MrRodgers
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The head of the Salt Lake Police Association has watched the country's outrage over the videos showing a nurse getting arrested for refusing to draw a man's blood without a warrant and has decided the correct response is to complain that the public got to see what its officers did. Of course they would have loved that video not be shown. The police are not to be accountable to society and need carte blanch to do whatever it is they do. The letter said the union was, at this point, not arguing or even discussing the merits of the allegations raised against the officers. "Rather we are solely concerned... with the 'investigatory process' which we believe has been corrupted." Oh sure, letting the public and any panel see what actually happened always corrupts an investigation. The letter claims the city has not followed an "agreed upon and carefully scripted process" for investigating the conduct of police officers. At the news conference, Hartney focused on if the city should have released the footage so soon under the state's Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA), considering the release could have interfered with the internal affairs investigation. The nurse requested the video and she released it...not the hosp. or the city. The release of the body cam footage and information from the disciplinary investigation "has created a public furor which makes reasoned determinations difficult, if not impossible," the letter states. What bullshit. Of course on the contrary, by releasing the video, anyone who sees and hears it can make very reasoned determinations and with no difficulty at all and in fact...much easier. They want to hide the video so the police can lie about what happened, maybe even invent a reason for the arrest. What the video does do is prevent what the right would do...try to denigrate the nurse, look into her record, maybe even her friends and family. And they don't stop there: Yesterday we saw that a North Carolina law exempting body camera footage from public records requests was very clearly being used to try to shield police from exposure of conduct that might expose them to public criticism. As for the victim's consent ? Gray, was unable to consent to Payne's demand for a blood draw, died Monday while still in the hospital. HERE
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You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly but fuck one horse and you will be a horse fucker for all eternity. Catherine the Great Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. J K Galbraith
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