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The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, September 12, 1932
Because of the Fifth Amendment, no one in the U.S. may legally be forced to testify against himself, and because of the Fourth Amendment, no oneâs records or belongings may legally be searched or seized without just cause. However, American police are trained to use methods of deception, intimidation and manipulation to circumvent these restrictions. In other words, cops routinely break the lawâin letter and in spiritâin the name of enforcing the law. Several examples of this are widely known, if not widely understood.
1) âDo you know why I stopped you?â Cops ask this, not because they want to have a friendly chat, but because they want you to incriminate yourself. They are hoping you will âvoluntarilyâ confess to having broken the law, whether it was something they had already noticed or not. You may think you are apologizing, or explaining, or even making excuses, but from the copâs perspective, you are confessing. He is not there to serve you; he is there fishing for an excuse to fine or arrest you. In asking you the familiar question, he is essentially asking you what crime you just committed. And he will do this without giving you any âMirandaâ warning, in an effort to trick you into testifying against yourself.
2) âDo you have something to hide?â Police often talk as if you need a good reason for not answering whatever questions they ask, or for not consenting to a warrantless search of your person, your car, or even your home. The ridiculous implication is that if you havenât committed a crime, you should be happy to be subjected to random interrogations and searches. This turns the concept of due process on its head, as the cop tries to put the burden on you to prove your innocence, while implying that your failure to âcooperateâ with random harassment must be evidence of guilt.
3) âCooperating will make things easier on you.â The logical converse of this statement implies that refusing to answer questions and refusing to consent to a search will make things more difficult for you. In other words, you will be punished if you exercise your rights. Of course, if they coerce you into giving them a reason to fine or arrest you, they will claim that you âvoluntarilyâ answered questions and âconsentedâ to a search, and will pretend there was no veiled threat of what they might do to you if you did not willingly âcooperate.â (Such tactics are also used by prosecutors and judges via the procedure of âplea-bargaining,â whereby someone accused of a crime is essentially told that if he confesses guiltâthus relieving the government of having to present evidence or prove anythingâthen his suffering will be reduced. In fact, âplea bargainingâ is illegal in many countries precisely because it basically constitutes coerced confessions.)
4) âWeâll just get a warrant.â Cops may try to persuade you to âconsentâ to a search by claiming that they could easily just go get a warrant if you donât consent. This is just another ploy to intimidate people into surrendering their rights, with the implication again being that whoever inconveniences the police by requiring them to go through the process of getting a warrant will receive worse treatment than one who âcooperates.â But by definition, one who is threatened or intimidated into âconsentingâ has not truly consented to anything.
5.) We have someone who will testify against you Police âinformantsâ are often individuals whose own legal troubles have put them in a position where they can be used by the police to circumvent and undermine the constitutional rights of others. For example, once the police have something to hold over one individual, they can then bully that individual into giving false, anonymous testimony which can be used to obtain search warrants to use against others. Even if the informant gets caught lying, the police can say they didnât know, making this tactic cowardly and illegal, but also very effective at getting around constitutional restrictions.
6) âWe can hold you for 72 hours without charging you.â Based only on claimed suspicion, even without enough evidence or other probable cause to charge you with a crime, the police can kidnap youâor threaten to kidnap youâand use that to persuade you to confess to some relatively minor offense. Using this tactic, which borders on being torture, police can obtain confessions they know to be false, from people whose only concern, then and there, is to be released.
7) âIâm going to search you for my own safety.â Using so-called âTerry frisksâ (named after the Supreme Court case of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1), police can carry out certain limited searches, without any warrant or probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed, under the guise of checking for weapons. By simply asserting that someone might have a weapon, police can disregard and circumvent the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches.
U.S. courts have gone back and forth in deciding how often, and in what circumstances, tactics like those mentioned above are acceptable. And of course, police continually go far beyond anything the courts have declared to be âlegalâ anyway. But aside from nitpicking legal technicalities, both coerced confessions and unreasonable searches are still unconstitutional, and therefore âillegal,â regardless of the rationale or excuses used to try to justify them. Yet, all too often, cops show that to them, the Fourth and Fifth Amendmentsâand any other restrictions on their powerâare simply technical inconveniences for them to try to get around. In other words, they will break the law whenever they can get away with it if it serves their own agenda and power, and they will ironically insist that they need to do that in order to catch âlaw-breakersâ (the kind who donât wear badges).
Of course, if the above tactics fail, police can simply bully people into confessingâfalsely or truthfullyâand/or carry out unconstitutional searches, knowing that the likelihood of cops having to face any punishment for doing so is extremely low. Usually all that happens, even when a search was unquestionably and obviously illegal, or when a confession was clearly coerced, is that any evidence obtained from the illegal search or forced confession is excluded from being allowed at trial. Of course, if there is no trialâeither because the person plea-bargains or because there was no evidence and no crimeâthe âexclusionary ruleâ creates no deterrent at all. The police can, and do, routinely break the law and violate individual rights, knowing that there will be no adverse repercussions for them having done so.
Likewise, the police can lie under oath, plant evidence, falsely charge people with âresisting arrestâ or âassaulting an officer,â and commit other blatantly illegal acts, knowing full well that their fellow gang membersâofficers, prosecutors and judgesâwill almost never hold them accountable for their crimes. Even much of the general public still presumes innocence when it comes to cops accused of wrong-doing, while presuming guilt when the cops accuse someone else of wrong-doing. But this is gradually changing, as the amount of video evidence showing the true nature of the âStreet Gang in Blueâ becomes too much even for many police-apologists to ignore.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/7-ways-police-will-break-law-threaten-or-lie-you-get-what-they-want
One of the biggest realizations with dealing with cops for me was the fact that they CAN lie, they are 100% legally entitled to lie, and they WILL whether youâre a victim of crime, accused of committing a crime or anything else
Everyone needs to reblog this, it could save a life.
Important
Seriously if you ever find yourself in custody donât say shit until youâve got some counsel with you. No cop is your friend in that situation.
Heeeyyyyy if anyone is thinking âa lawyer!?! But I thought lawyers were bad and greedy.â
Remember where you heard that and consider why.
anyways look at this art project from when i was in grade two
reblog Donât santa for a drama-free holiday
IF YOU ARE UNMARRIED, DON'T HAVE KIDS, AND HATE YOUR PARENTS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HAVE A FUCKING WILL
this has been a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood probate lawyer
Again:
1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life
2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"
If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.
This goes especially for LGBTQ+. Please do not get deadnamed in your obituary.
How to make a will.
How to make a living will (Advance Healthcare Directive) so you donât get fucked over by biological family if you end up in a situation where you cannot make your own healthcare choices.
If youre trans, this video is a good ref to start with and she provides links and organizations that can help
ayy! can we get this to ten likes ? this drawings a bit random but spoopy season amiright??
Pls teach your son how to apologize.
If you forgot, the 3 parts to an apology are
1. Saying sorry for the initial hurt youâve committed.
2. Explaining how youâve understood how you hurt them.
3. Promising them that you wonât do it again.
4. Keep the fucking promise.
I know this isnât that funny but it had be cracking up for awhile
Go to college if you want more education, but donât be fooled into believing that a college education will always make you more money.
My sister, my best friend, and I:
My best friend has a college degree. My sister never went to college, and I went for a single semester.
My best friend currently works in child care, making very little over our stateâs minimum wage. Sheâs a hourly employee, but often finds herself bringing home work and not being paid for it. Her hours fluctuate weekly, she doesnât get much in the way of benefits, and she doesnât get breaks because her employer has no desire to hire enough people to allow for breaks.
I work in high end retail as an hourly employee, making quite a few dollars more than minimum wage. I never take work home, and I always work 40 hours a week, getting overly generous paid breaks during every shift. I also get benefits like insurance and 401k match.
My sister is currently managing a seasonal store. She started with them last year, and has quickly made her way from hourly associate up to store manager, which is a salary position. She brings in more money than me and my best friend. The only work she takes home is scheduling. Thereâs not much for benefits because itâs seasonal, but at the end of the season she gets a nice bonus.
I wanted to point out that among the 3 of us, only one has a degree, and the person with a degree works under the worst conditions of all of us, and makes the least.
Go to college if you want more education, but donât be fooled into believing that a college education will always make you more money.
Ive seen too many âbut there are two sidesâ whiners around - so hereâs my two cents on that.
What have the protests accomplished?
5/26Â 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd 5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylorâs boyfriend, who police accused of killing her) 5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police 5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters 5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters 5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless 5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder 5/29Â Louisville Mayor suspends âno-knockâ warrants 5/30Â US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd 5/30Â Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer 5/30Â Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters 5/30Â Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability 5/31Â 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA 6/1Â Minneapolis public schools end contract with police 6/1Â Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL 6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money 6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract 6/1Â Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee 6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear 6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area 6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest 6/2Â Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters 6/2Â Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia 6/2Â 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA 6/2Â Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched 6/2Â San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct 6/2Â Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified 6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms 6/2Â Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police 6/2Â Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA 6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO 6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD 6/3Â Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody 6/3Â Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish âMarcusâ alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study 6/3Â County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail 6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD 6/3Â Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department 6/3Â Breonna Taylorâs case reopened 6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylorâs murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability 6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the âfleeing felonâ statute, and banning chokeholds 6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities 6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond 6/4Â Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools 6/4Â MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police 6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed 6/5Â City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police 6/5Â Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI 6/5Â NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to playersâ protests 6/5Â California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds 6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it 6/5Â 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters 6/5Â The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag 6/5Â Dallas adopts a âduty to interveneâ rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force 6/5Â Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms 6/6Â Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA 6/6Â 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man 6/6Â San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community 6/7Â Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA 6/7Â Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety 6/7Â Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river 6/7Â NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services 6/7Â A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man 6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act 6/8Â Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing 6/8Â Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform 6/8Â France bans police use of chokeholds 6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department 6/8Â Boston reevaluates how it funds police department 6/8Â Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms 6/8Â Rights groups and Floydâs family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform
No, itâs not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!
(I adapted this list from this blog post and added sources and new entries. Please reblog with additions.)
List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:
Justice for George Floyd
Justice for George Floyd 2
Justice for George Floyd 3
Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floydâs MurderÂ
Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floydâs Murder 2
Justice For Ahmuad Arbery
Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2
Justice for Breonna Taylor
Stand with Breonna
Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylorâs Murder
Justice For Tamir Rice
Justice For JoÄo Pedro
Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez
Justice for Belly Mujinga.
Justice for Rashad Cunningham
Justice For Tony McDade
Justice for Dion Johnson
Justice for Jennifer Jeffley
Justice for Young Uwa
Justice for Elijah Nichols
Justice for Tete Gulley
Justice for Tazne Van Wyk
Justice for Michael Dean
Justice For Amari Boone
Justice for Darrius Stewart
Justice for Shukri Abdi
Justice for Ashton Dickson
Justice For Darrius Stewart
Justice for David McAtee
Justice for Cameron Green
Justice for Crystal Mason
Justice For Zinedine
Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Justice for Christopher Josey
Justice for Amiya Braxton
Justice For Emerald Black
Justice for Andile Mchunu
Justice for Cameron Green
Justice for Tamla Horsford
Justice for Collins Khosa
Free Siyanda
Reopen Sandra Blandâs CaseÂ
Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery
Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality
Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a childÂ
Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles
Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People
Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD
Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training
Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test
stop immigrants being poisoned by ICEBan the use of inhumane rubber bullets
Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence
End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA
Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control
Join Campaign Zero
Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!
Reopen Kendrick Johnsonâs Case
Abolish Prison Labour in the USA
Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriffâs Office
Donation Links
A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM
Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floydâs child)
Black Lives Matter
We Cant Breathe
43 Bail Funds to Support
Homeless Black Trans women fund
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
Minnesota Healing Justice Network
Women for Political Change
Spiral Collective
When We All Vote
National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses
Venmo names of black trans people that need help
Latino Community on Lake Street
Black Immigrant Collective
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha
Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief
Al Maa'uun
Remembering Shana IsuroonÂ
Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses
Joyce Preschool
Black Table Arts
Northside business support
Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund
Unicorn Riot
Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dreamâs Legacy
Pimento Relief Fund
Southside Harm Reduction
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition
Division of Indian Work
TC Care Collective
Justice for Breonna Taylor
Justice for Jamee
Justice for David McAtee
PREACH
Letâs be real. If little girlsâ knees, shoulders, and clavicles are a problem for male teachers, you donât have a dress code issue. You have a pedophile issue.
Y. E. S.
2 months ago, responding to âhow are you?â with âIâm survivingâ could have gotten you a âif you need to talk Iâm hereâ
Now itâs standard procedure to respond that way. These are pandemic times. Surviving is good.
Oh how the times have changed.
I thought I was done living in places that wound up needing prayers....
Me out loud: I canât wait to get back on my bullshit once this pandemic is over.
Me in my head: Iâm a different person. And Iâm done with that bullshit. Iâll miss it, but Iâm done.
My subconscious: GURL you know youâre gonna be back on the same shit when you go back.