wishful thinking
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
oh, Bratton
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/bratton-hiring-black-nypd-officers-criminal-records
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 03:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/us/texas-officer-was-under-stress-when-he-arrived-at-pool-party-lawyer-says.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
honestly a quiet resignation and apology seems like the best thing imo
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
that Texas cop was obviously playing some kind of combat hero in his own mind, witness the ridiculous and pointless barrel roll he did while running to the scene of the "crime"
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
surprised he didn't twirl his gun around on his index finger honestly
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
i mean it's possible to feel for him if he really did go through that shit earlier in the day and still think that if he can't handle that without abusing people he has no business being a cop and probably should be in heavy therapy
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
I like how that other cop was being chill with that other dude in the background. heard a couple "are you alright's" I think
― Spottie, Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
I do have legit sympathy for the cop re: the items he witnessed earlier, but to amateurist's point, it comes with the job and can't turn you into a different person later in your shift. I mean there's a reason they have the whole psych evaluation, y'know.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
Bratton backtracking / claiming to be misquoted
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
“He never intended to mistreat anyone, but was only reacting to a situation and the challenges that it presented,” Ms. Bishkin said. “He apologizes to all who were offended.”
He pulled a gun on children. I can't stop thinking about how much worse it could have gotten.
― ONE OF THEM FUCKING JESUS (stevie), Thursday, 11 June 2015 10:56 (eight years ago) link
It goes a lot deeper than taking offence.
― ONE OF THEM FUCKING JESUS (stevie), Thursday, 11 June 2015 10:57 (eight years ago) link
standard non-apology apology
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
I feel sympathy if he was stressed out, but he didn't just take it out on some kids. He specifically took it out on the black kids, while apparently ignoring the white kids.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
According to his statement, he took it out on one white kid too. So there you go, racism is over.
― DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
Apparently steroid abuse is a big problem among cops. I mean just look at how different his composure is than the other cops and the teenagers. It's like he's full of just barely contained rage. He just doesn't seem to be in any normal frame of mind at all.
― what_have_you, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove--33427
― bag lady bag (mattresslessness), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
It is so depressing to see white supremacists come out of the woodwork again to "support the police". I mean, if you check these people's tweets and affiliations, they're into extreme gun politics and real Klan-type "defend our white neighborhood" stuff. And these police groups say NOTHING about it, so I have zero sympathy for them. Look who defends their crybaby attitude!
― Fake Sam's Club Membership (I M Losted), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tSqbdZp.jpg
― del griffith, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
latest gotcha moment by the pro-police crowd for that really horrible attack on the police station in Dallas last night: http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/fredricka-whitfield-cnn-apology-dallas-gunman-controversy-1201519467/
even though context makes clear that she was clearly saying the attacks were audacious and fearless, not praising them (and although they're often used that way, brave and courageous aren't technically inherently 'positive' adjectives). Poor choice of words, for sure, and an apology is warranted, but of course the whole net's in an uproar over what was likely a spur of the moment statement that didn't come out the way the anchor intended.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150618/washington-heights/video-of-chicago-police-officer-firing-into-car-of-teens-released-by-judge
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
"You don’t start firing into a car full of unarmed people,” Berman told the Reporter. “You just don’t do that.”
hmm dunno if the evidence supports ya here yr honor
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/06/19/whitehall-ohio-4-year-old-accidentially-shot-by-columbus-police-officer.html
― 龜, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/19/nicholas-thomas-shot-in-back-police
― 龜, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
two blocks away from last night, the police shot a guy in the head after he flagged them down and then "extended a towel-wrapped arm towards them". The cops told him to put down the gun and then shot him. Anyway, unarmed OF COURSE.
― nomar, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
video showed him with a big head wound and the cops flipping him over and cuffing him. He's still alive somehow.
― nomar, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
thats terrible :(
― 龜, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
trying to be very "objective" from where I'm sitting behind a computer, reading nomar's words, pointedly not-watching the video
... but "Being objective" pretty quickly turns into, "Making excuses based around the premise that a police officer's job is especially dangerous & they have to worry about things a normal person wouldn't; like din't you ever see that 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' about the guy who's trying to jump from a hotel room downtown, & the police officer who's trying to talk him down, where the twist is that the police officer was sleeping with the man's wife, & the man knew who he was & staged the whole thing in order to have the officer fall to his death when, at the end, suspecting nothing, he finally steps out onto the ledge in order to help bring the fellow in?"
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
on the bright side: at least the second officer didn't ALSO start firing #babysteps
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
more info on nomar's story: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-man-with-towel-on-arm-shot-in-head-by-lapd-20150620-story.html
― 龜, Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
unconfirmed but I'm also hearing that the man had burned his hand on an overheating engine, flagged down officers for help, they thought he had a gun, etc etc. all just rumors though.
― nomar, Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
(xp) "at least one officer" fired shots -- so maybe there is no bright side
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/baltimore-officer-tweets_n_7655204.html
― 龜, Thursday, 25 June 2015 11:16 (eight years ago) link
ta for that, must admit police shitting in ppls houses is news to me
― ogmor, Thursday, 25 June 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/25/an-interview-with-the-baltimore-cop-whos-revealing-all-the-horrible-things-he-saw-on-the-job/?hpid=z3
― how's life, Friday, 26 June 2015 08:51 (eight years ago) link
this fucking bullshithttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/26/1396855/-Video-of-Philadelphia-man-holding-his-infant-daughter-arrested-for-not-paying-her-trainfare
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 June 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
supposedly that guy had just attacked his child's mother and taken the kid. who knows what happened precisely, but it sounds more complicated than the initial reports let on...
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 26 June 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
from the escaped prisoner story
The shooting occurred about 3:20 p.m. after Sgt. Jay Cook saw a suspicious man walking down a roadway in the Town of Constable, according to the state police. The sergeant ordered Mr. Sweat to stop, but he broke into a run and the sergeant, a firearms instructor, opened fire
definitely great police tactics in general
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 June 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
baltimore police commissioner canned
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
Kevin Davis did a pretty good job when he was chief of my county, as far as I know. Increased community outreach. Wonder if he'll be able to do good in bmore.
― how's life, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
i am not optimistic anything good will happen in baltimore re: the police department, for all eternity. batts needed to go but our mayor is so useless. she can't do anything without coating it in uselessness.
― computer champion (harbl), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
ffs
http://nypost.com/2015/07/14/nypd-union-head-on-the-citys-obscene-eric-garner-settlement
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
I couldn't even properly read that
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
ugh
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Nope
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
holy *shit* that's awful.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-federal-judge-orders-release-of-videos-20150714-story.html?14369191098620#page=1
wtf?!! these guys were tying to help their friend who made the call about the missing bike. this is too much anymore. i have no reason to believe that cops aren't just scared thugs with guns and a badges.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
what the fuck are they so damn scared of that all of them have their guns drawn? this is fucked . oh i forgot in their minds we are all criminals they just haven't caught yet.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link
Not nearly as bad as most the other things on here, but enraging nonetheless: former officer mocks police with email thanking the service for paying him while he was suspended
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/sandra.bland.5070/videos/10100617026077324http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/nytnow/online-campaign-questions-official-account-of-sandra-bland-death.htmlthis shit is straight terrifying
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 July 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
This is following a pattern similar to my great-grandfather's lynching in 1948.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 16 July 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link