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USA likes to espouse itself as being the freest country in the world, defender of life and liberty.
Yet people are pre-emptively arrested for wanting to exercise their first amendment rights, 25% of all prisoners on planet earth are in our jail system, we have the highest imprisonment rate, and have killed tons of civilians in our various oil wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya).
America's dead. Perhaps a better use of everyone's energy is to figure out how to get the fuck out of America, because our "freedom" is mostly based on economics, not principles of actual liberty.
Fuck Chicago Police (for the 10,000th time).
But fuck america for allowing this to happen, and fuck americans for voting in leaders like Bush and Obama who only decrease total freedom, and for having no backbone to fight this bullshit.
Slightly confusing, but what the headline really means is "there are many instances where police used more bullets against 1 person than Germany used in an entire year against all criminals in the country".
Now, if you extrapolate out the fact that the U.S. population is almost 4 times that of Germany's, the real number to compare is not 85 shots, but about 340 shots.
Contrast to America, where *to stop a reckless driver* last year, police fired over 110 shots, including shooting 7 innocent bystanders. We routinely shoot unarmed people 40-90 times.
Yeah.... It's not just our larger population at work. When our police use more bullets in a single incident than a country previously associated with fascism does all year -- it gives one major pause at how fucked up and broken our system is, and how piss-poor our over-militarized, trigger-happy police operate.
Not making assumptions here. I've worked them them, eaten lunch with them, and heard them talk about how they want someone to cause them to have a chance to shoot them. It's sickening.
Freshly released: Actual video of police killing a homeless man. The video is FORTY MINUTES IN LENGTH, with TWENTY MINUTES OF BRUTALITY.
If 6 officers couldn't take this guy down in less than 20 minutes, none of them deserve to keep their job.
For once, the pigs are actually charged with murder and manslaughter. But wait. Only 2 of the 6 officers were actually charged. Seems to be that if you mindlessly dogpile onto an existing situation, you're just fine. They never charge everyone who actually did it.
"I just started smashing his face to hell" -one of the officers
I remember when this happened.
The guy had meth in his blood, therefore it's okay for a group of taxpayer-funded thugs to murder him in cold blood while he screams for help, right?
The audio was released before. PBS just released the video. Unlike Rodney King, this guy died. Unlike Rodney King, there were twice as many officers surrounding this guy.
And here it is - watch your tax dollars being used to murder a man. Now on video. (Of course they tried to confiscate said video.)
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Bad cops are "just a few bad apples"? Kinda like how just a few of the Germans were bad during WW2, eh? Pointed out in the comments is that the phrase "a few bad apples" comes from the origin whereby a few bad apples sealed in a barrel full of good apples will ruin all the other apples. The whole figure of speech of "A few bad apples", as commonly used, is incorrect. A few bad apples after the fact means your whole barrel went rotten.
I did not realize this.
So anyway... Here's what happens when you're a good apple. If you literally stop police from beating up an innocent person, as a cop, your job will be put on the line. Her department is calling her "psychologically unfit for duty" and trying to fire her.
She's also the first lesbian cop there.
video appearance at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/69454161/News/Officer-Regina-Tasca-On-Being-Suspended-For-Not-Lying-About-Fellow-Cops-apos-Actions
So if you wonder why people think cops are assholes -- look no further than stories like this compared and contrasted to the neverending constant barrage of abuse of power performed by those with badges.
Funny how they are bringing up old bad things she supposedly did as reasons to get rid of her - reasons only brought up after this. I've seen such tactics used before, both in the news and in real life. :/
This is pretty damning. Journalist releases something USA and Yemen lied to their people about. Wikileaks then verifies it. Yemen imprisons journalist as if he's a terrorist for saying something America doesn't like. Local leaders and Amnesty International get mad.
Pardon is drafted up. Obama then literally called Yemen when they had the pardon written up, in order to ensure that this journalist stay in jail and the pardon disappear. Which happens after the phone call.
This is direct action. This is not Congress's fault, this is not Obama being a puppet of vast machinery he has no control of.
And oh, we still have secret prisons just like under the Bush Administration. Obama just tricked Obama-supporters into thinking he stopped Bush's practice. He did not. As usual, Obama continues Bush's practices, but more secretively.
And at this point, is The New York Times even worth wiping one's ass on? This is the paper that knew we were being wiretapped by the government, and sat on the story for a year. Among many other things, New York Times is now, to me, the least reliable major newspaper in existence.
Yup. If you are a 17 year old passenger in a car that sideswipes an off duty cop, the cop can chase you down, fire indiscriminately in a car full of 5 teenagers, and NOT GET CHARGED FOR SHOOTING YOU AND PUTTING YOU IN THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
Is it any wonder people don't respect american authority? American authority does not submit to law. They are simply thugs who do what they want -- and the system lets them, which is why they do it.
No charges. For shooting an unarmed teenage passenger in the back after chasing down their car in road rage. The officer is not even named. Fucking ridiculous.
Why did these two daughters have to watch their father - a black male - get shot to death?
Because the police were concerned for their safety!
You see, a black man with children in a truck. That's suspicious. Cause for concern.
The officers clearly had no choice but to shoot this man, after he forced their hand. This is a good use of our tax dollars. {this paragraph is sarcasm}
How much longer are we going to take this shit?
All caught on video. Because smart black people know that catching it on video is the only way anybody is ever going to believe anything (if you're black). If a cop gets shot, the whole county is supposed to have a parade and be all sad. If a black person gets shot -- well, they were probably on drugs or in a gang, right? [sarcasm]
2 years in solitary confinement without seeing a court date, having to pull your own tooth yourself?
Does that sound like Saudi Arabia? North Korea? Turkey? Iran? Nope, that's America.
People - don't tell the government you think your friends are suicidal. They are not your friend in that situation.
(Remember the suicidal guy on the edge of a bridge that they tased off into the river? Or the suicidal guy who was going to stab himself that they shot to death?)
The police are NOT here to help us anymore.
Do you think civilians would only get three years for ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY rape charges?
This is why -- if you want to be a child rapist -- your best bet is to become a cop. (2nd best bet is to become a Catholic priest.)
Jason Elder: Child rapist.
We also have the "protect our children" war on drugs mentality that put this DARE officer there in the first place. So this becomes a War On Drugs issue too.
Do you have a foot injury?
Do you have a language barrier?
Are you not Caucasian?
Then a great deal of people think it's completely valid for an officer to pull you over, and brake your arm.
Don't believe me? Just read the assholes commenting on this article.
I think the lawsuit isn't asking for nearly enough.
Cops lie, people fry. Even if you're a cop yourself, the system weighs so heavily that your life will be ruined, even if innocent.
6 months in jail? Solitary confinement? Arrested by your ex-girlfriend several times?
No one can say for sure, but my opinion is that female Colorado Springs Police Officer Sydney Huffman is a lying cunt pig of the highest order. Just look at her picture - she looks like a stuck up bitch full of herself. Now imagine her with a badge and a gun, and on the rag, a woman scorned.
Sorry, was that sexist?
I love a good cop-on-cop abuse of authority story, because it strains the credibility of abusive cops -- by pitting them against other cops.
Cops block a road. Another cop asks them to move. They punch him. Nothing is reported. Weeks later they send him charges by mail -- fucking pussies knew better than to try to actually arrest one of their own. All charges but one were dropped, and that one was mocked by the judge.
Lawsuit coming. How will the police union know what to do this time? ha ha ha
Officers John Walls and Mark Thom sound like a real pieces of shit unworthy of getting a penny from the taxpayers. Waste of all our time, waste of space.
Afterward, the department said they would "investigate" the complaints against this brutality. But they also said they will not watch the video the veteran took.
What a great "investigation"! Fucking pigs. Call a mental health worker if you're too much of a pussy to subdue a fat homeless woman without punching her in the face.
Apparently police are now suing lawyers who file public records requests for dashcam videos. Just in case proving your innocence against lying police wasn't hard enough.
This is some of the most major bullshit ever.
C.O.P.S. somehow managed just fine, with sophisticated privacy technology called "bleeps" and "blurred faces". What a load of total fucking bullshit.
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes licks the asshole of authority, and loves the taste.
Love the statute of limitations angle in the article too - they said they would release video past the statue of limitations, so it can't be used against them. BUT IT'S USED AGAINST US. I guess those limitations only apply if you're an officer committing a crime, and not a civilian committing a crime, eh?
Gee, Officer Tina Marie Albrand -- if a gun is so dangerous that you have to break a 9 year old's bones because he "grabbed for it", maybe you shouldn't wear your fucking gun when dealing with 9 year olds. What, you're going to shoot them?
It's hard to be unworthy of being a pig, but you do it Tina Marie Albrand.
Don't call the police on your loved ones. To do so is stupid. The police are not hear to help your loved ones.
They do not serve.
They do not protect.
They use our tax dollars to murder us.
The Lee County state attorney who cleared the sherrif's office of any wrongdoing is worthy of divine retribution from the victim's family. The actual cops who did this should be put to death (via the U.S. justice system) to save future people from their abuse.
But instead, no charges have ever been filed -- not after 2 and a half years.
Monshay Gibbs is a hero for breaking the thin blue line and testifying against her fellow cops. (Sounds like they didn't hire her. Maybe because she doesn't support brutality.)
merry christmas - watch 10 cops tase a guy who was already in jail to death as he does nothing more than cross his arms.
BTW, Maricopa County has some of the worst, most abusive police in the country -- just check my Maricopa tag below.
while everyone is dreaming of a white christmas and wishing for snow, this guy got kneed in the back so hard surgically implanted spinal probes were removed, because a cop decided to charge him with obstruction for voluntarily plowing snow during a snowstorm.
Terra Alta Police Chief Justin Burke Childers sounds like a fucking redneck piece of shit who belongs behind bars getting raped every day. He should not be receiving any of our tax dollars and using them to abuse disabled snow plow operators. Merry fucking christmas.
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