Fucking Cops

[Minimalist]

Not funny....but funny.

[Brakeman]

No, it is tragic. I remember a conversation with a high up DEA Officer about the corruption rampant in the SA drug war.
His laughing at the death toll and the insanity behind it scarred me for life.

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-16/n...elicopters

Bolivia couldn't fight the cartels because too much of their economy depended on drug traffic. They couldn't not fight the drug war because they would lose American aide money they needed to stay in power. So they all knowingly victimized poor farmers for a body count.

You can't forget that shit face's laugh. And yeah, he was a cop of sorts..

[Minimalist]

The Crime? Smoking.....a cigarette.

http://www.newser.com/story/197009/ny-co...video.html

– Marcel Hamer was walking home from school on the afternoon of June 4, smoking a cigarette, when a plainclothes police officer got out of his car and accused the now-17-year-old of smoking pot. A video of the Brooklyn incident picks up when Marcel is already on the ground, the officer apparently trying to handcuff him as the teen pleads, "Mister, it was just a cigarette, sir." As Marcel's friends protest from the sidelines—"Do you wanna get f---ed up?" the cop asks one at one point, then "Yeah, get it on film"—the officer appears to punch Marcel in the face, knocking him out, the Brooklyn Paper reports. The cop continues to order Marcel to "turn around," but the teen is apparently unconscious, and his friends start pleading with him to "wake up" while telling the cop, "You knocked him out." Eventually, another man—apparently a second undercover cop—helps handcuff Marcel as he lies unmoving on the street.

Proof, as if any more were needed, that smoking is bad for your health!

[Minimalist]

Seems like the cops are getting camera shy.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/get-t...ic-street/

‘Get that camera off my face’: NYPD harasses reporter interviewing students on public street

[Minimalist]

Okay - I give this cop credit for not shooting these two. Probably didn't want to get bloodstains on his patrol car.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/wisco...p-to-jail/

Wisconsin police officer transporting a couple to jail after a DUI stop, was forced to pull over after the drunken duo began having sex in the back of his police cruiser, reports The Smoking Gun.

How do you even manage that while handcuffed? That's determination.

[Minimalist]

Not exactly news.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/analy...by-police/

Analysis shows young black men are 21 times more likely than whites to be killed by police

The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.

If only that federal data base was remotely complete...which it is not. One is left to wonder how many bodies were piled up by cops who did not feel the need to check in?

[Minimalist]

And here we go again...off to the races.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10...tail=email

Why does the St. Louis PD keep changing their story about the killing of VonDerrit Myers?

In an interview with Matt Pearce of the Los Angeles Times, the manager of the market, Berhe Beyet, said:

Like six minutes after I sold him a sandwich, he got shot... He wasn't armed when he was here. He didn't have a hoodie.

This observation from the store manager, confirmed by the still images and recently released video of Myers and two of his friends, taken just minutes before he was killed, raises a series of questions about exactly what transpired between the time Myers purchased a sandwich, not wearing a hoodie, and then being shot at 17 times by a St. Louis police officer just minutes later in possession of a gun and wearing a hoodie.

And then the cops can't seem to get their own story straight. In their arrogance they don't seem to think they have any need to.


They should hire this guy to be their spokesman.

[Minimalist]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/judge...off-leash/

Judge agrees: Park ranger was wrong to use Taser on man walking dog off-leash

The judge dismissed testimony from the National Park Service’s deputy chief of law enforcement, saying he “revealed a startling lack of awareness of the law and its application to use of force scenarios.”

The NPS official, Hunter Bailey, admitted he was unaware of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rulings on the legal standard for Taser use, the station reported.

[Minimalist]

Colorado.

And of course the cops are investigating themselves....as usual.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/color...knows-why/

Colorado family stunned: Cop breaks in, fatally shoots man in back, and ‘no one knows why’

[Minimalist]

Arizona...10-12 miles south of me.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/cops-...ight-here/

Cop’s threat to AZ immigrant caught on video: ‘If you do something, I will kill you right here’

An Arizona police chief met with an immigrant man who had been threatened less than 48 hours earlier by an officer during a traffic stop.

A 74-second video of the encounter was posted Saturday by an immigrant rights activist, reported the Latino Rebels blog, and the post was widely shared across social media.

Teodulo Sánchez began recording the video after he called his wife to report a suspicious car was following him Friday, and the man’s wife said a patrol car then began following him and turned on its lights.

An officer approached Sánchez’s car with his gun drawn, and he asked the man for his ID and whether he had any weapons.

“Show me the license right now,” said the Buckeye police officer in Spanish. “If you do something, I will kill you right here. Do you understand me?”

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Florida - at least no one got killed.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/flori...-oral-sex/

Florida deputy accused of keeping woman out of jail in return for oral sex

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Tennessee - not so lucky this time.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/two-k...ersection/

Two killed when Tennessee cop turns off siren, speeds through intersection