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Cops Use Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Never Charged With A Crime [via Facebook]
Abolish civil forfeiture.
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Cops Use Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Never Charged With A Crime
VideoLicense, registration—and your cash. A deputy for the Humboldt County’s Sheriff Office in rural Nevada has been accused of confiscating over $60,000 from drivers who were never charged with a crime.  These cash seizures are now the subject of two federal lawsuits and are the latest to spotlight…
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Black Man Wrongfully Convicted By All-White Jury Freed After Nearly 3 Decades On Death Row [via Facebook]
Abolish the death penalty.
Black Man Wrongfully Convicted By All-White Jury Freed After Nearly 3 Decades On Death Row
(Updates with comments from attorneys, background on case) By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, March 11 (Reuters) – A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row was slated to walk free on Tuesday, after prose…
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Antigone Darling [via Facebook]
There is no excuse for ever treating anyone like this. It is wrong, and so is any institution that would perform it.
#AbolishTheTSA
I decided to go through the cancer machine. The thought of allowing these people to touch me was more than I could handle after some recent events that have left me feeling very insecure about my person. After posing in the machine (which was a difficult task for me, knowing what I was subjecting myself to) I was told that the TSA scum would have to “clear my torso.” I told her that the reason I went through the cancer machine was to not get a pat down. She said she would call her supervisor, give me a private screening, etc. I told her that I don’t let strangers touch me, I don’t want to cry in public or in private and that there is no way that she is taking me anywhere out of view.
Her supervisor comes over and says that she’ll handle me. She says that she must clear my torso. She makes me stand on a particular mat. As I’ve been dealing with her, I’ve scrunched up my shirt, demonstrating that there is nothing there. “Are you going to gut me to see what I had for breakfast?” At this point, I lift my shirt, exposing my belly. The look of horror/disgust on this perpetrators face… She is the one forcing herself on me and yet, I have somehow offended her sensibilities by exposing my skin. Seriously, fuck her.
I’m not exactly sure if this was when she threatened to call over a LEO. (She pronounced the acronym.) I confirm with her that she is only touching my torso and “consent”. Two male TSA scumbags stare at me as I let tears rolls down my face. I don’t bother to wipe them as they take all of my belongings and check EVERYTHING for explosive residue, or whatever.
They find my cash. The TSA scumbag calls over the most the perpetrator. I tell her that is less than $10,000. Much less. She loses interest in it at that point, does not inspect further.
When they’re done fucking with me, they all say, “Thank you.” “Have a great day.” “Have a great flight.” etc. I don’t look at them and I don’t speak to them. I know people have had worse experiences. This was mine.
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Immigrants, Robbed by the Police [via Facebook]
Suffolk County, Long Island police Sergeant Scott Greene mugged more than a dozen Latino men during traffic stops, before he was caught on camera in January robbing an undercover police. He seems to have targeted Latino men specifically because it was easier for him to prey on undocumented immigrant workers, who any police officer can put at serious risk of deportation during any traffic stop.
Immigrants, Robbed by the Police
Another blot has been added to an already ugly record of anti-immigrant hatred and violence in Suffolk County on Long Island.
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Airman identified as man shot by Opelika officer [via Facebook]
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An unarmed motorist was shot in the stomach by Opelika police Officer Phillip Hancock while his hands were raised over his head. The police were there to “assist” with his traffic accident. Then he nearly bled to death while the cops searched his car.
#AbolishThePolice
Airman identified as man shot by Opelika officer
The father of a 20-year-old Airman who was reportedly shot by an Opelika police officer Thursday evening is searching for answers about the incident.
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Report: FBI had urged charges in Maricopa County inquiry [via Facebook]
Police are legally unaccountable for the abuses they commit. That is what makes them police.
#AbolishThePolice
Report: FBI had urged charges in Maricopa County inquiry
Report: FBI had urged charges in Maricopa County inquiry,Federal investigators concluded there was sufficient evidence to bring charges against public officials during their years-long abuse-of-power investigation targeting Maricopa County law enforcement agencies, according to heavily-redacted reco…
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Police Shoot A Lot More People Every Year Than The Government Reports [via Facebook]
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“‘The government doesn’t want us to know how many people the police shoot every year,’ Fisher said. ‘And that’s because they shoot more people every year than we think.’ . . .”
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Police Shoot A Lot More People Every Year Than The Government Reports
Every year, more people are shot and killed by police than are being reported. Police departments either withhold information completely or lie about their numbers.
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Texas Police Officer Shoots, Kills Unarmed Woman – Atlanta Black Star [via Facebook]
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Texas Police Officer Shoots, Kills Unarmed Woman – Atlanta Black Star
A police officer in Texas shot and killed an unarmed woman over the weekend, sparking an investigation after it appears the officer may have lied in his initial statement. The Bastrop County Sherriff’s Office retracted the initial statement issued after the shooting that claimed the victim, Yvette S…
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BroadSnark | Is Applying PREA to Immigrant Detention a Good Thing? [via Facebook]
“. . . In the mother’s day 2013 issue, Dawn describes how little the PREA [federal Prison Rape Elimination Act] has helped women prisoners. In fact, she says ‘the only people who suffer because of PREA are the same ones who were supposed to benefit from it.’ According to Dawn, what ‘zero tolerance’ has actually meant is that women are forbidden any physical contact. She was once admonished for giving another prisoner a high five.
A few abusive guards were removed and charged with crimes since PREA passed. But the Department of Corrections (DOC) also implemented their own new rule. The new rule makes it a serious infraction for a prisoner to falsely report to authorities. Dawn says that, since they added the new rule, many women won’t make reports because
“‘. . . history has proven that any kind of reports true or false are found to be false. When it was found to be false the people were immediately found guilty and sent to administrative segregation (ad. seg.). One lady was only having a conversation with an officer, not ‘reporting’ anything, just telling him a rumor she’d heard about a guard putting money on an offenders account for ‘favors’. This officer went and reported their conversation and she was cuffed, taken to the hole and subsequently written up for Class 1 False Reporting and placed in Ad. Seg.’
“Does it sound to you like a few new policies are going to make a difference when people still accept the mass dehumanization and incarceration that creates such an ideal environment for abuse without consequences? . . .” -Melanie S. Pinkert
BroadSnark | Is Applying PREA to Immigrant Detention a Good Thing?
The Department of Homeland Security announced “that it has finalized regulations to prevent sexual abuse in immigrant detention centers.†Their announcement follows the 2012 Obama administration directive that the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) apply to those in immigration detention and not jus…
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