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

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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

Bron: news.vice.com

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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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Ja in dat filmpje zijn ze op de politie aan het schieten.

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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 13:57 schreef moussie het volgende:

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Ik zie anders een hoop zwarte mensen wegduiken en geen enkele politieagent in dat filmpie

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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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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 01:29 schreef Hathor het volgende:

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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.

Noodtoestand

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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Op dinsdag 11 augustus 2015 09:31 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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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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Op dinsdag 1 september 2015 20:49 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Police in Ferguson gave a lesson in how not to respond to protests, says report

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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