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As if any threat to police, perceived or real, isn’t already prosecuted well BEYOND the extent of the law and at great cost to the public.

Police already have powerful unions that fight for them no matter the injustice they commit.  They already have politicians, judges, prosecutors, and grand juries backing them with a nearly blind eye.

They already have qualified immunity.

They already face infrequent, inconsistent, and mild penalties for the worst of their crimes.

I don’t think this is what a democracy is supposed to look like.  This is what a police state looks like.

This is blue privilege.

This week’s column at Rare. An excerpt:

Read the rest here.

Donald Trump has signed three executive orders to deal with “public safety”, including handing more authority to the police.

At the formal ceremony to appoint Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, the President outlined the new mandate that Mr Sessions would have, including tackling crime, drug cartels and terrorism.

He insisted that the US faced the “threat of rising crime” and that “things will get better very soon”.

One of the executive orders seeks to “define new federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing federal crimes, in order to prevent violence” against state and federal police.

In 2016, a total of 135 police officers were killed in the US, a five-year high, according to a report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Around half of them – 64 officers – were fatally shot while on the job, including 21 who were killed in an ambush-style attack. The number also includes traffic accidents and job-related health issues, for example, heart attacks while working.

No mention was made by Mr Trump of the hundreds of people who die at the hands of law enforcement every year.

There were 968 deaths last year, according to The Washington Post, and more than 130 people so far in 2017, according to a database called killedbypolice.net

This is the prologue to a fascist police state

This is Chapter 3, at the very least. Chapter 2 was the Obama Administration and the continuation of the Pentagon’s 1033 Program under his administration and the Prologue would be the Clinton Administration when the program was first created under the NDAA 1997.

But yet the people have somehow declared war on the cops? 

Give me a fucking break.  

It’s a war on the people. 

I have been waiting for this study. They killed 1200 in 2015 which is a significant number, but this sheds even more light on the issue. It’s like when you catch a cock roach, then lift up the flooring and find the nest. It’s incredibly clear, based on sheer numbers, where the problem lies. The police are a violent gang, and they’re completely out of control. It’s time to abolish.

They’ve killed another 1100 civilians this year btw

The attack Monday on the Ohio State University campus is just the latest illustration of why local law enforcement authorities need every tool they can muster to stop terrorism and other violence before it starts, according to Boston Police Commissioner William Evans.

Monitoring technology can quickly mine the internet, from chat rooms to social media to blog posts, for certain keywords and phrases. It can track postings in a certain geographic area, send alerts to police about potentially dangerous postings and more. Law-enforcement officials say the technology allows them to more quickly and efficiently spot possible red flags in near real-time.

Officials say the Ohio State suspect may have been inspired by the Islamic State terror group. A Facebook post by the suspect Abdul Razak Ali Artan before the attack suggested he was angry over what he perceived as mistreatment of Muslims, but didn’t express loyalty to a specific group or ideology, according to people familiar with the case.

Sharing Islamic State propaganda by itself isn’t a crime. But if someone is making threatening posts, police might then use informants or other means, including more surveillance or seeking court permission to monitor phones or computers, to gauge how serious the person is. “The more you know about someone, the more you can make informed decisions about how many resources to put into those people,” said Edward Davis, the Boston police commissioner during the 2013 Boston marathon bombings.

It is hard to say whether monitoring would have made a difference in thwarting the Boston bombers, who were allegedly motivated by online anti-U.S. jihadist teachings, because the bombers weren’t very active on social media, said Mr. Davis.

A community and family is mourning the loss of Daniel Kevin Harris, whose life was taken this week by a State Trooper who apparently fears sign language. Harris, who is deaf and mute, was gunned down in front of his house.

“I was here in my driveway and I saw the highway patrol car come through and it was smoking really bad,” said neighbor Mark Barringer. “About 10 seconds later, I heard one gunshot.”

Harris was trying to communicate with the trooper using sign language before he was killed.

Harris died on the scene. He was 28-years-old.

Neighbor Ryan Russell said he’d see the man out in the neighborhood speaking in sign language with his family. “It seemed like a very peaceful family. These things are always heartbreaking.”

In the land of the free, a deaf man suspected of driving too fast can be killed in cold blood. Unfortunately, as we’ve shown time and again, this type of mistreatment and attacks on the deaf by police are all too common.

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#KillerCops #PoliceBrutality 

#StayWoke

OMG 

“It seemed like a very peaceful family. These things are always heartbreaking.”

Is anyone else driven mad by this statement? Police brutality has become so commonplace that it’s brushed off as “these things”. 

These ‘things’ shouldn’t be happening. 

The video shows a female jailer pull Chavez, the tiny female inmate, up from the ground by her hair.

If you treat another human being like this, YOU’RE the fucking criminal.

I don’t know how they could face their friends and neighbors knowing this video is out there.

Any decent human being can not watch that and not have their stomach turn. Still wondering why after 8 months the DA hasn’t charged the people involved with this yet. I’m also surprised this hasn’t been on any national news media yet.

There really needs to be harsher punishments for people that abuse their authority over people in their care.

#PoliceAbuse #LawEnforcement #PoliceBrutality #StayWoke

Mary Knowlton was a librarian from Minnesota.

The Punta Gorda police officer ended up killing her after shooting her several times with live rounds in what the police chief is calling a “horrible accident.”

The incident was witnessed by a photographer from the Charlotte Sun, but the newspaper is only releasing statements from Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis, who refused to release the officer’s name.

He did, however, ask us to pray for Knowlton’s family, the witnesses to her death and the rest of the police officers on the force.

But we need answers instead of prayers.

Specifically, how in the world can an officer “forget” to replace his bullets with blanks for the exercise in which he was playing the “bad guy” and Knowlton was playing the victim?

Why is even a real gun used for this type of exercise?

Why wasn’t the officer following the two most important rules of gun safety, which is to always assume the gun is loaded and to never point a gun at anybody you are not prepared to shoot?

And why haven’t they released his name so we can determine if this officer has a history of recklessness?

And lastly, why aren’t more witnesses providing his name, specifically, the photographer from the Charlotte Sun, who should also be posting his photos?

Or did police seize her camera or worst, did she voluntarily hand her images over to them?

Instead, the Charlotte Sun is telling us that a woman was “reportedly shot several times by a police officer Tuesday night during a Citizens Academy at the Punta Gorda Police Department.”

Chief Lewis said the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates the incident.

And says he will not be answering any questions to not “jeopardize the investigation.”

Photos from a citizen’s academy class were posted on the police department’s Facebook page showing that the citizens are handed fake guns to participate in the exercise, presumably because they do not have the training to handle a real gun.

It was only two months ago that we reported on a Punta Gorda police officer named Lee Coel who allowed his police dog to maul a man for riding a bicycle at night with no lights.

Coel has participated in the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy where he plays the role of the “bad guy.”

Idaho State Police and the Idaho Attorney General’s Office areinvestigating the puzzling shooting of 62-year-old rancher Jack Yantis by Adams County sheriff’s deputies on November 1. The shooting followed a traffic accident in which one of Yantis’ bulls was injured, but it remains unclear exactly how that incident escalated into Yantis’ death.

The Idaho Statesman reports that Yantis—whose ranch is on U.S. Highway 95 about six miles north of Council, a tiny town two hours from Boise—got a call from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office around 6:45 p.m. One of Yantis’ bulls had been hit by a car on the highway. “Its rear leg was shattered by the collision,” the paper says, and it “started charging people at the crash scene.”

Rowdy Paradis, Yantis’ nephew, said that when he arrived at the scene of the accident he found the bull lying in the grass near the driveway of the ranch. Yantis told Paradis to get a rifle so he could put the bull out of its misery, but meanwhile the two deputies at the scene opened fire, wounding the bull but failing to kill it. When Yantis pointed his rifle at the bull’s head to end its suffering, Paradis said, a deputy grabbed him from behind, spun him around, and grabbed the rifle. The rifle may have gone off during the scuffle, and both deputies opened fire, killing Yantis.

Yantis’ wife, Donna, who had a heart attack after witnessing the shooting, confirmed her nephew’s account in a video recorded at the hospital. After the shooting, she said, the deputies “threatened me and my nephew, Rowdy Paradis, threw us on the middle of Highway 95, searched us and handcuffed us, and wouldn’t let us go take care of Jack.” The deputies would not let anyone euthanize the bull either. “The bull ended up lying there for two hours,” Paradis said, “suffocating in his own lung blood because they shot him in the gut.”

It is unclear what provoked the scuffle or the shooting, although it seems reasonable to assume that Jack Yantis was upset about the way the deputies had treated the bull, which he had raised and tamed. “Law enforcement should be trained to de-escalate situations,” Paradis said. “In this case, I stood 10 feet away and watched two deputies escalate the situation and needlessly kill a man.”

The deputies are on paid leave as the investigation of the incident proceeds, and so far they have not publicly told their side of the story. Supporters of the Yantises are raising money for them on GoFundMe and plan a “peaceful protest” this Saturday, the day before Jack Yantis’ memorial service.

Scum bags

Let’s wait for the deputies explanation before casting judgement.

“After conducting our internal investigation, we found that we weren’t at fault.”

Thug life

A pint-sized California cop was so determined to cite a man for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk that she attempted to tackle the man when he refused to provide his identification, telling her he had done nothing illegal.

The man resisted at first, not violently, and then placed his hands behind his back when the Merced police officer ordered him to do so, allowing the officer who was half his size to handcuff him.

That was when a male Merced officer came rushing in, grabbing the man’s neck with his gloved hands, shoving the man against a glass door, then ordering to “turn around” when it was physically impossible for him to turn around.

The male cop continued to escalate the situation even after the man was handcuffed, forcing him down on the ground, then kicking his legs from beneath him.

The incident was being recorded by a witness who was trying to get all parties to deescalate the situation, which, of course, meant he was assaulted and arrested for recording by what appears to be a third cop rushing onto the scene.