Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

NEW: LAPD officers racked up $40 million in overtime during the recent protests, but won’t be paid for it, and will instead be given comp time, according to a memo sent out by Chief Moore I obtained. Budget is out of cash. LAPD sources tell me morale is at “rock bottom”. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/Hs4iZSofaE

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 16, 2020

According to multiple LAPD sources, LAPD Transit Division/MTA services, which is paid via OT, had 43 officers cancel their shifts today, and they are now averaging 12-18 cancellations per shift. I’ll be live at 6 on @FOXLA

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 16, 2020

"demoralize the police" is p good

the fatigue games

let 2020 be the year of quitting bad habits, or jobs

oh no not the cannabis taskforces!

Seattle City Council unanimously banned SPD from buying, having, or using less-lethal crowd control weapons today.

https://southseattleemerald.com/2020/06/15/seattle-council-bans-use-of-chokeholds-and-less-lethal-weapons-by-police/

if you take away the military weapons from cops, only the military will have military weapons

only lethal crowd control weapons from now on!

I mean like. Tear gas and blast balls and flashbangs are only used so the cops can avoid the more obvious brutality of beating people up.

🚨URGENT SAFETY MESSAGE🚨
Tonight, three of our fellow officers were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan. Fortunately, they were not seriously harmed. Please see the safety alert⤵️ https://t.co/D8Lywivhdu

— Detectives' Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) June 16, 2020

After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by shake shack’s employees.

— Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) June 16, 2020

serious q, why are cops so afraid of milkshakes?

snowflakes are no match for milkshakes

they control the ducks

The cops've gone from milkshakes to snowflakes in 24 hours.

problem solved

Chokeholds will be banned unless an officer’s life is at risk, Trump says of his executive order

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 16, 2020

"stop resisting" "stop putting my life at risk"

this is another executive "order" that doesn't mean shit, right?

So does an executive order remove qualified immunity (serious question)?

This is a huge, huge move that would have been unthinkable in May. All it took was LA paying attention to city government for three weeks.@BLMLA and #PeoplesBudgetLA harnessed that attention and made this happen. One of the most effective organizing efforts ever. https://t.co/P0MKHFg9UY

— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) June 16, 2020

any locals have an idea how likely that is to pass?

herb wesson is the outgoing chair of the council, and his cosponsor is nury martinez who is the current chair of the council, so what they say goes. the devil is in the detail. but it seems big, and the BLM LA folks are cautiously congratulatory.

worth managing expectations though. the LA council are *extremely* bad at literally everything. they are a bunch of frauds and in many cases actual criminals who rely on low turnout to stay in what are probably the most powerful elected positions in local politics in the united states. and the ones that do work cater exclusively to suburban reactionaries.

this was in response to this special session yesterday

We presented #PeoplesBudgetLA at a special City Council meeting. The data is compelling...with policing as Angelenos' lowest spending priority. It's far-reaching...engaging 50,000+. Most of all, it's a call to courage...a referendum to #DefundThePolice & #ReimaginePublicSafety. pic.twitter.com/ELveQFMYDT

— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) June 16, 2020

click through the wesson tweet for the thread where he notes the importance of that session

and here's BLM LA's response

THIS is the kind of courageous stance we are looking for. No police dispatched for non-violent calls also makes a lot of common sense as it clears the way for those better equipped to handle such situations to do so.
Let's do it!#CareNotCops #ReImaginePublicSafety https://t.co/jQNGUJeNKh

— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) June 16, 2020

thanks for the details! and yes great news

My awesome local org did a teach-in last night about what defunding the NYPD could look like & could do for communities. Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=283289663037475

The elected official in that video is actually the city council member for my district. I think right now she's being the most outspoken as I've ever seen her be. There's a significant political status quo of ppl who kind of "earned" their positions by waiting their turn and they're usually not particularly progressive. Iirc she was another official's staffer and my recollection is that she kind of inherited the position so it's heartening to see her picking a strong side on this.

A friend and I are going to Tulsa this weekend to participate in the BLM protest there. If I end up dead or disappeared remember me fondly.

<3

Don't end up either of those way, Liz.

I just saw a Twitter video of a cop breaking down and crying because her order at the McDonald's drive-thru took too long. It apparently wasn't a parody. I'm not linking it because I don't want to boost its profile but it's super hilarious until you remember that this woman is allowed to carry a gun as part of her job.

she had paid in advance, you see

how about the cop who murdered her neighbor bc she was confused about where her apartment was :(

^^^ amazing there's been so much of this shit that I can go "oh, yeah... forgot that one."

I saw that video of the drive-thru cop earlier, jfc. What's worse is how its getting signal boosted as "these poor officers are feeling so unloved right now". Fucking infuriating.

'paranoid cop cries during confessional social media post about a late mcdonald's order' is trending on TMZ
^another now-filled space on my 2020 apocalypse bingo board

i wish that woman had cried on social media when she got confused about her apartment rather than murdering her neighbor!
the guy was literally just sitting in his own home on his own couch. do we need more than one couch murder to see what the issue is here?! she had been a police officer for 5 years.

The idea that she was confused is highly dubious

now imagine the guy at the McDonalds drive thru has a gun and could murder you in broad daylight with virtually no repercussions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=UYjof4V7MyY

thinking maybe she doesn't need any more coffee

lmaoooo

La Lechera: Amber Guyger was found guilty and is currently serving a 10-year murder sentence. I feel that is an inadequate apology but it’s a start.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/new-video-manuel-ellis-chokehold-tacoma-police/281-033c2da5-2189-4b1a-b9c9-f6c544ad3015

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/06/mentally-ill-man-spent-nearly-5-months-in-jail-before-body-cam-video-revealed-garfield-heights-officers-beat-tased-and-mocked-him.html

what kills me about the “bad apple” argument is that the full expression it comes from literally says that it’s never just one, that in fact it is the whole goddamn bunch!!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/us/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-shooting-wednesday/index.html

FELONY MURDER!

UPDATE: OFFICER EGG MCMUFFIN WAS STEALING COP VALOR pic.twitter.com/p4tXzhoWDR

— Anansi Pelosi (@Eugene_V_Dabbs) June 17, 2020

Lol I was just about to post this

Also 👍🏾 on the felony murder charges

Absent these things not happening, the people who do them should be held accountable

Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's a fairly big deal that they charged the non-shooting officer and he turned state's witness. Obviously waaaaaaaay more pressure needs to be put on, but maybe it's a sign of some faint cracks in the thin blue wall.