Topic: ISIS is nothing compared to U.S. cops. - page 14. (Read 16609 times)
All these incidents are over-blown. In my country we had a civil war, which ran for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people were detained by the police, and many thousands of them were never seen again. Compare that to the situation that you got in the United States. I would argue that you guys are lucky to have such a law-abiding police force.
I'll be blunt, the whole incident was kind of stupid. A man just reaching out to get his license and was shot 4 times? Why would a cop even do such a thing? Its either he misundertood the situation or the man really threatened the cop with the intention of pulling out a gun. However US cops arent that cruel compared to ISIS. The terrorist group kills for no reason whatsoever and they can destroy a certain area of a country in a matter of days. Nothing is compared to ISIS.
Ive just remembered the quote "Only the Sith put everything in the absolute."
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
That's right. Even in the United States, there are around 800,000 cops on active duty. The actions of a few should not be used to discredit the entire police department. Without them, it will be impossible to maintain the law and order.
You are mistaken. It isn't the actions of a few. The police union is nationwide, and hooks all cops together. The good cops who stand up against the bad cops, are shut down by their union, and ostracized. This means that they usually aren't cops for very long after. And the union fights for bad cops in court so that they seldom get their due punishment for the wrong that they do.
Good cops don't really exist. The good that is apparent in cops isn't cop goodness. It is man or woman goodness. If they followed their cop orientation rather than their man/woman conscience, they all would start doing the same damage that the patently bad bad-cops do.
Cops are way worse than ISIS.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men
I want you to know that I think the whole fucking bunch of you are certifiably insane. This code of honor of yours makes me want to beat the shit out of somebody.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/
Cops are way worse than ISIS.
Your 5 minutes of effort got wasted by these few words. I would have believed you (at least the initial part of your argument). But once you began arguing that the American cops are worse than the ISIS, you lost the debate.
You jokers are watching way too many movies. Why do you think the movies are made? They are made because people who make them have a dream. They are made to keep jokers like you ignorant of the truth. Then the police/military can go in and do all the bad they want, because you jokers support them.
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it isn't cops that are worse than ISIS. Maybe it is ignorant jokers like you.
i'd rather change this topic as "ISIS is nothing compared to US Government itself", the thing is we see US as a very friendly nation but it's only a cover up.
they use the philosophy of freedom to create war and colonize other countries. look at iraq, iran and syria. i don't know what's the real problem but they tend to create anomaly so they ca arrive as heroes and get resources of other countries. they do it everytime that's why other countries with superpower who also know what they are doing hate them. "russia to be specific".
they use the philosophy of freedom to create war and colonize other countries. look at iraq, iran and syria. i don't know what's the real problem but they tend to create anomaly so they ca arrive as heroes and get resources of other countries. they do it everytime that's why other countries with superpower who also know what they are doing hate them. "russia to be specific".
That's a good point. And, we have threads in the forum that talk about this. Sure, it is Government and the military who look for soldiers or cops who follow orders rather than obey their conscience. In fact, it is written right in the Titles, the Codes, of the American Government to look for these kinds of men and women.
If a person joins the police service with the idea of helping people, and getting rid of crime, he's a good guy. But when he finds out from experience the corruption that exists in the police force, what does he do? If he follows his conscience, he reports to the Mayor of Governor, and is ultimately fired from his job. Or he quits. Or he becomes a bad cop. There are no other choices.
When he leaves the force for whichever reason, all that are left are the bad cops. The Government doesn't tell them to be bad. Either they are on their own, or their superiors in the service direct them to be.
Perhaps you have heard the idea that the worst kind of liar is one who tells the truth some of the time. He is the worst because you never know when to trust him. In fact, he is probably so shrewd and clever in what he says, that many people don't understand he is a liar.
It's the same with cops, even though some of them really want to be good guys. Because of the good they often do, people come to trust them. Then, BANG! The hammer drops, and innocent people are dead... innocent people who trusted the exact same people who killed them.
Sure, Government is behind it all. But it is the cops themselves who make it really bad. At least ISIS is straight forward. They don't beat around the bush. You know that they are bad (even though they are being obedient to their religion). But you don't expect it from cops, yet you often get it from them.
Cops are way worse than ISIS.
Your 5 minutes of effort got wasted by these few words. I would have believed you (at least the initial part of your argument). But once you began arguing that the American cops are worse than the ISIS, you lost the debate.
i'd rather change this topic as "ISIS is nothing compared to US Government itself", the thing is we see US as a very friendly nation but it's only a cover up.
they use the philosophy of freedom to create war and colonize other countries. look at iraq, iran and syria. i don't know what's the real problem but they tend to create anomaly so they ca arrive as heroes and get resources of other countries. they do it everytime that's why other countries with superpower who also know what they are doing hate them. "russia to be specific".
they use the philosophy of freedom to create war and colonize other countries. look at iraq, iran and syria. i don't know what's the real problem but they tend to create anomaly so they ca arrive as heroes and get resources of other countries. they do it everytime that's why other countries with superpower who also know what they are doing hate them. "russia to be specific".
Ive just remembered the quote "Only the Sith put everything in the absolute."
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
That's right. Even in the United States, there are around 800,000 cops on active duty. The actions of a few should not be used to discredit the entire police department. Without them, it will be impossible to maintain the law and order.
You are mistaken. It isn't the actions of a few. The police union is nationwide, and hooks all cops together. The good cops who stand up against the bad cops, are shut down by their union, and ostracized. This means that they usually aren't cops for very long after. And the union fights for bad cops in court so that they seldom get their due punishment for the wrong that they do.
Good cops don't really exist. The good that is apparent in cops isn't cop goodness. It is man or woman goodness. If they followed their cop orientation rather than their man/woman conscience, they all would start doing the same damage that the patently bad bad-cops do.
Cops are way worse than ISIS.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men
I want you to know that I think the whole fucking bunch of you are certifiably insane. This code of honor of yours makes me want to beat the shit out of somebody.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/
Cops Respond to Wrong Home, Shoot and Kill Innocent Husband as He Came to the Door
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-wrong-home-kill-innocent-man/.
Police responding to a call of domestic violence this week allegedly went to the wrong home and killed an innocent husband.
Ismael Lopez and his wife were the only ones home when Ismael heard his dogs barking, so he took a look outside to see what was going on. Through a translator, Mrs. Lopez said that Ismael looked out the window and saw police cars.
"They started pounding on the door and as far as she knows when he opened the door, they started shooting. She didn't see it, but she is just repeating as much as she knows," says Rami Desantiago, a family friend.
"My sister told me it was the police that killed him. I can't believe it. He was a really good person," says family friend Juan Castillo.
"She said when he got up, she heard the footsteps all the way up to the door, she heard the doorknob turn, and then after the doorknob turned it was just gunshots from there."
Ismael Lopez and his wife were the only ones home when Ismael heard his dogs barking, so he took a look outside to see what was going on. Through a translator, Mrs. Lopez said that Ismael looked out the window and saw police cars.
"They started pounding on the door and as far as she knows when he opened the door, they started shooting. She didn't see it, but she is just repeating as much as she knows," says Rami Desantiago, a family friend.
"My sister told me it was the police that killed him. I can't believe it. He was a really good person," says family friend Juan Castillo.
"She said when he got up, she heard the footsteps all the way up to the door, she heard the doorknob turn, and then after the doorknob turned it was just gunshots from there."
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-wrong-home-kill-innocent-man/.
WATCH: School Teacher Owns Border Patrol Agents...
San Diego teacher "protests" border patrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVSfAhax9k0
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/teacher-owns-border-patrol-agents-refuses-comply/.
A middle school teacher was detained for over an hour by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after she refused to comply with their "citizenship check," when driving through New Mexico — inside the United States — far from the Mexican border.
Shane Parmely, a teacher at Bell Middle School in San Diego, refused to answer when she was asked by a border patrol agent if she was a "citizen." She told ABC 10 that she did not comply with the officers to protest the fact that border agents have been unjustly targeting and profiling Latino drivers.
When Parmely pulled up to the checkpoint, in a car with her two children, one of the officers demanded to know if they were citizens.
"Citizens?" the agent barked.
"Are we crossing a border?" Parmely responded.
Shane Parmely, a teacher at Bell Middle School in San Diego, refused to answer when she was asked by a border patrol agent if she was a "citizen." She told ABC 10 that she did not comply with the officers to protest the fact that border agents have been unjustly targeting and profiling Latino drivers.
When Parmely pulled up to the checkpoint, in a car with her two children, one of the officers demanded to know if they were citizens.
"Citizens?" the agent barked.
"Are we crossing a border?" Parmely responded.
San Diego teacher "protests" border patrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVSfAhax9k0
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/teacher-owns-border-patrol-agents-refuses-comply/.
Ive just remembered the quote "Only the Sith put everything in the absolute."
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
That's right. Even in the United States, there are around 800,000 cops on active duty. The actions of a few should not be used to discredit the entire police department. Without them, it will be impossible to maintain the law and order.
You are mistaken. It isn't the actions of a few. The police union is nationwide, and hooks all cops together. The good cops who stand up against the bad cops, are shut down by their union, and ostracized. This means that they usually aren't cops for very long after. And the union fights for bad cops in court so that they seldom get their due punishment for the wrong that they do.
Good cops don't really exist. The good that is apparent in cops isn't cop goodness. It is man or woman goodness. If they followed their cop orientation rather than their man/woman conscience, they all would start doing the same damage that the patently bad bad-cops do.
Cops are way worse than ISIS.
Ive just remembered the quote "Only the Sith put everything in the absolute."
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
That's right. Even in the United States, there are around 800,000 cops on active duty. The actions of a few should not be used to discredit the entire police department. Without them, it will be impossible to maintain the law and order.
Ive just remembered the quote "Only the Sith put everything in the absolute."
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
Cops are the one who follow absolute hierarchy.
Ive just remembered the quote "Only the Sith put everything in the absolute."
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
One or some cases - not a reason for panic and hatred of the police.
ISIS is just another brand of cops/soldier enforcing a different law.
Ridiculous. The ISIS barbarians are neither cops nor soldiers. They are a bunch of psychopaths who want to exterminate anyone who doesn't agree with their views. You can't compare the cops to terrorists such as those from the ISIS. Without these cops, the United States would be a less safer place, with more murders and rapes every day.
In dont live in the us, but globally I more see them acting as arrogant prick and more the ones to bring violence where there is none, while keep safely away from where there are real mess, and just arresting the easy target to rise statistics ..
Small contribution from France
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38892302
Theo said he was sodomised with a truncheon, as well as racially abused, spat at and beaten around his genitals.
He has undergone emergency surgery for severe anal injuries, and has been declared unfit for work for 60 days. He remains in hospital, where he spoke to his lawyer.
He said the police operation quickly turned violent and he was set upon by four officers. He struggled to make sure he was in the view of CCTV cameras, and asked the officers why they were doing this to him.
He said one officer proceeded to pull his trousers down and rape him with a truncheon.
"I fell on to my stomach, I had no strength left," he said.
He was then sprayed with tear gas around the head and in the mouth and hit over the head, he said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38957953
It's even funny how fbi has been caught fueling terrorist action in order to arrest them lol
Even Muhammed merah was in cahoot with them.
ISIS = Islamic state they are defending coranic laws.
Who protect us from the police ? ?
Isn't i funny that the ones who were sworn to protect the people are the very ones who end up killing them, and it seems that they are always getting away with it which is not very good. But their crimes cannot be compared to what ISIS is doing. But there must be some serious inquiry about how the police force is killing civilians without anything concrete being done to stop it.
In 90% of the cases, the civilians are at the fault. Take the case of Trayvon Martin for example. The guy was clad in a hoodie, and he first attacked George Zimmerman of the neighborhood watch which resulted in him getting shot. Another example is the shooting of Tamir Rice. He was aiming at people with his toy gun, which closely resembled a real weapon. The cops didn't had enough time to check whether his gun was a toy or not.
yezzir
I had to bite man.
so Trayvon should have been shot, by a private citizen, not a cop, for wearing a fucking hoodie?
and "first" and "attack" might mean something else than what I thought.
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Dispatcher: Sanford Police Department. ...
Zimmerman: Hey we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a
real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, urn, the best address I can
give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he's up to no good, or
he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking
about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
Dispatcher: Did you see what he was wearing?
Zimmerman: Yeah. A dark hoodie, like a grey hoodie, and either jeans or
sweatpants and white tennis shoes. He's [unintelligible], he was just staring...
Dispatcher: OK, he's just walking around the area...
Zimmerman: ...looking at all the houses.
Dispatcher: OK...
Zimmerman: Now he's just staring at me.
Dispatcher: OK— you said it's 1111 Retreat View? Or 111?
Zimmerman: That's the clubhouse...
Dispatcher: That's the clubhouse, do you know what the — he's near the
clubhouse right now?
Zimmerman: Yeah, now he's coming towards me.
Dispatcher: OK.
Zimmerman: He's got his hand in his waistband. And he's a black male.
Dispatcher: How old would you say he looks?
Zimmerman: He's got button on his shirt, late teens.
Dispatcher: Late teens ok.
be careful, you can get shot walking around looking at houses. its a proven fact Zimmerman: Hey we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a
real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, urn, the best address I can
give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he's up to no good, or
he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking
about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
Dispatcher: Did you see what he was wearing?
Zimmerman: Yeah. A dark hoodie, like a grey hoodie, and either jeans or
sweatpants and white tennis shoes. He's [unintelligible], he was just staring...
Dispatcher: OK, he's just walking around the area...
Zimmerman: ...looking at all the houses.
Dispatcher: OK...
Zimmerman: Now he's just staring at me.
Dispatcher: OK— you said it's 1111 Retreat View? Or 111?
Zimmerman: That's the clubhouse...
Dispatcher: That's the clubhouse, do you know what the — he's near the
clubhouse right now?
Zimmerman: Yeah, now he's coming towards me.
Dispatcher: OK.
Zimmerman: He's got his hand in his waistband. And he's a black male.
Dispatcher: How old would you say he looks?
Zimmerman: He's got button on his shirt, late teens.
Dispatcher: Late teens ok.
it crazy, i think its hard to attack someone when you are running way from them. I dont know you, but if im walking through a neighborhood and a fucking truck starts following me, well, I might get a little alarmed. and im 30, not 17. he started running away from Zimmerman. remember, Trayvon is an unarmed 17 year old walking home from the store. He didnt commit any crime other than assault (defending himself) from Zimmerman, and not until Zimmerman forced the interaction, against the wishes and request of law enforcement:
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Zimmerman: No you go in straight through the entrance and then you make a left...uh
you go straight in, don't turn, and make a left. Shit he's running.
Dispatcher: He's running? Which way is he running?
Zimmerman: Down towards the other entrance to the neighborhood.
Dispatcher: Which entrance is that that he's heading towards?
Zimmerman: The back entrance. ..fucking [unintelligible]
Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah
Dispatcher: Ok, we don't need you to do that.
Zimmerman: Ok
Dispatcher: Alright sir what is your name?
Zimmerman: George. ..He ran.
Dispatcher: Alright George what's your last name?
Zimmerman: Zimmerman
you go straight in, don't turn, and make a left. Shit he's running.
Dispatcher: He's running? Which way is he running?
Zimmerman: Down towards the other entrance to the neighborhood.
Dispatcher: Which entrance is that that he's heading towards?
Zimmerman: The back entrance. ..fucking [unintelligible]
Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah
Dispatcher: Ok, we don't need you to do that.
Zimmerman: Ok
Dispatcher: Alright sir what is your name?
Zimmerman: George. ..He ran.
Dispatcher: Alright George what's your last name?
Zimmerman: Zimmerman
but he had a hoodie on, right? motherfucker had to die, those hoodie dudes are some bad hombres.
you must not live in a cold climate
alright, moving on to the fucking kid they killed, Rice, a 12 year old.
Quote from: Coleman
He was aiming at people with his toy gun, which closely resembled a real weapon. The cops didn't had enough time to check whether his gun was a toy or not.
Didnt have time to check? Time to shoot a kid, but not enough time to check if the gun he had was real. he certainly got shot with real guns, which is why he is dead fucking meat, but by all means, its ok to shoot a kid waving a toy gun around in a public park.
and before you say something about the officers protecting themselves, please know this:
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The officer fatally shot Tamir Rice less than 2 seconds after exiting his police car.
This is according to the official report from the prosecutor: “Officer Loehman discharged his firearm within two seconds of exiting the car. Officer Loehmann fired two shots, one of which hit Tamir in the abdomen and caused him to fall in the area between the patrol car and the gazebo.”
The officers both claimed to have warned Rice multiple times before firing. None of the witnesses heard any of these “verbal commands.”
This is according to the official report from the prosecutor: “Officer Loehman discharged his firearm within two seconds of exiting the car. Officer Loehmann fired two shots, one of which hit Tamir in the abdomen and caused him to fall in the area between the patrol car and the gazebo.”
The officers both claimed to have warned Rice multiple times before firing. None of the witnesses heard any of these “verbal commands.”
two seconds. take a deep breath and hold it for those two seconds.
one.
two.
in that time, an officer made a decision to shoot a kid playing in a park twice, once in the stomach and once in the chest. no warning shot, no disabling shot under the waist, no less than lethal alternatives like a taser or mace. bang bang.
and i find it hard to believe you can issue multiple commands to "put down the gun" in two seconds. fuck, it takes me a second to comprehend when someone suddenly starts yelling at me.
but hey, he probably had on a hoodie too. blow his black ass away
i say all that shit to say this; you are the reason why black lives matter. yes, you Mr. Coleman, the blame rests upon you. It is not so much that im upset anymore when shit like this happens; its old hat at this point. cops kill people. they kill black people too, especially poor ones. but what makes me sad is when people like you cant/dont have compassion for peoples kids getting murdered, for no fucking reason. I wont come straight out and label you a racist, but I have to question the motivation for your lack of compassion. Why do both of these kids matter so little to you; why is this miscarriage of justice any less stinging? You seem to be suggesting that these children deserved to be killed.
And Zimmerman isnt even a cop. Pray your seed doesnt encounter someone that makes them feel threatened, because of what they are wearing
and Im not talking about that goddamned hoodie, im talking about their skin and I want you to respond to this if you respond to nothing else in my post:
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A woman slapped the back of police squad car just before the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Australian woman in Minneapolis, according to newly released court documents.
The detail came in an application for a search warrant, made public Monday in court documents, from state investigators examining what led to the July 15 shooting of Sydney native Justine Damond, 40.
The fatal incident outraged the public in Australia and Minnesota, and led to the resignation of Minneapolis' police chief. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the shooting "shocking" and "inexplicable."
"Upon police arrival, a female 'slaps' the back of the patrol squad. After that, it is unknown to BCA agents what exactly happened, but the female became deceased in the alley," the court document reads. It does not say whether the woman who slapped the car was Damond.
Damond family attorney Robert Bennett could not be reached to comment on Tuesday. Previously, Bennett had said: "Usually people who call the police in their pajamas are not ambushers."
One responding officer, Matthew Harrity, told investigators he was startled by a loud sound near the patrol car shortly before his partner, Mohamed Noor, fired through the open driver's-side window, striking Damond.
The detail came in an application for a search warrant, made public Monday in court documents, from state investigators examining what led to the July 15 shooting of Sydney native Justine Damond, 40.
The fatal incident outraged the public in Australia and Minnesota, and led to the resignation of Minneapolis' police chief. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the shooting "shocking" and "inexplicable."
"Upon police arrival, a female 'slaps' the back of the patrol squad. After that, it is unknown to BCA agents what exactly happened, but the female became deceased in the alley," the court document reads. It does not say whether the woman who slapped the car was Damond.
Damond family attorney Robert Bennett could not be reached to comment on Tuesday. Previously, Bennett had said: "Usually people who call the police in their pajamas are not ambushers."
One responding officer, Matthew Harrity, told investigators he was startled by a loud sound near the patrol car shortly before his partner, Mohamed Noor, fired through the open driver's-side window, striking Damond.
"the female became deceased in the alley". thats an awfully cute way to phrase that; lawyers certainly have a way with words, do they not?
a white Australian woman, shot by a Muslim Somali police officer (yezzir, look up Somali born officer Mohamed Noor). Yall hate Muslims on this board for some reason; this is the type of shit that makes Steve Bannon wake up in a cold sweat and clutch his chest in the night
She slapped the back of a police cruiser, the horror, and caught a police issued round to the fucking chest. did this poor woman deserve to die? She died for her crime of reporting a rape in her area but i bet this feels unfair to you, when the other two cases dont. ask yourself why that is the case, if so.
you might learn something about yourself.
Wake up.
Isn't i funny that the ones who were sworn to protect the people are the very ones who end up killing them, and it seems that they are always getting away with it which is not very good. But their crimes cannot be compared to what ISIS is doing. But there must be some serious inquiry about how the police force is killing civilians without anything concrete being done to stop it.
In 90% of the cases, the civilians are at the fault. Take the case of Trayvon Martin for example. The guy was clad in a hoodie, and he first attacked George Zimmerman of the neighborhood watch which resulted in him getting shot. Another example is the shooting of Tamir Rice. He was aiming at people with his toy gun, which closely resembled a real weapon. The cops didn't had enough time to check whether his gun was a toy or not.
Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
Read more and cli9ck the links at https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/policing_for_profit_jeff_sessions_co.s_thinly_veiled_plot_to_rob_us_blind.
"Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism. It is the aim of the Bill of Rights, if it has any remaining aim at all, to curb such prehensile gentry. Its function is to set a limitation upon their power to harry and oppress us to their own private profit."— H.L. Mencken
Let's not mince words.
Jeff Sessions, the nation's top law enforcement official, would not recognize the Constitution if he ran right smack into it.
Whether the head of the Trump Administration's Justice Department enjoys being the architect of a police state or is just painfully, criminally clueless, Sessions has done a great job thus far of sidestepping the Constitution at every turn.
Most recently, under the guise of "fighting crime," Sessions gave police the green light to rob, pilfer, steal, thieve, swipe, purloin, filch and liberate American taxpayers of even more of their hard-earned valuables (especially if it happens to be significant amounts of cash) using any means, fair or foul.
In this case, the foul method favored by Sessions & Co. is civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to "seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime."
Under a federal equitable sharing program, police turn asset forfeiture cases over to federal agents who process seizures and then return 80% of the proceeds to the police. (In Michigan, police actually get to keep up to 100% of forfeited property.)
This incentive-driven excuse for stealing from the citizenry is more accurately referred to as "policing for profit" or "theft by cop."
Despite the fact that 80 percent of these asset forfeiture cases result in no charge against the property owner, challenging these "takings" in court can cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself. As a result, most property owners either give up the fight or chalk the confiscation up to government corruption, leaving the police and other government officials to reap the benefits.
And boy, do they reap the benefits.
Police agencies have used their ill-gotten gains "to buy guns, armored cars and electronic surveillance gear," reports The Washington Post. "They have also spent money on luxury vehicles, travel and a clown named Sparkles."
Incredibly, these asset forfeiture scams have become so profitable for the government that, according to The Washington Post, "in 2014, law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did." As the Post notes, "the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds. That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion."
In 2015, the federal government seized nearly $2.6 billion worth of airplanes, houses, cash, jewelry, cars and other items under the guise of civil asset forfeiture.
According to USA Today, "Anecdotal evidence suggests that allowing departments to keep forfeiture proceeds may tempt them to use the funds unwisely. For example, consider a 2015 scandal in Romulus, Michigan, where police officers used funds forfeited from illicit drug and prostitution stings to pay for ... illicit drugs and prostitutes."
Memo to the rest of my fellow indentured servants who are living through this dark era of government corruption, incompetence and general ineptitude: this is not how justice in America is supposed to work.
We are now ruled by a government so consumed with squeezing every last penny out of the population that they are completely unconcerned if essential freedoms are trampled in the process.
Our freedoms aren't just being trampled, however. They're being eviscerated.
At every turn, "We the People" are getting swindled, cheated, conned, robbed, raided, pickpocketed, mugged, deceived, defrauded, double-crossed and fleeced by governmental and corporate shareholders of the American police state out to make a profit at taxpayer expense.
Americans no longer have to be guilty to be stripped of their property, rights and liberties. All you have to be is in possession of something the government wants. And if you happen to have something the government wants badly enough, trust me, their agents will go to any lengths to get it.
If the government can arbitrarily freeze, seize or lay claim to your property (money, land or possessions) under government asset forfeiture schemes, you have no true rights.
Here's how the whole ugly business works in a nutshell.
First, government agents (usually the police) use a broad array of tactics to profile, identify, target and arrange to encounter (in a traffic stop, on a train, in an airport, in public, or on private property) those individuals who might be traveling with a significant amount of cash or possess property of value. Second, these government agents—empowered by the courts and the legislatures—seize private property (cash, jewelry, cars, homes and other valuables) they "suspect" may be connected to criminal activity.
Let's not mince words.
Jeff Sessions, the nation's top law enforcement official, would not recognize the Constitution if he ran right smack into it.
Whether the head of the Trump Administration's Justice Department enjoys being the architect of a police state or is just painfully, criminally clueless, Sessions has done a great job thus far of sidestepping the Constitution at every turn.
Most recently, under the guise of "fighting crime," Sessions gave police the green light to rob, pilfer, steal, thieve, swipe, purloin, filch and liberate American taxpayers of even more of their hard-earned valuables (especially if it happens to be significant amounts of cash) using any means, fair or foul.
In this case, the foul method favored by Sessions & Co. is civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to "seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime."
Under a federal equitable sharing program, police turn asset forfeiture cases over to federal agents who process seizures and then return 80% of the proceeds to the police. (In Michigan, police actually get to keep up to 100% of forfeited property.)
This incentive-driven excuse for stealing from the citizenry is more accurately referred to as "policing for profit" or "theft by cop."
Despite the fact that 80 percent of these asset forfeiture cases result in no charge against the property owner, challenging these "takings" in court can cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself. As a result, most property owners either give up the fight or chalk the confiscation up to government corruption, leaving the police and other government officials to reap the benefits.
And boy, do they reap the benefits.
Police agencies have used their ill-gotten gains "to buy guns, armored cars and electronic surveillance gear," reports The Washington Post. "They have also spent money on luxury vehicles, travel and a clown named Sparkles."
Incredibly, these asset forfeiture scams have become so profitable for the government that, according to The Washington Post, "in 2014, law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did." As the Post notes, "the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds. That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion."
In 2015, the federal government seized nearly $2.6 billion worth of airplanes, houses, cash, jewelry, cars and other items under the guise of civil asset forfeiture.
According to USA Today, "Anecdotal evidence suggests that allowing departments to keep forfeiture proceeds may tempt them to use the funds unwisely. For example, consider a 2015 scandal in Romulus, Michigan, where police officers used funds forfeited from illicit drug and prostitution stings to pay for ... illicit drugs and prostitutes."
Memo to the rest of my fellow indentured servants who are living through this dark era of government corruption, incompetence and general ineptitude: this is not how justice in America is supposed to work.
We are now ruled by a government so consumed with squeezing every last penny out of the population that they are completely unconcerned if essential freedoms are trampled in the process.
Our freedoms aren't just being trampled, however. They're being eviscerated.
At every turn, "We the People" are getting swindled, cheated, conned, robbed, raided, pickpocketed, mugged, deceived, defrauded, double-crossed and fleeced by governmental and corporate shareholders of the American police state out to make a profit at taxpayer expense.
Americans no longer have to be guilty to be stripped of their property, rights and liberties. All you have to be is in possession of something the government wants. And if you happen to have something the government wants badly enough, trust me, their agents will go to any lengths to get it.
If the government can arbitrarily freeze, seize or lay claim to your property (money, land or possessions) under government asset forfeiture schemes, you have no true rights.
Here's how the whole ugly business works in a nutshell.
First, government agents (usually the police) use a broad array of tactics to profile, identify, target and arrange to encounter (in a traffic stop, on a train, in an airport, in public, or on private property) those individuals who might be traveling with a significant amount of cash or possess property of value. Second, these government agents—empowered by the courts and the legislatures—seize private property (cash, jewelry, cars, homes and other valuables) they "suspect" may be connected to criminal activity.
Read more and cli9ck the links at https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/policing_for_profit_jeff_sessions_co.s_thinly_veiled_plot_to_rob_us_blind.
Cops Shoot So Many People, New State Regs Teach Drivers 'How NOT To Get Shot By Police'
Squad dashcam video - Yanez case (WARNING: Graphic content)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ac7Zblqyk
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/arizona-drivers-manuals-add-new-police-section/.
Driver's manuals in Arizona will now include a section detailing "how not to get shot by police" during traffic stops, which is specifically aimed at armed drivers in the wake of the shooting that killed Philando Castile.
Democratic State Rep. Reginald Bolding told the Arizona Daily Star that he pushed for a rewrite of the state's driver's manual as a way to help educate drivers—especially those who are black and Hispanic, because he said records have shown that they are more likely to become victims of police shootings.
"When you look at what's taken place across the country, you have seen a majority of individuals who are people of color that have had higher incidence of interactions with law-enforcement officers, particularly in shootings," Bolding said. "Hopefully we can get to a place where that's not the reality."
One of the most recent incidents occurred in Minnesota when Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in July 2016. Castile followed basic protocol for individuals with concealed handgun licenses, and he informed the officer that he was armed and that he had a license.
As soon as Castile reached for his I.D., Officer Jeronimo Yanez opened fire on the vehicle—with Castile's girlfriend in the passenger seat and her four-year-old daughter in the back seat—and he fired seven rounds. Castile did not receive immediate medical attention, and was pronounced dead 20 minutes after the shooting.
Despite the fact that the shooting garnered national media attention with both Dashcam video and a Facebook Live video recorded by Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, documenting the aftermath inside the car, the officer was found not guilty on all counts.
Democratic State Rep. Reginald Bolding told the Arizona Daily Star that he pushed for a rewrite of the state's driver's manual as a way to help educate drivers—especially those who are black and Hispanic, because he said records have shown that they are more likely to become victims of police shootings.
"When you look at what's taken place across the country, you have seen a majority of individuals who are people of color that have had higher incidence of interactions with law-enforcement officers, particularly in shootings," Bolding said. "Hopefully we can get to a place where that's not the reality."
One of the most recent incidents occurred in Minnesota when Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in July 2016. Castile followed basic protocol for individuals with concealed handgun licenses, and he informed the officer that he was armed and that he had a license.
As soon as Castile reached for his I.D., Officer Jeronimo Yanez opened fire on the vehicle—with Castile's girlfriend in the passenger seat and her four-year-old daughter in the back seat—and he fired seven rounds. Castile did not receive immediate medical attention, and was pronounced dead 20 minutes after the shooting.
Despite the fact that the shooting garnered national media attention with both Dashcam video and a Facebook Live video recorded by Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, documenting the aftermath inside the car, the officer was found not guilty on all counts.
Squad dashcam video - Yanez case (WARNING: Graphic content)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ac7Zblqyk
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/arizona-drivers-manuals-add-new-police-section/.
Are you afraid of ISIS in America? Be afraid of U.S. cops!
Woman Facebook live-streams her dying boyfriend seconds after he is shot four times...
Minneapolis woman livestreams her dying boyfriend seconds after he is shot by a cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQs6djkqmy8
Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3678293/Please-don-t-tell-s-gone-Horrifying-moment-woman-believes-black-boyfriend-died-Minneapolis-cop-shot-four-times-reached-license.html.
Woman Facebook live-streams her dying boyfriend seconds after he is shot four times...
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Diamond Reynolds live-streamed the aftermath of her boyfriend's shooting
Philando Castile was shot at 9pm during a traffic stop in Minnesota
Reynolds claims that he was reaching for a license and ID
And she says he told the cop he had a license to carry a weapon
But she claims the 'Chinese police officer' shot him four times in the arm
The cop - audibly panicked - swears and tells her not to move several times
Police have confirmed that he died in hospital
Some 200 protesters formed outside Minnesota Governor's house
The cop is from the St. Anthony Police Department in Falcon Heights
Castile's mother learned of it when her daughter screamed while online
She claims she wasn't allowed to see her son in hospital
Diamond Reynolds live-streamed the aftermath of her boyfriend's shooting
Philando Castile was shot at 9pm during a traffic stop in Minnesota
Reynolds claims that he was reaching for a license and ID
And she says he told the cop he had a license to carry a weapon
But she claims the 'Chinese police officer' shot him four times in the arm
The cop - audibly panicked - swears and tells her not to move several times
Police have confirmed that he died in hospital
Some 200 protesters formed outside Minnesota Governor's house
The cop is from the St. Anthony Police Department in Falcon Heights
Castile's mother learned of it when her daughter screamed while online
She claims she wasn't allowed to see her son in hospital
Minneapolis woman livestreams her dying boyfriend seconds after he is shot by a cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQs6djkqmy8
Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3678293/Please-don-t-tell-s-gone-Horrifying-moment-woman-believes-black-boyfriend-died-Minneapolis-cop-shot-four-times-reached-license.html.
I think this is very not connected in any way. ISIS is a group that is using terror as a weapon they kill to instill fear and hatred and have very known objectives. Us cops yes they are very controversial nowadays but I think that their kindset is very different to what this terrorists arw doing. You can't generalize killings as one and the same as that of terrorists it is overgeneralization.
Isn't i funny that the ones who were sworn to protect the people are the very ones who end up killing them, and it seems that they are always getting away with it which is not very good. But their crimes cannot be compared to what ISIS is doing. But there must be some serious inquiry about how the police force is killing civilians without anything concrete being done to stop it.
One major point.
Cops know that what they are doing is not within the scope of their duty. They at least have some inner doubts. Yet they often do it kinda for fun, or to release their frustrations on the innocent.
ISIS know that what they are doing is their duty. We might not think they have a duty like this. We might think they are bad or wrong. But they know that what they do is right, and their duty.
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