Police behaving badly

[PrimalxConvoy]

A minor, yet still unacceptable incident in the UK...

Police watchdog to review Croydon bus fare evasion arrest

A video of a mum shouting as officers handcuff her in front of her son is criticised on social media.

www.bbc.com

...which perhaps pales in comparison to the US, home of guns and incompetent attack dog officers.

Officials investigate police dog attack on driver in Ohio

A video shows the K-9 pulling down the driver, who is black, as he was trying to surrender in Ohio.

www.bbc.com

 

[Paladin]

the slide has been arrested for assault.

 

[NovaSaber]

FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself

The bureau was ordered to find out which government agency broke with White House policy and engaged a blacklisted spyware vendor. It found...itself.

gizmodo.com

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

the slide has been arrested for assault.

Police be'slidin' madly?

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

French police officer fired rubber bullet into man's skull:

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66393503

 

[Pale Rider]

Police Violently Arrested Wrong Black Man Inside An Applebee’s, Charged Him Anyway

Video of the incident shows police repeatedly punching the man on or near his head as he lay on the floor while another officer restrained him.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Ironbite4]

Jesus christ I hope he gets a settlement.

Ironbite-and it comes out of these jackasses pockets.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

It won't. Police lawsuits are paid out of insurance.

 

[Dekafox]

Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones • Kansas Reflector

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.

kansasreflector.com

Which led to the death of the newspaper owner, as they took the devices she could have used to get assistance when she collapsed(on top of the stress from the raid):

UPDATED: Illegal raids contribute to d6 | Marion County Record | Aug. 12, 2023 ()

 

[Plutoniumboss]

The stupid part is THEY WEREN'T EVEN GOING TO PUBLISH ANYTHING ABOUT IT, the newspaper was acting responsibly and following up on the information to make sure it wasn't from a poisoned source. And now the whole nation is looking. I'm not sure how an attempted coverup and silencing could possibly backfired any worse.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

I'm not sure how an attempted coverup and silencing could possibly backfired any worse.

Because they were unaware of the effect they might have...

 

[Pocket]

The stupid part is THEY WEREN'T EVEN GOING TO PUBLISH ANYTHING ABOUT IT, the newspaper was acting responsibly and following up on the information to make sure it wasn't from a poisoned source. And now the whole nation is looking. I'm not sure how an attempted coverup and silencing could possibly backfired any worse.

It could have backfired worse if we lived in a country where there's any chance they will face real consequences for this. As it is, they'll probably get a commendation for successfully sending a message to the public that this is what happens to well-meaning independent journalists in Trump's America.

 

[Ironbite4]

Yeah know. There's gonna be some heads rolling for this.

Ironbite-small town politics and all that.

 

[Pocket]

That's even worse. Small towns are like 90% people with Trump flags and I BACK THE BLUE signs.

 

[Plutoniumboss]

Because they were unaware of the effect they might have...

They'll need to watch out for stray sand.

 

[NovaSaber]

Video shows brutal arrest of disabled girl after she compares cop to her lesbian grandma - LGBTQ Nation

The girl, who has autism and scoliosis, was dragged out of her home by police.

www.lgbtqnation.com

Cops had been called earlier in the evening to provide a safe escort home for the autistic girl.

“This is what police do when dealing with autistic children,” the girl’s mom wrote in the first in a series of captions on the video.

“My daughter told me the police officer looked like her nana, who is a lesbian. The officer took it the wrong way and said it was a homophobic comment (it wasn’t). The officer then entered my home,” the girl’s mother said.

“My daughter was having panic attacks from being touched by them and they still continued to manhandle her,” she continued.

Her daughter also suffers from scoliosis, the mom said, which she told the officers as they dragged her from her home.

 

[Pale Rider]

You can be arrested for making homophobic comments in the UK?

 

[Spin-Out]

not if you're a tory.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

The UK is exactly why Americans won't give up our guns.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

You can be arrested for making homophobic comments in the UK?

I'm not sure, but we have laws against "hate speech" and quite rightly too.