Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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.

oregon police are terrible and racist and not accountable to any civil authority. last time portland needed a police chief the mayor undertook an extensive search and wound up hiring a Black lady from california. she was not the police union's preferred candidate but she still seemed to spend most of her time going on right-wing talk shows until she abruptly left this year to become police chief in philadelphia. good luck with that philly. this time around the mayor just randomly promoted somebody, which is probably smart because it doesn't fucking matter who the police chief is.

the worst most hateful shit comes from the police unions, and nobody of course dares to say anything about it because unions are sacred cows whether or not one of them is very obviously a Racist Bastards Club.

just like all of the other american institutions that are failing, i expect this to continue to not be addressed and cops to continue to spend their time hunting for Black people to hurt.

Sorry DJP. I totally agree and did not mean to make this seem like an outlier.

https://gothamist.com/news/photojournalist-arrested-while-filming-nypd-chinatown

Anderson Cooper is a legend. pic.twitter.com/4YYwmJVF2a

— Ian Sams (@IanSams) February 22, 2020

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/18/nypd-misconduct-body-cameras-marijuana/

Police shoot, kill man during welfare check

https://www.abqjournal.com/1438375/apd-involved-in-shooting-east-of-downtown.html

not US, but -

Lancashire Police issue apology after officer filmed apparently threatening to fabricate offence (see video): https://t.co/VsR1lmZvU4 pic.twitter.com/OSLwV6i125

— ITV Granada Reports (@GranadaReports) April 19, 2020

an instant classic

this is fucking straight up murder! what a fucking horrible place this is. god damn it !

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/05/us/ahmaud-arbery-jogging-georgia-shooting/index.html?

and it took a grand jury to even investigate FFS !!

Rolling Thread on Race 2020

it seems no one cares

It’s sickening I just can’t

that motherfucking DA (Barnhill) needs to not only lose his job, he needs to be fucking deported.

how in the hell, even without a video, could you hear the details of the story that the McMichaels reported to police and rule that this was self-defense and in accordance with a citizen's arrest?

this is the sequel to Trayvon Martin - a stalking with a deadly weapon that inexplicably got blamed on the victim who didn't bring a weapon to the fight. self-fucking defense. boy it helps to be a retired ex-investigator for the DA, white, and a resident of Georgia to get that kind of favorable spin.

Gregory & Travis McMichael have been arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. There will be a press conference tomorrow morning at 9 AM in Brunswick, GA (1 Conservation Way). https://t.co/jBhe4eIpeW pic.twitter.com/PEsOdnyXdR

— GA Bureau of Invest (@GBI_GA) May 8, 2020

it seems no one cares

― DJP

i feel that hard. i wish there was something, anything, i could do :(

can't wait for the defense lawyers to find specific frames in the video that proves arbery was 'attacking' them or some shit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/07/indianapolis-shooting-livestream-facebook/#click=https://t.co/5mb1b55Fwb