Black Lives Matter

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From lotto millions to a felony indictment. How reality TV could undo a Texas sheriff
https://news.yahoo.com/lotto-million...215411117.html

Much of Chody’s tenure has unfolded before the watchful lenses of the TV reality show “Live PD” camera crews and the show's loyal viewers. After wooing the highly rated program to his suburban Austin county, Chody's star rose among its fans. They lauded his deputies' work and praised a sheriff who was always willing to exchange social media pleasantries with his audience.But when a violent incident with his deputies turned deadly, taking the life of 40-year-old Black father Javier Ambler II, Chody’s star began to fade. The show that made him a celebrity was canceled after the Austin American-Statesman revealed details of the 2019 death that was captured on “Live PD” video.

Now, the cameras that propelled Chody’s fame could be his undoing.

A grand jury last month indicted Chody on a felony evidence tampering charge for his alleged role in the destruction of footage of the incident. Chody denies breaking any laws and has hired two of Austin’s most prominent attorneys. The charge, he says, is part of a political conspiracy to oust him from office.

Chody’s critics, including some of his fellow top Republicans in the county, say he is using public office to slake his thirst for fame.

Just like Trâm.

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Nước mắt cá tra:

Barrett 'wept' with daughter over Floyd's death
https://news.yahoo.com/barrett-wept-...160809096.html

"Senator as you might imagine, given that I have two black children, that was very, very personal for my family," Barrett said. "My 17-year-old daughter Vivian…it was very difficult for her. We wept together in my room."

2 black children? Who's your daddy?

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Cảnh SSát Kentucky: sống và chiến đấu theo gương Hít lè?

Kentucky state police training quoted Hitler to create ‘ruthless’ warriors
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-hitler-quotes

The genocidal führer is quoted more than any other figure in the presentation, on three separate slides. “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence,” reads one of the citations.

A quote attributed to Lee, meanwhile, touts the importance of “truth and manliness” in a slide titled The Thin Gray Line. During the American civil war, Confederate soldiers who betrayed the Union wore grey uniforms.

The training’s explosive contents were first reported by Manual RedEye, a high school news publication in Louisville, Kentucky, after a local attorney uncovered the slideshow while requesting information about a detective who shot and killed a man.

They are trained nazis.

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Hai đánh một không chột cũng què:

Toronto policeman jailed for beating black man who lost an eye
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ho-lost-an-eye

Prosecutors alleged constable Michael Theriault, who was off duty at the time, and his brother Christian chased Dafonte Miller in the early hours of the morning on 28 December 2016, cornering the then 19-year-old between two homes in Whitby, Ontario, and beating him so badly with a pipe that his left eye burst.

“No one questioned him. Only I was worthy of suspicion ... Because of the colour of my skin,” he wrote.

Cảnh sát Canada mà dữ kiểu này thì dân Mỹ còn biết chạy đi đâu mỗi khi đảng Cộng họa lên nắm quyền?

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Cảnh sát Canada mà dữ kiểu này thì dân Mỹ còn biết chạy đi đâu mỗi khi đảng Cộng họa lên nắm quyền?

Go east.

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Go east.

East coast:

how Los Angeles progressives swept the election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/13/los-angeles-elections-police-black-lives-matter-progressives

Los Angeles elected a new district attorney, George Gascón, who has pledged not to keep people in prison when they are up for parole, not transfer teens to adult court, not pursue the death penalty and won’t use “gang enhancements”, which have long been used in racially discriminatory ways.

Though Gascón faced protests in his former job as San Francisco district attorney for refusing to prosecute officers in several high-profile police killing cases, he vowed during the campaign in LA to reopen some police shooting cases, and has said that incarcerating people for low-level offenses during the coronavirus pandemic is “unconscionable”.

Law enforcement unions had contributed millions of dollars in political spending to backing Gascón’s opponent, the incumbent prosecutor Jackie Lacey.

For the past three years, Lacey had refused to meet with Black Lives Matter activists protesting against what they say are more than 600 police killings and in-custody deaths of prisoners since she took office in 2013 and Lacey’s refusal to prosecute the officers responsible.

Gascón held his first meeting with Black Lives Matter on Monday, three days after his victory over Lacey, and he acknowledged how instrumental the group’s organizing against his opponent had been.

“There was a symbolic reason why we’re here first,” he told Black Lives Matter. “Because so much of what has happened, you have made it happen.”

“I used to say the system is broken, and I have come to the conclusion that the system is doing exactly what it was designed to do,” Gascón told the families gathered in a church basement. “In this country, policing, prosecution – a lot of it has deep roots in the institution of slavery.”

While he would not be able to reopen the investigation in every police shooting, Gascón said, he had pledged to re-examine whether to prosecute officers in some cases, and he told the families, “I want to work with you.”

In other key Los Angeles races, too, progressive candidates beat contenders backed by donations from police and sheriff’s unions. Even in races where both candidates said they supported cutting the police department funding and endorsed the idea of having unarmed crisis specialists to respond to some emergency calls, rather than armed police, law enforcement donations became a key campaign issue.

Nithya Raman, a progressive challenger endorsed by Bernie Sanders, won a Los Angeles city council race over David Ryu, an incumbent Democrat endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. Ryu’s campaign had attacked Raman for her support from the “divisive radicals” of the Democratic Socialists of America, comments that were criticized as “red-baiting”, and had suggested that she supported cutting the police department’s budget by 98%, a claim her campaign denied.

Ryu announced during the campaign he was returning a direct campaign donation from the local police union, and told the Los Angeles Times he was disavowing any independent spending from the police on his behalf.

Holly Mitchell, a progressive dubbed the “moral compass” of the state legislature, won 60% of the vote after taking a “no cop money” pledge, defeating another prominent black Democrat, Herb Wesson, who had received half a million dollars from the union that represents Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies.

Mitchell, who is known for lambasting her fellow Democrats for passing a budget that did too little to help “poor people in California and their children”, will now become one of five women on the Los Angeles board of supervisors, a powerful slate of county lawmakers once known as the “five little kings”.

Voters also overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to dedicate 10% of the unrestricted county budget, estimated at nearly $400m, to mental health programs, housing support, intervention programs, while barring spending any of that money on law enforcement.

Cảnh sát mà phải mua chuộc chính trị gia để làm gì?

Refund the police.

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'Structural racism': UN urges reforms in Brazil after deadly beating of black man
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ting-black-man

Several days of protest erupted in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, after video footage last week showed 40-year-old welder Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas being punched in the face and head by a supermarket security guard while another guard held him. Freitas later died and the two men who attacked him are currently being investigated for homicide.

Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman with the UN rights office, told reporters during a virtual briefing in Geneva that his killing was “an extreme but sadly all too common example of the violence suffered by Black people in Brazil”.

“It offers a stark illustration of the persistent structural discrimination and racism people of African descent face,” she said.

She pointed to statistics showing that “the number of Afro-Brazilian victims of homicide is disproportionately higher than other groups. “Black Brazilians endure structural and institutional racism, exclusion, marginalisation and violence, with, in many cases, lethal consequences,” she said. “Afro-Brazilians are excluded and almost invisible from decision-making structures and institutions.”

Dữ dằn là thói làm quan
Càng oai quyền lắm càng oan trái nhiều
(Nguyễn Du Côn)

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Phân biệt đối xử:

'White privilege on display': police hypocrisy condemned after pro-Trump insurgence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ice-protesters

While fury over the mob was directed at various Republican lawmakers on social media, Trump bore the brunt of the blame from his most stringent critics. Multiple people, including George Conway, husband of Trump’s former adviser Kellyanne Conway, and the US representative Rashida Talib called for Trump’s immediate impeachment.

While images and videos of Capitol police pointingtheir guns and running around the building were shared, many more images of the Trump-supporting mob successfully overtaking the building, including sitting at the front of the Senate and walking away with a podium, spread on Twitter.

People were quick to point out the hypocrisy of law enforcement letting the mob, which was overwhelmingly White, take over the Capitol building with little hindrance.

“Always interesting to see how white protestors can encounter so little resistance and breach the capitol with the vice-president there, while black protestors would be lying dead in front of the capitol building right now,” wrote the writer Roxane Gay.

“White privilege is on display like never before in the US Capitol,” tweeted the author and scholar Ibram X Kendi.
Others pointed to the stark contrast between law enforcement’s response to the mob at the Capitol versus their treatment of protesters against police brutality.

“Peaceful protestors got pepper sprayed so Trump could hold a Bible upside for a photo in front of a church,” tweeted Shannon Sharper, a former American football player, referring to an incident that took place over the summer in the midst of protests following the police killing of George Floyd.

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Holeeday, noLeeday...

Virginia holiday commemorating Confederacy no longer celebrated
https://news.yahoo.com/virginia-holi...012022261.html

Friday marked the first time in over 100 years that the Commonwealth of Virginia did not officially celebrate the former state holiday, Lee-Jackson Day. The holiday traditionally consisted of multiple days of parades and community events to honor Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson for being "defenders of causes."

Virginia lawmakers voted to remove the day, founded in 1899, from its official holiday list in February 2020. Election Day became an official holiday in its place.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam tweeted on Friday that "we no longer celebrate a false version of history that honors the confederacy."

History, no bigotry.

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Quá nhiều quyền lợi?

The Western Australia cops rounding up Indigenous kids: a 'toxic and racist environment'
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...st-environment

One of the worst moments of Jim Taylor’s eight-year career as a Western Australian police officer was the day he strip-searched a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy.

Taylor, now 44, was working in Perth in the Juvenile Aid Group, or “Jag”. He says he was driving around the city’s central business district with his senior sergeant and two other officers when they came across a group of four young Aboriginal kids. They rounded them up and took them back to the station.

Looking back at his time in the force, he feels regret, especially when thinks about that 10-year-old, naked and alone at the station.
“It makes me feel sick … I’ve got children now, similar age, to that age,” he says.

A spokesperson for the West Australian police told Guardian Australia that handcuffs and other restraints are used when police suspect there is a risk of bodily injury to any person, escape from arrest or detention, or damage to property.

Specific questions about the strip-searching of children were not answered, but they said the force had “undertaken significant steps to enhance the relationship between police officers and the Indigenous community” including an apology from the commissioner to Aboriginal people for past injustices.

On average in WA, three-quarters of young people in detention are Indigenous.

Do you come from a land down under?
Where children run and cops plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
(Men At Worst)