Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

The two officers who shot and killed John Crawford were not indicted

That is fucking insane.

jesus christ that fucking gawker clip possibly the most disturbing thing I've seen in awhile

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d97584cfd10d48b5a3ea366850f4f06d/woman-punched-california-highway-patrol-settles

holy crap

http://gawker.com/trigger-happy-cop-shoots-unarmed-driver-in-just-release-1638993749

dude in that last video is the most polite assault victim i've ever heard; how the hell do you maintain the patience to call the man who just shot you sir and apologize to him

Easy: You are black and he is white.

christ, do these cops get any training at all?

“Why did you pull me over? I was just pulled into the gas station.”
“Your safety belt violation, sir.”
“Seatbelt… I just pulled it off right there at the corner at the gas station!”

arrested:

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/25/south-carolina-cop-who-shot-bl.html

would not have happened w/o dashboard video

dude in that last video is the most polite assault victim i've ever heard; how the hell do you maintain the patience to call the man who just shot you sir and apologize to him

I don't know if I can articulate why this post enrages me so much. How many times black people must tell stories about their survival strategies for existing in America before you start listening and understanding what they mean?

d, if you're not reading that post with a sense of headshaking wonder, shock and sadness at what the police state demands out of black american men then you are misreading the intention

"american police state" / "black men" rather

I dunno forks, your post also struck me as tone deaf

And maybe your response shouldn't be "become a better reader"

my response was "you misunderstood my intention"

And my response is you miswrote your intention

I had no trouble understanding forks' intent. He knew why the black victim of police assault was so polite, but was at a loss to fathom how he managed it.

i can certainly see how that can read differently than it was intended and, if taken as "gosh that guy sure is subservient why wouldn't he be more angry" as opposed to "the degree of restraint he shows under literal fire is fucking superhuman" is good grounds for enragement

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/30/ernest-satterwhite-just-craven_n_5907544.html

Even when the prosecutor seeks a felony indictment...

this thread is like pure undiluted rage-a-hol

yup

TS: pure undiluted rage-a-hol vs a reminder that a capricious, unpredictable death sentence lurks for you and every member of your family as long as you stay in this country

worst poll ever

I know which side I'm on and which side dan's on and mine is by far the easier side to live on.

I'm not disputing that

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/michael-dunn-guilty_n_5913926.html

Some good news - Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis at a gas station for playing loud music, was convicted of first degree murder

v gratifying

not a cop tho

Well, shit

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2014/10/03/weekley-trial-aiyana-stanley-jones/16636179

A Detroit police officer accused in the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones walked into a Detroit courtroom Friday facing a felony and misdemeanor charge.

Officer Joseph Weekley walked out of the courtroom with just the misdemeanor charge after Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against him. Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect.

http://gawker.com/nypd-thugs-caught-on-video-pistol-whipping-teen-with-ha-1643271317

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/family-sues-hammond-police-over-traffic-stop-violence

In cell phone video captured by a terrified 14-year-old sitting in the back seat of Mahone’s car, you can hear Mahone on the line with a 911 operator saying that she fears for her life and that moments earlier officers had pulled their guns on the couple.

http://abc11.com/340724

The parents of a Wake County high school student are outraged that police pepper-sprayed him inside their home after a neighbor mistook him for an intruder.

The video of that is absolutely horrifying xp

Some posts about this in the Michael Brown thread:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/09/crowds-in-streets-of-st-louis-after-fatal-shooting-by-off-duty-police-officer/

Meanwhile...

http://brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/41/dtg-police-beats-teen-2014-10-10-bk_37_41.html

A police officer apparently knocked out a Clinton Hill teen with one blow after stopping him for smoking a cigarette, hitting him so hard he now has neurological problems, according to the boy’s family.

This is interesting in light of all the bad news from this thread: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/10/08/foxhall-police-encounter-caught-on-video-and-the-interaction-is-fascinating/

Oof.

Yeah. I mean, good on the woman, but if she was black she would have been on the ground, tazed and beaten after about 10 words.

I was thinking she'd be dead, but yeah, somewhere within that range.

Also the class connotations, the sense in which the rich white lawyer is saying "He's okay because he works for me, this man isn't the KIND of person you're looking for because I buy/control his labor." And at the end, where the white person muses “It was very interesting, in the sense of getting a picture of how black cops treat black people" Stop. Just stop.

More on the Hammond, Indiana incident. The more you read about it the angrier you get. I grew up down the street from Hammond and I am so disappointed.

The offense the driver committed was driving without a seatbelt. I thought they couldn't pull you over for that? Then they accuse the dad of reaching for a weapon.

Two kids in the back seat had glass all over them.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/pair-alleging-excessive-force-police-traffic-stop-state/story?id=26024762

Where is the sanity? Relations with the police will go into the toilet because of this. Next we will hear the driver was on PCP.

Yeah. I mean, good on the woman, but if she was black she would have been on the ground, tazed and beaten after about 10 words.

― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:32 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was thinking she'd be dead, but yeah, somewhere within that range.

― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:34 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks for this sensitive context provision, really enlightening material

That means a lot. We're all striving for the lofty heights of your self-regard.

strive for the lofty heights of not being an idiot instead.

idk in terms of imaginative wallowing in lurid hyperbolic violence against black people its not quite as bad as this so he is learning, slowly

The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri

this guy

I guess that's what I get for ignoring the 'do not feed' sign.

maybe you don't belong in the zoo

It's what you get for casually referencing the destruction of non-white people. The lurid speculation about what violence might be done to someone is...it brings images to mind that are very very real for some people, even if they seem like just a recitation of facts to others.