Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

aw thanks! flattered that my birthday is on sarahell's xls

fyi i don't do criminal law anymore i am now toiling in obscurity elsewhere ;)

lol, actually my xls only says ' harbl - Scorpio - awesome' -- and as Scorpio is the best sign, harbl gets a whole month of birthday

happy birthday to both of you

If this was posted here three months ago, you can ignore this. It came up in a Stereogum comment about the Travis Scott concert tragedy.

https://defector.com/the-myth-of-cops-overdosing-from-touching-fentanyl-persists-for-a-reason/

Looooooooool

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-lodge-jack-daniels-committee-investigation/2021/11/04/e035a92a-3377-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html

united states cops - they aren't too smaught

“Look if what we did was illegal I think we’d know, after all I am a cop.”

I looked for an appropriately lolworthy quote in that article to repost here, but I gave up trying to decide which one after the first half dozen.

“He has good communication skills, and he is very neatly dressed,” the sheriff said.

The most important takeaway

So far, neither the lodge nor the leaders of the Jack Daniel’s committee have faced legal consequences. The D.C. police investigated, but prosecutors declined to file charges.

*screams*

Losing my fucking mind at the "police reform" proposals of Seattle's new mayorhttps://t.co/WmuvtO9d1F pic.twitter.com/gSl5PfJGZ2

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) November 7, 2021

jackoff motion optional

Mentioned it months ago, and a few days ago, but the other half of his proposal was that they can have a pizza party on Fridays if they don’t murder anybody that week.

Another in the "cops ain't too smart" series
https://www.insideedition.com/san-francisco-police-departments-sgt-davin-cole-charged-with-shoplifting-at-a-rite-aid-pharmacy

harbl if yr intersted in reading back

haha ok i do remember that!

oh whoops lol sorry

Houston police chief walks back the viral story that a security guard was drugged through a needle prick at Astroworld festival

“He said no one injected drugs in him” pic.twitter.com/tf6ljkIigC

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 10, 2021

No one, else.

pic.twitter.com/CTPBin7PwQ

— Corey Frazer (@OG_coreyfrazer) November 10, 2021

You have to get four paragraphs into this story to learn that the girl was shot by a cop who panicked and fired into a random car a block away from where the teenagers were https://t.co/QyBbyxRIeQ pic.twitter.com/zihv8Ocv88

— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) November 11, 2021

Yeah, that story is nuts.

The Bility family’s attorney, Bruce Castor, said Wednesday that the decision to charge the two teens was “a gutsy move” but said he believes that it will be difficult to convict them of murder.

not this guy again!

she was one of 4 ppl hit by police crossfire. insane.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/nyregion/queens-prosecutors-misconduct.html

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/a/philadelphia-murder-exonerations-wrongful-convictions-20210507.html

that's from may, i just saw a twitter thread about it. maybe it's already on this thread.

oh, duh, sorry. part 5 came out today or yesterday. that's why i saw it. and part 5 is very intersting!

"An Illinois police union on Wednesday ousted from its membership an officer facing criminal charges for exposing a squad car video that showed his fellow officers slapping and cursing a man dying of a drug overdose."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/11/12/union-ousts-police-officer-featured-in-usa-today-behind-the-blue-wall-series/6396601001/

HE's's facing charges for...sharing the video of THEM doing that?

wtf

the one cop that wasn't a bastard, eliminated

That headline is a real journey.

just a few bad ah fuck it

union leaders described his conduct as “reprehensible.”

And no, they weren't talking about the officer who shoved a baton in the mouth of a dying black man

The COPS Counseling Act, signed by Pres. Biden on Thursday, aims to help law enforcement officers recover from the ‘invisible wounds’ of the job

Read more: https://t.co/DFbed17lea pic.twitter.com/sH4E5tNBzR

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 18, 2021

(CW: Police violence)

Police spray and tase students at Little Elm Highschool in Texas after a walk out for a girl who was sexually assaulted and put on suspension. this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/SEenszaAdD

— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) November 19, 2021

The excuses being argued in the Ahmaud Arbery case are just beyond bonkers. Like that the shooter was just trying to "de-escalate" the situation - as if a routine afternoon jog is a situation requiring de-escalation. Or that Travis McMichael shot at Arbery in self-defense due to how much danger he was in, never mind the only reason he was in danger is because he and his dad chose to follow and trap him in their pickup truck and point a gun at an unarmed jogger.

Wouldn't be surprised if these defenses work though, standard blame-the-victim stuff, especially with Black victims.

If the killers walk, the country will react.

It would give a blank check to white supremacist vigilantes to harass every person of color and shoot them when they object.

Also, 'this wouldn't have happened had Arbery refused to talk to us when asked'. An unarmed unarmed jogger has no legal obligation to stop and talk to some gun-toting random strangers who track him down in a pickup truck, even if one of them was an ex-cop (but not a current cop). He had every right to do what comes naturally in that situation, try and get away as fast as possible.

I feel like the prosecution has done a great job of laying this out. Also seems like the defense doesn't have a really good defense? (In addition to being racist AF.) But I didn't think Rittenhouse would walk scot free, so what do I know?

Tucson cop kills shoplifter, shooting him 9 times in the back as he rolled away in an electric wheelchair. Wtf?! https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/us/arizona-wheelchair-officer-shooting/index.html

Nine times?!?

Saw the body cam video on the morning news. It's baffling, the guy supposedly branded a knife as he was... scootering away.

Yes, 9 rounds fired from behind! It's baffling. Maybe he was trying to take out the wheelchair motor and hit the guy instead? Even then, and even though he had a knife, he's wheelchair bound! There must be a hundred possible ways to stop him without using a gun.

At least they immediately fired the cop and released the video though, I guess that's progress?

again: disarm american beat police

it's baffling to me that people find this baffling in 2021

no personal shade intended

Even then, and even though he had a knife, he's wheelchair bound! There must be a hundred possible ways to stop him without using a gun.

The cop could literally have run over and pushed him off the scooter. But, you know, that would involve running.

i would have used a nearby wrench to jam up the wheels, thereby stopping the perpetrator in their very tracks