More police brutality than you can shake a stick at.

[Orang Utan]

i salute your indefatigability. so you haven't found an occasion when the tennessee ang have been brought to bear against protesters / rioters etc?

I haven’t felt obliged to do so. I wasn’t talking about something as specific as you are pretending I am.

 

[Pickman's model]

I haven’t felt obliged to do so. I wasn’t talking about something as specific as you are pretending I am.

being as this thread is about your actual police brutality as per thread title and not air national guardsmen claiming they would in the future be willing to be brutal i am still not clear why you've presented it here. but i'm sure you felt your reasons were sound.

 

[Orang Utan]

being as this thread is about your actual police brutality as per thread title and not air national guardsmen claiming they would in the future be willing to be brutal i am still not clear why you've presented it here. but i'm sure you felt your reasons were sound.

I have already explained my position and I didn’t do it to satisfy your high expectations. I’d apologise for not being clear enough, but I won’t cos it doesn’t matter to me how things look from your overly rigorous perspective

 

[teqniq]

Just another day for racist cops in the US:

 

[hitmouse]

Brief obituary for the person killed:

JUSTICE FOR TORT

submitted to Atlanta Community Press Collective for publication We are devastated by the loss of our friend who was killed by the police. Tortuguita was a kind, passionate, and loving person, cherished by their community They spent their time between Atlanta, defending the forest from...

atlantapresscollective.com

Statement of solidarity with the movement to defend the forest:

In solidarity with the movement to Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest

We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.

defendtheatlantaforest.org

And then there's this:

7 charged with domestic terrorism after Atlanta police training site shootout, person killed identified

Updated at 9:02 p.m. Investigators on Thursday released the identity of the person who was shot and killed by law enforcement officers who were trying to clear protesters camping at […]

www.wabe.org

Isn't it just a remarkably unfortunate coincidence that, during this major police operation, all the body camera footage, that would definitely have proved the police were telling the truth and not lying, just happened to go missing? What are the chances of that, eh?
Decent article on the killing from Rolling Stone here:

Cops Say Slain Atlanta Forest Protester Shot First. Activists Aren't So Sure

Activists are questioning law enforcement's account of the death of a protester at the site of the proposed 'Cop City' training facility in Atlanta.

www.rollingstone.com

Three months after the police killing of Manuel Paez Teran/Tortuguita, the autopsy has finally been released:

Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol Are Guilty of Murder

We use the Dekalb County autopsy to debunk the police narrative about the murder of Tortuguita and explore what police stand to gain from lying to us.

crimethinc.com

On April 19, fully three months after the police murdered Manuel Paez Teran—known in Weelaunee forest as Tortuguita—the Dekalb County Medical Examiner finally released the results of the autopsy conducted at 8 am on the morning of January 19. At last, it is plain for all to see how little evidence there is that Tortuguita shot at the officers, despite the allegations of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

According to the Dekalb County autopsy,

The fingernails are closely trimmed and intact. Gunpowder residue is not seen on the hands. A GSR kit [gunshot residue kit] is performed.

Gunshot residue tests are held to be reliable indicators of whether a person has fired a gun, scientifically and legally speaking. Gunshot residue can wear off over a period of four to six hours, but as mentioned in the autopsy, Tortuguita’s hands were bagged shortly after the murder, in order that if there was any gunshot residue on their hands, it would be preserved. According to the “Investigator Narrative” included in the autopsy, the official who prepared that narrative reported to the scene of the murder within two and a half hours and “covered the hands with white handbags to preserve any trace evidence.”

We can be sure that Atlanta authorities missed no opportunity to secure and publicize any evidence that could corroborate their narrative that Tortuguita shot first. Instead, because the autopsy showed that Tortuguita did not fire a gun at all, the results of the Dekalb County autopsy were suppressed for months.

Is it possible that Tortuguita somehow fired a gun while wearing gloves, or fired a gun and then cleaned their hands? According to the Dekalb County autopsy, Tortuguita experienced at least 57 gunshot wounds; this video shows that all of the gunfire occurred in less than eleven seconds.1 That means that Tortuguita died within a few seconds of the first shot, whoever fired it. In the instants between the first couple shots and their death, there was no time for Tortuguita to remove and conceal gloves, nor to clean gunshot residue off their hands.

To all that evidence, we must add the findings of the second autopsy, the one that Tortuguita’s family commissioned, which found that Tortuguita was “likely sitting cross-legged with their hands up” when they were killed. This is consistent with the gunshot wounds described in the autopsy conducted by the Dekalb County Medical Examiner:

• Right Forearm and Hand—fractures of the index finger and thumb metacarpal. […]

• Left Forearm and Hand—fracture of the middle finger proximal phalange.

As can be seen in the diagram included in the Dekalb County autopsy, bullets struck Tortuguita in both their left hand and their right hand. If they had been holding a gun in either of those hands, the gun would have been struck by a bullet, leaving evidence that Tortuguita had been holding the gun when police opened fire. Atlanta authorities would have eagerly released that evidence in order to corroborate their narrative.

They have done no such thing.

 

[mwgdrwg]

 

[teqniq]

What the fuck?

 

[Numbers]

That's fucking mad.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

What the fuck?

don't think I had quite worked out what trigger happy meant before seeing that video

 

[DaveCinzano]

How the Blue Wall works

 

[GarveyLives]

The man described as "the supreme scholar of critical care medicine and editor or author of seven extraordinary textbooks on the subject" describes how it was done:

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Derek Chauvin, the police officer who the entire world saw murdering George Floyd, has now launched an appeal against his conviction, claiming that his trial was not fair:

Chauvin appeals conviction in George Floyd's murder to Minnesota's Supreme Court

 

[GarveyLives]

New South Wales Police in Australia Police appear to have adopted the policy of Britain's Sussex Police when dealing with dementia-suffering nonagenarians care home residents in their 90s:

Woman, 95, fighting for life after being tasered TWICE by police in care home

 

[bluescreen]

New South Wales Police in Australia Police appear to have adopted the policy of Britain's Sussex Police when dealing with dementia-suffering nonagenarians care home residents in their 90s:

Woman, 95, fighting for life after being tasered TWICE by police in care home

She was approaching on her walking frame -- bbbbut she was carrying a steak knife!!

Add 'gerontophobia' to the list.

 

[GarveyLives]

New South Wales Police in Australia Police appear to have adopted the policy of Britain's Sussex Police when dealing with dementia-suffering nonagenarians care home residents in their 90s:

Woman, 95, fighting for life after being tasered TWICE by police in care home

See:

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[Numbers]

Sadly she’s died.

 

[JoeyBoy]

I've been tasered it's not an experience I would recommend to anyone even if the alcohol did numb the pain a bit but that's fucking stupid what sort of bloke can't just take the knife off her.
Give me that darling before you hurt yourself.

 

[girasol]

The two teenage boys who were on an electric bike in Wales were constantly in fear of the police. Now they are dead and the police tried to deny they were chasing them. Honestly. Do fuck off. Sorry about DM link, but it has the video of the police van chasing them and plus lots of other information...

Uncle of one of the teens killed in Cardiff e-bike smash speaks out

Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, were killed on a street on the Ely housing estate on Monday evening just minutes after they were pursued by a police van.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

The disturbing case of the Late Keith Murriel in in Jackson, Mississippi, USA:

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[extra dry]

The story is quite an eye opener, what cops can and will do. About an hour long though, I know some of us are are crazy buzzy ATM.

 

[hitmouse]

Learned a new, if somewhat grim, joke courtesy of one of the people speaking out against Cop City at Atlanta City Council: What's the difference between a cop and a bullet? When a bullet kills someone, you know it's been fired.

 

[teqniq]

Not to cast aspersions solely on his appearance...but unfortunately he looks like a right piece of work:



I had to look up what an Alford plea is:

Alford plea - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

but 8 years home detention wtf was the judge thinking of?

 

[Orang Utan]

If ‘a right piece of work’ means ‘a thumb’, then I agree with you

 

[Ming]

Not brutality but they sure picked the wrong person to pull over.

 

[Dogsauce]

The DOJ investigated racism in the Minneapolis Police Dept for two years and have produced a report. The below Twitter thread extracts a lot of the detail. Some pretty shocking stuff.

 

[Pickman's model]

Not brutality but they sure picked the wrong person to pull over.

i don't think it would have ended so happily if it had been someone else.

 

[sim667]

I've been tasered it's not an experience I would recommend to anyone even if the alcohol did numb the pain a bit but that's fucking stupid what sort of bloke can't just take the knife off her.
Give me that darling before you hurt yourself.

To be fair I have been to a job where someone with worsening dementia was swinging an axe at us. We managed to convince them they were muddled and put the axe down, so I think tasering is quite extreme, but often "give me the knife before you hurt yourself" won't help with a terrified person with dementia.

That sad the press conference the police gave made it sound like it was a completely unnecessary use of force against that poor lady.

 

[teqniq]

This is rather interesting. Not a report of gratuitous violence this time, quite the opposite in fact:

Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped.

 

[GarveyLives]

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.

The UK's high court has overturned a decision by the police watchdog that an officer who punched an elderly black man in the face had no case to answer.

(Source: as stated in images)​

"Errol Dixon, 71, sustained a broken nose, displaced septum and fractured a cheekbone and an eye socket in the incident in south-east London in September 2021. He was stopped in his car by police officers in Bromley and the primary officer held Dixon round the neck and punched him in the face ..."

Elderly black man who was punched by Metropolitan Police officer wins judicial review

 

[GarveyLives]

The UK's high court has overturned a decision by the police watchdog that an officer who punched an elderly black man in the face had no case to answer.

(Source: as stated in images)​

Elderly black man who was punched by Metropolitan Police officer wins judicial review

While the Independent Office for Police Conduct reconsiders PC Read's claim that he was acting in “self-defence” when he held pensioner Errol Dixon round the neck and punched him in the face causing him to suffer a broken nose, fractured cheekbone and eye socket and a displaced septum ...

Errol Dixon: Pensioner punched by police now battling cancer as he seeks justice

(Source: as stated in image)

"Our officers understand their actions will be scrutinised and use of force must be proportionate and reasonable.

"We recognise the impact that incidents like this have on community confidence, which is why independent scrutiny, to establish what happened and to identify any opportunity to do things differently, is so important."

 

[Artaxerxes]

Oh the candy man can’t