a PSA from ProPublica
We obtained long-secret NYPD disciplinary records and created this searchable database of more than 12,000 complaints—including 7,636 allegations of use of force—filed against NYC police officers by the public.https://t.co/VxQtxpRGIO
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 28, 2020
an excerpt from their link:
After New York state repealed a law that kept police disciplinary records secret, ProPublica sought records from the civilian board that investigates complaints by the public about New York City police officers. The board provided us with the closed cases of every active-duty police officer who had at least one substantiated allegation against them. The records span decades, from September 1985 to January 2020. We have created a database of complaints that can be searched by name or browsed by precinct or nature of the allegations.
Related: We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades; ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public', Eric Umansky July 26, 2020, propublica.org
and remember: the NYPD has an office in Tel Aviv for trainings from the IDF.
‘Plainclothes NYC police grab protester and throw her into unmarked car’, Niles Niemuth, 30 July 2020, wsws.org (a few excerpts)
Shock and anger quickly spread online Tuesday as video posted on social media showed a group of armed men in street clothes snatching a young protester off the street and trundling her into an unmarked van during a peaceful demonstration against police violence in New York City.
While the men refused to identify themselves at the scene of the kidnapping, the New York Police Department (NYPD) later identified them as members of the police force’s plainclothes Warrant Squad.
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All such actions violate the US Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and assembly and its Fourth Amendment ban on arbitrary searches or seizures. They also run counter to the requirement that arrests be based on probable cause.
The NYPD played down the unconstitutional arrest, claiming the Warrant Squad routinely uses “unmarked vehicles to effectively locate wanted suspects.” But it is clear that the abduction of 18-year-old Nikki Stone was intended to send a signal to demonstrators, as well as the Trump administration, that the New York police are more than capable of cracking down on protests without direct federal intervention.
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Nikki Stone is a homeless youth who has been participating in protests throughout the city. The authorities have justified her chilling arrest—which bystanders took to be a kidnapping—with allegations of vandalism, including spray painting the lenses of police cameras around City Hall Park. She was released from police custody early Wednesday and charged with several counts of graffiti painting and criminal mischief.
The city’s Democratic mayor, Bill de Blasio, responded to the arrest by upholding the “right” of non-uniformed, unidentified NYPD officers to grab peaceful protesters off the street, while mildly criticizing the timing of the arrest.
“This is not Portland,” he said. “I want to emphasize what you see on that video are NYPD officers, federal agencies are not involved! I think it was the wrong time and place to effectuate that arrest. … I want to affirm very clearly, no one is allowed to damage police property. … If you damage property it will lead to consequences.”
Comments
video from the gothamist:
The police are getting away w/criminality nationwide
these protests aren't just in Portland nor are they isolated.
https://projects.propublica.org/protest-police-videos/
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
jeezum crow;
ProPublica rocks! my stars; just think of the epic diligence involved in pouring thru so many videos and featuring 68!
but in portland, seattle, and NYc and others, it's not just the police: it's paramilitary forces, even worse. wsws has been keeping good track, as have zeese and flowers (popular resistance; i'll see if i can did out one recent, lengthy newsletter).
but from wsws on july 27 (besides DHS):
the editorial didn't mince words, and called it a coup d'etat.
nope; sorry. i seem to have deleted the tome of a newsletter.
Some shitty stuff going down for sure
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
you may remember
that a year or so ago, erik prince had asked the Trumpster for the honor of handling the endless War on Afghanistan. allegedly Boss Tweet had demurred, but who's to say one of Prince's iterations (blackwater, XI, acadamei, there must be others by now) hasn't done so?
and Erik's calvinist sister 9(marri to the King of Amway, isn't she?) is now DT's 'secretary of miseducation'.
we're not quite there yet, and i've long forgotten who'd posited this, but:
Evil happens when it’s so great it exceeds our imaginations to conquer it.
Thank you.
Then I got to the Seattle Police Department, June 1, 2020:
Suddenly, I perceived what the SOP is. Although in this instance a camera was rolling before the attack. How I see it, the cops are hunting in a pack then, 1) knock an isolated protestor to the ground or isolate a protestor and knock his/her to the ground 2) begin to thump on the protestor 3) one or more other cops will 'help' with the thumping 4) other cops will quickly surround the thumping to hide the specifics from cameras and observers (a visible 'blue line') 5) cart the victim off on whatever bogus charge the thugs can come up with.
With their mace and tazers, US cops don't need attack dogs like the Gestapo and Bull Conners of yore, but they aren't any different.
My suggestion.
To block cameras, use shaving cream. At least you can claim to have not damaged property.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
it's a very good suggestion,
but folks on the related twitter accounts said nikki had never done such a thing.
Attrition of tech support for spy devices
Cameras are cheap and plentiful. People to keep them running, not so much.
I heard somewhere that some people like to use petroleum jelly (Vaseline, etc.) to smear on the lenses. According to what I've heard somewhere, when paint or some semi-solid material is used, it is immediately obvious as to what is wrong. A high level of expertise is not required to remedy the situation. On the other hand, petroleum jelly causes a blurred, out-of-focus type condition. This tends to require a more trained (and in more short supply) tech to fix the problem.
The woman who was pulled into the van
was accused of damaging video cameras on the streets. This is probably not a good idea. Unless...?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Anyone unable to recognize
the fascist overthrow of US
for the protection of the
political / financial elites
is either willfully ignorant or
lacking in cognitive skills
the destruction of human rights
is now happening and escalating
*unpresidented*
we have no choice but to fight back
question everything
aye, there's the rub:
"we have to fight back". fight back how, and which 'we' are the larger questions. me. i'm one of those laughable 'online armchair SJWs', so i don't have any skin in the game.
i've seen suggestions ranging from 'elect biden, to 'defund the police', 'disband the police', and 'black police for black communities','community control of police' (black agenda report the latter two, the former is silly, imo).
but there are always high-priced mercenaries for hire, as well as now, thse paramilitary forces.
umm, fight back with resistance
demonstrations and focused commentary
this is building into a tsunami to coincide with state / fed failures
trillions for wall street? 2 billion / day for war?
*we* is everybody concerned, show support for progressives
expose authoritarian misdeeds, channel anger against the
f*cked up players that led us into these dire straights
question everything
ah, i get your drift now.
as i'd noted, i might demonstrate were i there and able-bodied, so i'm just doin' what i can as can armchair SJ warrior.
the rest of your comment makes sense, until i got to this:
i don't know how 'progressives' are on domestic issues, but i do know that many of our 'favorite progressives (i.e. Democrats) support illegal sanctions, support coup regimes (as in bolivia and VZ) while virtue-signaling otherwise. some decry ICE, yet vote for bloated and increased dollars for DHS and military budgets.
i'd also pinged the Ranting Rooster imagining saying to the police: 'we're comin' after you' with a related photo of a cop on the sidewalk, apparently a protestor on top of him. i can imagine similar thought crimes.
as a side note: i'd seen a couple No Biden commnenters jesting (?) that they'd write in Mickey Mouse, and so on. and few have EVER voted green. as long as the duopoly rules, not actual socialists, there will always be Rich Man's Wars as this is now domestically as well.
Some ones are crazy or
Maybe we take turns
Dreaming about some kind of life
We say it could have been different
But it wasn't because we weren't
Some things start good and go bad
Some things get bad and stay bad
Are we caught in between
Living a lie or not living at all
Eliminated choices
Lost in dreams we let go
Memories we never got to have
Something else to think about
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88AaSnJwqA]
it's time for radical leftist change, imo.
You are correct in thinking
perhaps *progressive* is too loose a term in this context.
What is intended is to know those that are able to bring the fight
to the next level...
economy check
equality check
peace check
change check
health check
these are the folks I support.
Personal interviews occur before I
get on board.
Thx WD
question everything
well said.
thank you. i do hope that this is indeed a revolutionary moment, but where it will go is
anyone's guess.
p.s. on edit: i liked our chances better when the police tate protests were global. will they rise again?
another chilling PSA
and h/t to mr. wd. from sputnik news:
US Mail Logjam: Delays May Extend to November Election, Democrats Warn, july 31, 2020
WTF? Extortion! Blackmail!
from mr. fish: