Rise of the Warrior Cop

[backtoiam]

This came from the gov site. I didn't provide the link. You know you won't click it anyway.

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, September 28, 2015
Launch of Strong Cities Network to Strengthen Community Resilience Against Violent Extremism

Cities are vital partners in international efforts to build social cohesion and resilience to violent extremism. Local communities and authorities are the most credible and persuasive voices to challenge violent extremism in all of its forms and manifestations in their local contexts. While many cities and local authorities are developing innovative responses to address this challenge, no systematic efforts are in place to share experiences, pool resources and build a community of cities to inspire local action on a global scale.

“The Strong Cities Network will serve as a vital tool to strengthen capacity-building and improve collaboration,” said Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch. “As we continue to counter a range of domestic and global terror threats, this innovative platform will enable cities to learn from one another, to develop best practices and to build social cohesion and community resilience here at home and around the world.”

The Strong Cities Network (SCN) – which launches September 29th at the United Nations – will empower municipal bodies to fill this gap while working with civil society and safeguarding the rights of local citizens and communities.

The SCN will strengthen strategic planning and practices to address violent extremism in all its forms by fostering collaboration among cities, municipalities and other sub-national authorities.

“To counter violent extremism we need determined action at all levels of governance,” said Governing Mayor Stian Berger Røsland of Oslo while commenting on their participation in the SCN. “To succeed, we must coordinate our efforts and cooperate across borders. The Strong Cities Network will enable cities across the globe pool our resources, knowledge and best practices together and thus leave us standing stronger in the fight against one of the greatest threats to modern society.”

The SCN will connect cities, city-level practitioners and the communities they represent through a series of workshops, trainings and sustained city partnerships. Network participants will also contribute to and benefit from an online repository of municipal-level good practices and web-based training modules and will be eligible for grants supporting innovative, local initiatives and strategies that will contribute to building social cohesion and resilience to violent extremism.

The SCN will include an International Steering Committee of approximately 25 cities and other sub-national entities from different regions that will provide the SCN with its strategic direction. The SCN will also convene an International Advisory Board, which includes representatives from relevant city-focused networks, to help ensure SCN builds upon their work. It will be run by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a leading international “think-and-do” tank with a long-standing track record of working to prevent violent extremism:

“The SCN provides a unique new opportunity to apply our collective lessons in preventing violent extremism in support of local communities and authorities around the world”, said CEO Sasha Havlicek of ISD. “We look forward to developing this international platform for joint innovation to impact this pressing challenge.”

“It is with great conviction that Montréal has agreed to join the Strong Cities Network founders,” said the Honorable Mayor Denis Coderre of Montreal. “This global network is designed to build on community-based approaches to address violent extremism, promote openness and vigilance and expand upon local initiatives like Montréal’s Mayors’ International Observatory on Living Together. I am delighted that through the Strong Cities Network, the City of Montréal will more actively share information and best practices with a global network of leaders on critical issues facing our communities.”

The Strong Cities Network will launch on Sept. 29, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT, following the Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism. Welcoming remarks will be offered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, who will also introduce a Keynote address by U.S. Attorney General Lynch. Following this event, the Strong Cities International Steering Committee, consisting of approximately 25 mayors and other leaders from cities and other sub-national entities from around the globe, will hold its inaugural meeting on Sept. 30, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT.

[82_28]

It's pretty clear that whoever funds the contractors are trying to close an earnings gap with surplus weaponry and ammo. Always in search of a solution to a problem created by themselves. There are a lot of problems to be sure. But nothing that in my life requires La Policia. I think I wrote it in this thread, who knows anymore -- certainly not me! that I basically will never call the cops again UNLESS I witness something ruthlessly evil and harmful and a crazy response is needed. Calling 911 is basically voluntarily pitting idiots versus other idiots all being engaged in something you don't want or anyone else a part of.

[backtoiam]

It's pretty clear that whoever funds the contractors are trying to close an earnings gap with surplus weaponry and ammo. Always in search of a solution to a problem created by themselves. There are a lot of problems to be sure. But nothing that in my life requires La Policia. I think I wrote it in this thread, who knows anymore -- certainly not me! that I basically will never call the cops again UNLESS I witness something ruthlessly evil and harmful and a crazy response is needed. Calling 911 is basically voluntarily pitting idiots versus other idiots all being engaged in something you don't want or anyone else a part of.

I remain amazed by the increasing number of incidents in which completely innocent people are beaten senseless or even killed when they dial the emergency line for an ambulance, fire department, or god forbid the police. People in wheelchairs being tazed, beaten senseless, or shot dead in their very own wheelchairs. The wheelchair videos are online but they are so sad I don't want to post them.

People taken to jails for minor offenses often end up getting beaten to such a severe degree that their facial bones are shattered, life changed forever. Sometimes killed in manner so savage that it saddens the heart. Strapped into restraint chairs, spit mask on face, pepper spray put directly on the spit mask, left to suffocate in smoldering pepper fumes. One tactic is to strap a person into a restraint chair, bend them forward, strap them down too tight, until they suffocate.

70 year old ladies dragged from their vehicles for refusing to sign speeding tickets, tazed, beaten senseless, taken to jail. Pregnant women being tazed for the same.

If a person is truly scared of a police officer and displays even a minor degree of self protection it is an automatic trigger for a lot of cops these days to fracture a person's skull or just go ahead and shoot them.

I am very sad to see what has become of what I used to consider a safe place to live. When I grew up most of the police officers sincerely wanted to help people, with the asshole cop being the minority in law enforcement. I used to have a lemonade stand when I was a kid. The police officers would stop and give me a dime for a glass of lemonade, and it made my day. I thought cops were awesome when I was a kid and if I saw one I might just walk up to him and talk to him. They didn't get out of the vehicle and harass the kid and family to shut it down because "they were acting in commerce without permission." Now days if a family attempts to resist such it might escalate into a full on swat team killing the family dog and beating everybody into a coma.

Some of the videos online of what is happening today are heart breaking. People are becoming very afraid of law enforcement these days, and they should be. Calling an ambulance for your 70 year old father that needs medical attention, but doesn't want to go to the hospital and needs to be talked to so that he can be convinced to go the hospital for his own benefit, can get you killed.

I"m glad i'm old. I am very glad that I am not 15 years old and will live to see what will become of all this. It has changed so much in my own lifetime, I cannot begin to imagine what it might turn into in the span of another lifetime.

I know what I wrote is depressing, but it is, very depressing, no way around it...when even the judges rubber stamp this behavior there is no safe haven.

When I was a kid the judge would have have fired a cop for this and put his ass in jail. No more...

[82_28]

I'm not quite old but am getting there, but you are exactly right. One time some friends and I were lighting off illegal fireworks while trespassing (this is something I can't remember whether I told again) but someone had called the cops that someone was firing machine guns. It was the middle of the night and one single cop with a flashlight broke our little thing up. Told us to follow him and we did -- through a forested area -- wrote us tickets.

Then when we went to court the judge noticed that all of us were the same case so he called us up together. He told us that boys can't have fun anymore and didn't understand it and threw it all out -- no fines no nothing. Um yeah, like that would happen today. The cop let us follow him in the dark with no back-up. This also was pre-columbine and in the exact same city -- Littleton. Imagine!

[backtoiam]

Brave police officer literally puts professional wrestling move on young female student and piles drives on her head while she is sitting in her school desk.

SC sheriff fires deputy who slammed black student in classroom

Richland County, South Carolina has fired Ben Fields, the sheriff’s deputy recorded using force on an African-American student during a school discipline incident. Footage of Fields throwing the student across the classroom has caused outrage.

“From the very beginning that’s what’s caused me to be upset, and continued to upset me is that he picked the student up and threw the student across the room,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said at a press conference Wednesday, announcing that Fields was being let go.

The department interviewed witnesses and reviewed several cell-phone videos taken in the classroom, and concluded the moves Fields used in the confrontation were “not acceptable.”

After talking to Fields, the sheriff said the deputy “tried to do his job,” but that he should not have used force against the student. While the teen was non-compliant and disrespectful, Lott said, she was not a danger to the deputy.

“This has been a very difficult situation for all of us,” Lott said, urging the community to use the incident as a teachable moment.

“Police officers make mistakes too, and they have to be held accountable. That’s what we’ve done,” said the sheriff, adding that the student should also be held responsible for disrupting the classroom.

https://www.rt.com/usa/319983-deputy-sl ... ent-fired/

also bravely arrests another little girl for filming it

SC student arrested for recording school cop’s violent assault on classmate sitting in her desk

A South Carolina high school student who witnessed her classmate being physically abused by a school resource officer was arrested and held on $1,000 bond for filming the incident.

Niya Kenny, 18, told WLTX she was shocked and disturbed when she saw Officer Ben Fields flipping her female classmate out of her desk and pinning her to the ground for refusing to leave class.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/sc-stud ... -her-desk/

[82_28]

Yeah that amazes me. Back in my day I'd be like fuck yeah I'll leave. Why did she want to stay in class? It must be that you can't ditch anymore or something/roam the halls or simply leave the building. I ditched about 80% of all classes in HS and just fucked around when I got kicked out for being a "class clown". I don't know how shit works anymore, but just on the sheer violence that cop should be fired and the city/district sued by the multiple kids that had to witness that. The actions of the cop are not normal.

[backtoiam]

Heros deserve attention, give it up for this brother. This is worth listening to.

God bless his brave ass We had a lot of these when I was a kid

[backtoiam]

This gives me an idea for a website nobody has done yet. "American Police Force, Heros And Zeros" (go for it elvis)

A contrast between what goodness may remain in our police force, juxtaposed against cruelty. This could incite kindness in police officers to go viral on youtube with acts of kindness? Doubtful, but worth considering...cops themselves would probably start submitting videos, in an effort to be kind cop of the month. This could cause good cops, what is left of them, to aggregate in a collective force? Wishful thinking, but worth considering...

Collecting goodness, and broadcasting it, is a good thing, if and only if you can keep the message from being corrupted. It would also give substantial credence to the notion that police officers should indeed be filmed.

Police Officer Defuses Confrontation With a Dance-Off 17-year-old girl

[General Patton]

Maybe she wasn't a popular student?

https://www.rt.com/usa/320204-students- ... er-firing/
Hundreds of students at Spring Valley High School, South Carolina walked out in protest over the firing of school resource officer Ben Fields. The sheriff deputy's lost his job for slamming and dragging a female student out of a desk earlier this week.

The students walked out of class 10 am Friday morning and into the school’s atrium for a 15 minutes protest before administrators ordered them to class. Video and photos captured the event.



"He was a great guy," student London Harrell told local WISTV. "He protected us and everything. He was our school resource officer. We always could depend on him and everything. Every time I saw him, he was always joking around with people. It was never like ‘Oh, I’m about to body slam you.'”
...
The sheriff's department interviewed witnesses and reviewed several cell phone videos taken in the classroom, and concluded the moves Fields used in the confrontation were "not acceptable."

After talking to Fields, Sheriff Leon Lott said the deputy "tried to do his job," but that he should not have used force against the student. While the teen was non-compliant and disrespectful, Lott said, she was not a danger to the deputy.

[82_28]

Whatever. How many kids like him doesn't matter. He normalized brutality in their minds. It could have easily not gone that way. EASILY.

[backtoiam]

Maybe she wasn't a popular student?

Interesting perhaps, but lack of popularity is not grounds to get head slammed into the floor in the U.S.

Unless of course I missed the vote that declares a mildly recaltricant student should be body slammed upside down on the floor in a judo hold.

When I was a kid, had anybody, no matter who they were, should have done this to a child sitting in a desk at school, would have been beaten the hell out of, and put in jail. We didn't roll this way when I was young.

Our schools were sacrosanct. This shit could not have happened.

I doubt the authenticity of the "bring back fields" shirts.

But as I always say, or coffindodger said better than I, basically, reality never materializes, and when you think it did, it does not, and then it happens again.

Karl Rove said something similar.

[82_28]

No, that would have never happened in my youth either. Here is how I would have handled it as a bartender who is in more danger than a cop since we aren't armed or have any training in brutalizing people: Alright, it's time to go. Just get up and we'll talk it out in the hallway and see what you need with the counselor.

Being friendly but forceful would have gone a long way no matter how much of a punk the girl was. You don't do that shit to an adolescent -- or anyone unless you absolutely have to given a dangerous situation. This female subject posed no threat.

Prepare to be sued whatever school district you are.

[General Patton]

I'm not sure if he would of even suffered a meaningful punishment had the incident not been filmed. If there are this many students who want him back, and had it not been filmed, he would of had many witnesses in his favor.

[Iamwhomiam]

I had a long piece composed, complete with quote from an article, but my mac crashed a few hours ago and just now managed to get back online. Now I cannot locate the articles, one dealing with the students rallying behind the fired Spring Valley cop or the one I had excerpted the desired quotes from.

Maybe she wasn't a popular student?

For some, schools are a viper pit; for some others, it is a haven and for others yet, it can be both.

How about maybe her mother just died and she's been tossed into foster care?

It should be apparent how very light desks of that design are, and they seem to "stick" to you when rising. It doesn't appear she really resisted, at least not before he twisted her arm backwards beyond its natural range. As I heard on radio commentator say, "He could have carried her and the desk gently out of the room."

So now we have another young person of color being charged for criminal offenses being introduced into our justice system where she, without more caring guardianship, will probably have her cast removed within the confines of a correctional facility. I can't imagine how lost, how scared, and how very alone she must be feeling.

The "nice guy" cop will get some of what he deserves, but what of the insensitive, over-reactive teacher? She gets to teach on and have another day to call in a cop to deal rashly with such another mildly disobedient student?

[Nordic]

maybe she wasn't a popular student?

That's one of the most offensive things I've read here in a while.