Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

again: disarm american beat police

it's baffling to me that people find this baffling in 2021

no personal shade intended

Even then, and even though he had a knife, he's wheelchair bound! There must be a hundred possible ways to stop him without using a gun.

The cop could literally have run over and pushed him off the scooter. But, you know, that would involve running.

i would have used a nearby wrench to jam up the wheels, thereby stopping the perpetrator in their very tracks

a flying jump kick might have worked as well

Jump-kicking someone out of a motorized wheelchair would have been better than shooting them to death but also falls under the umbrella of excessive force. It would be admittedly hilarious excessive force, but still.

that's true. this leads us to the final idea, the most failproof but also the least practical: the door that leads to a hallway of banana peels

They could've just followed him around until his battery ran out.

Fucking disgusting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeS_0NQUZs

According to district attorney’s records reviewed by The Times, one officer sent a text message referring to a deposition he gave after shooting.

“They believed our lies. Good job sticking to the script,” he wrote. “LMAO, that’s what they call a W.” https://t.co/1qHfKFlHIp

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 8, 2021

LATimes headline: Torrance police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases.

Better headline: Racist, homophobic Torrance police jeopardize hundreds of people with false imprisonment.

God cops really are dumb: “congrats on lying under oath, which is a crime, which we planned to commit and indeed committed. A crime.”

If you're going to be evil, might as well be stupid too

Y'all, the conservative media is running with this for different reasons, but you cannot make this shit up.

Eric Adams’ new NYPD commissioner is being appointed in front of a mural featuring Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Assata Shakur. pic.twitter.com/TshnCS3U31

— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) December 15, 2021

what a coincidence

Two Dems who support police reform carjacked less than 24 hours apart https://t.co/jushwinWqX pic.twitter.com/F3Jtfusdfl

— New York Post (@nypost) December 23, 2021

I used to know someone who did radical anti-police/pro-BLM organizing and she ended up with cops parked on her street relentlessly ticketing her on purpose until she had to stop driving because she couldn't afford it.

kim potter verdict to be delivered shortly. manslaughter seems like a slam dunk but what do i know. also haven't watched any of this, whereas i basically saw the whole chauvin trial

I had to listen to my dumb sister in Prior Lake list all the ways this poor guy was in violation of various laws and how the poor lady cop’s actions were an accident bla bla bla and all I could say to her besides ‘accidents are manslaughter’ was ‘none of these things you say about him are reasons he should be dead’.

She’s guilty

"Mistakes were made ..."

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/lapd-chief-says-officers-appear-to-have-accidentally-killed-a-14-year-old-girl-in-burlington-coat-factory-dressing-room

Shopping for her quinceañera. Brutal.

Not their fault; it was that dastardly bullet.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHZdSREXMAUaiBt.jpg

STRAY BULLET KILLS, it was just a coincidence that police fired their guns at the same time.

So heartsick. I hate it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

In the session, conducted by Lexipol and titled “Arrest Related Deaths: Managing Your Medical Examiner,” he suggested that such deaths were outside the control of officers.

“Decades ago we used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome, and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,” he said at one point in the training session, adding later: “Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”

~i fucking love science~

https://www.tiktok.com/@billytibbsinator/video/7044760294098275589

Not sure if this belongs here, except for the bogus 'citizens arrest' part

Ahmaud Arbery's killers sentenced to life in prison

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ahmaud-arbery-killing-mcmichael-bryan-sentencing/index.html

Life without parole for two of them

omg "arrest related death syndrome" !!!!!!!

yeah i'm still having so many thoughts about that one and some other things

not unrelated to the "in this house we believe...SCIENCE IS REAL" and the "science" supporting reducing covid quarantine to 5 days because airlines --> walmart et al. reducing sick leave in turn, people weaponizing various stats for their chosen purposes, power, knowledge, ethics........................zzzzzz

god

damn

like it's such a big admission, just sitting there! i mean:

Decades ago

no, still doing this shit every day

we

"we" = cops (the people you work for)

used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome

used to use pseudoscience to put people in jail

and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,

people (not "we) were able to show they were innocent, even though "we" tried our best to hide the truth

“Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”

hopefully in the future "we" can discover a new fake syndrome so "we" don't have to be held responsible for when "we" kill someone

worth noting that SIDS/SUID are when you can't determine the cause, not when you know the cause but don't want to "blame the police officer"

Confirmation that Seattle police were spreading fake rumors of armed Proud Boys in the area to destabilize CHAZ/CHOP: https://mynorthwest.com/3301600/spd-fake-reports-proud-boys-protesters-radio-chatter-opa/

not unrelated to the "in this house we believe...SCIENCE IS REAL" and the "science" supporting reducing covid quarantine to 5 days because airlines --> walmart et al. reducing sick leave in turn, people weaponizing various stats for their chosen purposes, power, knowledge, ethics........................zzzzzz

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, January 7, 2022 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

basically my thoughts as i'm trying to fall asleep after getting high on a weeknight

this is not about police brutality as much as it is about how government operates generally, but it haunts me

By broadcasting mutually contradictory, needlessly convoluted, nonsensical policies, an institution can ensure that for each victim there is a narrative where that victim *disobeyed*

— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) January 1, 2022

foucault is real

YES, and that gets to my other thought in the stream of consciousness, all of these white house/CDC messages (such as the one pre-christmas where the white house said the unvaccinated could look forward to a winter of death?) i think to myself "who the fuck is this even for?" it can't be to persuade the unvaccinated (because if so...woof) it is meant to tell a story about how these failures are anyone else's fault.

"science is real" is "do your own research" for liberals

Science is really anything I want it to be based on my personal circumstances

^ science

does it work the other way, like, if someone kills an on duty cop attacking them, can they also consider the cop's death "arrest related death syndrome"?

just be real and say "it's not illegal when a cop does it"

^ the Nixon defense

Our local sheriff's department killed a guy a few years ago by hogtying him and putting him on his stomach and sitting on him. He was a huge guy, and was apparently on opioids at the time, so the official ruling was his asphyxiation was an OD death that the officers couldn't have known about because they didn't know he was high. The D.A. declined to prosecute. The family sued and won a $750,000 settlement from the county. None of the officers involved suffered any repercussions at all.

that's such a typical story by now that it should be the plot of every cop show on television

The people are murdered by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who instigate the killing, and the district attorneys, who decline to prosecute the officers.
Chung-chung

^ too depressing to excelsior but otherwise