Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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?

NYPD questioned a boy, offering him a McDonald’s soda. When he left, they took the straw and tested it for his DNA.

It didn't match crime scene evidence, but his DNA was entered into the city’s genetic database. To have it removed, the family had to go to court. The boy was 12. https://t.co/XXlYs7C0kU

— ✨ d o d a i ✨ (@dodaistewart) August 15, 2019

Houston Police were called in to intervene in a man's attempt at suicide by firearm last night. Man pulls trigger on self right when cop pulls trigger on him.

Investigation Pending.

this seems a bit unnecessary

Person in dress crossing street who spat in the general direction of a cop van, then was singled out by one of the riot cops, only to be tackled to the ground moments later by 5 officers. #ThisIsAmerica #PortlandProtest #PortlandProtests #PoliceBrutality #PortlandPolice #PPB pic.twitter.com/WDdH8YK8BU

— queerflatsoda (@feefifofummmm) August 18, 2019

booked for re-spritzing arrest

Cops' first priority is always to enforce respect for their authority

They'll always mistake compliance out of fear for compliance out of respect.

Wow, the NYPD actually fired the cop who killed Eric Garner.

looking forward to the apeshit reaction from pat lynch

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECWV3BXW4AAkof_?format=jpg

murdering unarmed black people is your job you say

Lynch always reminds me of a line from Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye: "There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn't be a cop."

Cops proceeding “with the utmost caution” is probably a good idea. Will probably save lives.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-cop-cleared-fatal-shooting-20190817-4rkkb7so5ventfu2kehxkj3uii-story.html

Good news, after 3 months they found the gun that a young black man supposedly had when a white cop killed him, a few years after the same cop killed another young black man who was holding a shiny watch.

how charming

https://www.theroot.com/gofundme-for-officer-who-killed-eric-garner-reaches-nea-1837439899

T Donegan needs to be harassed off of the internet forever.

Reported the campaign but it isn't breaking rules so...a futile gesture.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/22026/criminal-justice-mass-incarceration-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-plan

LA sheriff's deputy lied about being shot by sniper

Authorities say a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who said he was shot in a station parking lot was lying.

Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon said at a news conference late Saturday that Wednesday's "reported sniper assault was fabricated" by Angel Reinosa, a 21-year-old deputy.

A department statement on Thursday had said a round hit the top of Reinosa's shoulder, damaging his uniform shirt but failing to penetrate his flesh.

But Sheriff's Capt. Kent Wegener says no bullets were recovered from the scene and detectives saw "no visible injuries." He says Reinosa eventually admitted making up the story and using a knife to cut the two holes in his shirt.

Reinosa has been relieved of his duties and will face a criminal investigation. Wegener says Reinosa didn't explain a motive.

sure it will get just as much attention as jussie smollett

Daniel Pantaleo kept his job for 5 years making $120k/year after murdering Eric Garner on national television and people are still donating to his “family help” fund. Obscene. https://t.co/2CRorcMskM https://t.co/Bs88MnLVrj

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) August 25, 2019

a thread that tells it all

Thread:

Many of the people donating to Daniel Pantaleo’s GoFundMe are police officers. A lot of the names of donors are shared by active NYPD officers, sergeants, lieutenants, etc and many of those individuals have lawsuits against them and post racist social media content.

— Richmond Police (@TheQueerCrimer) August 25, 2019

A pointed opinion piece on the outrage over black citizens New Yorkers dousing cops with water that will be over the heads of a lot of white liberals.

"All this has inspired two white Republican state assemblymembers, Mike LiPetri and Michael Reilly, to introduce a headline-grabbing bill that would make throwing water on cops a felony, carrying a possible prison sentence of up to four years. Yes, thanks to you, there is now bipartisan support for a new water-to-prison pipeline. Which, to New York City, makes sense. Because, even though New York City police may have beaten and shot and strangled unarmed black and brown people since the NYPD began in 1845, YOU threw WATER on them."

https://www.gaycitynews.nyc/stories/2019/18/ne-er-a-drop-snide-lines-2019-08-15-gcn0.html

WE will find his attacker? Mayor DeBlasio YOU are not part of the WE. YOU are NOT NYPD NEVER were, NEVER will be. NYPD members wearing a uniform DO NOT STAND with YOU. They stand for something GREATER, have HIGHER IDEALS & SACRIFICE more in a day than YOU have in life. You’re OUT https://t.co/QMXXqSnQRt

— SBA (@SBANYPD) August 28, 2019

That's...something else. Absolutely terrifying.

Dude's a legitimate maniac, I'd expect nothing less.

My WIFE left me for HER tennis INSTRUCTOR

— Juggalocialism (@UweBollocks) August 28, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-NYPD cops accused of raping teen in police van dodge prison time with plea deal --- via @messagetime & @nypost https://t.co/Lqil7DyVly

— Tom Durante (@TomDurante) August 29, 2019

pic.twitter.com/CLGsyBUzxz

— Baltimore City FOP (@FOP3) August 29, 2019

Made the mistake of expressing my doubts about the veracity of a police account of a traffic stop (in which a lawyer of color with a very distinctly middle eastern name purportedly took a "wild swing" at police). WHOO boy, that was not a fun work lunch.

I live for those moments. Good job.

The Los Angeles County sheriffs office is “permeated by criminal gang culture” according to a lawsuit filed by *sheriffs deputies.* They say the sheriffs gang ‘The Banditos’ encourage the planting of evidence on people in order to increase arrest numbers. https://t.co/RPPSB1UqQx

— Ethan Brown (@ethanbrown72) September 18, 2019

i think i've posted about the LASD before. strong case for most fucked up institution in a big US city.

See reaction from @DrPhilGoff to conservative @HMDatMI as she asserts at a House Oversight hearing on policing that concerns about police shooting black people are overstated. pic.twitter.com/FSRaiLNIFL

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 19, 2019

amazing either of them can keep a straight face, for totally different reasons