What happens when undercover police join a march against police violence?

[88m3]

Posted 16 minutes ago by Matthew Champion in news

This week in Oakland, California, demonstrators have taken to the streets on consecutive nights to protest against two separate US grand jury decisions not to prosecute white police officers who killed unarmed black men.

On Wednesday night around 100 people marched against police violence when, according to reports, two members of the protest began inciting them to, um, be violent.

However, some members of the crowd realised the two men wearing scarves over their faces weren’t all they seemed and accused them of being undercover police officers.

At this point the two men did identify themselves as plainclothes members of the California Highway Patrol.

That force’s chief, Avery Browne, said that the two detectives - there to gather intelligence and nothing more - were surrounded by up to 50 demonstrators who did not back off even when one of the two took out a police baton, forcing one to draw his gun and point it at the crowd.

The Oakland Police Department said it would look into claims that officers from a separate force were trying to incite demonstrators to violence.

Pictures: Noah Berger/Reuters

http://i100.independent.co.uk/artic...n-a-march-against-police-violence--xk1MR4Rftg

 

[Serious]

Word, anyone surprised @thekingsmen knows about agent provocateurs


@Nefflum nikka @Cat piss martini

 

[Matt504]

They come out tell yall to burn shyt down and when you do they use it as an excuse to use excessive force.

 

[Truth200]

Word, anyone surprised @thekingsmen knows about agent provocateurs

Agent provocateurs? Only conspiracy theorist use that term....

This would never happen in America....

 

[WheresWallace]

@88m3 OP, Im making this thread over in TLR.

 

[Truth200]

@88m3 OP, Im making this thread over in TLR.

Are we allowed to put the same threads in TLR?

If so what is the point of the Higher Learning section?

@Brown_Pride

@BarNone

 

[Serious]

Are we allowed to put the same threads in TLR?

If so what is the point of the Higher Learning section?

@Brown_Pride

@BarNone

Go for it.....

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

oldest trick in the book

 

[88m3]

Are we allowed to put the same threads in TLR?

If so what is the point of the Higher Learning section?

@Brown_Pride

@BarNone

Next thing I know you're going to want me banned for posting this thread

 

[Truth200]

Next thing I know you're going to want me banned for posting this thread

fukk you talking about?

 

[88m3]

fukk you talking about?

 

[88m3]

 

[88m3]

Congress Just Passed A Law Requiring Police Departments To Count How Many People They Shoot
BY NICOLE FLATOW POSTED ON DECEMBER 12, 2014 AT 9:11 AM UPDATED: DECEMBER 12, 2014 AT 10:57 AM

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ JOSEPH KACZMAREK

This week as all eyes were on budget deal wrangling, with little attention and fanfare, Congress actually got something done to reform the police. It passed a bill that could result in complete, national data on police shootings and other deaths in law enforcement custody.

Right now, we have nothing close to that. Police departments are not required to report information about police to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Some do, others don’t, others submit it some years and not others or submit potentially incomplete numbers, making itnear-impossible to know how many people police kill every year. Based on the figures that are reported to the federal government, ProPublica recently concluded that young black men are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than whites.

Under the bill awaiting Obama’s signature, states receiving federal funds would be required to report every quarter on deaths in law enforcement custody. This includes not those who are killed by police during a stop, arrest, or other interaction. It also includes those who die in jail or prison. And it requires details about these shootings including gender, race, as well as at least some circumstances surrounding the death.

The bill is a reauthorization of legislation that expired in 2006. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) has been trying to revive it since then without success. Scott told the Washington Post the first time the bill passed in 2000, it took years before data started to come in, because of “the way government works,” and then the bill expired. But if states don’t report information, the federal government could use its power to withhold funds to force compliance. It passed the House last year, but finally moved through the Senate this week on the momentum of post-Ferguson outrage.

The bill also “[r]equires the Attorney General to study such information and report on means by which it can be used to reduce the number of such deaths.”


http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...-game-on-what-we-know-about-police-shootings/

 

[Cat piss martini]

Word, anyone surprised @thekingsmen knows about agent provocateurs


@Nefflum nikka @Cat piss martini

This is what they have been doing........they want a reason
to play with their toys (tanks,drones,millterized trucks and gear,assault rifles etc.)

 

[Blackking]

things like this that expose 'crowd antagonizers' piss c00ns off,

because c00ns love to Only speak on the 'blacks' who are 'starting trouble'.... and not speak on the reason why the rally is happening in the first place.