American police are out of control — 1/8

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

California: Black athlete shot seconds after disarming a gunman secures settlement as the cop’s racist texts surface

Excerpt: There is no question K’aun Green acted heroically when he pried a gun from the hands of a man threatening to shoot up a taco joint in Northern California in 2022, then walked out backwards holding the gun in the air to show police he was not a threat.

But the 20-year-old Black college football player from Contra Costa College was shot four times within seconds by San Jose police officer Mark McNamara, who bragged about the shooting the following day in text messages to fellow cops, referring to Green as a “n_gger,” and months late acknowledging, “I hate Black people.”

Now Green is set to accept an $8 million settlement after two courts denied qualified immunity to McNamara.

California: 19-year-old inmate’s death in County Jail allegedly investigated as apparent suicide

California: 41-year-old inmate found dead at Lassen County Jail

California: 53-year-old inmate dies in custody at Shasta County Jail Tuesday morning

California: After 4 months, it’s announced that 35-year-old County Jail inmate died of natural causes

California: Family of woman who died at Santee jail files wrongful death lawsuit

California: Parents of man who died in Vista jail files wrongful death lawsuit

Connecticut: New Haven police chief resigns after admitting to stealing department funds: mayor

Indiana deputy arrested after allegedly beating, biting woman in domestic incident

Minnesota: ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it

Missouri: One dead, four injured in police chase over traffic violation

Missouri: Death in custody investigation allegedly underway in Webb City

New Mexico: One dead, one injured in police chase over traffic violation

New York: Wreck kills driver in police chase over traffic violation

New York: Handcuffed man mysteriously dies in police custody after police chase and crash over traffic violation

Oregon: Wreck kills driver in police chase over traffic violation

Pennsylvania: Woman dies after being found unconscious in her cell at Cumberland County jail

Tennessee: Female inmate found unresponsive in county jail dies at hospital

Texas: 1 dead, another person hospitalized in crash from police chase over traffic violation

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That’s the solution.

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