Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

'Stop treating us like animals and thugs,' said a glowering O'Meara as he thrust his shoulders at the cameras, mouthing 'you wanna go?' through an accumulation of rage froth.

News for Mike O'Meara, respect must be earned and can easily be lost.

Cops in not understanding the concept of respect shocker.

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

that's really good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaDFSCxWsAAQ3dU?format=jpg&name=small

a+

I thought this was interesting, and certainly underscored the almost can't-win impossibility of the situation:

https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

Lightfoot said a crowd of 30-40 people gathered outside a clothing store near 111th Street and Michigan Avenue as a “dude with a sledgehammer” broke into the store to allow it to be looted.

“I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen s--t like this before, not in Chicago,” Lightfoot said.

"Stop treating us like animals and thugs..."

That's rich.

jesus christ

xpost

saw this via TMBS, thought it might be of interest here

My study of northern backlash against the Great Migration has no policy prescription, but it has a smoking gun. Police are the only public investment to increase in metro areas w/ more black migration. Good faith pursuit of racial justice starts by questioning this institution. pic.twitter.com/uQaYdGQnPn

— Ellora Derenoncourt (@EDerenoncourt) May 30, 2020

good find

#BlackLivesMatter protesters in #seattle have taken city hall. Thousands are moving in. pic.twitter.com/1cTRNRZ5fv

— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) June 10, 2020

Councilmember Sawant let them in with her key.

really?!?!

Yes, evidently.

this is a hard read, though it leaves the door cracked for justice to be done

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/182142.P.pdf

woof, yeah; what you said

This is great

https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/everything-could-be-free/

‘Cops,’ Long-Running Reality Show That Glorified Police, Is Canceled

Obviously no idea whether the post ums shares is legit but if the author's identity was verified in some way it would be a pretty powerful testimony

ums’ medium link is great

xpost - I wish it would have been posted on a site with a little more oversight than what I assume exists at Medium

it all * feels * true

sheepledogs

holy shit that ums article

The only thing really in question is the first person nature of the account. If it were written as a third person jeremiad with copious footnotes it wouldn’t be missing much other than the anecdotes about police academy.

And a propos of that, I just stumbled over this podcast called "Behind the Bastards" and the have an ep about that guy who "teaches cops to kill," who is mentioned in the Medium essay. It's...illuminating.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/how-stuff-works/behind-the-bastards/e/70076786

Side note my former employer published that book ON KILLING by Dave Grossman, and I used to have to reprint it periodically. Never realized the full scope of his bastardness.

i wish it had a little more background on the cop's heel turn, could be interesting and add to the veracity

the killology guy is a true psychopath, any video of him makes it apparent

cop: "yes, but he's OUR true psychopath"

Side note my former employer published that book ON KILLING by Dave Grossman, and I used to have to reprint it periodically. Never realized the full scope of his bastardness.

OMG! I learned about this book this week and everything about it was horrifying

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502009-top-tulsa-police-officer-were-shooting-african-americans-about-24

bruh, you...had a statistic of how much more police should be shooting Black people ready to go?

a fake one, no doubt, but still.

get this guy gone

I'm tired

^ eternal vigilance will do that

Lots of DC insiders are criticizing frontline activists over political feasibility and saying they need a new slogan.

But poll-tested slogans and electoral feasibility is not the activists’ job. Their job is to organize support and transform public opinion, which they are doing.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2020

I know “Defund the Police” seems radical and scary but “Dissolve Police Departments Then Rebuild Them as One Small Facet in a Network of Specialized Services So Police Aren’t Called To Handle Problems They’re Woefully Ill-equipped to Solve” isn’t as easy to chant.

— David Daut (@DavidMDaut) June 8, 2020

AOC gets it - more than just about anyone in national elective office

yes, but if you could get a lot of people to chant that in unison, it would be impressive and powerful

xp

but not very rhythmic

AOC's previous tweet before that one is even better at framing the issue imo (apologies if you're all seeing both—I have twitter tracking blocked so it might be misleading me):

“Defund” means that Black & Brown communities are asking for the same budget priorities that White communities have already created for themselves: schooling > police,etc.

People asked in other ways, but were always told “No, how do you pay for it?”

So they found the line item.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2020

this Heather McDonald WSJ essay is getting passed around a lot by the right; like her previous shit about campus rape. First off, she seems to be a horrible person with abhorrent beliefs (to me). But I don't see many people expending energy ripping her to shreds yet.

I got an email from a Portland city clerk that **742** people has registered to give testimony at today’s city council budget hearing. I emailed in my testimony to give airtime to someone else.

iirc you now have to tell them to choke on your cock before yielding your time

choke on my cock
like bulbous ham hock
Let others speak
I yield the clock

Live PD joins COPS in the dumpster
https://deadline.com/2020/06/live-pd-canceled-ae-protests-against-police-brutality-george-floyd-1202956175/

Legit question

Who is holding BLM accountable for this influx of money?? https://t.co/uBj5pmpvWo

— Asia 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@fkaLuna_) June 11, 2020

Amazon pauses police use of its facial recognition tech for a year https://t.co/Yo0a8eZCGr pic.twitter.com/oGECw32EFA

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 11, 2020

nice, they're updating their facial recognition databases and software for the expanded rollout in 2021

Gotta keep burning those police stations baby