Police

‘It’s Definitely Intimidation’: Police Accused Over Raids On Activist’s Family

August 27, 2018 By Jamiles Lartey, Theguardian.com Educate! Activists, Police, Repression

The peace and quiet of a south Memphis neighborhood gave way to chaos on Monday, as more than two dozen police cars, most unmarked, blocked off the street before officers raided two homes. Witnesses described more than 50 heavily armed officers: local police, sheriff’s deputies, some from other agencies. Many shielded their identity with black ski masks. The score from this elaborate, multi-agency gang taskforce effort? A single “roach” from an ashtray, containing a quantity of marijuana too small to trigger an arrest. The homeowner was given a written citation. Minutes away, at a downtown courthouse, the police department was entering its first day on trial.

Lack Of Trust Hinders Reporting Of LGBTQ Crimes

August 26, 2018 Emma Keith, Katie Gagliano and News 21 staff, The Center for Public Integrity. Educate! Criminal Justice System, LGBTQ Rights, Police, Violence

San Francisco - Violent crimes and other hate incidents against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans are consistently not reported and prosecuted because of chronic distrust between the LGBTQ community and police. Nearly 300,000 crimes may have been committed against people across the United States because of their sexual orientation from 2012 to 2016, according to a News21 analysis of data from the federal National Crime Victimization Survey, which tens of thousands of American households fill out each year. “There are people that are hurting right now who don't trust the police and also don't feel comfortable coming forward or speaking up”...

Unite The Right: Handful Of White Nationalists Given Extraordinary Police Protection

August 14, 2018 By Anne Meador and John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Police, Racism, White Nationalism

Washington, DC — Thousands of counter-protesters came out in force on August 12 for what turned out to be an anti-climatic showing of white nationalists for a much-anticipated White House demonstration. Jason Kessler, the man who organized the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. exactly a year ago, admitted Sunday’s event was a flop. Thousands of anti-hate counter-protesters completely overwhelmed the two dozen or so white nationalists who ultimately showed up for Unite the Right 2, as it was called. Pent-up rage and grief at the death of Heather Heyer and serious injury of several others at the hands of a white supremacist who deliberately drove into a crowd of anti-fascists in Charlottesville a year ago was unleashed on the small cadre who dared to show their faces in Washington.

Berkeley Police Under Fire For Publishing Anti-Fascist Activists’ Names And Photos

August 10, 2018 Sam Levin, Theguardian.com Resist! Activism, Berkeley, Fascism, Police

Unusual release of arrested demonstrators’ identities could fuel harassment and abuse, experts and activists say. Berkeley police have arrested more than a dozen anti-fascist activists and posted their names and photos on Twitter, raising concerns that the department was encouraging harassment and abuse. Law enforcement’s unusual decision to immediately publicize the personal information and faces of arrested leftwing demonstrators on social media has sparked intense backlash. Critics have accused police of aiding the far right and endangering counter-protesters with “public shaming” and targeted arrests for alleged minor offenses. The California police agency said it had arrested 20 people on Sunday at an “alt-right” rally, citing many of them for “possession of a banned weapon” or “working with others to commit a crime”.

Republicans & Democrats Unite To Increase Police Power, People Call For Abolition

July 25, 2018 By Ricardo Levins Morales, Rlmartstudio.wordpress.com Create! Electoral Politics, Party Politics, Police, Police Abolition, Ruling Class

Virtually unnoticed in the cacophony of the Trumpian news cycle, a bill to place more power in the hands of police slithered through the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support – including from such progressive Democratic luminaries as Luis Gutierrez, Raul Grijalva and Keith Ellison. The “Serve and Protect Act” (HR5698) comes packaged as a necessary measure to protect our brave officers “who put on the badge every day to keep us safe” from the dangers of an imaginary “War on Police.” Specifically, it would impose prison terms of up to 10 years for harming or attempting to harm officers of any local, state or federal agencies of what is euphemistically called “law enforcement.” If convicted of carrying out or attempting a kidnapping or killing of an officer, the accused could be imprisoned for life.

Red Fawn Fallis And The Felony Of Being Attacked By Cops

July 20, 2018 Linda Ford, Counterpunch.org Resist! Activists, Police, Repression, Water Protectors

What happened to Standing Rock water protector Red Fawn Fallis is what has happened to many women political dissenters who go up against Big Government/Corporate power. After she was viciously tackled by several police officers (caught on video), she was brought up on serious charges of harming those who harmed her. Fallis, after months of intense corporate/military surveillance and handy informant reports, was targeted as a coordinator and a leader, a symbol and an inspiration. For daring to make a stand for her people against the encroaching poison and destruction brought by the Dakota Access gas pipeline, she became a political prisoner. Native-American women suffering dire consequences because of the ever-expanding needs of capitalist/white rule is nothing new.

4 Years After Eric Garner’s Death, We’re Still Waiting For Justice

July 20, 2018 Staff, Aclu.org Resist! Eric Garner, Police, police brutality, Racism

Four years ago today, Eric Garner was killed on Staten Island by police. The 43-year-old father died after he was put in a chokehold by New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo. His last words, “I can’t breathe” — repeated 11 times while half a dozen officers did nothing to intervene — helped fuel a movement for police accountability that continues today. Yesterday, the city announced that, after waiting more than three years for a federal investigation into Garner’s killing to conclude, it will move forward with its own inquiry into Garner’s death. In a letter to the Department of Justice, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Lawrence Byrne wrote that if the Justice Department does not publicly announce whether it will bring charges against Pantaleo by August 31, the city will serve Pantaleo with departmental charges and try him in an administrative trial in early 2019.

Local Police Shouldn’t Collaborate With ICE

July 20, 2018 By Chia-Chia Wang, Otherwords.org Resist! ICE, Immigration, Police, Repression, Undocumented

In the early hours of a winter day in 2017, “Laura” — a Montclair, New Jersey resident and single mother of four — received a visit from the local police, responding to a household dispute that had taken place hours beforehand. The police took Laura to Montclair jail, where they inquired into her immigration status. Laura refused to reply to a question about her “papers.” That evening, she was transferred to Essex County Jail, which has a contract to house Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees. Three days later, she was taken into ICE custody and detained at Elizabeth Detention Center in Union County, where she would remain imprisoned for three and a half months. I first heard Laura’s story through my work addressing conditions in detention centers and advocating for policies to stop detentions and deportations.

Stop-and-Frisk Settlement In Milwaukee Lawsuit Is A Wakeup Call For Police Nationwide

July 17, 2018 Staff, Aclu.org Create! Lawsuit, Milwaukee, Police, Stop and Frisk

In a banner day for police reform, the city of Milwaukee has entered into a settlement agreement to end practices amounting to a decade-long stop-and-frisk program that resulted in hundreds of thousands of baseless stops as well as racial and ethnic profiling of Black and Latino people citywide. The agreement provides a roadmap for how the Milwaukee Police Department and Fire and Police Commission must reform to protect the constitutional rights of the people they serve. The reforms are local, but the implications are national. This settlement sends a signal to police departments across the country about how to remedy stop-and-frisk practices that wrongfully criminalize people of color. The reforms in Milwaukee are the result of the settlement of Collins v. City of Milwaukee, a 2017 lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP on behalf of Black and Latino people, including a military veteran, a grandmother, students, and a state legislator.

To Create True Sanctuary Cities, We Must End Racist Policing

June 6, 2018 By Reyna Wences and Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Truthout.org Create! Detention Centers, ICE, Immigration, Police, Racial Profiling, Racism, Undocumented

Cities across the US have enacted sanctuary measures to resist the Trump administration’s escalation of anti-immigrant policing, but most municipal sanctuary measures have a central weakness: They only seek to protect immigrants deemed as “law-abiding,” leaving those already ensnared in a racist system of criminalization and policing unprotected. Sanctuary ordinances, such as the ones adopted by Chicago in 2012 and by the state of Illinois in 2017, seek to inhibit cooperation between local policing agencies and federal immigration authorities by prohibiting local police departments from using agency resources to hold immigrants for federal agents. But as with most sanctuary legislation, these bills distinguish otherwise “law-abiding” undocumented immigrants from “criminal aliens,” who are left unprotected by sanctuary measures and rendered highly vulnerable to detention and deportation.

Amazon Should Follow Google’s Lead And Stop Selling Face Surveillance Tech To Cops

June 4, 2018 Iqra Asghar and Kade Crockford, Privacysos.org Resist! Amazon, Google, Police, Surveillance

In response to internal and external protest and expressions of revulsion, Google yesterday announcedit would stop contracting with the Department of Defense to provide artificial intelligence technology to the US military. Google’s move is a rare instance in which one of the Big Five artificial intelligence firms in the United States takes an action to undercut its own profits in service of its professed ethical commitments. Other companies, including Amazon, must follow suit, and stop selling technology to human rights violators, including police departments. Last month, the ACLU and a coalition of over forty civil rights, civil liberties, religious, and community groups sent a public letter to Amazon demanding that the company stop selling its face surveillance software to law enforcement and other government agencies.

Bulletproof Warrior Training Manual Released

June 4, 2018 Staff, Unicornriot.ninja Educate! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Police, police brutality

Bloomington, MN – Highly controversial ‘Bulletproof Warrior’ training manuals from the same session that Jeronimo Yanez, Philando Castile’s killer, attended in 2014 were released to the public by community organizers during a press conference at the Mall of America (MoA). MoA security hosted the Bulletproof training on May 16-17, 2018, in which an estimated twenty law enforcement officers were pulled from attending the contentious training course by their superiors over the negative public relations it would bring their departments. Bulletproof Warrior training, conducted by Calibre Press, became publicly scrutinized a couple years ago when local media revealed that former St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez attended the training two years before killing Philando Castile during a traffic stop.

The Case For Delegitimizing The Police

June 1, 2018 By William C. Anderson, Rewire.news Create! History, Police, Repression, State

The institution of policing doesn’t deserve the unquestioned authority and purpose people give it in the United States. Fraud, corruption, and violence are too common for the institution and the systems connected to it to be trusted by default. While the conversation about how unjust “the justice system” in the United States is has gained some headway—especially regarding the racism of mass incarceration, a direct byproduct of discriminatory law enforcement—policing remains woefully legitimate in the hearts and minds of even well-intentioned folks. Instead of dismantling the institution, advocates will often push for reform measures, such as body cameras, changes in gear, or calls for diversity in hiring.

Civilian Police Review Boards: Toothless Testaments To Institutional Racism

May 25, 2018 By Jon Jeter, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Police, Racism

INDIANAPOLIS — The rector at Christ Church Cathedral here, Steve Carlsen, was crestfallen when a special prosecutor in November declined to indict either of the two police officers who fatally shot a church volunteer in late July of last year. Forty-five-year-old Aaron Bailey was unarmed when he crashed his car into a tree in the wee morning hours while fleeing police, who said they only opened fire after Bailey ignored their commands to show his hands and instead reached into the car’s center console. And while it would’ve been of little comfort, it would have helped console Carlsen and his parishioners if the city’s Civilian Police Merit Board fired the officers, Michal P. Dinnsen and Carlton J. Howard, as Bryan Roach, the chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, had recommended.

‘No Cop Academy’ Protesters Disrupt City Council Committee Meeting

May 24, 2018 By Fran Spielman, Portside.org Resist! Chicago, Funding, Police, Protests

The $95 million police and fire training academy in West Garfield Park that has drawn opposition from Chance the Rapper and college students around the nation triggered yet another raucous City Hall protest on Tuesday. A small, but determined handful of protesters — chanting, “Shame on y’all,” “This is wrong” and “How do you look yourselves in the mirror? You are killing us” — disrupted a meeting of the City Council’s Budget Committee. They were promptly escorted out of the Council chambers. Before they left, aldermen approved an ordinance appropriating $20 million from the sale of a valuable North Side fleet maintenance facility for the new police academy. The two-building campus will also be bankrolled by $5 million from the sale of the air rights above a River North fire station and $23 million from the sale of existing police and fire facilities.

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