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Title: Report: Oakland cops pointed guns at sleeping baby
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URL Source: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/oak ... pointed_guns_at_sleeping_baby/
Published: Feb 2, 2013
Author: Natasha Lennard
Post Date: 2013-02-02 15:35:57 by Capitalist Eric
Keywords: None
Views: 53376
Comments: 91
According to an independent report investigating Oakland police misconduct, two cops pointed their guns at a sleeping 1-year-old while investigating a misdemeanor crime.
The incident was flagged by Independent Monitor Robert Warshaw, who is responsible for auditing the OPD’s progress in complying with a Negotiated Settlement Agreement to resolve allegations of police misconduct. According to Warshaw’s most recent report, the OPD’s compliance decreased for the second quarter in a row. As well as highlighting the police department’s failure to investigate Occupy Oakland complaints, Warshaw’s report briefly mentions a troubling incident:
[D]uring a search warrant, two officers pointed their firearms at a sleeping 19-month-old child who, of course, posed no immediate threat to the officers or others. The crime being investigated, according to the reports, involved a misdemeanor offense.
The report also notes that in the past quarter, five incidents reportedly took place in which Oakland police pointed their guns at citizens when no crime had been committed.
As the East Bay Express notes, this incident, alongside Warshaw’s broader findings, stand “in stark contrast to recent statements by Mayor Jean Quan.” Last week, the mayor told press, “The reality is that we’re making progress, this police department is changing.”
Oakland police have a storied history of aggressive treatment of residents. Forty-four officers faced disciplinary action over their behavior during Occupy Oakland protests, which included seriously injuring an Iraq War veteran with a beanbag projectile shot at his head at close range.
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Natasha Lennard - British-born, Brooklyn-based journalist covering radical politics - Writer - Covers Occupy and radical politics for Salon.com.
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#2. To: yukon (#1)
Uh Welcome. This should be interesting.
#3. To: A K A Stone, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#2)
Welcome. This should be interesting.
Could be, if you don't delete everything.
#4. To: hondo68, A K A Stone (#3)
Welcome. This should be interesting.Could be, if you don't delete everything.
No schitt, gotta save this for posterity purposes.. LOL...
#8. To: CZ82 (#4)
You never attained the ability to grow or borrow a pair of balls, did you retread?
#9. To: yukon (#8)
did you retread?
I can assure you that he is no retread.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
I can assure you that he is no retread.
No you can't.
#13. To: yukon (#11)
No you can't.
Yes I can as I personally know him.
#16. To: A K A Stone, pukon (#13)
No you can't.Yes I can as I personally know him.
You're wasting your time Stone... He's just like the Leftards he doesn't want to know the truth!!
#17. To: CZ82, A K A Stone (#16)
he doesn't want to know the truth!!
You wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit you in your cellulite-laden ass.
When is Ron Paul going to introduce articles of impeachment for the traitor occupying the White House, chickenshit?
#19. To: yukon (#17)
When is Ron Paul
Pssst....Pssst... Ron Paul isn't in congress anymore.
What do you think of his son Rand?
#20. To: A K A Stone, yukon (#19)
What do you think of his son Rand?
He's our representative, and I'm still out on that one....
#21. To: Murron (#20)
He's our representative, and I'm still out on that one....
Why would you be out on that one? He has all the right positions and deals with them with conviction. He is not a phoney like most up there today.
#26. To: A K A Stone (#21)
Why would you be out on that one? He has all the right positions and deals with them with conviction. He is not a phoney like most up there today.
Sorry I took so long to get back, my guys cooked dinner tonight and I'm staring at a quarter pounder, double decker cheese burger....lol...
Anyway!
Rand sought fundraising help from GOP lawmakers who voted for the massive 2008 financial bailout, flip-flopping on a campaign promise to shun those lawmakers.
During the primary, Paul pledged not to accept contributions from any senator who had voted for the financial bailout. That promise was included on his campaign website, but he's taken it down since then.
He was a strong opponent of the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 with its inclusion of the “indefinite detention” powers, but he did another flip/flop and voted “Yes” in favor of the same bill for 2013.
I could be wrong, not sure, but libertarians, in my opinion, tend to be compromisers, and I have no faith, nor trust, in anyone who compromises their convictions.
He will lose my support completely if he continues to fold like a cheap suit on issues he claims to stand by. JMHO!
#28. To: Murron (#26)
libertarians, in my opinion, tend to be compromisers
The flip flopping is due to the fact that he's not a libertarian, but a neocon progressive, IMO.
There is very little similarity to his father Ron, who is pro American.
#31. To: hondo68 (#28)
The flip flopping is due to the fact that he's not a libertarian, but a neocon progressive, IMO.There is very little similarity to his father Ron, who is pro American.
Rand Paul isn't flip flopping on anything. He has all the same positions.
He is better then his father.
Ron paul was stupid being for legalization of Heroin and drugs like that. Rand is smarter.
Ron Paul was kind of naive when he talked about Muslims and said Iran was peaceful. Rand is much smarter saying that he isn't taking anything off the table in dealing with Iran.
Ron Paul looked like a total loon on Morton Downey Juniors Show. Rand doesn't come across as a fool.
On abortion, murder Ron paul says it is a states matter. That is a stupid position. Ron Paul didn't favor a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Rand does.
Rand Paul's positions are superior across the board, politically and morally.
I like Ron Paul and would vote for him. But to be honest some of his positions are nutty.
#46. To: A K A Stone, Murron, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#31) (Edited)
Ron Paul didn't favor a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Rand does.Murron>> Rand sought fundraising help from GOP lawmakers who voted for the massive 2008 financial bailout
The constitution protects all US citizens regardless of age. All that's needed is a president and attorney general willing to prosecute and hang baby murderers. Enforce the law! Try and hang baby murderers, deport the Bush & Obama guest illegal alien dream student invaders. We haven't tried a law abiding president yet, like Ron Paul would have been. Not since before Lincoln anyway.
Rand is on the take from big money D&R drug cartel political contributors, so ya he wants to keep drugs illegal to maximize profits. He's a drug pusher like most of the Republicans and Democrats.
On the take from the drug cartels and banksters, is right. He's a globalist, so not giving a damn about the American people is to be expected. It's the D&R crime syndicate's way of doing business.
#48. To: hondo68, A K A Stone, Murron (#46)
he wants to keep drugs illegal to increase profits. He's a drug pusher like most of the Republicans and Democrats.
Honesty and integrity....hondouche? What a joke!
#50. To: yukon, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#48) (Edited)
Shouldn't you be at the school selling drugs, marital aids, batteries, and gerbils for the D&R party?
#56. To: hondo68 (#50)
Bozo him. Take from him the only thing that matters: attention.
#57. To: Capitalist Eric (#56)
You're such a phoney wimp! Can I get you a box of tissues, crybaby? LOLAYCS!
#62. To: yukon (#57)
Here's of PDF of you "coming out" of the closet assclown, in case some of the newbies haven't seen it.
pdf file: Yukon comes out of the closet.pdf
#70. To: calcon (#62)
"coming out"
Still doing bathhouses in San Fagcisco, eh Calfag?
#83. To: yukon (#70)
back at your dickbreath,
YOUR HUMILIATION FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE
pdf file: Yukon comes out of the closet.pdf
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dickbreath
Won't brushing cure it, Calfag? LOLAY!!!
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