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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 1, 2014, 7:09 pm
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Two White Construction worker eye witnesses agree Mike Brown DID
NOT attack the COP DARREN WILSON.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 1, 2014, 7:33 pm
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Dick Gregory once ran for President of the United States. He is
a wise man. He says, "white" is not a color, it's an ATTITUDE.
He is right.
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Dick Gregory is a Comedian as well as being a Historian and Top
Tier Civil Rights Activist.
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Dick Gregory, from the bottom of my heart — THANK YOU.
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> Peter Barry Chowka summed it up perfectly when he said,
“Gregory’s name, is synonymous with progressive social and
political causes. He is that rare combination (like Gandhi) of
activist and healer, one whose own life illustrates how real
change first must come from within oneself.”
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 5, 2014, 6:35 pm
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Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 12:59 PM EST.
Proof the police have told two huge lies in the shooting death
of Darrien Hunt
by
Shaun King
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On September 10, 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot six times in
the back and killed by two police officers in Saratoga Springs,
Utah. New evidence proves that police have told at least two
huge lies (and maybe another) in their attempt to justify the
shooting. What follows is an account of those lies.
Lie #1: As the first officer exited his vehicle, Darrien Hunt
lunged at him with his sword.
Detectives and medical examiners are consistently among the
first officials on the scene of a police-involved shooting
death. Their initial reports are particularly valuable because
they regularly have the earliest documented statements from the
officers involved in the shooting. As late as six days after the
shooting death of Darrien Hunt, the police admitted that they
had not even interviewed the officers involved yet, giving them
ample time to prepare their stories. Similarly, the earliest
known statement we have about the shooting death of Missouri
teenager Mike Brown on August 9 in Ferguson came from a
detective and was included in the autopsy report. It is
inconsistent with later stories purported to be from Officer
Darren Wilson.
In the newly released autopsy report in the shooting death of
Darrien Hunt, it states the earliest known account of the police
perspective as follows:
The first officer exited his vehicle and the subject charged him
swinging the sword.
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/>Three shots were fired (at Hunt) upon the initial contact.
Darrien Hunt, smiling while talking to officers outside of their
car. (at link)
This photo alone (at link), taken by bystander Jocelyn Hansen,
contradicts that story and proves that both officers had exited
their vehicle and were talking to Hunt.
Lie #2. Police claimed Hunt took acid and was on drugs
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/>but his toxicology report came back negative for all drugs and
alcohol.
In apparent attempt to smear Hunt, police made a strange and
absurd claim in their report, which states the following:
"(Hunt) apparently liked hallucinogens and had taken acid
approximately three weeks (prior to the shooting)."
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However, when the state toxicology report came back, it proved
that Hunt was not under the influence of any drugs
whatsoever—making the police statement about Hunt being on drugs
seem like an absurd attempt to justify the shooting.
Potential Lie #3. Witness Leonard Zogg says police have
deliberately misrepresented what he said he saw on September 10.
In the earliest police report from the day Hunt was killed,
Leonard Zogg is quoted as saying he saw Hunt lunge at the
officers and swing his sword at them
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/>Zogg emphatically denies ever seeing any such thing and states
that he never stated anything of the sort. Zogg also states that
he told detectives that the police began shooting at Hunt after
he started running away, but that the report states Zogg told
them Hunt ran away after he was fired upon. While it is nearly
impossible to confirm what Zogg did or did not tell the police
originally, his public avowal that he has been misrepresented,
when considered alongside these two other lies, is highly
concerning.
These cases of police inconsistencies are troubling at best and
must be investigated. ::)
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Agelbert Comment: The last statement is the UNDERSTATEMENT of
the YEAR. >:(
Fascism is NOW OFFICIALLY the NEW NORMAL.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 6, 2014, 3:11 pm
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But don't worry! According to "Christian" Lawyer Ashvin, the
above is hyperbole, madness and irrationality. ;D The jogger
will, AFTER ALL, get his "DAY IN COURT", WON'T HE?
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The only thing worse than a prejudiced, racist moron is a
prejudiced, racist LAWYER moron.
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The Court System is irreparable and must be totally scrapped.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 10, 2014, 1:47 pm
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Snippet 1:
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> KELLER: Well, we have a criminal justice system that
incarcerates more people than any other nation on earth. One
possible exception is North Korea where we don’t really know. We
have 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prison
inmates. The system fails badly at, at the fundamental
obligation to protect public safety, because we put people in
prison and then, when they’re finally finished their terms we
let them out with no skills, no preparation for the real world.
:(
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[b]SNIPPET 2:
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> You know, the, the … one of the issues I would like to look at
is pre-trial detention. I mean large numbers of people who are
accused of crime can’t afford the high price of the …and rising
cost of bail. So they end up languishing in jail before they’ve
had a trial. They lose their jobs, their families often fall
apart. This is before they’ve been convicted of anything.
>
> We’d like to look at the, the prevalence of plea bargains. And
most people I think would be surprised to know that upwards of
95% of the people who are in prison never had a trial.
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/>They were … they all cut deals with the prosecution because
there is a huge pressure in the system not to slow things down.
You can take your chances on, you know, a ten year sentence or
you can take a year, plead guilty and, and avoid that, that
risk. ;)
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SNIPPET 3:
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>
> HEFFNER: How do you get at whether or not prosecutions and
inadequate counsel and all these negative aspects of the
criminal justice system are racially motivated? How are you
going to try to get at that question? Because that’s on people’s
minds today.
>
> KELLER: Well, you know, one book that has, has been … become a
kind of bible for the more liberal reformists is Michelle
Alexander’s book called The New Jim Crow, which … where, in
which she writes eloquently and passionately about the
racialization of the American justice system. [i]And it’s, it’s
an undeniable truth … just from looking at the, at the data.
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Interview at link:
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"Day in Court", MY ARSE!
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 13, 2014, 9:06 pm
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How the Amish AVOID >:( paying into or collecting Social
Security.
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> And so it came to pass that in 1965, the Medicare bill was
passed by Congress. As Wayne Fisher writes in The Amish in
Court, "Tucked into the 138 page bill was a clause exempting
the Old Order Amish, and any other religious sect who
conscientiously objected to insurance, from paying Social
Security payments, providing that sect had been in existence
since December 31, 1950. After Senate approval in July, the
signing of the bill by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 13,
1965, made it official and canceled tax accounts of some 15,000
Amish people amounting to nearly $250,000."
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Agelbert NOTE: Had they not been the RIGHT COLOR, I am certain
this outpouring of support for their "Constitutional Rights"
would NEVER have happened. The Amish think it was due to their
Religion.
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Full article at link:
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>
> Valentine Byler vs. the IRS
> "Pay Unto Caesar - The Amish & Social Security"
>
> Many people think the Amish do not pay taxes. They do. But
they have been exempted from paying Social Security. This story
is little known to the general public today. It is full of
drama, clashes with the government, issues of religious freedom,
politics, and much more. For writing this 5-part series, I was
privileged to have access to many original materials and
personal letters.
>
> (To read each section of the series individually, click on the
following bookmarks, or read on for the entire series.)
>
> Part One: The Dispute Begins Part Four: The Public Reaction
> Part Two: The Amish vs. the IRS Part Five: The Amish "Fight
Back"
> Part Three: The Media Gets Involved
> Part Four: The Public Reaction
> Part Five: The Amish "Fight Back"
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 13, 2014, 9:34 pm
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J. Edgar Hoover’s ‘Suicide Letter’ to Martin Luther King Jr. Is
Even Worse Than We Knew
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Posted on Nov 12, 2014
Half a century ago, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover had what he
clearly considered to be a big problem in the form of civil
rights galvanizer Martin Luther King Jr. In late November 1964,
one of Hoover’s underlings typed out a letter, posing as a
disillusioned African-American excoriating King for his moral
failings and calling for a reckoning, as Beverly Gage details in
a report for The New York Times Magazine.
By that time, King had become a renowned leader occupying a very
visible stance on the global stage; as Gage notes, he was months
shy of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and Congress had passed
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a few months prior. So Hoover and
his deputy William Sullivan produced another indirect plan
(attempts to stage a smear campaign in the press hadn’t been so
productive) to tear King down.
“King, look into your heart,” the letter says. “You know you are
a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes.”
Gage, an American history professor at Yale, sums up the letter
thusly in her write-up:
The word “evil” makes six appearances in the text, beginning
with an accusation: “You are a colossal fraud and an evil,
vicious one at that.” In the paragraphs that follow, the
recipient’s alleged lovers get the worst of it. They are
described as “filthy dirty evil companions” and “evil
playmates,” all engaged in “dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk.”
The effect is at once grotesque and hypnotic, an obsessive’s
account of carnal rage and personal betrayal. “What incredible
evilness,” the letter proclaims, listing off “sexual orgies,”
“adulterous acts” and “immoral conduct.” Near the end, it
circles back to its initial target, denouncing him as an “evil,
abnormal beast.”
The unnamed author suggests intimate knowledge of his
correspondent’s sex life, identifying one possible lover by name
and claiming to have specific evidence about others. Another
passage hints of an audiotape accompanying the letter,
apparently a recording of “immoral conduct” in action. “Lend
your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure,” the letter
demands. It concludes with a deadline of 34 days “before your
filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”
“There is only one thing left for you to do,” the author warns
vaguely in the final paragraph. “You know what it is.”
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Although more general information about Hoover’s “suicide
letter,” as it has come to be called, was made public for
decades, sizable portions of it were redacted—until Gage made
the kind of discovery that those in her field dream of: “This
summer, while researching a biography of Hoover,” she says in
her Times story, “I was surprised to find a full, uncensored
version of the letter tucked away in a reprocessed set of his
official and confidential files at the National Archives.”
Gage draws a timely link across five decades by pointing out
that “the letter offers a potent warning for readers today about
the danger of domestic surveillance in an age with less reserved
mass media.”
Scary and true. Now, if only we could find out about more of
these incidents closer to the time when they actually happen.
—Posted by Kasia Anderson
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Agelbert NOTE: The letter OFFERS something else as well; it
offers PROOF of the incredibly RACIST double standard in this
country.
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During EXACTLY the same time period that Martin Luther King Jr.
is being hounded, demonized and destroyed by Hoover and his TU
TU wearing friends, the FBI has its finger up its ass while the
Amish are being exempted from Social Security through SPECIAL
legislation. ;)
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A NOBEL Peace prize winner is treated like an immoral criminal
because he is black while an Amish farmer is raised up as the
"ideal" of a REAL American striving to defend his
"Constitutional Rights". ;)
The people like Hoover have NOT gone away. American Hypocrites
for a Better
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 15, 2014, 6:16 pm
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Fri Nov 14, 2014 at 09:32 AM EST.
How To Get Away With Murder...in Ferguson
by attytood
Cross-posted at Attytood:
The shorter version of this week's news out of Ferguson is
basically this: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. The grand jury
investigation of the shooting of teenager Mike Brown, by the
Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson has dragged on for
weeks, from the hot summer afternoon when Brown's corpse was
left to rot on the street for four long hours, to this week's
polar vortex. This cold snap makes it even more likely that
authorities will finally announce the decision they've been
carefully grooming for weeks, that Officer Wilson
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 15, 2014, 7:31 pm
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Aglbert NOTE: On behalf of the We-The-People.
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Let's Do Some Legislatin': The Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights
Act of 2015 (Draft 2)
Why do we need a law to police the police, you may ask.
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Consider this: As
reported by USA Today, police are involved in 400 killings per
year.
Section 1
(a) UNIVERSAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. All policing
jurisdictions shall report the following information every
twelve months to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") in
the manner that agency shall prescribe by rule:
(1) The name, address, race and occupation (if known) of any
person injured or killed by a firearm, taser, or other weapon
designed to cause physical injury to, or which is used to subdue
or control, persons, and which was fired by an officer of that
policing jurisdiction.
(2) The name, address, race and rank of any officer who has
shot or tazed a person during the preceding twelve months.
(3) Whether the police action described in subsection (1) of
this section resulted in death, injury or medical treatment,
specifying which, if any.
(4) The filing and disposition of any criminal or civil
matters related to the use of force.
(5) The result of any internal investigation, including
punishment, if any, meted out.
(6) The language minority status of any persons involved.
(7) Whether that officer has shot another person during his or
her career as a police officer.
(i) If so, provide each instance, including,
(ii) Date, policing jurisdiction, reason for use of
force, disposition of person targeted (legally and medically),
and the disposition of any related criminal or civil matters.
( 8 ) The number of shots fired at any person by any weapon
during the course of police activities in the policing
jurisdiction, including the type of weapon.
(9) The number of target or practice shots taken by the
policing jurisdiction for training purposes during the preceding
12 months.
(10) The number of full-time and part-time employees of the
policing jurisdiction.
(11) The number of times a police officer in the policing
jurisdiction complained of physical injury requiring medical
treatment because of interaction with the public in the course
of police activities during the preceding twelve months.
(12) The number of times a person in the policing jurisdiction
complained of physical injury requiring medical treatment
because of interaction with officers in that policing
jurisdiction in the course of police activities during the
preceding twelve months.
(b) To encourage accurate and prompt reporting, it is
expressly provided that the report of any policing jurisdiction
prepared pursuant to this Act may not be used as evidence
against any individual police officer or officers in any civil,
or administrative proceeding. Provided, however, that any
information contained in the report that can be obtained
elsewhere shall not be subject to this restriction.
(c) ONE-TIME UNIVERSAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT. All
policing jurisdictions shall report the items described above in
(a)(1)-(12) for each of the preceding five years to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") in the manner that agency shall
prescribe by rule:
(d) Each Section 1 report will be signed by the police
unit's commanding officer and, based upon information and
belief, sworn to be true and correct. Failure to comply with the
universal reporting requirements described above shall subject
that policing jurisdiction to designation as a Federal
Over-Policed Rights Act Jurisdiction and subject it to
forfeiture of any or all federal funding or equipment. The
Department of Justice shall have the authority to enforce
Section 1 of this Act.
(e) The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall report the
information provided pursuant to subsections (a)(1)-(12) each
year to the public.
(f) DEFINITIONS. "Policing jurisdiction" shall include all
state and local law enforcement entities of any size. "Weapon"
or "other weapon" shall include any weapon used to subdue or
inflict damage to a person.
Section 2
(a) A Citizen or Resident Alien of the United States shall
have the right to file in federal court in his or her political
subdivision of residence an Official Complaint against any
policing jurisdiction with law enforcement responsibilities in
that person's area of residence that has shown a long-standing
pattern of abuse, brutality or racial or language minority
animus of at least eighteen month's duration even if that
Citizen or Resident Alien has not been directly affected by
police or state actions.
(b) STANDING AND WAIVER OF FEES. By virtue of a person's
residence in a jurisdiction, he or she is deemed to have
standing to sue. Every person in a jurisdiction is affected in
one way or another by the policing carried out there. Filing
fees and any trial or witness fees for this action are waived.
Complainant will be responsible for any fees necessary to
effectuate Service of Process on the policing jurisdiction. The
Complaint and all subsequent pleadings will be prepared and
argued by an attorney in good standing in that federal district
and follow current federal rules of civil procedure except as
described herein or amended for good cause by the federal
district court.
(c) JURISDICTION; EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE OR OTHER
REMEDIES. The district courts of the United States shall have
jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this Act and
shall exercise the same without regard to whether a person
asserting rights under the provisions herein shall have
exhausted any administrative or other remedies that may be
provided by law. Trial will proceed before the judge without a
jury.
(d) SPEEDY TRIAL PROVISION. A hearing and disposition of
this matter shall occur within six months after the policing
jurisdiction has filed its Answer. The parties shall provide
expedited discovery. No later than one month after the policing
jurisdiction has filed its Answer, the court shall convene the
parties to discuss discovery and case management. Federal Rule
of Civil Procedure 11 sanctions shall apply to all proceedings
herein, as will the inherent contempt powers of the court.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12 shall not, except that a
policing jurisdiction may file a Motion to Dismiss if the
complainant is not a resident of the jurisdiction.
(e) CONSOLIDATION OF CASES. The court may consolidate
multiple independent complaints for hearing. One continuance of
no more than one month's duration may be granted by the court
for good cause shown.
(f) At the election of the Attorney General, the
Department of Justice may enter the suit on behalf of the
Complainant; however, if the Complainant voices an objection, he
or she will be allowed to proceed with the Department of Justice
appearing as a friend of the court, or the Department of Justice
may withdraw, if it elects to do so. At any time during the
proceedings and after adjudication, the Attorney General may
appoint a local or state government authority as its designee to
appear at hearings and receive reports and take all actions
available to the Attorney General and Department of Justice
under this Act. The designee will be reimbursed for all
out-of-pocket expenditures.
(g) If the court, after hearing, finds by a preponderance
of the evidence that the police unit has had a long-standing
pattern of abuse, brutality or racial or language minority
animus, which may be proved statistically and without direct
evidence of intentional malice, then the court shall designate
that policing jurisdiction as a Federal Over-Policed Rights Act
jurisdiction. The policing jurisdiction may appeal, but there
shall be no stay of this Act pending appeal. The complainant
shall also have the right to appeal.
Section 3
(a) PENALTIES, CONDITIONS AND PROBATION. This Act is not
intended to limit the authority of a federal district court
judge to tailor his or her order to a given situation. However,
a designation as an Over-Policed Rights Act jurisdiction shall,
at a minimum, result in the following, unless good cause is
shown:
(1) The court shall appoint volunteer observers of
good moral character who reside in the jurisdiction to monitor
the policing jurisdiction as described herein.
(2) The specific reporting requirements for an
Over-Policed Rights Act jurisdiction, as described below, shall
be enforced.
(3) The Over-Policed Rights Act jurisdiction shall
forfeit all federal "militarized" hardware, including only
vehicles and weapons.
(4) The policing jurisdiction shall be subject to
audits at any time by the Department of Justice or the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
(5) The policing jurisdiction shall designate a
person to act as liaison between the unit and the federal court
system, the Department of Justice and any volunteer observer
organizations.
(6) If the court found a long-standing pattern of
abuse, brutality or racial or language minority animus regarding
the police unit's temporary detention of arrestees, then the
court will order all police personnel in the holding facility to
wear body cameras and shall consider ordering (i) twenty-four
hour video monitoring in cell areas, (ii) the employment of
additional officers, including those trained in first aid, (iii)
specific changes to detention protocols, (iv) the employment of
Spanish-speaking (or other language of need) officers, (v)
physical changes or additions to the facilities, and (vi) the
use of volunteer observers in or around the cell area.
(7) The court should consider the effectiveness of
body cameras for all officers on patrol and their supervisors.
If certain geographic areas have presented particular problems
and others have not, the court shall order that police officers
use body cameras in the problem areas.
( 8 ) The court shall order that any officer in the
policing jurisdiction involved in using his or her weapon
against a person shall have a blood screen as soon as possible
after the event.
(b) Volunteer observers shall be authorized to—
(1) enter and attend at any place in which officers of
the policing jurisdiction are conducting official business for
the purpose of observing and documenting; provided, however,
that the court may order that certain investigations involving
organized crime or other matters shall not be subject to
volunteer observation; and
(2) ride along in any police cruiser or other police
conveyance.
(3) Volunteer observers are specifically permitted to
carry and use video cameras or any other reasonable recording
device.
(4) Investigate and report. Volunteer observers shall
investigate and report to the Attorney General or the
appropriate designee, and if requested, to the court. Observers
are directed to observe only, and if any problems occur, either
the observer or the police unit may report same to the court.
(5) Video or other recordings, including written
reports made by volunteer observers shall be maintained by the
Department of Justice or its designee.
(c) The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall make
available training materials for use by the Volunteer Observers.
(d) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. In addition to the Universal
Reporting Requirements described above, an Over-Policed Rights
Act jurisdiction shall also meet the following reporting
requirements and provide to the DOJ or its designee—
(1) a description of every instance in which an
officer during the performance of his or her professional duties
unholsters a weapon of any kind in preparation for its use on
any person;
(2) a description of any assault or battery committed
by any officer of the policing jurisdiction during his or her
professional duties;
(3) a list of all incidents in which a police
encounter escalates. This would include an officer making a
traffic stop but ending up citing the person for a misdemeanor,
or if the officer took a call for a misdemeanor and ended up
filing felony charges;
(4) a list of all injuries suffered by arrestees or
detainees or persons released, including those observable
injuries that were not caused by, or occurred during, the arrest
or detainment;
(5) any lists or reports required by the court
tailored to the court's findings or any reasonable requests of
the DOJ or designee. The final arbiter of reasonableness for the
purposes of this Act will be the court;
(6) a list of any significant changes to department
or unit procedures or protocols; and
(7) a copy of all blood screens conducted pursuant to
subsection (a) ( 8 ).
(e) ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES. An officer of an
Over-Policed Rights Act jurisdiction who fails to report an
action as described in Section 3(c)(1)-(4) commits a felony. An
Over-Policed Rights Act jurisdiction that fails to report as
provided for in Section 3(c)(5)-(7) is subject to contempt and
the contempt powers of the federal court. The Department of
Justice or its designee may investigate any instance involving
an unholstered weapon, an assault or a battery, and it or its
designee shall investigate every instance in which shots were
fired, a taser employed or other weapon used at a person.
Section 4
(a) PETITION FOR TERMINATION. After the expiration of one
year or any longer term set by the court, the policing
jurisdiction may petition the court for relief from the
designation as a Federal Over-Policed Rights Act jurisdiction.
(b) If by a preponderance of the evidence the court finds
that the policing jurisdiction has followed the terms of its
order and the strictures of this provision, has implemented any
and all reasonable and narrowly-tailored recommendations made by
the Department of Justice, and if the court finds that the
police unit has been positively changed and is now focused on
proper policing techniques, then the court shall lift the
Federal OPRA designation. In the alternative, the court may
designate a reasonable term of probation if certain requirements
have yet to be met.
Section 5
(a) MISCELLANEOUS. Appropriations for this act will come
from the General Fund every year without vote. This Act may be
cited as "The Michael Brown Federal Over-Policed Rights Act of
2015."
(b) If any provision of this Act or the application of it
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of
this Act and the application of its provisions to other persons
not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be
affected thereby.
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> Ferguson: Missouri Governor Declares State of Emergency,
Mobilizes National Guard ahead of Protests
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Add Ferguson. We've seen these very techniques used both against
local Occupy groups and especially OWS:
Ten Illegal Police Actions to Watch for in Ferguson
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by BILL QUIGLEY
When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect
the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to
prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights. The
Ferguson police have been on TV more than others so people can
see how awful they have been acting. But their illegal police
tactics are unfortunately quite commonly used by other law
enforcement in big protests across the US.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution promises the
government will not abridge freedom of speech or to prevent the
right of the people to peaceably assemble or to petition to the
government for the redress of grievances.
Here is what they :evil4: are going to do, watch for each of
these illegal actions when the crowds start to grow.
One. Try to stop people from protesting. The police all say they
know they have to let people protest. So they usually will allow
protests for a while. Then the police will get tired and
impatient and try to stop people from continuing to protest. The
government will say people can only protest until a certain
time, or on a certain street, or only if they keep moving, or
not there, not here, not now, no longer. Such police action is
not authorized by the US Constitution. People have a right to
protest, the government should leave them alone.
Two. Provocateurs. Police have likely already planted dozens of
officers, black and white, male and female, inside the various
protests groups. These officers will illegally spy on peaceful
protesters and often take illegal actions themselves and
encourage other people to take illegal action. They will even be
arrested with others but magically not end up in jail. Others
inside the groups will be paid to inform on the group to the
government. Comically, when undercover police are uncovered they
often claim they have a constitutional right to be there and try
to use the constitution they are violating as a shield!
Three. Snatch Squads. Police will decide who they do not like or
who they think are leaders. Then they will use small heavily
armed groups to knife into peaceful crowds and grab people, pull
them out and arrest them.
Four. False Arrests. The police will arrest whoever they choose
whenever they choose and will make up stories to justify the
arrests. If people are breaking glass or hurting others, those
arrests are legal. However, the police will arrest first and
sort out who they arrested later. Police in Ferguson have
already wrongfully arrested legal observers, a law professor,
and church leaders.
Five. Intimidation. As they have shown many times in Ferguson
and all over the country, once the protests heat up, police will
show up in full riot gear, dressed like ninja turtles (big
flashy guns, plastic shields, big batons, shin guards, gas
masks, flex cuffs) and act like they are military warriors
protecting people from ISIS invasion.
Six. Kettling or Encircling. The police will surround a group
and pen them in and not let them move. They will either arrest
all or force them to leave in one direction. This, as the police
know fully well, always sweeps up innocent bystanders as well as
protestors. NYPD did this with hundreds on Brooklyn Bridge and
at many other protests. Sometimes they deploy orange plastic
nets or snow fencing, sometimes just lots of police.
Seven. Raids on supportive churches, organizations or homes.
Often the police make illegal pre-emptive raids on places where
volunteers are sleeping, cooking or parking their cars. They lie
to locals and accuse the protesters of links to violent
organizations.
Eight. Pain Noise Trucks. Police will also use LRAD noise trucks
(Long Range Acoustic Device). First used in Iraq now used
against peaceful protesters in the US. The trucks blast bursts
of sound powerful enough to cause pain. Never approved by any
court, this intentional infliction of pain is another sign of
the militarization of the police. Police also use MRAPs Mine
Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles – heavily armored trucks
which look like tanks but roll on wheels not treads. This is
part of the intimidation.
Nine. Arresting reporters. When the police are feeling the heat
of public view, they will force journalists away from the
protesters. Those who insist on engaging in constitutionally
protected activity and returning to the scene will be arrested.
Ten. Chemical and other weapons. When the police get really
desperate and afraid, they will try to disperse the entire crowd
with pepper spray, tear gas, and other chemical weapons, rubber
or wooden bullets. If this happens the police have just about
lost control and are at their most dangerous.
Dozens and dozens of different police forces which will be
surrounding the protesters in Ferguson when the Michael Brown
verdict is announced. There will be federal FBI agents, Homeland
Security, US Marshalls, State Police troopers, County Sheriffs,
and local city cops from the dozens of little towns in and
around St. Louis. Perhaps this will be the time when the
peoples’ constitutional rights to protest are actually
protected. We can only hope. But in the meantime, look for these
common police tactics.
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Surly,
Right you are! Thanks for the Quigley article. 8)
Agelbert NOTE: BILL QUIGLEY knows the score.
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