Posted on 04/14/2014 4:29:06 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing report in response to a series of deadly police shootings that pointed to patterns of excessive force by the Albuquerque Police Department, serious constitutional violations and a lack of training and oversight of its officers. After more than a year of reviewing hundreds of cases handled by the Albuquerque police, the federal agency found that officers too frequently used deadly force on people "who posed a minimal threat" and used a higher level of force too often on those with mental illness.
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Feds: ‘Excessive force’ found in Feds
That’s the headline I want to see with the story being:
Fedgov disarms itself and limits authority to just that in the Constitution.
Every dumb monkey in government seems to be armed. The jamokes at Immigration all carry guns even for just an administrative position. It’s nuts.
ok, so now what?! Most Americans don’t believe the police and most don’t believe the feds!
Only one gun was a bean bag gun.
Here’s a link to one of the many articles. Search for James Boyd shooting Albuquerque. You do have to answer a 1 question survey to view the article.
What about Nevada
Thank you for this link.
You’re welcome.
I am Joaquin’s Total Lack Of Surprise.
Police apologists are dwindling in number on a daily basis.
I’m sure there are still plenty of them around, but they are finding it more and more difficult to make their case.
Believe in yourself.
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