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“They’re not interested in Black lives. They’re interested in props, a small number of Blacks who are killed by police during conflicts with police — usually less than a dozen a year — who they can use as props to achieve a much broader political agenda.”Attorney General William F. Barr, on the Black Lives Matter …
Here's good news about DCSO, reprinted from The Bulletin. A few brief Tumalo Lookout comments follow below the story. Deschutes County sheriff's deputies to get intervention training Verbal Judo Institute president will teach course By GARRETT ANDREWS The Bulletin Sep 15, 2020 Updated 1 hr ago Deschutes County Sheriff's Office deputy Submitted photo Deputies with the Deschutes …
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Two important issues come up over and over again in cases of police misconduct or police brutality: the methods cops use, or don't use, to manage incidents that start well but end in tragedy; and the frequent failure of cops to intervene on behalf of citizens they're supposed to be protecting. Conflict de-escalation and cop-to-cop …
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American Airlines can’t be like, ‘You know, most of our pilots like to land. We just got a few bad apples that like to crash in the mountains.’Chris Rock, "Tamborine" Netflix Stand-up Special Chris Rock. Credit: The Source Magazine
Rochester Police Chief Le'Ron Singletary announces his retirement days before being fired. Credit: Fox2Now Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has fired Chief of Police Le’Ron Singletary in the wake of Daniel Prude's death. Daniel Prude. Credit: Prude family photo, via The New York Times Warren fired Singletary and suspended two top city officials following a damning …
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Careful readers and critical thinkers will note that this story from Politico actually makes no mention of mail-in voting or the November elections. The silence is deafening. As always when I reprint news stories from other sources, the story is printed verbatim. Tumalo Lookout comments follow below the story. From Politico: POSTAL SERVICE Postal police …
Continue reading Trump Administration moves to stop USPS Police from protecting mail-in ballots
A great story from Fox News, told in a single photograph taken by a passerby. Kudos, Brownie Lyons, for your wonderful photo. Source: Fox News, July 10, 2020: "Photo of Florida sheriff's deputy eating lunch with homeless man goes viral"
Add Armando Perez to the growing list of top cops who have been busted in America since June of this year. Photo source: Greenwich Daily Voice, September 10, 2020 Until September 10 Armando Perez was Chief of Police in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On that day Perez and Bridgeport’s acting personnel director, David Dunn, were arrested and …
Trust is a fragile thing, easily lost and not easily restored. Cops toss more and more of it away every day. We've had an especially long list of incidents this year, exposing cops who have violated policies and attempted to deceive the public. Here's another example, reported by National Public Radio. These incidents occur throughout …
Credit: OregonLive/The Oregonian Fox News recently published a list of American police chiefs who have retired, been demoted, or been terminated around the country since the murder* of George Floyd by four Minneapolis cops. This list comes from the Fox story. I suspect that it's not complete, and that more resignations and terminations are on …
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