http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... akeboarderbusted by the fun police

Redline wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MWSGbh-bi4&feature=relatedThe irony being that if you can't write a funny sketch about a Down syndrome cop, featuring an actual Down syndrome actor, you're the retard. I'll bet asshole cops actually find this funny.

Shit, that's horrible. You can see the instant he's paralyzed.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd7\_1274051429Cop pulls over, then shoots unarmed man in the back for no reason whatsoever. Dude gets to be paralyzed the rest of his life now because of this heroic cop.

iembalm wrote:Shit, that's horrible. You can see the instant he's paralyzed.Shockingly, the cop actually got convicted. Of only 'felonious assault' but still, I am amazed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MWSGbh- ... re=related

http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/05/video ... n-missouriIn February, I wrote the following about a drug raid in Missouri: SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a small amount of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. So smoking pot = child endangerment. Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone's safety. Just so we're clear.Now there's video, which you can watch below. It's horrifying, but I'd urge you to watch it, and to send it to the drug warriors in your life. This is the blunt-end result of all the war imagery and militaristic rhetoric politicians have been spewing for the last 30 years ”cops dressed like soldiers, barreling through the front door middle of the night, slaughtering the family pets, filling the house with bullets in the presence of children, then having the audacity to charge the parents with endangering their own kid. There are 100-150 of these raids every day in America, the vast, vast majority like this one, to serve a warrant for a consensual crime.But they did prevent Jonathan Whitworth from smoking the pot they found in his possession. So I guess this mission was a success.I've exchanged emails with the mother of the family, who was in the home at the time of the raid. I'm waiting on her permission to publish her account of what happened.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100517 ... olice-raidofficer threw a stun grenade into an apartment that clearly had multiple children in it, as well as the elderly. oh, and shot a seven year old girl in the neck. what a dick

Sam wrote:http://www.detnews.com/article/20100517/METRO01/5170340/Family-grieves-death-of-girl--7--in-police-raidofficer threw a stun grenade into an apartment that clearly had multiple children in it, as well as the elderly. oh, and shot a seven year old girl in the neck. what a dickSaw that online and was wondering why it has been getting little to no TV news coverage. It's fucking scandalous.Then I remembered it was a 7-year old black child, and in the game of TV news poker that's only a pair of Jacks. And a pair of Jacks don't beat a Royal Flush: the murder of a white preppy lacrosse-playing college girl three weeks ago.

cerebralheadtrip wrote:http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/05/video-of-swat-raid-on-missouriIn February, I wrote the following about a drug raid in Missouri: SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a "small amount" of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. So smoking pot = "child endangerment." Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone's safety. Just so we're clear.Now there's video, which you can watch below. It's horrifying, but I'd urge you to watch it, and to send it to the drug warriors in your life. This is the blunt-end result of all the war imagery and militaristic rhetoric politicians have been spewing for the last 30 years ”cops dressed like soldiers, barreling through the front door middle of the night, slaughtering the family pets, filling the house with bullets in the presence of children, then having the audacity to charge the parents with endangering their own kid. There are 100-150 of these raids every day in America, the vast, vast majority like this one, to serve a warrant for a consensual crime.But they did prevent Jonathan Whitworth from smoking the pot they found in his possession. So I guess this mission was a success.I've exchanged emails with the mother of the family, who was in the home at the time of the raid. I'm waiting on her permission to publish her account of what happened.WHAT. THE. FUCK.That video made me the most angry I've been in months.