Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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

a flying jump kick might have worked as well

Jump-kicking someone out of a motorized wheelchair would have been better than shooting them to death but also falls under the umbrella of excessive force. It would be admittedly hilarious excessive force, but still.

that's true. this leads us to the final idea, the most failproof but also the least practical: the door that leads to a hallway of banana peels

They could've just followed him around until his battery ran out.

Fucking disgusting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeS_0NQUZs

According to district attorney’s records reviewed by The Times, one officer sent a text message referring to a deposition he gave after shooting.

“They believed our lies. Good job sticking to the script,” he wrote. “LMAO, that’s what they call a W.” https://t.co/1qHfKFlHIp

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 8, 2021

LATimes headline: Torrance police traded racist, homophobic texts. It could jeopardize hundreds of cases.

Better headline: Racist, homophobic Torrance police jeopardize hundreds of people with false imprisonment.

God cops really are dumb: “congrats on lying under oath, which is a crime, which we planned to commit and indeed committed. A crime.”

If you're going to be evil, might as well be stupid too

Y'all, the conservative media is running with this for different reasons, but you cannot make this shit up.

Eric Adams’ new NYPD commissioner is being appointed in front of a mural featuring Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Assata Shakur. pic.twitter.com/TshnCS3U31

— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) December 15, 2021

what a coincidence

Two Dems who support police reform carjacked less than 24 hours apart https://t.co/jushwinWqX pic.twitter.com/F3Jtfusdfl

— New York Post (@nypost) December 23, 2021

I used to know someone who did radical anti-police/pro-BLM organizing and she ended up with cops parked on her street relentlessly ticketing her on purpose until she had to stop driving because she couldn't afford it.

kim potter verdict to be delivered shortly. manslaughter seems like a slam dunk but what do i know. also haven't watched any of this, whereas i basically saw the whole chauvin trial

I had to listen to my dumb sister in Prior Lake list all the ways this poor guy was in violation of various laws and how the poor lady cop’s actions were an accident bla bla bla and all I could say to her besides ‘accidents are manslaughter’ was ‘none of these things you say about him are reasons he should be dead’.

She’s guilty

"Mistakes were made ..."

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/lapd-chief-says-officers-appear-to-have-accidentally-killed-a-14-year-old-girl-in-burlington-coat-factory-dressing-room

Shopping for her quinceañera. Brutal.

Not their fault; it was that dastardly bullet.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHZdSREXMAUaiBt.jpg

STRAY BULLET KILLS, it was just a coincidence that police fired their guns at the same time.

So heartsick. I hate it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

In the session, conducted by Lexipol and titled “Arrest Related Deaths: Managing Your Medical Examiner,” he suggested that such deaths were outside the control of officers.

“Decades ago we used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome, and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,” he said at one point in the training session, adding later: “Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”

~i fucking love science~

https://www.tiktok.com/@billytibbsinator/video/7044760294098275589

Not sure if this belongs here, except for the bogus 'citizens arrest' part

Ahmaud Arbery's killers sentenced to life in prison

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ahmaud-arbery-killing-mcmichael-bryan-sentencing/index.html

Life without parole for two of them

omg "arrest related death syndrome" !!!!!!!

yeah i'm still having so many thoughts about that one and some other things

not unrelated to the "in this house we believe...SCIENCE IS REAL" and the "science" supporting reducing covid quarantine to 5 days because airlines --> walmart et al. reducing sick leave in turn, people weaponizing various stats for their chosen purposes, power, knowledge, ethics........................zzzzzz

god

damn

like it's such a big admission, just sitting there! i mean:

Decades ago

no, still doing this shit every day

we

"we" = cops (the people you work for)

used to prosecute mothers for crib deaths and sudden infant death syndrome

used to use pseudoscience to put people in jail

and then we figured out it really wasn’t their fault,

people (not "we) were able to show they were innocent, even though "we" tried our best to hide the truth

“Hopefully in the future we’ll have something like sudden infant death syndrome, just ‘arrest related death syndrome’ so we don’t have to automatically blame the police officer.”

hopefully in the future "we" can discover a new fake syndrome so "we" don't have to be held responsible for when "we" kill someone

worth noting that SIDS/SUID are when you can't determine the cause, not when you know the cause but don't want to "blame the police officer"

Confirmation that Seattle police were spreading fake rumors of armed Proud Boys in the area to destabilize CHAZ/CHOP: https://mynorthwest.com/3301600/spd-fake-reports-proud-boys-protesters-radio-chatter-opa/

not unrelated to the "in this house we believe...SCIENCE IS REAL" and the "science" supporting reducing covid quarantine to 5 days because airlines --> walmart et al. reducing sick leave in turn, people weaponizing various stats for their chosen purposes, power, knowledge, ethics........................zzzzzz

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, January 7, 2022 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

basically my thoughts as i'm trying to fall asleep after getting high on a weeknight