The Ethics of Crowd Control. Crack Downs on Decent. So Called Non Lethal Weapons. The Ethics of Tear Gass. Related. Couds of Death. The Importance of Police Accountability. Then and Now Perception of the Police. Filming the police. What Justice System? Whom do they serve & protect. Invalid Forensic Evidence. What Property Rights? Deadly Police Force. Class Power & Lethal Force. Extra Judicial Killing of African Americans. Statistics of police abuses. Statistics on Killings by Cops. Mass incarceration. Police. Abuse of power. The History of the Police. USA Gov Acting against Americans. Leathal Force Against Protests & Activists.
The NYPD Twitter Fail. USA Gov Acting against Americans. Entrapment. Law (Ethics) Police Killing Victums (racism?) Fraud. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality: 'The Violence Is Not New, It’s the Cameras That Are New' Photo Credit: via Democracy Now! Today we spend the hour with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of an explosive new book about white supremacy and being black in America.
Titled "Between the World and Me," it is written as a letter to his teenage son, Samori. In July, Ta-Nehisi Coates launched the book in his hometown of Baltimore. He spoke at the historic Union Baptist Church. "It seems like there’s a kind of national conversation going on right now about those who are paid to protect us, who sometimes end up inflicting lethal harm upon us," Coates said. "But for me, this conversation is old, and I’m sure for many of you the conversation is quite old. It’s the cameras that are new. This is a rush transcript. AMY GOODMAN: Today, we spend the hour with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of an explosive new book about white supremacy and being black in America. Well, in July, Ta-Nehisi Coates launched his book in his hometown of Baltimore. Prince Jones was a fellow student of mine at Howard University. Here's A 5-Minute Video That'll Make You Rethink Our Entire News Media Circus. St Louis Police Union Thug Jeff Roorda Doesn't Like Video Being Used To Prosecute Bad Cops.
Gerald Celente - How my heart breaks to see what my. Police Execute Homeless Man For Camping. Texas police defend DUI arrest of black man who blew 0.00 on Breathalyzer. By Travis GettysWednesday, February 26, 2014 9:05 EDT Police in Texas are standing by their drunken driving arrest of a man whose Breathalyzer and blood tests showed no evidence of intoxication. Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13, 2013, by Austin police after he ran a stop sign and, according to arresting officers, appeared to be intoxicated during a field sobriety test. Davis insisted he’d had only one drink and volunteered to provide a blood sample after testing 0.00 on a Breathalyzer – the lowest recordable blood-alcohol content level – and spent a day in jail, reported the Austin Statesman.
Months later, those results also came back negative, and Davis is now trying to have his arrest record cleared, which could take several more months. But the arresting officer’s supervisor said he still supports the decision to arrest Davis. “If there is someone who is possibly impaired, we don’t want them driving,” said Cmdr. David Mahoney, of Austin police. DN! Police. DN! Prison. DN! FBI. DN! Police Brutality. Secret Audit Of Baltimore's Speed Cams Says Up To 70,000 Tickets Were Issued In Error In 2012 Alone.
God bless the drivers of Maryland, whose government officials have been experimenting on them for years by placing their driving records and insurance rates in the hands of unreliable private contractors for years. We've already covered one major traffic camera firm (ATS - American Traffic Solutions) in the Maryland-DC area whose response to questionable photos captured by its cameras was to crop out anything that might make the ticket challengeable, like calibration lines or other vehicles. Now, it appears another major contractor, Xerox State and Local Solutions, has been caught operating faulty cameras -- and issuing tens of thousands of questionable citations. (via Reason) Consultant URS Corp. evaluated the camera system as run by Xerox State and Local Solutions in 2012 and found an error rate of more than 10 percent — 40 times higher than city officials have claimed.
Neither claim matches up with the URS audit. So, that's clearly untrue. "Well-known" has lots of different meanings. Police defending Academic Freedoms? #CopsOffCampus - Right to Protest - UoL - Uni of London. Abuse by Law Enforcement. Control. Police Officers' Lawyer Claims Being Tased Is Hilarious. Oddly enough, cops (and lawyers for cops) from halfway around the world are no different than our local variety. This isn't solely an "American" problem. Excessive force is used, the victim complains, and once the court battle ensues, the justifications for the use of force are presented, which often sound completely insane to those not well-versed in the art of defending abusive cops.
This story starts out like countless others (via The Honest Courtesan). Aaron Strahan and Troy Tomlin are on trial accused of assaulting Kevin Spratt by repeatedly tasering him in August 2008.Sergeant Strahan, who was a Senior Constable at the time, had arrested Mr Spratt in Bayswater...The officers have denied any wrongdoing and today Sergeant Strahan testified he tasered Mr Spratt because he was acting violently and had broken free from four other officers.The officer testified he feared that he or somebody else was going to get hurt. The "somebody else" of course being him or one of his fellow officers. New revelations about mom killed by Capitol cops. Text smaller Text bigger WASHINGTON — First they called her a terrorist threat. When she turned out to be an unarmed suburban mother, they said she was on drugs. Now, WND has exclusively learned, without a trace of doubt, that was wrong, too. WND can also now report Miriam Carey was shot in the back of the head by U.S.
Capitol Police officers and uniformed Secret Service agents six months ago, on Oct. 3, 2013. The official police investigation still has not been released. The report showed there were no drugs in Carey’s system, prescription or otherwise, when she was shot dead. The report was prepared by Dr. After the terror threat was discarded, the media had tried to portray Carey as mentally unbalanced, citing prescription medications she was reportedly taking. Sanders spoke to WND at the Garfield traffic circle, on the edge of the West Lawn of the U.S. The report said Carey was shot numerous times but did not specify exactly how many. Columnist Mark Steyn memorably remarked, “Ms. U.S. Federal Prosecutions Fail To Bring Justice in New Orleans. (Photo: fake is the new real / Flickr) In 2010 and 2011, the US Department of Justice won several high-profile convictions against New Orleans police who had killed unarmed civilians in the days of crisis after Hurricane Katrina, but now those convictions are falling apart.
Some community members in New Orleans say the lesson is that true justice will not come from the state. Or, in the words of Audre Lorde, "The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. " In the days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, as the levees failed, water rushed into the city. Images of desperate survivors played on television, and people around the world felt sympathy for the people of New Orleans who had been abandoned by the government.
But soon images of families trapped on rooftops were replaced by stories of armed gangs and criminals roaming the streets. Gov. The NOPD acted on those instructions. The city's then-daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, failed at its job. Kentucky trooper wants job back because raping that girl was just a ‘moral mistake’ By David EdwardsThursday, February 13, 2014 13:49 EDT A Kentucky state trooper told a trial board last month that he would like to have his job back after he was fired for having sex with a 15-year-old girl, calling the relationship a “moral mistake.”
In a transcript obtained by WDRB, former Kentucky State Trooper Jerry Clanton asserted to the Kentucky State Police Trial Board that he was under the false impression that the 15-year-old girl was 18 years old when he started having sex with her. “I made a moral mistake. And, I’ve gotten right with my family,” the married former trooper insisted. “I would never have gone over there. KSP Commander of Legal Services Capt. “You can’t put a 15-year-old girl in a car, drive her up in the middle of nowhere and have sex with her,” Feltner said.
During the hearing, Clanton explained that State Trooper Stratford Young had sex with the girl first, which he said resulted in his inappropriate relationship. WDRB 41 Louisville News David Edwards. AlterNet - It would be nice to go just one day without. Abuse by Law Enforcement. Meet the Occupy Protester Who Might Spend Years in the Clink for Protecting Her Breasts from Being Squeezed. Photo Credit: Caleb Maupin; Screenshot / YouTube.com April 10, 2014 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The trial of Cecily McMillan — a prosecution that should not even be taking place — is in recess today and about half way through jury selection. (We have been covering Cecily’s prosecution regularly, previous stories can be seen here.) Justice for Cecily summarizes the situation: “We are now up to 7 jurors, and we only need 9 more (the jury is 16 people — 12 jurors and 4 alternates).
The judge had been ruling that the defense would not be able to question Bovell about his history and even threatening her attorney Marty Stolar with contempt of court if he asked about it. Bovell’s history is critically important because the prosecution is essentially a one witness case. Police state. Crime and Punishment. Justice for #RamarleyGraham. Why Prison Reform is needed; Graveyard of Bodies Found. On Tuesday, excavations were carried out on the former Florida School for Boys campus under orders from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Unfortunately, the searchers weren’t surprised by what they found; a massive graveyard full of 55 unidentified corpses of young men. The real shock came from the small number of bodies discovered given the large-scale stories they’d been told. Some backstory is needed to explain what I mean. On January 1, 1900, a reform school (fancy word for juvenile prison) was opened Marianna, Florida under the guise of helping its inmates, aged as young as five to as old as 21. Soon after its establishment, reports began to come in detailing horrible conditions the boys endured. The stories only get worse from there. Calling themselves the White House Boys, the group explained their namesake derived from an eponymous white house present on the school grounds. You might also like: Like this: Like Loading... Jan Green's Solitary Confinement Nightmare. Rise Of The Police State: “Commando Cops” Proliferating in the US. More SWAT teams exist than ever and the line between police officer and soldier is becoming more obscured.
Police break up demonstrators at the end of their march through the streets of Chicago to protest the NATO Summit taking place in the city on May 20, 2012. The combination of a post-9/11 America and a government bent on prosecuting a war on drugs has not only expanded law enforcement powers in recent years, it’s created a new breed of police officer — commando-cops. Now the police officers and sheriff deputies are armed with a grade of equipment previously reserved for the military, such as automatic rifles, grenade launchers, armored personnel carriers and soon — drones, previously used in hardened war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
And police officers — often only required to have a high school diploma as a prerequisite for consideration into such a career field — feel emboldened as never before, adopting the mindsets of battlefront soldiers. Share this article! Print This Story. Civil Unrest and Terrorism (Civil Wars, Riots, Crime, Terrorism) Whom Do They Serve.