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Harry Siegel ✔ @harrysiegel
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Brutal. Our front page tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/31JazbMJOW & our editorial http://nydn.us/1ygXDM4
4:01 PM - 3 Dec 2014 691 Retweets 276 favorites
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RT @mattdpearce: Absolutely scathing New York Times editorial on Eric Garner and the NYPD. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/new-inquiry-needed-on-eric-garners-death.html?referrer= 3:57 PM - 3 Dec 2014 46 Retweets 22 favorites
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This is Eric Garner's family, now denied even a chance to seek justice in a criminal trial #BlackLivesMatter
10:15 AM - 3 Dec 2014 1,432 Retweets 456 favorites
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(83,751 posts)I am cried out Cha.
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tremendously near impossible to put one step in front of the other if you are the parents and loved ones of those kids killed and their murderers not brought to Justice, she
All we can do..
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Be loud. #BlackLivesMatter RT @CandisLynnT: #timesquare action #Justice4EricGarner #whitesilence = #whiteconsent
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(14,177 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)One of the stories the local news had on the other night here was a story concerning how one city near Boise that has had a lot of violence and shootings these past few years is now requiring all of their police officers to wear cameras on their bodies.
The idea is to capture more evidence to help prosecute criminals by capturing video of them committing the crime.
However, the unintended consequence of doing this also made the police officers act in a more legalistic manner because they realize their actions were being taped on video and could be used against them.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Mahalo Major..
More news on the PD and BodyCams..
Ferguson effect: Obama seeks 50,000 body cameras for police
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WASHINGTON - To increase police accountability and address complaints about officers' misconduct, President Barack Obama has sought 50,000 body cameras for police around the United States.
Obama met the Congress with a $75million plan over three years to help purchase the recording devices, following the countrywide turmoil over the killing of black teen Michael Brown in a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in August.
According to reports, the federal government would provide a 50 percent match to agencies that buy the cameras. There are more than 900,000 sworn officers in the US.[/b
]Since there were no recordings of the August shooting incident, Brown's death put the spotlight on a perceived lack of trust of minorities, in particular, in the fairness of law enforcement in the US.
MOre..http://www.atlantaleader.com/index.php/sid/228213003
They're going to do it in Atlanta Georgia..
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"Mayor Kasim Reed who was in attendence along with local leaders took the opportunity to announce a pilot program for Atlanta police officers to adopt body cameras."
http://www.atlantaleader.com/index.php/sid/228213003
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And I am sure that President Obama had already heard about some of the reports that had come out concerning body cams used by police departments cutting down the number of complaints received by those police departments who started using body cameras with their officers.
The body cam is just an extension of the "dash cam" that many police departments have mounted on the dashboards of their police cars.
The cameras used by the police department in the city here in Idaho reportedly caused about a 50% drop in complaints about police brutality and/or misconduct.
The underlying cause for that is because the police officers had to act within the law more often than they did before their actions were being caught on video.
So, it is a win-win situation.
And since the President is a 3rd-level chess playing champion, I'm sure he saw the benefit of using body cams right away.
Cha
(297,196 posts)but of course the tea bagger congress will. they don't want this President to have any "wins" while he's in the WH.. if they can help it.
Too bad for them.. the so-called "lame duck" is no lame duck at all.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And also help grand juries make logical decisions to indict.
There is no reason under the sun for how the grand jury came to their decision in Garner's case.
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(297,196 posts)Live and Learn
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Eric Garner's racist killer Daniel Pantaleo, had at least 2 civil rights lawsuits against him. Didn't matter.
9:52 AM - 3 Dec 2014 360 Retweets 76 favorites
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Eric Garner's racist killer Daniel Pantaleo, had at least 2 civil rights lawsuits against him. Didn't matter.
9:52 AM - 3 Dec 2014 360 Retweets 76 favorites
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Mahalo for this, napkinz
napkinz
(17,199 posts)and how wealthy will they make him?
Cha
(297,196 posts)a la DWilson?
Cha
(297,196 posts)TheObamaCAT @TheObamaCat
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I kept on asking my young brothers to stay calm, to resist rage.
I can no longer ask them to do that.
#EricGarner
10:27 AM - 3 Dec 2014 4,381 Retweets 143 favorites
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And, Trayvon Martin was killed by a security guard, George Zimmerman, who got off.
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(297,196 posts)jay smooth @jsmooth995
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The man is unarmed. The chokehold is banned. The coroner ruled it a homicide. It is on video. None of this matters. I can't breathe.
9:50 AM - 3 Dec 2014 17,597 Retweets 9,223 favorites
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(297,196 posts)Dwayne David Paul @DwayneDavidPaul
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This was #EricGarner and his life mattered. This was #EricGarner and his death matters.
10:18 AM - 3 Dec 2014 6,387 Retweets 4,438 favorites
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logosoco
(3,208 posts)Sending peace to his wife and family today.
Cha
(297,196 posts)loved ones, too.
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(297,196 posts)AnonFatCat @AnonFatCat
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RT @acsacollective: Captain Ray Lewis from Philadelphia in front of #Ferguson police department. #shutitdown
9:43 PM - 30 Nov 2014
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(297,196 posts)Khaled Bey @KhaledBeydoun
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A glimmer of unity in NYC. Hope in protest.
#ICantBreathe #EricGarner
7:57 PM - 3 Dec 2014 354 Retweets 271 favorites
LeftInTX
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(297,196 posts)Damn.
Cha
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(297,196 posts)How ya doin'?
ChisolmTrailDem
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(297,196 posts)How ya doin?
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(15,237 posts)Disgusting, vile, ignorant, racist, vermin are crawling out from under the rocks. I know some of those people but did not suspect that it went that deep. It makes me sick.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)I'm surprised that the UN hasn't stepped in regarding these human rights violations.
Cha
(297,196 posts)certainly not the prosecutors or the fucking GJ in the DWilson or Daniel Pantaleo cases.