Although the UCLA protest on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, turned violent when pro-Israel counter-demonstrators attacked the protesters (see story here), while police waited more than two hours to intervene (see story here), this photo has nothing to do with that. It’s what the police did to the st[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Violence’
March 1st, 2023 - 7:32 pm § in Law and Courts
How NYC cops cost taxpayers $6.45 million
New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 each to 300 protesters who were penned by a police tactic known as ‘kettling,’ and then pepper-sprayed and clubbed, during George Floyd protests in 2020, Raw Story reported on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 (read story here). The protesters sued, allegin[...]
February 4th, 2023 - 12:13 pm § in Law and Courts
When Seattle cops confronted a man in a meltdown, his neighbors protected him
As Seattle cops with drawn guns surrounded a man armed with a phone having a meltdown, neighbors rallied to form a human shield around him until the police gave up and left. Read story here and watch video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
November 25th, 2022 - 2:50 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
This police killing cost taxpayers over $10 million
On January 18, 2016, Daniel Shaver, 26, a Texas pest control worker, was killed in cold blood in the hallway of a Mesa, Arizona, hotel by a police officer who was later acquitted of murder by a jury (read details here). Shaver, who was intoxicated, didn’t exercise perfect judgment. He had a pe[...]
June 27th, 2021 - 12:54 pm § in Law and Courts
What’s really wrong with police unions
“They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce.” That’s the subheading of an article by Adam Serwer, an award-winning black journalist (bio here), published in The Atlantic on [...]
July 29th, 2017 - 5:47 am § in Donald Trump
TRUMP Promotes Dirty Harry Model for Police
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump received applause on Friday when he endorsed police brutality while delivering a speech to law enforcement officers on Long Island, New York. “When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see the[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 8:50 pm § in Misc.
Cops kill 2 teen girls in 4 days
In two separate incidents, four days apart, police in C0lorado and Texas fatally shot 16- and 17-year-old girls this last week. Neither of the girls was innocent. One drove a stolen car into an officer, fracturing his leg; the other brandished a knife at a police station. The issue I want to discus[...]