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| One really big reason for ACAB. |
Sorry about last week. The sickness came back for me. I'm holding it at bay for now, and for the first time in years I'm seeing outside-the-box suggestions from doctors, so I'm feeling a bit hopeful.
OK, let's get back into the horror show. We're going back to the Jackson, MS, region, to Senatobia. All the articles I read identified the underage child, and I'm not going to do that here. At any rate, he's a 10 year old boy. His mom left him in the car so she could go see her lawyer about something. She shouldn't have done that, not in this day and age, but this did not warrant what the police did.
The young boy had to go to the bathroom, but there were no public restrooms in the area. So he did what any boy would do: he took a piss out in the open. Yes, that is illegal, but remember that this is a 10 year old. Because an officer caught him in the act. The cop eventually found his mom, and they had an interaction that seemed pretty reasonable at first.
And then backup arrived. Let me state, in no uncertain terms, that this fucking cop called for backup because he was afraid he wouldn't be able to handle a 10 year old caught pissing in public. These cops showed up with the explicit intent of arresting this child. So they did, and they did so while he cried his eyes out. And when they got him to the PD, they put him in a jail cell. A JAIL CELL. MEANT FOR ADULTS.
There's some good news. The arresting officer was fired, and the mother is suing for $2M. The police chief had a few things to say, some reasonable, some collar-pullers:
The police chief issued a statement, saying the officer did not see a parent on the scene during the initial contact with the 10-year-old. The mother was found at a nearby business a short time later and told her son was going to get a youth court referral.
He went on to say taking the boy to the police station was a mistake.
“Under these circumstances, it was an error in judgement for us to transport the child to the police station since the mother was present at that time as a reasonable alternative,” he said.
Remember: the police always feel the need to be cruel to children. It gets their dicks hard, remember?
Let's head out to the west coast, to the LA Sheriff's Dept. Imagine this: you're trying to take care of your kid, and the father is an abusive asshole who shows up out of the blue to give you shit before beating said shit out of you. You call 911 for help because the police are the good guys, right? They're supposed to come save your life.
The deputies show up, and by this point you're holding a knife for your own protection. They take their guns out because they're about to tell their superiors that they were in fear for their lives. Get Out of Jail Free card.
And then she's standing next to the abusive guy, still holding the knife. A deputy chooses now to shoot the woman who called 911 for help. He fires several times and will die shortly thereafter. Even the abusive asshole is incredulous. He says, "No! Why did you shoot?!"
This is what happened to Niani Finlayson. Shot and killed in front of her 9 year old daughter. The case is still being investigated, so we don't have an ending. Yet. How much you wanna bet these cops skate on a murder charge?
I haven't mentioned the FBI yet, and they're not immune to ACAB. At least when they pull their shit, it's usually not to kill an unarmed man, for example. It's with pure greed in their hearts that they pull their greasy shit. In 2021 they raided the US Private Vaults in Beverly Hills. It's a safety deposit box company. They specialized in anonymity, so their business appealed to shady people. But also to people who couldn't get a box at their own bank. Or any number of reasons why someone would legally need a box.
The articles I read didn't pinpoint a reason for the raid, so I have no idea what they were supposed to be looking for. They took everything the company had, though. Every. Single. Box. Their prize?
The FBI seized millions of dollars in cash from the deposit boxes, plus a mix of jewelry, personal effects, and documents such as wills and prenuptial agreements.
Good thing they got those dangerous wills and prenuptial agreements off the streets. Who knows how many people they could have killed?
This is such a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the judge assigned to the case said, "It was those very abusive powers, after all, that lead to the adoption of the Fourth Amendment." Here's something else he said:
“If there remained any doubt regarding whether the government conducted a ‘criminal search or seizure,’” the 9th Circuit ruled, “that doubt is put to rest by the fact the government has already used some of the information from inside the boxes to obtain additional warrants to further its investigation and begin new ones.”
Holy shit. That's ACAB Shit 101. Illegally seize a bunch of shit while you were looking for just one thing, and then use that other shit to hunt down other people who do business with the bank. That is some greasy shit right there. The Bill of Rights is one of the most important things about this country, and yes, sometimes it can be difficult to uphold those rights, but goddammit, they're there. We have them. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO FEAR THE POLICE AND THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
OK, we're almost done. I don't usually post on Saturdays, but I don't want to throw my numbers off. I'll do the last part tomorrow. And next week we can go back to talking about goofy shit with the occasional serious column.
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