The site provides an almost-daily recap of incidents throughout the U.S. Those of us who follow these incidents will find it an interesting read. The stats are a bit dated, but the range of incidents is eye-opening.
Iska Waran
February 22, 2014 11:48 am
Sent the story (the Daily Mail version) to Drudge. He’ll ignore it, but at least he’ll know he should have linked to it. He doesn’t usually embarrass copfuks.
Stucky
February 22, 2014 11:58 am
I’m sorry, I couldn’t even finish watching the daughter crying. Choked me up.
Fuck cops, I hope they rot in hell, those murderers should die a horrible death themselves, hope they land in jail and get assfucked by Bubba every day for the next 40 years …. blah blah blah blah blah …. what the fuck can one say anymore??
Chicago999444
February 22, 2014 1:50 pm
It choked me up, too. How many innocent, law-abiding people have to die at the hands of some crazed gestapo wannabe, for us to rise up and demand our police respect our population.
Police misconduct is no new thing. It has been going on for many decades, but it usually targeted populations for whom the dominant groups had little respect, mainly poor minorities, drunks, druggies, homeless people, and lunatics.
And, much as it pains me to have to say this, we middle class citizens have brought this on ourselves by steadfastly ignoring and dismissing the many (true) allegations of misconduct and “excessive force” directed against police over the past 60 years. Torture of suspects in order to elicit a confession has always been very common, and most middle class men defended the practice, saying that it at least got “closure’ and, anyway, it was necessary to keep marginal populations under control. The apathy and hostility of the larger community toward the people who pressed for the conviction of notorious Chicago cop and torturer Jon Burge is typical of the reactions most of the middle class and working class citizenry have towards allegations of torture and abuse. I have personally witnessed egregious misconduct and abuse of innocent civilians on the part of the police in two cities, but when you are the only witness, you are afraid to speak up, knowing how powerless you are in their hands, and figuring that one more dead civilian won’t help.
IndenturedServant
February 22, 2014 2:03 pm
More than a few people on this site will think the copfuk was doing a public service since the victim was black.
I_S
gilberts
February 22, 2014 2:26 pm
Uhhh, it looks like this story is a little bit BS. While cops don’t need to beat people to death, it looks like the family wasn’t innocent in this. There’s always 2 sides and we’re only hearing theirs. The news guy and the family make it sound like the cops just walked up and killed the man-then you hear there was some sort of ongoing altercation already going on before they showed up. I’m curious to see what a parking lot security cam might have caught.
Stucky
February 22, 2014 2:49 pm
“While cops don’t need to beat people to death, …” ———- gilberts
How mighty gracious of you.
gilberts
February 22, 2014 2:54 pm
Hey, I’m not defending the cops, but it isn’t unreasonable to ask for the whole story. Cops aren’t all choirboys, but they’re not all nazis. We’re not seeing the whole story here. I don’t think they needed to beat the man to death. We don’t know what he did, though-he was a big freaking guy, based on the pictures. We also don’t know what the family was doing when they walked out of that theater. To a cop, seeing that big dude laying hands on his wife might have looked a bit different.
“Hey, that hulking dick just slapped that lady! Justice Powers-Activate! Shape of: a truncheon!”
gilberts
February 22, 2014 2:56 pm
How many times have you seen the parents of some Trayvon ne’erdowell kid claiming he was innocent and as pure as the wind-driven snow and he wasn’t really doing anything wrong when he led cops on a 3 county chase, was carrying a bale of dope, and had some weird kind of bomb in the car? The amount of info we heard about Trayvon after the initial press hysteria, such as his fighting, pot grow operation, attempts to buy a gun,etc put a completely different light on the initial story of a poor, innocent child murdered by an evil white hispanic man.
Chicago999444
February 22, 2014 6:35 pm
Yeah, yeah, there was a quarrel between the mother and daughter, and how well I know how heated an argument between a mother and her feisty teen daughter can get. Mother/daughter screaming matches were epic and frequent in my household, and we used to hear the mother upstairs get into it with HER two teen brats, too. Quarrels just like this take place in households of every description every day in this country and they usually don’t result in a beloved family member being shot to death by the police.
A sensible cop would have watched, quickly realized that this was a family spat, and stepped up gingerly to ask, “Excuse me, ma’am, sir, is there a problem here?”
Better yet, he would have called for a female cop. Most cops hate having to intervene in domestic disputes, and they tend to be among the more dangerous situations a cop encounters. Female cops are usually sent in because it has been shown that female officers have a calming effect on combatants in domestic disputes, while males get people even more riled up than they already were.
Sorry, but this was just another untrained cop, temperamentally unsuited to his job, who was looking for an excuse to shoot someone. What a fucking tragedy.
Moral of the story is don’t involve a cop unless you’re about to be murdered or seriously injured and are willing to see your family member dead at your feet.
gilberts
February 22, 2014 7:03 pm
“Yeah, yeah, there was a quarrel between the mother and daughter, and how well I know how heated an argument between a mother and her feisty teen daughter can get.”
Sure-but have you ever dated a Hispanic woman? I dated a Hispanic woman once. I never dated a woman like that before or since. I don’t know if all Hispanic women are like her, but she had fire in the blood and a love of drama and scheming that could have kept cable TV and Jerry Springer in business for years. She loved to fight, she loved tension, and she loved creating situations for me to bumble into where she could unleash both barrels. She loved to fight. She even tried to bring other guys in, just to get me to fight over her. She went to my home town to dig up a guy, just to rub that in my face when we broke up. And she even tried to get me scared one guy had a knife and was threatening me over her. It was all very confusing, very tense, very passionate, and it left scars-physical and mental.
So I don’t know if she was representative of the whole, but if she was, I could imagine the first cop on the scene might not have seen a family spat, but something like WWIII.
Persnickety
February 22, 2014 8:58 pm
It’s totally reasonable to ask what the “other side” of the story is, and especially for any video of the incident. But when the cops STEAL THE VIDEO RECORD OF THE INCIDENT, how can you interpret that any way except murder by cop being covered up?
Chicago999444
February 22, 2014 11:46 pm
gilberts, I’m familiar with the aggression, hostility, and love of fights and drama of Hispanic women.
If you think they’re hard to get along with for a man, try being a woman in a work situation with them. They hate another woman on sight, and being a tall, thin, pale, blue-eyed Anglo woman never helped my case with them.
When I was much younger, I had a two week temp clerical assignment under a nasty little Chihuahua of a Hispanic woman, the nastiest, meanest, most vindictive little piece of brainless shit you ever met. I was working the reception desk, and had to ask for relief to use the bathroom. That nasty, reeking little piece of excrement, who had taken an instant dislike to me the minute she laid eyes on me, made me wait for 7 hours for a bath and lunch break. I only got one when I called the branch manager in fear I’d lose continence.
I hate those goddam women.
gilberts
February 23, 2014 3:19 am
Well, I guess I can’t be totally wrong, Chicago!
Persnickety-I agree with your point, but the story as it is presented is just too thin for my taste. I’m all for blaming the cops, but I want to know more. Doesn’t it seem like a lot of the time, these tales come out that just seem to be set up to make you mad as hell, only to find out there was a ton you weren’t told at the time?
For instance, the first gulf war comes to mind. They brought in this girl to tell Congress about how the Iraqis killed babies in her hospital and stole their incubators and stuff. Later, MUCH later, I was surprised to find out the girl was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador-we got hosed.
The Trayvon case was another example-poor, sweet Trayvon… who was involved in fighting, trying to acquire illegal pistols, and raised weed. All he wanted was to get some candy and some mean white hispanic killed him.
Or the one story the news had of the DOJ prosecuting a white guy for playing the Knockout Game against blacks, while ignoring the many, many officially unacknowledged instances of blacks targeting whites or asians for the Knockout Game.
Speaking of-I’m reminded of Tawana Brawley, who accused the cops of abusing her in every way possible. Only later did it come out she made it up to avoid being punished for being out late.
Nonanonymous
February 23, 2014 11:22 am
Copfuks, now there’s a real mature reference. I’m sure Stucky has a label for everyone, classic self esteem issues. God doesn’t make mistakes, so Stuck is merely projecting his own inadequacies.
The beginning of the video mentions this website as a place for updates on this incident and others involving police brutality:
Cato Institute National Police Misconduct Reporting Project
The site provides an almost-daily recap of incidents throughout the U.S. Those of us who follow these incidents will find it an interesting read. The stats are a bit dated, but the range of incidents is eye-opening.
Sent the story (the Daily Mail version) to Drudge. He’ll ignore it, but at least he’ll know he should have linked to it. He doesn’t usually embarrass copfuks.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t even finish watching the daughter crying. Choked me up.
Fuck cops, I hope they rot in hell, those murderers should die a horrible death themselves, hope they land in jail and get assfucked by Bubba every day for the next 40 years …. blah blah blah blah blah …. what the fuck can one say anymore??
It choked me up, too. How many innocent, law-abiding people have to die at the hands of some crazed gestapo wannabe, for us to rise up and demand our police respect our population.
Police misconduct is no new thing. It has been going on for many decades, but it usually targeted populations for whom the dominant groups had little respect, mainly poor minorities, drunks, druggies, homeless people, and lunatics.
And, much as it pains me to have to say this, we middle class citizens have brought this on ourselves by steadfastly ignoring and dismissing the many (true) allegations of misconduct and “excessive force” directed against police over the past 60 years. Torture of suspects in order to elicit a confession has always been very common, and most middle class men defended the practice, saying that it at least got “closure’ and, anyway, it was necessary to keep marginal populations under control. The apathy and hostility of the larger community toward the people who pressed for the conviction of notorious Chicago cop and torturer Jon Burge is typical of the reactions most of the middle class and working class citizenry have towards allegations of torture and abuse. I have personally witnessed egregious misconduct and abuse of innocent civilians on the part of the police in two cities, but when you are the only witness, you are afraid to speak up, knowing how powerless you are in their hands, and figuring that one more dead civilian won’t help.
More than a few people on this site will think the copfuk was doing a public service since the victim was black.
I_S
Uhhh, it looks like this story is a little bit BS. While cops don’t need to beat people to death, it looks like the family wasn’t innocent in this. There’s always 2 sides and we’re only hearing theirs. The news guy and the family make it sound like the cops just walked up and killed the man-then you hear there was some sort of ongoing altercation already going on before they showed up. I’m curious to see what a parking lot security cam might have caught.
“While cops don’t need to beat people to death, …” ———- gilberts
How mighty gracious of you.
Hey, I’m not defending the cops, but it isn’t unreasonable to ask for the whole story. Cops aren’t all choirboys, but they’re not all nazis. We’re not seeing the whole story here. I don’t think they needed to beat the man to death. We don’t know what he did, though-he was a big freaking guy, based on the pictures. We also don’t know what the family was doing when they walked out of that theater. To a cop, seeing that big dude laying hands on his wife might have looked a bit different.
“Hey, that hulking dick just slapped that lady! Justice Powers-Activate! Shape of: a truncheon!”
How many times have you seen the parents of some Trayvon ne’erdowell kid claiming he was innocent and as pure as the wind-driven snow and he wasn’t really doing anything wrong when he led cops on a 3 county chase, was carrying a bale of dope, and had some weird kind of bomb in the car? The amount of info we heard about Trayvon after the initial press hysteria, such as his fighting, pot grow operation, attempts to buy a gun,etc put a completely different light on the initial story of a poor, innocent child murdered by an evil white hispanic man.
Yeah, yeah, there was a quarrel between the mother and daughter, and how well I know how heated an argument between a mother and her feisty teen daughter can get. Mother/daughter screaming matches were epic and frequent in my household, and we used to hear the mother upstairs get into it with HER two teen brats, too. Quarrels just like this take place in households of every description every day in this country and they usually don’t result in a beloved family member being shot to death by the police.
A sensible cop would have watched, quickly realized that this was a family spat, and stepped up gingerly to ask, “Excuse me, ma’am, sir, is there a problem here?”
Better yet, he would have called for a female cop. Most cops hate having to intervene in domestic disputes, and they tend to be among the more dangerous situations a cop encounters. Female cops are usually sent in because it has been shown that female officers have a calming effect on combatants in domestic disputes, while males get people even more riled up than they already were.
Sorry, but this was just another untrained cop, temperamentally unsuited to his job, who was looking for an excuse to shoot someone. What a fucking tragedy.
Moral of the story is don’t involve a cop unless you’re about to be murdered or seriously injured and are willing to see your family member dead at your feet.
“Yeah, yeah, there was a quarrel between the mother and daughter, and how well I know how heated an argument between a mother and her feisty teen daughter can get.”
Sure-but have you ever dated a Hispanic woman? I dated a Hispanic woman once. I never dated a woman like that before or since. I don’t know if all Hispanic women are like her, but she had fire in the blood and a love of drama and scheming that could have kept cable TV and Jerry Springer in business for years. She loved to fight, she loved tension, and she loved creating situations for me to bumble into where she could unleash both barrels. She loved to fight. She even tried to bring other guys in, just to get me to fight over her. She went to my home town to dig up a guy, just to rub that in my face when we broke up. And she even tried to get me scared one guy had a knife and was threatening me over her. It was all very confusing, very tense, very passionate, and it left scars-physical and mental.
So I don’t know if she was representative of the whole, but if she was, I could imagine the first cop on the scene might not have seen a family spat, but something like WWIII.
It’s totally reasonable to ask what the “other side” of the story is, and especially for any video of the incident. But when the cops STEAL THE VIDEO RECORD OF THE INCIDENT, how can you interpret that any way except murder by cop being covered up?
gilberts, I’m familiar with the aggression, hostility, and love of fights and drama of Hispanic women.
If you think they’re hard to get along with for a man, try being a woman in a work situation with them. They hate another woman on sight, and being a tall, thin, pale, blue-eyed Anglo woman never helped my case with them.
When I was much younger, I had a two week temp clerical assignment under a nasty little Chihuahua of a Hispanic woman, the nastiest, meanest, most vindictive little piece of brainless shit you ever met. I was working the reception desk, and had to ask for relief to use the bathroom. That nasty, reeking little piece of excrement, who had taken an instant dislike to me the minute she laid eyes on me, made me wait for 7 hours for a bath and lunch break. I only got one when I called the branch manager in fear I’d lose continence.
I hate those goddam women.
Well, I guess I can’t be totally wrong, Chicago!
Persnickety-I agree with your point, but the story as it is presented is just too thin for my taste. I’m all for blaming the cops, but I want to know more. Doesn’t it seem like a lot of the time, these tales come out that just seem to be set up to make you mad as hell, only to find out there was a ton you weren’t told at the time?
For instance, the first gulf war comes to mind. They brought in this girl to tell Congress about how the Iraqis killed babies in her hospital and stole their incubators and stuff. Later, MUCH later, I was surprised to find out the girl was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador-we got hosed.
The Trayvon case was another example-poor, sweet Trayvon… who was involved in fighting, trying to acquire illegal pistols, and raised weed. All he wanted was to get some candy and some mean white hispanic killed him.
Or the one story the news had of the DOJ prosecuting a white guy for playing the Knockout Game against blacks, while ignoring the many, many officially unacknowledged instances of blacks targeting whites or asians for the Knockout Game.
Speaking of-I’m reminded of Tawana Brawley, who accused the cops of abusing her in every way possible. Only later did it come out she made it up to avoid being punished for being out late.
Copfuks, now there’s a real mature reference. I’m sure Stucky has a label for everyone, classic self esteem issues. God doesn’t make mistakes, so Stuck is merely projecting his own inadequacies.