It would have been alright if the wrong suspect had simply just laid back and thought of America instead of resisting.
Kenosha’s not really all that big a city… Why does the name sound so familiar? Am I right in guessing that Kenosha cops have gotten national attention for their troublemaking multiple times before?
Reminds me of an incident where a dude was talking to a few cops on the street, not animated or anything, and those cops had satisfied themselves that this person wasn’t involved in the incident that happened at a nearby business. Another cop rolls up, comes behind the guy, bearhugs him and slams him into the ground, breaking his arm.
The cops he was talking to go “WHOA! he’s not our guy.” Not “WTF are you just slamming a guy on the ground who was just standing around talking to us”, but “you fucked up the wrong guy.”
…gosh, I remember that one.
He got a $350,000 settlement.
Officials of a Georgia city have offered a $350,000 legal settlement
"Here’s some taxpayer money - no skin of our noses. We’re going to just keep doing the same thing over and over, Mkay?
Jacob Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse
Minor update to that story. The cops pepper sprayed the baby and the manager was fired for “allowing” it to go viral.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2023/08/12/applebees-manager-jennifer-harrishas-been-fired-following-forceful-policearrest-in-kenosha-black-man/70582194007/
And upon seeing that thumbnail:
It’s very reminiscent of this one:
But mostly because it looks like they’re both realizing they’re being filmed.
I also just noticed the license plate on that car is “POLICE”.
Marks Kenosha off his place to spend money in.
Too bad. When I was at Great Lakes, Kenosha was closer and cheaper than Milwaukee or Chicago.
I sat on a jury a couple weeks ago in which an unmarked officer chased a bike into a trailer park and then called the county mounties to arrest him. Unfortunately for the prosecution, there were huge gaps in the story, including the part where the officer lost sight of the bike for 15 seconds, and he could not get the color right. On top of those flaws, nobody ever told us that they touched the bike in question, to see if it was warm.
We thought he probably was the guy, but they simply failed to erase the shadows of doubt. Yes, this thread (et al) has firmly convinced me that the police are liars, starting with the part where the bullshit citizens (we saw you do that) to get them to confess to something, but I would be willing to convict if there was a lot more to go on than just their word.
Bicycles get warm? 
Perhaps “motorbike”?
The seat?
I know, ick.
In a way this is more stupid gun news. A man is dead primarily because he had ready access to a gun during a mental episode.
This story has been going on for several days now, so I’m surprised it hasn’t made this thread. Cops Raid Newspaper Because … Reasons.
The reasoning seems to be as follows:
- Newspaper runs afoul of prominent local republican businessperson somehow.
- A source gives newspaper dirt on businessperson.
- Newspaper uses legitimate and legal means to investigate, but doesn’t publish anything.
- ???
- Cops set the First Amendment on fire and secure a warrant to seize phones, computers, thumb drives, etc.
- Oh, and there’s the possibility that the paper may have been investigating the town police chief’s actions at his previous job in Kansas City, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with any of this.
So either a) dumb cops thought there was a crime but didn’t dot all of their i’s and cross all of their t’s before proceeding with a warrant; b) dumb cops knew there was no crime but ginned one up in order to exact retribution for either b1) running afoul of prominent local republican businessperson or b2) investigating police chief; c) something else that HeyHomie’s ape brain hasn’t yet been able to grok.
It has its own thread - Police stage 'chilling' raid on small Kansas newspaper, seizing computers (due to divorce conflict?)
It’s probably stretching the premise of the thread a bit, but “county sheriffs preparing for war with the federal government” seems like a perfectly normal political development in a nice healthy country.
From Cervaise’s link:
The group, known as CSPOA, teaches that elected sheriffs must “protect their citizens from the overreach of an out-of-control federal government” by refusing to enforce any law they deem unconstitutional or “unjust.”
Now, isn’t this exactly the reason DeSantis removed an elected DA in Florida, and why some Georgia lawmakers are saying they want to remove Fani Willis (OK, it’s not the real reason, but it’s what they are saying is the reason), that is the Republicans are alleging that these elected officials are not enforcing the laws? Isn’t it the court’s job to determine what is and isn’t constitutional, not some small-time county sheriff?
I guess it’s OK when a Republican does it.
Welcome to Coffee City, TX - population 249, with a police force of 50, many of them making six-figure salaries off of side gigs, half of whom were fired, suspended, or demoted from their previous law enforcement jobs, and which brought in over a million in court fines last year from 5,100 citations written by those cops (that’s roughly 100 tickets per officer, or 20 per citizen).
Said police department has quadrupled in size since its current chief (who himself failed to disclose when applying there’s an active warrant out for him on DUI and failure to appear and who’s fond of cursing out elected officials on camera) was hired in 2021.
This is what happens when you don’t tax billionaires.