Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

we’d be here for days if i listed all the questions i have about this one

just... seriously wtf

Oh i guarantee this explanation will give way to something more sinister soon. Esp since the cops are looking to arrest her and not defending her with some bullshit defense

another one off to jail: https://myhoustonmajic.com/3323342/terry-thompson-found-guilty-of-murdering-man-outside-dennys-restaraunt/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/from-defendant-to-top-prosecutor-this-tattooed-texas-da-represents-a-new-wave-in-criminal-justice-reform/2018/11/19/e1dca7cc-d300-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html

By 2015, business was thriving, but Matt Manning, Gonzalez’s then-law partner and now chief deputy in the district attorney’s office, said he found Gonzalez in a mood for change one day: “He said, ‘Bro, the way it’s working, it’s not working.’ ”

Gonzalez thought defendants were routinely overcharged by authorities who wanted leverage to obtain plea deals. The then-district attorney’s office also faced accusations of hiding exculpatory evidence.

Gonzalez launched a long-shot bid to unseat a fellow Democrat in the 2016 primary. To many people’s surprise, Gonzalez won and then squeaked by a Republican in the general election that November.

Gonzalez’s opponents highlighted his tattoos and rugged image, but some supporters say the moves backfired.

“The problem with a lot of politicians is they play bigger than what they are,” said Bryan Gomez, a member of the Calaveras. “Mark didn’t roll his sleeves down over his tattoos — he rolled them up. He wasn’t ashamed of what he was.”

Suddenly, a man who once was arrested was running a 75-person prosecutor’s office with a budget of more than $4 million and promising major changes. He was sworn in while wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey.

thank you for that bright spot

LA sheriff's department (i.e. county jails and local policing in unincorporated areas) is having a real banner year. e.g. this is from one journalist in the past 2 months

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-deputy-svu-rape-20181119-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-villanueva-campaign-finance-20181116-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-freeway-stops-20181115-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-deputy-pot-arrest-20181107-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-tattoo-secret-societies-20181024-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-deputies-on-leave-20181004-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/nyregion/body-cameras-police-marijuana-arrest.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/nieves-v-bartlett-court-rules-police-confrontation/576595/

As one can imagine, Arctic Man revelers sometimes attract the attention of law enforcement. One such meeting led to a case called Nieves v. Bartlett that will be argued before the Supreme Court on Monday, and that may finally resolve the question of whether a citizen can ignore or even talk back to police officers without fear of consequences.

In theory, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to talk back. But anyone who has ever been around citizen-police confrontations knows that, on occasion, officers (who are as human as anybody else) decide they’ve had enough and place the loudmouth under arrest.

When can the citizen sue for “retaliatory arrest”? More properly, what if the citizen has done, or seems to have done, something that gives the officer “probable cause,” but that offense might have gone unnoticed except for a “retaliatory motive”—the desire to shut the citizen up?

also, http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2016/04/in-defense-of-defensive-violence-against-government-agents/ , why not

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/former-dallas-police-officer-indicted-murder-charge-after-killing-man-his-apartment/

"former" doing some work there.

ugh

https://www.theroot.com/st-louis-cops-giddily-planned-to-beat-protesters-they-1830770504

Niagara police officer in stable condition after being shot by fellow officer

This is an odd story. Also contains a fine example of police shooting passive voice:

"I can only tell you that there was an altercation, a firearm was discharged and one officer was struck."

https://www.twincities.com/2018/11/30/intentional-murder-charge-sought-against-mohamed-noor-minneapolis-cop-who-killed-justine-damond/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/florida-stand-your-ground-police.html

MIAMI — Police officers in Florida can avail themselves of the state’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday, offering broader immunity to law enforcement officers in a decision that could make it harder to hold police criminally responsible in disputed shootings.

The court said in its ruling that police officers have the same rights as other Florida citizens who win immunity from prosecution under the law.

bye, fucker

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cover-trial-officer-shot-teen-sentenced-060317624.html

I have to say it's nice to see juries start to wise up when it comes to these trials

it's too bad the three cops who tried to cover up what happened were declared not guilty yesterday, though. van dyke gets 7 years, the cops who perpetuate the code of silence, which is just as big of a problem, go free

you guys saw he's only going to be in jail for like three years right

doesn't really feel like a victory

Jesus this story about the guy who filmed Eric Garner's murder is harrowing.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety

“Eat, inmate,” a CO commanded, banging Orta’s cell with a baton. The guards were all standing too close, watching too intently as the others ate. This kind of attention was unusual. He saw others from his cell block staring down into their meatloaf, forks frozen in midair.

“We’re not going anywhere until you eat,” a CO said and entered Orta’s cell. He hit Orta with his baton, hurled slurs, promised a citation for refusing orders. “How many days in SHU you want?”

Orta rattles his chair as he tells me this part of the story. “He tried to bend me up,” he says, then shows me how, miming his arms being twisted behind his back.

Some of the prisoners had eaten everything quickly, and now they had strange looks on their faces. Orta could see a man in a nearby cell. He opened his mouth and Orta leaned forward to hear what he had to say, but instead of words, blood flowed from the man’s parted lips. He was vomiting blood. Others were vomiting blood; some were on the floor of their cells, clawing at their own bodies.

Later, in depositions, the affected would say their stomachs were on fire. Some felt pain in their chests and worried they were having heart attacks. Others were so dizzy they couldn’t stand. They writhed on the floor of their cells. Some claimed the guards walked by, watching, laughing, flipping them all the bird. The stench of vomit and feces permeated the cell.

No one was taken to the infirmary. Orta had wrapped up his meatloaf in a napkin, hoping it could be tested for the poison he was certain was there. When he looked closely at the meatloaf, he saw the top was a speckled bluish-green.

Court documents filed six days later alleged that the prisoners had suffered and continued to suffer from “nausea, vomiting, pain, dizziness, aches, headaches, stomach/intestinal pains, dehydration, diarrhea, nosebleeds, throwing up blood, diarrhea with blood, and/or an overwhelming sense of illness.” The symptoms were consistent with human consumption of rat poison, and when the tainted meatloaf was finally tested, the results found that the blue-green pellets visible in the meatloaf were brodifacoum, the active ingredient in rodenticide.

jfc

yeah, that's absolutely horrifying and obscene.

I wonder why people are skeptical of the Chicago Police Department in this Jussie Smollett business https://t.co/YCmb4kXXH4

— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) March 27, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/24/florida-police-broward-county-delucca-rolle

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia

Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/ios-12-shortcut-uses-iphone-to-record-police-during-traffic-stop-2018-10

Once the shortcut is installed and configured, you just have to say, for example, "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over." Then the program pauses music you may be playing, turns down the brightness on the iPhone, and turns on "do not disturb" mode.

It also sends a quick text to a predetermined contact to tell them you've been pulled over, and it starts recording using the iPhone's front-facing camera. Once you've stopped recording, it can text or email the video to a different predetermined contact and save it to Dropbox.

in stebbins, alaska, all seven police officers have domestic violence convictions

https://www.propublica.org/article/stebbins-alaska-cops-criminal-records-domestic-violence

come to beautiful stebbins, alaska, where all our cops are bastards

The only surprising thing about a police force comprised entirely of criminals is that these cops were all actually convicted.

I guess having a rap sheet to consult is in some ways preferable to being approached by an officer whose felonious proclivities are a total mystery.

Questions you’d never thought of asking until the NYT did for you. Buncha pussycats, the NYPD. pic.twitter.com/OE0AJ67Hya

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 25, 2019

many a good man has fallen from dousing

After 20 years of police scholarship, I'm so pessimistic about the possibility of police reform. The abuse and corruption are built into the mission. Instead, we need to reduce their scope and power as much as possible. #TheEndofPolicing https://t.co/MWT0MIy3td

— Alex S. Vitale (@avitale) July 25, 2019

darn bullets

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EA5jDDbX4AAaufh.jpg:small

Just all by itself.

deputy executes man cheka style

"Guns don't kill people . . ."

Thugs with badges... 🖕🏾🐷 pic.twitter.com/0Ezwi3NQlh

— D-E-ToDa6thLetter (@5StarDieHard) July 9, 2019

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmqnx/galveston-police-are-very-sorry-they-led-a-black-man-behind-horses-with-a-rope?utm_source=vicenewsfacebook

I can't find it right but somebody @'ed WBRZ on Twitter about that ridiculous headline, and the writer responded back saying, "There are lot of complicated journalistic reasons to write it that way, more than we can get to the bottom of with a 280-character limit."

The respondent tweeted back asking, Do you, by any chance, have cops in your immediate family and friends? and the journalist was like, yeah, Two of my brothers and etc etc .

Response: "Oh I guess we did get to the bottom of it within the character limit then."

grim lol

ouch

what wbrz headline?

Posted by mooks ^^^

Imagine writing that fucking headline and your name is TREY SCHMALTZ.

That's Officer Schmaltz to you, show some respect for the badge

thanks, io

The message that Attorney General Barr delivered to the Fraternal Order of Police in his speech this morning is basically: We are at war, and you must destroy the village in order to save it. https://t.co/ikrnsReFdR pic.twitter.com/KhvafhlPYe

— Carl Takei (@carltakei) August 12, 2019

Local news reporting that eight NYC cops have committed suicide this year.

What's that joke about a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?