Cops are so out of control these days!

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Nearly three weeks ago New York City police officers killed a man after he broke up a fight between two other men.

The cops placed father of 6, Eric Garner, in a chokehold and slammed his head to the pavement, piling on top of him as he gasped for air.

The continuous pleas for help were bone chilling as he was telling the cops that he couldn’t breathe.

Thanks to you all the video went ultra viral, helping to expose the atrocious police state.

The world watched in horror as NYPD cops killed a man on film.

Most of us could see this violence for exactly what it was, murder. However, as of 2:00 EST today, the New York City Medical Examiner’s office has released a statement ruling the official cause of death a homicide due to “compression of neck, chest and positioning during restraint by police”

According to the AP:

The NYPD didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the medical examiner’s ruling. The officer who put Garner in the chokehold was stripped of his gun and badge pending the investigation, and another was placed on desk duty. Two paramedics and two EMTs were suspended without pay.

This is bombshell news. All too often we see this type of brutality get swept under the rug. Now it will be hard to dismiss the medical examiner’s ruling of homicide.


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/br...ide-due-police-chokehold/#jUKuItoTUr2WLJe5.99
 
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Back in the day cops also kicked a lot of ass.
I grew up during the civil rights movement, Vietnam Nam war, the democratic convention in Chicago were cops went crazy, been held at gunpoint for no reason myself, was beat up,by Pinkerton guards, great story..
We were out on the town Denver for Boz Skaggs at the paramount.
Got all dressed up black tie affair.
We met this gal who could not hold her liquor, a friend prior to show.
We had a few after show and she was in o condition to drive.
she had parked in a downstairs garages and we were going to get her purse in her car.
We got separated and she was caught urinating in garage by 2 Pinkerton guards, 215 am nobody around drunk girl, full moon.
I came upon the incident as they we're telling her she's under aresst and for me to get the fuck out. I told them I am to leaving call cops whatever i am. to leaving her alone. My other friend appeared and the 2nd good, grabbed and cuffed him they then cuffed me and put us Ina room and were we're. Y really scared as I they were yelling and crazed.
We ended up closing the door to the room locking them outside.
They were really pissed and told us the we're going to kill us if we did to open the door. We refused to open door so,they got a fire ax and proceeded to beat the door frame and all out of building grabbed us and told me if I had a I would kill you. They kicked us a few times, not the gal,just us. She was crying, they were enraged.
Denver cops showed up and gave the gal a ticket for,urinating public my friend a ticket for disturbing the peace, they let me go.
3 years later we settled for 15 grand each out of court.
The gal did not peruse legal,action...
Never went out on town with her again...
 
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We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead


“Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.”—“Rough Justice in America,” The Economist

August 04, 2014 "ICH" - "Rutherford Institute" - Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room?

Mind you, we’re not talking tickets or fines or even warnings being issued to these so-called “lawbreakers.” We’re talking felony charges, handcuffs, police cars, mug shots, pat downs, jail cells and criminal records.

Consider what happened to Nicole Gainey, the Florida mom who was arrested and charged with child neglect for allowing her 7-year-old son to visit a neighborhood playground located a half mile from their house.

For the so-called “crime” of allowing her son to play at the park unsupervised, Gainey was interrogated, arrested and handcuffed in front of her son, and transported to the local jail where she was physically searched, fingerprinted, photographed and held for seven hours and then forced to pay almost $4000 in bond in order to return to her family. Gainey’s family and friends were subsequently questioned by the Dept. of Child Services. Gainey now faces a third-degree criminal felony charge that carries with it a fine of up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail.

For Denise Stewart, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, whether or not she had done anything wrong, was sufficient to get her arrested.

The 48-year-old New York grandmother was dragged half-naked out of her apartment and handcuffed after police mistakenly raided her home when responding to a domestic disturbance call. Although it turns out the 911 call came from a different apartment on a different floor, Stewart is still facing charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

And then there are those equally unfortunate individuals who unknowingly break laws they never even knew existed. John Yates is such a person. A commercial fisherman, Yates was sentenced to 30 days in prison and three years of supervised release for throwing back into the water some small fish which did not meet the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission’s size restrictions. Incredibly, Yates was charged with violating a document shredding provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was intended to prevent another Enron scandal.

The list of individuals who have suffered similar injustices at the hands of a runaway legal system is growing, ranging from the orchid grower jailed for improper paperwork and the lobstermen charged with importing lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes to the former science teacher labeled a federal criminal for digging for arrowheads in his favorite campsite.

As awful as these incidents are, however, it’s not enough to simply write them off as part of the national trend towards overcriminalization—although it is certainly that. Thanks to an overabundance of 4500-plus federal crimes and 400,000 plus rules and regulations, it’s estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a day without knowing it.

Nor can we just chalk them up as yet another symptom of an overzealous police state in which militarized police attack first and ask questions later—although it is that, too.

Nor is the problem that we’re a crime-ridden society. In fact, it’s just the opposite. The number of violent crimes in the country is down substantially, the lowest rate in 40 years, while the number of Americans being jailed for nonviolent crimes, such as driving with a suspended license, are skyrocketing.

So what’s really behind this drive to label Americans as criminals?

As with most things, if you want to know the real motives behind any government program, follow the money trail. When you dig down far enough, as I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, you quickly find that those who profit from Americans being arrested are none other than the police who arrest them, the courts which try them, the prisons which incarcerate them, and the corporations, which manufacture the weapons and equipment used by police, build and run the prisons, and profit from the cheap prison labor.

Talk about a financial incentive.

First, there’s the whole make-work scheme. In the absence of crime, in order to keep the police and their related agencies employed, occupied, and utilizing the many militarized “toys” passed along by the Department of Homeland Security, one must invent new crimes—overcriminalization—and new criminals to be spied on, targeted, tracked, raided, arrested, prosecuted and jailed. Enter the police state.

Second, there’s the profit-incentive for states to lock up large numbers of Americans in private prisons. Just as police departments have quotas for how many tickets are issued and arrests made per month—a number tied directly to revenue—states now have quotas to meet for how many Americans go to jail. Having outsourced their inmate population to private prisons run by corporations such as Corrections Corp of America and the GEO Group, ostensibly as a way to save money, increasing numbers of states have contracted to keep their prisons at 90% to 100% capacity. This profit-driven form of mass punishment has, in turn, given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry that relies on the complicity of state governments to keep the money flowing and their privately run prisons full. No wonder the United States has the largest prison population in the world.

But what do you do when you’ve contracted to keep your prisons full but crime rates are falling? Easy. You create new categories of crime and render otherwise law-abiding Americans criminals. Notice how we keep coming full circle back to the point where it’s average Americans like you and me being targeted and turned into enemies of the state?

That brings me to the third factor contributing to Americans being arrested, charged with outrageous “crimes,” and jailed: the Corporate State’s need for profit and cheap labor. Not content to just lock up millions of people, corporations have also turned prisoners into forced laborers.

According to professors Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman, “All told, nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call centers, fabricating body armor, taking hotel reservations, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles, shoes, and clothing, while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73 per day.” Tens of thousands of inmates in U.S. prisons are making all sorts of products, from processing agricultural products like milk and beef, to packaging Starbucks coffee, to shrink-wrapping software for companies like Microsoft, to sewing lingerie for Victoria’s Secret.

What some Americans may not have realized, however, is that America’s economy has come to depend in large part on prison labor. “Prison labor reportedly produces 100 percent of military helmets, shirts, pants, tents, bags, canteens, and a variety of other equipment. Prison labor makes circuit boards for IBM, Texas Instruments, and Dell. Many McDonald's uniforms are sewn by inmates. Other corporations—Microsoft, Victoria's Secret, Boeing, Motorola, Compaq, Revlon, and Kmart—also benefit from prison labor.” The resulting prison labor industries, which rely on cheap, almost free labor, are doing as much to put the average American out of work as the outsourcing of jobs to China and India.

No wonder America is criminalizing mundane activities, arresting Americans for minor violations, and locking them up for long stretches of time. There’s a significant amount of money being made by the police, the courts, the prisons, and the corporations.

What we’re witnessing is the expansion of corrupt government power in the form of corporate partnerships which both increase the reach of the state into our private lives while also adding a profit motive into the mix, with potentially deadly consequences.

This perverse mixture of government authoritarianism and corporate profits is now the prevailing form of organization in American society today. We are not a nation dominated by corporations, nor are we a nation dominated by government. We are a nation dominated by corporations and government together, in partnership, against the interests of individuals, society and ultimately our freedoms.

If it sounds at all conspiratorial, the idea that a government would jail its citizens so corporations can make a profit, then you don’t know your history very well. It has been well documented that Nazi Germany forced inmates into concentration camps such as Auschwitz to provide cheap labor to BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and other major German chemical and pharmaceutical companies, much of it to produce products for European countries.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it, whether what we are experiencing right now is fascism, American style, or Auschwitz revisited?

John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead's concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson, in addition to writing a weekly commentary that is posted on The Rutherford Institute’s website ( www.rutherford.org )



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I was in Chicago walking around Cicero. I'm white. I was with a friend. It's 20 degrees out.

We hear something behind us. It's a cop creeping... Wierd. We B line to the train on central. A block or so from the train a cop comes out of nowhere in his car almost hitting us. Jumps out of his car with hand on his gun. I stop dead in my tracks. So does my friend. The cop takes me and slams me on the hood bruising my face and lips. The cops partner throws my friend to the ground giving him a gash on his eyebrow. They proceed to strip search us, take me down to my long johns and leave me in 20 degree weather with my shirt off pants down and shoes off. I have a pipe in my pocket. They see it and throw me to the curb scratching my leg and bruising my ankle bone. They yell at me and my friend asking where the heroin was. Red in the face. Now people are sorounding us. Fellow blacks start yelling shit at us. "Dumb ass white boy". "GTFO out of the hood". I stand up after 20 minutes in 20 degree weather convulsing from cold. So is my friend. We look at each other... Wtf? I will never forget the look on my friends face... Standing there, blood down his face, almost as of he was gonna cry. I flip out and start screaming about my rights and "resisting the cuffs". The 250 lb black man that arrested me immediately took me to the ground and pushed all his weigh on my head. I thought it was going to pop from his knee grinding into my head. I could feel him get up and rub my head into the pavement giving me multiple scratches and picking up a bunch of Cicero garbage pressed into my face. He throws us in the back of the squad car, exhausted, and drives us into Chicago at 90 MPH and drops us off in NOwhere. Fucking cop didn't even give us our clothes until he pushed us out of the car.

To this day I still don't know what I could have done??? Sued???? I've never felt so abused...
 
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That is a crazy ass video. Seems like she just needed to cooperate in the beginning though. Fucking cop was shooting with kids in the van good lord.
I agree she should have cooperated from the beginning....yes....

This is the message they are sending ....they will shoot to kill if we don't cooperate..

Guilty till proven innocent....even that is ok cuz we deal with it, on the spot sentencing and punishment is not ok.....fuck it weare all guilty but does that warrant a shoot first ask questions later approach ????
No
 
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What's odd is Theres not as much violence on cops I mean on YouTube..it seems as though YouTube is filtering videos showing citizen s defending themselves against cops.....I know we as people are doing it because of the amount of people arrested for assaulting officers....
This is a civil war between armed citizens (police) vs mostly unarmed civilians

I am not advocating violence against cops

I advocate standing up for onesself in any situation where someone is trying to hurt them or their family
 
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