"Orem woman upset over her cellphone arrested after trying to shoot it, police say"
... what?
"Orem woman upset over her cellphone arrested after trying to shoot it, police say"
... what?
About time!
#WashingtonDC sues to block #Trump #federal #takeover of its #police department as crackdown intensifies
The nation’s capital sued to block Trump’s takeover of its PD in court on Friday, hours after his admin escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new *emergency* #PoliceCommissioner.
#law #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #coup #TrumpCoup2
#DC #DCAG #MPD #PamBondi #MurielBowser
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dc-trump-federal-police-takeover-lawsuit-eacd387053520c9e3640c2f91924deeb?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-15-Breaking+News
“This is the most massive secrecy grab in #Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.”
Our top story, from Michelle Pitcher: A move to "standardize" #police personnel files could have devastating consequences for transparency. https://www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-file-police-records-texas-legislature/
#politics #USpol #HumanRights #journalism #media #TXlege #news
Check Your State: Here Are the Active Shooter Training Requirements for #Schools and Law Enforcement
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No states mandate annual active shooter training for #police officers, according to an analysis by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE.
In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.
#Shootings #Guns #Kids #Teachers #News #LawEnforcement #Safety
From last week: Law and order loving right-wing bloggers get busted with drugs after taking North Carolina #militia on a tour of the #border. According to a police report, there were concerns that the group was aiming guns at migrants.
https://www.texasobserver.org/celeste-sparks-pena-ahuyon-bloggers-eagle-pass?utm_campaign=mastodon
#news #politics #USpol #immigration #EaglePass #extremism #FBI #police #Mexico #WarOnDrugs
Over the weekend, Donald Trump suggested creating a police force that metes out punishments with impunity—a model used by Hitler and Mussolini. That story is the most important development over the weekend. It deserves to be headline news in every major media outlet
#hitler #nazi #fascism #authoritarianism #trump #biden #voteblue #police #policebrutality
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-carry-on-955
#Trump says #police raid on university #protesters 'beautiful to watch'
Trump, at a rally in Waukesha, #Wisconsin, called for tougher action against campus protests & again suggested some of the protesters were paid actors. He called on college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the locals & take back our campuses for all of the normal students.”
#Protests #CollegeProtests #Israel #Gaza #Palestinians
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-heads-wisconsin-michigan-after-being-hit-with-gag-order-fine-2024-05-01/
The arrest of two city council members in a small #Texas town set off a firestorm of legal controversy that's reaching all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. From Correspondent Jason Buch, in our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/small-town-politics-national-consequences/
#news #politics #USpol #SCOTUS #police #CriminalJustice #law #SouthTexas
Ticketed at #School as a Teen, a Young Black Woman Is Suing an #Illinois City for Violating Her Civil Rights
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It took four years and a jury trial for Amara Harris to beat the ticket that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods.
Now she’s heading back to court in the hope of stopping #schools from using #police to discipline #students.
#News #CivilRights #Lawsuits #Education #LawEnforcement #Law
看过 胜利属于比姆 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
為看過第一部印度民主題材給五星。印度同事的推薦。好好笑,他掛在嘴邊的一句話是印度沒有希望,中國才有希望。週一返工正好問問他,不準拍這樣的片子的地方像是有希望的樣子嗎?哈哈……豆瓣條目現在採用的片名 杰伊·比姆 是嚴重的誤譯。Jai Bhim 是對印度憲法撰寫者、廢除種姓制度活動家 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 致敬的一個政治口號,而非人名。Jai 意為 Long live ,所以是“Bhim萬歲” “勝利屬於Bhim”的意思。據同事講,B. R. Ambedkar 是“不可觸碰”低種姓出身,是他將"投票權無關性別、出身、宗教等等身份"寫入憲法的。在印度的政治生活中,Jai Bhim 代表著反抗不公不義制度的精神。說起選舉穆迪大敗,他說他們不能海外投票,但是他真的很想投這一票…他說得很自然輕巧,完全感受不到對面的老鐘的笑容突然僵硬,且感情受到了深深的傷害。真的,聽到他說投票決定國家命運的時候,完全沒想到會激動到鼻子發酸、熱淚盈眶。
They Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by #NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases.
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New York City’s #Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials.
Victims are never told their cases have been buried.
#NYC #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Crime #News #Government #Courts
If this were a pregnant white woman, there would be a firestorm of outrage coast to coast, even if she was armed and threatened the life of a police officer.
But an unarmed, pregnant Black woman only "suspected" of a petty thief, and posing no threat is put down like a dangerous animal.
This is not a few bad apples, or a police problem, it's the manufactured culture of #whiteness and the state-sponsored racial class system that cultivates and defends it.
Ohio Cop Charged with Murdering 21-Year-Old Pregnant Black Mother Ta’Kiya Young
#BlackMastodon #whiteTerrorism #Police #StateViolence
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/14/headlines/ohio_cop_charged_with_murdering_21_year_old_pregnant_black_mother_takiya_young
#Uvalde Police Failed to Turn Over All Body Camera Footage From Robb Elementary Shooting, Department Says
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After an officer noticed that part of his bodycam footage was absent from a recently released trove of records, an audit found “several additional videos” that were not included.
It’s unclear if prosecutors previously had access to this video.
#News #Texas #Police #Government #Schools #Students #Crime
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-police-failed-turn-over-body-camera-video-robb-elementary
SCOOP from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas Department of Public Safety is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI #surveillance tool that can track cell phones without a court order. (🧵 1/2) https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #police #tech #privacy #HumanRights #activism #AI
“This is very confusing. We’re going to take responsibility, but we’re not responsible. We’re going to punish a couple people, but we’re not going to punish them.”
Director Steve McCraw reinstated a #Texas ranger he’d fired over the response to the Robb Elementary shooting. The ranger’s appeal could have brought scrutiny on his agency. https://www.texasobserver.org/dps-mccraw-transparency-uvalde/
#news #police #Uvalde #GunViolence #politics #USpol #transparency
The #NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
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The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated.
It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current #police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.
#NYC #News #Law #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Government #EdwardCaban
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban
Today in Labor History September 12, 1977: South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten to death by police. Over 20,000 came to his funeral. His coffin was decorated with a clenched black fist. Biko was a socialist, anti-imperialist and pan-African nationalist, influenced by Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X and the U.S. Black Power Movement.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #southafrica #apartheid #racism #stevebiko #MalcolmX #police #policebrutality #policemurder
Jesus Christ. There’s no excuse for this. None!
US Marshals arrest wrong man in Ohio, extradite him to Memphis where he spends 5 months in jail. The actual suspect had already been in jail the whole time — and they still didn’t release the innocent guy right away once they realized their fuckup!
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/ohio-man-wrongfully-arrested-jailed-in-memphis-for-5-months/article_20e79d46-8688-11ef-9fdc-33962887a6b6.html
#memphis #ohio #acab #wrongfularrest #police #innocent
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.
#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
#News #Government #HumanRights #Police #Courts #Politics
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
Out today, a story months in the making...
In August, #Austin Police Department violently arrested two pro-Palestine activists at the city's annual #Pride march, and I investigated why and how it happened.
Even though Pride itself claimed to be welcoming to symbols of Palestinian liberation, police who were deployed to "protect" the #LGBTQIA+ community from violent threats ended up attacking us instead. https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/10/18/you-can-fly-any-flag-at-austin-pride-except-a-palestinian-one/
#police #Palestine @palestine #queer #news #Texas
Join the Texas Observer in conversation with author Jessica Pishko on February 5th for this FREE event at Alienated Majesty Books.
We'll discuss Pishko's provocative and important book about the dangers posed by extremist sheriffs in the United States.
RSVP: https://buff.ly/4gzkA5r
#events #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #Austin #Texas #police #extremism #CriminalJustice #law
“This is the administration trying to ramp up agreements with local law enforcement agencies to be a force multiplier for mass deportation.”
New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Police are signing 'task force' agreements with #ICE in order to ramp up the displacement of the undocumented. https://www.texasobserver.org/local-state-police-ice-287g-task-force/
#immigration #politics #USpol #Trump #news #HumanRights #CriminalJustice #police
New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news