Feds Notice Minneapolis Cops Surveil and Subject Blacks to Violence in City Run by Liberals [consent decrees Can’t Reform Authority, the "Power" to Use Force Offensively, Initiate Unprovoked Violence]
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CONSENT DECREES won’t remedy the source of the problem, which is authority; the implied right to rule over people. It is the BELIEF that some people [AUTHORITIES] have the moral right to forcibly control others [CITIZENS], and that, consequently, those CITIZENS have the moral obligation to obey.’ [MORE] HERE, we are discussing THE AUTHORITIES KNOWN AS police officers, WHO As representatives of authority, HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN empowered to use force offensively against citizens.
CONTRARY TO LOTFY LEGAL PRONOUNCEMENTS AND PRETENSES OF CIVILITY, AUTHORITY is EVIL and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence.
All force USED offensively is EXCESSIVE AND immoral. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by people are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. LAWS CANNOT ALTER MORALITY. Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them.” Subconsciously we know THAT rulING over others BY FORCE is barbaric.
THERE IS NO RATIONAL BASIS FOR THE BELIEF IN AUTHORITY. All governmental power PURPORTEDLY IS DERIVED SOLELY from the people. however, the government has somehow granted itself the power to do things that no individual citizen could ever do. While citizens have the inalienable right to act in self-defense or come to the defense of others, citizens have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on other people and HAVE no right to forcibly control other people. As such, it is impossible for citizens to delegate the power to forcibly control others to the government - because citizens cannot possibly delegate POWERS TO THE GOVERNMENT that they don’t have. Other explanations for authority SUCH AS THE “SOCIAL CONTRACT” THEORY have been thoroughly debunked. [MORE] Although we assume there is some valid explanation for why the government should be entitled to engage in behavior that would be deemed to violate individual rights if performed by anyone other than the government, there is none. [MORE] and [MORE] Authority, the basis for all governments and rulership, is a farce. [MORE] AS EXPLAINED BY FUNKTIONARY, FREEDOM CANNOT EXIST IN THE PRESENCE OF SO-CALLED AUTHORITY.
From [HERE] The Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and discriminated against Black and Native American people in the years before one of its officers killed George Floyd, federal authorities said Friday.
In an 89-page report that followed a more than two-year federal civil rights investigation, the Justice Department excoriated the Minneapolis police force as an agency that put officers and local residents at unnecessary risk, failed to act upon repeated warnings about biased behavior and countenanced the “systemic problems” that gave way to Floyd’s death in 2020.
Investigators concluded that they “have reasonable cause to believe that” the city of Minneapolis and its police department “engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the Constitution and federal law.”
These issues, the report said, encompassed things as significant as how police use force and which people are subject to the most intensive law enforcement scrutiny.
The report is rife with examples of police using improper force, even in cases when no force was necessary, according to investigators.
Authorities examined police shootings between January 2016 and August 2022, finding 19 such incidents and saying that while “this number is relatively small,” a significant share were unconstitutional. “At times, officers shot at people without first determining whether there was an immediate threat of harm to the officers or others,” the report said.
The federal probe also concluded that officers “frequently used neck restraints without warning.”
After Chauvin was recorded kneeling on Floyd’s neck, the Minneapolis police banned neck restraints and chokeholds. But officers continued to employ the tactic after it was banned, investigators said.
Again and again, police are depicted in the report lashing out with unneeded force, including yanking a handcuffed man to the ground, hitting his head on the pavement. Officers were “quick to use force on unarmed people, even without reasonable suspicion that they are involved in a crime or are a threat,” the report said. Investigators also said they found numerous examples of police giving someone an order, and then almost immediately using force on them.
Officers who use force are subjected to minimal reviews, with supervisors often failing to assess whether the force was reasonable at all and failing to consider evidence, the report said.
Investigators concluded that the Minneapolis police disproportionately stopped and searched Black and Native American people, and used force more frequently during stops of these people than they do during stops of White people under similar circumstances.
Between May 25, 2020, and Aug. 9, 2022, the report said, police searched Black residents 22 percent more often than White people in stops under similar circumstances. Native Americans were searched 23 percent more often than White people.
The Minneapolis police force “has long been on notice about racial disparities and officers’ failure to document data on race during stops,” which they are required to do, the report said.
But the data being documented suddenly began to dry up after Floyd’s death in 2020, the report said, as officers in many cases did not report racial data on stops and searches over the next two years, investigators said.
A lack of accountability is presented in the report as a pervasive problem for the Minneapolis police, and one that directly contributes to the other issues highlighted in the report, the Justice Department said. The Minneapolis police “accountability system is fundamentally flawed,” the report said, calling it “an opaque maze.”
Ben Crump, an attorney for the Floyd family, and other attorneys pointed to the breadth of the report’s allegations of wrongdoing, including the unjustified uses of force and discrimination.
“Each alone is deeply disturbing, and the cumulative effect of these unconstitutional patterns and practices on the community and individual lives is devastating,” the attorneys said in a statement.
Investigators said they reviewed thousands of documents, body-camera videos and incident reports; analyzed data on uses of force, stops and calls for service; accompanied officers on more than 50 ride-alongs; and interviewed residents, police officers, city employees and local leaders, among many others.
The Justice Department’s findings echoed repeated claims made by residents over the years about the Minneapolis police, and they also are similar in many ways to a state investigation that concluded last year that the department was riddled with unnecessarily aggressive behavior and lacking oversight.
The report’s release came a little more than three years after Floyd, a Black man, was filmed gasping for air while held down by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, and two other cops on Memorial Day in 2020. Floyd’s death helped ignite nationwide protests over policing and social and racial injustice, and Chauvin was convicted of murder the following year.
The Justice Department launched its civil rights investigation immediately after he was convicted. Appearing Friday at a federal courthouse in Minneapolis, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the investigation’s results and depicted Floyd’s death not as an isolated episode, but instead a tragedy enabled by the deep-rooted issues within the Minneapolis police.
Garland said the Justice Department, the city of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis police had agreed in principle to negotiate toward a federal consent decree — a court-approved reform order that can be used to ensure changes within a local law enforcement agency.
The Justice Department released a copy of the signed agreement, which was dated Thursday, and said an independent third-party monitor will be appointed to help assess whether the consent decree’s goals are being achieved.
