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Your cops brutalized Karen Garner, laughed, and fist-bumped about it. So why are you still the Police Chief? "What you saw in the video, not the Loveland Police Department," Ticer said Friday in reaction to the surveillance video.Loveland Police Chief Robert Ticer, quoted by CBS News, April 30, 2021. Oh really? Then explain this one, …
Continue reading Loveland Police Chief: “We failed.” Yes you did.
Another self-immolation: the cop posted right-wing extremist views on The Book of Face. Here's the gist of the incident, excerpted from the Bangor Daily News, April 30, 2021: Maine Capitol Police chief retires after uproar over social media posts by Michael Shepherd 10 hours ago Maine Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin is pictured outside the State …
Continue reading Chief of Maine Capitol Police takes a dive. Into the cesspool.
Good news from that incredibly disreputable agency, NYPD. A brief excerpt from the ever-loathsome, yet enlightening, right-wing cop rag, The Police Tribune, April 27, 2021: More Than 5,300 Cops Left NYPD In 2020, Exodus Continuing In 2021 Sandy Malone 19 hours ago New York, NY – New York Police Department data showed a 75 percent …
Continue reading When the going gets rough, the rats abandon ship.
On April 27, The Washington Post published an extensive story on the same issues I wrote about earlier in the day: how American cop culture fights citizen oversight and accountability. I call it the Criminal-Industrial Complex. Mine was just a blog post. The Washington Post story is an in-depth investigative report, the stuff of good …
I've said it before: probably half of all American cops are of below-average integrity. Let real data prove me wrong, and I'll be very happy. Read it and weep. But don't trust cops to tell the truth. From The New York Times: In N.Y.C. Jail System, Guards Often Lie About Excessive Force More than half …
Andrew Brown's killing by 7 N.C. cops was recorded by body cameras. The criminal-industrial complex is working hard to suppress the video's release. The killing of Andrew Brown last week by Pasquotank County sheriff deputies may or may not have been justified. The cops claim that Brown was a dangerous felon and tried to escape …
When Derek Chauvin murdered Mr. George Floyd on Memorial Day, 2020, the first public statement made by the Minneapolis Police Department was an official lie. Naturally, that lie made cops out to be 'just doing their duty,' and George Floyd as an 'unfortunate' victim of a coincidental "medical incident" that, they implied, he brought on …
Continue reading How cops lie: Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department.
Despite a supposed "condemnation" of him last summer. Excerpted from "After Chauvin Conviction, Police Consensus On Reform Remains Elusive," National Public Radio, April 22, 2021: The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, the union that represents officers in the Minneapolis Police Department, last summer disavowed once-member Derek Chauvin. The union has also resisted police reforms at the …
Continue reading Cop unions paid for Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney.
It took 400 years to brew up the perfect storm needed to convict just one Derek Chauvin. There are thousands more out there. From now on, it will be much harder to convict criminal cops. And it will be even harder to fire pigs that skate the law. Cop culture and allies of cops will …
Continue reading This is just the beginning. Now it gets even tougher.
It just takes one monster off the job and off the street. Reprinted from Politico, April 24, 2021. OPINION | RACE IN AMERICA Have We Really Come That Far Since Rodney King? Three decades ago, it felt like America was finally waking up to police abuse. And yet here we are. People celebrate at George Floyd …
Continue reading Chauvin’s conviction doesn’t solve anything.
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