So remember that "ex-marine" who called the cops because a black guy in the walmart fake gun section was holding a gun and "pointing it people, children" while being threatening.
Turns out by "ex-marine" he means he was enlisted for 7-weeks before being thrown out as a 'fraudulent enlistment' and has changed his story and now claims, “At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody.”
So what about the cops, I'm sure their story about him refusing to comply with orders is accurat... haha of course not! Surveillance tape (which so far the Ohio Attorney General has refused to release, and yet happily showed to the 'ex-marine' ya know so he could get his story straight) shows the man standing with his back to officers almost the whole time, at no point did he point the gun at them. Instead they immediately shot him them rushed him. Autopsy reports support this as he was shot in the back. Internal investigations have stated, “Preliminary indications are that the officers acted appropriately under the circumstances.” Doubts cast on witness's account of black man killed by police in Walmart | World news | theguardian.com
"You're not a f***ing American": Controversial Chicago Salon Raid Finally Ends in $150k Pay Out | Police State Daily
So 10 officers come in, rough up a woman in what's clearly a racial attack, search the place for the video to hide their tracks and remain on the payroll to this day.
And who ultimately pays? Why the citizens they harass of course! Wouldn't want to hurt the pay of those hard working cops or perhaps sell off a few unneeded grenade launching bat-tumblers or anything. There might be a peaceful protest against cop brutality they need to shoot up!
On August 15, an article in USA Today cited FBI estimates of 400 police-involved deaths a year. But, it went on to note, those estimates were based on a small fraction of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide—those that chose to report "justifiable" police homicides.
Frankly, we're more interested in police homicides that are not justifiable. Who keeps that list?
For more than a dozen years, Wikipedia has crowd-sourced a list of deaths caused by US law enforcement officers. Last month, we collaborated with 44 "Wikipedians"—the highly involved, active volunteers at the heart of Wikipedia—to source, distill, and verify a comprehensive-as-possible list of people killed by US law enforcement officers in August 2014, and add to the existing list for prior months and years. Names were culled from thousands of mainstream media articles. Each case was confirmed in at least one media source, often the paper of record for its community.
The total for August alone? One hundred and four deaths.
You can review the list on Wikipedia as "List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, August 2014."
Of course, 104 a month, over 12 months, would come to 1,248 deaths—an annual count significantly higher than the FBI's estimate of 400. Even if August's count happened to be unusually high—say, twice the actual average monthly number—the real annual count would still be higher than the FBI's.
The majority of those killed this August were, from all appearances, flat-out crooks—often armed, often shooting, often extremely dangerous—in situations where even hard-line pacifists and Buddhist monks would be tempted to grab a weapon and aim where it counts.
But a closer reading of the list will make an honest American cry.
Innocent bystanders died—three of them. Four officers committed suicide. Twelve people, like Michael Brown, were younger than 21—just starting out in life.
Many—it's impossible to say how many, but it's quite clear it was too many—were affected by mental illness, alcohol, or drugs. Law enforcement officers killed people with mental illness in Arizona, Michigan, Colorado, Maryland, Alabama, New Jersey, Kansas, Missouri, California, and our state of Oregon.
There were men killed while raging against their own families—wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters, granddaughters. Often these men were drunk, and their final stupid act was pointing a gun at officers.
But there were others—with tragedy stretching beyond spilled blood and shattered families, to media indifference, a blue wall of silence, and the crush of universal inattention.
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Locating any racial patterns proves more difficult. To make a fair determination, we searched for photographs or media descriptions of race for each person. But photographs are an unreliable source for race—and we're urging better-resourced researchers to take on the task and improve our results. We excluded people whose race we could not determine (18), bystanders killed (3), murders (4), and suicides (4), leaving 75 on-duty intentional deaths.
Of these 75, 29 were white, 24 black, 20 Hispanic, and two Asian. Which means 61 percent of people killed by law enforcement officers this August were of color. The overrepresentation of non-whites on the list had no simple cause, outside of the cloudy, multi-platform failure we call "the US criminal justice system."
Our list could be larger. We did not include deaths from chases or where people suicided when confronted by officers. No deaths from acute detox on the jail floor are listed, nor are state executions. We were not able to track people critically injured by shootings who later died; their stories were not reported. Adding those deaths could increase the list by 30 or 40 people.
Some of the dead—such as Kajieme Powell and Michelle Cusseaux, both people with mental illness—received significant press coverage. But usually local media reworked the police press release and moved on. Lazy, rushed, or indifferent—it's hard to tell.
In no instance during this single month —as far as we could tell—were charges filed in any on-duty killing; all deaths were deemed justifiable prior to investigation. No mayor apologized to grieving parents, spouses, or children. For a few deaths, people marched in the streets. For others, not even a name was announced.
This could also go in the blithe racism thread. So many terrible trends to choose from.
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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
Surveillance tape (which so far the Ohio Attorney General has refused to release, and yet happily showed to the 'ex-marine' ya know so he could get his story straight).
The video shows him standing in a corner talking on the phone with the gun pointed at the ground. At no time did he point the gun at cops or even appear to know they were there until after he was shot. The police claimed to feel 'threatened' by him even though the gun was pointed at the ground with his back to them. The amount of time between the police seeing the suspect and shooting was 3-4 seconds, they were clearly there to kill him and no amount of cooperation would have saved his life.
A Grand Jury has found the murders of John Crawford not guilty because "As long as police felt reasonably threatened, the law calls Crawford's killing "justified"" In other words, police have the right to kill black men because black men scare them.
I almost but not quite feel bad for the guy who called 911 on Crawford. He just seemed kind of dumb and hysterical, like he genuinely perceived a threat somehow and somehow didn't realize that cops really do kill young black men for no good reason.
And here's some good advice from Oklahoma police on how not to get raped by a cop. Short version: Stay out of Oklahoma.
Protests going on in Ferguson right now. The cops have taken to outright extortion, live streams have heard to police say that they are arrested Innocent people as leverage and will only let them go once the crowd disperses. They are also claiming they will stop breaking the law, by covering their name badges, only if protestors get on the sidewalk (providing fewer places to run when the cops attack).
I hope some of those arrested sue the crap out of this corrupt department.
Another night, another set of protests. So far CNN has lied at least twice tonight and is now packing up to leave just as the cops are putting on riot gear. So far one has been arrested, a clergymember arrested while praying. He also happens to be the organizer of clergy attending the protest, almost as if he was targeted or something.
It was the first fatal shooting by Metropolitan police officers since that of Mark Duggan in August 2011
The Met covers London. There has been another fatal shooting elsewhere in Britain since 2011.
List of fatal shootings by police in Britain (not including Northern Ireland): Fatal incidents - it's a sub-section of a broader article. Lists 19 since 1980.
The phrase that they leave out of the headline is "AND WALK INSIDE HIS HOME AND PEPPER SPRAY HIM IN THE FACE"
Black kid, white foster parents. Just read the article. Basically the cops came in the house and accused the kid who lives there of being a burglar, questioning his right to be there (as a foster child), and started giving him orders and put handcuffs on him, and then he got all irrational so they pretty much had to pepper spray him.
Seattle cop handcuffs a drunk black woman and throws her in the back of a police car. She tries to kick at him. He punches her in the face and breaks her orbital bone. Seattle’s city attorney urges charges to be pressed as the cop committed a clear felony. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg refuses. Cop goes scot free. Woman spends four days in jail because the cop says she assaulted him and messed up his jaw, even though he was determined to have no injuries after an examination. The charges against the woman were dismissed.
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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
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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
At an Oakland protest two undercover cops were wearing masks trying to incite violence and looting. When exposed they arrested a black man (who may or may not have hit one of them, there's reports of a guy saying he pulled off one of their masks and they arrested the black guy next to him) so the cop pulled a gun on the crowd, never announcing who they were (for all the crowd knew, two thugs were beating up a black guy).
(Image via twitter)
CHP has confirmed that yes those are their officers and yes apparently pulling a gun on a crowd of unarmed protesters is following procedure as these two have had "crowd control training" also no they won't stop sending undercover officers to protests [to incite violence].
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