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!!!