The Warrior cops are out of control

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Kansas Bank Has Entire Arab-American Family Arrested After Father Tries to Deposit Check from Home Sale

“I would expect this in the 1950s. Not now.”

Kansas City resident Sattar Ali, an Iraqi-American doctoral student, was arrested along with his family after Ali attempted to deposit a large check from the sale of their home.

took a check for $151,000 from the sale of his family’s old house in Michigan to Wichita’s Emprise Bank.

As he told local news station KAKE, he brought verification do ents along with him, but a few minutes after he presented tellers with the check, he was in handcuffs.

After being taken outside, Ali discovered his wife Hadil and their 15-year-old daughter Hawra were in the backseat of the police car waiting for him.

Sometime during their three-hour detainment, Ali said

police called his 11-year-old son’s school to tell them to hold him because his parents had been arrested.
He said he didn’t discover until after they were released that he and his family had been arrested because the bank claimed they could not verify the large check and believed it was fraudulent.

“No one told me why I was being arrested until we were being released,” Ali told the Sunflower. “They didn’t read me rights or anything.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...-tries-deposit

Yep, something's "Really The Matter With Kansas"

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ICE Wants to Destroy Its Records of In-Custody Deaths, Sexual Assault, and Other Detainee Files

As ICE steps up enforcement operations—and abuses—the agency is simultaneously asking to cover over its own history

In July, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)—the agency charged with maintaining records produced by the federal government—

published a request made by

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin destroying detainee records,

including those related to

in-custody deaths,

sexual assault, and the

use of solitary confinement.

The request has been preliminarily approved.

The pe ion to destroy records comes at a time when ICE has been tasked with increasing its enforcement operations,

widening its apprehension net to include groups of previously protected people,

even those benefiting from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that was rescinded on September 5.

Unless Congress passes some version of the Dream Act, DACA recipients will see their protection begin to expire next March.

ICE pe ioned to begin destroying some types of records as quickly as three years after they are created, 20 years for others.

https://www.thenation.com/article/ic...etainee-files/

What is ICE intending to COVERUP, to hide from citizens?





https://www.thenation.com/article/ic...etainee-files/

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Officer Riley, ing St Louis, of course

[Chucho]

Officer Riley, ing St Louis, of course

So what? He's right, you twit.

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D.C. Appeals Court Rules Sting-Ray Devices Uncons utional

We agree with Mr. Jones that the government violated the Fourth Amendment when it deployed the cell-site simulator against him without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause.

Further, we reverse the trial court‘s inevitable-discovery ruling and reject the government‘s argument (not resolved by the trial court) that the good-faith doctrine precludes applying the exclusionary rule in this case.

Because the admission at trial of the evidence obtained as a result of the unlawful search was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we reverse Mr. Jones‘s convictions.

The devices are small enough to fit in an undercover vehicle.

The device creates a very strong but fake cell tower signal which causes phones nearby (perhaps in the whole neighborhood) to connect to it.

When the phones connect, the device then captures a lot of personal information.

This is particularly helpful to police when they suspect a certain person of say dealing drugs, and know where he is, but don't know his phone number, because he gets a new throw-away phone every few weeks.

But it's problematic because the device is capturing the same personal information from all phones in the area.

It's a dragnet.

Put another way:

[stingray devices] are used to locate a suspect's phone but in the process, capture phone numbers and data from the cell phones of everyone in the neighborhood.

A stingray device simulates a cell phone tower and by its strength, tricks all cell phones in the area into using it.

Since it's not really a cell phone tower, the cell phone's information goes right to the stingray device.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2017/9...cons utional

[Splits]

Now that's the .

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Mich. House speaker pushes driver debt forgiveness plan

GOP House Speaker Tom Leonard announced a bipartisan plan Thursday to repeal “driver responsibility fees,” or extra fees some drivers must pay in addition to a traffic ticket.

More than 300,000 Michigan drivers owe nearly $600 million collectively to the state due to such fees, according to the state Department of Treasury.

A report issued Tuesday by the Virginia-based Legal Aid Justice Center found Michigan is one of five states that require judges to seize people’s licenses if they fail to pay court fees after a trial or hearing — even if they can’t pay and their case didn’t involve a traffic violation.

Michigan has currently suspended the licenses of more than 100,000 drivers for an indefinite time, according to the report.

“As a prosecutor in Genesee County, I saw every day the awful impact these unfair fees had on Michigan families,” Leonard, R-DeWitt, said in a statement. “Far too many working people who received a ticket and paid their fine were hit with new, impossible surcharges, often costing them their licenses, and then their jobs, and then their ability to ever pay off the mountain of debt.

“These are good people who just want to get to work and drive to school to pick up their children.

They want to do the right thing, but the government has them trapped in a cycle of failure from which they can never escape. That is not right, and it is well past time we repealed this unjust mistake,” he said.

Former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation in 2003 enacting the fees.

Leonard and others argue that they penalize drivers and can lead to a cycle of more court fees and fines that stop many Michigan drivers from getting back on the road.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...ess/106075174/

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Lawmakers say Driver Responsibility Program repeal unlikely this session

A measure to repeal the widely unpopular program made it out of the House but died before hitting the Senate floor.

The Driver Responsibility Program, created in 2003 to help cover a budget shortfall, requires drivers convicted of certain traffic offenses, such as speeding and driving while intoxicated, to pay additional annual surcharges on top of any court fines and criminal penalties to maintain their driver’s licenses.

More than 1 million Texas drivers have had their licenses revoked because of the program, and DPS has collected hundreds of millions of dollars since its inception, money that goes toward funding trauma centers.

The widely unpopular program has been in legislators' crosshairs for several sessions, but the biggest obstacle to its abolishment has been the possibility of losing trauma center funding.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05...ikely-session/

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GA sheriff, deputies face charges after high school lockdown to search all 900 students for drugs

In March, the Sylvester Police Department entered Worth County High School in Georgia to conduct a drug search. The officers used a K-9 and came up empty, as no drugs were found.

Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby didn’t believe the Sylvester police had done a thorough enough job, so he and deputies Tyler Turner and Deidra Whiddon entered Worth County High School,

put the school on lockdown for two hours,

separated the boys from the girls,

ordered them up against the wall, and

searched all 900 students for drugs.


This week a grand jury returned six charges against the sheriff and two deputies:

Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby is being charged with violation of oath by a public officer, two counts of false imprisonment under color of law and one count of sexual battery.

The indictment says the Sheriff violated the terms of his oath by ordering deputies to search students at Worth County High School on April 14, 2017 without probable cause or any other legal basis and without due process.

It goes on to say that

he and one of his deputies intentionally made physical contact with intimate parts of a male student’s body by touching the student’s groin.


Worth County Deputies Tyler Turner and Deidra Whiddon, also known as Deidra Tucker, are also facing charges.
Turner for sexual battery and violation of oath by a public officer and Tucker for violation of oath by a public officer.


No drugs were found in the search.

The lawsuit claims the deputies conducted the search without individualized su ion.
"The Fourth Amendment requires individualized su ion before a police officer would be able to touch the child,"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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Session DoJ in action, intimidating citizens on behalf of the oligarchy

The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms

the rescue of these two particular piglets has literally become a federal case — by all appearances, a matter of great importance to the Department of Justice. On the last day of August, a six-car armada of FBI agents in bulletproof vests, armed with search warrants, descended upon two small shelters for abandoned farm animals: Ching Farm Rescue in Riverton, Utah, and Luvin Arms in Erie, Colorado.

The attachments to the search warrants specified that the FBI agents could take “DNA samples (blood, hair follicles or ear clippings) to be seized from swine with the following characteristics: I. Pink/white coloring; II. Docked tails; III. Approximately 5 to 9 months in age; IV. Any swine with a hole in right ear.”

the FBI used a snare to pressurize the piglet’s snout, thus immobilizing her in pain and fear, and then cut off close to two inches of the piglet’s ear.

Several volunteers at one of the raided animal shelters said they were followed back to their homes by FBI agents, who dramatically questioned them in front of family members and neighbors. And there is even reason to believe that the bureau has been surveilling the activists’ private communications regarding the rescue of this piglet duo.

Subsequent events confirmed that this show of FBI force was designed to intimidate the sanctuaries, which played no role in the rescue.

Obviously, the FBI and Smithfield — the nation’s largest industrial farm corporation — don’t really care about the missing piglets they are searching for.

What they care about is the efficacy of a political campaign intent on showing the public how animals are abused at factory farms, and they are determined to intimidate those responsible.

The Times article was published July 6. The search warrant against the sanctuaries was obtained the following month, in mid-August, and then executed on August 31. In the interim, the piglets had become stars of a clearly effective campaign against Smithfield Foods.

Government power abused to intimidate and punish activists

The Justice Department’s grave attention to a case of two missing piglets reflects how vigilantly the U.S. government uses extreme measures to protect the agricultural industry — not from unjust economic loss, violent crime, or theft, but from political embarrassment and accurate reporting that damages the industry’s reputation.

A sweeping framework of draconian laws — designed to shield the industry from criticism and deter and punish its critics — has been enacted across the country by federal and state legislatures that are captive to the industry’s high-paid lobbyists. The most notorious of these measures are the “ag-gag” laws, which make publishing videos of farm conditions taken as part of undercover operations a felony, punishable by years in prison.

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/...enn-greenwald/

[Trill Clinton]

white privilege caught on film

then we have this

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ICE/CBP ignore the Cons ution up to 200 mi from USA border.

'We don’t need a warrant': ICE agents illegally enter Oregon home to arrest man later released

One of the agents insisted that there was no one living in the house and, because it was vacant, they didn't need a warrant.

But Cardenas said he never invited any of them inside and continued to ask them to leave.

They refused.

"At what point did I say he is here?" Cardenas calmly asked the agents, who are dressed in plainclothes.

"At what point did I say come in? At what point, can you please tell me?"

Cardenas asked repeatedly for the agents' names, but they stood silent or declined to provide them.

"We don't need to introduce ourselves by our names.

There's no law that says we have to," one of the agents said.

"There's a law that says you can't come into private property. Did you know that?" Cardenas asked.
"
That is correct and you are right," the agent replied.

While the agents stood around, the co-workers said they were calling the homeowner to come to the property.

Cardenas warned them that the owner would tell them to leave.

But by the end of the nearly eight-minute video, ICE agents had removed the paintbrush and cell phone from Bolanos’ hands to cuff him and place him in an ICE vehicle.

“Oregon’s two U.S. senators denounced the agents’ actions. Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Democrat representing Portland in the Oregon House of Representatives, tweeted: ‘They had no warrant, ICE is out of line.’”

this sort of incident, “all too common. We see it time and time again where ICE officers actively engaged in pursuing someone show up in plain clothes,

don’t display badges, and

get incredibly aggressive

when met with natural shock by those they are targeting.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

The unstoppable, unaccountable police state is fundamental to America's un ability.

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DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet


If you can't see that, it's a subpoena asking for information on the following five Twitter users:

@dawg8u ("Mike Honcho"),
@abtnatural ("Virgil"),
@Popehat (Ken White),
@associatesmind (Keith Lee) and
@PogoWasRight (Dissent Doe).

And what info does the DOJ want on them? Well, basically everything:

1. Names (including subscriber names, user names, and screen names);
2. Addresses (including mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, and e-mail addresses);
3. Records of session times and durations, and the temporarily assigned network addresses (such as Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses) associated with those sessions;
4. Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;
5. Telephone or instrument numbers (including MAC addresses, Electronic Serial Numbers ("ESN"), Mobile Electronic Iden y Numbers ("MEIN"), Mobile Equipment Identifier ("MEID"), Mobile Identification Numbers ("MIN"), Subscriber Iden y Modules ("SIM"), Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Numbers ("MSISDND"), International Mobile Subscriber Identifier ("IMSI"), or International Mobile Equipment Iden ies ("IMEI"));
6. Other subscriber numbers or iden ies, or associated accounts (including the registration Internet Protocol ("IP") address);
7. Means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number) and billing records.

Why the would the DOJ want all that?

Would you believe it appears to be over a single tweet from someone to each of those five individuals that consists entirely of a smiley face?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ji-tweet.shtml

less liddle Sessions intimidating, harassing gratuitously, because he can

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Mississippi judge resigns after barring mother from seeing her baby for 14 months over unpaid court fees

The Clarion-Ledger reports that Pearl Youth Court Judge John Shirley has resigned under pressure from local activists who decried his decision to impose a no-contact order on a resident of Jackson, Miss., who is identified in court do ents only as “Mother A.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/mississippi-judge-resigns-after-barring-mother-from-seeing-her-baby-for-14-months-over-unpaid-court-fees/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

Judge is white, any bets on the race of the mother? in Mississippi?

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Trump’s Deportation Cops Just Arrested A Ten-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Right After She Left Surgery

the sadism and unnecessary cruelty with which the United States Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency eagerly employs in their “work” is horrifying to behold.

Their most recent victim is Rosamaria Hernandez, a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was brought to the United States when she was three years old. ICE stopped her ambulance, followed the ambulance to the hospital, and waited for her to have surgery.

Once she was released from the hospital, the agents arrested her and took her to an internment camp for migrant children – not back to her parents, who are undo ented immigrants living in Laredo, Texas.

As if that wasn’t enough, Hernandez’s family told reporters that ICE agents lied to them and said the girl had been taken to a hospital in Mexico and not to Corpus Christi, where she actually was.

http://verifiedpolitics.com/trumps-d...-left-surgery/

Godwin says these sadistic, bullying CBP/ICE mother ers would robotically gas immigrants if ordered to.

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Man shot by Chicago police officer is awarded $44.7 million

a Chicago police officer shot him in the head after a night of heavy drinking and that the troubled Police Department enabled the off-duty patrolman's violent behavior.

jurors said it took them less than 20 minutes to determine Officer Patrick Kelly fired a bullet into his best friend Michael LaPorta's skull in January 2010 and then misled investigators by insisting LaPorta tried to kill himself.

Because the jury found that the Police Department has a widespread problem with disciplining officers and failed to maintain an early-warning system, the city of Chicago is responsible for the $44.7 million award and LaPorta's legal fees, which likely also will be millions of dollars.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/man-shot-by-chicago-police-officer-is-awarded-44-7-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

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Trash's gestaop goons

Immigration agents have skirted policy in order to stalk people outside schools, hospitals, churches


Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is also feeling the heat following Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents detaining Rosamaria Hernandez, a 10-year-old child with cerebral palsy, in Texas last week after her emergency gallbladder surgery.

“ICE doesn't make arrests at sensitive locations like hospitals, schools, or churches,” the agency tweeted the day after the child was taken into custody, “except in the case of a serious public safety threat.”

now that federal immigration agents under Border Patrol and ICE have been unshackled by Donald Trump

Just weeks after Trump took office:

A group of men were reportedly arrested by immigration agents as they left a church-run hypothermia shelter last Wednesday, hinting that federal officials may be targeting houses of worship as they continue a recent wave of deportation raids.

ICE has flouted its policy in other “sensitive locations”


ICE agents in California also stalked and arrested an undo ented immigrant dad who was dropping two of his children off at their schools. Agents again flouted the “sensitive locations” policy by arresting the undo ented dad after he drove off from the first school and before he arrived to the second one:

A 13-year-old girl on her way to school wailed as immigration agents took her handcuffed father away in a black car.

ICE agents yet again flouted the “sensitive locations” policy to swoop in and arrest an undo ented woman “who was awaiting emergency surgery for a brain tumor” at a hospital in Texas:

Sara Beltran-Hernandez, 26, a mother of two young children, was

bound by her hands and feet and removed by wheelchair

from Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth late Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who brought her to a detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1710980

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racist Sessions has every intention of locking up 100Ks more of non-whites for posessesion

Can Someone Get Sentenced To Life For Selling A Dime Bag Of Pot? Yes


In 2008, Winslow was homeless on the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana. One night, an undercover cop approached and asked him for “a girl” and some pot. Winslow got two dime bags of weed from a white dealer he knew and sold them to the officer. In all, he made five bucks from the sale, money he needed to buy food, he says.

Police arrested Winslow, but not the dealer, even though he’d profited more handsomely from the sale; the marked $20 bill was found on him.

During Winslow’s trial, prosecutors pointed to his long criminal history as a reason to put him away. But court records show he was far from a criminal mastermind. He had two nonviolent priors and a drug charge, which is not uncommon for poor people living on and off the streets.

Still, after the predominantly white jury voted guilty, he was deemed

a habitual offender. Under Louisiana law, that meant an automatic sentence of hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.
According to the ACLU’s “A Living Death” report, as of 2012, 3,278 people were serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes—and that’s just federally and in nine states.

The states that have locked away the most people per capita are Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.

a Gallup poll released Wednesday found that 64 percent of Americans want legal weed

A slew of factors contributed to long sentences for drug crimes, but it mostly comes down to

aggressive prosecutors and the legal tools lawmakers have given them in the past few decades.

There are the mandatory minimum and habitual offender laws passed at the height of the crack panic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Because of mandatory minimums, often well-meaning reforms end up empowering

police and prosecutors in ways that target people of color and poor people at disproportionate rates.

Take gun charges;

aggressive prosecutors can stack up gun charges to inflate sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.

Michael Thompson got 40-60 years after selling a few pounds of weed to a police informant in a sting in 1994, in part because some guns were found in his house (two were antiques and one allegedly belonged to his wife).

Another reason someone might get a long sentence for marijuana crimes is through the use of conspiracy charges.

conspiracy charges can trigger an automatic LWOP sentence. “If you know anything about the 1960s…people didn’t go to prison for doing lots of things that they get buried for now,”

Yet, because of how conspiracy charges work, he was on the hook for all the drugs sold over the years by others involved in the operation.

“Everything that was done by anybody during that time was attributed to him when he was indicted,”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/can-someone-get-sentenced-life-selling-dime-bag-pot-yes/

America's so-called "justice" system is fundamentally, pervasively corrupt, a big reason why America is ed and un able.

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Christian Taliban in DHS enforcing Christian Sharia in violation of the Cons ution.

Scott Lloyd Must Be Stopped

A Trump administration official may have broken the law in blocking undo ented minors’ access to abortion. Will he face any consequences?




Lloyd has prohibitedundo ented minors in federal custody from obtaining abortions.

He has instructed subordinates to prevent these minors from meeting with attorneys and from going to court to request permission to terminate their pregnancies.

He has personally met with multiple minors to coerce them to carry their unwanted pregnancies to term.

A federal court ruled on Tuesday that Lloyd violated the Cons ution when he refused to let an undo ented minor known as Jane Doe obtain an abortion.

This ruling casts serious doubt on the cons utionality of ORR’s broader policy, which bars federally funded shelters from taking “any action that facilitates” abortion without approval from Lloyd (which he will never provide).

The Jane Doe case also raised questions about the broader legality of Lloyd’s actions.

An ethics watchdog group and two congressional representatives are now looking into whether Lloyd should be charged with abuse of public office.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/will_scott_lloyd_face_any_consequences_for_his_ant i_abortion_crusade.html

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Atlanta hospital blocks father from donating kidney to his 2-year-old son because of a parole violation

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/atl...-year-old-son/

... blacks, of course, in ing Confederate Georgia

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It’s completely legal for NYPD cops to have sex with someone under arrest; this could change that

After two Brooklyn cops were accused of raping detained teen, a New York politician is proposing legislation

Two NYPD officers were charged Monday with rape and kidnapping, after allegedly forcing an 18-year-old woman to have sex with them while she was detained in their custody The New York Times reports.

The incident occurred in Brooklyn on September 15. The two detectives, Edward Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, claimed the sex was consensual. Both officers pled not-guilty and were released on bail.

While New York State law outlines that incarcerated individuals are unable to give sexual consent to corrections officers (and the same for those on parole to their parole officers) there is currently no law that bans sexual activity been officers and individuals under arrest or temporarily detained.

It is against NYPD policy to have sex on duty, and officers can be charged with official misconduct, but it is not actually illegal — a loophole that officers Martins and Hall attempted to exploit.
New York City Council Member Mark Treyger wants to change that. Representing the same district of Brooklyn in which the alleged rape took place, he has

proposed legislation that would make it illegal for an NYPD officer to engage in sexual activity with someone in police custody, in a police car, under arrest or during any police interaction whatsoever.

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/31/its...d-change-that/

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Denver to pay $4.6 million in black inmate's death

The city of Denver has agreed to pay $4.6 million to relatives of a black inmate who suffocated after jail deputies subdued him during a psychotic episode in 2015,

Denver will revise its policy on how deputies deal with mentally ill prisoners,

”If Michael could have been treated as a man in medical need, instead of like a criminal who was disobeying orders, he would still be alive today,” Rodney Marshall

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-denver-inmate-death/denver-to-pay-4-6-million-in-black-inmates-death-idUSKBN1D15ZG?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

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APPEALS COURT LETS OFFICER OFF HOOK FOR ‘UNCONS UTIONAL ARREST’ BECAUSE HE COULDN’T HAVE KNOWN IT VIOLATED RIGHTS

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of an officer in Colleyville, Texas, who used “excessive force” against an 18-year-old woman after police shot and killed her father.

The court asserted the officer could not have known force was “clearly unreasonable” in this situation, given the “lack of guiding precedent,” and granted him immunity for his actions.

Even though Erin Lincoln “sufficiently alleged violations of her right to be free from unreasonable seizure and excessive force,” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a district court and agreed the officer could not be sued.

The decision indicates Lincoln alleged the police shot and killed John Lincoln, her father, while she was standing next to him.

She fell to the ground and cried. Immediately,

Officer Patrick Turner handcuffed and tossed her over his shoulder.

“Turner carried her into the backyard,

hung her roughly over the back gate, and

then threw her onto her feet.

Erin was then put in the back of a police car in handcuffs,” she alleged.

She was in the car for a couple hours before

police took her to a station for a five-hour interrogation.

https://shadowproof.com/2017/11/01/a...olated-rights/

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Report Finds DHS Terrible At Keeping Track Of Agents' Badges And Guns

Not really sure why we're putting the Department of Homeland Security in charge of securing anything.

Between fiscal years 2014 and 2016, the Department of Homeland Security personnel lost a total of 2,142 highly sensitive assets — 228 firearms; 1,889 badges; and 25 secure immigration stamps.

That's from the latest Inspector General's report [PDF] on DHS components' ability to secure items that might wreak havoc -- ranging from inappropriate access to multiple deaths -- if left improperly secured.

This includes current presidential faves CBP and ICE -- both DHS components.

The bad news is it's good news:

Although this represents a slight improvement from our last audit, more than half of the lost items we reviewed (65 of 115) revealed that component personnel did not follow policy or used poor judgment when safeguarding these assets.

The IG should probably not expect more year-to-year improvements, no matter how slight.

In these cases, components did not always hold personnel accountable nor did they receive remedial training for failing to safeguard these sensitive assets.

Even with new controls designed to strengthen the security of sensitive assets, lost or stolen Federal firearms continue to be used to commit serious crimes. For instance, a media article reported a September 2015 robbery in which an attacker killed a man with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) firearm that was stolen from an unattended vehicle. The ICE agent failed to properly secure the weapon inside the vehicle in a high crime area.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ges-guns.shtml

DHS furnishing criminals with guns.

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US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to develop technology that scans the faces of travelers as they enter and leave the US. The difficult part? The agency wants to do it without anyone needing to get out of their cars.

First spotted by Nextgov, DHS has posted a public notice calling on technology companies to submit proposals for the system by January 2018.

The proposed program would allow Homeland Security to maintain a database of everyone who leaves and enters the US that would now include photos taken by spying robot-cameras at every border crossing.

Not only does DHS want this new facial recognition program to work without anyone having to exit their vehicle, the agency wants it to work even if the travelers are wearing things like sunglasses and hats. DHS also wants it to work without cars having to stop.

https://gizmodo.com/us-homeland-secu...nti-1820070071