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Thuggin' for giftcards

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Friday, September 18, 2020 5:20 PM

Think I'll use this thread to keep track of the thuggings.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/09/17/texas-de
puties-reportedly-got-steakhouse-gift-cards-using-force/3484360001/

“They had the intention that we were all ‘WilCo badass’ and if you went out there and did your job, and you had to use force on somebody and he agreed with it, then you would get a gift card,” Pisa said in an audio recording obtained by the Austin American-Statesman, which is part of the USA TODAY Network.

Former Sgt. Troy Brogden, who resigned from the department last year, corroborated Pisa’s claim and told the Statesman that Deaton gave the cards “for what he considered good uses of force.”

“It was something everybody knew,” Pisa said. “He has even said it to people in meetings.”

“You are saying that, correct me if I am mistaken, that Cmdr. Deaton, that it is known that Cmdr. Deaton gives out gift cards to steakhouses or wherever to people for using force?” the Ranger asked again.

“A good use of force,” Pisa responded.

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Friday, September 18, 2020 5:22 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Fuck you.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, September 18, 2020 5:25 PM

WISHIMAY

https://refusefascism.org/

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Thursday, October 1, 2020 9:00 PM

WISHIMAY

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8792491/Prosecutor-2-officers
-brutally-beat-Black-man-Alabama.html

They fired

https://refusefascism.org/

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Thursday, October 1, 2020 9:04 PM

WISHIMAY

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408

https://refusefascism.org/

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Thursday, October 1, 2020 9:09 PM

REAVERFAN

In L.A. County, Gangs Wear Badges
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/l-a-county-sheriffs-department
-has-a-gang-problem.html

Much of the recent debate about policing’s excesses involves a clash of two viewpoints: one claiming that there is something structurally and culturally wrong with American law enforcement that encourages immoral behavior, and another that attributes their worst conduct to “bad apples,” rogue individuals whose actions speak for them alone and do not indict their fellow officers or their profession as a whole. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department provides a helpful literalization of the former point: an entire law-enforcement entity whose members regularly join criminal gangs, earn clout by harassing, assaulting, and killing county residents, and retaliate against their colleagues who dare to oppose them.

Sworn testimony made in June by a whistleblower, Deputy Art Gonzalez, details a pattern of such behavior inside the Compton sheriff’s station, which exists as part of the Southern California city’s partnership with the county sheriff to provide local law enforcement. Gonzalez claimed that Deputy Miguel Vega, who shot 18-year-old Andres Guardado during a June incident that sparked protests, was a prospective member of the Executioners, a dozen or so deputies who allegedly operate as a gang — setting illegal arrest quotas, threatening work slowdowns if they don’t get their desired shift assignments, assaulting their fellow deputies, and holding parties to celebrate when their members shoot or kill someone in the line of duty, the Los Angeles Times reports. The existence of the Executioners is “common knowledge” within the department, Gonzalez said, according to Spectrum News 1, which obtained a transcript of his testimony this week. Decades of harassment and violence at the hands of the Compton office — including one 2019 incident where the city’s mayor, Aja Brown, claims to have been ordered out of her car by more than half a dozen deputies and searched for drugs that she did not possess — have led the city to propose severing ties with the department altogether, a proposal that the Executioners revelations stand to accelerate. According to the whistleblower complaint, Deputy Vega, who shot Guardado six times in the back, was “chasing ink” — a term used to describe efforts to impress the Executioners in order to be drafted into their ranks and obtain their signature tattoo: a skeleton backed by flames, brandishing a rifle and wearing a Nazi-style helmet.

Part of what makes this dynamic notable is how ordinary it is. Though the central allegation is that the Executioners “dominate” the Compton sheriff’s office, at least nine other such gangs are known to operate across the department, and have done so for decades. “Vikings, Reapers, Regulators, Little Devils, Cowboys, 2000 Boys and 3000 Boys, Jump Out Boys, and most recently the Banditos and the Executioners,” Matthew Burson, chief of the department’s professional standard division, told KABC last month of the LASD’s gang problem. “I am absolutely sickened by the mere allegation of any deputy hiding behind their badges to hurt anyone.” Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said he intends to fire or suspend more than two dozen deputies involved in a widely covered assault on four non-gang members at an off-duty party in 2018. Villanueva was elected under immense pressure to clean up the department, whose former heads — Lee Baca and his undersheriff, Paul Tanaka — were convicted of obstructing a federal probe of abuses in the county’s jail. Tanaka was an alleged member of the Lynwood Vikings, a white supremacist sheriff’s gang. Villanueva has also said that he will implement measures to discourage deputies from joining these cliques at all, but county Inspector General Max Huntsman said last month that he’d seen no evidence of this actually happening. The fallout has been costly on several fronts. Since 2010, misconduct claims linked to these sheriff’s gangs have cost the county $21 million in settlements and associated legal costs, according to the Los Angeles Times.

It’s hard to make sense of this phenomenon without acknowledging that discrete individual malfeasance is insufficient for explaining its scope and longevity. The existence of ten or more gangs operating within the law-enforcement agency that patrols America’s most populous county, and whose members have occupied its highest ranks, indicates a level of tolerance and normalization that cannot be isolated to any one person, and a scale of public danger that cannot be calculated in mere dollar amounts or police shooting statistics. These gangs have been implicated in sustaining an environment of terror, and are regularly celebrated and rewarded for it. Their existence, and seeming intractability, are stark manifestations of the ways that American law-enforcement agencies operate as fraternities the nation over, with less regard for public partnership than for capitalizing upon their own impunity. This is perhaps most evident in the conduct of police unions. But survey any heavily patrolled community and it becomes clear that the existence of police gangs are not necessary to promote illegal arrest quotas, work slowdowns, or internal plaudits for acts of brutality — though gangs are an especially brazen way of formalizing them. This is simply the reality of policing.
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Cops have way too much power and are rarely held accountable for their criminal violence. Even in my small town. Time to defund.

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Thursday, October 1, 2020 10:35 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

lol

Marcos is a Rage Against The Machine music video.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, October 2, 2020 1:40 AM

WISHIMAY

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

Marcos is a Rage Against The Machine music video.

This one is pretty cool

https://refusefascism.org/

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Friday, October 2, 2020 1:45 AM

WISHIMAY

https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/01/trooper-on-tape-talking-beating-choking
-black-man-louisiana/

Had to wait for cop to die before they gave the truth. Fascists LUUUUV hiding shit like that.

All happy bragging about murder.

https://refusefascism.org/

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Friday, October 2, 2020 9:47 AM

REAVERFAN

I was an FBI agent who infiltrated white supremacists. Too many local police don’t take the far right seriously – or actively sympathize
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-far-right-wh
ite-supremacists-police

If the government knew that al-Qaida or Isis had infiltrated American law enforcement agencies, it would undoubtedly initiate a nationwide effort to identify them and neutralize the threat they posed. Yet white supremacists and far-right militants have committed far more attacks and killed more people in the US over the last 10 years than any foreign terrorist movement. The FBI regards them as the most lethal domestic terror threat. The need for national action is even more critical.
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Of course, one doesn’t need access to secret FBI terrorism investigations to find evidence of explicit racism within law enforcement. Since 2000, law enforcement officials with alleged connections to white supremacist groups or far-right militant activities have been exposed in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, among other states. Research organizations have uncovered hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement officials participating in racist, nativist and sexist social media activity, which demonstrates that overt bias is far too common.

Law enforcement officials actively affiliating with white supremacist and far-right militant groups pose a serious threat to people of color, religious minorities, LGBTQ people and anti-racist activists. But the police response to nationwide protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, includes a number of law enforcement officers across the country flaunting their affiliation with far-right militant groups.

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Friday, October 2, 2020 10:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
All happy bragging about murder.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, October 4, 2020 12:58 AM

WISHIMAY

https://nypost.com/2020/10/03/nyc-man-arrested-shackled-to-hospital-be
d-after-stroke-diagnosis-lawsuit/#:~:text=A%20Harlem%20man%20arrested%20for,who%20arrested%20him%20last%20year.

This poor dude had a stroke and an accident and they chained him to a bed, FOR DAYS.
Claimed he was on drugs. Even after the tests came back clean they left him there...

I would be frantically pissed off. I would be rolling the bed down the hallway.
NO ONE CHAINS ME TO A BED... but... maybe hubby

https://refusefascism.org/

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Sunday, October 4, 2020 1:01 AM

REAVERFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
https://nypost.com/2020/10/03/nyc-man-arrested-shackled-to-hospital-be
d-after-stroke-diagnosis-lawsuit/#:~:text=A%20Harlem%20man%20arrested%20for,who%20arrested%20him%20last%20year.

This poor dude had a stroke and an accident and they chained him to a bed, FOR DAYS.
Claimed he was on drugs. Even after the tests came back clean they left him there...

I would be frantically pissed off. I would be rolling the bed down the hallway.
NO ONE CHAINS ME TO A BED... but... maybe hubby

https://refusefascism.org/

Consent is one thing.

When it's imposed on you by racist sadists, who revel in your suffering, it's fascism.

Glad he lived. The pigs didn't want him to.

Now, we taxpayers get to pay him a fat settlement, and the pigs who did this will keep pigging.

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