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Is America a Police state?

painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
When the protesters camp was broken up all the personal property seized was tossed into garbage trucks. Nice to know that personal property is respected by the police, I wonder what happened to any valuables?

wa:do
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
It's good that the gov't had so many armed thugs....those grandmothers can get so huffy!
News from The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny's restaurant in Riverside County.
But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 74-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Stockton Homeowner Wants Police To Fix Trashed House « CBS Sacramento

“When she opened the house at 7 in the morning she asked them to come in, all they kept saying is, ‘Are you in danger? Are you in danger for your life?’ She kept saying, ‘No, my kids are in here, you can come in here if you like,’” Rice said.
Rice says police didn’t listen. They grabbed her daughter and threw her in a police car for four hours and then into a jail cell.
While police shot tear gas into the home, a mother dog and her three puppies were still inside the house.
“They told her if there was anything left in that house, it’s dead,” she said. “We were hysterical and thought the puppies were dead, the other dog was dead.”
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
The teen had her arms raised & was stationary when the cop shot her in the groin with his taser.

Police Officer Tasers 14-Year-Old Girl | NBC Philadelphia

An excerpt....
Allentown Police claim Wilson was cursing and inciting a group of people. They say that she then twisted away from the officer when he went in to arrest her for disorderly conduct. Ammary leaned her against the trunk of the car to place handcuffs on her but she continued to resist and elbowed him in the chin, according to police. The Morning Call reports that Allentown Assistant Police Chief Joseph Hanna claimed the officer was justified in using the Taser because of the "use-of-force continuum."


I wonder if I could shoot someone who is no thread by claiming "use-of-force-continuium"?
 
painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
Unfit for duty: How Florida's rogue police officers remain on the street | HeraldTribune.com
Thousands of Florida officers remain on the job despite arrests or evidence implicating them in crimes that could have landed them in prison, a Herald-Tribune investigation has found.
Even those officers with multiple offenses have been given chance after chance through a disciplinary system that has been reshaped in their favor by the state's politically influential police unions. As a result, officers around Florida carry personnel files that are anything but heroic.
Corrections officer Kurt Stout, already dogged by allegations he groped and had sex with prisoners, was arrested on allegations he raped two teenage girls. Nick Viaggio capped a string of violent outbursts at the Ocala Police Department by attacking his girlfriend in a crowded nightclub until bouncers dragged him away. Palm Beach County deputy Craig Knowles-Hiller, under investigation for sleeping with a 14-year old, had to explain why the girl's DNA was found on one of his sex toys.
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If we aren't a police state why can they keep getting away things like this?



wa:do
 
FlyingTeaPot

FlyingTeaPot

Irrational Rationalist. Educated Fool.
Apparently America is soon to become a military dictatorship if Obama does not veto the defence bill with the provisions for indefinite detainment of US citizens by the military. Good luck America! Your constitution is apparently a worthless piece of yellowing paper.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
"Policing for profit"
It's the strategy of enforcing laws for revenue more than for deterring wrongful behavior.
Think of it as an inverse lottery, with which authorities ensnare the unwary & fleece them.
Trash Can Tickets In Queens
A $100 ticket for putting trash cans out half an hour too early.
 
JacobEzra.

JacobEzra.

Dr. Greenthumb
Revoltingest said:
The teen had her arms raised & was stationary when the cop shot her in the groin with his taser.

Police Officer Tasers 14-Year-Old Girl | NBC Philadelphia

An excerpt....
Allentown Police claim Wilson was cursing and inciting a group of people. They say that she then twisted away from the officer when he went in to arrest her for disorderly conduct. Ammary leaned her against the trunk of the car to place handcuffs on her but she continued to resist and elbowed him in the chin, according to police. The Morning Call reports that Allentown Assistant Police Chief Joseph Hanna claimed the officer was justified in using the Taser because of the "use-of-force continuum."


I wonder if I could shoot someone who is no thread by claiming "use-of-force-continuium"?
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Saw this on the news when it happened. Its a shame, and I hope the cop gets punished. Im still surprised the way the Cops treated the mother. My brother was once abused by a cop, though personally I think he deserved it lol, anyway, we went to the police and filed a report and it got reviewed. All that happened was that he pretty much got off the hook.
 
JacobEzra.

JacobEzra.

Dr. Greenthumb
As much as I dislike the current state of the Government, and advocate many reforms, I still do not see the country as a Police State. In fact, I get a bit offended when hearing people say such. You want to see a Police State? Look at old Reich film and history. THAT was a police state under the NAZI regime, as well as Stalin and the Soviet satalite states. America is not even close.
 
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