Police Misconduct Catch All Thread

[laughing dog]

It's not "whataboutism", it's pointing out rank hypocrisy in our society.

When you point to some other incident that is different in scope and place, it is "whataboutism".

Except mocking a piece of shit robber is not "racist".

Yeah, mocking a black victim of police misconduct (which is a fact) is not racist. And, calling Mr. Floyd, a "piece of shit robber" is an outrageous characterization.

It is a double standard that permeates out entire society, from coast to coast and all institutions.

Maybe in your head. Again, different acts in different areas.

Referring to people as inanimate objects in inherently demeaning.

Bullshit. People who are upstanding and forthright are referred to as "bricks" and that is not demeaning. I think you are over-reacting.

Traditionally refrigerators have been white in color. It would be like calling black people "pots" or something in reference to black cast iron pots.

Now, I know you are over-reacting.

 

[atrib]

No evidence they are "racist". Making fun of George Floyd is no evidence of racism.


He wasn't lynched. At most, this was accidental killing by Chauvin as he didn't intend his death. But most probably it was death due to accidental fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose with stress position a minor contributing factor. His autopsy revealed high concentrations of these drugs and severe pulmonary edema. Liquid-filled alveoli obviously cannot participate in gas exchange.

carried out by the police who took an oath to protect said black man.

Accidents happen. Doesn't mean it was murder. Doesn't mean George Floyd should be elevated to the levels he is being elevated to.

George Floyd's death was no accident. Death is an easily predicted outcome for most humans who are asphyxiated for nine minutes. More damning still, the asphyxiation was continued for about three minutes after the officers involved knew that George Floyd had stopped breathing. One of the officers participating in this event told the others that Floyd had stopped breathing, and suggested that Floyd be turned on his side to allow him to breathe. The other officers ignored him, and continued what they were doing, instead of rendering first aid/CPR. Moreover, Mr Floyd was handcuffed and restrained, was not resisting arrest, and was in no position to harm anyone. Why did the police decide to pull him out of the car, throw him on the ground, and escalate the level of force to lethal levels? Why did they continue to maintain a lethal level of force after they knew Floyd had stopped breathing? And it also turns out that George Floyd and Chauvin were known to each other, and there was bad blood between them. This was murder, with premeditation. Your efforts to gloss over these details and call the outcome an accident is not going to work here.

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels. He was just another victim of police brutality, albeit an event that was particularly horrific and indefensible, and transpired in broad daylight in front of many witnesses. The whole world saw Floyd's lynching and was horrified, and many came out to protest, which is an appropriate response. It is called empathy, and it is what most humans do. You, apparently, are unable to feel any empathy for black people, but that is on you. You appear to believe that it is appropriate for police to kill any black person with a criminal record, but again, that is on you. People who are not as prejudiced as you are see things differently.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

No evidence they are "racist". Making fun of George Floyd is no evidence of racism.


He wasn't lynched. At most, this was accidental killing by Chauvin as he didn't intend his death. But most probably it was death due to accidental fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose with stress position a minor contributing factor. His autopsy revealed high concentrations of these drugs and severe pulmonary edema. Liquid-filled alveoli obviously cannot participate in gas exchange.

carried out by the police who took an oath to protect said black man.

Accidents happen. Doesn't mean it was murder. Doesn't mean George Floyd should be elevated to the levels he is being elevated to.

George Floyd's death was no accident. Death is an easily predicted outcome for most humans who are asphyxiated for nine minutes. More damning still, the asphyxiation was continued for about three minutes after the officers involved knew that George Floyd had stopped breathing. One of the officers participating in this event told the others that Floyd had stopped breathing, and suggested that Floyd be turned on his side to allow him to breathe. The other officers ignored him, and continued what they were doing, instead of rendering first aid/CPR. Moreover, Mr Floyd was handcuffed and restrained, was not resisting arrest, and was in no position to harm anyone. Why did the police decide to pull him out of the car, throw him on the ground, and escalate the level of force to lethal levels? Why did they continue to maintain a lethal level of force after they knew Floyd had stopped breathing? And it also turns out that George Floyd and Chauvin were known to each other, and there was bad blood between them. This was murder, with premeditation. Your efforts to gloss over these details and call the outcome an accident is not going to work here.

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels. He was just another victim of police brutality, albeit an event that was particularly horrific and indefensible, and transpired in broad daylight in front of many witnesses. The whole world saw Floyd's lynching and was horrified, and many came out to protest, which is an appropriate response. It is called empathy, and it is what most humans do. You, apparently, are unable to feel any empathy for black people, but that is on you. You appear to believe that it is appropriate for police to kill any black person with a criminal record, but again, that is on you. People who are not as prejudiced as you are see things differently.

It was an accident because it wasn't intended to asphyxiate. The intended action was illegal, combined with a death = voluntary manslaughter.

 

[Elixir]

George Floyd's death was no accident. Death is an easily predicted outcome for most humans who are asphyxiated for nine minutes. More damning still, the asphyxiation was continued for about three minutes after the officers involved knew that George Floyd had stopped breathing. One of the officers participating in this event told the others that Floyd had stopped breathing, and suggested that Floyd be turned on his side to allow him to breathe. The other officers ignored him, and continued what they were doing, instead of rendering first aid/CPR. Moreover, Mr Floyd was handcuffed and restrained, was not resisting arrest, and was in no position to harm anyone. Why did the police decide to pull him out of the car, throw him on the ground, and escalate the level of force to lethal levels? Why did they continue to maintain a lethal level of force after they knew Floyd had stopped breathing? And it also turns out that George Floyd and Chauvin were known to each other, and there was bad blood between them. This was murder, with premeditation. Your efforts to gloss over these details and call the outcome an accident is not going to work here.

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels. He was just another victim of police brutality, albeit an event that was particularly horrific and indefensible, and transpired in broad daylight in front of many witnesses. The whole world saw Floyd's lynching and was horrified, and many came out to protest, which is an appropriate response. It is called empathy, and it is what most humans do. You, apparently, are unable to feel any empathy for black people, but that is on you. You appear to believe that it is appropriate for police to kill any black person with a criminal record, but again, that is on you. People who are not as prejudiced as you are see things differently.

It was an accident because it wasn't intended to asphyxiate. The intended action was illegal, combined with a death = voluntary manslaughter.

"Wouldn'ta kilt him if I knew y'all would be so triggered..."

 

[atrib]

George Floyd's death was no accident. Death is an easily predicted outcome for most humans who are asphyxiated for nine minutes. More damning still, the asphyxiation was continued for about three minutes after the officers involved knew that George Floyd had stopped breathing. One of the officers participating in this event told the others that Floyd had stopped breathing, and suggested that Floyd be turned on his side to allow him to breathe. The other officers ignored him, and continued what they were doing, instead of rendering first aid/CPR. Moreover, Mr Floyd was handcuffed and restrained, was not resisting arrest, and was in no position to harm anyone. Why did the police decide to pull him out of the car, throw him on the ground, and escalate the level of force to lethal levels? Why did they continue to maintain a lethal level of force after they knew Floyd had stopped breathing? And it also turns out that George Floyd and Chauvin were known to each other, and there was bad blood between them. This was murder, with premeditation. Your efforts to gloss over these details and call the outcome an accident is not going to work here.

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels. He was just another victim of police brutality, albeit an event that was particularly horrific and indefensible, and transpired in broad daylight in front of many witnesses. The whole world saw Floyd's lynching and was horrified, and many came out to protest, which is an appropriate response. It is called empathy, and it is what most humans do. You, apparently, are unable to feel any empathy for black people, but that is on you. You appear to believe that it is appropriate for police to kill any black person with a criminal record, but again, that is on you. People who are not as prejudiced as you are see things differently.

It was an accident because it wasn't intended to asphyxiate. The intended action was illegal, combined with a death = voluntary manslaughter.

How do you know what the intent of the officers was? How can you call it an accident when the police continued their lethal use of force after they knew Floyd wasn't breathing, instead of using CPR to revive him?

 

[Jarhyn]

George Floyd's death was no accident. Death is an easily predicted outcome for most humans who are asphyxiated for nine minutes. More damning still, the asphyxiation was continued for about three minutes after the officers involved knew that George Floyd had stopped breathing. One of the officers participating in this event told the others that Floyd had stopped breathing, and suggested that Floyd be turned on his side to allow him to breathe. The other officers ignored him, and continued what they were doing, instead of rendering first aid/CPR. Moreover, Mr Floyd was handcuffed and restrained, was not resisting arrest, and was in no position to harm anyone. Why did the police decide to pull him out of the car, throw him on the ground, and escalate the level of force to lethal levels? Why did they continue to maintain a lethal level of force after they knew Floyd had stopped breathing? And it also turns out that George Floyd and Chauvin were known to each other, and there was bad blood between them. This was murder, with premeditation. Your efforts to gloss over these details and call the outcome an accident is not going to work here.

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels. He was just another victim of police brutality, albeit an event that was particularly horrific and indefensible, and transpired in broad daylight in front of many witnesses. The whole world saw Floyd's lynching and was horrified, and many came out to protest, which is an appropriate response. It is called empathy, and it is what most humans do. You, apparently, are unable to feel any empathy for black people, but that is on you. You appear to believe that it is appropriate for police to kill any black person with a criminal record, but again, that is on you. People who are not as prejudiced as you are see things differently.

It was an accident because it wasn't intended to asphyxiate. The intended action was illegal, combined with a death = voluntary manslaughter.

No. The text of Minnesota murder in the second degree:

Subd. 2.Unintentional murders. Whoever does either of the following is guilty of unintentional murder in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 40 years:
(1) causes the death of a human being, without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense other than criminal sexual conduct in the first or second degree with force or violence or a drive-by shooting; or

 

[lpetrich]

Jacob Ward on Twitter: "There’s a new kind of ambulance in San Francisco. ..." / Twitter

Dial 911 in certain neighborhoods, report a nonviolent mental-health crisis, and an experimental team of specialists arrive instead of the police.

We spent the day watching this new team at work.

A few details to note: the program, modeled on the Cahoots program in Oregon, is funded by Prop C, a business tax passed in 2018. So this is not “defunding the police.” But it is an experiment in changing their role.

And consider that, as Chief William Scott told us, some police departments are eager for this sort of help. One study found that more than 20% of law-enforcement time is spent responding to and transporting people in a mental-health crisis.

Also, we worked hard to sort out the most ethical way to portray this work without violating the privacy of the people we filmed. We asked their permission, but because they were in distress, decided to blur their faces. All feedback welcome.

Thank you to @jmalt87, @casottile, and the @NBCNewsNow team for great teamwork on a complicated story.

What is CAHOOTS? - White Bird Clinic

The CAHOOTS model has been in the spotlight recently as our nation struggles to reimagine public safety. The program mobilizes two-person teams consisting of a medic (a nurse, paramedic, or EMT) and a crisis worker who has substantial training and experience in the mental health field. The CAHOOTS teams deal with a wide range of mental health-related crises, including conflict resolution, welfare checks, substance abuse, suicide threats, and more, relying on trauma-informed de-escalation and harm reduction techniques. CAHOOTS staff are not law enforcement officers and do not carry weapons; their training and experience are the tools they use to ensure a non-violent resolution of crisis situations. They also handle non-emergent medical issues, avoiding costly ambulance transport and emergency room treatment.

Road Runners - Treatment Advocacy Center
"In addition to serving as street-corner psychiatrists, law enforcement officers have become road runners, responding to mental health emergencies and traveling long distances to shuttle people with mental illness from one facility to another."

"Members of law enforcement do not serve as treatment providers for any other illness. It is difficult to imagine subjecting someone having a heart attack to arrest, or someone with cancer being transferred to a specialty center in handcuffs, in the back of a police cruiser. But regardless of the fact that severe mental illnesses are brain diseases, we persist in treating their behavioral manifestations as criminal acts."

Nice to see alternatives to policing.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

George Floyd's death was no accident. Death is an easily predicted outcome for most humans who are asphyxiated for nine minutes. More damning still, the asphyxiation was continued for about three minutes after the officers involved knew that George Floyd had stopped breathing. One of the officers participating in this event told the others that Floyd had stopped breathing, and suggested that Floyd be turned on his side to allow him to breathe. The other officers ignored him, and continued what they were doing, instead of rendering first aid/CPR. Moreover, Mr Floyd was handcuffed and restrained, was not resisting arrest, and was in no position to harm anyone. Why did the police decide to pull him out of the car, throw him on the ground, and escalate the level of force to lethal levels? Why did they continue to maintain a lethal level of force after they knew Floyd had stopped breathing? And it also turns out that George Floyd and Chauvin were known to each other, and there was bad blood between them. This was murder, with premeditation. Your efforts to gloss over these details and call the outcome an accident is not going to work here.

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels. He was just another victim of police brutality, albeit an event that was particularly horrific and indefensible, and transpired in broad daylight in front of many witnesses. The whole world saw Floyd's lynching and was horrified, and many came out to protest, which is an appropriate response. It is called empathy, and it is what most humans do. You, apparently, are unable to feel any empathy for black people, but that is on you. You appear to believe that it is appropriate for police to kill any black person with a criminal record, but again, that is on you. People who are not as prejudiced as you are see things differently.

It was an accident because it wasn't intended to asphyxiate. The intended action was illegal, combined with a death = voluntary manslaughter.

No. The text of Minnesota murder in the second degree:

Subd. 2.Unintentional murders. Whoever does either of the following is guilty of unintentional murder in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 40 years:
(1) causes the death of a human being, without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense other than criminal sexual conduct in the first or second degree with force or violence or a drive-by shooting; or

But was his original misconduct a misdemeanor or a felony?

 

[ZiprHead]

No ‘guilty’ verdicts in trial of St. Louis officers accused of beating undercover detective

ST. LOUIS – A federal grand jury did not return a single guilty verdict Monday in the trial of three St. Louis Police officers accused of beating an undercover detective during a 2017 protest downtown.

St. Louis Police officer Steven Korte was found not guilty on all counts. Former officer Chris Myers was found not guilty on a civil rights charge. The jury did not reach a verdict on a charge of destruction of evidence. The jury also did not reach a verdict on the civil rights charge against former officer Dustin Boone.

Detective Luther Hall was working undercover with a partner during the 2017 Jason Stockley protests. They were documenting potential crimes when they got split up in the chaos on the night of Sunday, Sept. 17.

 

[Derec]

And, calling Mr. Floyd, a "piece of shit robber" is an outrageous characterization.

Floyd was objectively a piece of shit robber.

Between 1997 and 2005, Floyd was arrested several times on drug and theft charges, spending months in jail.

In 2007, Floyd was charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Investigators said Floyd and other men barged into an apartment, where he pushed a pistol into a woman’s abdomen. Floyd pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years. When he was paroled in 2013 he was nearing 40.

For George Floyd, a complicated life and a notorious death

How would you characterize him? As a "gentle giant"?

I think you are over-reacting.

No, I am not. You on the other hand are unwilling to admit that anti-white racism exists.

 

[Derec]

Nobody here has elevated George Floyd to any levels.

Except for a number of murals (including some that depict him with angel wings), streets named after him etc. This cult of personality over a low-life robber is taking really ridiculous proportions.

 

[laughing dog]

Floyd was objectively a piece of shit robber.

You clearly have no concept what "objectively" means.

No, I am not. You on the other hand are unwilling to admit that anti-white racism exists.

What prompted that particular straw man?

 

[Gospel]

No ‘guilty’ verdicts in trial of St. Louis officers accused of beating undercover detective

ST. LOUIS – A federal grand jury did not return a single guilty verdict Monday in the trial of three St. Louis Police officers accused of beating an undercover detective during a 2017 protest downtown.

St. Louis Police officer Steven Korte was found not guilty on all counts. Former officer Chris Myers was found not guilty on a civil rights charge. The jury did not reach a verdict on a charge of destruction of evidence. The jury also did not reach a verdict on the civil rights charge against former officer Dustin Boone.

Detective Luther Hall was working undercover with a partner during the 2017 Jason Stockley protests. They were documenting potential crimes when they got split up in the chaos on the night of Sunday, Sept. 17.

I'm not surprised. Beating up a protester who did nothing wrong isn't against the law, so getting in trouble for mistaking a police officer for a protester and beating him up wouldn't make any sense.

 

[TSwizzle]

A deputy in Texas has been put on desk duty after shocking video showed him punching a teenager who had been filling his ATV with gasoline at a gas station.

DailyMail

The video shows a brutal attack from a burly cop on a young man. It's sickening.

 

[ZiprHead]

Video: Maryland Cops Handcuff and Berate Five-Year-Old Boy
"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked.

Body camera footage released last Friday shows Maryland police officers berating, threatening, and briefly handcuffing a five-year-old boy who had wandered away from school without permission.

Two officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police picked up the child after he left school grounds in January of last year. According to statements in the video, the boy allegedly was disruptive in class, threw objects, destroyed school property, and struck a teacher.

"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked as they returned the child to school.

"I hope your momma lets me beat you," the officer remarked again as the boy began wailing in a school office. The officer then bent down and screamed several times in the child's face.

After the mother arrived at school to retrieve her son, the other officer pulled out a pair of handcuffs and briefly put them on the boy. "You know what these are for? These are for people who don't want to listen and don't know how to act," the officer said.

Disgusting the way that cop treated that kid. Makes me wonder about the treatment of his own children.

 

[Rhea]

Holy shit, that is terrible!

 

[Worldtraveller]

Holy shit, that is terrible typical!

Fixt.

 

[Rhea]

Holy shit, that is terrible typical!

Fixt.

Can’t argue with that.

 

[Elixir]

Video: Maryland Cops Handcuff and Berate Five-Year-Old Boy
"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked.

Body camera footage released last Friday shows Maryland police officers berating, threatening, and briefly handcuffing a five-year-old boy who had wandered away from school without permission.

Two officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police picked up the child after he left school grounds in January of last year. According to statements in the video, the boy allegedly was disruptive in class, threw objects, destroyed school property, and struck a teacher.

"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked as they returned the child to school.

"I hope your momma lets me beat you," the officer remarked again as the boy began wailing in a school office. The officer then bent down and screamed several times in the child's face.

After the mother arrived at school to retrieve her son, the other officer pulled out a pair of handcuffs and briefly put them on the boy. "You know what these are for? These are for people who don't want to listen and don't know how to act," the officer said.

Disgusting the way that cop treated that kid. Makes me wonder about the treatment of his own children.

... the children he used to have.

 

[laughing dog]

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