Forum Post: Police State Beatings & Murder
Posted 9 years ago on April 3, 2015, 12:54 p.m. EST by Nevada1
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2 Hero EMTs Take On 4 Cops To Stop Abusehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPWp08lzGk
Now, ''A tale of two killings: what happened when Idaho police shot a dog and a pregnant woman in one day'' - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/03/idaho-police-shootings-jeanetta-riley-justice-for-arfee -I defy anyone to read that without feeling that there is something very wrong with US mental heath provision, easy-gun-pulling militarized cops (ex-military?) and what it says when we value animals above humans? Good video and 'Anonymous' is featured in the article too! RIP Jeanetta Riley, oh and (B)Arfee too! Have they got their ''Own Private Idaho'' up there or something? But your video, suggests otherwise!
Capitalism has created such competition amongst us that we fear one another and it is easier to love our dogs rather than our fellow humans. It is truly sad. I feel for the dog, but I feel much more for Jeanetta Riley.
And, the conquering, colonising and movement of native peoples onto small swaths of their native lands has obviously left a legacy that is not very healthy for them. This is true the world round. It's all shameful, really.
Wait for the blind defence of Police to start from racist s-o-b's on Twitter, after the USA's latest... sick murder! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21T2F5WFPAw and - Black Lives Matter!
RIP Walter Scott :-( Your Murder By Police comes after Anthony Ray Hinton's Miscarriage Of Justice and so please also consider... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32200813
"If there wasn't a video, would we know the truth?" asked Anthony Scott, brother of Walter Scott [RIP] and by the way... The Original Police Story, given to the media, Was A Total Fkn Lie!
And, Eric Harris, RIP:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/238566-video-shows-eric-harris-shooting-in-okla
And, Mario Valencia, alive, but hit purposefully by a cop car:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/us/arizona-police-run-over-suspect/#
Silly me, I always thought people were innocent until proven guilty and that they had a right to a fair trial. Kind of like the United States' drone attacks abroad where we just kill people, even innocent children, just because we say we are afraid.
This whole business of justifying the elimination of fairness and justice through the ruse of FEAR must end now.
As if a dying man's last word's of ''I'm losing my breath'' after being shot at near point blank range - were not bad enough, the very last words that Cop-Murdered, Eric Harris heard as his life ebbed away, with a cop's knee pressing on his head and neck, were - ''F*ck Your breath''! Unbelievable... without that video!
Furthermore, Eric Harris was killed ''in error'' by a 73 year old, insurance brokerage owner, who was a donor to Sheriff's Dept., before becoming a ''Volunteer Reservist'' - in other words.. by a 'Pay-To-Play-Part-timer'! How long and where else in the US - has this been going on and just wtf is that all about?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/tulsa-shooting-robert-bates-volunteer-deputy/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/17/oakley-michigan-pay-to-play-police
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/tulsa-police-shooting-eric-harris-district-attorney-weighs-charges
Running over people; shooting them in the back; beating while already apprehended; fabricating details, evidence and reports; the racism + homicidal attitude to some categories of suspects: it all has to stop!
And now, Freddie Gray, RIP, the man whose neck was broken while in police custody and who died 7 days later.
The anger at the protests in Baltimore tonight is palpable through my t.v. set. I wish I had an answer on how to end all of this, but I think it's a complete ethos change that America needs toward one of less materialism and competition and fear and towards more spirituality, acceptance and love.
Sadly Freddie Gray (RIP) wasn't the only PD-Paralyzed person, as this video shows -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SSGa7-6BQ and also read this follow up item...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-jeff-hood/the-lynching-of-sureshbha_b_6675652.html
I think that it's now very probable - that too many cops are ex-military or have been over-militarized and especially see people of colour as somehow the ''enemy''. I wonder how many US cops are themselves possible military PTSD victims and IF they could talk about it truthfully. The mind boggles to be honest.
"The assault of Sureshbhai Patel occurred on February 6, 2015. Patel, a 57-year-old Indian national who was visiting his son in Madison, Alabama, U.S., was seriously injured after being detained by multiple police officers in a residential neighborhood. Patel had police called on him for alleged suspicious behavior in the neighborhood and did not know how to speak English. There is video footage of the officer slamming Patel to the ground. He had to be hospitalized and is partially paralyzed as a result of the injuries. The incident led to many accusations by citizens of police brutality and prompted a response from the Indian government. The incident was recorded on film by two police car dashboard cameras."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sureshbhai_Patel
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sureshbhai+Patel&biw=1366&bih=610&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eX45VeqgFcTWsAXu7YGIAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg
I remember this case. Disgusting. How absolutely embarrassing for America. And, how friggin' ignorant are we as a people 1. for having such idiotic, intolerant, uneducated, insular people for cops and 2. for allowing this kind of thing to keep happening over and over and over.
''Ex-cop who paralyzed Indian grandfather pleads not guilty'' ... http://rt.com/usa/252125-cop-indian-paralyze-trial/ and for how it was reported in India - http://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/ex-officer-pleads-not-guilty-in-confrontation-with-sureshbhai-patel/article_f6b86b26-e93a-11e4-8d4a-4b399c78fda0.html - So the question arises how and when did the psycho-cop, become ''ex-cop''?!
Right, they don't mention how he became an EX-cop, but let's be glad he did, at a minimum.
This shines a light also on how America treats human beings as a whole. No health insurance because here in America treatment of health is not a service, like it is in the UK, it's an insured thing here. You have to have "insurance" and you better have money to pay for it because most jobs don't offer it anymore and Obamacare is not cheap!
Of course Mr. Patel did not have "insurance." He was a freaking visitor! Thank god for good and generous people who crowd funded his care. But, why is it that we don't care for the health of our citizens or visitors? Aren't the nations' citizens it's very greatest asset? Don't we want people to come and visit?
I often wonder what is so great about this country where we beat people to a pulp for not speaking English and for walking down the street in an "affluent" neighborhood (probably a lot of rich wannabees, conservative types live there). OMG, a man who doesn't look like me is walking down the street! Quick, call the cops! Ignorant idiots!!!
How do we look the world in the face with this kind of behavior. We point the finger in accusation of human rights at other nations all the time, yet here we are, creating absolute shame for ourselves.
''Rising Police Aggression A Telling Indicator Of Our Societal Decline - A historially common marker of failing civilizations'' By Chris Martenson -(in compliment of your sincere and heartfelt comment above)..
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/92427/rising-police-aggression-telling-indicator-our-societal-decline
is police aggression rising ?
Police violence has always been a fact of life in African-American and Native American communities but your question has real value and certainly the opportunity to F, F, Film The Police has hugely increased! PD violence is a HUGE issue really and please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SSGa7-6BQ
Orioles' John Angelos on how the system is failing Baltimore I saw this a little while ago on PBS, and was very impressed. We need politicians like him.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/orioles-john-angelos-system-failing-baltimore/
Edit; Here he has more to say through a series of tweets.
http://nesn.com/2015/04/orioles-vp-john-angelos-responds-to-baltimore-protests-in- passionate-tweets/
So "What is AntiFa? A look at the movement Trump is blaming for violence at protests" by Eric Tucker of 'Associated Press':
While I do not strictly agree with everything in this article, nevertheless it has many important insights.
omnia causa fiunt ...
''Black Man vs. White Man Carrying AR-15 Legally''
Video - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41889.htm
What happens when a white guy walks down the street with a AR-15 versus what also happens when a black guy walks down the street with same gun and same laws. Thanks for your interesting links. I am not sure how long we'll all be able to share such information on this forum but we persevere for The 99% as best we can in the face of The Totalitarian Tinpot Tyranny, that is now prevailing here at the moment.
"Atlanta was a Constitution-Free Zone during 'Stop Cop City' Week of Action" Candice Bernd:
"Pressure mounting against the planned police training center after a week of unprecedented police repression."
fiat lux et fiat justitia!
"The day Philadelphia bombed its own people"! by Lindsey Norward:
"An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever.
"As the smoke rose from 6221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia residents watched through their windows & television screens in a state of stunned disbelief. Their city had just bombed its own people.
"On the evening of May 13 - 1985, longstanding tensions between MOVE, a black liberation group, and the Philadelphia PD erupted horrifically. That night .. the City of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, laced with Tovex/C-4 explosives on the 'MOVE' organization, who were living in a West Philadelphia rowhome known to be occupied by men, women, and children. It went up in unextinguished flames. Eleven people were killed .. including five children and the founder of the organization. Sixty-one homes were destroyed, and more than 250 citizens were left homeless." &...
fiat lux et fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
Consider, "Kyle Rittenhouse Has Gotten Away With Murder - As Predicted"! ... by Elie Mystal:
"Rittenhouse’s acquittal is not a 'miscarriage' of justice, as some might claim. It is our white justice system working as intended."
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
"In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests"! ... by Kim Barker, Mike Baker and Ali Watkins:
"Inquiries into law enforcement’s handling of the George Floyd protests last summer found insufficient training and militarized responses — a widespread failure in policing nationwide." A revealing read tbh.
pro bono publico?
"Black Civil Rights Leaders Fear Barrett - “Invites a Return to a Racist Past”!" ... by Mike Ludwig:
"Leaders of Five Prominent Organizations agreed that Amy Coney Barrett .. was alarmingly evasive on questions about racism"!
uh-oh!
"Breonna Taylor Killing - Only One Police Officer Facing Criminal Charges"!!! ... by Chris Walker:
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
So, "white supremacists in law enforcement ... must be treated as a matter of urgent concern. As Professor Johnson has argued, The Criminal Justice System .. “can never achieve its purported goal of fairness while white supremacists continue to hide within police departments”!" - from ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/ by Alice Speri
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf (by FBI)
omg!
"How Police Became Paramilitaries" ... by Michael Shank:
"Military might has always paraded in America’s streets. But it wasn’t until this century that it became an often daily presence. In the 2000s, local law enforcement agencies began to adopt the type of military equipment more frequently used in a war zone: everything from armored personnel carriers and tanks, with 360-degree rotating machine gun turrets, to grenade launchers, drones, assault weapons, and more. Today, billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment—most used, some new—has been transferred to civilian police departments. As the ACLU has documented, this has led to the militarization of American policing.
"It is now commonplace to see a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle, or MRAP, respond to the protests in Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. MRAPs resemble Humvees but are even larger, more heavily armored—and more intimidating. Many police forces acquired them free-of-charge from the Pentagon as part of a program established by the National Defense Authorization Act under President Clinton that transfers surplus equipment—or “excess property,” as it’s called—from combat deployments to police departments across the US.
"This Defense Department initiative, known as the 1033 program, requires that law enforcement agencies make use of such equipment within a year of acquisition, effectively mandating that police put it into practice in the public space. The Department of Homeland Security also has a terrorism grant program that has given tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to local police forces to purchase military equipment directly."
e tenebris, lux?
RIP Rayshard Brooks:
fiat justitia ...
WARNING: Cold Blooded Murder! Shocking - And No Word of a Lie!
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-government/new-mexico-cops-shoot-and-kill-mentally-ill-homeless-man-e7k2jbbKbUCO3u3KGub5Pg this article linked to..
via: https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1272309929060245511
From ... https://twitter.com/Syricide/status/1272281000983347200
The poor mental health provision in US is a road to prison or even worse!
The pre-meditated nature of the extreme cop violence is just unbelievable.
fiat justitia ruat caelum! ...
Replying here.The two tier justice system extends a lot further than race. As we both know the criminal elite have kept their jobs after having caused a huge amount of suffering to people all over the World, and they often get bonuses too. This is happening, simultaneously while we sentence people, young people in particular... to spend years in prison for a crime, that caused far less hurt, often none besides themselves hence no other victim.
Especially considering the fact that John Angelos is a 1 per center, it makes his thoughtful statement on the unrest in Baltimore that much more poignant. On another note, I remember living (3 months) in Baltimore years ago. You could always tell when McCormick ran cinnamon. For blocks you could smell that neat spice. And in contrast... on the other side of Baltimore from the up rising... going to an Oriole game at the old ball park (before Camden Yards) which I thought was beautiful park. And the elegant colonial homes nearby with well manicured lawns and forsithia bushes in bloom all over the place. Luckily there was one place, near the Peabody Conservatory of Music (part of John Hopkins) that served people beer if you were close to 21! I was close enough for them! That's where National Bohemian (Natty Bo) was thrust upon me. I was a willing participant though. ;)
I guess my point is the contrasts in that city are stark and that difference can be seen in New York state too, and in particular the Hudson River Valley, which Angelos mentions. Many of those towns were once thriving communities. Now the feeling of desperation is palpable... businesses boarded up, homes run down as the oligarchs have sent the good jobs overseas, always chasing the lowest cost of production, and people be damned.
''US 'Original Sin' and the 2016 Presidential Election'': http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30819-us-original-sin-and-the-2016-presidential-election - in compliment of your ''Natty Bo'' reminisces ;-) + see http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30843-baltimore-prosecutor-mosby-i-m-just-doing-my-job - (Video) Thanks for a thoughtful and interesting comment that reaffirms my faith in this STILL EXTANT forum!
The Pro-Zionist Apartheid, Antidefamation League, ADL - considered scrapping its US Police Training Trips to Israel! Decided not to!! So wTf is the ADL doing with American Police training to begin with?!!!
"After defending the programs at the height of 2020 anti-brutality protests - the anti-racism organization is now admitting that an internal memo questioned their ethicality"!!
e tenebris lux?!
"“Defund Police” Doesn’t Mean Hire Private Guns — But Cities Are Doing Just That" - by Candice Bernd:
"Cities are increasingly relying on Private Security amid national uprisings over racist police-perpetrated violence."
CAVEAT!
RIP Elijah McClain. Désolé :-(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53182122
https://www.nytimes.com/article/who-was-elijah-mcclain.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/elijah-mcclain-colorado-police
https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/the-killing-of-elijah-mcclain-everything-we-know.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/elijah-mcclain-aurora-colorado-tributes-police-killing
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
"Leaked Police Bodycam Footage shows moment-by-moment arrest of George Floyd for the first time", by Martin Gould:
Note :"The terror on his face when officer points gun at his head, sobbing before he's shoved into squad car and begging to breathe as his life drains away. WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT!"
fiat lux ...
R.I.P and justice, George Floyd.
October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020
Please consider: "The Double Terror of Being Black in America"! .. by Professor Ibram X. Kendi:
Note: "Structural racism killed Black people in east Buffalo, and then a gunman killed the survivors"!
Also: "The most diabolical of all racist ideas operating today—the theory reaching the very depths of denialism, the theory that replaces reality perhaps more than any other—is the “Great Replacement” theory, or GRT, a white-supremacist conspiracy theory cited in a screed linked to the Buffalo shooter.
"But the versions of GRT have also been spread by Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, and many other powerful political and media figures in the United States today.
"GRT denies the greatest white privilege: life itself. It denies the greatest Black deprivation: life itself."
And: "Imagine how much a white supremacist has to replace reality in order to believe that white people—who remain on the higher end of nearly every racial disparity—are being killed off, that they are being replaced, that they are being harmed, and that to protect themselves, they need to attack the very Black people who are actually on the lower end of nearly every racial disparity. The Great Replacement theory wholly replaces reality, presenting the dying as the living, and the living as the dying."
fiat justitia ...
"Nothing Has Changed Since George Floyd Died, US Cops Still Kill Someone Every 8 Hours"! by Matt Agorist:
From which, this ---- "It has been nearly two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. At the time, Floyd’s death would set off massive protests across the country as politicians and political pundits played lip service to Black Lives Matter and others .. as they offered up their hollow support. Illustrating the extremely hollow nature of their “support” is the fact that despite all the appeals to their emotion,the toothless “reform” bills, and incessant gaslighting — absolutely nothing has changed.
"As the fourth month of 2022 begins, American cops are keeping to their deadly numbers like clockwork. One quarter of the year is over and cops have killed more than 250 people - right on track with previous years. This number is now set to increase by one, on average, every 8 hours, every single day, of every single week, of every single month, of every single year."
fiat lux et fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
Re. "Police “Execution” of Andrew Brown":
deja vu?
"Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all counts: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder & second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd." From this tweet by 'Star Tribune':
https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1384615785813839889 + see thread, from which NB
https://www.startribune.com/derek-chauvin-convicted-of-murder-manslaughter-in-death-of-george-floyd/600047825/ by Minneapolis' local newspaper's own reporters RiP Mr.Chauvin
fiat justitia ruat caelum!
"Calling Chauvin a “Bad Apple” .. Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence"! by Marjorie Cohn:
https://truthout.org/articles/calling-chauvin-a-bad-apple-denies-systemic-nature-of-racist-police-violence/
also: https://truthout.org/articles/fred-hampton-was-right-we-must-fight-racism-with-cross-racial-solidarity/ by Lauren Araiza
1st link ends with .... "As Chauvin’s trial continues, we must remember that this is not simply the story of one “rogue cop.” It is a window into the anti-Black violence perpetrated routinely by police in this country, as part of a brutal and racist system." Ergo see 2nd link for longer term solutions to the USA's problems.
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
"Minneapolis promised change after George Floyd .. instead it geared up for war"! by Akin Olla:
alea iacta est?
"Protests Erupt After Wisconsin Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man 7 Times" by Chris Walker:
respice; adspice; prospice ... et fiat justitia!
Here's a suggestion to the Blacks who have an anger-management issue. The Irish had quite a lousy reputation before ( people from Ire-land were full of Ire ! right ? ) but that has been greatly improved over the years. They stopped protecting criminals and cooperated with the police in catching them.
If only the Afghanis were more culturally literate and had turned over or cooperated with the U.S. in catching bin Laden, decades of war and destruction to Afghanistan would have been avoided altogether. Was Islamic custom triumphant in protecting bin Laden from being caught and put on trial in the U.S. ? Was it worthwhile to fight twenty years ?
Many people in the U.S. police forces are now of Irish ethnicity. I consider that as a rehabilitation of Irish reputation. My decades of experience living in the U.S. since the 1970s showed that many young Black males had an anger-management issue going. They preyed a lot upon Asians. My parental family's record in the Greater New York City area was at least 90 to 95% of the perpetrators of robberies, assault-and-battery, larcenies, grand larcenies, threat-to-cause-bodily-harm, damaging properties, etc. were undoubtedly Blacks, with the remainder perhaps being Latinx ( a bit lighter-skinned so maybe not "entirely Black." U.S. Blacks are about 25% genetically White so Africans often find it strange that U.S. Blacks aren't black.) Blacks got uppity and attacked Asians when they gained political power ( N.Y.C. Mayor Dinkins' [Black ! surprised ?] administration had the worst crime record in my parental family's memories; my Mom lost most of her teeth after she was pushed/thrown down a flight of concrete stairs in the subway by three Black males; as for me being robbed, it was also three Black males who did it. One, Two, Three ) in the U.S. I'm not really surprised that security matters didn't change much at all because we have got Black Power.
I disliked hearing the N-word amongst some Whites' talks once I had realized what it was intended to mean. I understand that it's "just an expressive way to enable instantaneous recognition and understanding of the mood of the communication between peer Whites" but why not be safer in wording to avoid being cancelled because some others who have anger-management issue may take offense ? The N-word's being uttered could also be interpreted to mean that the Whites didn't feel alarmed by my "Colored People's" presence. I was innocuous. I generally brushed it right off if an elderly person said "Colored" because I knew that it was common in the olden days' vernacular. ( e.g. N.A.A.C.P. has "C.P." meaning "Colored Peoples" so contraction is a way to hide anachronism; similarly, the company my paternal Grandpa was directing its logistics in Ningpo/Ningbo such as verifying bacalao { a probable Portuguese invention; another one, egg tart, is my favorite } export shipments to Hong Kong and northern/southwestern Europe, is now known as P&O with the "O" meaning "Orient" which is Eurocentric so using "Orient" fell into disfavor; the "P" stands for the [Iberian] Peninsula; keeping the full name would certainly invoke the imperialistic global feeling of the British Empire and it's such a well-known company already that P&O suffices ) Some people changed with the main stream but other people didn't so why should I be bothered by it ? Maybe my attitude arose from my complicated linguistic background: different individuals including my immediate family members called the same thing by different names and it was the everyday norm to me. What's the big deal about someone using yet another name if the intention behind it wasn't to aggravate or irritate ? Of course, if the relationship involves close cooperation, we'd better come up with mutually comprehensible names for the things. "Look ! Spender," said the kid to the babysitter with an accent. They called a spider a spender but only between them so it's just another "dialect."
My Big Brother, for example, had told me when I first arrived in Manhattan that being called "Ching" was offensive to people of Chinese descent because it's meant to be derogatory. Well, to me it was just an old transliteration of the name of a defunct dynasty. Being of Chinese ethnicity, am I supposed to take offense at that ? To me, it's like water rolling off an otter's fur -- No Big Deal. I don't control what people say but I do control my reaction to it. Showing no reaction is boring to the initiator.
No. The media coverage is far more widespread. Some still blame our mulatto President (yeah, right?) but it has long been simmering. When does it boil over? From time to time and it is anyone's guess.
Rodney King's beating was decades ago sparking LA riots. It was sparked by a video, too. The widespread availability of camera and video smartphones just captured the images of far more incidents. Social media also contribute much to the spread of the knowledge of police aggression.
I have an unorthodox interpretation of why the goddess of justice was blindfolded: to prevent her from watching the awful videos, surely shocking to a lady.
thanks
Another probability is that the banksters want to stick their sausage fingers on their side of the balance without the blindfolded lady seeing them when being weighed for justice.
"Here's a suggestion to the" Racist Scum like U gripes - Fk Off with your racist b-s!!! Your, "first person singular" narcissism; your racist relatives and your UTTER failure to reference anything other than your own personal prejudices - single U out on this forum as the rancid, racist, reactionary retard that U are!! AND U are STILL spewing the U$A's RW MSM's lies about the Illegal Wars on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen et al, U stupid bastard! Ergo, for the standing record,
closely consider "The Lie of American Innocence"! by Chris L. Hedges: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/the-lie-of-american-innocence/ & then carefully note:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/timeo-pax-americana-oilygarchs-banksters-obomber-l/#comment-1080927 and . . .
http://occupywallst.org/forum/timeo-pax-americana-oilygarchs-banksters-obomber-l/#comment-1080947
And from Hedge's article: "We know who our most recent war criminals are, among others: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, General Ricardo Sanchez, former CIA Director George Tenet, former Asst. Atty. Gen. Jay Bybee, former Dep. Asst. Atty. Gen. John Yoo, who set up the legal framework to authorize torture; the helicopter pilots who gunned down civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in the “Collateral Murder” video released by WikiLeaks. We have evidence of the crimes they committed.
"But, like Putin’s Russia, those who expose these crimes are silenced and persecuted. Julian Assange, even though he is not a US citizen and his WikiLeaks site is not a US-based publication, is charged under the US Espionage Act for making public numerous US war crimes. Assange, currently housed in a high security prison in London, is fighting a losing battle in the British courts to block his extradition to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison.
"One set of rules for Russia, another set of rules for the United States. Weeping crocodile tears for the Russian media, which is being heavily censored by Putin, while ignoring the plight of the most important publisher of our generation speaks volumes about how much the ruling class cares about press freedom and truth.
"If we demand justice for Ukrainians, as we should, we must also demand justice for the one million people killed — 400,000 of whom were noncombatants — by our invasions, occupations and aerial assaults in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.
"We must demand justice for those who were wounded, became sick or died because we destroyed hospitals and infrastructure. We must demand justice for the thousands of soldiers and marines who were killed, and many more who were wounded and are living with lifelong disabilities, in wars launched and sustained on lies. We must demand justice for the 38 million people who have been displaced or become refugees in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria, a number that exceeds the total of all those displaced in all wars since 1900, apart from World War II, according to the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University.
"Tens of millions of people, who had no connection with the attacks of 9/11, were killed, wounded, lost their homes, and saw their lives and their families destroyed because of our war crimes. Who will cry out for them?
"Every effort to hold our war criminals accountable has been rebuffed by Congress, by the courts, by the media and by the two ruling political parties. The Center for Constitutional Rights, blocked from bringing cases in US courts against the architects of these preemptive wars, which are defined by post-Nuremberg laws as “criminal wars of aggression,” filed motions in German courts to hold US leaders to account for gross violations of the Geneva Convention, including the sanctioning of torture in black sites such as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib.
"Those who have the power to enforce the rule of law, to hold our war criminals to account, to atone for our war crimes, direct their moral outrage exclusively at Putin’s Russia. “Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, condemning Russia for attacking civilian sites, including a hospital, three schools and a boarding school for visually impaired children in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. “These incidents join a long list of attacks on civilian, not military locations, across Ukraine,” he said. Beth Van Schaack, an ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, will direct the effort at the State Department, Blinkin said, to “help international efforts to investigate war crimes and hold those responsible accountable.”
"This collective hypocrisy, based on the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves, is accompanied by massive arms shipments to Ukraine. Fuelling proxy wars was a specialty of the Cold War. We have returned to the script. If Ukrainians are heroic resistance fighters, what about Iraqis and Afghans, who fought as valiantly and as doggedly against a foreign power that was every bit as savage as Russia?
"Why weren’t they lionized? Why weren’t sanctions imposed on the United States? Why weren’t those who defended their countries from foreign invasion in the Middle East, including Palestinians under Israeli occupation, also provided with thousands of anti-tank weapons, anti-armor weapons, anti-aircraft weapons, helicopters, Switchblade or “Kamikaze” drones, hundreds of Stinger anti-aircraft systems, Javelin anti-tank missiles, machine guns and millions of rounds of ammunition? Why didn’t Congress rush through a $13.6 billion package to provide military and humanitarian assistance, on top of the $1.2 billion already provided to the Ukrainian military, for them?
"Well, we know why. Our war crimes don’t count, and neither do the victims of our war crimes. And this hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
This hypocrisy is not new. There is no moral difference between the saturation bombing the US carried out on civilian populations since World War II, including in Vietnam and Iraq, and the targeting of urban centers by Russia in Ukraine or the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Mass death and fireballs on a city skyline are the calling cards we have left across the globe for decades.
"The deliberate targeting of civilians, whether in Baghdad, Kyiv, Gaza, or New York City, are all war crimes. The killing of at least 112 Ukranian children, as of March 19, is an atrocity, but so is the killing of 551 Palestinian children during Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza. So is the killing of 230,000 people over the past seven years in Yemen from Saudi bombing campaigns and blocades that have resulted in mass starvation and cholera epidemics. Where were the calls for a no-fly zone over Gaza and Yemen? Imagine how many lives could have been saved.
"The mass slaughter of industrial warfare, the failure to hold ourselves to account, to see our own face in the war criminals we condemn, will have ominous consequences.
"Author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi understood that the annihilation of the humanity of others is prerequisite for their physical annihilation. We have become captives to our machines of industrial death. Politicians and generals wield their destructive fury as if they were toys.
"Those who decry the madness, who demand the rule of law, are attacked and condemned. These industrial weapons systems are our modern idols. We worship their deadly prowess. But all idols, the Bible tells us, begin by demanding the sacrifice of others and end in apocalyptic self-sacrifice."
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So U just keep on replying to me and on my threads - with your deeply racist, rancid, reactionary, unreferenced and unsubstantiated Sino-Centric; US-Supremacist horse-shit and I will put U right Every Fkn Time, U moron & get this, U fkwit: 'CLASS' is what U lack; personally - and in analysis!
ergo temet nosce et per ardua ad iudicium!
OMG! "How Kansas City Police Ignored Warnings a Killer Targeted Black Women, Until One Escaped"!
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
So apparently the palpably bigoted scum-sucker below - thinks that there's NOTHING particularly racist about "Here's a suggestion to the Blacks who have an anger-management issue"; OR that generalising about all Muslims; OR all Arabs; OR entire 'other' groups of humans isn't racism! If U have the stomach for it dear reader - then read and try to decipher what the s-o-b is saying in his spewed out opinions, tho I for one,have had enough of his increasingly cantankerous screeds of reactionary horse-shit!! Here are 2 useful & comprehensive multi-page exploratory research links for everyone else tho of course the twit himself never makes any recourse whatsoever to any actual evidence or empirical facts for his opinions, which are deeply RW and rooted in the miasma of his damaged mind! Sad,mad & bad too to be honest!
In the final analysis; The Final Analysis on this still standing explicitly pro-99% OWS site, is CLASS and ALL that flows from the FACT that there is enough on this fragile home of ours for all; that we can live in balance with Our Mother and each other; that alas there is a Ruling Class, who really run things for their own dynastic and hereditary benefit; that there's varying degrees of Democratic Deficit wherever we live AND that new ways of being and living have to achieved, IF we are to continue to continue as a species which has now changed the very Geostasis and Biosphere of its home planet! It is adapt & survive time & Reclaim/Claim Democracy for wider Society - from Global Parasitic Oligarchy's Neoliberal Crapitalism & the concomitant Anthropomorphic Global Warming; Environmental Degradation & Corporate Fascism!
Furthermore, we must critique how Racism is used to undermine Class Cohesion & Solidarity, such that the US/UK Ruling Class try to nurture racism, in order to prejudice/con the white working class .. to vote against their own Class Interests in order to spite "others" - despite The Fact that most recipients of any Social Welfare are .. White People! This is the Deep Con that so many people have fallen for, due to the hate that blinds them from the need for Working Class Solidarity! And make NO mistake about it - IF we need to 'work' to pay our bills, then that is exactly what we are; irrespective of the self-deluding conceits & pure propagandist poison of the Global Ruling Class' devious divide and rule meme of"Middle Class"!
Finally, note: http://occupywallst.org/forum/in-defence-of-the-broad-church-of-socialism-from-t/
and see: https://truthout.org/articles/neoliberalism-the-ideology-at-the-root-of-all-our-problems/
per aspera ad iudicium et veritas vos liberabit!
Blue people, not Blacks robbed and murdered Tessa Majors ! Right ?
The perpetrators had anger-management issue. We need to pass new laws, right ?
What colors are the skins ? Blue ?
Racism is pegged to skin colors by now so you keep on calling me "racist, racist, racist" returning to a nonexistent idiotic cattle-prod slave-branding-by-genome-marking idea of race ( the European Colonizers didn't have black permanent markers. ) You're the one who can't forego this idiotic idea.
Shortly after I had posted about Tessa, calling for the colleges and university to warn the new people in the neighborhood to avoid danger there, yet another ¿newbie? [soccer player and graduate student from Italy] was murdered.
Let me explain to you why Ukraine has gotten far more attention than the Middle East -- it's Islamic sovereignty "Allahu Akbar !" Being a Christian, I share some cultural background with the people of Ukraine and Russia due to Christianity. I have next-to-nothing knowledge of what might trigger the Muslims who had handed out death sentences left-and-right for innocuous-in-the-West incidents and imposed inhumane-in-the-West punishments such as stoning. ( Some people have a point saying that being in the West, I shouldn't even give a shit about their practices in the Middle East where women are sperm banks for men alright and before they're ripened, they need to be sealed for quality yeasty fermentation to make new wines.)
I don't care whether people draw cartoons of Jesus showing his face. I wouldn't sentence people to death or murder them for doing that. I don't care if people burn some Bibles ( it's the most widely published book in the World so there's near-to-zero risk that we'll lose the words in it.) My take on Islam is that its followers generally have extreme anger-management issue going. They don't know the West much and don't care about human rights as enunciated in the U.N. Declaration of Universal Human Rights. Muslims are by their own violence and anger excluded from having these rights ( do Muslims even understand the U.N. Charter or other documents ?) I paraphrase someone I knew with a twist: "The Middle East Muslim world is a big fat rotten piece of halal beef" so I say, "Hands off, everyone, lest we inadvertently duplicate Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. again. Allah will pacify the Middle East." It's Star Fleet Prime Directive put into practice.
If the viscosity between modern societies and the less-developed ones is reduced by having less trans-societal drag and stress created by high-kinetic-energy migrants between them, modern societies can advance faster and the less-developed ones can stay stable longer. Both sides will achieve their objectives easier. Afghanistan was a country which the U.S. should leave behind for it to achieve Islamic stability. It was foolish for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars to fight, reform, and modernize a country which preferred Allah's modernization program. The U.S. should defer to Allah in this matter. Allahu Akbar ! Of course, if one wants to increase viscosity as Peter the Great had done by funding the importation of young Leonhard Euler, one should increase the number and habitation of the quality trans-societal high-kinetic-energy ( high cultural mobility and temperature ) migrants. That was where the greatness of Russian Mathematics had started. Russia had far deeper root in modern mathematics than Red China, for example. Communist countries like Red China or the U.S.S.R. neither have the reverence for individual pursuit of excellence nor long enough history to succeed on the highest level. Red China still uses Russian jet engines in its exported fighter jets because it doesn't have the scientific/technological depth of Russia which grew at least decades earlier.
Ukraine is in Europe where N.A.T.O, the most formidable alliance on the planet ever, is located. If Russia could burn through Ukraine, we should most probably get a nuclear war going, with N.A.T.O. fighting Russia on Russia's next bite ( Russia helped Syria evade punishments for its using chemical weapons on civilians. ) Russia has already done Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, and now more of Ukraine. Russia has learnt the lesson that no one could stop it so it kept on doing its military destruction and war crimes. Ukraine has been glorious in stopping Russian invasion. We can of course say it in a different relativistic way: Russia's military isn't only pathetic but immoral and depraved. It has committed war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.
Europe has traditionally been a powder keg with much military explosive power so it makes sense to tamp down any potential sparks. Under N.A.T.O. protection, Europe has enjoyed many decades of peace. However, most of the people who had lived through WWII died and the new generation of Europeans had never seen war in Europe so they ignored defense and invited invasions by Russia which is being led by a former petty KGB officer, poison-indoctrinated, who had completely missed perestroika which gave Russia a chance to join up with the modern world.
KGB officers couldn't even live as well as the vanquished-by-Russia/U.S.S.R. Dresden's East Germans because the Abwehr had the sense of obeying the Hague Conventions so my Dad had no reservations about buying many German goods such as Telefunken television set and Siemens clothes washer. The presence and Germanic origin of these home goods were why I had suggested to my Dad, during his Patriarchal Tribunal taking up my Big Brother's motion of us either initiating emigration or stay and turn red by default, that we might want to emigrate to Germany.
I wasn't totally off sucking in luciferous ether with Red Chinese characteristics so Dad explained why Germany wasn't quite right ( "not an immigrant country" and "much too cold" from his bad brutally cold 1939-1940 first impression of the Elbe near Hamburg ) and why the U.S. was better ( he promised that if we emigrated to the U.S., I would eat chickens at every meal but I would have to eat bread at every meal, too; I love eating chickens but I didn't expect it to be literally so; eating bread at every meal was totally bogus because by the time we were in New York City, we could eat a great variety of foods, including southern U.S. rice; after becoming a civil servant to Hong Kong Government, my Big Brother introduced to our family what his colleagues ate: cold-cut ham, cheese, egg tart, curried beef tart, roasted-pork & other buns, milked tea, and dimsum; it was a glorious infusion of culinary cultures, to me at least. ) Dad's ship in a British convoy was torpedoed so it sank. Before ship's coal boiler exploded, a U-boat had evacuated him.
If Germans hadn't rescued him, he would've most probably ended up as shark food -- he understood that well -- because British convoys wouldn't stop or rescue any sailors of torpedoed ships ( despite his coal-shoveling pigshit-excreting inadequate performance to speed up his ship to outrun U-boat wolf pack; coal's being a solid fuel lousy for powering a speedy escape is probably why the British fleet converted to oil, a liquid fuel for great control; most manned rockets use liquid fuel for the same reasons of speed and controllability.) If he were too unappetizing for sharks, he would have drowned anyway because he was a "dry-land duck" 旱地鴨 a newbie duckling which didn't know how to swim in the vast Atlantic Ocean. Nazi Germany was riding high at that time in its war of conquest and the British might join Hitler's Germany in a fight against Communism so that might have contributed to its observance of the laws of war as the British were signatory party to the laws. The peoples of the U.S.S.R. suffered exceptionally because their leader Stool-in refused to abide by the then-existing provisions of the Geneva Conventions ( here bred the Nazi-German Wehrmacht's attitude that the U.S.S.R. peoples were subhuman; they had more respect for the British at the time so Hitler pretty much wanted to finish off the U.S.S.R. first as an easy piece of cake { after the Finns had beaten the Soviet Red Army badly but didn't win } because of Stool-in's betrayal in the conquest and partition of Poland under the Russo-German mutual non-aggression pact ) and also botched the invasion of Finland in the Winter War to win a pyrrhic victory ( which probably gave Hitler the idea that the U.S.S.R. would be yet another easy "piece of cake;" Operation Barbarosa ensured the great suffering of the peoples of the U.S.S.R. )
A European war was a disaster waiting to happen. Ukraine is just the latest example of the future and the past of Europe. Some of it doesn't look that much different from Berlin after WWII -- a lot of rubbles and burnt-out buildings after the Russians have barged through to rape and pillage. Many modern German males probably have Russian Y-chromosomes in most of their cells because their mothers were raped by their Soviet Red Army ( most probably Russian ) fathers, perhaps at gunpoint. Here's a relevant phrase I learnt, shortly after we had landed in Manhattan, from my Big Brother: "son of a gun." D.P.R. Rat got bitten. I wondered what it meant but can't you tell that I tend to be very literal, Asperger-struck-like-Isaac-Newton ( who was known to have persisted in lecturing to an emptied-out hall devoid of any student or audience, ) or scientific ? Germans may not remember much about the Russians but the Poles can probably still vividly recall the horrors because they had experienced Russian atrocities again and again.
Where is the Middle East Treaty Organization to provide for peace and security there ? Nowhere !
The Middle East countries haven't even recognized the other countries' right to exist. A military alliance to safeguard each other is just a halal pipe dream.
This ex-cop really needs to go to prison.
Up to six Police Officers seem to have something to do with Freddie Gray's arrest and extreme spinal injury, from which he died a week later.I'm not too sure that any of them will even lose their jobs or be reprimanded - never mind ''go to prison''. The Private Prison Industrial Complex in USA (~5% of World Population BUT 25%+ of the Global Prison Population)... prefers a certain demographic to profit from!
You're right. Just losing your job, if that psycho behavior is what he lost it for...is not near the punishment that he deserves.
In prison, this ex-cop bully, is going to be out of his comfort zone.
Cop Choke Killings Continue ...
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
Note: "Days after Jordan Neely died after being held in a chokehold by a Marine veteran aboard a New York City subway train, the vet has identified himself, amid swirling questions about the use of the tactic, which is taught in basic training by the service"! - FROM:
"A Marine Vet Used a Chokehold Leading to a Man's Death. The Technique Taught in Basic Training, Faces Fresh Scrutiny." ... by Konstantin Toropin - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/05/09/chokehold-death-new-york-city-leads-questions-about-use-of-marine-corps-training.html
Also note: https://www.mintpressnews.com/george-floyd-murder-israel-us-police-training-neck-of-black-america/284564/ by Professor David Miller
e tenebris - tenebris?!
'"Is he still alive?!' - A teen died after getting tased by cops, who waited 10 min for CPR. 18 months later, no one has been held accountable''!! RIP Nikolas Dyksma - killed by violent cops in Georgia.
https://twitter.com/Fusion/status/837505097575747584 - and for an alternate link, see:
https://gma.yahoo.com/video/georgia-parents-seek-answers-dashcam-001726236.html
& finally again: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
Hope all well with you & mRs.Nev1. Sorry about vid. The attrition by cops against civilians continues. Perhaps militarized cops have too many ex-military personnel maybe with PTSD? The mind boggles.
fiat justitia, ruat caelum ....
Strange times we live in. Hope all is well with you and yours. Thank you for links.
"Police Killed Atatiana Jefferson (AND) Then Implied She Was Responsible for Her Own Death!"
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
''Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children'' ...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52401.htm by John W. Whitehead & by same author:
consider: https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099 &
https://www.salon.com/2014/08/14/one_nation_under_swat_how_americas_police_became_an_occupying_force_partner/
fiat lux ...
The Execution of Daniel Shaver is outside any & all human comprehension but this is how USA's Militarized Police, equipped with Weapons of War will eventually act, as the Cop .. Philip Brailsford, WAS ACQUITTED OF ANY CRIME!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc and:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42277309
NB: WARNING: Videos Above Show The Murder of a Man!
Also, all the very best wishes of the season to U & mRs. Nev1.
et fiat justitia ruat caelum ....
Mentally ill Minnesota man was shot by Crystal City Cops, for whom clearly - Black Lives [don't] Matter:
And so it goes on in USA. What's now needed is Solidarity and for black and white to unite and fight for what's right. All good but busy with me.Thank you for this important thread & solidarity to U & Mrs.Nev1.
pax, amor et lux ...
''Don’t Call the Cops If You’re Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old'', by John W. Whitehead:
''Trained to shoot first and ask questions later, police pose a risk to anyone with special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent or require more finesse than the typical freeze-or-I’ll-shoot tactics employed by America’s police forces.''
Disabled individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law enforcement officers in The USA!
fiat justitia ...
''FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?''
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement/ by K. Downs
Also fyi: http://massappeal.com/nypd-cop-who-killed-deborah-danner-has-history-of-violence-says-lawyer-who-sued-him/ by Keegan Stephan & RIP Deborah Danner, 66 & killed at home!
fiat lux ...
"I was an FBI agent who infiltrated white supremacists. Too many local police don’t take the far right seriously - or actively sympathize!" - from ...
"The FBI warned for years that police are cozy with the far right. Is no one listening?"- by Mike German ... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-far-right-white-supremacists-police & also consider ...
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf - (FBI)
respice; adspice; prospice!
"White Nationalists pervade law enforcement. Fighting far right violence means continuing our fight for police accountability"! - from:
multum in parvo!
Note "After Trump Blocked UN Inquiry of Racist Violence, NGOs Are Conducting Their Own" - by Marjorie Cohn:
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
"Andre Hill: Demonstrators demand justice for Black man killed by police"! - via AP News Wire:
"Demonstrators have gathered in a cold Christmas Eve drizzle in Columbus, Ohio, to call for justice in the death of Andre Hill at the hands of police."
RIP :-(
''Ahmaud Arbery Murder Finally Gets Georgia DA’s Attention After Graphic Video'' ... by Chris Walker:
''Following the release of cell phone footage of the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, 25 - who was shot and killed while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia, in February - state officials say they intend to convene a grand jury investigation to determine whether charges should be filed against his shooters.
''Gregory McMichael, a retired law enforcement officer & his son Travis McMichael, both white, chased Arbery down with their truck ... as he was out for a jog. Both McMichaels initially justified shooting and killing Arbery to police by saying that Arbery, who is Black, looked like someone who was suspected in their neighborhood of home invasions at that time.
''Travis McMichael confronted Arbery - as he tried to avoid the two men by continuing to jog around the passenger side of their truck. The two struggled for control of a shotgun McMichael was holding during the confrontation, during which time McMichael shot Arbery, according to the initial police report. Three gunshots can be heard according to audio from the video.''
fiat justitia ...
"After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men are charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery" by Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow!
e tenebris, lux?
"Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Shows Lynching Remains a Reality for Black America!" ... by Wm.C. Anderson:
"We are in a situation we cannot fully solve with votes or protests. This disaster requires Radical Black Politics."
fiat justitia!
"Cop Tackles Unarmed Man, Gets on His Back &, Executes Him With a Bullet to the Back of the Head"!!! [WARNING!! The report includes a Very Shocking video!] by Matt Agorist:
"On April 4 - an unnamed officer with the Grand Rapids Police Department initiated a traffic stop on 26 year old Congolese refugee Patrick Lyoya.Moments later Lyoya would be dead from a bullet wound to the back of his head — put there by the police officer — over a minor traffic violation.
"Lyoya’s death is an example of how The System, targets the poor and minorities with excessive traffic fees and fines for non-compliance.Lyoya had a suspended license and so he knew that the officer who pulled him over that day was going to likely take him to jail for it. So, he tried to get away.
"Because it is the police officer’s job to kidnap and cage people over victimless crimes, like suspended licenses, Lyoya was not allowed to walk away. Instead the police officer escalated violence against the unarmed, non-violent man.
"Lyoya arrived in the United States as a child - with his five brothers and sisters. His family was fleeing violence in the Congo and had sought a better and safer life in the States. Unfortunately, and in a twist of tragic irony, thanks to the American police state - their quest for a safer and better life has come to a violent and bloody end."
WTaF?!!!
"Police Officer Who Killed Daunte Wright ... Will Face Manslaughter Charge"! ... by Sharon Zhang
https://truthout.org/articles/police-officer-who-killed-daunte-wright-will-face-manslaughter-charge/
& - https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-blasts-police-departments-accident-excuse-in-daunte-wrights-death/ by Chris Walker
and: https://twitter.com/RobTheRich001/status/1382811153210998787 13yr old killed in Chicago!
Finally - https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1382787007525519361 as a back up to the above^
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
The retired orange was coming for good-old-fashioned Saudi-Arabian ritual cleansing. In many White-dominated areas, one can be robbed by a police officer, whether retired or not. One needs to know which stripe currently applies when cruising on the body of a 'zebra', the second to the last word in my first kindergarten's English vocabulary book. Can you guess what the last vocabulary word was in there? Roar, Lion, Roar! Roar, Lion, Roar! The word was 'zoo' underneath a picture with cages, with one holding a roaring lion.
My Big Brother taught me to do well by avoiding the dark-skinned people because they were the muggers, burglars, bullies, and dope dealers. They wore sneakers to run away quickly after mugging people and hoodies to conceal identity and make available many pockets to hold dope packets { on a subway diversion, I crossed path with such a packet near a playground but at that time, I didn't know what cannabis was so I picked up the small transparent plastic bag, took a look at what I thought was "dried herbal-flower-bud medicine," and left it back on the ground where I had found it } and cash from street-corner dope sales. He also taught me to look for graffiti on walls/roll-up storefront doors, bullet holes in big sheet glass of store fronts ( they are like Wilson cloud chamber records of gun violence in the neighborhood ) broken safety glass mostly cubic gravel-like greenish fragments in the gutters of streets ( evidencing break-ins to cars parked there; in those days car radios and cassette players were "hot" items in demand.) Everyone who had robbed every member of my parental family had dark skin color !
Of course, my Mom's admonition about the kidnappers and terrorists was superior to his advice: a kidnapper or a terrorist points their nostrils downwards so I should run away if I see downward-pointing nostrils on the people approaching me. It's how I had determined that not only was Xinjiang full of terrorists per the Chinese Communist Party, so were Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island ( admittedly Staten Island had far fewer in number because it's actually a rather backwater place, more like a rural piece of New Jersey { believe it or not, it has flora coming from much farther south, perhaps transported by the Gulf Stream ! } than a borough of the City of New York; look, since the 1970s despite the low cost and now free ferry rides between it and Manhattan, I've only set foot upon it twice, set wheel there once, and never leaving a wharf twice { once on wheels because I made a very expensive wrong turn on Belt Parkway onto the [gateway suicide] bridge after seeing the frozen body of my [dead-from-a-disease] Mom--my Dad who had brought home touristy postcard pictures and a brochure of New York, NY would have probably said, "Lucky you for finally going over the huge gateway bridge [which I believe that he had never gone over but passed underneath it many times] across the entrance to the port ! "-- and twice on a ferry to view the Statue of Liberty from [somewhat] up close [enough to view it in entirety without lifting my head up at all] and 'cruise' New York Harbor/Harbour } ).
"In the name of George Floyd in Minneapolis - Hundreds Protest"! - via this very short video link:
fiat lux!
"Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old African-American George Floyd’s neck .. for over seven minutes until he passed out and died. In its headline on its website,Minneapolis police described the event as “man dies after medical incident during police interaction,” ... laundering themselves of any responsibility. Chauvin continued his assault ... even as Floyd desperately pleaded that he could not breathe, while bystanders protested his brutality. “You are fucking stopping his breathing there, bro,” warned one concerned passer-by. Even after passing out, Chauvin did NOT release pressure on his neck. Chauvin has killed multiple times before while in uniform, has shot and wounded others and is well-known to local activist groups." - from ...
"While serving as Minnesota’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007 .. Klobuchar declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against the cop that killed George Floyd."
respice et adspice!
"Black Man Dies After Minneapolis Police Officer .. Pins Him To The Ground By His Neck!":
Wonder what U & your bigoted big brother would think of this? "I can't breathe" because of cunts!
fiat justitia ruat caelum!
Did your Bigoted "Big brother" teach U to avoid white people, wearing white collars on Wall Street, who would steal all U've got & leave U with nothing & steal you and your kids' future?!!! No, he fkn didn't did he?!! Because you were a pair of cheap, racist fux - weren't you?! Now STFU & read these links before U reply to me here again ...
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/11/21254482/ahmaud-arbery-video-police-killing-racism
and https://truthout.org/articles/the-long-arm-of-the-american-nazi-party-reaches-the-2020-illinois-primary/
et temet nosce!
''Man Nearly Killed By Police In Illegal Chokehold Breaks His Silence'':
The horrific viral video shows Elonte McDowell saying, “I can’t breathe."
respice et prospice ...
No change.
Newark, NJ Police officers did not fire a single shot during the calendar year 2020, and the city didn’t pay a single dime to settle police brutality cases. That’s never happened, at least in the city’s modern history. Oh, and crime is dropping.
tempus mutantur et nos mutamur in ellis!
Newark police reform is remarkable! They should be so proud and they should be held up as an example to police forces all over the country.
If Newark can do it, any city can do it.
"Chomsky: Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History" by G.Yancy:
respice et prospice ...
''Virginia Police Shootings: ‘We missed an opportunity to stop him''' ...
''In 2011, Virginia police officer Stephen Rankin shot an unarmed man dead. Last year he did it again. The fight to get him convicted is the subject of a new film.'' - I have watched that film already & it was shocking and revealing. Police with RWNJ views are sadly not at all uncommon. Indeed - the reverse seems to be true all too often. I also wonder - how many traumatized ex-military cops are in the USA!
fiat justitia ...
''Marcus Deon Smith Was Killed 1 Year Ago by Police. His Life Still Matters.'', by Flint Taylor:
respice; adspice; prospice ...
Everyone needs to see this.
Dallas police killed Tony Timpa, a mentally ill man who called THEM for help.
They restrained him until he died, even as he yelled - “you’re gonna kill me!”
Then, still on top of his dead body .. they crack jokes about it.
But charges against the officers were dropped by Dallas DA!
from: https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1156571020343599107 an upsetting video + see...
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/30/gonna-kill-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-final-minutes-tony-timpas-life
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
A ''man died in police custody after officers mocked him for 'acting' sick & dragged him away from the hospital ...
unFKNbelievable!
RIP - William Chapman - killed by Off.Steven Rankin - who was FOUND GUILTY of manslaughter!!! Amazing verdict in US PD terms!! Wow! Fyi, here is the doc. film I referred to above:
RIP - Terence Crutcher:
RIP - Sam Dubose {Not video links}:
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/14/headlines/ohio_mistrial_declared_for_white_officer_ray_tensing_who_killed_sam_dubose
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/7/headlines/cincinnati_oh_white_police_officer_who_killed_black_motorist_wore_confederate_flag
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
RIP Donovan Lewis
"Donovan Lewis was pronounced dead at the hospital, after Columbus police shot at him in his own bed"!
fiat lux et fiat justitia!
On Jan. 3rd, the LAPD tased a Black man to death ...
after he flagged them down for help! At one point,
he says ... "They are trying to George Floyd me"!!
His name: Keenan Anderson;
His cousin, Patrisse Cullors ...
founded Black Lives Matter!!!
FROM: https://twitter.com/campaigntoendqi/status/1613653452084715534
& also: "Keenan Anderson was a dedicated father and high school teacher."
via here https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1613635565550768145
AND A WARNING - AN EXTREMELY DISTURBING PD MURDER VIDEO!!
fiat justitia ruat caelum!!!
PS: For further details of this distressing story see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/11/black-lives-matter-co-founder-cousin-killed-los-angeles-police :-(
et fiat lux!!
"Black Lives Matter May be the Biggest Movement in U.S. History"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html
So, why then, are black people still being killed by cops. Why was the founder of the movement's cousin tasered to death needlessly? Keenan Anderson was backing away from the cops when tasered!
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/14/1149132089/keenan-anderson-patrisse-cullors-lapd-body-cam-footage
RIP Keenan Anderson
Yes "RIP Keenan Anderson" and also try to consider:
et spero meliora!
OMG!!! RiP - Tyre Nichols!! Désolé!
https://time.com/6250021/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-police/
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/26/us/what-we-know-tyre-nichols-death/index.html
https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/video-shows-tyre-nichols-being-beaten-by-memphis-police/
https://www.irishtimes.com/video/video/2023/01/28/protests-erupt-across-us-following-release-of-tyre-nichols-video/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/memphis-police-set-release-video-showing-fatal-beating-tyre-nichols-rcna67710
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
A sad trail of American Hate Crimes, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.
Exactly, and the euro-centric nature of our society prevails. Anyone who looks different, no matter how many centuries their ancestors have lived here, is at risk, because violent, hate-filled, ignorant and intolerant white people rule in a way that is not all that much different than when Christopher Columbus made his way to "India" 500 years ago.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, we need a complete overhaul of our ethos in order to change this thing around. I may start praying...
''The Shocking Story of How a Chicago Cop Killed a Teen -- Then Locked Up His Best Friend for the Murder'' - w/Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow!:
OMG!
Wondering if this cop was trained in Israel.
That US police are being trained in Israel, is not a matter of dispute even if most folk haven't a clue!
Solidarity to you and mRs.Nevada2 on the occasion of #S17. Onwards and Upwards even when it's sideways sometimes!
pax, amor et lux ...
Good article. Solidarity!
''A Jewish pro-Palestinian activist, Alice Rothchild, also addressed the training of some US law enforcement officials in Israel, alleging that IDF policies are based on racism toward “brown people.”
“While the carnage in our cities is certainly related to our own history of slavery and modern day racism and lack of gun control and a host of societal forces, having a police force influenced and trained by an occupying military force that sees another group of brown people (Arabs) as the enemy has certainly heightened the issue. The parallels between white racism and Jewish supremacy flourish here and abroad,” wrote Rothchild.'' - from ...
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/29602/Default.aspx & also watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_CWr5iSLY - (Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - 9/16/16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmIfTEZRBko - {Aerial view of abv. and - Upsetting}
This new shocking execution of Terence Crutcher reminds me of Tamir Rice re.speed of shooting. ''Sad'' would be one word for it! ''Fucking Outrageous'' would be two more!! Looks like "Betty Jo" shot the guy!!!
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
Never ending trail of police murder. Welcome to New World Order.
Police have shot & killed a 6 year old boy - in San Antonio, Texass! They claimed the woman they were shooting at had a gun but it appears she was unarmed too. No gun was found on the scene. She's also dead. The boy was inside his house & one of the three cops who shot the woman dead, seems to have missed her & shot the kid through the walls of a trailer park home. This Shit never ends & US Cops are routinely scared & trigger happy AND more inclined to try to kill .. as leaving anyone alive may end with serious questions &/or a law suite! Crazy days. Hope U & mRs.Nev1, are safe & well & best wishes for Xmas/NY to U both. Solidarity & fyi ...
fiat lux, fiat justitia et fiat pax ...
RIP Alfredo Olango, shot dead for walking while being black,smoking a 'vape' contraption! Unbelievable!
fiat lux ...
Ultimate Cowards.
Ultimately - Drones could be described as exactly that! So...."Terminator and SkyNet" anyone?!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/obama-americans-killed-drone-strike_n_7126186.html
At home and abroad, IF "solutions" = basal or technological violence .. something is very wrong!
Just imagine living in a World where your kids were afraid to go to school, or attend any of life's celebrations, because they feared a drone attack.
In fear of drones and death from the skies, children go to school in Pakistan, Yemen and.. more places than we are supposed to know... or care about. Perhaps none of us are ''free" until all of us are free and none of us are "safe"unless all of us are safe. TPTB rely on our mind managed ignorance and a created indifference to do their ugly work. Also http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drones/
As ''terror'' is as terror does and is experienced... who are the "terrorists" and who the "terrorized" here? The "Terror Meme" is used to mind-manage us in The West but the stark and abject effects of terror are and have been used BY The West for a long time.The School of The Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia was the University Of Terror/Counter Revolutionary Insurgency for S.America.. for 2 or more generations.
There is no doubt in my mind that the next generation of freedom fighters will be these kids who are now undergoing unimaginable horrors. Inevitably they will be hardened beyond their years. We will quickly label them, terrorists and the beat will go on. In our quest for hegemony, we need to keep people from thinking and understanding the term blowback.
If we were honest we would put ourselves (the US) on the State Sponsored Terrorism list.*
The young and the future are the reasons why many if not most of us are here on this forum and with this in mind, please see - ''“What Can You Do For Me? - The Pathology of the Rich White Family'' By Chris Hedges - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41888.htm A really eye opening piece.
Yeah - you are here to promote opting out as a good course of action for the public to take. In that - you are a supporter of the 1% power control.
LOL! Advocating blindly voting Dem - would be what then? Lying about who said what is the work of a mendacious manipulator. Jog on and maybe try http://www.leftforum.org/ and admit that you just can't handle anything from The Left as it essentially shows you for the conservative reactionary that you are.
"Advocating blindly voting Dem - would be what then?"
That would be something that I have never done. It is however a perfect example of your constant shit throwing.
Wake up to your beloved POTUS and smell his BS - http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30819-us-original-sin-and-the-2016-presidential-election + Keep brainfarting at me when you need more to read.
You're right we need a change of "ethos." We have become desensitized to human suffering. It's not all their fault though. It's ours's too.. for having bought into this system for so long. When I see people, young people in particular, who refuse to accept this as the norm, it's very heartening.
Media promoted "tribalism" has got to go...human beings aren't sports teams and this is a far more dangerous game. When we pit "our" ethnicity against "yours"... its symptomatic of our disconnection to life...a disconnection from being and our true self nature...a disconnection from purpose. It is what we resort to when we are oppressed and desperate. Unity is the sign of authentic self and happiness born of purpose over material fluff or exerting control over others. We must not turn against each other but we must together grind this machine to a halt...our system is broken. Evil doesn't discriminate where it exists...it is a constant shifting of the soil...we can all fall into its trap if we aren't aware we are standing in it.
Coexist. No more, "Us vs. Them". It's all people vs. evil.
Beautifully said, elf.
Agree
Consider ''The Logic of the Police State'', by Matthew Harwood:
A bit of a un-seasonal read Nev1, with very li'l ''HO Ho ho'' mais c'est la vie! Have a good Xmas/Yule/NY!
fiat lux ...
Hope you and yours are enjoying this Holiday Season. Thank you for the tunes and news articles.
Thanx, I did - but this fkn guy .. ie. Killer Kop Feaster, The Over-Eater
https://twitter.com/royjburnett/status/677295200490946560 .. is totally doing my nut in - as per:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1068313
Paradise, California Cop - Patrick Feaster did NOT accidentally shoot a DUI suspect - as the DA would have you believe! He pointed his gun & then pulled The Trigger Twice!! So, wTf is going here actually?!!! Look at the DA's statement of exoneration, to see proof of how Cops Can Get Away With Murder in US:
From which I could quote much but here's a doozey for you:''Also detailed in the report is the evidence from the frame-by-frame analysis of the video and the combined experience of the investigators, which indicates the officer did not intend to fire his pistol and was “surprised” by its discharge. This included the fact the discharge is seen occurring while the officer is in mid-stride; and that he flinches his head and does a “stutter-step” when the gun fires.Officers don't intentionally fire weapons in such a manner and additionally they are trained, as was this officer (from his training records over five years), to fire a minimum of two shots when they fire intentionally.'' Well Mr.Crooked DA - Feaster DID fire twice!!!
But thank the ''Protests in Paradise (who) say, ‘Charge cop who killed Andrew Thomas!’'' http://www.themilitant.com/2016/8001/800104.html - because US-MSM has gone awol, again!!!
Further, also consider: http://www.paradisepost.com/article/NC/20151221/NEWS/151229998 &
Finally see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3360037/Shocking-moment-cop-accidentally-shot-husband-neck-climbed-overturned-SUV-wreck-killed-wife-NOT-charged.html and ask: WTF?!
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
US cops trained in Israel------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05Nu4LBlnM
''American police shoot and kill far more people than their peers in other countries'', by G. Lopez:
multum in parvo?
''Why are American Cops trained in Apartheid Israel?'' - is a disturbing question that Americans won't know to ask because their B-S,MSM will never tell them to!!! The contents of that video should shock people!! IF they choose to view it that is & kudos to the lady there for her clear cogent reply! Also fyi:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/homeland.html - for one perspective, and:
https://www.revealnews.org/article-legacy/us-police-get-antiterror-training-in-israel-on-privately-funded-trips/ +
http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/jewish-groups-pay-to-send-us-police-to-train-in-israel?news=854302 - for another. Furthermore, for and from an ''OWS'' perspective, consider:
http://exiledonline.com/max-blumenthal-how-israeli-occupation-forces-bahraini-monarchy-guards-trained-u-s-police-for-coordinated-crackdown-on-occupy-protests/ by the brilliant Max Blumenthal
Which ends with .. ''When a riot squad from the New York Police Department destroyed and evicted the “Occupy Wall Street” protest encampment at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan (police) department leadership drew on the anti-terror tactics they had refined since the 9/11 attacks. According to the New York Times, the NYPD deployed “counterterrorism measures” to mobilize large numbers of cops for the lightning raid on Zuccotti. The use of anti-terror techniques to suppress a civilian protest complemented harsh police measures demonstrated across the country against - The Nationwide “Occupy” Movement, from firing tear gas canisters & rubber bullets into unarmed crowds - to blasting demonstrators with the LRAD sound cannon.''
Furthermore note: ''Given the amount of training NYPD and so many other police forces have received from Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus, and the profuse levels of gratitude American police chiefs have expressed to their Israeli mentors, it is worth asking how much Israeli instruction has influenced the way the police have attempted to suppress the Occupy movement, and also how much it'll inform police repression of future upsurges of street protest. But already - the Israelification of American law enforcement appears to have intensified police hostility towards the civilian population, blurring the lines between protesters, common criminals, and terrorists. As Dichter said, they are all just “crimiterrorists.”
“After 9/11 we had to react very quickly,” Greenberg remarked - “but now we are in 2011 and we are not talking about people who want to fly planes into buildings. We’re talking about young American citizens who feel that their birthright has been sold. If we’re using the Israeli style tactics on them, and this stuff bleeds into the way we do business at large, were in big trouble.” So how does this impact #BLM etc.?
e tenebris, lux ...
Troubling. DA really stretching things to make this go away. California has a history of being hard on victims , and easy on criminals.
Cops like a ''just us'' system that will ''protect and serve'' them and their 1% bosses & 0.01% Overlords.. whereas everyone else needs and wants a ''justice'' system that's blind to class, occupation, wealth and privilege! The local press and gun-nut types, are now even up for blaming the ... type of gun that Feaster The Overeater was carrying - rather than the fact that this stone killer fired his gun Twice!! Unbelievable!!!
http://www.paradisepost.com/article/NC/20151222/NEWS/151229989
& fyi http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20151223/NEWS/151229924
fiat lux ...
''Blank Check Policing: when law enforcement officers have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance & how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”- from...
Hope & & mRs. Nevada1 are well. Solidarity.
fiat lux ...
pronouns and related not
That was well said. Thanks.
Well, gee, elf said it all perfectly. :) Solidarity! Let's turn this thing around!
Today in Baltimore----- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/26/us-usa-police-baltimore-protest-idUSKBN0NG0RQ20150426
''Obama, Master of Diversion, Proposes Bogus Reforms of Militarized Police'' by Glen Ford -
http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama-bogus-reform-on-militarized-police from which ...
''To sum up, President Obama’s attempt to focus public attention on police hardware, rather than the oppressive mission of the Black Mass Incarceration State, is both a diversion and a fraud. It is not a meaningful or honest response to the core demands of the Black Lives Matter movement, but instead seeks to change the subject to calibers of weapons, styles of police dress, and distinctions between tracked and wheeled armored vehicles. At the end of the exercise, both the equipment and the racist police mission remain in place.''
Nothing the fake USG says, can be trusted.
The reason for the ''fake USG'' - is the fake Democracy in The U$A! So here is how a couple of other countries took control of their collective well being - http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-the-power-of-the-1-percent/ = A short and important article that's very inspiring.
Yes, important article. Amazing story. They wrote the book, on dealing with the 1%.
I strongly agree and that's why - http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30936-the-left-matters-now-more-than-ever but of course you could say I would say that, lol + fyi, pls consider: http://www.leftforum.org/
More in keeping with this sad but important thread, consider: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30926-sgt-james-brown-26-survived-two-tours-in-iraq-only-to-die-begging-for-his-life-in-texas-jail :-(Video/Script)
Did not know about this case. Sad. Everyone needs to know.
Not a Man ; Not a Moment - but a Movement - http://blacklivesmatter.com/ !! Solidarity.
"As Chief Prosecutor, Klobuchar Declined to Bring Charges ... Against Cop That Killed George Floyd!'' by Alan Macleod:
"While serving as Minnesota’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007 .. Klobuchar declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against the cop that killed George Floyd."
respice; adspice; prospice!
Klobuchar info being hidden!!! Via probable DDOS attack on 'The Mint Press'!! NOT good! So ...
FULL MINT PRESS ARTICLE
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The latest example of America’s racist police brutality problem was caught on camera in Minneapolis Monday, as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old African-American George Floyd’s neck for over seven minutes until he passed out and died. In its headline on its website, Minneapolis police described the event as “man dies after medical incident during police interaction,” laundering themselves of any responsibility. Chauvin continued his assault even as Floyd desperately pleaded that he could not breathe, while bystanders protested his brutality. “You’re fucking stopping his breathing there, bro,” warned one concerned passer-by. Even after passing out, Chauvin did not release pressure on his neck. Chauvin has killed multiple times before while in uniform, has shot and wounded others and is well-known to local activist groups.
A history of racist policing, thanks to Klobuchar
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who Joe Biden recently asked to undergo vetting to be his running mate for November, issued a very tepid statement about the incident, describing the police killing of an unarmed black man over an alleged forged check as merely an “officer involved shooting,” – a copaganda word often used by police as a euphemism for “murder.”
Klobuchar also called for a “complete and thorough outside investigation into what occurred, and those involved in this incident must be held accountable.” However, this is unlikely to occur, in no small part because of Klobuchar herself and the precedent she set while serving as the state’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007. In that time, she declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against Chauvin himself, who shot and killed Wayne Reyes in 2006 and would later go on to shoot more civilians while in uniform.
At the same time, however, Klobuchar was ramping up the number of arrests as part of her tough-on-crime agenda, something which inordinately affected people of color. In her first year in office alone, the prison sentences for first-degree drug crimes doubled. Activists allege her embracing of the broken window-style policing was a deliberate strategy to win support in the white suburbs of Minneapolis, to the detriment of the city’s non-white communities, bolstering her successful run for senate in 2006. A case in point is Elsayed Salim, who was convicted of failing to declare a secondary income that put him above the threshold for welfare and food stamps. A judge sentenced Salim to 364 days in jail – deliberately attempting to protect him from deportation by keeping his sentencing under a year which downgraded the case from a felony to a gross misdemeanor. An outraged Klobuchar appealed the decision, lobbying for an upgrade and condemning the state’s judges for “letting offenders off the hook too easily.” Mr. Salim was subsequently deported.
While it may not be the first city that comes to mind, data shows that Minneapolis is among the most racist cities in the United States for racial profiling and police stops. The police force’s own data shows that, while black people make up only 18 percent of the population, they were involved in nearly half of all police stops. Conversely, whites make up 60 percent of the population but figured in less than 21 percent of the stops. 62 percent of body searches and 63 percent of people whose cars were searched were also black. Thus, Floyd’s killing is merely a viral example of a wider phenomenon, a spark that ignited a powder keg of resentment that had been building for some time.
Outrage at an unlawful killing
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, massive protests have erupted across Minneapolis in response to Floyd’s killing, with thousands of people marching through the city. Police attempted to suppress the demonstration last night, firing rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, even though there were many children present.
“This is a disgusting display,” said City Councilman Jeremiah Ellison, “I’m here on the southside, helping people as I can with milk, water, and towels. So far, I have been unable to prevent the police from firing indiscriminately into the crowd. Moments ago, I held a towel to a teenage girl’s head as blood poured from it.”
Thus, it appears that Klobuchar’s milquetoast response was out of keeping with those she represents, and even the public more generally, judging by replies left below it, which included, “This was murder, plain and simple,” “Those cops need to be arrested today,” and “What is there even to investigate?! This cop is a murderer and the other cop is an accessory to murder.” The incident was also the top story on Reddit and Twitter on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
Other public officials denounced the killing far more forcefully. Melvin Carter, Mayor of St. Paul, said that the video was “one of the most vile and heartbreaking images I’ve ever seen,” adding that “The officer who stood guard is just as responsible as his partner; both must be held fully accountable.” Ilhan Omar, an African-American congresswoman representing the city claimed that watching a black man helplessly begging for his life sickened her. “Black lives matter isn’t just a chant, it’s a call for justice. It’s a call for our humanity to be recognized,” she said, “There needs to be an immediate DOJ investigation into this.”
Alan MacLeod is a Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: 'Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News' and 'Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent'. He has also contributed to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, Common Dreams & The American Herald Tribune and The Canary in the UK.
fiat lux; fiat justitia; fiat pax ...
It is not only Obama that is a master of "diversion," or speaking out of both sides of his mouth. We have politicians from both of the corrupted parties who do the bidding for Wall Street. Senator Schumer who is considered a liberal Democrat is the biggest recipient of Wall Street money in the Senate. And the big banks are huge beneficiaries of War.
Charles Schumer's Wall Street dance
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/charles-schumers-wall-street-dance/
that link is too slow
I suspect nepotism in their web page writers
I a hindering greed to always want more where more just means doesn't load well
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Thank you Matt. Not sure now how long my comments actually stand. Strange times we're all living in - on and off forum. I leave Karma to do her bidding and The Devil take the hindmost. Solidarity to you and fyi please see - http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-the-us-have-worst-inequality-in-oecd/
Check this out------Report Confirms That Police Killed Netasha McKenna With Her Hands Cuffed And Legs Shackled------
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1377417/-Report-confirms-that-police-killed-Natasha-McKenna-with-her-hands-cuffed-and-legs-shackled?detail=email
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Thank you Lugano for the reminder about this murderous event, which saw no justice. We must never forget.
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Every time the system gets away with murder, the more it will murder. War Crimes.
Consider: ''The enemy is the state: how the US justice system started a civil war'' by Sergio De La Pava
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/05/the-enemy-is-the-state-how-the-us-justice-system-started-a-civil-wa Very well written, heartfelt and poignant and a good, if alarming read, summed up here:
''As more and more incidents of police brutality are captured on film, you might expect them to become less common. But, as one New York public defender attests, the problem has deep roots — and its victims are grimly predictable''
Also fyi: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/the-counted-500-people-killed-by-police-2015
Plus essentially on this thread ... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
And finally for completion ... https://twitter.com/thecounted and https://www.facebook.com/TheCounted
Thank you for good info. USG knows all about everything we buy, every thing we look at on internet, and every place we go----- but does not know how many people are killed by cops.
RiP Netasha McKenna. Another appalling incidence of Murderous Police Excess. Fyi from 30 years ago, see - http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/30-Years-Ago-Philadelphia-Police-Bombed-a-Black-Neighborhood-20150513-0024.html I just about remember that and it is no less shocking - even now.
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Sorry to repeat myself Nev1 but the above is my arbitrarily ''removed'' reply to you on this thread from above: http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1059122.
Furthermore, ''Tyranny and Violence come in many forms - so resistance is a moral imperative.'' ..was my ''removed'' reply to you here: http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1059241 You have replied to me already but ''someone'' thinks that it is ok to hack your important thread for purposes as yet unknown - but probably very small and extremely petty.
Immediately below this reply to you is yet another example of this Petty Tinpot Tyranny that prevails on this OWS-Forum, re. a reply about ''Monroe Bird'' .. which you probably never saw via your reply notifier.
Ok Nev, whine over - lol, so your .. ''USG knows all about everything we buy, every thing we look at on internet, and every place we go----- but does not know how many people are killed by cops.'' - is A Fkn Huge Point! Solidarity to you and yours and to The Fallen and their families and ergo, again I'll repeat...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
https://www.facebook.com/TheCounted
https://twitter.com/thecounted
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1st track: (Dancing) "When we want to change the subject to put it back on someone else - because we can't defend a position that we have been pressured on - ooo look something shiny - and we will be relentless repeating it to infinity in every place we can find to place it"
dancing............ Dancing............. DANCING................ we're a dancing machine
Ah baby
Move it baby
dancing . . . Dancing . . . DANCING . . .
. . . . we're a dancing machine . . . Ah baby
Move it baby
We dance to avoid to evade as we got nothing to provide . . . . Who needs substance - dancing is easier to do then actually most anything else . . . . . .
cause we're dancing............ Dancing............. DANCING................ we're a dancing machine . . . . . . ooo LOOK something shiny . . . . .
Copy/Pasting replies is a lazy and unintelligent way to subvert this forum. Nobody is impressed BUT some people no longer posting here will be happy. Have you been getting advice from others?! Is jart aware of what you're up to here? Do you get why http://www.leftforum.org/ is important to Occupiers?
''Police Shootings Won't Stop Unless We Also Stop Shaking Down Black People - The dangers of turning police officers into revenue generators.'' by Jack Hitt:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/police-shootings-traffic-stops-excessive-fines
From which I excerpt ...
''(L)urking beneath this violence is a fiscal menace: police departments forced to assist city officials in raising revenue, in many cases funding their own salaries—redirecting the very concept of keeping the peace into underwriting the budget.
''We saw a glimpse of this when the Justice Department released its report on Ferguson in March. In his statement, then-Attorney General Eric Holder referenced a lady in town whose life sounded Walter Scott-like. She had received two parking tickets totaling $151. Her efforts to pay those fines fell so behind that she eventually paid out more than $500. At one point, she was jailed for nonpayment and—eight years later—still owes $541 in accrued fees.
''The judge largely responsible for the extraction of these fees from Ferguson's poor, Ronald J. Brockmeyer, owed $172,646 in back taxes, a sum orders of magnitude greater than any late fine coming before his bench. Even as he was jailing black ladies for parking tickets, Brockmeyer was allegedly erasing citations for white Ferguson residents who happened to be his friends. After the report's publication, he resigned so that Ferguson could "begin its healing process." {What a scumbag!}
''But consider: In 2010, this collaboration between the Ferguson police and the courts generated $1.4 million in income for the city. This year, they will more than double that amount—$3.1 million—providing nearly a quarter of the city's $13 million budget, almost all of it extracted from its poorest African American citizens.
''Evidence also suggests that this new form of raising revenue—policiteering?—goes far beyond Ferguson. Remember the recent Oklahoma case involving Robert Bates, a 73-year-old millionaire insurance broker with to go out on patrol—likely because he had donated lots of money and equipment to the local sheriff's office? He killed an unarmed black suspect [RiP: Eric Harris] when he grabbed his gun instead of his Taser. In the days that followed, we learned that other deputies had long resented this guy's freelance incompetence.
"Essentially, these small towns in urban areas have municipal infrastructure that can't be supported by the tax base, and so they ticket everything in sight to keep the town functioning," said William Maurer, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice who has been studying the sudden rise in "nontraffic-related fines."
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Well worth reading the whole article - to be honest.
everyone having to scramble for money leads to fighting for it
''US Surveillance Targets Black Lives Matter Activists'' by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32424-us-surveillance-targets-black-lives-matter-activists and btw there's plenty of money Matt but it's just that it is being hoarded at the tippy-top .. as all pretence of ''Trickle Down'' has now morphed into ''Hoover Up'' ... as we lurch from Kleptocracy to Plutocracy to Oligarchy to Fascism!
yes, people can be tracked by interested parties
Good article. Such a warped system.
And shit just got a lot/bit more ''warped'' ... ''WHY WAS AN FBI JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCE TRACKING A BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST?'': https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/12/fbi-appeared-use-informant-track-black-lives-matter-protest/ Implications of this are huge & a bit scary!
12th track: (Hiding in plain sight) "Also known as trying to hide in the light"
We get really strident with this - when we feel we need to reapply shredded cover
All it requires - is - enough expressed vitriol for the system in general - and many will believe you mean it - while one need not provide any supporting substance.
(part 2)
When the 1st part is not enough we also love to pretend to support protest and things (whatever is handy) - helps to throw off suspicion.
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15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
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14th track (see how badass I am?)
By this tactic. You may well overlook the fact that we do not want you to unite and take action - like possibly all getting together to vote out of office all of the actively evil in office - because we will also tell you that that just isn't possible - so - better for you to just protest and forget about doing anything else at all.
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15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
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15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
14th track (see how badass I am?)
By this tactic. You may well overlook the fact that we do not want you to unite and take action - like possibly all getting together to vote out of office all of the actively evil in office - because we will also tell you that that just isn't possible - so - better for you to just protest and forget about doing anything else at all.
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15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
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13th track: (Stinkle teaming away) "one of our very favorites - we can bully and manipulate the boards by teaming up to stinkle comments or twinkle our BS - but we really hate it if anyone calls us out on it - and it drives us insane if we are subjected to anything like it ourselves."
Stinkle teaming away Stinkle teaming away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
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12th track: (Hiding in plain sight) "we get really strident with this - when we feel we need to reapply shredded cover"
All it requires - is - enough expressed vitriol for the system in general - and many will believe you mean it - while one need not provide any supporting substance.
(part 2)
When the 1st part is not enough we also love to pretend to support protest and things (whatever is handy) - helps to throw off suspicion.
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From the collected styling s of the status quo defenders
1st track: (Dancing) "ooo look something shiny"
dancing............ Dancing............. DANCING................ we're a dancing machine
Ah baby
Move it baby
dancing . . . Dancing . . . DANCING . . .
. . . . we're a dancing machine . . . Ah baby
Move it baby
We dance to avoid to evade as we got nothing to provide . . . . Who needs substance - dancing is easier to do then actually most anything else . . . . . .
cause we're dancing............ Dancing............. DANCING................ we're a dancing machine . . . . . . ooo LOOK something shiny . . . . .
Everyone but(t) you can now see and attest to your psychic meltdown and all you're doing is making it all worse for yourself. Try to meditate on http://www.leftforum.org/ - IF u have a progressive, liberal mind because your behavior says that you are a Reactionary Conservative who fears and resents ''radicals'' - despite such radicals having ''brought to you'' this OWS Forum. Oh, The Irony! Get over yourself... asap.
Everyone - Of course meaning you and your tinkle/stinkle teammates.
13th track: (Stinkle teaming away) "one of our very favorites - we can bully and manipulate the boards by teaming up to stinkle comments or twinkle our BS - but we really hate it if anyone calls us out on it - and it drives us insane if we are subjected to anything like it ourselves."
Stinkle teaming away Stinkle teaming away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
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15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
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12th track: (Hiding in plain sight)
All it requires - is - enough expressed vitriol for the system in general - and many will believe you mean it - while one need not provide any supporting substance.
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10th track: (Tossing Shit)
As We have nothing to back-up our stated positions (opt-out fiction) - We will do our best to throw it back on ( put a lie on) any who would ask for details of our non-existent action plans (Ya know......those who put the lie - "to shine the light" - on our bullshit).
12th track: (Hiding in plain sight) "we get really strident with this - when we feel we need to reapply shredded cover"
All it requires - is - enough expressed vitriol for the system in general - and many will believe you mean it - while one need not provide any supporting substance.
(part 2)
When the 1st part is not enough we also love to pretend to support protest and things (whatever is handy) - helps to throw off suspicion.
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12th track: (Hiding in plain sight) We love this one - we love it
All it requires - is - enough expressed vitriol for the system in general - and many will believe you mean it - while one need not provide any supporting substance.
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13th track: (Stinkle teaming away) "one of our very favorites - we can bully and manipulate the boards by teaming up to stinkle comments or twinkle our BS - but we really hate it if anyone calls us out on it - and it drives us insane if we are subjected to anything like it ourselves."
Stinkle teaming away Stinkle teaming away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
1st track: (Dancing)
dancing............ Dancing............. DANCING................ we're a dancing machine
Ah baby
Move it baby
dancing . . . Dancing . . . DANCING . . .
. . . . we're a dancing machine . . . Ah baby
Move it baby
We dance to avoid to evade as we got nothing to provide . . . . Who needs substance - dancing is easier to do then actually most anything else . . . . . .
cause we're dancing............ Dancing............. DANCING................ we're a dancing machine . . . . . . ooo LOOK something shiny . . . . .
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13th track: (Stinkle teaming away) "one of our very favorites - we can bully and manipulate the boards by teaming up to stinkle comments or twinkle our BS - but we really hate it if anyone calls us out on it - and it drives us insane if we are subjected to anything like it ourselves."
Stinkle teaming away Stinkle teaming away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
We know a man He came from my hometown He shared his passion for this world in deeds that needed to be done
He said, world, I live in fear My love for you’s so overpowering and I’m afraid that you will be disappeared”
We had stinkle teamed Him away Stinkle teamed Him away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
And, We know a woman Became an advocate to support life These are the very words she uses to describe her life She said, “A good day Ain’t got no stinkle team” She said, “A bad day’s when I lie in bed And think of things that should have been”
We had stinkle teamed Her away Stinkle teamed Her away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
And We know a father Who had a son He longed to tell him all the reasons For the things that needed be done He came a long way Just to explain He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping Then he turned around and headed home again
We had stinkle teamed Him away Stinkle teamed Him away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
We say "God only knows God makes his plan" We say "The information’s unavailable To the mortal man" We want You to work your jobs Collect your pay To believe you’re gliding down the highway When in fact you’ve been stinkle teamed away
Stinkle teaming away Stinkle teaming away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
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13th track: (Stinkle teaming away) "one of our very favorites - we can bully and manipulate the boards by teaming up to stinkle comments or twinkle our BS - but we really hate it if anyone calls us out on it - and it drives us insane if we are subjected to anything like it ourselves."
Stinkle teaming away Stinkle teaming away You know the nearer your proactive destination The more we’re gonna try to stinkle team you away
15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
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20th track "(We really really really are not about Direct Democracy)"
As people could tell if only people paid attention to our activities
Lucky for us the people do not and so we can continue with our politi-speak = talking endlessly while saying "really" nothing at all - nothing of any value - see also: endlessly arguing circular "public self defeating" logic, tossing shit, spouting specious aspersions, trying to hide in the light, etc etc etc
Lucky thing that more people don't ask us why:
"Why don't you take over government for the people from within?"
"Seeing as you don't have a national party in place to successfully run your candidates in all 50 states - WHY don't you run your candidates as dems and reps?"
Well we would just have to say (and we do) that the people can't be successful that way. Better we say - if we all stay away - and just protest for government to get better.
We really do not want people to consider a possible winner by doing things like Bernie Sanders and run as a dem for a real chance to win - and have "more" people running on the issues where they can legitimately destroy their opponents in office or also running for office - by pointing out past voting records showing non support for the people - even showing active attacks on the people - or even calling on them to declare a public stance.
Gosh that would ruin our whole "public self defeating" circular do nothing opt out and just protest logic.
Just before you breath your last breath ask why none'll remember to mourn your passing or even water your final resting with a sprinkle of urine. You are an ex-person here and, burnt all the bridges you had.
15th track "(things that we really really really hate)"
For example - when our tactics get thrown back in our face.
We complain - but - it is more than just a little lame - because truth be told - bottom line - at the best - we are being - hypocritical.
But damn we hate it after all of these years to have our tinkle/stinkle team tactics made moot.
we will often retaliate with:
12th track: (Hiding in plain sight) "Also known as trying to hide in the light"
We get really strident with this - when we feel we need to reapply shredded cover
All it requires - is - enough expressed vitriol for the system in general - and many will believe you mean it - while one need not provide any supporting substance.
(part 2)
When the 1st part is not enough we also love to pretend to support protest and things (whatever is handy) - helps to throw off suspicion.
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2nd track: (Specious aspersions) "When one has nothing)"
We throw specious aspersions as we have nothing else to say.
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The dumbing down of police in the US, is no joke. So many cops seem to be hoping for an opportunity, to murder.
All part of the grand plan, of TPTB.
Thank you for posting this.
Walter Scott (RIP) had a broken tail light; had served his nation in The US Coast Guard + had 4 children and was trying to get by in little or no work, fuck all 'Trickle Down' (other than BS) but 'Wealth Hoovering Up'; pro-1%/anti-99% And Desperate Recession Hit Real USA - run by Oligarchs, Parasites + Bankers!
Further just because BS militarized, over armed and trigger happy racist cops - who would NEVER have shot a white man 8 fkn times in the back...are now effectively ARMED MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTORS, giving out tickets as a Cash Collection Exercise for the cash strapped urban municipalities, then people like Mr.Scott are the victims of a system designed to crush the human spirit. It can NOT go on like this!
Unfortunately Mr Scott's death, at the hands of police was not not an aberration, as most of us know. The whole corrupt system which has a well-known, infamous history of putting badges on psychopaths, or people who lust after power and control, and then lets them get away with murder needs to be indicted.
''Mr Scott's death, at the hands of police was not not an aberration'' is sadly far more true than we want to realise or to admit. Mike Brown in Missouri; Tamir Rice in Ohio; John Crawford in Ohio; Ezell Ford in California; Eric Garner in NY - the list is endless. This egregious police behaviour is not just confined to black people either and all US citizens need to consider just what's happening as they sleep walk on.
Police jobs on the front-line with the public: need to be graduate jobs, better paid, better trained, less militarized - more proactive, less reactive - more community based and less racist and paranoid... for everyone's sake. Unfit, donut munching, old, fat, trigger happy, corrupt, racist cops... just need to go!
http://www.alternet.org/print/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces
The police are the "enforcement arm of the State," and as such, most garner huge salaries (as well as having very little real accountability), that are far higher than other public workers, even though others often have far better educations on the whole, namely teachers... The psychopathic behavior that many of them display is mostly overlooked because their compliance with the status quo, no matter how corrupt, is essential for the continuance of neoliberalism. The unaccountability that they have have enjoyed by their word being accepted as 'fact,' and by complicit, farcicle Grand Juries is now being challenged by people who catch their crimes on camera.
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/12/thugs-uniforms-psychopathology-police/
For anyone who thinks, 'Well I'm not being victimized...' I would say, 'not yet.. maybe....'
''The Psychopathology of Police Violence'' was a very good link. Thanks + again - http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/12/thugs-uniforms-psychopathology-police/
Also fyi: ''9 Months Pregnant, Handcuffed Woman Punched by Texas Police'' - http://rt.com/usa/248125-texas-woman-punched-police/ (Video & Article) A Texas woman has accused a cop of beating her when she was 38 weeks pregnant. Thanks to the surveillance system in her parents’ home.. a video has been published online that appears to prove her allegations. An investigation is under way - but in Texass....?!
We have a psychopath system which in countless ways puts the interest$ of the coprrupt elite first and foremost. 'They' do their best to convince us that this is the new norm that we have to adjust to. It is also paramount to them that the first line of defense, either be recruits, or people willing to be psychopathic too.
"Walter Scott's Killing Is a Direct Result of the State of Policing in America Today'' By Ezekiel Edwards http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ezekiel-edwards/walter-scott-killing_b_7036706.html ..and I'd argue that so many years of a Military Security State - has now generated a soft face for Fascism inside the USA and that like frogs slow-boiling in a pot, the US public has become inured to the realities that they face. And http://www.alternet.org/print/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces
This is a war. It has been going on for a long time. Many are suffering from this war. The war is escalating, and a new level of suffering is planned by TPTB.
“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”... James Baldwin, ''This Morning, This Evening, So Soon''.... and in deep honor of this great man's insights into so many things, I'll also now link to this very good article, which quotes James Baldwin too - "White guilt won’t fix America’s race problem. Only justice and equality will" by the black British journalist Gary Younge.... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/10/white-guilt-america-walter-scott-us !
With ref. to ''Jade Helm 15'' from your comment below [ http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1058317 ] - see the following link to an alarming article...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagons-operation-jade-helm-15-the-floodgate-towards-martial-law-and-world-war-iii/5443856
Good article.
Check this out------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-QIMAQL-00
Even with this, TPTB will still carry on with Jade Helm 15--------
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZLnI-zxd0
''The reason why you didn't hear The Fat Lady Sing ... was because she died of radiation''! - from your video and in support see this from ''Greenpeace'' about Fukushima + JadeHelm and all, is a bit much!
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear/safety/accidents/Fukushima-nuclear-disaster/ + re 'JH15' and all, consider http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-and-the-global-police-state-crisis-of-humanity-and-the-specter-of-21st-century-fascism/5444340 = Quite a read tbh!
"FILM THE POLICE" B. Dolan ft. Toki Wright, Jasiri X, Buddy Peace, Sage Francis #FILMTHEPOLICE
glad to here he served the US
i mean if we only regard those that "serve" the US
you may as live in a military state
right?
not like those people we bomb who deserve no rights
just keep speaking out of the side of your mouth
good thing we diudn't have to regard this one for its humanity
"F,F,Film The Police'' and that's true because ''This is what happens when you call the cops'':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc -''u get your rights violated or y'all get shot''!
Your point about eulogising those ''who serve'' is true and yes, you do live in a ''military state''
Scientific Uber-Violence and Illegal Incarceration Abroad... Only leads to The Same at home!
Hello Lugano, Reply option on most of your comment/reply missing, so am talking here. Yes FBI acting like it is 1960 again----Symptom of critical problem. Please see link-----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p51kbdnenc
Good video but WTF was that?! Police in USA seem to have forgotten how to police, or how to handle crowds or how to de-escalate situations. They want to go to their guns and military kit like MRAPs etc. but consider that every problem will seem to be a nail IF a hammer is The Only tool in their crap-bags!
Police are sworn to serve and protect everyone equally, not disproportionately stop and harass only certain communities.Rather than express surprise & shock that during a long summer, people have been killed by police in highly questionable circumstances, it is up to us all to do something. + Fyi: http://www.alternet.org/print/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces
Btw, ''reply options are missing'' ... occurs only when 15 replies on a matter are reached. Finally, do note: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32429-criminalizing-the-history-of-us-radical-underground-movements for deeper insights why/how ''FBI acting like it is 1960 again''.Solidarity to you and yours.
Yes, many cops displaying only one response. Not much conflict resolution any more. Good links.
''U.S. police forces are so out of control there’s not even a reliable database on how many times police officers shoot citizens. So, beyond racism and fear of guns, the problem includes fragmentation in law enforcement and gaps in training among the 18,000 police agencies in the 50 states'' from:
''Why US Police Are Out of Control'' by Daniel Lazare: https://consortiumnews.com/2015/08/20/why-us-police-are-out-of-control/ From which I also excerpt ...
''America is clearly an outlier when it comes to police brutality. According to The Guardian’s highly useful “Counted” website [ http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database ], Where police in Stockton, California, killed three people in the first five months of 2015, police in Iceland, which has roughly the same population, have killed just one person since the modern Icelandic republic was founded in 1944.
''Where Britain’s police forces are firmly under the control of the Home Office while France’s are under the Ministry of the Interior, moreover, America’s are virtually autonomous. When the Justice Department sent out a survey on the use of force in 2013, the answers that came back were so jumbled as to be well nigh useless. Some departments sent back information on the use of guns, while others included reports about punches thrown and the use of non-lethal devices such as beanbag guns. Others, including such big-city departments as New York, Houston, Baltimore and Detroit, either did not know or refused to say.
''A country that doesn’t even know how many times police fire their weapons or under what circumstances is one in which every local department is a law unto itself, a self-contained barony with its own special rules and customs.
''What does a lack of knowledge have to do with ultra-high levels of brutality? The answer is simple: absence of knowledge means an absence of control, which means that local departments behave with relative impunity. If local cops seem out of control, it’s because the only controls come from local politicians who are often corrupt and racist and therefore tolerant of such behavior on the part of the officers they employ.''
This is a good and well thought out article on this crucial matter, & with many important embedded links (only one of which: ''The Counted'' have I included above) & I recommend this article to all readers.For an alternate link, with clearer font .... please see: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42681.htm
Fragmentation-----18000+ agencies, and no unifying standard. Good contribution here.
''The Counted'' Database of PD Slayings is a very important site/resource imo re. this important thread -
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
Thank you for this. Guardian did what the USG could not do.
http://www.fatalencounters.org/ - is another site to note in this matter & I'd say that this site and The
Guardian's on-line database do NOT what ''the USG could not do'' -but what The USG Would Not Do!
Did you know that in many States although running a pedistrian over with a motor vehicle is a felony (vehicular homicide,) there is no law against running a bicylisit over with a motor vehicle? So, say for example if somebody's little kiddie who wanders out in the street gets hit, big trouble, but say if the the same little kiddie rolls out into the street on a big wheel and gets hit by a car, no biggie; that is perfectly ok.
The street's name is Wall Street, isn't it? It's just angina clintoris but Brexit tries to shake it off. Just feel the temblors in the financial markets! U.K. kisses E.U. goodbye. Orange is the new white. "God also made me fast."
Headphones on drivers were illegal but conversing on cellphones and texting by drivers are still legal in many states. Temporo-lobotomy is far more dangerous than loud music but the difference was that young people blared music but rich people used cellular phones and telephone company had lobbyists to defend corporate profits.
Skynet knows, and herd-culling data are being shared with hospital emergency rooms. Fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution is being violated: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism/
Some people have been culled by deathcare workers.
''New Prison Radio Commentary on Walter Scott Shooting by Mumia Abu Jamal'' (Video) http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/10/exclusive_mumia_abu_jamal_releases_new ...
The long time imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, has spoken out from a prison infirmary about the police killing of Walter Scott in South Carolina. Abu-Jamal, who is seriously ill at SCI Mahanoy, rose from his infirmary bed to record the commentary after a fellow prisoner wheeled in a TV so he could watch coverage of the shooting.
Mr Slaeger's (the cop who was SEEN on video! shooting an unarmed black man) wife is eight months pregnant, and the mayor of N Charleston announced that she will continue to receive his health insurance, basically because, 'it's the right thing to do.' Then we have Mumia Abu-Jamal ACCUSED of killing a cop, who is in need of urgent medical care, and not getting it. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this? It would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.
"Strange Fruit", sung by Nina Simone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsU01lfzLU -(silent sad sigh)
“There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.”
RIP Mr. Walter Scott and.. Michael Slaerger's wife and unborn child are totally innocent but the rights to healthcare afforded to them should also be Universally Accessible To All Americans, irrespective of their economic or employment status.Healthcare in a civilized nation should not be a privilege but a Right4All and the fact that so many Americans, worry about healthcare in case they are taken ill or have an injury is an absolute abomination and aberration in The Richest Country the world has ever known and so that fact alone (never mind that 30% of costs go to 'admin'!) should make Americans question the US' ethos.
You made a good point.
Matt Taibbi on Baltimore, Freddie Gray and How The US Legal System Covers Up Police Violence - http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/21/matt_taibbi_on_baltimore_freddie_gray (Video + Transcript)
More pain--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgsg_HOGWsg
RiP Tamir Rice but I'm not really relating to the ''protest'' Al Sharpton bit from the narrator. There is a reason that some white folk really viscerally hate Sharpton (and his family it appears .. if you elide to next video) is because Al Sharpton is NOT shy to speak hard and harsh home truths to white power.
The murder of Tamir Rice is particularly shocking and egregious .. and being polite about it by being 'respectful' of white folks' feeling - is not on for black folk. Protesting murder, isn't really ''race baiting'' although cops continuously killing people of color with impunity for decades could be seen as ^that^.
http://revolution-news.com/photo-exposes-police-cover-up-of-the-fatal-shooting-of-jermaine-mcbean/
Also: ''License to Kill'' by Jimmie Moglia http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42022.htm
Never ending highway of murder, by hysterical cop cowards.
Consider... "No man survives when freedom fails, - The best men rot in filthy jails, - And those who cry 'appease, appease', Are hanged by those they tried to please."(Hiram Mann, An American Aviator who passed away just over a year ago) In the context of your forum-post, the cry of appeasement would be TO the PD's! Also fyi, see... http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31111-we-re-building-a-movement-with-young-gifted-and-black-coalition-in-the-lead-z-haukeness-on-madison-s-white-racial-justice-organizing ~
''Killer Cops Boost Body Count in War on Black America'' By Glen Ford - http://www.blackagendareport.com/killercops-bodycount - short extracts:
''March was a very good month for killer cops... they racked up at least 111 bodies, the majority of them unarmed Black and brown men. “Any genuine movement for criminal justice ‘reform’ must aim to abolish the Mass Black Incarceration State, root and branch, by removing the ‘occupation’ army...
''The wave of state violence that smashed the Black Panther Party.. when it challenged the police “army of occupation” in the late Sixties, NEVER subsided, but was instead hard-wired into the criminal justice system, nationwide.''
Finally, see ''Eleven Eye-Opening Facts About America’s Militarized Police Forces'', by Alex Kane : http://www.alternet.org/print/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces
War Crimes
In a case of epiphany - ''Shot to the Heart'' - https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/shot-to-the-heart/
The 'from the heart' comment by Ms Nauright was beautifully written. It should all make us think.
''The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer'' - James Baldwin, who also said - “A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. ... And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind .. It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.” WTFU America! Unite and Fight! Win!
"Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy." Nicholas Sparks
We can take solace in knowing that we are in a epic battle for justice, and in knowing that we have been joined by a lot of good people. And by, "Be[ing] the change that we wish to see in the World," Gandhi, we become more credible.
"Mother, mother - there's too many of you crying..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H358T-Ijc RIP Eric C. Harris; Walter Scott; Tamir Rice; Eric Garner; Kajieme Powell; Mike Brown etc. Etc. ETc. ETC.!
Amen, brother.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/map-shows-exact-location-every-black-person-killed-cops-2014
http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ .... extracted from your excellent link. Thank you very much for that and here's a tune by Percy Sledge {RIP} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3UdRmhgvM in return.
the US could have kill twice as many in one airstrike
The US could and it does so regularly and without pity, conscience or compunction... as you so well document on this very forum and so consider "If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs Home and Abroad, the US Killing Machine rolls on.
some work ethic drum
Interesting video---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo2_J4VRpW4
Good link. Controlling the minds of the masses has always been of chief importance in perpetuating an unjust system.
The video brought up the possibility of 'citizens arrest', of criminal CEOs. That concept has merit.
"White guilt won’t fix America’s race problem.Only justice and equality will"by Gary Younge http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/10/white-guilt-america-walter-scott-us
Also: Eric Courteny Harris [RIP] "I'm losing my breath''; Tulsa Police - "Fuck Your Breath"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEhhcgFf5RQ&feature=youtu.be
More War Crimes.
Yes, The ''Blue Klux Klan'' need to be vetted, weeded and retrained as All Lives Matter and Police Lives Matter too... BUT NOT MORE Than Other Lives! + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CM2YMaZSWk
Blue Klux Klan----------That says a lot.
Dr. Cornel West Calls For April 14 Shut Down In Response To Police Killings Of Unarmed People
http://stopmassincarceration.net/content/cornel-west-calls-april-14-shut-down +
https://www.popularresistance.org/cornel-west-sparks-shutdowna14-movement/
People are awakening to our two-tiered justice system, and the pot is beginning to boil. And more people are beginning to link this injustice to so many more, realizing that we have the same foe.
Can rich folk BUY their way into - Playing Police By Becoming Donors and Then Become Reservists? Crazy Question?! Read This.. http://m.tulsaworld.com/newshomepage1/sheriff-s-office-reserve-deputy-who-fired-fatal-shot-was/article_3d1f3fe7-43cd-5fa1-9e8c-d8b3aefe2504.html?mode=jqm Fkn Nuts imo.
Excellent.
Thanks + see the crazy Tulsa story above. You couldn't make it up!
Welcome to Bizarro World, my friend.
No, I'm serious. I loved the comic books back in my youth, but we're there, my friend. We're there.
News Flash from "Bizarro World" ... "Police Sergeant Says Cop Who Killed Unarmed Eric Harris Is a 'True Victim'"(oMg!) - http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30211-police-sergeant-says-cop-who-killed-unarmed-eric-harris-is-a-true-victim but The People just ain't buying it! Got to stop out of control cops!
Reply option missing from your last post, so am responding here.
Excellent links. Freddie Gray----Broken Neck----Vicious Murder.
With all this, it is easy to understand why US citizens have concerns about Jade Helm 15.
Missouri town elects 1st Black Mayor - 80% of Police and City Attorney, Water Supervisor... resign!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/19/parma-police-resign-black-female-mayor_n_7097110.html
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/80-percent-of-police-force-resigns-after-missouri-town-elects-first-african-american-mayor/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378904/-Missouri-town-elects-first-black-mayor-80-of-the-police-city-attorney-water-supervisor-resign
''If the very presence of a black woman in power causes you to fear for your safety, you shouldn't be a public servant.'' - Shit is fkt up and BS... Information = Defence and finally, with ref. to ''Jade Helm 15'': http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1058321
Agree---oMg. The cops there must have a persecution complex. Perhaps, soon they will call the shooter cop a hero.
RIP: Freddie Gray, neck broken by the Blue Klux Klan, Baltimore.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/20/us/baltimore-freddie-gray-death/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-freddie-gray-20150419-story.html
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/20/death-in-custody-of-baltimore-man-freddie-gray-sparks-call-for-independent-inquiry
More Death by Militarized Cops inside USA, where u are "under oppressive occupation of a troll army - otherwise known as Western corporate "news media" that will never tell u just how managed are your perceptions. Quote from - http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150420/1021135202.html - for an alt. view of distant but actually very related events, when viewed through the dark prism of State Violence.
Did they redefine words like, 'good' and 'evil,' and 'up' and 'down' in "Bizarro World"? Were people there who fought back against subjugation called 'terrorists' too?
Yes. Everything is opposite in Bizarro World. Good is bad, up is down, taxpaying citizen is enemy combatant.
Also, . . . is good not to have job in Bizarro World. So, not have money to spend, so company goes out of business. More layoffs, less money, more closures. Cycle continues. Only total worldwide financial collapse will validate neoliberal economics.
Wait, . . . now I'm confused. Was that last part Bizarro World, or the real one? My head hurts.
ong ;-)
And right on que, here comes the personal attacks. I'll still never know how those four obtained moderating powers on THE #1 site for the biggest political movement the country has seen in decades.
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Looks like you have a team of societal failures backing you. Does that make you happy? - being a cause celebrity of the garbage of society?
Your great nephew ever pay you back? Or are you just letting that slide? If you are letting it slide - then - you are another reason why the young that are coming up ARE so worthless - You (and everyone else) have got to instil responsibility in our youth.
BTW - I hope you don't get pissed off at me ( like other no-account parents - relatives - siblings and such do) - your no account family is your history - NOT - mine. Make a difference in your little corner of the world - and have that disrespecting relative pay up to what they owe.
Yes, strange.
''Pay To Play Part-Time Policing'' in USA!
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/tulsa-shooting-robert-bates-volunteer-deputy/ +
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/17/oakley-michigan-pay-to-play-police
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-cop-jason-van-dyke-charged-with-murder-in-killing-of-black-teen-laquan-mcdonald/?google_editors_picks=trueChicago Cop Charged With Murder In Killing Of Black Teen
Murder charges made possible by public seeing video recordings as well as video recordings of other police murders having been leaked to the public and the subsequent protests growing across these united states.
Still waiting for the release of all video recordings of the Minneapolis pd shooting/killing of unarmed civilian.
Thank you for post. Video is vital. This is a war against the people.
Re. ''Video is vital'' - ''Cops Didn’t Know Camera Caught Them Deleting Video of the Murder of ... Laquan McDonald'' by Andrew Emett, from http://thefreethoughtproject.com/ = A Must See Website!
so ''Accused of deleting the surveillance video of Laquan McDonald’s death, several officers appeared in recently released screenshots tampering with Burger King’s computers before the footage mysteriously disappeared. Although 86 minutes of the surveillance video have gone missing ... including the moment McDonald was gunned down, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez claims no one tampered with the footage.'' - Yeah right, because, you know - we can trust the cops to do the right thing these days!!!
fiat lux ...
Cops caught deleting video, by video. Thank you for Free Thought and AlterNet sites. Executions.
''The Killers Are Everywhere, But Love Endures'' by Ed Curtin ..
This is a really lovely & moving read, that I append and attach above because - we all need a li'l soul! Edward Curtin is a sociologist and writer - who teaches at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
pax, amor et lux ...
Thank you for fine article.
Ed Curtin's article is great & will reward anyone reading it. Now at a bit of a tangent:
pax ...
Good Tangent. Social Security is one of the few good remaining parts of the USG. Good info.
Re. Bernie Sanders & Social Security, please also consider the following forum-post:
'Tangents' can have real purpose & they can clarify, contextualize & give perspective!
fiat lux ...
Chicago Chief of Police = Fired
This due to the murder of the Laquan McDonald.
Still - I think that there are more in the chain of command and in the prosecutors office that should also be fired - if not also charged for aiding and abetting after the fact.
Yes, Charged
Full Justice SYSTEM accountability - so not only charged - but . . . . . prosecuted & convicted! It is the only way that the system will work to change and become an asset of society rather than a detriment to society!
Exactly
no one's gonna save you from the beast with 40 eyes
Judge Orders Release Of Video Showing Fatal Shooting By Police Officer
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-judge-orders-release-of-video-showing-fatal-shooting-by-police-officer-20151119-story.html
So - ''This Thanksgiving, Let’s Say ‘No Thanks’ to the Tyranny of the American Police State'' ...
From which I excerpt: ''Militarized police, shootings of unarmed citizens, SWAT team raids, misconduct and qualified immunity have transformed the U.S. into a police state. What we must contend with today is the danger of having a standing army (which is what police forces, increasingly made up of individuals with military backgrounds and/or training ... have evolved into) that has been trained to view the citizenry as little more than potential suspects - combatants and insurgents. Despite propaganda to the contrary, it is estimated that U.S. police kill more people in days than other countries do in years. On an average day in America, at least 100 Americans have their homes raided by SWAT teams (although I have seen estimates as high as 300 a day), which are increasingly used to deal with routine police matters: angry dogs, domestic disputes, search warrants, etc. Every Five Days a police officer somewhere in America engages in sexual abuse or misconduct.'' However .. I do recommend reading the entire heartfelt article.
RIP Laquan McDonald (executed by 16 bullets); RIP Sandra Bland {dead before the PD Mugshot} et al.
http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ and: http://www.policemisconduct.net/
& http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
verb. sat. sap. ...
This Thanksgiving, let's think about what we have left to be grateful for in the United States of America. It's dwindling daily, sadly. Maybe if we can think of what we still have, we can hold onto that and build from there. We have a lot of building to do....
Consider: ''The Thanksgiving Myth: Reflecting on Land Theft, Betrayal and Genocide''..
Maybe U$A really needs to embrace humility and humor rather than hubris and hypocrisy but for that, ''hate'' has to be rejected and ''history'' acknowledged. Nevertheless, I hope you and yours can have a good one. The same to those who read, comment or brainfart on these boards. Solidarity 4 a bw 4 all.
pax ...
SUNY ESF & native land it stands on. The environmental school acknowledges that it stands on Haudenosaunee Territory and native Onondaga land.
"Where We Stand"
http://www.esf.edu/communications/view.asp?newsID=3955
"Before a crowd of about 100 from the college community and the Onondaga Nation, Wheeler highlighted three points:
ESF is located within the original territory of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, Confederacy.
The college's main campus, its Heiberg Forest and its Lafayette Road Experiment Station are all within the Land Rights Action of the Onondaga Nation.
The Onondaga Nation maintains its own distinct government, language and customs based on a smaller portion of its original land base located south of Syracuse."
"These statements reinforce our responsibility to think about where we stand in the context of history, geography and environmental understanding so that we are ever-cognizant of the implications of our work for the real world," Wheeler said. "As individual persons, our time here is brief, but the land is permanent and our decisions and actions toward the land have consequences for many generations to come. We stand on the side of responsible stewardship of the land."
"SUNY-ESF has stood on this ground for more than 100 years, a long and venerable history of education for the environment," she said. "However, our tenure here is but an eye blink of time in the history of these lands, which have been and continue to be the ancestral homelands of the Onondaga people since time immemorial."
"Kimmerer noted the center has created an undergraduate minor called Native Peoples and the Environment and that next year it will introduce a new graduate program in indigenous issues and the environment."
A step and maybe a lesson to others in how to begin to heal the wounds of colonialism, genocide, slavery and hegemony.
Again "SUNY-ESF has stood on this ground for more than 100 years, a long and venerable history of education for the environment," she said. "However - our tenure here is but an eye blink of time in the history of these lands, which have been and continue to be the ancestral homelands of the Onondaga people since time immemorial."That bears repeating and speaks volumes for SUNY-ESF.Also fyi see
fiat justitia ...
"Tens of thousands of American Indians have waited decades for recognition, their lives left in limbo by the notoriously slow federal acknowledgement process. Since the process was established in 1978, 87 tribes have petitioned for recognition. Yet only 51 have received a determination, and about two-thirds of those were denied."
I had no idea all of America's Native Americans were not recognized officially. Shame on me and shame on my country.
Sadly, Native Americans' struggle for their Civil Rights is still a Very Big untold story in U$A but in truth, the shame is on us all. We disregard their knowledge and ancient wisdom about the land - at our peril ..
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34264-yurok-tribe-adopts-ordinance-banning-frankenfish-and-gmos &
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34235-guardians-of-ancient-foods-140-food-communities-celebrate-indigenous-food-systems-and-worldview
respice; adspice; prospice ...
A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail:
http://billmoyers.com/story/a-drone-protestor-heads-to-jail/#.Vp_7rESv_mY.twitter
A must read. I guarantee you will be outraged. This segues nicely here, because this arrest happened just outside of Syracuse, New York, where, evidently, and who knew, training occurs for drone pilots. Good grief.
So - ''Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.'' (WhoTF knew that?!) - from your link:
Which ends with:''Grady Flores was arrested in 2012, when she and 16 others blocked the entrance to the base, prompting the request from the military for the order of protection. So when she was arrested again a year later — not for protesting herself but for stepping on the road outside the base and taking pictures of others who were protesting — she was found to be in violation of that protection order. And the protestors she was photographing? They were acquitted.
''Justice David Gideon threw the book at her and he sentenced her to a year, claiming in his five-page ruling that he didn’t buy her First Amendment argument.Instead, he thought she “was willing to ‘break the law’ to seek publicity for her cause.” After an appeal - her sentence was shortened to six months.
''Before she went to jail yesterday she told us ... “I asked my grandchildren, ‘Do you know where I’m going?’ and they said, ‘yeah, you’re going to jail, Nana.’” She told us that it is difficult to leave her 88-year-old mother who is ailing ... but that her mother appreciates her carrying on in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King and the iconic Catholic activist Dorothy Day, with whom her mother once worked. Day famously said, “No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
''Grady Flores says her mother’s good-bye shared that sentiment, “Mom said to me, ‘I’ll pray for you, I’ll be with you in that cell.’ She said it in a whisper but she is [also] grateful that I am continuing the work.”
Thanx for your link to Bill Moyers' article.He's an epitome of a 99% Journalist + fyi, see his piece re.BS:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34442-tell-the-truth-about-bernie-s-health-care-stand & also
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34499-hillary-clinton-declares-war-on-single-payer-health-care
Finally bw we'd all be ill advised to forget this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30pdyzWOxnE
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
"The New York Times Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders" - Bill Moyers
http://billmoyers.com/story/new-york-times-invents-left-leaning-economists-to-attack-bernie-sanders/
"While it is nice that The New York Times is subjecting Sanders’ views to serious scrutiny, it would be good if it also subjected the views of other candidates to the same scrutiny."
Yeah, right.
Let's face it. There's nothing easy about being on the left. We forge on! Never give up!
Bless Bill Moyers! He is a 99% Warrior!! Forge on and NEVER give up!!!
Thanx for an excellent link and thus in compliment,please also consider:
fiat lux ....
Recognition of indigenous peoples rights Goes against greed & profit of TPTB.
as I understood the pilgrims were grateful the natives help them survive at the time
Without the Original Inhabitants' help, ''The Pilgrims'' - would not have lasted long. + I recommend:
multum in parvo ...
food, means of transport and communication
Good articles. Police state. US digesting itself.
''America is a democracy only to the extent that citizens feel that it is worthwhile to participate. We are in a race between new organizing strategies and credible leaders on the one hand, and ... demagogues and mass alienation on the other. And time is not on our side.'' Quoted from ...
http://www.alternet.org/economy/americas-political-landscape-providing-fresh-soil-fascism + see:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/states_of_terror_20151122 but don't read that if feeling low.
Per the OP ... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/25/sandra-bland-suspicion-mistrust-official-inconsistencies and
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sandra-bland-the-5-questions-that-we-should-still-be-asking-10418370.html !!
fiat lux ...
''Renegade Police in Rural Alabama Accused of Mass False Arrests of Hundreds of Black Youths''
Yet..''Another explosive report of institional racism by white police and prosecutors who willfully targeted black youths has emerged from one of the most remote regions of Alabama, the deep southeastern city of Dothan ... where for years, a handful of officers apparently planted drugs on Hundreds of black youths and railroaded them into prison.'' Yep .. ''Police state. US digesting itself'' BUT it need NOT be Like This:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/neuroscience-behind-why-white-cops-kill-black-men +
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mom-calls-911-mental-help-her-son-cops-show-taser-him-death-while-hes-restrained and ..
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/prison-officials-spying-inmates-find-net-worth-suing-anyone-worth-over-10k-stay = WTF?!
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Everyone should see all this.
A total of 462 people have died & 1,314 have been wounded in mass shootings in the US in 2015!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur-on-average-every-day-records-show.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 - link via..
''Guns and Deaths: We Really Don’t Care, Do We?'' by Peter Van Buren: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43615.htm
No one I know thinks US Society can be disarmed & I can get why pistols for home defence and rifles & shotguns for hunting & vermin control have value BUT whyTF can y'all go buy an AK47 at a ''Gun Fair''?!!!
ad iudicium ...
The weapons are not for hunting. They are for self protection, enemies foreign and domestic. And we are going to need it, because the rest of the planet has just about had enough of us.
We are trending towards Germany prior to WWII. And we know what happened to Germany when the rest of the planet decided enough was enough.
WTF kind of hunting needs a AR15 or AK47 ffs?!!! I'm sorry but the ''protection from enemies foreign and domestic'' is such specious, pseudo-religious crap!! The Second Amendment was for a musket and flint-lock rifle era citizens' militia from .. When There Was No Standing Army & the perfidious Brits were still looking to flip the nascent USA!! Re. ''domestic'' .. well fk me - IF Americans'd had have had the nous or balls to take their Govt. back from Banks, Corporations and the MIC .. well - they'd have done it by now!
Guns are an Opium of The People! They give an illusion of security/independence!! As the U$ is $tolen!!! Mussolini defined Fascism as the merger of Corporations{Banking, Industrial et al} with The State.Hmm! Yes, the USA is now tending towards Germany in the 1930s; especially as Empire's Armies return from overseas BUT there is NO foreign threat to The U$A - no matter how many times paRDisan pols tell y'all there is! HOWEVER I do feel some anxiety for Canada tho'!! Remember Austria and Anschluss, 1938?!!!
More relevantly here, please consider: http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/33890-the-rise-of-the-illegitimate-authority-of-transnational-corporations .. by [the excellent] Susan George
Also note: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/ Resist Oligarchy & Corporatocracy!!
respice, adspice, prospice .. et caveat!
Tell all of that to the people in the Middle East who are under siege and very happy to get their hands on a few AKs.
In a nation whose population continues to vote in fascist war criminals, I would say the chances that the rest of the planet decides to do something about it are very high.
Honestly, populations as a whole never see these things coming. If they did, they would do something about it ahead of time.
Ouch!!! I'll have to get back to you turbs because I'm in a huge rush now! Solidarity hc!
pax, amor et lux ...
:) All good.
Just Don't Vote Trump OR else ... there'll be a Hell Toupee !!! He is a RWNJ MSM Demagogue loon!
By the way .. ''the people of the Middle East'' are NOT .. ''very happy to get their hands on a few AKs'' or that they think that they need guns but that region is so awash with guns .. that it is an arms industry & gun-runners playground! More & more guns will NOT help! You aren't an ''American Ammosexual'' R U?!!
I hear you loud and clear re ''continues to vote in'' Fascist War Criminals BUT I ask you .. just how many people are actually voting these days? 'Cause face it now bro' - American deMOCKERYcy is pretty fukt!
Yes if ''the rest of the planet decides to do something about it'' .. there are consequences BUT no one is coming to US to attack Americans en masse. A few misguided loons who think some version of G*d will be pleased by their actions maybe BUT no armies are coming to kill Americans in their beds ... UNLIKE what America has done,for a long time now! Want to understand ISIS' rise better?! Find out about rise of The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia!
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/07/isis-arabic-khmer-rouge and see:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/17/from-pol-pot-to-isis-the-blood-never-dried/
cave - bellum se ipsum alet ...
(beware - war that feeds itself)
US wants people to believe in ISIS to justify war
Yes, USG ''wants people to believe in ISIS to justify war''!
BUT they totally do NOT want people to - know anything!!
Because Blind Belief in Belligerence Benefits them most!!!
e tenebris lux ...
Don't vote Trump write NO WAR
not enough people voted in the last government to legitimize a majority
"Don't vote Trump" because otherwise there'll be ... A Hell Toupee!!!
But alas, vex ye not too much!! For ye shall Over-Comb - someday!
pax ...
ISIL juts out but Al Qaeda still lurks. Various terrorist groups include: Boko Haram, Afghan Taliban, Khorasan group, Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Penninsula, etc.
They are quite willing to kill Americans en masse. However, they are indeed well dwarfed by our very own protector armies called the police and our very large groups of home-grown domestic militiamen. Remember the Christian Soldier Song from WWII?
The U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment protects WELL-REGULATED militias but not undisciplined ones. The First Amendment protects mosques but never, ever, diminutive mosqu-itoes!
What "WELL REGULATED" militias are you looking to protect?! The US is a militarized nation with pistol-packing; shotgun-wielding; rifle-toting Armed Police and agents of multiple agencies, at local, county, state & national level!! What more do you want ... some kind of Hyper -Violent Civil War?!!!
I remember singing that song/hymn you link to at school but so what? You want crusades? Finally your analysis / memory and knowledge of Muslim countries seems limited to what US Corporate MSM feeds you. Right up to the early 90s & across the Muslim World - The USA was very liked and well respected!
It was seen as a country which had overturned their Colonial Overlords and constructed - a moral nation based on a kind of ''Abrahamic Principles''! The conservative Islamic ''Anti-anti-religious'' world view - was ''Anti-Secular and Anti-Communist''. The Muslim World was in the main (bar re.Palestine) US allies. Lot changed in One Generation, huh? Meditate on how and why but without prejudice perhaps. Also fyi see:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/09/israeli-pm-netanyahu-meet-donald-trump-despite-outcry-muslim-ban and ...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/donald-trump-no-leader-hes-voice-americas-ugly-underbelly
Finally consider .. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/why-do-they-hate-us-its-no-mystery/
multum in parvo ...
like Iraq with NATO airstrikes
bullets only work once
Right and remember that ''Obama made the decision in early 2009 to block the Justice Department from criminally investigating and prosecuting Cheney and his fellow torturers, as well as to protect them from foreign investigations and even civil liability sought by torture victims.
''Obama did that notwithstanding a campaign decree that even top Bush officials are subject to the rule of law and, more importantly, notwithstanding a treaty signed in 1984 by Ronald Reagan requiring that all signatory states criminally prosecute their own torturers.
''Obama’s immunizing Bush-era torturers converted torture from a global taboo and decades-old crime into a reasonable, debatable policy question, which is why so many GOP candidates are now openly suggesting its use.
Alas .. ''... now, the Obama administration has moved from legally protecting Bush-era War Criminals to honoring and gushing over them in public. Yesterday (12/3) - the House of Representatives unveiled a marble bust of former Vice President Cheney, which until a person of conscience vandalizes or destroys it - will reside in 'Emancipation Hall' of the U.S. Capitol.''! {with added paragraphing} from:
So it now seems that in a Culture of Violence - homicidal psychopaths deserve to be honoured!! WTF?!!!
spero meliora ...
Refer Cheney to the International Criminal Court or "try" him in the Peoples' Court.
If only that was possible when Corporate Democraps suck up to and ''honor'' Dick Cheney & his ilk!!! The ICC in The Hague is ready and able to handle such a case, but how do you propose we do that and who does the ''referring''?!! The Crime of Unprovoked War of Aggression was The Supreme Crime, at the trials in Nuremburg btw and Nazis were hung for that and less! Again I append the following; read it and weep:
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
There are at least one hundred states parties to the Rome Statue. I presume that at least one of them will be gutsy enough to bring charges and initiate an investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Israel had tried tortures before and found them ineffective. The U.S. knew that fully well and still rolled into the turd. Whoever was responsible (Dick & mega-Wiener are candidates) must be held accountable.
When Obomber and John ''57 Varieties'' Kerry honor 'Deadshot Dick'' do you really think anyone else in the world ... ''will be gutsy enough'' to indict Cheney?! I don't!! All are too scared of The Empire for that!!!
Yes - Israel ''tried tortures before'' & though they were ineffective measures for intel - the Israelis realised that it was a Very Effective Psyop Technique - as a psychological weapon of Mass Terror at a Collective Consciousness BUT even more effectively at: The Collective Unconconciousness!!! Now maybe the U.S. has realised thAt too!! Nevertheless - yes, I agree that ultimately .. ALL ''must be held accountable''! Fyi:
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/nightmares-families-following by Lauren Jappe and also consider..
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/children-incarceration-palestinian by Reem Abd Ulhamid and see:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/why-do-they-hate-us-its-no-mystery/ [Sheldon Richman]
ad iudicium ...
unlawful must be removed. all practice of control by fear of violence must end regardless of government position,
Supreme Court
Can we really ride the Feral Burro of Incontinence into New Jerusalem on Palm Sunday?
Matt, maybe you can be the Messiah. Was that the fatwa of the Supreme Court of the Peoples?
the FBI should define terms based on fact not law
expand open communication with cellphone towers
I doubt that our horribly overworked burro knows the differences between laws, Dick, sausages, mega-Wiener, or facts. Feed it anything slippery and juicy should do, such as Slick Willie or GOOP.
Anyways, here's evidence for a charge of negligence. Otto von Bismarck said of preventive wars as being "in a way [commit] suicide from fear of death (gewissermaßen Selbstmord aus Besorgniß vor dem Tode)."
we can't get bernie to make any statement against war practices these days
Re. The US-MIC - you are right!!! However, this fact stands as Full & Final Testament, to just how fkn Powerful The Banking / Corporate Military / Industrial / Security / Incarceration complex is in The US!!
It's almost as if Sanders has to try to get in by stealth.. especially when The Same Corporations Own The Armaments Companies AND The MSM! For insights into US/Global Corporatocracy, do consider:
fiat lux ...
just another diversionary candidate
Maybe but are you suggesting Trump and Sanders are somehow the same? Or even somehow remotely similar? The USA, is uniquely a country that has been on some kind of War Footing for a 100 years! Do you think that there is some kind of switch to flick to stop that in an instant?!! OR, is it likely to be more analogous to a dimmer switch, that needs to be turned down first before you can turn it off completely?!!!
ad iudicium ...
their force is not able to keep it
Are The US 99% better off with Trump or Sanders now? Who is truer to core OWS values? You are now going to have to face those questions in your own mind sooner or later Matt - because 2016 PotUS race is less than a year away.Meanwhile in support of your excellent Anti-War postings, I append these links
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/why-do-they-hate-us-its-no-mystery/ & then consider:
https://www.warresisters.org/sites/default/files/2015%20pie%20chart%20-%20high%20res.pdf
fiat pax ...
both talk of war as a given, and I reject both
Detroit Cop Found Guilty OF Beating
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/verdict-reached-detroit-police-officers-beating-trial-35307390
Pulled Over For Making Eye Contact----- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIVqobiqwRA
I just can't believe my eyes or ears sometimes re. the cops in The U$A!!!
RIP David Kassick, 59 shot like a fkn dog by a paranoid cop in a gun ridden country and with the cops thinking they are in an arms race and so not sure who they are supposed to ''Protect and Serve'' - other than themselves & their 1% and 0.01% Overlords!! Fkn Unbelievable! Who thinks this is ok in the USA?
sic transit gloria mundi ....
Getting worse by the day.
Maybe consider - ''License to Kill'', by Jimmie Moglia ...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42022.htm
et caveat ...
Very telling article.
''A domestic terrorist act every 64 days makes a mockery of the trillions spent on the ‘war on terror’. And the ‘war on terror’ is a gift that keeps on giving to a selected few. In this philosophy, little is more profitable than wars and disasters. ‘Disaster capitalism’ is accepted as inevitable and self-evident, and even belongs to the current lexicon.
''Secondly, calling the mass-shooters terrorists, may cause some to question what is the difference between nine people assassinated in a school in Roseburg, 50 wedding guests assassinated in Afghanistan by a drone operator comfortably seated in Las Vegas, and 22 medical personnel and patients exterminated by an air-raid on an Afghan Hospital.
''Here is where false consciousness comes in. It can be defined as being or remaining unaware or immune to the causal effects of the convictions and beliefs imposed upon us by the prevailing ideology.''
The above is a much more recent article by the very same author as the article ''License To Kill'' above.
pax ...
Vigilant Citizen Sees Cops Hurting Compliant Homeless Women, So She Steps In To Stop It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKETr5tfDTg
''Has the NYPD Become a Paramilitary Force?''
caveat ...
"Bolts from the blue" re: tasers
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/police-tasers-deaths-the-counted
"When a heart is beating correctly, however, electricity can instead disrupt the impulses from its internal pacemaker and cause the heart to enter into a dangerous and irregular rhythm known as ventricular fibrillation, or VF. Left unaddressed, VF rapidly leads to cardiac arrest and then death."
Enough said.
A defibrillator works by applying a jolt of electricity to a stopped or a ''fibrillating'' heart .. in order to re-start it &/or stop the fluctuating ''fibrillations'' so that a steady heartbeat can be restored. The Heart is primarily a highly electrically active, muscular, fluid pump. Therefore - applying any massive electrical shock TO a normally working heart ... will / can, have .. The Completely Opposite Effect of potentially stopping it as - ''Left unaddressed, VF rapidly leads to cardiac arrest and then death.''!
This is NOT rocket science or even differential calculus and - even Police Officers must understand this. Ergo - Of Course Taser Deaths should be counted as deaths in PD custody. US PDs are under-funded, and under-trained and with a overly large number of ex-military, with possible PTSD complications. Far too many are used by cash strapped municipalities as de facto fine generators - but with guns. IF they are, on top of all this - RWNJs & racists, then that makes for a very bad combination, to say the least!
fiat lux ...
R.I.P. Laquan McDonald, 17 year-old African American boy, shot by police 16 times while walking away from them. Contrast this to the capture of the Planned Parenthood terrorist, Robert Lewis Dear, white, racist, religious extremist, endangering all the people in the Planned Parenthood center, yet he is captured alive and unhurt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/11/28/did-white-privilege-keep-the-planned-parenthood-shooter-from-being-killed-by-police/
Sorry, but I just can't get over that contrast. It makes me sick.
Let alone the lack of acknowledgement of the similarities of the white racist religious extremists here at home vs. the Muslim religious extremist terrorists. Same thing, folks.
RIP Laquan McDonald :-( & Robert.L.Dear is a TERRORIST - no ifs, buts or maybes!!! Americans are far more in danger of gun-toting; self-righteous; so-called-Christian; RWNJs like him, than they are from any ISIS-RWNJ-loon!! Do you doubt for one itty-bitty minute that IF he'd been black that he'd have been shot dead on the spot ... never mind the sick irony of spewing ''Pro-Life'' platitudes, while actually killing folk?!
Robert Dear was taken alive. Same for Arora Cinema shooter & any number of other White Shooters but a black man: on the floor (Eric Harris); or running away (Walter Scott); or with his hands in the air (Mike Brown); or pleading to be allowed to breathe (Eric Garner); or a child playing (Tamir Rice) or going home (Trayvon Martin) can be shot to death with minimal rhyme or reason for so called facts that later turn out to be fiction! The injustice & reality of these facts on the ground - constitute 'State Terror', in my opinion!!
Black folk have been living with exactly this kind of uber-violence from ''state servants'' ... for a LONG fkn TIME but now camera tech ... proves what they have been saying all along!! This is why - so many Right Wing White Americans, seem to need to be reminded that: a) it is a woman's right to choose & b) that..
http://blacklivesmatter.com/ and also see
https://twitter.com/blklivesmatter?lang=en
And YES .. of course, "All Lives Matter" too - OBVIOUSLY ... but for far longer than too many white folk care to remember .. Black Lives Have Mattered Far Less! Bernie Sanders gets it but I wonder IF RWNJ-Americans (DTrump etc) are ready for that? To say''White Lives Matter''at black people is saying ''White Power And Don't You Forget It"! The 99% Struggle can not brook ANY racist bigotry, here or anywhere!!!
spero meliora ...
U.K. Police vs. U.S. Police dealing with similar knife attacks:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/london-police-knife-wielding-suspect_56636dc5e4b08e945fefcacd
"In both incidents, the suspect is holding a knife near police. But there's a glaring difference in the officers' reaction to the situation.
In the San Francisco video, far more officers respond and all of them are carrying guns, though officers later said they tried to subdue the suspect with beanbag guns before shooting him. In London, the two officers in the video carry stun guns.
In San Francisco, the suspect died in a hail of bullets. In London, the suspect was subdued.
Meanwhile, the U.K. is on its second-highest alert level, meaning a militant attack is considered highly likely.
Few officers carry firearms in the U.K. In fact, a 2006 survey of the British Police Federation, which represents all officers in the U.K., found that 82 percent of members didn't even want officers to be armed. Each police unit has its own firearms team, but police-involved incidents are routinely gun-free, according to the BBC."
So, obviously poor 17 year-old, ward of the state, Laquan McDonald, didn't have a chance.
Here are the statistics being kept by The Guardian on people killed by cops in the U.S. in 2015:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#
Consider: ''Adding Up the Broken Souls'', by Robert Koehler:
Which ends: ''In Chicago, a police officer shoots a teenager walking in the middle of the street 16 times, almost as though the gun took control of the officer’s consciousness. Barbara Ransby, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, interviewed recently by Democracy Now, pointed out that, because of budget cuts, only about 20 Chicago police officers have received crisis intervention training.
''My God, budget cuts! In a country that’s waging perpetual war and raking in billions from the global sale of weapons. Yeah, the boy had been acting erratically. But real public safety for the city of Chicago would have included safety for Laquan McDonald, the 17-year-old killed by police officer Jason Van Dyke.
''I fear we’re reversing the evolutionary process. We’ve surrendered to simplistic, impulsive, fear-based “safety” and we’re reaping the consequences, one broken soul at a time.''
Many thanx for your powerful links, reply & comparison. A culture of violence takes time to turn around. Maybe - just maybe .. a Bernie POTUS win could kick start that Re-evolution Revolution! Solidarity bw.
dum spiro, spero ...
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Good comment and good link.
Media promoted "tribalism" has got to go...human beings aren't sports teams and this is a far more dangerous game. When we pit "our" ethnicity against "yours"... its symptomatic of our disconnection to life...a disconnection from being and our true self nature...a disconnection from purpose. It is what we resort to when we are oppressed and desperate. Unity is the sign of authentic self and happiness born of purpose over material fluff or exerting control over others. We must not turn against each other but we must together grind this machine to a halt...our system is broken. Evil doesn't discriminate where it exists...it is a constant shifting of the soil...we can all fall into its trap if we aren't aware we are standing in it.
The above is elf's excellent comment here: http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1058330 ... from elsewhere on this increasingly important but equally horrifying, forum-post and thread.
pax ...
Good article. Having trouble finding your other comment.
Thanx. No worries. Also fyi, please consider:
fiat justitia ...
Good article. Good to know.
Thanx and ask, so ''Why Did Chicago Activists Shut Down an International Police Conference?''
per ardua ...
Innocent Teens Racially Profiled, Assaulted By Cops Who Mistook ATM Withdrawl As A Robbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8qrJB4UJU
"Bearded hipster group says police mistook them for Islamic State terrorists"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/police-called-as-bearded-hipster-group-mistaken-for-islamic-state-terrorists
Fear or Love. Which do we want to be ruled by? We must make a choice.
Seems to be a lot of people everywhere, calling the police over every little thing.
RIP Deven Guilford. Seems to me, we should be running from the police. Check out this video of this poor 17 year old who was a little smart with a cop, only to get himself freaking killed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwp2pPkXUac
RIP Deven Guilford who merely flashed his bright lights and tried to defend his own rights only to end up dead within minutes, in America.
17 year olds can be sassy, can be anti-authoritarian. Surely we can do better as a nation than this. Can we try to hire cops who aren't on power trips? No one should be killed for flashing bright lights and not having a driver's license. But, Deven was. RIP.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/27/press-tv-tragedy-of-us-police-training-by-israeli-companies/
"The only common factor in so many of these incidents is the Israeli training, teaching American police to mimic Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people. It seems American police have caught Israel’s national obsession of fearfulness and feigned victimization."
Just about the worst place to have our police learn anything.
Yes, the worst place to learn. This terrorist police thing comes from the top, and is part of a grand plan of TPTB. What we have seen so far, is a little preview.
"The Counted - People Killed by Police in the U.S."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#
Takes a foreign newspaper to do this, but I suppose given how embarrassing it is, that makes sense.
Thank you for posting this. Everyone needs to see this.
" 911 - what is your emergency? "
I'm really hungry but my cupboards are pretty bare and I don't feel like going out - I don't have a phone book handy - I would have to go looking for it - Can you connect me to a Pizza Hut in My area?
Based on this 911 call, the police will have a reason to murder someone in a wheel chair.
Even if it's not a wheel chair for the handicapped but instead a wheeled desk chair.
" On Three - Toss in a handful of Flash bang grenaids and tear gas - then enter left and right with continuous automatic gun fire spraying the room "
This is the way they think.
We were in fear for our lives - the 6 year old holding the puppy made a very wrong move - and we had to defend ourselves with over 150 shots to center mass - before we knew he wasn't armed.
DEA Employees Fail Drug Testhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuHUMaC-Oto
http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ and http://www.policemisconduct.net/
& http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
Also note USG's DEA is a corrupt and war mongering arm of US Empire.
National Police Misconduct Reporting Project-----Amazing. Everyone should see this. Would make a good forum post.
Police Misconduct can come in many forms these days, for example, consider this linked video - ''After Latest Mass Shooting .. A Look at the Oregon County Sheriff Who Vowed to Ignore Gun Control Laws'': http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/2/after_latest_mass_shooting_a_look What does he think now - & what relevance has this chart http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9437187/obama-guns-terrorism-deaths ?
IF guns really made citizens safe, then cops would and could not get away with much of their egregious behaviour. Guns do not make citizens any safer (quite the opposite, I'd argue), BUT these guns can and do, Give The Illusion Of That Safety & so the NRA and the gun making corporations like that very much. Cops then believe that they're in some kind of Arms Race and so, the same circle of carnage continues.
Once it was organised religion that was considered to be .. ''the opium of the masses'' .. but in the USA these days, guns have replaced religion.Maybe it'd be better if Opium Was The Religion Of The Masses as opposed to poor substitutes thereof! Then again, lots of stuff could remain undone in society but that may, in and of itself, in the final analysis, not be too bad a thing, as 2nd Amendment has been hijacked by NRA (No Real Answers!); Arms Corporations and TPTB in USG, for their own dark needs and profits!
ad iudicium ...
NYPD Cop Arrested For Stopping Cop Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVZXCH6Vdnw
{ edit } I am STUNNED
Finally a proper outcome and no protest 2 force it.
EDIT -> Wait a sec . . . only suspended at this time? Lets hope the final outcome is fired criminally charged prosecuted and sentenced - his two partners as well.
air strike them and call 'em terrorist
Cops Break Into Wrong House, Shoot Dog, Homeowner, and Fellow Cop
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/13/1459744/-Real-Life-Keystone-Cops-Break-Into-Wrong-House-Shoot-Dog-Homeowner-and-Fellow-Cop?detail=email
Report of suspicious person?
Whats the address?
You don't know?
Well then - enie meanie miney mo . . . . . pick a supicious house for to go . . . my mother told me to pick the very best one . . . enie meanie miney mo . . .
Well Said
No Criminal Charges To Be Filed Against Chicago Cop Involved In Deadly Ronald Johnson Shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dash-cam-video-released-deadly-chicago-police-shooting/story?id=35622684
That is one that shows where the city District attorney is full of shit = can't see what happened from the tape - and is why accountability can not stop at firing the Chicago Police Chief but should include the District attorney in this instance for failure to charge and prosecute what clearly is shown (I saw a clearer video of the incident on PBS - much clearer much better focus much better lighting) to be a man shot in the back (again contradicting the police incident report where "they" said that the man turned toward them - when the tape clearly shows he did not - and the DA says that the video is not clear enough to bring charges). Now we will see what happens - NOW - that the tape has been seen by the public and the feds have decided to investigate the police department. Will public outcry bring another late charging of the killers? Perhaps the firing of the DA ? This murder by police and cover up by chain of command and the attorneys office SHIT has got to be stopped.
government should be transparent
Thank you for comment. Yes, Clean House.
US Cops Seized More Property Than Was Stolen In 2014 - FBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTdkSH9inM
film the police
Yes
Sparks Nevada Police Shooting http://www.mynews4.com/news/local/story/Sparks-Shooting-Settlement-How-much-will-it-cost/IL4k70EvfEOUXu9PO2sMwQ.cspx
The war machine is simply making its way home.
This is what happens when horrible things happen and the people all line up and beg for more.
Its going to get a lot uglier than this folks.
Either this violence against the people continues to ramp up, or we have the usual next chapter of a nation gone bad.
Other nations band together to teach us a lesson. Yall will be real happy we got all these weapons if that happens.
Until then, keep voting for the war machine and wondering why its slowly turning its grip on you.
And just remember. What you are seeing here is NOTHING compared to what your government is doing overseas. Yet you all act horrified.
Time to wake up junior, coffee is ready.
Busted! Two Cops Charged With Murder Of 6-Yr-Old Jeremy Mardis----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiAWg4eZKrE
Cops Executes Old Man---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIVqobiqwRA
RIP David Kassick, 59 - shot like a fkn dog, by a paranoid cop, in a gun ridden country & with the cops thinking they are in an arms race & also not sure who they are supposed to ''Protect and Serve'' - other than themselves & their 1% and 0.01% Overlords!! Fkn Unbelievable! Who thinks this is ok in the USA?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/pa-fatally-shot-unarmed-man-cleared-charges-article-1.2426339
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/05/dauphin-county-police-officer-lisa-mearkle-david-kassick-shooting-unarmed-video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3307427/Disturbing-video-showing-moment-police-officer-shot-unarmed-man-dead-released-one-day-acquitted-murder.html
Sad Truth Time .. White Folk have now become so fkn sedated and mind-managed to think such things can't/won't happen to them AND been led to believe that people of colour are somehow a threat to them that they have become like sedated lambs at a wolves' dinner party and cops just think they can do wtf they want - just like they have been doing with black folk for longer than White America can even admit.
fiat lux ...
Why are American sources so few on the murder of David Kassick?
'Mind Management' and the ongoing 'Manufacture of Consent' - maybe? Oh .. and the deeply Corporate Conservative and RWNJ nature of US-MSM ownership at - local, county, state and national level. White People have GOT TO STOP allowing themselvers to be frightened and resentful of people of colour who are not ''PLUS'' [People Like Us] and see, realise and act .. in their myriad collective common interests. Awareness ; Analysis ; Action is what's needed & exactly what They don't want The 99% to have/do!
ad iudicium ...
"We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality. The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, shooters, bombers). They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being. They want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at each other’s throats. Most of all, they want us to continue to march in lockstep with their dictates.
Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: the moneyed elite who rule us view us as expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded." From your link.
Turns out that so far in 2015, we’ve had 274 days and 294 mass shootings by our own nutters here on American soil.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead/
I put this here because today approximately 2 dozen governors have said that they will not accept Syrian refugees. It's very embarrassing to me as an American that such ignorance makes its way into such high office. Very sad. Clearly we have problems here with our own crazies.
The 2 dozen State Governors who signed that shared statement should be ashamed and embarrassed, NOT you! The domestic ''fear,loathing & hate agenda'' is evoked, stoked and provoked by the very same Neoliberal - ''War; Security & Incarceration'' Industrial Complexes who are also very gung-ho for Neocon Foreign/Imperial Policy. Not often that I link to Obomber related links but the exceptions prove the rule..
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/obama-slams-gop-critics-ignorant-panicky-comments-about-isis-and-refusal-admit-syrian & for a historical (as opposed to 'hysterical') perspective:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-opinion-jewish-refugees-1939-matches-racial-panic-gop-governors-over-syrians & ...
Finally, to break & heal the human heart,see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBcYMaz0Jg
The thing about US' ''crazies'' is that they're now in charge and running the show via their MSM lackeys! Gun ridden US society is a killing ground, with US Police as the biggest gang in town .. but who cares?
verum ex absurdo ...
"U.S. Opinion of Jewish Refugees in 1939 Matches Racial Panic of GOP Governors Over Syrians"
From your alternet link: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-opinion-jewish-refugees-1939-matches-racial-panic-gop-governors-over-syrians
"The Syrian war has raged on for over four years, killing an estimated 250,000, with the U.S. and its allies sharing at least some responsibility for the conflict, having shipped arms and funded the Syrian opposition since at least 2012."
We really better start learning from history. What has happened in Syria and the rise of ISIS, all while Ms. Clinton was Secretary of State, by the way, is not dissimilar to the rise of Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Why is it that humans don't learn from past mistakes? Or is this a planned chaos? I hate to think the latter but it appears that it may be so.
http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything-that-flies-on-everything-that-moves
Frankly, we have to concede that ''planned chaos'' - in the short and medium term, in view of private long term goals - is probably the case! Pilger is right on the ball re. the comparison with The Khmer Rouge & that ignorance amongst the General Public is a desired effect of the MSM. + In compliment, consider ...
e tenebris, lux ...
US increases refugee number through bombing Syria oil infrastructure
Every time we drop a bomb we increase numbers of refugees and terrorists.
Truth About Spring Valley "Offficer Slam" Assault On Teen Girl---- https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/29/1441968/-The-Truth-about-the-Spring-Valley-Officer-Slam-Assault-on-a-Teen-Girl?detail=emailclassic
Cop Violently Attacks Peaceful Female Student Sitting In Her Desk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr9pcplqHhE
''Terrorizing Students: The Criminalization of Children in the US Police State'', by H.A.Giroux:
''One recent example of a particularly disturbing incident of police brutality was captured in a series of videos recorded at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina. Prior to the incident being filmed, a young Black student named Shakara took out her cell phone in class. The teacher asked her for it, and when she refused to hand it over, she was asked to leave the class. The teacher called the vice principal. Rather than attempt to defuse the situation, the vice principal called for a school resource officer. At this point, Officer Ben Fields enters the classroom. One of Shakira's classmates, Niya Kenney, immediately asked her classmates to begin filming because, as she put it, "I told them to get the cameras out, because we know his reputation - well, I know his reputation."
''In what follows, one of the videos records the following: Officer Ben Fields approaches the young woman, appears to give her no time to stand up and proceeds to grab her left arm while placing his right arm around her neck; he then lifts her desk, pulls her out of her seat, slams her to the ground and drags her across the floor before handcuffing her.
''The video is difficult to watch, given the extreme and disproportionate violence used against this young Black woman. She was arrested, as was Kenny, who both filmed the incident and loudly protested the treatment of Shakara. Fields was fired soon afterwards, but incredulously, both students are being charged with "disturbing schools, a crime punishable by up to 90 days in jail or a thousand dollar fine."
''The increasing visibility of police brutality in schools and in the streets speaks to a larger issue regarding the withering of democracy in the United States and the growing lawlessness that prevails in a society in which violence is one of the few resources left to use to address social problems. The US is paying a horrible price for turning governance at all levels over to people for whom violence serves as the default register for addressing important social issues.
''As the movement for Black Lives has made clear, the Spring Valley High School case and others are part of a larger trend that has turned schools across the country into detention centers and educators into hapless bystanders as classroom management is ceded to the police.
''What we see in this incident (and in many others that have escaped national attention because they are not caught on cell phones) are the rudiments of a growing police state. Violence is now a normalized and celebrated ideal for how the United States defines itself - an ideal that views democracy as an excess or, even worse, a pathology. This is something Americans must acknowledge, interrogate and resist if they don't want to live under a system of total terror and escalating violence.''
Re. your now removed vid. link, here's a replacement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRcqHVp_Xo
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Removed the link-----symptom of a big problem. Thank you for re-posting.
View from your video shows cop attack put her spine in jeopardy.
Also fyi, do consider: ''Assaulted S.C. Student Is A Recent Orphan Living In Foster Care ...''
The violent ass masquerading as a Police Officer didn't give a shit what harm he caused Shakara.
fiat lux ...
All so sad. Where is our rotten stinking constitutional lawyer president on all this?
Ordering Drone Strikes?!!! He's a child of the US-MIC!! Ergo, a Psycho!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QglEbgON9o and consider ...
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drones/
fiat pax ...
Yes, Obama is busy with drone strike murders.
Because he's a ''Manchurian Candidate'' - NOT of a foreign power - but of The US Deep State - maybe!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29234.htm also
read http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43401.htm
sub rosa?
good point
Remember this WTFU call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv0smG7ptcM by Rep. Dennis Kucinich?
So, errrrrmmm - what changed exactly? 2016 POTUS Election could be more important than we realise!
ad iudicium ...
Freedom of Assembly washed candidate debate hashtags by robot accounts
Cop Pulls Gun On Kids Having Snowball Fight.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzsBGybhF8
Police Kill More People Than Those Killed In Mass Shootings But No One Is Trying To Take Their Guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvR57rrRVIA
Cop Charged With Felony After Video Shows Him Smashing In Suspect's Face With His Shotgun----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA9cZfT0mD8
Watch As Cops Do Nothing While Their Colleague Beats A Handcuffed Prisoner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUHsbefhoI
Cop Tasers Man In Back Complying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOYaxYsFOnQ
US cops trained in Israel---- http://exiledonline.com/max-blumenthal-how-israeli-occupation-forces-bahraini-monarchy-guards-trained-u-s-police-for-coordinated-crackdown-on-occupy-protests/
70 year old man using golf club as cane, not doing anything wrong gets harassed by cop----- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf93TlSyw_E
The officer was later fired! I like that - I LIKE THAT A LOT !
Wonder if that stellar decision was helped by the release of the dash-cam footage.
Plenty like her still out there waiting for their walking papers.
The fine author presenting the video made the statement "Trained Behavior"-----Now we are getting closer to understanding the heart of the matter.
Pretty piss poor training - unless one is looking to enrage society.
Intent is to enslave society.
Always has been - this police abuse by design - is gonna blow-up in their (TPTB) face.
This is your intent? You and the conspiracy theorists.
stinkbombthrasymaque
You had pretty piss poor training when you started being moderator and banned almost everyone here.
You should have been fired when you were a mod Dan.
Nine police officers arrest unarmed black teen after 'jaywalking' 9/17/15 – video
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/sep/18/nine-police-officers-arrest-unarmed-black-teen-jaywalking-stockton-video
Public School Students Are The New Inmates In The American Police State---- http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/public_school_students_are_the_new_inmates_in_the_american_police_state
2 Hero EMTs Take On 4 Cops To Stop Abuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPWp08lzGk
Tasered to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGn-l4u26JM
Police In Texas Hospital Shoot Patient In Chest
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32630-police-in-texas-hospital-shoot-patient-in-the-chest
Police Called On College Students With Telescopes Thought To Be Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElBYq3Zab8
Of course. The people have elected a rabid police state.
They complain, but almost 50% of the people want this shit.
Democracy has been hijacked.
the republic representation has lost its favor
Anonymous Police Brutality Against Homeless Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsgbK81afU
OMG & WOW! He's a ''poet and an artist'' but alas .. his oppressors are such stupid violent pigs, man!
Further to that totally amazing & incredible video, please maybe further consider this relevant article ... http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32228-why-america-s-inequality-problem-is-about-a-lot-more-than-money - and I really didn't know whether to laugh or cry at your amazing video - so did a bit of both, lol.
We should honor such brave resistance to oppression & is it my imagination - OR did his ''Archangels'' actually arrive and liberate him? Fkn A! Like you often say brother, 'Nev1' ''Everyone needs to see this''! Also a MASSIVE TWINKLE @ U ... conveyed by word & spirit - because I don't have a vote here sadly.
Yes, the Archangels arrived. And, inspiring heroic "brave resistance to oppression" by citizen.
Your incredible video ... really needs to be seen by all who read here [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsgbK81afU ] This guy is waaaay more ''hero'' than John 'Warmonger' McCain ever could or would be BUT he'd be DEAD already, IF he was black (despite invoking Angels, Archangels or otherwise!).Finally consider - 'PD Revenue Raising' point to Matt too, as so many layers of Cops in US are doing that, imo.
Regarding McCain---- https://luckee001.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/back-up-post-for-song-bird-mccain/
Admiral John S. McCain Jr. helped LBJ cover up the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. In compliment to your great link, please also consider .. http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-evidence-proves-israel-attacked-uss-liberty-orders-kill-294-americans/198757/ and see ''McCain Family Secret: The Cover-up'' http://criminalstate.com/press/Chapter4.pdf - Sen.John McCain is a scion and product of The US-MIC. His warmongering only comes second to his perfidy & you/we are right to expose him ... at every turn but like you yourself say: ''TPTB want to rewrite history'' and so we fight for memory and history itself!
Never forget the USS Liberty. Forth eight years, and no justice yet. Admiral McCain has dirty hands..
Thank you for articles
It will be the 50th Anniversary of the attack on The USS Liberty in just a li'l less than 2 year's time, so - I suspect more will be made of it then .. but can you actually imagine such amnesia or acceptance IF the perpetrators had been anybody else?! + Further fyi, consider... http://www.globalresearch.ca/uss-liberty-government-betrayal-and-cover-up-finally-exposed/25186 The struggle for memory and history continues!
"The political pressure was too much," Helms[the CIA director at the time of the Israel's attack on the U.S.S. Liberty] said.
The keepers at all U.S. intelligence agencies, especially the NSA, should take heed of Israel's attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. When it is politics against your life and liberty, the U.S. politicians will make sure that their political advantage will take priority over your life and liberty. Did Ambassador Stevens miss this important lesson before visiting Benghazi?
The U.S. dollar bill's Great Seal of the United States needs a redesign. "Politik über alles![Politics above everything!]" should be the motto above our 40-pound gigantic obese Chicken scratching for more grubs under the Star-of-David. The shield on the Chicken's breast should read "Lege ex immunitatem [Immunity from prosecution]" The arrows clutched by the Chicken should be broken because the rescue attempts were politiked and recalled. The olive branch should hold the dollar signs showing the foreign aids holding the peace between the Great Pyramid and the Star of David achieved at Camp David by one who carts. The all-seeing-eye of the keepers at the NSA on top of the Great Pyramid should be labeled as the U.S.S. Liberty.
If indeed ''U.S. politicians will make sure that their political advantage will take priority over your life and liberty.'' - then perhaps that would explain the incredible levels that The Security/Surveillance State has reached, given how ... it wants to stop any questioning of ''The Official 9/!! Conspiracy Theory'' narrative, which can not withstand even the most elementary scrutiny and/or analysis.
The US Deep State/Israeli Intel./Saudi Arabian Intel nexus behind that fateful day nearly 14 years ago - will now do anything and everything - NOT to be found out - ergo total security and surveillance is what their desire/need to prevent disclosure of a truer 9/!! meme-equation, which may go something like this:
9/!! - NORAD + (WTC1 + WTC2) + {WTC7 x WTF!} + [Pentagon - Plane + GlobalHawk / CruiseMissile] + UA93 - C.S.I. = Coup d'Etat to enable ''The Clash of Civilisations'' - so beloved and essential to some!
Re. Ambassador Stevens .. well if we lay/lie with dogs - we get fleas! Stevens was on one hand, a fluent Arabic speaker, with a deep knowledge of Arab societies and culture - and on the other hand, either very involved OR (conversely and paradoxically) NOT involved at all .. with all the CIA covert help that enabled enabled ''The Rat Line'' of Jihadists/Weapons from Libya TO Syria .. but of course we are NOT supposed to know anything about all the goings on at that CIA Benghazi FOB or about what's behind ISIS/IS! Fyi..
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
http://www.mintpressnews.com/seymour-hersh-benghazi-attack-a-consequence-of-weapons-rat-line-to-syria/189261/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-efforts-to-arm-jihadis-in-syria-the-scandal-behind-the-benghazi-undercover-cia-facility/5377887
''Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive''!
And so all hail The Great Big Fail re. ''The All Seeing Eye''! ~}~ (o) ~{~
US used 9!! to restrict camera use in government building in order to restrict potential witnesses to public affairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyT1buoyTnY
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If we seed the bed of other countries with weapons| a number of those weapons will go off
Thanks for the 'Hip-Hop Essay' .. Powerful Stuff! Btw and as an aside to my comment to 'grapes' - The Pentagon is THE MOST secure & surveilled building in The USA but tho' all CCTV videos from nearby were seized, there's NO evidence of any plane crash there! The few frames of video that were released to back up 'The Plane Theory' .. actually look more like a cruise missile! Finally, don't forget Transport Sec. Norman Mineta's candid testimony, to the 9/!! Commission .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y - and of course don't forget those there whose - ''purpose was to document the event'', so see and try to calmly consider this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63CQ-dXkwU
However, in keeping with the subject matter of this thread: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32630-police-in-texas-hospital-shoot-patient-in-the-chest An Alarming Article.Only in Texass? Or in US too?
Disturbing to say the LEAST - I wonder what Kerry's real story is like.
And yeah - Manchurian candidates in office - subject to former captures blackmail - fortunately never a POTUS.
Recently, McCain articles about his Hanoi Hilton behavior have been taken down.
Good thing it is the internet - as all of that stuff still exists somewhere.
TPTB want to rewrite history.
Yeah they sure as hell do! A major part of that on-going effort is that they want an uneducated population. That poor education is working out for them so far in the red states as the average worker votes against their own best interests and keeps putting corp(se)oRAT bought thugs back into office!
Thats cute that you see red states and blue states.
You realize its really only about 10% and 10% that really like Democrats or Republicans in any given state, right?
You are from Florida - you had that wonderful red state education - you are an idiot. You are proof of the hypothesis.
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I'm from Rochester you fool.
And Im assuming I could dance circles around you if we both had to take an iq test.
Rochester Minnesota? New York? or Rochester from Jack Benny? or?
New York. And sorry, I was asleep while you went insane on the private messages last night lol.
Some of us have to work to support you fuckers :)
That sounds like you = Ass-u-ming.
So your stupidity comes from prolonged exposure to roofing tar?
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Manchurian candidates - the idea that a personality could split double and function in a single person
doesn't make any sense when one considers
that our minds are open connective containers
Run that one by Sarah Silverman & Dick Van Dyke. They may have some counseling advice to offer to you.
I already asked for an opinion on whether the DOD should be calling people terrorist
perhaps I should have been more direct
Perhaps you should work on being coherent. Have a sane individual read your comments prior to your sending them off.
Were you brain damaged in the navy while tending nuclear reactors?
I little incoherence makes me vulnerable to attack
Matt Holck @Matt_Holck 3m3 minutes ago
. @NadavRaz @IHilgendorf @SarahKSilverman I asked for an opinion on whether the #DOD should be calling people terrorist NO ?
NSA @NSA
Dick Van Dyke @NadavRaz
@Matt_Holck @IHilgendorf @SarahKSilverman @nsa because they're not real issues
police pulled my over for missing a court date that I didn't miss
allegedly
confiscated and toed my car
paid $500 to get it out
and had to go back to LA courts again to clear the mistake I hadn't made
That's outrageous & maybe you should consider legal action and maybe pursue the matter in the 'Small Claims Court' yourself. IF an false confiscation cost you time and money, then you deserve redress - as 'Revenue Raising Cops' are an injustice upon The 99% in the U$A. This will continue unless challenged.
The "Small Claims Court" probably won't give Matt redress because it is often staffed by old Jews and Jewesses. Even a lawyer who may come to help Matt is probably another Jew or Jewess. Why would God send Jesus to condemn and accuse if the Jews and Jewesses had Justice on Earth?
Matt paid the $500 to the towing company for the service rendered for towing and storing his car allegedly per court order. What is the legal basis for Matt to collect the $500 from the "Small Claims Court?" The court did not tow or store his car. Matt has to show that there was court instruction to the towing company to tow his car. Do you think the court will divulge such information or will it drag the matter on indefinitely till Matt loses his patience? What if the court upon injunction by a superior court charge Matt an exorbitant amount of money to search for and copy such alleged court instruction? Wouldn't Matt just get back to square one or negative one?
I'm sure Matt's $500 loss will be someone else's gain - be it The Court or the Towing Company (which I had not thought about) but to be honest, my interest in the matter is somewhat limited. However, given the hysterical nature of your reply, the obvious questions are; WTF are you on and/or - on about, here?
On the important matter of US Police Departments becoming State/Municipal fine & debt collection agencies - which was my main point btw, consider: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/05/ferguson-shows-how-a-police-force-can-turn-into-a-plundering-collection-agency/
Many U.S. municipalities have this sort of rackets going on so it is really nothing remarkable to anyone not harassed (i.e., mainly Caucasians). It is a symptom of the voters not willing to increase taxes to fund municipal services at a sufficient level.
I am on the Collective Unconscious. I am on about, here to make the Unconscious Conscious.
I'm all for raising conciousness and as such in this and other wider matters, please try to also consider: https://consortiumnews.com/2015/08/20/why-us-police-are-out-of-control/ - Private Opulence and Public Penury, has become a signature feature of The U$A .. with people actually resenting modern things like ''Universal Healthcare'' - which Canada, UK and most modern countries have (incl. Iraq, Libya and Syria had before they were destroyed). Now please consider, that here is insight into why folk can't have nice things .. https://www.warresisters.org/sites/default/files/2015%20pie%20chart%20-%20high%20res.pdf
Another Horrible Example Of Police State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlR6fyOqdZs
Another police killing------ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/24/1379943/-Arrested-for-sagging-pants-Ervin-Edwards-tasered-to-death-in-custody-Police-lie-in-report?detail=email
DAPL Conflict
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dapl-police-elder-attack/
Black-man lying on ground
I don't know about U But I was @ home watching TV & I was scared!
So much worse 4 t cop?
https://twitter.com/DKAtoday/status/756626119676334080
Black-man lying on ground This calls 4 split second decision making Shoot SHOOT SHOOT damn it he's lying down & obviously black . . . um dangerous
Thank you for posting this. Another hysterical cowardly cop. Wondering if this cop was trained in Israel.
New Video Of Alton Smith Killing By Baton Rouge Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48gGR9mDTk
Shooting By Minnesota Police Caught On Video:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/facebook-live-video-appears-to-show-black-man-shot-police-minnesota-philando-castile [Video and Short Report]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqROP_T5jyM [An Alt.Video Link]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36732908 [Important link]
RIP Philando Castile in Minnesota & Alton Sterling in Louisiana - AND ... the other over 500 people who have been Murdered By Cop in 2016 alone .. so far!!! WhenTF does this genocidal war on US' Black and Economically Oppressed People end?!! When will the USA's Body Politic truly accept that - Black Lives Matter and start to restrain and retrain trigger happy cops who think that their own safety is paramount?!
momento mori ...
Black Lives Matter must be the priority of every politician in the United States. All politicians who do not make Black Lives Matter a true priority, but just a voiced objective with no action, must be voted out.
''Don't Move (Don't F#%king Move)'', by Kathy Kelly:
From which:''In the US neighborhoods where people like Alton Sterling most risk summary execution, residents cannot be faulted for concluding that the U.S.' government and society don’t mind treating their homes as warzones; that lives of innocent people caught up in these brutal wars do not matter provided the safety and property of the people outside, and of the people sent in to quell disorder, are rigorously protected.''
ad iudicium
Philando Castile's murderer acquitted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/police-shooting-trial-philando-castile.html?mcubz=0
Shameful. Reach for your identity card, get shot. Don't reach for it, get shot.
Pregnant Charleena Lyles, 32 killed by Seattle P.D., in front of her children after she called to report a burglary! Fkn Hell! Also, sorry I couldn't read your link - because I may get too angry, however - RIP & Justice For Philando and Charleena and oh, so many others right across USA!!!
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/19/black-mum-of-three-calls-police-over-burglary-but-two-officers-shoot-her-dead-6719845/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/the-charleena-lyles-shooting-and-trumps-war-on-police-reform.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/19/seattle-police-fatally-shoot-black-mother-of-four-who-confronted-officers-with-a-knife/
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Charleena Lyles, RIP, needed healthcare. In particular she needed mental health care. She didn't get it. She got shot by police instead. Nope, they couldn't just taze her. And, like you say, right in front of her children they shot her dead after she called them!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/opinion/charleena-lyles-seattle-police-shooting.html?mcubz=0
We have to fight back so she doesn't die in vain and maybe the world will, in the future, treat her children better than it treated her.
RIP Charleena Lyles. And Laquan Macdonald ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/laquan-mcdonald-police-shooting-three-officers-indicted and consider:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41072-single-payer-fight-moves-to-massachusetts re.the healthcare Charleena needed.
fiat justitia ...
Black Lives Matter! Sad situation in St. Louis.
"St. Louis protesters march in upscale malls, suburbs during day; evening turns violent"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-jason-stockley-lamar-smith-protests-20170916-story.html
Violence is a result of despair.
"Sam Thomas, who was helping his friend clean up the glass from the shattered windows of his business, OSO, a clothing and accessories boutique, said he understood why people were angry. The U.S. justice system is broken and needs to be fixed, Thomas said.
"I'm not saying this is the right way to fix it," he said of the damage.
"The window isn't murdered. Nobody is going to have a funeral for the window. We can replace it."
Interesting. I agree with him that violence is never good, but maybe considering the roots of that violence, the despair, the injustice that is causing that despair, is the way out of this mess.
Indeed ''Violence is a result of despair'' & that violence - is most often meted out on the most despairing, both at home and abroad ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnnEiWDrnxo [WARNING - Has Multiple Views Of A Murder]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/05/patrick-harmon-utah-police-shooting (as abv.)
From your link: ''Prosecutors said Stockley planted a gun in Smith's car after the shooting. The officer's DNA was on the weapon but Smith's wasn't. Dashcam video from Stockley's cruiser recorded him saying he was "going to kill this (expletive)." Less than a minute later, he shot Smith five times.
''Stockley's lawyer dismissed the comment as "human emotions" during a dangerous pursuit. St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson, who said prosecutors didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Stockley murdered Smith, said the statement could be ambiguous.''
Thanx for your link. The mind boggles and the heart hurts. RIP .. Patrick Harmon; Anthony Lamar Smith and the far, far, far too many others .. killed across the USA, some detailed in this tweet and these links:
https://twitter.com/Shadz66Shadz6t6/status/911955656235679747 and consider this article...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/22/st-louis-missouri-ferguson-protests-black-lives-matter
Further, a definitive link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
Finally - http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42304-michelle-alexander-and-paul-butler-talking-about-chokehold-policing-black-men (Video + Transcript)
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." {Harry S.Truman .. (1884-1972) - 33rd US President}
fiat lux ...
Thank you for post with links. Shocking. 1,152 police killings n 2015.
That Violence Begets Violence - is an absolute axiom. The events in Dallas are the direct result of the drip, drip, drip of the continuous ''Murder By Cop'' across the USA.The situation is further compounded by the easy availability of weapons of war. There is no justification .. FOR the murder of cops in Dallas. However, there are reasons for it. Denial of this - will only lead to more of the same. Obomber presides over a Culture Of Violence at home & abroad. USA needs a root and branch change of its ethos. Black Lives Matter - like All Lives Matter; Occupy Wall Street & Occupy Your Streets; Love Trumps Hate but Hate Leads To Hate.The USA needs to look deeply within & resist the knee jerk reactionary responses that the likes of tRUMP & his ilk will propose. Soft Hearts & Open Minds need to come to the fore now.
''Dallas Police Officers Killed By Snipers [Videos]'': http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45058.htm
''US Cop Kill Another Black Man [Videos]'': http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45052.htm & finally see:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
pax, amor et lux .. spero!
It's time to ban picture/video-taking phones. People need to be protected as mushrooms in Microsoft's default state. Blue screen. Play the wine-dark lobster on the platter, for Greater America.
''We have to face that when the U.S. acts as self-appointed “global policeman” ... what it does to poor nations resembles what those two officers did to Alton Sterling. We must also temper the selfish and unreasonable fears for our own safety - with the knowledge that others also want safe and stable lives. We must build community by lessening inequality. We must swear off making the world our battlefield and be appalled to hear the U.S. government seem to tell the world - "I will kill you if you f---ing move."
fiat pax ...
They don't move, and still get shot.
RIP Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge; Philando Castile in Minnesota; Off.Michael J. Smith; Off.Lorne Ahrens; Off.Brent Thompson; Off.Michael Krol and Off.Patrick Zamarripa in Dallas ... and all those others mentioned on this very important thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-4Lsrx8IA & also, please consider the following article:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36751-the-system-that-killed-alton-sterling-and-philando-castile-cannot-be-reformed - which ends with ...
''We are fighting for a world in which death at the hands of senseless violence -- including the violence of the state or vigilantes, and the poisoning of the planet by pollution and war -- is a distant memory of an antiquated society long ago. Understanding that our liberation is key to the larger fight to end all suffering is how we may save ourselves. It is how we may save our world. We have nothing to lose but our chains.''
fiat lux ...
Seemingly endless trail of atrocities. More than likely, Soros (and the like) is making money off all this.
''The cry of "Black Lives Matter!" is not a proposal that white lives or police lives or soldiers' lives or any lives do not matter. It is a lament over the disproportionate targeting of blacks by police shootings. The trick is to understand the shootings as the enemy, the militarizing and weaponizing policies as the enemy, and not some group of people.
''The murders on 9/11 were not rightly understood. The enemy was murder, not Saudis or foreigners or Muslims. Now hundreds of times those murders have been added in response, making murder the big victor and peace the big loser. With no end in sight.
''We must not go on trying to solve a problem ... with the same tools that created it. We must - in fact, proclaim that "All Lives Matter." But .. if that is meant to include only the 4% of human lives contained within the United States, it will fail. We must stop training people to imagine that violence works - and hoping they will only use their violent skills abroad among the 96% of people who don't matter.'' - from:
fiat justitia ...
Good article.
Off-Duty NY Cop Fatally Shooting Black Man Delrawn Small - Just As Protests Sweep Country!
fkn hell!
Very telling link.
OMG! Out of control PD - again!! Check This SH!T OUT!!!
''24-year-old Patrick Mumford was sitting in his own car in February, 2016 when he was confronted by three Savannah-Chatham Metro Police Officers, who were serving a warrant for another man, Michael Clay.
''The lead officer confronts Patrick but does not believe Patrick when he truthfully identifies himself to the officer, twice. Patrick rightfully asks the officers what is the matter and to see the arrest warrant they say they are serving.
''Fearful and confused, Patrick retreats into the passenger seat of his car. Within 38 seconds of his initial introduction to the officers, the lead officer is ordering Patrick to be tased for non-compliance.
''It takes a violent use of force for officers to realize what we already know: they have the wrong guy.
''Rather than apologize, the officers rationalize and justify their actions to horrified neighbors and even Patrick's parents. These rationalizations include the repeated false statement that the officers asked Patrick for his ID.
''Patrick is arrested for obstruction. As a non-violent drug offender serving in a first-offender probation program, a pending probation violation could cost him his job, his college education, and seven years in prison: all for sitting in his own car, minding his own business, and telling the truth.''
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Terrible behavior displayed by cops, is a top down problem. TPTB think they are in control, but actually "Have A Tiger By The Tail". They think they can cause a violent conflict, and end it when ever they want. Their " Black Swan" is coming.
Telling an officer that you have a permit to carry and following that up by saying that you are indeed armed (apparently a huge mistake), while then telling the officer that you are going to get your ID from your pocket (everything other than you stating that you have a gun on you is ignored) - you reach for your identification (as you just told the police officer who is holding their gun pointed at you that you were going to do) - results in the officer shooting you to death. No animosity ever displayed towards the officer = and you are still dead (murdered).
No win situation. Things are sinking fast.
Damn straight:
https://twitter.com/DKAtoday/status/751589597751218177
Woman 'Deprived Of Water' Dies In South Carolina Jail http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/25/1491126/-Woman-deprived-of-water-dies-in-South-Carolina-jail?detail=email
That can not be considered as anything other than premeditated murder.
It's outsourcing to splinter responsibility and ration healthcare by screening emergency room patients for outstanding warrants. Data walk, chew gums, and talk at the same time, to cull the herd.
"No one could tell The Post and Courier how law enforcement got word of the warrant as she lay in the hospital last summer." -- Der Anschluss für alles! Blow fly compound eyes?
Never-Say-Anything took on moonlighting in this booming economy of ours - as Lieutenant Data of law enforcement to rat on emergency room patients who died and who will be murdered.
Blow fly compound eyes of 'der Anschluss für alles' may turn out to be Say-Anything of the Never-Say-Anything. It's now comfortable enough for the U.S. to admit that it's circumventing its Constitution's Fourth Amendment.
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism/
The pilot culling of the herd at the hospital emergency room was a resounding success. "The Police - Every Breath You Take"
Sieg Heil! Herr Drumpf oder Kaiser Drumpf? Wir kommen gleich zurück.
Exactly.
Cop Pepper-Sprays Peaceful Teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8WIF8jy80
More cop problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bpSbh0PRnk
IDF impunity? Remember, US cops trained in Israel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tURgFNjP8M
Long Beach Cops Purposely Shoot Unarmed Manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcN4och8_yc
Re. The Blue Klux Klan, konsider ...
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/kkk-has-infiltrated-us-police-departments-decades and then
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cowardly-cop-kills-familys-cat-shotgun-after-it-hissed-him
Happy Hols & Merry Mularkey 2U+yours! Remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsgbK81afU ?
fiat lux ...
Top down problem. KKK Nazi cops are weapons of war, of the elite. War Crimes.
Like that blessed & brave amazing poet-guy in the video above ... may Archangels watch over you and Mrs.Nevada2 this Yule/Xmas/Solstice&NY & beyond. Have a good one N1 & here are some old Po-Po related punk/reggae tunes by ''The Clash'' for u, tho' u may need to adjust the volume levels to taste ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_HtgGOIfE ..(''Police On My Back'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FZwVvS8_8 {''Police and Thieves''}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nz_uSssKTw -[Original of 'P&T' by Junior Murvin]
pax, amor et lux ...
California Cop Kills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nox5j7CY62s
Officer Acquitted Over Kick That Knocked Out Unarmed Man, Broke His Jaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOIAaG-gcU
Cop Puts Gun To Man's Headhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkQGyG9rm9w
Anonymous #Sandra Was Murdered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2pVJl6AmbI
Cop Attempts To Murder Dog - Woman Lunges between - Cop Arrests And Assaults Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRd-zSTXI7w
Another Cop School Assault https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHprEmJd1HI
Austin Police Brutal Beat Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02o4rluRP5Q
Texas Student Spent 52 Days In A Coma After Being Tased By Police At School
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33430-texas-student-spent-52-days-in-a-coma-after-being-tased-by-police-at-school
Video capture of assault and battery - released to public - definitely got this cop fired. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/27/1440544/-Sheriff-calls-in-FBI-after-deputy-caught-violently-arresting-a-female-high-school-student-VIDEO
Tape em and expose em - it does help.
This video is getting around fast. The child probably has enough problems, and then this. Am so angry. Glad that another student came forward heroically. And thanks to the student with the camera. This cop needs Hard Time.
Finally starting to see this type of incident get coverage on MSM.
No doubt the MSM is starting to show some of these items that have gone viral - because people are seeing the videos on the internet and are asking - where the fuck is the news coverage.
Here is another ugly incident - so far does not look like charges will be filed. (go to the YouTube link as there are several videos of the incident the 1st couple don't have sound) http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=d5B3iVKXJ2sdKs6J8fPPhZh4KHp1LCEI
Good point about MSM. Have a feeling that cops are going to see a backlash.
It really helps that Bernie has made it a standard part of his campaign speech - raising public awareness.
Anonymous Smash The Police state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-CBZgrmxdk
How a Schoolyard Quarrel Is Dealt With In A Police State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8Y86na2Uc
Hheeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy . . . . there ya go . . no conflict . . . . just two kids zapped (anyone have a heart condition? ). Officer was not in danger due to proper police procedure. . . . . . . .
Cops shot man in wheel chair--Cops claim gun--can't see a gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pglP2Hl6IyM
That was just too sick - man in wheel chair - unable to evade anything - shot multiple times - for being . . . . . . . WHAT ????????????? being intimidating in a wheel chair?????
Yes, too sick. Many cops from all over US displaying same warped behavior. Possible reason------Israeli training of US Police.
Man in wheel chair = likely to be armed? rather than legged. Hey - - - - they were in fear for their lives . . . . . . does not matter if that was before they got out of bed . . . . . . . . . .
Thank you Citizen Reporters.
LA Sheriff Deputy----Bad----Slugs handicapped women in face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqLf-Ne8QY
One Marine vs 30 Cops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEHcOc0Sys
I remember that - 2011 - a good moment caught on tape.
Another-----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIyv6h2-pps
A very powerful video with an even more powerful message. Thanks for posting on this Labor Day, when thoughts of solidarity with each other should be uppermost. The 4th Anniversary of O.W.S. is next week and it is great to see that this forum is still going and working hard for the 99%. We have much to thank OWS for - eg. http://www.alternet.org/labor/labors-surprisingly-great-year-5-victories-workers-so-far-2015 but much more in keeping with the OP, see: http://www.alternet.org/because-they-lack-crucial-training-these-cops-severely-beat-blind-autistic-teen-unconscious for another shocking glimpse into US policing.
Thank you for contribution here. People already struggling get police beatings. Hoping to see many old friends here, on OWS Anniversary (9-17-15)
Solidarity OWS for Labor Day and beyond. On the matter of Labor Day, see this http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/0907/Labor-Day-Where-does-it-come-from
Kentucky Officer Caught On Tape Handcuffing Disabled Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nNY8IVe8k
American Soldier Tortured And Killed By US Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8yHoEy8Ek
Sandra Bland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/21/much-too-early-to-call-jail-cell-hanging-death-of-sandra-bland-suicide-da-says/
FYI - ''Sandra Bland's Family Speaks Out After Grand Jury Won't Indict Anyone in Her Death'':
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34159-sandra-bland-s-family-speaks-out-after-grand-jury-won-t-indict-anyone-in-her-death (' (Video & Transcript) Also consider this shocking scenario but a ...
WARNING - THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CONTAINS CLEAR EVIDENCE OF MURDER BY COP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZkGx8ZVy4k RIP Andrew Thomas, 26 shot to death by a fat fk of a cop Patrick Feaster - more an unfit, trigger-happy fkn donut-eater than a sane cop! +
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/outrage-police-shooting-drunk-driver-paradise-california-officer-patrick-feaster/ Is it possible that fat-fk cops can't catch ppl these daze so just shoot instead?!!
Finally, re. same case, confirmation that Andrew Thomas was in fact homicided by the fat fk cop: http://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/man-shot-by-paradise-police-officer-dies-at-enloe-medical-center/ - This shit takes some believing! Like you may expect - no charges against Off.Feaster!!!
Watch this lying bastard cop, NOT say that he had shot the driver - For NO Good Reason but looked for the cartridge cases he had left instead and then make out that the driver was - FUCK! I can't even go on!
At the end of the video/audio - Feaster admits that he ''may have shot'' Thomas +''OMFG! R U Serious?"! So "Feaster" by name; over-eater by nature; KILLER by choice!!! HowTF did this dick get that job?!! Fck!
RIP Darien Ehorn too - the innocent victim of the stupidity of Both Men & who deserves to be mourned. Now ask how this keeps happening & for how long it's been going on before actually reading these links:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34118-the-logic-of-the-police-state-waking-up-to-the-darkness-in-us-policing .. and see:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34144-memorial-blockade-a-love-letter-to-communities-resisting-police-violence
fiat justitia ruat caelum = ''let justice be done (tho' the) heavens fall" but actually on reflection, probably
it's too fukt up for latin!
good links. The problem, marches on.
Cold Blooded Killer Cop - Patrick Feaster, The Over-Eater Fired TWICE as he killed Andrew Thomas!
Click ''Show More'' below the video to read more & note that at 1.08m Fat Fuck Feaster shoots twice!!
holy fkn shit ...
Big, hysterical, cowardly cop commits murder.
Maybe guns DO kill people?! Or it's not just the fault of the person who holds the gun!! But ONLY as long as s/he is a cop!!! Also see evidence of some local outrage... despite the Corporate MSM in the USA (local and national) having gone nearly totally silent about this li'l matter for over a month now ..
fiat justitia ...
Yes, charge the cop.
The local DA, Mike Ramsey - needs to explain his actions too and then if unable to do so - be charged alongside Off.Patrick Feaster (The Overeater & Stone Cold Killer) !!! Otherwise - that is proof positive of an ''Illegal Just Us System'' at play!! That's not even mentioning, the Utter Usurpation and the Complete Corruption of the demoCRAZY deMOCKERYcy, such as it is in The U$A - BUT still no MSM coverage!
See https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1068761573144696&id=699861670034690 +
http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1068328 &
http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1068314
fiat lux ...
Have a bad feeling, that things in US are going to get worse.
''It's always darkest before dawn''!!! Have faith!! The 99% are stronger than we think - IF only we can stay frosty & united! Happy NY for '16 & hope this plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoL2WMtMb_0
per ardua ad astra ...
Good advice.
I'm amazed at just how little knowledge of Off.Patrick Feaster killing Andrew Thomas there is, even on Twitter & now find myself resorting to an old link from .. ''Bearing Arms'' who are apparently - ''SAVING LIBERTY AND LIVES'', so I'll just lay this down here and step away quietly with my hands in the air ...
I'm not really sure if http://bearingarms.com/ would have ideally wanted Andrew Thomas to actually be in possession of a firearm so that he could have shot the cop but my guess is that it wouldn't have helped!! There seems to be some kind of quasi-religious belief that a gun will keep people safe but I can't relate!!!
verum ex absurdo ...
lizard brain pulled the trigger
Did ''lizard brain'' pull it TWICE, or was it the fat finger on a 5.5lb pressure trigger?!!! Because fat fuk cop Off.Feaster ''double tapped'' Andrew Thomas & there is NO doubt about it in my mind!! Freeze at 1.07 & do a frame by frame of the video below and/or read the whole sub-thread here but do not make excuses!
Feaster's 1st; 2nd & 3rd thought was: Look for 2 shell cases; not the dying woman or the guy he'd shot!
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Rare possibility of justice in this ''Cop Killing Person'' case but it remains to be seen what happens..
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Anonymous Message To Killer Cops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2dH_Ko_P8
RCMP kills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6RPofr8NUg
LA Police Murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRQ2zJ56T40
Racial Profiling By Cops Gone Wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIGfHj1Ns9Q
More Police Violence----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUkRC-SWdw
And yet we have those who tell people to walk away from owning the system and getting proper representation in their local government - because - just straight out protesting will get them what they need - because . . . well . . . just because - and don't worry because those killer cops will respect and support your "just" protests.
odd police behavior --------
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HahS2DV-EIs&feature=youtu.be
Miami Cop Brutally Assaults Handcuffed Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgYfsCdaWg
police dog attack last year........
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Amu7USftoy3yFR79KXWUuHGbvZx4?p=police+dog+bites+mans+face+may+2015&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-252&fp=1
Another police Dog Attack====
http://www.frequency.com/video/graphic-bodycam-captures-police-dog-bite/234004174?cid=5-1606
Police Dog Killing------ https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Amu7USftoy3yFR79KXWUuHGbvZx4?p=police+dog+bites+mans+face+may+2015&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-252&fp=1
One small bright spot for justice for the public:
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-judge-rules-ex-south-carolina-cop-committed-murder-2017-12
Disabled teen bloodied by TSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SeUaD7CbzM
Police Punch Tase & Choke-----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiH2DVujioU
On Ending senseless violence (police violence included)
https://twitter.com/DKAtoday/status/745341798298587136
https://twitter.com/DKAtoday/status/742137216219152385
https://twitter.com/DKAtoday/status/742097506889310208
Thank you for Tweets. Was troubling to hear Bernie will vote for Hillary.
I saw Bernie on Colbert last night. Colbert tried to get Bernie to say that he was gonna endorse HRC. Bernie wouldn't - instead he kept on with his intent to forward his platform. What happens after the DNC nomination convention? I don't know - but I keep telling Bernie that if he were to endorse HRC that it would make his whole campaign a lie.
Yes, I saw Sanders on Colbert last night too. He may not be endorsing Hillary, but he later said that he would probably vote for her. That's depressing! What's the difference? I think that he is trying to convince himself that by supporting her that we will be on a path to systemic change. Deep down, I think he knows better.
Bernie Sanders says he'll vote for Hillary
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/06/24/presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders-says-hell-vote-for-hillary-clinton-msnbc.html
Chicago Releases Videos Of US Police Fatal Shootings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0H49cVSS4
Yep! (good video btw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0H49cVSS4 - thanks)
Predators/Police
Prey (growing numbers of the general population)
Police - Trained in Fear working the streets in FEAR - killing civilians (prey) with impunity in ever increasing numbers for even the smallest of infractions
[Ward] Now Beaver! You can't jay-walk and expect the police to do nothing.
[June] Oh Ward......
[Ward] Beaver! You got what you deserved (fractured skull & broken ribs) just be thankful that you got off with just a warning........
[June] Oh Ward................
[Beaver] Yeah gee golly gosh Dad - I mean it's not like I was playing in traffic - I just went across the street to get the mail..............
[Ward] Now Beaver? That's ENOUGH - I don't want to hear anything more about it - just count your lucky stars that they didn't shoot you......
[June] Oh Ward.....don't ya think you were a little hard on the Beaver?
Boy oh BOY haven't we come a long way - Hey?
Good work. Regarding a related issue, do you think Obabble is going to stay?
Stay? Where?
Declare martial law, and stay in office.
I doubt it - though under marshal law he would have more executive power to make all sorts of changes. The GOP would have a coronary!
Ohio Man Beaten By Cops, Locked In Closet For Four Days Gets $22M http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ohio-man-beaten-by-cops-locked-in-closet-for-4-days-gets-dollar22m/ar-BBtKzuV?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=SL5BDHP
Policing The Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6UrCu2RMAc
''White Cop Brutally Beats Black Teen for Riding Her Bike—Then Charges Her with Assault (Video)''
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/white-cop-brutally-beats-black-teen-riding-bike-then-charges-her-assault-video
Also see ... http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/whats-best-way-weed-out-potential-killer-cops ?
fiat lux ...
Cop Brutally Beat Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLuuvmJ6L_Y
The Shooting Of Dion Avila http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35943-the-shooting-of-dion-avila-damon-a-case-of-extrajudicial-killing-by-the-police
Only Because Of This Video---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQTbPXLAfe4
Fester Charged In Deadly Officer Involved Shooting http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/feaster-charged-in-deadly-officerinvolved-shooting/37919922
Involuntary manslaughter? Possible 5 years in county jail? How many wanna bet he doesn't do any time.
Cops On Camera In Cowardly Gang-Style Beating Of Unarmed Man Lyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUMTxP7LkYking Face Down----
Absolutely nothing ambiguous about that one - whether or not that guy actually committed a crime - there was absolutely no excuse to beat him when he clearly gave himself up.
FBI murder in Oregon--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghfIm9KmPRk
Hmmmmm - sorry but I don't see it - seriously - blue tarp guy tried to run the roadblock and almost ran over an agent while doing so. Then he jumps out of the mini-van (sorry = pick-up truck) at 1st doing the right thing = raising his hands well out away from his body - then for some stupid reason he reaches into his jacket quickly - come on - this guy is known to be armed and has made numerous statements about using his weapons if and when confronted. VERDICT ? = dumb-ass gets himself killed.
The "dumb-ass" might have been shot at twice (but going unreported) due to the Feral Burro of Incontinence's urge to piss: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/oregon_standoff_fbi_agents_und.html
Excessive testosterone causes enlarged prostate gland that impinges on the bladder causing an uncontrollable urge to piss.
I think that we may now know why there might have been no audio with the released video clip.
Even Caucasians need to learn, nowadays, the three-sentence "Yes, Sir!" "No, Sir!" "Thank you, Sir!" survival routine when dealing with law enforcement.
Believe it or not - I was taught that in grade school = you don't antagonize someone who is carrying a gun.
I was taught in grade school that I should always carry a handkerchief with me. A white handkerchief is also for surrendering to peace. It's not racist!
I hope that all of our go-nuts, dough-nuts, hazard-nuts, mush-room-nuts - magical or physical - have learnt their lessons well in grade school or bullying may get us all WW4. ♥♡
The stupid reason may not be so stupid if he was shot at by the person behind him. The video recording did not have audio so we cannot determine whether he had been shot at before he reached into his jacket.
If he had been shot at or shot while he had his arms up, his reaching into his jacket might be an act of self defense. Another possibility is that the person to whom he was surrendering was commanding him to disarm himself under duress. More information from different perspectives, audios, videos, witness statements, etc. may help.
tazer ?
Body Cam Shows Cops Suffocate Handcuffed Innocent Man--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MADhr2Rr44
stop killing people
People who support Dems and Reps could care less. They care whats in it for them, no matter what it costs everyone else on the planet.
when there is an enemy to defeat; the spoils can be won
Rapist cop gets 263 years in prison
Commented: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1473019/59137923
" Well he was a pitcher (rapist) — will he now become a catcher (raped) in the prison system? Karma can be a real bitch — Hey? Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time! Being a cop does not mean that you can do what you want = crime — and expect to get away with it. The times (hopefully) be a changing = take note those of you in positions of authority = accountability = the public demanding it — and starting to get it! "
263 years---Pay Back. Victims should sue the hell out of city.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel oversaw the withholding from public view -- for more than a year -- of a video of a police murder of a teenager.
The police officer who shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times, continuing to shoot his motionless body on the ground, has now been indicted for first-degree murder.
The video was kept secret for 13 months, during which time Emanuel never corrected the blatant lies by the Chicago Police Department that maintained the victim had lunged at the police with a knife just before he was shot. The video shows this to have been a complete fabrication.
A mayor willing to cover for the murder of his constituent is no mayor at all.
Click here to demand Rahm's immediate resignation.
People if you sign - please consider adding a personal note - THAT every command officer involved in the incident be fired and charged as complicit.
Accountability must include the criminal/complicit chain of command.
Signed with comment. All involved in cover-up, also need serious prison time.
If we are gonna end institutional crime - all involved must be held accountable.
Put it out on a series of tweets as well.
https://twitter.com/DKAtoday/status/689573191887511552
Chicago cop kills student & 55 yr old women---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7QP8WwO6g
''RIP Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier'':
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-shooting-20151226-story.html - taken from:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/re-paris-the-age-of-despair-reaping-the-whirlwind-/#comment-1068334 by bw & again:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#
There have been over 1120 Americans killed by Cops in USA in 2015! BUT a total of 14 by ''terrorism''!! Now carefully consider, just whoTF are Americans Actually Terrorised by in their everyday real lives?!!!
ad iudicium ...
And the 14 were likely hoaxes or false flags.
Maybe so but we can certainly assert and argue that theory for THE Defining Event of The 21st Century, from which has subsequently flowed .. myriad manifestations of mayhem, mendacity and manipulation!!!
Ergo see - http://occupywallst.org/forum/911-a-geo-political-monster-a-cris-de-coeur-by-tim/ and:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/everyone-needs-to-see-this-anonymous-code-blue-201/#comment-1068361
However, as per the OP and the egregious Murder of Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier [RIP] - see:
I say ''Murder'' without reservation, as IF u or a cop point a gun & shoot & kill innocents, that's what it is!
fiat justitia ruat caelum...
Agree.
“Historically, law enforcement, both local and national, have a track record of keeping files on activists, engaging in surveillance, and targeting for excessive enforcement action people identified in leadership roles in social movement,'' and .. ''The evidence shown by these documents raises warning flags about resources committed and, more importantly, the degree to which local police agencies are potentially targeting non-violent activists.” from ...
So let's get this right - the cops can get away with any number of violations (not least - murder!) against citizens BUT ... apparently protesting these realities, can lead to indefinite surveillance and intimidation!
multum in parvo ...
They really do want most of us dead.
TPTB want as many as possible dead around the world which would still leave them with a sustainable slave force to keep their pleasure palaces operating.
Hunger Games
Yeah - kinda - mixed in with Robo-Cop
Re. Cali-Cop, Off.Patrick Feaster shooting Andrew Thomas, it now looks like some people DID notice it!
Listen to Anna Kasparian and Cenk Uygher - actually discuss the murder & hear their shock & outrage!!
fiat justitia ...
good link
Consider - ''Triggers don't pull themselves ...''
Still nothing in MSM after Andrew Thomas died but a few noises are beginning to be heard. Eg. ..
Off.Feaster and DA Ramsey need to be prosecuted & The Systemic Defence of Killer Cops .. has to go!
ad iudicium ...
Killer cops, all part of a grand plan.
Maybe so & re.Eric Garner, consider ...
Sometimes the mind just boggles tbh! And not only at the fact that my 1st reply to you was ''Removed''!
Also fyi: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34415-nevada-s-right-wing-could-get-burned-trying-to-shut-solar-power-down and then despite a li'l off topic on this thread perhaps also try to consider:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34375-aliso-canyon-how-bad-is-the-california-gas-leak-disaster
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
Police state doing what they do. Many challenges ahead. Thank you for links. Odd that your comments were removed.
''If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial—instead you will be forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or tampering with evidence, manipulating witnesses and planting guns or drugs, will be accepted in a courtroom as if it was the word of God. If you are poor, and especially if you are of color, almost anyone who can verify your innocence will have a police record of some kind and thereby will be invalidated as a witness. If you are poor, you will be railroaded in assembly-line production from a town or city where there are no jobs through the police stations, county jails and courts directly into prison. And if you are poor, because you don’t have money for adequate legal defense, you will serve sentences that are decades longer than those for equivalent crimes anywhere else in the industrialized world.
''If you are a poor person of color in America you understand this with a visceral fear. You have no chance. Being poor has become a crime. And this makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era.'' - from ...
''The Mirage of Justice'', by Chris Hedges: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_mirage_of_justice_20160117/ or:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43974.htm for clearer font.
''Odd'' or otherwise, we'll forge on together and I strongly recommend this excellent yet shocking article.
fiat justitia ruat caelum ...
Yes, shocking.
RIP ERICA GARNER, daughter of Eric Garner:
https://twitter.com/MarshallProj/status/947164272529956864 &
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/947140568492204037 + written by her:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/09/erica-garner-conflict-can-destroy-movements-fight-the-system
ALSO the salient links from the ''Shadow Banned'' comments that show as ''Removed'', below ...
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34382-why-is-ramsey-orta-man-who-filmed-police-killing-of-eric-garner-the-only-one-criminally-charged
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34444-reclaim-mlk-beyond-sanitized-narratives
https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/
FINALLY, per this O-P & thread, see ...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/29/16830626/call-of-duty-swatting-prank-kansas-man-dead-police-shooting
& wronged family's reaction ... http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192147194.html
fiat justitia ...
Re. ''The Mirage of Justice'' - by Chris Hedges above, in compliment - please consider:
multum in parvo ...
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See this----Murder----Murder----Murder----- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/03/1390285/-Shocking-new-video-shows-unarmed-Utah-man-was-listening-to-headphones-when-killed-by-police?detail=emailclassic
See this----Cops Out Of Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_t7Fx9xvGs
Filmmaker Document Police Shooting Dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXKnAUCz-po
Jade Helm Raids Happening Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGslwi6qUI
A speech that should be delivered to both houses as well as covered nationally in prime time to the American Public.
Nahhhhhh no racism involved in policing...........................
Black ex-cop files suit after he and his son were beaten by other cops
The officers involved were just upset that one of their own was doing stuff for free on his off time . . . ummmmm . . . YEAH no racism here . . just protecting our employment from being abused . . . stuff like doing stuff off duty could make it so that less cops are needed on the job . . . and stuff . . . . .
This is war.
NO WAR
Jailed for a small traffic fine, Detroit-area man loses 50 pounds in 17 days, dies in police custody
The thing is, getting taken into custody (even for a minor issue) is all to often fatal.
Absolutely - note - killed for driving deadly hand propelled wheelchair.
It is not just individual criminal/rogue police officers - it is also very definitely the command structure and government that supports and defends the criminals - so - being criminal in their complicity and failure to prosecute and in intimidation of those who would prosecute.
The deep, ugly, and nearly unbelievable rabbit hole of violence and corruption within the Chicago PD
Another cop beating---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacijoAbwI8
Texas police caught in an enormous lie about their murder of unarmed mother Yvette Smith
Disgusting. Calling the police in many places, is like suicide.
Yep
Police out of control, leads to this------ http://theweek.com/articles/474702/indiana-law-that-lets-citizens-shoot-cops
WOW . . . . just . . . WOW
Here is another take on the law - Myths and Misconceptions About Indiana's New...
Is it just me - or does it seem strange that you have to have a specification in the law to state that you can defend yourself from the police if the police are acting criminally.
This most brutal home invasion, comes to mind----
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/happen-thug-badge-threw-grenade-top-baby/
And further to the gravity of the problem-----http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729531/County-officials-Georgia-say-wont-pay-medical-bills-child-injured.html
Yeah - they broke their promise to pay - after they found out it was gonna be a horrendous bill.
It was just a flash bang for Christs sake - just a firecracker sort of a thing - who knew it could be deadly? The family shouldn't have been there anyway - so it is their fault. I mean who knew it would need more care than a squirt of Bactine and a band-aid?
F'n Dipshits
Yes - where in the hell is the accountability?
EXACTLY = Held To A Higher Standard !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cops probably went out for a beer , and did the high 5 thing. They really don't care. They Really Don't Care.
All this is policy of the Bohemian Grove Freaks.
The accountability lies with us, and currently we are like a spoiled child.
There is no way to justly police an unjust system. We refuse to simply let people live their lives as we see fit, instead injecting the state at every opportunity.
This is what you get. A royal mess.
muddle management must justify the need for their position somehow
US does best keeping world armed
An old post that deserves a fresh look - Ferguson is what happens when the police become the military
Yes, a fresh look. TPTB are generating a thug based army, while neutralizing the Constitution.
On the Source of the problem : http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HJlM06p2uMSfoTFAinqY7HSLH%2BURjwQY
My comment to this post =
Just shows how wrong a union can be when it feels it must defend criminal actions by some of it's members.
Does anyone else see why the NYPD in this instance as well as in the instance of the illegal choke-hold death of another and so many other instances of criminal conduct and actions/deaths - have lost the trust of the society they are supposed to be a part of?
To be clear this is not just an NYPD failure - problem - issue. This kind of crap of defending criminal actions because the criminal is in uniform is a national problem - and does not start or end with any union - but also includes the full structure of governance.
NYPD is in no position to be calling anyone Un-American. TPTB is the source of all this. Cameras and law suits do not do much, as the policy is coming from the top. The plan is to federalize police, while ending the Constitution.
Charges must be brought against criminal cops and against those who fail to charge and prosecute them = accessories after the fact. The chain of command must be held accountable = from the top to the bottom = there is no excuse for this kind of shit continuing - they (chain of command) can not claim that they are unaware or helpless to do anything - and this includes not just those in the police department but also in town - city - state - federal government.
9 Cops, One Jaywalking Teen.
https://www.rt.com/usa/315683-police-teenager-detain-violence/
another source----- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKiGAboXiI
9 cops needed today to handle one kid jaywalking - 8 being needed basically to insure that the outraged crowd does not intervene (oh and to help the defenseless cop toss the kid onto the ground).
How many more cops will be needed tomorrow or the next day - as cops continue to outrage the public?
There will be lots of cops (bad cops), and they will make enemies every day. It will be ugly.
They have got to be removed from the job! Along with the command structure that allows criminal cops to continue on the job!
Exactly.
It ain't gonna happen without the public standing up and supporting a FULL political revolution to get scum out of office.
Bernie has a great agenda - but he can't do it alone. Nice to see him going into the red states to spread the word.
The establishment racket is not going to allow people to join it and stop the train, much less reverse course.
How some of you are falling for this charade is beyond me.
Imagine if Bernie was out building a new movement and all the leftists had the choice of joining that or joining Hillary.
But Bernie is a career politician for a reason, he knows how to play the game. So here we go again, 2008 all over again. Same shit, different year.
Fire Marshall Shuts Down Officer Who Attempts To Violate His Rightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhRCsVSzYs