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When CTA supervisor Martesa Lee attempted to lodge a complaint against a Chicago police officer in February, she was given a choice:
Drop her grievance against the officer she accused of pushing her out of an unmarked crime scene on a Red Line platform or face possible arrest.
It was.
Authorities arrested Lee in front of her co-workers and a platform of CTA riders after she informed the sergeant she would not let the matter go. With her hands cuffed behind her back and tears streaming down her face, she refused additional opportunities to retract her grievance and regain her freedom.
The incident, captured on police body camera videos obtained by the Tribune, exemplifies the kind of small, typically undocumented occurrences that can erode community trust in the Chicago Police Department, especially at a time of renewed focus on law enforcement conduct nationally. Critics contend it highlights, yet again, a decades-old “code of silence” — an unwritten understanding that officers protect one another at all cost — that has led to federal oversight of the department in recent years.
In this case, not only did the sergeant immediately dismiss Lee, he had the officer who was the subject of her complaint cuff her.
“This is precisely how the code of silence works,” said Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who specializes in police accountability issues. “It’s controlling that narrative, it’s manufacturing that narrative in a way that protects the officer from discipline and hides ongoing police abuse.”
This is behind a paywall, but the thesis set forth in the title is my biggest issue with the systemic problems withing law enforcement. The problem isn't individual police, necessarily. It's policing. And it starts with the Thin Blue Line crap.Steve Chapman: When cops are their own worst enemies
Cops who justify or excuse the lawless conduct of their fellow officers do no service to the people they serve or themselves
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op ... 2006160011
I believe you're referring to this guy:This is behind a paywall, but the thesis set forth in the title is my biggest issue with the systemic problems withing law enforcement. The problem isn't individual police, necessarily. It's policing. And it starts with the Thin Blue Line crap.
The head of, I think, the NYC police union has been on TV in the last couple of days just........... you know the phrase 'covering yourself in glory'? He's been doing whatever the opposite of that is called.
Here there be monsters.I believe you're referring to this guy:This is behind a paywall, but the thesis set forth in the title is my biggest issue with the systemic problems withing law enforcement. The problem isn't individual police, necessarily. It's policing. And it starts with the Thin Blue Line crap.
The head of, I think, the NYC police union has been on TV in the last couple of days just........... you know the phrase 'covering yourself in glory'? He's been doing whatever the opposite of that is called.
Thoughts and prayers for Stacey
Nah, they'll just beat the **** out of them.Good god, are cops now going to start preemptively arresting restaurant workers on suspicion of tampering with their food?
What a loserThoughts and prayers for Stacey
just heard that. I was shocked. it's also appalling that the shooter kicked Brooks as he laid there bleeding.One of the cops in ATL involved in the Wendy's incident has apparently agreed to turn state's evidence and will testify against the shooter cop. That's a big deal.
I've seen enough videos with cops to see this be the case often. All it takes is one Tommy Tough Nuts to come onto the scene and blow everything up beyond where it needs to be.just heard that. I was shocked. it's also appalling that the shooter kicked Brooks as he laid there bleeding.One of the cops in ATL involved in the Wendy's incident has apparently agreed to turn state's evidence and will testify against the shooter cop. That's a big deal.
i feel bad for the non-shooting cop. all he's trying to do is get this guy to move his car, he calls for back-up to help with the sobriety test and the whole thing goes off the rails.
There was that one video in this thread where some whackjob is going nuts in the street, the officers on scene seem to be diffusing the situation, then some other cop pulls up, walks over, zaps him with the taser, and then continues to do it while he is down and handcuffed.I've seen enough videos with cops to see this be the case often. All it takes is one Tommy Tough Nuts to come onto the scene and blow everything up beyond where it needs to be.just heard that. I was shocked. it's also appalling that the shooter kicked Brooks as he laid there bleeding.One of the cops in ATL involved in the Wendy's incident has apparently agreed to turn state's evidence and will testify against the shooter cop. That's a big deal.
i feel bad for the non-shooting cop. all he's trying to do is get this guy to move his car, he calls for back-up to help with the sobriety test and the whole thing goes off the rails.
This DA just recently charged a couple other APD officers for excessive force by using a Taser out-of-policy in which it was characterized as a 'deadly weapon' in the charging document. But the Taser Brooks took had apparently been discharged once already, and APD patrol officers only carry 2 single-use cartridges, so when Brooks fired the thing it became a very bougie paperweight; it was a weapon in the same sense that within every tool there is a hammer, and I suppose he could've thrown it at someone. He had been frisked and no other weapon had been found. It is also against APD policy to discharge a Taser at a fleeing suspect, as Ofc Rolfe was seen doing before drawing his sidearm. And it is against SCOTUS precedent to discharge a firearm at a fleeing non-violent suspect.I'll eat tif's hat if that shooter is convicted. Ground fighting a cop, taking a weapon from the cop and pointing it at him, and then running off (in endangerment of the public). I'm not saying I support the cop, just with those facts it's going to be an uphill battle for a prosecutor.
If true, it would provide a reasonable explanation for why he started resisting. But I don't think fear of being done for one crime is really solid ground for the defense of some other, more serious, criminal act.Serious question here for those that may know. I read that Brooks was on probation and was risking some jail time due to this possible DUI. Which is probably why he tried to flee. Could the defense use that as something that the cop feared that Brooks could do something lethal to get away from arrest?