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A MLK Jr. march happened last night in NYC, and the cops showed up.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...ation/2837174/
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smh
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The shit happening in the UK with the Gov's all but ban on protesting resulting in protesters (understandingly upset) getting absolutely battered by the police and the Media/Gov simply saying "this is fine" is fucking infuriating. I'm so fucking sick of this government, their fucking handling of Brexit (i.e letting it happen!) the countless errors in handling Covid and now this...and most people are FINE with this?! I'm done, i'm so fucking done with them.
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Watching the opening arguments of the George Floyd case
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Any one else watching the trial? So sick how the defense is trying to make the bystanders the reason why Derek got scared and distracted. I teared up when the young girl who took THE video was on the stand and was explaining her side of the story.
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i've been keeping up with it, yes. And it's all so so sad. The Defense's legal maneuvers isn't surprising, they have to come up with something.Originally Posted by ickyvicky
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against officers who killed unarmed black man passing through Stratford, TX: the one stoplight town of 2000 where ETS user Elevenism lives.
One disgusting thing about this is that I KNOW this cop, the one who started the shooting. And I KNEW he was itching to kill someone. He's been in our house a couple of times for bullshit, years ago, and he always had his hand on his GUN as he listened to us talk.
So, when I heard "officer involved shooting," I knew exactly who it was. They started fucking with these black kids who were passing through in a super aggressive manner; the kids tried to drive off, sort of crashed into a curb, and the cops ran over there and shot them a whole bunch of times
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well that's disgusting.
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Police fatally shoot 20 year old man during traffic stop - 10 miles near Derek Chauvin trial
https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn...ial/600044821/
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Lieutenant pepper-sprayed during traffic stop - one of the two officers has been fired
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/us/ca...red/index.html
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I was just reading about that. the press release talking about how they've been transparent about it all along and I was thinking that hey, it happened in December and we're just hearing about it so I don't know about your definition of transparent here.
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They're going to share the police body camera footage today
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This happened a 12-minute drive from my house. Things are already incredibly tense here and that clearly isn't helping.
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Curfews are in effect tonight in Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, and Dakota Counties tonight from 7:00PM to 6:00AM tomorrow morning. National Guard has been activated.
Body cam footage shows one officer calling for the other to use her taser and the other officers pulls out her gun and shoots instead. She seems to show a brief moment of, "Oh crap!" after shooting. If this is indeed a case like this, the officer needs to be fired for negligence and barred from working in any sort of law-enforcement or security position. Also, this puts the Brooklyn Center police on the hook for a MASSIVE wrongful death lawsuit.
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The officer has been identified as Kim Potter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ight-shooting/
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She has resigned now, and so did the Police Chief.
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“According to local media, Potter has retained attorney Earl Gray.”
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I'm trying to figure out what's more plausible here:
A. A senior officer managed to confuse her heavy, black gun with a unique trigger safety with a much lighter, YELLOW taser carried on the opposite hip. This is after holding it in ready position IN FRONT OF HER PERSON for several seconds.
B. That same senior officer, that also happens to be union prez, purposely yells "taser' knowing full well she has her gun but does so, on camera, for plausible deniability.
I'll admit B is a steaming hot take bordering on conspiracy theory but I really REALLY think A is some impossible shit.
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Yeah the Glock is a lot heavier than the taser. It sounds like she FREAKED OUT, which of course cops should not do. My husband saw some police expert say it was likely “muscle memory.”
But now she's going to get her PENSION.
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This article upset me, and shows why the justice system and policing system is so broken.
Opinion by Paul Butler
Contributing columnist
April 12, 2021 at 1:36 p.m. CDT
The topic of “toxic masculinity” comes up more in conversations about #MeToo than about Black Lives Matter, understandably so. But cop machismo is an important way of understanding police violence against people of color. It helps explain why Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck — continuing for two minutes after Floyd’s pulse stopped — and why three other officers chose to keep the crowd at bay rather than save Floyd’s life.
Much commentary on the broken relationship between police and African Americans focuses on anti-Black bias and structural discrimination. While it’s hard to overstate the role that race plays in policing, gender matters, too. Legal scholar Frank Rudy Cooper has described encounters between the police and African Americans as “Who’s the man?” contests. Some cops perform their masculinity by showing off their power and control over Black bodies.
“Dude, act like a man.” That’s what a Minneapolis police officer told Floyd when he was arrested in May 2019 — a year before his fatal encounter with Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering Floyd. On both occasions, officers approached Floyd’s car, drew their guns, pointed them at Floyd and ordered him out of the car.
Floyd’s reaction to both arrests was to burst into tears and call for his mother. “Listen to him. He’s crying like an adult male,” one of the officers says sarcastically during the 2019 arrest.
George Floyd was not a macho dude. In the hood, they called him the “gentle giant.”
But that’s not a space that Black men get to inhabit in the public imagination — and especially not to the police. We don’t get to be soft or vulnerable. When cops point guns at us, we don’t get to be traumatized.
Thus Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill will not allow the jury to hear expert testimony from a forensic psychiatrist to demonstrate that Floyd’s previous experiences with police officers had impacted his mental health. Prosecutors wanted to show that Floyd’s reluctance to get into a squad car was not resisting arrest, but a legitimate fear based on a series of violent encounters with police. But Cahill ruled that Floyd’s mental state was not relevant, although in the same decision he said the jury can hear testimony that, on the day of the 2019 arrest, Floyd consumed illegal drugs.
This evidence will be helpful to the defense in its fictional reinvention of Floyd as a violent, drug-deranged thug. “Three Minneapolis police officers could not overcome the strength of Mr. Floyd,” Nelson said in his opening statement. Cue “excited delirium,” which Nelson raised in cross-examination of medical experts last week.
It’s a term that defense attorneys use more than doctors. They typically use it when they are trying to justify violence against Black people. William Smock, a forensic medicine specialist, told Nelson that most medical associations don’t recognize this condition, but he defined it as a “physical and psychiatric state where, because of an imbalance in the brain, a patient will exhibit multiple symptoms,” including superhuman strength.
The Brookings Institution released a report in 2020 that described how police selectively apply the term to African Americans. One study found that police officers in the Miami area, explaining the death of cocaine users who died in police custody, would frequently say that Black people died of excited delirium, but White people died of accidental cocaine toxicity.
Charles Wetli, the forensic pathologist to who coined the term, claimed that it was responsible for the deaths of 32 Black women in Miami in the 1980s. Later it was discovered that those women actually died of asphyxiation by a serial killer.
Excited delirium is a way of making nonthreatening Black people aggressive — to justify the cops’ hypermasculine response. After Floyd had been taken away by paramedics, Chauvin said to a bystander who confronted him, “We’ve gotta control this guy because he’s a sizable guy, looks like he’s probably on something.”
The final moments of Floyd’s life included a tragic conversation between him and Charles McMillian, an older African American man who told Floyd to do what the police told him, saying “You can’t win.” “I am not trying to win,” were the last words Floyd said to anyone at the scene other than the police officers who are now charged in his death.
“Who’s the man?” contests are not actually contests in any meaningful sense. The police always win — at least in the short term. They have the guns and the authority of the law. But for bullying police officers intent on acting like men, too much power is never enough.
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Officer who killed Daunte Wright will be charged with manslaughter
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2nd degree manslaughter, to be precise.
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Derek Chauvin has announced that he will not testify in the case.
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Trial is now over, closing arguments will be said on Monday. Lord, this jury got me mad nervous.
Last edited by ickyvicky; 04-15-2021 at 12:04 PM.
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Yeah, I didn’t have Woke Pat Robertson on my Bingo Card.
Those two need gun safety classes, though, OMG. They almost capped each other.
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