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Minnesota Attorney General

rmrd0000 — Fri, 21 May 2021 20:30:36 +0000

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison To Lead Prosecution In Daunte Wright Killing

Ellison led the successful prosecution of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd last year.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minnesota-attorney-general-keith-ellison-lead-prosecutor-daunte-wright_n_60a80212e4b0a24c4f7be78d

Police told a man a container

rmrd0000 — Fri, 21 May 2021 20:24:56 +0000

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Police told a man a container in his car tested positive for drugs. It was his daughter’s ashes.

Dartavius Barnes sat handcuffed inside a squad car in Springfield, Ill., looking confused as police told him they’d found a container in the center console of his car that tested positive for meth or ecstasy.

Then the officer showed him what they’d tested: a small metallic object. Barnes sprang from his seat in horror.

“No, no, no, bro, that’s my daughter,” Barnes yelled, body-camera video of the April 2020 incident shows. “What y’all doing, bro? That’s my daughter!”

That container, Barnes told the officer, was a small urn storing the ashes of his 2-year-old daughter — not an illegal substance.

Barnes has filed a federal lawsuit alleging officers with the Springfield Police Department unlawfully took the sealed urn containing his daughter’s remains, opened it without his consent, and spilled some of the ashes while testing for drugs. Roughly 47 minutes of body-camera footage of the encounter was published by WICSand WRSP last week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/21/dartavius-barnes-daughters-ashes-mixup/

Commissioner Shea says yuck

artappraiser — Tue, 18 May 2021 10:07:01 +0000

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Commissioner Shea says yuck fou, intolerants:

These very officers, both on & off duty, have been advocating for equal rights & inclusion for ALL New Yorkers — only to be banned from participating because of the uniform they wear.

We stand with our LGBTQIA+ members and @GOALny. https://t.co/Ndk4bdtna1 pic.twitter.com/giCRlHWDWx
— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) May 17, 2021

Real clear cut publicly

artappraiser — Tue, 18 May 2021 06:23:28 +0000

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Real clear cut publicly-acknowledged intentional racism can be very expensive:

Analysis: Arpaio immigration patrol lawsuit to cost Arizona county at least $202 million

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 05/17/21 08:46 PM EDT

The cost faced by taxpayers in Arizona's most populous county to reform the sheriff's department will have reached at least $202 million by the end of next year, according to an analysis published Monday by The Associated Press.

The AP reported that Maricopa County officials approved a budget this week that would allocate $31 million this year to cover costs incurred by court orders affecting traffic enforcement and other areas of the sheriff's department. The costs are the result of a lawsuit that concluded with a court finding former Sheriff Joe Arpaio responsible for implementing changes that specifically targeted Latino residents.

The total cost of the lawsuit is expected to reach more than $200 million by the summer of 2022, according to the AP's analysis, and is reportedly showing no signs of slowing down.

Arpaio was defiant in a statement to the AP Monday in which he defended his department's policy on traffic stops, which a court declared was racially motivated. The former sheriff was convicted of criminal contempt of court in 2017 for refusing to obey an order to stop his immigration patrols; he was pardoned two months later by his close political ally, then-President Trump [....]

(even Ivy League colleges know this! they have therefore the task of making it look less clear cut...)

I've heard lots of people say

artappraiser — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:29:40 +0000

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I've heard lots of people say this, but why does the U.S. have fewer police officers per capita than Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Austria, Germany, etc.?https://t.co/yGRZTbZwrZ https://t.co/4b6P3si9sU
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) May 17, 2021

Sort the wikipedia table for the last column, police per 100,00 people and you will see that the U.S. is #48 of 146 countries, way below the mean, with 98 countries of the 146 having more police.

There's a database whose

rmrd0000 — Mon, 17 May 2021 00:25:39 +0000

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There's a database whose mission is to stop problematic police officers from hopping between departments. But many agencies don't know it exists

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/us/police-national-decertification-index-database/index.html

I have so many questions

artappraiser — Sun, 16 May 2021 16:40:20 +0000

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I have so many questions about the above, like: how were those cops involved in bombing children in Palestine? Also: if one gets run over protesting Israeli treatment of Palestinians on a U.S. freeway entrance ramp, how can you sue for injury if there are no courts?

just ran across this video of

artappraiser — Sun, 16 May 2021 16:23:11 +0000

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just ran across this video of brutal police running over leftist protestors:

How in the actual fugg do we permit this in the US?!?! pic.twitter.com/jXPf7dQehx
— John Curtis (@Johnmcurtis) May 15, 2021

Three women charged with

artappraiser — Sun, 16 May 2021 03:43:22 +0000

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Three women charged with leaving pig’s head, blood at the home of a Chauvin defense witness.

Rowan Dalbey, 20, Kristen Aumoithe, 34, and Amber Lucas, 35, were arrested Tuesday on felony vandalism and conspiracy charges. They were cited and released.

.https://t.co/zgsmNeAoqG
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) May 15, 2021

As a volunteer in my younger

NCD — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:18:53 +0000

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As a volunteer in my younger days I worked in a sickle cell research lab at what was then called St. Lukes, now Mt Sinai Morningside. Interestingly, all samples of hemoglobin, sickle or non sickle, was stabilized with carbon monoxide, which was removed later with illumination under a strong light source.