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That's when a D.C. police officer took over, putting his knee in the middle of Parrot's back while he pulled the dog's forelegs behind him, Block said. He said that the officer then grabbed Parrot by his neck and threw him over a banister at the Brass Knob antique store and that just as the dog righted itself, the officer pulled out his gun and fired. Parrot was "a full 12 to 15 steps away," Block said, and was "making no aggressive overtures." The dog, he noted, "doesn't handle stairs well."
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. ... The origin of myths is explained in this way.
"Everything that came out of his [a supervisor's] mouth was sexual," Galliford said. "If I had a dime for every time one of my bosses asked me to sit on his knee, I'd be on a yacht in the Bahamas right now."
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According to Galliford, a supervisor on the Air India Task Force was even more direct.
"One of my bosses kept trying to be intimate with me throughout my time on Air India and kept on taking me on the road trying to have sex with me," she said.
"We don't have any new information to share with the Air India families right now, so why are we going on this trip? And no one said anything, but it was because he wanted to give the perception that we were a couple."
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Mike Webster, a consulting police psychologist in private practice, ...says Galliford's allegations come as no surprise.
"Senior executives for decades have been accountable to no one and they've created a toxic work environment, high levels of employee stress and a culture of fear," Webster said.
...In a statement to CBC News, the RCMP said harassment of any kind is not tolerated.
Covering an odd tale about a 14-year-old autistic boy who was handcuffed by police and suspended for running down the sidelines of a high school football game at halftime wearing a banana costume, Washington, D.C. reporter Pat Collins donned a grape suit and went out to get his story.
Apalling. That's the word I was looking for. Thanks Chief. Well, the two dickheads duo of arbitrary capsaicin mayhem are ID'ed and on a vacation. There's going to be an assessment. That should straighten things out. As long as it's an assessment , not an assessment .
The president of the 10-campus University of California system also weighed in on the growing fallout from Friday's incident at UC Davis, saying that he is "appalled" at images of students being doused with pepper spray and plans a far-reaching, urgent assessment of law enforcement procedures on all campuses.
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Their story: he threatened them with a bottle and said he would kick their heads in. His story: that's bullshit. His drink was in the bottle, he was running away from them, and, holy shit, why the hell would he threaten to kick in the heads of a line of helmeted riot cops?
Of course the inquiries all took the police version of the story at face value, even though the officers were in the process of being investigated for, and one of them actually charged with, criminally assaulting him.
Now an independent inquiry has recommended disciplinary actions against the group. But it took a long time to generate the recommendations, because of course every other police officer on the force was struck with a vicious case of total amnesia and prosopagnosia. So the police union gets to say whether it will waive the right to bar any disciplinary action recommended more than six months after an incident.
"I was scared, surprised, sad," he said. "He's just a young man … I'm a fairly young officer and it's a learning experience going through this, so, scared of the [SIU] process really. To me at that time I couldn't put together how he went from being so strong to deceased. I was going through my actions. Going through what happened and I didn't see the connection of how we got from A to B."
He floated the same bullshit about "distractionary blows" in the G20 case.
Serial brutalizers; liars; conspirators; accessories after the fact; and a system structured around protecting them from consequences.
And while we're at it with asshole updates, here's another double dollop. This guy, who's a kind of redneck living out in the countryside, made the mistake of driving near the G20 site while carrying the accoutrements of his redneck existence: a crossbow, a chainsaw, and a propane tank.
Where I grew up, this was called "stuff in the box of your half-ton", though it would have been a rifle rather than a crossbow.
Anyhow. The cops arrest him as part of the G20 orgy of fuckuppery. This was two days before any leaders were scheduled to show up. So they figure out -- by questioning him four times without a lawyer present -- that he's a just a mentally unstable guy driving around, and has nothing whatever to do with the G20. The response is to keep him in jail for over 5 months without bail.
When it finally got to trial, the judge said, in polite legalize, "Are you fucking kidding me?", and cut him loose. So, yay, another bed-shitting by our police and Crown attorneys. What makes it a double dollop? Well, look real close at that picture in the CBC news article. That's our poor unwell driver being brought in for Special Internment or whatever. See that cop over on the left of the picture? Could it be?
Once again, we find the same fuckheads fucking up multiple people's lives with impunity. The only question is when Toronto will see the assholes from these two posts serving as Chief and Deputy Chief of Police.
Crime victims who call 911 often discover that while the police can’t offer help, they can always make the situation significantly worse – as a single mother from Milwaukee learned when she was raped by one of the cops who responded to her call, then arrested for “assaulting an officer.”
Police Officer Ladmarald Cates was one of two Milwaukee cops who responded to a 911 call from the anxious single mother after someone had pitched a brick through her bathroom window. He arranged to be alone with the woman, then raped her.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." -Adam Smith
Cates, the rapist, hurried out of the house and grabbed the victim by the waist, causing her feet to strike his partner. This gave the officers an excuse to arrest the battered and traumatized woman for “assaulting an officer.” She was taken to jail and held for 12 hours before receiving medical aid. After the hospital visit, she was sent back to jail for four days before being released without charges.
Although the victim’s accusation was substantiated by medical evidence, the DA refused to prosecute. The department’s Internal Affairs section confronted Cates – a repeat offender – with DNA evidence, and arranged to fire him for “idling and loafing” on duty. If the victim hadn’t persisted long enough to see Cates convicted on civil rights charges, he would have found employment in another police department.
How likely is it for anyone else to get sexual assault, rape, sodomy, wrongful arrest, et cetera written off as "idling and loafing?"
Excuse me while I "idle and loaf" the neighbor upstairs who turns on his stereo at 3 AM with this axe handle. . . .
Thank you for solidifing just how ignorant you liberals are. The media is liberal based as is the unionized police force.
Yeah, the police force is well-known for its liberalism. Some people are really so stupid that it's amazing they can operate a computer...or remember to breathe.
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"If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Czar himself." -Mikhail Bakunin
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." -Adam Smith
A transgender woman who was arrested for a minor infraction is claiming that the New York Police Department subjected her to shocking mistreatment.
As Jezebel.com is reporting, Temmie Breslauer was arrested on January 12 in a New York subway station for illegally using her father's discount fare card.
After being laughed at and taken to the police station, she was asked by the receiving officer "whether she had a penis or a vagina."
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The complaint alleges that instead of being taken to a holding cell for women or placed in another available room, she was fingerprinted, seated on a bench, and "then painfully chained to a fence wherein, for no apparent reason, her arm was lifted over her head and attached to the fence to make it appear that she was raising her hand in the classroom. She sat there in that position for 28 hours."
Breslauer's complaint goes on to allege that during those 28 hours she was not allowed to use the restroom and the officers in the station referred to her as "he-she," "faggot," "Lady GaGa," and "transvestite."
I never did hear any follow up about that. The DC NPR station covered it for maybe a week after it happened, and there was some kind of administrative hearing, but nothing since then.
ABC News has uncovered questionable police conduct in the investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch captain in Florida, including the alleged "correction" of at least one eyewitness' account.
Sanford Police Chief Billy Lee said there is no evidence to dispute self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman's assertion that he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin out of self-defense.
"Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him," Lee said.
(I can't find the link to where I first listened to them on reddit)
You can here someone crying, begging it sounds like, then a shot and then silence.
The police claim that it was the shooter, I think it sounds like a young black kid begging for his life.
I remind myself that simple role reversal is not always appropriate, like the gender reversals that mras do. However, I cannot imagine a black man shooting a young white kid in a similar way and walking away. Hell, I can't imagine a white man shooting a white kid and walking away.
In Rome Ga where I was born. I knew of this old man (iirc I read about it in the paper) who shot a teenager who was stealing his tv. Again if I recall correctly, the kid had left the house and had his hands full of tv when the man shot him in the head. I remember that I felt sickened then, and I was aware of the race dynamic even then. An old white guy had shot and killed a young black man over a tv. in that case I felt it maybe wasn't murder.
But this is just a kid walking along, in the original call you can hear that fuck zimmerman running, which prompts the 911 operator to tell him to not follow the kid. So Trayvon was walking along and notices this guy in a car following him, he feels uncomfortable walks away, when he notices that he is being followed he panics, Zimmerman pursues against the direction of the 911 operator, there may have been a scuffle, you hear begging and screaming a young boy dies.
It angers me.
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"This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something," Zimmerman tells the 911 operator. "He's just staring, looking at all the houses. Now he's coming toward me. He's got his hand in his waistband. Something's wrong with him."
Zimmerman described Martin as wearing a hoodie and sweatpants or jeans. He continues: "He's coming to check me out. He's got something in his hands. I don't know what his deal is. Can we get an officer over here?"
"These assholes always get away," he says to the operator. Zimmerman is then heard giving directions to the dispatcher. "Shit, he's running," Zimmerman says.
"Are you following him?" the dispatcher asks.
"Yes," Zimmerman responds.
"We don't need you to do that," the dispatcher says.
Just to round it out--it was also posted in the Two Minutes of Hate thrad:
And the family is pursuing this, as they should:
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The family of Trayvon Martin is asking the FBI to get involved in the investigation of the killing of the unarmed 17-year-old Florida high school student, who was shot last month by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman outside his stepmother's home.
Martin, a black high-school junior, was making his way home with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea on Feb. 26 when George Zimmerman spotted him, called a non-emergency dispatch number to report Martin looked intoxicated, followed him, and then minutes later after an altercation, shot him.
Zimmerman, 28, who is white, claimed self defense. He was never arrested and has been charged with no crime, sparking national outrage.
ABC News has learned police seemed to accept Zimmerman's account at face value that night and that he was not tested for drugs or alcohol on the night of the shooting, even though it is standard procedure in most homicide investigations.
Now Martin family attorney Ben Crump has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, and it's being circulated by several members of congress who are putting pressure on him to get the FBI involved.
An FBI spokesman told ABC News: "We are aware of the incident, we have been in contact with local authorities and are monitoring the matter."
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But law enforcement expert Rod Wheeler who listened to the tapes tells ABC News that Zimmerman, not Martin, sounded intoxicated in the police recordings of the 911 calls.
"When I listened to the 911 tape the first thing that came to my mind is this guy sounds intoxicated. Notice how he's slurring his words. We as trained law enforcement officers, we know how to listen for that right away and I think that's going to be an important element of this entire investigation," Wheeler said.
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