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https://bsky.app/profile/nappydolemite.bsky.social/post/3koucecwxfh2w

My first title worked flawlessly in my head but not at all when I wrote it out...

AQAB? All Questioners Are Bastards?

Nitter

https://twitter.com/MiamiBeachPD/status/1770444266394792295

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2098355

Note from me: just doing my duty

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1769937057718145225

Chopper in federal government’s border security mission went down near Rio Grande City, leaving two national guard soldiers and a border patrol agent dead

Excerpt:

But he and a sergeant who shot at unarmed suspect Marquis Jackson were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, according to Sheriff Eric Aden.

Jackson, who sat handcuffed in the back of the patrol car as deputies opened fire, was not injured. Hernandez resigned while being investigated.

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dystopian shit, that somehow is not even the worst thing on here

https://truthout.org/articles/teen-charged-with-murder-after-officer-had-heart-attack-while-assaulting-him/

On May 19, 2023, Virgilio Aguilar Méndez, an 18-year-old Indigenous-Maya farmworker, was eating and talking to his mother on the phone outside of his Super 8 motel room in St. Augustine, Florida, where he was staying with three other farmworkers. He was working to send money to his family in Guatemala. St. Johns County police Sergeant Michael Kunovich approached Aguilar Méndez and described him to the dispatcher as a “suspicious Hispanic male” according to an ABC News reporter who reviewed the body camera and audio of the incident.

Suspiciously Hispanic.

As Kunovich began to question Aguilar Méndez, who speaks the Mayan language Mam, the young man couldn’t understand the questions and started apologizing. He expressed multiple times that he did not speak English and that he was residing in the motel.

Kunovich started searching the teenager for weapons, according to the Florida Times-Union. Startled, the confused 5-foot-4, 115-pound teen resisted.

When cops become startled and confused they're legally allowed to execute you.

During the eight minute struggle, Kunovich called two other deputies to assist him. They pushed and pinned Aguilar Méndez to the ground, held him in a chokehold, and stunned him with his taser six times in two minutes.

Five minutes after they handcuffed the teenager and put him in a patrol car, Kunovich collapsed and was transported to a hospital where he died. Medical examiners found this to be cardiac arrest and ruled Kunovich’s death to be by natural causes. The ABC reporter, who obtained a copy of Kunovich’s autopsy report, wrote that it said, “These cardiac changes, while recent, predate the struggle with the subject. The circumstances do not fully meet the criteria for a homicide manner of death.”

Still, the St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the State Attorney for the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida charged Aguilar Méndez with aggravated murder, which is punishable by life in prison.

In the time after Kunovich’s death, St. John County Sheriff Robert Hardwick held a press conference in which he said that Aguilar Méndez was stopped because he was trespassing and that he had pulled a knife on Kunovich. After the press conference, body camera footage was released showing that a small pocket knife was found in his pants pocket after he was handcuffed was never pulled on Kunovich. Aguilar Méndez said the knife was “para sandía,” or “for watermelon,” alluding to his job.

The cops lied about the knife?

The teen has been held without bail for eight months, even after circuit judge R. Lee Smith in December found him incompetent to stand trial because he does not understand English or Spanish and is unable to understand the criminal justice system, the Times-Union reported. The prosecution disagreed and the judge said he needed “more time to mull the complicated issues.” Since then, the public defender’s office filed an amended motion to set bond, which would ask for him to be released, and is expected to file a motion to dismiss the charges soon, said Phillip Arroyo, Aguilar Méndez’s lawyer.

“This is a great injustice. It is a violation of his constitutional and civil rights, which, contrary to popular belief, also protect undocumented immigrants,” Arroyo told ScheerPost. “Although this case has nothing to do with immigration, our client’s right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure was violated that day, in addition to being a victim of excessive force.”

Arroyo also has stated to the ABC reporter that the state would have to prove that Aguilar Méndez knew the officer had a heart condition and did something negligent that caused his death.

According to a report from the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance, “Immigrants, particularly undocumented immigrants, are likely to be victimized far more often than native-born U.S. citizens,” even though they are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born citizens.

In addition, the U.S. has a diverse population in which more than 67 million people, or one in five, speak a language other than English. An estimated 25 million people in the United States have limited English proficiency. Scholars and advocates of criminal justice reform have questioned if law enforcement is doing enough to provide proper resources to ensure language services for those who need it.

Arroyo urges people to sign the Change.org petition to free Aguilar Méndez, created on Jan. 3 by Mariana Blanco of the nonprofit The Guatemalan-Maya Center. The petition calls for Aguilar Méndez’s immediate release and charges to be dropped, and is to Governor Ron DeSantis and 7th circuit state attorney, RJ Larizza. It has generated over 549,000 signatures since it was started.

“If Virgilio is convicted and sentenced to prison for this incident, it will create an extremely dangerous precedent in this country; because if a police officer dies from a heart attack during a police-citizen encounter, anyone in this country can be charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for that officer’s death,” reads the petition.

Thursday, January 18, 2024, marks one year since Manuel “Tortuguita” Esteban Paez Terán was killed by police in the South River Forest outside Atlanta. A 26-year-old queer anarchist, Tortuguita had been an active participant in the movement against “Cop City” for months before Georgia State Patrol took their life during an early morning raid to clear protesters from the woods.

Chris Avell, pastor of Dad's Place in Bryan, Ohio, was arraigned in court last Thursday because he kept his church open 24/7 to provide warmth to the unhoused.

Ohio law prohibits residential use in first-floor buildings in a business district. Since the church is zoned as a Central Business, the building is restricted from allowing people to eat or sleep on the property.

According to the city, Avell was sent a letter on Nov. 3 informing him the homeless were prohibited from sleeping at the church overnight. Avell ignored the letter, and during a New Year’s Eve service, police arrived and issued violations.

“Many of these people have been rejected by their families and cast aside by their communities. So, if the church isn’t willing to lay down its life for them, then who will? This is what we’re called to do,” Avell said in a Fox News interview.

linky

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1476769

If you're an abolitionist, it's a good article to read.

We have to have a peace movement again, I feel.

https://nitter.net/ChrisA3030911/status/1735629245697626490

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/18fdsly/toronto_police_surround_and_knee_a_protestors/

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/protester-at-pro-palestine-rally-in-toronto-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-police-officer/article_1cf578be-9798-11ee-ab4f-678894a9968f.html

altercation broke out between a protester and police at a pro-Palestinian rally Sunday afternoon outside the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, leading to an arrest. Afterwards, thousands of protesters from two separate rallies converged on 52 Division at University Ave. and Dundas St. to demand his immediate release.

The Star observed a police officer on foot appearing to use his bicycle to ram the bicycle of a woman standing in front of him. It was not clear what instigated the action. The woman, who was holding her bicycle, fell over as the bike toppled.

A man ran up after and shoved an officer to the ground in retaliation. Police then tackled, beat and arrested him

Archive

Sending death squad trigger happy nutjobs to a mental health call.

The autopsy report shows Lyon was shot 21 times, including 17 shots to the back and one to the back of the neck. Sixteen of the shots to the back were within a 12-by-6-inch space on the upper left side, hitting major organs, including his heart and lungs. The other shots hit him in the chest, face and an arm.

Good news, everyone.

Guess opinions are changing, at the very least, and it's affecting the institutions internally, I think.

Yay!

Initiate the crab dance, everyone!

INDIANAPOLIS—The families and friends of Gary Harrell and Frederick Davis, along with community members, labor, and clergy gathered outside an Eastside Burger King on Saturday, Nov. 11 to demand Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears hold the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) accountable for the shooting of 15 Black men so far this year, with the most recent occurring a day before the rally.

The Burger King at the intersection of East 21st Street and North Shadeland Avenue was the location where Frederick Davis, 37, was shot and killed by police responding to a trespassing call at a nearby hotel on Oct. 26. Davis was homeless and reportedly suffering from mental illness. Despite Burger King employees calling to get Davis help, the police showed up. The situation escalated from there, eventually resulting in IMPD officer Nicholas Deem shooting and killing Davis. The police department claims Davis grabbed an officer’s gun during a struggle.

Davis’ aunt, Sharon Cannon, echoed the family’s and community’s demand that IMPD release the unedited, full body cam footage of the encounter. “Justice looks like us seeing the body cam!” Cannon told the crowd. Police narratives are often carefully curated by investigators with input from the Fraternal Order of Police and reinforced by a structurally racist code of silence that permeates law enforcement agencies.

As weeks have gone by, no one has been given access to the video footage captured by Burger King’s security cameras or police body cameras. The prosecutor’s office has also repeatedly refused to meet with community members and families of the deceased.

“My nephew, to me, was murdered unjustly, and I’m not going away,” Cannon told the crowd and press. “I’ll be at every rally. Wherever I can be at, I’m going to be there because I’m his voice.”

This is the funniest one of these I've ever seen. The dollar amount. The selection of items. Just posting this image with no caption or context and immediately limiting replies. Thank you for emptying out the glove compartment of a 17 year-old's 2006 Ford Fiesta.

Nitter

The original tweet is by the Barrie Police of Barrie, Ontario.

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In the original photo it turns out the numbers on the credit card are visible. So I blacked out the numbers and I reuploaded the photo. Fucking cops, man.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dexter-wade-buried-mississippi-id-home-address-lawyer-says-rcna125511

I think you are hurting some feelings

San Francisco Police Department officials struggled to answer questions from the city’s Police Commission at a Wednesday meeting when asked to explain how, in a city where Black people make up only 5% of the population, they somehow made up 44% of police use-of-force incidents during the first half of the year, far more than any other race or ethnicity.

From January through June of this year, the San Francisco Police Department reported using force against Black people 502 times, compared with 311 times against Hispanic people, 223 against white people and 80 times against Asian people. SFPD categorized 35 incidents as against other racial groups.

According to the Police Department’s report, which cites 2021 population totals by race, officers were 17 times as likely to use force on a Black person in the city as they were to use force against a white person.

The department also reported using force against people experiencing homelessness 144 times and against juveniles 47 times through the first half of 2023.

. . .

The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association is skeptical of the report’s reliability because it compares uses of force to the city’s residential population instead of to criminal suspects, union president Tracy McCray said in a statement. “The report relies solely on the residential population of the various racial categories instead of looking at who the SFPD comes into contact with,” McCray said. If the commission looked at the racial makeup of crime suspects and arrested individuals, the uses of force against Black people would not seem so disproportionate, she said.

A $43 million police headquarters for a small city that took in $50 million in revenue last year.

San Pablo is a city with a significant foreign-born population, where incomes and homeownership rates lag far behind the statewide average. Almost 80% of residents are people of color and most residents are renters.

Last month, dozens of people gathered outside the square, stucco building that houses City Hall to advocate for better tenant protections. Efforts to do so have so far been unsuccessful, said Anya Svanoe, communications director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which organized the Sept. 30 rally.

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Spending on a police headquarters isn’t in violation of the intentionally broad act, Auxier said, though it might not be the expected use of COVID relief funds. Alabama used almost 20% of its COVID aid to build prisons.

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City officials have pointed to a July 2021 survey to contend there is broad public support for the project. The city-conducted survey found almost four in five residents in favor of it. The city received 302 responses to that survey, less than 1% of the population, which leading public opinion pollsters don’t consider representative.

“They don’t want us to do any type of defunding programs that’s been done in surrounding cities like Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland,” said Rodriguez, the city manager.

Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland have all increased police spending in recent years.

. . .

“[Opposition] is from outside extremist groups from Oakland and Berkeley,” Rodriguez said without offering evidence. “Unfortunately, they’re coming to San Pablo to discredit our project and spread some misinformation.”

Those damn outside agitators, always interfering with civil rights violations . . .