A death a day from police chases
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police agression
“They Fed Me to an Animal” Cops Held Two Victims at Gunpoint While Forcing K9 to “Eat Them”
An officer with a history of using his dog to inflict torture is the subject of a federal lawsuit after he allegedly held two men at gunpoint and sicced his K9 on them.
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Mother Rejects ‘Hush Money’ in Fatal Police Shooting #DarrienHunt #SayHisName
The mother of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt refused a $900,000 settlement, describing the offer as “hush money.”
Darrien Hunt, 22, was shot and killed by police officers in Saratoga Springs, Utah, last September. He was reported to be walking in a shopping mall wearing a Japanese anime costume and carrying a samurai sword.
Four of the six fatal bullets that hit Hunt were from behind.
#DarrienHunt #SayHisName
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Super Slow Motion Camera Shows the Gruesome Reality of Cops’ ‘Less than Lethal’ Tasers
The moment a man is tasered has been caught on camera in super slow motion by YouTube wizards The Slow Mo Guys.
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People in the U.S. are getting tasered to death.
HT @ShaunKing
#NatashaMcKenna died after being tasered 4 times by police with a hood over her head and her hands handcuffed behind her back.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/642068208091009024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers
NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn’t believe a black woman owned a BMW.
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2015 and the U.S. is still oppressing people
There are news reports of oppression in the U.S. every day, and not every incident is reported. I suspect that the majority of incidents are not reported.
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
Cops Shoot Schizophrenic #FreddyCenteno because He was Holding a Water Nozzle
A mentally ill Fresno man is in critical condition after police shot him multiple times, mistaking a water nozzle for a gun.
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U.S. needs to fund #MentalHealthCare
Woman Sues NYPD After Her House Was Repeatedly Raided by Cops Trying to Arrest Her Dead Husband
Incompetent cops tore apart a poor woman’s home time after time looking for a man who died nearly a decade ago.
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Ex-Baltimore Cop Joe Crystal: Police Today Are Like Gangs – Int. w/ Cenk Uygur
In this edited portion of a longer interview with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Crystal describes how today’s urban police forces have come to resemble street gangs, the difference between “us vs. them” urban policing and “customer service” policing that occurs in suburban areas, and wonders when police will start being given awards for challenging corruption in their own departments.
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Cop Drags Mentally Ill Woman by Her Ankle Down a Flight of Stairs
WOOSTER, OH — A now-former Sheriff’s Deputy has resigned following a horrific scene from his body cam showing him drag a mentally ill woman down a flight of stairs by her ankle.
The woman can be heard screaming in pain and agony on the footage.
The cop continues to drag her by her ankle into a puddle on the concrete, soaking her head in filthy water.
Deputy Ryan Peterman has “resigned” now that the footage has been reviewed and released to the public.
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