"Serve and protect" has become "comply or die." Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough. Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, ... MORE
Showing posts with label brutality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brutality. Show all posts
John W. Whitehead: The Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen In A Police State Is A Dead One
"Serve and protect" has become "comply or die." Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough. Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, ... MOREPolice Brutality Can't Be Overlooked Any Longer
by Nadiah Abuswai. Truly senseless violence. Martese Johnson, 20, was beaten by police outside Trinity Irish Pub in Charlottesville, Va., March 18. Police officers beat the University of Virginia junior over a suspicion that he was using a fake I.D. to get into the pub. A video shows police after forcing Johnson to the ground and handcuffing him, while ... MOREWe’re Asking The Wrong Question About Police Shootings
by Radley Balko. The video below depicts the fatal police shooting of 38-year-old Jason Harrison in Dallas last year. Harrison’s mother had told the police that her son had been making threats, and that he was “bipolar schizo.” Police officials have previously said the body camera video backs up the officers’ accounts of self-defense, showing a fast- ... MOREGRAPHIC VIDEO: Homeless Man Killed By LA Cops
Justifiable force? You decide. WARNING: Graphic violence and language.
Home Surveillance Records Cop Assaulting And Abusing Teen Without Cause; Charges Him With Resisting Arrest
Another criminal with a badge. Police in New Jersey are investigating allegations that one of their own officers roughed up and abused a teenager, and the whole thing was caught on camera. It happened Saturday night. The cop was at the teen's house and the young man ended up handcuffed in the snow in a t-shirt and no shoes. Michael doesn't want us to use ... MOREIn The Public Service: Cops Break Into Home And Kill 74-Year-Old Man After Relative Requests Well-Visit Check
by Elisabeth Arriero. Gastonia police sent to check on the welfare of a 74-year-old man shot and killed him in his home late Saturday after he confronted them with a gun, police said. Police were called to the home of James Howard Allen about 10 p.m. Saturday because a relative of Allen’s in Anson County was worried about his condition, Gastonia ... MORE
Matt Agorist: Shock Video Shows Cops Run Down Man With Cruiser, Severely Beat Him, Charge Him With Assault
Can we all agree these cops are racist? Surveillance cameras reveal the truth. Two Philly cops have been charged with the assault of a man after surveillance footage revealed the officers lied about the incident. The laundry list of charges that Officers Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight are facing is lengthy: Aggravated Assault, Simple ... MOREMatt Agorist: Good Samaritan Saves Woman’s Life After Overpowering The Cop Who Was Trying to Kill Her
Protection from predators just his day job. Louis Mossey was driving down a county highway when the car in front of him unexpectedly swerved off the road and hit a tractor in a John Deer store parking lot. He had no idea what he was about to witness. When Mossey gets out of the vehicle to check on the wellbeing of the occupants in the ... MOREHow Reality TV Is Teaching Us To Accept The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. Americans love their reality TV shows—the drama, the insults, the bullying, the callousness, the damaged relationships delivered through the lens of a surveillance camera—and there’s no shortage of such dehumanizing spectacles to be found on or off screen, whether it’s Cops, Real Housewives or the heavy-handed ... MOREPolice State Update: Did SWAT Burn A Man Alive?
from the Antelope Valley Times. A convicted felon, whose body was found after a SWAT team fired in tear gas into a Lancaster home, and a fire broke out, was publicly identified Saturday by the Coroner’s Office. The man was identified as Michael Leroy Soares, 35, of Lancaster, said Coroner’s Lt. David Smith. It was still not clear how he died, ... MOREEd Krayewski: Help The Cops Chill Out
Policing can be more compatible with liberty. An Associated Press poll conducted last month found that the
police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, which led to
protests in Ferguson, New York City, and around the country, ranked
as the "top
news story of 2014." Nevertheless, the issue of police brutality
is not new and, ... MOREJacob Sullum: Busted Over $80 Worth of Pot, College Student Turns Police Informant, Then Turns Up Dead
This is the way everybody does it, says police chief. Last week North Dakota's Bureau of Criminal
Investigation (BCI) released a report that
finds no wrongdoing in the way an anti-drug task force handled a
young confidential informant who turned up dead last June. Andrew
Sadek, a 20-year-old student at North Dakota State College of
Science in ... MOREThe Authoritarianism Of The American Police State
by Matt Peppe. Shielding accountability. Two days before Christmas, a “thug” launched an “unprovoked attack” on a female MTA employee on a Bronx subway platform, “choking her” and causing injuries, according to the Daily News. The “hulking brute” then fled the scene, “grinning as he made his may through the turnstile.” The newspaper description ... MORENJ Cops Murder Man With Hands Up At Traffic Stop
by Nina Golgowski. A newly released video capturing the police shooting death of a New Jersey man shows an officer warning the suspect not to move or he'll be "f---ing dead" before the man steps out of his car. Jerame C. Reid, 36, is seen exiting the vehicle with his hands raised at shoulder height when a Bridgeton police officer, who recognizes ... MORE
John W. Whitehead: From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops
The changing face of American police. “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means If 2014 was the year of militarized police, armored tanks, and stop-and-frisk searches, 2015 may well be the year of technologized police, surveillance blimps and ... MORE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)