JSin - Good idea to start a new thread about the subject...

www.november.org/razorwire.../1106.html

Unfortunately I do agree that abuses are the norm in policing. I've also found that most police really get off on being in a position of authority and it tends to show in the downgrading way they treat most people.

I have some very rare stories about some really generous and humane cops. Overall though, I have been profiled and threatened by cops when I broken no laws, mostly since I arrived in LA. I have even been pulled out of standstill traffic for some seriously BS reasons.

I'm not gonna lie, I blubbered my way out of trouble a few times when I was in the wrong but having a spotlight shone in your face when you're walking to a party and in the only group of people that had minorities in it that was in a throng of white people obviously heading the same way pisses me off. Being followed around by security when I shop pisses me off. Having a cop insinuate that my white male date was a john and I was a hooker (wearing corduroy pants and a t-shirt with converse) pisses me off. Sorry to go off on the tangent but I have no love for the Popo.

Ah more fun from the Hollywood pigs!!! Not LA Hollywood but Florida.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/211345...6#32202886

Um yeah Charles and Difference... wanna tell us about all the good little piggys

JSin

Moe on the Gates case and racism amongst police ranks...

rawstory.com/blog/2009/0...mass-e-mail/

"The officer said that he didn't mean to use words like 'banana eating jungle monkey' "in a racist way."

"It was a poor choice of words," Barrett said. I didn't mean it in a racist way. I treat everyone with dignity and respect."....

The Fox affiliate in Boston has published the text of the email Boston police officer Justin Barrett sent in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a "banana-eating jungle monkey."

It now appears Barrett's email was a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, complaining of the Globe's coverage of the Gates arrest on July 16.

Of Gates, Barrett wrote: "He is a suspect and will always be a suspect."

"If I was the officer [Gates] verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent non-compliance."

Barrett then went on to berate the author of the Globe article to which he objected.

"You are a hot little bird with minimal experiences in a harsh field," Barrett wrote. "You are a fool. An infidel. You have no business writing for a US newspaper nevermind detailing and analyzing half-truths."

AP reported that "Barrett was trained in racial profiling prevention and had shown no signs of racial discrimination in the past."

Barrett's tirade has spawned an instant flurry of comments on blogs and talk shows.

"If this is what [police officers are] putting in emails, imagine what they're saying in private," blogged The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan."


I have no doubt this policeman considers himself "one of the good ones". I'll be interested to hear the explanation of how one can use "banana eating jungle monkey" to describe a black man that's "still a suspect" in the great crime of breaking into his own house in a non-racist way.....

The 911 call is pretty interesting too since the police have been lying about that according to the woman who called 911.

July 28, 2009

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOBILE, Ala.---- Police in Mobile, Ala., used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled who they said wouldn't leave a store's bathroom.

The family of 37-year-old Antonio Love has filed a formal complaint over the incident on Friday.

Police tell the Press-Register of Mobile that officers shot pepper spray under the bathroom door after knocking several times. After forcing the door open, they used the stun gun on Love.

Police spokesman Christopher Levy says police didn't realize Love had a hearing impairment until after he was out of the bathroom. The officers' conduct is under investigation.

The newspaper says the officers attempted to book Love on charges including disorderly conduct, but a magistrate on duty wouldn't accept the charges.

www.suntimes.com/news/nati...09.article

-K

www.prisonplanet.com/article...lity.htm

More fun videos of cops getting their rocks off beating and killing citizens, some oof them even for the horrible crime of standing up for their first and fourth amendment rights. For more fun you can watch them taze and beat children for offenses like spilling cake.

Come on Difference, you wanted to see what we do for change.. Why don't you tell us how all of these are justified and how tazers are the end all be all last resort. Where does this shit fall into your cute little propaganda scale of escalation.

So Charles... Not systemic and not pervasive??? we have posted HUNDREDS of incidences... These are just the ones caught on video. They don't include the ones the cops take the camera unlawfully and destroy the footage, they don't include the ones where no one had a camera. Where are all the good little piggys and why the fuck are they incapable of stopping this type of behavior?

I will tell you why. Abuse of the citizenry and disdain for the constitutional rights of citizens is the norm. Not the exception.

JSin

You want systematic. Let's look at Miami's attitude

Protester shot then laugh their ass off over it

www.youtube.com/watch

JSin

Ah in accordance to normal practice... handcuffed you can have your ass beaten and left in a pool of blood... No charges filed on the pig though he beat her. If you refuse a sobriety test there apparently the tape is turned off in accordance with policy and you are beaten. Oh by the way as with most abusers this shitcan claimed she fell.

www.youtube.com/watch

JSin

Still more on police brutality and racism, check out this blog:

taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/