Police Behaving Badly

[My Pet Powder Goat]

I get to cover the funeral tomorrow. Yay me.

Sounds like shit getting real after funeral, 7 cops hurt...1 journalist photog hurt. Hope ur safe, Tipp.

[digitaldeath]

nobody likes the military in their neighborhood

[TomCrac]

Pretend military probably isn't much fun either.

[hikesalot]

they just said it was a DC based-photog. Hope you are safe Tipp.

[sb]

fucktards

[Kinnikinnick]

Hope its not Tipp

[Bromontana]

I suppose throwing rocks back at the hooligans is part of the "beatings will continue...." strategy.

https://twitter.com/Bipartisanism/st...79872830935043

[Tippster]

I'm fine - thanks for worrying. I was at the funeral, then was sent back to DC at 2:00 to cover a Photo Op at the Supreme Court. Since then my phone has rung several times from various outlets to see if I'll go back. Fuck that noise.

Not sure who the photog hurt is. Anyone have a name or news outlet? All those guys were with me at the funeral.

[hikesalot]

Glad u r ok! I thought Wolf B said " one of our guys." Indicating CNN but i dont know if he meant it that way.

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Glad ur ok tipp!

[Pow4Brains]

Good to hear Tipp. What a cluster fuck.

[Benny Profane]

My wife's cousin, who is currently living with us, was at the game. She was a bit freaked out.

I covered the "Black Lives Matter" rally in Baltimore on Thursday and it was relatively calm. At the time some of the organizers told us they were informed by out-of-State groups that they were coming into town for the weekend. That's why shit got a bit ugly last night.

I get to cover the funeral tomorrow. Yay me.

I just read that the "demonstration" was surprisingly peaceful on Saturday until it arrived around Camden Yards, then skirmishes ensued between the marchers and the patrons of outdoor bars by the stadium. Ahem, can you say asshole white people that drank too much? This also happened at St. Louis baseball games after Furgenson. Don't fuck with our prescious sports! But, on top of all that, let's not forget who Baltimore was hosting that night. Yuppa, the Red Sox! Been there a few times during Boston series. More Sox fans than Oriole fans. Rowdy bunch. And we all know how Boston residents have shown their love for black people before.......
Coincidence? I don't think so.

[iceman]

Detective Benny's on the job.

[wooley12]

Mom found her son at the party

https://youtu.be/rvu0qK8ykSg

[thebirdhunter]

Here's a good one. I think these cops showed tremendous restraint. I would of mowed down everyone of these fuckwads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5Cbgn4TOU

[guroo270]

Hot off the presses^^^

[digitaldeath]

Here's a good one. I think these cops showed tremendous restraint. I would of mowed down everyone of these fuckwads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5Cbgn4TOU

"Tremendous restraint" is a term used by fascists. Almost exclusively.

Those cops fucked up more ways than you can count

[Benny Profane]

Actually, good to see a professional police department deal with this, not like those ex military yahoos in Furgenson with all their army toys and racist posturing. They brought out one vehicle today, just one, that was basically a heavy armored SUV with some sort of turret on top. They took major shit from these kids and never shot back. Well, a few tear gas canisters, but, that's it.

I wonder what the ethnic and racial makeup of the Baltimore force is. Lord knows that whenever the mayor and staff show up, they're all black.

Edit: wiki tells me about half of the force is black. It ain't Furgenson.

[iceman]

Baltimore PD is just about even at ~48% each black and white.

[bmg97]

"Tremendous restraint" is a term used by fascists. Almost exclusively.

Those cops fucked up more ways than you can count

People were totally in the right though?

[char]

When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time-out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con. And none of this can mean that rioting or violence is "correct" or "wise" anymore than a forest fire can be "correct" or "wise." Wisdom isn't the point, tonight. Disrespect is. In this case disrespect for the hollow law and failed order that so regularly disrespects the rioters themselves

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/

The most sensational case in Baltimore involved Johnson, a 43-year-old plumber who was arrested for public urination. He was handcuffed and placed in a transport van in good health. He emerged a quadriplegic.

Before he died, he complained to his doctor that he was not buckled into his seat when the police van "made a sharp turn," sending him "face first" into the interior of the van, court records state. He was "violently thrown around the back of the vehicle as [police officers] drove in an aggressive fashion, taking turns so as to injure [Johnson] who was helplessly cuffed," the lawsuit stated.

Johnson, who suffered a fractured neck, died two weeks later of pneumonia caused by his paralysis. His family sued, and a jury agreed that three officers were negligent in the way they treated Johnson. The initial $7.4 million award, however, was eventually reduced to $219,000 by Maryland's Court of Special Appeals because state law caps such payouts.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...ry.html#page=1

[Stikki]

From FiveThirtyEight: An Ex-Cop Keeps The Country’s Best Data Set On Police Misconduct

What we’ve seen is that courts are just very reluctant to convict cops who are charged with crimes. We see some interesting patterns with that. So juries, and even judges in bench trials, are not comfortable for prosecutors to prosecute cases.

We do look a lot at what gets them arrested, what gets them convicted or not convicted, and what gets them to lose their job. Two things that have come out that have just sort of blown me away:

1) Many cops are arrested for crimes that are serious and don’t lose their jobs. We have cops who were arrested in 2005 or 2006, and we’re startled to see they are still a cop — maybe still with the same agency, maybe not. That just blows me away. John Lewis in Schenectady, [New York,] is one example.

2) The other is, from prior research, it looked like if cops get in trouble, it will be early in their careers. What we found is that almost 20 percent of these cases involve officers with at least 18 years of experience.

.....

Absolutely. You’ve got to really fuck up to get convicted as a cop, of anything at all. We’ve seen some really weird things with charging incidents, like a cop charged with domestic violence incidents, hauled out of the house, and then charged with DUI. Because if he were charged with a simple misdemeanor of domestic violence, he can’t carry a gun, can’t own a gun, can’t carry ammo, can’t own ammo. We have dozens of police officers with qualifying crimes who’ve still got their job, carrying a gun every day.

[guroo270]

Speaking of poorly behaved police, it was nice to see that unbiased, non-prejudiced Mark Fuhrman has found his home on fair and balanced Fox News.

[Harry]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/




http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...ry.html#page=1

Huh. Sounds like what (most likely) happened to the most recent victim. So this department has a record of this bullshit.

[BmillsSkier]

Corrupt cops suck and need to be held accountable.

Doesn't excuse what I'm seeing on my tv right now.

Can't wait till I see this in south ATL this summer (or any other major metro) ((in ATL) despite a nearly 100% black elected leadership in city, county, police and fire government.) Here's hoping the city " too busy to hate" lives up to it's motto

#hughconwaymatters