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F is for Fascism (Ferguson MO)

myDeaconmyhand said:
Another example of your lack of critical thinking skills. You know there were black slave catchers, right? The criminal justice and law enforcement system in America is racist as hell, whether or not the people involved in that system are personally racist.
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Bullshit. As long as somebody with dark skin is involved somewhere along the way, there can be no racism. #science.
 
riscdeac said:
I don’t need to start a thread. Nobody here will read it.

FACTS & FIGURES
Deaths, Assaults and Injuries

Over the Past Decade (2007-2016)
YEAR DEATHS* ASSAULTS** ASSAULTS WITH INJURIES**


D. A. AWI
2007 202 61,257 15,736
2008 159 61,087 15,554
2009 135 57,268 14,948
2010 169 56,491 14,744
2011 178 55,631 14,798
2012 137 53,867 14,678
2013 116 49,851 14,565
2014 136 49,725 13,824
2015 137 51,548 14,453
2016 143 N/A*** N/A***
Average Per Year 151 49,672 13,330
* Source: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund

** FBI/LEOKA Data

*** LEOKA Report Available Fall 2017

Updated April 10, 2017
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Most of those deaths are the result of traffic accidents. Officers actually killed by criminals averages between 40-50 and has been trending down.


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36826297

The stats in this article come from the FBI Law Enforcement Officers Killed in Action database.

Police officer does not make the top ten list of most dangerous jobs.

even one police officer killed by a criminal is too many, but let's make sure we're using accurate numbers to understand the scope of the problem.

In countries that are not awash with guns, the number is close to zero.
 
Uncle of teen shot and killed in courthouse calls for independent investigation

The Sheriff said during an altercation between Deputy Scarborough, Haynes, and his mother, Deputy Scarborough was knocked to the ground where he came under attack. The department said Tuesday that the Deputy was still on leave related to head injuries he sustained.

Daniels argues the Deputy was twice the size of his nephew. And, said the Deputy knew the teen was unarmed as everyone who enters the courthouse is checked for weapons.
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riscdeac said:
We are talking 50 percent of Americans have a grievance against Americans.

Whatever you are angry about brings you out to protest.
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Do all American racial minorities even add up to 50%? Anyway. No one expects you to share the black american grievance towards law enforcement, we (I) just expect you to be aware of it, and know that it's derived from hundreds of years of undisputable systemic abuse. Whenever anyone ever decides to join law enforcement, they take the responsibility knowing good and damn well that they they will be feared and/or reviled by African Americans. That's part of that job.
 
[h=1]This Teenager Accused Two On-Duty Cops Of Rape. She Had No Idea The Law Might Protect Them.[/h] When Anna said she was raped by two on-duty cops, she thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsama...m_term=.mo7Q51QmL&ref=mobile_share#.epz35y3gz


Anna was sitting in the parked car with two friends when a charcoal gray van pulled up and flashlight beams momentarily blinded her. The 18-year-old had grown up in south Brooklyn and spent many Friday nights like this driving around the city with friends, looking for places to hang out away from home. On this night, though, September 15, 2017, sometime between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., she crossed paths with the cops.
There were two of them, both plainclothes detectives over 6 feet tall and powerfully built, flashing their badges and asking questions. There was weed in the front cupholder, and soon the detectives ordered the three occupants out of the car. As Anna later recalled, the detectives handcuffed her and told her friends, both young men, they were free to go. Then, she said they led her — a slender woman just over 5 feet tall — into the back of the unmarked police van with tinted windows.
Inside, Anna said the detectives took turns raping her in the backseat as the van cruised the dark streets and as she sat handcuffed, crying and repeatedly telling them “No.” Between assaults, she said, the van pulled over so the cops could switch drivers. Less than an hour later, a few minutes’ drive from where it all began, the detectives dropped Anna off on the side of the road, a quarter-mile from a police station, surveillance footage shows. She stood on the sidewalk, her arms wrapped around her chest, looking up and down the dimly lit street and pacing slowly before borrowing a cell phone from a passerby to call a friend.
The cops made no arrest, issued no citation, filed no paperwork about the stop. Hours later, Anna and her mother went to a hospital, where Anna told nurses two detectives had sexually assaulted her, according to hospital records. Semen collected in Anna’s rape kit matched the DNA of detectives Eddie Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, of the Brooklyn South narcotics unit. Both have since resigned from the force and been charged with rape.
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But Anna didn’t know that in New York, there is no law specifically stating that it is illegal for police officers or sheriff’s deputies in the field to have sex with someone in their custody. It is one of 35 states where armed law enforcement officers can evade sexual assault charges by claiming that such an encounter — from groping to intercourse — was consensual.

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PhDeac said:
[h=1]This Teenager Accused Two On-Duty Cops Of Rape. She Had No Idea The Law Might Protect Them.[/h] When Anna said she was raped by two on-duty cops, she thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsama...m_term=.mo7Q51QmL&ref=mobile_share#.epz35y3gz


Anna was sitting in the parked car with two friends when a charcoal gray van pulled up and flashlight beams momentarily blinded her. The 18-year-old had grown up in south Brooklyn and spent many Friday nights like this driving around the city with friends, looking for places to hang out away from home. On this night, though, September 15, 2017, sometime between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., she crossed paths with the cops.
There were two of them, both plainclothes detectives over 6 feet tall and powerfully built, flashing their badges and asking questions. There was weed in the front cupholder, and soon the detectives ordered the three occupants out of the car. As Anna later recalled, the detectives handcuffed her and told her friends, both young men, they were free to go. Then, she said they led her — a slender woman just over 5 feet tall — into the back of the unmarked police van with tinted windows.
Inside, Anna said the detectives took turns raping her in the backseat as the van cruised the dark streets and as she sat handcuffed, crying and repeatedly telling them “No.” Between assaults, she said, the van pulled over so the cops could switch drivers. Less than an hour later, a few minutes’ drive from where it all began, the detectives dropped Anna off on the side of the road, a quarter-mile from a police station, surveillance footage shows. She stood on the sidewalk, her arms wrapped around her chest, looking up and down the dimly lit street and pacing slowly before borrowing a cell phone from a passerby to call a friend.
The cops made no arrest, issued no citation, filed no paperwork about the stop. Hours later, Anna and her mother went to a hospital, where Anna told nurses two detectives had sexually assaulted her, according to hospital records. Semen collected in Anna’s rape kit matched the DNA of detectives Eddie Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, of the Brooklyn South narcotics unit. Both have since resigned from the force and been charged with rape.
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But Anna didn’t know that in New York, there is no law specifically stating that it is illegal for police officers or sheriff’s deputies in the field to have sex with someone in their custody. It is one of 35 states where armed law enforcement officers can evade sexual assault charges by claiming that such an encounter — from groping to intercourse — was consensual.

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I actually just read this article via a Twitter post, and I can't even form the words to describe my anguish. There are LEOs that do incredible work. I personally know several. However, there are both institutional and unspoken laws and practices that protect the minority of them that are EVIL. To the good ones...thank you. To the bad ones....rot in hell. And to the culture that allows the bad ones to escape responsibility...your time is ending.
 
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That’s the thing cop sycophants don’t understand. The law makes it easy to be a bad cop. So why do people defend these laws? It’s about hero worship.
 
PhDeac said:
That’s the thing cop sycophants don’t understand. The law makes it easy to be a bad cop. So why do people defend these laws? It’s about hero worship.
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It's base authoritarianism. If you are terrified of social disorder, and you are convinced that LEO's maintain order, your brain won't accept any fact that could undermine the moral or legal command of LEOs. Same with the President, or whoever.
 
PhDeac said:
[h=1]This Teenager Accused Two On-Duty Cops Of Rape. She Had No Idea The Law Might Protect Them.[/h] When Anna said she was raped by two on-duty cops, she thought it would be a simple case. She had no idea she lived in one of 35 states where officers can claim a detainee consented.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsama...m_term=.mo7Q51QmL&ref=mobile_share#.epz35y3gz


Anna was sitting in the parked car with two friends when a charcoal gray van pulled up and flashlight beams momentarily blinded her. The 18-year-old had grown up in south Brooklyn and spent many Friday nights like this driving around the city with friends, looking for places to hang out away from home. On this night, though, September 15, 2017, sometime between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., she crossed paths with the cops.
There were two of them, both plainclothes detectives over 6 feet tall and powerfully built, flashing their badges and asking questions. There was weed in the front cupholder, and soon the detectives ordered the three occupants out of the car. As Anna later recalled, the detectives handcuffed her and told her friends, both young men, they were free to go. Then, she said they led her — a slender woman just over 5 feet tall — into the back of the unmarked police van with tinted windows.
Inside, Anna said the detectives took turns raping her in the backseat as the van cruised the dark streets and as she sat handcuffed, crying and repeatedly telling them “No.” Between assaults, she said, the van pulled over so the cops could switch drivers. Less than an hour later, a few minutes’ drive from where it all began, the detectives dropped Anna off on the side of the road, a quarter-mile from a police station, surveillance footage shows. She stood on the sidewalk, her arms wrapped around her chest, looking up and down the dimly lit street and pacing slowly before borrowing a cell phone from a passerby to call a friend.
The cops made no arrest, issued no citation, filed no paperwork about the stop. Hours later, Anna and her mother went to a hospital, where Anna told nurses two detectives had sexually assaulted her, according to hospital records. Semen collected in Anna’s rape kit matched the DNA of detectives Eddie Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, of the Brooklyn South narcotics unit. Both have since resigned from the force and been charged with rape.
...
But Anna didn’t know that in New York, there is no law specifically stating that it is illegal for police officers or sheriff’s deputies in the field to have sex with someone in their custody. It is one of 35 states where armed law enforcement officers can evade sexual assault charges by claiming that such an encounter — from groping to intercourse — was consensual.

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Fuckin a
 
Read this article. Think about it for a bit.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_263439af-c909-57f0-baac-e508a868122c.html

[h=1]Man pulls gun, opens fire after he's attacked in downtown St. Louis[/h]
ST. LOUIS • A man attacked near Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis pulled a gun and fired shots at the assailants early Saturday morning, police said Monday.
He apparently hit one of the attackers, who suffered injuries to his arm and face, police said.
The victim, 18, told police he was parked in the 1100 block of Lucas Avenue about 3 a.m. Saturday when two men approached and started a fight, the department said in a summary of the incident. The two attackers punched and kicked the victim.
The victim grabbed his gun and fired at the attackers. They ran off, but the victim lost his gun in the encounter. He wasn't sure if he hit the attackers, he told police.
Officers called to the scene saw two men running on Washington Avenue, police said. One of them was seen hiding a gun in a flower pot. Police stopped the men, one of whom had gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where his medical condition wasn't available. He was said to be stable.
The gun found in the flower pot turned out to be the victim's, apparently hidden there by the injured attacker who had taken it during the melee. The suspects are 24 and 22.
The attack remains under investigation.
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OK. Did you read it? Anything seem weird about it?

Now read this follow-up article:
[h=1]Two St. Louis brothers credit mother, surveillance video for exonerating them in robbery attempt[/h]http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-st-louis-brothers-credit-mother-surveillance-video-for-exonerating/article_053e1c93-5fa7-526a-88d7-d2376a7428c1.html

ST. LOUIS • If not for their tenacious mother and the surveillance video she pressed police to review, Christopher and Jerry Tate believe they would be jailed on robbery charges.
Instead, a man who initially told police that the brothers attempted to rob him at gunpoint last summer was charged Wednesday as the culprit.
“At least the truth is out,” Jerry Tate said Wednesday.
The St. Louis men say they doubt that their story would have been believed had their mother not pressed police to look for surveillance video.
“My mother kept telling them that there was video all through that area,” Jerry Tate, 23, said.
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Owens has been charged with attempted robbery, armed criminal action and second-degree assault, all felonies, and making a false report, a misdemeanor.
The Tate brothers say they are glad Owens has been charged. But they are upset that it took police almost six months to charge him and that he is not in custody.
They believe the fact that Owens is white and they are black affected the case.
Christopher Tate, 25, said police told him that the robber made the first call for help.
“I believe they listened to him because he was white,” the older brother said as he stood outside his south St. Louis apartment.
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The court documents filed Wednesday back up their version of the incident. The documents say what happened, based on what the brothers said and surveillance video showed, is that the Tates were getting out of a pickup on Lucas Avenue when Owens approached and asked for a ride. Then he pulled a gun and said, “Give me your wallet!”
The brothers struggled with Owens, who fired. A bullet struck Christopher Tate in the hand and ricocheted into his face.
“I was on top of him when he shot me,” Christopher Tate said. “When he fired the gun the bullet hit the bone in my hand. It went through my right jaw. If I had not put my hand out it probably would have blown my entire face off.”
After the gunfire, Jerry Tate said, all three ran. The Tates tried to tell their story to some police officers on bikes, Jerry Tate said, but “they didn’t listen to us at all.”
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In the court documents filed with the charges against Owens, the detective who investigated the case said: “It is now clear that (the victims) were telling the truth and that the defendant was lying to officers about what happened.”
While the Tate brothers expressed relief that the evidence and the charges support their version of events, they still bristle at the ordeal they went through.
Christopher Tate remembers returning to work after the attempted robbery and being treated with suspicion, including by his boss.
“He asked me, ‘Why did the paper say you robbed someone and that’s how you got shot?’” he recalled. “He said ‘If it wasn’t true the paper wouldn’t have said it.’”
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So a white guy attempted to rob two black men, the men defended themselves. The white guy told cops that the black men tried to rob him. The police believed him and didn't bother to look for surveillance video until several months later.
 
Holy hell, imagine being robbed at gunpoint, shot, and then having to go through all that because the police believe your attacker. Even if they believed him, shouldn't they want to gather the video evidence?

“He asked me, ‘Why did the paper say you robbed someone and that’s how you got shot?’” he recalled. “He said ‘If it wasn’t true the paper wouldn’t have said it.’”
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On a more positive note:

Marijuana Cases Dropped En Masse by Philly District Attorney

The Philadelphia District Attorney said criminal charges for marijuana possession against 51 people were dropped en masse last week ahead of a meeting with assistant district attorneys Thursday where the DA would outline a new pot policy.

The new policy will be straight-forward, according to District Attorney Larry Krasner.

"We are going to tell them, yes, drop any cases that are simply marijuana possession," Krasner said at a press conference prior to the staff meeting. He stressed that the policy only applies to simple possession, not charges like possession with intent to deliver or selling it.
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Philly elected Krasner last November.
 
PhDeac said:
That’s the thing cop sycophants don’t understand. The law makes it easy to be a bad cop. So why do people defend these laws? It’s about hero worship.
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Oh you mean like the new found love and respect libs have for the FBI and CIA?

Are those the sycophants you refer...
 
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/opinions/parkland-deputies-terence-crutcher-guns-criticism-bailey-opinion/index.html

Pretty solid take IMO.

Some gun rights advocates don't seem to understand, or care, that in a country saturated with guns, police officers are right to assume everyone is packing. But that reasonable assumption is at crosscurrents with bias -- implicit and otherwise -- in a way that leads police officers to more quickly presume black men and women are threats, even when they aren't.
It is laughable to argue an officer should go into a potential firefight -- knowing only that the suspect is using a high-powered killing machine -- because that's his job, but shouldn't be certain before firing his weapon during a traffic stop. It's laughable, that is, if we really believed all lives mattered. Apparently, we don't.
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