This YouTube video sparked a yearlong investigation. A disciplinary review board recommended a 32-hour or 4-day suspension. But Chief Daniel Garcia thought the punishment should be more severe and gave Larrison a 40-hour or 5-day suspension. Typically that’s the maximum number of days you can suspend an officer.
So a 4 day punishment is adequate? And the asshole fights a 5 day punishment? They’re both unreasonable! That asshole needs to be fired. What he did could’ve given that girl brain damage.
Look, the cop assaulted her and he did it under the colors of his badge. He should be served with the same assault charges that the general public is charged with.
You can’t police cops and these are the consequences to be expected from this political epoch.
5 day suspension though bro? how about LIFETIME SUSPENSION, she clearly wasn’t doing anything, or if she did, she isn’t trying to avoid apprehension so what the fuck was the point in the superfluous degree of force? Yo, for real, fuck the police.
HE LITERALLY JUST PUNCHED HER FOR NO REASON. WHAT.
(via pewpewlasernipples)
RCMP Officer accused of assaulting a teenage girl on trial in British Columbia.
This as Human Rights Watch releases a report following an investigation into systemic police mishandling of cases of missing aboriginal women in the problems.
From the CBC article on the report and its findings:
Two researchers — one from Canada and one from the U.S. — spent five weeks last summer in the province’s north, visiting 10 communities between Prince George to Prince Rupert and hearing accounts from aboriginal women of alleged mistreatment at the hands of police.
First Nations communities they visited are all linked to B.C.’s so-called“Highway of Tears,”where 18 women have disappeared over the past several decades.
What is happening in BC is the tip of the iceberg in Canada. While individuals in the police force can be good people, there is a systemic problem within the system that protects police officers that break the law and punishes whistleblowers for speaking up. The police forces across the country are moving away from serving its citizens and are increasingly serving and protecting themselves, and their jobs.
Thank you Human Rights Watch for investigating and reporting on these matters. Meanwhile, the Canadian government and the RCMP continue to downplay and dismiss the extent of these allegations. These women who are victims have no one else to report these crimes to: the RCMP is the highest level of policing, and the Canadian government has no interest in reforming the organization or addressing serious issues and allegations against it. Who polices the police?
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Black robe, golden epaulettes
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The ghost of freedom is in heaven
Gay pride sent to Siberia in chains
The head of the KGB is their chief saint
Leads protesters to prison under escort
In order not to offend the Holy
Women have to give birth and to love
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The cross-bearer procession of black limousines
In school you are going to meet with a teacher-preacher
Go to class - bring him money!
Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin
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In protest of our Ever-Virgin Mary!
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alittlebitofeverythingglorious:
On July 5th, 2011, Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man was beaten into a coma by Fullerton City Police. Five days after the beating, he was pronounced dead. This video of the atrocious scene was released just recently. I am beyond disgusted.
The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.
The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of the police officers on the night of July 5, 2011, was shown in court today, then later released to the media.
“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves.
“Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded.
“They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.
“Well, start punching,” Thomas responds, never once displaying any physical aggression towards Ramos.
Moments later, as Thomas is standing while Ramos is ordering him to get on his “fucking knees,” Fullerton cop Joseph Wolfe, who is not charged in the case, walks up and starts beating his legs with a baton.
Then Ramos gets into the act and Thomas takes off running, moving out of the frame of the camera.
The cops keep telling him to put his hands behind his back and lay on his stomach, but they are both laying on top of him, making it impossible to even breathe, much less move.
The camera, operated by a dispatcher at the station, then moves toward the beating, showing Ramos and Fullerton cop Jay Cicinelli on top of Thomas as Thomas repeatedly apologizes and telling them he is unable to breathe.
As the video continues, one of the cops can be seen kneeing him.
“Please, I can’t breathe,” Thomas pleads as the officers keep telling him to put his hands behind his “fucking back.”
The cops keep telling him to “relax” to which he responds, “I can’t, dude.”
More cops eventually arrive and a little more than four minutes into the video, they start tasing him.
And a little after five minutes into the video, as three cops are piled on top of him, beating him, tasing him, one cop looks up at another cop who just arrived on the scene and says, “help us.”
At one point he yells out, “Dad, they are killing me.”
Even after seven minutes into the video, when six cops are on top of him and all Thomas is doing is crying for his father, they keep telling him to “relax.”
Last year, Ron Thomas, a retired Orange County Sheriff’s deputy, said the City of Fullerton offered him $900,000 to just go away, which would have allowed the two cops to remain on the force unpunished for killing his son.
Thomas was pronounced dead on July 10, five days after the beating that left him in a coma.
(Read more here x)
(via anarchistmom)
