Where are the bills to end the militarization of police and murder of black men? WARNING GRAPHIC PIC
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Where are the bills to change how police are prosecuted for brutality? Using a prosecutor or even a special prosecutor, from the same State, is a conflict of interest
Where is the outrage from the government at the senseless, constant, beatings and murders of young, black men, all people of color and the mentally ill?
Where are the regulations to stop police from shooting unarmed people?
Where are the reparations for all the people who have been wrongly pulled over, ticketed, fined, for the sole purpose of revenue for the towns and cities across the country?
Why haven't the police departments that the DoJ have found are racist been disband?
Why are there no charges against the cops, or at least the Chiefs, in all the departments that have knowingly used unfair, racist practices that have caused so very many people harm?
Speeches on anniversaries of major civil rights events mean absolutely nothing when police are beating, torturing, killing our brothers and sisters and NOTHING is done to stop it.
This has to end!
There are all graphic and heart wrenching
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Tajai Rice thrown down, cuffed and thrown in vehicle trying to reach her little brother
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There are 241 incidents of police brutality in this song
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I guess there's always ice cream. 
What do you do when your fellow citizens are not paying any attention? The TPP threads should be burning up the board. Instead, it's a struggle to keep them in play.
Oh and....
But it's 25 degrees here. Can I have some hot chocolate instead, please?
Thank you!
Some of us are on diets.
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of reversing that course, all slick rhetoric about body cameras and pretty intentions aside.
Huge K&R. Thank you for this important OP.
You are right. What we need is for the militarization programs to be ended.
We need a public, national database on police violence toward citizens.
And we need relentless attention from the DOJ to cases of police violence until this garbage stops.
But we are already receiving relentless messaging that we have no right to expect or demand actual reversal of the militarization. Cameras on the militarized police is the ONLY bone that has even been mentioned, and we were expected to cheer in delight at that empty concession by our corporate masters.
The militarization of our police is federally driven, bipartisan, and as much a part of the growing police state as the mass surveillance, prison industrial complex, and assaults on journalism, other political protesters, and whistleblowers.
The occasional pretty, empty rhetoric being offered is not a first step to anything. This administration has vastly expanded the obscene militarization of our police forces. That obscene militarization continues, to the point that we now regularly see photos in our newspapers that look like something out of Afghanistan. There is ZERO sign on the horizon that actually REVERSING a vicious, malignant policy is even being considered.The Obama administration's escalation of police militarization
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html
It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.
The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.
The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter", its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.”
Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.What we need is for the militarization programs to be ended.
We need a public, national database on police violence toward citizens.
And we need relentless attention from the DOJ to cases of police violence until this garbage stops.
But we are expected to cheer, because now there may be cameras on the officers in our militarized police state. We are to accept that the militarization itself is an acceptable "new normal."
This is textbook MO of our new corporate-ruled government. Implement unconscionable new authoritarian policy...then make some small concession that preserves the bulk of the new abuses, and seek adulation for that. You will know the corporate Third Way by their absolute refusal to entertain the possibility that the abuses should actually be reversed. You will know them by the incessant, malignant propaganda messaging that teaches us always to accept the "new normal," no matter how unconscionable it may be.
Militarized police, prison industrial complexes, impoverished communities, mass surveillance....They are all part of the new normal, the corporate police state being constructed around us.
We have to insist on reversal of the militarization itself. Our corporate government will never yield more than we demand.
We must not accept our militarized police forces as an acceptable "new normal" in the United States of America. Corporatists have no right to do this to us and to our country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/what-weapons-are-police-using-in-ferguson/2014/08/14/4acf0920-23e0-11e4-8b10-7db129976abb_video.html
Thank you for your wise words and the information. There is absolutely no doubt that the privatization of everything, especially law enforcement, is part of a plan to control us all to a degree this country, as a whole, has never seen. Obviously women to some degree, and black people were controlled by the government to a greater degree at on time.
It's frightening.
Great to see you Woo!
There's no profit in it. That's how a bill is passed. Profits must be made.
The only profit they've found beyond the massive amounts of drugs sold by the rich in the inner cities, and the rent-to-own furniture stores whose deals work out to 1000% APR, and the check cashing/loan shylock stores that do the same thing in ripping-off poor people -- is the profits they've found in locking up the people and putting them in for-profit prisons.
Using a variation on the same business model of the slave traders who brought those young men's ancestors (and mine) here. Only this time the taxpayers (the middle class) get to pay for their passage instead of entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck off human misery. They're still making money off misery, just in a different way.
- It continues to exist, because as a nation we tolerate it. Like everything else......
WASHPO: Obama orders review of military equipment supplied to police • 08/23/2014
K&R
That's my point. It's horrific.
malaise
And it doesn't look like there will be any slowing of it.
There is a major conflict of interest. They have to work with the cops to obtain convictions. The regular prosecutors in cases against the police, should not be used. The failure to indict so many accused of police brutality pretty much proves that
Reminds me of what my brother said after the PA. He worked at airports and said, "one thing is for sure. The world is safe from large breasted women." 
Okay, thanks. No hurry. Here is another one. This baby referred to as Baby Bou Bou. Cops throw a flash bang in the house and disfigure the boy's face. They search the house and don't find any drugs or anything illegal.
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I once watched that entire Kelley Thomas video. There is a point at which the cop baits Thomas into action. The cop demands that Thomas sit a certain way while they are investigating him. This demand really confuses Thomas, who is sitting there peacefully. The cop clearly escalates the otherwise calm situation.
Not sure if I can post a picture, but here is a link to before and after. The face of Thomas is disfigured beyond recognition.
I remember some of the basketball and football players wearing "I can't breathe" t-shirts and shoes after Garner was murdered. The Notre Dame women's basketball team wore them. Maybe they got noticed on national TV. Not sure. But that whole thing fizzled very fast.
I don't think you're going to get much traction at the national level. Miriam Carey was shot in the back of the head, and the entire congress gave the capitol police a standing ovation. Not sure if the answer is more local or what, but the house and senate surely are not going to pay heed.
They tried to vilify Carey as a nut, but that did not work. They tried to connect her with drugs, but that did not work. They then swept it under the rug. They gave themselves badges that looked like this:
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