There has been continuing controversy over the heavy use of stop and frisks in New York — 700,000 in just 2011 alone. Only 2 percent turned up contraband and minority groups have objected to what they claim is profiling and harassment. This video gives an insight into the type of abuse that can occur in such incidents. In this video, a teenager named Alvin is stopped by three officers on the grounds that he looks “suspicious.” The officers are caught calling him a “fuckin’ mutt” and threatening to break his arm and beat him. He is roughed up and repeatedly told to “shut the fuck up” when he tries to ask questions.
The teen is never given any reason for the stop or the abuse. His secret recording capturing a torrent of abuse. One of the officer responds to his questions with “You want me to smack you?” while another tells him that he is being stopped “For being a fucking mutt.” Alvin’s arm is held behind his back as the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your fuckin’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the fuckin’ face.”
There is no indication by the NYPD of any punishment for the officers, though it generally takes public pressure to force departments to act on such YouTube videos. It is yet another example of how important these videos have become to deterring police abuse despite the efforts by prosecutors like Anita Alvarez in Chicago to arrest citizens recording officers. For a prior column, click here. As discussed in prior columns and blogs, police across the country have been arresting citizens who film them — a clear abuse of their rights and an effort to prevent citizens from creating incriminating videotapes increasingly used against police. This trend has continued (here) despite court rulings in favor of citizens. Politicians have done little to reaffirm the rights of citizens in these cases and officers are rarely subject to discipline for such arrests.
Source: Nation
idealist707 1, October 11, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Kay,
Number one:
You are correct. This is a universal rule around the world. If you don’t pay the guide, they won’t open the door to the inner sanctum for you.
BTW, will you stand for President if we get you njominted.
We knew you were special, but not an eidetic understudy to all of the Sct and several professors as well. What professions do you otherwise practice?
Might need to retain you sometime for my heart troubles.
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Perhaps that’s a bit over the top. Speak with specificity.
Gyges…..Yep…..
Dredd,
I think you’re on to something…..gulp….
“PKD? Philip K. Dick? Isn’t he the one style fits all writer. Stuck in a rut, like Tom Wolfe?”
Yes, but what a rut.
PKD? Philip K. Dick? Isn’t he the one style fits all writer. Stuck in a rut, like Tom Wolfe?
But if you say it is good, I can see what Amazon wants for used ones. Presume it is not available new now.
And that is not a putdown. Some greats of the near past are just not available. And the Library of Congress does not lend to me.
John Varley anyone? Besides his Nova etc award winners:
Press Return, and The persistence of Vision, the ones on his moon culture is fun.
People who choose to always stay in the same age range, who can decide to stay a child, although wiser than one. Or the idea of
private Disneylands or other environments of your choice such as swamps (some like them).
One child says of his 104 year old mother that it is good that they have sex to hold them together as they disagree on all else in life. Kinda hits you between your prejudices. But he does nice jobs too. Post-apocalyptic, etc. Like “Persistence….”. That will get the homophobes worked up. And the eugenic folks too.
Kay,
I write so slowly so sync is not possible, but I try.
“You know I, Kay Sieverding, wouldn’t put all these names and details on this blog with my name if I was worried that I would be sued for writing things that aren’t true”
One thing is obvious Kay. They have already screwed you. NB to all—-At the local level, although it quickly escalated to get the big dogs to bite you.
BTW, does this not confirm MikeS thesis that starting at the bottom is useless, as that is where the evil grip on people starts.
Yes, you have even to my “not a lawyer eyes” sees, or thinks he sees the malicious using of the conspiracy, etc to get you condemned without a trial. And incarcerated to boot. Where the EFF is the ACLU and the FBI? You are only one of many, many, many. All over this country.
The big question, in what way is the possible felon wired? Because he got not only preferable (not registered) handling of his building activities, but he got big time response to support him when you complained.
I mean who gets turned away at the police station with evidence to file in support of a complaint. Obviously one who complains against a very well known protected person. Oh, he had made the call to his protectors, but even so. Wow, what a blackhat he must be.
There are felons and there are felons. Some do narc for the CIA, other sell time-share, others laundry money.
OTOTOT One of the newest (?) billionaires is a SWEDE who owns a money changing firm, now worldwide.
It has been proven in Sweden that his firm regularly launders money for local thugs, etc.
Guess what he can do on the international scale?
No names, just think yellow as a trademark. This is newspaper stuff here.
So what your neighbor does under his cover is not for you to know but the police do as they are told by their chiefs. “Let’s go violate some rights today”.
Good luck again.
Gene,
If memory serves, it was published pretty recently, like in the last five or so years.
Gyges,
No, but I’ll certainly keep an eye out.
Kay,
Lot’s of chatter, maybe better than white noise OR listening to chaos recordings. (They say both are soothing, I hope mine is not.)
Who shares your genes? If they don’t exhibit your capabilities, what did your mom eat when you were being formed? Foetally heard music? Mozart? Other possible factors?
Assuming you are not obsessive, you then have a complete life. You are then saleable as a tool or politician.
Would replacing the current holder of Consumer Protection Agency (?) intereat you. If so, we could get the 100k which you need, or create a fund in your name to aid others, as you desire.
BTW, I am not stroking or stalking you.
Just dancing in happiness around you as a phenomenon.
Most who have your talents are either autistic or have Aspis, which is fine but not a big seller. Oh, you are both. Well, why not Prez again. We have had idiots so this should be an Aspis turn now.
Good luck. But don’t count on beating the system.
And watch out for having drugs planted in your garbage.
Feel paranoid? Obviously not, or you would exhibit those signs in what you have written.
Babble babble another time. Bedtime for me.
It’s been a good run today.
Gene,
Have you gotten a hold of PKD’s “Voice From the Street”? It’s not science fiction, and is really worth the read.
idealist
Actually when I filed my first lawsuit I would have paid up to $50 K for a lawyer and I had that in cash. It was hard because I was in Wisconsin and needed a lawyer in Denver. And, the big thing was that I needed a lawyer to sue a government and /or government officials. I am serious — there are hardly any lawyers who will sue governments or government officials. There are a few who do employment cases and one firm in Chicago that specializes in people who were freed on DNA evidence after at least 15 years in jail. But that’s it. My own lawyer, William B. Hibbard in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, specifically told me that he was terrified that if he represented me in a civil lawsuit, there would be retaliation against his law practice. My primary defendant, Kevin Michael Bennett, was rumored to be a bully. And even before I sued for damages I tried to get injunctive relief to make them enforce the zoning in the property next door, 701 Princeton Ave Steamboat Springs CO where Bennett added a free standing guest house and a freestanding two story building with heating and plumbing to a property which already had one house where the zoning only allowed one building with a sewer connection. I tried to get Tom Sharp of Sharp and Barney, which had represented my father in law Ray Sieverding for years to represent me and Tom said that if he had helped me he thought he would lose the Water & Sewer Commission account.
You know I, Kay Sieverding, wouldn’t put all these names and details on this blog with my name if I was worried that I would be sued for writing things that aren’t true.
Police are sodomisic pree flood warmoinmgers that will see Gods face as a consuming fire. Police need to be no more period.
Kay,
PS If you were president, you would not need a cabinet.
That is really saying that the buck stops here.
Gyges,
“I was quit when I came in here. I’m twice as quit now.” 😀
Kay,
Number one:
You are correct. This is a universal rule around the world. If you don’t pay the guide, they won’t open the door to the inner sanctum for you.
BTW, will you stand for President if we get you njominted.
We knew you were special, but not an eidetic understudy to all of the Sct and several professors as well. What professions do you otherwise practice?
Might need to retain you sometime for my heart troubles.
id707,
“Could” as the past of “can” in that context means be inherently able or designed to or to be logically or axiologically able to. Contrast with “would” as the past tense of “will” which would if it had been used in this context meant used to express probability and often equivalent to the simple verb (that will be the babysitter). The key distinction is probability. “Could” used this way is a statement of possibility whereas “would” would have been a statement of certainty (or fixed probability). “Could” means a possible answer but not necessarily the only answer. Ergo, your “disagreement” is actually a “supplement”.
“You know the score, pal! You’re not cop, you’re ‘little people.'”
There are a lot of things that could be done to help pro se litigants.
# 1 in my opinion is to make lawyers sign their documents under penalty of perjury. The biggest problem that I faced was not my incompetence because I am actually an excellent researcher plus I paid for a case database, bought my own law library, and had borrowing privileges at the U of Wisconsin law library. I mean seriously, I am an excellent researcher with supposedly a 99% reading speed, reading comprehension, and long term thinking abilities plus I had a great computer. Right now I have google search alerts on subjects that seem relevant. The biggest problem I had was fraudulent pleadings from the attorneys and an informal agreement between the attorneys and the judges not to follow the written rules. Right now I am waiting for Judge Bates to allow my proposed amended complaint to proceed and DOJ didn’t even file an objection. And I quoted the circuit court with jurisdiction that res judicata cannot be decided without an answer being filed. The big reason I want a lawyer is that I think they will follow the rules if I have a lawyer. Of course this is also related to the fact that the Rules of Professional Conduct are optional.
# 2 is to have a list of causes of action and not allow Rule 12(b)(6) motions if one of them is picked.
# 3 would be for Congress to decide exactly under which circumstances there is “immunity” and then that issue should be separately appealable by either the plaintiff or the defendant.
# 4 would be for ECF not to accept a motion unless there is a link to a rule and a statute. Not case law! No pro se orders are all based on the broke prisoner act AKA The Prisoner Litigation Reform Act. That allows broke prisoners to get extensions on paying filing fees only three times. From there case law quoted case law until now they order that free people can’t pay to file and have their documents accepted as is required by Rule 15(d).
DOJ actually filed a motion that I should not be able to file motions. That was the first DOJ counsel, the same one who misrepresented the Federal Register in at least three documents — David C. Rybicki, DC bar #976836.
# 5 would be to allow proof readers and editors to sell to pro se litigants. Right now proof readers and editors who are not lawyers advertise on the ABA website and sell to lawyers but pro ses can’t hire the exact same people.
#6 would be to require that the taxpayer paid ECF system be made available to pro ses who can form a pdf and upload it — about 99% of the pro se population. Without that the judges can’t search and cut and paste from pro se pleadings so they are tempted to ignore them.
# 7 would be to required that the taxpayer funded mediation services be made available to pro ses — as the federal statute requires. This is an alternative way to admit facts.
# 8 would be to actually put some teeth in our insurance regulations and make sure that insurance companies operating totally without regulation aren’t manipulating things, bribing judges, blackmailing judges etc. behind the scenes. In my case I have the attorney bills and they show calls to and from the courts to arrange the outcome of motions and they show that insurance companies who weren’t registered with the State of Colorado Division of Insurance were paying the bills and managing or influencing the defense strategy.
#9 would be a way to take a filing and cross out all the character evidence and unproven factual statements and then refile it in such a way that the judge sees it. In my case, the defense filed all these statements that I was mentally ill, obsessed, stupid etc. I tried to ignore them and no one can prove that they are not “obsessed”, not mentally ill etc. Plus the defense just misrepresented key facts. For instance I claimed that in Steamboat Springs Colorado I was prosecuted by the City in municipal court for trimming without a trimming permit — a non existent permit never issued to anyone because a gardener trimmed small branches from a tree that my neighbor also trimmed the same week as shown by photos I took. The defense filed in the 10th Circuit that the state employed district attorney prosecuted me for cutting down city owned trees.
This won’t do a lot of good for the life expectancy of NYPD officers.
BettyKath,
“Wouldn’t it be lovely for all of Manhattan to be a haven for rich white folks?”
Only if they did not have to pay taxes to run it. Need a few “middies” to run it, pay the costs, and serve our needs of the more qualified sort.
Good shot, yours!