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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed her by.

It took just months for Tyre Nichols ’ beating death last year to result in federal charges against five Memphis police officers. A half-dozen white lawmen in Mississippi have been federally sentenced in last year’s torture of two Black suspects. And federal prosecutors long ago brought swift charges in the slayings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

Every one of those cases happened months or years after the death of Ronald Greene in northern Louisiana on May 10, 2019, which sparked national outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white troopers converging on the Black motorist before stunning, beating and dragging him as he wailed, “I’m scared!”

Yet half a decade after Greene’s violent death, the federal investigation remains open and unresolved with no end in sight. And Hardin says she feels ghosted and forgotten by a Justice Department that no longer even returns her calls.

“Where’s Ronald Greene’s justice?” asked Hardin, who refuses to bury her son’s cremated remains until she gets some measure of accountability. “I still have my boy in that urn, and that hurts me more than anything. We haven’t grieved the loss of Ronnie because we’ve been in battle.”…..

'Where's Ronald Greene's justice?': 5 years on, feds still silent on Black motorist's deadly arrest

Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest on a rural Louisiana roadside in 2019 sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white state troopers stunning, beating and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”

apnews.com

 

[Big_L]

PSA: Please remember that gun laws in this country are not applicable to all of its citizens!

Police Who Shot Florida Airman 6 Times in His Home May Have Entered Wrong Apartment, Family Says

Senior Airman Roger Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the Florida panhandle flies AC-130J Ghostrider gunships.

www.military.com

My brother in law worked with this airman at Hurlbert Field. AF special ops is a tight community. This is insane what our country allows. They can’t spin this or bring up past records. One of the best our country has to offer and he was gunned down by 5.0.

 

[Big_L]

TIL that the the Sherriff Department that brought you this:

are also responsible for this:


At least he asked the Airman to drop the gun AFTER he murdered him!

The Sheriff mentions that the Deputy announced himself and he went out of his way to say that the deputy did not cover the peep-hole.

What he did not address that the deputy purposefully avoided being visually ID'd by the resident by stepping away from the door.

It’s kinda tricky the issue about stepping away from the door. We are taught not to stand in the “fatal funnel” when knocking on a door. All that aside, this deputy needs to be charged and jailed.

 

[Eeyore]

They can do whatever they want

https://fox59.com/news/video-lafayette-officer-keeps-job-after-pushing-over-man-in-wheelchair/

 

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CNN) — “Please don’t shoot,” Notan Eva Costa, a 48-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant living in Queens, begged the two New York City police officers who entered her home after her teenage son called 911.

Lying on the floor, the mother of two stretched her hand out to the officers, terror and distress audible in her voice.

It was too late. One of the police officers fired his gun at least four times, fatally wounding 19-year-old Win Rozario. Less than two minutes had passed since police entered the family’s home.

The officers “killed my son in minutes,” Costa said through an interpreter at a Wednesday news conference. “Before they came, everything was calm. Then they came and created chaos and murdered him in front of me.”……….

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/12/us/win-rozario-nypd-killing?cid=ios_app

 

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In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times.

Most violations involved pinning people facedown in ways that could restrict their breathing or stunning them repeatedly with Tasers, an Associated Press investigation found.

Some officers had little choice but to break policing best practices — safety guidelines that are recommended by government agencies, law enforcement groups and training experts — to save a life or protect someone.

Many other violations were harder to explain. Officers at times prematurely resorted to weapons or physical holds during routine calls or misread a person’s confusion as defiance in medical emergencies, setting off a string of mistakes. In other cases, they kept applying force even after they had people handcuffed and controlled.

For its investigation, AP catalogued 1,036 deaths over a decade’s time after officers had used force not involving their guns. In about half, medical officials ruled that law enforcement caused or contributed to the deaths, but they usually didn’t mention whether policing best practices were followed.

Counting violations of best practices also was difficult when departments didn’t document important details or withheld their files. But based on a review of tens of thousands of pages of police and court records, as well as hundreds of hours of body-camera video footage, AP found:

— Officers breached the guidelines in three or more ways in roughly 440 deaths, or about 45% of the time. In others, a single mistake sometimes fueled life-threatening injuries.

— Many who died were on drugs or alcohol, or had underlying medical conditions, making them more vulnerable to misapplied force, just as best practices forewarned.


— In about 30% of the deaths where police went outside the guidelines multiple times, the officers or bystanders were facing imminent or potential danger. Safety practices may excuse officers under those circumstances.


Because of how policing is set up in the United States, there are no national rules for how officers apply force. Best practices provide some direction but aren’t mandatory. In the end, individual departments or states set their own policies and training.…….

AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.

apnews.com

 

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As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access.


Officers in Austin and San Francisco — two of the largest cities where police are banned from using the technology — have repeatedly asked police in neighboring towns to run photos of criminal suspects through their facial recognition programs, according to a Washington Post review of police documents.


In San Francisco, the workaround didn’t appear to help. Since the city’s ban took effect in 2019, the San Francisco Police Department has asked outside agencies to conduct at least five facial recognition searches, but no matches were returned, according to a summary of those incidents submitted by the department to the county’s board of supervisors last year.


SFPD spokesman Evan Sernoffsky said these requests violated the city ordinance and were not authorized by the department, but the agency faced no consequences from the city. He declined to say whether any officers were disciplined because those would be personnel matters……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-austin-san-francisco/

 

[Eeyore]

Pittsburgh Police candidates allowed to retake their psychological evaluations after dozens failed

Pittsburgh police are reviewing how they evaluate potential recruits psychologically after about two dozen candidates were rejected from the bureau. The...

www.post-gazette.com

 

[bigdaddysaints]

my wife's cousin applied to BRPD, but he failed the psych exam (too much racial tendencies, is what his dad told me) so he wasnt able to join the academy. so he joined the EBR Sheriff's office, theirs was much less rigorous, lower standards. smh .

 

[Optimus Prime]

The crisis of US police shootings has been increasingly well-documented by advocates and journalists, with data now suggesting officers fatally shoot an average of more than three people every day.

Since George Floyd’s murder four years ago, there has been growing scrutiny of a more hidden epidemic of police violence: deaths at the hands of officers who did not use guns.

An Associated Press investigation in March found that more than 1,000 people died in US police custody from 2012 to 2021 after officers used “less lethal” tactics, including pinning victims face down and stunning them with Tasers. In hundreds of those cases, medical officials deemed the deaths “accidents” or “natural” despite officers’ use of force.

Dr Roger A Mitchell Jr, former chief medical examiner of Washington DC, has become a leading voice in the push to uncover the true scale of these fatalities. In his book Death in Custody published last year, he and co-author Jay Aronson, founder of Carnegie Mellon’s center for human rights science, lay out the nation’s systemic failure to track deaths caused by police and correctional officers.

The book scrutinizes bias in death investigations, exploring how coroners and medical examiners have produced autopsies that minimized or erased the role of police, and in effect, blamed victims for their own deaths.


Mitchell has worked with victims’ families, testified in Congress and in high-profile criminal trials and reviewed “accidental” deaths that he determined should have been labeled police “homicides”. Now chief medical officer for ambulatory care at Howard University, Mitchell spoke with the Guardian about the lack of progress since Floyd’s killing and his proposed solutions……..

How police killings are kept hidden: ‘We don’t know how many George Floyds there are’

Dr Roger Mitchell, former DC chief medical examiner, on how homicides are mislabeled as ‘accidents’ and how ‘we must hold the system accountable’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Eeyore]

Didn't look like a violent dog to me.

 

[zeetes]

my wife's cousin applied to BRPD, but he failed the psych exam (too much racial tendencies, is what his dad told me) so he wasnt able to join the academy. so he joined the EBR Sheriff's office, theirs was much less rigorous, lower standards. smh .

well, he probably dodged a bullet (lol). i know a few brpd and it is a sheet show from the mayor down.

 

[DaveXA]

Didn't look like a violent dog to me.

Ugh, tf is wrong with people? This idiot is poorly trained and shouldn't be handling animals. I would never call the cops to handle animals. That's what animal control is for.

 

[Eeyore]

Ugh, tf is wrong with people? This idiot is poorly trained and shouldn't be handling animals. I would never call the cops to handle animals. That's what animal control is for.

A follow up

Blind and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard. Police called to help him shot him dead

The Sturgeon Police Department was described as a ‘joke’, ‘disgusting and disappointing’ after attempting to justify the officer’s actions

www.inkl.com

 

[DaveXA]

A follow up

Blind and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard. Police called to help him shot him dead

The Sturgeon Police Department was described as a ‘joke’, ‘disgusting and disappointing’ after attempting to justify the officer’s actions

www.inkl.com

Terrible.