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[Pertinacious Tom]

And in Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation news,

Peach cobblers matter.



A simple fruit cobbler is about the easiest thing to make.

Mix a cup of milk, a cup of self-rising flour, and a cup of sugar, pour it into a dish where you've melted a stick of butter, and sprinkle in two cups of any fruit. Cook at 350 until it smells too good to leave alone any longer.

Might want to look at that one too, @Clove Hitch

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Comedians Sue Atlanta Police for Racial Profiling Over Airport Searches

This week, two comedians filed a federal lawsuit against an Atlanta-area police department, alleging racial profiling at the city's airport.

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the busiest in the world, seeing over 75 million passengers in 2021, and it's Georgia's largest employer. It is located within the jurisdiction of the Clayton County Police Department (CCPD). According to the lawsuit, CCPD officers routinely conduct searches on passengers as they attempt to board their flights. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution refers to the process as part of the CCPD's "jet bridge interdiction program."

In April 2021, Eric André, an actor and host of Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, tweeted that he was "racially profiled by two plain clothes Atlanta PD police" in the Delta Airlines terminal. "They stopped me on the way down the bridge to the plane for a 'random' search and asked [if] they could search me for drugs. I told them no." He referred to the incident as "Jim Crow racism." A CCPD spokesperson later referred to the encounter as "consensual." After André's tweets went viral, Clayton English, an actor and stand-up comedian, reached out about a similar incident that happened to him in October 2020.

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The lawsuit claims that the jet bridge program disproportionately targets passengers of color. Between September 2020 and April 2021, roughly the period between English's and André's encounters, CCPD stopped 402 passengers. Of the 378 for whom officers recorded the passenger's race, 68 percent were nonwhite and 56 percent were black.

Unfortunately, random unwarranted searches have become standard fare for travelers. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created after 9/11 to make air travel more secure. But in practice, its purview expanded to include buses, trains, and even this year's Super Bowl, and it conducts thousands of random searches per year.

CCPD's program exists in addition to TSA checks, searching passengers who have already been screened at federally mandated security checkpoints. The lawsuit claims that the program is also remarkably unsuccessful: In over 400 stops, police only found drugs on three occasions.

In that same period of time, though, CCPD seized over $1 million in cash from 25 passengers.
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Seems like typical drug war stuff. Almost never stopping drugs but successfully looting and generally racist.

Eric André is hilarious. Sorry the Georgia cops targeted him for looting but I wish him well in his lawsuit.

 

[ShortForBob]

'I'm scared': Black motorist's death, first blamed on car crash, results in Louisiana officers being charged

Five Louisiana officers have been charged in the deadly arrest of Ronald Greene, a death which authorities blamed on a car crash. Later body camera footage showed white officers beating, stunning and dragging the motorist as he wailed in fear.

www.abc.net.au

Charges ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance​

Facing the most serious charges from a state grand jury was Master Trooper Kory York.

Mr York was seen on the body-camera footage dragging Mr Greene by his ankle shackles, putting his foot on his back to force him down and leaving the heavy-set man face down in the dirt for more than nine minutes.

Use-of-force experts say these actions could have dangerously restricted Mr Greene's breathing, and the state police's own force instructor called the troopers' actions "torture and murder".

Mr York was charged with negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance in office.


The others faced various counts of malfeasance and obstruction.

Those who were charged included a trooper who denied the existence of his body-camera footage, another who exaggerated Mr Greene's resistance, a regional state police commander who detectives say pressured them not to make an arrest in the case, and a Union Parish sheriff's deputy heard on the video taunting Mr Greene with the words "s*** hurts, doesn't it?"

"These actions are inexcusable and have no place in professional public safety services," the head of the state police, Colonel Lamar Davis, said after the indictments.

He added that his agency has in recent years made improvements aimed at "rebuilding of trust within the communities we serve".

A death shrouded in secrecy​

Mr Greene's May 10, 2019, death was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning, when authorities told grieving relatives that the 49-year-old died in a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase.

This account was questioned by both his family and even an emergency room doctor who noted Mr Greene's battered body.

Still, a coroner's report listed Mr Greene's cause of death as a motor vehicle accident, a state police crash report omitted any mention of troopers using force and 462 days would pass before state police began an internal probe.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Teacher and cousin of Black Lives Matter founder ‘Tased to death’ by LAPD​

A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors was killed by Los Angeles police after he got in a traffic accident and officers who showed up repeatedly Tased and restrained him in the middle of the street, according to body-camera footage and his family’s account.

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Eventually, Anderson started to flee, at which point the officer chased him on his motorcycle, shouting, “Get down to the ground, now,” and “Turn over on your stomach.” Anderson repeatedly responded, “Please help me,” and “They’re trying to kill me,” as multiple officers arrived and held him down. One of them placed his elbow and bodyweight on Anderson’s neck while he was lying with his back on the ground. At this point, the officer standing above him shouted, “Turn over or I’m going to Tase you.”


During the Tasing, Anderson repeatedly said, “Help me,” as the officer told him to stop resisting.

Paramedics later arrived at the scene and took him to a hospital where, according to the LAPD, he went into cardiac arrest four and a half hours later and died.
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He had a heart attack. "Tased to death" seems as accurate to me as the cops' version that he had a heart attack due to cocaine and cannabis abuse.

 

[Bus Driver]

Being Tased for 30 seconds straight, followed by anther 5 second burst, sounds like it may have greatly contributed, if not caused, cardiac arrest.

 

[Goodvibes]

He had a heart attack. "Tased to death" seems as accurate to me as the cops' version that he had a heart attack due to cocaine and cannabis abuse.

Yeah, just like everyone eventually has cardiac arrest, no matter what the cause.

So the Cops said that without a autoposy? Racist murderering cunts.

 

[Goodvibes]

Been thinking about this one.

This is exactly the same as a George Floyd incident. Not an accident. There has to be a deliberate sustained application of force to kill people like this. I hope the cops are charged and tried.

 

[LB 15]

Random has an alert that goes off whenever the word ‘cops’ is posted. Me thinks he had an unhappy experience in a lockup one night in his youth after no doubt giving the coppers a bit of lip. It is his kind of pathological hatered of police that led to those fanatical nut jobs executing 2 young police officers here in Queensland a few weeks ago.

But this case certainly does sound like excessive force. Surly if you need to taser someone for 30 sec then they need more effective tasers. But I have no experience in what it is like to be tasered. Randy how did you find it? Did they shoot it in your nut sack?

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Being Tased for 30 seconds straight, followed by anther 5 second burst, sounds like it may have greatly contributed, if not caused, cardiac arrest.

Seems excessive if nothing else.

I don't know whether tasers can cause delayed reaction heart attacks or not.

 

[Bus Driver]

Seems excessive if nothing else.

I don't know whether tasers can cause delayed reaction heart attacks or not.

The answer seems to be "Yes".

TASER Electronic Control Devices Can Cause Cardiac Arrest in Humans​

Conclusions and Recommendations​

The animal and clinical data clearly support the conclusion that a TASER X26 shock can produce VF in humans by the mechanisms elaborated above. Although the risk may be low, its number cannot be known without universal record keeping and the creation of a national database. Because of this risk, it has been suggested that law-enforcement experts reassess ECD use to maintain a balance of safety for subjects and officers while still achieving the goal of maintaining law and order.55 In this regard, the Cincinnati Police Department has revised its use-of-force policy to ban TASER chest shots except in self-defense or the defense of another.56

 

[Ishmael]

WTF is wrong with people that they are so fucking cretinous?