Assholes.
Meanwhile people like myself with chronic pain in Florida can't get any medical maryjane, and society takes it as a big fucking joke.
Thanks a lot, Governor Dick Scott, capital, supreme douche of Florida.
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Showing posts with label Police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Police. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Sojourners: "When terror wears a badge."
[More Americans have lost their lives at the hands of police since 9/11 than in acts officially classified as terrorism. A recent study showed that one black man was killed every 28 hours by police, security guards, or self-appointed vigilantes in 2012. The militarization of police departments nationwide and the over-policing of urban neighborhoods have had terrorizing effects on the black population. There are also programs like stop-and-frisk that make racial profiling and over-policing legal. At its peak in 2011, 685,724 people were stopped. Of those stopped 53 percent were black, 34 percent were Latino, and 9 percent were white. Eighty-eight percent of all people stopped were innocent. Gang injunctions are another method of enforcement that lead to racial profiling and the over-criminalization of youth.]http://sojo.net/blogs/2014/08/14/when-terror-wears-badge
Following the links so you don't have to (but you should.); from link the first:
Following the links so you don't have to (but you should.); from link the first:
The numbers are eye opening. The Justice Department, which keeps all kinds of statistics on violent crime, does not tally up individuals killed annually by police. But by combing public news reports and other sources, the Justice Policy Institute has estimated that police officers in the U.S. killed 587 people in 2012 alone. Over the course of a decade, they’ve tallied more than 5,000 people in the U.S. during that period—far more than the number of people who lost their lives in acts officially classified as terrorism in roughly the same span.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Community Policing vs. Military Occupation
Those in law enforcement circles used to use the phrase community policing. This meant officers would work in neighborhoods & get to know the residents. Nowadays in the Orlando area however, it seems police only show up after someone gets shot.
Or 2 dozen cops with automatic weapons show up at my apartment complex with children playing to serve a warrant on people who'd moved. Police now use military tactics of using overwhelming force in all situations. Thus, the Orlando polics have an armored humvee that I've seen rolling on the street with officers toting AR-15 semi-automatic weapons.
Military tactics exist to conquer territory and thus totally unsuited for use in American communities.
Nevertheless, the Orange County Sheriff's recruiting manager, Mary Ann Salazer said, "We are paramilitary organization." (Orlando Sentinel, 14 August, '13)
This leads to a shoot first mentality, leaving ap man shot dead by deputy sheriffs whern he answered xhis door with milk in his hand; it led to an alleged car thief , Tory Breedlove, gettig shot over 20 times inn a hail of 130+ bullets.
Paramilitary policing indeed.
Or 2 dozen cops with automatic weapons show up at my apartment complex with children playing to serve a warrant on people who'd moved. Police now use military tactics of using overwhelming force in all situations. Thus, the Orlando polics have an armored humvee that I've seen rolling on the street with officers toting AR-15 semi-automatic weapons.
Military tactics exist to conquer territory and thus totally unsuited for use in American communities.
Nevertheless, the Orange County Sheriff's recruiting manager, Mary Ann Salazer said, "We are paramilitary organization." (Orlando Sentinel, 14 August, '13)
This leads to a shoot first mentality, leaving ap man shot dead by deputy sheriffs whern he answered xhis door with milk in his hand; it led to an alleged car thief , Tory Breedlove, gettig shot over 20 times inn a hail of 130+ bullets.
Paramilitary policing indeed.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Why I Don't Answer the Door at Night
Leading a fairly sheltered and uncomplicated life does not lead to the widest of social circles, and here I mean face to face interaction with real human beings, not "social media" which barely qualifies as media and which we certainly cannot define as social except in the most extended and nonsensical sense.
So when a knock comes at my door, the options for the actor on the outside remain few: some "friend" who wants or borrow money or beer, the odd working girl (and although temptation becomes harder to decline as 1 ages, nevertheless my winsome charm and rugged good looks have prompted offers for services rendered at a great discount), or the police.
The last not because of any actual illegal behavior on m part but because fossilized neighbor goes ballistic if loud music plays a minute beyond 9 pm.
In none of these three cases do I feel any compunction to answer the door as that deadbolt lock serves as my last defense against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or at least mild ironic interactions with other humans.
Plus, the POlice have guns and appear increasingly trigger happy.
In the case of the supremely unfortunate deceased person in the story below, not answering he door might have proved a better tactic than answering the door with a pistol in hand.
And don't answer the door at 2 am in the morning.
I ain't answering the door at 2 am for love, nor money, nor even Jesus himself.
[LAKE COUNTY, Fla. —
There are growing concerns that three Lake County deputies were out of line when they charged into an apartment complex looking for a suspect and killed an innocent man instead...
"Certainly, the police will be held accountable for this by way of a wrongful death suit," said WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer.
He believes it all has to do with the fact that the deputies did not identify themselves when they pounded on the victim's door in the middle of the night.
Officials said the incident started when deputies were looking forattempted murder suspect 31-year-old Jonathan Brown at the Blueberry Hill apartment complex on Ryan Drive in Leesburg.
According to authorities, Brown fled from deputies on a motorcycle, which they later found parked in front of Apartment 114. However, that was not the apartment in which Brown lived.
Three deputies were in uniform when they banged on Scott's door of Apartment 114 around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, believing Brown was inside.
Deputies said they admit they knocked on the wrong apartment door but said they had to open fire when 26-year-old Scott came out, armed with a gun.
Scott was shot and killed, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Originally, the Sheriff's Office said deputies had announced who they were.
But an email the Sheriff's Office sent Sunday revealed deputies "didn't announce and identify themselves" and called it a "minor detail."
And on Monday, the Sheriff's Office told WFTV's Kathi Belich that deputies didn't have to identify themselves at all.
A spokesman with the Sheriff's Office told Belich that all deputies saw when the door opened was the muzzle of a gun, and they did what they had to protect themselves.
But friends of Scott WFTV talked to said deputies are painting him in the wrong light.
A friend of Scott's called him a gentle giant and said he's the one who gave Scott the gun for his protection. He said Scott had just gotten home from working late when the deputies came to his door.
"They banged on the door. They didn't yell out, 'Lake County Sheriff!' They weren't being loud; vocal. The guy opened the door at 2 in the morning," said a witness who did not want to be identified.] emphasis added because seems like a major damn detail.]
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/deputy-involved-shooting-lake-county/nPtDq/
So when a knock comes at my door, the options for the actor on the outside remain few: some "friend" who wants or borrow money or beer, the odd working girl (and although temptation becomes harder to decline as 1 ages, nevertheless my winsome charm and rugged good looks have prompted offers for services rendered at a great discount), or the police.
The last not because of any actual illegal behavior on m part but because fossilized neighbor goes ballistic if loud music plays a minute beyond 9 pm.
In none of these three cases do I feel any compunction to answer the door as that deadbolt lock serves as my last defense against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or at least mild ironic interactions with other humans.
Plus, the POlice have guns and appear increasingly trigger happy.
In the case of the supremely unfortunate deceased person in the story below, not answering he door might have proved a better tactic than answering the door with a pistol in hand.
And don't answer the door at 2 am in the morning.
I ain't answering the door at 2 am for love, nor money, nor even Jesus himself.
[LAKE COUNTY, Fla. —
There are growing concerns that three Lake County deputies were out of line when they charged into an apartment complex looking for a suspect and killed an innocent man instead...
"Certainly, the police will be held accountable for this by way of a wrongful death suit," said WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer.
He believes it all has to do with the fact that the deputies did not identify themselves when they pounded on the victim's door in the middle of the night.
Officials said the incident started when deputies were looking forattempted murder suspect 31-year-old Jonathan Brown at the Blueberry Hill apartment complex on Ryan Drive in Leesburg.
According to authorities, Brown fled from deputies on a motorcycle, which they later found parked in front of Apartment 114. However, that was not the apartment in which Brown lived.
Three deputies were in uniform when they banged on Scott's door of Apartment 114 around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, believing Brown was inside.
Deputies said they admit they knocked on the wrong apartment door but said they had to open fire when 26-year-old Scott came out, armed with a gun.
Scott was shot and killed, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Originally, the Sheriff's Office said deputies had announced who they were.
But an email the Sheriff's Office sent Sunday revealed deputies "didn't announce and identify themselves" and called it a "minor detail."
And on Monday, the Sheriff's Office told WFTV's Kathi Belich that deputies didn't have to identify themselves at all.
A spokesman with the Sheriff's Office told Belich that all deputies saw when the door opened was the muzzle of a gun, and they did what they had to protect themselves.
But friends of Scott WFTV talked to said deputies are painting him in the wrong light.
A friend of Scott's called him a gentle giant and said he's the one who gave Scott the gun for his protection. He said Scott had just gotten home from working late when the deputies came to his door.
"They banged on the door. They didn't yell out, 'Lake County Sheriff!' They weren't being loud; vocal. The guy opened the door at 2 in the morning," said a witness who did not want to be identified.] emphasis added because seems like a major damn detail.]
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/deputy-involved-shooting-lake-county/nPtDq/
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wave of Police Shootings
[A spate of shooting attacks on law enforcement officers has authorities concerned about a war on cops.
In just 24 hours, at least 11 officers were shot. The shootings included Sunday attacks at traffic stops in Indiana and Oregon, a Detroit police station shooting that wounded four officers, and a shootout at a Port Orchard, Wash., Wal-Mart that injured two deputies. On Monday morning, two officers were shot dead and a U.S. Marshal was wounded by a gunman in St. Petersburg, Fla.
On Thursday, two Miami-Dade, Fla., detectives were killed by a murder suspect they were trying to arrest.More U.S. news
"It's not a fluke," said Richard Roberts, spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations. "There's a perception among officers in the field that there’s a war on cops going on.]
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