“Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.”
“The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground.”
American cops are such overt fascists. Years of right-wing brain-poison have turned them into walking Breitbart comment sections with guns and qualified immunity.
I think my love for the #fediverse was cemented that time when Raspberry Pi brought a surveillance cop as a brand ambassador to do Influencer Shit™ on here and everyone dragged them for days.
Wieso Polizeimeldungen keine neutrale Quelle darstellen
"Es handelt sich vielmehr um Pressemitteilungen einer staatlichen Einrichtung, z. B. einer Polizeiinspektion, eines Polizeipräsidium oder einer Kreispolizeibehörde. Daher sind ‚Blaulicht‘-Meldungen ein Bestandteil der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, hinter der immer eine eigene Agenda und Interessen stehen.
Die Polizei ist selbst Akteur*in ihrer Meldungen. Eine differenzierte Berichterstattung liegt daher nicht in ihrem Interesse. Die Polizei ist parteiisch. Und ihre Pressemitteilungen sind es selbstverständlich auch.
Polizeimeldungen sollten kritisch geprüft werden. Es handelt sich nicht um objektive Tatsachenberichte, sondern um eine subjektive Darstellung einer Partei, die selbst in einen Vorgang involviert ist."
We hear a lot of BS about supposedly "woke" teachers but not much about how the vast majority of cops are complete wingnuts, including this one who tanked his own murder cases out of spite towards progressive prosecutors. Quite a disturbing story.
A guy apparently killed and chopped up his family and then hired some day laborers to get rid of the bagged body parts. The guys figured out what was in the bags and went to the cops but they didn’t give a single shit.
The Office for National Statistics may stop publishing mortality data on #homeless people.
Who next? The disabled? The old? Foreigners?
"An official count of the deaths of homeless people would no longer be published in England and Wales under proposals to increase the efficiency of health data that campaigners have called “callous”.
I am an #anarchist :anarchismred: #pansexual :Blobhaj_Flag_Pansexual: living in rural #NorthCarolina. I'm a recovering lawyer (though occasionally still take cases). Dad to an awesome 14 year-old daughter. Graduate of #Syracuse University and #WakeForest University.
"Fall of 2023 was the first time since the beginning of the movement to stop Cop City that large numbers of protesters mobilized around any issue in the United States. The movement in Atlanta emerged after the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, during the period of social peace and political disorganization that typically follows large protest movements. If the echoes of the 2020 uprising were never entirely suppressed, we owe that to the initiative of the movement in Atlanta and those who acted in solidarity with it elsewhere, as well as the persistence of young Black and Brown people who continue to resist state terror in places like Philadelphia.
To overcome the obstacles confronting the movement in Atlanta will require long-term, large-scale mobilization. The actions of individuals and small dedicated groups have created a context in which a mass outbreak of revolt could have the most radical content currently imaginable, possibly paving the way for a more serious movement against carceral infrastructure all over the country. But such an outcome is by no means guaranteed. The movement has already experienced several flashpoints, including the murder of Tortuguita; these have given it greater visibility without mobilizing massive numbers of new participants.
Nonetheless, the story is not over, and the stakes are high. Now is not the time for backing down."