I lived in Chicago from 1971 to 1980 and stories of unfettered police brutality were rampant, even back then.

But the Chicago Police is not an exception. The same situation exists in New York (now, and when I lived there from 1980 to 1982) and other cities large and small across America.

What else can you expect when a barely trained, poorly supervised, group of armed thugs in uniform are given free rein to think that they can do what they want, to whomever they want, especially if the "perp" happens to have a skin color other than pure, pure, Ivory snow white.

Question: Much of Corporate America gives new employees psychological screening to weed out potential trouble-makers. Why isn't this done by police departments?

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THey used all the violence and brutality needed to make an arrest of a resisting suspect..... who is a quadraplegic with partial use of ONE.. count them.. ONE limb! And, of course, he gets busted for "resisting arrest" with his one partially functional limb.

Makes total sense.

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Demonstrated nicely. It was probably hard to find 3 jerks with internet access in a country of 300M.

Otherwise, it is important to let justice play out. This case sounds very, very nasty. Hopefully, the beaten will get justice if the facts at trial support his arguments.

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On June 26 a 21 yr. old was shot 5 times by a policeman. He's dead. It's still being investigated. In the meantime things are very quiet. A routine traffic stop they're calling it. There was a video and they've quesitoned 70 people. The boy had no gun. By all accounts he was a decent kid. It's been a month. That's enough time to figure it out. So, it's not looking good for the cop. Can't imagine why. ANNA

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Why were they waiting in an alley to pick up money? What time did this take place? Is there a police video of what took place? What were the charges in the six previous arrests? Why was he not convicted? How did he become paralyzed? Is he hispanic? Oh, never mind, I just noticed the poster's name. What is his immigration status?

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of republican congress has done for us. You can have all of the justice you can afford to buy. If you can't buy any you don't get any.

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When the top officials of this country ignore Constitutional, domestic, and international laws, police brutality, which has always been a severe problem in this country, is going to get worse and worse.
What this nation truly needs is a new, in-depth, independent (with both Congressional and citizen oversight) of the events of 9/11/01.
We still do not know what really happened. For instance, the 9/11 Commission doesn't even mention WTC building 7, which collapsed at around 5 that evening, without having been hit by anything. It had fires on about 4 floors, but was farther away than other buildings which were much closer, yet remained fine.
Furthermore, there is overwhelming evidence that Police Officers, Fire Fighters, and reporters not only knew the building was going to collapse, but at exactly what time. There's also a TV interview with Larry Silverstein, who said they "pulled" the building and then "watched it collapse" after receiving a message from the Fire Dept. Commander expressing concern about containing the fires.
So why did they change the story?
Maybe because it usually takes a week to rig a building of that size for wireless demolition, and could not have been done on the day of the attacks; which means, if it was "pulled"--and there's really no other explanation for its collapse--that it had to have been set for demolition prior to 9/11!
Never in the history of steel-framed buildings has one collapsed from fire,even like a recent one in Madrid where fires raged for 18 hours,completely gutting the inside of the building. Yet, the steel frame remained standing.
All these policies that have been pushed through, which would never have been considered before, have been done by manipulating the fear generated by this event. The administration did not want an investigation, and only relented under public pressure generated largely by 3 widows of this tradgedy often called "The Jersey Girls."
The crime scene was violated, despite the fact that Mayor Guiliani was a former prosecutor and knew that it was a Federal crime to destroy evidence. Yet, almost all of the steel recovered from the WTC buildings was shipped all the way to China and melted down. Steel is not cheap. And careful inspection of this steel could have told investigators a great deal why all three buildings collapsed, straight down, at near free-fall speed, including WTC 7 which was not even struck by anything. The Towers were designed to withstand multiple impacts from jumbo jets, which at the time were only slighly smaller than the ones that hit it, but these older planes actually had a higher speed which would make up or even exceed the impact caused by the slightly larger planes that hit. Besides, as I said, these buildings were designed to withstand multiple impacts.
In fact, anyone who truly researches the "official" report will find holes in it big enough to fly one of those 757s through.
I do not claim to know what happened; but I have no doubt that the truth has been covered up and distorted, and there is clear evidence that the White House did everything in its power to prevent a real investigation.
Like, why didn't the president and vice-president not agree to speak to the 9/11 Commission under oath, and seperately? They only agreed to do it together, and not under oath.
I think it is vital that we get to the bottom of this tradgedy and find the truth, since our very Constitution has been severely altered due to legislation pushed through using the fear and insecurity generated by this event.
It is especially chilling to think that the neo-cons, in their manifesto, "Rebuilding America's Defenses," stated that getting the legislation they wanted passed, as well as the ability to pre-emtively strike Iraq and other targets, would be difficult to get passed, in the "absence of some catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."

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Sorry about the fact that I constantly incorrectly spelled the word "Tragedy" in my previous post. I don't know why I thought there was a "D" in there.
While I have some space left, let me point out another problem I've always had with this whole business.
Before I do that, let me also say that the other agency that investigated the events of 9/11, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology") said, concerning the collapse of WTC 7, that their best hypothesis for its collapse--fire--had only a very minimal probability of occurence. At least they didn't just completely ignore it, like the 9/11 Commission did. It's also interesting to note that, despite having already benefitted immensely from this tragedy (due to having taken out a huge insurance policy covering acts of terrorism) that Larry Silverstein tried to collect even more money by claiming that each building represented a seperate act of terrorism. He was denied this.
Now, it's interesting to note that WTC 7 contained offices of just about every government agency there is within the U.S., including the SEC, where was kept the bulk of evidence against Enron and other corporate crimes of a similar nature.
Finally, even more disturbing is all the "put-options" placed on United and American airlines in the weeks and days before 9/11, which generated enormous amounts of money. One account contains something like 2.5 million dollars, and has been left unclaimed.
Due to security policies, the names of those who benefitted from this tragedy, and who holds the account of the unclaimed money,are protected. Congress could, however, subpeona this information, but has not done so, which I find extremely bizzare and perhaps indicative of either involvement or a cover-up.
Another big hole in the official story results from the anaylsis of the black box from the plane that supposedly hit the Pentagon. Professional pilots have said, after analyzing this data, that it would not have been possible for the plane to have severed the light poles we've been told it did. Which could only mean...well, you decide for youselves, but I recommend checking out the Pilots for Truth website.

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