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The Constitution hasn't been worth the paper it's written on for decades at this point.
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Guess this can go here since the original George Floyd thread has been closed
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A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd has entered hospice care due to her injury, signalling that she is dying from her wounds.
Linda Tirado, 42, “is at life’s end and receiving palliative care”, the National Press Club said in a statement last week.
Tirado was photographing demonstrations during the 2020 unrest in Minneapolis when a police officer shot a projectile at her face. Tirado, who was wearing protective goggles and press credentials, suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye.
“I was lining up a photo when I felt my face explode,” she wrote in an NBC op-ed. “My goggles came off and my face was suddenly burning and leaking liquid, the gas mixing with the blood.
“I threw up my arms and started screaming ‘Press, I’m press,’ although I’m not sure if anyone could hear me with my breathing apparatus and the general chaos around me,” she wrote.
Tirado sued the Minneapolis police department and was awarded $600,000 in 2022 as part of a broader settlement between the city and people assaulted by police during the 2020 protests.
The funds addressed her medical debt, but not the long-lasting impacts on her work and life. Tirado was unable to work or earn an income after the incident.
“There is no [appropriate] amount. Because you know what I want? I want my left eye back,” Tirado told the Guardian last year. “You don’t recover from something like this. That’s not a thing you do.”
A friend of Tirado’s, Noah Berlatsky, said her condition had been deteriorating slowly and that she was dying. “She still has some lucid moments, but they’re becoming more infrequent,” he wroteon his Substack.……
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A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd has entered hospice care due to her injury, signalling that she is dying from her wounds.
Linda Tirado, 42, “is at life’s end and receiving palliative care”, the National Press Club said in a statement last week.
Tirado was photographing demonstrations during the 2020 unrest in Minneapolis when a police officer shot a projectile at her face. Tirado, who was wearing protective goggles and press credentials, suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye.
“I was lining up a photo when I felt my face explode,” she wrote in an NBC op-ed. “My goggles came off and my face was suddenly burning and leaking liquid, the gas mixing with the blood.
“I threw up my arms and started screaming ‘Press, I’m press,’ although I’m not sure if anyone could hear me with my breathing apparatus and the general chaos around me,” she wrote.
Tirado sued the Minneapolis police department and was awarded $600,000 in 2022 as part of a broader settlement between the city and people assaulted by police during the 2020 protests.
The funds addressed her medical debt, but not the long-lasting impacts on her work and life. Tirado was unable to work or earn an income after the incident.
“There is no [appropriate] amount. Because you know what I want? I want my left eye back,” Tirado told the Guardian last year. “You don’t recover from something like this. That’s not a thing you do.”
A friend of Tirado’s, Noah Berlatsky, said her condition had been deteriorating slowly and that she was dying. “She still has some lucid moments, but they’re becoming more infrequent,” he wroteon his Substack.……
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police at George Floyd protest in hospice care
Linda Tirado ‘is at life’s end’ due to eye injury sustained while covering a protest in 2020
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Can we charge the pig who shot her with murder, please? If it was a regular civilian they would.Guess this can go here since the original George Floyd thread has been closed
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A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd has entered hospice care due to her injury, signalling that she is dying from her wounds.
Linda Tirado, 42, “is at life’s end and receiving palliative care”, the National Press Club said in a statement last week.
Tirado was photographing demonstrations during the 2020 unrest in Minneapolis when a police officer shot a projectile at her face. Tirado, who was wearing protective goggles and press credentials, suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye.
“I was lining up a photo when I felt my face explode,” she wrote in an NBC op-ed. “My goggles came off and my face was suddenly burning and leaking liquid, the gas mixing with the blood.
“I threw up my arms and started screaming ‘Press, I’m press,’ although I’m not sure if anyone could hear me with my breathing apparatus and the general chaos around me,” she wrote.
Tirado sued the Minneapolis police department and was awarded $600,000 in 2022 as part of a broader settlement between the city and people assaulted by police during the 2020 protests.
The funds addressed her medical debt, but not the long-lasting impacts on her work and life. Tirado was unable to work or earn an income after the incident.
“There is no [appropriate] amount. Because you know what I want? I want my left eye back,” Tirado told the Guardian last year. “You don’t recover from something like this. That’s not a thing you do.”
A friend of Tirado’s, Noah Berlatsky, said her condition had been deteriorating slowly and that she was dying. “She still has some lucid moments, but they’re becoming more infrequent,” he wroteon his Substack.……
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police at George Floyd protest in hospice care
Linda Tirado ‘is at life’s end’ due to eye injury sustained while covering a protest in 2020
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you'd have better luck having pigs fly.. (pun intended)
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Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the GeorgiaState Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn't stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren.
Five minutes into a pursuit that began over a broken taillight, the 60-year-old Black man was dead — shot in the forehead by the white trooper who fired a single bullet mere seconds after forcing Lewis to crash into a ditch.
Trooper Jake Thompson insisted he pulled the trigger as Lewis revved the engine of his Nissan Sentra and jerked his steering wheel as if trying to mow him down.
“I had to shoot this man,” Thompson can be heard telling a supervisor on video recorded by his dash-mounted camera at the shooting scene in rural Screven County, midway between Savannah and Augusta. “And I’m just scared.”
But new investigative details obtained by The Associated Press and the never-before-released dashcam video of the August 2020 shooting have raised fresh questions about how the trooper avoided prosecution with nothing more than a signed promise never to work in law enforcement again. Use-of-force experts who reviewed the footage for AP said the shooting appeared to be unjustified.….
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Five minutes into a pursuit that began over a broken taillight, the 60-year-old Black man was dead — shot in the forehead by the white trooper who fired a single bullet mere seconds after forcing Lewis to crash into a ditch.
Trooper Jake Thompson insisted he pulled the trigger as Lewis revved the engine of his Nissan Sentra and jerked his steering wheel as if trying to mow him down.
“I had to shoot this man,” Thompson can be heard telling a supervisor on video recorded by his dash-mounted camera at the shooting scene in rural Screven County, midway between Savannah and Augusta. “And I’m just scared.”
But new investigative details obtained by The Associated Press and the never-before-released dashcam video of the August 2020 shooting have raised fresh questions about how the trooper avoided prosecution with nothing more than a signed promise never to work in law enforcement again. Use-of-force experts who reviewed the footage for AP said the shooting appeared to be unjustified.….
Footage questions how trooper avoided charges after Black man shot in head
Footage of the pursuit has never been made public
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Vermont pays $175,000 to man arrested for giving the middle finger to state trooper
The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger — and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day.
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Ok, I'm shooting the bird at every cop from now on. Wish me luck.Vermont pays $175,000 to man arrested for giving the middle finger to state trooper
The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger — and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day.
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wait, i thohght everyone was already doing this. this is how you tell them they are #1
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I dunno, man. There's gotta be easier ways to earn 30k a year.
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Civil rights advocates in Illinois are demanding answers over the death of a handcuffed Black man following a violent confrontation with county jail deputies who attempted to portray the case as a medical emergency.
Cory Ulmer, 41, died following his 20 June arrest for violating bond conditions as he awaited trial on assault and robbery charges. According to the investigative organization Injustice Watch, a spokesperson for Sheriff Tom Dart at first insisted Ulmer had “suffered a medical emergency”, while personnel from the Cook county sheriff’s office told Ulmer’s stepfather that he died in the hospital.
But an internal sheriff’s office report obtained by the group revealed Ulmer had been beaten, body-slammed by jail deputies and injected with sedatives prior to his death.
The report, written by correctional sergeant Enrique Reyes, details “an emergency takedown” of Ulmer by several deputies in a holding cell at the Cook county jail after the inmate allegedly did not comply with verbal orders – and a subsequent visit to the emergency room at the city’s Mount Sinai hospital.………
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Cory Ulmer, 41, died following his 20 June arrest for violating bond conditions as he awaited trial on assault and robbery charges. According to the investigative organization Injustice Watch, a spokesperson for Sheriff Tom Dart at first insisted Ulmer had “suffered a medical emergency”, while personnel from the Cook county sheriff’s office told Ulmer’s stepfather that he died in the hospital.
But an internal sheriff’s office report obtained by the group revealed Ulmer had been beaten, body-slammed by jail deputies and injected with sedatives prior to his death.
The report, written by correctional sergeant Enrique Reyes, details “an emergency takedown” of Ulmer by several deputies in a holding cell at the Cook county jail after the inmate allegedly did not comply with verbal orders – and a subsequent visit to the emergency room at the city’s Mount Sinai hospital.………
Illinois man reportedly died after being beaten by guards while handcuffed
Cory Ulmer, 41, died following arrest at Cook county jail, which authorities tried to portray as a ‘medical emergency’
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Funny thing, after they took him in and viewed the stop, they also charge him with impeding traffic when he left the 1st stop.Vermont pays $175,000 to man arrested for giving the middle finger to state trooper
The settlement covers Greg Bombard's 2018 arrest by a state trooper who said Bombard flipped him the middle finger — and a second, related citation nearly six years later, on Christmas Day.
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Florida deputy was logged into sheriff's office Wi-Fi while watching child porn videos: PCSO
A Pinellas County deputy resigned after being arrested for watching and sharing child porn videos while working at the jail, according to the sheriff's office.
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The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a Black man who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting, and to change how police use facial-recognition technology to solve crimes after the software identified him as a suspect.The Detroit Police Department mistakenly arrested a mother of three based on a false match using facial recognition software, according to a lawsuit against the department.
The case, according to civil rights advocates, highlights the dangers of bias in using such technologies in police work, which studies have shown do a poor job of matching images of non-white people.
Early on the morning of 16 February, six Detroitpolice officers arrived outside the door of Porcha Woodruff, 32.
Ms Woodruff, 32, was eight months pregnant at the time, and was helping her two children get ready for school.
Police informed the mother, who is Black, that she was under arrest for a January carjacking and robbery.
“Are you kidding, carjacking? Do you see that I am eight months pregnant?” she told officers, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.
She later learned police identified her as a suspect after running security footage through the department’s facial recognition software, then putting a 2015 mugshot from a past arrest into a photo lineup where the carjacking victim singled out Ms Woodruff as her assailant.
Though officials later dropped the case, Ms Woodruff argues in the suit the whole incident, which allegedly led her to suffer stress, dehydration, and stress-induced contractions, is an illustration of the dangers of biased facial-recognition software.
“Despite its potential, law enforcement’s reliance on facial recognition has led to wrongful arrests, causing humiliation, embarrassment, and physical injury, as evident in this particular incident,” the complaint alleges.
Detroit Police said they are investigation her claims.……
In 2019, a 25-year-old Black man named Michael Oliver was wrongly accused of felony charges of stealing and breaking a teacher’s cell phone.
Facial recognition software convinced police to put his photo in a lineup, even though he had visible tattos, and a different body type, skin tone, and hair style than the individual involved in the alleged theft.
The following year, Robert Julian-Borchak was arrested in front of his family for an alleged theft from a high-end Detroit Shinola boutique.
His name was given to police after a security contractor sent surveillance video to the DPD, which forwarded the footage to the Michigan State Police, who matched Mr Borchak’s name using a facial recognition tool.
The case was later dismissed.
“This is not me,” Robert Julian-Borchak Williams told police during his investigation, according to The New York Times. “You think all Black men look alike?”…….
Black mother sues Detroit claiming wrongful arrest while pregnant due to face ID tech
Facial recognition tech has already caused multiple Black people to be falsely arrested, per ACLU
The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver’s license photo was incorrectly flagged by facial-recognition software as a likely match to a man seen on security video at a Shinola watch store in 2018.
“We are extremely excited that going forward there will be more safeguards on the use of this technology with our hope being to live in a better world because of it,” Williams told reporters, “even though what we would like for them to do is not use it at all.”
The agreement was announced Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the civil rights litigation initiative at University of Michigan Law School. They argue that the technology is flawed and racially biased.
Detroit police will be prohibited from arresting people based solely on facial-recognition results and won’t make arrests based on photo lineups generated from a facial-recognition search, the ACLU said.
“They can get a facial-recognition lead and then they can go out and do old-fashioned police work and see if there’s actually any reason to believe that the person who was identified ... might have committed a crime,” said Phil Mayor, an ACLU attorney.……
Detroit changes rules for police use of facial recognition after wrongful arrest of Black man
City to pay $300,000 to Robert Williams, whose driver’s license was incorrectly flagged in shoplifting investigation
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as cool as it is in the movies, we shoud never be using facial recognition to arrest people. We aren't even close to that stuff workinig correctly.
I am not in the group of some 'innocent people's lives may be ruined' to catch a few other bad guys, Especially for things such as shoplifting..
I am not in the group of some 'innocent people's lives may be ruined' to catch a few other bad guys, Especially for things such as shoplifting..
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