http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/reforming-the-prison-capi_n_4181878.html?utm_hp_ref=the-agitator

11/2/2013 4:09:17 PM

^
we should legalize freedom

11/4/2013 5:44:39 AM

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.UnmA1hDOCRh

Quote :

" 1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found. 2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found. 3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found. 4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found. 5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found. 6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found. 7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found. 8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found. There are major concerns about the way the search warrant was carried out. Kennedy argues that the search warrant was overly broad and lacked probable cause. But beyond that, the warrant was only valid in Luna County, where Deming is located. The Gila Regional Medical Center is in Grant County. That means all of the medical procedures were performed illegally and the doctors who performed the procedures did so with no legal basis and no consent from the patient. In addition, even if the search warrant was executed in the correct New Mexico county, the warrant expired at 10 p.m. Medical records show the prepping for the colonoscopy started at 1 a.m. the following day, three hours after the warrant expired."

[Edited on November 5, 2013 at 6:46 PM. Reason : 3]

11/5/2013 6:45:39 PM

Jesus Christ. Every cop involved should be fired, and every doctor who agreed to this should be stripped of their license.

11/5/2013 6:53:25 PM

How does that happen in America? That was a nightmare. And who pays the medical bills? Surely not the innocent man.

11/5/2013 8:03:23 PM

He's not innocent. No way. Obviously he is guilty and did something wrong, else he would have nothing to worry about.

11/5/2013 8:08:28 PM

^^at the end of the video they said they are billing the victim for the procedures.

11/5/2013 8:10:42 PM

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"Jesus Christ. Every cop involved should be fired, and every doctor who agreed to this should be stripped of their license."

Fired? They're guilty of rape, they should be prosecuted.

11/6/2013 12:35:56 PM

Quote :

" It's a story that has left the entire country wondering about the state of law enforcement in New Mexico. 4 On Your Side revealed how David Eckert rolled through a stop sign in Deming. A K-9 named Leo alerted that it sniffed drugs on Eckert's driver's seat. And, for the next 14 hours, those police officers, and doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center performed eight medical procedures including x-rays, rectal finger exams, enemas, and finally a colonoscopy. According to a federal lawsuit, officers Bobby Orosco and Robert Chavez were two of the officers involved, and they never found drugs inside Eckert. Our investigation reveals another chapter. Another man, another minor traffic violation, another incident with Leo the K-9 and another example of the violation of a man's body. Police reports state deputies stopped Timothy Young because he turned without putting his blinker on. Again, Leo the K-9 alerts on Young's seat. Young is taken to the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, and just like Eckert, he's subjected to medical procedures including x-rays of his stomach and an anal exam. Again, police found nothing, and again the procedures were done without consent, and in a county not covered by the search warrant. We've learned more about that drug dog, Leo, that seems to get it wrong pretty often. He might be getting it wrong because he's not even certified in New Mexico. If you take a look at the dog's certification, the dog did get trained. But his certification to be a drug dog expired in April 2011. K-9s need yearly re-certification courses, and Leo is falling behind. "We have done public requests to find anything that would show this dog has been trained, we have evidence that this dog has had false alerts in the past," Eckert's attorney Shannon Kennedy said. The doctors from the Gila Regional Medical Center have been turned over to the state licensing board. It's possible they could lose the ability to practice to medicine. And the police officers will be answering to a law enforcement board."

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3210356.shtml?cat=500#.UnqeruKwXdd

I'm really glad this shithole is getting national attention over this. I just hope it leads to some real reform there.

[Edited on November 6, 2013 at 3:00 PM. Reason : l]

11/6/2013 2:58:53 PM

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"In a just world, both the officers and the doctors would be going to prison for battery and sexual assault, and the doctors would lose their medical licenses. Of course, since police officers in this country are above the law, and the doctors were "just following orders", that will never happen. I guess if we're lucky, the officers involved will get a week or two of paid vacation... er, I mean suspension. Paid suspension."

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"What this man went through was nothing less than sexual assault. The physicians should also be ARRESTED and jailed for committing this assault, put in a sex offenders registry, and made to provide financial restitution to him."

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"All drug dogs are trained to false alert. It is a subtle command that the handler gives the dog so that if there is video it will appear that the dog actually alerted on something. Cops are lying scum, they lie in police reports, they lie on the witness stand, they lie virtually every time they talk. Society needs to give them the credibility they deserve and have worked so hard to earn."

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"If you research this, you'll find that drug-sniffing dogs are often trained to respond to the cop's cues of a "positive" - whether this is one or not."

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"All drug dogs are trained to false alert. Every single one. It's instant probable cause, so they just go for it knowing that most people don't care and the ones who do don't matter."

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"It's called the Clever Hans effect. The dog tends to follow the handler's cues."

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"I completely agree. Had a very similar thing happen to me in the past where the handler false alerted the K9 on the 3rd pass. they took my car apart for 3 hours. They arrested then un-arrested me (only a magistrate judge should be able to do that) and then still insisted I was trafficking after doing so. All because my license plate light was out. This was eastern Arizona not far from where this story took place."

[Edited on November 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM. Reason : ]

11/6/2013 6:52:35 PM

^^ jesus christ.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story_2.html

Snowden's data has now confirmed that the infiltration of major internet companies is even more extensive.

I think it's looking more and more like I was correct months ago when the story about the NSA's new data center broke, before any of the Snowden-driven controversy happened. I think the NSA is collecting or at least planning to collect everything. Every email, text message, financial transaction, credit-card swipe, etc.

11/9/2013 10:22:38 AM

^ You sound like a conspiracy theory nut. Jk, but really I agree with you. What happens when the wildest conspiracies become reality? We will have to wait and see.

There must be a way to ride this anti-surveillance populism to political success. It's too damn popular not to succeed. I'm still hoping for some anti-establishment type with some big balls and a stomach for politics to take up that fight, and no, Justin Amash does not count.

11/9/2013 12:57:55 PM

I wish Gary Johnson had a road to political success on the Presidential level.

11/9/2013 1:13:49 PM

The majority of the people in this country have the "I'm not doing anything wrong so why should I care" mentality.

Also rich people want to control minorities and the poor.

So not gonna happen

11/9/2013 1:42:58 PM

new mexico again

cop shoots at a minivan full of kids because mom drove off without getting her speeding ticket

http://www.krqe.com/news/crime/state-cop-shoots-at-minivan-full-of-kids

11/18/2013 4:13:49 AM

way to mislead with your comments on that.

11/18/2013 3:06:40 PM

Yeah, that doesn't describe at all how that situation went down, though I still don't agree with him shooting at them.

11/18/2013 3:59:29 PM

jesus christ:
http://gawker.com/black-man-arrested-dozens-of-times-for-trespassing-wh-1469590729

Quote :

"A shocking case of racial profiling has emerged in Florida after it was revealed that a black convenience store employee had been arrested dozens of times for trespassing in and around the store where he works — during work hours. The Miami Herald reports that Earl Sampson has been stopped, questioned, and searched by Miami Gardens police over 250 times in just the last four years. In the same span of time, Sampson has been taken into custody 62 times for trespassing while at the 207 Quickstop on 207th Street. Store owner Alex Saleh, who has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the local police department on Sampson's behalf, says Sampson isn't the only employee who has been unjustly hassled by police officers in the predominantly poor, black neighborhood. In fact, Saleh's customers have also been stopped and frisked — some more than once in a given day."

kudos to the store owner for filing a civil right lawsuit on behalf of himself, employees and customers

11/22/2013 3:37:23 PM

Local police are getting surplus 18-ton mine-resistant armored trucks from Iraq.

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/spoils-of-war-police-getting-leftover-iraq-trucks-1.254463

Quote :

"...and the ability to deliver shock and awe while serving warrants or dealing with hostage standoffs was just too good to pass up."

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"They are too big to travel on some bridges and roads and have a tendency to be tippy on uneven ground."

At what point are surplus tanks going to show up?

11/25/2013 7:16:33 PM

Texas cops handcuff and take 13-year-old white girl from black guardians

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"Houston Police have refused to explain why they took a 13-year-old white girl from her two black guardians over the weekend and placed her in the custody of Child Protective Services. Landry Thompson’s mother had signed notarized papers giving dance instructor Emmanuel Hurd full guardianship over her during a trip from Oklahoma to Houston for training, according to KHOU. Thompson, Hurd and another dance instructor had stopped at a gas station in Houston on Saturday night when they were surrounded by police cars. Thompson is a 13-year-old blonde white girl and both dance instructors are young African-American men."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/texas-cops-handcuff-and-take-13-year-old-white-girl-from-black-guardians/

12/3/2013 9:00:03 AM

In Iceland, police shot and killed someone for the first time... ever. Then they offered condolences to the man's family.

Quote :

"Icelandic police shot dead a man who refused to stop firing at them with a shotgun in the capital of Reykjavik earlier today -- and then they apologized. It was the first time that anyone in the country was killed by police gunfire. "The police regret this incident and wishes to extend its condolences to the man's family," said national police chief Haraldur Johannessen."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/in-iceland-when-police-kill-a-gunman-they-apologize.html

the reason they shot and killed him: he wouldn't stop shooting at them with a shotgun. That's right, they tried to convince him to stop but he wouldn't, so their SWAT officers (the only ones with guns) had to shoot him.

12/3/2013 10:28:38 AM

http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/

Quote :

"Then he said one police officer started threatening him saying, “If we have to get a warrant, we’re going to come back when you’re not expecting it, we’re going to park in front of your house, where all your neighbors can see, we’re gonna bust in your door with a battering ram, we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs, who are my family, and then we’re going to ransack your house looking for these people.” “If that’s the case and those are the things that were said, I would think those would be inappropriate,” said John Hamilton. John Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Park University and former police officer. He said having a warrant is always the best way for police to search a home, and while the threats aren’t illegal, they might violate a department policy."

12/9/2013 9:40:00 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNfghUnvFg

I love TSA nonsense.

12/23/2013 7:03:02 PM

U.S. Border Patrol agents in TX, along with complicit doctors and nurses, conduct another unreasonable, invasive search for drugs and find nothing. This is a routine thing for BP agents according to a hospital employee:

http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/19/drug-warriors-kidnap-and-sexually-assaul

[Edited on December 23, 2013 at 7:43 PM. Reason : tayhas]

12/23/2013 7:38:09 PM

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/01/13/fullerton-cops-found-guilty-beating-death-homeless-mentally-ill-man/

1/17/2014 12:48:38 PM

Yeah, that link is misleading. They were found NOT guilty. Somehow. Granted I didn't sit through the trial and see the case the defense presented but I'm often amazed at how juries can reach their decisions.

Thankfully or regretfully depending on your view of double jeopardy there's the potential for a second federal criminal trial and additionally potential civil suits.

1/17/2014 5:29:40 PM

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/19/what-an-officer-does-after-seeing-a-kid-playing-ball-has-sent-the-dash-cam-video-viral/

1/19/2014 2:24:55 PM

^

1/19/2014 10:03:58 PM

why do you roll your eyes? do you think it was inappropriate for the officer to play football with the youth?

1/20/2014 12:37:09 PM

A female Philly cop ruptured a handcuffed 16-year-old's testicle during a stop and frisk. Kid's still getting charged for resisting arrest and aggravated assault. The details are pretty fuzzy, but still fucked up, no matter what.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/darrin-manning-testicle-rupture_n_4651700.html


the kid's mom's name is Ikea.

1/24/2014 12:53:42 AM

Alabama Cop Fired For Recording His Sgt. Ordering Ticket Quota

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLh3KlUHS4

1/26/2014 10:10:24 AM

On police overkill and over-criminalization:

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/police_overkill_has_become_the_default_american_policy_partner/

1/27/2014 5:39:05 AM

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/05/an-officer-and-firefighter-got-into-a-dispute-while-responding-to-serious-car-accident-heres-how-it-ended/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons

Cop detains firefighter while attending to victim (because he didn't like where the firetruck was parked)

2/5/2014 8:56:38 PM

SWAT team raids home in [No] Knock and Announce raid searching for vicious serial killer 20 time wanted felon columbian drug dealer arms dealer man accused of violently assaulting children vicious chihuahua people suspected of credit card fraud. Occupant narrowly avoids getting into shootout with armed men breaking into his home cops because he was on the can at the time they busted in.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized/

Police say the SWAT raid was necessary because one of the occupants has a permit to carry a gun. Note, not a history of violence or criminal record, just a permit to carry a gun.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/05/troubling-new-details-about-the-violent-police-raid-in-iowa/

2/7/2014 10:21:04 AM

^ Fuck yeah 'Murrca, if you don't like it, go to commie Canada/Europe/Russia.

2/7/2014 6:45:50 PM

^^ seems like a tad bit overdoing it, but they didn't kill the dog, or seem otherwise too trigger happy.

I think it's odd they're harping on the gun permit -> requires more measures train of thought by the police.

They probably presume anyone might have a gun, but they had good evidence to suggest there was PROBABLY a gun somewhere, and it seems like really good preparation on their part to consider this possibility.

Guns pretty much make every situation more sensitive, the cops were aware of this, and they did what they had to do to protect themselves. Makes sense.

2/7/2014 7:01:40 PM

Knocking on the front door and waiting for someone to answer makes sense.

Making arrests outside the home makes sense.

It does not make sense to break down doors with guns drawn to arrest a non-violent suspect for a non-violent crime.

2/7/2014 7:23:12 PM

2/9/2014 1:54:37 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553378/Texas-man-not-charged-fatal-shooting-sheriffs-deputy-entered-home-search-warrant-accept-thought-robbed.html

2/10/2014 12:09:43 AM

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/police-hid-use-of-cell-phone-tracking-device-from-judge-because-of-nda/

Police use non-disclosure agreement between themselves and a surveillance equipment manufacturer as justification for not seeking warrants.

3/3/2014 3:17:07 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html

NSA provides country-wide voicemail services.

3/18/2014 1:51:32 PM

Attention LA residents: You are all under investigation.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/19/all-cars-are-under-investigation-lapd-te

Fucking police "logic" man.

3/19/2014 5:29:05 PM

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/03/123341-police-say-shooting-justified/

mentally ill dude with a knife gets shot in the back as he turns to run away

3/23/2014 12:33:52 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/25/state-lawmakers-push-to-rein-in-police-spying/

3/25/2014 12:27:10 PM

^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngOL6LokN4


[Edited on April 8, 2014 at 11:50 AM. Reason : raw video]

4/8/2014 11:49:27 AM

I can honestly say - without trying to troll - that there was not one thing wrong with that shooting.

4/8/2014 5:37:59 PM

that's because all cops are pigs, congratulations on being a part of the terrible thin blue line

4/8/2014 5:57:56 PM

yeh, I'm not seeing it... they guy is turning away and has is hands out by his sides. Sure, he was holding knives, but he had already been holding them.

4/8/2014 6:00:00 PM

That was a 3 hour ordeal. It started w/ beat cops, then crisis intervention (officers trained to deal w/ people having a mental crisis), and finally after threatening to kill everybody, SWAT came in. He had a history of stabbing people and even says that if he wasn't on a mountain he would kill the police.

Were the police suppose to just let him walk down the mountain after refusing to cooperate for 3 hours?

He picks up the knife, blades off and is shot. Now remember, it takes time for your brain to process what is happening. So by the time he is armed, blades off the decision to shoot is made; where the shots land are after that are the aftermath of movement.

People get shot in the back, its a fact of life. There is nothing that says you can't and even as an armed citizen, if you aren't prepared to shoot someone in the back, you shouldn't carry a gun.

So they don't shoot and he walks off and stabs someone, what then?

As far as after shooting the guy. They don't know if he is faking it or is dead. The threat is not over till everyone is safe. You send the dog; the dog is a tool to determine if he is dead. The fire bean bag round in the ass (that's a pretty soft muscle) again to determine if he is dead.

4/8/2014 7:25:58 PM

Quote :

"Were the police suppose to just let him walk down the mountain after refusing to cooperate for 3 hours? "

wasting time is justification for killing anyone? if they take too long its okay to shoot them

Quote :

"So they don't shoot and he walks off and stabs someone, what then? "

you contain the guy and wait for him to give up

4/8/2014 7:31:49 PM