The Warrior cops are out of control

[Trill Clinton]

that shooting also cost the citizens of gardena 4.7 million dollars in a civil suit.

[Spurminator]

Obey authority on a moment's notice or die.

Home of the Free.

[CosmicCowboy]

meh. I'm smart enough to keep my hands up if a cop tells me to.

[CosmicCowboy]

i am happy to make stands on principle when it's not potentially lethal. The drawn guns were a pretty good hint.

[CosmicCowboy]

that shooting also cost the citizens of gardena 4.7 million dollars in a civil suit.

Your parents are probably good hard working people.

Do them a favor and don't be stupid. Your attitude can get you killed.

They would probably rather have you alive than the money.

Then again 4.7 million...maybe not...:lol

[boutons_deux]

SANDRA BLAND DIED ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

AND SINCE THEN, AT LEAST 810 PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN JAIL.

Deaths inside American jails frequently go unnoticed, sometimes even unrecorded.

Unlike prisons, jails hold people for only short periods—about 21 days on average—and many of their inmates have not been convicted of a crime.

Additionally, jails typically aren’t required to release public information about people who die within their walls.

The federal government publishes only generalized data years after deaths occur, making it nearly impossible to identify the most dangerous facilities.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/sandra-bland-jail-deaths/

[Spurminator]

meh. I'm smart enough to keep my hands up if a cop tells me to.

Good for you. Some of the people getting shot for not immediately cooperating are probably stupid. Borderline retarded. Doesn't mean they should be killed. Lethal force should be the last resort.

[CosmicCowboy]

Good for you. Some of the people getting shot for not immediately cooperating are probably stupid. Borderline retarded. Doesn't mean they should be killed. Lethal force should be the last resort.

When they drop their hands to their side after the cops have told them three times to keep their hands up the cops have a right to assume they are in danger and defend themselves accordingly.

[Trill Clinton]

Your parents are probably good hard working people.

Do them a favor and don't be stupid. Your attitude can get you killed.

They would probably rather have you alive than the money.

Then again 4.7 million...maybe not...:lol

huh

[Trill Clinton]

When they drop their hands to their side after the cops have told them three times to keep their hands up the cops have a right to assume they are in danger and defend themselves accordingly.
sounds like something a coward would do. did they think he was going to pull a magic trick and pull a gun out of his hat?

[CosmicCowboy]

sounds like something a coward would do. did they think he was going to pull a magic trick and pull a gun out of his hat?

Spoken like a true pussy. Yeah he could damn sure pull a gun out of his belt/pocket. Cops have a right to shoot before they get shot.

All the fuck you have to do is do what they say and you won't get shot.

[Spurminator]

When they drop their hands to their side after the cops have told them three times to keep their hands up the cops have a right to assume they are in danger and defend themselves accordingly.

Maybe they shouldn't be so vulnerable that something like that represents danger requiring deadly force.

[CosmicCowboy]

Maybe they shouldn't be so vulnerable that something like that represents danger requiring deadly force.

What do you suggest? They haven't invented bullet proof force shields yet.

Those cops that got killed in Dallas were intentionally not wearing body armor so they didn't look "threatening".

[Trill Clinton]

Spoken like a true pussy. Yeah he could damn sure pull a gun out of his belt/pocket. Cops have a right to shoot before they get shot.

All the fuck you have to do is do what they say and you won't get shot.

you sound like a pussy. if a cop tells you to jump will you say how high? lol

all i want is for cops to stop killing us. other civilized countries don't have this problem.

all i have to do is do what they say and i wont get shot lol. that might work for *you* but its obvious that doesn't work for people of color and i have studies to prove you wrong there, jack. philando did what the cops asked and was shot, so was oscar grant and so was the guy shot for getting his license in south carolina and thousands others.

[CosmicCowboy]

Damn right if a cop had his gun pulled I would do exactly what the fuck he said to do. How high? Yes sir.

If you wouldn't you are a fucking idiot.

Darwinian selection. Another dead dumbass.

[CosmicCowboy]

Just saw on TV that the girlfriend with the viral video has changed her story and admitted she made up all that shit about her boyfriend telling the cop he had a CC permit and was packing. He never told the cop he had a gun. She just made that shit up on the fly.

[boutons_deux]

23 Ways You Could be Killed While Being Black

The video features celebrities such as Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, and Rihanna.

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/07/these-celebrities-powerfully-described-23-ways-you-could-be-killed-while-black

[boutons_deux]

Here's Audio of What Sounds Like an NYPD Captain Pressuring an Officer to Target Black Men (http://gawker.com/heres-audio-of-what-sounds-like-an-nypd-captain-pressur-1783544682)

“the conversation just turned completely weird to me,” he said in an interview this week. “Because he’s basically telling me it’s OK to racially profile.”

Birch provided Gawker with what he claims is a recording he secretly made of that meeting, on which a man who seems to be his commanding officer can be heard repeatedly questioning him about his recent summonses, placing particular emphasis on the fact that he has only stopped two black men out of 54 total people.

“Two male blacks,” the man says at one point. “So you’re telling me you only saw two male blacks jump the turnstile?”

http://gawker.com/heres-audio-of-what-sounds-like-an-nypd-captain-pressur-1783544682

[boutons_deux]

Cop who killed Philando Castile took for-profit course accused of making officers ‘paranoid’

Records show that Jeronimo Yanez attended the 20-hour “Bulletproof Warrior” seminar in May 2014. Calibre Press, which hosts the course, recently changed the name of it to “Interaction and Influence” after complaints from local departments.

“We had different calls from some agencies literally saying the word ‘warrior’ has such a bad connotation we’re not comfortable sending people there,” said the company’s co-owner Jim Glennon, who also leads the seminar.

According to the Star-Tribune, Yanez also took a Calibre seminar called “Street Survival” in 2013, as well as a 20-hour course entitled “Officer Survival” from another company in 2012. By comparison, he attended a four-hour “de-escalation” seminar just this past May.

But Calibre’s approach in general has drawn criticism from the executive director of the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, Michael Becar, who said he has attended their seminars in the past.

“Everything they were doing made the police officers very paranoid,” he said. “At some point they wouldn’t even stop a car without three backups.”

A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department, Kese Smith, said that officers were free to attend the company’s courses, but had to pay their own way to do so.

“Some of their instruction is not what we instruct,” Smith said.

“Our mission is to save everyone’s lives,” said the company’s CEO Lisa Gitchell. :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/cop-who-killed-philandocastile-took-for-profit-course-accused-of-making-officers-paranoid/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

mission is to kill citizens just in case the paranoid, blood-thirsty, trigger-happy cop "feels" threatened.

[DarrinS]

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7833

[Spurminator]

Just saw on TV that the girlfriend with the viral video has changed her story and admitted she made up all that shit about her boyfriend telling the cop he had a CC permit and was packing. He never told the cop he had a gun. She just made that shit up on the fly.

If that's true it's the most under reported story in news history because that would be a big deal, and I can't find a single link or video confirming this. Where did you see it?

[CosmicCowboy]

If that's true it's the most under reported story in news history because that would be a big deal, and I can't find a single link or video confirming this. Where did you see it?

Is it really that hard? In the video she said the guy told the cop he had a CC permit and was armed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/philando-castile-showed-gun-traffic-stop-girlfriend-article-1.2706987

[Spurminator]

Is it really that hard? In the video she said the guy told the cop he had a CC permit and was armed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/philando-castile-showed-gun-traffic-stop-girlfriend-article-1.2706987

No, I'm asking you where you saw that she made that up. Your link doesn't refute that. Castile pulling out his gun was never part of her story, that was the officer's account.

[CosmicCowboy]

Do you have reading comprehension issues? In the video she specifically said Castillo told the officer he had a cc and was armed. On ABC interview she said cop didn't know he had a gun.

[boutons_deux]

CC, as always, blaming the victim.

It doesn't fucking MATTER what she said. The dickless, chickenshit cop shot the guy dead point blank in cold blood.

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm not blaming the victim asshole but she clearly lied her ass off on the video.

[CosmicCowboy]

CC, as always, blaming the victim.

It doesn't fucking MATTER what she said. The dickless, chickenshit cop shot the guy dead point blank in cold blood.

Unlike you I am willing to give the cop the benefit of the doubt until the facts come out, especially after the "witness" proves to be a blatant lier.

[DarrinS]

She certainly was calm -- seemed mostly concerned about her Facebook streaming

[clambake]

She certainly was calm -- seemed mostly concerned about her Facebook streaming

priorities, man.

[Trill Clinton]

She certainly was calm -- seemed mostly concerned about her Facebook streaming
well she just saw her boyfriend get clapped, she had a 4 year old in the backseat and a wild n crazy lunatic threatening to shoot her too if she didn't keep her hands up. her poise in that situation is amazing. shame the lunatic wouldn't let her render aid to her boyfriend.

[boutons_deux]

I'm not blaming the victim asshole but she clearly lied her ass off on the video.

which is deflecting-ly more important to rightwingers than a dead knitter

[CosmicCowboy]

well she just saw her boyfriend get clapped, she had a 4 year old in the backseat and a wild n crazy lunatic threatening to shoot her too if she didn't keep her hands up. her poise in that situation is amazing. shame the lunatic wouldn't let her render aid to her boyfriend.

:lmao

"render aid"

fucking idiot

[CosmicCowboy]

which is deflecting-ly more important to rightwingers than a dead knitter

Well the cops story certainly gets more believable knowing she lied her ass off.

If they didn't tell the cop he had a gun on his hip and giving her story the benefit of the doubt and he rolled up as he was "reached for his wallet" the cop would have seen him apparently reaching for the gun.

A tragic and deadly mistake on both parts but not a murder.

[Trill Clinton]

:lmao

"render aid"

fucking idiot
oh you're trolling again:rolleyes

[Trill Clinton]

Unlike you I am willing to give the cop the benefit of the doubt until the facts come out, especially after the "witness" proves to be a blatant lier.
did you wait for all the facts before blaming hilary for bengazi? got him

[CosmicCowboy]

oh you're trolling again:rolleyes

No, you are just being blindly stupid.

[CosmicCowboy]

did you wait for all the facts before blaming hilary for bengazi? got him

You apparently have me confused with someone else.

[Trill Clinton]

No, you are just being blindly stupid.

what is stupid about coming to the aid of a loved one who has been shot?

[CosmicCowboy]

what is stupid about coming to the aid of a loved one who has been shot?

What exactly was she going to do? Stick her finger in the hole?

[Trill Clinton]

What exactly was she going to do? Stick her finger in the hole?

is that what you would have done if your wife was shot? stick a finger in the hole? you're dumb

[CosmicCowboy]

is that what you would have done if your wife was shot? stick a finger in the hole? you're dumb

Well, tell me how you would have "rendered aid" to a fatal gunshot wound, asshole.

[Trill Clinton]

Well, tell me how you would have "rendered aid" to a fatal gunshot wound, asshole.

i'm not saying she was going to save his life, dummy. if a loved one is shot, its only natural to want to help. in this case, trying to control the bleeding by applying pressure until EMS arrives.

i think that method makes more sense. most of us with compassion for others would do all we can to help save a life, even if the chances are slim, than take the CC method of not doing anything or just "sticking a finger in the hole".

[CosmicCowboy]

The cop was following protocol. The gun had not been secured and he couldn't allow her close to it.

Rendering aid was irrelevant as the guy apparently bled out in seconds.

She was clearly more concerned about her facebook post than rendering aid.

[Trill Clinton]

The cop was following protocol. The gun had not been secured and he couldn't allow her close to it.

Rendering aid was irrelevant as the guy apparently bled out in seconds.

She was clearly more concerned about her facebook post than rendering aid.

that makes ZERO sense. if the cop never asked if philando was armed and if philando never presented the gun, then protocol is to fire into a car containing a 4 year old child when philando is asked for his license and registration? http://i68.tinypic.com/28ix3zt.png

is protocol to pull people over for a broken tail light, when the tail light isn't broken? http://i68.tinypic.com/28ix3zt.png

her live streaming philando's death is important and makes more sense than doing what you would have done if your wife was shot: nothing or stick a finger in the hole.

[Trill Clinton]

No, I'm asking you where you saw that she made that up. Your link doesn't refute that. Castile pulling out his gun was never part of her story, that was the officer's account.

i just saw the vid and her story never changed. idk wtf cc is talking about.

[TheSanityAnnex]

No, I'm asking you where you saw that she made that up. Your link doesn't refute that. Castile pulling out his gun was never part of her story, that was the officer's account.

Cop's lawyer also said the cop will be cleared once the dash cam and audio is released. Told him to keep his hands up the whole time and then dude reached for his waist. Doubt the lawyer would come out and claim that now if the dash cam video showed otherwise. Looks like this could turn out to be another Mike Brown hands up don't shoot lie the media/BLM ran with too soon.

[CosmicCowboy]

i just saw the vid and her story never changed. idk wtf cc is talking about.

You are a fucking liar. She clearly said in the video that her boyfriend told the cop he had a CC permit and had a gun.

855_RtW4Fx4

26 seconds dumbass

She clearly told ABC New in an interview the cop didn't know he had a gun.


"The gun never came out, it could never be a threat. He didn't ask about it, he didn't know it was on his person," Diamond Reynolds said in an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

[TheSanityAnnex]

that makes ZERO sense. if the cop never asked if philando was armed and if philando never presented the gun, then protocol is to fire into a car containing a 4 year old child when philando is asked for his license and registration? http://i68.tinypic.com/28ix3zt.png

is protocol to pull people over for a broken tail light, when the tail light isn't broken? http://i68.tinypic.com/28ix3zt.png

her live streaming philando's death is important and makes more sense than doing what you would have done if your wife was shot: nothing or stick a finger in the hole.

He was pulled over because he fit a police BOLO from an armed robbery the day before.

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7833

Harvard study: no racial differences in police shootings

[Trill Clinton]

You are a fucking liar. She clearly said in the video that her boyfriend told the cop he had a CC permit and had a gun.

855_RtW4Fx4

26 seconds dumbass

She clearly told ABC New in an interview the cop didn't know he had a gun.

dummy she said in the ABC interview the cop didn't ask if he was armed. she said philando told the cop *he* had a CCL and a gun. its at the 1:50 mark. damn you're dumb.

[CosmicCowboy]

dummy she said in the ABC interview the cop didn't ask if he was armed. she said philando told the cop *he* had a CCL and a gun. its at the 1:50 mark. damn you're dumb.


"The gun never came out, it could never be a threat. He didn't ask about it, he didn't know it was on his person," Diamond Reynolds said in an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

[Trill Clinton]

You are a fucking liar. She clearly said in the video that her boyfriend told the cop he had a CC permit and had a gun.

855_RtW4Fx4

26 seconds dumbass

She clearly told ABC New in an interview the cop didn't know he had a gun.


okay?

again, at the 1:50 mark in the link *you* posted. she states the cop never asked if he was armed, didnt know he had a gun, until *philando* told him. you still on pain meds, man?

[CosmicCowboy]

okay?

again, at the 1:50 mark in the link *you* posted. she states the cop never asked if he was armed, didnt know he had a gun, until *philando* told him. you still on pain meds, man?

nope. She said both. First she said they told him, then she said the cop didn't know he had a gun.

Bottom line is if the cop told him to keep his hands in sight and he dropped them towards the gun the shoot was justified even if it was a big mistake.

I'm looking forward to the dash cam and audio being released.

[Spurminator]

She certainly was calm -- seemed mostly concerned about her Facebook streaming

YOU'RE RIGHT, maybe she was in on the whole thing.

[CosmicCowboy]

This conversation is pointless Trill.

Every single time you are going to assume the cops are racist and out to kill innocent blacks and every single time I am going to assume the cops were innocent until they are proven guilty.

[DarrinS]

YOU'RE RIGHT, maybe she was in on the whole thing.

Is that what you think I was suggesting?

[boutons_deux]

SANDRA BLAND DIED ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

AND SINCE THEN, AT LEAST 810 PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN JAIL.

Deaths inside American jails frequently go unnoticed, sometimes even unrecorded.

Unlike prisons, jails hold people for only short periods—about 21 days on average—and many of their inmates have not been convicted of a crime.

Additionally, jails typically aren’t required to release public information about people who die within their walls.

The federal government publishes only generalized data years after deaths occur, making it nearly impossible to identify the most dangerous facilities.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/sandra-bland-jail-deaths/



At least 1/3 of the jail deaths occurred in the first 3 days of being locked up.

[Spurminator]

Is that what you think I was suggesting?

No, but I have always thought it was bullshit when people second guess other people's reactions to a tragedy involving a loved one.

[Trill Clinton]

RIP Deravis

Atlanta cop fired after shooting black man dead in botched car theft investigation (http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/atlanta-cop-fired-after-shooting-black-man-dead-in-botched-car-theft-investigation/comments/#disqus)

the Atlanta Police Department identified the officer fired for fatally shooting a 22-year-old black man, WXIA-TV reported. (http://www.11alive.com/news/crime/apd-names-officer-fired-after-shooting-burglary-suspect-/268963023)

The department determined that James Burns used excessive force when he shot and killed Deravis Rogers last month. Burns was asked to investigate an alleged auto break-in at a local apartment complex when he saw Rogers driving away from him and fired, hitting him in the head. But according to WXIA, there was no indication that Rogers, who was unarmed, had either broken into or stolen any vehicle.

that Burns was notified by an off-duty officer working security at the complex.

Officials said Burns’ actions violated policy because there was no indication that he was in any danger at the time. However, they added that race was not a factor in the incident because Burns “had no idea” who he was shooting at.

“The officer simply acted in a way that we cannot support,” said a spokesperson, Sgt. Warren Pickard. “He had no idea who was in the vehicle, he had no idea if that was the vehicle he should be concerned with, he just discharged his weapon.”

[TheSanityAnnex]

RIP Deravis

Atlanta cop fired after shooting black man dead in botched car theft investigation (http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/atlanta-cop-fired-after-shooting-black-man-dead-in-botched-car-theft-investigation/comments/#disqus)

the Atlanta Police Department identified the officer fired for fatally shooting a 22-year-old black man, WXIA-TV reported. (http://www.11alive.com/news/crime/apd-names-officer-fired-after-shooting-burglary-suspect-/268963023)

The department determined that James Burns used excessive force when he shot and killed Deravis Rogers last month. Burns was asked to investigate an alleged auto break-in at a local apartment complex when he saw Rogers driving away from him and fired, hitting him in the head. But according to WXIA, there was no indication that Rogers, who was unarmed, had either broken into or stolen any vehicle.

that Burns was notified by an off-duty officer working security at the complex.

Officials said Burns’ actions violated policy because there was no indication that he was in any danger at the time. However, they added that race was not a factor in the incident because Burns “had no idea” who he was shooting at.

“The officer simply acted in a way that we cannot support,” said a spokesperson, Sgt. Warren Pickard. “He had no idea who was in the vehicle, he had no idea if that was the vehicle he should be concerned with, he just discharged his weapon.”

He should be charged with murder.

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7833

Funny that your post was ignored.

=========


A recently released Harvard study suggests there’s no racial bias in police shootings.
The study (http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf)—which was released on Monday in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two black males and five Dallas, Texas police officers—is said by the author to be “the most surprising result” of his career, according to Lifezette (http://www.lifezette.com/quickzette/no-racial-bias-police-shootings/).

Roland G. Fryer Jr., the African American author of the study and a Harvard economics professor, examined shootings and use of force incidents in 10 major police department in Texas and Florida, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department.

"In the most extreme use of force--officer involved shootings--we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account," the report's abstract states.

"We cannot reject the null of no discrimination in officer-involved shootings," the study goes on to report, though it earlier warns that there are "several important caveats" with its results.



"First, all but one dataset was provided by a select group of police departments. It is possible that these departments only supplied the data because they are either enlightened or were not concerned about what the analysis would reveal. In essence, this is equivalent to analyzing labor market discrimination on a set of firms willing to supply a researcher with their Human Resources data!"



Blacks and whites were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon, and the study found police didn’t use racial bias to dictate whether or not they shot. The study did find, however, that police were more likely to use other forms of force, such as pepper spray, the use of hands, and pointing their weapons, on black civilians.



"It is plausible that racial differences in lower level uses of force are simply a distraction and movements such as Black Lives Matter should seek solutions within their own communities rather than changing the behaviors of police and other external forces," the conclusion states.



Fryer, who was troubled by the shooting deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, launched the study to better understand what was really “going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force”.
After focusing on Houston specifically, Fryer also found that officers were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot if the suspects were black as opposed to white. Examining the timing of the shootings and the number of bullets discharged revealed "no detectable racial differences."


"You know, protesting is not my thing," Fryer said. "But data is my thing. So I decided that I was going to collect a bunch of data and try to understand what really is going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force."

[Trill Clinton]

welp, another lawsuit on the way

753909104410710016

[DarrinS]

welp, another lawsuit on the way

753909104410710016



Don't you think all of that could've easily been avoided?

[Trill Clinton]

Don't you think all of that could've easily been avoided?

yup, cop should have just asked for an ID

[DarrinS]

yup, cop should have just asked for an ID


"What's your name?"

"Uh...........Patrick?"

Smh

[DarrinS]

Probably just because he was black.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8Q1OAWUNs

[Trill Clinton]

"What's your name?"

"Uh...........Patrick?"

Smh

but his name was, patrickhttp://i67.tinypic.com/14ik76x.png

how about, "may i see your license?http://i67.tinypic.com/14ik76x.png

why did the cops lie and say they asked for a license 4 Xhttp://i67.tinypic.com/14ik76x.png

[DarrinS]

but his name was, patrickhttp://i67.tinypic.com/14ik76x.png

how about, "may i see your license?http://i67.tinypic.com/14ik76x.png

why did the cops lie and say they asked for a license 4 Xhttp://i67.tinypic.com/14ik76x.png



I didn't say the cop did nothing wrong, but a little common sense would've kept that dude from being tased.

[boutons_deux]

I didn't say the cop did nothing wrong, but a little common sense would've kept that dude from being tased.

So you don't think knitters should be scared shitless, panic even, when multiple cops come after you at your house?

[boutons_deux]

Why the increase in number of Texans shot by police?

The number of people who die while being arrested by a Texas law-enforcement officer nearly doubled between 2005 and 2015, according to data compiled by the Dallas Morning News (http://beta.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-ambush/2016/07/16/fatal-encounters-suspects-deaths-rise-across-texas-even-arrests-drop), with police shootings accounting for nearly all of the increase. For context, the total number of arrests over the same period declined by 20 percent, so not only are more people being shot, more are being shot per police encounter. An extraordinarily pregnant Brandi Grissom reported that:


More than half of the deaths from 2005 to 2015, 511 cases, were considered justifiable homicides, instances in which police used deadly force on a suspect because they feared for their own lives or the lives of others. And those numbers have been rising, from 32 justifiable homicides in 2005, to 61 in 2014 and 54 last year.

The bottom DMN graphic at right depicts the leading causes of deaths in police custody, with a significant spike in deaths that agencies reported as "justifiable homicides."


Charley Wilkison, executive director of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, attributed the rise in violent confrontations largely to increasingly aggressive suspects who refuse to cooperate with officers.

Officers are “facing a new kind of lawlessness,” he said, “a sense that police are not necessarily on the side of the public that’s being broadcast far and wide.”

The only problem with Charley's analysis is its utter falsity. Far from a "new kind of lawlessness," crime in America has declined overall since 2005 and police are safer on the job today than they've been in many decades (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/09/police-are-safer-under-obama-than-they-have-been-in-decades/).

The folks who collect your garbage are much more likely to die on the job (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/09/police-have-dangerous-jobs-but-some.html). Indeed, the recent tragedy in Dallas makes it easy to forget that most on-the-job police deaths (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/12/are-most-job-related-deaths-of-police-caused-by-traffic-incidents/) stem from traffic accidents (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/01/suggestion-for-reducing-life.html), exacerbated by an officer culture that disdains seat belt use (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/03/seat-belts-for-thee-but-not-for-me.html).

To the extent the increase does represent a meaningful trend, however, let's hypothesize other possible causes.

Could increased militarization of law enforcement equipment and training have anything to do with it? Military tactics have migrated (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/us/minnesota-police-officers-bulletproof-warrior-training-is-questioned.html?_r=0) to even the most common points of interaction with the "non-criminal suspect" population - traffic stops and event security.

One recalls that Round Rock PD officers used "Points of Domination" techniques adapted from military methods when removing Slade Sullivan from his pickup face-first (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/06/an-unnecessary-death-disabled-vet.html), resulting in his paralysis and ultimately his death. How widespread are such tactics and to what extent have they contributed to deaths in custody (besides Sullivan's)? ¿Quien sabe?

In a related development, might hiring preferences for Iraq and Afghan war veterans have infused law enforcement with new, young officers schooled in military approaches and conditioned by training and combat experience to shoot more quickly than perhaps is appropriate in peacetime settings?

Another thought: Could pro-police sentiments among the public after 9/11 have shielded police from accountability in ways that discouraged criticism or discipline of bad cops?

Or, here's one I seldom hear discussed:

Perhaps increased access to criminal history records contributed to the trend? One of the biggest changes to front-end policing in the last ten years has been expanded access to real-time criminal history data.

A police officer who pulled someone over at a traffic stop 15 years ago might assume a driver was guilty of nothing other than running a stop sign or driving 50 in a 40. Today, that officer may know before they even get out of the car whether a driver has a prior criminal record. And that knowledge could influence how they approach the stop, making them more prone to be nervous and jumpy.

Texas has dinged millions of people with criminal convictions in recent decades.

The vast majority are otherwise indistinguishable from anyone else until the moment the officer runs their plates or their checks their drivers licenses. Has that added knowledge needlessly amped up some encounters? It would only take a few to explain these data.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/07/why-increase-in-number-of-texans-shot.html

[Splits]

755896679476244480

[DarrinS]

755896679476244480


Ok, that one is extremely fucked up. I hope this guy sues and becomes a millionaire.

[boutons_deux]

Ok, that one is extremely fucked up. I hope this guy sues and becomes a millionaire.

all these vids are fucked up, totally indefensible. I suppose Tamir Rice's murder, Freddy Gray's broken back, Eric Garner watched as he gurgled to death, etc, etc, etc are not fucked up?

[DarrinS]

all these vids are fucked up, totally indefensible. I suppose Tamir Rice's murder, Freddy Gray's broken back, Eric Garner watched as he gurgled to death, etc, etc, etc are not fucked up?

No they're not. A lot of them are frauds.

[boutons_deux]

No they're not. A lot of them are frauds.

holy shit :lol you racists

[boutons_deux]

The cops say happy UNFORGETTABLE birthday, kid.

Oklahoma Police Show up at 5-Year-Old's Birthday Party—and Shoot His Dog in the Head

The boy said that he wishes someone from the Wynnewood Police would at least apologize for killing his friend.

The officer who shot the dog told the family that the dog had lunged at him through the fence. Wynnewood Police Chief Ken Moore stood behind the officer’s actions,

saying the dog was vicious and had come around the corner of the house outside the fence and charged at the officer.

However, Fox 25 said that the video from the scene of the incident they reviewed contradicts the officer’s story.

Opie’s body is lying inside the fence with a gunshot wound to the head.

The officer who shot the dog had come to the Malone home to serve a warrant to a person who lived there 10 years ago. :lol

The warrant, he said, gave him the right to enter private property and take whatever action he deemed appropriate under the circumstances. The Malone family says they never saw any warrant.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/police-kill-five-year-olds-dog


America is a fucking shooting gallery for cops
Go ahead, CosmicParasite, DEFEND THE COPS

[lefty]

755896679476244480

:lol Murica

:lol "free country"

:lol "safe"

[spurraider21]

755896679476244480
jaw dropping tbh

[boutons_deux]

jaw dropping tbh

cops 30 days paid leave, then back on the job

[spurraider21]

cops 30 days paid leave, then back on the job
unlikely in this case, from the information available so far

[vy65]

Ok, that one is extremely fucked up. I hope this guy sues and becomes a millionaire.

I'd gleefully take that case on contingency. Maybe also work something out with those news anchors too

[TheSanityAnnex]

755896679476244480

He's about to be rich and not have to deal with autistic kids ever again

[Pelicans78]

This Miami video made me laugh because it was so ridiculous what happened to this dude while the fat autistic guy was playing with his toy truck. The part which made me laugh the most was when the guy asked the cop why he shot him, and the cop responded, "I don't know". Like seriously wtf

[spurraider21]

He's about to be rich and not have to deal with autistic kids ever again
Gonna go out on a limb and say he's not in that field for the money

[Warlord23]

So they mistake an autistic kid with a toy truck for a suicidal gunman ... and proceed to shoot the nearest black guy who was lying on the ground with his arms in the air. But, as I have said before, this happens too often for it to be an anomaly. This is a logical outcome of the fear and propaganda ginned up by the NRA and gun makers.

[pgardn]

Absolutely bizzare.

What the hell...

Black Therapist: " why did you shoot me sir?"
Cop: " I don't know."

[phxspurfan]

The cops say happy UNFORGETTABLE birthday, kid.

Oklahoma Police Show up at 5-Year-Old's Birthday Party—and Shoot His Dog in the Head

The boy said that he wishes someone from the Wynnewood Police would at least apologize for killing his friend.

The officer who shot the dog told the family that the dog had lunged at him through the fence. Wynnewood Police Chief Ken Moore stood behind the officer’s actions,

saying the dog was vicious and had come around the corner of the house outside the fence and charged at the officer.

However, Fox 25 said that the video from the scene of the incident they reviewed contradicts the officer’s story.

Opie’s body is lying inside the fence with a gunshot wound to the head.

The officer who shot the dog had come to the Malone home to serve a warrant to a person who lived there 10 years ago. :lol

The warrant, he said, gave him the right to enter private property and take whatever action he deemed appropriate under the circumstances. The Malone family says they never saw any warrant.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/police-kill-five-year-olds-dog


America is a fucking shooting gallery for cops
Go ahead, CosmicParasite, DEFEND THE COPS

[Bender]

it's also the fuckheads that call in things like "there's a guy sitting in the street with a gun, threatening to kill himself".

[boutons_deux]

A Shocking Reminder of How Reliant Prosecutors Are on Plea Deals

the story of Annie Dookhan, the disgraced Boston-area drug laboratory chemist whose egregious corner-cutting over a decade of work may have compromised more than 24,000 (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/12/aclu-dookhan-was-involved-plus-cases-lost-defendants/BIQ3uWywt3oSy2q2T2GkjN/story.html) convictions in Massachusetts.

Dookhan pleaded guilty (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/22/annie-dookhan-former-state-chemist-who-mishandled-drug-evidence-agrees-plead-guilty/7UU3hfZUof4DFJGoNUfXGO/story.html) to obstruction of justice, perjury, and tampering with evidence in November 2013 and was released from prison this past April (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/12/annie-dookhan-key-figure-state-lab-scandal-released-from-prison/lp7q98UmWKucv4F7O3R4DI/story.html).

But the ripple effects from a decade of malfeasance created a profound headache for the Massachusetts criminal justice system, sending lawyers throughout the state scrambling to determine which cases needed to be re-examined.

Last year, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that anyone who had pleaded guilty to drug charges based on test results prepared by Dookhan could take back their pleas. On Wednesday, the court followed up with a second ruling in a case involving a man who had been convicted at trial based partly on Dookhan’s discredited analysis.

In an opinion (http://www.universalhub.com/files/francis-ruling.pdf), Chief Justice Ralph Gants wrote, “Regardless whether a defendant pleads guilty to a drug offense or is found guilty at trial, where Dookhan examined the substance in question as a primary or confirmatory chemist, the evidence is still potentially tainted by Dookhan's misconduct, the taint is still attributable to the government.”

In an email, D.A. office spokesman Jake Wark told the Globe that Wednesday’s ruling would only cause a “minimal disruption.” That’s because the vast majority of the roughly 7,500 Suffolk County convictions affected by Dookhan’s misconduct had resulted from plea bargains, not jury trials.

the new ruling would not significantly expand the class of people affected by the bad tests because so few of those cases ever went to trial in the first place.

Prosecutors run the show because, in most cases, the law gives them great flexibility to decide which charges to bring against a defendant and thus what kinds of sentences to threaten in order to pressure him into waiving his right to a trial. This is wrong not only because it is inherently coercive; it also leads to false confessions.

Citing the National Registry of Exonerations, Rakoff noted in his NYRB piece that 10 percent of the 1,428 exonerations that were handed down between 1989 and 2014 involved cases in which a defendant had pleaded guilty.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/07/the_annie_dookhan_case_in_massachusetts_shows_how_ reliant_prosecutors_are.html

Annie got off really, really easy for the 100s of years, false imprisonments, and $10Ms wasted trying to fix her mess.

[Th'Pusher]

I'd gleefully take that case on contingency. Maybe also work something out with those news anchors too

You'd manage to fuck it up marilyn.

[vy65]

You'd manage to fuck it up marilyn.

Did I fuck your mom or sister or something?

[Th'Pusher]

Did I fuck your mom or sister or something?

I doubt you'd have it in you.

[vy65]

I doubt you'd have it in you.

They're that fucking disgusting huh?

Well, then you should stop acting like an angsty teen jealous of the guy fucking your mom or sister

[hitmanyr2k]

755896679476244480

I can imagine how much more this kind of shit was happening before HD camera phones.

[hitmanyr2k]

So apparently the cops' story was that they were aiming for the autistic guy. Rather than get a pair of binoculars or find some way to even check to see if this guy was truly a danger they were just going to shoot first and ask questions later....and then they shot the wrong guy. I don't have the words :lol

[Killakobe81]

So apparently the cops' story was that they were aiming for the autistic guy. Rather than get a pair of binoculars or find some way to even check to see if this guy was truly a danger they were just going to shoot first and ask questions later....and then they shot the wrong guy. I don't have the words :lol

I know. How does shooting a guy sitting on the ground (even if you thought it might be a weapon and not a truck) make sense. The officers were behind cover. there was no imminent threat. what a pu$$y, tbh. He should lose his job for cowardice tbh ...

[hitmanyr2k]

I know. How does shooting a guy sitting on the ground (even if you thought it might be a weapon and not a truck) make sense. The officers were behind cover. there was no imminent threat. what a pu$$y, tbh. He should lose his job for cowardice tbh ...

The worst part is someone was actually watching what was going on with a pair of binoculars and kept trying to tell the cops the autistic guy was holding a truck but they just kept telling him to get back. I guess trying to save lives just isn't worth the effort anymore to some cops. Shooting someone is supposed to be the last resort I thought.

[boutons_deux]

Jailer testifies he falsified jail log in Sandra Bland case, lawyer says

The lawyer for Sandra Bland's mother said a former Waller County Jail guard told him under oath that he falsified entries on a jail log, indicating he checked on Bland in the hour before she was found dead when he did not.

A source familiar with the state's investigation of Bland's death confirmed that special prosecutors were told about the falsified records but that a Waller County grand jury decided not to indict anyone associated with the sheriff's office.

http://m.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/article/Jailer-testifies-he-falsified-jail-log-in-Sandra-8402120.php

[boutons_deux]

Florida cop who shot unarmed therapist was aiming for his autistic patient — who was holding a toy truck

Sorry about that bullet, man. I was aiming for the autistic guy.

A Florida cop who wounded an unarmed black therapist

was actually trying to shoot the man’s patient, a union official saidThursday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-shot-unarmed-man-hands-face-charges-article-1.2720369

:lol OK, that's MUCH BETTER than "I don't know" ! :lol

Nothing but the usual "mental health care" delivered by cops everywhere, daily.

"Lie And Deny", the standard policy of cops, cop mgmt, DAs, prosecutors, police union officials

[redzero]

So, to save a person from a potential gunman, you shoot the person and then handcuff him? All for his own safety. :lol

[boutons_deux]

The NYPD Is Already a Small Army - Now It Is Hyping Terror Threats to Militarize Even More

"You name it, we are buying it," says NYPD Chief Bill Bratton as city purchases $7.5 million in military-style gear

The NYPD is already the largest (http://www.salon.com/2012/09/28/nine_terrifying_facts_about_americas_biggest_polic e_force/) and most well-resourced police force in the United States, with more than (http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/faq/faq_police.shtml) 34,000 officers on its payroll and a budget (http://council.nyc.gov/html/budget/2017/pre/056%20NYPD.pdf) that hovers over $5 billion annually.

But now, the New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio are invoking the specter of ISIS-style terror and the supposed “war on cops” to spend at least another $7.5 million on military-style gear.

Their effort is part of a nationwide push by police departments to exploit themassacre (http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/lgbtq-leaders-warn-against-islamophobia-after-orlando) at Orlando’s Pulse LGBTQ nightclub and the killing (http://www.alternet.org/media/one-shooter-no-snipers-grossly-inaccurate-police-and-media-information-about-dallas-killings) of five Dallas police officers to ramp up the militarization and funding of their forces. They do so as growing numbers take to the streets across the United States to charge that it is police who pose a threat to public safety,

“Twenty thousand ballistic helmets will be distributed to all uniformed members of the service assigned to patrol functions,” the statement continued. “Additionally, six thousand heavy ballistic vests, which contain a front and rear level three panel, will be furnished in 3,000 vehicles assigned to patrol duties (two per vehicle).”

The purchases come on top of the more than $320 million that “has been secured to fund a broad spectrum of equipment and training since 2014, including: ballistic vests; helmets and vehicles; tactical escape hoods and belt-worn trauma kits; M4 rifles, OC spray and Tasers; smartphones and tablets; along with a host of training initiatives,”

http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/nypd-already-small-army-now-it-hyping-terror-threats-militarize-even-more

irreversible, unstoppable.

Police and HSA are standing domestic armies in the natsec/police state.

When people have power, they always use it (80K SWAT raids per year)

And you rightwingnut gun fellators, 2nd Amendment perverters really think you can "take up arms against the govt" ? :lol

[boutons_deux]

cops break Freddie Gray's back and paralyze him, he dies in police paddy wagon, nobody guilty, total immunity

Prosecutors Drop All Remaining Charges Against Officers in Freddie Gray Case

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/freddie-gray-charges

[boutons_deux]

He was arrested for meth, but the crumbs in his car were Krispy Kreme doughnut glaze

An Orlando man was charged with possession of crystal meth with a gun, but a state crime lab proved him right — it was actually glaze from Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

When the man stopped by the 7-Eleven without buying anything and left with an employee in his car, cops were suspicious.

Orlando police were staking out the convenience store, 938 W. Colonial Dr., after neighbors complained of drug activity, the Orlando Sentinel reported (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-cop-mistook-doughnut-glaze-for-meth-20160727-story.html). Police saw the man in the silver Chevy leave without stopping at the stop sign and speed off going 42 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone, according to the report. They pulled him over.

The officer saw his concealed weapon license, asked to hold onto his gun for safety and had the driver get out of the car. That’s when the veteran officer saw four flakes of a white substance on the floor.

"I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience :lol

as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," :lol the officer wrote in her report.

Daniel Rushing was arrested, charged with possession with a weapon, strip-searched and jailed in December.

The 64-year-old Orlando man told officers he’d never done drugs in his life, and the crumbs were from his Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Weeks later, a state crime lab proved him right.

“I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth," Rushing told the Sentinel (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-cop-mistook-doughnut-glaze-for-meth-20160727-story.html).

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article92320667.html

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I'd gleefully take that case on contingency.

:lol of course you would. like you would have the cred to leverage better.

[boutons_deux]

Police Officer Arrested 5 Times in One Year, Still on the Force
http://lawnewz.com/crazy/police-officer-arrested-5-times-in-one-year-still-on-the-force/

[boutons_deux]

Database of Texas deaths in custody launched (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/29/1554036/-Database-of-Texas-deaths-in-custody-launched)

6,913 to be exact …

died while in the custody of Texas law enforcement (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/7000-deaths-in-custody-texas/493325/?utm_source=atltw) over a ten year period.

Six thousand, nine hundred and thirteen.

The Atlantic is reporting that a first-ever database, launched this past Wednesday, lists each death that has occured in the state since 2005. Those deaths can be in the custody of jails or prisons, or they can be at the hands of police, whether the victim had been arrested or not.

This information used to be hard to access, but it’s now readily available in an online database called the Texas Justice Initiative (http://texasjusticeinitiative.org/).

“Some family members may not have gotten a full account of how their loved one died, so in that way I feel some responsibility about making the information public,” said Amanda Woog, the postdoctoral legal fellow at the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin who created it.

When we spoke, she was unsure of what the response to the project, which launched on Wednesday, would be.

But she seemed very optimistic that it would be valuable for policymakers, researchers, journalists, justice administrators, academics, and advocates.

Her main goal was to make the information widely available and easy to access.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/29/1554036/-Database-of-Texas-deaths-in-custody-launched?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[boutons_deux]

Texas cop says prosecutors silenced him about Sandra Bland case

Officer Michael Kelley says he sought to testify about what he saw during Ms. Bland's arrest last summer in Texas but his account is also questioned by prosecutors

A Texas police officer present during part of Sandra Bland’s arrest last summer has told the Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Officer-says-he-wasn-t-allowed-to-testify-in-8425740.php) that the local district attorney’s office declined to allow him to testify before a grand jury about the controversial traffic stop.

The allegations by Prairie View officer Michael Kelley, who said he was told by local prosecutors that his career would suffer if he went public with what he saw of the traffic stop,

But Kelley said the unrelated unlawful arrest charge was leveled against him but none of the other officers involved.

“I was not a target until I started running my mouth and sticking up for Sandra Bland,” Kelley told the Chronicle.

Kelley also told the Chronicle he heard Bland tell Encinia that she suffered from epilepsy, to which the trooper responded “Good.”

But after Bland’s death, he says a Texas Ranger initially told him and another officer to make a report of what he had seen, then told them not to sign or copy the reports, an instruction he told the Chronicle raised “red flags on my end.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0729/Texas-cop-says-prosecutors-silenced-him-about-Sandra-Bland-case

Try to be a Good Cop, and get screwed.

[boutons_deux]

Americans Don't Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Says FCC Official

Inmates in state and federal correctional facilities have long faced astronomical calling rates (http://time.com/4048328/fcc-prison-calls/)—in some cases a whopping $17 per minute or more—thanks to what inmate advocates call “usurious” practices by two companies, Securus Technologies (https://securustech.net/) andGlobal Tel*Link (http://www.gtl.net/), that control the $1.2 billion prison phone market.

Criminal justice reform advocates say these enormous phone costs place a huge financial burden on families who are simply trying to stay in contact with their incarcerated family members. A recent study (http://whopaysreport.org/executive-summary/) by a coalition of groups including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights found that one in three families go into debt because of the high cost of maintaining contact with incarcerated loved ones.

Last October, the FCC approved caps (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fcc-votes-to-cap-egregious-prison-phone-charges) on prison phone rates of 11 cents to 22 cents per minute on both interstate and in-state calls from prisons. That would have reduced average inmate calling costs from $2.96 to $1.65 for a 15-minute in-state call, and from $3.15 to $1.65 for a 15-minute long distance call, according to the agency.

On Thursday, the FCC voted to approve (https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-sustainable-affordable-inmate-calling-rates) a revised set of prison phone rate caps at 13 cents to 31 cents per minute for both in-state and interstate debit and prepaid phone calls, depending on the size of the facility (http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0804/DOC-340632A1.pdf).

The FCC’s three Democratic commissioners, Tom Wheeler, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Mignon Clyburn, voted in favor of the new rate caps. The agency’s two Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, voted against them, citing procedural objections.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fcc-official-most-americans-dont-care-about-prison-phone-exploitation

Typical Repug dickless "law and order" bullies, kicking people when they're down (they are probably are in some way compensated paid by Securus, Global Tel, etc). Another case of BigCorp making govt policy to screw Americans.

[boutons_deux]

We finally found out what will get a cop fired — and you won’t believe what it is


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/shutterstock_238513723-800x430.jpg

intentionally running over a ground hog with a golf cart has resulted in the suspension of the two police officers — with both of them facing firing for the act.

“If in fact this alleged situation happened, I will be recommending they be terminated,” he said. “There is no room in any police agency for a person like this to be carrying a badge and a gun.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/we-finally-found-out-what-will-get-a-cop-fired-and-you-wont-believe-what-it-is/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt (https://theintercept.com/2016/08/04/sheriff-raids-house-to-find-anonymous-blogger-who-called-him-corrupt/)

AFTER A WATCHDOG BLOG repeatedly linked him and other local officials to corruption and fraud, the Sheriff of Terrebone Parish in Louisiana on Tuesday sent six deputies to raid a police officer’s home to seize computers and other electronic devices.

Sheriff Jerry Larpenter’s deputies submitted affidavits alleging criminal defamation against the anonymous author of the ExposeDAT (http://exposedat.in/wp/) blog, and obtained search warrants to seize evidence in the officer’s house and from Facebook.

The officer, Wayne Anderson, works for the police department of Houma, the county seat of Terrebone Parish — and according to New Orleans’ WWL-TV (http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/terrebonne-sheriff-raids-house-to-expose-esposedat-anti-corruption-blog-1/286912409), formerly worked as a Terrebone Sheriff’s deputy.

Anderson was placed on paid leave about an hour and a half after the raid on his house, Jerri Smitko, one of his attorneys, told The Intercept. She said that he has not yet been officially notified about why.

Smitko said Anderson denies that he is the author of ExposeDat.

But free speech advocates say the blogger — whoever he or she is —

is protected by the First Amendment.

“The law is very clear that somebody in their private capacity, on private time, on their own equipment, has a First Amendment right to post about things of public concern,”

Marjorie Esman, director of the ACLU of Louisiana, told The Intercept.

Larpenter told WWL: “If you’re gonna lie about me and make it under a fictitious name, I’m gonna come after you.”

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/04/sheriff-raids-house-to-find-anonymous-blogger-who-called-him-corrupt/

[spurraider21]

man plotting to murder cops arrested without incident

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-nypd-tip-helps-bag-would-be-wisconsin-killer-article-1.2742131


if he was black there's no way he wouldn't been taken in alive

[HI-FI]

man plotting to murder cops arrested without incident

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-nypd-tip-helps-bag-would-be-wisconsin-killer-article-1.2742131


if he was black there's no way he wouldn't been taken in alive
yep, fortunately he wasn't a black guy with thuggish tats, cops hate that shit.

[ElNono]

yep, fortunately he wasn't a black guy with thuggish tats, cops hate that shit.

Especially the BB guns, tbh

[boutons_deux]

Radicals with badges: Mark Potok explains why renegade sheriffs are a growing threat in the U.S.

Some sheriffs are buying into the notion that they have more constitutional authority than the federal government

Right-wing radicals who don’t fully accept the authority of the federal government have a new ally. A small but growing group of law enforcement officials, especially sheriffs, is being won over by radical right-wing propaganda that asserts that local law enforcement has more authority than the federal government to decide what laws are and aren’t constitutional.

I spoke with Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center about this movement (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/line-sand)and about his and Ryan Lenz’s research into these self-
declared “constitutional” sheriffs.

Let’s start with the basics. What is the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association?
The CSPOA is an organization that was formed in 2011 by Richard Mack. Mack is a former Arizona sheriff who was once part of a lawsuit challenging the Brady Bill that was passed under the Clinton administration, and he was actually somewhat successful. He got the courts to agree to not enforce some of the provisions of that bill, and as a result he became a very big hero, a kind of iconic figure, to the militia movement.

The CSPOA is a group that claims “constitutional sheriffs” are sheriffs who obey only the constitution. Basically what the CSPOA pushes is the idea that sheriffs can decide entirely on their own whether or not a law is constitutional and whether or not they should enforce it.

The CSPOA has also claimed, or suggested, that sheriffs are the highest law enforcement authority in every county and that that means that should they so desire, they can turn back federal agents — FBI agents, ATF agents, and so on — who are coming to conduct law enforcement business in their counties.

While this is a very broad thing, it seems to me a lot of their obsession is with gun control laws.

Well I think that’s true. I think the reason that Mack and CSPOA have gotten some traction among the sheriffs of the country is precisely that they focus very heavily on gun control and the idea that

any kind of gun control, as Mack has been quoted saying, is unconstitutional.

That’s clearly false, just as it is false that local sheriffs can order federal agents out of their counties, but this is an idea that animates a lot of people, especially in the western states. So the shocking thing is that Richard Mack and the CSPOA have actually gotten fairly substantial support from a number of sheriffs out there for his really very, very radical ideas.

How many sheriffs out there have really gotten onboard with this notion that they are the highest authority in the land and that they get to decide, not lawyers and judges, what the Constitution says?

We did a fairly extensive survey. We tried to speak to some 500 sheriffs who Mack, in the past, had essentially complimented to find out did they really agree with these really incredibly radical ideas — that the sheriffs could defy the law of the land and so on.

We didn’t get an awful lot of people willing to talk to us, but between the sheriffs we spoke to, 50 or 60 of them, and the many sheriffs who have been quoted along the same lines in the mass media, I would say, without question, we’re looking probably at several hundred sheriffs.

(http://www.salon.com/2016/08/09/radicals-with-badges-mark-potok-explains-why-renegade-sheriffs-are-a-growing-threat-in-the-u-s/)Should we worry about this movement getting bigger?

Yes. I think the prospect of this movement getting bigger is quite serious. In talking to the many sheriffs that we did, basically what they reported to us was that they were being inundated by propaganda from the CSPOA and a related group, the Oathkeepers.

So there is a very serious effort to spread this movement, which is in effect a kind of

western rebellion against the central authority of the federal government in Washington.

We’ve seen iterations of this before in the wise use movement and the Sagebrush Rebellion and so on, but even those movements, which were fairly radical, were simply trying to see more federal lands returned to local officials’ control. They weren’t

questioning the entire foundation of American law in the same way as CSPOA.
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/09/radicals-with-badges-mark-potok-explains-why-renegade-sheriffs-are-a-growing-threat-in-the-u-s/ (http://www.salon.com/2016/08/09/radicals-with-badges-mark-potok-explains-why-renegade-sheriffs-are-a-growing-threat-in-the-u-s/)
Fucking gun-fellating nutcases, profoundly unConstitutional while wrapping themselves in the Constitution.

btw, this anti-government craziness could be a descendant of the Confederate LOSERS who left the South after the Civil War to go out West, taking their hate of Federal Yankees with them.

[boutons_deux]

Chicago police have released (http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/08/chicago-pd-paul-oneal-video/) video of their latest atrocity, wherein a swarm of panicked cops chased and wildly fired at a stolen vehicle before shooting in the back and killing its fleeing driver Paul O'Neal, who was black, 18 and unarmed.

O’Neal was killed July 28 after allegedly crashing a stolen Jaguar into two officers and running away on foot.

The video, including dash-cam and body-camera footage, was released by Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority.

It shows (http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/08/09/%20http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-shooting-paul-oneal-video-met-20160805-story.html) a chaotic scene: Cursing officers randomly shooting at a distant car down the street where other cops stand, thus putting them in harm's way and violating policy; over 15 shots fired though officers said it was about five; cops lumbering after the suspect with guns drawn and no idea where he is.

The cop who took the fatal shot is alternately belligerent and confused, handcuffing and shouting at the bleeding O'Neal already lying on the ground, “Get down! Hands behind your back!

You shot at us, motherf–ker!” even as other cops suggest actually he didn't; the shooter cop worries,

"Fuck, I’m going to be on desk duty now" and "I'm going to be fucking crucified, bro," while one of his brothers in blue reassures him,

"Relax, he was in a hot car. Nothing to worry about."

Because, duh, the punishment for stealing a car is death.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/08/09/fighting-people-six-feet-under

punishment for stealing a car WHILE BLACK is death.

[boutons_deux]

Department of Justice: Baltimore cops “coerced sex in exchange for immunity from arrest”


http://www.vox.com/2016/8/10/12429214/baltimore-police-investigation-justice-department-sexual-misconduct

[SpursforSix]

Another one. Victim was 73.

http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/09/incident-punta-gorda-police-department/88500140/

[boutons_deux]

Another one. Victim was 73.

http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/09/incident-punta-gorda-police-department/88500140/

the police are highly trained, responsible marksmen, always in full control of the guns.

[Trill Clinton]

Another one. Victim was 73.

http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/09/incident-punta-gorda-police-department/88500140/

damn, even the #bluelivesmatter grandma's are becoming victims

[boutons_deux]

Chicago school guard handcuffs 6-year-old because she stole a piece of candy: lawsuit


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Madisyn-Moore-WLS-TV-800x430.jpg

WLS also reported (http://abc7chicago.com/news/mother-sues-cps-for-allegedly-handcuffing-her-child/1465139/) that the guard was reportedly fired from his position and designated as “do not hire” in his personnel file.

However, it is unclear whether police investigated the alleged encounter.

“It’s not about the lawsuit,” said Wordlow. “It’s about letting people know you can’t treat children like that. She’s only six.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/chicago-school-guard-handcuffs-6-year-old-because-she-stole-a-piece-of-candy-lawsuit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

SET TO STUN

Children are being Tasered by school-based police officers. No one knows how often it’s happening or what impact it’s having on students.

This is one of at least 84 incidents (http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/school-police/taser-incidents) of children being Tasered or shot with a stun gun by a school police officer since September 2011, according to media reports tracked by The Huffington Post. The number is a gross underestimation because not every incident is reported, and no state or federal organization track how often children are zapped at schools. The children, who were all hit by a Taser or stun gun by school-based police officers, also called school resource officers, were 12 to 19 years old when the incidents occurred.

They were shocked by a Taser or stun gun for mouthing off to a police officer (http://www.kansas.com/news/article1090931.html). For trying to run from the principal’s office (http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/03/deputies_use_taser_to_stop_stu.html). For, at the age of 12,getting into a fight with another girl (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/mom-upset-after-officer-uses-taser-child-during-fi/242588106).

“I didn’t even know they allow police officers to do those things to children,” Grice said. “When I was growing up, we had school fights. We got suspended or what have you. That was then. It was never no Tasering or handcuffs or fingerprinting.”

It can be medically risky to stun a child with an electrical weapon, especially if that child isn’t fully grown.

The jolts of electricity puts them at greater risk for cardiac arrest, said Dr. Zian Tseng, a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of California in San Francisco who has studied the impact of Tasers.

“It is a potentially lethal weapon, and it should be treated as such,” Tseng said.

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically.

Such an incident can make it harder for children to trust authority figures, according to Linda Fleming McGhee, a clinical psychologist in Chevy Chase, Maryland, who specializes in treating children who have experienced trauma.

“It might make a child believe that they are a ‘bad person,’” she said, because the people who get Tasered by the police, at least in a child’s eyes, are typically people who are not good people.

Seeing themselves this way can lower their self-esteem and self-confidence.

http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/school-police/tasers

The militarized police state is totally out of control, totally unaccountable, and there's no stopping it.

[boutons_deux]

Privately Operated Prisons Are Less Safe for Prisoners and More Punitive, Justice Department Says

Inmates at these 14 contract prisons, the only centers in the federal prison system that are privately operated, were nine times more likely to be placed on lockdown than inmates at other federal prisons and were frequently subjected to arbitrary solitary confinement.

In two of the three contract prisons investigators routinely visited, new inmates were automatically placed in solitary confinement as a way of combating overcrowding, rather than for disciplinary issues.

The review also found that contract prison inmates were more likely to complain about medical care, treatment by prison staff and about the quality of food.

Contract prisons almost exclusively incarcerate low-risk inmates convicted of immigration offenses. These facilities house around 22,000 individuals, mostly deemed “low risk”, at an annual cost of $600m.

They are operated by three private companies:

Geo Group,

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), and

Management and Training Corporation (MTC).

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/privately-run_federal_prisons_are_more_dangerous_20160812?ut m_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Dril ling+Beneath+the+Headlines

[DarrinS]

Smh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvCG2qag78

[TheSanityAnnex]

Smh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvCG2qag78

Always carry, but avoid that shit in the first place.

[DarrinS]

Always carry, but avoid that shit in the first place.

Why do they hate auto parts and gas stations?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Why do they hate auto parts and gas stations?
The gas station was rushed by a large group of teens recently. They were banging on the windows and locked doors. Middle eastern son's owner came out and fired some rounds into the air. Guy got arrested but parents weren't satisfied with that, protested outside and tried to block people from going, wanted the gas station to be shut down.

[DarrinS]

Lovely citizens


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76DpmOAYVBM

[Quetzal-X]

#falseflag
#stopexaggerating
#tuffshittdarrin

[DarrinS]

#falseflag
#stopexaggerating
#tuffshittdarrin


Lol, rioting because cops shoot armed felon

[Trill Clinton]

Lol, rioting because cops shoot armed felon
who? the man who was shot in milwaukee, open carry state btw, was not a felon.

[DarrinS]

who? the man who was shot in milwaukee, open carry state btw, was not a felon.

My bad. Charged with a couple of felonies, but not convicted. You can't open carry a stolen gun -- I don't think.

[boutons_deux]

The Police War on Blacks is why cops were created in the 19th century

Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say

Milwaukee is one of the United States’ most segregated cities, where black men are incarcerated or unemployed at some of the highest rates in the country, and where the difference in poverty between black and white residents is about one and a half times the national average. There are barren lots and worn-down homes all over the predominantly black north side, while mostly white crowds traffic through the restaurants and boutiques downtown, or inhabit the glossy lakefront high rises.

Add to that the disrespect that many black people say the police show them, and many of Milwaukee’s African-American residents are unsurprised by the volatile response (http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004590593/fires-burn-in-milwaukee-after-police-fatally-shoot-man.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) after a police officer fatally shot a black man on Saturday — even though, as it turns out, the officer also was black.

Milwaukee, a city of nearly 600,000, joins other embattled parts of the country like Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., where police killings did not so much draw outrage for the deaths alone, but for the systemic problems that have so many black people feeling hopeless.

In his two and a half decades as a Milwaukee police officer, Cedric Jackson said he did not feel that supervisors appropriately addressed concerns of wrongdoing within the department.

One common practice, he said, was that after catching suspects who ran, officers would rough them up.
“If they caught you in a backyard or alleyway, they’d want to beat you up,” said Mr. Jackson, who is black and retired in 2011.

His complaints about that custom to colleagues and supervisors were ignored, he said. As was the dismay he expressed about how officers policed communities that were predominantly black.

White officers, he said, “really viewed blacks as less than them or animals or not deserving of respect.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/racial-violence-in-milwaukee-was-decades-in-the-making-residents-say.html

[boutons_deux]

When Good Cops protest Bad Cops, they are Themselves Bad Cops

When Police Are Poor Role Models for One Another

Police officers learn egregious behavior from those around them, too

In one incident mentioned in the report, a Justice Department investigator went on a patrol with a sergeant.

The sergeant saw a group of young black men on a street corner and told an officer to order them to leave. The officer said he had no reason to do so. “Make something up,” the sergeant replied.

That the sergeant would do this in front of a federal official investigating civil rights violations may be astounding, but it demonstrated his mind-set. He didn’t think he was doing anything wrong. He must have been in the department for years and had probably been taught to take such action by his field training officer, and even the department’s commanders. It was learned behavior, part of a culture rooted in an “us versus them” mentality.

When the Police Department declared, as the report noted, that an officer did not use excessive force when he discharged a Taser into an 85-pound girl who was walking away from him after he told her to take her hands out of her pockets, officers saw that such action was permissible.

I learned, bitterly, during my almost six years in the department, how hard it was to resist this culture, to do the right thing.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/opinion/when-police-are-poor-role-models-for-one-another.html

[boutons_deux]

Georgia man faces more years in jail — even after being acquitted of 2014 crime he did not commit

According to the Rome News-Tribune, (http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/man-still-serving-time-for-violating-probation-by-being-arrested/article_ecef4f12-629a-11e6-a2c6-b328edb1ad2c.html) Ramad Ahshad Chatman could be forced to serve a six-year jail sentence after being arrested in connection with the July 2014 robbery.

Chatman was in the midst of serving a five-year probation term for his first offense, a burglary in 2012. When he was arrested last November, Superior Court Judge Jack Niedrach to revoke his probation.

But despite being acquitted of the charges in May, Chatman remains imprisoned. His attorneys filed a motion seeking Chatman’s release at a new probation hearing, but the motion was denied at Niedrach’s discretion because there was no new evidence to provide in the case.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/georgia-man-faces-more-years-in-jail-even-after-being-acquitted-of-2014-crime-he-did-not-commit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

hmm, Georgia, elected white judge keeping an innocent black in prison.

[CosmicCowboy]

Milwaukee assholes rioting after a black cop shoots a black criminal trying to shoot him.

Fucking idiots.

[boutons_deux]

Milwaukee assholes rioting after a black cop shoots a black criminal trying to shoot him.

Fucking idiots.

evidence the dead guy was shooting at cops? and not evidence from the Lie And Deny cops. open carry state

The War on Blacks continues unabated.

The War on Cops continues to be a lie.

[DarrinS]

evidence the dead guy was shooting at cops? and not evidence from the Lie And Deny cops. open carry state

The War on Blacks continues unabated.

The War on Cops continues to be a lie.


Several black on black murders in that area days before -- no riots.

Black cop shoots a black guy armed with stolen gun. -- riots and random attacks on white motorists.

BLM indeed. Smh

[Trill Clinton]

Milwaukee assholes rioting after a black cop shoots a black criminal trying to shoot him.

Fucking idiots.

what does the race of the cop have to do with it? stop race baiting

[Trill Clinton]

Several black on black murders in that area days before -- no riots.

Black cop shoots a black guy armed with stolen gun. -- riots and random attacks on white motorists.

BLM indeed. Smh

comparing criminals to cops sworn to protect and servehttp://i65.tinypic.com/2gy9cgx.png

[DarrinS]

comparing criminals to cops sworn to protect and servehttp://i65.tinypic.com/2gy9cgx.png

Sounds like the block cop was justified. Keep being an apologist tho.

And I wasn't comparing cops to criminals, I was comparing the REACTION to black on black homocide to the REACTION to what sounds like a justified shooting by a black cop.

[Trill Clinton]

Sounds like the block cop was justified. Keep being an apologist tho.

what does his race have to do with it? stop race baiting.

[DarrinS]

what does his race have to do with it? stop race baiting.

Cool, then all lives matter. :tu

[DarrinS]

BLM would have cred if they stopped trying to make martyrs out of thugs, tbh.

[Trill Clinton]

Cool, then all lives matter. :tu

of course, just like all jobs matter and not just blue ones.

[Trill Clinton]

BLM would have cried if they stopped trying to make martyrs out of thugs, tbh.

BLM is funded by a white male and ran by homosexual and trans men and women. i don't know why you suspected white supremacists give them so much attention.

[DarrinS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMOWEAAth0

[DarrinS]

BLM is funded by a white male and ran by homosexual and trans men and women. i don't know why you suspected white supremacists give them so much attention.


That movement started with good intentions, but like you pointed out, they got hijacked by regressive leftist SJWs.

[Trill Clinton]

the dallas and BR shooters both stated they were not affiliated with BLM and made youtube videos about their dislike of BLM and the conservative media completely ignored those facts to feed into white america's fear by blaming BLM for influencing these shooters. that is very dangerous.

[DarrinS]

the dallas and BR shooters both stated they were not affiliated with BLM and made youtube videos about their dislike of BLM and the conservative media completely ignored those facts to feed into white america's fear by blaming BLM for influencing these shooters. that is very dangerous.

That stupid movement is turning people off. Dems pretend to support it because they're scared shitless to call it out for what it is. That video of two women hijacking Bernie's event still cracks me up.

[boutons_deux]

"stupid movement is turning people off"

... you racists were always against BLM and for continuing the cops War on Knitters. You were one of the very first here to pimp AllLivesMatter and BlueLivesMatter, co-opting, ridiculing, denigrating the BLM phrase.

[CosmicCowboy]

what does his race have to do with it? stop race baiting.

race baiting? :lmao

it's a statement of fact.

Why are your black brethren rioting over a black police officer shooting a black criminal that was trying to kill him?

[Trill Clinton]

race baiting? :lmao

it's a statement of fact.

Why are your black brethren rioting over a black police officer shooting a black criminal that was trying to kill him?

For one, Milwaukee is the most segregated community in America and a lot of our "black brothers" are victims of the religion you practice, white supremacy. Seems to me like your brothers in Milwaukee, baltimore (DOJ agreed with your brothers that the department practiced systematic racism and ferguson (DOJ also said the department was racist) reached their boiling points and reacted violently. They don't own those businesses and I'm happy to see racist middle easterns run out of the community.

As far as the victim, he had 2 misdemeanors for traffic violations and the accusations of him allegedly trying to shoot the race soldier is under review until the footage is released.

[clambake]

the victim?

[clambake]

i guess you could call him a victim.

he was a victim of having his career of choice interrupted.

[spurraider21]

For one, Milwaukee is the most segregated community in America and a lot of our "black brothers" are victims of the religion you practice, white supremacy. Seems to me like your brothers in Milwaukee, baltimore (DOJ agreed with your brothers that the department practiced systematic racism and ferguson (DOJ also said the department was racist) reached their boiling points and reacted violently. They don't own those businesses and I'm happy to see racist middle easterns run out of the community.

As far as the victim, he had 2 misdemeanors for traffic violations and the accusations of him allegedly trying to shoot the race soldier is under review until the footage is released.
post 1: quit race baiting!
post 2: analysis of racial dynamic in the case

[CosmicCowboy]

white supremist :lmao

I think any asshole of any race or color that points a gun at a cop deserves exactly what they get.

I think the people like Trill that object and riot just because the deadee was black are the racist assholes.

[boutons_deux]

Amrish Puri died,but he re-incarnated as a Tulsa cop

http://www.moviemagik.in/files/actors/419/10286_Amrish_Puri_In_Indiana_Jones.jpg

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/img/3516P_FEATURE_WALMART_01.jpg

Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy


https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/

So in addition to taxpayers subsidizing Walmart with $6B+ per year for WM's poverty-wage employees on public assistance, taxpayers also have a huge bill policing WM stores.

[CosmicCowboy]

That is just SHOCKING Boo!

A store that caters to a lower socioeconomic group experiences more crime than those that don't?

SHOCKING!

[boutons_deux]

news from the Cops' War on Blacks
(http://usuncut.com/news/cop-milwaukee-riot-baltimore/)
Cop Who Killed Black Man and Incited Milwaukee Riots Said He’d ‘Start a Riot Like It’s Baltimore’ in Rap Video (http://usuncut.com/news/cop-milwaukee-riot-baltimore/)

Dominique Heaggan Brown, a 6-year veteran of the Milwaukee Police Department, has been confirmed as the officer who shot and killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith on Saturday, prompting weekend-long riots.

Brown, who raps under the name KB Domo, was also a guest emcee in a freestyle rap song recorded over Meek Mill’s “Monster” with Milwaukee Hip-Hop artist DAE Flywalker in 2015. In one lyric, the 24-year-old police officer said: “Mess with my circle and I’mma start a riot like it’s Baltimore.”

http://usuncut.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/buu.png

http://usuncut.com/news/cop-milwaukee-riot-baltimore/

let's see that video showing the dead man pointing a gun at the cops

[Spurminator]

Rap lyrics with violent allusions? Wow, that's a first.

[DarrinS]

let's see that video showing the dead man pointing a gun at the cops




Why wait for evidence?


http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/16/social-media-threats-intensify-focus-officer/88874910/





As of Tuesday, at least 3,000 people have shared a Facebook photo of the 24-year-old Milwaukee patrolman who fatally shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith – some of them adding furious and threatening comments.

“Now y'all see his face if he's seen anywhere in the city drop him,” read one post. Another called for a gun so the person could “shoot him right in his head.”

[boutons_deux]

Police said this man tried to shoot anofficer — turns out they lied and tried to cover it up (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/17/1560474/-Police-said-this-man-tried-to-shoot-an-officer-turns-out-they-lied-and-tried-to-cover-it-up)

“After hours spent examining the video, trying to reconcile the video with the two officers’ statements, and consulting with staff, I reached the difficult conclusion that no reasonable juror could find the officers’ accounts credible,” he said.

Stouffer said the officers’ commander supported their false story so that the outcome of the criminal case would not be affected, raising further concerns about the department’s handling of the case.

Furthermore, he said he will not file charges in any pending cases in which the officers, Tyler Newell and Josh O’Bryan, had a major role and that he’ll review other cases in which either officer was a key witness.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/17/1560474/-Police-said-this-man-tried-to-shoot-an-officer-turns-out-they-lied-and-tried-to-cover-it-up?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

If he were black, he'd be dead. It's slave state Missouri

[Trill Clinton]

Baltimore Officers ‘Coerced Sex in Exchange for Immunity from Arrest’, Pointing to Larger Nationwide Issue of Police Sexual Abuse - Atlanta Black Star (http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/08/11/baltimore-officers-coerced-sex-in-exchange-for-immunity-from-arrest-pointing-to-larger-nationwide-issue-of-police-sexual-abuse/)

bluelivesmatterhttp://i65.tinypic.com/jph1yf.png

[Trill Clinton]

Why wait for evidence?


http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/16/social-media-threats-intensify-focus-officer/88874910/

http://i63.tinypic.com/2h6hm39.jpg

[boutons_deux]

A racist and Jew-hater

Lawyer defending Baltimore cops has long-standing ties to neo-Nazi group and Holocaust deniers

The New York Daily News reported Thursday (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lawyer-hired-defend-baltimore-cops-part-neo-nazi-group-article-1.2755610) that attorney Glen Keith Allen is a longtime supporter of the National Alliance, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “explicitly genocidal” and which is characterized as a hate group.

Allen admits he joined the National Alliance because, “I was in the U.S. Army from 1978 to 1982 and I had some pretty awful experiences with black people there, to be honest.”

The SPLC said (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/17/neo-nazi-lawyer-represents-baltimore-suit-over-wrongful-arrest-and-19-year-imprisonment) that Burgess alleges the police withheld exculpatory evidence that would have prevented his conviction for a crime he did not commit.

Allen has defended the Baltimore Police Department in court, notably in a current lawsuit brought by Sabein Burgess, a black man says he was wrongfully convicted and spent 19 years in prison before being released in 2014.

The SPLC said (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/17/neo-nazi-lawyer-represents-baltimore-suit-over-wrongful-arrest-and-19-year-imprisonment) that Burgess alleges the police withheld exculpatory evidence that would have prevented his conviction for a crime he did not commit.

According to his lawsuit, “Mr. Burgess was convicted after the police withheld and fabricated evidence. In particular, the Defendants concealed statements of the victim’s son revealing that he had seen the offender and it was not Plaintiff.

Rather than search for the real killer, the Defendants instead fabricated gunshot residue (‘GSR’) evidence falsely inculpating Plaintiff in the crime.”

In spite of Allen’s insistence that he left the National Alliance in the 1980s, he was still paying membership dues in 2003. The 65-year-old attorney also attended a Holocaust-denial conference in 2007,

The Anti-Defamation League said that the National Alliance “dehumanize(s) both blacks and Jews, depicting them as threats to ‘Aryan culture’ and ‘racial purity.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/lawyer-defending-baltimore-cops-has-long-standing-ties-to-neo-nazi-group-and-holocaust-deniers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Arrested for DUI, murdered by cops

https://www.facebook.com/propublica/videos/10154522145579445/

... he's black, of course.

[boutons_deux]

This be really huge, but VERY long

Justice Department to end use of private prisons


Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing – and ultimately ending – our use of privately operated prisons.”

“They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” Yates wrote.


Yates told (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prisons-1140am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e205a7b06938) the Post, “The fact of the matter is that private prisons don’t compare favorably to Bureau of Prisons facilities in terms of safety or security or services, and now with the decline in the federal prison population, we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to do something about that.”

The change comes on the heels of a critical Inspector General’s report (https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/e1606.pdf#page=1) (pdf), released last week, which found privately run prisons were generally less safe – for prisoners and staff – than the federal Bureau of Prisons’ facilities.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/justice-department-end-use-private-prisons?cid=sm_fb_maddow

"The Shittiest Possible Product For The Highest Possible Price" is fundamental to all commerce.

[boutons_deux]

Chicago's Top Cop Wants 7 Officers Fired in Cover-Up of Fatal Shooting

Laquan McDonald was killed—some say executed—by police.

The head of the Chicago Police Department will ask the city's police civilian review board to fire seven officers allegedly involved in covering up the fatal police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/laquan-mcdonald-chicago-police-shooting-video-explainer) back in October 2014, an incident theNew York Times Editorial Board characterized as an execution (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/opinion/the-chicago-police-scandal.html).

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced his decision on Thursday morning, just two days after the Chicago Inspector General's office issued a report (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/laquanmcdonald/ct-laquan-mcdonald-inspector-general-discipline-met-20160815-story.html)recommending that 10 officers involved in the alleged cover-up be fired or disciplined. Johnson stripped seven of the officers of police powers, but the review board must okay their ouster. Two more officers have already left the department:

A deputy chief who signed off on a report justifying the shooting retired (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/laquanmcdonald/ct-laquan-mcdonald-inspector-general-discipline-met-20160815-story.html) last week, and a lieutenant retired in May. Johnson said that he did not see sufficient evidence that the tenth officer did anything wrong.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/chicago-police-firings-laquan-mcdonald-shooting

no cops go to jail for murder?

Who pays the $Ms in criminal or civil penalties? (you get one guess).

[CosmicCowboy]

Whoa. Geo stock got slaughtered. Dropped 40% in 5 minutes.

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CCR Says DHS and ICE Must Do the Same

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/18/doj-end-use-private-prisons-ccr-says-dhs-and-ice-must-do-same

The real for-profit-prison money is not at federal level, but a state, local level.

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 Is Angela Corey the Cruelest Prosecutor in America?

The woman who failed to convict Trayvon Martin’s killer is putting hundreds of kids in prison, and dozens of people on death row.

https://www.thenation.com/article/is-angela-corey-the-cruelest-prosecutor-in-america/

[CosmicCowboy]

Interestingly enough, it's not just the big corporate prisons that house federal Prisoners...several of the county correction facilities around here also house prisoners for ICE and the Feds for a daily fee.

[boutons_deux]

Interestingly enough, it's not just the big corporate prisons that house federal Prisoners...several of the county correction facilities around here also house prisoners for ICE and the Feds for a daily fee.

yep, the big money is for-profit prisons constructed ad hoc to hold immigrants, entire families. no doubt some enforcement assholes get kickbacks for keeping the prisons filled.

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Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37306-private-prisons-are-far-from-ended-62-percent-of-immigrant-detainees-are-in-privatized-jails

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Texas halts execution of accomplice tainted by 'Dr Death' testimony


A court in Texas has stayed the execution of a convicted accomplice to murder, ordering a review of testimony of a witness dubbed "Dr Death".

Jeffery Wood, 43, was to be executed on Wednesday by lethal injection.
Dr James Grigson, a witness renowned for testifying against those facing execution, said Wood would be violent in the future but had not examined him.

Texas allows for accomplices to be convicted of murder.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37141426

Dr Death, killer for hire.

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That is just SHOCKING Boo!

A store that caters to a lower socioeconomic group experiences more crime than those that don't?

SHOCKING!

Walmart should spend THEIR $Bs on THEIR store security, not require taxpayers' law enforcement, who already spend $Bs subsidizing Walmart's poverty wage earners.

[spurraider21]

Baltimore Officers ‘Coerced Sex in Exchange for Immunity from Arrest’, Pointing to Larger Nationwide Issue of Police Sexual Abuse - Atlanta Black Star (http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/08/11/baltimore-officers-coerced-sex-in-exchange-for-immunity-from-arrest-pointing-to-larger-nationwide-issue-of-police-sexual-abuse/)

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should we post random stories of black crime and then sarcastically say black lives matter at the end with a smiley from ecoli

[FuzzyLumpkins]

should we post random stories of black crime and then sarcastically say black lives matter at the end with a smiley from ecoli

Darrin and the Klan Kabal do that shit all the time.

[Trill Clinton]

should we post random stories of black crime and then sarcastically say black lives matter at the end with a smiley from ecoli

sure, darrins and others do it. there is a warrior criminals thread just for that.

[boutons_deux]

should we post random stories of black crime and then sarcastically say black lives matter at the end with a smiley from ecoli

False equivalence of brain-dead logic.

(black) criminals are supposed to commit crimes.

cops are not supposed to commit crimes.

#AllCopCrimesMatter

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FOP to city: Pay us to wear body cameras

Cincinnati's police union told city officials last week if they want officers to wear body cameras they'll have to pay them extra.

City leaders announced at a press conference last Wednesday that the first group of police would start wearing the body cameras a move that itself came just days after the city's latest police-involved shooting.

A lawyer for Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #69, Stephen Lazarus, sent the city a "cease and desist" letter, saying until pay for wearing the equipment has been decided, officers shouldn't wear them. He asked that the city cease the program by Wednesday at the latest, pending the bargaining process.

"Requiring employees to wear BWCs will change several aspects of their job and regularly assigned duties," Lazarus wrote in a letter dated Aug. 11.

"The adoption of of new BWC policies will also have a significant impact on the employees' wages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment. Accordingly such changes are mandatory subjects that must be bargained to impasse with the union before they are implemented."

City Manager Harry Black fired back Monday, writing in a memo to council that as the manager of the police department he can order cameras be worn without a contract change, though he added he's hopeful the FOP will wear the cameras.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/08/15/fop-city-pay-us-wear-body-cameras/88763906/

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San Antonio cops demand higher pay in return for more police accountability

There’s been a movement to make police officers more accountable for misconduct — but like everything, it apparently comes with a price.

The San Antonio Express-News reports (http://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/brian_chasnoff/article/Police-union-demanded-payment-for-reform-9157038.php) that the San Antonio police union demanded higher pay in exchange for accepting changes to their collective bargaining agreement that would have delivered stricter discipline for officer misconduct.

The Express-News notes that right now “the contract limits how far back a chief can invoke prior misconduct in punishing an officer — no more than two years in most instances — and automatically reduces suspensions of three days or less to a reprimand after two years.”

The city of San Antonio, meanwhile, wanted to change the contract so that “an entire officer’s discipline record should be allowable” and “suspensions need to remain on the record to accurately report an officer’s history and show progressive discipline.”

However, it seems that the police union won’t budge on these changes without an increase in salaries.

San Antonio City Councilman Rey Saldaña ripped the police union’s request in a message sent to the Express News.

“The mayor and I are appalled that the union would ask for payment in exchange for them to do the right thing,” he told the paper.

“Also, the argument that we can somehow handle discipline language outside of the contract is legally untrue. We either bind the language through the contract or we live with the status quo for five years.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/san-antonio-cops-demand-higher-pay-in-return-for-more-police-accountability/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Woman Sues After Police Destroy Her Home During 10-Hour Standoff With The Family Dog

When the only thing standing between law enforcement and a suspect they're seeking is a person's home, well… the home's got to go.
As seen previously here at Techdirt, police officers pretty much razed a residence (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160607/07484434647/homeowner-sues-police-after-pursuit-shoplifter-leaves-him-with-no-home-to-own.shtml) to the ground searching for a shoplifting suspect.

In another case, law enforcement spent nineteen hours (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151220/16023433144/nineteen-hour-standoff-ends-with-law-enforcement-officers-destroying-empty-house.shtml)engaged in a tense standoff with an empty residence before deciding to send in a battering ram.

Another standoff -- currently the center of a federal lawsuit -- stands somewhere in between these two cases. The house wasn't completely empty or completely destroyed. But that still doesn't make the Caldwell (ID) police look any more heroic… or any less destructive.

The lawsuit's (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3031664/West-v-Caldwell.pdf) [PDF] opening paragraph lays it all out.

On August 11, 2014, after registering her child for first grade, Ms. West returned to her home to find multiple City of Caldwell police officers in her yard searching for a Fabian Salinas. Wanting to cooperate, and uncertain whether Salinas was in her house, Ms. West gave the police a key to her house and gave them permission to use it to enter her house to arrest him.

During a ten hour long standoff, police repeatedly exceeded the authority Ms. West had given them,

breaking windows,

crashing through ceilings, and

riddling the home with holes from shooting canisters of tear gas

destroying most of Ms. West and her children’s personal belongings.

The only occupant of the house was Ms. West’s dog. Ms. West’s home remained uninhabitable for two months.



Here's one photo of the home, taken by officers and provided to the Idaho Statesman in response to a public records request (http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article96434392.html). (More photos can be found at the link.)

https://i.imgur.com/LCoBfpK.jpg

If you'd like to see some pictures of the standoff with the family pet that include the Caldwell Police's impressive armored personnel carrier (presumably able to withstand even the nastiest of dog bites), those can be found here (http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/caldwell-woman-sues-city-after-standoff/300996198).

According to Courthouse News Service's interview with Shariz West's lawyer (http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/08/11/cops-blast-house-in-standoff-with-a-dog.htm), the documentation he's viewed gives no explanation why it took a small army of SWAT officers 10 hours to discover the suspect wasn't in the home.

"I have no idea," he said. "I've read the police reports and debriefing, and it's my recollection that someone heard a deadbolt activate, which was impossible, and saw the curtains move, which is possible because there was a pit bull in the house at the time.

Basically, they had a standoff with a dog."


And that some remedial attic-traversing training might be in order.

Fisher said some of the damage to the house was caused when an officer slipped off a truss while crawling in the attic and fell through the ceiling.


So, when given a key and consent from the occupant, officers instead chose to grab an armored vehicle and go through several windows and the attic. Even if they believed the suspect might be dangerous, there has to be some middle ground between full-scale assault and simply unlocking the door and stepping inside.

This happened back in 2014 but there's been no coverage of the Caldwell cops' 10-hour, one-dog standoff until now. Thomas Johnson of Fault Lines suggests that might have something to do with the local paper of record (http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/the-siege-of-caldwell-idaho/12183).

If you’re wondering why it took a couple of years for this event to make news outside of Idaho, it’s because the local paper apparently only checks court records or their exclusive police source, resulting in some very incomplete reporting (http://www.idahopress.com/members/caldwell-man-pleads-guilty-to-eluding-police-rioting-in-jail/article_e258458e-9e0d-11e4-af9c-afc3ba7008f6.html).

Why bother getting out there and talking to the homeowner or neighbors when you can sit on your chunk?


The "coverage" Johnson points to opens with some severe law enforcement spin (http://www.idahopress.com/members/caldwell-man-pleads-guilty-to-eluding-police-rioting-in-jail/article_e258458e-9e0d-11e4-af9c-afc3ba7008f6.html):

A man who escaped a police standoff last August in Caldwell, only to be captured in Meridian about a week later, pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court to felony eluding and felony rioting.


That's a pretty generous depiction of what actually happened.

From all appearances, the suspect was never in the home during the 10-hour standoff.

And when someone's not actually where you think they are, it's a huge stretch to refer to their non-presence as an "escape." If that's the spin the PD's using, they can just claim any person with an outstanding warrant not found at Shariz West's home on that long day in August 2014 also "escaped" the same standoff.

In any event, the city and PD are now facing a lawsuit. The police did give her a three-week stay in a hotel. Too bad it took more than two months for her to be able to return to her residence.

This raid on a house containing nothing more than a dog is the natural side effect of police militarization, which encourages law enforcement to escalate in questionable situations,

rather than use more measured tactics to ensure occupants aren't deprived of a place to live simply because a suspect might be hiding somewhere behind closed doors.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160818/18363835281/woman-sues-after-police-destroy-her-home-during-10-hour-standoff-with-family-dog.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techdirt%2Ffeed+%28Techdirt%2 9

[spurraider21]

False equivalence of brain-dead logic.

(black) criminals are supposed to commit crimes.

cops are not supposed to commit crimes.

#AllCopCrimesMatter
Cops commit crimes just like other civilians. They aren't saints

[spurraider21]

Darrin and the Klan Kabal do that shit all the time.


sure, darrins and others do it. there is a warrior criminals thread just for that.
Oh so it's ok then. Got it

[boutons_deux]

Cops commit crimes just like other civilians. They aren't saints

:lol just wow. The go "devil" way too much on unarmed blacks, but that's ok, cops are saints.

[spurraider21]

Cops commit crimes just like other civilians. They aren't saints


:lol just wow. The go "devil" way too much on unarmed blacks, but that's ok, cops are saints.
:lmao

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Oh so it's ok then. Got it

Given that the entire blue lives matter was in response to BLM, I think you are missing the point.

For someone who intends to be a defense attorney you sure do defend popo a lot.

[Trill Clinton]

Cops commit crimes just like other civilians. They aren't saints

:lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Cops commit crimes just like other civilians. They aren't saints

The difference is that is almost impossible to convict much less fire a bad cop.

[boutons_deux]

The difference is that is almost impossible to convict much less fire a bad cop.

complicity between bad cops and bad prosecutors, DAs is unbeatable. See the Angela Corey article above.

Most professions, doctors, nurses, lawyers, will hide or sometimes lie to defend their professional colleagues. Guess who gets fucked?

[unleashbaynes]

Cops commit crimes just like other civilians. They aren't saints

Pretty sure the point is to make fun of the mouth breathers that say black lives matter activists only care about black lives, as if saying "black lives matter too" would really change the way they feel about it.


It's fucking stupid. When the NFL does breast cancer month i don't see those same idiots crying about it asking "well what about lung cancer???"

[spurraider21]

Given that the entire blue lives matter was in response to BLM, I think you are missing the point.

For someone who intends to be a defense attorney you sure do defend popo a lot.
how am i defending popo here? i literally said they commit crimes just like anybody else. didn't put them on a higher pedestal

[DarrinS]

Open your mouth, ask your roommate if they can see all the dicks in your throat.

You're pretty foul.

[spurraider21]

Open your mouth, ask your roommate if they can see all the dicks in your throat.
your arsenal is full of dick jokes, gay jokes, and retard jokes.

impressive

[Trill Clinton]

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the militarized, authoritarian police-state gears up, funded by billionaires wanting to protect themselves

Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.

Since the beginning of the year, the Baltimore Police Department had been using the plane to investigate all sorts of crimes, from property thefts to shootings. The Cessna sometimes flew above the city for as many as 10 hours a day, and the public had no idea it was there.
A company called Persistent Surveillance Systems (http://www.pss-1.com/), based in Dayton, Ohio, provided the service to the police, and the funding came from a private donor. No public disclosure of the program had ever been made.

A single, long-term contract with an American police department would be worth about $2 million a year, he says. By 2012, McNutt was approaching the police departments of the 20 most crime-ridden jurisdictions in the country, marketing his services. He floated several of them an offer: Let us fly over your city to show you what we can do, and then you can decide if you want to hire us.

McNutt got an e-mail on behalf of Texas-based philanthropists Laura and John Arnold.

John is a former Enron trader whose hedge fund, Centaurus Advisors, made billions before he retired in 2012.

Since then, the Arnolds have funded a variety of hot-button causes, including advocating for public pension rollbacks and charter schools.

The Arnolds told McNutt that if he could find a city that would allow the company to fly for several months, they would donate the money to keep the plane in the air. McNutt had met the lieutenant in charge of Baltimore’s ground-based camera system on the trade-show circuit, and they’d become friendly.

“We settled in on Baltimore because it was ready, it was willing, and it was just post-Freddie Gray,” McNutt says. The Arnolds donated the money to the Baltimore Community Foundation (http://www.bcf.org/), a nonprofit that administers donations to a wide range of local civic causes.

Almost everything about the surveillance program feels hush-hush; the city hasn’t yet acknowledged its existence, and the police department declined requests for interviews about the program.

On Aug. 10 the U.S. Department of Justice released a163-page report (https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/883366/download) that detailed systemic abuses within the Baltimore Police Department, including unlawful stops and the use of excessive force, that disproportionately targeted poor and minority communities and led to “unnecessary, adversarial interactions with community members.”

Within a week, civil rights groups filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission claiming that the department’s warrantless use of cell phone tower simulators known by the trade name StingRay—an activity the police acknowledged last year in court—violated federal law and targeted minorities. “The problem of radicalized surveillance is particularly pronounced in Baltimore,” the complaint stated. The city was already on the defensive, even as the aerial surveillance program was shielded from the public eye.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/

[Trill Clinton]

768181148161671168

this shit needs to stop. we call for decent police and then its the race soldiers who show up and shoot us.

[SpursforSix]

768181148161671168

this shit needs to stop. we call for decent police and then its the race soldiers who show up and shoot us.

Man, I don't know about "race soldiers". Every case is different but I think most of them are the results of poor training and dumb cops.

[TheSanityAnnex]

768181148161671168

this shit needs to stop. we call for decent police and then its the race soldiers who show up and shoot us.

Sounds awful if true, but the story is coming from proven liar Fraud King. Will wait for a legit source.

[DarrinS]

Sounds awful if true, but the story is coming from proven liar Fraud King. Will wait for a legit source.

This one has a better description

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/call-6-man-shot-by-police-thought-responding-officer-was-suspected-carjacker

[SpursforSix]

This one has a better description

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/call-6-man-shot-by-police-thought-responding-officer-was-suspected-carjacker


A few moments later, the man came out of the garage with a gun in his hand and police fired shots, sources said. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, IMPD said they shot the man once in the stomach.

[Trill Clinton]

how dare the victim exercise his 2nd amendment rights on his property and open his garage smh

[boutons_deux]

how dare the victim exercise his 2nd amendment rights on his property and open his garage smh

As always the cops gave him every possible chance to put his gun down, following the Tamir Rice tactic, because above all for cops BLM

[SpursforSix]

how dare the victim exercise his 2nd amendment rights on his property and open his garage smh

LOL. He opened his garage and started firing off shots like Yosemite Sam.

[Trill Clinton]

LOL. He opened his garage and started firing off shots like Yosemite Sam.

oh he did? can you please link me to where you got that key information?

[Trill Clinton]

As always the cops gave him every possible chance to put his gun down, following the Tamir Rice tactic, because above all for cops BLM

yup same for john crawford. the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to blacks.

[SpursforSix]

oh he did? can you please link me to where you got that key information?

Darrin posted it above.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/call-6-man-shot-by-police-thought-responding-officer-was-suspected-carjacker

[Trill Clinton]

Darrin posted it above.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/call-6-man-shot-by-police-thought-responding-officer-was-suspected-carjacker


it doesn't say anything about the homeowner firing his weapon:

A few moments later, the man came out of the garage with a gun in his hand and police fired shots, sources said. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, IMPD said they shot the man once in the stomach.

[Trill Clinton]

i suspect you of trying to justify the race soldiers reckless actions

[SpursforSix]

it doesn't say anything about the homeowner firing his weapon:

A few moments later, the man came out of the garage with a gun in his hand and police fired shots, sources said. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, IMPD said they shot the man once in the stomach.




Whoops. My bad. I had skimmed it thinking that he fired the shots.

[boutons_deux]

how dare the victim exercise his 2nd amendment rights on his property and open his garage smh

As always the cops gave him every possible chance to put his gun down, following the Tamir Rice tactic, because above all for cops BLM

[spurraider21]

how dare the victim exercise his 2nd amendment rights on his property and open his garage smh
i thought all black parents have "the talk" with their kids about how to act around cops tbh

im sure those talks didnt include opening a door to them with a gun in hand

[TheSanityAnnex]

This one has a better description

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/call-6-man-shot-by-police-thought-responding-officer-was-suspected-carjacker
I knew Fraud King would leave out details.

So so they guy thought the cops were the carjackers, the cops thought the armed guy was the carjacker. Unfortunate situation all around and I hope he recovers.

Lesson on to be learned (common sense) if you call the cops about an armed suspect and you are also armed let cops know you are armed and stay inside your house. When they arrive again let them know you are armed before they enter the house.

Again it's very unfortunate but leave it to Fraud King to spin this into cops targeting a black man. Fuck Shaun King.

[CosmicCowboy]

I knew Fraud King would leave out details.

So so they guy thought the cops were the carjackers, the cops thought the armed guy was the carjacker. Unfortunate situation all around and I hope he recovers.

Lesson on to be learned (common sense) if you call the cops about an armed suspect and you are also armed let cops know you are armed and stay inside your house. When they arrive again let them know you are armed before they enter the house.

Again it's very unfortunate but leave it to Fraud King to spin this into cops targeting a black man. Fuck Shaun King.

And of course Trill too, even after reading the article.

[Trill Clinton]

y'all done cucking for race soldiers?

[TheSanityAnnex]

y'all done cucking for race soldiers?

Next time you see a Shaun King story find out what really happened first before posting his version. Fraud King got famous for pushing hands up don't shoot.

[CosmicCowboy]

y'all done cucking for race soldiers?

Calling all police race soldiers just proves what a fucktard you are.

[boutons_deux]

Arkansas judge’s ‘debtors’ prison’ court jailed cancer patient over unpaid bills: lawsuit

http://www.fgtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Judge-Sends-Cancer-Patient-to-Prison-Over-Unpaid-Bills-in-Sherwood.jpg

A judge in Sherwood, Arkansas is accused of running a “modern-day debtors’ prison” that victimized a 44-year-old cancer patient, among others, the Huffington Post reported. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/debtors-prison-arkansas_us_57bdd1b8e4b0c6301ca0e56c)

“People are doomed for failure when they appear before the court, and most significantly trapped in this never-ending cycle of expanding debt,”

said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

“With the resurgence of debtors’ prisons, we will continue to see people cycle in and our of jails and prisons across our country merely because of their inability to pay fines and fees tied to low-level, nonviolent offenses.”
Sherwood District Court Judge Milas “Butch” Hale’s conduct while leading the court’s “hot checks division” is the focus of a lawsuit filed this week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas. Acting in this capacity, Hale sentenced Lee Robertson to 90 days in jail for owing the court $3,054.51. Robertson has been living with pancreatic cancer since 2009, which has affected his ability to pay back past debts.

But according to the suit, Robertson and his fellow

defendants unknowingly sign away their right to an attorney in order to be let into the courtroom.

The court also bars defendants’ family and friends from witnessing the proceedings, and

no transcripts are kept of the hearings.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/arkansas-judges-debtors-prison-court-jailed-cancer-patient-over-unpaid-bills-lawsuit/

[boutons_deux]

Black USC students settle LAPD lawsuit for $450,000 (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/25/1563849/-Black-USC-students-settle-LAPD-lawsuit-for-450-000)

“ … who were enrolled at the University of Southern California, had been attending an off-campus party when a noise complaint was made. Members of Los Angeles’ finest showed up with helmets and batons and cleared out the party.

The students alleged that a similar party across the street attended by predominantly white students received no such response.

In fact, the students say, students attending the mostly white party were directed to stay inside the house as the police cleared out the other party.”

the jury in June found

“ … in favor of several of the students, determining that some of the officers used excessive force, did not have probable cause for an arrest and acted with malice.

LAPD Officer John Carlyle was found to have used excessive force on [student Christian Sutton who was videotaping the officers].

Jurors also found that Carlyle had no probable cause for the arrest and acted with malice.

Sgts. Boris Washington and Brandon Rockett were also found to have used excessive force and to have acted with malice.

Jurors, however, did not find that officers acted with racial bias. :lol :lol

After the verdicts, the city agreed to settle the case.”

“Neither the city attorney’s office nor the attorney for the students could be reached for comment.”


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/26/1563849/-Black-USC-students-settle-LAPD-lawsuit-for-450-000?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

Clear out a black party with excessive force, but don't bother a white party. Nope, no racial bias

[boutons_deux]

Can big data stop bad cops?

Deep within their findings, Justice investigators singled out a core failure: Baltimore’s system for identifying troubled officers was broken and existed in name only.

In Baltimore, Justice found that critical disciplinary records were excluded from its early intervention system, that police supervisors often intervened only after an officer’s behavior became egregious and that when they did, the steps they took were inadequate.

Justice highlighted the case of an unnamed officer who was criminally charged after he shot at a car as it drove toward him. When investigators looked into the officer’s background, they found that he had been involved in two prior shootings, had a history of complaints for harassment and excessive force, and had been flagged repeatedly in the early intervention system.

“The Department failed to respond to those alerts in a way that could have uncovered the officer’s condition or otherwise allowed for an intervention,”

Since 1994, 36 civil rights investigations by Justice discovered that local agencies had deeply flawed early intervention systems or no system in place at all,

The Newark Police Department abandoned its early intervention system after just one year and lost track of more than 100 officers who had been flagged for monitoring, Justice found in 2014.

Justice told the Harvey Police Department in suburban Chicago to adopt a system in 2012 after its officers were accused of excessive force. The department’s system logged tardiness and grooming violations, but it failed to track lawsuits alleging misconduct or abuse,

The New Orleans Police Department’s system was found in 2011 to be “outdated and essentially exists in name only,” Justice said. Rank-and-file officers mocked the system and considered inclusion a “badge of honor.”

Justice, which has investigated dozens of police departments nationwide for civil rights violations, considers early intervention systems critical to reforming embattled agencies. Some of the troubled police departments had early intervention systems and collected information about officers’ behavior but did nothing with the data,

“There was nobody actually reading it, or looking at it and evaluating it, and then taking action thereafter,”

“You can have a system and technology, but you actually need human beings to use the information, to act on it and to analyze it over time.”

Many of the Justice Department’s civil rights probes into local police agencies have been prompted by allegations that police have a pattern of using excessive force against civilians. One of the areas that Justice scrutinizes is whether departments have functioning early intervention systems.

In Ferguson, for example, one of Justice’s key findings was that police records were so “incomplete and scattered” that the department was unable to implement an early intervention system.

Justice said that its 14-month investigation revealed that officers in Baltimore discriminated against black residents, violated people’s civil rights with unconstitutional arrests, used excessive force and retaliated against police critics. On Aug. 10 , city leaders promised sweeping reforms in the 2,600-officer force and said that they would work with Justice officials to hammer out the details.

“I think a lot of them [police leaders] give lip service to it because it’s important to have one, but they don’t really use it,”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/can-big-data-stop-bad-cops/2016/08/21/12db0728-3fb6-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html

Good Cops who protect Bad Cops are Bad Cops.

Crusading, quote-chasing DAs, prosecutors, Lie and Deny cops, the "plea bargain" catastrophe, mandatory long sentences, all add up to a badly broken justice system.

[boutons_deux]

After nearly a year of reporting, the Texas Tribune (https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/) released an unprecedented look at police shootings in the state of Texas.

https://apps.texastribune.org/unholstered/

[boutons_deux]

Why police are pushing back on body cameras
Police unions from Massachusetts to California are rebuffing transparency measures as a growing number of the rank-and-file say privacy is becoming an issue of both personal safety and basic employment rights.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0830/Why-police-are-pushing-back-on-body-cameras

Why isn't the VRWC trying kill police and firemen's unions?

[CosmicCowboy]

Why police are pushing back on body cameras
Police unions from Massachusetts to California are rebuffing transparency measures as a growing number of the rank-and-file say privacy is becoming an issue of both personal safety and basic employment rights.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0830/Why-police-are-pushing-back-on-body-cameras

Why isn't the VRWC trying kill police and firemen's unions?



Boo, you are such a fucktard. Kissing up to police and fire unions is not just a republican or democrat issue. Both sides do it because the politicians, especially at the local level, are afraid of the block vote.

[boutons_deux]

Boo, you are such a fucktard. Kissing up to police and fire unions is not just a republican or democrat issue. Both sides do it because the politicians, especially at the local level, are afraid of the block vote.

Dems support the unions that contribute to Dems

Repugs destroy unions as a source of Dem funding, support. Repugs cherry pick police, fire unions as right-wing working class.

[boutons_deux]

Florida Prosecutor Angela Corey

She was known nationally for failing to convict Trayvon Martin’s killer, and for prosecuting Marissa Alexander.

 Corey’s resounding loss — Nelson beat her by 38 points — represents the first time a Jacksonville state attorney has lost a contested election in modern history.

By voting out Corey, voters are sending a strong signal—the same one sent to Anita Alvarez, a state attorney in Chicago’s Cook County, in March.

Dale Cox, the notorious district attorney of Caddo Parish in Louisiana, bowed out of his race last year after a national outcry over his use of the death penalty.

These prosecutors were known for being ruthless, and each of them jailed and executed hundreds of black and brown people in their districts.

Perhaps these elections are a sign that criminal-justice reform will come from the grassroots, beginning with the people who are affected, rather than from above.

https://www.thenation.com/article/voters-have-ousted-notorious-florida-prosecutor-angela-corey/

... Corey is gone, but her damage is not.

I heard an NPR story in their program This American Life about Caddo parish. "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten"

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/595/transcript

[boutons_deux]

North Dakota becomes first US state to legalise use of armed drones by police

Armed drones could be used by police in the US state of North Dakota after local lawmakers legalised their use.

While they will be limited to “less than lethal” weapons, tear gas, tasers, rubber bullets and pepper spray could all be used in theory by the remote controlled flying machines.

at least 39 people have been killed by police tasers in 2015, according to The Guardian.

The fact that a suspect could potentially be tasered by an officer sitting hundreds of miles away will likely add to the concerns of those who are worried about the militarisation of US police departments.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-dakota-becomes-first-us-state-to-legalise-use-of-armed-drones-by-police-10492397.html

less the 750K people in this rural, empty, benighted, red state. HUGE crime problems needing weaponized drones.

[boutons_deux]

When Detectives Dismiss Rape Reports Before Investigating Them

Across the country, some police departments claim a vast number of rape reports are false.

A BuzzFeed News investigation into a year of “unfounded” rapes in Baltimore County reveals that detectives often don’t investigate them at all — even when the man had been arrested for rape before.


D. — her alleged rapist — never knew he had been accused. “So why am I just hearing about this?” D. asked. He told BuzzFeed News he couldn’t even remember who E. was, and that he had never raped anyone.

But D. had previously been arrested and charged with first-degree rape. It was four years before E. made her report, and it was in a nearby jurisdiction, in a case that never went to trial. Pierce made no note of it in his report.

Within a year of dropping E.’s case, officers would get another call. About D. From another terrified woman.
The Baltimore County Police Department is one of a number of law enforcement agencies nationwide with an alarming record of dismissing rape cases, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis of FBI statistics.

These departments routinely mark an extraordinary percentage of rape allegations as false or baseless — “unfounded.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexcampbell/unfounded?utm_term=.ddzrbAwx9X#.wnwbJYa9Ad

Baltimore, again?

[boutons_deux]

DNA Dragnet: In Some Cities, Police Go From Stop-and-Frisk to Stop-and-Spit

Police in Florida and other states are building up private DNA databases, in part by collecting voluntary samples from people not charged with — or even suspected of — any particular crime.

Over the last decade, collecting DNA from people who are not charged with — or even suspected of — any particular crime has become an increasingly routine practice for police in smaller cities not only in Florida, but in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and North Carolina as well.

While the largest cities typically operate public labs and feed DNA samples into the FBI’s national database,

cities like Melbourne have assembled databases of their own, often in partnership with private labs that offer such fast, cheap testing that police can afford to amass DNA even to investigate minor crimes, from burglary to vandalism.

And to compile samples for comparison, some jurisdictions also have quietly begun asking people to turn over DNA voluntarily during traffic stops, or even during what amount to chance encounters with police.

In Melbourne, riding a bike at night without two functioning lights can lead to DNA swab — even if the rider is a minor.

“In Florida law, basically, if we can ask consent, and if they give it, we can obtain it,” said Cmdr. Heath Sanders, the head of investigations at the Melbourne Police Department.

“We’re not going to be walking down the street and asking a five-year-old to stick out his tongue.

That’s just not reasonable. But’s let’s say a kid’s 15, 16 years old, we can ask for consent without the parents.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/dna-dragnet-in-some-cities-police-go-from-stop-and-frisk-to-stop-and-spit?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=1473681736

The militarized, pervasive, predatory, bullying, abusive POLICE STATE is unstoppable, irreversible.

And CosmicParasite loves every bit of it.

[boutons_deux]

Protests Planned In Over 20 States To Expose ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions In U.S. Prisons

Thousands of inmates in state and federal prisons in up to 24 states areplanning an organized strike and protest (https://thinkprogress.org/its-just-dressed-up-slavery-america-s-shadow-workforce-rises-up-against-prison-labor-e8ee1b5a8738#.us7r0mlsi) on Friday — potentially the largest prison strike in U.S. history.

Planned for the anniversary of the Attica Prison riot (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/rockefellers-attica/), the protest aims to bring widespread attention to inhumane living conditions, “slave-like” labor, and daily injustices that plague the shadowy cell-blocks of the justice system.

Across the country, it’s common practice for American inmates to be forced to work in “slave-like” conditions, doing long hours of hard labor with little or no compensation, and they’ve had enough.

Though the strike on Friday, as planned, is the largest yet, the national prison work stoppage comes after a long, largely unreported build-up in collective action among America’s prisoners protesting these conditions.

https://thinkprogress.org/protests-planned-across-country-to-expose-slave-like-prison-labor-a38e0c3335f9#.47zv4vcmj

The PIC is all about $$$, with BigCorp exploiting prisoners cheap or free labor.

America The Beautiful.

[ducks]

clinton said blacks were super predators

[Trill Clinton]

775725103166451712

[boutons_deux]

Sandra Bland’s family settles wrongful death lawsuit for $1.9 million

Attorneys for the family of Sandra Bland told a local news outlet (http://abc13.com/news/sandra-blands-family-says-civil-suit-settled-for-$19m/1512442/) that they settled a wrongful death suit with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Waller County jail for $1.9 million.

The Waller County jail will pay the bulk due to state statutes capping settlements with the Department of Public Safety. WTF?

Also included in the wrongful death settlement were conditions requiring the Waller County jail to implement safety procedures that may have saved 28-eight-year-old Bland’s life.

https://thinkprogress.org/sandra-blands-family-settles-wrongful-death-lawsuit-for-1-9-million-7939000a499f#.tl1ecpk9l

Taxpayers looted again by bad cop misconduct.

[boutons_deux]

She started the night drinking at home — and ended it in a restraint chair being pepper-sprayed

By the time Amber Swink was strapped into a restraint chair in an isolation cell, she had already been pepper-sprayed once.

Barely able to open her eyes as she struggled inside a seven-point harness at the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, Swink could hear deputies laughing.

Moments later, for reasons the 25-year-old said she still doesn’t understand, Sgt. Judith L. Sealey approached the chair and fired a burst of pepper spray into Swink’s face at point-blank range.

Swink had been arrested during a night of heavy drinking at her home that evening.

Swink admits that she was still somewhat intoxicated at the time but recalled that the pain was nearly unbearable as her face was coated with oleoresin capsicum.

Jailhouse video appears to match Swink’s description of the Nov. 15, 2015, incident.

In the four-minute clip captured by a camera in the isolation cell, Swink can be seen struggling and coughing; she appears to pass out after her face is covered with a bright orange substance.

Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said Tuesday that he hadn’t viewed the video footage, but he acknowledged that Swink was pepper-sprayed while restrained, violating his department’s use-of-force protocol.

He called it “an isolated incident.” :lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/09/14/i-thought-i-might-die-disturbing-video-shows-woman-in-restraint-chair-being-pepper-sprayed/?utm_term=.3fe14378f4ce&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

These are CosmicParasite's good cops, sadistic, murderous, brutalizing GOOD COPS! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Black Wisconsin inmate’s death by dehydration ruled a homicide


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Terrill-Thomas-800x430.jpg

The death of a mentally ill black man who reportedly begged for drinking water while jailed in Milwaukee and died of dehydration has been ruled a homicide, a county medical examiner said on Thursday.

Terrill Thomas, 38, was found dead on April 24, nine days after he was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man at a casino, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Thomas had bipolar disorder and was being held in solitary confinement based on the nature of the charge against him and his behavior in jail, the medical examiner’s office said.

The Journal Sentinel newspaper reported in July that inmates near Thomas had heard him beg for water days before his death and saw that the water faucet in his cell had been shut off.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/black-wisconsin-inmates-death-by-dehydration-ruled-a-homicide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

... a particularly nasty, painful way of murder.

[boutons_deux]

Did You Know We Are Having the Largest Prison Strike in History? Probably Not, Because Most of the Media Have Ignored It

The prison strike didn’t merit a single mention in NYT, Washington Post, NPR, CNN or MSNBC.

http://www.alternet.org/media/did-you-know-we-are-having-largest-prison-strike-history-probably-not-because-most-media-have

[cd021]

clinton said blacks were super predators

That's nothing; Trump took out full page ads to advocate for the return on the death penalty in response to five minorities (4 black, 1 Hispanic) being arrested in the Central Park Rape Case. He was criticize for turning the city against the suspects and stoking racial animosity.

When all five were exonerated due to DNA evidence, he demanded they be retried (for no reason apparently). After the city paid out $41 million to the five for falsely accusing them and convicting each of them, he then harshly criticized the city for doing so.

Clinton apologized for her comments when confronted, Trump never owned up to stupidity.

[Trill Clinton]

here we go again: a man's car breaks down in the middle of the road and instead of good police arriving to help, demonic race soldiers arrive and kill him in cold blood.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_CWr5iSLY

[djohn2oo8]

here we go again: a man's car breaks down in the middle of the road and instead of good police arriving to help, demonic race soldiers arrive and kill him in cold blood.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_CWr5iSLY Clipper Nation

[boutons_deux]

You can't believe that video. CC says cops are good guys, including these four.

[Trill Clinton]

I just saw the second video of the guy in the helicopter saying Terence looked like a "big bad dude". So fucked up. Blacks no matter the age, male or female, are automatically seen as a threat.

[boutons_deux]

I just saw the second video of the guy in the helicopter saying Terence looked like a "big bad dude". So fucked up. Blacks no matter the age, male or female, are automatically seen as a threat.

... not as threats, but as targets. Threat is lie the cops tell after they've murdered their target.

Cops shot a kid the other day with a pistol BB gun.

no video, no witnesses, so the cops said he pulled the gun on them so they shot him dead.

Of course, CC believes every fucking lie the cops tell.

[boutons_deux]

How rare

Former Rikers Island guards sentenced to prison (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/19/1571923/-Former-Rikers-Island-guards-sentenced-to-prison)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/19/1571923/-Former-Rikers-Island-guards-sentenced-to-prison?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[Trill Clinton]

... not as threats, but as targets. Threat is lie the cops tell after they've murdered their target.

Cops shot a kid the other day with a pistol BB gun.

no video, no witnesses, so the cops said he pulled the gun on them so they shot him dead.

Of course, CC believes every fucking lie the cops tell.

You're right. Cops kill a nigga and win the white supremacy lottery. Fellow racists donate millions of dollars in support of these race soldiers.

[pgardn]

This has the helicopter video.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/20/494697359/after-police-killing-of-unarmed-man-tulsa-chief-promises-to-achieve-justice

From the copter it sounds like he was not supposed to walk back to his car.

But for Christ sakes they shoot him and taser him at the same time? Protocol?
At least they did release the video.
But the cops need to tell the public something like he was told "sir, hands up, down on your knees, if you go back to your car we assume you will be trying to get a weapon. Please stop sir. Please stop sir"

Wtf...

[cd021]

I've heard stories about Tulsa before about their being a big race issue (not including the obvious, such as the 1919 race war where Whites burned down black Wallstreet). This is the second time in two years where and unarmed black man in Tusla has been shot and killed on video and the video has gone viral. The first time was when a 70+ year old reserve sheriff (he wasn't properly trained and essentially payed to be on the police force because of his donations to the department) accidentally shot and killed a man while attempting to pull out his taser.

[boutons_deux]

I've heard stories about Tulsa before about their being a big race issue (not including the obvious, such as the 1919 race war where Whites burned down black Wallstreet). This is the second time in two years where and unarmed black man in Tusla has been shot and killed on video and the video has gone viral. The first time was when a 70+ year old reserve sheriff (he wasn't properly trained and essentially payed to be on the police force because of his donations to the department) accidentally shot and killed a man while attempting to pull out his taser.

Like every slave state, "Old Times There are not forgotten ..." in Oklahoma.

http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL003

[boutons_deux]

Terence Crutcher is just the latest in a long history of the killing of black men in Tulsa

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/terence-crutcher-is-just-the-latest-in-a-long-history-of-the-killing-of-black-men-in-tulsa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Crutcher’s attorney has a razor-sharp retort after cops say they found PCP in dead man’s SUV

Shelby’s attorney maintains that Shelby fired her weapon at Crutcher because he was reaching inside his car to grab something.

However, the police discovered after the shooting that Crutcher was unarmed, and one of Shelby’s fellow officers fired his taser gun at the same time she opened fire.

Crutcher family attorney Benjamin Crump called that “misinformation,” saying that video showed the vehicle’s window was not open.

“Don’t put out stuff that would demonize him and try to make him look like as if he was doing something nefarious. Put the entire story up,” Crump said.

Crump told Tulsa World (http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/crutcher-family-attorneys-challenge-police-narrative-of-his-actions-prior/article_392556ce-f698-54ed-9db9-fa9736493874.html) that even if Crutcher had used PCP that night, it still didn’t justify the use of lethal force.
“If we started to condemn everybody to death just because they have drugs in their system, all our neighborhoods would be empty,” he said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/crutchers-attorney-has-a-razor-sharp-retort-after-cops-say-they-found-pcp-in-dead-mans-suv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Typical rotten cops, criminalizing their innocent victims, just like they ignore, blame rape victims.

use drugs, cops kill you

run from cops, cops kill you

be black, cops kill you

It's the White American Way.

[boutons_deux]

FL police chief facing harassment claims from lesbian officers kept on job because ‘people love him’

On Monday, Mayor Kent Guinn said that because he trusts Graham, he would be allowed to remain on duty while a Tallahassee-based law firm investigates the allegations against him, though he would be barred from discussing the complaint with the three officers who filed it.

Guinn also complained that the allegations have hurt morale within the department.

“Their chief has been attacked,” said the mayor. “The chief is well respected in this community and this police department. People like him, people love him and when he’s attacked, it hurts.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/fl-police-chief-facing-harassment-claims-from-lesbian-officers-kept-on-job-because-people-love-him/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

but when your Police Chief prick harasses his cops, it doesn't hurt. Got it, Mayor, you're the best.