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    https://www.local10.com/news/politic...cially-biased/

    A civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora Police Department has a pattern of racially biased policing, Colorado's attorney general said Wednesday.

    Attorney General Phil Weiser said the investigation found the department has long had a culture in which officers treat people of color — especially Black people — differently than white people. He said the agency also has a pattern of using unlawful excessive force; frequently escalates encounters with civilians; and fails to properly document police interactions with residents.

    “These actions are unacceptable. They hurt the people that law enforcement is entrusted” to serve, he said.

    Weiser urged the police department to commit to recommended reforms in officer training, its policies on use of force and especially stricter standards for police stops and arrests. If it fails to do so, he said his office will seek a court order compelling the department to do so — but he noted that the department fully cooperated in the investigation.
    Good shit. Well bad that they uncovered pretty extensive bias, but good that it was uncovered and can start to be addressed. These kinds of reviews need to be more common since it's clear that local police departments are unable to police themselves.

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    Another murderous cop walks free.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/mo...ned/index.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Masark View Post
    Not quite. The sentence was dropped from murder to manslaughter, which still carried up to a 10 year sentence. He will serve time, just not for as long as he should.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corvus View Post
    Not quite. The sentence was dropped from murder to manslaughter, which still carried up to a 10 year sentence. He will serve time, just not for as long as he should.
    Less than that. He's looking at 41-57 months.

    Assuming the sentence is right in the middle of that, he'll be out before the end of this year.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ficer-n1279265

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.local10.com/news/politic...cially-biased/



    Good shit. Well bad that they uncovered pretty extensive bias, but good that it was uncovered and can start to be addressed. These kinds of reviews need to be more common since it's clear that local police departments are unable to police themselves.
    I don’t think it’s news that they “discovered bias” it seems like a waste of time to “discover anti black bias” its basically expected. And as far as doing anything… who knows. These reviews have been happening for decades and yet here we still are.

  6. #19006
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...wsuit-1227414/

    A Philadelphia mom whose child was ripped from her car by police amid a Black Lives Matter protest last year has filed suit against the National Fraternal Order of Police for casting her as an “unfit mother” and exploiting her child for Thin Blue Line propaganda.

    The lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone and embedded below, seeks damages for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The case stems from a shocking incident of police violence last October, that itself followed the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr., a young Black man experiencing a mental health crisis whom cops shot after he allegedly lunged at them with a knife. That shooting set off mass protests, as well as incidents of vandalism and looting, late into the night of October 26th.

    After midnight, Rickia Young received a phone call from a teenage family friend in West Philadelphia, whom she refers to as her nephew, asking for a ride out of the unrest in the neighborhood. Young, a home healthcare aid who was 28 at the time, put her young son in the car and soon picked up the teenager without incident. But as she drove her usual route home to North Philadelphia, Young found the street was blocked by police and protesters.

    As Young was attempting to execute a U-turn to avoid the tumult, more than a dozen police officers suddenly swarmed around the vehicle. Without provocation, they began smashing the windows of the SUV with baton blows, before yanking both Young and the teenager from the car. (Watch video of the incident here.) Cops proceeded to beat Young in the street until she was bloody, and then detained her. Police separated Young from her child, who was taken into police custody, for hours. Young was later released without charge — because she had done nothing wrong.

    This week, the city of Philadelphia agreed to pay out a $2 million settlement to Young, compensation for having been, in the remarkable words of Philadelphia Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, “terrorized” by cops who “violated the mission of the Philadelphia Police Department.” The city’s mayor, Jim Kenney, denounced the police violence against Young as “absolutely appalling.” Two officers involved in the incident have reportedly been fired, and many others are facing disciplinary proceedings.

    Now, Young is suing the National Fraternal Order of Police — which bills itself as “the number one voice of America’s law enforcement” — in Philadelphia County Court, for its conduct on social media in the aftermath of that incident.

    The NFOP is not strictly a union, as its 350,000 members includes non-union officers. But it wields clout not unlike the NRA: It lobbies Congress on behalf of cops, and gave Donald Trump its “proud” and “enthusiastic” endorsement in 2020, praising his commitment to “law and order.”

    When Young’s child was photographed in the arms of a female police officer, NFOP attempted to turn the image into a PR win for police. As presented in an exhibit appended to the suit, NFOP posted the image to Facebook with the following caption, the particulars of which are fiction:

    This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness. The only thing this Philadelphia Police Officer cared about in that moment was protecting this child. We are not your enemy. We are the Thin Blue Line. And WE ARE the only thing standing between Order and Anarchy.

    Similar posts were allegedly put out on the NFOP’s Twitter and Instagram.
    Woman assaulted and victimized by Philly PD gets a $2M settlement, which is both not enough and also bullshit because it's getting paid by taxpayers rather than coming out of police pay/retirement (which yes, is also taxpayer dollars, but they've become police dollars and that's where this funding should come from).

    Now she's rightfully suing the National Fraternal Order of Police for lying about the events in question - no a child was not heroically saved by PPD after walking around barefoot during lawless riots, they were taken after police broke into a car and assaulted the mother only to release her without any charges - for straight up lying about the whole situation and impugning her reputation as a mother.

    I hope she fuckin wins, and I hope this cuts deep into the NFOP budgets. Fuck those fascist shitbirds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...wsuit-1227414/



    Woman assaulted and victimized by Philly PD gets a $2M settlement, which is both not enough and also bullshit because it's getting paid by taxpayers rather than coming out of police pay/retirement (which yes, is also taxpayer dollars, but they've become police dollars and that's where this funding should come from).

    Now she's rightfully suing the National Fraternal Order of Police for lying about the events in question - no a child was not heroically saved by PPD after walking around barefoot during lawless riots, they were taken after police broke into a car and assaulted the mother only to release her without any charges - for straight up lying about the whole situation and impugning her reputation as a mother.

    I hope she fuckin wins, and I hope this cuts deep into the NFOP budgets. Fuck those fascist shitbirds.
    Seriously, $2 million in this question is fucking peanuts.

    They attacked her without provocation, for the "crime" of "being black and in the vicinity of a protest".
    They smashed her car up for no reason.
    They arrested her for no reason.
    They kidnapped her child.
    They used her kidnapped child as an advertising tool, both lying about the circumstances egregiously, and without her permission.

    This shouldn't be a seven-figure settlement, it should be eight figures, minimum. It should have resulted in the mass firings of everyone involved, whether the officers who attacked her without cause to anyone involved even tangentially with that horseshit advertising effort. That settlement should have been taken from the pensions of fired officers/staff first, and police budgets second.

    This wasn't just a racist attack, it was slander, it was fraud, it was kidnapping and extortion and a hate crime. This isn't just a few bad cops, this is an organization so corrupt it's acting like an organized crime gang rather than law enforcement.

    I hope her current suit fucking bankrupts the NFOP and causes it to cease to exist as an organization in any respect whatsoever. It's what they fuckin' deserve, for this shit.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    This wasn't just a racist attack, it was slander...
    Again, it's libel if it's in print, not slander.

    But carry on.


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  9. #19009
    Some updates on Rittenhouse
    https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/...verments-case/

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    Assistant District Attorney Thomas C. Binger argued that the defendant is a “teenage vigilante” — and a “violent vigilante” at that. But that was precisely the problem with the state’s evidence, according to Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder.

    The government quickly lost two motions to introduce two pieces of evidence outright. The first piece of evidence showed that Rittenhouse attacked a woman who was involved in an altercation with his sister in June 2020. The second showed that Rittenhouse has various affiliations with the far-right Proud Boys organization.

    In both instances, the judge ruled that the government’s offered evidence would be far more prejudicial than it was worth.

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    Arguably the largest setback for the government came over a request to show jurors a video of Rittenhouse expressing his desire to shoot a Black man who exited a CVS pharmacy because he thought the man was shoplifting. The defense conceded the facts about the video – admitting it was the defendant’s voice on and that he was referring to the same gun he later used to kill two people – but still requested that the evidence be kept far away from jurors in the case.

    “Bro, I wish I had my fucking AR,” Rittenhouse says. “I’d start shooting rounds at them.”

    The defendant, however, did not use a weapon but instead dialed 911 about his concerns as to the man at the pharmacy.

    ...

    The government also lost two motions to compel the defendant to produce the names of donors to two separate foundations set up for Rittenhouse’s legal defense — one of which involved attorney L. Lin Wood. But in each case, the judge said he was open to issuing a direct subpoena.

    Additionally, the government, again audibly shocked and appalled, lost out on a bid to note that Rittenhouse’s gun was purchased using stimulus money because, in the judge’s words, those facts were being used “to denigrate” the admitted shooter over how he spent his money.

    One small ray of light for the government on the motions came when the judge denied a defense request to introduce evidence that one of the men Rittenhouse shot and killed had prior child sex crimes convictions — again noting the prejudicial nature of that evidence.

    But one new piece of evidence discussed at the hearing may prove to be instrumental for the state’s case against the 18-year-old. Near the end of the hearing, amidst a detailed back-and-forth discussion about who began the chase that turned deadly on the night in question, the government revealed they have a video from an “FBI” aircraft that shows Rittenhouse initiating hostilities against Joseph Rosenbaum. The defense said they hadn’t seen that evidence before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shalcker View Post
    To cut the long story short, politically motivated case is falling apart to no one's surprise

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yadryonych View Post
    To cut the long story short, politically motivated case is falling apart to no one's surprise
    Only if you ignore the government potentially having evidence of Rittenhouse initiating hostilities, kind of ruining his whole "self defence"-defence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yadryonych View Post
    To cut the long story short, politically motivated case is falling apart to no one's surprise
    I have no idea how you think anything in there indicates the case is "falling apart".

    The evidence requested was not evidence directly related to the specific crimes in question. Denying such evidence is standard procedure.

    The only "political motivation" in this case is from those who think a multiple murderer should be set free because he's on "their side" by virtue of being a white supremacist.


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    of course the Russian's on here are cheering for Rittenhouse to walk free.

  14. #19014
    Quote Originally Posted by uuuhname View Post
    of course the Russian's on here are cheering for Rittenhouse to walk free.
    Russians and white nationalist terrorists go hand in hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yadryonych View Post
    To cut the long story short, politically motivated case is falling apart to no one's surprise
    Long story short, this poster continues to either be wrong maliciously, or really is a maroon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by unfilteredJW View Post
    Long story short, this poster continues to either be wrong maliciously, or really is a maroon.
    He is Russian, just like Shalcker, so it isn't surprising they are lying.

  17. #19017
    Quote Originally Posted by Shalcker View Post
    Some updates on Rittenhouse
    The hearing was great for the rittenhouse. They won on everything but getting to tell about how Rosenbaum was a pedo. Just shows how awful of a case the prosecution has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Break The Ice View Post
    The hearing was great for the rittenhouse. They won on everything but getting to tell about how Rosenbaum was a pedo. Just shows how awful of a case the prosecution has.
    Because Rittenhouse didn't know anything about his history, but you ignore reality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by postman1782 View Post
    Because Rittenhouse didn't know anything about his history, but you ignore reality.
    At this point it is safe to assume anyone in the acab crowd has a criminal record. That where their resentment with police comes from in the first place

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yadryonych View Post
    At this point it is safe to assume anyone in the acab crowd has a criminal record. That where their resentment with police comes from in the first place
    Or, and follow me here, there are so many instances of cops assaulting and killing unarmed people of color, while they let white guys like this fucking murderer Rittenhouse go home without even being talked to. But you wouldn't know that, being from Russia and all, right?

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