Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

why are news orgs incapable of describing what happens in straightforward language? will pigs intimidate them if they do or something? or just editorial cowardice/racism?

i know a bunch of people on this board think their cop relatives are the good ones or whatever, fuck them all

The last two, possibly their own latent racism...all of the above?

Apparently lying on pavement with your knee in your back crushing your breathing is "resisting arrest".

Release the cops' names

i know a bunch of people on this board think their cop relatives are the good ones or whatever, fuck them all

― no (Left), Tuesday, May 26, 2020 11:09 AM bookmarkflaglink

Now, why the fuck would you post this?

I like that it was my post that triggered this when I am the person being targeted, both by police and Left

news to me that i'm targeting you

My cop relative (dead for 25 years) once ran the precinct where this happened. He believed every person was entitled to civil and human rights, particularly when interacting with cops. He’d be fucking furious if he were alive to see this.

that's nice but fuck cops

maybe the real cop... is you

This is literally a POLICE BRUTALITY thread, you can stop the performative caterwauling. Also LOL are you really going to pretend that wasn't a DJP dig when the exchange that you're likely basing this on from March was between silby and DJP:

why do you like cops so much

My father's cousin is a retired NYC Transit cop and my first cousin is a parole officer. I like both of them a lot.

― DJP, Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:12 PM bookmarkflaglink

Xpost

Release the cops' names

Fvck these murdering pigs

1- Derek Chauvin #1087

2- Tou Thao #7162

Minneapolis Police Department 350 South 5th Street, Room 130, Minneapolis, MN 55415-1389

pol✧✧✧@minneapoli✧✧✧.g✧✧ Minneapolis✧✧✧@minneapoli✧✧✧.g✧✧

612-673-3000 pic.twitter.com/cJxua2ncEU

— Feminist Flag Corps (@FemFlagCorps) May 26, 2020

xxp oh yeah. I stand by fuck every cop. these two in particular right now ofc

Unless yr in NWA, u can stop now

ACAB including my born-out-of-wedlock late uncle.

I'll stop except to note how weird it is that we're supposed to believe what cops are constantly doing worldwide with impunity has nothing to do with the function (or origin) of policing

all humans are bastards

Police statement: the officers noticed he was experiencing a medical emergency.

How perceptive! Was the first clue his fifth I CAN'T BREATHE scream?

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/four-minneapolis-officers-fired-after-death-of-george-floyd

Now charge them with murder/accessory to murder

yup, agreed

That said, as our 2017 investigation showed, fired police officers often successfully appeal and get their jobs back -- in some cases because they successfully argue they were fired too quickly/before a full investigation could take place https://t.co/SSHHfTrJPa

— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) May 26, 2020

lol unionized law enforcement

Or, as we've seen time and time again, they just get rehired by another municipality nearby.

Minneapolis' union is ultra powerful, Bob Kroll runs it and is a fascist piece of shit.

it makes reform incredibly difficult because he undercuts the chief and mayor behind the scenes.

also Minneapolis has a "weak mayor" city government

also this extreme show of force was apparently in response to.....a fake EBT card used at a corner grocery.

disgusting

a friend of mine on Facebook is a photographer and he was at the Trump rally in Minneapolis

he posted a photo of allegedly the officer standing right behind Trump with a maga shirt and a LAW & ORDER FOR TRUMP sign

just saw on Facebook that the owner of Dragon Wok, a restaurant on that corner, has footage of the whole thing and shared it with the Washington Post. other businesses on that corner had footage seized by FBI

also this extreme show of force was apparently in response to.....a fake EBT card used at a corner grocery.

disgusting

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, May 26, 2020 4:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lynched for stealing bread.

a friend of mine on Facebook is a photographer and he was at the Trump rally in Minneapolis

he posted a photo of allegedly the officer standing right behind Trump with a maga shirt and a LAW & ORDER FOR TRUMP sign

I also read last night about the apparently high-ranking MPD guy that was incensed that he couldn't wear his uniform to stand on stage with Trump at the rally, so he printed up a bunch of COPS FOR TRUMP shirts for his officers to wear instead.

I get numbed to this stuff easily, but this one is really wrecking me rn. And they need to stop putting pop-up autoplay videos of a man's life being snuffed out on news websites. It's horrible.

The photo is bad enough for me, I try to avoid watching these as much as I can at this point

I had CNN on as background and Smerconish had George Zimmerman's lawyer walk through and dissect the video of Ahmaud Arbery's murder, which was extremely upsetting

(Zimmerman's lawyer was all "put these guys underneath the jail", which if Zimmerman's lawyer can't find an out for you, you are really fucked)

you'd think. i guess the final obstacle is selecting a jury that is willing to acknowledge the obvious crimes and convict

I'm from the Twin Cities and while I've come to better understand how racist they/we are since leaving, this makes me physically ill in a way that's new to me.

This killed me, so this coffee shop is 2 blocks from my gf's apartment so we usually go over here to get coffee on weekends. Courtney is one of those classic women behind a counter, really fun and sassy and loves talking to everyone and generally just makes the place feel really homey....and it turns out she was his girlfriend 💔

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAs5ruNHzDr/?igshid=rx680a36n26b

All these good people, lives ended or shattered and that piece of shit if still breathing air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjUeXTf56s

Damn. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/aXPqHINcfA

— Hamdia Ahmed (@hamdia_ahmed) May 27, 2020

Wow he rapped with DJ Screw back in the day

https://blog.thecurrent.org/2020/05/minnesota-music-community-mourns-george-floyd-conga-latin-bistro-staffer-and-former-houston-rapper/

this is never going to stop, but it’s only going to get worse until white liberals and centrists finally come to grips with the reality that an inordinate number of white supremacists join law enforcement so that they can murder unarmed black people and not only get away with it, but be treated as folk heroes by conservative media.

And while this does clearly does not apply to every law enforcement officer, a comfortable majority of LEOs know this to be the case and simply do not care.

Just saw this fascinating 2017 Pew poll while researching a column. Percentage of respondents who think the US has done enough to achieve racial equality:

White cops: 92%
White public: 57%
Black cops: 29%
Black public: 12%https://t.co/DfGBApnDYS

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) May 27, 2020

a local bookstore posted a thing of themselves writing in floyd's name on the 'names' page in claudia rankine's 'citizen', the one that is designed to be revised as more people are killed.

i knew that was how it worked and my edition is several years old now but i was surprised to see that in the couple dozen new ones, so many were twin cities-located victims. i've had students who skipped class to attend the protests around some of them as they were happening. i guess the surprise was not in the victims, but in their inclusion on the list making it look like the story, even for rankine's general intended american-caught-in-history reader, centered on my home.

since philando castile i've been pointing out to my students that one of the killers graduated from the school they are attending, because when i found that out it struck me how much more urgent it could be to keep teaching this material, for all that it seems kind of marginal (as what it is, and for me to be the one doing it, to the students i usually have). that guy could well have been signed up for just the kind of course i normally teach.

… and brushed it aside with the same confused testy refusal to think that so many of the students bring to it. it's so frustrating to see, even in a setting where they are generally trying to be 'on good behavior', so many people who like to think of themselves as non-racist having their biases and inclinations reinforced by a fundamental thoughtlessness about ostensibly non-racial ideas like who (if anyone) deserves to die, what justice requires, the difference between supporting someone and critically evaluating their actions, the possibility of evaluating actions in a situation independently of the perspectives of 'both' 'sides' to it… the muck makes constructive engagement such a fruitless slog sometimes.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/27/u-of-m-president-announces-plans-to-cut-some-ties-with-minneapolis-police-department/

I talked to Alondra Cano earlier this evening. Was told she and Jeremiah Ellison and a couple others (Reich & Gordon I think) are working on legislation to defund MPD, hoping to present it to council this Friday. Please email your councilmember and let them know we NEED THIS.

— jgarcia (@jasoncomix) May 28, 2020

This is a sad morning.

I live about 8 blocks from the riot at third precinct building, they moved West down Lake Street not South down Minnehaha where I am.

This day has been coming for a long time. MPD has to be held accountable.

related protests in LA and memphis as well, although no riots. this is going to be an intense summer, i think.

already seeing the "work within the system" cries

fuck that

reports of ppl gathering at a target in st paul, transit is shutting down all buses and trains after 4 today in the cities

I saw Rosedale closed today after reports protesters could be headed there.