Killer cops are police officers who kill the citizens they promised to serve and protect. Among rich Western countries, they are most common in the US, where they are infamous for killing Black people. They kill Native Americans at an even higher rate.
The numbers: The police in England and Wales killed 55 people from 1990 to 2014, about two a year. The US is about six times larger, so you would expect maybe 12 a year. The US is more violent with a murder rate five times higher, so make that 60 a year. In 2015 the number was 1,146, almost 20 times higher. And even if you count just unarmed Whites, it still comes to 104.
It is partly structural:
Killer cop privileges in the US:
- Administrative leave: paid vacation for killer cops!
- The blue wall of silence: the so-called good cops do not speak out against bad ones.
- The press: presents the police account as more or less true while demonizing the dead victim, poisoning any possible jury.
- The full and thorough investigation: determines the facts. Since in most cases it is carried out by the police themselves, it amounts to a cover-up.
- Medical examiner: examines the body for cause and manner of death. Some medical examiners are in bed with the police, even making up stuff found in no medical book.
- Public prosecutor: almost always in bed with the police. They can charge a killer cop with a crime, but most kick it to a:
- Grand jury: The prosecutor presents the investigation / cover-up to a secret grand jury. No press, no public, not even lawyers from the victim’s family are allowed. That keeps it out of the news. It also means the grand jury hears only the police side of the story. So they rarely bring an indictment of charges, but when they do it leads to a:
- Trial: The trial jury will almost always have White people on it who have a sickeningly childlike belief in the honesty of the police, like they are still six years old (BMA 6). That means even if there are some sensible Black people (BMA 18+), the jury will at best deadlock, letting the killer cop walk free. Some trials, though, do not have juries, just a judge:
- Judges: Most are unwilling to second-guess the police.
- US Department of Justice: Have they ever sent a killer cop to prison?
- Civil lawsuit: brought by the victim’s family for damages. Rarely affects the killer cop or the police since any damages are paid by taxpayers.
- The five magic words: “I feared for my life.” Almost always gets them off. They do not even have to see a gun to be believed, just think they saw one. And if the victim is Black, even that is unnecessary: the Black Brute stereotype, held by news reporters, jurors and helicopter pilots, will do the rest. Case closed.
In New York City from 1999 to 2015 :
- 188 people were killed by police;
- 4 cases reached trial;
- 2 killer cops found guilty (Bryan Conroy, Peter Liang);
- 0 sent to prison (probation instead).
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- The police
- grand jury
- public prosecutors
- Marilyn Mosby – yay!
- Bob McCulloch – boo!
- BMA
- Black Brute stereotype
- police brutality in Baltimore
- killer cops
- good cops (those who have spoken out)
- The extremely incomplete list of unarmed Blacks killed by police
- What if police brutality was seen as a crime?
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She needs to be punished
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Well since Cops are killers when your ass is in trouble don’t bother them handle it your damn self!
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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http://docapp065p.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_pageid=394&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&doc_num=556091&offender_book_id=333041&imageindex=6
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Jonathan, and what exactly is that supposed to show? The officers were not responding to a call of violence. There was not a warrant out for his arrest. They were not seeking him specifically.
They got a call about a car broken down on the road and that a man was “acting strange.” (though we still haven’t heard this call, so right now we’re going off of hearsay)
A past criminal record has absolutely 0 Bearing on this case. As does any claims that PCP was in his vehicle. As for if he was on something, we have to wait on the autopsy. The Autopsy is the ONLY thing that could potentially matter here.
Bringing up past crimes of black men to justify them getting killed when the officers involved had no knowledge of this is just a distraction and you saying that the constitution does not matter.
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What seems to go completely over Jonathan’s head here is that he still would have been shot dead regardless of what his past holds. He could have been a Sunday school teacher and she would have still shot him.
What if Anthony Wiener had been shot dead do you think the logical justification would be to post pictures of his penis ? See he’s a dick so he brought it all upon himself.
Your doing the same thing. He’s a Black criminal so he deserved to get shot. I got proof from the Internet.
There is no way to know if what you posted is a real document or made up.
But let’s go with the speculation that he might have been on PCP. That’s a disassociative so he was not aware of what was going on around him. The same thing can happen if you drink to much. Would the police be justified in shooting a drunk who couldn’t follow directions ? Of course not. He made no threatening signs of violence, only displayed some confusion.
She should be charged with murder because if a civilian had shot him then that civilian would have been charged with murder. Because she is a police officer she is being charged with manslaughter.
If it wasn’t for prohibition and the criminalizing of drugs he would be a tax paying, law abiding citizen. Instead of being sent to prison he should have been sent to a health care facility that treats drug problems.
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Officer Robert Torsney’s case is the most egregious case I can recall. http://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/nypd-officer-not-guilty-reason-insanity-shooting-ninth-grader
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Jonathan, are you advocating the death penalty for drug dealers? Start with the people at the top? I don’t think they look like this guy, they probably look like you.
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No. He’s saying the Negro criminal deserved what he got.
I’m starting to wonder if Johnathan has a little baggie of meth or oxycontin somewhere in his car…
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Jonathan marco said “Well since Cops are killers when your ass is in trouble don’t bother them handle it your damn self!”
LOL, thanks Jonathan, for expressing your confessions in support of white supremacy. You have contributed quite a bit to the conversation.
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@ Jonathan Marco
According to what you linked to, Terence Crutcher got nine years in prison, not the death penalty. He served his time. None of that gives the police the right to gun him down – or any reason to fear him.
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There was a report on how black victims are portrayed in the media that spoke about Shelby’s past incidents of domestic violence and drug use and the silence about that. Yet the hypocrites, who’ll be the first to tell you “it’s in the past” when you bring up their own ancestor’s evils, never fail to dig into a black person’s past to justify their murder. The same procedure, on a group level, would imply the appropriateness of white genocide for there are no greater criminals from the perspective of native people across the globe. Yet when white people’s individual pasts are brought up it’s usually to make them seem more worthy of sympathy after they decided to slaughter a crowd of people they didn’t even know. There is no logical or moral consistency, just the practice of white supremacy.
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@ Jonathan Marco
“Well since Cops are killers when your ass is in trouble don’t bother them handle it your damn self!”
this is why I don’t call the cops
(https://youtu.be/gpKy-ESNqS0)
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Funny how the dominant culture wants to bring up the victims past transgressions but when black people talk about the evils of systemic racism and slavery they are quick to tell black folks how they shouldn’t be living in the past. Even if the deceased victim wasn’t a perfect angel the dominant culture likes to demonized them and make it seem okay for them to be murdered.
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@ Jonathan Marco
“When I or any of my black friends discuss issues of police brutality online, we receive a common response: “Well see what happen next time you need the police and they aren’t there to protect you.” But we’ve already seen what happens – it’s our current reality”.
Sound familiar?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/21/charlotte-police-killing-protests-america-law-enforcement-today
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“Terence Crutcher needed the police when he was killed by them. Veteran Anthony Hill needed the police when he was killed by them. Elliott Williams needed the police but he was instead taunted by them as he slowly died in a jail cell without food and water. Quintonio LeGrier needed the police and had called them three times when he and his neighbor were killed by them. We already live in a world where we can’t call the police when we need them, because we know that there is a good chance that we or our loved ones will be killed for it.”
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Nomad –
The article you linked to makes a good point about who is it that the police SERVE?? Obviously it ain’t us!!
We’re looking at the cops as if they are the sole ones at fault – with their blue wall of silence, solidarity, powerful unions and so forth but we hardly discuss who exactly enables these murderers.
Are cops just permitted to run loose and rampant because TPTB are ushering in a police state and a NWO, or are they receiving their “marching orders” from local political governmental mayors and city managers and county sheriffs with an obvious agenda against Black people?
The system is fraught with all sorts of rewards when these cops murder. BUT, if cops were to dramatically increase their rate of killing ‘unarmed white people,’ I suspect these cops would somehow get reigned in as white people are likely not to put up with that.
Why are we not looking at those who are signing these cops’ paychecks – and holding them as responsible/accountable for these deaths as the cops who are pulling the triggers?
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White racists are mentally ill.
Think about it…and this is why it’s a waste of time arguing with these “kind-of -people” a.k.a. Human Artificials.
First of all…they CANNOT deal with reality! What do I mean?
They have to distort history, lie about facts just to justify who they are and what they try to pretend to be.
They distort reality because they are trying to JUSTIFY their existence on this planet.
They were never meant to be here! The most natural thing in our world is an enemy to white people. The sun seeks to destroy them.
They’re mentally ill.
The outrageous excuses and outright hypocrisy of these people…is proof in the pudding.
The world of white peoples is over.
They’re done…Stick a fork in them.
Everywhere these people go…you get the SAME problems. Riots in Australia included.
This b**** is a small piece to a much larger puzzle.
These people are the GODDAMN PROBLEM!
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Excellent post!
People need to continue replacing DAs with those who will prosecute these murderers. Keep flooding the mayor’s office with calls, emails and visits demanding the killer cops and police chief be fired and the mayor toughen department policies now, or replace them.
@Mary Burrell
“She needs to be punished”
Deport her to Europe!
@Jonathan Marco
“Well since Cops are killers when your ass is in trouble don’t bother them handle it your damn self!”
I’ll bother whomever I want as long as my taxes are paying their salaries to “protect and serve” me.
And I have every right to complain when they don’t do their jobs and demand justice when they kill innocent people, even if those people are black males.
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Hey Fan
The kind of thing we mentioned yesterday and I could find you a thousand of these.. cops in New York have been given 30 days unpaid suspension and were fully investigated for killing…. A groundhog!!! Yup, that’s correct.
‘Rensselaer Police Chief Rick Fusco said Officer Tyler Sammon and Officer Matt Spath have been suspended without pay for 30 days because they did not report the incident to their supervisors whether the animal’s death was intentional or not.
The internal investigation found they violated the department’s rules and regulations.
“Secondly, they’re charged with bringing discredit to the police department because of their inadequacies to report it properly,” Fusco said.’
http://news10.com/2016/09/19/police-chief-officers-involved-woodchuck-death-suspended-without-pay/
I’ll let you know when I spot the Avaaz petition calling for them to be put to death by lethal injection. Bet they wish now they’d murdered a black kid instead, foolish men made the wrong choice!
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@Zoe
“The kind of thing we mentioned yesterday and I could find you a thousand of these.. cops in New York have been given 30 days unpaid suspension and were fully investigated for killing…. A groundhog!!! Yup, that’s correct. ”
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That must have been one scary “BAD DUDE” groundhog!
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TBF it was a very dark brown one and they probably mistook the carrot in its mouth for a gun! Easy mistake to make!
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Jonathan Marco
Well since Cops are killers when your ass is in trouble don’t bother them handle it your damn self!
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Terence Crutcher did not call them. They were out on another call when they stopped by and killed him.
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BBC has a brief video of Obama discussing Black community response to killer cops: (third video on the page)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37456727
His comments are full of euphemisms and dodges:
▷“…pervasive frustration…about shootings of people…”
▷”…sense of frustration that justice is not always colorblind…
▷”…the way we engage the broader the broader American community…that requires us being peaceful…”
▷”…reform…requires being…thoughtful…peaceful…disciplined…”
▷”…being concerned about police-community relations[?!!!]…”
▷”…doing it [protest] the right way…”
No condemnations of killer cops, no telling them to be thoughtful, peaceful or disciplined.
Police-Community relations? Get real!
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Just when i’m thinking our black representatives aint worth a dam, one of them goes and says this. Wouldn’t it be nice if our half Kenyan president talked like that? Nina Turner for president. No? Nina Turner for Attorney General. Nina Turner for Supreme Court judge.
(https://youtu.be/hhqnnCOXbbk)
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@Abagond
I meant that video to start here. (5:00)
(https://youtu.be/hhqnnCOXbbk)
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I see it wasn’t my fault. I keyed it up for 5 that time. I probably did it the first time. Anyway. Start at 5:00. the congresswoman rocks.
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The odds are so stacked up against the people’s, How do we get any justice in this country ?
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@Keith Barkley
It’s not necessarily easy but the congresswoman said it at the very end. We got people in office, black people, white people. “Governors, mayors, city counsels legislators. “Use the power of public policy to change this right now”. That’s where the leverage needs to be applied. Protest? Protest these malefactors we put in office. Shame them. Make them do their job. Build on what we have already achieved. Strike the hammer right there. Till they all start talking like Nina Turner.
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Typical of a white racist, J Marco has not defended his opinion. Just another useless redneck troll expressing his keyboard cowardice by making a point and then not having the balls to support it lol.
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They are murdering with intention. Cops are all masons, just like the secret grand juries, and all judges. This is worldwide!. http://www.ctmin.org/pdf/thecourstsystemandfreemasonry.pdf
It’s a no win situation for the pions, the targeted, the citizenry. Heard it’s the same in the military. These outfits, clubs, and positions are nests and bastions of white supremacy, protected by the feds.
1. http://www.usavsus.info/MasonsInLawEnforcement.html
2. http://henrymakow.com/2015/05/Freemasons-Control-the-US-Justice-System%20.html
3.http://itwasjohnson.impiousdigest.com/modus1.htm
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Just read a recent Washington Post article about militarized police. Written by Radley Balko, ‘Do Not Resist’: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops uncovers the mindset of American police.
In short, law enforcement have taken those years of War on Crime – War on Drugs propaganda at face value. They no longer view American taxpayers as citizens with rights, but enemies in war. That seems particularly true if the citizens are not members of the top 10 percent of income brackets or not White.
The most disturbing reading was about the intense pleasure the police took in violence and mayhem. Balko relates how a SWAT officer felt about his first raid on a private citizen’s residence:
Balko goes on to describe the macabre link between death and sex, that is built into the training of the “warrior cop”:
Another perk not mentioned is the total lack of consequences for the “warrior cops”. Destroy citizen’s property, steal their money (under civil asset forfeiture laws), beat or murder citizens and just walk away. The best perk of all——-citizens foot the bill for these “warrior cops”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/09/30/do-not-resist-a-chilling-look-at-the-normalization-of-warrior-cops/?utm_term=.5fbef20a97c2
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