If I was to report all of the instances of police abuse it would require an entire new blog, and a lot more time. There are instances everyday of police abuse. This year was no different; from EMT’s being choked by Highway Patrol (here and here) to a 72 year old grandmother being tazed(here) to a Louisiana man being choked to death(here) by officers and an innocent mother being tazed in front of her children(here).
The following report is from CNN, however the CNN report has a much different video on their site. The video available on you tube clearly has the officer admitting he drew his gun, and another clip shows him holding what appears to be his weapon. Why did I make a post for this? I don’t know, just to share the stories I suppose.
Washington police were investigating on Sunday whether an off-duty officer drew his gun in the midst of a snowball fight involving a couple hundred people.
The Metropolitan Police Department said video from a local media outlet at the scene Saturday did not show the officer with his weapon drawn. However, authorities have since received “additional images and statements that would seem to support the allegation that the off-duty member did pull a gun,” a police statement said.
When Splitting the Sky broke through police lines in his attempt to conduct a citizen’s arrest of former US President, George W. Bush, the Mohawk Freedom Fighter pierced a thick wall of tyranny. He broke through a tight phalanx of state protection for the perpetrators of War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Crimes Against the Peace.
With his courageous act, Splitting the Sky announced the unwillingness of millions of global citizens to tolerate any longer the culture of impunity that places a small, interlinked global plutocracy above the law. By breaking police lines, the Attica Brother and American Indian Movement activist scouted a route of liberation for those of us seeking to get out from under the weight of complicity in International Crime committed in our name. We are all deeply implicated in the state terror permeating the 9/11wars because it is our tax dollars that fund these imperial assaults.
This week we interviewed Mark Klein, the AT&T whistleblower; the interview should be posted in 3 or 4 weeks. I know you’re going to find it interesting and enlightening. Speaking of AT&T, check out our contributor Ishmael’s informative interview with Jeff Farias here.
I have a few noteworthy tidbits below. Don’t pay attention to their publication dates, since the issues, these cases and reports, are ‘timeless’ in nature.
Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.
During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a “reasonable suspicion,” according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week. Read the rest of this entry »
BERLIN- For decades, Joachim Fritsch struggled to understand why he was being denied access to higher education and passed over for job promotions again and again.
Then he got hold of a 400-page file East Germany’s dreaded secret police had compiled on him. The Stasi had arrested him back in the mid-1950s when he was just 17 years old and branded him a “provocateur” for failing to produce his identity card. Read the rest of this entry »
Post-9/11, Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and charity. They’ve been targeted, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence, convicted on bogus charges, given long sentences, then incarcerated for extra harsh treatment as political prisoners in segregated Communication Management Units (CMUs) in violation of US Prison Bureau regulations and the Supreme Court’s February 2005 Johnson v. California decision.
This kind of highly confidential document – pictured above – is rarely seen by the public.
These so-called “spotter cards” are issued by police to identify individuals they consider to be potential troublemakers because they have appeared at a number of demonstrations.
The photographs are drawn from police intelligence files. This card was apparently dropped at a demonstration against Britain’s largest arms fair in 2005.
H is Mark Thomas, the comedian and political activist. Asked why it was justifiable to put Thomas, who has no criminal record, on this card, the Metropolitan police replied: “We do not discuss intelligence we may hold in relation to individuals.”
As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls “actionable intelligence.”
Take the case of Elliot Madison. The 41-year-old anarchist was arrested in Pittsburgh September 24 at the height of G20 protests.
The US government doesn’t have to reveal information about phone companies that may have spied illegally on Americans because those phone companies are an “arm of the government,” the US Justice Department argued in a recent court case.
In a lawsuit over the Bush administration’s decision to give immunity to telecom companies over its warrantless wiretapping program, the Justice Department argued that it doesn’t have to publicly reveal what it discussed with the phone companies because those discussions were “inter-agency communications,” explains Ryan Singel at Wired. Read the rest of this entry »
Super 8 Police State & The Draft of Future’s Past is a commercial for the Civilian National Security Force. The Department of Homeland Security encourages everyone ages 18-25 to suit up in their future faceless uniforms and get involved with their community.
Help us rid the streets of all the domestic terrorists plotting and scheming to destroy our freedoms. Don’t Break the Law. Become it! Enslave today!
Note: This video is a parody based on real life news items
A new video produced in association with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and narrated by former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway urges people to report suspicious activity that could constitute terrorism, behavior that includes buying gold, owning guns, using a watch or binoculars, donating to charity, and all manner of mundane things.
The eight minute video was produced by the Colorado-based Center for Empowered Living and Learning (CELL) in conjunction with the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference to promote CELL’s $7 million dollar exhibit entitled “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism,” which is currently on display at the Mizel Museum in Denver, Colorado.
The production was funded by a $30,400 grant from the Department of Homeland Security and made in association with the Colorado Information Analysis Center.
The recent show of force in Pittsburgh was not the most brutal in America, but it was the most recent. Many scenes remind me of 1930 Germany and rounding up certain citizens for camps. The scenes may boil your water a little bit, but that’s OK. We need to know what is happening, and it aint pretty. We must remember in the end though that a violent revolution will not work against the brute force and weopons that are on display. We must reach eceryone, including the police and military, with a message of compassion nd love. Reminding them that we are their neighbors, friends, and family is a good place to start; maybe for ourselves as well…If this inter-friction keeps progressing with anger and hatred, were doomed. -ed Click below for the videos : Current news under this post.
I ask those of you with children: What is a greater short-term danger to your child, smoking cigarette’s or being tased by police? You may say that smoking could kill this young fellow in the future, hence preventative measure’s. I would say luckily the policeman didn’t kill this minor on the scene, as has happened far too many times by taser, gun, or extreme force. Either way, recognize the system at work: A multi-billion dollar business (tobacco) which kills tens of thousand’s each year because of it’s addictive properties, is eventually made illegal for minors. Now one other multi-billion dollar business (the prison-industrial-police-state complex) has someone else it can target. So whether it’s the cigarette or the taser, the options out there suck. -ed
Santa Rosa police officers used a Taser on a 17-year-old male Friday afternoon during a foot chase that ended shortly after the suspect ran through the back door of Mac’s Deli in downtown Santa Rosa.
Police said the youth ran after bicycle patrol officers found him and an 18-year-old Sebastopol resident in possession of a small amount of marijuana in an area near the Comstock mall and Santa Rosa Avenue.
At about 3:40 p.m., officers stopped to talk to the two males because they were apparently seen smoking cigarettes. Police initiated an investigation for juvenile in possession of tobacco and soon found the marijuana.
That’s when the younger male ran, crossing Third Street and heading toward Fourth Street, police said.
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