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A scathing report issued by the Civilian Oversight Commission shows members of such deputy gangs "run'' many of the county's patrol stations
Since 2012 the police have become even more murderous, forcing the rise of "Black Lives Matter" and major protests against the fascist police. Now the police is completely out of control beyond our wildest nightmares back in 2012.
Hey Democratic Underground... I warned you.
I warned the country about this. I warned the Democratic Party. Now look how bad things have gotten.
Election year 2024 is coming. It's time to choose again. Police gangs or true law and order.
If it were “caused by the European far right” you’d think that the attacks would have been aimed at the far right.
Which ever fuckwit wrote this has failed to grasp that the people doing these attacks are the oppressors. Oh sorry, I forgot that terrorists are below the gays they throw off buildings and the women they force into sexual slavery in the progressive stack.
For years, the Obama administration has claimed that unmanned aircraft limit collateral damage in the war on terror. The numbers show otherwise.
Hey Democratic Underground, remember when I ranted and raved about drone strikes? Well, you can eat your bullshit counter-arguments now. It turns out drone strikes kill more innocent people than pilots.
That’s on your hands, assholes.
We should have never gone into the Middle East in the first place. Now look at the huge mess that Western imperialism has created.
Dear Democratic Underground - Did I not tell you OVER TWO YEARS AGO that the Police Gangs had to go?
Remember all those DemocraticUnderground.com threads I posted about the police gangs? About how totally out of control they were?
More than two years ago I warned you about these damned police and y’all accused me of crying over being caught smoking weed and other crazy bullshit.
Now the world is seeing, over and over again, how these police gangs are going insane with killing people and going nuts on protesters.
I warned you when this new wave of police insanity started with Occupy Wall Street and none of you listened. Bet your ignorant asses understand now, don’t you?
I said these cops need to all be thrown out, we need to start all over. Eventually you’re going to understand why I said that.
Wesley Lowery, a reporter for The Washington Post who has been reporting on the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., was detained Wednesday evening by police in Ferguson.
He and other reporters were working in a McDonald’s in Ferguson when about half a dozen police officers came into the restaurant, Lowery said. Some officers were in regular uniforms, while others were dressed in riot gear and carrying assault weapons.
“It was tense,” Lowery said via telephone from the police station on Wednesday night. “I’ve been afraid several times while reporting on the ground here in Ferguson.”
Lowery has been reporting on the situation in the city outside St. Louis following the death of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police over the weekend.
Patrons working in the McDonald’s, which reporters had been using as a staging area near demonstrations, were ordered to leave, Lowery said. When the journalist said they were working members of the media, the police told them that was fine, but they couldn’t guarantee their safety.
Police then left and returned a short time later, Lowery said, this time demanding that the reporters leave. Lowery began filming a video on his phone while also using his other hand to pack up his things. An officer objected, Lowery said, but did not press the issue.
Lowery was directed to leave through one door, and then told to go through another, at which point his bag fell off of his shoulder.
“‘Okay, let’s take him,’” one of the officers said, according to Lowery.
Lowery said that at this point, he was slammed against a soda machine and plastic cuffs were placed on his wrists. He was trying to make it clear he was not resisting arrest, but it did not appear the officers believed him. “That made me, frankly, fear for my life,” Lowery said.
Another journalist, Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post, was also in the McDonald’s, arguing with a police officer, and was also handcuffed.
The two reporters were taken outside to a police van, where a man inside the van was complaining that he could not breathe and that the handcuffs were too tight. Lowery and Reilly were then taken to the back of a police car, where they sat alongside a member of the clergy who had also been cuffed, Lowery said.
At this point, they were taken to a holding cell inside the Ferguson police station. News of their arrest quickly began spreading on social media, and the Ferguson police chief was alerted to their arrests by a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. About a half an hour after arriving at the holding cell, they were told that all media members could leave without any charges being filed.
Lowery said he repeatedly asked for the name or badge number of the officers involved and was denied.
In a statement issued Wednesday night, Martin D. Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, said “there was absolutely no justification for his arrest” and said the organization was appalled by the conduct of the officers involved.
Lowery was illegally instructed to stop taking video and followed police instructions, Baron said, after which he was slammed into a machine and handcuffed.
“That behavior was wholly unwarranted and an assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news,” Baron said. “The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.”
Very few polls today show the kind of unanimity and the kind of intensity that we find in this poll. The proposals outlined in the poll all receive broad, bi-partisan support and are rooted in voters' core values.
Democrats, Republicans and Independents all have a negative impression of overseas call centers. Overall, 78% of voters rate overseas call centers negatively, with 6 in 10 (59%) saying they have a very unfavorable impression of them. Voters across the board hold a negative view of overseas call centers, including Democrats (12% favorable/79% unfavorable), Independents, (13%/78%), and Republicans (14%/75%).
Voters strongly and broadly support a variety of proposals in response to the offshoring of call center jobs, including ending tax breaks, grants and loans to companies that offshore jobs, and another proposal that would give consumers the right to be transferred to a customer service agent in the United States. At a time when so many issues divide voters, these proposals all garner between 75 and 90% support, all withstrong bipartisan support. Democrats and Republicans, men and women, retired voters and working voters all solidly support these proposals.
It’s often said that crimes involving whites get far more media attention than those involving minorities. In the case of Marco McMillian, the 33 year-old…
