[Terez]

At this point there is no reason to believe it is connected to anything. A person of interested has been identified.

https://www.cbsnews....inkId=107929324

[Malankazooie]

The details about this is goofy and I'll be interested to understand what they find through investigation and trying to piece together what was going on with that guy. There was a countdown clock and then a playing of the song "downtown" before the RV exploded? What the ever messed up hell.

https://www.youtube....h?v=Zx06XNfDvk0

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Malankazooie, on 28 December 2020 - 07:00 PM, said:

The details about this is goofy and I'll be interested to understand what they find through investigation and trying to piece together what was going on with that guy. There was a countdown clock and then a playing of the song "downtown" before the RV exploded? What the ever messed up hell.

https://www.youtube....h?v=Zx06XNfDvk0

'The Nashville suicide bomber sent packages full of conspiracy theories—including that lizard people control the earth—to friends in the days before he blew himself up in his RV, WTVF reported. Anthony Warner rambled on about UFOs, aliens, the moon landing, and 9/11 in a nine-page letter and also included thumb drives in the package sent to one pal, who turned it over to the FBI, the station said. [...] Warner did write: “There is no such thing as death.”'

https://www.thedaily...f=home?ref=home

[Malankazooie]

Want to get angry? Need to feel mad, but nothing is getting you there? I've the remedy for you.

Prosecutors seek restrictions on Rittenhouse after bar stop

Two Americas . . .

[EDIT] changed link, for some reason it was going to a different article.

This post has been edited by Malankazooie: 14 January 2021 - 04:10 PM

[Macros]

Fuck those people.

All of them

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'NYPD Anti-Discrimination Head Fired for Virulently Racist Internet Posts, But, of Course, Keeps His Pension

[...] The discovery that Kobel spent much of his time online describing people as "animals," "chicken wing eating," and labeling them as "inbreeding" was underscored by the irony that he was in charge of overseeing the NYPD's Equal Employment Opportunity division, which monitors workplace harassment claims and diversity accommodations in the police department.

Talk about the fox guarding the chicken coop.

Kobel maintained that the person behind the vulgar posts made by "Closeau" on The Rant message board was not him, but put in for retirement amid the Internal Affairs investigation that uncovered evidence that this was a lie.

That investigation found him guilty of posting racist comments, lying to investigators, impeding the investigation, wrongfully divulging department information on the message board, and improperly using police equipment.
Details on the "Closeau" profile matched Kobel's real-life background, including the dates his parents died and that he joined the NYPD in June 1992. Among Kobel's online posts under the handle were comments calling former President Barack Obama a "Muslim savage," deeming a Black District Attorney a "gap-toothed wildebeest" and describing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's Black son as a "brillohead."

[...] Though Kobel will keep his pension, his police union is crying foul that he wasn't able to get away with an easy retirement.'

https://www.theroot....0umr7kEHF1tLBxI



'Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a fictional character in [the] farcical The Pink Panther series.'

https://en.wikipedia...pector_Clouseau

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 04 February 2021 - 08:45 PM

[Malankazooie]

Trial of officer Derek Chauvin begins today. You guys expecting any surprises? I guess the defense is going to work the underlying health history angle big time.

I'm thankful we have a different occupant in the White House, and that the previous occupant is off Twitter. Depending on how this trial resolves, there will probably be a flare up of tensions in cities across the land again. If Trump was still president it would probably turn for the worse.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'[...] a New York City woman recently walked into a nail salon in [...] Chinatown [...] and began threatening and screaming at the shop's Asian workers.

[...]

"You brought coronavirus to this country!"

[...] the woman then left the salon and berated an Asian person walking on the sidewalk.

When a bystander--an Asian-American man--intervened,[...] the woman dug her heels in, calling him "a Chinese mother fu**er."

But the woman[...] was stunned to discover that the bystander was actually an undercover NYPD police officer.

[...] the NYPD arrested her, and she was charged with harassment as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.'

https://www.comicsan...2652136585.html

[Maark Abbott]

But guys racism is over. Unky Boris said so.

[Maark Abbott]

So I see America has done a very America thing again.

[Macros]

Tell me more

[Primateus]

Macros, on 13 April 2021 - 08:01 AM, said:

Tell me more

A driver (black man, of course) was pulled over for having an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror and ended up being shot dead by the police officer who "mistook" their pistol for their taser.

[Aptorian]

Sounds like somebody is going to be punished with paid leave for half a year.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, shot Wright during a traffic stop[...], and her police chief has since claimed that Potter mistook her handgun for a non-lethal taser.'

https://www.thedaily...nation?ref=home

'Black Army Lt. pulled over, terrorized, and beaten even though police knew he'd done nothing wrong

[...] Nazario was on his way home with a new SUV when the lights of a police car appeared behind him. Rather than pull over on a narrow, darkened street, he proceeded just over one minute, and less than one mile, down the road and pull into the parking lot of a gas station. There he was confronted by two police officers who proceeded to hold him at gun point, pepper spray him through the window of his vehicle, and threaten him with death.

[...] Virginia police officer Daniel Crocker radioed that he was pulling Nazario over because his vehicle lacked a license plate and had tinted windows. He also described Nazario's one minute, low-speed drive to the parking lot as "eluding police." This, to Crocker, justified calling the stop a "high-risk felony traffic stop." Which justified calling for backup and approaching the car with gun drawn.

Except that the temporary tag for Nazario's recently purchased vehicle was clearly displayed in the rear window of the SUV. If Crocker had missed it initially, it seems impossible that he would have not seen it either during that "pursuit" conducted well below the speed limit. It's also clearly visible as the car sits under the lights of the parking lot. By the time Crocker approached Nazario's vehicle, he had to know that, if there ever had been any justification for the stop, that reason no longer applied.

Crocker might have stepped up, explained that he had missed seeing the tag initially, and sent Nazario on his way with an apology. Instead, he was joined by a second officer, Joe Gutierrez, and together the two terrorized Lt. Nazario … while never actually filing any charges.

[...] saw Lt. Nazario's car pull into the parking lot, which he admitted was a common occurrence. It was something that happens, "a lot, and 80% of the time, it's a minority." If there was any doubt about why a person of color might feel the need to pull over in an area that's well lit, and where there are potential witnesses, the Windsor police soon made the reason clear.

[...] both Crocker and Gutierrez can be seen pointing their guns at Lt. Nazario—with Gutierrez adopting a kind of sideways, faux-gangsta style as he waggles the barrel at the uniformed Army officer's face. Gutierrez then begins to tell Lt. Nazario, "you're under arrest right now for,,," stops himself, and then says, "you're being detained for obstruction of justice."

At this point, Lt. Nazario is holding both hands out the open window and asking what is going on. Gutierrez pepper sprays him through the window. As Lt. Nazario winces and pulls back, Gutierrez steps in and gives the lieutenant an extra little toot of spray directly in his face.

After Nazario opens the door— a process delayed because as one officer is telling him to open the door, the other is shouting at Nazario to keep his hands up — Gutierrez orders him to get out of the car. "What are you?" says Gutierrez. "A specialist? A corporal?" naming two lower ranks.

"I'm a lieutenant," said Nazario. Who then informs him that he's afraid to step out, or even reach for his seat belt, and again asks what's going on.

"I'm honestly afraid to get out," says Lt. Nazario.

"Yeah, you should be!" says one of the officers.

Finally pulled from the car, Lt. Nazario is forced to the ground by Crocker and Gutierrez. Still without being told why he was stopped, and even as he is begging for some help for his dog, who was in the car and choking from exposure to pepper spray. In the middle of this, Gutierrez tells Nazario that he is about to "ride the lightning," an expression usually connected to someone being executed in the electric chair.

Lt. Nazario was beaten, handcuffed, and held for interrogation while one of the officers searched his car without a warrant.'

https://www.dailykos...e-nothing-wrong

'Virginia Opens Investigation Over Army Officer Who Was Pepper-Sprayed

The state attorney general requested records going back as far as a decade after two officers were involved in a traffic stop during which a Black U.S. Army lieutenant was pepper-sprayed.

[...] Gutierrez was fired after the Police Department conducted an internal investigation into the episode and determined that he had not followed the department's policies[...]


Lieutenant Nazario filed a lawsuit[...]


[...] Gutierrez yells, "What's going on is you're fixing to ride the lightning, son."


[...] Lieutenant Nazario also accused the officers of threatening to destroy his military career by charging him with multiple crimes if he complained about their conduct.'


https://www.nytimes....on-nazario.html

'Now physical confrontations have descended upon this normally peaceful part of Philadelphia [Chinatown] with two separate assaults on people of Asian descent in the past week alone.

Philadelphia police said a man was subdued with a Taser and arrested after he allegedly shouted anti-Asian remarks and assaulted a 64-year-old man of Asian descent [...]

On Sunday, a 27-year-old woman of Asian descent was hospitalized after a man walked up to her on a Chinatown sidewalk, hit her in the face, and walked away. The attack was caught on surveillance cameras, and police said they arrested the man shortly after the attack.'

https://www.inquirer...e-20210407.html

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 13 April 2021 - 04:23 PM

[Macros]

You know what, Belfast doesn't seem so bad after all

[Maark Abbott]

Macros, on 13 April 2021 - 03:40 PM, said:

You know what, Belfast doesn't seem so bad after all

I really shouldn't have laughed so hard at this all things considered

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'"It's Devastating": Chicago Residents Reeling After Footage Shows 13-Yr-Old Had His Hands Up as Cop Shot Him

Residents [...] were visibly shaken [...] after police released a huge trove of videos, including body-camera footage, showing an officer fatally shooting the boy with his hands in the air.

"It felt like someone ripped my childhood from my heart. And that is what they did to Adam, they took away his childhood," [...]

[...] joined with other activists [...] to hold up banners demanding justice for Toledo.




[...] "He was just a little kid. He still had a life to live. It's devastating to see how the cops here treat Hispanic people."

[...]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot became emotional in a Thursday press conference as she said the videos were "incredibly difficult to watch." She noted that there's no "evidence whatsoever that Adam Toledo shot at the police."

[...] "Adam, during his last second of life, did not have a gun in his hand. The officer screamed at him, 'Show me your hands.' Adam complied, turned around, his hands were empty when he was shot in the chest at the hands of the officer. He did not have a gun in his hand,"'

https://www.thedaily...toledo?ref=home

[amphibian]

My ideal outcome at this point is an Australian style "turn your guns in" and subsequent removal of guns from the average police person.

This doesn't have to be like this, I repeat after hundreds or thousands of murders each year.

I'm working to reform the police policy of my city right now to remove the ability to use unlimited force.

[Malankazooie]

Closing arguments in the Chauvin trial today. Predictions?

[amphibian]

I think he gets convicted on third degree murder. But it will not change things for police in the city because the issues are systemic and not individual.