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Did police brutality cure COVID?
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Poking a hole in the “you just have to comply” argument.
[link=https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/georgia-courts-its-lawful-to-use-force-to-resist-an-unlawful-arrest/6PH7RJZYIFBUXFCSB255REDRLQ/]https://www.ajc.com/news/…JZYIFBUXFCSB255REDRLQ/[/link]
[b]Georgia courts Rule Its lawful for a citizen to use force to resist an unlawful arrest[/b][/h1]
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alternative. More people are going to get injured or killed by police. I’m pretty sure officer roid rage ain’t gonna give a squat if the the judge said you can resist arrest.
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alternative. More people are going to get injured or killed by police. I’m pretty sure officer roid rage ain’t gonna give a squat if the the judge said you can resist arrest.
I agree that this will likely cause more incidents in the short term.
But rulings like this are critical to force modification of police behavior and thought process over time. They need to learn that they can’t arrest/detain without legal cause and that they can’t simply issue arbitrary orders to the citizenry that are outside of their legal scope and expect to be allowed to use force to get compliance with those arbitrary orders.
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[h4][link=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-south-carolina-deputies-repeatedly-tasing-black-man-he-n1267427]Video shows South Carolina deputies repeatedly tasing Black man before he dies in jail[/link][/h4] Jamal Sutherland, 31, had been in a psychiatric facility less than a day earlier.
[link=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-south-carolina-deputies-repeatedly-tasing-black-man-he-n1267427]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…an-he-n1267427[/link]
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Dallas prosecutor disbarred for withholding evidence.
Should happen a lot more looking at all the innocent men freed by the Innocence Project and those not yet freed.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/15/dallas-prosecutor-disbarred-black-murder/]https://www.washingtonpos…isbarred-black-murder/[/link]When former Dallas County prosecutor Richard E. Jackson put two homeless Black men on trial in 2000 for the murder of a local pastor, he allegedly withheld a heap of evidence that could have cleared them.
Witnesses couldnt pick the suspects out of a lineup, neither of the men matched descriptions provided to investigators, and prosecutors had brokered secret deals with jailhouse informants for favorable testimony, appeals court papers would later show.
In separate trials, jurors heard none of it. Jackson got his convictions, and Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee were sentenced to life in prison. Only after an extensive review by the Innocence Project and Jacksons successors were the men exonerated [link=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2014/10/28/prosecutorial-misconduct-finding-frees-2-convicted-in-99-killing-of-dallas-pastor]14 years later[/link].
Now, after two decades of legal wrangling, Jackson has been disbarred from practicing law in Texas, in a rare example of severe punishment for misconduct in a wrongful conviction case.
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[b]”You Shouldn’t Be Able to Breathe” – Officer to Detoxing, Hallucinating, Dying Man[/b]
[hr] [i]He repeatedly told deputies he could not breathe.But the deputies and police officers he struggled with taunted him until he died.
An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation is raising questions about the death of William Jennette last May inside the Marshall County Jail in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
Jennette screamed for officers to get off his back. He was face down on the floor in handcuffs continuing to struggle.
“Go get leg restraints before you do anything else, go get leg restraints,” an officer said as officers were on Jennette’s back.
Seconds later, Jennette said for the first time he could not breathe.
But a female officer was not sympathetic.
“You shouldn’t be able to breathe, you stupid b*****d,” she exclaimed.
Officers stayed on Jennette’s back and even bent his legs to his back, until finally one officer said be careful of suffocating him.[/i]
[link=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/you-shouldnt-be-able-to-breathe-officer-tells-man-before-he-dies0]https://www.newschannel5.com/news/ne…efore-he-dies0[/link]
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Regarding Jennette & police immunity:
All in a day’s work.
Minutes later, Jennette was dead. A [link=https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/a9/ba/0ca0db6b42d79647179ceb764f02/20-1468-jennette.pdf]medical examiner found that[/link] he had died of a combination of asphyxiation and the interaction of drugs, including methamphetamine and ruled his death a homicide.
Despite that finding, WTVF reported, a grand jury declined to charge any of the officers involved. Now Jennettes daughter is suing in federal court, alleging that the video shows officers repeatedly ignoring his warnings that he couldnt breathe and even laughing out loud at his pleas for help.
But video published by WTVF appears to show him walking calmly out of his cell before an officer began shoving him down a hallway and slamming him into a wall. As three deputies held him against the wall, one began beating him, his familys lawsuit alleges.
Soon, they were joined by Lewisburg police officers who were also in the jail. As one ran up, video shows, Jennette yelled, Help me, theyre going to kill me!
Rather than checking on Jennettes condition, one officer asked another if she was okay, the suit alleges. She mockingly repeated Jennettes plea I cant breathe! while her colleague laughed.
Jennette was unconscious for more than a minute before anyone noticed he wasnt breathing, the suit said; an officer then began CPR while others called for an ambulance. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
An autopsy conducted by the Marshall County Medical Examiner found a number of injuries, including multiple fractured ribs, and declared his cause of death acute combined drug intoxication, with asphyxiation as a contributory cause.
The manner of death is consistent with homicide, wrote Feng Li, a senior associate medical examiner in Marshall County.
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Step by step these bad police must be brought to justice. Need to discard the military warrior mentality and training of policing, that civilians are the enemy and discard the police immunity. Not to mention, training should require longer periods of training.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/22/st-paul-officer-sentenced-beating-black-man/]https://www.washingtonpos…ced-beating-black-man/[/link] -
I was just reading about this LA one. This one stinks big time. Like a cover up on a murder at the hands of the troopers involved. I get that the guy took them on a 115MPH chase. HE seemingly surrendered and got tazed and beat to death. They shut off audio on the body cams, the ones that were on anyway, and audio captured was very bad.
Looks like this is not a one-off with the Louisiana State Police. Antonio Harris had an almost identical incident happen to him last year.
According to WBRZ 2, the troopers were arrested in connection with two separate incidents in which officers allegedly beat suspects who were already handcuffed or surrendering. Since their arrests, investigators have found text messages shared between the troopers in which they discussed and boasted about beating 29-year-old Antonio Harris, who had reportedly gotten out of his car and laid on the ground after leading officers in a car chase in May 2020 in Franklin Parish, La.
The Washington Post reports that troopers Jacob Brown, Dakota DeMoss, George Harper and Randall Dickerson were arrested and released on bond in February.
Harris got pulled over for drifting between lanes and when the officer found out he had a suspended license, he called for backup which is when Harris decided to jump into his car and lead the police on a 29 mile chase. But the cops finally deployed a tire deflation device and got him stopped. Harris got out of the car and laid, face down on the ground with his arms straight out and legs spread.
But DeMoss, the first officer to respond, delivered a knee strike and slapped Harris in the face before turning off his body camera, records show. Moments later, Harper struck Harris several times in the head with a closed-fist punch reinforced by a flashlight, and flipped his body camera facedown. After Brown arrived, the officer, who reportedly turned off the audio on his body camera, allegedly knelt near the top of Harriss head and began pulling his hair.I am going to punish you, Harper said to Harris in an expletive-laden tirade, according to court records.
Harris was arrested on multiple charges, including driving under suspicion and resisting an officer. The filings say the officers produced wholly untrue reports saying Harris was resisting and continuing to flee.
At no time did Harris resist arrest, the internal investigation concluded.
[link=https://www.theroot.com/hes-going-to…ers-1846474201]https://www.theroot.com/h…ng-to…ers-1846474201[/link]
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[link=https://apnews.com/article/ronald-greene-death-louisiana-eca021d8a54ec73598dd72b269826f7a]https://apnews.com/articl…4ec73598dd72b269826f7a[/link]
[b]Im scared: AP obtains video of deadly arrest of Black man[/b][/h1]
Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase — footage of the mans last moments alive that The Associated Press obtained after authorities refused to release it for two years.
Im your brother! Im scared! Im scared! Ronald Greene can be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.
The 2019 arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana, is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. But unlike other in-custody deaths across the nation where body camera video was released almost immediately, Greenes case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a cover-up.
Louisiana officials have rebuffed repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused the 49-year-olds death. Troopers initially told Greenes family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase. Later, State Police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Greene struggled with troopers and died on his way to the hospital.-
I was just reading about this LA one. This one stinks big time. Like a cover up on a murder at the hands of the troopers involved. I get that the guy took them on a 115MPH chase. HE seemingly surrendered and got tazed and beat to death. They shut off audio on the body cams, the ones that were on anyway, and audio captured was very bad.
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Police test dead child’s ashes & find meth or ecstasy. Or something.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/21/dartavius-barnes-daughters-ashes-mixup/]https://www.washingtonpos…daughters-ashes-mixup/[/link]
Dartavius Barnes sat handcuffed inside a squad car in Springfield, Ill., looking confused as police told him theyd found a container in the center console of his car that tested positive for meth or ecstasy.
Barnes has filed a federal lawsuit alleging officers with the Springfield Police Department unlawfully took the sealed urn containing his daughters remains, opened it without his consent, and spilled some of the ashes while testing for drugs. Roughly 47 minutes of body camera footage of the encounter was published by [link=https://newschannel20.com/news/local/tanajas-father-claims-springfield-police-desecrated-spilled-her-ashes]WICS[/link] and [link=https://foxillinois.com/news/local/tanajas-father-claims-springfield-police-desecrated-spilled-her-ashes]WRSP[/link] last week.
The incident is the latest to illustrate the risk of [link=https://www.propublica.org/article/common-roadside-drug-test-routinely-produces-false-positives]false positives in field-testing drug kits used by police[/link], which in recent years have incorrectly detected drugs in objects including [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/26/a-partial-list-of-things-that-field-testing-drug-kits-have-mistakenly-identified-as-contraband/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14]chocolate chip cookies, deodorant, breath mints, and tortilla dough[/link]. In 2018, a Tampa Bay mother of four spent five months in jail after her vitamins falsely tested positive for oxycodone, the Miami Herald [link=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article204511844.html]reported.[/link]
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Through the first four months of 2021, there have been just six days in which police across the United States didn’t kill anyone
[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/25/police-brutality-statistics-shootings-george-floyd-489803]https://www.politico.com/…gs-george-floyd-489803[/link]
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Through the first four months of 2021, there have been just six days in which police across the United States didn’t kill anyone
[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/25/police-brutality-statistics-shootings-george-floyd-489803]https://www.politico.com/…gs-george-floyd-489803[/link]
…..with the great majority of those killed actively firing at the police at the time of their demise.
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Black people like teenager MaKhia Bryant, 20-year-old Daunte Wright and 42-year-old Andrew Brown Jr. have all suffered the same fate as Floyd and so many others before them ….
I’ll give you Brown as iffy. Daunte Wright died in an accident and Ma’Khia Bryant was in the process of stabbing a bystander when she was stopped from doing so.-
There is a real and legitimate complaint of police violence against unarmed civilians who do nothing deserving the violence from the police. George Floyd should never be conflated with Ma’Khia Bryant. They are not the same regardless of which “side” anyone is arguing on.
Yes, many people killed by police were committing a violent crime but too many got stopped for a broken taillight or mistaken address or some other major error or deliberate action.
The police are here to protect the public, not see the public as non-compliant and armed and dangerous criminals. There are too many cases of police abuse.
Perhaps start with increased & better training, like more hours training than required by a barber. And no training quoting Adolph Hitler justifying violence.
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[link=https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-7dbbc0146d17f4c26aeae1616d8d66cf?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP]https://apnews.com/articl…tter&utm_medium=AP[/link]
[h1]Washington State AG Files Murder Charges against Police Officers after restraint death of Black man who said he couldn’t breathe[/h1]
Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed charges of second-degree murder against Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins, and first-degree manslaughter against Timothy Rankine. The three were in custody by Thursday evening, Fergusons office said, with their arraignments set for Friday.
Witnesses reported seeing Burbank and Collins, who are both white, attack Ellis without provocation, according to [link=https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Another/News/Press_Releases/Dec_ProbableCause_Burbank-05272021081756.pdf]a probable cause statement [/link]filed in Pierce County Superior Court. Rankine, who is described as Asian in court documents, is accused of putting pressure on Ellis back as he said he couldnt breathe.
Ellis, 33, died on March 3, 2020 Tasered, handcuffed and hogtied, with his face covered by a spit hood just weeks before George Floyds death under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer triggered a nationwide reckoning on race and policing.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/556079-11-jail-employees-ousted-for-allegedly-stripping-beating-inmate-during]11 jail employees ousted for allegedly stripping, beating inmate who later died during Texas winter storm
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A Texas sheriffs office has fired 11 jail employees and suspended six others over the February death of a 23-year-old inmate who was allegedly stripped and beaten during the Lone Star States severe winter storm.
The sheriffs office had launched an investigation into the incident involving Jaquaree Simmons, who was pronounced dead from blunt force trauma to the head and a brain bleed a day after jail workers allegedly repeatedly beat the man, out of security cameras view.They showed complete disregard for the safety and well-being of a person they were directly responsible for protecting, he continued. They escalated, rather than de-escalated, the situation. Their conduct was unacceptable and inexcusable, and has discredited them, the sheriff’s office, and their fellow employees.
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[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/28/jaquaree-simmons-harris-county/]The Washington Pos[/link][color=”#2b2c30″]t:
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Houston police are still conducting a separate criminal investigation into the events leading up to Simmonss death.
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Simmons had a cut to his left eyebrow and upper lip, the medical staff recorded. Power was out inside the jail because of the winter storm, so the medical staff ordered an X-ray as soon as possible, but he was never taken back to the clinic even after power was restored, investigators found.
After his death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, she told the newspaper she was still searching for clues about how he could have died after a week in Harris County Jail.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/investigations/proposed-law-making-cell-phone-video-of-cops-a-crime-moves-forward-by-ohio-legislators]https://www.news5clevelan…rd-by-ohio-legislators[/link]
[h1]Proposed Ohio law making cell phone video of cops a crime moves forward [/h1]
House Bill 22 would expand Ohio obstruction of justice laws by including failure to follow a lawful order from police or diverting a law enforcement officer’s attention.
The bills sponsors say it would protect both police and the public from harm when police are attempting to clear crime scenes, make arrests or maintain order and is supported by the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney’s Association, Buckeye Sheriff’s Association, Ohio Highway Patrol and the Fraternal Order of Police.[i]Instead of seeking to heal the rift between our communities and our law enforcement, HB 22 further sows the seeds of fear by attempting to criminalize the right to protest. HB 22 will not promote the safety and security of our officers and of individuals exercising their First Amendment rights. It will only create more tension and potential for conflict. ~ [/i]Ohio Legislative Black Caucus (OLBC) President State Rep. Thomas West (D-Canton)
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A militarized police force is the antithesis of democracy. We need to get rid of ours and have the police SERVE the public, not see it as the enemy to be subdued.
The caption for this poster in Hong Kong is, “A billboard promoting a militarized police force outside a police station last month.”
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Brownshirts in blue. Beating one of their own. His partner was only arrested. Wonder why.
its gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these [expletives] once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart, according to criminal court filings.
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/14/police-beating-undercover-protest-stlouis/]https://www.washingtonpos…cover-protest-stlouis/[/link]-
[link=https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/07/solon-police-department-removes-thin-blue-line-flag-after-complaints-from-residents.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=cleve_sf]https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/07/solon-police-department-removes-thin-blue-line-flag-after-complaints-from-residents.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=cleve_sf[/link]
[b]Local Cleveland Suburban Police Department will stop flying the Thin Blue Line flag after residents complaining[/b]
The Solon Police Department announced this week that it would no longer fly the Thin Blue Line flag on its property, citing a wave of public criticism from city residents.
Solon police Chief Richard Tonelli posted a letter on Facebook Tuesday announcing the removal after flying the flag at the department for five weeks.
During the time it was up, it caused a divisive and unhealthy reaction within our community, he wrote in the letter. It is unfortunate that the thin blue line imagery has been associated with extreme and dismissive views that are counter to our values; nonetheless, we are sensitive to the fact that it alienates us from those we are committed to serve and protect.
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Seems like a bad idea. I’m pretty sure this has already been through the judicial system. PEople have a first amendment right to video.
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[link=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-arresting-fewer-people-for-minor-offenses-can-help-reduce-police-shootings/]Police Arresting Fewer People For Minor Offenses Can Help Reduce Police Shootings[/link] (And it doesnt make crime worse.)
Data from the [link=https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/arrest]FBI Uniform Crime Report[/link] shows arrest rates have generally been declining since the 1990s, when crime rates were much higher than they are now. These declines have been accelerated, in more recent years, by changes in policing in Americas largest cities. For example, police departments serving 86 of Americas [link=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0100000US.160000&d=ACS%205-Year%20Estimates%20Detailed%20Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B03002&hidePreview=true&vintage=2018&moe=false&tp=true]100 most populous cities[/link] reported 30 percent fewer total arrests in 2019 than they did in 2013. This decline was particularly pronounced among low-level offenses, or offenses not involving crimes against people, sex offenses, weapons offenses or serious property and financial crimes. In Americas largest cities, arrests for low-level offenses declined during this period by 38 percent, with arrests for disorderly conduct, curfew and loitering violations, gambling, prostitution, drunkenness and liquor law violations all falling by more than 50 percent the largest reductions of any offenses reported. It wasnt just changes in policing that reduced low level arrests [link=https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/prop-47-racial-disparities-drug/]policy changes enacted by city councils, local prosecutors offices and state legislatures[/link] likely contributed to these declines as well.
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{C}ities that cut low-level arrests by 50 percent or more, such as Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey, also saw some of the larger reductions in police shootings. There were 57 percent fewer police shootings in these jurisdictions in 2019 than there were in 2013. Notably, police shootings actually [i]increased[/i] in some cities that made more low-level arrests, like Jacksonville, Florida, and Louisville, Kentucky.
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To be sure, reducing low-level arrests isnt the only reform that might have contributed to fewer police shootings. In this time period, the U.S. Department of Justice also initiated reforms in 12 major cities through [link=https://www.justice.gov/crt/page/file/922456/download]consent decrees, MOAs[/link] or the [link=http://www.crj.org/assets/2017/07/4_COPS_CRI_report.pdf]Collaborative Reform Initiative[/link],[link=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-arresting-fewer-people-for-minor-offenses-can-help-reduce-police-shootings/#fn-3]3[/sup][/link] with cities that underwent these reforms, like Newark and Baltimore, making far larger reductions in low-level arrests [i]and[/i] police shootings. These cities would have been more likely to implement policies intended to prevent unlawful, excessive or unconstitutional arrests, as well as new use-of-force policies restricting the amount of force used by police.
But it wasnt just police shootings that decreased. Reported crime fell in jurisdictions that cut low-level arrests; in fact, it fell by just as much as those cities that made more low-level arrests. Consistent with [link=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ci-U6Y3Exjj7AtyEPPat_lcHdOAfaHT6/view]recent research[/link], cities that reduced low-level arrests did not experience an uptick in violent crime or murder, specifically compared to other cities during this period. Moreover, cities that made fewer arrests for low-level offenses did not see a substantial reduction in violent crime arrests, suggesting a more lenient approach to low-level offenses has not resulted in police being less responsive to serious public safety threats.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/sergeant-officer-relieved-from-duty-after-video-surfaces-showing-woman-being-kicked]https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/sergeant-officer-relieved-from-duty-after-video-surfaces-showing-woman-being-kicked[/link]
Cop kicks the woman in the face. And the other cop just stands there.
Kicking the woman in the face should land cop #1 in prison.
Cop #2 should be terminated and barred from any future law enforcement position.
[link=https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1420344528729477124]https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1420344528729477124[/link]
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BREAKING: DOJ OPENING INVESTIGATION INTO PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOR EXCESSIVE FORCE, DISCRIMINATION, FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENT, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Investigation also covers abuse of the homeless.
[link]https://www.justice.gov/live[/link]
[link=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-opening-investigation-phoenix-police-department-city-phoenix/story?id=79294140&cid=social_twitter_abcn]https://abcnews.go.com/Po…id=social_twitter_abcn[/link]
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/news/572223-black-woman-beaten-by-philadelphia-officers-to-be-paid-2m]https://thehill.com/homen…officers-to-be-paid-2m[/link]
Black woman beaten by Philadelphia Police to be paid $2M[/h1]
Rickia Young, 28, unknowingly drove into a protest after the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. in late October.
While Young was making a three-point turn and following police instructions to leave the area, officers broke her SUV windows before handcuffing her and separating her from her 16-year-old nephew and 2-year-old son, her attorneys [link=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/523540-attorneys-for-black-mother-say-police-endangered-child-used-him-in]told the press at the time[/link].
The Fraternal Order of Police, America’s largest police labor union, later posted a Facebook picture of Young’s son being held by a Philadelphia police officer.
“This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness,” the union said in since-deleted Facebook post.
No one was charged or cited in the incident, according to Young’s lawyers. However, the payment marks the first time that the city has paid a large settlement in a nonfatal incident, according to CBS3 Philadelphia.
“This terrible incident, which should have never happened to anyone, only further strained the relationship between the Police Department and our communities,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) said in a statement to CBS3.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said that the incident involving Young “violated the mission of the Philadelphia Police Department,” according to CBS3.[/QUOTE]
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And there’s nothing wrong with police mentality? What’s the excuse this time? She wasn’t compliant enough? Did not submit enough or quickly enough?
Oh, the police needed to stage a propaganda stunt about rescuing a child from rioters. Oh, got it.
When police require less instruction than a barber and most of the police instruction is about being a warrior against the enemy public, there’s something wrong.
And while dergon never stated the “perp’s” race in the post, somehow it was an easy guess she was Black.
Must be my bias. Nothing else could explain why I thought this criminal was probably Black.
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So much for all those CSI & cop and lawyer shows showing medical examiners unearthing the truth while working with the police to get the bad guys. What if THEY are the bad guys?
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/police-killings-undercounted-study.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…ndercounted-study.html[/link]
Police killings in America have been undercounted by more than half over the past four decades, according to a new study that raises pointed questions about racial bias among medical examiners and highlights the lack of reliable national record keeping on what has become a major public health and civil rights issue.
[link=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01609-3/fulltext]The study[/link], conducted by researchers at the University of Washington and published on Thursday in The Lancet, a major British medical journal, amounts to one of the most comprehensive looks at the scope of police violence in America, and the disproportionate impact on Black people.
Researchers compared information from a federal database known as the National Vital Statistics System, which collects death certificates, with recent data from three organizations that track police killings through news reports and public records requests. When extrapolating and modeling that data back decades, they identified a startling discrepancy: About 55 percent of fatal encounters with the police between 1980 and 2018 were listed as another cause of death.
The findings reflect both the contentious role of medical examiners and coroners in obscuring the real extent of police violence, and the lack of centralized national data on an issue that has caused enormous upheaval.
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I think maybe we should be looking at the police themselves as domestic terrorists. Yes, not all cops are bad but the question is how then are so many incidents allowed to happen over and over within the ranks of the police themselves with the police not only doing nothing against the bad cops but actually protecting them? These are societys protectors?
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/07/george-floyd-protests-police-response/]https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/07/george-floyd-protests-police-response/[/link]
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ps — looking back to the early pages of this thread from june 2020 with the rhetoric of “the pandemic is over” … “cases don’t mean anything” … “cases should be celebrated, not feared” gives me a good chuckle.
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Me too! 😉
I get a good chuckle at reading people well. Most here are staying very true to their initial beliefs. Some have learned a bit along the way.
I was afraid I said something really stupid back then given how little we knew. Cases without hospitalization should be celebrated. That was pretty bad. Even then I was trying to find something in between at least.
Also amazing how many at the beginning of this thread have been banned.
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[link=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/580658-2-oklahoma-officers-convicted-of-murder-for-tasering-man-more-than]https://thehill.com/regul…tasering-man-more-than[/link]
[b]Two ex-Oklahoma officers convicted of murder for tasering man more than 50 times[/b][/h1]
During a nine-minute-long incident after Lakey did not comply with verbal commands, Dingman is accused of having “deployed his taser 23 times,” and Taylor was said to have “deployed his taser 30 times,” court documents indicated.
An affidavit regarding the incident said that [link=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/505774-oklahoma-officers-charged-with-second-degree-murder-after-allegedly]body camera footage showed[/link] that the victim never struck, grabbed or made any aggressive move toward either Dingman or Taylor.
Lakey became unresponsive shortly after he was taken into custody, dying two days later.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/589212-deputy-on-leave-after-fatally-shooting-man-in-street]Deputy on leave after fatally shooting man in street
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{Deputy [link=https://thehill.com/person/jeffrey-hash]Jeffrey Hash[/link], a lieutenant with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, }, who was off-duty at the time of the incident, claimed Walker jumped onto the hood of his car, ripped off his windshield wiper and began beating the windshield with it, [link=https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2022/01/10/cumberland-county-sheriffs-lieutenant-paid-leave-slaying-jason-walker-fayetteville-nc/9158373002/]according to the Fayetteville Observer.
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[/link]Ricks contends that her boyfriend was headed across the street just outside his home when he was struck by the officer’s vehicle what appears to be a red truck before Hash shot and killed him,[link=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article257177867.html] she told the News & Observer[/link].
But Hawkins, the city police chief, said there was no indication that the truck hit someone, citing the vehicle’s black box computer, which logs speed and impact events, among others.
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This Florida cop grabs fellow female officer by the throat as she tries to pull him away from a suspect.
Its not difficult to guess why this video was released without audio.Video shows Florida police sergeant grabbing fellow officer by her throat
[link=https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Fus-news%2Fflorida-police-sergeant-accused-grabbing-officer-throat-rcna12236]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…roat-rcna12236[/link]
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Hopefully a sign of the future of policing that de-escalates rather than escalates situations.
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Not fired and barred from being a policeman. Just handed over for investigation.
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/news/594891-ex-officer-kim-potter-sentenced-to-prison-in-fatal-shooting-of-daunte-wright]Ex-officer Kim Potter sentenced to 16 months in prison in fatal shooting of Daunte Wright[/link]
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[b]Officer draws weapon on woman of color after noticing firearm permit. Settlement reached[/b]
[i]Body camera footage has been released documenting the stop of Minneapolis food delivery driver Jenice Hodge that resulted in a $100,000 lawsuit settlement.“In the body camera footage, which led to a six-figure settlement late last year, it is not clear why Pham pulled his gun. The officer later wrote in his incident report that he believed ‘Jenice may have a gun’ after he noticed a permit to carry card in her wallet. But Pham never wrote in his report that he saw a gun,” [link=https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/redirect-to/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fkstp.com%2Fkstp-news%2Ftop-news%2Fdriver-held-at-gunpoint-for-having-permit-to-carry-settles-with-minneapolis-park-board-100k%2F]KSTP-TV reports[/link].Hodge said she does have a valid permit, but did not have a firearm with her.[/i]
I didnt even have my drivers license out of the sleeve and I had a gun pointed at my head, she said. You didnt see a firearm, you didnt ask if I had a firearm, you just reacted to something that you seen in my wallet.”
[link=https://www.rawstory.com/watch-body-cam-footage-shows-cop-panic-when-he-learns-black-woman-has-a-gun-permit/]https://www.rawstory.com/…oman-has-a-gun-permit/[/link]
She didn’t even have a firearm in the car and had a gun shoved in her face.
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Hmmm, I wonder what the connection was in this cop’s head to do that?
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