#police accountability

[alwaysbewoke]

[mimi-0007]

Gloria Richardson leader of the Cambridge, Maryland Nonviolent Action Committee..

[soberscientistlife]

When you think the cops are there to help the public and you find out they kill people and are not held accountable.

Defund the police

[enbycrip]

And herein lies a significant crux of the issue.

It was not remotely “unbelievable” to his colleagues, who could have spoken up at any point, but who happily continued to let the creature continue to leverage his authority to prey on marginalised women.

It is *certainly* not “unbelievable” to the marginalised women and trans folk of all genders who are regularly sexually assaulted and sexually abused by police officers. Particularly BIPOC and disabled ones.

If *anyone* found it “unbelievable” that a Met police officer did this, they weren’t even remotely paying attention.

It’s like everyone who says disableism, racism and transphobia is “shocking”. Nope, pal, it’s routine. Sickening, yes. Shameful, yes. But not shocking. If you’re paying any attention whatsoever.

Finding police brutality “unbelievable” is a sign of looking away from the structural scale of the issue because you want to live in the comforting lie that policing is just and justified. It makes it *immeasurably* harder for survivors to get justice and it makes women and trans people of all genders immeasurably less safe.

[fernreads]

The Supreme Court handed down a decision on Wednesday which effectively gives Border Patrol agents who violate the Constitution total immunity from lawsuits seeking to hold them accountable.

Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion in Egbert v. Boule, moreover, has implications that stretch far beyond the border. Egbert guts a seminal Supreme Court precedent, Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents (1971), which established that federal law enforcement officers who violate the Constitution may be individually sued — and potentially be required to compensate their victims for their illegal actions.

Egbert is a severe blow to the broader project of police accountability. While it does not target lawsuits against state law enforcement officers who violate the Constitution, it all but eliminates the public’s ability to sue border patrol officers — and possibly all federal officers — who commit similar violations.

In fairness, Egbert does indicate that people who believe their rights were violated by federal law enforcement may file a grievance with the law enforcement agency that employs the officer who allegedly violated the Constitution. But such grievances will be investigated by other law enforcement officers, and no court or other agency can review a law enforcement officer’s decision to exonerate a fellow officer.

And, perhaps most importantly, Egbert most likely shuts down a civil rights plaintiffs’ ability to be compensated if their rights are violated.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Manitoba RCMP officer has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act after a high-speed chase in Winnipeg last year saw driving speeds of 200 kilometres per hour, according to the province's police watchdog. Const. Laurie Krulicki has been charged with failure to drive with due regard to safety, according to a Tuesday news release from the Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) of Manitoba, which investigates serious incidents involving police in the province. On Aug. 1, 2023, an RCMP officer believed to be Krulicki tried to conduct a traffic stop on Inkster Boulevard, but the vehicle drove off, the watchdog agency said in its release.

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[climatecalling]

The state of Georgia is refusing to release evidence tied to the police shooting and killing of an activist protesting a police and fire department training center known as “Cop City”, prompting concern from police accountability experts who say this sets a “frightening” precedent . District attorney George Christian released a 31-page report earlier this month concluding that the 18 January shooting of Manuel Paez Terán, or “Tortuguita”, was “objectively reasonable”. Paez Terán was one of a small group of “forest defenders” camping in a wooded public park to protest Cop City, planned for a separate part of the forest south-east of Atlanta, Georgia, less than a mile away. Dozens of officers from multiple agencies raided the park; the state claims Paez Terán fired a gun first, prompting six officers to shoot the activist. The activist sustained 57 gunshot wounds and died nearly instantly. The Georgia bureau of investigation (GBI), the agency charged with the investigation, also announced that the evidence would not be released to the Paez Terán family or to the public because the movement itself is the subject of a separate “criminal investigation and prosecution”. That evidence includes “photographs, audio witness interviews, crime scene drawings and reports, forensic lab reports … and body camera (video and audio)”. Jon Feinberg, a Philadelphia civil rights attorney and incoming president of the National Police Accountability Project (NPAP), called the announcement “unique and chilling”.

[saywhat-politics]

[caesthoffe]

"a few bad apples don't spoil the bunch" yeah but have you considered that the soil is rotten and the farmer is spraying the tree with pesticides and worms have spread throughout the entire orchard and and and—

[ageofshadows666]

I was about to regain my faith in humanity but now it has been completely shattered again

[alwaysbewoke]

Stole his adult whole life 😢

After serving 44 years for a rape and burglary he did not commit, 68-year-old Ronnie Long reached a settlement with the state of North Carolina for $25 million - the second largest wrongful conviction settlement in U.S. history. Long was initially given only an insulting $750K in compensation. But after filing a civil lawsuit, he was awarded an additional $25 million along with a formal apology.   In 1976, Long was only 21 years old when an all-white jury that was “hand-picked by local law enforcement” convicted him of raping a “prominent” 54-year-old White woman in Concord, NC. He was given two life sentences. An appeals court finally overturned his conviction in 2020, citing jury tampering by the police chief and false testimonies from detectives. Prosecutors also deliberately suppressed evidence that could have proven his innocence, including: a rape kit that collected 43 different fingerprints and a suspect’s hair that did not match Long’s. Semen samples also “disappeared” from evidence.   After his release, Long was eager to spend time with his family, including wife Ashleigh, who he married from prison in 2014. Sadly, both of Long’s parents died before seeing him freed and exonerated from this American nightmare. His mother passed just 30 days before his release. He told CBS News, “I know my mother and father died with a broken heart...I’m gonna tell them now, when I visit the gravesite, ‘Your son is clear.’”

[mimi-0007]

[commiepinkofag]

[ID: a revised world war 2 political poster, depicting a row of pigs branded with letters spelling ‘DEFUND.’ 

The smiling pigs view the poster text reading ‘NO Cop City’, ‘Demilitarize’, ‘End Fascism Now’. 

Below the pigs sits a garbage can, marked ‘waste.’ Text to the left of the garbage can reads ‘Demilitarize’, ‘No Privatization’, ‘End PR Lobbying.’ 

Additional text to the right of the garbage can reads ‘Public Oversight’, Accountability’ and ‘Public Safety’]

[creative commons/non-commercial use]

[punishedcrow]

So police are now blasting Disney music so any video of them breaking laws will be instantly taken down by Disney's copyright.

This is just one case. It will become more common from now on. Here in Brazil we just had a case of Military Police faking conflict and covering their recently implented body cams to execute robbers who were already subjugated.

This needs to get signal boosted.

We cannot let this continue. The police are finding new ways to be corrupt and murderous and get away with it, above any kind of law.

This isn't just the system being fucked anymore, the cops are now officially going against the system and making it harder to denounce their crimes.

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