Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

they were no angels

o hai Dershowitz decided to weigh in: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Freddie-Gray-Alan-Dershowitz-police-charges/2015/05/01/id/642143/

cockfarmer

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/05/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-brian-rice?CMP=share_btn_fb

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/11/cop-shoots-homeowner-south-carolina_n_7260830.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/05/olympia_police_shooting.html#incart_river

Brelo :(

yep

as they say, We'll See

The Cleveland Police Department, which has become a flash point in the racially charged debate over police tactics, has agreed to follow some of the most exacting standards in the nation over how and when its officers can use force, and will accept close oversight to make sure those rules are not ignored, city and federal officials said Tuesday.

The agreement is part of a settlement with the Justice Department over what federal officials have called a pattern of unconstitutional policing and abuse in Cleveland. The Justice Department found that police officers here used stun guns inappropriately, punched and kicked unarmed people, and shot at people who posed no threat. The incidents often went unreported and uninvestigated, investigators found.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/us/cleveland-police-accept-use-of-force-rules-in-justice-dept-deal.html

yeah, what happens when they don't meet these standards will be the test

judging by how it's gone in oakland, they might see some improvement in about ten years.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/7/71/587596/judge-wont-seal-photo-cpd-cops-posing-african-american-man-antlers

Herbert also compared the photo to an episode of “Seinfeld” in which Jerry is wrongly accused of picking his nose.

He even questioned whether the guns were really broomsticks carved to look like weapons.

fuck those guys

jesus fuck, reset humanity

in the grand scheme of things, Lynndie England is a worse human being than these guys, but fuck them anyway

well at least one of them's in prison for 12 years

sad lol at note about dashboard cam footage at the bottom

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/william-chapman-unarmed-shot-dead

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh5s2AGdGAx8GKBZxe

:D

tl;dr: heather macdonald of the manhattan institute is a cheap liar

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/ferguson-crime-wave_n_7494372.html

Wow, that is really loathsome. Would love to see if there's any response from the WaPo or author, but figure this will just get swept aside as a matter of 'subjective interpretation' or something.

And of course there are whole other essays to be written on the jump from ''there's this (actually fictitious) crime wave'' to ''well it's probably because protestors made everybody mad at the police.'' I mean, the sinister intentions of that 'argument/ are apparent, but it doesn't even make sense in crazytown: someone robs a gas station or kills their spouse, well, probably it's because some agitators stirred them up against the police. What? Does the Washington Post even have editors?

no, just Amazon interns

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/tamir-rice-shooting-investigation-moves-to-cuyahoga-county-prosecutors-office?fd

i wasn't expecting anything different but still

:(

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/06/ezell_ford_lapd_concludes_killing_of_unarmed_mentally_ill_man_was_justified.html

the conversation always moves to what happened in the few moments prior to the gun being discharged. Never to what circumstances led to the confrontation and if they could have been avoided. well, ok, that does get discussed but usually in a brief, glossed-over way.

perhaps if they didn't have one set of procedures for handling escalated scenarios that they applied to everybody in cookie cutter fashion instead of y'know, learning how to handle situations with the mentally ill or folks with learning disabilities so they might know what behaviors to anticipate.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-chief-20150607-story.html#page=2

interview with the interim ferguson police chief

it is some bullshit-ass bullshit, if you feel like reading some of that

the conversation always moves to what happened in the few moments prior to the gun being discharged. Never to what circumstances led to the confrontation and if they could have been avoided. well, ok, that does get discussed but usually in a brief, glossed-over way.

perhaps if they didn't have one set of procedures for handling escalated scenarios that they applied to everybody in cookie cutter fashion instead of y'know, learning how to handle situations with the mentally ill or folks with learning disabilities so they might know what behaviors to anticipate.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, June 6, 2015 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ I really couldn't put it any better than this

IIRC Seattle & Los Angeles PDs have recently adopted policies specifically geared towards changing this (by holding police accountable [at least in theory] for their decisions & actions prior to the actual split-second decision re: use of deadly force) but idk if any officers have actually faced sanctions as a result

... but obviously, it would take a complete overhaul of our police force & healthcare system to really deal with mental illness in a productive way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46-XTqXkzE

cop starts waving his gun around at 3'10"

pigs

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/texas-police-officer-suspended-after-pulling-weapon-on-teens?bftw&utm_term=4ldqpgc#.niqy8qkQK

there's a long list of things i'd like to do to that cop.

what a terrible human being

This is more "correctional facility brutality" but I am disheartened that this story is the first I remember reading about his young man: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-2015

yeah I've been following his story since that first new yorker article -- such a heartbreaking end for a young man who demonstrated so much resilience in the face of adversity

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about him:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-brief-and-tragic-life-of-kalief-browder/395156/

xp I hate to say this because ugh, respectability politics, but... I hold out some (naive?) hope that Kalief Browder's tragedy might touch even those who dismiss Eric Garner & Michael Brown because they were 'no angels'

of course that's little consolation to his family, & none whatsoever to Kalief himself. RIP to a brave young man who was forced to go through hell and did everything in his power to make it through :(

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/08/police-officer-who-shot-walter-scott-indicted-for-murder/?postshare=361433779540588

good news

Who knew that South Carolina would be the state that was a leader on indicting police for murder?

leader on covering their ass when there's a video that no one could ever lie away

as opposed to New York

plenty of videos get lied away

read the url as "police-officer-who-shot-scott-walker"

wishful thinking

oh, Bratton

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/bratton-hiring-black-nypd-officers-criminal-records

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

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"

surprised he didn't twirl his gun around on his index finger honestly