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I'm just going to condescend through your peevishness like I do with most around here.
You persuade no one and basically only talk to yourself around here outside of responses like this. Just curious why you do this?
FuzzyBrain, GFY
I'm just going to condescend through your peevishness like I do with most around here.
You persuade no one and basically only talk to yourself around here outside of responses like this. Just curious why you do this?
Maryland cop gets five years in prison for shoving gun in black suspect’s mouth during 2014 incident
Cellphone video that captured the incident showed Santiago pointing his service weapon at Cunningham’s head and saying “I dare you to ing fight me, son,” NBC said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/mary...e+Raw+Story%29
will he really serve 5 years in prison?
son? I guess that shows more respect than "boy"
So you lack the ability for self introspection and hide. Good job.
If this guy were black
Move over Oregon: Texas armed standoff ends after 15 years — one year after charges were dropped
A stand-off between police and a Texas man, who holed up on his 47-acre ranch for fifteen years after he assaulted a police officer, ended peacefully this week when the man –and the sheriff’s department — were informed that charges against him were dropped back in 2014.
According to WFAA, John Joe Gray was arrested in 1999 for assaulting a state trooper during a traffic stop when he was found carrying a pistol without a permit. Telling the officer it was his God-given right to carry the gun, Gray attacked the officer and bit him.
Although charged with assaulting a public servant, Gray refused to go to court and face charges. Instead he armed himself in his home, warning law enforcement officials if they came looking for him that they better “bring extra body bags. Those who live by the sword will die.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/move...-were-dropped/
white male privilege
btw, one point I don't remember at the time of the murder of Tamir Rice by a sicko cop
OH is an open-carry state, which means white men can open-carry guns, but black kids can't open-carry toy guns.
Open carry
Ohio is a traditional open-carry state. The open-carry of firearms by those who legally possess the firearm is a legal activity in Ohio with or without a license.
One must not have a concealed handgun license (CHL, CCW) to transport an unloaded handgun in a motor vehicle but it must be secured /contained and located in the vehicle requiring an exit of said vehicle to access it.
Ammunition AND magazines must be in a separate compartment or holding device.
Note: If you have any alcohol in your system above the legal limit it is not legal to possess a firearm in your vehicle or on your person.
A person may not possess a firearm in an establishment that is licensed to serve alcohol for on premises consumption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_la...hio#Open_carry
No doubt, BigAlcohol and NRA are lobbying hard to remove the alcohol restriction
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-10-2016 at 04:14 PM.
12 year olds can't open carry stupid .
and you wonder why no one takes you seriously
LAPD chief recommends criminal charges for officer in fatal shooting of homeless man in Venice
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck has recommended criminal charges against an officer who killed an unarmed homeless man in Venice, marking the first time as chief that Beck has called for charges in a fatal on-duty shooting.LAPD investigators concluded that Brendon Glenn was on his stomach, attempting to push himself off the ground, when Officer Clifford Proctor stepped back and fired twice, hitting the 29-year-old in the back, Beck told The Times.
After reviewing video, witness accounts and other evidence, investigators determined Glenn was not trying to take either Proctor’s gun or his partner’s weapon at the time of the shooting, Beck said. Proctor’s partner also told investigators he did not know why the officer opened fire.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...111-story.html
If Glenn had been black ...
Cops delivering professional, conscientious mental health care
Michigan officers suffocated man with a ‘spit hood’ despite pleas he couldn’t breathe: lawsuit
Naked, agitated and restrained in a chair, Jack Marden pleaded with officers to remove a “spit hood” covering his face, to let him breathe.The clash on 11 February began when the 56-year-old, locked up in Midland County jail on assault charges, became combative with sheriff’s deputies following brief questioning by a pair of healthcare workers.
The workers – called in by a sheriff’s deputy after an earlier dispute with Marden – asked officers to move the inmate back to his cell, at which point Marden began to act belligerently, deputies later said, complaining that “people were trying to hurt him” and “that the French government was confiscating his money”.
The situation – depicted in a federal lawsuit, do ents and handheld video obtained by the Guardian – continued to escalate. Concerned by his erratic action in the cell, where officers said the 205lb Marden showed signs of “superhuman strength”, a deputy ordered a group of emergency response team officers to transfer him to a hospital for observation.
Within minutes, officers had entered Marden’s cell and pinned him to the ground. A deputy struck him in the head, after Marden managed to “grab his testicles and squeeze”, an incident report stated. As officers worked to restrain Marden, a deputy placed a spit hood over his face, the report continued, as Marden had “begun to manipulate his mouth as if he intended to spit”.
Following a struggle that lasted several minutes, the situation didn’t improve: Marden, a father of two with a history of severe depression and coronary heart disease, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury … proximately” caused by the altercation and died days later, the lawsuit said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/mich...e+Raw+Story%29
Why is Ramsey Orta, Man Who Filmed Police Killing of Eric Garner, the Only One Criminally Charged?
As Sgt. Kizzy Adonis Adonis (she's black, natch) becomes the first officer to face reprimand for Eric Garner’s death, the only person present that day to be criminally charged is the young man who filmed it.
Ramsey Orta, who recorded the fatal chokehold on his cellphone, has been arrested multiple times since.
Orta says police have deliberately targeted him for capturing Garner’s death on video and exposing it to the world.
Supporters rallied for Orta on Monday at a court appearance on Staten Island.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/1...y_orta_man_who
Nebraska routinely holds children in solitary confinement for ‘relatively minor infractions’
Solitary confinement is a commonplace experience for children held in Nebraska juvenile detention facilities, a report has shown, with minors routinely detained in isolation for days, weeks, even months at a time.To varying degrees, in each of the state’s nine juvenile facilities children are placed in solitary confinement for “relatively minor offenses” such as keeping too many books, according to the report compiled by the state’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter. Other infractions triggering the “overused” practice included talking back to staff members or refusing to follow directions.
Isolation practices include putting a child alone in a cell for several hours or days, restricting contact with family members, limiting access to reading and writing materials and providing limited educational programming, recreation, drug treatment or mental health services, the report found.
Experts warn that extreme isolation can pose severe risks for children, including psychological, physical and developmental harm. The report cited increased suicide rates, stunted development and hampered education as by-products of juvenile solitary confinement.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/nebr...e+Raw+Story%29
America is one in nasty, sadistic, bullying country. It's brutality to its own people mirrors its brutality on other countries.
Texas jail deaths continue despite 'zero tolerance'
Our friends at the Texas Jail Project have been busy lately. Last week, Emily Ling and Rebecca Larsen published an op ed in the Houston Chronicle led, "Stop jail suicides and deaths: Here's how."
They begin by quoting Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire from a hearing in September declaring he would "have zero tolerance for jail suicides and deaths."
And yet since the hearing on Sept. 22, there have been at least 13 more deaths in Texas county jails, seven of which are apparent suicides.
In reviewing the recent deaths, several issues stand out.
First, seven of the deaths in recent months have come from just three counties - Webb, McLennan and Fort Bend. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards found McLennan and Fort Bend to be out of compliance with minimum jail standards.
Those findings came only after inspections prompted by people dying. Webb County has yet to be found out-of-compliance with any state standards, despite the fact that three people died in the jail in the month of November alone.
Increased scrutiny has also revealed systemic disregard of safety by jail staff. Last month, following the suicide of Michael Angelo Martinez, three McLennan County correctional officers were arrested for falsifying records after an inspection revealed they tried to hide their failure to make mandated checks on those in their care.
Jailers must be trained and required to prioritize safe and humane care.
Additionally, all but one of the 13 people who died in county jails had not yet been convicted; they were awaiting the disposition of their cases.
On average, more than 60 percent of people in county jails are in a pretrial status, many in custody for court hearings simply because they cannot afford to post bail.
In related news, on Facebook, Emily Ling posted these data for 2015 jail deaths in Texas:
2015 Inmate Deaths in Texas County Jails:
1. Harris County - 16 deaths
2. Travis County - 8 deaths
3. Bexar County - 7 deaths
4. Dallas County - 5 deaths
Brazos, Fort Bend, Liberty, Webb, & Williamson Counties all had 3 people die in each of their jails within this past year.
Bowie, Comal, El Paso, Nueces, Walker, & Wharton Counties all had 2 people die in each of their jails.
And another 28 county jails had at least 1 inmate die in their custody, including the death of #SandraBland in Waller County Jail.
In total we know at least 99 people died this past year while in the custody of a Texas county jail. The majority of them had not been convicted of any crime. But there is no guarantee that "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't mean you won't lose your life in our criminal justice system. The Texas Jail Project is working to change that.
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co...pite-zero.html
TX Regug politicians are outraged by this slaughter, right?
FAU study shows 45 percent increase in death from law enforcement
Increase from 1999 to 2013 mostly among non-whites
Between 1999 and 2013 in the United States, between 279 (in 2000) to 507 (in 2012) people were killed each year by legal intervention or law enforcement, other than by legal execution.
In 2013, an estimated 11.3 million arrests in the U.S. resulted in approximately 480 deaths from legal intervention. Between 1999 and 2013, there were 5,511 deaths by legal intervention.
Results from this report show:
- During this 15-year period, there was a 45 percent net increase in deaths from legal intervention.
- 96 percent of these deaths occurred among men, of which 78 percent occurred between ages 15 and 44 years.
- In men ages 15 to 44 years, American Indians or Alaska Natives (whose numbers were small) had the highest rates of death from legal intervention, but blacks and African Americans, and white Hispanics or Latinos all had rates that were significantly higher than those experienced by non-Hispanic whites and Asians or Pacific Islanders.
There were extensive variations in states and counties with reliable rates:
- In terms of urbanization, the highest mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black and African American men ages 15 to 44 years was in large central metropolitan areas, while the lowest occurred in non-core, non-metro rural areas.
- The highest rate for non-Hispanic black men occurred in Nevada, while the lowest rate was in North Carolina.
- New Mexico had the highest rate for both Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men.
- The lowest rate for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men was in New York.
- The highest rate for blacks and African American men occurred in Riverside County, Calif., with the lowest rate occurring in Kings County (Brooklyn), N.Y.
- For Hispanic white men, the highest rate occurred in Denver, Colo., and the lowest rate was in Los Angeles, Calif.
- For non-Hispanic white men, the highest rate was in San Bernardino, CA, and the lowest rate was in Los Angeles, Calif.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-fss011516.php
... the slaughter continues. In USA police state, de-escalation is a 4-letter word.
Two fat cops hold down an unarmed guy, stopped for unannounced reason, one fatcop shoots the other fat cop, and then they sit on the guy and shoot him several times, he dies, long video shows it all.
Rally for man who paid the price for an officer's mistake
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Family of black Ohio man killed by college cop gets $4.85 million in settlement
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/fami...e+Raw+Story%29
TX law enforcement misconduct roundup
In an effort to clear Grits' browser tabs, here are links a number of police accountability episodes reported around the state recently which merit readers' attention:
- An SAPD officer took a plea deal for stealing pot, money, guns from drug dealer while on duty.
- A Houston PD officer pled guilty to assisting thieves with an armored car robbery in 2013.
- Another Houston PD officer stands accused of working for the Los Zetas drug cartel.
- A Victoria Sheriff's deputy pled guilty to official oppression after using excessive force against a motorist. Charges of record tampering and perjury were dismissed, though he'd admitted to the former.
- A new lawsuit accuses Caldwell County Sheriff's deputies of excessive force in an event caught on video.
- A former Wise County Sheriff's deputy who was the department's liaison to sex offender was convicted and sent to federal prison or 16 months after subjecting them to nude photographs.
- An Austin cop was suspended for 90 days for unwarranted use of his Taser against a homeless man. The event was caught on video.
- A former Cameron County Sheriff's deputy was sentenced to a year in federal prison for transporting immigrants into the country illegally.
- A Bexar County detention officer is facing termination and criminal charges over allegations that he sexually assaulted a female inmate.
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co...t-roundup.html
and of course, people keep dying in county jails.
Ohio cop uses police database to stalk his rape victim after she reports him
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ohio...e+Raw+Story%29
Supreme Court Rejects Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Appeal Over Immigration
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jo...+%28TPMNews%29
Police Officer Doesn’t See A Difference Between Black, Light-Skinned Black Suspects
FORT WAYNE, IN—Explaining that his sole concern is serving and protecting his community, Fort Wayne police officer Vincent Turner told reporters Wednesday that he does not see any difference between black and light-skinned black suspects.
“As an officer of the law, I am committed to administering justice swiftly and even-handedly, regardless of whether the suspect has dark skin or really dark skin,” said Turner, adding that he has no problem giving a full pat-down to any potential criminal or hauling them down to precinct headquarters in the back of his patrol car, even if they are more of a light mocha color.
“When you’re responding to reports of gunshots fired, or sprinting down an alleyway, you’re not thinking about where the suspect falls on the spectrum of African-American skin tones—you’re thinking about doing your job.
Heck, the guy could be a very dark-looking Latino, for all I care—I treat every one of them the same. He’s still just a suspect to me.”
Turner added that his dedication to upholding the law stems from a belief that all
local residents should be able to walk their streets without fear, whether they come from an affluent white neighborhood or a working-class white neighborhood.
http://www.theonion.com/article/police-officer-doesnt-see-a-difference-between-bla-36683
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-20-2016 at 06:03 AM.
Inside Kentucky’s Unregulated Private Probation Industry
Getting busted with a small amount of fake marijuana led to a more expensive lesson in criminal justice than Timothy Lee Cook could have imagined.
Cook, 54, agreed to a plea deal in Hardin County District Court last summer that kept him out of jail, but cost him $186 in fines and court fees. He couldn’t afford it himself. Bedeviled by mental disorders, he hasn’t held a job for more than 20 years. His 74-year-old mother put up the money.
Now Cook is tasting the cost of probation. Every month for two years, he has to pay a $25 monitoring fee to a company that serves as a privatized probation agency.
Had he been arrested in one of the many Kentucky counties that monitor misdemeanor offenders themselves, the service wouldn’t have cost him a dime.
And if Cook’s probation company had based its fee on his ability to pay, as district judges are supposed to ensure, his monitoring would be free or discounted.
“I told them I was on disability because I have dyslexia and bipolar disorder, and I figured, well, maybe they’d work with me a little bit, maybe make my payments a little cheaper. But, no, it’s one flat rate,” Cook said before leaving on his 32-mile drive home to Leitchfield.
Cook’s was one of 38,780 state misdemeanor cases that ended with probated jail sentences in 2015. How many of those went to private companies is anyone’s guess because no one keeps track. The companies operate under no contracts, no legal agreements with the state, counties or the courts they serve. No one in the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts knows how many such companies operate in the state, which counties they serve, how many defendants they monitor or how much they charge. No state agency monitors the monitors.
http://kycir.org/2016/01/20/inside-k...tion-industry/
Private prisons tip of iceberg in profit-based corrections
While a great deal of attention is paid and criticism is devoted to private prisons, the truth about profit-based corrections remains more pernicious.
As these infographics from In the Public Interest depict, private companies profit from almost every function of the American criminal justice system:
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co...ceberg-in.html
Some relief, and gues who the 3 dissenters are.
Supreme Court: Ban On Automatic Life Sentences For Juveniles Is Retroactive
The 6-3 ruling means that some 2,100 juvenile murders will now have the possibility of parole.
As NPR's Nina Totenberg reported, this case was a "procedural spiderweb." But the implications of it were easy to understand: At issue was whether a previous ruling by the high court applied to Henry Montgomery, who killed a police officer in 1963 when he was 17-years-old. Montgomery was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
But back in 2012, the Supreme Court decided that sentencing youth to life without parole amounted to cruel and usual punishment. That rule obviously applied to all future cases, but what about past cases?
The Supreme Court resolved today that it did indeed have jurisdiction to review this case and that its previous ruling was substantial enough that it should apply retroactively.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...m_campaign=app
Officer Indicted for Using Taser on City Official in Texas
A grand jury has indicted a police officer after he used a stun gun on a City Council member in a small, predominantly black Texas college town, authorities said Monday.
Prairie View officer Michael Kelley was indicted for official oppression, a misdemeanor, on Friday said E. Rivera, chief investigator for the Waller County District Attorney’s Office.
Kelley couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on Monday.
Police said the incident began last October when they questioned four men outside Prairie View City Council Member Jonathan Miller’s apartment about su ious activity in the neighborhood and Miller intervened. Video from police and from one of Miller’s friends showed Kelley using a Taser on Miller when he didn’t follow police commands.
Miller and a female officer also at the scene are both black while Kelley is white.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1950...cial-in-texas/
Cleveland fires six police officers over fatal shooting of unarmed black man and woman
Six Cleveland police officers were fired over their involvement in a November 2012 chase that led to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man and woman, city officials said on Tuesday.Six other officers in the incident, which involved a 137-shot barrage, were suspended for 21 to 30 days and another retired last year, officials said.
“The incident was unprecedented,” Cleveland Police Commander James Chura told reporters of the shooting, which killed Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell. “It took an investigation just as unprecedented to get to the truth.”
The decision to fire the officers comes as U.S. law enforcement is under scrutiny for the use of lethal force against minority groups. It followed a series of high-profile deaths of unarmed black men in confrontations with police, which have prompted sometimes violent demonstrations.
The Cleveland chase lasted more than 20 minutes and went through multiple cities at speeds topping 90 mph (145 kph), ending in a school parking lot where Russell was shot 24 times and Williams 23 times.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/clev...e+Raw+Story%29
and DA or prosecutor has something to say?
nah, these murderers will get hired sheriffs and constables, who seem to pick police discards.
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