Ridiculous Police News (Specific events)

[Ragnus]

So the old guy was using a revolver, and the police said he had the standard semi-auto?

[Dantrag]

This came out before he was charged:

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comment...any_executive/

[Qalbert]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/80-p...merican-mayor/

Following the election of the town’s first African-American mayor, five of the six officers on a small Missouri town police force resigned en masse, reports KFVS.

Former city clerk Tyrus Byrd was sworn in as mayor of Parma, Missouri on Tuesday only to find out that police officers, as well as the city attorney and a water treatment supervisor, had resigned before she took office.

According to outgoing Mayor Randall Ramsey, who is stepping down after 37 years in town hall over two terms, the city employees gave no prior notice.

[zoobernut]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/80-p...merican-mayor/

Good weeding out the idiots.

[Tokitoki]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/80-p...merican-mayor/

"But I don’t think they hurt the town by quitting, because who needs six police for 740 people?”

Really? If anything were to happen what the fuck is 1 guy going to do?
Sudden increase in robberies incoming.

[notorious bum]

Old fucker that killed Eric Harris pleads not guilty to manslaughter, goes on vacation to Bahamas and the piece of shit who fired shots from over his shoulder into a group of people and killed Rekia Boyd is ACQUITTED on all charges.

City of Baltimore suspends six officers involved in the death of #FreddieGray http://trib.al/6tzPxRP

A long tradition of torture: Chicago must release video of cops killing #LaquanMcDonald http://nyti.ms/1PaEO2Q

NYPD arrest man for his epilepsy meds, wont let him take them, hospitalizing him, take him from hospital, DO IT AGAIN http://www.newsweek.com/epileptic-ma...lawsuit-322827

Also, my shitty city making headlines lately, I'm sure CreamSoda can attest to this: @TampaPD targets poor black people on bicycles, Mayor @BobBuckhorn has no comment http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...-black/2225966

[notorious bum]

Anything to deflect from the real issue: Police Brutality.

Shit, look at ol' Bette Midler going at it:
@BetteMidler

Two other men emerged from police vans in Baltimore paralyzed from the neck down. WTF goes on in those vans? The cruelty of a "rough ride".

@BetteMidler Apr 25

In this day and age it is criminal that there is no national data base of police involved killings.

[notorious bum]

Another oops by police:

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Look, blacks can do no wrong according to him. Rioting? Only the white man can. Racism? Only the white man can. Gang culture? Invented and propagated by the white man.

[notorious bum]

My bad, we living in that post-racial society. Please resume playing the vidya.


I'm not about to play Talib Kweli's body double in here, that man deserves all the Twitter awards.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Din.

Du.

Nuffin.

[Spicyryan]

I don't know what seems more plausible.

That a black guys neck was broken from excessive force during an arrest or a lone prisoner in the wagon witnessed a guy break his own spinal chord to delay an arrest?

Yeah, going to have to with that people care so much about delaying an arrest that they snap their own spinal chords! How stupid can a cover-up get?

[Xantavia]

I don't know what seems more plausible.

That a black guys neck was broken from excessive force during an arrest or a lone prisoner in the wagon witnessed a guy break his own spinal chord to delay an arrest?

Yeah, going to have to with that people care so much about delaying an arrest that they snap their own spinal chords! How stupid can a cover-up get?

Or to play devil's advocate, he was smashing his head against the wall to make himself bruised and bloody so they would have to get medical help, and hit the wall at the wrong angle.

[Spicyryan]

Or to play devil's advocate, he was smashing his head against the wall to make himself bruised and bloody so they would have to get medical help, and hit the wall at the wrong angle.

How many licks does it take to get the center of a police brutality mystery?

The world may never know.

[notorious bum]

Kinda hard to blame the victim with the smashed voice box and 80% of his vertebrae. I'm no doctor, but that's a helluva feat for a black kid with no previous head-banging exp.

A tactic so common, they gave it a cute name: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...423-story.html

[notorious bum]

Cash-strapped Chicago has paid half a billion dollars in police brutality settlements since 2004

Current estimates are that the United States has paid over $10 billion in police misconduct settlements since 2004 w/ over 10,000 killed. (need confirmation on this)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...nts-since-2004

SC police officers to mentally ill woman: I'll let you go if you let me Taser you in the forehead

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...n-the-forehead

[notorious bum]

Police withheld video of officers laughing, mocking, re-enacting brutal beating of Floyd Dent

Watch the police laughing, fist-bumping and re-enacting the beating, all while Floyd Dent sits just off-frame, with several broken ribs and bleeding everywhere, pleading with them to call for medical attention.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...-of-Floyd-Dent

[notorious bum]

B-more po-po outside today fighting highschoolers in their own neighborhood, more outside agitators provoking the youth to turn violent. Teargas, mace, and liberal usage of rubber bullets on anyone and everyone, including press and innocent bystanders. @deray is on the scene.

[notorious bum]

http://abc7news.com/live/7704/ for news chopper, looting and burning police car spotted.

[notorious bum]

https://twitter.com/EricaLG/status/592778062527356931 shows police engaging highschoolers on a street, with one officer tossing a brick back at them.