Words. Fucking. Fail me.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/29/killed_at_home_white_plains_ny

"Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain's door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. Audio of the entire incident was recorded by the medical alert device in Chamberlain's apartment."

[Telarus]

Just read this. So much 

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/29/killed_at_home_white_plains_ny

"Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain's door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. Audio of the entire incident was recorded by the medical alert device in Chamberlain's apartment."

He apparently had the pendant set to "TRAYVON MARTIN", instead of "HEART ATTACK".

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Yeah. With the exception that they haven't really started to DO anything about this yet, and it happened in November.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Jesus. Sounds like it's getting to the stage where you americans should be shooting coppers on sight, y'know, just to be on the safe side

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Whaaaat the fuck? How are they going to justify THAT? "It was dark and he was black! We did what any American woulda done!"

[Cain]

Whaaaat the fuck? How are they going to justify THAT? "It was dark and he was black! We did what any American woulda done!"

[Cainad (dec.)]

  @ Cain



"We broke down his door in the middle of the night, and he got all sassy about it. Had to put him in his place, you know?"

[Doktor Howl]

@ Cain



"We broke down his door in the middle of the night, and he got all sassy about it. Had to put him in his place, you know?"

"We responded to the medialert pendant, and found a Black man on site, with no sign of the person in distress."

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

@ Cain



"We broke down his door in the middle of the night, and he got all uppity about it. Had to put him in his place, you know?"

FTFY

[AFK]

Jesus. Sounds like it's getting to the stage where you americans should be shooting coppers on sight, y'know, just to be on the safe side

Nah, there are lots of good, honest and level headed joes out there working in police departments.  These specimens obviously don't fit that bill and should have the book thrown at them, and then some.  There should be murder charges in this case. 

[Cain]

I would like to agree.

Unfortunately, the uniform attracts a lot of power-tripping idiots who shouldn't be allowed to tie their shoelaces without assistance, let alone carry a gun and be given special privileges.  And every few days, it seems someone else is being shot dead, or raided, or tazed, or beaten to within an inch of their life for being the wrong skin colour, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, for protesting, or simply because, as far as can seen, the cops felt like it.

I know I'm getting to the point where I leave the area if I see a cop around.  And I'm friends with more than a few cops, or families of cops.  The London police see themselves as a gang.  They're corrupt right to the very top, based on most recent investigations, whether that corruption is organised crime, drug dealing, firearms or political in nature.  They kill people, a lot of people, and get away with it all the time. 

And groups like that will force good cops out.  Sure, they still exist.  But they'll be denied promotions, given bullshit assignments, harassed and demoralized, and they will leave the force.  I read a good story a couple of months ago explaining exactly how the LA County Police had been ruined in that way.  Corrupt institutions will self-perpetuate, if allowed to, and they have been, by a sympathetic judiciary, and a press willing to turn a blind eye.

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

AMMERIKUH! FUCK YEAH!