[ExI] Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder

[Adrian Tymes]

Huh.  You've certainly got me beat.  I just have this one time when the
cops raided my house pretending to have a warrant (they had a manila
envelope w/blank paper), dragged my brother out to the front lawn and
cuffed him on the ground, then kicked open my (16, I think) bedroom door
w/gun drawn on me, all because they were pursuing an ex-Apple employee who
used to live at my address who had committed petty theft on his way out of
his job.  (At my place, they found one cable - equivalent of a USB cable
today - he had left behind.)

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:40 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> When people say “no police” they mean that the police force and prison
> system as they currently exist should be completely and totally dismantled
> and a new thing created in their place.
>
> Why?
>
> Police Shooting/Killing/Maiming the Disabled/Mentally ill and/or their
> caregivers:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_James_Boyd
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jeremy_McDole
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377699/amp/Teen-left-bloodied-bruised-cop-sicced-K-9-dog-mother-called-911-fears-son-suicidal.html
>
> Police shooting people for being near/in cars:
> https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/us/florida-police-shooting/index.html
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile
>
> Police suffocating/choking people to death:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jonny_Gammage
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd
>
> Airsoft Deaths:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Andy_Lopez
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice
>
> No-knock Warrants:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor#Persons_involved>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Duncan_Lemp (hey, he was in a
> militia!)
>
> Suspicious deaths in police custody:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sandra_Bland
>
> Shot/killed while protesting, or being near protests:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Sean_Monterrosa
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_David_McAtee
>
> Mistaken Identify:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling
>
> Officers joke about murdering people:
>
> https://www.newsweek.com/sean-reed-justice-indianapolis-police-shooting-facebook-1502502
>
> Cops shooting dogs:
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/amp/
>
> Police officers committing domestic violence:
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/380329/
>
> The fact that “SWATTING” exists:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20150216193032/http://newsok.com/court-document-reveals-more-about-sentinel-ok-bomb-threat/article/5386857
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180709154458/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-swatting/california-man-two-others-indicted-in-fatal-kansas-swatting-case-idUSKCN1IP065
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/fortnite-world-champion-swatted-while-streaming-on-twitch/
>
> Cops are “scared” at work but there are plenty of other more deadly
> occupations:
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1002500001
> https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/work-related-homicides-the-facts.pdf
>
> Bullshit police calls:
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/05/27/stop-calling-the-police-on-black-people/amp/
>
> Cavity Searches:
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/1873153001
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/us/tampon-san-antonio.amp.html
>
> https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/michigan-lawsuit-officer-daniel-mack-illegal-body-cavity-search.amp
>
> Civil Forfeiture:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States
>
> Planting evidence:
> https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692-cops-planting-evidence
>
> Sexual misconduct:
>
> https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/women-and-criminal-justice/nypd-police-officers-union-wants-keep-sexual
>
> And all of that compounded by police “unions” and the “blue code of
> silence”.
>
> Anecdotally I have:
> - had police show up to my home when I (3) “play dialed” 911 on a phone I
> thought wasn’t plugged in and my entire family had to go into the lawn, in
> front of our neighbors, in our underwear
> - had a police officer pull a hard u-turn in front of me, blocking the
> road, and accusing me (12) of being a runaway
> - had a police officer pull a hard u-turn across 4 lanes of traffic to
> accuse me (14) of being a prostitute when my bus was late
> - had a police officer threaten to commit me (17) for a letter I wrote to
> a friend; when he said I could leave I fled, crying, and was later detained
> by him and threatened with arrest for slamming a door
> - had a police officer blame me (18) for my own rape, and belittled for my
> father threatening to kill me; despite that, they felt the need to handcuff
> my parents and threaten to shoot them
> - was handcuffed when I (19) told my councilor I was suicidal
> - had the cops called on me (23) for knocking on doors to find my lost dog
> - had cops jump my fence, enter my home without knocking through my back
> door, and draw their guns on me because I (24) was taking a nap with the AC
> off and the back door open
> - had cops pull me (25) over on suspicion of drug use when I was learning
> how to drive
>
> And you know when I did NOT call the police? Oh wait, I have never called
> the police. (Unless you count that “call” when I was like 4.)
>
> I have been raped (filed a report), threatened to be killed (filed a
> report) and had a gun brandished and pointed at me (Trump had just been
> elected and I was “too white”, I did not file a report, I just moved).
>
> In maybe 99% of cases, calling police makes any situation worse. So maybe
> just... don’t. There’s no need to arrest or accost people for minor
> violations, or shoot people for having loud parties. Just fine them and be
> done with it.
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