Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

calling BLM an "anti-white hate group"

no! no! it's an anti-white-hate group.

Mayor Lightfoot to CPD officers on footage shown lounging, napping, snacking while rioting ravages neighborhood: "We know who you are. You know what you did. Don’t make us come find you. Come in and identify yourself. But we will find you."

further Seattle context here:

https://medium.com/@emilypothast/what-the-f-ck-is-going-on-in-seattle-48efbe6214f8

He also added: “ Sundown you better take care - If I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs”

Ugh xpost

*cough* "she"

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-investigating-alleged-police-beating-bronx-teen

The giant fuck you that came in the form of the police report regarding Breonna Taylor’s murder has been received loud and clear. See you in the streets.

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 11, 2020

Breonna's Law passed unanimously by the Louisville Metro Council, 26-0.

It bans no-knock warrants, which cops used to barge into her home and murder her.

Now arrest the cops who killed her.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 12, 2020

If it were torn down, how could it be renamed? https://t.co/p2NUNHEDtH

— David Gura (@davidgura) June 12, 2020

Racist Statue Defending Racist Statues.

i for one would be fine with renaming the Washington Monument the OBELISK OF WOKENESS, how is that not cooler?

what if we rename it "Our National Looming White Penis" on weekdays and "OBELISK OF WOKENESS" on the weekends, is that fair Tom?

Yeah, Obelisk of Wokeness sounds absolutely rad

Obelisk of Wokeness is my favorite Krallice album

and the most powerful track on Owen Pallett's Islands imo

I used to have an apartment at the top of a hill in DC that had a perfect view of the national monument. it has these two red lights that look like creepy eyes that are constantly blinking. one night me and friend were having beers and he said it was like we put a big halloween klansman in america's front that says white power every time the eyes blink. haven't seen it as anything other than that since

Here's an alternate suggestion that probably won't be powerful enough to override the klansman imagery, but it's worth a try. Obelisks originated in Africa as a symbol of a powerful African empire and in copying it white Americans have acknowledged their inability to improve on it and placed themselves in creative subservience to the African original.

christo-style kente cloth yarnbomb that fucker

"If we tear down confederate statues, what's next, I'm not allowed to have hands anymore?"

My housemate went to pick up food from a restaurant in the zone last night and had a chat with the guy ringing him up, who had nothing but good things to say about the CHAZ. He (the guy behind the counter) said, "It's been a lot quieter around here since the cops left."

This article on the situation in Vallejo is stunningly horrific:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/13/vallejo-california-police-violence-sean-monterrosa

Public opinion didn’t even shift this fast in support of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. https://t.co/Glt7xckjjI

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 11, 2020

no thanks to you, fucking frank luntz

please pass that on to frank

good thread

Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...

It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and

— 𝙿𝚊𝚞𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@mobinfiltrator) June 12, 2020

the cops are a gang. if you fuck with the gang, either from inside or outside the gang, they fuck you up. i have had minimal personal exposure to cops in my life and, even so, that couldn't be more clear on the face of it. it's consistently surprising to me those facts come as a surprise to anyone in america.

Jay Pharoah opens up about being held at gunpoint by the LAPD: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBVo2bJn-wZ/

In police departments all over the USA the code of silence among cops is at least as strong as among the mafia. No matter how criminal a cop is, if you're another cop the pressure on you to turn a blind eye is overwhelming. Being a snitch and informing on another cop's criminal behavior is a one-way ticket to ostracism, hostility, and retaliation until you quit or are fired.

and we've known the whole time

"In order for a Homicide conviction, of any kind, to happen, the defendant must have CAUSED the death of another. The defendant’s action must be the proximal cause of death. I dealt with that issue many times. I was a traffic homicide investigator. I had to prove that the injury sustained by the victim is what killed him. I had one case where a hospital-borne infection went to toxic shock, and the accident victim died. The prosecutor said I had no case. The injuries were survivable, he was recovering, but an intervening condition killed him. Not a vehicular homicide.

Actions of a defendant, particularly if they are well-intentioned, such as holding down a suspect suffering from a drug overdose, that”Contribute to” a death are not usually successfully prosecutable as homicides. The legal term is “Sine qui non,” or, without which, nothing."

Got this from some racist pro cop dickhole. Am i missing how this is even relevant to the Floyd case?

Well they're trying to advance the argument that having a cop kneel on his neck for 8 minutes 46 was just something which incidentally happened to him on his way to dying from ... the coronavirus he'd already recovered from? Blackness? Cardiovascular problems?
I am sure there are many assholes out there who would try to make this assertion with a straight face.

The judge is a former Klobs assistant apparently

NEW: LAPD officers racked up $40 million in overtime during the recent protests, but won’t be paid for it, and will instead be given comp time, according to a memo sent out by Chief Moore I obtained. Budget is out of cash. LAPD sources tell me morale is at “rock bottom”. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/Hs4iZSofaE

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 16, 2020

According to multiple LAPD sources, LAPD Transit Division/MTA services, which is paid via OT, had 43 officers cancel their shifts today, and they are now averaging 12-18 cancellations per shift. I’ll be live at 6 on @FOXLA

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 16, 2020

"demoralize the police" is p good

the fatigue games

let 2020 be the year of quitting bad habits, or jobs

oh no not the cannabis taskforces!

Seattle City Council unanimously banned SPD from buying, having, or using less-lethal crowd control weapons today.

https://southseattleemerald.com/2020/06/15/seattle-council-bans-use-of-chokeholds-and-less-lethal-weapons-by-police/

if you take away the military weapons from cops, only the military will have military weapons

only lethal crowd control weapons from now on!

I mean like. Tear gas and blast balls and flashbangs are only used so the cops can avoid the more obvious brutality of beating people up.

🚨URGENT SAFETY MESSAGE🚨
Tonight, three of our fellow officers were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan. Fortunately, they were not seriously harmed. Please see the safety alert⤵️ https://t.co/D8Lywivhdu

— Detectives' Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) June 16, 2020

After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by shake shack’s employees.

— Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) June 16, 2020

serious q, why are cops so afraid of milkshakes?

snowflakes are no match for milkshakes

they control the ducks

The cops've gone from milkshakes to snowflakes in 24 hours.

problem solved

Chokeholds will be banned unless an officer’s life is at risk, Trump says of his executive order

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 16, 2020

"stop resisting" "stop putting my life at risk"

this is another executive "order" that doesn't mean shit, right?