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Rebellion In The USA - Protesters Attempt To Arrest Albuquerque Police Chief
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
There is something very, very wrong with the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department, and the citizens have just about had enough. Before I get into the heart of this story, I need to provide you with a little background. The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) is well known for its outrageous and inappropriate use of violence. So much so that it has been under investigation by the Department of Justice, which wrote a letter to the Mayor of Albuquerque on April 10, 2014 condemning the police force. Here’s an excerpt from the letter:
Based on our investigation, we have reasonable cause to believe that APD engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Section 14141. Our investigation included a comprehensive review of APD’s operations and the City’s oversight systems. We have determined that structural and systemic deficiencies—including insufficient oversight, inadequate training, and ineffective policies— contribute to the use of unreasonable force. At the conclusion of this letter, we outline the remedial measures that we believe are necessary to ensure that force is used in accordance with the Constitution. In some instances, these recommendations build on measures and initiatives that are already underway within the department.
Just prior to the release of the letter, APD officers shot in the back and killed a homeless man named James M. Boyd, who was camping in the Albuquerque foothills. More recently (and after the DOJ’s letter was sent), 50-year-old Air Force veteran Armand Martin was killed outside of his home by a SWAT team in a standoff with police. It seems the APD is incapable of solving any sort of dispute without a citizen ending up dead.
It makes you wonder what is up with law enforcement in New Mexico in general. If you recall, earlier this year I highlighted a horrific incident in Deming, New Mexico in my post: How a Routine Traffic Stop in New Mexico Turned into a Nightmare of Torture for David Eckert.
So back to Albuquerque. The people are rightfully very upset, which led to a city council meeting being taken over on May 5th protesters. This display of civil disobedience even led to an attempt to serve Police Chief Gorden Eden with an citizen’s arrest warrant. As a result of the protest, the city council moved to prevent protests at their latest meeting, which may lead to free speech related lawsuits. You have to watch the following video:
People have just about had enough, and civil disobedience will only grow greater in the months and years ahead. This is what happens when a nation morphs into a deranged, oligarchic police state. This is also why the Bundy Ranch standoff was such a huge deal, as I noted in one of my most popular posts of 2014: Why the Standoff at the Bundy Ranch is a Very Big Deal.
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Since when did the Dept of Justice give a shit about any of the amendments, let alone the 4th. The current Dept of Justice is more like a counsel for the defense of organized crime, than it is, interested in justice.
Well they didn't care about Turbo Timmy commiting tax fraud...
DOJ only gives a shit when they're making somebody else follow the constitution. In this case, APD is not under the DOJ. Not that I trust the DOJ to fix things, but the kind of civil unrest APD could potentially bring about could be a very good motivator.
team up the bottom of the gene pool with a fist full of steroids...
An eye for an eye...bitches
It's about time people started rising up and throwing these assholes out. This needs to be done largely in DC though and the rest will follow.
People need to find legal loopholes that empowers them to eject people out of office or out of jobs. That citizens arrest idea was a decent try. What legal recourse can the citizens take to fire the police chief?
Boiled rope and a lamp post.
Tar and feathers.
The stocks.
Dunking stool.
Someone here an ZH recently said something about Russian bureaucrats and abruptly introducing their testicles to two strategically placed bricks.
The possibilities are endless.....
How long should you boil the rope?
I think it comes pre-boiled.
Meh. If you have college aged kids, tell them to learn cryptography.
"So much so that it has been under investigation by the Department of Justice, which wrote a letter to the Mayor of Albuquerque on April 10, 2014 condemning the police force."
This would be the same DOJ who's head (Holder) is under contempt charges for running guns into Mexico? The same DOJ that refused to prosecute voter intimidation in Philly? The same DOJ that gave false information to a judge to procure a warrant to search/investigate a journalist?
The same DOJ who NO DOUBT ABOUT IT will launch a full blown investigation of the IRS for discrimination of TP?
Yeah...pot meet kettle.
The same DoJ that will not investigate VA waiting list deaths.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
well the doj is so busy trying to manufacture a case against zimmerman. who has time for the rest of this inconsequential fluff.
Holder has done all of the above and more. If he is ever brought to justice, and that's a big if, it will be a badly needed sign that we've finally had enough. I'll let others figure the over/under on that happening but it needs to happen.
Yes, that would be the same Department of "Justice".
You can tell that the DO"J" considers this thing with the Albuquerque police a serious matter. They wrote a letter to the mayor. It just doesn't get any more important than that.
Well, I dunno. Did Holder draw a red line? Now that is some serious shit.
I find it interesting that DOJ cares about the 4th Amendment in this case, but ignores it whenever they so choose. The takeaway is the 4th applies only to high-profile cases to keep the sheep happy and the shearing going.
"Prosecutorial discretion" is a very significant reason for the lack of justice in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tp_gjxWw9c
No good deed shall go unpunished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SvmEcff0t8
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The North Hollywood Shootout
Winnenden School Shooting
The Norco Bank Robbery
Everett Massacre
The Blair House Shootout
Lokhandwala Complex Shootout
The FBI Miami Shootout
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Austin Tower Sniper
Brink's Robbery
The Battle of Barrington
Shootout at Wilson Ranch
The Newhall Shootout
New Jersey Turnpike Shootout
The Marin County Courthouse Shootout
The Battle of Stone Corral
The MOVE Shootout
The Nuevo Laredo Shootout
The Spiritwood Incident
The Aramoana Massacre
Manila Hostage Crisis
Acacia Hills Shootout
Bonnot Gang
Mayerthorpe Incident
I decided o steer clear of New Mexico when I heard the story of the cops there torturing that guy for walking funny. Since I live in Texas, going any further west than El Paso would be silly anyway because it's Bizarro World beyond that.
I'll just stay here, remember tha Alamo, and pray Rick Perry tries again....
PS: I'm sure this event will be the news on the MSM tomorrow. Bring on that drunken cunt Dianne Sawyer.
Rick Perry is a fucking establishment clown. Blame yourself for perpetuating this shit by supporting him.
Yeah, I guess all the shitheads on ther San Antonio PD who beat college girls for jaywalking are just APD cops on vacation, right?
Or the Texas SHP guys who perform cavity searches in broad dayligth on the side of the road...who don't use gloves. Texas ain't clean, and it still kills more people than any other state. Fuck Texas.
Well said. Don't mess with Texas. Fuck Texas.
Most envious people say much the same. How's that state income tax working out for you?
I live in Florida you vacuous idiot. No state income tax. It's not working out so well here, but then again that's because state income tax has jack shit to do with the overall economy.
Well Asswipe, we have something in common, but I don't have any stupid ugly comments to make about your state. I rather quite like it. Sorry my telepathy isn't working tonight, so thanks for saying "Florida".
We have in common that we both think you are an idiot. You just won't admit it to yourself. But you know it. I can sense that with my telepathy.
Uh, "I rather quite like it?" What are you, a fucking English butler or something?
I "rather quite like" a handjob right about now.
You are defending some made up geopolitical area that you happen to inhabit. How silly.
Texas is even more fuckin' commie than Washington state, if that's even possible. No state income tax here, either.
Half the people in Washington are Canadian sympathizers, though.
Now there's a dangerous lot.
Florida aint that nice Rand eater.
Cite your source please.
Here's one from a DFW TV station Mr. Troll:
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Trooper-to-Be-Terminated-Roadside-Cavit...
There's hundreds to choose from but you already know that, right?
Thanks Mr. Mintz, glad you were able to cite a source. It looks like we have bad actors too.
Also, the name's Cherry.
Cops are never charged of course, despite the crime being on tape.
family and friends should-citizens arrest complete with cavity searches charge them with RAPE and after a fair trial of course, drop them to their knees and put a ball in the back of their heads-. ----just sayin
Gotta love the phony 'war on drugs'.
We put murderers on the fast track to the needle boy, and we're free enough here to handle a killer on an as-needed basis, if the need should ever occur....
You must be from New York...
Why are you posting on an article about the police state when you obviously support it? Oh, right.
You're all hat and no cattle son. You are probably from Connecticut.
mooooooooo
"all hat and no cattle"
Sounds like Cliven Bundy.
so much for trying to inject a little humor.
LTER,
Asswipe, his only failing was to forget the several governmet agencies he would have eliminated from our lives during a presidential debate. His governing has made Texas economy more prosperous than many countries, much less other states. I haven't heard of any cops fingerbanging those in custody around here, though one cop in Hearne that killed an elderly colored woman was promptly fired. When they go bad, we handle them.
I don't blame myself, Rick or you for New Mexico badge wearers for their dereliction of their sworn duties.
The propaganda works with you, doesn't it. He "forgot" the agencies because he's an empty shell reading off a script. Texas is prosperous because oil is hovering around $100/barrel.
Oklahoma is booming too. Once they've fracked the shit out of it it will revert back to what it was. But with earthquakes.
If I as a small business owner started creating earthquakes in my area as a consequence of me making a few bucks, I would be hauled off and sent to camp. Funny how the rules are different for the guys who -- write and enforce the rules. Just as an aside, those same guys are funding the counter-argument to global warming. Just a coincidence, though.
Maybe, but the money isn't sticking around very long. A lot of the oil field guys are from out of state. It's a plunder operation.
Hey Buster,
I was in an Air Band in the 80's called "Buster Hymen and the Penetrators"
I feel old somtimes
Police are, by nature, bad. If you were "handling them" they wouldn't still exist.
Bizarro world? From a state that won't even allow open carry of pistols. Now that's bizarre.
Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore in Texas
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rick-perry-the-best-little-who...
I always love Taibbi's spin on the white collar criminals: "McConnell is the ultimate D.C. insider, the kind of Republican even Republicans should wonder about, a man who ranks among the top 10 senators when it comes to loading up on pork spending. With his needle nose, pursed lips and prim reading glasses, he's a proud wearer of the "I'm an intellectual, but I'm also a narrow-minded prick" look made famous by George Will; politically his great passion is whoring for Wall Street, his most recent triumph coming when he convinced Republican voters that a proposed $50 billion fund to be collected from big banks was actually a bailout of those same banks."
Gummint: ctrl-alt-del
It's wonderful to see some have finally have had enough. I had really given up on this country. Thanks to El Vaquero for bringing this story up earlier so I could watch this unfold.
Miffed;-)
Beat me to it Miffed. El Vaquero has been providing local coverage of this for months. Hope to see him check in soon with his take.
It was just a protest where they shut down the city council meeting. A lot of people think it was silly, but some of the people who were there had relatives who were killed by APD, so silly or not, there is a lot of emotion.
The next meeting was not unruly, though a few people were escorted out and banned from attending meetings for 90 days. They signed up to give their 2 minute public input talk, and turned their backs on the council for the 2 minutes. One of them was the father of Alan Gomez, who was shot in the back because he dared to turn around to walk back into the house while holding a SPOON. He put a picture of his son up on the projector, said something about his sun, told the council "You're not worth addressing," then turned his back and remained silent. IMO, that sends a much more powerful message than taking over the council chambers. Also, one of the councilors, Ray Garduno, did apologize to one of the relatives of one of APD's victims. I'm not big on Ray's politics, but his family and mine go way back, and he's a good person. I went to elementary school with his son, and he and my grandfather were friends.
Since March 16, APD has killed 4 people:
You all know what happened with Boyd. Chief Eden has not been very straight forward with Redwine or Hawkes. APD officers are required to have lapel cameras recording when in situations like those that led to the two shootings. No video has been released that clearly shows Redwine when he was shot, we just have a grainy cell phone video from across the street, and other videos are from officers that don't have a direct view of Redwine. As for Hawkes, the officer, Jeremy Dear, claims that he turned his camera on, but there is no footage, so APD sent the camera back to Taser to have it checked out. Translation: The cocksucker lied about turning his lapel camera on, which is complete bullshit, because the Taser cameras that they have can cover an entire shift. He also says that she pulled a gun on him, and I believe that there is a good chance that it is a drop gun. APD has been caught doing that in the past, and the chief is being deceptive. It smells like a cover up. In short, the only shooting out of the four that sounds like it was probably justified was of Armand Martin, but people are so pissed off about all of the other shootings since 2010 that it is not going to matter if one was justified. People will still be pissed off about it.
And once the all clear is given on the cops with the Redwine and Hawkes shootings, I'm seriously contemplating sending an Inspection of Public Records Act request for the video of other cops who were on the scene at the time. If they come out and say there is no video, it looks really bad, and if they provide the video, we get to see if I am right about the cover up.
I'm assuming the same Garduno family who owns the Garduno's chain which filed for bankruptcy?
Nope, and that Garduno is a prick.
You won't be getting any video.
I actually expect to only get useless video. Any cop who personally captured the deceased at the moment of the shooting will have misteriously forgotten to turn their camera on. Or a malfunction will be claimed. Or something. People here are to the point where a lot of them will believe that there are drop guns.
I have been here since mid 2003 (Albuquerque) and it was obvious this was going on then....came here from Rochester NY and I thought that was bad....the other thing I see here in excess is child abuse....and it's not just the fathers and boy friends...it's the mothers to an unusual degree.....strange place NM.
I read the other day the Albuquque police have murdered 10 people in like the last 15 months. I watched the vid of the poor camping dude. He was pretty harmless and they just flat executed him for nothing really.
Even in the dinky town i live it it is gotten so bad I don't even go to town unless I absolutely have to. Pop. 12000 people and one street of businesses. I count 7-9 nine police or hypos on the 4 miles thru town. All entrances covered, 3 hiways come in and a small bypass being patroled 24-7. I have been pulled over 5 times in the last 2 years and ticketed for no seat belt(had it on) or rolling thru a stop sign. Never had a ticket in 20 years prior and drive the same. They will have 4 squad cars in full gear surrounding a 14teenage girl for speeding or something. Now they are bitching about the sales tax reciepts are down because everyone is harrassed or scared to go there.
The only thing these assholes understand is take away the tax money. but why does a small rural town have 7 cops on duty and 3 hiway patrols all the time for getting an occasional kitten ot of a tree. Its a queit place except when they show up. And you can't even ask them a simple question without them blowing up in a rage. What are they scared off?
The good news is, when it all comes crashing down on them, the enemy will be simple to spot and locate.
The dinky little local paper list all the court cases for the county for the month. It usually runs about 350 cases county wide. DUI, petty theft small change stuff. I guarantee between Sheriffs dept, Hypatrol, local police forces, National forest police, TSA, gamewardens, tribal police and alphabet soup agencies law inforcement and security we have a greater number of cops than the number of crimes being committed here. How much protection do we need? I think the facade is dropping pretty quickly on this whole shitshow.
When I visit the courthouse, by far the largest number of cases are for things like child support enforcement, contempt of court, etc. They use cops on civil cases now. About 18 months ago, I took the dog out into the woods for his morning break when a cop came from the parking lot on the opposite side through the woods, addressed me by name wanting to talk to me about child support (my kids are over 18, and are none of their business). I refused and back in the house and locked the door in his face. The guy was angry, he rattled the knob for a couple minutes. Asshole. But they had no warrant, so they could go fuck themselves. After that I noticed, 5 minutes every hour they would park across the woods and spy on my house waiting for me to come out. After a few months of ducking them, they went undercover. One night I took out the trash and two "deputies" (goons) get out of an unmarked car with guns drawn. They took me into custody and claimed I had been served papers and failed to appear for a CIVIL CASE. After that I was, in fact, served by force handcuffed and chained to a chair.
Now the funny part is, I went to a "bond hearing", still in shackles and chains and was told by a Judge I had no criminal record. There I am at a "bond hearing", having been taken into illegal custody now 5 times by these "servants" (4 times directly out of a courtroom after telling them to nicely pound sand, I ain't your boy), having spent over 40 days and nights in jail for basically contempt, and refusal to obey, I have no criminal record?!?!? I was released later that day.
I will not submit. They've probably spent 10 grand on me and gotten exactly one payment of 1,000 dollars in return. If enough guys do like I do, the system will collapse. It is a matter of time.
And they don't appear to keep records on people they jail on "civil" issues. To hide their tracks I assume.
So the cops have nothing better to do, which is another reason you see the swarming when something does happen. They are dangerous clowns with guns. The police, yesterday's friend, are todays' terrorist.
Re: Swarming Last year, around 100 yards from my home, there was a commotion one evening. So I wandered over to see what was going down. There were *eight* squad cars on the scene to take in a drunk driver.
The driver was from south of the border. I'd bet that the guy is among those recently released by Ogolfer:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/12/feds-released-hundreds-i...
In California I lived in a small town of 3000 which had 20 cops. 20!!! 20 cops to protect 3000 people that were primarily families.
I've often thought mandatory drug testing would take care of a lot of this...
Ditto for my likewise small rural town. You will pass two or three patro cars every time you go into town. Population, less then 12,000. High school football game will have a dozen uniforms present. We comment on it all the time.
The worst job to take on right now, unless you are a sociopath, is one in law enforcement.
I don't trust my local police, and would think thrice before calling them for anything.
It's a shame, but they are being turned into tools of the kleptoligarchy.
Stormtroopers for the banksters.
Unless you believe in unicorns, don't call or talk to the gun and badge thugs, police.
http://www.policestateusa.com
I plan to follow the three S plan in the event I ever need it. Shoot, shovel, shut up. If I call 911, it's likely they'll show up in a US Army surplus tank, drive through the wall of my house, shoot my dog with a bazooka, handcuff my grandmother to the stairs, and then proceed to kick the shit out of my unresisting body while shouting "Stop resisting!"
Back in the 1990s I live in a shithole called Stockton, CA. One night a drunk driving was running from the police, about 40 miles an hour, missed the turn at my intersection and ran his car into a tree on the neighbors lot. He was hurt. Three squad cars showed up and while this guy was screaming his head off about his broken leg the LEOs beat the shit out him. They refused to call an ambulance and really hurt the guy pretty bad and then put him one of cars and went away.
Please do not get me wrong this driver was an idiot and should never been driving in residential area under that situation but he should have at least gotten medical attention.
I called the Stockton Police Department and wanted to discuss what had happened. The Super Cop told me it was none of my fucking business and I needed to just forget about it. I thought that was the end of until one day a neighbor had his car broken into and I flagged down a cop who just happend to be passing by and discovered while speaking with him that my address had been flagged as "non cooperative" and he did not want to talk with me. I asked him why and he just smiled and then told my neighbor there was nothing he could do about his car and then drove off.
True story. Fuck Stockon CA LEOs.
Law enforcement is the fallback plan for sociopaths who aren't smart enough to become Banksters.
Not included in that piece was the death of Mary Hawkes. 19 year old woman shot in the morning after SWAT surronded her trailer for an alleged truck theft. Much more disturbing after the Policeman Dear who shot her is the highest paid city worker in Bernalillo County with a shady past.
http://www.abqjournal.com/388363/news/apd-chief-provides-new-details-abo...
I really do think that little .32 was a drop gun. Eden wouldn't be so deceptive if he had the evidence to show that the shooting was justified.
Rumor has it she was prostituting for the SE division and was pregnant at the time. I beleive you are correct about the drop gun. It was a 32 caliber.
Awesome!
Dear gun and badge thugs,
You will be held accountable for all oath and Article 3, Section 3 violations.
Give us back our our Meta Data
No Meta Data. Pepsi.
No pepsi, coke!
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger.
Sorry, General Hayden here, but unfortunaltley you routinly call your auntie Mintie, who called for pizza once from Dantes down the street from her. Dantes is owned by Aahil Mu?ammad who routinely calls his brother Afnan in Pakistan. Afnan buys fruit from a stall that also sells fruit to a guy that may just be connected to Al Q(CIA)da and Kevin Bacon. So unfortunately the metadata is “evidence.”
New Mexico, "The Land of Enchantment".
As many locals would say, the land of entrapment.
Yes, and you will end up moving back. It happens to everybody who has lived here.
Thanks cowboy but don't count on it. I'm a water lover and beach boy by nature. Thanks for the honor of the comment though.
a.k.a Religion. no different that the rest ofthe fucking USSA, or the entire fucking planet.
Society breaks down when people no longer believe in the law or police.
Well, what's to believe in? I expect that the police departments have been infiltrated by criiminal organizations here as in England and much of the world. Now that they have a no-governance government to exonerate their every crime (because they have been infiltrated, too), better stay under the radar unless you're out for some terminal joy.
Oh, well!
Lots of countries have corrupt as hell cops and don't believe they will help them. Italy is a great example.
Violent, dangerous cops are another matter entirely.
Society breaks down when people no longer believe in the law or police.
Society is a fiction conjured to control and fleece beta males, the law is a cudgel to brain and subdue the powerless and unconnected, and the police are the slavering enforcers of of the Elites.
No more religoin of The State?
When do we get started?
A new society can be formed when all people are police & refuse to have anyone for leaders. From there I think law could be much more stable but the question is: are people evolved enough to do this or just monkeys with less hair than common primates?
Obama on Mass Government Surveillance, Then and Now | United States of Secrets | FRONTLINE | PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/un... via @frontlinepbs
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants to disarm you.
https://thezog.wordpress.com/who-is-behind-gun-control/
Anyone who is trying to disarm you is trying to kill you.
Find out about the APD and ask yourself: do you want to be disarmed?
That sanctimonious horse-faced cunt attempting to disarm me is the least of my worries.
Wrong. Her and her brethrens' influence in your life is unseen, but very, very important. Get it straight. The thug cops are a symptom.
Coming to a city near you...count on it. The sheep keep quiet until the psychopaths pick their pockets or they get shafted by the man.
Time to leave the USA or overthrow the overlords, quickly.
If you wait too long any attempt to overthrow them will be met with nerve gas & other extreme nonsense that firearms will be powerless to stop.
Police Officers have two choices facing them as this thing spirals out of control:
Neither option is good, and the second is very difficult and unlikely to happen. Were I an officer, I would find another career. But then again - I would never be an officer in the first place.
#2 has been the norm for policing for decades.
When you deconstruct the current situation, it's generally not military hires and generally not long-term cops (obviously there are bad eggs, but just that.) Virtually all of the "problems" are coming from relatively new hires -- and what's different about them? They're getting training in the 2000s, not in the 1950s-1990s. Shooting first and going home at night, the people they are patrolling are the enemy and that they're in immediate danger daily gets drilled into their head endlessly. Meanwhile tree trimmers have a higher occupational death rate, the military hires are going WTF and privately commenting they can do things in the US they could never do in Iraq and find it frightening, and the old timers are disgusted by the thugs hired to replace them upon retirement.
Take a guess how funding changed (and who it comes from) and who started setting training curriculums for the cops in the past 10 years and it'll all make sense.
I'll take a wild guess: da Feds.
Good guess, though more specifically the same people who brought you fusion centers, full body scanners, and pretty much any other unconstitutional enforcement: DHS.
That is because DHS is the new American Gestapo.
#personofinterest
Holy shit!
These mass killings in Albuquerque have never been solved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mesa_murders
Lorenzo Montoya lived less than two miles from the burial site; in 2006 there were reportedly tire tracks leading from his trailer to the site.[4] In December 2006, Montoya strangled a teenage prostitute at his trailer; he was shot to death by the prostitute's boyfriend.[4][15]
The Land of Enchantment
Next meeting call in back up and arrest everyone for interfering with governmental administration, resisting arrest and assault on a police officer, that will put those protesters away for a few years and then if the civilian insubordination continues declare martial law and ring the city with barbed wire. Make an example of Al fast before the whole damn country starts demanding their civil rights back.
Look, we have another statist troll.
Here. Have another doughnut.
I think he just forgot the /sarc tag.
Or...flashmobs descending upon lone police officers and beating the crap out of them. They can't cover everyone.
The crosses are beginnng to roll.
New Mexico is a shithole. Spent too many years of my life there.
Amen
It's time for police across America to be disarmed. I'm disgusted with all the stories I've read of innocent people being killed by police. It needs to end NOW.
I have my own gun and am fully capable of defending myself.
The chief was fleeing arrest.
So the Feds are okay when they crack down on those tyrannical New Mexico police, even though, as we're seeing in the Ukraine and as we saw throughout the Great Depression, the police are more likely to side with their neighbors than they are with TPTB. I'll bet Albequerque can't hold a candle to Portland, OR. "Don't choke 'em, smoke 'em."
Civil Unrest.......Hilarious on a lot of levels.
Get it on citizens :)
It's the weather, must be the weather! Yellen would agree!
Americans, with few exceptions, aren't going to do shit.
Doesn't take many for a full scale revolt to break out. Same as it ever was.
Start by giving each and every member of the department a psych evaluation designed to test the level of empathy and sadism in each individual. Next evaluate the social dynamics: is there a adolecent goading on toward outrageous behavior. Next determine whether some form of doping is occurring, specifically, testosterone type substances. Is it rotten from the head down? Replace, entirely, the leadership. Verify there is no environmental pollution effecting mental clarity, possibly emf, nearby microwave tower? If insoluable or no data is gained, replace the entire police department, everyone, entirely.
Fool: they already get that psych test. Those who show too much empathy are told they aren't fit to be police officers.
How the hell do you think they systematically get so many bad cops in?
Fuck me, if I lived that place I wouldn't step outside without front and back hi def cams streaming to the cloud. Catch the fuckers harassing you and sue them too the moon.
They have been sued to the moon, and it doesn't work. Albuquerque has paid out tens of millions over the past few years. I guess I could go out open carrying, get one of them to merely even detain me, and then sue the cop individually. The chief justice in my district has ruled that even detaining a person when the only reason is that person is lawfully carrying a firearm makes the cop's qualified immunity evaporate. Part of the problem is that people normally go after the city, and the cops never suffer any personal consequences.
It's a real bitch filing a lawsuit if you are dead.
You mean, prove to the world you were streaming, therefore wiretapping, therefore ensuring a 20 year prison sentence for yourself?
No, it's not right, yes you should record & stream it, but no, it won't solve your problems. You won't be suing anyone.
They'll throw your ass in prison where as a slave you can help build patriot missiles for free & more police riot-helmets to get your neighbors.
The US has some of the most aggresive and violent police in the world.
Go to Europe for example; they're totally different there.
It's not just the police that are the problem though.
It's the corrupt and oppressive system that they uphold.
Two million people are in US prisons and jails, many for BULLSHIT crimes like DWI/DUI and simple drug possession.
And don't forget the number of people on "probation" (80% of which go to prison anyway) who are being financially drained through thousands of dollars in fines and fees, which they often times can't afford.
The entire US Criminal "Jusitice" System has morphed from keeping law and order, to enslaving and stealing as much money as possible from the very citizens it's supposed to be protecting
But it's the best system that we have, right? What a fuckin' joke!
Repeal the war on drugs, and stop throwing people in prison for drinking and driving, THEN we'll have the best system.
>>>stop throwing people in prison for drinking and driving
I've certainly enjoyed a cold can of suds while driving (in Texas, of course, when such was legal).
But people who are caught, more than once, driving while impaired need to be hammered with some sort of serious fucking consequences. Behind bars, for a start.
Throwing people in jail for all the BS stuff will end immediately when the federal funding dries up. This is all coming from the feds to the states. And yes, there is significant federal funding for drunk driving.
But people who are caught, more than once, driving while impaired need to be hammered with some sort of serious fucking consequences. Behind bars, for a start.
Jail hasn't stopped people driving drunk and does not work for alcoholics. Driverless cars are the ultimate solution.
"Driverless cars are the ultimate solution."
or taxis.
Horses, donkeys, or camels.
Riding a horse drunk will probably get one arrested somewhere in the US.
Grayson Kentucky. Horse wasn't even on the road but on grass. Bicycle can get you dui also.
The reason why there are so many drunk drivers is you have to drive to the store to get beer. If they would just plumb it in like water all those problems would evaporate. :D
Or .... You might get the Driver Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE
I'm sure a taxi is cheaper than a driverless car. Then again, there's bus, train or walking. Maybe a bike, good exercise.
While I agree our prison system is bad, the police in Europe are scary and have been for a long time. I lived there in the early 80's and the gendarmes walked around with submachine guns. You always had to carry your identity papers with you. Recently was in Paris and the cops look like the military (or maybe it was the military) Can't tell the difference anymore.
One time in Ansbach, Germany, in 1988 I was drunk and went behind a big trash can to take a piss and lit a cigarette. When I came out there was a Polizi (sp) who asked me to stop. He then ask in very good English if he could look inside the pack of Marlboros which were in my shirt pocket. I handed them to him, he looked through the smokes, smiled and said " no hash". I agreed, " no hash". He then thanked me and wished me well. I went to another bar and had a beer. BTW he had an Uzi slung across his shoulder.
That would never happen in the USA.