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I would hope a very large lawsuit is in the process of being drawn up.

What? No argument about how she was a thug resisting arrest? The cop tried to arrest her and she didn't submit to him so he beat the witch like the thug that she is. I guess she's not black enough for you to take the cop's side. :rolleyes:

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What? No argument about how she was a thug resisting arrest? The cop tried to arrest her and she didn't submit to him so he beat the witch like the thug that she is. I guess she's not black enough for you to take the cop's side. :rolleyes:

Are you seriously unable to disconnect the details of the case from the race of the individuals involved?

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I would hope a very large lawsuit is in the process of being drawn up.

As much as I hope she does sue and take him to the cleaners, that probably won't get the cop off the job, which is a far more pressing thing in terms of public safety.

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Are you seriously unable to disconnect the details of the case from the race of the individuals involved?

Yes. To him EVERYTHING is about race, all the time.

"A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley

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What? No argument about how she was a thug resisting arrest? The cop tried to arrest her and she didn't submit to him so he beat the witch like the thug that she is. I guess she's not black enough for you to take the cop's side. :rolleyes:

Yeah like her being a grandmother using a walker has nothing to do with it. I mean, the two cases which have you so addled both feature big, 300 pound male criminals. You don't think maybe that has something to do with my view of things? I've posted lots of condemnation of police abuse in this thread and on threads on the G20 and other events. The difference is I don't pause to consider the races involved before I take sides

"A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley

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As much as I hope she does sue and take him to the cleaners, that probably won't get the cop off the job, which is a far more pressing thing in terms of public safety.

Sadly this is true.

What would be nice is the penalty should there be one (via lawsuit) is that the funds come out of his pocket and his retirement fund.

Now THAT would get these idiots attention.

Blatant and wilful misconduct should preclude the muni from paying the awards.

As we can see from the G20 debacle going on right now, it is readily apparent that the Cops are , as a force, complete morons and happy to swing the baton at the innocent.

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And he's still on the job?!

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Are you kidding? He's probably being promoted to head up a police training academy.

A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30783324

GOOD

Two police officers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will face charges for killing a homeless camper, their lawyers say.

Former detective Keith Sandy and officer Dominique Perez will face a murder charge in the death of James Boyd, 38.

Their lawyers argued the two will be cleared of wrongdoing.

The fatal shooting in March last year sparked city protests, some violent, and came amid a federal investigation into the police department's practices.

A year-long US investigation found Albuquerque police had inappropriately killed suspects and used more force on those with mental illnesses.

Protests against the city's police department happened before nationwide protests over the shooting deaths of unarmed black men and women by police in various US cities.

The Albuquerque police department has had more than three dozen police shootings since 2010.

The justice department ordered the city to reduce the use of deadly force in April, but another woman suspected of stealing a lorry was shot and killed weeks later.

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Did you forget the /sarcasm tag?

He's far too bitter to be any good at it.

"A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/31/detroit-aiyana-stanley-jones-police-officer-cleared

Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized –police force.

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On 16 May 2010, Aiyana was shot dead by Weekley in the middle of the night, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by.

The home was the target of a midnight Swat-style operation designed to arrest her uncle – who was living in the apartment upstairs and was the main suspect in the murder of a teenager a couple of days before. Weekley was the first officer to enter the home, seconds after a flashbang grenade – a war device created by the British SAS in the 1960s to disorient with a blinding flash and a temporarily deafening noise – was lobbed into it.

Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E.

Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyana’s blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. It went straight through the child’s head. Weekley said it was an accident and accused Jones of wrestling with his gun immediately as he entered the abode, causing the fatal shot.

Justice has been served.

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Officer Weekley feels really badly about it, though. I think he's paid his due.

Another case where police decide to stage a SWAT-style raid on a house in a situation that could have been easily resolved by other means. The suspect who police wanted to apprehend was known to be coming and going from the residence regularly. They could have taken him when he left the house rather than storming a house where a family with a child lived.

This is a recurring theme. There's no end of examples of similar cases, where people end up maimed or killed in police commando raids in situations where there was absolutely no need for a such a raid in the first place. Dumb-ass cops storm in, wreck property, shoot pets, kick the crap out of people, hold them at gunpoint for hours, and belatedly discover: "oops, wrong house. sorry, lol!"

A journalist named Radley Balko has researched this extensively. It's becoming a serious and widespread issue.

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It's happening in the streets.

Gotta love those rib shots from the undercover cop when he comes to 'assist'.

More cops come to 'assist'.

I am sure the camera does not tells us all we need to know right?

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There are plently of examples of this.

Well he had his shirt untucked! If you don't want to get beat up by the cops, you shouldn't be walking around school with your shirt untucked. It's just obvious.

Gotta love those rib shots from the undercover cop when he comes to 'assist'.

More cops come to 'assist'.

I am sure the camera does not tells us all we need to know right?

How dare di Blasio not stand behind the Heroes In Blue!

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In regard to these videos, I don't think anything beyond a shallow, knee-jerk reaction is warranted. You want me to delve into it to try to find some sort of excuse to rationalize indefensible behavior by law enforcement officers? What excuse could there be?

It's not like these incidents are exactly rare. We could post links from sun-up to sun-down and never run out of examples of police going way overboard in their use of force. It's not a question of "a few bad apples" at this point.

What we need is an acknowledgement by the cops and their apologists that this kind of behavior by law enforcement officers is doing immense harm to the relationship between the police and public.

Instead, they remain focused on finding ways to avoid accountability, whether it be searching for legal justifications for preventing videotape of their misadventures, or finding ways of expanding their powers so that they can get away with more stuff, to fighting protracted court battles to protect their members from punishment for wrongdoing, to filing bogus charges against people who are suing for harm, to in the case of the NYPD using political muscle against a reform-minded mayor.

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Shallow? That's hilarious. Can you provide some depth to the discussion by elaborating on what you mean by that?

Didn't think so. :lol:

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No I didn't see that. The continuous knee jerk reactions of your conspiracy theory alarm cries kind of distracted me on this one. I guess that's my fault, but could you at least take off the tinfoil hat, the glare is enough to give one a headache.

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