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What is true about police:
1. Police are stereotyped as big fans of donuts and being slow.
2. Police officers must follow protocol.
3. Police officers should follow the law above everything.

What questions to ask:
1. What is the hardest part of your job?
2. What's the weirdest thing you've seen on the job?
3. Do you have any 80s style police story?
4. How many bodies you got?
5. How do you feel about illegal aliens (Ms. Boyd prefers "undocumented" because people can't be "aliens.")
6. DO you think the police force can easily be corrupt?
7. Do you think officers pre-judge based on race?
8. Why do so many police officers shoot people who reach for wallets/cell phones?

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What is true about police:
1. Some police officers pre-judge citizens based on race.
2. Police can and should be helpful to the citizens.

What questions to ask:
1. Tell us about your private security career?
2. Why did you want to be a police officer?
3. Do you enjoy being a police officer?
4. What is the most danger you've been in as a police officer?
5. Have you ever misjudged someone as a police officer?

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What is true about police:
1. Police officers are just like other groups of people, some almost always do the right thing, and others do not.
2. Police are stereotyped as being all about donuts and coffee.
3. Police officers use tactics ("good-cop/bad-cop" and lying) to get subjects to confess.
4. Police officers should be held accountable.

What questions to ask:
1. Why do we pay police officers to focus so much energy on little crimes instead of working harder to solve bigger crimes?
2. Why do police officers in America kill so many more citizens than cops in other modern countries?
3. How did the MPD change after the pool party? What were you told by those in charge?
4. Why do police officers handle situations differently based on the race of the citizen they are interacting with?

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Things that are true about police:
1. Police officers should KNOW and RESPECT your rights and explain them to you when detained.
2. Body cams should always be turned on when officers are interacting with citizens under the color of law.
3. Police have "tricks" to catch you, so be careful to follow their instructions.
4. Citizens not suspected of crimes should not have to ID.
5. Police officers can legally lie to you to get you to admit to a crime.
6. Police officers are required by policy to ID to citizens when interacting.

Questions for Sgt. Holmes:
1. Is it true that if asked you must ID as a cop? Are there exceptions for under covers?
2. As a police, do you prioritize following orders or protecting the constitution? Do you think most officers do?
3. Do you follow policy or law when they are in conflict?
4. How would/do you handle people who are "exercising" their rights by: filming in public, free speech signs, not rolling the car window down, not answering questions, etc.
5. When a citizen is not suspected of a crime but are asked for ID and refuse, what should an officer do?

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Why do some officers just arrest people for nothing

-I dont see a reason for officers to arrest certain people for there skin color.

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This isn't the usual kind of article I write. It's a bit different.

Because of that, I'm going to ask for your patience: please read until the end before you form an opinion or comment (we'll get back to that.)

I'll explain my reasons why and some more thoughts about all this afterwards.

First take a look at this example of police brutality during the arrest of a black man, for no apparent reason.

What do you see here in this disgusting video?

A couple of things:

The officer violently takes the man down. Like a coward, he grabs the man from behind and yanks him brutally to the ground.

His partner shows up and goes crazy. He starts beating the crap out of the poor black man with his night stick. It's insane!

They almost crush him to death. They ram their knees into him so hard he almost gets crushed. The poor black man cries for help, he's clearly in fear of his life.

They should be thrown in jail. These officers are clearly incompetent and could have killed that man.

I'm sure you are feeling outraged and angry right now.

Before you go on, it's important that you watch this video again.

This is an even longer version, with more details of what the officers did. Watch it all the way to the end!

OK...

First, this:

Second, my apologies for the theatrics.

Let me explain...

Why do this?

I saw the video of this incident and immediately thought two things:

In a different context, people would scream "police brutality!!!" over the arrest.

I don't believe any TV network would ever air the full video of the incident.

That was the first part. The second part was this: not so long ago, I was talking to somebody about the way the media and social media in particular distort events and how things go viral first, with facts coming later or never at all. I complained about how I abhor this and think it is one of the most harmful aspects of today's societies. The response I got was:

"Why don't you do something about it?"

Which left me wondering: could I?

Would it even make a difference?

To answer the first question: yes, I just did. As to the second: I doubt it.

But I can hardly keep on complaining and not even at least try something. Anything, really.

So I went to work...

Framing

One of the ways you can manipulate an audience is by framing things. In short: you present the information in such a way that it influences the audience to reach the conclusions you want them to.

That's exactly what I did.

Here's how:

I made two separate videos and uploaded them on Youtube. The first is an edited version of the original video: I cut everything, except the arrest. That way you have no idea what happened before, there is no context anymore.

I made inflammatory credits: The video begins with "Police Brutality" in a large font. Then I set up a filter through which I want people to view the footage by writing "Black man gets arrested for no reason." This phrase implies that the officers are racist and are harassing the man. There is absolutely no proof of that in this short clip, but it sets your mind onto that line of thought.

I cut on the sweet spot. Just as the man is screaming for help, you hear the guy making the video say "This is crazy." This reinforces the notion that something completely wrong is going on.

I frame the article:

Before showing you the video, I introduce it as an "example of police brutality during the arrest of a black man, for no apparent reason." This sets the tone and creates prejudice for the viewer.

Afterwards, I keep going with emotionally charged description. I use words like "disgusting", "coward", "brutally", "crazy", "poor black man, "insane," etc. None of these are necessary to describe the video. They are an interpretation of it, a biased one.

I offer a conclusion. I claim the officers should be thrown in jail for incompetence. In essence, I give you the final element to make up your mind about the incident.

I'm being a bit heavy-handed about it all, but not a lot. I've seen descriptions like this (and a whole lot worse) dozens of times on the internet and even in prestigious newspapers. This is far from being the exception.

Now for the experiment part of this:

I'm going to open both videos for comments and we'll see what happens.

Notice how I repeatedly say where there is more information. In both videos and even in the text here above, I hand the viewers the tools to get more details and form an informed opinion. We'll see if they use them...

What do we know?

Bear in mind that we weren't there and this is all just an opinion, but as far as we can tell, this is what goes on in the complete version:

There seems to be an accident. It looks like the black man was in a car accident with the red truck. You hear somebody yelling "cal the cops" right before he climbs out of his window.

He becomes aggressive. He starts walking about, cursing and hits the back of the red truck that drives by.

It escalates. He goes into the kitchen of what looks like a restaurant and starts trashing the place. At one point, he grabs a knife and stabs the fridge (or some shelves, can't quite see it) with it. Then he trashes the place some more before he walks out into the street.

The police shows up. The officer talks to the man, but he is unresponsive. He draw his taser and talks some more. The man keeps on ranting.

The taser doesn't work. The officer fires the darts and you can hear the charge going off repeatedly, but it has no effect (There's a lesson here...)

He becomes more aggressive. He steps up to the officer in a threatening manner. The camera then loses the action for a bit, but it looks like somebody else takes a swing at the guy. The officer goes for the takedown when the man goes after his attacker.

That's what I think you can safely say about this incident.

Some questions:
Did the man "deserve" to be arrested.
I sure looks like it.

He broke several laws, threatened people, threatened an officer, was unresponsive and erratic and it looks like he was drunk/high/mentally unstable.
Was this police brutality?
I don't think so.

The officer took him down after the taser failed several times, his partner distracted him with the taps to the shin, they flipped him onto his stomach and took control positions to cuff him. When they sat him up for the search, he didn't seem injured.

Now contrast this second description and bullet list with the first one I gave you. I don't think it's unfair to say the second one is more nuanced and accurate.

Conclusion

I'm becoming a grumpy old man, because a lot of things annoy me. The crap the media pulls with incidents like this is high on that list. Journalists and program directors who cut up and write their pieces like I did here in the beginning are full of it and they know it. They understand full well how they're manipulating the audience and it's shameful.

The knee-jerk reactions people have to such footage is not that annoying, but it saddens me. It's sad to see (sometimes even otherwise intelligent) people go with their gut reaction and fire comments from the hip. If you're an adult in today's world, it isn't exactly secret information that the media pull these stunts. It's not like you can't use your brain and go "wait a minute..." and look for more information before making sweeping statements about how outraged and horrified you are about an incident. Even worse is when you then take action to vilify and actually harm (in this case) the officers who just did their job.

To me, all that is profoundly sad.

We apparently live in an age where having an opinion is more important than having an informed one, which seems like embracing stupidity to me. There's nothing wrong with saying things like:

"I don't know."

"I'm not sure about this."

"Let me think about it."

Especially if you don't have all the facts. As is the case in almost every single one of this kind of videos...

So this whole article is my small effort to raise awareness of this issue.

What do I expect will come from this?

Nothing, really. But at least I tried.
To be clear:
If you comment that:

Black/white/brown/yellow/green/blue/whatever lives matter.

All cops are pigs anyway.

Framing works both ways.

Police brutality does exists and let me show you this outrageous example!

I'm an asshole.

Your cause is important.

Etc.

Then you are missing the point in spectacular fashion.

Go kneel in a corner until you figure out why.
UPDATE:
Lots of people are getting upset about that last sentence. Here's where that comes from: My father (like many other parents of that time) made me go kneel in a corner when I did something stupid (usually I deserved it), hence the reference. I was allowed to come out when I figured out what I did wrong. This kind of punishment was common over here when I grew up.

If people would rather be offended by that sentence than figure out why it is there, then I can only shake my head and walk away.

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This isn't the usual kind of article I write. It's a bit different. Because of that, I'm going to ask for your patience: please read until the end before you form an opinion or comment (we'll get back to that.) I'll explain my reasons why and some more thoughts about all this afterwards.

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Things we think about policing:
1. Police officers arrest people.
2. Police officers risk their lives.
3. Police officers use deadly force.
4. Police officers socialize with the community.
5. Police officers often discriminate.
6. Police officers do drug busts.

Questions we have about policing:
1. Can dogs be trained to smell cocaine?
2. Why don't officers who see wrongdoing by fellow officers do something to stop it?
3. Do you believe that white privilege exists in the PD?
4. How much do officers get paid, including overtime and bonuses?
5. If your partner does something wrong, what do you do? Do you believe him?

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Things we think about policing:
1. Police officers should help people.
2. Police officer should be held accountable.
3. Police officers should show respect to all citizens.
4. Police officers are treated differently under the law.
5. Police officers don't say the truth because they don't legally have to.
6. Police use tactics for interrogation.

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why do police shoot when people say hands up dont shoot
i dont like police because the way they treat mexicans and black people

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A white police officer who shot and killed a black man in his Texas flat after apparently thinking she was in her own apartment has been charged.

Officer Amber Guyger is accused of manslaughter.

The family of the victim, 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean had demanded the officer be arrested. Protests were held outside the police HQ over the weekend.

Tributes have been paid to Mr Jean, who worked for the professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Officer Guyger has been in the police department for four years and is assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division.

She was booked at the Kaufman County Jail, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. She then posted $300,000 (£232,000) bail, ABC reported, and has been released.

The victim's family have hired lawyer Benjamin Crump, who represented Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, unarmed black teenagers who were shot dead by a neighbourhood watch volunteer and a police officer respectively.

Mr Crump told a news conference on Monday: "Black people in America have been killed by police in some of the most unbelievable manners.

"You know, driving while black in our cars, black people have been killed walking while black in our neighbourhoods, and now here we are being killed living while black in our apartments."

He was joined at the news conference by the prime minister of the Caribbean island nation of St Lucia, where Mr Jean is a citizen.

Allen Chastanet appeared to fight back tears as he spoke of his anger that a young man could be shot dead in his own apartment.

What happened?

The Dallas shooting occurred at an upmarket apartment complex just one block from the police department, south of the city centre.

According to a police statement, the officer, still in uniform after her shift, walked into the unit she believed belonged to her and saw Botham Shem Jean inside.

What happened next is unclear, but the officer eventually fired her gun.

She then called for assistance and the victim was taken to hospital where he later died.

An unnamed law enforcement official told the Dallas Morning News that the lights in the flat were off when Officer Guyger fired two shots at a figure moving in the darkness, fatally striking Mr Jean.

The official said that she had just ended a 15-hour shift, when she parked in the wrong garage before making the tragic error.

She was able to enter the flat, because Mr Jean's door was unlocked, the source said, adding that she did not notice Mr Jean's bright red door mat outside.

Officer Guyger was tested for drugs and alcohol at the scene, but the results have yet to be announced.

Video taken by a neighbour shows the officer pacing, and crying into her mobile phone after the shooting.

In a 911 call made by the officer, she can be heard repeatedly telling Mr Jean that she is sorry, local media report.

'A model citizen'

Botham Shem Jean graduated from a university in Arkansas.

He was a devout Christian and an active member of a local church.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings called Mr Jean "a model citizen" and promised a transparent investigation.

The victim's mother, Allison Jean, last week told NBC 5: "Whoever did it to him needs to pay. A heavy price."

PricewaterhouseCoopers said: "This is a terrible tragedy. Botham Jean was a member of the PwC family in our Dallas office and we are simply heartbroken to hear of his death."

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A white police officer who shot and killed a black man in his Texas flat after apparently thinking she was in her own apartment has been charged. Officer Amber Guyger is accused of manslaughter. The family of the victim, 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean had demanded the officer be arrested.

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why do police officers shoot at people that have a gun or pretend to have one like the man he was a security guard and the sheriff killed him

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Could they have handled this differently for those who had nowhere else to go, and possibly freeze outside?

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An effort to remove people sleeping in Philadelphia's Suburban Station on a below-freezing night in January escalated into a melee in which SEPTA transit officers resorted to using pepper spray and swinging batons.

Transit police didn't use force until they were under assault, said Thomas Nestel, SEPTA's police chief, and ultimately needed backup from Philadelphia police to quell what was described as a mini-riot. The incident has fed fear among the homeless and left advocates questioning whether officers should have been moving people out on a frigid night.

"To rise to that level was shocking," said Sister Mary Scullion, executive director for Project HOME, a nonprofit that provides homeless services. "And inappropriate against people who were only asking why are they being put out."

"I'm quite certain this is not their M.O. in asking people to leave the concourse," said Marsha Cohen, executive director of the nonprofit Homeless Advocacy Project, a legal aid organization. The transit police "are not the nicest, that's for sure, but they've been trained with this population and they understand that everyone needs to be treated with dignity and respect."

About 12:30 a.m on Jan. 15, when officers asked people sleeping on the station floor to leave, some became physical with officers, Nestel said.

"People were attacking police officers," he said. "They were dealing with folks who wanted to stay in the station and were told that they couldn't, and then charged at them."

"We told them it's 28 degrees," said Tracy Amador, 48, who described being pepper-sprayed and hit with batons. "We're not going outside."

About 10 SEPTA officers responded, Nestel said, along with a number of Philadelphia police. Two people are charged in the confrontation. Both are accused of assaulting an officer, and one faces charges of inciting a riot and vandalism - glass was broken in one of the station's doors. Amador and one of the men charged, Tysan Bostic, 38, have sought social services for homeless people, Scullion said.

Both Project HOME and the office of City Council member Jannie Blackwell received accounts of the incident, but some of those reporting it declined to give their names. Another man who witnessed the incident declined to be identified for this story out of fear of reprisals.

Amador, who says she has been homeless since leaving her husband in 2016, described standing in front of the exit to the station near a post office to discourage people from leaving. "Police were cattling us through the door," she said.

She suffered a black eye and bruises on her body, said staffers from Project HOME who saw her the day after the incident. Amador said her teeth were also damaged. She has not been charged, but Nestel said she still might be. His officers knew her because of medical problems she has had, and she was once escorted out, but not arrested, after being found in a construction zone. She also has unrelated charges pending against her, according to Municipal Court records.

No ambulances were called after the conflict, Nestel said. Officers experienced no serious injuries. Nestel stood by his officers' conduct, saying that "no force is ever pretty" but that his personnel have the right to protect themselves.

"We're not running a Gestapo force that is beating people and throwing them out because they're poor, and we're not going to be," he said.

Suburban Station has the highest concentration of officers of any of the city's transit hubs.

Nestel said that isn't possible.

"When we close the station, we close it for a business reason," he said. "There are no more trains. There are no more employees at the station."

Police asked people that night if they wanted help finding shelter as they cleared the hallway, Nestel said, and people declined. But Thomas said police have called her organization, and they have sent a van to the station to offer shelter to people being removed. Police should have done that before the situation escalated, she said.

"The key to this whole issue is that it never should have happened," she said, "that it was preventable."

Police acknowledged many of the people lingering in the station late at night have mental health conditions, and the department has cooperated with Project Home to create a list of close to 70 people who are in urgent need of mental health assistance, Scullion said. Half of SEPTA's 270 transit officers have received training to interact with people suffering from mental health conditions. The department is working toward training all officers. They are also working with the city to assign behavioral health experts to the station.

The eruption of tensions came as police and social service agencies navigate the murky, ambiguous subculture that comes to the station long after rush-hour commuters are gone. Philadelphia has 12,000 beds available to assist people who are homeless, and in winter months about 2,900 of those are open to people in immediate need of a place to sleep. There are those who, due to addiction, mental illness, or preference, refuse to seek aid.

Amador said she doesn't receive welfare or food stamps, and won't use shelters. "I would rather sleep in the street because I'm free to do whatever I want to do," she said.

Others have homes but come to the station to get high. City officials describe some people as "predators."

"We're seeing people who are dealing drugs and probably engaged in some other kinds of activities," said Eva Gladstein, deputy managing director of Health and Human Services.

Suburban Station's long, crooked corridors splay out from its cavernous art deco central concourse like the legs of a spider, and scattered along them late at night are dozens of people. About 11 p.m. on a recent night, two huddled in the doorway of a closed shop. Across from them, another person sprawled facedown on the floor, the brittle contents of a self-rolled cigarette scattered beside him. One crew sat in a circle on the floor beneath the bright, harsh lights. Another slouched against a maintenance vehicle and chatted. A man nearby appeared on the verge of falling asleep on his feet. The air carried echoing laughter and smoke with a spicy tang, likely K2, a smokable material sprayed with chemicals described as synthetic marijuana, that people in the station readily admit to using. People defecate and urinate on the floors.

During much of the last year, the number of indigent people in the station had been declining, Scullion said, but a head count on a cold night in January recorded 200 homeless people there, roughly equivalent to the same time last year.

SEPTA police face the twin pressures of being sensitive to a vulnerable population and keeping one of the city's busiest transit hubs clean and safe.

"There are competing schools of thought," Nestel said. "One is that the station should be a shelter for people who don't have some place to live or some place to go, and the other is the station should have no one in it that doesn't relate to mass transit."

SEPTA attempted to find a middle ground last year when it worked with Project HOME to create the Hub of Hope, an 11,000-square-foot facility in the station that provides an array of assistance. It's well used but closes at 7 p.m. And Scullion noted the people lying on Suburban Station's floors late at night may not be the same people who turn to Hub of Hope for help.

"There's just a lot of frustration down there," Scullion said, "from every angle."

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An effort to remove people sleeping in Philadelphia's Suburban Station on a below-freezing night in January escalated into a melee in which SEPTA transit officers resorted to using pepper spray and swinging batons. Transit police didn't use force until they were under assault, said Thomas Nestel, SEPTA's police chief, and ultimately needed backup from Philadelphia police to quell what was described as a mini-riot.

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If you could would you save this police officer.

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A Milwaukee police officer was shot and killed Wednesday morning while serving a warrant, the city's medical examiner confirmed.

The Wisconsin cop, who has not been identified, was shot while on the city's south side around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, FOX6 reported. He was rushed to the hospital, where he later died. The suspected shooter was taken into custody.

Milwaukee police did not provide details of the shooting but tweeted they were investigating a "critical incident" in the area. They are expected to hold a news conference at 1:30 p.m. local time.

"MPD is confirming there is no danger to the public," Milwaukee police tweeted.

Residents near the shooting scene told FOX6 they heard several gunshots. Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan was one of the first to alert the news station the officer has died.

"This has been an incredibly difficult year for the department - now the third officer that has lost his life in the service of Milwaukee. So it's a sad day for this community," Donovan said. "It'll give you an indication of how challenging this work is. And, how we as a community need to rally behind our officers to ensure they have the support and the backing that they deserve."

Officials, including the ATF and FBI, were at the scene investigating the fatal incident.

The shooting comes six months after Milwaukee police officer Michael Michalski was shot and killed while chasing Jonathan Copeland Jr., who fired his gun and struck the officer in the head, the Journal Sentinel reported.

Milwaukee police officer Charles Irvine Jr., 23, was also killed last June in a car crash. The accident occurred while Irvine Jr. was chasing after a reckless driver. He became the first Milwaukee officer killed in the line of duty since 1996.

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A Milwaukee police officer was shot and killed Wednesday morning while serving a warrant, the city's medical examiner confirmed. The Wisconsin cop, who has not been identified, was shot while on the city's south side around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, FOX6 reported. He was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.

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Would you have shot them? I think these people got what they deserved.

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How do you feel about this? Do you think he should face charges? Why or why not?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/nation/2019/02/06/you-call-this-justice-no-charges-against-officer-who-killed-black-man-he-mistook-mall-shooter/

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My opinion about this situation is that this is not a "home", this is a house full of drug addicted people, blind enough to not notice their wrongs which caused the death or life of their 1 year old innocent boy. If the mother is a drug addicted person and the father doesn't know or does, what would happen to the father, mother and the baby? how would you handle this situation?

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UPPER DARBY, PA (KYW/CNN) - A little boy in Pennsylvania is lucky to be alive after ingesting heroin from discarded bags found in his family's trash, according to authorities.

Police say the father of a 1-year-old boy came home Monday evening and found his girlfriend, the child's mother, passed out from an overdose and their son unconscious.

The father took the boy to the hospital, where doctors had to administer Narcan. The child was then transferred to a children's hospital in Philadelphia, where he is in guarded condition.

"We're lucky. We've got a 16-month-old that's still alive," said Superintendent Michael Chitwood with the Upper Darby Police Department.

The scourge of heroin almost claimed another life. 16 month old child ingests drugs left behind by household member. Lucky to be alive after being treated at hospital. More to follow.
- Upper Darby Police (@UDPolice) February 5, 2019

The child's mother survived her overdose, according to police, but there is no word on her condition. She is due to surrender to authorities Wednesday morning.

Police believe the 1-year-old found discarded heroin baggies in a trash can and chewed on them. A search warrant reportedly turned up a dozen empty bags of heroin.

Chitwood says even though the child survived, the boy's parents should still be penalized. Charges are pending following the incident.

"In my opinion, when children get into mom and dad or guardian's habits and those habits are drug addiction, then why should the poor child suffer? They're putting that baby in harm's way. They're putting that baby at great human danger, and they deserve to be punished the way the law can punish them," he said.

Copyright 2019 KYW via CNN. All rights reserved.

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Police: 1-year-old chewed heroin bag, passed out as mom overdosed

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UPPER DARBY, PA (KYW/CNN) - A little boy in Pennsylvania is lucky to be alive after ingesting heroin from discarded bags found in his family's trash, according to authorities. Police say the father of a 1-year-old boy came home Monday evening and found his girlfriend, the child's mother, passed out from an overdose and their son unconscious.

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question ? You probably see some disturbing things while doing your job. How does it affect you?
comment : Some human beans are sick.

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A Grifton police officer was in court this morning after his arrest on child porn charges.

Jason Lovick, 31, is facing eight counts of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor in Craven County.

Grifton Chief Bryan Silva says Lovick had only been with the department for 3-1/2 weeks and as of yesterday he was no longer with the town.

The SBI said on Wednesday they searched the officer's home in Vanceboro after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

That tip said there was a Facebook account that reportedly sent images of child sexual exploitation. The SBI says that account was traced to Lovick.

During the search, agents say they seized numerous digital devices and Lovick's cell phone.

Arrest warrants say they found numerous pictures of girls believed to be as young as eight years old engaged in sexual activity.

The SBI says Lovick was a corporal with Grifton and recently had worked for the Craven County Sheriff's Office for several years. He had also been employed by the Vanceboro Police Department and the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office.

Lovick was released on an $80,000 secured bond and was given a March 1st date for his next court appearance.

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A Grifton police officer was in court this morning after his arrest on child porn charges. Jason Lovick, 31, is facing eight counts of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor in Craven County. Grifton Chief Bryan Silva says Lovick had only been with the department for 3-1/2 weeks and as of yesterday he was no longer with the town.

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how far would an investigation like this go until handed over to the detectives?

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Greenwich police identify woman found dead in suitcase

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Police have identified the woman who was found dead inside of a suitcase in Greenwich on Tuesday morning.

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question? this goes to the fact #7 in this articles. Why do police officers feel like they are above the enforce law
comment: they should not have the right to even go as far as that point

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The Cato Institute has released Policing in America-an extensive national public opinion report that explores Americans' attitudes toward the police based on an original Cato Institute/YouGov national survey of 2,000 Americans. Here are eleven key facts about Americans' attitudes toward the police.

1. There are stark racial and partisan divides in favorability toward police, but no group is anti-cop: 68% of white Americans have a favorable view of the police, only 40% of African Americans and 59% of Hispanic Americans also have a favorable view. Republicans (81%) are 22 points more favorable toward the police than independents (59%) and Democrats (59%). Although some groups have less positive views of the police, findings weaken the ascertain that these groups are "anti-cop." For instance 9 in 10 white, black, and Hispanic Americans oppose cutting police forces and 6 in 10 worry the police have very dangerous jobs. [1]

2. 54% say police using military equipment goes too far, while 46% say it's necessary for law enforcement purposes. Majorities of whites (53%), Hispanics (51%), and blacks (58%) oppose police using military weapons and armored vehicles. Most Republicans (65%) believe police need to use military weapons, while 60% of both Democrats and independents believe police using such equipment goes too far.

3. 84% of Americans oppose civil asset forfeiture. Americans oppose police seizing "a person's money or property that is suspected to have been involved in a drug crime before the person is convicted." When police departments seize people's property, 76% say the local department should not keep the assets. Instead Americans think seized assets should go either to the state general fund (48%) or a state-level law enforcement fund (28%). A quarter (24%) say police departments should keep the property they seize.

4. 79% support outside law enforcement agencies conducting investigations of police misconduct, while 21% prefer police departments handle such investigations internally. Strong majorities of Republicans (76%), independents (77%), and Democrats (83%) all agree that outside agencies should conduct such investigations.

5. 89% of Americans support police body cameras and majorities are willing to raise taxes pay for them (51%) and let police look at the footage before making official statements (52%). Body cameras aren't a zero-sum proposition: 74% think body cameras protect both officers and citizens equally.

6. Only 30% say police should prioritize enforcing drug laws. Instead, Americans want police to prioritize investigating violent crime (78%), protecting people from becoming crime victims (64%), and investigating property crime (58%). Americans across partisan and demographic groups share these top three priorities for law enforcement.

7. Nearly half (49%) of Americans say "most" police officers think they are "above the law." African Americans (61%), Hispanics (61%), and Democrats (61%) are considerably more likely than whites (46%) and Republicans (36%) to say that most police officers think they are above the law. Instead, a majority of whites (54%) and Republicans (64%) say police don't think they're above the law.

8. 65% of Americans think police officers "commonly" racially profile Americans and 63% oppose it. Majorities of whites (62%), Hispanics (62%), and blacks (77%) oppose police stopping "motorists and pedestrians of certain racial or ethnic backgrounds because the officer believes that these groups are more likely than others to commit certain types of crimes." Republicans stand out with a slim majority (51%) in favor of racial profiling and 49% opposed. Black Republicans, however, disagree, with 65% who oppose racial profiling and 35% who support it.[2]

9. 61% say there is a "war on police" in America. Sixty-five percent (65%) of Americans worry that police officers have "very dangerous jobs," and 58% feel officers too often must deal with recalcitrant citizens who don't show enough respect. Although Republicans and Democrats both believe police have dangerous jobs, Republicans are more than 30 points more likely than Democrats to believe there is a "war on police" today (82% vs. 49%) and that Americans show insufficient respect to officers (77% vs. 45%).

10. African Americans are nearly twice as likely as whites to report a police officer swearing at them. About a quarter of African Americans (26%) and Hispanics (22%) report police using abusive language or profanity with them compared to 15% of whites. Nearly 4 in 10 African Americans (39%) and 27% of Hispanics report knowing someone physically mistreated by police, compared to 18% of whites.

11. 60% say it's more important to protect the innocent than punish the guilty. When asked which would be worse, 60% say it would be worse to imprison 20,000 innocent people, while 40% say it would be worse to have 20,000 guilty people who are free. Majorities of Republicans (55%), independents (60%), and Democrats (64%) all agree it's worse to imprison innocent people. However, Donald Trump's early core supporters stand out with a majority (52%) who say it's actually worse to not punish the guilty. Other Republican voters disagree. For instance 65% of Ted Cruz's early primary supporters say it's worse to imprison the innocent.[3]

Click here to read an overview of the report or here for the full report. The Cato Institute/YouGov national survey of 2000 adults was conducted June 6-22, 2016 using a sample drawn from YouGov's online panel, which is designed to be representative of the US population. YouGov uses a method called sample matching, and restrictions are put in place to ensure that only the people selected and contacted by YouGov are allowed to participate. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is +/-3.19 percentage points. The full report (.pdf) can be found here, toplines (.pdf) results can be found here, full methodological details can be found here. This piece was originally published at Cato at Liberty.

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11 key facts about Americans' attitudes toward the Police

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The Cato Institute has released Policing in America -an extensive national public opinion report that explores Americans' attitudes toward the police based on an original Cato Institute/YouGov national survey of 2,000 Americans. Here are eleven key facts about Americans' attitudes toward the police.

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Is it OK for policemen to get away with something like lying?

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I feel like having made these decisions in the long run isn't the right way to go.Taking someone else life is usually never the best option.

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

The shooting death of Emantic F. Bradford Jr., 21, at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Ala., prompted protests and raised questions about whether police officers are too quick to assume that a nonwhite person who is armed is a wrongdoer.

In a 24-page report, Attorney General Steve Marshall concluded that the Hoover police officer - identified only as Officer 1 - who shot Mr. Bradford had "reasonably exercised" his duties.

"Officer 1's actions were reasonable under the circumstances and were consistent with his training and nationally accepted standards for 'active shooter' scenarios," the report stated.

[Read what 10 black gun owners told us about their interactions with law enforcement, other authorities and the general public.]
The police officer shot Mr. Bradford, who went by E.J., a few seconds after gunshots rang out at the mall on Nov. 22, sending shoppers racing for safety and leaving an 18-year-old man, Brian Wilson, injured by two bullets.

The officer, who was on duty at the mall, said in a statement that he had turned toward the sound of the gunfire with his weapon drawn, and saw an injured man clutching his stomach near a railing, with another man helping him. He said he also saw "an armed suspect" who was "quickly moving towards the two males standing near the railing."

"The suspect was advancing on the two males and had a black handgun in his right hand," the officer said. "I fired my duty weapon at the armed suspect to stop him." That man was Mr. Bradford.

The officer said he thought Mr. Bradford was going to kill the two men, and the report said the officer had "mistakenly believed" Mr. Bradford had fired the initial shots.

The officer said he was unable to issue verbal commands before firing, "due to the quickness of the event and the immediate threat Bradford posed" to the two men he was approaching.

The police later arrested another man - Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20 - and charged him with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of Mr. Wilson, the injured man by the railing.

The attorney general's report said there was no evidence that Mr. Bradford's handgun was fired at the mall.

The report said the F.B.I. had found no evidence to prompt an investigation into whether Mr. Bradford's civil rights had been violated, a basis for federal prosecutions in cases that are otherwise under state jurisdiction. An F.B.I. spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter Tuesday.

The decision not to bring charges did little to quell the suspicions and anger of Mr. Bradford's relatives and supporters. "I'm outraged," his mother, April Pipkins, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "In no way was justice served."

Some surveillance video images of the events at the mall were released on Tuesday. But Benjamin L. Crump, a lawyer for the family, said he believed there was additional footage that had not been released, and he demanded that the public be allowed to see it. In a prepared statement, he said that Mr. Bradford's "only 'crime' was being black."

Ashlyn McMillan, a witness to the mall shootings, told The New York Times that she considered Mr. Bradford a hero, saying that he had directed frantic shoppers to safety and had warned her to get down and seek cover inside a store.

A man named Roosevelt Poole filled in some of the night's narrative blanks at a recent preliminary hearing in the case. According to the Alabama news website AL.com, Mr. Poole said that he and another man were with Mr. Brown, the suspected gunman, in front of the J.C. Penney store in the mall when Mr. Bradford, Mr. Wilson and about eight other people showed up.

Soon, Mr. Poole said, Mr. Wilson was slapping and punching Mr. Brown, the website reported. Mr. Brown's lawyers say that he shot Mr. Wilson in self-defense.

The attorney general's report said that video footage showed Mr. Brown and his friends running into the J.C. Penney store after the shots were fired. For his part, Mr. Bradford initially ran away from the store entrance after the shots, the report said, but then drew his weapon and chambered a round.

"Bradford then charges back toward J.C. Penney, gun drawn," the report states.

Mr. Crump said in a telephone interview that he believed Mr. Bradford was in no way intending to engage in a shootout.

The attorney general's report concludes that the officer's initial mistaken belief that Mr. Bradford had shot Mr. Wilson did not render the officer's actions "unreasonable."

"First, a reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots," it said.

The report also asserted that Mr. Bradford "still posed an immediate deadly threat to persons in the area. Video evidence suggests that Bradford, who was carrying a firearm, was running toward the initial shooter, Erron Brown, who was also carrying a firearm. Multiple shoppers were nearby, including a mother and child directly in between the two armed men."

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Officer Faces No Charges in Fatal Shooting in an Alabama Mall

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

The shooting death of Emantic F. Bradford Jr., 21, at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Ala., prompted protests and raised questions about whether police officers are too quick to assume that a nonwhite person who is armed is a wrongdoer.

In a 24-page report, Attorney General Steve Marshall concluded that the Hoover police officer - identified only as Officer 1 - who shot Mr. Bradford had "reasonably exercised" his duties.

"Officer 1's actions were reasonable under the circumstances and were consistent with his training and nationally accepted standards for 'active shooter' scenarios," the report stated.

[Read what 10 black gun owners told us about their interactions with law enforcement, other authorities and the general public.]
The police officer shot Mr. Bradford, who went by E.J., a few seconds after gunshots rang out at the mall on Nov. 22, sending shoppers racing for safety and leaving an 18-year-old man, Brian Wilson, injured by two bullets.

The officer, who was on duty at the mall, said in a statement that he had turned toward the sound of the gunfire with his weapon drawn, and saw an injured man clutching his stomach near a railing, with another man helping him. He said he also saw "an armed suspect" who was "quickly moving towards the two males standing near the railing."

"The suspect was advancing on the two males and had a black handgun in his right hand," the officer said. "I fired my duty weapon at the armed suspect to stop him." That man was Mr. Bradford.

The officer said he thought Mr. Bradford was going to kill the two men, and the report said the officer had "mistakenly believed" Mr. Bradford had fired the initial shots.

The officer said he was unable to issue verbal commands before firing, "due to the quickness of the event and the immediate threat Bradford posed" to the two men he was approaching.

The police later arrested another man - Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20 - and charged him with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of Mr. Wilson, the injured man by the railing.

The attorney general's report said there was no evidence that Mr. Bradford's handgun was fired at the mall.

The report said the F.B.I. had found no evidence to prompt an investigation into whether Mr. Bradford's civil rights had been violated, a basis for federal prosecutions in cases that are otherwise under state jurisdiction. An F.B.I. spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter Tuesday.

The decision not to bring charges did little to quell the suspicions and anger of Mr. Bradford's relatives and supporters. "I'm outraged," his mother, April Pipkins, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "In no way was justice served."

Some surveillance video images of the events at the mall were released on Tuesday. But Benjamin L. Crump, a lawyer for the family, said he believed there was additional footage that had not been released, and he demanded that the public be allowed to see it. In a prepared statement, he said that Mr. Bradford's "only 'crime' was being black."

Ashlyn McMillan, a witness to the mall shootings, told The New York Times that she considered Mr. Bradford a hero, saying that he had directed frantic shoppers to safety and had warned her to get down and seek cover inside a store.

A man named Roosevelt Poole filled in some of the night's narrative blanks at a recent preliminary hearing in the case. According to the Alabama news website AL.com, Mr. Poole said that he and another man were with Mr. Brown, the suspected gunman, in front of the J.C. Penney store in the mall when Mr. Bradford, Mr. Wilson and about eight other people showed up.

Soon, Mr. Poole said, Mr. Wilson was slapping and punching Mr. Brown, the website reported. Mr. Brown's lawyers say that he shot Mr. Wilson in self-defense.

The attorney general's report said that video footage showed Mr. Brown and his friends running into the J.C. Penney store after the shots were fired. For his part, Mr. Bradford initially ran away from the store entrance after the shots, the report said, but then drew his weapon and chambered a round.

"Bradford then charges back toward J.C. Penney, gun drawn," the report states.

Mr. Crump said in a telephone interview that he believed Mr. Bradford was in no way intending to engage in a shootout.

The attorney general's report concludes that the officer's initial mistaken belief that Mr. Bradford had shot Mr. Wilson did not render the officer's actions "unreasonable."

"First, a reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots," it said.

The report also asserted that Mr. Bradford "still posed an immediate deadly threat to persons in the area. Video evidence suggests that Bradford, who was carrying a firearm, was running toward the initial shooter, Erron Brown, who was also carrying a firearm. Multiple shoppers were nearby, including a mother and child directly in between the two armed men."

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Officer Faces No Charges in Fatal Shooting in an Alabama Mall

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

The shooting death of Emantic F. Bradford Jr., 21, at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Ala., prompted protests and raised questions about whether police officers are too quick to assume that a nonwhite person who is armed is a wrongdoer.

In a 24-page report, Attorney General Steve Marshall concluded that the Hoover police officer - identified only as Officer 1 - who shot Mr. Bradford had "reasonably exercised" his duties.

"Officer 1's actions were reasonable under the circumstances and were consistent with his training and nationally accepted standards for 'active shooter' scenarios," the report stated.

[Read what 10 black gun owners told us about their interactions with law enforcement, other authorities and the general public.]
The police officer shot Mr. Bradford, who went by E.J., a few seconds after gunshots rang out at the mall on Nov. 22, sending shoppers racing for safety and leaving an 18-year-old man, Brian Wilson, injured by two bullets.

The officer, who was on duty at the mall, said in a statement that he had turned toward the sound of the gunfire with his weapon drawn, and saw an injured man clutching his stomach near a railing, with another man helping him. He said he also saw "an armed suspect" who was "quickly moving towards the two males standing near the railing."

"The suspect was advancing on the two males and had a black handgun in his right hand," the officer said. "I fired my duty weapon at the armed suspect to stop him." That man was Mr. Bradford.

The officer said he thought Mr. Bradford was going to kill the two men, and the report said the officer had "mistakenly believed" Mr. Bradford had fired the initial shots.

The officer said he was unable to issue verbal commands before firing, "due to the quickness of the event and the immediate threat Bradford posed" to the two men he was approaching.

The police later arrested another man - Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20 - and charged him with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of Mr. Wilson, the injured man by the railing.

The attorney general's report said there was no evidence that Mr. Bradford's handgun was fired at the mall.

The report said the F.B.I. had found no evidence to prompt an investigation into whether Mr. Bradford's civil rights had been violated, a basis for federal prosecutions in cases that are otherwise under state jurisdiction. An F.B.I. spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter Tuesday.

The decision not to bring charges did little to quell the suspicions and anger of Mr. Bradford's relatives and supporters. "I'm outraged," his mother, April Pipkins, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "In no way was justice served."

Some surveillance video images of the events at the mall were released on Tuesday. But Benjamin L. Crump, a lawyer for the family, said he believed there was additional footage that had not been released, and he demanded that the public be allowed to see it. In a prepared statement, he said that Mr. Bradford's "only 'crime' was being black."

Ashlyn McMillan, a witness to the mall shootings, told The New York Times that she considered Mr. Bradford a hero, saying that he had directed frantic shoppers to safety and had warned her to get down and seek cover inside a store.

A man named Roosevelt Poole filled in some of the night's narrative blanks at a recent preliminary hearing in the case. According to the Alabama news website AL.com, Mr. Poole said that he and another man were with Mr. Brown, the suspected gunman, in front of the J.C. Penney store in the mall when Mr. Bradford, Mr. Wilson and about eight other people showed up.

Soon, Mr. Poole said, Mr. Wilson was slapping and punching Mr. Brown, the website reported. Mr. Brown's lawyers say that he shot Mr. Wilson in self-defense.

The attorney general's report said that video footage showed Mr. Brown and his friends running into the J.C. Penney store after the shots were fired. For his part, Mr. Bradford initially ran away from the store entrance after the shots, the report said, but then drew his weapon and chambered a round.

"Bradford then charges back toward J.C. Penney, gun drawn," the report states.

Mr. Crump said in a telephone interview that he believed Mr. Bradford was in no way intending to engage in a shootout.

The attorney general's report concludes that the officer's initial mistaken belief that Mr. Bradford had shot Mr. Wilson did not render the officer's actions "unreasonable."

"First, a reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots," it said.

The report also asserted that Mr. Bradford "still posed an immediate deadly threat to persons in the area. Video evidence suggests that Bradford, who was carrying a firearm, was running toward the initial shooter, Erron Brown, who was also carrying a firearm. Multiple shoppers were nearby, including a mother and child directly in between the two armed men."

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Officer Faces No Charges in Fatal Shooting in an Alabama Mall

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

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Why do police break the law.

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Why don't police "THINK" before they shoot? These polices are killing ones that matter the most!

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Why don't police "THINK" before they shoot? These polices are killing ones that matter the most!

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-Takiya Savage

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

The shooting death of Emantic F. Bradford Jr., 21, at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Ala., prompted protests and raised questions about whether police officers are too quick to assume that a nonwhite person who is armed is a wrongdoer.

In a 24-page report, Attorney General Steve Marshall concluded that the Hoover police officer - identified only as Officer 1 - who shot Mr. Bradford had "reasonably exercised" his duties.

"Officer 1's actions were reasonable under the circumstances and were consistent with his training and nationally accepted standards for 'active shooter' scenarios," the report stated.

[Read what 10 black gun owners told us about their interactions with law enforcement, other authorities and the general public.]
The police officer shot Mr. Bradford, who went by E.J., a few seconds after gunshots rang out at the mall on Nov. 22, sending shoppers racing for safety and leaving an 18-year-old man, Brian Wilson, injured by two bullets.

The officer, who was on duty at the mall, said in a statement that he had turned toward the sound of the gunfire with his weapon drawn, and saw an injured man clutching his stomach near a railing, with another man helping him. He said he also saw "an armed suspect" who was "quickly moving towards the two males standing near the railing."

"The suspect was advancing on the two males and had a black handgun in his right hand," the officer said. "I fired my duty weapon at the armed suspect to stop him." That man was Mr. Bradford.

The officer said he thought Mr. Bradford was going to kill the two men, and the report said the officer had "mistakenly believed" Mr. Bradford had fired the initial shots.

The officer said he was unable to issue verbal commands before firing, "due to the quickness of the event and the immediate threat Bradford posed" to the two men he was approaching.

The police later arrested another man - Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20 - and charged him with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of Mr. Wilson, the injured man by the railing.

The attorney general's report said there was no evidence that Mr. Bradford's handgun was fired at the mall.

The report said the F.B.I. had found no evidence to prompt an investigation into whether Mr. Bradford's civil rights had been violated, a basis for federal prosecutions in cases that are otherwise under state jurisdiction. An F.B.I. spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter Tuesday.

The decision not to bring charges did little to quell the suspicions and anger of Mr. Bradford's relatives and supporters. "I'm outraged," his mother, April Pipkins, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "In no way was justice served."

Some surveillance video images of the events at the mall were released on Tuesday. But Benjamin L. Crump, a lawyer for the family, said he believed there was additional footage that had not been released, and he demanded that the public be allowed to see it. In a prepared statement, he said that Mr. Bradford's "only 'crime' was being black."

Ashlyn McMillan, a witness to the mall shootings, told The New York Times that she considered Mr. Bradford a hero, saying that he had directed frantic shoppers to safety and had warned her to get down and seek cover inside a store.

A man named Roosevelt Poole filled in some of the night's narrative blanks at a recent preliminary hearing in the case. According to the Alabama news website AL.com, Mr. Poole said that he and another man were with Mr. Brown, the suspected gunman, in front of the J.C. Penney store in the mall when Mr. Bradford, Mr. Wilson and about eight other people showed up.

Soon, Mr. Poole said, Mr. Wilson was slapping and punching Mr. Brown, the website reported. Mr. Brown's lawyers say that he shot Mr. Wilson in self-defense.

The attorney general's report said that video footage showed Mr. Brown and his friends running into the J.C. Penney store after the shots were fired. For his part, Mr. Bradford initially ran away from the store entrance after the shots, the report said, but then drew his weapon and chambered a round.

"Bradford then charges back toward J.C. Penney, gun drawn," the report states.

Mr. Crump said in a telephone interview that he believed Mr. Bradford was in no way intending to engage in a shootout.

The attorney general's report concludes that the officer's initial mistaken belief that Mr. Bradford had shot Mr. Wilson did not render the officer's actions "unreasonable."

"First, a reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots," it said.

The report also asserted that Mr. Bradford "still posed an immediate deadly threat to persons in the area. Video evidence suggests that Bradford, who was carrying a firearm, was running toward the initial shooter, Erron Brown, who was also carrying a firearm. Multiple shoppers were nearby, including a mother and child directly in between the two armed men."

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Officer Faces No Charges in Fatal Shooting in an Alabama Mall

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An Alabama police officer will not be criminally charged for killing a young black man whom he had mistaken for the gunman in a shopping-mall shooting Thanksgiving night, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The decision is likely to extend the debate over a tragedy at the intersection of gun rights and concerns over racial biases in policing.

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how do someone will confuse a family for terrorist when their were just a family that was traveling to a wedding
-What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
-linda 1st

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The Punjab, Pakistan Police's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) shot at a family traveling in a car on Saturday. The family was traveling to a wedding, but Pakistani police thought they were terrorist.

According to reports, the couple identified as Khalil and his wife Nabeela along with their children Areeba, Umair Khalil, Muniba, Hadia and their driver Zeeshan were on board the vehicle when the incident took place near Sahiwal Toll Plaza.

Khalil, Nabeela, their teenage daughter Areeba, and the driver Zeeshan are among the dead. Umair, sustained bullet wounds, while Muniba was injured from broken glass. Hadia is the only one that was not injured, a Pakistani news outlet reports.

The CTD was acting on a tip that the family was a terrorist cell. The CTD opened fire on the vehicle at the Sahiwal toll plaza.

The CTD first declared that the victims were child kidnappers, they later retracted and labeled the family as terrorists.

Prime Minister Imran Khan released the following statement:

"Still shocked at seeing the traumatized children who saw their parents shot before their eyes. Any parent would be shocked as they would think of their own children in such a traumatic situation. These children will now be fully looked after by the state as its responsibility."

Inspector General of Police Punjab Amjad Javed Salimi has formed a four-member Joint Investigation Team to probe the incident.

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Watch: Police Mistake Family for Terrorist and Shoot Them Dead - Photography is Not a Crime

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The Punjab, Pakistan Police's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) shot at a family traveling in a car on Saturday. The family was traveling to a wedding, but Pakistani police thought they were terrorist.

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Do they not try to figure out the truth before killing someone?

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jemel roberson: videos show confusion and anger after security guard was shot by police - cnn

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Confusion and anger after security guard holding suspect was shot by police, video shows

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As Jemel Roberson laid motionless in the parking lot of a suburban Chicago bar, patrons stood feet away wailing and yelling at a group of law enforcement officers.

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they didn't see if he had a security suit?
did the cops not see him having his working suit on. he pinned the suspect so the cops can get him. if the security guard didn't pin him the cops wouldn't have him in jail.

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In the early hours of November 11, 2018, 26-year-old Jemel Roberson was working security at a bar in the Chicago suburbs when a shooting broke out.

Shortly after Roberson subdued the suspect at gunpoint, police arrived - and fatally shot the black, armed security guard as he pinned the suspect to the ground.

Now, nearly three months after Roberson's death, a series of videos released this week by the Cook County Sheriff's Office show the chaotic scene that unfolded as bystanders reacted to Roberson's shooting.

The videos were recorded by police body cameras and bystanders' cellphones. In one, a security guard who worked with Roberson tells police that Ian Covey, the white officer who opened fire, did so despite being told that Roberson was security. Other witnesses can be heard crying and yelling in the background.

"Your man shot my man. The police shot security. That's what happened," the other security guard says. Later, he continues, saying: "Do you not see us with vests on, bruh? Why would I have a vest on, bruh? This s**t ain't for fun."

The videos do not include footage of Roberson actually being shot by police, however, or the moments that preceded it.

Roberson's death has drawn national attention, with critics arguing that the police were too quick to fire. The police department initially argued that Roberson ignored "verbal commands" before the shooting, but later released a second statement claiming that the shooting was a case of "friendly fire," and that Roberson's death was a tragic accident.

Roberson's family disagrees, arguing that the shooting violated his civil rights. Local activists have said that they believe race was a factor in the shooting: witnesses said that Covey, a white officer, simply opened fire after seeing a black man with a gun, despite people screaming that Roberson was a security guard.

After weeks of silence, law enforcement has recently begun releasing information in response to public records requests and a lawsuit from Roberson's family. But the releases have not come from the Illinois State Police, which is tasked with the main investigation. Instead, smaller agencies like the sheriff's office and the Midlothian Police Department released the information independently.

Covey's name, for example, was only released in January, one day after Roberson's mother amended a wrongful death lawsuit filed last year to directly name the officer who shot her son. The police department then confirmed his identity in a statement, after weeks of arguing that it could not release the officer's name due to safety concerns and the state police investigation.

"Given that the vitriol has died down slightly and given that the name was being batted around, speculated to, as well as the plaintiff pursuing it and amending the complaint, it just seemed to be time," Nick Valadez, a lawyer for Midlothian, told the Chicago Tribune last month. In a statement discussing the recently released videos, Cara Smith, the chief policy officer at the Cook County Sheriff's Office, said that the release was a response to an open records request and was done "in the interest of transparency."

Roberson's death occurred in the midst of an ongoing national conversation about racial disparities in police violence and the dangers black gun owners face when interacting with police. The months since his death have raised new questions about police transparency, with his community arguing that police officials are shielding Covey from punishment.

Roberson's death drew national attention

Roberson was working at Manny's Blue Room Bar, in Robbins, Illinois, last November when security personnel asked a group of men to leave following an argument. Soon after, at least one man returned to the bar and began shooting, injuring some of the people in the bar. Security returned fire and Roberson detained the man.

Roberson "had somebody on the ground with his knee in back, with his gun in his back, like, 'Don't move,'" witness Adam Harris told the local news outlet WGN last year.

When officers from the Robbins and Midlothian police departments arrived, one officer, now identified as Covey, opened fire, killing Roberson. According to witness statements given to local outlets, Covey fired even as witnesses told him to stop. "Everybody was screaming out, 'Security!' He was a security guard," Harris said.

"They still did their job, and saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him," he added.

In preliminary findings released last year, Illinois State Police (which is tasked with investigating the police shooting) argued that the officer gave Roberson " multiple verbal commands " to drop his weapon before opening fire. "According to witness statements, the Midlothian Officer gave the armed subject multiple verbal commands to drop the gun and get on the ground before ultimately discharging his weapon and striking the subject," state police said in a statement.

The agency added that Roberson was not wearing anything that i dentified him as a security guard. Gregory Kulis, a lawyer representing Roberson's mother in the civil rights lawsuit filed after the shooting, said that Roberson had a hat with the words "SECURITY" on it. The videos released this week show that other witnesses on the scene continued to tell officers that Roberson was a security guard in the moments after the shooting, but these accounts were not included in the first news releases from the department.

Four other people, including a man believed to be the suspect behind the bar shooting, were injured in the incident. The suspect's name has not been released publicly and no charges have been filed over either shooting.

After previously identifying Roberson as an "armed subject" in reports, Midlothian Police Chief Daniel Delaney issued a November statement calling Roberson "a brave man who was doing his best to end an active shooter situation."

"The Midlothian Police Department is completely saddened by this tragic incident and we give our heartfelt condolences to Jemel, his family and his friends. There are no words that can be expressed as to the sorrow his family is dealing with," Delaney added. He told the Chicago Tribune that the department would release another statement on the shooting "after the agency concluded its inquiry and 'all of the facts' are known."

Covey has been on administrative leave since the shooting.

As the shooting unfolded, Roberson was a "good guy with a gun." It didn't matter.

Coverage of Roberson's shooting has focused on exactly how long it took the officer to use his weapon after he arrived at the scene, and what commands, if any, were made beforehe opened fire. Witness statements provided to media have suggested that the officer involved in the shooting did not react to cries that Roberson was a security guard. But the statement from the state police argued that the responding officer had no way to know Roberson was security and that he only fired after Roberson did not respond to commands.

Dorian Myrickes, a colleague of Roberson's and one of the people injured in the initial gunfight, told the Associated Press l ast year that he did not hear the police officer issue any commands.

"I never heard the cop demand him to do anything, (but) everybody was telling him (Jemel) was security," Myrickes told the AP.

The shooting prompted confusion and anger among those who knew Roberson. "How in the world does the security guard get shot by police?" asked Walter Turner, a pastor at Chicago's New Spiritual Light Baptist Church, one of several churches where Roberson assisted as a musician, during a November interview with ABC7 Chicago. "A young man that was literally doing his job and now he's gone."

Others who knew Roberson said that the shooting reinforces their belief that police are too quick to use force. "It's the continued narrative that we see of shoot first, ask questions later," said Rev. LeAundre Hill of Purposed Church, another churchwhere Roberson assisted, told WGN.

Roberson's family noted that Jemel's desire to become a police officer added to the tragedy of his death. "He was getting ready to train and do all that stuff, so the very people he wanted to be family with, took his life," said Patricia Hill, another pastor at Purposed Church.

A spokesperson for the Cook County Sheriff's Office, which is assisting with investigating the initial bar shooting, said that Roberson had a valid firearm owners ID card, but did not have a concealed carry license. The state police task force charged with investigating the shooting is expected to release its final findings in April, USA Today reports.

Roberson's death was one of several incidents in recent years where a black gun owner was fatally shot by police. In July 2016, after telling a Minnesota police officer that he was carrying a legal firearm when he was pulled over, Philando Castile was shot w hile reaching for his wallet.

In July, Harith Augustus, a black barber working in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, was shot by Chicago police after an officer stopped the man and questioned him for "exhibiting characteristics of an armed person." Video showed Augustus attempting to show an officer what appeared to be an Illinois firearm owner's ID, before being startled by an officer attempting to grab him from behind.

And less than two weeks after Roberson's death, police in Alabama fatally shot Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., a black gun owner trying to flee a mall shooting. Police statements initially argued that Bradford was the gunman, and later suggested that the man wouldn't have been shot if he hadn't "brandished a gun," but witnesses said the man was trying to help others flee.

ThinkProgress's Lindsay Gibbs previously wrote that Roberson's death suggests that the calls for more armed guards that so often emerge after mass shootings carry a unique risk for black people. "Roberson was both an armed security guard and a good guy with a gun. He risked his life to apprehend a shooter. And police killed him anyway," Gibbs writes.

On January 19, Roberson's mother, Beatrice, held a press conference where she explained why she was finally ready to discuss her son's death. "I want justice for my son. I want this officer put away. I want him to lose his job," she said.

"If a young man shot a police officer, that young man's picture would be on the TV tonight," Kulis, Ms. Roberson's lawyer, added according to the New York Times. "But for two months we have been looking for the name of the officer that killed Jemel Roberson."

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A black security guard caught a shooting suspect - only to be shot by police minutes later

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In the early hours of November 11, 2018, 26-year-old Jemel Roberson was working security at a bar in the Chicago suburbs when a shooting broke out. Shortly after Roberson subdued the suspect at gunpoint, police arrived - and fatally shot the black, armed security guard as he pinned the suspect to the ground.

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In my opinion in my own words, I feel disgusted about this cause this is just down right disturbing, getting someone to trust then then realize your nothing more than a low-life scum-bag wanting to play f-king cops on you. I mean who does that am I right?

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It really isn't, because if someone does something wrong it doesn't matter what you think or what you do or don't want to do, just do your f-ing matter time and move on. It's the same concept with children, you be bad you go to the corner. As well as for police, stop looking at race and just arrest if the person did it wrong or don't if they're innocent. How f-ing hard is that?

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When is this war between civilians and The Law going to stop? Is it so hard for the police not to be race bias corrupt and civilians to be so arrogant and assuming?

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The NYPD is calling on Google to yank a feature from its Waze traffic app that tips off drivers to police checkpoints - warning it could be considered "criminal conduct," according to a report on Wednesday.

The department sent a cease-and-desist letter over the weekend demanding Google disable the crowd-sourced app's function that allows motorists to pinpoint police whereabouts, StreetsBlog reported.

"Individuals who post the locations of DWI checkpoints may be engaging in criminal conduct since such actions could be intentional attempts to prevent and/or impair the administration of the DWI laws and other relevant criminal and traffic laws," wrote Acting Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters Ann Prunty in the letter, according to the website.

"The posting of such information for public consumption is irresponsible since it only serves to aid impaired and intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and encourage reckless driving. Revealing the location of checkpoints puts those drivers, their passengers, and the general public at risk."

Prunty asked that Google, which purchased Waze in 2013, "immediately remove this function from the Waze application."

StreetsBlog speculated the cease-and-desist letter may also pertain to Waze's brand new "speed cam" function that lets drivers notify others about the locations of speed and red light cameras.

The NYPD's letter added, "The NYPD will pursue all legal remedies to prevent the continued posting of this irresponsible and dangerous information."

Waze's police feature first came under scrutiny in 2015, when the Sergeants' Benevolent Association demanded its removal, saying it could put officers' lives in danger.

At the time, union president Ed Mullins pointed to the assassinations of NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn in December of that year as an example.

Neither the NYPD nor Google immediately returned messages.

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NYPD to Google: Stop revealing the location of police checkpoints

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The NYPD is calling on Google to yank a feature from its Waze traffic app that tips off drivers to police checkpoints - warning it could be considered "criminal conduct," according to a report on Wednesday. The department sent a cease-and-desist letter over the weekend demanding Google disable the crowd-sourced app's function that allows motorists to pinpoint police whereabouts, StreetsBlog reported.

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at least 12 children exposed to marijuana gummies

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At least 12 children exposed to marijuana gummies, police say; mom arrested

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Students at an elementary school in Cleveland were taken to the hospital after consuming gummy candy that police say contained marijuana. The mother of the child who allegedly brought the gummies to school has been arrested.

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What do you have to say about the police officers that harm innocent, unharmed citizens? Do they deserve to be treated that way?

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Devin Ford says he never fought back.

He also claims the Buffalo police officer who confronted him on Chippewa Street slammed him onto a car, took him to the ground and then hit him six times with a nightstick.

"I just remember being on my back, saying 'I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything,' " Ford told a federal court jury Monday.

Now 26, the Lackawanna man is at the center of a civil rights trial that focuses on three separate incidents of alleged brutality by Officer Corey Krug, including his encounter with the officer early Thanksgiving morning four years ago.

"I remember him driving his knee into my chest," Ford told Assistant U.S. Attorney John D. Fabian.

Ford's testimony against Krug came just days after the officer took the offensive in his police brutality trial and openly attacked his accuser's credibility.

In court papers, the 18-year police veteran points to social media posts, police reports and a prior drug conviction to suggest that Ford has a history of criminal behavior, some of it violent.

Krug also claims Ford has an anti-police bias and referred to one social media post that said, "Cops killing people with their arms up."

"The government rests its case on a parade of wayward witnesses who, simply put, lack the capacity to tell the truth," defense attorney Terrence M. Connors said in court papers.

Connors said the evidence of Ford's alcohol and marijuana use is important in determining if he was high or intoxicated the morning he crossed paths with Krug.

Prosecutors countered by arguing that social media posts about "substance abuse are irrelevant, inflammatory and unduly prejudicial," and U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara largely agreed.

Arcara found that Ford's 2016 misdemeanor drug conviction is not relevant and will not be allowed in as evidence. He also prohibited the use of Ford's social media posts, except for limited use during cross-examination.

On eve of trial, Buffalo cop could face more brutality allegations

On Monday, while on the witness stand, Ford found himself questioned repeatedly about the injuries he suffered at Krug's hands and the medical attention he sought.

"You never even got a simple X-ray, correct?" asked Connors.

"Correct," said Ford.

While calling the pain in his knee and shins a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10, he acknowledged that he never went to the hospital, never sought treatment from a doctor and never sought prescription medication for his injuries.

"It might not have been the smartest decision, but it was the decision I made," he said Monday.

In explaining his lack of medical treatment, Ford claimed he was in a state of shock that continued for hours after his confrontation with Krug, a claim Connors questioned at several turns.

Ford also acknowledged failing to file a formal complaint against Krug until after he saw a video of his confrontation with the officer a month later.

The video, a key piece of evidence, shows Krug using force against Ford that November morning four years ago. Krug claims his use of force was justified.

"I knew it would sound far-fetched," Ford said of his allegations of police brutality. "Who's going to believe it. This stuff happens all the time."

Ford is African-American. Krug is white.

Connors also asked Ford about his civil lawsuit against Krug and the City of Buffalo, and the monetary damages he is seeking. The suit is currently pending.

Krug's trial began last week but testimony, because of a three-day weather-related delay, did not begin until Monday.

The first witness was James Herr, the former WKBW-TV photographer who shot the video of Krug's confrontation with Ford.

Herr said he was on Chippewa Street that night as part of a story on Buffalo's enhanced police presence on Thanksgiving eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year.

Herr was never asked if he thought Krug's use of force was justified, but he acknowledged the significance of what he saw that night.

"I thought I had exclusive video," he told the jury. "You don't capture that type of video every day."

Krug, who is currently suspended with pay, is also accused of using excessive force against two other men in 2010 and 2011. Both of them are expected to testify.

The trial resumes Tuesday.

Videotaped cop was sued 3 times for excessive force

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'I just remember being on my back,' witness says in police brutality trial

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Devin Ford says he never fought back. He also claims the Buffalo police officer who confronted him on Chippewa Street slammed him onto a car, took him to the ground and then hit him six times with a nightstick.

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Some police officers should definitely be held to a higher standard with their uniform requirements and body cameras.

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How would you react if you saw an employee/fellow officer committing a crime?

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why did nobody turn on their body cameras?

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An Alabama police officer who shot and killed a man he mistook for the gunman in a mall shooting will not be charged with a crime, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday.

Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., 21, was killed by an officer whose name has not been released and is only identified as "Officer 1" on Thanksgiving night inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala. The officer, who was responding to an earlier shooting at the mall, mistook Bradford for the gunman.

Minutes before, another man, Erron Brown, shot and wounded 18-year-old Brian Wilson twice.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall released a 26-page report concluding that the officer was "justified and not criminal" in fatally shooting Bradford "who was running toward the initial shooter and victim with a firearm visibly in hand."

The report says "Officer 1's mistaken belief does not render his actions unreasonable."

"A reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots," the report concludes.

Bradford's family reacted with outrage.

"My son was murdered. And you think I'm going to let it go?," said Emantic Bradford Sr. as quoted by AL.com. "That was a homicide... you killed my son. You are a coward. You're a coward too, Steve Marshall."

"The police shot, we believe, because they feared a black man with a gun," said an attorney for the Bradford family, Ben Crump.

The police initially claimed that Bradford was a suspect in the mall shooting.

"But then the next day they said that Bradford likely was not the man involved in the original shooting and that set off waves of protest and unrest, said reporter GiGi Douban of NPR member station WBHM on All Things Considered.

"So you saw marchers demonstrating in front of the mayor's house, they stopped traffic on busy streets and interstates, and for a time they protested daily at stores across the area as the investigation dragged on with few details," Douban added.

Attorney General Marshall also released two 13-second video clips from shopping mall surveillance cameras. One shows Bradford running and then falling as he is shot from behind three times. An autopsy showed that he was hit in the back of the head, neck and lower back.

The surveillance footage provided no sound, according to the report, which concludes that "it is unclear" if Officer 1 gave Bradford any verbal commands before shooting him. The officer reported that "he did not give any commands due to the imminent nature of the threat," but two eyewitnesses said they heard such commands.

Neither Officer 1, nor his partner, referred to as Officer 2, had turned on the body cameras they were wearing.

Marshall's statement provides links to his report and the video.

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Alabama Police Officer Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Mistaken Gunman

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An Alabama police officer who shot and killed a man he mistook for the gunman in a mall shooting will not be charged with a crime, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday. Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., 21, was killed by an officer whose name has not been released and is only identified as "Officer 1" on Thanksgiving night inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala.

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What do police see in us when their in those suites? Do officers aspect us to be terrible people or just normal people?

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jemel roberson: videos show confusion and anger after security guard was shot by police - cnn

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Confusion and anger after security guard holding suspect was shot by police, video shows

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As Jemel Roberson laid motionless in the parking lot of a suburban Chicago bar, patrons stood feet away wailing and yelling at a group of law enforcement officers.

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If Your a police and you shoot an unarmed person what does that make you or how does that make you feel ?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/alabama-mall-shooting-death.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FPolice&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

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What is a way we can tell if a police officer is an actual officer?
Pilot in fatal Southern California crash had fake police credentials

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Do you feel like police should hear the black person side of the story first instead of automatically arresting or attacking them ?

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what do you think this is happening now and what can we do to fix it?

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why is this happening and what can we do to prevent horrible things like this from happening? i think we should try a little harder to keep our streets safe

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violence against women in the united states

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Police: Woman's body found in suitcase alongside road

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GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - Police say the body of a young woman was found bound inside a suitcase left alongside a road in an affluent Connecticut town. Greenwich police say highway workers discovered the body Tuesday morning. Authorities say they determined the victim was a woman between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, though she has not yet been identified.

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Why the hell would a mother, Give elementary kids THC-Lace candy to little kids thats not okay. Are the police going to do anything?

I dont think that giving little kids weed candy is okay. There young so why in her mind would that be okay.

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The mother of the boy who brought in gummy bears that were believed to be laced with marijuana has been arrested.

A school staff member was cleaning up in the classroom when she first discovered a ziplock bag that said it contained THC candies.

The police report says a teacher found the bag of gummies on the floor and saw the label said they contained drugs. That's when she alerted administrators pic.twitter.com/XUWXztbzH7
- Hannah Catlett (@ReporterHannah) February 5, 2019

Investigators learned that a 9-year-old student brought the gummy candies to the school and gave them to at least 12 other students that ranged in age from 5 to 9 years old.

According to police, Shari Gould, the boy's mother, had several people over to her Garden Valley Avenue apartment Sunday night. Gould's guests were smoking and drinking, the boy told police.

The boy said his aunt gave him and two other children gummy bears the night before because she "was not in her right mind," according to a statement provided to school staff members.

He was then urged by another child at his home to go to the kitchen to tell his mother that he loved her, so he could take more gummies. Police say the boy took the gummies from the kitchen without his mother knowing and put the candy in his bag for school the next morning.

All of the students who were questioned by police complained only of upset stomachs. They were all checked out at University Hospitals. Only one of the children, the boy who brought the candies into school, tested positive for THC.

Gould was arrested for endangering children after being questioned by police.

Copyright 2019 WOIO. All rights reserved.

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Mother arrested after boy gives more than a dozen Cleveland elementary school students THC-laced candy

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The mother of the boy who brought in gummy bears that were believed to be laced with marijuana has been arrested. A school staff member was cleaning up in the classroom when she first discovered a ziplock bag that said it contained THC candies.

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https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article225595195.html

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The black lives matter movement has been created due to people feeling that the police are being more harsh towards black people, Do you know feel that the black lives matter movement is relevant?

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The #BlackLivesMatter movement has sparked nationwide protests and has raised awareness worldwide about the unequal treatment of black people by police in the United States.

Listening to the voices from the movement - and learning from the death of Eric Garner and the series of other deaths of unarmed black men - it's clear that two issues need to be addressed: racial profiling and police use of excessive force. Both run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, but remain common practices in law enforcement, too often with tragic results.

In Garner's case, for example, police targeted him for the petty crime of selling loose cigarettes - the types of crimes black people are targeted for at higher rates - and then attempted to arrest him with a chokehold, banned by the department. Whatever else we have learned from the recent tragedies of police violence, it is clear that we need comprehensive federal, state and local policies that outlaw racial profiling and rein in police excessive force.

Racial profiling - as well as profiling based on religion, ethnicity and national origin - continues to plague our nation despite the constitutional guarantee of equal treatment under the law. In a 2011 report, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights found evidence of widespread racial profiling, showing that African Americans and Hispanics are disproportionately likely to be stopped and searched by police, even though they're less likely to be found possessing contraband or committing a criminal act. In Illinois, for example, black and Hispanic drivers were twice as likely to be searched after a traffic stop compared to white drivers, but white drivers were twice as likely to have contraband. The NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk program shows similar evidence of racial profiling, with police targeting blacks and Latinos about 85 percent of the time. In nearly nine out of 10 searches, police find nothing.

Likewise, excessive force by police persists despite the Constitution's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. In lawsuits and investigations, the U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that a number of major police departments have engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force. The Cleveland Police Department was most recently found to be an offender, but it follows a long line of other wayward law enforcement agencies: Seattle, New Orleans, Portland, Newark and Albuquerque among them. Clearly, cases like Eric Garner's are not isolated - police use of excessive force is a systemic, national problem. The DOJ has recommended revising and clarifying local policies regarding appropriate uses of force, improving officer training and supervision, and implementing rigorous internal accountability systems, among other things. But recommendations are not enough. Conquering this systemic issue demands a national mandate.

Profiling undermines public safety and strains police-community trust. When law enforcement officers target residents based on race, religion or national origin rather than behavior, crime-fighting is less effective and community distrust of police grows. A study of the Los Angeles Police Department showed that minority communities that had been unfairly targeted in the past continue to experience greater mistrust and fear of police officers. To root out this ineffective tactic that undermines public confidence, we need stronger policies against racial profiling at all levels - from local to federal - as well as more effective training and oversight of police officers, and systems of accountability.

Twenty states have no laws prohibiting racial profiling by law enforcement, according to an NAACP report released in September. Among states that do, the policies vary widely in implementation and effectiveness. Only 17 of those states require data collection on all police stops and searches, and only 15 require analysis and publication of other racial profiling data. Limited and inconsistent data collection makes it impossible to devise effective remedies for racial profiling.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a newly revised guide on use of profiling by law enforcement, distinguishing between legitimate uses (such as using race and other characteristics in a suspect description) and illegitimate uses (such as criminal stereotypes). Among other things, the guide explains that uses of race and other characteristics should be based on particularized and trustworthy information relevant to the specific investigation, rather than generalized stereotypes. The policy also provides general provisions on training, data collection and accountability, and it was expanded to include national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. Civil rights groups have been calling for this updated guide for years.

However, the Department of Justice did not address all concerns. Civil rights advocates had also called for the elimination of loopholes for national security and border enforcement, which the DOJ did not adopt. The document states:

This Guidance does not apply to Federal non-law enforcement personnel, including U.S. military, intelligence, or diplomatic personnel, and their activities. In addition, this Guidance does not apply to interdiction activities in the vicinity of the border, or to protective, inspection, or screening activities.

The DOJ policy, however, is far clearer and stronger than policies held by many states and localities. As the NAACP found, some states and localities ban the use of pretextual traffic stops, others explicitly prohibit racial profiling, and still others require mandatory data collection - but few contain all of the elements of an effective racial profiling ban, and many states lack profiling laws altogether. Since Americans encounter local police in far greater numbers than any federal law enforcement officers, the adoption of state and local laws and policies banning profiling is critical.

Excessive force and racial profiling are two destructive modes of police misconduct that require concerted, vigilant action to reduce and eliminate. While racial profiling can end in tragic police killings of unarmed individuals, such as with Eric Garner or Michael Brown, it also results in many unnecessary stops and searches, harassment and intimidation, and even confiscation of property without due process. The steps to curb this are clear: At all levels of government, we need definitive anti-profiling laws and policies, training of officers on the elimination of explicit and implicit bias, data collection on traffic stops and other police-community contacts, and development of internal and external accountability systems. With these efforts, police departments across the country can rebuild public trust and ensure that policing methods reinforce rather than undermine our democratic values.
More from PostEverything: Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There's only one fix. What caused the Ferguson riot exists in so many other cities, too Filming the police is the American thing to do

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Racial profiling has destroyed public trust in police. Cops are exploiting our weak laws against it.

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The #BlackLivesMatter movement has sparked nationwide protests and has raised awareness worldwide about the unequal treatment of black people by police in the United States. Listening to the voices from the movement - and learning from the death of Eric Garner and the series of other deaths of unarmed black men - it's clear that two issues need to be addressed: racial profiling and police use of excessive force.

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should we monitor what kids eat?

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Kids get sick from marijuana-laced gummy bears

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UPDATED: McNabb standoff suspect Billy J. Marcano in custody

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UPDATE 10:30: The Putnam County Sheriff's Office have identified the man in a hours long standoff tonight as Billy J. Marcano, 31, of McNabb, Ill. The Sheriff's Office said in news release that it received a call from a business on Main St. in McNabb.

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how do cops feel about arresting people for laws they disagree with?
Many cops have committed drug related crimes, I don't know how a person could arrest someone for committing a crime they think is innocent.

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A new study finds that hundreds of police officers are arrested each year for the same sorts of crimes they are supposed to be thwarting.

The study, believed to be the first of its kind, was conducted by researchers at Bowling Green State University and funded by the National Institute of Justice, which released the report this month. Researchers identified 6,724 cases involving the arrests of 5,545 sworn officers across the nation between 2005 and 2011.

That means that on average, police officers are getting arrested around 1,000 times per year.

Alarmingly, forty-one percent of the total crimes were committed while on duty. Philip Stinson, lead researcher on the study and BGSU professor, told The Huffington Post that even when off-duty, some of these officers committed crimes using powers endowed to them as sworn members of law enforcement or knowledge gained through their authority as police officers -- thereby making the distinction murky in some cases.

"Police officers can't seem to turn it off at night," Stinson said.

The alleged crimes cops were arrested for most frequently were simple assault, driving under the influence and aggravated assault. Altogether, those crimes made up one-third of the total cases. There were also a considerable number of sex crimes cases, including forcible fondling and forcible rape -- about 10 percent of all cases -- and, disturbingly, the sex crimes cases included some victims under the age of 18. While the victims were mostly female, there were some male victims as well, Stinson said Thursday during a web conference detailing the report.

"Our first and perhaps most salient general observation about the data was that police crimes are not uncommon and that they occur with some regularity in jurisdictions across the nation," the report reads. "The sheer number of police crimes directly contradicts the presumption that they are perpetrated by a small cadre of problem-prone officers."

Stinson and his co-authors broke the cases of arrest into five broad categories:

sex-related police crime (1,475 arrest cases of 1,070 sworn officers)

alcohol-related police crime (1,405 arrest cases of 1,283 sworn officers)

drug-related police crime (739 arrest cases of 665 sworn officers)

violence-related police crime (3,328 arrest cases of 2,586 sworn officers

profit-motivated police crime (1,592 cases of 1,396 officers)

Male police were arrested at a far higher rate than female officers: Almost 95 percent of police crimes were committed by males.

About 72 percent of arrest cases resulted in convictions, Stinson said. Still, only about half of the total cases ultimately resulted in job loss for the arrested officers. The reasons for that are complex, the researchers noted, but in part, professional discipline may be lacking following an officer's arrest because their own department may not know about the crime committed. That's because about two-thirds of all the cases originated from arrests made by a police department that didn't employ the officer arrested, meaning, in at least some cases, police departments may not be aware that some of their own officers are committing crimes.

Stinson and his colleagues say there are several things that law enforcement agencies can do to help keep cops from breaking the law. For example, they could perform annual criminal background checks for their sworn officers, and have written policies in place that specify standards for responding to police officers being arrested. They also could adopt policies compelling mandatory disclosure whenever an officer is arrested for a crime or when the agency issues an order of protection against the officer.

Because the researches also found instances of mental illness in some of the cases, as well as officers experiencing an "unraveling of their lives" following their arrest, they say agencies should install early warning systems to track officer arrests. That way, the officers can be referred to employee assistance programs when appropriate.

The full number of police officer crimes is likely higher than what the BGSU researchers found. The researchers used media reports to determine when an officer was arrested, so any crimes committed by an officer not reported by a law enforcement agency or discovered by a news organization are not included in the data.

"We know that, as a general matter, crime is underreported," David Harris, a professor of law at University of Pittsburgh School of Law who studies policing, told HuffPost. "Some types are underreported much more than others. There is no reason to think this would not be true with crimes by police."

Harris also noted there is evidence that police officers are reluctant to report misconduct by fellow officers and that some agencies tend not to take seriously any complaints of misconduct, criminal or otherwise. Those factors may also contribute to a lower rate.

Given the limitations of the data available, Jonathan Blanks, a researcher with Cato's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, said the absolute number of crimes committed by police is likely "unknowable." He outlined some of the reasons why on Thursday in a blog post about the new report:

We find cases where officers are arrested and convicted of crimes. But we also find officers who are given " professional courtesy" and not arrested for drunk driving. We see cases in which officers plea down their violent and disturbing felony cases to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, which allows them to maintain their peace officers' license. We find longstanding criminal conspiracies that sometimes take years to uncover. And, just today in Baltimore, we see prosecutors unable to convict the officer believed to be most culpable for the conduct that resulted in the death of Freddie Gray. It is impossible to gauge the extent of misconduct because we don't know how much of it the police and the media are catching.

There are are roughly 750,000 sworn local and state law enforcement officers in the U.S., according to a recent count by the Department of Justice, and Stinson's data estimates the rate of arrest for officers during the years of his study is 1.7 cops per 100,000 people. As a comparison, the approximate rate of arrest of civilians in the U.S. is around 3,888 per 100,000 people, according to FBI Uniform Crime Report data.

The vast difference in those rates may lead some to diminish the importance of the report's findings. But Stinson says comparing the two rates is missing the larger point of the research: Government agents whose duty it is to uphold the law should not be breaking the law.

"Police officers should not be getting arrested," Stinson said. "Yes, the rates of arrest are very low. But, this stuff is nuts. And the fact that officers are arrested for so many different types of crimes is simply amazing to me."

Stinson argues the data points toward a set of issues related to "the process of police socialization and the deep police subculture" that demand further scrutiny.

"They just do whatever they want to do," Stinson says, "because law enforcement is exempt from law enforcement."

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Here's How Often Cops Are Arrested For Breaking The Laws They're Paid To Uphold

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A new study finds that hundreds of police officers are arrested each year for the same sorts of crimes they are supposed to be thwarting. The study, believed to be the first of its kind, was conducted by researchers at Bowling Green State University and funded by the National Institute of Justice, which released the report this month.

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I feel like police should pay more attention instead of shooting someone innocent and get at least charge because they just getting away with anything.

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Not all the time police are out to harm , mostly to help some say its a good thing police came in time to help the little boy and mother even tho she was.

How did the police handle this situation and where is this child

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UPPER DARBY, PA (KYW/CNN) - A little boy in Pennsylvania is lucky to be alive after ingesting heroin from discarded bags found in his family's trash, according to authorities.

Police say the father of a 1-year-old boy came home Monday evening and found his girlfriend, the child's mother, passed out from an overdose and their son unconscious.

The father took the boy to the hospital, where doctors had to administer Narcan. The child was then transferred to a children's hospital in Philadelphia, where he is in guarded condition.

"We're lucky. We've got a 16-month-old that's still alive," said Superintendent Michael Chitwood with the Upper Darby Police Department.

The scourge of heroin almost claimed another life. 16 month old child ingests drugs left behind by household member. Lucky to be alive after being treated at hospital. More to follow.
- Upper Darby Police (@UDPolice) February 5, 2019

The child's mother survived her overdose, according to police, but there is no word on her condition. She is due to surrender to authorities Wednesday morning.

Police believe the 1-year-old found discarded heroin baggies in a trash can and chewed on them. A search warrant reportedly turned up a dozen empty bags of heroin.

Chitwood says even though the child survived, the boy's parents should still be penalized. Charges are pending following the incident.

"In my opinion, when children get into mom and dad or guardian's habits and those habits are drug addiction, then why should the poor child suffer? They're putting that baby in harm's way. They're putting that baby at great human danger, and they deserve to be punished the way the law can punish them," he said.

Copyright 2019 KYW via CNN. All rights reserved.

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Police: 1-year-old chewed heroin bag, passed out as mom overdosed

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UPPER DARBY, PA (KYW/CNN) - A little boy in Pennsylvania is lucky to be alive after ingesting heroin from discarded bags found in his family's trash, according to authorities. Police say the father of a 1-year-old boy came home Monday evening and found his girlfriend, the child's mother, passed out from an overdose and their son unconscious.

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How do officers get away whenever they kill someone instead of the officers being charge with murder for taking someones life.Like why they dont pay for what they did and like us as citizens get charge if we do something like this.

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How do officers that are racist or do sum that are racist get into the police?Is there a test or sumthing to prove what officers are going to do in certain situation?
People should trust police but what are some ways to do that if all kids see on tv police shooting people nd stuff like that.

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A veteran Detroit police officer has been demoted and reassigned after posting Snapchat videos showing a black woman whose car he had just impounded walking home alone. He and another officer are heard making derogatory remarks about her to each other in the background, while captions that say "What black girl magic looks like" and "celebrating Black History Month" appear at the bottom.

The officer, who was identified as Gary Steele, had pulled over the woman on Tuesday night along with his partner because her registration had expired, police said. The officers were going to have her vehicle towed.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig told reporters at a news conference Thursday that body camera footage had shown that there was an offer - from either Steele or his partner - to escort her home. The woman refused, Craig said.

"She gets to do that, but we get to make sure she gets safely home," Craig said. "But then to put up this insensitive post, makes me angry."

The Snapchat video, which was first published by ABC affiliate WXYZ, shows the woman walking away down a snow-covered street.

"Priceless," one of the officers says.

"Walk of shame," the other responds.

"In the cold," the first one says again. Later one of the two says, "Bye, Felicia."

The temperature low on Tuesday was 2 degrees in Detroit, according to AccuWeather.

Craig said that Steele, an 18-year veteran of the police department, had been demoted from corporal to officer.

"I'm not troubled, not disappointed, I am angry," Craig said. "To make the reference to Black History Month is even more problematic."

Craig said that the department was continuing to look into the incident and that Steele's partner was also being investigated. Steele did not return a request for comment sent to his LinkedIn profile.

The woman whom the police had stopped was identified by local news outlets as Ariel Moore.

"What they put on there, that's racist," her mother, Monique Mobley, told WXYZ. "They demeaned my child for no reason."

Moore told the outlet she was shocked.

Steele has had issues with the law himself. In 2008, he was charged with attacking an ex-girlfriend and firing a gun near her head, according to the Detroit News. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was able to keep his job at the police department, the newspaper reported.

"His history is troubling," Craig said. "There's a pattern, and I'm concerned about that pattern."

Craig said the officer could be suspended or fired. He said he called Moore's mother to express his concerns about the way her daughter was treated. The department would pay the fee for towing her car, he said.

Another white Detroit police officer made a Snapchat post widely interpreted as racist last year. The video showed him in uniform with the text, "Another night to rangel [sic] up these zoo animals." That officer, who was still on a probationary period at work, was fired.

Craig said Steele's behavior troubled him.

"He's been a part of the force for 18 and a half years," he said, "who we expect to know better. This is a person who trains new officers."

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A veteran Detroit police officer has been demoted and reassigned after posting Snapchat videos showing a black woman whose car he had just impounded walking home alone. He and another officer are heard making derogatory remarks about her to each other in the background, while captions that say "What black girl magic looks like" and "celebrating Black History Month" appear at the bottom.

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Why do officers think every color person are suspicious? Every color person is different.

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jemel roberson: videos show confusion and anger after security guard was shot by police - cnn

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Confusion and anger after security guard holding suspect was shot by police, video shows

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As Jemel Roberson laid motionless in the parking lot of a suburban Chicago bar, patrons stood feet away wailing and yelling at a group of law enforcement officers.

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An Alabama police officer who shot and killed a man he mistook for the gunman in a mall shooting will not be charged with a crime, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday.

Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., 21, was killed by an officer whose name has not been released and is only identified as "Officer 1" on Thanksgiving night inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala. The officer, who was responding to an earlier shooting at the mall, mistook Bradford for the gunman.

Minutes before, another man, Erron Brown, shot and wounded 18-year-old Brian Wilson twice.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall released a 26-page report concluding that the officer was "justified and not criminal" in fatally shooting Bradford "who was running toward the initial shooter and victim with a firearm visibly in hand."

The report says "Officer 1's mistaken belief does not render his actions unreasonable."

"A reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots," the report concludes.

Bradford's family reacted with outrage.

"My son was murdered. And you think I'm going to let it go?," said Emantic Bradford Sr. as quoted by AL.com. "That was a homicide... you killed my son. You are a coward. You're a coward too, Steve Marshall."

"The police shot, we believe, because they feared a black man with a gun," said an attorney for the Bradford family, Ben Crump.

The police initially claimed that Bradford was a suspect in the mall shooting.

"But then the next day they said that Bradford likely was not the man involved in the original shooting and that set off waves of protest and unrest, said reporter GiGi Douban of NPR member station WBHM on All Things Considered.

"So you saw marchers demonstrating in front of the mayor's house, they stopped traffic on busy streets and interstates, and for a time they protested daily at stores across the area as the investigation dragged on with few details," Douban added.

Attorney General Marshall also released two 13-second video clips from shopping mall surveillance cameras. One shows Bradford running and then falling as he is shot from behind three times. An autopsy showed that he was hit in the back of the head, neck and lower back.

The surveillance footage provided no sound, according to the report, which concludes that "it is unclear" if Officer 1 gave Bradford any verbal commands before shooting him. The officer reported that "he did not give any commands due to the imminent nature of the threat," but two eyewitnesses said they heard such commands.

Neither Officer 1, nor his partner, referred to as Officer 2, had turned on the body cameras they were wearing.

Marshall's statement provides links to his report and the video.

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Alabama Police Officer Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Mistaken Gunman

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An Alabama police officer who shot and killed a man he mistook for the gunman in a mall shooting will not be charged with a crime, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday. Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., 21, was killed by an officer whose name has not been released and is only identified as "Officer 1" on Thanksgiving night inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala.

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It seems like we need a system for ensuring that the "officers" we interact with are actually sworn officers of the law and not imposters. That is so dangerous.

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How difficult is it for a civilian to purchase the necessary things to pretend they are an officer? What should be done about this problem?

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A young woman told Channel 2 Action News that she's shaken up after an alarming encounter with a man possibly pretending to be a police officer.

Now, police want to find him. They released a sketch of the man police say came to the woman's Decatur home.

Police said the man went to the front door of a home along Kings Highway early one evening at the end of November.

Since then, Decatur police have been trying to find out who he is and have checked with surrounding police agencies to see if the man is one of their officers. So far, DeKalb and Atlanta police say he's not with them.

The young woman told Channel 2's Steve Gehlbach that she didn't want to go on camera, but Gehlbach spoke with her mother.

She said her daughter is still very shaken up and keeps reliving the incident.
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She said the man acted very aggressively, asking about a car parked in the driveway he said may be connected to robberies in the area and put his foot in the crack of the door, so she couldn't close it.

"That's scary to think something like that would happen," neighbor Katie Lloyd said.

The homeowner thought the man was a police officer because he wore all black tactical-like clothes and even had a gold badge on his belt, but never identified himself or said he was an officer.

The woman said she also never saw a police car or one like it. The man left and walked away up the street.

Neighbors told Gehlbach they would open the door for someone they believed was police.

"Scary to think you can't trust a person knocking on your door that you think is an officer," Lloyd said.

Decatur police say the man is around 5 feet, 9 inches or 5 feet, 10 inches with a stocky build and short, low-cut hair.

Anyone with information about the encounter, or who has had a similar experience with the man in the last couple months or who knows that he is a legitimate officer is urged to call Decatur police.

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Woman says she had scary encounter with possible police impersonator

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A young woman told Channel 2 Action News that she's shaken up after an alarming encounter with a man possibly pretending to be a police officer. Now, police want to find him. They released a sketch of the man police say came to the woman's Decatur home.