Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Non-police gangs already do a better job of taking care of their communities than actual police, this is not controversial.

For many of these communities the police are little more than an occupying army.

Amber Alert cancelled after cops shoot child they were looking for pic.twitter.com/tjGLOlX5Ud

— Dame Doody Dench (@DrugsNSatan) September 27, 2022

This is fucking insane.
(warning: shows a police shooting)

Earlier this week, a San Antonio cop abruptly confronted a teen eating in a McDonalds parking lot & demanded the teen exit his vehicle.

When the teen asked why, the cop immediately assaulted & then shot him MULTIPLE TIMES. Cop tried to (falsely) claim the teen had struck him 1st pic.twitter.com/ATNKj4fVgi

— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) October 7, 2022

When LAPD officer Houston Tipping died back in May the department described it as an accident during a training exercise. Tipping was engaged in a grappling scenario with another officer when he "fell to the floor and suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury," as chief Michel Moore explained at the time. The LA Coroner's Office also ruled it an accident likening his death to one in the boxing ring or on the football field. An internal LAPD inquiry finished this week came to the same conclusion.

roundup of gangsters being gangsters: https://www.welcometohellworld.com/this-is-why-there-are-no-good-apples

That San Antonio cop's body cam footage is straight up attempted homicide.

Yeah, I can't even see what the cop "thought" he saw that made him start shooting.

And shooting at the car in the second set of shots was egregiously wrongheaded even for a cop.

There's a person in the passenger seat too apparently. Everything about it is completely fucked.

All I could see was the kid putting the car into reverse

It had been a perfect day for Caitlyne Gonzales. The Uvalde survivor saw Beto O'Rourke, one of her gun-safety heroes, speak. She took a selfie with him, got free shirts, ate fried chicken after.

Then, on the way home, police lights flashed behind her family's car.
A thread: pic.twitter.com/Q34EErx1y7

— John Woodrow Cox (@JohnWoodrowCox) October 25, 2022

jfc

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-karl-ashanti-special-federal-arrest

lots to chew on here!

Fantastic story, extremely interesting and thought-provoking

A friend of mine was on a similar trajectory but quit to become a chef. He had very similar stories (of course I can’t really remember the details of them now). He has since gone back into law primarily doing arbitration; he wants to spend time resolving conflicts rather than advancing arguments.

Two women found a missing child in Indianapolis and got the kidnapper arrested while struggling over and over to get the police to give a single fuck.

Oh, wait, never mind that — CNN says two hero cops found the baby in the parking lot of the Papa John's where they'd stopped to eat, after spending all day searching for him! It's a Christmas miracle! And they had no help from civilians at all! Yay cops!

According to this account, a few police officers falsely claimed that a 15-year-old girl wouldn't serve them at a deli - a girl grieving the death of her brother, who was killed by police - trumpeted those false claims on social media and got her fired. https://t.co/eZsZcexLSS

— @ijbailey (@ijbailey) January 11, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/12/keenan-anderson-police-taser-death-los-angeles/

A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died hours after Los Angeles police repeatedly used a Taser on him and restrained him in the middle of the street following a traffic accident, according to body-camera footage released by authorities Wednesday.

The death of Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father visiting from Washington, D.C., is among a recent series of separate encounters that ended with men dying after their exchanges with Los Angeles officers. The fatal incidents have rocked the city in recent days, and the community is calling for justice after the police encounters involving Anderson, as well as 45-year-old Takar Smith and 35-year-old Oscar Sanchez, both of whom were fatally shot by officers in the first few days of January.

Video of the Jan. 3 incident in Venice, Calif., shows Anderson being detained by multiple officers as he begs for his life shortly after a traffic collision. Body-cam footage shows an officer appearing to have his elbow on Anderson’s neck as he is detained in the middle of the road.

“They’re trying to George Floyd me!” he exclaimed, according to the video, referring to the Minneapolis man who was murdered by then-police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. “They’re trying to George Floyd me!”

Then an officer is shown using his Taser on Anderson two times, including one stretch that lasted about 30 seconds uninterrupted.

jfc that is harrowing.

Fuck, the Tyre Nichols vid is ugly.

have absolutely no appetite to watch that based on the reporting…so sad

The description alone was enough to greatly upset me. I’m surprised Memphis isn’t in flames right now.

I wonder if their lengthy preamble is having an (intended?) effect of getting more people to NOT watch it?

Being in Tennessee, albeit the other end of the state, the Tyre Nichols case is all over the news obviously. It's terrible, and it's good that the cops involved have all been charged. Of course, one can't help but notice that our white Republican governor and many other white Republican state and local officials have been extraordinarily swift to condemn the beating and the cops. Which would seem like a promising development except for the cops being Black. I'm glad Black cops are held to account, because all cops need to be, but I 100 percent guarantee that we would not have all these strong statements coming if the cops were white.

And to Milo's post a few weeks ago about that other Tennessee case, I've been covering that. Here are a couple stories:

https://compassknox.com/2022/12/20/calling-for-accountability/
https://compassknox.com/2023/01/18/racial-tensions-rise-around-deli-incident/

Xpost otm

Radley Balko's latest newsletter is about how every time there's a police brutality case, a lot of "police rescue baby ducks" stories start popping up on the local news. He links to 30 examples.

The unspoken implication being that first police officers are deliberately planting those poor ducklings into the sewers in the first place

https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/littleton-motorcycle-police-shooting-rammed-crash/73-c247ea0c-59ad-432f-a22d-7b2d248e6ebb

On Feb 2, Littleton Police posted a press release saying Stephen Poolson, 41, “was driving a motorcycle and crashed” during a call about a suspicious vehicle. Police said an officer eventually fatally shot Poolson because he “produced a gun.”

there's video at the link, not of the police murdering the victim, but of the earlier part, the "was driving a motorcycle and crashed". you can clearly see the cop swerve and hit the guy on the motorcycle. he was "driving a motorcycle and crashed" in the same way that "a pińata was hanging and then fell down"

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/fbi-bookstore-spying-in-chicago-eyes-abortion-rights-cop-city-anti-development-activists/

unicornriot.ninja is the only part of that url i can look at without just wanting to melt into ash and even that is a near thing

“This tweet has been deleted” pic.twitter.com/YgUuqcxul3

— People's City Council (@PplsCityCouncil) March 24, 2023

*fewer

nah, scum is uncountable, 'less' is appropriate

fucking Hell. clear the homeowner didn't hear the explanation they were police, is coming out because he thinks there's prowlers, and is shot almost immediately, without being given time to react to any commands or anything

fucking charge em all

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-police-wrong-house-fatal-shooting-homeowner-new-mexico-rcna79848

This is good

fdny vs nypd hockey ACAB lmfao pic.twitter.com/2tiKR2RhFm

— fat taurus bitch (@NikosRaves) April 16, 2023

Indeed

Every Sunday morning for 4 years, residents of a block in Greenpoint woke up to hundreds of sheets of paper dumped on their street.

TV guides, Bibles, 70’s porn mags.

The serial litterer was a NYPD sergeant. https://t.co/MyJKEPWJDI

— Bahar Ostadan (@BaharOstadan) July 18, 2023

Gothamist reached Trzcinski by phone but he hung up. He joined the NYPD in 1994 and earned $177,516 last year.

The big brouhaha in Minnesota this last week is all about school resource officers and how the wording of a new law is leading many departments (and school districts) to terminate the use of SROs this school year.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-gop-representatives-seek-clarity-on-new-law-leading-to-some-districts-pulling-sros/

As you'd expect ...

The portion of the law itself limits district employees -- including SROs -- from placing students into certain holds. Those include putting a student face down on the ground, or putting weight on their head, throat, neck or chest, thereby making it so they can't breathe.

"How can we expect our staff to go to the school and work there every day when they're constantly worried about being sued ... instead of just focusing on their job and developing relationships?" Blaine Police Chief Brian Podany said.

next you'll be telling us we can't handcuff 6 year olds

i guess we missed this

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/us/rankin-county-sheriff-torture-black-men-mississippi/index.html

next you'll be telling us we can't handcuff 6 year olds

Our school board literally debated this exact thing and voted against putting it explicitly in policy, instead telling police that they would just really urge them not to handcuff elementary schoolers.

profiles in courage!

we have to leave all options on the table if we’re going to win the war on children

Large briefing underway in French Creek Elementary School Parking Lot. Maybe a foot patrol or sweep during the daytime about to be carried out #ChesterCounty #DaneloCavalcante pic.twitter.com/Vu9SmTZDw7

— BradleyMitchell (@Bmitchell0794) September 12, 2023

Not sure how big this escaped prisoner story is outside of PA, but I'll be surprised if there aren't some dead civilians before this ends.

Well ... at least one Pennsylvania cop is not out looking for the prisoner ...

https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-state-police-trooper-charged-with-strangulation-official-oppression-and-other-offenses/45273387

(Oh, they caught the escaped guy, hadn't even seen that.)

And so it goes

I'm beyond outrage. This judge needs to be removed -- she's a danger to the public https://t.co/KxOi8lnDoj

— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) September 26, 2023

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lee-allen-cure-imprisoned-16-years-wrongful-conviction-fatal-shooting-georgia-deputy/

A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said.

Leonard Allen Cure, 53, was identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting.

His death was confirmed by Seth Miller, executive director of the Innocence Project of Florida, which represented Cure in his exoneration case.

Miller said he was devastated by the news, which he heard from Cure's family.

This one is enraging. There have been so many "touching tributes" to this fucking dog. Not one word that I have seen about the young man whose life was snuffed out in this incident.

‘Rest well buddy;’ Community remembers Clayton County K9 shot to death by 17-year-old

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/clayton-county/rest-well-buddy-community-remembers-clayton-county-k9-shot-death-by-17-year-old/7VZFNYE63ZGI5IYZEFCXDWCPAY/

Not one word of sympathy, I should have said.