Wikipedia Edits To Pages On New York Police Killings Traced To NYPD Headquarters: Report (UPDATED)
Users at 1 Police Plaza edited articles on Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, and other police controversies in what appears to be an attempt to downplay police accountability in each incident, according to Capital New York.
Now listen to fraternity's "house mom":There will never be a nigger in SAE.
There will never be a nigger in SAE.
You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me
There will never be a nigger in SAE.
This is very rife in UQ in NHS hospitals. The management and the junior staff are white . The consultants and senior registrars are overwhelmingly non white- could be from India or Indian sub continent or from middle east. In team meetings, when agendas are discussed the majority inserts things into the transcripts which were never discussed. And when the situation arises where the clinician falls short of the expected standards ~(none which were actually discussed but were inserted into the minutes of the meeting), they can start use it to get the certain clinician out of the department.putnanja wrote:The public prosecutor in California was caught lying when he inserted his own statements into the accused's confession!
California Prosecutor Falsifies Transcript of Confession
he NCO, who is black, said no one has directed any racial slurs towards him because he made it clear he would not participate or put up with the practice.
But he also said he felt compelled to bring the issue to the media because the unit "has a bad habit of sweeping things under the rug.
From wikipedia,it seems the accused were let off lightly.The unit where "Racial Thursdays" allegedly took place is the same unit that Pvt. Danny Chen belonged to.
Chen, who belonged to C Company, committed suicide Oct. 3, 2011, while deployed to Afghanistan. Authorities said Chen killed himself because he was hazed over his Chinese ancestry.
Chen was called names while in training, then was subjected to hazing after he was deployed to Afghanistan, according to his family. On the day of his death, Chen was forced to crawl about 100 yards across gravel carrying his equipment while his fellow soldiers threw rocks at him, the family said.
Explanations were given with interpreter and also on video earlier.an iPad whose owner later found it. He spent the next six weeks in jail, unable to communicate with his jailers because he is deaf. He described a frightening, isolated experience in which medical procedures were performed without his consent and he feared for his safety.
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He said the booking process was bewildering, with someone speaking on a video screen and he not understanding what was happening.
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It was not until he was arraigned Feb. 4, and a court interpreter was present, that he understood the charge against him.
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When he was offered an opportunity to communicate, he said the jail provided a TTY device. Zemedagegehu said the machine was useless — it types out English text he doesn't understand, and as a practical matter, he said, no one in the deaf community still uses a TTY device. He needed instead access to a videophone or video relay service that is more commonly used, he said.
Maj. David Kidwell, director of the jail for the sheriff, also declined to comment specifically on Zemedagegehu's care, but generally defended the use of a TTY machine.
"It gets used, absolutely. It's an accepted practice, and we've had great success with it," he said.
On March 14, 2014, Zemedagegehu struck a plea deal, pleading guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges in exchange for time served. Zemedagegehu says he only took the deal to get of jail, and that he didn't steal the iPad.
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A judge refused to overturn the conviction, saying the appeal had been filed too late.
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Caroline Jackson, an attorney with the National Association of the Deaf, who is helping on Zemedagegehu's case, said cases like his are "distressingly common. There's an assumption that persons behind bars have no rights."
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US security police have shot a man waving a machete after he allegedly attempted to storm a check point in New Orleans International airport last night.
Richard White, 63, is said to have pulled out a can of wasp spray and began to spray one Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at a gate in the Louis Armstrong International Airport last night a little before 8pm before pulling a machete from his trousers and waving it at the officers present.
Mr White apparently chased the officers through the metal detector – with one TSA attempting to defend himself from the assault by brandishing a piece of luggage – before he was intercepted by an officer from the local police station.
The deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office fired three shots at Mr White, hitting him in his face, chest and thigh on the left-hand side.
One of the shots hit a TSA officer who was fleeing from Mr White’s assault.
In total six people were treated at the scene by emergency personnel and four were taken to hospital, but only one – Mr White – having sustained serious wounds, The New York Times reported.
Mr White, who lives in a suburb near the international airport and works as a taxi driver, is currently undergoing surgery.
It remains unclear what the motivation for the attack was and why Mr White – who recently received a chauffeur’s licence – was in the airport in the first place.
"We're still piecing together witness interviews," Jerfferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand told reporters.
Farah Stockman, a journalist with the Boston Globe, was present when the incident unfolded.
Philip wrote:Machete-wielding taxi driver shot three times in US airportMr White apparently chased the officers through the metal detector
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The deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office fired three shots at Mr White, hitting him in his face, chest and thigh on the left-hand side.
One of the shots hit a TSA officer who was fleeing from Mr White’s assault.
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In total six people were treated at the scene by emergency personnel and four were taken to hospital
Tomorrow we will hear how "Benny Hill Theme" was playing in the airportWhy do you wish the people of the US ill? Any Bush would be bad, any Walker would be worse, any Clinton the worst.Singha wrote:Jeb bush as next potus would be nice.
FBI director himself, James Comey, in a speech last month at Georgetown University. Comey called crime statistics unreliable and said: “It’s ridiculous that I can’t tell you how many people are shot by police in this country right now.”
Inconsistent state participation
Some states were inconsistent partners in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' tally of arrest-related deaths. From 2003 to 2009, the period covered in the BJS' last ARD report, three states — Maryland, Georgia and Montana — didn't provide records at all. Thirteen other states provided records for some years, but not others. And, as Andrea M. Burch, author of the report, told the Guardian, even when states did report arrest-related deaths, their numbers weren't always accurate.
The FBI was counting fewer than half of homicides by police officers, BJS discovered.
A high-fat diet may be harmful for mental health, potentially leading to depression, according to a new study. Such a diet can also lead to brain inflammation and affect behavior, new research reveals.
Louisiana State University researchers wanted to know whether bacteria in the gut can alter behavioral patterns, even in animals who do not exhibit obesity.
Mice who received bacteria from rodents fed a diet high in fat were found to exhibit repetitive behaviors, anxiety and memory impairment. The animals also showed signs of inflammation and increased permeability in their intestines.
Brain inflammation observed in the mice with fat-fed bacteria may have been responsible for behavioral changes seen in the rodents.
This new study suggests that behavioral changes caused by consumption of a high-fat diet can take place even in animals that are not obese. The mechanism by which a high-fat diet causes mental changes is still unknown, and future research could examine how bacteria in the gut could alter behavior.
Previous research has found correlations between gut bacteria and certain psychological conditions. This new study provides more evidence supporting these earlier findings. Alterations in the microbiome have also been tied to the ability of bodies to fight off illness and heal from injuries.
Obesity and depression are both known to be strongly influenced by genetics, and each condition can compound the other issue. Depressed people often eat fatty foods as a means of feeling better, but obesity, and the social stigma attached to it, can increase feelings of depression.
"One recent study found that overall, obese individuals have a 20 percent elevated risk of depression, and specifically for Caucasian college-educated people with obesity, the depression risk rises to as high as 44 percent," the Obesity Action Coalition reports.
Read comments too.The victim said, during two separate visits Bailey made to her home, the parole officer forced himself onto her while her daughter was in the next room, even after she asked him to stop.
The Central Intelligence Agency is embarking on a major reorganization under CIA Director John Brennan.
By Greg Miller March 25
The head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, who presided over the agency’s drone campaign and directed the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is being removed from his post, officials said, a watershed moment as the CIA turns its focus to a new generation of extremist threats.
The move, part of a major reorganization under CIA Director John Brennan, ends a nine-year tenure during which the center was transformed into a paramilitary force that employed armed drones to kill thousands of suspected terrorists and militants but also killed an unknown number of civilians.
As the architect of that campaign, the CTC chief came to be regarded as an Ahab-like figure known for dark suits and a darker demeanor. He could be merciless toward subordinates but was also revered for his knowledge of terrorist networks and his ability to run an organization that became almost an agency unto itself. He embodied a killing-centric approach to counterterrorism that enraged many Muslims, even though he is a convert to Islam.
Because he remains undercover, The Washington Post has agreed to withhold his full name. He has been publicly identified in the past by both his actual first name, Mike, as well as that of his CIA-created identity, Roger.
U.S. officials said that Roger is expected to remain at the CIA in a new assignment which has yet to be determined and that he is being replaced by an agency veteran who has held a series of high-level positions, including running the CIA’s operations in Afghanistan. His name is Chris.
Current and former U.S. officials said that the switch does not appear to signal a change in direction for the CTC or a retreat from the CIA’s willingness to use lethal force. “The new individual is just as aggressive with counterterrorism operations as the guy leaving,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked closely with both officers.
Even so, the transition comes at a time when U.S. counterterrorism operations have entered an unnerving new phase. After killing most of al-Qaeda’s core leaders, the pace of lethal drone strikes has tapered off dramatically. But the CTC has so far found few new approaches to contain the terrorist group’s morphing and multiplying successors.
A CIA spokesman described the outgoing CTC director as “one of the true heroes of the agency.”
“After nearly a decade of outstanding work in this post, including the takedown of countless terrorists and many other successes in protecting the country, he will be moving on in connection with the CIA modernization plan announced last month,” said the spokesman, Dean Boyd.
Roger’s successor will be under particular pressure to devise a strategy against the Islamic State, a group that has declared a new caliphate in Syria and Iraq, drawn thousands of recruits from Europe and the United States, and built a brand of brutality that has eclipsed even al-Qaeda.
“I think President Obama and Brennan have wanted to clip the CTC’s wings,” said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked at the center. “But at a time when the enemy is getting stronger and stronger, how can you pull back?”
The transition is part of a broader effort by Brennan to install new leadership across the agency’s ranks. U.S. officials said dozens of senior positions are in flux as long-standing divisions are dismantled to create new hybrid units that combine analysts and operatives — modeled largely on the CTC.
But current and former officials said Roger’s removal was remarkably unceremonious. Many CTC employees first learned of the change from a chart that was distributed to the workforce outlining Brennan’s reorganization plans. The document included names of officers Brennan had picked to lead the agency’s new collection of “mission centers” and be given new titles of assistant director. Roger’s name was not on the list.
“We all found out from a PowerPoint slide,” a U.S. official said.
Other officials said that Roger was given the option of staying in the CTC but in a diminished role reporting to Chris — an offer he apparently declined.
Colleagues who worked with Roger describe him with a mix of awe and apprehension. Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, described him as “one of the finest intelligence officers of his generation. I don’t think there has been a more successful unit in the history of the agency than the CTC during this individual’s tenure.”
That tenure made him one of the longest-serving senior national security officials in the U.S. government. Since taking over CTC in early 2006, he has outlasted three CIA directors and served two presidents, a run that his colleagues describe as particularly remarkable because of the consuming nature of the job.
After becoming CTC chief, he installed a foldaway bed in his office and often went days without leaving the CIA campus. Although a chain-smoker, he was known for spending hours on a treadmill going over terrorism reports. He was the basis for a character known as “The Wolf” in the movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”
“People were scared of him,” said the former U.S. intelligence official. “Roger was the undertaker.”
His job gave him authority to approve drone strikes, which often meant midnight calls from subordinates. His push for permission to begin launching what came to be known as “signature strikes” — attacks on suspected militants even when their identities weren’t known — led to a lethal surge that peaked in 2010 when the CIA carried out 117 strikes in Pakistan.
At one point during the height of that campaign, when asked by a colleague how it was going, he replied in a typical profane fashion, saying, “We are killing these sons of bitches faster than they can grow them.”
Critics, including some at the State Department and the Pentagon, warned that his focus on killing failed to address underlying causes of terrorism, a caution that some see as borne out by the emergence of the Islamic State and other groups.
Rumors of Roger’s departure surfaced frequently, especially after nine CIA employees were killed in a 2009 suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan, as part of disastrous recruitment operation that he had overseen.
There was also speculation that Roger would be dismissed when Brennan first arrived at the CIA two years ago saying that he planned to refocus the agency on traditional intelligence-gathering and get away from drone strikes.
But other factors also accounted for Roger’s longevity, including a perception that his involvement in running the CIA’s secret prisons and use of torture on terrorism suspects had left him so tainted that he was seen as ineligible for other high-level CIA jobs.
Roger and his successor are a study in contrasts. Chris, who is in his early 50s, is stocky, affable and popular with the agency’s rank and file.
He has worked counterterrorism operations at the CIA since the late 1990s and most recently served as the third-ranking officer in the agency’s clandestine service.
Julie Tate contributed to this report.
Greg Miller covers the intelligence beat for The Washington Post.
