Portland, Oregon, has one of America’s most violent police departments. This image, discovered by a city employee, was part of a PowerPoint training presentation. Police are supposed to be apolitical public servants; if they’re going to beat up protesters, they should beat them up equall[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Misconduct’
December 19th, 2021 - 2:21 pm § in Politics
Trumper ex-cop busted by feds for punching mailman after local police looked the other way
The thick blue line may not work if you sucker-punch a federal mail carrier. Robert Guitierrez is a retired cop and a Trumper. He’d been arguing with the mailman “for a couple of weeks over politics,” a local TV station reported here. Inevitably, it came to blows. Three punches, to[...]
U. of Florida was pressured to destroy Covid-19 data
GOP “reopen” governor’s reign of fear: Faculty Senate report slams political interference; MIAMI HERALD says “fear of upsetting state officials is pervasive among faculty” Download Faculty Senate report here Read Miami Herald story here – Florida Gov. Ron D[...]
November 23rd, 2021 - 9:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Killer cop on trial in Washington
Jeffrey Nelson (photo, left), 43, a violent police officer in Auburn, Washington, who allegedly sports fascist tattoos, has a history of using excessive force in arrests, and has killed 3 people during his 12-year career, is being prosecuted for murder. Prosecutors argue Nelson has a propensity to u[...]
November 20th, 2021 - 3:21 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Sheriff charged in black newspaper carrier case
A Kitsap County judge will “oversee the criminal case against Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who is charged with two misdemeanors over his confrontation with a Black newspaper carrier,” a Seattle TV station reported on Saturday, November 20, 2021 (story here). A states investigation (s[...]
November 11th, 2021 - 1:43 pm § in Racism
Racist ex-police chief assures us he’s not a racist
He was caught on surveillance video (below) “leaving a ‘Ku Klux Klan’ note on a Black officer’s raincoat,” NBC News says (here). That’s not all. He also “fashioned a KKK style hat out of paper” and told the officer “he had to wear it on his next [...]
November 5th, 2021 - 9:39 pm § in Politics
Leaked list reveals 65 Oath Keepers are police instructors
“A leaked list of people who signed up for the anti-government Oath Keepers group includes 65 who identified themselves as law enforcement trainers, an illustration of how extremist ideologies have proliferated in police departments across the USA,” USA Today reported Friday, November 5,[...]
November 5th, 2021 - 1:28 pm § in Law and Courts
Followup: Derek Chauvin’s tax troubles and strategic divorce
Prosecutors have filed tax evasion charges against convicted killer cop Derek Chauvin and his wife Kellie (photo, left), a former “Mrs. Minnesota,” alleging they concealed nearly half a million dollars of income in the five years preceding Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. They als[...]
November 3rd, 2021 - 7:26 pm § in Law and Courts
Cops are human like the rest of us
They have fathers, mothers, brothers, and boyfriends. They look out for their friends. Even if they have to lie, destroy evidence, and cover up for them. For example, Lt. Marcus Harper and Officer Ananias Carson III of the Tulsa police department tried to keep fellow officer Latoya Dythe out of trou[...]
What if you call the police and they don’t come because they’re busy putting on their Klan robes?
In October 30, 2020, Biden campaign workers traveling in Texas by bus and car were ambushed by a “Trump Train” on the interstate highway passing through San Marcos, Texas. (Read background story here.) The Biden caravan had been harassed by other Trump Trains, but this was different. The[...]