Is there video evidence supporting their version?
Including body cam of the guy who threw it in the car.
Great. Thanks.
Do prison guards count as law enforcement? If so, then please enjoy this lovely story about KKK members running amuck in the corrections system.
Bonus, it comes with a side order of “police unions block attempts by states to keep track of officers identified as white-power extremists.”
Early stages, still, but this one shows some real promise:
A Colorado police officer has been arrested on felony charges after a video showed him using his pistol to beat a man he was attempting to arrest, choking him and threatening to kill him, and a second officer was also arrested after authorities say she failed to stop her colleague as required by a new police accountability law.
The man repeatedly says “You’re killing me, bro," as Aurora police Officer John Haubert holds him down and strikes him, the video shows.
“If you move, I will shoot you,” Haubert says. The officer says repeatedly “Stop fighting,” as the man cries and gasps for air.
And another one:
It’s always fucking Aurora.
Wisconsin:
When the first of these threads began, seeing headlines like that were barely imaginable.
I won’t say we’ve come a long way, yet, but I do think we’ve at least got the front bumper of the car out of the garage.
You would think that as a cop and good white Christian boy that he would know lying, infidelity and murder were wrong!
There is so much wrong with this officer and the scenes in this 5 minute news video, I don’t know where to start.
A national database of law enforcement personnel MUST be created!
Did we note this one? I don’t recall seeing it before.
It is a troubling reality that some go into law enforcement just to wield power over others. This is the poster child.
Pineville police shot man who put down gun and ‘did what I was told to do,’ lawsuit says
Probably he didn’t do it fast enough.
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I think fed legislation that requires this kind of registry would go a loooong way in dealing with some of these problems. We could leave it up to states and cities to determine how to use that registry, but it would probably make lawsuits against departments/cities a bit easier, which would hopefully, in turn, force local governments and agencies to clean up their acts.
I highly recommend this Washington Post article:
Why are cops using military looking rifles in stead of handguns?
We have the Law Enforcement Support Office to thank for that.
The Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO) is a division of DLA Disposition Services, a subordinate command of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in the United States. LESO is responsible for operating the 1033 Program or LESO Program, which transfers excess military equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies. The program legally requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to make various items of equipment available to local law enforcement.[1] The modern program arose during the H. W. Bush administration, in Section 1208 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991,[a] which allowed surplus DOD equipment, weapons, and tactical vehicles to be transferred to law enforcement for use in drug enforcement.[2]
I would be very surprised if the majority of police rifles were military surplus. I imagine the police use “military-looking” rifles because that’s what modern rifles look like.
Rifles and handguns have different uses, but both are deadly. The aesthetics do not make the rifle more deadly.