The Warrior cops are out of control

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Police will not face charges in Pasco shooting death of Mexican man

Three police officers in Washington state who shot and killed a Mexican man earlier this year during a controversial encounter that was captured on cellphone video will not face criminal charges.

Franklin County prosecutor Shawn Sant decided Pasco police officers Ryan Flanagan, Adam Wright and Adrian Alaniz should not be prosecuted for the death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes on 10 February, attorneys for his parents told the Guardian.

“The officers used lethal force to prevent injury to themselves and others,” said Sant, who described the shooting as “reasonable under the standards established in our state laws” and lacking in malice.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ambrano-montes

[Trill Clinton]

Police will not face charges in Pasco shooting death of Mexican man

Three police officers in Washington state who shot and killed a Mexican man earlier this year during a controversial encounter that was captured on cellphone video will not face criminal charges.

Franklin County prosecutor Shawn Sant decided Pasco police officers Ryan Flanagan, Adam Wright and Adrian Alaniz should not be prosecuted for the death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes on 10 February, attorneys for his parents told the Guardian.

“The officers used lethal force to prevent injury to themselves and others,” said Sant, who described the shooting as “reasonable under the standards established in our state laws” and lacking in malice.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ambrano-montes

smh anybody who isn't a white supremacist coward can see that was excessive force relative to the threat. but according to state laws, the officers were in the right to gun down a suspect with no weapon in broad daylight. this is sickening. anybody who had a hand in these officers getting away with this deserves an eternity in .

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[ChumpDumper]

There's a war on cops, Trill. He groped her in self-defense and that hotel had a hoodie in one of its rooms.

[Trill Clinton]

There's a war on cops, Trill. He groped her in self-defense and that hotel had a hoodie in one of its rooms.

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Surveillance footage released of ex-tennis pro James Blake's NYC arrest

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...911-story.html

[djohn2oo8]

Surveillance footage released of ex-tennis pro James Blake's NYC arrest

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...911-story.html

Clipper Nation

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Mistrial for Alabama police officer who threw Indian man to the ground





A jury in Huntsville, Alabama deadlocked on whether to convict or acquit him of a single charge of depriving an Indian grandfather of his civil rights,

If convicted, Parker would have faced up to 10 years in prison.

Patel is not expected to fully recover from the injuries he sustained when Parker abruptly flipped him onto the ground

Parker said he was following his training and felt he had no other option

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/mist...e+Raw+Story%29

"Yes, yes, it wasn't me, I, robot, blame it on my training. The ONLY ACTION was to destroy this old man's health, really!"

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So a cop can't throw semen on a co worker anymore? ClipperNation was right

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Surveillance footage released of ex-tennis pro James Blake's NYC arrest

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...911-story.html

Cop who tackled tennis star James Blake has a history of violence and racism against black men

e New York undercover officer who failed to identify himself before tacking and handcuffing tennis star James Blake while he waited outside a hotel has an extensive history of complaints filed against him during his brief time on the force, reports the New York Times.

Officer James Frascatore, who has only been with the NYPD for four years, yet has racked up five civilian complaints in just seven months, with two excessive-force lawsuits filed against the city due to his actions. Previous to his employment by the NYPD, Frascatore was a police officer in Florida.

Fracatore’s assault on Blake, based upon mistaken iden y, has drawn criticism from Mayor Bill de Blasio to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton who said that the department was not aware of the incident until Blake called their attention to it because Frascatore co=vered it up in his report.

The officer, who is on a career track to become a detective, has been placed on desk duty and had his gun and badge pulled after police authorities viewed surveillance video from the hotel.

According to the New York Post, Frascatore is included in a lawsuit stating he “sadistically and maliciously” beat Warren Diggs outside his home in 2013.

In an interview, Diggs said Frascatore was the first to punch him, saying, “This guy needed to go a long time ago . . . He likes putting his hands on people,” before adding , “Hopefully, [Blake’s] in a better position to do something about it so that he won’t be able to get away with it anymore.”

Stefon Luckey, who has an $5 million suit against Frascatore and several other cops pending, claims the officer punched him twice in the stomach and called him a “f- -king n- - - -r,” after he was racially profiled outside of a Queens deli in May 2013.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/cop-...e+Raw+Story%29

Will NYPD purge the force of a Bad Cop, or ... ?

[Trill Clinton]

Sheesh! This cop is going to cost the city close to $12m with all these lawsuits.

I wonder if nypd will take the Baltimore pd route and go on strike and say they can't do their jobs in fear of public backlash.

[Trill Clinton]

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The Rise of the Machines (covers for the lessness of the cops)

Drone policing in US seen as 'Wild West'

Drones are increasingly making their mark in the arsenal of US police forces, operating in a legalgray area and sparking concerns of constant surveillance of civilians.

The specter of armed drones surfaced with a law passed in North Dakota last month that allowspolice to equip the aircraft with teargas."It's still a bit of a Wild West," said American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) policy analyst JayStanley.

Since 2012, government agencies can use small drones—weighing less than 55 pounds, or 25kilograms—under certain conditions and after obtaining a certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.

But the FAA, which is preparing small drone regulations, does not have authority on privacy protection and there is no specific framework on the issue on a national level.

Up to two dozen police forces are currently fully equipped with drones and trained to use them, ncluding pioneers Grand Forks in North Dakota; Arlington, Texas; Mesa County, Colorado and theUtah Highway Patrol.

Mass surveillance

According to the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, at least 60 police forces acrossthe country—from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama, North Little Rock, Arkansas, and MiamiDadeCounty—have asked for drone certification.

The FBI also uses drones for specific missions.Through the drones, law enforcement gets a bird's eye view of accident and crime scenes, can searchfor suspects or missing people and obtain tactical information when, for example, a dangeroussuspect has barricaded himself.A drone hovers over a police vehicle near a simulated accident scene with a chemicalspill during a demonstration at Virginia Tech, August 13, 2014 in Blacksburg, Virginia

The unmanned aircraft cost police $15,000 to $50,000, far less than the $500,000 to $3 million ahelicopter can fetch.

Some cities, like San Jose, California, only have pilot programs. Others such as Seattle, Washington,bought drones and then gave up on the program in the face of public outcry.Many government agencies "are just waiting to see how things settle down and waiting to see furtherdevelopment of these systems," said Philip Finnegan of the Teal Group aerospace and defenseconsulting company.

"For a lot of them, it's not worth the political risk."He predicted that the commercial market will take off within five years as the public growsincreasingly comfortable with drones and law enforcement uses them more.

Rights groups are not opposed to drones as such but rather are concerned that some law enforcementagencies will use them for constant surveillance of the population.

"Without proper regulation, drones equipped with facial recognition software, infrared technologyand speakers capable of monitoring personal conversations would cause unprecedented invasions ofour privacy rights," the ACLU said."Interconnected drones could enable mass tracking of vehicles and people in wide areas," it added.

Tiny drones could go completely unnoticed while peering into the window of a home or place ofworship.

"The Electronic Privacy Information Center, for one, is calling for a warrant before each police droneflight."When you see what the FBI has been wanting to do with the Stingray technology, that's verytroubling," said Patrick Eddington of the Cato Ins ute, referring to phone trackers.Critics are also concerned about wasted public funds.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for example, bought $600,000 worth ofdrones without ever using them.

Customs and Border Protection meanwhile froze its purchase program after one of its large Predator military drones—with a price tag of $12 million a piece—crashed.

But if Grand Forks police are seeking to equip their drones with tear gas, it's an isolated case for now.

"There's a consensus that it's a bad idea," Stanley said about installing weapons, even non*lethal ones,on drones.

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-drone-p...wild-west.html

The Greatest Threat to America is America Itself, as its democracy is perverted by the 1% and BigCorp, and rule of law (that governs the govt) collapses.

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Obese, soft cops think shaving their heads make them look like hard asses.

Ex-cop charged with threatening officials in Fox Lake officer shooting case



Former Chicago police Officer Joseph Battaglia, of southwest suburban Oak Lawn, was charged Sunday with two counts of disorderly conduct after threats were made to harm two key officials investigating the death of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, officials said.

The 54-year-old Battaglia, who is being held in the Lake County Jail after being assigned a $100,000 bond, is accused of calling Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd's office Friday and threatening Rudd and George Filenko, who heads the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, officials said.

Battaglia described himself as a retired police officer. He was denied a public defender because of his police pension, the judge said.

Battaglia allegedly threatened to harm Rudd and Filenko unless they declare Gliniewicz's death a suicide.

According to a news release Sunday morning from the Lake County sheriff's office, someone called the coroner's office at 2 p.m. Friday, blocking the phone number so caller identification would not work. The caller said he was a "retired police officer" and made threats against "all of the Task Force members" and others investigating the Gliniewicz death unless that death was declared a suicide.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...913-story.html

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Oklahoma cop breaks man’s face and charges him with assault for no apparent reason





An Oklahoma man suffered a broken nose and other injuries — but was charged with assault — when a police officer punched him during an arrest.

Chris Barger said he dropped off a friend at an apartment complex Sept. 7 in Purcell when a police officer approached and shined a flashlight into his car, reported KFOR-TV.

“He begins to shine his light in my car window repeatedly, and after a while, I decided maybe I should get out of the vehicle and ask the officer what the problem is,” Barger said.

Barger got out of the car with one hand in his pocket, and a witness said the officer charged him and began punching.

“I saw the guy get out of the car, walk toward the officer a little bit and stopped,” the witness said. “There was a little distance between them, and I saw the officer rush him.”

The police report shows Barger raised his hands after the officer pointed his gun at him, but Barger and the witness both said the officer charged toward him and placed him in a headlock.

“By the time he threw me on the ground and hit me a couple times with his elbow, at that point, I was like, ‘This isn’t a police officer — this is just some guy here to kill me,’” Barger said.
The witness said Barger screamed for help as the officer repeatedly punched him.

“They were on the ground for a good two or three minutes, and the guy was screaming, ‘Somebody help me, somebody help me, I don’t know why you’re doing this,’” the witness said.

The police report shows Barger knocked the officer’s glasses off during the altercation, and he was charged with assault on a police officer.

Prosecutors, however, dropped that charge but filed a misdemeanor obstruction of justice charge in its place. good ol' prosecutors!

He had been wanted on an outstanding warrant related to an unpaid traffic ticket, which he resolved after his arrest.

Barger plans to file a complaint against the officer, whose name has not been released.

The police chief said last week he had not spoken with the officer but defended his actions during the incident.

Barger said his cellmates helped tend to his injuries, which included several facial injuries, after he was taken to jail.

“They brought me chairs and helped me sit down,” Barger said. “They were better than the police were to me. It’s not the way it’s supposed to be. The police are supposed to be the good guys.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/okla...e+Raw+Story%29

[Trill Clinton]

damn shame

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Cook County prosecutor fired over alleged perjury in cop shooting case

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...914-story.html

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Nice White Dad Hogtied By Police Didn’t Die Of LSD Overdose, What A Shock




We have a quick Wonk update on a bizarre story we brought you in July, of a nice white dad, Troy Goode, who went to a Widespread Panic concert in Mississippi with his wife and mysteriously died hours later in custody of the Southaven Police Department (hey, weren’t we JUST talking about them?), after being hogtied and otherwise abused by officers, according to eyewitness reports. Goode was taken to the hospital, and his wife was threatened with arrest if she dared show up at the hospital to see if maybe her husband was dying.

At the time, Southaven police chief Tom Long said that Goode had been “acting erratically from an alleged LSD overdose,” so maybe that’s why he died.

As we science-splained at the time, dying from LSD overdose is not actually a thing that happens.

According to Desoto County District Attorney John Champion, a preliminary autopsy (that reporters didn’t get to see, how strange!) showed Goode had died from some heart or lung something or another, or maybe more specifically, it was a heart attack.

All he reckons is that the cops didn’t have anything to do with this healthy 31-year-old guy suddenly dying in police custody, heck nope, that is UNPOSSIBLE.

http://wonkette.com/593920/nice-white-dad-hogtied-by-police-didnt-die-of-lsd-overdose-what-a-shock

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She's a Banker, Owns a BMW and Obama Follows Her on Twitter: But NY Cops Still Threw Innocent Black Woman into Mental Hospital

And then charged her $13k for her trouble.

Trapped within a Kafkaesque nightmare, Kamilah Brock endured eight days in a mental hospital with forced injections after NYPD officers refused to believe that she was a banker who owned a BMW. Stripped of her clothes and her dignity, Brock was suddenly released without explanation and slapped with a medical bill that exceeds $13,000. She has filed a lawsuit against the city for violating her cons utional rights and described her ordeal during an on-camera interview on Thursday.

According to her lawsuit, Brock had been driving her 2003 BMW 325Ci in Harlem when she stopped at a red light on September 12, 2014. An NYPD officer approached her car and asked Brock why her hands weren’t on the steering wheel.

“I said I was dancing, I am at a light,” Brock told PIX11. “He asked me to get out of the car.”

Police claim that Brock had been acting irrational, speaking inconsistently, and ran into the middle of traffic. But according to Brock’s attorney, Michael Lamonsoff, the NYPD seized her car because they suspected she was high on marijuana. Although the police did not find any drugs, they confiscated her BMW and took her into custody.

After being detained at NYPD’s 30th Precinct for a few hours, Brock was released without charges. When she asked for her car, officers told her to return the next day to claim it at a substation. Instead of giving Brock her car back the following day, NYPD cops refused to believe that she owned a BMW and placed her in handcuffs before calling for an ambulance.

“Next thing you know, the police held onto me, the doctor stuck me with a needle and I was knocked out,” Brock told NY Daily News. “I woke up to them taking off my underwear and then went out again. I woke up the next day in a hospital robe.”

Brock woke up inside the Harlem Hospital psychiatric ward. For eight days, doctors and medical staff repeatedly injected Brock with sedatives and forced her to take lorazepam and lithium after misdiagnosing her as bipolar and delusional. According to medical records, doctors also repeatedly attempted to coerce her into denying she owned a BMW, was a banker, and has President Barack Obama as a follower on Twitter.

But according to her lawsuit, Brock does own a BMW. She has worked at Citibank, Chase, and Astoria Bank. And the 32-year-old black woman with no history of mental illness actually does have President Obama as a follower on Twitter.

After eight days, doctors released Brock without giving her any explanation. She received a hospital bill for $13,637.10 even though Brock was misdiagnosed and held there against her will. Earlier this year, she filed a lawsuit against the city of New York, the unidentified police officers, and Harlem Hospital for violating her cons utional rights under the Fourth and 14th Amendments.

Given the fact that cops have the legal authority to shoot unarmed people, conduct body cavity searches without reasonable su ion, detain journalists, and choke suspects to death, apparently throwing sane people into psych wards can now be added to the list.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...threw-innocent

http://m.snopes.com/2015/09/14/kam-brock-nypd-incident/

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Money Isn't the Only Reason Why Police Have Ignored 80,000 Rape Kits


The nearly 80,000 rape kits taken from sexual assault victims that have gone untested for so long haven’t just been ignored for financial reasons. Yes, local police departments sometimes lack resources - but what too many are also missing is the ability to treat victims of sexual violence with respect.

After years of sitting on dusty shelves - shamefully ignored by police departments across the country - tens of thousands of rape kits will finally be tested. On 10 September, Vice President Joe Biden and New York City District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced a $79m initiative to start to whittle down the backlog.

it wasn’t just “chronic resource depletion” that led to the backlog - but “police treating victims in dehumanizing ways.”

“[L]aw enforcement personnel regularly expressed negative, stereotyping beliefs about sexual assault victims. Victims who were assumed to be pros utes were considered to be at fault for what had happened to them.

Adolescents were often assumed to be lying, trying to avoid getting into trouble with their families by concocting a false story about being raped. Friends/acquaintances had got‐what‐they‐got because they had chosen to associate with the perpetrator.

The fact that all of these victims had endured a lengthy, invasive medical forensic exam seemed to carry little to no weight.”

rape victims have long complained about terrible treatment at the hands of police and the criminal justice system, and we know that rapists overwhelmingly go unpunished in the United States.

“Because few law enforcement officers and prosecutors are educated about the way victims behave in traumatic situations, their at ude toward victims is often disbelief and disdain,”

http://www.alternet.org/gender/money...ter1042449&t=6

Cops are a rape victim's best friend

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After Watching These Cops Bully an Innocent Combat Vet, You’ll Know Why People are Upset with Cops


The two men said they were simply sitting on a curb outside of a cellphone store after business hours, waiting for a ride, when approached by the officer.

When one of the men tells the cop that she needs to “follow the law.” The officer seemingly takes this comment as a personal affront.\

Considering that at that instant she has already ascertained that these men were sitting on the curb as they waited for a ride, there should be no reason to continue with the investigative stop. But, as is all too common the case, this officer’s ego has taken over, and she has decided to show theses men who has the “authority.”

While the officer’s initial reasoning for the contact is valid, once ascertaining that the men were simply waiting to be picked up, the situation should have been a non-incident.

As we all too typically see in these types of situations, rather than accept that these men were simply sitting waiting for a ride, the officer decided to escalate the incident.

The video, https://www.facebook.com/dexjones/vi...2940517221568/ recorded by one of the men, begins only minutes after the initial contact by the officer and runs for a few minutes after.

“He was like, ‘No, you’re not a vet. You’re a punk. You’re a (expletive), you’re a coward,'” Niblak said.

The video shows Niblak being thrown to the ground and cuffed by cops after complaining that he felt he was being racially profiled.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...er1042471&t=18

... and you cop-sucking racists go wild, with your War on Cops bull to cover over the War on (black) Citizens.

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Seattle police officer fired over arrest of elderly black man with golf club


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...e=domesticNews

[Trill Clinton]

everything aint about race

blacks need to stop pulling the race card

its okay for whites to use the race card, though

[Trill Clinton]

Ahmed Mohamed, a 9th grader in Irving, Texas is an engineering whiz. For fun, he makes workable gadgets and rudimentary electronics. Basically, he is what we dream an American 9th grader will be in 2015 as our nation lags behind the world in math and science education. Wanting to show his engineering teacher what he was capable of, he brought a homemade electronic clock to the school.What should've been a beautiful moment of congratulatory pride, quickly turned into a full fledged nightmare for Ahmed. His English teacher, who decided the clock looked like a bomb, notified the principal, who called campus police, who called the county police, who interrogated Ahmed, arrested him on the spot and took him to jail.
Mind you—he's a 9th grader in a NASA shirt and the clock, which anyone could see was not attached to any explosives of any kind, was harmless. He never pretended it was a bomb, never told anyone it was a bomb. It was a clock.
But, as you can see, he's not white and his name isn't Tommy Anderson, so an engineering wonder is interpreted to be a threat to national security.
This entire story is an absolutely de able case of Islamaphobia and will forever impact this young man's life. Below, hear Ahmed in his own words and see a picture that was snapped when he was arrested and put in handcuffs at the school.

[Trill Clinton]