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No one bats an eyebrow anymore when they hear about an incident involving police brutality against blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and, well, anybody who isn’t white and/or rich. No one registers surprise when they hear of the federal government wiretapping, infiltrating, acting as agents provocateurs, spreading disinformation, faking documents, even framing or assassinating political leaders. Across the country, brutal attacks and widespread repression have made it clear that racism, sexism, and brutality are anything but aberrations within the law “enforcement” community, yet there is no public outcry when a grossly excessive crime bill is passed into law, no murmur of distress at the growth of the prison industry, no protest at the selling-off of our civil liberties.
· WOMEN COERCED INTO SEX ACTS AFTER ARREST? (LA TIMES, 11/9/95) Orange Co. woman filed suit against city, Police Dept. and an officer who, she alleges, coerced her into having sex with him while he was on duty, threatening to have her jailed if she refused. According to the lawsuit, the officer arrested the woman under the suspicion of drunk driving and threatened that, if she did not meet his sexual demands, he would “make her life a living hell”. After being coerced into fellating the officer, the woman took samples of semen she had spit into the sink and later found they matched the officer’s, the suit said.
· Anthony Baez, killed by officer’s illegal chokehold on 12/22/94. Baez was jumped by police officers who were angry because a football he was playing with accidentally hit their cair.
· 2.5 Million Dollars awarded to Police Officers who watched two other officers beat a man to death!!! The three officers claimed they were unfairly suspended and that their reputations were damaged after Malice Green was killed. The three were at the scene of the beating. The two other officers were convicted of second-degree murder for dragging Green from his car and beating him to death with metal flashlights in ‘92 (San Francisco Examiner, Thurs, Nov. 23rd)
· “Brothel Probe Draws Chuckle” (AP, NY, 11/16/95)
· The Supreme Court on Monday refused to reinstate a lawsuit by a Puerto Rico policeman shot in the penis by a fellow officer. (Washington AP) Rodriguez arrived early for work on May 26, 1988, at his precinct in the San Juan metropolitan area. He said he was accosted and taunted several times during the next two minutes by fellow officer Angel Valentin Corali. Martinez said Valentin pointed a gun first at his stomach and later at his penis. Martinez said Valentin then shoved his gun into Martinez’ pants and it accidentally went off, leaving him mutilated and impotent.
· NJ Police Brutality Protection Bill “transactional immunity” provided to cops ordered to testify or produce records in disciplinary hearings or for a lawsuit. Cops accused of beating on someone who are ordered to produce such records by internal affairs would be immune from prosecution.
· Jonny Gammage. Two White Cops Charged with Murder. Coroner’s report recommends that 5 be charged. Gammage suffocated due to pressure on his chest and neck after entering into police custody after a “low speed chase.”
· Highlights of KKK-Cop Ties
- 1979, U.S.S. Concord, Independence, America: Klan groups of Bill Wilkinson’s invisible Empire form on several Navy vessels, holding a cross burning on the America, wearing robes on the Independence, and provoking racial incidents on the Concord, based in Norfolk, VA. Wilkinson, a former member of naval Intelligence, is later exposed as a long time FBI operative.
- 1980, New Britain, CT - Auxiliary cop Gary Picotanno is exposed as the local Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire of the KKK. He obtains a gun permit because of his police auxiliary status.
- 1981, Frankfurt, Germany - the U.S. Army hires Gene Neill, a convicted drug smuggler and gun runner who has become an open member of the Invisible Empire KKK, and who’s writing a regular column for its newspaper, the Klansman, after his early release from prison. Neill, who styles himself an evangelist, is assigned by the Chaplain’s office of the Army’s V Corps to preach to the troops.
- 1983, Chicago, IL: In an effort to defeat Black mayoral candidate Harold Washington, the cops form “Police for Epton” (the white Republican.) They wear plain white buttons or buttons with a circled watermelon with a slash through it. The white cops circulate racist flyers, and conduct a plan for massive arrests in Black neighborhoods on the eve of the election, which is derailed at the last minute after being exposed by the Black press.
- 1990, Cambridge, MA: Tech Sgt. Hank Stram of the Air National Guard is arrested with a cache of more than 500 weapons, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, a mortar, an anti-tank gun, a rocket launcher, a swastika poster and nazi and survivalist propaganda.
- 1991, Beverly Hills, CA: Scott Dafoe, an off-duty white cop and three body-building buddies from NY are charged with the brutal gay-bashing of a Latino man outside a West Hollywood restaurant.
- 1992, Chicago, IL: A firefighter and his brother are arrested for shooting at the Puerto Rican neighbor. Nazi paraphernalia and massive quantities of weapons, ammo and explosives are found in their home.
- 1993, Paterson, NJ: A cop is busted for dealing in illegal weapons with an undercover police officer in a sting operation. An extensive weapons cache, nazi paraphernalia and white supremacist material is found in his home.
“The police - even if polite, respectful and individually not personal racists - carry out a commitment to suppress threats to the heirarchy of that state and society which leaves Black people and other people of color on the bottom.
· NYT (11/24/95) 4 NYCPD and a detective have been suspended w/o pay. One officer accused of driving a 19 year old woman to an isolated spot and tearing her clothes off. Another two officer were suspended after refusing to answer Internal Affairs questions about an incident where they struck a man riding a Honda scooter with their car.
· NY TIMES wire service, 12/1/95: The entire federal police detachment in the state of Baja California has been transferred after failing to intercept - and possibly even helping narcotics traffickers who landed a passenger jet loaded with tons of cocaine on a dry lake bed. Witnesses said 20 men wearing the black windbreakers of the federal police helped unload the $100 million cargo from the Caravelle jet.
· Rodney King beater, Laurence M Powerll, a cause celebre of the Legal Affairs Council.
· COINTELPRO: “disrupt, misdirect, isolate and neutralize. radical groups in the U.S.”
· WBAI 99.5FM DRIVER TICKETED BY NJ STATE COP FOR....NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH!!!
· 12/2/95 Home News NEW BRUNSWICK COP CHARGED WITH EXPOSURE
John Filozof, 27, resident of North Brunswick and decorated officer in the New Brunswick, NJ police department has been charged with repeatedly following school buses in North Brunswick and exposing himself to twonship schoolchildren aboard those buses.
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