Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

hell, DeSantis as usual is one step ahead in turpitude. He's got his own team, the Florida Guard.

And of course we have Abbott building a National Guard military base in Texas to "protect the border." These guys are very into having their own military. And this is the kind of stuff that really chips away at what I've always thought was one of our best structural protections against having a real police state, because power over law enforcement is so generally decentralized and historically there's actually been a lot of tension between fed-state-local agencies. To the degree that all of that gets "streamlined" under the command of governors and state legislators, it's obviously bad news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2024/new-orleans-police-child-sexual-abuse-rodney-vicknair/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/14/trial-new-orleans-police-child-abuse/

Why does this seem vaguely familiar?

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2024/04/26/frank-tyson-police-death-canton-ohio-i-cant-breathe/73466345007/

anybody else following this?

whether they were at the wrong house is kinda irrelevant, they were just itching to shoot him :(

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/experts-gun-justify-deadly-force-fatal-shooting-florida-110137002

I wouldn’t say I’m following it closely but it’s definitely made national news.

hello

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/la-sheriff-department-gangs-alex-villanueva-1234691873/

deputies hoping to prove themselves worthy of gang membership routinely seek out violent encounters with the public, the investigation reports

oh cool

A detail from another report on the undersheriff gang member

"Burson testified he knew Murakami for approximately 30 years. He told the special counsel that Murakami has a tattoo of a "caveman" on his ankle."

Awwwww how adorable

sadly, it’s of the Geico caveman

Distressing video shows Missouri cop gun down lost 13-pound deaf and blind dog: ‘What am I supposed to do?’ https://t.co/ehZAKmAZHO pic.twitter.com/PKidqdaZhm

— New York Post (@nypost) May 25, 2024

(i have not watched the video in the link and suggest that you don't either)

https://i.imgur.com/e4tfe1V.jpeg