Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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Yes, thank you for letting us know that it is the driver's fault that cops are trigger happy. Jebus ******* kripes.

Me in any other country in the world: "American? Nope, not me, eh! We just look similar"
 
To poke at something slightly tangential, but related to the topic of this thread -

The Department of Justice had the kind of pro-police reform week that doesn’t happen every year. In a seven-day period, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a ban on chokeholds and no-knock warrants, an overhaul on how to handle law enforcement oversight deals, and a promise to make sure the Justice Department wasn’t funding agencies that engage in racial discrimination.
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Popehat has a nice collection of lesser tales of piggishness by the police. Obviously examples of egregious abuse by the police get more press coverage, but it's important to note that cops are also completely worthless in many petty ways as well.

Tales of cops proving themselves to be unhelpful, cruel, and petty tyrants are incredibly common.

One of several:

A friend called the cops after her boyfriend broke her ribs and trashed her apt. Stepping through her broken dishes, the cops laughed and joked about what a huge mess she had to clean up then told her to stop writing so many details in her report.
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https://twitter.com/ErinSiobhan/status/1439775999823163395

When my son was carjacked at gunpoint, beat up and thrown out of his car into an unfamiliar neighborhood, it was street people, not cops, who found his car for us. The cop who eventually responded told me it looked like a drug deal gone bad, not a carjacking.
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https://twitter.com/NotGr8flJstDead/status/1439784962794967041

https://twitter.com/Popehat

More similar anecdotes

Popehat's own story:

This is a cop story AND a press story I haven’t told in a while. Cops came to arrest a controversial and colorful local politician on Friday of a holiday weekend. Tipped off a reporter and photog from a local paper we’ll call The Angels Times.

But the reporter and photog were late so the cops already had him in the car. They complained. The cops walked the politician in cuffs back into his house and then walked him out again so the photog could get the perp walk shot. Paper ran it.

(That’s because cops will use the press to **** you, and the press will run the picture because they think the picture of a perp walk is news but the cops’ willingness to fake it for you isn’t news.)

Then the cops drove him all over the county for five or six hours so it was too late for him to go to court so he’d stay in custody over the three-day weekend. /end
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https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1439761151072473093
 
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24 year old man jailed at Riker's dies after days of medical neglect, screaming in pain and begging for help.

The family of a gay 24-year-old who died at Rikers earlier this month is seeking answers about the circumstances surrounding his death after they said jail officials ignored his pleas for medical care when other inmates heard him “screaming” for help.

Esias “Izzy” Johnson, a Massachusetts native remembered by his parents as an intelligent, kindhearted young man, was found dead at 9:45 a.m. on September 7 after he spent an entire month trying unsuccessfully to get released on his $1 bail. He is one of 11 people who have died at the notorious jail complex this year alone.

The city’s chief medical examiner told Gay City News the cause and manner of Johnson’s are pending “further studies.” A New York Daily News report published just hours after he died cited a source claiming he suffered a fatal overdose — and Johnson’s family learned of that claim in the news — though they have not been informed of any official cause of death and they are hesitant to draw any sweeping conclusions.

“Inmates came forward saying he had been complaining of stomach pain for days,” Johnson’s mother, Tracy Johnson, told Gay City News in an interview on September 19. “Inmates said he had been screaming all night for help, and come morning time, he couldn’t get out of bed. He never got out of bed for breakfast.”

She added, “I think they put a drug overdose to cover up that they weren’t taking care of him or helping him.”

The family’s attorney, Jamie Santana, told Gay City News that he believes “multiple inmates saw and heard” Johnson in pain and “witnessed that he received zero medical attention.” Santana said Johnson’s calls for medical attention “were heard and known by the facility.”
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https://www.gaycitynews.com/family-demands-accountability-after-gay-mans-death-at-rikers/
 
Another tale of copaganda revealed to be a total lie:

“Officer Mike CAN’T eat a burrito in his car!!” the video says. “Now he faces being put on 16 hours suspension for eating his burrito!”

It’s an oft-repeated story.

In an interview earlier this month union President Shaun Willoughby cited it as an example of a ridiculous and out-of control system brought about because of the court-ordered reform of the Police Department. He said officers are “in trouble constantly,” which has led to rising crime, high turnover and low morale.

But an Internal Affairs investigation shows a markedly different reality — for one thing, the officer was not just eating a burrito. He was driving through city streets and on Interstate 40 — with a prisoner in the back seat — at times steering his cruiser with his knee while he ate three burritos, one after another.
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https://www.abqjournal.com/2430850/footage-shows-more-to-the-story-of-officer-burrito.html

Cops tried to gin up a story about "oversight gone mad" because a cop got punished for eating a burrito in his patrol car.

They conveniently left out that fact that he was eating a burrito while driving his patrol car with no hands on the wheel, including on a high speed interstate highway, with a restrained prisoner in the back seat.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
Another tale of copaganda revealed to be a total lie:



https://www.abqjournal.com/2430850/footage-shows-more-to-the-story-of-officer-burrito.html

Cops tried to gin up a story about "oversight gone mad" because a cop got punished for eating a burrito in his patrol car.

They conveniently left out that fact that he was eating a burrito while driving his patrol car with no hands on the wheel, including on a high speed interstate highway, with a restrained prisoner in the back seat.
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Our current mayor is being challenged by the former sheriff of the county. His platform is basically the city police are being horribly hamstrung by the super liberal mayor*.. because he is complying with a federal justice department excessive force order. This included shooting a handcuffed man in the back of the head while he was face down on the pavement. They just CANT STOP CRIME AND NOT SHOOT UNARMED PEOPLE IN THE HEAD, ITS OVERSIGHT GONE MAD!!! WE MUST CHOOSE ONE OR THE OTHER!!!

*"funnily" enough the challenger is also a Democrat but he's the equivalent of a RINO.

The Bernalillo County Sheriffs Dept still don't wear body cameras, and go around in military style fatigues and tactical gear even on routine daily patrols.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
Another tale of copaganda revealed to be a total lie:



https://www.abqjournal.com/2430850/footage-shows-more-to-the-story-of-officer-burrito.html

Cops tried to gin up a story about "oversight gone mad" because a cop got punished for eating a burrito in his patrol car.

They conveniently left out that fact that he was eating a burrito while driving his patrol car with no hands on the wheel, including on a high speed interstate highway, with a restrained prisoner in the back seat.
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I do the same, but I limit it to one burrito and zero restrained prisoners in my van, whatever "restrained" has to do with it.
 
mgidm86 said:
I do the same, but I limit it to one burrito and zero restrained prisoners in my van, whatever "restrained" has to do with it.
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It puts them at higher risk of injury and death in the event of a crash.
 
tyr_13 said:
It puts them at higher risk of injury and death in the event of a crash.
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And the risk of a crash is markedly higher when the person driving the car is distracted by eating a burrito and doesn't have his hands on the wheel..

These past few stories just goes to show the american way of thinking about prisoners. When you get in the hands of the police you are no longer considered human. You mean ****-all to the people handling you.
 
Tough on crime Republican DA forcibly rapes work colleague after years of being a sex pest.

A Republican district attorney in Pennsylvania who styled himself as a tough-on-crime prosecutor—while refusing to pursue charges against anyone cited for disregarding state mask mandates—now stands accused of violently raping a female acquaintance in her own home, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

Somerset County DA Jeffrey Lynn Thomas, 36, allegedly attacked the unidentified woman on Sept. 18, having first contacted her on Snapchat to say he’d be coming over in a few minutes, according to police. A criminal complaint obtained by the Somerset County, Pennsylvania Tribune-Democrat states that the woman knew Thomas in a professional capacity and that she had for years rebuffed his persistent sexual advances.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-lynn-thomas-somerset-pennsylvanias-tough-on-crime-republican-district-attorney-is-charged-with-rape

In addition to rape, he was charged with indecent assault, strangulation, simple assault, and criminal trespass.
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shemp said:
I wonder how big a slap on the wrist he's going to get.
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From the way it's reported, it's hard to imagine he won't fry. They claim there's literal snapchat logs where the lady tells him to go away, then he shows up and forcibly rapes her. It really sounds like an open and shut case that will be hard to bury.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
24 year old man jailed at Riker's dies after days of medical neglect, screaming in pain and begging for help.



https://www.gaycitynews.com/family-demands-accountability-after-gay-mans-death-at-rikers/
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What makes it even more tragic was that he was in pre-trial detention apparently for lack of a $1 bail! Whatever crime he must be accused of would seem to be trivial, and the costs of detention in jail would appear to be excessive, it would be cheaper for the city / state to pay the bail than detain him.

What an awful avoidable tragedy. Abdominal pains can be excrutiating, not only no medical acre but no pain relief.
 
Minnesota government is offering branded document pouches to drivers to help reduce the odds of one of their cops freaking out and spraying the car with gunfire.

We recently purchased some Not-Reaching Pouches to help reduce deadly force encounters between law enforcement and citizens during traffic stops. The pouches store a driver’s license, and insurance card in plain sight in the vehicle on an air vent or other visible location.
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https://twitter.com/MnDPS_DPS/status/1438584957597896711
 
Cops respond to fight outside football game that escalated to gunfire by showing up and shooting 4 people, killing an 8 year old girl.

4 of the 5 people wounded by gunfire at the fight were shot by police.

Stollsteimer said a group of young males got into a fight that turned into gunfire Aug. 27 as spectators were leaving after the game between Pennsbury and Academy Park high schools. Three Sharon Hill officers were positioned opposite the exit, and as the gunfire broke out a car turned onto the street directly in front of the officers, he said.

“We have concluded that the gunfire, combined with the movement of the vehicle, precipitated responsive gunfire from the Sharon Hill police officers,” Stollsteimer said in a statement. “Our initial ballistics analysis has concluded with near certainty that four of the five gunshot victims, including Fanta Bility, were tragically struck by shots fired by the Sharon Hill police officers. We await final forensic reports.”
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https://apnews.com/article/sports-football-philadelphia-high-school-football-501c6c7cff721057b1aeb895186ed8d2

Protecting and serving by opening fire into a crowd. #ThinBlueLine
 
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