#police-brutality

#police-brutality

I never thought that the United States descent into a police state would involve the extrajudicial killing of a Veteran's Administration nurse. It's particularly terrifying to this nurse that US immigration police have shot to death Alex Pretti, RN. A Veteran's Administration ICU nurse, Pretti is said to have been volunteering in sub-zero Minneapolis cold because he cared about his neighbors and co-workers as much as he did his critically ill patients.

The Stasi, the secret police, were legendary for their data files. Their work was based on instilling fear, and they induced stunningly amazing numbers of East Germans into informing on their neighbors. Something along the lines of 1 in 6 East Germans were informants, whether out of fear or out of approval of what the East German government was doing.

What's striking is less that the federal government is using Bible verses in its promotional videos than that the agency doing the recruiting is Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The videos, set to music, include militaristic images. They show heavily armed agents in tactical gear, weapons drawn, donning masks, looking through night-vision goggles, zip-lining from helicopters, breaking down doors, and conducting nighttime raids.

We look at the protesters in Iran, and they are patriots; they are people who are trying to overthrow a repressive regime, Trent said. Here, if you have protesters, they should be shot in the face, and anybody that does should have absolute immunity. Trent added, So, what's funny to me is, when is violence, when is protest, when is this all acceptable?

In late November and early December 1999, the World Trade Organization convened in Seattle for a round of conferences and negotiations. Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets to meet them, including labor activists alarmed by the post-NAFTA landscape of the US, as well as environmentalists dismayed at eroding standards of ecological care under the kinds of agreements the WTO was arranging. They in turn encountered a police response more vicious than many anticipated, particularly once the protests threatened to shut down the conference.

What happened to Ms. Porter and her family should never happen in our society,

Parker Seitz was violently attacked by off-duty Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputies, under the watchful eye of security guards contracted by a local business,

Footage emerged of the Irish activist being repeatedly punched in the face by police at a protest in Berlin against "the deliberate killing of journalists in Gaza" on Thursday. A series of videos posted by IrishBlocBerlin on Instagram show Kitty O'Brien clutching their nose before lifting their bloodied hands to German police while shouting: "Their blood is on your hands." The footage then shows the activist being dragged from the crowd by two police officers.

Guards at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday. The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami's Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge's order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands. The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for freedom after one received news a relative had died, according to the outlet. A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.

Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 raid that caused the death of Breonna Taylor.

Brown suffered the first of many seizures in Santa Rita Jail when she was 20. During her incarceration, she'd passed out in her cell dozens of times, lost the use of her legs and repeatedly begged to go to a hospital.