Quote:San Diego police shoot dead 15-year-old boy who had BB gun

Quote:Police shot dead a 15-year-old student Saturday after he pointed a BB gun at them in a high school parking lot, authorities said.
The Torrey Pines High School student called 911 shortly before 3:30 a.m. to ask officers to check on the welfare of an unarmed boy in front of the school, according to a police statement.
He didn't name the boy, but investigators later determined he was referring to himself, police said.
When two officers arrived, they spotted a youth in the front parking lot. But as they got out of their patrol cars, he pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at an officer, police said.
The officers drew their guns and ordered him to drop the weapon. But instead he began to walk toward an officer, ignoring more demands to drop the weapon, police said.

Quote:‘Roadblocks end where the white people start’: Mississippi sheriff enforces segregation, lawsuit claims

Quote:In June 2016, resident Quinetta Manning reported half-dozen white deputies that barged into her home at 7:00 a.m. claiming they were searching for marijuana. They never found it. They then tried to get a statement from her about a neighbor. Her husband Khadafy came from the bedroom to tell his wife that she didn’t have to say anything to the police. The man walks with a cane due to a nerve condition and the deputies allegedly cuffed, choked and beat him before dragging him to a police vehicle in his underwear while calling him “Mr. Cripple.” Mrs. Manning captured some of the incident on her cell phone.

Quote:Former Los Angeles sheriff gets three years in obstruction scheme

Quote:Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after his conviction in March on federal charges stemming from a scheme to derail an FBI investigation into corruption at his department.

Baca, 74, who retired in 2014 when the investigation was already under way, was the 10th member of the Sheriff’s Department convicted in the scheme aimed at preventing the Federal Bureau of Investigation from discovering wrongdoing by his staff.

(May 12, 2017 at 4:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/former-l...on-scheme/

Quote:Former Los Angeles sheriff gets three years in obstruction scheme

Quote:Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after his conviction in March on federal charges stemming from a scheme to derail an FBI investigation into corruption at his department.

Baca, 74, who retired in 2014 when the investigation was already under way, was the 10th member of the Sheriff’s Department convicted in the scheme aimed at preventing the Federal Bureau of Investigation from discovering wrongdoing by his staff.

The WLB should get ten times as much for his efforts to impede the FBI!

(May 14, 2017 at 9:43 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Some cops are corrupt. Most aren't. The ones who are make it to the news.

(May 14, 2017 at 9:43 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Some cops are corrupt. Most aren't. The ones who are make it to the news.

(May 14, 2017 at 9:54 am)Chad32 Wrote:

(May 14, 2017 at 9:43 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Some cops are corrupt. Most aren't. The ones who are make it to the news.

We wouldn't need threads like this is the good ones would prosecute and jail more of the bad ones. Stories like this are practically an everyday occurence in America, but not so much everywhere else.

(May 14, 2017 at 11:37 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Civilization as we know it would be fucked without the police.

Vigilantism would be the only alternative and that would just be utter bloodthirsty chaos. My worst nightmare.