Police States

[Ross]

22 Year Old With Down Syndrome
Beaten By The Police
For 'Bulge In Pants'
That Was Only A Colostomy Bag

Miami-Dade Police Dept

See video at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/22-year-syndrome-beaten-police-bulge-pants-colostomy-bag/#pAssklStkxcRJyC0.99

[Ross]

Citizens Reclaim Their Government In Dramatic Fashion:
Seize Council Chambers

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 14:08

(Before It's News)
by Guerilla Girl Ashley The Pete Santilli Show & The Guerilla Media Network

On Tues May 6, 2014 about 40 irate citizens who are fed up with the amount of citizens the Albuquerque Police have killed in just the last six weeks (4 citizens) took over a city council meeting, and presented a Peoples arrest warrant on Police Chief Gordon Eden, who then fled the scene to escape the people from his crimes. One of the protesters  David Correia, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, said into a commandeered microphone

You are walking away from justice," protester David Correia shouted from the council podium. "This is no longer your meeting, this is the people's meeting,"

"We now serve a people's warrant for arrest on Albuquerque Police Chief Gordon Eden."

We must say, this is another proud moment for GMN, as this is exactly what we have been telling our listeners to do, and that is to rise up and take our country back beginning at the local level.

After watching this video, I'm sure you will feel the same amount of Patriotism that we do today.

Protesters shut down council meeting

Monday's meeting of the City Council ended amid shouts and chaos as at least 40 protesters tried to serve a "people's arrest warrant" on Police Chief Gorden Eden, who left before anyone touched him.

"You are walking away from justice," protester David Correia shouted from the council podium.

Council President Ken Sanchez immediately halted the meeting, and most city employees fled the chambers as protesters swarmed the speaker's podium and took over the dais where councilors sit.

Then a new meeting started.

The protesters – often shouting and chanting into the council microphone – called for a series of votes and announced they had unanimously agreed on votes of "no confidence" in Mayor Richard Berry and his top administrator, Rob Perry.

There were also chants of "Fire Gorden Eden" and a healthy dose of profanity. The informal meeting lasted about 30 minutes, then protesters went outside and broke up quietly.

City councilors weren't happy.

Sanchez said he adjourned the meeting because of safety concerns. He tried calling a brief recess at first but then couldn't restore order to restart the meeting.

He and several other councilors stayed to speak with protesters afterward, amid the shouting.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/05/citizens-reclaim-their-government-in-dramatic-fashion-seize-council-chambers-2951896.html?utm_content=awesm-publisher&utm_medium=facebook-share&utm_source=direct-b4in.info&utm_campaign=&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2FgYKe

[Ross]

Police State:
Police Arrest New Hampshire Father
for speaking out
At School Board Meeting

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:50

On Monday night May 5,2014 William Baer, a New Hampshire father whose 9th grade daughter attends Gilford High School was arrested for speaking out about a controversial book called nineteen minutes that his daughter was assigned to read that contained a description of rough sex between two teenagers at a school board hearing

Please watch this disturbing video were public servants from the school board uses another one of our public servants( other wise known as a police officer) to incarcerate a father for caring aboutt what goes into his daughters mind.

Video at http://www.caintv.com/video-dad-arrested-for-speakin

[Ross]

Texas police shoot woman, 93

By Vivian Kuo, CNN
updated 1:25 AM EDT, Thu May 8, 2014

(CNN) -- Texas Rangers are investigating why police in a small central Texas town fatally shot a 93-year-old woman at her home.

Pearlie Golden, a longtime resident of Hearne, a town of approximately 4,600 people about 150 miles south of Dallas, was shot multiple times Tuesday.

A man believed to be a relative of Golden's made the 911 call asking for help from police, Robertson County District Attorney Coty Siegert said.

"What I understand is (Hearne police) were called out because a woman was brandishing a firearm," Siegert said.

"An officer asked her to put the handgun down, and when she would not, shots were fired."

Hearne City Attorney Bryan Russ Jr. said Officer Stephen Stem told Golden to drop her weapon at least three times.

Stem fired three times, and Golden was hit at least twice, he said.

She was transported to a local hospital, where she died.

The Hearne Police Department placed Stem on administrative leave pending the inquiry.

"We're very saddened by this. Everybody in the city government is deeply disappointed that this lady was killed," Russ said. "Now, the investigation is out of our hands. It's under the Texas Rangers, which is where we want it to be."

According to police, the Texas Rangers have a revolver believed to have been in Golden's possession at the time of the shooting.

Community members told CNN affiliate KBTX that Golden, known affectionately as "Ms. Sully," was a sweet woman.

"Even if she did have a gun, she is in her 90s," Lawanda Cooke told KBTX. "They could have shot in the air to scare her. Maybe she would have dropped it. I don't see her shooting anyone."

The case will eventually be presented to a grand jury, which is standard procedure when dealing with officer-involved incidents, Russ said.

In the meantime, Hearne City Council members will meet Saturday to discuss Stem's employment or whether any disciplinary action will be taken.

"I would expect people to be upset about this, a young police officer shooting a 93-year-old lady," Russ said. "I'm upset about it. Most of our citizens are upset but at the same time I don't believe all the facts have come to the surface yet."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/07/us/texas-police-shoot-elderly-woman-93/index.html?c=us

[Ross]

It's happening across the country!

The LAPD is one of the most militarized police forces in the country and Daryl Gates and William H. Parker L.A. Police chiefs made it a point to hire military men to be on the force. Former Navy Seals, Green Berets, Marines, Special Forces and SWAT teams make up the ranks of LAPD and Southern California police forces in general.

Why would one man who "just wanted to clear his name" spook the LAPD?

Los Angeles is home to some of the most ruthless, well armed and vicious organized gangs. The Crips, Bloods, Mexican Mafia, Armenian Mob, Aryan Brotherhood, Skinheads, Russian Mob and of course the drug cartels. The gangs are real and are openly hostile to the LAPD, yet we have never seen the Police go after those same gangs with the same determination and resolve. Even after those criminals were deemed terrorists and murdered entire families.

During the height of the LA rebellions in 1992 we saw the Parker Center police headquarters destroyed by angry mobs but we didn't see a thousand cops on the streets "looking" for anyone. Police officers' families weren't protected. Million dollar rewards weren't offered, freeways weren't shut down for hours and protection squads weren't assigned to everyone in "danger."

What about the niece of former L.A. Police Chief Bernard Parks who was killed by gang members in 2000? Where was the manhunt to eradicate the gang that killed her?

There have long been rogue officers, some friendly, some not so friendly to the force, but never has there been a statewide manhunt to stop them. The LAPD, no matter what they say, could not have been in the imminent danger they claimed – not with all their resources, manpower and history.

I have only two possibilities to explain what really happened:

1)    Monica Quan is the daughter of Randall Quan, the first Chinese-American captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. Randal Quan, who became a lawyer in retirement [2], was hired by the LAPD officers' union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, to represent Dorner at an internal LAPD hearing prior to his termination in 2009. During that time Dorner confided in Quan something the LAPD has been keeping secret for years. Dorner involved in trying to clear his name may have threatened to disclose the LAPD secret. Silencing Dorner was simple, "he never had the opportunity to have a family," but Quan we can assume realized the danger he posed to the LAPD and stored away one of those "open if something happens to me letters." How do  you keep Quan quiet? You kill one of his four children and blame it on Dorner in a rambling manifesto. [3]

2)    The police are under pressure to explain the rise in police shootings of unarmed individuals.

If you recall, two women in Torrance delivering newspapers were mistakenly shot by LAPD officers searching for Christopher Dorner. There was no warning, no orders, no commands, the police officers just opened fire on their vehicle. News Services Fake Dorner Manifesto, Quick-Shooting Police Mistake Little Women for a Big Man

Was this really a tragic case of mistaken identity, as LAPD Chief Charlie Beck would have us believe?

The Police believed the two Hispanic women throwing papers out the driver side window driving a late-model blue Toyota Tacoma pick up truck, were Christopher Dorner, a 6' 2" black 33-year old male on a rampage-killing spree in a charcoal colored Nissan Titan pick up truck.

As Margie Carranza drove her Toyota Tacoma down Redbeam she and her mother Emma Hernandez threw papers to the designated addresses.  Not only were the headlights on and the hazard flashers blinking  but since the women deliver five different papers from a route list, the lights in cab were on as well.

The LA Times reports that a total of seven different officers fired on the women's truck in Torrance. Police seem more concerned about killing a threat to them instead of protecting the public.

An unidentified witness to the shooting looked out his window and saw a half-dozen cops shooting wildly in all directions, yelling extreme profanity at the women and pointing weapons at anyone driving by or near, like "little boys with big guns, lots of vengeance and no brains. Makes me root for the bad guys, and not those crazy cops."

Unfortunately this wasn't the first time the Police went ballistic and started shooting at innocent people. In what has become a reoccurring theme, LAPD Police Officers Are Shooting Unarmed People, Everywhere since 2010.

December 20, 2013, just two days ago, the Police shot and killed an unarmed man following a pursuit of his Corvette through Los Angeles.

October 10, 2013, Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies kicked and fatally shot a homeless man for, they claim, was waving a stick.


"Deputies with the Transit Services Bureau came into contact with the man when he suddenly armed himself with a wooden stick. He then advanced toward the deputies with the wooden stick overhead, prompting them to open fire. Officials said the man, who has not been identified, was taken to a hospital, where he died."

April 11 2013, LAPD kills 19-year old Abdul Arian after he led police on a high-speed chase after he refused to pull over for a traffic stop. According to the Police they felt their lives were in danger because of the gestures made after he got out of the car. At the end of the chase, Arian jumped out of the car and started to run, but also turning towards officers in what they describe was a "menacing" motion where he appeared to have a weapon. He did not.

April 8th, 2013, Ernesto Duenez, unarmed,  was shot 11 Times by Police.  The video from one of the patrol car cameras shows Duenez parking his pickup truck and officer James Moody approaching him with a drawn gun. He suspected that Duenez had a knife and shouted at him to drop it and put his hands up. As Duenez was exiting the vehicle over the passenger seat, he tripped and turned around which provoked the officer to fire 13 shots in just 4.2 seconds. Duenez was shot once in the head, eight times in the body and two times in the extremities and died from wounds to his chest and abdomen.

March 24, 2012, Kendrec McDade,  unarmed, was killed by Police because they were told that he had a gun by a 911 caller reporting a robbery and he according to the Police was reaching into his waistband. The caller later admitted that he lied about the gun. The officers who shot McDade however, have not been held responsible. Local civil rights activists have also noted that Pasadena police are going against California law that says officers who shoot and kill citizens must be identified to the public. Neither officers' identity has been revealed.

February 24, 2013, Moises De La Torre, unarmed, fatally shot By LAPD. According to police reports officers from the LAPD's North Hollywood Division responded to a call of a man with a gun in the area of Vineland Avenue and Archwood Street. A female 9-1-1 caller reported she had been approached by a man who threatened to kill her and then reached into a bag he was carrying. She said she believed it was to retrieve a gun. When they arrived, officers found De La Torre standing in lanes of traffic, according to a statement issued by the department afterward. Police instructed him to drop the bag, but De La Torre failed to do so, and officers said he allegedly moved forward, threatening to kill them. He reached into the bag and officers opened fire.

February 8, 2013, two women in Torrance were delivering newspapers when they were mistakenly shot by LAPD officers searching for Christopher Dorner. There was no warning, no orders given, no commands issued, the police officers just opened fire on their vehicle.

"Officers are discharging their weapons  because they are being attacked," Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck

In 2011, as the number of police shootings soared, Police Chief Charlie Beck repeatedly gave his bosses and the public an explanation: Officers were discharging their weapons more because they were coming under attack more. He attempted to bolster his assertion with LAPD statistics that showed an increase in the number of assaults on officers. Alex Bustamante, the inspector general for the Los Angeles Police Commission, which oversees the LAPD disputes the statistics and Beck's assertion of a link between the jump in officer-involved shootings and assaults on officers in a report by the Police Commission inspector general. Watchdog disputes LAPD rationale for rise in police shootings

The independent LAPD watchdog concludes there was no link between the dramatic rise in officer-involved shootings and assaults on officers.

http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/12/27/exclusive-the-chris-dorner-enigma-what-really-happened-and-why/

[Ross]

Paramilitary Police Shoot
and
Kill Unarmed Man in His Home

A swat team and police tank were deployed to a residence in Fairfax Co. Virginia which lead to an unarmed man being gunned down in his home. The reason for this brutal show of force by the state was that they received a 911 call from a woman stating that, "The man had weapons."

According to NBC News Washington,

John Geer, 46, of Pebble Brook Court, was killed by police last month after barricading himself in his home.

Officers were called about a domestic disturbance that may involve a weapon.

Police used a tanker to knock down Geer's front door before going inside.

There is an ongoing criminal investigation into the shooting. The officer is on paid vacation pending the outcome.

It is a frightening thought to think that any one of us "legal gun owners" could undergo the same overreaction by militarized and aggressive police forces across the country.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/paramilitary-police-shoot-kill-unarmed-man-home/

[Ross]

Jacksonville Implements Orwellian Police State,
Going to 18,000 Homes Looking for
Drugs and Guns

John Vibes
May 21, 2014

This week, the Jacksonville Sheriff's office announced that they would be installing new security cameras around the city and knocking on more than 18,000 doors, without warrants, as a part of an initiative called "operation ceasefire".

Sheriff John Rutherford, Mayor Alvin Brown and Councilwoman Denise Lee made the announcement this Tuesday at a press conference outside of the local Sheriff's office. The sheriff admitted that many aspects of the program, including the security cameras, would be paid for with money that was taken from victims of the drug war.

"We're going to use the drug money we pull out of this neighborhood to protect this neighborhood," Rutherford said.

In addition to the aspects of the project which are being funded through asset forfeiture, the department is also asking for tax funding of over 3 million dollars for new officers.  The stated goal of this program is to decrease violent crime, most of which is related to the drug trade.  However, the violence of the drug war is a direct result of prohibition, and the best way to stop that violence is to end prohibition.

Mayor Brown said at the press conference that "We must also be tough on the causes of crime. One of the best ways to stop crime is to prevent it."

Unfortunately, he does not seem to realize that prohibition is actually one of the main things causing violent crime.

(There is a video at the following link)
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/jacksonville-police-18000-doors/#igs3MicQlvy6PrZJ.99

[larryJ]

Ross, while I try to stay away from the Politics thread (and I am sure that will draw some comments from more than a few people), I think you should realize the part that demographics play here.  If, in Elk County population in 2010 of 2,882 people, there is one person who seemingly threatens the safety of a police officer, that roughly translates to approximately 3,000 to 4,000 thousand people in a county the size of Los Angeles.  This means for every nut job that threatens a cop in Elk County, we have that many more thousand potential individuals who could do the same.  If you have 2 nut jobs then there is maybe 7,000 of them here and I will grant you we have more than our fair share of nut jobs many of whom are armed and on drugs,  Because of the lure of big city jobs and easy access to drugs and guns we attract them by the thousands.  if I were a police officer and I was faced with an individual who wasn't complying to commands such as "keep your hands where I can see them" and they reach into their pocket or a bag, you can bet I am going to shoot first.  Any person in their right mind in this area would follow the police officers instructions for fear of getting shot.  And, because of the those same demographics there are going to be mistakes like the ones you mentioned. 

As far as the LAPD being a militarized group, hiring former military personnel is more reasonable than hiring someone who has not had military training.  Back in the dark ages, I once applied to the local police department here for a job and although I was a veteran and scored high on their tests and did well in the interview the job was given to a former Green Beret who had just returned from Vietnam.  Why?  Because he had combat experience, had handled weapons in a shooting situation and faced the threat of losing his life.  I did not go to a war zone, well, an active was zone and I was a medic.  In the police department's eyes he was the easier person to train, one who would willingly follow orders and would see a dangerous situation faster than I would.  It was the right decision.  Many police agencies will hire those who have been through the police academy before hiring anyone else.

So my point here is.........They are what they are because they have to be.  I don't blame any police officers for doing their job.  In a police force the size of the LAPD there are going to be those who make mistakes.

It happens.

Larryj

[Ross]

LarryJ

I fully understand what you are saying. I am not putting down any good cops. I have several LEO's in my family. The cities also have a much larger chance of having corruptions but none of that allows for shooting down unarmed citizens. In my personal opinion.

Cops are not Gods and they don't necessarily have the right to give orders every time they open their mouths either? It is attitude that leads to shootings of totally unarmed citizens, which leads to a police state.

The beating of unarmed homeless people by a half a dozen police officers is totally uncalled for as well.

But as you know, we all have different opinions.

Thanks for replying LarryJ

[Ross]

War Gear Flows to Police Departments

A military-style armored personnel carrier, top, that the
Seminole County Sheriff's Office in Florida bought off a contractor. Jacob Langston

By MATT APUZZO
June 8, 2014

NEENAH, Wis. — Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.

The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America's "long season of war," the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.

During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.

The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs. Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of "barbering without a license."

When the military's mine-resistant trucks began arriving in large numbers last year, Neenah and places like it were plunged into the middle of a debate over whether the post-9/11 era had obscured the lines between soldier and police officer.

"It just seems like ramping up a police department for a problem we don't have," said Shay Korittnig, a father of two who spoke against getting the armored truck at a recent public meeting in Neenah. "This is not what I was looking for when I moved here, that my children would view their local police officer as an M-16-toting, SWAT-apparel-wearing officer."

A quiet city of about 25,000 people, Neenah has a violent crime rate that is far below the national average. Neenah has not had a homicide in more than five years.

"Somebody has to be the first person to say 'Why are we doing this?' " said William Pollnow Jr., a Neenah city councilman who opposed getting the new police truck.

Kevin Wilkinson, the police chief of Neenah, Wis., said having a vehicle built for combat would help protect his officers.

Neenah's police chief, Kevin E. Wilkinson, said he understood the concern. At first, he thought the anti-mine truck was too big. But the department's old armored car could not withstand high-powered gunfire, he said.

"I don't like it. I wish it were the way it was when I was a kid," he said. But he said the possibility of violence, however remote, required taking precautions. "We're not going to go out there as Officer Friendly with no body armor and just a handgun and say 'Good enough.' "

Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America's cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and despite current fears, the number of domestic terrorist attacks has declined sharply from the 1960s and 1970s.

Police departments, though, are adding more firepower and military gear than ever. Some, especially in larger cities, have used federal grant money to buy armored cars and other tactical gear. And the free surplus program remains a favorite of many police chiefs who say they could otherwise not afford such equipment. Chief Wilkinson said he expects the police to use the new truck rarely, when the department's SWAT team faces an armed standoff or serves a warrant on someone believed to be dangerous.

Today, Chief Wilkinson said, the police are trained to move in and save lives during a shooting or standoff, in contrast to a generation ago — before the Columbine High School massacre and others that followed it — when they responded by setting up a perimeter and either negotiating with, or waiting out, the suspect.

The number of SWAT teams has skyrocketed since the 1980s, according to studies by Peter B. Kraska, an Eastern Kentucky University professor who has been researching the issue for decades.

The ubiquity of SWAT teams has changed not only the way officers look, but also the way departments view themselves. Recruiting videos feature clips of officers storming into homes with smoke grenades and firing automatic weapons. In Springdale, Ark., a police recruiting video is dominated by SWAT clips, including officers throwing a flash grenade into a house and creeping through a field in camouflage.

In South Carolina, the Richland County Sheriff's Department's website features its SWAT team, dressed in black with guns drawn, flanking an armored vehicle that looks like a tank and has a mounted .50-caliber gun. Capt. Chris Cowan, a department spokesman, said the vehicle "allows the department to stay in step with the criminals who are arming themselves more heavily every day." He said police officers had taken it to schools and community events, where it was a conversation starter.

"All of a sudden, we start relationships with people," he said.

Not everyone agrees that there is a need for such vehicles. Ronald E. Teachman, the police chief in South Bend, Ind., said he decided not to request a mine-resistant vehicle for his city. "I go to schools," he said. "But I bring 'Green Eggs and Ham.' "

The Pentagon program does not push equipment onto local departments. The pace of transfers depends on how much unneeded equipment the military has, and how much the police request. Equipment that goes unclaimed typically is destroyed. So police chiefs say their choice is often easy: Ask for free equipment that would otherwise be scrapped, or look for money in their budgets to prepare for an unlikely scenario. Most people understand, police officers say.

"When you explain that you're preparing for something that may never happen, they get it," said Capt. Tiger Parsons of the Buchanan County Sheriff's Office in northwest Missouri, which recently received a mine-resistant truck.

Pentagon data suggest how the police are arming themselves for such worst-case scenarios. Since 2006, the police in six states have received magazines that carry 100 rounds of M-16 ammunition, allowing officers to fire continuously for three times longer than normal. Twenty-two states obtained equipment to detect buried land mines.

In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.

"You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.'s and to defeat law enforcement techniques," Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff's Department told the local Fox affiliate, referring to improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment.

The police in 38 states have received silencers, which soldiers use to muffle gunfire during raids and sniper attacks. Lauren Wild, the sheriff in rural Walsh County, N.D., said he saw no need for silencers. When told he had 40 of them for his county of 11,000 people, Sheriff Wild confirmed it with a colleague and said he would look into it. "I don't recall approving them," he said.

Some officials are reconsidering their eagerness to take the gear. Last year, the sheriff's office in Oxford County, Maine, told county officials that it wanted a mine-resistant vehicle because Maine's western foothills "face a previously unimaginable threat from terrorist activities."

County commissioners approved the request, but recently rescinded it at the sheriff's request. Scott Cole, the county administrator, said some people expressed concerns about the truck, and the police were comfortable that a neighboring community could offer its vehicle in an emergency.

At the Neenah City Council, Mr. Pollnow is pushing for a requirement that the council vote on all equipment transfers. When he asks about the need for military equipment, he said the answer is always the same: It protects police officers.

"Who's going to be against that? You're against the police coming home safe at night?" he said. "But you can always present a worst-case scenario. You can use that as a framework to get anything."

Chief Wilkinson said he was not interested in militarizing Neenah. But officers are shot, even in small towns. If there were an affordable way to protect his people without the new truck, he would do it.

"I hate having our community divided over a law enforcement issue like this. But we are," he said. "It drives me to my knees in prayer for the safety of this community every day. And it convinced me that this was the right thing for our community."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html