#USA #police #corruption in #Chicago
on 02016-10-06WaPo on Facebook executive Ken Walton being arrested at gun point by Arizona #police officer Oton Villegas
on 02016-08-16Facebook executive Ken Walton’s account of being arrested at gun point by Arizona #police officer Oton Villegas
on 02016-08-12#politics #police #drones #extrajudicial-execution #Micah-X-Johnson
on 02016-07-11The Bahamas issues a travel advisory about the dangers of interacting with US #police in the wake of recent #extrajudicial-execution videos. “In particular young males are asked to exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police. Do not be confrontational and cooperate.
If there is any issue please allow consular offices for The Bahamas to deal with the issues. Do not get involved in political or other demonstrations under any circumstances and avoid crowds.”
on 02016-07-11How #police get stressed and snap and violate #human-rights
on 02016-07-11Al Arabiya on the #extrajudicial-execution of #Micah-X-Johnson with #police #drones
on 02016-07-11Mentions that the #police lied to Mark Hughes, the guy who’s receiving “thousands of death threats” because of their #public-shaming of him; could he have been sacrificed by #drones in place of #Micah-X-Johnson? #extrajudicial-execution
on 02016-07-11#racism in #Germany, a personal story about being harassed by #police in a park. The title is actually false; the photo at the top is not a photo of the author, but of someone in a somewhat similar situation.
on 02016-07-11A black cop talks about #racism and #police and #human-rights. #toread because I couldn’t get through it today
on 02016-07-07#Police work is more dangerous than average work but not nearly as dangerous as dangerous jobs are
on 02016-07-07on public support for #extrajudicial-execution by #police in the US
on 02016-07-07Washington Post on the #Philando-Castile #Minneapolis #police #extrajudicial-execution; he was pulled over for a broken taillight on his way home from the grocery store. #human-rights #death
on 02016-07-07Occupational injury #data from the US. “National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2014” #PDF. Shows 104 “fatal work injuries” to #police (“Law Enforcement Workers”) out of 4679 total, about 2% of the total.
on 02016-07-07#Facebook exercised #censorship against the video of the #Philando-Castile #Minneapolis #extrajudicial-execution, temporarily deleting the video and the entire account of his girlfriend, who filmed the #police killing him as his four-year-old daughter was in the back seat. “It’s okay mommy. It’s okay, I’m right here with you,” said the four-year-old. “We’re very sorry that the video was temporarily inaccessible. It was down due to a technical glitch and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” a Facebook spokesperson said. #human-rights #right-to-record #death
on 02016-07-07Ramsey Orta, who filmed the #Eric-Garner #extrajudicial-execution by Daniel Pantaleo, is going to prison for four years after a series of arrests. #human-rights #sousveillance #right-to-record #police #death
on 02016-07-07The #Alton-Sterling #extrajudicial-execution article in the WaPo. #human-rights #police #death
on 02016-07-06“Police civil asset forfeitures exceed all burglaries in 2014”, in the US, I suppose. This might mean that most #crime in the US is committed by the #police. #politics
on 02015-11-18