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Turkey: Riot Police Break Up Women’s Day Protests

March 8, 2016 Adam Justice, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Adam Justice for IBT - Riot police forcibly broke up a rally of hundreds of women gathering in Istanbul to mark International Women's Day on 6 March. The women were mounting their demonstration two days before the official Women's Day on 8 March, despite a ban by the governor of Istanbul that cited security concerns. Footage shows a crowd of women fleeing from police armed with shields and firing rubber bullets. The female protesters had organised the protest in defiance of the ban, chanting slogans and filling the district of Kadikoy's streets with purple banners...

Federal Court Rules You Can Be Arrested Simply For Filming Police

March 1, 2016 Staff, www.countercurrentnews.com , , ,
By Staff of Counter Current News - Philadelphia, PA — A federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled that filming the police without a specific challenge or criticism is not constitutionally protected. The cases of Fields v. City of Philadelphia, and Geraci v. City of Philadelphia involve two different incidents where individuals were arrested for filming the police. Richard Fields, a Temple University student, was arrested after stopping to take a picture of a large group of police outside a house party.

How Do Police-Worn Body Camera Programs Actually Work?

February 13, 2016 Brynne O'Neal, www.brennancenter.org ,
By Brynne O'Neal for Brennan Center For Justice - The shooting death of Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Mo., ignited a public debate about police video cameras. The incident was not videotaped. Two competing narratives emerged. In one, Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black man, was approaching officer Darren Wilson with his hands up, only to be shot six times. In another, ultimately supported by a Department of Justice investigation, Wilson shot Brown after Brown reached through the window of the officer’s cruiser, struggled for Wilson’s gun, retreated, and then appeared to lunge at him again.

Why Are Cops Taking Beyoncé’s Black Affirmation As An Attack?

February 12, 2016 Natasha Lennard, www.america.aljazeera.com , ,
By Natasha Lennard for Aljazeera - Beyoncé’s impeccable Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday drew an estimated 104 million viewers, but members of the National Sheriffs’ Association were not among them. Gathered in Washington, D.C., for their annual legislative meeting, the members of the organization, which is tasked with improving police professionalism, turned off the TV set midgame when the superstar performed part of her new single, “Formation.” The association’s president told The Washington Examiner about this petty boycott, stating that the cops were angered that the NFL permitted the performance of what is, in their view, an anti-police song.

Feds Sue Ferguson For Widespread Constitutional Violations

February 11, 2016 Ryan J. Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Ryan J. Reilly for The Huffington Post - WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday in an effort to end what it described as patterns of constitutional violations by the city's police department and municipal court. The decision comes one day after Ferguson rejected a negotiated deal that would have set the St. Louis suburb on a path toward reforming its police department.

Leak Reveals Denver Police Use Undercover ‘Shadow Teams’…

February 9, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com , ,
By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - DENVER — A leaked police manual reveals how Denver police respond to marches and other forms of protest, including their use of undercover “platoons” of officers to pick out leaders for later arrest. On Jan. 19, Unicorn Riot, an independent media collective with several members in the state, published a heavily redacted version of the 2011 edition of the “Denver Police Department Crowd Management Manual” obtained through a Colorado Open Records Act request. Days later, an anonymous source sent them an unredacted copy of the 2008 edition of the manual.

UC Irvine Black Student Union Demands End To Campus Police

January 30, 2016 Matt Coker, www.ocweekly.com , , , , , ,
By Matt Coker for OC Weekly - According to an online petition, the Black Student Union at UC Irvine is demanding the abolition of the campus police department, calling contemporary police forces “modern incarnations of the antebellum plantation and slave patrols." The demand made via Change.org to UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman and the administrations of UCI and the University of California states, “The problem is that policing as an institution is unethical; it accompanies anti-Black violence.” There were 240 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon toward a goal of only 500.

DOJ Agreement Would Stop Policing For Profit In Ferguson

January 28, 2016 Ryan J. Reilly and Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Ryan J. Reilly and Mariah Stewart for The Huffington Post - ST. LOUIS -- A sweeping proposed agreement between the Justice Department and Ferguson, Missouri, would bring big changes to way the city’s police department and municipal court have operated, in an attempt to end the unconstitutional practices that had severely damaged the relationship between officers and members of the community. If adopted, the agreement would mandate extensive officer training; make several revisions to the municipal code to eliminate statutes that police used to abuse the city’s most vulnerable residents...

Protesters Block Access To Police Credit Union

January 18, 2016 Marwa Eltagouri, www.chicagotribune.com , , ,
By Marwa Eltagouri for the Chicago Tribune - About 200 protesters gathered outside the Chicago Patrolmen's Federal Credit Union on Saturday, their breath visible in the cold air as they chanted, their fists pounding with each cry. They were determined to shut down Saturday morning's business for the credit union, across the street from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, Chicago's police union. For nearly two hours, Black Youth Project 100 Chicago Chapter members, dressed in black T-shirts with the words "Fund Black Futures" written across them, linked their arms together to form a barricade around the bank's front desk, stopping workers from conducting business.

Traffic Enforcement Is Not About Safety

January 12, 2016 Lorelei Mcfly, www.copblock.org , ,
By Lorelei Mcfly for Cop Block - In his article, “How Waze Makes Roads Safer than the Police” Jeffrey Tucker explains how the Waze mobile app helps create a safer driving experience for everyone by alerting drivers to pot holes, accidents, and traffic jams, and also fostering a sense of community amongst motorists: Waze has subtly changed my outlook on driving. Other drivers become your benefactors because it is they who are reporting on traffic accidents, cars on the side the road, blocked streets, and the presence of police. They are all doing you favors. If you report, others thank you for doing so. You even see icons of evidence that your friends are driving, too.

DOJ Suspends Asset Seizures

January 4, 2016 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com ,
By Jessica Desvarieux for The Real News - On December 23, the Department of Justice announced that it was suspending a program that made it easier for local police departments to confiscate property seized from citizens. The program, called equitable sharing, gave law enforcement the ability to prosecute asset forfeiture under more lenient federal law. Under federal law the police could keep up to 80 percent of assets they seize, regardless of whether or not a crime has been charged. According to a report issued by the Institute of Justice, between 1997 and 2013, 87 percent of DOJ seizures were civil, and only 13 percent were criminal. This means that only 13 percent of the victims--that's right, 13 percent of the victims--of asset forfeitures were charged with a crime.

Meet The NYPD’s Specially Trained Protest Police

December 21, 2015 Scott Heins, www.gothamist.com , ,
By Scott Heins for Gothamist. Heavily-armored and standing at rapt attention, over a hundred members of the NYPD's newly-rebuilt Strategic Response Group conducted drills on Randall's Island Wednesday as Commissioner Bill Bratton and other top brass looked on. Officers conducted maneuvers in unison on an expanse of empty blacktop and also donned hazmat suits to demonstrate bomb detection technology, all of which are key elements of the department's accelerated anti-terrorism efforts. The SRG has already been deployed to suppress multiple Black Lives Matter protests in the past year and on multiple occasions police have used a military-grade LRAD noise cannon and aggressive arrest tactics against demonstrators, as well as members of the press. Early this year, facing outcry over the conflation of terrorism and constitutionally protected protests, Chief O'Neill pledged to separate the functions and not use the Group to police demonstrations, but the department evidently never followed through on that. "SRG seems to be the unit assigned to police protests throughout all of NYC, which is extremely problematic," activist and writer Keegan Stephan told Gothamist via email.

Jurors Ask About Jury Nullification

December 20, 2015 Patrick Browne, www.pressfirtruth.ca , , ,
By Patrick Browne for Press for Truth. Twenty-eight year old James Cleaveland was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct back in 2014, after a state trooper had instructed him to walk away from an incident that involved a standoff with a man who had a gun. The 4-1/2-hour standoff with the man eventually ended with him allegedly shooting and killing himself. Cleaveland was told by the trooper to back up and to go around the corner of a building while they were dealing with the incident. Audio recording from the event allegedly demonstrated that Cleaveland had clearly stated that he wasn't resisting arrest. The trial finally came to an end this week, with a hung jury on one charge and a not guilty verdict on the other.

Colorado To Require Police Officers To Undergo Psychological Evaluations

December 16, 2015 Jon Levine, www.mic.com ,
By Jon Levine for News Mic - Colorado ruled Monday that police officers in the state be required to undergo full psychological evaluations. The checks would occur before an officer is hired, and every time an officer changes jobs or jurisdictions in the state thereafter, the Denver Post reported. According to the Post, state law already requires psychological evaluations but such checks are rarely carried out in practice. The new rules were affirmed during a meeting of the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training Board. The loose protocols have largely benefited problem officers who can shuffle between departments when they have committed violations. In many cases, they end up in more impoverished rural areas which typically have difficulty finding qualified candidates.

Nashville Police Training Includes Lessons In Civil Rights History

November 25, 2015 Lucas L. Johnson II, www.csmonitor.com ,
By Lucas L. Johnson II for The Christian Science Monitor - NASHVILLE, TENN. — On the same downtown block where Nashville police officers carried a young John Lewis by his hands and feet to a paddy wagon for daring to take a seat at a whites-only lunch counter decades ago, today's fresh-faced police recruits are learning lessons about the fraught history between law enforcement and black Americans. About 60 police hopefuls, many around the same age Lewis was when he emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement, gathered recently in the "Civil Rights Room" at Nashville's main library.
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