What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Federal officials said the contract facilities don’t offer substantial cost savings or provide the same level of security as those run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Justice Department Will Phase Out Its Use Of Private Prisons : The Two-Way : NPR
this is huge!
A very subtle but big, big win for Injustice System reform.
Nearly two weeks after Legend Preston’s run-in with police, his mother, Patisha Solomon remains horrified over what could have happened.
Newark boy, 10, thought cops ‘were going to shoot me’ – NY Daily News
The officers involved are a menace who pose a clear and urgent danger to the citizens they sworn to protect. They are simply qualified to perform their job and need to be removed from the force for their own and the public’s safety.
And if they lie and try to justify or defend their inexcusable action they should be put in jail.
Period.
The court system in the town of Sherwood is destroying the lives of poor people, a new federal lawsuit alleges.
Source: An Arkansas Judge Sent A Cancer Patient To ‘Debtors’ Prison’ Over A Few Bounced Checks
Few people are truly evil.
This judge is one of them.
Arkansas judge’s ‘debtors’ prison’ court jailed cancer patient over unpaid bills: lawsuit
The only person tat deserves to be in jail here is the judge for abusing his power. Kick off the bench, strip him of his title, etc. and put his ass in jail. …For longer than 90 days!!
This is as bad as it gets.
KING: N.C. police kill unarmed deaf man using sign language – NY Daily News
For gawds sake…
This is murder, straight and simply put.
Calling it anything else is condoning this kind of senseless violence.
If cops do not face consequences for their violent crime they are nothing more than a state-sponsored gang.
Few cases typify everything that is wrong with gun rights, police brutality and racial profiling like this one.
KING: Black man shot by cops after calling to report robbery – NY Daily News
sigh…
Daaaaang, Canada. Brrrrrrr. Cold but spot on.
A judge found that Sheriff Arpaio and his second-in-command ignored court orders designed to keep the office from racially profiling Latinos.
Judge Refers Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Criminal Prosecution – The New York Times
Baby steps forward are better than no steps forward.
Man, would it be nice to see this guy in one his own chain gangs though!
Austin James Wilkerson was convicted of raping an unconscious woman. He won’t go to jail.
Convicted Rapist Austin Wilkerson Receives No Prison Time — Even Less Than Stanford Rapist
I highly doubt the judge is that merciful with all violent criminals.
No reason to be so here.
Rip that fucker off the bench!!!
A Florida woman attending a police seminar is shot dead during a demonstration on how to use a gun.
: Florida woman accidentally killed in police academy exercise – BBC News
Seriously? Fucking Florida!
The Drug Enforcement Agency will allow more places to grow marijuana for research purposes
U.S. will affirm its prohibition on medical marijuana – The Washington Post
No rescheduling it is an expensive drain on tax payer resources that benefits no one except big pharma, big oil, and alcohol producers. Not to mention that it is disproportionately affects lower income people and -in effect- diverts hundreds of thousands of young people away from school and a career and into a lifetime of a being tax-payer drain member of the American Injustice System school instead.
It also hampers medical research and goes against the supposed position the President took on letting states make their own laws.
The DEA, like most law enforcement agencies in this country, is wholly out of step with society and its stated purpose.
Boo, Mr President!
Man shot to death by L.A. County deputy was not a carjacking suspect, officials say – LA Times
Of course not. Which then also brings the credibility of every other “fact” or assertions by the officers involved into question.
…Or it damn well should.
Investigators found that African-American residents were often stopped or arrested without legal justification.
Well, now!
Moore is currently suspended for violating judicial ethics with an order to state probate judges about same-sex marriage.
Hearing on Monday will chart course of ethics case against Roy Moore
Hmmmm
Chief of Department James O’Neill is being named by local media as his replacement.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton To Resign In September – BuzzFeed News
hmmm
Gov. Jay Nixon has denied funding increases and vetoed caseload caps for the state’s badly overloaded public defender system. So the director is calling him in to help out with the backlog.
Heh, that’s great!
A former Virginia police officer was convicted Thursday in the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old man suspected of shoplifting.
Former Va. police officer convicted in killing of unarmed teen – NY Daily News
May all of his appeals end up just like his victim, dead on arrival.
In 2014, the President set out to make meaningful changes to this country’s approach to clemency. To spotlight instances of over-sentencing in our prisons, the President directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prioritize petitions for commutations from individuals convicted of non-violent drug offenses who were serving longer sentences than they would be given today if convicted of the same crime.
President Obama Commutes the Sentences of 214 Additional People | whitehouse.gov
hmmm
Korryn Gaines shooting: US police kill woman as child watched – BBC News
Calling this anything that 1st degree murder is a lie.
Any cop who is OK with this, or obstructs and investigation into this is culpable in this crime. Until the police drop the law-evading and law-flaunting thin blue line, very single one of them is guilty of every single sick, twisted, and violent crimes officers across this corrupt, racist, and increasingly fascist country commit. Every single one. Guilty of murder one.
Police have the right to shoot to kill when they are in danger? fine. If they shoot someone who poses no danger they should go directly to jail. Until then they are not upholding the law, they are disrespecting it, and deserve no respect (and no credit for serving the public.)
At least 682 people have been killed by American cops so far this year. The average person in my circle can probably only name two of them.
To be fair, sometimes police must use lethal force to protect themselves and the community they pledge to serve. Other times, the lethal force was an optional choice. Police, for instance, did not need to choke Eric Garner to death to protect themselves. Police, for instance, did not need to shoot Tamir Rice or John Crawford or Rekia Boyd to protect themselves. Police did not need to shoot Amadou Diallo or Sean Bell or Ramarley Graham to protect anyone. Even they thought they needed to — they were wrong. All of those men and women posed no true threat to anyone, but police chose to kill them based on their incorrect assumptions.
…Gaines was wanted for several petty misdemeanors — traffic violation, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Why it took a team of men to arrive at her home over these violations is not yet clear. What is clear, is that Gaines did not feel comfortable turning herself over to police, possibly because she had her 5-year-old son with her.
…Police decided to go ahead and shoot her instead, killing her. Police do not dispute that they shot first. They claim she shot at them after they shot at her. Her young son was shot in the process and is currently hospitalized.
KING: Cynicism over mom slain by cops illustrates white privilege – NY Daily News
What the fuck is wrong with people that this stuff goes on? What the fuck is wrong with Baltimore that with all of the actual danger they have to protect citizens from they are shooting and killing a 23 mother in front of her young son because she had some minor violations? Where the sense of justice and perspective? Where is the value of the citizenry’s life? Where is the value of the life of young black people? What is wrong with this country that we tolerate our police departments acting like vicious gangs of murderers even once?
As long as any police department acts like this and gets away with no law enforcement agency in this country deserves the respect of the citizenry they hunt with impunity.
FUCK THE PIGS. BBQ THEM!!! IT’s what they would do to you. And if they wouldn’t, they certainly cover of for a fellow officer who did who they are ALL GUILTY of these crimes.
Lawyer for female inmate says jailers refused to give her feminine hygiene products for days, in addition to not giving her pants
Kentucky judge furious at jailers for not giving woman pants – CBS News
WTF?! That jail should be closed and the staff brought up on charges.
The former police commissioner in charge when Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained in a Baltimore police van said State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is “in over her head” and has added more flaws to a broken justice system by prosecuting innocent officers.
Former police commissioner: Mosby ‘incompetent’ and ‘vindictive’ – Baltimore Sun
Sure being a police officer is supposed to be an honorable profession but that honor is tarnished when officers disrespect the laws they are supposed to be upholding. And that is exactly what happens when officers cover for each other or obstruct investigations into “their own.” The honor of the badge is tarnished. When a police officer covers up for another officer they aren’t just “protecting their own,” they are choosing their fellow officers over the public they are sworn to protect and the laws they are sworn to enforce.
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