Fucking Cops: Volume II

[Minimalist]

$6 million seems to be the going rate for having a murdering cop on your police force.  Enjoy it, taxpayers.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/walter-s...officials/

Walter Scott’s family will receive $6.5 million settlement from South Carolina officials

[Minimalist]

That's all, huh?  Justice, NY style!

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd...-1.2390117

NYPD captain pleads guilty to improper use of force for pulling gun on two kids playing tag

Asshole.

[Minimalist]

Meanwhile, the city is broke...but the cops have new toys.  And wait till you see how they paid for it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08...tail=email

Detroit police excited about SWAT vehicle costing $700,000. Meanwhile, Detroit is bankrupt

The vehicle was paid with civil forfeiture money. The kind of money that law enforcement is trained to steal from citizens—like when Detroit police seized 44 cars at a party because alcohol had been served without a license.

Every police official who approved that should be fired.

[Minimalist]

Interesting, but....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/09...onvictions

How Georgia has made it effectively impossible to convict cops who kill; 171 murders; 0 convictions

the headline is misleading.  It is far worse than that.  It implies that they were "acquitted."  They weren't.  Most were not even charged.

Not a single fatal police shooting since 2010 has gone to trial.
Two-thirds of police shooting cases never went to a grand jury because district attorneys used their discretion not to bring charges.
Of 48 cases that went to grand jury, only nine involved the presentation of a criminal indictment. In the rest, the prosecutor simply asked the grand jury to determine if the shooting was justified or unjustified.
Consequently, only one officer has ever been indicted in Georgia and less than 24 hours after the indictment, a judge overturned it. It's the Georgia way. Not one case of police murder has even gone to trial.

Despicable performance by Georgia.

[Minimalist]

Well, I saw the video....and so can you.  The kid does not look out of "control."

Can't say the same for the fucking cop.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/texas-co...s-nothing/

Texas cop caught choking and slamming 14-year-old boy as school staff does nothing

According to KEYE-TV, police said in a statement that the officers had broken up a fight between Hughes and another student, yet Hughes “refused to calm down” and was attempting to resume the altercation, prompting the officer to “detain him for his safety.”

Sure as shit doesn't look like it.

[Minimalist]

Florida cops still think video taping them is bad.  I can see why.  They come across looking like fucking thugs.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/watch-un...r-husband/

WATCH: Unarmed black woman beaten and tackled by Florida cops for filming arrest of her husband

[Minimalist]

Apparently it was just too fucking hard for the DA to sort out so he let them all go.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/07...ailclassic

Definition of white privilege: Nine people killed, 20 shot, no murder charges, everyone released

On May 17, 2015 in Waco, Texas, 170 people were arrested after a shootout/brawl in which nine people died and 20 were seriously injured. The story took over the news and was covered in an endless loop for days.
Every single person who was arrested has been released. Not one person has been charged with murder.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the epitome of white privilege.

Yeah... its so much easier when the cops can just find and shoot one little nigger, isn't it Mr. D.A.

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Florida cops still think video taping them is bad.  I can see why.  They come across looking like fucking thugs.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/watch-un...r-husband/

WATCH: Unarmed black woman beaten and tackled by Florida cops for filming arrest of her husband

I'm as shocked by the news channel's "coverage" (especially their tone) of the event.

They put her on trial from the moment the two anchors started talking.

[Minimalist]

Apparently it took many months for the Cleveland DA to figure out a way to blame Tamir Rice ( a 12 year old murdered by cops within two seconds of their driving up to him) for his own death.  I suspect Cleveland will be the next Ferguson.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/tamir-ri...y-process/

“It’s clear to the Rice family that these so-called experts were selected to present a point of view to defend the officer’s conduct,” said Subodh Chandra, an attorney for the family.

[Chad32]

I saw a "Blue Lives Matter" billboard in Florida last week on my way to the beach. I had to keep my mouth shut about it, though, because my mother doesn't give a damn about police shooting blacks. I get reprimanded for saying damn or shit, but she feels free to say nigger.