News from London today retweeted by NYC Antifa:

On the anniversary of Breonna Taylor being murdered by the police in the US, this message from the London vigil for Sarah Everard/protest for women's safety resonates:

No killers, No cops
Sisters run the block https://t.co/ufA0TECEhW

— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) March 13, 2021

thread of more similar anti-police, videos, pics and comments:

The Met are London’s biggest and most dangerous gang

— YT: C’est Chancy (@JesuisChancy) March 13, 2021

So there's less than 500 shooting deaths a year of blacks by police that haven't increased or decreased BUT there's probably more than 7,500 black deaths by homicide in 2020, we know there were just under that number in 2019 and many localities have reported huge increases of homicides in 2020.

Also one question nobody ever asks: How many more homicides of blacks were prevented by police?

After a year of fixation on topic, including sooo many protests and severe corresponding violence and looting that caused much bad will, and counterproductive related voting trends, I've decided that I'm pretty much with this guy, who wrote this Baltimore Sun op-ed almost two months before we all saw a video of George Floyd killed by a disgusting cop outlier

Homicide is a ‘devastating plague’ on black communities, and it is time we stop ignoring it

[....] there are well meaning progressives who are concerned about discriminatory policing, crowding jails and prisons with black people, and the stereotyping of innocent African Americans.

The reality is that homicides in major cities including Baltimore are not race neutral. Of the more than three hundred people killed in the streets of Baltimore last year, just about all of them were African Americans. The shooters (killers) were most likely black as well. This is a devastating plague acutely affecting black communities across the country.

We must realize that some black people are a much greater threat to other black people than the Ku Klux Klan or the White Citizens’ Councils. The number of blacks gunned down in the streets by other blacks parallels our memories of the many blacks lynched in communities across the United States after Reconstruction. This is a devastating plague acutely affecting black communities across the country.

The killings continue even as the country faces a coronavirus pandemic that prompted the governor to place the state on a stay-at-home lockdown. No one is to go out unless it is for essentials such as groceries and prescription medications. The killings don’t stop. Again it is mostly black victims.

And while some people don’t want to admit it, the aggressive law enforcement tactics that some declare overbearing have worked in reducing crime.

The stop-and-frisk practice in New York City was associated with a decline in homicides. When Richmond, Virginia, got tough on gun violations the homicide rate went down. By allowing gun violations to be prosecuted as federal crimes guilty persons were renditioned to federal prisons in places like Utah. This likely included some African Americans.

When former Mayor Shelia Dixon and Police Chief Frederick H. Bealefeld III got tough on “bad guys with guns,” homicides in Baltimore went down. It is likely that most of those detained were black. In these three reductions in homicides, the people who benefited most also were African Americans who lost fewer sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to senseless street violence. More black people lived.

This poses a real problem for the black elite and white progressives. How to address bad behavior by some black folks without denigrating the “whole” black community? Many continue to struggle to give a balanced and positive picture of black life in America. The truth is, there are some black folk who do bad things. The sad truth is that their victims are most often other black people.

The attitude toward bad guys with guns is not the same in these violent neighborhoods, where people fear for their lives everyday, as it is in the relatively peaceful suburbs far away from the crime. Many African American communities are under siege by black gun-toting terrorists. Children cannot play in their yards and the elderly can no longer sit on their porches. At a recent town hall, a young black woman could not understand why her brother’s killer had still remained free on the street awaiting trial for a previous gun violation. Many of the people accused of murder in the city frequently have existing gun violations. This is a cycle that must be broken.

Now is the time to reconcile, black pride, civil liberties and civil rights with the need for safe black communities. No one wants to resort to stop-and-frisk policies or mass incarceration, but something like it may be needed. Such efforts can target illegal weapons pretty much the same as stop-and-frisk efforts at major airports. This is not a problem in the larger white community, but it is in black communities and must be addressed as a problem particular to those neighborhoods.

This senseless gun violence and predatory behavior should not continue to be tolerated. This lawlessness victimizes black families, the black community and future generations. At some point we need to stop letting the presumed rights of a few endanger the lives of many.

John L. Hudgins ([email protected]) is co-director of the Human Services Administration and an associate professor of sociology at Coppin State University.

The continued fixation on "police abuse" when the rate of death from the same is way less than homicide, and probably way less than deaths by improperly practiced medicine WITHOUT EVEN CONSIDERING 100,000+ minority deaths in one year from coronavirus, this is an ABSURD HYSTERIA.

Especially when most of these cases are being adjudicated in our justice system and more and more cops are wearing body cams and people are taking videos of them at work. It's not like they are running around like the Klan in 1920, they're being watched all the time. And when the hysteria is causing more people to buy guns. With which more minority people will be maimed or killed.

Could policing be improved? Of course, everything can be improved. But this does not need to be a priority, many more lives can be saved via other reforms first. It's totally irrational to make this a priority!

I was not joking upthread when I suggested that if social workers had been sent on that Yonkers "welfare check" upthread, they probably would be dead right now along with the shooter who would have then killed himself. He shot at the police, why not shoot at social workers?  He threatened someone on the phone, he had a warrant out. Again how come no one ever asks how many lives policing saves? All of us in NYC were so very grateful for how they reduced the violent crime rate astronomically for a while, as nasty as they can be personality-wise, you put up with that for such quality of life, for civilization. You are never going to get 100% perfect cops, nor doctors nor politicians...

I read the whole thing. It basically concludes that nearly to a one, all the police forces were not prepared and had no smart plans for dealing with large protests, had lousy plans or no plans and no decent command structure for decent crowd control because they have so little experience at it, no training in large crowd control.

(A major missing point, mho, left unsaid: reduced staffing and exhaustion because of Covid.)

That they basically left individual and lower level cops go wily-nily and do what they think. Including using all the fancy equipment some had bought over the years, of which many had not been trained to use, and some of which was so old that it was no longer in working order (like for example wrist ties that were so old that they broke easily). That they would also do things like arrest a lot of people and then have no idea where to go with them.

It made me think: gee, this is the same exact story the Capitol Police told!

Then I went to Twitter and looked at some of the reaction to the article of people with leftist inclinations who went to a lot of protests either as activists or free-lance "reporters" and I saw a lot of complaining that the NYTimes article reviewing all the independent studies was all bullshit whitewash absolving the police forces of intentional brutality, that none of it was true, that cops ganged and planned to brutalize all the protesters and did a good job of intentional brutalizing.

I even saw one complain along the lines of "you mean to tell me NYPD doesn't have training in large protests?" And I thought a minute: huh, the guy is not from NYC, he doesn't know how they never let unexpected crowds get that big, they usually require licensing for any large gatherings. And then for large licensed gatherings, for which the rest of citizens are warned at least a day in advance on tv and radio and traffic reportig services that there will be a large group activity or protest that they might want to stay away from, they always do things like separate people with barricades and other barriers into smaller, watchable groups and have each of the smaller groups watched by several cops to avoid any mob forming.. 

And if it's a planned march, they separate the march into block-long groups with cops inbetween them and accompanying them, same like with parades, and they make sure to have enough staff to do that, so that traffic can still move and other people can still get about their business. So I would tend to believe that they don't have a lot of experience at handling large unplanned protests, precisely because: their practice is: not to allow them in the first place.

Especially after terrorism lessons and things like the Boston marathon bombing..

.but since these protests were against cops themselves, they were put in the strange position of allowing them without licensing and not like: closing down the Brooklyn bridge before they could get across. And yes, I do recall seeing some pictures of  earlier protests forming in Brooklyn and getting waaay out of control,both protestors and cops basically breaking out into a melee of rioting.like a giant bar brawl and veering close to becoming, like, say, the Capital riot.

Who Are the Jurors in the Derek Chauvin Trial?

The jurors bring to the table a range of views about race and policing, some forged by long life experience and some formed after the death of George Floyd.

By Shaila Dewan and Tim Arango @ NYTimes.com, March 30, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS — A white intensive care nurse who said if she saw someone on the street who needed help, she would feel obligated to step in. A Black grandmother who said she had no personal experience with the police or the criminal justice system.

A white widow who rides a motorcycle in her spare time and said she believes that “all lives matter.” A Black man who works in banking and said he was eager to serve on the jury of “the most historic case of my lifetime.”

These are some of the jurors appointed to weigh the evidence in the case of Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer who is accused of murdering George Floyd, a Black man.

The jury is a demographic mix: three Black men, one Black woman, and two women who identified themselves as multiracial. There are two white men and four white women. They are urban and suburban, ranging in age from their 20s to their 60s. The two alternates are white women.

[....]

Most of what is known about the jurors comes from the jury selection process, more than two weeks of questioning that touched on virtually every contentious issue in American life, including Covid-19 restrictions, Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, conspiracy theories and opioid addiction. The rest was provided by the court: a list of their approximate ages and races.

More than 300 potential jurors filled out a 14-page questionnaire that asked about their views on policing, protests, race and criminal justice, among other questions, and their answers showed the hurdles the defense must overcome in a case about which so much is widely known. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution then questioned potential jurors one on one.

At least 10 of the 15 jurors and alternates chosen indicated that they had already formed a “somewhat negative” opinion of Mr. Chauvin. (The third alternate was dismissed on Monday.) But their views were nuanced — several said they had positive views of the police, but also believed that the criminal justice system was biased against Black people.

Juror No. 92, a white woman in her 40s, wrote on a questionnaire that she had a “very favorable” opinion of Blue Lives Matter. “I would be terrified if our police departments were dismantled,” she wrote, according to what the defense lawyer read aloud during jury selection. “However, it is obvious that change needs to happen.”

Many of the jurors expressed dismay over what had happened to Mr. Floyd or questioned the actions of the four officers involved, three of whom will face charges in a separate trial. Juror No. 27, a Black man in his 30s, wrote that Mr. Floyd “could have been me or anyone else,” according to the answers that the defense read back to him during questioning. No. 52, also a Black man in his 30s, wrote, “My opinion has been, why didn’t the other officers stop Chauvin?”

Juror No. 89, the nurse, said that since Mr. Floyd had died she would have to conclude that the police had knelt on him for “too long.” No. 44, a white executive at a health care nonprofit, said, “I do not know the laws and procedures of the police for detainment, but a man died and I’m sure that’s not procedure.”

The jurors said they could set their opinions and knowledge aside and consider only the evidence presented.

Throughout the questioning, both the defense and the prosecution probed jurors on their views about protests, riots, Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter. They also undoubtedly considered the juror’s race, which has long been considered a clue to how someone might view a case.

Typically, the defense in a case like this would be more likely to strike jurors of color because they are considered more skeptical of law enforcement. But in this case, many white prospective jurors were critical of the police [....]

Similar happened here. You get foreign provocateurs along with locals unhappy about the situation. Quite often it's the foreigners who are stoking the situation the most - who they represent knowingly or unknowingly can be hard to say. I've seen similar with other protests like WTO, where people are marching calmly, and then suddenly the pros show up, smash windows and such for 10 minutes for some chaos, and then are gone 

Yeah, i noticed that - all the cops be all Miss Manners and Hints from Heloise, and then this Chauvin cat comes along and he destroys the police's reputation for politeness. "We would never put a knee on a man's neck, Miss Scarlett..."

off thread but related to Maryland politics above, here's a nice thread that just appeared on the sort of egregious gerrymandering that can be fixed if you just have enough discipline to win state houses instead of turning swing voters off by things like, um, not speaking out about rioting and looting and burning police cars, using slogans like "defund police" and words like "socialism", producing images for viral consumption of marching through gentrified neighborhoods screaming at people to leave and attacking them eating outside at restaurants, etc..

Here's the mayor of Brooklyn Center who instituted those nasty overnight crackdowns:

here someone dug up the warrant out on him that caused the P.O. to challenge:

Clearly, it's a horrifically unfair "you can't fight city hall, especially during a pandemic when no one's at work" type thing.

But I've got to say this: if I had a warrant out on me, I wouldn't drive until I cleared it up. That's the kind of thing my parents taught me: police officers don't research shit like: is the warrant fair or not. And police officers are armed and dangerous.

I'm not blaming the victim, and I agree it's horrible what happened. But like you, I'm talking about ways of keeping oneself safe. Time to be a grownup when you get to drive. And that would include: if you have a warrant out on you, STAY IN THE HOUSE AND DON'T GO NO WHERE until you clear up the unpaid warrant thing! Pandemic complications or not. Clearing up the warrant is priority #1. You're gambling with nightmare scenarios if you don't. I don't even drive if I have an expired inspection sticker..my father taught me to be too afraid of what might happen. Granted I don't think about getting shot, but I do think about getting handcuffed and spending an unnecessary night in a horrific jail and okay, now how do I get a lawyer and what happened to my car, etc....

here's the video of the police chief saying that and adding lots of details about training with tasers

Official BLM has only tweeted this so far:

Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Liz Sawyer was live tweeting videos from from a protest tonight after curfew, here are her last 5:

^ asking for MORE COPS and MORE ARRESTS, not mental health workers. Many transit workers are P.O.C., BTW. Many have also died from covid, BTW. And what do they get for being on duty? Abuse and very little gratitude. All they want is: more police.

but admittedly transit workers didn't have to deal with huge protests, looting and curfews to enforce with reduced forces, at the same time their coworkers sick with Covid, who nonetheless showed up for duty, if not trying to breathe from covid infections, to handle: Brooklyn brats deciding they absolutely needed to practice their first amendment rights during a pandemic on the streets instead of on the internet. 

that's my narrative of 2020 in NYC, that's what I saw.

p.s. He did ask the 12th for this help in continuing to run the country:

Of course, there's that a lot of BLM protesters over the last year liked to chant "fuck Joe Biden" or put the same slogan in graffiti. Should those people really be considered allies of the Democratic party?

Choke-out / blood choke

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke-out

Chokeholds can be divided into two primary categories: "blood chokes" and "air chokes". A blood choke disrupts blood circulation to the brain, while an air choke disrupts breathing. Blood chokes can be applied to efficiently cause loss of consciousness, i.e. a choke-out, while air chokes do not usually cause loss of consciousness without prolonged application (though air chokes are used to cause discomfort).

Blood chokes constrain or disrupt blood circulation to the brain. This is accomplished by compressing one or both of the carotid arteries and/or the jugular veins, ideally with little to no pressure applied to the airway. However, it is very rare and difficult to accomplish by compressing only one side.

One theory on the mechanics of choke-outs claims that unconsciousness results from the direct constraint of blood flow to the brain, causing cerebral hypoxia.[1]

Another more complex theory states that as pressure is applied to the carotid artery, baroreceptors (the body's natural blood pressure monitors) within the artery are also compressed. When they sense too much pressure in an artery that feeds the brain (such as those in the neck), they signal the brain to dilate (widen) its blood vessels in order to relieve pressure (baroreflex causing vasodilation). Since blood pressure has not actually increased as the brain thinks it has, the dilation causes pressure to drop dramatically, and can be sufficient to cause cerebral hypoxia.

lots of children

Um, bodycam shows the 16-yr. old girl shot in Columbus was attempting to stab two others with a knife

Columbus Police Show Body Camera Footage Of Officer Fatally Shooting 16-Year-Old Girl

Police showed footage of the officer shooting the girl as she appeared to attempt to stab two people with a knife.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP/KDKA) — Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd.

Police showed bodycam footage Tuesday night at a news conference of the officer shooting the girl, who was Black, as she appeared to attempt to stab two people with a knife.

A black-handled blade resembling a kitchen knife or steak knife appeared to be lying on the sidewalk next to her immediately after she was shot and fell.

State law allows police to use deadly force to protect themselves or others, and investigators will determine whether this shooting was such an instance, Interim Police Chief Michael Woods said at the news conference.

Officers had responded to an attempted stabbing call when police shot the girl at about 4:45 p.m., police said. The 911 caller reported a female was trying to stab them before hanging up, they said.

The girl was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. It’s unclear whether anyone else was injured.

“This afternoon a young woman tragically lost her life,” Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther tweeted.

 [SAME TWEETS AS ABOVE]

He later said at the news conference, “We know based on this footage the officer took action to protect another young girl in our community.” [....]

3% increase, $1.76b operational (vs pensions, healthcare, etc)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-20/garcetti-proposes-sl...

here's their exact opposite; official BLM has nothing on Bree when she wants to stir shit and get people hating on each other more, pump up the volume on that narrative to the max, babee, get yer anarchy on:

Playing bullshit w numbers

With 47 million blacks in the US, this makes it sound like 470k are getting whacked by police each year, when the number of blacks killed is in the 400-500 range, far far less than homicides. And even in the real comparison for causes of death, those 6th and 7th causes are way down there.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2017/nonhispanic-black/index.h...

But a lot of effort to avoid thinking "maybe just maybe black people are also doing too many crimes".

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60816a7ae4b05c42907257c5