American police are out of control — 2/15

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

Police departments across the US are quietly tapping school cameras to aid ICE

Arizona: Police in Goodyear fatally shoot shoplifting suspect who allegedly reached for officer’s gun

I’ll consider believing the perp reached for the cop’s gun, after I’ve seen the bodycam video.

Arizona: Phoenix police officer kills homeowner who disarmed home invasion suspect

Excerpt: Investigation details reveal Diaz was unarmed and had successfully pinned down an intruder to protect his family when the officer arrived and shot him.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.

US deports nine migrants in secret, ignoring legal protections

California: ‘Turn his murder into entertainment’: Corrections officers spend 3 full minutes recording the murder of an inmate on their phones while doing nothing to help, lawsuit says

California: ICE point weapon directly at woman peacefully protesting—just inches in front of her face

Colorado: Woman thought she was bathing alone in her apartment, but when she looked out the window a police drone was staring back

Hawaii: HPD strips authority of officer arrested twice on abuse allegations

Black, Hispanic drivers get majority of Chicago’s traffic tickets — including in mostly white areas

Illinois: Evidence shows feds lied to justify shooting Marimar Martinez

Clerical collar does not exempt priests from Secret Police racial profiling

Indiana cop to 17-year-old black kid: “I will fucking kill you. Do you understand me?”

Michigan: Insurance carrier drops city as Melvindale settles police tasing lawsuit for $1-million

Minnesota: Federal employee who did background checks for ICE arrested in Bloomington sex sting

Charges against man shot and injured by federal agent to be dismissed, because Secret Police lied, again

2 ICE agents on paid leave for lying under oath in Minneapolis shooting investigation, agency says

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them

ICE shoot gun blindly through closed door—hit man in the leg

Secret Police try to intimidate a legal observer, driving to her parents house and using her first name in an attempt to intimidate while masked and unidentified

ICE moves to less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities, to make it harder for protesters and observers to organize

Homan lies that federal agents found thousands of missing children in Minnesota

The woman Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT, and Secret Police stopped her from giving first aid

Excerpt: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Marine abducted in Minneapolis says feds copied his phone without a warrant

Minnesota: Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown

Believe it if and when you see it. Until then, no letting up.

New York: Columbia protester in ICE custody for nearly a year suffers seizure

Ex-NYPD official indicted for accepting bribes from tech exec

New Jersey: Jersey City police sergeant who allegedly drugged and raped teenager remains in jail

New Jersey: Children Run from Secret Police trying to abduct them for not looking white enough at a school bus stop

Pennsylvania: ICE raid elementary bus stop at morning pick up—send 4th & 5th graders running in panic

Charges filed against Pennsylvania cop who intentionally hit naked man with squad car

Texas: ‘Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this’: A family’s nightmare in ICE prison

Excerpt: On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

Texas: CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece

Washington: Two Colville women were booked into a rural Washington jail. It became a death sentence.

Washington: Review finds multiple police failures preceded police riot during anti-LGBTQ event in May

Washington: Family of Jaahnavi Kandula, pedestrian killed by speeding Seattle cop in 2023, reaches $29 million settlement with city

Excerpt: The settlement, obtained by PubliCola on Thursday, is for $29 million plus $11,000.

The added figure is a reference to callous remarks made by SPD officer Daniel Auderer, vice chairman of the Seattle Police Officers Guild at the time, who had been called to the scene to investigate Dave for signs of intoxication. Caught on body cam video in conversation with police union leader Mike Solan, Auderer joked and laughed about Kandula’s death, saying, “Just write a check. $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.”

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump’s DHS deploys ‘less lethal’ weapons on protesters

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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