Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[10ac]

Oh my goodness!

How many cops in NY answered how many calls in the past four years that didn't involve excessive force?

[Jungle Rat]

Red Headed People Lives Matter!!

(not really though if it comes to hostages)

[innocentbystander]

Later Bitches.

BTW its all about jobs/wages and illegal and legal immigration. Cant' dump millions in workforce and expect wages to go up. Can't have Silicon valley pushing for unlimited H1-B visas to undermine US tech workers and expect people to like no job and/or flat wages and still have people go into STEM fields. Jeb Sucks, Rubio Sucks of course HIllary, Biden, Sanders are 10x worse.

yup. all about immigration. Trump... might win.

[Johnette's Daddy]

How many cops in NY answered how many calls in the past four years that didn't involve excessive force?

And yet, this one guy had NINE.

Another gem:

Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn't Believe BMW Was Hers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kam ... mg00000067

NEW YORK -- Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn't believe a black woman owned a BMW.

In her first on-camera interview about her ordeal, which aired Thursday, the 32-year-old told PIX11 that it was all a "nightmare."

It's a nightmare, Brock's lawyer told The Huffington Post, that never would have happened if she weren't African-American.

Brock sued the city earlier this year in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She contends that her constitutional rights under the Fourth and 14th Amendments were violated and that she suffered "unwanted and unwarranted intrusion of her personal integrity, loss of liberty [and] mental anguish."

The suit details how Brock pulled up to a traffic light in Harlem on Sept. 12, 2014, the music on her car stereo playing loudly. An NYPD officer approached her and asked why she was driving without her hands on the steering wheel, according to the suit.

"I said I was dancing, I am at a light," Brock told PIX11. "He asked me to get out of the car."

For unclear reason, Brock contends, she was taken into custody and transported to the NYPD's 30th Precinct, where she was held for a few hours before being released without being charged with any crime. She said she was told to come back the next day to pick up her car, a 2003 BMW 325Ci.

When she showed up at a police substation to get the car the next day, Brock said, "I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar. They put me in handcuffs and said they just need to put me in handcuffs to take me to my car. And I said OK, whatever it's gonna take to get to my car."

"Then EMS approached me," she continued. "And they said we're gonna take you to your car. And I'm like, in an ambulance? I'm going to my car in an ambulance? I'm going to my car in an ambulance? I was just so confused."

Brock was taken instead to Harlem Hospital, where medical records obtained by her attorney, Michael Lamonsoff, show she was injected with powerful sedatives and forced to take doses of lithium.

"He held onto me and then the doctor stuck me in the arm and I was on a stretcher and I woke up to them taking my clothes off, specifically my underwear," Brock tearfully recalled for PIX11's Nicole Johnson. "Then I went back out again. When I woke up the next day, I felt like I was in a nightmare. I didn't understand why that was happening to me."

Medical records also show that over the course of her eight-day stay, personnel at the hospital repeatedly tried to get Brock to deny three things before she could be released: that she owned the BMW, that she was a professional banker, and that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.

The lawsuit says it was these three assertions that were the basis for the city determining that Brock was delusional and to diagnose her with bipolar disorder.

But according to Lamonsoff, Brock had no history of mental illness. She did own the BMW. At the time, she was employed as a banker and had worked at Citibank, Chase and Astoria Bank. And Obama does follow Brock on Twitter, just as he follows 640,000 other people.

When Brock was finally released from the hospital, the lawsuit states, she was slapped with a $13,000 medical bill.

A white woman would not have been treated like that, Lamonsoff argues.

"If a white woman was trying to reclaim her BMW impounded by police, would she have been made a victim?" he said to HuffPost. "Would she have been questioned? Would she have been subject to sarcastic comments? Would she be made to justify who she was in order to ask for help? I don't think so. I do think race played a part in this."

Institutional bias against African-Americans is well-documented and contributes to the racial disparities in how laws are enforced. Just this week, James Blake, formerly the fourth-ranked men's tennis player in the world, was tackled and handcuffed at a midtown Manhattan hotel by police officers who confused him for a suspect in a crime. Blake, who is black, suffered cuts and bruises and was detained for about 15 minutes, until officers realized who he was.

"In my mind, there's probably a race factor involved, but no matter what, there's no reason for anybody to do that to anybody," Blake said after the incident.

Responding to Brock's lawsuit earlier this summer, the city claimed in court filings that she had been "acting irrational, she spoke incoherently and inconsistently, and she ran into the middle of traffic on Eighth Ave" during her encounter with police.

Lamonsoff told HuffPost that "those allegations are without merit" and that "the true facts of what happened that day will be brought out" through the litigation. The lawsuit, which names the city of New York, unidentified police officers and Harlem Hospital as defendants, seeks unspecified damages.

Neither the NYPD nor the City Law Department, which handles lawsuits filed against the city, responded to a request for comment on Friday. Previously the police department has only confirmed that Brock was taken into custody.

[10ac]

NYPD Officer's Act of Kindness Goes Viral on Facebook and Reddit
By CHRISTINA NG Nov. 29, 2012
PHOTO: An NYPD officer gives a shoeless homelsess man a pair of boots in New York City, Nov. 27, 2012.Jennifer Foster/NYPD/Facebook
NYC Police Officer's Chivalrous Act Towards Homeless Man
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A New York Police Department officer's act of kindness has gone viral online thanks to a photo snapped by a passing tourist.

Jennifer Foster of Florence, Ariz., was visiting Times Square with her husband on Nov. 14 when she spotted a shoeless man asking for change. Foster is the manager of the Pinal County Sheriff's public safety communications center.

"Right when I was about to approach, one of your officers came up behind him," Foster wrote in a message to the NYPD. "The officer said, 'I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let's put them on and take care of you.' The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man."

Foster said that the officer did not know she was watching and she took a photo.

"I have been in law enforcement for 17 years. I was never so impressed in my life. I did not get the officer's name," Foster wrote. "It is important, I think, for all of us to remember the real reason we are in this line of work. The reminder this officer gave to our profession in his presentation of human kindness has not been lost on myself or any of the Arizona law enforcement officials with whom this story has been shared."

The officer has since been identified as Lawrence DePrimo, 25, of Long Island.

DePrimo joined the NYPD in 2010 and lives with his parents. He has been shocked by the attention he has received and did not know about the photo or that it was going to be posted online, DePrimo told the New York Times.

"It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man's feet," DePrimo told the paper. "I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold."

DePrimo found out that the man, whose name he does not know, wore a size 12 shoe. He went into a Skechers shoes store and bought the all-weather boots for $75. DePrimo said the man was thrilled with the boots and went on his way.

DePrimo told the Times that he has kept the receipt in his vest pocket "to remind me that sometimes people have it worse."

When contacted by ABCNews.com, DePrimo said he had to get permission from the NYPD before he could comment on the story.

The NYPD posted the Foster's photo and message on their official Facebook page on Tuesday evening and it was picked up by Reddit. Since then, the Facebook photo has been "liked" over 347,000 times and shared over 94,000 times, turning DePrimo into an Internet hero.

While some of the thousands of comments on Facebook questioned whether the photo was stages, the comments were predominantly in praise of the officer.

One commenter wrote, "My eyes stung from the tears as I read this story - so awesome knowing there is still goodness in the world! May only good things come to this angel of an officer!"

"God Bless them both," another person wrote. "We have to take care of each other."

[Jungle Rat]

New York cops confuse me

[Johnette's Daddy]

PHOTO: An NYPD officer gives a shoeless homelsess man a pair of boots in New York City, Nov. 27, 2012.

Here's a newer one:

http://www.local10.com/news/police-offi ... s/25982900

Every two years, a cop buys a homeless person a pair of shoes to atone for all of the people they've fucked over.

[hedge]

"New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days... essentially because they couldn't believe a black woman owned a BMW."

I have to believe that there's more to the story than this. The idea that police couldn't believe a black woman could possibly own a 12 year old 300 series BMW just isn't credible. Frankly, it doesn't seem credible that they couldn't believe a black woman could own any make or model of BMW, but but one like that probably isn't worth more than $6-7K, if that...

[Professor Tiger]

Don't question The Paradigm.

[Toemeesleather]

You have to search, but you will find more and more of this....

.... reports that some 200 people showed up for the Columbus, Ohio, Women for Hillary event: “The modest-sized ballroom was half empty . . ., with supporters herded into a cordoned-off area to give the impression of a packed crowd.”


Gentlemen, the coronation is in trouble.

[Professor Tiger]

PHOTO: An NYPD officer gives a shoeless homelsess man a pair of boots in New York City, Nov. 27, 2012.

Here's a newer one:

http://www.local10.com/news/police-offi ... s/25982900

Every two years, a cop buys a homeless person a pair of shoes to atone for all of the people they've fucked over.

Cops lives matter:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/14/ke ... tcmp=hpbt1

[Professor Tiger]

You have to search, but you will find more and more of this....

.... reports that some 200 people showed up for the Columbus, Ohio, Women for Hillary event: “The modest-sized ballroom was half empty . . ., with supporters herded into a cordoned-off area to give the impression of a packed crowd.”


Gentlemen, the coronation is in trouble.

That right-wing nutjub tea party screed, the Daily Beast, is actually reporting the same thing:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... llary.html

[Johnette's Daddy]

PHOTO: An NYPD officer gives a shoeless homelsess man a pair of boots in New York City, Nov. 27, 2012.

Here's a newer one:

http://www.local10.com/news/police-offi ... s/25982900

Every two years, a cop buys a homeless person a pair of shoes to atone for all of the people they've fucked over.

Cops lives matter:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/14/ke ... tcmp=hpbt1

Yeah, it's amazing how many alleged cop-killers never make it to trial . . . as evil as they are, they often do the State a favor and save them the expense of prosecuting (and defending) a long, drawn out death penalty case.

[Professor Tiger]

JD, are you still on the Hillary bandwagon or are you ready to "Feel the Bern"?

[Johnette's Daddy]

JD, are you still on the Hillary bandwagon or are you ready to "Feel the Bern"?

I am solidly behind Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and whoever she supports. Solidly behind.
,
WRT Bernie, Marty, Hillary's polling, etc . . . it's all smoke and mirrors to keep Hillary and the Dems in the news cycle so the stary isn't "All Trump, All of the Time."

Until you see/hear Bernie, et alia throw mud at Hillary and get nasty, they're running for VPOTUS, not POTUS.

Hils has turned off the ultra left wing of the party and Bernie can bring that back. They don't have any money, but tree huggers vote like crazy (see: Nader, Ralph).

[bluetick]

Here ya go, positive proof that Donald Trump can win the GOP nomination:

CNN/ORC Poll: 43 Percent of Republicans Believe Obama is a Muslim

Public Policy Polling: 51 Percent of Republicans Believe the President is a Muslim

[Professor Tiger]

JD, are you still on the Hillary bandwagon or are you ready to "Feel the Bern"?

I am solidly behind Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and whoever she supports. Solidly behind.

Heh.

Now I know you're not actually Cornell West. I thought you might be.

[Professor Tiger]

A little upper-thigh eye candy for JD.

You're welcome.

[puterbac]

That kind of stuff is messed up. Knoxville had some shit like that going on also didn't they tick?

Its complete BS.

[10ac]

According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a nonprofit organization that tracks line-of-duty police fatalities, Ponder was the 25th on-duty officer shot and killed in the United States this year.

Man suspected of gunning down Kentucky state trooper has been shot and killed



After a lengthy manhunt, Johnson-Shanks, from Florissant, Mo., was found early Monday morning in a wooded area not far from the scene of the shooting. When he refused to obey troopers’ verbal commands to lower his gun, police said, he was shot.

Let the looting begin...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn ... y-trooper/