More police brutality than you can shake a stick at.

[GarveyLives]

Deeply disturbing:

"Shooting of cousins aged just four and seven, allegedly by police, heightens calls for national reckoning over ‘genocide’ ..."

Killing of two girls stokes outrage over Brazil's horrific toll of black lives

Shot dead in the head and chest.​

 

[a_chap]

How to deal with whistleblowers in the USA. Guns drawn, kids present.

 

[hash tag]

I have just moved on from A Bit of a Stretch review – an indictment of Britain’s prison system
to this ( I must read a happy book sometime ).

In Your Defence by Sarah Langford – review

A barrister’s tales of Britain’s crumbling legal system and the victims caught up in it are required reading for our policymakers

www.theguardian.com

This book is about 11 cases by a young cynical barrister. The first chapter is about the arrest of a young man who is known to the police.
They arrested him for nothing in particular and he counter claimed they beat him up. This young barrister for the defence twisted the police
for the prosecution in knots. What was the physical condition of the defendant when you went to arrest him - any signs of cuts bruises, marks,
blemishes etc - NO. Please see theses photos of the defendant that you took after the arrest. you agree he did not have those marks and bruises
on his back Etc. She generalised and thought a young known villain up against the upholders of the law had no chance.
He was released a free man

 

[extra dry]

We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors

Lots of cops and protestors being pushed and shoved about

 

[GarveyLives]

"Panorama investigates why black men in the UK are more likely than white men to have force used on them by police and to die in police custody.

Reporter Mark Daly follows the family of Kevin Clarke on their search for justice. Mr Clarke repeatedly said, 'I can’t breathe' as he was restrained by police on the ground for 14 minutes during a mental health crisis. He died soon afterwards, his words mirroring those of George Floyd, whose death in the US triggered a global debate on race and policing.

The programme also reveals fresh evidence in Scotland’s most high-profile death in custody. Sheku Bayoh died in 2015 after being restrained by up to six officers."

BBC One - Panorama, I Can’t Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody, 18 January 2021

Very disturbing.

 

[a_chap]

Police cruiser drives through and over a group of pedestrians in Tacoma, Washington.

Warning - unpleasant footage

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248726860.html

 

[petee]

Police cruiser drives through and over a group of pedestrians in Tacoma, Washington.

Warning - unpleasant footage

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248726860.html

 

[hitmouse]

Christ, this is grim: Rochester police officers handcuff and pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl after call of 'family trouble'

Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl while responding to what a police official called a report of "family trouble" in an incident sharply criticized by city officials.
Two body camera videos of Friday's incident released by the police department on Sunday show officers restraining the child, putting her in handcuffs and attempting to get her inside the back of a police vehicle as she repeatedly cries and calls for her father.
After the girl fails to follow commands to put her feet inside the car, the officers are seen pepper-spraying her...

The body camera video shows the girl repeatedly crying out for her father, while being physically restrained by officers. She is seen screaming before her head is held down against the snow-covered ground and is handcuffed. A struggle ensues between the girl and officers as they attempt to get her inside the back of a police vehicle.
At one point, one officer says, "You're acting like a child."
"I am a child!" the girl responds.

 

[NoXion]

"yOu'Re aCtInG lIkE a cHiLd", said by an adult to an actual nine year-old. They truly select them for stupidity, don't they?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

"yOu'Re aCtInG lIkE a cHiLd", said by an adult to an actual nine year-old. They truly select them for stupidity, don't they?

The most dangerous crime gang in the US

 

[hitmouse]

"yOu'Re aCtInG lIkE a cHiLd", said by an adult to an actual nine year-old...

Immediately before pepper-spraying them. Got to really hope these fuckers aren't parents.

 

[Septimus Rufiji]

Christ, this is grim: Rochester police officers handcuff and pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl after call of 'family trouble'

legislation is being passed to make spraying a minor illegal, here is why it's maybe not such a good idea

 

[petee]

hey, let's be realistic here.

Union boss defends Rochester cop who pepper-sprayed 9-year-old girl

“I’m not saying there’s no better ways to do things, but let’s be realistic here on what we’re facing,” Rochester Police Locust Club President Mike Mazzeo said a…

www.google.com

 

[Lord Camomile]

Bloody hell

 

[hitmouse]

LAPD investigating report of George Floyd photo circulating with caption 'You take my breath away'

If the department confirms officers were circulating the image, 'people will find my wrath,' LAPD Chief Michel Moore said.

www.latimes.com

LAPD investigating report of George Floyd photo circulating with caption ‘You take my breath away’


The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an internal investigation after an officer reported that a photo of George Floyd with the words “You take my breath away” in a Valentine-like format was being “passed around” by other officers, Chief Michel Moore said Saturday.

Moore said the officer who made the complaint is set to be interviewed Monday, and the department’s goal is to determine exactly where and how the image may have come into the workplace, online or otherwise, and who may have been involved.

“Our investigation is to determine the accuracy of the allegations while also reinforcing our zero tolerance for anything with racist views,” the chief said.

If the department confirms officers were circulating the image, “people will find my wrath,” Moore said.

Moore also confirmed the department is investigating two Instagram accounts that people have reported as possibly being linked to department personnel — including one called the “Blue Line Mafia.”

 

[Pickman's model]

Bloody hell

tbh that's quite creative by the cops. But who is infringing rights here, I'd be interested to know from an American pov if the cops are infringing and so whether record labels would take action on receipt of video of cops doing this. Because if they're doing this in the course of their 'duty'/work they should be paying to use it. Another way to defund the police?

 

[cupid_stunt]

tbh that's quite creative by the cops. But who is infringing rights here, I'd be interested to know from an American pov if the cops are infringing and so whether record labels would take action on receipt of video of cops doing this. Because if they're doing this in the course of their 'duty'/work they should be paying to use it. Another way to defund the police?

I think it's more about stopping videos being uploaded to youtube, because their software picks up on videos using copyrighted music & takes them down.

 

[two sheds]

people will need to mute and add subtitles

 

[hitmouse]

people will need to mute and add subtitles

But that's the thing, once you edit a video like that, you immediately make it easier to discredit, cos then people can say "oh, the cop was actually being totally reasonable here, it's just that the way the uploader has edited it that makes them look bad, how do we know those subtitles are even accurate?" Proper grim shit and hard to see an easy way around.
Article on this stuff here, fwiw: Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed?

 

[two sheds]

Yeh but you've always got the original recording. Point taken though it's fucking sly thing to do and by default says the police have got something they want to hide.

 

[Pickman's model]

I think it's more about stopping videos being uploaded to youtube, because their software picks up on videos using copyrighted music & takes them down.

Yes I get what it's about perhaps you could engage with the point I'm making and not the point you think I'm making

E2A see ASCAP Licensing. The bit about public performances

 

[Struwwelpeter]

It might be possible to do some clever noise cancelling stuff, especially if you have a copy of the original track that you can subtract from the original soundtrack. It becomes a manipulated sound track of course, but at least it would get published and the original then produced for evidence as required.

 

[two sheds]

Hopefully lulls them into a false sense of security

 

[GarveyLives]

Chile police shoot dead unarmed street artist in broad daylight sparking riots

Wave of indignation in Chile for another death at the hands of the police (Note: Spanish language broadcast.
Warning: Includes footage which some may find distressing)​

 

[GarveyLives]

£45,000 may not go very far in investigating this deep cesspit of shame (which will include non-police custody deaths) but ...

Black Lives Matter UK to fund 'people's tribunal' for deaths in custody

"A 2017 government report on deaths in custody stated that every prosecution over a death in custody in the last 15 years had ended in an acquittal."​

 

[Artaxerxes]

First, know thyself

 

[a_chap]

Police are still unable to explain why their powers are disproportionately used on people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds...

 

[Orang Utan]

I think I know the answer

 

[Pickman's model]

I think I know the answer

Yes, they only have a very limited vocabulary, which explains their inability. And they're racist. Which explains their actions.

 

[GarveyLives]

Simon Israel's excellent and unsanitised reports on the killing of mentally disturbed Leon Briggs in Luton on 4 November 2013 require no further explanation:

Leon Briggs was in prone restraint (face down) for over 13 minutes, and in handcuffs and leg restraints for 25 minutes. Staff from the East of England Ambulance Service arrived on scene, but did not assess or communicate with Leon Briggs.

HM Senior Coroner Emma Whitting said that Leon Briggs deserved to get the full services owed to him by the police and ambulance service. She said Mr Briggs had been “so very let down”.