Happy "International Day Against Police Brutality!"

[Boogie]

aka, Happy "Day for anarchists to wreck shit in Montreal." 

http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/03/montreals-international-day-against.html

In memory of Ichirou 

[Madrun Badrun]

That was a brutal burn of those protesters Boogie.  You are no longer welcome in this thread.

[Boogie]

That was a brutal burn of those protesters Boogie.  You are no longer welcome in this thread.

 

[Diunx]

Can't wait to click that link when I get home

[Boogie]

Can't wait to click that link when I get home

Aww, you're going to be disappointed.

I just chose it for the amusing juxtaposition of an "anti-police brutality" day and the lofty rhetoric used for it, with the picture and caption the faithful activist chose to highlight for the event:


"comrade throwing a firecracker at cops at yesterday's demo"

Clearly, this is the image of a peaceful, freedom-loving activist who only desires a just, fair, and accountable society. 

[Vizzys]

how many innocent civilians have you beaten today boogie?

[Boogie]

None. 

[Vizzys]

better meet quota soon

or no bonus

[EmCeeGrammar]

I was listening to a This American Life that went into the quota system, actually.  It seems to only affect metropolitan areas but it was really icky to hear about the things they would cite citizens for.  The cop who got the information out was thrown into a mental institution at one point cus the head people in his precinct got wind of him trying to contact higher ups.

[Van Cruncheon]

wake me up when it's int'l day FOR police brutality so i can catch all the lulzy youtubes

[Madrun Badrun]

wake me up when it's int'l day FOR police brutality so i can catch all the lulzy youtubes

When are the G8 coming back to Toronto?

[T234]

wake me up when it's int'l day FOR police brutality so i can catch all the lulzy youtubes

That's every day around these parts. Run from the police around here, and you'll end up with injuries that should put you in the hospital not the drunk tank. They're also a bunch of thieves.

[Smooth Groove]

I'm cool with cops as long as they don't ruin Nathan's hot dog contest again. 

[Robo]

This happened? I had no idea.

International Day Against Media Suppression was the day before and they smashed all the cameras.

[T234]

I should have clarified. "Run from the police" also equals didn't consent to search.  

And a couple semi-local sheriff's deputies made the mistake of trying to steal a roll of money off of a Hell's Angel they had arrested for possession. Big mistake, there were 100+ plus of them there the next day. They not only got the money back, they also got the pinky fingers of the two deputies in question. The two men are still police officers, sans pinkies.  

[Diunx]

I once got away from a cop car that wanted me to stop at like 2 am cus I didn't have insurance or bribe money, felt good man.

[Brehvolution]

Yikes @ Kentucky

[Boogie]

This happened? I had no idea.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/15/17633206.html

At the height of the event in Montreal, gases and projectiles mixed with the over 300 people gathered to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the International Day Against Police Brutality.

Members of the black block, an infamous anarchist organization, stood at the centre of the event, with gas masks and sticks. They threw rocks and anything else they found on the ground.

At least one Montreal cop suffered an eye injury after having a rock hurled at him. Protesters also knocked out a GAP storefront window

Meanwhile, in Toronto, anarchists whined about being made to look like idiots after they allowed undercover officers to infiltrate deep within their groups:

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/119050--g20-activists-say-they-feel-betrayed-by-orwellian-secret-police

Some G20 activists held a press conference Tuesday claiming they were “betrayed” by undercover police officers as part of an “Orwellian” infiltration in the lead-up to the international summit last June.

The activists, led by Centre for Police Accountability founder Davin Charney, outlined instances in which undercover cops posed as protest organizers. One young woman from Guelph expressed anger over the fact she was unknowingly roommates with an officer pretending to be an activist.

Those meanie cops!  So sneaky!  Why would they even need to infiltrate these peaceful, family-friendly liberty-activists, anyway?

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Police+brutality+protest+feature+accused+Glebe+firebombing/4443638/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

Police-brutality protest to feature man who was accused in Glebe firebombing


A man who was at one time facing charges in relation to the Glebe RBC Bank firebombing last summer was scheduled to speak Tuesday night at an Ottawa rally to support the International Day Against Police Brutality.

...


People scheduled to speak at the event were Andrew Nellis of the Ottawa Panhandlers Union, Frederique Chabot from Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist (POWER) and Mathew Morgan-Brown, whose arson charges were stayed in November after a Crown prosecutor told a judge there was insufficient evidence to successfully prosecute him. (Roger Clement plead guilty in the case and was sentenced to four years in prison.)

oh. 


and wow @ T234's story. 

[T234]

The weird thing is, bikers in these parts are VERY WIDELY regarded as the some of the nicest people around, until you fuck with them.

They also hold two of the best parties in the state.

[Boogie]

The weird thing is, bikers in these parts are VERY WIDELY regarded as the some of the nicest people around, until you fuck with them.

They also hold two of the best parties in the state.

Ironically, my jiu-jitsu instructor in college was an HA.  Didn't realize he was a full member until joining the police and learning what the tattoos meant, etc.  And I considered him a friend, though not a close one.  Never saw him do anything illegal other than smoke weed.   But damn did he hate police.

Since the HA is a criminal organization, most are assholes by default tho.

Couldn't go back there after joining the Force though.  Only seen him once since then, a four second handshake at Toronto Airport.  Thank God he was late for his flight, would have made for one hell of an awkward conversation.



Yeah, that's a 22-year old Boogie posing for a photo at a jiu-jitsu tournament with my HA instructor, wearing a Death's Head toque and with his Death's Head forearm tattoo prominently visible.     

[Madrun Badrun]

Thats a major problem for law inforcement when you have a population that has an attitude where they can say `bikers in these parts are VERY WIDELY regarded as the some of the nicest people around, until you fuck with them`

[Powerslave]

don't tell me you fight with the glasses on :/

[Madrun Badrun]

don't tell me you fight with the glasses on :/

Is he fighting in that pictureÉ

edit quotes no longer work, question mark is É wtf

btw, the awnser to the above question is yes.  As a cop he is always fighting.  Fighting the honest citizen that is.

[Boogie]

don't tell me you fight with the glasses on :/

Of course not.

[Boogie]

Thats a major problem for law inforcement when you have a population that has an attitude where they can say `bikers in these parts are VERY WIDELY regarded as the some of the nicest people around, until you fuck with them`

Anyone ever shot by the police, anywhere, is always "widely respected in the community", "a respected member of the community", or, at worst was "turning his life around."

[Purple Filth]

as i read the title i remember that poster.

[Powerslave]

don't tell me you fight with the glasses on :/

Is he fighting in that pictureÉ

he's telepathically fighting with the photographer. Boogie's always looking for someone he can mess with

[Madrun Badrun]

boogie did you see this yet
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/RCMP+officer+hospitalized+suspect+dead+after+shooting+Fort+McMurray/4450405/story.html

[Boogie]

boogie did you see this yet
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/RCMP+officer+hospitalized+suspect+dead+after+shooting+Fort+McMurray/4450405/story.html

Yes, I did.  Hope the officer has a speedy recovery.

Fort Mac is a crazy place to work.  Tons of big, rowdy, drunken oil workers.  I have a troopmate who is transferring up there in a few weeks.

[T234]

Just because somebody is a criminal does not make them an asshole, Boogie.

Am I an asshole?

Got several thousand bucks in fines from working at the porn store in my name. Makes me a criminal.

[Madrun Badrun]

Just because somebody is a criminal does not make them an asshole, Boogie.

Am I an asshole?

Got several thousand bucks in fines from working at the porn store in my name. Makes me a criminal.

Different crimes make you an asshole, like being a gang member.  Thats automatic assholishness in my books.

[Boogie]

Just because somebody is a criminal does not make them an asshole, Boogie.

Am I an asshole?

Got several thousand bucks in fines from working at the porn store in my name. Makes me a criminal.

No, but since they are gang members who engage in widespread hard drug-smuggling, extortion, and murder, they tend to be assholes.

also, fines != criminal record.

[T234]

Their business here is guns. And everybody HERE carries guns.

Also on my end, they're talking 30 fucking days in the county jail for each unpaid citation, and I have 15 of the motherfuckers.

[Boogie]

Their business here is guns. And everybody HERE carries guns.

and selling meth, apparently.

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/79577387.html

[T234]

Guns are FARRR more lucrative than speed in the east end of the state, where I'm from. In the west, different story.

[Boogie]

So, in summary:

Biker gang members are mostly assholes, except for the HAs in the east end of Kentucky, because they only sell guns illegally, and throw great parties.

Gotchya.

[BlackMage]

HA has a reputation for doing illegal things, but I don't think every HA member is a criminal.

[Boogie]

HA has a reputation for doing illegal things, but I don't think every HA member is a criminal.

The 1999 Canadian Organized Crime report said that there were 214 full-fledged HA members and 35 prospects in Canada.  A total of 249.  (this was before their big expansion where they pushed rival gangs to the margins).

205 of them had criminal records.

So, you're right.  Not every HA member is a criminal.  Just 82 percent of them.

[BlackMage]

as long as I'm right

[Madrun Badrun]

as long as I'm right

[Diunx]

[CrystalGemini]

While I was at Safeway, the intercom told me it's Frozen Food Appreciation Month.  So there.

[shosta]

Woman shot herself in the head while cuffed with hands behind her back during traffic stop in suicide, police say

[benjipwns]

bumping an eight year old thread when Rufus just bumped the perfectly serviceable modern one

[shosta]

I literally did a topic search for "police" because I was trying to find it, oops! Hop a mod sees this and moves my post.

[Great Rumbler]

While unattended, police say, she was able to grab a weapon out of the Lexus, "contorted" her body and shot herself through the mouth.

An internal investigation was launched after her death, which has since been concluded, though police have declined to comment on its outcome.

A police spokesperson said in August that a bodycam on one of the officers during the stop was knocked off the officer's uniform "during the struggle."

 

[benjipwns]

happens quite a bit, criminals are crafty:

Chavis Carter, a 21-year-old African-American man who was found dead from a gunshot while handcuffed in the back of a police patrol car on July 29, 2012, was ruled a suicide by the Arkansas State Crime Lab.

...

Minutes later, the officers discovered that Chavis Carter was shot in the head. The officers found a semi-automatic, .380-caliber Cobra pistol near the body.[1] The Jonesboro Police Department believe that he had hidden the gun on his person that the officers did not detect through the two searches and used it on himself

...

Minutes later, the officers discovered that Chavis Carter was shot in the head. The officers found a semi-automatic, .380-caliber Cobra pistol near the body.[1] The Jonesboro Police Department believe that he had hidden the gun on his person that the officers did not detect through the two searches and used it on himself

And this one:

Victor White III died in a Louisiana hospital, the victim of a gunshot that police said White fired after being frisked twice, handcuffed and placed in the back of a New Iberia police cruiser.

The father of a 22-year-old Louisiana man who authorities claim fatally shot himself while handcuffed in a patrol car is angry that the district attorney’s office has declined to pursue criminal charges.

“It’s disappointing, disheartening, baffling and disgusting all at the same time,” Victor White Sr. told The Huffington Post.

Prosecutors had been investigating whether charges were appropriate in Victor White III’s shooting death, but found no “evidence to suggest a violation of a criminal statute,” First Assistant District Attorney Robert Vines told HuffPost on Monday.

The death has been ruled a suicide.

...

“White was taken into custody, handcuffed behind his back and transported to the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office for processing.”

Upon arrival at the sheriff’s office, White became uncooperative and refused to exit the patrol vehicle, according to the release. “As the deputy requested assistance from other deputies, White produced a handgun and fired one round, striking himself in the back,” it continues.