Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

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.

the story Eric posted is incredibly fucked up

k9 thing is additionally disgusting given the mind-boggling number of pet dogs cops kill with impunity

A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months.

Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/elijah-mcclain-death-jury-decision-second-trial-police/story?id=104658159

at least the person was arrested, jfc

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/kamari-hughes-mother-interview-nypd-tow-truck-driver-child-killed/

this kid was buried today

that happened on my commute. I walked past the scene about an hour later. Ironically I had just minutes before had to jump out of the crosswalk to avoid getting hit by a speeding police cruiser.

https://ktvz.com/cnn-regional/2023/11/16/woman-killed-hours-after-rio-rancho-police-respond-to-her-home/

82 year old woman calls the police, says her caretaker is going to kill her. Cops show up, admire the guy's weapon collection and leave. 4 hours later, he kills her.

When Officers left the scene, it did not appear Juneanne was in fear for her safety and there was no probable cause to believe any criminal activity had occurred. Officers did not witness any signs of distress and comments made relating to the use of a firearm appeared to be insincere and made in jest. Officers had no reasonable belief to suspect that either individual was sincerely contemplating an imminent act of violence because the behavior of the individuals observed on scene indicated they cared for one another and were working to solve their long term health care and living situation needs.

Omg fuck off and die

Then, the conversation continues between Cardana and Fannell once the officers say they have to go.

“What did you say?” Fannell asked.

“I said you’re fine until I kill you,” Cardana said.

“All right? He’s threatened to do that,” Fannell said to the Rio Rancho police officers.

“Get out of here now,” Cardana said to the officers. “Go away.”

Totally normal situation here

Very caring. ffs

Just got around to reading this one, free gift link:

The Goon Squad of Rankin County

Breaking: St. Louis Police have now filed felony assault charges against a Bar:PM co-owner. The incident began when police crashed their SUV into the LGBTQ bar in the early hours this morning https://t.co/gMtRUXVyLM

— Riverfront Times (@RiverfrontTimes) December 18, 2023

shame he wasn't allowed bond, because I'd have paid it. fuck the police

I wish that article explained why the SUV plowed into the gay bar.

The incident happened in the city’s Carondelet neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. today, when a police SUV traveling northbound on South Broadway swerved across multiple lanes of traffic and into Bar:PM just as the LGBTQ bar was closing up.

The police are a fucking menace.

bet it was retaliation, homophobia, or both, latter being most likely.

fuck the police.

xp:

The RFT has also viewed the video taken from a different vantage point on South Broadway that shows the collision itself. That video shows the police SUV traveling at what appears to be a high rate of speed northbound on South Broadway. The vehicle suddenly swerves to avoid a car parked against the curb, which the SUV didn't look like it was going to hit anyway. The SUV careens across the turning lane, the lane going in the opposite direction and the sidewalk and then into BAR:PM.

The police vehicle was driven by a 32-year-old probationary officer who had been with the department for less than a year. The official police incident report said that the driver "believed he was traveling too close to a parked car and attempted to correct himself."

However, I found a different article that says police gave the bar owners a different story initially

Pence and his partner, Chad Morris, said police told them an officer swerved to avoid a dog, lost control of the SUV and crashed into the building. The owners said they didn't believe the story.

Later in the day, an incident summary released by police said the officer was trying to avoid hitting a parked car when the officer swerved and crashed into the building without a mention of the dog.

We need to find this dog!

Sounds like they arrested the bar owner for being upset and/or trying to film them.

nobody's going to believe the police swerved to avoid hitting a dog. they should've gone with "we were trying to run over the dog but missed"

The workers say the cop just jumped out and started demanding to see everyone's I.D. When the bar owner said no the cop came at him.

bar owner's husband stated that the cop who plowed into the building was actually the nicest of the bunch and I guess the investigating officers on the scene were the belligerent fucks looking to start something. but he also said he didn't believe the 'dog' story, especially since that's not the story the officer gave the press.

said also that immediately upon coming downstairs the cops demanded his ID and when he initially refused, they spun him around and cuffed him, only to release him a second later.

the arresting officer on scene sounds like he was a complete prick on arrival and not making any attempt to like, empathize with an owner of an LGBTQ+ establishment that just had his livelihood wrecked at a time when LGBTQ+ establishments are being defaced and vandalized nationally, and just decided he didn't like the gay man who was yelling at him.

lol Colonel Poo

Probably working out how to charge the owners with moving the building in the path of their vehicle.

I like that the press keeps focusing on the fact that the cop who hit the building is fresh out of the academy, as if being a new cop means you're also simultaneously new to driving

he was probably drunk

Maybe Elon Musk is making police vehicles with an autohatecrime feature you can turn on

as if being a new cop means you're also simultaneously new to driving

Well it does mean you're new to driving without regard for any kind of traffic laws or standards at all. Takes a while to get good at flipping on your lights for a half-second to zip through red lights and drive 100 mph on narrow city streets. (Spoiler alert, they never really get good at it. We've had at least two fatalities here in recent years caused by cops driving at insane rates of speed for no particularly good reason. All found to be justified in the course of their duties, naturally.)

lol touchee

an old friend of mine once flipped their vehicle over due to cops running her off the road in a high speed pursuit, then I think wound up arresting her for ....something

oh to clarify, SHE was not the one being pursued

Driving too slow during a high speed chase

Yeah, a friend of mine had a similar, if less harrowing, experience in Myrtle Beach. He was making a left hand turn onto a two-lane road when this cop came SCREAMING over the hill to his right. The cop stood on his brakes and spun off the road, hitting a sign. Needless to say, my friend got cited (and had to go back to Myrtle to appear in court), although the cop's supervisor, who showed up at the scene, was pretty pissed at the cop.

TBC, I don't think the cop was on his way to anything urgent.

I once witnessed a cop car run a car off the road so that it knocked over a sign, then about ten more cop cars pulled up--everyone jumped out pointing their guns, ran up to the driver's window of the civilian car and one cop yelled, "He's white!" The the cops all jumped back in their cars and drove off.

Then the cops