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2015 shaping up to be a great year for the cops. Beating the out of citizens and getting paid vacations and murdering people and failing to be indicted while making a cool profit from crowd funding's.
but...but ...
#bluelivesmatter
hmmmm indeed
2015 shaping up to be a great year for the cops. Beating the out of citizens and getting paid vacations and murdering people and failing to be indicted while making a cool profit from crowd funding's.
but...but ...
#bluelivesmatter
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...1.html?hp=t4_rI call it “testi-lying.” It has been a regular practice in police forces across the United States, at least since I served on the NYPD: official testimony that is made part of a police after-action report but is a pure lie, an invention. In the old days police would carry a “drop gun” or a “drop knife”—an inexpensive weapon cops would bring along on patrol to drop onto or next to a suspect they had taken out so they could say he had threatened them. Today you don’t even need to do that; all you have to do to justify the use of deadly force if you are a police officer is to say that you feared for your life, for whatever reason. If the victim dies, that just means there will be one less witness around to contradict the testi-lie.
In the case of former Officer Michael Slager of the North Charleston police, it appears he was being extra-careful to cover his tracks. Probably he could have gotten away with simply declaring, as he did in his radioed report, that Walter Scott “took my Taser,” and in the after-action report he would have said simply that he had felt threatened by Scott. That probably would have sufficed to exonerate him. But Slager, having shot Scott eight times in the back—as everyone can plainly see in the now-famous video—perhaps felt that he needed a little help explaining what he was up to. So he apparently dropped his Taser next to Scott’s body, which would obviously help to make the case that Scott “took my Taser.”
If you think that what happened in North Charleston is a unique case, it is not. Only recently, in another case, a policewoman in Pennsylvania first Tasered a black man, then shot him twice in the back as he lay face down in the snow. She was chasing him for an expired parking sticker. There were five seconds between shots. She said she feared for her life. It was captured on her own Taser camera.
I’ve been saying this for a long time, ever since I spoke before the Knapp Commission investigating corruption in the NYPD more than 40 years ago: Unless we create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around, the system will never change. Unless honesty is rewarded more often than corruption, the police will lose credibility altogether. I wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton in 1994 addressing this very issue, saying that honest cops have never been rewarded, and maybe there ought to be a medal for them. He wrote back, but nothing changed.
Now, in the era of citizen videotaping, police credibility is at stake as never before. If enough testi-lying is uncovered, then who is going to believe the police even when they are telling the truth? They will be seen as crying wolf.
Until now, the shoot-first-in-fear-of-my-life mantra has eliminated any cause for concern in the taking of life by police. When a civilian commits a crime, every nuance is looked at, the better to “throw the book at” the suspect. When cops err, it is the opposite reaction. Eyes are averted, aggravating cir stances are ignored. And now the public is learning about this every time a new videotape emerges that undermines the official police story.
You guys believe in good cops?
well i mean on 9/11 most of the people that dies were people with jobs
everybody in the WTC had jobs
I tend to stay away from all inclusive terms without sufficient knowledge on the subject
how many unemployed, unbadged, maybe even undo ented blacks could get past WTC security that, or any, morning?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/12/us/tul...deo/index.html
73 Y.O reverse sheriff kills suspect after mistakenly using handgun instead of taser. Gets suspension
"Harris, who is bleeding, calls out, too. He's losing his breath, he says. An officer yells back at him. "You ing ran! Shut the up!" he yells. " your breath."
The group of officers begin tugging Harris' hands behind his back as the video ends."
That was said to him after he was laying on the ground, dying, after being shot.
police dominant priority: if you're black and run, if you're black and we "SAY" you resisted (or back talked), we EXECUTE you immediately, and the Blue Wall closes.
Thousands dead, few prosecuted
Among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since 2005, only 54 officers have been charged, a Post analysis found. Most were cleared or acquitted in the cases that have been resolved.
Brackney is among 54 officers charged over the past decade for fatally shooting someone while on duty, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and researchers at Bowling Green State University. This analysis, based on a wide range of public records and interviews with law enforcement, judicial and other legal experts, sought to identify for the first time every officer who faced charges* for such shootings since 2005. These represent a small fraction of the thousands of fatal police shootings that have occurred across the country in that time.
In an overwhelming majority of the cases where an officer was charged, the person killed was unarmed. But it usually took more than that.
When prosecutors pressed charges, The Post analysis found, there were typically other factors that made the case exceptional, including: a victim shot in the back, a video recording of the incident, incriminating testimony from other officers or allegations of a coverup.
“To charge an officer in a fatal shooting, it takes something so egregious, so over the top that it cannot be explained in any rational way,” said Philip M. Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green who studies arrests of police. “It also has to be a case that prosecutors are willing to hang their reputation on.”
But even in these most extreme instances, the majority of the officers whose cases have been resolved have not been convicted,
Among the officers charged since 2005 for fatal shootings, more than three-quarters were white. Two-thirds of their victims were minorities, all but two of them black.
Nearly all other cases* involved black officers who killed black victims. In one other instance, a Latino officer fatally shot a white person and in another an Asian officer killed a black person. There were a total of 49 victims.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/inv...ushpmg00000003
These Apps Are Helping People Do ent Police Abuse
In an effort to protect that cons utional right, developers, in recent years, have been partnering with advocacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to develop smartphone apps aimed at making it easier for members of the public to do ent allegations of police abuse -- and to know their rights while doing so.
Below are some examples of such apps, including those in development and others that are already downloadable:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...ushpmg00000003
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/tul...ged/index.html
Cop charged with 2nd degree manslaughter for accidentally shooting unarmed man with gun instead of taser.
After he shot him he told the guy " your breath"
Judge should throw the book at him.
Deputy who killed man after mistaking gun for Taser is an insurance exec who pays to play cop
According to Tulsa World, Robert Bates, 73, who made the fatal mistake that cost a man his life, is a local insurance company executive who has donated multiple vehicles, weapons, and stun guns to the Sheriff’s Office since becoming a reserve deputy in 2008.
Bates is responsible for the death of Eric Harris, when he attempted to assist in the arrest of Harris as he struggled on the ground with Tulsa sheriff’s deputies. Bates shot Harris with his service weapon believing he had pulled his Taser.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/...er-is-an-insurance-exec-who-pays-to-play-cop/
Truth Nuke
electrocuted without trial
Report confirms that police killed Natasha McKenna with her hands cuffed and legs shackled
A mentally ill woman who died after a stun gun was used on her at the Fairfax County jail in February was restrained with handcuffs behind her back, leg shackles and a mask when a sheriff’s deputy shocked her four times, incident reports obtained by The Washington Post show.
This woman was Natasha McKenna, a pe e mother of a young child. Any explanation as to why it was acceptable to use a Taser four times on a woman whose hands are handcuffed behind her back, legs restrained, with a mask on is completely bogus.
The truth is, though, that police have been covering up the real details on Natasha's death for months. Furthermore, multiple sources told NBC that police detectives were denied access to the Fairfax County jail for their investigation into her death. Only after two months of pressure was it revealed that Natasha McKenna was as physically restrained as a human being could possibly be when she was tasered over and over and over and over again.
Numerous experts said the use of a stun gun on a fully restrained prisoner was an unreasonable use of force, particularly in a jail setting where a person is unlikely to flee.
They also said Tasers are not recommended for use on the mentally ill, that even the Taser manufacturer warns against using them on people in a state of “excited delirium,” and that using a stun gun more than three times is thought to be above the threshold for use on a single person.
“She wasn’t a threat; she wasn’t going anywhere; she was restrained,” said Richard Lichten, a use-of-force expert and former jail official in Los Angeles. “It feels excessive, unnecessary and out of policy, based on what you’re telling me.”
Even after all of this, police are not quite clear on why Natasha McKenna was even jailed in the first place. On the day she was arrested, she had actually called the police herself to report being assaulted and appeared to be struggling mightily with mental illness before she bounced around between hospitals and jails for days.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...d?detail=email
Mentally ill AND black AND a female, you're ed in America.
Man in videotaped police beating alleges retaliation by LAPD officers
A man who sued the LAPD alleging that he'd been held down and beaten by police last fall made new accusations on Tuesday, saying officers have been harassing him and his family in retaliation.
Flanked by his father and his attorney, Clinton Alford Jr. told reporters that officers have repeatedly driven past his South L.A. house. And helicopters have flown so close overhead that walls and windows shook.
The 22-year-old's attorney, Caree Harper, said officers had "heckled" Alford and his family while driving past their home. Last week, she said, officers drew their guns on her client after stopping him for a traffic violation.
Harper said she planned to amend a federal civil rights lawsuit she filed on Alford's behalf to include the allegations of retaliation by police.
"They want to catch him doing anything," she said. "Even if he's not doing anything."
Alford said he was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk along Avalon Boulevard near 55th Street that October afternoon when a car pulled up. A man shouted a command to stop, but Alford said he continued pedaling because the man hadn't identified himself as a police officer.
When someone grabbed the back of the bike, Alford said he jumped off and ran.
After a short foot pursuit, two officers caught up to Alford, he said. Another officer arrived and began beating the 22-year-old, who said he was lying on the ground handcuffed.
The altercation was captured by a private company's security camera. Several police officials who have seen video told The Times earlier that one officer delivered a powerful kick to Alford's head. One official said the officer resembled "a football player kicking a field goal." Another described it as "horrific."
The officials said that Alford had surrendered and was not resisting the officers.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...414-story.html
a dead license plate light needs 4 cop cars ( police state Virginia, again ), pepper spray, multiple tasings, kids 17,18 years old, and WHITE!
Technologically Challenged Cops Assault Teen and Try to Delete Video, They Failed
dash smartphone vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=123&v=PGRIzkT8178
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...eo-they-failed
there are apps now that are designed to record and cloud automatically video taken so cops cannot compromise the recording.
look boutons, if you want to take these videos... thats up to you. but when you post them online you just look stupid
16 TIMES!
Chicago Pays $5 Million to Family of Black Teenager Killed by Officer
The City Council here agreed on Wednesday to pay $5 million to the family of a black teenager who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer last fall, as federal and state prosecutors acknowledged that they were conducting a criminal investigation into the shooting.
The council’s decision came swiftly and with no debate, even before a suit had been filed in the case by the family of Laquan McDonald, 17, who the police say was wielding a three-inch knife when an officer shot him 16 times on Oct. 20 on the city’s Southwest Side. The authorities say a dashboard camera on a police squad car captured the confrontation, though the recording has not been made public.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/us...er=rss&emc=rss
A 3-inch knife!A lot bigger than a cop's .
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Arkansas cops accused of trying to hack whistleblowers’ attorney with malicious software
The police department in Fort Smith, Arkansas is accused of trying to trick an attorney into downloading malicious software onto his computer during his work in a case involving three police whistleblowers, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazettereported.
The lawyer, Matthew Campbell, said in an affadavit that the department gave him an external hard drive containing three “trojan” viruses, while also deleting email accounts pertaining to the case instead of giving him information.
“One would have kept my Internet active even if I tried to turn it off, one would have stolen any passwords that I entered in, and the other would have allowed the installation of other malicious software,” Campbell said. “It’s not like these are my only clients, either. I’ve got all my client files in my computer. I don’t know what they were looking for, but just the fact that they would do it is pretty scary.”
Campbell currently represents three current and former officers who filed a whistleblowers’ lawsuit against the department, saying they were targeted for speaking out regarding a civilian employee’s taking illegal overtime and the wrongful termination of a probationary officer.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/a...e+Raw+Story%29
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Video Shows Cops Arrest Healthy Man, Hours Later He’s in ICU in a Coma With Severe Injuries
27-year old Freddie Gray is now hospitalized in critical condition and in induced coma, after an incident with Baltimore police Sunday morning.
An eyewitness captured video footage of Gray being restrained and hauled into the back of a police van after being chased and arrested by bike cops. What happened after that is a mystery, as Freddie Gray is now unconscious in Shock Trauma with multiple injuries.
According to the family, Gray has spinal injuries and is barely alive. Richard Shipley, Gray’s stepfather, told local news affiliate WJZ, “His face is swollen. He just looks really horrible. Like I said, he’s in an induced coma. We’re all praying.”
Police will not say why the bike cops arrested the fleeing Gray, or how he ended up in the hospital in an induced coma.
Did Gray receive a “nickel ride” from the fine folks at the Baltimore Police Department?
For those who don’t know, “nickel rides,” as reported by the Inquirer in 2001, were a witness-free way for police to punish unruly, uncooperative, or arrogant suspects – without ever laying a hand on them. For rogue police, it was a literal way to deliver “street justice.”
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...er1034908&t=15
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