Rellen na dood zwarte jongen VS #5 Met een liegende prosecutor

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After Confronting NYC Mayor, Police Union Leader Faces Mutiny of His Own from Dissident Cops

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After leading a controversial campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio, the head of New York City’s largest police union, Patrick Lynch, is facing an internal challenge of his own. Lynch, who accused de Blasio of having "blood on his hands" for a gunman’s murder of two officers and later spearheaded the two-week arrest and summons slowdown by New York City Police Department officers, will be challenged by dissident cops in the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association’s next election in June. Democracy Now! co-host and New York Daily News columnist Juan González discusses the revolt, which he attributes in part to a changing NYPD demographic that in recent years has seen officers of color become the majority on the force.

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Politie Miami gebruikte foto's zwarte Amerikanen als schietschijf

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Op de schietbaan van een politiebureau in Miami werd geoefend door te schieten op afbeeldingen van gezichten van Afro-Amerikanen. De omroep NBC kwam eind deze week in Miami met het verhaal op de proppen, nadat een vrouwelijk lid van de Nationale Garde er was gaan oefenen en alleen maar hoofden van zwarte Amerikanen als doelwit zag. Een van de hoofden was dat van haar broer, die vijftien jaar geleden in Miami werd gearresteerd.

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'Politie Ferguson vooringenomen tegen zwarte bevolking'

Het politiekorps van Ferguson in de Amerikaanse staat Missouri heeft stelselmatig de grondwettelijke rechten van de zwarte inwoners geschonden. Politieagenten hebben jarenlang buitensporig geweld tegen zwarten gebruikt.

Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van het ministerie van Justitie, aldus The New York Times dinsdag.

Uit het onderzoek blijkt onder meer dat zwarten in het verkeer worden aangehouden zonder dat daar een reden voor is. Ook zijn bij het onderzoek e-mails met racistische grappen van agenten over zwarten opgedoken.

Justitie onderzocht het korps in Ferguson, nadat een politieagent afgelopen zomer in de stad een ongewapende zwarte tiener had doodgeschoten. Volgens Amerikaanse media is het ministerie van Justitie het onderzoek naar de schietpartij aan het afronden en zal het geen aanklacht tegen de man adviseren.

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Discrimination in Ferguson: full extent of police bias laid bare in damning report

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The full extent of the racial persecution of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri, by the city’s overwhelmingly white law enforcement authorities was disclosed on Wednesday in a damning report by the US Department of Justice.

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Op donderdag 15 januari 2015 21:53 schreef Samuray13 het volgende:
Liegende aanklager.

Die hebben zo tig zwarten de dood ingejaagd (doodstraf)

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Op donderdag 15 januari 2015 21:53 schreef Samuray13 het volgende:
Liegende aanklager.

Die hebben zo tig zwarten de dood ingejaagd (doodstraf)

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:30 schreef Religieisfacisme het volgende:
Ook vandaag weer toen een blanke man zijn keel werd doorgesneden in New York enkel en alleen omdat hij blank was.
http://www.nydailynews.co(...)ns-article-1.2148582

Waar is de media nu ???

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:30 schreef Religieisfacisme het volgende:

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En ja dan kom je als bevolkingsgroep vaker in aanraking met politie en justitie en ook met eventueel geweld of veroordelingen die daarmee gepaard gaan. De zwarte gemeenschap heeft een enorm mentaliteitsprobleem waardoor ze soms inderdaad anders worden behandeld of benaderd. Maar wiens schuld is dat nou echt ?? Dit kan je niet meer stompzinnig afwimpelen als zijnde racisme.

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:33 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:

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Je citeert een van de media en toch vraag je waar ze zijn?

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:57 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Dan stel ik een experiment voor; heel Religieisfascisme's familie gaan we eerst een paar eeuwen als slaven houden. .

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:30 schreef Religieisfacisme het volgende:

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En hoeveel mensen jagen de zwarten zelf eigenlijk de dood in ?? Slechts 12.6% van de bevolking is zwart toch is deze bevolkingsgroep verantwoordelijk voor 52,2% van de moorden in Amerika. Met de andere misdaadcijfers is het niet anders. (verklaar dat maar eens)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w(...)ited_States#Homicide

En ja dan kom je als bevolkingsgroep vaker in aanraking met politie en justitie en ook met eventueel geweld of veroordelingen die daarmee gepaard gaan. De zwarte gemeenschap heeft een enorm mentaliteitsprobleem waardoor ze soms inderdaad anders worden behandeld of benaderd. Maar wiens schuld is dat nou echt ?? Dit kan je niet meer stompzinnig afwimpelen als zijnde racisme.
Datzelfde zie je ook bv in NL met de Marokkaanse jongeren die vaak een agressieve en schreeuwerige machomentaliteit hebben. Daar ga je gewoon anders mee om dan met mensen met een beheerste en redelijke mentaliteit.

En dan die theatrale toestanden als het weer eens een zwarte treft die, al dan niet, het slachtoffer van racisme is geworden. Waarom gebeurt dit andersom niet ?? Er worden wekelijks racistische aanvallen op blanke mensen uitgevoerd in de VS.
Ook vandaag weer toen een blanke man zijn keel werd doorgesneden in New York enkel en alleen omdat hij blank was.
http://www.nydailynews.co(...)ns-article-1.2148582

Waar is de media nu ??? Waarom nu geen verontwaardigde politici ? En zie je ook hier weer het verschil in mentaliteit ? Bij de blanke bevolking geen dreigende meute op straat die meteen in de slachtofferrol kruipt. Geen demonstraties tegen racistische Latino's of zwartenen geen rellen en geweld.

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 22:23 schreef ..-._---_-.- het volgende:

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Even wat geschiedenis, want als je denkt dat dit over "eeuwen geleden" gaat gaat er iets niet helemaal goed.

De slavernij in de VS is in 1863 afgeschaft. Maar niet lang daarna werden in plaats daarvan in de zuidelijke staten wetten geintroduceerd die rassenscheiding regelden. Die wetten werden pas in 1964 officieel afgeschaft, en in 1965 kregen zwarten pas stemrecht. Officieel zijn zwarten dus nog maar sinds kort bij wet gelijkwaardig aan blanken. Maar officieus zit het beeld van zwarten als tweederangs burgers nog steeds tussen de oren van veel blanke Amerikanen.

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 22:23 schreef ..-._---_-.- het volgende:
Maar officieus zit het beeld van zwarten als tweederangs burgers nog steeds tussen de oren van veel blanke Amerikanen.

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 02:08 schreef superniger het volgende:

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Daar hebben ze vast goede redenen voor.

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Quick answers to double shooting elude police in Ferguson, Missouri

- Nearly 48 hours after two officers were shot in Ferguson, Missouri, investigators had dozens of leads but no arrests to report on Friday in the hunt for a gunman who turned a late-night protest against police into bedlam.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said authorities had "a pretty good idea" where the gunshots that wounded the officers had originated, without providing specifics, but added that an arrest was not imminent.

The kind of gun used, the shooter's motivation and any connection to the protesters remained a mystery, prolonging uncertainty for a town that has come to symbolize America's struggle with race and policing.

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NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Page for Eric Garner Death

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The Wikipedia articles for the deaths of three individuals involved with the NYPD, including the highly controversial death of Eric Garner, have been edited on computers that can be traced back to the NYPD’s headquarters.

Articles ‘on alleged instances of police brutality and articles critical of the force’s conduct’ were edited, while attempts were even made to try and delete the pages.

In the Garner case, “Garner raised both his arms in the air” was changed to “Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke,” and, “Use of the chokehold has been prohibited” was changed to “Use of the chokehold is legal, but has been prohibited.”

In 2006, someone from within the NYPD deleted 1,502 characters from the “scandals and corruption” section of Wikipedia’s “New York City Police Department” entry.

NYPD spokeswoman Det. Cheryl Crispin said, “The matter is under internal review.”

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Starbucks-plan om discriminatie te bespreken bij de koffie valt slecht

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De nieuwe campagne van koffieketen Starbucks om de rassentegenstellingen in de VS bij een kopje koffie te bespreken, is slecht gevallen bij veel klanten. Vicepresident Corey duBrowa zag zich gedwongen zijn Twitter-account tijdelijk af te sluiten na een stroom negatieve reacties en persoonlijke aanvallen. Starbucks maakt vandaag meer bekend over de nu al omstreden campagne.

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Starbucks besloot van start te gaan met de campagne na een serie gesprekken met werknemers in de steden die nu meedoen. In paginagrote advertenties in onder andere The New York Times werd de campagne aangekondigd. 'We hebben problemen in dit land als het gaat om ras en raciale ongelijkheid', aldus topman Schultz. 'En wij geloven dat wij en dit land beter kunnen.'

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Chicago police commander resigns in wake of Homan Square revelations

Resignation of Nicholas Roti, a veteran police officer who operated over the controversial police warehouse, comes as attorneys announce civil rights lawsuit

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A senior Chicago police commander in charge of a major unit operating out of the controversial Homan Square police warehouse has resigned, the Guardian has confirmed.

The news came as attorneys for three Homan Square victims announced that they would file the first civil rights lawsuit over the facility with the aim of shutting down the complex likened by attorneys and activists to the domestic law enforcement equivalent of a CIA “black site.”

Nicholas Roti, the chief of the bureau of organized crime, resigned from the Chicago police department last week, Chicago police public affairs officer Mike Sullivan told the Guardian.

In an emailed reply to the Guardian on Thursday night, Martin Maloney of the Chicago police said:

". Chief Roti left CPD to become the chief of staff for the Illinois state police [ISP], where he will work for another recently departed senior CPD official who was appointed to be the director of ISP. It’s been in the works for some time."

The organized crime unit, according to its website, is tasked with confronting illegal narcotics, gang activity and vice in Chicago, operations that numerous people formerly held at Homan Square believe led to their incommunicado detentions there.

Roti took charge of the organized crime division in 2010, the Chicago Sun-Times reported; and led the bureau through a command reorganization in 2011. Published reports indicate Roti is a 27-year veteran police officer.

The Guardian exposed a series of incommunicado detention and abuse at the Chicago police facility, including people being held for extensive periods of time without public notifications to their families or access to attorneys.

Sullivan said that Roti himself did not operate out of Homan Square, but out of police headquarters.

Yet the organized crime bureau was cited by the Chicago police “fact sheet” released on 1 March, attempting to refute the Guardian’s reporting about a complex where 11 people thus far have told the Guardian they were effectively disappeared.

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Weer rellen VS na dood zwarte man door politiegeweld. We praten je bij

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Michael Brown in Ferguson. Eric Garner in New York. Walter Scott in South Carolina. En nu Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Opnieuw leidt de dood van een zwarte arrestant door blank politiegeweld tot demonstraties en rellen in de Verenigde Staten. Wat is er nu aan de hand? Vier vragen en antwoorden.

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Sandra Bland was arrested after officer became annoyed that she was smoking | US news | The Guardian

African American woman, 28, died in custody after Texas traffic stop escalated, with supporters saying dashcam images show trooper becoming agitated

Sandra Bland was ordered out of her car after a police officer became annoyed that she was smoking, according to a spokesman for her family.

The 28-year-old’s death in a Texas county jail has sparked national outrage and protests after her family questioned the official account that she hanged herself with a trash bag in her cell. She was found dead three days after her arrest for allegedly assaulting a public servant after a routine traffic stop escalated into a physical encounter.

Bland was stopped, supposedly for a minor traffic violation, on 10 July in Waller County, a rural area near Houston. Footage filmed by a bystander shows her being pinned to the ground by officers. She was found dead on the morning of 13 July.

At a news conference outside the county jail on Monday, Jamal Bryant, a pastor from Baltimore who was flanked by other activists and protesters, said that dashcam images from a state trooper’s car show the officer becoming agitated as Bland smokes in her car and starts to film the encounter.

“He became outraged and unnerved because he’s handling a black woman who is not ignorant, who knows her rights,” he said. Bryant claimed that her death was not suicide but “murder, a homicide”. He linked her death with other fatal encounters between African Americans and police across the country, which have prompted widespread demonstrations and energized the Black Lives Matter movement.

Waller County has a history of racism, while the sheriff, Glenn Smith, was fired from his previous job after allegations of racist behaviour, which he has denied.

The Texas department of public safety, which is leading the investigation, said in a statement on Friday that the officer who stopped Bland, identified as Brian Encinia, has been assigned to desk duties for “violations of the department’s procedures regarding traffic stops and the department’s courtesy policy”.

The agency had previously said that Bland “became argumentative and uncooperative” after being stopped for failing to signal a lane change. It has asked the FBI to analyse videos related to the incident and has pledged to release footage to the public.

The Bland family’s Chicago-based lawyer, Cannon Lambert, told NBC News that she asked the officer, “Why do I have to put out a cigarette when I’m in my own car? And that seemed to irritate him to the point where he said, ‘get out of the car’.” Lambert said that the trooper “looked to force her to get out of the car by way of opening the door and started demanding that she do”.

Waller County’s district attorney, Elton Mathis, told reporters last week that the investigation would be thorough and transparent and findings of potential wrongdoing would be presented to a grand jury.

After Bland’s death the Texas Commission on Jail Standards said that it had found the Waller County jail to be in non-compliance with minimum standards for failing to check on inmates in person at least once an hour and for inadequate staff training on how to handle potentially suicidal inmates. The sheriff’s office said in a statement that it would be “working on improvements”.

Family members have travelled to Texas and are awaiting the results of an independent autopsy performed at their request, which should be released within the next two days. Activists on Monday called for an investigation by the US Department of Justice.

An FBI spokeswoman, Shauna Dunlap, said: “We are monitoring the ongoing local investigation. Once the local process takes its course, the FBI will review all of the evidence to determine if any federal criminal laws may have been violated.”

Bland, a racial justice activist, had newly arrived in Texas from Chicago for a job interview at Prairie View A&M University, her alma mater, where a vigil was held in her memory on Sunday.

She got the job. Family and friends have said she had no reason to end her life, though she talked about feeling depressed in a Facebook post several months earlier. Bryant said she “turned the corner … just got a job opportunity and was excited about life”.
Bron: www.theguardian.com

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Op maandag 20 juli 2015 22:29 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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The Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring the Black Lives Matter movement since anti-police protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, according to hundreds of documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination, indicate that the department frequently collects information, including location data, on Black Lives Matter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful. The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York.

They also show the department watching over gatherings that seem benign and even mundane. For example, DHS circulated information on a nationwide series of silent vigils and a DHS-funded agency planned to monitor a funk music parade and a walk to end breast cancer in the nation’s capital.

The tracking of domestic protest groups and peaceful gatherings raises questions over whether DHS is chilling the exercise of First Amendment rights, and over whether the department, created in large part to combat terrorism, has allowed its mission to creep beyond the bounds of useful security activities as its annual budget has grown beyond $60 billion.

The surveillance cataloged in the DHS documents goes back to August of last year, when protests and riots broke out in Ferguson the day after the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. According to two August 11th, 2014 reports, a DHS FEMA “WatchOps officer” used information from Twitter and Vine to monitor the riots and reproduced a map, originally created by a Reddit user, of conflict zones.

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Mitchell, the Blackbird activist, says that this continuing surveillance serves not only to keep tabs on black activists, but also to deter them from pushing forward. "Surveillance is a tool of fear. When the police are videotaping you at a protest or pulling you over because you're a well known activist -- all of these techniques are designed to create a chilling effect on people's organizing. This is no different. The level of surveillance, however, isn't going to stop us. After all, we organize because our lives depend on it."

Bron: firstlook.org

WATCH: Police Officer Ray Tensing body cam, Samuel DuBose shooting

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The Samuel DuBose shooting video proved the police incident report was totally bogus

The body camera footage of the police shooting of Samuel DuBose shows not just how far video can go in getting an indictment and criminal charges against cops, but how it can dispel misleading claims from officers in the aftermath of a shooting.

The incident report filed by University of Cincinnati police, for instance, made two false claims about the traffic stop and fatal shooting of DuBose: that UC police officer Ray Tensing was dragged by the car, and that he was almost run over by the vehicle.

"Officer Tensing stated that he was attempting a traffic stop (No front license plate) when, at some point, he began to be dragged by a male black driver who was operating a 1998 Green Honda Accord (OH.GLN6917)," the report stated. "Officer Tensing stated that he almost was run over by the driver of the Honda Accord and was forced to shoot the driver with his duty weapon."

But based on the video, these claims seem to get the timeline of events wrong. The car started moving very slowly — to the point that it's hard to make out whether it was moving at all. Within seconds, Tensing reached into the vehicle and shot DuBose in the head. He then fell over, stumbling a good distance away from the car.

Tensing never appears to be dragged by or attached to the vehicle, and he's never close to being run over. When he falls over after firing the shot, he's so far away from the car that he has to run after it as it accelerates. (DuBose's body appears to have fallen against the pedal after he was shot dead, causing the vehicle to accelerate, according to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.)

Without the video, it's much less likely a grand jury would have agreed to an indictment for murder and voluntary manslaughter, and the Republican prosecutor on the case— who called the killing "asinine," "senseless," and "unwarranted" at a press conference — may not have been so confident that a murder charge was called for. If there's no camera footage, these cases tend to turn into he-says-she-says situations between civilians and police officers, and grand juries and prosecutors tend to see the police as more credible.

"There is a tendency to believe an officer over a civilian, in terms of credibility," David Rudovsky, a civil rights lawyer who co-wrote Prosecuting Misconduct: Law and Litigation, told Vox's Amanda Taub in November. "And when an officer is on trial, reasonable doubt has a lot of bite. A prosecutor needs a very strong case before a jury will say that somebody who we generally trust to protect us has so seriously crossed the line as to be subject to a conviction."

So, without the video, the scenario Rudovsky described would have likely played out. Multiple police officers would have pointed to the incident report, saying Tensing was dragged by the car and nearly run over. Grand juries and prosecutors, having either no other evidence or only the word of civilian witnesses to go on, would have likely sided with the police. And they would have been wrong.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:38 schreef SuperHarregarre het volgende:
en zelfs proberen weg te rijden.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:39 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Je moet het artikel nog eens lezen.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 02:17 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

WATCH: Police Officer Ray Tensing body cam, Samuel DuBose shooting

WCPO edited this video to blur the moment Sam DuBose is shot in the head.

UC police officer Ray Tensing's body camera video clearly shows that he committed "murder" when he shot and killed an unarmed black motorist at a traffic stop, prosecutor Joe Deters said Wednesday.

The shocking video shows Tensing grab the outside door latch on 43-year-old Sam DuBose's car after DuBose couldn't produce a driver's license.

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http://www.vox.com/2015/7(...)e-video-body-cameras

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:38 schreef SuperHarregarre het volgende:
Je rijdt dus zonder kentekenplaat, zodat je sowieso zal worden aangehouden. Je hebt dan ook nog eens niet je rijbewijs bij je. En dan ga je bij het staande gehouden worden moeilijk doen en zelfs proberen weg te rijden. Wat was zijn verwachting precies? Dat de politie zou zeggen: nja, laat maar zitten dan, doei. En je woont in een land waar dienders snel een wapen trekken. Dat neem je niet mee in je overweging om capriolen uit te halen? Het is een beetje als iemand die in China op het Tiananmen Plein een Tibetaanse vlag ontvouwt en dan verbouwereerd is als 'ie de gevangenis invliegt. Ja, een vlag is geen moordwapen maar je weet waar je bent en wat voor risico's je neemt.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:38 schreef SuperHarregarre het volgende:
Je rijdt dus zonder kentekenplaat, zodat je sowieso zal worden aangehouden.

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Depends on where you live. In areas with lots of (street) parking enforcement especially San Francisco, parking officers will often give no front plate / fix it tickets because it's easy. Otherwise you can go 3-4+ years at a time without trouble - from people in SoCal with no front plate or Euro-style plates, parked off the street.

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I lost mine in a minor fender-bender and put off getting it replaced for six years (2004-2010). During that time driving around the San Francisco peninsula, I never got a ticket. I had a friend who got one, but I think my experience speaks to the general laxness around front license plates.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 14:10 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Een kenteken vooraan is niet in alle staten verplicht, en het wordt zelden beboet.

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Backlash Against Police Use of Force Is Making Its Way into US Courtrooms

Increased scrutiny over police use of force stemming from the past year's high profile police-involved shootings has led to a shift in the way wrongful death lawsuits are being handled, according to attorneys and outside observers.

Though still rare, wrongful death suits are now more likely to be weighed by juries on evidence, particularly video evidence, of police wrongdoing, whereas in the past they relied heavily on the credibility of law enforcement and the narrative officers presented during a trial, experts told VICE News.

Don Hummer, a criminal justice expert at Penn State University, has studied wrongful death suits against police in the US in the past and said there has been a marked change in the way the lawsuits are now seen in courts and by the public. One major reason for the change is the prevalence of video, taken on cell phones and dash cams and body cameras, that shows a full range of events.

"The ones you're seeing now that get a lot of media attention I think represent a shift in cultural perceptions of whether or not police misuse force," Hummer told VICE News. "With the video evidence now it's not one person's word against another, where police have the upper hand and control the perception — it's more of a level playing field, and I think that's going to change the outcomes."

Related: Activists Demand DoJ Investigation into Sandra Bland's Death

William T. Gaut, a retired police detective who now works as a criminal justice consultant on wrongful death lawsuits, said that the historical trend of the high credibility automatically afforded to police officers with juries may be beginning to erode.

"You've always got jury nullification in favor of police officers. Everybody wants to find for law enforcement. But now there's a lot of media attention to wrongdoing by police officers, especially with video and cell phones, dash cams, body cams, so now, I don't know if they've got quite the jury nullification that they had years ago. Citizen juries now are beginning to get a firsthand look at things. So it's now becoming more evidentiary-based than witness-based," Gaut said.

Last week, attorney Keith Greer filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the FBI for the wrongful death of James DiMaggio, an alleged kidnapper and murderer who was shot and killed by and FBI hostage rescue team in the summer of 2013. DiMaggio's sister Lora DiMaggio Robinson, represented by Greer, is claiming $20 million from the the bureau, claiming that agents were too quick to shoot and kill her brother.

The case is an unusual addition to the string of high-profile wrongful death lawsuits brought against law enforcement over the past year, including those brought against police in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, in Staten Island, New York, after the death of Eric Garner, and in Cleveland, Ohio, after the death of Tamir Rice.

The DiMaggio case acknowledges that the deceased was accused of serious crimes, but argues that law enforcement still should not have shot and killed him.

An inquiry by the US attorney into the case in 2014 found the shooting was justified. But Greer said there were still valid questions about whether FBI agents acted as "judge, jury, and executioner" when deciding to shoot and kill DiMaggio, questions that he said resonated with a public that has grown wary over police force.

"The conversation around the country in the week since [the news of the lawsuit] has been out there seems to reflect that people are not focusing on the acts he allegedly did but the process and the system, that perhaps police went beyond their boundaries," he told VICE News.

Greer said that despite a potential backlash for claiming the unlawful death of a man accused of such violent crime, he and Robinson felt that it was important, amid a growing concern about police use of force in the country.

"I have a lot of respect for these guys [the hostage rescue team], and I was hesitant to bring the case. They put themselves in harm's way all the time. But with that great responsibility they have, they can't let passion take over," Greer said. "By usurping the system and taking justice into their own hands they've taken the life of somebody who didn't have to have life taken."

Related: New Video Gives Fresh Insight Into What Happened During Freddie Gray's Arrest

Authorities said that DiMaggio kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah Anderson after murdering her mother and brother, then took her to a campsite in the woods in Idaho.

According to the claim, US Marshals spotted the campsite in their search for Anderson and sent an FBI Hostage Rescue Team in to rescue her. Anderson said after the ordeal that DiMaggio had been building a fire to send a signal for help when she suggested he fire his gun into the air three times to call for help instead. Upon his first shot, agents poised nearby opened fire at him, shooting him six times, according to the claim.

Greer said in the claim that given DiMaggio's history of having a familiar relationship with Anderson, the number of officers who could have restrained DiMaggio instead of shooting him, and the fact that DiMaggio was not threatening harm toward Anderson, the FBI's use of force was unduly excessive, prejudicial, and unjustified. He hopes to call Anderson as a witness in the case.

"Our position is that this is a very well respected hostage rescue team, so we're presuming they had eyes and ears on the ground, and surveillance equipment so they could hear and see what was being done, so if that's the case and they did hear that, the question is why did they wait until he got to the gun? There was plenty of time and to stop him and warn him before he touched the weapon," Greer told VICE News.

"Our concern is they sat and waited until there was an opportunity to take a shot, rather than do their duty in the circumstances to apprehend an alleged criminal," he said.

Hummer said that the public's perceptions of police would affect the way juries weighted police and witness testimony in wrongful death cases.

"Now, most people up to age 60 or so have had bad experiences with police. The last three sitting presidents have had bad experiences with police, whether from marijuana use or alcohol use or the color of their skin, and so a lot of people are thinking that maybe police aren't what they built themselves up to be," he said. "There's a suspicion of power generally in the US and now it's permeating police, so that coupled with the technology that now everybody has, there may now be a shift."

The FBI did not immediately return requests for comment.

Follow Colleen Curry on Twitter: @currycolleen

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:41 schreef OMG het volgende:
Waar zijn ze precies aan het rellen in dag filmpje? Ook het plunderen heb ik gemist.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 12:25 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Ze zijn inmiddels weer aan het plunderen en rellen geslagen ter gelegenheid van het 1-jarig jubileum van de dood van Michael Brown.

USA: Shots fired in Ferguson one year on from Mike Brown's death

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:43 schreef Mani89 het volgende:

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:55 schreef moussie het volgende:

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Waar haal je dat plunderen en de rellen vandaan?

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Tensions have been high in Ferguson following a second bout of looting. At least 12 shots were fired and the crowd scattered and sped off in cars.

The situation began to escalate just after 10pm when a Ferguson police officer told the protesters on a megaphone: 'Remaining in the street is a violation of law. You must move onto the sidewalk or be subject to arrest'.

Police put on helmets and riot shields and formed a line. Protesters walked up and down the line saying: 'F*** you' to every officer until the shots rang out.

Paul Hampel, a reporter with the St Louis Post Dispatch, was beaten up and robbed. He had blood coming down the right side of his face and asked other journalists for a phone to call his wife.

In another looting incident, rioters smashed the glass front door of a beauty store on West Florissant Avenue and tried to get into other shops on the same strip.

A group of a dozen youths in their early 20s were seen running away as alarms rang out.

Police officers in cars and SUVs surrounded Bowen Beauty Supply, which had been smashed, as well as Ferguson Laundry, the Nail Trap nail salon, Ferguson Burger restaurant and another beauty store.

The looting took place despite the pouring rain and even though dozens of police were stationed close by.

Before the looting took place around 9pm, protesters had walked up and down West Florissant Avenue holding their arms up in the rain shouting, 'Fight back, shoot back' and 'No justice, no peace'.

A cash register was stolen from Bowen's Beauty Store and found dumped further up the street, St Louis Post Dispatch reporter Paul Hempel tweeted.

Shortly afterwards, a glass fitter measured the front door of the beauty store that had been smashed and put a board over it.

At a barbers store, the owners stood out the front in a show of force to stop others from looting.

Writing on Twitter Anthony French, a city Alderman whose ward covers Ferguson, branded the thieves as 'opportunistic criminals (who) used the cover of rain'. He called them 'pathetic and disappointing'.

On West Florissant Avenue a stand off ensued with protesters blocking traffic whilst 30 police stood by watching.

St Louis County officers wore bullet proof vests, gloves and had pepper spray and white plastic hand ties on their utility belts.

Among the officers present were Ferguson interim police chief Andre Anderson, St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar and Missouri Highway Patrol captain Ron Johnson.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 14:10 schreef moussie het volgende:
looting, bij de kapper en de nagelstudio .. yeah right.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 14:26 schreef OMG het volgende:
Ook "ze" trouwens. . Je brengt het alsof heel Ferguson weer op stelten staat.

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Veelal volkomen terecht.

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Tientallen arrestaties bij nieuwe protesten Ferguson

Nieuwe protesten tegen het politiegeweld jegens zwarte inwoners hebben in het Amerikaanse Ferguson en omgeving tot vele tientallen arrestaties geleid.


In Ferguson gingen zo'n tweehonderd demonstranten maandagavond (lokale tijd) weer de straat op. Negen mensen werden gearresteerd toen ze korte tijd een weg blokkeerden.

In het nabijgelegen Saint Louis werden tijdens een demonstratie bij het gerechtsgebouw zestig mensen opgepakt. Onder hen is de prominente zwarte activist professor Cornel West van de Princeton Universiteit. De politie hield op een snelweg bij Ferguson ook nog tientallen mensen aan die het verkeer blokkeerden.

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Lokale autoriteiten hadden voorafgaand aan de nieuwe demonstratie de noodtoestand afgekondigd nadat het bij eerdere rellen, zondagavond, tot een vuurgevecht was gekomen. Een achttienjarige zwarte man wordt ervan verdacht agenten te hebben beschoten. Toen agenten terugschoten raakte de verdachte zwaargewond. Hij is nog altijd in kritieke toestand.

De betogers in Ferguson zelf hadden maandagavond vlaggen bij zich, sloegen op trommels en riepen anti-politieleuzen. Ze verzamelden zich op straat vlakbij de plek waar vorig jaar de achttienjarige Michael Brown werd doodgeschoten door de blanke agent Darren Wilson.

Bron: www.volkskrant.nl

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AntonioFrench twitterde op maandag 10-08-2015 om 10:22:26 Tonight I let 4 guys run into the #HealSTL office to get away from the gunfire. While I was in the front, they stole laptops and iPads. SMH. reageer retweet

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To Improve Police-Community Relations, End the War on Drugs | James Gierach

Protests and violence have captured the attention of world media following the first anniversary of the day police Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Yet President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, charged with improving police-community relations and reducing crime, has largely overlooked one of the elements most essential to accomplishing this goal: the need to reform drug policy. Ending drug prohibition is essential to restoring peace in the streets, reforming our criminal justice system, and healing our communities. Until those policies change, black communities will continue to fall victim to American policing gone awry.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit of police, judges, prosecutors, and other criminal justice professionals dedicated to ending the War on Drugs, recently submitted the following statement to the Task Force:

"The drug war created [America's] crisis in policing and destroyed public support [for policing] in some quarters.... Both police and academic leaders have offered... their ideas [to the Task Force] regarding improved community policing, better training, more accountability, civilian review boards, grand jury reform, ending police impunity for misconduct, etc. These recommendations have merit and capacity for improved policing and better community relations. However, LEAP believes that without reforming U.S. and global drug policy, no reform or set of reforms can stop the unending perversion of American values, virtues [and]... policing [practices]."

It is the time-honored mission of police to "serve and protect" communities, but that mission has been corrupted by decades of failed drug enforcement policies. Federal grants and departmental promotion policies reward drug arrests, creating a monetary and personal incentive to focus on drug offenses instead of serious crimes. Violent crime has taken a back seat to drug enforcement for too long, and has changed the way police relate to marginalized communities, who no longer see police as protectors, but as aggressors.

Meanwhile, police are playing doctor, giving people addicted to drugs an arrest record rather than the treatment options and medical attention that would allow them to improve their lives.

LEAP called upon President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing because we believe in introducing a new drug policy paradigm based upon human rights, harm reduction, education, accessible medications, economic development, racial equality, respect for the law, and respect for law enforcement. We now call on all Americans concerned with the state of our justice system to contact Congress and the President to end the War on Drugs. Call upon them to jointly push for an amendment of the three United Nations Drug-Control Treaties that serve as fountainhead for the global War on Drugs. Call upon them to replace the criminalization-and-incarceration model of drug policy with a system of legalized, controlled, and regulated drug markets, treating drug abuse as a health problem and not a law enforcement issue.
Bron: www.huffingtonpost.com

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The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns such problems could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law enforcement and the community.

The report fleshes out a draft version made public in June, creating a portrait of poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among the more than 50 law enforcement agencies that responded, police orders that infringed first amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.

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Eric Garner and Tamir Rice among those missing from FBI record of police killings | US news | The Guardian

Killings by police that unleashed a new protest movement around the US in 2014, including those of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and John Crawford, are missing from the federal government’s official record of homicides by officers because most departments refuse to submit data.

Related: The tracking of police violence in the US may have reached a turning point

Only 224 of 18,000 law enforcement agencies around the US reported a fatal shooting by their officers to the FBI last year, according to previously unpublished data obtained by the Guardian, which sheds new light on flaws in official systems for counting the use of deadly force by police.

The Counted, an investigation by the Guardian to report all deaths caused by police in 2015, had already logged deadly shootings by officers from 224 different law enforcement agencies by 10 April this year. Crowd-sourced counts in 2014 recorded deaths at a similar higher rate.

Stephen Fischer, a spokesman for the FBI, said exclusions were inevitable because the program remained voluntary. “We have no way of knowing how many incidents may have been omitted,” Fischer said in an email.

Amid mounting pressure on public authorities to overhaul the recording of deadly incidents involving law enforcement, an extensive review of all data on “justifiable homicides” by police collected by the FBI from police departments between 2004 and 2014 found:

The analysis of raw FBI data was carried out as the US Department of Justice announced it was trialling a new open-source system for counting homicides by law enforcement. The system’s methodology closely resembles those of The Counted and a Washington Post record of fatal police shootings.

News of the pilot program, which is being run by the department’s bureau of justice statistics, came following strident comments from both US attorney general Loretta Lynch and FBI director James Comey, who reiterated calls for better official records of homicides by police.

Comprehensive records of killings by law enforcement officers has been a demand of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has risen to prominence since the fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of Michael Brown in August 2014. It was also among the recommendations made by Barack Obama’s White House policing taskforce, which was convened following Brown’s death, which was among those recorded in the FBI database.

While the people killed were not named in the FBI database, some could be identified by matching entries with publicly-available information on their age, sex and race, as well as those of the officer who shot them, the location of the incident, and the month it occurred.

But the death in July of Eric Garner, who was placed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer allegedly confronting Garner about selling loose cigarettes, was not included in the official federal record. The NYPD has not submitted data to the FBI since 2006. It pledged earlier this month to release more detailed data on officers’ deadly use of force from next year.

Erica Garner, Garner’s daughter, said she was “outraged but not shocked” by the omission. “It’s just another part of the cover-up and erasing of his murder from the record,” Garner said. “It says to the NYPD and the city and state of New York that my father’s life doesn’t matter.”

No other department in the state of New York had any homicides by officers recorded by the FBI during the decade except for one, by Rochester in 2006. In its annual Firearms Discharge Reports, NYPD has recorded 117 “subjects shot and killed by officers” between 2004 and 2014. Its total of 13 shooting deaths for 2006, however, exceeded the 10 reported to the FBI that year, the only 12-month period in which the department participated in the FBI’s count.

NYPD’s own counts also did not include non-shooting deaths such as Garner’s. By contrast a more comprehensive count of incidents and details of the demographics of the people involved would be “a huge help in this so-called ‘push to improve police relations with the Black community’,” said Erica Garner.

Florida keeps its own annual record of justifiable homicides by law enforcement, despite no departments in the state filing a report to the FBI in the past decade. The state data from 2013 was provided to the Guardian but did not list the departments responsible for each death, instead it recorded a single, statewide figure of 60 deaths from all departments who submitted records that year. NBC South Florida was provided with records dating back over a decade, showing the number of recorded justifiable homicides has risen from 14 in 1999 to 67 in 2012.

Departments behind some of last year’s most controversial homicides by police, including Cleveland and Beavercreek in Ohio, whose officers shot dead 12-year-old Tamir Rice and 22-year-old John Crawford respectively, also did not file reports on those incidents to the FBI.

A review of data collected over the years by the FBI showed that high-profile homicides in which officers were found to be at fault were not recorded or were logged inconsistently. Problems stem from the fact that only one of the FBI’s 32 classifications for all homicides – which are precise enough to include “child killed by babysitter” and homicides linked to gambling – makes reference to the person who carried out the homicide being a police officer. This classification, “felon killed by police”, is automatically counted as a justifiable homicide.

Apparently because the FBI offers no category for recording killings by law enforcement officers of people who were not felons, some departments have filed unjustified homicides by their officers among the general stack of murders, manslaughters and other killings between civilians.

Related: Video shows John Crawford's girlfriend aggressively questioned after Ohio police shot him dead in Walmart

A record matching the case of Yvette Smith, a 47-year-old black woman who was shot dead by Bastrop County deputy Daniel Willis in Texas when she opened the door to him, appeared among the general unjustified homicides for 2014. As a result, it was not included in the total figure for killings by police publicised by the FBI last month. The death was filed under “circumstances undetermined” and Willis was logged as a stranger to Smith rather than an officer. A prosecution of Willis on charges of murder recently ended in a mistrial.

Similarly Jonathan Ferrell, a 24-year-old former football player at Florida A&M who was shot dead by officer Randall Kerrick after knocking on a door when he crashed his car in North Carolina, appeared to be included among general homicides for 2013. But his death was categorised as “manslaughter by negligence” and Kerrick was recorded as having been known to the victim. A trial of Kerrick for voluntary manslaughter also ended in a hung jury.

Yet no record in either file – homicides by police officers and those by civilians – could be found that matched other major cases, including that of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old black man shot dead at a transit station in Oakland, California, in January 2009. Grant’s death was dramatised in the film Fruitvale Station. Officer Johannes Mehserle, who said he meant to use a Taser, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter but cleared of murder.

No entries appeared for Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old woman shot dead by an off-duty Chicago police officer in March 2012, nor for Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, who died after 137 shots were fired into their car by police officers in Cleveland, Ohio in November the same year.

The FBI has also logged incorrect information for several deaths. Among these was the case of Darrien Hunt, a 22-year-old who was shot dead in September last year while running away from police in Saratoga Springs, Utah, after allegedly wielding a replica sword. Hunt was listed as the person who carried out the homicide, and a knife or blade was said to be the deadly weapon. Hunt and the officers who shot him were listed as acquaintances.

Hunt’s mother, Susan, said the confused logging of her son’s death came even after federal officials said earlier this year that the FBI and Department of Justice were carrying out their own review of the fatal shooting. “There has been so much wrong with the entire incident,” she said.

Related: Darrien Hunt's family and friends remember 'a boy in a man's body'

Fischer, the FBI spokesman, said departments had until December to submit missing or corrected data and said the information analysed by the Guardian for 2014 was “a snapshot in time” that may be updated.

A knife was also listed as the fatal weapon for a case matching the details of Chieu-di Thi Vo, a 47-year-old woman shot dead by a Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer in March last year after allegedly brandishing a knife. Vo’s demographic information was given for both the person who was killed and the officer who carried out the homicide, who was in fact a man. The FBI’s final published tally counted only one homicide by a blade, but did not state which this was.

The Counted has documented more than 900 deaths caused by encounters with law enforcement officers so far this year. The FBI count, from which basic statistics were published earlier this month, documented just 444 justifiable homicides for the whole of 2014. That total was reached by the Guardian count before the halfway point of 2015.

The FBI data showed that while the number of departments reporting killings by their officers rose 14% from 196 per year in 2009 to 224 last year, the number of homicides increased by 12% from 392 to 439 per year in the same period.

Because of the nature of the FBI program there is no way of calculating whether these increases reflect a genuine rise in the number of people killed by police over the years or simply that more agencies have decided to submit their data.

Comey said last week that it was “unacceptable” the Guardian and the Washington Post were “becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between police and civilians”.

“You can get online today and figure out how many tickets were sold to ‘The Martian,’ which I saw this weekend ... The CDC can do the same with the flu,” Comey said. “It’s ridiculous – it’s embarrassing and ridiculous – that we can’t talk about crime in the same way, especially in the high-stakes incidents when your officers have to use force.”

Bron: www.theguardian.com

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Rel in VS om blanke agent die zwarte leerlinge bij de nek grijpt

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De autoriteiten in South Carolina hebben de FBI en Justitie gevraagd een onderzoek in te stellen naar de behandeling van een zwarte leerlinge door een blanke agent. Op twee video's is te zien hoe de agent de tiener in het klaslokaal bij de nek grijpt en haar op de grond gooit en sleept. Het incident heeft opnieuw de discussie in de VS aangewakkerd hoe zwarte Amerikanen worden behandeld door de politie.

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Tegen de agent, Ben Fields, is al twee keer een rechtszaak aangespannen omdat hij de burgerrechten van zwarte leerlingen zou hebben geschonden. In een van de rechtszaken, aangespannen door een leerling, werd Fields in 2013 ervan beschuldigd onterecht zwarte leerlingen aan te zien voor gangleden. Deze zaak loopt nog.

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Op dinsdag 27 oktober 2015 16:20 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Ik vind het ook opvallend hoe de andere leerlingen zitten, allemaal wegkijken want bang dat ze zelf gepakt worden.

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Op dinsdag 27 oktober 2015 16:22 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Dat was ook precies het geval, aangezien ze bang waren het volgende slachtoffer te worden. Dat meisje deed niks, behalve kauwgom kauwen, dan zou ik me ook wel inhouden om daar iets van te zeggen, voor je het weet vouwt meneer je ook om je stoel.

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Anonymous wil duizend KKK-leden ontmaskeren

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Anonymous wil de namen op 24 november publiceren, precies een jaar na onrust in Ferguson. Toen de overwegend zwarte bevolking van de stad in opstand kwam tegen de politie na de dood van Michael Brown, dreigde de KKK met geweld tegen demonstranten.

Anonymous reageerde hierop door het belangrijkste twitteraccount van de KKK over te nemen. Het was het begin van de anti-klanoperatie Operation KKK, ofwel #OpKKK, van het hackerscollectief. Anonymous maakte al eerder enkele namen bekend van KKK-leden en voerde DDoS-aanvallen uit op sites van de KKK.

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Politie Chicago opnieuw onder vuur na dodelijke schietpartij

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De nieuwste dodelijke schietpartij komt voor de politie in Chicago op een uiterst ongelegen moment. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie is juist bezig met een intern onderzoek naar de handelwijze van de politie in Chicago, nadat een blanke agent in die stad een zwarte tiener had doodgeschoten.

Onderzocht wordt onder meer of de politie met regelmaat de grondwet heeft overtreden en of het departement racistisch handelen kan worden verweten.

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Als ze echt de relatie willen verbeteren dan moeten ze bijvoorbeeld ook eens stoppen met enkel in arme wijken mensen te arresteren en in rijke wijken alles door de vingers te zien omdat ze bang zijn de zoon van een invloedrijk iemand (rechter, burgemeester...) te arresteren en zodoende gesued te worden. Ja, dit is de prakijk in veel delen van de USA.

Why Are Texas Cops Claiming These People Are White?

LA Cops Kill Handcuffed Man Reaction

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Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret | US news | The Guardian

Guardian analysis of dozens of contracts revealed by hackers shows more than a third allow or require destruction of civilian complaint records

Contracts between police and city authorities, leaked after hackers breached the website of the country’s biggest law enforcement union, contain guarantees that disciplinary records and complaints made against officers are kept secret or even destroyed.

A Guardian analysis of dozens of contracts obtained from the servers of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) found that more than a third featured clauses allowing – and often mandating – the destruction of records of civilian complaints, departmental investigations, or disciplinary actions after a negotiated period of time.

The review also found that 30% of the 67 leaked police contracts, which were struck between cities and police unions, included provisions barring public access to records of past civilian complaints, departmental investigations, and disciplinary actions.

Samuel Walker, a professor in criminology at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, said there was “no justification” for the cleansing of officers’ records, which could contain details of their use of force against civilians.

“The public has a right to know,” Walker said. “If there was a controversial beating, we ought to know what action was actually taken. Was it a reprimand? A suspension?”

Walker said that while an officer’s whole personnel file should not be readily available to the public outside of court proceedings, records of disciplinary action should be.

The leaked contracts became publicly accessible last week, when hackers breached the Fraternal Order of Police’s website and put around 2.5GB worth of its files online. These provide a glimpse into the influence of police unions, which Black Lives Matter activists have accused of impeding misconduct investigations, particularly after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland in April.

Related: Hackers post private files of America's biggest police union

The documents date back almost two decades and include agreements from unions such as the Policemen’s Benevolent Association and the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. Many contain numerous recurring clauses that slow down misconduct investigations, prevent public access to complaints and disciplinary records, and enable the destruction of complaints and disciplinary records after a negotiated period of time.

At least as recently as 2007, if an officer in Independence, Missouri, was “involved in a shooting incident”, that officer could not be interrogated for at least 12 hours nor be “treated a suspect” unless local authorities thought there was reasonable suspicion or probable cause that a crime had been committed. This protocol was mandated in the local police union’s contract in a clause specifically designed for “officer-involved shooting investigations”.

In recent years, Independence has made headlines for cases of police brutality and police shootings.

From small towns in Nebraska and New Jersey to major cities like Cincinnati, Ohio and Jacksonville, Florida, “expungement” clauses allowed for records of formal investigations and written reprimands to be “purged” after a few years or, in some cases, months.

Chuck Canterbury, the FOP president, said that such contract provisions were designed to protect the due process rights of police officers. “Disciplinary files are removed because they affect career advancement,” said Canterbury. “People make mistakes and if they learn from them, they should be removed. This is standard HR practice.”

Other deals contained provisions focused on blocking public access to records that were preserved. A 2006-2008 contract from Burlington Township, NJ, for example, required the police department’s Investigations Commander to keep formal complaints and internal investigation documents “in a locked file”, barring access to all except the department’s investigations commander and chief law
enforcement officer.

Similarly, in Ralston, Nebraska, the 2009-2012 FOP contract created a “Police Officers’ Bill of Rights”, which said: “Unless agreed to by the Officer, the City shall not divulge the reason for any disciplinary action that is not appealed to the Civil Service Commission.” The city was also bound to “make every reasonable effort”
to prevent a photograph of the officer from being released to the public or news media.

Among five other FOP contracts, where such confidentiality clauses could not be inserted because of state open records laws, several included language seemingly designed to help officers beat public records requests.

One 2009-2011 FOP contract from Hamilton County, Nebraska, initiates a mandatory five-step response to public records requests, in which the department would ascertain the identity of the person making the request, provide the officer with a summary of the would-be released information, guarantee the officer five days to object to the request, and allow the officer a departmental hearing to make the case that the release could threaten his or her personal security.

Devon M Jacob, a civil rights attorney and former police officer, said: “These are public employees, so their performance should be available to the public. There’s no reason matters of waste or wrongdoing should be kept away from the public. I disagree with this idea that unsustained complaints or investigations don’t matter.”

Speaking to the rationale for sealing off investigatory and complaint records, Canterbury, the FOP president, said: “It’s mostly the false or unsustained complaints that officers feel unduly hurt their careers. Nobody expunges guilty adjudicated use-of-forces, so if these acts are found unsustained in the first place, why should they continue to have any bearing on officers?”
In Jacksonville, Florida, however, according to a 2008-2009 FOP contract, if an officer were to receive a written reprimand with suspension or loss of pay, after a sustained formal investigation, that action would have to be purged after five years.

Often, even substantiated use-of-force allegations fail even to garner penalties as high as a reprimand with suspension. To put this in perspective, even in cases between 2010 and 2015 in which the NYPD’s office of the inspector general confirmed that officers had used unwarranted excessive force, officers were given no discipline 35.6% of the time.

According to the contracts, however, most of the investigations into police misconduct are led by officers’ supervisors or investigators within the department – a process that leaves some reform advocates skeptical. One leaked 2004-2006 contract from Worthington, Ohio, said that any city official who received a citizen complaint about a police officer must advise the complainant to go to the police department instead. “If the citizen does not wish to contact the Division of Police,” the contract said, “City staff should contact the Division of Police in a timely manner and advise a supervisor of the complaint.”

Alex Vitale, an associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, said such contract measures in effect undermined the possibility of robust civilian review boards for police. “You could pass a law to create a civilian oversight commission, but that law can’t supersede what’s in the contract,” said Vitale. “They just want to make clear what the process is and make sure there aren’t independent investigations. The police think ‘no one understands what we do’. It’s all part of this ‘us against the world’ mentality that dominates police thinking.”

Canterbury said the FOP rejects the idea of civilian review boards. “Departments do much better than civilian review boards because civilians have no knowledge of law enforcement or expertise on procedures,” he said. “Police departments do a very good job on internal reviews, plus we already have external review processes like local governments, prosecutors’ officers, and grand juries.”

Black Lives Matter activists argue, however, that there are too many conflicts of interest for the police to impartially investigate their own members. “Beyond the role nepotism and cronyism continues to play in the corruption of law enforcement, there is an inherent distrust of the police’s ability to keep communities safe,” said Delaine Powerful, an organizer in the Black Youth Project. “We cannot trust a system born out of slave patrols and night watches to conduct its own criminal investigations into unnecessary and unwarranted force by police.”

Ron Hampton, a former director of the National Black Police Association and a police officer in Washington DC, said: “People just don’t feel that the police can investigate themselves thoroughly or impartially.

“When we see all of this stuff on film, then it goes to the internal investigation and grand jury, etc, and then no indictment, no trial ... I don’t see how you can have trust in a process that doesn’t work for you.”

Bron: www.theguardian.com

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Anonymous hacktivists share personal info of Cincinnati cops as revenge for deadly shooting

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After releasing a threatening video, the notorious hacking group Anonymous exposed personal information of 52 Cincinnati Police Department officers in retaliation for the death of an Ohio man at the hands of law enforcement.

In the video posted on Sunday, someone wearing a mask and hood discussed the group’s anger over the Cincinnati PD’s handling of an officer-involved shooting last Wednesday that resulted in the death of Paul Gaston, a black man.

“Greetings world, we are Anonymous Anon Verdict. The following clip you are about to see are three separate cell phone clips of Cincinnati Police Department murdering a black man named Paul Gaston while he held his hands up on February 17th. With the evidence provided it is quite obvious that he was complying and had his hands in the air,” the figure said with a synthesized voice in the three-minute YouTube video.

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Vernietigend rapport over racistisch gedrag politie Chicago | NOS

Na een jaar onderzoek is er een vernietigend rapport verschenen over schendingen van burgerrechten door politiemensen in Chicago.

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie concludeert dat het politiekorps jarenlang de burgerrechten heeft geschonden en racisme tegen zwarten heeft toegestaan. Ook heeft de politie buitensporig geweld gebruikt en mensen doodgeschoten die geen bedreiging vormden. Agenten bewerkten mensen met stroomstootwapens, alleen omdat ze niet deden wat de politie zei.

Dieptepunt was het doodschieten van een zwarte tiener in 2014 die een mes bij zich zou hebben gehad dat hij weigerde weg te gooien. Een blanke agent schoot zestien keer op de tiener. De zaak leidde tot protesten en het vertrek van de politiechef van Chicago. De agent zelf wordt vervolgd wegens moord.

Volgens de hoofdonderzoeker is dit gedrag grotendeels te wijten aan een tekortschietende, verouderde opleiding.

Burgemeester Emanuel van Chicago zegt dat de conclusies van het rapport ontnuchterend zijn, en dat de gemeente doorgaat met de politiehervormingen die al in gang zijn gezet.

Het departement heeft samen met de gemeente Chicago een verklaring getekend waarin Chicago politiehervormingen belooft. Er wordt meer transparantie beloofd, een betere training van politiemensen en straf voor agenten die in de fout gaan.

Afgelopen zomer zette de stad 300 video's van incidenten online, om het vertrouwen van de bevolking terug te winnen.

Het ministerie van Justitie begon een jaar geleden met een inventarisatie van politiegeweld in de op twee na grootste stad van de VS. Eerder werd al federaal onderzoek gedaan naar gevallen van politiegeweld in andere steden. Zo concludeerde het ministerie dat de politie van Ferguson stelselmatig discrimineerde.

Bron: nos.nl

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Op zondag 27 december 2015 13:46 schreef idefixide het volgende:

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Precies. Daarom zitten er zo veel zwarten in de gevangenis voor wietgebruik terwijl blanken net zo vaak gebruiken. Dan hebben we het niet eens over de gemanipuleerde criminaliteitscijfers. De pakkans is veel groter bij niet-blanke criminelen. Waarom? Omdat ze veel vaker gecontroleerd worden. Je mag niet aan racial profiling doen dus verzint men een list. De donkere mensen die gecontroleerd worden die niets hebben gedaan noemen we "blank" in de papieren zodat we kunnen zeggen dat we vaak genoeg blanke mensen controleren. De niet-blanke "criminelen" die ergens op gepakt kan worden die gaan natuurlijk wel als "niet-blank" in de boeken. De statistieken laten vervolgens zien dat niet-blanken vele malen crimineler zijn.

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Het zit in de cultuur. Zowel bij de politieagenten als de niet-blanke bevolking. Dat is nog het ergste dat iemand die niet-blank is zich aanpast aan de politiecultuur en dingen niet doet die een blanke zonder probleem kan doen. Een zwarte man die rent is al verdacht. Je hebt zelfs zwarte mannen die binnen blijven omdat ze uit ervaring weten dat er mogelijk agenten zijn die het gemunt hebben op hen.

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Op zaterdag 14 januari 2017 15:04 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Wat jij beweert klopt maar het is natuurlijk verre van het volledige verhaal. Alleen al het feit dat er een sterke bevolkingssegretatie is over de wijken terwijl in de ene wijk de politie standaard mensen staande houdt en fouilleert en in de andere wijk de politie-agenten vriendelijke praatjes houden en vragen wat ze voor die mensen kunnen doen zorgt ervoor dat de doorsnee 'neger' een veel grotere kans heeft om betrapt te worden op iets dan de doorsnee kakker. Raciale profielering is daar ook een groot probleem, net als hier in Nederland (hoezeer politie-agenten het ook ontkennen, het is allang bewezen dat dit veel gebeurt, het gebeurt trouwens ook in winkels en supermarkten), en niet volledig uit te bannen maar dat is slechts een van de redenen dat de pakkans voor de ene groep mensen veel groter is dan voor de andere groep mensen. Daarnaast is het ook wel duidelijk dat de politie-agenten zich anders gedragen naar mensen toe in functie van hun huidskleur en hoe ze gekleed zijn. Dat duidt zonder enige twijfel op gebrekkige training.

Zit het in de cultuur? Ja. Bij ons ook (denk jij dat in Nederland een blank iemand die een Italiaans maatpak draagt net zo snel staande wordt gehouden als een 'neger' als beide mensen in dezelfde auto rijden?) maar daar nog veel sterker. Echter wordt dit enorm versterkt doordat ze extreem grote verschillen tussen arm en rijk hebben en doordat ze enorm sterke segregatie hebben op elk denkbaar vlak. Dat begint al met dat de wijk bepaalt of dat je naar een goede of een slechte school gaat. Ik twijfel er niet aan dat deze sterke segregatie en grote kloof tussen arm en rijk enorm sterk die cultuur van raciale profielering versterken. Waarom? Je komt vooral in aanraking met mensen die in dezelfde kaste zitten. De oplossing wordt hier dan ook gegeven.

How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson

Dat verklaart waarom we in landen die minder economische ongelijkheid hebben minder van dit soort problemen hebben en omgekeerd.
Minder, want ook hier werd een neger vermoord door Hollandse politie-agenten die hem deden stikken. Ook hier komt het veel voor dat handboeien door onkundig gebruikt letsel veroorzaken. Ook hier raken mensen geïnvalideerd doordat slecht getrainde politie-agenten illegaal een nekklem gebruiken (en dit ongestraft!) of doordat ze als cowboys schieten met hun Duitse pistool wanneer het niet nodig is. Merk op dat Nederland een van de weinige landen is waarin poliitie-agenten mogen schieten met vuurwapen zonder dat er sprake is van concreet en direct gevaar en dat dit waarschijnlijk verklaart waarom hier per jaar meer mensen het slachtoffer worden van politiekogels - ook onschuldige mensen! - dan in de meeste andere Europese landen. Het is belangrijk dat we bij dit soort discussies ook kritisch zijn richting onze eigen politie. De politie daar (USA) functioneert zo verschrikkelijk slecht dat mensen al snel denken dat die van ons goed functioneert, helaas is dat niet zo. Dit verkeerde beeld moet worden voorkomen, met name door journalisten.

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Op zaterdag 14 januari 2017 15:04 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Wat jij beweert klopt maar het is natuurlijk verre van het volledige verhaal. Alleen al het feit dat er een sterke bevolkingssegretatie is over de wijken terwijl in de ene wijk de politie standaard mensen staande houdt en fouilleert en in de andere wijk de politie-agenten vriendelijke praatjes houden en vragen wat ze voor die mensen kunnen doen zorgt ervoor dat de doorsnee 'neger' een veel grotere kans heeft om betrapt te worden op iets dan de doorsnee kakker. Raciale profielering is daar ook een groot probleem, net als hier in Nederland (hoezeer politie-agenten het ook ontkennen, het is allang bewezen dat dit veel gebeurt, het gebeurt trouwens ook in winkels en supermarkten), en niet volledig uit te bannen maar dat is slechts een van de redenen dat de pakkans voor de ene groep mensen veel groter is dan voor de andere groep mensen. Daarnaast is het ook wel duidelijk dat de politie-agenten zich anders gedragen naar mensen toe in functie van hun huidskleur en hoe ze gekleed zijn. Dat duidt zonder enige twijfel op gebrekkige training.

Zit het in de cultuur? Ja. Bij ons ook (denk jij dat in Nederland een blank iemand die een Italiaans maatpak draagt net zo snel staande wordt gehouden als een 'neger' als beide mensen in dezelfde auto rijden?) maar daar nog veel sterker. Echter wordt dit enorm versterkt doordat ze extreem grote verschillen tussen arm en rijk hebben en doordat ze enorm sterke segregatie hebben op elk denkbaar vlak. Dat begint al met dat de wijk bepaalt of dat je naar een goede of een slechte school gaat. Ik twijfel er niet aan dat deze sterke segregatie en grote kloof tussen arm en rijk enorm sterk die cultuur van raciale profielering versterken. Waarom? Je komt vooral in aanraking met mensen die in dezelfde kaste zitten. De oplossing wordt hier dan ook gegeven.

How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson

Dat verklaart waarom we in landen die minder economische ongelijkheid hebben minder van dit soort problemen hebben en omgekeerd.
Minder, want ook hier werd een neger vermoord door Hollandse politie-agenten die hem deden stikken. Ook hier komt het veel voor dat handboeien door onkundig gebruikt letsel veroorzaken. Ook hier raken mensen geïnvalideerd doordat slecht getrainde politie-agenten illegaal een nekklem gebruiken (en dit ongestraft!) of doordat ze als cowboys schieten met hun Duitse pistool wanneer het niet nodig is. Merk op dat Nederland een van de weinige landen is waarin poliitie-agenten mogen schieten met vuurwapen zonder dat er sprake is van concreet en direct gevaar en dat dit waarschijnlijk verklaart waarom hier per jaar meer mensen het slachtoffer worden van politiekogels - ook onschuldige mensen! - dan in de meeste andere Europese landen. Het is belangrijk dat we bij dit soort discussies ook kritisch zijn richting onze eigen politie. De politie daar (USA) functioneert zo verschrikkelijk slecht dat mensen al snel denken dat die van ons goed functioneert, helaas is dat niet zo. Dit verkeerde beeld moet worden voorkomen, met name door journalisten.