..or at least it should be.
Joy-Ann Reid reminds us what once was a popular theme being pushed by "conservatives" when it comes to the role of the police. When questioning police tactics & militarization amounted to un-American police bashing.
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Link to the Reid Report: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
And to take that thought further; that only republicans can be trusted to "lead" when it comes to domestic policing along with the myth that it is the GOP we must turn to in foreign affairs; that only republicans can "understand" the necessity and therefore are qualified to control our military war machine.
What we are witnessing today is the upending of that long held (propagandized) fiction - imo
Rachel Maddow reports on another police incident (not Michael Brown), that within 23 seconds of police arriving on the scene, a young AA male, Kajieme Powell, is shot by both officers a total of 12 times - killing him. Police officers were equipped with tazers and in some vehicles, with video cameras. Neither were used.
link: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
Later in the video Rachel Maddow covers the efforts of state senator Jamilah Nasheed (D - Mo.) and other activists to deliver petitions with 70 thousand signatures to the procecutors office asking the county prosecutor to recuse himself, but were turned away by officials and police. A public building
Lawrence O'Donnell asks: Who is Darren Wilson? in this video (apologies I can't embed this format): Here is the link to the video: http://www.msnbc.com/...
It turns out Darren Wilson was a member of a police unit so corrupt it had to be disbanded.
FERGUSON, Mo. — The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.
Darren Wilson then moved on to the Ferguson police
In the Lawrence O'Donnell video is commentary and analysis by defense attorney and columnist for the St Louis American newspaper Lizz Brown with law enforcement analyst and retired ATF special agent in charge Jim Cavanaugh discussing corrupt police officers with connections to and involvement in fringe/racist groups; police department tactics and methods that are far outside of regular protocol in violation of the most basic code of conduct.
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Also in the Lawrence O'Donnell video: Another police officer has been exposed and now suspended after a video showing Dan Page St. Louis county police department saying this:
"I don't care if you're Christian or not, I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord an savior, but I'm also a killer.
I've killed a lot. And if I need to, I'll kill a whole bunch more.
If you don't want to get killed, don't show up in front of me. It's that simple."[...]
'Now this here is Kenya. I had my own airplane. I had me a Lear jet. I said I'm going to find me where that illegal alien is claiming to be my president...my undocumented president lives at. So I flew to Africa uf, right there. So I went to our undocumented presidents home. He was born in Kenya."
Dan Page showed up in Ferguson to do "crowd control". He is the officer who justifies brutal tactics
(including the threat of killing those who dare to stand up before him) as being necessary, was the officer who got caught when he
shoved reporter Don Lemon around. He has been suspended and ordered into psychological counseling for his misogynistic/racist/ inflammatory activities
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Kudos: There has been excellent reporting here @ Daily Kos on the most recent militarization of police forces, numerous assault on peaceful protesters voicing their grievances, and documentation of covered up murder done by the police that we are witnessing in real time.
So just wanted to look back on the 'Giuliani Time' part of this too. This police corruption is going on everywhere it seems. In small towns and in big metropolitan cities.
These stories being reported has uncovered more needed truth - imo - that "conservatives" from days past along with those that were swept into office in 2010 are not fit to lead or to be trusted in, what so far as I can tell, any office/postition at any level, in any department that can be used (corrupted) as a means to oppress people that they don't consider their "equals".
It's working - awareness is growing
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Thx for stopping by :)
Darn.. this was supposed to be finished up hours ago, and I'm being a bad boy on some chores, be back in a bit