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.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Narrator: He was naive.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Thursday, 18 June 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
I just got off a fundraiser Q&A Zoom call for a college classmate who is running for Manhattan DA and I think if he wins, he will do incredible things for the city; his parents were social workers and a core tenet of his platform involves his office declining to prosecute people for things like drug possession and removing police officers from schools so kids don't end up in jail for acting like kids; he also is very much into defunding the police and reallocating resources to professionals more suited to dealing with (for example) issues caused by homelessness and mental illness. Kind of make me wish I lived in Manhattan so I could vote for him.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 4:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
just a note that Philly elected someone similar, and he's turned out to be a total disaster who hasn't followed through on much of what he promised, partly through no fault of his own, but he certainly gets some of the blame. obviously yr friend may be different, but at this juncture, i'm just wary of placing any faith in politicians, DAs, or anyone with that kind of power.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 June 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
I would invite you to look at his resume
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 18 June 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
he got my 100 bucks.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 June 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuk_m4jwuFY
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 June 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
nbc not on the ball obv. no news anyways
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 June 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
A few fun charts.First is the average salary of various jobs in LA.Given that the earnings needed to own a home and afford it are ~110k (HSH / HUD / Curbed) most two earner households with these careers (sans police) can’t afford a home in LA. pic.twitter.com/ouBtQ2P6P1— can type lettwrs (@cantypelettwrs) June 18, 2020
Then, let’s look at how long it takes to enter one of these fields.Note that the careers are kept in order, to make this parsable against the last one. Retail is a tricky bug, but I’m pegging it to “dedicated training” time, not probationary periods at starting. pic.twitter.com/84JcKu2H45— can type lettwrs (@cantypelettwrs) June 18, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
well shit
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
can we get a bastard percentage for each profession as well
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
college is a scam wooooooooooooo
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 June 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
Note that excludes overtime. Many LA cops pull down another six figures of overtime.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
weird. rookie cops in new york make a tiny fraction of that. in 2005 it was something like $22K. meaning they all commuted in from, like, nassau.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/04/23/police-officer-salary-state/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
well i dunno - either it's really ballooned or the gulf between rookie salaries and the brass is huge (or both)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
wow yeah - check this out:
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/police-officers/po-benefits.page
one might THINK that higher salaries would attract a higher caliber of recruit...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
That only works if they’re turning applicants away which I don’t think they are
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 June 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
imagine the sort of people who are enrolling as cops right noweither in real need of paying work or spectacularly idealistic or just brutal
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
this clip hits hard
Today in Charlotte cops arrested people who were providing support to protesters who were released from jail. Adding this to the list of reasons to #DefundThePolice. pic.twitter.com/xXyBgLHUPR— nyc law grrrl (@nyclawgrrrl) June 19, 2020
this is a group performing the same work as my partner, right now - being there for people released out of jail, the second they walk out the door. the tweet describes this as "providing support to protesters", which may be accurate, but in all likelihood they are also providing support to ANYONE who is released, not just protesters. that includes people addicted to heroin who are in the middle of withdrawal when they're released and are absolutely desperate. the city, the state - they don't help these people when they get out of jail. in fact they often go out of their way to try to fuck them over on the way out by releasing them late at night, with no transportation running, after curfew, no money for a cab, etc.
and then when volunteer groups form to do the work that the state should be doing in the first place, this happens. it scares the shit out of me. i haven't heard of them doing this to any other jail support group yet, but goddamn fuck this
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article243630107.html
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
“We’re doing this for your skin color. Are you f— blind?” a protester shouted at a Black sheriff’s deputy.
stfu, protester; you are not helping
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
yeah, i cringed at that, and not in the fun nathan fielder way.
but this part down below is a good description of why these jail support services are so important. this is a totally different group, but this almost exactly mirrors what i've seen with the chicago group, down to the original focus on protesters and quickly expanding to anyone released out of jail:
The jail support group had been outside the sheriff’s office on Fourth Street for weeks.Charlotte Uprising originally started the group as a fund to help protesters bail out of jail if arrested while demonstrating in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. More recently, the tables and tents have also become a supply station for protesters and a resource for people released from the county jail.“Jail support provides so much for people,” ACLU activist Kristie Puckett-Williams told reporters Thursday. “It’s a welcome home party, letting them know that their lives matter. It’s also resources that they might not immediately have access to.”Those resources include money, a ride, cigarettes, a hot meal, clothes, and access to a phone charger, Puckett-Williams said.“This should be something that is happening all the time, not just during a protest,” she said.
Charlotte Uprising originally started the group as a fund to help protesters bail out of jail if arrested while demonstrating in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. More recently, the tables and tents have also become a supply station for protesters and a resource for people released from the county jail.
“Jail support provides so much for people,” ACLU activist Kristie Puckett-Williams told reporters Thursday. “It’s a welcome home party, letting them know that their lives matter. It’s also resources that they might not immediately have access to.”
Those resources include money, a ride, cigarettes, a hot meal, clothes, and access to a phone charger, Puckett-Williams said.
“This should be something that is happening all the time, not just during a protest,” she said.
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
i'm sure most of you are already familiar with this kind of jail support stuff. to me, it was a blind spot. the state should be doing this, not volunteers up in the middle of the night at 4am in a tent besides the county jail. i hope that these kinds of things are being considered in the wave of legislative pushes across the country right now
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
the ride, in particular, is important. people that are released from jail are often left without any of their identification or belongings they had at the time. they might have been sent to a different police district, or seized as "evidence" and sent to the black hole of the incarceration system. often, the first thing someone needs to do is go on this crazy wild goose chase for their essential items, their keys, their license, whatever. And the people at the jail and police stations offer ZERO support. they're rude as fuck, they don't care. the released people call the police district that arrested them to inquire about their belongings, and more often than not they're just told "we don't have it, you could try checking here, here, or here. maybe." imagine being released with no belongings or money, and no support, at that moment, in the middle of the night.
anyway, what a rotten system, from cradle to grave
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
david brooks discussing frank wilderson's 'afropessimism' was not on my bingo card
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 19 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
holy shit, this seems awful. all three of these in the thread. it gets worse and worse
He was at his job as securityIt was his second job He was paying for schoolSheriffs rolled up & pulled out guns. He ran scared. They fired immediately. They murdered him. He was only 18. His name is Andrés Guardado #DefundThePolice #killercops https://t.co/nInYExrCDO— Memo Torres (@el_tragon_de_LA) June 19, 2020
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
the other two posts involve a cop smirking and laughing at the grieving family, and a nearby store owner showing how the cops broke all the security cameras at the scene
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
sorry, not "nearby store owner", i think that was the manager of the store where the kid was working security. :(
LASD are the worst of the worst. worse even than LAPD. just straight up criminals.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 20 June 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
I'm sorry I've changed my mind, defunding the police is too risky
But by all means, let’s abolish the police! Would love to see a “social worker” take care of this one. https://t.co/EE2WPDKg2m— Jason Lewis (@LewisForMN) June 19, 2020
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah, arrest that bear!
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 June 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
kuma police
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
not sure where to post this but there's been a fatal shooting in the CHAZ apparently. :-(
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/seattle-shooting-police-free-zone-chaz
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Bear say Abolish the Police to Me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 June 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
What's so frustrating about the CHAZ situation is that anything that happens there immediately gets surrounded by a web of disinformation, usually spread by the police, so it's very hard to get any idea of what actually happened. I'm not super hopeful that we'll find out who the shooter was or where they came from, since the cops have consistently lied about everything and they have a vested interest in implying that the shooter came from within the CHAZ.
― Greetings from CHAZbury Park (Lily Dale), Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
an old injustice i hadn't heard about (from last August) is getting new attention:
More than a million people have signed an online petition calling for Aurora officials to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain — a 23-year-old unarmed black man who died in August following an encounter with Aurora police and paramedics.The petition calls on Adams County District Attorney Dave Young, along with Mayor Mike Coffman and the Aurora Police Department, to “bring justice for Elijah,” by conducting “a more in-depth” investigation and removing the officers involved from duty....McClain encountered police on Aug. 24 while on his way home from buying four cans of Brisk tea at a gas station in Aurora.Officers put McClain, a Denver native and massage therapist in Aurora, in a chokehold and forced him on the ground for 15 minutes. McClain eventually began vomiting and complained he couldn’t breathe.“There was a physical struggle,” former APD Chief Nick Metz said in October. “When (police) saw (McClain), they told him to stop. He wouldn’t stop. Again, he was wearing a ski mask, it’s 10:30 p.m. at night in a residential area, so obviously that creates some concern.”At the time, Metz said that because McClain appeared to be in an “agitated mental state,” police requested backup from Aurora Fire paramedics, who injected McClain with the sedative ketamine to subdue his reported anxiety before driving him to a hospital.McClain apparently suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died once taken off life support Aug. 30.
The petition calls on Adams County District Attorney Dave Young, along with Mayor Mike Coffman and the Aurora Police Department, to “bring justice for Elijah,” by conducting “a more in-depth” investigation and removing the officers involved from duty....
McClain encountered police on Aug. 24 while on his way home from buying four cans of Brisk tea at a gas station in Aurora.
Officers put McClain, a Denver native and massage therapist in Aurora, in a chokehold and forced him on the ground for 15 minutes. McClain eventually began vomiting and complained he couldn’t breathe.
“There was a physical struggle,” former APD Chief Nick Metz said in October. “When (police) saw (McClain), they told him to stop. He wouldn’t stop. Again, he was wearing a ski mask, it’s 10:30 p.m. at night in a residential area, so obviously that creates some concern.”
At the time, Metz said that because McClain appeared to be in an “agitated mental state,” police requested backup from Aurora Fire paramedics, who injected McClain with the sedative ketamine to subdue his reported anxiety before driving him to a hospital.
McClain apparently suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died once taken off life support Aug. 30.
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/more-than-a-million-sign-petition-to-reopen-investigation-of-aurora-police-involvement-in-elijah/article_805cd174-a9ba-11ea-a0d3-affe65fb6dbc.html
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 June 2020 05:48 (three years ago) link
online petition
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 June 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
Thought this was pretty devastatinghttps://www.adrianbrandon.com/stolen
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
i've been hearing about hearing HUGE fireworks at 2-3am almost every nightfrom lots of old nyc friends. lots of rumors that it was an organized thing to keep people awake in the middle of the night, and then of course lots of conspiracy theories and speculation about who was doing it (teenagers? cops? "government forces", etc)
saw this just now:
In West Harlem, 3am. NYPD putting on a show with fireworks in the background. @NYGovCuomo this is what they are paid for huh? pic.twitter.com/KKOhH5xyBl— Jeo (@fromzerotojeo) June 22, 2020
any NYC people have any thoughts?
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Sounds like psy-ops to me, which fits right in with the fucking counter-insurgency mindset among big city cops.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
God it's crazy to see that footage after reading all those folks on Twitter yesterday absolutely screaming that it was impossible for this to be the cops.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
lol i complained about that on the facebook neighborhood thread but in the space of 8 hours i'm beginning to believe in the conspiracy
― contorted filbert (harbl), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
It's fair, tbh. I have a powerful gut instinct to push back against conspiracy theories, esp when there are already enough idiots out there that love fireworks even when it isn't a year when they can be purchased dirt cheap, but that video seems pretty damning.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
It’s like Peggy Olsen riding the Honda in an empty studio only not funny
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
In my neighborhood, the major ones are set off from the top of an apartment building just across the BQE. I wonder if there’s a way I can get a good look.
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
yeah, in the same "but not funny" way the cops' actions reminded me of a time i got really scared there was a mass shooting because i saw a bunch of cop cars from different agencies driving up a main urban street near me with lights on but later figured out it was the stupid "kinder time toy drive," an annual event that everyone forgets about until they have the same reaction
― contorted filbert (harbl), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
icymi, the nyc cops who went to shake shack never even got sick, everyone knew it, yet the police and their unions kept pushing it
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
interesting disparity between the url (how-nypd-faked-shake-shack-controversy-and-conspiracy-theory) and the headline (How conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack ‘poisoning’ blew up)
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
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 unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
the cms wouldn't let them change the slug and they were too lazy to rebuild it from scratch xp
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
aww covid got them jonesin bad for some good ol fashioned evidence planting huh xp
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 22 June 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link