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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:49 PM Jun 2014

Albuquerque protesters put police chief on mock trial for police brutality

The Police Department is under scrutiny for over 40 police shootings — 26 of them fatal — since 2010"

Protesters advocating for drastic changes within a police agency criticized by the U.S. Justice Department over its use of force put the embattled police chief 'on trial' during a rally Saturday
Hundreds of protesters some who brought children, marched from Roosevelt Park with signs and a makeshift coffin inscribed with names of people killed by Albuquerque officers in recent years.

The Police Department is under scrutiny for over 40 police shootings — 26 of them fatal — since 2010, and the Justice Department has issued a harsh report over the agency's use of force."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664501/Albuquerque-protesters-police-chief-trial.html

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Albuquerque protesters put police chief on mock trial for police brutality (Original Post) damnedifIknow Jun 2014 OP

I love how the dailymail shitbloid posts a truthful piece every once in a while snooper2 Jun 2014 #1

What source would you prefer? Savannahmann Jun 2014 #2

depends on what the top is..if it's about Lindsey Lohan CNN would probably work fine snooper2 Jun 2014 #3

Another damnedifIknow Jun 2014 #4

so do you like my sources? snooper2 Jun 2014 #9

kick Liberal_in_LA Jun 2014 #5

Amazing, they've heard about our bad cops even in the UK Warpy Jun 2014 #6

Why do you hate the cops??? Cop hater! nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #7

I blame the right for this mess damnedifIknow Jun 2014 #8

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

1. I love how the dailymail shitbloid posts a truthful piece every once in a while

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:58 PM

Jun 2014

to try to show that they have some "cred" LOL

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)

2. What source would you prefer?

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:59 PM

Jun 2014

If this messenger is questionable, which news source do you prefer out of curiosity?

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

3. depends on what the top is..if it's about Lindsey Lohan CNN would probably work fine

Reply to Savannahmann (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 01:03 PM

Jun 2014

If it's about WebRTC I'll probably just pull the RFC itself-

I prefer to learn about the cosmos via awesome programming on the Discovery Channel

If I need to find out if a DOHC head for a 1994 Altima is on an interference engine I'll probably hit some buddies up on YouTube.

World affairs I tend to turn to programming and content by VICE- (The best and last journalists in the World)

If I want to learn about pit bull training, tip messages left on reciepts and of course, nipples, I come to DU

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)

4. Another

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 01:08 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3481877.shtml

It's a scene that is becoming all too familiar in Albuquerque, activists taking the streets in protest against APD. This comes after the U.S. Department of Justice found a culture of aggression with the department.

"I'm here to represent my son Alfred Redwine and all the people that have been brutalized by APD," said Sandra Othole. Othole is the mother of Alfred Redwine, who was shot by APD in 2013.

Redwine and 27 others have been shot by APD since 2010.

Each of those killed is represented today with a makeshift tombstone. There was also a casket full of names of people killed by police across the country. A message to end police brutality in a peaceful way."

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

9. so do you like my sources?

Reply to Savannahmann (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:56 PM

Jun 2014

damn I'm curious now!

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

5. kick

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 02:21 PM

Jun 2014

Warpy

(111,245 posts)

6. Amazing, they've heard about our bad cops even in the UK

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:14 PM

Jun 2014

It's kind of embarrassing.

It would be better if they didn't carry military stuff with them and they did carry things like beanbag guns instead. Boyd could have been stopped with a beanbag or two, one of them in the breadbasket is enough to take the fight out of most people.

My own dealings with them have been 100% professional, but I'm a honky and a now retired nurse and I know the difference those make. I'd still like them to keep the flash-bangs locked up and the beanbag rounds in the trunk instead of the reverse.

Screening some of them for steroid abuse might also be a good idea.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

7. Why do you hate the cops??? Cop hater!

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:29 PM

Jun 2014

Seriously, when even the far-right-as-Fox Daily Mail reports on police brutality, you know things are bad.

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)

8. I blame the right for this mess

Reply to nomorenomore08 (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:50 PM

Jun 2014

Then again things haven't been exactly peaches and cream lately either. I don't hate cops as much as I hate wrong and it's a curse when a person still knows the difference between.

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