More police brutality than you can shake a stick at.

[Ax^]

involuntary manslaugter

Prosecutors, however, argued that police lacked a warrant to be on the property and staged the shooting scene to support their claims that Lamb was armed. Before he was shot, prosecutors said, Lamb had his left hand on the truck’s steering wheel and his cellphone in his right hand.

Another officer who was the first to arrive on the scene after the shooting testified during the trial that he didn’t see a gun on the ground below Lamb’s left arm, which was hanging out of the window of the truck. Later, though, a gun was there in police photographs.

Two bullets were found in Lamb’s pockets at the morgue, but crime scene technicians didn’t find them at the scene. And prosecutors also raised questions about whether Lamb, who was right-handed, could have used his left hand to pull a gun due to an earlier injury. The defense argued that he could

 

[Yossarian]

This knife-wielding shoplifting suspect was apparently such a threat to the community that this officer had to shoot him nine times. From behind. While the man was in a wheelchair.

Arizona officer fired after fatally shooting man in wheelchair

Tucson police officer Ryan Remington fired nine shots at the 61-year old suspected shoplifter.

www.bbc.com

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Christ on a fuckin bike!

 

[existentialist]

This knife-wielding shoplifting suspect was apparently such a threat to the community that this officer had to shoot him nine times. From behind. While the man was in a wheelchair.

Arizona officer fired after fatally shooting man in wheelchair

Tucson police officer Ryan Remington fired nine shots at the 61-year old suspected shoplifter.

www.bbc.com

In any other circumstances, this might be an offensive question...but given we're talking about US police brutality, was the suspect black? Or was his being wheelchair-bound enough to grant a hunting licence to the police?

 

[8ball]

In any other circumstances, this might be an offensive question...but given we're talking about US police brutality, was the suspect black? Or was his being wheelchair-bound enough to grant a hunting licence to the police?

He was white, there's video (easily found, was like the second result on Google), it's a pretty shocking clear cut case of murder.

 

[MrSki]

]He was white, there's video (easily found, was like the second result on Google), it's a pretty shocking clear cut case of murder.

Spoiler: Video here.

 

[8ball]

Spoiler: Video here.

That's more disturbing than the one I found, which cut out a little earlier, and also showed the altercation prior to backup being called.

 

[Numbers]

Jeez, that is so fucked up.

 

[a_chap]

"Mr Remington then fires nine shots from his gun at Mr Richards, who slumps forward and falls from his wheelchair. He was then handcuffed."

Shot nine times, then handcuffed?!?!?!



Jesus wept.

 

[Ming]

‘Mr Remington’. Cool name bro.

 

[hitmouse]

Here's an interesting story about what happens to "good cops":

Whistleblower featured in USA TODAY 'Behind the Blue Wall' series ousted from police union

Two months after Joliet Police Sgt. Javier Esqueda was featured in a USA TODAY investigation, officers voted to remove him from a supervisor's union.

eu.usatoday.com

An Illinois police union on Wednesday ousted from its membership an officer facing criminal charges for exposing a squad car video that showed his fellow officers slapping and cursing a man dying of a drug overdose.

The case of Sgt. Javier Esqueda, a 27-year veteran of the Joliet Police Department, was featured in September as the first installment of the USA TODAY series “Behind the Blue Wall,” an investigation involving more than 300 cases of police officers over the past decade who have spoken out against alleged misconduct in their departments.

A subsequent story published this week outlined patterns of retaliation against such officers in departments large and small across the country, highlighting how some within law enforcement use internal affairs investigations and other forms of retaliation and intimidation to punish those who break the code of silence.

Esqueda told USA TODAY that he’s become a pariah among his coworkers since July 2020, when he shared with a television reporter footage from January of that year showing how officers treated a handcuffed Black man in medical distress. Officers slapped Eric Lurry, restricted his airway and shoved a baton in his mouth hours before his death. Esqueda faces up to 20 years in prison after department officials opened a criminal investigation into his actions and prosecutors charged him with four counts of official misconduct.

Good to see that senior officials and prosecutors are going after the real villain here.

 

[8ball]

Jeez, that is so fucked up.

It's just astonishing when they could just grab the back of the wheelchair and steer it into those pallets.

 

[Numbers]

Video on this site which shows the handcuffing after

Arizona cop fatally shoots man in wheelchair nine times in the back: video

The officer, Ryan Remington, was on assignment at the Walmart in Tucson on Monday when an employee alerted him about 6 p.m. that a customer had swiped a toolbox, KGUN reported.

nypost.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

Video on this site which shows the handcuffing after

Arizona cop fatally shoots man in wheelchair nine times in the back: video

The officer, Ryan Remington, was on assignment at the Walmart in Tucson on Monday when an employee alerted him about 6 p.m. that a customer had swiped a toolbox, KGUN reported.

nypost.com

It's like he would like to inflict pain upon the corpse if he could... That and thinking ahead to a review of his bodycam, acting up for the screen by struggling with imaginary resistance from a carrier bag of wet meat, "after I subdued the suspect with necessary force he continued to resist arrest so additional necessary force employed in order to control the suspect with wrist restraints and make the scene safe" type bullshit

 

[a_chap]

Genuinely awful.

Made even more awful by being on Christmas Eve FFS

 

[Sasaferrato]

Genuinely awful.

Made even more awful by being on Christmas Eve FFS

And some lunatics want to arm British police routinely.

 

[planetgeli]

Police officer convicted of assaulting black man and 15-year-old boy

"A police officer has been convicted of assaulting two black males within two days, including kicking a 15-year-old boy when he was on the ground.
PC Declan Jones of West Midlands police denied the assaults but was convicted in a judgment delivered at Birmingham magistrates court on Monday.
The court found that Jones, 30, assaulted one man in Aston, Birmingham on 20 April last year, and the next day kicked and punched a 15-year-old boy in Newtown whom he wrongly suspected of having drugs.
The assaults came amid a police crackdown in the area, and the judge said the officer abused his power and may have been affected by “paranoia”....District judge Shamim Qureshi said the attack on the child came despite his adopting a “surrender pose” after Jones and another officer stopped him, and bent his fingers back.
The judge said: “The next stage of this incident is shown on camera when [the victim] stops and stands with his hands wide open in the surrender pose. PC Jones then punches him to the ground, orders him to roll over on to his stomach and then kicks him, in my view like taking a free kick in football...."

It's not all bad news. Apologies for DM link but it's their 'exclusive'.

Police officer sacked over attacks found dead by parents at his home

EXCLUSIVE: PC Declan Jones was discovered by his horrified mother and father at their home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire yesterday afternoon. His believed to have taken his own life.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

PC Declan Jones of West Midlands Police ...

Police officer convicted of assaulting black man and 15-year-old boy

"A police officer has been convicted of assaulting two black males within two days, including kicking a 15-year-old boy when he was on the ground.
PC Declan Jones of West Midlands police denied the assaults but was convicted in a judgment delivered at Birmingham magistrates court on Monday.
The court found that Jones, 30, assaulted one man in Aston, Birmingham on 20 April last year, and the next day kicked and punched a 15-year-old boy in Newtown whom he wrongly suspected of having drugs.
The assaults came amid a police crackdown in the area, and the judge said the officer abused his power and may have been affected by “paranoia”....District judge Shamim Qureshi said the attack on the child came despite his adopting a “surrender pose” after Jones and another officer stopped him, and bent his fingers back.
The judge said: “The next stage of this incident is shown on camera when [the victim] stops and stands with his hands wide open in the surrender pose. PC Jones then punches him to the ground, orders him to roll over on to his stomach and then kicks him, in my view like taking a free kick in football...."

It's not all bad news. Apologies for DM link but it's their 'exclusive'.

Police officer sacked over attacks found dead by parents at his home

EXCLUSIVE: PC Declan Jones was discovered by his horrified mother and father at their home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire yesterday afternoon. His believed to have taken his own life.

www.dailymail.co.uk

​

 

[a_chap]

It's good that he was sacked but not at all good that he took his own life.

Suicide is a dreadful thing and hurts everyone who knew him. The pain lasts for decades.

My condolences to his parents.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

1312

 

[existentialist]

It's good that he was sacked but not at all good that he took his own life.

Suicide is a dreadful thing and hurts everyone who knew him. The pain lasts for decades.

My condolences to his parents.

This. There may be some element of poetic justice in his decision to end his life, but he will have left deep and lasting scars in others by taking this route, and it's fairly safe to say that his head must have been in a terrible state for suicide to look like a solution.

Regardless of his crimes, I don't think it behoves any of us to be celebrating a suicide.

 

[a_chap]

What an utter piece of shit this "Law Enforcement Officer" is.





I was literally too angry to watch it all the way through

 

[extra dry]

What an utter piece of shit this "Law Enforcement Officer" is.





I was literally too angry to watch it all the way through

Good greif, this is such a long clip. A rotten apple in the barrel. Happy new year

 

[krtek a houby]

ACAB

 

[Pickman's model]

White ex-ballet dancer, 80, is TASERED by police hunting black suspect

Roy Morton, 80, (pictured) from Cricklewood, who suffers from a heart condition, was woken by officers who smashed through his front door, fired the stun gun, pinned him down and handcuffed him.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The police brain cell must have been on leave

 

[teqniq]

No-one comes out of this looking good, not the police, the car-hire company or the gig economy:

Video: San Ramon cops released dog to badly maul Uber driver who’d missed rental payment

In a federal civil rights lawsuit, Ali Badr of Oakland says he was treated as a car thief...

www.sfchronicle.com

 

[HAL9000]

 

[Artaxerxes]

Met police WhatsApp messages are about what you'd expect.

 

[hitmouse]

The 2021 stats apparently show that US cops killed 7 more people last year than they did the year before, up from 1,127 to 1,134:

Mapping Police Violence

Law enforcement agencies across the country are failing to provide us with even basic information about the lives they take. So we collect the data ourselves.

mappingpoliceviolence.org

 

[8ball]

The 2021 stats apparently show that US cops killed 7 more people last year than they did the year before, up from 1,127 to 1,134:

Mapping Police Violence

Law enforcement agencies across the country are failing to provide us with even basic information about the lives they take. So we collect the data ourselves.

mappingpoliceviolence.org

In the scheme of things that’s pretty much a “no change” story.