The Warrior cops are out of control

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it was a fair trial, and horrendously grievous offenses

Chelsea Manning Found “Guilty,” Punished for Expired Toothpaste, LGBTQ Reading Material

She received 21 days of recreational restrictions, excluding her from time in the gym, library and outdoors.

Now that they convictions are on her record, they can be cited in future hearings concerning parole or clemency.

Manning expects the convictions to delay her transition to minimum security custody status by years.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire...ading-material

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Four police officers in Georgia and New Mexico arrested and charged with murder

Indictments aren't convictions, but this is progress.In two separate cases, two police officers in Georgia and two police officers in New Mexico were each charged with murdering a man that they had already surrounded and subdued.

In East Point, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta, two officers were charged with murder, aggravated assault, manslaughter, and six counts of violating their oath of office in the death of Gregory Towns, a 24-year-old father.

According to a lawsuit his family filed a year ago, Gregory Lewis Towns Jr. was trying to catch his breath after a chase of less than a mile when former police Cpl. Howard Weems and former Sgt. Marcus Eberhart activated their Tasers a combined 14 times in an effort to get the 281-pound man to stand up.The indictment said Towns’ hands were cuffed behind him and he was “exhibiting symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath.

The officers claimed to have only used their stun gun a few times on Towns, but the models of stun guns they used created an electronic log and showed that they were actually used 14 times—which could kill anyone.Soon after the officers were charged in Georgia, indictments were announced for two Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officers who shot and killed James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man who was living in the mountains.

For the first time in the Albuquerque Police Department’s history, officers will face murder charges for actions taken on the job.Officer Dominique Perez and now-retired Officer Keith Sandy shot and killed James Boyd after a tense three-hour standoff in the foothills in March 2014. They face second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and aggravated battery charges.

Ample evidence obviously existed to charge these four officers, but convictions of police officers are nearly impossible in America. Less than 1 percent of officers who kill are prosecuted, and a tiny fraction of 1 percent are ever convicted. So while it's premature to call either of these indictments a victory, they are certainly an essential first step.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...28Daily+Kos%29

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New Cellphone Trackers Give Police Cheap, Discreet Surveillance Option

With intense code names such as “Jugular” or “Wolfhound,” a new cellphone sniffing technology has caught the attention of law enforcement across the country because it’s cheap, small — and possibly used without a warrant.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that local police departments in 25 states, including Baltimore, Indiana, and Florida, have already tens of thousands of dollars worth of the handheld equipment that allows police to track cellphones through radio waves emitted when phones search for a nearby cell tower, and only between $6,000 and $9,000 each. Additionally, agencies within the Justice Department and Defense Department, such as the DEA, are the largest purchasers of the technology.

About a dozen states have enacted laws restricting police from using location-tracking devices, requiring warrants beforehand. That’s in part because other signal sniffing tools are more invasive and pose more direct threats to privacy, such as the stingray, which masquerades as a cell tower and siphons location data from nearby phones.

The Wolfhound isn’t a pretender, it’s passive, picking up signals via a small antenna that can be clipped to clothing. But just like other police surveillance tools, details of how police departments are using Wolfhounds is a closely guarded secret.

“We can’t disclose any legal requirements associated with the use of this equipment,” Elise Armacost, Baltimore County Police spokeswoman told the Journal.

Cyberlaw expert Orin Kerr of George Washington University weighed in, saying the Wolfhound’s passive data collecting likely means they don’t need a court order under current federal laws.

Some states are being cautious about using Wolfhounds, seeking at least a court review before deploying them in the field. The Indiana State Police, which bought $6,500 worth of Wolfhounds in 2013, preemptively ask for judicial reviews and court recommendations for such devices to avoid legal complications later in an investigation, the Journal reported.

Law enforcement agencies have increasingly welcomed technology, enhancing investigative abilities through tracking devices such as drones, data, and social media in an effort to reduce and prevent crime.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...hone-tracking/

I have no doubt private investigators use, or will use, this stuff to snoop on business, individuals, spouses, etc.

[Trill Clinton]

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New Docs Reveal Undercover Officers Routinely Spied on Black Lives Matter in NYC


Following previous reporting on surveillance of social justice activists, new evidence shows tracking of individuals and creation of dossiers

Law enforcement agencies in New York City routinely used undercover officers to monitor, track, and provide real-time surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists and supporters,according to new reporting by The Intercept.

newly obtained do ents from the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Metro-North Railroad show that during local protests in New York City, over a three-month period that began in 2014 and ended in February of 2015, "counterterrorism agents and undercover officers" from those agencies coordinated with the NYPD to monitor activists and protest attendees—"tracking their movements and keeping individual photos of them on file."

The protest surveillance and use of undercover officers raises questions over whether New York-area law enforcement agencies are potentially criminalizing the exercise of free speech and treating activists like terrorist threats. Critics say the police files seem to do ent a response vastly disproportionate to the level of law breaking associated with the protests.

Because all of the officers names were redacted from the do ents—and because the NYPD has so far refused to submit to the request or comment on the surveillance—it is impossible to know how pervasive the monitoring was or remains.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/19/new-docs-reveal-undercover-officers-routinely-spied-black-lives-matter-nyc

Law enforcement criminalizing dissent, criminalizing Freedom of Assembly.

[Winehole23]

http://www.policeforum.org/assets/re...gtraining1.pdf

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Autopsy raises questions about police account of St. Louis teen's death

A black teenager fatally shot by white St. Louis police officers Wednesday died from a single gunshot that pierced his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday.

The results of an autopsy done on Mansur Ball-Bey’s body seem to contradict police accounts claiming two officers shot the 18-year-old after he pulled a handgun while fleeing a home where police were serving a search warrant.

Officials claimed Mr. Ball-Bey dropped his weapon and continued running after police shot him. Yet the latest evidence brings that explanation into question.

The position of the bullet suggests that Ball-Bey wasn't turned toward the officers when he was shot, according to Michael Graham, chief medical examiner of St. Louis.

If the teenager had been facing the officers, the gunshot would have killed him almost instantly, making it near impossible for him to keep running.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice...s-teen-s-death

Could the police be lying? nah, never happens.

[DarrinS]

Resisting

[Quetzal-X]

What a ing less joto. Please lord give him chingotales de estress and anxiety evermore-evermore. Please provide this thug with a cell fully stocked with trash bags lord. I ask of thee.

[Trill Clinton]

[TheSanityAnnex]

Ya'll thought Shaun King was black?

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Autopsy confirms Virginia officer shot teenager William Chapman in the head from a distance

On April 22, 2015, we were clear that a Portsmouth, Virginia, police officer, Stephen Rankin, shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old William Chapman in a Walmart parking lot. New autopsy results obtained by The Guardian not only confirm that he was shot in the face, but that it wasn't from a close distance as has been described.

The typical signs of a close- or body-contact shooting were not found around the bullet wounds William Chapman sustained in the head and chest when he was killed by Officer Stephen Rankin in the parking lot of a Walmart in Portsmouth on 22 April.

“There is no evidence of close-range fire to visual inspection,” wrote Wendy Gunther, an assistant chief medical examiner for Virginia.

Gunther said a definitive ruling would be made by the state’s department of forensic sciences.

Furthermore, the autopsy results confirmed that Chapman was alcohol and drug free, and appears to call into question whether he ever stole anything from Walmart in the first place. In the autopsy report, no stolen items were listed in his personal belongings in spite of the implications by police that he stole something from the store and was confronted over it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...28Daily+Kos%29

[DarrinS]

Fun with bean bags

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First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist

It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.

With all the concern over the militarization of police in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the first in the union to allow police to equip drones with “less than lethal” weapons. House Bill 1328 wasn’t drafted that way, but then a lobbyist representing law enforcement—tight with a booming drone industry—got his hands on it.

The bill’s stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of Representative Rick Becker’s bill would have banned all weapons on police drones.

Even “less than lethal” weapons can kill though. At least 39 people have been killed by police Tasers in 2015 so far, according to The Guardian. Bean bags, rubber bullets, and flying tear gas canisters have also maimed, if not killed, in the U.S. and abroad.

The sheriff and lobbyists assured lawmakers that drones would only be used in non-criminal situations, like the search for a missing person or to photograph an accident scene. What they didn’t mention was the 2011 arrest of Rodney Brossart, a cattle thief who was caught by a Department of Homeland Security drone.

“It’s really all about the commercial development, which is where all of this is heading,” Lund replied. “If [a law] is somehow limiting commercial, law enforcement development... that is a negative in terms of companies looking and investing in opportunities in the state of North Dakota,” Lund said.

In other words, limit civil liberties so Big Drone can spread its wings.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-lobbyist.html

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Houston cop moonlighting as hospital security shoots patient during struggle

A Houston police officer working a second job as a hospital security guard shot and critically wounded on Thursday a patient who had been combative with staff and fought with security, a Houston police spokesman said.

The officer was one of two off-duty police officers working as security at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston who were called into the room to subdue the suspect, described as a 26-year-old male, the spokesman said.

The suspect fought with the officers, injuring both. One of the officers deployed his Taser but that did not appear to have any effect, spokesman Kese Smith said.

“The struggle continued to escalate, at which point, the second officer, fearing for his safety and that of his fellow officer, discharged his duty weapon, striking the suspect,” Smith said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/hous...e+Raw+Story%29

"discharged his duty weapon" :loI shot his gun!

love the hilarious formalistic euphemisms, and grandiose bombastic bull of the police and military.

So this was an "officer involved shooting".

[TheSanityAnnex]

Houston cop moonlighting as hospital security shoots patient during struggle

A Houston police officer working a second job as a hospital security guard shot and critically wounded on Thursday a patient who had been combative with staff and fought with security, a Houston police spokesman said.

The officer was one of two off-duty police officers working as security at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston who were called into the room to subdue the suspect, described as a 26-year-old male, the spokesman said.

The suspect fought with the officers, injuring both. One of the officers deployed his Taser but that did not appear to have any effect, spokesman Kese Smith said.

“The struggle continued to escalate, at which point, the second officer, fearing for his safety and that of his fellow officer, discharged his duty weapon, striking the suspect,” Smith said.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/hous...e+Raw+Story%29

"discharged his duty weapon" :loI shot his gun!

love the hilarious formalistic euphemisms, and grandiose bombastic bull of the police and military.

So this was an "officer involved shooting".

Both officers injured, one with a severe concussion, taser didn't work to subdue....sounds like a perfectly good shoot to me.

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Both officers injured, one with a severe concussion, taser didn't work to subdue....sounds like a perfectly good shoot to me.

TSA never met a situation that wasn't a good shoot

[TheSanityAnnex]

TSA never met a situation that wasn't a good shoot

boutons never met an unread moonbat article that wasn't worth spamming.


If you'd ever bother to read anything you spammed I wouldn't have to do it for you and say good shoot half the time.

[spurraider21]

boutons, how do you think police should apprehend a suspect who is resisting arrest? especially if he is suspected of committing a violent crime, and thus is a danger to others?

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boutons, how do you think police should apprehend a suspect who is resisting arrest? especially if he is suspected of committing a violent crime, and thus is a danger to others?

get out of the hospital room and lock the door. Police escalate immediately to killing the public to protect themselves.

[spurraider21]

get out of the hospital room and lock the door. Police escalate immediately to killing the public to protect themselves.

way to not answer my question

[TheSanityAnnex]

get out of the hospital room and lock the door. Police escalate immediately to killing the public to protect themselves.

By immediately you mean after trying to subdue, then fighting, then taking a blow so hard one suffered a severe concussion, then trying to tase, and then shooting. Strange definition of immediately.

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By immediately you mean after trying to subdue, then fighting, then taking a blow so hard one suffered a severe concussion, then trying to tase, and then shooting. Strange definition of immediately.

retreat, don't shoot 'em dead immediately

TSA never saw a citizen not requiring shooting dead. The police are the most important, not the citizens.

[spurraider21]

retreat, don't shoot 'em dead immediately

TSA never saw a citizen not requiring shooting dead. The police are the most important, not the citizens.

retreating won't apprehend somebody. how to you apprehend somebody who resists arrest boo?

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retreating won't apprehend somebody. how to you apprehend somebody who resists arrest boo?

shoot them dead? infallible, always works