Police State Roundup: Insane Police Behavior
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Oh dear, I'm sorry Puck I misunderstood how the show was structured. I thought there would be a "cop roundup" segment like the pet section in the health and wellness at the end. I didn't realized I was supposed to just call in and present these at my choosing, Hkoehli mentioned to call in but my response messages weren't being delivered in chat so I was waiting for an announcement or something. I'm really sorry.
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angelburst29
The Living Force
I never came across an article or news report - that mentioned the Police use "zipper body bags" in making arrests, yet .... this article states, NYPD have been using these bags for nearly 25 years? I never heard of them being used this way before? Maybe, these body bags are the one's that were rumored to have been ordered in large quantities by Homeland Security, a while ago, when they were ordering large quantities of Ammo?
NYPD Used 'Body Bags' To Make 122 Arrests In 110 Days (Video)
http://gothamist.com/2016/05/15/police_used_body_bags_in_arrests_12.php
In March, a video was posted to YouTube showing NYPD macing a man and then restraining him in what the uploader described as a "body bag," zipping it all the way over the arrested man's head. The bag, which we learned is called an EDP bag (but sometimes referred to as a "burrito"), is used to restrain people who are emotionally disturbed, and there don't appear to be any guidelines for the NYPD specifying EDP usage. The New York Times has a piece out today on the restraining devices, and reports that they were used 122 times between January 1st and April 20th in 2016. That comes out to more than once a day.
The man restrained in the bag in the video posted in March allegedly failed to pay his subway fare, the Times reports, and he's said to have became violent when officers tried to arrest him, flailing his arms, kicking, and spitting. He allegedly struck one officer in the head with his elbow and injured another. He now faces charges for felony assault, among others—but his lawyer, Andrew Miller, says that's completely backwards.
"He was the victim of the assault, instead of the other way around," Miller said, calling the officers' actions "excessive and totally unreasonable."
According to the product description for a similar bag as the one that appeared in the video, "the EDP Bag deploys in a split second and can be used to secure an EDP (emotionally disturbed person) in just moments. The fabric is strong and allows fluids to pass through, and can be cleaned and decontaminated easily after each use." It retails at about $750.
As the NYPD told us after we contacted them about the video, "the EDP restraint device is used by ESU when an EDP is violent and may cause harm to themselves or others." But the NYPD's ESU doesn't have the best history: in 2012, for example, ESU officers who were responding to a call for an ambulance would up shooting and killing Mohamed Bah, who was naked and, police said, wielding a knife in his apartment.
According to the Times, the NYPD has been using restraints like this for 25 years and says that only "highly trained" ESU members are authorized to use them. But Carla Rabinowitz, an advocacy coordinator at Community Access, an organization that helps people with mental illness, has called the use of the bags "dehumanizing" and "dangerous," and recently wrote a letter to NYPD Deputy Commissioner Susan A. Herman and Deputy Chief Theresa Tobin denouncing the department's use of the bags.
"Use of such restraint traumatizes a person in emotional distress and exacerbates the condition and experience of the crisis for the individual," Rabinowitz told the Times. "It is a dehumanizing tactic, and promotes stigma against people with mental health issues...If people in the mental health community find out that their fate is to be put in a body bag, they will fight even harder to not get into a body bag."
Nonetheless, use of the bags appears relatively routine—though zipping them over the restrained person's head, as was done in the inciting video, seems rarer. Attorney David Rankin, who has represented clients that have been restrained in EDP bags, told us in March that he'd never heard of the bag being zipped over someone's head. And a source who works in the psychiatric emergency room of a New York City hospital said that she sees the "burritos" on a weekly basis, but has never seen one used to move someone, or cover a patient's head.
New York Police Criticized for Using Restraining Bag in Arrest (Photo - Video)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/nyregion/new-york-polices-use-of-restraining-bag-during-arrest-draws-criticism.html?_r=0
MAY 13, 2016 - The arrest on a New York City sidewalk was so startling to a bystander that he took a video of it. And when he posted the video online with the label “Police Brutality,” some viewers denounced the officers’ tactic as disturbing and inhumane.
The video showed a man lying on the ground, his ankles and legs bound in bright orange tape, both hands secured behind his back. Four to five officers searched the pockets of his pants and jacket. They then lifted him up, dropped him onto a white bag, strapped him in and covered his head. He was carried, wrapped up like a mummy with only his feet poking out, and deposited — alive — against a wall.
“I’ve never in my entire life seen anything like this,” said the unidentified man videotaping the arrest near a subway stop at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue earlier this year.
But the scene was not that unusual, and coming amid national scrutiny of the authorities’ use of force and protests after episodes like the death of Eric Garner, who was put in a chokehold by an officer and died in police custody on Staten Island, there is no evidence that the officers involved in the arrest in Manhattan violated police policy.
For onlookers who had never witnessed a live man being strapped into what looked like a body bag, the sight was unsettling. But the bag in the video, stenciled with “NYPD” and “ESU,” is known as a mesh restraining device. The bags are used to restrain people judged to be emotionally disturbed.
Carla Rabinowitz, an advocacy coordinator for Community Access, which helps people with mental illness, has called on the New York Police Department to stop using the ventilated bags. In a letter last month to Deputy Commissioner Susan A. Herman and Deputy Chief Theresa Tobin, she called the use of the bags “dehumanizing” and “dangerous.”
A Police Department spokeswoman declined to comment on Ms. Rabinowitz’s letter. Ms. Rabinowitz later said in an email that she had since spoken to the police and that they had defended using the restraint.
According to a criminal complaint, the man who was strapped into the ventilated bag, Johnell Muhammad, had been suspected of failing to pay the subway fare, and when officers tried to arrest him, he flailed his arms, kicked and spit at them. Mr. Muhammad struck one officer in the head with his elbow; another was injured trying to subdue him, the complaint said.
Mr. Muhammad had two pipes with crack cocaine residue, the complaint said, and he faces felony assault and other charges.
Andrew R. Miller, a lawyer for Mr. Muhammad, denounced the officers’ actions, calling them “excessive and totally unreasonable.”
“He was the victim of the assault, instead of the other way around,” Mr. Miller said.
The video, which was shot in March, highlighted a daily problem faced by officers responding to people who are out of control because of mental illness or drugs: How to defuse situations with the least amount of force while also protecting themselves, the public and the person being helped?
In response to questions about the bags, the Police Department said it had used the restraints for 25 years. The department said only “highly trained members” of the Emergency Service Unit were authorized to use them. The person being restrained is assessed while being held and afterward, and is taken by an ambulance to a hospital for medical and psychological evaluation.
From Jan. 1 through April 20 of this year, the bag was used 122 times, the police said, or about once a day. During that same period, the department said, it received more than 44,000 emergency calls about emotionally disturbed people.
Robert J. Louden, a retired chief hostage negotiator with the Police Department and a professor emeritus of criminal justice and homeland security at Georgian Court University in New Jersey, called the restraints an “imperfect solution to very difficult situations.”
“There are no great options,” he said.
Over the years, the department has experimented with plastic shields, netting and Tasers to deal with emotionally disturbed people, Mr. Louden said. It re-evaluated its approaches starting in 1984, after an officer shot and killed Eleanor Bumpers, an emotionally disturbed woman in the Bronx who was attacking another officer with a kitchen knife.
Eugene O’Donnell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said in an email that irrational people could kick, punch, grab, spit on, bite or head-butt officers, for whom the choices were “try to go slow, talk to the person who is acting out, and appear humane and measured, or act with deliberation and speed.”
Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, said: “You look for what is the most humane thing to do in these kinds of situations. When someone does not want to be brought to a hospital, they are not going to be easy to handle.”
Gene DeSantis, chief executive of DeSantis Gunhide, a manufacturer of the bags, said his company had sold fewer than 500 to police departments across the country.
Ms. Rabinowitz, of Community Access, said she learned about them only recently. “Use of such restraint traumatizes a person in emotional distress and exacerbates the condition and experience of the crisis for the individual,” she said in an email. “It is a dehumanizing tactic, and promotes stigma against people with mental health issues.”
In an interview, she credited the Police Department with doing a good job in crisis intervention team training, which seeks to de-escalate confrontations between officers and people with mental illness.
But she said she worried about using the restraints on veterans who are mentally ill and might associate them with bags used in wars to transport the dead.
“If people in the mental health community find out that their fate is to be put in a body bag, they will fight even harder to not get into a body bag,” she said.
NYPD Used 'Body Bags' To Make 122 Arrests In 110 Days (Video)
http://gothamist.com/2016/05/15/police_used_body_bags_in_arrests_12.php
In March, a video was posted to YouTube showing NYPD macing a man and then restraining him in what the uploader described as a "body bag," zipping it all the way over the arrested man's head. The bag, which we learned is called an EDP bag (but sometimes referred to as a "burrito"), is used to restrain people who are emotionally disturbed, and there don't appear to be any guidelines for the NYPD specifying EDP usage. The New York Times has a piece out today on the restraining devices, and reports that they were used 122 times between January 1st and April 20th in 2016. That comes out to more than once a day.
The man restrained in the bag in the video posted in March allegedly failed to pay his subway fare, the Times reports, and he's said to have became violent when officers tried to arrest him, flailing his arms, kicking, and spitting. He allegedly struck one officer in the head with his elbow and injured another. He now faces charges for felony assault, among others—but his lawyer, Andrew Miller, says that's completely backwards.
"He was the victim of the assault, instead of the other way around," Miller said, calling the officers' actions "excessive and totally unreasonable."
According to the product description for a similar bag as the one that appeared in the video, "the EDP Bag deploys in a split second and can be used to secure an EDP (emotionally disturbed person) in just moments. The fabric is strong and allows fluids to pass through, and can be cleaned and decontaminated easily after each use." It retails at about $750.
As the NYPD told us after we contacted them about the video, "the EDP restraint device is used by ESU when an EDP is violent and may cause harm to themselves or others." But the NYPD's ESU doesn't have the best history: in 2012, for example, ESU officers who were responding to a call for an ambulance would up shooting and killing Mohamed Bah, who was naked and, police said, wielding a knife in his apartment.
According to the Times, the NYPD has been using restraints like this for 25 years and says that only "highly trained" ESU members are authorized to use them. But Carla Rabinowitz, an advocacy coordinator at Community Access, an organization that helps people with mental illness, has called the use of the bags "dehumanizing" and "dangerous," and recently wrote a letter to NYPD Deputy Commissioner Susan A. Herman and Deputy Chief Theresa Tobin denouncing the department's use of the bags.
"Use of such restraint traumatizes a person in emotional distress and exacerbates the condition and experience of the crisis for the individual," Rabinowitz told the Times. "It is a dehumanizing tactic, and promotes stigma against people with mental health issues...If people in the mental health community find out that their fate is to be put in a body bag, they will fight even harder to not get into a body bag."
Nonetheless, use of the bags appears relatively routine—though zipping them over the restrained person's head, as was done in the inciting video, seems rarer. Attorney David Rankin, who has represented clients that have been restrained in EDP bags, told us in March that he'd never heard of the bag being zipped over someone's head. And a source who works in the psychiatric emergency room of a New York City hospital said that she sees the "burritos" on a weekly basis, but has never seen one used to move someone, or cover a patient's head.
New York Police Criticized for Using Restraining Bag in Arrest (Photo - Video)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/nyregion/new-york-polices-use-of-restraining-bag-during-arrest-draws-criticism.html?_r=0
MAY 13, 2016 - The arrest on a New York City sidewalk was so startling to a bystander that he took a video of it. And when he posted the video online with the label “Police Brutality,” some viewers denounced the officers’ tactic as disturbing and inhumane.
The video showed a man lying on the ground, his ankles and legs bound in bright orange tape, both hands secured behind his back. Four to five officers searched the pockets of his pants and jacket. They then lifted him up, dropped him onto a white bag, strapped him in and covered his head. He was carried, wrapped up like a mummy with only his feet poking out, and deposited — alive — against a wall.
“I’ve never in my entire life seen anything like this,” said the unidentified man videotaping the arrest near a subway stop at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue earlier this year.
But the scene was not that unusual, and coming amid national scrutiny of the authorities’ use of force and protests after episodes like the death of Eric Garner, who was put in a chokehold by an officer and died in police custody on Staten Island, there is no evidence that the officers involved in the arrest in Manhattan violated police policy.
For onlookers who had never witnessed a live man being strapped into what looked like a body bag, the sight was unsettling. But the bag in the video, stenciled with “NYPD” and “ESU,” is known as a mesh restraining device. The bags are used to restrain people judged to be emotionally disturbed.
Carla Rabinowitz, an advocacy coordinator for Community Access, which helps people with mental illness, has called on the New York Police Department to stop using the ventilated bags. In a letter last month to Deputy Commissioner Susan A. Herman and Deputy Chief Theresa Tobin, she called the use of the bags “dehumanizing” and “dangerous.”
A Police Department spokeswoman declined to comment on Ms. Rabinowitz’s letter. Ms. Rabinowitz later said in an email that she had since spoken to the police and that they had defended using the restraint.
According to a criminal complaint, the man who was strapped into the ventilated bag, Johnell Muhammad, had been suspected of failing to pay the subway fare, and when officers tried to arrest him, he flailed his arms, kicked and spit at them. Mr. Muhammad struck one officer in the head with his elbow; another was injured trying to subdue him, the complaint said.
Mr. Muhammad had two pipes with crack cocaine residue, the complaint said, and he faces felony assault and other charges.
Andrew R. Miller, a lawyer for Mr. Muhammad, denounced the officers’ actions, calling them “excessive and totally unreasonable.”
“He was the victim of the assault, instead of the other way around,” Mr. Miller said.
The video, which was shot in March, highlighted a daily problem faced by officers responding to people who are out of control because of mental illness or drugs: How to defuse situations with the least amount of force while also protecting themselves, the public and the person being helped?
In response to questions about the bags, the Police Department said it had used the restraints for 25 years. The department said only “highly trained members” of the Emergency Service Unit were authorized to use them. The person being restrained is assessed while being held and afterward, and is taken by an ambulance to a hospital for medical and psychological evaluation.
From Jan. 1 through April 20 of this year, the bag was used 122 times, the police said, or about once a day. During that same period, the department said, it received more than 44,000 emergency calls about emotionally disturbed people.
Robert J. Louden, a retired chief hostage negotiator with the Police Department and a professor emeritus of criminal justice and homeland security at Georgian Court University in New Jersey, called the restraints an “imperfect solution to very difficult situations.”
“There are no great options,” he said.
Over the years, the department has experimented with plastic shields, netting and Tasers to deal with emotionally disturbed people, Mr. Louden said. It re-evaluated its approaches starting in 1984, after an officer shot and killed Eleanor Bumpers, an emotionally disturbed woman in the Bronx who was attacking another officer with a kitchen knife.
Eugene O’Donnell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said in an email that irrational people could kick, punch, grab, spit on, bite or head-butt officers, for whom the choices were “try to go slow, talk to the person who is acting out, and appear humane and measured, or act with deliberation and speed.”
Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, said: “You look for what is the most humane thing to do in these kinds of situations. When someone does not want to be brought to a hospital, they are not going to be easy to handle.”
Gene DeSantis, chief executive of DeSantis Gunhide, a manufacturer of the bags, said his company had sold fewer than 500 to police departments across the country.
Ms. Rabinowitz, of Community Access, said she learned about them only recently. “Use of such restraint traumatizes a person in emotional distress and exacerbates the condition and experience of the crisis for the individual,” she said in an email. “It is a dehumanizing tactic, and promotes stigma against people with mental health issues.”
In an interview, she credited the Police Department with doing a good job in crisis intervention team training, which seeks to de-escalate confrontations between officers and people with mental illness.
But she said she worried about using the restraints on veterans who are mentally ill and might associate them with bags used in wars to transport the dead.
“If people in the mental health community find out that their fate is to be put in a body bag, they will fight even harder to not get into a body bag,” she said.
Thinkingfingers said:Oh dear, I'm sorry Puck I misunderstood how the show was structured. I thought there would be a "cop roundup" segment like the pet section in the health and wellness at the end. I didn't realized I was supposed to just call in and present these at my choosing, Hkoehli mentioned to call in but my response messages weren't being delivered in chat so I was waiting for an announcement or something. I'm really sorry.
I feel like such a
That's what we figured happened, Thinkingfingers. No big deal, though. We had plenty of other material to cover! And there will always be other opportunities.
angelburst29
The Living Force
This situation doesn't directly involve the police but it most certainly shows we are living in a Police State. Residents in Beech Grove, Indiana woke up this morning to unannounced Military Drills.
Military training wakes Beech Grove residents early Tuesday morning (Video)
http://fox59.com/2016/05/24/military-training-wakes-beech-grove-residents-early-tuesday-morning/
Many residents of Beech Grove awoke early Tuesday morning to what they say sounded like gunshots and explosions.
According to police officials, this activity was part of a scheduled military training exercise near the old St. Francis Hospital.
Beech Grove residents say they saw helicopters flying low over the area and heard what sounded like several loud explosions.
Police say this was training exercise was scheduled and there is no threat to anyone in the area.
Many viewers were upset about the drills, saying they didn't have any advance warning and were alarmed by the loud noises. Some people said they received a knock on the door letting them know what was going on.
Several residents took to social media to write about the training exercises and what they saw.
Explosions, helicopters startle Beech Grove neighbors
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/05/24/explosions-helicopters-startle-beech-grove-neighbors/84837488/
Explosions, gunshots and the sound of helicopters descended early Tuesday on the old St. Francis Hospital building in Beech Grove as part of a military exercise, police said.
Beech Grove residents wake to gunshots, loud booms
http://wishtv.com/2016/05/24/beech-grove-residents-wake-to-gunshots-loud-booms/
Residents of Beech Grove were upset that they weren’t notified of the drill in advance. Many residents called 911.
Beech Grove oficials were aware of military exercise back in March (Video)
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/beech-grove-residents-awoken-by-booms-gunshots
BEECH GROVE, Ind. -- It may have been a surprise to people who live in Beech Grove, but city officials have known about a military training exercise in the community since March.
Residents were woken up early Tuesday morning by the sound of gunshots at the former St. Francis Hospital.
Beech Grove Police say the U.S. Army Special Operations Command was conducting military training in urban terrain.
At least 100 military personnel were involved in the exercise which started around midnight.
‘We Thought the World Was Ending’: Terrified Indiana Residents Awakened by Explosions, Gunshots and Helicopters in Middle of Night (Video)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/24/we-thought-the-world-was-ending-terrified-indiana-residents-awakened-by-explosions-gunshots-and-helicopters-in-middle-of-night-heres-what-happened/
Police added to the station that too much notice about the middle-of-the-night noises may have compromised the exercise, WRTV said, adding that more exercises may be coming this week.
Military training wakes Beech Grove residents early Tuesday morning (Video)
http://fox59.com/2016/05/24/military-training-wakes-beech-grove-residents-early-tuesday-morning/
Many residents of Beech Grove awoke early Tuesday morning to what they say sounded like gunshots and explosions.
According to police officials, this activity was part of a scheduled military training exercise near the old St. Francis Hospital.
Beech Grove residents say they saw helicopters flying low over the area and heard what sounded like several loud explosions.
Police say this was training exercise was scheduled and there is no threat to anyone in the area.
Many viewers were upset about the drills, saying they didn't have any advance warning and were alarmed by the loud noises. Some people said they received a knock on the door letting them know what was going on.
Several residents took to social media to write about the training exercises and what they saw.
Explosions, helicopters startle Beech Grove neighbors
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/05/24/explosions-helicopters-startle-beech-grove-neighbors/84837488/
Explosions, gunshots and the sound of helicopters descended early Tuesday on the old St. Francis Hospital building in Beech Grove as part of a military exercise, police said.
Beech Grove residents wake to gunshots, loud booms
http://wishtv.com/2016/05/24/beech-grove-residents-wake-to-gunshots-loud-booms/
Residents of Beech Grove were upset that they weren’t notified of the drill in advance. Many residents called 911.
Beech Grove oficials were aware of military exercise back in March (Video)
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/beech-grove-residents-awoken-by-booms-gunshots
BEECH GROVE, Ind. -- It may have been a surprise to people who live in Beech Grove, but city officials have known about a military training exercise in the community since March.
Residents were woken up early Tuesday morning by the sound of gunshots at the former St. Francis Hospital.
Beech Grove Police say the U.S. Army Special Operations Command was conducting military training in urban terrain.
At least 100 military personnel were involved in the exercise which started around midnight.
‘We Thought the World Was Ending’: Terrified Indiana Residents Awakened by Explosions, Gunshots and Helicopters in Middle of Night (Video)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/24/we-thought-the-world-was-ending-terrified-indiana-residents-awakened-by-explosions-gunshots-and-helicopters-in-middle-of-night-heres-what-happened/
Police added to the station that too much notice about the middle-of-the-night noises may have compromised the exercise, WRTV said, adding that more exercises may be coming this week.
angelburst29
The Living Force
angelburst29 said:
US Immigration Police Puts Deportees in Body Bags
http://sputniknews.com/news/20160529/1040429309/us-immigration-police-deportees-body-bags.html
“When I came to the US I had a dream – this is the country of peace and justice and human rights,” explained Khaled Miah, 36, to The Guardian, which did the investigation.
“Now, I don’t even want to say the word, ‘America’,” he exclaimed upon his return to Bangladesh.
On April 3, 85 South Asian asylum seekers were repatriated to Bangladesh, India, and Nepal on a flight after failing to have gained asylum in the US.
Following their return, the deportees complained that they had experienced a horrific set of events during their repatriation.
Suhel Ahmed, 29, told the Guardian that he had witnessed several of his consorts wrapped into body bags. “That’s something that made us really afraid,” he said. “And me and a lot of fellow detainees started crying and begging [the ICE officers] not to do the same thing to us – we told them, ‘we’ll walk, ‘we’ll walk’ [on to the plane].”
It was reported that ICE officers sometimes use what they call “security” blankets to subdue detainees, which have Velcro belts to strap individuals down so they can be carried.
But the pain and humiliation did not stop there.
Ahmed explained that he also witnessed the ICE officers administering electric shocks to his handcuffed companions. “My body was shaking,” he said.
In email correspondence with The Guardian, ICE officials denied the accusations of abuse, but wrote that they used “minimal force” because “approximately a dozen of the detainees refused to comply with officers’ instructions and became combative.”
One detainee, Didar Alam, 29, did say that he resisted because he feared for his life upon returning to Bangladesh. He belongs to an opposition party of the ruling Awami League, which has been accused of killings and forced disappearances.
Police State Roundup! What's with cops and sex crimes, killing dogs & terrorizing kids while they're at school?
Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
Mon, 30 May 2016 19:40 UTC
https://www.sott.net/article/319265-Police-State-Roundup-Whats-with-cops-and-sex-crimes-killing-dogs-terrorizing-kids-while-they-re-at-school
Live Leak
Video Shows Fatal Shooting Of Man Armed With Shotgun
Occurred On: May-29-2016 In: Other News, WTF
Graphically Heinous
"http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=dea0a257d443"
The Thinking Atheist Forum ›
RE: Why does shit always rise to the top?
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/Thread-Why-does-shit-always-rise-to-the-top
Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
Mon, 30 May 2016 19:40 UTC
https://www.sott.net/article/319265-Police-State-Roundup-Whats-with-cops-and-sex-crimes-killing-dogs-terrorizing-kids-while-they-re-at-school
Live Leak
Video Shows Fatal Shooting Of Man Armed With Shotgun
Occurred On: May-29-2016 In: Other News, WTF
Graphically Heinous
"http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=dea0a257d443"
The Thinking Atheist Forum ›
RE: Why does shit always rise to the top?
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/Thread-Why-does-shit-always-rise-to-the-top
Injustice For Minority Drivers - Pretextual Traffic Stops
Published on May 21, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnCXcjbJaBU
Stoking Divide — Cops Adopt Own Version of U.S. Flag — By the Police State, For the Police State Video
June 4, 2016
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/blackened-u-s-flag-memorial-fallen-officers-disrespectful-police-state-propaganda/#B1lGQqpMFcxuqyJs.99
More at the link.
Published on May 21, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnCXcjbJaBU
Stoking Divide — Cops Adopt Own Version of U.S. Flag — By the Police State, For the Police State Video
June 4, 2016
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/blackened-u-s-flag-memorial-fallen-officers-disrespectful-police-state-propaganda/#B1lGQqpMFcxuqyJs.99
More at the link.
angelburst29
The Living Force
When I first read this report, my thoughts wandered on the "Kids-for-cash" program that was operating in the State of Pennsylvania - until a whistleblower came forward an exposed how some Police were arresting kids for very minor incidents, and they were run through the Courts by Lawyers and Judges that were in a scheme to fill up private prisons - for profit. A DA, several Lawyers and a few high ranking Judges were involved in the scheme and have since been terminated and charges filed against them. Several are in prison, (themselves) while a review board has been set up to review the cases and release the kids that were imprisoned under false pretenses. This article relates a large number of juveniles that have been subject to life in prison. I would imagine, many don't even belong in prison - let alone - life sentences?
The US is the Only Country That Locks Up Children for Life on Regular Basis
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160605/1040799358/US-Only-Country-Locks-Children-Life.html
Giving juveniles a life sentence without opportunity for release is a somewhat common practice in the United States these days. "According to data collected by Phillips Black, a nonprofit law firm, 84 percent of all JLWOP [juvenile life without parole] sentences given between June 2012 and May 2015 were given in just four states: Louisiana, California, Florida, and Michigan. While Florida and California had the highest numbers — 28 and 26 JLWOP sentences respectively — Louisiana (21) and Michigan (17) had the highest numbers per capita," reports the Intercept.
This occurs despite the fact that sentencing juveniles to life without parole has effectively been banned as of 2012. In the Miller v. Alabama ruling of that year, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that given "children's diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change," life without parole sentences for minors should be "uncommon."
"Uncommon" means that the ban is not total, as judges can still use this punishment in exceptional cases, "as long as mitigating factors — the child's age, home environment, extent of participation in the crime, and potential for rehabilitation — are considered," wrote The Intercept.
The Miller ruling has been amended by Montgomery v. Louisiana case that led to the decision that the Miller ruling is retroactive, and can be applied to those sentenced prior to 2012. However, although it's been almost four years, some judges, prosecutors, and even public defenders don't know about Miller. So they still give life without parole sentences, mostly because they are used to it.
The practice of sentencing children to life without parole stems from the 1990s when the term "superpredator" was coined by political scientist John DiIulio. Superpredators were understood as young people who repeatedly committed violent crimes as a result of being raised without morals. This mainly applied to black children, who Dilulio, media and politicians framed as being shameless criminals "running wild, terrorizing law-abiding citizens," wrote The Intercept.
Hillary Clinton famously stated in 1996 that these "superpredator" children have "no conscience, no empathy; we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."
As child crime decreased significantly in the early 2000's, the concept was debunked, which made Clinton apologize for this comment in 2016.
However, only 28 states reportedly abolished juvenile life without parole after the 2012 Miller ruling. The rest continue to apply this sentence to some degree.
Advocates of this punishment include both families of homicide victims, many of whom prefer the murderous prisoners to be locked up forever, and judges. The latter prefer to lock up murderers for good as well, regardless of age, and justify their rulings by saying that they wish to protect lawful people. Judges don't seem to understand juveniles' heightened ability to rehabilitate and change, which lies at the base of Miller ruling, into account.
The US is the Only Country That Locks Up Children for Life on Regular Basis
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160605/1040799358/US-Only-Country-Locks-Children-Life.html
Giving juveniles a life sentence without opportunity for release is a somewhat common practice in the United States these days. "According to data collected by Phillips Black, a nonprofit law firm, 84 percent of all JLWOP [juvenile life without parole] sentences given between June 2012 and May 2015 were given in just four states: Louisiana, California, Florida, and Michigan. While Florida and California had the highest numbers — 28 and 26 JLWOP sentences respectively — Louisiana (21) and Michigan (17) had the highest numbers per capita," reports the Intercept.
This occurs despite the fact that sentencing juveniles to life without parole has effectively been banned as of 2012. In the Miller v. Alabama ruling of that year, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that given "children's diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change," life without parole sentences for minors should be "uncommon."
"Uncommon" means that the ban is not total, as judges can still use this punishment in exceptional cases, "as long as mitigating factors — the child's age, home environment, extent of participation in the crime, and potential for rehabilitation — are considered," wrote The Intercept.
The Miller ruling has been amended by Montgomery v. Louisiana case that led to the decision that the Miller ruling is retroactive, and can be applied to those sentenced prior to 2012. However, although it's been almost four years, some judges, prosecutors, and even public defenders don't know about Miller. So they still give life without parole sentences, mostly because they are used to it.
The practice of sentencing children to life without parole stems from the 1990s when the term "superpredator" was coined by political scientist John DiIulio. Superpredators were understood as young people who repeatedly committed violent crimes as a result of being raised without morals. This mainly applied to black children, who Dilulio, media and politicians framed as being shameless criminals "running wild, terrorizing law-abiding citizens," wrote The Intercept.
Hillary Clinton famously stated in 1996 that these "superpredator" children have "no conscience, no empathy; we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."
As child crime decreased significantly in the early 2000's, the concept was debunked, which made Clinton apologize for this comment in 2016.
However, only 28 states reportedly abolished juvenile life without parole after the 2012 Miller ruling. The rest continue to apply this sentence to some degree.
Advocates of this punishment include both families of homicide victims, many of whom prefer the murderous prisoners to be locked up forever, and judges. The latter prefer to lock up murderers for good as well, regardless of age, and justify their rulings by saying that they wish to protect lawful people. Judges don't seem to understand juveniles' heightened ability to rehabilitate and change, which lies at the base of Miller ruling, into account.
Sputnik
00:32 08.06.2016 Graphic
Missouri Teen Dead for 8 Minutes After Cop Tased Him for 23 Seconds (VIDEO)
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160608/1040962522/missouri-cop-tases-teen-dashcam.html
Horrific dashcam footage has been released of a Missouri teen being tased in the chest for 23 seconds -- causing him to go into cardiac arrest and die for eight minutes -- during a traffic stop.
00:32 08.06.2016 Graphic
Missouri Teen Dead for 8 Minutes After Cop Tased Him for 23 Seconds (VIDEO)
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160608/1040962522/missouri-cop-tases-teen-dashcam.html
Horrific dashcam footage has been released of a Missouri teen being tased in the chest for 23 seconds -- causing him to go into cardiac arrest and die for eight minutes -- during a traffic stop.
Here's one completely out of left field: Police in Papua New Guinea have shot into a bunch of students who were marching on the buildings of the
PNG Parliament in an (unauthorised) rally. They managed to kill four of them and severely injured about seven others.
The world is going mad!
PNG Parliament in an (unauthorised) rally. They managed to kill four of them and severely injured about seven others.
The world is going mad!
Cyre2067
The Living Force
Big stories this week:
What in the Actual F*ck Is Going On with the Oakland Police Department?
_http://usuncut.com/news/oakland-police-multiple-scandals/
The Supreme Court Just Handed a Major Victory to the Police State
_http://usuncut.com/news/supreme-court-fourth-amendment/
Both pretty major in terms of examples of what's happening. We see 1.) Major Corruption of a large police department which is the proverbial tip of the iceberg nation-wide and 2.) Police can now assume we're all guilty of something, search us on the street, and use whatever they find as evidence in court IF we have a warrant out for some other crime. Although I doubt cops will make the distinction and just take to searching everyone on a whim, pretty much the way they do now, and fabricate probable cause as needed.
In addition we have these stories:
Missouri Teen Dead for 8 Minutes After Cop Tased Him for 23 Seconds (VIDEO)
_http://sputniknews.com/us/20160608/1040962522/missouri-cop-tases-teen-dashcam.html
Cop Exposed for Planting Cocaine on a Woman While Filming an Episode of ‘COPS’
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-exposed-planting-cocaine-woman-filming-episode-cops/#zGXFxc1BVGfTJyUh.99
Worse than Sandusky: School Cop Whose Job was to “Protect” Students, Repeatedly Raped 22 Boys (possibly more)
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/worse-sandusky-school-cop-job-protect-students-repeatedly-raped-22-boys/#VR2P8PpFhFI1Yiu2.99
Horrific Video Shows Cops Allow K9 to Maul Man for Several Minutes Over Riding Bike With No Light
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/horrific-video-shows-cops-k9-maul-man-minutes-riding-bike-light/#sWeAhk3LfoJPAsZF.99
Man’s Mugshot Captures Cops Choking Him for the Alleged ‘Crime’ of Smiling
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mans-mugshot-captures-cops-choking-alleged-crime-smiling/#7lzRGhULmHF44A8B.99
Education in a Police State: Schools Across US Firing Guidance Counselors — Opt for Cops Instead
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/education-police-state-schools-firing-guidance-counselors-opt-cops/#bHVStDqBt7F7bqJH.99
Innocent Father of 3 In Critical Condition After Cops Responded to Wrong Home and Shot Him
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-arrive-wrong-house-shoot-innocent-homeowner-neck/#RFkMKRpmLGEg8ggK.99
Cop Rapes Woman in Jail, When Supervisors See Video, They Threaten to Kill Her, Offer Her a Taco
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-rapes-woman-jail-supervisors-video-threaten-kill-her-offer-taco/#ccTRYlTRfrEIySkY.99
Texas officer and 11-year-old boy killed during high speed chase over sidewalk urination
_http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/texas-officer-and-11-year-old-boy-killed-during-high-speed-chase-over-sidewalk-urination/
Which all demonstrate further ineptitude as well as blatant corruption, not only on the part of the officers themselves but in policing as an institution. At this point, I think we'd all be better off if we just did away with the police.
Edit: I just saw this one, which is a big indicator of how families with kids may be treated if folks go off-the-grid in a police state:
_http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/breaking-police-seize-6-children-simply-because-family-was-camping/
What in the Actual F*ck Is Going On with the Oakland Police Department?
_http://usuncut.com/news/oakland-police-multiple-scandals/
The Supreme Court Just Handed a Major Victory to the Police State
_http://usuncut.com/news/supreme-court-fourth-amendment/
Both pretty major in terms of examples of what's happening. We see 1.) Major Corruption of a large police department which is the proverbial tip of the iceberg nation-wide and 2.) Police can now assume we're all guilty of something, search us on the street, and use whatever they find as evidence in court IF we have a warrant out for some other crime. Although I doubt cops will make the distinction and just take to searching everyone on a whim, pretty much the way they do now, and fabricate probable cause as needed.
In addition we have these stories:
Missouri Teen Dead for 8 Minutes After Cop Tased Him for 23 Seconds (VIDEO)
_http://sputniknews.com/us/20160608/1040962522/missouri-cop-tases-teen-dashcam.html
Cop Exposed for Planting Cocaine on a Woman While Filming an Episode of ‘COPS’
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-exposed-planting-cocaine-woman-filming-episode-cops/#zGXFxc1BVGfTJyUh.99
Worse than Sandusky: School Cop Whose Job was to “Protect” Students, Repeatedly Raped 22 Boys (possibly more)
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/worse-sandusky-school-cop-job-protect-students-repeatedly-raped-22-boys/#VR2P8PpFhFI1Yiu2.99
Horrific Video Shows Cops Allow K9 to Maul Man for Several Minutes Over Riding Bike With No Light
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/horrific-video-shows-cops-k9-maul-man-minutes-riding-bike-light/#sWeAhk3LfoJPAsZF.99
Man’s Mugshot Captures Cops Choking Him for the Alleged ‘Crime’ of Smiling
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mans-mugshot-captures-cops-choking-alleged-crime-smiling/#7lzRGhULmHF44A8B.99
Education in a Police State: Schools Across US Firing Guidance Counselors — Opt for Cops Instead
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/education-police-state-schools-firing-guidance-counselors-opt-cops/#bHVStDqBt7F7bqJH.99
Innocent Father of 3 In Critical Condition After Cops Responded to Wrong Home and Shot Him
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-arrive-wrong-house-shoot-innocent-homeowner-neck/#RFkMKRpmLGEg8ggK.99
Cop Rapes Woman in Jail, When Supervisors See Video, They Threaten to Kill Her, Offer Her a Taco
_http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-rapes-woman-jail-supervisors-video-threaten-kill-her-offer-taco/#ccTRYlTRfrEIySkY.99
Texas officer and 11-year-old boy killed during high speed chase over sidewalk urination
_http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/texas-officer-and-11-year-old-boy-killed-during-high-speed-chase-over-sidewalk-urination/
Which all demonstrate further ineptitude as well as blatant corruption, not only on the part of the officers themselves but in policing as an institution. At this point, I think we'd all be better off if we just did away with the police.
Edit: I just saw this one, which is a big indicator of how families with kids may be treated if folks go off-the-grid in a police state:
_http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/breaking-police-seize-6-children-simply-because-family-was-camping/
angelburst29
The Living Force
Newly-released surveillance footage shows an African-American inmate being strangled to death by a corrections officer in an Oklahoma prison.
US jailer strangles black inmate to death: Video
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/07/26/477039/US-inmate-choke-death-jail
Autopsy by a state medical examiner determined that Darius Robinson, 41, was killed by “manual compression of the neck” and ruled his death inside the Caddo County jail as a homicide, the Daily Beast reported.
The footage shows two guards - one of them female - sitting on Robinson while he was handcuffed.
The county’s district attorney has not yet brought charges against Michael Allen Smith, the officer who choked Robinson.
The incident took place on April 4.
Lawyers for the inmate's family said they would file a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the jail.
“He died from being strangled to death right here in this jail cell. That is unacceptable," attorney Malik Shabazz said in reference to the video.
The Caddo County Sheriff's Office said in a report that before the encounter with prison guards, Robinson became violent and charged at the officers who used pepper spray and placed him in a neck-hold to contain him.
Robinson became unresponsive while being pressed onto the floor, the sheriff's office told the medical examiner.
US jailer strangles black inmate to death: Video
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/07/26/477039/US-inmate-choke-death-jail
Autopsy by a state medical examiner determined that Darius Robinson, 41, was killed by “manual compression of the neck” and ruled his death inside the Caddo County jail as a homicide, the Daily Beast reported.
The footage shows two guards - one of them female - sitting on Robinson while he was handcuffed.
The county’s district attorney has not yet brought charges against Michael Allen Smith, the officer who choked Robinson.
The incident took place on April 4.
Lawyers for the inmate's family said they would file a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the jail.
“He died from being strangled to death right here in this jail cell. That is unacceptable," attorney Malik Shabazz said in reference to the video.
The Caddo County Sheriff's Office said in a report that before the encounter with prison guards, Robinson became violent and charged at the officers who used pepper spray and placed him in a neck-hold to contain him.
Robinson became unresponsive while being pressed onto the floor, the sheriff's office told the medical examiner.
Criminal cops: Autopsy shows child killed by police was shot three times - in th
Criminal cops: Autopsy shows child killed by police was shot three times - in the back
https://www.sott.net/article/329006-Criminal-cops-Autopsy-shows-child-killed-by-police-was-shot-three-times-in-the-back
It would appear there is no shortage of stories of police killing blacks without justification. It also seems apparent that machinations to provoke a race war are also continuing to occur. Therefore, it would seem that Sott.net should work to report facts & avoid misleading headlines, even if that was the headline of the source article.
Demetrius Braxton, 19, was identified by the victim "as the person who pointed a gun at him and took $10 during a holdup."
"Braxton admitted to police that he was with a group of people, including 13-year-old Tyre King, when they robbed a man on Wednesday night."
"He [Braxton] said King was carrying a BB gun that looked like a real gun."
The victim says he was accosted by a group of four males, one pointed a handgun at him and demanded he empty his pockets. The victim and a witness placed a 911 call. "The victim said on the 911 call that a suspect was carrying a Ruger pistol." When officers responded, they saw a group that matched the description provided in the 911 call. Two of those in the group ran and officers chased them which led to the confrontation in which King was shot.
The gun found at the scene was a realistic-looking BB gun equipped with a laser sight. Braxton has stated that King had the gun when he was shot and he saw King being shot in the front of his body "four or five times".
According to the title of the Sott.net article, Autopsy shows child killed by police was shot three times - in the back, an autopsy indicated three wounds in the back. That is not factual. First, the official preliminary autopsy report is pending and has not been released. Final autopsy results are expected in six to eight weeks after toxicology reports are returned.
An independent pathologist hired by the King family examined King's body but did not perform an actual autopsy - merely "a two-hour review of the gunshot wounds".
So the bullets entered the left side of the body and exited the right side of the body. How is that getting shot in the back?
What seems to have happend is King, after being ordered to the ground and while having the realistic gun in his possession, jumped up and was turning to flee when shot. If the officer was under the impression that the suspects had a Ruger pistol and after apprehending said suspects and ordering them to the ground, one of them jumps up with "nearly an exact replica of a police firearm", could that officer think he was at risk of imminent death and have to make a split-second decision as to how to react?
If YOU or I had been ordered to the ground by a police officer while possessing a realistic gun and then decided to jump up to flee, what would YOU expect the outcome to be? I would expect a very high likelihood of being shot dead. And I would think there are a fair amount of male 18-year-olds and older who are 5 feet tall and 100 lbs. - maybe not a lot, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
Yes, a tragedy that a 13-year-old chose to hang w/ older teenagers & get the idea in his head to get some money w/ his realistic-looking BB gun. Part of being a teenager is getting really dumb ideas & acting on them. How many teens die due to really dumb ideas.
Facts are important and why fan the flames to fuel a race war unjustifiably? Hopefully the final autopsy report will clarify this particular tragic situation.
Criminal cops: Autopsy shows child killed by police was shot three times - in the back
https://www.sott.net/article/329006-Criminal-cops-Autopsy-shows-child-killed-by-police-was-shot-three-times-in-the-back
It would appear there is no shortage of stories of police killing blacks without justification. It also seems apparent that machinations to provoke a race war are also continuing to occur. Therefore, it would seem that Sott.net should work to report facts & avoid misleading headlines, even if that was the headline of the source article.
Demetrius Braxton, 19, was identified by the victim "as the person who pointed a gun at him and took $10 during a holdup."
"Braxton admitted to police that he was with a group of people, including 13-year-old Tyre King, when they robbed a man on Wednesday night."
"He [Braxton] said King was carrying a BB gun that looked like a real gun."
The victim says he was accosted by a group of four males, one pointed a handgun at him and demanded he empty his pockets. The victim and a witness placed a 911 call. "The victim said on the 911 call that a suspect was carrying a Ruger pistol." When officers responded, they saw a group that matched the description provided in the 911 call. Two of those in the group ran and officers chased them which led to the confrontation in which King was shot.
The gun found at the scene was a realistic-looking BB gun equipped with a laser sight. Braxton has stated that King had the gun when he was shot and he saw King being shot in the front of his body "four or five times".
According to the title of the Sott.net article, Autopsy shows child killed by police was shot three times - in the back, an autopsy indicated three wounds in the back. That is not factual. First, the official preliminary autopsy report is pending and has not been released. Final autopsy results are expected in six to eight weeks after toxicology reports are returned.
An independent pathologist hired by the King family examined King's body but did not perform an actual autopsy - merely "a two-hour review of the gunshot wounds".
So the bullets entered the left side of the body and exited the right side of the body. How is that getting shot in the back?
What seems to have happend is King, after being ordered to the ground and while having the realistic gun in his possession, jumped up and was turning to flee when shot. If the officer was under the impression that the suspects had a Ruger pistol and after apprehending said suspects and ordering them to the ground, one of them jumps up with "nearly an exact replica of a police firearm", could that officer think he was at risk of imminent death and have to make a split-second decision as to how to react?
If YOU or I had been ordered to the ground by a police officer while possessing a realistic gun and then decided to jump up to flee, what would YOU expect the outcome to be? I would expect a very high likelihood of being shot dead. And I would think there are a fair amount of male 18-year-olds and older who are 5 feet tall and 100 lbs. - maybe not a lot, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
Yes, a tragedy that a 13-year-old chose to hang w/ older teenagers & get the idea in his head to get some money w/ his realistic-looking BB gun. Part of being a teenager is getting really dumb ideas & acting on them. How many teens die due to really dumb ideas.
Facts are important and why fan the flames to fuel a race war unjustifiably? Hopefully the final autopsy report will clarify this particular tragic situation.
