John Kelly joins board of company that operates facilities for migrant children: report | TheHill
Jeezus….
Category: American Injustice System,
Police shooting near Yale exposes complex racial divide
The images from the police bodycam video of two officers firing at an unarmed black couple in their car have reverberated throughout New Haven.
…In January, New Haven officials approved the creation of a Civilian Review Board to monitor and independently investigate alleged police misconduct — an effort more than 20 years in the making.
…The redlining of neighborhoods — in which federal agencies in the 1930s allowed for discriminatory lending practices that disenfranchised black home buyers — created the segregation and racially divisive attitudes prevalent in New Haven and its majority white suburbs.
…New Haven, where about one in four residents live in poverty, and the portion of Hamden that borders the city represent a microcosm of the housing policies and income inequality that persist today throughout the United States.
…”Yale and these other Ivy League schools are in a land grab race, competing for endowment funds and land. They want to buy up properties to build expensive apartments, luxury living with the gyms and coffee houses and yoga studios. They’re arguing that they’re scaling up neighborhoods and gentrifying, but the reality is it’s only for those who can afford it.”
…The shooting near Yale’s campus has also brought up questions about how the university’s police force operates and why an officer fired a weapon in an off-campus encounter.
…The Black Students for Disarmament at Yale said it favors the school’s officers being unarmed and restricted in where they can patrol off campus.
…A white student called campus police on a black Yale graduate student who had been napping in a common room.
…Upon releasing Eaton’s bodycam footage …State Police Commissioner James Rovella could not detail why the officers opened fire after commanding the driver to open the car door. Witherspoon could be seen on Eaton’s bodycam getting out of his car at that moment.
Eaton only turned on the bodycam after the shooting, and Pollock failed to turn his on at all.
Witherspoon, who was [not armed, was] not charged [with any crimes.]
Police shooting near Yale exposes complex racial divide
sigh….
I Was Tortured By The Chicago PD: This Is What I Saw
I Was Tortured By The Chicago PD: This Is What I Saw | Cracked.com
Yes, Cracked. They have their moments.
Civil asset forfeiture has quietly expanded across Pa., led by Berks County
When forfeiture is used as a cash cow, everything can look like drug money. Everything can look like a prize.
And as other counties have scaled up the practice — as Daisilee Cruz’s case and others uncovered through our investigation show — seemingly innocent people are getting caught in the crossfire.
…“As long as forfeiture money is being used to self-fund law enforcement agencies, there is always going to be an abuse of forfeiture practices,” said Darpana Sheth with the Washington-based Institute of Justice, which has been litigating civil asset forfeiture cases for years.
“Law enforcement has a direct financial incentive to not only seize property but pursue forfeiture even when there is a very tangential relationship to criminal activity,” she said.
…Investigators didn’t find any drugs in their sweep, but they did find something else — $3,000 that Smith says she had just cashed from a tax refund. It was days away from her son’s senior prom, and she had hoped to use the money to pay for his suit and rent a limousine.
But, to investigators, the stack of cash was probable drug money.
“They were like, ‘Well, I need to prove it’s not illegal gains,’ and I said, ‘Well, you’re not proving that it is illegal gains. You’re not proving that,’” Smith recalled saying to police, at the time. “I was really, really angry that they took my money.”
…A review of several months of court filings from 2018 shows that small amounts of cash are routinely taken from people never charged with crimes.
…Adams conceded that cases like these do occur, but referred to the money as “abandoned property,” because the individuals didn’t show up to court hearings to contest the takings.
…Police confiscated a piggy bank containing about $98 of birthday money belonging to a suspect drug dealer’s youngest daughter. Neither the target nor the daughter were ever charged with criminal wrongdoing. Still, the process of getting the piggy bank back was arduous.
“It took us over a year to get that $98 back,” he said.
Civil asset forfeiture has quietly expanded across Pa., led by Berks County
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Charlotte NC police release Danquirs Franklin shooting video
The male officer shouts to Franklin: “Sir, put the gun down.” Kerl yells, “Put the gun down!”
The last command Kerl yells before firing is, “Put it on the ground!”
Franklin reached his right hand toward a pocket and pulled out a gun by the barrel. He appeared to be lowering the weapon when Kerl fired two shots, the video shows.
Moments after being shot, Franklin turns his face toward the officers and can be heard saying: “You told me to…”
The video cuts off seconds later, after he slumps over.
…“There is no way” the shooting was justified, she said. “He was sitting there in the most non-threatening way possible. His two choices were get killed for complying with them or get killed for not complying. He was going to get killed no matter what.”
…“In hindsight, the officers probably could have said, ‘Put your hands up. Don’t move. Don’t reach toward the gun. And if you move toward your gun, we’ll shoot you.’ ”
Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, said he believes the video “raises some serious questions about the officers’ tactics.
“In this case, one of the officers was standing less than a car-length away from an armed subject with nothing but air between them for more than 30 seconds,” he wrote in an email to the Observer. “If, for example, the officers had taken positions of relative safety, they might have been more comfortable waiting to see if Mr. Franklin was going to put the gun on the ground the way that they had commanded him to, rather than shooting him at the moment they did.”
Charlotte NC police release Danquirs Franklin shooting video | Rock Hill Herald
Fuck, “objectively reasonable” excuses.
If an officer cannot keep their head under stress and make split second assessments (like, is he putting the gun down?) and then act on them (like, maybe I shouldn’t shoot him because he is not a threat and it would be murder to do so) then they have no business in that line of work. Period. It’s too dangerous for them and everyone around them.
Attorney general’s ruling expands indefinite detention for asylum seekers
Attorney general’s ruling expands indefinite detention for asylum seekers – AOL News
Because, Fuck your tired, poor, huddles masses yearning to breathe free…
Broward County: Christopher Krickovich filmed punching, pepper-spraying teenager
That teen’s phone bounced onto the pavement. A 15-year-old went to pick it up and, in a widely circulated video shot by a bystander, he did so in front of a deputy wielding pepper spray. The deputy triggered the spray at the teen’s face, and he only made it a few steps before the deputy threw him to the ground.
Another deputy, Christopher Krickovich, straddled him, smashed his forehead into the asphalt several times and punched him in the head. The teen extended his arms.
…Later, the officer said he responded to the call as an active-shooter scenario, even though no shots were fired. [A lack of ability to exercise judgement like this should be grounds for firing. Incompetence should never ever be rewarded, let alone accepted as justification for egregious violence and abuses of pwer.]
…“Oftentimes, training doesn’t get to the philosophical root to explain to officers why you need to do X, Y or Z,” Klinger said. “Rather, it’s just, ‘Do X, Y or Z.’ It’s very easy for officers to misapply.”
Klinger added: “If there is a problem with the particular use of force, and [deputies] were doing what they were trained to do and told to do, you can’t criticize them.” [What? Watch me… If an officer cannot use reason and critical thought well enough to be responsible for their own choices and actions they not only have no business wearing a badge they are a danger to the community they are charged with protecting.]
This random and uncalled for level of unrepentant violence and bullying is what parents invite into their communities when they give approval to law enforcement officers in school. The child was lucky not to be shot dead.
Tampons Confiscated, Guns Allowed as Texas Senate Debates Abortion
Tampons Confiscated, Guns Allowed as Texas Senate Debates Abortion – The Atlantic
Seems like some members of the Texas State Troopers need to lose their freaking jobs.
If the decision was based on the need to protect legislators the fact that guns were allowed through strongly suggests a willful dereliction of duty.
Any other rational for the decision to confiscate birth control and feminine sanitary products but not actual weapons indicates crass prejudice.
At best, it was insensitive and wholly unprofessional but whether it was gross incompetence or malicious abuse of power, the troopers involved should be relived of their badges.
2,000 Leaked Photos Show the Cruelty of an Alabama Prison. Should They Be Published?
2,000 Leaked Photos Show the Cruelty of an Alabama Prison. Should They Be Published? – Mother Jones
Honestly not sure what the question is.
Does the New York Times (or any new organization) really refrain from publishing images that the subjects of the photos might not like? Truly I have never heard that they do so.
Is the fact that some people won’t get it a reason to not say something? (Um, no…)
Should journalists not cover stories that they think the public won’t 100% be on board with? (Um, no…)
It seems to the peanut gallery that he only real reason not to publish these photos is is an ediotial decision not to support victims of injustice.
Involuntary Commitment For Addiction Treatment Raises Troubling Questions
1.) The criminal justice system does not care about your loved one.
2.) If you put your loved one into the criminal justice system you are sentencing them to being treated like a criminal. Or worse.
3.) Parent your own fucking kids people.
N.H. officer to remain on ‘Laurie list’
A Grafton County Superior Court judge has denied a New Hampshire police officer’s request to be removed from the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, also known as the Laurie List.
…The Laurie List is intended to let prosecutors know which officers have truthfulness or credibility issues. That way, they can make defendants, who are entitled to all evidence that is exculpatory, aware of such issues.
The New Hampshire ACLU filed a motion to become a party to the case. The group argued that Hornick had no legal authority to remove the officer and that it needs to protect criminal defendants’ rights because no one else does.
“Every person has a right to due process when interacting with the criminal justice system, and that includes evidence that police officer witnesses may have been dishonest in the past,” said Henry Klementowicz, staff attorney at the N.H. ACLU. “This lawsuit further highlights why the list should be made a public document.”
Valley News – N.H. officer to remain on ‘Laurie list’
hmmm
Motel 6 will pay $12 million to Washington State after several locations gave their guest lists to ICE
Between 2015 and 2017, seven Motel 6 locations in the state shared approximately 80,000 guests’ personal information with ICE without requiring a warrant.
…The guest lists contained private information of all guests at the hotel, violating their expectation of privacy.
The hotel chain’s disclosures “resulted in ICE’s targeted investigation of many guests with Latino-sounding names,” the statement said.
Motel 6 will pay $12 million after several locations gave their guest lists to ICE – CNN
hmmmm
Father and son separated at the border reunite after 326 days
An officer approached him, gave him five pages and was told to sign the paperwork. But he said he didn’t know what it was since he couldn’t speak or read English.
It was his own deportation order, sending him back to Guatemala, while keeping his son in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Father and son separated at the border reunite after 326 days – CBS News
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