Slain Dallas Cop Might’ve Been A White Supremacist: Still A Hero?

I never saw any cops on the video... My understanding was that these people work private security which I imagine in rio they are carrying firearms whether they are legal or not because after all it's rio...but if they were police I wouldn't be surprised... in countries such as this where the police are severely underpaid they resort to extorting money from people they encounter kind of like in Mexico where they actually have a word for it... Modida... it means to put the bite on somebody or solicit a bribe

I know what giujohn said is true, because I have a friend who lives in Mexico, and he told me about how he "paid off" to "get off" of getting a ticket.

Cop cruelly blasts 84-year-old black woman in the face with pepper spray — in her own home

VIDEO: Cop cruelly blasts 84-year-old black woman in the face with pepper spray — in her own home



The Muskogee police department in Oklahoma has released video of a police officer using pepper spray on an elderly woman.

Body-cam video of the incident shows an officer using chemical irritant on 84-year-old Geneva Smith last week in her house. The video was given to local news outlet FOX23 this week.

Officers were following the woman’s 56-year-old son, Arthur Paul Blackmon, for running a stop sign. Blackmon led police back to his mother’s house and entered, refusing police commands to stop.

An officer kicked in the door and entered the house, and shot Blackmon with an electrical stun gun while he had his hands raised.


Six other officers entered the residence, and Smith emerged from a room before being ordered to turn around. About 40 seconds later, an officer uses pepper spray on her.

Video at the link:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/cop-cruelly-blasts-84-year-old-black-woman-in-the-face-with-pepper-spray-in-her-own-home/

Policing themselves: Family members of New Yorkers killed by NYPD officers slam council speaker for blocking reform

Melissa Mark-Viverito is accused of delaying NYPD reform by relatives of people killed cops
Daniel Denvir

Nineteen relatives of people killed by New York City police officers have sent letters to the City Council condemning Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito for attempting to “delay police reforms” and “leaving the NYPD to police itself.” The letters accuse Mark-Viverito, an ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio, of blocking the passage of the Right to Know Act, which would require that police identify themselves during stops and provide a rationale for the interaction, issue business cards when there’s no summons or arrest, and advise people of their right to refuse searches that require consent. The family members also decried a side agreement with the department as “a backroom deal that removes its most important reforms.”

“An elected official should not be playing politics with our lives,” said Constance Malcolm, who signed the letters because her son Ramarley Graham was shot dead in 2012, while unarmed, by an officer who had followed him into the family home. Malcolm said that the Right to Know Act would curb police abuses, starting with the most everyday of interactions: the street stop that targets people of color. “We expect more from them,” she said. “This law will protect our children and community and they should not delay anymore.”

Those signing the letters, all family members of people killed by police over the past two decades, included the mother of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant whose 1999 death in a shower of 41 police bullets prompted widespread protests; the parents of Sean Bell, who was shot dead while unarmed in a hail of 50 police bullets on his wedding day in 2006; the mother of Eric Garner, whose death after an officer placed him in a chokehold in August 2014 became a rallying point for Black Lives Matter; and the aunt of Akai Gurley, shot dead in November, 2014 by an officer in a Brooklyn housing project stairwell while he, unarmed, was walking with his girlfriend. The letters were emailed to the press by Communities United for Police Reform, which backs the legislation.

The Right to Know Act has received a veto threat from de Blasio and outgoing Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has condemned it as “unprecedented intrusions” into policing. According to a New York Times editorial in favor, the legislation “has been bottled up in the Council for two years” even though “it has broad support among Council members and community organizations.” The Times added, “Sponsors say it would pass easily if it ever came to a vote.”

Mark-Viverito, however, has defended an agreement with the NYPD to incorporate some of the measure into its training and rules.

According to the speaker’s office, the deal requires that officers ask for permission to conduct any search that legally requires consent and receive a clear “yes” or “no” response and provide something like a business card to those searched with consent, at checkpoint stops, after home searches and to anyone who requests it. (Thanks to court oversight of stop-and-frisk practices, officers must already provide identification during stops based on reasonable suspicion. But in February, the court-appointed monitor reported that they often fail to do so.)

Communities United for Police Reform said the agreement falls short of what would be required by the act because it does not require officers to give a rationale for interactions, provide identification in as many instances, or distribute identification cards that include the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s phone number. And the deal does not, activists complain, mandate that police obtain proof of consent for a search, collect data on what sort of people are searched (including by race and ethnicity), or explicitly inform people of their rights to refuse certain types of searches.

Mark-Viverito’s office told Salon the speaker will be monitoring the deal and that the legislation is not off the table.

The letters also take Mayor de Blasio to task for continuing “the failures of his predecessors to ensure the NYPD and its officers are held accountable when they violate their fundamental oath to serve and protect,” reflecting growing anger amongst anti-brutality activists over the pace of reforms under a mayor who won office, in part, thanks to his blistering criticism of stop-and-frisk practices. In particular, the letters took aim at de Blasio’s defense of an expansive application of New York’s police and prison-guard secrecy law to keep the disciplinary records of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put Garner in the chokehold, from being made public.

New York City and the entire state, despite their liberal reputation, have not passed many criminal justice reform measures in recent years, according to a recent story in The New York Times about de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s record.

Though stop-and-frisks have declined dramatically, that trend started before de Blasio took office, after widespread protest and a federal judge’s ruling against the practice. The enforcement of minor quality-of-life offenses, known as “broken windows” policing, also declined after Garner’s 2014 death but persists throughout the city. De Blasio, whose office did not respond to a request for comment, has been subject to waves of New York Post-driven conservative criticism about a crime surge that doesn’t exist. In response, he has fashioned deference to Bratton into a giant political shield — especially after the December 2014 killing of two officers and a bitter Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association-stoked cop revolt that followed.

In an email, Mark-Viverito spokesman Eric Koch said that the speaker has “been proud to lead on criminal justice reform,” highlighting measures like a citywide bail fund to reduce pretrial detention and a new commission that will examine how to reduce the number of people detained before trial and, in doing so, explore the broader possibility of closing Rikers Island.

“No legislative body has been as active as the New York City Council has been and with a year and a half left in this session we expect to continue our work making New York City a more fair and just place,” Koch said via email.

But time and again, activists have criticized de Blasio and Mark-Viverito for deferring to the NYPD. Instead of passing laws that would decriminalize petty crimes like drinking in public, the City Council has enacted legislation that encourage officers to issue civil summonses at their discretion. Mark-Viverito’s office says that the law, the Criminal Justice Reform Act, will lead to an estimated 10,000 fewer people receiving a criminal record and 50,000 fewer warrants.

The New York Civil Liberties Union believes that while such offenses should be fully decriminalized, the reform act is a “first step in the right direction,” the organization’s policy counsel Michael Sisitzky said. But the side agreement, he said, won’t do as a substitute for the Right to Know Act because the NYPD cannot be trusted to “police itself.”

“These bills were in part a response to the NYPD frequently disregarding its own Patrol Guide provision related to officer identification and consent searches and not being held accountable for these violations,” Sisitzky said.

Tina Luongo, the attorney in charge of the Legal Aid Society’s criminal defense practice, echoed that criticism, saying in a statement that the agreement “fails to include the measures . . . that would ensure monitoring and compliance carrying the force of law.”

Without the force of law, according to police reform advocates, change will be uncertain and limited in scope. After all, Bratton and de Blasio have also opposed efforts to criminalize police chokeholds, citing a department rule barring the move. But the NYPD rule barring chokeholds, as the Times editorial noted, didn’t stop Officer Pantaleo from placing Eric Garner in one.

“In so many of the killings of our family members,” the letters said, “NYPD’s internal rules — as laid out in its Patrol Guide and training — were violated as part of those fatal encounters.”

Daniel Denvir is a writer at Salon covering criminal justice, policing, education, inequality and politics. You can follow him at Twitter @DanielDenvir.

Yup...in the old days when you could still visit Juarez for the day you had to be careful not to have a traffic accident...even a fender bender cuz if you wanted to get back to the US you would have to pay the police mordida...it was just expected...

So if asian people blew up the gas station, and shouted asian power, and looked for mexican people to beat up, would THAT be considered racism and terrorism?

He's never going to answer you

There's no answer, and no excuse for it. That's ok though. I can keep asking the same question about black lives matter blowing up the gas station just as easily as bobsal can copy and paste.

Or you can actually debate with him and make a point or two so "the temperature gets too high" and bobsal just closes the thread and stops talking. That works too.

Yup... it's how the Liberals debate... Wait till the presidential debates, Hillary won't answer questions she'll just go on the attack... it's in their DNA

New Study Reveals NYPD Cops Fired on Unarmed Black Teen 16 Times While He Tried to Surrender

Newly-released video undermines the police’s claim that the teenager was threatening them.

By Arturo Garcia / Raw Story
August 27, 2016

Newly-released video undermines New York City police’s claim that a teenager was threatening them with a toy gun when they fired at him 16 times during a December 2013 encounter, the New York Daily News reported.

The footage shows Keston Charles, who was 15 years old at the time, running from officers, then limping, then putting his hands up with no sign of the BB gun he was reportedly carrying, which he allegedly took from a friend during a neighborhood fight and used to threaten another boy.

Charles served 18 months of probation in connection with the incident, and is reportedly trying to obtain his GED.
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“I was scared for my life. I was trying to get away,” Charles said of the encounter. “I never been shot at before.”

Charles was hit three times — twice while surrendering at the front door of his apartment building in Brooklyn. Charles is now suing Officer Jonathan Rivera over the incident.

An attorney for the city of New York, Elissa Jacobs, said that Charles “did not put his hands up to surrender before any round of shots,” a statement apparently contradicted by the footage. According to court documents, officials said since Charles was only hit three times, it demonstrated “how fast he continued to move and that the threat to public safety had not been abated.”

Watch the footage, as posted by the Daily News, below.




Arturo Garcia is an editor at Raw Story.

How does this justify Black lives matter blowing up a gas station with non-involved people inside? How does this justify hunting white people to beat up? How are those not acts of terrorism and racism? Why couldn't the guy just put his hands where the cop needed him to in the first place?

Try again. The article I read said that the PRIVATE SECURITY that was there were indeed off duty cops. And the Brazilian officials instead of admitting that they lied have doubled down by charging all the swimmers with other offences just like U S cops do when there in the wrong.

What you fail to understand is Rio is not the United States. Their police departments their political situation even their news agencies are not Guided by the same rules regulations and principles that we have in the United States so unless you have a direct pipeline personally to the individuals involved you can't say for sure what was happening or who was who.

You should be so lucky for the Integrity that your experience with the vast majority of police officers in the United States than having to deal with a police officer in Rio de Janeiro.

Is Blue Lives Matter a Racist Hate Group?

The pro-cop, Trump-linked movement’s main Facebook community is a cesspool of racist rants and violent threats.

By Max Blumenthal / AlterNet
July 20, 2016

http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/blue-lives-matter-racist-hate-group

The first night of the Republican National Convention featured a parade of alpha-male veterans and tough-talking cops pledging to “make America safe again.” Marcus Lutrell, a highly decorated Navy SEAL accused of fabricating major portions of his tales of heroism and elan, set the tone for the evening. Recalling the action-packed operations he spearheaded in Afghanistan with a mixture of misty eyed nostalgia and vein-popping outrage, Lutrell concluded that “your war is here.” His insinuation of a new war on terror raging in America’s streets, where duty-bound cops are supposedly besieged by radical Black Lives Matter protesters and black nationalist snipers, transitioned smoothly into an appearance by David Clarke, the hardline Milwaukee County Sheriff who has warned that the Black Lives Matter movement would soon join forces with the Islamic State.

Clarke opened with what was perhaps the most successful applause line of the evening: “Ladies and gentleman, I would like to make one thing very clear: Blue lives matter in America!” Clarke brought RNC delegates to their feet again when he celebrated the acquittal of the Baltimore police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray, who died after sustaining major injuries during an arrest. When Clarke cast Black Lives Matter and the Occupy movement as agents of anarchy hellbent on destroying an otherwise functional social order, the crowd erupted with euphoric applause.

Thanks to Clarke, a national televised audience was introduced for the first time to the movement known as Blue Lives Matter. Organized by police officers, their families and their supporters, Blue Lives Matter was founded to support the legal defense of Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Missouri cop placed on trial for killing the unarmed black teen Michael Brown in 2015. Mock civil rights marches have been organized under the banner of Blue Lives Matter, with cops and their families parading through the streets of major American cities and even blocking traffic on occasion.

Meanwhile, Blue Lives Matter legislation has been introduced in statehouses across the country equating cops with historically oppressed minority groups and proposing to protect them under hate crime laws. “The overarching message is that hate crimes will not be tolerated in Louisiana,” said Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who became the first elected official to sign such a bill into law.

Invoked on the national stage by culture war icons like Sheriff Clarke, Blue Lives Matter has become an integral component of the Republican base. It is not only a catch-all for opposition to Black Lives Matter and virtually any effort to spur police reform, but also a brand that conveys the racial backlash sensibility cultivated by the Trump campaign. In the past weeks, following a series of videotaped killings of unarmed black men, nationwide protests and two deadly shooting sprees targeting cops, those mobilizing under the banner of Blue Lives Matter have taken a disturbingly militant turn.

On one of the movement’s main online organizing hubs, the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community, calls for the massacre of Black Lives Matter protesters have grown more frequent and pronounced. Cops and their supporters have proposed denying police services to citizens who publicly support Black Lives Matter, posted discredited statistics about race and crime produced by a white nationalist website (and promoted by Donald Trump), and spun out fantasies of an ongoing race war.



On this Facebook page, and under their own names, commenters have called for white Americans to organize as a race against civil rights protests, demanded that police operate exclusively in white neighborhoods, and demonized black victims of lethal police violence as “thugs,” “hoodrats” and worse. Black Lives Matter is regularly described as a terrorist organization working in secret collusion with the Obama administration to wage civil war on cops. With help from a clickbait style blog that churns out daily disinformation—which the fact-checking site Snopes recently exposed for journalistic fraud—the Blue Lives Matter Facebook page has racked up over 1 million likes in a relatively short period of time.

With their violent sensibility and overtly racist tone, members of the Blue Lives Matter online community hardly seem dissimilar from the white nationalists attracted to Stormfront, the hate site the Southern Poverty Law Center has linked to some 100 murders across the country. Unlike Stormfront, however, Blue Lives Matter is able to shroud its extremism behind the badge that commands society-wide veneration.



This July, at least four Americans were arrested for social media postings expressing support for violence against law enforcement personnel. But police officers and their supporters have yet to face consequences for their comments at the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community, where they wish violence on private citizens with regular frequency. Like the cops who are afforded impunity when they kill unarmed citizens, Blue Lives Matter commenters have spouted violent extremism with minimal scrutiny and maximum intensity.

Fantasies of murdered black WNBA players

Scarcely a day passed this month without an event that sent Blue Lives Matter supporters into a frenzy.

On July 11, players from the Minnesota Lynx WNBA team appeared during pre-game warmups in T-shirts emblazoned with a Black Lives Matter logo along with badges honoring the police officers gunned down in Dallas by the fanatical black nationalist Micah Johnson. In true Blue Lives Matter form, five off-duty cops abandoned their security duties at the game and staged a walk-out protest against the shirts. Hours later, the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community exploded in rage at the players.

Blake Urban, a self-described active duty cop at the Tallassee, Alabama police department, described in broken English his wish for police to deny service to the players: “And I hope they all beat each other up and they needed cops and I hope they didn't come.”

“I hope some crazy, black, ex military personnel decides to shoot up the team and nobody responds to save them... fk BLM,” wrote a commenter named Angela Davis.

“Truth is that it is not a Black Lives Matter movement it is a war on police and white people,” David Gonzales Fumero interjected. He added that BLM was “nothing more than a local terrorist organization committing hate crimes.” Fumero’s post earned 400 likes from fellow Blue Lives Matter community members.

In a separate post, a commenter named Lori Silver called not only to deny police services to Black Lives Matter supporters, but to black people across America: “I say take ALL of our officers OUT of all the hoods in our country n put them in ONLY white nbrhoods, then they will be safe. Let the hoodrats kill each other.”

When an Indian-American commenter took issue with the racism that consumes the Blue Lives Matter Facebook threads, a self-identified army veteran named Frank Jakubec launched into a tirade. “Let the Americans run America,” Jakubec ranted. “You people come over here and **** all over the unfortunate people that get stuck working for you.”

Sandwiched between the racist comment threads deluging Blue Lives Matter’s forum every day are ads for a T-shirt supposedly honoring the police officers recently killed in Dallas. The shirt features an image of a sword-bearing Crusader with blue crosses emblazoned on his shield and chest plate. A staple of right-wing iconography intended to convey support for civilizational warfare, the Crusader symbol has been embraced by British neo-fascists and the late Christian Right icon “American Sniper,” Chris Kyle, who had it tattooed on his right arm.


Black heroes for white racists

Though the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community expresses an aggressively racist sensibility, its most ardent members have a few black heroes. Chief among them is Sheriff Clarke, who is African American, but has defended a Confederate monument, called Black Lives Matter “black slime” that “needs to be eradicated from American society,” and said he would have used more force than the Texas cops who roughed up and drew a gun on black teenagers at a pool party.

When Clarke’s angry confrontation with CNN anchor Don Lemon went viral on July 17, the members of the Blue Lives Matter community lit up with joy. Among the most liked comments was one by Scott Downing, who has posted a photo suggesting he works for the Mendota Heights, Minnesota police department. “If Trump wins I say make Sheriff Clarke the next director of the FBI or the DOJ,” Downing proclaimed. “We need leaders who talk the truth, who see the truth, who stand up for the truth, and who are not afraid to put the truth forward regardless of its color.”

One of the few other black men to earn the adulation of Blue Lives Matter supporters was a self-described “Trainer Motivational Speaker” named Kevin Martin who took to Facebook to pledge total obedience to violent cops. Claiming he had been pulled over “COUNTLESS times by the police” while packing a “40 Cal Handgun,” Martin boasted that while he has been searched “for HOURS,” he had never been shot like other black motorists. “WHY?” Martin wrote. “Because I made 1 choice and that was to RESPECT THEIR AUTHORITY, and respect their orders… If the REST of america had the SAME AGENDA, this world would be so different.”

Martin’s declaration of unilateral submission before the authorities — and his apparent acceptance of being racially profiled — won a favorable post from Blue Lives Matter and pats on the back from its supporters. One of the few critical comments, by someone who expressed sorrow over Martin’s claims of being constantly pulled over, earned a rebuke from the Blue Lives Matter administrators: “He was stopped for traffic infractions...valid reasons...don't try to spin something positive with such an inflammatory comment.”

Martin immediately attempted to capitalize on the promotion he received from Blue Lives Matter, initiating a pro-police live chat on his Facebook page. “I, as a Black American will tell you why this problem starts directly with us, as black American people,” he promised, “and has very little to do with white America and our Police force.”

Calls for slaughtering Black Lives Matter protesters

This month in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a former Marine and apparent black nationalist named Gavin Long gunned down three cops in apparent retaliation for the videotaped execution-style killing of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge police officers. Back in Long’s hometown of Kansas City, a local reporter knocked on the door of his former home and asked if Long still lived there. When he persisted after being told no, an unidentified man inside the house returned to the door, silently bearing a rifle though not pointing it at the reporter.

Coverage of the minor incident set the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community aflame, with commenters demanding the most bloodthirsty response possible.

“Blow up the house,” urged a commenter named Joseph Brunner. His post earned almost 300 likes and spurred other commenters to issue similarly destructive propositions.

“Government just threaten to take his assistance away and he will run out along with all his family!” wrote Crystal Rands, a self-described substitute teacher at Minnesota public schools.

“Hang that peace [sic] of **** from a red light in the middle of baton rouge,” added Gerald Smith, a Blue Lives Matter supporter.

A commenter named Danny Sutton who identified as a retired member of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office chimed in with a request for Long’s carcass. Sutton explained that he wanted to deliver the dead body to the local chapter of the New Black Panther Party, a black nationalist group with no connection to the Baton Rouge shooting.

In post after post, Blue Lives Matter commenters have erupted with violent and racist diatribes against the Black Lives Matter movement. A meme posted on the page on July 12 by a commenter named Reese Franklin typified the way Blue Lives Matter supporters discuss their perceived arch-enemies, and earned hundreds of likes: “It’s Time For Police To Take The Gloves Off And Put These Black Lives Matter Terrorists Down.”

“I hope they've enjoyed theirselves,” a commenter named Haley Susann Harris said of Black Lives Matter. “Won't be too much longer until bigger and better people and guns abolish the entire BLM ‘squad’. Going to start pissing off just those right type of people soon.”

In a separate thread, Eric Thomas, an Army veteran now working at the Florida Department of Transportation, called on whites to take a stand. “Will white America stand up and stop allowing this bullshit from the racist black community!” Thomas stated. “Tell these people to grow up and stop blaming whites for their problems!”

One of the few dissenters to weigh in on the Baton Rouge thread was an African-American woman named Asha Jamila. “People like the shooter read threads like this and thats all the motivation they need,” Jamila warned. “#BLM wouldn’t have to say one word.”

Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project at AlterNet, and the award-winning author of Goliath and Republican Gomorrah. His most recent book is The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Follow him on Twitter at @MaxBlumenthal.

Did blue lives matter blow up a gas station with people inside, rob liquor stores, tip cars, start pick out a race to beat them down?

I don't know, but here we have at least one chain restaurant with a blue stripe painted on the lower portion of the windows. Also, several cars with the same stripe across the rear window. That's The Thin Blue Line, if you don't get it. Kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?

Two ex military men blew up the Murrah Federal Building and killed 168 people and injured more than 500. By the way they were white men.

If you're waiting for an honest debate with Bob you're going to be sadly disappointed because he is only capable of spamming this site with someone else's posts or thoughts... he is incapable of communicating through a discourse of his own words... he knows he does not have the intellectual wherewithal to prevail in any such debate.