The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.
The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged that police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year-old to the hospital with burns.
Police have offered a conflicting account of what happened Jan. 10, saying in a statement Friday that they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not “sustain any apparent, visible injuries.”
Courtney Price says audio from her Ring camera proves them wrong. In a clip shared exclusively with NBC News on Tuesday, someone can be heard saying “it’s the wrong house.” It is not clear who made the remark because the camera fell to the ground and went dark after police deployed the flash-bang devices.
A cop would pretty much never be prosecuted for lying, it’s perfectly legal in the US for them to lie their asses off to witnesses and suspects alike. Part of the reason we have a such a problem with innocent people being imprisoned over false confessions.
Yeah, because nobody notable has realized American cops as organizations were founded to be slaver patrols and if you were white and tried to protect their targets they would KILL you. I’m not saying my own country is perfect, but when the corruption rate among American police is claimed to be 98% and the corruption rate of the RCMP (yes, the Mounties) is claimed to be 0.02%? I’m literally waiting to defend myself in court and I will at least say the cops involved were fair. You know who originally the RCMP was founded by? They’re an offshoot of the UK’s royal bodyguards, the beefeaters, and as silly as that might sound, somehow it works.
Canada has a relatively shitty mental health system but seriously, at least there’s a way to sue, convict or discredit corrupt doctors. Cops can’t be allowed to be corrupt, this is only going to be solvable if there’s a unified and violent citizen’s revolt. Go out there and pretend to be peaceful, then murder all the cops with extreme prejudice and without waiting for direct provocation when they show up and anyone who survives continues to kill police on sight until the fucking US Government gets it through their fucking heads that when the “police” are a criminal syndicate and former slaver you get fucking anarchy, a “system” of “government” that I am under no delusion is capable of producing anything of value. The government doesn’t want anarchy? Stop fucking oppressing people and the people won’t need to threaten you to get you to be a tolerable person. Being legal and rational means nothing if the system is rigged against justice.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to try and get a judge to begin an investigation into an entire psychiatric ward as well as an unrelated ex-psychiatrist, because thanks to years of malpractice my life is irrecoverably ruined and I fucking hate everyone.
The RCMP has its own history of suppressing and murdering indigenous people. Colonialism, apartheid and genocide are some of the main reasons the RCMP exist.
That said, I agree that the RCMP are much better on virtually every measurable metric, as is policing in Canada in general.
Oh, for sure. I am still f-ing pissed about McGill covering up that they experimented on kids. I was personally screwed out of a proper childhood because of RCMP and Social Services corruption, and I’m about as white-looking as any half-Colombian, half-Ukrainian can get including accent and mannerisms, I have no doubt that what those poor women said McGill did to their children was really what happened, that the full details were unimaginably horrifying, and I honestly feel like the University should be forced to shut down for doing such a thing at the full expense of those who were profiting from the University as running their business or investing in a business.
I think I know why I never liked Westerns. Even at 5 years old, discriminating against natives never sat right with me. Sometimes I feel like I have no country, even though my family isn’t currently being oppressed and even my grandfather lived his whole life here, because so many things happen here in Canada that go against everything I was told this country is supposed to be that I never really became a “Canadian”. I value the ideal, but I refuse to be blinded and I cannot deny that Canada has failed to uphold its own values so much that if not for the UK having been in control until the 60s I would have already written us off as not even trying.
On that note, I get that racial issues are not as clear as they seem in the US. White plantation owners and most of their descendants have acted like greedy assholes but " white" = / = white and even white = / = racist, and while I get life as a black American sucks, stealing from even other black neighbours is not okay (though it should be noted that intraracial crime - against those who are categorized with you for whatever trait or excuse outsiders invent - is universally more common than interracial crime) by the victim’s standards or by the standards of any fair-judging outsider.
The point being, I don’t think much of America is salvageable, but you have to realize you’re doing far better from being exposed to the need to discuss it than many Europeans feel they are towards Muslims and Roma (“gypsies”, though it would be more understanding to remember that they exist because Rome didn’t collapse in a day and not owning land is extremely financially debilitating in Europe) considering that despite what those plantation owners claim, slavery in some form has been legal since 1776 and has only been restricted and not banned for, well…
When slavery was “banned” after the American civil war, it was indeed banned and reparations to be given to former slaves… For two days or something upon which Lincoln was assassinated and his vice president reversed it all (presumably while meraphorically twirling his moustache, since true bigots who are sure they’ve done no wrong all seem to think like a spiteful Disney villain) like the scumbag the VP apparently was. Slavery proper was not banned until 1942 (as a wartime PR move) and everything from sundown laws to private prisons has kept a form of forced labor, especially forced on disadvantaged persons, in use in America. But that being said…
Canada has “only” been attempting to move away from the UK for 80-ish years and I still think we can get over spitefulness instead of getting stuck in intergenerational feuds. America hasn’t even reached that point yet, as far as I’m concerned the US is well-prepared for the day private prisons are outlawed.
I’m angry because I think we can succeed if not for people that only ever seem satisfied when they can toy with the fate of an individual like capitalism is literally how it was portrayed in Mun Mun (terrible book, IMO but in some sense I feel like “littlepoor” has always described me) and the kind of condescending pretentious “visionaries” of the Solarpunk genre…newsflash, vegan organic homegrown space Amish, you’re ableist if you think anyone with Aspergers/Autism/whatever my condition should be called is going to consider your “unplugged” world desirable, especially without my pharmaceutical psychiatric medications which would leave me not just angry and bitter but foaming at the mouth with enough rage to go around burning down every civilization that tries to rebuild after the loss of the internet and video games)… and people keep trying to prevent that from happening by encouraging discrimination by everyone against everyone else. Everyone else that cares this much about the way the world works tends to be not just insane (I’m saying this as someone who is already mentally unstable) but arrogantly so.
I just want to see the world get better, and I feel like everyone else that cares about how humans progress only cares how that will benefit them personally. Of course I have personal values and selfish reasons, but this isn’t a high school and I have to know better than to propose anything that is global or national in scope unless it also benefits as many people as possible and screws not one person over because the means always must justify the ends, not the other way around. I’ve tried sites like Change.org but the fact is that when it comes to fixing the world I refuse to work with someone who clearly exclusively cares about their own interests. Homeowner’s ASSociations and narcissists don’t get to have a say over the individual right to do something that is actually beneficial in my hypothetical near-utopia, and that spinelessness has been enraging me by screwing me over and over for the past 7 years. I get screwed, I ask someone to help, and in most cases they can’t but even when they can they won’t because they’d lose something.
I have a game console, a OneXPlayer. Custom preorder with the exclusive nametag. It’s my prized possession.
I’d give it up as fast as I could if my option was to save it from a fire or save a child from a fire. All I ask is that when heroism is within easy reach, that people grab onto it for dear life. It might not be only their own dear life that they save by doing so, and if someone can’t live with that knowledge, then pretending you/I/they don’t remember a child’s haunting cries of pain means they’re a coward. If you have kids and can’t afford to lose them, I get it, but this is a Millennial talking. I don’t have kids and neither do “they” in many cases, but from what I’ve seen people honestly seem to believe that kids dying is “normal”.
Tell a 10 year old that kids dying is just how things are, and watch how fast they decide on some level that adulthood is no different from any other inner party. Unfortunately, none of the world’s many other activists had to live with a foster mother because of illegal conduct by the Ministry of Children and Families. Yeah, sure, Ministers of " Truth" and “Plenty” and “Love”, you just want to Atlas Shrug off to some private island…
Sorry for the rant. Thanks for having a good faith argument despite my temper, you’re clearly living up to your username!