American police are out of control — 2/1

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

Independent experts alarmed by child rights violations in US immigration procedures

ICE begins real estate buying spree for future concentration camps

Alabama: 47-year-old inmate dies at the Birmingham City Jail

California: One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime, but the city can’t find records detailing much of what he did

California jailers killed inmate by denying diabetes treatment, then lied about it for six years

Excerpt: Those reports confirm that Jamall died of diabetic complications. But they indicate it wasn’t because he was rejecting medical aid. The records and video say deputies and nurses ignored Jamall and failed to provide insulin to him for nearly two days. The jail’s cameras recorded him saying he was afraid he was dying. They recorded him slipping into a coma in a pile of trash on the floor of his two-man cell. They recorded deputies and nurses looking at him while he lay unconscious, but not intervening. The reports said investigators found no drugs or evidence of them in the cell after his death.

California: Over traffic stop, police chase driver into fatal wreck

California: Media no longer reports it, but ICE & CBP are still abducting people in Los Angeles

Illinois: Former Elgin cop sentenced to 12 years for possession of child sexual abuse material

Illinois: Chicago mayor orders police to investigate alleged illegal ICE activity in city

Makes for a great headline, but cops simply won’t follow such orders. Scroll down to Washington, to see the refusal to a similar order from Seattle’s mayor a few days earlier.

Indiana: Over stolen vehicle, cops chase driver into wreck that kills the other driver

Indiana State Police allegedly investigate inmate’s death at St. Joseph County Jail

Kentucky: Lexington police officer resigns over racist videos. He was slated to be fired.

Quitting instead of being fired will make it easier for Joshua Yeager to find another police job, in the next town over.

Maine: ICE abducts father with wife & newborn in hospital—had all legal documents to be in US

Minnesota: Fired Customs cop gets almost 6 years in prison for uploading kiddie porn

ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with ‘agitators’ in new orders

The agitators, of course, are the face-wrapped and camouflage-clad Secret Police. Everyone else in Minneapolis lives there and belongs there.

And again, I’m more and more convinced that the intent of this invasion is to light the fuse that leads to a violent response. That’ll provide the basis for Trump & the Republicans to exponentially increase the violence, and replace the America we’ve called home with abject fascism.

ICE claims more power to arrest people without warrants

How ICE already knows who Minneapolis protesters are

This is the brave new world Edward Snowden warned us about.

After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that “this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being”

ICE agents ‘laugh’ at teen bringing medicine to detained dad who was working at McDonald’s

‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond

ICE lie that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

Minneapolis ICE watchers face violence, teargas and arrests. They keep showing up.

All it takes to get police to intervene in an ICE abduction is… being good buddies with the police chief.

Homan says he’ll reduce federal force in Minnesota if local officials cooperate

In other words: Turn a blind eye as we round up the non-whites, and we’ll finish real quick.

“This is intimidation and retaliation:” ICE scanned her face and her Global Entry/TSA Precheck Account was revoked

Dozens of refugees with valid status have been sent from Minnesota to Texas to be re-vetted, prompting a lawsuit. Those released have had to pay their way back.

Eight people have died in dealings with ICE so far in 2026. These are their stories.

Armed goon loses his shit at an observer, several more armed goons tackle the observer, even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon’s feelings

ICE agent seen wearing a detainee’s gold bracelet after arrest

“If you were from this country, you would know I’m an immigration officer… I can hear you don’t have the same accent as me.”

Guns pointed at retired Minneapolis couple by ICE in a church parking lot

New York: Family of Queens man shot by cops: We wanted EMS, not NYPD

‘Stop-and-frisk on wheels’: NYPD targeted Black and Latino drivers for searches, lawsuit claims

Oklahoma County jail acknowledges first death of 2026 in delayed report

Oregon: Secret Police use an obscene amount of chemicals munitions on community members

Pennsylvania: ‘A cover-up’: White cops yanked black man out of car at gunpoint and beat him, then realized they had the wrong guy, but their supervisor had a plan

Texas: El Paso man dies after suffering medical issues at county jail

Texas: Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown

Texas: San Antonio citizen arrested for non-whiteness

Texas: Police, federal agents assault and arrest peaceful protesters outside Dilley detention camp in south Texas

Virginia: Portsmouth police officer charged with brandishing firearm during dispute while off-duty in Norfolk

Washington: After Seattle’s mayor orders cops to document and investigate ICE lawbreaking, the head of the police union says cops will refuse

Realistically, the head of the police union is more powerful than the police chief in any American city, and the police chief outranks the mayor.

Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $29 million to family of slain teen

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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