Re: Cops behaving badly
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 10:58 pm
The injustice is palpable.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 10:44 pm
Apparently there is a right way and a wrong way to protest.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://www.octopusoverlords.com/forum/
The injustice is palpable.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 10:44 pm
Apparently there is a right way and a wrong way to protest.
Sure. In this case the video looks like manslaughter at the best and murder at worst. When the guy is apparently unconscious and he still has a knee on his neck...come on. There are 4 of you. Get up. What is he going to do? Out run everyone? There is something very wrong in this land with the police. Over and over. City after city. Violence. Lying. And little accountability to boot.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 10:10 pm Yeah, Minneapolis is kind of rioting down right now. Rain may save the day.
They sure have had their share if bad shoots/force in the last few years.
Takes me back to 538's analysis of bad cops in Chicago (linked a couple of times in this thread):Chauvin was involved in a fatal accident in 2005, killed Wayne Reyes in 2006, shot another man while in uniform in 2008, and had a litany of complaints against him.
Within the department, repeaters might normalize misconduct toward residents, pushing other cops toward wrongdoing. Outside of the department, the behavior of these officers can turn the community against the police. “That’s what the ‘few bad apples’ theory doesn’t capture: the kind of compounding, metastasizing arms that flow from the impunity of bad cops,” Kalven said....
...A data-driven mechanism to reduce police misconduct would be extremely valuable to the Chicago Police Department and the city of Chicago. Even laying aside the moral imperative to prevent abuse, the financial cost of police misconduct to the cash-strapped city is immense. Direct costs, in terms of legal fees and the funds disbursed in settlements, exceeded $500 million over 10 years, according to a Better Government Association study. The McDonald case alone was settled for $5 million.
Van Dyke had at least 20 complaints against him in his career, many alleging excessive force, before McDonald’s shooting. Overall, the data shows that officers who rack up many complaints against them are more likely to end up having a complaint sustained, suggesting that they really are bad cops.
Watch the video (or don’t). It’s so much worse. They kill Floyd as a crowd of civilians stand around begging them to stop and take his pulse. It’s agonizingly slow. This wasn’t a case where the police were forced to make a split second decision or might have reasonably been afraid for their own well being. They had this man face down on the pavement and slowly, deliberately murdered him while being filmed. And while being told by Floyd and the onlookers exactly what they were doing.LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 9:00 am Saw photos this morning of the kneel. I kinda wish I hadn't.
I doubt 1st or 2nd-degree murder would stick and if they shoot for that and get an acquittal, that would really make people upset.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2020 7:28 pmShooting low and that won't please anyone but pretty much assures a guilty verdict, right?
Two law enforcement agencies acknowledged Monday that officers patrolling Minneapolis during the height of recent protests knifed the tires of numerous vehicles parked and unoccupied in at least two locations in the midst of the unrest.
Video and photo images posted on the news outlet Mother Jones show officers in military-style uniforms puncturing tires in the Kmart parking lot at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue on May 30.
Images from S. Washington Avenue at Interstate 35W also showed officers with knives deflating the tires of two unoccupied cars with repeated jabs on May 31. Department of Public Safety spokesman Bruce Gordon confirmed that tires were cut in "a few locations."
"State Patrol troopers strategically deflated tires … in order to stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement," Gordon said.
I would change that to "some" officers of the law. Just like watching trainwrecks and riots, it's the extremes which make the impression and where the cameras get pointed and videos go viral. However, the extremes are coming faster and faster, and generating more fury.perhaps the simplest story one can tell is this: We filmed the cops, and people changed their minds.
For the last two decades, America has conducted an experiment in mass videography. Virtually everyone in the country now carries a camera in his or her pocket. In addition, our highways, streets, and sidewalks are watched by an array of public and private digital eyes, recording, if not everything, then much of the nation's public interactions—including with the police.
In the early days of mass camera adoption, cops resisted public attempts to film them, often attempting to shut down and even destroy videos of their work taken by citizens.
It's not hard to understand the resistance. Those ubiquitous cameras—on cellphones, on dashboards, in stores, on police uniforms—have repeatedly given the public deeply disturbing glimpses into how officers of the law do their jobs.
So, I was sitting on the porch the other day watching cars go by.TheMix wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:39 pm In David Brin's Earth, crime has virtually ceased to exist because of people wearing goggles that record everything they look at. Hordes of retirees sitting on their doorsteps watching everything. It seemed like an interesting idea. Now, maybe, a little less far-fetched.
For bodycams, once the tech gets to the point where "on and saving" is the rule rather than the exception but not yet. Right now they have fairly limited file retention. Certainly not a full shift. Even when always-on they record chunks an overwrite earlier chunks when they run out of memory. You have to remember to hit save to mark footage. In the immediate aftermath of a shooting, officers aren't always going to remember to hit the save button.
Thee Rant is just one node in a wider web of right-wing police media. On similar message boards, in Facebook groups and on news sites such as Law Enforcement Today — a sort of Breitbart-like outlet written by and for police — there is a fervent narrative that police are under nonstop siege, and that antifa in particular is a constant threat.
This police media ecosystem is not necessarily a broad representation of what most cops believe. But inside this echo chamber, which has thousands of users and readers, extremist views dictate the narrative. Wild misinformation and bigotry are rampant, with people who claim to be current and former officers posting debunked falsehoods and racist stereotypes about protesters.
LET has more than 800,000 followers on Facebook and runs a syndicated radio show. Much of its content is provided by former or current police officers, and it offers paid memberships of $75 a year to gain access to “the patriotic content that the social media giants don’t want you to see.”
The site’s articles often bear only a passing resemblance to reality. Earlier this month, Law Enforcement Today published an article calling for the arrest of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, accusing him of aiding and abetting “antifa” terrorists. The post cited numerous far-right media activists, including anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, and suggested that Democratic officials including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) are antifa sympathizers. It also baselessly attacked Tlaib and Omar, who are Muslim, as “arguably anti-Semites and ISIS supporters (if not in words, in actions).”
“Law Enforcement Today supports Laura [Loomer]’s demand that Dorsey be arrested and prosecuted for promoting an insurrection against the United States,” the article says. It also suggests that politicians such as Omar who have expressed support for the current protests against police brutality and systemic injustice should be arrested as well.
This is old, but I believe that they were in the process of issuing her a summons because her "it's my aunts" story wasn't working and that is why they needed her name.
That is very poorly thought out.
I don't get it. that wasn't a cop who punched him (or at least if it is they aren't in uniform for anyone to know) and the cop standing in front of him didn't seem to be looking in his direction (the puncher might have even waited for him to glance away)
I completely agree that the moment a cop decides to arrest you, your only option is to go full limp dick. Anything less invites abuse.Punisher wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:00 amOK. I stand corrected on the guilt plea thing then assuming I'm not correct and it was case of one of those reasons, but I still say she was resisting arrest. If you are under arrest, it is not the time to argue the point then and there. You go peacefully and then file false arrest charges and/or sue. It's pretty rare for anything you say to get you unarrested.
To me, this new angle makes it clear that the officer in the white cap did not see it. The fact that he snaps his head to look after the fact would seem to indicate that as well. I suspect he may have heard the hit and turned after the fact. similar to that video with the old protestor who cracked his head on the ground. there is an angle from across the street where the crack can be heard and several officers turn to look. They heard something but didn't see anything.malchior wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:07 am It's hard to tell what direction he is looking. Plus his head literally snaps in that direction. It hard to argue he didn't see something happen. The man reported an assault and the cop ignored him.
Edit: Worse the man said, "I just got punched in the back of the head". It is inaudible what he says but cops starts yelling at him with a pointed finger. I mean come on. He is part of the mob there.
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Full video with context - he is being escorted out by multiple officers - they are telling *him to leave*. He gets hit in the head. From different angles there are at least three officer's involved. One is approaching from the back. There is a mob of people surrounding someone and all the officers are not paying attention? Come on.
To me it looks similar if not the same.Punisher wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:16 amTo me, this new angle makes it clear that the officer in the white cap did not see it.malchior wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:07 am It's hard to tell what direction he is looking. Plus his head literally snaps in that direction. It hard to argue he didn't see something happen. The man reported an assault and the cop ignored him.
Edit: Worse the man said, "I just got punched in the back of the head". It is inaudible what he says but cops starts yelling at him with a pointed finger. I mean come on. He is part of the mob there.
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Full video with context - he is being escorted out by multiple officers - they are telling *him to leave*. He gets hit in the head. From different angles there are at least three officer's involved. One is approaching from the back. There is a mob of people surrounding someone and all the officers are not paying attention? Come on.
Yes - and then a crime is reported to him. That he was feet away from. And he then yells at the victim! At some point he was asked if we wanted to press charges but couldn't because he couldn't identify the attacker. Later apparently the video came out.The fact that he snaps his head to look after the fact would seem to indicate that as well. I suspect he may have heard the hit and turned after the fact.
Wrong guy. The cop was also pointing his finger at him. It's on the left side of the frame.The one pointing the finger seems to be the bald guy in front and unless he's undercover, I don't see any police patches or anything so I'm not sure he's a cop.
Looking at the ground because he is avoiding the whole thing. Again a mob is surrounding a guy yelling at him and every officer is doing their part to avoid dealing with them. I'm not going to bother digging it up but a woman was attacked at the same event and the cops ignored it too. They took her sign and in that video you can see a man tear it up and throw it in her face.There is another cop that can be seen walking up in the back right after the fact so no idea where he was looking.
There were 3 in the video. 2 on the street and number 3 who wanders in from the back and then stands around avoiding the whole thing from a distance. It's obvious what is going on here. That is why everything needs to be recorded because I could have seen that guy getting arrested even though he was perfectly brave and calm despite the shit he was taking from the crowd and the obvious way the police essentially ignored the situation to his danger.Also, if there is a mob of people surrounding someone then no the cops wouldn't always be focusing on the person being surrounded they would be trying to scan the mob. I also don't know how many officers were actually there. I can only see 2 total and they can't look everywhere at once.