It's about fighting the drug war 80 percent of the time. The phrase police militarization conjures up an image of cops wrapped in Kevlar, barging into homes with semi-automatic weapons. But familiar as that image is, we don't know how common it is. There are simply no good statistics on police tactical operations in America. The federal ... MORE
Showing posts with label brutality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brutality. Show all posts
Martin Kaste: Police State America - Why Utah Is The Only State Trying To Track And Limit SWAT-Style Raiding Tactics
It's about fighting the drug war 80 percent of the time. The phrase police militarization conjures up an image of cops wrapped in Kevlar, barging into homes with semi-automatic weapons. But familiar as that image is, we don't know how common it is. There are simply no good statistics on police tactical operations in America. The federal ... MORESWAT Raids, 'No-Knocks' On Rise In Frequency And Profile
By Brad Petrishen. Exploiting the legal monopoly on violence. A 7-year-old girl shot in the head and killed while sleeping in her Detroit home. A 1-year-old boy permanently disfigured in Georgia by a flashbang grenade that landed in his crib. Closer to home, a 68-year-old grandfather of 12 shot and killed inside his house in Framingham while ... MORE‘Stop F*cking Crying', Demands Cop Holding Naked Woman And Children At Gunpoint After Raiding Wrong Apartment
by Travis Gettys. Public masters or public servants? Police terrorized a naked woman and her children at gunpoint last week during a no-knock raid on the wrong apartment. Marianne Diaz said she was awakened about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday by SWAT officers knocking down the door to her Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment as officers wearing ... MOREPolice State Update: 61-Year-Old Man Violently Attacked By Police And Arrested For Singing A 'Beach Boys' Song
by Matt Agorist. A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man, Jim Osche likes to go out into public and sing as a means of relieving stress. On Friday, however, Osche’s stress relief would be met with police brutality. As Osche walked down the sidewalk in front of Shula’s Steakhouse in downtown Allentown, the restaurant guests seemed to be pleasantly VIDEO INCLUDED ... MOREGeoff Henley: How U.S. Laws Foster Police Brutality
Unreasonable force is sadly not the question. Pervasive police brutality will persist far longer than the public suspects. Why? The answer is simple: the law allows it. Under Graham v. Connor,
the Supreme Court requires that Fourth Amendment excessive force claims
be analyzed from the officer’s perspective during the incident. Judges
are not ... MORE10 Outrageous Excuses Cops Used To Kill Unarmed People
by Justin Gardner. Informed readers are well aware that US police have the dubious reputation of killing lots of civilians, compared to other countries. The War on Drugs provides much of the basis for this abomination. In four days US police killed as many people as Chinese police did in
2014, and more than five European countries’ ... MOREJames Queally: Why The Police Killing Of This Unarmed White Man Has Not Provoked A National Media Outcry
Black lives matter, but ... Zachary Hammond, an unarmed white 19-year-old, was in the middle of a seemingly routine vehicle stop in South Carolina last week when a police officer fatally shot him. Police have said the officer fired in self-defense during a drug sting, but a subsequent autopsy seems to counter the officer’s claim that Hammond ... MOREPolice Union: No 'Just Cause' For Firing Ray Tensing, The Ohio Campus Cop Who Shot And Killed An Unarmed Man
Keeping murderers on the force. Although former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing faces murder charges
for shooting and killing Samuel DuBose as the man tried to drive away
from a traffic stop over a missing front license plate, Tensing believes
he ought to have his job—which provided him with a firearm and the
authority to ... MORELeonard Pitts Jr: Police Brutality Is Everybody's Problem
Not just a black problem. This will not be a column about Sandra Bland, although it could be. Certainly there is cause for outrage over the way a Texas state trooper escalated the routine traffic stop of an indignant African-American woman into a violent arrest; she died of an apparent jail cell suicide three days later. But Chuck would say that in ... MOREThe Tyranny Of The Criminal Justice System
by John W. Whitehead. The American nightmare. Justice in America is not all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask Jeffrey Deskovic, who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. James Bain spent 35 years in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a
9-year-old boy, but he too was innocent of the crime. He was finally
freed after DNA ... MORESteve Chapman: Cops As Criminals
Those who enforce the law but do not obey it. Late one night, during high school, I was driving home when several police cars zoomed by. Curious about what was going on, I followed them down a residential street, where they pulled up to a house. I drove by and saw some officers walking up the sidewalk, but couldn't tell what they might be ... MOREJacob Sullum: Federal Grand Jury Charges Georgia Cop With Lying To Justify Drug Raid That Multilated A Toddler
Cop tossed flash-bang grenade into playpen. Today John Horn, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, announced
that a federal grand jury has approved an indictment charging former
Habersham County Deputy Sheriff Nikki Autry with lying when she applied
for the search warrant authorizing a May 2014 drug raid that ... MORECode Of Silence: Officer Fired, Framed & Threatened For Exposing Fellow Officer Who Ripped A Man’s Eyeball Out
by Matt Agorist. It is no question that if fellow officers blow the whistle on their peers for breaking the law, they will be shunned, and their careers will be over. The blue code of silence, as our friend and former Baltimore cop, Joe Crystal has shown us, is not to be broken. Crystal attempted to expose an officer who beat a handcuffed man ... MOREVideo Shows Cop Slamming Handcuffed Teenage Girl Onto Floor, Knocking Her Teeth Out And Causing Head Injuries
Cop defends self from sassy young girl's verbal abuse. Police brutality allegations were prompted when a police officer slammed a teen’s face onto a hospital floor. The young woman suffered significant injuries, including trauma to the head, face, jaw, and teeth. She also sustained concussion, migraine headaches, cognitive and ... MOREVIDEO: Public Servants On Film - Cops Illegally Enter Home, Then Arrests Naked Woman In Front Of Young Daughter
Offending cop decides to retire to cushy pension.
Police Violence Activist Found Dead In Jail Cell After Being Pulled Over For Not Signaling A Lane Change in Texas
by Ed Krayewski. Earlier this month, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was pulled over
for allegedly failing to signal a lane change by a Texas Department of
Public Safety trooper near the Prairie View A&M campus. She had
driven there from her home in Naperville, Illinois, for a new job at her
alma mater. Police accused her of being combative during ... MOREBaltimore’s Police Brutality Nightmare: Former Officer Tweets Examples Of Corruption & Misconduct He Saw
by Sophia Tesfaye. Ex-officer Michael A. Wood tells of horrifying mistreatment of suspects -- and promises more exposés to come. Twitter has served as mobilizing tool for marginalized activists who
have used the social media platform to amplify isolated stories of
police brutality until a clear narrative of systemic injustice has
become undeniable. ... MORE
America's Out-Of-Control Cop Kill Rate
by Edward Peter Stringham. The police-against-citizen kill rate in the U.S. is more than 145 per 100,000. The overall homicide rate, by way of contrast, is 5 per 100,000. This weekend, police in Long Beach, California shot and killed Feras Morad, a 20 year old college student who was on a balcony and unarmed, and police outside of Tulsa, ... MOREMichael Suede: Cop Shoots And Kills 17-Year-Old Unarmed Boy For Flashing His High Beams And Flexing His Rights
The killer cop keeps his job. video included. This is pretty much how things go with all aspects of government. The most mundane and trivial of infractions can always result in a dead human being because ultimately all laws are enforced at the point of a gun. Any failure to comply with a state functionary ALWAYS results in the escalation ... MOREMatt Agorist: Family Raided by SWAT, Their Home Trashed And Their Dog Shot For Not Being Able To Pay Utility Bill
Police state USA. Nothing says Police State USA quite like a SWAT team raiding a family home and killing their dog because they are unable to pay their natural gas bill. The woman whose dog was killed and home destroyed by SWAT officers is Angela Zorich, and her story about her police state experience will shock the conscious. According to a federal ... MORE
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