Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

jesus fucking christ

As I understand it, they asked the male to stop. The male, in quick fashion, got in his car and he drove at a high rate of speed towards the officers. The officers then discharged out of fear for their lives," Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross told CBS 3

sad lol oh yeah that sounds likely. sounds like something from an 80s buddy cop movie

wtf

christ. so many holes in that story, just on its face. it's just a shitty lie, even for the top of person who nods their heads and believes the officers' account it doesn't even get them off the hook... like, what? these out-of-uniform officers were standing in the street, in front of the car? yelling at the guy through his windshield? at what point did they start brandishing their guns? but they're supposed to have stopped him (for no reason) in the space between a house and his car. so like, on the sidewalk. so when he got in the car, the officers leaped into the street? or into the parking space in front of this one? and he has a super-car that can leap from a dead stop to a "high rate of speed"? or the officers ran down the block a bit to give him some space to speed up? what?

i mean not news that officers make shit up. obviously. really obviously. but you expect at least a lie that they intend to embed in the interstices of "conflicting accounts" or "there were no witnesses," counting on the department not caring enough to ask questions. these assholes have carried out basically a mob hit, and they are so shameless as to try and cover it with some dog-ate-my-homework bullshit. or more correctly "killed while trying to escape" shit. which is also not new, at all. see darren wilson and a million others. i don't know why this aspect of the falsification is pissing me off as much or more than the rest of it. it's just so swaggeringly shameless. like "we know all that will happen is we get confined to desk duty so we can just make up whatever." fucking hell.

These pieces of shit lie like six-year-olds because their lies are held up to zero scrutiny by anyone who might do something about it.

^^^

they just make up some action movie shit with impunity and know they will get the benefit of the doubt

yeah that's what so infuriating, thank you both for getting at it more precisely and succinctly than i could.

The case of the grandmother running to help her bullet-ridden grandson and herself getting assaulted made me see red.

ftp imo

I spent a little too long thinking "what does file transfer protocol have to do with any of this"

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Same! I usually go with ACAB but let's just agree to celebrate everyone's choices that delegitimize & convict actors of state violence.

haha yeah that took me a second

#ftp is EVERYWHERE today, lotta confused tech guys i'm sure

OH

that is not an acronym that is a loud oh

I can't believe you guys didn't know that stands for "free the police."

feel the policing

flag that post

gonna ftp some files today just for the nostalgia trip

file transfer police

fuck tha protocol

a friend of mine wrote this last night. he's one of the smartest people i know, but here he comes off like a clueless idiot.

drives me crazy - and yes I understand why - that we have a black president who can't publicly say that police depts need to be held more accountable for murdering innocent people

holy shit hoos that is stupid

I checked the Baltimore Police Department’s Twitter feed and found an advisory to avoid the area around Fulton and West North Avenue due to burning vehicles, so naturally, we drove directly to Fulton and West North Avenue. I’ve been know to do this sort of thing.

http://files.niketalk.com/smilies/pimp.gif

1) a white guy named Legba? 2) yeah that reads like tourism

this fucking guy:
By late Monday, videos of the incident were so widespread that Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts brought it up in an overnight news conference. “And if you saw in one scene, you had a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed,”

she didn't say she was embarassed, she said she didn't want her son to get murdered by the BPD

kind of a big difference there

yeah I cringed when I saw that circulating, because I just knew it was being cheered for the wrong reasons.

white people cheering because it's a lack of challenge from a minority, that allows them to go about their business comfortably as before. kind of answers the question of why these protests exist to begin with.

i should know this already, but what are the best groups to donate to that work on countering police brutality? is there a standout baltimore organization? national groups especially worth supporting?

yeah I have no idea - I feel like there needs to be some non-local oversight required whenever a cop kills somebody, but I don't know who would provide that or the legal barriers that would need to be overcome.

I can't believe you guys didn't know that stands for "free the police."

Where I come from that stands for Fuck the Pope ... and I am not joking!

i should know this already, but what are the best groups to donate to that work on countering police brutality? is there a standout baltimore organization? national groups especially worth supporting?

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I have no idea - I feel like there needs to be some non-local oversight required whenever a cop kills somebody, but I don't know who would provide that or the legal barriers that would need to be overcome.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:20 PM (1 hour ago

there's always the ACLU or its local affiliates

yeah, i'm an aclu supporter too but they cover so many other things; i was hoping for an org more focused on this

i support the southern poverty law center
http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do

Afaik the splc has never labelled a police dept a hate group...

They do good work tho

1) a white guy named Legba? 2) yeah that reads like tourism

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 10:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very predictable that he'd wind up going and breathlessly reporting back, but all i did about it was subtweet about riot tourism

The pro-cop white right has snatched not only the terrified slapping mother but pictures of lines of activists building a protective line to defuse tensions as "protecting the police." Photoshop in some apple pie and Reagan's rotting corpse fucking it while you're at it, assholes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDsR4S8UIAAtCYr.jpg

To donate yr hard earned several pennies!

Communities United for Police Reform (NYC)
http://changethenypd.org/

Legal support and bail fund for Baltimore demonstrators/organizers
https://www.crowdrise.com/legalbailsupportforbaltimore/fundraiser/tremurphy

We Charge Genocide (Chicago)
http://wechargegenocide.org/

copwatchnyc.org, who monitor and document police in public areas during especially busy times of day

thanks io!

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/where_is_joseph_kent_social_media_erupts_after_cameras_capture_activists_suspicious_looking_arrest/
this is some kafkaesque shit here

Joseph K, huh?

wow @ whole foods

pumped for Turkey & Cheese

enough with "thugs": http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/stop-using-the-word-thugs