Fucking Cops

[Little lunch]

I have to agree with Gawdzilla about generalisation.
Perhaps the title of this thread could be changed to 'Fucking American fuckhead cops.

[Minimalist]

You can start any thread you like.

You can call it "Wonderful, Nigger-Blasting, Saintly Cops" if you like, although the mods may object.  I won't speak for them.

[Minimalist]

While we're waiting for you here's another example of BAD COPS.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/alabama-...uffed-man/

Alabama cop admits to lying to protect colleague who viciously beat a handcuffed man

And why?

Bates — who was a trainee at the time of the incident — said that he kept his silence about the beating because he was afraid he would lose his job.

Of course.

[Spooky]

Police Beat Man After Riding Bike on Sidewalk: Lawsuit

Link

[Minimalist]

Here's an excellent case study.

I wonder what the difference might have been?


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/30...k-one-dead

Two men. One armed and violent, the other unarmed and nonviolent. One white, one black, one dead.

Guess which, before you read.

[Minimalist]

And still more.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/29...tail=email

American Indian mother of two dies in police custody after her repeated pleas for help ignored

[Minimalist]

More 'good cops.'  Actually, the whole department seems rotten.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/san-jose...n-lawsuit/

San Jose cop followed black family home and held them at gunpoint for no reason: lawsuit

[Minimalist]

One has to give credit to Al Jazeera.  You don't see this being discussed in the media over here.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/20...bland.html

Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose and the rise of ‘vehicular stop and frisk’

Racially based stops for minor traffic violations on the rise because of court action and police practice, say activists

Numerous studies have suggested that the discretionary powers allowed under pretextual stops have resulted in black and Latino drivers’ being disproportionately targeted.
A Department of Justice study issued in 2013 found that 52 percent of stops for black drivers were for minor traffic violations, versus 34 percent for white drivers. For 18 percent of black drivers, no reason was given for the stops, while only 8 percent of white drivers weren’t given explanations.
The same study showed that a black motorist is about 31 percent more likely to be pulled over than a white person behind the wheel and about 23 percent more likely than a Hispanic driver.
Carl Williams, a racial justice attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, refers to the phenomena as a “vehicular stop and frisk.”

[abaris]

You know, reading all these stories I actually get the impression of our cops being saints. Yes, there's the occasional abuse against the usual suspects - the same ones as in the States. Blacks and other minorities. Once in a blue moon an unarmed person is riddled with shots, but that's about it.

I can't post any links to other incidents where the polar opposite to the States happened, since these are local news. But not long ago, some drunk aimed a weapon at a motorcycle cop and tried to douse him in gasoline. Nothing happened. The guy was subdued and transfered to a mental institution. As was the man attacking his wife with a sword after having 17 beers only yesterday. Or the schizophrenic, armed with a Samurai sword kicking down an aprtment door.

[Minimalist]

So here's another saint who claims he was about to be run over but still managed to shoot a guy in the back...twice.  How do you drive a car facing backwards?

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/sc-cop-k...-attorney/

SC cop killed teen with two shots to the back during weed bust — and didn’t even report it: attorney

The autopsy revealed the first shot entered Hammond’s left rear shoulder, said Bland, and the second one entered five inches away at a downward angle into his side from behind — cutting through the man’s heart and lungs before exiting his lower right side.

Maybe he's a saint because there is no video?