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Hundreds Protest the Murder of Mario Romero by Valllejo Police
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 8:36pmOfficer-involved shooting draws hundreds in Vallejo protest
By 09/05/2012
Supporters of the family of slain Vallejoan Mario Romero march outside the Vallejo Police Department Tuesday afternoon following a rally on the department steps. Romero was killed early Sunday morning in a police-involved shooting, the fifth officer-involved fatal shooting this year in Vallejo. (Mike Jory/Times-Herald)
“When a police officer sees a camera he should smile.”
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 12:33pmThe lawsuit alleges that Staley was walking to a bus stop with a friend ...when he saw a D.C. police car hit a man on a motorbike. Two police officers then began to punch the motorbike rider, who was on the ground and appeared to be hurt....
D.C. officer illegally seized camera phone, ACLU suit alleges
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A D.C. police officer illegally seized a camera phone from a citizen trying to photograph officers at the scene of an arrest, a civil liberties group alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Most (All?) Imprisoned South African Striking Miners Released
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 09/03/2012 - 10:11pm![[image]](http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WO-AK959_SAMINE_G_20120903185818.jpg)
Reuters
Miners from a Lonmin mine, with supporters, celebrated their release from detention Monday near Pretoria. South Africa's state prosecutor had charged 270 of the miners with murder but withdrew the charges Sunday.
Apple Granted Patent To Disable Cameras According To Location
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 09/03/2012 - 9:54pmRecording, communicating during protests, political events could be restricted
Steve Watson Infowars.com Sept 3, 2012
Apple was granted a patent last week that will enable it to wirelessly disable the camera on iphones in certain locations, sparking fears that such techniques could be used to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests or events such as political conventions and gatherings.
The camera phone has revolutionized the flow of information in the digital age. Any time a major event takes place, news networks and video websites are immediately inundated with footage and photographs from the scene.
Vallejo Police Murdered Mario Romero; They Opened Fire On Him In His Car Sunday Morning
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 09/03/2012 - 9:52pmRev. Floyd D. Harris Jr National President of The National Network In Action, a civil and human rights organization, will be holding a Press Conference and a March in front of the Vallejo Police Department. In regards to the recent brutal murder of Mr. Mario Romero by the Vallejo Police Department early Sunday morning [Sept 2, 2012].
There were two young men whom police confronted. Witnesses reported that Mr. Romero never got out of his car when officers opened fire, shooting 30 times into the car reported by witness. There were no reports of Mr. Romero shooting at the Vallejo Police. The minority community is taking a stand for justice against the ROGUE COPS of the Vallejo Police. There has been 7 officer-involved shootings and 5 of the shootings have been fatal. The Vallejo Police don’t have the right to be the JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER.
South Africa Miners Set to be Freed, Murder Charges from Apartheid-Era Law Suspended
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 09/03/2012 - 8:49pmPolice Brutality is Rampant, not Rare [VIDEO links]
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/02/2012 - 8:03pmIt's Not Just the LAPD: The Big Lie About Police Brutality is Claiming it's Not Rampant
09/01/2012 by Dave Lindorff
Police brutality is in the news, thanks to the widespread availability of amateur video and the omnipresence of security cameras.
We've seen scene after scene of police beating the crap out of, and even shooting and killing unarmed or minimally dangrous students, women, old men and crazy people, many of them after they have been handcuffed and checked for weapons.
The police brass, and leading politicians who oversee the departments involved, nearly always have the same answer: This is not the norm, these are isolated incidents, police violence is not on the rise. Rarely is an abusive or murderous officer punished or even administratively disciplined for documented crimes.
Dying For A Raise, by Mumia Abu-Jamal... and photos from Police Attack on Striking Miners
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/02/2012 - 6:47pmU.S. is the Worst Police State in the World – By the Numbers
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 8:13pm
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford | August 29, 2012
When U.S. corporate media operatives use the term “police state,” they invariably mean some other country. Even the so-called “liberal” media, from Democracy Now to the MSNBC menagerie, cannot bring themselves to say “police state” and the “United States” without putting the qualifying words “like” or “becoming” in the middle. The U.S. is behaving “like” a police state, they say, or the U.S. is in danger of “becoming” a police state. But it is never a police state. Since these privileged speakers and writers are not themselves in prison – because what they write and say represents no actual danger to the state – they conclude that a U.S. police state does not, at this time, exist.
Considering the sheer size and social penetration of its police and imprisonment apparatus, the United States is not only a police state, but the biggest police state in the world, by far: the police state against whose dimensions all other police systems on Earth must be measured.
