Posted in Brutality, Related Incidents on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Human Rights Watch Reports…..
Turkey’s persistent failure to penalize police brutality has led to an increase in cases of violence by officers, including fatal shootings, since 2007, a leading US-based human rights group said Friday.
“Historically, law enforcement officials were rarely if ever held to account … Today, despite increased legal safeguards, law enforcement officers who [...]
Posted in Related Incidents on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Related Incidents on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The incoming attorney general in the Obama administration must make investigating police brutality a top priority, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday.
The minute we get a new attorney general, we must go to that attorney general and deal with the issue of police misconduct,” Sharpton said in a fiery address at his Harlem headquarters.
Sharpton said [...]
Posted in Related Incidents, What You Can Do on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The “martial law”-like police control that Ma Ying-Jeou’s government imposes on Taiwanese, especially that during the visit of Chen Yunlin (陳雲林), the chairman of Association for Relations Across the taiwan Strait (ARATS), has triggered widespread anger among Taiwanese. Students all over the island are organizing protests to demand the government with the following appeals:
1) President [...]
Posted in Related Incidents on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
video of the NYPD at the Barack Obama celebration on Bedford Avenue on Tuesday
Posted in Related Incidents on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Related Incidents on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Police hauled detained protesters to jail by the busload after using smoke and concussion grenades to disperse groups of roving protesters in St. Paul on the final day of the Republican National Convention. more
Posted in Brutality, Related Incidents on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The question being asked, even by some Republican National Convention officials, is “What are the St. Paul police thinking?” While McCain and Palin have been holding one spotlight, police in riot gear have tear gassed crowds within the “protest” lot, far from the convention center and under permit, have jailed more than 300 people in [...]
Posted in Related Incidents on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an interesting policy question: Should cities be allowed to insure themselves against claims of police brutality? The City of St. Paul agreed to host the Republican National Convention on the condition that Republican Party arranged “to buy insurance covering up to $10 million in damages and unlimited legal costs for law enforcement [...]
Posted in Related Incidents on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Even those who have been watching the vanishing freedoms in America were amazed at the level of brutal, violent, criminal, inhuman police action during the RNC.
The reason has been revealed:
http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S565925.shtml?cat=10151
Before the convention, $10 million dollars worth of illegal, violent police brutality was actually ORDERED and paid for in advance by the convention itself. They actually [...]
