The Warrior cops are out of control

[Capt Bringdown]

Excerpted from "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" -- more --> (http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book _the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/)

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.

Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.” Baucum apparently did. After overhearing the men wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi as a cover to begin investigating him. During the next several months, he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were just more fun wagers between friends to make watching sports more interesting. Eventually Culosi and Baucum bet more than $2,000 in a single day. Under Virginia law, that was enough for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling operation. And that’s when they brought in the SWAT team.

On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged a time to drop by to collect his winnings. When Culosi, barefoot and clad in a T-shirt and jeans, stepped out of his house to meet the man he thought was a friend, the SWAT team began to move in. Seconds later, Det. Deval Bullock, who had been on duty since 4:00 AM and hadn’t slept in seventeen hours, fired a bullet that pierced Culosi’s heart.

Sal Culosi’s last words were to Baucum, the cop he thought was a friend: “Dude, what are you doing?” -- more -->> (http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book _the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/)

[Capt Bringdown]

http://media.salon.com/2013/07/rise_warrior_cop-620x412.jpg

[Blake]

Old news.

The police department admitted they screwed up, the officer was suspended for three weeks and the Culosi family settled for $2 million.

[Capt Bringdown]

Old news.

The police department admitted they screwed up, the officer was suspended for three weeks and the Culosi family settled for $2 million.

The incident is a detail supporting a larger book-length point/argument regarding the growth of the surveillance/punishment state - which is hardly "old news."

[LnGrrrR]

Old news.

The police department admitted they screwed up, the officer was suspended for three weeks and the Culosi family settled for $2 million.

Oh sweet, so I guess everything is hunky dory. The whole "police finding some lowtime crook/troublemaker, giving him tools to become a bigtime guy, then busting him for it" scheme is so retarded that they should just fire everyone involved in one of these things.

[Bill_Brasky]

Oh sweet, so I guess everything is hunky dory. The whole "police finding some lowtime crook/troublemaker, giving him tools to become a bigtime guy, then busting him for it" scheme is so retarded that they should just fire everyone involved in one of these things.

That's actually textbook entrapment, and I've heard of a couple of examples.

On the Valentine's Day edition of "This American Life", they did a "what i did for love" topic. One of the stories was of a female undercover officer going into a high school and befriending this dude. The dude was into her. She kept bugging the dude about where to find weed but he didn't smoke. So one day he finds out where to get some and buys it and gives it to her. She refuses to accept it and insists that she pay for it, so he just tells her to give hin ten bucks or something stupid(nowhere near what he bought it for) and the bitch arrests him.

Is this what we're paying the police to do? Seriously?

[LnGrrrR]

Exactly Brasky. Fuck that shit.

[Blake]

Oh sweet, so I guess everything is hunky dory.

I think it's dishonest for OP to leave out that the incident went unpunished.

I will say that the punishment is not nearly enough.

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The evangelical Christians of Greenville County, South Carolina, are afraid.

There has been talk of informants and undercover agents luring young, conservative evangelicals across the South into sham terrorist plots. The feds and the area’s police want to eliminate a particularly extreme strain of evangelical Christianity opposed to abortion, homosexuality, and secularism, whose adherents sometimes use violent imagery and speech. They fear such extreme talk could convince lone wolves or small groups of Christian extremists to target abortion clinics, gay bars, or shopping malls for attack. As a result, law enforcement has flooded these communities with informants meant to provide an early warning system for any signs of such “radicalization.”

Converts, so important to the evangelical movement, are now looked upon with suspicion -- the more fervent, the more suspicious. In local barbecue joints, diners, and watering holes, the proprietors are careful not to let FOX News linger onscreen too long, fearing political discussions that could be misconstrued. After all, you can never be too sure who’s listening.

Come Sunday, the ministers who once railed against abortion, gay marriage, and Hollywood as sure signs that the U.S. is descending into godlessness will mute their messages. They will peer out at their congregations and fear that some faces aren’t interested in the Gospel, or maybe are a little too interested in every word. The once vibrant political clubs at Bob Jones University have become lifeless as students whisper about informants and fear a few misplaced words could leave them in a government database or worse.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175722/tomgram%3A_matthew_harwood%2C_counterterrorism_in_ the_twilight_zone/?utm_source=TomDispatch&utm_campaign=6cc20a65d7-TD_Harwood7_9_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1e41682ade-6cc20a65d7-308834529

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Shocker: Only 1% of So Called Terrorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real

Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (http://www.amazon.com/The-Terror-Factory-Manufactured-Terrorism/dp/1935439618), dug into these supposedly dastardly plots and found that they are much less than meets the eye.

Trevor Aaronson: I’d say that the majority of the foiled attacks that they cite are really only foiled attacks because the FBI made the attack possible, and most of the people who are caught in these so-called foiled attacks are caught through sting operations that use either an undercover FBI agent or informant posing as some sort of Al-Qaeda operative.

In all of these cases, the defendants, or the would-be terrorists, are people who at best have a vague idea that they want to commit some sort of violent act or some sort of act of terrorism but have no means on their own. They don’t have weapons. They don’t have connections with any international terrorist groups.

In many cases they’re mentally ill or they’re economically desperate. An undercover informant or agent posing as an Al-Qaeda operative gives them everything they need… gives them the transportation, gives them the money if they need it, and then gives them the bomb and even the idea for the terrorist attack. And then when that person pushes a button to detonate the bomb that they believe will explode—a bomb that was provided to them in whole by the FBI—agents rush in, arrest them and charge them with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and then parade that person out to the public saying, "Look at us. We caught a terrorist. This is us keeping you safe."

If you look at the record of prosecutions in the decade after 911, there has yet to be a case of some Al-Qaeda operative providing the means for a wannabe terrorist to do an act of terrorism. It’s only the FBI that’s providing the means through these sting operations. What this has done is really inflate the threat of terrorism within the United States—particularly from Muslim terrorists—because in almost all of these cases sting operations target men on the fringes of Muslim communities who might be mentally ill, economically desperate or otherwise very easily manipulated by an informant who can make a lot of money in these sting operations.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/fbis-terror-scam?akid=10671.187590.OKsu-g&rd=1&src=newsletter866005&t=3&paging=off

And yet, the FBI, even with a tip from Russia, missed the Boston Marathon bombers. :lol

[LnGrrrR]

I think it's dishonest for OP to leave out that the incident went unpunished.

I will say that the punishment is not nearly enough.

fair enough.

[Clipper Nation]

Old news.

The police department admitted they screwed up, the officer was suspended for three weeks and the Culosi family settled for $2 million.
Only a three-week suspension? I'd have fired everyone involved in the investigation, that's just a slap on the wrist....

[Winehole23]

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20130825-dallas-police-are-finding-drug-houses-by-walking-up-and-asking.ece?ssimg=1162049#ssStory1162050

[cantthinkofanything]

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20130825-dallas-police-are-finding-drug-houses-by-walking-up-and-asking.ece?ssimg=1162049#ssStory1162050

so let's publicize it! Grand idea.

[boutons_deux]

11 over-the-top U.S. police raids that victimized innocents (http://www.salon.com/2013/08/29/11_over_the_top_u_s_police_raids_that_victimized_i nnocents/)


http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/4132135578_61e37865c8.jpg


http://media.salon.com/2013/08/shutterstock_1376695881-620x412.jpg

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/29/11_over_the_top_u_s_police_raids_that_victimized_i nnocents/?source=newsletter

[DMC]

bad boys bad boys

[RandomGuy]

(militarization of the police is a bad thing, and we should be worried about it)

This is something I agree with.

Police forces everywhere are creeping towards militarism, and that should be worrying for anyone, left or right. (well, except for Extrastout/homeland, who welcomes any coming police state to my understanding)

It isn't some purposeful, guided trend, as I'm sure the Inforwars crowd wants to believe, but a simple cultural shift that happens all the time.

Only this particular shift is having the effect of taking our police from a "we are here to help" mentality to an "us versus them" mentality. Given their role in any country, that should not be something we should accept.

[boutons_deux]

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1451947.1378903047!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/article-beating-0911.jpg

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/face-breakers-cops-investigation-dui-bust-article-1.1451943

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Police Kill Unarmed Former Football Player Seeking Help After a Car Crash


http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/screen_shot_2013-09-16_at_9.25.25_am.png


Officer Randall Kerrick, 27, of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) in North Carolina is facing charges of voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting Jonathan Ferrell, 24, a former Florida A&M football player who had apparently been seeking help after surviving a major car crash early Saturday morning.

CMPD officials called the shooting “excessive.” “Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter,” said (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/14/4313045/cmpd-chief-to-hold-press-conference.html#.UjXELMZJOSq) CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe in a statement. “It’s with heavy hearts and significant regrets it’s come to this… Our hearts go out to the Ferrell family and many members of the CMPD family. This is never something easy.”

The Charlotte Observer reports (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/14/4313045/cmpd-chief-to-hold-press-conference.html#.UjXELMZJOSq) that the car crash was so severe that Ferrell likely had to “pull himself out” of the wreckage. He then walked to the nearest house, about a half mile away, to seek assistance. But the local resident whose home Ferrell arrived at was frightened that he was attempting to burglarize her after not recognizing him.

The resident then made a 911 call and three officers arrived at the scene. According to police accounts (http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-charlotte-shooting-20130914,0,1216597.story), Ferrell, who is African-American, acted “aggressively” and charged towards the officers. Officer Thornell Little of the Hickory Grove division of the CMPD responded with an unsuccessful attempt to fire his Taser at Ferrell. Police say that when Ferrell continued to charge toward the police, 27-year-old officer Randall Kerrick discharged his weapon several times, eventually killing Ferrell.

http://www.alternet.org/police-kill-unarmed-former-football-player-seeking-help-after-car-crash?akid=10940.187590.UtLaTL&rd=1&src=newsletter897196&t=9

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As in most police states, cops serve as judge and jury on city streets—“a long step down the totalitarian path,” in the words that U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0392_0001_ZD.html) in 1968 when he decried expanding police powers. And police departments are bolstered by an internal surveillance and security apparatus that has eradicated privacy and dwarfed the intrusion into personal lives by police states of the past, including East Germany.

Under a series of Supreme Court rulings we have lost the rights to protect ourselves from random searches, home invasions, warrantless wiretapping and eavesdropping and physical abuse.

Police units in poor neighborhoods function as armed gangs. The pressure to meet departmental arrest quotas—the prerequisite for lavish federal aid in the “war on drugs”—results in police routinely seizing people at will and charging them with a laundry list of crimes, often without just cause. Because many of these crimes carry long mandatory sentences it is easy to intimidate defendants into “pleading out” on lesser offenses. The police and the defendants know that the collapsed court system, in which the poor get only a few minutes with a public attorney, means there is little chance the abused can challenge the system. And there is also a large pool of willing informants who, to reduce their own sentences, will tell a court anything demanded of them by the police.

The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state.

These thuggish tactics are now being used against activists and dissidents. And as the nation unravels, as social unrest spreads, the naked face of police repression will become commonplace. Totalitarian systems always seek license to engage in this kind of behavior by first targeting a demonized minority. Such systems demand that the police, to combat the “lawlessness” of the demonized minority, be, in essence, emancipated from the constraints of the law. The unrestricted and arbitrary subjugation of one despised group, stripped of equality before the law, conditions the police to employ these tactics against the wider society. “Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states,” Hannah Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism) “The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police.”

...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_origins_of_our_police_state_20130916/?ln

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The incident began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement. Eckert's attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.

Here's what happened to David Eckert at that hospital:


While there, Eckert was subjected to repeated and humiliating forced medical procedures. A review of Eckert's medical records, which he released to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:

1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.

2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.

8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

Throughout this ordeal, Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center consent to perform any of these medical procedures.



Think that's outrageous?

David Eckert has since been billed by the hospital for all the procedures and they are threatening to take him to collections.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253274/-Absolutely-unimaginable-this-could-happen-in-America?detail=email

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How the Houston Cop Who Killed an Unarmed, Disabled Man Was Found Innocent

On October 24, the Houston Police Department announced (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9299824) the results of its yearlong investigation into the shooting death of Brian Claunch (http://www.texasobserver.org/hpd-kills-unarmed-man-in-wheelchair/), a mentally ill double amputee killed by an officer last September after refusing to drop a pen. HPD cleared the officer, Matthew Marin, of any wrongdoing.

That may not come as a surprise, since HPD hasn’t found a single police shooting unjustified in at least six years. Between 2007 and 2012, HPD officers fatally shot 109 people and injured another 111. All those shootings were found justified. (For the full story on HPD shootings and beatings, read the Observer investigation here (http://www.texasobserver.org/horror-every-day-police-brutality-houston-goes-unpunished/).)

But some expected this case to be different. Claunch was wheelchair-bound and had one arm and one leg. He was definitely aggressive—officers were on the scene because Claunch was agitated, shouting threats and demanding soda and cigarettes—but he was also obviously disabled. HPD reports that Claunch backed an able-bodied officer into a corner and slashed at her with a shiny object, prompting her partner, MatthewMarin, to shoot him. But it’s difficult to visualize Claunch simultaneously moving effectively and posing a serious threat with one arm, even if he had been holding something more deadly than a ballpoint pen. Claunch was also known to be mentally ill; he lived at a small group home for men with mental illness. For all these reasons, some observers expected this shooting to be considered unacceptable.

http://www.texasobserver.org/hpd-clears-officer-killed-unarmed-disabled-man/?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

[xmas1997]

How the Houston Cop Who Killed an Unarmed, Disabled Man Was Found Innocent

On October 24, the Houston Police Department announced (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9299824) the results of its yearlong investigation into the shooting death of Brian Claunch (http://www.texasobserver.org/hpd-kills-unarmed-man-in-wheelchair/), a mentally ill double amputee killed by an officer last September after refusing to drop a pen. HPD cleared the officer, Matthew Marin, of any wrongdoing.

That may not come as a surprise, since HPD hasn’t found a single police shooting unjustified in at least six years. Between 2007 and 2012, HPD officers fatally shot 109 people and injured another 111. All those shootings were found justified. (For the full story on HPD shootings and beatings, read the Observer investigation here (http://www.texasobserver.org/horror-every-day-police-brutality-houston-goes-unpunished/).)

But some expected this case to be different. Claunch was wheelchair-bound and had one arm and one leg. He was definitely aggressive—officers were on the scene because Claunch was agitated, shouting threats and demanding soda and cigarettes—but he was also obviously disabled. HPD reports that Claunch backed an able-bodied officer into a corner and slashed at her with a shiny object, prompting her partner, MatthewMarin, to shoot him. But it’s difficult to visualize Claunch simultaneously moving effectively and posing a serious threat with one arm, even if he had been holding something more deadly than a ballpoint pen. Claunch was also known to be mentally ill; he lived at a small group home for men with mental illness. For all these reasons, some observers expected this shooting to be considered unacceptable.

http://www.texasobserver.org/hpd-clears-officer-killed-unarmed-disabled-man/?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter




And this comes as a shock?
After all, we are talking "Houston".

[boutons_deux]

didn't turn off his truck, police shoot him 6 times

Iowa police kill son whose father only wanted to ‘teach him a lesson’

Police chased Tyler Comstock onto the Iowa State University campus and set up a blockade that resulted in Comstock ramming Officer McPherson’s vehicle. McPherson ordered Comstock to shut off his truck, and when he refused to comply, McPherson shot at him six times

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/08/iowa-police-kill-son-whose-father-only-wanted-to-teach-him-a-lesson/

[Wild Cobra]

This is also old news, 3 years old:

dt1mFQG3tJg

When they examined the scene, this wood carver has his 3" carving knife folded up and in his pocket.

[boutons_deux]

Drug War Horror: Border Agents Probed Woman's Vagina and Anus Without Consent In Fruitless Search For Narcotics

Law enforcement in the Southwest are about to become notorious for invasive drug searches. A week after news outlets spotlighted the cases (http://www.alternet.org/drugs/anal-searches-8-times-over-doctors-and-cops) of two New Mexico men who had their anuses searched (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/06/another-new-mexico-man-forced-to-undergo-humiliating-medical-procedures-in-drug-investigation/) by police looking for drugs, another woman has come forward with a similar story.

KOB 4, a New Mexico news outlet, reports that (http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3212603.shtml#.UoI7QpQ4XKz)the American Civil Liberties Union is representing a New Mexico resident who says that law enforcement agents subjected her to invasive searches in a fruitless quest for drugs. The woman, who is anonymous, told the ACLU that after she was pulled aside by police after crossing the Mexico-U.S. border in El Paso, Texas.

According to the ACLU’s Laura Schaur Ives, federal border agents stripped searched her and told her to spread her genitalia and cough. After that, the agents are said to have pressed their fingers into the woman’s vagina to search for drugs.

Law enforcement did not find anything, so they took the woman to a hospital. “Medical staff observed her making a bowel movement and no drugs were found at that point,” Schaur Ives told KOB. “They then took an X-ray, but it did not reveal any contraband. They then did a cavity search and they probed her vagina and her anus, they described in the medical records as bi-manual--two handed. Finally, they did a cat scan. Again, they found nothing.” The woman says she never gave consent to the search.

http://www.alternet.org/border-agents-touched-vagina-and-anally-probed-fruitless-search-narcotics?akid=11137.187590.eP5HUw&rd=1&src=newsletter922936&t=9

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Texas cops force drivers off the road to give DNA to federal contractors

Police in Fort Worth, Texas apologized this week after officers forced drivers off the road so federal contractors could test their saliva, blood and breath tested for a study on driving while impaired.

Kim Cope contacted KXAS (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html) after she was pulled over because she said it “just doesn’t seem right that you can be forced off the road when you’re not doing anything wrong.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has insisted that the study, which was projected to cost $7.9 million over three years,

is anonymous :lol

and “100 percent voluntary.” :lol

But Cope questioned how it could be voluntary if uniformed officers forced her off the road.

“I gestured to the guy in front that I just wanted to go straight, but he wouldn’t let me and forced me into a parking spot,” she recalled. “They were asking for cheek swabs… They would give $10 for that. Also, if you let them take your blood, they would pay you $50 for that.”

Colosi pointed out that the contractors were “essentially lying to you when they say it’s completely voluntary” because fine print informs drivers that their breath was being tested by “passive alcohol sensor readings before the consent process has been completed.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/20/texas-cops-force-drivers-off-the-road-to-give-dna-to-federal-contractors/

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Cop Admits He Ordered Mentally Ill Black Man To Sing, Make Animal Noises

A suburban Detroit police officer admitted he asked a mentally ill black man to sing and dance and video recorded the incident.

Videos and and photos with degrading portrayals of black men were submitted earlier this month to the blog, Motor City Muckraker, purportedly from officers who disseminated them to friends and colleagues in the upper class, majority-white Michigan suburb of Grosse Pointe Park. One video portrayed a voice alleged to be an officer asking black men to do humiliating tasks, including “dance like a chimp.” In another incident, an officer allegedly texted a photo of a black man in the back of his trailer with the text, “Gotta love the coloreds.” The journalist, Steve Neavling, told the Huffington Post that he has more than a dozen videos shot by officers, but has not shared most of them because of their “humiliating nature.”

The unnamed officer has been taken off duty and is expected to face discipline, according to Neavling. But it is not clear whether that officer was the only one responsible for the photos and videos.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/23/2987931/cop-admits-ordered-mentally-black-man-sing-make-animal-noises/

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Texas Campus Cop Kills Unarmed College Student After Sarcastic Remark

An unarmed college student at University of the Incarnate Word in Texas was killed by a campus police officer last Friday (http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-student-fatally-shot-campus-police-traffic-stop/story?id=21144725), and now the police are investigating the incident. The officer who fired the gun has been placed on administrative leave, but the family of the victim still has a lot of questions.

The 23-year-old communications arts major Robert Cameron Redus was pulled over for allegedly driving recklessly, according the police. After a “struggle” took place, the officer, Christopher Carter, fired six shots. The incident took place at an apartment complex not far from the school.

“I didn't hear him say anything like, 'Get down on your hands and knees,' you know? I didn't hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” one witness told KSAT.com. (http://www.ksat.com/news/vigil-set-for-uiw-student-in-fatal-officerinvolved-shooting/-/478452/23362964/-/tpfrdj/-/index.html)

Another witness told the San Antonio Express News (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/UIW-police-officer-involved-in-shooting-5040968.php#photo-5565608) that he heard Redus’ last words. “I heard (a man) say, 'Oh, you're gonna shoot me?' like sarcastic almost,” said Mohammad Haidarasl.

The university says that Carter had an extensive law enforcement background and that he worked for the school for a few years. But documents published by the San Antonio Express News show that he worked for the Texas university for two and a half years after holding nine different jobs at eight separate law enforcement agencies.

http://www.alternet.org/unarmed-college-student-killed-campus-cop?akid=11253.187590.sF_jOP&rd=1&src=newsletter934379&t=7

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Kaveh Kamooneh told an Atlanta news station he never had trouble plugging in his electric car anywhere around town. That is, until he plugged it in at his son’s school during a tennis lesson.

For that, a Chamblee Middle School police officer had him arrested, and he spent 15 hours in jail, even after he paid the bail.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/867/125/521/drop-charges-against-eco-friendly-dad-who-charged-electric-car-at-sons-school/?z00m=20683179

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The Over-Policing of America

Police Overkill Has Entered the DNA of Social Policy

By now, the militarization of the police has advanced to the point where "the War on Crime” and “the War on Drugs” are no longer metaphors but bland understatements. There is the proliferation (http://www.salon.com/2013/07/13/radley_balko_once_a_town_gets_a_swat_team_you_want _to_use_it/) of heavily armed SWAT teams, even in small towns; the use of shock-and-awe (http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book _the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/) tactics to bust small-time bookies; the no-knock raids to recover trace amounts of drugs that often result in the killing of family dogs, if not family members; and in communities where drug treatment programs once were key, the waging of a drug version of counterinsurgency war. (All of this is ably reported on journalist Radley Balko’s blog (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/) and in his book, The Rise of the Warrior Cop (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1610392116/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20).) But American over-policing involves far more than the widely reported up-armoring of your local precinct. It’s also the way police power has entered the DNA of social policy, turning just about every sphere of American life into a police matter.

The School-to-Prison Pipeline

It starts in our schools, where discipline is increasingly outsourced to police personnel. What not long ago would have been seen as normal childhood misbehavior -- doodling (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/desk-doodling-arrest-alex_n_450859.html) on a desk, farting (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/25/2008-11-25_something_smells_funny_student_arrested_.html) in class, a kindergartener’s tantrum (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/25/2008-01-25_5yearold_boy_handcuffed_in_school_taken_.html) -- can leave a kid in handcuffs, removed from school, or even booked at the local precinct. Such “criminals” can be as young as seven-year-old Wilson Reyes, a New Yorker who was handcuffed (http://gothamist.com/2013/01/30/cops_handcuffed_7-yr-old_interrogat.php) and interrogated under suspicion of stealing five dollars from a classmate. (Turned out he didn’t do it.)
Though it's a national phenomenon, Mississippi currently leads the way in turning school behavior into a police issue. The Hospitality State has imposed (http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/11/school_prison_pipeline_meridian.html) felony charges on schoolchildren for “crimes” like throwing peanuts on a bus. Wearing the wrong color belt to school got one child handcuffed to a railing for several hours. All of this goes under the rubric of “zero-tolerance (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/education/seeing-the-toll-schools-revisit-zero-tolerance.html?ref=education)” discipline, which turns out to be just another form of violence legally imported into schools.


Go to Jail, Do Not Pass Go

Even as simple a matter as getting yourself from point A to point B can quickly become a law enforcement matter as travel and public space are ever more aggressively policed. Waiting for a bus? Such loitering just got three Rochester youths arrested (http://gawker.com/three-teens-arrested-for-waiting-while-black-1474787941). Driving without a seat belt can easily escalate into an arrest (http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-judge-ucla-20131126,0,3286857.story#axzz2lhF1Ae13), even if the driver is a state judge. (Notably, all four of these men were black.) If the police think you might be carrying drugs, warrantless body cavity searches at the nearest hospital may be in the offing -- you will be sent the bill (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/anal-probes-and-the-drug-_n_4254600.html) later.


Overcriminalization at Work

Office and retail work might seem like an unpromising growth area for police and prosecutors, but criminal law has found its way into the white-collar workplace, too. Just ask Georgia Thompson, a Wisconsin state employee targeted (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/opinion/16mon4.html)by a federal prosecutor for the “crime” of incorrectly processing a travel agency’s bid for state business. She spent four months in a federal prison before being sprung by a federal court. Or Judy Wilkinson, hauled away (http://www.wjhg.com/news/regional/headlines/70280112.html) in handcuffs by an undercover cop for serving mimosas without a license to the customers in her bridal shop. Or George Norris, sentenced (http://www.economist.com/node/16636027) to 17 months in prison for selling orchids without the proper paperwork to an undercover federal agent.

Criminalizing Immigration

The past decade has also seen immigration policy ingested by criminal law. According to another Human Rights Watch report -- their U.S. division is increasingly busy -- federal criminal prosecutions of immigrants for illegal entry havesurged (http://www.hrw.org/node/115554/section/2) from 3,000 in 2002 to 48,000 last year. This novel application of police and prosecutors has broken up families and fueled the expansion of for-profit detention centers, even as it has failed to show any stronger deterrent effect on immigration than the civil law system that preceded it. Thanks to Arizona’s SB 1070 (https://www.aclu.org/arizonas-sb-1070) bill, police in that state are now licensed to stop and check the papers of anyone suspected of being undocumented -- that is, who looks Latino.

Digital Over-Policing

As for the Internet, for a time it was terra nova and so relatively free of a steroidal law enforcement presence. Not anymore. The late Aaron Swartz, a young Internet genius and activist affiliated with Harvard University, was caught downloading masses of scholarly articles (all publicly subsidized) from an open network on the MIT campus. Swartz was federally prosecuted under the capacious Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa) for violating a “terms and services agreement” -- a transgression that anyone who has ever disabled a cookie on his or her laptop has also, technically, committed. Swartz committed suicide earlier this year while facing a possible 50-year sentence and up to a million dollars in fines.

Sex Police

Sex is another zone of police overkill in our post-Puritan land. Getting put on a sex offender registry is alarmingly easy -- as has been done (http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/05/01/raised-registry-0) to children as young as 11 for “playing doctor” with a relative, again according to Human Rights Watch. But getting taken off the registry later is extraordinarily difficult. Across the nation, sex offender registries have expanded massively,

Equality Before the Cops?

It will surprise no one that Americans are not all treated equally by the police. Law enforcement picks on kids more than adults, the queer more than straight, Muslims more than Methodists -- Muslims (https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/nypd-muslim-surveillance) a lot (https://www.aclu.org/human-rights/report-blocking-faith-freezing-charity) more (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants) than (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-islam-qaida-irrelevant/) Methodists -- antiwar activists more than the apolitical. Above all, our punitive state targets the poor more than the wealthy and Blacks and Latinos more than white people.

Even Our Prisons Are Over-Policed

The over-criminalization of American life empties out into our vast, overcrowded prison system, which is itself over-policed. The ultimate form of punitive control (and torture) is long-term solitary confinement, in which 80,000 to 100,000 prisoners are encased at any given moment. Is this really necessary? Solitary is no longer reserved for the worst or the worst or most dangerous prisoners but can beinflicted (http://solitarywatch.com/facts/faq/) on ones who wear Rastafari dreadlocks, have a copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War in their cell, or are in any way suspected, no matter how tenuous the grounds, of gang affiliations.

The Destruction of Families

Prison may seem the logical finale for this litany of over-criminalization, but the story doesn’t actually end with those inmates. As prisons warehouse ever more Americans, often hundreds of miles from their local communities, family bonds weaken and disintegrate. In addition, once a parent goes into the criminal justice system, his or her family tends to end up on the radar screens of state agencies. “Being under surveillance by law enforcement makes a family much more vulnerable to Child Protective Services,” says Professor Dorothy Roberts (https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/roberts1/) of the University of Pennsylvania Law school. An incarcerated parent, especially an incarcerated mother, means a much stronger likelihood that children will be sent into foster care, where, according to one recent study, they will be twice as likely as war veterans to suffer (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/books/review/cris-beams-to-the-end-of-june.html) from PTSD.

Do We Live in a Police State?

The term “police state” was once brushed off by mainstream intellectuals as the hyperbole of paranoids. Not so much anymore. Even in the tweediest precincts of the legal system, the over-criminalization of American life is remarked upon with greater frequency and intensity. “You’re probably a (federal) criminal” is the accusatory title of a widely read essay (http://www.volokh.com/posts/1248668478.shtml) co-authored by Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. A Republican appointee, Kozinski surveys the morass of criminal laws that make virtually every American an easy target for law enforcement. Veteran defense lawyer Harvey Silverglate has written an entire book about how an average American professional could easily commit (http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx)three felonies in a single day without knowing it.

The daily overkill of police power in the U.S. goes a long way toward explaining why more Americans aren’t outraged by the “excesses” of the war on terror, which, as one law professor has argued (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1242154), are just our everyday domestic penal habits exported to more exotic venues

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175781/

[Winehole23]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/18-la-sheriff-s-deputiesfacecharges.html

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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/18-la-sheriff-s-deputiesfacecharges.html

here's a hyper-patriot org with the typically weird fucking idea that the primary defenders of THEIR Constitution should be sheriffs, constables, who are often owned by whoever financed their campaign.


"Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution"

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

[mouse]

meanwhile home invasions are up.

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Police escort cancer patient from Nashville steakhouse after he’s forced to remove hat

A steakhouse in Nashville has responded to complaints that its staff forced a cancer patient to remove his hat over the weekend because he did not have a note from his doctor.

According to WZTV (http://fox17.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/only-fox-nashville-mortons-responds-alleged-mistreatment-cancer-patient-18433.shtml), the controversy started when a group of 16 people were finishing up a $2,000 company Christmas dinner at Morton’s Steakhouse when one man, who is being treated with chemotherapy and is sensitive to the cold, decided to put on a wool cap for warmth.

“When he put on a wool beanie in the restaurant to keep warm, he was immediately asked to remove it… which he did,” Amanda W. explained (http://www.yelp.com/biz/mortons-the-steakhouse-nashville#hrid:gHJc3yG9wpgQrdyjGNW1yw) in a Yelp review. “When his family mentioned his condition and questioned the treatment from Catrina, the assistant manager, they were told he could wear it if he presented a doctors’ note… or if we had given them previous notice so we could be accommodated elsewhere. (Out of sight, out of mind?)”

“In short, what followed was shock/disbelief (can’t say that I blame them) and the cops being called (huh?), and we were (all 16 of us) asked to leave,” she said.

Ashley S., who was also at the dinner, told a very similar story in her Yelp review.“I understand there are rules at establishments…I get it, really. But when we are there, spending a few thousand dollars, and one of the men in the group who is battling cancer and has an extreme sensitivity to cold, decided to slip on his black wool beanie (AT THE END OF THE MEAL mind you…) he was told to take it off, which he did,” she wrote. “Upset, his son decided to tell the manager Catrina that his dad has cancer, etc…well her response was he needed a DOCTOR’S NOTE. Are you kidding me??? His wife then got extremely upset, and the family got up to leave…not before speaking with the management. They told them they should have called in advance so they could have put us in a room by ourselves…we didn’t realize cancer was so offensive!”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/16/police-escort-cancer-patient-from-nashville-steakhouse-after-hes-forced-to-remove-hat/

aka, good ole timey Southern Hospitality! :lol

[angrydude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=234xjgUI1XY#t=86

got to 1:05

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got to 1:05

majority of comments on copblock say they hate drunk drivers, "drunk, resisted, therefore slamming a 70 year old lady to the pavement was justified".

But if their politicians ran saying they wanted to reduce from 0.08 to 0.05 (as in countries serious about drunk driving and not corrupted by BigAlcohol), they'd probably ALL vote against 0.05.

[Susan Boyle]

Why not save time and money by just slamming to the ground the person buying the beer when they enter their vehicle?

[SnakeBoy]

didn't turn off his truck, police shoot him 6 times

Iowa police kill son whose father only wanted to ‘teach him a lesson’

Police chased Tyler Comstock onto the Iowa State University campus and set up a blockade that resulted in Comstock ramming Officer McPherson’s vehicle. McPherson ordered Comstock to shut off his truck, and when he refused to comply, McPherson shot at him six times

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/08/iowa-police-kill-son-whose-father-only-wanted-to-teach-him-a-lesson/




Justified shooting, really stupid father.

[SnakeBoy]

This is also old news, 3 years old:

dt1mFQG3tJg

When they examined the scene, this wood carver has his 3" carving knife folded up and in his pocket.


http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Officer-in-woodcarver-shooting-resigns-1016917.php#page-1

[boutons_deux]

Justified shooting.

bullshit. how is not turning off the engine threat to the pig or anybody? there was no other way to handle it? for the police, of course not. EVERY situation is best handled by shooting to kill, any number of shots

[SnakeBoy]

bullshit. how is not turning off the engine threat to the pig or anybody? there was no other way to handle it? for the police, of course not. EVERY situation is best handled by shooting to kill, any number of shots

Investigated and ruled a justified shooting...
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_08e0dfa6-47cd-11e3-a8ca-0019bb2963f4.html

How can you watch the video and think the kid was an innocent victim of the police? Or did you not bother to watch the video in your own damn link?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNo4Bpl9JoA

Kid got what he deserved and the father is a dumbass for calling the cops and reporting his car stolen when he knew his kid took it to go get a pack of cigarettes.

[Nbadan]

The latest trick by our city's finest is a complete money scam...they 'pull over' a bait car near an entrance and line up patrol cars on the entrance and pull people over who don't move over a lane or slow down to 20 miles or less than the posted speed limit.....drive around town...you'll run into one of these money traps...

[boutons_deux]

Impatient NC cops allegedly shoot mentally ill teen: ‘We don’t have time for this’

A North Carolina detective is on leave after shooting a mentally ill teen who had reportedly already been subdued with a Taser.

A Brunswick County event report obtained by WECT (http://www.wect.com/story/24367610/officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-boiling-spring-lakes) indicated that two officers were called to Boiling Spring Lakes home after 12:34 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. One of the officers told Brunswick County Dispatchers that there had been a confrontation with 18-year-old Keith Vidal, but repeated several times that the situation was under control.
A second unit with one officer arrived 14 minutes later and notified dispatchers that he was forced to shoot the teen in self defense.

Mark Wilsey, the teen’s father, explained to WECT that members of his family had called the police for help with his son’s schizophrenic episode. He said that officers shocked Vidal with a Taser several times to get him under control.

“We don’t have time for this,” Wilsey recalled one of the officers saying before he fired in between the two officers who were holding the teen down.

“There was no reason to shoot this kid,” Wilsey insisted. “They killed my son in cold blood. We called for help and they killed my son.”

Wilsey admitted that his son was still holding a small screwdriver when he was shot, but said that the 90-pound boy was under control and could not have hurt anyone.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/impatient-nc-cops-allegedly-shoot-mentally-ill-teen-we-dont-have-time-for-this/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[cantthinkofanything]

Impatient NC cops allegedly shoot mentally ill teen: ‘We don’t have time for this’


would have been a funny movie line but that's pretty sad

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Bastrop TX has a huge minefield problem!

MRAP, MAXX, and the Militarization of Local Police Forces

http://www.creators.com/liberal/jim-hightower/mrap-maxx-and-the-militarization-of-our-local-police-forces.html



Bastrop County obtains armored vehicle to help fight crime

http://www.kvue.com/news/Bastrop-County-obtains-tank-to-fight-crime-236806901.html

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Chicago man sues after cops allegedly tortured him and raped him with a gun

A 32-year-old documentary filmmaker alleges that Chicago police beat him and sodomized him with the barrel of a gun in order to intimidate him into acting as an informant.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/chicago-man-sues-after-cops-allegedly-tortured-him-and-raped-him-with-a-gun/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Police Send Bomb Squad to Teen's House After He Doodles a Superhero with Flaming Glove


http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/shutterstock_2447561.jpg

Jersey high school officials and police sent a bomb squad to a disabled student's home and arrested him after seeing his doodles of a superhero glove with a flame coming out of it, the boy's parents claim in court.

The parents, K.J. and T.J., sued the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District Board of Education, the school superintendent, principal, other administrators and teacher, that Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, the Galloway Police Department, et al., in Federal Court.

Their son, K.J. Jr., has Asperger's syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the parents say in the 36-page lawsuit. He is, however, "a very gifted child in the areas of chemistry and engineering and likes to do experiments, fix things, build, create, and draw," according to the complaint.

"K.J. expresses himself through his drawings," his parents say. "He doodles at school and that helps him concentrate and focus in class. His IEPs [individual education plans - required by law for students with disabilities] note that he doodles and draws in class."

http://www.alternet.org/police-send-bomb-squad-teens-house-after-he-doodles-superhero-flaming-glove?akid=11399.187590.Pjx8YQ&rd=1&src=newsletter946608&t=15 (http://www.alternet.org/police-send-bomb-squad-teens-house-after-he-doodles-superhero-flaming-glove?akid=11399.187590.Pjx8YQ&rd=1&src=newsletter946608&t=15)

dig the NSA pass his doodles to the bomb squad? :lol

how did the bomb squad get his doodles?

[boutons_deux]

Theater shooting: Florida man guns down movie-goer for texting in ‘Lone Survivor’ filmSheriff Chris Nocco told CNN that the suspect was sitting in the row behind the victim, and began arguing because “the victim was using his cellphone, he was texting, he was making a lot of noise.”

the shooter "Reeves, who was described as being “instrumental” in helping that department establish a tactical response unit before leaving in 1993"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/13/theater-shooting-florida-man-guns-down-movie-goer-for-texting-in-lone-survivor-film/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol

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Cops Walk Free For Deadly Beating Of Homeless Man Thomas Kelly


Two Fullerton, Calif. police officers standing trial for the brutal beating that killed a homeless man were found not guilty Monday.

Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinell, a former officer and corporal for the Fullerton Police Department, attacked Kelly Thomas in July 2011 after an employee at a bar nearby reported that a homeless man was breaking into cars, KTLA (http://ktla.com/2014/01/13/verdict-reached-in-trial-of-ex-officers-in-kelly-thomas-death/) reported. Thomas, 37, had a history of schizophrenia and drug abuse, although there were no drugs or alcohol in his system that night, according to the autopsy.

A surveillance video shows Ramos approaching Thomas. It was not their first encounter, as Thomas was frequently seen in the area.

“See my fists? They’re getting ready to f*** you up,” Ramos says, putting on rubber gloves.

Cicinelli joins Ramos and another officer soon after, who are struggling with Thomas and striking him with their batons. Cicinelli uses his Taser on Thomas and then hits him with the butt of his gun, breaking several bones.

Thomas’ last words were “Dad, they are killing me.”

He was taken to the hospital, where he died five days later, never regaining consciousness. The coroner’s report stated that Thomas died of asphyxia from the beating and injuries to his head and chest.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/cops-walk-free-deadly-beating-homeless-man-thomas-kelly#

Well, that's one way for society to care for the mentally ill.

[boutons_deux]

Revealed: California Police Departments Are Using Mass Surveillance Tool

New documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests reveal the widespread use of so-called stingray surveillance devices in California. The outlet Sacramento News10 obtained the documents (http://www.news10.net/story/news/investigations/watchdog/2014/03/06/5-california-law-enforcement-agencies-connected-to-stingrays/6147381/), which were highlighted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). (https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/documents-reveal-unregulated-use-stingrays-california)

Local law enforcement agencies across the Bay Area are using these devices, which mimics cell phone towers by tricking wireless tools on the same network and making the tools communicate with the stingray device. These devices are used in a dragnet fashion, collecting data about innocent third parties not the subject of any investigation. Additionally, it can pinpoint investigation targets with extreme precision. In total, nine law enforcement agencies in the state are using stingrays or recently obtained grants to use them, according to News10.

“Terrorism is used as the primary justification for purchasing StingRay technology in every grant application obtained by News10,” reporters Michael Bott and Thom Jensen write (http://www.news10.net/story/news/investigations/watchdog/2014/03/06/5-california-law-enforcement-agencies-connected-to-stingrays/6147381/). “However, arrest records from Oakland and Los Angeles show that StingRays are being used for routine police work.”

In an analysis of the documents, the ACLU’s Linda Lye said the use of stingrays have troubling implications (https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/documents-reveal-unregulated-use-stingrays-california).

“The acquisition of these devices is shrouded in secrecy and driven by federal grant money, which undermines local democratic oversight,” writes Lye.

“There is a real question as to whether stingrays can ever be used in a constitutional fashion. They are the electronic equivalent of dragnet ‘general searches’ prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.”

The ACLU says it’s unclear whether stingrays can be used constitutionally. The group emphasizes that there needs to be transparency about how they can be used, like whether they are seeking court authorization to use them for investigations.

The police departments using stingrays are far from transparent, though. News10 was unsuccessful in getting any of the police agencies to comment in detail about their use of stingrays.

http://www.alternet.org/revealed-california-police-departments-are-using-mass-surveillance-tool?akid=11598.187590.Ib0WVH&rd=1&src=newsletter970363&t=13

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Five Offenses That Can Land Kids (But Not Adults) In Jail

According the report's data analysis, about 10,000 children in the United States are currently confined over the course of a year just for status offenses. That's a dramatic reduction from the way things were a few years ago, but according to the authors of the report, it's still way too many kids. So how are they getting swept up in the system? Here are the five most common status offenses:

1. Truancy

2. Running Away

3. Incorrigibility

4 and 5. Underage drinking and Curfew Violation

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/five-offenses-that-can-land-kids-but-not-adults-in-jail-20140324?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/five-offenses-that-can-land-kids-but-not-adults-in-jail-20140324?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter)

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Botch A Drug Raid? No Problem, Just Seal The Warrant, Citizen Complaint And Gag Order Itself


A Benedict Avenue resident contends Huron County deputies forced their way into his home Tuesday without a search warrant.

John Collins, who lives in one unit of a triplex home at 114 Benedict Ave., contends deputies got the wrong address when they executed the search warrant. The warrant was for the unit next to his, he said.

The deputies handcuffed him and left him lying on the floor in his unit for 20 minutes after they realized the mistake, Collins said.

Bad enough, but it gets worse.

They tore through his home, he said, after cuffing him and forcing him to the floor facedown. “They searched my whole house, pulled stuff out my closet, broke a couple knick knacks” he said.

One deputy also stepped on his tablet, shattering its screen. Another broke a ceramic decoration that once belonged to his now-deceased son, Collins said...

Two deputies must have realized the mistake, Collins said, because they recognized him from their school days and had to have known he was not the man identified in the search warrant. The deputies went next door, he said. They made contact with the residents there — who were later arrested for drug trafficking.

But six or so other deputies continued searching Collins’ home.

Collins filed a complaint against the Huron County Sheriff's Department and asked for a copy of the search warrant. This is when the department went on full lockdown with some help from the local judiciary.

Huron County Common Pleas Court Judge Timothy Cardwell issued a secret gag order March 21 to seal the search warrant. The gag order is also secret, Cardwell’s court clerk said after the Register asked for a copy of the order.


As Sheriff's Howard's spokesman, make yourself as unavailable and be unfriendly as possible to any reporter who has questions about the inconsistent story you're trying to make sure the public hears.

Still, the department (via Capt. Ted Patrick) continues to insist that it did nothing wrong. But it's completely unwilling to provide any evidence to back that assertion up. Instead, it expects to just push its way through the mess it's created without ever having to explain exactly what went on that night, all with the implicit blessing of a local judge.



http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140401/07502626761/botch-drug-raid-no-problem-just-seal-warrant-citizen-complaint-gag-order-itself.shtml (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140401/07502626761/botch-drug-raid-no-problem-just-seal-warrant-citizen-complaint-gag-order-itself.shtml)

[pgardn]

So since the vast majority of cops are out of control, Boots has volunteered to pounce on the little parties the more fortunate throw. He will go in unprotected and talk them out of turning your car over.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/2014/story/_/id/10747334/uconn-huskies-students-celebrate-national-championship

[Nbadan]

Small Iowa town of 7,000 with 11 cops gets MRAP

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/04/20140409_crazy_0.png

These things normally cost $500,000, but will be given to Washington, Iowa for free under a Defense Department program that gives surplus military equipment to domestic law enforcement.

Matthew Byrd writes in the Daily Iowan that:


Sometimes the news is just so drearily awful that you have to sit back and almost appreciate the pure comedy induced by it.


Take this item from Washington, Iowa, where the local police have recently acquired an MRAP vehicle (short for Mine Resistance Ambush Protected) through a Defense Department program that donates excess vehicles originally produced for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to local police departments across the United States, including other Iowa towns such as Mason City and Storm Lake.

...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-09/iowa-city-population-7000-will-receive-armored-military-vehicle

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War Gear Flows to Police Departments

NEENAH, Wis. — Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.

The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.

During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.

The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units.

Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs.

Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub (http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions%5Cpub%5C08/08-30512-CV0.wpd.pdf) in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. :lol

In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops (http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-08-27/news/os-barbershop-raids-lawsuits-sheriff-20130826_1_strictly-skillz-regional-program-administrator-state-licensing-agency) that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.” :lol

When the military’s mine-resistant trucks began arriving in large numbers last year, Neenah and places like it were plunged into the middle of a debate over whether the post-9/11 era had obscured the lines between soldier and police officer.

“It just seems like ramping up a police department for a problem we don’t have,” said Shay Korittnig, a father of two who spoke against getting the armored truck at a recent public meeting in Neenah. “This is not what I was looking for when I moved here, that my children would view their local police officer as an M-16-toting, SWAT-apparel-wearing officer.”

A quiet city of about 25,000 people, Neenah has a violent crime rate that is far below the national average. Neenah has not had a homicide in more than five years.

“Somebody has to be the first person to say ‘Why are we doing this?’ ” said William Pollnow Jr., a Neenah city councilman who opposed getting the new police truck.

(http://mobile.nytimes.com/images/100000002927511/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html)Neenah’s police chief, Kevin E. Wilkinson, said he understood the concern. At first, he thought the anti-mine truck was too big. But the department’s old armored car could not withstand high-powered gunfire, he said.

“I don’t like it. I wish it were the way it was when I was a kid,” he said. But he said the possibility of violence, however remote, required taking precautions. “We’re not going to go out there as Officer Friendly with no body armor and just a handgun and say ‘Good enough.’ ”

Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America’s cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and despite current fears, the number of domestic terrorist attacks has declined sharply from the 1960s and 1970s.

Police departments, though, are adding more firepower and military gear than ever. Some, especially in larger cities, have used federal grant money to buy armored cars and other tactical gear. And the free surplus program remains a favorite of many police chiefs who say they could otherwise not afford such equipment. Chief Wilkinson said he expects the police to use the new truck rarely, when the department’s SWAT team faces an armed standoff or serves a warrant on someone believed to be dangerous.

Today, Chief Wilkinson said, the police are trained to move in and save lives during a shooting or standoff, in contrast to a generation ago — before the Columbine High School massacre and others that followed it — when they responded by setting up a perimeter and either negotiating with, or waiting out, the suspect.

The number of SWAT teams has skyrocketed since the 1980s, according to studies by Peter B. Kraska, an Eastern Kentucky University professor who has been researching the issue for decades (http://cjmasters.eku.edu/sites/cjmasters.eku.edu/files/mayberry.pdf).

The ubiquity of SWAT teams has changed not only the way officers look, but also the way departments view themselves. Recruiting videos feature clips of officers storming into homes with smoke grenades (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgDEF0RM2o) and firing automatic weapons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v63jrssNWo). In Springdale, Ark., a police recruiting video (http://www.springdalear.gov/online_meetings/police_recruiting.php) is dominated by SWAT clips, including officers throwing a flash grenade into a house and creeping through a field in camouflage.

In South Carolina, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s website (http://www.rcsd.net/dept/specops-tactical.htm) features its SWAT team, dressed in black with guns drawn, flanking an armored vehicle that looks like a tank and has a mounted .50-caliber gun. Capt. Chris Cowan, a department spokesman, said the vehicle “allows the department to stay in step with the criminals who are arming themselves more heavily every day.” He said police officers had taken it to schools and community events, where it was a conversation starter.

“All of a sudden, we start relationships with people,” he said.

Not everyone agrees that there is a need for such vehicles. Ronald E. Teachman, the police chief in South Bend, Ind., said he decided not to request a mine-resistant vehicle for his city. "I go to schools,” he said. “But I bring ‘Green Eggs and Ham.’ ”

The Pentagon program does not push equipment onto local departments. The pace of transfers depends on how much unneeded equipment the military has, and how much the police request. Equipment that goes unclaimed typically is destroyed. So police chiefs say their choice is often easy: Ask for free equipment that would otherwise be scrapped, or look for money in their budgets to prepare for an unlikely scenario. Most people understand, police officers say.

"When you explain that you’re preparing for something that may never happen, they get it,” said Capt. Tiger Parsons of the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office in northwest Missouri, which recently received a mine-resistant truck.

Pentagon data suggest how the police are arming themselves for such worst-case scenarios. Since 2006, the police in six states have received magazines that carry 100 rounds of M-16 ammunition, allowing officers to fire continuously for three times longer than normal. Twenty-two states obtained equipment to detect buried land mines.
In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.

“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques,” Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department told the local Fox affiliate (http://fox59.com/2014/05/12/armed-for-war-local-police-tote-pentagon-surplus/), referring to improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment.

The police in 38 states have received silencers, which soldiers use to muffle gunfire during raids and sniper attacks. Lauren Wild, the sheriff in rural Walsh County, N.D., said he saw no need for silencers. When told he had 40 of them for his county of 11,000 people, Sheriff Wild confirmed it with a colleague and said he would look into it. "I don’t recall approving them,” he said.

Some officials are reconsidering their eagerness to take the gear. Last year, the sheriff’s office in Oxford County, Maine, told county officials that it wanted a mine-resistant vehicle because Maine’s western foothills “face a previously unimaginable threat from terrorist activities.” :lol

County commissioners approved the request, but recently rescinded it at the sheriff’s request. Scott Cole, the county administrator, said some people expressed concerns about the truck, and the police were comfortable that a neighboring community could offer its vehicle in an emergency.

At the Neenah City Council, Mr. Pollnow is pushing for a requirement that the council vote on all equipment transfers. When he asks about the need for military equipment, he said the answer is always the same: It protects police officers. :lol

“Who’s going to be against that? You’re against the police coming home safe at night?” he said.

“But you can always present a worst-case scenario. You can use that as a framework to get anything.”

Chief Wilkinson said he was not interested in militarizing Neenah. But officers are shot, even in small towns. If there were an affordable way to protect his people without the new truck, he would do it.
“I hate having our community divided over a law enforcement issue like this. But we are,” he said.

“It drives me to my knees in prayer :lol for the safety of this community every day. :lol And it convinced me that this was the right thing for our community.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html

prayer and MRAPs, yep, that helps a lot! :lol

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The Unconstitutional Border Wars Have Moved Into the Heartland


Shena Gutierrez was already cuffed and in an inspection room in Nogales, Arizona, when the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent grabbed her purse, opened it, and dumped its contents onto the floor right in front of her. There couldn’t be a sharper image of the Bill of Rights rollback we are experiencing in the U.S. borderlands in the post-9/11 era.

Tumbling out of that purse came Gutierrez’s life: photos of her kids, business cards, credit cards, and other papers, all now open to the official scrutiny of the Department of Homeland Security. There were also photographs of her husband, Jose Gutierrez Guzman, whom CBP agents beat so badly in 2011 that he suffered permanent brain damage. The supervisory agent, whose name badge on his blue uniform read “Gomez,” now began to trample on her life, quite literally, with his black boots.

“Please stop stepping on the pictures,” Shena asked him.

A U.S. citizen, unlike her husband, she had been returning from a 48-hour vigil against Border Patrol violence in Mexico and was wearing a shirt that said “Stop Border Patrol Brutality” when she was aggressively questioned and cuffed at the CBP’s “port of entry” in Nogales on that hot day in May. She had no doubt that Gomez was stepping all over the contents of her purse in response to her shirt, the evidence of her activism.

Perhaps what bothered Gomez was the photo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/78951673@N07/6950366202/) silkscreened onto that shirt—of her husband during his hospitalization. It showed the aftermath of a beating he received from CBP agents. His head had a partially caved-in look because doctors had removed part of his skull. Over his chest and arms were bruises from Tasering. One tooth was out of place, and he had two black eyes. Although you couldn’t see them in the photo, two heavily armed Homeland Security agents were then guarding his hospital door to prevent the father of two, formerly a sound technician and the lead singer of a popular band in Los Angeles, from escaping—even in his comatose state.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/unconstitutional-border-wars-have-moved-heartland

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Perhaps what bothered Gomez was the photo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/78951673@N07/6950366202/) silkscreened onto that shirt—


inadmissible testimony your honor...speculation

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Mom sues South Dakota police for using Taser on 8-year-old daughterhttp://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/10/taser-south-dakota.html

Cops are chicken-shit bullies who can't handle a 70-pound, 8-year-old girl.

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Georgia County Won’t Pay Medical Bills for Toddler Burned By Grenade in Botched Drug Raid

Officials in a Georgia county are refusing to pay medical expenses (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/lawyer-county-refuses-pay-medical-bills-toddler-hu/ng3s9/) for a toddler badly injured during a police raid on the home where the boy was staying.

Bounkham Phonesavanh was hospitalized for weeks in a burn unit after a SWAT officer tossed a flash grenade into his crib during a no-knock raid May 28 in Habersham County.

The 19-month-old suffered serious wounds, including a hole in his chest that exposed his ribs, and burns to his face and chest when the grenade detonated (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/30/toddler-in-coma-after-ga-police-toss-stun-grenade-into-his-crib-during-drug-raid/) just inches away from him as he slept.

The grenades were developed for combat use and are intended to temporarily blind and deafen anyone nearby.

“I heard my baby wailing and asked one of the officers to let me hold him,” the boy’s mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, told Salon (http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/). “He screamed at me to sit down and shut up and blocked my view, so I couldn’t see my son. I could see a singed crib, and I could see a pool of blood.”

“The officers yelled at me to calm down and told me my son was fine, that he’d just lost a tooth,” his mother added. “It was only hours later when they finally let us drive to the hospital that we found out Bou Bou was in the intensive burn unit and that he’d been placed into a medically induced coma.”

Officials in Habersham County, which conducted the drug raid, have turned down the family’s request to pay for the boy’s medical bills, saying they’re not allowed to help.

“The question before the board was whether it is legally permitted to pay these expenses,” county attorney Donnie Hunt said in a statement. “After consideration of this question following advice of counsel, the board of commissioners has concluded that it would be in violation of the law for it to do so.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-toddler-burned-grenade-botched-drug-raid?akid=12145.187590.Gvqg5p&rd=1&src=newsletter1016127&t=15

Obviously, lilttle Bounkham Phonesavanh isn't a Real American. I wonder if the money would have been found for a redneck Christian Georgia cracka baby?

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Sucky situation. But why are you making the issue about race? Isn't the main issue that the cops fucked up?

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Women’s Jail Allowed Male Guards To Videotape 274 Different Strip Searches (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/29/3477208/womens-prison-allowed-male-guards-to-videotape-274-different-strip-searches/)


At the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center, inmates who are transferred to a segregated unit are strip searched during the transfer. As part of this strip search, an inmate is required to “run her fingers through her hair, remove dentures if she wore them, raise both arms, lift her breasts, lift her stomach for visual inspection if she had a large mid-section, and remove any tampon or pad if she were menstruating. She was then required to turn around, bend over, spread her buttocks, and cough.”

Throughout the transfer, including the strip search, a corrections officer would videotape the entire process (http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/us_district_court_judge_michae_2.html). Since mid-September of 2008, a male guard was assigned the task of videotaping these strip searches on 274 different occasions. Moreover, although prison policy stated that male officers should only record the inmate “from the neck up” while the strip searches are going on, a federal court determined that 68 percent of the videos show “some or all of the women’s genitals, buttocks, or breasts.”

The segregated unit, where these inmates would wind up after they were strip searched, is a facility for inmates who “presented as a suicide risk, committed certain disciplinary infractions, or needed to be in protective custody.”

On Tuesday, a federal trial court in Massachusetts held that it is “plainly unconstitutional to require a female inmate to expose herself, particularly to the extreme degree required during a strip search, in the presence of a male officer.” Even assuming that “the male officer doing the videotaping was able somehow to avert his eyes while using the camera,” something the defendants in this lawsuit claim that the officers actually did do, Judge Michael Ponsor explained that the search still violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. “The fact that the male officer, while operating the video camera, may be turned to one side or have his back turned will do little, for most female inmates, to diminish the sense of embarrassment, humiliation, and vulnerability that she must inevitably feel.”

The Supreme Court is very permissive of strip searches in jails.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/29/3477208/womens-prison-allowed-male-guards-to-videotape-274-different-strip-searches/ (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/29/3477208/womens-prison-allowed-male-guards-to-videotape-274-different-strip-searches/)

Thanks, REPUG extreme activist SCOTUS, degrading (the 99%'s) American life with every (5-4) decision.

Anybody wanna guess whether those vids of stripped ladies were seen by "unauthorized" people?

Leaks said NSA frat rats, NSA Animal House, passed around pics they vacuumed from snooped emails.

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Women’s Jail Allowed Male Guards To Videotape 274 Different Strip Searches (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/29/3477208/womens-prison-allowed-male-guards-to-videotape-274-different-strip-searches/)


At the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center, inmates who are transferred to a segregated unit are strip searched during the transfer. As part of this strip search, an inmate is required to “run her fingers through her hair, remove dentures if she wore them, raise both arms, lift her breasts, lift her stomach for visual inspection if she had a large mid-section, and remove any tampon or pad if she were menstruating. She was then required to turn around, bend over, spread her buttocks, and cough.”

Throughout the transfer, including the strip search, a corrections officer would videotape the entire process (http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/us_district_court_judge_michae_2.html). Since mid-September of 2008, a male guard was assigned the task of videotaping these strip searches on 274 different occasions. Moreover, although prison policy stated that male officers should only record the inmate “from the neck up” while the strip searches are going on, a federal court determined that 68 percent of the videos show “some or all of the women’s genitals, buttocks, or breasts.”

The segregated unit, where these inmates would wind up after they were strip searched, is a facility for inmates who “presented as a suicide risk, committed certain disciplinary infractions, or needed to be in protective custody.”

On Tuesday, a federal trial court in Massachusetts held that it is “plainly unconstitutional to require a female inmate to expose herself, particularly to the extreme degree required during a strip search, in the presence of a male officer.” Even assuming that “the male officer doing the videotaping was able somehow to avert his eyes while using the camera,” something the defendants in this lawsuit claim that the officers actually did do, Judge Michael Ponsor explained that the search still violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. “The fact that the male officer, while operating the video camera, may be turned to one side or have his back turned will do little, for most female inmates, to diminish the sense of embarrassment, humiliation, and vulnerability that she must inevitably feel.”

The Supreme Court is very permissive of strip searches in jails.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/29/3477208/womens-prison-allowed-male-guards-to-videotape-274-different-strip-searches/ (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/29/3477208/womens-prison-allowed-male-guards-to-videotape-274-different-strip-searches/)

Thanks, REPUG extreme activist SCOTUS, degrading (the 99%'s) American life with every (5-4) decision.

Anybody wanna guess whether those vids of stripped ladies stayed were seen by "unauthorized" people?






I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that those videos are absolutely fucking gross.

However, I did just recently finish season 2 of Orange is the New Black...so maybe not

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Stop and seize

Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes

After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security on America’s highways.
Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice spent millions on police training.

The effort succeeded, but it had an impact that has been largely hidden from public view:

the spread of an aggressive brand of policing that has spurred the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from motorists and others not charged with crimes, a Washington Post investigation found. Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back.


Stop and Seize: In recent years, thousands of people have had cash confiscated by police without being charged with crimes. The Post looks at the police culture behind the seizures and the people who were forced to fight the government to get their money back.

Part 2: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/07/police-intelligence-targets-cash/) One training firm started a private intelligence-sharing network and helped shape law enforcement nationwide.

Part 3: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/08/they-fought-the-law-who-won/) Motorists caught up in the seizures talk about the experience and the legal battles that sometimes took more than a year.

Behind the rise in seizures is a little-known cottage industry of private police-training firms that teach the techniques of “highway interdiction” to departments across the country.

One of those firms created a private intelligence network known as Black Asphalt Electronic Networking & Notification System that enabled police nationwide to share detailed reports about American motorists — criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop.

Many of the reports have been funneled to federal agencies and fusion centers as part of the government’s burgeoning law enforcement intelligence systems — despite warnings from state and federal authorities that the information could violate privacy and constitutional protections.

A thriving subculture of road officers on the network now competes to see who can seize the most cash and contraband, describing their exploits in the network’s chat rooms and sharing “trophy shots” of money and drugs. Some police advocate highway interdiction as a way of raising revenue for cash-strapped municipalities.

“All of our home towns are sitting on a tax-liberating gold mine,” Deputy Ron Hain of Kane County, Ill., wrote in a self-published book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468508741?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1468508741&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20) under a pseudonym. Hain is a marketing specialist for Desert Snow, a leading interdiction training firm based in Guthrie, Okla., whose founders also created Black Asphalt.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/#

the taxpayer funded police are now just another criminal predator sucking wealth out of Americans.

Think any politicians gonna kill "stop and seize the cash" ? hell no

America is fucked and unfuckable.

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gotto meet monthly quotas nothing to see here

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The chilling loophole that lets police stop, question and search you for no good reason

Checkpoints occupy a unique position in the American justice system. At these roadside stations, where police question drivers in search of the inebriated or “illegal,” anyone can be stopped and questioned, regardless of probable cause, violating the Fourth Amendment’s protection against “general warrants” that do not specify the who/what/where/why of a search or seizure. Though the Supreme Court agrees that checkpoints skirt the Fourth Amendment, the Court has been clear that the “special needs” checkpoints serve, like traffic safety and immigration enforcement, trump the “slight” intrusions on motorists’ rights.

people in Arizona have sued (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/29/us-immigration-complaints-idUSBREA3S05N20140429) the Department of Homeland Security for its wanton deployment of immigration checkpoints in their state. Among their complaints are racial profiling, harassment, assault and unwarranted interrogation, and detention not related to the express “special need” of determining peoples’ immigration status.

A key legal detail about checkpoints is that they cannot be used for crime control, as that would require individualized probable cause. But legal scholars argue (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2428391) that non-criminally-minded checkpoints are also illegal. They point out that the Fourth Amendment protected the colonists from being searched for non-criminal “wrongdoing.” Doing nothing wrong at all, they argue, is not grounds to be searched or have your property seized.

immigration checkpoints, expanded by the 2006Secure Fence Act (http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061026-1.html), are only allowed within 100 miles of the continental United States’ border. But that’s a big perimeter (https://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/constitution-100-mile-border-zone). Nine of the country’s 10 largest cities, entire states and some two thirds of the US population reside within this constitutionally exempt zone.

the extent to which people are legally obliged to answer officers’ questions is unclear (http://www.texasobserver.org/border-patrol-takes-no-for-an-answer-at-internal-checkpoints/) and seemingly arbitrary. Not surprisingly, the military’s immigration checkpoints have garnered (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/arizona_immigration_checkpoint_criticism_border_pa trol_harasses_people_and.html) outspoken criticism from across the political spectrum. Legalized by the Supreme Court in1976 (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=428&invol=543), these checkpoints seem to have taken on a new momentum in the post-9/11 era. (Private militias have even taken to setting up (http://horsford.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/horsford-urges-sheriff-gillespie-to-investigate-armed-militia-presence) their own versions.)
DUI checkpoints, on the other hand, deemed (http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/15/us/excerpts-from-supreme-court-s-decision-upholding-sobriety-checkpoints.html) constitutional in 1990, monitor roadways in 38 states (http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/checkpoint_laws.html). But they have been outlawed by 12 others (http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/checkpoint_laws.html) that have invoked states’ rights to increase federal civil liberty protections. In the Court’s 1990 opinion (http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/15/us/excerpts-from-supreme-court-s-decision-upholding-sobriety-checkpoints.html), Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that states’ interest in eradicating drunk driving is indisputable and that this “interest” outweighed “the measure of the intrusion on motorists stopped briefly at sobriety checkpoints,” which he described as “slight.”

. With the help of local police, private government contractors have used the tactic to collect anonymous breath, saliva and blood ( DNA (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/18/penn-police-pull-people-over-random-dna-tests-feds/)) samples of American motorists for the federally funded National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drugged Driving. Participation in the survey is voluntary, despite the confusion that may come with uniformed police asking for bodily fluids. Motorists are offered $10 for cheek swabs and $50 for blood samples.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/09/23/the_chilling_loophole_that_lets_police_stop_questi on_and_search_you_for_no_good_reason_partner/

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To Stop Police Brutality, Take the Millions in Settlement Money Out Of Cop Budgets


As the national conversation around racism and police brutality quickly fades—ramped up briefly in the wake of Michael Brown’s death—U.S. taxpayers remain stuck footing the bills for their local law enforcement’s aggressive behavior.

This week alone, Baltimore agreed to pay $49,000 (https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2014/09/23/man-convicted-of-drug-possession-paid-49000-to-settle-police-brutality-case/) to man who sued over a violent arrest in 2010,

Philadelphia agreed to pay $490,000 (http://www.inquirer.com/front_page/breaking/20140924__490_000_settlement_for_man_whose_neck_wa s_broken_in_the_back_of_a_police_van.html) to a man who was abused and broke his neck while riding in a police van in 2011, and

St. Paul agreed to pay $95,000 (http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_26585085/st-paul-offer-95-000-settle-police-brutality) to a man who suffered a skull injury, a fractured eye socket, and a broken nose in 2012.

In 2013, Chicago paid out a stunning $84.6 million in police misconduct settlements, judgments, and legal fees (http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/city-pays-heavy-price-police-brutality/fri-04112014-1002pm).

Bridgeport, Connecticut, paid a man $198,000 (http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/City-settles-police-brutality-lawsuit-5508039.php) this past spring after video footage captured police shooting him twice with a stun gun, then stomping all over him as he lay on the ground.

And in California, Oakland recently agreed to pay $4.5 million (http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Occupy-protester-wounded-by-Oakland-police-gets-5337743.php) to settle a lawsuit a man filed after being shot in the head, leaving him with permanent brain damage.

You get the picture.

“That’s why these enormous financial penalties do not seem to actually impact what police do,” said David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in criminal justice issues. “Conceivably, if cities didn’t want this to happen, they could say this will come out of your [police] budget.”The thing is, these steep payments rarely come from the police department budgets—instead they’re

financed through the city’s general coffers or the city’s insurance plan. It’s the taxpayer, not the law enforcement agency, who pays the price.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/stop-police-brutality-take-millions-settlement-money-out-cop-budgets

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Police Departments Retaliate Against Organized "Cop Watch" Groups Across the US

When communities attempt to police the police, they often get, well... policed.\

In several states, organized groups that use police scanners and knowledge of checkpoints to collectively monitor police activities by legally and peacefully filming cops on duty have said they've experienced retaliation, including unjustified detainment and arrests as well as police intimidation.
The groups operate under many decentralized organizations, most notably CopWatch and Cop Block, and have proliferated across the United States in the last decade - and especially in the aftermath of the events that continue to unfold in Ferguson, Missouri, after officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed, black teenager Michael Brown.

Many such groups have begun proactively patrolling their communities with cameras at various times during the week, rather than reactively turning on their cameras when police enter into their neighborhoods or when they happen to be around police activity.

Across the nation, local police departments are responding to organized cop watching patrols by targeting perceived leaders, making arrests, threatening arrests, yanking cameras out of hands and even labeling particular groups "domestic extremist" organizations and part of the sovereign citizens movement - the activities of which the FBI classifies as domestic terrorism.

Courts across the nation at all levels have upheld the right to film police activity. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and photographer's assocications have taken (https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-photographers) many similar incidents to court, consistently winning cases over the years. The Supreme Court has ruled (https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/riley-v-california) police can't search an individual's cellphone data without a warrant. Police also can't legally delete an individual's photos or video images under any circumstances.

Sources who have participated in various organized cop watching groups in cities such as New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Oakland, Arlington, Texas, Austin and lastly Ferguson, Missouri, told Truthout they have experienced a range of police intimidation tactics, some of which have been caught on film. Cop watchers told Truthout they have been arrested in several states, including Texas, New York, Ohio and California in retaliation for their filming activity.

More recently, in September, three cop watchers were arrested while monitoring police activity during a traffic stop in Arlington, Texas. A group of about 20 people, a few of them associated with the Tarrant County Peaceful Streets Project, gathered at the intersection of South Cooper Street and Lynda Lane during a Saturday night on September 6 to film police as they conducted a traffic stop. A video of what happened next was posted at YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZetQNH11k).

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26527-police-departments-retaliate-against-organized-cop-watch-groups-across-the-us

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Cops Distributing Spyware To Families As “Internet Safety” Tool

The ComputerCOP software, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports in a detailed investigation (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/computercop-dangerous-internet-safety-software-hundreds-police-agencies), is usually handed out at “internet safety” events. Police, sheriffs, and district attorneys doing community outreach buy the software, then have it rebranded with their own agency name, logos, and imagery before handing it out to local families at schools and libraries.

However, as the EFF explains, “as official as it looks,” the contents of the disc are just spyware, purchased in bulk from a company in New York that exists solely market and distribute ComputerCOP to government agencies.

If it seems like a CD of supposed safety software is a relic of the era when you got “the internet” from an AOL 3.0 disc they handed out at Staples, you’re right. In the name of child safety, it has two major functions: a hard drive search and a keystroke logger. The idea is that parents can use the software to keep an eye on the images, text, and websites their children are encountering.

The search tool runs from the CD without installation, and checks out all the files on the hard drive for thousands of terms related to gangs, hate groups, drug use, and of course sex. The EFF tested the searches, however, and found them deeply unreliable. Results were routinely laden with false positives, including “items as innocuous as raw computer code.” Meanwhile, actual files that did have words like “drugs” in them were not found but still turned up on standard Mac or Windows searches.

Being super-shady, however, has not stopped ComputerCOP from becoming widespread. The list of participating agencies that distribute copies is definitely not small, and agencies at every level — city, county, state, and federal — are among them. The EFF’s full listing includes over 245 agencies in 35 states (https://www.eff.org/pages/whos-giving-out-computercop), as well as the U.S. Marshals. And it’s not cheap: cash-strapped agencies are spending tens of thousands of of tax or grant dollars on every set of discs they order.

http://consumerist.com/2014/10/02/oops-cops-distributing-spyware-to-families-as-internet-safety-tool/

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Cops kill Georgia grandpa in no-knock raid triggered by burglary suspect’s tip


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When Teresa Hooks looked outside the craft room window of her Georgia home one night last week, she saw hooded figures wearing camouflage (http://www.macon.com/2014/10/01/3338309/attorney-alleges-warrant-problems.html) standing outside.

The East Dublin woman woke up her husband, David Hooks (https://www.facebook.com/david.hooks.921), who grabbed his shotgun, believing burglars who had recently targeted the couple had come back again,reported WMAZ-TV (http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/dublin/2014/10/01/warrant-meth-raid-led-to-fatal-laurens-shooting/16538903/).

The sheriff’s deputies burst through the back door about 11 p.m. on Sept. 24 and, seeing David Hooks holding the weapon, fired 16 shots – killing the 59-year-old grandfather.

Authorities said Hooks met deputies at the door and pointed his weapon aggressively at officers as they announced themselves.

But Teresa Hooks said the officers did not knock and never identified themselves as law enforcement, and her attorney said David Hooks was killed behind a wall in the home — not at the door.

Deputies were executing a search warrant as part of a drug investigation based on a tip from one of the burglars accused of stealing a vehicle from Hooks.

“That search of some 44 hours conducted by numerous agents of the (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) resulted in not one item of contraband being found,” said attorney Mitchell Shook. “He was not a drug user or a drug dealer.”

Hooks owned a construction company that worked on military bases, Shook said, which required background check clearance by state and federal authorities – including the Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

“This is not a person who needs to be involved in criminal activity for financial gain,” Shook said. “He did very well financially.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/cops-kill-georgia-grandpa-in-no-knock-raid-triggered-by-burglary-suspects-tip/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

yawn, another day, another SWAT team murders an innocent American

Even a cracka in fricking Georgia isn't safe

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did somebody say cop watching?

Fox host blames Obama and Holder’s Ferguson comments for 20-year-old ‘Copwatch’ group

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On Fox & Friends this morning, Steve Doocy and “America’s Lawyer,” Peter Johnson Jr., tried to connect libertarian groups like Copwatch (http://www.copwatch.org/) and Cop Block (http://www.copblock.org/) to statements made by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Johnson began the segment by saying, “I’m calling them ‘cop-catchers’ and ‘police paparazzi,’ Steve.”

“Is this cynicism and distrust of police coming from the very top of the criminal justice chain?” he asked. “Watch,” he said, throwing to a clip of Holder saying that he “wants the people of Ferguson to know” that he “understands that mistrust” between citizens of a community and police.

Johnson then played a clip of Obama speaking before the United Nations, in which he noted that “the eyes of the world were upon the small city of Ferguson, Missouri, where a young man was killed, and a community was divided” and admitted that there are “racial and ethnic tensions” in America.

“So groups like Copwatch and Cop Block,” Johnson said — without drawing any connection between his point and the clips he juxtaposed it with — “are taking to the streets and taping police officers.”

Copwatch was founded in 1990, Cop Block in 2010, and neither organization has ties to the Obama administration or Holder’s Justice Department.

“They’re just waiting for something to happen,” Doocy replied.

“And sometimes they’re getting arrested,” John continued. “This has been a robust debate in the courts around the country — do they have a civil right to do so? Most circuit courts say they do.”

“But the bigger issue is,” he said, “are we creating a distrust, a mistrust, a cynicism about our police? A lot of people on the left, and a lot of people on the right agree — we need to watch the watchers.”

“But at the same time, are we creating such an environment for our police officers that we believe their actions are going to be suspect, are going to be criminal? Shouldn’t we have more confidence,” Johnson asked, “in their ability to do the right thing?”

“Sure,” Doocy replied, “after Ferguson, a lot of people were saying, ‘Why don’t police offers wear little video cameras?’ I like that idea. But if someone’s just standing next to an officer with a camera saying, ‘I’m not doing anything, I’m just waiting for you to do something stupid.’”

“You’re right,” Johnson responded. “There are studies that say it decreases violence, it decreases police abuse, that it’s good all around. But the bigger question is, how intrusive, how disruptive, how dangerous is it to have squads of Americans going around saying, ‘I’m going to watch you police officer,’ ‘I don’t believe what you’re doing,’
‘you’re a suspect inherently.’”

“Big, big problem going forward,” he concluded.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/fox-host-blames-obama-and-holders-ferguson-comments-for-20-year-old-copwatch-group/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

And the old white paranoid, pissed off white Christian Fox viewers went wild!

"we trust the cops (to kill the n!gg@s! the more, the better)"

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A grand jury in Georgia declined to indict the law enforcement officers involved in a botched drug raid that left a toddler disfigured and badly injured.A SWAT officer tossed a flash grenade May 28 into a playpen where 19-month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh was sleeping during a no-knock raid overseen by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

The toddler’s nose was detached from his face, and the blast ripped a hole in his chest and caused serious burn

Officers found no drugs or weapons during their search, but the maimed boy’s cousin was arrested later that day without incident and charged with possession of meth.
A 23-member grand jury panel heard six days of testimony before deciding not to charge any of the officers involved in the raid.

An attorney for the family said the toddler had surgery about a month ago that required 60 stitches to his face and 70 to his chest.

The boy will likely need similar surgeries every two years until he is 20 years old to repair badly damaged nerve endings in his face and additional plastic surgery throughout his life, the attorney said.

The county has said it would not pay for the child’s medical bills, arguing that the board of commissioners was not legally permitted to pay for them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/07/1334851/-No-Charges-For-Georgia-SWAT-Who-Flash-Banged-A-Babies-Nose-Off?detail=email#

[TDMVPDPOY]

nothing beats ethnic minority fobia among the general public with misleading crime stats, so govt/state could arm themselves or give law enforcement more powers to act like thugs....

cops are no different them crims, one has a license and the other doesnt....both corrupted and same shit anyway

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Indiana State Trooper Pitched Christianity At Traffic Stop

An Indiana state trooper asked a motorist if she accepted Jesus as her savior when he pulled her over for a traffic violation, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman.

Ellen Bogan claims that State Police Trooper Brian Hamilton gave her a warning ticket and then proceeded to quiz her on her faith, according to the Indianapolis Star (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/05/lawsuit-state-trooper-preached-jesus-traffic-stop/16678275/).

Hamilton asked Bogan if she had a church and "if she had accepted Jesus Christ as her savior," according to her complaint (http://indianalawblog.com/documents/07314521180.pdf). He also gave her a pamphlet that asked her "to acknowledge that she is a sinner."

"It's completely out of line and it just — it took me aback," Bogan told the Indianapolis Star

Bogan and the American Civil Liberties Union sued Hamilton for violating Bogan's First and Fourth Amendment rights.

"I'm not affiliated with any church. I don't go to church," Bogan said. "I felt compelled to say I did, just because I had a state trooper standing at the passenger-side window. It was just weird."

The pamphlet also included an advertisement for the "Policing for Jesus Ministries" radio show by "Trooper Dan Jones."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/indiana-state-trooper-christianity-pitch

more evidence that policing attracts the highest quality, most intelligent, well-balanced people with excellent "Police Academy" training. This cop sounds like your typical Christian "soldier" kool-aid imbiber.

[Trill Clinton]

A grand jury in Georgia declined to indict the law enforcement officers involved in a botched drug raid that left a toddler disfigured and badly injured.A SWAT officer tossed a flash grenade May 28 into a playpen where 19-month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh was sleeping during a no-knock raid overseen by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

The toddler’s nose was detached from his face, and the blast ripped a hole in his chest and caused serious burn

Officers found no drugs or weapons during their search, but the maimed boy’s cousin was arrested later that day without incident and charged with possession of meth.
A 23-member grand jury panel heard six days of testimony before deciding not to charge any of the officers involved in the raid.

An attorney for the family said the toddler had surgery about a month ago that required 60 stitches to his face and 70 to his chest.

The boy will likely need similar surgeries every two years until he is 20 years old to repair badly damaged nerve endings in his face and additional plastic surgery throughout his life, the attorney said.

The county has said it would not pay for the child’s medical bills, arguing that the board of commissioners was not legally permitted to pay for them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/07/1334851/-No-Charges-For-Georgia-SWAT-Who-Flash-Banged-A-Babies-Nose-Off?detail=email#





this shit right here is ridiculous....cops are getting away with killing and maiming baies.

[Trill Clinton]

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Deputies shot and killed a man inside his Georgia home last month following an apparently bogus tip they received from a confessed meth addict and thief.
East Dublin resident David Hooks, 59, was killed because, according to Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell, he aggressively brandished a gun at the SWAT team that broke in his back door. But Mitchell Shook, a lawyer for Hooks’ widow, contends that the sheriff has misled the public about the shooting and raid, which turned up no drugs.
The sheriff’s office obtained a search warrant based on a tip from a thief who claimed he had found 20 grams of methamphetamine inside a bag he stole from a vehicle at Hooks’ home, Georgia station WMAZ reports. According to the warrant, Rodney Garrett claimed that he thought the bag was filled with cash but that he later discovered it contained meth. Garrett said that he then turned himself into the sheriff’s office because the drugs made him fear for his safety.
Garrett, a known drug abuser, also stole a second vehicle, a SUV, from the Hooks home.
The word of a thief shouldn’t have been enough to obtain the warrant, Shook told the Macon Telegraph.
He also disputes assertions that the sheriff’s office has made about Hooks’ killing.
Sheriff’s deputies raided the home without identifying themselves, Shook said, contrary to their claims that they told Hooks they were officers with a search warrant. The sheriff’s office had also said they fired at Hooks for aggressively pointing a gun at them near the back door, but Shook alleges that the deputies blindly shot at Hooks through a wall without knowing who was there.
When Hooks’ wife saw men in dark clothing heading for their home at 11 p.m. on Sept. 24, she woke up her husband and told him that the thieves who had stolen their SUV were back. Hooks grabbed a gun and headed to the door, according to Shook.
Deputies shot more than 16 times, Shook said in a statement.
Authorities searched Hooks’ home for 44 hours, but found no drugs, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Hooks’ family says that he didn’t use drugs or sell them. They say he ran a successful construction company.
Source (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07/david-hooks-shooting-swat_n_5949318.html)

[Trill Clinton]

y'all keep excusing trigger happy cops, though.

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racist right-wingers HATE govt, except when the govt(police) are killing n!gg@s, esp unarmed n!gg@s, all of whom deserved to be murdered because ... whatever slander the police lays on them.

[Trill Clinton]

funny joke but its reality for some citizens.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHpvPwq2i8

[Slutter McGee]

racist right-wingers HATE govt, except when the govt(police) are killing n!gg@s, esp unarmed n!gg@s, all of whom deserved to be murdered because ... whatever slander the police lays on them.

Quote from bouton's racist right wingers

"When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process ... we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands"

Slutter McGee

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Quote from bouton's racist right wingers

"When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process ... we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands"

Slutter McGee

get back to us when white supremacists/militia, NRA/GOA are out demonstrating in common cause with the Ferguson blacks.

[Slutter McGee]

get back to us when white supremacists/militia, NRA/GOA are out demonstrating in common cause with the Ferguson blacks.

Because those groups are anti federal government. Not anti-local government. God forbid you actually think about this. The militia movement, as crazy and white as most of them are, have mostly eliminated their racist elements.

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mostly eliminated their racist elements.

really? link? evidence?

to be right wing, to be Repug, to be a conservative, to be a fucking policeman, etc, etc is to be white/Euro-American supremacist, or at very least a suppressor/oppressor of blacks.

[Slutter McGee]

Lets star with a large one. Take oath keepers for example. The group actually has black members. Most newer and larger groups, while primarily white, have much stronger libertarian influences. Militia groups that are actively racist tend.

Here is a couple quotes from the cofounder of the Ohio militia


The militia vehemently opposes the militarization of our law enforcement personnel; Those "peace officers" who can be found clad in their black Ninja-suits while they storm inner-city neighborhoods, indiscriminately shooting and beating residents as they fight their "War on Drugs".


It was the militia who stood against the illegal searches and seizures in the urban neighborhoods of Chicago, Boston, Kansas City, Shreveport and other American cities. It was the militia that demanded Congressional Hearings into the atrocities committed by our Federal Government at Waco, Texas that culminated in the gruesome deaths of some 80 Christians, many of whom were Black Americans. It was the militia who exposed a campout where Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agents passed out "Federal ****** Hunting Licenses (http://www.zianet.com/web/atf.gif)" and denied entry to their Black co-workers while the Black Congressional Caucus and other "Civil Rights Groups" remained noticeably silent. And it was the militia who welcomed the inclusion of this Angry Black American Male who neither has or needs a "Federal Hunting License" !
The KKK and the Aryan Nation neither invite or desire the presence of non-whites at their meetings. The militia does. The government controlled, main-stream press has deliberately created the fear and apprehension that keeps us apart. They fully understand and have implemented the undeniable truth found in the historic words of Benjamin Franklin: "Gentlemen, if we do not hang together, we will most assuredly hang separately". The militia does not hyphenate its membership. We are all Americans first.

The militia movement has never really been about race at all, though it has attracted racist elements before. But liberal bullshit organizations like the SPLC have never bothered to differentiate them from groups like the KKK. Because that wouldn't promote the narrative that they want told.

Now lets go to your next point. that being conservative means you are racist or oppressor of blacks. Sure some Republican policies have had racial impacts, and some have been flat out politically motivated. But it is the same with Democrats policies. The War on Drugs has been supported pretty heavily by both parties, and now you are seeing some politicians (in both parties) try to roll it back.

Sorry, but your "Republicans = Evil Racist Bigots" views are simplistic and childish. They wouldn't elect black politicians if that was the case. Racist people don't elect people of different races into positions of power just because to prove they aren't racist.

Slutter McGee

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Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops

In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance facility, the Los Angeles Police Department cast an acquisitive eye on software being developed by Palantir, a startup funded in part by the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm.

Originally designed for spy agencies, Palantir's technology allowed users to track individuals with unprecedented reach, connecting information from conventional sources like crime reports with more controversial data gathered by surveillance cameras and license plate readers that automatically, and indiscriminately, photographed passing cars.

The LAPD could have used a small portion of its multibillion-dollar annual budget to purchase the software, but that would have meant going through a year-long process requiring public meetings, approval from the City Council, and, in some cases, competitive bidding.

There was a quicker, quieter way to get the software: as a gift from the Los Angeles Police Foundation, a private charity. In November 2007, at the behest of then Police Chief William Bratton, the foundation approached Target Corp., which contributed $200,000 to buy the software, said the foundation's executive director, Cecilia Glassman, in an interview. Then the foundation donated it to the police department.

Across the nation, private foundations are increasingly being tapped to provide police with technology and weaponry that -- were it purchased with public money -- would come under far closer scrutiny.

In Los Angeles, foundation money has been used to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of license plate readers (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1308873-los-angeles-police-foundation-form-990-fy-2011.html), which were the subject of a civil-rights lawsuit filed against the region's law enforcement agencies by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (A judge rejected the groups' claims earlier this year.)

Private funds also have been used to upgrade "Stingray" devices (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1308894-lapf-990-2012.html), which have triggered debate in numerous jurisdictions because they vacuum up records of cellphone metadata, calls, text messages and data transfers over a half-mile radius.

New York and Los Angeles have the nation's oldest and most generous police foundations, each providing their city police departments with grants totaling about $3 million a year. But similar groups have sprouted up in dozens of jurisdictions, from Atlanta, Georgia, to Oakland, California. In Atlanta, the police foundation has bankrolled the surveillance cameras that now blanket the city (http://www.ajc.com/news/news/12k-cameras-to-give-atlanta-police-broader-window-/nd2Sh/), as well as the center where police officers monitor live video feeds.

Proponents of these private fundraising efforts say they have become indispensable in an era of tightening budgets, helping police to acquire the ever-more sophisticated tools needed to combat modern crime.

"There's very little discretionary money for the department," said Steve Soboroff, a businessman who is president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, the civilian board that oversees the LAPD's policies and operations. "A grant application to the foundation cuts all the red tape, or almost all of the red tape."

But critics say police foundations operate with little transparency or oversight and can be a way for wealthy donors and corporations to influence law enforcement agencies' priorities.

It's not uncommon for the same companies to be donors to the same police foundations that purchase their products for local police departments. Or for those companies also to be contractors for the same police agencies to which their products are being donated.

"No one really knows what's going on," said Dick Dadey of Citizens Union, a good government group in New York. "The public needs to know that these contributions are being made voluntarily and have no bearing on contracting decisions."

Palantir, the recipient of the Los Angeles Police Foundation's largesse in 2008, donated $10,000 (http://lapolicefoundation.org/src/oct_2013/FINALSponsorListWeb2.pdf) to become a three-star sponsor of the group's annual "Above and Beyond" awards ceremony in 2013 and has made similar-sized gifts to the New York police foundation. The privately held Palo Alto firm, which had estimated revenues of $250 million in 2011 (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html) and is preparing to go public, also has won millions of dollars of contracts from the Los Angeles and New York police departments over the last three years.

Palantir officials did not respond to questions about its relationships with police departments and the foundations linked to them. The New York City Police Foundation did not answer questions about Palantir's donations, or its technology gifts to the NYPD.

Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said she saw danger in the growing web of ties between police departments, foundations and private donors.

"We run the risk of policy that is in the service of moneyed interests," she said.

The nation's first police foundation was established in New York City in 1971 by the Association for a Better New York, a private group headed by real estate magnate Lewis Rudin.

In the late 1970s, when violent crime soared and the city's finances were shaky, the foundation paid for bulletproof vests, which were distributed via a raffle. "It changed the administration into believing bulletproof vests are necessary equipment for the job," a former New York cop said.

Altogether, the New York City Police Foundation has distributed more than $120 million in grants since it was set up and has spurred a host of imitators.

One was the Los Angeles Police Foundation, which was founded in 1998 by then Police Chief Bernard Parks.

Its first modest mission was to pay to outfit police units with medical kits to treat gunshot wounds. "There were incidents with officers injured and paramedics were getting there too late," said Parks, who is now a city councilman.

Over its lifespan, the foundation has provided the LAPD with grants totaling more than $20 million, much of it to acquire uncontroversial items such as bicycles and police dogs.

In New York and Los Angeles, it has long been true that top police officials have exercised considerable control over the use of foundation money.

Glassman said that the chief of police's office deals directly with the Los Angeles foundation, identifying which products and services the department wants and who the vendor should be. At Bratton's direction, private donations paid for a team of consultants to devise a plan to reorganize the LAPD.

According to press reports, Ray Kelly, New York's police commissioner for a brief stint in the early '90s and from 2002 to 2013, held similar sway with the New York City foundation. At his behest, foundation funds even paid for Kelly's membership (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/len-levitt/ray-kelly-harvard-club-fr_b_773343.html) at the Harvard Club, an NYPD spokesman confirmed (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/nyregion/26kelly.html).

More recently, though, the New York and Los Angeles foundations have turned to funding technology initiatives, many of them involving surveillance systems.

An audit included with the New York foundation's 2013 annual tax filing (http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1308952-nycpf-form-990-2013.html) said almost half of the $6.5 million distributed by the group that year went to what it called the police department's "technology campaign."

The foundation was given $4.6 million by JPMorgan Chase to buy 1,000 laptops and security monitoring software for the police department's main data center, according to the foundation's tax documentation and press releases from JP Morgan.

Records for the Los Angeles foundation are more specific, showing outlays of almost $250,000 (http://www.documentcloud.org/documents1308953-lapf-2010-990.html) in 2010 for tracking equipment for the police department's counter-terrorism investigators and $460,000 in 2011 (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1308873-los-angeles-police-foundation-form-990-fy-2011.html) on surveillance cameras and license plate readers.

According to its 2012 tax filing, the foundation gave almost $25,000 to upgrade "Stingray" devices (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1308894-lapf-990-2012.html) placed in skid row to monitor drug transactions.

Police boosters say there's no need for public debate over these types of acquisitions.

"I think we all see ourselves as part of a larger puzzle, which is making sure that Los Angeles has a world class police department, and we're just the private funding source," said Glassman of the Police Foundation. "The commission is an oversight board and the department is here to protect and serve."

But Peter Bibring of the ACLU of Southern California said that when police acquire new surveillance tools it can reshape their approach to policing – shifts that, when enabled by private money, are occurring outside public view.

"These technologies are adopted without any kind of public discussion, without clear policies on how they should be used," he said.

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As private charities, police foundations are subject to reporting rules set by the tax code rather than the public information laws that apply to law enforcement agencies. In many cases, foundations give few details about where their money comes from and even fewer about what it's used to buy.

The New York City Police Foundation lists contributors who give $1,000 or more on its website, separating them into donors ($1,000-$5,000), benefactors ($5,000-$10,000), bronze ($10,000-$25,000), silver ($25,000-$50,000), gold ($50,000-$100,000) and platinum ($100,000 or more).

The group offers no specifics at all on what its grants are used for, however. The police department's annual budget lumps them all into a single line item labeled "non-city funds."

Despite the minimal amount of disclosure, it's clear that several companies are both vendors and donors to the New York foundation. Some also hold large contracts to supply goods and services to the police department.

The NYPD's citywide surveillance hub uses software from IBM, which gave between $10,000 and 25,000 to the foundation. According to its website and tax documents, the foundation helped fund creation of the hub. IBM did not respond when asked about its relationships with New York's police foundation and police department.

DynTek Inc. made a contribution of similar size to the foundation and has won more than $47 million in technology contracts with New York City since 2008. It lobbied the police department for more business as recently as this January, according to disclosure records. DynTek officials also did not respond to questions.

The New York Police Foundation's bylaws say it reviews potential conflicts of interest involving donors, but foundation officials did not respond to questions about this process.
It appears that no one else is watching out for these overlapping relationships: New York's Comptroller and Conflict of Interest Board, which oversee procurement and conflicts of interest for the city, said they don't track the police foundation's donations to the police department.

Los Angeles has put more protections in place –- at least on paper. According to the city's Administrative Code, the Police Commission must approve all foundation gifts to the police department. Donations with a value of more than $10,000 also must be approved by the City Council and its Public Safety Committee.

Accompanying each donation is a signed assurance from LAPD staff that states, "all possible conflicts of interest have been researched, and this donation does not reflect negatively on the Department or City in general."

In practice, though, the police commission puts donations from the foundation on its consent agenda, which typically passes with no discussion. In December 2013, for example, the commission approved a gift of 50 stun guns (https://www.scribd.com/doc/241827153/TASER-International-Donation-of-50-Stun-Guns-to-LAPD-December-2013) from TASER International Inc., valued at more than $48,000, in less than five seconds, video archives show. The donated models are an experimental product that LAPD officers are field testing for the company, according to city records. The City Council's Public Safety Committee and, later, the full council, also approved the donation with no debate.

In some cases, foundations gifts may not be getting even this level of scrutiny. There's no indication in records that the City Council ever voted on or approved the 2007 donation of the Palantir software.

A recent kerfuffle involving LAPD Officer Brandi Pearson, the daughter of Police Chief Charlie Beck, demonstrated the holes in vetting process for police foundation gifts. In March, the foundation paid $6,000 to buy a horse from Pearson, then donated it to the police department's mounted unit. Beck himself signed off on the foundation's purchase, but neither he nor foundation officials informed the Police Commission about the arrangement. Details of the horse's purchase only emerged this August (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-chief-beck-admits-horse-deal-20140806-story.html) when the Los Angeles Times got hold of the story.

Ana Muniz, a former researcher with the Inglewood-based Youth Justice Coalition who has studied the LAPD's gang policing efforts, called the porous system for monitoring foundation donations unsettling.

"At least with public contracts and spending, there's a facade of transparency and accountability," Muniz said. "With private partnerships, with private technology, there's nothing."

Parks said that the Los Angeles foundation was supposed to avoid taking donations from companies if they were bidding on contracts for the police department, but acknowledged there are no rules barring this.

As Motorola and Raytheon vied for a $600 million contract to provide the regional emergency communications system used by the LAPD, each company made generous donations to the police foundation.

Motorola gave more than $164,000 through a foundation controlled by company executives in 2010 and 2011. It also appointed Bratton, who left the LAPD in October 2009, to its board of directors (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/68505/000110465910060618/a10-22005_1ex99d2.htm) in December 2010, a post that paid $240,000 a year.

"As part of our commitment to public safety, the Motorola Solutions Foundation, Motorola Solutions' philanthropic arm, supports public safety nonprofits that provide training for officers and safety education for the general public, as well as memorials to honor the service and sacrifice of fallen officers, and to help fund scholarships for their families," said Tama McWinney, a Motorola spokesperson, in a written response to questions about why the company had donated to the police foundation.

Raytheon countered by donating $311,000 in equipment to the police foundation to upgrade the LAPD's existing radio system. "Our community engagement includes strategic partnerships, individual empowerment programs, employee volunteer efforts and regional projects that are aligned with support of first responders, education initiatives and our warfighters," Michael Doble, Raytheon's director of public relations, said in a statement.
Motorola ended up winning the contract.

Soboroff said he had no concerns that companies were donating to the foundation to improve their chances to do business with the city -- donors were typically driven by "an insatiable appetite to help," he said, not self-interest.

At a recent fundraiser hosted by a wealthy family, members of the police department's canine, equestrian and SWAT units helped raise $180,000 to buy dogs, horses and equipment.

"All they need to do is see a menu of what we need and they're willing to play," Soboroff said.

Parks, however, said corporate donors should be seen with a more skeptical eye and that, in his view, it taints the contracting process when companies are allowed to make gifts to the same police agencies from which they are seeking work.

"If you are taking money from Motorola and all of a sudden Motorola is providing you with your radios, those are major concerns," he said. "You should shy away from those relationships."

Ultimately, Parks remains a supporter of police foundations and said Los Angeles' group has provided critical support to the city's police. But he has come to believe these groups need more substantial oversight than they are getting.

"You have to be diligent to look at what people are purchasing," he said. "You don't want to say, when did we buy 50 drones?"

http://www.propublica.org/article/private-donors-supply-spy-gear-to-cops?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

And you gun fellatin rednecks think your 2nd Amendment fetish, and your Oath Keeper sheriffs, are gonna save your ass from the govt! :lol

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Arkansas Wants this Jail to Stop Torturing Kids


http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/large/public/arkansas_prison.png

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/arkansas-wants-jail-stop-torturing-kids?akid=12352.187590.RJn4JB&rd=1&src=newsletter1022995&t=23

[Slutter McGee]

What no reply? I gave evidence that militia groups tend NOT to be racist, and then I post a quote from the only Federal politician to visit Ferguson, and one of the first to speak out about against the police.

But he is a Republican. Your imaginary little world of Bad Republicans and Good Democrats. It is a fantasy, one that most people get over around the age of 10.

Slutter McGee

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Judge Says Park Rangers Probably Shouldn’t Tase People With Off-Leash Doggies

A federal magistrate judge awarded $50,000 to California man after a park ranger used a Taser on him during a confrontation over an unleashed dog.

Gary Hesterberg was walking his two dogs Jan. 29, 2012, at Rancho Corral de Tierra, which had recently come under the oversight of National Park Rangers as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

His rat terrier was off-leash,

Park Ranger Sarah Cavallaro was only following orders when she issued Hesterberg a warning about a newly instituted leash law at the park, but then things escalated when Hesterberg lied about his identity, because apparently he feared the long leash of the law or something. When Hesterberg insisted that he’d received his warning and didn’t have to hang around anymore, Cavallaro told him, nuh-uh, he wasn’t allowed to leave because she had not identified him and given him a written warning, and also he was not respectin’ her authoriteh.

So, like any logical law officer would do while giving out a leash-law warning, she pulled her Taser gun, aimed it at his chest, and told him to put his hands behind his back. According to court records: (http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/12/federal-judge-rules-park-rangers-taser-use-on-dog-walker-was-unlawful/)

Hesterberg did not put his hands behind his back and instead asked her sarcastically and in disbelief, “What, you’re going to tase me now?” Hesterberg also told Cavallaro something close to, “Don’t tase me, I have a heart condition.” Cavallaro responded, “Well, then turn around and put your hands behind your back.” Hesterberg again did not put his hands behind his back. … Hesterberg turned to his right and began a slow jog south on the trail and got two to three strides into his jog when Cavallaro fired her taser in dart mode, striking Hesterberg in the back and buttock.


Hesterberg fell face-first onto the trail’s “degraded asphalt,” and while Cavallaro cited him for “failure to obey a lawful order, providing false information and walking a dog off-leash,”

the Department of the Interior says she “acted within agency policy and her training.”

http://wonkette.com/563209/judge-says-park-rangers-probably-shouldnt-tase-people-with-off-leash-doggies

If she had killed the guy with the Taser, she'd still have a job, just following orders, like "a good German".

[Winehole23]

warrantless anal searches in Tennessee:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/09/more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee/

[boutons_deux]

warrantless anal searches in Tennessee:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/09/more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee/

America is anally fucked and unfuckable. Any legislators even proposing bills to restrain the police?

[Slutter McGee]

America is anally fucked and unfuckable. Any legislators even proposing bills to restrain the police?


Actually yeah. Tea-Party Republicans and Progressive Democrats have been trying to get this done for a while. It has failed miserably every time.

Slutter McGee

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125 Seattle Cops Sue for 'Constitutional Right' to Use Excessive Force

some 125 Seattle police officers responded by filing a lawsuit challenging the new laws. In their view, the new policies infringe on their rights to use as much force as they deem necessary in self-protection.

They represent about ten percent of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild membership. The police union itself declined to endorse the lawsuit.

This week, a federal judge summarily rejected all of their claims, finding that they were without constitutional merit, and that she would have been surprised if such allegations of excessive force by officers did not lead to stricter standards.

The officers claimed the policies infringed on their rights under their Second Amendment and under the Fourth, claiming a self-defense right to use force. Chief U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman pointed out that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms — not the right to use them — and that the officers “grossly misconstrued” the Fourth Amendment when they claimed that it protects them, and not individuals who would be the subjects of police force or seizures.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/125-seattle-cops-sue-constitutional-right-use-excessive-force?akid=12397.187590.v-v7FY&rd=1&src=newsletter1024345&t=19

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CHP officer admits to sharing stolen nude photos of female suspects with fellow officers for years

A California High Patrol officer accused of stealing nude photos from the cell phones of DUI suspects has told investigators he and other officers have been doing it for several years.According to documents acquired by the Contra-Costa Time (http://www.contracostatimes.com/my-town/ci_26793090/warrant-chp-officer-says-stealing-nude-photos-from)s, CHP Officer Sean Harrington, who was accused of stealing photos earlier this week, confessed to stealing explicit photos from the cellphone of a second Contra Costa County DUI suspect in August and sharing them with fellow officers, describing it as a “game.”

Harrington told investigators he has been stolen photos “half dozen times in the last several years,” forwarding them with leering text messages to fellow officer Officer Robert Hazelwood.

The investigation into Harrington began following an Aug. 29 arrest of the San Ramon woman who discovered photos had been stolen from her phone five days after her release, when she noticed on her iPad that the photos had been sent to an unknown number. According to the woman, a record of the messages had been deleted from her iPhone but the information was available on the iPad which was synched to the phone. :lol

After contacting authorities, Contra Costa district attorney inspector Darryl Holcombe compared video surveillance and time-stamped text messages from the woman’s phone and determined Harrington was in possession of the woman’s phone at the moment the photos were forwarded. The woman was being processed in the Martinez County Jail at the time when the photos were stolen, according to court records.

Harrington admitted under questioning that he stole five photographs from the woman and forwarded at least one to Hazelwood.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/confession-chp-officers-have-been-trading-stolen-nde-photos-of-dui-suspects-for-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

...

[Th'Pusher]

^ :tu

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Officer Shot And Killed Psychiatric Patient While Transporting Him To The Hospital (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/31/3586759/officer-shoots-dead-psychiatric-patient-while-transporting-him-to-the-hospital/)

Psychiatric patient Adam Daniel Lopp was being transferred to the hospital in a police vehicle when he was killed by an officer in Iredell County, North Carolina this week.

Sgt. Scott Culler, a Davidson County deputy, said he he shot and killed Lopp (http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/crime/2014/10/28/was-deadly-force-justified-in-psych-patients-shooting/18075951/) on the side of Interstate 40 because he was under attack. Lopp, a 41-year-old patient who was involuntarily committed, has no known criminal history — not even an arrest, and other deputies did not report any other trouble with Lopp, according to local reporting by NBC Charlotte.

The Iredell County Sheriff’s office said there was a confrontation betwen Culler and Lopp after Culler pulled over, and that it’s not clear whether the exchange started in the vehicle, which did not contain a partition sometimes used for transport in police cars. Culler called for back-up, but he shot Lopp before other officers reported to the scene. Culler had no injuries. A spokesman for the department declined to comment to ThinkProgress on whether Lopp was armed or was restrained during transport, but there is no indication that Lopp had access to a weapon.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is assessing whether criminal charges will be filed, and Culler is on administrative leave. But as a matter of department policy, Maj. Marty Byers of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Department told local news outlet The Dispatch that it’s not recommended “at all” (http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20141028/NEWS/141029972/1005?p=2&tc=pg) to transport patients who are admitted to psychiatric hospitals without a partition because it can threaten the safety of either the officer or the patient.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/31/3586759/officer-shoots-dead-psychiatric-patient-while-transporting-him-to-the-hospital/

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Activist on Trial for Videotaping a Police Arrest, Called a 'Domestic Threat'

A jury in Austin, Texas, is set to issue its decision today in a case that centers on a person’s right to film police officers. Antonio Buehler says he was at a gas station in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day in 2012 when he used his phone to take pictures of a woman being arrested and crying out for help.

Ultimately, Buehler’s attempt to document what he felt was apparent police abuse ended with his own arrest when the officer said he felt Buehler spit on him.

He faced a felony charge of "harassment of a public servant," and two to 10 years in prison.

Last year, a grand jury cleared Buehler of the felony, but in an usual twist, it came back with

a charge of "failure to obey a lawful order," a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine.

The order was for Buehler to put his hands behind his back as he tried to take pictures. :lol

Since then Buehler has co-founded the group Peaceful Streets Project, whose members record police and post the videos online, and train others to do the same.

He has been arrested several more times while videotaping officers and has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Austin Police Department.

Buehler is an an Iraq War veteran and graduate of West Point and Stanford University with no prior arrests.

"I’m a very lucky person.

I’m a West Point, Stanford and Harvard grad.

I have a lot of privilege.

I have a lot of friends with money, and I’ve had a lot of people rally behind me.

But what I hope that people see is if the Austin Police Department and the prosecutors are willing to expend such tremendous resources—they had eight prosecutors in the courtroom over the past couple days—if they’re willing to expend this much to try to ruin my life and to try to get me for a petty misdemeanor,

I just imagine what they’re doing to people of color, to the homeless, to the mentally ill, and what they’re doing to cover up when cops really do bad things, such as killing or raping."

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/activist-trial-videotaping-police-arrest-called-domestic-threat

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Massive Study Reveals Schizophrenia's Genetic Roots


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-study-reveals-schizophrenia-s-genetic-roots/?WT.mc_id=SA_EVO_20141103

You'r mentally ill, now shown to be physicallyl disabled, so the chicken-shit, ignorant cops shoot you. It's their solution for everything.

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Ferguson No-Fly Zone & A Brief Overview of a Tool Used to Restrict Freedom of the Press (http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/11/03/ferguson-no-fly-zone-a-brief-overview-of-a-tool-used-to-restrict-freedom-of-the-press/)

The Associated Press has reported that the United States government agreed to “restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace” over an area surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for a period of 12 days in order to keep news helicopters from covering protests and the police response to them.

The protests took place after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was gunned down on August 9 by a white Ferguson police officer named Darren Wilson. There were isolated reports of violence, however, for the most part, the people who came out to protest were predominantly engaged in peaceful assembly, commemorating Brown and calling for justice.

The St. Louis County Police Department vehemently denies that a no-fly zone was imposed to restrict media access. Spokesperson Sgt. Brian Schellman declared in a statement (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-no-fly-zone-20141102-story.html?track=rss&utm_content=buffer7e2cf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer), “The St. Louis County Police Department reaffirms the reason the request for restricted airspace was made was due to the hostile nature of certain persons on the ground that fired gunshots at the police helicopter, as well as used a laser device pointed at the police helicopter.”

But the Associated Press’ report (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/674886091e344ffa95e92eb482e02be1/ap-exclusive-ferguson-no-fly-zone-aimed-media) containsmultiple quotes from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials that indicate part of the motivation for the restricted airspace involved suppressing media.

FAA air traffic managers “struggled to redefine the flight ban to let commercial flights operate at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and police helicopters fly through the area—but ban others.”

In one recorded telephone conversation the AP obtained, an FAA manager says police “finally admitted it really was to keep the media out.”

“Everybody but the media is okay,” according to another recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD8lG-q2tbw). “Right, right.”

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/11/03/ferguson-no-fly-zone-a-brief-overview-of-a-tool-used-to-restrict-freedom-of-the-press/

[Winehole23]

using public safety as an excuse to quash news gathering? fucking bullshit.

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using public safety as an excuse to quash news gathering? fucking bullshit.

Welcome to the American Police State, you can't check out.

Freedom!

Liberty!

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Florida Cop Breaks 14-Year-Old Girl’s Arm During Warrantless Cell Phone Search

Florida parents are calling for a Greenacres Police Department officer to be fired after he reportedly broke their 14-year-old daughter’s arm while attempting a warrantless search of her cell phone.

According to an arrest report published by the Broward-Palm Beach New Times (http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/11/greenacres_cop_jared_nash_accused_of_breaking_14-year-old_girls_arm_during_arrest.php) this week, Officer Jared Nash explained that he approached the 14-year-old girl at John I. Leonard High School on Oct. 21 because he believed that she had video of a fight on her cell phone.

Nash described the girl, who was talking on the cell phone, as “uncooperative.” He said that she pushed him back as she tried to get past him to walk away.

“When she did this I took a hold of her left arm,” he wrote, adding that he gave her a verbal command to “stop and put the phone down.”

“[She] then began to twist and pull her arm around in an increased physical level trying to pull away,” Nash explained. “I then tried placing [her] left hand behind her back to secure her in handcuffs due to her pushing me, her increasing attempts to break away from my grasp, and continuing to try hand the phone to [her friend] despite my orders not to.”

Nash took the girl into custody, but she later complained of pain and was taken to Palms West Hospital, but his report does not mention what she was treated for. She was eventually charged with resisting an officer without violence.

The girl’s father provided X-rays to blogger Davy V. (http://davyv.blogspot.com/2014/10/green-acres-florida-police-officer.html) showing multiple breaks in her arm.

http://www.alternet.org/florida-cop-breaks-14-year-old-girls-arm-during-warrantless-cell-phone-search

she's lucky she didn't get tased or shot dead. 14 year old girls are horrible mortal threats to cops.

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Two drastically different ways police can subdue a man armed with a knife (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342660/-Two-drastically-different-ways-police-can-subdue-a-man-armed-with-a-knife)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342660/-Two-drastically-different-ways-police-can-subdue-a-man-armed-with-a-knife?detail=email

US cops FIRST and ALWAYS solution is to kill.

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More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations

The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show.

At the Supreme Court, small teams of undercover officers dress as students at large demonstrations outside the courthouse and join the protests to look for suspicious activity, according to officials familiar with the practice.

At the Internal Revenue Service, dozens of undercover agents chase suspected tax evaders worldwide, by posing as tax preparers or accountants or drug dealers or yacht buyers, court records show.

At the Agriculture Department, more than 100 undercover agents pose as food stamp recipients at thousands of neighborhood stores to spot suspicious vendors and fraud, officials said.


Undercover work, inherently invasive and sometimes dangerous, was once largely the domain of the F.B.I. (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_bureau_of_investigation/index.html?inline=nyt-org) and a few other law enforcement agencies at the federal level. But outside public view, changes in policies and tactics over the last decade have resulted in undercover teams run by agencies in virtually every corner of the federal government, according to officials, former agents and documents.

Some agency officials say such operations give them a powerful new tool to gather evidence in ways that standard law enforcement methods do not offer, leading to more prosecutions. But the broadened scope of undercover work, which can target specific individuals or categories of possible suspects, also raises concerns about civil liberties abuses and entrapment of unwitting targets. It has also resulted in hidden problems, with money gone missing, investigations compromised and agents sometimes left largely on their own for months or even years.

“Done right, undercover work can be a very effective law enforcement method, but it carries serious risks and should only be undertaken with proper training, supervision and oversight,” said Michael German, a former F.B.I. undercover agent who is a fellow at New York University’s law school. “Ultimately it is government deceitfulness and participation in criminal activity, which is only justifiable when it is used to resolve the most serious crimes.”

Some of the expanded undercover operations have resulted from heightened concern about domestic terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

But many operations are not linked to terrorism. Instead, they reflect a more aggressive approach to growing criminal activities like identity theft, online solicitation and human trafficking, or a push from Congress to crack down on more traditional crimes.

At convenience stores, for example, undercover agents, sometimes using actual minors as decoys, look for illegal alcohol and cigarette sales, records show. At the Education Department, undercover agents of the Office of Inspector General infiltrate federally funded education programs looking for financial fraud.Medicare (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) investigators sometimes pose as patients to gather evidence against health care providers. Officers at the Small Business Administration, NASA and the Smithsonian do undercover work as well, records show.

Part of the appeal of undercover operations, some officials say, is that they can be an efficient way to make a case.

“We’re getting the information directly from the bad guys — what more could you want?” said Thomas Hunker, a former police chief in Bal Harbour, Fla., whose department worked with federal customs and drug agents on hundreds of undercover money-laundering investigations in recent years.

Mr. Hunker said sending federal and local agents undercover to meet with suspected money launderers “is a more direct approach than getting a tip and going out and doing all the legwork and going into a court mode.”

“We don’t have to go back and interview witnesses and do search warrants and surveillance and all that,” he added.

But the undercover work also led federal auditors to criticize his department for loose record-keeping and financial lapses, and Mr. Hunker was fired (http://lawreport.org/ViewStory.aspx?StoryID=11063) last year amid concerns about the operations.

‘A Critical Tool’

Most undercover investigations never become public, but when they do, they can prove controversial. This month, James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., was forced to defend the bureau’s tactics (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/business/media/fbi-chief-backs-agent-who-posed-as-reporter.html) after it was disclosed that an agent had posed as an Associated Press reporter in 2007 in trying to identify the source of bomb threats at a Lacey, Wash., high school. Responding to criticism from news media advocates, Mr. Comey wrote in a letter to The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/opinion/to-catch-a-crook-the-fbis-use-of-deception.html?_r=1) that “every undercover operation involves ‘deception,’ which has long been a critical tool in fighting crime.”

Just weeks before, the Drug Enforcement Administration (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/drug_enforcement_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org) stoked controversy after disclosures that an undercover agent had created a fake Facebook page (http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/10/governments_fake_facebook_page_rips_off_watertown_ womans_identity.html) from the photos of a young woman in Watertown, N.Y. — without her knowledge — to lure drug suspects.

And in what became a major political scandal for the Obama administration, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed guns to slip into Mexico in 2011 in an undercover operation known as Fast and Furious (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/us/report-places-blame-in-operation-fast-and-furious.html).

In response to that episode, the Justice Department issued new guidelines to prosecutors last year designed to tighten oversight of undercover operations and other “sensitive” investigative techniques, officials said. Before prosecutors approve such tactics, the previously undisclosed guidelines require that they consider whether an operation identifies a “clearly defined” objective, whether it is truly necessary, whether it targets “significant criminal actors or entities,” and other factors, the officials said.
Peter Carr, a department spokesman, said that undercover operations are necessary in investigating crime but that agents and prosecutors must follow safeguards. “We encourage these operations even though they may involve some degree of risk,” he said.

Those guidelines apply only to the law enforcement agencies overseen by the Justice Department. Within the Treasury Department, undercover agents at the I.R.S., for example, appear to have far more latitude than do those at many other agencies. I.R.S. rules (http://www.irs.gov/irm/part9/irm_09-004-008.html) say that, with prior approval, “an undercover employee or cooperating private individual may pose as an attorney, physician, clergyman or member of the news media.”

An I.R.S. spokesman acknowledged that undercover investigators are allowed to pose in such roles with approval from senior officials. But the agency said in a statement that senior officials “are not aware of any investigations where special agents have ever posed as attorneys, physicians, members of the clergy or members of the press specifically to gain information from a privileged relationship.”

The agency declined to say whether I.R.S. undercover agents have posed in these roles in an effort to get information that was not considered “privileged,” meaning the type of confidential information someone shares with a lawyer or doctor.

José Marrero, a former I.R.S. supervisor in Miami, said he knew of situations in which tax investigators needed to assume the identity of doctors to gain the trust of a medical professional and develop evidence that is tightly held.

“It’s very rare that you do that, but it does happen,” Mr. Marrero, who has a consulting firm in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and continues to work with federal agents on undercover investigations, said in an interview. “These are very sensitive jobs, and they’re scrutinized more closely than others.”

Oversight, though, can be minimal. A special committee meant to oversee undercover investigations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for instance, did not meet in nearly seven years, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general. That inquiry found that more than $127 million worth of cigarettes purchased by the bureau disappeared in a series of undercover investigations that were aimed at tracing the black-market smuggling of cigarettes.

In one investigation, the bureau paid an undercover informant from the tobacco industry nearly $5 million in “business expenses” for his help in the case. (The agency gained new authority in 2004 allowing it to take money seized in undercover investigations and “churn” it back into future operations, a source of millions in revenue.)

Financial oversight was found lacking in the I.R.S.’s undercover operations as well. Detailed reviews of the money spent in some of its undercover operations took as long as four and a half years to complete, according to a 2012 review by the Treasury Department’s inspector general.

Wires Crossed

Across the federal government, undercover work has become common enough that undercover agents sometimes find themselves investigating a supposed criminal who turns out to be someone from a different agency, law enforcement officials said. In a few situations, agents have even drawn their weapons on each other before realizing that both worked for the federal government.

“There are all sorts of stories about undercover operations gone bad,” Jeff Silk, a longtime undercover agent and supervisor at the Drug Enforcement Administration, said in an interview. “People are always tripping and falling over each other’s cases.”

Mr. Silk, who retired this year, cited a case that he supervised in which the D.E.A. was wiretapping suspects in a drug ring in Atlanta, only to discover that undercover agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were trying to infiltrate the same ring. The F.B.I. and the New York Police Department were involved in the case as well.
To avoid such problems, officials said, they have tightened “deconfliction” policies, which are designed to alert agencies about one another’s undercover operations. But problems have persisted, the officials said.

It is impossible to tell how effective the government’s operations are or evaluate whether the benefits outweigh the costs, since little information about them is publicly disclosed. Most federal agencies declined to discuss the number of undercover agents they employed or the types of investigations they handled. The numbers are considered confidential and are not listed in public budget documents, and even Justice Department officials say they are uncertain how many agents work undercover.
But current and former law enforcement officials said the number of federal agents doing such work appeared to total well into the thousands, with many agencies beefing up their ranks in recent years, or starting new undercover units. An intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, said the agency alone spent $100 million annually on its undercover operations. With large numbers of undercover agents at the F.B.I. and elsewhere, the costs could reach hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

In a sampling of such workers, an analysis of publicly available résumés showed that since 2001 more than 1,100 current or former federal employees across 40 agencies listed undercover work inside the United States as part of their duties. More than half of all the work they described is in pursuit of the illicit drug trade. Money laundering, gangs and organized crime investigations make up the second-largest group of operations.

Significant growth in undercover work involves online activity, with agents taking to the Internet, posing as teenage girls to catch predators or intercepting emails and other messages, the documents noted. The F.B.I., Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon all have training programs for online undercover operations.

Defendants who are prosecuted in undercover investigations often raise a defense of “entrapment,” asserting that agents essentially lured them into a criminal act, whether it is buying drugs from an undercover agent or providing fraudulent government services.

But the entrapment defense rarely succeeds in court.

In terrorism cases — the area in which the F.B.I. has used undercover stings most aggressively — prosecutors have a perfect record in defeating claims of entrapment. “I challenge you to find one of those cases in which the defendant has been acquitted asserting that defense,” Robert S. Mueller III (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_s_iii_mueller/index.html?inline=nyt-per), a former F.B.I. director, said at an appearance this year.

The Times analysis showed that the military and its investigative agencies have almost as many undercover agents working inside the United States as does the F.B.I. While most of them are involved in internal policing of service members and defense contractors, a growing number are focused, in part, on the general public as part of joint federal task forces that combine military, intelligence and law enforcement specialists.

At the Supreme Court, all of the court’s more than 150 police officers are trained in undercover tactics, according to a federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because it involved internal security measures. At large protests over issues like abortion, small teams of undercover officers mill about — usually behind the crowd — to look for potential disturbances.

The agents, often youthful looking, will typically “dress down” and wear backpacks to blend inconspicuously into the crowd, the official said.

At one recent protest, an undercover agent — rather than a uniformed officer — went into the center of a crowd of protesters to check out a report of a suspicious bag before determining there was no threat, the official said. The use of undercover officers is seen as a more effective way of monitoring large crowds.

A Supreme Court spokesman, citing a policy of not discussing security practices, declined to talk about the use of undercover officers. Mr. German, the former F.B.I. undercover agent, said he was troubled to learn that the Supreme Court routinely used undercover officers to pose as demonstrators and monitor large protests.

“There is a danger to democracy,” he said, “in having police infiltrate protests when there isn’t a reasonable basis to suspect criminality.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/us/more-federal-agencies-are-using-undercover-operations.html?_r=0

But somehow, the SEC, FBI, Treasury, federal marshals just can't seem to infiltrate the financial sector that's stealing $100Bs/year and Ms of falsely foreclosed homes, but they put their jack boots on the necks of food stamp fraudsters and other small fry. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Man sues after Wisc. police come to his home, arrest him for calling them racists on Facebookhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/man-sues-after-minn-police-come-to-his-home-arrest-him-for-calling-them-racists-on-facebook/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Infinite_limit]

Police Job is to keep individuals like Brown off the street. They did so....permanently.

America is a better place today

[spurraider21]

Officer delivers donations to woman's home after catching her stealing to feed her family (http://www.katv.com/story/27617914/officer-who-caught-woman-stealing-to-feed-her-family-delivers-donations-to-her-home)

[ElNono]

Officer delivers donations to woman's home after catching her stealing to feed her family (http://www.katv.com/story/27617914/officer-who-caught-woman-stealing-to-feed-her-family-delivers-donations-to-her-home)

great stuff, tbh... thanks for sharing :tu

[boutons_deux]

Officer delivers donations to woman's home after catching her stealing to feed her family (http://www.katv.com/story/27617914/officer-who-caught-woman-stealing-to-feed-her-family-delivers-donations-to-her-home)

yep, one robin makes it springtime

[spurraider21]

do you think this is a problem too?



"We're called things like Uncle Toms and traitors to our community, in spite of the fact that we sympathize or we agree with the anger that our community holds, because we feel that same anger," said Noel Leader, a retired New York City police sergeant who in 1995 co-founded an advocacy group, 100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amid-protests-black-police-officers-straddle-line-between-race-and-duty/

[boutons_deux]

Texas Cop Tasers 76-Year-Old Man with Expired Inspection

A Texas police officer was placed on administrative leave on Friday after he reportedly used a Taser on a 76-year-old man after the suspect had already been forced to the ground.

The Victoria Advocate reported (https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2014/dec/13/victoria-police-officer-investigated-for-tasing-dr/) that 76-year-old Pete Vasquez was driving a work-owned vehicle back to his place of business on Thursday when 23-year-old Officer Nathanial Robinson pulled him over for an expired inspection.

Vasquez said that he explained that the car belonged to a car lot, and that the dealer tags made it exempt from having an inspection.

But dashcam video obtained by the paper shows Robinson using force to arrest Vasquez for what should have been a Class C misdemeanor.

In the video, Vasquez pulls his arm away from Robinson, and the officer slams him into the hood of the patrol car. The two men disappear from camera range as Robinson places Vasquez in a hold, and then forces him to the ground.

According to police, Robinson shocked Vasquez with a Taser twice while he was on the ground.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/texas-cop-tasers-76-year-old-man-expired-inspection?akid=12576.187590.lZcWB3&rd=1&src=newsletter1028681&t=18

[Winehole23]

Congress reauthorized legislation this week that will require states to report the number of people killed during an arrest or while in police custody.


"You can't begin to improve the situation unless you know what the situation is," Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), one of the bill's sponsors, said in an interview with the Washington Post. "We will now have the data."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/11/congress-decides-to-get-serious-about-tracking-police-shootings/

[spurraider21]

Texas Cop Tasers 76-Year-Old Man with Expired Inspection

A Texas police officer was placed on administrative leave on Friday after he reportedly used a Taser on a 76-year-old man after the suspect had already been forced to the ground.

The Victoria Advocate reported (https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2014/dec/13/victoria-police-officer-investigated-for-tasing-dr/) that 76-year-old Pete Vasquez was driving a work-owned vehicle back to his place of business on Thursday when 23-year-old Officer Nathanial Robinson pulled him over for an expired inspection.

Vasquez said that he explained that the car belonged to a car lot, and that the dealer tags made it exempt from having an inspection.

But dashcam video obtained by the paper shows Robinson using force to arrest Vasquez for what should have been a Class C misdemeanor.

In the video, Vasquez pulls his arm away from Robinson, and the officer slams him into the hood of the patrol car. The two men disappear from camera range as Robinson places Vasquez in a hold, and then forces him to the ground.

According to police, Robinson shocked Vasquez with a Taser twice while he was on the ground.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/texas-cop-tasers-76-year-old-man-expired-inspection?akid=12576.187590.lZcWB3&rd=1&src=newsletter1028681&t=18



fucked up. i don't even get why the cop was cuffing/detaining him for that offense in the first place... per usual in these cases there was resistance, but not only was the cop in the wrong from the get-go, but then he went overboard with the taser (used it twice according to the article).

its a good thing the chief spoke out the way he did. people get mad when they hear "administrative leave" but it makes more sense to review/investigate the situation before actually firing somebody. doesn't sound like they really have his back

having more cameras on and around cops going forward will definitely be a good thing to avoid knee-jerk reactions

[boutons_deux]

Florida cop suspended after bragging about causing the death of a tourist


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/florida-cop-suspended-after-bragging-about-causing-the-death-of-a-tourist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[spurraider21]

do you think this is a problem too?



"We're called things like Uncle Toms and traitors to our community, in spite of the fact that we sympathize or we agree with the anger that our community holds, because we feel that same anger," said Noel Leader, a retired New York City police sergeant who in 1995 co-founded an advocacy group, 100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amid-protests-black-police-officers-straddle-line-between-race-and-duty/

[boutons_deux]

"100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care"

black cops aren't the primary cops who need to care about blacks.

[spurraider21]

"100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care"

black cops aren't the primary cops who need to care about blacks.



did you read the entirety of the article?

do you not see the discrepancy in the #'s of white and black cops as an issue? particularly in areas that have high AA populations, where these racial tensions rise?

[spurraider21]

saw this posted of FB this morning, with the poster crying about injustice and police state, etc.

are these warrior cops? or just a moron


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDc3q28gmSU

[Winehole23]

The North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council or (NEMLEC), was recently forced to take its website offline after a startling revelation was discovered on its “mission statement” page. The council is in charge of the region’s SWAT teams, and is currently the target of an ACLU lawsuit, which is hoping to force the agency to release their records to the public.


When local reporters were researching the agency after the initial ACLU report this June, they discovered a disturbing section of the publicly posted mission statement, which claimed that the agency was formed in the 1960’s, primarily to fight against civil rights and anti-war protesters. Now, with the ACLU’s lawsuit against them drawing closer, the agency has taken down its entire website, and filed a motion for the lawsuit to be dismissed.


The agency is claiming that they do not have to divulge their records because they are a private organization, however, they receive public funding and are comprised of public police forces.


“NEMLEC can’t have it both ways,” said Kade Crockford, director of technology for the Massachusetts ACLU’s Liberty Project. “They can’t on the one hand raid homes to serve warrants and arrest people — performing public duties with public funds — and then turn around and say their activities should be shielded from public scrutiny because they’re private organizations. One of those things has to be illegal.”



Before taking the website down, it contained a number of interesting passages, showing that SWAT teams were developed to be used against protesters and people in poor communities, especially during times of civil unrest.
“The disorder associated with suburban sprawl as people migrated from larger cities, the development of the interstate highway system, the civil rights movement and the growing resistance to the Vietnam War threatened to overwhelm the serenity of the quaint, idyllic New England towns north and west of Boston,” onepassage on the website read. (http://www.eagletribune.com/news/article_03481060-8a2e-5f73-afa8-d31b6ff599a5.html?mode=jqm)

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/swat-team-admits-website-formed-fight-civil-rights-protesters/#Bw1sIIqc6uyu2rVw.99

[spurraider21]

:lmao 0:45 :lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTRzVirSd4

[Winehole23]

Chad Chadwick has something many citizens can only covet - a spotless record.


"These cops are out of control. They are ruining good people's lives. I am a good man. I have done everything I can to show that, as a father, as a citizen, as a worker," said Chadwick.
But on the night of September 27th, 2011 Chadwick's commitment to living within the law did him no good at all.


It started when a friend concerned for Chadwick's emotional well-being called Missouri City police to Chad's Sienna apartment where he'd been distraught, drinking and unknown to anyone, had gone to sleep in the bathtub.
A SWAT team was summoned.


"They told a judge I had hostages. They lied to a judge and told him I had hostages in my apartment and they needed to enter," said Chadwick.
Chadwick did own a single shotgun, but had threatened no one, not even himself. Chadwick's firearm possession apparently prompted SWAT to kick in his door, launch a stun grenade into the bathroom and storm in, according to Chadwick, without announcing their identity.


"While I had my hands up naked in the shower they shot me with a 40 millimeter non-lethal round," said Chadwick.
A second stun grenade soon followed.


"I turned away, the explosion went off, I opened my eyes the lights are out and here comes a shield with four or five guys behind it. They pinned me against the wall and proceeded to beat the crap out of me," said Chadwick.
That's when officers shot the unarmed Chadwick in the back of the head with a Taser at point blank range.


"They claimed I drew down with a shampoo bottle and a body wash bottle," said Chadwick.


And it wasn't over.


"They grabbed me by my the one hand that was out of the shower and grabbed me by my testicles slammed me on my face on the floor and proceeded to beat me more," said Chadwick.


Chadwick, who hadn't broken a single law when SWAT burst through his door, was taken to the Ft. Bend County Jail with a fractured nose, bruised ribs and what's proven to be permanent hearing loss.
He was held in an isolation cell for two full days.


"Instead of apologizing to this man and asking let us see what we can do to help you to make you whole again, they concocted criminal charges against this man, one after another, after another," said Quanell X who believes the prosecution of Chadwick was designed to fend off civil liability.


Ft. Bend County District Attorney John Healy sought to indict Chadwick on two felony counts of assaulting a police officer, but a Grand Jury said no law was broken.


It could have stopped there, but Healy's prosecutors tried misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, calling more than a dozen officers to testify. Those charges were dropped as well.


A month ago, three years after the SWAT raid, a jury found Chad Chadwick not guilty of interfering with police. With tears in their eyes members of the jury offered the exonerated defendant comforting hugs.
"They tried to make me a convict. It broke me financially, bankrupted me. I used my life savings, not to mention, I lost my kids," said Chadwick.


"This type of police abuse and excessive use of force and concoction of criminal charges against innocent people is not just happening to black people, its happening to white people too," said Quanell X who is assisting Chadwick in getting the story of his ordeal to the media.


For Chadwick some of the damage will never be repaired.


"All I could think about is, what are my daughters going to think? My goal in life is to be a father that my kids are proud of. That's it," said Chadwick, a long time manager in the energy industry.


The SWAT team that took Chadwick into custody and testified against him was comprised of officers from Missouri City, Sugar Land, Stafford and the Ft. Bend County Sheriff's Department.


Ft. Bend County District Attorney John Healy declined to comment on camera, but did say he stands by his decision to prosecute Chadwick, despite the multiple no-bills and not guilty verdict.
Asked how much the case cost taxpayers, Healy said "I wasn't keeping a tally."

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/27645689/ft-bend-police-prosecutors-accused-of-abuse-in-swat-incident

[boutons_deux]

New York City Cops Seek Federal Court Approval to Mass Arrest Protesters Without Warning


the city’s Law Department is going back to federal court to seek new authority to make mass arrests at protests.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has agreed to meet in full to reconsider an August ruling that sided with protesters and chastized the New York Police Department for the way it herded and arrested 700 Occupy protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in fall 2011. It concluded that the cops violated (https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/justiceonline/pages/656/attachments/original/1417396195/us-court-of-appeals-second.pdf?1417396195) the protesters' constitutional rights and the police did not have “cause” to arrest them.

“This decision will frustrate, not further, the work of police attempting to facilitate peaceful demonstrations while ensuring both the safety of demonstrators and those among whom demonstrations are staged,” the city’s rehearing brief argued.

Attorneys representing the protesters say the NYPD seeks renewed power to make mass arrests after entrapping protesters, as was the case in October 2011, when police walked calmly beside Occupy marchers from lower Manhattan onto the bridge. As a majority on the lower Appeals Court panel noted (https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/justiceonline/pages/656/attachments/original/1417396195/us-court-of-appeals-second.pdf?1417396195), most protesters did not hear any arrest warning from police and felt they were led by cops onto the Brooklyn Bridge to continue their march.

http://www.alternet.org/activism/new-york-city-cops-seek-federal-court-approval-mass-arrest-protesters-without-warning

[boutons_deux]

Family Owes $1 Million In Medical Bills Because Their Toddler Was Injured In SWAT Raid (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/12/19/3605624/toddler-grenade-medical-bills/)

http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/toddler-raid-638x461.jpg


Officials in the Georgia country where the raid occurred maintains have refused to pay (http://kdvr.com/2014/08/18/georgia-police-refuse-to-pay-medical-bills-after-swat-tosses-grenade-into-babys-crib/)the Phonesavanhs’ bills, saying they are legally prohibited from doing so. A section of the state constitution (http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=279243) stipulates that local government cannot “grant any donation or gratuity or to forgive any debt or obligation owing to the public.”

The child, nicknamed “Bou Bou,” suffered serious burns and slipped into a medically induced coma after the grenade exploded. He was in a coma for five weeks, and hadextensive surgeries (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/family-toddler-injured-swat-grenade-faces-1m-medic/njW7b/) to repair his face and torso. Doctors are still trying to assess whether he will have lasting brain damage (http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_my_2_year_old_son/).

Flash grenades in particular have a track record of harming children.

In 2012, a 12-year-old girl in Montana suffered first degree burns (http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/grenade-burns-sleeping-girl-as-swat-team-raids-home/article_8bc67054-464d-5951-a5a1-003d4ed02d99.html) after police detonated a flash grenade next to her bed. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl was killed in Detroit (http://www.freep.com/article/20100516/NEWS01/100516012) during a SWAT raid; her family says she was burned with a grenade before she was accidentally shot by the police.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/12/19/3605624/toddler-grenade-medical-bills/

Where's Fox/Repug outrage? Congressional hearings? none? of course not, they're just foreigners, in the Confederacy, not Real Americans.

[boutons_deux]

No Criminal Charges for Police Chief Who Asked Teenage Girl to Pose for Nude Photos


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


...to pose for nude photos in exchange for dropping charges against her for underage drinking.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/no-criminal-charges-police-chief-who-asked-teenage-girl-pose-nude-photos?akid=12623.187590.HnOSZb&rd=1&src=newsletter1029458&t=15

OTOH, if she had offered him $100 to let her off, he could have charged with bribery of public official.

[spurraider21]

Westfall eventually won a $70,000 civil suit against the city. Seastrand resigned a month after the incident, after serving as a police officer for 27 years, and is prohibited from ever working in law enforcement again.

State prosecutors, however, declined to file criminal charges against Seastrand. They told theUnion Leader that the police chief’s actions represented “abhorrent behavior and unacceptable behavior for anyone in that type of a position.” But they explained that state laws only allowed them to charge Seastrand with a misdemeanor for abusing the power of his position.

[boutons_deux]

NYPD Police Leader “We Are Now A Wartime Police Department and Will Act Accordingly”

“There’s blood on many hands tonight: those that incited violence on the street under the guise of protests, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did every day.

That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall in the office of the mayor.” Now, according to Lynch, the NYPD is a “wartime police department” that will “act accordingly.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/31/nypd-police-leader-we-wartime-police-department-act-accordingly.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

NYPD now "at war" with citizens.

I'm sure the bubbas, rednecks, gun fellators, militia men, Oath Keeper sheriffs and their deputies all agree with War on Citizens.

[spurraider21]

i like how that website has an entire section called "proof of the GOP war on women"

[boutons_deux]

i like how that website has an entire section called "proof of the GOP war on women"

the proof is irrefutable, the evidence is overwhelming, with new evidence spilling out of Repugs' toxic mouths and policies steadly.

Thee only group the Repugs aren't "at war" with is BigCorp and the 1%, the Repug paymasters.

[boutons_deux]

i like how that website has an entire section called "proof of the GOP war on women"

‘Listen up ladies’: Fox News kicks off New Year with absurdly sexist advice for ‘catering to your man’


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fox_ff_women_advice_150101a-2-800x430.jpg

The hosts of Fox & Friends started the New Year on Thursday by telling women that they should “cater” to their man by stroking his ego, cooking him meals, and massaging his feet.

“Ladies, listen up,” host Clayton Morris said. “Ladies, we’re talking to you. If you still don’t have a New Year’s resolution then could this be it?”

According to Morris, women could get some “honest advice on how to get a husband” from a new dating guide (http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141216/bed-stuy/bed-stuy-men-get-brutally-honest-tell-all-relationship-guide) titled “Single Man, Married Man,”


Peter Doocy seemed to be perplexed as he offered the first piece of advice: “No matter where a woman was in life, she should always be able to cater to her man’s needs.”

“Yeah, I do want to be a better wife,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt agreed.

“Well, how about this one?” Doocy continued. “When he gets his ego stroked, he’ll be more inclined to love you more.”

“That’s true!” Earhardt exclaimed.

Doocy said that one way a woman could stroke a man’s ego would be to “prepare his meals, draw him a bath and massage his feet every now and then.”

“All in for foot massages,” Doocy added.

“My wife is at home taking notes right now,”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/listen-up-ladies-fox-news-kicks-off-new-year-with-absurdly-sexist-advice-for-catering-to-your-man/

:lol

Even if she/they do ALL that, they can't get insurance to cover contraception, but men's Medicare pays for dick hardeners and $100Ms for penis pumps.

[spurraider21]

is there something wrong with a woman saying she wants to be a better wife? a man should also strive to be a better husband

[TeyshaBlue]

I dont think all liberals are as stupid as those that read thinkprogress et al. Of course, boutons cant make any distinction...too much thought required.

[boutons_deux]

is there something wrong with a woman saying she wants to be a better wife? a man should also strive to be a better husband

that's not their msg, gfy

[boutons_deux]

I dont think all liberals are as stupid as those that read thinkprogress et al. Of course, boutons cant make any distinction...too much thought required.

as usual The Great Boutons Stalker TB :lol HAS NOTHING TO SAY

[spurraider21]

that's not their msg, gfy
but you bolded "Yeah, I do want to be a better wife" as if that was an appalling statement

[boutons_deux]

but you bolded "Yeah, I do want to be a better wife" as if that was an appalling statement

jeez, I'm really confused, clarify for all us here just what you take their msg to be, please. What actions were offered for "being a better wife"? :lol

[spurraider21]

jeez, I'm really confused, clarify for all us here just what you take their msg to be, please. What actions were offered for "being a better wife"? :lol
you don't think a good husband would ever cook for his wife or give her a massage? do you not understand intimacy at all?

i dont know about you, but to many, marriage is more than a financial contract

[boutons_deux]

you don't think a good husband would ever cook for his wife or give her a massage? do you not understand intimacy at all?

i dont know about you, but to many, marriage is more than a financial contract


clarify for all us here just what you take their msg to be, please. What actions were offered for "being a better wife"? :lol

[scott]

:lmao 0:45 :lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTRzVirSd4

Great video of cops actually seeming reasonable while a punk kid acts like a total douche.

This accomplishes what exactly in the campaign to stop police brutality?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

as usual The Great Boutons Stalker TB :lol HAS NOTHING TO SAY

He is talking about your sources which speaks to your credibility. I have tried talking to you about it too but you fall back on this megalomania.

What ends up happening is that while you have something to say, it lacks credibility because of where you get your information from. Personally, if I am trying to treat what you say fairly, I have to look up other sources because the one's you choose are heavily biased.

And what is it going to take you to stop bolding? For me, I cannot red your shit when you do that. I don't need you to tell me what is important particularly when it is a third of the article in question.

[boutons_deux]

He is talking about your sources which speaks to your credibility. I have tried talking to you about it too but you fall back on this megalomania.

What ends up happening is that while you have something to say, it lacks credibility because of where you get your information from. Personally, if I am trying to treat what you say fairly, I have to look up other sources because the one's you choose are heavily biased.

And what is it going to take you to stop bolding? For me, I cannot red your shit when you do that. I don't need you to tell me what is important particularly when it is a third of the article in question.

you and TB :lol and spurraider STILL haven't addressed THE FACTS of the Fox misogynist bullshit.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

you and TB :lol and spurraider STILL haven't addressed THE FACTS of the Fox misogynist bullshit.

It's a channel that caters to men around your age, I don't need you to tell me what appeals to them. I am not arguing your point either although handwaving at the obvious seems a waste of time to me. What I am telling you is that even when your point is valid, the way you go about making it lacks credibility.

[boutons_deux]

FL, trash talking The Great Boutons' STYLE! :lol

[spurraider21]

clarify for all us here just what you take their msg to be, please. What actions were offered for "being a better wife"? :lol
preparing meals, baths, and massages. that would make a woman a better wife. it would also make a man a better husband if he did those. don't understand your beef

[FuzzyLumpkins]

FL, trash talking The Great Boutons' STYLE! :lol

Not your style. Your method. Remember how you chastised me for not addressing the substance of your post? Keep that in mind then try introspection.

[TeyshaBlue]

:lol Style
:lol Facts
:lol Stalking
:lol boutons the facile coward

[boutons_deux]

Smirking bully New York cop charged in attack on female MTA worker


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-capture-of-NYPD-cop-after-attack-800x430.jpg

A New York Police Department officer attacked a woman worker on a subway platform, then ran away grinning to himself, according to the New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-turns-attacking-female-mta-employee-article-1.2063013).

An internal affairs investigation began on Thursday after the officer turned himself in. He was caught on camera leaving the scene of the attack, which took place around 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 23 (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/thug-attacks-female-mta-employee-bronx-cops-article-1.2061700).

A 28-year-old female employee of the Metropolitan Transit Authority reported to police that she was attacked and slammed to the concrete on the southbound D train platform at the Tremont Avenue station. The man who attacked her wrapped his hands around her throat and choked her, she said. She was hospitalized for injuries to her neck and back.

Cameras in the station caught an image of the off-duty, out-of-uniform cop smirking to himself as he exited the turnstiles.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/smirking-bully-new-york-cop-charged-in-attack-on-female-mta-worker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Why didn't she just turn her back to him?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Smirking bully New York cop charged in attack on female MTA worker


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-capture-of-NYPD-cop-after-attack-800x430.jpg

A New York Police Department officer attacked a woman worker on a subway platform, then ran away grinning to himself, according to the New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-turns-attacking-female-mta-employee-article-1.2063013).

An internal affairs investigation began on Thursday after the officer turned himself in. He was caught on camera leaving the scene of the attack, which took place around 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 23 (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/thug-attacks-female-mta-employee-bronx-cops-article-1.2061700).

A 28-year-old female employee of the Metropolitan Transit Authority reported to police that she was attacked and slammed to the concrete on the southbound D train platform at the Tremont Avenue station. The man who attacked her wrapped his hands around her throat and choked her, she said. She was hospitalized for injuries to her neck and back.

Cameras in the station caught an image of the off-duty, out-of-uniform cop smirking to himself as he exited the turnstiles.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/smirking-bully-new-york-cop-charged-in-attack-on-female-mta-worker/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Why didn't she just turn her back to him?



Why doesn't New York have shall issue CCW?

[spurraider21]

http://i.imgur.com/avmTKF2.jpg?1

nice follow up article :lol

[hitmanyr2k]

This guy is lucky he had cameras set up in his shop or he'd probably be in prison right now. You have to wonder how often this kind of shitty police work happens.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Drug-informant-stings-cops-as-case-against-4468170.php

TQwZYYUsVJI

[boutons_deux]

Digital threats are finally being taken seriously — as long as they’re against police (http://pando.com/2015/01/02/digital-threats-are-finally-being-taken-seriously-as-long-as-theyre-against-police/)

A number of American citizens have been arrested for threatening the lives of police officers on social forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube’s comment section.

It’s clear police departments around the country are taking threats against officers seriously after two New York Police Department officers were murdered in December (https://news.vice.com/article/two-nypd-officers-ambushed-and-murdered-in-brooklyn-shooting). But it’s not clear why the companies behind social networks are taking these threats more seriously than the rampant digital harassment against private citizens.

So there’s little direct connection, at least in this case, between online threats against police and actual efforts to kill officers or terrorize other law enforcement officials. The arrest of these three men is then justified only by the government’s decision to take the threats more seriously regardless of their veracity or of the three men’s true intentions.

If that’s the case, shouldn’t threats against citizens lead to similar arrests? Shouldn’t the bomb threat against (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/15/gamergate-feminist-video-game-critic-anita-sarkeesian-cancels-utah-lecture-after-threat-citing-police-inability-to-prevent-concealed-weapons-at-event/) the Utah State University have led to an arrest? How about the threats which drove two female game developers from (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/technology/gamergate-women-video-game-threats-anita-sarkeesian.html) their homes last October? If digital threats against cops are a crime worth pursuing, these threats should be, too.

Yet in many cases, it seems threats, especially against women, aren’t taken seriously. Amanda Hess wrote in the Pacific Standard almost a year ago about why women aren’t welcome on the Internet (http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/), and she discusses in her report the time a police officer who was questioning her about a threat on Twitter asked her what, exactly, Twitter was.

Now it seems many police departments do indeed know what Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are, and they are taking threats published to those networks quite seriously, at least when officers are the targets. One wonders how long it will be before the near-constant online threats against women and other groups are regarded just as seriously.

http://pando.com/2015/01/02/digital-threats-are-finally-being-taken-seriously-as-long-as-theyre-against-police/

Confirms that the cops overwhelming priority is to protect themselves, then comes instant escalation to brutality and killing, and finally "to serve and protect" citizens.

Just more EVIDENCE that America is fucked and unfuckable (esp by the authoritarian/surveillance state and its immune-to-prosecution enforcers)

[pgardn]

Although I will admit the job probably attracts more authoritarian types, it still has not been made clear what the American people want out of their police forces. They are in a very tough situation. We live in a country loaded with guns. So our Cops can't just prance into a domestic dispute like in England and sit everyone down and maybe remove a few drunk family members for the night.

Its a very tough job not made any easier by a divided public. Perfectly reasonable protests turning into business smashing? The local community workers who call the protesters up also bear responsibility knowing these situations will attract thugs. They can't flippantly organize a protest and expect the police to take care of the mixed bag they KNOW will be attracted. The responsibility can't be shirked off or even used as a threat.

[boutons_deux]

there have been and will continue to be so many police video brutalities where the police were NOT endangered but brutalized or killed anyway. THAT's what people object to.

current one is WHITE guy, was running away, stopped, put his hands up, getting on ground prone, hands behind his back, but police kick him in the head anyway.

yes, the gun industry's self-enriching push to flood the country with 300M+ unregulated guns behind the BALD LIE of the 2nd Amendment puts the police at risk. The gun industry and its gun fellating customers have a LOT of blood on their hands.

The police seem to be for stronger gun regulation, but they probably love that blacks shoot so many more blacks than they shoot police, blacks shoot even more blacks than the police shoot.

then throw in the 40K+ per year SWAT invasions, like to a barber shop over a barber license, ruining a baby in the wrong aparment with flash-bang grenades, etc, etc.

then throw in the the heavy MILITARIZATION against unarmed citizens

and then throw in almost bullet-proof immunity from jailing, even from prosecution (as bullet proof as bankers), for the police's many crimes and killings.

[CosmicCowboy]

Boo, just kill yourself and get it over with.

This world is simply too cruel for you.

[boutons_deux]

Boo, just kill yourself and get it over with.

This world is simply too cruel for you.

see, lotsa money has fucked you up bad, GFY

[spurraider21]

This guy is lucky he had cameras set up in his shop or he'd probably be in prison right now. You have to wonder how often this kind of shitty police work happens.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Drug-informant-stings-cops-as-case-against-4468170.php

TQwZYYUsVJI
damn, thats crazy. hopefully with enough digging/questioning they can find out which officer the informant was working with

[pgardn]

there have been and will continue to be so many police video brutalities where the police were NOT endangered but brutalized or killed anyway. THAT's what people object to.

current one is WHITE guy, was running away, stopped, put his hands up, getting on ground prone, hands behind his back, but police kick him in the head anyway.

yes, the gun industry's self-enriching push to flood the country with 300M+ unregulated guns behind the BALD LIE of the 2nd Amendment puts the police at risk. The gun industry and its gun fellating customers have a LOT of blood on their hands.

The police seem to be for stronger gun regulation, but they probably love that blacks shoot so many more blacks than they shoot police, blacks shoot even more blacks than the police shoot.

then throw in the 40K+ per year SWAT invasions, like to a barber shop over a barber license, ruining a baby in the wrong aparment with flash-bang grenades, etc, etc.

then throw in the the heavy MILITARIZATION against unarmed citizens

and then throw in almost bullet-proof immunity from jailing, even from prosecution (as bullet proof as bankers), for the police's many crimes and killings.



Thats what reasonable people object to once the entire situation is made clear. One cannot necessarily take a snippet of an event and judge it without context of before and after.

The Swat stuff has its origins in cops being outgunned by drug dealers. The high speed chases putting innocents at risk have been curtailed with better survelliance and command and control centers coordinating capture at much lower speeds. I'm sure we can get smarter with thug groups getting a hold deadlier weaponry.

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

[spurraider21]

lol... "thats what people object to"

my ass. people object to everything the police do even when facts are unknown, hence the countless "hands up dont shoot' protests which STILL happen today

[angrydude]

You have to divide police critics into two camps: those who will object to the cops no matter what they do, justified or not (the hands up don't shoot crowd), and those seriously concerned about official police policy/training regarding use of force as being wildly unjustifiable.

[spurraider21]

You have to divide police critics into two camps: those who will object to the cops no matter what they do, justified or not (the hands up don't shoot crowd), and those seriously concerned about official police policy/training regarding use of force as being wildly unjustifiable.
this. my issue is that boutons clearly is in the first camp you described. months before the grand jury proceedings, he was on the "i hope wilson gets a life sentence" wagon... when virtually nothing was known about the case

[boutons_deux]

"boutons clearly is in the first camp you described"

You Lie, You Slander.

Police have their role, but they have perverted it into militarized, everybody's-a-suspect, instant-escalation, brutal authoritarianism.

eg, hear Julie Annie saying citizens should always yield to the police no matter what. I'm sure every policeman in USA agrees.

[boutons_deux]

then there is the repulsive moral hazard of cops financing themselves with tickets, fines, civil forfeitures.

[spurraider21]

"boutons clearly is in the first camp you described"

You Lie, You Slander.
no, i don't.

you never even entertained the possibility that Brown went for Wilson's gun in the car

[CosmicCowboy]

"boutons clearly is in the first camp you described"

You Lie, You Slander.

Police have the role, but they have perverted it into militarized, everybody's-a-suspect, instant-escalation, brutal authoritarianism.

eg, hear Julie Annie saying citizens should always yield to the police no matter what. I'm sure every policeman in USA agrees.




I seriously hope you give the next cop that pulls you over a ration of shit and hopefully he beats the fuck out of you.

Yeah, everyone SHOULD yield to the police if they have any sense.

If the cops are out of line and it's a bad arrest that's what the judge is for, but when you are on the street you better damn well play by their rules or expect to suffer the consequences.

[boutons_deux]

Boston Cop Calls Guy ‘N-Word,’ Beats Uber Driver, Steals His Car. Because ‘Boston’


According to a police report obtained by DigBoston of events that began at 2:45am, two responding officers answered a radio call “that a taxi driver had been beaten by a passenger at E 1st @ Farragut Rd.” in South Boston.

It all started when the driver “picked up a white male … who was with [another] unknown white male at 200 Hanover St.” in the North End.

He then “drove the unknown white male to Charlestown and was then asked to take [the second white male] to E 2nd in South Boston.”

But when they arrived at that address, the “suspect stated they were in the wrong location.”

The “suspect then stated ‘[You] think I’m stupid you fucking spic’ and told the victim to continue driving.”



With the car stopped at E 2nd and M Street, the report says “the suspect began hitting the victim.” The Uber driver said he then removed his seatbelt and exited the vehicle, only for the suspect to begin “chasing the victim around the motor vehicle.”

With the victim “attempting to stop passing traffic to assist him,” an “unknown black male” lent a hand. “When the victim went toward the male that stopped to assist him, the suspect entered the [victim’s]” car and drove off.



The victim then entered the vehicle of the assisting black male “and they followed the suspect,” who was driving the Uber toward Farragut Road, “where the suspect stopped.”

Once outside the stolen taxi, the suspect “approached both the victim and the male assisting and stated to the black male ‘[What] do you want you fucking ******’ and began swinging at both parties.”

In the process the “suspect knocked the victim to the ground and began hitting him and the assisting male attempted to pull him off. They all struggled until the suspect observed blue police lights coming in their direction.”



The suspect then “stopped fighting and began to walk away.” At which point two MassPort police officers “arrived on the scene and the suspect walked away.” The Uber driver pointed at the suspect, but according to the police report he made an “escape” up P Street.


http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cop-injuries.jpeg


At Doherty’s arraignment, (http://bpdnews.com/news/2015/1/4/boston-police-officer-placed-on-administrative-leave-after-being-charged-with-assault-battery)he had stitches framing a black eye and a sling cradling his arm, and his attorney claimed his injuries showed that Doherty was in fact “the victim and not the perpetrator.”

Read more at http://wonkette.com/571137/boston-cop-calls-uber-driver-n-word-beats-him-steals-his-car-because-boston#Kkdpb3h46L6y2yJl.99

So many bad apples, the entire barrel is suspect.

My guess is that policing attracts, bullies, sadists, xenophbes, racists, wife-beaters, dickless, killers, murderers, your typical Repug base. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Cops Break Woman’s Ribs for ‘Disrespect’ Over Incident Involving a Truck

Mary Frances Jones told the Victoria Advocate (https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/jan/03/woman-sues-police-for-excessive-force-false-arrest/) that the three police officers woke her up early in the morning on Dec. 22, 2013 over reports that a truck that she had purchased the day before had been seen driving in a local creek.

Jones said that she had been unaware at the time that her sons borrowed the truck while she was sleeping. After officers claimed that she was lying about owning the truck, Jones said she tried to go back inside her home, and that’s when they forced her to the ground.

“One of them had his foot on my arm, and the other kicked me and broke my ribs,” she recalled. “They hurt me. They hurt me bad, and they know they did.”

According to Jones, she had to plead no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct-vulgar language so that she could go to the hospital. Her fiance, 50-year-old Mathew Milberger and two sons, William and Danny Wallace, were also arrested and charged with disorderly conduct-vulgar language.

A police report filed by Officer D. Stone accused Jones and her family of yelling, “F*ck the police, f*ck yall, and various other profanities.” The report noted that Jones’ son was shocked with a Taser, but it did not mention that she suffered broken ribs, black eyes and other injuries.

Jones said the broken ribs eventually resulted in pneumonia, which left her on a ventilator. In all, she had been in the hospital six times because of the beating, she said.

Attorney Christopher J. Gale, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Jones, said that police had made her pay for showing “disrespect.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lawyer-cops-break-womans-ribs-disrespect-over-incident-involving-truck

the "overly broad" "disorderly conduct" :lol that criminalizes any damn conduct that the cops want to criminalize

[CosmicCowboy]

ventilator LOL

[boutons_deux]

ventilator LOL

figgered you'd show up and support the police for INSTANT ESCALATION to BRUTALITY

[boutons_deux]

Montana Officer, Grant Morrison, Shoots and Kills His Second Unarmed Man. No Charges in Either Case

Two times, in the past two years, Morrison has pulled over unarmed, nonviolent citizens and, in a fit of fear, shot them both—the most recent resulting in a brutal and unnecessary death. Below the fold you will find the videos of those incidents and the nearly unbelievable news stories detailing how he's been cleared of wrongdoing in both shootings.

Morrison shoots and kills 38-year-old Richard Ramirez after a rather routine traffic stop. On January 7, according to Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/officer-says-had-no-choice-killing-unarmed-man-183618248.html), Morrison was cleared of any wrongdoing because he "feared Ramirez had a gun." After shooting him three times at close range, Morrison continues to yell commands to Ramirez on what he wants Ramirez to do, as if his body wasn't just destroyed by three bullets. Ramirez dies soon thereafter.

In 2013, Morrison shot and killed James Shaw after a routine traffic stop. Shaw, as you will have to carefully hear since the shooting is just out of the sight of the camera, is first hit with a taser then immediately shot and killed by Morrison. Morrison says (http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/jury-determines-officer-involved-shooting-justified/article_1bf70f42-ad90-58f9-8950-7b72d4bb1b61.html) he shot Shaw because he had a "crazed look on his face."

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/montana-officer-grant-morrison-shoots-and-kills-his-second-unarmed-man-no-charges

[Trill Clinton]

video of richard ramirez being gunned down in the backseat of a vehicle. i swear we have some pussy ass cops in amerikkka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ2yNZTbvpg

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/01/shocking-dashcam-video-reveals-questionable-justifiable-cop-shooting-montana/

[boutons_deux]

NYPD cops use banned chokehold against mouthy suspects, inspector general confirms

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Eric-Garner-arrest-Screenshot-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/nypd-cops-use-banned-chokehold-against-mouthy-suspects-inspector-general-confirms/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

I sincerely hope NYPD's feelings aren't hurt by IG's report.

IG msg: instant escalation to self-protecting brutality and shooting is the norm, pretty much nation-wide.

Imperial America's brutality abroad is mirrored by its militarized police-state brutality at home.

[boutons_deux]

The Human Toll of Flashbangs

At least 50 Americans have been seriously injured, maimed or killed by flashbangs since 2000. Here are their stories.

http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/flash-bang-victims

then add in the 100s dead from "non-lethal" tasers.

[boutons_deux]

Hotter Than Lava

Every day, cops toss dangerous military-style grenades during raids, with little oversight and horrifying results.


http://www.propublica.org/article/flashbangs

[Spurminator]

WTF?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/13/albuquerque-cops-face-murder-charges-in-death-of-homeless-camper/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngOL6LokN4

[boutons_deux]

A Black Woman Was Shot Dead By Police—Where's the National Outcry?


Aura Rosser's death has gone nearly unnoticed. Do male black lives matter more than female?

, officer David Reid and his partner, Mark Raab, responded to a domestic disturbance call around 11:45 p.m. at the home of Aura Rosser and her boyfriend Victor Stephens in Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan and liberal bastion about an hour from of Detroit. What happened after the officers arrived is unclear.

What we do know is that Rosser, 40, was at the home with her boyfriend, Victor Stephens, 54. He has said they were in a heated argument when he made the call, according to local reports (http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/11/witness_in_ann_arbor_police_sh.html).

He called the cops, he says, to escort Rosser out of his home. When officers arrived on the scene, they claim, Rosser "confronted (http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/12/ann_arbor_police_release_name_2.html#incart_story_ package)" them with a knife.

Officer Reid shot Rosser, killing her. Michigan State Police (http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/11/ann_arbor_police_shooting_name.html) say Rosser was shot once but declined to say where.

Stephens has said she was shot twice; once in the head and once in the chest.

It was hardly the outcome he had expected when he phoned the police for help. "Why would you kill her?" Stephens said to local news outlet MLive a day after the shooting. "It was a woman with a knife. It doesn't make any sense."

It was the first police shooting in Ann Arbor since the ‘80s, police officials say.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/black-woman-was-shot-dead-police-wheres-national-outcry?akid=12678.187590.K48rww&rd=1&src=newsletter1030173&t=3

"To Protect Ourselves and Serve All Y'all With Immediate Death"

[spurraider21]

The Human Toll of Flashbangs

At least 50 Americans have been seriously injured, maimed or killed by flashbangs since 2000. Here are their stories.

http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/flash-bang-victims

then add in the 100s dead from "non-lethal" tasers.



how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?

[boutons_deux]

how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?

how about what they did for 100+ years BEFORE they had high-tech weapons?

For you, flash-bangers and tasers are only and immediate goto weapons?

The police are chickenshits, knowing they can escalate immediatly up to shooting immediately with almost never any penalty, their word always carries over the word of their victims, esp the dead ones.

[spurraider21]

how about what they did for 100+ years BEFORE they had high-tech weapons?

For you, flash-bangers and tasers are only and immediate goto weapons?

The police are chickenshits, knowing they can escalate immediatly up to shooting immediately with almost never any penalty, their word always carries over the word of their victims, esp the dead ones.
be specific

[boutons_deux]

be specific

on what?

[spurraider21]

on what?


how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?

[RandomGuy]

Although I will admit the job probably attracts more authoritarian types, it still has not been made clear what the American people want out of their police forces. They are in a very tough situation. We live in a country loaded with guns. So our Cops can't just prance into a domestic dispute like in England and sit everyone down and maybe remove a few drunk family members for the night.

Its a very tough job not made any easier by a divided public. Perfectly reasonable protests turning into business smashing? The local community workers who call the protesters up also bear responsibility knowing these situations will attract thugs. They can't flippantly organize a protest and expect the police to take care of the mixed bag they KNOW will be attracted. The responsibility can't be shirked off or even used as a threat.

+1

Complex issue, and very very very rarely is there ever a clear version of events that makes fault of one side or the other clear to any reasonable person.

[TheSanityAnnex]

A Black Woman Was Shot Dead By Police—Where's the National Outcry?


Aura Rosser's death has gone nearly unnoticed. Do male black lives matter more than female?

, officer David Reid and his partner, Mark Raab, responded to a domestic disturbance call around 11:45 p.m. at the home of Aura Rosser and her boyfriend Victor Stephens in Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan and liberal bastion about an hour from of Detroit. What happened after the officers arrived is unclear.

What we do know is that Rosser, 40, was at the home with her boyfriend, Victor Stephens, 54. He has said they were in a heated argument when he made the call, according to local reports (http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/11/witness_in_ann_arbor_police_sh.html).

He called the cops, he says, to escort Rosser out of his home. When officers arrived on the scene, they claim, Rosser "confronted (http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/12/ann_arbor_police_release_name_2.html#incart_story_ package)" them with a knife.

Officer Reid shot Rosser, killing her. Michigan State Police (http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/11/ann_arbor_police_shooting_name.html) say Rosser was shot once but declined to say where.

Stephens has said she was shot twice; once in the head and once in the chest.

It was hardly the outcome he had expected when he phoned the police for help. "Why would you kill her?" Stephens said to local news outlet MLive a day after the shooting. "It was a woman with a knife. It doesn't make any sense."

It was the first police shooting in Ann Arbor since the ‘80s, police officials say.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/black-woman-was-shot-dead-police-wheres-national-outcry?akid=12678.187590.K48rww&rd=1&src=newsletter1030173&t=3

"To Protect Ourselves and Serve All Y'all With Immediate Death"




Do you even read the articles you post? Bitch came at the cops with a knife.

[boutons_deux]

Prosecutor: It Was A Mistake To Issue Arrest Warrant For 9-Year-Old Boy


POST FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho prosecutor said he made a mistake requesting an arrest warrant for a 9-year-old boy held in custody for three days after being accused of stealing a pack of gum.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/idaho-prosecutor-arrest-warrant-child-mistake?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[boutons_deux]

Do you even read the articles you post? Bitch came at the cops with a knife.

and for you sicko gun fellators, the immediate and only action was to kill her.

[TheSanityAnnex]

WTF?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/13/albuquerque-cops-face-murder-charges-in-death-of-homeless-camper/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngOL6LokN4

And they were charged with murder.

[TheSanityAnnex]

and for you sicko gun fellators, the immediate and only action was to kill her.

Knives are incredibly lethal. Don't come at a cop with a knife.

2xpcrDzy344

[boutons_deux]

And they were charged with murder.

they had no choice, he was mentally ill, unarmed, and running away.

[Spurminator]

And they were charged with murder.

Good thing there was a helmet cam, huh? Otherwise, we'd be taking this defense as incontrovertable evidence supporting lethal action:

After the shooting, police Chief Gorden Eden defended his officers, detective Keith Sandy and SWAT team member Dominique Perez, saying Boyd had made a threatening move toward Perez, according to the Journal.

[cantthinkofanything]

Knives are incredibly lethal. Don't come at a cop with a knife.


Knives are lethal but fairly easy to defend against. In the following, the guy on the left is approximating a two hand knife attack on an unarmed citizen. (for safety reason, they used black puffy things instead of knives).
kjwbvXaNVdo

[CosmicCowboy]

Seriously? You call a double eagle kick "fairly easy"?

:lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

Good thing there was a helmet cam, huh? Otherwise, we'd be taking this defense as incontrovertable evidence supporting lethal action:

Every single police officer should be required to have a body cam.

[boutons_deux]

VIDEO: Cops Beat Handcuffed Man: 'Don't You F**king Dare' Call For Jesus!

A video posted online this week appeared to show police in Michigan beating a handcuffed man and forbidding him from calling for Jesus, The Detroit News (http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2015/01/13/video-police-beating-handcuffed-suspect/21689193/) reported.

The video, uploaded on Monday to Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=589843441146681) by user Emma Craig, allegedly showed two officers punching and kicking a man in handcuffs who was already on the ground, the newspaper reported.

Near the beginning of the nine-and-a-half-minute video, an officer could be heard shouting at the handcuffed man.

"What'd you say?" the officer said. "Jesus? You're calling Jesus? You fucker! Don't you dare. Don't you fucking dare!"

The officers could then be heard congratulating each other and saying "good job, man." One of the officers could also be heard using the word "bitch."

As the video progressed, a female officer approached the handcuffed man and while waiting with the male officers could be heard lauding their actions.

"That's a justified ass-whooping," the female officer could be heard saying.

The incident was being investigated by Grosse Pointe Park police, but the officers involved belong to a task force comprised of officers from multiple jurisdictions, the newspaper reported. Initial findings in the investigation reportedly showed the officers' actions were warranted.

"We're looking at it, and we believe the officers actions were proper," Grosse Pointe Park Police Chief David Hiller told the paper on Tuesday. "In effecting the arrest, they had to kick to get his arms free because he was going for his gun, which was in his waistband."

Hiller said the handcuffed man had broken parole and was wanted for an armed robbery. He also said the suspect had not fired at police.

Warning: The video below is graphic and disturbing.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/police-beat-handcuffed-man-jesus?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

he was on the ground, handcuffed, and he was STILL ARMED, going for his gun? :lol

fucking sicko sadistic cops are criminal liars

[boutons_deux]

Nightmare: Cop Stalks Woman, Has Her Committed When She Rejects Him

Lawsuit: Romantic rejection led to terrifying abuse of power.

At the time, the young woman says, she had only recently broken up with her boyfriend of six years, and they were still trying to work out their issues. While Zacharias was still at the apartment, Figuera invited her ex over to see the new place.

By then, she says, Zacharias had overstayed his welcome, and when her ex-boyfriend did indeed arrive at the apartment, "Zacharias began yelling uncontrollably at him." Moments later, Zacharias allegedly escalated the confrontation by pulling a gun on the ex-boyfriend and chasing him from the premises.

Figuera describes herself as startled by the alleged incident, and says she was even more surprised when Zacharias went back to his police cruiser, gathered some belongings, and announced he wanted to stay the night.
Figuera says she responded by telling Zacharias she wasn't interested in having a relationship with him.

But this, she claims, only inspired him to become more aggressive in his pursuit of her. Initially, Zacharias called her several times a day, and after she stopped answering his calls, he began to call her sister, asking about Figuera's activities, the complaint says.

Figuera says the officer arrested her for "allegedly being irrational," issued her citations for minor violations, and then had her transferred to a local mental hospital.

"Defendant Zacharias told Plaintiff: that's what you get bitch," the complaint says.

Figuera says the staff at the Citris Mental Institute found no basis for her institutionalization, and released her within hours of her arrival.

She says she next encountered Zacharias in traffic court, where she was found guilty of offenses ranging from having unlawfully tinted windows to blocking the right-of-way. Figuera says the court's decision was based on a series of false statements made by the officer, and that the court's findings were later thrown out with Zacharias Facebook messages and other alleged statements were brought to the attention of the state attorney's office.

Figuera seeks unspecified compensatory damages on claims of negligence, negligent retention, malicious prosecution, false arrest and imprisonment, and civil rights violations.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/filthy-dirty-rotten-stinking-hotel-fines-couple-leaving-bad-review?akid=12682.187590.5Ovh5z&rd=1&src=newsletter1030216&t=23

[boutons_deux]

8 White People Who Pointed Guns At Police Officers and Managed Not to Get Shot

When a white guy is seen wandering around in public waving a gun, the police usually try to talk him down; he’s probably just having a bad day. Even if the white guy happens to be pointing his gun directly at an officer, his interaction with the police is unlikely to end in the exchange of gunfire. This is called white privilege.

Recent history suggests there’s a certain methodology for how police handle nearly identical gun-related incidents: white guys get arrested, while black guys get shot. Outraged? If not, you need to pay attention.

1. Armed White Guy Has Standoff With Police, Then Gets His Gun Back

Last May, an armed Michigan man had a standoff (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/joseph-houseman-open-carry_n_5501883.html) [3] with the police as he stood in front of a Dairy Queen waving a loaded rifle around and angrily shouting. When cops arrived, the man, Joseph Houseman, refused to identify himself, grabbed his crotch, flipped the bird, and cursed them out. Houseman was intoxicated and didn’t have an ID. For 40 minutes, the police tried to get the belligerent man to put his weapon down. All the while, he was screaming, “The revolution is coming,” and accusing the cops of being a “gang." He told the police he had a legal right to "threaten" police officers and their families.

Excerpt from their encounter:


JOSEPH HOUSEMAN: That's my First Amendment right.

POLICE: No it's not. You can't swear.

HOUSEMAN: That's bullshit. I can threaten you if I want to.

POLICE: That's incorrect.

HOUSEMAN: I can threaten you. I can threaten your family. I didn't threaten your family; I said I could.

POLICE: You said a war was coming.

HOUSEMAN: I didn't say a war was coming.

POLICE: You said a revolution is coming.

HOUSEMAN: Think about it. You know it is.


When Houseman refused a Breathalyzer test, officers decided not to give him his gun back. Instead, he was told to come to the police station and claim it the next day. He did, and his gun was safely returned.

2. White Guy Points Gun at Police Officers and Children During Hour-Long Standoff

In August, a San Diego man got out of his parked car with a loaded 9mm pistol and proceeded to point it (http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Man-shot-by-police-at-Mission-Bay-pleads-not-guilty-to-gun-charge-272083281.html) [4] at police officers and small children who were playing in a local park. The police proceeded to spend the next hour trying to talk the man, Lance Tamayo, into putting down his weapon.

Can you guess the man’s race? That’s right, he’s a white guy!

As terrified children were forced to hide in the bathroom, Tamayo rushed toward the officers with his weapon pointed at them and at a police helicopter flying overhead.

Eventually, an officer shot Tamayo once in the stomach to put him down. He fell to the ground, but his gun remained within reach. The police then called Tamayo on his cell phone and spoke with him for 15 minutes before he agreed to surrender. He was arrested and charged with exhibiting a firearm in the presence of peace officers.

3. White Man Arrested Twice For Road Rage With a Gun

In October, a Tennessee man was arrested (http://www.timesnews.net/article/9081885/man-who-accosted-detective-in-august-arrested-again-for-road-rage-with-a-gun) [5] for waving a loaded gun during a road rage incident involving another man and his son. E.J. Watson confronted the pair when they came to a stop, exited his vehicle with his pistol tucked in the front of his pants and was very belligerent, cursing and making derogatory remarks.

The victims called 911, and police pulled Watson over a few miles from the weapon-wielding episode. His car was littered with empty beer cans as well as a loaded Smith & Wesson revolver. Watson refused to exit his vehicle and had to be physically removed. Only three months earlier, he was arrested for a separate drunken road rage incident.

Good thing for Watson he was white—otherwise he might not be alive today.

4. White Guy Arrested for Firing BB Gun at Officers

A 22-year-old from New Hampshire faces one count of reckless conduct after firing a BB gun (http://www.wmur.com/news/police-man-arrested-after-shooting-bb-gun-at-officers/28219706) [6] at Concord police in September. The two police officers were making a routine traffic stop at an intersection when the man opened fire from a nearby apartment building. They arrested the culprit, Jesse Deflorio, who was on already on probation for a similar incident. The judge residing over the case commented that he was worried about the white guy’s safety following the most recent BB gun-firing episode. Poor white guy.

Tamir Rice (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/26/tamir-rice-video-shows-co_n_6227552.html) [7], 12, was walking around a Cleveland park, holding a toy gun that uses nonlethal plastic pellets. A police cruiser pulled up and within two seconds Rice was shot and killed by rookie officer Timothy Loehmann.

5. Two White Men Shoot Up Walmart With BB Gun and Live to Tell the Tale

Two Idaho men were taken into custody after shooting up a Walmart (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/28/1354547/-2-drunk-white-guys-shoot-bb-guns-at-a-Wal-Mart-and-live-of-course) [8] with a BB gun. Both were intoxicated. They walked into the Post Falls Walmart and proceeded to remove BB guns from boxes, before loading one and firing it four times while in the store. Walmart security contacted police, saying the two men “started shooting the gun in the store and made comments that they were going to shoot the store up.” According to one Walmart employee, the drunken men approached him and asked if he wanted to join them in their shooting spree.

The two white guys were taken into custody without incident, instead of being shot and killed on the spot.

However, on August 5, John Crawford III was shopping at a Walmart in Dayton, Ohio when he picked a BB rifle off the shelf from the sporting goods section. As he walked around the store fiddling with the gun and talking on his cell phone, another shopper called police to report a black man carrying an AR-15 assault rifle. The shopper told police that Crawford, “looked like he was going to go violently.” Crawford was shot and killed by police while in the store.

On the 911 call, the dispatcher can be heard saying “Walmart, a black male, six foot, wearing a blue shirt, blue pants, in the …section, holding a gun, pointing…”

There you have it: in two incidents involving men carrying BB guns in the same chain store: the white men were arrested and the black man was killed.

6. White Guy Arrested After Pointing Gun at Pennsylvania Police Officers

Just this month,Pennsylvania State Police arrested a man after he reportedly pulled a gun (http://www.wfmj.com/story/27753282/texas-man-arrested-after-pointing-gun-at-new-castle-police-officers) [9] on officers. Jed Frazier had driven his car off the road into a ditch. When police approached the vehicle, the man pulled a handgun from his coat pocket and pointed it at police.

Officers took shelter and tried to talk the man into dropping his loaded weapon. Finally, the police broke the windows of his car, extricated the man and arrested him, all without firing a shot.
Want to guess the man’s race?

7. White Woman Dressed In Body Armor Arrested After Shooting Into Cars and Pointing Gun at Police

It’s not just white guys who get all the privilege—sometimes white women do as well.

Just before the new year, a Tennessee woman was arrested after driving around shooting at passersby, leading police on a chase and pointing her gun at an officer. Two people were at a stop sign when Julia Shields pulled up in a sedan and fired shots into their vehicle, hitting and disabling the radiator. A rash of 911 calls reported Shields pointing her firearm at people as she passed, and firing at another vehicle in the same area. Once cops arrived, she led them on a short chase.

Fortunately for Shields, she is white and was arrested without incident or injury.

8. White Man Arrested After Pointing Gun at Phoenix Firefighters During Hour-Long Standoff

A mentally disturbed white man was arrested in Phoenix after pointing a gun at firefighters during an hour-long standoff (http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/police-steven-whitlock-arrested-after-pointing-gun-at-phoenix-firefighters) [10]. Steven Whitlock opened his apartment door with a gun in his hand when firefighters stopped by to conduct a welfare check. The firefighters dropped their equipment and ran for cover. Whitlock then grabbed their equipment and barricaded himself in his apartment.

Police engaged in an hour-long standoff with Whitlock, before forcing themselves into his apartment and taking him into custody.

Compare that with what happened to Kajieme Powell, who was shot and killed by St. Louis police after walking toward them with a knife while screaming, “Shoot me, kill me now."

Police ordered the mentally disturbed black man to drop the knife, and when he didn’t they shot him. So much for trying to talk him down; as long as the perpetrator is black, officers can shoot first, and ask questions later.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/8-white-people-who-pointed-guns-police-officers-and-managed-not-get-shot?akid=12683.187590.swvLx6&rd=1&src=newsletter1030226&t=7

[spurraider21]

how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?

[boutons_deux]

"how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?"

I'm sure there are 100Ks more detainings, arrests, bookings than are really necessary. Police have quotas to meet.

Instead jumping, choke holding, beating, kicking, tazing, shooting for the pure entertainment of IMMEDIATE escalation, police should ALWAYS stay cool, patient, and de-escalate, BUT THEY WON'T.

[RandomGuy]

"how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?"

I'm sure there are 100Ks more detainings, arrests, bookings than are really necessary. Police have quotas to meet.

Instead jumping, choke holding, beating, kicking, tazing, shooting for the pure entertainment of IMMEDIATE escalation, police should ALWAYS stay cool, patient, and de-escalate, BUT THEY WON'T.




Again, I mildly agree. There is more force used than is necessary, and more abuse than I am comfortable with.

Your answer was a bit evasive though. What happens when patience doesn't work?

You have to acknowledge that force, even deadly force, is not only necessary, but desirable. Only then can any meaningful discussion about improving police methods take place.

[boutons_deux]

"What happens when patience doesn't work?"

I think you know what the police will do: what they do now, taze, shoot to kill(preferably if citizen is no threat, unarmed, and best of all, running away), jump on the person and beat, kick the shit out of 'em.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Calm and patient cop killed

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/01/13/records-flagstaff-officer-shot-searched-suspect/21526819/

[Blizzardwizard]

"how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?"

I'm sure there are 100Ks more detainings, arrests, bookings than are really necessary. Police have quotas to meet.

Instead jumping, choke holding, beating, kicking, tazing, shooting for the pure entertainment of IMMEDIATE escalation, police should ALWAYS stay cool, patient, and de-escalate, BUT THEY WON'T.




Agree, police are way too quick to draw their weaponry and it's becoming more and more of a problem nowadays. The police should be the ones calming situations, not escalating them.

[Chomag]

Calm and patient cop killed

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/01/13/records-flagstaff-officer-shot-searched-suspect/21526819/

Bingo.

If this disturbing video proves anything, it's how *fast* a routine encounter can turn deadly. The suspect drew and fired in a blink of an eye.
Police don't have time to wonder whether you're armed or not. If you don't follow their instructions, expect to be considered armed, and expect to be shot.

[Chomag]

Knives are lethal but fairly easy to defend against. In the following, the guy on the left is approximating a two hand knife attack on an unarmed citizen. (for safety reason, they used black puffy things instead of knives).
kjwbvXaNVdo
Even if everyone was a tip top athlete try doing that with a vest and pounds of gear on. This is just as impractical as saying Police should be trained to catch bullets with their teeth, but the good guys are always successful with in the movies right? I don't know why I even bother with reason and logic here...

[spurraider21]

"how do you think they should proceed to detain people who aren't being compliant?"

I'm sure there are 100Ks more detainings, arrests, bookings than are really necessary. Police have quotas to meet.

Instead jumping, choke holding, beating, kicking, tazing, shooting for the pure entertainment of IMMEDIATE escalation, police should ALWAYS stay cool, patient, and de-escalate, BUT THEY WON'T.



so your response to "how should they proceed to detain people who aren't being complaint" is to detain less people?

lol

[boutons_deux]

so your response to "how should they proceed to detain people who aren't being complaint" is to detain less people?

lol

yep, fuck their quota and gratuitous detainings, arrests, friskings. NYPD went on a slow down 90% fewer everything, and NY didn't fall apart. A lot of police work is just busy work

[cantthinkofanything]

Even if everyone was a tip top athlete try doing that with a vest and pounds of gear on. This is just as impractical as saying Police should be trained to catch bullets with their teeth, but the good guys are always successful with in the movies right? I don't know why I even bother with reason and logic here...

LOL. equating practical self defense with catching bullets in your teeth. Yeah...that's the same as disarming someone with a knife. smh

[CosmicCowboy]

LOL. equating practical self defense with catching bullets in your teeth. Yeah...that's the same as disarming someone with a knife. smh

Just admit that is a dumb idea.

[cantthinkofanything]

Just admit that is a dumb idea.

teaching cops to use non-lethal methods of self defense? why is that dumb to you?

[CosmicCowboy]

teaching cops to use non-lethal methods of self defense? why is that dumb to you?

LOL Double Eagle Flying Kick

http://filmingcops.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/fat-cop.jpg

You want me to do WHAT?

[cantthinkofanything]

LOL Double Eagle Flying Kick

http://filmingcops.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/fat-cop.jpg

You want me to do WHAT?

:lol not saying I'm wrong tho

[cantthinkofanything]

but just because that guy is fat doesn't mean that he should be able to shoot someone because he's too out of shape.
maybe don't hire so many fat fucking cops. or at least just put em behind desks. sure don't put them up against the hood rats.

[CosmicCowboy]

but just because that guy is fat doesn't mean that he should be able to shoot someone because he's too out of shape.
maybe don't hire so many fat fucking cops. or at least just put em behind desks. sure don't put them up against the hood rats.

http://i.imgur.com/yKG3pxY.jpg

[cantthinkofanything]

^ exactly. Fat cop can handle non-threatening white jackass.

[spurraider21]

yep, fuck their quota and gratuitous detainings, arrests, friskings. NYPD went on a slow down 90% fewer everything, and NY didn't fall apart. A lot of police work is just busy work
But you're missing my entire point and just dodging the question. Let's say that cut arrests in half. Or even cut it to 5%

Even with those decreased numbers, my question stands. How you you think they should proceed to detain somebody who isn't being compliant

[boutons_deux]

But you're missing my entire point and just dodging the question. Let's say that cut arrests in half. Or even cut it to 5%

Even with those decreased numbers, my question stands. How you you think they should proceed to detain somebody who isn't being compliant

then they go into their standard brutality, choke holds, tasers, shoot 'em 10 times, at least, a full clip.

If they police really, truly put "to serve and protect" first, they'd also RE FUCKING TREAT, like Wilson getting in his car and backing away from DEMON, GRUNTING ANIMAL BROWN, or that cop being "charged" by domestic-dispute lady with knife, running out of the house. Both Brown and the lady would be alive, but police NEVER retreat, they KILL first.

[spurraider21]

You still can't answer the question :lol

How are you ever going to detain anybody if they aren't compliant? Retreating isn't getting you any closer to detainment

[boutons_deux]

You still can't answer the question :lol

How are you ever going to detain anybody if they aren't compliant? Retreating isn't getting you any closer to detainment

you still can't fucking read

[boutons_deux]

Florida PD uses mug shots of black men for target practice
http://media.salon.com/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-16-at-10.37.57-AM-620x412.png

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/16/florida_pd_uses_mug_shots_of_black_men_for_target_ practice/

[spurraider21]

you still can't fucking read
You never answered how you think they should proceed to detain somebody who isn't compliant.

[boutons_deux]

You never answered how you think they should proceed to detain somebody who isn't compliant.

I did answer "then they go into their standard brutality, choke holds, tasers, shoot 'em 10 times, at least, a full clip. demon n!gg@s are hard to kill"

[spurraider21]

I did answer "then they go into their standard brutality, choke holds, tasers, shoot 'em 10 times, at least, a full clip. demon n!gg@s are hard to kill"
ok. so this is how you think officers should work? because that's what i'm asking.

[boutons_deux]

ok. so this is how you think officers should work? because that's what i'm asking.

I told you, go read

I left out a tactic: get him on the ground prone, hand-cuffed, and with 6+ of your fellow awful-cers, beat the shit out of non-compliant victim, kidneys first until they pee blood for days, head for concussions, brain damage, joints, and of coursr, how could I forget, the over-sized demon black genitals, etc.

[spurraider21]

good to know you agree with police behavior in the mike brown and eric garner cases

[boutons_deux]

good to know you agree with police behavior in the mike brown and eric garner cases

no, I disagree 100%, both murders were 100% avoidable, but Black Lives Don't Matter to the police.

[spurraider21]

no, I disagree 100%, both murders were 100% avoidable, but Black Lives Don't Matter to the police.
those were homocides, not murders

[Blizzardwizard]

Garner was murdered. In my eyes at least. Yet some people deem choke-holding a man or shooting a man an efficient and necessary way to deal with somebody who 'isn't complying'.

[TheSanityAnnex]

then they go into their standard brutality, choke holds, tasers, shoot 'em 10 times, at least, a full clip.

If they police really, truly put "to serve and protect" first, they'd also RE FUCKING TREAT, like Wilson getting in his car and backing away from DEMON, GRUNTING ANIMAL BROWN, or that cop being "charged" by domestic-dispute lady with knife, running out of the house. Both Brown and the lady would be alive, but police NEVER retreat, they KILL first.
Police retreat all the time. Police killing citizens is lower than ever. Knife lady and Brown made poor decisions that justifiably cost them their lives.

[spurraider21]

Garner was murdered. In my eyes at least. Yet some people deem choke-holding a man or shooting a man an efficient and necessary way to deal with somebody who 'isn't complying'.
the choke was undeniably the incorrect way to go about it

[boutons_deux]

Police retreat all the time.

there's no national database of police killings, but you claim know all about police retreating? :lol

"justifiably" :lol No matter what cops do, TSA justifies it.

[Blake]

Garner was murdered. In my eyes at least. Yet some people deem choke-holding a man or shooting a man an efficient and necessary way to deal with somebody who 'isn't complying'.

Garner was the choke hold, right?

it's not murder because there was never any intent to kill. They need to do away with the choke hold though.

[TheSanityAnnex]

there's no national database of police killings, but you claim know all about police retreating? :lol

"justifiably" :lol No matter what cops do, TSA justifies it.

You are extremely ignorant if you think police don't retreat/de-escalate the majority of the time. If they didn't we'd be hearing about cops killing hundreds of people every day.
I don't care for cops, but the two examples you gave were poor ones for unnecessary use of force.

[boutons_deux]

You are extremely ignorant if you think police don't retreat/de-escalate the majority of the time. If they didn't we'd be hearing about cops killing hundreds of people every day.
I don't care for cops, but the two examples you gave were poor ones for unnecessary use of force.

If you don't have retreating FACTS, you're the dumbass

[TheSanityAnnex]

If you don't have retreating FACTS, you're the dumbass

The number of arrests to kill ratio is all I need to prove that cops act with restraint the majority of the time.

[boutons_deux]

The number of arrests to kill ratio is all I need to prove that cops act with restraint the majority of the time.

arrests is evidence of retreats? :lol

[boutons_deux]

White ‘survivalist’ gunman shoots black Oklahoma police chief 4 times — and walks free

The incident began with a 911 call around 4 a.m. on Thursday, said Sentinel Mayor Sam Dlugonski. A caller reported that a bomb had been planted in Sentinel Community Action Center, home of the local Head Start program.

The city contacted the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s bomb squad, which responded to the scene and found no evidence of explosives.

Chief Ross and deputies from the Washita County sheriff’s office traced the call to Horton’s residence on State Route 4. Officers entered the residence by breaking down the door.

Encountering no one in the first room they searched, Ross proceeded into a second bedroom, where Horton shot him four times.

Officers took Horton into custody, but said that they had “insufficient evidence” for an arrest. :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/white-survivalist-gunman-shoots-black-oklahoma-police-chief-4-times-and-walks-free/

... if Horton were black, he be dead from 10s of bullets.

[boutons_deux]

driving while black

Police In St. Louis County Admit They Beat Up The Wrong Young Black Man (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/17/3612876/police-beat-wrong-person/)http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/swink-638x415.jpg

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/17/3612876/police-beat-wrong-person/

[Trill Clinton]

White ‘survivalist’ gunman shoots black Oklahoma police chief 4 times — and walks free

The incident began with a 911 call around 4 a.m. on Thursday, said Sentinel Mayor Sam Dlugonski. A caller reported that a bomb had been planted in Sentinel Community Action Center, home of the local Head Start program.

The city contacted the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s bomb squad, which responded to the scene and found no evidence of explosives.

Chief Ross and deputies from the Washita County sheriff’s office traced the call to Horton’s residence on State Route 4. Officers entered the residence by breaking down the door.

Encountering no one in the first room they searched, Ross proceeded into a second bedroom, where Horton shot him four times.

Officers took Horton into custody, but said that they had “insufficient evidence” for an arrest. :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/white-survivalist-gunman-shoots-black-oklahoma-police-chief-4-times-and-walks-free/

... if Horton were black, he be dead from 10s of bullets.




shoot a cop multiple times after making online threats of violence and not be charged and given the weapon back. white privilege at work.

[Trill Clinton]

driving while black

Police In St. Louis County Admit They Beat Up The Wrong Young Black Man (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/17/3612876/police-beat-wrong-person/)

http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/swink-638x415.jpg

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/17/3612876/police-beat-wrong-person/


he shouldn't have ran away from his car, even thought it was full of smoke. he should have sat there with his hands on the steering wheel and waited for instructions from the police officers

[TheSanityAnnex]

White ‘survivalist’ gunman shoots black Oklahoma police chief 4 times — and walks free

The incident began with a 911 call around 4 a.m. on Thursday, said Sentinel Mayor Sam Dlugonski. A caller reported that a bomb had been planted in Sentinel Community Action Center, home of the local Head Start program.

The city contacted the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s bomb squad, which responded to the scene and found no evidence of explosives.

Chief Ross and deputies from the Washita County sheriff’s office traced the call to Horton’s residence on State Route 4. Officers entered the residence by breaking down the door.

Encountering no one in the first room they searched, Ross proceeded into a second bedroom, where Horton shot him four times.

Officers took Horton into custody, but said that they had “insufficient evidence” for an arrest. :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/white-survivalist-gunman-shoots-black-oklahoma-police-chief-4-times-and-walks-free/

... if Horton were black, he be dead from 10s of bullets.




I thought you opposed to no knock police entries without a warrant?

[cd021]

Garner was murdered. In my eyes at least. Yet some people deem choke-holding a man or shooting a man an efficient and necessary way to deal with somebody who 'isn't complying'.

He clearly was murdered. The cop puts him in a choke hold over a citation and after Garner loses consciousness, sarcastically, gives a thumbs up to the camera man (who was actually arrested).

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he shouldn't have ran away from his car

Agreed, because running away means the police punish the runner by beating the shit out of (black) runner. They NEVER retreat from that pretext. It's their main entertainment.

Even if the black guy were the "right" man, the police "shouldn't" beat him to a pulp. oops, "shouldn't" implies ethics, morals, norms, and clearly the police don't follow them.

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The Noise Machine That Quells Dissent

Police in a number of U.S. cities aren’t just tasering and tear-gassing protesters, they’re attacking their sense of hearing. The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), also called a “sound canon,” is a powerful, military-grade electronic megaphone that, in addition to broadcasting police commands, can be used to disperse crowds (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/02/business/la-fi-sound-cannon-20111202) with a chirping noise reaching 162 decibels, 42 decibels above the level that can cause immediate and permanent hearing damage (http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/AIS-Hearing-Loss-Types-Degree-Configuration.pdf).

It condenses the noise into an acoustic cone with an angle of 30 to 40 degrees in front of the machine, which can be mounted on a vehicle or held by hand.
The U.S. military has already used the device against enemy combatants whom soldiers wanted to keep at a distance without firing upon themduring the Iraq War (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/weapons/real-military-uses-for-all-that-ferguson-police-gear-17105149).The LRAD’s crowd dispersal function was employed by the New York City Police Department Dec. 4 and 5 at protests over the death of Eric Garner, who died last July in Staten Island after an officer applied a chokehold to him during an arrest. Several protesters are reported to have suffered hearing problems since, including ringing in the ears, but no one has lost their hearing, Elena Cohen, president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (http://www.nlg.org/), told Truthdig.

The legal advocacy group known as the National Lawyers Guild is worried about the NYPD’s use of the LRAD and has sent a letter (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1379007/new-york-police-are-asked-to-stop-using-lrad.pdf) to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton expressing concern. The letter also requests information on how much training officers have received in the use of the machine. In the letter the guild argues that, in addition to causing physical harm, the extreme noise from the device might violate First Amendment rights by dispersing legitimate public demonstrations.

“While the modern-day, commercially available LRADs used by the Department can indisputably be used as communication tools – perhaps even safely, under some limited circumstances – they are designed to perform crowd control and other functions - to modify behavior, and force compliance, by hurting people,”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_noise_machine_that_quells_dissent_20150120?utm _source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Dril ling+Beneath+the+Headlines

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New police radars can 'see' inside homes

http://imgur.com/JX425CX.png

At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies quietly deployed radars that let them effectively see inside homes, with little notice to the courts or the public.

At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.

Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house without first obtaining a search warrant.

The radars work like finely tuned motion detectors, using radio waves to zero in on movements as slight as human breathing from a distance of more than 50 feet. They can detect whether anyone is inside of a house, where they are and whether they are moving.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/

[spurraider21]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-04-02/news/chi-cop-charged-john-wrana-death-kass-20140402_1_john-wrana-craig-taylor-beanbag-rounds

:lmao of course the article wouldn't even mention that the officer was black, or even hint at a racial element

:cry racially fueled crime
:cry racist pigs

[Th'Pusher]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-04-02/news/chi-cop-charged-john-wrana-death-kass-20140402_1_john-wrana-craig-taylor-beanbag-rounds

:lmao of course the article wouldn't even mention that the officer was black, or even hint at a racial element

:cry racially fueled crime
:cry racist pigs

You know the officer was black because he was charged :lol

[Trill Clinton]

You know the officer was black because he was charged :lol

:lol

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plus the news from last week where the black police captain was shot 4 times by a white guy, the white guy wasn't charged for lack of evidence.

[spurraider21]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/29/oklahoma-cop-charged-sexual-assaults/14830063/

In contrast, here is a story where a white cop got charged. They have a picture of him and of course bring up the race of the victims




It's a disgusting act tbh but I'm merely pointing out how they are being reported

[TheSanityAnnex]

plus the news from last week where the black police captain was shot 4 times by a white guy, the white guy wasn't charged for lack of evidence.

You are so fucking stupid some times. The white guy wasn't charged because he didn't do anything wrong. The cops broke in to his house without a warrant, he had nothing to do with the bomb threat. You constantly rail against police breaking in without a warrant but since this guy was white and the officer was black you changed your agenda. You are a fraud.

http://fijione.tv/no-charges-after-oklahoma-police-chief-shot-four-times/

No charges have been filed against a man who shot the police chief of a small town in Oklahoma four times, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says. Sentinel Police Chief Louis Ross was shot Thursday morning after he entered a house looking for the person who allegedly phoned in a bomb threat to a Head Start center, CNN affiliate KFOR reported. Ross was shot by the man living in the house, KFOR said. The chief had just donned a protective vest, which is credited with saving his life, the OSBI said in a press release. His condition was not available Saturday night. “The man who shot and wounded the Sentinel police chief will not be arrested at this time,” the release said. “OSBI investigators have extensively interviewed the man. Facts surrounding the case lead agents to believe the man was unaware it was officers who made entry.” “We almost lost a good man,” Sentinel Mayor Sam Dlugonski told KFOR. Sentinel, population 900, is about 100 miles from Oklahoma City. The OSBI said somebody called 911 about 4 a.m. Thursday to report a bomb had been placed in the Head Start center. While a bomb squad searched the building and didn’t find any explosives, the chief and deputies went to the home where they thought the bomb threat originated, the OSBI said. “They made entry, cleared the first bedroom, started to clear the second bedroom, he opened fire on police and shot our chief three times in the chest and once in the arm,” Dlugonski told KFOR. The resident, who was not hurt, surrendered to police after the shooting. In a press release issued Friday, the OSBI said it had determined the bomb threat call did not originate from the man’s house. Dlugonski said the caller used the resident’s name, KFOR reported. KFOR reported that officers entered the house without a search warrant. One Sentinel resident said he understood why the shooting happened. “This is country, this ain’t Oklahoma City,” Jimmy Rhoades told KFOR. “You’re taught from a young age that if somebody comes into your house to shoot.” Ross was wearing a protective vest loaned to him by a Washita County deputy, the OSBI said. “The vest saved Ross’s life,” the OSBI said. - See more at: http://fijione.tv/no-charges-after-oklahoma-police-chief-shot-four-times/#sthash.pgRavZvE.dpuf

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turn it around

If the police chief had been white and shot 4 times by a black guy, would the black guy have walked free? fuck no.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Just stop you are embarrassing yourself. You have been wrong about it multiple times and can not keep moving the goalposts.