Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

It was unclear why the sergeant and lieutenant escalated the situation.

Create a counter-narrative where instead of being the aggressors, cops were the victims.

the cms wouldn't let them change the slug and they were too lazy to rebuild it from scratch xp

aww covid got them jonesin bad for some good ol fashioned evidence planting huh xp

Report finds not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights lawshttps://t.co/gysBJGax2z

— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@JonathanCohn) June 23, 2020

https://www.pix11.com/news/local-news/queens/man-with-samurai-sword-dead-after-police-deploy-taser-in-his-queens-basement

this is a cool tactic, when the data's available:

The person on the megaphone is searching up officers information on a web database and announcing how many complaints they have. #Chicago pic.twitter.com/P9njTxYuSE

— Tyler LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) June 24, 2020

strong read
https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works

Has anyone seen a good article about whatever happened in Milwaukee yesterday? I've found a couple local stories, but they are either nearly incomprehensible or so strongly written to be in favor of the police that I can't make heads or tails about what might have actually went on. Something about a botched or half-assed police investigation into some missing girls that resulted in a suspect's house being burned down, three people shot and the girls being found again.

Wow, you really just went on TV and said that

For a moment I was like, ok Bob Kroll is gonna hide behind his normal friends. But never have I felt more "get the fuck out of my city" than when Sgt. Anna Hedberg talks about the dangers of grocery shopping in Minneapolis with her "two beautiful little girls." pic.twitter.com/K58HtbIdOK

— Wedge LIVE!™ (@WedgeLIVE) June 24, 2020

extremely disturbing re: cell phone data tracking protesters

NEW: A location data company monitored 16,902 devices at protest sites in 4 cities between May 29 and May 31.

The company then tried to predict protesters' race, age, gender, and whether they were outside agitators. Here's the story:https://t.co/Hfbi97vJGi

— Caroline Haskins (@carolineha_) June 25, 2020

what the hell is going on in Milwaukee jfc

https://medium.com/@streetlightalchemist/unheard-voices-are-police-participating-in-sex-trafficking-in-milwaukee-742880d1ac0f

On Tuesday night, the mother of one of the missing girls was able to ping the cellphone of one of the missing girls to a two story townhouse in Milwaukee. The mother, along with several others went to the property, in addition to calling police, who ignored them for 10 hours. An attempt at entry was made, and someone from within the house shot at the group, no injuries were reported. The shots were heard much louder than the phone call, and police arrived at the scene. The people within the home were taken into custody. Immediately after, the report from people on the ground starts to diverge from the police and media narrative.

WtFUCK!

I'm wary of Medium articles as they aren't well-vetted. I responded to a few tinfoil-hatty COVID articles on there a few months ago.

The sources in that Medium article are almost all Tweets, many of them secondhand, from people who weren't there (though some were from people who were reportedly there). And a lot of conclusions drawn seem a stretch based on what is known now.

I couldn't find many articles that didn't just repeat what the police said, and every other article, including this one, shows the situation is a confusing mess, where both sides can't even agree whether any victims were present in the house or if any sex trafficking was going on.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/watch-milwaukee-crowd-burns-down-suspected-sex-trafficking-house/

urbanmilwaukee.com seems to have the best coverage on this.

there were multiple units in the house - the people in the upstairs unit (probably not who the activists were looking for) made comments today: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/25/residents-of-burned-home-speak-out/

This house has had 27 service calls over the last several years: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/24/burned-home-had-27-police-service-calls/

and here's another: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/06/24/activists-clean-up-around-burned-house-as-questions-remain/

thanks for the additional links there

Yeah, thanks. It's really hard to find good, solid information on this. As Neanderthal points out, it's either news based on second-hand tweets or literally word-for-word the cops' side of things. This story has been on my mind as we watched the last half of season 2 of Mindhunter, which does a pretty good job of how the police completely ignored, then completely mishandled, the 79-81 Atlanta child murders.

Two female protesters injured in a hit and run in Seattle yesterday--one died.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/seattle-protesters-car-death/index.html

Fuck :(. I knew about the incident, did not realize one died.

i know they haven't determined if it was 'intentional' yet, but it doesn't matter, Trump will say some shit like "she shouldn't have been in the road", and her poor family is going to have to listen to her get excoriated in the press :(

The driver drove the wrong way on an off-ramp to get to the protesters, and they've said he wasn't impaired, so it seems pretty intentional.

The police are now saying protests won't be allowed on the freeway in future, and basically if you go on the freeway you take your chances with getting hit.

yes, that's the changed that needed to happen. the protesters need to change their ways.

fuck the police.

and yea seeing the video (or the screenshot,I can't watch the video rn), there's no way it wasn't intentional.

Belgrade riots: Police approaches and brutally beats 3 guys on a bench for no reason.
pic.twitter.com/d7ABrNpboX

— Sergej Dojcinovic (@Serdjosega) July 7, 2020

Attacks by police in Belgrade

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/andres-guardado-autopsy/index.html

five times. in the back.

LASD is the worst police force in the country, but luckily the DA responsible for handling this case and all others in LA county ... has a section on her wikipedia page titled "Refusal to prosecute law enforcement", and has a record of going to the trouble of seeking to prosecute exactly one (1) of the 600+ sherrif's deputies and police officers who have killed people since she became DA.

I had to step way back from Twitter this weekend, all of the "well they shouldn't have been in the road" shit was making me physically ill.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-10/3-lapd-officers-charged-with-falsifying-records-to-claim-people-were-gang-members-associates

Not surprising at all but idk where else to put this. Not Apolitical enough for the Apolitical venting thred; too New York is Alive for the is NYC dead thred:

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-accused-protecting-violent-blue-lives-matter-marchers-bay-ridge

I thought this was quite good, and a nice piece of context for how we got here: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888184490/the-long-hot-summer

breonna taylor was alive for five minutes after being shot; no one tried to treat her for 20 minutes

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/17/breonna-taylor-lay-untouched-20-minutes-after-being-shot-records/5389881002

this seems to be the case in every one of these police murders. Are they trained not to assist people they've shot for liability reasons?

I believe so, but also they are all fascist pigs so there's that, too.

thread

As someone about to publish a book about Baltimore cops with the title "I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad," I gotta (briefly) address Bret Stephens' op-ed about Baltimore which does not reckon with the full extent of police corruption here

— brandon soderberg (@notrivia) July 18, 2020

Good thread

Oh wow, hadn’t thought about Soderberg in forever, good for him, good dude.

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-commissioner-rails-against-cowards-who-have-screwed-city-police-reforms

"We're not giving this goddamn city back to criminals. We're not," Shea said in a Compstat meeting, according to video obtained by the Daily News. “I don’t know if there’s ever been a period like this where so many systems of government are literally cowards who won’t stand up for what’s right. They’re failing at every possible measure to be leaders and they throw it on the backs of the men and women of this police department. And curse them with one hand and then blame them with the other. How dare they."

#fireshea

ftp

http://rules.cityofnewyork.us/content/amendment-rules-suspension-or-revocation-press-credentials

https://gothamist.com/news/the-nypds-new-rules-for-journalists-are-actually-a-huge-step-forward

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/nyc-police-journalists.html

Seems really bad

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/judge-rules-seattle-media-companies-must-hand-over-protest-images-to-police/

Yeah. It's bad, and also why people in far left movements have been telling journalists and photographers to not take photos for years, but were always shouted down by the 'but journalistic integrity and documentation and free speech blah blah.'

I did appreciate that im the local protests here, organizers were adamant about warning everybody not to take pics, and compliance was near unanimous, but I never thought about Journalists taking pics and exposing everybody

Phones at home.
Bring a change of clothes.
No photos.
Cover yr face.
Have a buddy and discuss boundaries.
Bring water and a snack.

Basic protesting 101 stuff, but so many people are engaging in street struggles for the first time, it's hard to get this sort of basic precautionary stuff out

I think a lot of organizers did a great job of communicating it, at least here. cell phones/pics were a problem early on here, and organizers quickly put an end to it very quickly through mere communication on social media/videos etc.

Free speech blah blah— new board description

Lol

Phones at home.
Bring a change of clothes.
No photos.
Cover yr face.
Have a buddy and discuss boundaries.
Bring water and a snack.

Indeed

haha