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Why should there be trust in

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:51:48 +0000

In reply to LA Sheriff to politicians:

Why should there be trust in the criminal justice system?

Edit to add

The sheriff's department has faults.

Instead of addressing internal faults, demands are made of LeBron James

Why doesn't the union match the donations?

LA Sheriff to politicians:

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:27:52 +0000

In reply to Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies 'fighting for their lives' after ambush in Compton

LA Sheriff to politicians: Emphasize trust in justice system

Includes results of interview, by Stefanie Dazio @ AP.com, Sept. 15

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff on Monday criticized elected officials, sports figures and civic leaders for “fanning the flames of hatred” as America grapples with racism and police brutality, saying they instead should emphasize trust in the criminal justice system.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s comments to The Associated Press came after the weekend ambush of two deputies who were in their parked police vehicle when a man walked up to the passenger’s side and fired multiple rounds. The deputies were struck in the head and critically wounded but both are expected to recover, Villanueva said. The gunman hasn’t been captured and a motive has not been determined [....]

[....] After that shooting, a handful of protesters gathered outside the hospital where the deputies were treated and tried to block the emergency room entrance. Videos from the scene recorded protesters shouting expletives at police and at least one yell “I hope they ... die.”

Villanueva said the angry rhetoric is making deputies’ work more difficult.

“They’re out there doing their job and yet we have people fanning the flames of hatred and just turning up the volume when we don’t need it. We need to be turning it down,” Villanueva said. “Particularly our elected officials and civic leaders and sports figures, they need to start emphasizing trust in the system, due process.”

Villanueva did not specify any particular people but many politicians and athletes have harshly criticized police and called for defunding departments in the wake of [....]

In his interview with AP, Villanueva also rejected claims the criminal justice system is biased against people of color, saying his department is committed to thorough investigations, including of its own employees.

“To someone who says they’re biased, the only bias we have is toward facts,” he said. “We need to stop the false narratives. We have to let the system take its course and justice has to be based on facts, based on evidence. It has to be right.”

Villanueva said the department’s investigations into police shootings like Kizzee’s take time.

“We’re not going to speed up or slow down at the behest of anybody,” he said. “It’s going to be based on fact, not on emotion. Some people already have determined the results, so they’re trying to throw rocks at the process.”

Meantime, Villanueva defended the arrest of Josie Huang, a reporter for public radio station KPCC taken into custody during Saturday’s demonstration outside the hospital. The department said Huang didn’t identify herself as a journalist and interfered with the arrest of a protester.

After she was released, Huang tweeted she was “filming an arrest when suddenly deputies shout ‘back up.’ Within seconds, I was getting shoved around. There was nowhere to back up.”

In a video of the incident, Huang can be heard shouting, “I’m a reporter. ... I’m with KPCC” as she falls to the ground. She said she was wearing a press pass.

Villanueva said Huang was too close to the deputies during the man’s arrest. He claimed “that’s where she crossed the line from journalism to activism,” He said he didn’t know if the deputies heard her shouting “I’m a reporter.”

“You have to have a certain level of responsibility as a journalist,” Villanueva said. “Do your job but do it at a safe distance where you’re not interfering with the deputies doing their job.”

He added: “All I can say is, in the heat of the moment when these protesters are calling or chanting for the death of the deputies in the emergency room, she picked the worst time possible to try to get an up-close of the deputies making an arrest. That’s on her.”

Rep. Karen Bass:

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:01:14 +0000

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Rep. Karen Bass:

Democratic Rep. Karen Bass says the ambush and shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies is horrific and that “there is no excuse for the violence against the officers, period.” pic.twitter.com/Zmqw6JBokF
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 15, 2020

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artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:54:36 +0000

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The online use of anti-police memes has surged, a new research report says, raising concerns that they might spur real-world violence....Some memes that spread on social media depict police officers being shot or their vehicles burned...Another post urged people to use 3-D printers to make guns that can’t be traced by authorities....

from VIOLENT MEMES AND MESSAGES SURGING ON FAR-LEFT SOCIAL MEDIA, A NEW REPORT FINDS

It started as an internet meme.Then waves of political unrest gave adherents of the Boogaloo a chance to test their theories about the collapse of American society....Hunter told me he and his compatriots feel their hands have been forced. “A lot of the violence perpetrated by the government, police brutality, foreign wars, civilian casualties, no-knock raids — I guess the way we viewed it was: ‘How in the world are we supposed to stand up against this?’”.... In April, a man in Texarkana, Texas, who identified with the movement streamed a live video on Facebook while dressed in body armor and a Hawaiian shirt, telling viewers he was “hunting the hunters”: searching for police officers to ambush.... On the forums, they would joke about a “pig roast” — code for killing police officers. In June, Facebook claimed that it deleted hundreds of accounts and pages devoted to the movement; by mid-July, the Boogaloo bois were back on Facebook talking about a “spicy fiesta.”....“They’re really anti-police,” Pitcavage says of the Boogaloo; they may say they want to find common cause with anyone protesting the police — but some want to act as agents provocateurs, accelerating street violence and furthering any conflict. For many of them, the protests following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day looked like the perfect opportunity to create mayhem....

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Rep. Ro Khanna:

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:35:25 +0000

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Rep. Ro Khanna:

I'm relieved to hear that the two Los Angeles County sheriff deputies who were shot over the weekend in Compton are recovering.

My prayers are with these officers and their loved ones. The senseless violence against them was deeply wrong and horrific to watch.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) September 15, 2020

The sheriff of Los Angeles

rmrd0000 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:55:57 +0000

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The sheriff of Los Angeles County challenged LeBron James to “step up to the plate” to match the reward money being offered for information related to the ambush and shooting of two deputies as they sat in their patrol car Saturday night in Compton.

The reward had reached $175,000 before Alex Villanueva specifically called out the Los Angeles Lakers star, who has been vocal about the shooting of unarmed Black people by police. Video of the shooting of the deputies shows a person walking up to a parked police car and firing a gun into the passenger-side window, then running. The wounded deputies, a 31-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, underwent surgery Saturday night for multiple gunshot wounds.

“This challenge is to LeBron James. I want you to match that and double that reward,” Villanueva said on Monday. “I know you care about law enforcement. You expressed a very interesting statement about your perspective on race relations and on officer-involved shootings and the impact that it has on the African American community. And I appreciated that. But likewise, we need to appreciate that respect for life goes across professions, across races, creeds, and I’d like to see LeBron James step up to the plate and double that.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09/15/lebron-james-los-angeles-deputies/

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This is the same department where deputies lied about attacking a reporter, and leaked death scene photos of Kobe Bryant and his daughter

Vanessa Bryant hit back this week at Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who challenged NBA superstar LeBron James to match reward money for information on the shooting of two deputies in Compton, Calif., over the weekend.

In a series of posts on her Instagram Story, Bryant spotlighted screenshots of tweets and articles blasting Villanueva and calling out his department over the leak of graphic photos following the tragic helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, their young daughter Gianna, and seven others in January.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/vanessa-bryants-hits-back-at-los-angeles-county-sheriff-over-lebron-james-challenge

The sheriff requested that

rmrd0000 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:32:21 +0000

In reply to Did I not post a thread with

The sheriff requested that politicians emphasize "trust" in the justice system. I responded with a post about why there was no trust in the sheriff's department. Somehow, you took it as a personal attack or a lecture. My post was merely a response to the sheriff's request.

The people at Reason are not my allies. This particular Reason article had a point of view that was "reasonable". I chose to link to Reason, but there were many articles in Woke publications that would serve the same purpose.

Edit to add:

Regarding the folks at Reason, they take a more "let the people decide" position on the approach to COVID, They are unlikely to support wearing masks, etc. I take the "How dare you be so willing to put my health at risk by not wearing a mask." approach. We are not allies.

The first part of their latest podcast deals with COVID. The panelists believe that earlier notification about the risks of COVID would have had minimal effect on the number of deaths

Link to the podcast

https://reason.com/podcast/donald-trump-bob-woodward-and-the-noble-lie/

Did I not post a thread with

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:12:13 +0000

In reply to The reason there is a lack of

Did I not post a thread with the full story about that, all about the spox clearly lying? I needed lecturing about what it said?

Edit to add: I see that finally you have discovered that the libertarians over at Reason.com can be your allies sometimes. Not always the enemy.

The reason there is a lack of

rmrd0000 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:11:31 +0000

In reply to THREAD: I interviewed @LASDHQ

The reason there is a lack of trust is because police routinely lie.

An NPR reporter was arrested at a small protest at the hospital

She was tackled by sheriff depuies

They said she was obstructing justice LIE

Thay said she was not wearing press credentials LIE

The police need to tell the public the truth if they want respect.

I goes without saying that nothing justifies the shooting of the two deputies

BUT respect is earned

We are not a police state

https://reason.com/2020/09/14/l-a-sheriffs-deputies-assault-reporter-then-attempt-to-mislead-public-about-it/

THREAD: I interviewed @LASDHQ

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:43:00 +0000

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THREAD: I interviewed @LASDHQ @LACoSheriff Alex Villanueva this morning for @AP.

He spoke about the shooting of 2 deputies in Compton, @josie_huang’s arrest + other topics both local and national.

The print story:https://t.co/UzNETY5LMt
— Stefanie Dazio (@steffdaz) September 14, 2020