Even in the UK the police are fux0red, even though 2 or 3 times a week, on TV, we have a programme called 'The Bill' that is a soap opera about how furry and cuddly the police are.
I'll give you a current example of how fux0red police are here:
Jean Charles de Menezes.
He was shot 8 times by anti-terrorist officers in Stockwell tube station. 7 times in the head and once in the sholder.
At the time, the police said that he was a terrorist that had responded to police calls for him to stop by jumping over the ticket barriers in the station, then running down the escalator and onto a train before officers caught up with him and they opened fire after sensing they and other passengers were under threat.
It has transpired that he did not jump the barriers, nor run down the escalator but walked in a calm normal fashion down to the train before getting on and taking a seat.
The UK is the most heavily surveilled countries in teh world with something like 7 cctv cameras per person. Our tube network is saturated in CCTV.
For 3 days after the shooting, the situation was controlled by Anti-terrorist officers, just like the ones who shot Jean Charles de Menezes. The IPCC [independent police complaints commission] was not handed the investigation until then.
It has transpired that with all the CCTV cameras that could uncover what really transpired on the platform that day, the police have said that either the tapes were blank or unreadable yet LUL [London Underground, who operate the tube] have said that all the cameras were fully functional on that day.
Read for yourself: http://www.justice4jean.com/
Let it be known that over 1000 peopel have died in police custody since 1969 and yet not 1 single officer has ever been convicted despite evidence of appalling miscarriges.
All of my friends say that if they get burgled or mugged, they will not or ever would consider calling the police.
If people say that there is an 'us and them' attitude towards the police, it is because they have exerted such an attitude first. An ex-partner of mine was from a police family [her father, brother, cousins, uncles etc were all police. Her aunty was a J.P] and after meeting several of them, they all expressed that attitude themselves. They saw that they were all apart of a club and the rest of us were criminals waiting to commit crimes, whether that was motoring, petty theft or murder.
As Public Enemy said: *beep* the police.
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19 years ago
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Lildoggs
19 years ago
In New York, it is the LAW for an officer to fire a warning shot before firing at a suspect, and in order to fire, their life/ the life of someone else must be in danger, or they must see a weapon. Diallo, like everyone else said. 41 times. Wallet. Also, in Queens, I think like 2 years ago, a black teenager was shot 6 times, because he was on a rooftop when police seen him. They went to the rooftop to confront him, and he turned around with his hands in his pockets. Bang bang. Rodney King, anyone? No police are ever convicted of anything. Police are supposed to serve and protect, and a lot do, but many just harass people. It's reality
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jejozi
19 years ago
He wasn't shot 41 times. He was shot AT 41 times while standing in the glass vestibule to his building, but "only" hit 19 . And that(cops missing a literal fish in a barrel more than hitting him)is almost as scary as an innocent being killed by the cops.
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loserkids54
16 years ago
"As Public Enemy said: *beep* the police."
N.W.A. said *beep* the Police, not Public Enemy, you stupid *beep*
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