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Police Officer Caught On Tape Discussing "Ways To Kill A Black Man And Cover It Up"
Earlier this week we reported a stunning statistic: in July, the US police had killed 118 people mostly through gunfire, the highest number of police "induced" fatalities in 2015, and on pace for a record 1150 deaths for all of 2015.
To be sure, most of these deaths took place in the "ordinary course" of police business, primarily in self-defense. However, two things are troubling:
- first is that even after a surge in police violence and scandals involving on tape killings of innocent people, the US still has no comprehensive record of the number of people killed by law enforcement, which is why the Guardian tasked itself with its The Counted initiative;
- second, that on numerous cases, the killings took place in "less than ordinary course", usually involving the police officer making a rash judgment that cost the victim their life, and in many cases shooting without a clear cause.
But the worst example of what is increasingly, and broadly, referred to as "police brutality", are cases such as that of Alexander City officer Troy Middlebrooks, was, as NBC reports, was "caught on a secret recording discussing ways to kill a black man and cover it up" by planting bogus evidence.
Alexander City police officer Troy Middlebrooks. The secret recording of his comments was played to police chiefs and the mayor. Photograph: Alabama state bureau of investigation
The recording, which was first reported by the Guardian and subsequently by NBC News, captures Middlebrooks during a May 2013 visit to a home where the suspect, Vincent Bias, was visiting relatives. At one point, the officer pulls Bias' brother-in-law - who is white - aside and tells him he doesn't trust Bias. Middlebrooks had arrested Bias on drug charges weeks earlier, and was clearly frustrated that he had made bail.
Middlebrooks tells Bias' brother-in-law, that if he were the suspect's relative, he would "fucking kill that motherfucker" and "before the police got here I would put marks all over my shit to make it look like he was trying to fucking kill me. I god damn guarantee. What it would look like? Self-fucking defense. Fuck that piece of shit. I’m a lot different from a lot of these other folks. I’ll fucking tell you what’s on my fucking mind.”
At another point, Middlebrooks tells the brother-in-law that Bias "needs a goddamn bullet."
And since this is America, and since the entire episode was recorded, a month after that incident, Bias' lawyers told the city they intended to sue the city of 14,875 people for $600,000. They drafted a lawsuit that accused Alexander City police of harassing him, and included the contention that Middlebrooks also called Bias the N-word. Bias' legal notice was passed to the city's insurance company, which arranged a settlement of far smaller amount: $35,000, according to Alexander City's attorney, Larkin Radney.
With that agreement, Bias never sued and the incident was quietly settled out of court and ended with the officer keeping his job, according to legal documents and interviews with lawyers and officials involved in the case.
Middlebrooks, meanwhile, remains on the job. Chief Robinson, who is black, told the Guardian that Middlebrooks was disciplined, but he declined the paper's request for details.
Robinson defended Middlebrooks, saying, "He was just talking. He didn't really mean that."
The chief also told the paper that he personally disagreed with the city's decision to settle with Bias. "It's a whole lot different if you hear both sides," Robinson said. It also makes itt seem that the Chief was happy to admit guilt and settle for the smallest possible fine.
On the other hand, why did Bias rush to accept the judgment if he too thought he had a case? "Bias, 49, told NBC News that he took the money in hopes of moving away from Alexander City, where he claims he was unfairly targeted by police, in part because of his race." Well, sure, but he wouldn't have the money if he hadn't been unfairly targeted.
Then it got even more surreal: Bias said that after the recording surfaced, and he threatened a lawsuit, the police added to the drug charges against him until he felt he had no choice but to plead guilty. "They forced my hand," he said. Bias said he served 14 months in a county jail, and was released two months ago.
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Within months of the recording, Middlebrooks was the first officer to respond to a controversial fatal shooting by a colleague of an unarmed black man in the city. He was closely involved in handling the scene and gave a key account of what happened to state investigators. His fellow officer was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing and both men continue to police the city of about 15,000 people about 55 miles north-east of Montgomery.
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The biggest travesty in this episode is not the subsequent courtroom screw up, and who did what or why, but the fact that a cop, whether he meant it or not, made it very clear and and on the leaked record, that among the various other standard operating procedures in a policeman's arsenal, is to kill a suspect while fabricating evidence to stage an episode of self-defense, in this case with a racial bias. Whether he did mean it or not is irrelevant because this is precisely the ammunition the Louis Farrakhans of the world need when in their violent fire and brimstone sermons, they call on those present to "rise up and kill those who kill us", i.e., white people.
Because they can simply claim this is in retaliation to what "that guy" did, or said. And that is how race wars really start: not with one explicit catalyst, but with countless small but very meaningful escalations, until finally the shooting starts for real.
The Middlebrooks recording is below
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Judge Dredd
Knew you'd say that.
Are you Psychic then or Psychotic? Always get those 2 confused </sarc>, me I am Psychotic, I have learned to embrace my Psychosis all 3 of them.
The best thing one can wish to a sociopathic individual such as this police "officer" is for one of his own children to fall in love with and marry a black person.
All these cases of police brutality only happen when a camera is present. The Camera id obviously the problem and must be banned before it causes further harm.
I'm sure there's quite a few tapes around of black men talking about how to kill police officers. NWA's got some good ones.
no problem, whatever you want; you're a cop
Turns out, video just always makes them look corrupt.
http://boingboing.net/2015/08/05/cops-who-stole-and-gobbled-wee.html
That's why we should ban all videos. The truth is dangerous -at least for the elites.
If any of you think justice can work without cops routinely forging evidence, you're delusional. Real world's a bitch. To pay for the soft, feel-good laws cops have to do what they gotta do to clean the streets.
Of course, forced to break the law to do their job of upholding the law, cops tend to lose sight of common sense and often end up harassing who doesn't deserve it too...
Pre-crime detection system successful.
Watermelon and/or fried chicken laced with antifreeze?
Confederate flags suspended over 3 feet of standing water?
Picture of a white woman over a lion cage. Gets em every time.
Trampoline lessons with a velcro ceiling?
White people also conspire to kill white people. Ever hear of this guy named Hitler?
What's the point here?
Maybe to give Farrakhan's followers a push.
Miffed
Show me documentation of a German policy of extermination or one shred of physical evidence that a single person was gassed.
I used to believe all the WW2 propaganda also, until seeing the truth about 9/11 woke me up. Take a look at 10 facts I put together about the holocaust, you might be surprised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5QlWJUk4-o
Down arrow away dummies.
I'm sure they just made it illegal to question the WW2 narrative in 17 countries for no reason... Not like our masters would lie about something huge for profit.
Now shuffle on down to the cinemas for $10 popcorn and you weekley dose of zio dogma.
Never fear the truth, no matter how ugly. Always reject lies. Okay, so we have "six million holocaust victims". Modern crematoria take 1.5 hours to turn a body to "ash". So we have 9,000,000 hours (plus a gigantic amount of energy) divided by 365 = 24,658 years. "But not all of them were gassed". Okay, say 1% were...............
Make that 9,000,000 divided by 24 = 375,000 divided by 365 = 1,027 years. So it would take 10.3 years to gas 1% of the "6,000,000" with MODERN crematoria.
I think the Nazis had a secret pact with alien abductors who exchanged war technology for Jews -Some aliens love the taste of people -even Jews. That explains why there is no trace of the 6 million bodies.
LMAO. I bet you could pitch that idea to the history channel and they would run with it.
If you burn one body it takes 90 minutes, if you throw 50 in at the same time it still takes 90 minutes.
So you deny the Holocaust has happened, and therefore may be classified as a bona fide White Supremacy nutcase. The lowest of the low, the scum of this Earth.
In my country, Holocaust denial is considered a criminal offense that carries with it stiff prison sentences.
nazis imprisoning nazis. great country
Please seek the attention of an experiened psychiatrist.
who would even consider it a crime to have a thought that was not approved by authority?? dictators, tyrants, all want approved thought and speech..eirik has no idea how brain washed he she it is..or how evil.. eirik lives in a world of approved diversity..fucking progessive fascist.
"In my country, Holocaust denial is considered a criminal offense that carries with it stiff prison sentences."
So your brilliant reasoning equates gas chamber execution to cremation. If your going to use your fearless leader's rhetoric, how about learning to think a little you fucking cretin.
Barnes never said anything about the holocaust not happening but they disappeared him anyway.
"What's the point here?"
Ad revenue.
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When you go shopping I assume you have a difficult time identifying apples from oranges.
Norway police haven't killed anyone in 10 years!
Fired 2 bullets last year.
Both missed, but hey, those guys don't get much practice.
In Norway cops are unarmed. Wonder if they got in trouble for those 2 rounds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/18/5-countries...
There can't be a police force anywhere in the known universe that doesn't have at least a couple of projectile weapons at their disposal.
I guess they call the cops themselves. Wonder how long it takes to get a response?
Norway probably has one 9mm Sellier and Bellot under glass like in a fire alarm with a tiny hammer. So when they need it they break the glass and shit.
GET THE BULLET!
i really dont see a problem with any of this.
What ???? I thought only the Confederate Flag was running around killing black people !!!!!
Let's also consider the source, NBC News ? Yea right, no agenda there ...
Where are the stories about black people killing whites? I guess it never happens, right NBC?
See: http://newnation.org/
most normal people know that there are bad apples, white and black, all over. gotta live with it.
You should hear the judges talking on the golf course, this is Childs play in comparison
I wanted to upvote you twice.
Once for the comment, and Once for the avatar pic. Well. O.K. Once for the comment and TWICE for the pic.
I saw the avatar and knew, immediately, where the name came from!
You should hear the cops talk at the bowling alley. Allen with clean shirts and cess-pool minds.
If I were the black man in question, I'd move away too.
It is my impression that many cops, DHS people and so on are dreaming of the day when they can just shoot anyone who gets in their way or annoys them. I believe some of them are preparing for this day.
What they don't know is the people are waiting for it too. It'll be an interesting day.
I've heard from local folks that when New Orleans flooded, the cops did just that. The locals who told me that weren't necessarily opposed, mind you. They just felt a little uncomfortable with the concept put in practice.
Some cops go their entire careers without pulling the trigger.
Chances are 100% Troy Middlebrooks will be involved in a fatal police shooting during what's left of his career.
I have personal experience twice of cops "setting up" someone that was too good at being a scumbag to get caught in reality. In one case I was being stalked as a 15 year old. It had been going on a long time, I had driven nails into a board and burried the board under my window to try and get the guy. I did not have a dad present, lived with very weak women. The man was 26, 6ft.-4, and my neighbor. I finally talked to the "right" cop. He made it stop. I get it that the mentality is fueling the fire and the boundaries are shaky. And sometimes, well, it is helpful. That cop never asked me for anything, I never got the chance to thank him. He just took care of it. It stopped cold.
I get it if you don't agree there are times this kind of thing works.
Shades of grey.
best post in the thread.
You can always trust your friendly neighborhood cop to do the right thing in a fascist, police state.
Cops in the land of the free kill at a rate 70 times higher than other first world nations.
Forward.
Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nationshttp://www.globalresearch.ca/police-in-the-us-kill-citizens-at-over-70-t...
and you won't even get close enough to listen in on two or more politicians on a golf course
We file suit in the amount of $65, and some muthafucking ribs!
Paging Louis Farrahikan!... Mr. Farrahikan "riot" requested in FEMA Sector V from your overlords in Washington D.C. ...
Effective immediately!!!.....
Louis Farrahikan should of been a product of Planned Parenthood. See how easy it is to spin around a story?
Many more examples to surface. The more they talk, the more blowback received.
Louis Farrahikan should of been a product of Planned Parenthood
You forgot the current "black & whilte" #44 in the oval office (might as well include 36 - 43) and all the members of Congress after 1963 that made the evolution of COINTELPRO, Patriot Act(s), the NDAA and DHS possible!
I have never condoned violence in any form and I'm not a racist either. Now - that all being said - knowing what we all know about the white cop - black man - and cop on anyone scenario right now in America and how the police have become so militarized - I can't believe anyone is shocked that cops are killed. Everyone gets all weepy eyed and feign horror that someone would turn on a cop and blow his brains out. There's plenty of irony on both sides of this argument.
Even with the recent increase of ire against the police, their job is far safer than cab drivers and garbage men. Law enforcement should be required to exchange their tazers, sidearms uniforms and rifles for slingshots and squirt guns. Their new uniforms should be comprised of pink tutus with sweat pants.
You want your police pension, put on the fucking tutu! So pretty...
DOL and OSHA statistics show being a cop is one of the safest jobs in America -far safer than retail, fishing, manufacturing and farming. Probably because they rarely go after the really dangerous criminals and they shoot to kill on the slightest provocation. Deadly force was sanctioned by the US Supreme Court years ago when they feel threatened , and police forces train people accordingly.
True. And when a cop dies - even if from a heart attack - the family gets benefits out the ass. The Gold Shield provides $100k for college for the kids, and the feds contribute an ungodly amount of taxpayer money. Usually the municipality also has to show some compassion, so they slather on even more funds. Of course, the local media praises the dead hero, and plays out a sob story about how the widow and poor children won't be able to survive without daddy - and oh, by the way, here's the bank info for where to donate...
All for a SAFE job with incredible benefits... I mean, where else can you work and kill people and get off scott free?
The Oval Office?
This guy will get fired -- Farrakhan will get a few million more in donations - for saying the same thing!
who the fuck curses like that. its worse than a bunch of drunk 10 year old boys after leaving sex education for the first time. I couldnt do that if i tried.
I thought you pretty much just shoot them. What else is involved? Cover up? That is what the grand jury is for, idiots. Geeze. Do I have point out the obvious all the damn time? People just complicating matters and all for no good reason.
Exactly. Everyone knows dishonest cops carry an extra knife, gun or envelope of drugs to fuck over anyone who annoys them.
Being a strong supporter to our US Military and Police Departments. This storyline is going nowhere. It's called expression of opinions, free speech.
They want you to to believe that opposite views are hate crime felonies. It doesn't work in the United States of America.
Freedom of Speech wins everytime. If it doesn't, the right to bare arms does. Connect the dots. ;)
Bare arms? You mean short sleeves?
I can get you Out of Here, as long as you didn't kill any body. Anybody white that is..
( Easy Rider )
What I don't understand is why blacks don't start putting bullets in the heads of police officers
Because magoo is a cartoon character who cannot see, because he's half blind.
Mr Magoo Opening Theme - YouTube
They have.
Check out New York and Memphis for examples.
If anyone has revenge its me, fuck a black soundbite leader, youre fake. I had evidence and i still got laughed out of the room, every city type agency was always too late, one by just 24 hours. they are money generators crime is 4th down the list. Thats why i moved.
But a drug dealer who enslaves his own people and ruins whole families. Not just harmless weed or some goofy shrooms, nope its heroin, fuck em, throw him in a pit. King of new york started off with this storyline. Sounds glamorous, but the characters i met have a shelf life of
idiots with delusions 3 years
made a decent money nest .....maybe 10 years
If I made that loot id leave but they never do.
Are cops mostly unintelligent, racist pieces of shit?
Is the pope catholic?
Every human being has a right to self defense, no matter if it's a black man being attacked by a cop or a person being shot at by some western military without committing a prior act of violence themselves.
A lot of Popes are Jewish plants. Lucifer has slipped in quite a few over the centuries. And I'm Catholic. Been an usher at 12 O'Clock mass for the last 25 years. Just telling it like it is.
What a moron - U can get in real trouble for covering up a criminal act. Shooting a black means 3 months of paid administrative leave until the news cyc;e expires.
The typical method for police covering up a murder: Do it in broad daylight in front of many witnesses, then let the prosecutor handle the rest.
If this is true then it is very sick. Good job, zh, on reporting this,
But if the same is said by a nigger rapper, the sorry whites in the audience all swoon in adoration.
The only thing that matters in all of this, Did the hometown hero make it home safe that night to beat his wife?
I don't think it's good to put this kind of thing out there. We all know it goes on with all creeds and colors on both sides of the law. Why fan the flames; especially those the MSM are fanning so hard?
Typical cop power drinking and downing large amounts of anabolic steroids.
With the police unions and prosecutors backing you up, it's easy to get away with murder.
So all we want to know, is he a good cop, or a bad cop?
Most people are tired of this PC crap! You have to tiptoe around racist, whining niggers with attitudes. Fuck them, lock them up or shoot the fuckers!
So, in other news, Durden gets to together with his brother-in-law and says to him, Let's sing "Cumbyah!" Don't know that song? Ok, how about "Everything is Awesome!"
Yeah, a cop having a private conservation with his brother-in-law tells the tale of frustration of not being able to keep a drug pusher off the streets. So, he shoots his mouth off.
Anyone every done the above? No?
OK, then, take it from the top, "Everything is Awesome!"
Cops kill more whites than blacks
Here is an UNARMED White man who for all intents and purposes was MURDERED by a Mexican cop in Virginia, no marches, no prayer rallies, no letters to the editor, no politicians saying anything, and NO CHARGES FILED!!!
In Fairfax, VA, a Different, No-Less-Scary Police Shooting
18 months ago John Geer was shot by police while standing at his front door with his hands raised
By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: February 18, 2015
White Teen Killed by Black Cop in Alabama Mirrors Ferguson By Valerie Richardson, Washington Times, November 27, 2014
charge him $200 put him on 6 month parole unsupervised
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thats what the penalty is for talking about felons in front of cops by good measure
The GOAL of all this "evil White cops" "poor widdle black dahlings" is to make the COPS afraid to enforce the law against blacks.
So that is why police have stated they prefer to shoot Whites because there is no hassle involved.
Nelson County (KY) Sheriff Ed Mattingly was HAPPY the suspect who shot and in critical condition wasn’t black but rather White.
When a reporter asked [Nelson County Sheriff Ed Mattingly] if he was concerned about backlash from the community following the shooting of 25-year-old John Kennedy Fenwick, the sheriff revealed that he was glad to hear he was a white man. Fenwick is reportedly still in critical condition at a hospital in Louisville.
“We are glad that he is white, and we shouldn’t have to be worried about that. We do not want any backlash or violence in this community because people have been misinformed,” he said. “I think that the public needs to know how the criminal justice system works and what officers are able to do. And the media has not done a very good job of informing the public.”
The sheriff vowed to be transparent about the investigation into the shooting and reiterated that they “don’t want those type of troubles in our community,” referring to recent cases that have sparked violent protests.
Listen to Kentucky Sheriff’s Blunt Statement to Media About ‘White’ Suspect Shot by One of His Deputies, by Jason Howerton, The Blaze, May 13, 2015
last night, 9pm, a black couple were argueing rather loudly-fighting at the edge of a park across the street. soon, 2 FEMA SUVs and 2 Seattle police cars show up-overkill?
I used to deliver bulk daily newspapers to newstands, stores schools and boxes a few years back, and many times was assigned to the "inner city route" at night. Never had a problem-even out of my van alone, filling/collecting from coin-op newspaper machines in the dark. or going into all-night gas/grocery stores to deliver, with 50+ black youths outside loitering at 3 am;
But i did notice over the years that every car stopped in this district had up to TEN Police cars at the scene-literally all the time i did that route-never less than 5
In white neighborhoods, it was usually just one cop car stopping somebody.
yes i know how ghetto some of them can be-but this is direct harassment...and is probably worse now
Never consider something that you will never do.unless you never do never consider doing it. Having sex with the 54 year old wife is one of them. Undoing a comment is another.
This is a non-story to the extent this mindset, behaviour and the action of white police officers, killing blacks with impunity, knowing the criminal justice system will in essence protect us, is as obvious as night follows day, or a shit is followed by a piss. Only Fox News believers, racists who pretend they are not racists and conservative Talk-radio hosts and listeners will employ cognitive dissonance and deny the fucking obvious. Blacks are disproportionately targeted and harassed, to the point something has to give, as the situation is now bordering the absurd.
“The biggest travesty in this episode is not the subsequent courtroom screw up, and who did what or why, but the fact that a cop, whether he meant it or not, made it very clear and on the leaked record, that among the various other standard operating procedures in a policeman's arsenal, is to kill a suspect while fabricating evidence to stage an episode of self-defense, in this case with a racial bias.”
By what possible stretch of the imagination, does this tape imply that the practice you highlight in this article is the “standard operating procedure” of ANY policeman or police department? It doesn’t demonstrate anything of the kind. This is a completely unfounded claim, and you should know better.
I am as concerned as the next person that this behavior could happen (even though this tape is not even evidence that it did happen, we can presume that unscrupulous officers have done it). Because one unscrupulous officer is caught on tape talking about a practice that none of us, and the vast majority of good police officers, would never condone, gives you the right to declare it "standard operating procedure"? Really?
Unfortunately Tyler, the way this article is written is again evidence of ZH anti-police bias.
This is too bad, because the article could have been written without this bias. By demonstrating its journalistic bias against the police, ZH has again squandered a good article opportunity – because the issue raised is a legitimate concern for all of us.
It is also interesting to note, that to the best of my knowledge, every single article of this type that you have posted (or at a minimum the vast majority) has highlighted the actions or statements of white police officers. Almost seems like maybe there is another racial agenda at work here. I would like to think otherwise. As a suggestion, why don't you explore more thoroughly the incidences highlighted in Laddie's post below (thanks Laddie). That would remove some doubt.
Tyler, when I walk down the streets of some of our more troubled cities, frankly, regardless of my race, my biggest worry is not about being shot by a police officer.
When are you going to start talking about that?
You fought the law, and the law won ....America the land of lawless