I saw a white man with a gun. I heard a policeman saying, "Place the weapon down on the ground, ple

I take a dimmer view, I think prisoners are abused because we enjoy exercising our sadism.

hawkeye10 wrote:

I take a dimmer view, I think prisoners are abused because we enjoy exercising our sadism.

Based on my visits to prisons (as part of my former job), I'd have to say that, yes, some/many of those guards seemed to enjoy and be proud of the most severe measures that they employed against the inmates.

Police Chief Asked Medical Examiner to Change Autopsy Report To Match Officer Testimony, He Does

Late last month, 22-year-old Mark Salazar was shot 6 times and killed by Sgt. Ryan Stark of the Oklahoma City Police Department.

When the story first hit the news, police told the media a number of lies about the case. The police said that Salazar was under the influence of drugs and that he had stolen a car, but both of those claims were later proven to be false.

Many other details about the case were also highly disputed, including the events which led up to Salazar’s death.

The police say that Stark fired his weapon because he felt that he was in danger, and they also claim that Salazar was in the middle of stabbing a k-9 unit when he was shot.

The k-9 unit allegedly died just after the incident, but the police have not put forward any hard evidence to support these claims, aside from the dead body of the dog. Initially, the medical examiner found that Salazar was attempting to flee while he was shot, and that he was shot six times, including four times in the back. The death was ruled a homicide.

The family hired an independent examiner to do an autopsy and they came to the same conclusion. These findings contradicted the version of events as told by police department. So Police Chief Bill Citty, with the Oklahoma City Police Department, called the medical examiner and ordered them to take another look at their report.

The medical examiner took another look at the report and found that everything did in fact go exactly as the police had described it, and apologized for the “errors” on their initial report.

“Mark had been shot in the back multiple times from a distance. Not while he was on the ground wrestling with a dog, but as he was attempting to flee. There was a larger concern about the dog than there was about the human life,” Noble McIntyre, the Salazar family’s attorney said.

Sgt. Stark is currently on a paid suspension pending the outcome of the investigation.

Think too about the lack of interest in the subject by the citizens.

Think about the recent botched execution in Kansas I think it was where the result was that the condemned man was tortured and the majority response from the citizens was " GOOD!".

In my experience, most of that is due to the "out of sight, out of mind" phenomenon.

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In my experience, most of that is due to the "out of sight, out of mind" phenomenon.

Are u kidding? Journalists and government reports routinely document the abuse in the prisons, they get yawned at. Cop shows which have as their main plotline getting the citizen they want by hook or crook have been rating kings for years. There used to be several shows a cable that actually go into real prisons. Bounty hunter shows were popular for a time.

We get off on this. We know exactly what happens, and we approve.

If you invested your time redistributing your anger and pride to the evils of politics, you'd make a breakthrough that is many times greater than what you've been doing here.

This is a branch - attack the tree.

Black and stopped in Utah

Speeding San Diegan subjected to drug search can sue
By Don Bauder, June 23, 2014

In a dispute that has been dragging on for six years, a judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday, June 20, that San Diegan Sherida Felder can go ahead with a racial-profiling suit against two Utah policemen.

In 2008, Felder, an African-American, was driving two then-teenagers to a football game in Colorado. Utah police pulled her over for speeding and wanted to search the car for drugs. Felder wouldn't give them permission, and police held them for two and a half hours in a futile search for drugs.

In 2009, Felder sued for racial profiling. On June 20, the appellate judge ruled that police did not have cause to search her car, which presents the opportunity for Felder's civil suit against the police for racial profiling. However, the judge said there was insufficient evidence for him to rule on whether there was racial profiling.

New York, one of the major places on the planet, cannot get a good court system in action?

June 23, 2011: People not ready, request 1 week.
August 24, 2011: People not ready, request 1 day.
November 4, 2011: People not ready, prosecutor on trial, request 2 weeks.
December 2, 2011: Prosecutor on trial, request January 3rd.
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June 29, 2012: People not ready, request one week.
September 28, 2012: People not ready, request two weeks.
November 2, 2012: People not ready, request one week.
December 14, 2012: People not ready, request one week.
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Police Brutality… just another isolated incident, right?

Usually, when there is an act of police brutality, some people tend to brush it off saying that it is an isolated incident. Below I have posted several videos that demonstrate it is actually the opposite. It is a daily occurrence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ouhkzXKEP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSpHdAD858
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TddzcdiB77g
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