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Handcuffs

Psycho cop grabs innocent woman by the hair and tells partner to taser her for refusing to hand over ID

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
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A Fort Worth police officer's actions against an innocent woman were so disturbing that it actually prompted the department to fire him. The 22-year-veteran of the force, Sgt. Kenneth Pierce was fired this week after body camera footage showed him hold an innocent woman by the hair and arm and demand his rookie partner taser her.

On Monday, a use of force review was completed which noted that Pierce's conduct that August night was "absolutely unacceptable."

According to police, the incident began when Pierce and the rookie officer were called to an apartment complex for assistance regarding a domestic disturbance. The subsequent interaction was captured on body camera footage and was discovered during a mandatory "use of force" review, according to the department.

Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald told reporters that Sgt. Pierce "impatient, initiated an unnecessary physical confrontation, and then ordered a rookie police officer to 'Tase' the woman."

As the body camera footage shows, the rookie and Pierce confront the couple at a residence and demand that they turn around and face the wall. The woman in the video is entirely compliant and tells the officers that her baby is inside the home.
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Ambulance

12 dead as bus carrying American cruise ship passengers crashes in Mexico

Chris Sommerfeldt, Elizabeth Elizalde
Daily News
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:17 UTC
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© APA Miami-based cruise line confirmed that 27 passengers from two of its ships were involved in the "heartbreaking" crash.
Dozens of passengers traveling on two American cruise ships were involved in a bloody bus crash in Mexico that left at least 11 adults and one child dead early Tuesday, authorities said.

Mexican officials did not immediately confirm the nationalities of the dead but said seven Americans and two Swedes were among the 18 people injured in the crash, which occurred shortly before 9 a.m. The bus was en route to the popular Charcchoben ruins in Quintana Roo state when it apparently swerved off the road and flipped over.

Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises confirmed that 27 passengers from two of its ships, Celebrity Equinox and Serenade of the Seas, were involved in the "heartbreaking" crash.
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Pistol

Cop shoots fellow officer after pulling gun on unarmed man

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:53 UTC
cops with gun
Highlighting the dangerous nature of police and their propensity to point loaded weapons at unarmed people, a cop in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. just shot his fellow officer. Naturally, as in the case in most every accidental police shooting TFTP has covered, police are claiming the officer's weapons simply went off on its own.

The incident began early Monday when police were called out to a residence at which a 26-year-old man was threatening his parents with a knife. According to police, the young man's father told officers that his son was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or both.

The first officers on the scene did an incredible job at de-escalating the situation and managed to convince the young man to drop the knife.

"The officers got there, they had to talk the subject down for a good amount of time. They were able to get the knife away from him. But then the subject went into a defense posture, an aggressive posture. The officers took him to the ground, had to be tased," Police Capt. Dan Brinkman said.

To recap, the 26-year-old man, who was "going after" his father, had been successfully disarmed and was being taken into custody by the officers who then tasered him when he resisted. During this struggle, another officer-who was not involved in the hands-on action-pulled his gun and fired off a round.
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Handcuffs

Sweden loses its collective mind: Proposed law will make any sex without "explicit" consent rape


RT
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:40 UTC
couple night
© Mark Makela / Reuters
Sweden's adults could be convicted of rape unless they receive a verbal or non-verbal sign of consent from their partner at each step of their sexual encounter, according to a new law set to come into force next year.

"It should be obvious. Sex should be voluntary. If it is not voluntary, then it is illegal," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who leads a center-left coalition, said during a presentation in Stockholm. "If you are unsure, then refrain!"


Comment: No, it is not obvious. Of course sex should be "voluntary". But that's obviously not the issue here. What people like Lofven want is essentially a signed contract confirming consent at every "step" of a sexual encounter. Who defines the steps? Before each article of clothing is removed? Before every move of the hands? What is a clear "verbal or nonverbal" sign of consent? These new laws will not stop rapists, they will only make normal men terrified of having any kind of sexual encounter with a woman.

Jordan Peterson and Camille Paglia on the college rape phenomenon:



As with other 'Yes means Yes' initiatives, at any trial it will now fall on those accused of rape to prove that their actions were welcomed by their partner, rather than on the accuser to show that they did not consent - which Lofven said will "put the victims' interests first."

Standing next to the PM, Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said that the line on what constitutes a sufficient show of consent will be decided on a "case-by-case" basis, but added that he "expects the number of rape convictions to rise."


Comment: Ya think? Does he also expect the number of false convictions to rise? He should, because that's what's going to happen.


Johansson openly declared that the law, which is expected to be enforced from July 2018, was launched as a purposeful "signal to Sweden's men and boys."

Comment: Jordan Peterson on #MeToo and Sweden:



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Red Flag

Actor Terry Crews claims to be under relentless intimidation and harassment from powers that be in Hollywood since sex assault allegations

John Vibes
Free Thought Project
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:48 UTC
terry crews
As the Free Thought Project reported last month, Hollywood actor and former NFL linebacker Terry Crews came forward with sexual assault allegations against Adam Venit, a head executive at the WME talent agency. Crews filed a sexual assault claim with the LAPD accusing the high-level executive of groping him at an industry party last year. His wife Rebecca has made a statement that she was with Terry during the time of the assault and witnessed the whole thing.

In the weeks since going public, Crews says that he has faced relentless harassment and intimidation from the "powers that be" in Hollywood. The pressure was on immediately after Crews went to the LAPD, where he was met by reporters outside of the police station just after he made his report. According to Crews, there is no way that TMZ could have known that he was filing the report unless they had "paid informants" inside of the LAPD.


This week, Crews has taken to Twitter again to raise the alarm about the consistent harassment that he and his family are facing in the wake of his revelation. He says that he wants to be as public as possible about these threats to protect himself in the case of some "timely accident." He was even warned by the LAPD that the forces he is up against "don't play fair." Crews believes that his house has been bugged, his computer hacked, and his family under constant surveillance.
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Bizarro Earth

University of Michigan holds training session to help white employees deal with their 'whiteness'

Andrew Johnson
The College Fix
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:41 UTC
white privilege
University of Michigan training session used 'Privileged Identity Exploration Model'

A two-day professional development conference held recently at the University of Michigan included a training session that aimed to help white employees deal with their "whiteness" so they could become better equipped to fight for social justice causes, according to organizers.


Comment: Cause nothing says "Join Us" like adding "And be a second class citizen!"


Participants who took part in the "Conversations on Whiteness" session, held December 5 during the university's Student Life Professional Development Conference, were taught to "recognize the difficulties they face when talking about social justice issues related to their White identity, explore this discomfort, and devise ways to work through it," the university's website states.

The goal was to help participants in "unpacking Whiteness" to support students and staff with issues and efforts "related to identity and social justice," the website added.


Comment: Why bother? Sit back and let us oppress you.

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Heart - Black

Barbaric: Thousands turn up to watch 10 criminals executed in China

Kelly-Ann Mills
Mirror
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:36 UTC
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© news.163.com / Weibo
Thousands of people including children gathered at a sport stadium to watch the execution of 10 criminals in China. The men had been sentenced to death by two different courts and were driven into the stadium in front of the baying crowd.

Seven of the men had been found guilty of drug dealing, while three others were facing the death penalty for murder or robbery.

The men arrived in the stadium and had their sentence read out to the audience, although it is thought the criminals were aware of their fate before they arrived.

Some in the crowd were visibly upset and the public execution in Lufeng, southern China has sparked debate across the country.
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Megaphone

Oxford researchers point out obvious - Russia did not influence Brexit referendum


RT
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:46 UTC
twitter
© Regis DuvignauTwitter has been examined by researchers over wild Russian hacking claims
Claims of Russian influence over the Brexit referendum are being disproved time and time and again. New research by the University of Oxford has further undermined the British government's allegations.

The Oxford Internet Institute has found 105 Russia-based accounts tweeted almost 16,000 times before Brexit. It cannot, however, be proven how many times and by how many users the tweets were seen.

In the tangled web of Twitter - which has more than 900 million accounts - and at a time when millions of opinions were being bandied about on Brexit, it does not seem very likely these tweets had a huge impact.

Facebook has already revealed Russia-based agencies paid just 73p ($0.91) for ad content during the Brexit referendum period. Despite the inquiry finding minimal involvement from within Russia, instead of accepting the findings, MPs accused Facebook of blundering the probe.
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Sheriff

Stun-gun abuse in Ohio jails prompts call for inquiry from politicians

Jason Szep, Linda So
Reuters
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:52 UTC
ohio turner stun gun
Snowflake officer Turner fears for his life, tazes restrained man because he's just so sensitive.
In one video, Sergeant Mychal Turner stunned a mentally ill inmate with a Taser multiple times after the inmate defied an order to stand in his cell at Ohio's Franklin County jail.

In another, Turner fired the Taser's electrified barbs into an inmate's chest after he refused to remove a piece of jewelry. In a third, he pulled the trigger five times on a handcuffed inmate who wouldn't sit on a bench.

Each incident violated the jail's Taser policy, and each was cited in a class-action lawsuit the county settled that accused jail guards of "sadistic" and unconstitutional use of Tasers from 2008 to 2010, court records show.

Yet neither Turner nor any other deputies were disciplined, according to internal county jail records reviewed by Reuters.

Instead, Turner was promoted to major. He's now commander of Franklin County Corrections Center II, the largest of the jail's two main facilities.

Comment: Must be a coincidence that the two officers with the most aggression and worst people skills get promoted... It's just heartening to know that jails provide solid employment opportunities for individuals who might otherwise be on the streets, breaking knees and disfiguring faces with no higher calling.

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Arrow Up

Russia increases trade with Cuba, US steps back


RT
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:04 UTC
Cuba
© Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
Cold War allies Moscow and Havana are marking a renaissance in relations as the US cuts ties with Cuba. Russian firms are returning to the Caribbean nation with billion-dollar projects in hand.

Russian corporations, including Rosneft, AvtoVaz and Russian Railways (RZD) have been boosting investment in Cuba with trade between the countries expected to reach $400 million by the end of the year.

Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft resumed fuel shipments to the Caribbean island. The step is seen as major support to the country after reduced shipments of oil from neighboring Venezuela. Rosneft also announced plans to modernize the island's Cienfuegos oil refinery.

State-run monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) is reportedly in talks with Cuban authorities to upgrade over a thousand kilometers of railroads. The company is also planning to build a high-speed railway connecting Havana and the beach resort of Varadero. "It is expected the deal will be worth €1.9 billion ($2.26 billion) and will be signed by the end of the year," said Oleg Nikolaev, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the RZD subsidiary RZD International, as quoted Reuters.

Comment: Russia is securing its economy, one of the most important foundational pillars in support of its society and likewise those with which it trades. Russia can't weaken 'an American influence' if it refuses to be there.

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