Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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?

So does an executive order remove qualified immunity (serious question)?

This is a huge, huge move that would have been unthinkable in May. All it took was LA paying attention to city government for three weeks.@BLMLA and #PeoplesBudgetLA harnessed that attention and made this happen. One of the most effective organizing efforts ever. https://t.co/P0MKHFg9UY

— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) June 16, 2020

any locals have an idea how likely that is to pass?

herb wesson is the outgoing chair of the council, and his cosponsor is nury martinez who is the current chair of the council, so what they say goes. the devil is in the detail. but it seems big, and the BLM LA folks are cautiously congratulatory.

worth managing expectations though. the LA council are *extremely* bad at literally everything. they are a bunch of frauds and in many cases actual criminals who rely on low turnout to stay in what are probably the most powerful elected positions in local politics in the united states. and the ones that do work cater exclusively to suburban reactionaries.

this was in response to this special session yesterday

We presented #PeoplesBudgetLA at a special City Council meeting. The data is compelling...with policing as Angelenos' lowest spending priority. It's far-reaching...engaging 50,000+. Most of all, it's a call to courage...a referendum to #DefundThePolice & #ReimaginePublicSafety. pic.twitter.com/ELveQFMYDT

— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) June 16, 2020

click through the wesson tweet for the thread where he notes the importance of that session

and here's BLM LA's response

THIS is the kind of courageous stance we are looking for. No police dispatched for non-violent calls also makes a lot of common sense as it clears the way for those better equipped to handle such situations to do so.
Let's do it!#CareNotCops #ReImaginePublicSafety https://t.co/jQNGUJeNKh

— #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) June 16, 2020

thanks for the details! and yes great news

My awesome local org did a teach-in last night about what defunding the NYPD could look like & could do for communities. Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=283289663037475

The elected official in that video is actually the city council member for my district. I think right now she's being the most outspoken as I've ever seen her be. There's a significant political status quo of ppl who kind of "earned" their positions by waiting their turn and they're usually not particularly progressive. Iirc she was another official's staffer and my recollection is that she kind of inherited the position so it's heartening to see her picking a strong side on this.

A friend and I are going to Tulsa this weekend to participate in the BLM protest there. If I end up dead or disappeared remember me fondly.

<3

Don't end up either of those way, Liz.

I just saw a Twitter video of a cop breaking down and crying because her order at the McDonald's drive-thru took too long. It apparently wasn't a parody. I'm not linking it because I don't want to boost its profile but it's super hilarious until you remember that this woman is allowed to carry a gun as part of her job.

she had paid in advance, you see

how about the cop who murdered her neighbor bc she was confused about where her apartment was :(

^^^ amazing there's been so much of this shit that I can go "oh, yeah... forgot that one."

I saw that video of the drive-thru cop earlier, jfc. What's worse is how its getting signal boosted as "these poor officers are feeling so unloved right now". Fucking infuriating.

'paranoid cop cries during confessional social media post about a late mcdonald's order' is trending on TMZ
^another now-filled space on my 2020 apocalypse bingo board

i wish that woman had cried on social media when she got confused about her apartment rather than murdering her neighbor!
the guy was literally just sitting in his own home on his own couch. do we need more than one couch murder to see what the issue is here?! she had been a police officer for 5 years.

The idea that she was confused is highly dubious

now imagine the guy at the McDonalds drive thru has a gun and could murder you in broad daylight with virtually no repercussions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=UYjof4V7MyY

thinking maybe she doesn't need any more coffee

lmaoooo

La Lechera: Amber Guyger was found guilty and is currently serving a 10-year murder sentence. I feel that is an inadequate apology but it’s a start.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/new-video-manuel-ellis-chokehold-tacoma-police/281-033c2da5-2189-4b1a-b9c9-f6c544ad3015

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/06/mentally-ill-man-spent-nearly-5-months-in-jail-before-body-cam-video-revealed-garfield-heights-officers-beat-tased-and-mocked-him.html

what kills me about the “bad apple” argument is that the full expression it comes from literally says that it’s never just one, that in fact it is the whole goddamn bunch!!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/us/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-shooting-wednesday/index.html

FELONY MURDER!

UPDATE: OFFICER EGG MCMUFFIN WAS STEALING COP VALOR pic.twitter.com/p4tXzhoWDR

— Anansi Pelosi (@Eugene_V_Dabbs) June 17, 2020

Lol I was just about to post this

Also 👍🏾 on the felony murder charges

Absent these things not happening, the people who do them should be held accountable

Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's a fairly big deal that they charged the non-shooting officer and he turned state's witness. Obviously waaaaaaaay more pressure needs to be put on, but maybe it's a sign of some faint cracks in the thin blue wall.

I just got off a fundraiser Q&A Zoom call for a college classmate who is running for Manhattan DA and I think if he wins, he will do incredible things for the city; his parents were social workers and a core tenet of his platform involves his office declining to prosecute people for things like drug possession and removing police officers from schools so kids don't end up in jail for acting like kids; he also is very much into defunding the police and reallocating resources to professionals more suited to dealing with (for example) issues caused by homelessness and mental illness. Kind of make me wish I lived in Manhattan so I could vote for him.

DJP, let me know who he is so I can donate.

Actually, I think I got it.

is there a rich white manhattaner I could somehow pay to possess

I'd probably choose trump

and maybe do more with it than voting for DA

Seeing reports that a bunch of Atlanta cops are planning a #blueflu strike/walkout because of the charges, threatening that there'll be "no protection!".

What bunch of tittybaby assholes.

I always wondered--if something like that happened in a major city--how much of the actual crime perpetrated afterwards would carried out by cops.

while the cops aren't working, they'll be out committing violent crimes to prove we need cops

in other words, business as usual

BREAKING: Reports that *every* #Atlanta police officer has refused to work their shift tonight. Mayor has requested aid from surrounding jurisdictions. Every neighboring department has explicitly stated they will *not* cover for Atlanta.

— Timothy Peterson (@nsquaredcrypto) June 18, 2020

Note the username is “nsquaredcrypto” so take that with a big pinch of salt

and 0.04nsq