The Warrior cops are out of control

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Unarmed Mississippi man died after 20-minute police chokehold,

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/15/jonathan-sanders-mississppi-chokehold

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


http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sandra2.jpg

pulled over on Friday for improperly signaling a lane change. :lol

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

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/16/3681278/sandra-bland-video/

aka, changing lanes while black

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

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New report highlights cases of police brutality inside middle and high schools (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402119/-New-report-highlights-cases-of-police-brutality-inside-middle-and-high-schools)

In a new report (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/police-school-resource-officers-k-12-misconduct-violence) written by Jaeah Lee of Mother Jones titled "Chokeholds, Brain Injuries, Beatings: When School Cops Go Bad," at least 28 cases of extreme police brutality in American middle and high schools are highlighted, including one death.With the United States now averaging four people killed by our police per day (http://killedbypolice.net/), more time and attention is being given to the cause of police brutality than ever before.


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

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

In Lee's report (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/police-school-resource-officers-k-12-misconduct-violence), she details incredibly disturbing cases of middle school students being choked unconscious by officers, students who were breaking up fights receiving traumatic brain injuries after being Tasered, and even a student being shot by an officer who claimed to fear for his life while pursuing a student who had been in a fight earlier that school day.

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

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402119/-New-report-highlights-cases-of-police-brutality-inside-middle-and-high-schools?detail=email

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Denver police caught telling key lies about their fatal shooting of Native American Paul Castaway (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/15/1402528/-Denver-Police-caught-telling-key-lies-about-their-fatal-shooting-of-Native-American-Paul-Castaway)

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

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

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

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/15/1402528/-Denver-Police-caught-telling-key-lies-about-their-fatal-shooting-of-Native-American-Paul-Castaway?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[Trill Clinton]

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


http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sandra2.jpg

pulled over on Friday for improperly signaling a lane change. :lol

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

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/16/3681278/sandra-bland-video/

aka, changing lanes while black

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





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

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speaking of CO

Colorado laws allow rogue officers to stay in law enforcement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28470805/colorado-laws-allow-rogue-officers-stay-law-enforcement

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

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

[Trill Clinton]

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[Trill Clinton]

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

http://i.imgur.com/IVdTMg1.jpg

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/dashcam-video-cops-kill-unarmed-mother-brag-about-marksmanship-afterwards?akid=13318.187590.mR-Jan&rd=1&src=newsletter1039669&t=19

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FEDS REGULARLY MONITORED BLACK LIVES MATTER SINCE FERGUSON

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

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

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

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

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

According to two August 11th, 2014 reports, a DHS FEMA “WatchOps officer” used information from Twitter and Vine to monitor (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2178935-2-2014-8-11-ferguson-from-social-media-twitter.html) the riots and reproduced (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2178936-3-2014-8-10-ferguson-map-from-social-media.html) a map, originally created (https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/2e196o/interactivelive_map_of_ferguson_protests/) by a Reddit user, of conflict zones.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/24/documents-show-department-homeland-security-monitoring-black-lives-matter-since-ferguson/


Posse comitatus? :lol

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

[Saved By Zero]

There are good cops out there doing the right thing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11763486/US-police-officer-buys-homeless-man-breakfast-and-sits-down-to-eat-with-him.html

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

[boutons_deux]

There are good cops out there doing the right thing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11763486/US-police-officer-buys-homeless-man-breakfast-and-sits-down-to-eat-with-him.html

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



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

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

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

[JoeChalupa]

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

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

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

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

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don't lump them all as bad

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

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

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


http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cleveland-pepper-spray-1024x699.jpg

A conference protesting police violence against African Americans ended in police violence against African Americans on Sunday, when at least one officer deployed pepper spray (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/protesters-rally-against-cleveland-police?utm_content=buffer579e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) against men and women protesting the arrest of a 14 year-old teenager.

The arrest occurred in Cleveland, across the street from Cleveland State University, which washosting a conference sponsored by The Movement for Black Lives (http://movementforblacklives.org/about/). Currently, there are conflicting reports regarding why the teenager was arrested. Cleveland’s ABC affiliate reports that the teen “was accused of having an open container at the bus stop (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/protesters-rally-against-cleveland-police?utm_content=buffer579e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) when he was approached by officers,” while numerous sources on Twitter claim that he was arrested because he did not have a bus ticket (http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/police-brutality-surroundsthe-m4bl-protest).

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

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

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/26/3684590/breaking-cop-caught-video-using-pepper-spray-attendees-blacklivesmatter-conference/

[TheSanityAnnex]

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


http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cleveland-pepper-spray-1024x699.jpg

A conference protesting police violence against African Americans ended in police violence against African Americans on Sunday, when at least one officer deployed pepper spray (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/protesters-rally-against-cleveland-police?utm_content=buffer579e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) against men and women protesting the arrest of a 14 year-old teenager.

The arrest occurred in Cleveland, across the street from Cleveland State University, which washosting a conference sponsored by The Movement for Black Lives (http://movementforblacklives.org/about/). Currently, there are conflicting reports regarding why the teenager was arrested. Cleveland’s ABC affiliate reports that the teen “was accused of having an open container at the bus stop (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/protesters-rally-against-cleveland-police?utm_content=buffer579e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) when he was approached by officers,” while numerous sources on Twitter claim that he was arrested because he did not have a bus ticket (http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/police-brutality-surroundsthe-m4bl-protest).

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

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

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/26/3684590/breaking-cop-caught-video-using-pepper-spray-attendees-blacklivesmatter-conference/



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The white cops PEPPERED SPRAYED a peaceful crowd of blacks.

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

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From Yesterday's NYT: Sandra Bland Prosecutor Inadvertenly Shows His Cards (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/24/1405282/-From-Yesterday-s-NYT-Sandra-Bland-Prosecutor-Inadvertenly-Shows-His-Cards)


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


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

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

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

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

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

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


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/24/1405282/-From-Yesterday-s-NYT-Sandra-Bland-Prosecutor-Inadvertenly-Shows-His-Cards?detail=email

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Fox News suggests Sandra Bland could've used her lit cigarette as a weapon against police (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/27/1406149/-Fox-News-suggests-Sandra-Bland-could-ve-used-her-lit-cigarette-as-a-weapon-against-police)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/27/1406149/-Fox-News-suggests-Sandra-Bland-could-ve-used-her-lit-cigarette-as-a-weapon-against-police?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

[Clipper Nation]

Fox News suggests Sandra Bland could've used her lit cigarette as a weapon against police (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/27/1406149/-Fox-News-suggests-Sandra-Bland-could-ve-used-her-lit-cigarette-as-a-weapon-against-police)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/27/1406149/-Fox-News-suggests-Sandra-Bland-could-ve-used-her-lit-cigarette-as-a-weapon-against-police?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#
It's happened before:

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

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

:cry "Warrior cops are out of control" :cry

:lol FailyKos

[boutons_deux]

It's happened before:

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

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

:cry "Warrior cops are out of control" :cry

:lol FailyKos

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

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

[spurraider21]

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

you fuckers and Fox ALWAYS blame the (black) victim. The police are always right
i dont know about them. i think in many of the situations, both parties are at fault. i also agree that officers should be held to a higher standard due to their position of power

[Clipper Nation]

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

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

[Clipper Nation]

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

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

[Clipper Nation]

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

you fuckers and Fox ALWAYS blame the (black) victim. The police are always right
The cop had every right to ask her to put out the cigarette. Should cops just stand there and allow themselves to be burnt?

[boutons_deux]

The cop had every right to ask her to put out the cigarette.

He had no right. No law was being broken, and sitting in her car, she and her DANGEROUS cigarette :lol were no threat to the officer.

The citation was written and handed to Bland, end of stop, even SCOTUS said so this year.

Your ideological, poilitical stupidity continues without relief.

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Sandra Bland Was Murdered

Suicide or not, police are responsible for Sandra Bland's death

the Texas Department of Safety ruled that Brian Encina, the officer who arrested Bland, pulled her from her car, and threatened her with a Taser, had merely violated the state's "courtesy policy (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sandra-bland-death-ruled-suicide-hanging-texas-prosecutor-says-n397351)." The state said there was "no evidence" yet of criminal behavior on Encina's part.

So barring something unexpected, we know now how this is going to play out in the media.

Many news outlets are going to engage in an indirect version of the usual blame-the-victim game by emphasizing the autopsy finding of suicide, questioning Bland's mental health history (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/us/sandra-blands-family-says-video-sheds-no-light-on-reason-for-her-arrest.html?_r=0), and by highlighting the reports of marijuana found in her system (http://www.fox10tv.com/story/29613368/authorities-marijuana-found-in-sandra-blands-blood-suicide-cause-of-death).

Beyond that, we can expect a slew of chin-scratching "legal analyses (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/20/us/sandra-bland-arrest-death-videos-maps.html)" concluding that while there may have been some minor impropriety on officer Encina's part, the law governing police-motorist encounters is too "complicated (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/07/23/the-law-of-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop/)" to make this anything more than a tragic accident.

Media scandals are like criminal trials. They're about assigning blame. Because Bland may have technically taken her own life, the blame is now mostly going to fall on a woman with a history of depression and drugs, instead of on a criminal justice system that morally, if not legally, surely murdered Sandra Bland.

Backing up: It's been interesting following conservative news outlets after the Bland case. They've been conspicuously quiet this week, holstering the usual gloating backlash of the "He'd be alive today, if he'd just obeyed the law" variety.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/sandra-bland-was-murdered-20150724?page=2

#InTexasBlackLivesDontMatter

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The Video of Police Killing of Sam Dubose Is Apparently so Bad Cincinnati Is Preparing for Riots

Even the police chief admits what the video shows is "not good."

After a routine traffic stop by a University of Cincinnati Police Officer, Sam Dubose ended up dead with his face blown off. The officer was wearing a body camera, but the city refuses to release in the video. In the meantime, everybody who sees it is deeply disturbed (http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/city-university-of-cincinnati-official-meet-with-faith-leaders-to-discuss-deadly-police-shooting), including the citywide police chief.

Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said he's seen the unreleased footage from a University of Cincinnati officer's body camera during last week's fatal shooting and "it's not good."



"The video is not good," Blackwell said. "I think the city manager has said that also publicly. I'll leave it there."


Here's the City Manager...


City Manager Harry Black also spoke about the unreleased body camera video of the shooting."It's not a good situation," Black said. "It's a tragic situation, someone has died that did not necessarily need to die."



All studies indicate (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/thousands-dead-few-prosecuted/) that in nearly 99% of instances of police killing someone, even in the most egregious circumstances, "something appropriate" doesn't actually happen and officers are let off.

http://www.alternet.org/video-police-killing-sam-dubose-apparently-so-bad-cincinnati-preparing-riots?akid=13337.187590.PfTPYL&rd=1&src=newsletter1040041&t=3

[boutons_deux]

Kansas City hotel manager hangs black doll from doorway in office to mock Sandra Bland (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/28/1406527/-Kansas-City-hotel-manager-hangs-black-doll-from-doorway-in-office-to-mock-Sandra-Bland)


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This, ladies and gentlemen, is your America.A white hotel manager of the Adams Mark Hotel in Kansas City, hung a black slave doll from the doorway of the office with a garbage bag in an apparent mocking of the death of Sandra Bland.

In searching for eloquent words to explain this bullshit, I have few.

American racism is deep, sick, and flagrant.

In your mind, I dare you to rewind to the moment in which this asshole, a white supervisor with black employees no less, conceived the idea, gathered the materials, and proceeded to act on his instinct to do such a thing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/28/1406527/-Kansas-City-hotel-manager-hangs-black-doll-from-doorway-in-office-to-mock-Sandra-Bland

[boutons_deux]

Native American Activist Arrested for Traffic Fine, Dies in Jail 1 Day After Sandra Bland

On July 9th, Rexdale W. Henry, 53, was arrested for failure to pay a traffic fine. Five days later, on July 14, Henry would be found dead in a Neshoba County, Mississippi jail cell.

Henry’s death was swept under the rug, with local media releasing only a three-sentence blurb (http://www.wtok.com/home/headlines/Jail-Death-Under-Investigation-315121281.html), stating that the autopsy is being performed, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death.

According to the report, police last saw Henry alive at 9:30 am and just 30 minutes later he would be found dead in his cell. No cause of death has been released, and no other details surrounding his death have been given to the public.

The lack of coverage of Henry’s death is indicative of the epidemic of police killings of Native Americans. It is a lesser known truth that Native Americans are killed by cops at a rate higher than any other ethnic group.

Accordingto the data, (http://www.cjcj.org/news/8113) Native Americans make up less than 1 percent of the population, but they account for 2 percent of the deaths that occur at the hands of police.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/native-american-activist-arrested-traffic-fine-dies-jail-1-day-after-sandra-bland?akid=13338.187590.IokAOe&rd=1&src=newsletter1040052&t=21

[boutons_deux]

Woman Calls Police to Report Assault, Cop Shows Up, Holds Her for 7 Hours as He Demands Sex Acts


http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/woman-calls-police-report-assault-cop-shows-holds-her-7-hours-he-demands-sex-acts

[boutons_deux]

VIDEO: Crowd Becomes Angry as They Watch Swarms of Cops Jump on One Man in a Target Store

“witnessed several police officers repeatedly jumping with their knees on the victim’s head while he was already being held by a team of additional officers.”

The video then shows half a dozen officers putting their weight on the man as they held him face down on the floor. One officer could be seen repeatedly putting his knee on the man’s head and pressing it against the floor while at least two others were striking the man with their fists. The man was unarmed according to witnesses, and at no point does the video show the man trying to strike or fight the officers.

a number of onlookers were particularly vocal in their objections to the behavior of the police. Some moved in just close enough that most of the sixteen or so officers on the scene quickly shifted their focus to trying to keep the crowd back. The police very clearly appeared nervous and concerned about being surrounded and outnumbered by an angry (but non-violent) crowd.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/video-crowd-becomes-angry-they-watch-swarms-cops-jump-one-man-target-store

[boutons_deux]

University of Cincinnati police officer faces murder charge in traffic-stop shooting

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-university-of-cincinnati-shooting-20150729-story.html

[Trill Clinton]

University of Cincinnati police officer faces murder charge in traffic-stop shooting

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-university-of-cincinnati-shooting-20150729-story.html



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walter scott all over again

[Trill Clinton]

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my boy, shaun going INhttp://i61.tinypic.com/25zlawo.png

[FuzzyLumpkins]

That Cleveland fucker lied about it got caught on tape anyway. He's going to burn. Good riddance.

[Trill Clinton]

the family has hired mark o'mara as their attorney

[Trill Clinton]

his mother is on tv reciting bible scriptures smh. black christians are too forgiving and too passive. white devils who claim to be christians don't care about the bible lady.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

his mother is on tv reciting bible scriptures smh. black christians are too forgiving and too passive. white devils who claim to be christians don't care about the bible lady.

Now youre just being stupid.

[Trill Clinton]

Now youre just being stupid.

i'm fed up and angry fam. i'm tired of black victims praying for and asking forgivenes of these devils

[FuzzyLumpkins]

i'm fed up and angry fam. i'm tired of black victims praying for and asking forgivenes of these devils

labeling them white devils when LEOBOR and its bullshit transcend race makes you appear the racist.

[spurraider21]

labeling them white devils when LEOBOR and its bullshit transcend race makes you appear the racist.
catch on slower?

[Trill Clinton]

labeling them white devils when LEOBOR and its bullshit transcend race makes you appear the racist.

white people who constantly support cops killing unarmed blacks while claiming to be christians are devils, in my opinion. if that makes me appear to be a racist, i'm fine with that.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

white people who constantly support cops killing unarmed blacks while claiming to be christians are devils, in my opinion. if that makes me appear to be a racist, i'm fine with that.

as opposed to the black people who support it? again, this is stupid.

[TheSanityAnnex]

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my boy, shaun going INhttp://i61.tinypic.com/25zlawo.png
You realize your boy Shaun King has been exposed as a liar multiple times starting since high school?

[boutons_deux]

American Indian mother of two dies in police custody after her repeated pleas for help ignored (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/29/1406774/-Native-American-mother-of-infants-dies-in-police-custody-after-her-repeated-pleas-for-help-ignored)

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The ugly American secret has been exposed. All across the country, women and men are dying in police custody and have been by the thousands every year.Four days before Sandra Bland was arrested in Waller County, Texas, a 24-year-old American Indian woman of the Lakota tribe, Sarah Lee Circle Bear of Clairmont, South Dakota, was arrested on a simple bond violation (http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/28/manning-sarah-lee-circle-bear-died-while-police-custody-family-seeks-justice-161204).


Witnesses stated that before being transferred to a holding cell, Circle Bear pleaded to jailers that she was in excruciating pain. Jail staff responded by dismissing her cries for help, telling her to “knock it off,” and “quit faking.” Inmates cried out for the jail staff to help Circle Bear, to which they eventually responded by picking her up off of the floor, dragging her out of the cell, and transferring her to a holding cell. Circle Bear was later found unresponsive in the holding cell.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/29/1406774/-Native-American-mother-of-infants-dies-in-police-custody-after-her-repeated-pleas-for-help-ignored?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[TheSanityAnnex]

American Indian mother of two dies in police custody after her repeated pleas for help ignored (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/29/1406774/-Native-American-mother-of-infants-dies-in-police-custody-after-her-repeated-pleas-for-help-ignored)

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The ugly American secret has been exposed. All across the country, women and men are dying in police custody and have been by the thousands every year.Four days before Sandra Bland was arrested in Waller County, Texas, a 24-year-old American Indian woman of the Lakota tribe, Sarah Lee Circle Bear of Clairmont, South Dakota, was arrested on a simple bond violation (http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/28/manning-sarah-lee-circle-bear-died-while-police-custody-family-seeks-justice-161204).


Witnesses stated that before being transferred to a holding cell, Circle Bear pleaded to jailers that she was in excruciating pain. Jail staff responded by dismissing her cries for help, telling her to “knock it off,” and “quit faking.” Inmates cried out for the jail staff to help Circle Bear, to which they eventually responded by picking her up off of the floor, dragging her out of the cell, and transferring her to a holding cell. Circle Bear was later found unresponsive in the holding cell.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/29/1406774/-Native-American-mother-of-infants-dies-in-police-custody-after-her-repeated-pleas-for-help-ignored?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29



Why does it leave out what she died from?

[Trill Clinton]

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[Clipper Nation]

Sandra Bland Was Murdered

Suicide or not, police are responsible for Sandra Bland's death

the Texas Department of Safety ruled that Brian Encina, the officer who arrested Bland, pulled her from her car, and threatened her with a Taser, had merely violated the state's "courtesy policy (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sandra-bland-death-ruled-suicide-hanging-texas-prosecutor-says-n397351)." The state said there was "no evidence" yet of criminal behavior on Encina's part.

So barring something unexpected, we know now how this is going to play out in the media.

Many news outlets are going to engage in an indirect version of the usual blame-the-victim game by emphasizing the autopsy finding of suicide, questioning Bland's mental health history (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/us/sandra-blands-family-says-video-sheds-no-light-on-reason-for-her-arrest.html?_r=0), and by highlighting the reports of marijuana found in her system (http://www.fox10tv.com/story/29613368/authorities-marijuana-found-in-sandra-blands-blood-suicide-cause-of-death).

Beyond that, we can expect a slew of chin-scratching "legal analyses (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/20/us/sandra-bland-arrest-death-videos-maps.html)" concluding that while there may have been some minor impropriety on officer Encina's part, the law governing police-motorist encounters is too "complicated (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/07/23/the-law-of-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop/)" to make this anything more than a tragic accident.

Media scandals are like criminal trials. They're about assigning blame. Because Bland may have technically taken her own life, the blame is now mostly going to fall on a woman with a history of depression and drugs, instead of on a criminal justice system that morally, if not legally, surely murdered Sandra Bland.

Backing up: It's been interesting following conservative news outlets after the Bland case. They've been conspicuously quiet this week, holstering the usual gloating backlash of the "He'd be alive today, if he'd just obeyed the law" variety.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/sandra-bland-was-murdered-20150724?page=2

#InTexasBlackLivesDontMatter



Trolling Stone, the same failing liberal rag who's getting sued for running a false rape story and slandering an entire fraternity.

[boutons_deux]

Trolling Stone, the same failing liberal rag who's getting sued for running a false rape story and slandering an entire fraternity.

the Encina/Bland article is spot on, not trolling. The RS editor in charge of the bogus UVA story has lost his job this week.

[cd021]

Shocked Ohio hasn't had the turmoil that Baltimore or Fergusion has had.

Tamir Rice-Kid shot by police after playing with a pellet gun. Cops claimed they warned him four times to drop the weapon but footage shows that they shot him less than two seconds after exiting the car. City then blamed the death on the kid.

John Crawford-Unarmed man walking around Walmart on his cell phone with a toy gun (pointed to the ground). Plain clothes cop shot him without warning. Office faced no charges.

-Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams-Twelve cops shot at both of them (unarmed)137 times. Michael Brelo stood on the hood of the car and fired 15 times. They all got off without jail time because they feared for their safety.

At least the Cinncinatti cop got charged. I was begining to think Cops could legally murder unarmed blacks in that state 'just cause.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Why does it leave out what she died from?

[Clipper Nation]

the Encina/Bland article is spot on, not trolling. The RS editor in charge of the bogus UVA story has lost his job this week.
They stood by the fake story for months. It took getting dragged to court for that editor to lose their job. Trolling Stone has zero credibility at all.

[spurraider21]

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interesting role reversal... black cop assaulting a white man and having his cop buddies cover up for him

[boutons_deux]

Texas sheriff refuses to turn over jailhouse video after 32-year-old gay man dies of ‘natural causes’

The family of a 32-year-old gay man who died in a Texas jail want more answers as to why he was denied his medication that led to the seizures that killed him, reports KTRK (http://abc13.com/news/family-seeks-change-after-son-dies-in-galveston-county-jail/893987/).

With Texas lawmakers looking into jailhouse reform in the wake of the recent death of Sandra Bland in Houston, the parents of Jesse Jacobs have come forward to discuss their son’s death after he turned himself into a Galveston jail to serve a DUI sentence, only to die within a week.

The parents of Jacobs, who died in March, want an investigation into what happened in the jail, however the sheriff — on the advice of the Galveston County Attorney– is refusing to turn over video fearing a lawsuit.

Jacobs voluntarily entered jail to serve his 30 days, with the hope that he would only have to stay for 12 days with time off for good behavior.

However after being processed, jailhouse medical personnel denied him the prescribed Xanax he had been taking for ten years to treat a severe anxiety disorder.

A week after being denied the drug Jacobs began experiencing seizures, a known side-effect of Xanax withdrawal.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/texas-sheriff-refuses-to-turn-over-jailhouse-video-after-32-year-old-gay-man-dies-of-natural-causes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[InRareForm]

It's a cold world out there

[boutons_deux]

It's a cold world out there

It's Ayn Randian dog-eat-dog American civilization out there.

[Clipper Nation]

It's Ayn Randian dog-eat-dog American civilization out there.
If you actually think society is anything like Ayn Rand's writing right now, you're beyond help.

[Clipper Nation]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody: With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a single month than it has in 43 years.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/60352506f481415c8edf3fc35b6f8103/baltimore-killings-soar-level-unseen-43-years

:cry "Warrior cops are out of control!" :cry

[Wild Cobra]

Texas sheriff refuses to turn over jailhouse video after 32-year-old gay man dies of ‘natural causes’

The family of a 32-year-old gay man who died in a Texas jail want more answers as to why he was denied his medication that led to the seizures that killed him, reports KTRK (http://abc13.com/news/family-seeks-change-after-son-dies-in-galveston-county-jail/893987/).

With Texas lawmakers looking into jailhouse reform in the wake of the recent death of Sandra Bland in Houston, the parents of Jesse Jacobs have come forward to discuss their son’s death after he turned himself into a Galveston jail to serve a DUI sentence, only to die within a week.

The parents of Jacobs, who died in March, want an investigation into what happened in the jail, however the sheriff — on the advice of the Galveston County Attorney– is refusing to turn over video fearing a lawsuit.

Jacobs voluntarily entered jail to serve his 30 days, with the hope that he would only have to stay for 12 days with time off for good behavior.

However after being processed, jailhouse medical personnel denied him the prescribed Xanax he had been taking for ten years to treat a severe anxiety disorder.

A week after being denied the drug Jacobs began experiencing seizures, a known side-effect of Xanax withdrawal.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/texas-sheriff-refuses-to-turn-over-jailhouse-video-after-32-year-old-gay-man-dies-of-natural-causes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29




I didn't read the link, but if what Boutons posted is accurate, someone needs to be held accountable for homicide, manslaughter, or whatever.

[Wild Cobra]

If you actually think society is anything like Ayn Rand's writing right now, you're beyond help.

Are you finally realizing that about him?

[boutons_deux]

If you actually think society is anything like Ayn Rand's writing right now, you're beyond help.

it absolutely is, a dog-eat-dog society, the wealthy/BigCorp/1% absolutely screwing Americans and America.

[boutons_deux]

How 'Assembly-Line Justice' Victimizes Kids In St. Louis County

A DOJ report finds the harsh treatment of black children in Ferguson-area courts "cannot be explained by factors other than race."

Hundreds of children who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system in Missouri's St. Louis County have been subjected to a process that is "rife" with "obvious" conflicts of interest, where allegations against them are "simply assumed to be true," where constitutional rights are routinely denied, and where black kids are much more likely to receive harsh punishments, and even be locked up prior to their day in court, due to nothing more than the color of their skin.

In a 61-page report released publicly on Friday, federal authorities found that race "in and of itself" played a "significant" role in how children were treated in the county courts. Black youths were much less likely than whites to have their cases handled informally. Black children were 2.5 times more likely than whites to be detained before trial, regardless of their age or the severity of their alleged offense. Black adolescents were nearly three times as likely as whites to be placed in custody if they violated the conditions of the equivalent of parole. And black kids were 2.74 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to be placed in custody, "even after controlling for age, gender, risk factors, and the severity of the allegations involved."

The study found that those disparities were "evidence of racial bias," and that the "disparate impact on Black children cannot be explained by factors other than race." It found that purposeful, discriminatory intent was "at least a 'motivating factor' in the decision making" in the St. Louis County Family Court.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/st-louis-county-family-court_55ba3a40e4b095423d0dfcff

[pgardn]

When will theses Cops get a real job? It's all so easy...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/02/us/ap-us-officer-killed-memphis.html?_r=0

Traffic stop...

[Winehole23]

http://www.gq.com/story/lapd-killed-unarmed-homeless-man

[Winehole23]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/sc-cop-killed-teen-with-two-shots-to-the-back-during-weed-bust-and-didnt-even-report-it-attorney/

[boutons_deux]

When will theses Cops get a real job? It's all so easy...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/02/us/ap-us-officer-killed-memphis.html?_r=0

Traffic stop...

when will the police THUGS stop arresting, harassing, brutalizing murdering innocent, unarmed people?

[Clipper Nation]

When will theses Cops get a real job? It's all so easy...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/02/us/ap-us-officer-killed-memphis.html?_r=0

Traffic stop...
#CopLivesMatter

[Trill Clinton]

hands up don't shoot!!!!

blue lives matter!!!

[boutons_deux]

WATCH: Kansas cop goes off on f*ck-filled rant, threatens to arrest man for asking him a simple question

Williams, “So how come you didn’t detain her — just out of curiosity — since she did just admit that she had her TV that she stole from…” at which point Williams interrupted him.

“Why the f*ck am I talking to you?” Williams asked.

“Because I was just curious,” Jacobs replied.

“Okay. I don’t need anything from you. This is not my f*cking jurisdiction. You understand that?” Williams said.

“No, I don’t. I don’t have a clue. I don’t know what is going on,” Jacobs replied, and then the officer goes off, asking Jacobs for his ID and telling him to step down from the curb

“Say something else to me and we’ll see where this goes. Open your f*cking mouth, say something else,” Williams said. “This is not my — take your f*cking sunglasses off.

Hat off, give me your identification. What’s your f*cking name? You want to spend the night in the f*cking pokey because you can’t shut your f*cking mouth?”

After Jacobs answers “No,” Williams sent him on his way with a parting “Enjoy your f*cking walk.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/watch-kansas-cop-goes-off-on-fck-filled-rant-threatens-to-arrest-man-for-asking-him-a-simple-question/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Trill Clinton]

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#gtbw

[boutons_deux]

Probation May Sound Light, but Punishments Can Land Hard

She was stopped for speeding, failed a breathalyzer test, and was charged with drunken driving. She pleaded guilty in exchange for entering a probation program under which, provided she followed the rules, she would avoid a conviction.

But over the next 18 months, Mrs. Hall would find herself in trouble again and again, though she committed no new crimes. She spent countless hours attending court and lost thousands of dollars in fees, legal costs and wages, as well as two jobs. The judge handling her case imposed conditions far harsher than the norm, then repeatedly called Mrs. Hall into court for violations like failing to ask permission before moving to a different unit in her apartment complex.

Donyelle Hall’s Legal Tailspin

Her arrest for drunken driving sets off a cascade of troubles in and out of court.



Dec. 25, 2013 Arrested for drunken driving, a misdemeanor. Bond: $25,000.
March 6, 2014 Sentenced to probation with a chance to avoid a conviction. Costs: $385 a month.
April 1, 2014 License suspended, loses job.
Oct. 6, 2014 Called to court for seeking to change apartments without permission. After five hearings, violation dismissed.
March 12, 2015 Sent to jail for missing paperwork, can't afford $5,000 bail.
April 1, 2015 Jail fails to transport her to court, misses hearing that could have led to release.
April 14, 2015 Judge finds probation violation. Released with a conviction on her record.
June 6, 2015 License suspended for six months.



Yet as more states turn to probation and parole as a means of reducing incarceration, her story shows how even a supposedly light punishment like probation can severely disrupt a working-class life and weigh heavily on its prospects.

“There are a number of people around the country being put on probation that don’t really need to be on probation,” said Carl Wicklund, the executive director of the American Parole and Probation Association (http://www.appa-net.org/eweb/StartPage.aspx), a professional group. “It’s a bad use of resources, and it’s bad for the individual.” Nationally, only about two-thirds of probationers successfully complete their terms, according to federal data.

At its worst, the criminal justice system can backfire on a stable, nonviolent defendant like Mrs. Hall, said Edward Latessa, director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. “If I took you and locked you up for 30 days, what would happen?” he said. “You’d lose your job, you might lose your apartment, you end up with a criminal record. I don’t help you — I give you new risk factors.”

In Maryland, many first-time drunken-driving defendants are released on their own recognizance, particularly if no one was hurt. But Mrs. Hall’s bail was set by a court commissioner at $25,000.

A bail bondsman charged Mr. Hall $2,000, payable in monthly installments, to post bond, and Mrs. Hall was released in less than 24 hours. Everyone assured her the case was minor.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/us/probation-sounding-light-can-land-hard.html?_r=0

My guess is that some judges, county commissioners screwing low offenders with $10Ks bail are on the take from jail bond scumbags, esp elected judges.

[cd021]

#CopLivesMatter

http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/07/16/5-things-about-police-misconduct-payouts/

"
The 10 cities with the largest police departments spent $248.7 million last year on settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from 2010, according to data gathered by the Journal through public-records requests.

They collectively paid out more than $1 billion over the five years for such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment.

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#bluelivesmatter :cry

[boutons_deux]

Training Officers to Shoot First, and He Will Answer Questions Later

The shooting looked bad. But that is when the professor is at his best. A black motorist, pulled to the side of the road for a turn-signal violation, had stuffed his hand into his pocket. The white officer yelled for him to take it out. When the driver started to comply, the officer shot him dead.

The driver was unarmed.

Taking the stand at a public inquest, William J. Lewinski, the psychology professor, explained that the officer had no choice but to act.

“In simple terms,” the district attorney in Portland, Ore., asked, “if I see the gun, I’m dead?”

“In simple terms, that’s it,” Dr. Lewinski replied.

When police officers shoot people under questionable circumstances, Dr. Lewinski is often there to defend their actions. Among the most influential voices on the subject, he has testified in or consulted in nearly 200 cases over the last decade or so and has helped justify countless shootings around the country.


His conclusions are consistent:

The officer acted appropriately, even when shooting an unarmed person.

Even when shooting someone in the back.

Even when witness testimony, forensic evidence or video footage contradicts the officer’s story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html

iow

#AmericansLivesDontMatter

[boutons_deux]

Court fees trap ex-inmates in a prison of debt

From 2002 to 2009, Hill racked up two felonies for drug possession and unlawful possession of a firearm, two misdemeanors for driving with a suspended license and about 15 minor traffic violations. He’s avoided run-ins with the law ever since, yet his fear of getting stopped and arrested is understandable. It’s not a “guns and drugs” charge he’s worried about; it’s the unpaid fines and fees.

Although his crimes were victimless — no one was assaulted, no property damaged or stolen — Hill owes Spokane County and the state of Washington some $14,000 in fines and fees. The state’s annual interest rate on judgments is a borderline-usurious 12 percent.

In Washington, a state whose progressive reputation masks a tough-on-crime undercurrent, defendants and prisoners are charged “user fees” that fund the state and local systems designed to put them away.

Those who do not or cannot pay are at risk of arrest and reimprisonment.

It’s a national trend: In nearly every state, offenders pay (http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312455680/state-by-state-court-fees) for court costs, representation by a public defender, jail and probation, and fees are on the rise.

The county clerk’s offices that depend most on these sums routinely refer to defendants as “customers” [PDF] (http://countyofficials.org/Documents/LFO-Report-2012.pdf).

Since 2003, Spokane County, home to about half a million people (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/53063.html), has more than doubled what it collects in these legal financial obligations, or LFOs, from criminal defendants.

Under pressure from ex-felons and advocates, the newly elected county clerk and prosecutor have vowed to focus on collecting restitution (money to compensate victims) while making other fees less punitive, and a recent Washington Supreme Court decision may offer additional relief. Statewide, those with felony records owe an average of nearly $2,500 in LFOs [PDF] (http://www.courts.wa.gov/committee/pdf/2008LFO_report.pdf).

Hill’s debt has bulged to the point that he can no longer keep track of how much he's being billed for which convictions. Every month, he pays $75 toward the $10,000 or so he owes for old misdemeanors and traffic tickets, accounts handled by Valley Empire Collection, a private agency contracted by the county’s lower level courts.

Until he was asked to inquire for this story about his total obligations to Valley and to the Superior Court clerk’s office, which handles his felony debts directly, he had no idea what the total was. But he knew the drill: “As soon as I miss one, they can issue a warrant for my arrest.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/8/court-fees-trap-ex-felons-in-a-prison-of-debt.html

[boutons_deux]

Solitary Confinement: Punished for Life

The interviews, conducted over the last two years as part of a lawsuit over prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay (https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ashker-v-brown), have not yet been written up as a formal study or reviewed by other researchers. But Dr. Haney’s work provides avivid portrait of men (https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/Redacted_Haney%20Expert%20Report.pdf) so severely isolated that, to use Dr. Haney’s term, they have undergone a “social death.”

Sealed for years in a hermetic environment — one inmate likened the prison’s solitary confinement unit to “a weapons lab or a place for human experiments” — prisoners recounted struggling daily to maintain their sanity. They spoke of longing to catch sight of a tree or a bird. Many responded to their isolation by shutting down their emotions and withdrawing even further, shunning even the meager human conversation and company they were afforded.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/health/solitary-confinement-mental-illness.html?_r=0

btw, I think the for-profit PIC charges states and Feds more for prisoners in solitary vs not solitary.

[Clipper Nation]

WATCH: Kansas cop goes off on f*ck-filled rant, threatens to arrest man for asking him a simple question

Williams, “So how come you didn’t detain her — just out of curiosity — since she did just admit that she had her TV that she stole from…” at which point Williams interrupted him.

“Why the f*ck am I talking to you?” Williams asked.

“Because I was just curious,” Jacobs replied.

“Okay. I don’t need anything from you. This is not my f*cking jurisdiction. You understand that?” Williams said.

“No, I don’t. I don’t have a clue. I don’t know what is going on,” Jacobs replied, and then the officer goes off, asking Jacobs for his ID and telling him to step down from the curb

“Say something else to me and we’ll see where this goes. Open your f*cking mouth, say something else,” Williams said. “This is not my — take your f*cking sunglasses off.

Hat off, give me your identification. What’s your f*cking name? You want to spend the night in the f*cking pokey because you can’t shut your f*cking mouth?”

After Jacobs answers “No,” Williams sent him on his way with a parting “Enjoy your f*cking walk.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/watch-kansas-cop-goes-off-on-fck-filled-rant-threatens-to-arrest-man-for-asking-him-a-simple-question/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29



:cry "Oh noes! He said the word 'fuck' and was mean to someone! Federalize the police!" :cry

[pgardn]

http://www.gq.com/story/lapd-killed-unarmed-homeless-man

https://www.odmp.org/search/year

We kinda find what we want. This of course does not excuse the outrageous behavior I have posted about cops committing horrid crimes.

Hey boys...

Who wants to be a cop?

*cue cricket noises*

[pgardn]

hands up don't shoot!!!!

blue lives matter!!!

Yes we see the truth of that "hands up don't shoot" BS
Using that phrase smears the innocents who have been killed by the police.

[pgardn]

when will the police THUGS stop arresting, harassing, brutalizing murdering innocent, unarmed people?

So the Policeman who was shot was a thug?
Really?

Go tell his family you twisted dog.

[pgardn]

This still does not address the fact that our public is divided over the role of our police.

[boutons_deux]

So the Policeman who was shot was a thug?

you said that, I didn't

[boutons_deux]

'He Probably Has AIDS' -- Cops Yell Anti-Gay Slurs as they Brutally Beat Innocent Gay Man


http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/screen_shot_2015-08-03_at_11.54.05_am.png
Louis Falcone was lying in bed on the night of June 19, when four NYPD cops showed up to his front door, pulled him outside and began beating him.

The incident was over an alleged noise complaint. According to Falcone, his brother showed up at 4:30 in the morning “obnoxiously drunk,” and the pair got into a heated argument.

“We had words,” Falcone said. “I was yelling at him; he was yelling at me.”

However, the argument quickly ended, his brother left, and Falcone was attempting to go back to sleep when the four public servants showed up to dole out a beat down.

“As I’m talking to them through the screen door, they’re saying to come outside,” Falcone told the NY Daily News. (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-s-man-cops-beat-home-video-article-1.2310298) “I said, ‘For what?”

Then, according to Falcone, his dog began barking, at which point the cops threatening to kill it.

“The cops said, ‘Get your dog out of here or I’ll f***ing kill it!’” Falcone says. “I was like, ‘What do you mean you’re going to kill my dog?’”

As he was attempting to tell his dog to get back, he was pulled outside by one of the cops.

“They threw me against the concrete in front of my house,” he said. “My first reaction was to try to get up a little bit.”

A neighbor from across the street captured the incident on video.

In the video, you can see an officer go into the house and Falcone is dragged out into the yard. All four officers then proceed to pile on top of him and begin their attack. At one point, an officer can be seen stomping Falcone.

It was at this point, according to Falcone that the officers began yelling their homophobic slurs. While the only audible sounds on the short video, are Falcone’s screams of agony, he says as they beat him they called him a “f**”and a “f****t.”

Falcone recounted the beating to the NY Daily News, “While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,” he said. “One (of the cops) said, ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the f****t.’”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/he-probably-has-aids-cops-yell-anti-gay-slurs-they-brutally-beat-innocent-gay-man?akid=13352.187590.ov8T2g&rd=1&src=newsletter1040341&t=21

Just 4 isolated bad apples. All other cops are wonderful public servants.

[Trill Clinton]

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[boutons_deux]

California cops say video of them insulting disabled woman during raid violated their privacy

Three police officers in Santa Ana, California, have taken legal action in an attempt to block the use of surveillance video reportedly showing them snacking on marijuana-laced edibles and making derogatory comments about a disabled woman during a raid on a marijuana dispensary, the Orange County Register (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-675722-officers-video.html) reported.

The unidentified officers, along with their union, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, filed a lawsuit last week to prevent the department's internal affairs investigators from using the video in their investigation of the May 26 raid of the Sky High Collective dispensary.

The footage reportedly shows the officers trying to disable all of the cameras in the Sky High Collective facility, after which some played darts and ate what was believed to be edible products containing marijuana. Another officer was captured in the video insulting a customer.

"I was going to punch her in the f---ing nub," she said, the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/12/video-california-dispensary-raid_n_7567110.html) reported.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/california-cops-say-video-of-them-insulting-disabled-woman-during-raid-violated-their-privacy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Trill Clinton]

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when white victims get killed, the white "all lives matter" crowd are silent. you never hear the all lives matter shit. the only time the piped up was when dillon taylor was killed and they thought it was a black cop who shot him. when it came out the cop was white, they got silent again smh.

[Quetzal-X]

Murderous asshole devils . Good thing its an isolated case.

[spurraider21]

white supremacist race soldier cop is protected by the system of white supremacy, yet againhttp://i59.tinypic.com/zw1935.png]
:lol uncle tom settling for 35K instead of taking it to court and exposing the system

probably got some decent rims and sneakers with the money tho

[TheSanityAnnex]

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when white victims get killed, the white "all lives matter" crowd are silent. you never hear the all lives matter shit. the only time the piped up was when dillon taylor was killed and they thought it was a black cop who shot him. when it came out the cop was white, they got silent again smh.

:cry why won't whites riot :cry

[Trill Clinton]

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[boutons_deux]

‘I ought to kill you': Ex-Ohio police chief charged with beating wife day before her suicide

A former Ohio police chief was charged this week with battering his wife one day before she reportedly hung herself in 2013.

Clark Gast, the former police chief in Aberdeen, said he discovered his wife, Laura, hanging from a ceiling fan in 2013. Investigators later ruled the death a suicide and said that that Clark Gast was not a suspect.

Family and friends, however, told WCPO (http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/i-team-mysterious-death-in-former-police-chiefs-home) at the time that they believed Laura Gast was murdered.

An autopsy report found that the ceiling fan she was hanging from “was not reachable from the chair” and that the noose was tied with multiple knots “she could hardly reach.”

The night before Laura Gast died, her 10-year-old daughter had taken photos showing bruises on her mother’s forehead, back and neck.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/i-ought-to-kill-you-ex-ohio-police-chief-charged-with-beating-wife-day-before-her-suicide/

[Trill Clinton]

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[boutons_deux]

Part-time Missouri police officer threatens teen daughter with a gun because she didn’t do chores
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/part-time-missouri-police-officer-threatens-teen-daughter-with-a-gun-because-she-didnt-do-chores/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

If he had been full time office, he would have shot her.

[spurraider21]

Part-time Missouri police officer threatens teen daughter with a gun because she didn’t do chores


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/part-time-missouri-police-officer-threatens-teen-daughter-with-a-gun-because-she-didnt-do-chores/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

If he had been full time office, he would have shot her.



what do you mean "he"

the cop was a woman. do you even read these articles before spamming them here?

[TheSanityAnnex]

what do you mean "he"

the cop was a woman. do you even read these articles before spamming them here?

:lol of course not

[spurraider21]

Was this too long for your simple brain to read, BooBoo? :lol 117 words


Part-time Missouri police officer is under investigation for allegedly pointing a handgun at her daughter over unfinished chores, local WGEM reports (http://www.wgem.com/story/29705510/2015/08/04/nemo-police-officer-arrested-for-threatening-daughter-with-gun).

Michele Miller, 42, was charged with misdemeanor domestic assault and has been released after posting bond, the station reports. Miller is a part-time officer with the Kahoka Police Department.

WGEM reports Miller came home from a trip on Sunday and became angry at her daughter for not doing her chores. The girl told police her mother threatened her with a handgun and told her, “it would only take one bullet and she wouldn’t have to be here.”

Miller has been placed on unpaid leave pending the investigation. She’s been on the force for about one year.

[cd021]

:cry why won't whites riot :cry

Maybe cops need to shoot a couple of unarmed Caucasian in the head or back and then lie and claim self defense or:

illegally arrest an man and give a severed spine and them have the nerve to claim that they did nothing wrong
or lie about warning a 12 year old boy four times to drop a toy gun or standing onto of a car and firing 15 rounds at two unarmed citizens
or shooting an unarmed man leaving his apartment because he startled you
or choking an unarmed man to death an giving a thumbs up as he lay dying
or shooting an unarmed man and saying "fuck your breathe" as he lay dying
or shooting an unarmed man in the back in a Walmart without warning

[spurraider21]

more white people are killed by cops per year than any other race. not proportionally, but in volume. but with the way the events are portrayed in the news, you'd think 9 black guys are killed for every 1 white dude

[cd021]

more white people are killed by cops per year than any other race. not proportionally, but in volume. but with the way the events are portrayed in the news, you'd think 9 black guys are killed for every 1 white dude


(May,2013-April, 2015)
"About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred. "

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

[spurraider21]

thank you for confirming that more whites are killed by police in volume than any other race. from your link:

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/05/30/National-Enterprise/Graphics/police_01.jpg?uuid=jmzv4gcmEeWT9PJNSvf5fQ

[Clipper Nation]

Another cop killed, this time in Shreveport. Warrior criminals are out of control:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2015/08/05/shreveport-police-officer-shot/31200601/

#CopLivesMatter

[boutons_deux]

Another cop killed, this time in Shreveport. Warrior criminals are out of control:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2015/08/05/shreveport-police-officer-shot/31200601/

#CopLivesMatter

criminals killing cops doesn't justify cops harassing, brutalizing, killing unarmed, non-threatening CITIZENS, except in your perverted tit-for-tat

[Clipper Nation]

Boutons doing a touchdown dance over the cop's corpse.

[boutons_deux]

Boutons doing a touchdown dance over the cop's corpse.

You Lie

[Clipper Nation]

:cheer

[DarrinS]

A tale of two videos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzOxSrhb2o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_Wn3Foovs



Warrior cops

[DarrinS]

Bland activist confronts cop

lol @ this fucking guy and his trembling video

Blake, did you film this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FGLyXU0isA




Update: Aww, just found out this faggot got arrested.

http://www.leoaffairs.com/video/video-self-proclaimed-anonymous-and-sandra-bland-activist-harasses-threatens-texas-deputy/

http://34mtct3fif6k3n88ut3ou81w.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fare_scott.jpg :cry <sniff> <sniff> :cry

[Trill Clinton]

(May,2013-April, 2015)
"About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred. "

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


/ end debate

[spurraider21]

blacks are also way more likely to be in poverty (2.7x) and live in poor areas where crime and thus police involvement are going to be more rampant. i imagine there will be more criminal/police activity in compton than bel aire

i never denied that blacks are killed at a higher rate than whites (i even said so). i just find the media narratives laughable

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/

[TheSanityAnnex]

/ end debate



There were only a total of 36 unarmed people killed so the number of unarmed blacks killed isn't some shocking number.

[spurraider21]

Nicholas T. Thomas, a 23-year-old black man, was killed in March when police in Smyrna, Ga., tried to serve him with a warrant for failing to pay $170 in felony probation fees. Thomas fled the Goodyear tire shop where he worked as a mechanic, and police shot into his car.

Although race was a dividing line, those who died by police gunfire often had much in common. Most were poor and had a history of run-ins with law enforcement over mostly small-time crimes, sometimes because they were emotionally troubled.

Both things were true of Daniel Elrod, a 39-year-old white man. Elrod had been arrested at least 16 times over the past 15 years; he was taken into protective custody twice last year because Omaha police feared he might hurt himself.

On the day he died in February, Elrod robbed a Family Dollar store. Police said he ran when officers arrived, jumping on top of a BMW in the parking lot and yelling, “Shoot me, shoot me.” Elrod, who was unarmed, was shot three times as he made a “mid-air leap” to clear a barbed-wire fence, according to police records.

[Trill Clinton]

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:crywarrior cops:cry

[Trill Clinton]

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:crywarrior cops:cry

[TheSanityAnnex]

629305309031325696

:crywarrior cops:cry

:lol Fraud King :lol

[Trill Clinton]

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sorry. all lives don't matter unless the victim is black, bro!!

[Trill Clinton]

one more time


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

:crywarrior cops. dumb lady deserved it!:cry

[boutons_deux]

Cincinnati halts traffic stops by campus police after shooting


http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20150806&t=2&i=1069986324&w=644&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEB75145

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/06/us-usa-police-ohio-idUSKCN0QB26O20150806?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

[Quetzal-X]

:cop:loserWhat a bunch of fuckups n' shitsticks!:loser:cop

[Trill Clinton]

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[DarrinS]

dindu nuffins

http://i59.tinypic.com/zw1935.jpg

[Clipper Nation]

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. —A Hopkinsville man has been accused of using Craigslist to solicit the killings of police officers.

The Greater Cincinnati Fusion Center staff notified the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center and the Kentucky State Police of the threat.

Kentucky State Police announced that 44-year-old Marvin Gee was arrested on Friday after they say he was encouraging people in the community to start killing police officers.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/ky-man-accused-of-calling-for-police-killings-on-craigslist/34502846

#CopLivesMatter

[boutons_deux]

Cnnt Nation continues to conflate, to present as equivalent, criminals attacking cops with cops harassing, brutalizing, murdering innocent, unarmed civilians.

[Clipper Nation]

Boutons continues to dance on the graves of dead police officers while semen-shielding for the criminals who kill them.

[boutons_deux]

Rohnert Park cancels 'Coffee with a Cop' after viral video outcry

The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety canceled Thursday's scheduled "Coffee with a Cop" event with community members in the wake of a video released of an officer drawing his gun during a verbal confrontation with an unarmed resident.


The video posted on Facebook on July 29 by Don McComas has gone viral and is drawing heated reaction from citizens on social media sites.

The Coffee with a Cop event was scheduled for 8:30-10:30 a.m. Thursday at a McDonald's restaurant on Commerce Boulevard before the department announced its cancellation.

"We have information that individuals from outside the community have voiced an interest in using this event to cause a disturbance, potentially putting our community as risk," the department said in a statement.

In the 5-minute video posted by McComas, the officer arrives in a patrol car at a residence and remains in his car while McComas records the contact on his cellphone.

The officer gets out of the car after about 90 seconds, approaches McComas with his gun drawn and tells McComas to take his hand out of his pocket.

McComas objects and tells the officer he has done nothing wrong and tells the officer to go away.

"You guys have done enough to my family," McComas says, and accuses police of being corrupt.

When the officer asks why McComas is recording the incident, McComas replies "to protect myself from you."

"Are you some kind of constitutionalist crazy guy?" the officer asks at one point.

Rohnert Park Mayor Amy Ahanotu and City Manager Darrin Jenkins said in a statement Tuesday that they are aware of the matter and are taking it seriously.

They said they are conducting an internal review to verify if appropriate protocols were followed.

"We will also review our protocols because we want to make sure we are using the best practices for the highest level of safety for both our officers and the community," Ahanotu and Jenkins said.

http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rohnert-Park-cancels-Coffee-with-a-Cop-after-6429518.php

[cd021]

thank you for confirming that more whites are killed by police in volume than any other race. from your link:

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/05/30/National-Enterprise/Graphics/police_01.jpg?uuid=jmzv4gcmEeWT9PJNSvf5fQ
in terms of raw totals you're correct but using raw totals is obviously useless. Thats why they compared the victims by race to the census and they found nearly half were minorities and 66% of unarmed victims were black or Hispanic.

3 times the rate of black were killed by police compared any other race. Its certainly not 9:1 like you mentioned but it is extremely disproportionate.

[cd021]

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. —A Hopkinsville man has been accused of using Craigslist to solicit the killings of police officers.

The Greater Cincinnati Fusion Center staff notified the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center and the Kentucky State Police of the threat.

Kentucky State Police announced that 44-year-old Marvin Gee was arrested on Friday after they say he was encouraging people in the community to start killing police officers.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/ky-man-accused-of-calling-for-police-killings-on-craigslist/34502846

#CopLivesMatter

"
The 10 cities with the largest police departments spent $248.7 million last year on settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from 2010, according to data gathered by the Journal through public-records requests.

They collectively paid out more than $1 billion over the five years for such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment.

"


#bluelivesmatter :cry

[cd021]

Boutons continues to dance on the graves of dead police officers while semen-shielding for the criminals who kill them.

"
The 10 cities with the largest police departments spent $248.7 million last year on settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from 2010, according to data gathered by the Journal through public-records requests.

They collectively paid out more than $1 billion over the five years for such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment.

"


Coppers terrorizing citizens and then the taxpayers bail em out. Aren't you a conservative? Would think that the GOP would be up in arms about this.

[cd021]

There were only a total of 36 unarmed people killed so the number of unarmed blacks killed isn't some shocking number.

36 unarmed people killed by the cops is pretty shocking in general. Severing spines, shooting someone in the face or shooting someone 8 times in the back...

[boutons_deux]

Coppers terrorizing citizens and then the taxpayers bail em out. Aren't you a conservative? Would think that the GOP would be up in arms about this.

nah, rich people created cops to suppress the blacks, immigrants in the 19th century.

[boutons_deux]

Four Southern California police officers arrested for abusing 13 children in camp for troubled youth (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/06/1409254/-Four-southern-California-police-officers-arrested-for-abusing-13-children-in-camp-for-troubled-youth)

Four Southern California police officers were arrested on suspicion of physically abusing children at a police-run boot camp for troubled youths, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.

Sheriff's detectives arrested Detective Marissa Larios, 36, and Officer Patrick Nijland, 47, of the Huntington Park Police Department and officers Carlos Gomez-Marquez, 31, and Edgar Gomez, 35, of the South Gate Police Department on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department.

13 different children ranging from the ages of 12 to 17 stated to investigators that they were choked, punched, kicked, slapped, beaten, and thrown around like rag dolls throughout the week they were there.Not to sound smug, but maybe police officers aren't the right people, and a military base isn't the right place, for a camp that needs to teach kids about non-violence, discipline, and self-control.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/06/1409254/-Four-southern-California-police-officers-arrested-for-abusing-13-children-in-camp-for-troubled-youth?detail=email#

are there ANY good apples in the police?

[boutons_deux]

Documents Reveal the Fearmongering Local Cops Use to Score Military Gear From the Pentagon

Confronting school shooters and terrorists? More like patrolling Packers games, pot-heads, and the local beach

Law enforcement agencies responded by stoking old fears. No community, they argued, not even the smallest one, is safe from worst-case scenarios like mass shootings, hostage situations, or terrorist attacks.

The use of this military equipment has resulted in "substantial positive impact on public safety and officer safety," Jim Bueermann, the president of the Police Foundation, a research group, said in a 2014 Senate hearing on police militarization. He cited hostage situations, rescue missions, and heavy-duty shootouts where the vehicles had come in useful.

But in private, police justify these same programs in radically different ways.

"This is a great example of how police as an institution talk to each other privately, versus how they talk to the public and journalists who might raise questions about what they're doing with this equipment."

Mother Jones obtained more than 450 local requests, filed over two years, for what may be the most iconic piece of equipment in the debate over militarizing local police: the mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP.* (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/new-documents-reveal-fearmongering-local-cops-use-score-military-gear-pentagon#footnote)

And an analysis of these documents reveals that in justifying their requests, very few sheriffs and police chiefs cite active shooters, hostage situations, or terrorism, as police advocates do in public.

Instead, the single most common reason agencies requested a mine-resistant vehicle was to combat drugs.

Fully a quarter of the 465 requests projected using the vehicles for drug enforcement.

Almost half of all departments indicated that they sit within a region designated by the federal government as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.

(Nationwide, only 17 percent of counties are HIDTAs.)

One out of six departments were prepared to use the vehicles to serve search or arrest warrants on individuals who had yet to be convicted of a crime. :lol

And more than half of the departments indicated they were willing to deploy armored vehicles in a broad range of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) raids.

By contrast, out of the total 465 requests, only 8 percent mention the possibility of a barricaded gunman.

For hostage situations, the number is 7 percent, for active shooters, 6 percent. Only a handful mentioned downed officers or the possibility of terrorism.

"This is a great example of how police as an institution talk to each other privately, versus how they talk to the public and journalists who might raise questions about what they're doing with this equipment,"

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/new-documents-reveal-fearmongering-local-cops-use-score-military-gear-pentagon

[boutons_deux]

5 Times the Media Has Smeared Black Victims of Police Killings Since Michael Brown


1. Eric Garner

Choked on camera in broad daylight for “resisting arrest” with his hands up, Eric Garner's death was one of the few cop killings that was so egregious it resulted in relatively bipartisan outrage - including, strangely enough, from former President George W. Bush. who said (http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/politics/george-bush-eric-garner-decision/) the decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer Daniel Pantaleo was "hard to understand."

But it's important to stress the word "relatively" because rightwing trolls wouldn’t have it. Outlets from Breitbart (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/03/actual-facts-eric-garner/), to Fox News (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/people-who-blame-eric-garner) to The New York Post toNewsMax (http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/eric-garner-chokehold-grand-jury-police/2014/12/04/id/611058/) dedicated considerable time to smearing Eric Garner as a “career criminal” who somehow caused his own death by resisting arrest. Vulgar human (https://twitter.com/rlmac2) Bob McManus would pen one of the more offensive mainstream Garner smears, the day after his killer was set free by a Staten Island Grand Jury:
Blame only the man who tragically decided to resist (http://nypost.com/2014/12/04/eric-garner-was-a-victim-of-himself-for-deciding-to-resist/)

Eric Garner and Michael Brown had much in common, not the least of which was this: On the last day of their lives, they made bad decisions.
Epically bad decisions.

Each broke the law — petty offenses, to be sure, but sufficient to attract the attention of the police. And then — tragically, stupidly, fatally, inexplicably — each fought the law. The law won, of course, as it almost always does.


There it is. Because Mr. Garner was a "career criminal” who, for once, resisted arrest in the most benign way possible, he deserved to die. No account of whether such extreme force was needed. No account for the banned chokehold, no account for whether or not six white men jumping on top of one black man was, at all, racially charged. No, in authoritarian rightwing land, anything short of complete submission to the police is punishable by death. And, because to them black life is cheap, their deaths become a morality tale for other black people to follow -- obey the police or suffer the same fate. In this sense, black deaths aren't just ignored, they are used as a warning to others.


2. Sandra Bland

A combination of a likely illegal arrest, harassment, and outright neglect led to Sandra Bland's death last month. Whether or not that was by way of suicide is yet to be determined, but thus far it seems she took her own life. In many ways, as other commenters have noted (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/sandra-bland-was-murdered-20150724), it doesn't matter. And in many ways, the media treated it no differently. In the wake of Ms. Bland's death, aside from the aforementioned and entirely predictable authority worship from Fox News (http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/07/23/megyn-kelly-on-sandra-bland-case-even-if-you-kn/204571), another common smear tactic was trotted out: "marijuana in the system."

It's a popular line and one the media and St. Louis County authorities echoed time and time again in the wake of Mr. Brown's death. That somehow having cannabis in one's system is either relevant or inculpatory. As Managing Director of the Drug Policy Alliance Sharda Sekaran noted (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharda-sekaran/sandra-bland-marijuana-smear-is-another-cheap-trick-of-racist-drug-war_b_7866454.html) in the Huffington Post:

At a news conference discussing the preliminary findings of an autopsy following Bland's alleged suicide at the Waller County Jail in Texas last week, officials placed heavy emphasis on marijuana reported to be found in the young woman's system.

Why this emphasis? What does this have to do with widespread demands for accountability around the circumstances of her death? Are we expected to believe the not so subtle insinuation that marijuana use played a part? How is this still happening? Take a sample of random people in any walk of life in this country at any given moment in time, and you are likely to find marijuana in the system of many of them.


The reason for the emphasis is clear: in an effort to justify police killings under the guise of "balance" the media rushes to find anything -- no matter how common or innocuous -- to criminalize the victim. And, since roughly 1 in 9 Americans (http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/17-stoner-states-wheres-marijuana-use-highest/) smokes cannabis regularly, an easy go-to is the "weed in the system" line.

3. Sam Dubose

Even after Hamilton County's right-wing prosecutor delivered what has to be one of the most clear condemnations of a killer cop ever, Fox News couldn't help itself, trying to muddy the waters soon after by, once again, blaming the victim.

As Media Matters noted at the time (http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/31/the-fox-news-figures-shifting-blame-onto-samuel/204706), Eric Bolling of Fox News's The Five would repeat the ol' "Don't resist arrest line" because, as we all know, the punishment for resisting arrest is summary execution:

But everyone is rushing this, prosecutor just said the cop is guilty of murder. He's already indicted him. And I'm not defending this at all. But people have to realize you can't resist arrest. This guy is taking off. I don't think that cop was fearing for his life. So I think he'll probably be found guilty or something, but stop resisting.


Another Fox News contributor and former NYPD detective, Bo Dietl wouldn't miss a beat, telling Sean Hannity later than night, "Listen to me. I said it doesn't outweigh the shooting. But should he have just driven away from the cop? Eric, is that right for him to just drive away from the cop?That's not right either."

Body camera footage from the incident seems to contradict the claim that Dubose fled from the officer. The footage seems to suggest that, in contrast to what the officer claimed, Dubose's car propeled forward after he was shot.
The impulse for the media, especially the right-wing media, to blame black victims for their own deaths is so strong, that even in the face of official Republican condemnation the bottom feeders at Fox News will still apologize for the police's actions. Even when video is released that shows, beyond any reasonable doubt, a white police officer wrongfully killed a black man, the impulse to blame the victim cannot be contained. It's not just bias, it's a pathology.

4. Charly "Africa" Keunang

One of the lesser known police killings is also one of the more egregious examples of the media taking it upon themselves to smear a black victim. Avideo showing an unarmed homeless man being shot (http://www.laweekly.com/news/lapd-investigating-officers-fatal-shooting-of-homeless-man-video-5413400) in broad daylight quickly went viral on March 1st, resulting in the LAPD going on the defensive. Per usual, the entirely unrelated criminal record of Keunang, who friends called "Africa," would be leaked to the press and shamelessly repeated even thougt they had no bearing on the case whatsoever.

One reporter, in particular, Kate Mather of the Los Angels Times would feel the need to time and time again bring up a bank robbery Mr. Africa had committed over fifteen years ago. As I wrote at the time for FAIR (http://fair.org/race/lapd-media-rush-to-judge-skid-row-victim-while-insisting-public-not-rush-to-judge-2/):

This arrangement would become even sleazier yesterday when city authorities–and thus the LA Times–went into full on character assassination mode, with back (http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-skid-row-shooting-20150304-story.html)-to-back (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-man-killed-lapd-stole-frenchmans-identity-officials-say-20150303-story.html) smear pieces about Africa’s totally irrelevant criminal past. This screencap of the LA Times‘ Kate Mather’s bio page sums it up nicely:

Her jolly face contrasted with the scary, entirely non sequitur mugshot of Africa raises the question: Why? What does whether he robbed a bank 15 years ago have to do with anything? How is it relevant? How can it do anything but serve to posthumously try and convict him on unrelated charges of being poor and mentally ill?


This case illustrates an important point as well: the smearing of black victims isn't just a staple of the rightwing media, it's a very routine practice in local and corporate media who are in desperate need of information and always willing to uncritically repeat whatever the local police departments hand them inexchange for it. Which brings us to the last and most well-known smear:

5. Freddie Gray

The death of Freddie Gray was ruled a homicide and the officers involved were eventually arrested and charged with a number of crimes, including murder and manslaughter. But not after a week of smear pieces coming from anonymous police sources that attempted to blame Mr. Gray for his own death. Indeed, much of what the Baltimore Police said during the week of unrest in late April turned out to be bogus, including a "gang conspiracy" to take out cops that was uncritically repeated by the media but later revealed to be false (http://fair.org/home/federal-documents-debunk-baltimore-gang-threat-narrative/) by the FBI.

In addition to telling lies to discredit protestors, the Baltimore Police Department was content telling lies that also discredited the source of their outrage: Freddie Gray. Two days before prosecutors would indict the cops who were responsible for Gray's death, the Washinton Post would run (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/prisoner-in-van-said-freddie-gray-was-banging-against-the-walls-during-ride/2015/04/29/56d7da10-eec6-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html) a rather bizarre -- and ultimately discredited (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/30/3653118/selective-leaks-character-assassination-freddie-gray/) -- piece based on anonymous BPD leaks detailing how Freddie Gray was trying to injure himself the day of his arrest:

A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,”according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.


Eventually, follow up corrections to the piece as well as the DA's indictment (http://www.wbaltv.com/blob/view/-/33154176/data/1/-/119j047/-/Freddie-Gray-Indictment-Announcement.pdf) would go a long way to discrediting the idea that Gray was supposedly responsible for his own death but in many ways the damage was done.

http://www.alternet.org/media/5-times-media-has-smeared-black-victims-police-killings-michael-brown?akid=13369.187590.LT9obf&rd=1&src=newsletter1040656&t=3

We all note that ST rightwingnuts LOVE slander the "thugs" who've been killed by the chickenshit cops.

[Trill Clinton]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GTZYaCz0A

[Splits]

Prosecutors out of control as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/10/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-interfering-with-a-police-officer/

[spurraider21]

630804948192727040

KTRK-TV reports deputies found 0.02 ounces of marijuana on Corley, but did not say from where.


i know its an insignificant amount, but if you're gna be a twitter slacktivist, you should at least read these articles before you post them attached with a comment like "no weed"

[Trill Clinton]

Prosecutors out of control as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/10/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-interfering-with-a-police-officer/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuKNhPelllk

[Trill Clinton]

make excuses for cops sticking their hands up a woman's pussy in broad daylight for a few crumbs of weed brehshttp://i59.tinypic.com/hv57hg.png

[spurraider21]

make excuses for cops sticking their hands up a woman's pussy in broad daylight for a few crumbs of weed brehshttp://i59.tinypic.com/hv57hg.png
i didnt give a single excuse for the search. just like the slacktivist didnt read the article, you didnt even read my post

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[Trill Clinton]

http://i60.tinypic.com/15ga5xh.gif


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Aahvm-WV4

[spurraider21]

avante-like meltdown... nothing to say so spams youtubes

[CosmicCowboy]

Warrior cops just arrested a white stoner in front of my office. Fucking junkie was so ripped he couldn't even sit on the railing and kept nodding and catching himself. Typical Haven for the Hopeless street trash. I was really surprised when he cuffed him. They usually let them go.

[Trill Clinton]

one more time


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

:crywarrior cops. dumb lady deserved it!:cry

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warrior cops can't get pussy so they harass our womenhttp://i59.tinypic.com/hv57hg.jpg

[Clipper Nation]

nah, rich people created cops to suppress the blacks, immigrants in the 19th century.
You've spewed this lie before and you've been proven wrong. Policing dates back to the colonial era.

[Trill Clinton]

Warrior cops just arrested a white stoner in front of my office. Fucking junkie was so ripped he couldn't even sit on the railing and kept nodding and catching himself. Typical Haven for the Hopeless street trash. I was really surprised when he cuffed him. They usually let them go.

i've seen "office" shit looks like a junkyard. wasn't a homeless person found dead not too far from there?

[CosmicCowboy]

i've seen "office" shit looks like a junjyard. wasn't a homeless person found dead not too far from there?

Probably.

As for my office, yeah there is some junk I'm getting rid of but most of it is worth $$$$. Just looks like junk to ignorant non working fucks like you.

And considering the downtown is crawling with homeless junkie fucks it's no surprise one was found dead.

[Trill Clinton]

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

[spurraider21]

warrior cops can't get pussy so they harass our womenhttp://i59.tinypic.com/hv57hg.jpg
hard to call him a cop considering he was kicked off the force back in 2013

[Trill Clinton]

Probably.

As for my office, yeah there is some junk I'm getting rid of but most of it is worth $$$$. Just looks like junk to ignorant non working fucks like you.

And considering the downtown is crawling with homeless junkie fucks it's no surprise one was found dead.

yea i remember reading about a homeless person found dead a few blocks from you at the SA library. man you chose a terrible spot to run a business lol.

well thank you for getting rid of most of that crap. honestly, your business is so cluttered and dirty looking it does look like a dump. as a business owner in the downtown area, you should do some community outreach and pay the homeless guys a few bucks to pick up trash or do odd jobs around your business.

[Trill Clinton]

http://cdn.gossiponthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lilboosie-smoking.gif?847654



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oYY1NGtdRE

[CosmicCowboy]

yea i remember reading about a homeless person found dead a few blocks from you at the SA library. man you chose a terrible spot to run a business lol.

well thank you for getting rid of most of that crap. honestly, your business is so cluttered and dirty looking it does look like a dump. as a business owner in the downtown area, you should do some community outreach and pay the homeless guys a few bucks to pick up trash or do odd jobs around your business.

:lol at you talking shit about my business. Every time you drive by I hope you think 'Damn...that ugly junks sitting on 2 million dollars worth of real estate".

As for the the homeless guys they are cutting through my fence every weekend stealing stuff. I'm sure as hell not gonna pay them to stake out the place.

[boutons_deux]

Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police


Facial recognition software, which the American military and intelligence agencies have used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is now being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country to pursue drug dealers, prostitutes and other conventional criminal suspects.

Law enforcement officers say the technology is much faster than fingerprinting at identifying suspects, although it is unclear how much it is helping the police make arrests.

The software can identify 16,000 distinct points on a person’s face — to determine the distance between the eyes or the shape of the lips, for instance — and compare them with thousands of similar points in police booking or other photos at a rate of more than one million faces a second.

It is among an array of technologies, including StingRay tracking devices (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/a-police-gadget-tracks-phones-shhh-its-secret.html)and surveillance aircraft with specialized cameras, that were developed in overseas wars but are finding their way into local law enforcement agencies, often paid for with federal counterterrorism grants.

But the technologies are being employed with few guidelines, oversight or public disclosure.

When Aaron Harvey was stopped by the police here in 2013 while driving near his grandmother’s house, an officer not only searched his car, he said, but also took his photograph and ran it through the software to try to establish his identity and determine whether he had a criminal record.

Eric Hanson, a retired firefighter, had a similar experience last summer. Stopped by the police after a dispute with a man he said was a prowler, he was ordered to sit on a curb, he said, while officers took his photo with an iPad and ran it through the same facial recognition software. The officers also used a cotton swab to collect a DNA sample from the inside of his cheek.

Neither man was arrested. Neither had consented to being photographed. Both said the officers had told them that they were using facial recognition technology.

“I was thinking, ‘Why are you taking pictures of me, doing this to me?’ ” said Mr. Hanson, 58, who has no criminal record. “I felt like my identity was being stolen. I’m a straight-up, no lie, cheat or steal guy, and I get treated like a criminal.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/facial-recognition-software-moves-from-overseas-wars-to-local-police.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

And Hanson's photo will be in the police database, even shared nationally, FOREVER.

In America, EVERYBODY is suspect.

[boutons_deux]

When Innocence Is No Defense

SUPPOSE someone has been convicted of a serious crime, but new evidence emerges proving his innocence. Does he have a constitutional right to be freed?

The answer might seem obvious, but it is far from clear that the Constitution protects an innocent person against incarceration, or even execution, if his original trial was otherwise free of defects. Despite growing awareness about the problems of unreliable witness identification, questionable forensic evidence and inadequate legal representation of indigent defendants,

the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to decide this basic question — even though some 115 prisoners have been exonerated from death row since 1989.

Faulty convictions happen for many reasons: because juries are composed of human beings, who are fallible; because witnesses feel certain but can be mistaken; and because defense lawyers, particularly those representing indigent defendants, are notoriously overworked and underpaid. The issue is what courts should do in the face of strong evidence that the wrong person has been punished.

Mr. Bharadia now has a habeas corpus (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/habeas_corpus/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) petition pending that seeks his release from unlawful imprisonment.

If denied by Georgia courts, his case would present an excellent vehicle for the United States Supreme Court (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org) to decide, once and for all, that incarceration or execution of an innocent person is constitutionally impermissible.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/when-innocence-is-no-defense.html

Kafka would ROFLMAO

Why would the Supremes decline to rule? Because it would impugn the judicial system over which they reign supreme?

[Clipper Nation]

What’s striking in the progression of these later studies is a steady decrease in the number of people having interactions with the police—from about 45 million in 2002 to 40 million in 2011—or from about 21 percent of the 16-and-older population to about 17 percent.

More important, perhaps, was that reports of use of force by police also fell, from 664,000 in 2002 to 574,000 in a 2010 report (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf). Those declines occurred across all races. The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000. Among whites, the number has dropped from a peak of 374,000 to 347,000.

In the most recent survey (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdf), in 2011, 88.2 percent of those stopped by the police said they thought officers acted properly. There were few significant distinctions by race. Nearly 83 percent of African-Americans judged police behavior to be proper, for instance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1204sm.html

[SpursforSix]

When Innocence Is No Defense

SUPPOSE someone has been convicted of a serious crime, but new evidence emerges proving his innocence. Does he have a constitutional right to be freed?

The answer might seem obvious, but it is far from clear that the Constitution protects an innocent person against incarceration, or even execution, if his original trial was otherwise free of defects. Despite growing awareness about the problems of unreliable witness identification, questionable forensic evidence and inadequate legal representation of indigent defendants, the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to decide this basic question — even though some 115 prisoners have been exonerated from death row since 1989.

Faulty convictions happen for many reasons: because juries are composed of human beings, who are fallible; because witnesses feel certain but can be mistaken; and because defense lawyers, particularly those representing indigent defendants, are notoriously overworked and underpaid. The issue is what courts should do in the face of strong evidence that the wrong person has been punished.

Mr. Bharadia now has a habeas corpus (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/habeas_corpus/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) petition pending that seeks his release from unlawful imprisonment.

If denied by Georgia courts, his case would present an excellent vehicle for the United States Supreme Court (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org) to decide, once and for all, that incarceration or execution of an innocent person is constitutionally impermissible.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/when-innocence-is-no-defense.html

Kafka would ROFLMAO




http://38.media.tumblr.com/ae6ffd132fb0cbd2e17073bcba96e58f/tumblr_inline_mi8btlwrMx1qz4rgp.gif

[boutons_deux]

she's a 21-year-old black cutie, of course

After officer says he smelled marijuana, Texas woman given humiliating cavity search in parking lot (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/11/1410967/-After-officer-says-he-smelled-marijuana-Texas-woman-given-humiliating-cavity-search-in-parking-lot)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/158742/large/corley_copy.jpg?1439308033

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/11/1410967/-After-officer-says-he-smelled-marijuana-Texas-woman-given-humiliating-cavity-search-in-parking-lot?detail=email#

[CosmicCowboy]

cutie?

:lol

[Trill Clinton]

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[SpursforSix]

cutie?

:lol

He means for a black. I thought it was pretty racist.

[TheSanityAnnex]

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The irony of Fraud King mentioning someone else lying about an altercation :lol

[Clipper Nation]

What’s striking in the progression of these later studies is a steady decrease in the number of people having interactions with the police—from about 45 million in 2002 to 40 million in 2011—or from about 21 percent of the 16-and-older population to about 17 percent.

More important, perhaps, was that reports of use of force by police also fell, from 664,000 in 2002 to 574,000 in a 2010 report (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf). Those declines occurred across all races. The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000. Among whites, the number has dropped from a peak of 374,000 to 347,000.

In the most recent survey (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdf), in 2011, 88.2 percent of those stopped by the police said they thought officers acted properly. There were few significant distinctions by race. Nearly 83 percent of African-Americans judged police behavior to be proper, for instance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1204sm.html
Cop haters and race-baiters ignoring these inconvenient truths, as expected.

[DarrinS]

http://fusion.net/video/55314/study-cops-are-quicker-to-shoot-a-white-suspect-than-a-black-suspect/

[Michael Corleone]

Disturbing video footage of the 2013 fatal police shooting of*Jonathan Ferrell*has been released.*

Captured by a dash cam, Ferrell, who was unarmed, is seen walking toward officers and then breaking out in a sprint.

The man was ordered to "get on the ground" by one officer just a few seconds before multiple gunshots ring out.

An officer then says '"shots fired, shots fired" before saying "don't move."
Prosecutors in the case say that Officer*Randall Kerrick*panicked, did not identify himself and did not give any commands before shooting at the former college football player 12 times, reports the*Daily Mail.

http://www.centrictv.com/news-views/centric-news/articles/2015/08/06/disturbing-video-north-carolina-cop-shoots-unarmed-black-man-after-car-crash.html

[Michael Corleone]

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119060/michael-brown-studies-show-racial-bias-police-shootings

[Splits]

Cop haters and race-baiters ignoring these inconvenient truths, as expected.

Authoritarians are the worst people in this country, and you are their embodiment, you glorify them. It is the antithesis of libertarianism. Radley Balko doesn't go a day without criticizing the militarization of the police, yet here you are, fake faggot libertariancucktard, fellating the cops every chance you get. You're as much a libertarian as Kobe is an alpha.

[Michael Corleone]

Cleveland cops shot at 2 unarmed black people 137 times. No one is going to prison for*it.http://www.vox.com/2015/5/23/8649675/timothy-russell-malissa-williams-police-shooting

[Clipper Nation]

Authoritarians are the worst people in this country

And yet you're lining up to vote for either Shillary or Sanders, two insane, power-mad authoritarians.

I'm a minarchist libertarian, not an An-Cap. The police are a legitimate part of the ideal night-watchman state.

[boutons_deux]

Probe Leads to 560 Drug Convictions Being Overturned

Accusations of fraud and tax-payer milking are not unusual when it comes to discussions of the DEA. The latest reversal of more than 158 convictions, bringing the total to 560 reversed drug charges in Philadelphia, is another reason why.

A Philadelphia judge has reversed 158 additional narcotics convictions as a result of a long-running probe of seven narcotics officers, all of whom were acquitted of corruption charges.

Public defender Bradley Bridge says that about 560 convictions have now been reversed.

Bridge tells The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://goo.gl/i4yfL4) that fewer than half of the squad’s convictions have been reviewed. This means that even more drug convictions are likely to be overturned.

Federal prosecutors accused the veteran officers (http://www.hightimes.com/read/drug-squad-probe-leads-560-convictions-be-overturned) of stealing large sums of cash and drugs from their ‘suspects’ lying in court when asked about these accusations.

Officer Jeffrey Walker is serving a three-year prison term after pleading guilty and testifying against his former squad members at trial this year.

A jury acquitted the other six who were accused of similar crimes – they all got their jobs back, with the exception of Officer

Perry Betts who was suspended and faces dismissal after allegedly testing positive for marijuana. :lol

?http://naturalsociety.com/probe-leads-to-560-drug-convictions-being-overturned/

[boutons_deux]

PIC is a magnet for sadists

Chelsea Manning Faces "Indefinite Solitary Confinement" for Possession of Expired Toothpaste (http://gawker.com/chelsea-manning-faces-indefinite-solitary-confinement-1723778400)

http://gawker.com/chelsea-manning-faces-indefinite-solitary-confinement-1723778400

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After 2 Killers Fled, New York Prisoners Say, Beatings Were Next

Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him and took him into a broom closet for questioning. Then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last week, the beatings began.

As the three guards, who wore no name badges, punched him and slammed his head against the wall, he said they shouted questions: “Where are they going? What did you hear? How much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut?” One of the guards put a plastic bag over his head, Mr. Alexander said, and threatened to waterboard him.

Hours earlier, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat had made their daring escape from the unit — called the “honor block” — where they were housed. Now it appeared that Mr. Alexander, a fellow convicted murderer who lived in an adjoining cell, was being made to suffer the consequences.

For days after the June prison break, corrections officers carried out what seemed like a campaign of retribution against dozens of Clinton inmates, particularly those on the honor block, an investigation by The New York Times found. In letters reviewed by The Times, as well as prison interviews, inmates described a strikingly similar catalog of abuses, including being beaten while handcuffed, choked and slammed against cell bars and walls.

They were also subjected to harsh policies ordered by the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision: Dozens of inmates, many of whom had won the right to live on the honor block after years of good behavior, were transferred out of Clinton to other prisons. Many were placed in solitary confinement, and stripped of privileges they had accrued over the years — even though no prisoners have yet been linked to Mr. Matt’s and Mr. Sweat’s actions.

Indeed, it is prison employees who have been implicated: One has pleaded guilty to aiding the escape (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/nyregion/joyce-mitchell-prison-worker-pleads-guilty-to-aiding-murderers-escape.html); another faces criminal charges (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/nyregion/second-prison-worker-is-charged-as-search-for-escaped-killers-in-New-York-continues.html); nine officers have been suspended; and the leadership of the prison, in Dannemora, has been removed.

More than 60 inmates have filed complaints with Prisoners’ Legal Services (http://plsny.org/)of New York, an organization that assists indigent prisoners. And 10 members of an inmate council at Clinton signed a letter last month to state corrections officials making similar allegations.

“We have been daily getting complaints along these lines from around the state,” said Michael Cassidy, a lawyer for Prisoners’ Legal Services.

After The Times published its findings, the corrections department released a statement saying the inmate complaints had been under investigation for several weeks and had “also been referred to the state inspector general.”

“Any findings of misconduct or abuse against inmates will be punished to the full extent of the law,” :lol the statement continued.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/nyregion/after-2-killers-fled-new-york-prisoners-say-beatings-were-next.html

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Arrested in Ferguson Last Year, 2 Reporters Are Charged

Two reporters who were arrested while covering the protests in Ferguson, Mo., last August, were charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer, their outlets said on Monday.

The reporters, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and Ryan J. Reilly of the Huffington Post, were arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/08/13/us/ap-us-police-shooting-missouri-reporters-arrested.html) while covering nightly demonstrations that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/12/us/13police-shooting-of-black-teenager-michael-brown.html), an unarmed black teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.

In an account Mr. Lowery wrote (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html) of the incident, he said he had been arrested after receiving contradictory instructions from the officers about which direction to exit the restaurant, which had served as a kind of staging area for reporters. At the time, the Post’s executive editor, Martin Baron, said that there had been “absolutely no justification for his arrest.

The Post reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/10/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-interfering-with-a-police-officer/) Monday that Mr. Lowery had been ordered to appear in a St. Louis County municipal court on Aug. 24.

“You’d have thought law enforcement authorities would have come to their senses about this incident,” Mr. Baron said in a statement to his own newspaper. “Wes Lowery should never have been arrested in the first place. That was an abuse of police authority.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/us/arrested-in-ferguson-2014-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-is-charged.html

[TheSanityAnnex]

Cop haters and race-baiters ignoring these inconvenient truths, as expected. The numbers have been steadily declining but that will be ignored as long as everyone continues to post their youtube videos.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Very interesting, and ignored here of course.


http://fusion.net/video/55314/study-cops-are-quicker-to-shoot-a-white-suspect-than-a-black-suspect/

The Results: Cops Can Control Their Biases

The lab has published two papers based on pilot research. While the results are early and limited, they are surprising. Cops do have biases, but it did not affect their behavior the way you might expect.
“Participants do seem to have implicit associations between African American suspects and threat, however the more unusual finding is that this does not even remotely predict how they’ll behave in the simulator,” James said. “What we’ve found in the simulator is that there tends to be a greater hesitation to shoot African American suspects than white or Hispanic suspects.”
On average, she said, they took a quarter of a second longer to pull the trigger on black suspects, and they made fewer mistakes. The researchers theorize cops could be exhibiting a kind of a counter-bias, responding to real-world concerns about race.
“If an unarmed suspect is shot, they’re more likely to be a white unarmed suspect than a black unarmed suspect,” she said.

[Trill Clinton]

Probe Leads to 560 Drug Convictions Being Overturned

Accusations of fraud and tax-payer milking are not unusual when it comes to discussions of the DEA. The latest reversal of more than 158 convictions, bringing the total to 560 reversed drug charges in Philadelphia, is another reason why.

A Philadelphia judge has reversed 158 additional narcotics convictions as a result of a long-running probe of seven narcotics officers, all of whom were acquitted of corruption charges.

Public defender Bradley Bridge says that about 560 convictions have now been reversed.

Bridge tells The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://goo.gl/i4yfL4) that fewer than half of the squad’s convictions have been reviewed. This means that even more drug convictions are likely to be overturned.

Federal prosecutors accused the veteran officers (http://www.hightimes.com/read/drug-squad-probe-leads-560-convictions-be-overturned) of stealing large sums of cash and drugs from their ‘suspects’ lying in court when asked about these accusations.

Officer Jeffrey Walker is serving a three-year prison term after pleading guilty and testifying against his former squad members at trial this year.

A jury acquitted the other six who were accused of similar crimes – they all got their jobs back, with the exception of Officer

Perry Betts who was suspended and faces dismissal after allegedly testing positive for marijuana. :lol

?http://naturalsociety.com/probe-leads-to-560-drug-convictions-being-overturned/

Damn shame stories like this don't get the attention it deserves. Peace to all those who got their cases overturned.

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What’s striking in the progression of these later studies is a steady decrease in the number of people having interactions with the police—from about 45 million in 2002 to 40 million in 2011—or from about 21 percent of the 16-and-older population to about 17 percent.

More important, perhaps, was that reports of use of force by police also fell, from 664,000 in 2002 to 574,000 in a 2010 report (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf). Those declines occurred across all races. The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000. Among whites, the number has dropped from a peak of 374,000 to 347,000.

In the most recent survey (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdf), in 2011, 88.2 percent of those stopped by the police said they thought officers acted properly. There were few significant distinctions by race. Nearly 83 percent of African-Americans judged police behavior to be proper, for instance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1204sm.html

574,000? 130,000? and all those uses of force were justified? and these were "reports" by whom? the police? they don't even have to report to the Feds killings by police.

[Clipper Nation]

574,000? 130,000? and all those uses of force were justified? and these were "reports" by whom? the police? they don't even have to report to the Feds killings by police.


These are from surveys conducted by the DOJ of people who have had interactions with the police. Surely if the police just loved mowing down people (especially black people) for fun like the media claims, the use of force would be increasing instead of decreasing, as would the survey subjects' approval of the police.

[boutons_deux]

the use of force would be increasing instead of decreasing

false, as per usual. the decreasing numbers don't mean the numbers are acceptable

[DarrinS]

lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZHFjxTsMx4

[Splits]

lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZHFjxTsMx4

:lol the pussies at Breitbart freaking out over armed blacks but lose their shit about "gun free zones" without the Oath Keepers roaming the streets

[Clipper Nation]

false, as per usual. the decreasing numbers don't mean the numbers are acceptable
:cry "Fuck, those surveys are proving me wrong! They're false because I said so!" :cry

[boutons_deux]

:cry "Fuck, those surveys are proving me wrong! They're false because I said so!" :cry

"the decreasing numbers don't mean the numbers are acceptable"

[DarrinS]

:lol the pussies at Breitbart freaking out over armed blacks but lose their shit about "gun free zones" without the Oath Keepers roaming the streets

What are the BP trying to accomplish?

[Splits]

What are the BP trying to accomplish?

What are the Oath Keepers trying to accomplish?

[Clipper Nation]

"the decreasing numbers don't mean the numbers are acceptable"
:cry

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White man threatens to kill police, knocks one out, sends two to the hospital, injures 7 officers (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411668/-White-man-threatens-to-kill-police-knocks-one-out-sends-two-to-the-hospital-injures-7-officers)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/159070/large/8546816_G.jpg?1439468225

This is the definition of white privilege (http://www.kctv5.com/story/29767559/police-man-injures-seven-officers-during-fracas).


"The defendant rolled down the window and said 'I know why you stopped me.' The defendant then made reference to the events in Ferguson, Missouri," according to the criminal complaint.Joseph Parker, 34, in a wild rant, threatened to kill police, then pounced, police said. He punched 57-year-old Lt. Jeremian Goodwin, knocking him out.

From the overnight scene to lockup, Parker allegedly injured seven officers. The police chief says the man battled, nearly breaking the metal detector.


In the meantime, be black and:

Sell cigarettes (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/09/1350477/-Key-eyewitnesses-in-Eric-Garner-s-death-state-that-the-grand-jury-was-biased-uninterested), get killed
Play at a park (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/08/1356312/-I-hereby-charge-Timothy-Loehmann-the-Cleveland-PD-with-the-murder-of-12-year-old-Tamir-Rice), get killed
Shop at Walmart (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/30/1353783/-Year-end-justice-series-John-Crawford), get killed
Walk with friends (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/21/1379169/-Terrible-verdict-in-Chicago-proves-that-white-imagination-of-a-black-threat-easily-sets-cops-free), get killed
Go down the stairs (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349673/-About-the-strange-behavior-of-officers-after-they-killed-Akai-Gurley-Tamir-Rice-and-Eric-Garner), get killed
Come home from work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo), get killed

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411668/-White-man-threatens-to-kill-police-knocks-one-out-sends-two-to-the-hospital-injures-7-officers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

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Unarmed, non-violent 14-year-old, Radazz Hearns, shot 7 times by New Jersey police, but survives (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411732/-Unarmed-non-violent-14-year-old-Radazz-Hearns-shot-7-times-by-New-Jersey-police-but-survives)


Rhonda Tirado was in sitting front of her Trenton home Friday around 10:20 p.m. when she saw an unmarked gray minivan abruptly stop across the street and three police officers got out to question the trio of teens.She saw Hearns, who she only knows by his nickname "Rha Rha," run from the officers, and then the gunfire erupted, she said.

"Those police were amped and they didn't give that little boy a chance,'' Tirado said Wednesday, while re-enacting the shooting where the encounter started. "There was no room for no chase. They just shot that little boy right there."


The police, not really having another story to concoct, pretty much state that this is indeed what happened—except, of course, they claimed that when they shot Hearns, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, they thought he was reaching for a gun in his waistband.Except, when they got to him, he had nothing.


As he turned and ran, Tirado said she saw him grab his red sweatpants to keep them from falling."I don't think those little boys had no clue what was going on,'' Tirado said. "I think they was at the wrong place at the wrong time.''

Tirado said she saw the three teens pass her residence about 15 minutes before the shooting. As they returned on Louise Lane, they were laughing, joking and didn't appear to be in a hurry before the minivan stopped, Tirado said.


The attorney for Radazz Hearns has stated that not only did police roll up in an unmarked vehicle, they weren't in uniforms when they got out of the vehicle late at night.Like magic, though, a full 12 hours after they shot Hearns seven times, police claimed to find a gun near the scene underneath a vehicle.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/13/1411732/-Unarmed-non-violent-14-year-old-Radazz-Hearns-shot-7-times-by-New-Jersey-police-but-survives?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

[Trill Clinton]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article31070781.html



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9wSj3vd2ig

but but why don't more black people just become cops:cry

[DarrinS]

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fat fucks couldn't win a foot race with suspects, so they just shoot them.

[spurraider21]

but but why don't more black people just become cops:cry
they should, but that's irrelevant to what you just posted. that cop should be held responsible

[CosmicCowboy]

fat fucks couldn't win a foot race with suspects, so they just shoot them.

So you think that running from the cops is fine if you think you can out run him?

[Winehole23]

please catch up, CC. mere flight is no longer sufficient cause for deadly force. hasn't been for nearly 40 years.

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So you think that running from the cops is fine if you think you can out run him?

you said that, I didn't

[spurraider21]

So you think that running from the cops is fine if you think you can out run him?
it's not fine. but the consequence shouldn't be the death penalty

[Trill Clinton]

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[Trill Clinton]

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[DarrinS]

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Mike Brown

[Clipper Nation]

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Is Fraud King still lying about the "hate crime" that never actually happened to him?

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Fishkill Prison Inmate Died After Fight With Officers, Records Show

Not long after, he got into a confrontation with corrections officers, was thrown to the floor and was handcuffed. As many as 20 officers — including members of a group known around the prison as the Beat Up Squad — repeatedly kicked and punched Mr. Harrell, who is black, with some of them shouting racial slurs, according to more than a dozen inmate witnesses. “Like he was a trampoline, they were jumping on him,” said Edwin Pearson, an inmate who watched from a nearby bathroom.

Mr. Harrell was then thrown or dragged down a staircase, according to the inmates’ accounts. One inmate reported seeing him lying on the landing, “bent in an impossible position.”

“His eyes were open,” the inmate wrote, “but they weren’t looking at anything.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/nyregion/fishkill-prison-inmate-died-after-fight-with-officers-records-show.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Just 20 bad apples, most prison guards are angels.

[boutons_deux]

600 police gunshots during Stockton bank robbery were 'excessive,' report says

The more than 600 rounds that Stockton police fired during a rolling gun battle with bank robbers last year that left a hostage dead by officers’ bullets was “excessive” and “unnecessary,” an independent review found.

The Police Foundation, a research group based in Washington, D.C., released a detailed report Monday on how Stockton police responded to the July 16, 2014, armed robbery of a Bank of the West branch, where three gunmen took three women hostage and fired at officers from a speeding SUV.

The group found that 32 officers unloaded more than 600 rounds during the hour-long rolling gun battle, which spanned three counties, 63 miles of highway and reached speeds of 120 mph. One of the hostages, Misty Holt-Singh, was killed when she was struck by 10 police bullets, authorities said. The two other hostages jumped or were thrown from the vehicle during the chase and survived.

Police officials said they fired on the vehicle to potentially save lives because the men in the car were shooting indiscriminately. The gunmen disabled 14 police cars with gunshots, the report stated.

But just how many officers should have joined the battle and fired at the gunmen is impossible to determine, the report found.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stockton-bank-robbery-20150817-story.html

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it was a fair trial, and horrendously grievous offenses

Chelsea Manning Found “Guilty,” Punished for Expired Toothpaste, LGBTQ Reading Material

She received 21 days of recreational restrictions, excluding her from time in the gym, library and outdoors.

Now that they convictions are on her record, they can be cited in future hearings concerning parole or clemency.

Manning expects the convictions to delay her transition to minimum security custody status by years (https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/633787572884492288).

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/08/19/chelsea-manning-found-guilty-punished-expired-toothpaste-lgbtq-reading-material

[boutons_deux]

Four police officers in Georgia and New Mexico arrested and charged with murder (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/19/1413428/-Four-police-officers-in-Georgia-New-Mexico-arrested-and-charged-with-murder)

Indictments aren't convictions, but this is progress.In two separate cases, two police officers in Georgia and two police officers in New Mexico were each charged with murdering a man that they had already surrounded and subdued.

In East Point, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta, two officers were charged with murder (http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/two-former-east-point-officers-indicted-for-murder/nnMDf/), aggravated assault, manslaughter, and six counts of violating their oath of office in the death of Gregory Towns, a 24-year-old father.


According to a lawsuit his family filed a year ago, Gregory Lewis Towns Jr. was trying to catch his breath after a chase of less than a mile when former police Cpl. Howard Weems and former Sgt. Marcus Eberhart activated their Tasers a combined 14 times in an effort to get the 281-pound man to stand up.The indictment said Towns’ hands were cuffed behind him and he was “exhibiting symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath.


The officers claimed to have only used their stun gun a few times on Towns (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/29/gregory-towns-jr-cop-death_n_5736718.html), but the models of stun guns they used created an electronic log and showed that they were actually used 14 times—which could kill anyone.Soon after the officers were charged in Georgia, indictments were announced for two Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officers (http://www.koat.com/news/closing-arguments-begin-in-james-boyd-case/34777938) who shot and killed James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man who was living in the mountains.


For the first time in the Albuquerque Police Department’s history, officers will face murder charges for actions taken on the job.Officer Dominique Perez and now-retired Officer Keith Sandy shot and killed James Boyd after a tense three-hour standoff in the foothills in March 2014. They face second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and aggravated battery charges.


Ample evidence obviously existed to charge these four officers, but convictions of police officers are nearly impossible in America. Less than 1 percent of officers who kill are prosecuted (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/thousands-dead-few-prosecuted/), and a tiny fraction of 1 percent are ever convicted. So while it's premature to call either of these indictments a victory, they are certainly an essential first step.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/19/1413428/-Four-police-officers-in-Georgia-New-Mexico-arrested-and-charged-with-murder?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

New Cellphone Trackers Give Police Cheap, Discreet Surveillance Option

With intense code names such as “Jugular” or “Wolfhound,” a new cellphone sniffing technology has caught the attention of law enforcement across the country because it’s cheap, small — and possibly used without a warrant.

The Wall Street Journal reported (http://www.wsj.com/articles/police-snap-up-cheap-cellphone-trackers-1439933271) Tuesday that local police departments in 25 states, including Baltimore, Indiana, and Florida, have already tens of thousands of dollars worth of the handheld equipment that allows police to track cellphones through radio waves emitted when phones search for a nearby cell tower, and only between $6,000 and $9,000 each. Additionally, agencies within the Justice Department and Defense Department, such as the DEA, are the largest purchasers of the technology.

About a dozen states have enacted laws restricting police from using location-tracking devices, requiring warrants beforehand. That’s in part because other signal sniffing tools are more invasive and pose more direct threats to privacy, such as the stingray (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/17/2013121/meet-stingrays-the-surveillance-tech-the-government-doesnt-want-to-talk-about/), which masquerades as a cell tower and siphons location data from nearby phones.

The Wolfhound isn’t a pretender, it’s passive, picking up signals via a small antenna that can be clipped to clothing. But just like other police surveillance tools, details of how police departments are using Wolfhounds is a closely guarded secret.

“We can’t disclose any legal requirements associated with the use of this equipment,” Elise Armacost, Baltimore County Police spokeswoman told the Journal.

Cyberlaw expert Orin Kerr of George Washington University weighed in, saying the Wolfhound’s passive data collecting likely means they don’t need a court order under current federal laws.

Some states are being cautious about using Wolfhounds, seeking at least a court review before deploying them in the field. The Indiana State Police, which bought $6,500 worth of Wolfhounds in 2013, preemptively ask for judicial reviews and court recommendations for such devices to avoid legal complications later in an investigation, the Journal reported.

Law enforcement agencies have increasingly welcomed technology, enhancing investigative abilities through tracking devices (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/03/27/3639842/risks-police-collecting-licence-plate-numbers/) such as drones (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/03/3598722/technology-police-accountability/), data (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/02/12/3622235/police-departments-use-big-data-predict-crime-will-hit-next/), and social media (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/08/3590571/nypd-increases-social-media-surveillance-to-stop-lone-wolf-terrorists/) in an effort to reduce and prevent crime.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/19/3693030/surveillance-and-cellphone-tracking/

I have no doubt private investigators use, or will use, this stuff to snoop on business, individuals, spouses, etc.

[Trill Clinton]

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[boutons_deux]

New Docs Reveal Undercover Officers Routinely Spied on Black Lives Matter in NYC


Following previous reporting on surveillance of social justice activists, new evidence shows tracking of individuals and creation of dossiers

Law enforcement agencies in New York City routinely used undercover officers to monitor, track, and provide real-time surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists and supporters,according (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/18/undercover-police-spied-on-ny-black-lives-matter/) to new reporting by The Intercept.

newly obtained documents from the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Metro-North Railroad show that during local protests in New York City, over a three-month period that began in 2014 and ended in February of 2015, "counterterrorism agents and undercover officers" from those agencies coordinated with the NYPD to monitor activists and protest attendees—"tracking their movements and keeping individual photos of them on file."

The protest surveillance and use of undercover officers raises questions over whether New York-area law enforcement agencies are potentially criminalizing the exercise of free speech and treating activists like terrorist threats. Critics say the police files seem to document a response vastly disproportionate to the level of law breaking associated with the protests.

Because all of the officers names were redacted from the documents—and because the NYPD has so far refused to submit to the request or comment on the surveillance—it is impossible to know how pervasive the monitoring was or remains.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/19/new-docs-reveal-undercover-officers-routinely-spied-black-lives-matter-nyc

Law enforcement criminalizing dissent, criminalizing Freedom of Assembly.

[Winehole23]

http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf

[boutons_deux]

Autopsy raises questions about police account of St. Louis teen's death

A black teenager fatally shot by white St. Louis police officers Wednesday died from a single gunshot that pierced his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday.

The results of an autopsy done on Mansur Ball-Bey’s body seem to contradict police accounts claiming two officers shot the 18-year-old (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0820/St.-Louis-shooting-Armed-or-not-protesters-question-death-of-black-teen) after he pulled a handgun while fleeing a home where police were serving a search warrant.

Officials claimed Mr. Ball-Bey dropped his weapon and continued running after police shot him. Yet the latest evidence brings that explanation into question.

The position of the bullet suggests that Ball-Bey wasn't turned toward the officers when he was shot, according to Michael Graham, chief medical examiner of St. Louis.

If the teenager had been facing the officers, the gunshot would have killed him almost instantly, making it near impossible for him to keep running.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0821/Autopsy-raises-questions-about-police-account-of-St.-Louis-teen-s-death

Could the police be lying? nah, never happens.

[DarrinS]

Resisting



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[Quetzal-X]

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What a fucking dickless joto. Please lord give him chingotales de estress and anxiety evermore-evermore. Please provide this thug with a cell fully stocked with trash bags lord. I ask of thee.

[Trill Clinton]

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[TheSanityAnnex]

Ya'll thought Shaun King was black? http://i57.tinypic.com/svlvdl.jpg

[boutons_deux]

Autopsy confirms Virginia officer shot teenager William Chapman in the head from a distance (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/24/1414994/-Autopsy-confirms-Virginia-officer-shot-18-y-o-William-Chapman-in-the-head-from-a-distance)

On April 22, 2015, we were clear that a Portsmouth, Virginia, police officer, Stephen Rankin, shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old William Chapman in a Walmart parking lot. New autopsy results obtained by The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/24/william-chapman-autopsy-stephen-rankin-police-shooting-virginia?CMP=share_btn_tw) not only confirm that he was shot in the face, but that it wasn't from a close distance as has been described.


The typical signs of a close- or body-contact shooting were not found around the bullet wounds William Chapman sustained in the head and chest when he was killed by Officer Stephen Rankin in the parking lot of a Walmart in Portsmouth on 22 April.

“There is no evidence of close-range fire to visual inspection,” wrote Wendy Gunther, an assistant chief medical examiner for Virginia.

Gunther said a definitive ruling would be made by the state’s department of forensic sciences.


Furthermore, the autopsy results confirmed that Chapman was alcohol and drug free, and appears to call into question whether he ever stole anything from Walmart in the first place. In the autopsy report, no stolen items were listed in his personal belongings in spite of the implications by police that he stole something from the store and was confronted over it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/24/1414994/-Autopsy-confirms-Virginia-officer-shot-18-y-o-William-Chapman-in-the-head-from-a-distance?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[DarrinS]

Fun with bean bags


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_X9MlaUl6w

[boutons_deux]

First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist

It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.

With all the concern over the militarization of police (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/02/the-swat-lobby-bats-away-ferguson.html) in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the first in the union to allow police to equip drones with “less than lethal” weapons. House Bill 1328 wasn’t drafted that way, but then a lobbyist representing law enforcement—tight with a booming drone industry—got his hands on it.

The bill’s stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of Representative Rick Becker’s bill would have banned all weapons on police drones.

Even “less than lethal” weapons can kill though. At least 39 people have been killed by police Tasers (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/18/when-police-tasers-kill-the-tragic-death-of-stanley-harlan.html) in 2015 so far, according (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database) to The Guardian. Bean bags, rubber bullets, and flying tear gas canisters have also maimed, if not killed, in the U.S. and abroad.

The sheriff and lobbyists assured lawmakers that drones would only be used in non-criminal situations, like the search for a missing person or to photograph an accident scene. What they didn’t mention was the 2011 arrest of Rodney Brossart, a cattle thief who was caught by a Department of Homeland Security drone.

“It’s really all about the commercial development, which is where all of this is heading,” Lund replied. “If [a law] is somehow limiting commercial, law enforcement development... that is a negative in terms of companies looking and investing in opportunities in the state of North Dakota,” Lund said.

In other words, limit civil liberties so Big Drone can spread its wings.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/26/first-state-legalizes-armed-drones-for-cops-thanks-to-a-lobbyist.html

[boutons_deux]

Houston cop moonlighting as hospital security shoots patient during struggle

A Houston police officer working a second job as a hospital security guard shot and critically wounded on Thursday a patient who had been combative with staff and fought with security, a Houston police spokesman said.

The officer was one of two off-duty police officers working as security at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston who were called into the room to subdue the suspect, described as a 26-year-old male, the spokesman said.


The suspect fought with the officers, injuring both. One of the officers deployed his Taser but that did not appear to have any effect, spokesman Kese Smith said.

“The struggle continued to escalate, at which point, the second officer, fearing for his safety and that of his fellow officer, discharged his duty weapon, striking the suspect,” Smith said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/houston-cop-moonlighting-as-hospital-security-shoots-patient-during-struggle/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

"discharged his duty weapon" :loI shot his gun! :lol

love the hilarious formalistic euphemisms, and grandiose bombastic bullshit of the police and military.

So this was an "officer involved shooting". :lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

Houston cop moonlighting as hospital security shoots patient during struggle

A Houston police officer working a second job as a hospital security guard shot and critically wounded on Thursday a patient who had been combative with staff and fought with security, a Houston police spokesman said.

The officer was one of two off-duty police officers working as security at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston who were called into the room to subdue the suspect, described as a 26-year-old male, the spokesman said.


The suspect fought with the officers, injuring both. One of the officers deployed his Taser but that did not appear to have any effect, spokesman Kese Smith said.

“The struggle continued to escalate, at which point, the second officer, fearing for his safety and that of his fellow officer, discharged his duty weapon, striking the suspect,” Smith said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/houston-cop-moonlighting-as-hospital-security-shoots-patient-during-struggle/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

"discharged his duty weapon" :loI shot his gun! :lol

love the hilarious formalistic euphemisms, and grandiose bombastic bullshit of the police and military.

So this was an "officer involved shooting". :lol






Both officers injured, one with a severe concussion, taser didn't work to subdue....sounds like a perfectly good shoot to me.

[boutons_deux]

Both officers injured, one with a severe concussion, taser didn't work to subdue....sounds like a perfectly good shoot to me.

TSA never met a situation that wasn't a good shoot

[TheSanityAnnex]

TSA never met a situation that wasn't a good shoot
boutons never met an unread moonbat article that wasn't worth spamming.


If you'd ever bother to read anything you spammed I wouldn't have to do it for you and say good shoot half the time.

[spurraider21]

boutons, how do you think police should apprehend a suspect who is resisting arrest? especially if he is suspected of committing a violent crime, and thus is a danger to others?

[boutons_deux]

boutons, how do you think police should apprehend a suspect who is resisting arrest? especially if he is suspected of committing a violent crime, and thus is a danger to others?

get out of the hospital room and lock the door. Police escalate immediately to killing the public to protect themselves.

[spurraider21]

get out of the hospital room and lock the door. Police escalate immediately to killing the public to protect themselves.
way to not answer my question :tu

[TheSanityAnnex]

get out of the hospital room and lock the door. Police escalate immediately to killing the public to protect themselves.

By immediately you mean after trying to subdue, then fighting, then taking a blow so hard one suffered a severe concussion, then trying to tase, and then shooting. Strange definition of immediately.

[boutons_deux]

By immediately you mean after trying to subdue, then fighting, then taking a blow so hard one suffered a severe concussion, then trying to tase, and then shooting. Strange definition of immediately.

retreat, don't shoot 'em dead immediately

TSA never saw a citizen not requiring shooting dead. The police are the most important, not the citizens.

[spurraider21]

retreat, don't shoot 'em dead immediately

TSA never saw a citizen not requiring shooting dead. The police are the most important, not the citizens.
retreating won't apprehend somebody. how to you apprehend somebody who resists arrest boo?

[boutons_deux]

retreating won't apprehend somebody. how to you apprehend somebody who resists arrest boo?

shoot them dead? infallible, always works

[spurraider21]

shoot them dead? infallible, always works
notice how you haven't been able to actually provide an answer to my question

[boutons_deux]

notice how you haven't been able to actually provide an answer to my question

notice how you've got your head up your ass?

The police shoot 'em dead.

They could try mightily, if they valued other human's lives even a tiny bit, to defuse, de-escalate, let the person calm down, think a little clearer.

nope, IMMEDIATE ESCALATION to shoot 'em dead, pardner.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/24/countrymen-not-impressed-by-swedish-cops-subway-heroics/

[spurraider21]

i'm asking how police are supposed to apprehend a suspect who is resisting arrest

so far all you've said is "dont shoot them"

i'm asking how you would propose to get these people into custody, and you've done nothing to answer the question. i get it. you dont want people shot (i agree). you dont want the situation to unnecessarily escalate (i agree). so how do you get dangerous suspects who are resisting arrest into custody?

[Trill Clinton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=67&amp;v=6dnlj00LTRY

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[boutons_deux]

Texas Deputy Killed ‘Because He Wore a Uniform,’ Sheriff Says

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/us/shooting-of-texas-deputy-is-called-coldblooded-execution.html?_r=0

Yo, dumb Texas sheriff, uniforms don't get shot, people do.

People who commit crimes, brutalization, murder, harassment while wearing uniforms get shot.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Texas Deputy Killed ‘Because He Wore a Uniform,’ Sheriff Says

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/us/shooting-of-texas-deputy-is-called-coldblooded-execution.html?_r=0

Yo, dumb Texas sheriff, uniforms don't get shot, people do.

People who commit crimes, brutalization, murder, harassment while wearing uniforms get shot.


What crime, brutalization, murder, or harassment did that specific deputy commit that got him shot in uniform?

[boutons_deux]

What crime, brutalization, murder, or harassment did that specific deputy commit that got him shot in uniform?

ha ha you fell for my trap.

Since uniformed law enforcement refuses to police their own (blue wall, lying for themselves and others, they know who the bad ones are), each and all in uniform are guilty as a group.

[spurraider21]

ha ha you fell for my trap.

Since uniformed law enforcement refuses to police their own (blue wall, lying for themselves and others, they know who the bad ones are), each and all in uniform are guilty as a group.
:lmao

[TheSanityAnnex]

ha ha you fell for my trap.

Since uniformed law enforcement refuses to police their own (blue wall, lying for themselves and others, they know who the bad ones are), each and all in uniform are guilty as a group.


Since the black community refuses to police their own, (black wall, lying for themselves and others, they know who the bad ones are), each and all with black skin are guilty as a group.

nice trap by the way.

[Trill Clinton]

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[boutons_deux]

Since the black community refuses to police their own, (black wall, lying for themselves and others, they know who the bad ones are), each and all with black skin are guilty as a group.

nice trap by the way.

blacks don't have any authority, no official organization, to police their own. btw, nice bullshit.

[TheSanityAnnex]

blacks don't have any authority, no official organization, to police their own. btw, nice bullshit.
It is bullshit, just like your original take.

[TheSanityAnnex]

638021558150262784

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Black cop kills white man. How much you want to bet there will be no riots?

[cd021]

Since the black community refuses to police their own, (black wall, lying for themselves and others, they know who the bad ones are), each and all with black skin are guilty as a group.

nice trap by the way.

Not sure if serious. If so you've changed your tune. You previously said that racial profiling was the reason why cops are more likely to murder an unarmed minority now your saying that blacks in general are guilty for the crimes committed by some.

[cd021]

Black cop kills white man. How much you want to bet there will be no riots?

Threads titles "The Warrior Cops are out of control" not "Black Lives Matter" black guys a cop and he allegedly did some sketchy shit therefore he's placed in this thread.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I see granny is still a racist kunt. Ignore is working out well

[boutons_deux]

Unsettling Video Shows Oakland Cop Spit on a Man for Filming Him

While it is unclear as to what was happening during the video, the actions of this officer are not disputed.

The act of spitting on a person is considered assault under California law. A California assault can occur even if the touching involved did not or could not cause any sort of injury. It doesn’t need to be direct either—it can be done indirectly by causing an object to touch the “victim,”

This officer clearly meant to spit in the face of another person. It can in no way be considered a part of his official duty, and he was in obvious violation of the law.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/unsettling-video-shows-oakland-cop-spit-man-filming-him

[TheSanityAnnex]

Not sure if serious. If so you've changed your tune. You previously said that racial profiling was the reason why cops are more likely to murder an unarmed minority now your saying that blacks in general are guilty for the crimes committed by some.

Not serious. Thought it was obvious I was using this to show how stupid boutons blaming all police for the actions of a few was.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Threads titles "The Warrior Cops are out of control" not "Black Lives Matter" black guys a cop and he allegedly did some sketchy shit therefore he's placed in this thread.

Your point? I never said it shouldn't be in this thread.

So....any whites rioting over the wrongful death at the hands of a black cop? Has BLM spoken up?

[cd021]

Your point? I never said it shouldn't be in this thread.

So....any whites rioting over the wrongful death at the hands of a black cop? Has BLM spoken up?

We know from data that seldom happens. Its mostly Caucasian officers killing unarmed minorities. We also know that Blacks make up a small percentage of the population but make up the bulk of unarmed deaths. Many of those cops never even get indicted if they do, they almost certainly walk.

Why hold BLM to a different standard than other special interest groups who only look out for issues in their wheelhouse.

[TheSanityAnnex]

We know from data that seldom happens. Its mostly Caucasian officers killing unarmed minorities. We also know that Blacks make up a small percentage of the population but make up the bulk of unarmed deaths. ETA and the majority of murders Many of those cops never even get indicted if they do, they almost certainly walk.

Why hold BLM to a different standard than other special interest groups who only look out for issues in their wheelhouse.
“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/safari-reader://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/peter-moskos/), a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”
“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”

[spurraider21]

Black cop kills white man. How much you want to bet there will be no riots?
twist of events when the cop is a dindu muffin

[cd021]

“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/safari-reader://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/peter-moskos/), a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”
“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”




http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/podcast-we-still-rely-on-volunteers-to-tally-the-victims-of-police-violence/

creator of the website talks about how he and a group compiled their finds and how it gels with other independently done research by the Washington Post.
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ecf211e4b0ed744420c5b6/t/55c90fc8e4b0bdd210858b75/1439240138127/?format=1500w

[cd021]

“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/safari-reader:/www.washingtontimes.com/topics/peter-moskos/), a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”
“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”





(May,2013-April, 2015)
"About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...d4e_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html)

That post is six months old and doesn't include the murder of Duboise in Cincinnati, among other unarmed blacks.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/05/30/National-Enterprise/Graphics/police_01.jpg?uuid=jmzv4gcmEeWT9PJNSvf5fQ

Washington Post compared the victims by race to the census and they found at least 63% were minorities of 2/3rds unarmed victims were black or Hispanic.
I actually went through and tried to tally the ethnicity of the unarmed people killed by police

2015 stats

Black-25
White-14
Hispanic-14
Other-8

http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...ice-shootings/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/)

According to this site, I found those stats.


Whites outnumber Blacks and Hispanics 53% to 13% and 17%
but made up only 23% of unarmed killings. Blacks made up 41% while Hispanics made up 23%

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8382457...ootings-racism (http://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8382457/police-shootings-racism)

"An analysis of the available FBI Data Shows that US police kill black people at disproportionate rates: Black people accounted for 31 percent of police shooting victims in 2012, even though they made up just 13 percent of the US population."

[Trill Clinton]

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