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951-Riverside
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951-Riverside's Journal
August 22, 2014
Without accountability cameras won't do jack shit except make the Taser Corp wealthier
And the unintended consequences is people will be less inclined to talk to cops because of the camera in their face and cops are going to become much colder and robotic out of fear that their bosses could use any and every single thing they say from archived footage as leverage to kick them off the force if they don't go along with the program (usually the bosses are the most corrupt and vicious).
OTOH when a cop is doing something really bad they'll just not turn on the camera or make sure the battery doesnt get charged like Mary Hawk's killer did at Albuquerque PD a few months ago or smash the recording device like Officer Vince Mater did in Fullerton. Criminals will always beat whatever system in place.
Body cameras are not an end all solution when it comes to police brutality. If the Kelly Thomas murder didnt wake people up I don't know what will.
We can talk cameras after we talk about accountability.
August 21, 2014
Notes:
1:07: Talks about all men being created equal then went on to say "That does not mean affirmative action".
1:26: Rants about hate crime laws
3:22: Black (little?) Perverts
5:25: Talks about doing a fair share of killing
15:40: Calls supreme court justice a homosexual sodomite.
18:30 "If I die I go to heaven... I died a long time ago"
20:30: Talks about St. Louis County schools
26:40: Calls President Obama an illegal alien
27:00: We can kill you anyway we want
31:38: Goes on anti-muslim rant
37:00: Talks about being a Saint Louis County Cop
43:00: Talk about killing people again
46:41: Goes on rant over being briefed about the 9/11 attacks on Aug 1st 1999 then says 9/11 happened 30 days later also talks about no weapons of mass destruction being found in Afghanistan.
49:22: Continues rant about having secret clearance at Fort (Leavenworth?) and training with Russian spetsnaz
52:40: Says people involved in domestic violence should "just shoot each other and get it over with".
53:15: Somebody like me is going to come in and kill you
56:20: I don't trust nobody and I hate everybody. I hate y'all too I hate everybody. I'm into diversity. I kill everybody.
58:02: Audience member: So what happens when good men like you are retiring from the military. What kind of military do we have left then?
58:15: Sodomites and females. End of statement.
1:01:00: Rants about female green beret
1:03:00 He's handed an oathkeeper patch
I'm still listening to this.
Original video of this cop shoving CNN report Don Lemon below.
Ironically this dirtbag is ranting and screaming about Constitutional Rights yet he's violating the rights of citizens and a reporter on national television Unfuckingbelieable.
Ferguson cop's hour long anti-government, racist rant. Same cop shoved CNN reporter Don Lemon on air
Notes:
1:07: Talks about all men being created equal then went on to say "That does not mean affirmative action".
1:26: Rants about hate crime laws
3:22: Black (little?) Perverts
5:25: Talks about doing a fair share of killing
15:40: Calls supreme court justice a homosexual sodomite.
18:30 "If I die I go to heaven... I died a long time ago"
20:30: Talks about St. Louis County schools
26:40: Calls President Obama an illegal alien
27:00: We can kill you anyway we want
31:38: Goes on anti-muslim rant
37:00: Talks about being a Saint Louis County Cop
43:00: Talk about killing people again
46:41: Goes on rant over being briefed about the 9/11 attacks on Aug 1st 1999 then says 9/11 happened 30 days later also talks about no weapons of mass destruction being found in Afghanistan.
49:22: Continues rant about having secret clearance at Fort (Leavenworth?) and training with Russian spetsnaz
52:40: Says people involved in domestic violence should "just shoot each other and get it over with".
53:15: Somebody like me is going to come in and kill you
56:20: I don't trust nobody and I hate everybody. I hate y'all too I hate everybody. I'm into diversity. I kill everybody.
58:02: Audience member: So what happens when good men like you are retiring from the military. What kind of military do we have left then?
58:15: Sodomites and females. End of statement.
1:01:00: Rants about female green beret
1:03:00 He's handed an oathkeeper patch
I'm still listening to this.
Original video of this cop shoving CNN report Don Lemon below.
Ironically this dirtbag is ranting and screaming about Constitutional Rights yet he's violating the rights of citizens and a reporter on national television Unfuckingbelieable.
August 21, 2014
Read More: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/cop_working_ferguson_protest_falsely_accuses_protesters_of_firing_guns_leading_to_gas_attack.php
Officer in Fergison goes on twitter rant; calls protesters thugs, threatens to assault AG Holder
A Velda City police officer who has been part of the militarized police apparatus holding down operations on West Florissant Avenue is spreading lies about Ferguson protesters online.
Sergeant Mike Weston, going by the handle "officeranon2" on Twitter, engaged with users of the social-media network about a tear-gas attack by St. Louis County police on protesters in their own back yard on Monday, August 11. In the conversation, a Twitter user wanted to know why police would fire tear gas at people on their own property. Weston tells them it's because protesters were firing guns from their back yard. But that's not true, as evidenced in the video below.
Daily RFT was in the back yard that was tear-gassed and caught the incident on video. No shots were ever fired anybody in the back yard, and each person had their hands up in protest. Here's that video:
Daily RFT contacted the Velda City Police Department, and Weston confirmed the account was his and explained the allegations he made against Ferguson residents who were attacked with tear gas on their own property.
"I wasn't spreading misinformation," he said. "There were shots being fired some yards, maybe not this particular one."
Weston then admitted that he wasn't in the group of police officers that was marching down the street and firing tear gas into yards. He said he was in the back closer to the command center, several blocks away...
Sergeant Mike Weston, going by the handle "officeranon2" on Twitter, engaged with users of the social-media network about a tear-gas attack by St. Louis County police on protesters in their own back yard on Monday, August 11. In the conversation, a Twitter user wanted to know why police would fire tear gas at people on their own property. Weston tells them it's because protesters were firing guns from their back yard. But that's not true, as evidenced in the video below.
Daily RFT was in the back yard that was tear-gassed and caught the incident on video. No shots were ever fired anybody in the back yard, and each person had their hands up in protest. Here's that video:
Daily RFT contacted the Velda City Police Department, and Weston confirmed the account was his and explained the allegations he made against Ferguson residents who were attacked with tear gas on their own property.
"I wasn't spreading misinformation," he said. "There were shots being fired some yards, maybe not this particular one."
Weston then admitted that he wasn't in the group of police officers that was marching down the street and firing tear gas into yards. He said he was in the back closer to the command center, several blocks away...
Read More: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/cop_working_ferguson_protest_falsely_accuses_protesters_of_firing_guns_leading_to_gas_attack.php
August 20, 2014
Subject: RE: KSDK phone call
Last night, during one of the many recent
conflicts in Ferguson, a St. Ann officer had
bottles of urine and water thrown on him.
The officer then raised his weapon after seeing a
gun in the crowd, he continued to scan the
area trying to assess the scene. While
assessing the scene he asked several people
including a member of the media to move.
The media person refused to cooperate and in
an attempt to keep the public safe, my officer
used profanity with the public and told the
media person that he was going to kill him if
he didn't move.
We certainly do not condone the verbiage that
was used and the officer will be counseled on
his choice of words.
The officer is suspended without pay until further investigation.
The St. Ann Police Department regrets this
unfortunate situation and hopes for a peaceful
resolution in Ferguson.
Chief Aaron Jimenez
St. Ann Police Department
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Backstory:
https://twitter.com/KatCaulder/status/501971229964648450
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The St. Ann Police Chief now defending suspended Officer in updated email to press
Source: https://twitter.com/CaseyNolen/status/502234229082947585/
Subject: RE: KSDK phone call
Last night, during one of the many recent
conflicts in Ferguson, a St. Ann officer had
bottles of urine and water thrown on him.
The officer then raised his weapon after seeing a
gun in the crowd, he continued to scan the
area trying to assess the scene. While
assessing the scene he asked several people
including a member of the media to move.
The media person refused to cooperate and in
an attempt to keep the public safe, my officer
used profanity with the public and told the
media person that he was going to kill him if
he didn't move.
We certainly do not condone the verbiage that
was used and the officer will be counseled on
his choice of words.
The officer is suspended without pay until further investigation.
The St. Ann Police Department regrets this
unfortunate situation and hopes for a peaceful
resolution in Ferguson.
Chief Aaron Jimenez
St. Ann Police Department
______________________________________________________________
Backstory:
https://twitter.com/KatCaulder/status/501971229964648450
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August 20, 2014
Original source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51598475/highlight/541859
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Here is another Ferguson cop telling media trying to ask Capt Johnson a question to: "Get over on that shoulder and get your asses moving". Johnson does nothing.
Video: http://bit.ly/1rWxMlW
Snapshot:
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Shameful
Ferguson cop tells media "I will fucking kill you" and "Go Fuck Yourself" while aiming rifle at them
Original source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51598475/highlight/541859
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Here is another Ferguson cop telling media trying to ask Capt Johnson a question to: "Get over on that shoulder and get your asses moving". Johnson does nothing.
Video: http://bit.ly/1rWxMlW
Snapshot:
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Shameful
August 19, 2014
Just history repeating itself.
LAPD targets media covering immigration rally May 1st, 2007
Just history repeating itself.
August 18, 2014
90 Year old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein arrested by St. Louis Police
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https://twitter.com/StanfordKMOV/statuses/501485501518725121
May 29, 2014
No blacks or women allowed? Google Workforce Breakdown Shows White Males Dominate At Tech Giant
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MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) — Google released a breakdown of the demographics of its workforce for the first time Wednesday.
Google has struggled to diversity its workforce in a sector dominated by white males, which was evident in the breakdown, showing that 70-percent of their total workers are male, and 61-percent are white.
Male workers described as working within Google’s ‘tech’ sector dominated even further, representing 83-percent of those employees.
The Mountain View-based company is a dominating force in the tech industry, attracting the best and brightest, and the breakdown sheds light on the issue of creating a diverse workforce.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/05/28/white-men-technology-workers-bay-area-silicon-valley-google-workforce-breakdown-shows-white-males-dominate-in-tech/
Google has struggled to diversity its workforce in a sector dominated by white males, which was evident in the breakdown, showing that 70-percent of their total workers are male, and 61-percent are white.
Male workers described as working within Google’s ‘tech’ sector dominated even further, representing 83-percent of those employees.
The Mountain View-based company is a dominating force in the tech industry, attracting the best and brightest, and the breakdown sheds light on the issue of creating a diverse workforce.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/05/28/white-men-technology-workers-bay-area-silicon-valley-google-workforce-breakdown-shows-white-males-dominate-in-tech/
May 26, 2014
Sadly there won't be any memorials, debates, discussions or nationwide media attention over these shootings because it happened in a poor black neighborhood and as usual the shooter or shooters will always get away because the police never bothers to look.
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Other mass shootings in poor neighborhoods you've probably never heard of
At least 7 wounded in shootings across Chicago
May 16, 2013
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-shooting-violence-man-shot-in-beverly-may-15-20130515,0,37916.story
Weekend violence leaves 9 dead, 47 shot
June 17, 2013
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-crime-shooting-gun-violence-marquette-park,0,2169540.story
Boy, 3, among 13 injured in Chicago park shooting
September 19, 2013
http://khon2.com/2013/09/19/boy-3-among-13-injured-in-chicago-park-shooting/
Fifteen shot across Chicago since Thursday afternoon
May 9, 2014
http://voices.suntimes.com/news/breaking-news/five-hurt-in-south-side-shootings-since-thursday-afternoon/#.U4DY2nJdXrA
Ten men shot across Chicago Tuesday
May 20, 2014
http://voices.suntimes.com/news/breaking-news/nine-men-shot-across-chicago-tuesday/
3 DEAD, 4 HURT IN CHICAGO SHOOTINGS ON THURSDAY
May 22, 2014
http://abc7chicago.com/news/3-dead-4-hurt-in-chicago-shootings/74868/
Three men shot in East Oakland
May 24, 2014
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25828947/three-men-shot-east-oakland
1 Killed, 3 Injured In Bellflower Barbershop Shooting
May 23, 2014
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/4-shot-in-or-near-Southern-California-barbershop-5502162.php
15-year-old dead, seven others wounded at New Orleans house party
May 23, 2014
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/15-year-old_dead_others_wounde.html
NOPD reports three men shot in Algiers
May 25, 2014
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/nopd_reports_three_men_shot_on.html
Three shot near Interim LSU Hospital
May 26, 2014
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/violent_weekend_in_new_orleans.html
6 shot, 2 dead in yet another mass shooting in the US
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Two men were killed and at least six people injured in shootings across the city Sunday night and early Monday morning, according to police.
About 1 a.m. this morning, police responded to a report of gunfire in the 5400 block of West Haddon Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood, police said. Officers found a 25-year-old man on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan said.
The man, later identified as Lance Stanton, was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Stanton, who lived in the block where he was shot, was pronounced dead at 1:36 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
In a separate fatal shooting, a 46-year-old man was killed about 8:05 p.m. in the West Side's East Garfield Park neighborhood.
The man, later identified as Aaron Feazell, was shot multiple times in the 3300 block of West Maypole Avenue, authorities said. Feazell, of the 1400 block of S. 10th Avenue in Maywood, was pronounced dead on the scene at 8:25 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-shootings-2-shot-on-west-side-20140525,0,1911694.story
About 1 a.m. this morning, police responded to a report of gunfire in the 5400 block of West Haddon Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood, police said. Officers found a 25-year-old man on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan said.
The man, later identified as Lance Stanton, was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Stanton, who lived in the block where he was shot, was pronounced dead at 1:36 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
In a separate fatal shooting, a 46-year-old man was killed about 8:05 p.m. in the West Side's East Garfield Park neighborhood.
The man, later identified as Aaron Feazell, was shot multiple times in the 3300 block of West Maypole Avenue, authorities said. Feazell, of the 1400 block of S. 10th Avenue in Maywood, was pronounced dead on the scene at 8:25 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-shootings-2-shot-on-west-side-20140525,0,1911694.story
Sadly there won't be any memorials, debates, discussions or nationwide media attention over these shootings because it happened in a poor black neighborhood and as usual the shooter or shooters will always get away because the police never bothers to look.
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Other mass shootings in poor neighborhoods you've probably never heard of
At least 7 wounded in shootings across Chicago
May 16, 2013
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-shooting-violence-man-shot-in-beverly-may-15-20130515,0,37916.story
Weekend violence leaves 9 dead, 47 shot
June 17, 2013
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-crime-shooting-gun-violence-marquette-park,0,2169540.story
Boy, 3, among 13 injured in Chicago park shooting
September 19, 2013
http://khon2.com/2013/09/19/boy-3-among-13-injured-in-chicago-park-shooting/
Fifteen shot across Chicago since Thursday afternoon
May 9, 2014
http://voices.suntimes.com/news/breaking-news/five-hurt-in-south-side-shootings-since-thursday-afternoon/#.U4DY2nJdXrA
Ten men shot across Chicago Tuesday
May 20, 2014
http://voices.suntimes.com/news/breaking-news/nine-men-shot-across-chicago-tuesday/
3 DEAD, 4 HURT IN CHICAGO SHOOTINGS ON THURSDAY
May 22, 2014
http://abc7chicago.com/news/3-dead-4-hurt-in-chicago-shootings/74868/
Three men shot in East Oakland
May 24, 2014
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25828947/three-men-shot-east-oakland
1 Killed, 3 Injured In Bellflower Barbershop Shooting
May 23, 2014
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/4-shot-in-or-near-Southern-California-barbershop-5502162.php
15-year-old dead, seven others wounded at New Orleans house party
May 23, 2014
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/15-year-old_dead_others_wounde.html
NOPD reports three men shot in Algiers
May 25, 2014
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/nopd_reports_three_men_shot_on.html
Three shot near Interim LSU Hospital
May 26, 2014
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/violent_weekend_in_new_orleans.html
May 23, 2014
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Other incidents of inmate abuse
Mentally ill man scalded to death in Miami Dade Jail in 2012. No one held accountable as of 2014.
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The purported details of Darren Rainey’s last hour are difficult to read.
“I can’t take it no more, I’m sorry. I won’t do it again,’’ he screamed over and over, according to a grievance complaint from a fellow inmate, as Rainey was allegedly locked in a shower with the scalding water turned on full blast.
A 50-year-old mentally ill inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution, Rainey was pulled into the locked shower by prison guards as punishment after defecating in his cell and refusing to clean it up, said the fellow inmate, who worked as an orderly. He was left there unattended for more than an hour as the narrow chamber filled with steam and water.
When guards finally checked on prisoner 060954, he was on his back and dead. His skin was so burned that it had shriveled from his body, a condition referred to as slippage, according to a medical document involving the death.
But nearly two years after Rainey’s death on June 23, 2012, the Miami-Dade medical examiner has yet to complete an autopsy and Miami-Dade police have not charged anyone. The Florida Department of Corrections halted its probe into the matter, saying it could be restarted if the autopsy and police investigation unearth new information.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/17/4123183_behind-bars-a-brutal-and-unexplained.html
“I can’t take it no more, I’m sorry. I won’t do it again,’’ he screamed over and over, according to a grievance complaint from a fellow inmate, as Rainey was allegedly locked in a shower with the scalding water turned on full blast.
A 50-year-old mentally ill inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution, Rainey was pulled into the locked shower by prison guards as punishment after defecating in his cell and refusing to clean it up, said the fellow inmate, who worked as an orderly. He was left there unattended for more than an hour as the narrow chamber filled with steam and water.
When guards finally checked on prisoner 060954, he was on his back and dead. His skin was so burned that it had shriveled from his body, a condition referred to as slippage, according to a medical document involving the death.
But nearly two years after Rainey’s death on June 23, 2012, the Miami-Dade medical examiner has yet to complete an autopsy and Miami-Dade police have not charged anyone. The Florida Department of Corrections halted its probe into the matter, saying it could be restarted if the autopsy and police investigation unearth new information.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/17/4123183_behind-bars-a-brutal-and-unexplained.html
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Other incidents of inmate abuse
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