from "WeCopwatch" [wecopwatch.org/?p=700]:
Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggressively exercise their fourth amendment right, refusing the police entry as they demand at gun point to let them inside without a search warrant or probable cause.
As the police quickly holster their weapons after the camera turns on, the three occupants continue to exercise their rights non-aggressively. The police respond by going into “over-the-top” aggressive mode, utilizing excessive force by kicking in the door, assaulting the female and tazing the cameraman four times causing the camera to short out. All three occupants are arrested/cited for obstruction.
Uploaded originally on TheRetroSoldier [youtube.com/watch?v=vjjkjoVnou4]:
Friday, May 17, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
2013-05-10 Concord police officer shoots, kills man in Antioch
This happened Friday night. Concord police shot and killed Charles Burns 21 yrs old. They said the car was used as a weapon which justified the shooting, but Charles was shot when he got out of the car and tried to run. Charles wasn't in the car when they shot him. They couldn't chase him down? TV news reports show bullet holes in houses & broken windows from the cops. One girl in the neighborhood said Charles was a nice guy.
2013-05-11 "Police: Concord police officer shoots, kills man in Antioch"
by Katie Nelson and Rowena Coetsee from "Contra Costa Times" [http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23224012/report-concord-police-officer-shoots-kills-man-antioch]:
ANTIOCH -- Fearing for their safety, Concord police officers fired several rounds at a man who was attempting to elude capture Friday night, fatally wounding him, according to police.
At 9 p.m., officers closed in on a home in the 2700 block of Barcelona Circle in Antioch where they had been conducting surveillance, Concord police Lt. Steve Dyer said in a statement. Concord detectives had secured a search warrant for the home based on suspected "dangerous drug sales" by a 21-year-old male resident, he said.
During surveillance, the suspect, who has not been formally identified, came out of his home and got into a vehicle driven by another man. As officers attempted to contact the suspect to serve the search warrant, the driver of the vehicle accelerated rapidly and rammed a police car, occupied by an officer, Dyer said.
The suspect then ran from the car and two officers fearing for their safety shot him, Dyer said.
He died of his injuries.
According to ABC 7 news, family and witnesses told them that 21-year-old Charles Burns was the man who was shot.
The driver of the suspect vehicle, a 21-year-old old Bay Point resident who has not been identified by police, was uninjured and taken into custody. He was later interviewed by investigators and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
The officer-involved shooting is being investigated by a multi-agency investigative team comprised of officers from the Antioch Police Department, the Concord Police Department and the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office, according to Dyer.
2013-05-11 "Police: Concord police officer shoots, kills man in Antioch"
by Katie Nelson and Rowena Coetsee from "Contra Costa Times" [http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23224012/report-concord-police-officer-shoots-kills-man-antioch]:
ANTIOCH -- Fearing for their safety, Concord police officers fired several rounds at a man who was attempting to elude capture Friday night, fatally wounding him, according to police.
At 9 p.m., officers closed in on a home in the 2700 block of Barcelona Circle in Antioch where they had been conducting surveillance, Concord police Lt. Steve Dyer said in a statement. Concord detectives had secured a search warrant for the home based on suspected "dangerous drug sales" by a 21-year-old male resident, he said.
During surveillance, the suspect, who has not been formally identified, came out of his home and got into a vehicle driven by another man. As officers attempted to contact the suspect to serve the search warrant, the driver of the vehicle accelerated rapidly and rammed a police car, occupied by an officer, Dyer said.
The suspect then ran from the car and two officers fearing for their safety shot him, Dyer said.
He died of his injuries.
According to ABC 7 news, family and witnesses told them that 21-year-old Charles Burns was the man who was shot.
The driver of the suspect vehicle, a 21-year-old old Bay Point resident who has not been identified by police, was uninjured and taken into custody. He was later interviewed by investigators and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
The officer-involved shooting is being investigated by a multi-agency investigative team comprised of officers from the Antioch Police Department, the Concord Police Department and the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office, according to Dyer.
Monday, April 15, 2013
2013-04-15 "More Police In Schools Leads to More Students Under Arrest"
by Kristina Chew by Kristina Chew
from "Care2.com" [http://www.care2.com/causes/more-police-in-schools-more-students-under-arrest.html]:
After the Sandy Hook School tragedy and too many reports of school shootings to count, school districts across the U.S. are clamoring for more police in their schools. The National Rifle Association has wasted no time in calling for police officers in every single school. But while it is not at all clear if the full-time presence of police officers deters crime or the threat of armed intruders, putting more police officers in school has resulted in more student arrests and misdemeanor charges “for essentially nonviolent behavior including scuffles, truancy and cursing at teachers,” the New York Times reports [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/education/with-police-in-schools-more-children-in-court.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=all].
Police (and metal detectors) in the corridors of U.S. school are nothing new. As one my college students noted, at her New York City high school, students had to go through as much security every day to get to their classes as passengers do to get on airplanes, removing belts, shoes and anything with metal. Now, it seems that students can expect to see police officers as routinely as teachers.
“No Evidence” That Police in Schools Improves Safety -
The Obama administration has called for an increase in police officers in the nations’s schools. Indeed, since the 1990s, thousands of federal dollars have been allocated for “police resource officers” in elementary, middle and high schools since the 1990s. School districts including those of Houston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia have their own police forces.
A full-time police presence in school hallways certainly changes a school’s atmosphere, but as University of Maryland criminologist Denise C. Gottfredson says in the New York Times: “There is no evidence that placing officers in the schools improves safety. And it increases the number of minor behavior problems that are referred to the police, pushing kids into the criminal system.”
Rather than providing security, police officers end up dealing with disciplinary issues that schools themselves should address — instead of enhancing students’ safety, school districts hand over discipline to law enforcement. Having students cited for misbehavior teaches them nothing and certainly not positive, pro-active strategies for dealing with anger, impulsivity and other challenging behaviors.
Minority Students More Frequently Arrested -
What’s more, black and Latino/a students, as well as students with disabilities, are arrested or given criminal citations in disproportionate numbers, as civil rights groups including the NAACP report [http://b.3cdn.net/advancement/df16da132af1903e5b_zlm6bkclv.pdf]. Youth advocates have begun to fight back and not only because of the injustice of students having to face criminal courts for infractions such as cursing at teachers or truancy. Not only do they end up missing school for court appearances; students also face fines, community service and criminal charges on their record that can mean rejection from the military and jobs.
The case of 12-year-old De’Angelo Rollins is too typical. Soon after starting to attend Bryan Middle School in Texas (where some 100,000 misdemeanor tickets are written up for students in one year), he and another boy got into a scuffle and were both issued citations. De’Angelo had to go through “repeated court appearances;” he pleaded no contest and was fined $69 and sentenced to 20 hours of community service and four months probation.
Of course students must be safe in school, but simply calling in police officers is a sign that school districts are foregoing educating students and addressing their challenges. As no one less than Wallace B. Jefferson, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, said in a speech to the Legislature in March [http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/call-arms], “We are criminalizing our children for nonviolent offenses.”
Forget about a school-to-prison pipeline [http://www.care2.com/causes/the-school-to-prison-pipeline-students-weight-in.html]. What’s really going on in public schools in the U.S. is that school is prison, or a place where you’re under constant surveillance by the police.
After the Sandy Hook School tragedy and too many reports of school shootings to count, school districts across the U.S. are clamoring for more police in their schools. The National Rifle Association has wasted no time in calling for police officers in every single school. But while it is not at all clear if the full-time presence of police officers deters crime or the threat of armed intruders, putting more police officers in school has resulted in more student arrests and misdemeanor charges “for essentially nonviolent behavior including scuffles, truancy and cursing at teachers,” the New York Times reports [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/education/with-police-in-schools-more-children-in-court.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=all].
Police (and metal detectors) in the corridors of U.S. school are nothing new. As one my college students noted, at her New York City high school, students had to go through as much security every day to get to their classes as passengers do to get on airplanes, removing belts, shoes and anything with metal. Now, it seems that students can expect to see police officers as routinely as teachers.
“No Evidence” That Police in Schools Improves Safety -
The Obama administration has called for an increase in police officers in the nations’s schools. Indeed, since the 1990s, thousands of federal dollars have been allocated for “police resource officers” in elementary, middle and high schools since the 1990s. School districts including those of Houston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia have their own police forces.
A full-time police presence in school hallways certainly changes a school’s atmosphere, but as University of Maryland criminologist Denise C. Gottfredson says in the New York Times: “There is no evidence that placing officers in the schools improves safety. And it increases the number of minor behavior problems that are referred to the police, pushing kids into the criminal system.”
Rather than providing security, police officers end up dealing with disciplinary issues that schools themselves should address — instead of enhancing students’ safety, school districts hand over discipline to law enforcement. Having students cited for misbehavior teaches them nothing and certainly not positive, pro-active strategies for dealing with anger, impulsivity and other challenging behaviors.
Minority Students More Frequently Arrested -
What’s more, black and Latino/a students, as well as students with disabilities, are arrested or given criminal citations in disproportionate numbers, as civil rights groups including the NAACP report [http://b.3cdn.net/advancement/df16da132af1903e5b_zlm6bkclv.pdf]. Youth advocates have begun to fight back and not only because of the injustice of students having to face criminal courts for infractions such as cursing at teachers or truancy. Not only do they end up missing school for court appearances; students also face fines, community service and criminal charges on their record that can mean rejection from the military and jobs.
The case of 12-year-old De’Angelo Rollins is too typical. Soon after starting to attend Bryan Middle School in Texas (where some 100,000 misdemeanor tickets are written up for students in one year), he and another boy got into a scuffle and were both issued citations. De’Angelo had to go through “repeated court appearances;” he pleaded no contest and was fined $69 and sentenced to 20 hours of community service and four months probation.
Of course students must be safe in school, but simply calling in police officers is a sign that school districts are foregoing educating students and addressing their challenges. As no one less than Wallace B. Jefferson, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, said in a speech to the Legislature in March [http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/call-arms], “We are criminalizing our children for nonviolent offenses.”
Forget about a school-to-prison pipeline [http://www.care2.com/causes/the-school-to-prison-pipeline-students-weight-in.html]. What’s really going on in public schools in the U.S. is that school is prison, or a place where you’re under constant surveillance by the police.
Monday, April 8, 2013
2013-04-08 "Suisun City police, deputies use guns to remove disabled woman from home during illegal eviction; Occupy will help wheel-chair bound owner move belonging"
Contact: Sandra Williams [530-867-0671] [sewilliams55@aol.com]
SUISUN CITY, CA --
Less than two weeks after Sheriff's deputies and local police broke into the home of a 52-year-old disabled woman in a wheelchair, and evicted her and her family at gunpoint, she said Occupy volunteers will help her remove her belongings. She has called a press conference during the removal, starting this Monday (April 8), at about 10:30 a.m. (1215 pheasant drive, Suisun City).
Sandra Williams, a disabled African American mother of an injured Afghanistan War veteran, was told by a bankruptcy judge March 28 that he would give her no more time to resolve questions about foreclosure. Then, just hours later deputies and local police, who didn't identify themselves, pounded on the doors of the Suisun City home (breaking the front door) and -- and at gun point removed everyone in the home, including a Latino caretaker.
Ms Williams suffered an asthma attack and had to be rushed to the hospital after the home invasion. She had just been released from a two week stay in the hospital, Ms.Williams, now homeless, maintains she was illegally foreclosed on, and that she is a victim of identity theft. She said she has three different deeds of trust, and that someone used her personal identity and the notary public's information to record a false deed of trust on her home. She told that to the judge, but he didn't listen. Neither did deputies and police.
SUISUN CITY, CA --
Less than two weeks after Sheriff's deputies and local police broke into the home of a 52-year-old disabled woman in a wheelchair, and evicted her and her family at gunpoint, she said Occupy volunteers will help her remove her belongings. She has called a press conference during the removal, starting this Monday (April 8), at about 10:30 a.m. (1215 pheasant drive, Suisun City).
Sandra Williams, a disabled African American mother of an injured Afghanistan War veteran, was told by a bankruptcy judge March 28 that he would give her no more time to resolve questions about foreclosure. Then, just hours later deputies and local police, who didn't identify themselves, pounded on the doors of the Suisun City home (breaking the front door) and -- and at gun point removed everyone in the home, including a Latino caretaker.
Ms Williams suffered an asthma attack and had to be rushed to the hospital after the home invasion. She had just been released from a two week stay in the hospital, Ms.Williams, now homeless, maintains she was illegally foreclosed on, and that she is a victim of identity theft. She said she has three different deeds of trust, and that someone used her personal identity and the notary public's information to record a false deed of trust on her home. She told that to the judge, but he didn't listen. Neither did deputies and police.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
2013-04-07 "Memorials of Officer Jim Capoot defaced in Vallejo"
from "Vallejo Times-Herald" [www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_22973519/memorials-officer-jim-capoot-defaced-vallejo]:
Two memorials to slain Vallejo Officer Jim Capoot were defaced in the last week. The incidents seemed to have occurred between Wednesday and Thursday night, police said Saturday. In the memorial on Rollingwood Drive, an image of Capoot was spray-painted white, while the image of slain Officer Jeff Azuar was left untouched.
Additionally, the Vallejo Police Activities League mural on Wallace Avenue was again defaced. Capoot's image was also spray-painted white in that case, with swear words written around it as well as the slogan "fight the power."
Police vowed to continuously clean the memorials, and said neighbors were also keeping a watchful eye. Capoot was shot and killed in November 2011 as he pursued a robbery suspect in North Vallejo. Azuar was killed in April 2000 as he tried to serve a warrant.
Two memorials to slain Vallejo Officer Jim Capoot were defaced in the last week. The incidents seemed to have occurred between Wednesday and Thursday night, police said Saturday. In the memorial on Rollingwood Drive, an image of Capoot was spray-painted white, while the image of slain Officer Jeff Azuar was left untouched.
Additionally, the Vallejo Police Activities League mural on Wallace Avenue was again defaced. Capoot's image was also spray-painted white in that case, with swear words written around it as well as the slogan "fight the power."
Police vowed to continuously clean the memorials, and said neighbors were also keeping a watchful eye. Capoot was shot and killed in November 2011 as he pursued a robbery suspect in North Vallejo. Azuar was killed in April 2000 as he tried to serve a warrant.
Friday, March 15, 2013
BEWARE OF THE AGENT PROVOCATEUR
The agent provocateur may be a paid, or unpaid agent enlisted by the enemies of our folk. His function is
to infiltrate, disrupt, and/or destroy.
Like a Trojan Horse, the agent provocateur works to destroy our folkish communities from within. He does
this by first winning the trust and confidence of those he has targeted.
There are two kinds of provocateurs: the soft provocateur, and the hard provocateur. Both are dangerous to
the kindred, so be on guard.
The soft provocateur is an expert at the three D’s of destruction: Dissension, distraction, and disruption.
His arsenal includes fabrications, distortions, misrepresentations, and misinformation. He spreads slander
systematically and craftily; seeking to undermine the kindred leadership, and thus deny it of it’s driving force.
He plants seeds of doubt with the object of turning the kindreds attentions away from folkish activity, and
instead diverting it and it’s resources against itself. His modus operandi is: divide and conquer!
The hard provocateur is a more direct animal, and therefore a bit easier to detect and contain. He presents
himself as a man of action, and is consistently trying to lure others into illegal actions. It is implied that if you
don’t follow his plans of illegality, then you are somehow lacking in spirit or dedication. He thus uses
intimidation and peer pressure to entrap otherwise intelligent folk into participating in illegal schemes that are
both doomed to fail, and designed to place the kindred in a poor public light.
It’s imperative for kindred leadership to take decisive action against suspected agent provocateurs.
Whether a person is just plain gossipy or an actual provocateur is immaterial if, after repeated warnings the
gossiper persists, and the damage is real. As for suspected hard agent provocateurs, conspiracy laws demand quick and decisive action.
Consequently, the folk should be alert to the signs described, and report them to the kindred leadership.
Quick expulsion should follow if accusations are verified as to wrongful conduct, and net proof of whether one actually is an agent provocateur should be the standard. And if so proven, that person must be avoided by all, with even friendship taking a back seat to kindred security.
The folk communities must establish guidelines both within their own kindreds, and between each other.
Intra-organizatonal cooperation is absolutely required to prevent “floaters” from traveling from one group to
another.
* Beware of all strangers. Historically, resistance to tyrants has taken the form of small autonomous groups
whose members know and trust one another from long experience. These groups are then united by
common interest, common goals, and common literature. But, a strict hierarchy will soon be broken by the
tyrants’ agents.
* Beware of the man who is “too perfect.” He says all the right things, he needs little persuasion, and he
supplies money. The wealthy are usually in bed with the tyrant, and they are the last to oppose despotism.
* Be doubly aware of a stranger who proposes illegal activities. You will soon find him testifying against
you in Federal court.
* Beware of those who draw checks from the enemy. They are very likely to have divided loyalties. It is
difficult for a man to destroy the beast from whose teats he sucks.
* Avoid drunks, drug users, and anyone of unstable character. Always chose quality over quantity.
* Recognize the media tactics, and don’t react to buzz words. Religious separatists, White separatists, tax
resistors, and other groups are called cultists, bigots, Nazis, and other words which the masses are
conditioned to hate. After the media have demonized the target, as in Waco, Texas, the Government is free
to murder at will. Ask yourself, “Is it wrong for people to preserve their religion, their race, or to resist
oppressive taxation?”
* Beware of someone whose intellect, education, and background appear different from those with whom he
attempts to associate. Most people inter-relate with others of the same interests and backgrounds.
* Investigate. Do a little investigation. To be sure, the Federals can create good cover. But, they seldom
bother because up to now resistance groups have almost never checked their associates’ backgrounds.
* Recognize the ruthlessness of the tyrants, and act accordingly. A government which will mass murder
innocent women and children is not going to play “Fair” with you.
2013-03-15 "Berkeley Copwatch brutality alert: Where is Jeremy Carter?"
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfJk93rQguM]:
Berkeley Police Deliver Mental Health Services Rodeo Style!
This video was provided to Berkeley Copwatch on Wednesday March 13, 2013 by individuals who happened to be on the scene at the time. This incident is especially disturbing for several reasons.
1. Where is Jeremy Carter? The man in this video says his name is Jeremy Carter. Berkeley Copwatch has contacted Berkeley police, Santa Rita jail and John George Hospital. As of 3/16/13 none of these institutions has a record of any interaction with this person. WE DEMAND THAT BPD RELEASE INFORMATION ABOUT PERSONS TAKEN INTO THEIR CUSTODY AND THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO DIE IN THEIR CUSTODY.
2. According to witnesses, this person was not violent or resisting the officers involved. Although it alleged that he had a stay away order related to the library, he was not alleged to have harmed himself or anyone else. Were police justified in taking this person into custody and were they justified in using the level of force and restraints shown in this video?
3. According to dispatch records and the officer, this encounter became a "mental health" evaluation. If this is how people with mental health issues are treated in Berkeley at 11:30am on a busy city street, it raises troubling questions about what happened to Kayla (Xavier) Moore on February 12 in Berkeley when police decided to do a "medical eval" on her in her home. She died and if this is how BPD approaches these types of encounters, it is likely that BPD escalated the situation and then used great physical force on her.
4. Why are Berkeley officers continuing to harass by standers who are attempting to monitor the actions of officers? Why are they putting their hands on copwatchers?
Berkeley Police Deliver Mental Health Services Rodeo Style!
This video was provided to Berkeley Copwatch on Wednesday March 13, 2013 by individuals who happened to be on the scene at the time. This incident is especially disturbing for several reasons.
1. Where is Jeremy Carter? The man in this video says his name is Jeremy Carter. Berkeley Copwatch has contacted Berkeley police, Santa Rita jail and John George Hospital. As of 3/16/13 none of these institutions has a record of any interaction with this person. WE DEMAND THAT BPD RELEASE INFORMATION ABOUT PERSONS TAKEN INTO THEIR CUSTODY AND THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO DIE IN THEIR CUSTODY.
2. According to witnesses, this person was not violent or resisting the officers involved. Although it alleged that he had a stay away order related to the library, he was not alleged to have harmed himself or anyone else. Were police justified in taking this person into custody and were they justified in using the level of force and restraints shown in this video?
3. According to dispatch records and the officer, this encounter became a "mental health" evaluation. If this is how people with mental health issues are treated in Berkeley at 11:30am on a busy city street, it raises troubling questions about what happened to Kayla (Xavier) Moore on February 12 in Berkeley when police decided to do a "medical eval" on her in her home. She died and if this is how BPD approaches these types of encounters, it is likely that BPD escalated the situation and then used great physical force on her.
4. Why are Berkeley officers continuing to harass by standers who are attempting to monitor the actions of officers? Why are they putting their hands on copwatchers?
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