Let cops beat up suspects (read story here). “Donald Trump on Sunday used a speech in key swing state Pennsylvania to urge a ‘violent’ police crackdown on crime …. Recounting isolated — but widely publicized — incidents of thieves staging brazen daylight robberies[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
Texas constable tried to send school librarians to prison for having LGBQT books
Scott London (photo, left) is a small-town constable in Texas with deep ties to extremist politics. London is involved with the “constitutional sheriffs” movement, which falsely argues county sheriffs can “nullify federal laws,” and Oathkeepers, a rightwing militia that playe[...]
May 31st, 2024 - 10:23 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Is this a million dollar dog?
A small town Missouri cop responding to a loose dog call killed the pet after making minimal efforts to catch it. The dog was blind and deaf. It wasn’t aggressive. Its name was Teddy. The bodycam footage went viral. I chronicled the incident here. The mayor resigned. The cop was fired. The dog[...]
May 24th, 2024 - 7:07 pm § in Law and Courts
We need police, but not these cops
America has a policing crisis, and bad cops are only part of it, there’s also a cop shortage. But this article is about bad cops. Even though overall crime statistics are down, the inability of understaffed police departments to respond promptly (or at all) to 911 calls is leaving residents o[...]
May 24th, 2023 - 3:18 pm § in Law and Courts
Mississippi cop on domestic call shoots child
A cop responding to a domestic call shot an 11-year-old boy at the home, a local news source reported (read story here). The boy was the family member who called police. His mother slipped him the phone and told him to call 911 after the father of her other child showed up and became “irate.&#[...]
January 27th, 2023 - 8:37 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops are taught to kill anyone who blinks
The latest victim of killer cops, Tyre Nichols, was murdered after a traffic stop. The initial police story was that he was pulled over for reckless driving and then resisted arrest. But “Memphis’s police chief later told CNN that investigators have ‘been unable to substantiate’ [...]
January 20th, 2023 - 7:33 pm § in Business
Oklahoma pork plant fired worker, then called cops who killed him
Guymon, Oklahoma, is a town in the dusty Oklahoma panhandle. It was a dying town until the pork plant came in the 1990s. In 2014, an Oklahoma newspaper gushed (here), “On the northeast corner of town, cradled by a cluster of dilapidated trailer homes, sits a business that many credit for start[...]
DeSantis is pulling guns on black voters
Add Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, to the list of armed Republicans brandishing guns at polling places. In 2018, Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentences, except those convicted of mur[...]
What it’s like without a free press
In South Sudan, 6 journalists were arrested for filming the president pissing in his pants. Read story here In Phoenix, Arizona, a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested for reporting while black. Read story here — West Virginia’s GOP governor got a reporter fired for reporting on abuse [...]
December 15th, 2022 - 3:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Trigger-happy white cop convicted of shooting black woman
A trigger-happy Texas cop who killed a black woman while investigating an open door at her home was convicted by a jury of manslaughter on Thursday, December 15, 2022 (read story here). A neighbor had made a non-emergency call to 911 in the early hours of October 12, 2019, upon seeing an open door a[...]