Oakland’s city leaders have announced punishments for police that abused and violated the civil rights of Occupy Wall Street protesters last fall. Two police officers should be fired and another 42 officers disciplined or reprimanded for misconduct during the Occupy Oakland protests that turned violent late last year and in January, city leaders said Friday. The early findings come from …
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CALIFORNIA: UC Davis To Pay $1M To Students Pepper-Sprayed By Cop
Last week I reported that the above police officer had gotten off with no criminal charges. But at least today we learn the amount of the settlement to be paid to students by UC Davis. The details of the settlement, approved in secret earlier this month by the regents, are contained in documents filed in federal court in Sacramento this …
Read More »No Charges For Pepper Spray Cop
The cop who casually pepper-sprayed a seated group of peaceful UC Davis students last year will not face criminal charges. The incident sparked a national rallying of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Yolo County District Attorney’s office said in a statement that there was insufficient evidence to prove the use of force was illegal. A task force appointed by the …
Read More »Rodney King Dead At 47
Rodney King, the nation’s most famous victim of police brutality, has been found dead at the age of 47. Police in Rialto, California, received a 911 call from King’s fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, about 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. Responding officers found King at the bottom of the pool, removed him and attempted to revive him. He was pronounced dead …
Read More »Tea Party Patriots Declare From Podium: “We Will Not Be Silenced By Faggots”
The Tea Party rally I mentioned early this morning was a lot rowdier than even that story suggested. Visit Scott Wooledge’s exhaustive report at Daily Kos for more. One charming highlight came when the speaker at the podium shouted, “We will not be silenced by FAGGOTS!” It also looks like there will be an investigation in the above Boston police …
Read More »Don We Now Our Spray Apparel
(Via – Copyranter)
Read More »The Cadillac Of Citizen Repression
Ever since the UC Davis incident, wiseguys have been flooding Amazon with reviews of the pepper spray on sale. At this writing, the below is the “most helpful” review. Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job …
Read More »GOProud: Those Kids Deserved It
UPDATE: Once again I have angered Herr Barron by screen-capping his words verbatim and posting them without comment. And as always, he responds with an infantile “you’re FAT” response like the one below. I’ve always wondered how a certain member of GOProud’s board of directors feels about these comments.
Read More »Fox News: That Pepper Spray Is Really Nothing More Than A Food Product
Photoshop Of The Day
(Via JMG reader Craig and many others.)
Read More »UC Davis Chancellor: I Won’t Resign
Despite widespread condemnation for the pepper-spraying incident on her campus, the chancellor of UC Davis says she will not resign. Via Talking Points Memo: Two police officers involved in a pepper-spraying incident at the University of California-Davis have been placed on leave, and over the weekend, the university’s faculty association called for the chancellor’s resignation. But Chancellor Linda Katehi told …
Read More »UC Davis Investigates Police Brutality
RELATED: The school’s chancellor was the subject of an eerie silent protest by students as she walked to her car. The chancellor is already the subject of a resignation petition.
Read More »Resisting Arrest
(Source) UPDATE: AmericaBlog has the story and information about the already-launched campaign against the cop. UPDATE II: There’s video.
Read More »Pepper-Sprayed At Occupy Portland
SEATTLE: Police Pepper-Spray 84 Year-Old Occupy Wall Street Protester
The above photo is sweeping the web today.
Read More »Cops Club UC Berkeley OWS Protesters
Cop Investigated For Slugging Protester
The NYPD officer who was filmed punching an Occupy Wall Street protester is being investigated and may face disciplinary action. The officer maintains that the protester attempted to elbow him as they passed. The officer, who has been named in news reports as deputy inspector Johnny Cardona, was filmed on Friday grabbing the protester from behind, spinning him round and …
Read More »Mass Violence At Wall Street Protests
Last night the NYPD waded into the Wall Street protesters with flailing batons and pepper spray. Hundreds of the estimated 15,000 protesters were reportedly arrested, but police have not released figures. IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Contrary to initial reports from the scene, where, admittedly, confusion reigned, only a few dozen protesters were arrested. An NYPD official this afternoon put the number at …
Read More »Chris Meloni As Tony Boloney
Chris Meloni helped out the Daily Show last night by starring in their clip mocking NYPD Officer Anthony Bologna, the man videotaped pepper-spraying helpless Wall Street protesters. And there’s a website for The Vigilogna.
Read More »FRIDAY: Protest March Against NYPD
Civil rights advocates and progressives will march in protest of NYPD brutality this Friday in Manhattan. In response to more than 80 arrests during a demonstration Saturday near Union Square, protesters plan to rally Friday afternoon against what they say was “brutal” behavior by cops, and will march from Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street, to the NYPD’s headquarters at 1 …
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