Oh but wait, this is the part where the PD want us to disbelieve what we see with our own eyes: a teenager standing with his hands in the air, tased for no reason.
The PD claim he was disorderly, yelling and threatening to kill them and that is when they tased him.
And, according to the police he had a switchblade knife in his backpack. How did they get to looking in his backpack?
Under the city ordinance in question, vaping is not an arrestable offense, and it certainly does not give the police the right to search your backpack.
But people have suggested that the teenager was reaching for his backpack on the instructions of the police in the video, so that might suggest they intended to search his backpack and then came to find one (if one was indeed found).
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The weight disparity was reduced under the so-called Fair Sentencing Act, signed into law by President Obama.
I guess that was the best they could do adopting a "bipartisan" approach to lawmaking.
Allowing people already sentenced under the 100:1 disparity would seem to be a key part of any fairness argument, but today SCOTUS in a unanimous decision disagreed.
Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday.
The teenager who had his hands up and was not in any way physically interacting with police (let alone physically resisting) when he was tasered, collapsed unconscious on the ground, was then hogtied, and placed in a police van.
Apologies this should have had a content warning for police violence.
A reminder as various states pass bills that would make it easier to own and carry guns: 61% of gun deaths are suicides.
CW: suicide
The rate of suicide in the US is three times that of any other developed country, because not only is it easier to kill yourself with a gun, you are much less likely to survive a suicide attempt made with a gun. tuftsdaily.com/opinion/2021/0…
Suicides are barely part of the gun violence discourse.
By contrast, mass shootings comprise 0.2% of gun deaths and yet dominate the conversation.
A court has granted Fulton County DA Fani Willis' motion to recuse her office from prosecuting Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe in the killing of Rayshard Brooks last summer.
The Georgia Attorney General will now appoint a new prosecutor to the case. ajc.com/news/crime/jud…
It is now almost a year to the date that Mr. Brooks was killed.
Rolfe has not even been indicted in the killing and has been reinstated to the police force.
Willis argued that her office had a conflict of interest because her predecessor used video of Mr. Brooks's killing in reelection campaign.
SCOTUS says it's unconstitutional to execute someone who is intellectually disabled. Prosecutors argue Black people score lower on IQ tests because they are biased, so they INFLATE their scores, making them eligible for the death penalty.
The courts use a threshold of 70 to decide whether someone is intellectually disabled. A Black person who scores just under 70, will have their score artificially inflated - in what's called an "ethnic adjustment. nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opi…
A White person who scores just under 70 will not have their score adjusted. So they will be ruled intellectually disabled.
Daniel Pantaleo didn't get away with killing Eric Garner because there wasn't legislation in place to hold him accountable, but because the Staten Island DA deliberately didn't present a strong case to the grand jury.
Tish James herself could have indicted the cops who killed Daniel Prude under current legislation, but she chose to put on witnesses who argued the cops who killed him were justified.
She didn't want to get an indictment.
New legislation is not needed to hold cops accountable.
If prosecutors want to get indictments they can do it now. They're the ones who need to be held accountable for choosing not to do that.