[News] The USA Police State will never satisfy its lust for beating, gassing, and imprisoning minorities
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figmentPez
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It's not just the US:
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Being a white male won't save you. Questioning police tactics: Diabetic man's arrest at Walmart sparks controversy
A man having a diabetic emergency stopped at a Wal-Mart, and when employees called 911 to report that he was in his car twitching and not responding to people, the police came, pulled him from his car, repeatedly punched him, tased him, and then knelt on his back while he was in handcuffs. Paramedics were never called.
A man having a diabetic emergency stopped at a Wal-Mart, and when employees called 911 to report that he was in his car twitching and not responding to people, the police came, pulled him from his car, repeatedly punched him, tased him, and then knelt on his back while he was in handcuffs. Paramedics were never called.
figmentPez
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The police are beating up journalists again:
There's a LOT of shit going down about college campus protests of the genocide going on in Palestine, but I don't have the personal bandwidth to sift through all the horrible stuff being done to suppress free speech on the issue.
EDIT: What starts here changes the world.
EDIT 2: https://www.statesman.com/story/new...-pro-palestine-protests-walk-out/73425149007/
There's a LOT of shit going down about college campus protests of the genocide going on in Palestine, but I don't have the personal bandwidth to sift through all the horrible stuff being done to suppress free speech on the issue.
EDIT: What starts here changes the world.
EDIT 2: https://www.statesman.com/story/new...-pro-palestine-protests-walk-out/73425149007/
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figmentPez
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Meanwhile, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia:
Law enforcement forcibly disbands pro-Palestine encampment at Emory — students, faculty arrested Including the chair of the philosophy department.
"Activists have linked the Cop City issue to the Palestinian cause, because Georgia law enforcement participate in an exchange program with Israeli law enforcement."
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And over at Indiana University in Bloomington:
There's a sniper on the rooftops.
Over 30 arrested after Gaza protests on IU’s campus
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It's happening all over: Mass arrests roil college campuses amid pro-Palestinian protests
This article lists arrests made at the University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, Emerson College (Boston, MA), Emory (Atlanta, GA), and Princeton (New Jersey).
Law enforcement forcibly disbands pro-Palestine encampment at Emory — students, faculty arrested Including the chair of the philosophy department.
"Activists have linked the Cop City issue to the Palestinian cause, because Georgia law enforcement participate in an exchange program with Israeli law enforcement."
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And over at Indiana University in Bloomington:
There's a sniper on the rooftops.
Over 30 arrested after Gaza protests on IU’s campus
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It's happening all over: Mass arrests roil college campuses amid pro-Palestinian protests
This article lists arrests made at the University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, Emerson College (Boston, MA), Emory (Atlanta, GA), and Princeton (New Jersey).
After allowing nazis and other fun people to brutalize protesters for hours last night at ACLU completely unchecked while they watched, leading to 25 people being hospitalized, the police have now decided that they're going to ignore the staff of ACLU and smash their fucking heads in tonight.
The book on terrorism is a literal textbook made by Oxford press. They also don't have a physical copy to show, it's like they googled book on terrorism and pasted the first result. Nothing shown is illegal or irregular but cops won't stop the lies and gaslighting.
Shoes and bike helmets? Oh my god. Gas masks? Why would protesters expecting violent police reprisal have those? OMIGOD.
figmentPez
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Powerful sedatives linked to 15 deaths during police encounters in Texas
"At least 15 people died in Texas over a decade following a physical encounter with police during which medical personnel also injected them with a powerful sedative, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
"Several of the fatal incidents occurred in Dallas and its nearby suburbs. Other cases were documented across the state, from Odessa to Austin to Galveston."
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"It was impossible for the AP to determine the role injections may have played in many of the 94 deaths involving sedation that reporters found nationally during the investigation's 2012-2021 timeframe. Few of those deaths were attributed to the sedation and authorities rarely investigated whether injections were appropriate, focusing more often on the use of force by police and the other drugs in people's systems. "
"At least 15 people died in Texas over a decade following a physical encounter with police during which medical personnel also injected them with a powerful sedative, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
"Several of the fatal incidents occurred in Dallas and its nearby suburbs. Other cases were documented across the state, from Odessa to Austin to Galveston."
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"It was impossible for the AP to determine the role injections may have played in many of the 94 deaths involving sedation that reporters found nationally during the investigation's 2012-2021 timeframe. Few of those deaths were attributed to the sedation and authorities rarely investigated whether injections were appropriate, focusing more often on the use of force by police and the other drugs in people's systems. "
"Other drugs" like what, Insulin? Spironolactone/Testosterone? Finasteride? Adderall?
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Statistics show that police spend very little time on crime control
"Overall, sheriff patrol officers spend significantly more time on officer-initiated stops – 'proactive policing' in law enforcement parlance – than they do responding to community members’ calls for help, according to the report. Research has shown that the practice is a fundamentally ineffective public safety strategy, the report pointed out."
About 80% of the time was spent on traffic stops.
"Overall, sheriff patrol officers spend significantly more time on officer-initiated stops – 'proactive policing' in law enforcement parlance – than they do responding to community members’ calls for help, according to the report. Research has shown that the practice is a fundamentally ineffective public safety strategy, the report pointed out."
About 80% of the time was spent on traffic stops.
Stopping a crime requires often getting into a semi-dangerous situation, and best case means more responsibility on you, like dealing with the crook in jail, paperwork, warrants, etc.
Traffic stops are easy, and on light cases gets them loads of money in traffic fines and in best cases can mean Civil Forfeiture because the guy had a single blunt on his back seat and now they can fleese the money right out of his wallet and steal the car to sell at auction.
Seems like an easy choice for them, ACAB and all.
Traffic stops are easy, and on light cases gets them loads of money in traffic fines and in best cases can mean Civil Forfeiture because the guy had a single blunt on his back seat and now they can fleese the money right out of his wallet and steal the car to sell at auction.
Seems like an easy choice for them, ACAB and all.
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Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
A man's father went out for a walk with their dog, and when the dog returned without the father, the man went to the police for help. The police decided the man killed his father, and proceeded to torture him to try to elicit a false confession. They denied him access to his medications for high blood pressure, asthma, depression, and stress.
"At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. 'OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,' said an investigator. "
Eventually he broke down and confessed, and when he tried to kill himself because he was so distraught, he was put on a 72-hour hold at a psychiatric facility. Meanwhile the police found his father, very much alive, and they still didn't tell him this.
Even then the ordeal didn't end, because police started searching for an "unknown victim" because they were so sure that he'd done something to someone.
When they finally let him go, he had to track down his dog via the dog's implanted chip, because the police just dumped it at an animal shelter.
"Perez agreed to the settlement rather than take the case to trial out of concern that a jury award could be overturned on appeal on grounds of qualified immunity for police."
A man's father went out for a walk with their dog, and when the dog returned without the father, the man went to the police for help. The police decided the man killed his father, and proceeded to torture him to try to elicit a false confession. They denied him access to his medications for high blood pressure, asthma, depression, and stress.
"At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. 'OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,' said an investigator. "
Eventually he broke down and confessed, and when he tried to kill himself because he was so distraught, he was put on a 72-hour hold at a psychiatric facility. Meanwhile the police found his father, very much alive, and they still didn't tell him this.
Even then the ordeal didn't end, because police started searching for an "unknown victim" because they were so sure that he'd done something to someone.
When they finally let him go, he had to track down his dog via the dog's implanted chip, because the police just dumped it at an animal shelter.
"Perez agreed to the settlement rather than take the case to trial out of concern that a jury award could be overturned on appeal on grounds of qualified immunity for police."
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Four Tops star says hospital put him in straitjacket and ordered psychological examination after not believing he was famous singer
"Alexander Morris is the current lead singer of the legendary combo after joining in 2019. After suffering from chest and breathing problems in April of last year, he went to the Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Detroit, for help. However, he has claimed that staff at the hospital refused to believe he really was the famous singer, instead thinking he was mentally ill."
"Alexander Morris is the current lead singer of the legendary combo after joining in 2019. After suffering from chest and breathing problems in April of last year, he went to the Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Detroit, for help. However, he has claimed that staff at the hospital refused to believe he really was the famous singer, instead thinking he was mentally ill."
I don't really have anything to add to this.
Here's an infographic.
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A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racist statements, according to police....
“The bond for the Attempted Capital Murder charge was $25,000. The bond for the Injury to a Child charge was $15,000,” Captain Brenda Alvarado told CNN. (CNN)
“The bond for the Attempted Capital Murder charge was $25,000. The bond for the Injury to a Child charge was $15,000,” Captain Brenda Alvarado told CNN. (CNN)
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Burlington [Vermont] police’s mock shooting exercise rattles high school students
Students in a forensics course were taken to police headquarters for a field trip, but they weren't told that there would be a mock shooting there. They were surprised by fake gunshots, and people in masks with guns shouting at them. The claimed purpose “was to make a point about how witness statements can be unreliable, and detectives wanted the event to be as realistic as possible,”
Police are lying and claiming that they communicated beforehand that there would be a mock shooting.
Another article on the issue better covers parent and student response: Burlington Police Terrified High School Students With Mock Shooting
"Two students who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the class was facing the front of the room listening to a detective speak when they heard screams from behind them. Two women ran in, the students said, followed by a man wearing a ski mask who was holding a gun. Then gunshot sounds rang out.
"One of the students said she dove on the floor, scraping her knee. The other said she scrambled to find her phone so that she could text her mother.
“ 'I’m shaking and crying because I'm like, Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,' she said. ';It felt so real.'
"The students realized it was fake only after noticing that the cops in the room had done nothing to stop the pretend shooter, they said."
Nah, the cops doing nothing to stop the shooting was just part of the realism.
'Like a prank': Burlington, Vermont police terrify high school students with fake shooting
“It was laughed about afterwards,” a student said. “just made it feel like a prank, basically — not much of a demonstration.”
Students in a forensics course were taken to police headquarters for a field trip, but they weren't told that there would be a mock shooting there. They were surprised by fake gunshots, and people in masks with guns shouting at them. The claimed purpose “was to make a point about how witness statements can be unreliable, and detectives wanted the event to be as realistic as possible,”
Police are lying and claiming that they communicated beforehand that there would be a mock shooting.
Another article on the issue better covers parent and student response: Burlington Police Terrified High School Students With Mock Shooting
"Two students who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the class was facing the front of the room listening to a detective speak when they heard screams from behind them. Two women ran in, the students said, followed by a man wearing a ski mask who was holding a gun. Then gunshot sounds rang out.
"One of the students said she dove on the floor, scraping her knee. The other said she scrambled to find her phone so that she could text her mother.
“ 'I’m shaking and crying because I'm like, Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,' she said. ';It felt so real.'
"The students realized it was fake only after noticing that the cops in the room had done nothing to stop the pretend shooter, they said."
Nah, the cops doing nothing to stop the shooting was just part of the realism.
'Like a prank': Burlington, Vermont police terrify high school students with fake shooting
“It was laughed about afterwards,” a student said. “just made it feel like a prank, basically — not much of a demonstration.”
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'Disturbing' recordings from inside child-predator sting shows police, MAGA operatives ignoring laws
They're MAGA and QAnon conspiracy theorists, who still believe in "Pizzagate".
Among other violations, they used illegal "pre-signed" search warrants, worked mainly with a group that were not law enforcement agents (despite being told that it would make evidence gathered inadmissible in court), and "Police arrested one suspect then, when he refused to talk to investigators, they turned him over to the private group for questioning", and "a Millersville detective boasted that the suspect was being taken to a jail where it was likely that he might not come out alive."
I would not be at all surprised if there are multiple individuals in the group who are, themselves, predators.
"there's no evidence that his group has ever rescued any actual children."
They're MAGA and QAnon conspiracy theorists, who still believe in "Pizzagate".
Among other violations, they used illegal "pre-signed" search warrants, worked mainly with a group that were not law enforcement agents (despite being told that it would make evidence gathered inadmissible in court), and "Police arrested one suspect then, when he refused to talk to investigators, they turned him over to the private group for questioning", and "a Millersville detective boasted that the suspect was being taken to a jail where it was likely that he might not come out alive."
I would not be at all surprised if there are multiple individuals in the group who are, themselves, predators.
"there's no evidence that his group has ever rescued any actual children."
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https://news.yahoo.com/news/deputies-disciplined-cat-shooting-case-013457960.html?guccounter=1
“They’re back to work, but they’ve been disciplined and that’s about all I can tell you without violating the peace officer bill of rights.”
I can almost guarantee they weren't disciplined
Dexter?
figmentPez
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Former Aurora [Colorado] cop charged with raping daughter remains free as mom is sent to jail
"A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons."
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" The oldest son also told a forensic interviewer he felt like his father tried to drown him in a pool in 2018 in Costa Rica, using police control tactics and holding him under water until he began to black out. The boy said he believed his father was vengeful because the boy woke up one night and confronted his father whose hand he claims he saw down the under garments of his sister. "
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"Though the divorce judge found there was evidence that Hawkins had physically abused the oldest son, the judge said in his ruling that was 'one instance that does not involve either of the two children at issue.' ”
"A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons."
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" The oldest son also told a forensic interviewer he felt like his father tried to drown him in a pool in 2018 in Costa Rica, using police control tactics and holding him under water until he began to black out. The boy said he believed his father was vengeful because the boy woke up one night and confronted his father whose hand he claims he saw down the under garments of his sister. "
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"Though the divorce judge found there was evidence that Hawkins had physically abused the oldest son, the judge said in his ruling that was 'one instance that does not involve either of the two children at issue.' ”