Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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

https://soundcloud.com/wondalandarts/hell-you-talmbout

That monae track is the first protest song i could imagine marching too in years.

fuck this is powerful. listening to it again, actually crying.

yeah damn that's heavy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhBgAPyLE6I

https://thejammingnachos.bandcamp.com/track/it-could-have-been-me

Maybe should spin this off into a modern protest song thread?

(that's two different tracks btw)

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

― j., Monday, August 10, 2015 5:37 PM (5 days ago)

charges dropped

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article31079991.html

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/even-if-the-police-dont-kill-me-a-lifetime-of-preparing-for-them-to-just-might

Very glad to have read that. Thanks.

I can't comprehend how you let a diabetic fade out, collapse, and die in front of you because you won't give them insulin. Like literally what is the internal monologue here.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/family-of-diabetic-black-man-says-he-died-after-a-jail-refused-to-give-him-insulin/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/08/cop_shot_himself_and_blamed_a_black_driver_police_officer_kelly_stewart.html

the victim is the cousin of Boots Riley from The Coup.

http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision

this was just launched, don't know much about it yet except that supposedly @deray is behind it somehow

This looks great.

Mistrial in the Randall Kerrick police shooting case: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mistrial-declared-police-officers-manslaughter-trial-33235595

Protests beginning right now in uptown Charlotte: http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/randall-kerrick-trial/2015/08/21/kerrick-trial-protesters-blocking-4th-street/32137825/

I mean, what the hell, a cop can't even get convicted when his own department turns against him:

Following the shooting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released a statement calling the shooting unlawful. "The evidence revealed that Mr. Ferrell did advance on Officer Kerrick and the investigation showed that the subsequent shooting of Mr. Ferrell was excessive," police said in a statement the day of the shooting. "Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/in-rare-case-fbi-tries-to-fire-agent-who-shot-queens-suspect.html?_r=0

For the first time in decades, the F.B.I. is trying to fire an agent for intentionally shooting a suspect, after finding that the agent violated bureau policy when he wounded an unarmed man who had apparently helped break into his Lexus outside his home in Queens.

The agent, who was off duty, fired at the man from a second-story window, hitting him in the back.

O_O