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boutons_deux

09-22-2016, 12:56 PM

Fox Lines Up Behind Trump's Stop-And-Frisk Proposal, Despite Overwhelming Evidence That It Doesn't Work

New York City’s Stop-And-Frisk Policy Is Ineffective, Discriminatory, And Unconstitutional

Federal Judge Ruled Stop And Frisk “Violated the Constitutional Rights Of Minorities” In New York City.In August, 2013, federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin found New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy to be unconstitutional, writing that it allowed police officers to stop “blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white.” The judge noted that police became “too quick to deem” behavior suspicious, which effectively watered down the legal standard for “a stop.” From an August 12, 2013, New York Times article:

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in the city, repudiating a major element in the Bloomberg administration’s crime-fighting legacy.

The use of police stops has been widely cited by city officials as a linchpin of New York’s success story in seeing murders and major crimes fall to historic lows. The police say the practice has saved the lives of thousands of young black and Hispanic men by removing thousands of guns from the streets.

But the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found that the Police Department resorted to a “policy of indirect racial profiling” as it increased the number of stops in minority communities. That has led to officers’ routinely stopping “blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white.”
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The judge found that for much of the last decade, patrol officers had stopped innocent people without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing.
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The judge found that the New York police were too quick to deem suspicious behavior that was perfectly innocent, in effect watering down the legal standard required for a stop.

“Blacks are likely targeted for stops based on a lesser degree of objectively founded suspicion than whites,” she wrote.
She noted that officers routinely stopped people partly on the basis of “furtive movements,” a category that officers have testified might encompass any of the following:

being fidgety, changing directions, walking in a certain way, grabbing at a pocket or looking over one’s shoulder. [The New York Times, 8/12/13 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html)]

NYCLU Report: Stop And Frisk “Yielded Few Weapons” And “Contributed To Animosity Between Minority Communities And Law Enforcement.”

A Washington Post report on a 2014 report from the New York Civil Liberties Union found that stop and frisk “yielded few weapons when officials justified the policy as a way to reduce shootings and "recover guns." The Post explained that “as the NYPD ramped up the number of stops, shootings and murders in the city did not appear to correspondingly decline,” adding that the policy was “so divisive in New York and … contributed to animosity between minority communities and law enforcement.” From an August 21, 2014, Washington Post article:

In 2002, when Michael Bloomberg first took office as mayor of New York City, the controversial law enforcement policy known as "stop-and-frisk" led to 97,296 encounters on the city's street. Police stopped — and sometimes frisked — pedestrians on any number of suspicious grounds: Their movements seemed "furtive," as if they were casing a victim, acting as a lookout, or selling drugs. They seemed to be carrying a suspicious object, or sporting a suspicious bulge.

Over the years, the tactic would become more prevalent — and common far (http://rt.com/usa/detroit-cops-stop-frisk-743/) beyond New York — as the public outcry over its use rose. By 2011, the New York Police Department that many cities tried to copy conducted 685,724 stops, the peak before a bitter legal tussle and a new mayoral race would begin to scale back the practice:
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The NYCLU report documents the racial imbalance that has made the policy so divisive in New York and other cities where the practice has contributed to animosity between minority communities and law enforcement. But the ACLU accounting also points to other data that undermine the rationale for stop-and-frisk: It yielded few weapons when officials justified the policy as a way to reduce shootings and recover guns; in more than 5 million stops, police recovered a gun less than 0.02 percent of the time. And as the NYPD ramped up the number of stops, shootings and murders in the city did not appear to correspondingly decline. [The Washington Post, 8/21/14 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/21/12-years-of-data-from-new-york-city-suggest-stop-and-frisk-wasnt-that-effective/)]

Wash. Post: No Evidence Stop And Frisk Reduced Crime.

The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog found no evidence to support a claim by Gov. Mike Huckabee that "shootings are up 20 percent in New York City" because of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's reversal of "some of the policies of previous mayors," notably stop and frisk -- a New York City Police Department practice ruled unconstitutional in 2013. Kessler pointed to a study by the New York Civil Liberties Union showing that New York City's "decline in shootings and murders did not correspond with increase in stops." Kessler also pointed out that crime continued to fall in 2013 and 2014 as the policy was slowed down, and in fact 2013 was "a historically low year" for shootings:

By the time de Blasio took office, the program already was on its way out. After the number of stops peaked at nearly 700,000 in 2011, it began declining. In 2013, there were fewer than 200,000 stops. In 2014, there were just under 46,000, according to NYPD data.

Supporters of the program warned that violent crime would go up without stop-and-frisk. But violent crime was down across the city in 2014, the New York Times found.
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The number of violent crimes in New York City has decreased from 2000 to 2014. The number of shooting victims are down nearly 20 percent since five years ago, and 77 percent since 22 years ago, according to NYPD.

Whether stop-and-frisk effectively reduced murder and violent crime is debatable. A 2014 New York Civil Liberties Union report showed that the decline in shootings and murders did not correspond with increase in stops. [The Washington Post, 7/1/15 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/01/huckabees-claim-that-new-york-city-shootings-are-up-because-of-mayor-de-blasios-policy/)]

NY Times' Charles Blow: Stop And Frisk “Is Obviously Race-Based.”

New York Times columnist and CNN political commentator Charles Blow highlighted how the stop-and-frisk policy was used as a race-based “intimidation tool” and said it was “obviously unconstitutional.” From the September 21 edition of CNN’sAnderson Cooper 360:

CHARLES BLOW: To advocate for something that is obviously race-based. That is, that is obviously unconstitutional. That a judge has called -- I've been on this topic for a very long time. The judge who made that rule unconstitutional quoted one of my columns in the closing line of her decision.

There is no way to get around the idea that this is not targeting African Americans for hostility. Nine out of ten of the people who were stopped never charged with anything.

They said that it was meant to stop people who may have weapons, that is not the way it was used at all.

It was used as an intimidation tool, directed specifically at these particular people.

And I believe that it -- it functioned as a kind of ethnic cleansing mechanism in cities.

New York City at the height of stop-and-frisk which is 2010.

The first time in New York City's history -- since the reconstruction, that the population of blacks in New York City fell.

And there was other issues at play. An economic strain. And also social and political strain and there was also a tremendous amount of pressure being put on those populations by the police in this country. [CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, 9/21/16 (http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/21/watch-ny-times-charles-blow-explain-problems-trump-s-advocacy-nationwide-stop-and-frisk-policy/213250)]

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/09/22/fox-lines-behind-trumps-stop-and-frisk-proposal-despite-overwhelming-evidence-it-doesnt-work/213262?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Fresearch+%28Me dia+Matters+for+America+-+Research%29

Of course, racist Fox and racist Trash endorsement and racist Spurs Talkers energetically endorse racist policing.

"Our Racism Don't Need No Steenkin' Facts"

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:00 PM

:lmao

now thats some hair splitting.

Having a gun in your hand and not dropping it after multiple commands by police to do so can get you shot no matter what color you are.

Proof of him not dropping it after multiple commands? An American practicing their 2nd amendment gets killed for no reason and you take the officers side. Why did the cop approach him with his gun drawn if he wasn't a suspect or showed no threat to anyone?

We should be able tof practice our rights to bear arms no matter our color.

DarrinS

09-22-2016, 01:01 PM

Charlotte police chief says the victim did not point a gun. Like I said, the 2nd amendment isn't for us. Release the tape.

I thought he was reading a book.

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:02 PM

Just release the tape. What is there to hide?

DarrinS

09-22-2016, 01:04 PM

Just release the tape. What is there to hide?

They're showing it to the family.

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:04 PM

I thought he was reading a book.

He was according to witnessesee, which means he didn't point a gun. Cop probably thought the book was a gun and clapped him. They could have found a gun in his car as it is our right as Americans to bear arms.

Chucho

09-22-2016, 01:07 PM

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:10 PM

:lol

Yup. And we should be able to deny statistics that don't work in our favor too, right??? Come off it already.

Huh?

CosmicCowboy

09-22-2016, 01:17 PM

He was according to witnessesee, which means he didn't point a gun. Cop probably thought the book was a gun and clapped him. They could have found a gun in his car as it is our right as Americans to bear arms.

That's amazing. That book miraculously turned into a gun when the shots were fired. Was the ankle holster for the book too?

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:21 PM

Once again we see victim blaming. We have a fellow American who was minding his business, waiting for his son per his daily routine, when cops approach him and kill him.

Nobody has said a peep on the recklessness of the police. If they would have done their jobs, the victim would be alive and the suspect who they were looking for originally would be in jail.

Now his son is without a father because of some reckless cop. Now the cycle of Africans Americans not trusting police will continue. Now the cop will enjoy a paid vacation plus whatever thousands of dollars he gets donated from demonic donors.

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:22 PM

That's amazing. That book miraculously turned into a gun when the shots were fired. Was the ankle holster for the book too?

Police have killed many people saying they thought they saw a gun when it was a wallet, walking canes, saxophones, etc.

Again is it illegal to now own a gun? Why did the cops approach him with guns drawn if he wasn't a suspect?

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:24 PM

The cop defense team is diligent today.

CosmicCowboy

09-22-2016, 01:28 PM

The cop defense team is diligent today.

The cop hater is diligent today.

boutons_deux

09-22-2016, 01:30 PM

Cops caught pepper-spraying handcuffed 15-year-old girl after she was hit by a car

The Hagerstown Police Department is under heavy fire after a video went viral of officers spraying pepper spray into the back of a police cruiser where a biracial teenage girl was handcuffed, according to Herald-Mail Media. (http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/breaking/hagerstown-police-dispute-claims-of-abuse-against-girl-in-facebook/article_f52636b6-8025-11e6-9647-136e6df6cdf9.html)

The 15-year-old girl was struck by a car on Sunday while riding her bike, after which she hit her head and passed out for half a minute. Ambulances were called, but the girl said she didn’t want to go to a hospital.

Police officers grabbed her off her bike as she tried to ride away and slammed her face into a nearby windowsill, eventually cuffing her hands.

Panicked, the girl resisted officers as they attempted to push her into the back of the cruiser. She can be heard in the video repeatedly requesting for the presence of a black officer named “Zach.”

“All we want to do is make sure she’s OK,” one officer tells a bystander, explaining that the girl might have lingering brain damage from the collision. Not even a minute later, an officer can be heard telling the girl to “put your feet in the car, OK, or you’re going to get sprayed.”

http://usuncut.com/news/cops-caught-pepper-spraying-handcuffed-15-year-old-girl-hit-car-video/

Cops just building trust and respect among non-whites, as usual

cop video, with screaming audio:

http://wpde.com/news/nation-world/police-release-footage-of-2-police-body-cams-in-arrest-of-underage-girl

Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 01:33 PM

The cop hater is diligent today.

Because yall keep quoting me and trolling me. I posted that the chief admitted the victim didn't point a gun and then you and your fellow defense attorney began to defend your client for whatever reason.

spurraider21

09-22-2016, 02:10 PM

Charlotte police chief says the victim did not point a gun. Like I said, the 2nd amendment isn't for us. Release the tape.
where'd you get that quote? the one i read was the chief saying "i dont know that he definitively pointed the weapon specifically towards the officer. i can tell you from the facts that the story is a little bit different as to how it's been portrayed so far, especially through social media"

https://gma.yahoo.com/charlotte-police-gave-keith-lamont-scott-clear-warnings-141315201--abc-news-topstories.html

if you've got a more recent quote, i'm all ears

pgardn

09-22-2016, 02:19 PM

Why are crowds still chanting "hands up don't shoot" ?

That phrase is still associated with Mike Brown. These incidents, you don't want associated with Mike Brown. People on all sides must be careful about their language. This is really not helpful because of the incident the phrase is associated with. It makes the protesting crowds fall into the SA category of misinformed malcontents.

And the frggn cops have to be versed in rendering quick evaluations after shooting people to paramedics that is recorded for crying out loud. It's totally callus just standing around while a person is bleeding to death. How? At least the cop in Minnesota showed some humanity in realizing what he had done ( caught on recording). This makes most cops look totally oblivious to dying and fuels Boots to proclaim the majority of cops are bad.

Witness the parallels of miscommunication used by zealots.

boutons_deux

09-22-2016, 02:22 PM

Prison decides that inmate’s own writing is too dangerous for him to read

Solitary Watch (http://solitarywatch.com/2016/09/20/writer-in-solitary-confinement-is-barred-from-reading-his-own-book/), an advocacy group for inmates in solitary confinement, reports that prisoner William Blake has been denied the right to read his own work.

Blake was sentenced to 77 years to life for trying to escape from court, where he faced a drug charge. He grabbed a gun and killed one of the court officers. And for the past 29 years, Blake has been locked up in solitary confinement. He can’t leave his cell for 23 hours a day.

One of the ways Blake spends his time is writing, including an essay titled “A Sentence Worse Than Death.” The piece was published in an anthology called “Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement.”

Although the book came out in February, Blake has yet to read it even though the publishers sent copies to Great Meadow Correctional Facility where Blake is held. Even though the book was sent in accordance to the regulations of the facility, he never got it.

The prison’s “Facility Media Review Committee” informed Blake that he could not read the book because “Publication which incites disobedience towards law enforcement officers or prison personell [sic] presents clear and immediate risk of lawlessness, violence, anarchy, or rebellion agiainst [sic] governmental authority.”

The position of the facility is that Blake’s own words are too dangerous for him to read.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/prison-decides-that-inmates-own-writing-is-too-dangerous-for-him-to-read/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Solitary confinement is torture, but that's expected from the sickos running prisons and jails.

TheSanityAnnex

09-22-2016, 02:23 PM

Charlotte police chief says the victim did not point a gun. Like I said, the 2nd amendment isn't for us. Release the tape.
you just make shit up to fit your narrative. The chief said from the video he couldn't tell if he pointed a gun.

TheSanityAnnex

09-22-2016, 02:26 PM

He was according to witnessesee, which means he didn't point a gun. Cop probably thought the book was a gun and clapped him. They could have found a gun in his car as it is our right as Americans to bear arms.
He was holding a book according to his family. He was holding a gun according to multiple non-family independent witnesses.

boutons_deux

09-22-2016, 06:17 PM

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Trill Clinton

09-22-2016, 09:01 PM

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boutons_deux

09-23-2016, 09:47 AM

Cop Who Shot Terence Crutcher Has History Of Drug Use, Domestic Disturbances

Aren’t these the characteristics that describe a “thug”?

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57e409e21800002f003166ff.jpeg

Betty Shelby has divorced and remarried at least once. According to the job application she submitted to the sheriff’s office in 2007 (http://media2.kjrh.com/html/pdfs/ShelbyApp.pdf), her ex-husband’s new wife filed a protective order against her in 2002 to put an end to harassing phone calls the new wife claims Shelby made. The order was eventually denied and Shelby maintained her innocence.

Nearly a decade earlier, Shelby noted on the same application (http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/who-is-betty-shelby-learn-more-abt-tpd-officer-involved-in-fatal-shooting-of-terence-crutcher), a breakup with her then-boyfriend led to the two damaging each other’s cars. Temporary restraining orders were filed and eventually tossed out.

Shelby is now a drug-recognition expert, which Wood said she received training for. She said she believed Crutcher was under the influence when she encountered him. Police said they later found PCP in Crutcher’s car (http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/police-say-pcp-found-in-vehicle-occupied-by-terence-crutcher/article_d965a1f2-072b-57bf-a682-6b1cfb22b246.html), but he is not the only one in the case who reportedly has a history of drug use.

In the same job application where Shelby noted various domestic disturbances, she marked “yes” under a prompt that asked whether she had “possessed and used illegal drugs” in the past. Shelby said she used marijuana twice when she was 18 years old.

Shelby also has two excessive force complaints, according to KJRH (http://www.newson6.com/story/33132173/us-attorney-city-leaders-crutcher-shooting-will-be-properly-thoroughly-investigated). Both of those cases were held to be unfounded. KJRH also reports that Shelby has four letters of commendation as well as an Oklahoma meritorious service award.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/officer-who-shot-terence-crutcher-has-history-of-drug-use-domestic-disturbances_us_57e3f0f8e4b08d73b82fd9ae

... if she were black and the shooting VICTIM, you rightwingnuts would slobber of her execution as perfectly OK, because she was a violent thug, drug user.

DarrinS

09-23-2016, 10:13 AM

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It was a book! :lol

CosmicCowboy

09-23-2016, 10:14 AM

Bookaki you ignorant slut. The Tulsa officer has been charged with first degree manslaughter.

What the fuck else do you want?

CosmicCowboy

09-23-2016, 10:31 AM

pieces of shit like you to actually start admitting to what your eyes see.

This is where the true indoctrination of the echo chamber that fucking thinks for you really displays itself. You kool aid naruto level faggots are so afraid of upsetting the brain that tells you what to think, do, and be outraged about, that you are paralyzed when having to form any sort of independent opinion based on facts and evidence.

Is English your second language or did you just miss basic grammar in junior high?

FuzzyLumpkins

09-23-2016, 10:46 AM

Is English your second language or did you just miss basic grammar in junior high?

It was quite easy for me to read and understand.

He said you don't think for yourself and run away from contrary opinions. He has a point for all the vitriol.

CosmicCowboy

09-23-2016, 10:54 AM

It was quite easy for me to read and understand.

He said you don't think for yourself and run away from contrary opinions. He has a point for all the vitriol.

I pointed out that the Tulsa officer Bookaki was bitching about had been rightfully charged with first degree manslaughter.

How is that "running away from contrary opinions" ?

Thats just fucking dumb on both your parts.

DarrinS

09-23-2016, 10:56 AM

Listen to how peaceful protesters respond to this guy, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59kJXOLbKg

TheSanityAnnex

09-23-2016, 10:57 AM

It was quite easy for me to read and understand.

He said you don't think for yourself and run away from contrary opinions. He has a point for all the vitriol.

You are literally the only person that has ever laughed at a Bonnerific post...and now this. Hmmm

TheSanityAnnex

09-23-2016, 03:10 PM

TheSanityAnnex

09-23-2016, 03:11 PM

Listen to how peaceful protesters respond to this guy, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59kJXOLbKg
Bright and well spoken kid. He's been all over the local news here in San Diego.

boutons_deux

09-23-2016, 03:19 PM

Bookaki you ignorant slut. The Tulsa officer has been charged with first degree manslaughter.

What the fuck else do you want?

CosmicParasite, you're cop fellator. Cops break Freddy Greys' back, paralyze him, kill him, indictments, trials, nobody jailed.

There's little chance the Tulsa shooter will be convicted.

ducks

09-23-2016, 03:24 PM

wonder how many mistakes the fbi made this last year
I wonder how many mistakes the employees of wells fargo made this year
I wonder how many mistakes the employees of safeway made this year
list goes on and on

spurraider21

09-23-2016, 03:26 PM

Trill Clinton

09-23-2016, 04:16 PM

race soldier clearly plants a gun. Told yall.

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clambake

09-23-2016, 04:24 PM

race soldier?

so......he dropped the "plant" to help out the guy that shot him? the black guy that shot him?

SpursforSix

09-23-2016, 04:25 PM

race soldier clearly plants a gun. Told yall.

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LOL. wtf. You don't believe that shit do you? It looks he opened up some packing for his gloves and threw it on the ground. Sure doesn't look like a gun. Or book.

Trill Clinton

09-23-2016, 04:55 PM

LOL. wtf. You don't believe that shit do you? It looks he opened up some packing for his gloves and threw it on the ground. Sure doesn't look like a gun. Or book.

my bad. i didn't have my glasses on. yea, its not a gun whatever it is. so still no sight of a gun. i'll be back after i watch the full vid.

Trill Clinton

09-23-2016, 04:57 PM

race soldier?

so......he dropped the "plant" to help out the guy that shot him? the black guy that shot him?

here ya go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCG7maEJS5Q

clambake

09-23-2016, 05:17 PM

so.......the white cops on scene were race soldiers?

DarrinS

09-23-2016, 05:39 PM

Lol, "clearly plants a gun"

clearly

SpursforSix

09-23-2016, 05:50 PM

here ya go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCG7maEJS5Q

Ha. I love Foghorn Leghorn.

SpursforSix

09-23-2016, 05:54 PM

my bad. i didn't have my glasses on. yea, its not a gun whatever it is. so still no sight of a gun. i'll be back after i watch the full vid.

If there was a gun, you probably wouldn't see it as they would have kicked it away. Not so with a book. So if you don't see a book on the ground, it must have been a gun.

CosmicCowboy

09-23-2016, 06:17 PM

Guess the cops planted his fingerprints on the loaded gun too. Pretty impressive coverup right in front of everyone.

SpursforSix

09-23-2016, 06:28 PM

Guess the cops planted his fingerprints on the loaded gun too. Pretty impressive coverup right in front of everyone.

Just watched a guy on CNN saying exactly that. Surprisingly they had two guests saying that was damn unlikely.

Trill Clinton

09-23-2016, 11:23 PM

Guess the cops planted his fingerprints on the loaded gun too. Pretty impressive coverup right in front of everyone.

yup makes sense. wouldn't be the first time.

Trill Clinton

09-23-2016, 11:24 PM

VIDEO OF RACE SOLDIER RAPING BLACK TEEN *WARNING GRAPHIC*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xRYQGb5Vuc

CosmicCowboy

09-24-2016, 09:44 AM

yup makes sense to idiots like me. wouldn't be the first time.

Winehole23

09-24-2016, 10:27 AM

seems unlikely here, but it's not like it never happens:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/st-louis-officer-accused-planting-gun-man-shot-article-1.2801097

Trill Clinton

09-24-2016, 08:21 PM

i wish keith scott would have gotten a negotiator. cops seem to be very patient with armed whites. i'm guessing they'll even take him to burger king on his way to the slammer http://i63.tinypic.com/2em2c05.png
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z0sa

09-24-2016, 09:31 PM

Proof of him not dropping it after multiple commands? An American practicing their 2nd amendment gets killed for no reason and you take the officers side. Why did the cop approach him with his gun drawn if he wasn't a suspect or showed no threat to anyone?

We should be able tof practice our rights to bear arms no matter our color.

See, now this is an angle and argument from you I can get behind 100%. Too much BLM concerns gun control or a race war, when the truth it is about cops unreasonably infringing upon the rights of American citizens on a national scale (pre-dominantly those of black citizens, admittedly). And THAT is what we, all Americans, need to fight against both on the street as well as in the judicial and legislative branches at every level of government. How many police chiefs are appointed by the city council or some other legislative board, for instance? This creates a situation where even if a police chief resigns in disgrace, he's quickly replaced by a like minded individual.

boutons_deux

09-25-2016, 10:35 AM

your rightwingnuts who love to justify police executions, murders by saying, effectively, "he (unConstitutionally) deserved it", you asholes are only emulating this asshole

Sean Hannity tries and fails to smear Terence Crutcher: “I read that there was numerous warrants out for his arrest”

An Ohio reporter smacks down the Fox News host's attempt to paint Crutcher as a criminal: That's "misinformation"

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/22/sean-hannity-tries-and-fails-to-smear-terence-crutcher-i-read-that-there-was-numerous-warrants-out-for-his-arrest/

... as if Hannity gave the tiniest shit about lying

boutons_deux

09-25-2016, 11:16 AM

Man has stroke after cops taser him while his hands are behind his back

31-year-old Carlos Seals, who was held in the Richmond County Jail in August of 2015 for public intoxication (despite being at home at the time of his arrest), is seen facing the wall with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, two officers at the scene, Deputy Donnie Crawford and Deputy Christopher Alexis, both pulled tasers from their belts (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/video-shows-deputies-tasing-man-with-hands-behind-his-back/449481528) and fired them at Seals.

After being tasered, Seals is seen falling violently to the floor, with the back of his head striking the concrete floor.

Seals has racked up more than $20,000 in medical bills, he said his multiple requests to the county to pay for the damage he suffered while in their custody have gone unanswered.

“[I had a] fractured skull, I had bleeding on the brain, it messed my nerves up in my back, I had a stroke,” Seals said.

http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matter/man-has-stroke-after-taser/

"Tasers are non-fatal", just one of the HUGE lies the PIC lives by. Many 100s dead from tasing, probably 1000s seriously and/or permanently injured, maimed.

boutons_deux

09-25-2016, 11:31 AM

PIC mental health care

Baltimore Man Dies After Being Beaten by Cops Following 911 Call to Take Him to the Hospital

“They really were supposed to be there to get him to the nearest healthcare facility.”

http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/baltimore-man-dies-after-being-beaten-cops-following-911-call-take-him-hospital

rightwingnut "ethnic cleansing/defective cleansing" justification: he was defective, terminate him, esp because he was black

Spurminator

09-25-2016, 01:19 PM

Well the good news is they stopped him from rolling a blunt in his car.

boutons_deux

09-25-2016, 05:24 PM

‘It doesn’t jive’: Ex-LAPD sergeant slams Charlotte police’s story about killing Keith Scott

retired Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey said that there are serious holes in the story by Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney’s explanation as to why officers shot Keith Lamont Scott last Tuesday.

“The video is not conclusive with regard to what the officers’ statements are,” Dorsey said. She said that she did not observe any “furtive movements” on Scott’s part, nor any evidence of criminal activity serious enough to warrant the officers leaving their previous post, donning police vests and moving in for an arrest.

“This thing could have been handled so differently,” (but this how the cops, esp slave state cops, "handle" knitters)

the fact that they say he’s brandishing a weapon in an open carry state and the fact that the officers are now saying that they observed him roll a joint is problematic for me.”

how these officers were able from their position seated in their car to see Mr. Scott rolling a joint and

then conclude that’s criminal activity occurring that’s

so egregious and outrageous that they need to leave their post and deal with that.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/it-doesnt-jive-ex-lapd-sergeant-slams-charlotte-polices-story-about-killing-keith-scott/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

"problematic". WTF? is something a problem? or not

"there is an issue" WTF is something a problem? or not

fucking rounded-off, dumbed-down weasel words.

"office-involved shooting" how was the officer involved ?as target or shooter? no, the fucking officer shot somebody

boutons_deux

09-25-2016, 05:31 PM

Ex-LAPD Cop: Charlotte Police 'Escalated the Situation' and Are Pushing a 'False Narrative' About Keith Scott

"I think that police department is almost in a lose-lose situation, because whatever they produce at this point is going to be suspect."

why the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department waited so long to release body camera video of the Scott shooting and why they only released part of the video in their possession.

“Well, I believe there’s something on that video that may be unsettling,” Dorsey replied. “Not only to the community but to the family if they were to see it in its entirety.”

“They’re going to throw buckets of (taxpayer) money at the family. There will be no substantive change in the way their officers do business. And this will go on until we have the next Keith Scott or Philando Castile or Sandra Bland. That’s why everybody is so frustrated.”

officers can only use lethal force “of a type that is commensurate with what type of resistance a suspect is producing.” If an officer is faced with a suspect who may fire, they have a right and a duty, she said, to stop them.

“It seems the officers escalated that situation, and are now creating a false narrative,”

http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/ex-lapd-cop-charlotte-police-escalated-situation-and-are-pushing-false-narrative-about

she's a woman and a knitter, so of course she can't trusted or respected or unbiased.

Mal

09-26-2016, 04:05 AM

I was intrigued by this Charlotte protest, so I found this video of the shooting and I`ve got questions, maybe someone knows the anwers:
1. Why was there so much police ? Who called them ?
2. Why this guy didn`t drop his guy, when he was surrounded by armed police and was called to do it like a dozen times ?
3. Why do you protest by robbing a shop ?

boutons_deux

09-26-2016, 05:41 PM

Man Arrested For Parodying Police Department's Facebook Page Sues City, PD Over Rights Violations

Because an Ohio police department couldn't handle being (momentarily) mocked, it's now being sued by the man officers arrested after he created a spoof of the department's Facebook page.

Earlier this year, Anthony Novak parodied the Parma (OH) Police Department's Facebook page (http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/28/ohio-cops-think-this-guy-should-go-to-ja), posting obviously fake announcements from the faux department like the following:

The Parma Civil Service Commission will conduct a written exam for basic Police Officer for the City of Parma to establish an eligibility list.

The exam will be held on March 12, 2016. Applications are available February 14, 2016, through March 2, 2016. Parma is an equal opportunity employer but is strongly encouraging minorities to not apply.

The test will consist of a 15 question multiple choice definition test followed by a hearing test.

Should you pass you will be accepted as an officer of the Parma Police Department.

Other postings not quite as charming, but definitely as fake, included announcements of the PD's new roving abortion van, a "Pedophile Reform event," plans to arrest anyone caught outside between noon and 9 pm, and a ban on feeding the homeless to better serve the city's plan to eradicate the problem through starvation.

Novak did copy the department's logo and the Facebook page did look similar… right up until readers read the posts, or noticed the fake department's motto: "We No Crime."

Rather than leave this in Facebook's hands (or just leave it alone altogether), the Parma police decided to greet the situation head on. It came up with a charge to use to go after Novak: use of a computer to "disrupt, interrupt or impair" police services. Then it went after him, mustering far more force than would seem to be necessary to handle a bogus Facebook page. Jacob Sullum of Reason recaps the stupidity (http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/21/ohio-man-arrested-for-mocking-cops-files).

Parma police...launched an investigation that involved at least seven officers, a subpoena and three search warrants, and

a raid on Novak's apartment, during which the cops surprised his roommate on the toilet and seized two hard drives, a laptop, two tablets, two cellphones, and two video game systems.

After his arrest on March 25, Novak spent four days in jail before he got out on bail, and then he had to report weekly to a probation officer if he wanted to keep his freedom.

The charge was obviously bogus. Statements made in defense of the PD's actions mainly focused on the derogatory nature of the posts.

But very little was said about how a Facebook page that was up for less than two days and gathered only 300 followers made it more difficult for the police to continue servicing the community.

It would seem the diversion of seven officers to a stupid investigation with obvious Constitutional implications would be far more disruptive to public service.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160925/14305535620/man-arrested-parodying-police-departments-facebook-page-sues-city-pd-over-rights-violations.shtml

small dicks and thin skins make for wonderful police warriors for warring on citizens.

djohn2oo8

09-26-2016, 06:15 PM

http://www.click2houston.com/news/metro-offers-update-on-2-suspended-officers-man-beaten-with-baton

Trill Clinton

09-27-2016, 10:54 AM

http://www.click2houston.com/news/metro-offers-update-on-2-suspended-officers-man-beaten-with-baton

Just read this race soldier quit. Hopefully he gets charged.

boutons_deux

09-28-2016, 10:00 AM

Across US, police officers abuse confidential databases

Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work,

systems also can be exploited by officers who, motivated by romantic quarrels, personal conflicts or voyeuristic curiosity, sidestep policies and sometimes the law by snooping. In the most egregious cases, officers have used information to stalk or harass, or have tampered with or sold records they obtained.

law enforcement officers and employees who misused databases were fired, suspended or resigned more than 325 times between 2013 and 2015. They received reprimands, counseling or lesser discipline in more than 250 instances

"It's personal. It's your address. It's all your information, it's your Social Security number, it's everything about you,"

"And when they use it for ill purposes to commit crimes against you — to stalk you, to follow you, to harass you ... it just becomes so dangerous."

the worst violations profoundly abuses systems that supply vital information on criminal suspects and law-abiding citizens alike. The unauthorized searches demonstrate how even old-fashioned policing tools are ripe for abuse,

Some departments produced no records at all. Some states refused to disclose the information, said they don't comprehensively track misuse or produced records too incomplete or unclear to be counted.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/699236946e3140659fff8a2362e16f43/ap-across-us-police-officers-abuse-confidential-databases

boutons_deux

09-28-2016, 09:34 PM

Knitter slaughtering update...

Court Dumps Cops' Complaint They Were Unfairly Treated After Shooting Two Unarmed Suspects 47 Times

In 2012, Cleveland police officers engaged in perhaps the most one-sided "shootout" ever with two suspects at the tail end of an (unauthorized) police chase. By the time it was over, officers had fired 139 bullets into a vehicle they had trapped in a school parking lot.

Twenty-three of those hit the driver. Twenty-four hit the passenger. Both vehicle occupants were killed.

One officer -- Michael Brelo -- apparently thought he was starring in his own action film. He unloaded 49 rounds in just over 20 seconds while standing on the hood of the stopped vehicle.

All told, more than 75 Cleveland PD vehicles joined the chase/shooting.

At the end of a yearlong investigation, 63 officers were suspended (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131015/13010924886/internal-investigation-into-pursuit-shooting-results-suspension-63-cleveland-police-officers.shtml) for their participation. Six officers were charged (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140531/12595127425/six-officers-charged-police-pursuit-that-ended-with-137-shots-being-fired-suspects-little-over-20-seconds.shtml).

The genesis of the horrific debacle was nothing more than a car backfiring. One cop mistook this for a gunshot and all hell broke loose. No weapons were recovered from the vehicle.

One of the stranger offshoots of the infamous shootings was a lawsuit filed by several Cleveland police officers who took part in the chase. In their view, they were punished more harshly than African American officers who also participated in the unauthorized pursuit.
Their original argument was more than a little depressing (http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/cleveland_police_officers_accu.html).

The officers - eight white officers and one Hispanic - claim the department has a history of treating non-black officers who shoot black residents "more harshly" than black officers involved in shootings, according to the lawsuit…

Apparently, the Cleveland PD shoots enough black residents that a pattern of discrimination can be discerned. And, apparently enough officers walk away unscathed from shootings that the worst thing complained about is longer suspensions, not actual firings or criminal charges.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160925/18290735623/court-dumps-cops-complaint-they-were-unfairly-treated-after-shooting-two-unarmed-suspects-47-times.shtml

Trill Clinton

09-29-2016, 09:17 AM

I don't know if I can watch this one

781488727411621889

boutons_deux

09-29-2016, 11:59 AM

Graphic video showing fatal police shooting of 6-year-old boy released as murder trial evidence

the head of the Louisiana State Police said the video was the most disturbing thing he’s seen.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2971599/video-showing-police-accused-of-killing-6-year-old-boy-released-as-murder-trial-evidence/

Trill Clinton

09-30-2016, 09:02 AM

CosmicCowboy

09-30-2016, 09:11 AM

A sad case and both officers are being charged with murder.

The system appears to be working.

DarrinS

09-30-2016, 09:13 AM

#alllivesmatter and #bluelivesmatter have been very quiet about this shooting. BLM is the only organization condemning the shooting.

They were indicted by a grand jury. Should I burn down my neighbor's house as a symbol of my solidarity?

DarrinS

09-30-2016, 09:23 AM

Why wait for facts tho?

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/09/jimmy-james-tyson-justin-carr-charlotte/

Oops

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/special-reports/charlotte-shooting-protests/article104237666.html

Trill Clinton

09-30-2016, 10:14 AM

Scary. The 6 year old killed was autistic. Still no word from #all livesmatter or #blue livesmatter.

781200478952488960

CosmicCowboy

09-30-2016, 11:30 AM

Scary. The 6 year old killed was autistic. Still no word from #all livesmatter or #blue livesmatter.

What do you want them to say? The deputies are rightfully being prosecuted for murder. The system normally works if you give it a chance.

Should they go loot a Walmart in protest?

Capt Bringdown

10-02-2016, 12:46 PM

‘Do Not Resist': A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/09/30/do-not-resist-a-chilling-look-at-the-normalization-of-warrior-cops/?utm_term=.11459ea83a45)

The haunting thing about the new policing documentary “Do Not Resist” is what it doesn’t show. There are no images of cops beating people. No viral videos of horrifying shootings. Sure, there are scenes from the Ferguson protests in which riot cops deploy tear gas. But there’s no blood, no Tasings, no death. Yet when it was over, I had to force myself to exhale.

What makes this movie so powerful is its terrifying portrayal of the mundanities of modern policing.
-- more -->> (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/09/30/do-not-resist-a-chilling-look-at-the-normalization-of-warrior-cops/?utm_term=.11459ea83a45)

FuzzyLumpkins

10-02-2016, 01:10 PM

What do you want them to say? The deputies are rightfully being prosecuted for murder. The system normally works if you give it a chance.

Should they go loot a Walmart in protest?

http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/19/how-special-rights-for-law-enforcement-m

Not so much.

Winehole23

10-02-2016, 01:25 PM

What might ninth graders be taught about interactions with law enforcement that could prevent police from shooting as many of them later on?

That's the question posed by Sen. John Whitmire's suggestion that they be "taught how to properly interact with police when they are stopped for traffic violations or if they are detained," as the Houston Chronicle's Mike Ward reported (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Whitmire-wants-schools-to-teach-kids-how-to-act-9455091.php?t=f3e0d9f47d438d9cbb&cmpid=email-premium) on Thursday.

Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, said his proposed legislation would require the Texas Education Agency to develop curriculum "in law enforcement duties and interaction."

If eventually approved by the Legislature, the law would be the first of its kind in Texas.

"There is no home team or visiting team. We must all come together to develop the best strategies to improve relations and trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve," Whitmire said. "Increased training and education for both peace officers and our students will help foster positive relations and interactions."

Students should be taught that police can arrest them for petty offenses, like Sandra Bland's failure-to-signal-a-lane change, at the officer's discretion, even when the law envisions no jail time as punishment for the offense. (Gov. Rick Perry vetoed legislation in 2001 to limit such arrests, but Republican state Sen. Konni Burton, who is on Chairman Whitmire's Criminal Justice Committee, has vowed to carry a newer, beefed up version in 2017. So if that passed, students could be informed in the new curriculum that they cannot be arrested for Class C misdemeanors, or whatever the rule turns out to be.)

It's true the safest time to take up an officer's misbehavior is after the fact; confronting it at the time could get you tazed, beaten, or shot. But will students be taught how seldom officers are held accountable after citizen complaints, even when there's video? In Austin, for example, "Less than 5 percent of the complaints from the public resulted in officer discipline," an audit found (http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/audit-shows-holes-in-austin-police-complaint-proce/nsgww/). The Statesman's recent look at DPS showed none of the racial profiling complaints from the public were found to be justified by the agency, even though video posted by the Statesman showed drivers being treated with open disrespect. We shouldn't advise people to complain without also telling them complaints tend to be fruitless. The purpose here should be to educate students, not propagandize them.

A curriculum which taught students the legal limits of their personal rights when interacting with police might be useful, but only if it empowers students to END interactions with police as soon as possible and explains why that's always in their personal best interests when being questioned without a lawyer. Teaching them to "comply" cannot mean "comply with questioning." Drivers must submit to short-term detention if they're pulled over but they're under no obligation to explain where they're coming from, where they're going, what they're doing, consent to a search, etc.. If the curriculum does not acknowledge those limitations on officers' ability to enforce compliance and ignores drivers' civil liberties in favor of emphasizing cops' authority, it won't solve the problem and may make it worse.http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/10/what-should-we-teach-ninth-graders-so.html

Trill Clinton

10-07-2016, 06:39 PM

784173807447793665

Spurminator

10-08-2016, 12:03 PM

Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/06/chicago-police-bosses-targeted-cops-who-exposed-corruption/

Excerpt:

SPALDING AND ECHEVERRIA’S account of the retaliation they endured after joining the fugitive apprehension unit is corroborated by an affidavit and deposition (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2849644-Hannah-Affidavit.html) provided in their case by Officer Janet Hanna. Now retired, Hanna was the personal administrator for Cmdr. Joseph Salemme and Lt. Robert Cesario of fugitives. She stated that before Spalding and Echeverria joined fugitives, Cesario warned his administrative staff in the unit that they were “IAD rats” and should not be trusted. He told sergeants under his command, in her words, “to instruct their teams of officers to not provide any backup for Shannon or Danny and to not work with them at all.” Further, Hanna stated that Cesario ordered her to give them only dead-end cases that would not result in arrests, that he personally reviewed their assignments, and that he instructed her to destroy their overtime requests. She also testified that they were denied access to the databases required to do their jobs.On June 20, 2012, Spalding and Echeverria were ordered to meet with their direct supervisors — Sgt. Maurice Barnes, Cesario, and Salemme. Cesario informed them they were being taken off the task force because they had too few arrests and priority cases. When Spalding and Echeverria challenged Cesario about their lack of activity, Spalding recounted to me, Salemme demanded to know whether they were working for internal affairs. “You brought this baggage on yourselves,” he said. “You want to investigate bosses, you want to put bosses in jail, you should have known this would happen to you.”

Winehole23

10-09-2016, 03:12 AM

POLICE (http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/?p=#POL_), n. An armed force for protection and participation.

Winehole23

10-09-2016, 03:14 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/15/closing-the-book-on-jon-burge-chicago-cop-accused-of-brutally-torturing-african-american-suspects/

Winehole23

10-09-2016, 03:14 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands

boutons_deux

10-10-2016, 05:39 PM

Why the police union supports Trash The Misogynist Groper?

Cop's Own Dash Cam :lol Catches Him Pulling Over and Raping Multiple Women While On Duty

more than 9 percent of reports (http://www.policemisconduct.net/2010-npmsrp-police-misconduct-statistical-report/#_Sexual_Misconduct) of police misconduct in 2010 involved sexual abuse, making it the second-most reported form of misconduct, after the use of excessive force.

Comparing that data to FBI crime statistics indicates that “sexual assault rates are significantly higher for police when compared to the general population.”

A short google search will reveal the near epidemic of police rape that takes place in the United States.
Not only is sexual assault higher among cops, but it also largely goes unpunished.
Police sexual misconduct is so common that more than 1,000 officers have had their licenses revoked in just the last six years for it, that we know about — nearly half of them involving underage victims. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/isolated-incidents-1000-cops-6-years-decertified-child-porn-child-rape-sexual-assaults/) However, only a small fraction of those officers received jail time.
http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/cops-own-dash-cam-catches-him-pulling-over-and-raping-multiple-women-while-duty
CosmicParasite loves him some cops.

boutons_deux

10-10-2016, 06:20 PM

Confirmed: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping schtum on use

CCDC is for 'Covert Communications Data Capture'

How do they work?

The devices exploit a long-known security shortcoming in the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standards.

While GSM was developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as a secure means of wireless communication,

the specifications require the mobile device to authenticate itself to the network using its IMSI (International Mobile
Subscriber Identity) – but do not require the network to authenticate itself to the mobile device.
This vulnerability makes it very difficult for mobile device users to defend against malicious actors who seek to spoof the network itself.

because of this, many critics say that if the State is seeking to exploit this vulnerability rather than attempting to see it patched, it is a failure in its duty of care.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/10/police_widespread_ownership_of_imsi_catchers_revea led/

DarrinS

10-12-2016, 08:41 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tulsa-police-pcp-autopsy_us_57fd67fbe4b0d505a46aec32?section=&

Winehole23

10-12-2016, 08:52 AM

is that a mitigating circumstance?

boutons_deux

10-12-2016, 08:53 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tulsa-police-pcp-autopsy_us_57fd67fbe4b0d505a46aec32?section=&

yep, drug use, like mental illness, justifies immediate murder by the police.

Fabbs

10-12-2016, 09:06 AM

is that a mitigating circumstance?
Absolutely.
No doubt contributed to his erratic behavior including parking way over the middle line on a two lane hiway.

boutons_deux

10-12-2016, 09:17 AM

Absolutely.
No doubt contributed to his erratic behavior including parking way over the middle line on a two lane hiway.

... which posed a direct, mortal threat to the cops standing dozens of feet away.

Fabbs

10-12-2016, 09:23 AM

... which posed a direct, mortal threat to the cops standing dozens of feet away.
That hasn't been established yet.

Trill Clinton

10-12-2016, 02:48 PM

786273826057314304

boutons_deux

10-12-2016, 02:51 PM

Osama bin Laden is laughing his ass off, as his cheapo attack provokes insane overreaction

When Minority Report Becomes New Yorkers' Reality

Tucked into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HNzHyE68ek&feature=youtu.be) on his $100 billion plan (https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-transformational-plan-reimagine-new-york-s-bridges-and-tunnels-21st) to invest in the state’s infrastructure last week was an initiative that will put New Yorkers’ privacy in peril.

Part of Cuomo’s plan to “reimagine New York’s crossings for the 21st century” calls for installing controversial advanced cameras, license plate readers, and facial recognition technology in New York’s airports and other transportation hubs. The plan also will install sensors and cameras at “structurally sensitive” points on bridges and tunnels.

This is a transformative surveillance system — one that has the potential to put thousands and thousands of people's images and data in a massive database

A SWAT team in Kansas raided (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/?tid=ss_tw) Harte’s house where his wife, 7-year-old daughter, and 13-year-old son lived

based in part on the mass monitoring of cars parked at a gardening store.

Harte was held at gunpoint for two hours while cops combed through his home.

The police were looking for a marijuana growing operation.

They did not find that or any other evidence of criminal activity in Harte’s house.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/12/when-minority-report-becomes-new-yorkers-reality

boutons_deux

10-14-2016, 03:42 PM

A journalist arrested for filming a Dakota Access protest could face more prison time than Edward Snowden.

Schlosberg reportedly (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deia-schlosberg-arrested-north-dakota_us_58004d81e4b0162c043b342d) faces three felony conspiracy charges.

If convicted, she could be sentenced to 45 years in prison. To put that in perspective:

In the eyes of the legal system, spilling the NSA’s secrets is less reprehensible than doing a journalist’s job.

http://grist.org/briefly/hurricane-matthew-swept-away-the-bank-accounts-of-2-1-million-haitians/

The Law: just another fundamental part of America that is fucked and unfuckable.

boutons_deux

10-14-2016, 03:43 PM

Uvalde County Jail releases murder suspect due to medical expenses

http://www.kens5.com/news/politics/uvalde-county-jail-releases-murder-suspect-due-to-medical-expenses/335926769

boutons_deux

10-15-2016, 05:08 AM

in red/slave states, so very Christian, anything goes

Man Gets Just 60 Days for Raping His 12-Year-Old Daughter

A 40-year-old Montana man had sex with his 12-year-old daughter in 2015.

That’s a fact. He pleaded guilty to felony incest in front of a Valley County judge. And with the prosecutor recommending a 100-year prison sentence

reasoning for the sentence is that the man had a lot of support from the community, including family (the girl’s mother and grandmother), friends, church, and current employer.

And a social worker had testified that the man was at a low-risk of re-offending.

the man only admitted to one instance of felony incest. However, at least one other was mentioned in testimony and in a risk-assessment by a social worker

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/why-man-only-got-60-days-for-molesting-12-year-old-daughter/

:lol

If he were black ... in Montana.

boutons_deux

10-18-2016, 04:04 AM

Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38023-standing-rock-protectors-strip-searched-jailed-for-days-on-minor-charges

When law enforcement is on BigCarbon's side against dissent, abuse the law to abuse the dissenters.

boutons_deux

10-18-2016, 08:50 AM

Pop Quiz on Fourth Amendment and the criminalization of the normal

Pop Quiz from the Texas Seventh Court of Appeals: Which of the following are NOT an indicia of drug trafficking under Texas law?

Breathing.
Having two hands.
Driving a clean vehicle.
Looking at a peace officer.
Looking away from a peace officer.
A young person driving a newer vehicle.
Driving in a car with meal wrappers.
Driving carefully.
Driving on an interstate.

The answer, according to a majority opinion (http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=1746b3a0-39bc-47a5-ba68-ed860dcf39fa&MediaID=aa44d8f7-b181-4f28-a3a2-be82da13e55d&coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20 +%20@%22&DT=Opinion) from the Seventh Court of Appeals written by Chief Justice Brian Quinn, is thatonly the first two cannot be considered suspicious behavior that justifies an investigative detention

, according to Texas courts.

the majority opinion (http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=1746b3a0-39bc-47a5-ba68-ed860dcf39fa&MediaID=aa44d8f7-b181-4f28-a3a2-be82da13e55d&coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20 +%20@%22&DT=Opinion) is quite a read, lamenting that "most anything can be considered indicia of drug trafficking to law enforcement personnel."

Justice's Quinn's open criticism of too-broad reasonable suspicion categories justifying excessive roadside detention is well deserved.

The opinion insists that officers not just list otherwise legal activities and call them suspicion but explain why those legal activities suggest illegality.

In effect, the process utilized by the deputy to justify the continued detention of appellant likens to that used in profiling.

Again, the articulable facts he recited as constituting reasonable suspicion are not inherently criminal.

To give them significance, the deputy searched his "knowledge, training, and experience."

The breadth of that "knowledge, training, and experience" was explained by no one.

Nevertheless, from it he formed various opinions about what does and does not look like suspicious activity. ...

That is problematic since the opinions appear over generalized in some instances, e.g., nervousness, the use of masking agents, and the presence of a rental vehicle.

In others, they may have been based upon facts different from those at bar, e.g., windows that could not open indicating the presence of contraband.

While in others, they may have simply been derived from his personal viewpoint, e.g., driving 75 mph on an Interstate with windows down.

Each indicia at bar could have significance or not. It was dependent upon the State and deputy to explain why they did.

Merely offering conclusory opinions derived from an unknown data base does not instill us with confidence about their reliability and accuracy.

As stated in Ford v. State (citation omitted), "[m]ere opinions are ineffective substitutes for specific, articulable facts in a reasonable suspicion analysis."

Without proof of their substantive reliability they are not enough to raise the totality of the circumstances before us to the level of reasonable suspicion.

Grits expects prosecutors immediately to appeal this to the Court of Criminal Appeals.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/10/pop-quiz-on-fourth-amendment-and.html

boutons_deux

10-19-2016, 11:51 AM

Feds Use Search Warrant To Make Everyone In Building UnFeds Use Search Warrant To Make Everyone In Building Unlock Their Phoneslock Their Phones

warrant included language authorizing investigators to

“depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES during the execution of the search and

who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device that is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES and falls within the scope of the warrant.”

In other words: with that warrant,

cops can walk a house or apartment building and

demand literally everyone inside immediately use their fingerprints to unlock their phones for inspection.

To search the entire contents every single device, whether it belongs to an identified suspect or not, that may exist at the search location.

Experts Forbes consulted found the scope and language of the warrant to be shockingly broad.

“They want the ability to get a warrant on the assumption that they will learn more after they have a warrant,”

one attorney told Forbes.

Another, from the EFF, told Forbes that usually,

“It’s not enough for a government to just say we have a warrant to search this house and therefore this person should unlock their phone.

The government needs to say specifically what information they expect to find on the phone, how that relates to criminal activity and I would argue they need to set up a way to access only the information that is relevant to the investigation.”

https://consumerist.com/2016/10/19/feds-use-search-warrant-to-make-everyone-in-building-unlock-their-phones/

boutons_deux

10-19-2016, 11:54 AM

The perpetual lineup: Half of US adults in a face-recognition database

In this virtual lineup, you're scanned despite not being suspected of a crime.

"By using face recognition to scan the faces on 26 states' driver's license and ID photos, police and the FBI have basically enrolled half of all adults in a massive virtual line-up.

This has never been done for fingerprints or DNA. It's uncharted and frankly dangerous territory."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/the-perpetual-lineup-half-of-us-adults-in-a-face-recognition-database/

Winehole23

10-21-2016, 09:16 AM

what could go wrong?

Never let it be said law enforcement won't get their man. Even if it's the wrong man. And even if they do it twice.

This was Denver native Steven Talley's first experience with the local PD (https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/how-a-facial-recognition-mismatch-can-ruin-your-life/).

It was just after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look.

Seconds later, he was knocked to the pavement outside his house. Flash bang grenades detonated, temporarily blinding and deafening him. Three men dressed in black jackets, goggles, and helmets repeatedly hit him with batons and the butts of their guns. He remembers one of the men telling him, “So you like to fuck with my brothers in blue!” while another stood on his face and cracked two of his teeth. “You’ve got the wrong guy,” he remembers shouting. “You guys are crazy.”

Talley was driven to a Denver detention center, where he was booked for two bank robberies — the first on May 14 and the second on September 5, 2014, 10 days before his arrest — and for assaulting an officer during the second robbery.

Surveillance camera footage from the robbed banks had been circulated. Acquaintances and Talley's estranged ex-wife asserted that the man shown was Talley. Using these statements, the Denver PD moved forward with its particularly brutal arrest, one that left Talley with multiple injuries.

In the months that followed, a series of medical exams revealed that Talley had sustained several injuries on the night of his arrest, including a broken sternum, several broken teeth, four ruptured disks, blood clots in his right leg, nerve damage in his right ankle, and a possibly fractured penis.

Talley was held for two months until recordings made by his employer showed he was at his desk on sales calls during the time the May robbery took place. He was released and charges were dropped. But investigators still didn't have the right suspect in custody. So they turned the footage over to the FBI, which put one of its facial recognition experts on the case.

The detective assigned to Talley’s case, Jeffery Hart, had requested that an FBI facial examiner manually compare stills from the banks’ grainy surveillance videos to several pictures of Talley — a tall, broad-shouldered white man with short blond hair, mild blue eyes, and a square jaw.

The FBI analysis concluded that Talley’s face did not match the May robber’s, but that he and the September robber shared multiple corresponding characteristics, including the shape of the head, chin, jaw line, mole marks, and ear features. “The questioned individual depicted” in the September images, the report concluded, “appears to be Talley.”

"Appears." That was enough to justify putting Talley through this whole nightmarish experience again. Talley was arrested again, under the new law enforcement theory that the robberies had been committed by two different men, both of whom resembled Talley enough to have him arrested twice (http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/steven-talley-rappin-and-ridin-and-not-stealin/9222).

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161015/07313535800/fbi-facial-recognition-expert-helps-denver-pd-arrest-wrong-man-twice-same-crime.shtml

pgardn

10-21-2016, 09:56 AM

Fortunately they broke the wrong white Guy's penis, however that is accomplished.

boutons_deux

10-25-2016, 01:10 PM

The horrifying behavior of Anita Alvarez, Chicago's head prosecutor (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/24/1453982/-The-horrifying-behavior-of-Anita-Alvarez-Chicago-s-head-prosecutor)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/139672/story_image/AnitaAlvarez_meet-e1341785508456-470x376.jpg?1446946814

Alvarez is known as one of the worst prosecutors in the country. Here are just a few of the dozens of stories of misconduct and bad behavior in Alvarez’s office.

SCOTUS says that sentencing children to life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment. Alvarez recommends it anyway.

A witness recants his testimony in a murder trial and gets charged with perjury.

A witness recants his testimony in a murder trial and gets charged with perjury.

Cop murders Laquan McDonald. Alvarez takes a year to charge him.

Alvarez undercharged the cop that murdered Rekia Boyd and then purposefully tanked the case—all because she wanted to continue getting campaign donations from police unions.

Man convicted of murder was actually in jail at the time of the crime. Prosecutors failed to disclose evidence proving his innocence. Alvarez thinks that’s just fine.

Judge called prosecutor's behavior "deeply troubling," threw out murder conviction.

Students at Northwestern's journalism school freed wrongly convicted men, so Alvarez subpoenaed their grades and personal emails.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/24/1453982/-The-horrifying-behavior-of-Anita-Alvarez-Chicago-s-head-prosecutor

boutons_deux

10-25-2016, 01:34 PM

Houston DA covered up the destruction of 21,000 pieces of evidence—and now she wants your vote (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/24/1586162/-Houston-DA-covered-up-the-destruction-of-21-000-pieces-of-evidence-Now-she-wants-your-vote)

The district attorney of Harris County is currently mired in a scandal that once again indicates she is not fit to lead.

District Attorney Devon Anderson knew in February that Harris County Deputy Chris Hess had destroyed 21,000 pieces of evidence, including evidence in pending cases. But she didn't say a word until August, when she realized that the story was about to become public.

Instead, she sat quietly as her prosecutors tried cases where critical evidence had been compromised or destroyed completely.

Once Anderson was caught, she decided to finally be honest about the thousands of pieces of destroyed evidence.

She announced early last month that 142 cases would be thrown out and over 1,000 could be compromised. That number could easily increase. At least one report stated that, in Hess's January dump alone,

861 pieces of the destroyed evidence were connected to 470 open cases.

And the Houston Press (http://www.houstonpress.com/news/precinct-4-destroyed-evidence-leads-to-142-dismissed-cases-so-far-8730094)reports that her office “has sent letters to about 600 defendants who were convicted or took plea deals in cases where evidence has been lost—raising the possibility that more suspects could be freed.”

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/24/1586162/-Houston-DA-covered-up-the-destruction-of-21-000-pieces-of-evidence-Now-she-wants-your-vote?detail=email&link_id=8&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-kellyanne-conway-tells-hilarious-lie-about-trump-wanting-another-debate-3&email_referrer=kellyanne-conway-tells-hilarious-lie-about-trump-wanting-another-debate-3&email_subject=kellyanne-conway-tells-hilarious-lie-about-trump-wanting-another-debate

boutons_deux

10-26-2016, 10:18 PM

Cops brutalize black off-duty officer after profiling him for crime he didn’t commit
An off-duty police officer based out of D.C. was thrown to the ground and hit in the head by Prince George’s County police officers because he fit a description of a shooting suspect vaguely described as a black male wearing a hoodie and blue jeans.

Off-duty police officer Robert Parker was walking away from a nearby mall where a man had been shot and wounded just minutes before. (http://www.fox5dc.com/news/213538542-story) A police officer pulled up beside him, threw him to the ground, and punched him in the head despite Parker passively complying to all commands and attempting to identify himself as a fellow officer.

“He walked up to me and he started patting me down and I’m just thinking, is this really happening? Because I know the protocol because I’m a police officer,” Parker said in an interview with FOX 5 (http://www.fox5dc.com/news/213809206-story).

“He reaches around and feels my sidearm, my firearm and I look at him and I see the look in his eye and I say, ‘I’m the police.’ I’m literally slammed. I went to the ground, I kept saying, ‘I’m the police, I’m the police.’

There were two other officers there. I felt their presence and they placed me in handcuffs, and then somebody hit me in the right side of my face.”

http://usuncut.com/news/cops-brutalize-black-off-duty-officer-profiling-crime-didnt-commit/

Fuck the cops

boutons_deux

10-27-2016, 02:23 PM

10,000 Files on Chicago Police Torture Are Now Online

Q: “So they beat you until you urinated on yourself and defecated on yourself?”

A: “Yes.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/10000-files-on-chicago-police-torture-decades-now-online/504233/

boutons_deux

10-28-2016, 01:49 PM

American Indians killed by cops at highest rate in the nation, but they're invisible in the media (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/21/1585414/-American-Indians-killed-by-cops-at-highest-rate-in-the-nation-but-they-re-invisible-in-the-media)

investigative piece (http://inthesetimes.com/features/native_american_police_killings_native_lives_matte r.html) on the killings of American Indians by cops published Monday

Like the slayings of so many African Americans killed by police, the deaths of many of them could have easily been avoided by smarter, more compassionate and less trigger-happy cops. And, as is so often the case in matters relating to living indigenous Americans, these dead men and women were invisible. Most didn’t show up in the media or the statistics.

SUQUAMISH TRIBE DESCENDANT JEANETTA RILEY, A 34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR, LAY FACEDOWN ON A SANDPOINT, IDAHO, STREET.

One minute earlier, three police officers had arrived, summoned by staff at a nearby hospital. Her husband had sought help there because

Riley—homeless, pregnant and with a history of mental illness—was threatening suicide.

Riley had a knife in her right hand and was sitting in the couple’s parked van.

Wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle and Glock pistols, the officers quickly closed in on Riley—one moving down the sidewalk toward the van, the other two crossing the roadway. They shouted instructions at her—to walk toward them, show them her hands. Cursing them, she refused.

“Drop the knife!” they yelled, advancing, then opened fire.

They pumped two shots into her chest and another into her back as she fell to the pavement.

Fifteen seconds had elapsed from the time they exited their vehicles.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/21/1585414/-American-Indians-killed-by-cops-at-highest-rate-in-the-nation-but-they-re-invisible-in-the-media?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

http://inthesetimes.com/features/native_american_police_killings_native_lives_matte r.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/21/1585414/-American-Indians-killed-by-cops-at-highest-rate-in-the-nation-but-they-re-invisible-in-the-media?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

boutons_deux

10-28-2016, 05:33 PM

An obscure disaster-relief law was used to clear the Dakota Access camp.

it is also being activated to quell dissent.

Riot-clad police arrested 141 people (http://grist.org/briefly/the-most-accurate-picture-of-the-dakota-access-showdown-might-be-on-social-media/) Thursday for what the local sheriff says is trespassing on private property near a local highway. As EcoWatch (http://www.ecowatch.com/dakota-access-pipeline-emergency-order-2063073522.html), DeSmog (http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/27/emergency-assistance-law-dakota-access-pipeline-out-state-cops), and local (http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/10/25/hcso-faces-backlash-after-sending-deputies-to-standing-rock/) outlets (http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-north-dakota-pipeline-assist-st-1027-20161026-story.html) point out, North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple

used EMAC to bring in law enforcement from six states to clear the encampment near construction for the Dakota Access pipeline.

The mutual aid law was also used in Baltimore (http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20150428/NEWS/150429626) in 2015 following Black Lives Matter protests mourning the death of Freddie Gray (http://grist.org/cities/baltimore-riots-flared-up-in-a-toxic-environment/).

EMAC was even used ahead of anticipated protests (http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/nj_sends_state_troopers_to_cleveland_for_gop_conve .html) at the Republican National Convention, resulting in the deployment of an additional 5,500 cops from across the country to Cleveland this summer.

http://grist.org/briefly/an-obscure-disaster-relief-law-was-used-to-clear-the-dakota-access-camp/

And the "patriotic" militia men think they are going fight the militarized police. :lol

boutons_deux

11-01-2016, 11:46 AM

Why Police From Different States Invaded a Standing Rock Camp -- and Other Questions

http://www.truth-out.org/images/Images_2016_10/2016_1101sr_.jpg

On Thursday, scores of law enforcement officers from seven different states showed up with riot gear, armored vehicles, and military weaponry to clear away Standing Rock's newest camp, the "1851 Treaty Camp." The camp stands directly in the path of the Dakota Access pipeline. Tipis and sweat lodges were destroyed. Vehicles were set ablaze. More than 140 protesters were arrested.

The county sheriff is claiming the water protectors were violent and that police were stopping a riot. But hours of live video feed from people caught in the confrontation showed instead a military-style assault on unarmed people: police beating people with batons, police with assault rifles, chemical mace, guns firing rubber bullets and beanbag rounds, tasers.

Law enforcement from at least six other states have been involved in the assaults in North Dakota.And Morton County's sheriff claims the federal government's refusal to provide manpower and financial assistance factored into the call for help from other states.

The troops from other states (Wisconsin, Indiana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Nebraska) are sent here through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which was designed for natural disaster situations.

Elders and children have been bitten by DAPL private security attack dogs, pepper-sprayed, shot with rubber bullets, and beaten by police. Often elders are in ceremonial dress and actively praying when arrested -- drumming, singing, burning sage. One member of the International Indigenous Youth Council suffered a broken wrist from a strike with a police baton, and just a few days later an officer saw the cast and intentionally twisted her wrist to reinjure her.

Journalists are often targeted during confrontations because they possess and disseminate evidence of police brutality and human rights violations. Medics are also targeted because they make it possible for protectors to continue fighting the Dakota Access pipeline on the frontlines.

These are recognized combat tactics, and if it were actually a war, clear violations of Geneva Convention humanitarian rules. Clearly identifiable medics have been shot in the back with less-lethal ammunition while attending to patients. On Thursday, several people saw police use batons to hit two medics who were sitting on the back of a vehicle, slowly retreating from the police line. They also pulled the driver out of the car while it was moving, and it continued into the crowd.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38203-why-police-from-different-states-invaded-a-standing-rock-camp-and-other-questions

Militarized-police-state America is fucked and unfuckable, unless all y'all have evidence to the contrary.

The BigOil division of the corporatocracy depends on the taxpayer-funded goons to criminalize, brutalize dissent.

boutons_deux

11-02-2016, 05:54 PM

It’s still happening: NYPD plainclothes cop stops and frisks black teen for standing on sidewalk

Jonathan Franks shared a video (https://twitter.com/jonfranks/status/793916320689451008) to his Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon of a young black male being stopped and frisked in Midtown Manhattan by two New York police officers in plain clothes.

The tweet read, “Welcome to being black in Midtown Manhattan… @NYPDnews (https://twitter.com/NYPDnews) I was there – no reasonable suspicion…” The video shows a boy on the street-side standing as an officer searches his pants pockets.

What’s especially important, as Franks notes, is there was no reasonable suspicion.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/its-still-happening-nypd-plainclothes-cop-stops-and-frisks-black-teen-for-standing-on-sidewalk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

11-03-2016, 08:11 AM

Police pepper-spray black students peacefully protesting David Duke

“No Duke, no KKK, no fascist USA.”

Students at the historically black college Dillard University came out in force Wednesday night to protest a Louisiana Senate debate featuring former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.

About 75 people, mostly Dillard students, gathered at the door to the mostly empty building where the debate was being staged, demanding to be let it.

“Let black excellence through,” the protesters chanted.

Campus police did eventually open the door to the building — but only to mace the students trying to push their way inside.Students scattered, eyes watering and noses running.

“They sprayed us directly in the face with it. I was covered on my shirt, my arms, my face,” Hannah Galloway, a white student from University of New Orleans, told reporters. “They’re bodyslamming people, they pulled girls’ hair.

A few minutes later, protesters said, the police opened the door again and sprayed students who were simply standing at the door.

Prior to the pepper-spraying, at least one student, Brielle Kennedy, was handcuffed and taken away by campus police.

“She’s strong, a leader, she won’t back down,” another Dillard student, Brunisha Jones, said of Kennedy. “She stands for black people, black pride.”

https://thinkprogress.org/police-pepper-spray-david-duke-protesters-ab445022831e#.mr1pf66y0

No surprise, it's Louisiana.

boutons_deux

11-03-2016, 08:28 AM

Slave state news

Ex-detective describes sheriff’s view of black community: ‘They needed to be treated like animals’

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A Louisiana sheriff routinely encouraged his narcotics squad to rough up black residents “to let them know it was our streets,” according to a former detective’s testimony.

“When people ran, we punished them for running,”

Narcotics agents viewed the community they served with disdain and were encouraged to treat them harshly,

“They were animals,” the former officer testified, “and they needed to be treated like animals.”

Comeaux testified that drunken off-duty narcotics agents were lightly punished for beating up two young black men for no reason — which other officers called “n****r knockin.'”

The sheriff was angry the officers had been caught — which required a report — and both former agents said the incident, which became legendary within the department, sent a clear message about violence.

“It taught me that I didn’t have to follow the rules, that is was okay to step out of line because I wouldn’t get in trouble for it,”

Comeaux testified that the sheriff watched him and two other deputies beat an inmate 20 to 30 and forced him to stimulate oral sex in the jail chapel, out of the view of surveillance cameras,

The sheriff was caught on tape threatening to shoot a federal prosecutor between his “Jewish eyes,”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/ex-detective-sheriffs-view-of-black-community-they-needed-to-be-treated-like-animals/

boutons_deux

11-04-2016, 02:22 PM

SA cop fired for attempting to feed fecal sandwich to homeless person
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Sources-SA-cop-fired-for-feeding-fecal-sandwich-10593479.php

boutons_deux

11-05-2016, 07:40 AM

Las Vegas PD Continues To Use Faulty $2 Drug Field Tests Because Convictions Matter More Than Justice

The War on Drugs has never really been about eradicating illegal drugs. It's been about putting up numbers: seizures, busts, indictments, convictions. A steady flow of illegal drugs into the country ensures a steady flow of tax dollars into hundreds of government agencies. Officials talk a lot about taking down cartels, but they spend more time grabbing cash (https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=asset+forfeiture) from travelers and anything they can from someone who's got nothing more on them than quantities that could be generously called "personal use."
Making law enforcement's Drug War "efforts" easier and a whole lot cheaper are field drug tests: notoriously unreliable chemical cocktails that are worth every cent of $2/per they pay for them. In an earlier story (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160712/15543134951/field-drug-tests-2-tool-that-can-destroy-lives.shtml) about these tests, two New York Times journalists detailed Amy Albritton's experience. Albritton spent three weeks in jail after a false positive from a field drug test determined that the caffeine-and-aspirin "crumb" (roughly the size of a "grain of salt" according to the lab test) was crack cocaine. For $2, Albritton lost most of her life. She served her short sentence -- one she only obtained by pleading guilty -- and now faces a future where her permanent record shows she's a convicted felon.

ProPublica is also tackling the issue of cheap, unreliable field tests -- ones deemed just reliable enough to cost people their lives (https://www.propublica.org/article/unreliable-and-unchallenged).
The Las Vegas Police Department's own crime lab found the field tests used by officers to be so inaccurate they actually lobbied to have their use discontinued.

In a 2014 report (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2998333-Presumptivefieldtesting-Lvmp-public.html#document/p14/a310110) that Las Vegas police submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice under the terms of a federal grant, the lab detailed how the kits produced false positives. Legal substances sometimes create the same colors as illegal drugs. Officers conducting the tests, lab officials acknowledged, misinterpreted results. New technology was available — and clearly needed to protect against wrongful convictions.

The lab's opinion didn't matter. Cops and prosecutors loved the field tests. It ensured a steady flow of busts and convictions.

Yet to this day, the kits remain in everyday use in Las Vegas. In 2015, the police department made some 5,000 arrests for drug offenses, and the local courts churned out 4,600 drug convictions, nearly three-quarters of them relying on field test results, according to an analysis of police and court data. Indeed, the department has expanded the use of the kits, adding heroin to the list of illegal drugs the tests can be used to detect.

And while the drug lab that bats cleanup for field tests found them unreliable, these findings have never been passed on to the people who matter: judges. Not that it appears to matter. ProPublica brought its findings to the chief judge of the Las Vegas District Court only to receive a shrug in response.

“These are tests that have been accepted for years,” said Bonaventure, who became a judge in 2004. “They’re not being challenged.”

In other words, the police have told me they're reliable so they must be reliable. Otherwise, why would so many people plead guilty to possession?

Perhaps it's because someone pleading out to avoid a longer prison sentence is engaged in arbitrage -- weighing the potential years they could be facing if their bid fails against a quicker in-and-out local jail sentence that makes the immediate future look a bit brighter than the alternative.

Phil Kohn, chief of the Las Vegas public defender’s office, acknowledged that the prospect of serious prison time has the effect of strong-arming pleas.

“If you’re wondering why the public defender is pleading these cases, it’s because the alternative is horrific,” Kohn said.

In Las Vegas, only eight of the 4,633 drug convictions were the result of a trial. The rest were plea deals. And that's where the reliance of faulty field tests turns into the blackest of human comedies. If someone pleads guilty, the evidence that possibly isn't simply vanishes.

While DOJ standards for the last 40 years have called for qualified labs to re-examine all field test results, the agency has made no effort to insist that happens or to install other protections against mistakes and the wrongful convictions that could result.

And the destruction of field tests after guilty pleas is hardly limited to Las Vegas.

In some jurisdictions, defendants accepting guilty pleas agree as a term of the arrangement that the evidence against them will be destroyed.

In others, the alleged evidence is simply discarded over time. In a 2013 federal survey of local and state crime labs, 62 percent reported that police agencies don’t submit suspected drugs when a defendant pleads guilty early on in the process.

To make matters worse, ProPublica found public defenders haven't done much to challenge the use of unreliable fields tests. A 2000 report covering the Las Vegas public defender's office showed some lawyers hadn't filed a motion to suppress "in over five years."

While the quality of representation has gotten better over the years, follow-up reports still found a dearth of aggressive defense. Of course, like almost every other public defender's office in the US, Las Vegas's is overworked and underfunded (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160805/07261335165/frustrated-public-defender-appoints-governor-licensed-attorney-to-provide-indigent-defense.shtml), with each attorney saddled with 200+ active cases at any given time.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161103/14011635959/las-vegas-pd-continues-to-use-faulty-2-drug-field-tests-because-convictions-matter-more-than-justice.shtml

boutons_deux

11-05-2016, 09:10 PM

six states have sent goons to oppose BigOil's protestors

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwdgGiJVQAEwX6U.jpg

America The Beautiful

boutons_deux

11-05-2016, 10:04 PM

Mother horrified by photo of St. Louis cop giving ‘thumbs up’ next to her son’s body

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/mother-horrified-by-photo-of-st-louis-cop-giving-thumbs-up-next-to-her-sons-body/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

just another dead knitter, thumbs up and smiling

boutons_deux

11-06-2016, 11:29 PM

Fort Worth woman claims DPS trooper ripped her nipple ring

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Two Fort Worth women are considering a lawsuit after a Texas trooper allegedly ripped a nipple piercing in one woman's breast, according to Dallas TV station KXAS (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Woman-Claims-Texas-Trooper-Used-Pliers-to-Remove-Breast-Piercing-400088291.html).

The trooper - identified by arrest records at Michael Tice - is on administrative duty pending an investigation, according to a Department of Public Safety spokesman.

The problems started when Tayler Myers, 18, and Courtney Palacios, 19, got pulled over for speeding as they were heading home from a Houston concert Monday.

The trooper who stopped them near Waco said he found a pill in vehicle and collared the women and their two male friends for drug possession, the TV station reported.

When the women - who said they knew nothing about the pill - were booked in the Falls County Jail, the trooper told them to take out their piercings.

"And then we told him, 'Well, where do we go to take out our nipple rings?'" Myers told KXAS (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Woman-Claims-Texas-Trooper-Used-Pliers-to-Remove-Breast-Piercing-400088291.html). "And he was like, 'You are going to have to do it right here, in the open'."
They both took out their right piercings, but had trouble with the left side.

So the trooper allegedly picked up a pair of pliers and decided to lend a hand.

"He came up to me and he got really close to it, and he was just staring," Palacios recounted.

"He's like, 'I think it unscrews from the left side.' So then, without gloves or anything – and I could see dirt under his nails, it was extremely disgusting – he gets on there and he tries to twist it and he starts shaking from trying so hard and he ends up pulling it and ripping it and it starts bleeding."

Palacios shrieked in pain and the trooper backed away.

"It was extremely uncomfortable and uncalled for and I don't think he should have been anywhere near me," she said.

In the end, they never managed to get the piercing out.

A female employee helped remove Myers' piercing, but she still described the trooper's actions as "not right."

Afterward, the pierced pair found a Fort Worth lawyer to take their case.

"He has violated every policy and procedure known to police work," said attorney Curtis Fortinberry.

"That is just absolutely mind-boggling that he would do this."

http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Fort-Worth-woman-claims-DPS-trooper-ripped-out-10597100.php

isolated case, just another bad apple in army of police angels

boutons_deux

11-07-2016, 02:25 PM

Tampa DA charges disabled mother for stealing, despite video evidence that she was framed (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/3/1590703/-Tampa-DA-charges-disabled-mother-for-stealing-despite-video-evidence-that-she-was-framed)

Tampa's head prosecutor spent ten months prosecuting a shoplifting case, despite clear video evidence that proved the defendant was framed. Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober’s office wasted time and tax-payer money prosecuting a 57-year-old disabled mother for stealing $29 of flea medicine—allegedly because Ober didn't want to upset the local Walmart.

In early 2014, Vicki Carll was walking out of a Tampa Walmart when she "two men grabbed her, manhandled her and dragged her back into the store," according to WTSP (http://www.wtsp.com/news/investigations/woman-sues-walmart-after-being-cleared-of-shoplifting/345135203). From their report:

At the time Carll says she was baffled. “I didn't know what was happening, I thought I was being mugged, actually, because I had $500 in my hand and I didn't know what was going on, I had no idea.”

It turned out Carll was being arrested for shoplifting. The security guard who was waiting on a bench next to the exit said she stole flea medication worth $29.

According to a civil suit Carll filed against Walmart early this week, Carll had examined the flea medication while in the store, but put it back on the shelf once she realized it was the wrong kind. She hadn't realized that a "floor walker," a pseudo security-guard whose job is to identify shoplifters, had been following her around the store. Carll says that the floor walker, Arismendy Rosario, picked up the flea medication, planted the evidence, and then waited for her to leave the store.

From WTSP:

[Carll's Attorney Barry] Cohen claims this was an elaborate plan by the security guard to frame his client. In a lawsuit filed Monday afternoon, Cohen points out

the security tape shows the guard, who just started that day, dumped something on the floor from a box and then seconds later accused Carll of stealing that item.

According to Cohen, a veteran attorney, “I've never seen a case I can think about where the bad guy, in this case the Walmart employee, was actually caught on video planting the evidence."

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/3/1590703/-Tampa-DA-charges-disabled-mother-for-stealing-despite-video-evidence-that-she-was-framed?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-tampa-da-charges-disabled-mother-for-stealing-despite-video-evidence-that-she-was-framed&email_referrer=tampa-da-charges-disabled-mother-for-stealing-despite-video-evidence-that-she-was-framed&email_subject=tampa-da-charges-disabled-mother-for-stealing-despite-video-evidence-that-she-was-framed

boutons_deux

11-18-2016, 06:11 PM

Mapping Reveals Rising Use of Social Media Monitoring Tools by Cities Nationwide

local governments and police are using social media monitoring products to probe posts on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Google+, and Vine for information on protests, potential threats, breaking news, and more.

according to a 2015 survey (http://www.iacpsocialmedia.org/Portals/1/documents/FULL%202015%20Social%20Media%20Survey%20Results.pd f) by the International Association of Police Chiefs, 96.4% percent of law enforcement agencies surveyed used social media in some capacity, including over half for listening or monitoring and three-quarters for intelligence gathering purposes.

News articles indicate that software is used to compile evidence for criminal investigations, shorten emergency response times, alert police to potential threats, detect trends in activity, and analyze sentiment levels in postings.

the technology can also be used to monitor political and social justice movements, posing risks to First Amendment-protected activity.

public safety agencies have used software that pulls in a wealth of information, including social media data, to assign individuals "threat levels (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html)." Some companies allow law enforcement to create "undercover accounts (http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/twitter-social-media-surveillance-snaptrends/)," or "targeted friend requests" that law enforcement believes the subject will accept – including "accounts depicting 'attractive women'" or accounts purporting to be from an actual friend or acquaintance.

Police have also made it clear that they know the identity of protestors at times, such as when a police officer called activist Ashley Yates by her twitter handle (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/black-lives-matter/421839/) BROWNblaze at a New York protest.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38427-mapping-reveals-rising-use-of-social-media-monitoring-tools-by-cities-nationwide

Have, or would, ST admins cough up real names if cops asked?

boutons_deux

11-20-2016, 12:10 PM

freedom of assembly, freedom of speech

Proposed bill turns protesting into a felony (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/17/1600850/-Proposed-bill-turns-protesting-into-a-felony)

A Republican Washington state senator who supported Donald Trump is proposing a bill that would slap an “economic terrorism” label on protest activities already prohibited by law and dramatically intensify their penalties.

The proposed bill would allow police to charge protesters who “block transportation and commerce, cause property damage, threaten jobs and put public safety at risk” with a class C felony.

if you think that you’re not at risk because you don’t get out and protest, think again …

The Republican state senator said similar charges would apply to those who “fund, organize, sponsor” such protests, and the bill would force such individuals to “pay restitution up to triple the amount of economic damage” done.

The bill would make it possible to charge anyone who ever participated in a protest, or anyone who ever funded an organization that was involved in a protest, on the vaguest hint of “impeding business” or affecting “public safety.”

Yes, blocking traffic—either of vehicles or customers—is already a crime, but it’s one that’s rarely enforced and which results in relatively minor charges.

In Washington state, intentionally interfering with or obstructing pedestrian or vehicle traffic can result in a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or imprisonment of up to 90 days.

Under Ericksen’s proposal to make these activities a class C felony, the same activity could result in five years in prison, a $10,000 fine or both.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/17/1600850/-Proposed-bill-turns-protesting-into-a-felony?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-proposed-bill-turns-protesting-into-a-felony&email_referrer=proposed-bill-turns-protesting-into-a-felony&email_subject=proposed-bill-turns-protesting-into-a-felony

boutons_deux

11-20-2016, 12:14 PM

ICE Bans Lawyers From Bringing Crayons Into South Texas Lockup For Asylum Seeking Women and Children

crayons are now off limits inside the facility’s visitation rooms because of “crayons which RAICES staff/volunteers have given children which have caused property damage to the contractor.”

the crayon ban hints at a larger problem.

“Even before the ban on crayons, we have faced and continue to face significant impediments to working with traumatized women and children in the visitation area,”

RAICES staffers say they've long used coloring materials as a healthy distraction for these kids while attorneys and parents iron out asylum claims in these visitation-room meetings.

The kids have a small play area available to them – a nine-by-five-foot mat, basically – but attorneys say private prison staff are usually so mean to the children that many refuse to leave their mother's side. In their letter to ICE officials protesting the recent crayon ban, the attorneys say the children are often "reprimanded by GEO staff, sometimes harshly."

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2016/11/18/ice-bans-lawyers-from-bringing-crayons-into-south-texas-lockup-for-asylum-seeking-women-and-children

For-profit sickos bullying immigrant kids.

Clipper Nation

11-20-2016, 01:34 PM

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

http://www.gallup.com/poll/196610/americans-respect-police-surges.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=lead&g_campaign=tiles

boutons_deux

11-20-2016, 01:49 PM

Study: Texas Prison System Routinely Ignores Sexual Assault and Rape

None of the sexual assault and rape cases reported by inmates in Texas prisons have been appropriately followed up on, according to a new survey of Texas prisoners.

Instead, the vast majority of inmates who have reported abuse have been retaliated against for filing a complaint in the first place.

"We've known this has been going on behind bars for years, but this report helps quantify it."

The majority of reported assaults came from the Estelle Unit, a prison ten miles from Huntsville.

Nearly 60 percent of inmates surveyed had reported that their sexual abuser was a prison staff member.

In 2014 alone, 766 allegations of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse incidents were reported to TDCJ.

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2016/11/17/study-texas-prison-system-routinely-ignores-sexual-assault-and-rape

Th'Pusher

11-20-2016, 02:38 PM

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

http://www.gallup.com/poll/196610/americans-respect-police-surges.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=lead&g_campaign=tiles

Looks like a hockey stick since Obama took office

Clipper Nation

11-20-2016, 03:07 PM

Looks like a hockey stick since Obama took office
I guess all the anti-police rhetoric from this administration, its supporters and the media in the last eight years has only deepened the sane majority's respect for our law enforcement.

CosmicCowboy

11-20-2016, 03:33 PM

SAPD officer just assassinated. Witnesses say a black guy pulled up behind him while on a routine traffic stop, walked up and shot him in the head, then shot him again.

boutons_deux

11-20-2016, 03:48 PM

SAPD officer just assassinated. Witnesses say a black guy pulled up behind him while on a routine traffic stop, walked up and shot him in the head, then shot him again.

that's what criminals are supposed to do, that's why they are criminals.

Cops aren't supposed to slaughter blacks, that's why the cops are criminals.

and of course, y'all ignore the cops Shutzstaffel

The troubling rise of SWAT teams

SWAT team use has spiked from around 3,000 strikes per year in 1980 to

as many as 80,000 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/02/17/shedding-light-on-the-use-of-swat-teams/) raids a year now.

A battering ram or other forced-entry device is used in two-thirds of these raids,

http://theweek.com/articles/531458/troubling-rise-swat-teams

That's 200+ Shutzstaffel raids PER DAY.

and then the cops STEAL $100Ms from innocent citizens with civil forfeiture.

DarrinS

11-20-2016, 04:40 PM

SAPD officer just assassinated. Witnesses say a black guy pulled up behind him while on a routine traffic stop, walked up and shot him in the head, then shot him again.

Smh

http://www.kens5.com/news/local/sapd-officer-shot-near-sapd-headquarters-downtown-sa/354247590

Spurminator

11-20-2016, 05:20 PM

anti-police rhetoric from this administration

Pussy.

boutons_deux

11-22-2016, 01:51 PM

Body cam catches officer's comments: 'mouthy little b*tches' and bullets in the head (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/21/1602520/-Body-cam-catches-officer-s-comments-mouthy-little-b-ches-and-bullets-in-the-head)

"Mouthy little bitches, oh my fucking God," the officer says.

"If I can get away with it I would have put a bullet in the center of each one of their heads."

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/21/1602520/-Body-cam-catches-officer-s-comments-mouthy-little-b-ches-and-bullets-in-the-head?detail=email&link_id=3&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-has-been-advising-trump-behind-the-scenes&email_referrer=msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-has-been-advising-trump-behind-the-scenes&email_subject=msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-has-been-advising-trump-behind-the-scenes

Police working hard to win the approval of their victims! :lol

boutons_deux

11-22-2016, 08:47 PM

See for yourself a glimpse of police brutality at Standing Rock.

Law enforcement at the Standing Rock Sioux encampment blasted 400 Dakota Access protesters (https://grist.org/briefly/trump-vows-to-create-jobs-by-cutting-regulations-that-wont-work/) with tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons Sunday night as temperatures dipped below freezing.

At least 167 protesters were injured, and some were left unconscious or bleeding. Nexus Media (http://nexusmedianews.com/) was there to capture the aftermath.

http://grist.org/briefly/see-for-yourself-a-glimpse-of-police-brutality-at-standing-rock/

boutons_deux

11-22-2016, 08:51 PM

TigerSwan Security, Linked to Blackwater, Now Coordinates Intel for Dakota Access

We speak with Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill, who has spent years reporting on private security contractors such as the private security firm TigerSwan, which has links to the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and is in charge of coordinating intelligence for the Dakota Access pipeline company.

He discusses the company’s track record as more than 100 Native Americans and allies fighting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline have been injured by police in North Dakota.

Many were attacked with rubber bullets, tear gas, mace canisters and water cannons in freezing temperatures.

The attack began after the water protectors attempted to clear access to a public bridge, which has been blocked by authorities using military equipment chained to concrete barriers.

TigerSwan, was founded by a Delta Force operative named James Reese and has done voluminous amounts of covert and overt work for the U.S. military in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.

And, you know, you realize that you have this

convergence of all that has been so wrong in the post-9/11 world,

with these big environment-destroying companies,

the stripping even further of indigenous rights,

private security forces,

the brutality against protesters,

the paramilitarization of law enforcement.

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/21/jeremy_scahill_tigerswan_security_linked_to

boutons_deux

12-03-2016, 12:56 AM

As Rule 41 Quietly Passes, Trump to Inherit Expanded Hacking Powers

Changes to rule allow FBI agents to remotely hack into computers that are outside of the judicial district where warrant was issued

The amendments (https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/proposed-amendment-rule-41.pdf) (pdf) to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure now allow intelligence agents to get warrants to hack into computers that are outside of the judicial district where the warrant was issued, if the target is using anonymity or encryption software like virtual private networks (VPNs), Tor browsing, or other protection tools.

"So," the digital rights group Fight for the Future said (https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2016-11-29-urgent-the-fbi-cia-and-other-law-enforcement/) this week, "if the FBI wants to hack you but they don't have evidence that passes muster with your local federal judge, they will be able to take their case to a more lenient (or more naïve) judge located anywhere in the country."

"By sitting here and doing nothing, the Senate has given consent to this expansion of government hacking and surveillance,"

"Without a debate or any new law, the rights of every American—and basic privacy of people around the world—have been narrowed."

"The government is attempting to use a process designed for procedural changes to expand its investigatory powers," EFF activism director Rainey Reitman said at the time.

"Make no mistake: these changes to Rule 41 will result in a dramatic increase in government hacking."

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/01/rule-41-quietly-passes-trump-inherit-expanded-hacking-powers

Can anybody find what Congressperson(s) actually wrote Rule 41?

boutons_deux

12-07-2016, 06:44 AM

‘I was beaten like a slave’: Tearful ex-law officer describes white cops brutalizing him during bogus arrest

A retired Nassau County corrections officer says he was “physically abused, beaten, and treated like a slave” when Garden City Police arrested him at a Western Beef Supermarket last week,

“For somebody to grab me by the neck in the supermarket, and I’m telling you, ‘I’m one of you,’ and you disrespect it — it was like you’re just another Black dude.”

Lanier told the press cops laughed when he said he was a retired corrections officer. He was then thrown into the back of a squad car before being released without an apology.

Lanier and his lawyer Fred Brewington are suing the Garden City Police over his treatment.
“When you don’t have a good description, you don’t just start scooping up black people,” Brewington said at the press conference.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/i-was-beaten-like-a-slave-tearful-ex-law-officer-describes-white-cops-brutalizing-him-during-bogus-arrest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

12-07-2016, 07:16 AM

Burton files bill to end Class C arrests like Sandra Bland's

the proposal should draw strong bipartisan support. Indeed, that part should be fun:

This is one of those issues which separates wheat from chaff in both parties:

It divides Republicans who really want less government from those who just talk a good game.

And it flushes out all the Dems whose fealty to "civil rights" ends at voting rights but somehow never extends to the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments if the police unions complain.?

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/12/burton-files-bill-to-end-class-c.html

But Patrick's priority isn't restraining police, it's the transgender bathroom bill, as if he never heard of NC and McCrory.

I'd love to see him pass it and the NCAA cancel Final Four.

boutons_deux

12-07-2016, 06:24 PM

Nevada school police officer shoots student

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nevada-shooting-idUSKBN13W2OF?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

anybody wanna guess whether the student was armed?

boutons_deux

12-08-2016, 07:12 PM

NYPD lies about surveillance of Black Lives Matter demonstrators — Refuses to release records

The NYPD argued during a Dec. 7 New York Supreme Court hearing that it should not have to release records of its surveillance of the Black Lives Matter movement, Mass Appeal reports (http://massappeal.com/nypd-refuses-to-release-records-on-undercover-surveillance-of-black-lives-matter/).An activist affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement filed a Freedom of Information request to obtain NYPD surveillance records from a series of daily actions at Grand Central Terminal between November 2014 and January 2015.

At that time, Black Lives Matter organizers were protesting the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

In public court papers, the NYPD admitted to surveilling Black Lives Matter activists and collecting recorded communications and multimedia records.

The activist who requested the records reportedly witnessed MTA and Metro-North officers, and NYPD taking photographs and videos of the demonstrations.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/nypd-lies-about-surveillance-of-black-lives-matter-demonstrators-refuses-to-release-records/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

dissent is now a criminal act, surveilled by the militarized, blood-thirsty, trigger-happy, brutalizing police state.

boutons_deux

12-12-2016, 11:23 AM

Almost 40 percent of US inmates are imprisoned unnecessarily

Nearly 40 percent of inmates in U.S. prisons could be released as they don’t pose any compelling threat to public safety, a study found. According to the report, setting the 576,000 inmates (39 percent) free could save $20 billion annually.

The study (https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/how-many-americans-are-unnecessarily-incarcerated) published Friday was conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The U.S., which is home to less than five percent of the world’s population, is responsible for the incarceration of nearly 25 percent of the world’s inmates.

“Mass incarceration has huge social, racial, and economic costs,”

Researchers analyzed federal and state criminal codes in addition to convictions and sentences of roughly 1.5 million inmates who are serving sentences for 370 different crime categories, to arrive at the number of inmates imprisoned without a meaningful public safety threat.

They found that 25 percent of inmates nationwide are nearly all non-violent lower-level offenders and could be sentenced to community service or probation rather than prison. Fourteen percent of inmates have served sufficient sentences that could warrant their release “with little to no risk to public safety.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/almost-40-percent-of-us-inmates-are-imprisoned-unnecessarily-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

12-12-2016, 12:54 PM

South Texas Prison Riot Blamed On For-Profit Prison Company's "Abysmal Mismanagement"

http://media2.fdncms.com/sacurrent/imager/u/blog/2569222/willlacy_tentprison.jpg?cb=1481564850

In a lawsuit filed last week, officials with Willacy County, which made as much as $2.7 million a year off the prison under its arrangement with the feds and private prison contractor Management and Training Corp, claims that MTC failed to properly "oversee, manage, and repair" the prison and "turned a blind eye to the enormous problems that plagued the Prison from its inception."

According to the lawsuit filed last week, on MTC's watch inmates dealt with

overflowing toilets,

rodents, and

overcrowding that had gotten so bad that some were forced to stay in solitary confinement.

According to the lawsuit, tensions ran high inside the facility as the problems grew worse.

Meanwhile, MTC only had a single guard posted to watch each housing pod during any given eight-hour shift. "

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2016/12/12/south-texas-prison-riot-blamed-on-for-profit-prison-companys-abysmal-mismanagement

America the Beautiful.

boutons_deux

12-16-2016, 09:21 AM

We Wanted To Find Troubled Jails, So We Counted The Bodies

In any given year, the vast majority of the thousands of jails in the United States do not report a single death.

But each year, about 1,000 (https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mljsp0013st.pdf) Americans die in jail anyway.

Many die without the public knowing why, or whether their deaths could have been prevented.

Although the federal government collects data on jail deaths, it only publishes that data years later, and in aggregate, making it impossible to identify facilities that have particularly high death rates.

“It’s a national scandal that we have so little information about people who die in state custody,” said David Fathi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project.

“I don’t know of any other developed country where it’s really impossible to say how many people died in jails and prisons in a given year.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jail-deaths-statistics_us_58518e13e4b0ee009eb4f1a9?etd7d44defh 6j8xgvi&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20121616&utm_content=The%20Morning%20Email%20121616+CID_c4d 94ec0eb9d9238f8882e58d44b9d70&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Dana%20Liebelson%20and%20Ryan%20Reilly%20 HuffPost&

no doubt, you Pootin fellators think this is the Pootin way of running jails

boutons_deux

12-21-2016, 08:09 AM

California’s highway department is destroying homeless people’s belongings on purpose, suit alleges

Being homeless doesn’t mean being without rights — or without property.

California’s massive transit bureau is routinely violating homeless people’s constitutional rights by seizing and destroying what little property they have, tossing everything from tents to family photos and crucial identification papers into trash crushers as state highway patrolmen stand by to prevent the hapless street dwellers from saving their belongings.

https://thinkprogress.org/californias-highway-department-is-destroying-homeless-people-s-belongings-on-purpose-suit-alleges-93401ad4409f#.g64d3hvbd

CosmicCowboy

12-21-2016, 08:19 AM

boutons_deux

12-21-2016, 12:01 PM

That happens in San Antonio all the time.

Do you stand around clapping, cheering,whooping them on?

boutons_deux

12-21-2016, 12:04 PM

US State Police Have Spent Millions on Israeli Phone Cracking Tech

When cops have a phone to break into, they just might pull a small, laptop-sized device out of a rugged briefcase.

After plugging the phone in with a cable, and a few taps of a touch-screen, the cops have now bypassed the phone’s passcode.

Almost like magic, they now have access to call logs, text messages, and in some cases even deleted data.

State police forces and highway patrols in the US have collectively spent millions of dollars on this sort of technology to break into and extract data from mobile phones, according to documents obtained by Motherboard.

Over 2,000 pages of invoices, purchase orders, communications, and other documents lay out in unprecedented detail how one company in particular has cornered the trade in mobile phone forensics equipment across the United States.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/us-state-police-have-spent-millions-on-israeli-phone-cracking-tech-cellebrite

boutons_deux

12-21-2016, 12:06 PM

Police worldwide eye Baltimore's vast surveillance complex (+video)

Baltimore is at the leading edge of deploying surveillance technologies.

Even though its practices have raised questions about civil liberties and privacy, law enforcement agencies around the world see it as a test bed for the future of policing.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/1221/Police-worldwide-eye-Baltimore-s-vast-surveillance-complex-video

1984, BigBrother will be watching your every move, your every smartphone act.

boutons_deux

12-22-2016, 12:04 PM

Black woman reports white man for choking her son and she gets arrested
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38403273/black-woman-reports-white-man-for-choking-her-son-and-she-gets-arrested

... is why blacks typically FEAR, HATE to call the police for help.

CosmicCowboy

12-22-2016, 12:13 PM

Do you stand around clapping, cheering,whooping them on?

Sorry Boo...didn't know your momma kicked you out of the singlewide...did they take your stuff?

Trill Clinton

12-22-2016, 08:41 PM

811797114992947202

http://i66.tinypic.com/141744.jpg

boutons_deux

12-23-2016, 01:40 AM

Idaho Teen Football Player Walks Free After Sodomizing Black Disabled Teammate With Wire Hanger

Whiteness and wealth win every time.

http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/idaho-teen-football-player-walks-free-after-sodomizing-black-disabled-teammate-wire (http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/idaho-teen-football-player-walks-free-after-sodomizing-black-disabled-teammate-wire)

boutons_deux

12-24-2016, 12:05 PM

Bill to limit Class C arrests target of red-herring arguments

With momentum building in support of Texas legislation to eliminate arrests for non-jailable offenses, Grits should respond to a red herring argument being trotted out in reaction to Sen. Konni Burton's SB 271 and Rep. James White's HB 567: That Timothy McVeigh, bomber of the Oklahoma City federal building in the '90s, was arrested at a traffic stop and might not have been captured if the incident were governed by the proposed statutes.

This is such horse-hockey, Grits at first didn't consider the point worth countering. But a couple of folks have brought it up now and

apparently it's a principle argument opponents are trotting around in response to the bill, so let's get the obvious rebuttal out there.

As anyone would discover through the most cursory examination,

Timothy McVeigh was arrested not for a non-jailable traffic violation (although that's why he was pulled over),

but because he informed the state trooper who stopped him (http://www.news-star.com/article/20090225/NEWS/302259941) that he was in possession of an illegal firearm. That's what triggered his arrest.

Under Texas' proposed legislation, police can still arrest individuals who are in possession of illegal weapons or who are committing other crimes if they fall into higher offense categories. So, because McVeigh wasn't arrested for a non-jailable traffic offense, his example just isn't applicable.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/12/bill-to-limit-class-c-arrests-target-of.html

cops use gratuitous arrests and jailings to pad their quotas, for which the Feds pay them.

boutons_deux

12-27-2016, 01:29 PM

FBI POLICY OF MANUFACTURING TERRORISM PLOTS REAFFIRMED BY APPEALS COURT

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that provides further support for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its policy of inducing individuals, typically Muslims, to plot acts of terrorism.

The appeals court additionally backed the outcome of the notorious FBI sting operation against the Newburgh Four.

https://shadowproof.com/2016/12/05/fbi-policy-manufacturing-terrorism-plots-reaffirmed-appeals-court/

boutons_deux

12-27-2016, 01:33 PM

Before Orlando Massacre, FBI Tried to Lure Shooter Into a Terrorist Attack

as Alternet’s Max Blumenthal and Sarah Lazare recently reported (http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/omar-mateen-committed-mass-murder-fbi-tried-lure-him-terror-plot), the FBI’s notorious record for planning and carrying out fake terrorist attacks just to catch potential terrorists may shine light on Mateen’s decision to later carry out an actual, deadly terror attack.

Between September 11, 2001 and 2010, roughly half of all 508 terror suspects (http://www.motherjones.com/fbi-terrorist) in the US had help from FBI informants, many of whom were criminals themselves that received upwards of $100,000 a year.

Mateen, who was mentally unstable and prone to outbursts of domestic violence against his spouse, may have still carried out the shooting at the Pulse nightclub regardless of the FBI’s attempt to ensnare him as a terror suspect in 2013.

However, Mateen’s progression from terroristic threatening to carrying out a mass shooting may have been partially spurred from his first taste of violent extremism, thanks to an FBI informant.

http://usuncut.com/news/fbi-lure-orlando-shooter/

Trill Clinton

12-28-2016, 09:30 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfoW_cSQ5oo
New York City cops raided a family’s home in Brooklyn at the break of dawn Thursday, handcuffing every family member while searching the apartment unit for three hours before realizing they had the wrong home and leaving.

Next thing the family knew, a photo showing them handcuffed while sitting on the couch appeared on Snapchat with the caption, “Merry Christmas it’s NYPD!”.

Another photo also appeared on Snapchat with the caption “Warrant sweeps Its still a party smh.”

Now internal affairs is investigating, but have refused to release the names of the officers involved.

According to ABC 7 (http://abc7ny.com/news/family-nypd-raids-wrong-home-posts-snapchat-of-them-in-cuffs/1670637/), which interviewed the family:

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NYPD-snapchat-1-1000x532.jpg (http://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NYPD-snapchat-1-1000x532.jpg)

boutons_deux

12-28-2016, 11:56 AM

Local jail fees face legal challenges in court

A county in Minnesota has come under fire for its practice of making all arrestees pay a booking fee at the time of their arrest, regardless of whether they are charged or convicted of a crime.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/1227/Local-jail-fees-face-legal-challenges-in-court

boutons_deux

01-02-2017, 09:49 PM

Millions of Women in the US Lack Proper Access to Menstrual Supplies

thousands of marginalized Americans who lack adequate access to these products so fundamental to women's reproductive health.

In particular, women in prison face an uphill battle getting their hands on feminine hygiene products. Incarcerated people earn at most 75 cents a day, which has to be split between basic necessities like toothpaste and deodorant.

In prison, costs range (http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/06/menstruation-can-become-humiliation-in-prisons.html) from $2.63 for 24 pads to over $4 for eight tampons. That means giving up more than three days of wages for pads and nearly twice that much for tampons.

Most inmates simply can't afford it, and lack of access to menstrual supplies creates toxic choices for women.

Prisoners frequently either go without supplies, bleeding onto clothes they're then stuck with until the next laundry day, or end up using one tampon or pad for multiple days.

Wearing an individual tampon or pad for more than the recommended maximum of eight hours increases the risk of bacterial or fungal infection as well as toxic shock syndrome, a rare but serious illness that can lead to death.

Plus, prison supplies are limited, and women's periods may sync up (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-womens-periods-really-sync-up_us_55f33e2ce4b077ca094f221ahttp:/www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-womens-periods-really-sync-up_us_55f33e2ce4b077ca094f221a) when they're in close quarters.

That's hundreds, potentially thousands, of women all stuck with their periods at the same time facing tension surrounding limited tampon supplies.

Even the last-resort option of stuffing toilet paper down your pants comes at a price, as toilet paper is rationed in prisons.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38940-millions-of-women-in-the-us-lack-proper-access-to-menstrual-supplies

America the Beautiful

boutons_deux

01-02-2017, 09:58 PM

Orange Crush: The Rise of Tactical Teams in Prison

In Illinois, there is a notorious band of guards called the "Orange Crush" who don orange jumpsuits, body armor and riot helmets to conceal their identity. They carry large clubs and canisters of pepper spray, which they use liberally. A recent lawsuit names a list of horrific abuses that includes strip searches, beatings and mass shakedowns of cells.

In the decades since the 1971 prison rebellion at Attica in New York, there has been a gradual build-up of these "tactical teams," also known as "tac teams" or Special Operations Response Teams (SORTs). Today, they are routinely used for anything from fights to reports of contraband. Only within the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) have they earned the infamous name of "Orange Crush." Anyone who has been incarcerated in the men's state prison system has a story about these abusive guards.

I first heard of the Orange Crush in 2005 from my pen pal Gregory Koger, then held in isolation in Pontiac, Illinois, who described them in an article (http://gregorykoger.com/un-corrected/) he wrote:

The "tac team" is a specially equipped team of approximately 6 officers wearing body armor, helmets, gas masks, with a shield and stick (they also wear orange jumpsuits under their body armor and hence carry the nickname "Orange Crush"). If for some reason you are asked to leave your cell and you refuse to comply, the "tac team" will come to your cell, spray a cloud of pepper spray, and then rush in to subdue you, handcuff you, shackle you, and remove you from your cell.

These teams can number from half a dozen to as many as 100 officers. They perform what are described by Koger as "cell extractions." Once individuals are removed, they perform "shakedowns," or searches of all personal belongings, often confiscating property.

"Nuts to Butts"

Ross alleges that officers dressed in orange suits entered his wing yelling loudly, making "whooping" sounds, and hitting their batons on walls, tables and doors. Two guards stood in front of each cell screaming at those inside to "get asshole naked." Once undressed, they had them exit the cell, turn around, bend over and spread their butt cheeks. The men were then asked to turn around and lift up their genitals for inspection. They used their fingers to open their mouths while guards looked for any contraband. According to Ross, some of the guards were women.

After the strip search, the men were allowed to get dressed, but told they could not put on underwear.

The men were marched single file into the gym in a manner the guards called "Nuts to butts." They were made to walk close together while bent over at the waist in a 90-degree angle. The guards yelled that they didn't want to see "any fucking daylight" between the men. The suit describes

this line-up as humiliating and sexually abusive, "one man's genitals were in direct contact with the buttocks of the man ahead of him in line."

in May 2014 the Orange Crush conducted one at Big Muddy, and a month later at Lawrence and Menard prisons. These actions were, the suit claims, part of a "policy or practice implemented, overseen, and encouraged by IDOC supervisors."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38941-orange-crush-the-rise-of-tactical-teams-in-prison

boutons_deux

01-02-2017, 10:05 PM

The most incarcerated city in the most incarcerated state considers expanding notorious jail

The sheriff wants to solve the jail’s mental health crisis by adding more beds.

A 15-year-old boy found dead (http://www.wwltv.com/news/investigations/sources-probe-into-jail-suicide-of-teen-now-a-criminal-investigation/340002227) in his cell, asphyxiated by his mattress cover. A suicidal 63-year-old man hanging (http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/03/orleans_parish_jail_inmates_de.html#incart_river_i ndex_topics) from a showerhead. A 24-year-old who wrapped a telephone cord (http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/orleans_parish_prison_suicide.html) around his neck.

Awaiting trial at New Orleans’ jail has been likened to a “death sentence (http://midcitymessenger.com/2016/03/21/religious-leaders-reformers-call-opp-a-death-sentence-ask-sheriff-marlin-gusman-to-resign/).” Now, the “most incarcerated city in the most incarcerated state in the most incarcerated country in the world (http://www.nola.gov/mayor/press-releases/2016/20160413-pr-safety-and-justice-challenge/)” is considering spending millions of dollars to expand the troubled facility.

The city, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, has steadily reduced the number of people in jail over the past six years. But if the new beds get built, community organizers warn, they won’t stay empty for long.

“As the incoming Trump administration takes power with its promises to be ‘tough on crime,’ we know that if those beds are built, they will be filled with our community members,” Alfred Marshall, an organizer who delivered a petition to city officials against the expansion, said in a press release.

Before Hurricane Katrina destroyed it in 2005, the decrepit Orleans Parish Prison housed 6,500 inmates (https://action.aclu.org/files/pdfs/prison/OPP1.pdf)on an average day, making New Orleans the most incarcerated city per capita. Federal funds after the storm presented an opportunity to shake that title and rebuild with a new vision.

The sheriff, who was paid per prisoner (http://thelensnola.org/2014/10/27/mayor-sheriff-quietly-ended-the-much-criticized-per-diem-method-for-paying-for-prisoners/) until 2015, said that number was far too low to accommodate all the people who needed to be locked up.

It quickly became apparent that the sheriff had not designed the jail to accommodate mentally ill inmates, a requirement of the federal consent decree the jail has been operating under since 2013. A mental health expert testified that the conditions (http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/05/mental_health_situation_abysma.html#incart_river_i ndex_topics) inside the jail were “abysmal.” Beyond barebones medical care provided by a private prison health care company (http://louisianarecord.com/stories/511055657-family-of-deceased-inmate-sues-orleans-parish-sheriff), the jail lacked basic mental health services and psychiatric facilities.

But the violations are taking their own financial toll on the city. According to a recent analysis (http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2016/12/opso_lawyer_bills.html) by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the sheriff has been paying out massive sums of taxpayer money to lawyers and public relations firms who handle damage control (http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2016/12/a_day_in_the_life_of_orleans_s.html) after each new death in the jail. In 2015, he spent almost $2 million in legal fees over a slew of civil rights violations and wrongful death allegations.

Criminalizing mental health

Jails have become the primary mental health providers (https://thinkprogress.org/why-our-prisons-are-making-the-mental-health-crisis-worse-4016fad27fb0#.3z4zsi8nr) in the U.S. as states cut mental health services (https://thinkprogress.org/cook-county-sheriff-rips-mental-health-cuts-we-have-criminalized-mental-illness-in-this-country-53c30faec463#.1spt11vnz) and criminalize behaviors like homelessness and drug addiction. In New Orleans, virtually no mental health safety net exists outside of incarceration.

https://thinkprogress.org/most-incarcerated-city-considers-expanding-notorious-jail-397884abb15d#.p1tzkcooh

boutons_deux

01-02-2017, 10:55 PM

Just like Spurtalker "logic"

Former Chicago cop somehow blames high murder rate on BLM activists

“So what’s happening, and this is ironic, is that a movement with the goal of saving black lives at this point is getting black lives taken, because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks,”

The reason McCarthy might be looking for a new job is that he was let go after the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Footage showed an officer unloading 16 bullets into the teenager.

While McCarthy called incident a “bad shooting,” he also said criticisms of police is taking America down “the wrong path”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/former-chicago-cop-somehow-blames-high-murder-rate-on-blm-activists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

01-08-2017, 02:22 PM

How TX keeps poor people in poverty, even make the poverty much worse.

House Corrections committee rethinking probation fees

If someone is on probation, there will be a lot of fees. First, a probationer pays up to $60 a month for supervision. Depending on the crime, there will be program fees for drug education or domestic violence classes. If substance abuse is involved, there will be costs for random urinalysis tests, and perhaps an ignition interlock (for DWI cases). If you have lost your license, which happens with any drug conviction, you will have to take a class to renew that license. Once the class is completed, you will need to go to the Department of Public Safety and pay between $125 and $325 to get your license back.

Larding on court costs

The committee examined various court fees, particularly ones aimed purely at revenue generation:

The 83rd Legislature directed the Office of Court Administration to study the necessity of certain court costs and fees in the state. The report (http://www.txcourts.gov/media/495634/SB1908-Report-FINAL.pdf) outlined several troubling trends (link added).

Many of the court fees and costs, whether deposited at the state or local level, are not dedicated fees and are simply deposited in the general fund of the state or local government. They are then appropriated at the discretion of the funding body.

Some of these court fees and costs are used to fund programs outside of and unrelated to the judiciary. Meanwhile, court fees and costs are generally insufficient to cover the cost of funding the judiciary at the local government level, with expenditures for the judiciary oftentimes far surpassing collected revenues for court fees and costs.

There are hundreds of these fees, with a few dozen of them ending up in state coffers.

The best known Texas court fees are "consolidated court costs," which run:

Up to $133 for felonies, $83 for misdemeanors, $40 for nonjailable misdemeanor offenses. Ninety percent of collected funding goes to the state for 14 purposes, including; crime stoppers assistance, abused children's counseling, law enforcement and custodial officer supplemental retirement fund, judicial and court personnel training fund, and emergency radio infrastructure account

Many fees are spent in ways which have nothing to do with their ostensible purpose. A $250 DNA fee on sexual assault cases, for example, is split between general state coffers and the highway fund, with no relationship to funding the activity for which it's named.

The committee could have added that this is happening at a time when DNA labs are underfunded and strained trying to keep up which evolving science, not to mention re-testing backlogs of DNA-mixture cases that were evaluated using flawed methodologies.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2017/01/house-corrections-committee-rethinking.html

boutons_deux

01-08-2017, 07:42 PM

Man steals TV remote, gets 22 years in jail

https://www.cnet.com/news/man-steals-tv-remote-gets-22-years-in-jail/#ftag=CAD590a51e

boutons_deux

01-08-2017, 07:45 PM

Man steals TV remote, gets 22 years in jail

https://www.cnet.com/news/man-steals-tv-remote-gets-22-years-in-jail/#ftag=CAD590a51e[/QUOTE]

remote $100, 22 x $30K = $600K+

that'll teach him, and fix Illinois budget problems

boutons_deux

01-13-2017, 09:05 AM

Most TDCJ sex assault victims housed in just a few units, most victimized by staff

A disproportionate number (41.2 percent) of inmate sexual assault victims self-identified as LGBTQ, the survey found, confirming a pattern where inmates deemed gay or even just effeminate may be more likely to become victims.

Survey respondents reported sexual assaults at 15 prison units across the state with the majority of reports coming from three units:

Estelle (Huntsville), Robertson (Abilene), and Allred (Iowa Park).

A whopping 58.9 percent of respondents said they were assaulted by a staff member, which jibes with past investigations (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2013/06/doj-3-texas-prison-units-harris-jail.html) into sexual assault at TDCJ.

"In 2014, 766 allegations of staff-on-offender sexual abuse and sexual harassment incidents were reported to the PREA Ombudsman by unit-level TDCJ staff."

They cited a 2015 Marshall Project report (https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/06/17/preying-on-prisoners#.QvipkuWW1) showing that, nearly half the time, local prosecutors refuse to pursue cases involving staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.

When they do, "Of the 126 staff members convicted of sexual misconduct or assault, only nine were sentenced to serve time."

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2017/01/most-tdcj-sex-assault-victims-housed-in.html

aka, The Texas Gulag, totally lawless.

boutons_deux

01-14-2017, 09:10 AM

Red Justice in a Blue State

Oregon has one of the worst criminal justice systems in the country. These prosecutors are largely to blame.

Here’s a riddle: What state incarcerates a higher percentage of its black population than Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana?

I’ll bet you didn’t guess Oregon (http://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/).

Indeed, the Beaver State locks up its black citizenry at a rate twice that of Georgia and Mississippi.

Oregon also has the second highest rate of youth transferred to adult court (https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/24/the-worst-state-for-kids-up-against-the-law#.YAK2uFePY) after Florida.

It is the only state besides Louisiana that allows non-unanimous jury verdicts (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/24/non-unanimous-criminal-jury-verdicts/?utm_term=.358f41805c14) in criminal cases, and

it is the only state besides Texas to require “future dangerousness (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/us/appealing-a-death-sentence-based-on-future-danger.html?_r=0),” a discredited and scientifically bankrupt jury determination (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1099), as a determining factor in sentencing people to death.

The blame lies in significant part with Oregon’s out-of-touch elected prosecutors. These powerful forces within the criminal justice system help to explain the gap between two seemingly incompatible Oregons: one with a governor who has placed a moratorium on executions (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-oregon-idUSKBN0LO2E420150220?irpc=932), and the other whose retrogressive and racially disparate criminal law enforcement policies have led to the seventh highest rate of black imprisonment in the nation.

A prime example of these prosecutors run amok is Josh Marquis ... recently called (http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/09/19/violence-and-redemption-opinion) “the claim that mass incarceration is out of control” one of those “urban legends accepted by conservatives and liberals alike.”

Back in 2006, Marquis authored a law review article titled “The Myth of Innocence (http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7185&context=jclc)” and wrote in the New York Times that “Americans should be far more worried about the wrongfully freed than the wrongfully convicted (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/opinion/the-innocent-and-the-shammed.html?_r=1).” More recently, he opposed (http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/06/governor_signs_law_that_expand.html) a new law to expand post-conviction access to DNA evidence, legislation that made it easier for people to prove their innocence.

Both the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association and the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police support reclassifying offenses (http://www.opb.org/radio/programs/thinkoutloud/segment/pdx-police-contract-protests-american-dream-working-mom-haiti-update-drug-crimes-prosecution/)involving the possession of a small amount of drugs from felonies to misdemeanors. Josh Marquis opposes the plan.

An Oregon trial court judge concluded (http://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/Williams_Opinion_12152016.pdf) that “race and ethnicity was a motivating factor in the passage” of Oregon’s peculiar non-unanimous jury law.

elected prosecutor for Deschutes County, said that a jury verdict with two dissenting views is one that “we shouldn’t have confidence in.” Marquis is quoted in the same article in support of non-unanimous jury verdicts.

he is symptomatic of a system that is overly influenced by a narrow band of thuggish prosecutors who wield outsized power both in the Oregon District Attorneys Association and in fanning the flames of fear across the state’s media landscape.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/oregon_has_one_of_the_worst_criminal_justice_syste ms_in_the_u_s.html

boutons_deux

01-14-2017, 09:21 AM

8,300 People Should Be Locked Up

Instead, there’s 2.2 million.

In 1946, the US incarceration rate was 99 people per 100,000. In 2013, it’s 698 people per 100,000. That’s a 700% increase,

We couldn’t even keep that plateaued. If we had just kept it to 99 per 100,000, there’d be about 316,00 people locked up right now. That still sounds like a lot, but it’s a lot less than the 2.2 million incarcerated today, and that’s not including the 4.75 million on parole or probation.

the recidivism rates (percentage of inmates who serve time, are released, and then are again arrested and convicted), which are dependent on which study you look at. Pew Center puts it at 43.3%, while the Bureau of Justice Statistics says 68% within three years and 77% within five years.

If we’re sending people to prison to rehabilitate (and the sentences aren’t life without the possibility of parole or death row), then that percentage should be close to 0%. If it was at 10%, I’d consider that a big problem. 43.3% is crazy high, and 77% is unfathomable.

Laughable “rehabilitation” efforts, woefully lacking mental health resources, limited educational resources, approaching drug addiction as a crime rather than a health issue, stripping rights upon release, the professional implications of a criminal record, and other cause-and-effects have led to the incredibly high recidivism rates.

factors that are most likely to lead to criminality in the first place. These include economic stressors (like living in poverty), unemployment, poor parenting, poor education, alcohol abuse, and income inequality.

The War on Drugs, three strikes, stop and frisk, longer sentencing, mandatory minimums, and similar policies directly linked to the systematic annihilation of minorities in America; creation of for-profit prisons; building excess prisons and overtly attempting to fill them; and other cause-and-effects led to an enormous increase in the prison population. It also led to the massive number of people on parole or probation.

To further put it into perspective, according to Prison Policy Initiative, the United States has

“1,719 state prisons,

102 federal prisons,

2,259 juvenile correctional facilities,

3,283 local jails, and

79 Indian Country jails.” T

hat’s a total of 7,442 places you can find yourself behind bars, less than a thousand shy of being the same number of total prisoners with that 5% reduction every year since 1946.

https://bullshit.ist/8-300-people-should-be-locked-up-27434d0881e4#.9nxbiznq8

boutons_deux

01-14-2017, 09:37 AM

Two LAPD officers who fatally shot a Boyle Heights teen didn't have their body cameras on

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-shooting-20170111-story.html?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=77e5898217-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-77e5898217-80115881

boutons_deux

01-15-2017, 09:54 AM

“A LIVING NIGHTMARE” (https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/rikers-island-strip-search-new-york-city-jails-visitors/)

Women Visiting Loved Ones Jailed at Rikers Describe Years of Invasive Searches by Guards (https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/rikers-island-strip-search-new-york-city-jails-visitors/)

What Quattlebaum says she experienced next, however, went far beyond a standard pat down. “Once I put my hands back up, she pulled my panties out, takes her two fingers, and just jams it in between my crotch,” she said of the officer. “My reaction — I slapped her hand away a little bit, like, where’s the privacy?” Though Quattlebaum visited Rikers every week, “I’d never been through this before.” When she objected, she said, the officer “tried to pull both of my hands together with one hand, and she tried to still put her fingers into my crotch” with the other. As Quattlebaum attempted to pull free, the officer said she had “put her hands” on her and should be arrested.

Quattlebaum never made it to see her fiancé that day. After the incident, she was detained in the same building where the search took place and held there for another eight hours. She was arrested and booked around 11 p.m. and arraigned the following morning. The Bronx district attorney charged her with obstructing government administration and harassment.

The criminal complaint against Quattlebaum does not accuse her of attempting to bring any contraband into the jail complex. Based on the officer’s account, it says the woman “felt a large bulge through defendant’s pants around defendant’s vaginal area.” When the officer touched the area, according to the complaint, Quattlebaum pushed her, after which the officer “felt threatened and experienced annoyance, alarm, and fear for her physical safety.”
Quattlebaum disputes many of the details in the complaint and has refused to accept a plea deal in the case. She continues to go back and forth to court because of the charges pending against her. But even if she succeeds in seeing the charges dismissed, the repercussions of what happened that day were lasting and harmful.

After the incident, Quattlebaum was banned from visiting Rikers for six months. “It’s just been very hectic because I was going to see my children’s father, my fiancé, and I’m basically the only person he has to come see him, and [I bring] his children to come see him,” she told The Intercept. She appealed the penalty to the Board of Correction, a watchdog agency that oversees the DOC and city jails, which sent her a letter five months later granting her appeal and restoring her visiting rights immediately.

“I just felt very violated that day. I cried for so long, for days after I got home,” Quattlebaum said. “I was scared. My whole life was trying to figure out what was going on. Am I going to be taken away from my kids? Because I’m a single mom and I have three children. It was just very stressful.”

HE DEPARTMENT OF Correction has been sued several times in the past for strip-searching detainees accused of minor crimes, and New York City has paid out hefty settlements as a result. In 2001, the

city agreed (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/10/nyregion/new-york-will-pay-50-million-in-50000-illegal-strip-searches.html) to pay up to $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of tens of thousands of people who were strip-searched while awaiting arraignment;

in 2010, the city reached (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/nyregion/23strip.html) a $33 million settlement with more than 100,000 low-level detainees who were strip-searched after being charged with misdemeanors.
But for years, an investigation by The Intercept and WNYC (https://www.wnyc.org/story/stripped-their-dignity/) has found, women like Quattlebaum have reported

enduring invasive searches not while incarcerated, but while simply attempting to visit someone detained at a New York City correctional facility.
Records obtained under the state’s Freedom of Information law reveal (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OGGgCz_raa0Diqxqo-cbPeW_Klhye8-3Uyta3QdBQr8/edit#gid=1276778784) that since 2010, New York’s 311 call center has received at least

83 complaints about correction officers subjecting visitors to strip searches or cavity searches. The complaints range in severity from visitors who said officers made them open their pants or disrobe completely to those who said officers penetrated their body cavities.

Over the same period, the Board of Correction received 84 complaints about visitors being searched improperly.

At least 27 women have filed or are in the process of filing lawsuits that accuse the Department of Correction of unlawfully strip-searching visitors. Most of the allegations involve searches conducted at Rikers, New York City’s largest jail complex, but they also span facilities across the city’s boroughs, including the Manhattan Detention Center and the Brooklyn Detention Center.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/rikers-island-strip-search-new-york-city-jails-visitors/

Prison guards have to be sadistic sickos, or become sadistic sickos, same with cops.

The entire criminal justice system in America is fucked up, a huge shit stain. A taxpayers get stuck with $Bs in compensation to victims.

boutons_deux

01-15-2017, 03:15 PM

Here's some cop porn for you "law-and-order" racists to jerk off to

WATCH: Cops Violently Arrest Black Man Suspected of Stealing Car—That Turns out to Be His Own

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/watch-cops-violently-arrest-black-man-suspected-stealing-car-turns-out-be-his-own

boutons_deux

01-18-2017, 03:05 PM

Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Years

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170116/09333936490/law-enforcement-has-been-using-onstar-siriusxm-to-eavesdrop-track-car-locations-more-than-15-years.shtml

SpursforSix

01-18-2017, 03:09 PM

boutons_deux

01-23-2017, 07:25 PM

Louisiana police chief pushes ‘Blue Lives Matter’ law to make resisting arrest a felony ‘hate crime’

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/louisiana-police-chief-pushes-blue-lives-matter-law-to-make-resisting-arrest-a-felony-hate-crime/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

01-25-2017, 06:05 PM

Departing District Attorney To DOJ: Albuquerque Police Department Is A 'Continuing Criminal Enterprise'

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170117/06224536495/departing-district-attorney-to-doj-albuquerque-police-department-is-continuing-criminal-enterprise.shtml

boutons_deux

01-26-2017, 06:29 PM

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/56/61/12/12260008/17/920x920.jpg

Matthew Luckhurst (http://www.mysanantonio.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Flocal&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Matthew+Luckhurst%22), the San Antonio police officer who was effectively fired for providing a feces sandwich to a homeless man, was given a second indefinite suspension, according to police records released this week.

In June, just a month after the incident with the sandwich, police say Luckhurst defecated in the women’s bathroom stall at SAPD’s Bike Patrol Office (http://www.mysanantonio.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Flocal&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Bike+Patrol+Office%22) and spread a brown substance with the consistency of tapioca on the toilet seat, giving the appearance that there was feces on the seat.

Officer Steve Albart (http://www.mysanantonio.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Flocal&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Steve+Albart%22) was also involved in the prank, according to the records (http://www.expressnews.com/file/192/0/1920-Albart%26LuckhurstSuspension_Dec_2016.pdf). He was originally given an indefinite suspension, but Chief William McManus (http://www.mysanantonio.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Flocal&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22William+McManus%22) reduced it to 30 days without pay. Albart finished serving that suspension Jan. 19.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/SAPD-Fired-police-officer-fired-again-10886745.php

really, really hard to charge, convict cops, here feeding people shit doesn't even get you fired for cause.

boutons_deux

02-11-2017, 05:31 PM

Paris police claim rape of black man with tactical baton was an ‘accident’
http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Theo-al-jazeera-800x430.jpg

The conclusion on Thursday came a week after the arrest in the northern Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois of the 22-year-old victim, who has been identified only as Theo.
According to the AFP news agency, a police source said that having taken into account CCTV recordings and witness accounts, "there are insufficient elements to show that this was a rape".

However, an investigating magistrate had charged one of the police officers with rape and three others with aggravated assault, and is still examining the case.

Theo, whose family say he was not known to police,

required surgery for severe anal injuries after he was assaulted with a truncheon,

and also suffered head trauma.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/paris-police-claim-rape-of-black-man-with-tactical-baton-was-an-accident/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

03-07-2017, 04:46 PM

African-Americans more likely to be wrongfully convicted

African-Americans are far more likely to be wrongfully convicted of crimes such as murder, sexual assault and illegal drug activity than whites due to factors including racial bias and official misconduct,

Of the 1,900 defendants convicted of crimes and later exonerated, 47 percent were African-Americans – three times their representation in the population – according to the study from the National Registry of Exonerations, which examined cases from 1989 to October 2016.

The study also said black Americans were about seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than white Americans.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/african-americans-more-likely-to-be-wrongfully-convicted-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

03-22-2017, 08:18 AM

No Charges In Death Of Inmate After Forced Prison Shower

Witnesses said Darren Rainey was cooked alive by water “hot enough to brew a cup of tea.”

Four Florida corrections officers who reportedly locked a mentally disabled inmate in a scalding shower for two hours will not be charged in his death.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said its lengthy probe found no basis for criminal charges and characterized the 2012 death of inmate Darren Rainey, 50, as an accident. :lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-charges-in-death-of-man-who-resembled-boiled-lobster-after-forced-prison-shower_us_58d19b5de4b0f838c62d7f45?utm_medium=emai l&utm_campaign=The+Morning+Email+032217&utm_content=The+Morning+Email+032217+CID_b92ddad5a 55aa65c87c790993e0c66fd&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_term=HuffPost&

America's "justice" system is as 100% rotten as America's political system.

boutons_deux

03-26-2017, 10:29 PM

This Dystopian Riot Control Truck Is the Vehicle of the Future (http://gizmodo.com/this-dystopian-riot-control-truck-is-the-vehicle-of-the-1793656046)

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--LyupjOz0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cvvjlnngs9g8yutfkttz.gif

The new and improved Bozena Riot (http://www.bozena.eu/general-riot-new/) can handle any and all duties when one needs to put down an uprising.

At full functionality, it has three components:

a carrier,

a 3000 kg adjustable shield, and

a water trailer.

Two water cannons can send protesters flying from the front or the rear and

if that doesn’t do the trick, you can always fire up the high-pressure tear gas gun.

http://gizmodo.com/this-dystopian-riot-control-truck-is-the-vehicle-of-the-1793656046

Paid for by taxpayers, to attack taxpayers.

tlongII

03-27-2017, 09:44 AM

Or people could quit rioting...

boutons_deux

03-27-2017, 10:50 PM

Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears

Database contains photos of half of US adults without consent, and algorithm is wrong nearly 15% of time and is more likely to misidentify black people

About 80% of photos in the FBI’s network are non-criminal entries, including pictures from driver’s licenses and passports.

“No federal law controls this technology, no court decision limits it. This technology is not under control,”

The FBI made arrangements with 18 different states to gain access to their databases of driver’s license photos.

“I’m frankly appalled,” said Paul Mitchell, a congressman for Michigan. “I wasn’t informed when my driver’s license was renewed my photograph was going to be in a repository that could be searched by law enforcement across the country.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/27/us-facial-recognition-database-fbi-drivers-licenses-passports

boutons_deux

03-31-2017, 05:26 AM

It's not only the cops and sheriffs ...

DEA has seized billions of dollars from people never charged with a crime (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/30/1648789/-DEA-has-seized-billions-of-dollars-from-people-never-charged-with-a-crime)

According to a new report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/29/since-2007-the-dea-has-taken-3-2-billion-in-cash-from-people-not-charged-with-a-crime/?utm_term=.ecb38a623e86) issued by the Justice Department’s Inspector General,Since 2007, the report found, the DEA has seized more than $4 billion in cash from people suspected of involvement with the drug trade.

But 81 percent of those seizures, totaling $3.2 billion, were conducted administratively, meaning no civil or criminal charges were brought against the owners of the cash and no judicial review of the seizures ever occurred.

That total does not include the dollar value of other seized assets, like cars, homes, electronics and clothing.

These seizures are all legal under the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/), which allows authorities to take cash, contraband and property from people suspected of crime. But the practice does not require authorities to obtain a criminal conviction, and it allows departments to keep seized cash and property for themselves unless individuals successfully challenge the forfeiture in court.

Critics across the political spectrum say this creates a perverse profit motive, (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/10/report-in-lean-times-police-start-taking-a-lot-more-stuff-from-people/?utm_term=.23ac8ee321e4) incentivizing police to seize goods not for the purpose of fighting crime, but for padding department budgets.

they can’t even say if the forfeitures are effective, other than ballooning the DOJ’s Asset Forfeiture Fund to $28 billion:

The Inspector General found (https://oig.justice.gov/multimedia/transcripts/video-03-29-17.pdf) that the Department of Justice "does not collect or evaluate the data necessary to know whether its seizures and forfeitures are effective, or the extent to which seizures present potential risks to civil liberties."

In the absence of this information, the report examined 100 DEA cash seizures that occurred "without a court-issued warrant and without the presence of narcotics, the latter of which would provide strong evidence of related criminal behavior."

Fewer than half of those seizures were related to a new or ongoing criminal investigation, or led to an arrest or prosecution, the Inspector General found.

"When seizure and administrative forfeitures do not ultimately advance an investigation or prosecution," the report concludes, "law enforcement creates the appearance, and risks the reality, that it is more interested in seizing and forfeiting cash than advancing an investigation or prosecution."

The scope of asset forfeiture is staggering.

Since 2007 the Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture Fund, which collects proceeds from seized cash and other property, has ballooned to $28 billion.

In 2014 alone authorities seized $5 billion in cash and property from people -- greater than the value of all documented losses to burglary (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.d4eebff7734c) that year.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/30/1648789/-DEA-has-seized-billions-of-dollars-from-people-never-charged-with-a-crime?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

I'm sure populist Trash and Sessions will correct this abuse of the populus, keep better records, etc, etc.

boutons_deux

04-04-2017, 04:25 AM

US Immigration Detainees Forced to Work

Immigrants held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Denver Contract Detention Facility have alleged that the private prison forced them to work for $1 per day.

This suit was first filed back in 2014, but has now been awarded class-action status. This marks the first time in history that a class-action lawsuit has moved forward against a private US prison company.

The Denver center is under contract with ICE and is owned and operated by GEO Group.

If the allegations are true, the for-profit prison company GEO Group will be in violation of American anti-slavery laws.

http://projectcensored.org/us-immigration-detainees-forced-work/

boutons_deux

04-10-2017, 10:54 AM

Clipper Nation

04-10-2017, 11:28 AM

If the "warrior cops are out of control," why does the left try so hard to prevent Heather MacDonald from speaking? If her defense of the police is wrong, why are they so afraid to let people hear it?

Administrators expressed disappointment and threatened discipline in the wake of a demonstration that disrupted a planned public event last week featuring conservative commentator and author Heather MacDonald at Claremont McKenna College.

At Claremont McKenna, about 250 protesters on Thursday blocked the entrance to the Athenaeum, where MacDonald was scheduled to appear. Many chanted "black lives matter" and "black lives — they matter here."

Campus officials and security decided not to force entry into the venue on behalf of those who came to hear MacDonald speak.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-macdonald-claremont-speech-disrupted-20170408-story.html

boutons_deux

04-10-2017, 12:42 PM

United Airlines passenger brutally dragged from plane for no good reason

His sin? Booking a ticket on a full flight.

Videos posted to social media show uniformed security agents violently assaulting a passenger on a United Airlines plane as he is forced off a flight from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday evening.

While the man was being physically removed from his seat, he appeared to be knocked unconscious. The uniformed men then drag him down the plane aisle as other passengers look on in horror.

A United spokesperson told the Louisville Courier-Journal that “Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked.” That prompted staff members to ask for volunteers to take another flight.

“After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate,” the spokesperson added.

Here’s how law enforcement dealt with that customer, who according to other passengers is a doctor who had to be back in Louisville to see patients Monday morning:

passengers boarded the flight, but were then told four people needed to volunteer to exit to make room for United employees who had to travel to Louisville. United offered $800 for volunteers, but had no takers.

A United manager then came aboard the plane and explained that a computer would randomly select four people who would then have to exit. The man who was later dragged off the flight was among them.

United redirected questions about the incident to the Chicago Police,

who redirected questions to the Chicago Department of Aviation,

who referred questions to a TSA,

who declined to comment.

https://thinkprogress.org/united-passenger-brutally-removed-from-plane-chicago-louisville-f886330eb393

Is there a lawsuit here? United settles for several $Ms?

Corporate America The Beautiful

United apologizes for ‘having to re-accommodate’ doctor who was dragged out of flight ‘like a rag doll’

“This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United,” Chief Executive Officer Oscar Munoz said in a statement. “I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers.”

“No one volunteered (to leave), so @United decided to choose for us. They chose an Asian doctor and his wife.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/united-apologizes-for-having-to-re-accommodate-doctor-who-was-dragged-out-of-flight-like-a-rag-doll/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

re-accomdate? :lol No apology for Shutzstaffel knocking the fuck out of one of your customers? :lol

Who the fuck ordered the SS to drag the doctor out? Musta been United staff.

boutons_deux

04-12-2017, 03:46 PM

Video shows Sacramento cop slam and beat black man to the ground—for alleged jaywalking (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/12/1652534/-Video-shows-Sacramento-cop-slam-and-beat-black-man-to-the-ground-for-supposedly-jaywalking)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/388383/story_image/Screenshot_2017-04-12_13.17.18.png?1492018110

The video, released Monday, has sparked national outrage. It shows the officer confronting the man, identified as Nandi Cain Jr., as he crossed an intersection and attempting to talk to Cain but the situation quickly escalates.

After some words are exchanged while Cain is standing in the street, the officer then violently throws Cain to the ground and begins to punch him in the head.

The events leading up to the incident were not captured by the camera, and it is not possible to hear the conversation between Cain and the officer before the incident occurred.

"For an unknown reason, :lol (white cop vs knitter) the officer threw the pedestrian to the ground and began striking him in the face with his hand multiple times," the SPD statement said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/12/1652534/-Video-shows-Sacramento-cop-slam-and-beat-black-man-to-the-ground-for-supposedly-jaywalking?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

boutons_deux

04-19-2017, 09:53 AM

Court: No Immunity For Federal Agent Who Made Elderly Woman Stand In Urine-Soaked Pants For Two Hours While He Questioned Her

Davis may have told the government what she was up to, but the government didn't return the favor. Instead, it decided to engage in sting operation, because that's obviously the best way to deal with a 74-year-old woman trying to pay medical expenses -- and who had made the government fully aware of her NASA-related items and her planned sale of them.

"Jeff," the government's undercover man posing as an interested buyer, met with Davis at a Denny's. Outside were six armed federal agents. The only person with Davis was her 70-year-old friend, Paul Cilley. From the opinion (http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/04/13/15-55671.pdf) [PDF]:

Once Davis, Cilley, and “Jeff” were seated in a booth inside the restaurant and exchanged pleasantries, Davis placed the paperweights on the table. “Jeff” said he thought the heat shield was worth about $2,000. Shortly thereafter, Conley announced himself as a “special agent,” and another officer’s hand reached over Davis, grabbed her hand, and took the moon rock paperweight. Simultaneously, a different officer grabbed Cilley by the back of the neck and restrained him by holding his arm behind his back in a bent-over position. Then, an officer grabbed Davis by the arm, pulling her from the booth. At this time, Davis claims that she felt like she was beginning to lose control of her bladder. One of the officers took her purse. Both Cilley and Davis were compliant. Four officers escorted them to the restaurant parking lot for questioning after patting them down to ensure that neither was armed.

If this itself seems excessive, well… hold the government's beer.

Davis claims that she told officers twice during the escort that she needed to use the restroom, but that they did not answer and continued walking her toward an SUV where Conley was waiting. Davis subsequently urinated in her clothing. Although their accounts differ in some respects, Conley and Davis agree that he knew she was wearing urine-soaked pants as he interrogated her in the restaurant parking lot. Davis claims that she was not allowed an opportunity to clean herself or change her clothing, despite communicating to Conley several times that she was “very uncomfortable.”

Conley is Norman Conley, the federal agent whose immunity remains stripped. For whatever reason, Conley appeared to believe it wasn't enough to have both the disputed property in hand and a fully-compliant suspect who had already informed NASA about her plans to sell them.

Conley then proceeded to question Davis for one-and-a-half to two hours, during which time Davis remained standing in the same place.

In urine-soaked pants, lest we forget.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170416/07062837158/court-no-immunity-federal-agent-who-made-elderly-woman-stand-urine-soaked-pants-two-hours-while-he-questioned-her.shtml

Law enforcement attracts and/or creates dickless, power-hungry sickos.

boutons_deux

04-19-2017, 06:00 PM

Police-Related Injuries Send 50,000 People to ER Yearly

http://www.livescience.com/58742-police-related-injuries-send-people-to-emergency-room.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience .com+Science+Headline+Feed%29

boutons_deux

04-22-2017, 05:34 AM

Florida sheriff cuts tough-guy video with masked SWAT team

Guilty people aren’t the only ones who should fear nighttime raids.

https://www.facebook.com/LakeCountySO/videos/1632015356828157/

https://thinkprogress.org/florida-sheriff-mask-on-21f73db095d0

The Rise of the SWAT Team in American Policing

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/us/the-rise-of-the-swat-team-in-american-policing.html?_r=0

boutons_deux

05-02-2017, 04:01 PM

Grand Jury Recommends Criminal Charges Against Staff of Sheriff David Clarke's Jail

The development comes after an inmate died of "profound dehydration."

http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-image/david_clarke_0.jpg

A grand jury on Monday recommended criminal charges against several jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate last year.

Terrill Thomas, 38, died in April 2016 in the jail run by controversial (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/sheriff-david-clarke-jail-deaths-immigration-trump) Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke after

staffers shut off the water in his cell for a week as punishment for misbehavior.

Jurors recommended (https://apnews.com/3edc963c3ac34beb92867e4cecf5ae85?utm_campaign=Soci alFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APCentralRegion) that two Milwaukee County Jail supervisors and five corrections officers be charged with abuse of a resident of a penal facility.

Smith was one of four people who died last in year in the jail run by Clarke,

who is reportedly being considered (http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/04/28/white-house-considers-milwaukee-county-sheriff-david-clarke-post-homeland-security/101036918/) by the Trump administration for a position at the Department of Homeland Security.

Prosecutors' investigation into the jail death did not target Clarke himself.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/david-clarke-jail-death-charges

Extra-judicial executions, murders, happens all over the PIC.

boutons_deux

05-03-2017, 10:16 AM

For slave-state, racist Session, the only good knitter is a dead knitter, and Black Live Don't Fucking Matter

Officers Won’t Be Charged in Shooting of Alton Sterling (http://www.ozy.com/presidential-daily-brief/pdb-77258/impunity-77283)

There’s a new sheriff in town. The Justice Department has reportedly declined to charge the two white officers who were filmed shooting and killing Alton Sterling last summer in Baton Rouge.

http://www.ozy.com/presidential-daily-brief/pdb-77258/impunity-77283

Sessions' message to cops: Hunting Season is OPEN.

boutons_deux

05-03-2017, 10:27 AM

Misogynist, Racist Sessions is literally prosecuting a woman for laughing at Jeff Sessions

Code Pink activist Desiree Fairooz was arrested in January after she laughed at a claim from Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) that Sessions’s history of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented.”

“the laugh amounted to willful ‘disorderly and disruptive conduct’ intended to ‘impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct’ of congressional proceedings.”

In court, they have tried to emphasize that the laugh was extraordinarily disruptive, with a US Capitol Police officer claiming that Fairooz laughed “very loudly” and people in the hearings turned around when they heard it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/2/15518574/desiree-fairooz-justice-department

"Lock Her Up!" dissent is criminalized

ST misogynists must be delighted.

America is fucked and unfuckable.

boutons_deux

05-03-2017, 10:38 AM

NSA Reportedly Collected Americans’ Phone Records Even After Law Change

The agency had warrants from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court to spy on only 42 terrorism suspects in 2016.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nsa-spying-phone-records_us_590983dae4b0bb2d08732a48?ncid=inblnkush pmg00000009&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20050317&utm_content=The%20Morning%20Email%20050317+CID_b2b 2a1e297ebd2ae32afa6323ecfbe99&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=collected%20more%20than%20151%20million%2 0records&ncid=newsltushpmgnewsThe%20Morning%20Email%2005031 7

To repeat, the militarized police state/NatSec is an unaccountable govt unto itself.

America is fucked and unfuckable.

boutons_deux

05-09-2017, 05:31 PM

life-long racist Sessions pushing hard to deport BLACK Haitians

DHS is digging for crimes by Haitians in order to end their protective status and deport them (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/9/1660402/-DHS-is-digging-for-crimes-by-Haitians-in-order-to-end-their-protective-status-and-deport-them)

The Trump administration is taking the unusual step of hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in

a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since an earthquake destroyed much of their country.
The inquiries into the community’s criminal history were made in internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services emails obtained by The Associated Press. They show the agency’s newly appointed policy chief also wanted to know how many of the roughly

50,000 Haitians enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program were taking advantage of public benefits, which they are not eligible to receive.
The request for criminal data for an entire community is unorthodox. The law doesn’t specify it should be a consideration for Temporary Protected Status and the government has never said it would use criminal rates in deciding if a country’s citizens should be allowed to stay under this program. Introducing new criteria is likely to cause consternation among law-abiding Haitians who may feel they are being penalized for the wrongdoing of their compatriots.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/05/09/1660402/-DHS-is-digging-for-crimes-by-Haitians-in-order-to-end-their-protective-status-and-deport-them?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

boutons_deux

05-09-2017, 05:39 PM

LAPD settlements soar as officials close the books on high-profile lawsuits against police officers

The Los Angeles Police Department (http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/law-enforcement/los-angeles-police-department-ORGOV000939-topic.html) paid nearly $81 million in legal settlements last fiscal year, a sharp increase as the city closed the books on several high-profile and costly cases.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-litgation-costs-20170509-story.html

boutons_deux

05-24-2017, 07:58 AM

LAPD officer is spared time behind bars in South L.A. assault case caught on video

Prosecutors took the rare step of filing a criminal charge against Los Angeles Police Officer Richard Garcia, who had kicked, punched and elbowed the man as he was held down on a South L.A. street.

For some, the beating cried out for a stiff punishment.
But on Tuesday, a judge sentenced Garcia to two years of probation, allowing him to avoid jail time as part of a deal with prosecutors that drew criticism for being too lenient.

The sentence was less severe than the recommendation by a probation officer, who had noted in a report filed last year that Garcia had no criminal record but described his actions as “violent conduct that indicates a serious danger to society.”

A spokesman for the district attorney’s office defended the outcome, saying it was “reasonable given the state of the evidence and the law.” :lol

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-officer-assault-sentencing-20170523-story.html

boutons_deux

05-24-2017, 07:59 AM

“Half the people here shouldn’t be”

Sheriff Tom Dart makes an amazing assertion: He is the Sheriff for Cook County (Chicago & surrounding areas), and runs the Cook County Jail.

According to him, half of the 70,000 inmates who cycle through Cook County Lockup — thats Jail not Prison — don’t belong there

http://ritholtz.com/2017/05/half-people-shouldnt/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Pict ure%29

boutons_deux

05-31-2017, 06:06 PM

Private Mercenary Firm TigerSwan Compares Anti-DAPL Water Protectors to "Jihadist Insurgency"

An explosive new investigation by The Intercept reveals how international private security firm TigerSwan targeted Dakota Access water protectors with military-style counterterrorism measures.

TigerSwan began as a U.S. military and State Department contractor.

It was hired by Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline.

The investigation is based on leaked internal documents, which show how TigerSwan collaborated closely with law enforcement agencies to surveil and target the nonviolent indigenous-led movement.

In the documents, TigerSwan also repeatedly calls the water protectors "insurgents" and the movement an "ideologically driven insurgency."

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/31/private_mercenary_firm_tigerswan_compares_anti

The murderous, illegal American imperial wars overseas brought home and waged against American citizens.

The fucking mercenaries don't care who they are fighting.

boutons_deux

06-02-2017, 12:27 PM

5 Inglewood officers who killed couple in parked car are now off police force

The five Inglewood police officers who fatally shot a young couple, firing 20 bullets into them as they appeared to be unconscious in a parked car, are no longer police officers in the city,

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inglewood-shooting-officers-20170530-story.html

cops murder knitters, lose their jobs.

Just horrible punishment, and of course, no admission of guilt.

They'll probably go work for the sheriff like cop rejects often do.

boutons_deux

06-02-2017, 12:31 PM

Family of black man killed by Milwaukee police reaches $2.3 million settlement

The family of a black man who was unarmed when he was shot dead by police in Milwaukee in 2014 received a $2.3 million dollar settlement,

Manney was fired after shooting 14 TIMES! 31-year-old Hamilton, whose family said he was mentally ill, in a park in downtown Milwaukee in 2014.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-police-idUSKBN18R2ZB?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

White goon shoots unarmed mentally ill black man 14 times. Knitters are SO HARD TO KILL

no worry, life-long racist AL Jeff Sessions will be all over these kinds of cases.

boutons_deux

06-03-2017, 06:18 PM

In an Unprecedented Court Escalation, Trump Protesters Could Be Facing Decades in Prison for Inauguration Demonstrations

A frightening crackdown on free speech is underway across the country.

more than 200 protesters who gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest his inauguration are facing felony charges that carry sentences of 70 to 80 years.

the 212 protesters were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department and initially charged with

felony rioting, a crime that carries a 10-year prison sentence and a $25,000 fine.

On April 27, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia added additional charges that include

urging to riot,

conspiracy to riot and

destruction of property.

As political protests and civil disobedience reach their highest levels since the 1960s,

18 states have responded by proposing over 30 bills aimed at suppressing demonstrations by increasing (https://theintercept.com/2017/05/06/oklahoma-governor-signs-anti-protest-law-imposing-huge-fines-on-conspirator-organizations/) and expanding (http://www.alternet.org/activism/state-lawmakers-are-brutally-cracking-down-protesters-under-cover-trumps-law-and-order) penalties for protesters.

A new law in Missouri prohibits protesters from covering their faces with masks or other disguises. Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and Iowa have introduced bills that call for increased penalties for blocking traffic and demonstrating on private property.

http://www.alternet.org/activism/unprecedented-court-escalation-trump-protesters-could-be-facing-decades-prison-their

18 states? how many are red/slave states and how many are blue states?

boutons_deux

06-05-2017, 07:06 PM

here's a video of a fat white wannabe enforcer murdering a Mexican for pissing

http://abc13.com/news/watch-live-new-video-released-of-deadly-dennys-fight/2066395/

boutons_deux

06-06-2017, 04:47 PM

Police in Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones

Usage logs obtained by Muckrock show departments are cracking phones hundreds of times a year.

some usage logs of this equipment, from Tulsa Police Department (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/tulsa-27213/mobile-phone-forensics-tools-tulsa-police-department-35475/), and Tucson Police Department (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/tucson-140/mobile-phone-forensics-tools-tucson-police-department-35340/#files). While the logs do not list the cause of the crime or any other notes about why the phone was being searched, it does list the make of the phone, the date, and the type of extraction.

As an aside, there are three types of extraction - physical extraction, when the phone is connected via USB cable to the extraction device and its contents downloaded as copies of the phone's files. A logical extraction is done using the phone's corresponding API. A file system extraction is more or less a physical extraction that uses what is called the synchronization interface of a phone to access the phone's memory system. This is a way to access deleted and hidden data.

The kicker really is how often these are being used - it is simply really hard to believe that out of the 783 times (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/tulsa-27213/mobile-phone-forensics-tools-tulsa-police-department-35475/#file-135429) Tulsa Police used their extraction devices, all were for crimes in which it was necessary to look at all of the phone's data.

Even for the 316 times (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/tucson-140/mobile-phone-forensics-tools-tucson-police-department-35340/#file-134580) Tucson PD used theirs in the last year, it is still a real stretch to think that some low-level non-violent offenders weren't on the receiving end.

concerns that protesters and activists who have been arrested at an action may be subject to extensive, and likely illegal phone searches - other people's information will surely get caught up in this dragnet, creating a civil liberties nightmare.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/police-oklahoma-cell-extraction-usage-logs

boutons_deux

06-16-2017, 03:35 PM

Well, of course

Minnesota Police Officer Found Not Guilty In Shooting Death Of Philando Castile

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/16/532783821/minnesota-police-officer-found-not-guilty-in-shooting-death-of-philando-castile?sc=tw

Cop claims HIS life in danger, so murder another knitter for a broken tail light, and walk away.

It's like Cosby claiming drugging and raping a lady was consensual sex, so Cosby (very probably) skates free.

He said = true, she said = false.

Thread

06-16-2017, 03:40 PM

Well, of course

Minnesota Police Officer Found Not Guilty In Shooting Death Of Philando Castile

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/16/532783821/minnesota-police-officer-found-not-guilty-in-shooting-death-of-philando-castile?sc=tw

Cop claims HIS life in danger, so murder another knitter for a broken tail light, and walk away.

But, it wasn't a white guy who shot him, it's a Chicano cop. Ipso facto= no big deal.

DMC

06-16-2017, 03:44 PM

Someone needs to make a thread about all the hand wringing and kangaroo court verdicts on this site, then contrast them with the actual jury verdicts. Show how full of shit most of you are.

Trill Clinton

06-16-2017, 07:22 PM

boutons_deux

06-16-2017, 08:01 PM

As Temperatures Climb to 120 Degrees, Border Control Agents Raid Humanitarian Aid Camps on Arizona Border

Four migrants receiving medical care north of the Mexican border were arrested Thursday.

Thirty armed Border Patrol agents with 15 trucks, two quads, and a helicopter raided (http://tucson.com/news/local/border/border-agents-make-four-arrests-at-camp-of-no-more/article_947d8ef4-5239-11e7-84ee-9f5c0effeba7.html) an Arizona humanitarian aid camp

on Thursday, arresting four migrants who were receiving medical attention, according to the humanitarian aid group, No More Deaths (http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/about-no-more-deaths/).

As southern Arizona prepares (http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2017/06/16/border-patrol-arrests-no-more-deaths-medical-aid-camp-arizona/402478001/) for 120 degree temperatures over the weekend and extreme heat advisories in the coming months, the raiding of aid camps providing water and care could prevent migrants from seeking life-saving medical assistance. On Thursday, temperatures reached 105 degrees in Arivaca, northwest of Nogales, Arizona, where the No More Deaths camp is located.

"The raid on the medical aid camp is unacceptable and a break in our good faith agreements w/BP to respect the critical work of #NoMoreDeaths," No More Deaths, the organization providing care to the four detained migrants,

http://www.alternet.org/immigration/temperatures-climb-120-degrees-border-control-agents-raid-humanitarian-aid-camps-arizona

Thread

06-16-2017, 08:27 PM

^Outstanding. Get the fuck up & get the fuck out of this country.

Trill Clinton

06-20-2017, 04:47 PM

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pussy ass cops

Adam Lambert

06-20-2017, 04:53 PM

he may have feared for his life in that moment, hopefully he fears for it for the rest of his pathetic life.

boutons_deux

06-21-2017, 04:57 PM

That'll teach him to stomp on heads of handcuffed blacks

Ohio cop gets 24-hour suspension for kicking black man in head while he is laying face down on sidewalk

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

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ohio-cop-gets-24-hour-suspension-for-kicking-black-man-in-head-while-he-is-laying-face-down-on-sidewalk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

06-22-2017, 08:17 AM

The 395 Kids Philando Castile Left Behind

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/594ab14c1700001f0010220b.jpeg

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_970_noupscale/594ac86b170000200010224f.png

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/philando-castile-school_us_594aaedde4b01cdedeffc8d6?vcc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__062217&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__062217+CID_854117c8 94ff9103a9bb86e45c90ac33&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__062217

boutons_deux

06-22-2017, 11:57 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqgz7kRGVxg

boutons_deux

06-22-2017, 02:10 PM

Castile Killing Jury Was Stacked For Defense

A more intimate look at the jurors in Yanez’s criminal case, compiled by the Minneapolis Star Tribune (http://www.startribune.com/the-yanez-jurors-a-snapshot/428447093/), offers not only insights into how they arrived at their decisions, but a look at just how well-stacked the jury was against a just verdict for Castile.

There were just two black people on the jury of Castile’s supposed peers.

The rest of those selected for the jury were overwhelmingly middle-aged white Minnesotans, many of whom expressly stated support for police or a belief in the infallibility of the criminal justice system.

Justice for Philando Castile never had a chance.

The system isn’t broken;

in fact, it’s working exactly the way it’s supposed to.

The Yanez case is yet more evidence of exactly how well it continues to function.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/castile-killing-jury-stacked-defense/

DarrinS

06-22-2017, 02:12 PM

Those two black jurors voted to acquit

Trill Clinton

06-23-2017, 03:36 PM

#theyalllookalike

878281121288540160

boutons_deux

06-24-2017, 12:55 PM

Blatant authoritarianism in a supposedly blue state

New Jersey Assembly Passes Bill Requiring K-12 Students Learn to Interact with Police

critics said it appeared to place the onus for police interactions largely on kids

“This legislation does not empower young people, especially those living in brown and Black communities,” New Jersey-based teacher and activist Zellie Imani told NBC News.

“Instead, it empowers law enforcement by allowing them to continue to evade accountability for abuse and misconduct while forcing the burden on the public.”

“The Garden State puts black residents behind bars at 12 times the rate of white residents,”

“One could argue that the example of young Tamir Rice, who was a school child with zero time to engage with the police before being gunned down or Philando Castile, a registered gun owner and law abiding citizen being killed in his car without provocation, suggests that

it may not be the citizens who have an issue when engaging with the police.”

“Should we be teaching kids how to interact peacefully with police,

or should we be teaching police how to interact peacefully with civilians?”

“Placing the onus on individuals,” Allen-Kyle told NBC News,

“whether it be students or drivers, to take responsibility for their safety during police interactions is, frankly, ridiculous.”

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/new_jersey_assembly_bill_kids_taught_police_201706 24

boutons_deux

06-24-2017, 02:54 PM

Sessions Hispanic lawyer gets bitch slapped in court, hilarious. Sending a Hispanic lawyer to screw the browns was no accident, for sure.

Court Tells Jeff Sessions To Get Fucked, AGAIN!

The Good Guys

The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (https://www.nwirp.org/) (NWIRP) provides free and low-cost legal assistance to more than 10,000 immigrants each year. NWIRP represents clients in court, but it also hosts Know Your Rights seminars and legal clinics throughout the state of Washington.

The Bad Guys

A normal, decent human being sees this and is grateful that there are good people in the world. But the Trump Justice Department are not normal, decent human beings. Jeff Sessions and his band of nativist jackals look at traumatized women and children getting help with immigration forms and say, This aggression will not stand, Man!

On April 12, NWIRP got a letter (https://www.nwirp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Dkt-1-1-exhibit.pdf) from the DOJ’s Disciplinary Counsel at the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) ordering NWIRP attorneys to “cease and desist from representing aliens” with their paperwork.

The DOJ says that attorneys must either represent immigrants through every phase of their cases, or give no legal advice at all.

DOJ attorney Victor Mercado-Santana got to splain to the court (https://www.clearinghouse.net/chDocs/public/IM-WA-0034-0006.pdf) why the immigrants would be so much better off going it alone.

THE COURT: All right. Counsel, again, I’m trying to dovetail exactly what it is that your regulation addresses.

And when I asked you about what appears to be transparent disclosure by NWIRP, by the fact that they put their name on their pleading, and in terms of your reference to they didn’t tell you exactly know who it is, we’re disclosing our entity — not individually — but you clearly know the organization. […]

MR. MERCADO-SANTANA: There are many concerns about notario fraud, there are many concerns about quality of representation, of making sure that the parties know who the advocate is in a case, which is why this notice of appearance is required. […]It actually would benefit the litigants that appear before the immigration court.

Was there any allegation that NWIRP provided bad advice to desperate people just trying to get their forms filled out? NOPE.

THE COURT: Okay. So based upon the evidence that you have in terms of the enforcement of that regulation,

does EOIR have evidence of any poor representation on the part of NWIRP?

MR. MERCADO-SANTANA: Based on the record,

we don’t have any of that currently, right now, :lol

regarding NWIRP representation.

In fact, notario fraud (http://www.stopnotariofraud.org/faq.php), where desperate people get scammed into paying unqualified “consultants” for help with immigration paperwork, is a real problem. Did any of these fraudsters get a “cease and desist letter?”

THE COURT: And, counsel, are you aware or

do you know how many other cease and desist communications are outstanding,

or is this the only one that’s outstanding that you’re aware of, from your client’s perspective?

MR. MERCADO-SANTANA:

I’m not aware of any specific example in other circumstances. :lol

But my understanding is, there has been enforcement in other cases. I just don’t have any particular information about any other cases to represent to the Court.

So, that’s a “No.”

The DOJ is ignoring actual notario fraud and concentrating on eradicating the scourge of pro bono attorneys. Your tax dollars at work

https://wonkette.com/619100/court-tells-jeff-sessions-to-get-fucked-again

:lol

boutons_deux

06-25-2017, 11:41 AM

A Pregnant Black Woman Called The Cops To Report A Burglary. They Killed Her

Charleena Lyles, a pregnant black woman of thirty years with a history of mental issues, called the Seattle police to report a burglary. At “some point” during the according to the officers, Lyles produced/picked up a knife.

Both officers immediately gunned her down, in front of her children, in her own home, after she had called the police herself.

“Why couldn’t they have Tased her?” mourns Lyles’s sister, Monika Williams. “They could have taken her down. I could have taken her down.”

Both officers carried nonlethal weapons, but chose to end a woman’s life instead.

They have been placed on administrative leave before inevitably being exonerated of any wrongdoing.

452 people have been killed by police officers this year; (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/) in general, black men are killed five times more often than white men,

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/06/19/pregnant-black-woman-called-cops-report-burglary-killed/ (http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/06/19/pregnant-black-woman-called-cops-report-burglary-killed/)

boutons_deux

06-25-2017, 12:21 PM

How America’s idiotic drug prohibition helped kill Philando Castile and give the policeman who killed him an excuse to walk free

The Minnesota cop who was acquitted last week of killing Philando Castile used the fact that he smelled marijuana in the car as part of his defense.

Whether Officer Jeronimo Yanez really believed Castile’s presumed pot use made him more dangerous or whether the testimony influenced the jury’s decision to acquit remains unknown, but its use in his defense illustrates the enduring demonization of the plant and its users.

Yanez didn’t mention marijuana in Reynolds’ video, but in court transcripts (https://www.ramseycounty.us/sites/default/files/County%20Attorney/Yanez%20BCA%20Interview%20Transcript%207.7.16.pdf) of his testimony, Yanez said he opened fire on Castile in part because he could smell marijuana and he assumed Castile had been using it in front of the child.

“I thought I was gonna die :lol

and I thought if he’s — if he has the guts and audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five-year-old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke, and the front-seat passenger doing the same thing, then what — what care does he give about me?” Yanez said.

The argument is that smoking pot in front of kids makes one a stone-cold killer.

in Yanez’s mind, someone who would smoke pot around kids is not only endangering his own life, but would be willing to kill a cop over a pot charge or a broken taillight (the original reason for the traffic stop).

http://www.salon.com/2017/06/25/how-americas-idiotic-drug-prohibition-helped-kill-philando-castile-and-give-the-policeman-who-killed-him-an-excuse-to-walk-free_partner/

boutons_deux

06-27-2017, 11:14 AM

Would You Believe It? TSA Is Requiring You To Pull Out Every Piece Of Paper In Your Bags

The Transportation Safety Administration is considering implementing a new national policy that would require passengers to remove books from their bags at airport checkpoints, like they do laptops.

And given the administration’s reputation for religious profiling,

the procedure could be used to violate passengers’ First Amendment rights.

“ooks raise very special privacy issues,” Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote (https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/new-tsa-policy-may-lead-increased-scrutiny-reading-material) in response.

“There is a long history of special legal protection for the privacy of one’s reading habits in the United States,

not only through numerous Supreme Court and other court decisions, but

also through state laws that criminalize the violation of public library reading privacy or

require a warrant to obtain book sales, rental, or lending records.”

[B]“We’re going to raise the bar for, generally speaking, aviation security, much higher than it is now,” Kelly told (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zyre92piqQ&t=10m16s) “Fox News

The new policy applies to all paper products, and has been introduced in two states (http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/tsa/339349-tsa-considers-forcing-airline-passengers-to-remove-books-from-carry)—Missouri and California—since May.

So far, it’s proven disastrous (http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article148384019.html) for an industry already under heavy scrutiny.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/believe-tsa-requiring-pull-every-piece-paper-bags/

General Kelly thinks he's still has the power to screw over a bunch military grunts out of their rights, to fuck the Constitution.

=======================
After flap over removing paper items from bags at KCI, TSA puts an end to practicehttp://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article148384019.html

boutons_deux

06-27-2017, 12:25 PM

Cops make up shit, esp their feeling of personal safety, to harass, brutalize, kill descendants of slaves

Florida Cop Invents Own Law In Hopes Of Arresting Black Man For Walking

Last week, in Jacksonville, Florida, Officer J.S. Bolen of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office aggressively confronted (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article158334474.html) Devonte Shipman, a 21-year-old black man, for jaywalking, attempted to arrest him, and then

proceeded to make up a law in order to file an additional charge.

There is video (via Blacktivist (https://www.facebook.com/blacktivists/videos/473181646358270/)), and it is absolutely freaking nauseating. It’s sickening. The way this officer talks to this young man over a jaywalking charge, you would think he just set the damn crosswalk on fire.

In the video, Shipman asks the officer what he did wrong; Officer Bolen responds by saying “Take your camera and point it across there at the red hand,” and then tells him that he was fining him and his friend $65 for jaywalking, and demanded they get in Bolen’s car. For… jaywalking. Shipman was taken aback and asked why — what with jaywalking not being a crime people are traditionally hauled away in police vehicles for — and Bolen said he would throw him in jail for “resisting.”

On the way to the car, Officer Bolen asked for his ID, and Shipman said he didn’t have it on him.
“That’s another infraction,” Officer Bolen said. “In the state of Florida, you have to have an ID card on you identifying who you are or I can detain you for seven hours until I figure out who you are.”

EXCEPT IT IS NOT. It is, if you are driving, but Shipman was clearly not driving. As evidenced by the fact that he was being charged with jaywalking.

Nonetheless, Officer Bolen issued him a $136 ticket for violating Florida Statute 322.15, which states:

“Every licensee shall have his or her driver license, which must be fully legible with no portion of such license faded, altered, mutilated, or defaced, in his or her immediate possession at all times when operating a motor vehicle and shall present or submit the same upon the demand of a law enforcement officer or an authorized representative of the department.”

He also issued a citation for $62.50 for failing to obey a pedestrian control signal. So that is $263.50, in citations, for crossing the street at the wrong time.

Not only that, but at one point, Shipman and his friend, who was recording the video, were

surrounded by three police vehicles. For, again, jaywalking.

During this argument, by the way, another person walks across the street, willy nilly, and is not “detained” for doing so.

https://wonkette.com/619202/florida-cop-invents-own-law-in-hopes-of-arresting-black-man-for-walking

Trill Clinton

07-12-2017, 03:07 PM

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Trill Clinton

07-12-2017, 10:00 PM

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boutons_deux

07-13-2017, 12:17 PM

Video shows police trying to explain why they pulled over a Florida state attorney

the windows were really dark. I don’t have a tint measure, but that’s another reason for the stop.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/13/police-stop-a-woman-for-her-tinted-windows-then-learn-shes-a-florida-state-attorney/?utm_term=.eba5d6c6a081&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

boutons_deux

07-13-2017, 12:23 PM

‘I told him I can’t breathe’: Police punch teen girl after mistaking her for black male suspect

The 19-year-old girl turned around at the intersection where she had paused and noticed three police cars. One of the officers, she said, had already drawn his gun.

What followed, according to both Hargrove and police, was a case of mistaken identity and an altercation in which police punched Hargrove in the mouth, unleashed a police K-9 dog on her and arrested her. Though the incident took place June 18, it gained wider attention this week after the Bakersfield chapter of the NAACP shared a video of Hargrove’s account (https://www.facebook.com/NAACP-Bakersfield-786247818090483/) on its Facebook page that garnered millions of views.

On the day police stopped Hargrove, officers had been

looking for a suspect — described as a 25- to 30-year-old, bald black man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing about 170 pounds —

who had threatened several people with a machete at a nearby grocery store,

“She appeared to be a male and matched the description of the suspect that had brandished the machete and was also within the same complex the suspect had fled to,” Christopher Moore, the arresting officer, wrote in his report.

But Hargrove is none of those things.

For starters, she is female. She stands 5-foot-2 and weighs 115 pounds “soaking wet,”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/12/i-told-him-i-cant-breathe-police-punch-teen-girl-after-mistaking-her-for-black-male-suspect/?utm_term=.b023e948f177&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

male, female, any size, they all look the same to cops

Trill Clinton

07-15-2017, 08:50 AM

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Trill Clinton

07-15-2017, 08:51 AM

Thread

07-15-2017, 12:35 PM

There is that story from a few years ago in a suburb of Chicago. Not violent like above but just as egregious. A fellow who owned a smoke shop had an adversarial relationship with the police dept there. The finally busted him for cocaine, or, heroin, I forget which. The cops found a bag on his counter next to his register. The only way he survived was he'd just recently had a security system put in because he was afraid somebody was going to break in and the only way he could get insurance on the business was to lay out for the security system. The cam picked up the cops placing the gd bag on the counter.

Can you imagine sitting and conspiring to do this at the police station and then going home afterward and conducting a life with your wife & children? It's heartbreaking.

& nothing happened to police involved.

The guy got a check & his freedom.

boutons_deux

07-15-2017, 07:43 PM

Woman convicted for laughing at Trump nominee Sessions gets new trial

was arrested for laughing during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January in response to a lawmaker's assertion that

Sessions ... treated all Americans equally. :lol HILARIOUS :lol

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-washingtondc-trial-laughter-idUSKBN19Z292?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-washingtondc-trial-laughter-idUSKBN19Z292?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)

Repugs are fucking misogynist, authoritarian autocrats.

When they stop being clowns, people will stop laughing at them.

boutons_deux

07-15-2017, 07:51 PM

Protest At Your Own Peril: Inhumane Ways Baton Rouge Police Treated Protesters They Locked Up After The Police Murder of Alton Sterling

1. Protesters were pepper-sprayed and threatened with violence in the prison.

Nearly every interview referenced prison staff violence (or the threat of violence).

One guard pepper sprayed approximately thirty men, all being held in one cell, for being too loud.

Thirty minutes later, the men were pepper sprayed again, with no reason given.

A prison guard reportedly also sprayed a group of detainees while they were singing gospel songs.

2. Protesters were denied medical care in the prison.

prison staff doubled down and failed to provide any medical treatment for their burning eyes and throats, despite prison policies that require medical treatment.

Prison staff also refused to provide medical care for injuries sustained during arrests, including head trauma, punctures from being tasered, and a swollen ankle.

The only treatment one protester with diabetes received, after hours of complaints about her spiraling blood sugar, was cookie crumbs wrapped in a napkin.

3. Protesters were subjected to inhumane and unsanitary conditions in the prison.

Detainees were housed in unsanitary cells caked with grime and blood, coating the walls.

Prison staff didn’t provide basic supplies to detainees, such as tampons, toothbrushes, toilet paper, soap, or even running water in some cases.

Prison officials apparently adjusted the air conditioning to freezing cold temperatures

none of the interviewed detainees received a free telephone call after being booked into the facility, violating the prison’s own policies.

4. Protesters were crammed into cells without space to sit or lie down overnight in prison.

The cells had enough space for eight to ten people to sit, but at times contained 20-to-40 people for hours and even overnight.

One of the detainees was a 17-year old minor, who was deliberately separated at the prison from her mother.

The minor spent the night terrified, housed in an adult prison, in violation of the Louisiana Children’s Code.

A prison guard mocked a detainee, who identifies as female, for requesting housing with other females.

5. Protesters were deliberately humiliated by the prison staff in group strip searches.

Five of the interviewed protesters reported being forced to undergo group strip searches.

The strip searches required that protesters disrobe completely, expose their genitals, and spread their “butt cheeks” for prison guards.

Even the seventeen year old was strip-searched.

claim the searches were necessary to maintain a secure environment, :lol

http://www.alternet.org/activism/inhumane-ways-baton-rouge-police-treated-protesters-they-locked-after-police-murder-alton

Once a slave state, always a slave state.