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NYPD cops beat an 84 year old man after he didn't seem to understand their orders and tried to walk away.

http://nypost.com/2014/01/19/cops-be...-he-jaywalked/

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Cops bloodied an 84-year-old man and put him in the hospital Sunday when he jaywalked at an Upper West Side intersection and didn’t appear to understand their orders to stop, witnesses said.
Kang Wong was strolling north on Broadway and crossing 96th Street at around 5 p.m., when an officer told him to halt because he had walked against the light.
Police were targeting jaywalkers in the area following the third pedestrian fatality this month around West 96th Street.
Wong, who lives a block away, appeared to not understand the cop, the witnesses said.
“The guy didn’t seem to speak English. The cop walked him over to the Citibank” near the northeast corner of 96th and Broadway, said one witness, Ian King, a Fordham University law student.
“[The officer] stood him up against the wall and was trying to write him a ticket. The man didn’t seem to understand, and he started walking away.
“The cop tried to pull him back, and that’s when he began to struggle with the cop,” said King, 24. “As soon as he pushed the cop, it was like cops started running in from everywhere.”
Wong was left bleeding and dazed with cuts to his face.

12-08-2014 , 09:33 AM

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let's get wil in here to mericansplain to us how the dude moved his hand, therefore clearly the brave officers had reason to fear for their lives.

12-08-2014 , 12:31 PM

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Prosecutors have announced a grand jury will be convened in New York to investigate the recent police killing of [Akai Gurley].... Police say the gun may have discharged by accident.

Sounds legit. He accidentally pulled his gun out and then accidentally shot the guy (who was armed with black demon powers). No need to indict or drag this one out, let's move to the next case.

12-08-2014 , 12:42 PM

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rjoefish

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He pushed them and could have had a gun. I would have done the same. Not that it's right, but he totally had it coming. At least he wasn't shot.

/wil

12-08-2014 , 01:17 PM

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dude definitely reached for his waistband

12-08-2014 , 01:22 PM

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Guys he was near a bank. It's totally possible he could rip the ATM out of the wall and beat the officer to death with it. Justified.

12-08-2014 , 01:25 PM

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ALLTheCookies

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Another police murder of a 14 year old black kid slipped through the cracks apparently.

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"And I seen when he opened the door, I just see him got hit, hit by about four shots, four times, four or five times. I just seen him stumble and everything," he said. "He shot through the door. One of my friends tried to close [the door while] that man was still shooting through the door."

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/s...ontillman.html

12-08-2014 , 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ALLTheCookies

Another police murder of a 14 year old black kid slipped through the cracks apparently.

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/s...ontillman.html

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a high school freshman and talented athlete

Confirmed deadly threat. Also lol at the cops changing their story from "came to the door with a gun" to "we found a [BB] gun in the area after we murdered him."

This is in Louisiana, so I guess we can't even pretend like this murder will be taken seriously by the authorities.

12-08-2014 , 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ALLTheCookies

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/s...ontillman.html

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Cameron Tillman, a high school freshman and talented athlete, with a 3.7 grade point average and no reputation for trouble, was shot dead on a Tuesday afternoon.

There's gotta be more to it than that. He couldn't have been an angel. Must have had it coming somehow. (Right, midas et al?)

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Then, late that night, the Houma sheriff announced that the officer who shot Cameron – Preston Norman, a seven-year veteran – was black.

Nothing to see here. Just typical black-on-black murder. Carry on.

If I were on CNN / Fox and had to speculate, I'd say the cop and Tillman were in rival gangs. Maybe the 911 caller was also in the cop's gang to provide the pretense for the hit.

12-08-2014 , 01:50 PM

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Today is such a good day for police blowing young people away stories!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...performer.html

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Two Los Angeles police bicycle officers shot and killed the man just before 7 p.m. on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue after someone called 911 to report a man with knife.

LAPD is not releasing any information on the shooting, except for tweeting a picture of a folding knife laying near the body, perhaps a Swiss Army Knife, carried by boy scouts everywhere.

12-08-2014 , 02:24 PM

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The area of Hollywood Blvd where he was killed is near the famous Walk of Fame and is renowned for its street performers who dress up in costumes and play roles to the amusement of tourists.

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12-08-2014 , 06:28 PM

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Last year Cleveland police shot a man in the chest, then handcuffed him and charged him for a moving violation

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When a man pointing a Glock pistol approached Gregory Love’s car in downtown Cleveland late one night, Love did the only sensible thing possible, he says: he put up his hands and decided to let the man have what he wanted.

But Vincent Montague shot him in the chest anyway, according to Love, before having the 29-year-old forcibly removed from his silver Range Rover and his hands fastened together behind his back.

Blood from the bullet wound seeped through Love’s white T-shirt. He grew colder, despite the warm June air. “I actually thought I was going to die,” Love told the Guardian. “I felt faint. I saw blood coming from my chest. I thought he was just going to kill me right there.”

Eighteen months later, Love recalls his alleged assailant clearly: he was wearing the uniform of the Cleveland Division of Police. The only person prosecuted following the altercation was Love, who was fined $100 for a traffic violation. Montague was suspended from work for a day.

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Love, mentioned in the report under the pseudonym “Nathan”, was stopped by Montague, a five-year veteran, on 23 June last year in Cleveland’s bustling warehouse district. Love tried to turn on to a street that he said he did not realise was closed because several other cars had just turned on to it. Love said he did not know they had special valet tags and Montague refused to answer when asked why Love, too, could not proceed.

Cleveland’s police and city legal department declined to comment on the case. But in a response to the lawsuit filed to court in March, Montague said Love responded in a “belligerent, aggressive, and verbally threatening manner”. He also claimed he had noticed Love and his passenger, Dunja Biggins, speeding around earlier in the night, and that Biggins was standing through an open sunroof “generally creating a disturbance”.

Footage from a traffic camera shows Love slowly reversing his SUV back out, but then seeming to become blocked by a crowd crossing the street, which was busy as bars emptied following a Mary J Blige concert. Montague, who claimed in his response that Love was reversing in an “excessively fast and out-of-control manner”, approached the vehicle and drew his gun. The March filing said the officer acted because he concluded Love was drunk. Love’s lawyers said he was never tested and this was the first time the allegation had been made.

The lawsuit states that Love and Biggins “had their hands raised above their heads” and avoided “sudden or furtive gestures or movements”, yet Montague pointed his gun and threatened them before leaning into the driver’s window to take the keys from the ignition. Montague insists that Love’s hands were not up and that his right hand remained at his waist. A Vine video filmed by an onlooker appears to show Love raising at least one hand.

Love said he tried to explain to the officer that the ignition was on a central console rather than the steering column. “After failing to locate the keys with his hand,” the lawsuit claims, “Montague took a few steps back, pointed the muzzle of the service weapon at Greg Love and Dunja Biggins, and opened fire into the cabin of the SUV”.

Montague, by contrast, says that he “instinctively pulled back” and opened fire because as he leant in for the keys, he felt Love “reach his right hand for [Montague’s] service weapon”.

Nicholas DiCello, an attorney for Spangenberg Shibley & Liber, representing Love, said they had seen no evidence that Love reached for the weapon, and suggested that his client would have been charged with a more serious crime if he had done so. Love has past convictions for a drug offence and theft.

“Oh my God, you shot him,” Biggins screamed. The bullet entered Love’s chest above his right nipple, exited his body and then lodged in one of his arms. “You just shot me!,” Love says he shouted. “I wasn’t doing nothing!”

He said Montague seemed “totally irate” and called for backup. Another officer arrived and handcuffed Love, who said he was made to stand beside the vehicle, bleeding. “I was so confused,” he recalled. “I just got shot – why am I in cuffs?”

Vason alleges that after he approached the scene, an officer punched him on the head, which appears to be supported by the surveillance footage. The officer, alleged to be Octavio Gaviria-Sanchez, is then seen pinning Vason on the street with several colleagues. The lawsuit alleges the officers kicked and struck Vason before handcuffing him and driving him away from the scene, then dumping him nearby without any charge.

In a response filed to court with two other officers, Gaviria-Sanchez said: “Vason was subject to a brief and justified detention for officer safety and safety of others due to Vason’s aggressive and unlawful actions.” The officers denied punching, kicking or striking Vason.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...P=share_btn_tw

12-08-2014 , 07:11 PM

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Quebec cop exceeds speed limit by 72km/hr while on routine business, hits a car, killing 5 year old in the back seat. No charges.

12-08-2014 , 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Last year Cleveland police shot a man in the chest, then handcuffed him and charged him for a moving violation

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...P=share_btn_tw

This seriously makes me want to throw up

12-09-2014 , 12:32 AM

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I'm still trying to figure out how he would be reaching for for his service weapon. Assuming the officer had his holster on his right hand side, for the victim to reach with his right hand wouldn't he had to have reached across the officer's body? Even then you still don't back up and pump one into him.

12-09-2014 , 09:22 AM

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Another day another grand jury not indicating police.

https://www.texasobserver.org/grand-...olice-beating/

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The Beaumont Enterprise reported in November that a grand jury had cleared officers Ricky Grissom and Ryan Cunningham, who are white, for a violent encounter with a black woman named Keyarika Diggles inside the Jasper City Jail. Overhead cameras caught the officers grabbing Diggles by the hair, slamming her face onto a counter and pinning her to the floor, before dragging Diggles, by the feet, into a holding cell. According to her lawyers, Diggles spent hours in the dark “detox” cell before being strip-searched by police dispatcher Lindsey Davenport.

12-09-2014 , 10:03 AM

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Why is broken windows not applied to police misconduct?

12-09-2014 , 04:07 PM

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Your police pony is late to the scene

12-11-2014 , 07:37 PM

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Cloud backup foils cops again

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...f-another-man/

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While in custody, she gave her phone to an officer to show the video that she didn't try to run over anybody. The video was allegedly erased from the phone in what her attorney, Joshua Insley, described in a telephone interview as a "coverup."

12-11-2014 , 09:45 PM

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Drug raid of a home in the middle of the night, what could go wrong??

http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/loc...back/20213383/

Drug raid in rural Georgia ends in a homeowner dead, no drugs found, and no police punished.

Dude was shot twice in the back twice as he was laying on the ground.

12-12-2014 , 01:01 AM

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Cops use taser on woman while she recorded arrest of another man

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Mwamba was arrested on charges of assault for allegedly trying to run over two officers. Charges were dropped, and she suffered cuts and bruises.

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The suit, filed last week, said the police "attacked" the woman, "dragged" her from her vehicle, and "threw her onto the street, handcuffed her, tasered her, called her a 'dumb bitch,' and kept her restrained."

12-13-2014 , 05:22 PM

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his only crime, as predictable as the sun rising in the east, is....resisting arrest.

12-13-2014 , 09:34 PM

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Ok so he was resisting arrest...arrest for what? Why was he being arrested since they seem to be admitting they didn't charge or cite him with anything else. It's just a sort of Orwellian bait and switch where we all just mentally equate "resisting police" with "resisting arrest?"

It would seem he should be able to add an unlawful arrest complaint to his assault complaint. In a perfect world the cop would probably be better off claiming he just randomly assaulted this guy.

12-14-2014 , 06:39 PM

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I'm about to lose it.

Video shows John Crawford's girlfriend aggressively questioned after Ohio police shot him dead in Walmart

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Tasha Thomas was reduced to swearing on the lives of her relatives that John Crawford III had not been carrying a firearm when they entered the Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, to buy crackers, marshmallows and chocolate bars on the evening of 5 August.

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“As a result of his actions, he is gone,” said the detective, as she slumped in her chair and cried.

12-14-2014 , 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ALLTheCookies

I'm about to lose it.

Did you make it to the end?

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After the case was handed to a special prosecutor, a grand jury decided in September that Williams and another officer involved should not face criminal charges. Williams was in 2010 responsible for the only other fatal police shooting in Beavercreek’s recent history.

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