More police brutality than you can shake a stick at.

[Baronage-Phase]

This sounds horrendous

Elderly woman 'died after attack by police dog'

That is horrific.

 

[SpookyFrank]

This sounds horrendous

Elderly woman 'died after attack by police dog'

Appalling. How anyone believes that using attack dogs can possibly be justified in terms of reasonable or proportionate use of force I'll never understand. Even if the quote unquote handlers manage to point the brutes in the direction of an actual criminal for once, there is no offence for which a fair punishment is being mauled by a dog.

 

[emanymton]

Appalling. How anyone believes that using attack dogs can possibly be justified in terms of reasonable or proportionate use of force I'll never understand. Even if the quote unquote handlers manage to point the brutes in the direction of an actual criminal for once, there is no offence for which a fair punishment is being mauled by a dog.

Being a copper?

 

[sim667]

This sounds horrendous

Elderly woman 'died after attack by police dog'

So the police on reddit have decided this was just an accident and she was basically dead anyway due to her pre-existing conditions.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Being a copper?

I believe the land sharks regularly take big chunks out of their own side when the opportunity and over excitement takes arises

 

[hash tag]

I was aware of issues in America and to my shame and shock, I only heard how far and wide on the world service last night. There is also a huge number of disabled people being taken out by the American police as the story of Adam Trammell illustrates. They played a recording of this last night. Truly horrible. Was anyone bought to account Don't shoot, I'm disabled

 

[Lorca]

Probably shouldn't lol at this, but...surely only in 'murica could four cops get arrested for beating up an undercover cop on an anti police brutality march! Also, texting beforehand that they were gonna 'whoop some ass' probably wasn't too wise either.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/bu...ndercover-colleague-police-brutality-protest/

 

[Pickman's model]

Appalling. How anyone believes that using attack dogs can possibly be justified in terms of reasonable or proportionate use of force I'll never understand. Even if the quote unquote handlers manage to point the brutes in the direction of an actual criminal for once, there is no offence for which a fair punishment is being mauled by a dog.

er there is: being a police dog handler

 

[SpookyFrank]

er there is: being a police dog handler

emanymton beat you to it by a couple of months, but yes fair point.

 

[GarveyLives]

Family angry after inquest concludes police custody death caused by drugs (click for more)

The inquest jury concluded: “Due to the (false) information given the police acted with the acceptable use of force. However, due to the deceased’s cocaine-induced paranoia, the level of force may have increased his stress levels which may have contributed to his death.”

In other words, it was his own fault!

 

[Tooter]

Not UK but just seen this over in Paris

 

[CRI]

Holy fuck!



NYPD officers pry 1-year-old child from mother's arms in startling video - CNN

One officer reaches down and begins to pull. The officer yanks harder, and harder, and the woman's cries become louder.
"You're hurting my son! You're hurting my son!" she yells.
A tug of war ensues, and as noise from the horrified crowd builds, an officer brandishes a yellow stun gun and begins to point it around the room, a government welfare office in Brooklyn.
The stunning and hectic scene, captured on video and posted to Facebook, ends with the woman in handcuffs escorted from the scene -- and her 1-year-old son elsewhere.

Lisa Schreibersdorf, executive director of Brooklyn Defender Services, said Headley was there because her child-care benefit, which allowed her to maintain her job, had ended. She took a day off of work to come to the social services office and try to resolve the issue and get her child back in daycare, Schreibersdorf said.
Headley arrived at 9 a.m. and waited at the office for four hours. She was asked to move from her spot on the floor multiple times, Schreibersdorf said, but there were no seats available.

Security then decided to call police, a step that Schreibersdorf and Adams said was an unnecessary escalation. Responding police escalated the scene even further by using the child as a "pawn" and pulling him out of his mother's arms, Schreibersdorf said.
She said it was "absurd" that Headley was charged with endangering her child in the incident. And she said that the district attorney asked for and the judge issued a full order of protection, which means that Headley cannot see her child right now.

 

[Sprocket.]

Sheer brutality. Shocking.

 

[spring-peeper]

Black people '20 times more likely to be shot' by Toronto police

A black person is 20 times more likely to be shot dead by police than a white person in Canada's largest city, according to a new damning report from Ontario province's human rights watchdog.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission studied seven years of data related to interactions between police and black residents in Toronto for the report, which was released on Monday and found that the city's black citizens are disproportionately discriminated against by police.

 

[CRI]

Thought I'd posted something yesterday here (but can't find it on the Trump thread) about the Federal Prison in New York that's been without heat for several days during well sub zero temperatures. Families and others protesting outside (access to lawyers, hot meals, basic shit also been cut off) and now this happens.

Background here:
Inmates without power at New York federal prison shivering in their cells for days

 

[Ming]

I Can’t Breath: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi is an informative (if harrowing) read on this.

 

[a_chap]

Six California officers fire shots at rapper who had been asleep in car, killing him

 

[Shechemite]

In the last three years alone, 14 mentally ill people have died at the hands of police, spurring calls for — and moves toward — reform.

Yet, four years after the city promised to teach every cop how to better deal with the mentally ill, less than one-third of the force has undergone the training.

SPECIAL REPORT: NYPD’s Mental-Illness Response Breakdown

 

[Yossarian]

Mysterious how kids in some areas grow up hostile to law enforcement.

The suit accuses the officers of ignoring numerous requests to show residents the search warrant, handcuffing several adults in front of the children even though no one disobeyed orders and ransacking the family’s home. Officers took a door off its hinges, pried open wall panels, flipped mattresses, threw a TV to the floor, doused the presents with hydrogen peroxide and poured vodka over clothes, according to the lawsuit.

They also tossed the birthday cake to the floor, Hofeld said. It had sat uncut inside a box on a dining table, but by the end of the raid it had been thrown off the table, landing upside-down on the floor. One of the officers then stuck a number "4" candle in the middle of the smashed cake.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...olice-raid-birthday-party-20190326-story.html

 

[Treacle Toes]

Police officer sacked for abusing staff at takeaway wins job back as remarks 'were not worst kind of racism'

 

[SpookyFrank]

Police officer sacked for abusing staff at takeaway wins job back as remarks 'were not worst kind of racism'

I can see we've all learned valuable lessons about dealing with racism in the police force

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Texas cop (with a seriously punchable face) gives a homeless man a non-metaphorical shit sandwich:

https://www.theroot.com/fired-texas-cop-alleged-to-have-given-homeless-man-a-do-1833592920

The kicker here is that he kept his job.

 

[CRI]

Remember this case, where the cops shot the carer of an autistic man, while he was lying on his back with his hands in the air?



North Miami Cop Not Guilty of Negligence for Shooting at Autistic Man Holding Toy Truck

 

[Ming]

Remember this case, where the cops shot the carer of an autistic man, while he was lying on his back with his hands in the air?

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North Miami Cop Not Guilty of Negligence for Shooting at Autistic Man Holding Toy Truck

Scary. I take people with all kinds of mental health issues out of locked wards on passes all the time. It’s part of my job. And yes they can become behaviourally dis-regulated sometimes but no biggie. I’m trained to deal with situations like that but the idea a police officer would shoot me? Never enters my mind. Crazy shit. Actually I’ve had situations were the PD have been involved and I’ve found them to be very professional. But that’s the UK and Canada.

 

[Yossarian]

Police seem to have been relatively restrained in this case in South Carolina - the suspect, who was on probation for a bank robbery in 2017, robbed another bank and led police on a chase - he was fired on by two deputies but apparently only received minor injuries.

Maybe they would have shot to kill if he wasn't the former chief of police...



Former SC police chief shot by deputy, accused of robbing bank — again

 

[GarveyLives]

Police who shot unarmed man followed procedure, (UK) watchdog finds

(Source: bbc.co.uk)

“Our thorough investigation examined the actions of all the police involved, including the officer who fired the shot, and we found that they were in line with policy and procedure.”​

 

[a_chap]

St. Louis Police Want Permission to Mace Nonviolent Protesters — Again

St. Louis Police Want Permission to Mace Nonviolent Protesters — Again

 

[SpookyFrank]

Police who shot unarmed man followed procedure, (UK) watchdog finds

(Source: bbc.co.uk)

“Our thorough investigation examined the actions of all the police involved, including the officer who fired the shot, and we found that they were in line with policy and procedure.”​

Then find the people who wrote the procedure and put them on trial.

 

[Shechemite]

As the Andrews government embarks on a royal commission into mental health, a damning new report obtained by The Age has revealed that the use of seclusion has risen in Victoria in recent years, with some hospitals breaching state guidelines and failing to meet key benchmarks designed to keep the practice at a minimum.

Ms Cochran remembers that during her period of seclusion she became increasingly distressed as the hours passed at a glacial pace.

“They told me I wouldn’t be able to leave until I ate everything that was put in front of me for two weeks,” says the now 29-year-old.

“It's though you’re some kind of rabid animal that needs to be put in a cage and controlled. And in the end it makes things worse, because you become quite fearful of seeking help down the track.”

VMIAC human rights adviser Indigo Daya said the system clearly needed a shake-up, telling The Age, “there is no excuse for people to leave a state-funded mental health service feeling more emotionally traumatised than when they arrived.”

Sometimes, too, the consequences are fatal. In NSW, hospitals were forced to overhaul their practices last year after a patient held in seclusion at Lismore Base Hospital died of brain injury in 2014, caused by falling numerous times and beating her head repeatedly on hard surfaces in the room.

Disturbing CCTV footage also showed the woman naked, drugged, and covered in faeces in the hours before she died, prompting an inquiry that exposed the entrenched discrimination and physical dangers

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...health-units-on-the-rise-20190404-p51auj.html

 

[Mr.Bishie]