Why Not Call the Cops

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Has anyone been following this story?

It started with a woman whose son was killed by a cop in a car who hit him. It may have been a genuine accident but then the police just buried him in an anonymous grave and never contacted his family despite having the information. Now this story has exposed the fact that there are maybe between 200 and 500 bodies behind a jail some of whom apparently have family that was never contacted living right in the area.

Furthermore apparently some of these uncontacted families are from victims in some 20+ homicides that went unreported to the public last year. The police just buried the bodies of all these homicide victims anonymously and sat on it for a year I guess?

Really chilling stuff. Just a complete systemic failure.

The banality of evil gets lost in the high octane news stories.

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It’s enraging and disgusting


That’s really at the heart of it, yeah. So much of modern, mass society rests on this very idea, that people are disposable, especially if they’re not of a particular, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc


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Ok, that article is a little unclear on what’s going on. First of all, he wasn’t charged with murder. He’s been charged with manslaughter. It’s still bullshit, but there is a big difference. Second, the article implies that the judge declared him incompetent because he can’t speak English or Spanish, but only his native language. That’s not why the judge declared him incompetent. They can get translators even for that language, and, in fact, they have. The issue is that he only has a 6th grade education, and just answers “yes” to every question he’s asked, even with a translator, and can’t seem to retain information. He can’t demonstrate that he understands even the most basic elements of what’s going on or why he’s under arrest and being held in custody.

Procedurally, though, being found by a judge to be not competent to stand trial doesn’t mean you immediately get released and the charges dropped. The post you linked implies that the prosecution is just ignoring the judge’s decision. That’s not what’s happening. When someone is declared not competent, depending on the reasons for that, they can be given treatment to see if they can become competent, which is what’s happening here.

So, the whole thing is still bullshit, it’s just that some of the bullshit described in that post isn’t accurate bullshit. This article has more accurate bullshit.

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Oh great, we’re back to raiding gay bars to enforce ‘morality’. Do they not remember Stonewall?

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Not the way it actually happened, no
 Or maybe not at all


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Police said the car’s licence plate had matched the number of a stolen vehicle but from a different state.

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Sounds like a slap on the wrist compared to, y’kno, torture, but still good.

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the Los Angeles Police Foundation, which says it is “one of two exclusive holders” of intellectual property rights relating to the Los Angeles Police Department, including the right to “the word ‘LAPD’ as an acronym/abbreviation,” sent a nastygram on April 11 to a company selling a T-shirt that read “F*CK the LAPD.”

[
] the lawyer does not yet seem to have mastered certain other skills, such as researching arguably relevant questions like “can a government agency trademark or copyright its name”?

The target’s lawyer, Mike Dunford, does know the answer to that question, which he expressed in just two words as shown above. He could have cut one of them, but in this case less would not have been more.

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There was no evidence that linked her to the crime other than a confession she gave under heavy sedation in a psychiatric hospital, a review into her case found.


The review found that local police ignored evidence that directly pointed to one of their own officers - Michael Holman – who later went to prison for another crime and died in 2015.

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The incident in the early hours of 6 July began when Ms Massey called police to her home in Springfield, 200 miles (320km) south of Chicago, to report that she believed someone had broken into her property.


In the video, Mr Grayson sees a pot sitting on a stove, gestures towards it and says, “we don’t need a fire while we’re here”. Ms Massey walks to the stove to remove the pot. She and Mr Grayson appear to laugh over her pot of “steaming hot water,” before she twice says: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus."

“You better [expletive] not or I swear to God I’ll [expletive] shoot you in your [expletive] face,” Mr Grayson says. He then draws his pistol as he shouts for her to drop the pot.

“OK, I’m sorry,” Ms Massey is heard saying before she ducks.

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Even worse, nobody called them. Instead a wanna-be (the definition of amateur) detective on the SWAT squad thought it was a grow operation because it’s still the 90s.

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