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F is for Fascism (Ferguson MO)

myDeaconmyhand said:
Disabled, blind girl with brain tumor returning from St. Jude's hospital is bloodied, handcuffed, and arrested by TSA agents in Memphis


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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/02/disabled-cancer-patient-tsa-lawsuit-memphis-airport
"The brain tumor had left Hannah blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and partially paralyzed, so when the guards grabbed each of her arms, it startled her, she said. “I tried to push away,” she said. “I tried to get away.”

The guards slammed Hannah to the ground, her mother said, smashing her face into the floor, which the complaint alleges left her “physically and emotionally” injured."
"Hannah disappeared behind a door, then went to a hospital, and finally to the Shelby County jail. After 24 hours apart, the mother and daughter were reunited in the parking lot of the jail."
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This is insane because TSA agents are not sworn law enforcement officers and don't have authority to arrest someone. If it was really the TSA agents (rather than police officers at the checkpoint) that did this, then they were acting way out of their job descriptions.
 
WFFaithful said:
http://www.theroot.com/dejuan-guillory-was-unarmed-lying-on-the-ground-when-a-1796731246
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Initially I had read that Guillory was indicted in 2015 on charges of theft and 1st degree attempted murder for shooting at police officers and sentenced to ten years in jail, and the news outlet was questioning why he wasn't in jail now. It seems articles were later updated to say that he plead no contest to damage of property and the rest of the charges were dropped. That seems quite sketchy.
 
Good article.
 
Lawyers for Eugenio Enrique Corona said in the lawsuit that the fugitive, who was wanted for violating his probation, had stopped running and knelt on the ground with his hands on his head when Deputy Jason Wood released his canine Rony.
Wood commanded Rony to "get that bad guy" as the dog latched on to Corona's arm, biting him on the bicep and chest, the lawsuit said. A second deputy, Deputy Francisco Gamboa, punched Corona in the face while yelling at him to stop resisting, according to the lawsuit.

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The video shows Corona stopped running in a driveway a short distance away, dropped to his knees and placed his hands on his head. Corona writhed on the ground as the dog bit him and Gamboa attempted to place him in handcuffs.
"The surrender was unequivocal: (Corona) was on his knees with his hands above his head," wrote Corona's lawyers, Terri Keyser-Cooper and Luke Busby. "No reasonable officer could have construed (Corona's) actions as anything other than a complete surrender."



http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2017/...es-excessive-force-siccing-dog-him/453731001/
 
Deadlocked jury after four hours in a murder trial?!?!

Surely the deliberations should have gone on longer than that. Wouldn't even get the "stuck jury" charge up here after four hours.
 
[h=1]Black teenage girl, mistaken for machete-wielding black man, alleges police brutality[/h]http://www.bakersfield.com/news/black-teenage-girl-mistaken-for-machete-wielding-black-man-alleges/article_0ae15203-8291-5774-887b-95df9acfb2a8.html

A black 19-year-old girl was punched in the mouth by an officer, bitten by a police K9 and arrested last month after an officer said he mistook her for a 180-pound bald man suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store.

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The arresting officer, Christopher Moore, said in a police report obtained by The Californian that he didn’t know Hargrove was a woman until after she was handcuffed.

He mistook her for a machete-wielding suspect who had come out of the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market on Ming and Ashe avenues after threatening several people, according to the report.

That man, who police identified as Douglas Washington before arresting him the next day, was described in multiple police reports from June 18 as a 25- to 30-year-old man, bald, about 170 pounds standing at 5 feet 10 inches. He was wearing a white t-shirt, dark jeans and a pink or red backpack that contained the machete.

When Moore found Hargrove behind the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, the 115-pound teen, who stands 5 feet 2 inches, was wearing a baggy white shirt, blue jean shorts and a black hat. She was straddling a bicycle, a red and black backpack slung over her shoulder. In it were three cold water bottles, Hargrove said in her video. She had pulled over in the shade for a drink.
 
Well you know, black hats do deceptively look like machetes
 
Yeah, the criminal justice system works just fine. Nothing to see here, move along.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shannon-kepler-mistrial-accused-killing-jeremey-lake/
Mistrial declared for third time for ex-cop accused of killing daughter's black boyfriend

Jurors in Kepler's previous two trials, in November and February, deadlocked 11-1 and 10-2 in favor of guilt and Judge Sharon Holmes was forced to declare mistrials. 
 
PhDeac said:
Black teenage girl, mistaken for machete-wielding black man, alleges police brutality

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/bla...cle_0ae15203-8291-5774-887b-95df9acfb2a8.html

A black 19-year-old girl was punched in the mouth by an officer, bitten by a police K9 and arrested last month after an officer said he mistook her for a 180-pound bald man suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store.

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The arresting officer, Christopher Moore, said in a police report obtained by The Californian that he didn’t know Hargrove was a woman until after she was handcuffed.

He mistook her for a machete-wielding suspect who had come out of the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market on Ming and Ashe avenues after threatening several people, according to the report.

That man, who police identified as Douglas Washington before arresting him the next day, was described in multiple police reports from June 18 as a 25- to 30-year-old man, bald, about 170 pounds standing at 5 feet 10 inches. He was wearing a white t-shirt, dark jeans and a pink or red backpack that contained the machete.

When Moore found Hargrove behind the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, the 115-pound teen, who stands 5 feet 2 inches, was wearing a baggy white shirt, blue jean shorts and a black hat. She was straddling a bicycle, a red and black backpack slung over her shoulder. In it were three cold water bottles, Hargrove said in her video. She had pulled over in the shade for a drink.
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#theyalllookalike
 
WFFaithful said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4687728/Cops-pull-Florida-s-black-state-attorney.html
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'Oh we run tags through all the time, whether it's a traffic light and that sort stuff, that's how we figure out if cars are stolen and that sort of thing,' he said, as the attorney could be seen getting noticeably annoyed in her seat.
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Also, more on the attorney:

Florida’s Vengeful Governor

Gov. Rick Scott of Florida overreached last month when he issued an executive order stripping a state attorney of her authority to prosecute a man charged with killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and an Orlando police officer. On Monday, he also removed her from 21 other murder cases.

Mr. Scott’s executive orders appear to be without precedent in Florida. They are meant to punish the state attorney, Aramis D. Ayala, Florida’s first black elected prosecutor, for announcing she would no longer seek the death penalty because it was not in the best interest of her jurisdiction, which stretches from Orlando to Kissimmee.
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Anybody else read this article about cops and dogs? Best estimate is cops kill 10,000 dogs a year. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/?utm_source=atlfb

Money quote:

It is not unreasonable to ask police officers to display the same degree of courage in the face of sometimes hostile canines that we ask of every United States postal carrier. Cops unable to marshal it cannot be trusted to put the public's safety before their own.

And it is not unreasonable to ask police departments to train cops as well as meter readers when the failure to do so predictably results in needlessly killed pets and endangered humans. But many police departments don’t care enough to go to the trouble.
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That's interesting but people with any power love cops more than dogs.
 
It all comes back to guns.

Any nutjob and thug in America can get a gun at will. Cops are right to fear that anybody they encounter might have a gun, because every two bit criminal has one. So they overreact and kill unarmed people. Which breeds resentment of cops, which causes people to treat cops worse, which causes cops to grow more and more insular and resentful of the people they police, which leads to more overreaction.

I don't know how to break the cycle but it sure would help if every two bit hoodlum didn't have a firearm. Less firearms = safer cops, which helps them break out of the fearful mindset. Plus it makes the rest of us safer, full stop, even if we never interact with a cop.

Of course all the authoritarian types who want to protect cops also want to be able to have all the guns they want to "protect themselves", so they'll never agree that there is a link between a nation awash in guns, gun violence toward police, and police overreaction to civilians... and around and around we go.
 
Didnt know whether to post this on the guns thread or fascism thread

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...-came-instead/1sTWdBw2MNqqFGCOUfLnHL/amp.html

Kid with no mental illness threatens to kill himself with a pistol after his girlfriend breaks up with him. His parents calls the cops. The cops bring multiple swat teams, don't allow the parents to participate in the negotiation, and barricade the house for 10 hours. The kid kills himself and apparently the cops don't even call a paramedic for him.
 
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