The rest of the world has known it for EV-ER. Credit: BBC News, October 27, 2014. Here's a story from The Washington Post about a judge's ruling against the Columbus PD. "Run amok" are his words, not mine. But it's not like we didn't already know. Columbus police may not use tear gas, rubber bullets …
Continue reading Federal Judge acknowledges American cops run amok.
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.
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 …
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.
Look into this cop's eyes, and tell me he has a soul. One criminal cop taken down is no solution to the problem. But it's a start. And a bit of retribution. And I'll take both of those.
I remember when, as a White kid, at least, I used to think cops were the good guys. You could tell them by their uniforms, like the good cowboys wore white hats. And I remember when I was doing fieldwork in a third-world nation, and you couldn't tell the cops from the dictator's military forces. …
The former Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd on the world stage last summer, kneeling on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and twenty seconds with the most astoundingly depraved indifference to the man's pleas for air. Former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin: a genuine monster with a badge and a gun. The trial jury is unusually diverse …
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