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It's true. The cops will simply yell demands or just shoot. If it's a White man, they will usually attempt to talk to the suspect.
And, another thing about this case: the cops went to serve a warrant on someone totally unrelated to this case. A cop targeted this man simply because he looked suspicious. And, if he had a gun, which I don't believe, why is it not OK for a Black man to carry a gun in an open-carry state?
Take a look at these two videos and ask yourself which arrest is for fraud [[mistaken identity) and which one is for murdering six people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaRmNwJs9Y
Or this arrest of the punk who killed nine people in church:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09nqCFaCvk
Compared to a man accused of having a gun in his pocket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAik-EvI3o
Black people get tackled and brutalized before they're even able to resist arrest. White people are afforded the dignity of being vertical when they're handcuffed, regardless of the alleged offense. SMH.
Now, the Charlotte pigs - I mean, Charlotte POLICE - are saying they were within their rights to kill Keith Scott because they smelled weed coming from his car. Makes sense...
Oh, and if you have any questions about whether the noble public servants deserve the benefit of the doubt, read this article. If you still feel that way, you and I are enemies.
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80 percent of Chicago PD dash-cam videos are missing audio due to ‘officer error’ or ‘intentional destruction’
By Radley Balko January 29
From DNA Info, here’s the latest piece of evidence that the corruption and abuse in the Chicago Police Department aren’t limited to a few bad cops — the problems are systemic.
Why are so many police dashcam videos silent?
Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas got busted or went missing. And sometimes, dashcam systems didn’t have any microphones at all, DNAinfo Chicago has learned.
Police officials last month blamed the absence of audio in 80 percent of dashcam videos on officer error and “intentional destruction.”
A DNAinfo Chicago review of more than 1,800 police maintenance logs sheds light on the no-sound syndrome plaguing Police Department videos — including its most notorious dashcam case.
Maintenance records of the squad car used by Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed Laquan McDonald, and his partner, Joseph Walsh, show monthslong delays for two dashcam repairs, including a long wait to fix “intentional damage.”
On June 17, 2014, police technicians reported fixing a dashcam wiring issue in police vehicle No. 6412, the squad shared by Van Dyke and Walsh, about three months after it was reported broken, records show.
A day later, the same vehicle’s dashcam system was reported busted again. It took until Oct. 8, 2014, to complete repairs of what technicians deemed “intentional damage,” according to reports.
Just 12 days later, on Oct. 20, 2014, dashcam video recorded from squad car No. 6412 on the night Van Dyke shot and killed McDonald did not record audio. The video that went viral showing Van Dyke killing Laquan was taken from a different squad car, but it, too, had no audio.
Chicago police release video of officer shooting Laquan McDonald Play Video1:49
Editor's note: This video contains graphic content. Chicago police released October 2014 video of police shooting Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old. Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder. [[Chicago Police Department)
And on Nov. 21, 2014, a review of 10 videos downloaded from Van Dyke’s squad car dashcam determined it was “apparent … that personnel have failed to sync the MICs [sic],” police records show . . .
Four other police vehicles at Laquan’s shooting scene that had dashcam systems also failed to record audio. Only two of the five vehicles had dashcams that actually captured video.
The dashcam in police vehicle No. 8489, shared by officers Thomas Gaffney and Joseph McElligott the night of Laquan’s shooting, recorded 37 “event videos” in October 2014, and had an operational dashcam the night of the shooting. But “due to disk error” no video was recorded at the shooting scene, according to police reports.
The article goes on like that. This isn’t a few bad apples. It’s 80 percent. Why haven’t these officers been prosecuted? Several years ago, a woman named Tiawanda Moore tried to file a report of alleged sexual assault by a Chicago PD officer. When the internal affairs officers with whom she was trying to file the complaint began to intimidate her, Moore began recording the conversation with her cellphone. Under Illinois law at the time, it was a felony to record a police officer without his or her permission. That law has since been struck down, but Anita Alvarez, the state’s attorney for Cook County who had the power and discretion to decline to prosecute given the circumstances, pushed ahead and attempted to put Moore in prison. Her office did the same with Chicago artist Christopher Drew. Moore was eventually acquitted, in what was almost certainly an act of jury nullification.
So where has Alvarez’s office been here? In December, Alvarez called the lack of audio in the Laquan McDonald video “frustrating” but added that “that’s something I believe the Police Department has to address.” For good measure, she said, “we would prefer to have the audio.”
That’s it? “We would prefer to have the audio”? At minimum, intentionally destroying dash-cam equipment is destruction of public property. You could argue that it’s also tampering with or destroying evidence, particularly if there’s proof that it was done after a shooting or other major incident. Alvarez tried to imprison a woman for recording the alleged harassment she received from police while attempting to file a report alleging sexual assault by another police officer. But when cops tamper with evidence of a police shooting of an unarmed man, all she can say is that it’s “frustrating” and that she’d “prefer to have the audio”?
[What good are police cameras without transparency?]
Alvarez is apparently only somewhat frustrated that what appears to be a significant portion of the Chicago PD — who, let’s not forget, are government employees given the power to detain, arrest and kill — is openly and brazenly defying laws and policies aimed at holding officers accountable and keeping them transparent.
But it isn’t just Chicago. In April 2014, the Los Angeles Times ran a similar story about the Los Angeles Police Department.
Los Angeles police officers tampered with voice recording equipment in dozens of patrol cars in an effort to avoid being monitored while on duty, according to records and interviews.
An inspection by Los Angeles Police Department investigators found about half of the estimated 80 cars in one South L.A. patrol division were missing antennas, which help capture what officers say in the field. The antennas in at least 10 more cars in nearby divisions had also been removed.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and other top officials learned of the problem last summer but chose not to investigate which officers were responsible. Rather, the officials issued warnings against continued meddling and put checks in place to account for antennas at the start and end of each patrol shift.
Members of the Police Commission, which oversees the department, were not briefed about the problem until months later. In interviews with The Times, some commissioners said they were alarmed by the officers’ attempts to conceal what occurred in the field, as well as the failure of department officials to come forward when the problem first came to light.
Emphasis mine. So the city’s police chief learned that dozens of cops were deliberately sabotaging equipment intended to keep them accountable but chose not to investigate. Don’t the residents of Los Angeles deserve to know which cops committed the sabotage? What might their actions say about their credibility on the witness stand or how much credibility we should put in their reports when those reports are contradicted by witnesses or suspects? A crafty police chief might have seen the tampering revelations as a handy way to identify officers who should be watched closely for other signs of abuse. Instead, police officials tried to sweep it all away.
As we’ve discussed here in the past, this sort of thing is disturbingly common.
When University of Maryland student John McKenna was beaten by police after a basketball game, the surveillance camera that should have been pointing at the area where the incident occurred had been turned off. Fortunately, the confrontation wascaptured by numerous students on their cellphones. The officer in charge of the cameras just happened to be married to one of the officers later disciplined for McKenna’s beating.
In 2007, a TV reporter and her cameraman filed a lawsuit alleging they were assaulted by several police officers in Prince George’s County. During discovery, the county claimed that all seven dash-cams at the scene of the incident had coincidentally malfunctioned.
In 2010, an appeals court judge in Texas noted that curiously, in a high percentage of cases in which a DWI suspect had challenged the charges, dash-cam footage of the traffic stop had gone missing. “At some point, courts must address the repeated failure of officers to use the recording equipment and their repeated inability to remember whether the car they were driving on patrol or to a DWI stop contained the video equipment the City of Fort Worth has been paying for,” she wrote.
Let’s get real here. The notion that most of these incidents are honest mistakes simply defies credulity. These are deliberate attempts to destroy evidence, as are the countless incidents in which police have destroyed cellphone footage of arrests, beatings and other confrontations later resulting in allegations of abuse. But the courts long ago determined that when evidence goes missing in a criminal case, the defense must prove ill intent on the part of police or prosecutors. That’s a nearly impossible standard.
The hot trend in the police reform debate right now is body cameras. And it’s true, there have now been several studies now showing that body cams reduce assaults on police officers, use-of-force incidents and the number of complaints filed against police. But when it comes to writing the laws and policies that come with body cameras, the stories above ought to be instructive. A transparency tool that can be turned on and off, tampered with or rendered useless with no consequences for the police officer doing the tampering isn’t a transparency tool at all. It’s a tool that can save an officer from false allegations [[which, of course, is a good thing), but that does little to protect the public from officers prone to abuse.
There is a low grade race war going on here in the US and its being led by your local police force. How else do you explain all the murders in our American streets?
RossHolloway, they could take half the money spent on law enforcement, invest it into education and community development, and not need the other half within 20 years. Poverty and lack of employment have always been linked closely to criminal activity. They've known this for decades but it's easier to justify having a permanent underclass. What a waste of potential.
And although they won't admit it, the silent majority regarding police brutality is absolutely fine with it since it affects people of color and poor White folks primarily. They think that we somehow deserve it, so they sit silently as the occupation continues.
This is a MUST see video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXu4qNoHaI
Oh, first he had a gun, now it's weed. They can't even keep their lies straight. That's why they won't release the video. They are trying to cover up their lies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
And the worst part is that the MEDIA never asks the right questions.
Another thing about the wife's video. It was shaky, but I swear I do see a gun on the pavement, but one cop picked it up, wiped it off and put it into the victim's hand. That's certainly what I saw. Why has no one spotted that asked questions? It is well known that pigs uh...cops plant evidence. Remember the man in Oklahoma? They tried to say they found PCP in his SUV. Hmmm...that went away fast!
Wow. Just, wow. That's why they didn't want to release the video.
The reason cops can lie like Trump is because they have a built-in group of people who will automatically believe anything they say, especially if there is no video, and if it involves a Black person.
Soulster please view the above video you might find some of the answers.Quote:
Originally Posted by soulster
Exactly! Now you can see the cover up that everyone is now talking about in the above video.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
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