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boutons_deux

10-11-2015, 12:09 PM

As Charleston pays family of Walter Scott $6.5 million, true justice is as elusive as ever (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09/1429884/-As-Charleston-pays-family-of-Walter-Scott-6-5-million-true-justice-is-as-elusive-as-ever)

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We've seen this before. In its largest police brutality settlement ever (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/10/08/north-charleston-reaches-6-5-million-settlement-with-walter-scotts-family/), the city of North Charleston paid the family of Walter Scott $6.5 million because of his wrongful death at the hands of Officer Michael Slager.

Aside from discussing how the cost of a life is calculated, we've seen this before.The family of Freddie Gray just settled for $6.4 million (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCwQFjACahUKEwjDr8iD5LXIAhXHmIAKHSnlDQU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltimoresun.com%2Fnews%2Fmar yland%2Ffreddie-gray%2Fbs-md-ci-boe-20150908-story.html&usg=AFQjCNEX-LVV4HpoI9CMFwifMmNgTAl3-g&sig2=dQqLGIQTmg30OPcYYAf_tg).

The family of Eric Garner just settled for $5.9 million (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDcQFjAEahUKEwjmrqiU5LXIAhUDlA0KHUcGAb4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fnews%2Fn ationworld%2Fct-eric-garner-police-chokehold-case-settlement-20150713-story.html&usg=AFQjCNFzOa_P-2OiFnOJsBzSKvMLD-6aSg&sig2=ElDOdKcV0oJ6JELe4YpF3Q).

Rekia Boyd: $4.5 million (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCgQFjACahUKEwiYgLCv5LXIAhVMmYAKHad3C6k&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsone.com%2F2278454%2Frekia-boyd-chicago-settlement%2F&usg=AFQjCNGJsk6uIWlSyzqsvKKDzErS22IVGg&sig2=IxYOGVtYMBTuIyBOWvYPLw).

Laquan McDonald: $5 million (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCUQFjABahUKEwjX6N-_5LXIAhWBr4AKHQytA7E&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fnews%2Fl ocal%2Fbreaking%2Fct-million-dollar-police-settlement-met-20150410-story.html&usg=AFQjCNFSHe65JF00uULDz5nXL7kX-kH6Kg&sig2=ZLCIlyTuvF_wGQgUrnjuZQ).

Jonathan Ferrell: $2.5 million (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwi8gOXR5LXIAhUF1IAKHQBuB3o&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charlotteobserver.com%2Fnews% 2Flocal%2Fcrime%2Farticle20983929.html&usg=AFQjCNHmNtsmoFdRmSvYN-JlnbFfjO085w&sig2=BpIVyEdsjvohMjwZqJowOg).

This list could have thousands of names on it.

New York City alone has paid billions of dollars in settlements (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCUQFjABahUKEwjGpbXA5bXIAhWIlQ0KHaeiBUk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2015%2 F05%2F15%2F1384993%2F-Let-s-stop-saying-bad-police-officers-are-rare-Fact-is-they-re-plentiful-from-coast-to-coast&usg=AFQjCNFBhwLnpHacJJQvfpupWz4rCUOImA&sig2=9E0G8Y2x4tubneREQtb7fw) for police brutality, and Chicago is not far behind.

Wanna know the one consistent theme in all of those cases?

Not one officer was found guilty of a crime. Not one.

How could it be that billions of dollars are spent in an admission that wrongdoing took place, but nobody is ever held truly responsible for that wrongdoing?

Even the officers who fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo were found not guilty.

The city paid millions for it (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCEQFjABahUKEwi_76T75bXIAhVC1YAKHUg2BGs&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F01%2F07% 2Fnyregion%2F3-million-deal-in-police-killing-of-diallo-in-99.html&usg=AFQjCNHliVxgE636eqGkQme5-FrUmI8wFw&sig2=Gh3UDAFDCG2VLelDV4IuCQ), but the officers all got off.

It's simply not enough for these families who are destroyed by police brutality to receive huge taxpayer-funded settlements.

Officers and departments must be held truly accountable for their actions.

This isn't justice.

These are payoffs.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09/1429884/-As-Charleston-pays-family-of-Walter-Scott-6-5-million-true-justice-is-as-elusive-as-ever?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

the warrior cops are as untouchable as the warrior BigFinancers.

boutons_deux

10-12-2015, 09:44 AM

'Mommy, Am I Going to Die?' Mom Calls 9-1-1 for Paramedics, Cop Shows Up, Shoots 4-year-old Daughter

But as the cop approached the house, events took a horrific turn. Cops said the family pet – a boxer-terrier mix named Patches, charged at the officer.

The cop fired his gun, and the bullet hit Andrea’s four-year-old daughter, Ava, in the leg, shattering the bone.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/mommy-am-i-going-die-mom-calls-9-1-1-paramedics-cop-shows-shoots-4-year-old-daughter?akid=13567.187590.TjPuX5&rd=1&src=newsletter1043909&t=18

... to serve and protect. Shattering a 4-year-old's leg bone will certainly, like shooting Amir Rice, be evaluated as "reasonable". and as shrub2 says, "stuff happens".

boutons_deux

10-12-2015, 10:34 AM

‘A dog would have gotten more attention': Texas cops watched man bleed to death after shooting him

Ruiz then followed Goodridge to the parking lot, where the suspect allegedly attacked him. Ruiz said that he “became fearful that Goodridge was going to take his gun and kill him with it, so when he gained some distance from Goodridge, Ruiz pulled the gun and shot Goodridge twice.”

Dashcam video obtained by the Times indicated that deputies on the scene made no effort to stop the bleeding after calling for an ambulance.

“He was shot twice, bleeding, and nobody did anything,” Goodridge’s mother, Lucille, told the paper. “I don’t think that if he was white they would have just left him like that. A dog would have gotten more attention than he did.”

To make matters worse, the constable’s office initially contacted an ambulance company that did not serve the crime scene. The dispatcher also provided the wrong address to the second ambulance company.

Goodridge died an hour after making the 30 mile trip to the hospital.

Retired Los Angeles detective Timothy T. Williams Jr., who is an expert on police practices, watched the dashcam video and concluded that the deputies acted improperly.

“They didn’t care that the suspect needed attention,” Williams noted. “There was a callousness as it relates to his injuries. It was almost like, ‘We’ll get to you when we get to you.’”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/a-dog-would-have-gotten-more-attention-texas-cops-watched-man-bleed-to-death-after-shooting-him/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

10-12-2015, 11:12 AM

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10-12-2015, 11:14 AM

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boutons_deux

10-12-2015, 11:25 AM

Investigator on death of Texas deputy suspended over bad behaviorhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/09/us-usa-police-texas-idUSKCN0S32OD20151009?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

the murdered sheriff was at the filling station to meet his mistress who also screwing the investigator! :lol

boutons_deux

10-12-2015, 02:12 PM

County Ticketing Cars For Lapsed Inspections While They Are At Garage To Be Inspected

The Washington Post has the story (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/fairfax-car-repair-shops-say-parking-enforcement-targets-their-customers/2015/10/11/e960753a-63cf-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html) of garage operators who work in a business park in Fairfax County, VA, not far from D.C., and who say that the county has been coming onto private property for years to issue citations for vehicles with lapsed inspections when those vehicles were there to be inspected.

One operator says his customers have been hit with around $60,000 in fines since 2009.

Some of the garages choose to pay for the tickets themselves because they don’t want to lose the long-term business of the customer

http://consumerist.com/2015/10/12/county-ticketing-cars-for-lapsed-inspections-while-they-are-at-garage-to-be-inspected/

Quetzal-X

10-12-2015, 04:34 PM

Shitty jobs for losers with limited opportunites.

boutons_deux

10-12-2015, 04:39 PM

No, police killing pre-teen Tamir Rice wasn't reasonable—it was a heartless murder backed by lies (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/12/1430894/-No-police-killing-12-y-o-Tamir-Rice-wasn-t-reasonable-it-was-a-heartless-murder-backed-by-lies)

On November 22, 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by Cleveland Police while he was playing in his local neighborhood park. Now, a full 11 months after his death, prosecutors who claim they're still investigating the case have started leaking random "expert" reports they commissioned, stating that the murder was reasonable.Really? What the hell does reasonable mean? Because this shooting was anything but reasonable.

Released on a Saturday night, these reports appear to be prepping the city for the reality that the prosecutor's office has little intention of presenting charges to the grand jury.

Here are seven reasons why the police murder of Tamir Rice was completely unreasonable, and Officer Timothy Loehmann should be fired immediately and charged with his murder. You must consider all of the facts in concert with one another to see just how criminal Rice's murder truly was.

1. Years before Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed Tamir Rice, he was fired from his local police department in Independence, Ohio, just 12 miles away from Cleveland.
In their final report on his termination, which included statements on his poor performance in gun training, his extreme emotional instability, and his willingness to lie (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/09/1356660/-The-outrageous-tragic-hiring-of-Officer-Timothy-Loehmann-by-the-Cleveland-PD), his supervising officers detailed infraction after infraction and concluded "I do not believe time, nor training, will be able to change or correct these deficiencies."
There's much more.

2. Between 2010 and 2012, multiple police departments including the New York Police Department refused to hire Officer Timothy Loehmann. Just five months after he was hired by the Independence Police Department, he was fired. In the months that followed, Loehmann applied for new police jobs in Akron, Euclid, and Parma Heights, Ohio, and was turned down by each of them.
Then, in September 2013, Loehmann failed the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department written entrance exam, with a failing score of 46 out of 100. Note: 70 is the minimum score allowable for entrance. Mind you, this was after he had already served as a police officer for five months and been terminated.

3. The Cleveland Police Department was criminally negligent when it hired Officer Timothy Loehmann without checking his work history and the devastatingly relevant recommendations from his previous supervising officers, in which they detailed the exact deficiencies that would eventually lead to the death of Tamir Rice.

The Cleveland Police Department now admits (http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/07/cleveland_police_supervisors_d.html) it failed to check Loehmann's background when they hired him. Their response, giving one supervising officer a two-day suspension and another officer a write-up in his file, amounts to a proverbial "oopsie."

Two Cleveland police supervisors who hired the officer who later shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice have been disciplined.Lt. Gail Bindel and Sgt. Edwin Santiago "failed to adequately supervise and review an applicant's background investigation" and were found guilty of administrative charges including neglect of duty, according to documents.
Bindel was suspended for two days, and Santiago received a written reprimand, according to the letters dated July 9.

4. Apparently not knowing they were being filmed when they spoke to their police union reps and supervising officers the day of the shooting, the officers who killed Rice made egregiously false claims about what happened.

a. To create an atmosphere of intimidation, police falsely stated that Tamir Rice was sitting at a picnic table with several other people (http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/cleveland_police_officer_shoot_6.html) right before he came and confronted them.
This was never true. Nobody else ever sat at that table with Rice or could've been mistaken as such. The 911 calls never said such a thing either. It's a total fabrication. Here he is just three seconds before the police pull up and shoot him.
http://images.dailykos.com/images/169835/large/Tamir-Rice-A.jpg?1444660007Tamir, sitting at the table, alive and alone

Here's the false report from the day Rice died—before police knew a video existed.

Police were responding to reports of a male with a gun outside Cudell Recreation Center at Detroit Avenue and West Boulevard about 3:30 p.m., Deputy Chief of Field Operations Ed Tomba said.A rookie officer and a 10-15 year veteran pulled into the parking lot and saw a few people sitting underneath a pavilion next to the center.

b. Police then falsely claimed that right before they shot Rice, he pulled a very real-looking BB gun out on them. In fact, this was the headline and the dominant narrative of the day Rice died. The video had not yet been released, so it really ruled early on.The police chief and police union spokesperson both came out publicly to back this claim. (http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/cleveland_police_officer_shoot_6.html)

It's a complete fabrication.

The rookie officer saw a black gun sitting on the table, and he saw the boy pick up the gun and put it in his waistband, Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Jeffrey Follmer said.The officer got out of the car and told the boy to put his hands up. The boy reached into his waistband, pulled out the gun and the rookie officer fired two shots, Tomba said.

First, see the actual video for yourself.Now that you've seen it, the lies told by police are obvious.

Notice that they said they saw the scene so well, that they saw a gun on the table next to Rice. However, they also said they saw multiple other people sitting there as well.

Let me get this right: oYu saw imaginary people, but also saw a six-inch gun on the table?

Also, the officers claimed they repeatedly told Rice to put his hands up but he refused. Except he was shot in .792 seconds from the time the door to the police car opened.

Demonstrate that with your own voice and the stopwatch on your phone. How many times can you say, "Put your hands up" in .792 seconds. Now imagine saying it, giving them time to comply, and shooting someone. The Cleveland Police are claiming this all took place in .792 seconds. It's a physical impossibility.

5. Nothing could be more important than this: Tamir Rice did not pull a gun out on police. Not only that, but the day he died, police brought the gun out, showed how it did not have a bright neon tip, and stated that police, in a short period of time, could not tell the difference.

Except that when Rice was shot, they never saw the tip of the gun in the first place (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349386/-New-lie-in-the-shooting-death-of-Tamir-Rice-discovered-Police-never-saw-the-tip-of-the-gun-at-all). This is a false flag, a ruse, a concoction, a fabrication.

6. Few outlets have honestly reported how heinous the crucial minutes were that followed police shooting Tamir Rice in the stomach. Mind you, he survived until the next day, but after Officer Timothy
Loehmann shot Rice, he and his partner, Officer Garmback, completely ignored him.

Even after discovering that the gun was definitively a BB gun, they didn't hold his hand, attend to the gaping hole that ripped through his stomach and intestines, or comfort him in any way whatsoever.

When Rice's 15-year-old sister arrived on the scene and saw her brother dying, they tackled her and locked her in the police car parked right next to Rice's body.

They continued to ignore Rice as he bled out on the snow for four minutes. In fact, the officers who killed Rice never tended to him. It wasn't until an FBI agent arrived on the scene that the boy received an ounce of attention or compassion.

Here's a second-by-second timeline of what happened.

0:00 - 0:07 :: We see Rice sitting at the park tables, hanging out, alone. His sister, who is also at the park, is out of sight of the camera.0:08 - 0:16 :: We see Rice get up from table and begin calmly walking toward what we soon see is the police car.

0:17 :: The police car, driven by Officer Frank Garmback, first comes to a full stop, just feet away from Tamir Rice.

0:18 :: Within one second of the car stopping, Officer Timothy Loehmann opens his door and shoots Tamir Rice in the stomach without even fully getting out of the vehicle.

0:18 :: Tamir Rice is seen falling down from being shot.

0:20 :: Officer Timothy Loehmann, having gotten out of the passenger side, twists his ankle and falls down. Officer Garmback gets out of the driver's side of the vehicle.

0:20 - 1:40 :: Officer Loehmann literally stands behind the vehicle and massages his ankle for 80 seconds.

1:01 :: Officer Garmback can be seen using his radio to call dispatch.
NOTE :: Tamir Rice fought for his life in the hospital until the following day.

1:41 :: Tajai Rice, Tamir's 14-year-old sister, who was in the restroom when the shooting happened, is seen running to him from the left side of the screen.

1:44 :: Tajai Rice is tackled by Officer Frank Garmback.

1:46 :: Officer Loehmann comes over to assist Garmback.

1:48 - 2:45 :: Officer Loehmann stands by Tamir but does nothing at all.

1:51 - 3:00 :: Garmback and a new officer attempt to subdue Rice's 14-year-old sister, Tajai.
NOTE :: A cell phone video was just released from this exact point in time.

3:01 :: Visiting officer attempts to lift Tajai off the ground and carry her, and she fights back. Her little brother is dying just feet away from her.

3:22 :: Apparently handcuffed, the police lock Rice's sister, Tajai, in the back of the police car.

3:37 - 4:10 :: All three officers on the scene can be visibly witnessed just standing around, talking, away from Rice, as he fights for his life. None of them is remotely interested in him, nor do anything to care for him or offer any type of aid. His sister is locked in the car as he suffers alone.

4:01 :: A black sedan is seen pulling up. We later learn this is an FBI agent who was in the neighborhood and heard the call in his car.

4:07 :: The plain-clothes FBI agent walks briskly onto the scene, speaks quickly to the officers, and immediately goes to Rice.

4:17 :: The FBI agent crouches down to Rice and is not seen getting back up for several minutes.

In essence, the FBI agent did exactly what the officers on the scene, or any decent human being would've done. Zero rationale whatsoever exists that could ever explain why the Cleveland Police officers completely ignored Tamir Rice. He was a kid who was bleeding to death.

Imagine for a moment a scenario in which you would shoot someone in the stomach and ignore their well-being for four minutes. Did you do it? Now, could you think of doing such a thing to a person that you cared about or wanted to live? I didn't think so.

7. After they shot Tamir Rice, lied about it, and ignored him as he fought to survive, police confirmed what they truly thought about this sweet boy in the days and weeks that followed. They called him a menace (https://reason.com/blog/2015/02/24/police-union-boss-says-cop-justified-in), stated that he looked like a man (the photo above was taken the month before he was killed), and that he caused his own death. In all of this, they have confirmed just how truly awful they are as people.
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Perhaps the only people who could look at these facts and determine that what happened to Tamir Rice was "reasonable" would be fellow law enforcement officers. In fact, the only person who was reasonable on that day was Tamir.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/12/1430894/-No-police-killing-12-y-o-Tamir-Rice-wasn-t-reasonable-it-was-a-heartless-murder-backed-by-lies?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Quetzal-X

10-12-2015, 05:07 PM

Being a MOTHERFUCKING LYING PIECE OF SHIT is job requirement #1 in the police state.

boutons_deux

10-13-2015, 05:47 AM

Video Shows Police Officers “Protecting & Serving” a Computer Science Student — to Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6nCSn0dm7E

As deputies Greg Capers and Eric Vinson brutally punched and kicked Ajibade in the head several times, the student attempted to push the overzealous cops away in a failed attempt to protect himself.

After being tased and beaten on the floor, Ajibade was placed in handcuffs and leg restraints before the deputies carried him off-screen.

Deputies placed Ajibade in an isolation cell and strapped him to a restraining chair.

According to the indictment, Cpl. Jason Kenny repeatedly shot Ajibade with a Taser (http://savannahnow.com/crime/2015-05-08/nine-deputies-fired-amid-investigation-savannah-mans-death-jail) and struck him in the head and upper body as he remained strapped to the chair.

While performing a welfare check on him the next morning, deputies found Ajibade unresponsive. Medical staff administered CPR and attempted to restart his heart with a defibrillator.

A coroner pronounced him dead at 8:45 a.m.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/video-shows-police-officers-protecting-serving-computer-science-student-death

boutons_deux

10-13-2015, 03:15 PM

Suspect run over by New Mexico cop in truck — then brutally beaten as he bleeds on the ground

Albuquerque man wanted on the grand theft auto charges was run down by an undercover officer driving his truck while attempting to escape and then was Tasered as he lay on the ground with a head injury.

The video, released by the Albuquerque police Department to KMOV (http://www.kmov.com/story/30233905/nm-newly-released-video-shows-detectives-running-down-suspect) after four months of wrangling, shows Danan Gabaldon being chased by police down a neighborhood street. Part of the video, recorded from the interior of a detective’s truck shows Gabaldon being struck by the truck in what police are calling “an accident.”

Ten days earlier police attempted to arrest Gabaldon as he sped away in a stolen SUV. He was later tracked down to a neighborhood where police shot at him — including using bean bags — and used a Taser on him before he broke free.

Taking off running, the undercover cop caught up with him by driving in his unmarked truck, and then cut in front of Gabaldon, later claiming he was trying to block him from running further.
In the footage, Gabaldon can be seen banging his head on the truck’s hood before falling to the ground.

The bleeding man can then be seen writhing on the ground as one officer attempted to cuff him, while another Tasered him in the neck and back of the head before striking him repeatedly with the Taser.

According to an APD spokesperson, Gabaldon was resisting arrest and police officers acted appropriately.

APD use of force policy states: “Officers shall use only that force which is reasonably necessary,” while saying officers shouldn’t expect suspects to comply without being Tasered.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/watch-suspect-run-over-by-new-mexico-cop-in-truck-then-brutally-beaten-as-he-bleeds-on-the-ground/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

in case you forgot, APD has the highest rate of killings by cops in the USA.

Trill Clinton

10-13-2015, 05:56 PM

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Trill Clinton

10-13-2015, 06:00 PM

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boutons_deux

10-14-2015, 09:20 AM

Excessive force case in KC is a perfect example of why we need more cameras on police officers (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/13/1431466/-Excessive-force-case-in-KC-is-a-perfect-example-of-why-we-need-more-cameras-on-police-officers)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/13/1431466/-Excessive-force-case-in-KC-is-a-perfect-example-of-why-we-need-more-cameras-on-police-officers?detail=email

Quetzal-X

10-14-2015, 09:46 AM

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Living, breathing, walking shitpiles with no other realistic job opportunities or skills besides violating rights of the ones that pay them. They just fucking LOVE to escalate things so they can release the steroidal frustration of knowing the only thing they were able to be in life in a free country is a paid bully cop.

boutons_deux

10-14-2015, 10:56 AM

Judge Rules That New York City Seizing Thousands Of Cars Without Warrants Is Unconstitutional

Under an aggressive policy meant to combat unlicensed vehicles for-hire, the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) has seized (http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/annual_report_2014.pdf) over (http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/annual_report_2013.pdf) 21,000 cars since 2012. After a seizure, commission inspectors pressure owners to plead guilty and pay hundreds of dollars in fines to recover their property. The Commission’s citywide dragnet not only cracked down those who compete with established transportation companies, but also ensnared regular New Yorkers, who were simply driving their friends, family, neighbors—and even nuns—around the city.

After the TLC seized their cars without warrants, five owners sued in federal court last year. As they asserted in their complaint, the government cannot “seize property without judicial process and hold the property hostage.”

On September 30, Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni agreed and held that the warrantless seizures violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. “‘Probable cause’ is not a talismanic phrase that can be waved like a wand to justify the seizure of any property without a warrant,” she wrote. The decision marks an important victory for due process and property rights.

TLC inspectors “fall somewhere between meter maids and cops,” as the New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/taxi-inspector-blasts-agency-pressure-fine-seize-cars-article-1.1813520) once put it. While barred from carrying guns, the Commission’s 170 inspectors carry badges, are authorized to make arrests, and may carry pepper spray and batons, and wear bulletproof vests while performing their duties. City law (http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/ADC/19/5/19-506) allows TLC inspectors to seize cars suspected of being unlicensed vehicles for hire. The Commission does not release cars it seizes until a hearing that is supposed to occur no later than two weeks after the seizure.

However, owners can retrieve their cars beforehand if they either plead guilty and pay a fine (ranging from $600 to $1,150) or post a bond of $2,000, equal to the maximum penalty under the for-hire vehicle law. If an owner opts for the latter, the bond will only be released if he or she prevails at the hearing. One TLC inspector even blasted the Commission’s enforcement division as“more or less just a corrupt money-making scam for the city.” (http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140724/long-island-city/taxi-inspectors-say-theyre-pressured-make-illegal-cab-seizures) Clearly, there is a strong incentive for the owner to plead guilty, even if he or she has done nothing wrong.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2015/10/13/judge-rules-that-new-york-city-seizing-thousands-of-cars-without-warrants-is-unconstitutional/

cd021

10-14-2015, 10:41 PM

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:lol "internal review"

Investigator: "You catch the game last night."
Cop: "You know it, was crazy man."

*Week Later*

Investigator:"We have no no evidence of wrong doing on the part of our officers."

boutons_deux

10-15-2015, 02:57 PM

Welcome to the Border Region Where the Border Patrol Has Implemented Its Own Southwest ‘Stop and Frisk’ Policy

Welcome to life in the border region, where Border Patrol’s de facto policy of “stop and frisk” is familiar to local residents and yet concealed from public view. A new ACLU of Arizona report (http://www.acluaz.org/Record_of_Abuse) — based on government records obtained through Freedom of Information Act litigation — sheds light on Border Patrol’s vast “interior enforcement” operations, which take place, without meaningful oversight, far from any border (https://www.aclu.org/constitution-100-mile-border-zone).

Border Patrol’s own records undermine the agency’s claims that these operations are “safe, efficient, and cost-effective.”

Documents contain multiple accounts of Border Patrol agents stopping and searching motorists without justification; threatening residents with assault rifles, Tasers, and knives; destroying and confiscating personal property; interfering with efforts to video-record agents; and using dozens of false alerts by CBP dogs to search and detain innocent people.

These are not just a few “bad apples.” The records show Border Patrol systematically disregarding the law with impunity. One supervisor instructed agents to “stop any vehicle on the US/Mexico border road” based on the “mere presence of the vehicle.” The supervisor allegedly “didn’t care if it was the Chief of the Border Patrol and the agent conducted a high risk traffic stop removing the Chief . . . at gun point.”

There is no indication that the supervisor was reprimanded.

None of these incidents resulted in any significant discipline (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/us/aclu-accuses-border-patrol-of-underreporting-civil-rights-complaints.html). This is consistent with past reports (http://nyti.ms/1iTzDY5) on CBP’s failure to investigate, much less punish, agents who violate border residents’ rights. The ACLU has documented many similar complaints about Border Patrol’s interior checkpoints (http://www.acluaz.org/issues/press-releases/2014-01/4471) and roving patrols (http://www.acluaz.org/issues/search-and-seizure/2013-10/4179) in recent years, and those complaints were not properly investigated either. Oversight is so lax that Border Patrol doesn’t even document any stops that don’t result in an arrest, even if the stop leads to lengthy detention or property damage — a practice clearly out of line with accepted standards.

Yet for all of the harms caused by Border Patrol’s interior operations, they result in relatively few apprehensions of unauthorized border-crossers. For example, Tucson Sector interior-checkpoint apprehensions in 2013 accounted for only 0.67 percent of the sector’s total apprehensions. Yuma Sector checkpoint arrests of U.S. citizens exceeded those of non-citizens by a factor of nearly eight. |

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/15/welcome-border-region-where-border-patrol-has-implemented-its-own-southwest-stop

boutons_deux

10-16-2015, 09:01 AM

DoD Orders Police Nationwide to Give Back Grenade Launchers, Bayonets, & Tanks

When you tell someone that their police department has bayonets, their immediate reaction is denial or ridicule. “Why would cops need bayonets?” they ask.

Exactly, why would cops need bayonets?

Why do they need grenade launchers, .50 caliber rifles, Apache attack helicopters, camouflage uniforms, or tracked tank-like vehicles for that matter?

While there are multiple reasons public servants attempt to justify their need for weapons of war, the fact remains that they do have them and denying it, doesn’t change that fact.

Over the past decade, police departments have been using the 1033 program (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/military-hardware-local-pd-stockpiling-database-show-you/) to acquire these weapons of war. The feds provided surplus military hardware to local police to fight a seeming war against its own citizens. These actions went unchecked and very little government, or public oversight existed.

Then when the events that took place in Ferguson beamed across the globe, the militarized U.S. police state revealed it’s ugly face to the world.

The images of the militarized police in Ferguson made clear that the days ofAndy Griffith and Mayberry are a distant memory. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/one-minute-andy-griffith-clip-shows-control-police-state/) They have been replaced by something that looks as if it belongs on a war-torn battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq.

These revelations caused many to question why small police departments across the country were procuring mine-resistant armored personnel carriers, grenade launchers, and other weapons of war.
Because of backlash from the citizens, the federal government was forced to act. In January of this year, Obama signed Executive Order 13688. However, this EO appeared to have very little effect on the departments, and largely went ignored, until now.

On Thursday, however, police departments across the country were sent a memorandum that sets a deadline for them to return prohibited military equipment.

The memo references Recommendation 1.1 to EP 13688 (https://www.bja.gov/publications/LEEWG_Report_Final.pdf)which prohibits the following items in police departments:

Tracked Armored Vehicles: Vehicles that provide ballistic protection to their occupants and utilize a tracked system instead of wheels for forward motion.
Weaponized Aircraft, Vessels, and Vehicles of Any Kind: These items will be prohibited from purchase or transfer with weapons installed.
Firearms of .50‐Caliber or Higher
Ammunition of .50‐Caliber or Higher
Grenade Launchers: Firearm or firearm accessory designed to launch small explosive projectiles.
Bayonets: Large knives designed to be attached to the muzzle of a rifle/shotgun/long gun for the purposes of hand‐to‐hand combat.
Camouflage Uniforms: Does not include woodland or desert patterns or solid color uniforms.

The memo (http://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/law-enforcement-agencies-must-return-certain-weapons-of-war) states:

State and Local LEA’s are directed to return the following equipment to DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) Disposition Services.

Tracked Armored Vehicles
M-79 Grenade Launchers
Bayonets

The above items, according to the memo, are to be returned no later than April 1, 2016.

Missing from this memo, however, are .50 caliber firearms, camouflage, and weaponized aircraft.

The entire process of issuing these weapons only to later recall them speaks to the sheer inefficient manner of the state.

As if there would ever be a scenario in which police would need to affix bayonets to protect the public at large; yet departments across the country have acquired thousands of them. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/military-hardware-local-pd-stockpiling-database-show-you/)

While this memo is a start, it does nothing to address the unaccountable and brutal nature of police in America. A police officer does not need a grenade launcher nor a bayonet to violently assault an innocent mother in front of her children. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-innocent-mother-beaten-cops-front-children-reporting-cops-rude-behavior/)

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dod-orders-police-nationwide-give-back-grenade-launchers-bayonets-tanks?akid=13579.187590.vIuJnN&rd=1&src=newsletter1044166&t=22

And if the Warrior Cops don't give the war materiel back?

Quetzal-X

10-16-2015, 09:50 AM

boutons_deux

10-16-2015, 11:19 AM

Florida sheriff furious Obama took his military tank away: People will die because of this decision

Police in Florida are complaining that the Obama Administration is recalling military-style tanks that many have complained made American city streets look like foreign war zones during unrest in places like Ferguson, Missouri last year.Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson said losing an M113 — an armored personnel carrier — will result in some of his officers going on “suicide missions,” the Orlando Sentinel reports (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-obama-police-tanks-taken-florida-20151015-story.html).

“People will die because of this decision,” Johnson told the paper.

Volusia County still has another tank, an MRAP — Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle. But the difference is the M113 has tracks instead of wheels that allow it to travel in terrains wheels won’t go.

“The idea that our president will take this stuff away from us, the M113 (armored personnel carrier), puts not only our deputies in harm’s way but the citizens in harm’s way,” Johnson fumed to the News-Journal (http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20151014/news/151019747). “It’s obvious from some of the decisions he’s made that he really doesn’t care a whole lot about law enforcement officers.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/florida-sheriff-furious-obama-took-his-military-tank-away-people-will-die-because-of-this-decision/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

(red state) Sheriffs! fucking, whiny, dickless jokes. I bet this asshole is an paid-up Oath Keeper.

TheSanityAnnex

10-16-2015, 11:36 AM

Extended family member got fired from a damn dollar store rental place for theft and 13 days later gets communication and offered something real nice from BP. College 2nd semester dropout, fired for being a thief on camera and less than 2 weeks later is planning on how to spend his grand prize winnings. We have great laughs over it 'specially cause his folks were here illegally for a long while. He says the physical portion was the only hard part. Nothing special here , just like other leos.

Sounds like your piece of shit thieving family member will fit right in and become a crooked border patrol agent himself. Great laughs indeed.

Trill Clinton

10-16-2015, 12:09 PM

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Trill Clinton

10-16-2015, 12:12 PM

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boutons_deux

10-16-2015, 01:16 PM

Michigan family sues after son slain during traffic stop for flashing brights

An internal investigation concluded he followed department regulations and training :lol

but recommended the department "re-emphasize" training. :lol

Guilford was stopped for flashing his bright lights. They began to struggle when Frost tried to pull Guilford from his vehicle.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-michigan-traffic-stop-shooting-20151016-story.html

the isolated "bad apple" bullshit is proven to be bullshit. fuck the cops.

boutons_deux

10-16-2015, 01:36 PM

This White Couple Got Away with Something That Would Likely Put Black Couples in Danger

I challenge you to imagine how different the outcome would have been if all the players were black. Because really.

Even neighbors describe a scene where the cops gave everyone involved a pretty remarkable number of chances. Speaking to News4Jax, one neighbor described hearing the SWAT team’s announcements: “Constantly saying, 'It's the last warning!' So I thought, what's going to happen? We kept hearing the sirens and everything. All we knew was that it was going to be a big bust because there was a lot of them."

The SWAT team finally forced its way into the mobile home, presumably after Bautista and Hunn finished their post-coital cigarette. Forte, Bautista and Hunn were apprehended around 4:30am. Forte is reportedly charged with “murder, armed robbery with a firearm or other deadly weapon and possession of a weapon by a felon.” Hunn and Bautista were charged with “resisting arrest without violence and false imprisonment.”

No one was shot, tased or even roughed up, apparently. After an almost seven-hour standoff.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/white-couple-got-away-something-would-likely-put-black-couples-danger?akid=13580.187590.PpgR-k&rd=1&src=newsletter1044207&t=4

if only they had flashed their high beams, they'd be dead.

boutons_deux

10-16-2015, 02:53 PM

Cops Kill Many More Americans Than the FBI's Data Shows

A new investigation (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/fbi-record-police-killings-tamir-rice-eric-garner) from the Guardian gives a detailed look at the deep flaws in the FBI's database on fatal police shootings.

The inadequacy of the federal data, which is built from information voluntarily reported by police departments, has come into view as the Guardian and the Washington Post have tracked (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/data-police-shootings-washington-post-guardian) officer-involved killings in 2015.

FBI Director James Comey recently called the federal data "embarrassing and ridiculous (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/fbi-chief-says-ridiculous-guardian-washington-post-better-information-police-shootings)," and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/05/justice-department-trials-system-count-killings-us-law-enforcement-the-counted) a new program aimed at better tracking civilian deaths at the hands of police.

The Guardian examined the FBI's justifiable homicide data for the decade spanning from 2004 to 2014 and found:

In 2014, only 244—or 1.2 percent—of the nation's estimated 18,000 law enforcement agencies reported a fatal shooting by their officers.
Several high-profile deaths, including those ofEric Garner (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/police-misconduct-payments-eric-garner-nypd) in New York, and Tamir Rice (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/new-tamir-rice-investigations-cleveland-police-shooting-6-takeaways) andJohn Crawford (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/john-crawford-tamir-rice-ohio-police-shooting-deaths) in Ohio, were not included in the FBI's count, as the police agencies involved did not submit their data for those years or report those incidents to the FBI. The NYPD, for example, did not submit data for any year during this period except for one, in 2006. Still the FBI's count did not match up with the NYPD's own data from that year, which the NYPD publishes in a separate annual report.
The FBI lists 32 ways of classifying the incidents based on the circumstances—but only one denotes killing by a police officer: "felon killed by police." There is no category for cases where an officer killed someone who was not a felon. (See Mother Jones' previous (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-ferguson-race-data) reporting (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/fbi-justifiable-homicides-police-felons) on the FBI's classification of justifiable homicides.)
Some police departments reported unjustified killings by cops as killings between civilians. Other deaths in which officers were charged or convicted, such as that of Oscar Grant (http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/when-police-shoot-unarmed-man-oscar-grant-verdict-Mehserle), Rekia Boyd (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/say-her-name-andrea-ritchie-black-lives-matter), Malissa Williams, and Timothy Russell (http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2015/04/everything_you_need_to_know_be.html), did not show up at all in the FBI database.
A rise in the number of police shootings corresponded with a rise in agencies reporting their figures, obscuring any potential trends over the decade reviewed.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/police-shootings-fbi-data-missing-errors

cd021

10-17-2015, 05:31 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/matthew-ajibade-acquitted_5621751fe4b08589ef47943f

Cops acquitted of manslaughter after killing an bi polar man in a jail. :bang

boutons_deux

10-19-2015, 08:28 AM

For men in prison, child support becomes a crushing debt

Earl L. Harris did not owe child support when he was sent to prison in 1997 for selling marijuana. He now concedes that dealing drugs may have been a stupid move for a new father.

But Harris, then 19, had grown up poor and dropped out of school, and the only legitimate work available to young, black men like him, he says, was a temp job without benefits.

“Nobody was hiring,” he said. “I got into hustling because I wanted to support my baby.”

The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonville, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter. His girlfriend moved on, later marrying someone else. After just two months in prison, Harris started getting the letters.

Child support. You owe: $168.

They came once a month, piling up debt.

Child support. You owe: $168. Arrears: $336. Arrears: $504. Arrears: $672. Plus interest and other fees.

Of the 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, about half are parents, and at least 1 in 5 has a child support obligation. For most, the debt will keep piling up throughout their imprisonment: By law or by practice, child support agencies in much of the country consider incarceration a form of “voluntary impoverishment.” Parents like Harris, the logic goes, have only themselves to blame for not earning a living.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/10/18/National-Politics/Graphics/2300childsupport-prisoner-10xx.jpg?uuid=ZzemSnXhEeWl4kDWsq0Y3Q

But that may be about to change. The Obama administration has authorized a new set of regulations that would reclassify incarceration as “involuntary,” giving parents the right to push the pause button on child support payments. The regulations are set to be published early next year and implemented by states by 2017.

Congressional Republicans oppose the new policy. They argue that it would undercut the 1996 welfare reform act, which pressed states to locate missing fathers and bill them for child support so taxpayers wouldn’t bear the full burden of their children’s welfare.

“I am fundamentally opposed to policies that allow parents to abdicate their responsibilities, which, in turn, results in more families having to go on welfare,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)

When he got out in 2001, the unpaid amount was listed on his credit report — and pursued by an agency with the power to garnish 65 percent of his wages, intercept his tax returns, freeze his bank account, suspend his driver’s license and, if he failed to pay, lock him up again.

By then, his debt had surged to more than $10,000.

Harris entered barbering school but soon returned to drug dealing and was thrown back into prison for nearly a decade. Meanwhile, his child-support debt swelled to more than $25,000.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/10/18/National-Politics/Graphics/2300childsupport-overdue-10xx.jpg?uuid=bfiDAHXhEeWl4kDWsq0Y3Q

The Marshall Project interviewed nearly three dozen noncustodial parents in 10 states; they all left prison owing between $10,000 and $110,000 in child support. Mostly fathers who are disproportionately black and poor, these parents faced prosecution for not repaying the debt, even after their children were grown.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-men-in-prison-child-support-becomes-a-crushing-debt/2015/10/18/e751a324-5bb7-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

Old White racist "Christian" men fucking over the poor, demanded life-destroying observance to a law they wrote to fuck over the poor.

America, esp the Repugs/conservatives, fucks its own citizens much worse that Muslim terrorists.

Trill Clinton

10-19-2015, 11:43 AM

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boutons_deux

10-19-2015, 01:22 PM

Kentucky Prosecutor: Being Hispanic Is Good Enough Reason For Police To Pull You Overhttp://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/19/3713641/kentucky-prosecutor-being-hispanic-is-good-enough-reason-for-police-to-pull-you-over/

boutons_deux

10-19-2015, 04:24 PM

How Chicago Police 'Disappeared' 7,000 People in an Off-the-Books Interrogation Warehouse

Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/05/homan-square-chicago-thousands-detained), the Guardian can now reveal.

From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than twice the proportion of the city’s population. But only 68 of those held were allowed access to attorneys or a public notice of their whereabouts, internal police records show.

The new disclosures, the result of an ongoing Guardian transparency lawsuit and investigation, provide the most detailed, full-scale portrait yet of the truth about Homan Square (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/homan-square), a secretive facility that Chicago police have described as little more than a low-level narcotics crime outpost where the mayor has said police “follow all the rules.”

The police portrayals contrast sharply with those of Homan Square detainees and their lawyers, who insist that “if this could happen to someone, it could happen to anyone.” A 30-year-old man named Jose, for example, was one of the few detainees with an attorney present when he surrendered to police. He said officers at the warehouse questioned him even after his lawyer specifically told them he would not speak.

“The Fillmore and Homan boys,” Jose said, referring to police and the facility’s cross streets, “don’t play by the rules.”

According to an analysis of data disclosed to the Guardian in late September, police allowed lawyers access to Homan Square for only 0.94% of the 7,185 arrests logged over nearly 11 years. That percentage aligns with Chicago (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/chicago) police’s broader practice of providing minimal access to attorneys during the crucial early interrogation stage, when an arrestee’s constitutional rights against self-incrimination are most vulnerable.

But Homan Square is unlike Chicago police precinct houses, according to lawyers who described a “find-your-client game” and experts who reviewed data from the latest tranche of arrestee records obtained by the Guardian.

"Not much shakes me in this business – baby murder, sex assault, I’ve done it all,” said David Gaeger, an attorney whose client was taken to Homan Square in 2011 after being arrested for marijuana. “That place was and is scary. It’s a scary place. There’s nothing about it that resembles a police station. It comes from a Bond movie or something.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-chicago-police-disappeared-7000-people-books-interrogation-warehouse

Winehole23

10-20-2015, 09:53 AM

backscatter x-ray vans keep us safe in NYC:

For more than three years, ProPublica has been fighting to force the NYPD to disclose the details of its fleet of X-ray vans. Earlier this year, New York State Supreme Court Judge Doris Ling-Cohan ruled that the NYPD couldn’t shield itself from Freedom of Information requests simply because disclosing fleet details could interefere with ongoing investigations. The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefing arguing against the NYPD’s position, but New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton continues to stonewall reporters.

“Those are issues I’d prefer not to divulge to the public at this time,” Bratton said. “I will not talk about anything at all about this — it falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.”

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/216551-nypd-caught-using-x-ray-vans-to-search-the-public-refuses-court-order-to-release-details#.ViZChH8Mw-k.facebook

boutons_deux

10-20-2015, 02:01 PM

Alabama judge accused of telling debtors to give blood or face jail time

An Alabama judge told defendants who could not pay court fines that they could donate blood or go to jail, a civil rights legal group has charged in an ethics complaint filed against the official.

Judge Marvin Wiggins presented that choice to dozens of people who showed up in his Perry County courtroom on Sept. 17 for a hearing on court fees, fines and restitution they owed in criminal cases, the Southern Poverty Law Center said a complaint filed on Monday with the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama.

"If you do not have any money and you don't want to go to jail, consider giving blood today and bring me your receipt back," Wiggins told defendants, according to the complaint.

"Or the sheriff has enough handcuffs for those who do not have money."

“People who couldn’t pay their court debt with cash literally paid with their blood,” she said on Tuesday. “I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s a total disregard not only for judicial ethics, but of the Constitution.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-alabama-judge-idUSKCN0SE2ET20151020?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

boutons_deux

10-20-2015, 02:52 PM

The FCC Aims to Lower Cost of Prison Phone Calls in Historic Vote

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to make a decision this month that will overhaul the industry that for decades has been making millions from phone calls made by incarcerated people throughout the United States.

Once run by jails and prisons themselves, phone services in the age of mass incarceration are outsourced to private companies. Today, this is a $1.2 billion business. The two main industry giants, Securus Technologies and Global Tel-Link (GTL), have become so profitable that they have been bought out by large investment firms.

Within the prison industrial complex, phone companies are perhaps the best example of capitalism run amuck. They are reaping huge profits from what is, literally, a captive audience.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33295-fcc-plan-to-lower-cost-of-prison-phone-calls-leaves-justice-still-on-hold

boutons_deux

10-21-2015, 02:59 PM

This Minnesota police department says drinking coffee while driving is illegal

A St. Paul woman is dumbfounded after getting pulled over for doing something everyone who drives a car has done — taking a sip of coffee.Lindsey Krieger said she was merging onto I-94 when she was pulled over on Monday. The officer asked her if she knew what she was doing wrong, and she said no. The officer informed her she had taken a sip from her coffee cup, and that doing so is against the law, Fox9 reports (http://www.rawstory.com/?p=735197&preview=true).

“I thought it was a joke,” Krieger said.

The police department sided with the officer. Sgt. Mike Ernster of the St. Paul Police Department told the station he couldn’t comment on the specifics of the case, but said, “Inattentive driving relates to anything that takes your attention away from those obligations of every driver, which is to pay attention.”

She plans to contest the ticket.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/this-minnesota-police-department-says-drinking-coffee-while-driving-is-illegal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

10-24-2015, 01:45 PM

Unarmed marijuana dealer shot in face and killed by cop who won’t face charges

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/derek-cruise-no-charges-for-cops-800x430.jpg

DDerek Cruice was a kind and loving young man who was murdered in cold blood by state agents because he allegedly sold a plant that is legal in five states.In March, a heavily militarized police SWAT team, knowing that Cruice had never been convicted of a crime, descended on his home on Maybrook Drive in Deltona.

Police did not knock. Instead, they used a battering ram to bust down the door, sending multiple heavily armed storm troopers into the house.

Friends who were inside the home explained that police fired their weapons without hesitation. They described how it was blatantly obvious that Cruice was unarmed, as he was wearing basketball shorts and no shirt.

Cruice was shot in his face and died on scene.

The friends were also quick to point out that there were no weapons. In fact, a police search of the property revealed that there were no weapons at all.

The entire assault on private property and subsequent murder was carried out to “protect” society from a person who had harmed no one,

“After two days of testimony and in deliberation, the grand jury declined to indict Deputy Raible on a manslaughter by culpable negligence charge,” said State Attorney R.J. Larizza. (http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/state-attorney-announce-if-there-will-be-charges-a/nn7Kd/)

"investigator Raible and the other deputies in that fateful moment ... their lives were in danger.” :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/unarmed-marijuana-dealer-shot-in-face-and-killed-by-cop-who-wont-face-charges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

10-24-2015, 01:47 PM

California officer sued for copying photos of woman he arrested

A California Highway Patrol officer copied photos of a scantily clad woman from her phone after arresting her for driving under the influence last year near San Francisco, the woman alleges in a lawsuit brought against the officer and the agency.

Natalie Sramek filed the suit in federal court in the Northern District of California on Thursday, accusing the officer and the highway patrol of conducting a warrant-less search of her phone and of denying her right to due process.

California Highway Patrol Officer Sean Harrington pulled over Sramek on suspicion of driving under the influence on Aug. 29, 2014, on a highway in San Ramon, about 20 miles (40 km) east of San Francisco, according to the lawsuit.

He took her purse and cell phone and convinced her to give him the pass code for her phone, the lawsuit said.

Harrington later scrolled through the pictures on it and copied six photos of Sramek in "various states of undress" by sending them to his own phone, the lawsuit said.

He then shared the photos with at least one other highway patrol officer,

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/us-california-highwaypatrol-idUSKCN0SH2NI20151023?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Trill Clinton

10-24-2015, 03:33 PM

COP POSES AS WOMEN TO GIVE 60 MEN ORAL SEX THROUGH GLORY HOLE :PUKE

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Chesterfield, MO – A Missouri police officer has recently been exposed as a sexual predator who terrorized his community, and this week he has pleaded guilty to the first of the charges against him. Although a recent investigation has revealed that former Chesterfield police officer David E. Cerna is connected with a number of different sex crimes, the first charges against him stem from a scam that he ran on craigslist where he pretended to be a woman and lured straight men to his home for anonymous oral sex.

On the website, the 34-year-old police officer would offer free oral sex and send them a picture of a woman that he claimed to be, but when the men arrived at his home, he said he would only perform the act anonymously, through a hole in the door. At least 60 straight men were coaxed into this situation and were recorded by Cerna, who later posted the videos on pornography websites. He was later charged with invasion of privacy for recording and publishing the sex acts and plead guilty this week.

However, the resulting investigation uncovered even more evidence of wrongdoing on the part of officer Cerna, including at least one circumstance where an underage boy was arrested and sexually assaulted on camera. The investigation also showed that Cerna had placed a spy camera in the bathroom of a local convenience store and posted those recordings on porn sites as well. It was suggested in some reports (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ex-chesterfield-cop-pleads-guilty-to-charges-of-secretly-taping/article_e8bc7443-23b6-5f17-8efe-6c3308cb96ac.html) that the sites were actually owned by Cerna, meaning that he was profiting from them as well.

After the investigation was made public, Attorney Gonzalo Fernandez pointed out that there were likely many underage victims that were directly assaulted by Cerna while he was on active duty.

“In fact the contact would often be initiated by him performing some sort of traffic stop. Some of these people are minors… I know one of them was as young as 16,“ Fernandez said. (http://kplr11.com/2014/11/10/bathroom-camera-cop-now-faces-allegations-of-abusing-teen-subjects/)

“David Cerna kind of took it upon himself to walk through various bedrooms of the house by himself, which at the time seemed strange to the family and now knowing what they do about his propensity for clandestine filming, you wonder,” he added.

The mother of the victims reportedly said, ‘It`s messed my son up horribly. He is paranoid all the time, thinking that someone is watching him, all the time. He won`t sleep alone. He thinks people are after him all the time.”

The investigation into the full extent of Cerna’s crimes is still ongoing, and it is unclear exactly how much time he will be facing.

Quetzal-X

10-24-2015, 08:35 PM

boutons_deux

10-25-2015, 08:25 AM

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Guardian lawsuit exposes fullest scale yet of detentions at off-the-books interrogation warehouse, while attorneys describe find-your-client chase across Chicago as ‘something from a Bond movie’

Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/05/homan-square-chicago-thousands-detained), the Guardian can now reveal.

From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than twice the proportion of the city’s population. But only 68 of those held were allowed access to attorneys or a public notice of their whereabouts, internal police records show.

The new disclosures, the result of an ongoing Guardian transparency lawsuit and investigation, provide the most detailed, full-scale portrait yet of the truth about Homan Square (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/homan-square), a secretive facility that Chicago police have described as little more than a low-level narcotics crime outpost where the mayor has said police “follow all the rules”.

The police portrayals contrast sharply with those of Homan Square detainees and their lawyers, who insist that “if this could happen to someone, it could happen to anyone”.

A 30-year-old man named Jose, for example, was one of the few detainees with an attorney present when he surrendered to police. He said officers at the warehouse questioned him even after his lawyer specifically told them he would not speak.

“The Fillmore and Homan boys,” Jose said, referring to police and the facility’s cross streets, “don’t play by the rules.”

“If you’re laboring under the assumption that your client’s at Homan, there really isn’t much you can do as a lawyer. You’re shut out. It’s guarded like a military installation.”

“Often,” Futterman continued, “prisoners aren’t entered into the central booking system until they’re being processed – which doesn’t occur at Homan Square. They’re supposed to begin that processing right away, under CPD procedures (http://directives.chicagopolice.org/lt2014/data/a7a56e4b-12ccbe26-df812-ccbf-bb66447d9a33ff3e.html), and at Homan Square the reality is, that isn’t happening or is happening sporadically and inconsistently, which leads to the whole find-your-client game.”

Police took a substantial amount of marijuana and what Jose said was about $10,000 in cash. The arrest report listed the cash at $4,670. Jose said he never got his money back.

“Are you going to help yourself?” Jose remembered the officer telling him.

“What do you mean, help myself? ‘Are you going to talk to me?’ ‘Nah, my lawyer was just here. You could have just said this in front of my lawyer. I know my rights’ … He wasn’t trying to hear it. He was just blabbing away, like ‘Oh, you think you’re a smart-ass,’ this and that.

“That’s what they do, man: they get people who don’t know their rights,” Jose continued. “That’s probably how they came upon me and my house – probably someone ended up talking to them and they dry-snitched on me. All they knew was that I lived there.

“They squeeze people, and then they go get somebody else. That’s what they do.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands?utm_source=Narratively+email+list&utm_campaign=c34b1bf869-Weekender_October_25th10_23_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f944cd8d3b-c34b1bf869-66503933

Trill Clinton

10-25-2015, 12:06 PM

http://i58.tinypic.com/2cohggg.pngCOP CAUGHT UPLOADING CHILD PORN ON KIK MESSENGER :PUKE
http://heavy.com/news/2015/09/michael-harding-port-st-lucie-florida-police-officer-of-the-year-child-pornography-porn-federal-charges-documents-arrested-photos-wife-children/

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Officer Michael Harding, left, receives an award while with the Fort Pierce Police Department in 2010. (Fort Pierce Police/Facebook)

A former police officer of the year in Florida has been arrested on federal child pornography charges.
Port St. Lucie Police Officer Michael Harding, 27, was charged by criminal complaint with receiving and distributing material involving sexual exploitation of minors and possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida said Wednesday in a press release. (http://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/port-st-lucie-police-officer-charged-receiving-distributing-and-possessing-child)
Harding was caught uploading child pornography to the smartphone instant messenger app Kik, according to court documents. He was held without bond after making his first court appearance Wednesday.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. He Uploaded the Child Porn While in His Police Car, Investigators Say

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(Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Crownandcoke/photos))

Federal prosecutors say (http://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/port-st-lucie-police-officer-charged-receiving-distributing-and-possessing-child)that Michael Harding was identified as the owner of an account on the instant messaging app Kik that posted images of child porn on July 23.
Investigators said another image and video of “child related sexually explicit material were posted to the account.” According to the criminal complaint, investigators believe Harding uploaded some of the child pornography while working in his police car.
Read the full criminal complaint below from Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Brian Ray below:
Ray said in the criminal complaint that location data from Harding’s police vehicle shows that on the dates and times the child pornography was posted to the Kik account allegedly belonging to Harding, he was in his police car. The vehicle was “in service and stationary for approximately one hour during each of the timeframes when child pornography was psoted, with the posts to the Kik chat room occurring toward the middle of the stationary periods.”
Ray wrote in the affidavit, “The vehicle being in use, coupled with the lack of vehicle movement and the posts occurring using cellular date, is consistent with the child pornography uploads taking place while Harden [sic] was working in his PSLPD vehicle.” Records show that Harding was working on an off-duty detail at traffic construction sites during both time periods.
2. He Was Caught by an Undercover Agent in the Kik Chat Room ‘#Toddlerf**k’

According to the criminal complaint (https://www.scribd.com/doc/282513666/Officer-Michael-Harding-Criminal-Complaint), an undercover federal agent found the Kik account while undercover in a chatroom called “#toddlerf**k”
Ray said in the affidavit that the child pornography was posted by a Kik user “desthfromabovee,” which was created from a WiFi access point at Harding’s Port. St. Lucie home and from a phone owned by Harding.
The images and videos uploaded by Harding included preteen and preschool age victims, federal investigators said.
Federal agents searched Harding’s Port St. Lucie home and seized his computer, cell phones, thumb drives and other materials, on September 22.
“A preliminary forensic analysis revealed that the recovered items allegedly contained hundreds of images and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
According to the complaint, a thumb drive was found in a gun case at Harding’s home with a folder called “Captain planet” that had a subfolder named “Boys” with a video called “6 yo boy suck.” Another folder was called “Man+KID” and also contained a video file. The thumb drive also included photos of Harding and photos related to his work as a police officer, according to the complaint.
Investigators also said they recovered 23 deleted child pornography images from a thum drive found in a storage bin, including “bondage images depicting prepubescent girls.”
3. He Is Being Held as a ‘Flight Risk’ & ‘Danger to the Community’

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Harding, who was appointed a federal public defender at his first court appearance was ordered held as a flight risk and danger to the community. A hearing on his pre-trial detention was set for Wednesday, September 30, according to court documents.
“These charges are very serious and I think it goes without saying that this type of behavior will not and is not tolerated in this department,” Port St. Lucie Police Chief John Bolduc told reporters. (http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/port-st-lucie-cop-michael-harding-arrested-homeland-security-agents-29526.shtml)
Harding faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. He has been placed on administrative leave without pay by his department.
4. He Was Named Officer of the Year in Fort Pierce in 2011 & Joined the Port St. Lucie Department in 2012

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(Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Crownandcoke/photos))

In 2011, Harding was honored by The Hundred Club as the Fort Pierce Police Department’s Officer of the Year, according to an article on Fort-Pierce.net. (http://fort-pierce.net/hundred-club-honors-top-fort-pierce-law-enforcement-officers/)
Fort Pierce Police Chief Sean Baldwin said Harding had “impressed us” during his time with the department. He issued 76 DUI citations in the year before he won the award, more than anyone else in the department.

According to records from the Fort Pierce Police released to WPTV (http://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/port-st-lucie/port-st-lucie-police-officer-michael-harding-arrested-by-homeland-security), Harding was hired in 2008 and worked in road patrol, on the traffic unit and the crisis intervention team.
He joined the department after graduating from Indian River State College with a degree in criminal justice technology in 2008.
Harding left the Fort Pierce Police Department in 2012 and joined the Port St. Lucie Police. He was referred to as one of Fort Pierce’s “top cops” in an article about his departure.
Fort Pierce Chief Sean Baldwin cited Harding as an example for why his department should raise its salaries. Harding told the chief he felt the move to Port St. Lucie was in the best interests of him and his family, according to the WPTV report. (http://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/fort-pierce/fort-pierce-police-chief-proposes-salary-increases) His salary increased from $35,172 a year to $47,399.
5. He Is Married With Young Children

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(Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Crownandcoke/photos))

Harding is married and has young children, Harding said in court, according to Treasure Coast Newspapers. (http://www.tcpalm.com/news/local-news/port-st-lucie/report-from-the-appearance-of-psl-police-officer-arrested-on-child-porn-charges)
He was married in June 2014, according to photos on his Facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/Crownandcoke/photos)

boutons_deux

10-25-2015, 05:53 PM

BUSTED: Atlanta cop releases black man stopped for doing nothing after noticing he’s being filmed

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/busted-atlanta-cop-releases-black-man-stopped-for-doing-nothing-after-noticing-hes-being-filmed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

10-25-2015, 05:59 PM

The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black

An examination of traffic stops and arrests in Greensboro, N.C., uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct.

Documenting racial profiling in police work is devilishly difficult, because a multitude of factors — including elevated violent crime rates in many black neighborhoods — makes it hard to tease out evidence of bias from other influences. But an analysis by The New York Times of tens of thousands of traffic stops and years of arrest data in this racially mixed city of 280,000 uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct.

Those same disparities were found across North Carolina, the state that collects the most detailed data on traffic stops. And at least some of them showed up in the six other states that collect comprehensive traffic-stop statistics.

Here in North Carolina’s third-largest city, officers pulled over African-American drivers for traffic violations at a rate far out of proportion with their share of the local driving population. They used their discretion to search black drivers or their cars more than twice as often as white motorists — even though they found drugs and weapons significantly more often when the driver was white.

Officers were more likely to stop black drivers for no discernible reason. And they were more likely to use force if the driver was black, even when they did not encounter physical resistance.

The routine nature of the stops belies their importance.

As the public’s most common encounter with law enforcement, they largely shape perceptions of the police. Indeed, complaints about traffic-law enforcement are at the root of many accusations that some police departments engage in racial profiling. Since Ferguson erupted in protests in August last year, three of the deaths of African-Americans that have roiled the nation occurred after drivers were pulled over for minor traffic infractions: a broken brake light (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/north-charleston-prepares-for-weekend-of-mourning-and-protest-in-walter-scott-shooting.html?_r=2), a missing front license plate (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/us/university-of-cincinnati-officer-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-motorist.html) and failure to signal a lane change (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/23/us/23blandlisty.html).

Violence is rare, but routine traffic stops more frequently lead to searches, arrests and the opening of a trapdoor into the criminal justice system that can have a lifelong impact, especially for those without the financial or other resources to negotiate it (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/us/when-bail-is-out-of-defendants-reach-other-costs-mount.html).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffic-stops-driving-black.html

boutons_deux

10-25-2015, 07:35 PM

Savannah fire captain facing charges for attacking and aiming pistol at black couple during racist meltdown

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An ex-Fireman of the Year in Savannah, Georgia is facing charges that he became violent and abusive toward a black couple in an Applebee’s restaurant and then threatened them with a gun.According to the Savannah Morning News (http://savannahnow.com/crime/2015-10-22/firefighter-facing-misdemeanor-charges-racial-slurs-pointing-gun#), Capt. Barry R. “Ricky” Arnold Jr. of the Savannah of Savannah Fire and Emergency Services was arrested and charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and pointing a gun at another.

Arnold and his wife were dining at an Applebee’s location last week when Arnold — who police records say was highly intoxicated — became agitated and used racist slurs toward their server, a black woman.

WSAV reported (http://wsav.com/2015/10/22/former-firefighter-of-the-year-arrested/) that a black man at a nearby table — identified in police documents as “Mr. Curtis” — told Arnold to calm down, which sent the firefighter into a rage.

“Mr. Curtis told me that he then advised Mr. Arnold to relax and that Mr. Arnold then redirected his disorderly behavior towards him,” said Arnold’s arrest report.

“Mr. Curtis reported that Mr. Arnold then called Ms. Phillips a ‘n—-r’ and that Mr. Curtis asked Mr. Arnold what his problem was.

Mr. Curtis stated that Mr. Arnold replied that he did not have to explain ‘s-t’ to him at which point the altercation started after Mr. Arnold attempted to kick Mr. Curtis while seated in the seat. Mr. Curtis told me that he hurt his right eye by hitting at a table when Mr. Arnold tackled him.”

The altercation spilled out in to the parking lot, where Arnold got a gun from his car and pointed it at Curtis and his companion.

“Mr. Curtis reported hearing Mr. Arnold say that he was going to kill him and continued to use the ‘N-word,'” the arrest report continued.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/savannah-fire-captain-facing-charges-for-attacking-and-aiming-pistol-at-black-couple-during-racist-meltdown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

10-26-2015, 08:24 PM

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Trill Clinton

10-26-2015, 08:53 PM

cop has a reckless history:

http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/ben-fields-richland-county-south-carolina-sheriff-deputy-spring-valley-high-school-photo-football-coach-bodybuilder-cop-student-desk-video-complaints/ (http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/ben-fields-richland-county-south-carolina-sheriff-deputy-spring-valley-high-school-photo-football-coach-bodybuilder-cop-student-desk-video-complaints/)

look at this tough guyhttp://i61.tinypic.com/15h1qo6.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MI7wPpbD_M

cd021

10-27-2015, 05:15 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/california-cops-arm-officers-nunchucks-article-1.2412670

Cops in a California town will replace. Batons with Nun chucks.

:lmao

boutons_deux

10-27-2015, 06:09 AM

So Many Facts That We’ll Never Know About Corey Jones’ Death

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One true and tragic fact about the shooting of Corey Jones is that we’ll never know all the facts. Jones is dead, and the only apparent eyewitness is the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, officer who shot him at 3:15 a.m. on an off-ramp of I-95, where Jones was waiting for a tow truck.

That’s another true and tragic fact — the man was only waiting for a tow truck.

On Thursday Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Jones’ family, said officer Nouman Raja fired six rounds, hitting Jones three times. He said Jones’ body was found 80 to 100 feet from his car, suggesting he had tried to get away, and that his weapon had not been fired.

A national spotlight has been cast on the shooting because Jones, a 31-year-old black man, had no criminal record and was committing no crime at the time the officer stopped.

The handgun in Jones’ possession was legal. He’d purchased it a few days earlier, and the box with the paperwork was still in his car. He might still be alive if he’d been unarmed.

Jones was a housing inspector, a drummer, and a member of his church band. He was on his way home from a gig when his car broke down on the interstate ramp. Raja, dressed in street clothes, rolled up in a white unmarked van.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/so-many-facts-that-well-never-know-about-corey-jones-death/

My guess: Jones didn't know the other guy was a cop and ran, and the murderous cop took Jones' gun out of his car and put it with his body.

I'm 100% certain: the police are LYING.

Trill Clinton

10-27-2015, 10:18 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/california-cops-arm-officers-nunchucks-article-1.2412670

Cops in a California town will replace. Batons with Nun chucks.

:lmao

lol wtf?!!! these guys, man...

So Many Facts That We’ll Never Know About Corey Jones’ Death

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One true and tragic fact about the shooting of Corey Jones is that we’ll never know all the facts. Jones is dead, and the only apparent eyewitness is the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, officer who shot him at 3:15 a.m. on an off-ramp of I-95, where Jones was waiting for a tow truck.

That’s another true and tragic fact — the man was only waiting for a tow truck.

On Thursday Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Jones’ family, said officer Nouman Raja fired six rounds, hitting Jones three times. He said Jones’ body was found 80 to 100 feet from his car, suggesting he had tried to get away, and that his weapon had not been fired.

A national spotlight has been cast on the shooting because Jones, a 31-year-old black man, had no criminal record and was committing no crime at the time the officer stopped.

The handgun in Jones’ possession was legal. He’d purchased it a few days earlier, and the box with the paperwork was still in his car. He might still be alive if he’d been unarmed.

Jones was a housing inspector, a drummer, and a member of his church band. He was on his way home from a gig when his car broke down on the interstate ramp. Raja, dressed in street clothes, rolled up in a white unmarked van.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/so-many-facts-that-well-never-know-about-corey-jones-death/

My guess: Jones didn't know the other guy was a cop and ran, and the murderous cop took Jones' gun out of his car and put it with his body.

I'm 100% certain: the police are LYING.

this story is troubling because cory was waiting for AAA to arrive and here comes officer dumbass and kills him.

Trill Clinton

10-27-2015, 10:18 AM

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SpursforSix

10-27-2015, 10:25 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/california-cops-arm-officers-nunchucks-article-1.2412670

Cops in a California town will replace. Batons with Nun chucks.

:lmao

lol wtf?!!! these guys, man...

This is actually a smart move. Nun chucks in the hands of someone trained to use them are much less lethal for the perp than a baton. You can use the chucks as a restraining tool as well as a striking tool. My guess is that this will lower the incidents of police brutality and lessen the incidents where a gun was involved.

Trill Clinton

10-27-2015, 10:27 AM

SpursforSix

10-27-2015, 11:19 AM

lmao. gg this week in fantasy btw.

Word. GG. Was a little worried that Ravens would tie it up last night and force OT or give Palmer a chance to add some more points.
I've got Edleman, Hurns, and Blount on my other FF team. I'm about to drop Blount though. I've already dropped him twice but this is the final straw.

boutons_deux

10-27-2015, 11:24 AM

SC student arrested for recording school cop’s violent assault on classmate sitting in her desk

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A South Carolina high school student who witnessed her classmate being physically abused by a school resource officer was arrested and held on $1,000 for filming the incident.

Niya Kenny, 18, told WLTX (http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/2015/10/27/second-student-arrested-spring-valley-hs-speaks-out/74665360/) she was shocked and disturbed when she saw Officer Ben Fields flipping her female classmate out of her desk and pinning her to the ground for refusing to leave class.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/sc-student-arrested-for-recording-school-cops-violent-assault-on-classmate-sitting-in-her-desk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

arrested and charged with what crime?

SpursforSix

10-27-2015, 11:30 AM

boutons_deux

10-27-2015, 11:41 AM

this is bullshit. not being able to record.

bogus charges may by dropped, but she has an arrest record now. good luck finding even a shitty job

SpursforSix

10-27-2015, 12:23 PM

bogus charges may by dropped, but she has an arrest record now. good luck finding even a shitty job

hopefully she can find some legal justice or a settlement

Splits

10-27-2015, 04:15 PM

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boutons_deux

10-27-2015, 04:45 PM

Senate To Approve Controversial Cybersecurity Bill

Sharing of computer data on cyber threats between the private sector and U.S. government would increase under legislation expected to win Senate approval on Tuesday despite objections of privacy advocates who fear excessive government surveillance.

Two related measures won approval in the House of Representatives earlier this year and must be reconciled with the Senate bill before final legislation goes to President Barack Obama.

Some House leaders have said the Senate language is unlikely to be accepted by the House, suggesting a conference is likely.

Civil libertarians have opposed information-sharing legislation for years, with many warning it will give the National Security Agency and other agencies more access to snoop on Americans' personal data without improving cyber defenses.

The Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is important to help detect and minimize cyber intrusions, according to the bill's bipartisan backers.

It would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without fear of lawsuits.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-to-approve-controversial-cybersecurity-bill_562f7a9ae4b06317990f50db?ir=Technology&section=technology&utm_campaign=102715&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-technology&utm_content=FullStory&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

The police state legalizes itself.

Trill Clinton

10-27-2015, 04:51 PM

659042784444350468

that privilege

boutons_deux

10-27-2015, 07:37 PM

classroom videographer Niya said on Chris Hayes the pig is known around the school as "Officer Slam" for how he has abused kids, even pregnant girls.

cd021

10-28-2015, 05:53 AM

This is actually a smart move. Nun chucks in the hands of someone trained to use them are much less lethal for the perp than a baton. You can use the chucks as a restraining tool as well as a striking tool. My guess is that this will lower the incidents of police brutality and lessen the incidents where a gun was involved.

Sure but the thing thats troubling is that officers don't appeared to be well trained. I've read several stories about where cops go for their taser and, instead, pull their hand gun and actually kill someone they were trying to restrain with nonlethal force.

DMX7

10-28-2015, 09:57 AM

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What he did was horrid, but he did surrender peacefully and he was cooperative after being stopped. However, she refused to leave the classroom when ordered to and then she allegedly struck the officer.

Do we seriously need a civil rights investigation for this?

Clearly a WWE style take down was excessive, but this is too much... It doesn't deserve the coverage it's getting.

DMX7

10-28-2015, 09:57 AM

classroom videographer Niya said on Chris Hayes the pig is known around the school as "Officer Slam" for how he has abused kids, even pregnant girls.

That's just an allegation.

boutons_deux

10-28-2015, 11:09 AM

she allegedly struck the officer.

that's just an allegation

do you see her striking the pig in the videos from various angles?

"flailing her arms" after she's attacked criminally is justifiable defense

boutons_deux

10-28-2015, 11:28 AM

Officer SLAM has been fired.

boutons_deux

10-28-2015, 12:04 PM

Your school is becoming a police state: The shocking, Orwellian rise of “school resource officers”

When a cop attacks a student sitting peacefully in the classroom, we shouldn't be surprised. This is the new normal

For poor children of color, the mouth of the school-to-prison pipeline is manned by police officers who have in recent decades proliferated in districts nationwide. The mass deployment of schools cops, commonly referred to as “school resource officers,” has been made without careful thought or research. And it has produced horrible outcomes.

“Police officers are being used in school for minor misbehavior,” says Aaron Kupchik, a sociologist at the University of Delaware and an expert on school discipline and police. School police officers are justified in the name of preventing serious incidents like shootings, but often end up bringing a law enforcement approach to routine discipline.

“Why was a police officer there to remove a student who wouldn’t leave a classroom?” Kupchik asks. “Cases like this will happen when you introduce police into school environments.”

officers’ widespread presence in schools is tied up in the larger rise of “zero tolerance” policies in recent decades, resulting in the widespread suspension and expulsion of young people, especially of those of color. The number of secondary school students suspended or expelled increased from one in thirteen in 1972–1973 to one in nine in 2009–2010, according to a forthcoming article (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2577333)in the Washington University Law Review by Jason P. Nance, a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

What’s even more troubling is that a schoolyard fight that would once result in a trip to the principal’s office now often ends in handcuffs.

“Twenty-seven states require school officials to refer students to law enforcement for incidents relating to controlled substances,” Nance explains.

“Fifteen states require referral for incidents involving alcohol. Eight states mandate referral for theft. Eight states for vandalism of school property, and 11 states for robbery without using a weapon.”

Alabama’s statute, he writes, requires school officials to report to law enforcement any “violent disruptive incidents occurring on school property during school hours or during school activities conducted on or off school property after school hours.” In Illinois, school officials must report “each incident of intimidation.”

The number of school police officers rose to 19,900 in 2003, from approximately 12,300 in 1997, according to Nance. The number appears to have remained steady since, though he says that he is not aware of data more recent than 2007.

In the late 1970s, he writes, “there were fewer than one hundred police officers in our public schools.”

According to Kupchik, police officers are most prevalent in schools with high numbers of students of color but are also the norm in heavily white high schools as well.

The country as a whole has allowed “the justice system to have a larger role in our lives and welfare, and I think policing in schools is a part of that overall trend.”

School districts are spending money on deploying police to remove disruptive kids from class and place them into the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, many segregated districts that serve the most marginalized youth of color remain starved for cash. The severe penalties meted out to “failing” schools in the high-stakes testing era creates another unsavory incentive to remove low-performing children.

Just one arrest can be be extraordinarily harmful.

Nance cites a study by criminologist Gary Sweeten that found “a first-time arrest during high school almost doubles the odds that a student will drop out of school, and a court appearance associated with an arrest nearly quadruples those odds.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/28/your_school_is_becoming_a_police_state_the_shockin g_orwellian_rise_of_school_resource_officers/

Just another irreversible, unstoppable trend: America is fucked and unfuckable.

The American Dream? :lol

DMX7

10-28-2015, 12:07 PM

that's just an allegation

do you see her striking the pig in the videos from various angles?

"flailing her arms" after she's attacked criminally is justifiable defense

She was not attacked. He was simply trying to remove her from the desk.

Officer SLAM has been fired.

It's wrong. Just wrong...

:depressed

SpursforSix

10-28-2015, 01:40 PM

Sure but the thing thats troubling is that officers don't appeared to be well trained. I've read several stories about where cops go for their taser and, instead, pull their hand gun and actually kill someone they were trying to restrain with nonlethal force.

I actually have thought of a way to fix that. It would be an app that linked to the trigger on their gun. Using the same locking technology as the personal electric gun locks. Anyway, the sensor would be tied in to the mic on a phone or the device itself. Whenever the cop means to pull his taser, he yells, "taser". If he means to pull his gun, he yells, "gun". If the device does not hear the word, "gun", the trigger locks and the gun can't be fired.

boutons_deux

10-28-2015, 04:15 PM

the adolescent tin-star sheriff with 4 stars on his collar :lol and a tin ear says: "she started it"

cd021

10-28-2015, 11:22 PM

What he did was horrid, but he did surrender peacefully and he was cooperative after being stopped. However, she refused to leave the classroom when ordered to and then she allegedly struck the officer.

Roof murdered nine people and cause a man hunt that crossed state lines. When captured they actually took him to burger king afterwards. Thats insane.

Do we seriously need a civil rights investigation for this?

Clearly a WWE style take down was excessive, but this is too much... It doesn't deserve the coverage it's getting.

-She did hit him but he clearly overreacted, to me this is essentially what Ray Rice did but worse.

-This only seems to happen to blacks so the coverage is appropriate. People need to see how their treated. Their also significantly more likely to be unarmed and killed or even stopped than whites, despite making up only 13% of the population. Twitter was the cause of the interest by the media. At last check, it was well over 200,000 tweets about it. CNN picked it up and make it its cover story.

The cop, apparently broke her arm. And she may have internal damage ( i heard this on a radio interview with her attorney.) Either way the school system and the PD are vulnerable to a massive lawsuit. The cop has a history of excessive force, that only makes her case stronger.

I don't think their, necessarily needs to be a civil rights investigation but the cop should be charge with assault and have a record as a result.

cd021

10-29-2015, 05:02 AM

Cop who shot unarmed black man, 10 times, in Florida gets payed $180,000 from the city for back pay.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/us/charlotte-police-kerrick-settlement/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion&iref=obinsite

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 05:51 AM

Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/10/151028_JURIS_Annie-Dookhan.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg

Earlier this year, I wrote about a sprawling prosecutorial scandal in Orange County, California (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/orange_county_prosecutor_misconduct_judge_goethals _takes_district_attorney.html), involving a long-standing program of secret jailhouse snitches that had tainted prosecutions in cases almost too numerous to count.

This story has only continued to worsen (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/opinion/dishonest-prosecutors-lots-of-them-in-southern-calif.html?mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion&mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion&_r=0).

One of the prosecutors at the heart of the case simply packed up and left California last month (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/orange-county-erik-petersen-jailhouse-informants_55ef6388e4b03784e277096d), and just this week the news emerged that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas had been told that his office might have a jailhouse informant problem all the way back in 1999 (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rackauckas-689306-jacobs-letter.html), a full 16 years before the current allegations about the misuse of jailhouse snitches had surfaced.

Perhaps the most dramatic example of a massive scandal that cannot seem to be reversed involves Annie Dookhan, a chemist who worked at a Massachusetts state lab drug analysis unit (http://badchemistry.wbur.org/2013/05/19/annie-dookhan-and-the-massachusetts-drug-lab-crisis). Dookhan was sentenced in 2013 to at least three years in prison, after pleading guilty in 2012 to having falsified thousands of drug tests (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/10/chemist-arrested-forensics-drug-samples). Among her extracurricular crime lab activities, Dookhan failed to properly test drug samples before declaring them positive, mixed up samples to create positive tests, forged signatures, and lied about her own credentials. Over her nine-year career (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/10/chemist-arrested-forensics-drug-samples), Dookhan tested about 60,000 samples involved in roughly 34,000 criminal cases. Three years later, the state of Massachusetts still can’t figure out how to repair the damage she wrought almost single-handedly.

By the close of 2014, despite the fact that there were between 20,000-40,000 so-called “Dookhan defendants” (depending on whether you accept the state’s numbers or the American Civil Liberty Union’s), fewer than 1,200 had filed for postconviction relief. Many of them were sentenced under plea agreements rather than at trial, and they feared that a re-examination of their cases could potentially lead to even longer sentences. So the ACLU of Massachusetts stepped in last spring, filing Bridgeman v. DA of Suffolk County (https://aclum.org/cases-briefs/bridgeman-v-district-attorney-for-suffolk-county/) to ensure that no defendants would face harsher penalties if they challenged their Dookhan evidence.

Everyone knows that if you make a mess, you have to pay for it or clean it up. Companies know this, drivers know this—even kids know it. What most people don’t realize is that even in cases where prosecutors’ misconduct or negligence results in gross violations of due process, colossal disruptions of the criminal justice system, or grave threats to public safety, prosecutors remain essentially immune from any real consequences. When the people who wield the most power in the criminal justice system are also the least accountable, constitutional crises like those unfolding in Orange County and Massachusetts are almost inevitable.

Over the past decade, crime lab scandals have plagued at least 20 states, as well as the FBI.

We know that one of the unintended consequences of the war on drugs has been a rush to prosecute and convict and that crime labs have not operated with sufficient independence from prosecutors’ offices in many instances.

Their mistakes ruin lives.

Years of deliberate falsification have ruined thousands of lives.

We also know that there remains almost no reason for a prosecutor’s office to admit error and that the cost of fixing those errors can become prohibitive.

So what do we do when a scandal infects hundreds or thousands of prosecutions? If Massachusetts is any indication, even three years later, we still don’t do all that much.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/10/massachusetts_crime_lab_scandal_worsens_dookhan_an d_farak.html

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 09:40 AM

License Plate Readers Exposed! How Public Safety Agencies Responded to Major Vulnerabilities in Vehicle Surveillance Tech

Law enforcement agencies around the country have been all too eager to adopt mass surveillance technologies, but sometimes they have put little effort into ensuring the systems are secure and the sensitive data they collect on everyday people is protected.

Case in point: automated license plate recognition (https://www.eff.org/sls/tech/automated-license-plate-readers) (ALPR) systems.

Earlier this year, EFF learned that more than a hundred ALPR cameras were exposed online, often with totally open Web pages accessible by anyone with a browser. In five cases,

we were able to track the cameras to their sources:

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office,
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the
Kenner Police in Louisiana;
Hialeah Police Department in Florida; and
the University of Southern California’s public safety department.

These cases are very similar, but unrelated to, major vulnerabilities in Boston’s ALPR network uncovered (https://digboston.com/license-to-connive-boston-still-tracks-vehicles-lies-about-it-and-leaves-sensitive-resident-data-exposed-online/) in September by DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.

Independently, a researcher named Darius Freamon (https://dariusfreamon.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/pips-technology-a******te-automatic-license-plate-recognition-alpr-multiple-vulnerabilities/) found that you could access the control panels via Telnet and generate statistics about plate captures. Building off Freamon’s work, a team of computer scientists at the University of Arizona (http://www.aadilhussaini.com/#!cyber-security-research/xl371) dug further into the data and found

vulnerable cameras in
Washington,
California,
Texas,
Oklahoma,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Alabama,
Florida,
Virginia,
Ohio, and
Pennsylvania. The largest cluster was in southeastern Louisiana.

Alarmingly, these researchers reported:

We were able to observe the number plate information and live images. We were also able to modify the configuration settings.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 09:59 AM

LAPD sergeant who detained 'Django' actress accused of violating ethics rules

A now-retired Los Angeles police sergeant who drew headlines last year after he detained a "Django Unchained" actress has been accused of violating city ethics rules by leaking an audio recording of the encounter to the media.

In a highly unusual move, city ethics officials accuse Sgt. Jim Parker of violating two rules by disclosing confidential information without authorization and doing so to "create a private advantage for himself,"

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-sergeant-django-actress-20151029-story.html

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 11:27 AM

NRA's Ted Nugent On Violent Arrest Of S.C. Student: "Act Like An Animal And You Will End Up Being Treated Like An Animal"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/29/nras-ted-nugent-on-violent-arrest-of-sc-student/206494

you rabid, ignorant, racist gun fellators have no bottom in how low you can go

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 01:52 PM

Lesbian Couple Says Cop Arrested Them for Kissing in Public

http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/hawaii_couple.jpg

Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero, a lesbian couple from Los Angeles, say they were harassed and thrown in jail by a cop while on vacation in Hawaii—all because he didn’t like the sight of the same-sex couple kissing in public. The two have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging discrimination, and the Honolulu Police Department says it has opened an internal investigation.

Speaking with Hawaii News Now (http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30378453/officer-accused-of-arresting-lesbians-kissing-in-store), the couple said that on the second day of their vacation on Oahu, they stopped in a local grocery store. As they perused the aisles they held hands, and at one point, kissed. That’s when police officer Bobby Harris (who, just for the record, wasn’t on duty, but was shopping while wearing his uniform) allegedly started to badger them.

"He was like, you girls, you girls can't do that in here," according to Guerrero.

The two women claim the officer continued to harangue them, even following them to the checkout counter and threatening to have them arrested for trespassing. The scene escalated when Harrison allegedly grabbed Wilson—who was calling the police on her cell phone—by the wrist.

The two told theChicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-lesbians-kissing-arrested-20151028-story.html) that Harrison got physical, “bumping his belly” against Wilson and stating, “You girls don't know how to act. You don't know the difference between a motel and a grocery store.”

"I got punched in the face by him," Wilson told HNN. "I split my nose open. We were on the ground."

"They took us down to the basement,” says Wilson, “where they continued to harass us about our conduct in the store, asking us if it was worth it, if we were happy where we are.”

The couple faced a felonious charge of assaulting a police officer and spent three days in jail. They say the $1,300 per person they spent on bail exhausted the funds they brought with them to Hawaii. Instead of returning home, the two women were forced to stay in Oahu as a condition of their release. With no money, they say they slept in a park, stayed with friends and even considered going to a homeless shelter. They ended up cleaning vacation rentals for money.

Charges were ultimately dropped, but not before the couple had spent five months on the island to comply with court orders.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lesbian-couple-says-cop-arrested-them-kissing-public?akid=13613.187590.9KbKha&rd=1&src=newsletter1044925&t=4 (http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lesbian-couple-says-cop-arrested-them-kissing-public?akid=13613.187590.9KbKha&rd=1&src=newsletter1044925&t=4)

goddamit, this fucking country sucks.

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 01:53 PM

School Cop Punches 16-Year-Old Student in the Face for Not Having a Hall Pass

A school resource officer was recently arrested after he was caught assaulting a student on a surveillance recording. The student had reportedly been in the hallway without a pass, and after he was confronted by officer Thomas Jaha, he went to get a drink of water.

Since he did not leave the hallway immediately and go directly back to class, Jaha went into a rage and attacked the 16-year old boy. Jaha is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge.

Jaha says that the student took an “aggressive stance” so he began to strike the boy, and it was all caught on the school’s video surveillance camera.

“He struck a student twice in the head after this student got in an aggressive stance and faced the master sergeant,” Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department said.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/school-cop-punches-16-year-old-student-face-not-having-hall-pass?akid=13613.187590.9KbKha&rd=1&src=newsletter1044925&t=12

boutons_deux

10-29-2015, 02:26 PM

Texas Student Spent 52 Days in a Coma After Being Tased by Police at School

In one of the most shocking cases of police brutality inside a school, 17-year-old Noe Niño de Rivera spent 52 days in a medically induced coma after police tased him at school in November 2013. He was permanently brain injured. Last year Bastrop County in Texas settled a federal lawsuit for $775,000 with his family.

This was a horrific incident of excessive force. Noe was a young man, about 17 years old, in a county south of Austin, and he was in a hallway in Bastrop High School, and there was a fight that broke out between his girlfriend and another girl, two females. Noe was the peacemaker. He was breaking up the fight. This was shown clearly on the video. But two school resource officers came up to him, pushed him out of the way, and one school resource officer pulled his Taser and tased him in the middle of the hallway. Noe fell back, slammed his head and then had to be put in a medically induced coma for 52 days. It was a horrific display of violence. It was much worse than we're seeing on the video here in South Carolina.

But there's a lot of similarities. The officer in question here in Austin - or in Bastrop, had had a history of violence against students. He was not properly trained. And the school did not have any sort of regulations on how to deal with school resource officers. So the themes are very consistent. And I would submit it's a growing crisis in this country, in American schools, of violence toward students.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33430-texas-student-spent-52-days-in-a-coma-after-being-tased-by-police-at-school

boutons_deux

10-30-2015, 02:17 PM

SWAT Teams Kill Unarmed Hookah Shop Owner and Two Others

A SWAT team member in Ohio shot and killed an unarmed businessman, and SWAT teams in South Carolina and Mississippi killed two more people in drug enforcement on the same day this week. Just business as usual in the war on drugs. There is also news on some past drug war killings.

This month's drug war killings bring the Drug War Chronicle's count (http://stopthedrugwar.org/taxonomy/term/258) of people killed in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year to 49. The figure only includes people who died as a direct result of the drug war--not, for example, people killed in drug turf wars or people who died of drug overdoses.

In Ohio, 27-year-old Omar Ali died October 5 (http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/akron/2015/10/06/man-shot-akron-swat-during-search-dies-two-weeks-later/73455952/), two weeks after he was shot and wounded by a SWAT officer during a September raid on his Akron hookah store. Police were investigating Ali for drug sales when they broke down the door to his business, then encountered him in the main room of his shop. Police said they ordered him to put his hands up, but he allegedly refused those commands and reached toward the back of his waistband. The unnamed SWAT officer then shot him. Police found no weapon in his waistband. What they did find was 2.8 grams of heroin and five doses of Suboxone hidden in his butt-crack.
In Florida, a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office SWAT team shot and killed an armed drug suspect (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/2015/10/28/police-involved-shooting-near-woodland-acres-elementary/74750530/) during a residential drug raid Wednesday afternoon. The dead man has not yet been named. Police said they were preparing to break down the door to the home when they encountered the man armed with a hand gun. He allegedly turned to confront them, and was then shot and killed by Officer Nicholas Rodgers. The dead suspect didn't fire a shot. Police said they found cocaine and more guns when they searched the residence.
In Mississippi, a drug suspect was killed and a deputy wounded (http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=45846) during a Monroe County SWAT drug raid Wednesday morning. The dead man has not yet been identified. Sheriff Cecil Cantrell explained that it all began with a traffic stop: "Basically, we did a traffic stop on a vehicle and he had quite a bit of drugs in there, ice (crystal meth)," Cantrell said. "We talked to him and asked him where he got the drugs, and he told us where he bought them. And we got a search warrant and went down to this gentleman's house. When we got there the SWAT team went down to the house. When they got to the back door, he opened the door and started shooting, wounded one of my deputies. The deputies shot back. Those were seasoned deputies who were on that SWAT team, and they had no choice but to shoot back. And that person is deceased now."

Please note that in all three cases, as in many other cases of drug war violence, the only account available is that from police.

Meanwhile, there is also news on a pair of earlier cases of drug war deaths.

In California, the El Centro Police and four named officers are being sued (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-cops-ignore-dying-man-s-health-during-traffic-stop-a6688421.html)over the 2012 death of Charles Sampson during a drug investigation. A police body camera video picked up police threatening to arrest Sampson and his family members if he didn't tell them where he had hidden drugs. Police also said a drug dog had alerted on the residence, but they later revised that statement, and they didn’t find any drugs in the house. Sampson became ill, apparently after ingesting methamphetamine, but when family members called 911 for an ambulance, police told the dispatcher to ignore all calls from the house because Sampson was "putting on a show." Only two hours later was Sampson taken to a hospital, and only because a police officer ignored instructions to take him to jail. The lawsuit goes to trial in May 2016.
And in South Carolina, prosecutors declined to file criminal charges (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-charges-against-south-carolina-cop-who-fatally-shot-teen-n452301)against the police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Zachary Hammond during a pot bust in July. Hammond was the driver of a car parked at a fast food restaurant, and the girl in the passenger seat had just arranged a pot deal with a person who turned out to be an undercover cop. When the cops pulled up, Hammond began to attempt to drive away and was shot twice by Officer Mark Tiller. Tiller claimed self-defense, although video showed Hammond's car already passing Tiller when he opened fire. But Solicitor Chrissy Adams said Tiller would face no charges.

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/cops-kill-three-more-drug-war-violence-month?akid=13616.187590.sH3p2m&rd=1&src=newsletter1044976&t=16

boutons_deux

10-31-2015, 10:58 AM

Prosecutor: We'll test DNA if we can still execute you, anyway

Montgomery County DA Brett Ligon "said his office has offered to do the additional DNA testing since 2013 - if Swearingen's attorneys' would agree the findings would not alter the outcome of the case."

So, he's willing to have DNA testing performed so long as Swearingen can still be executed if he turns out to be innocent ... the mind reels!

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2015/10/prosecutor-well-test-dna-if-we-can.html

MultiTroll

10-31-2015, 01:39 PM

Prosecutor: We'll test DNA if we can still execute you, anyway

Montgomery County DA Brett Ligon
But who does Ricky Bobby Brett Ligon stick up for?

...constables barged into her home in 2011 with a crew from the "Texas Takedown" Internet reality show and arrested her for marijuana possession.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/No-settlement-in-suit-based-on-Texas-Takedown-6598955.php

MultiTroll

10-31-2015, 01:42 PM

MultiTroll

10-31-2015, 01:51 PM

Lesbian Couple Says Cop Arrested Them for Kissing in Public
and the other side of the story.....with video and photos and interview with eyewitness.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
An eyewitness is disputing the accounts of a lesbian couple at the center of a discrimination lawsuit that alleges a Honolulu police officer arrested them because they were kissing.

The woman, who asked not to be identified because she feared retaliation, said she was in the Pupukea Foodland in March when the women were arrested and says the women's actions were inappropriate.

Meanwhile, in court testimony, the officer who arrested them said he tried to get the women out of the store because he believed the women were being "lewd," and that the couple was subsequently hostile.

The eyewitness said she doesn't believe Harrison was discriminating against the couple, but intervening because they were being inappropriate.

"There was French kissing. Their shorts were really short. They were grabbing bottoms and lifting shirts," she said.
She said she was appalled by what she saw in the aisles of the grocery store.

In court testimony, Harrison said he saw the women from 30 feet away. "I noticed the two defendants were in an embrace with one another. Inappropriately all over each other in a long, heated kiss in the back of the store," he said. "After I told them to stop I walked toward them because they wouldn't stop. In my opinion it was lewd conduct in what they were doing. I wouldn't want my children to see that."

Wilson and Guerrero dispute the officer's claims, saying they were being affectionate but not lewd.
"I spun her around and we were holding each other like this and you know we were just talking," Wilson said. "We just had a moment and we kissed. Kissed on my cheek. Spun her around and continued walking down the aisle."

Harrison testified that he approached the couple again at the register, telling them that the store was going to have them warned for trespassing. The witness backs up those claims: "He was asking them to go. You're drawing to much attention, you're causing a scene just leave the store and they chose not to do that," she said.

Wilson called 911 to report the officer for harassment.

"The officer told me to step into another line. I was on the phone with 911 and that's when she told the officer f... you," Wilson said.

Harrison acknowledged the moment: "I said excuse me. She repeated f*** off. I told her you don't talk to a policeman like that."

The witness said she didn't know that a call to 911 had been made, but saw the officer try to take something out of Wilson's hand. That's when the scuffle broke out, she said.
"I can't remember if it was an open hand or a punch but she got him right in the face," the witness said.

Wilson described the encounter this way: "He was choking her out like this with his hand backwards. I came over and I tried to shove him off of her. He was a big man. He's not moving. The officer did get hit. I broke his sunglasses. He did get hit in the face. That's when I got hit in the face."

The officer denied striking or choking either woman.
Defense attorneys say the case was dropped by prosecutors after the Foodland surveillance videos disappeared and they made a motion that would force the officer back under oath.

To read the lawsuit, click here.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30378453/officer-accused-of-arresting-lesbians-kissing-in-store
Copyright 2015 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.

Pssssh. Why did the surveillance video *disappear*?

boutons_deux

10-31-2015, 08:33 PM

Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic

Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-T.jpgwo of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).

The current round of police union intimidation tactics started October 24, after filmmaker Quentin Tarantino spoke briefly to the “Rise Up October” protest (http://stopmassincarceration.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Call-for-a-Major-National-Manifestation-Against-Police-Terror-Rise-Up-October-to-STOP-Police-Terror-copy-2.docx.pdf), a “Call for a Major National Manifestation Against Police Terror.” The crowd of thousands marched peacefully up Sixth Avenue (http://pix11.com/2015/10/24/police-clash-with-protesters-in-times-square-during-rise-up-october-demonstration/) for two miles and included some 100 families impacted by police violence and killing. Police unions have reacted with violent rhetoric to Tarantino’s brief “speech,” which offered a non-specific truism (http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/33167-voices-of-rise-up-october-quentin-tarantino-cornel-west-victims-families-decry-police-violence) (here in its entirety):

“Hey, everybody. I got something to say, but actually I would like to give my time to the families that want to talk. I want to give my time to the families. However, I just do also want to say: What am I doing here? I’m doing here because I am a human being with a conscience. And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. Now I’m going to give my time to the families.” [emphasis added]

The event centered on victims of police violence (http://riseupoctober.nationbuilder.com/) [video]. There is no doubt that police have killed unarmed, innocent people. There is no doubt that a few cops have been convicted of murder. The reality of police violence is beyond dispute and longstanding. It goes with the territory, and responsible police leaders everywhere (http://www.wbez.org/news/obama-meet-police-chiefs-group-activists-press-reforms-113487) know perfectly well that part of their job is not only to keep their officers safe, but also, and arguably more important, to keep the public safe from their officers. The question is why they do so little about police violence.

In the aftermath of the Rise Up October (http://revcom.us/a/405/advisory-board-formed-for-rise-up-october-stop-police-terror-en.html) rally, there were a reported 11 arrests, two of which on video show gangs of police roughing up single, unresisting men (http://gothamist.com/2015/10/25/video_11_people_arrested_during_ris.php). Even though the demonstration was peaceful and had a lawful parade permit, police turned out in force. No police officers were reported hurt, except for their feelings.
Police union goes ad hominem with attack on First Amendment

The day after the rally, Patrick Lynch, president of the New York police union (Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association) went on the offensive, as he often does. He ignore the vast substance of the Rise Up October group and chose instead to make an ad hominem personal attack on Hollywood director Tarantino and his right to free speech.

Lynch’s press release in its entirety (https://www.nycpba.org/releases/pr151025-tarantino.html):

“It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too. The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies — they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem. New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous ‘Cop Fiction.’ It’s time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films.”

Actually the police officers that Tarantino calls “murderers” are in fact murderers, which is why Tarantino called them murderers – because, although they are but a small percentage of the total police cohort, they have murdered people, mostly without significant consequence to themselves. On October 30, Lynch sent another press release featuring Tarantino’s father (https://www.nycpba.org/releases/pr151030-tarantino.html) saying, “Cops are not murderers, they are heroes,” which is the police union party line. In reality, it should go without saying, most cops are neither murderers nor heroes. Like the first press release, this one also ignored the complaints of police brutality, but it omitted the proposed boycott, too.

Whistling much the same tune, Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid, the New York Post (http://nypost.com/2015/10/24/quentin-tarantino-marches-in-police-terror-rally/), covered the protest with open hostility. The paper made the editorial choice to run a picture of a demonstrator giving a cop the finger. And its story suggested that years of police violence were somehow beyond objection because a police officer was recently killed in the line of duty, even though there was no connection between the recent murder and the years of police abuse:

“Just four days after the on-duty murder of a hero NYPD street cop (http://nypost.com/2015/10/20/nypd-cop-shot-in-east-harlem/), a rally in Washington Square Park against ‘police terror’ devolved Saturday into a raucous, law-enforcement gripe-fest.”

Los Angeles police claim victimhood, too, and backs boycott

Craig Lally, president of the LA police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, jumped on the boycott Tarantino bandwagon on October 27 in a somewhat more nuanced press release (http://lapd.com/news/pr/lappl_issues_statement_regarding_nypd_patrolmens_b enevolent_associations_boycott_of_tarantino_films/) [in its entirety]:

“We fully support constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens. But there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets than we already are. Film director Quentin Tarantino took irresponsibility to a new and completely unacceptable level this past weekend by referring to police as murderers during an anti-police march in New York. He made this statement just four days after a New York police officer was gunned down in the line of duty. New York police and union leaders immediately called out Tarantino for his unconscionable comments, with union head Patrick Lynch advocating a boycott of his films. We fully support this boycott of Quentin Tarantino films. Hateful rhetoric dehumanizes police and encourages attacks on us. And questioning everything we do threatens public safety by discouraging officers from putting themselves in positions where their legitimate actions could be falsely portrayed as thuggery.”

While this statement begins with support for “constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens,” that very formulation betrays an imagined dichotomy between “police” and “citizens.” Police need to think of themselves as our fellow citizens. Worse, Lally immediately moves into his own unconstructive dialogue, mischaracterizing what Tarantino said, launching another ad hominem attack on Tarantino (http://ktla.com/2015/10/28/lapd-union-joins-nypd-in-quentin-tarantino-boycott-after-director-refers-to-murder-at-rally/), and completely evading the substance of the Rise Up October protest.

Worst of all, Lally reinforces the police-as-victim trope, which is a form of psychological denial. It’s not “inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets,” its inflammatory behavior by police officers. Given the spate of police horrors since 1999, when NY police shot unarmed Amadou Diallo 41 times, it’s fair to wonder why police departments everywhere aren’t showing a whole lot more humility. Instead, the NY chief of police has given one of the four killers his gun back (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/nyregion/amadou-diallos-mother-asks-why-officer-who-shot-at-her-son-will-get-gun-back.html?_r=0) (after all four were found not guilty by a jury).

Amadou Diallo’s mother, Katiatoo Diallo, was a speaker in the Rise Up October protest. What she said was in stark and humane contrast to the whining victimhood of the police (http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/26/voices_of_rise_up_october_quentin) unions:

“We are not bitter. I told the world then, the day when they stood up and told me that the four cops who shot my son had done nothing wrong, that it was the fault of my son, I said to you, I say to you now, I said it then: We need change. Amadou has died. It’s too late for him. But we have to prevent this from happening again. When you have tragedies like that, you need to learn what went wrong and correct it….

“Law enforcement community should know that we are not against them. We even feel for those who were shot just recently in Harlem. We are not against them. We are anti-police brutality. We are not anti-cop, because we know some of them are doing good job. But we need to root out those who are brutalizing our children for no reason.”

What should a police union be doing, anyway?

The core issue with police unions, teacher unions, and all other public employee unions is how to manage the inherent tension between the good of union members and the good of the public that pays their salaries. Police unions, because their members are empowered to use lethal force, should be especially sensitive to the public perception of what is in the public good. That is almost never going to include killing innocent, unarmed civilians.

In December 2014, NY police union head Lynch actually blamed innocent, unarmed civilians for the ambush assassination of two police officers (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/20/3606016/two-nyc-police-officers-assassinated-execution-style/) by a lone gunman. It was a breath-taking manipulation of reality and defiance of both logic and authority:

“There is blood on many hands tonight (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395163/blood-his-hands-phalanx-nypd-officers-turn-backs-de-blasio-press-conference-brendan) — those that incited violence on the streets under the guise of protest, that tried to tear down what New York police officers did every day. That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor….”

These comments set the stage for a symbolic police mutiny (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/21/blood-on-many-hands-police-union-president-slams-de-blasio-after-cops-killing/), as officers turned their backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference dealing with the assassination ambush. This is a direct challenge to civil order, open defiance of the mayor’s lawful authority over the police. And it is a gesture of arrogance, not only against non-violent protests of police killing, but in support of an above-the-law right to continue to execute civilians more or less randomly.

Who is more deserving of protection, police or public?

The same day as the Rise Up October protest, The New York Times ran a front page story about FBI Director James B. Comey telling a Chicago Law School audience that increased scrutiny of police violence have led to an increase in violent crime, a theory for which he admitted he has no data. The data available does not support the claim.

But Comey’s perception of “a chill wind that has blown through American law enforcement over the last year” is just a more sophisticated whine than the police unions use.

For the head of the FBI to defend police officers from scrutiny for their actions, especially their violent or lethal actions, is little more than a defense of police criminality (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/politics/fbi-chief-links-scrutiny-of-police-with-rise-in-violent-crime.html). As the Times reported:

“Mr. Comey said that he had been told by many police leaders that officers who would normally stop to question suspicious people are opting to stay in their patrol cars for fear of having their encounters become worldwide video sensations. That hesitancy has led to missed opportunities to apprehend suspects, he said, and has decreased the police presence on the streets of the country’s most violent cities.”

Wait a minute, that’s pure sophistry. If you have police officers afraid of becoming viral video villains, then you have police officers who are tacitly admitting that they are likely to behave illegally if not lethally. Police officers who act properly make boring videos that don’t go viral.

The Times did not cover any of the Rise Up October activities. But it did re-publish the FBI chief story on October 30, with the additional comment: “It’s not clear why Mr. Comey decided to wade into this issue now.”

On October 18, the Times ran a story in the business section based on FBI statistics of police killings. The story notes that the available data strongly shows pervasive racial bias in many areas of American life (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/upshot/police-killings-of-blacks-what-the-data-says.html). Police behavior is no exception:

“The data is unequivocal. Police killings are a race problem: African-Americans are being killed disproportionately and by a wide margin.”

The same persistent pattern of racial bias in police traffic stops was found in North Carolina statistics, as reported by a long analysis in the Times October 25 – “The Disproportionate Risk of Driving While Black (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffic-stops-driving-black.html).”

The evidence of racial bias in American life remains powerful and its effects are cruel and unusual. Perhaps the nation is less bigoted than it was in the past, but it remains a long way from being a place where all people are treated equally. And one of the grosser reasons for perpetual racial oppression is the willingness of powerful police unions to deny reality (https://news.vice.com/article/police-unions-defense-of-bad-cops-draws-criticism-in-brutality-debate) and blame the victims. Police unions need to reflect on the healing words of Kadiatou Diallo and put aside their bitterness. Police unions need to protect and serve the public, not the perpetrators of violence and death.

How about: if you’re not careful enough to identify a toy gun in the hands of a child before you shoot to kill, then you’re not careful enough to be an armed police officer. That seems like a pretty low bar.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33238-focus-police-unions-sustain-police-violence-epidemic

ducks

10-31-2015, 11:14 PM

if cops are out of control more reason to have guns to protect your rights

boutons_deux

11-01-2015, 06:22 AM

Incompetent Cops Arrest Innocent Deaf Woman, Kidnap, Sedate, and Humiliate Her

Even though cops were on the scene for 45 minutes, they never bothered to request for a translator.

After an NYPD officer lied about a deaf woman’s disability and refused to provide a legally mandated translator before wrongfully arresting her, the woman reached a $750,000 settlement this week. Although the inept cop was responsible for wrongfully arresting the deaf woman and violating the Americans With Disabilities Act, taxpayers will bear the burden of the settlement instead of the incompetent officer.

On September 11, 2011, Diana Williams and her husband, Chris Williams, who are both deaf, attempted to evict tenants who had failed to pay rent. After the tenant’s boyfriend allegedly gestured that he had a gun (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deaf-woman-nypd-lawsuit-settlement_5630da6ce4b00aa54a4bfef1?ncid=txtlnkusa olp00000592), Chris called for the police using a video relay service that should have tipped off the dispatcher to send a translator along with the responding officers. When NYPD arrived at the scene without a translator, they began questioning the people that could talk while ignoring the deaf people.

Although several deaf tenants in the building offered to translate for Williams, who cannot hear, speak English, or read lips, Romano rejected their help and decided to arrest her based on the false account from the tenant’s boyfriend.

After cuffing Williams’ hands behind her back, Romano was unable to explain the arrest to her deaf family members before taking her away. Although Williams clearly needed an interpreter, Romano checked the “No” box on the arrest report asking if an interpreter was required. He also checked “No” on separate paperwork asking if Williams had a disability.

In a deposition (http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/08/07/for-deaf-woman-nypd-is-25-years-in-the-past.htm), Romano falsely insisted that he spoke with Williams – who cannot hear, speak English, or read lips – before arresting her.

At Richmond University Hospital, Williams was able to communicate with an interpreter who agreed to tell the cops her side of the story. In response, one of the officers reportedly signed, “Bullshit.”

After spending the night in handcuffs, Williams was returned to the hospital where her breathing continued to get worse. Instead of giving her access to another interpreter, Williams was injected with a sedative and awoke again at the precinct. Held for 24 hours, she was finally released without charges.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/incompetent-cops-arrest-innocent-deaf-woman-kidnap-sedate-and-humiliate-her

boutons_deux

11-01-2015, 11:46 AM

AP: HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS LOSE LICENSES OVER SEX MISCONDUCT

In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.

The number is unquestionably an undercount because it represents only those officers whose licenses to work in law enforcement were revoked, and not all states take such action. California and New York - with several of the nation's largest law enforcement agencies - offered no records because they have no statewide system to decertify officers for misconduct. And even among states that provided records, some reported no officers removed for sexual misdeeds even though cases were identified via news stories or court records.

"It's happening probably in every law enforcement agency across the country," said Chief Bernadette DiPino of the Sarasota Police Department in Florida, who helped study the problem for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. "It's so underreported and people are scared that if they call and complain about a police officer, they think every other police officer is going to be then out to get them."

Even as cases around the country have sparked a national conversation about excessive force by police, sexual misconduct by officers has largely escaped widespread notice due to a patchwork of laws, piecemeal reporting and victims frequently reluctant to come forward because of their vulnerabilities - they often are young, poor, struggling with addiction or plagued by their own checkered pasts.

In interviews, lawyers and even police chiefs told the AP that some departments also stay quiet about improprieties to limit liability, allowing bad officers to quietly resign, keep their certification and sometimes jump to other jobs.

The officers involved in such wrongdoing represent a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands whose jobs are to serve and protect. But their actions have an outsized impact - miring departments in litigation that leads to costly settlements, crippling relationships with an already wary public and scarring victims with a special brand of fear.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BETRAYED_BY_THE_BADGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-11-01-00-01-48

no problem, disgraced, fired, "retired" police simply work for local Oath Keeper sheriff.

boutons_deux

11-02-2015, 03:29 PM

Ex-L.A. County sheriff's sergeant sentenced to 8 years in prison in jail visitor beating

http://www.trbimg.com/img-5588a6a8/turbine/la-me-ln-jail-abuse-trial-20150622-001/750/750x422

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-jail-visitor-beating-sentence-20151102-story.html

boutons_deux

11-02-2015, 05:29 PM

a cop speaks:

David Clarke Calls Obama A 'Heartless, Soulless Bastard' For Sticking Up For 'Goons' Like Freddie Gray And Eric Garner

David Clarke, the sheriff of Milwaukee County and a rising media star on the Right, claimed yesterday that President Obama is a “heartless, soulless bastard” because he has spoken out about “goons” and “criminal creep[s]” who have been killed by law enforcement officers, falsely claiming that the president had not spoken out about the recent shooting death of a New York City police officer.

Clarke launched into the rant on his weekly program (https://soundcloud.com/peoplessheriff/the-rnc-legitimizes-black-lives-matter-the-peoples-sheriff-103115) on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze radio network, declaring that “black-on-black crime is a human rights abuse and should be investigated as such by the United Nations” and that “black criminal abuse, black criminal brutality” is “the real brutality going on in the United States,” not police brutality.

He lit into a New York judge who had sentenced the police officer’s killer to rehab rather than prison time for a recent drug crime, calling her a “criminal-coddling, criminal-advocating, empathy-for-the-criminal, despicable human being.”

“By the way, we still have not heard from President Obama, that heartless, soulless bastard who wastes no time taking to the microphone to stick up for a criminal creep like Mike Brown, like Eric Garner, like Freddie Gray, like Trayvon Martin and communicating empathy for those goons and yet he has to be prodded, he has to be prodded to say something when a law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty,” Clarke continued. In fact, Obama spoke about the slain officer (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/27/remarks-president-122nd-annual-iacp-conference), Randolph Holder, to a gathering of police chiefs last week.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-clarke-calls-obama-heartless-soulless-bastard-sticking-goons-freddie-gray-and-eric-gar

boutons_deux

11-02-2015, 08:37 PM

77-Year-Old Blind Man Calls 911 for Help, Cop Shows Up, Beats & Arrests Him for No Reason

“Philip White missed his bus to the mountains, when he asked Greyhound staff for help in catching the next bus home, he was told by a security guard he was trespassing and had to leave the Greyhound Bus Depot,” said White’s attorney Mari Newman. “This is a Master’s Degree holder and long-time educator who was set upon with excessive force as police violated his civil rights, all over a bus ticket.”

After being told to leave, White declined and then called the police. Officer Kyllion Chafin of the notoriously brutal Denver police (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/denver-police-department-set-stifiling-protests-pepper-sprayed-12-year/)department showed up.

Though White had placed the call to police, Chafin escalated the situation to violence. White, who did not know Chafin was a police officer since he couldn't see him, asked to feel Chafin’s badge to confirm he was an officer.

“He told me ‘You aren’t touching me,’” said White.

According to KDVR, (http://kdvr.com/2015/10/31/blind-man-awarded-400000-in-police-brutality-suit/)

The cop grabbed his arms, forcing them behind him, then cuffed him so tightly he suffered nerve damage in his fingers — or eyes, for him. He was then slammed into the ticket counter leaving his head bleeding.

When Sgt. Bob Wykoff arrived, instead of trying to defuse the situation and offer the blind man help, without reading White his Miranda Rights, he began to videotape a bus station interrogation without White’s consent.

White was then brought to the downtown jail where he sat for eight hours before police realized they had no reason to keep him. He was then released, bloodied and bruised, without charges.

“I thought they would have killed me if they thought they could get away with it,” said White. “I always trusted cops, but now my confidence in them is shaken. I felt so bad I wanted to leave the USA.”

On Friday, Denver taxpayers were held liable for Chafin’s violence. A jury awarded White $100,000 in compensatory damages and $300,000 in punitive damages.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/innocent-77-yo-blind-man-called-911-help-cop-shows-beat-arrested-him-no-reason

cd021

11-02-2015, 11:24 PM

https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2746/9309/original.jpg?w=600&h

cd021

11-02-2015, 11:26 PM

Anonymous threatened to release 1000 KKK members identities. Starting on November 5th.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/anonymous-denies-link-to-list-of-alleged-kkk-members-and-promises-to-release-its-own/

spurraider21

11-03-2015, 02:46 AM

What he did was horrid, but he did surrender peacefully and he was cooperative after being stopped. However, she refused to leave the classroom when ordered to and then she allegedly struck the officer.

Do we seriously need a civil rights investigation for this?

Clearly a WWE style take down was excessive, but this is too much... It doesn't deserve the coverage it's getting.
:lol trying to talk rationally in this thread

boutons_deux

11-03-2015, 06:37 AM

:lol trying to talk rationally in this thread

the main irrationality is from you rightwingnut, cop-sucking assholes.

boutons_deux

11-03-2015, 09:31 PM

Busted: Arkansas cop admits he shot himself and blamed Hispanic man at traffic stop
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/busted-arkansas-cop-admits-he-shot-himself-and-blamed-hispanic-man-at-traffic-stop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

cd021

11-04-2015, 06:09 AM

PD sued for shooting man to death, for sleeping in his car.:bang

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oakland-police-lawsuit-demouria-hogg_56392e95e4b0411d306eb45d

cd021

11-04-2015, 09:03 AM

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deputy-rape-settlement-20151103-story.html

Sheriff pulls over woman, then rapes her. Tax payers on the hook for $6 million.

Quetzal-X

11-04-2015, 09:19 AM

Busted: Arkansas cop admits he shot himself and blamed Hispanic man at traffic stop

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/busted-arkansas-cop-admits-he-shot-himself-and-blamed-hispanic-man-at-traffic-stop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Typical dickless, nutless, pussy, liar, mental loon, American cop. One of many 1k's tbqfh

boutons_deux

11-04-2015, 12:21 PM

Louisiana police kill 6-year-old boy in passenger seat of fleeing car

the Louisiana Bureau of Investigations announced this week that an investigation had been opened after law enforcement officers killed a 6-year-old boy who was in the passenger seat of a fleeing car.

According to The Town Talk (http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2015/11/04/child-dead-driver-injured-marksville-pursuit/75149222/), preliminary details indicated that city marshals from Ward 2 “discharged their duty weapons, at a vehicle” while pursuing a man on Martin Luther King Drive in Marksville at around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday night.

Officers said that after the suspect’s SUV backed into one of their vehicles, the marshals got out of their patrol cars and began to fire through the driver’s window.

A 6-year-old boy who was sitting in the passenger seat was pronounced dead at the scene.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/louisiana-police-kill-6-year-old-boy-in-passenger-seat-of-fleeing-car/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

11-04-2015, 12:32 PM

Busted: Arkansas cop admits he shot himself and blamed Hispanic man at traffic stop

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/busted-arkansas-cop-admits-he-shot-himself-and-blamed-hispanic-man-at-traffic-stop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

661945887594315776

same as this cop in illinoishttp://i66.tinypic.com/m4z2u.png

boutons_deux

11-04-2015, 12:47 PM

Alabama cop may lose medal earned for shooting suspect — after video shows he was lying about man’s gun

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Birmingham-police-shooting-AL.com_-800x430.png

Officer Daniel Aguirre was awarded a medal earlier this year after shooting a robbery suspect during an arrest — but a newly released video shows he was lying.
The Birmingham Police Department temporarily rescinded (http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/11/birmingham_police_reconsiderin.html#incart_river_h ome) the Combat Cross Medal late Tuesday awarded to Aguirre in May after AL.com published a dashboard camera video (http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/11/dash_cam_video_reveals_police.html#incart_m-rpt-2) obtained from a confidential source.

Aguirre was awarded the medal after shooting Aubrey Williams during an April 24, 2014, robbery investigation.

He and Officer Richard Haluska had been looking for suspects when they confronted Williams and Devon Brown, and police later said that Aguirre used a Taser on Brown after the suspect struggled with the second officer.

Aguirre told investigators that Williams then pointed a gun at him and Haluska and refused to drop the weapon.

The officer then shot Williams twice, but the suspect survived and now faces two charges of attempted murder.

But the suspect’s attorney said the video contradicts Aguirre’s account.

The video shows Haluska handcuffing one suspect while Aguirre drops a Taser from his left hand and approach Williams — who is on his hands and knees.

Aguirre is holding a gun in his right hand, and he fires twice as he rolls Williams over in an apparent attempt to search him.

The officer kicks away a sack and gun from underneath Williams — but the suspect never holds the gun during the video, which begins just a couple of seconds before the shooting.

“This video provides evidence that Police Officer Daniel Aguirre shot Aubrey Williams twice despite the fact that Williams was on his hands and knees and not in a position to fire a weapon,”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/alabama-cop-may-lose-medal-earned-for-shooting-suspect-after-video-shows-he-was-lying-about-mans-gun/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-04-2015, 12:51 PM

Here's Fox minimizing criminal police brutality, racism, murders by comparing it to black criminals killing black criminals.

Geraldo (I need a nose job BAD!) Rivera: Police brutality ‘pales in comparison’ to the ‘ghetto civil war’ among blacks

Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera asserted on Tuesday that President Barack Obama should be focused on the “ghetto civil war” in black neighborhoods instead of trying to stop police brutality.

After President Barack Obama told NBC News that he was proud that his presidency had “helped to galvanize and mobilize America on behalf of issues of racial disparity and racial justice,” Fox News host Sean Hannity disagreed, arguing “just the opposite of what he said is true.”

“I, surprisingly, maybe agree with you,” Rivera replied. “I think the president has gotten involved in racial matters… only when the African-American person is portrayed as the victim, whether it’s Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown or any of the others.”

“He jumps in and the classic NAACP, ‘We are victims, woe is us, take care of this situation,'” he continued. “To me, the president has failed most profoundly in the area of race relations.”

“Yes, there is a terrible problem with police brutality, but it pales in comparison to the ghetto civil war that’s going on, this black-on-black violence is not to be ignored, it’s not to be minimized. And I have never seen the president get engaged when it’s an African-American killing another African-American or two gangs killing and an 8-year-old is killed in the crossfire.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/geraldo-rivera-police-brutality-pales-in-comparison-to-the-ghetto-civil-war-among-blacks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Hey, Geraldo, criminals ares SUPPOSED to kill criminals AND cops.

Cops aren't supposed to kill unarmed, non-threatening, surrendered blacks, whites or anybody. Ya see the diff?

spurraider21

11-04-2015, 12:53 PM

PD sued for shooting man to death, for sleeping in his car.:bang

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oakland-police-lawsuit-demouria-hogg_56392e95e4b0411d306eb45d
is that really what they killed him for? or is that why they were called to the scene?

spurraider21

11-04-2015, 12:54 PM

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deputy-rape-settlement-20151103-story.html

Sheriff pulls over woman, then rapes her. Tax payers on the hook for $6 million.
rightfully was tried, convicted, and imprisoned

jose rigoberto sanchez, doesnt fit the racist white cop profile :wow

boutons_deux

11-04-2015, 05:54 PM

Connecticut Police Announce Plan To Open Unlocked Vehicles And Seize Valuables

Officers in East Rock (CT) are starting a pilot program.

“Cars will be checked for visible valuables,” said New Haven City Spokesperson Laurence Grotheer.

If they see a valuable Grotheer says they’ll take it if your car doors are unlocked.

They’ll leave a note and you can pick it up at the police station property room. :lol

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151104/07293732713/connecticut-police-announce-plan-to-open-unlocked-vehicles-seize-valuables.shtml

cd021

11-05-2015, 12:04 AM

is that really what they killed him for? or is that why they were called to the scene?

"Oakland firefighters found an unresponsive man in the driver's seat of a BMW parked near a highway off-ramp one morning in June. They called the police department, saying a handgun was on the passengers seat.

Police tried for an hour to rouse Hogg, 30, by using loudspeakers and firing beanbag rounds at the car. Hogg didn’t budge, police said. Hogg finally stirred when police shattered a passenger-side window with a metal pipe. It would be the last movement of his life.

One officer used a Taser on Hogg while another fatally shot him.

It’s unclear what happened when Hogg awoke. Police said “a confrontation occurred .” An attorney representing the officer who fired the fatal shot said Hogg reached for the handgun."

sounds like he was sleeping and when he he woke up they shot him. Note how vague a "confrontation occurred" is.

cd021

11-05-2015, 12:05 AM

rightfully was tried, convicted, and imprisoned

jose rigoberto sanchez, doesnt fit the racist white cop profile :wow

Bigger issue is that he cost tax payers $6 million because he couldn't get it for free.

:lol deflecting and trying to turn it into a race issue.

cd021

11-05-2015, 12:14 AM

rightfully was tried, convicted, and imprisoned

jose rigoberto sanchez, doesnt fit the racist white cop profile :wow

Love to get your take on the church drummer who was waiting for AAA on the side of the road at 3am when a cop showed up (he never identified himself as a cop) and killed him.

or the man who shot an unarmed former college athlete 10 times after he flipped his car over in a serious accident and went looking for help. Not only did the cop skate but he got $180,000 from the tax payers in back pay.

both happened in Florida, go figure.

cd021

11-05-2015, 12:17 AM

661945887594315776

same as this cop in illinoishttp://i66.tinypic.com/m4z2u.png

wait...but...there's a war on cops because of BLM!

Crooked cops shooting themselves and right wingers blaming media and BLM for it.

spurraider21

11-05-2015, 12:44 AM

"Oakland firefighters found an unresponsive man in the driver's seat of a BMW parked near a highway off-ramp one morning in June. They called the police department, saying a handgun was on the passengers seat.

Police tried for an hour to rouse Hogg, 30, by using loudspeakers and firing beanbag rounds at the car. Hogg didn’t budge, police said. Hogg finally stirred when police shattered a passenger-side window with a metal pipe. It would be the last movement of his life.

One officer used a Taser on Hogg while another fatally shot him.

It’s unclear what happened when Hogg awoke. Police said “a confrontation occurred .” An attorney representing the officer who fired the fatal shot said Hogg reached for the handgun."

sounds like he was sleeping and when he he woke up they shot him. Note how vague a "confrontation occurred" is.
right. it's not like they gathered around like "oh shit he's asleep OPEN FIRE"

spurraider21

11-05-2015, 12:46 AM

Bigger issue is that he cost tax payers $6 million because he couldn't get it for free.

:lol deflecting and trying to turn it into a race issue.
nobody said cops are angels. if a cop does something wrong, he deserves punishment. that's not a deflection. unfortunately, cops are govt employees, so when they get in trouble for something on the job, the govt pays up. that's not alarming

spurraider21

11-05-2015, 12:47 AM

Love to get your take on the church drummer who was waiting for AAA on the side of the road at 3am when a cop showed up (he never identified himself as a cop) and killed him.

or the man who shot an unarmed former college athlete 10 times after he flipped his car over in a serious accident and went looking for help. Not only did the cop skate but he got $180,000 from the tax payers in back pay.

both happened in Florida, go figure.
if cops commit a crime, they deserve punishment. can u send links to these stories so i can read about them. if possible, not from a daily kos type site. preferably a typical news site

cd021

11-05-2015, 05:42 AM

right. it's not like they gathered around like "oh shit he's asleep OPEN FIRE"

They tried to wake him. When he finally, woke they wound up shooting him. I never said that they huddled up and said " Shoot em' on three, break!"

cd021

11-05-2015, 06:34 AM

if cops commit a crime, they deserve punishment. can u send links to these stories so i can read about them. if possible, not from a daily kos type site. preferably a typical news site

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/us/charlotte-kerrick-trial/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/us/charlotte-police-kerrick-settlement/

The cop above beat the rap because the judge declared a mistrial. Based on what i read (can't find the original link) there were three cops and he was the only one that pulled and shot at him. He shot him 10 times. The woman who called the cops on him thought he was trying to rob her but he was, apparently, looking for help after flipping his car over.

Corey Jones

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/us/florida-officer-corey-jones-shooting/

This was trending pretty big on Facebook and twitter a few weeks ago.

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 06:47 AM

if cops commit a crime, they deserve punishment. can u send links to these stories so i can read about them. if possible, not from a daily kos type site. preferably a typical news site

the funds paid to citizens for cops' crimes should come out of the cops' general retirement fund. That'll make good cops, if there are any, police the bad cops.

Quetzal-X

11-05-2015, 08:22 AM

spurraider21

11-05-2015, 09:17 AM

the funds paid to citizens for cops' crimes should come out of the cops' general retirement fund. That'll make good cops, if there are any, police the bad cops.
Yeah and if a restaurant worker causes a customer to trip, they should pull money from other employees retirement funds, not the restaurant

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 09:23 AM

Yeah and if a restaurant worker causes a customer to trip, they should pull money from other employees retirement funds, not the restaurant

damn, you rightwingnuts are mentally broken, can't think yourself out of a used condom.

accidents on (commercial) property are covered by liability insurance.

Cops committing crimes are covered by taxpayers. Cops, ALL of them, good and bad, are lie for each other behind the Blue Wall, but force taxpayers to pay $100Ms for their crimes.

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 09:30 AM

‘Education’ in a Police State – In California Alone, Schools Call the Cops Every 2.6 Seconds

76% of all high schools in the country have police officers working on the campus all day.

According to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education and published by NBC News, in the 2011-2012 school year, teachers called the cops on students a total of 31,961 times (http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Thousands-of-Bay-Area-Students-Sent-to-Police-329858661.html) in the state of California alone, leading to 6,341 arrests.

one school called the police on students more than ten times a day!

http://www.alternet.org/education/education-police-state-california-alone-schools-call-cops-every-26-seconds?akid=13628.187590.BnLfzL&rd=1&src=newsletter1045266&t=20

rmt

11-05-2015, 10:20 AM

lol good cops do not cover for their partners or lie about their own actions or deny a citizens rights or due process. There are no good cops. The ones that start with honest intentions either get with the dishonest program or get out. Puss ass bitch ass liars.

Way to paint hundreds of thousands of people with a single brush. I disagree. My brother-in-law is a cop and so are my next door neighbors of 23 years - very nice people.

spurraider21

11-05-2015, 10:24 AM

damn, you rightwingnuts are mentally broken, can't think yourself out of a used condom.

accidents on (commercial) property are covered by liability insurance.

Cops committing crimes are covered by taxpayers. Cops, ALL of them, good and bad, are lie for each other behind the Blue Wall, but force taxpayers to pay $100Ms for their crimes.
Yeah and a cab driver on public streets doesn't pay out of pocket either as long as he's within scope of employment. It's not always premises liability.

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 10:30 AM

Yeah and a cab driver on public streets doesn't pay out of pocket either as long as he's within scope of employment. It's not always premises liability.

you're still stupid. automobiles all have liability insurance. cops crimes dump the liability on taxpayers.

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 04:49 PM

Has the NYPD Become a Paramilitary Force?

"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh largest army in the world," former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (http://observer.com/2011/11/mayor-bloombert-i-have-own-army-11=30-11) boasted back in 2011.
Since that time, the New York Police Department has become even more militarized, practiced in command-and-control practices that Brooklyn College sociologist Alex Vitale (http://www.tandforline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10439460500168592?journalCode=gpas20) describes as "paramilitary policing."

The federalization and militarization of the NYPD following 9/11 created the model of paramilitary policing that's reshaping law enforcement throughout the country.

Vitale identifies these seven qualities as the principal aspects of the increasingly popular framework of paramilitary policing:

Surveillance and infiltration of nonviolent political organizations.
Denial of protest permits and tight restrictions on demonstration locations.
Heavy deployment and use of defensive equipment, such as body armor.
The use of 'less lethal' weapons on non-violent protestors.
Deployment of highly trained specialized police units to control demonstrations.
Preemptive arrests and targeting of protest leaders.
Coordination between local and federal law enforcement officials.

Other practices often accompanying paramilitary policing include the use of sophisticated cyber technologies, video surveillance and agents provocateurs.

A Militarized Approach to High-Profile Gatherings

The paramilitary quality of the NYPD's approach to policing is most apparent in its treatment of any event designated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a National Special Security Event ( (http://www.secretservice.gov/nsse/shtml)NSSE): a high-profile, popular gathering such as a presidential inauguration, political party convention or the Super Bowl. The NSSE label is a category of state security originally established by former President Bill Clinton through a classified 1998 directive that includes the Olympics and gatherings of world leaders like the G20 or NATO summits.

Since 9/11, potential security threats have expanded to include political demonstrations (e.g., Occupy Wall Street) and civil disruptions (e.g., riots). The policing of such occurrences are overseen by the Secret Service working with a host of federal agencies, including the DHS, FBI and the Coast Guard, as well as the National Guard and appropriate local law-enforcement entities like the NYPD.

The routine militarization of police preparation for public events was most recently apparent in the NYPD's preparations for the visit of Pope Francis to New York on September 24-26, 2015, as part of his first trip to the US and to speak before the United Nation's 70th annual general session. Mayor Bill De Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton went to unprecedented lengths to ensure that the pope was safe not only from a possible terrorist attack, but from viewing unsightly aspects of city life, such as the growing army of the homeless.

In an internal 15-page threat assessment analysis (http://www.cnn.com2015/09/23/politics/pope-francis-security-united-states-new-york/index.html), the New York Police Department (NYPD) observed: "While most of the events will have limited access due to the need for people to obtain a ticket or invitation in order to attend, large crowds congregating outside event locations and using public transportation can be attractive targets for individuals and groups looking to carry out attacks."

According to one estimate (http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/09/25/multi-layered-security-place-pope-francis/72827398/), "more than 50 different agencies, including the pope's own security detail" were involved in securing the pope's visit. The NYPD reportedly committed (http://nypost.com/2015/09/24/nypd-ramps-up-security-ahead-of-popes-visit-to-nyc/) 6,000 officers to the three-day pope/UN security spectacle. It put up 37 miles of street barriers composed of 24,500 individual pieces as well as 409 concrete blocks (weighing 818 tons) to keep New Yorkers from the pope. It erected an eight-foot-high fence around St. Patrick's Cathedral along Fifth Avenue from 49th to 55th Streets and another one on Central Park West from 59th to 81st Street. It blocked off East 72nd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.

It also rousted reputed homeless people encamped under the Metro-North tracks on 125th Street and Park Avenue near a Catholic school the pope was to visit, as well as those clustered on West 32nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues and in proximity to Madison Square Garden, where the pope was to say Mass. The US Army Ordinance Disposal Directorate and the NYPD Bomb Squad were enlisted to find improvised explosive devices (IEDs); none were discovered.

The pope visited; he spoke, traveled freely through the city, met innumerable people and was viewed by countless others, and he left the city. Nothing threatening reportedly occurred. In other words, the NYPD's security effort to protect the pope (as well as the other dignitaries) was a success. But was all this a demonstration of organizational preparedness in case of a genuine national security threat, or was it an intentional publicity demonstration of an over-prepared, militarized security force showing its muscle?

An Increase in Heavily Armed Police Units

According to the city, the NYPD's 2014 budget (http://council.nyc.gov/downloads/pdf/budget/2014/056_nypd.pf) was $1.3 billion and the Counterterrorism Unit's budget was $75.3 million, including city expenditures and grants; one can only imagine that its true budget is likely significantly higher.

The unit consists of the following operating divisions (http://www.nyc.go/html/nypd/html/counterterrorism/engineeringsecurity_020_the_nypd_risk_tiering-system.shtml):

Terrorism Threat Analysis Group;

the Training Section;

the Critical Infrastructure Protection Section;

the Transportation Security Section;

the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE);

Policy and Planning Section;

the Special Projects section;

the Shield Unit;

and the Emergency Response and Planning Section.

The unit maintains a presence in 11 foreign countries. It is the only US police force to do so.

The NYPD defines terrorists as, "individuals or groups with the capacity to carry out an attack" and "are thought to be strategic thinkers that will pick targets based on perceived impact and vulnerability levels." Not long after 9/11, the NYPD implemented what is known as ''command and control'' policing to contain potential security threats, whether mass gatherings, political protests, urban riots or civil disorders.

The NYPD has been creating a series of specialized Counterterrorism Units under the Emergency Service Unit (http://theblinker.com/mainpage/2014/08/18/5-facts-you-may-not-know-about-the-most-militarized-unit-of-the-nypd/) (ESU), which is not itemized in the city budget. The ESU oversees the Special Operations Division of the Patrol Services Bureau that includes Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and the hostage negotiators assist team. The ESU is a militarized unit, reportedly maintaining four armored vehicles acquired in 2006 from the US Defense Department's free military transfer program: two Lenco Peacekeepers, armored vehicles from the US Air Force and two Lenco Bearcat armored personnel carriers. In addition, officers are equipped with AR-15 assault rifles and Mossberg 590 shotguns.

The ESU includes other heavily armed units (https://www.nypdshield.org/public/initiatives.aspx). The "Hercules" teams consist of an intelligence officer, a canine unit, a highway patrol unit and a squad of heavily armed police officers. They are deployed for emergencies and are on an as-needed basis throughout the city. The "Sampson" task force is deployed to critical locations primarily in Manhattan South (below 59th Street). The "Atlas" team assists the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Port Authority with transportation, harbor and aviation needs. It also maintains 24-hour coverage of the financial district. Finally, "Nexus" teams interface with the city's business community in an effort to monitor unusual or suspicious activities.

In January 2015, NYPD Commissioner Bratton (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/nyregion/nypd-plans-initiatives-to-fight-terrorism-and-improve-community-relations.html?_r=0) announced the formation of a new unit, the Strategic Response Group (SRG), a quick-reaction force consisting 350 cops dedicated to "disorder control and counterterrorism protection capabilities." Armed with the latest in military firepower, the unit, according to Bratton, "is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris." The new unit was introduced at a time when the city's murder and overall crime rates were at historically low levels, with popular discontent over inequality and arbitrary police practices rising.

In the wake of the police killing (https://theintercept.com/2015/08/18/undercover-police-spied-on-ny-black-lives-matter/) of Eric Garner in July 2014, the NYPD collaborated with the MTA and the Metro-North Railroad in the surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists at nearly two-dozen peaceful protests during the period of November 2014 to February 2015.

Vitale notes, "The NYPD does not use a lot of military-style equipment in its regular policing. There is the emergency services units that operate at times like conventional SWAT teams, dealing with barricaded suspects, armed standoffs, and active shooters." He adds, "However, like other paramilitary teams, they also at times use this equipment to perform drug raids and serve 'high risk' search warrants."

Will the NYPD Unleash Its Guns on Protesters?

Following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, paramilitary policing gained national attention. Two recent disturbances events suggest how the NYPD might respond to a possible mass disturbance, particularly a civil protest.

First, following the August 2015 killing of two CBS affiliate personnel, Adam Ward and Alison Parker, in Roanoke, Virginia, the NYPD deployed its Counterterrorism Bureau, Critical Response Vehicles and Hercules Teams to television news stations throughout the city. According to John Miller (http://www.newsweek.com/nypd-deploys-counterterrorism-units-guard-nyc-news-stations-following-virginia-366001), Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism and Intelligence, "While there is no indication of any threat to media outlets beyond this incident, we have provided an additional layer of security until we have a fuller understanding of the motive behind the Virginia incident." The NYPD was armed and ready, even though the killings were not a terrorist action.

Second, in Baltimore (https://news.vice.com/article/fearing-a-catastrophic-incident-400-federal-officers-descended-on-the-baltimore-protests), more than 3,000 law enforcement personnel were deployed to contain a sustained but limited disruption. They included more than 400 DHS officers (Federal Protective Services [FPS] and Customs and Border Patrol Special Response Team); 1,783 state National Guard personnel; 400 state troopers from Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, Prince George's and Harford counties; and 495 law enforcement officers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington, DC. In addition, the DHS' FPS established, through the Maryland Fusion Center, an integrated command group with representatives from the governor's and mayor's offices as well as participating federal agencies, including the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) that oversees "the nation's physical and cyber infrastructure."

Widespread public criticism of the use of paramilitary policing in Ferguson and other cities forced President Obama (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/18/obama-police-military-equipment-sales-new-jersey/27521793/), in May 2015, to ban the sale of some kinds of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies. "We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like they're an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them," he declared. And noted, military equipment can "alienate and intimidate local residents and may send the wrong message." Reflecting on the president's announcement, Vitale observed, "This will have very little effect. The restrictions are very narrow and don't cover materials typically used by the NYPD."

Protesting the Militarization of the Police

As political attention to racial injustice - an increasingly important issue in the 2016 presidential election - heats up, demonstrators in New York have been working to pressure New York politicians to address the racism enmeshed in the NYPD's militarized approach to policing.

Rise Up October held a demonstration on Oct. 23 in Queens protesting the inhuman conditions on Rikers Island, calling for the Gotham gulag to be shut down. Then, on Oct. 24, hundreds of protestors marched from Washington Square Park to Bryant Park in a demonstration against police brutality.

Quentin Tarantino, Cornel West and Chris Hedges joined Temako Williams - whose son, La-Reko Williams, was killed in 2011 by police in Charlotte, North Carolina - and others to demand an end to police killings of unarmed Black men.

"I'm a human being with a conscience," shouted Tarantino (http://gothamist.com/2015/10/25/video_11_people_arrested_during_ris.php). "And if you believe there's murder going on, then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered."
Both protests drew heavy police responses, with the Oct. 24 demonstration leading to the arrest of 11 people.

The NYPD is taking up its arms in preparation for every potential popular disturbance, whether violent or not, drawing few distinctions between presidential visits, terrorist attacks, political protests and civil riot: in all cases, it is activating militarized police units.

Vitale cautions, "In NYC you don't see the militarized response you see in Denver, Oakland, or other places. No special weapons, no body armor, no armored vehicles. There strategy is to use a massive number of police, tight containment, extensive planning and micro-control to prevent the use of force."

If economic conditions get significantly worse, a relatively inconsequential act, like the ones that sparked the mass protests of the past, could precipitate a very violent civil disturbance. In the face of such a possible disruption, one can expect the might of the integrated security state apparatus - the coordinated NYPD and federal agencies - to rain down mercilessly. Be prepared for the worst.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33535-has-the-nypd-become-a-paramilitary-force

peaceful assembly and dissent are criminalized

the police state is unstoppable. America is fucked and unfuckable.

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 04:54 PM

Texas cops arrest woman who exposed animal neglect on Facebook — but not the dog’s owners

A Texas woman who tried unsuccessfully to get multiple government agencies to help a dog that appeared to be left on a balcony with its mouth tied shut was arrested for posting pictures of the dog on Facebook.

Amber Cammack first noticed the brown dog on a neighboring balcony in her apartment complex in Harris County about two weeks ago. She tried for a week to get authorities to intervene. When they refused, Cammack turned to Facebook, where users widely distributed the “porch pup’s” photo, the Houston Chronicle reports (http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Woman-arrested-after-posting-photos-of-allegedly-6613161.php#photo-8909902).

The dog was apparently left there round the clock — even during rain storms — to the point that the neighbor below had urine and excrement on their balcony. Photos show a thin animal with a band around its muzzle. In one picture (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=140085233016771&set=pcb.140085843016710&type=3&theater), the dog appears to be wearing a diaper.

Cammack has dubbed the dog “June.”

Cammack got a nasty surprise when the Harris County Sheriff himself, Ron Hickman, called her and told her she was harassing the dog’s owners and demanded she remove the post or face arrest.

Hickman made good on his threats and Cammack was arrested Monday — but the Harris County district attorney refused to file charges.

“When the sheriff himself calls you and threatens you with arrest that is an extreme chill on your right to freedom of expression,” her attorney, Randall Kallinen told the Chronicle.

The D.A. also declined to file animal cruelty charges against the dog’s owner, citing evidence that doesn’t rise to the Texas penal code. The decision has sparked an outcry.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-cops-arrest-woman-who-exposed-animal-neglect-on-facebook-but-not-the-dogs-owners/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-05-2015, 05:05 PM

DEA chief insists marijuana is dangerous and isn’t medicine

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/dea-chief-insists-marijuana-is-dangerous-and-isnt-medicine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

11-05-2015, 07:21 PM

cop unions are now calling for a boycott of tarantino's new film because he spoke out against polie brutalityhttp://i67.tinypic.com/dom9n8.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYdY9q7gyc

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/goldstandard/la-et-mn-quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-boycott-20151102-story.html

DMX7

11-05-2015, 09:25 PM

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deputy-rape-settlement-20151103-story.html

Sheriff pulls over woman, then rapes her. Tax payers on the hook for $6 million.

he deserves more than 9 years. total scum. tax payers on the hook for $2M though (insurance covering the difference).

cd021

11-06-2015, 01:41 AM

he deserves more than 9 years. total scum. tax payers on the hook for $2M though (insurance covering the difference).
Nine years is a joke. Didn't know the tidbit about the insurance,though.

cd021

11-06-2015, 01:48 AM

cop charged with raping more than a dozen woman in OKC.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-accused-raping-black-women-white-jury-article-1.2423160

damn.

boutons_deux

11-06-2015, 03:31 PM

Illinois cops tackle college student in her desk because she smoked a cigarette outside

Slammed to the ground and manhandled on video, a former student filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court Thursday against two campus police officers for using excessive force and threatening to fire a Taser at another student recording the arrest. Warned for smoking a cigarette outside, the student was followed into the class and arrested for trespassing after showing the cops her student ID.On December 7, 2014, Jaclyn Pazera stepped outside during a break between classes with several of her classmates from the College of DuPage to smoke cigarettes (http://abc7chicago.com/news/college-of-dupage-student-claims-police-used-excessive-force-/1070659/). According to Pazera’s lawsuit, Officer Vallardes approached the group and gave them a verbal warning for smoking on campus. After Vallardes asked Pazera and her classmates for identification, Pazera told the campus cop that she had accepted his warning, put out her cigarette, and began walking to class.

Vallardes called for backup as he followed Pazera to her philosophy class. Accompanied by Officer Tamurrino, Vallardes entered the classroom and shouted at the teacher, “Is that your student?”

The teacher informed Vallardes that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) prohibited him from revealing the names of his students. When Tamurrino asked for Pazera’s identification, she showed them her student ID with her photo and expiration date visible. Instead of attempting to de-escalate the situation, Tamurrino told Pazera that she was under arrest for trespassing even though she had just shown them her school ID.

As the officers grabbed Pazera’s arms, her teacher began recording the incident on hiscellphone (http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/45128468-story). After knocking over her desk, the officers slammed her to the floor and aggressively handcuffed her as she screamed in pain.

“Stop resisting!”

“You’re hurting me,” Pazera pleaded.

“Stop resisting!” the officer repeated.

“I had two fully grown men on my back pushing me into the ground, and he said in the video, ‘If you can talk, you can breathe,’” Pazera recalled.

“He picked me up and slammed me into the ground harder.”

After injuring her shoulder and wrist during the arrest, Vallardes allegedly threatened to use his Taser on a student recording the arrest on his cellphone. Vallardes reportedly confiscated the phone knowing that the video recorded on it could be used as evidence against him in a criminal trial. Unbeknownst to Vallardes, the teacher was also recording the incident on his cellphone.

Although Pazera was initially charged with obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest, the charges were dropped 10 months later. On Thursday, Pazera filed a civil rights lawsuit against the college and the two officers for using excessive force during her arrest.

Previously unbeknownst to Pazera, cops are often trained to take down people who are not immediately compliant while mindlessly repeating the mantra: “If you can talk, you can breathe.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/illinois-cops-tackle-college-student-in-her-desk-because-she-smoked-a-cigarette-outside/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-06-2015, 03:36 PM

boutons_deux

11-06-2015, 03:56 PM

Top Cop Union Threatens Quentin Tarantino

Amid the continuing national debate about policing (http://www.motherjones.com/topics/police), Thursday brought the latestbatshit PR (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/police-unions-quentin-tarantino-boycott) move from police union leaders. Their current target, Quentin Tarantino, found himself on the receiving end of a veiled threat when Jim Pasco, the head of the national Fraternal Order of Police, told (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fraternal-order-police-quentin-tarantino-837394) reporters that "something is in the works" against the Hollywood filmmaker. The union's plan, Pasco said, "could happen any time" between now and the premiere of Tarantino's upcoming film, The Hateful Eight, on Christmas Day. Just what exactly did he mean? More from the Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fraternal-order-police-quentin-tarantino-837394):

Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, would not go into any detail about what is being cooked up for the Hollywood director, but he did tell THR: "We'll be opportunistic."

"Tarantino has made a good living out of violence and surprise," says Pasco. "Our offices make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question."

The FOP, based in Washington, D.C., consists of more than 330,000 full-time, sworn officers. According to Pasco, the surprise in question is already "in the works," and will be in addition to the standing boycott of Tarantino's films, including his upcoming movie The Hateful Eight.

"Something is in the works, but the element of surprise is the most important element," says Pasco. "Something could happen anytime between now and [the premiere]. And a lot of it is going to be driven by Tarantino, who is nothing if not predictable.

"The right time and place will come up and we'll try to hurt him in the only way that seems to matter to him, and that's economically," says Pasco.

When asked, Pasco clarified that he was not making a violent threat. But his vow that "we'll try to hurt him" joins a growing list of over-the-top statements (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/police-unions-quentin-tarantino-boycott) from police union leaders.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/11/police-union-threatens-quentin-tarantino-surprise

boutons_deux

11-07-2015, 11:27 AM

Critics blast all-white jury for Oklahoma cop accused of raping black women and teens

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kwtv_holtzclaw_141105c-800x430.jpg

The trial of the former Oklahoma City police officer accused of a string of sexual assaults against black women began this week with an all-white jury.

Daniel Holtzclaw is alleged to have sexually assaulted 12 women and a 17-year-old girl while on duty. Prosecutors have said (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/daniel-holtzclaw-alleged-sexual-assault-oklahoma-city#.orJlQvO6w)he targeted middle-aged black women of limited means who had cause to want to avoid the police, such as outstanding warrants.

Though African Americans make up 16% of the population of Oklahoma County there are no black people among the eight men and four women on the jury.

Holtzclaw faces 36 charges, including rape, forcible oral sodomy and sexual battery, and could be sentenced to life imprisonment. He has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors contend that Holtzclaw began committing sex crimes in December 2013, when he coerced a hospitalised woman who was high on drugs and handcuffed to a bedrail into performing oral sex, with the promise that the charges would be dropped.

His youngest accuser said she was 17 when he raped her on her mother’s porch after groping her, ostensibly to search for drugs.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/critics-blast-all-white-jury-for-oklahoma-cop-accused-of-raping-black-women-and-teens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trill Clinton

11-07-2015, 11:59 AM

Video Shows Cop Executing Man as He’s Lying Face Down and Complying

Officer Lisa Mearkle of the Hummelstown Borough Police Department was found not guilty of criminal homicide for the shooting death of 59-year-old David Kassick

Officer Lisa Mearkle of the Hummelstown Borough Police Department was found not guilty of criminal homicide for the shooting death of 59-year-old David Kassick on February 2. Video has just been released (https://dauphin.crimewatchpa.com/da/310/post/video-lisa-mearkle-david-kassick) from the Taser camera which was deployed before she fired two bullets into the man’s back, as he lay face down on the ground in full compliance with her orders.

The video of this cold-blooded killing by a maniacal cop, shown in full detail, somehow did not convince a jury that it was homicide. He had been chased down, shocked repeatedly with a Taser, fallen down face first in the snow, displayed his hands clearly at the officer’s orders, and then shot in the back twice.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/video-shows-cop-executing-man-hes-lying-face-down-and-complying?akid=13636.187590.rm-8Ow&rd=1&src=newsletter1045379&t=18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa_oXfd8gDY

so far not a peep from the alllivesmatter crowd. bitch killed the man for no damn reasonhttp://i65.tinypic.com/elbgp3.png

Critics blast all-white jury for Oklahoma cop accused of raping black women and teens

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kwtv_holtzclaw_141105c-800x430.jpg

The trial of the former Oklahoma City police officer accused of a string of sexual assaults against black women began this week with an all-white jury.

Daniel Holtzclaw is alleged to have sexually assaulted 12 women and a 17-year-old girl while on duty. Prosecutors have said (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/daniel-holtzclaw-alleged-sexual-assault-oklahoma-city#.orJlQvO6w)he targeted middle-aged black women of limited means who had cause to want to avoid the police, such as outstanding warrants.

Though African Americans make up 16% of the population of Oklahoma County there are no black people among the eight men and four women on the jury.

Holtzclaw faces 36 charges, including rape, forcible oral sodomy and sexual battery, and could be sentenced to life imprisonment. He has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors contend that Holtzclaw began committing sex crimes in December 2013, when he coerced a hospitalised woman who was high on drugs and handcuffed to a bedrail into performing oral sex, with the promise that the charges would be dropped.

His youngest accuser said she was 17 when he raped her on her mother’s porch after groping her, ostensibly to search for drugs.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/critics-blast-all-white-jury-for-oklahoma-cop-accused-of-raping-black-women-and-teens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

demonic story but wouldn't surprise me if he's acquittedhttp://i65.tinypic.com/elbgp3.png

Trill Clinton

11-07-2015, 12:05 PM

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-louisiana-cops-arrested-fatal-shooting-boy-6-n459136

Two Louisiana law enforcement officers were arrested Friday in the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy, which occurred as both officers were working side jobs as city marshals, authorities said.
Derrick Stafford, 32, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, Louisiana State Police superintendent Col. Michael Edmonson said.
The boy, Jeremy Davis Mardis, was killed and his father, Chris Few, was wounded after shots were fired into their vehicle at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Marksville, after what officials described as a pursuit.
"Nothing is more important than this badge that we wear on our uniform, the integrity of why we wear it," Edmonson said. "Because the public, the public allows us to wear that. It's not a right, it's a privilege. And tonight that badge has been tarnished."

Edmonson said body camera footage helped lead to the arrests.
"I can tell you, as a father, it was one of the most disturbing things I've witnessed," Edmonson said. "Extremely disturbing, and it is partly why we are here tonight."

Questions had surrounded the shooting. Officials have said Marskville city marshals shot at a vehicle "at the conclusion of a pursuit."
Edmonson did not detail Friday exactly what is believed to have occurred the night of the shooting. He has said that there was no exchange of gunfire, and no gun was found in Few's sport-utility vehicle.
"Tonight is about the death of Jeremy Mardis. Jeremey Mardis, 6 years old — he didn't deserve to die like that," Edmonson said.

The Avoyelles Parish coroner's office told NBC News that the boy was shot five times in the head and chest, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. Jeremy's grandmother said the boy was autistic.
The child's father remained in critical condition Friday, state police said.
Stafford is a lieutenant with the Marksville police department, and Greenhouse is a full-time marshal for the nearby city of Alexandria, Edmonson said. Both were working secondary jobs as Marksville marshals when the shooting occurred, he said.
Two other marshals may also have been involved in the incident, Edmonson said. Police have seized all four guns from those involved and they are being analyzed at a lab in Baton Rouge, he said.
"We will do other interviews and see where that takes us," Edmonson said.
Marksville is a city of around 5,500 about 30 miles southeast of Alexandria.

will these kid killing bitches the usual stimulus package cops get when killing kids: rallies,coplivesmatter protests,a gofundme account or nah?
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boutons_deux

11-07-2015, 12:20 PM

WATCH: Mob of Austin cops tackle and assault two unarmed men for jaywalking

Austin, TX — A group of friends, Jeremy Kingg, Lou Glen, Matt Wallace, and Rolando Ramiro were walking home Early Friday morning when they crossed the street in a manner unfit for a police state.

“We were walking across the street, the sign said ‘do not walk,’ but lights were already turning yellow and streets were blocked off, so we kept walking,” Ramiro says.

“[Police] flashed their flashlights at us, asked us to show them our IDs. Matt and Jeremy said to f— off,” noting that the street was barricaded so the ‘crime’ of Jaywalking was a moot point when cars are unable to drive down the street.

However, the half-dozen officers attempting to assert their authority over group did not approve of Wallace and Kingg’s tone, so they felt a gang beating was in order.

All of the sudden, multiple Austin cops coming running from their bicycles and proceed to start punching, kneeing, and kicking two young men.

When asked what crime they committed, one officer turned up and said, “crossed against the light.”

This insanely violent response from police for crossing the street is the epitome of the divide in America today that continues to grow between the police and the policed. This is not how you treat people.

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The APD is no stranger to violent arrests for jaywalking. Last year, 4 APD officers applied a ridiculous amount of force to a tiny college girl for jogging ‘against the light.’

When police were asked to issue a statement about the stop, which made world news, APD chief Art Acevedo implied that the girl should feel lucky that none of his officers raped her.

“This person absolutely took something that was as simple as ‘Austin Police – Stop!’ and decided to do everything you see on that video,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a press conference Friday, according to Austin NPR station 90.5 KUT. “

And quite frankly she wasn’t charged with resisting. She’s lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer, because I wouldn’t have been as generous. … In other cities there’s cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas,” Acevedo said.

This is what crossing the street in a police state looks like.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/watch-mob-of-austin-cops-tackle-and-assault-2-unarmed-men-for-jaywalking/

Quetzal-X

11-07-2015, 04:49 PM

What a god damn fucking shitty job it must be.

boutons_deux

11-08-2015, 08:26 AM

police state news, taking down a dangerous criminal

FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client

EFF is please to announce that our client, Chris Roberts, is now in the possession of all of his digital devices that had been held by the FBI since April 2015.
Earlier this year, Mr. Roberts was detained (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security) for tweeting about airplane network security.

When he landed in Syracuse,the FBI escorted him off the plane, questioned him for several hours, and seized all of his computer equipment (http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/17/hacker-tweets-about-hacking-plane-gets-computers-seized/).

We are relieved that, as of this week, the FBI has returned all of that equipment. Like many others in the security community, Roberts’ interest has always been to identify vulnerabilities in networks so that they can be fixed, making us all safer. We would like to thank our co-counsel at Keker & Van Nest LLP (http://www.kvn.com/) for their pro bono assistance on this matter.

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/05/were_missing_the_real_marco_rubio_scandal_the_prob lem_isnt_his_financial_trouble_its_that_hes_a_corr uptible_sneak/

boutons_deux

11-08-2015, 08:31 AM

Oklahoma Repugs muscling up their police state, protecting their dickless lawpricks every second of their lives, even off duty.

State Law Makes It a Felony to Touch a Police Officer Even Off-Duty and Out of Uniform

In effect, the Oklahoma measure extends the cloak of 'qualified immunity' to cover every aspect of a law enforcement officer’s life.

Two short-tempered men run into each other in a bar in Enid, Oklahoma. The combustible mixture of alcohol and ego produces the predictable reaction – a brief, stupid, and inconclusive fight in which neither side is seriously injured. When police officers arrive on the scene, onlookers expect that both parties to the altercation will be hauled away in handcuffs.

However, after one of them produces a police credential, he is allowed to handcuff the other and place him under arrest for a felonious assault on an off-duty law enforcement officer. It doesn’t matter that the individual making the arrest might have been the same one who started the fight.

This scenario is made entirely plausible by a newly enacted Oklahoma statute that makes any “assault” on an off-duty law enforcement officer a felony (http://kfor.com/2015/04/22/bill-signed-into-law-will-increase-penalties-for-assaulting-off-duty-officer/) — and it is standard practice to treat nearly any physical contact with an officer as an “assault.”

The law (http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2015-16%20ENR/hB/HB1318%20ENR.PDF), which passed the legislature unanimously (always a bad sign), went into effect on November 1. In effect, this measure extends the cloak of “qualified immunity” to cover every aspect of a law enforcement officer’s life.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/state-law-makes-it-felony-touch-police-officer-even-duty-and-out-uniform

boutons_deux

11-09-2015, 02:17 PM

My guess, because per curiam's don't list the assenter, only dissenters, is the SCOTUS per curiam defending the cops' "shoot first, whatever later" was 5-4, with those 5 being the Usual Suspects

Justice Sotomayor Faults SCOTUS for Sanctioning 'Shoot First, Think Later' Tactics by Police (https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/09/justice-sotomayor-faults-scotus-for-sanc)

In a per curiam opinion issued (http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/110915zor_4g25.pdf) today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit which had refused to grant qualified immunity to a police officer who used deadly force in order to bring a high-speed car chase to a close. Writing in lone dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor faulted her colleagues for "sanctioning a 'shoot first, think later' approach to policing [that] renders the protections of the Fourth Amendment hollow."

At issue in Mullenix v. Luna was a 2010 high-speed car chase that ended when Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Chad Mullenix fired six shots in an attempt to disable the engine of the fleeing vehicle. Although Mullenix was told by his superior officer to "stand by" and "see if" the road spikes that had been deployed by the police "work first" to stop the vehicle, Mullenix nonetheless proceeded to take action. Four of the six shots he fired struck the fleeing driver, Israel Leija Jr., killing him.

In 2014 the 5th Circuit ruled that Trooper Mullenix was not entitled to qualified immunity because the "immediacy of the risk posed by Leija is a disputed fact that a reasonable jury could find either in the plaintiffs' favor or in the officer's favor, precluding us from concluding that Mullenix acted objectively reasonably as a matter of law."

Today the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that decision. "Whatever can be said of the wisdom of Mullenix's choice, this Court's precedents do not place the conclusion that he acted unreasonably in these circumstances 'beyond debate,'" the Court said.

That judgment drew a sharp rebuke from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

"Mullenix fired six rounds in the dark at a car traveling 85 miles per hour," Sotomayor observed. "He did so

without any training in that tactic,

against the wait order of his superior officer, and

less than a second before the car hit spike strips deployed to stop it.

Mullenix's rogue conduct killed the driver, Israel Leija, Jr. Because it was clearly established under the Fourth Amendment that an officer in Mullenix's position should not have fired the shots, I respectfully dissent."

The Supreme Court's opinion in Mullenix v. Luna is available here (http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/110915zor_4g25.pdf).

https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/09/justice-sotomayor-faults-scotus-for-sanc

The murderous cops are now protected, emboldened to murder more than ever

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Quetzal-X

11-09-2015, 03:22 PM

Cop fellators rejoice!

boutons_deux

11-09-2015, 05:02 PM

Ohio pay-to-stay prisons saddle poor inmates with debt: ACLU

Ohio's prison system pushes low-income offenders deeper into poverty by charging fees for their jail time, saddling inmates with debts as high as $35,000, according to a report released on Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.

Forty of the state's 75 county jails that house low-level nonviolent offenders charge a booking fee, daily fees of as much as $50 to $60 a day, or both and of those just half take the offender's income into account when deciding how much of a fee to impose, the report found.

It charges that the fees bury people in debt and likely contribute to higher rates of recidivism. The Ohio ACLU called for the state to eliminate the policies or access for indigence and/or allow programs for inmates to work off the debt.

"Pay-to-stay jail fees are the next generation of unending debts that seek to tether low-income people to the criminal justice system," the report states.

"These fees are insidious: loading formerly incarcerated people with increasing amounts of debt make it nearly impossible for even the most well-meaning person to become a productive member of society."

Some Ohio prisons charge as little as $10 for booking and $1 or $10 a day depending on ability to pay. But with some Ohio county poverty rates as high as 32 percent and a minimum wage of less than $8, Mike Brickner, Ohio ACLU senior policy director said, even fees on a sliding scale can be "insurmountable"

Brickner added that with no means to pay the pay-to-stay fees that debt often goes into collections making it more difficult if not impossible for people then get a car loan a job or a place to live because now their credit is compromised.

Pay-to-stay policies proliferated 20 years ago after a state law allowed facilities to charge prisoners fees and the law also allows each facility set its own policy however about half of the state’s county facility have abandoned them all together.

State officials did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-ohio-prisons-idUSKCN0SY23M20151109?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Americ fucking sucks, red state, slave state America.

boutons_deux

11-09-2015, 05:05 PM

John Oliver exposes how America sets up former prisoners to fail

In America, more than 600,000 people (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/loretta-lynch/prosecution-is-only-one-aspect-of-a-comprehensive-justice-system_b_7905620.html) are released from prison each year. And John Oliver wants you to know that by and large, the US sets up these ex-inmates to fail.

As Oliver explained on his November 8 show, in the 1980s and '90s federal and state lawmakers imposed legal barriers — widely known as "collateral consequences" (http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=143) — that effectively stop released inmates from getting a job, an education, or even a house.

These barriers take various forms, including some laws that make it hard for former inmates to even visit family. In one case covered by the Associated Press (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8VbBYF4lSg), New York City resident Geraldine Miller faced the threat of eviction from her public housing because her son, an ex-convict, helped her with groceries when she became ill. "Look, we all want people who've committed crimes to learn their lesson," Oliver said. "But 'never help your sick mother with groceries' sounds more like the kind of lesson you learned from a shitty Boy Scout leader."

But the possibility of getting your family evicted just by showing up at their house is only one of many ways prisoners face tough odds upon release. The result: Anywhere fromone in three to as many as half (http://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9631218/recidivism-rate-prison) of former inmates end up back in prison within a few years.

The many legal barriers to a prisoner reentering society

For example, it's legal for employers to ask in job applications about someone's criminal record and not hire someone for a prior crime — even something as minor as a marijuana possession offense. But this can make it much more difficult for inmates to reintegrate into society: If they can't get a job, they're much more likely to turn to criminal activities to make ends meet. So reformers started "ban the box," (http://www.vox.com/2015/11/2/9660282/obama-ban-the-box) which seeks to stop employers from asking about criminal records in job applications — although they can do criminal background checks later on in the hiring process. (In reformers' latest victory, President Barack Obama instituted (http://www.vox.com/2015/11/2/9660282/obama-ban-the-box) "ban the box" for federal agencies.)

Collateral consequences apply to all sorts of other issues, as well: Some states ban ex-prisoners from working at all sorts jobs, from nursing to alligator ranching. People who have served out felony convictions often can't apply for public housing or Pell Grants. They can't vote in many states. They can't receive welfare benefits. All of these things can make it more difficult for a former inmate to get a job and legally make a living, or at the very least signal to him that society will never accept him, making him much more likely to turn to a life of crime.

Dismantling the collateral consequences of prison is, of course, not an idea without controversy.

Many people genuinely believe that prisoners, especially those convicted of violent crimes, should face lifelong punishments for their misdeeds.

But most prisoners are going to be let out at some point. If they face enormous barriers once they're out, they're going to be more likely to reoffend. Not only does that cost taxpayers even more money as they pay for that inmate's incarceration, it also defeats one of the purposes of prison in the first place — to stop and deter crime.

"Over 95 percent (http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ndga/legacy/2014/12/12/Reentry%20Fact%20Sheet%20_FINAL.pdf) of all prisoners will eventually be released," Oliver said. "So it's in everyone's interest that we try to give them a better chance of success. Because under the current system, if they do manage to overcome all the obstacles we have set, it's a minor miracle."

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/9/9696030/john-oliver-prison-reentry-last-week-tonight

boutons_deux

11-09-2015, 05:55 PM

Three Alabama police officers suspended after violent arrest

Three Alabama police officers were on administrative leave on Monday after videos appeared to show them using a stun gun and baton in the arrest of several university students, the Tuscaloosa police chief said on Monday, pledging to investigate.

The officers, who were not identified, had responded to loud music call around 3 a.m. on Sunday that escalated into a confrontation with the occupants of an apartment, video posted by local media outlets showed.

The video showed officers using what appeared to be a stun gun and a baton on a young man after forcibly removing him from the apartment.

The incident comes amid wide scrutiny of the use of force by law enforcement officers in the United States, after a series of police killings involving unarmed men drew protests in the last year.

Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson said his department was investigating the incident, in which three students were arrested.

"I was deeply disturbed by and disappointed in the way our officers responded," he told reporters on Monday afternoon. yeah, right!

The three officers were placed on paid leave, he said. Some officers at the scene wore body cameras, he noted, and the footage would be part of the department's investigation.

The incident involved students at the University of Alabama, the school said on Twitter. University police officers also were among those responding to the initial call.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-alabama-police-idUSKCN0SY2LI20151109?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

boutons_deux

11-10-2015, 10:33 AM

As Arthur Velazquez was riding his bike down the street, police claimed that he ‘fit the description’ because he was wearing a hoodie and on a bike, so they stopped him.

While he was detained, he simply pulled out his phone and called his sister out of concern that something bad was about to happen.

“I’m thinking about my own safety,” Velazquez said. “I had a feeling that with these two officers something bad was going to happen; that’s why I called my sister.”

Unfortunately, his feeling of something bad happening came true when officers attacked him for making this call.

Police claim that they feared for their lives when Velazquez told them that he was calling his sister, so they had no other choice but the escalate the situation to violence and beat an innocent man.

http://images.dailykos.com/images/174982/story_image/az_assault-800x430.jpg?1447001269

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/08/1446882/-Unarmed-Arizona-man-assaulted-by-Cops-for-trying-to-call-his-sister?detail=email

boutons_deux

11-10-2015, 11:32 AM

Texas troopers caught skewing racial profiling data by labeling Hispanics and blacks as white

A recent investigation revealed that racial profiling data gathered by the Texas Department of Public Safety could not be trusted because some troopers had been labeling minority drivers as white.

KXAN reviewed (http://kxan.com/investigative-story/texas-troopers-ticketing-hispanics-motorists-as-white/) more than 16 million traffic citation records and found that the ethnicity of the drivers had been incorrectly recorded in a significant number of cases.

The station found that four of the top five last names recorded as white in the state were traditionally Hispanic names: Garcia, Martinez, Rodriguez and Hernandez.

Professor Ranjana Natarajan, who heads the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, told KXAN that DPS racial profiling data should be considered unreliable in light of the new findings.

“I think there could be accidents every now and then, but the sheer number of the reports that you found, where it looks like the people who are not white are being classified as white, means that there is something else going on here,” Natarajan explained. “What it shows is that, there either seems to be a complete lack of training on the part of DPS officers and other law enforcement officers about how to report people’s race. Or there is deliberate, sort of trying to not follow the policy if they have been trained properly on how to report the race of the drivers whom they stop.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-troopers-caught-skewing-racial-profiling-data-by-labeling-hispanics-and-blacks-as-white/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Cops lying, cheating, racist, frauds, profiling, yawn

Quetzal-X

11-10-2015, 01:44 PM

Welfare disguised as a legitimate honest paying job.

boutons_deux

11-10-2015, 02:19 PM

Justice Dept. says insufficient evidence for charges against ex-Milwaukee cop

The Justice Department said on Tuesday there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against a former Milwaukee police officer in the death of an unarmed black man.

Former Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney was fired after fatally shooting Dontre Hamilton on April 30, 2014. Federal authorities reviewed evidence collected in the death of Hamilton, who struggled with Manney, the Justice Department said in a statement.

"The evidence was insufficient to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Manney acted willfully with a bad purpose to violate the law," the Justice Department said.

Manney shot Hamilton, an unarmed 31-year-old mentally disabled black man, 14 times during a struggle in Red Arrow Park in downtown Milwaukee.

Manney opened fire after Hamilton took his baton and hit him, according to authorities.

"Mistake, misperception, negligence or poor judgment are not sufficient to establish a federal criminal civil rights violation,"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/10/us-usa-police-wisconsin-idUSKCN0SZ28720151110?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Trill Clinton

11-10-2015, 02:26 PM

664154356896387073

boutons_deux

11-11-2015, 06:55 AM

After 43 Years in Solitary, This Man Faces “One of the Most Surreal Trials of All Time"

Imagine spending more than four decades in virtual solitary confinement for a crime you've always insisted you didn't commit—and then, when your freedom is finally at hand, having it snatched away.

That's the blow the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt on Monday to 68-year-old Albert Woodfox, the last member of the so-called Angola 3 still behind bars. Woodfox, who was twice tried and convicted for his alleged role in the 1972 killing of prison guard Brent Miller, has spent 23 hours a day in a six-by-nine-foot cell at the state penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, ever since.

Woodfox "remains trapped in a nightmare—both by conditions of solitary confinement and by a deeply flawed legal process."

The courts eventually overturned both of Woodfox's convictions based on evidence (http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/lawyers_call_for_release_of_an.html) of racial discrimination and prosecutorial misconduct. In June, after determining that Woodfox couldn't get a fair trial so long after the fact, a federal judge ordered his immediate release. But the appeals court blocked (http://www.nola.com/news/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2015/06/albert_woodfoxs_released_block.html) the move. On Monday, it announced that Louisiana would be free to try Woodfox yet again.

"Woodfox should have walked free," she added. "But Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell continues to relentlessly pursue vengeance over justice."

Indeed, the AG has announced his intention to pursue another trial—even though all of the purported witnesses are dead and the victim's widow is opposed to it.

"In what would surely be one of the most surreal trials of all time," notes David Cole, who covered the case (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/albert-woodfoxs-forty-years-in-solitary-confinement) for The New Yorker, "the state proposes to retry the case by having stand-ins read from the transcripts of these witnesses' prior testimony."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/angola-3-albert-woodfox-solitary-confinement-third-trial

slave states doing to blacks what slave states have always done.

boutons_deux

11-11-2015, 09:57 AM

The video that will rip Chicago apart — and why you need to see it

There is a video that could tear Chicago apart.

It will go viral if released, and the world will see something ugly and frightening on the Southwest Side.

It comes from a police dashboard camera. City Hall (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics-government/government/chicago-city-hall-PLCUL00217-topic.html) worries that political hell may be on the way. Activists are primed. The politics of race and police use of force are at hand.

And a court hearing is scheduled for next week on whether it should be released to the public.

All this is going on just below the surface. All the players know what's at stake, so I thought you should know about it, too.

The video, without sound, is said to show Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American reportedly with PCP in his system, holding a small knife.

He was shot to death by a white Chicago police (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/crime-law-justice/law-enforcement/chicago-police-department-ORGOV000080-topic.html) officer, Jason Van Dyke, on the night of Oct. 20, 2014, at 41st and Pulaski on the Southwest Side.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-552dbc9f/turbine/ct-police-shooting-16-shots-met-20150414/400/400x225 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-police-shooting-16-shots-met-20150414-story.html)

City officials said police, responding to a call of a man slashing tires, followed McDonald carefully and calmly as he wandered. They called for backup and Tasers. Then McDonald walked out onto Pulaski Road.

Only one cop opened fire, shooting 16 times in all, and the video is said to show the rounds hitting McDonald in the back, the legs, arms, neck and head, the bullets making the body jump again and again.

On Nov. 19, Cook County Judge Franklin Valderrama is expected to rule whether the video should be released.

The FBI is investigating. Officer Van Dyke, who has not been charged with any crime, has been stripped of his police powers and has been reassigned to desk duty.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-police-shooting-video-kass-met-1111-20151110-column.html

boutons_deux

11-11-2015, 12:20 PM

Latest Texas exoneration: State hid evidence cop beat suspect while handcuffed, prosecuted victim; FBI says not a one-off

Check out the most recent Texas exoneration from the National Exoneration Registry: Carlos Flores (http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4778), who allegedly was beaten by San Antonio Police Officer Matthew Belver while handcuffed, then charged with assaulting an officer.

Flores, a legal permanent resident from Mexico with no criminal record, was charged with assault on a public servant. Flores filed a complaint with the San Antonio Police Department accusing Belver of attacking him while he was handcuffed and asserting that he kicked at Belver in self-defense.

Flores said in his complaint that after Belver handcuffed him and placed him in the back of the police car, he told Belver, “I want to kick your ass.” Flores said Belver opened the back door of the police car, yanked him out onto the ground and began beating him while he was still handcuffed. During the tussle, Flores said he kicked Belver in the face.

Belver radioed for assistance, but had managed to put Flores back into the police car by the time other officers arrived.

In May 2011, Flores received a letter from the San Antonio Police Department informing him that after an Internal Affairs Unit investigation, “corrective action” was taken against Belver, but did not specify the nature of the action except to say it would be “noted in his personnel file” and would serve “as a reference in the event there a reoccurrence of this type of action by the officer.

On December 6, 2011, Flores pled no contest to assault on a public servant in Bexar County Criminal District Court and the judge deferred an adjudication of guilt for four years. He was ordered to complete 350 hours of community service and pay $2,300 in restitution to the police department.

In April 2013, the FBI reached out to Flores to interview him because Belver was the subject of a federal investigation into allegations that Flores was beating people while making arrests and conducting improper searches without warrants.

One month later, in May 2013, Flores’s deferred adjudication was revoked because he missed three meetings with his court supervision officer, had only paid $600 in restitution and had not completed his community service. He was sentenced to prison for three years.

In May 2014, Flores was scheduled to be released from prison on parole and discovered that because of his conviction, he was subject to deportation.

In October 2014, Flores filed a state-court petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to vacate his conviction on the basis of actual innocence. The petition said that although the FBI investigation had not resulted in any charges against Belver, he had been suspended for 30 days without pay for filing a false report of his arrest of Flores and for failing to take Flores for medical treatment on the day of the arrest.

A hearing was held on the petition and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office agreed that the information should have been disclosed to Flores prior to his guilty plea. A judge recommended that the writ be granted.

In September 2015, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the writ and vacated the conviction. “This information was not disclosed to the defense before (Flores) entered his plea, and is consistent with (his) contention that he did not intentionally or knowingly assault the officer,” the appeals court said. “The trial court conducted a habeas hearing, and the parties agree that the information regarding the disciplinary action against the arresting officer should have been, but was not disclosed to the defense in this case.”

In October 2015, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit filed a motion to dismiss the charge. On October 21, 2015, the motion was granted and Flores was released.

The Court of Criminal Appeals ruled (http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=52f3d26b-4973-401f-b5a2-2fe582ed9d10&coa=coscca&DT=OPINION&MediaID=eb02af8f-2c12-41e1-98a2-7aa08b160bf0) in Flores' favor based on a Brady claim, not actual innocence, even though the evidence prosecutors concealed "is consistent with Applicant's contention that he did not intentionally or knowingly assault the officer."

But that's quite a fact-pattern for an innocence case! One wonders what information SAPD Internal Affairs and the feds had that made them believe the word of a suspect over Officer Belver?

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2015/11/latest-texas-exoneration-state-hid.html

boutons_deux

11-11-2015, 02:40 PM

Long article on the militarization and murderous brutality of the police state

Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society (http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/11/police-torture-and-the-real-militarization-of-society/)

There is a rhetorical expression that the police use to justify throwing a person to the ground and handcuffing them. “The subject became uncooperative.” When a person walks away from the cop and gets shot, the rhetorical expression is: “I felt threatened.” But there is a momentous assumption that the cop makes in either case. That is that he can play the role of a commanding officer, as if in a military institution, and the civilian on the street must respond with the obedience of a platoon member. Only in the military is the requirement for “cooperation” that absolute.

In the language of civil society, to throw a person to the ground is assault. To kneel on soneone’s back is torture. To handcuff a person in order to prohibit their autonomy and self-respect is a violation democratic ethics as well as of Constitutional due process. To shoot someone in the back is murder. Yet these criminal actions are now routine responses to a failure to obey. To question or disagree with a police officer amounts to disobedience, and can be punished in the moment.

A cop in McKinney, TX, actually explained this paradigm (again on candid video). He had broken up a teenage pool party, and in a berserk fashion chased down all the black partiers he could catch. He threw a young woman to the ground twice to handcuff her, and pulled his gun on others. Then, suddenly returning to rational demeanor, he lectured two teenage black men whom he had told to sit on the ground, as if he was their housemother. “I personally told you to get on the ground, and stay there. What did you do when I walked away? You did just what everybody else did, which was illegal [indicating the others had fled]. You did it, and you got caught.” And he arrested them. He is not only assuming the position of a commanding officer over these others who are his “subordinates,” but he consciously regards his own words as law.

Civil society is not a military organization. We have not been enlisted or inducted into one, and to so consider us is wholly inimical to any democratic ethics. Yet

in Nebraska, there is a law that allows each citizen only five second to obey a police command and not be subject to arrest.

In other words, legislatures and courts have ratified this regimentation of civilians, rendering us platoon members on pain of prison. The jail house may say “free society” on the door, but it is still a jail house.

Police motivations are most clearly expressed, however, in their requests for tasers. Tasers are not weapons of defense or war. They are instruments of torture. Police label them “less-lethal” substitutes for guns. But tasers would not be used against real weapons, which is the alleged role of guns.

Tasers are actually substitutes for billyclubs or pepper spray, that are weaker forms of torture, with lesser reach.

They are thus “more lethal” forms of exacting obedience. (When they label tasers “less-lethal” substitutes for guns, the police are admitting that the primary role of guns is also obedience and not defense.)

The use of tasers has resulted in over 900 deaths in the last few years.

What the taser better facilitates than other technologies is the expression of sadism by the cop using them – the many cases of people already handcuffed who were then tased repeatedly (often resulting in death). It more properly belongs to the category of instruments of restraint – such as hog-tying, body-wraps, spit masks, etc. – which also appeal to the sadistic mind.

The Machinery of Un-Civil-War

In these situations, where the cop initiates an approach for no extant or obvious legal reason (including arbitrary traffic stops), the cop is acting purely on the basis of suspicion or desire (to harass).

His impunity in doing so not only gives suspicion the power of law, it gives desire the power of command (a power nexus between regimentation and autocracy).

The legal mechanism underpinning this power is the victimless crime law. Victimless crime laws dispense with the need for a complainant. They give a cop the ability can act autonomously in deciding who to notice and what to use as “probable cause.” In other words, probable cause becomes arbitrary, a question of unilateral volution. The officer who stops someone on the street or in traffic needs only to say he was carrying on an “investigation.”

But now, because disobedience is illegal, “investigation” becomes a euphemism for a process of criminalization.

Having stopped an individual, the cop has only to find a command to which the person will object as too humiliating, and charge disobedience.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/11/police-torture-and-the-real-militarization-of-society/

boutons_deux

11-12-2015, 09:49 AM

Texas cops respond to suicide attempt, shoot Hispanic man — and then find out he’s a deputy

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-cops-respond-to-suicide-attempt-shoot-hispanic-man-and-then-find-out-hes-a-deputy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

cops are experts in cost-saving therapy for mental health problems

boutons_deux

11-12-2015, 11:29 AM

Virginia cops Tased handcuffed man 20 times in 30 minutes before he died

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/revealed-virginia-cops-tased-handcuffed-man-20-times-in-30-minutes-before-he-died/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-12-2015, 05:45 PM

Oklahoma cop attacks woman in parked car, drags her by hair and punches her

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/54d08c0f-c935-4b5e-ac62-f98fd45d1a5f-large16x9_BlankBlue-Edit-800x430.jpg

Law enforcement officials in Oklahoma said this week that they were considering recommending charges against a Yukon police officer after witnesses said that he assaulted a woman.

An Oklahoma City police report obtained by KOKO (http://www.koco.com/news/yukon-police-officer-suspended-after-accusation-of-assaulting-woman/36408638) said that the woman reported the attack early Saturday morning.

According to the report, witnesses observed 29-year-old Zachary Dean Bradford drag a woman from her car by her hair and then punch her. Bradford took off his shirt and tucked it in his pants before leaving the scene, witnesses said.

The victim told officers (http://okcfox.com/news/local/yukon-police-officer-arrested-on-assault-and-battery-complaint) that she had not known Bradford before the attack. She said that she had been sitting in a vehicle talking to one of the witnesses when Bradford emerged from a nearby home and knocked on her window.

She said that she protected herself by curling into a ball on the ground after Bradford dragged her from the car. She suffered cuts on her left knee, right ankle and right elbow.

Oklahoma City officers arrested Bradford on suspicion of assault and battery. The Yukon Police Department later confirmed that Bradford had been off duty that evening.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/oklahoma-cop-attacks-woman-in-parked-car-drags-her-by-hair-and-punches-her-witnesses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

cd021

11-12-2015, 06:30 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/us/florida-corey-jones-shooting-death/index.html

cop fired for shooting man waiting for AAA. Charges better be next and the family is likely to be payed. PDs firing a cop over a shooting, implies that he was at fault.

FuzzyLumpkins

11-13-2015, 12:42 PM

boutons_deux

11-14-2015, 09:30 AM

‘Reminiscent of Rodney King': San Francisco cops investigated after video release of savage beating of man

high quality beating video

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/reminiscent-of-rodney-king-san-francisco-cops-investigated-after-video-release-of-savage-beating-of-man/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

tholdren

11-14-2015, 01:42 PM

Lol this topic is ridiculous. Put more cops in schools

boutons_deux

11-16-2015, 11:17 AM

Waller County Blames Sandra Bland’s Suicide on Her Family

In a motion, the county’s lawyers say Bland killed herself because her family failed to bail her out of jail.

The blame for Bland’s suicide, it asserts, lies with her friends and family for not helping her secure the $515 dollars she needed to make bail.

“Bland committed suicide by hanging herself in the jail cell, using a rolled/twisted plastic trash bag as a ligature, and tying it around the support of a privacy partition in the cell,” the filing reads. “It is apparent now that Bland’s inability to secure her release from jail—and her family and friends’ refusal to bail her out of jail—led her to commit suicide.”

This assertion ignores what is arguably most important about this case:

Bland should not have been required to pay her jailers any money in order to buy her freedom.

As civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis told me back in July (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/07/sandra_bland_is_the_bail_system_that_kept_her_in_p rison_unconstitutional.html), “what made [Bland’s case] illegal was that

they arrested this woman and

kept her in a jail cell, and

there was never a finding that she was a danger to the community,

there was no adversarial hearing with a lawyer where that question was asked, let alone answered, and

there was no finding that she was a risk of flight.”

Karakatsanis added: “They put this amount of money on her head, and basically said,

‘You will be kept in this cage unless and until you pay this arbitrarily set amount of money,’ without any inquiry into her ability to pay it.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/11/sandra_bland_waller_county_blames_her_suicide_on_b land_s_family.html

If Bland had been white .... ??

DarrinS

11-17-2015, 03:26 PM

Here's some more chum

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jamar-clark-minneapolis-shooting_564a6d4ae4b045bf3df095ff

Spurminator

11-17-2015, 03:32 PM

Here's some more chum

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jamar-clark-minneapolis-shooting_564a6d4ae4b045bf3df095ff

You wouldn't have ever heard of Jamar Clark if not for the activists. You should thank them for all of the forum material they're going to give you for the next week.

boutons_deux

11-19-2015, 05:24 AM

“The most heinous thing I have ever heard”: One Kansas woman’s ordeal over the use of medical marijuana

The Garden City mother faces five marijuana-related charges, including three felonies, and had her 11-year-old son taken away by the state after the boy piped up during an anti-drug class at school to say that his mom “smokes a lot.”
Shona Banda uses marijuana, and makes no bones about it. She has publicly said she uses cannabis oil to treat her Crohn’s disease and even authored a book (http://www.amazon.com/Live-Free-Die-Reclaim-Paperback/dp/B008KXMVZG) about it: “Live Free or Die: Reclaim Your Life…Reclaim Your Country!”

That doesn’t go over too well in conservative western Kansas. Once her son inadvertently challenged drug war orthodoxy, the school contacted the Department of Children and Families and the Garden City police, who raided Banda’s home and reported, “approximately 500 grams of suspected marijuana, multiple marijuana smoking pipes, three ‘vaporizers’ that were actively manufacturing cannabis oil and multiple other items related to packaging and ingestion of marijuana were seized from the residence.”

Banda was charged with endangering a child, distribution or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of school property, unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She’s facing up to 28 years in state prison for trying to treat her illness.

The distribution charge is especially outrageous, since it is based solely on the amount of marijuana seized and with no evidence of actual distribution. Preparing cannabis oil requires large amounts of raw material.

To add insult to injury, the state has also taken her son, placing him first with his father, then in “protective custody,” then back with his father. Now Banda has only limited access to her child.

prosecutors made a surprise announcement that they planned to put her son on the stand to testify against her.

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/woman_and_medical_marijuana_partner/

Garden City, 25K population, western KS, fucking redneck, grandstanding prosecutor.

boutons_deux

11-19-2015, 06:40 AM

Dallas police excessive-force complaints drop dramatically

Police Chief David Brown says this shift toward de-escalation is driving a sharp drop in excessive-force complaints against officers. In 2009, the year before Brown became chief, 147 such complaints were filed. So far this year, 13 have been filed — on pace to be the lowest number in at least two decades.

“This is the most dramatic development in policing anywhere in the country,” Brown said in an interview Friday with The Dallas Morning News. “We’ve had this kind of impact basically through training, community policing and holding officers accountable.”

Brown says his commanders have improved the quality of so-called reality-based training and increased required training hours for street cops over the past year. Trainers model the scenarios on real-life events recorded by officers’ body cams, dash-cams, and the media.

“We can learn from what Dallas is doing,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, D.C. “That’s what police departments need — they don’t need training in silos: one day about the law, one day about firearms, one day about crisis intervention.”

Brown believes the Dallas training has also led to a 30 percent decline in assaults on officers this year, and a 40 percent drop in shootings by police.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20151116-dallas-police-excessive-force-complaints-drop-dramatically.ece

boutons_deux

11-19-2015, 09:35 AM

Dad Tells Cops They Need a Warrant to Search Home, So They Kick in His Door and Kill Him

Spring Lake, NC — Three children lost their father Sunday after deputies with the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office, looking for a different man, shot and killed him.

John Livingston, 33, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Sunday as police were conducting an assault investigation. Police were not looking for Livingston, and the entire situation could have been avoided had they come back with a warrant like Livingston requested.

Livingston’s roommate, Clayton Carroll told WNCN (http://wncn.com/2015/11/15/1-killed-in-harnett-co-officer-involved-shooting/) that he was shot multiple times during the altercation with officers who had no right to be there in the first place.

According to Carroll, deputies began knocking on the door around 3:30 am as they were looking for someone who no longer lived in the home. When Deputies asked Livingston if they could search his home, Livingston said “not without a search warrant,” according to Carroll.

Livingston then shut the door.

Having a man assert his fourth amendment right to be secure in his property was apparently too much for the deputy to handle.

“The cop kicked in the door, got on top of him, started slinging him around beat him…” Carroll said.

Witnesses explain how deputies began spraying pepper spray and deploying a taser during the assault. They say that Livingston was not fighting back and merely trying to prevent the deputies from inflicting more harm on him.

During the struggle, Livingston attempted to remove the taser from the deputy’s hand which caused the officers to fear for their lives.

“He (Livingston) barely had the Taser in his hand, but he had it where it was constantly going off and the officer I guess that spoke to him rolled over there, says he got the Taser and shot him in this position,” Carroll said.

Livingston died from the multiple gunshot wounds.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dad-tells-cops-they-need-warrant-search-home-so-they-kick-his-door-and-kill-him

Cops love to empty their clips on unarmed victims, no less that 10 shots it seems to really kill a dead person.

boutons_deux

11-19-2015, 05:32 PM

Cops Claim LSD Killed This Dad, but Autopsy and Video Confirms They Hogtied Him to Death

Goode and his wife attended a concert in Southaven where they took LSD. Goode began acting funny in a parking lot, and someone thought it was necessary to call the police.

The cops’ answer was to hog-tie Goode and place him face-down, which is known to be a potentially deadly position.

Bystander footage (https://youtu.be/Q_1AXTikqPM) shows Goode being hog-tied, thrashing around, and then being placed into an ambulance. Several onlookers state their disbelief that cops would place someone in this dangerous position, with one even saying it’s good they are getting video “in case he dies.” Goode was pronounced dead an hour after arriving at the hospital.

A friend of the family contacted the Free Thought Project and said that Goode was asthmatic and he was denied his inhaler. We were also told that cops threatened to arrest friends and family if they visited Goode at the hospital.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cops-claim-lsd-killed-dad-autopsy-and-video-confirms-they-hogtied-him-death?akid=13672.187590.RYuqLA&rd=1&src=newsletter1046025&t=16

boutons_deux

11-20-2015, 11:53 AM

extra-judicial executions

More than 550 people in Texas have died so far this year while in custody either at the city, county or state level, according to data from the state attorney general's office (https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/).

While more than half of those people died while under supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, other deaths occurred with local police departments or sheriff's offices. TDCJ oversees many medical facilities.

For example, of the 18 deaths in Dallas this year, 12 people died while in custody with Dallas Police Department, four died in Dallas County Sheriff's Department custody, and two died while booked with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Dallas is joined by cities such as Houston, Galveston, Richmond, San Antonio, Dickinson and Lubbock in leading the state with most custodial deaths.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-cities-with-most-deaths-in-custody-6620097.php

Trill Clinton

11-20-2015, 12:22 PM

JUDGE RULES THE CITY OF CHICAGO MUST RELEASE FOOTAGE OF 17 YEAR OLD KID SHOT 16 TIMES BY OFFICER

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/19/the-cop-shooting-so-horrific-chicago-paid-5-million-to-keep-it-hidden.html

the video is so bad the city tried paying the family off so it wouldn't be released. a witness of the vid said the child was shot 13 times while he was on the ground.

667353702005633024

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boutons_deux

11-20-2015, 02:09 PM

SoCal Counties Sued Over Excessive Phone Rates in Jails

A class action lawsuit filed Thursday challenges the rates that inmates in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside county jails are charged for telephone calls.

The lawsuit was filed primarily on behalf of the family members of people in custody, attorney Ron Kaye told KPCC.

The charges are excessive, Kaye said, and fall most heavily on women and people of color often on fixed income. He argued the rates violate both California and federal law.

In L.A. County, billing rates are $1.25 for domestic calls for the first minute and 15 cents for each additional minute, according to a document provided by Kaye. Phone rates vary by county.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/11/19/55762/lawsuit-filed-against-excessive-phone-rates-for-ja/ (http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/11/19/55762/lawsuit-filed-against-excessive-phone-rates-for-ja/)

http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/11/19/55762/lawsuit-filed-against-excessive-phone-rates-for-ja/

boutons_deux

11-20-2015, 03:18 PM

US wiretapping capital reportedly used hundreds of illegal wiretaps

Prosecutors in the Los Angeles suburb of Riverside County — home to the biggest wiretapping operation (http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/yahoo-ad-blocker-issue/) in the United States — likely broke the law when they approved as many as 738 wiretaps without proper approval, according to an investigation from USA Today and The Desert Sun (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/19/riverside-county-wiretaps-violated-federal-law/76064908/), citing interviews and court records.

The wiretaps, according to an earlier report fromUSA Today, intercepted calls involving thousands of people, leading to more than 300 arrests, usually at the request of Drug Enforcement Administration agents. But the surveillance rested on shaky legal turf, and Justice Department officials reportedly declined to bring the evidence into federal court (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/11/dea-wiretap-operation-riverside-california/75484076/), for fear that it wouldn't withstand legal scrutiny.

As the investigation today found, federal law requires that the district attorney personally sign off on wiretap requests, but in this case, a former Riverside County attorney reportedly did not do so, instead handing the wiretaps to other lawyers. The investigation cites a court decision from a neighboring county that determined a sign-off from a deputy prosecutor did not meet the bar, but the Riverside County district attorney reportedly kept delegating the responsibility.

"I didn't have time to review all of those," the former district attorney reportedly said, according to the investigation published in USA Today. "No way."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/20/9768782/california-police-report-illegal-wiretaps

cd021

11-21-2015, 06:05 PM

Quetzal-X

11-22-2015, 10:12 PM

Pussies & Assholes

Trill Clinton

11-23-2015, 12:23 PM

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Trill Clinton

11-23-2015, 06:05 PM

Just got word the officer in the Laquan McDonald shooting has been indicted in advance of the footage being released.

DarrinS

11-23-2015, 06:23 PM

http://www.click2houston.com/news/motive-revealed-in-deadly-shooting-of-deputy-darren-goforth/36614064

Trill Clinton

11-23-2015, 06:40 PM

http://www.click2houston.com/news/motive-revealed-in-deadly-shooting-of-deputy-darren-goforth/36614064

Wron thread

DarrinS

11-23-2015, 06:46 PM

Tulane medical student shot trying to save woman from robber. Good thing his gun jammed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deqp1xL4tLM

Trill Clinton

11-24-2015, 12:24 PM

wow. burger king is saying chicago police deleted footage of the shooting from their surveillance systemhttp://i67.tinypic.com/np47rt.png

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Spurminator

11-24-2015, 12:34 PM

Tulane medical student shot trying to save woman from robber. Good thing his gun jammed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deqp1xL4tLM

:lol This doesn't have anything to do with cops or cop-targeted crime. You're just posting black criminals at this point. #notaracist

Quetzal-X

11-24-2015, 12:52 PM

wow. burger king is saying chicago police deleted footage of the shooting from their surveillance systemhttp://i67.tinypic.com/np47rt.png

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An entire barrel of rotten fucking racist apples. The shittiest of job choices. The most unamurkan job in 'murika. Fuck all those assholes, every last one of those lying sacks of welfare shitbags. Nothing but shitpiles collecting free checks for fucking over taxpayers. Please God, give them ALL cancer let them get everything they got coming.

Trill Clinton

11-24-2015, 06:59 PM

footage of the shooting is released

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=Ix2N6_jLAgA

Quetzal-X

11-25-2015, 12:56 AM

Fucking savages. He will probably get some powderpuff time with protection in a country club prison.

boutons_deux

11-25-2015, 04:15 AM

criminalizing (environmental) dissent, activism

fuck a guy for 6 years, and he's a undercover cop spying on you

Lisa Jones, girlfriend of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy: ‘I thought I knew him better than anyone’

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/20/lisa-jones-girlfriend-of-undercover-police-office-mark-kennedy-interview

boutons_deux

11-26-2015, 08:57 AM

Cop shoots and kills Delaware man’s dog — as it runs away from him

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/cop-shoots-and-kills-delaware-mans-dog-as-it-runs-away-from-him/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-30-2015, 05:57 PM

Two Brave Cops Under Attack for Exposing Militarization and Corruption in their Department

Both whistleblowers now find themselves targeted for prosecution.

Kristin Bantle, a sixteen-year veteran police officer, received notice of her termination from the Steamboat Springs, Colorado Police Department on August 15 – the same day she had her first court appearance on a contrived charge of “attempting to influence a public official.” (http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2015/sep/17/bantle-case-court-procedure-called-question/) The convergence of those events was appropriate, given that they constitute official retaliation against Bantle for publicly criticizing the SSPD’s “culture of fear and intimidation” and its “militaristic” approach to law enforcement (https://www.scribd.com/doc/291520424/Bantle-March-25-2015Letter-to-City-Council-of-Steamboat-Springs). Her trial on a fourth-degree felony charge is scheduled to begin on December 1.

Former Detective Dave Kleiber, who resigned in 2013, had provided an even more detailed critique of the SSPD in a March 9th open letter to city residents. (https://www.facebook.com/openlettertosteamboatsprings/posts/1585295585062595)

Both whistleblowers now find themselves targeted for prosecution. The charges against Bantle, who was removed from her duties as a School Resource Officer last Spring — a few weeks after contacting the City Council — are related to omissions in a job application she filed with the Routt County Sheriff’s Office a few years ago after she had become disillusioned with the SSPD. Kleiber, who now works as a private investigator, learned in July that the County Prosecutor’s Office may prosecute him for alleged perjury during a 2013 criminal trial. (http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2015/jul/29/whistleblower-accused-perjury-former-assistant-dis/)

Attorney Charles Feldman, who represents Kleiber, insists (http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2015/jul/29/whistleblower-accused-perjury-former-assistant-dis/) that Kleiber’s whistle-blowing is why the “government [is] trying to look back through his disciplinary records and recordings and looking back through anything that they could find regarding his service as law enforcement….I represent people in the military all over the world, and it’s a classic tactic to retaliate against a whistleblower that way.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/two-brave-cops-under-attack-exposing-militarization-and-corruption-their-department

boutons_deux

12-02-2015, 10:46 AM

Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit

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HUNDREDS OF CASES PROSECUTED WITH PLANTED EVIDENCE, MANY WRONGLY CONVICTED STILL IN PRISON

The Alabama Justice Project (http://alabamajusticeproject.com/) has obtained documents that reveal a Dothan Police Department’s Internal Affairs investigation was covered up by the district attorney.

A group of up to a dozen police officers on a specialized narcotics team were found to have planted drugs and weapons on young black men for years.

They were supervised at the time by Lt. Steve Parrish, current Dothan Police Chief, and Sgt. Andy Hughes, current Asst. Director of Homeland Security for the State of Alabama.

All of the officers reportedly were members of a Neoconfederate organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “racial extremists.” (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/neo-confederate)

The group has advocated for blacks to return to Africa, published that the civil rights movement is really a Jewish conspiracy, and that blacks have lower IQ’s .

Both Parrish and Hughes held leadership positions in the group and are pictured above holding a confederate battle flag at one of the club’s secret meetings.

The documents shared reveal that the internal affairs investigation was covered up to protect the aforementioned officers’ law enforcement careers and keep them from being criminally prosecuted.

Several long term Dothan law enforcement officers, all part of an original group that initiated the investigation, believe the public has a right to know that the Dothan Police Department, and District Attorney Doug Valeska, targeted young black men by planting drugs and weapons on them over a decade.

Most of the young men were prosecuted, many sentenced to prison, and some are still in prison. Many of the officers involved were subsequently promoted and are in leadership positions in law enforcement.

They hope the mood of the country is one that demands action and that the US Department of Justice will intervene.

http://henrycountyreport.com/blog/2015/12/01/leaked-documents-reveal-dothan-police-department-planted-drugs-on-young-black-men-for-years-district-attorney-doug-valeska-complicit/

Trill Clinton

12-02-2015, 11:31 AM

boutons_deux

12-02-2015, 11:57 AM

i was just reading about this yesterday. people wonder why nobody trusts these crooked police departments.

does anybody believe that Dothan is unique, in the slave states, in the red states, anywhere in USA?

Trill Clinton

12-02-2015, 12:00 PM

this story should be huge. and people wonder why so many blacks don't trust the police. we aren't making this shit up. the whole damn system is guilty as hell. hundreds of families broken in one small town due to crooked cops, imagine what goes on in big cities. look at chicago. they paid over half a billion in settlement money over the last 10 years....half a billion to cover up these sorry ass cops.

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Trill Clinton

12-02-2015, 12:07 PM

does anybody believe that Dothan is unique, in the slave states, in the red states, anywhere in USA?

sadly, yes. many americans walk around with their blinders on and turn a blind eye towards the cruel and evil aspects of this country so long as it doesn't affect them.

boutons_deux

12-02-2015, 12:24 PM

Judicial Re-Election Pressures Tied to Harsher Criminal Sentencing

Pressures of upcoming re-election and retention election campaigns make judges more punitive toward defendants in criminal cases, according to a new analysis (http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=88983&qid=7014934)of social science research by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

How Judicial Elections Impact Criminal Cases (http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=88983&qid=7014934) looked at 10 empirical studies examining whether and how judicial elections impact criminal justice outcomes. These studies, conducted across states, court levels, and type of elections, all found that proximity to re-election made judges more likely to impose longer sentences, affirm death sentences, and even override sentences of life imprisonment to impose the death penalty.

The analysis also assessed 15 years of television advertising data in state supreme court races, as well as a series of reports synthesizing this data written by the Brennan Center, Justice at Stake, and the National Institute on Money in State Politics. This data reveals that TV advertising has become a staple of high-cost judicial elections and ads discussing criminal justice themes have become increasingly prominent. In 2013-14, a record 56 percent of ads discussed candidates’ decisions in criminal cases — up from the previous record of 33 percent in both the 2007-08 and 2009-10 cycles.

These ads, attacking candidates for being “soft on crime” or touting them as “tough on crime,” focus voters’ attention on candidates’ records in criminal cases, often in a misleading way.

“The research is clear: Judges are more likely to hand out harsh sentences, including death, the closer they get to a re-election or retention election campaign,” said Kate Berry, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and author of How Judicial Elections Impact Criminal Cases.

“As long as judges worry about what the next 30-second campaign ad will look like, there is a risk that re-election pressures will continue to impact their decision-making. This threatens the promise of fair and impartial justice in America.”

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/12/02/new-analysis-judicial-re-election-pressures-tied-harsher-criminal-sentencing

No Law Is Above The Man

judicial elections? just another way America is fucked and unfuckable.

boutons_deux

12-02-2015, 04:57 PM

Prison Officials Spying on Inmates to Find Net Worth, Suing Anyone Worth Over $10K for Stay in Jail

These predatory prison departments are willing to sacrifice people’s futures in order to fuel their failing, bloated budgets.

With the ability to read their mail and record their phone conversations, state prisons have increasingly been filing lawsuits against inmates with over $10,000 in assets. In cases of blatant retaliation, prison officials have also been targeting inmates who won civil suits against the departments for prison beatings and denying medication.

While incarcerated on a drug conviction, Johnny Melton received a $31,690 settlement over the wrongful death of his mother. After learning of the settlement, the Illinois Department of Corrections sued Melton and won nearly $20,000 to cover the cost of his “care, custody, treatment or rehabilitation” during his 14 months served at the state’s Logan Correctional Center.

state prisons have repeatedly filed lawsuits against prisoners who have won against them in court.

In May 2014, Joecephus Mitts settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Illinois prison department for failing to adequately treat his cancer. After agreeing to pay Mitts $50,000 and give him better treatment, prison officials sued him for $175,000 six months later to cover the cost of his incarceration.

Convicted for killing seven people in a restaurant, James Degorski won$451,000 (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/browns-chicken-killer-gets-over-450-thousand-in-suit-against-guard/) in a federal lawsuit against a Cook County Jail guard who broke bones in his face during a severe beating. The Illinois Department of Corrections filed a lawsuit against Degorski in retaliation and to send a message discouraging other inmates from suing the department.

prison officials discovered that the convicted murderer had inherited nearly $14,000 from his grandmother. Initially reluctant to include a convicted felon in her will, Moore’s grandmother ultimately acquiesced to his sisters’ appeals to give him a second chance after his release. Instead of seeking Moore’s rehabilitation, the Illinois prison department filed a lawsuit against him earlier this year charging Moore $338,650 to cover the cost of over two decades in prison.

In 1982, Illinois authorized state and prison officials to sue inmates for the cost of their incarceration. Although only two of these lawsuits were filed in 2012 and 2013, so far 11 have been filed in the first 10 months of this year. In Kentucky, the Fayette County Jail has recently raised booking fees from $20 to $35 per inmate. According to the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (http://www.ccnoregionaljail.org/payforstay.htm), prisoners are charged $68.76 per day, which adds up to roughly $25,000 per year.

With 2.2 million Americans behind bars, the country’s criminal justice costs have risen from $35 billion in 1982 to over $265 billion (http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5239) in 2012 — an increase of more than 650%. Instead of encouraging rehabilitation or reducing recidivism, many prison officials have decided to continue punishing these prisoners even after they have paid for their crimes. By filing lawsuits against any inmates with over $10,000 in assets, these predatory prison departments are willing to sacrifice people’s futures in order to fuel their failing, bloated budgets.

Some counties, including Fairfield County, Ohio, discontinued their jail’s pay-to-stay program because the cost of employing collection agencies turned out to be more expensive than the fees they were collecting. Since an estimated 80% of prisoners are indigent, they simply could not afford to pay their fees without reverting back to crime.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/prison-officials-spying-inmates-find-net-worth-suing-anyone-worth-over-10k-stay?akid=13727.187590.zLWgQl&rd=1&src=newsletter1046632&t=22

spurraider21

12-02-2015, 05:09 PM

boutons_deux

12-03-2015, 02:57 PM

SFPD Health Care for the Mentally Ill

S.F. police shoot suspected stabber in Bayview District

http://m.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-say-SF-officer-shoots-suspect-in-Bayview-6671485.php#photo-9054620

aka, video of "One Knife, Five Cops"

boutons_deux

12-04-2015, 10:52 AM

Officer Convicted Of Assault For Holding Gun To Man's Head

Prince George's County police have released cellphone video of an officer who held a gun to a man's head, leading to a conviction on four criminal charges.

Officer Jenchesky Santiago was convicted by a judge on Wednesday of two counts of assault, a handgun offense and misconduct in office.

The cellphone video shows Santiago holding a gun to a man's head and ordering him to get back inside a car. Prosecutors say Santiago had accused the man of parking illegally when he had not. No one was injured in the incident, which occurred in Bowie in May 2014

Watch the video, via PGPD:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jenchesky-santiago-convicted-video-gun?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Trill Clinton

12-04-2015, 12:03 PM

boutons_deux

12-04-2015, 12:30 PM

How many inmates have died in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jails? Who knows, but it's a big number. (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/24/1453929/-How-many-inmates-have-died-in-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio-s-jails-Who-knows-but-it-s-a-big-number)

From 1996 to 2015, the suicide rate among jail deaths in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lockups was an astounding 24 percent, with 39 of the 157 hanging themselves.

Furthermore, of the 157 deaths listed on the sheriff's watch on the M.E.'s chart, 34 simply are tagged as having been found dead with no explanation as to cause of death. More mysteriously, another 39 died in the county hospital without explanation. That's 73 deaths — nearly half of all deaths — that county authorities list as "who knows?"

Searching other databases (the Office of the County Medical Examiner's and the Office of Risk Management's, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice's) revealed that close to 160 people have died in Arpaio's jails.

But that is an estimate, because the truth is that no outside authority keeps track of how many people die from brutality, neglect, disease, bad health, or old age in Arpaio's jails.

Like the Torrez case, some deaths, which the county does not feel important enough to track or tell the truth about, occurred while the inmate was awaiting trial—not convicted of anything. Meanwhile, a convicted (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/us/federal-judge-finds-violations-of-rights-by-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html) sheriff walks among us, preparing for his 2016 campaign.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/25/1453929/-How-many-inmates-have-died-in-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio-s-jails-Who-knows-but-it-s-a-big-number?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Trill Clinton

12-05-2015, 04:46 PM

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TheSanityAnnex

12-05-2015, 04:52 PM

executed him with easehttp://i64.tinypic.com/2zog3gz.png
:bobo he had just stabbed someone

TheSanityAnnex

12-05-2015, 04:53 PM

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Pelicans78

12-05-2015, 04:56 PM

does anybody believe that Dothan is unique, in the slave states, in the red states, anywhere in USA?

But isn't Chicago a democratically run city? They apparently have been corrupt when it comes to the police.

Trill Clinton

12-05-2015, 05:08 PM

:bobo he had just stabbed someone

allegedly and he is owed due process. didn't you say you wanted the san bernardino shooters taken alive?http://i63.tinypic.com/15f4nqo.jpg

Th'Pusher

12-05-2015, 05:12 PM

allegedly and he is owed due process. didn't you say you wanted the san bernardino shooters taken alive?http://i63.tinypic.com/15f4nqo.jpg

TSA waits for all the facts to be in before assessing judgement.

boutons_deux

12-05-2015, 05:17 PM

But isn't Chicago a democratically run city? They apparently have been corrupt when it comes to the police.

All big cities, all politics, are corrupt, and police depts aren't "political". Blue cities, red states, all the PDs will execute anybody for nothing.

spurraider21

12-05-2015, 05:56 PM

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TheSanityAnnex

12-05-2015, 07:17 PM

allegedly and he is owed due process. didn't you say you wanted the san bernardino shooters taken alive?http://i63.tinypic.com/15f4nqo.jpg

No I said I wanted them shot in the stomachs and left to die by bleeding out slowly.

TheSanityAnnex

12-05-2015, 07:18 PM

TSA waits for all the facts to be in before assessing judgement.
Did the guy drop the knife after two rounds of beanbags?

boutons_deux

12-05-2015, 09:21 PM

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trigger-happy, blood-thirsty, murderous police delivering conscientious mental health care.

Trill Clinton

12-06-2015, 01:18 AM

No I said I wanted them shot in the stomachs and left to die by bleeding out slowly.

could have sworn you said you wish they'd taken one of them alive.

boutons_deux

12-06-2015, 01:56 PM

WATCH: Georgia cop threatens black motorist after telling him ‘I don’t care about your people’

A clearly confused and racist Georgia cop was caught on dashcam telling a driver during a traffic stop, “I don’t care about your people,” and then threatening him.On November, 16, officer Maurice Lawson of the Cobb County police department pulled over 33-year-old middle school teacher, Brian Baker for allegedly speeding.

During the stop, three officers would surround Baker’s car to issue him a citation.

After Baker received the citation, he merely asked officer Lawson if he could leave, to which Lawson replied, “Leave. Go away. Go to Fulton County. I don’t care about your people, man, go.”

When Baker questioned the officer’s remarks, Lawson threatened him by saying, “Do you want to step out of the car and talk to me?”

“Why do you need me to step out of the car?” Baker asks.

“Go back to Fulton County, sir.”

Whether he knew it or now, Baker

Baker then drove off, at which point Lawson vented to his fellow officers about how people who don’t immediately prostrate themselves before his almighty badge, anger him.

“I lose my cool, man, every time. Why do I got to deal with (stuff) like that? This is the f**king America we live in, ain’t it?”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/watch-georgia-cop-threatens-black-motorist-after-telling-him-i-dont-care-about-your-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

12-06-2015, 02:02 PM

This man took on the FBI over Internet privacy for 12 years — and he won

the Patriot Act vastly expanded the scope of what an NSL could be applied to; they have been used to obtain credit reports, banking information, internet records, phone and email records. The FBI greatly increased the number issued; according to a 2007 inspector general’s report (https://oig.justice.gov/special/s0703b/final.pdf), the NSL that Merrill was handed by the agent was one of nearly 57,000 issued that year.

All of those thousands of NSLs were accompanied by a non-disclosure agreement, or “gag order” – which barred recipients were ever disclosing that they had received an NSL – even to the person whose records were being sought.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/this-man-took-on-the-fbi-over-internet-privacy-for-12-years-and-he-won/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

that's 150+ NSLs per each of 365 days.

... and FBI totally missed the Boston Marathon bombers.

boutons_deux

12-07-2015, 04:44 PM

Witness Lied About Seeing Man With Firearm Before He Was Gunned Down By Police

On Monday afternoon, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/07/3729180/breaking-no-charges-against-chicago-officer-who-shot-ronald-johnson-in-the-back/) Officer George Hernandez will not be charged for shooting Ronald Johnson in the back as he fled. During a press conference about the fatal shooting, which happened in October 2014, Alvarez referenced a witness who claimed he saw and heard Johnson with a gun. That gun was used to justify the officer’s use of force.

But according to the witness’ deposition, he actually made everything up. According to attorney Michael Oppenheimer, who is working with Ronald Johnson’s mother, Dorothy Holmes, Witness A admitted that he did not hear a gun or see Johnson with one.

“I had no thought. Or the idea of a gun wasn’t really a thing until [the detectives] presented the idea to me, or the situation to me,” the witness reportedly testified said in the deposition. “By the time I had the conversation with the state’s attorney, I’d already conjured this notion, this story.

The story that I told her was the story that we had, me and the detectives, logically [come] to because of the situation and what they presented to me.

Everything was already defined and clear to me, spoken to me by the detectives, at that point. So when I went in to have that conversation…there was a clear line of events and things that were already going to be in the story.”

“It was a lie that I thought it was a gun,” he responded, when asked if he lied about the gun. “I made up hearing — I made up the gun. The detectives let me know that the situation was a situation in which they knew where they were going to go. My testimony was to say, to give, testimony…to that.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/07/3729220/witness-lied-about-seeing-man-with-firearm-before-he-was-gunned-down-by-police/

boutons_deux

12-08-2015, 01:39 PM

Just another dead TX prisoner, among 100s, executed by jail staff

Three Texas jail officers face firing over death of man in custody

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-prison-idUSKBN0TR28I20151208?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

boutons_deux

12-08-2015, 07:01 PM

Chicago's "Black Site" Police Scandal Is Primed to Explode Again

In May, the city agreed to pay $5.5 million inreparations (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-city-council-rauner-cupich-met-20150506-story.html) to more than 50 people tortured into giving confessions in the 1970s and 1980s under police commanderJon Burge (http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/crime-law-justice/law-enforcement/jon-burge-PEOCVC000133-topic.html), who was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison for his role.

"Homan Square is kind of the elephant in the room with regard to all that's going on—the police shootings and the videotapes and all of that," Taylor says.

"Whether it's Burge's torture, Homan Square, or shooting down unarmed African American young men.

Whether it's transparency and properly disciplining the kinds of cops who repeatedly do these things.

All of this is part of an integrated whole that needs to be looked at. Until you start to view it all as a systemic problem, you’re not going to be able to attempt to remedy any of it."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/rahm-emanuel-chicago-police-homan-square-scandal

boutons_deux

12-09-2015, 10:48 AM

FBI arrests former Long Island police chief over malicious beating of suspected car burglar

The FBI on Wednesday arrested James Burke, a former police chief of New York’s Suffolk County, for beating a man suspected of breaking into his car in the latest accusation against a U.S. law enforcement officer of violence, according to local media.

Burke, who resigned in October as police chief amid a federal investigation of the 2012 incident, was expected to be arraigned in federal court in Suffolk County on Long Island. He surrendered to FBI agents at his home, local media reported.

U.S. Attorney Robert Capers declined to comment on the case, including what charges Burke faces. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Burke’s lawyer, Joseph Conway, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Burke’s 31-year career in law enforcement ended as federal authorities probed allegations that he beat a suspect accused of stealing a duffel bag from his car in 2012.

The suspect, Christopher Loeb, filed a federal lawsuit against Burke and the county in February. The lawsuit said Loeb was “beaten, terrorized, chained to the floor and threatened” by Burke and other police officers.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/fbi-arrests-former-long-island-police-chief-over-malicious-beating-of-suspected-car-burglar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

12-09-2015, 11:56 AM

DA Says Cop Was 'Justified' in Pummeling Man for His 'Foul Mouth'

In keeping with established policy, Deputy Thomas Ford’s termination will be revised to a paid suspension.

Deputy Thomas Ford of the Denver Sheriff’s Department, who was fired in August 2014 for excessive force after slugging a drunken, foul-mouthed prisoner, will be reinstated to his job, thanks to a decision by the Career Service Board (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/denver-deputy-fired-for-excessive-force-will-get-his-job-back).

This means, in effect, that the “punishment” for Ford’s act of aggravated assault would be a 14-month paid vacation. Two other deputies involved in the incident, including one who covered up Ford’s act of aggravated assault by refusing to report it, were reinstated by the Career Service Board last month.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/da-says-cop-was-justified-pummeling-man-his-foul-mouth

So the police PUNISH, EXECUTE people without due process, without loss of job.

clambake

12-09-2015, 12:05 PM

they didn't plant anything.

they were gifts.

very giving........these white officers.

Trill Clinton

12-11-2015, 06:01 PM

this shooting was ruled accidentalhttp://i64.tinypic.com/6rr8z6.png

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Trill Clinton

12-11-2015, 06:08 PM

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boutons_deux

12-11-2015, 09:18 PM

Court Says Constitutional Violations By Law Enforcement Are Perfectly Fine As Long As They Happen Quickly

As Justice Kapsner notes, the justification for the search was entirely bogus, what with the ID checks returning nothing incriminating and the narcotics detective not finding either of the vehicle's occupants to be known to him as drug traffickers.

Then he goes after the majority opinion's "reasonable amount of time" justification.

The majority's decision may seem reasonable given the officers' inquiries unrelated to the traffic stop were relatively quick, the time required to search a passenger vehicle is short, and it turned out Walker did, in fact, possess contraband.

However, its holding articulates a rule that subjects citizens to constitutional violations merely because those violations can be completed quickly.

Both this Court and the United States Supreme Court have stated law enforcement must conclude a seizure when the purpose for the seizure has been completed. See Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 1609, 1612 (2015); State v. Deviley, 2011 ND 182, ¶ 9, 803 N.W.2d 561.

Yet, the rule the majority articulates today gives law enforcement the approval to use seizures as leverage for compelling citizens into self-incriminating action by simply prolonging detainment until the citizen acquiesces in the officer's demands: "If I can search your vehicle, I'll let you go."

Extending seizures in this manner is contrary to our precedent and in conflict with United States Supreme Court holdings.

Unfortunately, that is the upshot of the Rodriguez decision.

Rights can be violated, but the violations need to occur expeditiously. It would have been nice to see the court take a swing at the officer's "but they were travelling from a state where marijuana is legal" rationalization for the stop, but I guess we'll take what we can get. In this case, it's hardly anything. The evidence -- and the charges stemming from them -- remain valid.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151207/08313433012/court-says-constitutional-violations-law-enforcement-are-perfectly-fine-as-long-as-they-happen-quickly.shtml

boutons_deux

12-12-2015, 10:20 PM

TheSanityAnnex

12-12-2015, 10:39 PM

Los Angeles deputies shoot and kill African-American man who is walking away from them

video, and they kept firing after he was down.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/los-angeles-deputies-shoot-and-kill-african-american-man-who-is-walking-away-from-them/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

You forgot to mention.....

Deputies were called to the area on reports of an armed man wearing a checkered shirt walking at a nearby intersection. L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide Lt. Eddie Hernandez said there were reports the man was actively shooting.
Hernandez said the deputies gave the man “several commands.”
“We have witnesses that say that the suspect turned, pointed the gun at the deputies, and a deputy-involved shooting occurred,” he told reporters.
Hernandez said the man had a .45 caliber handgun and that two bullets were found matching the weapon. KABC reports (http://abc7.com/news/suspect-killed-in-lynwood-deputy-involved-shooting/1120214/) the man was suspected of firing the weapon into the air.

cd021

12-13-2015, 12:14 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-video-shows-man-had-hands-in-air-when-fatally-shot-by-cops_566c4d7de4b0fccee16ecce4?utm_hp_ref=crime

TSA make a thread about this.

No indictment despite man being executed.

cd021

12-13-2015, 12:20 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/11/us/oklahoma-daniel-holtzclaw-verdict/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool&iref=obnetwork

Cop who got convicted of rape of 13 woman rape handcuffed one to a hospital bed and raped her. Raped a minor on the front porch of her parents and several others in the back of a police car. Pulled one woman over and raped her during a traffic stop.:bang

boutons_deux

12-13-2015, 09:10 PM

An Inmate Dies, and No One Is Punished

Inmates who have served time at the Clinton Correctional Facility here tell of being taken aside by a sergeant soon after they arrive and given a warning: Cross the guards, and bad things can happen.

And they do. Inmates describe being ambushed by guards and beaten, taunted with racial slurs, and kept out of sight, in solitary confinement, until the injuries inflicted on them have healed enough to avoid arousing suspicion.

One story in particular has been passed along over the last few years as a kind of parable of brutality and injustice on the cellblocks.

Leonard Strickland was a prisoner with schizophrenia who got into an argument with guards, and ended up dead.

In the inmates’ telling, the guards got away with murder, ganging up on Mr. Strickland and beating him so viciously that he could barely move. The guards deny this, saying they acted only in self-defense and did what was necessary to subdue an out-of-control prisoner.

But what came next is indisputable. In a security video obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Strickland is seen in handcuffs, barely conscious and being dragged along the floor by officers, while a prison nurse standing close by does nothing. Even as he lies face down on the floor, near death, guards can be heard shouting, “Stop resisting.”

By the time an ambulance arrived, medical records described Mr. Strickland’s body as cold to the touch and covered in cuts and bruises, with blood flowing from his ears.

The 2010 case fits a troubling pattern of savage beatings by corrections officers at prisons across New York State and a department that rarely holds anyone accountable, issues that have beenhighlighted (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/nyregion/attica-prison-infamous-for-bloodshed-faces-a-reckoning-as-guards-go-on-trial.html) in a series (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/nyregion/guarding-the-prison-guards-new-york-states-troubled-disciplinary-system.html) of articles (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/nyregion/fishkill-prison-inmate-died-after-fight-with-officers-records-show.html) over the past year by The Times and The Marshall Project (https://www.themarshallproject.org/), a nonprofit news organization.

Mr. Strickland’s death was only briefly noted in local newspapers, and probably would have been forgotten by all but the officers and inmates. But the escape of two murderers (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/nyregion/convicts-escape-prison-in-upstate-new-york.html) from Clinton in June attracted extraordinary attention to the maximum-security prison, and details about its inner workings, long held secret, have started to reach outsiders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/nyregion/clinton-correctional-facility-inmate-brutality.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

boutons_deux

12-13-2015, 09:27 PM

Indiana vet too scared to carry gun — or leave his house — after felony charge for shooting at shoplifters

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An Indiana veteran is baffled that he was arrested on felony charges after opening fire at two shoplifting suspects fleeing a store near his home.“I thought, ‘Really? A felony charge?’ I’m very well-trained,” :lol said Norman Reynolds, who chased the men out of the Big R store in Elkhart and fired his gun at them when he was unable to catch up, reported WBND-LD (http://www.abc57.com/story/30729191/man-who-shot-at-big-r-shoplifting-suspects-speaks-out).

The 60-year-old up to five years in prison and a possible $10,000 fine if he’s convicted of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and pointing a firearm.

Police were already chasing the men out of the store during the October incident when Reynolds joined the pursuit, and they said he drew his handgun and fired one shot at the suspects after they got into a pickup truck.

“Mainly, I was in the infantry — and that’s what the infantry does, they shoot,” he said (http://www.fox28.com/story/30728842/2015/12/11/elkhart-man-talks-about-why-he-opened-fire-on-two-shoplifting-suspects-in-big-r-parking-lot). :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/indiana-vet-too-scared-to-carry-gun-or-leave-his-house-after-felony-charge-for-shooting-at-shoplifters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

a "vet" who walks around in his dress uniform?

cd021

12-14-2015, 05:33 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-shooting-inglewood_566769bae4b080eddf560fec

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-shooting-inglewood_566769bae4b080eddf560fec)

Cop shots two, unarmed, men with shotguns and then they got accused of murder. Both were aquitted and now suing the officers involved.

boutons_deux

12-14-2015, 09:57 AM

Judge negates jury's $3.5 million verdict in Chicago police shooting

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-fatal-chicago-police-shooting-trial-met-20151213-story.html

boutons_deux

12-14-2015, 12:13 PM

Judge acquits Chicago police commander in spite of DNA evidence

charges he shoved his gun down a man's throat in spite of evidence showing the alleged victim's DNA on Evans' gun.

Judge Diane Cannon also played up the inconsistencies in Rickey Williams' account of the on-duty 2013 incident over the years, saying his testimony at the trial last week "taxes the gullibility of the credulous."

Williams was all too "eager to change his testimony at anyone's request to accommodate the evidence," the judge said.

The prosecution's strongest evidence – the recovery of Williams' DNA on Evans' service weapon – was belittled by Cannon as "of fleeting relevance or significance."

Evans' had enough "lawful contact" with Williams to explain the DNA on the commander's weapon, she said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-glenn-evans-trial-verdict-20151214-story.html

Splits

12-14-2015, 02:48 PM

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boutons_deux

12-14-2015, 03:36 PM

CA policeman rapes 21-year-old with internal 'cavity search' & department attempts to bribe her (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/8/1458068/-California-cop-rapes-21-year-old-with-internal-cavity-search-department-attempts-to-bribe-her)

Guardian reporters Oliver Laughland and Jon Swaine have created a investigative series on the vast police corruption that has taken place in Kern County, California. So far, the series includes officer-related fatalities (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/the-county-kern-county-deadliest-police-killings) and excessive force (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/04/the-county-kern-county-california-deputies-tactics) which reportedly are the highest in America this year.

The newest revelations in the series have been added, and they expose the rape/sexual assault/misconduct by law enforcement officials—and their subsequent attempts to cover up the crimes after being reported. At least eight victims were offered bribes/deals as hush money.

One victim described her victimization as, “the worst night of my life.” She is known, in court, only as 21-year-old Jane Doe. She describes an assault by Kern Country deputy Gabriel Lopez which took place on March 25, 2013. Lopez and deputy Christopher Escobedo showed up at Doe’s apartment to do a spot check on Doe’s boyfriend who was on probation. But what happened after was illegal, disgusting, and all too common (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/08/the-county-kern-county-california-sexual-assault-secret-payoffs).

They then moved to her bedroom and found the 21-year-old woman stirring from sleep. The officers placed her in handcuffs. Lopez patted her down and then, according to a civil lawsuit, proceeded to move his hands down her shorts, grab her crotch and grope her. The handcuffs were removed. Then the officers left.

Approximately 10 minutes later Doe said Deputy Lopez arrived back at the apartment alone.

He told Doe he needed to perform a cavity search on her to check once more for drugs. He took her back to the bedroom and instructed her to take off all her clothes. He touched her all over her naked body as she bent over with her hands against the bed. She sobbed throughout. She begged him to stop, but he refused. And then he left.

Doe filed a report, and a week later officials came from Kern County’s sheriff’s department offering her up to $7,500 to waive her right to sue the department.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/8/1458068/-California-cop-rapes-21-year-old-with-internal-cavity-search-department-attempts-to-bribe-her?detail=email

boutons_deux

12-14-2015, 05:01 PM

California Cop Guns Down Man Crawling from Car Wreckage on Video, Faces No Charges (http://gawker.com/california-cop-guns-down-man-crawling-from-car-wreckage-1747954638)

A Paradise, California police officer who responded to the scene of a drunk driving crash will not face charges, Action News Now reports (http://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/family-of-man-shot-by-paradise-police-officer-speaks-out/), after shooting the man behind the wheel multiple times as he tried to pull himself from the flipped vehicle.

The District Attorney has decided the Thanksgiving shooting, vividly captured in this newly release footage, was an “accidental shooting,” despite showing what very clearly appears to be the officer involved raising his weapon, firing, and then calmly holstering it.

According to Action News Now, Thomas was hit in the neck and may be permanently paralyzed:

Thomas was shot in the C7 and T1 vertebrae and could be paralyzed for the rest of his life. He remains in stable condition at Enloe Medical Center.

He will also face vehicular manslaughter charges for the crash, which killed his wife.

http://gawker.com/california-cop-guns-down-man-crawling-from-car-wreckage-1747954638

boutons_deux

12-16-2015, 03:36 PM

Contract review shows how Baltimore police union shields officers from accountability (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/16/1460790/-Contract-review-shows-how-Baltimore-police-union-shields-officers-from-accountability)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/143324/story_image/050215-national-baltimore-police-mugshots.png?1446947360

The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police is covering court costs for each of the six officers charged. However, this role is atypical for the union, since it is usually so good at ensuring that officers never see charges at all. ThinkProgressreports (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/16/3732211/police-union-contracts-baltimore/):

A study by a criminologist who often examines policies for the DOJ found earlier this year (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-walker-bpd-report-20150524-story.html) that the contract between Baltimore and the Fraternal Order of Police contains several “offensive provisions” that prevent accountability and that violate “best practices” across the country. Provisions including the expungement of internal records and the existence of a “do not call” list of officers who cannot testify “impede the effective investigation of reported misconduct and shield officers who are in fact guilty of misconduct from meaningful discipline,” the study found.

The problems extend far beyond Baltimore. As Campaign Zero (http://www.joincampaignzero.org/) found in its new Police Union Contract Project (http://www.checkthepolice.org/#project), provisions are written in to union contracts in major cities across the country to protect officers accused of excessive force or abuse. The activist-led group analyzed more than 50 contracts and found that the vast majority have provisions that block accountability and protect officers from being investigated, indicted, and ultimately convicted.

These provisions ensure that many officers never face discipline, or charges for misconduct.

Even though the jury is deadlocked, the extreme nature of Freddie Gray’s death illustrates just how far things have to go for police officers to even see a courtroom.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/16/1460790/-Contract-review-shows-how-Baltimore-police-union-shields-officers-from-accountability?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

boutons_deux

12-17-2015, 05:38 PM

San Antonio places $81,000 price tag on police email open records request (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/16/1460834/-San-Antonio-places-81-000-price-tag-on-police-email-open-records-request)

The City of San Antonio issued an $81,333 cost estimate Monday in response to an open records request from mySA.com asking for emails regarding suspensions within the San Antonio Police Department.
City legal officials said approximately 5,422 hours of labor at $15 an hour is needed to complete the request, which was filed Oct. 16, 2015 under the Texas Public Information Act (http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/GV/htm/GV.552.htm).

The requested information includes all emails sent or received by SAPD employees that mentioned suspensions of officers or coverage of those suspensions by the Express-News and mySA.com in 2015.
City officials said the police department's email system does not have a function to search for specific terms across inboxes.

And check out the detailed explanation from the department about the labor involved:

"There are approximately 2,711 SAPD employees. The ITS Department would have to pull all SAPD mailboxes and then transfer those mailboxes onto a designated City employee's computer. The estimated cost is only for the amount of time it would take for the ITS Department to pull all the SAPD mailboxes and then transfer those mailboxes onto the designated City employee's computer. That City employee would then have to enter the requested search terms into each individual mailbox. After all e-mails from all mailboxes were locate, then the employee would have to review for confidential information. Some of the e-mails may need to be sent to the Attorney General's Office and other e-mails may require redactions... There could be an additional labor cost for those e-mails."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/16/1460834/-San-Antonio-places-81-000-price-tag-on-police-email-open-records-request?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

FuzzyLumpkins

12-17-2015, 08:17 PM

boutons_deux

12-17-2015, 09:37 PM

Chicago Pays Millions but Punishes Few in Killings by Police

In Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, officers shot and killed 70 people, most of them black, in a five-year span ending in 2014. That was the most among the nation’s 10 largest cities during the same period, according to the Better Government Association, a nonprofit watchdog organization.

The Chicago Police Department has also been known for issuing little or no punishment to its own, even after a 2007 overhaul of its discipline system that was portrayed as creating a tough, autonomous authority.

Yet under that new system, the vast majority of complaints against the police stilldo not result in discipline (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/us/few-complaints-against-chicago-police-result-in-discipline-data-shows.html?ref=topics&_r=0). Of more than 400 police shootings since the Independent Police Review Authority (http://www.iprachicago.org/) was created in 2007, the agency has found claims of wrongdoing against officers valid in only two cases. The authority issues only recommendations for discipline. The police superintendent and the Police Board have the last word in the most egregious cases.

All the while, the city, which is in the middle of a fiscal crisis, has spent more than $500 million settling police cases since 2004.

In defending the department, a police union official said that the police seemed to have become “the new doormat” for a city that has witnessed surges of bloodshed as gangs have splintered and guns proliferated.

Dean Angelo Sr., president of the union representing Chicago’s rank-and-file officers (http://www.chicagofop.org/), said that officers take thousands of guns off Chicago’s streets each year. That there have not been more shootings, he said, indicates that officers are showing restraint. This year, Chicago police have seized 6,714 illegal guns as of Monday, more than in the same period last year.

“That is good policing,” Mr. Angelo said. “But nobody looks at it that way.” He added: “The same politicians that are throwing us under the bus were banging our door down to get our endorsement when they were running for office.”

From 2011 to 2015, 97 percent of more than 28,500 citizen complaints resulted in no officer being punished, according to data (http://cpdb.co/#%21/data-tools/LWz6pD/citizens-police-data-project) recently released by the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism organization, and the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School. The Police Department and the review authority have questioned the data, though Mr. Emanuel said last week that the low rates of disciplinary action “defy credibility.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/us/chicago-pays-millions-but-punishes-few-in-police-killings.html

boutons_deux

12-18-2015, 08:20 AM

SAPD will be getting body cams.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-approves-16-6-million-to-outfit-6598237.php

We'll how hard, expensive it will be to obtain the vids.

boutons_deux

12-18-2015, 08:36 AM

Guards inside prisons shouldn't have guns. That's pretty much an accepted fact. Except in Nevada—and the results are mayhem and death.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-shooting-gallery/?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

Attn gun fellators, there's some shotgun wounds porn for you to masturbate over.

boutons_deux

12-19-2015, 12:14 PM

San Francisco Cops Likely To Get Off The Hook For Sending Racist And Homophobic Text

A group of nine San Francisco police officers who exchanged racist and homophobic text messages to one another likely won’t face disciplinary action because the charges against them were filed too late after their alleged misconduct was discovered, a San Francisco judge suggested (http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal)in a tentative ruling on Friday.

“Get ur pocket gun,” one officer texted a sergeant who complained that a friend of his wife’s had brought along her husband, a black man and an attorney, to dinner. “Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its not against the law to put an animal down… U may have to kill the half breed kids too. Don’t worry. Their [sic] an abomination of nature anyway.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/19/3734044/sfpd-miscoduct/

This is really unfair to go after the cops.

Cops were only acting just like 10Ms racists/homophobes/xenophobes in the Repug base.

Trill Clinton

12-19-2015, 01:21 PM

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Trill Clinton

12-19-2015, 01:27 PM

SAPD will be getting body cams.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-approves-16-6-million-to-outfit-6598237.php

We'll how hard, expensive it will be to obtain the vids.

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boutons_deux

12-20-2015, 10:44 AM

Ferguson cop says life is ‘ruined’ after pointing AR-15 at journalists and saying, ‘I’m going to f*cking kill you!’

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/BvgNuhmIYAAdV6C-300x198-800x430.jpg

A petulant public servant is now playing the role of ‘victim’ after he pointed his AR-15 at Free Thought Project live streamer, Rebel Z, aka John Zeigler. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/z/)

The entire incident was caught on film, showing St. Ann police officer, Ray Albers with his gun raised pointing it directly at Zeigler, who was live streaming at the time.

“Oh my God, gun raised, gun raised,” stated Zeigler.

“My hands are up bro, my hands are up,” he says before Albers responds, “I’m going to f***ing kill you, get back, get back!”

“You’re going to kill him?” asks another individual before Zeigler asks, “did he just threaten to kill me?”

When Albers is asked for his name he responds, “go f*ck yourself.”

A week after he was caught on video committing assault with a deadly weapon, Albers resigned, but has avoided any form of discipline – until now.

While it’s unclear as to whether or not Albers will actually be found guilty of anything, the Missouri Department of Public Safety is attempting to hold this privileged member of society accountable for his actions. Had Albers been a mere commoner, he would most certainly already be in jail.

The state of Missouri says Albers acted “without legal justification” when he pointed his assault rifle at a crowd of people, and that his “threat to commit a felony (https://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ray-Albers.pdf)” — specifically, murder — violated Missouri law.

By Barth’s logic, because multiple other cops all committed assault with a deadly weapon, Albers should be free to go.

This man pointed a loaded AR-15 at the heads of multiple innocent people. He then threatened to “f**king kill” them, and now he’s trying to claim that he is somehow the victim.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/ferguson-cop-says-life-is-ruined-after-pointing-ar-15-at-journalists-and-saying-im-going-to-fcking-kill-you/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

vid of the fat, shaved-headed wannabe hardass cop here: https://youtu.be/YknrZE0CCYE

boutons_deux

12-20-2015, 01:41 PM

Juvenile injustice? Kids in San Bernardino County pay the price with overzealous school copsSan Bernardino school police arrested more kids than cops in Sacramento, Oakland or San Francisco. What gives?

http://media.salon.com/2015/12/josue_muniz-620x412.jpg

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/20/juvenile_injustice_kids_in_san_bernardino_county_p ay_the_price_with_overzealous_school_cops/

cd021

12-21-2015, 05:31 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/detective-kills-himself-in-standoff_5671a840e4b0648fe301d23b?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime&section=crime

Detective commits suicide after being charged with incident liberties with two minors. Boys, who he met while on the job.

cd021

12-21-2015, 05:38 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/delaware-officer-broke-black-suspect-jaw-acquitted-article-1.2459206

Cop who broke man jaw while he was complying with his demands is back on the job.

boutons_deux

12-21-2015, 09:37 AM

People Are Waking Up to the Dark Side of American Policing, and Cops Don’t Like It One Bit

Pushing back against a creeping police state.

What is taking place and what the police and their supporters are largely reacting to is a modest push for sensible law enforcement reforms from groups as diverse asCampaign Zero (http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision), Koch Industries (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/koch-brothers_n_6646540.html), the Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org/events/policing-america), The Leadership Conference (http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/civil-rights-act-report-december-2014/lessons-from-ferguson.html), and the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/feature/picking-pieces) (my employer). Unfortunately, as the rhetoric ratchets up, many police agencies and organizations are increasingly resistant to any reforms, forgetting whom they serve and ignoring constitutional limits on what they can do.

Indeed, a closer look at law enforcement arguments against commonsense reforms like independently investigating police violence, demilitarizing police forces, or ending “for-profit policing” reveals a striking disregard for concerns of just about any sort when it comes to brutality and abuse. What this “debate” has revealed, in fact, is a mainstream policing mindset ready to manufacture fear without evidence and promote the belief that American civil rights and liberties are actually an impediment to public safety. In the end, such law enforcement arguments subvert the very idea that the police are there to serve the community and should be under civilian control.

And that, when you come right down to it, is the logic of the police state.

In May, a Wall Street Journal op-ed warned of a “new nationwide crime wave (http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-nationwide-crime-wave-1432938425)” thanks to “intense agitation against American police departments” over the previous year. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went further. Talking recently with the host of CBS’s Face the Nation, the Republican presidential hopeful asserted (http://www.wnyc.org/story/christie-says-black-lives-protest-creates-police-death/) that the Black Lives Matter movement wasn’t about reform but something far more sinister. “They’ve been chanting in the streets for the murder of police officers,” he insisted. Even the nation’s top cop, FBI Director James Comey, weighed in at the University of Chicago Law School, speaking of (https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/law-enforcement-and-the-communities-we-serve-bending-the-lines-toward-safety-and-justice) “a chill wind that has blown through American law enforcement over the last year.”

According to these figures and others like them, lawlessness has been sweeping the nation as the so-called Ferguson effect spreads. Criminals have been emboldened as police officers are forced to think twice about doing their jobs for fear of the infamy of starring in the next viral video. The police have supposedly become the targets of assassins intoxicated by “anti-cop rhetoric (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/17/war-on-police-line-duty-deaths-rise-amid-racially-charged-rhetoric-anti-cop/),” just as departments are being stripped (http://www.sheriffs.org/content/equipment-restrictions) of the kind of high-powered equipment they need to protect officers and communities. Even their funding streams have, it’s claimed, come under attack as anti-cop bias has infected Washington, D.C. Senator Ted Cruz caught the spirit of that critique byconvening (http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/the-war-on-police-how-the-federal-government-undermines-state-and-local-law-enforcement) a Senate subcommittee hearing to which he gave the title, “The War on Police: How the Federal Government Undermines State and Local Law Enforcement.” According to (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-denounces-officials-for-vilifying-police-officers/article/2576578) him, the federal government, including the president and attorney general, has been vilifying the police, who are now being treated as if they, not the criminals, were the enemy.

Beyond the storm of commentary and criticism, however, quite a different reality presents itself. In the simplest terms, there is no war on the police. Violent attacks against police officers remain at historic lows (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/10/29/fbi-data-show-assaults-on-police-officers-dropped-sharply-in-2014/?postshare=9111446210367630), even though approximately 1,000 people have (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database) been (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/) killed (http://killedbypolice.net/) by the police this year nationwide. In just the past few weeks, videos have been released of problematic fatal police shootings in San Francisco (http://abc7news.com/news/graphic-video-released-in-fatal-sf-police-shooting-of-mario-woods-/1119055/) and Chicago (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/24/chicago-officials-release-video-showing-police-killing-of-laquan-mcdonald-video).

While it’s too soon to tell whether there has been an uptick in violent crime in the post-Ferguson period, no evidence connects any possible increase to the phenomenon of police violence being exposed to the nation. What is taking place and what the police and their supporters are largely reacting to is a modest push for sensible law enforcement reforms from groups as diverse asCampaign Zero (http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision), Koch Industries (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/koch-brothers_n_6646540.html), the Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org/events/policing-america), The Leadership Conference (http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/civil-rights-act-report-december-2014/lessons-from-ferguson.html), and the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/feature/picking-pieces) (my employer). Unfortunately, as the rhetoric ratchets up, many police agencies and organizations are increasingly resistant to any reforms, forgetting whom they serve and ignoring constitutional limits on what they can do.

Indeed, a closer look at law enforcement arguments against commonsense reforms like independently investigating police violence, demilitarizing police forces, or ending “for-profit policing” reveals a striking disregard for concerns of just about any sort when it comes to brutality and abuse.

What this “debate” has revealed, in fact, is a mainstream policing mindset ready to manufacture fear without evidence and promote the belief that American civil rights and liberties are actually an impediment to public safety. In the end, such law enforcement arguments subvert the very idea that the police are there to serve the community and should be under civilian control.
And that, when you come right down to it, is the logic of the police state.

Legal Plunder

houses, cars, boats -- it now regularly deprives people unconnected to the war on drugs of their property without due process of law and in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Not surprisingly, corruption follows.
Federal and state law enforcement can now often keep property seized or sell it and retain a portion of the revenue generated. Some of this, in turn, can be repurposed and distributed (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken) as (http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20150608/pennsylvania-civil-asset-forfeiture-law-under-microscope) bonuses (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20110228-lawmakers-eye-reforms-for-texas-asset-forfeitures.ece) in police and other law enforcement departments. The only way the dispossessed stand a chance of getting such “forfeited” property back is if they are willing to take on the government in a process where the deck is stacked against them.

In such cases, for instance, property owners have no right to an attorney to defend them, which means that they must either pony up additional cash for a lawyer or contest the seizure themselves in court. “It is an upside-down world where,” says the libertarian Institute for Justice (http://endforfeiture.com/#intro), “the government holds all the cards and has the financial incentive to play them to the hilt.”

In this century, civil asset forfeiture has mutated into what’s now called “for-profit policing” in which police departments and state and federal law enforcement agencies indiscriminately seize the property of citizens who aren’t drug kingpins. Sometimes, for instance, distinctly ordinary citizenssuspected (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html) of driving drunk or soliciting prostitutes get their cars confiscated. Sometimes they simply get cash taken (http://www.aclupa.org/files/3214/3326/0426/Guilty_Property_Report_-_FINAL.pdf) from them on suspicion of low-level drug dealing.

Like most criminal justice issues, race matters in civil asset forfeiture. This summer, the ACLU of Pennsylvania issued a report, Guilty Property (http://www.aclupa.org/files/3214/3326/0426/Guilty_Property_Report_-_FINAL.pdf), documenting how the Philadelphia Police Department and district attorney’s office abused state civil asset forfeiture by taking at least $1 million from innocent people within the city limits. Approximately 70% of the time, those people were black, even though the city’s population is almost evenly divided (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42/42101.html)between whites and African-Americans.

Currently, only one state, New Mexico (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/new-mexico-governor-signs-bill-on-civil-forfeiture.html), has done away with civil asset forfeiture entirely (http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/10/9705950/civil-forfeiture-police-seizures), while also severely restricting state and local law enforcement from profiting off similar national laws when they work with the feds. (The police in Albuquerque are, however, actively defying (http://www.buzzfeed.com/cjciaramella/new-mexico-lawmakers-sue-albuquerque-stop-seizing-cars#.btyDW4yOD) the new law, demonstrating yet again the way in which police departments believe the rules don’t apply to them.) That no other state has done so is hardly surprising. Police departments have become so reliant on civil asset forfeiture to pad their budgets and acquire “little goodies (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html)” that reforming, much less repealing, such laws are a tough sell.

"[O]ver the past seven years, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has donated $1.2 million of seized criminal money to support youth programs like the Boys & Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, YMCA, high school graduation night lock-in events, youth sports as well as veterans groups, local food banks, victims assistance programs, and Home of Home in Casa Grande."

Under this logic, police officers can steal from people who haven’t even been charged with a crime as long as they share the wealth with community organizations -- though, in fact, neither in Pinal County or elsewhere is that where most of the confiscated loot appears to go. Think of this as the development of a culture of thievery masquerading as Robin Hood in blue.

Due Process Plus

It’s no mystery why so few police officers are investigated and prosecuted for using excessive force and violating someone’s rights. “Local prosecutors rely on local police departments to gather the evidence and testimony they need to successfully prosecute criminals,” according to (http://www.joincampaignzero.org/solutions/#investigations) Campaign Zero . “This makes it hard for them to investigate and prosecute the same police officers in cases of police violence.”

Since 2005, according to an analysis (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/thousands-dead-few-prosecuted/) by theWashington Post and Bowling Green State University, only 54 officers have been prosecuted nationwide, despite the thousands of fatal shootings by police. As Philip M. Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green, puts it, “To charge an officer in a fatal shooting, it takes something so egregious, so over the top that it cannot be explained in any rational way. It also has to be a case that prosecutors are willing to hang their reputation on.”

For many in law enforcement, however, none of this should concern any of us. When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed (https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-executive-order-appointing-nys-attorney-general-special-prosecutor-cases) an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate police killings, for instance, Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, insisted (http://www.nycpba.org/releases/pr150707-prosecutor.html): “Given the many levels of oversight that already exist, both internally in the NYPD [New York Police Department] and externally in many forms, the appointment of a special prosecutor is unnecessary.” Even before Cuomo’s decision, the chairman of New York’s District Attorneys Association called (http://www.npr.org/2014/12/15/370878778/should-special-prosecutors-investigate-killings-by-police)plans to appoint a special prosecutor for police killings “deeply insulting.”

Such pushback against the very idea of independently investigating police actions has, post-Ferguson, become everyday fare, and some law enforcement leaders have staked out a position significantly beyond that. The police, they clearly believe, should get special treatment.

“By virtue of our dangerous vocation, we should expect to receive the benefit of the doubt in controversial incidents,” wrote (http://sbanyc.net/documents/extras/frontline/magazine.pdf) Ed Mullins, the president of New York City’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, in the organization’s magazine, Frontline. As if to drive home the point, its cover depicts Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby under the ominous headline “The Wolf That Lurks.” In May, Mosby had announced (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/freddie-gray-autopsy-report-given-to-baltimore-prosecutors.html) indictments of six officers in the case of Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore police custody the previous month. The message being sent to a prosecutor willing to indict cops was hardly subtle: you’re a traitor.

Mullins put forward a legal standard for officers accused of wrongdoing that he would never support for the average citizen -- and in a situation in which cops already get what former federal prosecutor Laurie Levenson calls (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/police-officers-arrested-for-murder-ferguson-bgsu) “a super presumption of innocence." In addition, police unions in many states have aggressively pushed for their own bills of rights, which make it nearly impossible for police officers to be fired, much less charged with crimes when they violate an individual’s civil rights and liberties.

In 14 states, versions of a Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (LEOBR) have already been passed, while in 11 others they are under consideration. These provide an “extra layer of due process” in cases of alleged police misconduct, according to Samuel Walker (http://samuelwalker.net/bio/), an expert on police accountability. In many of the states without a LEOBR, the Marshall Project has discovered (https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/27/blue-shield), police unions have directly negotiated the same rights and privileges with state governments.

LEOBRs are, in fact, amazingly un-American documents in the protections (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/29/baltimore-and-bolstering-a-police-officers-right-to-remain-silent/the-police-officers-bill-of-rights-creates-a-double-standard?mtrref=undefined&gwh=D5914CF790184FF508AC6392D4FDB6A9&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion)they afford officers accused of misconduct during internal investigations, rights that those officers are never required to extend to their suspects. Though the specific language of these laws varies from state to state, notes (https://reason.com/archives/2012/10/19/how-special-rights-for-law-enforcement-m)Mike Riggs in Reason, they are remarkably similar in their special considerations for the police.

“Unlike a member of the public, the officer gets a ‘cooling off’ period before he has to respond to any questions.

Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation is privy to the names of his complainants and their testimony against him before he is ever interrogated.

Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation is to be interrogated ‘at a reasonable hour,’ with a union member present.

Unlike a member of the public, the officer can only be questioned by one person during his interrogation.

Unlike a member of the public, the officer can be interrogated only ‘for reasonable periods,’ which ‘shall be timed to allow for such personal necessities and rest periods as are reasonably necessary.’

Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation cannot be ‘threatened with disciplinary action’ at any point during his interrogation. If he is threatened with punishment, whatever he says following the threat cannot be used against him.”

The Marshall Project refers to these laws as the “Blue Shield” and “the original Bill of Rights with an upgrade.’’ Police associations, naturally, don’t agree. "All this does is provide a very basic level of constitutional protections for our officers, so that they can make statements that will stand up later in court," says Vince Canales, the president of Maryland's Fraternal Order of Police.

Put another way, there are two kinds of due process in America -- one for cops and another for the rest of us. This is the reason why the Black Lives Matter movement and other civil rights and civil liberties organizations regularly call on states to create a special prosecutor’s office to launch independent investigations when police seriously injure or kill someone.

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