Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

yeah like a week later, in exchange for no further legal action

dude must have needed the money for his legal fees on the uh other matters

ol anderson cooper asked the pertinent question right away: these dudes were all doing this in full view of a news helicopter… so… why????

It's like the fruitlessness of divining bear intent:

Brown/Grizzly Bears: If you are attacked by a brown/grizzly bear, leave your pack on and PLAY DEAD. Lay flat on your stomach with your hands clasped behind your neck. Spread your legs to make it harder for the bear to turn you over. Remain still until the bear leaves the area. Fighting back usually increases the intensity of such attacks. However, if the attack persists, fight back vigorously. Use whatever you have at hand to hit the bear in the face.

Only in this case the bears have guns, too. And you're not allowed to hit them.

And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the cops ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the cops. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in donuts.

haha

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150727/flatbush/video-police-punch-suspect-during-arrest-brooklyn-target

lol shakey nice

Not brutalizing but kind of messed up.

A friend of mine was arrested last week for driving w a suspended license and was in jail for 5 days. He is diabetic and was fed mostly white bread and sugar cookies. Apparently there was no running water for the first 2 days and everyone had to ration bottles. He was really supposed to be in and out in a couple of hours but 'the system was down' and his sign-in paperwork was missing so he spent 5 days.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/07/29/prosecutor-discuss-dubose-shooting-today/30822025/

looks like they're going to release footage of the DuBose shooting today.

xp adam that is more than "kind of messed up"! your friend isn't dead or beaten but i would def call that a brutalizing experience to spend 5 days in jail for a suspended license

murder charges: http://news.yahoo.com/latest-video-ohio-traffic-stop-shooting-public-153334227.html

Video confirms what everyone already suspected, that this was a straight-up execution: http://gawker.com/u-of-cincinnati-cop-indicted-in-traffic-stop-shooting-1720875741

filed under: videos I never need to see

^ yup

also as of right now, CNN.com has an alert banner about this but no story; the last thing they published was a short article paraphrasing Tensing's defense 6 days ago

they also have at four concurrent stories on Cecil the lion

I just can't grasp this, how can a guy who knows he's wearing a camera do this

because precedent would lead you to believe that, no matter what you do, the department and the courts will protect you

yeah it's not a mystery

the collective outrage over cecil the lion is inexplicable to me

the collective outrage over cecil the lion is inexplicable to me

― welltris (crüt)

yeah, im a vegan and i have one friend who has posted multiple links about the lion, and i want to say "i have seen inside your freezer, i lost count of how many different & diverse animal parts there were in there, forget about the lion."

classic redirection of anger toward a single white rich guy to stave off total uprising imo

i said this on another thread but cecil the lion is another in a long line of things that people get equally angry about on facebook, like whatever donald trump just said, or charleston, or true detective 2, or ferguson, or conan o'brien losing the tonight show.

people are seriously using #LionLivesMatter I fucking despair

Ugh.

TBF though, that's a good example of a fatal flaw of hashtag activism.

But yeah, being against hunting and ok with eating meat seems like inexcusable moral stupidity to me. "But hunting is for sport, that's so CRUEL...OM NOM NOM BACOOOOOON!"

dont let the facts get in the way of a good public internet shaming

Last time I checked, pigs weren't endangered.

as a species or individually

pigs endangering others is what this thread is about

hey yes sorry this discussion shouldn't be itt, sorry for my part in it, can be carried on @ Hunting if anyone wants to

lol forks

hahaha forks

(btw lions aren't endangered either fwiw)

yeah but they are classified vulnerable and poaching is still illegal

in any case i'm not completely sure conservation biology is any more relevant to the debate over police brutality than it is to the debate over abortion just to mention the most high profile case of concern trolling over ppl being outraged over a poaching.

https://i.imgur.com/IP9s9AX.png

it's funny because it's a riff on the dehumanization and brutality of a suppressed people through a topical point

you got it dude!

Please autoreplace "Detroit L----" with "Detroit Hatcats"

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/us/police-videos-race.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

a p. straightforward roundup of recent video-captured police killings, w/ links to associated stories, ongoing coverage, etc.

but it includes a couple i personally hadn't seen being talked about -

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/us/killing-in-washington-state-offers-ferguson-moment-for-hispanics.html

police shooting antonio zambrano-montes in pasco, wa (a town somewhat like ferguson, half hispanic but still dominated by an older white power structure), when he clearly had hands up and was cornered by multiple officers, after he threw rocks at the cops. the investigation by the prosecutors found that he was 'likely holding a rock' when he was shot.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/video-of-2013-police-shooting-of-unarmed-man-renews-familiar-questions.html

gardena, ca police shooting ricardo diaz-zeferino (who died) and eutiquio acevedo mendez (who was wounded), a couple years ago. prosecutors suppressed the video but it was just recently released after a federal court order. the officers suspected the victims of having stolen a bike which actually belonged to a brother of one of the victims, which they themselves were out looking for. one of the victims wasn't keeping his hands in the air and following the (multiple, conflicting) police orders, so they opened fire.

asshole officer harassing a *passenger* in this 2014 video identified as tensing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=470&v=gBAqxiAKh6A

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-black-women-have-been-found-dead-jail-last-month

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=35725305&nid=148&title=police-fatally-shoot-logan-man-during-standoff

Tried to find an article on this that doesn't include the video: http://www.ibtimes.com/staten-island-man-plans-sue-police-amid-claims-they-beat-him-while-hurling-homophobic-2034603

http://revolution-news.com/salinas-california-officers-beat-mentally-ill-man-with-batons/

My hometown :(

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-questions-later.html?referrer=

: /

abt the pseudoscientist paid defense expert teaching police how to defend, basically, any shooting

I'm generally a "systems not individuals" guy but some motherfuckers are just evil.

or both

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/04/alabama-police-officer-murder-black-man-self-defense?CMP=share_btn_tw

Everyone should watch this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/08/baltimore_ex_cop_discusses_police_violence_toward_young_black_men.html

http://jezebel.com/cops-forcibly-search-womans-vagina-after-smelling-weed-1723207106