Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops

6/2/2017 12:48:27 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	US Supreme Court sides with police who broke into home and shot sleeping couple By Shelley Connor 2 June 2017 World Socialist Web Site https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/02/cour-j02.html Excerpts: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously on Tuesday in favor of the police in a case involving Constitutional issues relating to an illegal search and entry in violation of the Fourth Amendment which resulted in a man and his pregnant wife being shot 15 times. The 8-0 decision in County of Los Angeles vs. Mendez overturns a Ninth Circuit Court decision that found in favor of Angel Mendez and vacated an award of $4 million granted by the Ninth Circuit. On October 1, 2010, 12 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies, acting upon the word of an informant, made plans to sweep the home of Paula Hughes in the town of Lancaster in search of an at-large parolee. Deputies were told that a man and a “pregnant lady” were living in a plywood structure in Hughes’ backyard. The deputies did not notify Hughes of the sweep; they had not obtained a search warrant, nor had Hughes given them permission to search her property. Twelve deputies approached Hughes’ house. Two of them, Deputies Christopher Conley and Jennifer Pederson, were assigned to clear the back of the property. Conley and Pederson made note of the plywood shack. A power cord ran from Hughes’ house to the 343 square foot structure. Clothes hung outside and the shack was equipped with an air conditioning unit—all things that signaled that the shed-like structure was inhabited. Neither Pederson nor Conley knocked on the door of the shack, nor announced their presence. Conley opened the door and pulled aside a blanket which had been hung over the door for insulation. Angel Mendez and his wife, Jennifer, who was seven months pregnant, lay asleep in the shack. Hughes had allowed them to live in the shed until they could recover from financial hardship. As deputies entered the structure, Angel woke and made to stand up, attempting to put down the BB gun he kept close to shoot at rats. “Gun!” Conley shouted; he and Pederson then shot Mendez and his slumbering wife 15 times. Angel Mendez was severely wounded and ended up losing most of his right leg. Jennifer Mendez was shot in the back and sustained a shattered collarbone. The Mendezes sued Los Angeles County in federal court on the grounds that the deputies had violated their Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure and excessive force. The court ruled in their behalf, noting that the deputies were well aware that the shack was inhabited, having been informed of the fact in briefings and having seen evidence of habitation around the outside of the shed. Moreover, the deputies’ search did not merit any exception for a warrantless search, and they had further violated the Fourth Amendment by failing to alert the couple of their presence. The court awarded the Mendezes $4 million in damages for the shooting, as well as attorneys’ fees and two penalties for unreasonable search and seizure. On appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court concurred with the lower court with the exception of the so-called “knock and announce” Fourth Amendment penalty. Invoking the so-called “provocation doctrine,” the Ninth Circuit ruled that Pederson and Conley’s unreasonable entry into the Mendez’s shelter had provoked a “violent response” from Mendez and his BB gun. Los Angeles County petitioned for a review of the case by the Supreme Court which subsequently heard arguments on March 22. Justice Sonia Sotomayor initially noted that the Mendezes had a Second Amendment right to bear arms, and so police should expect to be confronted by armed homeowners in the course of an illegal entry. Justice Elena Kagan made similar arguments. Nevertheless, the court handed down a unanimous decision affirming the court’s hostility to the provocation doctrine as expressed in City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan where the court upheld the concept of “qualified immunity” for officers who had provoked a violent confrontation with a mentally ill woman and shot her. In the Mendez decision, Justice Samuel Alito called the provocation rule “a novel and unsupported path to liability in cases in which the use of force was reasonable.” The court vacated the damages awarded by the court, sending the case back to the Ninth Circuit with instructions to reconsider whether the Mendezes can be awarded damages strictly on the merits of the warrantless entry; the court will not be allowed to consider the issues of police provocation or excessive force. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has a history rife with abuse and brutality. In a state that jealously guards the opacity of police records, the LASD stands as one of the most protective of its officers. The crimes of the LASD and other police forces in Los Angeles County have abounded. Between 2000 and 2016, at least 1,300 people in the county were shot by police. A study published in the Guardian revealed that, per capita, Los Angeles County was the 11th deadliest county in the United States for police shootings in 2015. Very seldom were officers charged in these shootings. The Supreme Court has legitimized this criminal violence with one reactionary ruling after another. It frequently invokes the reactionary “qualified immunity” doctrine that limits remedies for excessive force. The right-wing judges did not stand up for the Second Amendment right to bear arms that is so frequently thrown out as a bone by right-wing politicians. The liberal judges, meanwhile, assented to the reactionary ruling, ultimately forsaking Fourth Amendment rights for the right of police to shoot and maim without any significant restrictions. John Burton, president of the board of directors of the National Police Accountability Project and WSWS writer, noted the Mendez decision was part of a definite trend and “another stone removed from the edifice of Fourth Amendment rights.” “The whole thing is political,” he told the WSWS. “The courts want to empower the police as much as possible and limit access to remedies for police violence.” The important questions in the Mendez case, he pointed out, are not those of jurisprudence or democratic ideals enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but those of class tensions. Such decisions allow constitutional protections to be taken away “piece by piece, instead of all at once.” Meet singles at DateHookup.dating, we're 100% free! Join now!
6/2/2017 1:20:13 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
iam_resurrected Reno, NV 46, joined Jul. 2014	the constitutional Bill of Rights states, WE THE PEOPLE "are to govern ourselves and property. get rid of the police since they are worthless and the moment you are [legal] to light up some gang banger with 50 holes in him the rest will think twice before coming onto your property
6/2/2017 1:25:18 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
Suzhi Knoxville, TN 54, joined Aug. 2016	Those sleepers need to be shot..
6/2/2017 2:49:18 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
bumblebee7 Fort Payne, AL 62, joined Apr. 2011	I guess you never lived out there. Hell, I could easily see 1500 black crimes in a week. I couldn't imagine trying to total up what went down in 16 years. Hey...maybe that's the real problem.
6/2/2017 4:59:29 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
easttowest72 Bremen, GA 45, joined Sep. 2014	It sounds like they were living like drug addicts. I had a friend who was upset that police pulled his son over when he was driving through a certain area. My friend should have been worried about why his son just happened to take the way home that is known for selling drugs.
6/2/2017 8:52:27 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	The increasing criminality of a ruling-class is reflected in the increasing brutality of their police force. ----------------- Urgent Warning Issued By Human Rights Group Over New Police Bill In Congress by Josie Wales May 31, 2017 http://theantimedia.org/rights-group-police-bill-congress/ Excerpts: Last week, Human Rights Watch penned an open letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees voicing their strong opposition to a new bill that would make it nearly impossible to sue police for constitutional violations. Co-Director of Human Rights Watch Alison Parker writes that H.R. 2437/S.B. 1134, or the “Back the Blue Act,” doesn’t protect police from danger, but rather “protects police departments from liability, and removes incentives for those departments to monitor themselves and improve the quality of their policing.” The proposed bill would make significant amendments to Sections 1983 and 1988 of the U.S. Code, shielding police officers from civil liability even in cases of grievous misconduct, making new federal crimes out of offenses already covered by state laws and imposing harsh mandatory minimum sentences. “Under the guise of protecting officers, this bill would make police less accountable, which can only undermine their legitimacy with the communities they serve,” said John Raphling, senior criminal justice researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Congress should reject this dangerous bill.” Human Rights Watch’s observations are all the more vital considering at least 385 Americans have been killed by police this year alone, and officers around the country continue to impose constitutional violations on citizens every day.
6/2/2017 8:58:29 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from bumblebee7: I guess you never lived out there. Hell, I could easily see 1500 black crimes in a week. I couldn't imagine trying to total up what went down in 16 years. Hey...maybe that's the real problem. Wow! You sure do see a lot of crime in a week. I guess that's to be expected when you're a crack addict constantly in need of a fix.
6/2/2017 9:03:33 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
iam_resurrected Reno, NV 46, joined Jul. 2014	Quote from condor_0000: The increasing criminality of a ruling-class is reflected in the increasing brutality of their police force. ----------------- Urgent Warning Issued By Human Rights Group Over New Police Bill In Congress by Josie Wales May 31, 2017 http://theantimedia.org/rights-group-police-bill-congress/ Excerpts: Last week, Human Rights Watch penned an open letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees voicing their strong opposition to a new bill that would make it nearly impossible to sue police for constitutional violations. Co-Director of Human Rights Watch Alison Parker writes that H.R. 2437/S.B. 1134, or the “Back the Blue Act,” doesn’t protect police from danger, but rather “protects police departments from liability, and removes incentives for those departments to monitor themselves and improve the quality of their policing.” The proposed bill would make significant amendments to Sections 1983 and 1988 of the U.S. Code, shielding police officers from civil liability even in cases of grievous misconduct, making new federal crimes out of offenses already covered by state laws and imposing harsh mandatory minimum sentences. “Under the guise of protecting officers, this bill would make police less accountable, which can only undermine their legitimacy with the communities they serve,” said John Raphling, senior criminal justice researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Congress should reject this dangerous bill.” Human Rights Watch’s observations are all the more vital considering at least 385 Americans have been killed by police this year alone, and officers around the country continue to impose constitutional violations on citizens every day. I am just stating the obvious here [and it does not mean I am one of the participants, but rather it means I see what is coming]... but, there are more illegal peeps in America than there are total police. police and military are separate and by theory could go to war against one another because [the police] (ARE NOT) a part of the Human Bill of Rights. so in theory, the police is a [ILLEGAL] function of government that goes directly against the Bill of Rights!! there are more general population pissed with police like ex-police FREEDOM FIGHTERS who would turn on police in a beat. I predict the legal/illegal citizens will rise up against the police eventually. logic states: after this country being established for 275 plus years, its citizens have more weapons than both its military and its bastard illegal function of police. that is easy math from that point!!
6/5/2017 11:02:02 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
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6/5/2017 11:04:19 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
cupocheer Assumption, IL 68, joined May. 2010	OP -- Someone just broke into your car. Who ya gonna call?
6/5/2017 12:05:51 PM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from cupocheer: OP -- Someone just broke into your car. Who ya gonna call? Uhhh . . . Ghostbusters?
6/5/2017 12:10:11 PM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
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6/5/2017 12:13:19 PM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	OP, would you prefer if the unruly class rather than the ruling class made the decisions? ..and do you think if that happened things would be better?
6/5/2017 2:19:21 PM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from Olaf_the_german: OP, would you prefer if the unruly class rather than the ruling class made the decisions? ..and do you think if that happened things would be better? Let me get this straight. You think that the utterly-lawless, worker-raping, public-till-looting, market-manipulating, murderous, bombing, warmongering, false-flag-loving, terrorist-proxy-army-using, only-entity-to-ever-use-nukes, US. ruling class is not unruly? [Edited 6/5/2017 2:20:10 PM ]
6/5/2017 3:13:33 PM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
Olaf_the_german Houston, TX 50, joined Feb. 2017	Quote from condor_0000: Let me get this straight. You think that the utterly-lawless, worker-raping, public-till-looting, market-manipulating, murderous, bombing, warmongering, false-flag-loving, terrorist-proxy-army-using, only-entity-to-ever-use-nukes, US. ruling class is not unruly? If you rule you can't be unruly to anyone that matters... It doesn't matter what the unruly without power think of the unruly with power...they are just the "also rans" (horse racing term). But no, in general the ruling class are less unruly than the scumbag class. [Edited 6/5/2017 3:14:15 PM ]
6/6/2017 4:20:29 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	London terror suspect was known to police By Chris Marsden 6 June 2017 World Socialist Web Site https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/06/lond-j06.html Excerpt: Police have named two of the three murderers whose stabbing frenzy left seven dead and 18 in critical condition Saturday night at London Bridge and Borough Market. One is Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, the other Rachid Redouane, both from Barking, in east London. The third has not yet been named. In the case of Butt, it has now been admitted that he was known to MI5 and the police. This confirms earlier reports that at least one suspect, Butt, who was previously referred to as “Abs” or “Abu”, a derivative of his Arabic name Abu Zeitoun, was reported to the police, who then protected him from investigation. On Sunday evening the Guardian reported that Erica Gasparri, who lives in the same flat complex in Barking, said she confronted Butt in a local park two years ago because he was seeking to radicalise young children, including her son. Gasparri took four photographs of Butt and gave them to the police. Their reaction was extraordinary. They “said the information had been passed on to Scotland Yard... They told me to delete the photos for my own safety which I did but then I heard nothing.” A former friend of Butt also said he had contacted police in Barking, telling BBC’s Asian Network he had “phoned the anti-terror hotline.” The same attacker appeared in a Channel 4 documentary last year about British jihadis, in which he is involved in a confrontation with police after he holds up an ISIS flag in Regent’s Park. The documentary states that he and others were detained for an hour but released without charge after officers supposedly failed to find the flag! Perhaps the most devastating account is in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, which reports that counter-terrorism officers secretly recorded an ISIS-inspired terror cell in Barking only last month discussing how to carry out a van and knife attack in London. The Telegraph writes throughout as if the cell concerned does not contain the three perpetrators of Saturday’s identical atrocity. But one of those investigated boasts that he has radicalised more than a dozen “students” in Barking “wanting to martyr themselves.” He detailed how an attack would “use a car as a weapon,” driving at pedestrians and then getting out to attack others with knives: “YouTube videos all make it properly easy to do.” It would, he said, involve going to the gym to make their arms stronger. The Mail reports that the London Bridge attack suspect Butt was a keen gym user. One of the plotters also talked about “getting an automatic [vehicle] so the boys can drive it.” A neighbour of Butt said he had asked him about where he could hire an automatic van. On Sunday police arrested 12 people, mainly residents in the Elizabeth Fry tower block in Barking where Butt lived. During the raid, the Mail reports that a police detective was photographed with notes in his possession on display relating to Saturday’s terror attack—suggesting one of those involved: “He had been interrogated last year for his Islamic views, his house was searched, passport was taken + he had to sign on.” The list of those involved in terrorist outrages known to the police and secret services gets longer: Mohammed Sidique Khan, who led the July 7, 2005 bombings in London; Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013; Khalid Masood, who in March carried out a similar vehicle/knife attack on Westminster Bridge; and Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi.
6/6/2017 4:35:09 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
M4mischief Grand Prairie, TX 99, joined May. 2016	wow..i think they're giving police a license to use excessive force..immunity be damned...they're no different than the average citizen when breaking the law....but for them being in that dwelling illegally...nobody would have been shot....so I don't see how the court can ignore that....
6/6/2017 6:33:32 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
bumblebee7 Fort Payne, AL 62, joined Apr. 2011	Quote from condor_0000: Wow! You sure do see a lot of crime in a week. I guess that's to be expected when you're a crack addict constantly in need of a fix. Nope...its just in that area...you can't help but see all that everyday. Hey, being from another area not like that...I was shocked to see it too. But...it is was it is.
6/6/2017 6:36:06 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
bumblebee7 Fort Payne, AL 62, joined Apr. 2011	I think the obvious solution is...to just have black cops only cover the area's where its mostly blacks. Hey, if they get pulled into being corrupt and are making money on the streets too...whatever. And if something does go down...then you can't say its racism. Seems like a simple solution to the issue to me.
6/6/2017 8:37:15 AM	Ruling-Class Continues to Push for More Lawlessness by Killer-Cops
condor_0000 Tampa, FL 59, joined Feb. 2013	Quote from bumblebee7: Nope...its just in that area...you can't help but see all that everyday. Hey, being from another area not like that...I was shocked to see it too. But...it is was it is. The thing that "is what it is," dude, is you being a lying, racist sack-of-shit.

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