District Attorney Andrew Womble told a judge at the hearing Wednesday that Andrew Brown Jr.’s car made contact with deputies twice as it backed out of the driveway before law enforcement opened fire. “As it backs up, it does make contact with law enforcement officers,” he said, adding that the car stops again. “The next movement of the car is forward. It is in the direction of law enforcement and makes contact with law enforcement. It is then and only then that you hear shots.”

 

Police break back of Texas man during knee-on-neck incident: report


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In Minnesota, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck. In California, Mario Gonzalez was killed in Alameda County after officers kneeled on his back.

And now Texas is facing a scandal over police kneeling on a suspect.

"A Montgomery County man is calling for a civil rights investigation after he says his neck was broken by law enforcement during a traffic stop," KTRK-TV reported Wednesday. "Body camera video shows within the first 45 seconds of the stop, the deputy deploys his Taser on Berger, who falls to the ground."

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump posted video of the scandal to Twitter.

"Montgomery County Precinct officers deployed their tasers within 45 SECONDS of stopped Alberto Ruiz for a traffic violation. They then broke his neck, which led to emergency spinal surgery. This callous treatment from law enforcement must end!" Crump said.

https://www.rawstory.com/police-knee/

 

And as usual theres more to any story found on wrong story.

https://montgomerycountypolicereport...inct-5-deputies-broke-his-neck-after-pursuit/

 

While disregarding much of what is posted in this thread by the emotionally disastrous rhetoric from the hack fuck leftists, we have a statistical report.

Reports: Police tend to shoot people for same reasons, regardless of race

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UPDATED 7:55 AM PT – Wednesday, April 28, 2021
As far-left protesters continue to hit the streets to protest alleged systemic racism reinforced by police, the actual circumstances surrounding police shootings paint a very different picture.

According to the Washington Posts’ archive of police shootings across the U.S., a large majority of fatal shootings, about three-fourths, happen while officers are either under attack or protecting other people.

The numbers show of those who died in officer-involved shootings, 28 percent died while shooting at either officers or other people. Additionally, 16 percent were either using weapons or physical force and 31 percent were pointing a gun.

Of all the officer-involved shooting deaths, less than 10 percent were against unarmed people. The data completely contradicts the narrative among left-wing activists that officers are typically using lethal force against otherwise peaceful civilians.

The data shows that when it comes down to it, officers largely appear to respond to life-threatening situations based on circumstances regardless of the culprit’s race.


Although African Americans and Hispanics are disproportionately represented in those statistics, the facts surrounding those shootings are strikingly similar to when white people are involved. Nonetheless, the mainstream media continues to push the narrative that police across the country are somehow targeting African Americans.

 

Three More Colorado Cops Suspended Over Violent Arrest of 73-Year-Old With Dementia

The videos of Colorado cops violently arresting a 73-year-old woman who has dementia—and then laughing about the horrific incident hours later back at their police station—has sparked nationwide outrage. The arresting officer, Austin Hopp, was placed on administrative leave last week, and now Loveland city officials have confirmed that three more officers have been suspended over the shocking incident. According to CNN, the other officer involved in the arrest, Daria Jalali, is the second officer to have been placed on leave. Tyler Blackett—who was caught on camera laughing about the arrest of the woman with Hopp and Jalali—is the third. Philip Metzler, who was Hopp and Jalali’s supervising officer at the time of Garner’s arrest, is the fourth. In the video from the police station, Hopp can be heard asking Jalali is she’s “ready for the pop” as they watched bodycam footage that showed him dislocating the woman’s shoulder. Jalali comments: “I could watch livestream bodycams all day.”

Read it at CNN


https://www.thedailybeast.com/lovel...-arrest-of-73-year-old-with-dementia?ref=home

 

Biden Calls for Senate to Act on Police Reform: ‘We Have All Seen the Knee of Injustice on the Neck of Black Americans’

 

Former Georgia deputy bragged he'd charge Black people with fake felonies to strip them of voting rights: FBI

Matthew Chapman
April 29, 2021



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According to the Belleville News-Democrat, a former Georgia sheriff's deputy arrested on multiple gun charges bragged in private texts that he would charge Black people with felonies to prevent them from voting.

"The ex-Wilkinson County deputy, Cody Richard Griggers, of Montrose, was fired last November after the FBI contacted the sheriff there about an investigation into illegal guns and their alleged ties to a California man said to have made violent political statements on Facebook," reported Joe Kovac, Jr. "Griggers, 28, a former Marine, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Macon to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, a crime the authorities discovered in their probe, which began last summer. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in July."

"I'm going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote," he wrote in a text message, according to an FBI affidavit. He also bragged about a brutal assault on a Black man, saying "I beat the (expletive) out of a (racial slur) Saturday. (Expletive) tried to steal (a gun magazine) from the local gun store. ... Sheriff's dept. said it looked like he fell." However, the sheriff says this was likely just made up, as there is no gun store in the area.

According to the report, Griggers also made "frequent positive references to the Nazi holocaust" in his texts.

"The prosecutors said that on Nov. 19 last year that the FBI searched Griggers' patrol car and found a machine gun 'with an obliterated serial number,' a weapon he was not allowed to have in his patrol car," said the report. "'An unregistered short barrel shotgun was found in his home,' the statement went on. 'In all, between the defendant's residence and duty vehicle, officers found 11 illegal firearms.'"

This case is not unique. Reports have indicated that white supremacists have embedded themselves in police departments around the country. The FBI has warned about the problem as far back as 15 years ago.

You can read more here.

https://www.rawstory.com/cody-richard-griggers/

 

Grand jury indicts 4 ex-police officers in George Floyd's death

A federal grand jury has indicted all four former Minneapolis police officers involved with the killing of George Floyd last May, including Derek Chauvin, who was convicted on murder and manslaughter charges last month.

The multi-count indictment from the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, accuses Chauvin, along with Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao of violating Floyd’s constitutional rights.

All of the men were charged with failing to administer first aid to Floyd, as Chauvin kneeled on his neck for over nine minutes.

Additionally, Chauvin, Kueng and Thao are charged with violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure and excessive force.

Chauvin was the first white police officer in Minnesota to be convicted of murdering a Black person, and many in the country saw the high-profile trial as a referendum on policing in the U.S.

Multiple Minneapolis police officers, including the city’s police chief, testified against Chauvin during the trial — a rarity in police misconduct cases and a possible indication that his trial could move the needle on police reform.

Floyd’s death was a catalyst for nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that dominated the country last summer.

The indictment announced Friday states that the offenses violated the U.S. Code known as the “color of law” statute, something that Democrats in Congress have sought to change through the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

The important provision prohibits law enforcement officers willfully depriving “a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

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Under the George Floyd bill, which would implement sweeping national reforms to policing, “willfully” would be changed to “knowingly or recklessly,” and the scope of the statute would also broaden.

The proposed change as well as the legislation’s slashing of qualified immunity are viewed as the largest roadblocks to Republican support for the bill.

Lane, Kueng and Thao are set to stand trial on state criminal charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter in August.



https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...s-4-ex-police-officers-in-george-floyds-death

 

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This is why in many instances its a lie to say that even cops believe in law and order and law enforcement. They have no problem with some criminals. As long as they are the right color.

Oregon police failed to punish off-duty officer vandalizing Black Lives Matter flag: report

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...nish-off-duty-officer-vandalizing-black-lives

 

Vandalizing a flag, somehow equivalent to dissrespect for law and order.
How about cops the victims of assassination attempts?
Any outrage for them?

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Georgia Repeals 1863 Citizen’s Arrest Law After Vigilante Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
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Jamie Ross
News Correspondent

Published May. 11, 2021 5:22AM ET

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Georgia has repealed its Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law in the hope of preventing a repeat of the vigilante killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was pursued and shot by three white men when he was out jogging last year. The three men—who are facing charges including murder and hate crimes over Arbery’s death—told police that they wrongly suspected Arbery was connected to thefts in their neighborhood, so they chased him down and shot him, in a killing that sparked national outrage last February. On Monday, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp repealed an 1863 citizen’s arrest law in an attempt to stop future violence by vigilantes. According to Axios, Kemp said that Arbery had been “a victim of vigilante-style violence that has no place in our country or our state.” The governor added that the arcane law was “ripe for abuse,” and that he was proud to make Georgia “the first state in the country to repeal its citizen’s arrest statute.”

Read it at Axios

https://www.thedailybeast.com/georg...r-vigilante-killing-of-ahmaud-arbery?ref=home

 

This is exactly why we need to end the death penalty. When we look at just the number of innocent people who are wrongly convicted there is no way just by the laws of odds and probability we have not executed innocent people.

He’s Been Jailed for 43 Years. Now Prosecutors Say He’s Innocent.
JUSTICE DENIED

Tracy Connor
Executive Editor

Published May. 10, 2021 10:53PM ET

Missouri Department of Corrections

A Black man convicted of murder by an all-white jury—on thin evidence—has been locked in prison for 43 years. But now Missouri prosecutors are finally admitting that Kevin Strickland is innocent and should be freed. “This is a profound error we must correct now,” prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Monday, according to The Kansas City Star. Strickland has long professed his innocence in the triple murder; two suspects who pleaded guilty backed him up, and the survivor who fingered him says she was pressured to do so and tried to recant. The Star published an investigation of Strickland’s case last year, prompting prosecutors to review it.

Read it at The Kansas City Star

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin...ars-now-prosecutors-say-hes-innocent?ref=home

 

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When people talk of police reform this is not only how hard that is its also the proof of how badly reform is needed.

Police departments are resisting efforts to crack down on cops with ties to extremist groups: NYT


Brad Reed
May 11, 2021



U.S. Capitol Police officers stand outside the U.S. Capitol after police ordered a lockdown of in Washington, U.S., July 8, 2016. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)


Efforts to weed out police officers with ties to violent extremist groups are being met with resistance by police departments across the United States, the New York Times reports.

https://www.rawstory.com/police-extremists/

 

Andrew Brown's family reveals shocking new details about body camera footage: 'He did not pose any threat'


Matthew Chapman
May 11, 2021



Andrew Brown, Jr. (FACEBOOK)


On CNN Tuesday, calling in from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, reporter Brian Todd revealed that the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. gained new details from watching just under 20 minutes of unreleased body camera footage of Brown's death, that completely contradicts the version of events told by the sheriff's office and district attorney.

"Tonight, the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. describes what the body camera footage shows during the final moments of Brown's life," said Todd, playing a clip of Brown's son Jha'rod Ferebee saying, "My father did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to get killed. In any way, shape, or form, he did not pose any threat at all. There's no way this could be justified."

"When the first shot fired, he was sitting in his car and then he began to back up," said Brown family attorney Chance Lynch. "At no time did he see him go towards a sheriff's deputy at any time. The first shot was fired. After it was fired, he began to back up because he wanted to get out of there ... at no point did we ever see Mr. Brown make contact with law enforcement."

Todd contrasted this with a clip from Pasquotank County DA Andrew Womble, who claimed, "As it backs up, it does make contact with law enforcement officers. The next movement of the car is forward. It is in the direction of law enforcement and makes contact with law enforcement. It is then and only then that you hear shots."

"CNN has obtained other critical images of that violent morning in Elizabeth City," said Todd. "This street camera footage shows police in the back of a pickup truck wearing tactical gear. The footage shows the truck stopping at Brown's house. Deputies are heard screaming commands. But it does not show the shooting. This footage captured by a neighbor seconds after Brown was shot, showed deputies surrounding Brown's car after it crashed. Two neighbors told CNN deputies pulled Brown out of his car and attempted life-saving measures."

"Tonight, the attorneys for the Brown family are repeating their call for the district attorney, Andrew Womble, to recuse himself from the case, says that Womble works way too closely with the sheriff's department and its deputies," said Todd. "Andrew Womble steadfastly refuses to recuse himself."

Watch below:



https://www.rawstory.com/andrew-browns-family-reveals-truth/

 

New details emerge in fatal shootings of California police (yahoo.com)
New details emerge in fatal shootings of California police
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As two police departments in California mourn the loss of their officers — shot and killed in the line of duty in two separate incidents within 24 hours — new details have emerged about the violence that occurred during a week meant to honor law enforcement nationwide.

Detective Lucas “Luca” Benedetti was killed while serving a search warrant in the central California city of San Luis Obispo Monday evening. Officer Jimmy Inn was fatally shot Tuesday morning in the Northern California city of Stockton while responding to a domestic disturbance call.

The shootings happened during National Police Week, an annual event that honors law enforcement officers who were killed or disabled in the line of duty.


In the Stockton killing, police revealed a more detailed account of the violence in a Facebook post written hours after the shooting. The events unfolded following a disturbance at a home Tuesday morning, with a caller saying there was a woman bleeding. Inn knocked on the residence's door and stood off to the side, police said.

A voice inside said, “hey, police,” and a man opened the door and immediately opened fire, shooting Inn multiple times, police said.

A second officer, identified late Tuesday as Pancho Freer, arrived at the scene to gunshots and saw the man standing over Inn and holding a gun, police said. The man began firing at Freer, striking his patrol car. Freer returned fire from inside the vehicle.

The man, later identified as 30-year-old Lance Lowe, went back inside the home and came back outside moments later, holding his 8-year-old son. Lowe began to strangle his son in the front yard, ignoring Freer's commands. As Freer came toward them, a bystander tackled Lowe.

As soon as the child was free, police said, Freer fired multiple times at Lowe. Lowe and Inn were taken to the hospital, where both were pronounced dead.

The child was medically cleared and released to his mother. The woman who was reported bleeding in the initial emergency call had walked away from the home and police are still trying to find her.

A Glock handgun was found at the scene, police said.

In San Luis Obispo, a central California city about 250 miles (402 kilometers) south of Stockton, Benedetti and five other officers went to an apartment Monday evening for an investigation into items stolen in a string of late-night commercial burglaries, police said.

Police said gunman Edward Zamora Giron was lying in wait inside and fired at the officers before shooting and killing himself, police said. He also suffered wounds sustained in the shootout. Police initially said that he had been killed by officers’ fire.

Benedetti and Detective Steve Orozco were struck in the gunfire. Orozco is expected to fully recover from his injuries.

Giron's friends told The San Luis Obispo Tribune that he had suffered from mental illness that worsened during the pandemic after losing his job at a climbing gym called The Pad Climbing. Known to the local rock-climbing community as “Eddie,” Giron was a former gym employee who allegedly burglarized it early Monday morning, according to an Instagram post by the gym.

The gym's CEO, Kristin Horowitz, told the newspaper on Monday that she believed the business lost up to $20,000 in equipment. Authorities on Tuesday said they had recovered some stolen property at Giron's home but would not say if any of it belonged to The Pad.

Nasim Delavari, a friend of Giron's since 2016 who was also a rock climber, told The Tribune that she came to understand that Giron had a hard upbringing. He had developed issues with alcoholism, she told the newspaper, and suffered from some degree of mental illness which included symptoms such as paranoia. She said he began to spiral after losing his job at the gym, but she did not know the circumstances that led to it.

“I have never seen him be violent toward me or any of my friends ever. Even when it was clear he was suffering from mental illness, he was always so compassionate, so present and a great friend,” Delavari told the newspaper. “I never felt unsafe around him, ever.”

Benedetti’s fellow officers recalled his devotion to his family and his love for law enforcement. The 37-year-old is survived by his wife, Grace, and two young daughters. He was a a 12-year law enforcement veteran and a detective in the city’s police department, as well as a member of the regional SWAT team.

Benedetti was born in San Francisco to Italian immigrant parents and grew up in the Bay Area, according to a GoFundMe organized by a regional SWAT team and the San Luis Obispo Police Officers’ Association. The money raised will go to his family.

Benedetti initially studied engineering in college but chose a law enforcement career instead. He was hired by the Atascadero Police Department in 2008 and transferred to the San Luis Obispo Police Department in 2012. He loved cooking and gardening.

“As a community, we cannot fix this loss, but we can provide love, prayers and financial support to those left behind tasked with picking up the pieces of this broken family,” the GoFundMe states.

Inn, 30, is survived by his wife, who is also a Stockton police officer, as well as a 7-month old son, a 12-year-old stepdaughter and a 14-year-old stepson. He was remembered as an optimistic and popular officer.

 

it's funny seeing some of the people in this thread be the same people who adamantly support the 2A lol they can kill whoever they want with (usually) no consequences. I still say abolish police, SCOTUS already ruled them useless as far as I'm concerned

 

People who think society can survive without police are little more than fodder for our enemies.