Contre Attaque
"Die Szene ereignete sich gegen 8.30 Uhr in der Nähe der RER-Station Nanterre-Préfecture in einem Pariser Vorort. Bei einer Fahrzeugkontrolle richtete ein Motorradpolizist seine Waffe auf die vitalen Körperteile eines Fahrers und schoss dann, als das Fahrzeug losfuhr. Der 17-jähriger Jugendliche starb kurz darauf und ein Beifahrer wurde festgenommen.
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Im Jahr 2022 gab es 13 Todesfälle, die auf „Verweigerung des Gehorsams“ bei Kontrollen zurückzuführen waren, eine noch nie dagewesene Zahl. Im April 2022 wurden zwei Brüder auf einer Brücke in der Nähe der Pariser Präfektur von einem Polizisten mit einem Sturmgewehr in den Rücken geschossen. Eine Doppelhinrichtung ohne jegliche Art von Notwehr. Im Juni verlor eine junge Passantin mitten in Paris als „Kollateralopfer“ eines Schusses aus einer polizeilichen Dienstwaffe ihr Leben."
Today is an international day against police brutality. At this day I would like to remind you all that the only way to stop police brutality is to abolish the institution of police and replace it with solutions that actually deal with problems. #ACAB#15march
“I have been reporting on political dissent and violent policing for 15 years, particularly in New York City. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place.”
#LeonardAllenCure had been imprisoned for 16 years in Florida despite being innocent. Shortly after having been freed though the efforts of The Innocence Project, he was stopped in Georgia, and shot to death.
I wonder whether he was driving a good car and the Georgia cops suspected him of stealing it.
A lot of people would probably say that we “need” some sort of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). In the US, the DMV manages the critical process of licensing people to operate motor vehicles on American roadways.
Considering that there are nearly 300 million cars and over 4 million miles of road, it’s very important that we have some kind of minimum standard of skill and ability to keep all those people safe as they hurtle their multi-ton boxes of metal, plastic, and glass at high rates of speed in very close proximity to each other and people walking or cycling.
Even with the DMV managing this process, 46,000 Americans still die each year from traffic collisions. So you can only imagine how bad it would be if there were no DMV!
Now let’s imagine that we were to discover that, in addition to licensing drivers, employees of the DMV were, in their official capacity, routinely killing people and stealing millions of dollars from them each year. Let’s imagine we discovered one DMV was rife with gangs that commit serial murder and another had set up a torture chamber where DMV employers spent years torturing DMV patrons.
I'm out on tour with my new novel, The Bezzle, a cyberpunk revenge thriller about Marty Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant, and a guerrilla war he wages on a prison-tech provider that treats incarcerated people as assets to be strip-mined:
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Life hack: Don't like police, think they are #ACAB... easy solution. You can tresspass anyone, including police. Use a FOIA request, get the list of all police for your district, and issue a tresspass warning preemtively for all of them.
Now if they step foot on your property (without a warrant) it is a criminal and arrestable offense. Obviously they can still come on your land in an emergency without a warrant (exigent circumstances it is called). But if they try to violate your rights, you have a much stronger case to have them jailed.
Ya know, it would be nice if every time a cop had any contact with a suspected criminal (after they are detained or before any qwuestions are asked) everyone got a freee lawyer on the spot. Something has to be done to keep these cops in check and stop them from constantly threatening with the color of law and getting away with it.
Metz : Un #policier qui frappait sa femme et ses enfants relaxé en appel
"Pour la cour, il s’agit seulement d’un « grave et sérieux conflit de l’exercice de l’autorité parentale »"
On parle d'étranglements, coups et brimades envers les enfants et de viols envers l'ex-épouse.
"« C’est un très mauvais message qu’envoie la justice française pour décourager les femmes de policiers et leurs enfants à porter plainte. Ça dit aux autres : n’essayez même pas ! »"
If you support Biden you support the killing of minorities by the police , the arrest of activists, the death of the planet to the climate crisis, violence against refugees, the genocide of Palestinians and many more similar policies. Saying Biden deserves anything other than a very quick trial and equally quick death for crimes against humanity is absurd.
@jay and I set our clocks back a couple hours and did a 9AM show. Well-rested and over-caffeinated we talked about corporate conference room naming conventions, jury duty (#ACAB), #Musk's joke of a GenAI ("Grok"), Keith #Rabois's case of brainworms, and the sad demise of #Mesosphere. We also ran out of disk space in the middle of the show so there's a rather abrupt cut about halfway through.
Just a reminder... you do not automatically have the right to remain silent in the USA... You must invoke your right to remain silent and if you dont explicitly do so then your silence can be held against you.
"Do you know why I pulled you over?" will be illegal in California from January 1, 2024. Now police have to tell you why they pulled you over.
The idea is to stop pre-textual traffic stops, in which an officer pulls over a driver, usually Latino or African-American, intending to find a reason to search their vehicle for contraband.
Research shows that pre-textual traffic stops are a racist practice that nets very little contraband. #acab
"Gonzalez recently released a melodramatic video claiming he was "accosted" by a female fellow TriMet rider on January 27, who allegedly subjected him to “deliberate, unwanted physical contact” while also having the gall to criticize the public servant over his cruel policies. Unfortunately for him, TriMet video of the incident show he wildly exaggerated those claims, and AT MOST the woman may have brushed Gonzalez’s arm as she passed by"
Um, my old conspiracy-watching self is getting the heebie-jeebies with this story. Are they planning on making room for #ClimateActivists and #HumanRightsActivists? Especially since standing up for #ClimateJustice and #HumanRights seems to be a crime these days.
Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built across the U.S. But do they help or hurt public safety?
"The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts...