Mass Riots and Human Rights Violations in US: Can They Preach China?

[Star Wars]

APC ? military grade weapons ? Grenade launchers ? are they trying to fight Boko Haram in Missouri

 

[TaiShang]

APC ? military grade weapons ? Grenade launchers ? are they trying to fight Boko Haram in Missouri

Latest: One in critical condition, 7 arrested as Ferguson police disperse protesters defying curfew

Relevant:

Local police kill at least 400 people a year, mostly minorities

A white police officer in the United States killed a black person on average of twice per week from 2005 to 2012, according to homicide reports offered to the FBI. But this data is limited, as only about 4 percent of law enforcement agencies contributed.

There was an average of 96 such incidents out of at least 400 police killings each year that local police departments reported to the FBI, according to analysis conducted by USA Today.

The analysis comes in the wake of the fatal police shooting by a white officer of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that has set off national outrage over US law enforcement’s aggressive use of deadly force, incongruent targeting of minorities, and a militarized posture that treats citizens as the enemy.

The FBI report shows that 18 percent of African-Americans killed during those seven years were under the age of 21. Whites killed that were under the age of 21 came out to 8.7 percent.

As USA Today noted, only around 750 agencies - out of the 17,000 law enforcement entities across the United States - offered such data to the FBI.

On top of the limited participation, the self-reported contents of the database are considered incomplete. The data are not audited after submission to the FBI, and information on “justifiable”homicides has often been at odds with independent statistics gathered on police fatalities.

''There is no national database for this type of information, and that is so crazy," said Geoff Alpert, a criminologist at the University of South Carolina. "We've been trying for years, but nobody wanted to fund it and the (police) departments didn't want it. They were concerned with their image and liability. They don't want to bother with it.''

Alpert added that the limited FBI data - the most complete record of people killed by US police - can show that a death had occurred, but it is reliable for little else.

"I've looked at records in hundreds of departments, and it is very rare that you find someone saying, 'Oh, gosh, we used excessive force.' In 98.9 percent of the cases, they are stamped as justified and sent along,”Alpert told USA Today.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police, on the other hand, said police use of force is blown out of proportion. Based on data from the Bureau of Justices Statistics in 2008, the group said less than 2 percent of 40 million people who had contact with police passed along complaints that officers used or threatened force.

Nevertheless, many independent studies of police shootings in major US cities have come to the conclusion that minorities are disproportionately targeted for police violence.

"We need not look for individual racists to say that we have a culture of policing that is really rubbing salt into longstanding racial wounds," NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks told Mother Jones.

Brooks added that in the US, many people suspected of minor crimes are confronted with"overwhelmingly major, often lethal, use of force.”

Meanwhile, officers are rarely convicted or sentenced for killing a suspect.

"Unfortunately, the patterns that we've been seeing recently are consistent: The police don't show as much care when they are handling incidents that involve young black men and women, and so they do shoot and kill," said Delores Jones-Brown, law professor and director of the Center on Race, Crime, and Statistics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, according to Mother Jones.

"And then for whatever reason, juries and prosecutor's offices are much less likely to indict or convict."

The US Justice Department is investigating at least 15 police agencies in the US for systemic abuse, including allegations of excessive force, racial profiling or false arrest.

 

[jkroo]

US always be the aggressive actionist. International or domestic doesnt matter.
Mr Soros is a typical American actionist so there was a foundation and color revolution boomed.
Even US put most of their people in prison, they still can teach you how to put people in prison rationally.
To preach or not China is still there and leading by our own elites. We have our own fate and destiny. Our people don't need to care too much about US.

 

[TaiShang]

Getting a lot more interesting now.

Militarized US police face-off with Ferguson protesters LIVE UPDATES

Tensions continue to mount in Ferguson, Missouri, as police respond with a heavy show of force against protesters in the wake of an officer-involved shooting of unarmed 18-year-old teenager Michael Brown.

Sunday, August 17
06:26 GMT:
Police radio says that a person has been shot, and it's not clear if rubber bullets were used. It's also reported that the man, wounded in his leg, has been taken to hospital.

06:20 GMT:
Several arrests have been reported, with St. Louis alderman Antonio French allegedly detained for a second time.

06:10 GMT:
Police were using smoke bombs against protesters, after earlier conflicting reports of tear gas being used. Gunshots were reportedly being heard in the area.

05:48 GMT:
Police are announcing on a bullhorn that the protesters have to leave the area immediately. "This is the police. You're in violation of the state-imposed curfew. You must disperse immediately," the police are saying.

05:48 GMT:
Police are now wearing gas masks, witnesses report on Twitter.

Ryan J. Reilly ✔ @ryanjreilly
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There are approximately 70 officer moving forward now putting on gas masks #Ferguson

10:45 PM - 16 Aug 2014 Ferguson, MO, United States

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#Ferguson crowd in front if QuikTrip chanting "we ready, we ready" 200 people is my estimate three cars have been parked across road

10:25 PM - 16 Aug 2014

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Protesters have blocked the street in #Ferguson at 12:23am. Chanting "No justice, no curfew." Police holding back.

10:25 PM - 16 Aug 2014

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We're not going anywhere. #Ferguson @YourAnonNews

10:11 PM - 16 Aug 2014

 

[BuddhaPalm]

Local police will strafe the protestors with white phosphorus in their A-10 Warthogs.

 

[TaiShang]

Militarization of US society shown to hit minority groups hardest
By Charles Gray

The US justice system's fraught relationship with US minorities and the militarization of even small police forces have made the current Ferguson confrontation unavoidable.

It is no secret that minorities in the US commonly face discrimination at nearly every level of the justice system, from their interaction with individual police officers to their treatment in the court system. Minorities are far more likely to be arrested, found guilty and sent to prison, and their sentences tend to be harsher than those handed down to whites for the same crime.

In this environment, the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown was not merely a tragic incident, but seen as yet another case where the police used excessive and lethal force against an African-American.

Brown's lack of a criminal record and the fact that he was only two days away from entering college were seen as examples of the tragic price paid by all too many minority communities at the hands of the law enforcement officers supposedly tasked with protecting them.

That alone would have resulted in a tense situation. Unfortunately, the Ferguson police department had become increasingly militarized over the last several decades, largely due to the war on drugs and later the war on terror.

The demonstrators were confronted by heavily armed police units, many dressed in military style camouflage uniforms, in addition to a number of light armored vehicles. And the Ferguson police quickly escalated the situation by utilizing tear gas, rubber bullets and heavy-handed treatment of bystanders and demonstrators alike, leading some observers to characterize the town as a "war zone."

On the side of law enforcement, the militarization of many police departments, coupled with the growing use of "no-knock" search warrants and heavily armed SWAT units for even non-violent purposes has helped make the police see their communities through the lens of an occupied neighborhood to be pacified, rather than a community to be served.

This was clearly the situation in Ferguson, with many US military veterans unfavorably comparing the department's tactics to US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It will take determined and long-term action to ensure that future Ferguson do not occur.

For example, successful outreach to minority communities will demand more than a few publicized meetings or announcements.

The battle to root out the endemic racism that continues to damage relations between law enforcement forces and minority groups will be a long-term affair, which will demand steady pressure on the part of US citizens and their elected representatives alike.

The ongoing militarization of US police must be reversed in order to avoid future Fergusons. While there will be a place for well-equipped high-threat police units, the use of such units should be limited to truly high-threat situations.

In most cases, even those involving public demonstrations, the use or display of such equipment and units will only serve to exacerbate the situation, especially when confronting communities that have little reason to trust their local police departments.

Ferguson also shows us the benefits of such a policy of de-escalation. The decision to transfer responsibility for the situation to the Missouri State Highway Patrol has resulted in a dramatic lessening of tension between the demonstrators and law enforcement.

This is especially important given that the Highway Patrol choose to avoid the use and display of armored vehicles or automatic weapons. The benefits of that policy should be noted by all police agencies in the US.

Effective police work requires the support of the community. That support cannot be obtained by treating the community as an occupied territory and its inhabitants as hostile insurgents. It cannot be obtained when a minority community sees police officers as enemies instead of partners.

The problems faced by US police are not ones that can be solved by obtaining another armored car or sniper rifle, but ones that can only be addressed by the slow and often difficult process of forging a bond of trust and mutual respect between the police and the community.

The author is a freelance writer based in Corona, California. charlesgray109@gmail.com

 

[gambit]

US riot police is armed like hell. They, by their sight, are intimidating. That may explain the lack of riots in the US despite of a myriad of social ills, injustices, and human rights violations. Any dissent voice that is expressed on the street, however small they are, is put down before the message is spread across the society.

That's the trick behind the seemingly stable social fabric, in the US. Not because people are satisfied, but because the state (federal and and local) is bloody heavily armed and ruthless.

I bet, if China constructs such heavily armed riot police, the number of protests will die down in no time.

I do not claim here China own the moral high ground. Each state has faults. But, I just want to point that the US has zero moral legitimacy and even less relevancy to open up its bloody mouth to lecture China.

This sounds like someone who has never been to the US and is trying very hard to sound knowledgeable. I do not know where you copied/pasted the above nonsense, but I doubt that it came from your direct observation of US.

 

[TaiShang]

Missouri calls in National Guard to calm unrest
China.org.cn

Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, the United States, on Aug. 15, 2014. 18-year-old African American teen Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson by local police on Aug. 9, 2014. Several bouts of protests over the shooting have erupted in Ferguson following the teen's death. (Xinhua/Marcus DiPaola)


Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed an order on Monday authorizing use of the National Guard in the riot-hit U.S. town of Ferguson, after violent clashes between protesters and the police.

"Given these deliberate, coordinated and intensifying violent attacks on lives and property in Ferguson, I am directing the highly capable men and women of the Missouri National Guard ... in restoring peace and order to this community," Nixon said in a statement.

Unrest and violence have gripped the area for days since the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, Darren Wilson.

Fresh violence erupted late Sunday, in which protesters fired upon law enforcement officers, throwing Molotov cocktails, looting and blocking roads.

And the tension further escalated after private autopsy results showed Brown, 18, was shot at least six times, two of those in the head.

"Based on the conditions, I had no alternative but to elevate the level of response," said Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson.

Monday marks the ninth day of protests in Ferguson after the shooting. Nixon declared a state of emergency in Ferguson on Saturday after the protests turned violent the night before.

 

[armchairPrivate]

The title is "Mass Riots and Human Rights Violations in US: Can They Preach China?"

Sure. The Fasist US Can. They haven't deployed the M1A2 yet.

 

[TaiShang]

The title is "Mass Riots and Human Rights Violations in US: Can They Preach China?"

Sure. The Fasist US Can. They haven't deployed the M1A2 yet.

LOL. Coming closer to that point, apparently.

 

[gambit]

LOL. Coming closer to that point, apparently.

In the US, it is the 'militarization' of the police.

In your China, the military IS the police.

In the US, the subject of the militarization of the police is openly discussed, criticized, and the US Congress is leaning towards stopping the program of giving surplus military equipment to the police.

In your China, the Chinese government forbade the discussion of Tiananmen Square by anyone on the pain of imprisonment, let alone discussion on the institutional role of the army as law enforcement.

In the US, the local sheriff can arrest the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if the general break the local laws.

In your China, military cars openly flaunt traffic laws with no fear of repercussions because they are exempt from traffic laws, and who knows what other and how many kinds of law that made special provisions for the military.

We still have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to go to be like your China in terms of the militarization of the police, if we are on that road at all.

 

[Kyle Sun]

In the US, it is the 'militarization' of the police.

In your China, the military IS the police.

In the US, the subject of the militarization of the police is openly discussed, criticized, and the US Congress is leaning towards stopping the program of giving surplus military equipment to the police.

In your China, the Chinese government forbade the discussion of Tiananmen Square by anyone on the pain of imprisonment, let alone discussion on the institutional role of the army as law enforcement.

In the US, the local sheriff can arrest the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if the general break the local laws.

In your China, military cars openly flaunt traffic laws with no fear of repercussions because they are exempt from traffic laws, and who knows what other and how many kinds of law that made special provisions for the military.

We still have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to go to be like your China in terms of the militarization of the police, if we are on that road at all.

No matter what , Our police or military guys will not kill people so hasty .
The police officers are armed with heavy weapon or just pistol is not the key, the key is abuse of power.
USA is really a FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Country.

 

[terranMarine]

Lets just say our military knows restraint unlike those law enforcers cowboys, shoot first ask questions later.

 

[TheNoob]

In the US, it is the 'militarization' of the police.

In your China, the military IS the police.

In the US, the subject of the militarization of the police is openly discussed, criticized, and the US Congress is leaning towards stopping the program of giving surplus military equipment to the police.

In your China, the Chinese government forbade the discussion of Tiananmen Square by anyone on the pain of imprisonment, let alone discussion on the institutional role of the army as law enforcement.

In the US, the local sheriff can arrest the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if the general break the local laws.

In your China, military cars openly flaunt traffic laws with no fear of repercussions because they are exempt from traffic laws, and who knows what other and how many kinds of law that made special provisions for the military.

We still have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to go to be like your China in terms of the militarization of the police, if we are on that road at all.

Yeah wont be long until you accuse your public of having WMD's and launch a damn offensive....

 

[Nan Yang]

In the US, it is the 'militarization' of the police.

In your China, the military IS the police.

In the US, the subject of the militarization of the police is openly discussed, criticized, and the US Congress is leaning towards stopping the program of giving surplus military equipment to the police.

In your China, the Chinese government forbade the discussion of Tiananmen Square by anyone on the pain of imprisonment, let alone discussion on the institutional role of the army as law enforcement.

In the US, the local sheriff can arrest the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if the general break the local laws.

In your China, military cars openly flaunt traffic laws with no fear of repercussions because they are exempt from traffic laws, and who knows what other and how many kinds of law that made special provisions for the military.

We still have a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to go to be like your China in terms of the militarization of the police, if we are on that road at all.

In denial. You can talk all you want about the process. In the end the results is all that matters.

These are even more scary.

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