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This turned up on my FB feed

 

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#261
Not sure from which State this account originates, but I thought citizens prone to loss of consciousness had restriction or suspension of driver's license.
At the dawn of the autonomous / non-human piloted automobile, wouldn't it make sense for such medical patients to leave the driving to the car?

"... so I punched him in the face." first officer on scene #261

And is still employed?

"I'm very sympathetic for the poor deaf guy." #261

What "poor deaf guy"?

 

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#261
Not sure from which State this account originates, but I thought citizens prone to loss of consciousness had restriction or suspension of driver's license.

I do know that a good friend is epileptic and, although she hasn't had a seizure since her teens (she' in her late 50's now) she's not allowed to have a drivers license.

 

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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor

"no active warrants"

I'm not accusing the chiefs of police for being the trigger-man directly.
But I have enough understanding of military, and paramilitary (including police) chain of command to conclude something else is going on here.

These murders by police are far too frequent to be dismissed. Yet they continue. Why?
There are a variety of possible explanations, among them:
chronic manpower shortfalls in part due to low salary and intermittently dangerous work conditions bring police commanders to the following conclusion:
they can discipline, but only so far, and are aware if police patrolmen are perceived to be disciplined too harshly, it may precipitate most or all of the department resigning.
Thus there may be a delicate balance, and police commanders have decided it's better to have some crooked COPs, than to have a smaller police department.

And the murders continue.

Bottom line: we point the accusatory finger and dramatically lament, "Ain't it awful!", but the murders continue. We need something better than lament.
And if for example rebalancing salaries so police employment applications meet / exceed demand doesn't affect this, look elsewhere.

- OR -

Shrug, and lament some more, accusatory finger pointed away

 

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Minneapolis police say they 100% failed Black man allegedly shot by white neighbor​

Officials say John Herbert Sawchak, 54, shot Davis Moturi, 34, after victim reported neighbor for racist harassment

Minneapolis police have apologized for failing to address a local Black man’s complaints of repeated, racist harassment from his white neighbor until after the neighbor shot the victim in the victim’s own yard.

The attack on 34-year-old Davis Moturi this past Wednesday as he performed yard work left him with a fractured spine, two broken ribs and a concussion. Authorities by Thursday had obtained criminal charges against John Herbert Sawchak, who is accused of shooting from an upstairs window in his home to wound Moturi – but they waited until early Monday to arrest him.

“We failed this victim 100%,” Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief, told reporters. “And to that victim, I say I am sorry that this happened to you.”
Moturi’s shooting comes after a US justice department investigation last year concluded that the Minneapolis police department had a “pattern or practice” of discrimination against Black Americans, among other ....

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"... shot the victim in the victim’s own yard." #266

And the victim, Davis Moturi survived, gave press interview from his own hospital bed.

John Herbert Sawchak, who is accused of shooting from an upstairs window in his home to wound Moturi

W H A T ?!?!

Shoot to wound ?!
In the chest ?!
Shoot to wound is usually in the thigh. If the shooter was a highly disciplined technician with meticulously honed skills, shoot to wound in the chest might seem a shade more plausible.
Discipline does not seem to accurately characterize this criminal.

"– but they waited until early Monday to arrest him." #266

Perfunctory minimum.

 

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Family gets $4 million settlement for 2021 jailhouse death of a Phoenix man​

Nearly four years after a man died while restrained in a Phoenix jail cell, his family will be awarded a $4 million settlement, county officials have decided.

In their federal civil rights lawsuit, the family of 31-year-old Akeem Terrell alleged that police had used unreasonable force during his arrest nearly four years ago, and he was suffering a mental health crisis as law-enforcement officers tried to subdue him.

The suit said Terrell was taken into custody after he refused to leave a New Year’s Day party in 2021 after suffering a psychotic episode.

Up to seven Phoenix police officers were on top of Terrell in a jail isolation cell and holding him down as they changed his handcuffs, according to the lawsuit.

Terrell’s family said body camera footage showed ....

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Family gets $4 million settlement for 2021 jailhouse death of a Phoenix man #268​

Translation:
The government policy makers / authorities / police commanders are attempting to appease public outrage over the loss of "a Phoenix man" murdered in government custody.
The appeasement: $4 million settlement.

Government cannot give to the People anything it has not first taken.
So to lower the political pressure against government for this inexcusable murder of a man not merely in government custody, but in handcuffs, in a jail cell !
government kicks back a tiny $fraction of what it has taken from the People, and pretends the issue is resolved.

It isn't.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd's murder, is serving time for it.
Paying hush money to the kin of the slain is not systemic remedy.

The proof that it isn't systemic remedy is the next murder of a citizen in U.S. government custody.
& btw: Another "hush money" case currently in the news: post #15

 

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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd's murder, is serving time for it.

It's also not proof that the system worked. Fact is, if a bystander hadn't filmed the entire interaction and then had the guts to post it publicly Chauvin would have gotten off scot free. The city's original press release about the event simply said that Floyd had suffered some sort of medical event.

The post begins by saying that Minneapolis Police officers responded to a report of a “forgery in progress,” and notes that the suspect “appeared to be under the influence.”

“Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car. He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later.

“At no time were weapons of any type used by anyone involved in this incident. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been called in to investigate this incident at the request of the Minneapolis Police Department.

“No officers were injured in the incident. Body worn cameras were on and activated during this incident.”

The post was sent by John Elder, the director of the Office of Public Information under Minneapolis Police.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/us/minneapolis-police-george-floyd-death/index.html

 

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#258, & #270

I cannot countenance treachery, & consider ostensible public servants, government employees that by violating public trust
endanger public safety to be contemptible, despicable; murderers, bottom of the barrel.

A CitizenVoice.us purple nurple to all the traitors that by endangering public safety have well earned this rarely bestowed distinction.



pee YOU !

Have a distressing day.

 

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Returning to the George Floyd case ....

Ex-officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing is moved to new prison months after stabbing​

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Chauvin, 47, is now housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, a low-security prison. He was previously held in Arizona at FCI Tucson in August 2022 to simultaneously serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22 1/2-year state sentence for second-degree murder.

The transfer comes nearly nine months after Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in prison by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant.

Another former Minneapolis officer, Thomas Lane, who held down Floyd’s legs as the man struggled to breathe, was released from federal prison in Colorado on ...

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Incidentally, Chauvin is appealing his conviction

 

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Chauvin #272

I'm not an anarchist, meaning advocate not for lawlessness, but instead favoring an absence of government. Conservatism means favoring smaller less intrusive, less authoritarian government.
But this Chauvin saga does impart an appealing glint to the anarchist fantasy. What a cesspool.