Police Homicides

Does the Citizen have a Right of Self-Defense against Un-Constitutional

Law-Enforcement?

We have proven in the Gun Rights Section: https://sites.google.com/site/korruptlaw/gun-rights

that the citizens have a Constitutional Right of Self Defense against any form of tyranny from Government, or any of Governments standing armies, or of its select militias, including law enforcement. The 2nd amendment was put in the Constitution for this very reason, to protect the Peoples Constitutional Rights. As Americans, and especially those who swore the Oath to support and defend the Constitution are duty bound to take up arms against Government Tyrants, and the foreign and domestic enemies. Domestic Enemies who Make, Support, Enforce, and Defend "Un"-Constitutional Laws.

We know that corrupt Court systems, corrupt Judges, and corrupt Law -Makers twist and shape the Peoples Constitution in any way they please. Nonetheless, what are some opinions from the Courts and Judges say about this topic? The following articles looks at this:

Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest

http://www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm

“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”

“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.

“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.

“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.

“An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery.” (State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260).

“Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self- defense.” (State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).

“One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance.” (Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910).

“Story affirmed the right of self-defense by persons held illegally. In his own writings, he had admitted that ‘a situation could arise in which the checks-and-balances principle ceased to work and the various branches of government concurred in a gross usurpation.’ There would be no usual remedy by changing the law or passing an amendment to the Constitution, should the oppressed party be a minority. Story concluded, ‘If there be any remedy at all ... it is a remedy never provided for by human institutions.’ That was the ‘ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice.’” (From Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987, an account of the reading of the decision in the case by Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court.

As for grounds for arrest: “The carrying of arms in a quiet, peaceable, and orderly manner, concealed on or about the person, is not a breach of the peace. Nor does such an act of itself, lead to a breach of the peace.” (Wharton’s Criminal and Civil Procedure, 12th Ed., Vol.2: Judy v. Lashley, 5 W. Va. 628, 41 S.E. 197).

You are also within your rights not to answer any questions without a lawyer present, and if possible, to demand a video recording be made of the entire encounter that you or your lawyer keep as evidence, so that federal prosecutors can't get away with charging you with making false statements to a government investigator and testilying about what you said. See this article.

As a practical matter one should try to avoid relying on the above in an actual confrontation with law enforcement agents, who are likely not to know or care about any of it. Some recent courts have refused to follow these principles, and grand juries, controlled by prosecutors, have refused to indict officers who killed innocent people claiming the subject "resisted" or "looked like he might have a gun". Once dedicated to "protect and serve", far too many law enforcement officers have become brutal, lawless occupying military forces.

Police Excessive Force May Be Resisted:

North Dakota Justification

http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t12-1c05.pdf

12.1-05-03. Self-defense.

A person is justified in using force upon another person to defend himself against danger of

imminent unlawful bodily injury, sexual assault, or detention by such other person, except that:

1. A person is not justified in using force for the purpose of resisting arrest, execution of process, or other performance of duty by a public servant under color of law, but excessive force may be resisted.

The Right to Forcefully Resist Unlawful Arrest (using deadly force, if necessary)

http://www.copblock.org/38561/the-right-to-forcefully-resist-unlawful-arrest-using-deadly-force-if-necessary/

Beginning with the Magna Carta, the governments in Britain and later the United States of America have recognized the right of the people to forcefully resist unlawful arrest by the government agents (including police), using deadly force if necessary. ...

But, in a bizarre twisting of logic, the Idaho State Supreme Court, while admitting that the search was illegal, insisted that Lusby’s resistance to the illegal invasion of her home retroactively legalized the unconstitutional search. Therefore, without any enabling legislation, contrary to the still-controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent (John Bad Elk vs. U.S.), and contrary to hundreds of years of common law, the Idaho State Supreme Court created out of thin air a “Duty to Submit to Arrest” – a police officer’s privilege to commit criminal acts for the purpose of nullifying the Exclusionary Rule – something the Idaho Supreme Court acknowledged. In short this court said that any police officer can nullify the Fourth Amendment anytime he pleases, simply by claiming that the victim committed the supposed crime of resisting....

According to centuries of common law and the still-controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent of John Bad Elk, the American people today still possess the right to resist unlawful arrest by government agents, Paul Chevigny in a 1969 Yale Law Journal essay made the critical distinction between “power” and “authority”: that while a police officer may have the physical power to abduct or abuse an innocent person, citizens have a lawful authority to prevent that crime.

“The right to resist unlawful arrest memorializes one of the principal elements in the heritage of the English revolution: the belief that the will to resist arbitrary authority in a reasonable way is valuable and ought not to be suppressed by the criminal law,” However, it must be said that the courts themselves, in emphasizing privileges granted under statutes over Common Law rights, have placed a potential arrestee in a less-than-favorable position in relation to the police – especially compared to Common Law rights affirmed in the Tooly-Dekins and Hopkin Huggett cases of three or more centuries ago. In America we see to be moving “backwards” with regard to rights and freedoms.

That this ancient right to forcefully resist state-licensed criminal violence during unlawful arrest by government agents – as determined by the man being arrested and his neighbors witnessing the arrest – is ignored and suppressed by prosecutors and the lower courts does not extinguish that right.

Video:

POLICE BRUTALITY and WHEN TO SHOOT A COP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZlo4JrZlg

Right to Defend Yourself Against Unlawful Arrest

http://freedomfromgovernment.us/right-to-defend-yourself-against-unlawful-arrest/

When Should Force Directed against a Police Officer Be Justified ...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC0QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmainelaw.maine.edu%2Facademics%2Fmaine-law-review%2Fpdf%2Fvol45_2%2Fvol45_me_l_rev_385.pdf&ei=-GziUsXXJIfksASqkoK4CA&usg=AFQjCNH6JKSoN_Fe9YWyeqWTSH7gzUDTwg&bvm=bv.59930103,d.cWc&cad=rja

When should you shoot a cop

http://www.copblock.org/23434/whenshouldyoushootacop/

Should You Be Able To Defend Yourself Against Out Of Control Cops... - Cop Block

http://www.copblock.org/1258/video-canadian-police-terrorize-81-year-old-man/

Man who hit cop in self-defense is acquitted, with help of friend's video footage

http://libertyfight.com/2013/man_who_hit_cop_is_acquitted_with_help_of_video_footage.html

State Law that Legalized Self Defense Against Cops, Just Got Man’s Conviction Overturned

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/indiana-law-force-cops-overturned-mans-battery-officer-charge/

Indianapolis, Ind. – In a case of first impression, David Cupello v. State of Indiana, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed David Cupello’s conviction on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer. The court found that he exercised reasonable force under an amendment to Indiana law which legalized using force against “public servants” that unlawfully enter another person’s property.

The law states:

(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to:

(1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force;

(2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or

(3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect.

The special amendment came in response to an Indian Supreme Court decision, Barnes v. State, which held that “the Castle Doctrine is not a defense to the crime of battery or other violent acts on a police officer.”

Indiana recognized the sacred nature of an individual’s residence and took immediate action to “recognize the unique character of a citizen’s home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant.”

Cupello was originally convicted of battery on a law enforcement officer during a bench trial on May 12, 2014. This ruling was based upon his slamming of his door on the foot of Robert Webb, an off-duty constable employed as a part-time security for the apartment complex. Cupello was sentenced to 365 days in jail with 361 suspended for the battery conviction.

Webb initially went to Cupello’s apartment to investigate “reports of intimidation” after staff complained of a verbal conflict. Upon Cupello opening the door to his apartment, Webb stuck his foot in the apartment to prevent the door from being closed on him, according to court documents.

Court records state that after becoming agitated, Cupello attempted to close the door numerous times, hitting Webb’s foot that had been placed “inside the threshold of the door.” Cupello was able to close his door but Webb claimed that the door had hit him in the foot, shoulder, and head and told Cupello he was under arrest for battery.

After Cupello refused to open the door for Webb, the officer called for backup and got a key from the apartment complex management office for Cupello’s apartment. The officers then entered his apartment without a warrant and arrested Cupello solely for the crime of battery for hitting Webb with the door.

But the appeals court reasoned that, “Constable Webb had entered Cupello’s apartment without consent, probable cause, reasonable suspicion, or exigent circumstances. Because Constable Webb resisted Cupello’s subsequent attempts to close the door, Cupello had a reasonable belief that force was necessary to terminate Constable Webb’s unlawful entry into his apartment.”

Self-defense is a natural right; when laws are in place that protect incompetent police by removing the ability to protect one’s self, simply because the aggressor has a badge and a uniform, this is a human rights violation.

“The placement of Constable Webb’s foot inside the threshold of the apartment door was an unlawful entry by a public servant into Cupello’s dwelling, and Cupello exercised his statutory right under Indiana Code Section 35-41-3-2(i)(2)—which reaffirmed that the Castle Doctrine is an affirmative defense to the crime of battery on a law enforcement officer— to use reasonable force both to terminate that entry and to prevent further access to his home. Cupello used reasonable force by closing his door. Thus, as a matter of law, the facts do not support a conviction for battery on a law enforcement officer.

The court went on to state: “we hold that, on the facts of this case, Cupello exercised reasonable force under Indiana Code Section 35-41-3-2(i)(2) to prevent or terminate an unlawful entry by a public servant into his home. Thus, we reverse Cupello’s conviction.”

Castle Doctrine is part of American common law derived from the English system. Under English law, a man’s home was his castle. In present-day America, individual rights are supposed to be inalienable.

Will your home be your castle or is it simply a place the government allows you to reside until it gives further notice?

Indiana is leading the way by recognizing this right, creating legislation to protect it, and having a judiciary that interprets the law as it was written.

State Makes It Legal to Shoot Cops in Self-Defense If They Violate Your Rights

http://theantimedia.org/state-makes-it-legal-to-shoot-cops-in-self-defense-if-they-violate-your-rights/

This should hardly be seen as profound. In the past, self-defense was viewed as a human right. The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the citizenry of the United States, it recognizes natural rights. One of those rights — a veritable law of Nature — is the right to resist.

It makes it clear that badges do not grant special rights to break into someone’s house and commit acts of violent aggression. If they do, the resident has the right to resist those illegal actions and defend themselves.

here’s what the law actually states:

(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to:

• • (1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force;

  • (2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or

  • (3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect

Should You Defend Yourself Against Violent Cops, Or Let Them Kill You and Your Loved Ones?

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/war-cops

“We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned – we have remonstrated – we have supplicated. … Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded. … If we wish to be free … we must fight! … There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! … Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace – but there is no peace. The war is actually begun.”

– Patrick Henry

As has happened over and over again throughout history, the American people will either remember the spirit of resistance, or they will be reduced to pathetic, helpless slaves of a totalitarian empire. Police abuse will only decline when the perpetrators have something real to fear. Like death,

Federal Court Says It’s 100% Legal To Give Cops The Finger

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/01/federal-court-says-its-100-legal-to-give-cops-the-finger/

It’s now perfectly legal to flip off a cop. A police officer can’t simply pull you over because you gave them the “finger,” according to a federal appeals court ruling from 2013.

American Death Camps...

In Eleven Years, More Than 250 People Have Died While Being Restrained By Texas Police

http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/in-eleven-years-more-than-250-people-have-died-while-being-restrained-by-texas-police

...“One expert I spoke to said there are at least a couple of things about this that don’t makes sense,” Dexheimer says. “One is, why would you try to hurt a person with a taser – to try to gain compliance when that person is already doing his best to hurt himself?” ...Dexheimer says the Mesquite police report of the incident is not consistent with the videos released to the Dyers. ...Dexheimer says experts he talked to also questioned why police would not have done a better job restraining Dyer if he was injuring himself, and why he would not have been taken to a hospital.

The video of Graham Dyer arriving at the jail indicates he was not resisting officers....

Shooting of Philando Castile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile

On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer, after being pulled over as part of a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was driving a car with his girlfriend,... According to Reynolds, after being asked for his license and registration, Castile told the officer he was licensed to carry a weapon and had one in his pants pocket. Reynolds said Castile was shot while reaching for his ID after telling Yanez he had a gun permit and was armed. The officer shot at Castile seven times.... "The day following the shooting, Reynolds said that police had "treated me like a criminal ... like it was my fault."

COP YANEZ SHOOTS PHILANDRO CASTILE

IS ACQUITTED

LAW vs. CONSTITUTION: Domestic enemies will divert your attention away from the real issue here. The real issue is the People's Right to Keep and Bear Arms. And does Government have a Right to murder the People for exercising their Rights? The jurors own words tells it came down to if the officer saw a gun, or not even after Mr Castile previously informing the officer he was carrying a firearm.

This case boils down to if Govt sees you have a gun he can legally shoot you? This decision of the jurors says yes, Govt can murder a citizen merely by saying he saw the citizen in possession of a firearm.

Regardless of the fact that the 2nd amendment gives the people the Right to Bear Arms. Govt can murder a citizen who exercises his/her Constitutional Rights. According to the juror their decision was based on if the cop did or did not see a gun. A gun is constitutionally protected. We the People are in Fear of our lives by domestic enemies in Government.

Juror in Yanez Trial Attributes Not Guilty Verdict to State 'Not Proving Their Case'

http://kstp.com/news/juror-yanez-trial-attributes-not-guilty-verdict-state-not-proving-case/4516571/

"I guess I didn't realize what a high profile case this was until we got into it," Bonita Schultz, a juror in the trial, said. With the world watching Schultz said the pressure of this case grew each day. "Everybody was very stressed," Schultz said. ...

Schultz said the first vote was split. She said took the jury nearly a dozen votes to become unanimous.

"We had, at one point, wrote a letter to the judge saying at that time we were 8-4 and there just seemed to be no way we could budge," Schultz said. "And the judge, all he would say was go back and try again."

In the end, the jury believed Yanez's testimony that he saw a gun and felt threatened....

Juror Speaks About Decision in Yanez Trial

http://kstp.com/news/jeronimo-yanez-trial-juror-philando-castile/4516223/

"I only believe he saw part of (a gun), not a full gun, but I do believe he saw part of it" juror Dennis Ploussard said.

(But the officer already knew Mr Castile had a gun because Mr. Castile told the cop prior. Regardless Govt Agents can shoot you for merely bearing Arms, A Constitutional Right?)

"I know in both their minds they thought that Yanez didn't see a gun," he said. "That was the biggest part."

(So this boils down to if Govt sees you have a gun he can shoot you? The 2nd amendment gives the people the Right to Bear Arms.)

The Law: too difficult to understand to produce a fair just trial.

Yanez trial juror explains difficult process of reaching verdict

http://www.fox9.com/news/262055425-story

“It was very hard to come to the conclusion we did. Very hard,” Ploussard said. “We dissected the law yesterday for most of the day, where we could put it in layman's terms where we could understand it. Because the way the law is written by lawyers, you really have to sit down and dissect it and figure out what it really means, and we did that and the law was in favor of Yanez.”

(The jury and most people do not know the laws nor the intent of most laws.)

Ploussard said the prosecution did not prove its case the way the law is written.

(Why would the devil destroy itself? Prosecutors have a symbiotic relationship with cops. Prosecution making it appear its role is neutral is actually biased for its own. Prosecution most always sides with its own. In fact many defense lawyers also side with prosecution depending on the agenda.)

But, the Constitution says "shall not infringe" makes Govt the criminal. Death penalty for exercising the Right to Bear Arms, a Constitutional Right. And NO DUE PROCESS. Just execution by Government Domestic Enemies. COPS = Judge, Jury, Executioner.

Police Lawyers: Cops Can Execute Anyone Who Smokes Pot

https://youtu.be/pMPQZGEUnDQ

This should put every American in a state of fear for our lives. A cop commits murder, and gets away with it. A cop can fabricate any crime merely by his lies saying for the recording what he wants the viewers to think is happening while he murders.

What you hear is the officer telling the audio recording what to think. He is lying when he says dont pull the gun. Then you are witnessing cold blooded murder by law enforcement.

Raw Video: Dashcam In Philando Castile's Shooting

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/raw-video-dashcam-in-philando-castiles-shooting/vp-BBCXzz3

Comparing the two videos show fairly consistent with a minor error of raising your hands so visible to cops...

Officer Yanez Police dashcam video from shooting of Philando Castile (WARNING: Graphic content)

https://youtu.be/wGELjiB1zdg

Cop tells Phillando his brake lights are out.

COP: "Do you have your license and insurance?"

(They give the cop part, or all of the info requested by cop a paper what appears to be the registration, and/or insurance card.)

Phillando: SIr I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me

COP: "OK dont reach for it then" (simultaneously cop grabs his gun.)

COP: "Dont pull it out. Dont pull it out." (simultaneously the cop pulls out his gun)

Philando: "I'm not pulling it out"

(simultaneously the cop pulls out his gun then proceeds to fire multiple times. While the cop on the passenger side did not show any signs to indicate that Phillando was pulling a gun. The passenger side officer only was alerted after the cop Yanez open fired. If Phillando was pulling a gun wouldnt the passenger side cop have shown some type of unified simultaneous response to protect his partner and his self if Phillando were pulling out a gun? Viewing the passenger side cop Philando was NOT making any threatening gestures nor pulling a gun.

Also looking closely at Philando it appears he is facing the cop to tell him he isnt pulling his gun in response to the cop saying he is. But we do see the cop pulling his gun as he is saying dont pull it out. To me the cop is playing victim, and creating a witness for his dashcam recording.)

Diamond Reynolds interviewed after Philando Castile shooting

https://youtu.be/HZRiWRhdUJ0

"Can you put your hands up in the air" (Was not on the dashcam vid. The only inconsistency I can see from comparing the dash cam vid and the interview.

Diamond says he was reaching in his back pocket to retrieve his license and registration as he told cop he was carrying a firearm. So the first paper handed to cop must have been the insurance, or part of the info requested, or her timeline of events is skewed. Diamond is traumatized and distraught over the incident so her exact description will be a little blurred as to exactness of details in exact order which is understandable even to someone not traumatized. Which is why eyewitness testimony is most often never exact. Neither are police reports ever true by cops outright fabrications to mere misunderstanding from the cops interpretations. So the first paper was possibly only part of the Insur/Reg/Lisence. So Philando may have still been in the process of retrieving the other info probably the License which most people carry in their wallet.

In Diamonds mind she thinks cop tells them to raise hands but, that may be their preconceived notion to show and raise hands so officer can see your hands which is what we have been told by analysts and cops that make sure the officer can see your hands by lifting away from you to keep your hands visible to the cops. So it seems they were trying to keep their hands visible to the cops.

Everything else seems to match the dashcam vid. The actions of the cop does not match the Law, nor the Constitution. If you can legally carry, if the Constitution guarantees your right to keep and bear firearms are you then safe from cops, and other infringements based on cops accusations if he outright lies, or if he thinks you are pulling your firearm, or any other thoughts in the cops own mind?

My opinion is cops are creating hysterias, and false crimes as an end goal to disarm the citizenry.)

Horrifying Video Shows Cops Beat Innocent Mentally Ill Man to Death—Just Like Kelly Thomas, Cops Charged

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-shows-mentally-ill-man-tased-beat-death-officers-charged

Jail deaths: NC inmates, including mentally ill, die unsupervised

http://www.heraldsun.com/news/article165840807.html

51 inmates who died in North Carolina’s county jails in the past five years...

Your life is not worth as much as a Police Officer

http://www.uglyjudge.com/life-not-worth-much-police-officer/

When you get down to it, this is the issue at hand. Find your way into a uniform or civil servant job and instantly your life is worth more than another.

Deadly Force: Police Use of Lethal Force in the United States

Amnesty International -

June 2015 Report

https://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/files/aiusa_deadlyforcereportjune2015.pdf

Hundreds of men and women are killed by police each and every year across the United States. No-one knows exactly how many because the United States does not count how many lives are lost.

Four Year Anniversary of the Murder of Kelly Thomas –

Still No Justice

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/07/four-year-anniversary-of-the-murder-of-kelly-thomas-still-no-justice

On July 5, 2011, Kelly Thomas, 37, was brutally beaten to death by six Fullerton, California, police officers. The horrific scene was captured entirely on surveillance camera, with even more haunting audio. Here we are, four years later, and there still has not been any justice for the unarmed, homeless, and schizophrenic man.

Dad Calls Cops On Son To Teach Him A Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead

http://www.mintpressnews.com/dad-calls-cops-on-son-to-teach-him-a-lesson-cops-shoot-son-dead/206802/

“He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him. It was over a damn pack of cigarettes. I wouldn’t buy him none, and I lose my son for that” Comstock said. He explained all of this to the 911 dispatcher, letting them know that Tyler hadn’t “stolen” the vehicle... Instead, they admit that they opened fire when Tyler failed to turn off the vehicle. Officer McPherson fired six rounds hitting the teen through the glass, according to the Iowa state medical examiner. James reaffirmed to The Des Moines Register that he told the dispatcher his son was definitely unarmed...“hard tough questions” have to be asked by the community now, regarding the police use of force, especially against teenagers and those who they can clearly tell are unarmed. “So he didn’t shut the damn truck off, so let’s fire six rounds at him? We’re confused, and we don’t understand. They’re professionals. They’re trained to handle these situations. And if they panic before they even know what’s going on, then ask yourself: What if it was your child?”

Cop trainer tells cops to shoot citizens because citizens might be armed and might shoot at you first.

Psychologist who trains cops to shoot first, ask questions later makes big money at their trials

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/psychologist-who-trains-cops-to-shoot-first-ask-questions-later-makes-big-money-at-their-trials/

A behavioral psychologist who trains law enforcement officers to shoot first and deal with the consequences later is profiting mightily when they go to trial and he is called upon to testify on their behalf, reports the New York Times. Relying upon his own research — that an editor for The American Journal of Psychology calls “pseudoscience” — Dr. William J. Lewinski offers seminars to law enforcement departments around the country, telling police officers they can be shot by a suspect within a quarter of a second should the suspect be armed. Should an officer go to trail, or face a grand jury indictment, Lewinski is there to defend their actions for $1,000 an hour. While a string of high profile incidents involving police shooting unarmed suspects has roiled the country, Lewinski continues to tell cops that they can’t wait to act or they may end up dead. According to attorneys who have faced off with him in court, Lewinski is consistent in his opinion that police acted properly, even when videos and forensics evidence say otherwise. ...Said John Burton, a California lawyer who specializes in police misconduct cases, “People die because of this stuff. When they give these cops a pass, it just ripples through the system.”

Execution without trial? Did they ever stop to think that the person they kill may be INNOCENT? The Law gives a Law Enforcement Officer the Power to be judge, jury, and executioner without knowing the facts. It allows cops to apply the death penalty at will. Totally disregarding the Constitution.

Many Laws are also writen to give complete Immunity to Officers from criminal and civil penalties.

IN ADDITION, law enforcement are always given credibility and the benefit of doubt despite their history of Lies, and misconducts. Are you OK with that America? Dont forget that cops Lie. They can kill you for nothing then they Lie and make-up a story so they are acquitted, or in most cases not even charged.

Prosecuting The Use Of Deadly Force By Law Enforcement

http://m.bergendispatch.com/articles/36916179/Prosecuting-The-Use-Of-Deadly-Force-By-Law-Enforcement.aspx

...Under the use of force in law enforcement an officer can use force to make an arrest. Deadly force, however, can only be used if “the crime for which the arrest was made was homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, arson, robbery, burglary of a dwelling, or an attempt to commit one of these crimes.” According to reports, police pursued Kevin Allen in to the Lyndhurst library because they knew he had a warrant for absconding from a work-release program where he was incarcerated for non-payment of child support.

Both use of force in self-protection and use of force in protection of others require a defendant to assert that they were in fear of death or serious bodily harm. “The use of deadly force may be justified only to defend against force or the threat of force of nearly equal severity and is not justifiable unless the defendant reasonably believes that such force is necessary to protect himself/herself against death or serious bodily harm.”

...Critics say that because district attorneys work in close concert with local law enforcement, and depend on them to clear cases and give testimony, a conflict of interest can exist for prosecutors when police officers are charged with wrongdoing.

Video:

Death by Officer: An American Epidemic of Police Shootings and Brutality

https://youtu.be/s2ghdM66U4Y

Law enforcement officers kill an increasing number of U.S. civilians annually. Please help bring the attention of the Supreme Court of the United States to this critical issue.

Video:

Cops Gone Wild Domestic Terrorist Edition Full Documentary HD

https://youtu.be/rao33ZYlrq4

US Police State.

We are being conditioned for martial law.

My goal for sharing this is not to promote hate for law enforcement in general, but to open your eyes to the militarization of your police force and the brutal mentality of many officers that are sworn to protect and serve. When police are armed as if they are in a war zone, they are apt to act accordingly, viewing citizens as the enemy.

We have a right to assemble in peaceful protests and not be gassed, shot or told that it is an illegal assembly.

We have a right to protect ourselves from illegal search and seizure and warrantless home invasion.

Death by Police

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/death-by-police-contd/491216/

Your Stories of Excessive Force: Readers share their experiences with cops who went too far. Though, as detailed in this report from ABC News

At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-20170604-htmlstory.html

The cost of imprisoning each of California’s 130,000 inmates is expected to reach a record $75,560 in the next year... Gov. Jerry Brown’s spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 includes a record $11.4 billion for the corrections department while also predicting that there will be 11,500 fewer inmates in four years because voters in November approved earlier releases for many inmates....

The price for each inmate has doubled since 2005, even as court orders related to overcrowding have reduced the population by about one-quarter. Salaries and benefits for prison guards and medical providers drove much of the increase....

If I kill a cop

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/if-i-kill-a-cop

Death by Officer: An American Epidemic of Police Shootings and Brutality

https://youtu.be/s2ghdM66U4Y

Videos

L.A. County to pay $3.6 million in wrongful death case stemming from 2015 Sheriff's Department shooting

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nicholas-robertson-lawsuit-payout-20171206-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

A Los Angeles County jury awarded $3.6 million to the family of a 28-year-old man who was killed by sheriff’s deputies in a controversial videotaped shooting that drew widespread attention in 2015,... the deputies fired 33 rounds, striking Robertson more than a dozen times. Only the last two shots proved fatal, he said.... He could have lived if they had just not kept shooting him again and again and again and again....

An ex-cop from Arizona was acquitted for shooting an unarmed, sobbing man

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/8/16752914/police-arizona-philip-brailsford-daniel-shaver

If police are charged, they’re very rarely convicted. The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project analyzed 3,238 criminal cases against police officers from April 2009 through December 2010. They found that only 33 percent were convicted, and only 36 percent of officers who were convicted ended up serving prison sentences. Both of those are about half the rate at which members of the public are convicted or incarcerated....

The scale of police shootings is, like many issues with gun violence, a uniquely American problem.

Police officers in the US shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in 2016, according to the Washington Post’s database — far more than other developed countries like the UK, Australia, Japan, and Germany, where police officers might go an entire year without killing more than a dozen people or even anyone at all.

Law Enforcement among the Safest Jobs in the USA. America does not need a Militarized Police Force for an occupation which is among the Safest, and least fatal for its workers.

Law Enforcement did not make it on the top 10 list of most dangerous jobs making the occupation of law enforcement Safer than mowing a lawn; Safer than building a house; Safer than plowing a field or feeding livestock; Safer than delivery route driver; Safer than fishing; Safer than cutting trees.

NATIONAL CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN 2016

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

5,190 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States.

The fatal injury rate 3.6 per 100,000 full time equivalent workers.

Chart 2: Fatal Work Injury by Event, 2015 to 2016

Transportation = 2,083

Violence and other injuries

by persons or animals = 866

Falls, Slips, Trips = 849

Contact with Objects

and Equipment = 761

Harmful Substances

or Environments = 518

Fires and Explosions = 88

Chart 3: Occupation, total work injuries per 100,000 equivalent

Logging 135.9

Fishing 86.0

Aircraft 55.5

Roofers 48.6

Refuse and

Recycle 34.1

Structural

Iron 25.1

Drivers 24.7

Farm and

Ranch 23.1

Construction 18.0

Grounds and

Maintenance 17.4

Law Enforcement 14.1 did not make it on the top 10 list making the occupation of law enforcement Safer than mowing a lawn; Safer than building a house; Safer than plowing a field or feeding livestock; Safer than delivery route driver; Safer than fishing; Safer than cutting trees.

Law Enforcement: 127 fatal work injuries / 900,000 LEO = 14 fatal work injuries per 100,000 LEO

Militarized Law Enforcement is equivalent to arming a Lawn Mower with a tank; Arming a Construction worker's hammer with an fully auto Machine Gun; Or Arming a Commerical Airplane with mounted 50 caliber, and Cluster Bombs.

America does not need a Militarized Police Force for an occupation which is among the Safest, and least fatal for its workers.

Consider law enforcement fatalities include all causes including self negligence.

Law enforcement in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_States

Number of police:

In 2008, federal police employed approx. 120,000 full-time law enforcement officers...state and local law enforcement agencies employed more than 1.1 million people on a full-time basis, including about 765,000 sworn personnel (defined as those with general arrest powers). Agencies also employed approximately 100,000 part-time employees, including 44,000 sworn officers.

From 1992 to 2008, the growth rate for civilian personnel was more than double that of sworn personnel.

LE Memorial

www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/

(There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States

But there should be a war on cops, and the entire legal system...

There Still Wasn't a War on Cops in 2017

http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/28/there-still-wasnt-a-war-on-cops-in-2017

Line of duty deaths this year approached a 50-year low... National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) finds that 128 police officers died in the line of duty in 2017—44 of them were fatally shot. Last year 64 officers were fatally shot. And since 2011, the numbers have largely gone down.

Because the numbers include a wide variety of deaths, they are easy to misrepresent. The broad number, which includes traffic and other accidents as well as illnesses (mostly heart disease), is used to support claims that "a cop is killed every so many hours. In 2014, Michelle Malkin claimed a cop was killed every 58 hours, using line-of- duty death statistics that included heart attacks, traffic accidents, and even accidental falls....

The NLEOMF is not yet offering a detailed breakdown of the deaths. Aside from the 44 cops who were shot, 47 died in traffic-related incidents and 37 of "other causes." For comparison, the leading "other cause" in 2016 was "job-related illness," which killed 15 police officers, according to NLEOMF....

In the meantime, police have fatally shot 971 people so far this year—the youngest of them just 6 years old. Last year, 963 people were fatally shot by cops.

In fact, because the police pull over so many cars and trucks — tens of millions each year — an officer’s chances of being killed at any vehicle stop are less than 1 in 3.6 million, excluding accidents, two studies have shown. At stops for common traffic infractions, the odds are as low as 1 in 6.5 million, according to a 2019 study by Jordan Blair Woods, a law professor at the University of Arkansas.

911, MURDER FOR HIRE. Got a bad neighbor, an enemy, political rival, or anyone you want killed, or wrongfully convicted? Just call 911, and make a false report of DV. Any lie works because cops are liars too, and cops love to shoot people. Just say the person is armed, and making death threats works best. Add in the building has a bomb, or is booby trapped to explode, or burn. Cops will shoot your innocent enemy simply for moving wrong, or even if he didnt move wrong cops will shoot first then lie saying he reached for his waist to justify murder. Then after the cops commit murder they will blame their misconducts on the prankster as the cops get away with another murder...

Suspect arrested in L.A. linked to deadly officer-involved shooting in Wichita

http://www.wowt.com/content/news/Suspect-arrested-in-LA-linked-to-deadly-officer-involved-shooting-in-Wichita-467317243.html

Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax phone call that resulted in a fatal police shooting in Wichita, Kansas. Tyler Barriss, 25, was arrested Friday.... The Wichita shooting happened Thursday night. On Friday, Wichita Police confirmed that a prank call led to the deadly officer-involved shooting. Relatives identify the victim as Andrew Finch, 28. "Due to the actions of a prankster, we have an innocent victim," WPD Deputy Chief Troy Livingston said. Livingston said police believe this was a case of "swatting" where someone makes a false call to initiate a response from a SWAT team to an address. In this case, someone called 911 with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at the victim's address. KWCH, our sister station in Wichita, cites a WPD spokesperson as saying that when the victim came to the door, he was given several commands to put his hands up. The station says that, according to Livingston, he lowered his hands toward his waistband several times, leading an officer to fear he was reaching for a weapon. That's when that officer fired.

In 2017, Nearly 100 Times More Americans Were Killed by Police Than Terrorists

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-killings-2017-epidemic-terrorism

In the United States, in 2017, according to the government data, eight events took place on American soil that were classified as acts of terrorism. The combined death toll from all eight terroristic acts in 2017 is 12. Twelve people were killed on American soil by other people attempting to make a political statement through an act of violence and yet we are told the threat of terror inside the United States is at an all-time high. Nothing could be further from the truth.

However, there is another number that is particularly worrisome and it has to do with how many people American police have killed this year. As of the publishing of this article, the number of people who’ve been killed by police in 2017 is 1,184. This is nearly 100 times the number of people killed by terrorists inside the United States this year and yet the government and the media at large remain entirely silent on this violent epidemic....

“Swatting” didn’t kill a man, police did

https://www.salon.com/2018/01/06/swatting-didnt-kill-a-man-police-did

Police accountability needs to be a part of the conversation in the shooting of an innocent man after a prank call

‘Swatting’ and Police Accountability

https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/swatting-police-accountability

East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer suspect is indigent, entitled to taxpayer-funded defense, judge rules

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article222215815.html#nws=mcnewsletter

The suspect in the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer case is considered indigent under the law and entitled to have Sacramento County public defenders represent him in a case that could last another 10 years and cost $20 million, a judge ruled Thursday. “I’ve determined he is not able to afford his own defense,” Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Sweet declared as suspect Joseph James DeAngelo stood in a courtroom cage nearby watching impassively. DeAngelo, a former police officer, Navy veteran and mechanic who owns a Citrus Heights home, automobiles and a motorcycle, is facing 13 murder charges and 13 rape-related charges in a string of crimes in the 1970s and 1980s that spanned the length of the state....

HOW RARE IS IT WHEN SLAVE PATROL IS CONVICTED OF CRIMES? ONCE IN 30 YEARS...

Corey Jones' family declares victory as ex-cop Nouman Raja gets 25 years for fatal shooting

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-ne-nouman-raja-sentencing-20190425-story.html

25-year prison term that must be served in its entirety without any possible credit for good behavior.... The verdict marked the first time in the past 30 years in Florida that a cop was convicted for an on-duty police shooting...

People Arrested By The Trigger-Happy Amber Guyger Are Having Their Cases Dismissed

https://newsone.com/3851638/amber-guyger-arrests-dismissed/

At least nine people who were arrested by a Dallas police officer who was eventually accused of murdering a man in his own home have had their cases dismissed, according to a new report. The development could be damning for Amber Guyger, the now-former cop who was indicted for breaking into the home of Botham Shem Jean before shooting him to death.

All of the dismissed cases originated before Guyger killed Botham Jean, a 26-year-old native of St. Lucia who was simply home watching TV when the off-duty officer illegally entered and killed him under the implausible excuse that she thought he was burglarizing her own apartment. Citing court documents, the Dallas News reported that “Dallas County prosecutors in one case wrote that they were seeking the dismissal because the fired officer was ‘indicted for murdering an innocent man in his own home.’”...

LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY MURDERS A SLAVE, LIES, AND COMMITS FURTHER CRIMES IS NOT CHARGED IS STILL A LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY. MAKES THE SLAVES PAY FOR THE MURDER...

BART Releases Report With New Details of Officers' Roles in Oscar Grant Killing

https://www.kqed.org/news/11744106/bart-releases-report-with-new-details-of-officers-roles-in-oscar-grant-killing#nws=mcnewsletter

But they wrote that videos of the Fruitvale Station incident showed Mehserle may have known he was drawing his firearm, not his Taser, before shooting Grant. "Despite the inability to interview Officer Mehserle, the conclusion can be made from a close viewing of the enhanced video that he was intending to pull his firearm and not his Taser," the report says, noting that Mehserle repeatedly reached for his gun "and on the final occasion can be seen looking back at his hand on the gun/holster to watch the gun come out." Mehserle fired a single round into Grant's back. Just prior to the shooting, the 22-year-old Grant, face down on the station platform with Officer Pirone kneeling on his neck and head, had put both hands behind him "in a handcuffing position," the report says. "Deadly force was not justified under the circumstances," the investigation found.... Pirone told investigators he saw Grant fighting with Domenici and that he rushed to help her. "The video, however, shows a completely different story, one of Grant pushing his friends back from Domenici and no touching of her ever taking place," the report says. When he reached Grant, Pirone told investigators they scuffled. But the report notes that video of the incident shows Pirone shoved Grant against the wall and punched him in the head and that Grant did not fight back. "Pirone accomplished his apparent intended goal to have Grant sit down. Once down, Pirone kneed Grant in the face," the report says, calling the strike "punitive" and unjustified..... Mehserle shoved Grant down, and Pirone put his knee on Grant's neck and head. The internal investigation found that Pirone's weight likely prevented Grant from getting his hands out from under his stomach to put them behind his back. "When Pirone takes his weight off Grant, Grant immediately puts both hands behind his back for cuffing," the report says. That's when Mehserle drew his gun and fired.... BART subsequently fired Pirone, who was not criminally charged in connection with the Grant shooting. An arbitrator upheld that decision in 2014.... BART also settled wrongful death lawsuits brought by Grant's mother and daughter, agreeing to pay each more than $1 million.

The Golden State Killer suspect became part of their family ⁠— and slowly revealed his violent side

https://www.latimes.com/projects/man-in-the-window-joe-DeAngelo-golden-state-killer-serial

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., 73, stands accused of being one of America’s most prolific serial killers. The ex-cop turned truck mechanic is said to have unleashed an extended spasm of violence in the 1970s and ’80s: Nearly 60 home invasions; 50 rapes; 13 murders. At least 106 victims....

PROFILE OF A SERIAL KILLER: A LAW ABIDING GOOD GUY...

The Hidden Toll of the Golden State Killer

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/golden-state-killer-rancho-cordova-legacy-808164/

Fifty women were raped and over a dozen were murdered by the Golden State Killer... A suspect believed to be the Golden State Killer, linked by DNA to rapes and murders all down the coast of California, had been arrested only three days before, right here in Sacramento, where his spree began. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was in custody....

DeAngelo — a former police officer who was living with his daughter and granddaughter in a suburb outside Sacramento — is currently charged with 13 murders. Multiple kidnapping and burglary charges are being added where legally applicable, in lieu of more than 50 rape charges, since the statute of limitations on those rapes has run out.... serial killer....

He Killed an Unarmed Man, Then Claimed Disability

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/daniel-shaver-killing/594091

Two years ago, I wrote about Daniel Shaver, an unarmed 26-year-old who in 2016 was shot to death in a hotel hallway while begging for his life. The killer, Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford, was put on trial for murder. Jurors were not allowed to know that he had scratched “You’re fucked” into his service weapon. He was acquitted of murder and manslaughter, despite video of as chilling and egregious a police killing as I’ve ever seen....

THE VIDEO:

START AT 12:45

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/footage-of-a-police-killing-that-jurors-didnt-punish/547868/

As for the cop who pulled the trigger, he was “temporarily rehired by the department so he could apply for a monthly pension,” The Arizona Republic reported this month. In 2018, he was reinstated for 42 days and applied for accidental disability. “An accidental disability is one that occurred while the employee was on the clock and permanently prevents the employee from doing his or her job,” the newspaper explained, adding that the pension in question “totals more than $30,000 annually.”...

USA DEATH CAMPS...

Deaths in police custody underscore dangers for people arrested with drug issues

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/30/deaths-police-custody-underscore-dangers-for-people-arrested-with-drug-issues/QP9yv3wDCHFOkWYzY5hLwJ/story.html

Law enforcement officials say that although deaths in custody must be reported to the local district attorney, they are rarely made public because overdoses and suicides are considered private matters, not criminal acts.... Advocates argue that the deaths, even without personal information, should be reported publicly so they can be tracked as a public health issue. “If people are dying in police custody, and dying for reasons that are preventable, and not being kept safe, then the taxpayers and the Legislature should know that so we can improve the system,” ... While she was being booked, officers refused her pleas for medical attention...

USA DEATH CAMPS INMATES ARE MURDERED BY SLAVE PATROL THEN REPORTED AS SUICIDE. OFTEN SLAVE PATROL BRIBES OTHER INMATES TO DO THE MURDER AND STAGE IT AS SUICIDE IN EXCHANGE FOR SPECIAL FAVORS....

Cuyahoga County Jail officers attacked, threatened to kill inmate who interviewed with U.S. Marshals, lawsuit says

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/09/cuyahoga-county-jail-officers-attacked-threatened-to-kill-inmate-who-interviewed-with-us-marshals-lawsuit-says.html

Cuyahoga County Jail officers attacked an inmate for no reason and later intimidated, harassed and threatened to kill him for interviewing with a U.S. Marshals Service team investigating jail conditions after a string of inmate deaths, according to a lawsuit.

Inmate Corrionne Lawrence, 25, was beaten bloody in an elevator about a month after being booked into the jail. He endured a series of threats— including one in which a corrections officer threatened to kill him and make it look like a suicide. He endured more threats after reporting the abuse to jail officials and U.S. marshals, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court....the death of one of nine inmates that died in the facility between June 2018 and May 2019....

Off the desk: Four with JPD, part of officer-involved deaths, want patrol jobs back

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/09/23/jackson-ms-jpd-police-officers-seek-court-action-get-patrol-jobs-back-citizens-injured-die/2384552001

Barney, Fox and Lampley were officers involved in the case of George Robinson, 68, who died in January in the Washington Addition neighborhood. Witnesses alleged Robinson was assaulted by police days before dying. His death was ruled a homicide, the Hinds County coroner said. George Robinson's death: 'We want justice': Family of George Robinson calls for JPD officers to be jailed. Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart has said the state medical examiner ruled Robinson died of a subdural hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma to the head. Information about what caused the head injury wasn't released, except that it was sustained during Robinson's arrest....

There is no court record of any officer being indicted in Robinson's death.

Meanwhile, Adams was one of two officers the Jackson Civil Service Commission upheld suspensions for earlier this year involving the case of then-21-year-old Crystalline Barnes, who was shot to death in an officer-involved shooting in January 2018....

Mississippi Cops Fatally Shot an Undocumented Man They Mistook for a Domestic Violence Suspect

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x5w3x/mississippi-cops-fatally-shot-an-undocumented-man-they-mistook-for-a-domestic-violence-suspect

When local Mississippi police barged into the home of an undocumented auto mechanic in 2017, they had the wrong guy. Officers thought 41-year-old Ismael Lopez was a domestic violence suspect — and ended up shooting him in the back of the head and killing him. The slaying sparked furious protests among the town’s Latino community and a $20 million federal civil rights lawsuit lawsuit from Lopez’ widow after a grand jury declined to indict the Southaven police department officers involved in the shooting: Samuel Maze and Zachary Durden. But attorneys for the city are now arguing the entire lawsuit should be tossed out because undocumented immigrants don’t have constitutional rights, attorneys representing Lopez’ family said during a press conference Thursday....

Alabama jury convicts officer of manslaughter in shooting

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/11/22/alabama-jury-convicts-officer-manslaughter-shooting/m45PeJ03s1PrzSdmu66TcO/story.html

A mostly white Alabama jury on Friday convicted a white police officer of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in 2016. Jurors returned the verdict against Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith...

For men attacked by the Golden State Killer, victim is a hard word

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-18/golden-state-killer-male-victims

MOTOR VEHICLES AS MURDER WEAPON...

Deadly NJ police chases kill innocent victims, catch few crooks

https://amp.app.com/amp/2777140001

New Jersey police pursuits killed at least 63 people in the past decade and injured more than 2,500. Nearly half the people injured were bystanders and cops....

New Jersey’s written policy has acknowledged for decades that most chases start with traffic violations. The rules say cops aren’t allowed to chase cars for motor vehicle offenses, with one important and broad exception: Police can chase if an officer feels the vehicle “is being operated so as to pose an immediate threat to the safety of another person.”...

USA TERRORIST DIES IN USA DEATH CAMP HE HELPED TO DEFEND. TOO BAD NIGGA. USA TERRORISTS USE TORTURE TO FORCE THEIR OWN SLAVES TO PLEAD GUILTY TO CRIMES THEY DID NOT DO BECUZ THEY SUPPORT AND DEFEND A TERRORIST GUBMINT. THEIR OWN....

Real Criminal Justice Reform Requires Standing Up to Fear-Mongering

https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/9025-real-criminal-justice-reform-stand-up-fear-mongering

Nearly five years ago, Jerome Murdough, an African-American Marine Corps veteran, died on Rikers Island due to a combination of injustice, inhumanity, and medical neglect. Afflicted by homelessness and mental illness, Murdough tragically passed away when temperatures in his cell reached 100 degrees – heat that was contraindicated with his medicine – and he baked to death. The reason for this death sentence: He was cold one night and sought shelter in a public housing stairwell, where he was arrested for trespassing and jailed on $2,500 bail....

Law Relating To Encounter Killings By The Police

https://www.livelaw.in/columns/law-relating-to-encounter-killings-by-the-police-151457

"Encounter killings" or "retaliatory killings" or "extra-judicial executions" by the Police are disconcertingly on the increase now-a-days. Such killings most of which are alleged to be "fake encounters", however, evoke rapturous joy and exhilaration among the general public and also in the print, electronic and social media. Paying rich encomiums to the trigger-happy Police personnel, opinions are even aired that rapists and hardcore marauders should be exterminated through lynching in public. The main reason for this rejoice over Police excesses is attributed to the snail pace and meandering judicial system...

Police officer arrested for murder accused of framing 69 cases

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gerald-goines-cop-murder-police-officer-houston-accused-framed-drug-raid-a9365916.html

A disgraced former Houston Police Officer facing murder charges is suspected of having exploited his position to ensure the wrongful conviction of 69 people. Gerald Goines was dismissed after he led a botched drug raid resulting in the death of a married couple in January 2019, ABC News reported. Not only is the former officer facing murder charges as a result of the two deaths, but is now facing allegations that he has been framing individuals for more than a decade....

‘Shoot him’: Viral video appears to show police shooting at Grand Red Line station

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-red-line-shooting-video-20200229-rgcir47tzvhpph5lsllc7g4f5i-story.html

In a viral video of a police shooting that Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls “extremely disturbing,” two Chicago officers appear to struggle to handcuff a man while one of them repeatedly yells “stop resisting” and then “shoot him" ...

https://twitter.com/FreeRangeCritic/status/1233537021341323267?s=20

Bailey: Handcuffed and shackled, he died after getting a shot of ketamine

https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/bailey-handcuffed-and-shackled-he-died-after-getting-a-shot/article_bf30b3a8-5a2c-11ea-8016-e30b4054f145.html

By the time the paramedics got there, Jamie Britt was on his stomach, his hands cuffed behind his back, his legs shackled. Four Mount Pleasant cops had him pinned to the ground. “We’re going to ketamine him,’’ one paramedic announced just as he arrived.

Within minutes of getting a shot of the powerful tranquilizer, Britt, 50, was effectively dead — though it would be 16 long, agonizing days and nights before his wife decided to take her husband off a ventilator. He was pronounced dead at 3:28 p.m. on Oct. 16.

Watching this play out on the police videos months later is a horror show. It started with a guy with a simple flat tire and ended in tragedy. The Charleston County Coroner has ruled it a homicide, and what happened at the entrance of Snee Farm on that hot Monday evening in September should raise alarms about when and how ketamine is used to subdue suspects. Ketamine’s use by paramedics has more than doubled in South Carolina since it was first authorized three years ago, and nowhere is it used more than in Charleston County....In Minnesota, Colorado and elsewhere, ketamine has become the subject of investigations and lawsuits linking it to heart and breathing problems and death, sometime in suspects, such as Britt, who already were restrained by police.

Jamie Britt was a big man — 6-foot-3, maybe 300 pounds — and drunk when a Mount Pleasant policewoman found him on the side of the road trying to change his tire. She was answering a call about a man urinating in public, and a later blood-alcohol test showed he was far over the legal limit to drive...On the police video, Britt is wearing shorts and no shirt, but the exchange between the two of them is cordial: “Yes, ma’am, no, ma’am,” he says as she tries to help him find the missing piece of his jack and cajoles him into calling a tow truck. About 15 minutes later, a police supervisor arrives and starts giving Britt a sobriety test. All hell quickly breaks loose, as several cops wrestle this big, cursing, angry man to the ground. “Stop resisting! Stop resisting!” the policewoman shouts. “I can’t breathe,” Britt replies. “If you are talking, you are breathing,” another cop says. Twenty-seven minutes into the video, Britt is well restrained and calmer by the time the paramedics arrive. One of them, holding up a syringe, walks out of the ambulance and gives Britt a shot of ketamine. Only afterward does he ask: “Mr. Britt, hey, hey. Are you allergic to anything? Do you take any medications?” Woozily, Britt says he takes Lisinopril for high blood pressure. Then he goes silent, never to speak again....

State Department of Health and Environmental Control guidelines govern paramedics’ use of ketamine. It’s often used to counter agitated delirium, which can result in sudden death. But like all drugs, ketamine comes with risks: It shouldn’t be mixed with alcohol and carries elevated risks for those with high blood pressure. Britt checked both boxes.

The autopsy attributed Britt’s death to “restraint asphyxia” — he couldn’t breathe — and “the toxic effects of ketamine.” “The manner of death was best deemed ‘homicide,’ ” according to the coroner’s report....

D.A. Jackie Lacey’s husband pulls gun on Black Lives Matter protesters at his home

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-02/police-called-to-jackie-laceys-home-in-response-to-protesters-outside

The husband of Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey pointed a gun at unarmed protesters during a confrontation outside the couple’s home early Monday, heightening tensions on the eve of her primary election. Video from the scene shows her husband standing in the doorway of their Granada Hills home pointing a gun and shouting, “I will shoot you. Get off of my porch.” The incident prompted an LAPD response, but no one was hurt or arrested. Lacey’s husband, David, is a former investigative auditor for the district attorney’s office, according to spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales. ...

WHEN SLAVE PATROL MURDER THEIR SLAVES THE OFFICERS DID NUTHIN WRONG ACCORDING TO THEIR INVESTIGATIONS AFTER INVESTIGATING THEMSELVES...

Colorado has had 201 police-related deaths since 2014. Lawmakers want a better way to investigate them.

https://coloradosun.com/2020/04/16/colorado-police-shootings-investigations

From 2014 to 2019, Colorado law enforcement officers shot 309 people, 189 of them fatally, and all but two of those shootings were deemed justified by prosecutors or grand juries. So far in 2020, officers have shot and killed 12 people. That placed the state fifth in the nation for the highest rate of fatal law enforcement shootings based on population, according to a Colorado Public Radio investigation in January that tallied up the cases in the absence of a comprehensive state count. Currently, officer-involved deaths are investigated by law enforcement and the district attorney’s office within the same jurisdiction where the shooting took place. “A lot of times, they call each other family. And you shouldn’t ask family to investigate family,”...

Ahmaud Arbery and the Ghosts of Lynchings Past

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/opinion/ahmaud-arbery-georgia-lynching.html

“The Time of Slavery,” ...

FBI investigates death of black in Minneapolis

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/05/26/fbi-investigates-death-black-man-minneapolis/XIx0O5mw2aA5sMbUTVzKmN/story.html

Four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday, authorities said, as state and federal authorities investigated the arrest of a Black man who died after being pinned to the ground. Video of the incident shared on social media captured the man, identified as George Floyd by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, repeatedly telling the officers, ‘‘I cannot breathe!’’ An increasingly distraught crowd of onlookers pleaded with the officer to move his knee.... the arrest quickly drew comparisons to the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man who died in New York Police custody in 2014, after an officer held him in a chokehold. Garner’s repeated plea of “I can’t breathe” — also recorded by a cellphone — became a rallying cry at demonstrations against police misconduct around the country....

face was being pressed so hard against the ground that his nose was bleeding....Minutes later, the man appeared to be motionless on the ground, his eyes closed and head lying against the road. ‘‘Bro, he’s not even f------ moving!’’ one bystander pleaded to police. ‘‘Get off of his neck!’’...

Why the officers fired for the George Floyd killing could ultimately get their jobs back

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/28/us-police-officers-fired-rehired-why

The four Minneapolis officers involved in the killing of George Floyd were swiftly fired after footage of his death went viral. But that doesn’t mean they’re permanently losing their badges. Officers in the US are frequently rehired after their termination for misconduct, a problem that experts say increases the likelihood of abuse and killings by police. Despite the decision on Tuesday to fire the policeman who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, along with three other officers at the scene, it’s uncertain if the officers will face long-term repercussions. On the contrary, some civil rights advocates warn the men could ultimately avoid legal and financial consequences, continue working in other police departments or even win back their positions. That’s how policing works across America, researchers and activists said, and it’s a process that can drag victims’ families through years of court proceedings and media attention, with minimal relief at the end.

“The officers are afforded every opportunity to clear their name and regain everything they lost – their reputation, their status and their jobs,” said Adanté Pointer, a California lawyer who represents police brutality victims. “The family has to endure disappointment after disappointment.”...

US prosecution and conviction of officers is rare, since the law gives officers wide latitude to kill, and prosecutors often have close ties with police. Prompt termination is also uncommon – and often doesn’t last. Officers can appeal firings, typically supported by powerful police unions. The outcome is frequently decided by arbiters in secretive hearings. A recent analysis by a local Minnesota paper, the Pioneer Press, found arbiters reversed 46% of police terminations in the last five years. Police chiefs across the US have publicly complained that the process forces them to put officers back on the street after firing them for egregious conduct such as unjustified killings, sexual abuse and lying. When officers are rehired, “it says they have a license to kill”... If the fired officers in Minneapolis don’t win their jobs back, “I think they’ll quietly be invited to work in other law enforcement departments”,...

THE REASON WHITE SUPRMACIST SLAVE PATROL MURDER NIGGERS AND SLAVES IS BECUZ THEY USED RABBITS AND FOXES TO TRAIN THE HUMANS.

THEY SHOULD HAVE USED MONKEYS AND APES TO TRAIN THE NIGGERS...

St. Paul police once used Disney's Zootopia as part of annual anti-bias training

https://theweek.com/speedreads/917105/st-paul-police-once-used-disneys-zootopia-part-annual-antibias-training

Disney's story of a rabbit and a fox recognizing and overcoming police bias was apparently used to educate human police officers. More specifically, St. Paul, Minnesota's police force — which has been pulled into the protests in neighboring Minneapolis — watched Zootopia a few years ago as part of its annual anti-bias training. The animated movie specifically covers discrimination against a young police officer and suspects based on their species...

Deputies Claim They Killed a Black Man in His Home When He Tried to Grab a Gun. His Family Says Otherwise.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/family-of-michael-thomas-dispute-deputies-explanation-of-fatal-shooting-in-his-los-angeles-living-room

A Los Angeles man was fatally shot in his home by deputies Thursday morning in a tragic domestic dispute call gone wrong. His family, however, insists the tragic incident could have been avoided if authorities didn’t prematurely pull the trigger.

Michael “Blue” Thomas, 62, was killed in his living room in the early hours on Thursday after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a domestic dispute call, a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. But while authorities claim Thomas was shot after reaching for one of the deputy’s guns, his fiancée and attorney insist the opposite—that he was turning away.

“They broke the front down and they grabbed Mr. Thomas immediately,” Bradley Gage, the family’s attorney, told The Daily Beast on Friday. “As they were holding him, they hurt him by twisting his arm. At that point, because he was uncomfortable, Mr. Thomas tried to move and one deputy just stepped back and shot him.”

“He was murdered without justification,” he added. “It was 100 percent avoidable.”

According to the Sheriff’s Department, deputies responded to a “domestic violence in progress call” in Lancaster at around 5:30 a.m. The 911 call was made by Thomas’s fiancée, Kimberly. She later told deputies she “was assaulted by the suspect,” according to a statement from authorities....

“It Was An Execution”: Nicolas Chavez Was On His Knees When Police Killed Him. His Father Wants Answers.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/19/it-was-an-execution-nicolas-chavez-was-on-his-knees-when-police-killed-him-his-father-wants-answers

When Nicolas Chavez was shot to death by Houston police in April, police said they fired at the young man with a history of mental illness and drug abuse because they feared for their lives. But a bystander’s cellphone video, which soon went viral, told a different story about the deadly confrontation. Chavez was on the ground, kneeling and already wounded when police fired the fatal shots. ...

Byron Williams said ‘I can’t breathe’ 17 times as police restrained him. Why did few protest his death?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/when-byron-williams-died-saying-i-can-t-breathe-few-n1231342

On Sept. 5, two Las Vegas police officers arrested Williams, 50, who was Black, for riding a bicycle without a safety light. Body camera video released by police showed the officers chasing Williams, holding him on the ground, handcuffed, and kneeling on his back before lifting him upright and dragging him away. Williams repeatedly told officers, "I can't breathe." He said it at least 17 times before he died, according to the police video.

But unlike Floyd's death — which triggered a wave of protests across the country, including in Las Vegas, and led to charges for the four Minneapolis officers involved — Williams' death drew little attention. Police released just part of the video from one of the body cameras; no bystander videos emerged. A single rally for Williams last fall drew about two dozen people. No charges have been filed against officers connected to the case....

IT IS UNCLEAR WHY NORTH DAKOTA SLAVE PATROL SHOT A SLAVE IN THE BACK 5 TIMES AFTER CONFIRMING THE SLAVE WAS UNARMED AND POSED NO THREAT. AFTER INVESTIGATING THEMSLVES SLAVE PATROL SAY THEY ARE INNOCENT. END OF STORY....

Officers killed Ryan Gipp 3 years ago in North Dakota. Now his family plans to march for justice

https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/crime-and-courts/6559982-Officers-killed-Ryan-Gipp-3-years-ago-in-North-Dakota.-Now-his-family-plans-to-march-for-justice

BISMARCK — George "Ryan" Gipp Jr. was shot and killed by Bureau of Indian Affairs officers in 2017 near Fort Yates, N.D., and the officers were not criminally charged. Now, Gipp's family, unsatisfied with the result of the feds' investigation, says justice for their loved one is long overdue. Local advocates and Gipp's family are calling for authorities to review the case again, and they are planning a march Saturday, July 4, in Bismarck to call for the release of information that they believe the federal government is withholding about the circumstances surrounding Gipp's death.

In October of 2017, two BIA officers allegedly shot Gipp at least five times in the back on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, according to a federal lawsuit filed by his family. Gipp, 35, ultimately died as a result of his injuries. Why the officers shot Gipp is unclear. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of North Dakota declined to comment on the details of the shooting. Gipp's family disputes some of the alleged details of the case found in the FBI's investigation. ...

the U.S. attorney's office in North Dakota said the FBI "completed a thorough investigation."... "It was determined that criminal charges against the officers involved were not warranted,"... "the matter was closed."... Gipp's family filed their lawsuit against the U.S. government and the two BIA officers who allegedly shot him, Raymond Webb and Gary Sandland.....

The complaint alleges the officers saw that Gipp was unarmed, and one of them said over the shared radio that they were "okay." The complaint asserts that Gipp did not try to hurt the officers and "posed no threat of death or serious bodily injury to anyone," when the officers jolted him with a Taser without warning. Gipp then ran into a nearby ditch in an effort "to escape the pain," The complaint alleges the two officers, Webb and Sandland, shot Gipp at least five times in the back as he was running away....

LAPD responds to a million 911 calls a year, but relatively few for violent crimes

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-05/lapd-911-calls-reimagining-police

Of the nearly 18 million calls logged by the LAPD since 2010, about 1.4 million of them, or less than 8%, were reports of violent crimes, which The Times defined as homicides, assaults with deadly weapons, robberies, batteries, shots fired and rape. By contrast, police responded to a greater number of traffic accidents and calls recorded as “minor disturbances,” The Times found....

But removing police from all mental-health-related calls would reduce the LAPD’s overall footprint in the city only minimally, since they accounted for less than 2% of all calls, according to the analysis. The Times included 911 calls of someone possibly being suicidal in the tally of mental-health-related calls....Last year, for example, LAPD officers responded to about 170,000 reports of disturbances, a broad category that over the past decade has accounted for about 9% of all of LAPD’s calls for service. A breakdown of the dispatch data indicates the vast majority of those calls did not include a reference to violence and could have possibly been handled by people other than police....

These types of quality of life issues could be handled by something along the lines of the unarmed, uniformed “police support officers” used in the United Kingdom, said Alex Vitale, a sociologist at Brooklyn College who has argued for the need to dramatically scale back police responsibilities.

“Police are not social workers, they are violence workers — they are authorized to use violence in a way no other person is allowed and their authority is derived from this power,” Vitale said. “We’ve turned over all these problems to police because there was no one else left, but we need to open our minds to other options.”

Miami police officer's wife dies after she gets trapped for hours in the back of his work vehicle

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/us/miami-police-officer-wife-trapped-dies-trnd/index.html

Clara Paulino, the wife of a Miami police officer, died after being found unconscious in the back of her husband's police SUV last week amid temperatures in the 90s.

Paulino was found by her son and her husband, police officer Aristides Paulino, a little after 5 p.m. Friday, Matt Reyes, the vice president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, told CNN. A cause of death has not been released....

Reyes said Paulino's SUV has bars on the windows, has a cage that separates the back seat from the front seat and has doors that lock and can only be opened from the outside. "It's an SUV so you really can't kick out the back window from that cage," Reyes added. Clara was effectively trapped in the back of the vehicle without her cell phone, Reyes said, and would have had no other way to let anyone know she was locked inside unless someone walked or drove by. Reyes also said the neighborhood the Paulinos live in doesn't have a lot of passersby that could have seen her in the vehicle. Per the National Weather Service Miami's climate report for August 21, Miami reached a high temperature of 92 degrees at 3:21 p.m.

"(Aristides) Paulino works midnights. He got home after his shift, went to sleep, woke up around 5 in the afternoon, was looking around the house for his wife, couldn't find her," Reyes said. "His son gets home, he helps him look for her ... they subsequently find her in the backseat of his police car unconscious." Reyes also said Paulino found his wife's phone on the back patio and that was one of the reasons he was wondering where she was. Clara's fingerprints were found all over the inside of the vehicle, he added.

It is unknown why Clara went inside her husband's vehicle, Reyes said. "It is unknown whether it (the vehicle) was locked or she unlocked it to look for something. Nobody really knows why she was back there or how she got back there ... it's not a weird thing (for a spouse to go in car), it's our take-home cars in our driveway, every day," Reyes said....

Kenosha Police Shooting of Black Man Is Investigated by Wisconsin Authorities

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/us/kenosha-police-shooting.html

The episode began just after 5 p.m. in Kenosha, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee, when police officers “responded to a reported domestic incident,” according to the statement.... Several officers can be seen standing on a sidewalk next to a four-door S.U.V. The man identified as Mr. Blake, wearing a white tank top and black shorts, walks along the passenger side of the vehicle, away from the officers as they yell and as at least one of them points a gun at him. Mr. Blake walks around the front of the vehicle and opens the driver-side door. Numerous people can be heard yelling, and one officer grabs the man’s shirt. As he opens the door, at least half a dozen shots can be heard while at least two officers can be seen with their guns pointed at him...

FBI: Police fatally shoot man on North Dakota reservation

https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/fbi-police-fatally-shoot-man-on-north-dakota-reservation/article_4ef8fab4-6e5a-5895-ab19-519d14e610d1.html

BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — The FBI is investigating after police fatally shot a man on a North Dakota Indian reservation over the weekend. The FBI responded to the shooting at a private home in Belcourt on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation late Saturday night and into early Sunday, FBI spokesman Kevin Smith said Tuesday. The man who was killed is identified as Brandon Laducer, 35, of Belcourt. Agencies involved in the shooting include the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Rolette County Sheriff’s Office, the Rolette Police Department and the Rolla Police Department... No other details were released.

Homicide charges against police officers are rare

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/12/metro/homicide-charges-against-police-officers-are-rare

Over a 15-year period, 104 state or local law enforcement officers in the United States were charged with murder or manslaughter, according to a 2019 study from Philip M. Stinson and Chloe Wentzlof of Bowling Green State University. Of those, 35 were convicted of a crime related to an on-duty shooting. Four were convicted of murder....

“I have to prepare them for the fact that they might not be treated very well,” he said. “Things are different. If their loved one was shot by a civilian, they might be treated very differently.”...

Bringing criminal charges against officers who kill while on duty can be legally complex, said professor Rosanna Cavallaro, who teaches criminal law and evidence at Suffolk Law School. For one, the district attorneys who would bring such charges rely on police officers' testimony in other cases....

If a case does make it to a trial jury — through the DA’s review, a grand jury indictment, and the pretrial process — proving that an officer was not legally justified in shooting a person can be difficult. It’s a question of “imperfect self-defense,” she said: Was the officer truly in fear for his or her life? And, if so, was that fear reasonably held?

“The jury is going to come away essentially with that question," Cavallaro said. "Having listened to all this evidence from all points of view, and the lawyers' spin, do I think that this is a criminal act? Or a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God, this was a horrible act but nobody should be blamed?”

Deputies killed Dijon Kizzee after a minor bike stop. We found 15 similar police shootings

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-16/examining-dijon-kizzee-bike-stop-police-shootings

The Times identified 16 cases since 2005 where a stop for bike violations in Los Angeles County resulted in a police shooting, ....Among those 16 cases, violations ranged from riding on the sidewalk to biking without a light or on the wrong side of the road. ...

Why coroners often blame police killings on a made-up medical condition

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/10/why-coroners-often-blame-police-killings-on-a-made-up-medical-condition/

More often than you might expect, he explained, politicians and police pressure medical examiners to change people’s death certificates,...Coroners also make lots of mistakes—in more than half of cases Feldman studied, they didn’t classify police killings as police killings. And certain medical researchers, along with the company Axon, which produces Tasers, have collectively made it easier for investigators to blame deaths on drugs instead of police force....Specifically when someone dies in police custody but isn’t shot, it’s very common. It’s often attributed to either a drug overdose or this contested medical condition called excited delirium. Sometimes the argument is made that this person would have died anyway....This is a condition that’s not accepted in the International Classification of Diseases, which is the international diagnostic list of all known conditions. It’s not accepted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which is the psychiatric diagnoses list in the US. But it is something that many medical examiners and coroners use to describe these deaths....

There are two kinds of death investigators in the US: medical examiners and coroners. Medical examiners are physicians. They are appointed. Coroners in general don’t have much medical training. They’re not physicians, and they are usually elected at the county level. So they work closely with police in their day-to-day job, which involves investigating things like homicide, suicide, and drug overdose, and they are reliant on a close working relationship with police. They don’t want to make the relationship uncomfortable.

There have been cases where there are egregious conflicts of interest, especially in California, where in some counties, the coroner is the sheriff. It’s the same person. There’s this built-in conflict of interest through the relationship. There’s a position statement by the National Association of Medical Examiners that says, when investigating a death in police custody, bring in someone from a different jurisdiction to investigate the death. But in practice that rarely happens....And about 1 in 5 reported being pressured by a public official, which included politicians and also police, to change cause-of-death determinations or manner-of-death determinations....They may be pressured by police to change something that’s accidental to “homicide,” so that it provides stronger evidence in a murder case. And there’s also a lot of politics around whether someone is classified as dying from suicide, because often families don’t want the cause of death, because it’s stigmatized, to be reported as suicide. So there’s a lot going on in terms of conflicts and controversy over how cause and manner of death are classified....

When someone’s killed by police, their death certificate is supposed to say that they were killed by police. And then the proper code is applied to the death certificate. But my research has shown that in over 50 percent of cases, police killings are not classified as police killings in the mortality data: They’re instead usually classified as homicides, as if any civilian killed another civilian. So we don’t have good data on police killings.

And if you look specifically at deaths in police custody that don’t involve shootings, the vast majority are not even classified as homicides....If someone dies in police custody, if there are no signs on the body that will tell you this person died of asphyxia, meaning they were suffocated to death because they were restrained, the only story you have to go by is the police officer’s....

USA NIGGER SLAVE MURDERED BY SLAVE PATROL IN A USA DEATH CAMP FOR POSSESSING MARIJUANA...

Black man’s death in Texas jail struggle ruled homicide

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/29/nation/black-mans-death-texas-jail-struggle-ruled-homicide

Marvin Scott III died last month after he was jailed in Collin County on a marijuana possession charge. Seven jailers were fired and one resigned, and Scott’s family is calling for their arrests after viewing video from inside the jail of Scott’s last moments....

Scott, 26, died of “fatal acute stress response in an individual with previously diagnosed schizophrenia during restraint struggle with law enforcement,”...

A Hidden Death

https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2021/07/22/a-hidden-death/

Payne had committed no crime and posed no threat to anyone....Rather than help Payne, the EPD officers decided to arrest him...The unnecessary arrest flipped Payne from panic into delirium. The EPD officers refused to take Payne to a hospital and insisted he be booked in the Lane County Jail. At the jail, sheriff’s deputies pinned Payne face down on a concrete floor in order to control him. At least two deputies placed their knees on Payne’s back...At one point, a gasping Payne told deputies, “I can’t breathe.”

Payne’s heart stopped 63 seconds after that. Deputies and emergency medical technicians applied CPR for nearly 20 minutes before restarting his heart. But the damage was done. Payne died...

Unarmed 75-year-old Tasered without warning by Colorado officer: ‘What did I do?’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/23/michael-clark-taser-colorado/

“What did I do?” Newly released police body-camera video shows a Colorado cop firing his Taser at a 75-year-old man who answered the door of his own home. The cop has been fired and charged with assault. The victim suffered a stroke after the incident and now is in a nursing facility.

William Darby, Huntsville police officer convicted of murder resigns from HPD

https://whnt.com/news/william-darby-huntsville-police-officer-convicted-of-murder-resigns-from-hpd/

On Friday, Huntsville Police Officer William Darby resigned more than two months after being convicted of murder. Darby voluntarily resigned and was not fired, according to two Huntsville City Council members. He was convicted for the murder of Jeffrey Parker, a suicidal man shot by Darby during a confrontation with police in 2018....

FAMILY BELIEVED THE FATHER MURDERED HIS WIFE MADE HIS LIFE A LIVING HELL. BUT, ITS POSSIBLE THE SERIAL KILLER COP MAY HAVE BEEN THE ONE...

‘I FOUND YOUR MOM’

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/31844847/the-disappearance-dolores-wulff-family-suspicions-41-year-search

The connection first had been made by Stacie Sherman, an internet sleuth determined to find additional victims of the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, arrested in 2018 on eight counts of murder. In early 2019, Sherman searched NAMUS, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, as well as newspaper archives for cases that could be connected to DeAngelo. The probe turned up Dolores Wulff's case. Sherman then checked for unidentified bodies found in the same time period and came across the case of Jane Doe 16....

LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS WITH A GUN...

Baltimore County to pay $6.5 million to family of unarmed man fatally shot by police officer, man’s family says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/12/sopp-lawsuit-settles-baltimore-county/

Less than two years after a Baltimore County police officer fatally shot an unarmed man on Interstate 83, the county has agreed to pay the man’s family $6.5 million, attorneys said Tuesday. The payment is the second multimillion-dollar settlement paid by Baltimore County in the past two months over a police killing....Not long after, Officer Gregory A. Page, 48,... As Sopp stood up, Page fired eight shots, killing the unarmed Sopp....

Battlefield America:

The War on the American People

http://rutherford.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f6eb78f457b7b82887b643445&id=c1829f7669&e=c87e691d7d

In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining the basic freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry in the Constitution. Indeed, police have been transformed into extensions of the military, towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people have been turned into enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.

Yet this police state did not come about overnight. As Whitehead notes, this shift into totalitarianism cannot be traced back to a single individual or event. Rather, the evolution has been so subtle that most American citizens were hardly even aware of it taking place. Yet little by little, police authority expanded, one weapon after another was added to the police arsenal, and one exception after another was made to the standards that have historically restrained police authority. Add to this mix the merger of Internet megacorporations with government intelligence agencies, and you have the making of an electronic concentration camp that not only sees the citizenry as databits but will attempt to control every aspect of their lives. And if someone dares to step out of line, they will most likely find an armed SWAT team at their door.

The Wrongfully Convicted:

Criminals? Or POW's.

Citizen Run Database Shows

Over 1,000 People Killed by Cops in 2014

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/data-shows-1000-people-killed-cops-2014/

To date the most reliable data anyone has about law enforcement killings in the U.S. was the FBI’s statistics on homicides by law enforcement. But therein lies the problem.

Those numbers are voluntarily given to the FBI by police, and many jurisdictions simply don’t hand over this information, thus making an accurate accounting of exactly how many people police have actually killed each year extremely difficult to ascertain.

For instance, the killing of Eric Garner would not be included in the FBI’s 2014 statistics because New York doesn’t participate in the voluntary program.

Thankfully there is a new means of aggregating how many people are being killed by law enforcement. This new tool for accountability is the website www.killedbypolice.com

It’s basically a spreadsheet that lists every person killed by cops in the years 2013 and 2014. In addition to naming those killed, it also provides a link to media reports for each of the killings, age, sex and race if available.

The information available on the site begins in May of 2013 and runs through now. The novel idea of monitoring the number of police killings through news reports has shown to be a much better accounting of deaths at the hands of cops than the voluntary FBI system.

The FBI’s stats show that in all of 2013 there were 461 people killed by cops, but when using the new site, which only shows from May 1 to Dec. 31, 2013, police actually killed 748 people. Keep in mind, 748 is drastically more than the feds claim police killed the entire year but only accounts for 8 months of 2013.

The site shows 2014’s total number killed by police to be at 1,029 with a few weeks left in the year.

Here is a link to their Facebook page. This is another wonderful tool to be utilized in holding law enforcement accountable for their actions, as they can no longer hide these numbers from the public.

This site has shown itself to be a dramatically better barometer for what is actually transpiring in police state USA, and accounting for how many citizens are actually being killed by police, than anything we previously had available.

Claims of “war on police” largely unfounded

http://kansasexposed.org/2014/12/27/claims-of-war-on-police-largely-unfounded/

The police claim that they are now at war, because one lunatic shot his girlfriend and then killed two officers in the largest city in America.

Out of 780,000 police officers in this country, 114 were killed in the line of duty in 2013. Only 46 of those were intentionally killed by gunfire. Another 26 were killed in automobile accidents, 15 died from heart attacks, 2 were murdered in assaults (I assume these are the two that died from knife attacks), 10 were killed in vehicular assaults, 3 were accidentally struck by vehicles, 3 died in motorcycle accidents, 5 were killed in wrecks resulting from pursuits, 1 officer drowned, 1 officer died in a fire, and 2 were killed by accidental gunfire.

Looking at these statistics, we can narrow the number of officers murdered last year to 58.

On the other hand, in 2010 (this is the most recent year where I have credible statistics), 127 people were killed by police officers in credible cases of excessive force. Bear in mind, this does not include the total number of people killed by officers in 2010; these are only the cases where excessive force was clearly used.

Of those 127 deaths, 71% were firearm related.

In that same year, there were 4,861 credible reports of misconduct by law enforcement officers in America, involving 6,613 officers, and 6,826 alleged victims. As we look at these numbers, it is worth noting that most cases of police misconduct go unreported.

Of those 780,000 officers in America, the number that have testified against their fellow officers for crimes committed while on duty is nowhere near the 4,800 plus reported cases of credible misconduct.

Based on this data coupled with simple commonsense, the police claim that protesters are waging war against officers seems quite ridiculous.

Sources:

The Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project:

http://www.policemisconduct.net/statistics/2010-annual-report/

Officer Down Memorial Page:

http://www.odmp.org/search/year

Bureau of Labor Statistics:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detectives.htm

The Data Doesn’t Support A “War On Cops”

https://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the-data-doesnt-support-a-war-on-cops

many claim that there is a “war on cops” in America right now. But if there is one, it doesn’t seem to be showing up in data.....the annual number of non-accidental, firearm-related police fatalities, 2015 is on track to be the safest year for law enforcement in the US since 1887,” he writes. “And adjusted for the country’s growing population, the years 2013 and 2015 will be the two safest years for police in US history.”..., “the downward trend in the annual number of firearm-related police fatalities for more than a quarter century does seem to run counter to the perceptions of the public and media that it’s more dangerous today for American’s police officers than ever before,”

The ‘War on Cops’ is Pure Propaganda

– Police Kill Themselves at Triple the Rate they’re Murdered

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/focusing-police-suicide-epidemic-media-promotes-bogus-war-cops-narrative-divide-public/#ImPJ5iF0cYHxOgr5.99

The mainstream media often portrays the unfortunate random killing of police officers as analogous to a larger “war on cops.” The reality is that there is a concerted public relations effort underway, on the part of law enforcement, with the intention of stemming the growing public calls for more oversight and accountability....

One thing is apparent, as the data in the chart below show, there’s never been a time in US history when it’s been safer to be a US police officer than it is today.

KilledByPolice

https://www.facebook.com/KilledByPolice

• • At least 823 people have been killed by U.S. police since January 1, 2015.

  • At least 1,106 were killed in 2014.

  • At least 2,697 have been killed since May 1, 2013.

killedbypolice.net

The Deadliest Jobs in America

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/

The U.S. Department of Labor tracks how many people die at work, and why. The latest numbers were released in April and cover the last seven years through 2013. Some of the results may surprise you.

Once again: There is no ‘war on cops.’

And those who claim otherwise are playing a dangerous game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/09/10/once-again-there-is-no-war-on-cops-and-those-who-claim-otherwise-are-playing-a-dangerous-game/

Any murder of a police officer is a tragedy. (As is any murder of a non-police officer.) But media outlets, politicians, and police advocates do real damage when they push this false narrative about a rising threat to law enforcement. First, this sort of propaganda weights the public debate and discourse. When there’s a fictional “war on cops” blaring in the background, it becomes much more difficult to have an honest discussion about police cameras, police militarization, use of lethal force policies, police discipline, police transparency, training, police accountability, and a host of other issues. Of course, that’s precisely the point.

But there’s also a much more pernicious effect of exaggerating the threats faced by law enforcement. When cops are constantly told that they’re under constant fire, or that every interaction with a citizen could be their last, or that they’re fortunate each time they come home from the job in one piece, it’s absolute poison for police-community relations. That kind of reminder on a regular basis would put anyone on edge. We’re putting police officers in a perpetually combative mindset that psychologically isolates them from the communities they serve. Incessantly telling cops that they’re under fire can condition them to see the people with whom they interact not as citizens with rights, but as potential threats. That not only means more animosity, anger and confrontation, it can also be a barrier to building relationships with people in the community — the sorts of relationships that help police officers solve crimes and keep communities safe.

An over-emphasis on and obsession with a “war on cops” would be dangerous and counterproductive even if it were true. But by every imaginable measure, it just isn’t true. When this false narrative comes from police organizations and their supporters, it’s at least somewhat understandable. When it comes from politicians, it’s grandstanding and demagoguery. When it comes from media organizations, it’s journalistic malpractice. And it’s almost certainly getting people killed....

None of these things are indicative of a “war.” On the contrary, all of this new skepticism, criticism, forced transparency, and mistrust of the police is — again — coming even as violence against police officers is reaching historic lows. This is how a democracy is supposed to work. It’s something worth celebrating....

Instead, police groups and their advocates are claiming that the mere act of criticizing a government entity is akin to declaring war on it, and that therefore, police critics are culpable every time a police officer is murdered. (And given the way they ignore and abuse statistics, those critics are also apparently culpable for a lot of murders that never happened.) They’re essentially saying that exercising constitutional rights and participating in democracy are in and of themselves acts of violence. And in many cases, this is coming from the very people that the government empowers to use actual violence.

That is something worth worrying about.

It Has Never Been Safer to Be a Cop

http://www.newsweek.com/it-has-never-been-safer-be-cop-372025

In other words, cops are not just being saved more often—they are also being attacked and injured less frequently....

There is no war on cops. Not now, not last year, not any of the times that ideologues and media hacks have tried to invent one.

Cops need to know this. And so do we.

FBI data showing drop in police deaths undermines 'war on cops' theory

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/16/us-police-deaths-decline-2015-fbi-data

Data released by the FBI show that 2015 was one of the safest years for law enforcement officers in more than a decade.

Discussing Police Militarization on Washington Journal

http://www.policemisconduct.net/discussing-police-militarization-on-washington-journal/

CATO Institute's Tim Lynch appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss police militarization. You can watch the clip here:

What we don't know about 380 Americans shot and killed by cops this year

www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/TLI-Debate-over-police-involved-shootings-has-too-little-information.html#87zoO5GoM1kvfD0m.99

Few would argue that what happened in Hawthorne was an act of police heroism. And many would agree with the prosecutor in the Hummelstown case, that the fatal shooting by an officer there was not just unjustified but a criminal act. Indeed, the incidents have only one thing in common -- they are two of the whopping 380 cases across America in 2015 -- a year not yet half over -- in which police shot a man or woman to death, according to an eye-opening report today in the Washington Post. And here's something else astonishing: The Post article -- while comprehensive and well-reported -- doesn't capture the full-extent of police-involved killings -- because it doesn't list victims who died from other means such as Tasers or blunt objects like nightsticks. Activists who've been tracking the issue since last August's killing of Mike Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson believe that roughly 470 Americans have been in some manner killed by cops in 2015 -- a pace that would top 1,000 by year's end. It's been mentioned here before, but let's state this again: No one else does this, at least not in the so-called industrialized world. One activist group's tally of fatal police-involved shootings in England and Wales find that there have been 55 -- since 1990! In Germany, police fired a total of just 85 bullets (killing 6) in one year, 2011.

Here's What 2 Big New Reports on Police Killings Tell Us

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/data-police-shootings-washington-post-guardian

• Cops kill suspects at about twice the rate once thought—and other findings.

• Officers involved are rarely charged.

• About a quarter of all suspects killed were reportedly mentally ill.

• Most of those killed are men. Five percent of suspects tracked by the Post were female.

• At least 27 people were killed by a Taser.

• Police officers are responsible for 1 in every 13 gun deaths.

The Washington Post on Saturday published an analysis of 2015 fatal police shootings through May 29

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html

... "interviews, police reports, local news accounts and other sources." The Post's data included basic information about victims' race, age and gender, as well as whether the person was armed or had other circumstances that led to being shot by police.

The Guardian on Monday published the results of its investigation into all 2015 police killings through the end of May.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-americans-killed-by-police-analysis

The project, called The Counted, included deaths in which police officers killed citizens by means other than gunshots, including Taser stun guns and vehicle crashes. The news organization also counted deaths of people following altercations in custody.

the counted

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings

People killed by police in the US, recorded by the Guardian

– with your help

In the almost 400 police shootings that took place so far this year (June 2015), most of the victims have been white males. In fact, almost twice as many white males have been shot and killed by police than black males.

A U.S. Citizen is 58 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/u-s-citizens-58-times-killed-police-terrorists/

Most people have seen the number floating around social media that suggests that citizens are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist, but new data revisions suggest this number was dramatically underestimated.

The lack of accurate official records being kept in the important category of individuals killed by police was met with numerous efforts by citizens. One example, in particular, is www.killedbypolice.net. This site is used to more accurately track the number of people killed by cops yearly.

Previously, estimates of citizens killed by police were based on the self-reported data supplied by police departments, compiled into a yearly FBI uniform crime report for “justifiable homicide” by officers.

This information drastically underrepresented the number of people being killed at hands of police officers thus giving an unclear perspective of what is actually transpiring on the streets of America.

New data, as reported by the Guardian, suggests that an average of 545 people killed by police went unaccounted for yearly on average in the FBI data.

The revised estimates put the annual number of people killed by cops at an average of 928 per year over the past eight years; a conservative estimate. This information contrasts with the 461 reported killed by police by the FBI for 2013, a difference of almost 450 killings or nearly 50 percent.

When looking at terrorism, the U.S. Department of State reports that only 16 non-military U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2013, the most recent year data there was available data.

What this means is that a U.S. citizen is actually 58 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

Let that sink in for a moment.

You are almost 60 times more likely to have a police officer kill you than to be killed by a terrorist.

While civil liberties are rolled back in the name of “keeping us safe from terror,” under the auspices of the PATRIOT Act and the NDAA, the true threat to American freedom lies not some imaginary foreign boogeyman but rather here on our own streets.

The blue mafia is a much more dangerous enemy to the life, liberty and freedom of every U.S. citizen than the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and all other terror groups combined.

The genuine threat to America comes not from the outside but from within.

2014 1103 People Killed by Police

http://www.uglyjudge.com/masses-getting-angry-stop-police-killing-marches-masses-police-killings/

1068 Americans killed by police in 2014 why do 2 deaths get more attention than 1068 are we all created equal

http://www.uglyjudge.com/1068-americans-killed-police-2014-2-deaths-get-attention-1068-created-equal/

Who is More Dangerous? ‘Terrorists’ or ‘Law Enforcement’?

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dangerous-terrorists-law-enforcement/

Your chances of living in an electronically locked-down police state are very high. ...The government has become our enemy, out of control, and we have to depend on computer companies for any safety we may have. NSA spies on us illegally and in detail, recording telephone conversations, reading email, recording our financial transactions, on and on. TSA makes air travel a nightmare, forcing us to hop about barefoot and confiscating toothpaste. The police kick in our doors at night on no-knock raids and shoot our dogs. In bus stations we are subject to search without probable cause. The feds track us through our cell phones. Laws make it a crime to photograph the police, an out-and-out totalitarian step: Cockroaches do not like light. The feds give police forces across the country weaponry normal to militaries. Whatever the intention, it is the hardware of control of dissent....

The Counted - People killed by police in the US

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men

Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.

Comment:

The reason Law Enforcement think they are being targeted is due to their own guilty conscience. A guilty person is always fearful. The guilty fear getting caught. The guilty fear the repercussions of their actions. If Law Enforcement fear they are under attack is because they know they should be under attack.

Cops are playing the victim to justify their use of excessive force, and even murder. They play the role of victim to create a witness. They use phrases such as stop resisting even when the arrestee is not resisting. Cops are playing victim to make the public think it is they who are under attack, and they need more defense for themselves. They provoke and manufacture bogus crimes because they need the altercations that they created as their proof they are victim, and to hype up the false data. Contrary to police propaganda it is actually Law Enforcement who are the criminals using violence more often against the citizens.

Once again: There is no ‘war on cops.’ And those who claim otherwise are playing a dangerous game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/09/10/once-again-there-is-no-war-on-cops-and-those-who-claim-otherwise-are-playing-a-dangerous-game/

Claims of “war on police” largely unfounded

http://kansasexposed.org/2014/12/27/claims-of-war-on-police-largely-unfounded/

The Domestic Violence Industry works the same way. They train and use women to falsely report, provoke, and manufacture domestic violence. Both cops and women receive Immunity from false reports and perjury, and they both receive Government Grants to pay them for their Misconducts.

Feminism needs domestic violence

http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/domestic-violence-industry/feminism-needs-domestic-violence/

2015 was one of the safest years for police on record

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/12/30/was-one-safest-years-for-police-record/dW7fGmeP5xwpj7xk3QGgAK/story.html

This year will go down in the record books as one of the safest for police officers in recorded history, according to data released this week from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. There were 42 fatal shootings of police officers in 2015, down 14 percent from 2014, according to the organization.

Overall, 124 officers were killed in the line of duty this year. More than one third of those deaths were due to traffic accidents, the largest single cause of officer fatalities. Thirty other officers died of a variety of other causes, including job-related illnesses.

The 2015 data show that traffic accidents are a greater danger to police officers’ safety than shootings are.

Most police deaths were caused by their own negligence.

Barney Fife Report:

Police Deaths Year 2015

Police Officer Memorial Website

https://www.odmp.org/search?name=&agency=&state=&from=2015&to=2015&cause=&filter=all

Total Officer Deaths: 130

Here is the break down:

• • Gunfire: 33 in USA plus 2 training accidents 4 Puerto Rico, 1 Tribal Reservation, and 1 Guam

  • Automobile Accident: 28

  • Heart Attack: 18

  • Vehicular Assault: 7

  • 911 related: 6

  • Overseas Bomb, USAF: 6

  • Struck by Vehicle: 5

  • Vehicle Pursuit: 5

  • Motorcycle Accident: 4

  • Assault: 3

  • Accidental: 2

  • Duty Related illness: 2

  • Accidental Gunfire: 2

  • Aircraft Accident: 1

  • Fall: 1

Interesting they don't list suicide officer deaths. They want us to assume all cop deaths are caused by citizens.

Rate of suicides among Chicago Police a badge of high-stress job

http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rate-of-suicides-among-chicago-police-a-badge-of-high-stress-job/

In the past decade, 13 officers have been killed in the line of duty. Nearly twice as many officers died by their own hand during the same span...

Ron Rufo was a peer support counselor for most of his 21 years as a patrolman in the 9th District... Rufo, who retired a little more than a year ago, estimates the number of his former peers who kill themselves each year could be double the FOP figure...

Killed By Police

https://www.facebook.com/KilledByPolice/

At least 1,207 people were killed by U.S. police in 2015.

At least 1,112 were killed in 2014.

More than 3,400 have been killed since May 1, 2013.

Fatal Encounters - Police Involved Killings

http://www.fatalencounters.org/spreadsheets/

Fatal Encounters Brief Descriptions

https://sites.google.com/site/nodakwc/police-official-misconduct/Fatal%20Encounters%20Police%20Killers%20Jan2016.rtf?attredirects=0&d=1

Fatal Encounters .PDF

https://sites.google.com/site/nodakwc/police-official-misconduct/FATAL%20ENCOUNTER%20Jan2016%20SPREADSHEET%20%28Responses%29.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

The description of circumstances are not well defined. So many stories are unknown as to the type of circumstance the officer was responding to. The following words are indicative of an at least scenario of a minimum of occurances.

The following word appears (x) number of times within the .pdf file:

domestic 227 times

wife 147

husband 36

boy 118

girl 247

woman 259

man 3582

child 58

friend 164

father 55

mother 121

relation 5

brother 44

sister 28

family 341

neighbor 90

When the Police killed in the reports, most often by shooting, it somehow involved at least one of the above listed words in some reports.

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Firearm deaths Comparison of Cops vs. Citizens in USA (2015):

Based on a 100,000 population basis of Cops and Citizens. In 2015 there were 0.9 Million Cops in USA, and 321.4 Million Citizens:

Cops kill Citizens by firearm at a rate of 3.5 times more than citizens kill another citizen by firearm.

Cops kill Citizens by firearm at a rate of 1,000 times more than citizens kill cops by firearm.

Police killing citizens by firearm:

121 deaths per 100,000 police officers

Citizens killing citizens by firearm :

35 deaths per 100,000 citizens

Citizen killing Police Officers by firearm:

0.121 deaths per 100,000 citizens

There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States, which is the highest figure ever. Approximately 90% of the Cops killing Citizens were by Firearm. Cops killed at least 1,205 Citizens in 2015:

1,205 x 90% = 1,085 death by firearm

1,085 Police killings of citizens by firearm in 2015: 1,085 / 9 = 121

Police killing citizens, firearm: 121 deaths per 100,000 police officers

The United States population in 2013 was: 316,500,000

Firearm used in Homicide in 2013 11,208

Citizens killing citizens, firearm: 35 deaths per 100,000 citizens

Police officer shooting deaths in 2015: 39

The United States population in 2015 was: 321,442,019

Citizen killing Police Officers, firearm: 0.121 deaths per 100,000 citizens

0.90 Million Cops killed 1,085 Citizens by firearms (2015).

321.4 Million Citizens killed 39 Cops by firearms (2015).

316.5 Million Citizens killed 11,208 Citizens by firearms (2013).

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Since 2013, 4,054 people have been killed by police. 3% of involved officers have faced criminal charges.

6 officers have been convicted, a .1% conviction rate. U.S. Police continue to shoot and kill individuals at astounding rates. The increased attention to these killings has resulted in several changes, including pushing for body cameras and the creation of Blue Lives Matter laws, which makes shooting police a hate crime.

Lives Matter

http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/59786-lives-matter.html

The FBI tells us that 58.7% of arrests for violent crime are of white people and 38.5% are of black people.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43

In 2015, the Guardian reports 1146 people were killed by police, of these 581 were white and 306 were black. 570 of those killed were under age 30.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

US Police Have Killed Nearly 9,000 Civilians Since 9/11

http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-police-killed-nearly-9000-civilians-since-911/218381/

But that estimate is probably low because police departments don’t have to disclose details on police killings and the U.S. government doesn’t formally track them.

1,900 people died while being arrested in 2015. Two-thirds were intentionally killed.

https://miamiherald.relaymedia.com/amp/news/nation-world/national/article121930428.html

The Bureau of Justice Statistics released its findings on arrest-related deaths on Thursday, which estimated about 1,900 people had died while being arrested in 2015...

Of those deaths in June, July and August, 64 percent were homicides, defined as willful killing of another, 18 percent were suicides and 11 percent were accidents, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The Bureau defined arrest-related deaths as any deaths that occur while a person is being detained by law enforcement in an official capacity, when their freedom to leave is limited by an officer prior to or during an arrest, and any death in a lock-up or booking center.

5 year study finds that too many donuts, and distracted driving responsible for majority of police fatalities.

The Boss Hogg Report: Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane, and his Deputies.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF POLICE DEATHS 5 year span FROM 2010 to 2014 :

(per year average)

Total line of duty deaths 137

Officer responding to dispatched call for service 18

Self initiated activity 8

Traffic related 54

Officers shot while not responding to a call 27

Cases identified that involved a call for service. 18

Domestic Dispute: 4 (3 by firearm, 1 nonfirearm)

Traffic Stops 5

Types of Weapons Used: gunfire 26

Deadly Calls and Fatal Encounters:

An analysis of U. S. law enforcement line-of-duty fatalities as officers responded to calls for service and engaged in self-initiated enforcement activity (2010-2014).

http://www.nleomf.org/programs/cops/cops-report.html Disclaimer (author and police bias)

This report is a five year study analyzing total line of duty deaths in which a total of 684 cases. 137 per yr. avg.

91 cases that met the criteria for an officer responding to dispatched call for service. 18 per yr avg

41 separate cases of self initiated activity. 8 per yr avg

The largest category of excluded cases was Traffic related, with 272. 54 per yr avg

These include officers killed in automobile crashes, motorcycle crashes, and struck by incidents.

Although an analysis of officers crashing enroute to a call for service was conducted, a large number of the crashes investigated were not related to either a call for service or a case of self initiated activity. ...

Officers shot while not responding to a call was the second largest category of excluded cases,

totaling 134. 27 per yr avg

Officers who suffered fatal Job Related Illnesses were also excluded. An example is an officer suffering

a heart attack... These were cases where the death of the officer was the result of something internal rather than external and not the result of a suspect’s direct action.

The cases in the Other category, include officers who died during weather-related events, industrial accidents, aircraft accidents, training mishaps, and in various unpredictable circumstances...

As each of the 132 ( 26 per yr avg ) remaining cases that were culled from the larger pool was reviewed, the research team inspected the documents associated with each case file....

Fatal Calls for Service as Dispatched:

There were 91 cases identified that involved a call for service. 18 per yr avg

Researchers divided those cases into categories according to the classification or nature of the call...

Domestic Dispute: 22% ( 91 x 22% = 20 , 20 / 5 =

4 officer deaths per yr due to DV incidents, total).

The analysis of calls for service that were classified as Domestic Dispute accounted for 20 ( 4 per yr avg ) of the 91

( 18 per yr avg ) calls for service, or 22 percent, that resulted in an officer fatality. In all but one of the cases studied, the responding officers were killed with a firearm ( 3 officer deaths per yr due to DV by a firearm ).

Summary of Important Data Points from Calls for Service Analysis: Of the 91 ( 18 per yr avg ) calls for service cases reviewed, 88 officers died as a result of gunfire, 18 per yr avg..

Self Initiated Activity:

Traffic Stops accounted for 26 ( 5 per yr avg ) (63 percent) of the 41 ( 8 per yr avg ) self initiated cases that lead to line of duty fatalities. Enforcing traffic regulations represent the most common form of contact the public has with law enforcement.

Types of Weapons Used: In an analysis of both calls for service and self initiated activity, which totals 132

cases ( 26 per yr avg ), officers died as a result of gunfire in 129 ( 26 per yr avg ) cases. One officer was stabbed ( 0.2 per year avg ), one officer was pushed and fell from an elevated area, and one officer was intentionally run over by a vehicle ( 0.2 per yr avg ). Of the 129 ( 26 per yr avg ) officers who were shot and killed, 92 ( 18 per yr avg ) cases (71 percent) involved suspects armed with a handgun. In 27 ( 5 per yr avg ) cases (21 percent), suspects used a rifle against the officer(s). A shotgun was used in 10 ( 2 per yr avg ) cases (8 percent).

A Look at 2015 Year Fatality Data

123 law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2015. Of those123 cases, 48 died in traffic related incidents, 41 officers were shot, and 28 died as a result of other circumstances such as heart attacks, falls, or job related illnesses. ...In looking at the 41 officers shot,

39 were intentionally shot by suspects while two officers were inadvertently shot during training.

In eight of the incidents in which officers were shot and killed, domestic violence or domestic related disputes were the overt or underlying cause of the encounter between law enforcement and the suspect.

Five of these fatal cases stemmed from officers responding to a domestic disturbance call, while one

case involved an officer serving a “domestic injunction,” another officer was killed as he responded to a

domestic related Shots Fired call and a detective was shot while guarding an injured prisoner charged with a domestic related offense at a hospital.

USA POPULATION 2010 TO 2017, in MILLIONS:

http://www.multpl.com/united-states-population/table

2010 = 310 2011 = 312 2012 = 314 2013 = 316 2014 = 319 015 = 321 2016 = 323 2017 = 325

Average USA Population from 2010 to 2014 was 315 Million people.

The curious grammar of police shootings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings

You’re probably familiar with the weaselly way politicians tend to apologize when they’ve been caught red-handed. ...You’ll often see a similar grammatical device when a police officer shoots someone...

As it turns out, Winkler was innocent. He hadn’t “aggressed” the officers at all. Rather, he and another victim, both of whom had been stabbed, were running toward the police to escape their assailant. (The deputies shot the other victim, too.) The press release incorrectly assigned criminal culpability to an innocent stabbing victim, but carefully avoided prematurely assigning responsibility to the deputies who shot him....

Blame Game

http://www.phoenixmag.com/valley-news/blame-game.html

Phoenix now lead the nation in officer-involved shootings... The Phoenix Police Department is the “deadliest in the country,” according to local criminal justice advocacy group Justice That Works. By late October, as this issue went to press, Phoenix PD officers had pulled the trigger in 38 shootings this year, killing their targets in 19 instances. That makes 2018 by far the most violent on record for Phoenix, breaking the previous high of 31 in 2013, and even surpassing the number of officer-involved shootings this year in Los Angeles (29) and Chicago (14) – both much larger cities with higher violent crime rates....

For fifth year in a row, US police kill more than one thousand

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/07/poli-j07.html

As of this writing, Mapping Police Violence (MPV) reports that police killed 1,122 people in 2018, somewhat less than the 1,147 reported the previous year...

MPV defines police killings as a “case where a person dies as a result of being chased, beaten, arrested, restrained, shot, pepper sprayed, tasered, or otherwise harmed by police officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, intentional or accidental.”

According to the Washington Post, which only tracks police shootings and does not include other types of police killings, such as taserings and beatings, police killed 996 in 2018, slightly higher than their total of 987 from 2017....

Yet, for all the thousands killed, cops are rarely ever charged or, if charged, convicted. According to research by Philip Stinson, an associate professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, between 2005 and April 2017, during which thousands were killed by police, only 80 police officers were arrested for murder or manslaughter. In 2015, during the Obama administration, MPV found that 99 percent of police killings resulted in no conviction of a police officer....

New Book: Do SoCal Police Agencies Protect Their Own Murderers From Justice?

https://ocweekly.com/stephanie-lazarus-lapd-murder

Through incompetence, villainy or a combination of both, the case went unsolved for decades inside the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). A killer had entered Rasmussen’s home on a Monday morning, ambushed her, savagely bit her arm, repeatedly cracked her skull, fired three fatal bullets into her chest, staged a burglary-gone-wrong scene, left the victim wearing expensive jewelry, then calmly resumed her day job as an LAPD cop....Stephanie Lazarus not only escaped justice, but also thrived in the department for the next 23 years. She rose in rank, won cushy assignments, filled private-diary entries with her regular dream destination (a tanning salon), spent hours dining while on duty, visited boyfriends and slept in a patrol car she’d parked in secluded areas. Department brass frequently promoted this murderer, including to internal-affairs work, and celebrated her supposed “loyalty, attention to duty and unselfish work ethics.”...

Keep ex-officer Raja in prison as Corey Jones shooting conviction is appealed

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190516/prosecutors-keep-ex-officer-raja-in-prison-as-corey-jones-shooting-conviction-is-appealed

Calling him a killer who wounded the law enforcement community, prosecutors this week asked a judge to keep former Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja in prison as he fights his convictions and 25-year prison sentence for the 2015 shooting death of stranded motorist Corey Jones.

Raja’s attorneys this month asked Circuit Judge Joseph Marx to free Raja as he appeals the guilty verdicts a Palm Beach County jury returned against him in March on manslaughter and attempted murder charges. The convictions make the now imprisoned 41-year-old the first police officer in three decades to be held criminally liable for taking a life while on duty....

At the time, Jones’ broken down SUV was on the off-ramp of Interstate 95 at PGA Boulevard and he was on the phone with a roadside assistance operator asking for a tow truck. Raja, who was working a plainclothes burglary detail, drove the wrong way up the exit ramp in an unmarked van. He shot Jones three times after, he said, Jones pointed a gun at him. Jones gun was found, unfired, more than 40 yards away from his body. A key piece of evidence in Raja’s trial was a recording of Jones’ roadside assistance call, which capture both the brief exchange between the two men and the subsequent shooting. The recording contradicted Raja’s claims to investigators that he had introduced himself as a police officer to Jones when he approached him. Jones’ loved ones, who are pursuing a wrongful death suit against the city of Palm Beach Gardens, have said they believe Jones died without ever realizing that Raja was a police officer....

ANOTHER SLAVE MURDERED BY SLAVE PATROL FOR THE CRIME OF CALLING 911-SLAVE-PATROL....

'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/30/gonna-kill-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-final-minutes-tony-timpas-life

Tony Timpa wailed and pleaded for help more than 30 times as Dallas police officers pinned his shoulders, knees and neck to the ground.

“You’re gonna kill me! You’re gonna kill me! You’re gonna kill me!”

After Timpa fell unconscious, the officers who had him in handcuffs assumed he was asleep and didn’t confirm that he was breathing or feel for a pulse.

As precious minutes passed, the officers laughed and joked about waking Timpa up for school and making him waffles for breakfast....

ANOTHER USA SLAVE SHOT IN HIS OWN HOME BY SLAVE PATROL BECAUSE THE SLAVE WAS PROTECTING HIS FAMILY FROM UNKNOWN AND UNIDENTIFIED CHAOS USING HIS BILL OF RIGHT...

Police said an officer shot a man who opened a door while aiming a gun. Then the body-cam video came out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/31/police-said-they-shot-man-when-he-opened-his-door-aiming-gun-then-bodycam-video-came-out

Police in Greenville, S.C., said a deputy fired shots when a homeowner opened his door and aimed a gun on June 13. The bodycam video shows a different story. There were many questions the night a South Carolina man was shot multiple times, in his own home, by a Greenville County sheriff’s deputy. That same night, a sheriff’s office spokesman gave reporters a simple account of what took place: The deputy fired his weapon after the homeowner flung open the door and aimed a gun at him. But more than a month later — with body-camera video released — the questions remain unanswered, and the sheriff’s office account is under intense scrutiny....

The video does not show Tench “open the door and point a gun directly at the deputy,” as officials originally claimed. “That’s the most disturbing aspect, aside from the fact he was shot four times, was that the account of what happened was absolutely untrue,”... the deputy did not identify himself as law enforcement until after he fired the shots....“Who are you . . . what are you here for?” Tench is heard yelling as he writhes in pain....“Because we got an alarm call!” the deputy yells back. “Oh my God, call the cops, please!” Tench replies. “I am the cops!” the deputy says....“I saw the lights and I heard the doorbell and I got my gun, I’m a concealed-weapons guy!” Tench said. " . . . You came to my house 12 o’clock at night, I’m sleeping . . . God damn I’ve got to protect my house! Oh my God. Get the ambulance right now. I’m gonna die . . . I can’t believe you did this to mego...

Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2014 - Statistical Tables

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mlj0014st.pdf#page=1

List of tablesTABLe 1 Number of local jail inmate deaths, by cause of death, 2000–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

TABLe 7Mortality rate per 100,000 local jail inmates, by selected decedent characteristics, 2000 and 2005–2014 . . . . . . . . . . .9

TABLe 8 Number of local jail inmate deaths, by cause of death and selected decedent characteristics, 2000–2014 . . . . . . . . . . 10

TABLe 12 Offenses of deceased local jail inmates, by conviction status and time served before death, 2000–2014 . . . . . . . 13

TABLe 13 Death location of local jail inmates, by cause of death, 2000–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

TABLe 14 Number, percent, average daily population, and mortality rate per 100,000 local jail inmate deaths, by hold status, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

TABLe 15 Number and percent of local jail jurisdictions reporting to the Deaths in Custody Program, by number of deaths reported each year, 2000–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

TABLe 16 Number of local jail inmates held on an average day, by state, 2000 and 2005–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

TABLe 17 Number of local jail deaths, by state, 2000 and 2005–2014. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

TABLe 19Number of local jail jurisdictions reporting to the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, by state, 2000 and 2005–2014. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2014 - Statistical Tables | December 2016 4List of appendix tablesAPPeNDiX TABLe 1 Estimated number of local jail inmates in custody on an average day, by selected inmate characteristics, 2000 and 2005–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

APPeNDiX TABLe 2Illness mortality rate per 100,000 local jail inmates, by selected decedent characteristics, 2005–2014 . . . . . . . . . . .26

APPeNDiX TABLe 4 Suicide mortality rate per 100,000 local jail inmates, by selected characteristics, 2005–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

APPeNDiX TABLe 5 Mortality rate for all other unnatural deaths per 100,000 local jail inmates, by selected characteristics, 2005–2014 29

Ex-prison guard trainee takes deal in Nevada inmate's death

https://www.mrt.com/news/crime/article/Ex-Nevada-prison-guard-trainee-takes-deal-in-14578945.php

A former guard trainee who acknowledged firing fatal shotgun blasts that killed a handcuffed inmate in a Nevada prison hallway nearly five years ago has taken a plea deal, officials said Wednesday. An attorney for the family of the inmate called the deal a "slap on the hand." Raynaldo-John Ruiz Ramos entered a so-called "Alford plea" on Tuesday to a charge of attempted performance of an act or neglect of duty in willful or wanton disregard of safety or persons or property resulting in death. The plea settles the prosecution in the November 2014 killing of Carlos Manuel Perez Jr. at High Desert State Prison. Ramos' plea acknowledged that state prosecutors could have presented evidence of guilt if the case had gone to trial. His attorney, Joshua Tomsheck, said the agreement spared everyone "the trauma and expense of a public trial" and allows his client to put the case behind him....Ramos, an Army veteran who served three tours in Iraq, promised to undergo a Department of Veterans Affairs mental health evaluation and counseling, and complete 10 hours a month of community service for two years. The case could then be reduced to a misdemeanor and Ramos will not have a felony conviction, according to terms of the plea deal. Ramos, 39, had faced felony manslaughter and other charges that could have gotten him up to nine years in prison. Attorney Paola Armeni, representing Perez's family, said she believed the plea deal arranged by state prosecutors failed to hold anyone accountable for Perez's death. "It's a slap on the hand," Armeni said. "He's not a felon. No probation. No fine." ...

USA DEATH CAMPS WHERE SLAVE PATROL CAN MURDER SLAVES THEN CALL IT SUICIDE...

Why Jails Have More Suicides than Prisons

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/04/why-jails-have-more-suicides-than-prisons

A report released today by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that among the causes of death behind bars, suicide in county jails — a leading cause of death in such facilities — is on the rise. ... One reason why jails have a higher suicide rate (46 per 100,000 in 2013) than prisons (15 per 100,000) is that people who enter a jail often face a first-time “shock of confinement”; they are stripped of their job, housing, and basic sense of normalcy. Many commit suicide before they have been convicted at all. According to the BJS report, those rates are seven times higher than for convicted inmates. ...

DOMESTIC ENEMIES MURDER ANOTHER SLAVE IN USA DEATH CAMPS. PAY UP SLAVES. YO MASTAS MURDERED ANOTHER ONE YALL...

Death without conviction: Despite prisoner's death, county keeps medical provider

https://www.palestineherald.com/news/death-without-conviction-despite-prisoner-s-death-county-keeps-medical/article_0990df00-2da9-11ea-8854-574b7e4bfa32.html

a $10-million wrongful death lawsuit against the county, and a Texas Rangers report exposing negligence by the medical provider in the 2018 death of prisoner Rhonda Newsome.... Corley and Green were under contract on June 15, 2018, when Newsome died in custody in a holding cell at the jail. In June, the Herald-Press reported the findings of a Texas Rangers' investigation, completed May 31, that showed negligence in Newsome's death. The Texas Rangers reported Newsome died nearly seven hours after the Palestine Regional Medical Center told jail medical staff that Newsome's blood test results showed imminent danger of death.... “This was the decision of the court,” Johnston told the Herald-Press Tuesday. “It's in the best interest of the taxpayers.”...

No Charges For San Jose Police Officers Who Killed Domestic Violence Suspect With Tear Gas

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/01/08/san-jose-police-tear-gas-death-mark-spencer-no-charges/

San Jose police officers who inadvertently killed a man by tear gassing him while he was hiding in a confined space during a standoff in 2018 will not face criminal charges, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday.

Mark Spencer, 51, had locked himself in a crawlspace under a bedroom in his girlfriend’s home. After 14 hours trying to get him out, police gassed him inside, but overestimated the size of the space and the amount of gas they could safely use.

But the error did not amount to criminal negligence, prosecutors said....

How police justify shootings: The 1974 killing of an unarmed teen set a standard

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/officer-killed-unarmed-teen-1974-it-changed-how-police-justify-n1120611

The case, Tennessee v. Garner, led to a 1985 Supreme Court decision in the family's favor that established that police can't shoot fleeing suspects unless they pose immediate danger....And while Tennessee v. Garner became a fixture of police training, the standard it set also taught officers what they needed to say and do to legally justify shooting a suspect. Of the 1,000 people police kill on average every year,...Tennessee's law allowing police to shoot fleeing violent crime suspects — using any "necessary means" to stop them — dated to 1858....

FBI's use-of-force standard — shoot in situations in which a threat is imminent and immediate self-defense or defense of others is necessary — represented a better model than Tennessee's law allowing police to shoot fleeing violent crime suspects. And burglary was a property crime, not a violent one, he argued. In the early 1980s, only about 1.5 percent of burglaries involved any confrontation between burglar and resident, an NAACP researcher found. And, in most of those cases, that amounted to shouting matches, not violence....

in states that once allowed police to shoot fleeing suspects, fatal police shootings dropped by almost 24 percent, compared to almost 13 percent in other states, the study found....Researchers have long noted that when a police department changes its use-of-force policy, officers correspondingly change how they describe events. For example, in Memphis after the Garner decision, the number of shootings described as having occurred while working to "apprehend suspect" declined by 58.6 percent, while the rate of shootings described as necessary to "defend life" increased by 91.5 percent, according to the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology research. Police seemed to grasp the Garner ruling and became more adept at describing their actions in the terms most likely to be deemed justifiable, Winter said. And when the Supreme Court later handed down decisions that emphasized a different standard for use of force — what a reasonable police officer would do — police shootings began to climb.... the Supreme Court's most recent case involving a fleeing suspect in 2007, have created conditions under which police shootings are a leading cause of death for young men. And the 1,000 people, on average, killed by police every year continue to include unarmed, fleeing individuals,...

Prince George’s officer charged in fatal shooting of handcuffed suspect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/prince-george-police-shooting/2020/01/28/47359178-41e2-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html

Prince George’s County police charged an officer with murder Tuesday, saying he fired seven shots at a man who was cuffed in the front seat of a cruiser with his hands behind his back. ...

The details Stawinski presented Tuesday altered the narrative previously shared by police after the shooting Monday night. Police initially reported Green may have been under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic that has been associated with violent behavior, and that there was a struggle inside the cruiser before Green’s death.

Stawinski said PCP does not appear to have been involved and he could not corroborate an account by witnesses of a struggle in the cruiser. Green may not have been wearing a seat belt in the cruiser as initially reported, Stawinski said.

Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. is in custody and awaiting a bond hearing, Stawinski said. He is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and associated weapons charges....

Owen, who joined the force about 2009, was involved with two earlier shootings, one of them fatal....

Charging a police officer in an on-duty shooting is extremely rare. According to a Washington Post analysis of thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police nationally between 2005 and 2015, only 54 officers were charged.... “I have seen a lot of horrible fatal police shootings, but this one is in the top 10,” Murphy said in an interview....

Maryland Man Killed in No-Knock SWAT Raid Was Shot While Asleep, Family Says

https://reason.com/2020/03/16/maryland-man-killed-in-no-knock-swat-raid-was-shot-while-asleep-family-says

Montgomery County police say Duncan Lemp "confronted" a SWAT team executing a search warrant on his family's house. His family says he was shot in bed. "The facts as I understand them from eyewitnesses are incredibly concerning," Rene Sandler, an attorney for Lemp's family, told the Associated Press. "Any attempt by the police to shift responsibility onto Duncan or his family who were sleeping when the police fired shots into their home is not supported by the facts," Lamp's family said in the statement released by Sandler. ...

Gun store manager at LAPD Academy arrested for allegedly stealing firearms, selling them to officers

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-09/manager-of-gun-store-at-lapd-academy-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-firearms-and-selling-them-to-cops

The manager of a gun store at the Los Angeles Police Academy has been arrested on suspicion of stealing firearms and selling them to several officers and an L.A. County sheriff’s deputy, according to records and sources. Archi Duenas, 33, was booked on suspicion of felony grand theft on March 20 after nearly 40 firearms disappeared from the gun store, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.

A dozen of the weapons have not been found, while the others were relinquished to detectives by the purchasers, sources said. The gun thefts could stretch back several years and involve more than the batch that led to Duenas’ arrest, according to two sources familiar with the probe. According to sources, the police officers and sheriff’s deputy purchased the guns without legally required federal paperwork and probably at steep discounts, which could expose them to criminal charges. “They knew what they were doing,” said a person familiar with the investigation. “You know when you’re buying illegally and well below market value.”...The gun store at the Academy is patronized mostly by law enforcement officials and is run by the nonprofit Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club, whose governing board is made up of LAPD officers, including some command staff. Duenas, a longtime employee, is well known among officers who buy firearms and ammunition for personal use or to supplement their department-issued equipment. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened in L.A. last month, police officers lined up at the LAPRAAC store to stock up, mirroring a run on gun purchases among the public during that time....

Baltimore police officer shoots man dead, injures another after nuisance call

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/25/balt-m25.html

However, the official statements given by the county police have been contradicted by the accounts of several neighbors who witnessed the shooting. Kayla Stokes, a neighbor, told the Sun she was sitting near her window when she observed a police car pull up near a group of about 10 neighborhood children and teenagers. According to Stokes, the officer immediately pointed his flashlight and gun at the group and began shooting and chasing them within a minute or two. The man holding a weapon threw it down and ran away.

Regarding the officer, “He didn’t wait. He just started shooting. I told my child’s father, ‘They shooting him for no reason.’ Police seen him throw it down. ... I don’t understand why he would shoot him in the back. It was clear as day he was running away from him.” Stokes disputed the police department’s statement that the crowd had dispersed before the officer arrived: “Any of them young kids could’ve got shot. They were hiding behind freakin’ cars.”

Stokes condemned the police shooting as unjustifiable, “The police had no right to do what they did to that boy at all. Now, some mother doesn’t get to kiss their kid goodnight. That’s all I could think about.”

Stokes’ version of events was supported by others. LaKisha Chase, mother of one of the victims, told the Sun that she had witnessed Johnson exiting his vehicle with his hands up when a firearm fell from his car. “Shots were fired as soon as she heard Johnson’s gun hit the pavement,” the Sun wrote....

BLACK SLAVERY HAS DECLINED IN THE CITY BUT, WHITE SLAVERY HAS INCREASED IN THE SUBHOOD, AND RURAL BECUZ WHITE SLAVES STILL THINK THEY ARE FREE...

Police Are Killing Fewer People In Big Cities, But More In Suburban And Rural America

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-are-killing-fewer-people-in-big-cities-but-more-in-suburban-and-rural-america

While the nationwide total of people killed by police nationwide has remained steady, the numbers have dropped significantly in America’s largest cities, likely due to reforms to use-of-force policies implemented in the wake of high-profile deaths. Those decreases, however, have been offset by increases in police killings in more suburban and rural areas. ...The databases have slightly different methodologies for collecting and including police killings. And not everyone who’s shot winds up dying, which means some people who are shot by police don’t end up in one of these tracking projects....

This shift mirrors other trends within the criminal justice system. For example, since 2013, the number of people in jail per capita in urban areas has fallen by 22 percent, while rates have increased by 26 percent in rural areas... Similarly, arrest rates have declined in major cities at a faster pace than arrest rates in suburban and rural areas....

'Live PD' says video showing in-custody death of black driver has been destroyed

https://theweek.com/speedreads/919137/live-pd-says-video-showing-incustody-death-been-destroyed

A Live PD crew filmed the in-custody death of a black man in Austin, Texas, last year, but representatives of the show said Tuesday the footage can't be turned over to investigators because it has been destroyed.

Javier Ambler, a 40-year-old father of two and former postal worker, died on March 28, 2019, while being arrested by Williamson County sheriff's deputies. On Monday, the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV first reported details of Ambler's death, after obtaining video from a police officer's body cam. There is also dash-cam footage, which has not been released.

Williamson County deputies tried to pull Ambler over after he did not dim his SUV's headlights to oncoming traffic, the Statesman reports. A 20 minute car chase ensued. The body cam footage shows Ambler on a street, being held down by deputies. With the Live PD crew filming, police officers tased Ambler four times. He is heard saying he has congestive heart failure and can't breathe, and after crying out, "Save me," he is hit with the final shock, the Statesman reports....

Videos often contradict what police say in reports. Here's why some officers continue to lie

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/us/police-reports-lying-videos-misconduct-trnd/index.html

Police officers are authority figures, and their words have historically held more weight than the average citizen. But videos from several recent incidents, and countless others from over the years, have shown what many black Americans have long maintained: that police officers lie. Here's why experts say some police officers falsify reports and statements, and why the problem persists. It's fairly common for officers to lie in police reports, said Philip Stinson, a criminologist and professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University.... So why do officers lie in police statements?

When officers misrepresent incidents in police reports, it is often to justify the use of excessive force or an unlawful arrest, he said. The officer knows that they have made a mistake and are trying to avoid losing their job, criminal charges or other disciplinary actions. "Your motivation to lie, really, is to keep your job and hope that nobody finds out," Thomas said. To justify an action: Another reason is what's known as "noble cause corruption," said Philip Stinson, a criminologist and professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University. Officers might lie in police reports to justify an action they took, whether the use of force or a questionable arrest....

Time and time again, videos have surfaced that have contradicted what police said in their initial statements....They are often not held accountable...Sometimes, the video is never made public. And even when it is, officers are often not held accountable.

"There's so many lies being caught on video or this behavior that the police then tell a totally different story about," Moran said. "There's a lot of police officers lying who we're just not going to find out about. And then the ones who are, it doesn't mean just because there's brief political outrage that they're going to get held accountable."

The investigative process tends to favor officers...Most police departments around the country handle officer misconduct complaints through an internal affairs unit within the department. That means police are generally investigating their own colleagues, and deciding what punishment, if any, to impose. "There's a strong culture of protecting each other,"...Discipline is often minimal: Even when discipline is imposed, Moran says, it often isn't meaningful....Officers are often protected from repercussions:...657 police union contracts and 20 law enforcement officer bills of rights, which govern internal disciplinary procedures for many police officers in the US. ...

'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying. 'I don't care,' officer responds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-can-t-breathe-oklahoma-man-tells-police-dying-i-n1229586

In the May 20, 2019 footage, released this week by the Oklahoma City Police Department, three officers are seen restraining the man, Derrick Scott, 42, who can be heard asking repeatedly for his medicine and saying that he can’t breathe. “I don’t care,” one of the officers, Jarred Tipton, can be heard replying at one point. “You can breathe just fine,” another officer can be heard saying a couple of minutes later. Scott, who appears unresponsive several minutes into the footage, was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. An autopsy obtained by NBC News lists his cause of death as a collapsed lung....

FORMER COP MURDERS AND RAPES IN THE HUNDREDS SINCE AT LEAST 1973 AS PROVEN BY DNA. HOW MANY MORE HE MURDERED AND RAPED IS UNKNOWN...

Golden State Killer pleads guilty to murders and other crimes that terrorized California

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-29/golden-state-killer-serial-plea-murders-rapes

Wearing orange jail clothing and a clear protective face shield, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. admitted guilt Monday to more than a dozen murders and scores of home invasion rapes and other crimes at a court hearing in a Cal State Sacramento ballroom....

In a hoarse voice, DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 charges of kidnapping for purposes of robbery — the only crimes with which he is charged. He also admitted to some 62 other crimes of rape and abduction for which the statutes of limitations long ago expired....DeAngelo’s crimes ran from at least 1973 to 1986 and involved attacks on some 106 children, men and women in 11 counties, ranging from Sacramento to Orange. Some 50 women and girls were raped....Detectives did not have a final named suspect until 2018, when they used crime-scene DNA and genealogy services to identify the killer’s cousin and then, finally, DeAngelo, a former police officer....

On The Day George Floyd Died, He Wasn’t The Only Man Killed By Police

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/george-floyd-other-men-killed-by-police

On May 25, 2020 — the day Minneapolis police killed George Floyd — officers shot and killed at least five other men across the country. They included a decorated Marine veteran and two warehouse workers. They lived with their children in suburban brick houses and with their mothers off dusty backroads. They were Black, white, Latino, and Pacific Islander. They hailed from the Southeast to the North Pacific. Since 2015, police in the US have not gone more than two days without fatally shooting someone....

2 Officers Face Murder Charges After Using Taser on Man More Than 50 Times, Officials Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/Jared-lakey-death-Oklahoma-police-taser.html

Two Oklahoma police officers have been charged with second-degree murder after they used Tasers more than 50 times on a man who later died, according to court records. The officers, Joshua Taylor, 25, and Brandon Dingman, 34, of the Wilson Police Department, were charged in connection with the death last year of the man, Jared Lakey, 28, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation....

After he shot and killed an unarmed teen driver, a Kansas police officer was paid a $70,000 severance

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/07/03/after-he-shot-killed-an-unarmed-teen-driver-kansas-police-officer-was-paid-70000-severance

About six weeks after an Overland Park, Kan., police officer fired 13 shots into a minivan driven by an unarmed 17-year-old in 2018, killing him, the city paid the officer $70,000 in a severance agreement, the teen’s mother recently discovered.

The killing of John Albers by Clayton Jenison, in the driveway of Albers’s family home in a suburb of Kansas City, was captured by two police dash cameras and a Ring home security camera across the street. Jenison claimed that he thought Albers, whose friends called police because they believed he was suicidal, was going to run him over, though the videos showed Jenison was never in the van’s path....

Golden State Killer given life in prison for rapes, murders that terrorized a generation

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-21/golden-state-killer-sentencing-justice-victims-serial-murders-rapes

A Sacramento County judge Friday sentenced 74-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. to life without parole for killing 13 people and raping 50 in a series of break-ins that terrorized the state. Judge Michael Bowman handed down the sentence in the ballroom at Sacramento State University, where DeAngelo, a former police officer, graduated nearly 50 years ago with a degree in criminal justice....But as the historic criminal case came to an end, victims and prosecutors struggled with what constitutes justice after four decades of suffering and loss....“Justice is not possible in this case,” said Jennifer Carole, whose father, Lyman Smith, and his wife, Charlene, were murdered by DeAngelo. “And because of that, I can have no peace.”...

The counts against DeAngelo, detailing more than 100 criminal offenses, were so numerous that Bowman needed 22 minutes to read them aloud and impose the accompanying sentences, the maximum allowed under law after prosecutors had agreed not to seek the death penalty....DeAngelo admitted to carrying out 53 attacks on 87 victims in 11 counties, starting in 1975 and ending with the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Orange County in 1986. Authorities believe he is also responsible for two more sexual assaults and a shooting for which he was not charged....

Family, activists decry shooting death of Black man by L.A. County sheriff’s deputies

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-01/family-activists-demand-transparency-action-after-l-a-county-sheriffs-deputies-fatally-shoot-black-man

“The deputies essentially executed a man riding his bicycle,” Najee Ali, a community activist, said Tuesday while standing beside some of Kizzee’s relatives at the scene of the shooting. “They’ll say he had a gun, but what they won’t say was that he was not armed with the gun. He did not point the gun. ... There was no reason for deputies to shoot a running man.”...

Black Man Died of Suffocation After Officers Put Hood on Him

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/nyregion/daniel-prude-rochester-police.html

A Black man died of suffocation in Rochester, N.Y., after police officers who were taking him into custody put a hood over his head and then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes,...

A Man Died After Police Held Him on Hot Asphalt for 6 Minutes. He Was Reported for Loitering.

https://reason.com/2020/09/02/phoenix-police-department-ramon-lopez-died-hot-asphalt

The Phoenix Police Department (PPD) is conducting an internal investigation after a man was killed when three officers pinned and arrested him on hot asphalt. Ramon Lopez, who was 28 years old, died on August 4 after being subdued on a roadway for approximately six minutes. It was about 100 degrees that morning, and blacktop temperatures can climb 40 to 60 degrees above outside temperatures....

It's not the first time the PPD has come under scrutiny. The department has developed somewhat of a reputation: They are the subject of a recent lawsuit from a teen who suffered second-degree burns after a cop allegedly pinned her on hot asphalt in August of last year after law enforcement responded to complaints of a fight between high school students. Also last summer, a PPD officer assaulted a young father while a different officer threatened to shoot his fiancé because their daughter was suspected of stealing a Barbie from a dollar store. "Get your fucking hands up," one officer said. "I'm gonna put a fucking cap right in your fucking head!" An internal investigation resulted in that cop's firing. And in May, a Phoenix officer shot a man in the back at least twice while responding to a noise complaint....

Since 2015: 48 Black Women Killed by the Police. And Only 2 Charges.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jury-black-women.html

Since 2013, law enforcement officers across the country have killed about 1,000 people a year... Since 2015, nearly 250 women in total have been killed by police officers, of which 48 — about a fifth — were Black...

New eyewitness accounts: Feds didn’t identify themselves before firing on Portland antifa shooting suspect

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/13/new-eyewitness-accounts-feds-didnt-identify-themselves-before-firing-on-portland-antifa-shooting-suspect/

At about 6:40 p.m., two silver SUVs gunned toward Reinoehl, tires squealing as they skidded to a stop in front of his VW, pinning his car in. Deputized U.S. marshals burst from the vehicles aiming military rifles at him. The official line is that Reinoehl jumped out of his car, his hand on the .380-caliber pistol in his pocket, defying a shouted command: “Stop! Police!”

What happened next remains unclear, even among law enforcement officials who participated.

One deputy U.S. marshal told investigators with the Thurston County sheriff’s office that Reinoehl pointed a gun at him. Another deputy marshal told detectives that Reinoehl had his hand on his pistol and was in the process of pulling the gun out of his pocket when officers fired. The gun was in Reinoehl’s right front pants pocket when detectives recovered it.

Civilian eyewitnesses interviewed by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica and other public statements offer similarly inconsistent and sometimes conflicting recollections. They agree that they heard no warning from federal agents, and saw no flashing lights that indicated the arrival of law enforcement, just a fusillade that one neighbor likened to a scene out of the video game Call of Duty.

Reinoehl, 48, died in the street from gunshot wounds to his head and torso. The shots were fired by two Pierce County sheriff’s deputies, a Lakewood police officer and a Washington State Department of Corrections employee — all deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service and serving on a Tacoma-based fugitive task force, a common and standard procedure among local-federal partnerships. A U.S. marshal was also part of the team but did not fire....

Officer had a long string of violent incidents before fatal beating at Florida prison

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/florida-prisons/article247396145.html

Michael Riley Jr., 27, who is charged with second-degree murder in the June 18 attack on Christopher Howell, 51, at Lake Correctional Institution, was involved in 22 use-of-force reports during the 10-month period before the fatal encounter. Two of those incidents leading up to Howell’s death were determined by the Florida Department of Corrections Office of Inspector General to be out of compliance with use-of-force procedures.....

L.A. COUNTY PO'LICE MURDERS DATABASE

YEARS 2004 to 2020...

L.A. police killings: Tracking D.A. decisions since 2004

https://www.latimes.com/projects/los-angeles-police-killings-database/tracking-da-decisions/#nt=00000175-c749-da42-a377-ff5f38920001-7030col1-main

The Times has acquired 650 of these reviews dating to 2004 and has published them here, the most comprehensive database of investigations of Los Angeles County police killings ever made public. The latest decisions will be added as they are released. The records show it is rare for a district attorney to bring charges against a law enforcement officer. In more than 99% of decisions, the officer’s actions were deemed lawful, according to a Times analysis. The district attorney’s office was unable to provide a list of officers who have been charged. The Times could identify only four officers prosecuted since 2004....

LAW ABIDING GOOD GUYS ARE A CRIMINAL SCAM OF MURDERERS AND THIEVES...

9 Houston officers charged, including 1 with murder, in probe of deadly 2019 raid

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9-houston-officers-charged-including-1-murder-probe-deadly-2019-n1255611

A Texas grand jury indicted a Houston police officer Monday on a murder charge and indicted eight other current and former officers in what authorities described as a long-term scheme to steal overtime money that was discovered after an investigation of a deadly 2019 raid. Officer Felipe Gallegos was indicted on a charge of murder in the Jan. 28, 2019, killing of Dennis Tuttle, 59, after members of a Houston Police Department narcotics squad carried out a drug raid at his home, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg told reporters. Tuttle's wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58, and their dog were also killed in a shootout with authorities. The other officers indicted Monday face first- and second-degree charges of engaging in organized criminal activity, theft by a public servant and tampering with governmental records. They are Oscar Pardo, Cedell Lovings, Nadeem Ashraf, Clemente Reyna, Thomas Wood, Frank Medina, Griff Maxwell and Hodgie Armstrong, Ogg said....

Full investigation of Manuel Ellis’ death casts new doubts on Tacoma officers’ stories

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/full-investigation-of-manuel-ellis-death-casts-new-doubts-on-tacoma-officers-stories/

TACOMA — Three days after Manuel Ellis died of oxygen deprivation after a chance meeting in a dark intersection with Tacoma police, an officer involved in the minutes-long chaotic scrum said he never noticed Ellis struggling to breathe. “Not that I recall,” Tacoma police Officer Christopher Burbank told a detective investigating Ellis’ death. “No.” But eyewitness statements and video recordings of the March 3 incident later surfaced, showing that Ellis said he couldn’t breathe at least four times — three of them in Burbank’s presence. ...

USA SLAVE SHOT BY SLAVE PATROL BECUZ HE HAD A GUN. SLAVES ARE BANNED OF RIGHTS IN THE USA AND WILL GIT THE DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT TRIAL....

Video shows Chicago police killing Anthony Alvarez as he runs away: ‘Why are you shooting me?’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/28/anthony-alvarez-shooting-video/

The body-camera and surveillance footage show a Chicago police officer firing several times as Anthony Alvarez has his back turned. Alvarez falls to the ground and drops what authorities identified as a firearm.

“Why are you shooting me?” Alvarez asks as he moans on someone’s front lawn. “You had a gun!” an officer shouts back....

The Other Gun Violence

https://inquest.org/the-other-gun-violence/

the federal government’s factsheet on the new measures did not mention one group responsible for numerous shooting deaths each year: law enforcement. Fatal shootings by police are rarely framed as instances of gun violence, but they remain one aspect of this longstanding epidemic facing this country,... Police in the United States kill approximately 1,000 people each year, and almost 95 percent of people killed by police are with a gun....

The increasing militarization of police means local police have access to assault rifles, flashbang devices, and even military tanks. The federal 1033 program has provided over $7 billion “in surplus military equipment and goods, including armored vehicles, rifles, and aircraft” to over 8,000 law enforcement agencies across the country....

SLAVE PATROL MURDER 3.25 TIMES MORE RURAL SLAVES PER CAPITA THAN URBAN. SLAVE PATROL MURDER 6.7 TIMES MORE WHITE SLAVES PER CAPITA IN RURAL AREAS COMPARED TO BLACKS....

How Police Shootings Play Out in Rural America

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/08/13/shooting-first-and-asking-questions-later

Officers in rural areas fatally shot about 1,200 people from 2015 through 2020, while in cities there were at least 2,100 such deaths, according to the news organizations’ analysis of data compiled by The Washington Post; no comprehensive government database exists. The data analysis found that, although the rate of rural police shootings was about 30% lower than the urban rate when adjusted for population, the rural incidents mirrored many of the dynamics of police shootings that have come under scrutiny in cities. And even as deadly police shootings declined in cities and rural communities during this time, according to the analysis, the rural decrease was more modest: about 9% versus 19%....

But rural deaths seldom attract attention from the public or the national press. Police shootings in isolated areas are rarely captured on video, and many rural officers don’t wear body cameras.... One big difference was that most of the people killed in the rural shootings, in Kentucky and elsewhere, were White. White people make up the rural majority in nearly every state, and two-thirds of the people fatally shot by law enforcement in rural areas across the country were White, the data analysis shows; about 10% were Black. (In cities, 37% were Black and 31% White.) Nevertheless, in some states, a disproportionately high number of Black people were shot and killed by the police relative to their share of the rural population, according to the data....

Like most other police shootings across the country, those in rural settings seldom lead to indictments or prosecutions of the officers involved, the data show. This holds in Kentucky, where the state police investigate their own shootings without an independent review.... More than half of the rural Kentucky shootings examined occurred at residences....

New Census Data Show Differences Between Urban and Rural Populations

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-210.html

“Rural areas cover 97 percent of the nation’s land area but contain 19.3 percent of the population (about 60 million people),” ... Today’s release features data collected between 2011 and 2015

1. Demographic and economic trends in urban, suburban and rural communities

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/

RURAL POPULATION = 16% IN YEAR 2000

14% IN YEAR 2012-2016

USA POPULATION

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183481/united-states-population-projection/

2020: 334.5 MILLION. 2015: 321.4 MILLION. AVG: 328 MILLION.

15% RURAL POPULATION X 328M =

49.2 MILLION RURAL POPULATION

1200 DEATHS BY COP / 49.2M =

24.4 DEATHS BY COP PER MILLION RURAL

85% URBAN POPULATION X 328 =

278.8 MILLION URBAN POPULATION

2100 DEATHS BY COP / 278.8 =

7.5 DEATHS BY COP PER MILLION URBAN

24.4 / 7.5 = 3.25 TIMES MORE RURAL DEATHS BY COP COMPARED TO URBAN.

RURAL DEATHS BY COP RACE OF DEATH VICTIM:

WHITE: 2/3 X 1200 = 800

BLACK: 10% X 1200 = 120

OTHER: 23% X 1200 = 276

800/120= 6.7 TIMES MORE RURAL WHITE DEATHS BY COP COMPARED TO BLACK DEATHS.

800/276= 2.9 TIMES MORE RURAL WHITE DEATHS BY COP COMPARED TO OTHER NON-BLACK GROUPS.

Fatal Encounters

https://fatalencounters.org/

The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-killings.html

police officers have killed more than 400 drivers or passengers who were not wielding a gun or a knife, or under pursuit for a violent crime — a rate of more than one a week... Only five have been convicted of crimes in those killings...Yet local governments paid at least $125 million to resolve about 40 wrongful-death lawsuits and other claims. Many stops began with common traffic violations like broken taillights or running a red light...

In case after case, officers said they had feared for their lives. And in case after case, prosecutors declared the killings of unarmed motorists legally justifiable. But The Times reviewed video and audio recordings, prosecutor statements and court documents, finding patterns of questionable police conduct that went beyond recent high-profile deaths of unarmed drivers. Evidence often contradicted the accounts of law enforcement officers.

Dozens of encounters appeared to turn on what criminologists describe as officer-created jeopardy: Officers regularly — and unnecessarily — placed themselves in danger by standing in front of fleeing vehicles or reaching inside car windows, then fired their weapons in what they later said was self-defense. Frequently, officers also appeared to exaggerate the threat....

Officers have killed more than 5,000 civilians since Sept. 30, 2016, according to data on police killings collected by The Washington Post and the research groups Mapping Police Violence and Fatal Encounters.... “Can you prosecute a police officer for a killing at a vehicle stop?” asked Mr. Gill, the Salt Lake County prosecutor. “Theoretically, you can. But practically it becomes virtually impossible.” The legal standard, he said, “overwhelmingly errs on the side of sheltering police misconduct.”... Claiming to fear for their lives “is a get-out-of-jail-free card for the police,”...

FRIENDLY FIRE AINT. USA TERRORIST REGIME MURDER THEIR OWN TROOPS AND ALLIES. USA TERRORISTS SHOOT FIRST, THEN ASSESS THE DAMAGES. IF YOU ARE AN USA ALLY WATCH YOUR BACK, AND YOUR FRONT....

Police killing of Colorado 'hero' illustrates issues cops face in regulating concealed guns

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/us/concealed-open-carry-guns-police/index.html

(CNN)The police killing of a Colorado man praised as a hero for preventing a mass shooting earlier this year illustrates how laws that allow the concealed or open carry of guns in public complicate police response to shootings.

Police say that John Hurley, 40, confronted Ronald Troyke after he shot and killed Officer Gordon Beesley in the west Denver suburb of Arvada. Investigators recovered a document written by Troyke with statements revealing his intent to kill police officers, including, "Today I will kill as many Arvada officers as I possibly can."

The local prosecutor announced last week that responding Arvada Police Officer Kraig Brownlow will not face criminal charges for fatally shooting Hurley, who was holding a handgun and Troyke's AR-15 when Brownlow shot and killed him.

In a letter laying out their decision, prosecutors said that while Hurley's acts "were nothing short of heroic," the facts from Brownlow's point of view show that he did not know or could not have known of officer's death or of Hurley's "role in eliminating the threat" posed by Troyke. The incident underscores how laws allowing people who legally own a firearm to carry it openly in public or carry it in a concealed manner, pose an increased risk to public safety.

"If there is a weapon of any sort, not just guns, in somebody's hands when we respond in a situation like an active shooter or an assault in progress ... officers have additional pressures placed upon (them) to evaluate an awful lot of info in a short period of time and hopefully arrive at the correct answer to mitigate danger to everyone involved," said Thor Eells, executive director of the National Tactical Officer Association.

"Now as a responding officer, I have to very quickly, and when I say quickly: seconds, milliseconds; make a determination in my mind, is this a friend or foe type of thing," he said....

WHAT PO'LICE HOMICIDES? ...

Missed by a Mile

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/05/missed-by-a-mile?

In a startling admission, the Bureau of Justice Statistics confirmed that the government’s own data on so-called police-involved deaths have been off for more than a decade — by more than 100 percent.... In February, in a moment of candor during a speech at Georgetown University, FBI Director James Comey admitted that, “It’s ridiculous that I can’t tell you how many people were shot by the police in this country — last week, last year, the last decade. It’s ridiculous.”...