Les syndicats de police exultent après leur rencontre avec Darmanin. Ils obtiennent la possibilité d'une réforme leur permettant d'échapper à la détention provisoire et la création d'une juridiction d'exception pour les juger. "Il y a bien une immunité parlementaire" défend Jean-Christophe Couvy, d’unité SGP-police FO sur France Info. Une folie, l'immunité d'un député ou d'un sénateur ne fonctionne pas pour les faits les plus graves... #Politique#Police#violencespolicieres#SOS
Last was an important talk by Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Tarak Shah on using participatory #AI to analyze #Chicago#police data at @FAccT 2023. The combination of the work and approach to providing transparency and holding power to account is impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbPXUq-sVpQ (7/7) #FAccT2023
Breaking: @copcityvote organizers now have 60 additional days to collect signatures, following a court ruling. Non-City of Atlanta residents are also allowed to canvass. Game changer.
Today in Labor History July 27, 1918: Miner and union organizer Ginger Goodwin was shot by a hired private cop outside Cumberland, British Columbia sparking Canada's first General Strike. He was a labor activist and a member of the Socialist Party of Canada. Additionally, he was an antiwar activist who said that workers of one country should not be employed to kill workers of another country because of capitalist conflict. “War is simply part of the process of Capitalism,” he said. “Big financial interests will reap the victory, no matter how the war ends.” However, in spite of his protests, he was still drafted to fight in the First World War. In order to avoid conscription, he fled into the mountains, where he was murdered by a cop in 1918. Canada’s first General Strike began in response.
"Federal authorities have subpoenaed records and ordered the head of #Connecticut State #Police to meet with them this week amid controversy over claims widespread ticket falsification by troopers skewed #racialProfiling data."
Communities that want to reduce racism in policing have been trying to force cops to report basic information on their interactions with the public by race...
Today in Labor History July 26, 1894: President Grover Cleveland created a Strike Committee to investigate the causes of the Pullman strike and the subsequent walkout by the American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs. After four months, the commission absolved the strikers and placed the blame entirely on Pullman and the railroads for the conflict. Roughly 250,000 workers participated in the strike. And an estimated 70 workers died, mostly at the hands of cops and soldiers. To appease workers, the government came up with a new holiday, Labor Day, to commemorate the end of the Pullman Strike. However, President Cleveland had other interests in creating the new holiday. Rather than rewarding workers, his goal was to bury the history of the Haymarket Affair and the radical anarchist and socialist history of the labor movement by choosing any day other than May 1 as the new national labor holiday.
"Despite the protests by villagers and environmentalists, the cutting down of trees for the coal mine continues in the Akbelen Forest. Citizens who entered the area early this morning prevented the cutting teams from entering the area.
Despite the threats, the people did not leave the area. Thereupon, the cutting teams had to withdraw.
But then the soldiers came to the area, attacked the people and forced them out of the area. The women hugged the centuries-old trees, shouting "We don't want our pine trees to be cut down, that's enough." The soldiers forcibly removed the women."
Weiterer Polizeiangriff auf Protest gegen Braunkohletagebau #Akbelen#Turkey
"Trotz der Polizeiangriffe halten die Proteste gegen den Braunkohletagebau im Akbelen-Forst an. Bei einem erneuten Angriff der Militärpolizei wurden mehrere HDP-Politiker:innen festgenommen."
I think we may all agree the #police spend too much time responding to #mentalhealth calls.... but, this is because the #Tories have continually defunded & neutered other services to help these vulnerable people.
So Ministers telling the police to respond to fewer of these calls, while possibly refocusing them onto #crime, & whatever the pious words about 'right care, right person' (like the move to 'community care') is essentially a callous abandonment of the troubled!
Une question, teintée de culpabilité, me met mal a l'aise...
Est-ce qu'a force d'accuser la police de tous les méfaits, vérifiés ou non, avec ou sans contexte, sans aucune nuance, nous n'avons pas participé à en faire une institution dangereuse pour notre démocratie?
Vu l'attitude du gouvernement et son incapacité à faire montre de la moindre #autorité à l'égard de la #police, j'ai un peu de mal à comprendre comment les choses peuvent s'améliorer :( Manifestement, ils sont nombreux à être en roue libre (parlons en de la perte de repères...) et la défiance des citoyens vis a vis d'elle risque de se creuser plus encore.
Macron me donne l'impression d'être un président très démuni. Un homme de blabla et de posture .
D'après le Parisien, le ministre de l'intérieur néofasciste, Darmanin, a validé la sédition factieuse des composantes d'extrême droite de la police sans mettre Borne et Foutriquet dans la boucle.
The #BBC has apologised to the batrachian #Farage, but the sum total of it is: "We reported you lost your #Coutts account because you don't have the money. This was not entirely accurate. You also lost your account because you're a bigoted shit."
Farage and his fanbois are gloating. But he's still gunning after someone senior in the bank, because it was never about money or 'spree feach'. This is about revenge and intimidation, and always has been.
It does, of course, say a lot when people who are vulnerable to corruption and bribery are complaining that there are too many safeguards protecting them from being corrupted, or, indeed, blackmailed.
Including the, err, MINISTER IN CHARGE OF THE FUCKING #POLICE.
This is, of course, all happening in broad daylight.
"Many MPs falling foul of bank rules on ‘politically exposed persons’, says [#ChrisPhilp]...
Contre Attaque
"Die Szene ereignete sich gegen 8.30 Uhr in der Nähe der RER-Station Nanterre-Préfecture in einem Pariser Vorort. Bei einer Fahrzeugkontrolle richtete ein Motorradpolizist seine Waffe auf die vitalen Körperteile eines Fahrers und schoss dann, als das Fahrzeug losfuhr. Der 17-jähriger Jugendliche starb kurz darauf und ein Beifahrer wurde festgenommen.
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Im Jahr 2022 gab es 13 Todesfälle, die auf „Verweigerung des Gehorsams“ bei Kontrollen zurückzuführen waren, eine noch nie dagewesene Zahl. Im April 2022 wurden zwei Brüder auf einer Brücke in der Nähe der Pariser Präfektur von einem Polizisten mit einem Sturmgewehr in den Rücken geschossen. Eine Doppelhinrichtung ohne jegliche Art von Notwehr. Im Juni verlor eine junge Passantin mitten in Paris als „Kollateralopfer“ eines Schusses aus einer polizeilichen Dienstwaffe ihr Leben."
"The comparisons between the revolts which have shaken #France since the police murder of a 17-year-old last Tuesday and those which shook France in 2005 are unavoidable. In 2005 two teenagers, Zyed and Bouna, were chased into an electricity bunker in the eastern suburbs of #Paris where were both electrocuted to death. Three weeks of rioting followed in France, the youth angry about the police state, angry about racism, angry about the relegation of the cities. Eighteen years later, even if the media, society and political culture have evolved, not much seemed to have changed in the relationship between young people of colour and the police. On Monday of this week, with fires still smouldering in cities across the country, a news announcer calmly announced that “this three-day period of rioting” had done more damage than the rioters were able to do in three whole weeks 2005. There is something sly and mediatic in this turn of phrase – as if the state has decided – “here, you’ve had your fun for three days, there will not be a fourth”.