Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts

Police State Update: 61-Year-Old Man Violently Attacked By Police And Arrested For Singing A 'Beach Boys' Song

by Matt Agorist.  A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man, Jim Osche likes to go out into public and sing as a means of relieving stress. On Friday, however, Osche’s stress relief would be met with police brutality. As Osche walked down the sidewalk in front of Shula’s Steakhouse in downtown Allentown, the restaurant guests seemed to be pleasantly  VIDEO INCLUDED ... MORE

Geoff Henley: How U.S. Laws Foster Police Brutality

Unreasonable force is sadly not the question.   Pervasive police brutality will persist far longer than the public suspects. Why? The answer is simple: the law allows it. Under Graham v. Connor, the Supreme Court requires that Fourth Amendment excessive force claims be analyzed from the officer’s perspective during the incident. Judges are not    ... MORE

10 Outrageous Excuses Cops Used To Kill Unarmed People

by Justin Gardner.       Informed readers are well aware that US police have the dubious reputation of killing lots of civilians, compared to other countries. The War on Drugs provides much of the basis for this abomination. In four days US police killed as many people as Chinese police did in 2014, and more than five European countries’    ... MORE

Leonard Pitts Jr: Police Brutality Is Everybody's Problem

Not just a black problem.      This will not be a column about Sandra Bland, although it could be. Certainly there is cause for outrage over the way a Texas state trooper escalated the routine traffic stop of an indignant African-American woman into a violent arrest; she died of an apparent jail cell suicide three days later. But Chuck would say that in      ... MORE

Video Shows Cop Slamming Handcuffed Teenage Girl Onto Floor, Knocking Her Teeth Out And Causing Head Injuries

Cop defends self from sassy young girl's verbal abuse. Police brutality allegations were prompted when a police officer slammed a teen’s face onto a hospital floor. The young woman suffered significant injuries, including trauma to the head, face, jaw, and teeth. She also sustained concussion, migraine headaches, cognitive and        ... MORE

Police Violence Activist Found Dead In Jail Cell After Being Pulled Over For Not Signaling A Lane Change in Texas

by Ed Krayewski.      Earlier this month, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was pulled over for allegedly failing to signal a lane change by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper near the Prairie View A&M campus. She had driven there from her home in Naperville, Illinois, for a new job at her alma mater. Police accused her of being combative during    ... MORE

Brad Schrade: Cops Shot Unarmed Georgia Woman In Head, Admired Their Marksmanship & Prevented First Aid After

After all, she was suspected of drug use.   At high noon on June 18, 2010, Caroline Small, a petite 35-year-old woman and mother of two, sat behind the wheel of her beat-up Buick Century with nowhere to turn. Police vehicles flanked her on two sides, a shallow ditch was on another and a utility pole blocked her rear bumper. Unarmed but     ... MORE

America's Out-Of-Control Cop Kill Rate

by Edward Peter Stringham.    The police-against-citizen kill rate in the U.S. is more than 145 per 100,000. The overall homicide rate, by way of contrast, is 5 per 100,000. This weekend, police in Long Beach, California shot and killed Feras Morad, a 20 year old college student who was on a balcony and unarmed, and police outside of Tulsa,     ... MORE

5 Eye-Opening Facts, Figures on No-Knock Warrants

by Sean Piccolli. Stats illustrate America's move to a police state. At a time of anxiety over policing in the United States and heated debate about "militarized" law enforcement, the practice of conducting "no-knock raids" – in which heavily armed SWAT teams burst unannounced into homes – has come under widespread scrutiny. Here are facts, figures, and     ... MORE

Michael Suede: Cop Shoots And Kills 17-Year-Old Unarmed Boy For Flashing His High Beams And Flexing His Rights

The killer cop keeps his job.   video included. This is pretty much how things go with all aspects of government.  The most mundane and trivial of infractions can always result in a dead human being because ultimately all laws are enforced at the point of a gun.  Any failure to comply with a state functionary ALWAYS results in the escalation ... MORE

Gina Tron: Man Threatens Suicide; Police Kill Him

To serve and protect.     Justin Way was in bed with a knife. His girlfriend called a non-emergency number to try to get him into a hospital. Minutes later, cops shot him dead. On May 11, Justin Way was drinking and threatening to hurt himself. His father, George Way, said his son was a recovering alcoholic and had been alcohol-free for five weeks.   ... MORE

Neetzan Zimmerman: Dad Calls Cops On Son To Teach Him A Lesson, Then Cops Respond By Shooting The Son Dead

Lesson learned.   A father's attempt to teach his son a lesson for taking his truck without permission ended in tragedy Monday after a local police officer shot the teenager dead. James Comstock told the Des Moines Register he called the police on his son Tyler after the latter took the former's truck in retaliation for refusing to buy him cigarettes.    ... MORE

When Violence And Lawlessness Are Acceptable

by Radley Balko.  Yesterday, the Fox News show Fox & Friends devoted a segment to discussing the shooting of New York Police Dept. officer Brian Moore. The discussion was framed in a particularly absurd way. Why, the hosts asked, aren’t there protests and riots when police officers are killed, as there are when police kill suspects? It’s the sort of question  ... MORE

VIDEO: Black Power Is About Contributing, Not Looting

What One Cop’s Acquittal Reveals About Police Violence

by Katie McDonough.     A license to kill. The trial of a Chicago police detective who killed a young woman after opening fire on a group of unarmed people ended Monday with the judge finding the officer not guilty on all charges. Detective Dante Servin shot and killed Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old black woman, in April 2012 and was charged with    ... MORE

Thousands Dead From Police Shootings, Few Prosecuted

from the Washington Post.    On a rainy night five years ago, Officer Coleman “Duke” Brackney set off in pursuit of a suspected drunk driver, chasing his black Mazda Miata down rural Arkansas roads at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. When the sports car finally came to rest in a ditch, Brackney opened fire at the rear window and repeatedly  ... MORE

VIDEO: Police Thugs Brutally Beat Suspected Horse Thief


Ten California cops pummel suspected horse thief who is face down with hands behind his back ... MORE