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THE POLICE PROBLEM
- Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities saywww.pbs.org Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say
An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17056255
> An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
- Logan Square Neighbors Question Police Commander On Officer Misconduct, Robberiesblockclubchicago.org Logan Square Neighbors Question Police Commander On Officer Misconduct, Robberies
Some neighbors and organizers want an officer with ties to the Oath Keepers to be fired, but Cmdr. Melinda Linas said she doesn't have oversight to remove anyone from the force.
> Nowacki was listed as a member of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He has a series of complaints against him, including excessive use of force, personnel violations, and allegations of misconduct, such as making racist remarks to South Side activists that stem from 2007 which he was minimally scolded for, records show. > > In 2020, Nowacki was reprimanded for making a series of Facebook posts during the pandemic that criticized the police command staff, mocked an online dashboard that tracks public sentiment toward the department and showed him wearing a cloth mask, according to the Sun-Times and WBEZ investigation. > > The Sun-Times reported last month the officer and eight others with ties to the Oath Keepers will avoid punishment. Neighbors and activists have repeatedly called for Nowacki to be fired. > > Linas told the crowd she wasn’t aware of the allegations or the investigation into the officer until it was brought up at the meeting. She said some of the officer’s social media posts were concerning, but the process of firing an officer is overseen by the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the Chicago Police Board.
- Man Killed in RCMP Arrest in Dawson Creek, BC (June 20-21, 2024)killercopscanada.wordpress.com Man Killed in RCMP Arrest in Dawson Creek, BC (June 20-21, 2024)
The Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia (IIO) has confirmed that the man who was arrested by RCMP officers near the 7-Eleven in Dawson Creek on June 20, was pronounced dead on Jun…
- Bruce Frogg (55), Wawakapewin First Nation Man, Identified as Person Shot and Killed by Ontario Provincial Policekillercopscanada.wordpress.com Bruce Frogg (55), Wawakapewin First Nation Man, Identified as Person Shot and Killed by Ontario Provincial Police
Wawakapewin First Nation has identified Bruce Frogg (55) as the man shot and killed by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Anicinabe Park, Kenora, on June 25, 2024. In a statement, the First Nation …
- Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's deathapnews.com Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death
Dash camera video and investigative documents are raising new questions about the fatal shooting of a Black motorist by a Georgia state trooper nearly four years ago.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23880779
> Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn’t stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren. > > Five minutes into a pursuit that began over a broken taillight, the 60-year-old Black man was dead — shot in the forehead by the white trooper who fired a single bullet mere seconds after forcing Lewis to crash into a ditch. Trooper Jake Thompson insisted he pulled the trigger as Lewis revved the engine of his Nissan Sentra and jerked his steering wheel as if trying to mow him down. > > “I had to shoot this man,” Thompson can be heard telling a supervisor on video recorded by his dash-mounted camera at the shooting scene in rural Screven County, midway between Savannah and Augusta. “And I’m just scared.” > > But new investigative details obtained by The Associated Press and the never-before-released dashcam video of the August 2020 shooting have raised fresh questions about how the trooper avoided prosecution with nothing more than a signed promise never to work in law enforcement again. Use-of-force experts who reviewed the footage for AP said the shooting appeared to be unjustified.
- Four officers in now-disbanded police unit charged in cover-up of 2020 beatingabcnews.go.com Four officers in now-disbanded police unit charged in cover-up of 2020 beating
Four Baton Rouge police officers have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on charges alleging that they covered up the beating of a suspect in custody in 2020
- Target 7: Former Alleghany County sheriff’s deputy sued for $5 million over ‘excessive and brutal use of force’www.wdbj7.com Target 7: Former Alleghany County sheriff’s deputy sued for $5 million over ‘excessive and brutal use of force’
James Wright is currently employed as a Virginia State Police trooper.
Video of his arrest obtained by our Target 7 team shows the officer repeatedly punching the man until he’s covered in blood.
It happened March 30, 2022, when former deputy James Wright arrested Joshua Barricks for skateboarding on a highway and public intoxication.
Barricks’ attorney explained the alleged crimes don’t fit the beating that followed.
- Drake Dillon (27), Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation Man, Shot and Killed by Saskatoon Police (June 20, 2024)killercopscanada.wordpress.com Drake Dillon (27), Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation Man, Shot and Killed by Saskatoon Police (June 20, 2024)
Family members have identified Drake Dillon (27) from the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation as the man fatally shot by Saskatoon police on June 20, 2024. Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation is about 565 ki…
- San Diego officer resigns after locking himself in patrol car with woman he arrestedwww.sandiegouniontribune.com San Diego officer resigns after locking himself in patrol car with woman he arrested
SAN DIEGO — It was just after 1:30 a.m. when former San Diego police Officer Anthony Hair told a dispatcher he’d arrived at Las Colinas Detention Facility in Santee to drop of…
> The investigators also asked Hair for permission to check his uniforms for semen. > > “I don’t know my rights. Do I have to?” the former officer asked. “I don’t think I want to do that.”
I plead the right to no blacklight searches!
- Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Torontobreachmedia.ca Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto
A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement
"The arrest, she was informed, was for a peaceful sit-in she had attended at the Toronto office of Awz Ventures three months earlier, in January.
Suzanne is not the protester’s real name, and The Breach has agreed to keep her anonymous for fear of professional retribution.
Awz, an investment fund led by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is behind a facial recognition tech being used by the Israeli military to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza."...
- Staines: Police driver who rammed cow removed from dutywww.bbc.com Staines: Police driver who rammed cow removed from duty
A farmer whose runaway cow was rammed by police says the footage of the incident is a sorry sight.
- Appeals court rules a Miami-Dade police officer can be sued over shooting a dog - CBS Miamiwww.cbsnews.com Appeals court rules a Miami-Dade police officer can be sued over shooting a dog
It's the first time it has issued such a decision
And the appeal.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/23-10425/23-10425-2024-06-05.html
Sylvan Plowright filed a lawsuit against Miami-Dade County, its police chief, and two of its police officers after one of the officers, Sergio Cordova, fatally shot Plowright’s dog, Niles, during an investigation. The district court dismissed Plowright’s complaint, concluding that Cordova was entitled to qualified immunity because he did not violate any clearly established right when he shot Niles.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit disagreed with the lower court's decision. The court held that the use of deadly force against a domestic animal constitutes a seizure of its owner’s property subject to the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement. The court found that under the facts alleged in the complaint, no reasonable officer in Cordova’s position could have believed that Niles posed an imminent danger, and therefore, his decision to shoot Niles falls short of that requirement. The court reversed the dismissal of Plowright’s § 1983 claim against Cordova and remanded for further proceedings. The court also reversed the dismissal of Plowright’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress against Cordova. However, the court affirmed the dismissal of Plowright’s intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress claim against a second officer, as well as his claims against the county and its police chief.
- Linda Tirado is a journalist shot in the eye by police in 2020, now dying from related brain damage. She and her family need support.
https://lindatirado.substack.com/p/story-thirty-nine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Tirado
https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/05/26/minneapolis-settles-lawsuit-with-linda-tirado-journalist-blinded-in-one-eye-during-may-2020-unrest/
- Sixth Circuit Tells Ohio AG To Stop Blocking Ballot Initiative Calling For End Of Qualified Immunitywww.techdirt.com Sixth Circuit Tells Ohio AG To Stop Blocking Ballot Initiative Calling For End Of Qualified Immunity
Plenty of people don’t care for all the forms of immunity the government has granted itself. And they don’t care for qualified immunity, which is a thing the Supreme Court cooked up on …
> "Pursuant to Ohio law, Plaintiffs drafted their amendment and summary, collected their one thousand qualified supporting signatures, and filed it with the Ohio Attorney General, David Yost. On at least six occasions, Yost declined to certify Plaintiffs’ summary."
> Tellingly, the AG’s office invoked sovereign immunity as another option to escape this lawsuit and the proposed injunction. Sovereign immunity is one of several immunities the ballot measure hopes to eradicate. If the AG detected any irony when raising this immunity, it certainly didn’t stop him from invoking it.
- Ohio Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Strangerwww.404media.co Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger
In a rare instance of too much transparency, an Ohio police department released the precise movements of a particular vehicle in response to a public records request, showing just how invasive license plate reading technology can be.
In a rare instance of too much transparency, an Ohio police department released the precise movements of a particular vehicle in response to a public records request.
- Man Reportedly in Crisis Killed by Minneapolis Policeunicornriot.ninja Man Reportedly in Crisis Killed by Minneapolis Police - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis Police killed a man who they say was "acting irrationally" and not obeying direct orders to drop a weapon he was holding.
- ‘The most powerful scream’: Woman dies after being hit by HCPD truck on the beachwww.wmbfnews.com ‘The most powerful scream’: Woman dies after being hit by HCPD truck on the beach
There was an incident Thursday afternoon involving a Horry County police beach vehicle and a woman on the beach, according to multiple witnesses.
- Video of NYPD Cannabis Raid without a warrant
Seven uniformed law enforcement officers, most of them in NYPD gear, cursing, jumping over the store counter and charging at a shopkeeper after he asked them for a court order.
“Asking for a court order is not an obstruction of justice,” Zissou said, adding that the shopkeeper was asserting his constitutional rights. “This is restarting the war on drugs under the guise of a civil process.”
- Phoenix police have pattern of violating civil rights and using excessive force, Justice Dept. saysapnews.com Phoenix police have pattern of violating civil rights and using excessive force, Justice Dept. says
The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police violate people’s rights, discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people when enforcing the law and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force.
- Four Years After Police Kill Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, Family and Friends Gather to Remember Their Loved Oneunicornriot.ninja Four Years After Police Kill Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, Family and Friends Gather to Remember Their Loved One - UNICORN RIOT
Four years ago Salt Lake City Police shot and killed Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, a 22-year-old man from the city's Rose Park neighborhood.
- Four crooked cops caught unlawfully seizing guns and lying about it now face terminationwww.peoplesfabric.com Four crooked cops caught unlawfully seizing guns and lying about it now face termination — People's Fabric
COPA’s investigation sustained 108 combined allegations against the four officers, citing “substantial and irrefutable” evidence that the officers engaged in or had knowledge of “a pattern of creating false reports to conceal the fact firearms were seized under false pretenses.”
- 2 Seattle police officers under investigation after they were recorded beating a man with batons at a bus stop
In the video, which was posted online and first reported by NBC affiliate KING 5-TV, two officers can be seen hitting a man with their batons last Friday afternoon. In the 40-second clip, one of the officers appears to grab the man’s hair before he uses a knee to pin him down.
- The Deadly, Avoidable Reality of High-Speed Police Chases - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in May 2024mediacoop.ca Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in May 2024
At least seven people were killed in Canadian police actions in May 2024. This brings the total number of people killed in police actions to at least 38 so far this year. These deaths include people who were directly killed by police, as in police shootings, or died during police deployments, police...
- Florida sheriff’s office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at homewww.fox13news.com Florida sheriff’s office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home
A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16060577
> A Floridasheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground. > > Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment. > > Body camera video shows that when the deputy arrived outside Fortson’s door, he stood silently for 20 seconds outside and listened, but no voices inside were heard on his body camera.
- John Mark Dougan, former marine and police officer, now living in Russia to evade criminal charges
> Dougan, a former Marine and police officer, fled his home in Florida in 2016 to evade criminal charges related to a massive doxxing campaign he was accused of launching against public officials and was given asylum by the Russian government. Most recently, Dougan has posed as a journalist in Ukraine’s Donbas region, testifying at Russian public hearings and making frequent appearances on Russian state TV.
- Cop resigns after being found locked in back seat of squad car with female suspectwww.independent.co.uk Cop resigns after being found locked in back seat of squad car with female suspect
Investigators said the officer failed to follow procedure and falsified a report in the wake of the embarassing incident
- Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confessionwww.sbsun.com Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.
> According to court records, detectives told Perez that his father was dead, that they had recovered his body and it now “wore a toe tag at the morgue.” They said they had evidence that Perez killed his father and that he should just admit it, records show.
> Perez insisted he didn’t remember killing anyone, but detectives allegedly told him that the human mind often tries to suppress troubling memories.
> At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.
Court Decision (PDF)
- Philadelphia police officers have fatally shot 5 dogs since the start of 2024, just as many as they did all last yearwww.inquirer.com Philadelphia police officers have fatally shot 5 dogs since the start of 2024, just as many as they did all last year
In two recent shootings, humans were also wounded, including a dog owner struck by a bullet fragment, and a police sergeant bitten by a pit bull that had killed a smaller dog.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15891231
- The Uvalde Police Department stands with you, ready to offer support and assistance on this solemn day.
Direct link https://m.facebook.com/uvaldepd
- Residents file complaint that Lafayette Police wrongfully arrest two men without warrantwww.wlfi.com Residents file complaint that Lafayette Police wrongfully arrest two men without warrant
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Residents are filing a complaint against the Lafayette Police Department after a wellness check gone wrong. WLFI has obtained video showing multiple Lafayette Police Officers entering
More clear version of the unlawful entry by Lafayette police Via Instagram