NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country.
New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country
Sadly, this is what we can expect as long as Trump keeps up his drumbeat against the media. You would think that since he got so much help from them last time out, he would be nicer… but think again.
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Leave it to AP to bend itself into pretzels to Bothsides even police assaults on its own journalists. There are dozen or more documented episodes of deliberate police assaults on people they know are journalists. One has lost her eye to a rubber bullet deliberately aimed at her head.
But AP, being AP, pares the number and severity down to a few so it can create a false equivalency between police assaulting journalists and a few episodes where people who weren’t police assaulted journalists as if those two things weren’t categorically different.
The editorial tier of AP is as rotten and degenerated as the GOP.
Some police have decided they ‘can do what they want’ and will be backed by Trump and his pet DOJ. These recent attacks show a contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law they have sworn to uphold. I saw a disturbing video last night of two white police handcuffing a black man who they said ‘looked like their bad guy’ while the man was insisting they look at his FBI badge and photo id. They are sneering until one of them actually takes his wallet out and realizes ‘holy sht’ they’ve got the wrong guy. They un-cuff him and their supervisor walks over right as the FBI guy says ‘give me your name and badge number’ and he INSISTS that they can hassle and cuff anyone they want and they don’t have to give their credentials to anyone…
This is my shocked face. 
Thank heavens they weren’t POC, they would have been “disappeared”.
New York’s Finest.
Bleeping expletives in this case is ridiculous. It removes context about who is speaking rendering the video much less informational. The silly prudishness ruins an otherwise impactful video.
Kaepernick was right. Despite lots of examples of good, empathetic policing, in the past week there have been far too many instances of police displaying wanton violence and lack of respect for the humanity of protesters and media.
By these acts they confirm the protesters’ criticisms for the world to see and beyond any doubt, that their practices need to fundamentally change.
And that officer gets to remain anonymous?
How is it that police departments everywhere are only hiring Droogs©?
Being a Police officer is an incredibly challenging profession. That is the nature of the job. Not everyone is emotionally or intellectually capable of performing those tasks, especially when under pressure. Those that are found unable to do so need to be removed from the job. Unfortunately, the Police Union is a major part of the problem.
“Let me get a good shot of that badge number. You didn’t need a pension did you?”
It’s really difficult, what with all the authority and immunity to do whatever the hell you want.
Protect whom? Serve whom?
I’d buy that argument if they were serving a no-knock on a known-armed meth addict, but they’re the ones upping the ante on violence at these protests.
Patrick Lynch, the current head of the PBA is a truly nasty piece of work. Yes, there are some bad apples in the NYPD, but let’s not pretend that all police officers are “pigs.” Like the looters, these few tarnish the good reputation of the majority of the force. And yes, journalists are exempt from the curfew rules.
Minneapolis police are losing friends:
Dorsey & Whitney has ended its 42-year-old pro bono program with the Minneapolis City’s Attorney’s Office.
Dorsey associates had helped the city prosecute hundreds of misdemeanor cases per year.
An important factor in Dorsey’s decision to end its involvement with the program, which has had notable alumni such as Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, was research that showed that the prosecution of misdemeanor crimes disproportionately impacts the black community, according to Dorsey leaders.
On Tuesday night, the Minneapolis school board voted unanimously to end its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department to provide school resource officers. Last week, University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel declared that the university would cut some ties with the Minneapolis police, including no longer contracting for off-duty security at football games, concerts and ceremonies.
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When it rains, it pours. Another headline just hit:
Minneapolis Park Board moving to end relationship with Minneapolis police, differentiate uniforms
