They also used to make genuine logos for the government in-house - all those WW2 squadron insignias with Donald Duck in them and stuff.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 February 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
tone deaf to the point of madness
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
That's fucked up
― badg, Friday, 24 February 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
LOL, well, that lasted a whole day: http://io9.gizmodo.com/kentucky-police-remove-punisher-logo-from-cop-cars-afte-1792720736
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Cool, so now we can shift the full weight of our attention back onto the offensively vile Blue Lives Matter 'hate crime' aspect of this story.
― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
guy i knew in high school liked to pretend he was the punisher and went as frank castle for halloween. he is now a cop.so strange that outsiders obsessed with vigilante justice become police, there should be a study
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Friday, 24 February 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Cops often get away with enough shit that, if they're so inclined, they can essentially be paid vigilantes with the weight of the law behind them. It's like the best of all possible worlds.
― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
few weeks old, but https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/magazine/the-preacher-and-the-sheriff.html?_r=0
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:50 (seven years ago) link
depressing as hell
― Nhex, Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
too on the nose
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link
The only person I knew growing up who became a cop was a sadist who enjoyed torturing and brutalizing people. It was kind of sad, he started out as a sweet kid, but he was adopted by creeps, and I met him through this gang of punks I hung out with during my wayward youth. I'm sure he's getting his justice now...
Becoming a cop in the US grants you unlimited power over life and death over other human beings with barely any repercussions. Pretty good deal if that's your thing. Not everyone's like that, but if you are like that, I can only imagine it's a dream job.
― larry appleton, Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
ICYMI
Benjamin Kunkel @kunktationDarren Wilson admits that Mike Brown never tried to grab his gun:
http://www.theroot.com/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-death-of-mike-b-1793261221
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
very much not into the article starting with "Here is the story of Michael Brown’s murder that we all believed" - um NO we did not believe this BS for a minute, fuck you
but that's a side story to the new information which of course is totally enraging and exactly what i expected. there are no words for this murdering scumbag.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
on a related note, from a few days ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/michael-brown-ferguson-police-shooting-video.html
In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail. Witnesses offered varying descriptions of the fatal encounter. Investigators examined bloodstain evidence on the street where Mr. Brown died. And the police released a security video from a nearby store that showed Mr. Brown pushing a worker and taking cigarillos minutes before the shooting.But a second, previously unreported video from that same convenience store included in a new documentary is raising new questions about what happened in the hours before the shooting on Aug. 9, 2014.The footage shows Mr. Brown entering the store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, shortly after 1 a.m. on the day he died. He approaches the counter, hands over an item that appears to be a small bag and takes a shopping sack filled with cigarillos. Mr. Brown is shown walking toward the door with the sack, then turning around and handing the cigarillos back across the counter before exiting.Jason Pollock, a documentary filmmaker who acquired the new tape, says the footage challenges the police narrative that Mr. Brown committed a strong-armed robbery when he returned to the store around noon that day. Instead, Mr. Pollock believes that the new video shows Mr. Brown giving a small bag of marijuana to store employees and receiving cigarillos in return as part of a negotiated deal. Mr. Pollock said Mr. Brown left the cigarillos behind the counter for safekeeping.
The footage shows Mr. Brown entering the store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, shortly after 1 a.m. on the day he died. He approaches the counter, hands over an item that appears to be a small bag and takes a shopping sack filled with cigarillos. Mr. Brown is shown walking toward the door with the sack, then turning around and handing the cigarillos back across the counter before exiting.
Jason Pollock, a documentary filmmaker who acquired the new tape, says the footage challenges the police narrative that Mr. Brown committed a strong-armed robbery when he returned to the store around noon that day. Instead, Mr. Pollock believes that the new video shows Mr. Brown giving a small bag of marijuana to store employees and receiving cigarillos in return as part of a negotiated deal. Mr. Pollock said Mr. Brown left the cigarillos behind the counter for safekeeping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmnyD8dri8
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
search function is down so I couldnt hunt for the LA thread, but this works too
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baca-verdict-20170314-story.html#nt=oft12aH-1la1
down goes baca
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
the theory that Brown paid (in some way shape or form) for the cigarillos was put forth before the trial I think and it got next to no traction. kind of infuriating to see that yes, this is likely what happened and despite people picking up on it nobody was willing to entertain that the dude didn't strongarm rob the place. y'know even tho the owner seemed to be suggesting he didn't call 911.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 23:35 (seven years ago) link
I rather suggest everyone read this
https://www.buzzfeed.com/melissasegura/detective-guevaras-witnesses
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
"The attorney general of the United States believes that minority citizens need to be controlled by whatever means necessary, to coin a phrase. The Department of Justice now has the back of every rogue cop in the country. Old times there are not forgotten."
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54291/jeff-sessions-consent-decrees/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah fuck jeff sessions. I just wish being pro police brutality and extrajudicial summary executions by cop was actually hurtful in elections in every state in this country.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/charles-kinsey-was-shot-after-a-north-miami-cop-called-halt-it-is-a-toy-9254204
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
sad
Eugene, a veteran City of Miami cop who had been sworn in as chief only six days before the Kinsey shooting, says training was lax and infighting rampant."The scene was a mess, to be honest with you," he tells investigators of the Kinsey shooting. "People were walking all over the place. Thank God (Kinsey) did not die. I realized I have a problem with the training of my staff. We're talking about some 15- or 16-year veterans, but in North Miami, a 15- or 16-year veteran may have less experience than a two-year cop in Miami."
"The scene was a mess, to be honest with you," he tells investigators of the Kinsey shooting. "People were walking all over the place. Thank God (Kinsey) did not die. I realized I have a problem with the training of my staff. We're talking about some 15- or 16-year veterans, but in North Miami, a 15- or 16-year veteran may have less experience than a two-year cop in Miami."
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Thursday, 6 April 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/us/georgia-police-officer-fired.html
this happened in the county where i grew up. it was 90% white when we moved there and is 39% white today
― Heez, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/texas-cop-kills-teen-trnd/index.html
should also be crossposted to the 2017 race thread
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Jesus fucking Christ. We're just making zero progress with this shit. And most likely moving backwards, if Sessions has his way.
― How many gigabyte is in trilobites (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
Goddammit
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Justice Dept declines to prosecute Baton Rouge officers over Alton Sterling murder.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, everybody
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
guess whathttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/06/16/minn-officer-acquitted-of-manslaughter-for-shooting-philando-castile-during-traffic-stop/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_pn-castile-407pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e5df7ec69756
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 June 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
fuck
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 16 June 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Over and over again.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 16 June 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
this whole legal rationale whereby a cop "feeling threatened" justifies murder has to be systematically dismantled
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 June 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
― nice cage (m bison), Friday, 16 June 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
I meant this
Here is some background on the law. New standards are needed. #blacklivesmatter #PhilandoCastiile pic.twitter.com/6N88RiJiDM— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 17, 2017
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 17 June 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
ACLU otm. sickened by this. felt nauseous when I first watched the video and yet given recent history I can't say I'm shocked at the verdict, though doesn't make me less outraged at it.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 June 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/officer-involved-shooting-in-magnuson-park-leaves-3-children-in-protective-custody/
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 June 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
Where was the seed planted for this horrible shoot-to-kill protocol? Somebody decided this was how police all over the country needed to be trained. PDs didn't all converge on this lunacy by coincidence.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 June 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
My glib-but-serious answer is "1865"
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Monday, 19 June 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
jesus i just saw that new castile video, it is so so awful. i don't know why i watched it, i never watch that stuff, but i did. when the kid runs out of the car at 1:40, after that piece of shit cop fires seven times... were the jury not shown this video? does it not matter?
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
it's one of the most horrifying things I've seen.
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
call me old fashioned but there's wayyyyyy too many 'watch this person get murdered' videos on the internet than I care for..
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
DJP I think from 1865-1970 the fundamental police protocol was "look the other way while the lynching is happening" but sadly you are probably more correct than Radley Balko is
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
Marvin Gaye sang about "trigger happy policing" in 1971
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
I think you mean "mass-viewings of lynchings are back in vogue, only now people can view them from their phones and don't have to physically congregate in the same space to watch"
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
i agree. the thing started autoplaying while i was reading shaun king's twitter feed. i should have looked away.
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
oh boy this definitely gets the copspeak award this month. A kid was killed by a bullet. Also, some cops opened fire nearby(v @daricsnyder) pic.twitter.com/A8xG8if0WB— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 23, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 June 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/off-duty-st-louis-officer-injured-by-friendly-fire-after/article_761b9cc4-75d1-5023-a38f-c4096f99d114.html
Black police officer comes out of his house to render possible aid at a car crash/crime scene, is ordered to ground by other officers. They then confirm he's a cop, tell him he can get up. Another officer who had just arrived on the scene immediately draws his gun and shoots him, in the arm.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 23 June 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
i get that the police are individually and institutionally racist. but why are they such cowards?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 23 June 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
fuck, Georgia: http://www.11alive.com/news/investigations/the-drug-whisperer/437061710
"our officers are more reliable than drug tests." man, fuck youuuuuuuuu. one of the uncomfortable truths we've all agreed upon is that sometimes, people who have committed a crime go free because you can't prove it. maybe there are people driving stoned that you can't arrest. arresting sober people "just in case" to make up for that = not going to solve anything.
I can attest there have been many times after waking up after an apnea-esque disrupted sleep that one could confuse me w/ someone who was stoned.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
not enough crime, gotta make some uptoo much crime, gotta not report it
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
indicators
like they're fuckin drug dogs sniffin you out or somethin
― j., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
This is all reminiscent of this: https://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2012/03/02/arson-investigation-after-decades-of-junk-science/
(note: I know nothing about this site or its credibility; it was the first one I found that referenced the issues I remember dimly from an article I read a few years ago about a dude falsely jailed for arson due to a fire investigator who was 100% wrong and refused to believe the scientific refutation that resulted in the dude's exoneration)
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link