Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black By Bree Newsome Bass, Black Agenda Report. November 13, 2020 Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black2020-11-132020-11-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/blackcops__845x400-1.jpeg200px200px The idea that we can resolve racism by integrating a fundamentally anti-Black institution is the most absurd notion of all. “The integration of police forces does nothing to alter their basic function as the primary enforcers of structural racism on […]
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Innocent Mother Beaten By Philly Cops Filing Lawsuit By Andrew Emett, Nation of Change. November 3, 2020 Innocent Mother Beaten By Philly Cops Filing Lawsuit2020-11-032020-11-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/philly-e1604437161319.jpg200px200px Attorneys representing the victim confirmed she is filing a civil rights case against the police department. Recorded on cellphone video pulling a mother out of her vehicle and smashing the windows with her toddler inside the backseat, several Philadelphia police officers […]
The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters By Ali Winston, Black Agenda Report. October 23, 2020 The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/nypd.jpeg200px200px The police unit most likely to bust protesters’ heads is full of cops with long misconduct histories. “The SRG is a familiar presence at demonstrations and has targeted specific organizers and groups.” This summer in New York City was […]
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem capitalized on news that police officers are leaving Seattle at record rates amid budget calls and ongoing protests by offering them work in her state. In her message to Seattle police officers, the Republican governor promised South Dakota would not “demonize” them. “In South Dakota we stand WITH you,” she tweeted on Saturday. The governor even added a link to a […]
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Nine immigrant-rights activists who’d been extradited across state lines on misdemeanor charges of trespass and littering gathered outside the Henrico County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office on Thursday with supporters, waving flags and calling for their charges to be dropped. An hour away in Newport News, Virginia, heavily armed men—some associated with the right-wing “Boogaloo” movement—also gathered outside a police station to protest a misdemeanor trespassing charge against […]
After apparently shooting his wife with a 12 gauge shotgun, Thomas Jarboe called 911 to explain what happened. “She has been abusing me, she is my caretaker, and is completely destroying me,” Jarboe said to the dispatcher, according to court documents first reported by KOMO News. “She hates all my kids, my kids all hate her.” The 75-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Washington said […]
US police departments taking advantage of the ability to acquire Washington’s surplus military equipment could very well be contributing to unrest and violence in the same communities they are sworn to protect, according to a new analysis. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed on Thursday that data from the US military and police departments nationwide presented a disturbing relationship between police killings and the US Department of Defense’s […]
Corrupt AG Cameron received endorsement from racist Trump VT: The Kentucky grand jury that decided not to charge the two officers, Mattingly (not ours) and Cosgrove was, in fact, never allowed to discuss charging them at all. The decision that was passed on to the press as a “finding” of the Grand Jury was, in fact, a fabricated finding of a rigged grand jury hearing where […]
Every element of the criminal system is implicated in the failure to secure justice for Breonna Taylor. The cops, per the judge who signed off the warrant that set the events leading to Taylor’s murder in motion, likely obtained that paperwork using fabricated information. Shoddy police work saw Louisville law enforcement raid Taylor’s home despite the fact that the suspect they sought was already in their […]
Paramount Network might have canceled Cops earlier this year but evidently the show is not dead yet; its production company has begun filming new episodes. Cops and the similarly-themed A&E show Live PD were both canceled earlier this year amid protests against police brutality. Although new episodes will not air in the U.S., a representative for Cops producer Langley Prods. told Deadline they will still debut […]
Brad Parscale, who was demoted from his job as President Donald Trump’s campaign manager in July, was suddenly tackled and slammed to the pavement by Fort Lauderdale, Florida, police after his wife said he threatened suicide. Police body-cam footage released Monday shows Parscale, wearing only a baseball cap and a pair of knee-length shorts, sitting on his porch as officers arrive at his home on Sunday […]
Anthony Bottom, who now goes by the name Jalil Muntaqim, was interviewed in New York state prison in 2018. He’s going home on parole after more than four decades behind bars. Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) hide caption toggle caption Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) Anthony Bottom, who now goes by the name Jalil Muntaqim, was interviewed in New York state prison in 2018. He’s going […]
This week, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made the bombshell announcement that the cops who fatally shot Breonna Taylor would not be charged with killing her, calling their use of force in the March raid “justified to protect themselves.” In that justification, he said that one witness corroborated the three officers’ insistence that they knocked and identified themselves at Taylor’s Louisville home while executing a search […]
This story contains graphic details that may be disturbing. A New Hampshire man who found out his wife was having an affair murdered the lover and then forced her to decapitate the body, authorities alleged on Friday. The macabre account was contained in the arrest warrant for Armando Barron, 30, and Britany Barron, 31, who are charged in the death of 25-year-old Jonathan Amerault. The wife […]
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano diverged from the consensus opinion of his colleagues on the Breonna Taylor decision, saying Thursday that he would have personally “indicted all three” police officers involved in her death. After a Kentucky grand jury decided not to charge any of the three Louisville Metro police officers with killing Taylor during a botched late-night raid on her apartment, Fox […]
23 Sep, 2020 16:10 Follow RT on An investigation is underway in north London after 10 police officers were injured by “a suspected corrosive substance” as they executed a drugs warrant, according to the Metropolitan Police. Follow RT on Source link
Texas highways are not and have never been strewn with homemade bombs. Yet Texas police have over 100 MRAPs, the armored vehicle with a blast-resistant hull that U.S. service members drove in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tennessee cops have 86 more. Ohio police have 43. It’s just one measure of how militarized American policing has become since 9/11. And it’s a component of a larger one. Police […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano Senior army officers, national intelligence officials, CIA analysts and even Israeli cyber experts. These are the teachers who train the students at Link Campus University in Rome. Especially in the exclusive Master in Intelligence and Security intended on paper for future managers of national authorities and agencies, employees of the arms industry, scholars of […]
In October of 2006, the FBI released an intelligence assessment titled, “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.” Though the document—culled from FBI investigations and open sources—was heavily redacted, it reached a number of disturbing conclusions. The assessment revealed that white supremacists “have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities”; that many of these white-supremacist infiltrators are known as “ghost skins” […]
In recent months, the United States have seen significant developments in racial and social justice, in the wake of multiple incidents of police brutality against Black Americans involving white police officers, primarily encapsulated in the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, a black man, who was asphyxiated by a white officer in May. A Westchester County, New York, high-school teacher is in hot water after handing […]
The Los Angeles County governing body has earmarked $100,000 for tip-offs that might help police to nab a suspect, described as a young black man, who shot two deputies multiple times in their car on Saturday while unprovoked. “The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has authorized a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect,” the LA county’s five-member governing […]
Minneapolis prosecutors argued Friday that the four ex-cops charged in George Floyd’s death should face a single jury after participating in the May 25 incident “together”—but their lawyers argued a collective trial would be against the “interest of justice” in the latest indication the men are turning on each other. During a court appearance, attorneys for Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas K. Lane, and J. Alexander […]
Already targeted in the recent past, the Winston Churchill statue has been defaced and dubbed ‘racist’ again, with the man suspected of doing this being literally removed from the scene in front of TV cameras. A young man was spotted spray-painting the words ‘is a racist’ on the base of the bronze Churchill statue just as the Extinction Rebellion rally gained pace on Thursday. The graffiti-savvy […]
The body of the France-based, Russian supermodel was said to have been found by the Italian coastguard off Sardinia near one of Italy’s largest military bases on the Teulada coastline, routinely used by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for their war games. Italian authorities in the autonomous region of Sardinia are investigating possible espionage after a Russian Playboy model drowned off the island near a […]
On the night of June 24, 2009, Michael Jackson finished rehearsing for a set of comeback performances and returned to his rented mansion in Holmby Hills, a posh neighborhood on Los Angeles’ Westside. The King of Pop’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, arrived at the residence shortly after midnight. Around 14 hours later, Jackson was pronounced dead—with no evidence of foul play. Two months later, the Los […]
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Riot police have declared an unlawful demonstration after a large group of angry protesters gathered outside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office following a police shooting of a black man. The man was shot by sheriff’s deputies on Monday shortly after midday, after he allegedly assaulted one of the deputies as they tried to arrest him. The officers claim the man was in possession of a […]
Know Your Rights – Don’t Talk To Cops At The Airport By John Kiriakou, Consortium News. August 31, 2020 Know Your Rights – Don’t Talk To Cops At The Airport2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/airport-police-officers.-by-teagasc-cc-by-sa-3.0-wikimedia-commons.jpg200px200px Above photo: Airport police officers. By Teagasc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. When an ICE officer stopped me after I got off the plane I knew the harassment was about to begin. But I was ready for […]
Jacob Blake, a black Wisconsin man shot in the back by police responding to a domestic dispute call, is no longer handcuffed to his hospital bed, his lawyer has confirmed, adding that a warrant for his arrest has been vacated. Kenosha authorities agreed to vacate Blake’s warrant for arrest on felony third-degree sexual assault, misdemeanor trespassing, and disorderly conduct charges after agreeing on a court date, […]
Jacob Blake’s father has questioned the drastically different treatment his son received from Wisconsin police compared to a white suspect accused of opening fire and killing two people who were protesting Blake’s shooting. Blake was shot seven times by Kenosha police officers last Sunday evening as he got into a car with his family. The shooting sparked days of protests in the city and, on Wednesday […]
Tesla driver Devainder Goli was watching a movie and using the car’s Autopilot feature this week when the car slammed into a Nash County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s vehicle in Nash County, North Carolina, according to authorities. According to The News & Observer, the crash took place Wednesday, around 13 miles outside the town of Nashville. Although both cars were totaled, no one was injured. However, Goli […]
An Arkansas nurse who vanished while jogging was abducted, raped, and buried, police said during a court hearing Monday for the farmer charged with her murder. Quake Lewellyn, 28, a third-generation farmer, was silent as he walked up the steps to the courthouse in Jackson County. But authorities say he confessed when they questioned him in the disappearance of Sydney Sutherland. According to pool reporters in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107607/63/1076076364_0:101:1920:1181_1200x675_80_0_0_96795bef8ba20eacff868cf817e816ba.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008241080266132-you-now-have-covid-us-cops-hunt-for-man-who-allegedly-gave-out-coronavirus-hugs—photo/ A Massachusetts police department is searching for information it hopes will lead to the capture of a man who allegedly forced fellow grocery shoppers, including one cancer survivor, to give him a “COVID hug.” The Springfield Police Department (SPD) detailed in a Friday social media post that the Springfield Police Detective Bureau needs help identifying a man who went […]
The on-camera shooting of a black man by police officers triggered riots in the Wisconsin city and drew national attention. Some people say the coverage fails to bring the African American man’s criminal record for context. Blake, 29, was shot multiple times in the back while trying to get into a car in front of witnesses, reportedly including his children. The police said the officers were […]
Riot police officers have arrested several Black Lives Matter protesters blocking roads in Lafayette, Louisiana, following a vigil for a man shot and killed by cops while resisting arrest and trying to “walk away.” Crowds of activists gathered on Saturday evening at the Shell gas station along Evangeline Thruway, where Trayford Pellerin, 31, was shot and killed Friday night. A group of protesters demanding justice soon […]
Police officers in Lafayette, Louisiana have shot and killed a man who resisted arrest and tried to walk into a gas station store ‘armed with a knife’, triggering a new wave of outrage over police brutality and ‘systemic racism.’ Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance call, involving a man with a knife at a Shell gas station around 8pm Friday. When they tried to […]
Antifascists Are Facing Off Against The Far-Right, Backed By Local Cops August 22, 2020 Antifascists Are Facing Off Against The Far-Right, Backed By Local Cops2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/fascists-v-anti-fascists-e1598106117369.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fascists v. anti-fascists in Sunland-Tujunga in the San Fernando Valley, CA from Twitter. Every Friday in Sunland-Tujunga, a small neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, just 15 minutes from Downtown LA, a group […]
Disturbing new footage of a Belgian cop pressing his full weight onto a Slovak man who died after the arrest in 2018, and the frivolity of his colleagues, has appalled many online, who likened it to the death of George Floyd. Harrowing scenes of Jozef Chovanec, a 38-year-old Slovakian, being forcefully restrained by a handful of Belgian police officers went public this Wednesday, after it was […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104809/48/1048094831_0:154:3008:1846_1200x675_80_0_0_21c079784a50b3fecba36c5a27d5fffa.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008171080200173-us-cops-investigate-discovery-of-skeletal-remains-inside-winter-coat-in-vacant-home/ A potential homebuyer in Baltimore, Maryland, made a grisly discovery on Sunday when they arrived to tour a house and found a dead body inside wearing cold weather gear. The Baltimore Sun’s Maggie Ybarra reported in a Twitter thread on Sunday that a prospective homebuyer who went to a house in the 1400 block of Baltimore’s Argyle Avenue found […]
Three police officers in Texas have been shot after they were met with gunfire while responding to a call in Cedar Park, a suburb of Austin. There have been reports that the suspect, barricaded in a house, has taken hostages. The incident unfolded on Sunday afternoon, after police were called to a home off Natalia Cove in Cedar Park, a major Austin suburb with a population […]
After a brief chase down several county roads, the trooper initiated a PIT maneuver, and the car came to a stop in a ditch, the GBI said. The trooper fired one round, fatally striking Lewis. In an incident report, Thompson wrote that he shot Lewis in the forehead because he thought Lewis was going to run him over. Update (August 14, 2020) – On Friday, August 14, […]
A group of protesters has sued the Seattle government, arguing that “unmitigated police violence” has imposed a monetary cost on their right to demonstrate freely, forcing them to buy expensive gear to safely confront the cops. Filed by five plaintiffs who took part in ongoing protests in Seattle, the suit seeks a temporary restraining order barring the city’s police department from wielding force and crowd control […]
Police in Colorado have been forced to apologize after a shocking viral video showed them detaining four clearly distressed young Black girls in a parking lot after mistaking their vehicle as stolen. The Gilliam family were reportedly in Aurora to get their nails done—but, before they could reach an open salon, the family’s four kids were ordered at gunpoint to lay facedown in the parking lot. […]
A Chicago, Illinois, Dunkin’ Donuts location recently fired an employee shortly after he was arrested and slapped with several charges for allegedly adding saliva to an Illinois State Police (ISP) District Chicago trooper’s coffee order. The ISP revealed on Saturday that Vincent Sessler, a 25-year-old former Dunkin’ employee in Chicago’s Far West, was arrested “without incident” and charged with disorderly conduct, reckless conduct and battery to […]
VT: Police claim this kind was part of a large violent gang that were riding bikes in the street and not wearing helmets. The child in question received 4 motor vehicles summonses and a charge of resisting arrest. Making it even more fun, a one man twitter campaign was begun by someone who posted about how these kids harassed him every day on his way to […]
After one of their members shot himself and one of his comrades, the black militia marching through Louisville on Saturday vowed to burn down the city in four weeks if cops involved in death of Breonna Taylor are not arrested. The militia leader, known as “Grandmaster Jay,” was not immediately arrested for the terroristic threat. The group marched into downtown with a minimal police presence and […]
Businesses and police precincts in Seattle boarded and barricaded their properties in preparation for expected violent Antifa and Black Lives Matters protests this weekend. The protective measures were taken as Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best sent a letter to Seattle businesses and residents that police, having been stripped by the City Council of standard non-lethal riot control tools, will not be able to defend property from […]
California authorities on Thursday continued their desperate search for a special needs toddler who has been missing for over a week—a search made more difficult now that his parents have “stopped cooperating” with investigators. Thaddeus Sran, 2, was reported missing on July 15 after his parents said he vanished from their home in Madera, about 30 minutes outside Fresno, the City of Madera Police Department said […]
A tactical unit of federal agents has been placed on standby in Seattle to aid police should protests there spiral into unrest or rioting, the New York Times reported, a move that comes amid heated objections from local officials. A Special Response Team operating under the authority of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was reportedly dispatched to Seattle on Thursday, as a ‘precautionary’ measure. “The CBP […]
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has urged Chicagoans to literally call the police over any “unconstitutional” actions by federal agents sent by President Donald Trump to help with a crackdown on skyrocketing violent crime. Residents should call the police or social services if they “see something that doesn’t look right,” Lightfoot said at a press conference on Wednesday. “If we see any steps out of line,” she said, […]
On a recent Zoom based Seattle city council meeting, councilperson Lisa Herbold rambled on about who to fire in the police department if she gets her wish to cut the funding in half. Herbold made it a point that all police officers of color should be retained, and whitey should get the axe. Jason Rantz reports for MyNorthwest.com: Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold, a supporter of […]
By the time you finish reading this article, another American will be dead from COVID-19. And three minutes later, another, and then another. Faced with a tidal wave of death unparalleled in modern history, we are rushing to put in place the public health solutions to track, trace, and treat this virus. But as we have already seen, rushed solutions carry a higher price than expected. […]
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Virginia State Police after a trooper was observed gleefully taunting and threatening a motorist during an April 2019 traffic stop on the Capital Beltway. Footage published on Monday by civil rights attorney Joshua Erlich shows Virginia State Trooper Charles Hewitt reaching through Derrick Thompson’s car window and unlocking the driver-side door, despite the motorist’s repeated protests. “I am […]
Quran Campbell, one of the men who was arrested this week for beating New York Police Officers, was released from jail without bail. Campbell beat NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan this week while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. These are the injuries our officers sustained. pic.twitter.com/KI9wQKywHH — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) July 15, 2020 TRENDING: NOT MAKING NATIONAL HEADLINES: Black Mass Shooter Kills Two Random Men in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107943/32/1079433293_0:193:3073:1921_1200x675_80_0_0_46a2acb9ed80e2562a1c699f1b66a5ed.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007171079915223-eye-in-the-sky-minnesota-cops-use-uav-surveillance-to-tackle-beach-nudity/ The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is reportedly mulling whether to repeal an ordinance which “bans women from being topless at city parks and beaches”. It seems that police in Minnesota have employed drones to catch beachgoers who break the law by going naked, local CBS-affiliate WCCO reports. According to the media outlet, the Golden Valley Police Department has […]
As New York grapples with a wave of deadly shootings and violent lawlessness, Mayor Bill de Blasio has reportedly devoted three shifts of nine police officers to protecting the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower. Bernard Kerik, who was police commissioner of New York under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said he heard Thursday that de Blasio has one sergeant and eight other officers […]
Following weeks of nationwide protests over a spate of police killings of Black people, President Donald Trump has claimed that “more white people” actually die at the hands of law enforcement. The president made the comment after appearing to briefly lose it when asked about the hot button topic in a CBS News interview. “Why are African-Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in […]
This weekend several locals were seen pointing over the Black Lives Matter street graffiti in front of the Florissant, Missouri police department. In Missouri.. Cops protect citizens painting a blue line over BLM.. I hope this goes viral.. pic.twitter.com/mq6hVTvzpx — 🍄AnniesPissedOff❌III%er❌︻╦╤─ W˥ᙠ ʞɔnℲ🍄 (@AnnieGetHerGun) July 12, 2020 This was in Florissant, Missouri a suburb north of St. Louis City. The protesters are painting over “Black Lives […]
A school in Russia’s second-largest city has turned to the police after a rainbow flag was hung from a school flagpole during exam period. The LGBT pride banner is highly controversial in modern-day Russia. The leadership of St. Petersburg school number 511 contacted law enforcement on July 9 after two students raised the flag outside the building. According to the online publication Paper, two girls hung […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): On Thursday, police officials from the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh shad arrested Vikas Dubey, the infamous gangster wanted for the brutal murder of eight policemen in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. He was nabbed in the city of Ujjain’s famous Mahakal Temple, after eluding dozens of special security teams searching for him. A herd of stray cows and buffaloes led to a road crash […]
The judge overseeing the trial of four Minneapolis cops accused of killing black security guard George Floyd has placed a gag order on the defendants and their lawyers after pieces of somewhat exculpatory evidence were released. Citing the risk of “tainting a potential jury pool” and “impair[ing] all parties’ right to a fair trial,” Hennepin Country District Judge Peter Cahill slapped a gag order on “all […]
Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police in May and falsely accused a Black man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, faces charges for the incident, prosecutors announced Monday. Cooper, 41, will be charged with filing a false report, a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a year in jail, for making the May 25 […]
Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions! By David Klassen, Spectre Journal. July 6, 2020 Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions!2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/police-face-off-with-protesters-from-sprectre-journal-e1594059121457.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police face off with protesters from Spectre Journal. I am writing this from NYC’s occupied City Hall listening to an abolitionist speech along with a larger crowd than I had thought possible. The occupation is a large and vibrant thing with a […]
Police departments that get more equipment from the military kill more civilians than departments that get less military gear. That’s the finding from research on a federal program that has operated since 1997 that I have helped conduct as a scholar of police militarization. That finding was recently confirmed and expanded by Edward Lawson Jr. at the University of South Carolina. This federal effort is called […]
The probe was launched after postal police investigators discovered photos of nude minors and other “horrifying” content, depicting actual sexual violence where the victims were often infants. Italian police have broken up a sizeable child pornography ring in which sexual photographs and videos of children, including newborns, were shared via instant messaging, according to the Guardian. The bust involved dozens of home raids and led to […]
Riot police were showered with bottles, bricks and other projectiles while trying to break up an illegal rave in west London on Friday night. At least seven officers were injured during the hostilities. The police were called to the scene in White City following reports of a number of people gathered at an unlicensed music event in Havelock Close. Eyewitness footage shared on social media shows […]
The pro-Trump internet is abuzz about left-wing “antifa”activists’ nefarious plans for the Gettysburg National Cemetery on July 4—even if no one can quite agree on what’s actually going to happen. One theory holds that antifa will burn American flags at the Civil War graveyard, while another centers on a nonexistent plan to desecrate soldiers’ graves. In the most extreme version, antifa is plotting to massacre white […]
Daily Beast: Two Wilson, Oklahoma cops have been charged with second-degree murder after using a stun gun nearly 50 times on a naked, semi-conscious man on the Fourth of July weekend last year. Bystanders called the police when they saw Jared Lakey, 28, running down the street, naked and screaming. Dashcam and bodycam footage showed Officer Joshua Taylor using his Taser 23 times over nine minutes, […]
Three people were murdered in New York overnight into Thursday, in line with a grim trend that saw police responding to the highest number of shootings in over 20 years last month amid a leftist push to divest from the force. The murders took place in the space of 20 minutes early on July 2, as two men were shot in the back of their heads […]
Loonietunes now scapegoated by Shitstain Daily Beast: President Donald Trump has said that he regrets following advice from son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to an Axios report. Trump has reportedly decided to stick with his own instincts and reject any policy he disagrees with, including those aimed at criminal justice and police reform. Trump’s June executive order is likely to be as far as […]
Three protesters have been arrested by the Tempe Police Department after footage filmed by a drone was used as evidence of their crime, signaling a new frontier in how the world is policed. The activists took to the streets to organize a ‘chalk walk’, which involves writing on the pavement and road in chalk, in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The […]
__________Daily BeastInside the New Push to Expose America’s White Supremacist Cops by Kelly Weill Fourteen years ago, the FBI documented racist infiltration of law enforcement in America. Now members of Congress want the full story. In 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew America’s police forces had a white-supremacist problem. But the internal report the agency compiled that year was so heavily redacted that almost no […]
Cops lie, not just often, but with the bravado and confidence of people who know they will neither be caught nor held accountable. And plenty of those lies are made against people working for crap wages and no benefits in the service industry. In recent weeks, New York City officers fabricated poisoned Shake Shack milkshakes, a Georgia cop paranoia-conjured a tainted McMuffin, and a Los Angeles […]
US Killer Cops Mastered ‘Fascist Israel’s Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians’ June 28, 2020 US Killer Cops Mastered ‘Fascist Israel’s Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians’2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/israel.png200px200px Above photo: Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian protester near the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 22, 2017 © Reuters / Goran Tomasevic. Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters sees eerie similarities in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and US police departments’ approach […]
“Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests and riots sweeping the US since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis last month. “It’s about time.” The kneeling chokehold that killed Floyd was described by Waters as “an Israeli technique, proudly developed by the IDF in the occupied territories in Palestine.” An Israeli national police […]
Three officers with North Carolina’s Wilmington Police Department were recently fired from the force after the individuals were recorded engaging in threatening and racially-charged conversations that touched on the desire to kill Black residents. The disturbing commentary, which was recorded via an accidental activation of a patrol car camera, was discovered on June 4 during a monthly department audit of video recordings. The nearly two-hour-long recording […]
Three police officers in North Carolina have lost their jobs after accidentally recording their own highly inflammatory conversations, in which they are heard discussing “slaughtering n****rs” and calling for a new Civil War. Officers Kevin Piner, James Gilmore, and Jessie Moore were fired from the Wilmington Police Department on Wednesday, following an internal probe that revealed the three had inadvertently captured shocking racist remarks and praise […]
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters sees eerie similarities in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and US police departments’ treatment of their own citizens. The legendary singer told RT it’s “about time” the world called out both. “Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests and riots sweeping the US since the killing of George Floyd by a […]
The Seattle Police Department posted a video compilation of the police response to a deadly shooting early Saturday morning at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) aka the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). The video contains security camera footage that captures the sound of gunfire, police entering CHAZ in a phalanx and then being encircled and forced to retreat by the mob. One person died and […]
During South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy, I was directly involved in the transformation of the police force to a police service. Today, as the United States is confronted with the need for changes in police culture and behavior, perhaps some of the lessons learned in those tumultuous times may prove useful. After Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years in prison in 1990, the lid […]
NYPD Cops Encouraged To ‘Strike’ On July 4 By Craig McCarthy and Tina Moore, NY Post. June 19, 2020 NYPD Cops Encouraged To ‘Strike’ On July 42020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/nypd-e1592602540309.jpg200px200px Above photo: NYPD officers. Getty Images. Give the city its “independence.” A labor strike is brewing in the NYPD. A pair of flyers making the rounds among NYPD officers are encouraging them to call out sick July 4 — as retribution […]
Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell on Thursday pushed the false narrative that restaurant employees have intentionally poisoned police officers, likely referencing an infamous claim that was debunked by the New York Police Department. During an appearance on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto, Caldwell, who is Black, was asked by anchor Neil Cavuto about the growing push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, something […]
The Seattle district known as CHOP — for “Captiol Hill Organized Protest” — and initially known as CHAZ, has been occupied by demonstrators for over a week.The protesters pushed the police out of their precinct station a week ago. Democrats around the country are pushing to defund police departments following the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. At the same time […]
In a new interview with The New York Times, Jon Stewart insisted that he does not miss hosting The Daily Show. “If you’re asking, Do you wish you had a show? Sometimes I do,” he said. “But not the one that I had. The one that I had is in wonderful hands and continues to elevate in a way that I couldn’t have.” That statement has […]
The black community in the US lives in constant fear of trigger-happy officers who routinely avoid responsibility for misconduct, activists told RT, insisting that real change can only be brought by action, not words and retweets. “We keep hearing about how difficult the jobs of the officers are, but we don’t hear enough about how scared black people are right now… What’s getting lost in all this […]
A wave of public outrage in Atlanta over the police killing of black man, Rayshard Brooks, has escalated into riots, with protesters blocking streets and setting fire to a Wendy’s restaurant where the fatal shooting took place. The resignation of Atlanta police chief Erika Shields’ and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ call for the “immediate termination of the officer” who killed Brooks, failed to quell the protests […]
Atlanta police chief Erika Shields has stepped down after newly released surveillance footage showing the details of the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks failed to quell public outrage over ‘unjustified’ use of lethal force. “I do not believe this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate termination of the officer,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a Saturday afternoon […]
The chief of the Atlanta Police Department resigned on Saturday, hours after an officer fatally shot a 27-year-old black man in a Wendy’s parking lot. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a press conference that the officer involved in the Friday night shooting should be fired. “I firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do. […]
A Atlanta man was shot dead Friday night in Atlanta. Rayshard Brooks fell asleep in the Wendy’s parking lot. When the police arrived Rayshard failed a breathalyzer test. When police attempted to arrest Brooks he because violent. The black man was caught on camera wrestling with police and resisting arrest.The man was then shot dead after he took the officer’s taser gun and fled down the […]
…from the Virginia Flaggers [ Editor’s Note: The Virginia Flaggers have been one of the main defenders against the anti-Confederate history jihad. We have chaos theory in full bloom now via an open gang war of culture destruction jumping aboard the Black Lives Matter bandwagon. Black Lives Matter needs to be morphed into a new All Lives Matter, including the business livelihoods that are being lynched […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107954/19/1079541927_0:149:3069:1876_1200x675_80_0_0_c90a7173c7dd08ab11b8869ef74d74a6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006131079599797-nypd-union-slams-cuomo-for-signing-police-reform-bill-says-cops-will-be-unable-to-do-job/ The US has been gripped by mass protests against police brutality and racial discrimination since late May, which started as peaceful demonstrations but soon turned violent and spread worldwide. The NYC Police Benevolent Association, a labor union representing officers of the New York Police Department, blasted Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday for signing the police reform bill, claiming that the law […]
Seattle Police have been ordered to stop using pepper spray, tear gas and flash-bang grenades following a lawsuit, further tying their hands as the so-called ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ sprouted round their abandoned precinct. Handed down by US District Judge Richard Jones on Friday, the order concludes that “on some occasions [Seattle police] used less-lethal weapons disproportionately and without provocation,” having a “chilling” effect on free […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. The Muggles Are Acting Up If you’re a person in this world, there is a high probability that something you like was canceled this week. Maybe it was the creator of […]
As a Muslim American, I want to offer some sincere advice to the good police officers of America: If you don’t start vocally denouncing the bad cops, you and every other police officer will soon be defined by the worst cops out there—if you aren’t already. Is that fair? No. Yet it’s what the Muslim community faced after 9/11. Countless times in the years following the […]
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has announced a bevy of police reforms, barring officers from using tear gas and “military-grade weapons” while working to divert non-urgent calls to agencies besides law enforcement. The city’s Democratic mayor introduced the new measures in a statement on Thursday night, previewing a “roadmap” for police reforms on the heels of weeks of mass protests over the officer-involved killing of George […]
As protests across Chicago devolved into chaos last week and residents started to loot nearby stores, police officers were making popcorn and drinking coffee while “lounging” inside Congressman Bobby Rush’s office, officials said in a stunning news conference on Thursday. Speaking alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Rush said at least 13 Chicago Police officers were loitering inside his South Side campaign office in the early hours of […]
A release of body camera footage by the Oklahoma City Police Department (OKCPD) has reignited calls for reform and justice, as officers depicted in the video recording are overheard denying a dying man’s request for his medicine and countering his plea of not being able to breathe. The previously withheld raw footage of the OKCPD shows cops responding to a call of a man brandishing a […]
A self-styled “warlord” of the Seattle Autonomous Zone (and local rapper) is quickly learning that policing is a tough job, struggling to maintain safety and order amid the newly minted commune’s post-revolutionary hangover. Raz Simone, self-appointed “warlord” of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), attempted to clear up some misunderstandings about the protest community, explaining to the Post Millennial on Thursday that his only goal for […]