All Cops Are Bastards

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1476769

If you're an abolitionist, it's a good article to read.

We have to have a peace movement again, I feel.

Photograph of the banner.

ETA: They did it again.

Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

Unlike many other detainees who shared celebratory photos of a breached wall or civilians on a military jeep, on the morning of October 7, Mr. Hawashleh simply wrote Sabah al-Kheir (“Good Morning” in Arabic) at 8:10 a.m. He later claimed that he was sleeping in the desert and didn’t even hear any news.

Despite the complete innocence of his text, he was detained on October 28 on suspicion of “publishing words praising or encouraging acts of terrorism and identifying with a terrorist organization!” In order to add “context,” the police related to another post from October 15, where Hawashleh shared an old holy Islamic text from the “Hadith.” As could be expected, the hadith, which is attributed to the prophet Muhammad said nothing about Israel or Hamas.

I know that this video is three years old, but I had to share this anyway because it astounds me that anybody would try this.

More samples.

Related: Police officers kicking around candles symbolizing thousands of exterminated Palestinians.

Video from 2020

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6608609

A paedophile police officer who recorded himself sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on her mobile phone after grooming her online has been jailed for more than six years. PC Luke Horner, 24, who is also an ex-soldier, travelled over an hour from his home to Rushden, Northamptonshire to attack the 13-year-old girl he had met on social media.

He went on to sexually assault the victim while off-duty by engaging in penetrative sexual activity, which he recorded video footage of on her mobile on June 11. The girl’s horrified mother later found the film on her daughter’s phone and called police who arrested the Thames Valley Police (TVP) officer.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6608528

FAIRBURY, Ill. (WMBD) — The Illinois State Police announced a Fairbury police officer was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a person on Thursday.

Carter Meister, 23, of Forrest, a nearby Livingston County town, has been charged in Livingston County Circuit Court with four counts of criminal sexual assault and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

The charges, filed Friday, allege the victim was between the ages of 13 and 17 and that he was in a supervisory role over the victim. It wasn’t immediately clear from online court records whether there was more than one victim.

A number of American cities have elected prosecutors who promised progressive law enforcement, focusing as much on police accountability as being tough on crime. In St. Louis, that prosecutor was Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was elected in 2016 following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in the suburb of Ferguson. Gardner came into office pledging to reduce mass incarceration and promote rehabilitation over punishment.

But from San Francisco to Philadelphia, prosecutors like Gardner have faced pushback from the police and, in several cities, from their own courtroom assistants. Politicians and voters have tried to remove some of these prosecutors from office — and, in a number of cities, they have been successful.

Murphey’s resistance to Gardner — Chigurupati’s boss when Vincent’s case went to trial — was unusual and, perhaps, extreme. By his own account, he was willing to help murder suspects walk free to make a point, even if he arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6565126

A Kent Police Constable, Thomas Hill, has been sentenced to six months in prison for misconduct in public office.

The 35-year-old officer engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a woman he initially met during his professional duties.

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Joel Justice Womochil went by “@ictbaddad” on the social media platform now known as X, with a profile picture of “Pedobear,” prosecutors say.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6458106

The 27-year-old constable was arrested yesterday (Thursday, October 5) following a report to South Yorkshire Police’s Professional Standards Department (PSD).

The officer, who has not been named, has been released on bail, South Yorkshire Police has said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6409194

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (WTVG) - A Toledo Police officer was indicted by a Wood County grand jury for a rape charge on October 5.

According to court records, Raul Jaso, 34, is accused of “purposefully compelling [the victim] to submit for force or the threat of force.” The alleged crime took place on August 14.

Jaso has not been arrested. He must appear in court on October 16.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6409191

LOWELL -- Arkansas State Police on Thursday arrested Lowell Police Officer Roy Eugene Mitchell, 45, on two counts of second-degree sexual assault.

The Lowell Police Department terminated Mitchell immediately before his arrest, the state police announcement of the arrest said and the Lowell Police Department confirmed.

The two victims were both minors, said Matt Durrett, Washington County's prosecuting attorney.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6409139

A review by The Public’s Radio of court records and internal affairs documents, some of which were destroyed by the Fall River Police Department and recovered through other sources, revealed that at least twelve other civilians accused Pessoa of excessive force before Lafrance. Records show Pessoa was never disciplined for those incidents until the DA started probing Pessoa’s past, even though patterns of concerning allegations had been clear to Pessoa’s superior officers.

Civilians reported Pessoa for placing them in chokeholds at least three times, and bystanders repeatedly claimed that Pessoa would break their phones if they tried to film arrests. Other civilians complained of serious injuries.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6409092

A former Thames Valley Police officer has been jailed after he sexually assaulted a child.

Luke Christopher Horner, 24, was sentenced at Northampton Crown Court to six years’ and four months’ imprisonment for engaging in penetrative sex with a child aged 13-15.

Horner was based at Amersham Police Station at the time of his crime, which took place while he was off-duty in Rushden, Northamptonshire, on June 11, 2023.

He was convicted last month following the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6346792

A former Youngstown Police Department Lieutenant who was previously accused of dereliction of duties is now working as a police officer in another community.

According to a post on Poland Village's Facebook page, former YPD Lieutenant Brian Flynn was hired as a Poland Schools resource officer on September 26.

However, Poland Local Schools Superintendent Craig Hocknberry says the Poland Village Police Department has since reconsidered this decision in response to concerns and questions from the public instead reassigning him to road patrol.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6346690

Two new trials for crimes against humanity are currently underway. Four former policemen are being tried for sexual abuse and other crimes in Santa Fe, while the former owner of a long-distance bus company is facing a second trial in Salta for the illegal detention and torture of 17 of his employees. All crimes were committed in 1977.

The Santa Fe investigation is known as the “Requena case.” Former Federal Police officer Ricardo Carrouché and ex Santa Fe police members Germán Raúl Chartier, Wenceslao Claudio Bertolino and Eduardo Alberto Ramos Campagnolo are being tried for a series of crimes against six victims.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6346609

A former Missouri prison guard who assaulted an inmate and also possessed child pornography was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.

On Oct. 28, 2021, after a verbal disagreement with an inmate about a poster that was damaged during a search of his cell, Carl Hart ordered the victim out of his office in the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre. Later, when the victim did not immediately return to his cell during a lockdown, two other corrections officers pepper-sprayed the victim. The victim went to the shower to wash off the spray. Hart followed the victim into the shower and struck the victim there and again after the victim had left the shower and was on the ground, handcuffed and compliant. Hart was a sergeant and had worked for the Department of Corrections for 10 years at the time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6346501

(Reuters) - New Mexico's attorney general has charged a police officer with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a Black nurse during a struggle last year in which police say the nurse took an officer's taser.

Las Cruces police officer Brad Lunsford allegedly shot Presley Eze, a 36-year-old Connecticut man working in a Las Cruces nursing home, in the back of the head in August 2022 at a gas station. The officers had stopped Eze after an employee reported he shoplifted a beer from the station, according to police records and video.

State Attorney General Raul Torrez on Tuesday said the killing was an unjustifiable use of force and another example of "poor police tactics."