Can't stop being infuriated by this picture of Botham Jean's killer posing with her mom wearing an "All Lives Matter" t-shirt. pic.twitter.com/KNrxpW3Anb
Police are demanding almost unfettered access to highly personal records and data from potential rape victims before pressing ahead with their cases, the Guardian can reveal.
In some areas, complainants are being asked to disclose health, school and college records, counselling notes and all data from their electronic devices, documents obtained under freedom of information requests show.
In London, the Metropolitan police request access to social media, web browsing activity and content, instant messages, location data, emails, deleted data, images, videos, audio files, apps, contacts, documents, MMS and SMS messages – which can be kept for up to 100 years. The information provided can then be disclosed to the Crown Prosecution Service and the defence.
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Campaigners say victims are regularly advised that prosecutions will not be brought if they do not grant access to their personal data.
Vera Baird, the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) victims lead, said: “It is only in rape and sexual assault cases that there is any such thing as a Stafford statement and a requirement for these records.
“The huge differences in the records that are demanded shows the utter irrelevance of much of this material. [...]
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“Victims are all too often left with the impression it is them and their credibility that is under investigation, not the person actually accused of a serious violent crime.”
...the only way to stop a good guy with a gun is a bad police officer with a gun?
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“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
While I'm certainly laughing at this, I do worry that an undercover officer carrying a weapon is going to try to instigate violence and get the crowd shot by police who think they are being shot out and fire back because they are so ready to fight.
While I'm certainly laughing at this, I do worry that an undercover officer carrying a weapon is going to try to instigate violence and get the crowd shot by police who think they are being shot out and fire back because they are so ready to fight.
I worry that trigger-happy radicals are going to infiltrate the police and get jobs as undercover officers where they will try to instigate violence and get the crowd shot by the police who think they are always being shot at by trigger-happy radicals.
The good news: a pig piece of shit is going to federal prison for criminal violations of federal civil rights laws. The pig piece of shit at issue framed multiple black men for burglaries they didn't commit, then publicly thumped his pig piece of shit chest and bragged about his 100% property crime clearance record.
The bad news: the prison sentence is a mere three years.
The pig is free for two more weeks so he can look after his mother, who's dying of leukemia. Can't help but wonder whether mom will go to her grave knowing that her son is a racist pig piece of shit.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.
This child was in CBP custody for more than eight hours before she started seizing. When someone finally checked her out, they found that
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she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”…
…An initial diagnosis by physicians at El Paso’s Providence Hospital listed the cause of death as septic shock, fever and dehydration, CBP said.
The quoted official response centers on a lie:
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“Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the child’s life under the most trying of circumstances…”
If they had done so, of course, she and all the refugees in her group would have received water in less than one third of a day.
There need to be prosecutions for crimes against humanity over this. There won’t be, but there need to be.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“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
Night before a man’s scheduled execution, TX prosecutors admitted they purposefully swayed the jury by showing the surviving victim her husband’s autopsy photo so she would break down on the stand. They lied about it for 2 decades. Then they executed him before he could appeal. https://t.co/mtKkBTi27t
Racist texting SF police Officer arrested for Bank Robbery
Not some sophisticated rob them of millions scheme, just a basic hand over a note, walk out with $9000 and end up with a potential 20 year prison sentence scheme. Only fools, those who are desperate or both rob banks like this.
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in United States custody early Christmas Day, according to the United States Customs and Border Protection.
The boy died just after midnight on Tuesday at a hospital in Alamogordo, N.M.
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In a Christmas morning question-and-answer session with reporters, President Trump touted his administration’s immigration policies and demanded further funding for a border wall. While he castigated migrants, the president did not bring up the boy’s death hours earlier.
Our rulers are despicable human beings.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“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
#NEW: Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office confirms to me the deputy seen in the video has a K9, police dog, assigned to him. The deputy is on paid-leave. #ARNews
For some 40 minutes, he sat in a rolling chair, sipping on sparkling water, engaging in what he called “community-oriented policing stuff.”
Seattle police on Wednesday released video from former police Sgt. Frank Poblocki’s body camera that shows him seated outside a man’s workplace while passers-by and other officers asked what he was doing. Poblocki explains to one officer that he “got a little disrespected earlier today and I think I deserve an apology,” the video shows.
Which is exactly as it sounds. The crack detective force of SFPD 2007 (other members of which were systematically robbing people in low income housing) did things such as show a witness a picture of the guy who did it, just for confirmation. Screwing over the unlucky friend of the murder victim for what seems to be no other reason than to artificially inflate murder conviction numbers.
Don't worry though, as all the officers are retired, I'm sure this money came from SF's general coffers and will in no way impact the retirement funds of such amazing officers.
One of the teachers said she was waiting in the library with her colleagues as the first small group of teachers was led into a classroom for one session.
“The firsts group went in and we heard them scream and yell,” she said. “We thought, ‘What is going on?’”
The group came back out and whispered a warning to the next group — the officers had told them not to tell their colleagues what had happened — but she still wasn’t expecting what came next.
“It was like a quick spew of those pellets,” she said. “Most of us got hit several times in our backs.”
She said she had welts and one spot where the pellet broke her skin. It was scabbed over for several weeks.
Our country is genuinely sick. Words feel wholly inadequate.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“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