manhattan Than in Giuliani’s”–but that’s a framing that you’re never going to see in the New York Post.

A Wall Street Journal story in May demonstrated that the only proof reporters need to confirm the notion that de Blasio is dangerously soft on crime are opinion polls showing New Yorkers are worried about crime (FAIR Blog, 5/15/15 (http://fair.org/home/less-crimefighting-less-crime-wsj-avoids-the-evidence/)).

But opinion polling shows that public perceptions of crime have little to do with actual crime rates, as a majority of respondents nearly always tell Gallup (http://www.gallup.com/poll/179546/americans-crime-last-year.aspx) that crime is rising, even as crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past 20 years.

Commenting on this phenomenon, Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Oliver Roeder of the Brennan Center (Huffington Post, 3/16/15 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurenbrooke-eisen/americas-faulty-perceptio_b_6878520.html)) suggest that “sensationalist coverage of isolated crimes has contributed to the public misperception that crime is increasing.”

Again, the underlying truth that media take for granted is that more police = less crime.

But is that true? As even Bratton himself has been forced to admit (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-bratton-downplays-crime-rise-stop-and-frisk-efficacy-article-1.2251511),
all sorts of serious crime was much higher when stop & frisk was at its peak in 2011 (at nearly 700,000 stops) than this year (which probably won’t crack 50,000 recorded stops).

The tactic’s correlation with crime would suggest, if anything, an inverse relationship—the opposite of what the front page of the Post would have its readers believe.

As the size of the NYPD has dropped from an all-time high of about 41,000 cops in 2001 to just under 35,000 today, crime has also dropped—dramatically. Again, if the popular notion is that more cops make us safer, then the reality, it seems, is counterintuitive.

the “crime wave” politics being carried by right-wing and corporate centrist media outlets are a classic response to a political movement that takes on racist policing in America:

The point of the “Ferguson effect,” though, is not to be accurate.

It is instead to distract us from the growing evidence about the magnitude and extent of police use of lethal violence in the United States — as powerfully documented just this week by the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database) and the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html) — and to besmirch the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

It’s a strategy that Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater inaugurated in his campaign in 1964, almost single-handedly turning crime into a political weapon against the civil rights movement. ( but we Repugs aren't racists! :lol )

the Broken Windows theory that was popularized in the ’90s under New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a younger Bratton. The theory, a target of protesters from Ferguson to New York, is a fundamental cornerstone of policing in America. Its success is self-evident, as politicians and media pundits tell it.

But as Harcourt and others (http://sitemaker.umich.edu/dthacher/files/OrderMaintenance.pdf) have pointed out, its supposed causal relationship with diminishing crime simply isn’t supported by research.

Other social factors (economic shifts, the end of the crack era, etc.) that seem to explain an international phenomenon of declining crime that began in the ’90s, and occurred in cities whether or not they subscribed to the Broken Windows theory, are seldom mentioned when media tackles the issue of crime.

That more complicated picture, of course, will likely never make for a good front page.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31484-concocting-a-crime-ageddon-to-promote-police-power

boutons_deux

06-23-2015, 05:49 AM

Washington state cop caught on tape shooting and killing Mexican farmworker quits

One of three police officers who shot dead an unarmed Mexican farmworker in Washington state, triggering protests akin to those after police slayings in other U.S. cities, has resigned from his job amid an investigation into the videotaped struggle.

Pasco Police Department officer Ryan Flanagan was one of three patrolmen who shot and killed farmworker Antonio Zambrano-Montes at a busy intersection in the southeastern agricultural city on Feb. 10 after police said the undocumented immigrant threw rocks at the officers.

Zambrano-Montes’ death was captured on video and the majority Latino community has likened it to police slayings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York. Hundreds took to the streets to demonstrate against policing tactics in the town more than 200 miles (322 km) southeast of Seattle.

Flanagan had come under scrutiny for his patrol tactics before. In 2012 ,Pasco settled a 2012 lawsuit for $100,000 brought by a woman who said Flanagan and another officer shoved her face against a patrol car and twisted her arms behind.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/washington-state-cop-caught-on-tape-shooting-and-killing-mexican-farmworker-quits/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Police see rock throwing as imminent, unavoidable, mortal danger to themselves and others, so they immediately shoot you dead.

More likely than danger, the cops feel their tiny dicks under their pot bellies have been insulted by mere rock throwing. As Travis Bickle would say, "You throwin rocks at ME?"

spurraider21

06-26-2015, 08:14 PM

boutons_deux

06-26-2015, 08:52 PM

FuzzyLumpkins

06-26-2015, 09:58 PM

spurraider21

06-26-2015, 10:16 PM

"you will whine about police brutality"

I don't whine, I bitch slap. cops killing armed criminals is totally different cops killing unarmed innocents, but I realize that distinction will be hard for you to understand.

my point is some people such as yourself will find a way to whine about a story no matter how it turns out

if they did kill him: police brutality!
if they didn't kill him: its because he's white!

there is literally no way they could have dealt with this guy on the manhunt that would please you

cd021

06-26-2015, 11:21 PM

Now that he's dead, you will whine about police brutality. If he was brought in alive, you'd complain because ":cry if he was black they'd have killed him. look how they deal with white suspects :cry"

http://i.gyazo.com/540c1736f235500263090285e5faf7ba.png

https://gma.yahoo.com/escaped-york-inmate-richard-matt-shot-killed-police-204947073--abc-news-topstories.html

:lol A terrorist walked into a church and an hour later murdered 9 people because they were black, he then fled police and was captured peacefully in another state.

What did the cops do? They took him to Burger King.

"Roof complained he was hungry, cops went to a nearby Burger King and bought the accused mass murderer a meal while he was in custody."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/dylann-roof-burger-king_n_7645216.htmlBurger King.

Good try Raider

cd021

06-26-2015, 11:26 PM

my point is some people such as yourself will find a way to whine about a story no matter how it turns out

if they did kill him: police brutality!
if they didn't kill him: its because he's white!

there is literally no way they could have dealt with this guy on the manhunt that would please you

Both men were in prison for murder, broke out and were on the run, I have no problem with how it ended. But keep in mind that Roof and The Aurura shooter were peacefully taken into custody after mass murdering people while Freddy Grey, Eric Garner, Walter Scott and John Crawford were all unarmed when they were confronted by police, all ended up dead.

Not to mention two unarmed black people shot 130 times by 12 cops and they all walked without prison time. One cop jumped on to the hood and fired 15 rounds, despite "fearing for his life".

spurraider21

06-27-2015, 12:57 AM

You're just proving my point

cd021

06-27-2015, 05:12 AM

You're just proving my point

I didn't prove you're point. You randomly brought race into the fact a murder, was killed by the police after escaping from prison.

I responded with the fact that I have no problem with what went down but pointed out in recent cases there have been radically different outcomes based on race. Lanza and Roof murdered at least 7 people
and were peacefully taken into custody.

spurraider21

06-27-2015, 02:14 PM

I didn't prove you're point. You randomly brought race into the fact a murder, was killed by the police after escaping from prison.

I responded with the fact that I have no problem with what went down but pointed out in recent cases there have been radically different outcomes based on race. Lanza and Roof murdered at least 7 people
and were peacefully taken into custody.
When people surrender to the police without struggle, no matter what crime they committed, their chances of getting hurt and killed are slim to none. Garner didn't deserve death, but the situation escalated because he resisted arrest, and didn't allow them to cuff him. It's not an excuse for the outcome, but resisting initially only makes for a worse and more dangerous situation. When roof was pulled over in Florida, he identified himself and gave himself up

FuzzyLumpkins

06-27-2015, 03:37 PM

spurraider21

06-27-2015, 05:26 PM

How the fuck would you know if that were the case? You glean that from your interactions with campus police?
I've never interacted with campus police, only LAPD and CHP

FuzzyLumpkins

06-27-2015, 10:14 PM

I've never interacted with campus police, only LAPD and CHP

And that makes you qualified to speak for police behavior across the country with a blanket statement?

:lol wishful thinking for the police state. good minion.

spurraider21

06-27-2015, 10:57 PM

And that makes you qualified to speak for police behavior across the country with a blanket statement?

:lol wishful thinking for the police state. good minion.
what is the % of people killed by police vs people arrested by police

cd021

06-27-2015, 10:59 PM

When people surrender to the police without struggle, no matter what crime they committed, their chances of getting hurt and killed are slim to none. Garner didn't deserve death, but the situation escalated because he resisted arrest, and didn't allow them to cuff him. It's not an excuse for the outcome, but resisting initially only makes for a worse and more dangerous situation. When roof was pulled over in Florida, he identified himself and gave himself up

Crawford was shot without warning by a plain clothes cop. He didn't even know what was going on. Garner wasn't resisting arrest, because he wasn't actually committing a crime (despite reports that he was illegally selling cigarettes, none were found on him), Are you saying Walter Scott deserved to be shot 8 times because he ran away from a cop?

Roof still murdered 9 people and was considered armed and extremely dangerous, he fled the state not just the scene. He was rewarded with a trip to Burger King. If unarmed people who didn't committ major (or any crimes) get killed without warning or because they fled why wasn't Roof?

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 02:03 AM

what is the % of people killed by police vs people arrested by police

Begging the question? Supposed 2nd year law student and that is the best argument you can come up with?

Let me help. An argument would go something along these lines:

The % of people killed by police per arrest is X. Because X is <insert argument> then <insert conclusion>.

You not having an answer to an arbitrary question is not an argument. Wishful thinking is for the stupid.

spurraider21

06-28-2015, 02:52 AM

Begging the question? Supposed 2nd year law student and that is the best argument you can come up with?

Let me help. An argument would go something along these lines:

The % of people killed by police per arrest is X. Because X is <insert argument> then <insert conclusion>.

You not having an answer to an arbitrary question is not an argument. Wishful thinking is for the stupid.
I asked a question. Wasn't an argument in itself. But you can keep tossing out names of fallacies as your primary method of argument. It's funny

spurraider21

06-28-2015, 02:53 AM

Crawford was shot without warning by a plain clothes cop. He didn't even know what was going on. Garner wasn't resisting arrest, because he wasn't actually committing a crime (despite reports that he was illegally selling cigarettes, none were found on him), Are you saying Walter Scott deserved to be shot 8 times because he ran away from a cop?

Roof still murdered 9 people and was considered armed and extremely dangerous, he fled the state not just the scene. He was rewarded with a trip to Burger King. If unarmed people who didn't committ major (or any crimes) get killed without warning or because they fled why wasn't Roof?
I never said any of them deserved death. In threads discussing those victims, I've said the opposite

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 03:35 AM

I asked a question. Wasn't an argument in itself. But you can keep tossing out names of fallacies as your primary method of argument. It's funny

My argument was that you have no basis to make a generalization about police behavior.

Your response was to beg a question. It is either a fallacy or it is not. You trying to ridicule me into ignoring your illogical bullshit? We both understand objectively why you are wrong.

Trill Clinton

06-28-2015, 12:49 PM

the k9 shouldn't have resistedhttp://i58.tinypic.com/2gy2kqg.png

615212187062300672

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 03:25 PM

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2015/0628/Why-police-don-t-pull-guns-in-many-countries

Clipper Nation

06-28-2015, 05:43 PM

I asked a question. Wasn't an argument in itself. But you can keep tossing out names of fallacies as your primary method of argument. It's funny
:lol It's true. Literally every time someone asks a question, FuzzyFaggot says that they are "begging the question" and then refuses to answer it.

rogues

06-28-2015, 05:53 PM

My argument was that you have no basis to make a generalization about police behavior.

Your response was to beg a question. It is either a fallacy or it is not. You trying to ridicule me into ignoring your illogical bullshit? We both understand objectively why you are wrong.
Answer his question or shut the fuck up, faggot

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 08:46 PM

Answer his question or shut the fuck up, faggot

ahh yes the nihilist comes forth to froth. I did address the question head on; I explained it very clearly. If you are having trouble reading which post I explained that let me know and I'll repost it for you.

Clipper Nation

06-28-2015, 09:02 PM

ahh yes the nihilist comes forth to froth. I did address the question head on; I explained it very clearly. If you are having trouble reading which post I explained that let me know and I'll repost it for you.

FuzzyLibcuck doing his usual routine when backed into a corner. Accuse anyone asking a question of "begging the question," refuse to answer the question, tell anyone who points this out that they're a "nihlist" who's "dissembling," claim he answered the question while still not answering it.

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 09:11 PM

:lol It's true. Literally every time someone asks a question, FuzzyFaggot says that they are "begging the question" and then refuses to answer it.

And you would think that at some point one of you would actually argue the fallacy on merit or simply stop asking me leading questions. Instead you act adolescent and talk about how a logical argument is 'name dropping' clique stupidity and call me names.

You don't have the capacity to argue on merit but you really want to argue so this is what we get. Your elitist dismissive tone is one of the more ironic things I have ever read.

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 09:23 PM

FuzzyLibcuck doing his usual routine when backed into a corner. Accuse anyone asking a question of "begging the question," refuse to answer the question, tell anyone who points this out that they're a "nihlist" who's "dissembling," claim he answered the question while still not answering it.

Who taught you to read?

Begging the question? Supposed 2nd year law student and that is the best argument you can come up with?

Let me help. An argument would go something along these lines:

The % of people killed by police per arrest is X. Because X is <insert argument> then <insert conclusion>.

You not having an answer to an arbitrary question is not an argument. Wishful thinking is for the stupid.

We have had other conversations and in that I think many of you are nihilist and stupid. I stand by that. I think many people here do not really believe in anything, are fond of infinite regression and base reasoning, and have poor reading and critical thinking skills. For example your ability to read what someone has written and report on it is very poor.

Clipper Nation

06-28-2015, 09:45 PM

That's not an answer to his question, dumbass. But, but, muh logical fallacies :cry

spurraider21

06-28-2015, 10:18 PM

The only thing you've demonstrated is a misunderstanding of "begging the question" and considerable effort to avoid actually having a discussion on the subject when pressed with questions.

FuzzyLumpkins

06-28-2015, 10:46 PM

I asked a question. Wasn't an argument in itself. But you can keep tossing out names of fallacies as your primary method of argument. It's funny

No it's more like everytime I bring up a logical fallacy the argument stops because people fixate on it. Every time you ask a leading, assumptive question I am not going to play along. Deal with it. Point it out to each other and stop going around in these same circles.

What is kinda amusing is that Chump is the one that is known for asking you guys questions that you dodge. Ridicule him for his bullshit socratic method and the like. Now many of you are channelling chump's method. ANSWER THE QUESTION!

Anywho, you agree that a question is not an argument and irrelevant to the discussion in its current form. Now we are back to you still not having a basis to make generalizations. Frankly, using personal anecdote as proxy for national behavior is prima facia nonsense. That has been my primary argument. Please come up with an actual argument this time or just leave it alone.

spurraider21

06-28-2015, 10:57 PM

No it's more like everytime I bring up a logical fallacy the argument stops because people fixate on it. Every time you ask a leading, assumptive question I am not going to play along. Deal with it. Point it out to each other and stop going around in these same circles.

What is kinda amusing is that Chump is the one that is known for asking you guys questions that you dodge. Ridicule him for his bullshit socratic method and the like. Now many of you are channelling chump's method. ANSWER THE QUESTION!

Anywho, you agree that a question is not an argument and irrelevant to the discussion in its current form. Now we are back to you still not having a basis to make generalizations. Frankly, using personal anecdote as proxy for national behavior is prima facia nonsense. That has been my primary argument. Please come up with an actual argument this time or just leave it alone.
You brought up personal anecdotes not me. You tried to build a strawman by bringing up "my experience with campus police" just so you can strike it down.

My question is important to the conversation, and didn't contain the conclusion of my argument. That would have been begging the question

LnGrrrR

06-29-2015, 03:33 AM

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 04:36 AM

Spursraider, it's leading because you're not providing the answer to the statement. Therefore, it's asked in a way to make the reader assume that the number of deaths is much lower, as a percentage, than the number of arrests. Fuzzy is asking you to actually find the statistic and prove it, rather than asking in a way that makes an uninformed reader assume that your position is the correct one.
i didnt give a statement, i asked a question. if i knew the answer, i would post it, instead of asking it. if fuzzy doesnt know, thats fine, i hadn't looked it up either. but he can just say "i dont know" instead of dragging it on like he has

i'm trying to have a discussion on the issue, and he's insisting on treating it as formal debate and trying to "win" on technicalities or just crying "fallacy" even when it isn't there (like claiming i've relied on anectodes when i didnt bring it up)

cd021

06-29-2015, 05:30 AM

When people surrender to the police without struggle, no matter what crime they committed, their chances of getting hurt and killed are slim to none.

I never said any of them deserved death. In threads discussing those victims, I've said the opposite

So you countered your argument. You said if victims "didn't resist, then they probably wouldn't have an problem with the cops. I gave several examples where there was little to no resistance and they were murdered by the cops. Jonathan Farrell was murdered by a rookie cop after flipping his car over in an accident and knocking on someones door for help ( the cop was later indicted for manslaughter and his family was rewarded $2.5 million).

I just find it curious that certain unarmed citizens get murdered by the police and mass murders (i.e. Roof and Lanza) are peacefully captured.

FuzzyLumpkins

06-29-2015, 07:50 AM

You brought up personal anecdotes not me. You tried to build a strawman by bringing up "my experience with campus police" just so you can strike it down.

My question is important to the conversation, and didn't contain the conclusion of my argument. That would have been begging the question

You still have no basis for making a generalization regarding police behavior. I was striking down personal anecdotes and they still form zero basis.

Your stat if you were to look it up may or may not say something. You have yet to say what it is nor why it is important.

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 11:06 AM

So you countered your argument. You said if victims "didn't resist, then they probably wouldn't have an problem with the cops. I gave several examples where there was little to no resistance and they were murdered by the cops. Jonathan Farrell was murdered by a rookie cop after flipping his car over in an accident and knocking on someones door for help ( the cop was later indicted for manslaughter and his family was rewarded $2.5 million).

I just find it curious that certain unarmed citizens get murdered by the police and mass murders (i.e. Roof and Lanza) are peacefully captured.
I said the chances are slim to none, not zero

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 11:10 AM

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 11:12 AM

You still have no basis for making a generalization regarding police behavior. I was striking down personal anecdotes and they still form zero basis.

Your stat if you were to look it up may or may not say something. You have yet to say what it is nor why it is important.
I never brought up a personal anecdote as a basis for you to strike down. If we switched positions, you would just scream "strawman" and stop discussing the topic

boutons_deux

06-29-2015, 01:24 PM

Self-appointed watchdogs of Texas police are in the streets and in your face

Lovett and his passenger, Kory Watkins, were out on patrol as part of North Texas Cop Block, the local chapter of a political coalition that has sprung up across the country alongside protests against police violence in Missouri, New York and Cleveland.

The national Cop Block campaign aims to police the police by filming traffic stops and watching for potential violations of search laws. Here in Arlington, the campaign has taken on a uniquely Texas spin.

With the two Texas activists in the cab of Lovett's big Chevy Tahoe, tickets and fines become "robbery," an arrest is "a kidnapping by the state," a concealed-handgun permit is "a tax on the 2nd Amendment." Laws are measured in increments of the rights they take away.

...

Cop Block activists around the country tend to have a common routine. At a police traffic stop, their first step is to pull out cellphones and yell instructions to people who have been pulled over.

That sometimes ends up with the activists getting arrested, as attested to dozens of times on YouTube, where police accountability groups gleefully post shouting matches between police and protesters.

We are normalizing people walking around with guns.- Kory Watkins, North Texas Cop Block

As in the Occupy movement, each Cop Block chapter relies on social media and bears the cultural markers of the places that birthed them. In Berkeley, accountability groups want a demilitarized police, and the fewer guns on all sides, the better.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-cop-block-20150628-story.html

FuzzyLumpkins

06-29-2015, 06:46 PM

I never brought up a personal anecdote as a basis for you to strike down. If we switched positions, you would just scream "strawman" and stop discussing the topic

So I anticipated a common argument and you are not taking it. Fine.

No I don't think so. I can handle multiple conditional arguments concurrently. For example in addition to your complained strawman I have at the same time been arguing that you have no basis to make generalizations about police behavior. We could try more but you struggle addressing more than one thing.

OTOH, it certainly would be nice if police unions would fuck off and all citizens once again have equal rights. You are not a cop are you? Your position makes no sense to me.

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 07:36 PM

So I anticipated a common argument and you are not taking it. Fine.

No I don't think so. I can handle multiple conditional arguments concurrently. For example in addition to your complained strawman I have at the same time been arguing that you have no basis to make generalizations about police behavior. We could try more but you struggle addressing more than one thing.

OTOH, it certainly would be nice if police unions would fuck off and all citizens once again have equal rights. You are not a cop are you? Your position makes no sense to me.
and what is my position, exactly. please, i'd love to hear this.

FuzzyLumpkins

06-29-2015, 08:15 PM

and what is my position, exactly. please, i'd love to hear this.

When people surrender to the police without struggle, no matter what crime they committed, their chances of getting hurt and killed are slim to none. Garner didn't deserve death, but the situation escalated because he resisted arrest, and didn't allow them to cuff him. It's not an excuse for the outcome, but resisting initially only makes for a worse and more dangerous situation. When roof was pulled over in Florida, he identified himself and gave himself up

You have no basis for saying the bolded. This should not be hard.

cd021

06-29-2015, 09:52 PM

I said the chances are slim to none, not zero

It certainly appears much higher than "slim" tbh, yet they capture a terrorist who murdered nine and take him to burger king.

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 09:57 PM

It certainly appears much higher than "slim" tbh, yet they capture a terrorist who murdered nine and take him to burger king.
was he resisting arrest or did he give himself up peacefully? and if he's in the middle of a confession, you'd bet your ass they'd feed him. a $4 burger that potentially saves them years and a lot more $ down the line in court related costs

FuzzyLumpkins

06-29-2015, 10:51 PM

It's not so much this notion that the millions of cops in America all think with the same brain and can be judged so simply but it's more that an Armenian from the West Coast thinks he is a suitable spokesperson.

Were the police trained properly in appropriate use of force in various circumstances? Was the use of force commensurate with their training? Do LEOBOR laws make it make it more difficult to catch cops that break the law than normal citizens? What kind of accountability do officers face for breaking procedure and the law? Is there a conflict of interest inherent in the police investigating themselves? What are the national figures for police that break procedures and the law? How does it look regionally and demographically? Why are these figures unavailable to study?

The police were not trained properly in appropriate use of force in various circumstances. The use of force was not commensurate with their training. LEOBOR laws make it more difficult to catch and convict criminal police. The officers face no accountability from within the department. There is a definite conflict of interest in local prosecutors investigating their police force.

The 'was he resisting or not standard' is a red herring. If you want cops that get scared to not have to get charged for manslaughter or whatever vicarious ideal you are trying to save then you can have it but I am interested in getting the police back under control and accountable to the people they are supposed to protect and serve. There are many policies that are being instituted across the nation. LEOBOR has been repealed or amended in several states. Executively independent offices and commissions are being set up to investigate police crimes.

I'm sure you guys were excited to hear that SCOTUS approved AZ districting agency. Racial gerrymandering is dead in one more state in the land.

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 11:37 PM

nobody here can be a suitable spokesperson either. when you resist arrest or dont comply with police instruction, the chances of violence escalate... that isn't rocket science. thus, complying decreases your chances of being hurt.

the point of my question was to show that a vast majority of police interactions don't end with violence, and its reasonable to assume that proportionally speaking, you have more violent interactions when there is non-compliance.

spurraider21

06-29-2015, 11:41 PM

i'd like to bring your attention to the bottom right corner of this graphic (will include source below). about 1.4% of all people who had police interactions had force used or threatened against them (couldn't find a figure of how many of those were merely threats, but i digress). 1.4% already fits my "slim to none" description i had given before. and if we assume that the use of force is more probable in cases where there is resistence/non-compliance, then we can also assume that for those who DO comply, the figure would be lower than 1.4%, nationwide

http://i.gyazo.com/196de6d144d6f7ae1cc3aa239a0a68f6.png

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf

FuzzyLumpkins

06-30-2015, 01:34 AM

spurraider21

06-30-2015, 01:43 AM

When 40m is the denominator, 1.4% is pretty significant. 560k legal assaults annually.
it isn't stated:

a) how many of those were uses of force vs merely threats of force
b) how many of those were proper responses. if a guy hits a cop first and the cop hits back, that would also fall under the "use of force" variety, though it would be unfair to list those as "assaults."

cd021

06-30-2015, 03:54 AM

was he resisting arrest or did he give himself up peacefully? and if he's in the middle of a confession, you'd bet your ass they'd feed him. a $4 burger that potentially saves them years and a lot more $ down the line in court related costs

According to the article. He barely spoke and then mentioned that he was hungry so they took him to Burger King.

boutons_deux

06-30-2015, 09:52 AM

Native American given less than 2 gallons of water while jailed 13 days over bad check — and now he’s dead

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/native-american-given-less-than-2-gallons-of-water-while-jailed-13-days-over-bad-check-and-now-hes-dead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

FuzzyLumpkins

06-30-2015, 03:45 PM

it isn't stated:

a) how many of those were uses of force vs merely threats of force
b) how many of those were proper responses. if a guy hits a cop first and the cop hits back, that would also fall under the "use of force" variety, though it would be unfair to list those as "assaults."

Seeing that the stats are voluntarily reported and really only overseen by the police unions because they have legislated out civilian oversight as part of LEOBOR, you can take a big nasty taco cabana and lone star shit on any stat they put out there. Those are all the reported encounters. We know there are unreported encounters as well.

I've read a lot of Serpico and I think he might be right. A culture that doesn't punish bad cops but does punish those that report bad cops is the heart of the problem. Thin blue line my ass. There are millions of them and they are militarizing in the wake of domestic attacks.

spurraider21

06-30-2015, 03:53 PM

FuzzyLumpkins

06-30-2015, 05:27 PM

lol "there are millions of them and they are militarizing"

http://ell.akamai.coub.com/get/bucket:12.21/p/raw_video/cw_image/71513edc43c/c28ba077f26c897bbe57e/1408541439_1399410530_p0kz3g_att-url-download.jpg

I never said they paraded them around. There are all manner of modern pictures of the police deployed in their gear that illustrate the phenomenon. The pictures of cops in body armor and riding tanks and using mounted ordinance is cliche. They hire ex military in droves.

http://cdn5.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-police.jpg

Part of the war on drugs has been funding drug task forces across the country. That was Nixon's policy in the 1970s which subsequent presidents have doubled down on that with annual dollars for equipment training and ordinance. Reagan started further integrating federal law enforcement with military and intelligence services. He would deploy the military strategically to work with domestic policy. All the gulf states were involved.

More recently, due to domestic attacks, police have been given that much more military equipment including tanks, helicopters, and heavy weapons as provided by the Patriot Act.

Let's not forget LEOBOR.

FuzzyLumpkins

06-30-2015, 05:35 PM

There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States, which is the highest figure ever. About 12 percent of those are female.

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/

Now that is just the people wearing the badge so to speak. There are a ton more administrators, jailers, prosecutors, lobbyists, labor organizations, vendors, laborers etc that all work towards 'the thin blue line.'

TheSanityAnnex

06-30-2015, 05:43 PM

I never said they paraded them around. There are all manner of modern pictures of the police deployed in their gear that illustrate the phenomenon. The pictures of cops in body armor and riding tanks and using mounted ordinance is cliche. They hire ex military in droves.

http://cdn5.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-police.jpg

Part of the war on drugs has been funding drug task forces across the country. That was Nixon's policy in the 1970s which subsequent presidents have doubled down on that with annual dollars for equipment training and ordinance. Reagan started further integrating federal law enforcement with military and intelligence services. He would deploy the military strategically to work with domestic policy. All the gulf states were involved.

More recently, due to domestic attacks, police have been given that much more military equipment including tanks, helicopters, and heavy weapons as provided by the Patriot Act.

Let's not forget LEOBOR.

1033 program.

http://www.stripes.com/how-and-why-local-police-departments-get-military-surplus-equipment-1.299570

spurraider21

06-30-2015, 08:07 PM

militarizing also implies a degree of organization, as if all police departments around the country are radioing each other instructions on where to strike. they are arming up.

TheSanityAnnex

06-30-2015, 08:28 PM

More recently, due to domestic attacks, police have been given that much more military equipment including tanks, helicopters, and heavy weapons as provided by the Patriot Act.

More than 8,000 law enforcement agencies around the country participate in 1033. Since the program’s inception, the Pentagon has transferred property worth $5.1 billion. Last year, half a billion dollars’ worth of gear was transferred, according to the Defense Logistics Agency, which manages the transfers.
Equipment is free, but law enforcement agencies must pay maintenance and transportation costs.
Some of the items — Humvees, mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles, aircraft (rotary and fixed wing), boats, sniper scopes and M-16s — raise eyebrows.
But only about 5 percent of the equipment is weapons, and fewer than 1 percent is tactical vehicles, according to the defense official.
Much of the gear is non-military items, such as office equipment, blankets and sleeping bags, computers, digital cameras and video recorders, binoculars, flashlights, extreme weather clothing, repair tools, first-aid supplies and TVs.
The official said all tactical vehicles are “stripped down” before they are given to law enforcement, and are without weapons.
Transferred aircraft is also unarmed and intended to give police greater observation capabilities, according to the official.
Just because the Pentagon doesn’t need a particular item doesn’t mean law enforcement agencies can use it. The logistics agency has to approve every type of item that can be transferred.
“No, you can’t have a damn tank

FuzzyLumpkins

06-30-2015, 08:48 PM

militarizing also implies a degree of organization, as if all police departments around the country are radioing each other instructions on where to strike. they are arming up.

Ever heard of the fraternal order of police? The pervasive local to national lobbying efforts that earned them extra rights categorically?

Intentionally obtuse perhaps or have I just been giving you too much credit?

spurraider21

06-30-2015, 08:57 PM

im too scared to continue talking about it. the KGB might be coming for me

boutons_deux

07-01-2015, 11:25 AM

Report: Anti-immigrant groups collude with homeland security employees

Some Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees and union leaders have been colluding with white nationalist, anti-immigrant groups, lending credibility to hate groups and giving them an outsized influence on federal immigration (http://america.aljazeera.com/topics/topic/issue/immigration.html) policy, according to a report released Monday.

Many of the same DHS employees have testified at congressional hearings and made statements to the press as “credible” and “neutral” experts on the topic of immigration — making the collusion more troubling, said the report by Center for New Community, a group that tracks social and racial injustice.

“Do we really want law enforcement agents colluding with people who seek a European-American majority?” Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said in a conference call on
Monday. “Do we really want our law enforcement officers cooperating with people who are friends with (hate groups) who call all Latino people 'dumb' and circulate conspiracy theories about Jewish power?”

The report, titled “Blurring Borders: Collusion between Anti-Immigrant Groups and Immigration Enforcement Agents," identified three anti-immigrant groups with close ties to DHS members.

Those organizations — Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA — can be traced to a white nationalist named John Tanton, the report said, who has "advocated drastically reducing, if not altogether halting, all avenues of immigration."

FAIR, a non-profit public interest group aimed at increasing border security, is defined as a hate group by The Southern Poverty Law Center, and has hired people from white supremacist and other hate groups, Potok said.
Tanton has publicly stated the importance of maintaining a European-American majority in the U.S., and FAIR’s current leadership shares a similar mindset, Potok added.

The anti-immigrant groups do not seem to officially work with DHS, but they develop sources within the organization that leak information to them, the report said.

The report says that the anti-immigrant movement has worked with leaders of the unions representing a majority of employees at Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) and the National ICE Council.

"Instead of fulfilling organized labor’s traditional role of advocating for respectable wages and working conditions, leaders of these particular unions appear more focused on coordinating with special interest groups in the Beltway to advance anti-immigrant policy goals," the report said.

CIS organizes annual tours of the U.S.-Mexico border for its members and in March 2014 NBPC Local 1613 based in Southern California thanked two of its current agents, Manny Bayon and Chris Bauder, on Twitter for "showing the truth on the southern border" during a "border tour for CIS," the report said.

The two are elected union representatives, while Bauder is currently executive vice president of the NBPC, according to the report.

As a result of this influence and that the groups themselves have testified to Congress "hundreds and hundreds of times," the anti-immigrant movement has been “very effective” in killing comprehensive immigration reform, Potok said.

Evidence of collusion, according to the report, includes the fact many union leaders within DHS have advocated for immigration policy identical to those advocated by the anti-immigration movement — specifically that of CIS, said Anush Joshi of Center for New Community.

In August 2012 after the deportation relief program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was announced by President Barack Obama, 10 ICE agents filed a lawsuit against then DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, ICE directors and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Christopher Crane, president of the National ICE Council, was lead plaintiff.

Despite the lawsuit's dismissal, the case allowed anti-immigrant groups like NumbersUSA to "construct a platform from which Crane could act as a prominent spokesperson," the report said. The group announced it would cover all legal fees in the case and Kris Kobach — an attorney for the FAIR's legal project, Immigration Reform Law Institute — was recruited to represent Crane and his colleagues.

Kobach has worked with FAIR in the past to draft some of the country’s most anti-immigrant bills including Arizona's notorious SB 1070 (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/23/five-years-after-sb-1070-arizona-immigrants-defy-law.html), which required police to determine the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained if there was "reasonable suspicion" that they were in the U.S. illegally.

Another example of collusion, according to Monday’s report, surfaced last July at a protest organized by far-right activists with ties to white nationalists in Murietta, California. The protesters blocked (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/1/california-immigrationundocumented.html) buses of children and their parents who had fled Central American violence, chanting, “Go back home!” (http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/2014/7/photos-murrieta-aflashpointinimmigrantcrisis.html) and “We don’t want you here!,” Joshi said.

“The real question is how did they know when and where the buses were going? The answer lies in the long-standing relationship between DHS and leaders of the anti-immigration movement,” Joshi said during the conference call.

Media outlets reported NBPC Local 1613 health and safety director Ron Zermeno as the source of leaked details regarding the migrants' transportation, the report said. Zermeno had also taken part in a conference call on July 23, 2014 with organizers of a nine-day border convoy aimed at stopping the "invasion," according to the report.

Zermeno told organizers, "I'm here to help you guys," the report said, adding that he offered to coordinate with border patrol agents the routes for the protest.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/30/dhs-colluding-with-anti-immigrant-groups.html

boutons_deux

07-01-2015, 11:27 AM

Drug Money Laundered by Two Florida Police Agencies, And Stark Corruption at All Levels of Government

Nearly two weeks ago, the Miami Herald published a major investigative journalism series on two small Florida police agencies, which engaged in undercover money laundering operations with criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking so officers and the police departments themselves could claim millions of dollars as their own.

The series, “License to Launder: Cash, Cops & the Cartels (http://pubsys.miamiherald.com/static/media/projects/2015/license-to-launder/launder.html),” has not received much media attention at all. Whether that is because the essence of the corruption was already known is unclear, however, the corruption detailed at all levels of government is staggering—from the money laundering itself to the coverup by federal investigators seemingly unwilling to investigate anyone in the task force who committed crimes.

It is a stark example of how the War on Drugs is more about how police departments and officers can profit than stopping the flow of drug money. Indeed, officers in this case needed money to keep flowing in order to continue living as high rollers.

Bal Harbour is a small community of around 2,500 people with “oceanfront condominiums” and “elegant boutiques.” It had one reported violent crime in 2012 – an aggravated assault. But, beginning in 2010, the department partnered with the police department in Glades County, one of the poorest counties in Florida.

The police agencies formed the Tri-County Task Force, a state task force, to conduct undercover operations. They took place all over the United States but it would be difficult to believe they were carried out by officers interested in bringing drug traffickers to justice.

The task force made no arrests and engaged in no effort to have the Florida State’s Attorney prosecute any cases. What the officers wanted was money, plain and simple, and they took advantage of the federal government’s Equitable Sharing program to claim drug cash as their own.

When it comes to the War on Drugs, agencies operate under the presumption that undercover units have to typically “seize far more money from criminal groups than what a task force launders and returns to the streets.” That is why one of the most shocking details is that the task force “passed tips that led to federal agents seizing nearly $30 million.” Yet, during the same period, the task force laundered $50 million

http://firedoglake.com/2015/07/01/drug-money-laundered-by-two-florida-police-agencies-stark-corruption-at-all-levels-of-government/

boutons_deux

07-01-2015, 02:43 PM

Cops Seize College Kid's Savings for No Reason: 5 Outrageous Cases of Asset Forfeiture

Asset forfeiture is a police procedure whereby local police departments can confiscate the property of Americans if they can make a case that this property is essential to criminal activity. You would think such power would be limited to seizing items such as firearms or other dangerous materials, but police departments often abuse this power to grab all sorts of things -- even from people who . Here’s five crazy cases:

1. Seizing The Life Savings Of A 24-Year-Old:

In 2014, a college student named Charles Clarke was traveling (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/30/drug-cops-took-a-college-kids-life-savings-and-now-13-police-departments-want-a-cut/) [3] through Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport when he was accused of having his bag smell like marijuana. Police then went on to seize the $11,000 found within it, accusing him of having done a drug deal to get the money. 13 different departments are now trying to gain control of the money seized from Clarke, although he was never convicted of a crime (there were no drugs in his bag).

2. Confiscating $75,000 From A Budding Restauranteur:

A 55-year old Chinese American from Georgia was traveling in Alabama when police seized $75,000 (http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/civil-asset-forfeiture-highway-robbery-by-the-police-26677/) [4] he had raised from his relatives to open a new Chinese restaurant. After ten months of legal battles, he was able to get the money back, but he was set back by his own legal fees.

3. Taking Everything From A Cancer Patient:

Police in Michigan busted (http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/02/22/civil-asset-forfeiture-michigan-seizures-aclu-heritage-foundation-institute-justice/23737663/) [5] into Thomas Williams’s home, accusing him of dealing marijuana -- he wasn’t, but as a cancer patient, he was legally allowed to cultivate his own. Police took $11,000, his car, his shotgun, and other belongings and a year later he was still fighting to get them back.

4. Snatch And Grab From Poker Players:

Two poker players driving in Iowa had $100,000 taken (http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/us/asset-seizures/) [6] from them by Iowa police. The encounter with police led to one indictment for possessing drug paraphernalia. There was no hard and fast evidence that the money seized was at all related to any drug crime.

5. Decimating A Nail Salon Owner’s Life Savings:

Vu Do, a man who owns two nail salons in New York City, had $44,000, his life savings, taken from him (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150620/20213931403/nail-salon-owner-sues-return-life-savings-seized-dea-agents-airport.shtml) [7] by the Drug Enforcement Agency while he was at JFK Airport. He had planned to take the money to California to help his family. He didn’t receive even a citation before having his money taken from him, which makes the government’s case that he may have been drug dealing all the more bizarre.
Abuses have become common enough to where two states have banned (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/14/3646619/new-law-bans-civil-forfeiture-in-nm/) [8] civil asset forfeiture altogether while the federal government has started to limit its own use of the procedure.

http://www.alternet.org/print/cops-seize-college-kids-savings-no-reason-5-outrageous-cases-asset-forfeiture

boutons_deux

07-07-2015, 03:41 AM

Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State

Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary and the police, can be adjusted, modernized or professionalized to make possible a post-racial America. We discuss issues of race while ignoring the economic, bureaucratic and political systems of exploitation—all of it legal and built into the ruling apparatus—that are the true engines of racism and white supremacy. No discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class. And until that discussion takes place, despite all the proposed reforms to the criminal justice system, the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity.

Our capitalist system callously discards surplus labor, especially poor people of color, employing lethal force and the largest prison system in the world to keep them under control. This is by design. And until this predatory system of capitalism is destroyed, the poor, especially people of color, will continue to be gunned down by police in the streets, as they have for decades, and disproportionately locked in prison cages.

“The strength of ‘The New Jim Crow’ by Michelle Alexander is that, by equating mass incarceration with Jim Crow, it makes it rhetorically impossible to defend it,” said Naomi Murakawa (http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/people/faculty/naomi-murakawa/), author of “The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America,” when we met recently in Princeton, N.J. “But, on the other hand, there is no ‘new’ Jim Crow, there is just capitalist white supremacy in a state of constant self-preservation.”

“We should talk about what we are empowering police to do, not how they are doing it, not whether they are being nice when they carry out arrests,” she said. “Reforms are oriented to making violence appear respectable and courteous. But being arrested once can devastate someone’s life. This is the violence we are not talking about. It does not matter if you are arrested politely. Combating racism is not about combating bad ideas in the head or hateful feelings. This idea is the perfect formula to preserve material distributions in their exact configuration.”

“Truman’s version of the civil rights agenda came through lynching,” Murakawa said. “It illuminates how the rule of law and white supremacy operate hand in hand. Lynching hurt U.S. credibility. It hurt its force projection abroad. The concern over lynching was not a concern for black lives. It was a concern that mob and state violence were too easily conflated. The objective became to make a sharp difference between white supremacist mob violence and white supremacist state violence. The difference is not that one is white supremacist and one is not. The difference is one [is] proceduralized, one is rights based, one is orderly, bound by rule of law with ever more elaborate procedures. That is the only thing that makes it different from the lynch mob.”

http://www.alternet.org/economy/corporate-capitalism-foundation-police-brutality-and-prison-state

Slutter McGee

07-07-2015, 04:18 AM

boutons_deux

07-07-2015, 04:22 AM

So are you going to support Rand Paul's bill to reform civil forfeiture, or are you gonna fuck over those people because you hate evil Repugs?

Slutter McGee

I don't support the racist, neoConfederate, AynRand-fantasists Pauls and their bullshit positions. If ever elected (won't happen), Randian Paul wouldn't touch civil forfeiture, just like he has done in KY.

RPs fraudulent libertarian bullshit is nothing but suckering you rightwingnuts into thinking he'd be different in office.

Slutter McGee

07-07-2015, 04:44 AM

I don't support the racist, neoConfederate, AynRand-fantasists Pauls and their bullshit positions. If ever elected (won't happen), Randian Paul wouldn't touch civil forfeiture, just like he has done in KY.

RPs fraudulent libertarian bullshit is nothing but suckering you rightwingnuts into thinking he'd be different in office.

So you refuse to support a bill for a cause you believe in because you don't like the sponsor. Sounds pretty similar to your desire to not help the poor because you don't like the rich. Typical Liberal.

Slutter McGee

boutons_deux

07-07-2015, 04:49 AM

So you refuse to support a bill for a cause you believe in because you don't like the sponsor. Sounds pretty similar to your desire to not help the poor because you don't like the rich. Typical Liberal.

Slutter McGee

straw man: "refuse to support a bill for a cause you believe in"

Slutter McGee

07-07-2015, 04:50 AM

straw man: "refuse to support a bill for a cause you believe in"

So you don't support civil forfeiture reform? My bad, the police should be allowed to keep fucking people over because a Republican agrees with you.

Slutter McGee

boutons_deux

07-07-2015, 05:06 AM

straw man: "So you don't support civil forfeiture reform"

boutons_deux

07-07-2015, 02:46 PM

NJ cop suspended with pay for 8 years over sex assault charge — and now he wants unused vacation pay

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/nj-cop-suspended-with-pay-for-8-years-over-sex-assault-charge-and-now-he-wants-unused-vacation-pay/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

07-08-2015, 01:44 PM

Stop the unnecessary killing of the mentally ill: A quarter of those killed by police this year were in a mental health crisis

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/stop_the_unnecessary_killing_of_the_mentally_ill_a _quarter_of_those_killed_by_police_this_year_were_ in_a_mental_health_crisis/

m>s

07-08-2015, 03:06 PM

Hey Boutox I have a question for you here

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250415&p=8101811#post8101811

boutons_deux

07-08-2015, 04:32 PM

cantthinkofanything

07-08-2015, 04:40 PM

TheSanityAnnex

07-08-2015, 05:53 PM

WATCH: 26 cops kick, beat and Tase subdued, unarmed black man

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/watch-26-cops-kick-beat-and-tase-subdued-unarmed-black-man/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

What a disappointment. I clicked the link expecting a massive 26 cop beat down and only got see 4 cops wrestling a guy on the ground who was resisting arrest. Fuck yo couch boutons.

boutons_deux

07-10-2015, 11:45 AM

Police Officers Shot and Killed More People So Far in July Than During Any Other Week This Year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/08/police-officers-shot-and-killed-more-people-so-far-in-july-than-during-any-other-week-this-year/

boutons_deux

07-10-2015, 12:21 PM

80 percent of girls in juvenile detention have been sexually or physically abused

Roughly 80 percent of girls in juvenile detention centers have been sexually or physically abused according to a study (http://rights4girls.org/wp-content/uploads/r4g/2015/02/2015_COP_sexual-abuse_layout_web-1.pdf) released on Thursday by the Human Rights Project for Girls, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Ms. Foundation for Women.

Because many of the girls have been incarcerated for issues related to their trauma or abuse, according to the report, its authors recommend screening children for sex trafficking, trauma and abuse, as well as no longer arresting girls for prostitution and low-level crime.

The report, titled "The Sexual Abuse To Prison Pipeline," says that detention centers often increase trauma for girls who have previously been abused, with 88 percent of youth in the juvenile justice system residing in facilities without licensed professionals as mental health counselors. The report proposes reforming mental health care inside juvenile facilities in order to deal with the complex trauma of many of the girls and decrease recidivism rates.

Women are overwhelmingly incarcerated for nonviolent offenses, according to the report, and the majority disproportionately are women of color coming from low-income backgrounds. The report suggests the leading causes of arrests for girls--truancy, substance abuse and running away--are also all common symptoms of abuse.

"It's victim-blaming of the worst kind," said Lindsey Rosenthaal, one of the authors of the study in a conference call with reporters, according to Al-Jazeera (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/9/girls-caught-in-abuse-to-prison-pipeline.html).

The report says that sexual abuse is one of the primary predictors of girls' entry into the juvenile justice system, and while levels of abuse varied by state. Some states, such as Oregon had rates as a high as 93 percent of girls experiencing sexual or physical abuse.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/80-percent-of-girls-in-juvenile-detention-have-been-sexually-or-physically-abused-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

07-10-2015, 12:22 PM

former baltimore police, michael wood jr, opens up about police brutality, mass incarceration, school to prison pipeline and many more slimy shit cops do to blacks in baltimore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndg-JGmYryA

boutons_deux

07-10-2015, 04:06 PM

NYPD cop suspended for throwing semen on female co-worker he had a crush on

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/disgusted-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/nypd-cop-suspended-for-throwing-semen-on-female-co-worker-he-had-a-crush-on/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

07-10-2015, 04:10 PM

‘It’s my property right now’: Video shows Texas cop shove homeowner who questioned traffic stop in his yard

Ronald Warnell spotted two Orange officers on his property after they stopped a bicyclist for a reflector violation :lol :lol :lol Feb. 2, reported KMBT-TV (http://www.12newsnow.com/story/29507054/man-sues-city-of-orange-claiming-police-officer-assaulted-him).

The homeowner, a black man in his 60s, asked officers why they were on his property, and he said Officer Dylan Mulhollan grew agitated right away.

“I don’t know what was his problem, he definitely was irate, having a bad day or something,” said Warnell.

Video from Mulhollan’s body camera shows the officer order Warnell to back up, and the homeowner reminds him that police were on his property.

“No, no — it’s my property right now,” Mulhollan says.

Warnell objects, telling the officer it was not his property.

“You need to get your laws straight, brother,” Warnell says.

The officer eventually explains that the bicyclist rode onto Warnell’s property during the traffic stop and then ordered the homeowner to back up.

“Make me,” Warnell says, and he and the officer continue arguing.

Mulhollan orders the homeowner to place his hands behind his back, but he refuses – and then the officer shoves him, knocking the older man to the ground.

Warnell suffered a minor injuries to his lip and knee, and his blood pressure shot up during the confrontation.

Internal investigators agreed that Warnell never acted in an abusive or threatening manner toward the officers, and they said Mulhollan’s actions raise doubts about his ability to control his aggression when his authority is questioned.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/its-my-property-right-now-video-shows-texas-cop-shove-homeowner-who-questioned-traffic-stop-in-his-yard/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Orange? Fucking (South) East TX! :lol

boutons_deux

07-13-2015, 08:55 AM

How the NYPD Uses Facebook to Surveil, Entrap and Arrest Teenagers

In October 2012, then-New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced a new initiative, called “Operation Crew Cut,” which would target gang activity by focusing on so-called street crews. Kelly doubled the size of the anti-gang unit to 300 police officers, assigned to the task of surveilling teenagers on Facebook. Many of these kids are under 18, some as young as 12, and just about all of them are black and brown, from low-income neighborhoods.

The officers involved are encouraged to make fake Facebook profiles in order to spy on individuals’ Facebook statuses. The operation often entails reading private Facebook messages between friends and is sometimes coupled with phone and video surveillance. Soon press releases were coming out of the NYPD offices announcing dozens of alleged gang members had been arrested due to the Crew Cut initiative.

The operation began to draw criticism, however, as people questioned why teenagers were being arrested on obscure conspiracy charges that were meant to take down serious organized crime (http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141006/west-harlem/vance-cast-too-wide-net-harlem-gang-crackdown-families-say). One teenager, Jelani Henry (http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/10/7341077/nypd-harlem-crews-social-media-rikers-prison), said he was held in Rikers for nearly three years simply because of his associations on Facebook and his likes and comments on various Facebook posts.

"The mix of social media and conspiracy statutes creates a dragnet that can bring almost anybody in," attorney Andrew Laufer told The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/10/7341077/nypd-harlem-crews-social-media-rikers-prison). "[I]t’s a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment and the worst kind of big brother law enforcement.”

On June 4, 2014, the largest NYPD raid in history occurred as a result of Operation Crew Cut. Some of the kids arrested had been surveilled as young as age 12 and four years later were (now, at age 16) charged as adults, and faced dozens of years in prison for allegedly conspiring to commit crimes on Facebook.

But it was in the aftermath of the murders of Officer Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos last December that the NYPD found a new purpose for Operation Crew Cut: arresting teenagers, most of them black and Latino, who wrote, shared or liked anti-cop Facebook statuses. The pretext was that the alleged killer of the officers, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who then committed suicide, had posted his desire to "put wings on pigs" on Instagram before setting out to kill cops.

Following the murders, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton promised to take social media threats against the police more seriously. New York wasn’t alone; overzealous arrests based on anti-cop social media posts were occurring across the country.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-nypd-uses-facebook-surveil-entrap-and-arrest-teenagers?akid=13296.187590.7tl-Ls&rd=1&src=newsletter1039235&t=1

Trill Clinton

07-13-2015, 09:13 AM

i went to school with her:depressed

620580645803307008

boutons_deux

07-13-2015, 02:20 PM

Why the FBI Wants "Special Access" to Your Smartphone

What is FBI director Comey asking for?

Comey called for a “front-door” approach to customer data access in an October 2014 speech (https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/going-dark-are-technology-privacy-and-public-safety-on-a-collision-course) but he was unclear about how this might work outside of a nebulous call for tech companies to build “intercept solutions” into their products. National Security Agency (NSA) Director Michael Rogers proposed something a bit more concrete in April (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-encryption-spreads-us-worries-about-access-to-data-for-investigations/2015/04/10/7c1c7518-d401-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html) when he suggested that technology companies be required to create a digital key that could open any smartphone or other locked device, but dividing that key into pieces so it could not be used unilaterally. The Center for Democracy & Technologyquickly shot down (https://cdt.org/blog/the-nsas-split-key-encryption-proposal-is-not-serious/) the split-key proposal as impractical.

In his written statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey was careful to avoid asking companies to allow surreptitious “backdoor” access to customer data and communications. Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 indicated that his former agency had done this, for example, by deliberatelyweakening encryption standards (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nsa-nist-encryption-scandal/) issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The backlash against the government’s alleged tampering with encryption standards and government demands for customer data has created a growing rift between Silicon Valley companies and Washington, D.C.

Why does the government say it should have this capability?

Federal law enforcement officials are concerned that criminals and terrorists will go “dark” by hiding their communications in encrypted e-mails and smartphones. Newer versions of the Apple iOS and Google Android mobile operating systems have emphasized encryption, to the point where company executives have said they would be unable to unlock customer data for law enforcement even if ordered to do so (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/feds-want-apples-help-to-defeat-encrypted-phones-new-legal-case-shows/). “With sophisticated encryption, there might be no solution [for law enforcement], leaving the government at a dead end—all in the name of privacy and network security,” Comey said in October. Others in law enforcement have taken even more extreme positions. “Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile,” John Escalante, chief of detectives for the Chicago Police Department, told The Washington Post in September.

New York City District Attorney (NYCDA) Cyrus Vance, who likewise testified before the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday (http://manhattanda.org/da-vance-testimony-encryption-technology-and-public-safety-united-states-senate-committee-judiciary), was more specific in his objection to device encryption. In his written testimony, he stated that asking his office to investigate the more than 100,000 criminal cases they handle each year without smartphone data is to “fight crime with one hand tied behind our backs.” Following the hearing, Wired (http://www.wired.com/2015/07/manhattan-da-iphone-crypto-foiled-cops-74-times/)reported that the NYCDA’s office has since September encountered 74 iPhones whose full-disk encryption locked out a law enforcement investigation. Vance later singled out Apple during his testimony for having a double standard with regard to its encryption policy. The company allows its customers to have sole possession of the decryption key for gadgets running iOS 8. Meanwhile, Apple does have the ability to decrypt customer data stored in the company’s iCloud storage service if ordered to do so.

The FBI does need to intercept communications from time to time. Doesn’t Comey have a point?

Security experts have criticized law enforcement officials for overstating the need for access. “It's all bluster,” security expert Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2014/10/stop_the_hysteria_ov.html) wrote on his blog in October. Schneier, one of 15 co-authors of the new report by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), added, “Of the 3,576 major offenses for which warrants were granted (http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/Statistics/WiretapReports/2013/Table3.pdf) for communications interception in 2013, exactly one involved kidnapping. And, more importantly, there's no evidence that encryption hampers criminal investigations in any serious way. In 2013 encryption foiled the police (http://www.wired.com/2014/07/rising-use-of-encryption-foiled-the-cops-a-record-9-times-in-2013/) nine times, up from four in 2012—and the investigations proceeded in some other way.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-fbi-wants-special-access-to-your-smartphone/?WT.mc_id=SA_SP_20150713

boutons_deux

07-13-2015, 09:43 PM

ANOTHER “TERROR” ARREST; ANOTHER MENTALLY ILL MAN, ARMED BY THE FBI

U.S. law enforcement officials announced another terror arrest on Monday, after arming a mentally ill man and then charging him with having guns.

ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/US/officials-son-boston-police-captain-arrested-terrorist/story?id=32414150) quoted a “senior federal official briefed on the arrest” as saying: “This is a very bad person arrested before he could do very bad things.”

But in a sting reminiscent of so many others conducted by the FBI since 9/11, Alexander Ciccolo, 23, “aka Ali Al Amriki,” was apparently a mentally ill man who was doing nothing more than ranting about violent jihad and talking (admittedly in frightening ways) about launching attacks—until he met an FBI informant. At that point, he started making shopping lists for weapons.

The big twist in this story: Local media (http://www.iberkshires.com/story/49632/Local-Reaction-to-Adams-Terror-Arrest-Fear-Disbelief-Gratitude.html) in Massachusetts are saying Ciccolo was turned in by his father, a Boston Police captain.

The FBI affidavit (http://www.justice.gov/opa/file/629351/download) says the investigation was launched after a “close acquaintance … stated that Ciccolo had a long history of mental illness and in the last 18 months had become obsessed with Islam.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/13/another-terror-arrest-another-mentally-ill-man-armed-fbi/

Way to go, dudes, keeping America safe!

TheSanityAnnex

07-13-2015, 10:24 PM

boutons_deux

07-13-2015, 10:26 PM

You are such a fucking moron.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/file/629351/download

You believe the FBI would tell the truth about entrapping a mentally ill "terrorist"? You are such a fucking moron.

TheSanityAnnex

07-13-2015, 11:09 PM

You believe the FBI would tell the truth about entrapping a mentally ill "terrorist"? You are such a fucking moron.
It amazes me the lengths you'll go to to defend Muslim terrorists. Had this kid been a white redneck spewing hate and plans to kill on the Internet and the FBI made contact you'd be singing a different tune.

LnGrrrR

07-14-2015, 12:23 AM

Yeah, I'm sorry, but if a dude is mentally ill, violently ranting on the internet, takes up a Muslim name, and gets turned in by his Dad, who HAPPENS to be a Boston Police Chief, where some people just HAPPENED to cause a terrorist attack a few years ago... yeah I'm ok with that. More than ok.

TheSanityAnnex

07-14-2015, 08:39 PM

Bump for another boutons disappearance. Awaiting the non-answer and next thinkprogress article

boutons_deux

07-14-2015, 09:23 PM

It amazes me the lengths you'll go to to defend Muslim terrorists. Had this kid been a white redneck spewing hate and plans to kill on the Internet and the FBI made contact you'd be singing a different tune.

"you'll go to to defend Muslim terrorists."

straw bitch

TheSanityAnnex

07-14-2015, 09:52 PM

"you'll go to to defend Muslim terrorists."

straw bitch
:lol agreeing with the second part

cd021

07-15-2015, 04:38 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/14/kevin-herrington-mississippi-cop_n_7796614.html

Cop allegedly called black man the "N Word" before choking him to death.

boutons_deux

07-15-2015, 04:43 AM

This is the video Gardena police didn't want you to see

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-federal-judge-orders-release-of-videos-20150714-story.html#page=1

boutons_deux

07-15-2015, 09:05 AM

Man Left Paralyzed After Police Filled Him with Bullet Holes for 8 Ounces of Weed

On April 16, as Betton played his XBOX, multiple armed men, dressed in militarized gear, busted down his door and swarmed his apartment. Upon seeing Betton, they began firing — and firing.

Bretton was hit at least 9 times by bullets, bought and paid for with tax dollars and used to enforce America’s immoral and deadly War on Drugs.

The agents found $970 in Betton’s pants. From his apartment, they seized 222 grams of pot, which is about 8 ounces.

Betton said doctors found at least nine gunshot wounds, including ones to his stomach, legs, and arms. He suffered organ damage and spent weeks in a coma. He was hospitalized for months and is now unable to move his legs — for what?

Originally the members of the 15th Circuit Drug Enforcement Unit said Bretton fired on them so they were forced to shoot back at him. However, on Friday the (SLED) State Law Enforcement Division’s investigation revealed (http://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=crim_just_pub)that there was no evidence to support that Bretton ever fired a weapon.

Two weapons were found inside the home, but police agree that they were not fired. But this information is not stopping the prosecutor from justifying the multiple shots fired into Bretton.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/man-left-paralyzed-after-police-filled-him-bullet-holes-8-ounces-weed?akid=13299.187590.d01WA_&rd=1&src=newsletter1039283&t=13

Trill Clinton

07-15-2015, 11:26 PM

cops enter a woman's home and arrest her while she is ass nakedhttp://i60.tinypic.com/zvy1p2.jpg

A woman handcuffed naked by a Chandler police officer who entered her home illegally is planning to file a lawsuit against the city.

“I felt helpless. I felt violated. And honestly, I felt molested,” said Esmeralda Rossi.

Chandler Police launched an internal investigation after the incident. One of the officers involved retired in the middle of that investigation.

Police arrived at Rossi’s home after receiving a call about an argument between her and her estranged husband.

“I was in the shower,” Rossi said. “My daughter came to the shower and said there are two officers at the door. So I just grabbed a towel.”

When she answered the door, there were two Chandler Police officers. One of those officers was Doug Rose.

Rossi said Rose became very aggressive and she told him to wait at the door so she could go get a cell phone.

“It made me very uncomfortable,” Rossi said. “So I closed the door. I turn to go into my living room, and I probably get about five steps in; and all of a sudden, I just hear boots running in after me, telling me stop or I’ll arrest you.”

At that point, both Rossi and her daughter begin recording. That’s when things turned south.

“This was not the proper treatment of a citizen,” said Marc Victor, Rossi’s attorney. “This was disgusting. This was barbaric.”

Police records show that investigators believed Rossi was trying to agitate Rose.

Rossi also admits she took an attitude with the officer after he illegally entered her home.

“Any one of us would be upset if a police officer barged into our homes without permission,” Victor said. “She had a right to be upset.”

The cell phone video was influential evidence in the internal investigation. Unedited copies were provided to ABC15 by Rossi and her attorney.

Rossi was never charged with a crime, records show.

After reviewing the incident, Chandler Police internal investigators determined Rose entered the home illegally and without probable cause. The investigation also determined that Rose didn’t document arresting or un-arresting the woman or the fact that she was naked.

There was also no video from his body camera for the call, records show.

After the incident, the other officer involved immediately contacted his supervisor to raise questions about Rose’s actions. The second officer was cleared of wrongdoing.

Chandler Police declined to comment, citing the potential lawsuit. Rose also didn’t respond to requests for comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thONOhirI-g