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[Optimus Prime]

No abuse just stupidity
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Ten people were injured after a police traffic officer on a motorcycle crashed into bystanders at a weekend holiday parade in Palm Springs, California, authorities said.

All of the injured were taken to hospitals Saturday night for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening, including the officer, according to police.

Witnesses told The Desert Sun newspaper that the officer was popping a wheelie and suddenly lost control of the motorcycle.

The bike slid into the crowd of spectators and brought the festive event to a standstill for more than an hour.…….

10 hospitalized after policeman crashed into crowd at holiday parade

The bike slid into the crowd of spectators and brought the festive event to a standstill for more than an hour.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

Between 1988 and 1990, the Broward county sheriff’s office (BSO) in Florida manufactured and sold crack cocaine as part of a controversial sting operation to arrest people for purchasing the illegal drug. Many of those who are arrested for purchasing the BSO-made drugs were given lengthy prison sentences. The Florida supreme court declared the operation unlawful in 1993, but many people still have criminal charges or convictions on their records.

Now, the Broward county state attorney, Harold F Pryor, seeks to bring justice to those affected by the operation. Last week Pryor, the first Black state attorney in Broward and the first Black man to be elected state attorney in Florida, announced plans to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions linked to the drug sting operation.

“The methods used by law enforcement and society to combat drug dealing in our community have evolved since that era,” Pryor said in a statement. “These records may be a dim memory or an unfortunate part of history to many, but they have had a long-lasting and severe impact on the lives of the people who were arrested – as well as their families and the wider community.”……

Convictions of people caught by illegal Florida police drug sting to be vacated

Broward county state attorney announces plan that could benefit up to 2,600 people convicted between 1988 and 1990

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

The police department in Worcester, Massachusetts, allowed officers to engage in sexual contact with women suspected of being involved in the commercial sex trade, according to a report the U.S. Justice Department released Monday following a two year investigation.

The 41-page report also found that the police department used excessive force, including the unjustified uses of tasers and police dogs and strikes to the head.

The findings raised concerns that the department engages in racially discriminatory policing, according to Justice Department officials. Worcester, the state’s second-largest city with a population of about 207,000, is located 50 miles west of Boston.

“Excessive force and sexual misconduct at the hands of officers who took an oath to serve and protect deeply diminishes the public’s trust in its sworn officers,” acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy for the District of Massachusetts said in a written statement.……

Report finds police in Massachusetts city let officers engage in sex with suspected prostitutes

The police department in Worcester, Massachusetts, has allowed officers to engage in sexual contact with women suspected of involvement in the commercial sex trade while also allowing other civil rights violations.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A former park ranger in Houston has been accused of forcing gay men into sexual encounters in the parks where he allegedly beat and robbed them, according to federal prosecutors.

Joey Ellis, 34, was arrested on Tuesday during a court hearing announcing his charges. He was originally in court to face three charges in Harris County, two of which were for official oppression, and one for sexual assault.

Federal prosecutors allege that Ellis forced victims into paying him money or performing sexual acts on him. Those alleged victims were all visiting Houston city parks in the evenings when the attacks took place.


The 20-count indictment came down on December 3, alleging that Ellis violated the civil rights of eight victims.

According to the indictments, Ellis allegedly confiscated the victim’s driver’s licenses and threatened to have their vehicles towed unless they paid him off or had sex with him.

The indictments include troubling details of the alleged attacks. Instances of groping, forced nudity, and using a gun to intimidate a victim are listed among Ellis's alleged violations.…..

Park ranger faces federal counts for targeting gay cruising spots and extorting victims to have sex with him​

 

[Optimus Prime]

US Bureau of Prisons pays ‘historic’ $115m to survivors of staff sexual abuse

Payout settles claims of abuse and retaliation at women’s prison in Dublin, California, now permanently closed

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dago]

Skynet jokes aside, I could see this as being beneficial. A fairly easy way to restrain someone (who doesn't have a gun) who poses a threat (either to themselves or others)

Rolling Robots Armed With Net-Flinging Guns Are The Latest Nightmare Fuel

If you thought the threat of police robots died with the demise of New York’s subway bot, you’d be wrong. A new rolling robot has been sent into the field in China. The spherical crime fighting device is a lot more sinister than New York’s failed attempt at robot policing and comes armed with...

autos.yahoo.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Sitting alone in her car, Jen Dold was crying too hard to drive. She had just received a manila envelope with her brother’s autopsy report.

There it was, one devastating word: “accident.” The papers trembled in her hands.

Their mother had called 911 for help getting Dold’s 29-year-old brother, Alex, to the hospital because he was in a mental health crisis. Four sheriff’s deputies and two police officers shocked him with Tasers, wrapped an arm around his neck, punched and kicked him, then left him face down until they noticed he wasn’t breathing.

How could that be an accident? Dold was certain it was a homicide.

Angry and grieving in the parking lot outside the county medical examiner’s office 30 miles north of Seattle, Dold vowed to fight.

“No more silence or complacency,” she thought. “No sweeping it under the rug.”

In the United States, police rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after officers use physical force. Whether they do can depend on a system that operates after the initial attention passes: medical examiners and coroners who decide how and why someone died — what’s known as the manner and cause of death.

On TV dramas such as “CSI” or “Bones,” facts and established science determine whether a death was an accident or homicide. In reality, medical investigations involving police restraint deaths can be so riddled with inconsistencies, suspect science or conflicts of interest that even extensive force may matter little, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

That investigation identified 1,036 deaths over a decade after police used not their guns but physical blows, restraints or weapons such as Tasers that aren’t supposed to kill. Some people were causing little or no trouble, while others were committing violent crimes.

Many died after officers broke widely known safety practices, or after medics injected them with powerful knock-out drugs, sometimes at the urging of police.

Accident was the most common conclusion of medical investigations in AP’s case database. Accidental rulings typically blamed preexisting conditions such as obesity or asthma, or drug use — even when in some cases blood testing did not detect lethal levels.

Others faulted “excited delirium,” a controversial diagnosis discredited by major medical associations. Some medical officials based their decisions not on physical evidence, but instead on whether they believed police intended to kill..............

Accident or homicide? Medical rulings in arrest-related deaths can dictate what happens to police

Police in the United States rarely face criminal charges when civilians die after the use of force such as physical blows, restraints or Tasers.

apnews.com

 

[DaveXA]

Skynet jokes aside, I could see this as being beneficial. A fairly easy way to restrain someone (who doesn't have a gun) who poses a threat (either to themselves or others)

Rolling Robots Armed With Net-Flinging Guns Are The Latest Nightmare Fuel

If you thought the threat of police robots died with the demise of New York’s subway bot, you’d be wrong. A new rolling robot has been sent into the field in China. The spherical crime fighting device is a lot more sinister than New York’s failed attempt at robot policing and comes armed with...

autos.yahoo.com

What are you talking about? Skynet is a joke...until it isn't.

But the future is now I suppose. We welcome our spherical, net-flinging robot overlords.

 

[jboss]

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Skynet jokes aside, I could see this as being beneficial. A fairly easy way to restrain someone (who doesn't have a gun) who poses a threat (either to themselves or others)

Rolling Robots Armed With Net-Flinging Guns Are The Latest Nightmare Fuel

If you thought the threat of police robots died with the demise of New York’s subway bot, you’d be wrong. A new rolling robot has been sent into the field in China. The spherical crime fighting device is a lot more sinister than New York’s failed attempt at robot policing and comes armed with...

autos.yahoo.com

they'll just wait until they are in the nets, then shot them .

 

[Optimus Prime]

NYPD Chief resigns amid allegations of demanding sexual favors for overtime hours

The accuser recently came under scrutiny for her exorbitant overtime pay — upward of $200,000 — during her role in a desk job in Maddrey’s office

www.independent.co.uk