Anecdotal: I have a friend from Texas who claims to have seen this kind of crap happen in Austin more than once. He says it has nothing to do with racism (they do it to damned near anybody) but everything to do with a casual brutality that Texas police tend to exhibit towards the people they are purportedly hired to protect. He has no respect whatsoever for either the personnel selection criteria that Texas police departments use or the training that Texas police get. Peace.
Thank god i live in Victoria where the goverment protects me and everyone else from bad cops as well as criminals
Police brutality report on major US cities and Texas cities don't even get listed. http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police/ "Police abuse remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers, including unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal chokings, and rough treatment, persists because overwhelming barriers to accountability make it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape due punishment and often to repeat their offenses.1 Police or public officials greet each new report of brutality with denials or explain that the act was an aberration, while the administrative and criminal systems that should deter these abuses by holding officers accountable instead virtually guarantee them impunity." http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police/uspo14.htm "William J. Whitfield 3rd, an unarmed African American man, was shot dead in a New York supermarket on 25 December 1997 by police who said they mistook the keys he was carrying for a gun. Although the officer who shot him was cleared of wrongdoing, it was revealed that he had been involved in eight prior shootings. The New York Police Department (NYPD) Police Commissioner subsequently set up a monitoring system for officers involved in three or more shootings. Throughout the USA people are being injured and even killed by police using excessive force or deliberately brutal treatment. Police officers are punching, kicking, beating and shooting people who pose no threat, or are causing serious injuries, and sometimes death, by misusing restraints, chemical sprays or electro-shock weapons. Most reported incidents take place during arrest, searches, traffic stops or in street incidents. Every year there are thousands of reports of assault and ill-treatment by police officers. Inquiries into some of the largest urban police departments have uncovered systematic brutality." http://www.amnesty-usa.org/rightsforall/police/ "...Saturday, April 7 - Early in the morning when it was still dark, nineteen-year old Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by Cincinnati Police...National October 22nd Coalition Applauds Cincinnati Protest of Police Murders...For too long cops have swaggered thru our communities acting like they have a license to brutalize and kill. Yet when the people stand up and resist, they are condemned by the authorities and the media..." "...officers have been exploiting the hero worship of the NYPD by waging vicious attacks on members of the suspect class. Civil rights watchdogs claim that complaints about menacing cops, beatings, and wrongful arrests are mounting. "Our files are bulging with charges of police brutality that occurred after September 11..." "STOP Official Brutality & Repression in Tulia, Texas...The result has been the ethnic cleansing of young male blacks from Tulia. Thirty three of Tulia's children have been left parentless and are being raised by other family members..." "Police Brutality: More than Just A Few Bad Apples ...people are aware of the recent increase in police brutality and murder either from personal experience or from those cases that make the news. These cases are reported by the media as individual incidents and are explained as the actions of "a few bad cops." But this analysis fails to notice the nation-wide increase in police brutality and the fact that very few cops are actually prosecuted for their crimes..." "...41 bullets. The court asks you to put yourself in the cop's shoes. We ask you to put yourself in Amadou's shoes...." "The Militarization of 'Mayberry'...In a nationwide survey of 690 law enforcement agencies serving cities with populations with 50,000 or more, the researchers found that 90 percent now have active SWAT teams, compared with 60 percent in the early 1980s..." [The military is handing their surplus over to civilian police departments or selling it cheap, to justify spending more taxes dollars on replacing this equipment. SWAT teams have been breaking in to the wrong houses and wrongful death claims as a consequence of this plethora of new "toys" has increased.] http://www.refuseandresist.org/ndp/ http://www.october22.org/ Excellent arguments for 2A rights and concealed carry? :bugeye:
