The Buffalo, NY police department shoved an old man down on the concrete and caused him to bleed profusely from his head and then claimed he was "part of a skirmish"
It's pretty graphic so I'm inclined not to link, but jfc
You don't get stuck with a bike you have to be good at it
Fucked up that they didn't get a second take to retry that dismount though
If bicycle cop were a payday 2 class they'd be scary as fuck to fight, and count as a special when considering skills that affect damage vs specials, is what I'm saying
They're also very effective at protests, it's easier to form a phalanx with bicycles than with plastic square shields
You think you get the bike issued to you or you gotta steal one off someone protesting or that guy in NY being arrested for delivering for Caviar, an essential job?
speaking of phalancies (the obviously correct plural of phalanx), check out this group of guardsmen not forming one and getting yelled at about their terrible form twitter.com/CongBaseballFan/status/1268484778405158913
i don't know what it's really like in the states (as all the police chases in the US i have seen are from World's Wildest Police Videos) but in Australia the Police do have the right to break road rules during a chase. this includes running red lights and speeding.
though they have to have their sirens and light on and people are supposed to get out of the way. intersections like that are always dangerous in that kind of situation
but i actually wonder if the light was red for the police's direction. i see a green light there but the angle might be suggesting it's green for the police if it's a traffic light or green for a pedestrian crossing light
@Memor-X tbh it doesn't really matter. It's ultimately a question of when does a high speed chase become too dangerous compared to the benefit of catching the suspect.
In this case sounds like the police already decided to call it off. Plus , there's probably better ways than just a pure chase, especially since it went on for an hour.
@Wipqozn well if the light was red then the car that got hit was running the red light and more in the wrong. but you are right. in Victoria from what i understand there is conditions when police have to call off a chase to de-escalate (ideally so that the perp slows down and not endangers themselves or other drivers). though i don't know what happens after that in regards to catching the perp
Felony murder is a concept wherein if you cause the death unintentionally as a result of the commission of another unrelated felony, you just get charged murder 1
> Abbott and other top Texas Republicans called for the resignation of the GOP chairs in Bexar and Nueces counties after they shared on social media a conspiracy theory that Floyd's death was a "staged event," apparently to gin up opposition to President Donald Trump. There is no evidence to support that claim; Floyd, a black Minnesota man, died last week after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
> "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
> Trump’s authoritarian instincts, his admiration for and envy of foreign strongmen, his desire to militarize law enforcement have long been obvious. These things wouldn’t matter so much, however, if the Republican Party were still the institution it was in the 1970s — a big tent with room for a variety of views, represented in the Senate by many people with real principles. These were people willing to remove a president, even if he was a Republican, when he betrayed his oath of office.
> The modern G.O.P., however, is nothing like that. Many of its leading figures — people like Senator Tom Cotton — are every bit as authoritarian and anti-democratic as Trump himself.
chilling but undoubtably accurate:
> The point is that today’s Republican Party wouldn’t object to a Trumpian power grab, even if it amounted to a military coup. On the contrary, the party would cheer it on.
I had someone pull DOD 1033 transfers for Cincinnati (the program that lets departments pick up lightly used DOD gear for cheap, including mine resistant vehicles etc). All that came back was 1 purchase for UC (RIFLE, 5.56 MILLIMETER - 14 - $2,817.00) but that's, what
why would the university need 14 5.56mm rifles
Give me one instead, tbh
I am kind of surprised that the mayor was telling the truth about not being militarized in the sense that CPD does not have a tank
@Unionhawk I got on Twitter to ask this person and then immediately got distracted by all the other crap happening that I forgot for a full two minutes why I had gotten on Twitter to begin with
@TimStone oh yes, they are very good numbers. just going to casually ignore the millions that lost their jobs because they don't count because they are Trump Haters. only people that say nice things about the president gets counted and they also have jobs
Of note, UCPD officer Ray Tensing performed a traffic stop on Samuel DuBose on July 19, 2015 for a missing front license plate. The stop ended in the fatal shooting of Sam DuBose. Two juries deadlocked on murder and voluntary manslaughter, and the case was dropped.
> The show of force outside the White House is a task force operation that includes U.S. Secret Service, National Guard, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Park Police, according to the internal Department of Homeland Security report dated June 4. They aren’t the only ones in town: Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration, National Guard, Coast Guard, Federal Protective Service and more have been called in, says the document
Customs and Border Protection? Strong models of reasonable response :lolsob:
> So much for the golden future I can't even start I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart You don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue If you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too
> Never in the history of the United States has a president walked in the blood-soaked tracks of mechanized killing machines to visit the National Archives, where he used a Sharpie to cross out the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th Amendments to the US Constitution. Watching him wipe the blood from his pant legs with the tattered remains of the original Constitution, I was gripped with an overwhelming emotion:
> The Department of Defense, led by Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, appears to have made the decision without consulting the White House, where President Trump has ordered a militarized show of force on the streets of Washington D.C. since demonstrations in the city were punctured by an episode of looting on Sunday. Trump specifically had encouraged the National Guard to be armed.
Donald Trump has said he hopes George Floyd is "looking down right now" and saying the decline in US unemployment announced on Friday is a "great thing that's happening for our country". independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/…
Also a series of male escorts are claiming to be on the verge of outting Lindsey Graham on Twitter, but even if true that's a very fine line to be walking for obvious reasons, and I don't know the extent to which it's been substantiated
