Posts tagged: police brutality
like… why the fuck won’t the normal “policy brutality” work?
ows isn’t special. it’s a protest with citizens getting beat up by local cops. happens all the damn time, but this time people are live tweeting it and throwing around geneva goddamn conventions like anyone in the US government gives a shit about those anyway.
Honey, it’s a war crime because it’s white folks who are suffering the brunt of it all. When it was mostly PoC who were getting beat? They were all “oh, well, teh police are just doing their jobs! Stop blaming them for your crime doings!!!” Now that they are getting a taste of what we have to deal with? They call it a crime against nature.
War crime…right that’s it. I’m going back to bed until these people get a clue or I stop wanting to teach them what words mean. Some cases I should not catch.
I didn’t want to say it but yeah pretty much.
I will now wait patiently for someone to point out a PoC who was hurt last night, as if that will disprove the point.
The fact that people don’t understand what the words war crime mean is just another tally mark in the list of reasons why Occupy will fail. There is no grasp of history or facts or context in this argument. There is no war happening here (not even a civil one!), they are not enemy combatants, & the police are not soldiers representing the federal government. That’s before we get into the fact that actual war crimes include things like rape & torture, not getting roughed up by the cops while you’re refusing to obey them. Should be police brutality be covered? Maybe. But it isn’t & co-opting the pain & suffering felt by people who have experienced actual wars & war crimes is not going to accomplish a damned thing. Go to an actual war zone with your bruises & dented cameras that cost more than many people make in a year outside the US. Look around. See what war is, what it smells like, what it feels like not to know if you’ll live through the next 3 seconds, and then kindly sit your ass down somewhere & shut the entire fuck up.
wait. y’all. folks are calling this a war crime!!?? ha ha ha…oh god, that is fucking rich. i just cannot with folks. war crime?
let me guess using the hyperbolic term, war crime, is supposed to make the victims seem more sympathetic to the general us american audience? its all part of their nonviolent strategy of convincing that audience to give a damn…?
no matter how inaccurate the term is?
how the fuck do the geneva conventions even apply to this situation? i mean the only part of the conventions that i can imagine with a huge narcissistic stretch be applied to this situation is protocol 2, (and hi! the us didnt even sign onto protocol 2. oops!) but by some of the ows-ers logic, that makes the police a military force, and most of their actions, warfare. and if that were so, then why wasnt that reflected in the analysis coming out of ows from the very beginning? if they saw themselves as being in a warzone called the usa.
it is just a shame. there is something deeply deeply wrong with the us american left’s analysis, strategy, and identifications.
Remember when I said I canNOT get down with this narcissistic, white supremacist interest-serving, PoC-erasing, misogynistic, self-righteous movement?
Remember when I said they should stop acting like police brutality is new because PoC have been dealing with it since kingdom come?
Remember when people only started caring about this when the people being victimized were white?
This is the height of arrogance, narcissism, self-importance, self-righteousness, and hyperbole. The thought of these idiots actually having the gall to suggest that a couple beatings (not that I’m condoning police brutality, obviously) are on par with things as monumentally scarring as fucking GENOCIDE makes me physically ill.
“I don’t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police,” Bill O’Reilly said tonight, discussing the appalling use of pepper spray by UC Davis police on Friday. No, God forbid we Monday-morning quarterback the police, especially, as O’Reilly continued, “at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus.”
Indeed: what right do we have to think that Lt. John Pike should probably not have indifferently dusted peacefully sitting protesters with pepper spray from only a few feet away? And, gosh, even if we were going to Monday-morning quarterback the police, shouldn’t we remember, as Megyn Kelly tells O’Reilly, that pepper spray is “a food product, essentially”? I mean, Kelly and O’Reilly aren’t saying the cops did the right thing! God, no! They’re just saying, hey, what right do we have to judge a cop for spraying a simple food product on a bunch of liberal college kids’ faces?
A food product.
Okay, it may have been unpleasant when sriracha splashed into my eyes the other day, but I will never put pepper spray on my pizza. Doesn’t go both ways there.
This makes me sick. These are the people tasked with keeping us safe, and they’re taking pleasure in seeing people like us brutalized. Some are even calling for more.
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Meet NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, former Commanding Officer of the First Precinct and a leader of the violent brute squad who maced a group of unarmed, nonviolent women during the Wall Street protest.
I love that this pig’s name is Tony Baloney. How perfect is that?
According to this little puff piece, Tony Baloney is a typical douchebag from Staten Island who couldn’t hack it running a deli, wasn’t smart enough to become a teacher, and so instead became a piece of shit cop where he rose through the ranks as a narc, a rat, and an all around asshole.
Of course, no one should be the least bit surprised that Tony Baloney is the kind of thick skulled dickbag that the NYPD promotes to a command position, nor should anyone be surprised when the NYPD does absolutely nothing to discipline him for his brutality.
I guess we’ll all just have to settle for making Tony Baloney the poster boy for the American police state. He really is a perfect fit, isn’t he?
If you’d like to contact him, here is his personal information, including a land line phone number and home address.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Police brutality: Sinking your stomach and filling you with rage since the dawn of the police force.
Tony Bologna
…..he looks like the old woman from snow white…..
HIS NAME IS SERIOUSLY TONY BOLOGNA?
My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.
The whole account is a must read but this paragraph, in particular, haunted me:
They drove us to the station, precinct 1. We were forced to wait outside the station, in the vehicles, for almost 2 hours. The police were walking around outside, waiting, talking to each other. About 15-20 minutes in, one officer assured us that we would be moved in a few minutes and we would be processed and out in an hour or two. No one knew what was going on. It was during this time that I severely needed to use the bathroom. For an hour and a half, I asked over and over if I could get an escort to go. It got to the point where I was in so much physical pain that I was crying. I pleaded the cops over and over. Everyone else in the car tried to get their attention. They ignored us. They turned the music up. They told me to wait. It wasn’t until I cried so much that they were forced to face me, that somebody finally found me an escort. They didn’t remove my cuffs. She pulled my pants down for me and watched me. When we were exiting, she said that she didn’t like doing this, she had four kids and she didn’t think this was right. She agreed with our sentiment, but she didn’t understand why we had to be violent. I told her we were peaceful, and that I had been maced and arrested while walking on the sidewalk. She was silent. I looked at every officer who had let me through to use the bathroom and said thank you. They were silent.
fuck the system, wall street
Did he really fondle her breast? Please tell me he did NOT fondle her breast! WHAT THE HOLY FUCK????
How insulated must a person feel from the consequences of their actions if they are willing to sexually assault a person surrounded by, like, a million cameras?
GodDAMN, fuck the pigs.
Uh are you kidding me? This is the dumbest, most misleading example of sexual assault. She is obviously causing a scene and these officers are trying their best to subdue her. There are many (too many in my opinion) cases of unreported sexual assault and calling this assault is insulting to actual victims
Are you fucking kidding me? Do they have to be groping her fucking tits to subdue her? Get real, nigga.
Police pen up and mace female “Occupy Wall Street” protesters
In a disturbing scene from today’s “Occupy Wall Street” protests, a group of peaceful female protesters were rounded up in an orange-colored mesh pen by police and subsequently sprayed with mace without any provocation.
In spite of multiple reported incidents of possible police violence, major media outlets seem to be content to let the protests go by completely unreported, following the same “who-cares” attitude they have taken toward recent revelations that the NYPD has violated the Constitutional rights of American citizens by spying on them as possible terrorists and enemies of the state despite a complete absence of evidence of any crimes.
This is absolutely disturbing. Penning people up to mace them is police brutality. Period. What will it take to get the mainstream media to pay attention? If you follow the #OccupyWallStreet, you’ll find out that at least 80 were arrested today. AP and Wall Street Journal mentioned the arrests briefly today.
wowwww
what the fuck.
fuck the system, wall street
Did he really fondle her breast? Please tell me he did NOT fondle her breast! WHAT THE HOLY FUCK????
How insulated must a person feel from the consequences of their actions if they are willing to sexually assault a person surrounded by, like, a million cameras?
GodDAMN, fuck the pigs.
Recently, New Yorkers witnessed New York Police Department officers tearing down one of several billboard posters legally mounted by Peoples’ Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability (Peoples’ Justice or PJ). Peoples’ Justice is a city-wide coalition of grassroots organizations working to end police violence in New York City.
There are currently Peoples’ Justice billboard posters in Hunts Point, Fordham, Pelham, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, and West Queens. These neighborhoods are continuously subjected to over-policing and violent policing practices, which disproportionately impact people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people, low-income and poor people, youth and the homeless. Community members are harassed, beaten, and illegally stopped, questioned, frisked, searched and arrested — usually with little or knowledge of their legal rights when interacting with police officers. PJ billboard posters serve to educate and empower resident of these communities. For more information about neighborhoods targeted by the Stop, Question, Frisk policing, visit the New York Times interactive map.
People’s Justice is a city-wide grassroots coalition organizing against police violence. We offer know your rights trainings, and train and resource neighborhood-based Cop Watch teams, which document police activity to prevent abuse. Email us at info@peoplesjustice.org if you would like to schedule a training or learn more about our work.
We will not be silenced! We hope you will contact us and join the struggle to end police harassment and brutality.
I work with this group and they do good work. NYPD doing what they do best, looking out for their own image at the expense of people’s well-being.
A Prince George Mountie who tasered an 11-year-old first nations boy should not face criminal charges for his conduct, says an external review by West Vancouver Police Department that left a native organization “dumbfounded” for its brevity.
Chief Constable Peter Lepine of the West Vancouver police announced the finding in a short open letter, concluding after a six-month investigation that there was no violation of the Criminal Code.
“We are not recommending charges,” he wrote of the April incident in which RCMP responding to the stabbing of a 37-year-old man in a group home pursued and tasered an 11-year-old suspect who had barricaded himself in a neighbouring property.
He said his team spent much of the spring and summer interviewing witnesses, collecting and analyzing evidence and consulting legal and use-of-force experts as part of a “thorough, fair and transparent” investigation into the matter, which he acknowledged roused concern in Prince George and across Canada.
The child was taken into custody and the victim of the assault survived. The Mountie who deployed the taser, who had 18 months experience, was placed on administrative leave.
West Vancouver police said Chief Constable Lepine would not be available for comment on Thursday.
The finding outraged the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association.
“I am absolutely dumbfounded by the shortness, brevity and sheer gall of the West Vancouver police’s so-called report. It does nothing to give the people of B.C. confidence when police investigate themselves,” said Hugh Braker, the organization’s president.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said he could not imagine any defence for not proposing criminal charges.
“I don’t think there’s anything that will convince me it was necessary to taser an 11-year-old child,” he said.
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