And why would you be rooting for the cops?
Yeah seriously, that’s sick stuff.
Kolonial is a very conservative law and order type guy. These people were dancing without a proper license and probably gave the authorities lip too.
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Because they’re shutting up people that were obnoxious and not entertaining to anyone else there.
If you’re gonna get arrested trying to make a political point while dancing, try to make sure that
a) you know how to dance
b) you have more to say than “this is a police state”
Saying someone is bad at dancing is a funny joke, thanks for reminding us… But it’s probably worth mentioning that was barely even dancing at all, and the first arrest seems to be for asking why.
Do you realize how ridiculous you would sound if you were defending this, without making the tired ‘lol police state? lol’ argument?
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I’m not actually agreeing with Kolonial. That would be as crazy as dancing badly in a public square while voicing my opinion on how we all live in a police state.
Because there are actual and significant problems with law enforcement in this country, as you and others have pointed out repeatedly in this thread. Sideshow antics like this don’t help draw attention to these problems, instead making it even easier to characterize anyone who argues that reform is needed in police training and procedures (not to mention huge shifts in the courts’ interpretation of the 4th amendment) as some sort of attention seeking, slacktivist idiot. If you’re hell-bent on being arrested, then either try to make it for something significant or, barring that, at least try to get away with some money. I don’t think these guys were arguing for the “right to dance at a national monument,” so much as the right to try and get arrested. To me, that’s less a civil rights issue as it an annoyance issue, and they turned out to be more annoying than the cops, if just barely. Hence my taking sides.
And by the way, once the cops ask you to put your hands behind your back, the civil rights part of the spectacle is suspended. Holding your hands out in front of you like a robot may not be active resistance but it’s still resisting arrest. Unless you’re advocating for resisting arrest, which is a whole different argument.
I’m actually not, but thanks for the guess?
Police took cell phone camera from witness who recorded police shooting and immediately smashed it on the ground, destroying evidence.
http://bit.ly/mHU2OG
A botched SWAT raid that doesn’t end in murder or mayhem.
Apparently instigated by a douche on Xbox Live. Where is XBLPET Juliet when we need her?
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Over fucking FortressCraft? Really?
Back to Tasers:
http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/national-institute-justice-finds-tasers-safe-008621?page=0,0
“There is no conclusive medical evidence in the current body of research literature that indicates a high risk of serious injury or death to humans from the direct or indirect cardiovascular or metabolic effects of short-term CED exposure in healthy, normal, nonstressed, nonintoxicated persons,” the report concludes.
Sounds good. Don’t use tasers on unhealthy, stressed or intoxicated people. I’m sure the police will follow this guideline starting never.
Cop slams 15 year old girl into a concrete wall face-first, which knocks her hard to the ground, gives her a giant head injury. She was walking away and had no idea he was running after her.
Story is that she was under the influence, and passing booze to other students earlier in the day, but there’s no justification for what that cop did.
Bonus: Arizona. Nuke it from orbit, etc.
Stupid reporters. It’s an SD card, not a SIM card.
Another article up from Balko at Huffpo:
Chicago State’s Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them
When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore, the officer who questioned her then came on to her, groped her breast and slipped her his home phone number.
Robert Johnson, Moore’s attorney, says that when Moore and her boyfriend attempted to report the incident to internal affairs officials at the Chicago Police Department, the couple wasn’t greeted warmly. “They discouraged her from filing a report,” Johnson says. “They gave her the runaround, scared her, and tried to intimidate her from reporting this officer – from making sure he couldn’t go on to do this to other women.”
Ten months later, Chicago PD is still investigating the incident. Moore, on the other hand, was arrested the very same afternoon.
Her crime? At some point in her conversations with internal affairs investigators, Moore grew frustrated with their attempts to intimidate her. So she began to surreptitiously record the interactions on her Blackberry. In Illinois, it is illegal to record people without their consent, even (and as it turns out, especially) on-duty police officers.
“oh, you know he dead!”
HOLY COCKS
Police surround a perp who had injured a cop that morning and fire over 90 shots into the car, then point their guns at the bystander who had the audacity to to record it with his phone. 4 other bystanders wounded.
