Steven Gaal Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 (edited) Hackers Expose Cops and Feds as they Browse for Online Sex at the Taxpayer’s Expense By The Free Thought Project on May 22, 2015 http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hackers-expose-cops-feds-browse-online-sex-taxpayers-expense/ ============================================================================================================ RT.com The men behind the screen names “Eaglesfan_6969” and “Verywilling2011” are looking for sex, and they’re doing it from government-provided email accounts, according to data pilfered from a hacked dating website. A trove of personal information pertaining to paid account holders of AdultFriendFinder, a website that touts itself as letting users “Find a xxxx buddy for online sex,” has surfaced, and its contents suggest employees of local and federal agencies, including law enforcement, the Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration have used their government-provided email addresses to search for partners. UK’s Channel 4 News confirmed first this week that the website had been hacked and that the information of approximately 3.9 million users had been leaked, including online handles, email addresses and sexual preferences of account holders. Now as that data is perused, new details are emerging that raise questions about what government workers are doing with their official accounts. Among account holders identified through the leaked details include individuals with emails linked to the United States Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, the government of Augusta, Georgia; the state of Virginia and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC. DHS guidelines prohibit employees from using their government email for “Engaging in any activity that would discredit DHS, including seeking, transmitting, collecting or storing defamatory, discriminatory, obscene, harassing or intimidating messages or material.” The Pentagon says in a 2013 report that “Federal Government communication systems and equipment (including Government-owned telephones, facsimile machines, electronic mail, Internet systems and commercial systems when the federal Government pays for use) shall be for official use and authorized purposes only.” There is an exemption in place for “morale and welfare” communications by employees on extended deployments. One of the account holders is registered with a Navy.mil email address, and the hacked account records reveal that the person logged-on to the dating site from an IP address connected to the Navy Network Information Center in Virginia Beach, VA. A cursory Google search of that person’s name suggests they were a civilian employee of the US Navy who was married as of 2002. Another member, who was interested in BDSM according to the data, used their official Plano, Texas city email address to open an AdultFriendFinder membership, but connected to the site while browsing from a Starbucks. On the AdultFriendFinder homepage, the website says it connects users who are “Hoping to meet someone special for a hot, sexual relationship or even just a quick fling” and claims the site “has helped millions of people find traditional partners, swinger groups, threesomes, and a variety of other alternative partners.” In a statement, the company behind the dating website confirmed they had “been made aware of a potential data security issue and understands and fully appreciates the seriousness of the issue.” Mandiant, a Virginia-based security contractor, is helping them investigate. Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, a security researcher who was analyzing the data on Friday morning, told RT’s Andrew Blake that revelations concerning the use of government accounts to search for sex shouldn’t be surprising. “Military facilities should not be so incompetent as to allow their employees to freely browse trash like this on the Internet, it’s a major national security risk,” said Auernheimer. “This just goes to show the decadence and obsoletion of the United States government, a place where even our military bases are filled with men actively searching for whores.” Earlier this month, a Department of Defense audit revealed that Pentagon employees have been using government credit cards on gambling and escort service. In January, the Washington Times uncovered evidence that an employee with the DoD’s Defense Finance Accounting Service tried to access pornographic websites from his work computers more than 12,000 times during 2014. RT reached out to several individuals identified in the leaked data and their appropriate press representative, including the public information unit of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, but has not immediately received comment from the affected parties contacted. Republished with Permission from Russia Today RT ==== Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hackers-expose-cops-feds-browse-online-sex-taxpayers-expense/#Q2ogV5v5Zlhm7cBP.99 Edited May 26, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 Texas kids face criminal charges for inciting a riot - over a food fight http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_70505.shtml By The Free Thought Project Blacklisted News Tuesday, May 26, 2015 A number of students at San Antonio’s McCollum High School were charged with inciting a riot for their involvement in a food fight that took place at the school this Thursday just after noon. “It was a rowdy food fight. There were plates all over the floor, and corn in the air and some milk cartons as well,” student Adrian Toscano told KSAT-TV. For some reason, the staff at the school was not able to control the situation, and they ended up calling the police, who came in and arrested ten students for inciting a riot. “Inciting a riot is because there was 900 kids in the cafeteria when the food fight started. Everybody rushed out, and it caused somewhat of a stampede out there,” district spokeswoman Leslie Garza told KSAT-TV. Parents should reconsider public schools for a variety of different reasons, but now it has reached the point where sending your children to public school could become a potential liability. Any case of “kids being kids” can quickly escalate to a violent or legally hazardous situation. As we reported last week, mother and substitute teacher Julie Giles was arrested this week because her son had too many unexcused absences from public school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Are the Police Intentionally Hiring Stupid People? = http://lastresistance.com/11857/are-the-police-intentionally-hiring-stupid-people/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) see post above ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] FBI Says Racist Organizations Have Been Infiltrating Police Departments For Years = http://www.globalresearch.ca/fbi-says-racist-organizations-have-been-infiltrating-police-departments-for-years/5452512 = Many have said it for years, but now the Federal Bureau of Investigation is claiming that police departments have been deliberately infiltrated by racist, white supremacist organizations. The claim comes after what the FBI says has been nearly a decade of federal law enforcement’s confirmed and documented acts of infiltration by white supremacist groups into American police departments. The FBI warning first came back on October 2006, but it fell on largely deaf ears. Now, the report entitled “White supremacist infiltration of law enforcement” is being revisited by many experts in fighting back against organized hate group terrorism. In the 2006 report, the FBI found that federal court determined that members of a Los Angeles sheriffs department had organized a Neo Nazi gang. The officers involved did not keep their racist ideas to themselves either, as the FBI found that these same officers “habitually terrorized” the African American community. The FBI also found that the Chicago police department fired a detective after it was discovered that he had strong ties to the Ku Klux Klan. That detective, Jon Burge, was found to have tortured over 100 African American suspects. The City of Cleveland, in news lately for their shooting of Tamir Rice, and other extreme instances of police gunning down unarmed AfricanAmericans, found that police locker rooms had been overrun with “white power” graffiti and vandalism. In Texas, a sheriff department found that two of their deputies not only were in the Klan, but were actually prominent recruiters for the hate group. Now, just as the FBI had warned, the number of white supremacist members infiltrating law enforcement has soared. Between the years of 2008 to 2014, that number of documented infiltrators rose from just shy of 150, to one thousand. Even worse is the fact that most of them were never fired after their hate group affiliation was discovered. If you agree that something needs to be done about this, help us raise awareness and SPREAD THE WORD! Edited May 30, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Student Punished for Bringing Hot Pepper to School =============== see link for video >>>>> http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=51054------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “I was told that it’s equivalent to giving someone LSD”by Adan Salazar The family of a Long Island student is suing his high school after administrators punished him for bringing hot peppers to lunch. The mother of Nick Lien, a 10th grader at Centereach High School, says her family has a healthy appreciation for spicy food. “I eat hot food. My family eats hot food,” Nick’s mom, Sharon, told CBS New York. “It’s just in our blood.” So imagine Sharon’s confusion when she was summoned to school over a food item her family regularly consumes. “I ran to the school to wonder why. I didn’t know what it was,” Sharon said. “I asked if it was pepper spray, peppers on sandwiches, and she said it was my son brought a pepper to school – which I happen to have. We eat hot peppers, so it’s, like, no big deal.” Nick had brought ghost peppers to school and made the mistake of allowing his less-spicy-tolerant classmates to try them. “My friends saw that I had the new ghost pepper with me, and they all wanted to see how spicy it really was, because everybody thought that basically they could handle it and it was nothing,” Nick described. “So they all tried a piece.” Bhut Jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, is one of the hottest chili peppers on the planet, measuring in at over 1,000,000 units on the Scoville scale. Nick buys them online, three for $12. In comparison, the jalapeño pepper measures in at anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000 units. Unfortunately his classmates couldn’t handle the heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 (edited) VIDEO: DUI Checkpoint Cop Claims First Amendment Doesn’t Allow People to Question Police = http://www.thedailysheeple.com/video-dui-checkpoint-cop-claims-first-amendment-doesnt-allow-people-to-question-police_062015 "You don’t have the right to question me about what we’re doing out here… Freedom of speech does not include questioning me, it doesn’t work like that." =- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/video-dui-checkpoint-cop-claims-first-amendment-doesnt-allow-people-to-question-police_062015#sthash.cL9Soav1.dpuf Edited June 1, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) NYPD Charged With Fraud After Stealing Dead Man’s Credit Card And Buying Diamonds http://www.blacklistednews.com/NYPD_Charged_With_Fraud_After_Stealing_Dead_Man%E2%80%99s_Credit_Card_And_Buying_Diamonds/44315/0/38/38/Y/M.html ============= New York City, New York – Ymmacula Pierre, A three year veteran of the NYPD is being charged by Manhatten district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, identity theft and official misconduct for stealing the credit card number of a dead man she encountered on the job, and using it to purchase fancy jewels online from Zales in excess of $3000.In July of 2014 Pierre was called to make a wellness check of 65 year old architect, Ken Sanden because after concerned colleagues called after he did not show up for work. He was known to have medical issues. Pierre arrived to find him dead. Now, normally, a wellness check does not include checking, and ultimately retrieving personal affects from the person you are supposed to be making sure is ok, but that is exactly what happened. Pierre jotted down his credit card and email information after using his phone to call his niece to relay the bad news about her uncle, according to reports. The anticipation for some cheap goods didn’t take long to set in. Just two days after the discovery this dead mans credit card was used to purchase a diamond ring from zales. The transaction was flagged and the same niece Pierre had reported the bad news to was notified of the suspicious purchase. An investigation traced the transaction to a computer inside of the home of Pierre’s boyfriend, the same computer was used to access Sanden’s email account. The ring was to be sent to another address, one Pierre had listed as a reference on her application to NYPD. Pierre has been charged, has plead not guilty, and was actually allowed out on the street after being charged with multiple crimes. To put that in perspective, I was falsely arrested and taken to county prison one time for a “DUI” after there was no breathalyzer or field sobriety test, just coerced blood which was later “dropped” in the lab (spoiler alert: I was totally sober). I still had to make bail. This cop defrauds a dead guy for thousands of dollars and walks.The officer is currently getting a 30-day unpaid suspension from the NYPD. Edited June 3, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Brainwashed people strip search a teen because a “police” officer on the phone told them to. This is the brainwashing at work to submit and follow “authorities commands”! http://investmentwatchblog.com/brainwashed-people-strip-search-a-teen-because-a-police-officer-on-the-phone-told-them-to-this-is-the-brainwashing-at-work-to-submit-and-follow-authorities-commands/ Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/brainwashed-people-strip-search-a-teen-because-a-police-officer-on-the-phone-told-them-to-this-is-the-brainwashing-at-work-to-submit-and-follow-authorities-commands/#36DBGRXEs6ipk7gx.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Surveillance video of FBI shooting in Boston leaves unanswered questions === http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/surveillance-video-fbi-shooting-boston-leaves-unanswered-questions/ = Surveillance video of FBI shooting in Boston leaves unanswered questions ByNick Barrickman 12 June 2015 A security recording released to the public Monday by the Boston Police Department (BPD) depicts the June 2 shooting of Usaama Rahim by members of the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Rahim was gunned down while on his way to work by an FBI agent and police officer who approached him without a warrant to question him about an alleged plot to commit “ISIS-inspired” terrorist acts in the city. In the aftermath of Rahim’s death, media accounts breathlessly echoed claims by law enforcement that the suspect had been linked to a terrorist plot to “behead” police officers involving multiple plotters, citing suspicious social media activity as well as recorded statements he had made while under investigation. “This guy had malicious intent, and our officers were really faced with that,” Boston Police Commissioner William Evans told CNN after the video was released. But rather than confirming claims by the FBI and police that Rahim had been involved in a terror plot and that when approached Rahim responded violently, unsheathing a machete-like weapon and lunging at the officers, the video—lacking audio, taken by a fast food security camera over 50 yards away and partially obscured by rainfall—shows no evidence of any aggression on the part of Rahim. Rather, the video shows Rahim being approached by a group of plainclothes officers in a threatening manner, after which several seconds elapse before the victim’s body collapses to the pavement from what is assumed to be police gunshots. “The video does not show Mr. Rahim possessing, holding, or brandishing a weapon of any sort, much less a knife,” declares a statement released by lawyers representing Rahim’s family. “The video does not show Mr. Rahim plotting, scheming, or planning an attack on law enforcement officers. To the contrary, the video depicts Mr. Rahim walking toward a bus stop on the way to work.” The statement goes on to note that “whatever the public, law enforcement, or the courts ultimately conclude about Mr. Rahim’s alleged involvement with illegal activity, important questions central to our democratic traditions remain. We do not live in a police state or totalitarian country.” A comment published by the Intercept notes “a profoundly disturbing aspect of this incident” in which “the police can now accost someone in the street who, by all accounts, was doing nothing wrong at that moment, kill him, and then just scream ‘ISIS’ and ‘Terrorist’ and ‘beheading’ enough times and no real questions will be asked.” Rather than resolve questions about Rahim’s alleged terrorist sympathies and behavior leading to his death, the video leaves significant questions unresolved. Why hadn’t extensive police surveillance of the suspect produced enough evidence of his wrongdoing to result in a warrant for his arrest? Why did members of the JTTF attempt to accost a supposedly dangerous suspect in a busy public area, where someone was sure to be harmed? Claims that Rahim had expressed sympathy for Islamic extremism on social media are also undermined by his previous statements publicly denouncing violence. According to The Associated Press , the suspect declared on a Facebook post that “killing people is anti-Islamic… we do not fight evil with that which causes a greater evil.” In a Facebook post dated November 7, 2012, in which he speaks of US government attempts to monitor and speak to him without a warrant, Rahim warns that “[the U.S. government will] have you making statements about things that could get you jail-time, [things] that in fact, you were preaching AGAINST i.e., violence and terrorism.” Since 9/11, the high-profile “foiling” of terrorist plots, which later turn out to have been entirely fabricated or even instigated by police provocateurs, have served the function of whipping up a political atmosphere of fear and paranoia, in order to justify ongoing wars abroad under the fraudulent framework of the “war on terror.” FBI officials in Boston had extensive contact with Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev before the 2013 attack that killed 4 and wounded 264 others. Last year, defense lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death in April for his involvement in the bombing, filed papers with the U.S. District Court alleging that the FBI had tried to recruit Tamerlan as an informant in the period leading to the 2013 attack. The killing of Rahim raises troubling parallels with the May 2013 killing of Ibragim Todashev by the FBI. Interrogators claimed that Todashev, an associate of Tsarnaev, had attempted to attack his interrogators with a knife. It later emerged that Todashev was unarmed and had been shot execution-style by FBI agents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 What the $#*&?! Arlington, Virginia Fining People $250 a Pop for Cussing - http://www.thedailysheeple.com/what-the-arlington-virginia-fining-people-250-a-pop-for-cussing_062015 See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/what-the-arlington-virginia-fining-people-250-a-pop-for-cussing_062015#sthash.qZFBjQkm.dpuf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 Blue Privilege? Cop Admits to Shooting Wife in the Head, Released From Jail In Less Than 24 Hours ============ In light of the rate at which police literally get away with murder, is it really any wonder why an increasing number of Americans distrust, resent or even hate cops? = more at http://www.blacklistednews.com/Blue_Privilege%3F_Cop_Admits_to_Shooting_Wife_in_the_Head%2C_Released_From_Jail_In_Less_Than_24_Hours/44607/0/38/38/Y/M.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 Ain't That Amerika: Routine State Terrorism in the Imperial Capital = http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=51290 = by William Norman Grigg = The eleven-year-old girl shrieked in horror as the shower curtain was ripped away, leaving her exposed to the view of a large male stranger. Her sense of violation was compounded by the threat of immediate, violent death: The marauder was wearing body armor and aiming an assault rifle at the naked, terrified child. Downstairs, the offender's comrades were ransacking the house and barking profane orders at the traumatized child's family. Sterling Harrison, her 19-year-old brother, was sitting in front of a game console when three of the invaders burst into his upstairs room, bound him, and shoved him down the stairway. Her terrified siblings – one thirteen years of age, the other seven – were corralled and imprisoned at gunpoint in the living room along with the rest of the family. The invaders were police, of course. Nobody in the home was suspected of committing a criminal offense. No evidence of criminal misconduct was found. The SWAT raid was carried out after 10:00 PM, in violation of municipal ordinances. The rationale for this act of state terrorism was the drug-related arrest, nearly two weeks earlier, of Mordsen Box, the 11-year-old girl's estranged father, who hadn't resided at the address for several months. This after-dark military raid took place at a residence located less than three miles from the White House. Thirteen days before the raid, Mr. Box was arrested by Metro D.C. Police after five ounces of marijuana were found following a pretext traffic stop. Officer Taylor Volpe, who conducted the stop, claimed – falsely, according to the family’s lawsuit against the MPD – that the rear license plate of Box's car was partially obstructed by a plastic cover. Once the stop was underway, Volpe – in keeping with his indoctrination as an opportunistic road pirate – asked if there was “anything illegal” in the vehicle. Like countless others in similar situations, Box made the tragic mistake of answering a question the officer had no right to ask. He stated that he wasn't “aware” of anything illegal in his car, and that Volpe could carry out the search “if you have to.” “OK, so I can look?” Volpe reiterated, inducing the intimidated driver to make his consent explicit. Within seconds the officer had found the marijuana, which was confiscated along with $180 in cash that was found in Box's wallet. His expired driver's license listed 1054 Quebec Place NW as his home address. Both Mr. Box and his domestic situation were well-known to the local police. During the weeks leading up to the April 18, 2013 raid, police had paid two visits to the home while searching for Box. On both occasions family members explained that Box didn't live at the address. Those facts were carefully omitted by Volpe in the search warrant application filed after the traffic stop. Among the falsehoods included in Volpe's affidavit was the claim that a “utility listing” was found for Volpe at that address. In fact, all of the utilities were listed in the name of Shandalyn Harrison, Box's ex-girlfriend. Invoking his “experience,” “knowledge,” and “training,” Volpe insisted that a search of the residence was justified by the supposed likelihood that a large quantity of narcotics and drug proceeds would be found at the residence. For too many judges, the rote recitation of such claims will obviate the need for actual evidence. “In many dozens of other warrant applications sworn by MPD officers to different Superior Court judges in the one-year period, MPD officers similarly claimed under oath, based on the same `training' and `experience,' that a broad category of people referred to as `drug traffickers' attempt to hide the evidence of their criminal activities in other places that are not their own home,” notes the lawsuit filed on behalf of Harrison and her children. “These statements of `training' and `experience' thus purportedly give agents of the District's government the ability to raid and search multiple homes and other locations for every traffic stop or street arrest in which they find contraband.” At the time he filled out his warrant application, Taylor Volpe was a rookie officer with the MPD. He was assimilated into the department’s institutional culture very quickly. In July 2013, just weeks after the home invasion that grew out of Volpe’s affidavit, the officer was given a “Rookie of the Year” award by the 5th District Citizen’s Advisory Council of the MPD. Those to whom that award is given “are acknowledged … by cops who know good police work when they see it (and work alongside it),” observed the Council. Given their standards of behavior, Volpe and his comrades would be suitable for employment in some of the worst Third World despotisms. In fact, they might be a bit over-qualified. Saddam Hussein famously said that “Law consists of two lines above my signature.” For the DC Metro Police, and the pathologically indifferent judges who enable them, “Probable Cause” consists of whatever speculative, unsubstantiated claims an officer makes, as long as they are prefaced with a reference to his “experience and training.” The result is an enforcement regime in which police in the nation's Capital behave in a manner indistinguishable from U.S. soldiers carrying out raids against the families of “suspected militants” in occupied Baghdad. Sexual humiliation of captives during a judicially authorized home invasion appears to be a standard element of the ritual. About three weeks before Ms. Harrison's 11-year-old daughter was dragged naked from the shower by an armored, masked assailant, Michael Pitts was thrown to the floor of his home by SWAT operators who tore off his pants and “probed his naked genitals and anal cavity” in front of his disabled mother. The 37-year old Pitts was in the kitchen cooking for his bedridden mother when the Berserkers kicked open the front door. The rationale for this home invasion was the arrest, three days earlier in a different location, of Pitts' uncle Tyrone, who had been detained on the streets without probable cause by officers who demanded that the 64-year-old man submit to a body search. The pedestrian, who was not suspected of committing a violent crime, was arrested after the officers found a gun. In the subsequent search warrant affidavit, Officer Mark Pugh listed not a single “particularized fact suggesting that guns, ammunition, or other contraband would be present in the Pitts' home,” the family pointed out in its lawsuit against the MPD. It provided only “generic and conclusory claims that, based on their `training' and `experience,' [police] are likely to find guns, ammunition, and other firearms accessories in a person's home after an arrest for gun possession is made away from the home.” Neither firearms, ammunition, nor evidence of criminal wrongdoing were found during the raid – and as Michael Pitts can testify, the search was nothing if not thorough. Neither Officer Pugh nor his comrades bothered to explain how a body cavity search could produce evidence of a weapons-related offense. Presumably, their “training and experience” authorize them to inflict pointless humiliation of that kind, and their “qualified immunity” protects them against civil and criminal liability for such actions. Ella Lane, a 71-year-old woman whose home was raided in October 2012, endured a different variety of sadistic abuse. The elderly woman, who had been watching television when her door was broken down by the SWAT team, was dragged to her front lawn and held, at gunpoint, in view of her neighbors for six hours while occupation troops ransacked the home in which she had lived for 37 years. During that time she was not allowed to eat, drink, or use the restroom. Once again, the invaders failed to find any evidence of criminal activity. As they left the shattered home, one of the Stormtroopers told Lane that if he were ever called back to the house, he would “make sure that she lost her home,” recounts a lawsuit filed against the department. As in the case of Tyrone Pitts and his family, this SWAT raid grew out of a warrantless search in which a gun was discovered. The subject of the earlier arrest – a 28-year-old man named Terrence Crossland – was the victim's grandson. Crossland and two friends were smoking on the sidewalk when they were accosted by officers from an MPD Vice unit. Crossland was arrested for violating the District’s open container law after one of the officers found a gun in a jacket belonging to one of his friends. It was on this basis that Officer John Wright swore out a formulaic and perjurious affidavit claiming that because of his “training and experience” he just knew that “persons involved in illegal activities maintain books, records, documentation and other papers relating to the ordering, sales, and servicing of their firearms.” He didn’t even bother pretending that Crossland’s friend lived in Lane’s house; he simply used the only address he could find. Attorney Alec Karakatsanis, who filed the civil complaint on Lane's behalf, correctly observes that “it was not and is not illegal to possess a firearm at one's home in the District. Nowhere did [Officer] Wright allege … that the residents of the home did not possess valid licenses or that they had been disqualified from lawful firearms ownership.” Nor did he establish a basis for treating Mrs. Lane as a suspect in a crime: Her only involvement in this matter consisted of living in a home near the scene of the arrest. As Karakatsanis points out, Wright's warrant application “sought permission for what amounted to a Colonial Era general warrant, requesting that `a Search Warrant be issued for the entire premises … for any other evidence of a crime that may be found.'” General warrants of the kind routinely used by Washington's Metro PD figured very prominently in the angry letter sent to London by Jefferson and his colleagues explaining the moral basis for the use of lethal defensive force against colonial-era law enforcement officers. That comparison is unfair, given that colonial-era Redcoats tended to be more restrained than contemporary American police officers, and they were also more liable to punishment for any abuses they committed. A more appropriate comparison would be to the behavior and methods employed by the Regime's occupation forces overseas. The MPD's warrant applications adapt the “pattern of life analysis” used in counterinsurgency operations – both Special Forces raids and drone strikes. “Probable cause” isn't necessary to authorize such measures. All that is required to unleash the strike teams or dispatch the drones is for analysts to establish connections of some kind – kinship, known association, a single cell phone conversation or text message – between a potential target and a “suspected militant.” In the fashion of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, anybody who is killed or injured in the operation is classified as either a “militant” or an associate of one. Unlike the residents of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area, people living in D.C.’s majority-black neighborhoods aren’t terrorized by the Empire’s robotic heralds of mass destruction. They are merely haunted by the knowledge that police can invade their home without cause, strip-search them in front of their families, or drag their naked, screaming grade school-age daughters out of the shower – and then threaten them with the loss of their home if they pay a return visit. The three incidents described above, which are typical of the estimated 80-124 SWAT raids that occur every day in the American Soyuz, took place within a ten-mile radius of the White House. Two of those raids, interestingly, were carried out a few months before Miriam Carey was executed in the streets of Washington, D.C. after inadvertently driving through a traffic barricade near the White House. No other country endures routine state terrorism of this variety. Perhaps we should consider this one facet of “American Exceptionalism.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 Killing With Impunity The Fifteen Most Outrageous Responses by Police After Killing Unarmed People = by BILL QUIGLEY = http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/26/fifteen-most-outrageous-responses-by-police-after-killing-unarmed-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fifteen-most-outrageous-responses-by-police-after-killing-unarmed-people = Police kill a lot of unarmed people. So far in 2015, as many as 100 unarmed people have been killed by police. Here are fifteen of the most outrageous reasons given by police to justify killing unarmed people in the last twelve months. First, a bit of background. So far in 2015, there have been around 400 fatal police shootings already; one in six of those killings, 16 percent, were of unarmed people, 49 had no weapon at all and 13 had toys, according to the Washington Post. Of the police killings this year less than 1 percent have resulted in the officer being charged with a crime. The Guardian did a study which included killings by Tasers and found 102 people killed by police so far in 2015 were unarmed and that unarmed Black people are twice as likely to be killed by police as whites. One. He was Dancing in the Street and Walking with a Purpose. On June 9, 2015 an unarmed man, Ryan Bollinger, was shot by police in Des Moines after “walking with a purpose” towards the police car after he exited his vehicle after a low speed chase started when he was observed dancing in the street and behaving erratically. The deceased was shot by the police through the rolled up cruiser window. The murder is under investigation. Two. Thought It Was My Taser. An unarmed man, Eric Harris, ran from the police in Tulsa Oklahoma on April 2, 2015. After he was shot in the back by a Taser by one officer and was on the ground, another 73 year old volunteer reserve officer shot and killed him, all captured by video. While dying he was yelling that he was losing his breath, to which one of the officers responded “F*ck your breath.” The police said the officer thought he was shooting his Taser and “inadvertently discharged his service weapon.” The officer has been charged with second degree manslaughter. Running away from the police so often provokes police overreaction that the aggressive police response has several names including the “foot tax” and the “running tax.” Three. Naked Man Refused to Stop. A naked unarmed mentally ill Air Force Afghanistan veteran, Anthony Hill, was shot and killed March 9, 2015 by DeKalb County Georgia police after police said he refused an order to stop. The killing is under investigation. Four. Not Going to Say. On March 6, 2015 Aurora Colorado police shot and killed unarmed Naeschylus Vinzant while taking him into custody. For the last three months, while the investigation into the killing continues, the police have refused to say what compelled the officer to shoot Vinzant. Five. Five Police Felt Threatened by One Unarmed Homeless Man. March 1, 2015 Los Angeles police shot and killed an unarmed homeless man Charly Leundeu Keunang after five officers went to his tent and struggled with him. One unarmed homeless man threatened five armed LAPD officers? Los Angeles police have killed about one person a week since 2000. An investigation is ongoing. Six. My Taser Didn’t Work. On February 23, 2015, an unarmed man, Daniel Elrod, was shot twice in the back and once in the shoulder and killed by Omaha Nebraska police after he tried to climb a tree and jump a fence to escape police who suspected him of robbery. Police said their Taser did not work, he ignored their demands to get down on the ground, he did not show his hands, and they felt threatened. Video was not made available and the officer later resigned. This was the second person this officer killed. No criminal charges were filed. Seven. Armed with a Broom. Lavall Hall’s mother called the police in Miami Gardens February 15, 2015 and asked for help for her son who was mentally ill. Lavall Hall, five foot four inches tall, walked outside with a broom and was later shot and killed by police who said he failed to comply with instructions and engaged them with an object. The killing is still under investigation. Eight. Throwing Rocks. On February 10, 2015 an unarmed man, Antonio Zambrano-Montes, was fired at 17 times and killed by police in Kennewick, Washington. A video of his killing has been viewed more than 2 million times. Officers said he had been throwing rocks at cars, ran away and then turned around. Nine. Taser Worked but He Didn’t Stop Moving. On February 2, 2015, a Hummelstown Pennsylvania police officer shot unarmed David Kassick in the back with a Taser and when Kassick went to the ground on his stomach, then shot him twice with her gun in the back, killing him. The officer said Kassick, who was running away from a traffic stop, was told to show his hands and not move but continued to try to remove the Taser prongs from his back and the officer thought he was reaching for a gun. The officer has been charged with homicide. Ten. Car going 11 Miles an Hour was going to Kill Me. Denver police fired 8 times at unarmed Jessica Hernandez, 17, who was killed January 16 after being hit by four bullets. The police said she drove too close to them when she was trying to get away and may have tried to run them down as she tried to drive away so they shot into the windshield and driver’s windows. The police said the car may have reached 11 miles per hour in the 16 feet it traveled before hitting a fence. The police were not charged. Eleven. Armed with a Spoon. Dennis Grigsby, an unarmed mentally ill man holding a soup spoon, was shot in the chest and killed in a neighbor’s garage by Texarkana Police December 15, 2015. The killing is under investigation. Twelve. Armed with Prescription Bottle. Rumain Brisbon, a 34 year old unarmed man, was shot twice and killed by police in Phoenix on December 2, 2014, after he ran away, was caught and was in a struggle with the officer who mistook a prescription pill bottle in Brisbon’s pocket for a gun. The police officer was not charged. Thirteen. It Was an Accident. On November 20, 2014, a New York City police officer fired into a stairwell and killed unarmed Akai Gurley. The officer, who was charged with manslaughter, is expected to say he accidently fired his gun. Fourteen. Don’t Mention It. On November 12, 2014, an unarmed handcuffed inmate was shot multiple times in the head, neck, chest and arms by officers while fighting with another handcuffed inmate in the High Desert State Prison in Carson City Nevada. His family was not told and did not know he had been shot until three days later when they claimed his body at a mortuary. Fifteen. Armed with Toy Gun. John Crawford was unarmed in a Walmart store in Beavercreek Ohio on August 4, 2014, when he picked up an unloaded BB gun. When officers arrived they say they ordered him to put down the gun and started shooting, hitting him at least twice and killing Mr. Crawford. In a widely viewed video Mr. Crawford can be seeing dropping the BB gun, running away and being shot while unarmed. Likewise, Cleveland police shot and killed an unarmed 12 year old boy, Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy pellet gun on November 22, 2014. Police said they shouted verbal commands from inside their vehicle in the two seconds before they shot him twice. In both these cases, the police story of shouting warnings and orders looks quite iffy at best. These are the responses of police authorities who face less than one chance in a hundred of being charged when they kill people, even unarmed people. These outrages demand massive change in the way lethal force is used, reported, justified and prosecuted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted July 1, 2015 Author Share Posted July 1, 2015 (edited) Video: Hartford police beating caught on camera Originally posted here. https://www.facebook.com/lashon.byrd/videos/vb.100002229222866/844378955646404/?type=2&theater.http://rinf.com/alt-news/multimedia/video-hartford-police-beating-caught-on-camera/ ########################################################### http://refreshingnews99.blogspot.in/2015/07/police-officer-shoots-at-charging-dog.html Police officer shoots at charging dog, hits 4-year-old girl, allegedly leaves without offering help A 4-year-old girl who was shot in the leg when a police officer fired at a dog is recovering after surgery as her family questions how the officer responded. Ava Ellis was hit accidentally on the afternoon of June 19 when an officer fired at a charging dog at a home in Whitehall, in central Ohio, according to Columbus police. The department said another relative had flagged down the officer for help after the girl's mother cut herself on glass. Ava's parents, Andrea and Brad Ellis, and their attorney disputed the police account Tuesday and alleged the policeman fired unnecessarily and acted recklessly with children nearby on the porch. They say the roughly 40-pound dog, a bulldog mix named Patches, was retreating inside from the porch when the officer fired. "The dog may have barked at the officer; however, the officer should not have shot," attorneyMichael Wright said. "There was absolutely no reason for him to shoot. He was within 10 (or) 12 feet of the children." The family also says people yelled to notify the officer that the girl was hurt but claims he drove away without offering help, and other emergency responders had to care for the girl. A police spokeswoman, Denise Alex-Bouzounis, contradicted that, saying by email that the officer remained at the scene and called for help. The department identified him as OfficerJonathan Thomas, who had been with the force for five years. He is not on paid administrative leave, as the Ellises' attorney suggested, Alex-Bouzounis said. The Ellis family and their attorneys are conducting a private investigation separate from the pending police investigation of what happened, said Wright, who added that it was too early to comment on possible legal action by Ava's parents. Source:http://www.timesunion.com Edited July 1, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted July 2, 2015 Author Share Posted July 2, 2015 (edited) Court Rules Police No Longer Have to Release Information about Corrupt Cops to the Publicby IWB · July 1, 2015 Maryland — In a damning blow to transparency, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that information related to police misconduct cannot be disclosed to the public and is exempt from the Maryland Public Information Act. In other words, if a police officer strangles an innocent child to death while on duty and is “disciplined” for these actions, the public will never and can never know. According to the Baltimore Sun: The question before the state’s highest court centered on whether citizens have a right to know the outcome and other information about an investigation once misconduct allegations are sustained. In a 5-2 ruling, the court said the law exempts personnel information from disclosure and does not differentiate between “sustained” and “unsustained” complaints. This bogus secrecy applies to the actual victims in the complaints! In 2009, Sgt. John Maiello of the Baltimore Police Department was leaving a voicemail for a black woman named Teleta Dashiell. At the end of the call, Maiello thought he hung up the phone, but he actually stayed on allowing the voicemail to record his racial slurs against Dashiell. Naturally, Dashiell filed a formal complaint. Several month later, the only thing she received back was a letter from the department stating that her claim was sustained and appropriate action had been taken. That was it. The department refused to provide any further information such as what “action,” if any, had been taken. =====Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-rules-police-longer-release-information-corrupt-cops-public/#coheWGtRLol8FR42.99 Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/court-rules-police-no-longer-have-to-release-information-about-corrupt-cops-to-the-public/#LgVustM0UpDFtyJh.99 ############################################################################# Cop who tortured handcuffed man had prior record of attacking people ==== Source: Boing Boing see video https://youtu.be/eO4DLHrjetU ------------------------------------------------ In 2009 Colorado police officer Mark Magness broke an innocent man's arm during an illegal fireworks investigation. Magness pleaded guilty but the police department didn't fire him. Now that a video has been released that shows officer Magness horrifically torturing a handcuffed man who was also tied to a chairin December 2014, the department might be wondering if they made the wrong decision to keep Magness on the force. The man, who is now fairly agitated after being assaulted while in handcuffs is thrown into the cell. He then makes a mistake and raises his open hand toward Magness. At this point, Magness jumps on the man and begins pummeled him. Magness, knowing that his body camera is recording this abuse, continues to yell out, “Stop Resisting!” throughout the abuse in an attempt to justify his torturous ways. It gets worse from there. Magness was fired by the Federal Heights police department, pleaded guilty to assault on June 17. He received one year probation. Share This Article... Edited July 2, 2015 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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