Posted on Mar 10, 2022
How a deadly protest shooting deepened distrust of Portland police
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On the evening of 19 February, a group of four women were standing in an intersection of a residential neighborhood in northeast Portland, Oregon, working as traffic safety volunteers for a demonstration in a nearby park to demand justice for Amir Locke – a 22-year-old Black man killed by Minneapolis police officers earlier in the month.
As the women stood directing traffic, a man walked out of a nearby house and angrily confronted them “about protesters in the neighborhood”. Then he opened fire, killing beloved community activist June Knightly and sending five other people to the hospital.
All four of the volunteer women were allegedly unarmed. The shooting only stopped when someone from the protest ran forward and shot the gunman in the hip. He too was wounded.
As the women stood directing traffic, a man walked out of a nearby house and angrily confronted them “about protesters in the neighborhood”. Then he opened fire, killing beloved community activist June Knightly and sending five other people to the hospital.
All four of the volunteer women were allegedly unarmed. The shooting only stopped when someone from the protest ran forward and shot the gunman in the hip. He too was wounded.
How a deadly protest shooting deepened distrust of Portland police
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"What happened to Portland’s queer activist and activist Amanda knightly?
The result was that Portland lost Knightly, a 60-year-old queer activist who distributed hot meals to the city’s unhoused population, helped organise Portland’s Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 while battling cancer, and frequently worked as a volunteer who helped block traffic to allow demonstrators to march safely down city st..."
"What happened to Portland’s queer activist and activist Amanda knightly?
The result was that Portland lost Knightly, a 60-year-old queer activist who distributed hot meals to the city’s unhoused population, helped organise Portland’s Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 while battling cancer, and frequently worked as a volunteer who helped block traffic to allow demonstrators to march safely down city st..."
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Fund the police? U.S. Police Have So Much Extra Gear They're Sending It to Ukraine :
Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.
Law enforcement agencies in several states have all announced in recent days that they’re donating dozens of pieces of body armor, such as ballistic helmets and vests. Some of the departments and their respective local partners—one of which is a top defense contractor with U.S. and Ukrainian government contracts—say the donations will be distributed to Ukrainian citizens under siege by the Russian military.
State law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Vermont both announced Wednesday that they were donating defensive equipment to Ukraine. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said the state’s policing agencies were “coordinating an effort to donate used and expired body-armor vests to military units in Ukraine,” and the Vermont State Police also encouraged members of the public to donate their own body armor as long as it’s rated Level III or higher by the Department of Justice’s research arm—capable of protecting against some rifle rounds, in other words.
The Colorado Department of Public Safety said it was donating more than 80 sets of body armor and 750 helmets, and that it was accepting donations from other law enforcement agencies in the state. “This is equipment that we are no longer able to use because it is beyond life cycle, or in some cases it may have been replaced or upgraded by some equipment that maybe better fits our needs or is safer,” Colorado DPS spokesperson Patricia Billinger told local station KARE9.
In Pennsylvania, the Falls Township Police Department, which has 53 sworn officers and is situated about 40 minutes north of Philadelphia, is sending 52 ballistic vests, including 15 “military-grade” vests capable of stopping rifle bullets, although they’re no longer under warranty, according to Falls Township police chief Nelson E. Whitney II.
SOURCE : https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/dypkjx/us-police-donates-tactical-gear-ukraine
Providing police with military gear does not reduce crime or protect officers: Studies
Law enforcement officials say the equipment helps small cash-strapped agencies.
ByBill Hutchinson
December 8, 2020, 5:48 PM ET
SOURCE : https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/providing-police-military-gear-reduce-crime-protect-officers/story?id=74518923
Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds
SOURCE : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/police-militarization-fails-to-protect-officers-and-targets-black-communities-study-finds
The Racial Politics of Protection: A Critical Race Examination of Police Militarization
Fanna Gamal
California Law Review
Vol. 104, No. 4 (August 2016), pp. 979-1008 (30 pages)
Published By: California Law Review, Inc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24758742
SOURCE : https://www.jstor.org/stable/24758742
Poisoning Our Police: How the Militarization Mindset Threatens Constitutional Rights and Public Safety
SOURCE : https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/06/poisoning-our-police-how-the-militarization-mindset-threatens-constitutional-rights-and-public-safety/
Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation
SOURCE : https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/jmummolo/files/mummolo_pnas_final.pdf
Police Militarization
“Perhaps militarization weakens the community relations necessary for effective policing.4 The public seems to believe that using tactical equipment, weapons, and other resources appears “more closely akin to military operations than domestic law enforcement.”5 Unfortunately, conversations regarding militarization usually have not included police agencies.”
“Nevertheless, the results also suggest that military-like displays may prove problematic for the police, primarily in appearance, rather than substance. For example, a sizable number of respondents agreed that some tactical characteristics of policing, such as the use of armored vehicles, military-style uniforms, and patrol rifles, contribute to a militarized appearance unacceptable for much of the public. Agencies may want to examine how to avoid such militaristic indicators while employing effective strategies.”
SOURCE : https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization
Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.
Law enforcement agencies in several states have all announced in recent days that they’re donating dozens of pieces of body armor, such as ballistic helmets and vests. Some of the departments and their respective local partners—one of which is a top defense contractor with U.S. and Ukrainian government contracts—say the donations will be distributed to Ukrainian citizens under siege by the Russian military.
State law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Vermont both announced Wednesday that they were donating defensive equipment to Ukraine. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said the state’s policing agencies were “coordinating an effort to donate used and expired body-armor vests to military units in Ukraine,” and the Vermont State Police also encouraged members of the public to donate their own body armor as long as it’s rated Level III or higher by the Department of Justice’s research arm—capable of protecting against some rifle rounds, in other words.
The Colorado Department of Public Safety said it was donating more than 80 sets of body armor and 750 helmets, and that it was accepting donations from other law enforcement agencies in the state. “This is equipment that we are no longer able to use because it is beyond life cycle, or in some cases it may have been replaced or upgraded by some equipment that maybe better fits our needs or is safer,” Colorado DPS spokesperson Patricia Billinger told local station KARE9.
In Pennsylvania, the Falls Township Police Department, which has 53 sworn officers and is situated about 40 minutes north of Philadelphia, is sending 52 ballistic vests, including 15 “military-grade” vests capable of stopping rifle bullets, although they’re no longer under warranty, according to Falls Township police chief Nelson E. Whitney II.
SOURCE : https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/dypkjx/us-police-donates-tactical-gear-ukraine
Providing police with military gear does not reduce crime or protect officers: Studies
Law enforcement officials say the equipment helps small cash-strapped agencies.
ByBill Hutchinson
December 8, 2020, 5:48 PM ET
SOURCE : https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/providing-police-military-gear-reduce-crime-protect-officers/story?id=74518923
Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds
SOURCE : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/police-militarization-fails-to-protect-officers-and-targets-black-communities-study-finds
The Racial Politics of Protection: A Critical Race Examination of Police Militarization
Fanna Gamal
California Law Review
Vol. 104, No. 4 (August 2016), pp. 979-1008 (30 pages)
Published By: California Law Review, Inc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24758742
SOURCE : https://www.jstor.org/stable/24758742
Poisoning Our Police: How the Militarization Mindset Threatens Constitutional Rights and Public Safety
SOURCE : https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/06/poisoning-our-police-how-the-militarization-mindset-threatens-constitutional-rights-and-public-safety/
Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation
SOURCE : https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/jmummolo/files/mummolo_pnas_final.pdf
Police Militarization
“Perhaps militarization weakens the community relations necessary for effective policing.4 The public seems to believe that using tactical equipment, weapons, and other resources appears “more closely akin to military operations than domestic law enforcement.”5 Unfortunately, conversations regarding militarization usually have not included police agencies.”
“Nevertheless, the results also suggest that military-like displays may prove problematic for the police, primarily in appearance, rather than substance. For example, a sizable number of respondents agreed that some tactical characteristics of policing, such as the use of armored vehicles, military-style uniforms, and patrol rifles, contribute to a militarized appearance unacceptable for much of the public. Agencies may want to examine how to avoid such militaristic indicators while employing effective strategies.”
SOURCE : https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization
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LTC Eugene Chu
From Battlestar Galactica: “There’s a reason you separate the military and the police,” he says. “One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2014/08/23/battlestar-galactica-and-the-militarization-of-police
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2014/08/23/battlestar-galactica-and-the-militarization-of-police
What Battlestar Galactica Can Teach Us About the Militarization of Police - YES! Magazine
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
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CPL LaForest Gray
LTC Eugene Chu
A long, powerful history: How we militarized the police :
Passage of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act ended Reconstruction and barred federal military personnel from enforcing the laws. The Act does not apply to the National Guard, and over time they have been deployed repeatedly to keep the peace. A couple of examples: The 1894 Pullman strike saw 12,000 federal troops deployed to break up a workers’ strike. In 1957 Eisenhower nationalized the Arkansas National Guard to enforce integration in Little Rock.
militarization of police in America owes it origins to several events. First, reaction to the urban riots of the 1960s led to President Lyndon B. Johnson signing into law the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The Act created the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, which made available grants to local governments to develop and purchase military-type resources to suppress the riots. The money facilitated the development of SWAT and other heavily armored police forces which had developed in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other cities to counteract so-called black insurgency.
Second, President Richard M. Nixon’s declaration of the war on drugs and its reemphasis by President Ronald Reagan further enhanced the militarization of the police. It did so in its rhetoric — the war metaphor — sanctioning that a military-style response was needed to address drugs. But also underlying the war against drugs was a racial overtone — the urban riots of the 1960s and drug usage were often associated with blacks. This was seen later as punishment differentials between drugs such as crack and cocaine more heavily punished racial minorities than whites. American prisons and jails incarcerate far more people of color than whites for drugs.
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/08/long-powerful-history-how-we-militarized-police/
Examinations of police militarization usually focus on Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, developed in the mid-1970s in response to hostage or barricaded suspect incidents that patrol officers could not handle sufficiently.Aug 14, 2017
https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization
police militarization has resulted from Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act, known commonly as the “1033 Program,” which authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Defense to provide surplus military equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies. The act aims to improve agency effectiveness and officer safety during drug interdiction and counterterrorism activities. After 9/11, Congress highlighted the need to transfer such equipment in support of homeland security.8
A long, powerful history: How we militarized the police :
Passage of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act ended Reconstruction and barred federal military personnel from enforcing the laws. The Act does not apply to the National Guard, and over time they have been deployed repeatedly to keep the peace. A couple of examples: The 1894 Pullman strike saw 12,000 federal troops deployed to break up a workers’ strike. In 1957 Eisenhower nationalized the Arkansas National Guard to enforce integration in Little Rock.
militarization of police in America owes it origins to several events. First, reaction to the urban riots of the 1960s led to President Lyndon B. Johnson signing into law the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The Act created the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, which made available grants to local governments to develop and purchase military-type resources to suppress the riots. The money facilitated the development of SWAT and other heavily armored police forces which had developed in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other cities to counteract so-called black insurgency.
Second, President Richard M. Nixon’s declaration of the war on drugs and its reemphasis by President Ronald Reagan further enhanced the militarization of the police. It did so in its rhetoric — the war metaphor — sanctioning that a military-style response was needed to address drugs. But also underlying the war against drugs was a racial overtone — the urban riots of the 1960s and drug usage were often associated with blacks. This was seen later as punishment differentials between drugs such as crack and cocaine more heavily punished racial minorities than whites. American prisons and jails incarcerate far more people of color than whites for drugs.
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/08/long-powerful-history-how-we-militarized-police/
Examinations of police militarization usually focus on Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, developed in the mid-1970s in response to hostage or barricaded suspect incidents that patrol officers could not handle sufficiently.Aug 14, 2017
https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/police-militarization
police militarization has resulted from Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act, known commonly as the “1033 Program,” which authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Defense to provide surplus military equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies. The act aims to improve agency effectiveness and officer safety during drug interdiction and counterterrorism activities. After 9/11, Congress highlighted the need to transfer such equipment in support of homeland security.8
A long, powerful history: How we militarized the police | MinnPost
Policing in America has been shaped from its early days by a military structure, a war mentality and a cloud of racism that continues to repeat itself over time.
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Without commenting on the shooting of Amie Locke, Portland, Oregon has turned into a real shit show. Last place Id want to go PO1 William "Chip" Nagel .
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CPL LaForest Gray
Time mark : 2:10 thru 3:20.
https://youtu.be/HGWpFFWyZGI
Police Brutality Law and Legal Definition :
Police brutality is a civil rights violation that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using an amount of force with regards to a civilian that is more than necessary.
Excessive force by a law enforcement officers is a violation of a person's rights. Excessive force is not subject to a precise definition, but it is generally beyond the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use under the circumstances.
Force should be used in only the minimum amount needed to achieve a legitimate purpose. Police brutality is a direct violation of the laws within the police force. The use of excessive force is also a direct violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S Constitution regarding cruelty and protection of the laws.
SOURCE :
https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/police-brutality/
EARNED MISTRUST.
https://youtu.be/HGWpFFWyZGI
Police Brutality Law and Legal Definition :
Police brutality is a civil rights violation that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using an amount of force with regards to a civilian that is more than necessary.
Excessive force by a law enforcement officers is a violation of a person's rights. Excessive force is not subject to a precise definition, but it is generally beyond the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use under the circumstances.
Force should be used in only the minimum amount needed to achieve a legitimate purpose. Police brutality is a direct violation of the laws within the police force. The use of excessive force is also a direct violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S Constitution regarding cruelty and protection of the laws.
SOURCE :
https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/police-brutality/
EARNED MISTRUST.
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SFC William Farrell
CPL LaForest Gray - I am not sure what this has to do with the shitshow in Portland LaForest.
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