The New York City man whose cellphone video captured the fatal police chokehold of unarmed black man Eric Garner is suing the city for $10 million over a drug arrest that he says was police retaliation.

Man Who Filmed Eric Garner Police Chokehold Sues City For $10 Million « CBS New York

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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is going from prosecutor to civil defendant in connection with the case of the death of Freddie Gray.

Freddie Gray officers suing prosecutor Marilyn Mosby – CNN.com

The Baltimore Police Department is a disgrace.

According to one old sociological chestnut, the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence is what defines modern government, and this monopoly is jealously protected against the second-guessing of puny civilians.

...The first step to controlling the police is to get rid of the fantasy, once and for all, that the law is on our side. The law is firmly on the side of police who open fire on unarmed civilians.

… “[Internal Affairs] will never, ever credit the claim of police abuse. They hide witnesses, they push witnesses around. The only time I cooperate with them is when I know I have their hands tied behind their back.”

… The reality is, it is extremely difficult to get law enforcement to police itself, and self-regulation [in the nation’s police departments] is, …just as it is in poultry processing or coal mining, a sick joke.

… What about all the times when excessive force suits get settled out of court? …The union covers the officer’s lawyer, and research from Joanna Schwartz of UCLA Law School found that governments, not individual officers, paid out 99.98 percent of the damages. Settlements and damages aren’t paid by the police department, …but typically out of the general municipal budget.

…In the unusual instances when a law enforcement officer is convicted, the penalties tend to be remarkably light.

…Such Scandinavian-style lenity is quite different from the mind-numbing severity of sentences inflicted on non-cops.

Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop | The Nation

Sigh….

Prosecutors have dropped the remaining charges against Baltimore police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray, bringing an end to the case without a conviction.

…Shortly after the announcement that charges would be dropped, a defiant State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby held a news conference, saying there was “a reluctance” and “an obvious bias” among some officers investigating Gray’s death.

“We do not believe Freddie Gray killed himself,” she said, standing in the neighbourhood where Gray was arrested, a mural of him on a wall over her shoulder. “We stand by the medical examiner’s determination that Freddie Gray’s death was a homicide.”

Freddie Gray trial prosecutors drop remaining charges against officers – World – CBC News

What the literal fuck????!

If officers of the law cover for other officers who break the law they become culpable in those same crimes. Every single officer who hampered this investigation chose loyalty to his or her own gang of thugs over the rule of law and the safety of the citizenry. They do not deserve to have badges, let alone our respect.

In other words, fuck those fucking lying murderous pigs!!!

 

An elderly woman gets the last word after locking a police officer in her basement, and later suing the police.

VIDEO: Woman, 90, locked officer in basement, settles with police | I-Team – WBAL Home

the video says it all

Baltimore Woman, 90, Locks Police Officer in Basement, Wins $95,000 Settlement

This was years ago. Doesn’t look like the Baltimore PD got the schooling they needed, Ms. Green.

Since 2011, officers battered dozens causing broken bones, organ failure and death, costing the city $5.7 million.

Undue force – Sun Investigates – The Baltimore Sun

this article was written in 2014 and thing haven’t improved any….

Austin, Tex., police officers face an investigation after disturbing videos showed a violent arrest and comments afterward by one officer.

Police officer slams black woman to the ground twice (VIDEO) – NY Daily News

Disgusting. The officers should be in jail.

A rape victim who had a mental breakdown while testifying against her attacker and was then put in jail by a prosecutor who worried she wouldn’t come back to testify, is suing the Harris County prosecutor and the Harris County Sheriff, among others.

Rape victim put in jail after breakdown on witness stand

Suing them is a great first step. I hope she not only wins but the judgement ruins the lives of each and every one of them.

This type of abuse of the system is crime against society.

The prosecutor, the judged who signed off on this and any and all officers of the court who enabled this crime to be committed need to be fired and jailed for the rest of their natural lives.
Right the fuck now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Video caught by a TV news helicopter shows Simone appearing to surrender and officers then punching him repeatedly.

Monaco was charged with three counts of simple assault; Flynn was charged with two counts. The charge is a misdemeanor and carries up to a year in jail. But under New Hampshire law, because Monaco and Flynn were on-duty law enforcement officers at the time, each charge is subject to an enhanced penalty of up to five years, the attorney general said.

Source: Trooper beating video: New Hampshire, Massachusetts state troopers charged in assault seen on helicopter video – CBS News

good.

crimes by the police are crimes against the rule of law and society itself.

“…when it hit me I had my hands in the air, and I’m thinking I just got shot!” Kinsey told WSVN. “And I’m saying, ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’ and his words to me were, ‘I don’t know.’”

Video Shows Unarmed Black Man Pleading With Arms Raised Before Getting Shot by Police

Clearly the officer had no business being in that uniform or holding that gun. Fire him and jail him. NOW.

Authorities say a Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man’s caretaker following reports of a man threatening to shoot himself. 

…Kinsey’s attorney, Hilton Napoleon, provided a cellphone video to the Herald on Wednesday taken moments before the shooting. It shows Kinsey lying in the middle of the street with his hands up, asking the officers not to shoot him, while the autistic man sits next to him, yelling at him to “shut up.”

Police shoot autistic man’s caretaker as he lies in street

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
“Reports” my ass.
The officer in question needs to be fired, stripped of his pension, and jailed.
Period.

In a vacuum, it isn’t natural to pre-emptively shoot people to death, just as, in a vacuum, it isn’t natural to keep your gun trained on a person who has been rendered incapacitated and is bleeding out before you. This is specialized behavior, the sort expected from military forces entering unfamiliar war zones. Soldiers are trained to consider everyone and everything a potential threat, to neutralize any man, woman or child who could potentially cause them harm. The highest priorities are to protect themselves and to accomplish their mission, and that requires the trained dehumanization of the local population. In such an environment, the burden of not killing is lifted from the soldiers, and local people are tasked with the burden of not provoking death.

…The nation’s thruways are not war zones. In a vacuum, police officers shouldn’t kill the very citizens they swear to protect. But the police, especially officers who commute to patrol communities not their own, are — or can act very much like — an occupying force. You can see their training at work when an officer fires into a car with a 4-year-old child in it. You can see it when Reynolds is directed to get out of the car, lift her hands over her head and walk backward toward a group of officers: Her camera glimpses several guns aimed squarely at her back.

… Reynolds knows to de-escalate the situation by being reassuring, even encouraging, to the man who just shot her boyfriend. She knows that her boyfriend is likely to die. She knows to document everything, to give her own accounting of events, to create a record. She knows what will come next.

…There’s a specific cadence to cop killings. State violence is so ubiquitous and visible that citizens, experienced, can recognize its approach.

…We know what comes next. Both Castile and Sterling will be further dehumanized; their pasts will be pillaged, and attempts will be made to recast both victims as the gunmen, the aggressors who brought their deaths upon themselves. The officers will argue that both shootings were in keeping with their training — that, in effect, they accomplished their mission. The police officers may even get off. They normally do.

How the Police See Us, and How They Train Us to See Them – The New York Times

This. Every fucking single word of this.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced an effort to pass legislation that would increase the criminal penalties for assaults against police officers and classify attacks directed at police as a hate crime.

Abbott calls for assaults on police to be considered hate crimes | www.statesman.com

I’m all for that, as long as (and only if!!!) officers face the exact same penalties for unlawful and unwarranted use of force. A crime against the citizenry you are sworn to protect IS a hate crime.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that arrest warrants were issued Friday for the ex-Atlanta police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist on June 22.

Atlanta cop who shot unarmed black man charged with murder | www.ajc.com

good.

Ieshia Evans explains what was going through her mind when the poignant photo was captured, and how it has given her a new purpose in life

Woman in iconic Baton Rouge protest photo speaks out

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