Fucking Cops

[Gawdzilla]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsJJZH4gBM

[Minimalist]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/rikers-i...t-insulin/

Rikers Island guards let diabetic Latino inmate suffer 14 hours and die without insulin

According to the investigation, Correction Officer Eric Jacobs ignored Mercado’s pleas for help and twice stepped over Mercado’s dying, unconscious body while processing other inmates.

Jacobs has a history of excessive use of force against inmates and insubordination against his superior officers, but he was not the only officer on duty as Mercado plead for his medication, then became too sick to move.

[Chad32]

I think I said this before, but if you're not going to take care of prisoners, what are you putting them in cages for? Maybe that's why cops are shooting people in the streets. They don't want to be responsible for taking care of people after they lock them up.

[JesusHChrist]

In a sort of man bites dog story, here we see sheriff's deputies fired for lying. Turns out their intended citizen-victim was wearing a body camera, proving they lied.

Score one for the underdog.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/2...HW20150825

[Minimalist]

It's not just the cops who suck.

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

Exonerations in Brooklyn highlight a national problem

Many confessions in the US are turning out to have been faked or coerced

[Jenny A]

It's not just the cops who suck.

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

Exonerations in Brooklyn highlight a national problem

Many confessions in the US are turning out to have been faked or coerced

Yeah, but you have the good news here.  Kenneth Thompson is a district attorney who campaigned on the issue of reexamining questionable convictions and is actually carrying through on his promises.  Good for Brooklyn.  Now all we need is about 30 thousand more of him.

[Minimalist]

Jenny.  I take it that you are one of them-there "optimists?"

[Minimalist]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25...tail=email

Alabama police admit officer's body camera was turned off before shooting man holding spoon

Tevis, with a serving spoon from his kitchen, began moving toward the officer, when he was fatally shot twice. The police have now admitted four damning details about the case.
1. They admit that Tevis was mentally ill. This had to have been a painfully obvious observation from the start, but should've triggered a different method of policing.
2. The police now admit that the officer shot and killed Tevis from at least 24 feet away.
3. The police now confirm that the only "weapon" Tevis held was a serving spoon.
4. Last, and perhaps most disturbing of all, police now claim that the officer who shot and killed Tevis did not have his body camera turned on.

Those spoons account for plenty of deaths nationwide.....I suppose.

[Chad32]

He might have been threatening to carve the cop's eye out with it.

[Minimalist]

I'm sure the cop was terrified of that very possibility.  Why he was so scared he turned off his camera.

It seems to me that the biggest problem we have is that too many cops are just pussies.