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Last few days are the least functional kbin has been for me since the July exodus. Just me?
Just curious if it's somehow got to do with anything on my end. I'm generally desktop-only, firefox-only.
Bar owner is arrested after St. Louis police officer crashes into his business
Sorry folks, this didn't look paywalled for me when I posted it.
Links others have provided:
Did I see a note that blocked users would no longer show up in the random threads sidebar?
I currently have to stare at what is presumably @RichardvanDaalen being anally penetrated on the main page, no matter that I have blocked him, and no matter that I have hit refresh several times.
I could post a screenshot, but you'd probably rather I didn't.
Austin hasn't allowed more police oversight, despite voter approval. Now it's getting sued.
The lawsuit argues that the city is violating its own ordinance by not allowing the Office of Police Oversight to access internal disciplinary files of officers.
https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2023-12-07/austin-police-oversight-act-lawsuitOpen linkView original on kbin.socialAlabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’
The Reform police officer is on leave while authorities investigate the weekend arrest.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/12/alabama-police-officer-caught-on-video-using-stun-gun-on-handcuffed-man-do-you-want-it-again.htmlOpen linkView original on kbin.socialExclusive: A Prominent Election Rights Lawyer Is Calling Out Atlanta’s Voter Suppression on Cop City Referendum
The Elias Law Group is supporting the Vote To Stop Cop City Coalition.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/exclusive-cop-city-voter-suppression-marc-elias-atlanta-city-council-memo-referendum-signature-matching/Open linkView original on kbin.socialMaryland roommates claim police detained them at gunpoint for no reason and shot their pet dog: "No remorse"
The roommates claim officers unnecessarily shot their pet dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roommates-lawsuit-prince-georges-county-death-pet-dog-shot-by-police/Open linkView original on kbin.social"They tortured him"; police used Taser on special needs teen for breaking window before shooting him
Thurau's nationwide examination of decades of lawsuits involving Tasers, also called "Conducted Electrical Weapons," found the devices were used on a disproportionate number of children of color and children with disabilities.
Washington says her son fits that description and attends a specialized school.
"A 14-year-old. A special needs 14-year-old, who has disorders, who do not understand what is going on," she said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/sauk-village-police-taser-14-year-old-special-needs-broken-window/Open linkView original on kbin.socialGOP Sen. Says He Could Have Beat Up Hearing Witness if Not for ‘Political Correctness’
Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mullin-blames-political-correctness-senate-fight-1234879256/Open linkView original on kbin.socialHundreds of Women File Rape Lawsuits Against New York City Jails
Like other plaintiffs talked to by THE CITY, Baez said she never filed a formal complaint while she was locked up because she was “scared, alone, and I had no one.”
“I thought people would judge me and say I liked it,” she said, “and that’s why it kept happening.”
While she was in Rikers, she began to believe that’s what God intended to happen to her.
“I started to believe that this is part of my life,” she said, “to be raped and used like a sex slave.”
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/11/09/hundreds-of-women-file-rape-lawsuits-against-city-jails/Open linkView original on kbin.socialYoutuber I found livestreaming from Gaza - seems to post a new livestream every 12 hours
Channel link since this video from OP will go offline in something like 10 hours: https://www.youtube.com/@DDCyprus1Click
Youtuber livestreaming from Gaza - New Livestream every 12 hours
The current stream that started a couple hours ago is here:
A grandmother was fatally shot in her car by an officer. It’s not his force’s only deadly encounter under scrutiny
She was sitting in her car before dawn last month when a uniformed police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, accused her and her passenger of trespassing, then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to investigate.
https://www.cnn.com/las-cruces-police-federal-lawsuit/index.htmlOpen linkView original on kbin.socialPerson of interest sought after car drives through security fences at South Carolina nuclear plant
Police in South Carolina are investigating an incident involving a vehicle that drove through security fences at a nuclear power station on Thursday.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-investigating-incident-south-carolina-nuclear-plant-after/story?id=104598780Open linkView original on kbin.socialA mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months. (Spoiler: Run over by a cop.)
The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.
It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.
Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son.
They bounced down the road and curved into the woods, crawling past clearings where rows of small signs jutted from the earth, each marked with a number.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bettersten-wade-dexter-jackson-mississippi-police-missing-rcna121697Open linkView original on kbin.socialElijah McClain said 'I can't breathe' 7 times as he was lying handcuffed on the ground, prosecutor says
“Listen to Elijah’s words,” prosecutor Jonathan Bunge said as police body camera video was played. “When Elijah is on the ground handcuffed, he’s saying over and over and over again, ‘I can’t breathe. Please help me.’”
But instead of helping him, Bunge said, Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema and his former colleague, Jason Rosenblatt, ignored McClain's pleas for help and told arriving paramedics that he had been resisting and had "crazy strength."
Then the paramedics gave McClain a sedative "as he was drifting closer and closer to death," Bunge said in Adams County District Court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elijah-mcclain-said-cant-breathe-7-lay-handcuffed-prosecutor-says-rcna108006Open linkView original on kbin.social