Police earning the hate

Postby **Shyster** » Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:40 pm

Not that one.

Postby **Morkle** » Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:11 pm

Not that one.

Just photoshop. That kid was resisting so hard. Can’t you see it?

As if the /s is needed

Postby **Jim** » Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:36 am

Cop tackles, punches, and chokes 14-year-old boy for possession of a Swisher Sweet:

RCPD... obviouslt the cop was concerned that the kid was a zombie.

Postby **dodint** » Mon May 11, 2020 10:17 pm

Not police, per se, just a good ole boys enabled by a corrupt DA.

Really concise and well explained breakdown of the legal issues in the Ahmaud Arbery killing: https://thedispatch.com/p/a-vigilante-k ... in-georgia

Postby **Shyster** » Wed May 13, 2020 4:55 pm

Body Camera Footage Refutes LAPD Cop's Story About Being Attacked Before Brutalizing a Suspect

https://reason.com/2020/05/12/body-came ... a-suspect/

Postby **Troy Loney** » Wed May 13, 2020 5:11 pm

He abused the cop by saying mean things.

Postby **Lemon Berry Lobster** » Thu May 14, 2020 6:43 pm

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/us/louis ... index.html
A Kentucky EMT was shot and killed during a police raid of her home. The family is suing for wrongful death

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri May 15, 2020 12:11 pm

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/us/louis ... index.html
A Kentucky EMT was shot and killed during a police raid of her home. The family is suing for wrongful death

Yup...three of the idiots had the wrong address.

Postby **Shyster** » Mon May 18, 2020 5:18 pm

In 2018, Lauren McCluskey was murdered in Salt Lake City by a stalker despite multiple calls to 911 to report him. Not only the the police fail to protect her, but one of the cops personally saved to his own phone nude photos that the stalker was using to blackmail McCluskey, and the cop showed them off and bragged about having them.

University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2 ... ah-police/

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon May 18, 2020 9:14 pm

We tend to bag on excessive use of deadly force by police in this country, but for a bit of perspective..........

'License To Kill': Inside Rio's Record Year Of Police Killings

Rodrigo dos Santos, 16, was speeding downhill on a motorcycle in Rio de Janeiro, a knapsack packed with marijuana, cocaine and pellets of crack on his back, when two police officers raised their rifles at him.

The teenager sped by, his friend sitting behind him, clutching his waist. But within seconds, they toppled over in a barrage of 38 bullets fired by the police.

Rodrigo died on the way to the hospital, bleeding from a gunshot wound in his arm — and three in his back. The police never claimed he was armed, and one of the officers involved, Sergeant Sergio Britto, was still on duty despite being on trial for murder, accused of shooting another man in the neck at close range.

The death of Rodrigo added to a record number of killings by the police in Rio last year — 1,814 — a surge of hundreds in a state with a long history of police brutality and a political leadership that has vowed to “dig graves” to stop crime.

That would be like 1,800+ police shootings in just Los Angeles County and the SF Bay area counties.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Tue May 19, 2020 7:14 am

Yeah....you could not pay me all the money in the world to live in Rio. That is a scary place man.

Postby **Shyster** » Mon May 25, 2020 5:14 pm

Prosecutors Back Dismissal of 91 More Cases Involving the Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid

https://reason.com/2020/05/25/prosecuto ... drug-raid/

The announcement brings the total number of suspect cases initiated by Gerald Goines to 164 over 11 years.

Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg plans to support the reversal of "at least 91" more convictions in cases involving Gerald Goines, the former Houston narcotics officer whose fraudulent search warrant affidavit led to the January 2019 drug raid that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. Ogg's office had already backed the dismissal of 73 cases initiated by Goines, who faces state murder charges and federal civil rights charges in connection with the deadly invasion of the middle-aged couple's house on Harding Street.

"We will continue to work to clear people convicted solely on the word of a police officer who we can no longer trust," Ogg said in a press release last Thursday. "We are committed to making sure the criminal justice [system] is fair and just for everyone."

The latest batch of questionable cases all involved search warrants obtained by Goines. The previous batch involved cases in which Goines was the only purported witness to drug transactions he claimed to have observed.

Prosecutors are filing motions asking that lawyers be appointed for each of the 91 defendants. If those lawyers decide that Goines' sworn statements were material in convicting their clients and seek new trials on that basis (both of which seem likely), prosecutors "anticipate that they will agree to relief and eventual dismissal," Ogg said.

"We've come to the conclusion that every conviction in which Goines was the major player, for the past 11 years, needs to be flipped," said Josh Reiss, chief of the Post-Conviction Writs Division at Ogg's office. "The number of cases may grow."

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon May 25, 2020 6:43 pm

160+ fraudulent convictions resultant to one single raid??

Postby **Shyster** » Mon May 25, 2020 6:47 pm

160+ fraudulent convictions resultant to one single raid??

No, 160+ fraudulent convictions from years of fabricating evidence on multiple suspects. Basically, every arrest that cop ever made is now suspect and will probably be overturned.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon May 25, 2020 6:59 pm

Okay, geez. I misread the blurb and though all the cases were related to the one raid where the two people were killed. I was like, "That's....... a lot......."

Postby **Shyster** » Tue May 26, 2020 5:55 pm

Minnesota Man Dies After Video Shows Cop Pressing Knee to His Neck for Nearly 8 Minutes

https://reason.com/2020/05/26/minnesota ... 8-minutes/

A Minnesota man named George Floyd died Monday after a bystander video showed him begging for air while a police officer held a knee to his neck.

According to a statement by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), officers responded to reports of a forgery and were advised that the suspect appeared to be under the influence. Floyd was sitting in his car when officers arrived on the scene and commanded him to exit his vehicle. The statement says that Floyd got out of his car, physically resisted the officers, and was handcuffed. It was then that officers noticed that Floyd "appeared to be suffering medical distress." (The statement does not provide further detail.)

But a bystander captured 10 minutes of the interaction on video. When the video starts, an MPD officer is seen pressing his knee into the side of Floyd's neck while he's on the ground and handcuffed.

Floyd is heard pleading with the officer, repeatedly saying, "I can't breathe," "My neck hurts," and "They gone kill me." He continues to move his head, presumably in an attempt to breathe.

"You got him down, man! Let him breathe at least," a bystander is heard saying in the background. Another comments that his nose is bleeding. Others ask how long the officers plan to keep him on the ground and question the decision to keep him pinned by the neck.

At one point, another officer on the scene responds to the criticisms, saying that they tried to put Floyd in the police vehicle "for 10 minutes."

About four minutes in, Floyd stops moving. That's when the officer whose knee is pressed to Floyd's neck pulls out what bystanders identify as mace and the other officer on scene moves to get between the officer and the crowd.

The bystanders continue to tell the officers that Floyd isn't responding and urge them to check his pulse. The officer continues to keep his knee pressed to Floyd's neck until emergency medical services arrive, which was called by the officers.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue May 26, 2020 6:04 pm

The four cops involved in this incident have already been fired by the MPD, which is a rare moment of swift action.

Postby **NAN** » Tue May 26, 2020 6:29 pm

The four cops involved in this incident have already been fired by the MPD, which is a rare moment of swift action.

Deservedly so. That was bad. Dude with the knee on the neck should be charged with murder.

Cops have hard jobs, and not everything is black and white. There are a lot of dangerous moments and tough decisions. But they had the dude down, regardless what happened before and continued to kneel on his neck even after he was unresponsive.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Wed May 27, 2020 7:40 am

The four cops involved in this incident have already been fired by the MPD, which is a rare moment of swift action.
Deservedly so. That was bad. Dude with the knee on the neck should be charged with murder.

Cops have hard jobs, and not everything is black and white. There are a lot of dangerous moments and tough decisions. But they had the dude down, regardless what happened before and continued to kneel on his neck even after he was unresponsive.

Predictably, there was one woman on the WTAJ Facebook page that said: "If he could tell him that he couldn't breath (sic), he must have been able to breath a little because he was talking. Just sayin..."

I called her a boot licker.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Wed May 27, 2020 7:45 am

Are people defending that cop?

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed May 27, 2020 8:20 am

Are people defending that cop?

There are certain jobs you're allowed to take a knee and certain jobs you aren't, apparently.

Postby **King Colby** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:03 am

Of all the recent nationally covered police-related incidents, this one is by far the worst.

Postby **shoeshine boy** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:21 am

There are certain jobs you're allowed to take a knee and certain jobs you aren't, apparently.

Postby **NAN** » Wed May 27, 2020 10:01 am

Of all the recent nationally covered police-related incidents, this one is by far the worst.

Agree. Some of these police incidents, there are times the officer was wrong, others where they made the right decision (sometimes tough decision), and like I said they have tough jobs where literally a wrong move could mean life or death one way or the other.

But this one, the guy was detained, down, and if the officer had to originally put his knee on his neck to subdue him, there was no way he needed to keep it there, especially after the man started to distress. The dude may have deserved to be taken down and arrested, but to continue to restrain him the way they did, as he struggled, and then continued after he was unresponsive is just pure negligence on the officers. Again, they should be in deep ****.

Postby **King Colby** » Wed May 27, 2020 10:05 am

Totally. I can see both sides of some of the other ones. Where officers may have felt threatened and acted on an impulse for their own protection. There is no gray area here. That guy was detained and subdued and not a threat to himself or others and then they pinned him down for another 3 or 4 minutes after that! He was murdered.