More police brutality than you can shake a stick at.

[hitmouse]

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

Pretty much, yes. But it's also a "no change" story coming after a year in which a lot of people said a lot of pious things about addressing police violence.

 

[8ball]

Pretty much, yes. But it's also a "no change" story coming after a year in which a lot of people said a lot of pious things about addressing police violence.

A good point. I’m not too sure how many policy changes have been in effect during that time. Politicians are good at saying fine words and taking a long time to get round to anything.

 

[Artaxerxes]

When they just say it out loud instead of hiding it.

 

[Dogsauce]

They don’t even just do it for the state anymore. Plenty of companies (arms merchants, fracking firms etc.) seem to be able to summon them in an instant to protect their interests and property, when the general public will be lucky to get more than a crime number.

 

[sptme]

When they just say it out loud instead of hiding it.

The former home Secretary has swotted up on Weber

 

[8ball]

They don’t even just do it for the state anymore. Plenty of companies (arms merchants, fracking firms etc.) seem to be able to summon them in an instant to protect their interests and property, when the general public will be lucky to get more than a crime number.

I wonder what the payment arrangements are in some of these cases.

 

[nogojones]

They don’t even just do it for the state anymore. Plenty of companies (arms merchants, fracking firms etc.) seem to be able to summon them in an instant to protect their interests and property, when the general public will be lucky to get more than a crime number.

They've always done this

 

[Ming]

Not so much brutality (or at least no more than usual) but a case of clear racial bias caught on video. If i have to break up a conflict at work we separate the protagonists and work out the minutiae afterwards.

NAACP calls for officers in viral NJ mall fight video to be disciplined

Video of the incident shows the Black teen pinned on the ground with a knee in his back and handcuffed, while the white teen sits on a couch.

abc7ny.com

 

[SpookyFrank]

I wonder what the payment arrangements are in some of these cases.

It comes included with the corporation tax they don't pay.

 

[extra dry]

Stories from a 1970 - 1990 New York Cop - corruption and turning to bribes, drugs and allsorts. Its an hour so I am not sure if anyone has the time or the patients but you could try googoooling the guy.

Mike Dowd​

 

[GarveyLives]

This is 25 year-old Jordan Walker-Brown, who fell from a wall after being hit with a Taser device in Haringey, north London, during an incident on 4 May 2020 when he ran away from the police because he was carrying a small amount of cannabis. As a result, he was left paralysed from the chest down and has been told by doctors he will never walk again. Mr Walker-Brown has told his family that he was handcuffed as he lay on the concrete and that officers were trying to make him stand up as he complained that he couldn't feel his legs or body.

(Source: as stated in image)

(Source: as stated in image)​

A currently anonymous serving Metropolitan Police constable, who was therefore under the ultimate command of Dame Cressida Dick at the time of the incident, will be charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm and will appear appear at Westminster magistrates court on 19 April 2022.

 

[GarveyLives]

The Grand Rapids Police Department, Michigan, USA, have now released footage of a currently unnamed police officer fatally shooting a man in the back of the head during an incident on 4 April 2022 when the police officer decided to stop the car for improper registration.

During the incident the officer accidentally turned off his body camera, according to police.

However, footage filmed from the mobile phone of the deceased man's passenger has also been released, which appears to show the officer shooting the deceased - 26 year-old Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head while he is face down on the ground.

(Source: as stated in image)

(Source: as stated in image)

(Source: as stated in image)

(Source: as stated in image)​

 

[bluescreen]

Washington Post is running a series on 'No Knock' warrants - the sort that ended in the death of Breonna Taylor. It seems that they are being issued unquestioningly, and are a licence for police to just make stuff up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/no-knock-warrants-judges/

Snips:

Criminal justice experts estimate that police carry out tens of thousands of no-knock raids every year nationwide, mostly in drug-related searches. But few agencies monitor their use, making the exact number unknown. None of the 50 state court systems or the District of Columbia reported tracking the use of no-knock warrants. And no federal or state government agencies keep tabs on the number of people killed or wounded in the raids.

Police carrying out 21 no-knock warrants have killed at least 22 people across the country since 2015, according to a review of The Post’s database of fatal shootings by police and hundreds of court records. In one case, an officer was also killed.

Of the 22 people fatally shot during no-knock raids since 2015, 13 were Black or Hispanic. Experts have suggested that high-risk searches disproportionately target Black and Hispanic homes.

In South Carolina, Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty ordered a temporary ban on no-knocks in 2020 after a survey by the state court system revealed that magistrates routinely issued warrants without questioning police, and that most “do not understand the gravity of no-knock warrants and do not discern the heightened requirements for issuing a no-knock warrant.”

But many judges say that in evaluating the requests for search warrants, they rely on the officers’ claims in the affidavits because they are filed under oath

 

[Pickman's model]

Washington Post is running a series on 'No Knock' warrants - the sort that ended in the death of Breonna Taylor. It seems that they are being issued unquestioningly, and are a licence for police to just make stuff up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/no-knock-warrants-judges/

Snips:

To be fair cops make up shit anyway

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

"No knock" warrants and "stand your ground" self defence laws are 100% incompatible. As the laws stand, people in their own home are 100% justified in shooting at unannounced intruders; police are 100% justified in shooting at suspects pulling a gun on them.

Judges need to understand that what they are signing is a death warrant, for an unconvicted suspect on the say so of police officers, and/or for the officers themselves.

 

[8ball]

"No knock" warrants and "stand your ground" self defence laws are 100% incompatible. As the laws stand, people in their own home are 100% justified in shooting at unannounced intruders; police are 100% justified in shooting at suspects pulling a gun on them.

There was that case a while back where the police raided a residence unannounced and I think the resident killed a few coppers (and his girlfriend was wounded by return fire).
The chap involved was exonerated by way of self-defence.

edit: just checked - actually his girlfriend was killed; he killed one copper and wounded another - the police were arresting his father and he was woken by the SWAT team smashing his bedroom window. Seems the police announced themselves at the front door but he maintained he didn't hear anything round the back where his bedroom was. Another normal day in Florida.

 

[teqniq]

Man just flat out executed by cop (saw this the other day and deliberated as to whether to post it or not)

Spoiler: Graphic footage

 

[Pickman's model]

Man just flat out executed by cop (saw this the other day and deliberated as to whether to post it or not)

Spoiler: Graphic footage

Say his name: Patrick Lyoya. But I'm not sure what this adds to what we've had in GarveyLives' post above

 

[nogojones]

The original event is more about abuse of power, along with indecent assault, however Shandele Rileys' death is pretty sus.

Woman suing sheriff’s deputy over ‘forced baptism’ is found dead

The Tennessee bureau of investigation (TBI) said that they will wait for the autopsy report to rule out any foul play in Shandele Marie Riley’s death

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Anyone remember this incident? An elderly lady with dementia was stopped after taking $13 worth of stuff from a Walmart. The cop who arrested her slammed her against the car, while she struggled to understand. Then, he dislocated her shoulder and broke her arm and her wrist. The footage is in the link, if you can stomach it.

Cop who dislocated dementia sufferer's arm jailed five years

Austin Hopp, 26, violently arrested 80-pound grandmother Karen Garner in 2020 after she left a store without paying for about $14 worth of items in Loveland, about 50 miles north of Denver.

www.dailymail.co.uk

While he was convicted of a felony, he still got a slap on the wrist. Its probably a good thing that he pled out because if you had put that footage in front of a jury, it wouldn't have been pretty.

As someone who has a parent who has developed dementia in the last year, I figure he got off lucky. If someone did this to my mother, they'd never find the body.

 

[8ball]

Watched as much as I could stomach. Fucking scum.

 

[GarveyLives]

Remember

13 October 2015: Black people 'three times more likely' to be Tasered

and

5 December 2018: Met police use Tasers and restraints more often against black people

or even?

10 June 2020: Rapper Wretch 32 shares video of police Tasering his father

Well now:



Man paralysed after being shot by police with Taser weapon vows to get justice

Before ...

(Source: Jordan Walker-Brown family)​

After ...

(Source: Jordan Walker-Brown family)​

Jordan Walker-Brown, who before the incident enjoyed playing football and was in good health and active, is now paraplegic. He believes he would not have been stopped had he not been black.

This is 25 year-old Jordan Walker-Brown, who fell from a wall after being hit with a Taser device in Haringey, north London, during an incident on 4 May 2020 when he ran away from the police because he was carrying a small amount of cannabis. As a result, he was left paralysed from the chest down and has been told by doctors he will never walk again. Mr Walker-Brown has told his family that he was handcuffed as he lay on the concrete and that officers were trying to make him stand up as he complained that he couldn't feel his legs or body.

(Source: as stated in image)

(Source: as stated in image)​

A currently anonymous serving Metropolitan Police constable, who was therefore under the ultimate command of Dame Cressida Dick at the time of the incident, will be charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm and will appear appear at Westminster magistrates court on 19 April 2022.

Earlier today, PC Imran Mahmood of Plaistow, east London, a member of the Metropolitan Police Territorial Support Group, whose previous application to keep his identity out of the public domain was refused by the court, appeared at Southwark Crown Court and denied causing grievous bodily harm to Jordan Walker-Brown, who fell from a wall after being hit with a Taser device in Burgoyne Road, Haringey on 4 May 2020, and has been left paralysed from the chest down and told by doctors he will never walk again.

(Source: as stated in image)​

PC Imran Mahmood, who was previously known only as IM or BX140 until a judge refused to grant him anonymity at Westminster Magistrates' Court last month, has been granted unconditional bail ahead of his trial on 20 February 2023.

 

[ska invita]

Next level

Outrage in Brazil as mentally ill Black man dies in police car ‘gas chamber’

Genivaldo de Jesus Santos dies of asphyxiation as video shows officers forcing him into vehicle then releasing gas grenade

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

I’ve seen the No Duty to Protect thing but o hadn’t realised a) just how fucked up it was and b) this fucking horror story of why (it’s appropriately in Castle Rock so)

 

[GarveyLives]

‘We have nothing to hide’: Police Federation calls for footage to be released of Black pensioner hospitalised after arrest

“How can it be right or fair for police officers to be put on trial by social media?’ chairman of Metropolitan Police Federation asks​

It has now been reported that the Metropolitan Police have dropped their criminal investigation into 70-year-old Jamaican pensioner Errol Dixon who weighs around eight stone, is 5ft 6ins tall and who has had multiple strokes, heart problems and is also on blood-thinning tablets. Errol Dixon suffered a broken nose and a fractured eye socket after he stopped by police for a broken brake light. He was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker and later released under investigation.

(Source: as stated in image)​

Following the publicity of 70-year-old Mr Dixon's injuries, Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation claimed that his colleagues were being 'subjected to trial by social media' and described allegations that the Metropolitan Police officers involved had assaulted Mr Dixon as "unsubstantiated and frankly false".

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is continuing to investigate the "unsubstantiated and frankly false" allegations against the police officers involved in inflicting the injuries to Mr Dixon.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

They shot a man more than 60 times while running away:

A Black man was unarmed when Akron police chased him on foot and killed him in a hail of bullets, but officers believed he had shot at them earlier from a vehicle and feared he was preparing to fire again, authorities said.

It was not yet clear how many shots were fired by the eight officers who were involved in the shooting, but Walker sustained more than 60 wounds. An attorney for Walker's family said Walker was on the ground while officers continued to fire.

Demonstrators marched through the city and gathered in front of the Akron justice centre after the video was released. NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement that Walker's death "was murder. Point blank.”

Officers attempted to stop Walker's car early Monday for unspecified traffic and equipment violations, but less than a minute into a pursuit the sound of a shot was heard from the car and a transportation department camera captured what appeared to be a muzzle flash coming from the vehicle, Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett said. That changed the nature of the case from “a routine traffic stop to now a public safety issue," he said.

A few minutes later the car slowed and Walker emerged from the still-moving vehicle wearing a ski mask and fled on foot, police said. A handgun, a loaded magazine, and a wedding ring were found on the seat and a casing consistent with the weapon was later found at the point where officers believed a shot came from the vehicle.

After an unsuccessful attempt to use stun devices, the foot chase continued to a parking lot, at which point a crescendo of bullets can be heard. Mylett said he has watched the video dozens of times and Walker's actions are hard to distinguish, but a still photo seems to show him “going down to his waist area" and another appears to show him turning toward an officer. He said a third picture “captures a forward motion of his arm."

“Each officer independent of each other related that they felt that Mr. Walker had turned and was motioning and moving into a firing position," he said.

Mylett said an officer firing at someone has to be “ready to explain why they did what they did, they need to be able to articulate what specific threats they were facing ... And they need to be held to account.”

But he said he is withholding judgment on their actions until they give their statements, and he said the union president has told him that all are “fully cooperating” with the investigation.

Police said more than 60 wounds were found on Walker's body but further investigation will be needed to determine exactly how many rounds the eight officers fired and how many times Walker was hit. Officers provided aid, and one can be heard saying he still had a pulse, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, Mylett said.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost vowed a “complete, fair and expert investigation" and cautioned that “body-worn camera footage is just one view of the whole picture."

The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard practice in such cases.

Walker's family is calling for accountability but also for peace, their lawyers said after the city released video of the shooting. One of the attorneys, Bobby DiCello, said police handcuffed Walker before trying to provide first aid.

“How it got to this with a pursuit is beyond me,” DiCello said, adding that Walker's family doesn't know why he fled from police. Walker was grieving the recent death of his fiancee, but his family had no indication of concern beyond that, DiCello said.

“He wasn't a criminal,” DiCello said. “He obviously was in pain. He didn't deserve to die.”

DiCello called the burst of police gunfire excessive and unreasonable. “I hope we remember that as Jayland ran across that parking lot, he was unarmed,” DiCello said. He said he doesn't know whether the ring found near the gun belonged to Walker.

MSN

 

[bellaozzydog]

They shot a man more than 60 times while running away:

MSN

To be very matter of fact about this. For someone to have sustained 60 wounds means many more shots were taken at them

America is fucked

 

[8ball]

More than 60 wounds =/= more than 60
shots, as the text implies. Not necessarily, anyway, once you factor exit wounds and fragmentation.

Still going to be a lot, though. Eight guys shooting rapidly until it’s unambiguous that someone is no longer a threat (and from other body cam vidsI’ve seen, it often looks to me like a couple more for luck)…

I just watched the actual video, which is indistinct as hell. Massive cacophony of all these guns being fired. One officer’s video seems to have one cop yelling “cease fire” well before the shooting ends, but you can’t hear that over the shooting on the other bodycam vids.

Certainly a lot of shots fired.

 

[bellaozzydog]

More than 60 wounds =/= more than 60
shots, as the text implies. Not necessarily, anyway, once you factor exit wounds and fragmentation.

Still going to be a lot, though. Eight guys shooting rapidly until it’s unambiguous that someone is no longer a threat (and from other body cam vidsI’ve seen, it often looks to me like a couple more for luck)…

I just watched the actual video, which is indistinct as hell. Massive cacophony of all these guns being fired. One officer’s video seems to have one cop yelling “cease fire” well before the shooting ends, but you can’t hear that over the shooting on the other bodycam vids.

Certainly a lot of shots fired.

There is the aim of neutralising a target then there is American police drills….

 

[Yossarian]

"According to our first-of-its-kind review of Vallejo’s investigations of police killings, six of the department’s 17 fatal shootings between 2011 and 2020 involved an officer using deadly force while still under investigation for a prior killing."

The City Where Investigations of Police Take So Long, Officers Kill Again Before Reviews Are Done

A California city’s flawed handling of fatal police shootings allowed six officers to use deadly force again before their first cases were decided. Experts say the department’s system "isn’t even basement standard practice” and needs oversight.

www.propublica.org