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A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does the LAPD keep shooting people holding harmless objects?

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A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does the LAPD keep shooting people holding harmless objects?

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Police killed Jason Maccani as he held a fork, one of many cases of confused Los Angeles officers rushing to use lethal force

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Frequent fliers to this community, I’m sure, already know the answer to this question, but just in case someone is new…

The answer is “Warrior Training”:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/warrior-cop-class-dave-grossman-killology.html

https://boltsmag.org/warrior-cop-training-persists-in-minneapolis-despite-reforms/

Good video here, NSFW hilarious language:

https://youtu.be/Wf4cea5oObY#t=11m33s
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That’s the solution.

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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.

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ALLIES

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

• r/BadCopNoDonut/

• Randy Balko

• The Civil Rights Lawyer

• The Honest Courtesan

• Identity Project

• MirandaWarning.org

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INFO

• A demonstrator’s guide to understanding riot munitions

• Adultification

• Cops aren’t supposed to be smart

• Don’t talk to the police.

• Killings by law enforcement in Canada

• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom

• Killings by law enforcement in the United States

• Know your rights: Filming the police

• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of ‘I can’t breathe’ (as of 2020)

• Police aren’t primarily about helping you or solving crimes.

• Police lie under oath, a lot

• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

• So you wanna be a cop?

• When the police knock on your door

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ORGANIZATIONS

• Black Lives Matter

• Campaign Zero

• Innocence Project

• The Marshall Project

• Movement Law Lab

• National Police Accountability Project

• Say Their Names

• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

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