Cop says he's "going to make stuff up" during arrest

A Seattle cop arrested two men back in November 2010 where he told the two suspects, "Yeah, I'm going to make stuff up." Also somehow key moments of the arrest are missing from the video captured by the dash cam in the officer's car. How convenient.

Two friends who had planned to visit a Seattle sports bar claim they ended up being kicked, arrested at gunpoint and held in jail for several hours by a cop who said he intended to "make stuff up."

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But key moments of the arrest that should have been captured on video are missing and it was unclear whether the officer intentionally neglected to turn on the dash cam. None of the released footage shows the officer in the moments he made the stop or kicked Lawson.

The accusations against Richardson are among many that have put a spotlight on the Seattle Police Department and it comes after the release of a Department of Justice report in December that said "serious concerns about practices that could have a disparate impact on minority communities" were raised by its review.

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The officer's uniform microphone also records Richardson telling the suspects, "Yeah, I'm going to make stuff up."
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Police shoot rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland protester

Wow a police officer opened fire on someone recording at the Occupy Oakland protest with a rubber bullet.

Shot by police with rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland
While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations of any kind underway. At 0:31 seconds you can see a tall officer in the front raise his weapon and then fire. This is the full clip of the incident. Source

NYPD officers arrested in gun smuggling ring

Looks like some NYPD officers have been caught for being bad.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight New York City police officers were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion they helped run a gun-smuggling ring in the city.

The U.S. Attorney's office confirmed the Tuesday morning arrests, saying the cops also helped smuggle other items such as cigarettes and slot machines.

Altogether, 12 people were expected to be charged in connection with the illicit operation.

The New York City police department and one of its employee unions declined to comment on the charges, which were expected to be unveiled by the U.S. Attorney's office later Tuesday.

Of the eight officers charged in the federal crime, five are active duty officers and three are retired, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

(Reporting by Aman Ali; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jerry Norton)
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NYPD is out of control

Wow there is so much wrong-doing by the NYPD it is scary. Please read the entire article The NYPD's naked racism on SocialistWorker.org.

DARAGJATI'S RACIST abuse is the latest high-profile example of the systematic racism that runs through the NYPD. This isn't a matter of "a few bad apples," but of a rotten barrel that has produced a culture of brutality and racism that produces and protects officers like Daragjati.

Just last month, 17 NYPD officers were indicted for fixing tickets and other violations. Tapes from this case revealed widespread racism among the officers under investigation as well as many others. "The wiretap recordings at the heart of the probe captured conversations rife with racist and inflammatory remarks," according to the Daily News.

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This pattern of brutality includes multiple cases of NYPD killings of unarmed Black men, including Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old African immigrant shot 41 times in 1999 for the "crime" of reaching for his wallet on his own front porch--and Sean Bell, a 23-year-old Black who died in a hail of 50 police bullets the morning after Bell's bachelor party in 2006.

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Then there is the everyday bigotry of encounters with New York police. Stop-and-frisk is a widespread tactic employed by the NYPD where hundreds of thousands of mostly Blacks and Latinos are stopped and searched on the street each year without any valid cause for suspicion. The statistics show that the racism on vile display in Daragjati's boast is merely the most confident expression of a pattern that runs through the stop-and-frisk program.

NYPD officer punches female protester

A female protester at the Occupy Wall Street protest on October 14th was punched in the face by a NYPD police officer. She would fall to ground from the punch. No one seems to know if she did something to provoke the officer, but is this excessive force?

OccupyWallStreet police brutality

The NYPD going too far during the OccupyWallStreet march.

More police brutality at the OccupyWallStreet march.

Police shoot 13-year old boy 8 times

Another police shooting...

Chicago - Chicago police shot a 13-year-old boy on Monday night. Police said the teen pointed a weapon at them, but his parents are telling a different story.

The parents identified their son as Jimmel Cannon. The boy is talking and recovering at Stroger Hospital, according to his parents, but was shot 8 times, with wounds to his hands, shoulders and legs.

Police said they were called to the area at about 11 p.m. Monday to investigate shots fired. They saw the boy, who matched a description. Police said he had a weapon and refused to drop it when police told him to.

The boy's parents, Kenyatta Cannon and Jimmy Porter, said the boy wasn't holding anything and had his hands in the air when he was shot. They said their family was attending a birthday party at Kenyatta Cannon's mother's house Monday night and Jimmel's little brother was with him when the shooting happened.
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