Breaking News: World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler has been detained by police in handcuffs after a misunderstanding with traffic flow led to his attempt to drive past a police officer into Valhalla Golf Club. The police officer attempted to attach himself to Scheffler’s car, and Scheffler then stopped his vehicle at the entrance to Valhalla. The police officer then began to scream at Scheffler to get out of the car. When Scheffler exited the vehicle, the officer shoved Scheffler against the car and immediately placed him in handcuffs. He is now being detained in the back of a police car.

- Jeff Darlington

This needs to be required watching for everyone here, even and especially the folks who show up to complain that police are somehow unjustly maligned today.

It may say on the wrapper that it's a documentary about Hip Hop. And it is. But it's really also a documentary about roughly the last fifty years of the state of policing in the US, with a quite overt emphasis on the impacts our justice system has had on people of color and the poor.

So many things that I have learned in the past few years are included here in one place, along with so many new bits of information and perspective. And, a great deal of what is shared here is related by people who lived through it.

This is a fascinating goldmine of information and understanding, with a great soundtrack.

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.

"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

The police department’s public site for tracking officers’ discipline is shockingly unreliable, a ProPublica analysis found. Cases against officers frequently vanish for days — sometimes weeks — at a time.

The police stormed the protest camp at the University of Chicago in the middle of the night, leading to a great interview with a student talking about, among other things, the cowardness of following orders.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/14986044

Archived version: https://archive.ph/HtphT

Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.

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Students arrested during the crackdown said at least two of them were put in solitary confinement for three hours and others reported much longer stays, according to Barnard College professor Shayoni Mitra and a tenured faculty member who asked for anonymity to protect their livelihood. The faculty members were working to support jailed students. (The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14891197

With the greenlight of Columbia President Minouche Shafik and her administration, NYPD has entered Hind Hall through the windows and begun to mass arrest students inside. Let this be remembered as Columbia and Shafik’s legacy: one of mobilizing the violence and terror of the state against their own students and faculty, solely to prevent an end to Columbia’s complicity in a genocide.

Source

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/2484384

Ex-Prosecutor Who Framed Innocent Black Man Surrenders Law License

From the Atlanta Tribune:

Terra Morehead, a former prosecutor who helped frame an innocent Black man for a murder he didn’t commit, has agreed to surrender her law license and is set to be disbarred. According to KCUR, Morehead, who retired from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas in August 2023, surrendered her license as part of an agreement with the […]

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“I spent more than 12 hours reporting from the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC today. I didn’t see any antisemitism. What I did see was militarized police arrest pro-Palestinian students who were peacefully protesting,” stated Spectrum News journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld.

Jody David Armour, the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, said, “I’ve been here from early this morning and contrary to what’s being said by the administration, these are students, not “outside agitators” and they were not escalating. The cops have been doing the escalating!”

A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent decades trying to clear his name before being declared innocent by a judge in January has died at the age of 80.

Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions, says Gillespie died Friday in his home in Saint John, N.B.

In January, New Brunswick Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare acquitted Gillespie and Mailman, 76, of the 1983 murder of a Saint John man and apologized for the "miscarriage of justice."

Her ruling came after federal Justice Minister Arif Virani ordered a new trial on Dec. 22, saying evidence had surfaced that called into question "the overall fairness of the process."

The story about their wrongful arrest, conviction and exoneration here ... https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/robert-mailman-walter-gillespie-new-brunswick-wrongful-conviction

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14122055

In capitalist America, police violence is a leading cause of death in some communities. What the police do is evil.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/?fbclid=IwAR2Ksj0APGEaDjTqOb5Tu-EjVF6879L2mHbpWm-_8kNhXd9OwFepe3qq5PQ_aem_AUeMNCOa81yPdiDdewDn2f9zE0ojN-Z-lg-DWZUeYcBIm6Q6SvfxHbbzx25SH0NJ86A

This is just one retired cop, who's cost New York more than $100-million in settlements and claims. How many thousand more cops, as bad as Louis Scarcella or worse, are still being protected?  

... Mr. Scarcella, who retired in 1999, has not been charged with any crimes despite official findings of bad practices, and he has insisted he did nothing wrong. He gave his fullest public accounting yet in a new podcast called The Burden, in which he insisted he was simply one of many cogs in a system ratcheted up to rein in rampant crime during a time when murder rates were several times higher than they are today...

Data Analysis (Graph = #s, not empty thought bubble to be dismissive and hand wave) and Database of the viol-ated (Violence+Sex) where LE is the convicted perp. US Citizens have been heinously violated by the cops and it seems like no one understands this reality because the data has not been conveyed to the masses. There should be a universally accessible site with graphs charting all parameters which demonstrates how bad the cops have been for decades. @DevCat and Paragons of Virtue exposed this pattern along with other communities and threads on lemmy which are a good start, but there is nothing like a comprehensive, rolling update quantifying this pattern of abuse by LE and Force organizations and entities. How about including paramilitary private security that are being contracted out these days to avoid lawsuits, for instance, as well as military sexual violence? The pattern is a neuro-societal axis of men who are told they are "dominant" so they behave like a predator upon civilians who have no arms to defend themselves. These Force predators have rendered the civilian population defenseless and have cowardly rapist psychologies, thinking of us as small, weak prey.