Chief Estella Patterson confirmed that the officers resigned, calling the situation “deeply troubling.”

Seven police officers were also suspended pending investigations into allegations that they had exceeded their authority.

Rama, who is serving his fourth term and has refused to resign, visited businesses damaged during the unrest on Saturday. He promised to listen to students and protect their right to demonstrate, while warning against further destruction.

Eryn Bonner, a 21-year-old Black college student in Arizona, faced a felony charge of aggravated assault on a first responder after a confrontationwith Tempe police earlier this year — a charge that carried a potential prison sentence of more than two years.

However, Maricopa County prosecutors declined to pursue the charges because no video shows Bonner assaulting a police officer, even though at least three separate cameras recorded her arrest.

Instead, the videos show Tempe police officers shoving and punching her and groping her buttocks during the encounter. The footage prompted Bonner to file an internal affairs complaint about a month after the incident, accusing Officer Daniel Ireland of sexual assault.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/north_carolina/p/1246670/investigation-uncovers-a-secret-charlotte-mecklenburg-police-department-group-chat-that-was

While investigating an incident of alleged officer misconduct, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) uncovered a secret text thread between cops allegedly filled with uses of the N-word and a contest over who could pull over the most Black drivers. An internal investigation is now underway as the involved officers have either resigned or face potential termination in what community leaders are calling a disturbing case of systemic police racism.

always remember that your local news' helicopter/traffic reporter is a cop and they will relay information directly to police whenever the need/opportunity arises

Retired SFPD sergeant Kevin Mannix shot & killed his wife, retired deputy chief (& 1st SFPD woman SWAT officer) Ann Mannix & their 25 year old daughter Katie Mannix.

From a small crowd of protesters, the eighty-year-old is grabbed by two young Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers. Struggling to walk—Ball is blind in one eye and suffers from the effects of two heart attacks—he’s taken to a wall and slammed face first into the brick before being handcuffed. Shortly afterward, according to Ball, he’s dumped roughly into the back of a police car and sent to the station to be reprimanded. Everything happens in the space of a few minutes, turning an ordinary act of civic participation into a hellish ordeal.

When Ball saw someone snatch a protest sign from a vehicle, he confronted the person. “I saw this man try to throw it away. I went to put it back on the car, and all hell broke loose.”

According to Ball, the snatcher grabbed the sign from Ball and lunged at him. When Ball tried to defend himself, RCMP officers arrested him and hauled him away, over the loud cries of “Shame on you” from the crowd. Ball says none of the officers at the scene tried to intervene to de-escalate the situation. “I was scared stiff. I thought I was fighting for my life.”

Three counts accuse Moss of using his official position for personal gain. The indictments allege he used a fraudulent abandoned-title process to obtain ownership of a Buick Verano, BMW 330i and Kawasaki motorcycle.

The other three counts allege computer tampering involving confidential information. According to the indictments, Moss accessed an Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center-related computer system without authorization or beyond his permitted use to obtain nonpublic license-plate or vehicle-identification information involving a Kawasaki motorcycle, GMC Terrain and Ford F-150.

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/35730368

I'm not going to do this topic justice, but I wanted to share some photos I took during the event. Please chime in with your own experiences, or links to articles and archives.

I have been living under a (burnout) rock and didn't realize OCAP disbanded in 2023, but was pleased (?) that the Ontario Archive received a collection of documents which will help preserve their work. This made me think of my own photos from the time. They are hot garbage and not notable in any way, but cell phone cameras weren't really a thing, so there aren't tonnes of photos out there, at least on the scale we see today. I wanted the opportunity to share them with the new generation. I hope it shows how much worse things have gotten since then.

The G20 coming to Toronto was a big deal. Surveillance of activist groups was clearly increasing, and just a few years prior, the Quebec Police admitted to having undercover cops among the protesters, although they stopped short of admitting to being agent provocateurs.

Steven Harper was Prime Minister. Look, times have changed quite a bit but the man was scary. He didn't get loud or angry, but he gave this air of absolutely not giving a fuck about anyone. His government enacted new surveillance legislation and the RCMP and other police orgs took up unprecedented undercover and spy operations on activist groups, including those who you would never associate with crime or violence. The way the city was shut down was chilling.

I had an afternoon off work, so I decided to head down to see what was going on.

I took this map from an article from the time, and it shows what parts of the city were closed off.

Now, that's just fully closed off, like fenced in. Other places were shut down, maybe temporarily. But there sure were a lot of cops hanging out in those places.

These photos are from June 25, 2010.

First, the infamous fence in the area of Bay and Wellington.

The very core of the financial district wasn't exactly popping on a 5 pm on a Friday back then, but it was unusual for Younge, just south of the Eaton Centre to look like this:

Might have been related to University being shut down with tonnes of riot cops at the intersection of University and Dundas (location of US consulate). They looked pleased as fuck to be there, and chances are if you looked in the window of any tour bus in the area it would be full of cops too.

The interception was blocked off at Dundas and University.

I don't think I realized it at the time, but I managed to get a photo of one of the minivans the cops were using as unmarked cars during that event. This one is marked, but most of them were not.

I then walked over to Allen Gardens to check out the OCAP Tent City protest/meeting point. There sure were a lot of minivans following people as they left that site 🙄

The organizers had graciously set up designated "free speech zones" where you could protest, but that didn't stop the cops from changing their minds and from beating people in those zones, then crying about it in court later.

I didn't take any photos when I went down to Eastern to see the detention centre and protest the mass arrests. The cops advanced on protesters, and took out their "less than lethal" weapons to point at us. I did not want to draw attention with my camera, for obvious reasons.

BlogTO has photos from a media tour inside the facility after the event, which strikes me as such a weird choice by the cops, but I'm glad it was captured. I don't recall what day I went down, but I think it was likely the 26th, the day before the cops did actually fire some sort of smoke canister into the crowd.

I did not stick around there for too long but did attend the Rally Against Police Brutality on the 28th at the headquarters on Collage.

People were nervous. The cops blocked people from heading to Younge (above), but would let people out at Bay. Maybe that was to direct the subsequent march to City Hall down Bay, but it still felt suffocating given the kettling that had occured days before. What I will always remember is the people looking down from the upper floors.

ACAB, the end.

OC by @Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/71163915

A top Glendale Police Department executive is involved in an out-of-state criminal investigation and his employment with the city is now over, according to a spokesperson and an internal email sent by Chief Colby Brandt.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/71066727

https://www.youtube.com/@hamptonlawfirm

Seven federal appeals courts have held you have a First Amendment right to record police. All are still good law. So how do the people who film police keep losing?

I'm an attorney. I went looking in the paperwork — insurance bulletins, police training manuals, statutes, court opinions, IRS filings, union statements. Nearly all of it is public.

A conditional discharge means Morla was found guilty of an offence but the court will not register a criminal conviction if she abides by the conditions of her 18-month probation, which includes 50 hours of community service and attending counselling.