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The NYPD Is an Embarrassment to the City of New York

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:02:00 +0000

The infantile response from the NYPD and the unions that represent it is not worthy of it. It is hardly worthy of a schoolyard bully who can't believe he's finally been called on his bullshit.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #nyc #nypd #police #politics

Will Continuum Destroy the Sci-Fi Police Procedural? | Tor.com

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:56:05 +0000

These kinds of ethical and paradoxical questions alone could potentially make Continuum not only a good time travel show, but maybe, just maybe, a sci-fi cop show that intelligently critiques its own existence.

Tags: #cops #imported:pinboard #police #scifi #to:fb

Show me what a police state looks like! (Graphic! Dial-up warning!) - Democratic Underground

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:40:37 +0000

Dear MSM: OWS does not "clash with the police" we are unarmed, peaceful protesters who are savagely attacked by the police. #MSM #noNATO

Tags: #cops #imported:pinboard #occupy #police #politics #protest #to:fb

Mystery over Bridgeport arrests: Molotov cocktails or brewing equipment? - chicagotribune.com

Sun, 20 May 2012 01:55:39 +0000

According to law enforcement sources and police reports obtained by the Tribune, the arrests were the result of a monthlong investigation into a group suspected of making Molotov cocktails — crude bombs usually created by filling glass bottles with gasoline. But the National Lawyers Guild criticized the police raid, saying the nine NATO protesters only had beer-making equipment in their possession.

Tags: #homebrewing #imported:pinboard #nato #occupy #police #protests #to:fb

The Infamous Brad - Sometimes, When "All the Facts are In," It's Worse: The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:32:15 +0000

This is not better than the initial media reports. This is worse. This is an epic textbook in official-violence failure.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #occupy #pepperspray #police #protest #to:fb #ucdavis #violence

Why Occupy? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:15:21 +0000

Let me float that the encampments are fundamentally about using government power against itself. By staking out a little ground and saying, "No, the government does not rule this space," it gets the mayors and police chiefs worked up. They deploy their increasingly militarized police officers to say, "Yes, the government does rule that space." Then, the protesters link arms and chant, and the riot cops come in with pepper spray and batons.

Tags: #occupy #ows #police #protest

Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army - Boing Boing

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:26:31 +0000

"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world."—New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Mayor Bloomberg: ‘I Have My Own Army’ | PolitickerNY

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:38:43 +0000

“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said.

Tags: #newyork #occupy #ows #police #politics #scary

UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:12:01 +0000

What happened at UC Davis was the inevitable result of our failure to make sure our government stayed in the business of defending our principles. When we stopped insisting on that relationship with our government, they became something separate from us.

Tags: #corruption #occupy #police #politics #ucdavis

Amazon Users Post Rave ‘Reviews’ Of UC Davis Pepper Spray | TPMDC

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:03:04 +0000

In the name of due diligence, TPM called up UC Davis to make sure we identified the same pepper spray police used on protesters last week. It’s the same brand, though the police use a 7 percent formula. It’s not clear whether this formula matches exactly what the police used.

Tags: #amazon #funny #occupy #ows #pepperspray #police #ucdavis

N.Y.P.D. Stops Reporters With Badges and Fists - NYTimes.com

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:35:59 +0000

Another truth co-exists. At least since the Republican National Convention of 2004, our police have grown accustomed to forcibly penning, arresting, and sometimes spraying and whacking protesters and reporters. On Monday, The New York Times and 12 other organizations sent a letter of protest to the Police Department. “The police actions of last week,” the authors said, “have been more hostile to the press than any other event in recent memory.”

Tags: #newyork #occupy #police #politics #press

Topics : Militarization of Police - Reason Magazine

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:54:42 +0000

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Lt. John Pike Pepper Sprays Sitting Protesters, Boss ‘Very Proud’ of Her Officers - International Business Times

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:53:35 +0000

“This was a tough scene to walk into. This was 50 people and before you knew it, it probably grew close to 200. When you encircle a group of officers that are just trying to do their jobs, it’s kinda scary,” she said. Those poor, scared, armored and armed police officers.

Tags: #occupy #ows #police #ucdavis

Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:03:02 +0000

I call for your resignation because you are unfit to do your job. You are unfit to ensure the safety of students at UC Davis. In fact: you are the primary threat to the safety of students at UC Davis. As such, I call upon you to resign immediately.

Tags: #california #occupy #ows #police #protest #ucdavis

Yes of course pepper spray is a torture device - Hullabaloo

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:01:38 +0000

In 1997, environmentalists were staging a sit-in against the cutting of old forest in Humboldt county. The police sprayed pepper spray directly into the protesters eyes in similar fashion to what happened in UC yesterday and then used liquified pepper spray and applied it directly to the protesters eyes with q-tips. I'm not kidding. There's video:

Tags: #ows #pepperspray #police #protest