From the Guardian:
When police carried out a routine stop-and-search of her boyfriend on the London Underground, Gemma Atkinson filmed the incident. She was detained, handcuffed and threatened with arrest. She launched a legal battle, which ended with the police settling the case in 2010. With the money from the settlement she funded the production of this animated film, which she says shows how her story and highlights police misuse of counterterrorism powers to restrict photography
Richard Taylor spoke to BBC News after the horrific events that ended in the death of Andrew Pimlott.
In 2011, I made a post showing how the police in America were becoming more militarized. The recent events in Boston show just how complete the trend towards turning the police into a defacto military has come should be deeply troubling for all Americans.
Here are some photos from Boston that emphasizes that point. You can click on the pictures to see them full sized.
Nebraska police officers chase down and arrest a man who was video recording the police abusing another man. A third man records the entire incident from what looks like a second story room across the street.
The quote below was taken from the YouTube description. I’ve left the numerous spelling and grammatical errors as they were. It’s still readable and easily understood what the video author was conveying.
The two males were seeing why the vehicles were being towed. The male in the blue truck pulled up late after getting out he asked officers why the cars were being towed, cops asked him things which i wasnt able to hear he moved towards the front left fender then towards the front bumper when he started walking back towards his drivers door it seemed to appear thats what he was either directed to do or was doing out of free will.
Instantly the officer from behind him pursued a takedown forcing extreme force just to cuff him. The office put his knee in his back and neck taking multiple punches also the brother was recording and the officer seen him as to close to the other officers while doing so they proceeded with all that he moved to the side walk the rest of what he did was on the video but when the man filming took off towards the house to give the camera to his aunt, who is handicapped and wheel chair bound sitting in the hallway the whole time when he got into the house she was knocked down. Later admitted by the officer arresting him outside. I was not able to hear much more then the camera itself so everything they said was not heard.
More.
9 April 2013 UPDATE: Four officers have been fired for use of excessive force following this incident.
Chris Yves Dabel found a canister of pepper spray near Terminal 2 at JFK International Airport. Dabel mistook the pepper spray for a laser pointer and ended up injuring his coworkers.
The screener sprayed five other TSA agents around him, sending all six to Jamaica Hospital and halting security checks at Kennedy for at least 15 minutes, police said.
No passengers reported injuries. Dabel refused medical attention.
TSA officials scrambled to keep the embarrassing incident under wraps yesterday — until The Post began inquiring about it, a source said.
These are the high quality folks that are providing “security” for you and me. Oh, and the TSA had its own laughable response to the situation.
A spokesperson for the TSA gave us this statement: “Yesterday morning, out of an abundance of caution, six TSA officers at JFK Airport were transported to a local hospital after being exposed to pepper spray. Officers were examining an abandoned item to determine its contents and to move it out of harm’s way when it accidentally discharged. Travelers and other airport employees were not exposed to the spray.”
Nothing to see here folks. Move along now.
