The Warrior cops are out of control

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SCOTUS Ruling on Police Brutality Eliminates Right to Due Process for Disabled Black Men

The officer refused to release Graham and Berry — and Graham’s “unreasonable” behavior began to escalate. He was becoming impatient and incoherent. His frustration level noticeably increased. Assuming that he was at risk of being harmed by at least one of the two irrational black men, the officer called for back-up.

In a state of panic and confusion, Graham got out of Berry’s car, ran around it twice, sat down on the curb, and passed out cold.

Seizures and loss of consciousness are also predictable symptoms of an escalating insulin reaction.

Rather than call for an ambulance, Connor called for back-up.

Four more officers arrived at the scene. Instead of medical assistance,

Graham’s fate was left in the hands of 5 white police officers that saw him as nothing more than a ed up black man.

One of them even had experience with diabetics.

His professional opinion guided what would happen next. Despite another friend arriving at the scene with juice for Graham, the back-up officer confirmed for Connor,

“I’ve seen a lot of people with sugar diabetes that never acted like this.

Ain’t nothing wrong with the mother er but drunk.

Lock the son-of-a- up.”

The officers rolled him over, cuffed him, lifted his unconscious body, and slammed his body on top of the cop car.

Dethorne Graham regained consciousness on the hood of the police vehicle and once again began pleading with the officers for orange juice.

He told the officers that he had a diabetic decal in his wallet that would prove his condition and confirm that he needed to counter an insulin reaction. He pleaded for assistance.

The officers told him to “shut up.”

Next, they lifted his body off of the police car and threw Mr. Graham into the backseat — headfirst — slamming his head into the doorframe.

Another friend of Graham and Berry arrived at the scene and also tried to explain to the officers what was happening to Mr. Graham. Convinced the black man was just a drunk criminal, they also told this person to “shut up” and awaited confirmation from the store that Mr. Graham should be taken to the precinct and jailed for the commission of a yet unknown crime.

Instead of releasing Graham, they insisted to driving him home themselves. When they reached their destination,

they grabbed the battered and half-conscious man in medical crisis and tossed him into his yard.

Mr. Graham sustained many injuries to his head and body, including a bruised forehead,

cuts on his wrists from his handcuffs, and

a broken foot.

He also sustained a blow that caused him permanent hearing damage.

Dethorne Graham filed suit against the officers that restrained him, broke his bones, and refused him aid.

The Courts Decide Who is Above the Law

42 USC 1983 stood in the way of the goals of both politically conservative and racially biased Republicans.

It would take a multi-part strategic effort to neutralize this policy and

re-energize law enforcement as a tool for the advancement of white nationalism and Confederate policies.

And this effort would only succeed under a conservative administration and a conservative Court.

SCOTUS used these cases as an opportunity to clarify the two types of immunity given to federal officials and other actors operating under the color of law. They are

absolute immunity and qualified immunity.

Through the case of Nixon v Fitzgerald (1982), the

Court affirmed that the president had absolute immunity from civil damages, and

that criminal damages were only recoverable through acts of Congress.

Through the case of Harlow vs. Fitzgerald, the Court affirmed that certain government officials enjoyed a more limited form of immunity called qualified immunity.

the ruling in Harlow repositioned

law enforcement as part of a protected class of state operatives

that were allowed to deny someone their rights — 

if they argued that it was unclear to them what they were doing was wrong.

And they did so by citing the language of the Fourth Amendment and due process.

SCOTUS held:

“…government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or cons utional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”

These two cases provided government officials and law enforcement with

protections that not only placed them above the law,

but places citizens in their presence below it.

The only thing that law enforcement officers were not allowed to do was violate clear rights of citizens.

The most commonly denied rights of minorities faced with excessive and deadly police force are

the 14th Amendment right to Equal Protections and

the 4th Amendment right to due process.

The legal strategy used to dismantle these protections

was to first assert that in cases brought to court under 42 USC 1983, the Court should use the test for due process under the fourth amendment

rather than analyzing the incident in the context of the test for equal protections under the 14th Amendment.

Once that was accomplished, they would

argue that due process claims should be analyzed in terms of “objective reasonableness” and not “due process.”

In doing so,

conservative legal strategist would be able

to effectively eliminate the 14th Amendment

by blocking it with the 4th Amendment.

Then, they would weaken the 4th Amendment to the point of neutralization.

In this way, they could render 42 USC 1983 completely useless and

undo 100 years of federal protections

from both police brutality and

the advancement of Confederate politics through armed local control.

It took them just a few years and

two Court rulings to get it done.

The first key ruling was issued by SCOTUS in the case of Tennessee v Garner. This case involved a police shooting that killed a 15-year-old unarmed black child named Edward Garner.

ruling effectively removed the legal standard that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty,

reinstated lynching as the rule of law, and

neutralized the ability for the federal government

to prevent law enforcement from acting as an extension of white supremacy or treason.

The case of Graham v. Connor also

gives police officers the right to use excessive and deadly force without legal consequence

on any of the 30 million people living with diabetes that may need assistance during a medical crisis.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on a black person that goes into a store but doesn’t make a purchase.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on any person living with physical or mental disabilities whose non-normative behaviors can be labeled abnormal and su ious in a court of law.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on individuals that are unarmed but holding an object.

It gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on a black man exercising his Second Amendment right to bear arms.

And it gives officers the right to use excessive and deadly force on any person of color or person with disabilities that may exhibit signs of nervousness in the face of armed law enforcement that had the power to take both their rights and their lives away.

Under the current interpretations of 42 USC 1983 and the 4th Amendment,

people of color,

people living with disabilities, and

anyone living outside of the constructs of

neo-Confederate and white nationalist meritocracy is suspect.

Because they are suspect,

they automatically hand over their rights under the 14th and 4th Amendments.

And because

they have no ability to prove their rights were violated,

they have no ability to secure a conviction under 42 USC 1983.

the police will be allowed to operate as an extension of not only white nationalism,

but the current expressions of white nationalism under Donald Trump and the far-right GOP.

Until our rights are restored in court,

the police can kill whoever they want.

And they can get away with it.

https://medium.com/@SIIPCampaigns/sc...n-3813b20d1283

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JeBo's intimidation, criminalization of dissent

Prosecutors Will Drop Remaining Cases Against Inauguration Day Protesters

The statement noted that 21 people pleaded guilty to "charges for their conduct that day, including one to felony offenses."

But prosecutors struggled to convict defendants in the cases that were brought to trial. The statement goes on to say that, in light of the results at trial, "the U.S. Attorney's Office has now moved to dismiss charges against the 38 remaining defendants in this matter."

"I think they finally realized that they had made a big mistake,"

"The
charges from the beginning were overly broad, and filed against far too many people,"

Michelman says.

More than 200 people were arrested and charged with felony rioting,

though many of those cases were dropped before going to trial.

While looking for evidence in some of those cases, the Justice Department issued a warrant demanding that the web hosting company DreamHost hand over all files related to a website used to plan protests called Disruptj20.org.

As NPR's Laurel Wamsley reported, a Washington, D.C. judge found that warrant to be overly broad, writing that

"while the government has the right to exercise its Warrant,

it does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the iden y of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity,

particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities."

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/62672...ay-riots?sc=tw

Defendents probably paid $1000s on legal fees

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Watch: Texas cop points gun at young children who taunt him during violent arrest of their friend




A police officer in El Paso, Texas was captured on video as he pointed his gun at a group of young children who taunted him as he made a violent arrest of their friend.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/wat...arrest-friend/

If he had shot a couple kids, no problem. Everybody there was "suspect" of "putting the cop in danger of his life" so no 4th, no 14th Amendment rights

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L.A. sheriff watchdogs alarmed about new claims of secret deputy clique at Compton station

allegations of a secret society of deputies that brands its members with matching skull tattoos.

a deputy admitted to getting inked two years ago as part of a ritual within the Compton station has raised concerns that

deputy cliques, long part of a controversial agency subculture, have persisted despite the department’s reform efforts.

The department has a long history of clandestine groups —

with names like the Regulators, Grim Reapers and Jump Out Boys —

that have been accused of promoting highly aggressive tactics and perpetuating a code of silence among members.

Nearly 30 years ago, a federal judge said

the Vikings club was a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...s=mcnewsletter

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This Disgusting Scheme to Enrich Cops by Starving Prisoners May Soon Be Scuttled

Alabama’s sheriffs have been getting rich off of prisoners for decades thanks to pre-World War II statutory language.

Alabama’s sheriffs have been getting rich off of prisoners for decades thanks to purportedly

ambiguous pre-World War II statutory language that lets them keep “excess” food funds.

With that distorted incentive to keep expenditures low, sheriffs have been subjecting prisoners to sustenance that ranges from unappetizing to inadequate to unsafe.

“This archaic system is based on a dubious interpretation of state law that has been rejected by two different Attorneys General of Alabama, who concluded that

the law merely allows sheriffs to manage the money and

use it for official purposes not to line their own pockets,”

“It also raises grave ethical concerns,

invites public corruption, and

creates a perverse incentive to spend as little as possible on feeding people who are in jail.”

Consider this statement from former

Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin, who misappropriated at least $750,000:

"The law says it's a personal account and that's the way I've always done it and that's the way the law reads and

that's the way I do business,"

[Entrekin] said in a phone interview Friday.

"That's the way the law's written."

Of course, Alabama sheriffs face another form of accountability: elections.

After news of his $750,000 grab—

and $740,000 beach house—broke,

Entrekin was voted out of office by a two-to-one margin.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...on-be-scuttled

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Pennsylvania man bulldozed to death for growing 10 marijuana plants

Getting caught growing a few pot plants in Pennsylvania could lead to a criminal charge and a likely sentence of probation, but for a Lehigh Valley man, it was a death sentence.

This past Monday, 51-year-old Gregory A. Longenecker was

found dead under a bulldozer operated by a state Game Commission worker and

carrying a state trooper hunting for two men spotted near a freshly-discovered marijuana grow.

“An attempt to hail the other male was unsuccessful,” cop poetry!

Confronted with a small-scale illicit marijuana grow on public land,

the State Police deployed a helicopter and the on-scene bulldozer and managed to kill their target.

But that’s not how the cops tried to spin it.

First, Trooper Boehm denied that Longenecker died as a result of a police pursuit.

Then he suggested that Longenecker may have died of natural causes.

But that attempted diversion was foiled on Tuesday when the preliminary autopsy report came out.

That report found that

Longenecker died of traumatic injuries after being run over by the bulldozer.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/pen...e+Raw+Story%29

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State prisons fail to offer cure to 144,000 inmates with deadly Hepa is C

The drug cost to cure Hepa is C can cost $90,000 per treatment. This why many states will deny treatment

Nationwide, roughly 97 percent of inmates with hepa is C are not getting the cure,

Advocates say this ignores a 1976 Supreme Court ruling that determined an inmate’s medical care is a cons utional right.

“Gilead provides public and private payers substantial discounts

and is committed to working with individual state departments of corrections to help ensure patients receive the treatments they need,”

Mark Snyder, public affairs director, wrote in an email.

it would “stand behind the pricing” of its antiviral drugs because it would pay off in the long run, compared to “the long-term costs associated with managing chronic HCV.”

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/15/sta...tis-c_partner/

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Judge orders L.A. Times to alter story about Glendale cop, sparking protest from newspaper

described a plea agreement between prosecutors and

a Glendale police detective accused of working with the Mexican Mafia,

a move the newspaper decried as highly unusual and uncons utional.

“We believe that once material is in the public record,

it is proper and appropriate to publish it if it is newsworthy,”

said Norman Pearlstine, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times.

the 1st Amendment includes a strong presumption against government actions that prevent someone from speaking or publishing information.

Judge Walter did not explain in his order the legal justification for demanding that The Times withdraw the article.

The detective, John Saro Balian, pleaded guilty on July 12 to three counts:

lying to federal investigators about his links to organized crime,

accepting a bribe and

obstructing justice by tipping off a top criminal target about an upcoming federal raid.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...s=mcnewsletter

Walter is Repug appointee, very probably way to the LEFT of the extremist rightwing assholes that Repugs a polluting Federal judiciary with now,

in their judicial coup d'etat

Tell us again how Federal district courts are not important

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News from Incarceration Nation

Defendants on Probation Can Be Jailed for Drug Relapse, Court Rules



Julie Eldred argued that requiring defendants to be drug-free as a condition for probation was cruel and unusual given her severe addiction. A Massachusetts court disagreed, but declined to rule on whether addiction is a brain disease that affects a person’s ability to comply with the requirement.Credit

The top Massachusetts court unanimously ruled on Monday that a judge can require defendants with substance use disorders to remain drug-free as a condition of probation and send them to jail if they relapse.

The case, which challenged a requirement routinely imposed by judges across the country, had been closely watched by prosecutors, drug courts and addiction medicine specialists.

For many, it represented a debate over the nature of addiction itself.
The defense argued that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that compromises an individual’s ability to abstain.

The prosecution maintained that addiction varies in intensity and that many individuals have the ability to overcome it and can be influenced by ins utional penalties and rewards, like incarceration or a cleared criminal record.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/health/addict-relapse-probation-jail.html

Moralistic, Christian, venal America would rather waste taxpayer $Bs on incarceration rather than mental/detox health care for addicts.

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Four years after he killed Eric Garner, NYPD officer is finally facing charges

Anyone who’s seen the video will never forget

Garner’s cries of “I can’t breathe.”

Those final words quickly became a Black Lives Matter rally cry for activists around the world,

Pantaleo faces two separate charges -- for use of a chokehold and for restricting the man's breathing, said an NYPD official with knowledge of the investigation.

Adonis, a supervisor and one of the first officers to respond, also faces departmental charges for alleged procedural infractions, city officials said.

The United States Department of Justice immediately issued a statement, claiming that the city was told months ago to pursue charges against Pantaleo and Adonis. The city denies this, and reached out to the DOJ to confirm the statement.

Only then were charges filed.

Both Pantaleo and Adonis remain employed by NYPD, though if found guilty, Pantaleo could face termination.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...detail=emailLL

I'll go WAY OUT on a limb here, both, (being cops they are 100% immune) will be acquitted, with hand slaps at most.

And what EMS shown standing immediately around Garner as he gurgled to death.

Were they under NYPD orders to let him die?

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TSA Has Been Secretly Monitoring Travelers Who Aren’t Listed On Government Watch Lists

Passengers added to the “Quiet Skies” program are tracked by air marshals, who write minute-by-minute reports about their behavior.

Federal air marshals have been secretly tracking dozens of American travelers each day who aren’t listed on government watch lists or suspected of a crime,

The Transportation Security Administration program, dubbed “Quiet Skies,”

has existed since 2010 as an effort

to mitigate the threat “posed by unknown or partially-known terrorists” after identifying people based

on their travel history or other criteria.

Air marshals then track such passengers and do ent their behavior

at airports and in-flight, including

how often they go to the bathroom,

how many hours they sleep,

if a traveler has “strong body odor” or

“wide open, staring eyes.”

the TSA tracks around 35 people every day. Which means thousands of Americans have been surveilled under the program since its inception.

TSA defended it in a statement to The Washington Post on Sunday, comparing the marshals to neighborhood law enforcement.

“We are no different than the cop on the corner who is placed there because there is an increased possibility that something might happen,” agency spokesman James Gregory told the Post.

“When you’re in a tube at 30,000 feet ... it makes sense to put someone there.” (that's not the problem)

“If that person does all that stuff, and the airplane lands safely and they move on, the behavior will be noted, but they will not be approached or apprehended,” (but I bet they will in the national Fusion databases)

Every American is automatically screened for the Quiet Skies program when he or she enters the country

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/quiet-skies-air-marshals_us_5b5e8897e4b0fd5c73d09f15?j25&utm_mediu m=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__073018&utm _content=__TheMorningEmail__073018+CID_8daef42e6fe 3f0cafc9a6d789e0d7d87&utm_source=Email%20marketing %20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnew s__TheMorningEmail__073018

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Prosecutors on Thursday officially dropped criminal charges against a former Las Vegas police officer in the death of an unarmed man on the Strip.

The dismissal follows an announcement by the Clark County district attorney’s office on Wednesday that it would stop pursuing charges in the case.

Last week, a grand jury decided not to indict former Metropolitan Police Department officer Kenneth Lopera in the death of 40-year-old Tashii Brown. Lopera was arrested last year, about a month after Brown’s May 14 death.

Surveillance video showed Lopera shocked Brown with a Taser seven times, punched him in the head repeatedly and put him in a chokehold for more than a minute. Brown would not have faced charges had he survived, police said.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...hokehold-case/


Pig Kenneth Lopera

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continued:

Still, civil rights groups are awaiting a full investigation into the death of 40-year-old Brown — who police said committed no crime that night but had a history of DUI convictions.
"We are on alert," Story said. "The situation is awful and tragic and we believe never should've happened, and we will see how the process plays out."
Just before 1 a.m., Brown approached Lopera and another officer at a coffee shop in the Venetian hotel casino. According to police, he appeared to be agitated and acting erratically. He told Lopera that people were chasing him.
Then Brown — also referred to as Tashii Farmer in police accounts — took off into an employees-only area of the hotel, and Lopera chased him. Once outside, Brown attempted to open a tailgate on an occupied truck before moving to the driver's side. Lopera shot him with a taser seven times.
On the video, Lopera yells for Brown to listen to his commands. Brown can be heard saying, "I will, I will," while on the ground. Lopera, aided by hotel security staff, continues to try to subdue Brown.
McMahill said Lopera struck Brown in the head with his fist several times before applying a "rear naked choke" — a banned technique in the police force — for about a minute.
He was pronounced dead at 1:39 a.m.
Tynisa Braun, a cousin of Brown who lives in Hawaii, said the family was distraught over his death.
Having a 21-year-old son, she said, she is on heightened alert with police.
"When you look at the news, there it is — an African-American getting shot," she said. "I'm always going to be afraid of what the police could do because of the color of our skin."
She said she wasn't sure why there hadn't been widespread protests over her cousin's death. She couldn't bring herself to watch the body camera video but blamed the death on a police officer who didn't appear to be trained in how to deal with someone who was mentally ill.
The ACLU and the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People have been pushing for years for the Police Department to eliminate an approved technique called the lateral vascular neck restraint, and were also troubled by the admission that Lopera used an incorrect version of it.
An investigator said the number of times Brown was tasered is also at issue.
"You heard on the body camera he's saying, 'Yes I'll comply,' and when he does try to roll over, he gets tasered," Sgt. Jerry MacDonald said. "Not a good choice by the officer, and I've got no problem saying that."
Roxann McCoy, president of the Las Vegas NAACP, said that kind of frankness was unheard of before the 2012 reforms.
"It was the wild, wild West here," she said. "It was open season on minorities."
Things came to a head for the department after two high-profile shootings and an investigation by the Las Vegas Review-Journal that highlighted the incidents.
The key event happened on June 11, 2010, when Officer Bryan Yant shot and killed 21-year-old Trevon Cole during a drug raid.
The attorney who represented Cole's family, Andre Lagomarsino, now represents the Brown family.
He said he was reluctant to call the Brown case a test of the 2012 reforms and was waiting to see whether charges are filed against the officer.
But William Sousa, a criminal justice professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said the reforms had created growing community trust in the force.
"The department did a lot since the DOJ reviewed them," he said. "They now have an ongoing review of use-of-force policy.… Police have become much more transparent; there's more emphasis on accountability to the community."
Except in rare cases, Las Vegas publicly releases police footage of controversial or deadly altercations involving officers, distinguishing the city from others that cite ongoing investigations or family privacy as reasons to keep videos shielded.
There have been other protests in Las Vegas over deaths of black men at the hands of police in high-profile incidents in Baton Rouge, La., and the St. Paul, Minn., area. But in interviews, locals who took part in those demonstrations said they had not yet planned any over Brown's death.
"Police definitely mishandled this," said Samantha Robinson, a 25-year-old travel coordinator who moved to the city in 2015 and organized a rally of 50 demonstrators on the Strip last year in response to police shootings in other states. "Now they better show us they will do us right."
Montero reported from Las Vegas and Kaleem reported from Los Angeles.
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Jaweed Kaleem is the national race and justice correspondent at the Los Angeles Times, where he writes about how race and ethnicity shape our evolving understanding of what it means to be American. He frequently reports on policing, civil rights, immigration, prisons and religion, among other subjects. At The Times, his reporting has taken him to Virginia to write about controversies over Confederate monuments, Texas to tell the story of the nation's only Spanish-speaking mosque, Montana to cover debates over refugee resettlement, and Michigan to explore the rise of black police chiefs. Before joining The Times, Kaleem was the senior religion reporter at HuffPost for five years. From 2007-11, he was a reporter for the Miami Herald. He attended Emerson College in Boston and grew up in Northern Virginia.

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The police are immune, can ing do anything, and SCOTUS has granted Cons utional immunity.

[Fabbs]

Can't wait to hear the Police Union liarwyers spin this one.

A Detroit police officer has been suspended with pay after a bystander's video showed him punching a possibly mentally ill woman at least 10 times at a hospital, the police chief said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/de...n=true#image=1

Hmmn actually the defense liarwyer will have something to work with: When the woman -- who has not been named -- arrived at the hospital she became agitated and took off the robe, Craig said. She spat on hospital employees, bit a security staffer twice, and tried to bite the officer who later repeatedly punched her, Craig said.

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Ninth Circuit: Border Patrol Agents Can’t Shoot Mexican Citizens Across the Border for No Reason

Taking all of the facts in the case as true, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that an on-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a 16-year-old boy, whom the agent gunned down.

Swartz’s argument that when he fired a dozen or more bullets across the border at J.A. without warning or provocation,

it was not clearly established that he couldn’t shoot someone on the other side of the border.

“Qualified immunity exists to protect mistaken but reasonable decisions, not purposeful criminal conduct,” Judge Kleinfeld wrote.

“We are unable to imagine a serious argument that a federal agent might not have known that it was unlawful to shoot people in Mexico for no reason.”

https://rewire.news/article/2018/08/...for-no-reason/

Trash's Schutzstaffel loses one, but his radicalized SS brutes win 1000s times more often.

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JeBo Sessions doesn’t want Americans to read these 24 government do ents anymore


Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinds “24 Guidance Do ents,” the DOJ’s 4pm press release said, adding that Sessions was “rescinding 24 guidance do ents that were

unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.”

Sessions blamed “previous administrations,”

for trying to “impose new rules on the American people

without any public notice or comment period, simply by sending a letter or posting a guidance do ent on a website.”

these do ents provide guidance to homeowners, school admissions offices, law enforcement, and small businesses. They include an explanation of what a Supreme Court decision on racial diversity means to schools, an informal guide to preventing employment discrimination, and even a mortgage guide for homebuyers that encourages them to “shop, compare, negotiate!” The first seven refer to how juveniles should be treated by courts and in detention facilities.
This isn’t the first time Sessions has deleted guidelines issued by previous justice departments. Last December,

he purged a trove of legal advice including a Ronald Reagan-era notice

saying it was illegal to ship certain guns across state lines, part of his stated policy to purge what Sessions called “defacto regulations.”

https://qz.com/1320612/jeff-sessions...ments-anymore/

JeBo right up there, will probably take top spot eventually as WORST fucing Repug AG, worse the corrupt Meese, St Ronnie's brutal enforcer.

[Trill Clinton]

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yep, police culture, ins utional racism

black cops got good jobs, good pay, union benefits, pensions, and operate with impunity behind the Blue Wall.

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THE OUTRAGEOUS SCAM OF “FREE” TABLETS FOR THE INCARCERATED

The devices are little more than an exorbitant paywall for education and communication.

Since 2016, prison telecommunications companies like JPay and Global Tel Link have been

giving out thousands of free tablets to inmates in several states,

including New York, Florida, Missouri, Indiana, Connecticut, and Georgia.

While the tablets are marketed as ways to let inmates educate themselves, prepare to re-enter the workforce, and communicate with their loved ones, the economics behind what has become a free-tablet imbroglio suggest that in some cases

the operation is no more than a money grab for every player in the chain, from state governments to the distributors.

the prices are eye-raising for anyone, but especially for people earning 40 cents, $2 a day.”

gave out 52,000 free tablets in February 2018. By 2022, it expects to make all of that money back plus $9 million in profit,

JPay charges an additional $4.15 service fee to transfer $20 from the outside to an inmate.

Sending one email costs $.35, double that to include a photo, and quadruple to include a video.

A song can cost up to $2.50,

and an album can be — somewhat inexplicably — as much as $46.

Chat with a loved one? That’ll be $18 per hour.

But even these prices fluctuate during busy seasons. For instance, WIREDreported that

the price of an email might increase from $.35 to $.47 around Mother’s Day, when inmates most want to communicate with loved ones.

https://theoutline.com/post/5760/fre...=3&zi=fh2j6zb6

Just another way America, American so-called business, brutalizes Americans.

[Fabbs]

dk where the post went.

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Here's how California became the most secretive state on police misconduct

In the 1970s, Los Angeles police officers were furious that past complaints against them increasingly were making their way into court cases.


So LAPD officials did something radical: They took more than four tons of personnel records dating to the 1940s and shredded them.

That decision resulted in the dismissal of more than 100 criminal cases involving officers accused of wrongdoing whose records had been purged, sparking public outrage.

The Legislature responded by passing a law that ensured officer discipline records would be preserved —

but also made it nearly impossible for anyone to learn about them.

The action, driven by police unions, began a decades-long process that has made California the strictest state in the nation when it comes to protecting police confidentiality.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-california-police-discipline-secret-20180815-story.html#

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lol at being an idiot, getting in the cop's face, and then slappin his hand away

but cop was pounding on him and the dude wasn't fighting back at all (at least not after the 10 sec mark), but he kept going. he should def be disciplined

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Court Says CBP Likely Violating First Amendment By Forbidding Photography Of Publicly-Viewable Border Crossings


The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a decision forbidding the photography of CBP officers at border crossings.

The CBP seems to have a problem respecting the First Amendment rights (along with several other rights) of American citizens when engaged in its border patrolling and protecting.

This same appeals court recently allowed the heavily-harassed citizens of an Arizona border town to move forward with their First Amendment lawsuit against the agency,

ruling that the CBP acted arbitrarily when dealing with protesters and activists do enting checkpoint activity.

The record clearly showed the CBP removed people it didn't like from its imaginary zone of exclusion

while allowing other random citizens more aligned with the CBP's open harassment of American citizens to venture inside the ad hoc DMZ to harass citizens do enting harassment.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180814/17262740432/court-says-cbp-likely-violating-first-amendment-forbidding-photography-publicly-viewable-border-crossings.shtml

The liberal Ninth Circuit has several open slots and Trash/Federalist is going to fill them with the nastiest rightwing judges. "some ask" why he hasn't attacked the N/C already.

Trash's so-called judges will allow Trash's Schutzstaffel to run wild.

[Trill Clinton]