Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Javier Ambler was driving home from a friendly poker game in the early hours of March 28, 2019, when a Williamson County sheriff’s deputy noticed that he failed to dim the headlights of his SUV to oncoming traffic.

Twenty-eight minutes later, the black father of two sons lay dying on a North Austin street after deputies held him down and used Tasers on him four times while a crew from A&E’s reality show “Live PD” filmed.

Ambler, a 40-year-old former postal worker, repeatedly pleaded for mercy, telling deputies he had congestive heart failure and couldn’t breathe. He cried, “Save me,” before deputies deployed a final shock.

His death never made headlines.

jesus

extremely thorough reconstruction of the st. john's church photo-op: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/06/08/timeline-trump-church-photo-op

off topic: anybody have an opinion about subbing to WaPo? Is it worth the investment for digital do you think?

i'm tempted with that $29/yr deal going on right now. but how much depressing news can I read in a day? do i need that AND the NYT?

SPD currently vacating and boarding up the East Precinct building, site of two weeks of occupation and protest, and multiple nights of tear gas deployments.

Just use Paywall Bypass and don’t make Jeff Bezos richer

Re: mookieproof’s post, it’s been mentioned before but the podcast Running From COPS is u&k on the influence of reality TV including Live PD

The guy on the left is the former public defender for our county here in Tennessee, he just retired last year. He is nominally a Republican, although his bona fides have always been suspect. He's posing with the only Democrat on our County Commission.

https://i.ibb.co/ydTszbH/103177661-2994443623938568-7962910037832991075-n.jpg

sorry, not trying to spam up the thread, but the NLG fundraiser is going well (thanks especially to several ilxors), with more than $1100 raised so far, beyond my own donation. it's ridiculous but it's actually leading to donations, so i'm thrilled. also NLG responded to me to thank an ilxor who matched me for 374 dollars, and someone responded with something that makes the case for NLG better than i ever could:

Seriously as a protestor who got arrested last weekend and being unemployed because of COVID, National Lawyers Guild is a blessing to me and one of the first to contact me after my release. Thank you for drawing more attention to their org, it’s a life saver for people like me.

— ACAB for cutie (@localsadghoul) June 9, 2020

<3 to both of you

SPD currently vacating and boarding up the East Precinct building, site of two weeks of occupation and protest, and multiple nights of tear gas deployments.

The police have just removed themselves to my part of the neighborhood and are waiting for something to happen. Since they had the fire department go around warning nearby businesses that the precinct may burn tonight, it's pretty clear what they're waiting for. I feel like I'm being insanely paranoid, but the words "Reichstag Fire" keep flitting through my head. I hope I'm wrong.

ST. PAUL [WHITE] MAN ARRESTED FOR BURNING DOWN OF MINNEAPOLIS POLICE PRECINCT

https://www.kimt.com/content/news/St-Paul-man-arrested-for--571111961.html

Disappointed it's not Tim Kaine's Antifa Son

shit Eddie Redmayne burned it down?

I’ll be honest with you I usually don’t check what thread I’m posting in

there is only one thread, i'm on the same page. literally

same

Re WaPo, I cancelled my online subscription recently since I looked at my credit card bill and realized how much I was paying for it. It is an excellent resource that tends to have more
insider-baseball angles wrt the administration than NYT, though NYT has a ton too. I’ve already hit their pay-wall a couple of times, so I may re-subscribe, though I can’t even keep up with all the terrible news in the NYT right now.

LA Times is also good (and a lot cheaper) for a West Coast view. I was going to cancel it during this same attempt to lower my credit bill, but you have to actually call and speak to someone to cancel so I’ve kept it for now.

That convinces me to never subscribe to LAT tbh w/u

there is a firefox extension that gets you past paywalls if u want

Yes plz

the NYC police commissioner has tweeted another ridiculous photo meant to draft on right-wing antifa tropes: this time we see "concrete disguised as ice cream" found "at George Floyd protests." no, seriously. as has been widely pointed out in response to his tweet, these are actually very routine construction-site concrete test samples, in coffee cups, complete with the mix written on the side in marker. the New York Post, of course, has reported his "findings" at face value.

Powerful white people braying dumbass bullshit that conclusively demonstrates how unfit they are to hold their positions in society is so totally the in thing right now

I signed up for WaPo just to read articles by a former ilxor who I would name here but I can't remember what she posted as and I don't want to doxx her.

They really think people would pretend to eat the concrete, then discreetly throw it at cops?

Reminds me of the time Limbaugh et al claimed at the Paul Wellstone memorial service that they were giving the audience commands to applaud and cheer on the jumbo screen and it turned out to be the closed captioning

no, the nypd does not really think that. they really think the *public* can be made to think that. they are brutal and corrupt, see thread title.

wait seriously the concrete milkshake thing is back?

https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/how-conservative-figures-turned-flimsy-rumor-about-concrete-milkshakes-portland-meme

iirc they don't care if you know they're lying; the message is the truth is what they say it is

the concrete tweet in question FWIW:

Anyone with information please call @NYPDTips @NYPDDetectives

NYPD finds concrete disguised as ice cream at George Floyd protests https://t.co/kYRxf7ABER via @nypmetro

— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) June 9, 2020

also, i think linked upthread, but here are his previous comments on the nefarious gear (aka bike repair tools) seized from brutally assaulted protesters and the caches of throwing-ready bricks (aka illegal construction waste and/or total plants by the cops). it's all transparently bullshit and this should be a citywide scandal even apart from everything else.

Instead of being Anti Police...how about Anti Brutality!! Stay safe! Well done #nypd

— Brookmilusa (@brookmilusa) June 9, 2020

Instead of being anti-gun...how about being anti-violence?

Stay safe! Well done, James Huberty!

oy, we're back to concrete milkshakes eh
nothing is too stupid

my concrete milkshake brings all the cops to the yard
and they're like, just beating me hard

guilty lol

there needs to be an agitprop punk or hip-hop group called Concrete Milkshake ASAP

WATCH 🚨 New York police boss Mike O'Meara went off on the media today:

"Stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with some respect ... Our legislators abandoned us. The press is vilifying us. It's disgusting." pic.twitter.com/CXOPARKff7

— August Takala (@AugustTakala) June 9, 2020

https://www.theransomnote.com/media/articles/this-week-merkle-man-the-gammon-people-and-kim-jong-gaddafi/055688f5-b4e6-4249-aeea-66c1a5a8d664.jpg

intersting he says it's the press that's embarrassing them...doesn't he mean other cops are embarrassing them? nah probably not

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/how-apples-go-bad

'Stop treating us like animals and thugs,' said a glowering O'Meara as he thrust his shoulders at the cameras, mouthing 'you wanna go?' through an accumulation of rage froth.

News for Mike O'Meara, respect must be earned and can easily be lost.

Cops in not understanding the concept of respect shocker.

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

that's really good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaDFSCxWsAAQ3dU?format=jpg&name=small

a+

I thought this was interesting, and certainly underscored the almost can't-win impossibility of the situation:

https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

Lightfoot said a crowd of 30-40 people gathered outside a clothing store near 111th Street and Michigan Avenue as a “dude with a sledgehammer” broke into the store to allow it to be looted.

“I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen s--t like this before, not in Chicago,” Lightfoot said.

"Stop treating us like animals and thugs..."

That's rich.

jesus christ

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