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Daniel Prude: New York police used ‘spit hood’ on man who died of asphyxiation

An African American man died in New York state after being hooded by police and held face down to the road for two minutes, body camera footage shows.

Daniel Prude, 41, who had mental health issues and who was unarmed, was restrained in March by police who put a “spit hood” – used to stop detainees spitting or biting – on his head.

He later died of asphyxiation but his story has only now been made public.

His death was two months before the killing of George Floyd.

Another week, another video showing American Cops killing another unarmed citizen.

The most striking similarity in each example of unmasked police violence is the muscle memory that is so fluid in their confidence that they are utterly free of any consequence.

They know in their bones that any act of violence by them is legally sanctioned, this muscle memory creates a fluidity of ‘respect my authority’ action that we see time and time again in these dreadful videos.

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This obscenity must end.

This isn’t a Police Force, it’s a fucking paramilitary death squad.

Our lesson in NZ is to NEVER allow the NZ Police guns.

Never.

Police Armed Response Teams dumped because they ‘created fear’, documents show

Police Armed Response Teams set up after the Christchurch mosque attacks were dumped because they “created fear” in the community, new documents have revealed.

The documents, released under the Official Information Act, show police commissioner Andy Coster wrote to district commanders shortly before abolishing the trial.

He said the teams had not achieved community support or inspired trust, as hoped.

The arrogance and unchecked power of a gun removes from the Police Officer the necessary negotiation skills that modern policing in a Democracy requires.

We can’t allow that police culture here.

 

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24 COMMENTS

  1. ‘Nice’ flag.

    A lot of the ideas the Nazis had about racial superiority originated Britain but were developed in America as a justification and mechanism for maintaining segregation and white privilege.

    ‘While ostensibly about improving genetic quality, it has been argued that eugenics was more about preserving the position of the dominant groups in the population. Scholarly research has determined that people who found themselves targets of the eugenics movement were those who were seen as unfit for society—the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill, and specific communities of color—and a disproportionate number of those who fell victim to eugenicists’ sterilization initiatives were women who identified as African American, Hispanic, or Native American.’

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

    • I’d be sitting here eating popcorn, watching “Idiocracy” (2006), thinking,
      art predicting reality
      Head-shake, FFS-ing

  2. Attacking the police never works in middle America which is where this election will be won and lost. 5 million mainly white, suburban housewives in 8 states in the South East, Mid West and South West will determine the presidential election. This is the dilemma for the democrats – play to this crowd and lose the enthusiasm on the far left.

    Polls are already showing a move back to Trump in these battleground states. I was prepared to put a fork in Trump a couple of months ago however like Lazarus he seems to have a second wind.

    • Dude. I was literally the only one around here saying exactly why, how and when Trump would be installed as president. Not the least because I’m a veteran Simpsons fan.

      • It will be fascinating to see what happens to the democrats if he wins this time. Gut feeling is that they will implode.

        • It’s a grand theft Republican Party Style with the blessing of Pelosi against the working population of the world. If this miserable human being is allowed to win by Pelosi then nothing structural will change for ordinary workers globally.

      • Wasn’t Pelosi the one who was on TV boasting that her $13000 supply of chocolate ice cream got her through the Covid lockdown?
        I can see why 44% of US voters wouldn’t bother.

        • Source of information please Big Hungry Gerry Iain?
          QANON?
          RT News?
          FFS Martyn, can you fact check these Dirty Politics trolls please? Next they’ll be telling us that Jacinda is a ‘large green hulk’, like Judith’s husband and unquestioned/unquestionable master asserted!

          • She was on the Late Late Show with that James or Johnny Corban fellow or whatever his name is
            If you go on YouTube Jimmy Dore has an entertaining commentary about it and the resulting advert from the Trump team.

            • Jimmy Dore – Jimmy Dore – are you for real? I think Big Hungry Iain snacked on a few of your “gentleman brains”

              “Dore has also expressed his belief in conspiracy theories around the 9/11 Terror Attacks, saying “I don’t know what happened. I know what didn’t happen. What didn’t happen is what the government said happened.”

              From March to December 2018, Dore pushed a conspiracy theory regarding the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in multiple videos with The Young Turks, claiming the attacks were “another completely bullshit story,” and that Russia did not poison them.

              On April 13, 2019, during a livestream, Dore officially announced his departure from The Young Turks Network, citing a desire to focus on his own show and his live performances. Later that evening, his former boss, Cenk Uygur, confirmed his departure on Twitter.

              On March 20, 2020, after Joe Biden gained a near-insurmountable lead over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party presidential primaries and became the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential election, Dore stated that “the best we can hope for is that Trump wins and then Bernie Sanders does a revolt and somehow cements all of Trump’s reforms permanently.”

              And you’d believe a Trump ad? So are you also wearing a MAGA hat that is a bit tight around the ears? Are you currently taking hyroxychoroquine to ward off Covid? Have you used Vote Compass and will be voting for Billy Te K’s tinfoil-hat party?

              • So are you done denying that Nancy Pelosi herself went on the Late Late Show herself and boasted about the chocolate or is that and the resultant outcry just another Billy The K tinfoil hat conspiracy?

              • Hello.
                Did Nancy Pelosi go on the Late Late James Corden show boasting how her well stocked freezer units with chocolate ice cream allowed her and her bubble survive the Covid lockdown or not?

                • So what? So what if she she buys ice cream Gerry Iain?

                  Trump admitted he “grabs a women by the p#ssy”.

                  Which is worse in your “gotcha politics’ world view Gerry Iain? ?” P#ssy grabbers, or ice -cream eaters?

                  Trump calls dead soldiers “losers” and “suckers”, and says ‘Biden needs psychiatric help because he wears a mask’.

                  ‘Drink bleach or shine strong light up your ass’ Really Gerry Iain?

                  Is it because she’s a woman Gerry Iain? We all know how the Gerry treats women eh Iain?

                  You prefer a sociopath Trump to a gauche speaker of the house, who misread how a late, late show interview could be used as yet another Trump misogynist weapon.

                  A ‘gentleman’ as you claim you are, wouldn’t be defending misogynist Trump and denigrating women like Nancy Gerry Iain?

                  • A rather long winded, rather rude presumptuous reply to a rather simple question.
                    Yes Nancy Pelosi can eat whatever she wishes eat. But going on a TV talk show boasting that two well stocked freezers chocked full of Chocolate ice cream at a time 20 million Americans have lost their livelihoods isn’t a good look, especially a senior representative of someone claiming to be from the “People’s” party. One that I may remind you is also good at stifling true progressiveness.
                    But what the fuck would I know.
                    Don’t forget to feed the cats.

                    • Deflect, deny, denigrate Gerry.

                      You “forgot” to address the issue of Trumpian personality politics, misogyny, and “p#ssy”, apart from implying I have cats.

                      Not OK for women to eat chocolate ice-cream.

                      But, OK to ‘grab women by the p#ssy”.

                      And if we object to your misogyny, you attack the messenger.

                      You’re in the wrong country Gerry. You and Todd Muller should skip hand in hand, down the gang plank and take a cruise over to America. And you won’t need a mask on the cruise, because Trump said so?

  3. So if a police officer is confronted by a violent armed offender he should just try and reason with them and appeal to their common decency?
    Your liberal naivety is contemptible, police should be given the tools, training and public backing to keep themselves and the public safe.

    • @Stephen – “so if a police officer is confronted by a violent armed offender he should just try and reason with them and appeal to their common decency?”

      The African-American who was shot 7 times in the back by Police was not a violent armed offender. In fact he was trying to break up a fight. George Floyd was not a violent armed offender when he was murdered by the police. In both cases it was the armed police who were violent when they confronted these two men.

      Your second statement that the police should be given the tools, training and public backing to keep themselves and the public safe carries a key word – ‘training’. In New Zealand we often hear of cases where the cops have badly mistreated someone they have arrested. The recent case of the Pacific Islander male who died in police custody is a classic example. The cops are still trying to justify their despicable conduct over this case. I think everyone will accept that the man in question was big and violent and had badly assaulted an older man and so the cops had to take him into custody but it is what happened back at the police station that really matters and the independent police conduct authority has damned the cops for the way they treated this person – leaving him along face-down on the floor of a cell while still hog-tied and with a spit hood on while he was in a medically distressed state. No doubt there will be people who justify this treatment by the cops because of the violent assault he carried out on the old man but that just shows the mentality of those sorts of people who reckon the police should also be the punishers. As an aside – will these cops be held to account for the mans death? Nope.

  4. A few facts to upset your meme Martyn

    1. There is no racial epidemic in US policing – because the data says otherwise. Although in a vast country with approx 800,000 police officers I’m sure it’s possible to find some examples of misapplication of force in order to feed the radical propaganda mill that is tearing some cities apart.

    2. 95% of black murders do not involve police.

    3. 92% of black murders are perpetrated by other blacks.

    4. Blacks commit 45% of all murders yet only comprise 13% of the population.

    5. Surveys of black people show a majority want MORE policing, not less.

    6. If you spit at the police you’re likely to finish up with a spit hood over your head. And no, it can’t asphyxiate you. People die in police custody sometimes, mostly because of long term drug and alcohol poisoning.

    6. Ditto fighting with the cops. Don’t fight and they won’t respond in kind. Police don’t want to fight because it messes up their uniform, they can get hurt and it means they have to fill in more paperwork.

    7. The ‘problem areas’ are nearly all under long term Democrat control. When Democrats move in, corruption and urban decay follow.

    8. The Democrats don’t represent ‘workers’. They represent the big end of town. Most of Hollywood, all the west coast tech billionaires, most of the media, rich liberals in gated communities who went to private schools and more recently the Chinese communist party.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-police-racism-isnt-an-epidemic-11592952420

    https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls

    • Haven’t see or heard from you for a while Andrew?
      And what is ACT’s tax policy again please Andrew?
      Is it still 25% GST, 25% flat income tax and 25% business tax?

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