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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/cbschicago/status/1445418337299836930?s=20
https://twitter.com/MDVancleave/status/1445530570298036231?s=20
https://twitter.com/MDVancleave/status/1445533477974147081?s=20

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1450094122841395202?s=20
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1450095642794209286?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/StacyStClair/status/1453021080302592004?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Firing squad on a Nashville highway today. Warning that a guy dies on this video. This is the most absurd police shooting I've ever seen.
https://twitter.com/t3ddyruetz/status/1486828248344547332?s=20&t=oxt2KkClOH_rWC5xjRag2Q
https://twitter.com/WSMV/status/1486822472657915906?s=20&t=oxt2KkClOH_rWC5xjRag2Q

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

a different dead cops wife:
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1486817480114720769?s=20&t=ewDqUU9nnrb8Eo4oPsDJFg

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

the comments are all bootlickers lol
https://twitter.com/PunditDumb/status/1508879337440829445?s=20&t=s3oc2J7ujBZIn7rik8wKRQ
https://twitter.com/flozek/status/1508879504449679366?s=20&t=s3oc2J7ujBZIn7rik8wKRQ

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

The local cop sounds like he's about to cry the whole time.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

cop on cop crime continues
https://twitter.com/copcrisis/status/1555691809522810883?s=20&t=n1hp4CAqYbxSxOJYkdDIyA

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/wesleysmorgan/status/1556104526159020032?s=20&t=30VcqYQF6CTQFLw-iasPwQ

cool

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Is it legal for public officials to hold a prayer rally on public property
https://twitter.com/TomAhernCPD/status/1555936760433090567?s=20&t=Vq6YquRvqCyEvmUZ0WyHHg

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/jonahshai/status/1559591381554831364?s=20&t=GSgbPFCWJ7q5T9H0FgB4LQ
This whole article about how cops act after killing a guy for no reason is wild, but the discussion from the officers right after they do it is wild

quote:

Now, by virtue of unedited body camera footage released in the context of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, it is possible to examine the sequence of police actions immediately after Halley killed Augustus: the moments when the official narrative of what just happened crystallizes. Viewed together with previously released footage, it deepens our understanding of how a demonstrably official false narrative of a police killing takes shape.
...
Halley is wandering around the crime scene without any obvious purpose, as if disoriented.

A moment earlier, the man in the red shirt wearing a knapsack had vigorously pointed at him and Fleming and then at his own eyes as if to say, I saw what you did.

Fleming approaches Halley.

“I’ve got to get out of here,” he says.

“I know you do,” she responds. “Come here.”

They rush over to a supervisor who has just arrived on the scene, Lt. Davina Ward.

“Lieutenant,” Fleming says, “my partner needs to get out of here now.”

“I’m a target,” says Halley.

“We’ve got to go,” Fleming insists. “He’s got to go.”

As if pursued, the two officers and the lieutenant run to Ward’s vehicle on the other side of the red tape.

“Get in the car,” Fleming instructs Halley, then says to Ward, “I’m going with him.”

As she drives away, Ward explains, “I can’t take you completely away, but I’ll take you away from here.”

“He pointed a gun at us,” Halley blurts out. “I had to.”

One of the officers — it is not clear who — releases a shudder of distress.

“Calm down, OK?” says Ward.

Having been unable to reach her commander on the radio, Ward uses her cellphone. “I’ve got the officers who did the shooting,” she reports. “I had to get away from the scene. They were coming after him.”

The panic of Halley and Fleming in the aftermath of the shooting has now entered the police narrative as something akin to a mob “coming after” the two officers.

Ward is unsure how far away from the scene she should go — neither Halley nor Fleming gave official statements about the shooting before fleeing the scene — so she pulls to a stop about half a mile away on a quiet residential street. There is a large vacant lot nearby. No one is visible on the sidewalk.

In a reassuring tone such as one might use with frightened children, Ward seeks to soothe the two officers in the backseat.

“It’s OK,” she says. “Listen. Listen. Listen. It’s OK. It’s OK. OK? I just need you to relax. You OK? … Listen. Listen. Listen. You are OK. You are OK. You did nothing wrong. OK? I want to make sure you know that.”

They get out of the car. Fleming and Halley put their arms around each other’s shoulders. He is largely silent, while she resumes her breathless monologue.

“You’re OK, you’re OK, you’re OK,” Fleming says. “Dude, he had a loving gun. He was gonna kill us. I thought I was gonna die. You did the right thing. You’re OK. I’m here, I’m not leaving you. You’re OK. You did the right thing. I thought I was gonna die. I thought I was not going home to my kids. I’m loving pissed that I didn’t — Look at this.” She holds out her forearm. “I should have loving had him. I loving should have had him.”

At this point, Halley’s body camera catches Fleming’s anguished face. She can’t stop talking.

“You’re OK. Dude, he loving — Look at this,” she says, showing him a reddish spot on her right forearm again. “Dude, I went behind that car and I thought I was gonna — You did the loving — You saved everyone. You saved my loving life. You know that, right? You did the right thing. I’m telling you right now, I thought we were going to die. Soon as Jones asked him if he had concealed carry —”

The story Fleming is frantically piecing together has several telling details, all of them false:

-Augustus took flight because Jones asked him whether he had a concealed carry permit, not because Fleming grabbed him from behind without warning.
In his effort to escape, Augustus assaulted Fleming.
-When several of the officers dropped to the ground and took cover behind a police vehicle, they were responding to Augustus drawing his gun and preparing to shoot at them, not to the sound of gunfire from Halley’s weapon.
-In the video footage from Halley’s body camera, none of these things actually happened. Yet on the basis of Halley and Fleming’s initial utterances, the Chicago Police Department released a statement later that day under Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s letterhead that described the incident as “an armed confrontation.”

Ward instructs Halley and Fleming to get back inside the car. Halley suggests that maybe they should relocate to “an alley or something. This is a lot of traffic right here.”

“The thing is,” Ward reassures him, “they don’t know you’re in this car.”

The officers’ fear is palpable. It’s as if they are in a war zone where they could at any moment and from any direction come under attack. How much did this fearful mindset, so vividly apparent after the shooting, contribute to the sequence of actions leading up to it?

Now back inside the vehicle, Halley says, “I couldn’t let him shoot around here.”

“Right, right,” replies Ward. “I’ve got you.”

As she pulls away from the curb, she asks, “He just walked up on you guys?”

“He walked right past us,” Fleming replies. “I said, ‘He’s got a gun.’ And then Jones, he tried to stop him. … That’s when he scratched the poo poo out of me. I had him but loving didn’t get him.”

“That’s OK, that’s OK.”

Halley sobs.

“You all didn’t do anything wrong,” says Ward. “I want you all to know that.”

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011


https://twitter.com/fox_sheldon/status/1560626905912487936?s=20&t=O9Nfjwf0g40EebpWm6BWXw

We must protect him

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

he's been doxxed and fired
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1560907245742858243?s=20&t=R5AJIjF7yMsJ4AcOCl-CGw

will he be killed?

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Newsday/status/1561722801265991680?s=20&t=6Xiy0Gt5GSorylw3tVlD7g
https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1561761231236734976?s=20&t=6Xiy0Gt5GSorylw3tVlD7g

ikanreed posted:

Animals only commit violence in order to protect their needs. Pigs are so much worse than pigs.

have you never met a cat

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1561794567828938752?s=20&t=155CAPS0efTzg0g4jxvroA
https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1561777183097376768?s=20&t=155CAPS0efTzg0g4jxvroA

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1562516511301898240?s=20&t=NC5NFQiIqP6ZRA7Zc3SJjQ

New York Times posted a story about Mumia and the cops are pissed

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

In Chicago, police suicides have been brought up as evidence that police oversight has gone too far
https://twitter.com/HeatherCherone/status/1562871269770399752?s=20&t=DawebFWYhMg2z4BR3Nq3dQ
https://twitter.com/mack_liederman/status/1549879468948443137?s=20&t=DawebFWYhMg2z4BR3Nq3dQ

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

In Chicago they've been using that talking point for years
https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1040951605091291137?s=20&t=v-1dFs5oR56_rg2dmNnCdQ
https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1108545798420262912?s=20&t=v-1dFs5oR56_rg2dmNnCdQ

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Disobeying police orders and possession of a weapon in the presence of police are capital offenses in the US punishable by summary execution.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1579614791735599104?s=20&t=o_AfySsHP4Fck23kAv8VBA
https://twitter.com/LidiaTerrazas/status/1579654534540165122?s=20&t=o_AfySsHP4Fck23kAv8VBA
https://twitter.com/OrtizGuajillo/status/1579879009357160448?s=20&t=o_AfySsHP4Fck23kAv8VBA

afraid we might have an uptick in deaths from car crashes caused by bullets to the head in Uvalde

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

The offender shot while eating a burger was a justified shooting. The offender refused to listen to a direct police order. Instead of getting out of the car when asked to exit, the offender quickly grabbed the steering wheel of the car. A car is a deadly weapon, and the officer was in fear for his life, as any rational person would be. Right there that means this is a justified shooting. The offender, after being shot at proceeds to flee with the deadly weapon. That justifies the second series of shots fired by the officer. While the fleeing occurred after the shots were fired, it lends credence to the officer's initial order as well.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

paul_soccer12 posted:

how are any uvalde cops able to walk out their front door without getting their head blown off

they are pretty famous for not opening a door if there is someone with a gun on the other side

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/JimmyBranch7/status/1580541032780865536?s=20&t=SIcsTTFolMzT9b6YorBdVw
https://twitter.com/JimmyBranch7/status/1580556152802144256?s=20&t=SIcsTTFolMzT9b6YorBdVw

This person got 400 replies and hasn't deleted so they're powerful about standing by their opinions

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Some new reforms are kicking in for Illinois on January 1st, and cops are shook that they now can't arrest people for no reason
https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/status/1583478626195890177?s=20&t=53Duog-klCW4SmzKUSiycA
https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/status/1583488512224948224?s=20&t=se6bNoKpZEJS2wuYa2DKig

Democrats will probably repeal this change in November though.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

arresting the burn boss of a wildland fire crew when the fire is still active just makes the situation even more dangerous

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

quote:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has paid a man involved in a publishing house specializing in occult neo-Nazi books more than $100,000 since 2003, according to court filings.

The publishing house is Martinet Press, fine purveyors of Atomwaffen Division-approved books such as Iron Gates and Liber 333. The former is a book about a Satanic cult roaming a post-apocalyptic America, which opens with a scene of a child being murdered.The apparent informant is Joshua Caleb Sutter, a man with longstanding ties to white supremacist organizations. Sutter’s father was a Pentacostal preacher who ran racist memorabilia stores in the area around the South Carolina capital of Columbia; Sutter and his father would take turns running the counter.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv9zk/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/LeahRemini/status/1590846563064377344?s=20&t=ojcZyXr_MRJkdlww1lZgvw
https://twitter.com/LeahRemini/status/1590846606588641293?s=20&t=ojcZyXr_MRJkdlww1lZgvw
https://twitter.com/LeahRemini/status/1590846634614980611?s=20&t=ojcZyXr_MRJkdlww1lZgvw

Xenu is antifa

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1594352366412713985?s=20&t=4hwmlOhYfTM-Y4bVKrbKCw

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Stevie Lee posted:

law enforcement "worker"

i don't think I've ever heard that combination of words before.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Current Chicago police chief David Brown pioneered killer robot technology when he was in Dallas

quote:

Brown was chief during the 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers that killed five police officers and injured nine others and two civilians. He made the choice to use C-4 explosive delivered by a robot to kill the shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, who was heavily armed and secured behind a brick corner with no safe way for police to rush Johnson or reach him with a sniper.[15] The killing of Johnson was the first time in United States history a robot was used by police to deliver lethal force against a suspect.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brown_(police_officer)#Dallas_Police_Department

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/isabelle_leyva/status/1599045855524585473?s=20&t=RmoHp_WU0uyhnpHkXli5xg
https://twitter.com/isabelle_leyva/status/1599070385714012161?s=20&t=RmoHp_WU0uyhnpHkXli5xg

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Is Unknown Armies or Shadowrun the better game to model street scientists and cop ritual magic.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Obama as an Illinois state senator helped pass a law that enables municipalities to run their own courts that fine kids arrested at school.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/status/1606077284074536960?s=20&t=HSPjm-bk1Kf2LWyF6tg-YQ

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Guess that random shooting at the training center investigation is going great

There's multiple years long trials and investigations involving CPD misconduct going on right now, it's great. Could be anything.
https://twitter.com/ChipMitchell1/status/1597252782775582725?s=20&t=S7hcd4LFdf7cB-MKpnxeOg
https://twitter.com/WBEZ/status/1605277024725176322?s=20&t=3bzWOtDDfI5a4zWkBKhgkg
https://twitter.com/Prison_Health/status/1604765983486287876?s=20&t=3bzWOtDDfI5a4zWkBKhgkg

Can't find the article about the cop being scapegoated and fired this week for a bunch of beatings during the 2020 protest. Like, he did beat people but they only put his name on every arrest form so only he's getting in trouble I guess.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Taeke posted:

Jesus this is infuriating. This feels like you going to the ER because you're hurt and bleeding badly, and them not just refusing to help you but getting angry and beating you up because you got blood on their floor and they're pissed they have to clean it up.

The US is a joke. A sick loving joke.

Speaking of, I do know of a case where a cop took a drunk guy to a hospital, stayed nearby to guard him, and then started tazing the guy until he died when he complained.

The cop wasn't disciplined. They went on to kill someone else and shot yet another person. They are still a cop.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

The Indianapolis police have been very busy recently monitoring the Library Board meetings.
https://twitter.com/MrWildstyle/status/1604972168693305344?t=vTf_SzwTXDIEabHdE9z-sA&s=19

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

When I saw all those cop cars speeding in the same direction I assumed they were fleeing a school shooting

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/LipBrenna/status/1609705212398260226?t=2AFRoUiWhx4oi-j4vOc6Yg&s=19

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Governor of Georgia threatens anyone who defends the people charged with terrorism for protesting a new cop training center
https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1610390370923286533?s=20&t=KHpka6EhtCH1vHlZ4lpQVg

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