Fallujah-style security comes to Sacramento
After a gang member shot and injured several law enforcement officials before going into hiding in a Sacramento suburb on Friday, police responded by setting up a checkpoint and aiming guns at innocent people’s heads, an AP photo shows.
The photo, (credited to AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton) is captioned, “A California Highway Patrol officer and another emergency responder stop a vehicle at a checkpoint near the neighborhood where a federal immigration officer was shot and three local police officers were wounded during a violent confrontation with a suspect in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013.”
After an hours-long standoff, the suspect, 32-year-old gang member Samuel Nathan Duran, eventually surrendered after leaving a nearby house in which he had been holed up.
The felon responsible for the shootings was a wanted parolee and was already known to police having been seen riding a bike earlier in the day. His description would have been well circulated and known intimately by those tasked with hunting him down.
So why were Americans innocently driving their cars through the suburb of Roseville subjected to treatment that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Stalinist Russia, or more recently in Iraq or Afghanistan?
As we saw during the Boston bombings manhunt, in complete violation of law, police seem to believe that so long as they are hunting a potentially dangerous suspect, the Constitution is null and void, and that martial law is in effect.
http://www.infowars.com/ap-photo-checkpoint-cops-point-guns-at-americans-heads/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLg-iO1TBZA
AP Photo: Checkpoint Cops Point Guns at Americans’ Heads
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by poncho, Nov 3, 2013.
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It's a sensationalist-looking photo, and enough to get anyone's blood pressure up, and perhaps -- perhaps -- an over-reaction. Then again ...
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Lawsuit: Ark. Cop Chased and Tased Woman After She Refused to Show Him Her Breasts -
California: Mentally ill prisoners forced from cells with pepper spray - November 1st, 2013
Video Captures Cop’s Alleged Excessive Force Against Chicago Woman - October 10th, 2013
13-year-old with replica assault rifle was shot 7 times in 10 seconds - October 25th, 2013
Woman Endures Strip Search and Jail Time For Overdue Traffic Ticket - October 25th, 2013
Police Officer Arrested For Stealing Pair of Air Jordans During Drug Raid - October 23rd, 2013
Rise in Cops Killing the Mentally Ill - October 23rd, 2013
Who Will Protect You from the Police? The Rise of Government-Sanctioned Home Invasions - October 22nd, 2013
Cop caught on camera knocking over kids’ basketball hoop - October 18th, 2013
Video: Dallas Cop Shoots Mentally Ill Man Standing Perfectly Still - October 18th, 2013
Police in Florida suburb make millions from drug sting operations, report finds - October 14th, 2013
Wisconsin Cops STEAL Families’ Bail Money - October 14th, 2013
Probation Officer Shoots Terrier Because It Wouldn’t Follow His “Verbal Commands To Get Back” - October 11th, 2013
Threatened with Sex Offender Registry for Streaking at Football Game, Teenage Boy Commits Suicide - October 11th, 2013
Woman Calls 911 For Diabetic Fiance, Police Shoot And Kill Man Upon Arrival - October 8th, 2013
Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance - October 8th, 2013
America’s police are looking more and more like the military - October 7th, 2013
Jail time for selling raw milk is greater than jail time for raping children - October 4th, 2013
Video Captures Cop’s Alleged Excessive Force Against Chicago Woman - October 10th, 2013
Riot Control: DHS Spends $500,000 on Fully Automatic Pepper Spray Launchers
And that's just a few articles from last month, I saved the best for last . . .
After illustrating their enthusiasm for repealing the Bill of Rights, a video shows Americans happily signing a petition to support a “Nazi-style Orwellian police state,” in what easily represents the most shocking footage of its kind to date.
Americans Sign Petition to Support “Nazi-Style Orwellian Police State” - October 21st, 2013
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You can show those twenty events in which police officers made bad judgments or broke the law. And, by your own words, those are in the last month.
How many more times a day do police have contact with criminals? And how many more times do they make the right choices, saving lives, taking "bad guys" off the street, and generally not being idiots? Your events are miniscule in comparative numbers, though obviously not miniscule in public awareness. Nonetheless, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the police officers in this country make thousands of right decisions in dangerous situations every month, as opposed to your 20 idiots in the same time frame.
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We no longer live in a nation that views everyone as innocent until proven guilty we live in a nation that views everyone as guilty until proven innocent. Especially so if you happen to be a "white Christian conservative gun owner" or someone who believes in the constitution and rule of law like say a libertarian or any other freedom lover. Make no mistake, we the people are the enemy of the state and the police are being trained to view us as such.
This whole check point "show us your papers" and treating us all like criminals is psychological warfare being committed against us. We're being trained like Pavlov's dogs to obey commands barked at us by "authority figures" without question. NEWSFLASH: that ain't what freedom looks like. That's what a police state looks like.
Why do domestic police forces need tanks, armored vehicles, LRADS, Heat rays, black masks, military uniforms and German submachine guns? To keep us safe from overly hyped terror threats or to intimidate us and let us know who's in charge? The police in Amerika are even starting to look like the Gestapo or the SS.
It's the system that's the problem and to a lesser extent the people that go along with it and more people are refusing to go along with it everyday. Those are the "good cops". -
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I'm sure KC has a "fusion center" that federalizes the locals like most other large cities. Give me a minute to google it up.
According to a background paper prepared by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), fusion centers like the one in Kansas are “designed to pool and analyze information from federal, state, and local sources, in an effort to get vital information to the police officers who every day patrol the home front of the ‘war on terror.’” The paper adds that although “experts applaud efforts to have better informed police officers, some civil libertarians worry about the collection and use of such information.” [1]
Federalizing the locals ala the CFR. That's all normal I suppose. It has to be right? That's what the corporate media is saying so it has to be normal.
The attitude among "law enforcement"? I'm old enough to remember when they were known as "peace officers" or "officers of the peace" the term "law enforcement" itself is meant to intimidate us mere "civilians".
We don't even need courts or trials today. The govt and media are the judge and jury and sometimes the govt is even the executioner now. At least two American citizens have been executed without arrest, charge or trial. Now you may say these two were "suspected" of being involved with terrorism or guilty of "radicalizing" others but that is no excuse for executing people without due process.
The media wanted the alleged "Boston Bombers" to be right wing extremists so bad they could hardly wait for the reports to come in before they start "speculating" about some "patriot group" or right wingers being involved.
The police are being federalized and centralized and the govt is bound and determined to take our guns and dry up the supply of ammo if they can't take the guns.
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Cops Tase Father Trying To Save His 3-Year-Old Son From House Fire
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cops-tase-father-trying-to-save-his-3-year-old-son-from-house-fire.html
Cops Tase 54 Year Old Woman For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Football Game
Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance
Oakland to fire 11 cops in search warrant case
Police Notify Family of Son’s Homicide, Shoot Pet Dog
Shock Video: California Police Break Into Home, Tase Victims
Corrupt Cops Caught by Their Own Cruiser Camera!!!
Okay so I went to you tube and entered "corrupt cops". Search returned 600,000 results.
Then I entered "corrupt police officers exposed". Search returned 150,000 results.
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Police shot unarmed man, drove an armored truck through his door when he did not exit his property on command
SPRINGFIELD, VA — A paramilitary force was dispatched to a townhouse after a woman reported a domestic dispute between her and her boyfriend. When her boyfriend stubbornly chose to stay inside his home, police shot him and drove an armored truck through his front door.
The situation began on August 29th around 2:40 p.m. when John Geer — a 46-year-old kitchen designer and installer — was told by his girlfriend that she had decided to leave him. The couple had two daughters together, ages 13 and 17. Emotionally distraught over the breakup, Geer exacerbated the situation by throwing her belongings onto the lawn of their townhouse.
This led to her calling the police. She informed the dispatcher that he owned a firearm. A SWAT team was sent to the quiet cul-du-sac.
Geer’s home was surrounded by armored vehicles and uniformed personnel. A police sniper was photographed lying prone in a neighbor’s yard aiming toward Geer’s residence. Men in helmets and military fatigues cordoned off the neighborhood. Police began making their demands. An armored truck a topside gun turret parked in his yard and prepared for a strike command. As time went on, helicopters whirred overhead and K-9 units were seen by neighbors.
“We’re just here to help you — come out with your hands up,” recounted neighbor Edith Eshleman, of the police negotiations.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/john-geer-shot-by-police/
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DHS Publicly Denies Preparation for Riots, Civil Unrest
Flip-flop: While admitting equipment and armed guards are for “civil disturbances,” federal agency claims otherwise
The Department of Homeland Security has denied that it is preparing for domestic unrest despite the purchase of riot gear and the hiring of armed guards which the federal agency freely admits are for “riot control situations” and “civil disturbances”.
Responding to an inquiry by the International Business Times regarding the recent purchase of riot control equipment, pepper spray launchers, pepper spray projectiles, as well as the hiring of armed guards to protect government buildings, the DHS dismissed reports (primarily from Infowars) that such activity was related to preparations for domestic disorder.
“These reports are false. The referenced Federal Protective Service (FPS) acquisition request for Protective Security Officers will replace an existing contract due to expire November 2014, which provides security and screening within federal facilities throughout upstate New York,” DHS spokesman S.Y. Lee said in the statement. “This routine acquisition planning is not in response to, or anticipation of, any potential situation.”
However, that’s the opposite of what the solicitation that accompanied the hiring of the armed guards actually stated. Indeed, two of the ‘potential situations’ listed by the DHS itself as to why they were hiring armed guards to protect government buildings were “public demonstration(s)” and “civil disturbances”.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/dhs-publicly-denies-preparation-for-riots-civil-unrest.html