Wherever you read these articles, that oftentimes gets buried by the mainstream media, unless public outcry forces them to cover them, the offenders are usually the same white police officers egregiously assaulting and murdering people of color, usually Black Americans.
Regular Americans have become watchdogs over police because their departments, unions, and the political power structure that have authority over them refuses steadfastly to hold these racist murderers accountable.
Instead, they continue with the false narrative that police abuses are isolated incidents, or worse, do not exist at all.
Private CCTV cameras have become enemies of police crime to the extent that the body-worn cameras that taxpayers pay for to hold them accountable generally never gets turned on when they are abusing members of the public, end up being manipulated, evidence removed, and the public told it has no right to those recordings.
It is a vast conspiracy between the police, their unions, prosecutors and Judges, and political patrons.
The fact that any American Police officer is now being held accountable is a function of decades of agitation from Black People who decided that they would no longer sit still while white race soldiers in police uniforms continue to murder and otherwise abuse them.
The events in 2020 in which Derek Chauvin openly murdered George Floyd in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have shone an unyielding spotlight on police crimes across America that can longer be denied and make an abject fool of cop apologist.
The rash of evidence that proves that most police officers are racist bullies or weak-kneed cowards who refuse to step in and prevent crime can no longer be denied.
Recent laws in some municipalities that seek to punish officers for not stopping their colleagues from assaulting members of the public are still a work in progress.
It will be interesting to see how these cases are treated by pro-police right-wing judges, to the extent that cases of that nature are brought before the court, considering the pro-police abuse complicity of so many prosecutor’s offices.
None of these atrocities would have come to light if the public still depended on Police departments to do the right thing, investigate allegations of abuse by their officers, and take the appropriate corrective measures against cops who clearly are abusing their authority.
It too citizens journalists to gather footage, sometimes risking life and limb on highways when they see police abusing other citizens.
It is not without risk to film their crimes as we saw just days ago in a Miami Beach hotel lobby where a swarm of those uniformed thugs brutally attacked a single Black man who had already surrendered and was handcuffed like rabid dogs and brutally assaulted him and a bystander who had the courage to film the encounter.
These kinds of events are not anomalies; they are the norm. For as long as I can recall, the mainstream media glorified police and ignored police abuse, in my mind, gratuitously portraying police as heroes to be thanked and worshipped above every other category of workers.
As a former police officer, I never understood the reason for that until later, when I began to understand how these institutions were set up and lionized and made to be protectors of white supremacy.
Almost two decades after the FBI warned that white supremacists had invaded police departments, neither the departments nor government at any level took any steps to root out these white terrorists from their midsts.
To begin with, these police departments were a mere step up from the slave patrols from which they were genesis, so, understandably, no one would take the warnings seriously or consider doing anything about them.
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S.C. officer fired and arrested after stomping man in head, authorities say…
Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Officer David Lance Dukes is charged with first-degree assault and battery in the July 26 attack, officials said
A police officer in Orangeburg has been fired and arrested after stomping the head of a man who was on his hands and knees, causing his head to hit the concrete, South Carolina authorities said. Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Officer David Lance Dukes is charged with first-degree assault and battery in the attack on July 26, according to a warrant from the State Law Enforcement Division. Dukes ordered a 58-year-old man who walks with a stick to the ground, but he moves carefully because he has pins and rods in his leg from a previous injury, attorney Justin Bamberg told The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg.
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“Because of my client’s disability, he’s relatively slow,” Bamberg said. The man suffered a bruise to his forehead and was taken to the hospital by paramedics, according to the arrest warrant. Dukes’ lawyer said he fully cooperated with the state police and is taking the case seriously. “This is a difficult situation and an unfortunate situation,” Jack Furse said. “He has absolutely no violent history, and he’s not a proclivity to violence.”
Orangeburg Public Safety officials said Dukes, 38, was fired after their own review of the incident, which was captured on a body camera.
Bamberg said he hopes the city will release that footage. (by the AP)