White Privilege

[_Icarus]

Hole. E. Shiiiit

https://Twitter.com/ThePerezHilton/stat ... 91104?s=20

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

That's for sure a good example of white privilege had you caught this prior to the George Floyd incident. Any idea how MPD policy changes, the DA's mandates, and the Mayor's recommendation toward low-level offenders changed policing in MPLS? What I'm getting at is that the Left rioted to get the police, specifically the MPD in this case, to change its behavior toward the public. Now that they've done so they're being charged with biased policing. Seems like a no-win situation for the MPD, right now.

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Here's an example of someone's white privilege not kicking in:

https://ibb.co/Y3NpSrp

- Doc

[_Temp. Admin.]

What would you have done if you were either of those officers?

[_moksha]

I am glad this did not result in an equal-treatment killing. The driver did seem too enraged to be on the road.

[_moksha]

I am glad this did not result in an equal-treatment killing. The driver seemed too enraged to be safely on the road.

[_Icarus]

Jerry resists arrest. ⁣ Jerry steals officers baton.⁣ Beats cops with their batons.⁣ Steals their police car.⁣ Police never fire a single shot at Jerry. ⁣ No stun gun. Nothing. ⁣ American police know how to use restraint. They do.⁣ For some reason it’s just always with a Jerry.⁣ Never with a Rayshard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCpM6ofJLs

White man tases Cop, lives to tell the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spxYemp-XwU

Naked White Murder Suspect Peacefully Arrested While Resisting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqnN6OT3IFk

Angry White Suspect Chasing And Beating Sheriff's Deputy Is Caught On Camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLClu1R4ImA

White People With Guns NOT Killed By Cops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVhasi95c4

'I'm a clean ... white girl,' DUI suspect tells cops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YowLp-o-29Y

This is just last month. Patrick Creath Jr., a known member of the KKK. He shot his daughter’s Black boyfriend 3 times — trying to KILL him by spraying his car with bullets on June 19, 2020. Thankfully the young man survived, but Creath is free on only $500 bail for a “malicious wounding” charge! https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/ ... crime.html


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Hard to imagine why so many in the black community fear, distrust or hate America's justice system. Here are the reasons why BLM exists.

Researchers looked at police forces in the 20 largest US cities and “found not a single police department was operating under guidelines that are compliant with the minimum standards laid out under international human rights laws.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... kZsgFfd4BE

Aurora police detain Black family after mistaking their vehicle as stolen. Place crying children face down on scorching asphalt. This would never in a million years happen to a upper/middle-class white family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuiLfWVTuaY

Former Florida cop arrested for kneeling on pregnant black woman's neck, tasering her and causing miscarriage https://meaww.com/ex-officer-jordy-mart ... s4fkpS8_Zc

Cops assault a 16 year old and charge her with 2 felonies of assaulting an officer. But video footage proved those charges were false and they were dropped. Think of all the people who didn't have film footage to contradict the lying cops. https://www.thedailybeast.com/video-chi ... FMnvixwhKQ

This officer here was caught on camera, beating a 14year old black girl - a minor for that matter* https://www.Facebook.com/buttersbwoy.pr ... tn__=-UK-R

'Please let me go': Video shows 6-year-old sobbing during arrest at Orlando school https://www.wesh.com/article/please-let ... 1R5su10xYE#

Arkansas sheriff resigns over racist rant in leaked recording https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ar ... Wnb0tN2q-w

Recently a North Carolina officer was fired after saying, "We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them damned niggers." https://reason.com/2020/06/25/firing-na ... -policing/

Brookfield police release video after arrest of 13-year-old sparks outrage online https://www.fox6now.com/news/absolutely ... age-online

SHAUN KING: A Private Law Enforcement Group on Facebook is Literally Plotting to Kill Me
https://medium.com/@ShaunKing/shaun-kin ... e916c90bf8

4 Aurora Police Officers Out After Photo Reenacting Chokehold Of Elijah McClain
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aurora-p ... notKVzfbcY

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

I see Icarus has resumed with his alarm clock persona...

- Doc

[_Icarus]

This was just this past month.

Caught On Video: Parents Outraged As Deputies Point Guns At 3 Black Teens Who Had Been Attacked In Santa Clarita
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/08 ... a-clarita/

[_Icarus]

Three years ago, an officer was filmed beating up a handcuffed Black man. Now, he’s the police chief

"When Kentdrick Ratliff tried to reach for a pill bottle that police had confiscated from him, his physical struggle with officers in Hammond, La., quickly got violent.

As the Black man wrestled with them on top of a table in a police booking room, one officer kicked Ratliff in the head, video of the 2017 incident shows. Another placed his boot on the man’s neck. Sgt. Edwin Bergeron, who is White, punched Ratliff five times with a closed fist.

“I got beat, stomped, kicked in my groin,” Ratliff told WBRZ, the ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge, which first published the footage in August.

Following the tussle, Bergeron was promoted to police chief, Ratliff was convicted of resisting arrest, and city officials in Hammond — a college town of roughly 20,000 in southeastern Louisiana — reportedly told his lawyer that complete footage of the incident did not exist.

This week, after a full video of the incident was published by a local TV station, local civil rights activists have renewed their calls for the embattled chief to resign as federal officials have reportedly reopened investigation into the booking room fight.

“This behavior is egregious enough, but a blatant lie accompanied this behavior by your Police Department that the leaked video did not exist,” three local NAACP chapters said in a letter to Bergeron, according to WBRZ. “We have law enforcement officers from all over the state calling us saying this is bad.”

Neither Bergeron nor Hammond Mayor Pete Panepinto (R), who appointed the police chief, immediately responded to a request for comment from The Washington Post.

But in a statement to WBRZ last month, a spokesperson for Hammond city government pointed out that neither local nor federal officials had opted to investigate Bergeron, who has increased community outreach and seen a reduction in crime during his year and a half in the role.

“With all of this going right, why is the video coming up again?” the statement said. “It seems more motivated by a personal vendetta instead of a real interest in the public safety of Hammond.”

Ratliff first ended up in the booking room in December 2017 after Hammond police officers saw his car illegally parked on the sidewalk. When the officers approached his vehicle for a traffic stop and searched inside, they said they found a pill bottle containing Xanax, marijuana and prescription drugs.

The tussle inside the booking room involving nearly a dozen officers proved so alarming to local officials that the city’s police chief alerted federal officials, WBRZ reported. Investigators declined to take any further action against any of the officers involved.

“The attorney directed them to bring it up to the FBI. They investigated. They came back with nothing,” Panepinto said at a Hammond City Council meeting Monday, according to the TV station.

Only one policeman who had been present in the booking room, Thomas Mushinsky, was disciplined, receiving a 60-day suspension and additional training, WBRZ reported. As he fought that order, Mushinsky commissioned a private report from a use-of-force consultancy in Texas, which called the tactics used by Bergeron “excessive and borderline criminal.”

(A spokesperson for the city of Hammond told WBRZ that city officials never saw that report, as it was presented directly to a local civil service board reviewing Mushinsky’s appeal.)

Months later, when the police chief slot opened up for the third time in four years, Panepinto offered up Bergeron before the city council as his only nominee for the job.

Speaking to the Hammond City Council in March 2019, the mayor said Bergeron had stuck with the department for nearly two decades, proving qualities like innovation and leadership, the Advocate reported.

Some city residents expressed concerns about his history, prompting two public meetings over his possible appointment.

As a lower-ranking police officer, Bergeron was accused in a civil suit of harassing a woman to drop rape charges against one of his fraternity brothers college, according to the newspaper, before the woman killed herself two months later. (Bergeron said he “didn’t have anything to do with it,” and the suit was later settled.)

In addition, a shortened, 30-second clip of the incident involving Ratliff had also been circulating around social media, and some residents who viewed it at the public meeting said they were “disturbed.”

But the council voted Bergeron in anyway, 4-1.

“There’s the usual armchair quarterbacks or people not in policing who assume they may know about what policing entails,” Panepinto said at the time, according to the Advocate. “When you’re involved and an active officer, you’re in positions where people may question what you see and if you see the full video, the gentleman came out of his cuff and across the desk.”

After the vote, council member Devon Wells said that most everyone in town had seen the 30-second video, which was played for the crowd during at least one of the two meetings.

But “I known this guy from seeing him, from him dealing with me, and from him working around me and being in the community,” Wells said, according to the Advocate, and Bergeron would lead the department well.

Although most of the 13 charges brought against Ratliff were later dropped, he was convicted on a marijuana possession misdemeanor as well as for resisting arrest.

Ravi Shah, an attorney who represented Ratliff, told WBRZ that he had long been trying to get his hands on the full video showing what occurred in the booking room.

When he made a request to the local district attorney, however, the Hammond police department told the DA’s office that the video didn’t exist, Shah said. It is unclear how Shah got the video earlier this summer. He then passed it onto the TV station.

“What shocked me is that they would so blatantly lie and tell another officer of the court that the video did not exist,” Shah said. “It did at one point and clearly still exists now showing what happened to my client.”