Police Union Shirt Celebrates Beating of DNC Protesters

[jakem]

The Denver police union is selling T-shirts commemorating the good times they had last month. It costs just $10, which is quite a deal!

The back of the shirts reads, "We get up early to beat the crowds" and "2008 DNC," and has a caricature of a police officer holding a baton.
Detective Nick Rogers, a member of the Police Protective Association board, said police often issue T-shirts to commemorate big events.

Rogers said each Denver officer was given one of the shirts free and others are on sale for $10 each at police union offices.

He said the union expects to sell about 2,000 of them.

Police Union Shirt Celebrates Beating of DNC Protesters

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Does the local denver crime element...

offer t-shirts for sale that celebrate the shooting of police officers?

How much do those cost?

[jakem]

2. Those will cost you a beating, i believe...

:shrug:

[rug]

10. No, and thank you for another irrelevant aside.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. If they're going to dish it out, they ought to be able to take it.

:shrug:

[rug]

16. Go on, equate the protestors to the local crime element.

Keep going, you're doing fine.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. I'm equating the police with the local crime element, Einstein.

Geeze louise.

[mikelgb]

3. great, now I want a BLT

[RoadRage]

4. Wow... if Denver thought they were going to get good PR out of the DNC..

They just shot themselves in the foot.

[mitchum]

5. I'm assuming they only come in extra extra large

[geckosfeet]

6. That really bolsters my view of law enforcement.

Thugs.

[cyberpj]

7. US Police suffering from Blackwater syndrome - no accountability breeds abusers.

Blackwater Training US Police

snip -
On October 14, the Washington Post ran a story, which included photographs from Blackwater's Moyock training center. However, what was most intriguing was a photograph of a police and military patch board at Blackwater's headquarters that indicated the police agencies that have sent their officers to Moyock for training.

Blackwater is secretive about its non-federal, as well as its foreign clients, which the Post pointed out includes Jordan, Azerbaijan, and Burkina Faso, but a WMR inspection of the photograph of the police agencies has yielded the following list of agencies that have used Blackwater for training:

1. Iowa Department of Natural Resources

2. Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff's Department

3. Matthews, North Carolina Police

4. Atlanta Police

5. Chillicothe, Ohio Police

6. Charleston, South Carolina Police

7. Port Chester, NY Police

8. Highland, Indiana Police

9. Unalaska, Alaska Police

10. Metropolitan Washington, DC Police

11. Charlottesville, Virginia Police

12. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (Dulles and Reagan National Airports)

13. St. Louis County Police (Missouri)

14. Queen Anne's County, Maryland Police

15. Prince George's County, Maryland Police

16. FBI SWAT Team

17. Gloucester Township, New Jersey Police

18. Tempe, Arizona Police

19. New York Police Department

20. Yonkers, New York Police

21. Fairfax County, Virginia Police

22. Maplewood, New Jersey Police

23. Gastonia, North Carolina Police

24. Tampa Police

25. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

26. DeKalb County, Georgia Police

27. Arlington County, Virginia Police

28. Baltimore Police

29. U.S. Coast Guard

30. Suffolk, Virginia Police

31. Franklin City, Virginia Police

32. Milford, Delaware Police

33. University of Texas Police

34. Norfolk, Virginia Police

35. Ottawa-Carleton, Canada Police

36. San Bernardino County, California Sheriff

37. Plattsburgh, New York Police

38. Chicago Police Department

39. Oregon State Police

40. Los Angeles Police Department

41. Tonawanda, New York Police

42. Special Forces of Colombia

43. Jacksonville, North Carolina Police

44. Harvey Cedars, New Jersey Police

45. Elmira, New York Police

46. Department of Corrections, New Jersey

47. Lexington, Kentucky Police

48. Willimantic, Connecticut Police

49. Georgia Department of Law Enforcement

50. City of Fairfax, Virginia Police

51. Alexandria, Virginia Police Special Operations

52. Illinois State Police

53. Dallas, Texas Police

54. Hamilton, Ohio Police

55. Morganton, North Carolina Police


A number of the police departments that have been trained by Blackwater have abysmal civil rights and police brutality records, most notably the Chicago Police and Illinois State Police, both cited by former Illinois Governor George Ryan as being guilty of police misconduct in his decision to commute the death sentences of Illinois' death row inmates. It was a decision that likely had much to do with his indictment by the Bush administration on corruption charges -- political misuse of the Department of Justice that has been seen in the indictments and investigations of Alabama former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman and HealthSouth former CEO Richard Scrushy, Qwest's former CEO Joseph Nacchio, Democratic campaign contributor Martha Stewart, Coastal Corporation's former Chairman and Democratic contributor Oscar Wyatt, and Democratic-leaning trial attorneys around the United States, as well as the firings of several U.S. Attorneys who refused to engage in political prosecutions, and a Justice Department workup on North Carolina presidential candidate John Edwards in 2004.

The training and potential political indoctrination of police officers by the extreme right-wing and proto-fascist Blackwater, coupled with the politicization of the Justice Department and U.S. courts, has the potential for the streets of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, and Washington, DC, as well as Chillicothe, Harvey Cedars, and Elmira to turn as bloody as the streets of Baghdad and Fallujah.

Citizens have a distinct opportunity of confronting their local elected city, county, and town officials over Blackwater training of their police officers. Local officials should be pressured to reveal the numbers and identities of officers trained by Blackwater, the subjects covered by the training, the revenues spent, and a public demand should be made to cease and desist in such training.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0b_1192588579

[Raineyb]

18. Can't speak for all of those departments of course but

NYPD was abusive before they got any Blackwater training. Never being convicted for wrongfully killing people on the street breeds the attitude that they can get away with anything so they don't bother to pretend to behave.

Regards

[WinkyDink]

20. Plattsburgh and Tonawanda are getting ready to fend off the Canadian marauders.

[ogneopasno]

21. The Iowa DNR? WTF?

That cracks me up.

[efilon]

24. Iowa DNR

Only thing I can think of might be because of meth labs. Thinking I have heard about meth labs in state forests or parks. You'd think they could call in local help from local sheriffs or highway patrol. :shrug:

[tpi10d]

8. shockingly unprofessional

Should be a personnel matter-any union official behind this who is an active officer in the dept. be investigated/disciplined. I take it city of Denver has a Democratic voter base. Its time for them to look into this.

[Starry Messenger]

9. There's one to forward to Keith Olbermann.

Aren't they just sweet? I'm so glad we can trust LE to be dispassionate.

[rug]

11. These guys go out of their way to embrace the term pig.

[LiberalFighter]

12. They probably think they are better than other labor unions.

I hope the members don't condone the t-shirts.

[mokawanis]

14. I hope it backfires

and they are exposed for the thugs they are. What a bunch of pricks.

[PA Democrat]

15. Don't be surprised if that t-shirt is used as evidence in a police brutality case.

[backscatter712]

17. Fucking pigs. n/t

[TexasLawyer]

22. Lawsuit exhibit

If I had a lawsuit against the Denver police for physical abuse (not just at the convention) I would bring this in as an exhibit.

Appearing to enjoy-- and even to celebrate-- beating people up with baseball bats is not a very professional image and reflects very poorly on the Denver police culture.

[WinkyDink]

23. VietNam POW, anti-war marches, an unpopular "war", and police not happy with DNC protestors.

And here I thought the Nickelodeon Channel was the major homage to the 60's!

[Danger Mouse]

25. WTF? How DARE they? Celebrating police brutality. God, just when you think...

they couldn't sink any lower.

[rucky]

26. Will they run to the ACLU if they get sued for this?

[Forkboy]

27. Where's the DMSO and some cotton swabs when I need it?