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solarbird"Bad apples" do in fact spoil the whole bunch, particularly when they're police. Officer Horne's firing - for stopping a fellow officer's illegal chokehold of a suspect - is one of so, so, so many examples. Bad cops are in charge, and you go along, or you get forced out - or worse.
This is the current end of Greg Doucette's long thread of police violence.
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A Utah officer pulled his gun on a 10-year-old black boy. He'll keep working, chief says.
Morgan Smith
Associated Press
June 11, 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/11/police-officer-gun-black-boy-utah-woods-cross/1424253001/
WOODS CROSS, Utah — A Utah police chief defended an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old black boy, saying the officer believed the child might be an armed suspect and will keep working during an independent review.
The officer's actions drew criticism after Jerri Hrubes said the white police officer pulled his gun on her son, DJ, who is black, while he was playing on his grandmother's front lawn Thursday in a state where African Americans make up less than 2% of the population, according to U.S. Census figures.
Police in Woods Cross, a small town of north of Salt Lake City, have asked the Davis County Attorney's office to review the officer's actions and how the agency responded, Chief Chad Soffe said. The unidentified officer mistook the boy for a potential suspect, but used good judgment overall, he said.
"We want to learn from this; we don't want people to be traumatized by our efforts to protect the community," he said.
Hrubes has said her son didn't have any toys or objects in his hands. The officer told DJ to put his hands in the air and get on the ground and told him not to ask questions. After Jerri Hrubes confronted the officer, he got in his car and left, she said.
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Social Distance Warrior
twitter.com/vixy
19 June 2020
https://twitter.com/vixy/status/1274066853514539008
"The review also found that the incidence of deaths at the hands of the police was five times higher for black New Yorkers than for whites."
[QUOTED TWEET]
Mara Gay
twitter.com/MaraGay
19 June 2020
https://twitter.com/MaraGay/status/1274061810920980481
NEW: Never-released report shows number of people killed by police activity in New York City is more than double what was reported. https://nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/police-involved-deaths-new-york-city.html
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ACLU of Colorado
twitter.com/ACLUofColorado
!!BREAKING!!: twitter.com/GovofCO has signed #SB217 into law. Colorado becomes one of the first states in the country to END qualified immunity as part of this historic comprehensive police accountability bill.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE AT LINK]
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Medics say police have targeted them at Seattle protests
Volunteer health workers worry Seattle police may continue using flash-bangs, rubber bullets and tear gas to prevent them from helping injured protesters.
by Lilly Fowler
June 18, 2020
https://crosscut.com/2020/06/medics-say-police-have-targeted-them-seattle-protests
Volunteer medic Raviv Hileman was tending injured protesters on Capitol Hill a few weeks ago when he realized police weren’t just using flash-bangs, rubber bullets and tear gas to scatter the demonstrators. They seemed to be aiming at nurses and other medical personnel as well.
“We were definitely targeted,” said Hileman, a 44-year-old Renton resident who works in tech and has medical training. “I could see the cops charging in their riot gear.”
Hileman said that just after midnight, in the early hours of June 8, Seattle police hit him with a flash-bang as he carried a critically ill patient on a stretcher. He said he was wearing a white hardhat with a bright red cross and a vest with the words “Don’t Shoot EMS.”
Police “hit the back of my leg, where I still have visible bruises,” he said in a recent phone interview. “It's just unexcusable. I mean, they knew who we were. They put that young woman’s life in significant more jeopardy.”
Across the country, as protests over the death of George Floyd have continued, so has the need for medical volunteers who tend to everything from minor scrapes and bruises to life-and-death situations. But nurses and others trained for this medical work say police are, at a minimum, getting in their way and ultimately placing the public in danger.
In New York, police pinned a medical volunteer face down on the ground, while others screamed, “He’s a medic!” In Austin, Texas, medical volunteers said police fired beanbag rounds at them. In Los Angeles, one volunteer described being tear gassed by police. And in Asheville, North Carolina, the police chief apologized after officers destroyed a medical aid station.
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Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold
"Now with so much attention being on the present and what some officers have done negatively, it is very difficult for some people to move forward if we have not repaired the past," the city council president said.
June 13, 2020, 2:37 PM PDT
By Phil McCausland and Allan Smith
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-officials-ask-state-probe-firing-black-officer-who-stopped-n1231016
The city council in Buffalo, New York, voted this week to call on State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of Black officer Cariol Horne, who stopped a white colleague from choking a suspect while making an arrest.
The incident occurred in 2006, and Horne was fired two years later because the Buffalo Police Department claimed Horne had put her fellow officers at risk, including the white officer, Gregory Kwiatkowski, whom she stopped after he put the suspect in a chokehold.
Buffalo is now asking the state to look into the reasons why Horne was fired.
"Now with so much attention being on the present and what some officers have done negatively, it is very difficult for some people to move forward if we have not repaired the past," Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen told local NBC News affiliate WGRZ.
The New York Attorney General’s office declined to comment on Buffalo’s request. The Buffalo Police Department and Horne could not be immediately reached to address the case.
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Georgia NAACP
twitter.com/Georgia_NAACP
19 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Georgia_NAACP/status/1274056702938296327
Update: The Senate Republican Caucus has set another hearing for the hate crimes bill #HB426 this afternoon. They have included an amendment to add police officers as a protected class.
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He captured footage of a child pepper sprayed during a Seattle protest. Then he was arrested
By Liz Brazile
Jun 18, 2020
https://kuow.org/stories/he-captured-footage-of-child-pepper-sprayed-during-seattle-protest-then-was-arrested
[EDITOR: This is a retaliatory/harassment arrest]
Evan Hreha of Seattle recorded a video of a young child who had been pepper sprayed during a protest on May 30.
People near Hreha told him that an officer had sprayed the child. Seattle police have denied that the officer accused was responsible for the incident.
A week later, on June 6, he was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a laser. Hreha, a hairstylist, denies this and maintains that he was never in possession of any laser. He and his attorney say he was wrongfully arrested.
Hreha, 34, was heading home to his apartment in Westlake after spending the evening on Capitol Hill, operating a free hot dog stand with friends.
He needed to feed his 4-year-old greyhound, Ziggy Stardust — a retired race dog he had adopted a week earlier. But he never made it home to her that night.
At about 10:40 p.m., Hreha started to cross the intersection of Belmont Avenue and East Pine Street. That's when multiple Seattle police cruisers suddenly pulled in front of him, blocking his path.
Three officers approached Hreha, he said, and ordered him to put his hands behind his back as they ushered him toward one of the cruisers. Several more cops stood behind nearby to monitor a crowd, including people filming the arrest on their cell phones. Roughly seven police vehicles had descended on the area to make the arrest.
This is the current end of Greg Doucette's long thread of police violence.
- A Utah officer pulled his gun on a 10-year-old black boy. He'll keep working, chief says.
- Never-released report shows number of people killed by police activity in New York City is more than double what was reported.
- Colorado ends qualified immunity for police
- Medics say police have targeted them at Seattle protests
- Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold
- Georgia Senate considers whether to add "police officers" as a protected class, on Juneteenth.
- He captured footage of a child pepper sprayed during a Seattle protest. Then he was arrested [EDITOR: This is a retaliatory/harassment arrest]
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A Utah officer pulled his gun on a 10-year-old black boy. He'll keep working, chief says.
Morgan Smith
Associated Press
June 11, 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/11/police-officer-gun-black-boy-utah-woods-cross/1424253001/
WOODS CROSS, Utah — A Utah police chief defended an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old black boy, saying the officer believed the child might be an armed suspect and will keep working during an independent review.
The officer's actions drew criticism after Jerri Hrubes said the white police officer pulled his gun on her son, DJ, who is black, while he was playing on his grandmother's front lawn Thursday in a state where African Americans make up less than 2% of the population, according to U.S. Census figures.
Police in Woods Cross, a small town of north of Salt Lake City, have asked the Davis County Attorney's office to review the officer's actions and how the agency responded, Chief Chad Soffe said. The unidentified officer mistook the boy for a potential suspect, but used good judgment overall, he said.
"We want to learn from this; we don't want people to be traumatized by our efforts to protect the community," he said.
Hrubes has said her son didn't have any toys or objects in his hands. The officer told DJ to put his hands in the air and get on the ground and told him not to ask questions. After Jerri Hrubes confronted the officer, he got in his car and left, she said.
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Social Distance Warrior
twitter.com/vixy
19 June 2020
https://twitter.com/vixy/status/1274066853514539008
"The review also found that the incidence of deaths at the hands of the police was five times higher for black New Yorkers than for whites."
[QUOTED TWEET]
Mara Gay
twitter.com/MaraGay
19 June 2020
https://twitter.com/MaraGay/status/1274061810920980481
NEW: Never-released report shows number of people killed by police activity in New York City is more than double what was reported. https://nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/police-involved-deaths-new-york-city.html
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ACLU of Colorado
twitter.com/ACLUofColorado
!!BREAKING!!: twitter.com/GovofCO has signed #SB217 into law. Colorado becomes one of the first states in the country to END qualified immunity as part of this historic comprehensive police accountability bill.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE AT LINK]
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Medics say police have targeted them at Seattle protests
Volunteer health workers worry Seattle police may continue using flash-bangs, rubber bullets and tear gas to prevent them from helping injured protesters.
by Lilly Fowler
June 18, 2020
https://crosscut.com/2020/06/medics-say-police-have-targeted-them-seattle-protests
Volunteer medic Raviv Hileman was tending injured protesters on Capitol Hill a few weeks ago when he realized police weren’t just using flash-bangs, rubber bullets and tear gas to scatter the demonstrators. They seemed to be aiming at nurses and other medical personnel as well.
“We were definitely targeted,” said Hileman, a 44-year-old Renton resident who works in tech and has medical training. “I could see the cops charging in their riot gear.”
Hileman said that just after midnight, in the early hours of June 8, Seattle police hit him with a flash-bang as he carried a critically ill patient on a stretcher. He said he was wearing a white hardhat with a bright red cross and a vest with the words “Don’t Shoot EMS.”
Police “hit the back of my leg, where I still have visible bruises,” he said in a recent phone interview. “It's just unexcusable. I mean, they knew who we were. They put that young woman’s life in significant more jeopardy.”
Across the country, as protests over the death of George Floyd have continued, so has the need for medical volunteers who tend to everything from minor scrapes and bruises to life-and-death situations. But nurses and others trained for this medical work say police are, at a minimum, getting in their way and ultimately placing the public in danger.
In New York, police pinned a medical volunteer face down on the ground, while others screamed, “He’s a medic!” In Austin, Texas, medical volunteers said police fired beanbag rounds at them. In Los Angeles, one volunteer described being tear gassed by police. And in Asheville, North Carolina, the police chief apologized after officers destroyed a medical aid station.
----- 5 -----
Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold
"Now with so much attention being on the present and what some officers have done negatively, it is very difficult for some people to move forward if we have not repaired the past," the city council president said.
June 13, 2020, 2:37 PM PDT
By Phil McCausland and Allan Smith
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-officials-ask-state-probe-firing-black-officer-who-stopped-n1231016
The city council in Buffalo, New York, voted this week to call on State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of Black officer Cariol Horne, who stopped a white colleague from choking a suspect while making an arrest.
The incident occurred in 2006, and Horne was fired two years later because the Buffalo Police Department claimed Horne had put her fellow officers at risk, including the white officer, Gregory Kwiatkowski, whom she stopped after he put the suspect in a chokehold.
Buffalo is now asking the state to look into the reasons why Horne was fired.
"Now with so much attention being on the present and what some officers have done negatively, it is very difficult for some people to move forward if we have not repaired the past," Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen told local NBC News affiliate WGRZ.
The New York Attorney General’s office declined to comment on Buffalo’s request. The Buffalo Police Department and Horne could not be immediately reached to address the case.
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Georgia NAACP
twitter.com/Georgia_NAACP
19 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Georgia_NAACP/status/1274056702938296327
Update: The Senate Republican Caucus has set another hearing for the hate crimes bill #HB426 this afternoon. They have included an amendment to add police officers as a protected class.
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He captured footage of a child pepper sprayed during a Seattle protest. Then he was arrested
By Liz Brazile
Jun 18, 2020
https://kuow.org/stories/he-captured-footage-of-child-pepper-sprayed-during-seattle-protest-then-was-arrested
[EDITOR: This is a retaliatory/harassment arrest]
Evan Hreha of Seattle recorded a video of a young child who had been pepper sprayed during a protest on May 30.
People near Hreha told him that an officer had sprayed the child. Seattle police have denied that the officer accused was responsible for the incident.
A week later, on June 6, he was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a laser. Hreha, a hairstylist, denies this and maintains that he was never in possession of any laser. He and his attorney say he was wrongfully arrested.
Hreha, 34, was heading home to his apartment in Westlake after spending the evening on Capitol Hill, operating a free hot dog stand with friends.
He needed to feed his 4-year-old greyhound, Ziggy Stardust — a retired race dog he had adopted a week earlier. But he never made it home to her that night.
At about 10:40 p.m., Hreha started to cross the intersection of Belmont Avenue and East Pine Street. That's when multiple Seattle police cruisers suddenly pulled in front of him, blocking his path.
Three officers approached Hreha, he said, and ordered him to put his hands behind his back as they ushered him toward one of the cruisers. Several more cops stood behind nearby to monitor a crowd, including people filming the arrest on their cell phones. Roughly seven police vehicles had descended on the area to make the arrest.
