F*CK THE POLICE!!!

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Jesus, it's endless...

So obviously cops are wildly off the reservation of keeping the peace in this country, and their long standing collusion with the district attorneys office in every city and county in the country is failing to keep the law and order when the police themselves are the criminals.

If it sounds like circular logic, it is, but only for the cops. Everyone else gets fucked- or even shot.

How do the American People put this situation to rights? Merely electing a different DA isn't really addressing the root causes, just shuffling the players.

I fear our democracy is slipping away, ground under the heel of opportunistic oligarchs all too happy to profit by our misery.

No more 'law and order', it's a smokescreen for fascism. Hate speech, race baiting, police who are both above the law and armed far beyond their job description running amok, the picture becomes clear.

Maybe it's time for Americans to take out country back from the ultra rich. They stole it, they've rigged the game, changed the rules, lied to the American People about the primary campaign before, during and afterwards, and cheated in the open with impunity, all but daring a response.

One they have not gotten yet, so why stop now?

 

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he sure showed her eh..............

 

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The police here in NY love to release all information on a suspect but let it be one of their own and they clam up. All New Yorkers knew about Eric Garners medical history almost immediately but not Sergeant Panteleon it's time the law that shields history be repealed.

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Drop the cop-shield law

Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton are wrong that state law bars them from sharing with the public police disciplinary decisions -- but absolutely right that the law should change.

Their errant reinterpretation of section 50-a of the state Civil Rights Act has put to an end a decades-old policy of posting disciplinary actions, along with promotions and commendations, on a weekly personnel chart.

That mistake was exacerbated by this week's strange assertion by Bratton and de Blasio that the outcome of an internal trial of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who used a chokehold on Eric Garner, would not be shared with the public.

De Blasio and Bratton should override NYPD lawyers and change course. But Albany can force their hands by wiping a bad law off the books.

Under the law, adopted in 1976, all records "used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion" of cops and other uniformed public workers are deemed confidential -- and can only be released via court order or with the permission of the individual.

The carveout was initially intended for the narrow purpose of preventing these records from being used to bring frivolous lawsuits against cops.

But over time, courts have piled up precedents broadening the shield to allow police, corrections and fire departments to withhold virtually any record, the public interest be damned.

Case in point: An infamous 1999 case involving 18 Schenectady cops, off duty and at a bachelor party, who pelted a car with raw eggs. Though disciplined by their superiors, release of their names was blocked.

Teachers get no such protection. Nor do childwelfare caseworkers. Or nurses in public hospitals. Shine a light. Right the law.

 

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The police here in NY love to release all information on a suspect but let it be one of their own and they clam up. All New Yorkers knew about Eric Garners medical history almost immediately but not Sergeant Panteleon it's time the law that shields history be repealed.

B4L

Drop the cop-shield law

Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton are wrong that state law bars them from sharing with the public police disciplinary decisions -- but absolutely right that the law should change.

Their errant reinterpretation of section 50-a of the state Civil Rights Act has put to an end a decades-old policy of posting disciplinary actions, along with promotions and commendations, on a weekly personnel chart.

That mistake was exacerbated by this week's strange assertion by Bratton and de Blasio that the outcome of an internal trial of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who used a chokehold on Eric Garner, would not be shared with the public.

De Blasio and Bratton should override NYPD lawyers and change course. But Albany can force their hands by wiping a bad law off the books.

Under the law, adopted in 1976, all records "used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion" of cops and other uniformed public workers are deemed confidential -- and can only be released via court order or with the permission of the individual.

The carveout was initially intended for the narrow purpose of preventing these records from being used to bring frivolous lawsuits against cops.

But over time, courts have piled up precedents broadening the shield to allow police, corrections and fire departments to withhold virtually any record, the public interest be damned.

Case in point: An infamous 1999 case involving 18 Schenectady cops, off duty and at a bachelor party, who pelted a car with raw eggs. Though disciplined by their superiors, release of their names was blocked.

Teachers get no such protection. Nor do childwelfare caseworkers. Or nurses in public hospitals. Shine a light. Right the law.

Agreed, 100%. The idea that police need special protection from scrutiny is a classic hallmark of fascism.

 

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Agreed, 100%. The idea that police need special protection from scrutiny is a classic hallmark of fascism.

One of the most notorious cases where 'sealed juvenile records' were released even before the victims body had a chance to cool down was that of Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed Black man who worked as a security guard and was gunned down by undercover cops who were assigned the task of ridding the street of drug dealers, Dorismond was NOT a drug dealer.

Just to keep things in perspective everyone in the world would get to know him a year and half later as America's mayor, Rudolph Guiliani.

In the streets of NY cops knew it as Guiliani time' because they could do no wrong and was always defended by him.


http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/18/18040.html

 

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Rudolph Guiliani

That's all I needed to see.

 

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BREAKING: Video Released Showing Police Kill Innocent Unarmed Pastor With His Hands Up


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Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old pastor Terence Crutcher Friday night when he experienced car trouble after leaving night classes at Tulsa Community College — and now, dash cam video of the shooting shows the man’s arms were in the air when Shelby took his life.

“His hands were in the air from all views,” pastor Rodney Goss of the Morning Star Baptist Church, who viewed footage from both dash cams and a police helicopter prior to the public release, told the Tulsa World. “It was not apparent from any angle at any point he lunged, came toward, aggressively attacked, or made any sudden movements that would have been considered a threat or life-threatening toward the officer.”

Police had thus far claimed Crutcher — whose SUV broke down in the middle of the road — approached the officers aggressively while refusing to obey commands to raise his arms.

Officer Tyler Turnbough then deployed his Taser against Crutcher, but Shelby fired before the electric jolt could even knock him to the ground.

“It wasn’t a matter of minutes, it was a matter of moments,” Goss noted. “As quick as the officer released the Taser from his hand, Terence was falling to the ground having already been shot.”

Worse, he explained, the officers seemed not to treat their victim with any concern, and made no moves to provide first aid after the tasing and shooting.

“After having been shot, a couple minutes it appears, but it seemed like a lifetime, went by before anyone actually checked with him as far as pulse — as far as whatever the case may be,” Goss said.

Goss explained to the World that Crutcher moved slowly and deliberately throughout his brief interaction with the police.

But the cops’ predilection to employ force might have been a forgone conclusion, as he said, one officer is overheard in audio inexplicably describing Crutcher — the pastor and father of four, who was taking a night class in music appreciation — as “one bad dude.”

As Goss plainly summarized, “There was a perception problem before there was ever a shooting.”

Although authorities had refused to say whether or not a weapon was recovered at the scene, Crutcher’s twin sister, Tiffany insists her brother would not have been armed.

“One fact I do know is that my brother was unarmed,” she asserted in a news conference Saturday. “I’m just devastated.”

In a press conference prior to the release of the video he called “very disturbing” and “hard to watch,” Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan finally confirmed, “I’m going to tell you right now, right now, there was no gun on the suspect or in the suspect’s vehicle.”

ShaneTuellconfirmed, according to ABC News. “We wanted to be able to have that intimate time with them, with their attorney, to see if they had any questions or concerns.

“With something of this magnitude, we’re trying an approach that we believe is necessary to further that transparency.”

Shelby, on the force since 2011, and Turnbough, an officer since 2009 — who were named by police on Sunday — encountered Crutcher’s stalled SUV as they were responding to another call. Both have been given the paid vacation, otherwise known as administrative leave, customarily ‘rewarded’ after the use of fatal force.

“We have to let justice take its course,” Goss said prior to the announcement the Department of Justice would conduct an investigation into the fatal shooting.

Activists gathered outside the Tulsa County Courthouse to protest the killing of Crutcher and the ballooning epidemic of police violence, while community leaders urged the public to remain calm upon release of footage.

“Protests are not a problem,” Chief Jordan told the press. “I grew up in the 60s and it’s a very valid way of people to protect their rights.”

Whether calm and justice will ultimately prevail hinges on whether or not Shelby receives proportionate punishment for taking the life of a wholly and utterly innocent pastor whose only crime — apparently a capital offense — was having car trouble at an inopportune moment.

This is what complying with police in America looks like.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/breaking-video-police-kill-pastor/#5e10ZTsHl5Fh9yIl.99

 

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Ways You Can Be Killed During An Encounter with Police

By John W. Whitehead

“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”—Author Kristian Williams

October 05, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "The Rutherford Institute" - How do you protect yourself from flying fists, choking hands, disabling electrified darts and killing bullets?

How do you defend yourself against individuals who have been indoctrinated into believing that they are superior to you, that their word is law, and that they have the power to take your life?

Most of all, how can you maintain the illusion of freedom when daily, Americans are being shot, stripped, searched, choked, beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown, smile, question, challenge an order or just exist?

The short answer: you can’t.

Now for the long answer, which is far more complicated but still leaves us feeling hopeless, helpless and vulnerable to the fears, moods and misguided training of every cop on the beat.

If you ask police and their enablers what Americans should do to stay alive during encounters with law enforcement, they will tell you to comply (or die).

It doesn’t matter where you live—big city or small town—it’s the same scenario being played out over and over again in which Americans are being brainwashed into believing that anyone who wears a government uniform—soldier, police officer, prison guard—must be obeyed without question, while government agents, hyped up on their own authority and the power of their uniform, ride roughshod over the rights of the citizenry.

For example, a local law enforcement agency in Virginia has started handing out a guide—developed in cooperation with a group of African American pastors—on how to interact with police. The purpose of this government resource, according to the police, is to make sure citizens feel “comfortable” and know what to do when interacting with police in order to “promote public safety and respectful interaction.”

Curiously, nowhere in the “Guide to Interacting with Police” is there any mention of the Constitution, or the rights of the citizenry, other than the right to remain silent.

In fact, the primary point stressed throughout the bilingual guide aimed at “building trust and cooperation,” is that citizens should comply, cooperate, obey, not resist, not argue, not make threatening gestures or statements, avoid sudden movements, and submit to a search of their person and belongings.

The problem, of course, is what to do when compliance is not enough.

I’m not talking about the number of individuals—especially young people—who are being shot and killed by police for having a look-alike gun in their possession, such as a BB gun. I’m not even talking about people who have been shot for brandishing weapons at police, such as scissors.

I’m talking about the growing numbers of unarmed people are who being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety.

 

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part 2
Killed for standing in a “shooting stance.” In California, police opened fire on and killed a mentally challenged—unarmed—black man within minutes of arriving on the scene, allegedly because he removed a vape smoking device from his pocket and took a “shooting stance.”

Killed for holding a cell phone. Police in Arizona shot a man who was running away from U.S. Marshals after he refused to drop an object that turned out to be a cellphone.

Killed for behaving oddly and holding a baseball bat. Responding to a domestic disturbance call, Chicago police shot and killed 19-year-old college student Quintonio LeGrier who had reportedly been experiencing mental health problems and was carrying a baseball bat around the apartment where he and his father lived.

Killed for opening the front door. Bettie Jones, who lived on the floor below LeGrier, was also fatally shot—this time, accidentally—when she attempted to open the front door for police.

Killed for being a child in a car pursued by police. Jeremy David Mardis, six years old and autistic, died after being shot multiple times by Louisiana police in the head and torso. Police opened fire on the car—driven by Jeremy’s father, Chris Few, who was also shot—and then allegedly lied, claiming that they were attempting to deliver an outstanding warrant, that Few resisted arrest, that he shot at police (no gun was found), and that he tried to ram his car into a police cruiser. Body camera footage refuted the police’s claims.

Killed for attacking police with a metal spoon. In Alabama, police shot and killed a 50-year-old man who reportedly charged a police officer while holding “a large metal spoon in a threatening manner.”

Killed for running in an aggressive manner holding a tree branch. Georgia police shot and killed a 47-year-old man wearing only shorts and tennis shoes who, when first encountered, was sitting in the woods against a tree, only to start running towards police holding a stick in an “aggressive manner.”

Killed for crawling around naked. Atlanta police shot and killed an unarmed man who was reported to have been “acting deranged, knocking on doors, crawling around on the ground naked.” Police fired two shots at the man after he reportedly starting running towards them.

Killed for hunching over in a defensive posture. Responding to a domestic trouble call, multiple officers with the Baltimore County police forced their way inside a home where, fearing for their safety and the safety of others,” three officers opened fire on an unarmed 41-year-old man who washunched over in a defensive posture. The man was killed in front of his two young daughters and their mother.

Killed because a police officer accidentally pulled out his gun instead of his taser. An Oklahoma man suspected of trying to sell an illegal handgun was shot and killed after a 73-year-old reserve deputy inadvertently fired his gun instead of his taser. “Oh! I shot him! I'm sorry!” the deputy cried out.

Killed for wearing dark pants and a basketball jersey. Donnell Thompson, a mentally disabled 27-year-old described as gentle and shy, was shot and killed after police—searching for a carjacking suspect reportedly wearing similar clothing—encountered him lying motionless in a neighborhood yard. Police “only” opened fire with an M4 rifle after Thompson first failed to respond to their flash bang grenades and then started running after being hit by foam bullets.

Killed for telling police you lawfully own a firearm and have a conceal-and-carry permit.Philando Castile was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop allegedly over a broken tail light. As he was reaching for his license and registration, Castile explained to police that he had a conceal-and-carry permit. That’s all it took for police to shoot Castile four times in the presence of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter.

Killed for leaving anywhere at all when a police officer pulls up. Deravis Caine Rogers was killed after starting to drive away from an apartment complex right around the same time as a police officer pulled up. Despite the fact that the police officer had no reason to believe Rogers was a threat or was suspected of any illegal activity, the officer fired into Rogers’ passenger side window.

Killed for driving while deaf. In North Carolina, a state trooper shot and killed 29-year-old Daniel K. Harris—who was deaf—after Harris initially failed to pull over during a traffic stop.

Killed for being homeless. Los Angeles police shot an unarmed homeless man after he failed to stop riding his bicycle and then proceeded to run from police.

Killed for being old and brandishing a shoehorn. John Wrana, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, lived in an assisted living center, used a walker to get around, and was shot and killed by police who mistook the shoehorn in his hand for a 2-foot-long machete and fired multiple beanbag rounds from a shotgun at close range.

Killed for having your car break down on the road. Terence Crutcher, unarmed and black, was shot and killed by Oklahoma police after his car broke down on the side of the road. Crutcher wasshot in the back while walking towards his car with his hands up.

Killed for holding a garden hose. California police were ordered to pay $6.5 million after theyopened fire on a man holding a garden hose, believing it to be a gun. Douglas Zerby was shot 12 times and pronounced dead on the scene.

Shot seven times for peeing outdoors. Eighteen-year-old Keivon Young was shot seven times by police from behind while urinating outdoors. Young was just zipping up his pants when he heard a commotion behind him and then found himself struck by a hail of bullets from two undercover cops. Allegedly officers mistook Young—5’4,” 135 lbs., and guilty of nothing more than taking a leak outdoors—for a 6’ tall, 200 lb. murder suspect whom they later apprehended. Young was charged with felony resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a peace officer.

 

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Now you can make all kinds of excuses to justify these shootings, and in fact that’s exactly what you’ll hear from politicians, police unions, law enforcement officials and individuals who are more than happy to march in lockstep with the police. However, to suggest that a good citizen is a compliant citizen and that obedience will save us from the police state is not only recklessly irresponsible, but it is also deluded and out of touch with reality, because in the American police state, compliance is no longer enough.

Frankly, as these incidents make clear, the only truly compliant, submissive and obedient citizen in a police state is a dead one.

If you’re starting to feel somewhat overwhelmed, intimidated and fearful for your life and your property, you should be.

As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, “we the people” are now at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”

Sad, isn’t it, how quickly we have gone from a nation of laws—where the least among us had just as much right to be treated with dignity and respect as the next person (in principle, at least)—to a nation of law enforcers (revenue collectors with weapons) who treat us all like suspects and criminals?

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute.

 

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Wow, that article is so right-on that it makes me want to send money to The Rutherford Institute!

The point that he makes so well is that our law-enforcement is out of control simply because of their attitude. Nothing will change that if we don't change it for them, and I know one way that we can make it happen. It's the obvious solution, and I'm surprised that it has not been said yet. We should take away their bullets! If law-enforcement does not have any lethal weapons, then they cannot murder us.

We'll really hear the pigs cry when that happens!

 

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