Cop in America doing a bad job, again



Almost a suicide by cop. He did survive. Mental illness and guns... Scary combo


Scary combo but one is at fault for shootings while the other isn't. Hint- it's not the guns fault. Strange that with depression for as long as I can remember I haven't managed to shoot someone with it. Still trying though!
 
Wonder how the spin will be on the man shooting seven cops, one fatally, in South Carolina. Being an older white fella I presume mental illness vice thug will be the choice tag, despite the man's legal disbarment and numerous prior charges. If he were of another pigmentation/ethnicity...
 
Wonder how the spin will be on the man shooting seven cops, one fatally, in South Carolina. Being an older white fella I presume mental illness vice thug will be the choice tag, despite the man's legal disbarment and numerous prior charges. If he were of another pigmentation/ethnicity...

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a white male with a gun?
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45739335

I'm finding it hard to believe, but the article says:

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Already in 2018, across the US, at least 136 people with a disability are known to have been killed by police officers, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post and analysis of local media reports.
 
That's fairly common as far as I know @jojojo happens a lot in Toronto, too.

Unfortunately, a high number of those victims get into situations where being shit by the cops is a likely outcome

That said, it doesn't mean the po-po wouldn't benefit from more training on how to deal with the mentally ill.
 
Wonder how the spin will be on the man shooting seven cops, one fatally, in South Carolina. Being an older white fella I presume mental illness vice thug will be the choice tag, despite the man's legal disbarment and numerous prior charges. If he were of another pigmentation/ethnicity...

The cops managed to bring him in alive though.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45739335

I'm finding it hard to believe, but the article says:

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Already in 2018, across the US, at least 136 people with a disability are known to have been killed by police officers, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post and analysis of local media reports.
Not surprising. The focus and training on dealing with the mentally ill is relatively new in law enforcement. I'd be interested to know what specific disabilities the study includes, and if those fatal incidents were due to the person "going through an episode" or if the mental illness was discovered after the fact.
 
probably. but i cant just abandon everyone to what is coming.

No. I get that. I can feel your anguish and frustration through your posts. It must be immensely difficult keeping it together at times.

Things like above just depress me greatly too. That's unbelievable.
 


Bullshit. What the actual feck?

Serial did one episode of podcast on this last week. The police union guy kept saying that it was Tamir who was at fault and officers did nothing wrong. Also that it can not be disputed that Tamir looked like a full grown adult.

It is one thing for police to make a mistake, another not to acknowledge it and refuse to learn from it.
 
The far right is deeply entrenched in American police. Been that way for a century.
 
The far right is deeply entrenched in American police. Been that way for a century.
it's always been a fascist institution, it's roots go back to the slave patrols that sought to stop black people from escaping their chains, they were also very active in and protective of the KKK at it's height
 
it's always been a fascist institution, it's roots go back to the slave patrols that sought to stop black people from escaping their chains, they were also very active in and protective of the KKK at it's height

Add in the insane militarization of the police since 2001 & they are truly an evil force.
 


Every day theres another police atrocity in the news. This fecking pyscho is on desk duty still.


These doorbell cameras, etc. will start becoming more important in the cases where a body cam is ‘unintentionally’ turned off or damaged.
 
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...r-accused-two-on-duty-cops-of-rape-she-had-no

But Anna didn’t know that in New York, there is no law specifically stating that it is illegal for police officers or sheriff’s deputies in the field to have sex with someone in their custody. It is one of 35 states where armed law enforcement officers can evade sexual assault charges by claiming that such an encounter — from groping to intercourse — was consensual, according to a BuzzFeed News review of every state legal code.

institutional rape policy
 
In one quantitative effort published in the University of Chicago Law Review in 1992, Myron Orfield, who is now a law professor at the University of Minnesota, surveyed dozens of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges in Chicago. Fifty-two percent of them responded that prosecutors “know or have reason to know” that an officer fabricated evidence “at least half of the time.” Nearly 90% of prosecutors responded that they were aware of police perjury in cases “at least some of the time.”

prosecutors are rats and cops are liars