Cops behaving badly ...

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It appears that this time around the shooters were only "impersonating" the police

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As children we are taught things like “if you get lost, find a police officer” or “if you feel like you’re in danger, find a police officer”. “The police will help you”. What do we tell our children and grandchildren now? “If you see police RUN”. Thanks, Trump, you’re doing a great job. We don’t know who is who now. We can buy ICE plate carriers online. Anyone can be an imposter when no one is identifying themselves.
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Woman Speaks Out To Claim She Was Arrested After Laughing At NYPD Cops While Biking​


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TikToker Nabihah Ahmad shared how she was biking to a yoga class in New York City when she rode past an NYPD cop car and chuckled at the officers inside before eventually being pulled over by those same cops and arrested.

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Shiftless2 said:
Just in case you thought this behavior was somehow "recent" #306

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Thank you S2.

Sadly, the message I draw from this is not that we can strut with pride because we are a nation of laws based on immutable noble principles.

Instead that we must tread with eternal caution, that our safety is not in law, but in probability.

It shouldn't happen.
We KNOW it shouldn't happen. BUT !
Our salvation is, I hope it doesn't happen to me. - grim -
 
"But if you abolish police, what will we do about sex crimes"

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There were 29 law enforcement officers who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes in the month of June

If you go to X (i.e., Twitter) and do a search for the sentence in red you'll find details of each offender.

And remember - these are just the ones that were caught.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Cop sees a 46yo man in the park ... kills him. ... Cop won't be charged." #302
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A government $paycheck is a license to murder.

Shiftless2 said:
1985 MOVE bombing
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The cliché is "a picture is worth a thousand words". This aerial photograph is worth three letters: O. M. G.

- but -

IIRC from ~40 year old faded memory MOVE presented a serious public safety problem reportedly including neighborhood gunfire.
In my opinion that's a problem requiring appropriate government response.

It didn't go well.
Good governance is not all ways easy.

When and if government compensates people that have suffered substantially from such outcome,
that $compensation is provided not by government, but by the People. The government is merely the conduit. They take our money, and in cases like this, they give some of it back.
 

Louisiana to pay $9 million to a man who was shot in the back by state trooper during traffic stop​

Louisiana authorities have agreed to pay $9 million to a man who was partially paralyzed from the waist down after a trooper shot him in the back during a 2018 traffic stop in Baton Rouge and then falsely reported it as a Taser discharge.

The settlement reached last month is among the largest of its kind in state history and resolves a federal lawsuit by Clifton “Scotty” Dilley, whose injuries confined him to a wheelchair when he was 19. The terms of the settlement, which were not made public, were provided to The Associated Press by a person with direct knowledge who was not authorized to disclose them and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The shooting was mentioned in a US Justice Department report this year that found Louisiana State Police used excessive force during arrests and vehicle pursuits.

State police fired Trooper Kasha Domingue after determining she shot Dilley “without any reliable justification,” failed to activate her body-worn camera and gave inconsistent accounts that were contradicted by surveillance video.

The agency also found that her misreporting the incident as a tasing “delayed the appropriate responses to the shooting,” according to records reviewed by AP.

Domingue’s explanation for opening fire evolved over the years. Court records show that she alternatively ....

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The casual phrase "federal pen" refers to prisons that in the past were called "penitentiaries".
The reality is, such institutions could not be relied upon to render residents, inmates "penitent", feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.

The debate / dispute has not been resolved, but paying a fine both derives revenue for the recipient government/s *, and penalizes the violator, ostensibly for fundamental Skinnerian conditioning, "negative reinforcement".
Negative reinforcement can be effective, for example the young child that out of curiosity and ignorance pokes his finger into a candle flame, learning to not do so again.
Shiftless2 said:

" Louisiana to pay $9 million " #312​

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The problem here is: "Government cannot give anything it has not first taken."
The result:
- the government employee, in #312 case a Louisiana State policewoman Domingue fired "without any reliable justification". The consequence, Louisiana kicks back a few $million back to the People from which it was originally taken.

States generally can't "print money" the way the U.S. federal government can. Thus, Uncle Sam can run both deficits and debt, but States ought not (spit happins).

The result:
In computer science this is known as a dysfunctional feedback loop.
The People are victimized whether by individual or group, and then the People are penalized, having their tax revenue channeled to compensate victims of government employees perpetrating criminal act/s.

This dysfunction is almost certain to continue until it is the actual criminal government employee that pays the penalty.

* in New York, when a town policeman issues a revenue deriving traffic summons, it's not uncommon for the fine revenue to be split, shared with the State of New York.
 
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Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas both deserved to be listened to. To be protected by law enforcement. Instead they were ignored, while their misogynistic, violent killer stalked them like prey. Friends told media that Tammy “made complaints and nothing was done.” A neighbor told local news that the killer parked outside the girl’s house for THREE MONTHS leading up to the murder.

This is why influencers like Tate are dangerous. They encourage and embolden young men to act out the violence against the women who reject them, who refuse to fall in line.
 

Jury awards $19M to bystanders wounded in shooting by Denver police officer​

Bailey Alexander, center, speaks alongside Willis Small IV, left, and Yekalo Wedewihet, three of the six bystanders injured during a police shooting on July 17, 2022, during a news conference on Jan. 4, 2023, in the law offices of Rathod Mohamedbhai in Denver. Attorney Christ Whitney, center rear, looks on. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Bailey Alexander, center, speaks alongside Willis Small IV, left, and Yekalo Wedewihet, three of the six bystanders injured during a police shooting on July 17, 2022, during a news conference on Jan. 4, 2023, in the law offices of Rathod Mohamedbhai in Denver. Attorney Christ Whitney, center rear, looks on. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

A jury has awarded $19.7 million to six bystanders who were wounded as a Denver police officer opened fire at an armed man as bars let out at closing time, attorneys for the plaintiffs said Friday.

The award for damages is the result of a lawsuit against Denver Police Department in connection with the 2022 shooting.

Police officer Brandon Ramos previously pleaded guilty in the shooting to a misdemeanor assault charge that makes him ineligible to serve as a police officer and included a probation sentence.

Ramos was working in a gun violence prevention team in Denver’s Lower Downtown neighborhood, near an MLB stadium, bars and restaurants, when he and two other officers, who were not charged, shot at Jordan Waddy after he pulled a gun from his pocket.

A grand jury in those proceedings found that Ramos was not in danger because Waddy did not turn and face him, and Ramos disregarded the risk posed to the crowd of people behind Waddy. Waddy survived his injuries.

Among the bystanders injured, one was shot in the arm and required surgery, another was hit in the back with by a bullet that exited through her arm. Another man was grazed by a bullet on the foot.

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Jury awards $19M to bystanders wounded in shooting by Denver police officer

A jury has awarded $19.7 million to six bystanders in a crowd who were wounded as a Denver police officer opened fire at an armed man as bars let out at closing time.
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Shiftless2 said:

"Jury awards $19M to bystanders wounded in shooting by Denver police officer" #319​

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Problem solved,
right ?

I do not think so.
Attempting to avoid oversimplification,
there are two groups here:
- government, manifest here as a Denver police officer, &
- the People, including tax paying voters, including those shot.

The result of this jury award?
The People are victimized twice.
- Shot by a government agent,
- a tiny amount of their tax revenue is kicked-back to hush them up.

And this is done masquerading as "justice"? It is a double injustice.
Why is the shooter's assets & income not garnished, until the $19M is paid? This isn't justice. It's an atrocity.
 
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