De-fund and abolish all you want...I encourage such childish and irresponsible actions that the communist/leftists cherish.

Question:...will you support vigilantism?...or social workers?

 

isn't vigilantism a right wing rhetoric? ie "self defense"? lol

 

No troll fuck..it aint.

 

The alternative to the police is not social workers, social reform, and social welfare spending. It is vigilantes, lynch mobs, and a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

Witness: Man angered by Texas deputies in yard killed them (yahoo.com)
Witness: Man angered by Texas deputies in yard killed them
EDEN, Texas (AP) — A West Texas man accused of fatally shooting two sheriff's deputies was angry they were in his yard trying to catch a dog and he told them he would open fire if they didn't leave, a witness said.

“They walked up towards him, rushed him, and he pulled a gun, and shots were fired,” David Hutchings told the San Angelo Standard-Times.

The shooting happened Monday evening in Eden, a city of about 1,300 people roughly 210 miles (340 kilometers) southwest of Dallas. Officials say Concho County deputies Stephen Jones and Samuel Leonard were killed and city employee Ronnie Winans was injured.

DPS said Wednesday that Jeffrey Nicholas, 28, opened fire on Jones and Leonard after they “made contact” with him while responding to a dog complaint.

 

WATCH: Black man says ‘I can’t breathe’ as he dies in South Carolina jail

Sky Palma
May 14, 2021



Screengrab.
South Carolina authorities released graphic body cam footage from January showing a Black man with mental illness being extracted him jail cell in an ordeal that led to his death, BuzzFeed News reports.

Two sheriff's deputies pepper-sprayed him, used a stun gun multiple times, and restrained him with knees on his back during the incident.

"Jamal Sutherland, 31, died on Jan. 5, only 12 hours after he was jailed at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center, following attempts by Charleston County Sheriff's deputies to take him to a bond hearing for a misdemeanor assault charge," BuzzFeed's Tasneem Nashrulla reports.

Sheriff Kristin Graziano released a statement calling the incident a "horrible tragedy."

"Our officers removed Mr. Sutherland from his cell that morning in order to ensure that he received a timely bond hearing, as required by law," Graziano said. "Their efforts were complicated by the increasing effects that Mr. Sutherland was suffering as a result of mental illness."

But according to Charleston County Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, who is reviewing the case, the circumstances surrounding Sutherland's in-custody death have "raised serious concerns and begged many questions."

Watch the video below:



https://www.rawstory.com/south-carolina-police/

 

Officer Who Shot and Killed Daunte Wright Will Stand Trial, Judge Rules
ONWARD

Pilar Melendez
National Reporter

Published May. 17, 2021 3:25PM ET

Handout/Getty


The former Brooklyn Center police officer who killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright after allegedly mistaking her handgun for a Taser during a traffic stop will face trial for the April shooting, a Minneapolis judge ruled Monday. Kim Potter, 48, was charged with second-degree manslaughter after shooting Wright in the chest on April 11 during a traffic stop over expired car tabs. Potter was arrested on April 14, one day after she and Chief Tim Bannon both resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department. She had been on the force for 26 years.

During a Monday hearing, Hennepin County District Court Judge Regina Chu ruled that there is “probable cause that supports the charge against” Potter, whose shooting was initially deemed an “accidental discharge” by police officials. The judge fast-tracked the trial, setting a tentative date for Dec. 6. Hennepin County prosecutor Imran Ali said Monday that the government is seeking permission to have the trial televised. Potter’s defense attorney, Earl Gray, noted that his team plans to object to that motion.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kim-p...-wright-will-stand-trial-judge-rules?ref=home

 

Officers won't be charged in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., district attorney says

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-andrew-brown-jr

 

Of course there won't be any charges and the video won't be released. So what it was just another Black man.

‘I’m not releasing the video – This is done’: NC DA gets defensive after announcing no charges in police shooting

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
May 18, 2021



Andrew Womble (Screen Grab)



The Pasquotank County, North Carolina District Attorney announced Tuesday he will not be filing charges against police officers who shot Andrew Brown, Jr., an unarmed 42-year old Black man, in the head, killing him while serving an arrest warrant on April 21. After holding a lengthy press conference Andrew Womble became defensive when asked about releasing the video, and later when asked how he could make a decision to not charge officers when all the facts are not in.

"I'm not releasing the video, this is done," Womble told reporters. "Anything in my office is not public record by statute."

The Associated Press adds: "Womble, who showed portions of the video at the news conference, said Tuesday that he would not release the video."

Womble reportedly has a total of about two hours of video from police body cams, but only allowed the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. to see less than 20 minutes worth. He showed a very small portion of video on Tuesday to support his decision to not file charges against any of the officers.

Womble went on to say that any release of the video would have to be done through the court, but when asked if he had requested the video be released he said he had not.

“You can not swing a skunk in front of a group of people then ask them not to smell it," Womble said last month.

On Tuesday Womble told reporters, "Mr. Brown's death, while tragic, was justified, because Mr. Brown's actions caused three deputies with the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office to reasonably believe it was necessary to use deadly force to protect themselves and others."

After urging the public to not "jump to conclusions until all the facts are out," one reporter reminded Womble he had just admitted he did not have all the facts.

"Do you think all the facts are out?" the reporter said. "You told us that you don't know how fast the car was going, whether the car was decelerating or accelerating. And the still images you showed us told a different story, before the first shot was fired. Once you put the video in motion, it looked like Brown was turning away from the officer."

"I'm sorry, your question is?" Womble, defensively replied.

"How do you respond to that?" the reporter posited.

"What was the question?" Womble again replied.

"Are you sure all the facts are in?" the reporter continued. "You said you don't know if the car was decelerating or accelerating."

"I know that all of the facts that I needed to make this decision are in," Womble replied.

"Isn't that important?" the reporter pressed. "That's important. If you look at the video. If you look at the video in motion, it looks like he's turning away before the first shot is fired, that's important."

"Sir, there are several cases," Womble said defensively, "there's a litany of cases in our American jurisprudence where shots are fired into still cars, cars that aren't moving. So, the speed at which Mr. Brown is moving at the officers...not relevant in my determination."

The reporter said if Brown had hit the brakes, "isn't that important?"

Womble refused to answer and went to another reporter.

The full video of Womble's press conference is here:




https://www.rawstory.com/im-not-rel...ter-announcing-no-charges-in-police-shooting/

 

Video shows grisly death of Black man in police custody: AP
Body camera footage obtained by Associated Press shows Louisiana police brutalising Ronald Greene in 2019.


Footage from Louisiana State Trooper Dakota DeMoss' body-worn camera shows trooper Kory York dragging Ronald Greene on his stomach on May 10, 2019 [Louisiana State Police via AP]

19 May 2021
Body camera footage obtained by The Associated Press news agency shows Louisiana state troopers stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologised for leading them on a high-speed chase during a deadly arrest.

“I’m your brother! I’m scared!” Ronald Greene can be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.

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The 2019 arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana, is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. Greene’s case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a coverup as Louisiana officials have rebuffed repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused the 49-year-old’s death.

Troopers initially told Greene’s family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase. Later, state police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Greene struggled with troopers and died on his way to the hospital.

The 46-minute video obtained by the AP comes from one trooper’s body camera. It shows one trooper wrestling Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a “stupid motherf*****”.

Greene wails “I’m sorry!” as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f****** hands behind your back!”

Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.



This undated file photo provided by his family in September 2020 shows Ronald Greene [File: Family photo via AP Photo]
Instead of rendering aid, the troopers leave Greene unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitiser wipes to wash the blood off their hands and faces.
“I hope this guy ain’t got f****** AIDS,” one of the troopers can be heard saying.

After a several-minute stretch in which Greene is not seen on camera, he appears again, limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face. He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail.

In many parts of the video, Greene is not on the screen, and the trooper appears to cut the microphone off about halfway through, making it difficult to piece together exactly what was happening at all times. At least six troopers were on the scene of the arrest but not all had their body cameras on.


“They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned,” Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, said Wednesday. “He didn’t have a chance. Ronnie didn’t have a chance. He wasn’t going to live to tell about it.”

A lawyer for Greene’s family, Lee Merritt, said the footage “has some of the same hallmarks of the George Floyd video, the length of it, the sheer brutality of it”.


“He apologised in an attempt to surrender,” Merritt said.

Use of force
Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the content of the video. In a statement, the agency said the “premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and … undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome.”

State police brass initially argued the troopers’ use of force was justified and did not open an administrative investigation until 474 days after Greene’s death.

“Police departments have got to stop putting roadblocks up to information that is, in the public’s eye, questionable,” Andrew Scott, a former Boca Raton, Florida, police chief who testifies as an expert witness in use-of-force cases told the AP.

“It suggests that you’re hiding something.”


While noting Greene “was not without fault” and appeared to resist the troopers’ orders, Scott said dragging the handcuffed man facedown by his ankle shackles was “malicious, sadistic, completely unnecessary”.


Charles Key, another use-of-force expert and former Baltimore police lieutenant, questioned the troopers’ decision to leave Greene unattended, handcuffed and prone for several minutes.

Key told the AP the practice is “just dead wrong.”

Governor John Bel Edwards allowed Greene’s family to view the same body camera footage last year and pledged to release it to the public after the federal investigation runs its course.

Greene’s family has filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit alleging troopers “brutalised” Greene, and “left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest” before covering up the cause of death.

High-speed chase
Greene failed to pull over for an unspecified traffic violation shortly after midnight on May 10, 2019. The video obtained by AP begins then, with Trooper Dakota DeMoss chasing Greene’s SUV on rural highways at more than 185kmph (115mph).

Seconds before the chase ended, DeMoss warned on his radio: “We got to do something. He’s going to kill somebody.”

As DeMoss and Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth rush Greene’s SUV, he can be seen appearing to raise his hands and saying over and over, “OK, OK. I’m sorry.”


Hollingsworth shocks Greene with a stun gun within seconds through the driver’s side window as both troopers demand he gets out of the vehicle.

Greene exits through the passenger side as the troopers wrestle him to the ground. One trooper can be heard saying “He’s grabbing me” as they try to handcuff him. “Put your hands behind your back, bitch,” one trooper says.

Hollingsworth strikes Greene multiple times and appears to lie on one of his arms before he is finally handcuffed.

At one point, Trooper Kory York yanks Greene’s leg shackles and briefly drags the man on his stomach even though he is not resisting.

York was suspended without pay for 50 hours for the dragging and for improperly deactivating his body camera. York told investigators the device was beeping loudly and his “mind was on other things”.

Hollingsworth, in a separate recording obtained by AP, can be heard telling a colleague at the office that “he beat the ever-living f*** out of” Greene.

Hollingsworth later died in a single-vehicle highway crash that happened hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the Greene case.

DeMoss, meanwhile, was arrested in connection with a separate police pursuit last year in which he and two other troopers allegedly used excessive force while handcuffing motorist Antonio Harris.

Exactly what caused Greene’s death remains unclear. Union Parish Coroner Renee Smith told AP last year his death was ruled accidental and attributed to cardiac arrest.

Smith, who was not in office when that determination was made, said her office’s file on Greene attributed his death to a car crash and made no mention of a struggle with the state police.

Source: AP

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/19/video-shows-grizzly-death-of-black-man-in-police-custody-ap

 

Judge Dismisses Charges Mid-Trial Against Cops Accused of Killing Black Man
RARE RULING

Pilar Melendez
National Reporter

Updated May. 20, 2021 4:06PM ET / Published May. 20, 2021 4:04PM ET

Mark Metcalfe/Getty


A Mississippi state judge on Thursday dismissed second-degree murder charges against two former police officers accused of fatally beating a Black man during a violent 2019 arrest. In a rare judicial move, Hinds County Judge Faye Peterson intervened after prosecutors finished their case against Desmond Barney and Lincoln Lampley for the Jan. 13, 2019, death of 62-year-old George Robinson. Peterson ruled that prosecutors did not present enough evidence during the trial that began on Monday and moved to drop the charges with prejudice—meaning the two former Jackson police officers cannot be retried. “There was nothing on its face that was illegal,” Peterson said on Thursday. “The detention of a suspect is not a criminal act and there was no proof presented that they were conspiring.”

Prosecutors argued Robinson was slammed into the pavement and repeatedly hit in the head and chest after being pulled over during a traffic stop. Robinson died two days later. During the trial, Mississippi’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mark LeVaughn told jurors that Robinson died from multiple head injuries and his death was labeled a homicide. After the ruling on Thursday, Robinson’s sister, Bettersten Wade, told reporters she believes the two officers will pay for their crimes eventually. “I’m not going to hate nobody,” she said. “In this world, you have to be careful of what you do, because you never know. We never know. I’m not going to hate them. But I hate it happened to my brother.”

Read it at Clarion Ledger

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missi...cused-of-killing-black-man-mid-trial?ref=home

 

How embarrassing for the prosecutor.

For a judge to dismiss a case without the defense even lifting a finger is akin to someone running unopposed for office and losing

 

Video: ‘You Shouldn’t Be Able to’ Breathe, Officer Tells Dying Man
HARROWING FOOTAGE

McCaffrey Blauner
Breaking News Intern

Updated May. 20, 2021 10:04PM ET / Published May. 20, 2021 10:03PM ET

Marshall County Jail

A video obtained by News Channel 5 Nashville shows the final moments of William Jennette, a Tennessee father of five, as law enforcement officers piled on top of him. Now his daughter is suing the city of Lewisburg, the county, and several involved officers. Jennette died in police custody in May 2020 after being wrestled to the ground and knelt on by correctional officers, after refusing to get into a restraint chair. The disturbing footage shows the 48-year-old Jennette, who jail logs reviewed by the news outlet say was “detoxing” and “hallucinating” after his arrest two days earlier, repeatedly saying he can’t breathe and making choking noises as he is dogpiled on by police officers and Marshall County jailers. At one point, a female officer can be heard to respond, “You shouldn’t be able to breathe, you stupid bastard.”

According to the autopsy report, Jennette’s death was a homicide, with asphyxiation a “contributing cause of death.” The coroner noted that Jennette also had multiple fractured ribs. A grand jury has already declined to bring criminal charges against the officers. “It just feels like my heart is constantly being ripped out of my chest, and there’s no peace to that,” daughter Dominique Jennette told the outlet.

Read it at News Channel 5 Nashville

https://www.thedailybeast.com/you-s...ls-a-dying-william-jennette-in-video?ref=home

 

Propaganda aside, the only part of this article that carries a lot of meaning is;

" A grand jury has already declined to bring criminal charges against the officers."​

An accepted tenet of criminal procedure is that an inept prosecutor with no evidence and no crime can reliably get a piece of toast indicted through a grand jury.

 

'An absolute nightmare': Video shows Tennessee officers taunted hogtied man before he died

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
May 22, 2021



(Photo: Marshall County Jail)


Justice advocates on Friday condemned officers at a Tennessee county jail for taunting a hogtied man moments before his death after a local news station published video of the incident.

"There's approximately a three-minute, 43-second period after officers have applied handcuffs where they keep the individual in the prone position, and that's not acceptable."
—Seth Stoughton,
use-of-force expert

William Jennette—a 48-year-old white father of five—died on May 6, 2020 at the Marshall County Jail in Lewisburg, Tennessee after a group of officers from multiple law enforcement agencies restrained him and kneeled on his back for several minutes while he screamed for help, WTVF reports.

Video obtained by the Nashville station shows Jennette—who was arrested for alleged public intoxication, indecent exposure, and resisting arrest—yelling, "Help, they're going to kill me!"

One officer is heard commanding Jennette to "stay down, you stupid son of a bitch."

The video also shows Jennette repeatedly pleading with officers that he could not breathe.

"You shouldn't be able to breathe, you stupid bastard," an officer identified in a lawsuit as Kendra Burton replies.

At least two officers in the video say that Jennette bit them.

At one point in the video an officer sounds a note of caution, telling his colleagues: "Easy, easy—remember asphyxiation, guys."

To which another officer responds, "That's why I'm not on his lungs."

Jennette's last words were, "I'm good."

"No, you ain't good," an officer replies.

An autopsy (pdf) performed by the Marshall County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Jennette's death a homicide, listing the cause as "acute combined drug intoxication"—he had methamphetamine in his system—with asphyxia as a "contributory cause of death."

Despite that finding, a grand jury decided not to indict any of the officers.

Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund called the video "an absolute nightmare," tweeting: "Grand jury refuses to indict any. That's how it usually happens."

Chris Vanderveen, director of reporting at KUSA in Denver, tweeted that this is the 121st prone police restraint death he has logged.

One of Jennette's daughters, Dominque Jennette, filed a lawsuit (pdf) this February against Marshall County, the city of Lewisburg, and several of the officers involved. The suit alleges the officers' "savage beating" and "suffocation" of Jennette caused his death, and constitute a "deprivation of civil rights" under the Fourteenth Amendment.

"That just breaks my heart because he was someone worth knowing," his daughter told WTVF. "That's just something that really sticks with me, how scared he must have been and how alone he must have felt."

Dominique Jennette said she believes the officers "should have been more aware."

"They should have been trained properly, and they weren't," she added.

Seth Stoughton, a law professor and former police officer, told WTVF that the video shows "the exact opposite of what generally accepted training has taught officers for the last 25 years."

"When the handcuffs came on, they should have rotated the guy to his side," asserted Stoughton. "There's approximately a three-minute, 43-second period after officers have applied handcuffs where they keep the individual in the prone position, and that's not acceptable."

The video's release came one day after the Associated Press published footage it obtained of Louisiana state troopers stunning, punching, kicking, choking, and dragging 49-year-old Ronald Greene, who died during a May 2019 arrest following a high-speed chase.

https://www.rawstory.com/hogtied-tennessee-victim/

 

Each story that can be found and used to demonize police can be countered by a story of how police do their job quietly, every day, without expecting to be recognized for their sacrifice.

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Defund the police?
Sure. Go ahead.

 

South Carolina school cop handcuffed a 10-year-old special needs girl: report

https://www.rawstory.com/springdale-elementary-west-columbia-south-carolina/

 

New evidence suggests attempted murder cover-up by Louisiana State Police: report

Bob Brigham
May 24, 2021





New evidence is coming to light about the death of Ronald Greene while in the custody of police in Louisiana.

"In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene falsely told internal investigators that the Black man was still a threat to flee after he was shackled, and he denied the existence of his own body camera video for nearly two years until it emerged just last month," the Associated Press reported.

"New state police documents obtained by The Associated Press show numerous inconsistencies between Lt. John Clary's statements to detectives and the body camera footage he denied having. They add to growing signs of obfuscation in Greene's death, which the white troopers initially blamed on a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase and is now the subject of a federal civil rights investigation," the AP explained.

The ranking officer was caught lying about the case.

"The highly secretive case has drawn national attention since last week when the AP began publishing graphic body camera videos that showed troopers repeatedly jolting Greene with stun guns, putting him in a chokehold, punching him and dragging him by his ankle shackles. And like George Floyd's death a year ago, it once again highlighted the importance of video as key evidence in police misconduct cases," the AP reported. "But Clary, the highest-ranking officer among at least six state troopers at the scene of Greene's May 10, 2019, arrest, told investigators later that day that he had no body camera footage of the incident — a statement proven to be untrue when his 30-minute body camera video of the arrest emerged last month."

Read the full report.

https://www.rawstory.com/louisiana-state-police-ronald-greene/

 

What Black Lives Matter members are really angry about is the fact that a much higher percentage of blacks are in prison or in poverty than the the percentage of whites. This is true despite the fact that blacks are discriminated in favor of with affirmative action programs and despite the fact that trillions of dollars, taxed mainly from whites, have been spent on anti poverty programs designed mainly to help blacks.