Tag Archives: Police Brutality / Abuse

Caught On Tape: Cops Talk About Stealing Man’S Property Over Bag Of Weed.

open quotePolice ended up leaving Simpson’s home that day in 2008 with “a 52” flat screen TV, a DVD player, two computers, a camera and a bunch of DVDs,” reporter Scott Lewis wrote.

Now, two of the officers involved — Lt. Luke Davis and Lt. Emmanuel Riopelle — are facing “dozens” of charges. Both have been accused in a long-running scheme [2] to steal from drug suspects and profit from sales of their property.

In spite of the incident, drug task forces across the nation continue to operate with secret budgets [3] and the backing of laws that permit wanton seizure of property if drugs are discovered. close quote (Read more from michiganmedicalmarijuana.org)

Chicago Police: Tape Us, Get Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

open quoteIllinois is one of the states with the toughest laws against audiotaping a conversation between you and another party without their knowledge. The law [text] states that you can face up to 15 years in prison for committing the offense.

Christopher Drew, a 60-year-old artist and teacher living in Chicago, is facing the charge after audio taping a conversation he had with the police. In an interview with The New York Times, he remarks on his potential 15 years of hard prison time, “That’s one step below attempted murder.”

He adds, “Before they arrested me for it. I didn’t even know there was a law about eavesdropping. I wasn’t trying to sue anybody. I just wanted somebody to know what had happened to me.”

He is not alone. Other Chicago residents, including Tiawanda Moore, a 20-year-old former stripper, face similar charges. They all have one thing in common — their charges follow audio taping conversations with police. The law is seldom applied in other situations – in fact, most don’t even know it exists. The law even makes it a lesser offense to tape a civilian once (a Class 4 felony) or twice (a Class 3 felony), versus taping a law enforcement officer (a Class 1 felony).

Ms. Moore’s story is among the most alarming. She is being charged with the Class 1 felony of eavesdropping using a digital device after recording on her Blackberry a conversation she had with two internal affairs officers. The conversation occurred during her attempt to report a separate police officer for sexual harassment. Now she’s set for a February 7 trial in Cook County Criminal Court and may spend more than a decade in prison.

Contrast this state of affairs with the fact that Chicago police officers have one of the most stained reputations for police brutality. According to a 2007 CNN report, 10,000 complaints — many of them involving brutality and assault — were filed between 2002 and 2004. close quote (Read more from www.dailytech.com)

Beware the Government Monopoly on Violence

Mindless NYPD attack on peaceful cyclist.


open quoteIn July, Officer Patrick Pogan, of the New York City Police was convicted of falsifying a criminal complaint against a Critical Mass cyclist, Christopher Long. Pogan claimed in his falsified report that Long knocked him to the pavement. Long would have been convicted but a video surfaced that showed Pogan violently slam into Long, sending him flying into the gutter.close quote (Read more from copblock.org)

G20 Protests in Toronto

@ 1:00 this video suggests that the police car lit on fire at Toronto’s G 20 protests were burned by agents to discredit protesters. It discusses provocateurs at this and other protests.

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@ 3:00 this video discusses police agent provocateurs infiltrating peaceful protests.

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WATCH AT 0:45…..all the plainclothes people running in that pack, and being let behind the line, are cops–including the black-clad ‘anarchist’ !!!! BTW, watch out for the old white-bearded flannel shirt cop and the famous ‘scary lady’ cop:

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Large peaceful protests allegedly ignored by Big Media:

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Woman discusses her detention by police, their threats of rape, strip searches:

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. . . not that I sympathize with the message of most of these protesters.

“the ‘substitution of political for economic power’ now so ofted demanded means necessarily the substitution of power from which there is no escape for a power which is always limited.” ~F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

The Death of Aiyana Jones: ‘Showtime Syndrome’ Claims a Child

Aiyana Jones, the 7-year-old girl shot to death early Sunday (May 17) during a SWAT raid on her Detroit home, was almost certainly a victim of the “COPS Effect.”

Troops from the Detroit Police Department’s Special Reaction Team (“troops” is a more appropriate description than “officers”) seeking a murder suspect executed a no-knock warrant on the home where Aiyana was sleeping on the couch.

Despite warnings from neighbors that there were children present in the home – a fact attested by the toys scattered in the front yard – the SRT paramilitaries chose a Fallujah-style “dynamic entry,” hurling a flash-bang grenade through a closed window and storming through the front door with guns drawn.

The incendiary grenade landed on the couch where Aiyana was sleeping. Her father claims that the child suffered burns as a result. Seconds later, she was dead.

One of the SRT troopers engaged in what was called a “tussle” with Mertilla Jones, Aiyana’s grandmother. In the antiseptic and completely dishonest language favored by the state-aligned media, the officer’s gun “went off.” (Read more from lewrockwell.com)

Here is evidence of our fetish for brute government force

Motorcyclist jailed for 26 hours for videotaping gun-wielding cop

Cop Wielding Gun

After spending 26 hours in the Baltimore County Jail, Anthony Graber still doesn’t understand what he did wrong.

Sure, the 24-year-old man admits to speeding on his motorcycle, but does that merit having a plainclothes cop pull a gun on him?

Does that merit six state troopers raiding his parents’ home and seizing four computers at the crack of dawn?

Does that merit getting charged with a felony and threatened with five years in prison?

Of course it doesn’t.

This is nothing but an obscene case of police intimidation. A Constitutional violation against a man who has served six years in the Air National Guard and who has never been arrested before. (Read more from carlosmiller.com)

Policing in the U.S.S.A.

I have friends who are cops. I don’t hate cops, but I’m wary of the government monopoly on violence. It’s important to remain vigilant for excesses.

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I can imagine some expert saying about this animated gif: “to the untrained eye, this may look like police brutality, but . . .” (Large file may load slowly.)

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Brave NYPD Officer Exposes Corruption – Cops Ordered to Make Arrests to Meet Quota

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Police beat man to death at DUI checkpoint

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Driving 70 in a 65. Woman tased for getting out license too slowly