Speaking purely as an observer: My faith in you, the people of america, couldn't be lower. So I still think you fuck this up somehow
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https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/ynzkig/policing_in_america_a_legally_blind_man_was/Apparently this just happened. Gonna watch this one for further developments.
https://mobile.twitter.com/reason/status/1592896308037419008
VERMILLION COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - An investigation is underway after an officer accidentally fired a gun and hit a student at South Vermillion High School.According to police, the shooting happened just after 9:30 Thursday morning.There was a class teaching students how to be officers. Participants in the classroom were doing a drill about a scenario with a so-called "bad guy.".
A policy proposal heading for Board of Supervisors approval next week would explicitly authorize San Francisco police to kill suspects using robots.The new policy, which defines how the SFPD is allowed to use its military-style weapons, was put together by the police department. Over the past several weeks, it has been scrutinized by supervisors Aaron Peskin, Rafael Mandelman and Connie Chan, who together comprise the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee....Peskin, chair of the committee, initially attempted to limit the SFPD’s authority over the department’s robots by inserting the sentence, “Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person.”The following week, the police struck out his suggestion with a thick red line.It was replaced by language that codifies the department’s authority to use lethal force via robots: “Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to SFPD.” ...“The original policy they submitted was actually silent on whether robots could deploy lethal force,” said Peskin. He added that he decided to approve the SFPD’s caveated guidelines because the department had made the case that “there could be scenarios where deployment of lethal force was the only option.”
RICHMOND, Va. — Shelia Jackson wanted her son who has autism to feel comfortable around police officers.She signed him up for the after-school tennis program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where officers from the Richmond Police Department volunteer through the Richmond Police Athletic League.But, on Nov. 3, Jackson showed up at the tennis courts to find her son on the ground in handcuffs."We ended up going to VCU emergency room. They diagnosed him with a TBI concussion," Jackson said.Jackson said the staff at the tennis program said her son was getting frustrated on his serves, and they told him to practice off to the side. But she is unclear on what happened next.Her son said one of the police officers raised her voice at him, and he started to walk away from her."He knows to try to self-regulate and walk away from a situation, she may have thought he was being defiant," Jackson said.After that, Jackson said her son said the officer grabbed him."When I got here my son was handcuffed on the ground right behind where that fence is opened," Jackson said. "There was an officer holding his head, there was an officer on his left leg, someone on his right leg, there was an officer on his right side kneeling holding his shoulders down and then there was another officer standing up."Jackson said Richmond Police told her that her son headbutted an officer while they detained him, and they were worried he was going to run.But she is still not sure why he was handcuffed, and what exactly happened that caused him to get a concussion."That is not how he should be dealt with, not only my son, anyone," Jackson said. "Where is the training? Are you just going to the training and you're not taking it in?"Jackson said she has spoken to various people with the Richmond Police Department about the incident a number of times, but she still has not gotten answers to her questions.The police report she paid $5 for does not have an incident description.A spokesperson for the Richmond Police Department said they are conducting an internal investigation that is ongoing, and they could not provide any more details at this time.
Price was arrested Aug. 19, 2020, and charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, a class D felony, according to the lawsuit. Price, then 50, reportedly walked into the Fort Smith Police Department and began shouting and cursing at officers. He at one point held out an empty hand as if holding a gun and used his index finger to pull an imaginary trigger while verbally threatening them.Officers reportedly recognized Price from previous visits to the police station, which took place almost every day and were commonly characterized by agitated or irrational behavior on Price's part. He was arrested and taken to the jail after refusing to leave the station when asked to do so. Price's bail was set at $1,000.Jail medical and security staff were also familiar with Price and his history of mental illness through the multiple times he had been detained at the facility in 2019 and 2020, which was typically for disorderly conduct and trespass-related charges, according to the lawsuit. Price had been detained there from July 7 to Aug. 11, 2020, during which he was prescribed anti-psychotic medication."Records from that recent pretrial detention indicate that he was hearing voices, delusional, depressed, disoriented, confused, speaking rapidly, experiencing psychomotor agitation and struggling to understand his surroundings," the lawsuit states. "His mental symptoms were described as 'severe' and likely to have a '[m]arked impact on [his] ability to function satisfactorily in the [jail] setting.'"...Ferguson went to check on Price on Jan. 28, 2021, after being notified Price was consuming his own feces and urine, according to the lawsuit. She saw he was "noticeably thinner," and although she told staff to monitor his food and fluid intake and output daily, there's no indication she alerted a higher-level provider about Price losing 35 pounds or that jail medical staff did anything in response.The lawsuit further states staff only maintained a food and fluid log on Price sporadically and incompletely over the next three months, with no such monitoring taking place after April 25."In May 2021 a Sebastian County Circuit Court judge ordered Mr. Price to undergo a psychiatric assessment to determine whether he had the capacity to form the culpable mental state required to prove him guilty of the crime with which he was charged and to determine whether he was mentally fit to proceed to trial," the lawsuit states."That assessment, however, never occurred. And in the months that followed, Mr. Price continued to languish alone in his cell -- further descending into the throes of his untreated psychosis."Price was "visibly malnourished and starving to death" by Aug. 1, the lawsuit states. However, despite the fact staff was ordered to check on his well being every 15 minutes or more, no one summoned medical help, alerted a supervisor or documented Price's condition.Jail staff found Price lying unresponsive in his cell in a pool of standing water and urine on Aug. 29, the lawsuit states.Price was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital Fort Smith, the lawsuit states. Price, who weighed 185 pounds when he was booked into the jail a year earlier, was estimated by hospital personnel to have weighed 90 pounds. A physician diagnosed him with cachexia, a wasting syndrome, while a medical examiner concluded his death was caused by acute dehydration and malnutrition.
Sheriff Hobe Runion said in a video statement Price's 2021 death is only in the news now due to a "lawyer from Seattle, Wash." suing county taxpayers."That lawyer made a lot of allegations, and out-of-state reporters have repeated those allegations as if they were all true; they're not," Runion said. "When the state police and prosecuting attorney had already determined no one acted criminally. I'm still looking into this matter because I place a high priority on the safety of everyone in the jail. The people of the county deserve to know what happened."Runion said Price was a convicted sex offender and had been convicted for violent crimes. Price was awaiting a mental health evaluation at another facility at the time of his death, with Runion noting there is evidence he was "severely mentally ill."However, Runion said Price's autopsy showed he weighed 120 pounds when he died, as opposed to the 90-pound estimate cited in the lawsuit. This means that, with an original weight of 185 pounds, Price lost around 5 pounds per month while in jail for about a year, according to Runion."Let me make one point clear: the jail staff gave this inmate plenty of food and water every day," Runion said. "The jail medical staff were in regular contact with him. The autopsy said the inmate died with covid. All of us want to know more about what other factors may have led to this tragic death."Dan Shue, county prosecutor, wrote in a letter to Arkansas State Police on Jan. 5, 2022, he believed no criminal charges could be filed in connection with Price's death after reviewing the agency's investigative file into the matter.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1616982717148848130
Rest in Power: America (1789-2023)
On Feb. 5, Hartford Police arrested University of Hartford student Tenuun Enkhbat for making allegedly threatening posts on the social media app Yik Yak, including, “We bouta have a shootout,” and, “I got glocks on deck!” Enkhbat was charged with threatening in the first degree. Police did not find any weapons on campus, and Enkhbat told them he made the posts as a joke, imitating how he had heard other students talk.After the arrest, Hartford Police Sgt. Chris Mastroianni made the following statement:QuoteSo the message here is we were able to vet these threats pretty quickly and kinda come to the conclusion that they weren’t imminent. And there was some joking nature involved. However, we’re going to treat them all the same. It’s not going to be tolerated and I think the school would say the same thing is there’s zero tolerance for any language like that.Mastroianni said it does not matter “whether you think you’re joking around or not; if there’s certain language, certain dialogue, that occurs, we’re going to take it seriously and we’re going to arrest you for that.”
So the message here is we were able to vet these threats pretty quickly and kinda come to the conclusion that they weren’t imminent. And there was some joking nature involved. However, we’re going to treat them all the same. It’s not going to be tolerated and I think the school would say the same thing is there’s zero tolerance for any language like that.
