Geekery Today (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
(This story via Hear Me Roar 2008-02-20 and a private correspondent.) Here is something that I wrote a couple years ago about the State and its efforts to protect the hell out of us all whether we want it to or not: The State is, as Catharine MacKinnon says, male in the political sense. But [...]
Xavier Thoughts (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
Former Shreveport police officer Wiley Willis had received at least two other excessive force complaints prior to allegations that he beat Angela Garbarino to a bloody, unrecognizable mess during a DUI arrest. An unrelated lawsuit, filed in Caddo District Court in 2006 by Shreveport resident Darlene Atkins, alleges Willis put his service weapon to the head of her son, Dillon Freeman in 2005. Atkins...
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
The Caddo Parish, La. district attorney and the U.S. Justice Department will investigate the case of a woman who is seen in a police department video lying in a pool of blood in an interrogation room, police chief Henry Whitehorn said Wednesday.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
'Police targeting women?' CBS probes after alleged beating
BlondeSense (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
I'm really beginning to think that there is a media conspiracy. While Anderson Cooper on CNN said that "Hillary Clinton did indeed call Barack Obama to congratulate him on winning," the closed caption read, "been told that al qaeda did indeed call Barack to congratulate him on winning." And that was no obama/osama faux pas like this. And they haven't even really begun the Barack Hussein
Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
Did cop Wiley Willis really do this to Angela Garbarino? Well the US Justice Department are in on the investigation now trying to put together the case of Angela Garbarino from Louisiana. The woman was apparently beaten by police and left lying in a pool of blood in an interrogation room, Henry Whitehorn the Shreveport police [...]
Xavier Thoughts (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
This is tough to watch. Shreveport Louisiana. An upset Angela Garbarino repeatedly asks Officer Wiley Willis to use the telephone. She states she is glad her booking for DWI is being videotaped. He turns the camera off. When it is turned back on, Garbarino is seen lying in a pool of blood, being assessed by another officer, and being taken away on a stretcher. Willis has been fired. His lawyer, Eron...
The Existentialist Cowboy (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
I grew up believing 'police officers' were sworn to 'protect and serve'. Since the GOP believes it has installed a dictator, the US has become 'Thug Nation', defending and practicing torture abroad while, at home, cops run wild and out of control. They apparently believe that martial law is a 'done deal' though Bush's prediction --a terrorist attack that will make 911 'pale by comparison' --hasn't...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Source: [b]Raw Story[/b] After Angela Garbarino was arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana last November on suspicion of drunk driving, she wound up lying on the police station floor in a pool of her own blood with two black eyes, a broken nose, two broken teeth, and other cuts and bruises. Garbarino...
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UNLIKELY CASE
Very unlikely damages: She must have been unconscious when she hit the ground.Police must obey the same rules as the rest of the population.
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When is this motherfucker going to jail?
Title says it all.
anonymous - 03/15/2008