Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

speaking as a cop,

https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/4-investigates-farmington-police-officer-resigns-amid-accusations-of-excessive-force-on-11-year-old-student/5529724/

'she was stronger than me'

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-25/costco-shooting-lapd-officer-wont-will-face-charges-in-killing-of-intellectually-disabled-man

Not clear if he’s coming back on duty but grand juries will not charge cops with anything and that’s a problem.

Tasering? Really? What a disaster this policy is. https://t.co/1HwIjuIgkF

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) October 29, 2019

jesus, tasered for fare evasion is fucked.
daily reminder to hold the exit door and swipe anyone who looks like they need it as you leave if you have a monthly

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-general-manager-apologizes-to-man-cited-for-14826101.php?

Transit cops restrain and handcuff a black dude for eating a sandwich. Transit manager apologies, one of the Transit board members participates in a demonstration against this action, Cop Union Rep says, actually, nah, not sorry.

police unions = the worst unions

well, they're good for their members ... like, they will stand by you if you kill someone because you are stupid, scared and racist! Also, cops tend to have really impressive pension benefits ... that are at risk for bankrupting the cities where they brutalize people, but hey, not a bad deal for the cops.

Y'ever notice these minor, pedantic rules that white folks routinely flout get treated like serious crimes when minorities get arrested for them?

"He was told no eating on the platform, he got what was coming to em!"

Also the belligerence excuse.

Last i looked, cussing someone out isn't illegal

I've been arguing about this on fb w/people taking the cop's side ... one of whom brought up the fact that the guy used the homophobic "f-word" as why the guy "deserved" it. And to me, it reinforces the bullying aggro bro aspect of police, where it's mostly about asserting authority and power, and, not to defend the use of that word, but, I feel like his use of it, towards the cop, was basically acknowledging that the cop's behavior wasn't about "safety" or "compliance" but about asserting power and was retribution for "not doing what I told you to do" and being aggressively masculine.

asserting authority and power,

this is every cop's raison d'etre - if you don't cower before the badge they will look for some pretext that allows them to assert that authority and *make* you cower

issuing a citation is basically the bureaucratic symbol for "I'm a cop, suck my dick"

Compare with “transport in London is shit” where a woman called another woman disgusting for eating hard boiled eggs on the tube, which is apparently newsworthy over there

tbf, that is disgusting behavior

xp the first woman was fined £1500 and presumably has a criminal record now tbf

The ‘he was asking for it, he was eating a sandwich’ thing contrasted with the bristling over smoking laws etc. is a nice illustration of conservative politics where there “must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect...”

I mean fuck, the Bundy clan

Maybe that comma wasn't necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11jrByA6m0c

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/11/14/mta-will-spend-249m-on-new-cops-to-save-200m-on-fare-evasion/

If only civilians shot by police got such kid-gloves in the press:

https://ktla.com/2019/12/03/body-cam-video-apparently-shows-lapd-officer-inappropriately-touching-dead-womans-breasts/

PG county cop charged with second-degree murder after shooting a guy whose arms were cuffed behind his back seven times

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/prince-george-police-shooting/2020/01/28/47359178-41e2-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html

7 times.

all I know about PG county is from dialog from The Wire :(

It plays a big role in Between the World and Me as well.

It’s where I live and work. Also a much different place than it was 20 years ago.

https://6abc.com/5889807/

This is going on where I live. The school board member expressed concern that armed cops stationed in schools would end up shooting children of color and the Blue Lives Matter folks are calling for her head.

Blue lives are the biggest snowflakes. Fuck's sake.

"There are instances and the data supports some of this stuff that they were suggesting about African American males being more likely to be shot by police," said Chief Molloy, "but saying those statements without any data, without any context, does not lend itself to a fruitful exchange of ideas that will bring us together."

Translation: The facts hurt my feelings!!

there are data to support this, but mentioning said data, without mentioning the data, does not lend itself to wlczvnzxcvjhasd;gfas;djfasdasss

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Vallejo-cop-wanted-to-educate-a-bicyclist-13830311.php

no charges against the cop

BREAKING: Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams will not file charges against Vallejo Police Officer Ryan McMahon for the February 2018 shooting death of Ronell Foster. https://t.co/7xrrh8paNc

— Open Vallejo (@OpenVallejo) January 31, 2020

ACADAAB

McMahon told police investigators that he wanted to stop Foster “to educate the public on the dangers that this person was creating for himself and the traffic on Sonoma Boulevard,”

ICE agents just shot two brothers, one in the face, while attempting to serve a deportation order. Both were unarmed. Neither was the man they were actually looking for.https://t.co/5DQVBQq5Bt

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) February 6, 2020

Mayor DeBlasio, the members of the NYPD are declaring war on you! We do not respect you, DO NOT visit us in hospitals. You sold the NYPD to the vile creatures, the 1% who hate cops but vote for you. NYPD cops have been assassinated because of you. This isn’t over, Game on! https://t.co/XyruPraM9T

— SBA (@SBANYPD) February 9, 2020

god I just can't....

Vile creatures ie the citizens whose safety and security the police are supposed to be responsible for.

There's so much...where do I even....

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/482298-video-of-school-officer-threatening-to-shoot-high-schooler-goes

as bad as my primary school experience was, i thank god every day i'm not growing up in the current era of manbabies with guns patrolling the high school perimeter

Yeah for real.

I knew the kid who would call in bomb threats to our school to avoid taking tests! he was a good student and ended up in the military! he would almost certainly still be in jail if he did that shit in this climate!

man i'd be a good student too with all that extra test prep time

Back then i am fairly sure my school ignored bomb threats.

Columbine didn't happen til my senior year

Wait so that kid who got a gun pulled on him ended up getting expelled for that?

At the end of the video the (white, I think) lady is talking about suspending him for swearing and calling her the n-word, which he denies and then calls her a racist

Some unpacking here:

1. This is not a random pyscho "declaring war". It's the official twitter account of an organization representing NYC police officers.

2. For past 5 years, de Blasio has avoided criticism of the NYPD, done nothing to reform them, been 110% pro-cop. This is what that gets you. https://t.co/1AanzyTWyc

— JW Mason (@JWMason1) February 10, 2020

"There's a problem here which I don't think progressives have really grappled with. We tend to approach policing as just another public function that could be performed better in various ways. But things like this bring out how police are a distinct political problem."

A friend in Portland posted on fb this insane story about an small-town Oregon police department just outside Oregon surveilling, arresting, seizing property from, then (falsely) charging an African-American guy with theft, all to get him to drop accusations of racial discrimination/harassment against his employer/boss who was an acquaintance of the police chief.

http://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/02/west-linn-to-pay-600000-to-settle-wrongful-arrest-racial-discrimination-suit-stemming-from-former-chiefs-favor-for-a-friend.html

Despite the settlements the guy received, the end is some kick in the teeth.

This story isn't insane; it's expected.