The Warrior cops are out of control

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Miami-Dade Prison Inmate Thrown Into Hot Shower for 2 Hours, but Death Is Ruled as ‘Accidental’

A Miami-Dade prison inmate’s death has been ruled “accidental,” despite it coming after he was forced to stay in a steaming shower for two hours.

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s autopsy report was completed this week for the June 2012 death of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate.

The report says Rainey died from complications of schizophrenia, heart disease and “confinement” in the shower, law enforcement sources told the Miami Herald.

Rainey, 50, didn’t suffer any burns on his body and investigators couldn’t conclude the shower was “excessively” hot the day he collapsed, the report said.

The sources said the autopsy concluded that corrections officers had “no intent” to harm Rainey when they kept him in the shower for up to two hours.

But when staff finally took Rainey out of the stall, his skin seemingly melted off — a condition known as “slippage” caused by prolonged exposure to water, humidity and the “warm, moist” environment, the autopsy reported.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office must now decide whether to charge corrections officers with committing a crime, such as manslaughter, for locking Rainey in the shower and leaving him, according to the Herald.

Howard Simon, executive director of the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told the Guardian that it “defies belief” that Rainey, who was serving a two-year sentence for cocaine possession, and who had been locked in the shower after he defecated in his cell, died by accident.

“To accept the medical examiner’s conclusion you have to believe that he accidentally locked himself in a shower, then turned up the water temperature to 180 degrees, accidentally boiled himself to death and all the while he was screaming for help,” he told the Guardian. “That doesn’t sound to me much like an accident.”

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1950...as-accidental/

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Former Florida sheriff’s deputy indicted for beating of black man

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using excessive force during a 2014 arrest where five white law enforcement officers were involved in the beating of a black man, U.S. Justice officials said on Wednesday.Former Marion County sheriff’s deputy Jesse Terrell, 33, was indicted late on Tuesday on a charge of depriving the man of his civil rights. The other officers previously pleaded guilty to that offense, court records show.

The officers have all either resigned or been terminated from the sheriff’s department in central Florida, said a spokeswoman for the agency, who confirmed the victim was black. Court records did not identify him by name.

The prosecutions come at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of force by U.S. law enforcement, particularly against minorities.

Four deputies, including Terrell, struck the man during the August 2014 incident. It was captured on videotape, according to court records. The fifth officer watched and did not try to stop them.

The man was left bloodied in a parking lot where he was apprehended, after fleeing when authorities initially came to search his home. He had raised his hands in surrender and was lying on the ground, court records said.

The officers who pleaded guilty are awaiting sentencing.

An attorney for Terrell could not immediately be reached for comment. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/form...e+Raw+Story%29

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An Assault on Justice


Federal prison guards are brutalizing inmates.

By John Kiriakou

The federal prison system certainly hasn’t seen the levels of inmate abuse that state and local prisons have become infamous for. New York’s Ryker’s Island, for example, is notorious for violent crimes committed by guards against prisoners — including juveniles— who are sometimes chained or handcuffed while they’re assaulted.

A few months after I checked in at the Federal Correctional Ins ution at Loretto, Pennsylvania, a new prisoner arrived. He was a former prison guard who’d used his steel-toed boots to stomp another prisoner unconscious. The Loretto guards were clear about the rules: “This is his house,” they told us. “If anybody even looks at him cross-eyed, they’re going to solitary.”

It didn’t really matter. After only a couple of months, the former guard was transferred to the minimum-security work camp across the street, despite the fact that he’d committed a violent crime. The fix was in.


One of my cellmates at Loretto, whom I’ll call “James,” was a mentally ill homeless man from Pittsburgh. He’d purposefully violated the terms of his federal probation so he could spend the winter months indoors.

James was clear with both the medical staff and his cellmates that he was mentally ill and needed to be medicated. We appreciated his candor.

But the medical staff’s primary mission is to keep costs low, and drugs for serious mental illness are expensive. Since James was supposed to go home in a few months anyway, they didn’t give him his meds. You can guess what happened: James began to spiral into insanity, and he was sent to solitary confinement.

James’s struggles angered the staff. After one incident in solitary,

he was stripped naked, beaten, and thrown outside.

It was January, and the temperature in the central Pennsylvania mountains was 10 degrees.

An eyewitness told me that James apologized and asked to be let back in.

He started crying after a couple of hours in the cold.

Then he curled up into a ball and fainted.

No guards were punished for what they did to James.

http://otherwords.org/an-assault-on-justice/

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No charges for LAPD officers who shot newspaper delivery women during Dorner manhunt

Eight Los Angeles police officers who mistakenly opened fire on Los Angeles Times newspaper delivery women thinking they were rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner in 2013 will not be criminally charged, the L.A. County district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.The officers opened fire in the predawn hours of Feb. 7, 2013, as Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez, were slowly cruising though a Torrance neighborhood in a pickup truck delivering papers.

Chief Charlie Beck and the civilian commission that oversees the L.A. Police Department previously found that

the officers violated the LAPD's policy on using deadly force.

Beck faulted the officers for jumping to the conclusion that Dorner was in the truck.

Beck said the officers compounded their mistake by shooting in one another's directions with an unrestrained barrage of gunfire.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...127-story.html

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black on black crime news

The Ticket Machine

Police higher-ups say the traffic unit has made Port Arthur a safer place to drive. The unit also caused the city’s yearly revenue from fines to soar, from $750,000 in 2006 up to as high as $2.1 million in 2012 before settling, most recently, at $1.5 million.

But people who cannot afford to pay their fines — which can run to a thousand dollars or more — often wind up behind bars, leading to a great disparity in the consequences of traffic tickets on people’s lives.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexcampbell...ine#.cfAaw1ba9

Police say excessive ticketing "it's not for the (poor blacks') money, it's for their safety"

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“This is Just Evil”: Massive Private License Plate Database Tracks Car Locations Over Years

A must-read article in the Atlantic describes yet another surveillance state advance that it was not hard to see coming: large-scale logging of time and location stamped license plate data, retained over years.

The company behind it, ominously called Vigilant Solutions, sells the information both to private parties and to law enforcement organizations. From the story:

The company has taken roughly 2.2 billion license-plate photos to date. Each month, it captures and permanently stores about 80 million additional geotagged images.

They may well have photographed your license plate. As a result, your whereabouts at given moments in the past are permanently stored….

To install a GPS tracking device on your car, your local police department must present a judge with a rationale that meets a Fourth Amendment test and obtain a warrant. But if it wants to query a database to see years of data on where your car was photographed at specific times, it doesn’t need a warrant––just a willingness to send some of your tax dollars to Vigilant Solutions, which insists that license plate readers are “unlike GPS devices, RFID, or other technologies that may be used to track.” Its website states that “LPR is not ubiquitous, and only captures point in time information. And the point in time information is on a vehicle, not an individual.”

But thanks to Vigilant, its compe ors, and license-plate readers used by police departments themselves, the technology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous over time.

The article stresses that this form of surveillance may not be kosher, in that the ability to put together a person’s movements over time is not just a difference in degree, but a difference in kind, from the idea that you have no presumption of privacy (and therefore protection from being photographed) when you are in public. And Vigilant and their ilk also argue that they are not tracking individuals but vehicles, as if the two are not the same in a high percentage of cases. But the bigger issue, which the article does not address explicitly, is that even if this sort of snooping is not legal (or at a minimum, not usable as evidence), it’s well on its way to being so well established as to be difficult to stop.

The Federal governments is supporting more license plate spying. Again from the story:

“During the past five years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has distributed more than $50 million in federal grants to law-enforcement agencies—ranging from sprawling Los Angeles to little Crisp County, Georgia, population 23,000—for automated license-plate recognition systems,” the Wall Street Journal reports. As one critic, California state Senator Joe Simitian, asked: “Should a cop who thinks you’re cute have access to your daily movements for the past 10 years without your knowledge or consent? I think the answer to that question should be ‘no.’”

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/this-is-just-evil-massive-private-license-plate-database-tracks-car-locations-over-years.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&u tm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capit alism%29

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...llance/427047/

"information is on a vehicle, not an individual.”

Govt and BigCorp have ALL the information they want, citizens have none on govt and BigCorp.

Information asymmetry is power asymmetry.

America is ed and un able.

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Justice for Chloe: Owner Receives $262K Settlement for Dog Killed by Police

In the largest settlement of its kind in U.S. history, a Colorado man will receive $262,500 for the shooting death of Chloe, his 3-year-old Lab/pit bull mix therapy dog, by a police officer.

Commerce City police officer Robert Price claimed Chloe ran aggressively toward him in November 2012, so he shot the dog five times.

But a witness recorded a video of the incident (it’s disturbing and graphic — consider yourself warned) that tells an entirely different story.

http://www.care2.com/causes/justice-for-chloe-owner-receives-262k-settlement-for-dog-killed-by-police.html

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video here of cop shooting the non-threatening, stationary dog in a garage: slide to about 3/4 point

http://archive.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1989226020001

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NYPD Triples the Strength of Their Pepper Spray Because the Old Stuff Didn’t Hurt Enough

Only in the twisted minds of NYPD officials would “more powerful weapons” be a solution to prevent their officers from killing people. Sadly, this is no joke. The NYPD recently announced that they are planning to stock more powerful and potent pepper spray, and they actually claim that this would be intended to prevent police from shooting people.

The potency that has been used by the NYPD and other departments previously is already highly dangerous with a concentration of just .21% capsaicinoids. The new spray will be concentrated at .67% which will undoubtedly be more dangerous and far more painful. The NYPD has already begun rolling out the new concentration and has equipped over 19,000 officers with the new mixture.

NYPD Deputy Chief Edward Mullen claimed in an interview with the Daily News that a higher concentrated pepper spray would help officers subdue unruly suspects more easily.

“A more effective pepper spray can help reduce the amount of force needed to gain control of a suspect or emotionally disturbed person,” Mullen said.
Mullen also noted that NYPD officers have been learning to use pepper spray less, claiming that NYPD officers only used pepper spray 284 times, which is down from 337 the year before.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...er1050050&t=20

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Report Cites Failure to Act Against Abusers of Juveniles in Detention

the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics has conducted anonymous surveys of youngsters in custody. Those surveys have produced startling estimates: that some 10 percent of children in detention have reported sexual abuse by either staff or peers, often repeatedly, and often at the hands of female guards who victimize boys.

In the vast majority of cases where youngsters formally report being abused, investigations done by facility administrators fail to support the claim. Advocates such as Stannow have long questioned the rigor and quality of those investigations. And they point to an incontrovertible truth the report lays bare: when investigations confirm that staff members sexually abused a youngster, the staff members too often receive no punishment beyond losing their jobs, if that.

Only 36 percent of staff members found to have abused children, the report found, were referred to the authorities for possible criminal prosecution. Only 16 percent wound up arrested. And roughly 20 percent actually kept their jobs.

“When staff who sexually abuse kids in their custody are allowed to get off scot-free and, in some cases, continue to be employed in the very facility where they committed the abuse, it’s a clear sign that the system is failing,” Stannow said. “We are talking about known perpetrators, adults who are typically employed in public facilities supported by our tax dollars. The lack of accountability described in the new BJS report is simply outrageous.”

The report also found that more than half the victims of staff sexual misconduct, some younger than 12, receive no medical follow up care. Fewer than 8 percent of confirmed victims of staff sexual misconduct were tested for sexually transmitted disease.

https://www.propublica.org/article/r..._medium=social

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stupid sadist doesn't know how to erase or turn off the camera

New Mexico Deputy Charged With Slapping Teen That Was Captured on Video

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1960...ured-on-video/

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Mental health care by cops: shoot!

When the Hospital Fires the Bullet

More and more hospital guards across the country carry weapons, sparking a fierce debate over whether that improves safety or endangers patients.

patients seeking help at hospitals across the country have instead been injured or killed by those guarding the ins utions. Medical centers are not required to report such encounters, so little data is available and health experts suspect that some cases go unnoticed. Police blotters, court do ents and government health reports have identified more than a dozen in recent years.

They have occurred as more and more American hospitals are arming guards with guns and Tasers, setting off a fierce debate among health care officials about whether such steps — along with greater reliance on law enforcement or military veterans — improve safety or endanger patients.

The same day Mr. Pean was shot, a patient with mental health problemswas shot by an off-duty police officer working security at a hospital in Garfield Heights, Ohio. Last month, a hospital security officer shot a patient with bipolar illness in Lynchburg, Va.

Two psychiatric patients died, one in Utah, another in Ohio, after guards repeatedly shocked them with Tasers.

In Pennsylvania and Indiana, hospitals have been disciplined by government health officials or opened inquiries after guards used stun guns against patients, including a woman bound with restraints in bed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us...alth.html?_r=0

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Cop Placed on Leave After Comment About Activist’s Suicide

FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) — Officials say an Ohio police officer is being put on paid leave over a Facebook comment about a Black Lives Matter activist who killed himself on the Statehouse steps.

The comment posted under Fairborn officer Lee Cyr’s account reads “Love a happy ending.” It was posted on the Ohio Politics Facebook page Wednesday, two days after MarShawn McCarrel II killed himself.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1965...vists-suicide/

Working assumption is that ALL police are sadistic, murderous racists, until proven otherwise.

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The NYPD Is Kicking People out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven't Committed a Crime


And it’s happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.

The nuisance abatement law was created in the 1970’s to combat the sex industry in Times Square. Since then, its use has been vastly expanded, commonly targeting apartments and mom-and-pop bodegas even as the city’s crime rate has reached historic lows. The NYPD files upward of 1,000 such cases a year, nearly half of them against residences.

Barred From Home
The process has remarkably few protections for people facing the loss of their homes

Three-quarters of the cases begin with secret court orders that lock residents out until the case is resolved. The police need a judge’s signoff, but residents aren’t notified and thus have no chance to tell their side of the story until they’ve already been locked out for days. And because these are civil actions, residents also have no right to an attorney.

Perhaps most fundamentally, residents can be permanently barred from their homes without being convicted or even charged with a crime.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ommitted-crime

I wouldn't be surprised if landlords, property developers were paying police, judge, etc under table.

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After Seven Long Years, the Question Remains: Who Killed Rafael Solis in a Texas Jail?

In 2009, Rafael Solis, a 38-year-old father of two, was taken into custody in Webb County, Texas, for falling behind on child support payments. Within days, he died in jail in Laredo after suffering extensive physical injuries, and the Webb County coroner ruled the death a homicide. After seven years with no prosecutions, Solis’ mother is crying out for justice.

Maria Escamilla says she learned of her son’s death after the Webb County jail phoned and asked her to go to a gas station. It was there that two deputies gave her the news. They would say only that “[h]e was just lying on the [jail] floor,” according to Escamilla.

Escamilla’s cause has been taken up by the Public Justice Foundation, which is leading a campaign for accountability in the death and has taken action in civil court. Its demands include a call for an investigation of Texas jails in general.

Escamilla has turned to the news media in seeking answers. On Friday an article she wrote was published in the British newspaper The Guardian. In it she tells her side of the story:

The truth, we now know from official reports, was that Rafael was put in handcuffs and shackles, held face down against the floor of his cell, stomped on and beaten until he died.

He had two fractured ribs, diaphragm contusions, hemorrhages on his back and chest and bruises and abrasions all over his body. A subsequent report from the Texas Rangers even noted there were cross-patterns on his body that matched the laces from a jailor’s boot and a bruise on his face that matched the pattern of the drain on the floor of his cell.

The jailers claim that Rafael was experiencing alcohol withdrawal, and jailors were just trying [to] help by putting his pants on him so he could be transported to the hospital. But broken ribs aren’t a symptom of alcohol withdrawal. And bruises all over your body, or boot prints on your chest, don’t usually result from trying to get someone get dressed.

According to the coroner, the jailors’ “help” asphyxiated Rafael, and he died.

Yet when a court recently ruled that seven jailors implicated in Rafael’s death should stand trial in a case saying their excessive force killed my son, all seven appealed. Each now claims they have immunity from prosecution because, well, they were just doing their jobs, in their official capacity, at the Webb County jail. The appeal is pending as my family and I continue to wait for justice. [Truthdig editor’s note: The jailors are the targets of a lawsuit alleging excessive force, but none has ever been officially charged with a crime.]

We may never know for sure what “doing their jobs” included, because the jailhouse cameras were—for a reason we still have not been told—not recording on the day Rafael died.

Public Justice has posted an online pe ion headed “Demand Justice For Rafael. Call For A Full Investigation Into Deaths In Texas Jails.” It cites the notorious case of Sandra Bland, found hanged in a Waller County jail, in addition to the Rafael Solis death.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartothegrou...+the+Headlines

Not a good idea to be brown or black is slave state Texas

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Man accused of killing 6 in Michigan shooting spree has no criminal history, police say





http://www.journal-news.com/news/new...ee-has-/nqTht/

taken alive! Thank God!

#WhiteMurderersLivesMatter

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Pivotal Nursing Home Suit Raises a Simple Question: Who Signed the Contract?

Arbitration clauses have proliferated over the last 10 years as companies have added them to tens of millions of contracts for things as diverse as cellphone service, credit cards and student loans. Nursing homes in particular have embraced the clauses, which are often buried in complex contracts that are difficult to navigate, especially for elderly people with dwindling mental acuity or their relatives, who can be emotionally vulnerable when admitting a parent to a home.

Between 2010 and 2014, hundreds of cases of elder abuse, neglect and wrongful death ended up in arbitration, according to an examination by The New York Times of 25,000 arbitration records and interviews with arbitrators, judges and plaintiffs.

Judges have consistently upheld the clauses, The Times found, regardless of whether the people signing them understood what they were forfeiting. It is the most basic principle of contract law: Once a contract is signed, judges have ruled, it is legally binding.

It is a straightforward argument that is catching on. Appeals courts across the country have been throwing out arbitration agreements signed by family members of nursing home residents.

For years, judges hearing elder-abuse cases rejected arguments that arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts were patently unfair because they were signed by people who did not understand them or perhaps even realize they existed.

In a circuit court case involving a man in a Mississippi nursing home who could not read, write or sign his name, the judges held that under state law, “illiteracy alone is not a sufficient basis for the invalidation of an arbitration agreement.”

“Any normal human being would say that these contracts don’t pass the smell test. But the courts don’t accept this,”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/bu...er=rss&emc=rss

No matter how ing unjust or insane a law, lawyers, judges, politicians hold it as sacred, untouchable, as
Corporate-Americans fleece, crush Human-Ameriacans.

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The TSA Releases Data on Air Marshal Misconduct, 7 Years After We Asked

Federal air marshals were arrested nearly 150 times between late 2002 and early 2012. Why did it take the Transportation Security Administration seven and a half years to release the data?

https://www.propublica.org/article/t...ent=1456331997

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Texas Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland Is Officially Fired

Trooper Brian Encinia has been indicted on charges of lying about his arrest of Bland, later found hanged in a jail cell.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...0000de4035a51?

[DarrinS]

There would probably be major riots in Baltimore, if this was a white cop.

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The South will remain unrisen

Georgia cops busted for arresting people on bogus charges as part of extortion racket

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/geor...e+Raw+Story%29

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Officer yelling ‘deplorable’ racial slurs crushes mail carrier’s eye socket for urinating in the woods



A Connecticut Department of Correction officer was arrested over the weekend after he was accused of assaulting a mail carrier and using racial slurs.According to Waterbury police, 42-year-old Daniel Alvarado reacted in anger when he observed his mail carrier, 23-year-old Roshane Thompson, urinating in a wooded area near his property on Saturday, NECN reported.

Alvarado reportedly approached Thompson with a handgun and put the firearm against the postal employee’s stomach. The corrections officer then handed the gun over to his girlfriend and began physically attacking Thompson while yelling racial slurs, police said.

Alvarado was accused of repeatedly punching Thompson in the face and slamming his head onto the pavement.

Police later found Thompson lying next to his mail truck. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a broken eye socket.

Alvarado is facing charges of second-degree assault with a firearm, reckless endangerment, carrying a firearm while intoxicated and second-degree bigotry.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/offi...e+Raw+Story%29

... what does it take to rate "first-degree" bigotry?

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Shocking force: Police in Maryland didn't follow Taser safety recommendations in hundreds of incidents

As two Montgomery County police officers slowly closed in with Tasers pointed, Anthony Howard retreated up a small step and backed himself against the front door of a townhome on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Washington suburb of Gaithersburg.Minutes earlier, the 51-year-old man had asked an officer: "Are you gonna kill me?"

High on cocaine, Howard started the standoff by dancing barefoot on an SUV roof, barking and muttering gibberish on the late afternoon of April 19, 2013. Two dozen neighbors gawking at the bizarre spectacle laughed when Howard jumped off the Ford SUV to avoid an officer's stream of pepper spray, and they taunted police, urging them to use their stun guns.

Police said in a report on the incident that Howard had thrown "boulders" and charged at officers. But a 17-minute video taken by a resident and obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows that when officers approached Howard for the last time, he was standing still, holding a child's scooter. Officers fired two Tasers, shooting electrified darts connected by long wires into Howard's body.

The first-ever data analysis of all Taser incidents in Maryland reveals that police agencies across the state have predominantly used the devices against suspects who posed no immediate threat. In hundreds of cases over a three-year period, police didn't follow widely accepted safety recommendations.

Legal and policing experts worry that misuse is rampant across the nation as an increasing number of departments outfit more officers with stun guns; a Taser is used by law enforcement 904 times a day on average. The experts warn that too often officers are turning to Tasers before exhausting other means of dealing with disorderly people, actions that courts are beginning to brand as uncons utional excessive force.

And while the Taser has been hailed as a less-lethal way to handle difficult situations, police and even the manufacturer say if the weapon isn't used right, it can lead to death.

More than 400 people have died nationwide since 2009 in encounters in which police used electronic-control weapons such as Tasers, a Sun analysis shows. California tops the list with more than 60 deaths.

Maryland ranks in the top 15 with 11 deaths, including five who died after being hit by Tasers for longer than what is now recommended.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...and-story.html

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Trial and Error: Report Says Prosecutors Rarely Pay Price for Mistakes and Misconduct


The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct that land innocent people in prison.

All told, the researchers discovered 660 findings of prosecutorial error or misconduct. In the overwhelming majority of cases, 527, judges upheld the convictions, finding that the prosecutorial lapse did not impact the fairness of the defendant’s original trial. In 133 cases, convictions were thrown out.
Only one prosecutor was disciplined by any oversight authorities,


The report was issued on the anniversary of a controversial Supreme Court ruling for those trying to achieve justice in the wake of wrongful convictions. In a 5–4 decision in the case known as Connick v. Thompson, the court tossed out a $14-million dollar award by a Louisiana jury to John Thompson, a New Orleans man who served 18 years in prison for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

The majority ruled that while the trial prosecutors had withheld critical evidence of Thompson’s likely innocence – blood samples from the crime scene – the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office could not be found civilly liable for what the justices essentially determined was the mistake of a handful of employees. The decision hinged on a critical finding: that the District Attorney’s office, and the legal profession in general, provides sufficient training and oversight for all prosecutors.

https://www.propublica.org/article/r...ent=1459252889

5-4? wanna guess who those 5 and 4 were?

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Idaho mom calls police to report she’d found her missing son — and cops come smash

Olzak said she called dispatchers to report the boy was home and safe, and officers came to the family’s home to investigate.

She spoke to one of the Idaho Falls officers about the case, and Olzak said the officer then went to question her son.

“I just wanted them to be aware,” Olzak said. “They came over. I talked to an officer for a minute and he walked over to my son. Then he put my son’s hand behind his back and, like, lifted him up in the air and slammed his face into the trunk of a car.”

Courtney Beck, who owns the car, said she the officer had “”absolutely no reason” to use violence against the boy.

“He put his arm behind his back and his head into the back of trunk hard enough that it chipped his tooth, and then placed him under arrest,”said Beck.

The boy suffered a chipped tooth and facial injuries in the incident.

Olzak said she had to call for another officer before police offered medical assistance to her bleeding son, who was taken to a hospital in handcuffs.

Police told the TV station that the boy had been reported as a runaway, and they said Idaho law allows police to arrest and detain runaway children and then release them later to family members.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/idah...e+Raw+Story%29

... if the kid were black?