tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75936018309920079472024-02-19T07:20:01.570-05:00No Tears For Dead CopsThe thin blue line is crookedStation Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-22941964263080737832013-09-05T20:37:00.000-04:002013-09-05T20:37:48.975-04:00Mall Cop’s Fight Highlights Public Misinformation on Authority<i>This article may seem contrary to the mission here, but I think it’s important that we, as citizens, know exactly what rights we do and don’t have, and precisely what the nature of authority really is in America today. </i><br />
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</i> <i>It becomes all too easy to cry “foul” when we see authorities throwing a temper tantrum, but that does not always mean they are wrong, or that a use of force was not justified. <br />
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So while we may not weep for the loss of a soldier in the army of tyrants, it is till important to understand that anarchy is no better solution than a police-state. <br />
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Now having said that, I believe the following article does an excellent job of pointing out how this authority did the right thing, the wrong way. <br />
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Thanks to Captain Six at <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/09/mall-cops-fight-highlights-public.html#axzz2dsUacmky" target="_blank"><b>Station.6.Underground</b></a> for another contribution here. </i><br />
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This incident happened back in May, but I have decided to show it here since there is still quite a bit of discussion going on about it, and quite a lot of misinformation. <br />
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In the video you will see a Security Guard, under contract with the Cafaro company, attempt to enforce the regulations of the Ohio Valley Mall. A physical confrontation ensues. The debate here swirls around all sorts of misunderstanding by the general public, and the public's general disdain for authority.<br />
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As any regular reader here knows, I am not fan of authority myself, and certainly no "cop lover." But while I have to agree that this guard acted foolishly, technically, she had every right* to do what she did. The woman she confronted should have been arrested and charged.<br />
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The primary misconception that the public often has is that security guards have no legal authority. This is completely incorrect. In some ways, private security guards actually have more power than a police officer.<br />
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You see, a police officer must have either probable cause that a crime has been committed or be acting under emergency authority in order to issue you a command. A security guard on the other hand, is acting as the agent of the property owner. Essentially, a guard has as much authority over their jurisdiction as you have in your own home.<br />
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The police may enforce the law, but that is where their authority ends. The security guard on the other hand, may enforce the law, any rule or regulation of the property, <i><b>and may even make up rules as they go along</b></i>. The only real exception there is that the guard can't compel you to commit a crime.<br />
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A guard might enforce a "shoes required" dress code for the mall, even though there is no law that says you have to wear shoes. A guard might also tell you to get up an move, right after you sat down at a table in the food court. The guard would have no obligation to explain why, and would not have to cite a "you can't sit here" rule in mall regulations. The guard might simply be telling you to move because that space was reserved, or perhaps there is a crew coming to fix a water leak there. Or maybe the guard just wanted that table for themselves. It doesn't really matter legally speaking. Now granted, a guard who goes around bullying people without cause or to get the best table in the foodcourt is not going to be looked upon well by their employer, or even fellow guards, but the legal authority is there just the same. <br />
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So specific to this situation here now. A police officer might very well tell these people that they cannot photograph there, and order them to move along. While taking photographs is not illegal, the officer may establish a scene perimeter because of the emergency situation and enforce special circumstances within that scene. They might tell you to move along for reasons of safety, or even tell you that your photos are subject to confiscation as evidence in an ongoing investigation.<br />
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(It should be noted here, that emergency authority if often used to enforce some level of common decency too. Aside from being material evidence in an investigation, no one wants to see pictures circulated on the internet of their loved one's mutilated remains being extricated from a twisted wreck along some highway. And you probably wouldn't want to see a bunch of rubberneckers oogling you while you die either.) <br />
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The guard also has, generally speaking, this same emergency authority. Being a security guard does not grant that authority outside of their jurisdiction, but here on the mall property, the guard was indeed helping to manage an emergency situation and a hazardous condition within her jurisdiction as a consequence of the emergency. She could not go running out to the interstate and do the same thing, but there on mall property she had every right to do what she did. <br />
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Now here is where the guard's power goes even beyond that of a police officer. Even if there had been no truck rolled down the embankment, no emergency situation, the guard still had the authority to tell those folks to stop taking pictures and to move along. Not only were they impeding the flow of traffic and creating a hazardous safety condition, but the guard also has no obligation to explain herself to them. She didn't have to have a reason at all, legally speaking, as we have already seen with the foodcourt example. But at the same time, if one of those idiots had gotten run over they probably would have turned right around and sued the mall over it.<br />
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Okay, so we have now established that a guard can enforce the law and help to maintain a secure perimeter in an emergency situation. We have also seen that a guard may enforce the rules of the property, which may not have anything to do with actual laws. We have even seen that a guard has the right to make up the rules as they go. Just as you could in your own home. You could tell other people they can't smoke in your home while you sit down and light up a fat cigar. The guard is the legal agent of the property owner, and therefore has the same authority as the property owner.<br />
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But what can the guard actually do to enforce these rules? It's simple really. They can tell you to leave. And if you refuse to leave? Well then, now you have committed a crime. Criminal trespass. You are now subject to arrest. The guard may use physical force to affect that arrest, or may simply use physical force to stop you from continuing your criminal activity. This is the same authority a nightclub bouncer uses when they kick out drunks. If they ask you nicely to leave, and you don't, you're in trouble. This is the same in a bar, a mall, or when you are in someone's own home. You can be ejected through physical force, and you are subject to a criminal prosecution.<br />
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So yes folks, rent-a-cops do indeed have authoritahhh. In many ways, more so than a police officer. In fact, a guard could supersede the commands of a police officer, or even eject a police officer from the property in some instances, depending on the specifics. <br />
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The last argument that can be made here is that the guard was not actually on private property, but public property. I have seen this argument made, but it is simply not true. Even if you let the public onto your property, let's say for a yard sale as an example, it is still your property and you have the right to kick someone out. This is true even of businesses like malls, that are often thought of as public areas, even when they really are not. This has been upheld numerous times and is well established in case law. Mall property is not public property. <br />
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Furthermore, where this incident took place was not a public roadway. The truck rolled over from the public interstate, but where the guard's confrontation occurred was on Mall Ring Road, which is private property. It is not owned or maintained by any public entity, but instead secured and maintained through private contracts. the guard was within her jurisdiction. The fact that it is private property has been established by numerous media reports and is also evident by the fact that the road is not accessible to Google Earth's Street View. <br />
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So all in all here, we must now conclude that the people taking pictures and loitering, were wrong, and that the guard was legally in the right. Not only was she enforcing mall regulations, she was also protecting the interests of the mall owners, and the safety of the very people who had become confrontational with her. Although we hear in the video some talk about who touched who her first, we also see now that the guard had every right to initiate physical force to enforce the mall's security. <br />
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The guard was under no obligation to "call the police" as some have suggested, because the guard herself is in fact the authority there.<br />
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Now, having said all of this in defense of the guard, we might also look at the manner in which she performed her duty. This is the real problem here. What she did was completely legal, and the other folks were indeed breaking the law at that point, we can also see this as an example of a total lack of professionalism. A lack of training and experience could be blamed here as much as any judgement of the guard's personality. So in that sense, we might even blame her employers partially for this incident. But it seems clear enough that whatever the reason, the guard lacked a certain level of professionalism. She lost control of her own temper, and at least partly because of that, she lost overall control of the situation. Meeting belligerence with belligerence and escalating a situation beyond one's control are not hallmarks of security and/or law-enforcement professional conduct. <br />
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Having worked int he field myself, I will share my opinion here on what I might have done in that situation. First, I would have established my authority with what is known as command presence. this can be accomplished through everything from wearing a well-fitting, neat uniform, to posture, to speaking in an authoritative tone, eye contact, and in general expressing an air of professional confidence. <br />
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When my commands were not followed, I would have selected on of two options. First, to continue my hard-ass approach and call for immediate backup. At that point, I have made a supervisor aware of an escalating situation. It is then left to them to either order me to disengage, or to send reinforcement to press the issue. The alternative for me would have been to humanize myself a bit. To try to build a small rapport of understanding, and basically tell them why they can't be there taking pictures.<br />
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"Look guys, I'm just doing my job. If one of you gets hit by a car, it's my ass," is something I might have said.<br />
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Or maybe, something a little condescending even like, "Come on people. Really? How morbid are you? Don't sit here taking pictures of someone having the worst day of their lives."<br />
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The idea here is to engage in a bit of coercive conversation, rather than just start screaming and yelling. If at that point they still refused to follow instructions, I would fall back to the first choice, and call a supervisor/dispatch for reinforcement and/or further instructions. <br />
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The guard's inability to stay calm, and to effectively maintain order led to her being fired from her job in the end. No charges were filed against her, which goes to show that she was legally justified in what she did. But at the same time, her employer saw the guard was unable to do her job effectively, and sent her on her way. Because of that, it is little surprise that the mall elected not to pursue charges against the transgressors. <br />
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So the next time you start making wise cracks at the mall cops, just remember that most are more professional than you give them credit for. They are at the short-end of plenty of jokes, they bite their tongue and carry on. Think what you want about security guards, but don't make the mistake of thinking that they are powerless. If pushed, they really can mess up your day. At the very least they can tell you to get the hell out and never come back.<br />
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<br />Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-48262213455187352842013-06-07T05:08:00.001-04:002013-06-07T05:08:33.077-04:00It May Soon Be a Felony to Annoy a Cop in NY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ydcrBRPcrY/UbGimpcNGMI/AAAAAAAABnY/4uBLRLhyHSM/s1600/special-police-badge-big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ydcrBRPcrY/UbGimpcNGMI/AAAAAAAABnY/4uBLRLhyHSM/s200/special-police-badge-big.jpg" width="182" /></a></div>You read that right. The NY State Senate has passed a bill that is now before the Assembly, which will make it a felony, punishable by four years in prison, "TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN OR ALARM A... POLICE OFFICER." <br />
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Many opponents are concerned that this law will be misused in a number of ways, but particularly against citizens and reporters who film police encounters. Police routinely abuse laws that are on the books already. Everything from arbitrary laws such as disorderly conduct and obstruction of police administration, to resisting arrest and assault on a police officer. <br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/woman-calls-911-middle-stop-article-1.1362970" target="_blank"><b>In this incident</b></a>, a deaf and mentally handicapped woman was charged with felony assault on a police officer for the crime of acting as the officer's punching bag. <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/05/trucker-badly-beaten-by-police-over.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>In this case</b></a>, a trucker was beaten within an inch of his life for the crime of obstruction, and resisting arrest. And <a href="http://www.november.org/thewall/cases/ingle-t/ingle-t.html" target="_blank"><b>in this case</b></a>, a man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after he was shot by police in his own bed in the middle of the night. Police had raided the house with a no-knock warrarnt on the suspicion that it was a drug house, but only discovered personal use paraphernalia after shooting the man numerous times.<br />
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There are thousands of incidents like these which show police abuse of authority with the existing laws that are already in place. Even cases that defy logic entirely, like being <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040399_Adam_Kokesh_resisting_arrest_Philadelphia_protest.html" target="_blank"><b>arrested for resisting arrest</b></a>. How can one be arrested for resisting arrest, if there is no other charge to justify an arrest in the first place? <br />
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New York lawmakers have justified their proposal as follows:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: #444444;">JUSTIFICATION: Police officers all across this state put their lives on the line every day to protect the people of New York. New York State must establish laws and toughen existing laws that protect the police from becoming victims of criminals. Far too many law enforcement officers are being harassed, injured, even killed while honoring their commitment to protect and serve this state. The Legislature has a responsibility to do everything we can to protect our brave heroes, our police officers, from violent criminals. This legislation contributes to that premise.</span></blockquote><br />
As far as the notion that police officers are "putting their lives on the line" goes, this doesn't seem to be a a reasonable justification for making the police a privileged class protected by their own special set of laws that the average citizen does not enjoy. Fisherman are putting their lives on the line every day, in order to bring you fish-sticks and crab legs. They have the most dangerous job in America, followed by loggers. In fact, police officers rarely make the<a href="http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/09/24/americas-10-most-dangerous-jobs/#!slide=5306419" target="_blank"><b> top 10 list</b></a> for most dangerous jobs in America, yet cabbies, truckers, even refuse truck workers are more likely to be killed at work than a police officer. <br />
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If we are going to give police officers this special protection, perhaps we should also demand that the police be held especially accountable for crimes which violate the public trust.<br />
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I propose that we make it a felony, to commit a crime, while employed as a police officer, and especially crimes committed while in uniform or on duty. All too often, we see just the opposite. Rather than police being held accountable for crimes and betrayal of the public trust, they are given special privilege and shown gross favoritism in every phase of the accountability process. <br />
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The following links will show you just how unbalanced justice really is, between we the people, and they, the stormtroopers of the privileged class. <br />
<a href="http://www.policemisconduct.net/what-can-criminal-charges-against-cops-tell-us/" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://www.policemisconduct.net/what-can-criminal-charges-against-cops-tell-us/" target="_blank"><b>What Can We Learn From Criminal Complaints Against Cops?</b></a><br />
<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/11/child-molester-cop-gets-no-prison-time.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/11/child-molester-cop-gets-no-prison-time.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>Child Molester Cop Gets No Prison Time</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/03/das-office-complicit-in-brutality.html#axzz2VVjk2ows" target="_blank"><b>D.A.'s Office Complicit in Brutality Coverup</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/01/swat-get-medals-after-shooting-at.html#axzz2VVjk2ows" target="_blank"><b>SWAT Get Medals For Shooting at Innocent Family in Botched Raid</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/03/cop-made-chief-after-negligent-homicide.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>Cop Made Chief After Conviction for Negligent Fatal Shooting of Motorist</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/04/firing-with-intent-are-american-cops.html#axzz2VVjk2ows" target="_blank"><b>Firing With Intent: Are American Cops Out of Control</b></a><br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-82184246357677272542013-05-28T18:20:00.000-04:002013-05-28T18:20:07.102-04:00Top Cop Threatens to Kill After Fellow Officer Gunned Down<span style="font-size: x-small;">This article originally presented by <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/05/top-cop-threatens-murder-after-fellow.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>Station.6.Underground</b></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oeBzt0oE3Xw/UaUq_zx5mPI/AAAAAAAABkk/GL5ectUogYk/s1600/10ZHHv.AuSt.79.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oeBzt0oE3Xw/UaUq_zx5mPI/AAAAAAAABkk/GL5ectUogYk/s200/10ZHHv.AuSt.79.jpeg" width="179" /></a><i>Officer Jason Ellis was shot multiple times early Saturday morning on an off-ramp leading from the Bluegrass Parkway to Highway 55 in Nelson County, Kentucky. The K-9 officer was on his way home from work in a marked cruiser, but did not have his dog with him, when he was ambushed and killed by multiple shots from a 12-gauge shotgun. He is the first officer killed in the line of duty in the 150-year history of the Bardstown police force. Motorists discovered his body at around 3 a.m. and phoned 911. The former Cincinnati Reds professional baseball player leaves behind a wife and two children. </i><br />
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It is understandable that his fellow officers would feel a great deal of anger over such a seemingly senseless act of violence. What is not so understandable, is why Chief Rick McCubbin would make a public statement that sounds as if he hopes the suspect or suspects are killed, rather than be put on trial. It is one thing to feel human emotion after an event like that, to feel the need for revenge. It is quite another for a highly trained former U.S. Marshal with 25 years of law-enforcement experience to make a press statement like this...<br />
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The police are not a judge, nor a jury, nor serve the public as executioners. It is this very mentality of shoot first and ask questions later which leads criminals to justify the slaughter cops in cold blood. A murder begets murder cycle of violence, rather than justice. Of course, there will be those that argue "so be it" and that it will "save taxpayers money in the long run" when police kill suspects on sight. But if we are really meant to condone this reasoning as a matter of policy, we might just as well shut down the courts entirely, burn the Constitution and get the ovens fired up in the concentration camps.<br />
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It is one thing to feel like you want to go out and get swift revenge. It is quite another for the police to say, in essence, that they will kill a suspect if they can get away with it. It's not the flashing lights or shiny pins, it's not the paycheck paid from tax dollars, or being a good shot with a gun that makes a police officer. The police are expected to "take the high road"so to speak, to be the better people. After all, it is this very principle above all others which defines the police officer, or which once did anyway. The principle which separates the police from the criminals. The ideal which makes the police the heroes in the first place. <br />
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Too often today though, it seems as if the opposite has become true, both in the eyes of the public, and in the courtroom. Instead of police being held to a higher standard, they are simply given a pass for criminal behavior and betrayals of public trust. Such a haven from justice creates a caste of criminality and thuggery for which there is no accountability. It is not acceptable to say that because a person spends his days doing good, that on occasion we should look the other way so that he can brutalize and murder. Yet that has become the predominant trend in our society today with our complacent acceptance of <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/firing-with-intent-are-american-cops.html" target="_blank"><b>police wrongdoing</b></a>. <br />
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Of course, anytime that police wrongdoing is brought up, the <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/01/stanford-prison-experiment.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>mind deflects the horror</b></a> of what we are seeing, and instead refers to the argument of casuists, for whom the <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/05/trucker-badly-beaten-by-police-over.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>police can do no wrong</b></a>. There is always the "few bad apples" argument, or the argument that there are a lot of cops out there who do a lot of good for the public, each and every day. And of course <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/12/outsanding-cop-does-his-job-protects.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>this is true</b></a>, there are a lot of police officers out there who are genuine heroes, but that is entirely irrelevant when considering whether a cop is guilty of murder, or perhaps plans to commit murder.<b> </b>It is also entirely beside the point, if the police happen to kill someone who turns out to be the wrong person or otherwise entirely innocent. <br />
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Then again, maybe the idea of the good cop is something we should take a closer look at in this particular case. What follows here is a hypothetical example of sorts, made to demonstrate the <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/bombing-suspect-was-not-armed.html" target="_blank"><b>perils of murdering suspects</b></a>. Let us go right ahead and assume that the murdered police officer, Jason Ellis, was indeed every bit the American hero he appears to have been. There is no reason to believe otherwise. Let us question the circumstances of his death though, as any good investigator should.<br />
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The officer was on his way home from work at the end of his shift. He was driving in a marked police unit, but it was a "pool car" rather than his regular K-9 SUV unit. His dog was not with him. This pool unit was not equipped with recording devices like most standard police vehicles today. These pool cars are usually a sort of "reserve" unit, usually an older model near-retirement, used more as an errand vehicle than for regular patrols and therefore not fully equipped with the latest gadgetry. <br />
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The officer did not radio to headquarters/dispatch that there was an emergency, but he appears to have stopped on the freeway ramp to clear an obstruction in the roadway, or perhaps to assist what may have appeared to be a disabled motorist. There is debris along the roadway which appears as if a tree or limb might have been dragged or fell into the roadway, or that a vehicle went off of the roadway. His emergency lights were flashing when state police arrived at the scene, to find him dead. The officer was killed by multiple gunshot wounds from a 12-gauge shotgun. The officer's pistol remained secured in his holster. Some reports state that he was found in his vehicle, others say he was found laying outside of it. Crime scene investigators were seen concentrating around a knoll overlooking the scene, thick with brush and a small tree. <br />
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We should also consider that it is not very common for police to be killed randomly, or simply as targets of opportunity. In this case, it appears as if the officer may have been ambushed, and even that the attack was planned ahead of time. Whatever caused him to stop must have appeared to be so mundane that he had no reason to radio for assistance even though he was off duty, or that the attack happened so fast he never had a chance to radio for help.<br />
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Was this officer set up to be killed in an ambush, or did he simply stumble upon a cold-blooded killer, randomly, on a remote roadway in the dead of night? One would think that the police themselves would be anxious to answer that question. Especially the Chief who is responsible for the officers in his command. Instead of answers though, the Chief is voicing his opinion that he would just rather murder the suspect and be done with it.<br />
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This would be an awfully convenient way of murdering a police officer, and getting away with it, either directly or indirectly.<br />
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Let's imagine for a moment that the officer who was killed, might have stumbled upon something he shouldn't have at some other time. Some <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/05/murder-attempt-charges-for-nj-cop-in.html" target="_blank"><b>political intrigue and corruption perhaps</b></a>, or maybe evidence of an <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/09/cocaine-cop-gets-3-12-years.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>ongoing criminal enterprise</b></a> within the department. Only examples of course, but again to illustrate that the possibility exists this crime may not have been entirely random. The facts that he was killed on his way home from work, without his dog, in an under-equipped vehicle, in a remote location, and was not robbed of his firearm are all clues which suggest he was not killed randomly. Perhaps too, it was someone he worked with, who would know exactly what sort of highway hazard Officer Ellis would not bother to call in on the radio for.<br />
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Considering these points, it makes it all the more suspicious why the Chief of police would be calling for the murder of a suspect. Perhaps a suspect who was a trigger man in a larger plot? Perhaps a suspect who had no involvement at all, but who will be marked as guilty and rubbed out, closing the case and any further investigation. <br />
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This is not to say this is actually the story of what has happened there in Kentucky. This theory is just that, a theory, based on a few strange tidbits of information, to illustrate a point. It is not simply in the interest of <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/03/da-office-complicit-in-brutality-coverup_27.html" target="_blank"><b>protecting the rights of a suspect</b></a>, who may or may not actually be guilty, but also in the interest of the <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/09/did-top-cops-murder-news-anchor-fire.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>victims of a crime</b></a>, to make sure that a suspect is <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/05/officer-cleared-in-murder-found-dead.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>brought to justice rather than killed</b></a>. It is in the interest of the police themselves, to protect themselves from being killed in this sort of plot. It is in the interest of the "good cops" that they cannot so easily be snuffed out, should they happen upon <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/07/ex-cop-charged-in-1957-slaying-of.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>criminality within their ranks</b></a>. <br />
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If it turns out that this cop-killer is just that, a plain old-fashioned monster, then let that be proven in a trial, and let the killer then be strapped to an electric char or have a fatal needle shoved in their arm, so be it. But if there is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eppolito_and_Stephen_Caracappa" target="_blank"><b>more to the story</b></a>, or if the person who the police zero in on turns out to be innocent, <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/101-death-row-inmates-were-innocent.html#axzz2Ucb7JVeO" target="_blank"><b>these are reasons enough why the police should not be in the business of murder</b></a>. <br />
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</i> <i>Credit to <a href="http://www.copblock.org/33859/police-chief-speaks-as-judge-jury-executioner/" target="_blank"><b>CopBlock.org</b></a> where there original news story was first seen, and where a few additional links are available. </i><br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-54150500228990346812013-05-24T11:00:00.000-04:002013-05-24T11:00:06.744-04:00TSA K9 Goes Berserk at ATL <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVlZ6jicD3TWOFdWn5EDJw9uxkYPxxbeCQAE6Gl8YweNbUdmO8229m9iqjpHDuqnogJzag3Y86sobHG4UDqYuUUaZEcTEvBQhJ91ytj9hALl_xahC8qsxkEBu1ZtoswfomcHU2TJ9hE6x/s1600/TSA+Atlanta+dog+bite.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVlZ6jicD3TWOFdWn5EDJw9uxkYPxxbeCQAE6Gl8YweNbUdmO8229m9iqjpHDuqnogJzag3Y86sobHG4UDqYuUUaZEcTEvBQhJ91ytj9hALl_xahC8qsxkEBu1ZtoswfomcHU2TJ9hE6x/s320/TSA+Atlanta+dog+bite.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Susan Dubitsky was viciously attacked by a bomb- sniffing dog at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. She had paid little attention to the canine when it suddenly lunged at her and tore at her flesh. Why the handler was not able to control the Cujo has not been explained, but he did speculate that the color of her clothing may have provoked the attack. <br />
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Despite serious injuries to her lower abdomen she was not transported to an area hospital, but rather treated by airport EMT's who simply patched her up and sent her on her way. <br />
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The victim is very concerned that the dog might have done this to a child's head or neck, considering that a child might stand at about the same height as her mid-range. One must also wonder what this might have done to a pregnant woman. <br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-21812753124530675462013-05-23T23:13:00.000-04:002013-05-23T23:13:00.193-04:00Top Cop Tells NYers 'Prove You're Not a Terrorist'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1I8mjo-74YCvC1CoeaHZkP_est75rW5YGSXk-CxqaS_Wck6BZpn1rvDVyJy-rXLBsReHzmrI9V0umMAJmn__v9wRbDx0kjAx8miYYbmTkvQCg0QUlciYPHIqIMVwkS_2UhyphenhyphenfkrzC0F4H/s1600/nypd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1I8mjo-74YCvC1CoeaHZkP_est75rW5YGSXk-CxqaS_Wck6BZpn1rvDVyJy-rXLBsReHzmrI9V0umMAJmn__v9wRbDx0kjAx8miYYbmTkvQCg0QUlciYPHIqIMVwkS_2UhyphenhyphenfkrzC0F4H/s320/nypd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>See the original article and other great articles at: <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/17164522967/nypd-sergeant-says-guilty-until-proven-innocent-is-just-price-we-pay-free-society.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Tech Dirt</b></a></i><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NYPD Sergeant Says 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Is Just The Price We Pay For A 'Free Society'</b></span></u><br />
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<b>from the nothing's-more-'secure'-than-a-jail-cell dept</b><br />
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We've been dealing with the New York police department lately, thanks to <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/19460622895/bloomberg-defends-stop-and-frisk-decries-critics-pointing-fingers-city-hall-pointing-fingers-nypd-headquarters.shtml" target="_blank">the mayor</a> and the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130428/18232822866/ny-police-chief-ray-kelly-says-boston-bombing-takes-privacy-off-table.shtml" target="_blank">police chief</a> using the recent Boston bombing as an excuse to increase surveillance efforts and enact other policies to further encroach on New Yorkers' civil liberties. Whenever something terrorist-related occurs, it seems as though the NYPD's reps can't keep their opinions to themselves, even as the department itself drifts <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130411/10524522679/former-police-chief-defends-nypds-stop-frisk-program-because-it-has-checklist.shtml" target="_blank">further and further away</a> from being a sterling example of How Things Should Be Done. <br />
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In a recent Christian Science Monitor article dealing with "teenagers, terrorism and social media" (focusing on the recent <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml" target="_blank">Cameron D'Ambrosio arrest</a> for making "terrorist threats" via some improvised rap lyrics posted to Facebook), Sgt. Ed Mullins of the NYPD shows up to <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0505/Teenagers-social-media-and-terrorism-a-threat-level-hard-to-assess" target="_blank">make some very disturbing statements about your rights and responsibilities as a (mere) citizen</a>. It starts with the worst kind of "policy" and goes downhill fast.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">Using a zero tolerance approach to track domestic terrorists online is the only reasonable way to analyze online threats these days, especially after the Boston Marathon bombing and news that the suspects had subsequently planned to target Times Square in Manhattan, Mullins says. The way law enforcement agencies approach online activity that appears sinister is this: <u><b>“If you’re not a terrorist, if you’re not a threat, prove it,”</b></u> he says.<br />
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</blockquote><i><b>you’re not a threat, prove it,” he says</b>.</i> "<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130304/16481322196/7-year-old-student-suspended-waving-around-gun-made-pastry.shtml" target="_blank">Zero tolerance</a>" is <i>never</i> "reasonable." It never has been and it never will be. In fact, it's the polar opposite. Zero tolerance policies simply absolve the enforcers of any responsibility for the outcome and grant them the privilege of ignoring mitigating factors. It allows them to bypass applying any sort of critical thinking skills (the "reason" part of "reasonable") and view every infractions as nothing more than a binary IF THEN equation. <br />
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Mullins goes even further than this, though, asserting that the burden of proof lies with the person charged, not the person bringing the charges. This flips our judicial system on its head (along with the judicial systems in many other countries) and, if applied the way Mullins views it, puts accused citizens in the impossible position of trying to prove a negative. This is just completely wrong, and it's a dangerously stupid thing for someone in his position to <i>believe</i>, much less <i>state out loud</i>. (Mullins also heads the Sergeants Benevolent Association, the second-largest police union in New York City.) <br />
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Believe it or not, Mullins is not done talking. What he says next doubles up on the "dangerous" and "stupid."<br />
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This is the price Mullins is <i>charging</i> to live in the NYPD's severely stunted version of a "free" society. The NYPD has been harassing young minorities at the rate of 500,000 impromptu stop-and-frisks <i>per year</i> for the better part of the last decade. For the past 10 years, the NYPD has been regularly trampling citizens' civil liberties simply because they <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120821/09094820113/nypd-spent-years-spying-muslims-generated-exactly-zero-leads.shtml" target="_blank">attend a mosque</a>. The NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg have worked ceaselessly to make New York the most-surveilled city in the U.S. <br />
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That's the price New Yorkers are paying. It has nothing to do with living in a free society. The NYPD takes liberties away and high-ranking cops like Mullins have the gall to suggest there's some sort of equitable exchange occurring. Mullins doesn't seem to understand (or just doesn't care) that if you <i>take away freedom</i> you no longer have a <i>free society</i>. <br />
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It has been said that <a href="http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/01/eternal-vigilance-is-price-of-liberty.html" target="_blank">eternal vigilance is the price of liberty</a>, but "eternal vigilance" isn't shorthand for oppressive surveillance and zero tolerance policies that make freedom less "free." "Eternal vigilance" isn't treating the Constitution like a relic too worn and tattered to serve any purpose in these "dangerous" times. And being an officer of the law isn't an excuse to shut your intellect off and allow your brain stem and broad policies to "work" in concert in order to treat loudmouth teens on Facebook like a guy with a trailer home full of explosives. <br />
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This "vigilance" is supposed to be put to use by <i>citizens</i> in order to prevent authorities like Mullins from encroaching on our liberties. It's not solely limited to a united military effort against foreign powers. There are plenty of people apparently willing to attack our freedom from the comfort of the home front. <br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-78150276874598067542013-05-22T11:00:00.000-04:002013-05-22T11:00:03.780-04:00Grammy Winner Lauryn Hill to be Re-Educated by Court Order<center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pwfFIM8K9gQ" width="560"></iframe></center><br />
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<i>This report is actually a few years old now, but still very relevant when it comes to gaining an understanding of how police operate and how they spend taxpayer dollars. This article is not an original work by this site, but is being shared here in entirety for reference in ongoing conversation and study. Users are encouraged to visit the original source at: <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/01/45-swat-raids-per-day?" target="_blank"><b>reason.com </b></a></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/23/AR2009012302935.html">Cheye Calvo's July 2008 encounter</a> with a Prince George's County, Maryland, SWAT team is now pretty well-known: After intercepting a package of marijuana at a delivery service warehouse, police completed the delivery, in disguise, to the address on the package. That address belonged to Calvo, who also happened to be the mayor of the small Prince George’s town of Berwyn Heights. When Calvo's mother-in-law brought the package in from the porch, the SWAT team pounced, forcing their way into Calvo's home. By the time the raid was over, Calvo and his mother-in-law had been handcuffed for hours, police realized they'd made a mistake, and Calvo's two black Labradors lay dead on the floor from gunshot wounds. </div>
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As a result of this colossal yet not-unprecedented screw-up, plus Calvo's notoriety and persistence, last year Maryland became the first state in the country to make every one of its police departments issue a report on how often and for what purpose they use their SWAT teams. <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-02-24/news/bal-md.hermann24feb24_1_raids-officers-part-ii-crimes"> The first reports</a> from the legislation are in, and the results are disturbing.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><b>Over the last six months of 2009, SWAT teams were deployed 804 times in the state of Maryland, or about 4.5 times per day.</b></span> In Prince George's County alone, with its 850,000 residents, a SWAT team was deployed about once per day. According to <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/02/tactical_raids_common_in_area.html"> a Baltimore <i>Sun</i> analysis</a>, 94 percent of the state's SWAT deployments were used to serve search or arrest warrants, leaving <span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><b>just 6 percent in response to the kinds of barricades, bank robberies, hostage takings, and emergency situations for which SWAT teams were originally intended.</b></span><br />
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Worse even than those dreary numbers is the fact that <span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><b>more than half of the county’s SWAT deployments were for misdemeanors and nonserious felonies.</b></span> That means more than 100 times last year Prince George’s County brought <span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><b>state-sanctioned violence to confront people suspected of nonviolent crimes.</b></span> And that's just one county in Maryland. These outrageous numbers should provide a long-overdue wake-up call to public officials about how far the pendulum has swung toward <span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><b>institutionalized police brutality against its citizenry</b>,</span> usually in the name of the drug war.<br />
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But that’s unlikely to happen, at least in Prince George's County. To this day, Sheriff Michael Jackson <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803872.html"> insists his officers did nothing wrong</a> in the Calvo raid—not the killing of the dogs, not neglecting to conduct any corroborating investigation to be sure they had the correct house, not failing to notify the Berwyn Heights police chief of the raid, not the repeated and documented instances of Jackson’s deputies playing fast and loose with the truth.<br />
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Jackson, who's now running for county executive, <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/12/failing-his-way-to-higher-offi"> is incapable of shame</a>. He has tried to block Calvo's efforts to access information about the raid at every turn. Last week, Prince George's County Circuit Judge Arthur M. Ahalt ruled that Calvo's civil rights suit against the county <a href="http://wjz.com/local/cheye.calvo.maryland.2.1524049.html">can go forward</a>. But Jackson has been fighting to delay the discovery process in that suit until federal authorities complete their own investigation into the raid. That would likely (and conveniently) prevent Prince George's County voters from learning any embarrassing details about the raid until after the election.<br />
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But there is some good news to report here, too. The Maryland state law, as noted, is the first of its kind in the country, and will hopefully serve as a model for other states in adding some much-needed transparency to the widespread use and abuse of SWAT teams. And some Maryland legislators want to go even further. State Sen. Anthony Muse (D-Prince George's), for example, wants to <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Md_-lawmakers-wants-more-oversight-of-SWAT-teams-8679773-80074757.html"> require a judge's signature</a> before police can deploy a SWAT team. Muse has sponsored another bill that would ban the use of SWAT teams <a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=598&sid=1873743/">for misdemeanor offenses</a>. The latter seems like a no-brainer, but it's already facing strong opposition from law enforcement interests. Police groups opposed the transparency bill, too.<br />
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Beyond policy changes, the Calvo raid also seems to have also sparked media and public interest in <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2009/07/13/swat-gone-wild-in-maryland">how SWAT teams are deployed in Maryland</a>. The use of these paramilitary police units has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, by 1,000 percent or more, resulting in the drastic militarization of police. It's a trend that seems to have escaped much media and public notice, let alone informed debate about policies and oversight procedures. But since the Calvo raid in 2008, Maryland <a href="http://www.explorehoward.com/news/15341/home-raid-leads-complaint/"> newspapers</a>, <a href="http://wjz.com/video/?id=46362@wjz.dayport.com">TV news crews</a>, activists, and <a href="http://www.beckysbowieblog.com/2009/02/cheye-calvo-and-trinity-tomsic-in-post.html"> bloggers</a> have been documenting mistaken, botched, or disproportionately aggressive raids across the state.<br />
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Lawmakers tend to be wary of questioning law enforcement officials, particularly when it comes to policing tactics. They shouldn't be. If anything, the public employees who are entrusted with the power to use force, including lethal force, deserve the <i>most</i> scrutiny.<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"> <b>It's unfortunate that it took a violent raid on a fellow public official for Maryland's policymakers to finally take notice of tactics that have been used on Maryland citizens for decades now.</b> </span>But at least these issues are finally on the table.<br />
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Lawmakers in other states should take notice. It's time to have a national discussion on the wisdom of sending phalanxes of cops dressed like soldiers into private homes in search of nonviolent and consensual crimes.<br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-6018533863223942092013-05-20T11:00:00.000-04:002013-05-20T11:00:05.481-04:00Cops Out Of Control, An OverviewThe fact that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not armed when police opened fire on him is yet another disturbing revelation in how that case has been handled. <br />
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For some perspective here, let's think about a few other modern countries. In Britain, police don't even carry guns. Or what about Germany? A country that has, historically, not been averse to violence or authoritarianism. Like just about any modern nation, Germany also has plenty of violent crime on their streets as well. But as you watch the following clip, keep an interesting little fact in mind. In 2011, across the entire country of Germany, police only fired a total of 85 bullets.<br />
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While some might argue that police don't have to be as aggressive in places like England, because of severe restrictions on gun ownership, keep in mind, again, that the suspect here <i>was not armed</i>. Also keep in mind that in places like Switzerland, crime is extremely low even when compared to other European nations, yet they have the third highest per-capita gun ownership in the world. <br />
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While some have argued that what we saw happen out in Boston was not proof that we live in a police-state, because it "doesn't happen every day" those people are making several critical flaws in their thinking.<br />
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First, when we see police going door to door storming houses without warrants and ripping people from their homes, it really doesn't make any difference at all how often it happens. It never should have happened at all. That fact that it has happened once, means that it can happen again at any time. We have crossed that line now, into an era where the Constitution is no longer the law of the land, but rather an arbitrary guideline which can be violated for whatever reason the government chooses. This is the very thing our forefathers warned us about, and precisely what the Constitution was put in place to prevent.<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/families-ripped-from-homes-by-police-in.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Families Ripped From Homes By Police In Watertown</b></span></a><br />
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Over the course of this one terror event alone, we have seen police completely toss aside the 4th Amendment with a warrantless search and seizure of the homes of an entire community in the name of "public safety." Yet police had no regard for public safety, or justice and due process for that matter, when they tried to kill an unarmed teenager. If he is in fact guilty of any involvement at all, he may have had information critical to public safety, such as the locations of undetonated bombs, details of a larger plot, names of unidentified accomplices planning further attacks, and so forth.<br />
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<b><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-you.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank">Police Have No Duty to Protect You </a></b><br />
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To those of us with an understanding of the Constitution, of history, and a deep appreciation for liberty it is outright sickening that the public discourse is focused on when and where the abridgements of liberty should be allowed, rather than holding the police accountable for these depraved violations. Held accountable in the same manner perhaps, and to the same standard that our Founding Fathers held against British tyrants. All the King's men, those agents of tyranny, were shot and driven into the sea. Every American soldier who has ever fought and shed blood in the name of the United States since then, has done so to ensure that we would never again see tyranny in these lands. They fought and died to protect, to guarantee that we, the people would never again be subject to the very crimes being perpetrated against the people today by our own government.<br />
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But what we saw in Boston is not isolated incident either. Which brings us to our second flaw in the reasoning of those who might say that this event was unprecedented, and therefore somehow excusable. Those who might say "it doesn't happen every day" are either open apologists for tyranny, or plainly ignorant of the ongoing abuses of public trust by authorities in this country.<br />
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Folks in poor inner-city communities will tell you that this sort of thing can happen whenever a cop is killed. That police will swarm in, put a neighborhood on lock-down, and go door-to-door searching homes without a warrant. These sorts of details never make it to the mainstream media though, mostly because no one really cares what happens to poor people and no one really believes what they have to say. It's only shocking today because such action happened in a quiet suburb. News of a cop being killed doesn't garner the same intense national media coverage as a terrorist bombing either.<br />
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It doesn't just take a cop getting killed though, for the police to practice 4th Amendment violations. This video shows that it is not only a daily occurrence on the streets of New York (and almost certainly most US cities) but that these violations are policy.<br />
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Also see: <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/police-stae-of-mind.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Police State of Mind </b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/02/strip-searching-and-terrorizing.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Strip-Searching and Terrorizing Children</b></a></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/submit-to-sexual-degradation-at-hands.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Submit to Sexual Degradation at the Hands of Overlords</b></a></span><br />
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</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/tsa-memo-is-bombshell-invalidation-of.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>TSA Memo is Bombshell Invalidation of Airport Security</b></a></span><br />
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From this information we see that violating the Constitution is everyday business for authorities, but that still doesn't quite evoke the same Orwellian imagery as we saw with armored vehicles, paramilitary troops swarming over Watertown, MA. But again, this too is actually an everyday occurence, even if it is not concentrated in a single neighborhood.<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/disturbing-results-of-swat-transparency.html" target="_blank"><b>Disturbing Results of SWAT Transparency Bill </b></a><br />
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In that link you will see that the police have been drastically militarized in the past few decades. In Maryland alone, military-grade force was deployed 4.5 time per day in 2009. The majority of these instances where state-sanctioned paramilitary violence was brought to bear, non-violent citizens were the target, many of them simply accused of misdemeanor offenses.<br />
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Here are just a few more examples among the thousands of cases, where SWAT raids went disastrously wrong:<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/01/swat-get-medals-after-shooting-at.html#axzz2Jx7O0WCX" target="_blank"><b>SWAT Get Medals After Shooting At Innocent Family in Botched Raid</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/02/dead-bang-man-shot-dead-by-home.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Man Shot Dead By Home Invaders</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/05/after-two-tours-in-iraq-marine-murdered.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>SWAT Kill Marine Veteran In Front of His Family</b></a><br />
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The only way to prevent these tragedies, the only way to preserve liberty and justice, is to hold the police accountable when things go wrong, intentionally or not. The agents of law-enforcement must be held accountable when they stray from the law, to a higher standard even than a common citizen would be, not to the lesser standard practiced today. Indeed as we have just seen, the police are even given medals for shooting at innocent families instead of being held accountable. Yet if you were to make similar mistake, it is a near certainty that you would be shown no leniency by any court.<br />
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Take the case of Tracy Ingle for example. This man was shot five times by police, in the middle of the night, in his own bed, after they raided his home with a no-knock warrant. Not realizing that the intruders were police, he made the tragic mistake of pointing a non-functioning firearm at them in an attempt to scare off what he thought were robbers. He was lucky to survive, and yet he has been sent to prison for 18 years, for simply pointing a broken gun at police.<br />
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<a href="http://www.november.org/thewall/cases/ingle-t/ingle-t.html" target="_blank"><b>Tracy Ingle - 18 Years In Prison</b></a><br />
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In this case, police refused to identify themselves while pounding at the wrong door, but when an innocent man answered with a legally owned gun in his hand, he was shot dead in front of his girlfriend.<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/07/cops-deny-negligence-after-killing.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Cops Deny Negligence After Killing Innocent Man in His Home</b></a><br />
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The public is told time and time again that these terrible events are "isolated" incidents, even regrettable tragedies, but that overall the police are still there to protect and serve the community.<br />
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<a href="http://www.policemisconduct.net/" target="_blank"><b>Police Misconduct Daily Report </b></a><br />
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We are also promised that if we happen to be intentionally victimized by one of these "bad apples" who "sometimes" make it into the police ranks, that the law will stand behind us, and that abuse of the public trust will not be tolerated. Yet the reality is quite the opposite of what the propaganda leads the majority of blissfully unaware Americans to believe.<br />
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Most Americans believe that it they could never be the victim of police violence. That so long as they don't do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/12/police-torture-tourist-to-death-no-one.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Police In Florida Torture Tourist To Death, No One Held Accountable </b></a><br />
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And again, they have misplaced faith that justice would be served if they did happen to be victimized by a bad cop. So let's take a look at that notion now. What happens if you try to file a complaint against a police officer?<br />
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Also see: <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/03/das-office-complicit-in-brutality.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>D.A.'s Office Complicit In Brutality Coverup</b></a><br />
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What happens if we try to take allegations of police corruption to our elected representatives?<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/07/police-state-dictatorship-apparrent-as.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Police-state dictatorship apparent as arrest is made in violation of Mayor's orders and First Amendment</b></a><br />
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What happens when we try to use freedom of speech, freedom of the press to bring the news of police abuse directly to the people?<br />
<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/08/freedom-of-press-now-felony-in-america.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/08/freedom-of-press-now-felony-in-america.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Freedom of Press Now a Felony In America</b></a><br />
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Finally, if by some long-shot chance a police officer is finally made to be held accountable in a court of law, can we expect real accountability for betrayal of public trust and openly criminal acts?<br />
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In this case, a police officer faced a 35-count indictment alleging that he used cocaine, protected drug dealers, revealed details of undercover operations, and even threatened to murder a suspect being held in the department's jail in order to protect his cocaine suppliers. During the investigation the officer was suspended, but then reinstated to work another 4 months before he finally resigned, a move which guaranteed his full pension. <br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/09/cocaine-cop-gets-3-12-years.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Cocaine Cop Gets 3 1/2 Years</b></a><br />
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In this case, a State Police Captain admitted in open court that he began sexually molesting his step-daughter when she was just six years old. As part of a plea arrangement, he did not have to admit relations with two other daughters. Even with that agreement he faced 20 years in prison, but the judge suspended the sentence and ordered 2 years of supervised probation.<br />
<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/11/child-molester-cop-gets-no-prison-time.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/11/child-molester-cop-gets-no-prison-time.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Child Molester Cop Gets No Prison Time</b></a><br />
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And finally, we can leave off here with an ironic, yet all too realistic example of the nature of police in America today.<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/03/cop-made-chief-after-negligent-homicide_27.html" target="_blank"><b>Cop Made Chief After Negligent Homicide Conviction</b></a><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><b><span class="sqq">“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience” -Albert Camus</span></b></i></span></blockquote><br />
For more information on police abuse of authority, please visit the <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/search/label/Police-State#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank"><b>Police-State</b></a> tab at Station.6.Underground, and <a href="http://www.copblock.org/" target="_blank"><b>CopBlock.org </b></a><br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-51204447739401904132013-05-19T22:00:00.000-04:002013-05-19T22:00:02.362-04:00Gestapo Comes to Boston SuburbThis is an absolutely sickening display of police force, violation of the Constitution, and clearly shows that America is now dead. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.<br />
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Notice how the homeowner is pulled from the house and does not give permission for the police to enter. Notice too how the militant SWAT officer screams at the boy "hands up!" as if he is about to shoot the resident.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;">WATERTOWN, MA -- On Friday, April 19, 2013, during a manhunt for a bombing suspect, police and federal agents spent the day storming people's homes and performing illegal searches. While it was unclear initially if the home searches were voluntary, it is now crystal clear that they were absolutely NOT voluntary. Police were filmed ripping people from their homes at gunpoint, marching the residents out with their hands raised in submission, and then storming the homes to perform their illegal searches. </span>
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This was part of a larger operation that involved total lockdown of the suburban neighbor to Boston. Roads were barricaded and vehicle traffic was prohibited. A No-Fly Zone was declared over the town. People were "ordered" to stay indoors. Businesses were told not to open. National Guard soldiers helped with the lockdown, and were photographed checking IDs of pedestrians on the streets. All the while, police were performing these disgusting house-to-house searches.</span></blockquote>
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It was just a few years ago when I presented the following video on another website. People rolled their eyes and the majority of the comments were along the lines of "that will never happen here." The frog is boiled now my friends.<br />
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Also see the video at the following link, which shows that the home-invasions and violations of liberty were not exclusive to that one street shown in the video above:<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/05/boston-gestapo-victims-speak-out-video.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Boston Gestapo Victims Speak Out</b></span></a><br />
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<br />Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-19470817405959279272013-05-19T17:00:00.000-04:002013-05-19T17:00:06.832-04:00Homicidal Cop Made Chief After ConvictionThis sorry excuse for a police officer was convicted of negligent homicide after shooting a motorist to death. He was fired from his job, but later had his conviction expunged and has now been hired in another town as the department's chief.<br />
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Just goes to show, yet again, that police can literally get away with murder, and whatever the hell else they feel like pulling.<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/03/das-office-complicit-in-brutality.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>D.A.'s Office Complicit In Brutality Coverup </b></span></a><br />
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I must say though, that at the end of the day, I have little sympathy for police and the job they do when I hear stories like this one. This is not just about a few bad apples beating the crap out of innocent civilians. This is about institutionalized corruption and brutality. Let's check out the video, and I will continue below.<br />
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So we see there are two separate incidents here to discuss. In the first, we see police beat, tase, and strangle a woman who is handcuffed in the back of the police cruiser. Personally, I can't think of any legitimate reason why police should be beating on anyone in handcuffs. I can understand that suspects in cuffs can still be unruly and do things like start spitting in the backseat and so forth. I can see how that would make a police officer angry, but it really still does not excuse beating up a suspect in a punitive manner. It certainly does not excuse using the taser on someone, and it absolutely does not excuse choking a woman. Here in NY State, choking a woman is a crime in and of itself, aside from standard assault-type charges.<br />
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<a href="http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/pio/press_releases/2011-04-07_pressrelease.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New strangulation statute proving an effective tool for law enforcement</b></span></a><br />
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Imagine for a moment that what you saw there was a man beating on his wife in that manner. If the public were to see something of that nature there would be absolute outrage in a community, calling for all sorts of horrible things be done to a man who would dare to do something like that to a woman. But because it is a police officer doing this to a suspect, the public is apathetic, as if in a trance, or even openly defend the actions of police in cases like this. But this wasn't just one officer either, it was two. Two powerful men beating the crap out of a woman in the back seat of a car in the middle of the night. Is there really any excuse for that?<br />
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With the new strangulation law on the books, I find it hard to believe that a man would be excused for simply choking a woman even if she came at him with a kitchen knife screaming bloody murder, much less pummeling and tasing a woman. Certainly there would be no excuse whatsoever for a man to do this to a defenseless, unarmed woman restrained in handcuffs, unless he was a cop of course. <br />
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Next we see the case of a man who had his rib cage crushed in for the crime of not understanding a police order. Instead of putting his hands behind his back as instructed, he puts his hands in the air. A typical reaction really for anyone who watches television and instinctively thinks "hands up" if they are ever in trouble with the police. It is also quite easy for a police officer to take a suspect into custody from that position. You simply snap the cuff on one wrist, guide the suspects arm down toward the buttocks, do the same with a firm grasp on the other arm, and lock the second wrist into the open cuff. Easy as that, suspect in custody. <br />
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As a general rule, the police are expected to follow the Use of Force Continuum. Not every department uses the same model, and the standards are not universal among the different models, but generally speaking the principle is to only apply that force which is necessary to safely bring a suspect into custody. As safely as possible for the officer and the suspect I might add. I saw nothing in that video which showed the suspect was assaultive in any way. If there was intentional resistance at all, it appears to have been passive. I didn't see any active resistance as in attempts to break free or flee. Even if that were the case, once the suspect was down, that should have been the extent of the force necessary to pull the suspects arms behind his back and get the cuffs on. Tasing him and breaking five ribs is clearly an excessive use of force in this case. <br />
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So what we have seen there, yet again, are a few more instances of gratuitous, unwarranted violence by police against a civilian. Almost every day we see a new video of this nature pop up on YouTube, but we are still expected to believe that these are all "isolated" incidents, the work of "a few bad apples." Never mind that thousands of cases like this never make it to the light of day. More often than not, the victim is not lucky enough to have a video camera rolling when they are <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/07/police-beat-man-to-death.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><b>pummeled by police</b></a>. And without a tape, there is little chance of finding a lawyer who will bother to handle your case. Even with a tape, it is clearly an uphill battle to hold the police accountable for their crimes.<br />
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In one instance <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/07/reporter-faces-21-years-after-airing.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><b>linked here</b></a>, a reporter was facing 21 years in prison for airing an excessive force complaint. He was subsequently convicted on three felony counts of violating wiretapping laws, for posting the content on YouTube. <br />
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In <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/have-you-ever-tried-to-file-complaint.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><b>another incident</b></a>, a man was arrested and had his head split open by police simply because he asked for a complaint form.<br />
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Time and time again I have heard people say something along the lines of "well, if a bad cop does something to you, you should report it to their supervisor." The notion that a civilian can find justice when they are the victim of a crime at the hands of police, or that police will be held accountable for such crimes, is false. How could we possibly expect an officer's supervisor to take such a complaint seriously, when we see what happened in those two incidents above in the main video? The police charged the victims of their brutal assault with a crime, resisting arrest. Not just one "bad apple" but three police officers in these two incidents alone, not only covering for one another but actually participating in the violence. Their supervisors, right on up to the chief of police were well aware of what was on those tapes, yet the charges against the victims stood, and the officers were not held accountable in any way. Beyond the police department protecting their own, the county district attorney's office also saw the tapes, and failed in their duty to even investigate, much less to actually prosecute those officers for the brutal assaults. <br />
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How many other cases has the DA's office refused to prosecute over the years, simply because the perpetrators were police officers? How complicit is the top brass in any department, in any county, even in any state, in covering up crimes committed by cops? How many thousands, even millions of people have been viciously beaten, wrongfully prosecuted, and even killed by police, without anyone ever being held accountable and without justice ever being served?<br />
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Ladies and gentleman, this is not about running down the police for the sake of running down the police. This is the reality of the totalitarian police-state we now live in. The boys in blue today are no better than the "brown shirt" terrorists who put the Nazis in power. It makes no difference if you are a trouble-maker or an innocent person just going about your business. Any one of you reading this could find yourself, or a loved one, being beaten in the back of a police car in the middle of the night, having your rib cage shattered along some lonely road by a few thug cops, or worse, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.<br />
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No sooner had I posted this article, another story popped up that just goes to prove that police can literally get away with murder even when they are caught and prosecuted.<br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-60244006388197583112013-05-19T09:00:00.000-04:002013-05-19T09:00:05.761-04:0034,000 People Framed By Drug Lab TechThe Massachusetts legal system is reeling in the wake of a 27-count indictment against one of their leading laboratory technicians. 35-year-old drug lab worker Annie Dookhan has been accused of tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice.<br />
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The full impact of her alleged crimes may never be known, and cannot be overstated. In this day and age of scientific law-enforcement, with so much of the public convinced that laboratory work is the "holy grail" in any criminal prosecution, the integrity of those labs is the pinnacle of public trust; the very bedrock of how we have come to even define justice itself, in so many cases, in the modern era. Popular television shows reinforce this idea that laboratory evidence is irrefutable and absolute. Prosecutors are want to nurture this sentiment among jurors. <br />
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Of course, any reasonable person might consider that even in science there are errors from time to time. With DNA evidence for example, we sometimes hear the "odds" of accuracy. Sometimes as accurate as one in a hundred-thousand. Sometimes though, huge odds are defied as in the case of lab analyst Kathryn Troyer, who discovered a near-match defying 1-in-113 billion odds between two felons in the same state.<br />
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<a href="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/accuracy-dna-matches-definitively-identify-suspects-questioned" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Accuracy of DNA "Matches" to Definitively Identify Suspects Questioned</b></span></a><br />
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What happens though, when we throw in a more human element to the science? Something that undermines even the very best science. Personally, I never really thought too much about it, but always sort of assumed that the relationships between lab staff and the legal system were kept sterile, to a large degree. I assumed that some measures were in place to ensure lab workers were not only ethically impartial, but also that systems of anonymity and lab-controls were in place to reinforce the ethical standard. I even assumed that lab work was double-checked. In other words, I foolishly believed in the system and never thought that something like this could happen. I certainly never thought I would ever see a case of this nature, of such magnitude.<br />
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Annie Dookhan began her career at the state's Jamaica Plains drug lab in 2003. In that time, she has handled evidence in more than 34,000 cases. Any convictions stemming from evidence she processed are now likely to be overturned. Worse, this has called into question the integrity of the entire lab, and countless more cases. The lab has since been shut down and numerous people have been fired or resigned, but not before the damage was done.<br />
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In June of 2011 she was caught improperly removing drugs from evidence storage in 60 different cases, but apparently her supervisors did nothing to stop her from being involved in more drug cases after that. Later that year she wrote in a private email to Norfolk Assistant District Attorney George Papachristos, “I have full access to anything and everything, one of the advantages, so some of the other chemists are resentful of me.”<br />
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The long and often quite personal email exchanges with Papachristos have been closely scrutinized and seen by many as unethical from both a professional and personal standpoint. Dookhan's marriage has been on the rocks since her husband uncovered emails back in 2009. The prosecutor has not been charged with any crime himself though, and it is not known if the flirtatious banner ever led to more than a handful of personal meetings. Nonetheless, it does show a much closer relationship than one might expect between a prosecutor, and a lab technician who is expected to be impartial. So much so, that Papachristos resigned from the DA's office.<br />
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Clearly, from her own words, impartiality was never even something she considered. She did not see her job as being a technician who processes evidence, but rather her stated goal was “getting [drug dealers] off the streets.” It should go without saying here, that this was certainly not her job as a lab technician. Nevertheless she was all too happy to do favors for prosecutors, while shunning defense attorneys even when she was required to give evidence to them. She saw herself as part of the prosecution team, as did many prosecutors themselves, with one declaring "No no no!!! I need you!!!" when Dookhan said she would not be able to testify in a case.<br />
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Dookhan is alleged to have lied on the witness stand in court about having a Master's degree in chemistry, and shot out emails giving herself grandiose job titles she simply did not have. In correspondence with various agencies she identified herself with self-appointed titles like "special agent of operations” or "on-call terrorism supervisor." She even went so far as to create fake email conversations with a US attorney, who's name she misspelled, and forwarded to other recipients. <br />
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Assuming of course that all of these allegations are true, one has to wonder how such an obviously pathological liar could go on for so long without anyone bothering to consider that something like this might happen. Police and prosecutors were clearly willing to look the other way and even cultivate a close relationship with Dookhan, to encourage her, in order to secure easy convictions. As of yet, there are no criminal charges against anyone else aside from the lab-tech herself, but it seems clear that ethical and moral obligations were tossed aside in favor of making their jobs easier.<br />
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As a result, hundred of millions of dollars have been wasted. Entire careers have been built to be little more than sandcastles. And tens of thousands convicted felons are now poised to flood the streets of Massachusetts, then out across the country. If it was their intent to actually make the public safe, then the government certainly failed miserably in that mandate. Not only because of the threat posed by these potentially dangerous criminals being set loose upon society, but because of the threat posed by the government itself.<br />
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It may be all-too-easy to assume that all or even most of these convicts were actually guilty, but that simply does not hold up to the facts, and certainly carries no weight against the core values of our entire justice system. In the face of reasonable doubt, the presumption of innocence is paramount. Without these standards, we might just go ahead and just give the police a license to kill at will and close down the courts.<br />
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Understanding this, we must assume now that the government sent more than 34,000 innocent people to prison on the word of just one deluded lab technician. That my friends, is more dangerous than any drug dealer. Even if only in our hearts we assume that just some of these convicts were actually innocent, imagine for a moment that one of them happened to be you, your spouse, your parent or child. Imagine for a moment how many lives have been irreparably laid to waste by the lies of just one woman, and a government who did not care. A government that in fact has a vested interest in securing more convictions even if they are not justified. A government that encouraged this woman to commit her crimes against the people. A government that presumes guilt of anyone who crosses into their sights, and has even dispatched agents to threaten the hundreds of inmates who have already been exonerated.<br />
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Perhaps the most frightening aspect to all of this is that this can only be the tip of the iceberg. This woman was so clearly delusional and so easily cultivated this relationship with prosecutors, it begs the question how prevalent this sort of thing is throughout the country. Especially in labs and agencies where this sort of thing is likely done more discreetly. If there are no practical standards in place to prevent something like this from happening, how could we possibly trust that this sort of thing is not rampant? How many lab workers compromise cases for monetary gain, for romantic favors, for promotions, or to simply stroke their own ego? How many might even quietly carry on the work of a zealot in their own private war against people they see as evil? Are we supposed to ignorantly believe that this is simply an isolated incident, one bad apple, and assume that it would never happen again? Are we honestly supposed to believe that some fear of the law will prevent lab-techs from committing these sorts of crimes, when the government itself benefits from these crimes?<br />
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If convicted, will Annie Dookhan be sentenced to as much time in prison as the innocent people she put there would have done? <br />
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Here are two media stories on the case:<br />
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/12/20/indicted-drug-analyst-annie-dookhan-mails-reveal-her-close-personal-ties-prosecutors/A37GaatHLKfW1kphDjxLXJ/story.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></a><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/12/20/indicted-drug-analyst-annie-dookhan-mails-reveal-her-close-personal-ties-prosecutors/A37GaatHLKfW1kphDjxLXJ/story.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Indicted drug analyst Annie Dookhan’s e-mails reveal her close personal ties to prosecutors</b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174269211/mass-crime-lab-scandal-reverberates-across-state" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Mass. Legal System In Turmoil</b></span></a><br />
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Also see these articles and videos:<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/mexican-drug-lord-asserts-he-was.html#axzz2O3A0b6q2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mexican drug lord asserts he was working for US government</b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/obamas-drug-war-2012.html#axzz2O3A0b6q2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Obama's Drug War</b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/obamas-drug-war-2012.html#axzz2O3A0b6q2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Afghan Opium Farming Flourishes Under US Protection</b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/obamas-drug-war-2012.html#axzz2O3A0b6q2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Man Shot Dead By Police Home Invaders</b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/09/cocaine-cop-gets-3-12-years.html#axzz2O3A0b6q2" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cocaine Cop Gets 3 1/2 Years</span></b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/09/cops-munch-pot-brownies.html#axzz2O3A0b6q2" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cops Munch Pot Brownies</b></span></a><br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-49607613059463690182013-05-18T20:00:00.000-04:002013-05-19T01:54:04.030-04:00TSA Humilate Wounded MarineThis is certainly not the first time we have heard about the TSA doing inspections that challenge our sensibilities.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/12/05/tsa_to_grandma_get_naked_and_show_u.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>TSA To Grandma: Get Naked And Show Us Your Colostomy Bag</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news/#.UUivOVeQiCo" target="_blank"><b>TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/02/strip-searching-and-terrorizing.html#ixzz2LLE1MLfq" target="_blank"><b>Strip-Searching and Terrorizing Children (VIDEOS)</b></a></span><br />
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Today, the latest headline on the subject is about a United States Marine who had his legs blown off in combat, but was made to endure a rigorous inspection by TSA authorities in Phoenix.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/mar/19/tsa-agents-humiliated-wounded-marine-aggressive-in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TSA agents 'humiliated' wounded Marine with aggressive inspection: report</b></span></a><br />
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Reading the story, it's certainly enough to piss off any patriot. The fact that the man is a Marine seems to be the focus of the attention being given the report and the Congressman.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><i>Rep. Duncan Hunter said in his letter Monday that the Marine, who is still on active duty and showed TSA agents his military identification, was still forced to undergo that scrutiny... The congressman asked TSA to detail its procedures to inspecting wounded U.S. troops at airports, and to consider whether agents should show “situational awareness.”</i></span></blockquote>
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But should it really matter if the man is active duty or not? Should it matter how he was injured or what his disability is? Not to the TSA it shouldn't. Not if we are going to accept that their job really is in the interest of public safety as the government claims.<br />
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Now don't get me wrong, I am not unsympathetic at all to this Marine, his sacrifices, and the crappy ordeal they put him through there at the airport. But really, why should it even be considered that he be exempt from this sort of humiliation and pain that the rest of the people in this nation must endure?<br />
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After all, a terrorist could pretend to be a wounded veteran, show a fraudulent I.D. that he was an active-duty member of the military, or even actually be an active-duty member of the armed forces while bent on destruction and mayhem. This is all just as possible as, let's say, airline pilots themselves having things like guns on-board aircraft.<br />
<a href="http://freestateproject.org/node/12597" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://freestateproject.org/node/12597" target="_blank"><b>TSA rules led to pilot’s gun firing in flight</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/19/us-usa-pilot-gun-idUSBRE84I01420120519" target="_blank"><b>Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/37277114/ns/us_news-security/#.UUi4kVeQiCo" target="_blank"><b>Police take gun from distraught JetBlue pilot</b></a></span><br />
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Or for that matter, the TSA agents themselves could be terrorists.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/TSA%20Memo%20is%20Bombshell%20Invalidation%20of%20Airport%20Security%20%20Read%20more:%20http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/tsa-memo-is-bombshell-invalidation-of.html#ixzz2O12THqma" target="_blank"><b>TSA Memo is Bombshell Invalidation of Airport Security</b></a></span><br />
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Or sex predators and deviants.<br />
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<a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/02/03/female-passengers-say-theyre-targeted-by-tsa/" target="_blank"><b>Female Passengers Say They’re Targeted By TSA</b></a><br />
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/tsa-rape-room-wife-179/" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a><a href="http://rt.com/usa/tsa-rape-room-wife-179/" target="_blank"><b>TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/tsa-officer-is-alleged-child.html#axzz2NwSdfnNZ" target="_blank"><b>TSA officer is alleged child pornographer</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/disgraced-pedo-priest-now-patting-down.html#axzz2O10jXIqW" target="_blank"><b>Disgraced Pedo-Priest Patting Down Passengers in Philly as TSA Supervisor</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/submit-to-sexual-degradation-at-hands.html#ixzz2O8a00ADD" target="_blank"><b>Submit to Sexual Degradation At the Hands of Your Overlords</b></a><br />
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Should we even be considering exemptions at all, for anyone? If for troops, then why not for police, or people who have a lot of money, or white people, or non-Jews?<br />
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Maybe it's a good thing that troops are getting a slap-in-the-face wake up call about what is happening here in this country. This is the freedom they are fighting for.<br />
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<br />Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-49514939274566008612013-05-18T15:19:00.002-04:002013-05-18T15:19:50.445-04:00Cops Kill Man For Not Wearing SeatbeltWe'z gonna safety you to death!<br />
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I found this article at <a href="http://www.copblock.org/33438/seatbelt-laws-can-be-deadly/" target="_blank"><b>CopBlock.com</b></a><br />
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It was originally posted by <a href="http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/05/14/seatbelt-laws-can-be-deadly/" target="_blank"><b>Eric Peters</b></a><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">Not “buckling up for safety” can get you killed all right – by a cop.<br />
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That’s what happened to Deland, Florida resident Marlon Brown about a week ago. Brown was killed – run over – by Deland Police Officer James Harris, who pursued him with his squad car after Brown tried to run away on foot after being stopped over a seatbelt violation (see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7F2l9521RM&feature=player_embedded">here</a>).<br />
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Brown, a popular neighborhood barber, hadn’t done anything to anyone. His “crime” was to have asserted self-ownership, which in a slave society is the gravest offense. He probably thought to himself – I am a grown man. No one has any more right to demand I wear a seatbelt than they have a right to insist I eat my veggies or wear a sweater because it’s cold out. Whether eating veggies or wearing a sweater on a cold day – or “buckling up for safety” – is a good idea or a bad idea is no one else’s business. Certainly not a cop’s. Aren’t cops supposed to fight crime? When did the job of a cop become parenting or life-coaching at gunpoint? Who the hell are these people to point guns at me over my decision to not “buckle up”?<br />
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Brown likely had such thoughts as he saw the wig-wag lights of Officer Harris in his rear view. Then, he probably got mad. I know I would have. You are driving along, minding your business, causing no harm to anyone. Then you glance up and see the bright lights – and the buzz-cut head – of Officer Unfriendly. This costumed menace is about to threaten you with violence and – at minimum – shove a piece of paper in your face that will demand what amounts to a ransom payment, or else (“else” being jail).<br />
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And so, Brown attempted to flee. It ended up costing him his life.<br />
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Officer safety was never at issue. Brown merely tried to get away from an obnoxious costumed thug who had no business bothering him in the first place. But that was sufficient to justify summary execution by motor vehicle.<br />
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It is not an isolated happenstance anymore. Hardly a week goes by without some godawful report of a citizen being killed by cops over absolutely nothing. A murder – and that’s exactly what this was – prefaced by some petty affront to the authority of someone in a state-issued costume. Talk back, dare to question – and the Tazers come out. Attempt to ward off the blows – and you will hear “Stop Resisting!” as the blows continue to rain down. They may or may not stop at merely a beating, or a kicked-in skull.<br />
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Marlon Brown learned just how far it can go. A witness to the event, Sabrina Waldron, stated, “After the car hit Marlon and landed on him the back end of it was up in the air.” Thus ended Brown’s life.<br />
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Was it worth it? Was it right? A man is dead – for no reason. Or rather, for a very bad reason.<br />
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In a sane society, Officer Harris would have had no legal pretext for bothering Marlon Brown. He may have looked askance at him for electing to not wear his seat belt – just as I may look askance at a grossly obese person ordering a double cheeseburger and 64 ounce Coke – but insofar as Officer Harris’ legal authority was concerned, he (in a sane society) would be powerless to intervene. That’s how it ought to be. For the same reason, most of us (dear god, let us hope) do not want costumed men with guns rousting us out of bed to go for morning jogs or to supervise our dinner menus, threatening us with nightsticks and Tazers and guns if we don’t abide by their “recommendations.”<br />
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That is where we are headed if people do not come to their senses, and learn to discipline their inner busybody – if only for their own sake. Because most definitely, what goes around will come around. You may find it appalling that some people choose to go unbuckled. Resist the desire to insist they do so. Because if you do insist, you’ve just given license to the inner busybodies of all those people out there – among whom, no doubt, there will be busybodies who just can’t abide something about the way you live your life, whether it be some “risky” hobby, or some “unhealthy” habit. No small corner of what used to be your life will be left to you. You will be chained to a collective and compelled to Submit & Obey.<br />
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The antidote to this horror is self-ownership. You own you. I own me. Neither of us has any claim on the other that’s enforceable at gunpoint. Feel free to suggest or to recommend, but when it comes to the use of force, the one and only legitimate justification is self-defense. Otherwise, leave me alone – and I will leave you alone.<br />
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If that had been the law in Deland, Florida, Marlon Brown would still be alive.<br />
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And James Harris would not be a murderer.<br />
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Read the original post <a href="http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/05/14/seatbelt-laws-can-be-deadly/">here</a>.<br />
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It is all the more frightening when you realize that a simple traffic incident can spiral out of control so badly, that a person could wind up being thrown into solitary confinement and tortured for two years without ever going before a judge, simply on the word of one cop.<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/03/man-held-in-solitary-for-2-years.html#axzz2MLxESGi8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Man Held In Solitary For 2 Years Without Trial</b></span></a><br />
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<br />Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-64795185111748893482013-05-18T00:30:00.000-04:002013-05-18T00:30:02.296-04:002 Years In The Hole For Man Convicted of NothingThis is an absolutely chilling example of just how depraved our justice system has become, and how detrimental to public safety the law-enforcers really are.<br />
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Stephen Slevin was locked in a New Mexico solitary confinement cell for 22 months. He was never convicted of any crime. Being locked away anywhere without due process is a horrid thought to any freedom-loving American, but what this man endured goes well beyond that.<br />
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<a href="https://afsc.org/resource/solitary-confinement-facts" target="_blank"><b>Solitary confinement</b></a> alone is considered by many to be inhumane, or downright torture by some definitions. Even under the most sanitary and well-monitored standards, the effects on a person's mental state can be devastating. Mr. Slevin spent his time rocking back and forth, and even lost his desire to go free while in his Dona Ana County Jail cell. But still, what he endured went beyond being locked away and completely forgotten about by the world.<br />
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Even under solitary confment conditions, it is common practice to allow prisoner one hour per day outside of their cell. In this case, that standard was rarely adhered to, even for sanitary reasons. Denied showers, Slevin's skin became infested with fungus. Denied basic hygiene maintenance, his toenails grew so long that they wrapped around his foot. Denied medical care, he was forced to rip his own tooth from his skull.<br />
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What he endured goes far beyond what any normal person can possibly even comprehend.<br />
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All of this, based on an allegation that he was driving while intoxicated in a stolen car. It was later shown that the car belonged to a friend, and the intoxication was never proven.<br />
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In a subsequent civil lawsuit brought by Slevin and his attorneys, he was awarded $22 million dollars, which has since been reduced to $16 million in arbitration. But the money will never replace what was lost, or repair the damage done. <br />
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Mr. Slevin is now battling cancer. <br />
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<a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17212442-man-left-in-solitary-confinement-for-2-years-gets-155-million-settlement?lite" target="_blank"><b>Click here to read NBC's coverage of this story</b></a>. <br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/03/i-can-write-you-sitload-of-tickets.html#axzz2MLxESGi8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Click here</b></a> to see a video of how quickly an innocent person could wind up in this situation. <br />
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<br />Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-45320243060362096982013-05-17T23:27:00.000-04:002013-05-17T23:32:09.862-04:00Pentagon Declares Martial Law (Not Televised)<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">
</span> <span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/pentagon-unilaterally-grants-itself-authority-over-civil-disturbances-2648202.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’</b></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><span class="">T</span>he manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.hangthejury.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">incentives offered in the ongoing “War on Drugs.”</a> For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to discern between fully outfitted police SWAT teams and the military.</span><br />
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout#Aftermath_and_controversy" target="_blank"><b>North Hollywood Shootout</b></a> of 1997 is often touted by police as the reason behind the militarization of their forces. In that incident police engaged two bank robbers who were heavily armed with military-grade machine guns, and armored from head to toe in military-grade bullet-resistant Kevlar gear. The robbers were eventually killed, and though several officers were injured, there were no other deaths stemming from that incident. Nonetheless, this became a rallying point to arm not only SWAT teams with military-grade weaponry, but regular patrol officers as well.<br />
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The militarization of police has not been limited to pistols and rifles though. Some of this has been more subtle and psychological, such as new uniforms. Police have traditionally worn a blue uniform, usually with a tie, shoes shined, and carried themselves with a respectable and formal appearance. Today that trend has been broken by police wearing military-style tactical apparel, in a more intimidating black color rather than the professional blues. While one may not see this shift in uniform styling as of any concern, it actually goes to show the shift in the mindset of police, from public servant, to militant occupier. A shift where now the police no longer see a public to be served, but rather a public that is to be controlled as a potential enemy at any given moment.<br />
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This mindset of an undeclared guerrilla war being played out on the streets of America has led to inordinate amounts of spending by police departments on military-grade hardware. Particularly in the post-9/11 era, where the public are duped out of their freedoms and vast amounts of tax dollars under the guise of "protecting the homeland" from Muslim fanatics. This is despite the fact that an American citizen is <a href="http://www.cato.org/blog/youre-eight-times-more-likely-be-killed-police-officer-terrorist" target="_blank"><b>8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist</b></a>. <br />
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In just this one instance, as an example, a man armed only with a golf-club was shot dead by police executing a search warrant targeting a woman they knew had already moved out of the home. They went ahead with the no-knock raid anyway, and shot this man dead in the process.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000;"><span style="background-color: #bf9000;"><span></span></span>Caution</span>, graphic video: <b><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/02/dead-bang-man-shot-dead-by-home.html#axzz2RpdB4Q1R" target="_blank">Dead Bang: Man Shot Dead By Home Invaders (VIDEO)</a></b><br />
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While some may see things like this as isolated incidents, it's important to keep in mind that incidents like this will happen more and more frequently as police try to justify their own budgets for increased spending on everything from new cruisers every year to military-grade tanks and armored vehicles.<br />
<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/police-storm-neighborhood-with-snipers.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/police-storm-neighborhood-with-snipers.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><b>Police storm neighborhood with snipers and a tank to evict old lady</b></a><br />
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This report highlights how frequently military-grade force is applied for mundane reasons and run-of-the-mill police work.<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/disturbing-results-of-swat-transparency.html" target="_blank"><b>Disturbing Results of SWAT Transparency Bill</b></a><br />
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Of course, we don't just have our local police departments in on the game any more either. Since 9/11, we now have the Department of Homeland Security, reminiscent of the Gestapo national police force in Nazi Germany. DHS are both a domestic spying apparatus, and a showcase for military hardware in civilian dress. <br />
<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-are-iedmine-resistant-vehicles.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-are-iedmine-resistant-vehicles.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><b>Why are IED/Mine Resistant Vehicles Being Deployed Within U.S.?</b></a><br />
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But it's not just new agencies, or regular police departments that are getting paramilitary upgrades either.<br />
<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-does-department-of-education-need.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><b><br />
</b></a> <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-does-department-of-education-need.html#axzz2TNgeBry1" target="_blank"><b>Why does the Department of Education need a SWAT team?</b></a><br />
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So what does all of this add up to?<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/firing-with-intent-are-american-cops.html" target="_blank"><b>Firing With Intent: Are American Cops Out of Control </b></a><br />
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In Boston, we saw our first widely publicized instance of martial law here in the United States. Not only were the police and Federal agents fully-equipped with heavy military-grade equipment, but they were acting in direct violation of the 4th Amendment.<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/families-ripped-from-homes-by-police-in.html" target="_blank"><b>Families Ripped From Homes By Police In Watertown</b></a><br />
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Some Americans were utterly shocked by this vulgar display of paramilitary might being brought to bear on an American town, utterly destroying the very foundations of what it means to be an American in the first place. Sadly enough though, there were so many other Americans that cheered the triumph of martial law, even in its failure to locate the suspect whom they claimed was the reason for this "Red Dawn" reminiscent invasion. Thanks to rigorous propaganda and the lobotomy of social consciousness, all too many Americans would echo this sentiment...<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-youre-not-terroristprove-it-says.html" target="_blank"><b>'If You're Not a Terrorist...Prove It' Says NYPD's Top Sergeant </b></a><br />
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And while some of us are still awake enough to realize the tyranny of all this, even those of us who try to stay aware, wind up missing key events in the march toward complete and utter totalitarianism. Did you know that if you are withing 100 miles of a United States border, you are in a zone where Constitutional rights have already been suspended?<br />
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<a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/02/america-own-iron-curtain-dhs-suspends_9.html" target="_blank"><b>America's Own Iron Curtain: DHS Suspends Constitution at Borders </b></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;">The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/10C18.txt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies”</a> the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets <u><i><b>without obtaining prior local or state consent</b></i></u>, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"> The most objectionable aspect of the regulatory change is the inclusion of vague language that permits military intervention in the event of “civil disturbances.” According to the rule:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"> Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances <i><u><b>where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable</b></u></i> to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"> Bruce Afran, a civil liberties attorney and constitutional law professor at Rutgers University, calls the rule, “a wanton power grab by the military,” and says, “It’s quite shocking actually because it violates the long-standing presumption that the military is under civilian control.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"> A defense official who declined to be named takes a different view of the rule, claiming, “The authorization has been around over 100 years; it’s not a new authority. It’s been there but it hasn’t been exercised. This is a carryover of domestic policy.” Moreover, he insists the Pentagon doesn’t “want to get involved in civilian law enforcement. It’s one of those red lines that the military hasn’t signed up for.” Nevertheless, he says, “every person in the military swears an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States to defend that Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.”</span><br />
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Sadly enough, the "presumption" of the constitutional law professor is false, and the unnamed defense official is correct. The military is not under civilian control, and has not been for roughly 150 years. Specifically, the authorization is called...<br />
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<a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp" target="_blank"><b>General Orders No. 100: The Lieber Code</b></a><br />
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<i>“1. A place, district, or country occupied by an enemy stands, in consequence of the occupation, under the martial law of the invading or occupying army, whether any proclamation declaring martial law, or any public warning to the inhabitants, has been issued or not. Martial law is the immediate and direct effect and consequence of occupation or conquest.</i><br />
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</i> <i>The presence of a hostile army proclaims its martial law.</i><br />
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</i> <i>2. Martial law does not cease during the hostile occupation, except by special proclamation, ordered by the commander-in-chief, or by special mention in the treaty of peace concluding the war, when the occupation of a place or territory continues beyond the conclusion of peace as one of the conditions of the same.</i><br />
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</i> <i>3. Martial law in a hostile country consists in the suspension by the occupying military authority of the criminal and civil law, and of the domestic administration and government in the occupied place or territory, and in the substitution of military rule and force for the same, as well as in the dictation of general laws, as far as military necessity requires this suspension, substitution, or dictation.</i><br />
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</i> <i>The commander of the forces may proclaim that the administration of all civil and penal law shall continue either wholly or in part, as in times of peace, unless otherwise ordered by the military authority.”</i></blockquote>
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And the military is already prepared to start rounding up American citizens. <br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-military-transport-raises-concerns.html#axzz1typrRiY8" target="_blank"><b>New Military Transport Raises Concerns</b></a><br />
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The militarization of our local police forces is not simply a by-product of the times we live in. When you understand the real laws, when you understand history, you see that the local police are acting under the authority of the military, as a proxy. <br />
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Through revisionist history taught to us in classrooms and school books, the Civil War has been idealized as some great volcanic movement of freedom against racial oppressors. Even though it took another century after that for black folk to actually get civil rights, we are taught that the Civil War was all about liberating the peoples of Africa here in America. <br />
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They say that history is written by the victor, and the Civil War is no exception. The Civil War had nothing to do with freeing the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation was a tactic of economic warfare against the rebellious Confederacy, it had nothing to do with equality for blacks.<br />
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<i>"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." -Abraham Lincoln, 1858</i><br />
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</i> <i>"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it." -Abraham Lincoln, 1862</i></blockquote>
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So what was the Civil War really about then? The same thing that most rebellions are born of. A rejection of tyranny and oppression. In that instance, it was a confederation of states who rejected Federal authority over the sovereignty of independent states.<br />
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And from those days to this, the United States has existed, not as a Constitutional Republic, but under a <u><i><b>declared</b></i></u> state of martial law. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/us-federal-authority-is-martial-law.html#" target="_blank"><b>U.S. Federal Authority Is Martial Law</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The preceding compilation contains excerpts from an article published at <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/pentagon-unilaterally-grants-itself-authority-over-civil-disturbances-2648202.html" target="_blank"><b>Before It's News</b></a>. Please visit that link for their full article. Excerpts are highlighted in gray. Some highlighted text reinforced by November Yankee</i></span></span><br />
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<br />Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-51489713128956212082013-05-17T23:02:00.000-04:002013-05-17T23:02:24.645-04:00Attempted Murder of Boston Bomb SuspectIt is being reported that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not armed when he was taken into police custody.<br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/24/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-unarmed/2111145/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomNati%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bon-TopStories+%28News+-+Nation+-+Top+Stories%29" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>USA Today</b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/boston-bombing-suspect-unarmed_n_3150723.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Huffington Post </b></span></a><br />
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This news disproves <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/suspect-may-never-speak-in-boston.html" target="_blank"><b>earlier reports</b></a> that the suspect may have tried to commit suicide by shooting himself. There were no guns found in the boat where he had been hiding, and he was not carrying any firearms when taken into custody.<br />
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The latest reports suggest his wounds may have been inflicted during the initial confrontation with police many hours earlier, but this seems unlikely given the seriousness of those injuries. In this first image we can see that the suspect was able to climb out of the boat where he was hiding, unassisted and without obvious signs of serious injury. <br />
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Nevertheless, within moments of surrendering, he was on the ground, possibly unconscious, and being given a tracheotomy.<br />
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We do know that police opened fire on the unarmed suspect, but no legitimate explanation for that has been given. Aside from the obvious reasons why police are not allowed to shoot or try to kill an unarmed suspect, in this case there was a very clear need to take the suspect alive for questioning. With his alleged accomplice to the bombings killed in the initial confrontation with police, this left the younger brother the only person who could possibly shed any light on the bombings. It was imperative that he be taken alive to be sure there were no other devices still left to go off, to name any other possible co-conspirators, and so forth. Of course, that is assuming that the suspect is indeed one of the actual bombers, as authorities claim.<br />
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Both the <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/father-claims-bombing-suspect-sons-were.html" target="_blank"><b>father</b></a> and <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/mother-claims-bombing-suspect-counseled.html" target="_blank"><b>mother</b></a> of the suspected bombers claim that their sons are innocent.<b> </b>In what is believed to be his last Facebook message, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tells his father that he was set up and did not do what he is being accused of. <br />
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Of course, it is not unusual for a suspect to claim they are innocent, nor is it unusual for a suspect's parents to defend them. But there have been numerous <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/strong-evidence-drill-was-cover-for.html" target="_blank"><b>irregularities</b></a> in this case from the start, and it seems possible that the brothers may have indeed been set up as patsies. Such a claim sounds like lunatic-fringe conspiracy-theory perhaps, but this possibility has even led a <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/04/state-legislator-blames-govt-for-boston.html" target="_blank"><b>New Hampshire state legislator</b></a> to make the provocative claim that the Federal government is responsible for the bombings.<br />
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It is not known what evidence the government has to show that the brothers were responsible for the bombings. There have been no images or video released of them actually planting the bombs. It is also not known what led to their initial confrontation with police, or what evidence there is that they killed the MIT officer. It doesn't seem likely that a pair of terrorists on the run would be hanging around a college campus causing a disturbance or trying to attract attention to themselves.<br />
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It was initially reported that they had tried to rob a 7-11 store, but that was not true, so we still don't know what the nature of the disturbance actually was that might have led them to kill a police officer. We also don't know what ever became of a third suspect, or why this man was arrested and then stripped naked before being paraded in front of cameras and loaded into a police car. <br />
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Whether or not the brothers actually committed the double-bombing, or whether they killed the MIT police officer is probably something that will be debated for many years to come. If there was indeed a conspiracy, and a plot by factions within our own government, then there would be a clear motivation to kill the patsies who were set up to take the blame for the terrorism.<br />
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If they were truly guilty, then as we already mentioned, there was a very real need to take the suspect alive for questioning. It hardly seems reasonable for the police to risk killing the suspect, who as we see now was not even armed. Even if he had been armed, the police should have made every effort, even at the risk of their own lives, to take the suspect alive to glean intelligence necessary for the greater public safety concerns. That is of course, unless the FBI already knew all the answers, which would then lead us back to the notion that they were at least fully aware of the plot, if not directly involved. . <br />
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Of course, there is a third line of reasoning which could also be applied here. Plain old-fashioned revenge. It is not at all unreasonable to suspect that the police might have been willing to commit murder themselves in order to get revenge not only on a terrorist, but against a young man who they believed had just killed one of their own. This sort of "cowboy" mentality is all to prevalent among police today, and it might have even been something counted on by inside conspirators, if it was indeed a government plot as some claim. In this manner, the police could be made to do the bidding of the plotters but in total ignorance. This scenario is an excellent example of why police must be held to the highest ethical standards, rather than routinely <a href="http://novemberyankeechronicle.blogspot.com/2013/03/cop-made-chief-after-negligent-homicide_27.html" target="_blank"><b>excused for criminal behavior</b></a>. <br />
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Knowing now that the suspect was not armed it is almost inexcusable that the police opened fire on him both from a moral standpoint, and of course because killing him might have actually put the public in greater danger. Again, it doesn't seem likely that his wounds were from the initial confrontation with police in which his brother was killed. It also does not appear that the suspect was wounded inside the boat. We might tend to make excuses for jittery police who were, perhaps, assuming that the suspect was armed. But this reasoning collapses when we look at the photographic evidence. Frighteningly, that evidence appears to show that the suspect was shot after he climbed out of the boat and surrendered.<br />
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This first image shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the hospital. You will notice what appears to be powder burns on his face, which would be consistent with being shot at very close range. Much like if he had put a gun in his mouth, and fired, trying to kill himself. This would also be consistent with reports that he has a bullet wound exiting out the back of his neck. This is impossible though, since he was not armed.<br />
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So we know that his wounds were certainly inflicted by police. If those wounds came during the initial confrontation when his brother was killed, if they were in fact exchanging gunfire with police as was reported, then the police were certainly justified to return fire. As we already pointed out though, it's unlikely that he survived the 20 or so hours without medical care for those very serious wounds. So now the question is when, exactly, did police shoot him?<br />
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As you can see in this photo, there was no blood visible at the scene when the suspect was still inside of the boat.<br />
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In this photo however, blood is clearly visible on the wheel shroud of the trailer. This means that the blood is not from an earlier wound that might have leaked when the suspect first climbed into the boat to hide. This means that it could only have been left there after the suspect climbed out of the boat. Why would police shoot him after he had surrendered?<br />
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We can see that there is no blood inside of the boat, which would indicate earlier wounds or that he was shot before he surrendered. Looking more closely at the blood that does appear in the image, the observation becomes even more chilling. There is a distinct spray pattern further supporting that the wound was inflicted there. We also see that the blood is sprayed across the top of the wheel shroud, but not the side, except for where it dribbled over a little bit from pooling on top. This means that he was, more than likely, up against that wheel shroud when he was shot. Going by the height of the investigator in the image, the pattern of the blood, the wound to the suspect, a very disturbing image now appears. It looks as if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have been on his knees, with his back against the wheels, that someone put a gun in his mouth and shot him, execution style. <br />
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Just as I try to have empathy for cops who do good, I also try to have empathy for the troops as well. After all, they are the instruments of policy, not the policy-writers. I think this is more true even for troops than police here at home, but we can leave that for another discussion.<br />
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What this video shows, is the bald face of the aggression of the United States government. And you can damn well bet, in the wake of what we saw out on Boston, our own government doesn't give a crap about the rights of the people of this nation. Sooner than later, we will be seeing this happening, right here at home...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;">A legal loophole could prevent good Samaritans, instrumental in ending the manhunt for a fugitive ex-cop accused of killing four people, from claiming more than $1 million in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1360954822_6">reward money</span> because <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1360954822_0">Christopher Dorner</span> died and was not captured. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;">Last weekend, <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1360954822_1">Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa</span> pledged $1 million, sourced from private individuals, companies and unions, "for information that will lead to Mr. <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1360954822_2">Dorner</span>'s capture." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #0c343d;">The <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1360954822_3">L.A. City Council</span> followed up with its own promise of a $100,000 reward, for information "leading to the identification, apprehension and conviction of Christopher Dorner." </span></div>
<span style="background-color: #0c343d;">But Dorner, accused of killing four people and threatening the lives of several dozen more, was never captured, apprehended or convicted. Instead, he died following a standoff with police near Big Bear, Calif., when the cabin in which he was barricaded burned down with him inside. </span>
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The mayor's office has not yet determined if the reward could still be paid out given Dorner died. </span>
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It is disturbing that authorities are even questioning whether or not to pay out the reward. For one thing, it is a betrayal of public trust that may impact future investigations and undermine efforts to locate dangerous fugitves. Anyone with potential leads will think twice about risking their own lives, reputation, and privacy in order to share information with authorities. This move, quite simply, invalidates the purpose of offering a reward at all in cases like this.<br />
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More alarmingly though, this shows that police had a very large financial incentive to kill Dorner, rather than bring him to justice. Not to mention of course, that they already had a strong motivation to kill him as revenge for the deaths of other officers, and to silence him from speaking any further regarding corruption in the LAPD. Adding a million dollar financial incentive to kill the suspect now goes well beyond a simple question of ethics. Especially when one considers now that police burned down the cabin Dorner was holed up in.<br />
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The San Bernadino County Sheriff denies that the cabin was burned down intentionally, but given the motivations we have already seen here, that denial is quite dubious. Consider too, that we are talking about a Sheriff who allows his deputies to violate their sacred oath to uphold the Constitution, simply in order to harass a woman out for a walk, <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-do-not-consent-video.html#axzz2L1QctEjV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>as seen here in this video</b></a>.<b> </b>Why should we believe that those deputies would adhere to the law when the stakes are so much higher?<br />
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The denial becomes downright feeble when one listens to what was actually said by police that day at the scene. Are we to believe that they were simply incompetent, and "accidentally" burned that cabin down after they clearly voiced their intention to burn the cabin down? <br />
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Station Six Undergroundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688389339683526881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593601830992007947.post-83361186392139970412013-03-27T20:22:00.001-04:002013-03-27T20:22:58.072-04:00No Such Thing As Accountability For Cops<i>This article comes to us compliments of Captain Six at Station.6.Underground.</i><br />
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<i>I have to say, this shit really pisses me off to no end. And it's shit like this why I have no tears for dead cops. Check out the link at the bottom especially. Fuckin cop shot a man dead for no good reason, was convicted of negligent homicide, and now he's the goddamn chief of police. With shit like this going on, I say fuck 'em all. </i><br />
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I try to be as unbiased as possible when it comes to cases of police brutality. Indeed, I have made <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2013/02/cop-bitch-slaps-soldier-video.html#axzz2OCplapQT" target="_blank"><b>several posts</b></a> here <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/11/cop-haters-often-wrong.html#axzz2OCplapQT" target="_blank"><b>defending</b></a> the police even when they have acted violently, because I understand that it is a difficult job and at times it does in fact require violence to get the job done. I am not squeamish and I am not prone to knee-jerk reactions. I have seen things from both sides of the line, having been both first-responder and victim of a vicious assault by police. <br />
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I must say though, that at the end of the day, I have little sympathy for police and the job they do when I hear stories like this one. This is not just about a few bad apples beating the crap out of innocent civilians. This is about institutionalized corruption and brutality. Let's check out the video, and I will continue below.<br />
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So we see there are two separate incidents here to discuss. In the first, we see police beat, tase, and strangle a woman who is handcuffed in the back of the police cruiser. Personally, I can't think of any legitimate reason why police should be beating on anyone in handcuffs. I can understand that suspects in cuffs can still be unruly and do things like start spitting in the backseat and so forth. I can see how that would make a police officer angry, but it really still does not excuse beating up a suspect in a punitive manner. It certainly does not excuse using the taser on someone, and it absolutely does not excuse choking a woman. Here in NY State, choking a woman is a crime in and of itself, aside from standard assault-type charges.<br />
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Imagine for a moment that what you saw there was a man beating on his wife in that manner. If the public were to see something of that nature there would be absolute outrage in a community, calling for all sorts of horrible things be done to a man who would dare to do something like that to a woman. But because it is a police officer doing this to a suspect, the public is apathetic, as if in a trance, or even openly defend the actions of police in cases like this. But this wasn't just one officer either, it was two. Two powerful men beating the crap out of a woman in the back seat of a car in the middle of the night. Is there really any excuse for that?<br />
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With the new strangulation law on the books, I find it hard to believe that a man would be excused for simply choking a woman even if she came at him with a kitchen knife screaming bloody murder, much less pummeling and tasing a woman. Certainly there would be no excuse whatsoever for a man to do this to a defenseless, unarmed woman restrained in handcuffs, unless he was a cop of course. <br />
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Next we see the case of a man who had his rib cage crushed in for the crime of not understanding a police order. Instead of putting his hands behind his back as instructed, he puts his hands in the air. A typical reaction really for anyone who watches television and instinctively thinks "hands up" if they are ever in trouble with the police. It is also quite easy for a police officer to take a suspect into custody from that position. You simply snap the cuff on one wrist, guide the suspects arm down toward the buttocks, do the same with a firm grasp on the other arm, and lock the second wrist into the open cuff. Easy as that, suspect in custody. <br />
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As a general rule, the police are expected to follow the Use of Force Continuum. Not every department uses the same model, and the standards are not universal among the different models, but generally speaking the principle is to only apply that force which is necessary to safely bring a suspect into custody. As safely as possible for the officer and the suspect I might add. I saw nothing in that video which showed the suspect was assaultive in any way. If there was intentional resistance at all, it appears to have been passive. I didn't see any active resistance as in attempts to break free or flee. Even if that were the case, once the suspect was down, that should have been the extent of the force necessary to pull the suspects arms behind his back and get the cuffs on. Tasing him and breaking five ribs is clearly an excessive use of force in this case. <br />
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So what we have seen there, yet again, are a few more instances of gratuitous, unwarranted violence by police against a civilian. Almost every day we see a new video of this nature pop up on YouTube, but we are still expected to believe that these are all "isolated" incidents, the work of "a few bad apples." Never mind that thousands of cases like this never make it to the light of day. More often than not, the victim is not lucky enough to have a video camera rolling when they are <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/07/police-beat-man-to-death.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><b>pummeled by police</b></a>. And without a tape, there is little chance of finding a lawyer who will bother to handle your case. Even with a tape, it is clearly an uphill battle to hold the police accountable for their crimes.<br />
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In one instance <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/07/reporter-faces-21-years-after-airing.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><b>linked here</b></a>, a reporter was facing 21 years in prison for airing an excessive force complaint. He was subsequently convicted on three felony counts of violating wiretapping laws, for posting the content on YouTube. <br />
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In <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/04/have-you-ever-tried-to-file-complaint.html#axzz2Om1O7H6B" target="_blank"><b>another incident</b></a>, a man was arrested and had his head split open by police simply because he asked for a complaint form.<br />
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Time and time again I have heard people say something along the lines of "well, if a bad cop does something to you, you should report it to their supervisor." The notion that a civilian can find justice when they are the victim of a crime at the hands of police, or that police will be held accountable for such crimes, is false. How could we possibly expect an officer's supervisor to take such a complaint seriously, when we see what happened in those two incidents above in the main video? The police charged the victims of their brutal assault with a crime, resisting arrest. Not just one "bad apple" but three police officers in these two incidents alone, not only covering for one another but actually participating in the violence. Their supervisors, right on up to the chief of police were well aware of what was on those tapes, yet the charges against the victims stood, and the officers were not held accountable in any way. Beyond the police department protecting their own, the county district attorney's office also saw the tapes, and failed in their duty to even investigate, much less to actually prosecute those officers for the brutal assaults. <br />
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How many other cases has the DA's office refused to prosecute over the years, simply because the perpetrators were police officers? How complicit is the top brass in any department, in any county, even in any state, in covering up crimes committed by cops? How many thousands, even millions of people have been viciously beaten, wrongfully prosecuted, and even killed by police, without anyone ever being held accountable and without justice ever being served?<br />
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Ladies and gentleman, this is not about running down the police for the sake of running down the police. This is the reality of the totalitarian police-state we now live in. The boys in blue today are no better than the "brown shirt" terrorists who put the Nazis in power. It makes no difference if you are a trouble-maker or an innocent person just going about your business. Any one of you reading this could find yourself, or a loved one, being beaten in the back of a police car in the middle of the night, having your rib cage shattered along some lonely road by a few thug cops, or worse, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.<br />
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No sooner had I posted this article, another story popped up that just goes to prove that police can literally get away with murder even when they are caught and prosecuted.<br />
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From TSA agents being our friendly local social terrorist molesting people at airports and railway platforms, to cops who maim and murder the very people they are sworn to protect. One need look no further than our own <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/search/label/Police-State#axzz2DSVpw0tY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>police-state</b></a> column to see the reality of the tyranny we now live under.<br />
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But this article is not about bad cops or bad laws.<br />
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Today I want to talk about the other side of the coin. I want to have a look at the genuine cop-haters. The folks who will, no matter what, always say that the cop is wrong. My friends, this is another hypocrisy I cannot abide. The cop is not always wrong. It does a disservice to those of us who are striving for genuine and positive changes, to pick at justifiable police activity as being some travesty of justice and abuse of authority. The reality is that the job of a police officer is a very difficult one. One that does include justified instances of all sorts of unsavory acts, up to and including the use of deadly force. Just because a cop shoots someone dead, does not mean that a murder has been committed. <br />
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I have seen instances in the past of people ripping on the police for simply doing their job. That is no more fair-play than a cop planting a joint in your glovebox.<br />
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What got me going on this subject today was the following pic and video which has been splashed across anti-law-enforcement blogs and Facebook pages.<br />
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I got completely suckered in by the caption. What is frightening of course, is that the performance of our police forces made this entirely plausible, and I started salivating about the prospect of posting yet another instance of a cop going <b><a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/11/cops-dont-like-your-rights.html#axzz2DSVpw0tY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">berserk</a></b>. <br />
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What I got instead though, was a dose of cop-haters going out of their way to be offended by a cop doing his job.<br />
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Let's have a look at the video now, before I comment further.<br />
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The video starts as the officer engages the suspect vehicle and initiates a traffic stop. The vehicle matches the description given by other motorists who reported a reckless and/or speeding driver. This is confirmed by the suspect himself in his own video description.<br />
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<i>"...Pulled over for no reason except someone said I was swerving on the
interstate a lil bit because i had broke the stick shift knob and was
screwing it back on. Is this a legal traffic stop. I thought officers
had to witness me committing a violation but not this case. Someone was
pulling some road rage making up that I almost hit them when in fact
they cut me off and I had to slam on my breaks because she limited my
distance to stop..."</i></blockquote>
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So right here he has admitted that he was indeed swerving. I don't care if he was screwing on a broken shift knob, <a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-use-phone-and-drive-take-this.html#axzz2DSVpw0tY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>texting</b></a>, or getting his knob polished. If you are swerving in traffic, especially at high speed on an interstate, you are putting lives in danger. That is reckless. <br />
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Then, another motorist also complains that the subject was driving recklessly, but he claims to be the "victim" of road rage here, and that the second complainant (presumably the female in the video) had actually caused a hazard. I find that claim on his part to be dubious, especially considering other admissions on the part of the suspect.<br />
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Regardless, the officer had several complaints of an erratic vehicle. This certainly is enough probable cause to initiate a traffic stop. No, an officer does not have to see an offense in order to investigate a potential crime. (Note that the suspect was never charged with other highway infractions which were not committed in the presence of the officer.) You will also notice in the video, that the suspect vehicle has malfunctioning tail/brake lights, which is also probable cause for a traffic stop. <br />
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In short, the officer engages a suspect vehicle that was reportedly, and by later admission of the operator, driving erratically. The reasons were, of course, unknown to the officer and not legally justified anyway.<br />
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The officer sees the suspect vehicle lurch forward, against a red light, but with another vehicle in front of the suspect vehicle blocking the path. The suspect tries to explain this by saying that "<i>the light was about to turn green</i>" but this may in fact be another traffic violation, as it is in many jurisdictions, to proceed against a stop light once stopped. That would be yet another point of probable cause, and a ticketable offense committed in the presence of the officer. At the very least, the officer would be right to see this as a sign of anxious or aggressive driving. And for what reason, the officer had yet to determine. Was the suspect attempting to flee, was the vehicle in distress and unsafe for the roadway, or was the operator simply dangerously incompetant?<br />
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At that point the suspect vehicle chooses to proceed, rather than remain stopped. Again, by his own admission, the suspect had indeed seen the lights of the police car, was stopped, and chose to proceed anyway. That is a violation of the law. To generally paraphrase most traffic codes, you must stop and pull to the side if possible, when it is safe to do so. The suspect was stopped, there was no danger, and chose to proceed anyway.<br />
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<i>"Yes I was stopped but he didn't say to stay there. Its always taught you
pull over for emergency vehicles. How is this resisting I need to know?
I had never been in trouble and any other time I had been pulled over I
get yelled at to pull over to a safer spot. Well not this time."</i></blockquote>
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His muddled self-justification is actually hard to interpret there. But right off the bat he makes a critical error in judgement. The officer most certainly did say to "stay there" through use of his warning beacons and siren. Not only did the suspect fail to yield, but also, willingly chose to proceed after acknowledging the police presence and lawful order to yield. Just because officers in the past had "always" yelled at him to pull over to a safer spot, that was not the case in this instance. The officer issued no such command.<br />
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Furthermore, it is hardly reasonable to move an almost completely disabled vehicle from a side street onto a main thoroughfare, as we saw was done in this video. I don't see that as reasonable even without the police presence, which is also something that the officer likely considered.<br />
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So at this point the officer sees a suspect vehicle that is stalling out repeatedly, has a broken taillight, is leaking fluid all over the ground, with a driver who has been driving erratically, aggressively proceeding against a red light, and then for some unknown reason chooses to proceed into heavy traffic rather than remain stopped on a side street. The motorist was actually creating a more dangerous situation, not moving to safer ground. <br />
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The officer, at this point, is reasonably jacked-up with all sorts of suspicion. Is the person drunk or high? Was the truck damaged from hitting another car or even a pedestrian perhaps? Is the driver simply woefully incompetent? Maybe in emotional distress, or having a medical problem such as a seizure or some sort of dementia? Even a diabetic episode? Is the truck blowing fluid all over the place because the suspect just beat the hell out of the motor fleeing from the scene of an axe murder at a daycare center? Who the hell knows? With all those questions and more, would you walk up to a vehicle like that with a fine "Howdy doo? What seems to be the trouble today?"<br />
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Hell no. I would pull my Glock and and give him a straight "what da fuck man?!"<br />
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And to break it down even further, ask yourself this. How often would you actually love to pull a Glock on some asshat driver and ask him that very question before you proceed to break his cellphone and knock out his high beams with a lug wrench? I have been tempted to do just that many times. Now imagine it is your job to actually stop that person, but you can't even give him so much as a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FtCaI-WSP8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Three-Stooges</b></a> eye-poke? That you have to swallow your emotions, protect yourself from a possibly fatal encounter, and act professionally. That takes balls of steel and an almost inhuman sense of humility at the same time. <br />
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So to wrap this up here, like I said to start, I have a lot of beef with cops in general. From the laws that they enforce, to how they enforce them. But at the end of the day, fuck that job. Not for me man. I would crack someone in the head.<br />
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To my cop-hating buds out there, don't get it twisted my friends. A lot of assholery comes from the thin-blue-line. But don't believe the hype either. Propaganda works both ways. And to my police officer friends, this is for you you blue bastads! Lol. Gotta give you some props once in a while. <br />
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And be safe on the roads all my friends. Don't be an asshat. Stay off the fuckin phone. No, you are not special, you cannot use the phone and drive, you are not superhuman. (And this goes for you cops out there too, exempt or not.)<br />
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<a href="http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-use-phone-and-drive-take-this.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Can You Use The Phone And Drive?</b></span></a><br />
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Here is the full video description by the self-desribed suspect in this matter:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Here is the in dash camera from a police officer in Lebanon, Indiana.
While he was behind me at the stop light the truck kept dying because it
was old and over heating from being on the interstate the radiator
fluid was leaking out. I had borrowed this truck in Lafayette, Indiana
and its been sometime since I had driven a clutch. The guy that let me
borrow the truck told me it sometimes overheats. It needed a thermostat
or something. I got charged Felony Resisting Law Enforcement with a
motor vehicle. Is this justified. I pulled over in a safer spot outta of
the middle of the road. I had no idea I was being stopped but I noticed
during the stop light and waved my hand to signal okay I'll pull over.
Yes I was stopped but he didn't say to stay there. Its always taught you
pull over for emergency vehicles. How is this resisting I need to know?
I had never been in trouble and any other time I had been pulled over I
get yelled at to pull over to a safer spot. Well not this time. I need
help because I was scared into taking the plea or I would lose the case
my attorney Buchanan Law Office Inc: Buchanan Pamela said. She was
appointed as my legal counsel since I couldn't afford an attorney. I
waiting 1 year going to probation and I even filled to fire her but at
court I in the last minute had been convinced by her that I was not
going to do any different thru anyone else. Her husband is a Prosecutor
for the Town Of Lebanon and I feel that this is all crap. This took
place in Lebanon, Indiana. Pulled over for no reason except someone said
I was swerving on the interstate a lil bit because i had broke the
stick shift knob and was screwing it back on. Is this a legal traffic
stop. I thought officers had to witness me committing a violation but
not this case. Someone was pulling some road rage making up that I
almost hit them when in fact they cut me off and I had to slam on my
breaks because she limited my distance to stop. Is there any other
options I can pursue to sue the law office or something I just wanted to
get the process over with because 2 years was a long time for probation
and I figured maybe she was right what do I know I have no other way of
fighting it. NEED HELP. THIS IS KEEPING ME FROM HAVING A NORMAL LIFE I
CANT GET A CAREER TO TAKE CARE OF MY WIFE AND KID. I AM SO FRUSTRATED
WITH THIS.</i></span></blockquote>
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There are a few technicalities that should be pointed out here though, to be fair about what we are seeing.<br />
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To start, we don't know why the suspect was being arrested. It's quite possible that it was a legal, even a justified arrest. Secondly, while we may see it as "brutality" to smack a suspect's head on the concrete, that is not necessarily true. A police officer does have the right to inflict pain in order to stimulate the cooperation of a resistant subject. In most departments, the amount of force which may be applied is relative to the amount of force with which the suspect is resisting. This practice is called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum" target="_blank">use-of-force-continuum</a>. I am pretty sure that the pavement-head-crack is not a textbook maneuver taught at most police academies, on the other hand, gratuitous use of tasers and stun guns usually replaces such tactics in the modern era anyhow.<br />
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So what we are really left with here, is trying to gauge the level of resistance that suspect was giving police officers. This is difficult to accurately ascertain for two reasons. First, the video starts rolling just a second or two before the officer bangs the suspect's head onto the sidewalk. Secondly, we are not the officers affecting the arrest and therefore cannot feel the level of active resistance.<br />
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All in all though, my guess would be that the head-smack was more out of frustration on the part of the officer, rather than as progressive technique. I have seen on numerous occasions where an officer will believe that the subject is resisting, while at the same time trying to bend an arm a way it cannot bend, or when an arm is trapped under the subject's body while officers are piled on top bearing down with all their weight. So in many instances, what officers see as resistance, is really their own lack of understanding basic anatomy and physics. <br />
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Either way, my humble opinion is that the cracking of the head on the pavement was a bit excessive, and probably worthy of a reprimand, but does not rise to the level of many instances of brutality we have seen in other cases.<br />
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Next, we see the cameraman admonishing the police who arrive on motorbikes. for "invading our space." The police absolutely have the right to set up a perimeter and declare an exclusion zone in cases of emergency. This would include a reasonable amount of space around police officers conducting an arrest. This is not at all unreasonable, and done for the safety of both police and the suspect. I understand where the cameraman's anger comes from, but he is wrong. He does not have the right to interfere with the arrest.<br />
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Back on the other hand though, and again understanding where civilian anger against the police comes from, take a look at the security guard's face as he walks past the cameraman and back into the building. A sideways glare, a lick of the lips, and a frustrated grin. It's plainly written on his face that he would love to kick the ever-loving shit out of the guy holding the camera and carrying on with his rant against the police. <br />
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