Live updates: George Floyd protests spread nationwide

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the arrest unacceptable and totally inadvertent. [emphasis: Peanut Gallery]

The Minnesota State Patrol released this statement on Twitter: “In the course of clearing the streets and restoring order at Lake Street and Snelling Avenue, four people were arrested by State Patrol troopers, including three members of a CNN crew. The three were released once they were confirmed [emphasis: Peanut Gallery] to be members of the media.”

​CNN broadcast shows Jimenez clearly ​displaying his CNN badge before he was restrained.

Live updates: George Floyd protests spread nationwide

Nope. F*ck you and your wannabe Nazi storm troopers. There is no such thing as an inadvertent arrest.

Indiana officer who made ‘closed casket’ remark after police killing is suspended, reassigned

via Indiana officer who made ‘closed casket’ remark after police killing is suspended, reassigned

Police have said… Police have said… Enough with what the police have said. The police need to start producing proof and stop covering up each other’s crimes with nonsense.

Oh, and that officer should have been at the very least fired, not “reassigned.”

Police officers should not have special HR privileges. Their position makes them a public figure and and their right to privacy and second chances should never rank below the right of the public not to have armed monsters roaming our streets with guns and not consequences if they murder someone.

Louisville official: No apology for praising Breonna Taylor boyfriend

Louisville official: No apology for praising Breonna Taylor boyfriend

The police union is beyond toxic. It is an affront to integrity, honesty, and anything good about the American way.

these officers were reckless in the way they carried out their job and got one of their own number shot because of it. And then they committed cold blooded murder in retaliation and lied to protect themselves and one another. Vile and reckless dereliction of duty by officers it employs is what should not be tolerated by city leaders.

To say otherwise is delusional.

Breonna Taylor shooting: 911 call details aftermath of police raid

Breonna Taylor shooting: 911 call details aftermath of police raid

Jeezus….

Yes, the Peanut Gallery does typically respond to these stories with comments about how much they want the victims to sue, sue, SUE THE MUNICIPALITIES INTO THE GROUND. Yes, the Peanut Gallery is aware that innocent tax-paying citizens would, in effect, be left picking up the tab.

Follow us here…. If a municipality suddenly goes bankrupt and can’t pay for schools or parks and the like, people will complain. They will ray a stink. they will raise a fuss. If not in the first municipality it happens to, then it will in another. At some point it will come down to local government having to answer to why there is no money, and the answer is because someone keeps hiring cops who commit violent crimes and letting them loose on the street even after they have been accused of misconduct, reckless acts, and violence. At some point, some community is going to actually be able to hold some local government accountable for high cost of hiring cops like that and keeping them on the street and the local government will stop allowing officers on the payroll to commit violent crimes. The cost will become too much to do anything else.

The peanut gallery cannot think of any other way to break the Thin Blue Line. Make no mistake, as long as the Thin Blue Line exists, good cops will always back up, lie for, and cover up for the bad ones, they will all always fall to lowest level among them. As long the thin blue line exists, officers’ first priority will always be to be protect each other. As long their first priority is protecting each other, they will always pose a danger to the public they are sworn to protect. If cops protect themselves above all others, what is the point of them being there in the first place?

Why should tax payers be compelled to pay the salaries of people who pose a clear danger to the public? The police unions have a bunch of money, they could pay the police’s salary for a while. It would be more fitting to have them pay, because they are the ones being protected.

And yes, of course there are good cops. But as long as the Thin Blue Line exists, every single officer is culpable in the misdeeds of the few. Until officers of the law hold each other to higher standards and put protecting the citizenry above protecting each other, all officers are equally guilty in the crimes of any officer.

In short?  Make their local governments hold them to higher standard. Sue them into the ground, Walker!

 

Tennessee police chief tells officers who ‘don’t have an issue’ with George Floyd arrest to turn in badges

“Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?” Frey said during a press conference Wednesday. “If you had done it or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now.”

Tennessee police chief tells officers who ‘don’t have an issue’ with George Floyd arrest to turn in badges | TheHill

hmmm

Police say they tried to stop a black man after they say he rolled through a stop sign. A tense confrontation followed. It is a miracle they did not murder anyone.

Police tried to stop a black man after they say he rolled through a stop sign. A tense confrontation followed. – CNN

There is zero proof of any wrongdoing on the part of this young man. (And no, the officer’s word does not count as proof. Not in this society. Not while the thing blue exists.)
No sensible or reasonable person would believe the people holding guns on him were not here to shoot him.
Get those officers off the street before they kill someone.

NH says Troopers Who Pulled NH Man By Dreadlocks Followed Policy

Troopers Who Pulled NH Man By Dreadlocks Followed Policy: State | Concord, NH Patch

What the f**ck is this shit???

Nope, not OK. Not at all OK. If that is the policy then the policy is an insult to law and order.

Here’s hoping he sues the individual Troopers and the Department back to Kingdom Come. IF there is one thing NH taxpayers won’t abide it’s wasting money. And having polices or paying Troopers who invite lawsuits is a waste of money.