Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

"The cost to the taxpayers of Bloomington for the police overtime and additional police resources of other communities currently exceeds $25,000," it says. "The cost to the MOA for the additional security needed to maintain public safety during the demonstration currently exceeds $8,000."

this is basically extortion. having been on the receiving end of just such a notice myself, it's totally infuriating. they just tell you you owe them money, even though you have not been ordered by a court to do so, or been convicted of a crime.

"aiding and abetting an unlawful assembly"

jfc

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/01/police-use-video-as-sympathy-propaganda-media-bait/

Do the police behave this way with any demonstration? Of course not.

I'm coming to the conclusion that a lot of police are just morons. When you pull shit like this, you're essentially saying you, the police, ought to run the community. And you have a national audience doing this. We should all feel threatened by the bad behavior we've seen from police across the country.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-nypd-made-life-living-heil-article-1.2086167

they were probably just angry about gaza

Terrible pun in the url there

goys will be goys

not US, but
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/22/met-police-warren-luke-cleared-kicking-mother-child-hospital

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/16/us/florida-black-male-sniper-targets/

Wow, that NYPD article. Do they engage in hazing and justify this stuff as part of that?

Once again, NYPD: your behavior affects how police are regarded across the country. If you can't recognize that, you shouldn't have a job.

This is hardcore

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/25/florida-police-used-mugshots-of-black-men-for-target-practice-clergy-responded-usemeinstead/?hpid=z5

This is a wonderful response.

Good for the clergy, and holy shit on that practice. I'm also kind of boggled at the odds of one of the mugshots being the brother of the National Guardswoman who discovered this, but that's a secondary-level shock/putting myself in her shoes.

That should tell you more about the criminalization of black life than anything else

nice

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/opinion/charles-blow-at-yale-the-police-detained-my-son.html

How could a Yale student "fit the description" of a burglary suspect? I'll bet he doesn't. What horseshit, I hope the ACLU gets involved or they sue. It's not likely that a white Yale student would have a DEADLY WEAPON pointed at them.

How could a Yale student "fit the description" of a burglary suspect?

one guess

going with "ascot"

It just sounds too much like too many stories where some white person fingers an innocent black man. The police always expect the victim to "understand" in these circumstances. Doh, police - people aren't used to having guns pointed at them. Period. No one should have to be traumatized because you failed to find the right guy. Plus what that cop said, "we got him," was so smug. NO YOU DID NOT GeT HIM.

It just sounds too much like too many stories where some white person fingers an innocent black man.

I'm sorry, I stopped reading here due to immature giggling

lol

http: //www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/communities/da-drops-most-serious-charges-against-nj-woman-in-bucks/article_a1d284cd-e792-5ae3-a1c3-9c1bebad4589.html

http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/communities/da-drops-most-serious-charges-against-nj-woman-in-bucks/article_a1d284cd-e792-5ae3-a1c3-9c1bebad4589.html

Update on this girl http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2014/09/former_high_school_star_athlete_charged_with_aggravated_assault_in_triple_hit-and-run_incident.html

can we PLEASE talk about these things here instead of the Ferguson thread?

btw ppl with interest in cop killings should read the recent new yorker piece on the ABQ police department

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/son-deceased

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a shock

I know right? could it be any more stereotypical

― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That New Yorker article is fucking insane

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude literally walking by on the phone

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:45 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:48 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Should probably go in the police brutality/corruption thread but: http://gawker.com/seattle-pd-sorry-about-arresting-70-year-old-black-vete-1682456896/

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:53 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ha at that little fireplug cop in polyphonic's video. What a mental case.

― how's life, Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:58 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But yeah, the other thread for this, guys.

― how's life, Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:58 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that NYer article is seriously depressing

― Nhex, Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:15 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That New Yorker article is fucking insane

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:07 AM (1 hour ago)

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and depressing, yeah

― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey, NYC just created a 350-cop unit equipped with MACHINE GUNS, and guess how our respected Broken Windows Commish sees them being used?

This new squad will be used to investigate and combat terrorist plots, lone wolf terrorists, and... protests. "It is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris," Bratton said, according to CBS.

http://gothamist.com/2015/01/29/nypd_machine_guns.php

MANIAC.

io, did this come up in today's Riverside Church teach-ins? Cuz I feel murder in the air.

ugh.

I wonder if these are the same machine guns they took off of criminals in very reckless-sounding sting operations in "remote, nonresidential areas" (that is, near housing projects) (as merrily reported by the Times, see even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread )

the cops said 'scuse me' on the protest angle. we'll see... interesting 'slip' from Bratton if so.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/separate-nypd-unit-handle-large-scale-protests-article-1.2098051

It was mentioned in passing in the session I attended, I don't know what was said in the other workshops. But it's exactly the kind of thing The Gathering was designed to collaborate against obv.

The presenter I went to see is great and seems like an amazing person, btw, but one drawback of "collaborative" structured workshops is that if some RCP flunky wants to talk for 10 minutes about why capitalism is the problem, it's not that I necessarily disagree w him on everything but I didn't go there to learn from unshaven white 26-yo dude whose voice is everywhere already.

ah yes the q&a, the portion of the panel discussion where the mic is extended to the speechmakers in the audience

jesus fucking christ

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/officials-gastonia-police-officer-involved-fatal-s/nj6t8/

"“The law is very clear that a law enforcement officer may use deadly force to defend himself when they’re confronted with what appears to be an eminent threat,” Maclatchie said

It's the officer's job to use force to get inside the home, if they've made every effort to get the person to come to the door, he said."

yeah who'da thunk forcing your way into someone's house at midnight woulda alarmed them ¯\(°_o)/¯

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/02/statement_from_ann_arbor_polic.html

No charges for this white cop. He didn't feel a need to use his gun while a knife-wielding black woman and black man were in physical struggle with one another, but once the woman started walking toward HIM, hey...

(His partner used a taser "at the same time.")

From another article: The knife was described as a black-handled kitchen knife with an approximate 4-inch blade.

...

I know lots of people who lived in Ann Arbor and have never heard anything but awful horror stories about Ann Arbor cops being horrible and usually incredibly racist guys who often came from places like Howell which had a pretty strong KKK presence.

"Roughed up" -- just a little tussle!

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html

Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae.

"He was just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time," said his son, Chirag Patel, this morning. "They put him to the ground."

No crime had been committed. Madison Police on Monday issued a statement saying the department had suspended the officer and were investigating the use of force in this case. The police statement wished the man a "speedy recovery."

http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Officer-allegedly-shoots-unarmed-suspect-does-not-report-incident-291785451.html

After the shot was fired, the suspect allegedly fell, got back up and took off. Simmons maintains the suspect was unarmed and was not posing a threat.

When asked by officials, the policeman said his gun went off accidentally and that he just didn't think about reporting it. The suspect was not hit by the officer's bullet, according to authorities.

don't worry guys, that whole thing about cops being racist is just a myth:
"Cops are being beaten up, literally, from coast to coast by unruly demonstrators destroying property and injuring police officers. To perpetuate the myth that racism is a systemic problem in police department's throughout the Unites States is wrong and untrue." - Gaqry Delagnes, former union president who is now a consultant for the POA, in an e-mail sent to an SF Supervisor

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/police-union-strong-arms-board-of-supervisors-over-controversial-resolution-on-police-brutality-protests/Content?oid=2920037

whole thing is a tempest in a teapot but that line made me so angry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/2015/02/12/2d48052c-b270-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html

Lane’s family said the teen did not own a BB gun. They also said that the video appeared to show police tossing an object toward Briscoe’s body where part of a gun was recovered. Police were gloved, and there were no fingerprints on the gun.

Such tactical units are known among some residents in high-crime city neighborhoods as “jump-outs,” initiating confrontational encounters similar to such practices as New York’s scaled-back “stop-and-frisk” policy.

The four members of Leo’s team testified that in a typical encounter, they were in plainclothes and patrolling in a roving, unmarked car when they pulled up to Briscoe and asked him whether he was armed, because he was “walking quick” and “looking around.” When he did not answer and walked, then ran, away, they chased him.

Critics say such encounters — so intrusive that Leo and other officers acknowledged that residents, when they see officers approaching, lift up their shirts to show that they are unarmed— are unlawful because officers lack reasonable suspicion to stop a citizen and are a form of racial profiling that disproportionately incarcerates minorities for low-level offenses.

Very popular Police Chief Cathy Lanier continues to maintain that jump out squads do not exist.

"Roughed up" -- just a little tussle!

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html

Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae.
"He was just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time," said his son, Chirag Patel, this morning. "They put him to the ground."

No crime had been committed. Madison Police on Monday issued a statement saying the department had suspended the officer and were investigating the use of force in this case. The police statement wished the man a "speedy recovery."

― Andy K, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/us/alabama-police-beating/index.html

Video

It's also on the chicago politics thread but i thought might garner some discussion here: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site

completely bonkers

how are there not ACLU lawsuits about this already.../

yeah, i'm kind of poleaxed by that. read it a few hours ago and couldn't think of anything to say in response. how is it that this story was broken by a non-US source? the major chicago papers must have known about the situation for quite some time, years even. put aside "how could it happen?" handwringing -- how could something like this go unreported for so long? and did it? i quickly dug around for older reporting, but couldn't find anything more than a few hours old. is the guardian report exaggerated or misleading? wtf, basically.

yeah I'm kind of skeptical, it's not like there aren't liberal news sources/groups in Chicago that would make it their business to raise alarms about this kind of thing

the major chicago papers must have known about the situation for quite some time, years even.

Not necessarily. The Trib is pretty much gutted, and the Sun-Times is a joke; they wouldn't even think about tackling a story like this.