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Lesbian Democrat AG  Protesting crimes against humanity is a crime kiddo! ::: spoiler Article > Authorities months later have filed charges against nine people who are accused of trespassing or resisting police during the May break-up of a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan. “The First Amendment does not provide a cover for illegal activity,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday, a day after charges were filed in Washtenaw County. The camp on the Diag, known for decades as a site for campus protests, was cleared by police on May 21 after a month. Video posted online showed police using what appeared to be an irritant to spray people, who were forced to retreat. The university said the camp had become a threat to safety, with overloaded power sources and open flames. Nessel said two people were charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor, and seven more people were charged with trespassing as well as resisting police, a felony. Protesters have demanded that the school’s endowment stop investing in companies with ties to Israel. But the university insists it has no direct investments and less than $15 million placed with funds that might include companies in Israel. That’s less than 0.1% of the total endowment. Separately, Nessel said state prosecutors charged two people for alleged acts during a counter-demonstration on April 25, a few days after the camp was created. Nessel said authorities still were investigating spring protests at the homes of elected members of the university’s governing board. ___ :::
I'm having trouble finding info about how many people the pigs killed, or died of wounds inflicted by them or counter protestors. Or how many became disabled.
https://archive.ph/5o0cK https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/uncooperative-tyreek-hill-redirected-to-the-ground-by-officers-police-union-president/3412500/?os=os
>In the 20 months since Mr. Nichols’s death, the state’s Republican leaders have repeatedly maligned Steve Mulroy, the newly elected district attorney for Shelby County, and other Memphis-area officials for failing to address the scope of the city’s crime issues and overstepping their legal boundaries. >At least one police reform ordinance supported by Mr. Nichols’s family, which would have prevented police from stopping cars over more minor traffic infractions, was repealed by Republicans in the legislature. >Mr. Mulroy now faces a threat to oust him from his position when the legislature convenes in January, led by State Senator Brent Taylor. And last month, the top two Republicans in the legislature threatened to withhold sales tax revenue from the city, the second-largest in the state, over plans to put three gun safety initiatives on the November ballot.
www.inquirer.com
>John Mitchell, a spokesperson for the prisons, said the department had advance notice of the sweep in Kensington last week and were prepared for a surge of inmates. He said a nurse performing withdrawal assessments visited Cahill at about 1 a.m. Saturday, and Cahill “indicated she was fine.” >About six-and-a-half hours later, a nurse found Cahill unresponsive and administered CPR. Mitchell said a medical response team “continued lifesaving efforts,” but Cahill never regained consciousness, and was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m. ... >Clark said Cahill struggled with addiction since she was a teenager — first it was prescription pills, then heroin and fentanyl. But she was also a loving mother to two boys, ages 12 and 6, Clark said, and was “very funny and all-around caring.” 
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20076228
I was just pooooostin and now I can't find it, and this comm is empty! Edit: It turns out that I am very silly and had accidentally clicked the block community button, and also I thought this post didnt go through because fun fact if you block a community all your posts in that community also disappear from your own view of your profile so I couldn't see that I actually posted this post...
> A former Massachusetts police detective is accused of murdering a pregnant woman to prevent her from revealing that he allegedly groomed her as a teenager and then staging her death as a suicide. > >Former officer Matthew Farwell, 38, was charged Tuesday with fatally strangling Sandra Birchmore, 23, in her Canton, Mass., apartment in 2021. An initial autopsy wrongly ruled that Birchmore had killed herself after Farwell used his police knowledge to stage the scene of his alleged crime, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
It's a badly written Reason article but the only other top source I saw at Google News was Fox News. I moved things around and I did some very minor editing. > [Albuquerque's Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right To Leave Their Body Cameras Off](https://www.yahoo.com/news/albuquerques-police-chief-says-cops-181046009.html) > > Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police Chief Harold Medina operated his department-issued pickup truck "in an unsafe manner" on February 17, when he ran a red light and broadsided a car, severely injuring the driver. So concludes a recent report from internal investigators who looked into that shocking incident. > > [...] > > Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate." Since "he was involved in a traffic collision," he reasoned, he was "subject to 5th Amendment protections." > > [...] > > Medina received two official reprimands for the camera violation and the reckless driving that injured Perchert, a casualty of the police chief's desperation to save his own skin. In similar situations, other Albuquerque police officers have been fired. But after the crash, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller hailed Medina as a hero who is "out on the front line…doing what he can to make our city safe." > > [...] > > Surveillance camera footage of the crash [shows] Medina crossing Central Avenue, a busy, four-lane street, against the light. He crosses the westbound lanes through a gap between two cars, forcing one of the drivers to brake abruptly, before barreling across the eastbound lanes, where he rams into the side of a gold 1966 Mustang driven by 55-year-old Todd Perchert. > > Although Medina's recklessness seems obvious, the Albuquerque Police Department's Fleet Crash Review Board (CRB) earlier this year concluded that the crash was "non-preventable." How so? Medina, who was on his way to a Saturday press conference with his wife when he took a detour to have a look at a homeless encampment, said he ran the light to escape an altercation between two homeless men that had escalated into gunfire at the intersection of Central and Alvarado Drive. > > While "the initial decision to enter the intersection is not in question," Lt. James Ortiz says in the Internal Affairs report, "the facts and circumstances do not relieve department personnel of driving safely to ensure no additional harm is done to personnel or to citizens." Medina, Ortiz says, clearly failed to do that: "By definition, driving into a crosswalk, darting between two vehicles driving on a busy street, and crossing through an intersection with vehicles traveling eastbound were unsafe driving practices." In this case, he notes, those unsafe practices "resulted in a vehicle collision with serious physical injuries to the victim, including a broken collarbone and shoulder blade, 8 broken ribs (reconstructed with titanium plates after surgery), collapsed lung, lacerations to left ear and head, multiple gashes to his face, a seven-hour surgery, and hospitalization requiring epidural painkiller and a chest tube for nearly a week." > > Ortiz not only disagrees with the CRB's conclusion about Medina's crash; he says the board never should have reviewed the incident to begin with, since its mission is limited to accidents "not resulting in a fatality or serious injury." Ortiz says Commander Benito Martinez, who chairs the CRB, violated department policy when he decided the board should pass judgment on Medina's accident. > > Martinez acknowledged that department policy "prohibited the CRB from hearing serious injury crashes" and that "allowing such a case to be heard would be a policy violation." Why did he allow it anyway? "He explained that his reasoning for permitting the Chief's crash to be reviewed by the CRB was based on his belief that someone wanted the crash to be heard," Ortiz writes. "Cmdr. Martinez clarified that he believed someone from Internal Affairs wanted the case to be heard by the CRB to ensure full transparency. However, he did not consult with anyone in Internal Affairs to verify the accuracy of this assumption." > > Both the CRB's decision to review the crash and its implicit exoneration of Medina are hard to fathom. But Medina's explanations for the third policy violation identified by Ortiz—the chief's failure to activate his body camera after the crash—are even weirder. > > "After the collision occurred, the shooting victim approached," Ortiz writes. "The victim informed the Chief that he was okay and had not been shot. Chief Medina asked the victim to remain at the scene, but the victim refused and fled southbound on Alvarado. Another citizen approached the Chief and reported having seen individuals leaving a black truck and fleeing away from the scene. Chief clarified with the witness that no one was outstanding. It is important to note that these interactions were not recorded and are contacts that require mandatory recording." > > That mandate is not just a matter of police department policy. State law requires that on-duty police officers wear body cameras and that they activate them when "responding to a call for service or at the initiation of any other law enforcement or investigative encounter between a peace officer and a member of the public." The statute adds that "peace officers who fail to comply" with such requirements "may be presumed to have acted in bad faith and may be deemed liable for the independent tort of negligent spoliation of evidence or the independent tort of intentional spoliation of evidence." > > Medina offered two puzzling excuses for leaving his camera off. He "cited intermittent conversations with his wife, who was a passenger in his unmarked patrol vehicle at the time of the collision," Ortiz says. "He claimed there was a right to privileged communication between spouses, which specifically exempted him from mandatory recording requirements." But the relevant policy "does not provide for nonrecording based on spousal privilege." > > Think about the implications of that argument. Body cameras are supposed to help document (and perhaps deter) police misconduct. But Medina is suggesting that cops have a constitutional right to refrain from recording their interactions with the public whenever that evidence could be used against them. By turning on their cameras in those situations, he argues, police could be incriminating themselves. That is the whole point. > > [This post has been updated with information about New Mexico's statutory requirements regarding body cameras.]
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> The teen was seeing King's court as part of a visit organized by The Greening of Detroit, a nonprofit environmental group. During the visit, King noticed the girl falling asleep, WXYZ reported.  The fuck is an environmental group doing court tours for? I hope the family can sue either the court or the org. Just what the hell was the purpose of it? https://www.greeningofdetroit.com/ YOU PLANT PLANTS! THAT'S WHAT YOU DO! What in the just... 
www.theguardian.com
> Documents provided under freedom of information laws show the total cost of Operation Bourglinster, the AFP investigation into a boy known as Thomas Carrick, was $507,087 > Victorian children’s court found that police encouraged Thomas in his fixation on Islamic State during an undercover operation after his parents sought help from the authorities. > 17 April 2021, his parents went to a police station and asked for help because Thomas was watching Islamic State-related videos on his computer and had asked his mother to buy bomb-making ingredients such as sulphur and acetone. > Thomas, an NDIS recipient with an IQ of 71, was first reported to police by Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and then by his parents because of his fixation with Islamic State, which included him accessing extremist material online and making threats to other students. > Thomas was investigated and charged with two terror offences by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT), which comprises Australian federal police, Victoria police and Asio members. He was the youngest person ever charged with those offences
"They kill people who are under 22 every single day for no good reason and we don’t shut down the city for them.” “Like this is fucking ridiculous. This is fucking ridiculous. What if somebody is having a heart attack in this area. Nobody can get to them because it’s all blocked off for one fucking cop,” —Jacqueline Guzman [Actress fired from drama company for complaining about Manhattan shutdown for NYPD funeral](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jacqueline-guzman-broadway-nypd-funeral-b2003900.html) 
>The sister of Willie McCoy, who Vallejo police fatally shot in 2019, was killed in a crash last week and police are investigating the death as a homicide, according to police and the family’s attorney. >Sharmell Mitchell, 48, was taken off life support on Friday after being ejected from a vehicle and suffering head injuries, according to Vallejo police and attorney Melissa Nold. . . . >One of the detectives assigned to the investigation into Mitchell’s death is Jarrett Tonn, the Vallejo police officer who fatally shot 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa, a San Francisco resident, in 2020 during a night of protests against the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. >After a third-party investigation found he violated department policies led to his termination, he was reinstated to the department in August 2023. Like the shooting of McCoy, Monterrosa’s killing prompted protests against Vallejo police and calls for justice.
I wanted to see what the comments would be. [ACAB* : ACAB](https://old.reddit.com/r/ACAB/comments/1ea8b77/acab/)
>Two days later, crime analyst Kimberly Dunn of the Records and Identification Bureau emailed a team of crime analysts working within the Sheriff’s Information Bureau with instructions to “keep an eye” on me. >“Freelance journalist Cerise Castle is currently working on a series of articles that started being released yesterday. The project is called “A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” she wrote. “Just something to keep an eye on – to monitor what else she posts as part of this project, and for potential doxing purposes, as well.”
[linky to tweet](https://x.com/WordMercenary/status/1803476714422522302)
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Archive.Today doesn't work. The sources site's "thanks for reading" pop-in blocks text. Archive.Today needs to disable that sort of shit.
https://fxtwitter.com/UB1UB2/status/1801939257054859521
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 ::: spoiler Full article The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office acknowledged Friday that the canisters of tear gas used in a training exercise that sickened nearby children on May 21 were “old,” raising questions about health concerns and safety protocols in a facility less than a half a mile from an elementary school. In a seven-page statement, released 10 days after the ill-fated training session at the San Bruno jail property, sheriff’s officials provided the most comprehensive picture of the incident yet, after days of piecemeal information and mounting frustration from parents of Portola Elementary School students. The report was the first time sheriff’s officials noted — though not in detail — the age of the chemicals, after the Chronicle reported Wednesday that some of the tear gas expended may have been manufactured decades ago, brought in by UC Berkeley police officers involved in the training activities. “The SFSO confirmed with the UC Berkeley Police Department officers that took part in the training that the CS canisters used were old, and did not have expiration dates,” the Friday statement said. “We are reviewing the training plan submitted and will receive a completed Training Activity Report from the training participants next week.” Parents who spoke to the Chronicle this past week said several children at the school became violently ill in the days after the exposure, with reactions including projectile vomiting, severe rashes and lung inflammation. Several parents also shared these accounts in a Tuesday evening town hall with school and sheriff’s officials, which the sheriff’s office summarized in its Friday statement. While it’s unclear whether these symptoms were tied to the exposure to tear gas, parents said the timing and consistency of the accounts felt too coincidental to be unrelated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists potential symptoms of exposure to riot control agents, including burning or irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, chest tightness, skin rashes, and nausea or vomiting. The agency’s website describes all of these as immediate symptoms, but does not note whether they may also arise days later. Experts say research is scarce on how children react to riot control agents and that it’s unclear how chemical weapons change over time because the full set of ingredients for them are known only by the manufacturers. The parents also said they felt abandoned by school and sheriff’s office officials in the days after the incident and were left to navigate complex questions of health and chemistry largely on their own. Until this past week, parents said officials never asked follow-up questions about their children’s health, and families had to advocate for basic actions including decontaminating Portola Elementary’s outdoor surfaces before the school took action. In a statement to the Chronicle, San Bruno Park School District officials said they were “deeply disturbed by the recent gas testing event at the SF county jail located at 1 Moreland Drive in San Bruno.” “At the time of the incident, nearly 30 students reported significant symptoms such as coughing, watery eyes, wheezing and trouble breathing. More students developed symptoms once at home including vomiting and rashes,” the statement said. “More than a week later, we still have some students who are suffering adverse effects from the exposure to the tear gas and pepper spray dispersed into the air that day. It is now well documented that some families needed to get emergency medical assistance to support their children who were suffering from the effects of the gas in the air.” In response to parents’ concerns raised at the town hall, San Bruno Park School District Superintendent Matthew Duffy said he will send out a survey for them to record their children’s symptoms. Duffy added that school officials will formally ask that the sheriff’s office permanently discontinue training involving chemical agents at the San Bruno jail site. Parents at the town hall were additionally troubled when they learned that the sheriff’s office conducts chemical weapons training exercises several times a year at the facility. Sheriff’s officials said they have temporarily halted similar training exercises and will continue to update the public as their investigation continues. The report additionally included health information and the characteristics of one of the two types of gas used in the exercise, CS (2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile), a summary of the training exercises and the day’s weather conditions, and aerial photos showing the training facility and the school. Officials said that while OC gas, or pepper spray, was also expended at the training, it is believed that the children were exposed only to CS gas, based on how far CS gas can travel. Both CS and OC gas are commonly used by law enforcement agencies as a nonlethal means to subdue violent suspects or control crowds at riots. According to the sheriff’s office statement, CS gas is “an aerosol of a solvent (a substance that dissolves other active substances and that easily evaporates) and 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, which is a solid compound at room temperature.” ”We want to assure San Bruno residents that we are committed to thoroughly reviewing our training protocols to prevent any future incidents that could compromise the well-being of our community members, especially our children,” the Friday statement said. The incident is being investigated by multiple agencies, including the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and San Mateo County Environmental Health Services’ Certified Uniform Program Agency — Hazardous Materials. The latter, sheriff’s officials said, will be sending a notice of violation and additional records requests. :::
nypost.com
   every cop deserves to fucking die, in my opinion
www.sbsun.com
I'm amazed all of those cops are still ~~employed~~ alive
www.nbclosangeles.com
>"Every day, police officers pin on their shields and walk out the door, rushing into harm’s way to keep the rest of us safe," a White House proclamation by President Joe Biden issued May 10 said. "Being a police officer is more than what they do — it is who they are. On Peace Officers Memorial Day and during Police Week, we recognize the incredible courage of our Nation’s police officers and honor the fallen heroes, whose ultimate sacrifice we can never repay." >it is who they are   
[Video](https://twitter.com/MerruX/status/1789414670136185139?t=_IYgedyvf8GoeZAng1pN2g&s=19) [Aftermath](https://twitter.com/peterhvideo/status/1789434275109994813/) [Close up](https://twitter.com/datainput/status/1789452474530566501/)
> NYPD knocks down and arrests credentialed journalist Olga Fedorova in New York on May 8, 2024 during pro-Palestine protest at FIT. > > - https://x.com/AlexKentTN/status/1788059502148833527 > > - https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1788062350425075712 > > https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethviolet.bsky.social/post/3krxbqdlnnf22
> A still from Jeff Sharlet on Dartmouth’s campus tonight. Police are telling protestors gas will be deployed. > > https://bsky.app/profile/brainnotonyet.bsky.social/post/3krhyvi26vs2r
