All Cops Are Bastards

Fucking pigs.

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According to Palestinian reports, Zahya al-Obeidi, a 66-year-old Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, was shot in the head by Israeli police officers during an operation in the Shuafat refugee camp.

Magen David Adom rescue service reported that she was brought to the Shuafat checkpoint with severe injuries and no sign of life, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The police have [allegedly] launched an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

The Israel Police reported that during an operation by Border Police and undercover police officers disguised as Arabs, Israeli forces were attacked and stones and rocks were thrown at them. "As a result," the police said, "an undercover officer was injured in the head by a rock and was taken to the hospital for treatment. In response, the force, sensing their lives were in danger, opened fire at the rioters."

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responded to the incident saying he gave his "full support to the undercover force that operated in the Shuafat refugee camp, was attacked with stones, and reacted as expected to protect their lives."

Zahya's husband, Kaid Joudah, told Haaretz that she was diabetic and suffered from high blood pressure, and that she usually went up to the roof of their house for some air "She went up to the roof at night and I was sleeping," Joudah said. "After a few minutes, I heard screams and they told me she had been shot. When I saw her, I realized she was no longer alive. I have the bullet and I am a million percent sure that she was shot in cold blood, there is also testimony from the neighbors," he said.

According to him, Zahya was shot for no reason. "There was no throwing of stones or shooting, and there was no self-defense here, [the Israeli police] shot her from a range of 20 meters (66 feet). To Ben-Gvir, I say, do some soul-searching when you support the killing of a 66-year-old woman," he added.

The Israeli Justice Ministry's Police Investigation Department, which investigates police misconduct, has opened an investigation, said Joudah, and Zahya's body was sent to the Abu Kabir Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv for an autopsy.

"They can perform an autopsy because there is nothing to hide. My wife was a mother, grandmother, and homemaker who never did anything bad to anyone. She was brutally shot. I will not let up and I demand that that Border Police officer be put on trial."

Last week, in East Jerusalem's A-Tur neighborhood, a police sniper shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian boy and young man. According to the police, the two — Iyass Raʻad Abu Mufreh, 12, and his cousin, Oudai Fadi Abu Jomaa, 21 — were shooting fireworks and throwing Molotov cocktails at the police. However, their family members and several eyewitnesses disputed the police's claim, and said that they were wounded while standing on the street eating pizza and that there was no disturbance. A video clip of the shooting obtained by Haaretz supports the family's version.

On the same day, soldiers shot and killed Moataz Hajalja, 22, in the village of Walja, near Jerusalem, after they claimed he pulled a knife on them and tried to stab them and seize their weapons. Hajalja's family members and other villagers claim that the soldiers shot him even though he didn't pose any danger, and after they beat him and his relatives.

A woman who was protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem was arrested on Wednesday, after which police subjected her to a strip search.

The police said that they are authorized to conduct strip searches by law, but most protesters who are arrested are just patted down, over their clothes, before being put in a jail cell. A strip search is carried out in cases where the offense for which the detainee is suspected justifies it, for example, when there is suspicion that the detainee is hiding drugs or weapons. Another protester who was arrested along with the woman was only patted down.

"My friend went to the bathroom and I stayed with the police officer," the woman said. "She asked if I had anything on me that I shouldn't have, and I refused to answer her, so she informed me that I would undergo a strip search," she recalled. "She took me to a meeting room and told me to undress."

She said the officer yelled at her during the search and asked her to hand over her clothes so that she could search them.

"When I was totally naked, she asked me to bend over. When the search was over and I put on my underwear, she had already opened the door and was speaking with male police officers outside."

During the demonstration, the protesters held photographs of hostages Eitan Horn and Gali Ziv Berman. The signs read "Stop the war" and "Say no to wars." The woman who was strip searched said that the police officers asked her and the other protester to move away because they were too close to the prime minister's residence and due to concerns over illegal assembly. After the two refused to leave, they were pinned to the ground and taken to the police station. There, according to the women and their attorney, the two waited for around two hours without being questioned or being told what they were suspected of.

Nasser Odeh, who legally represents the protester on behalf of the Human Rights Foundation, told Haaretz that "this is an illegal search that was carried out without legal authority and in a serious violation of her rights, dignity, and modesty — all of this solely because she dared to exercise the fundamental right to freedom of expression and protest, a right that is guaranteed to every citizen, even in times of emergency and war. Such an act cannot become routine."

The police said that “During a protest outside the prime minister’s residence, several people arrived in the area, broke the barrier in violation of the court ruling and security arrangements necessary for the security of a public figure and symbols of governance. They started confronting the police officers operating in the area.

“When protesters didn’t respond to the police officers’ orders, two women were detained for questioning, at the end of which they were accordingly released. Along the way, as part of the authority provided by the law, a search was conducted of the detainees,” the police added.

Since the war began, the police have dispersed several anti-government protests, among them protest vigils of individuals near the prime minister's residence. On Tuesday, the police detained three women protesting there and arrested one of them. The police claim that the protests violate Home Front Command orders, but those orders do not explicitly forbid demonstrations.

Last week, police arrested four anti-war protesters at central Tel Aviv's Habima Square and two people demonstrating on behalf of the hostages on Begin Street. In Haifa, the police arrested three protesters after claiming that the slogan on their shirts — "Stop the war" — was illegal.

This week, the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court ordered the release of Amir Haskel, who was arrested at a demonstration in support of the hostages. Haskel demonstrated with three other people, and was arrested after refusing to leave at the request of the police, who claimed that the protest violated the Home Front Command's directives.

Haskel was forcibly removed along with another protester, who was let go after she agreed to sign a conditional restrictive release form. The police requested that Haskel be released on bail and kept away from "illegal" demonstrations for 15 days, but the judge rejected the police's request and ruled that he should be released unconditionally.

Police detained five protesters in northern Israel's Haifa during an anti-war demonstration for donning t-shirts with "stop the war" written on them, which police said was illegal.

The protest, which took place in Haifa's Hadar HaCarmel neighborhood, included a few demonstrators calling for an end to the war between Israel and Iran and for an end to the war in the Gaza Strip.

In footage obtained by Haaretz, a policewoman is seen telling the protesters that “‘Stop the war’ is something that’s illegal to have on a shirt.” The police stated that the protesters were detained so that they could “give testimony.”

Two protesters who were present at the demonstration said that protesters stood silently and held signs. "Police officers arrived and said that the demonstration was illegal," they recounted. "We told them that we don't need authorization for such a small demonstration, and then they started tearing the signs from our hands."

Afterwards, according to the two protesters, more police officers arrived and began demanding that the protesters disperse and threatened to arrest the protesters because of the writing on their shirts.

Arrests and unwarranted detention of anti-war protesters have become a recurring phenomenon in Haifa since the outbreak of the Gaza war.

In April, 23 protesters were arrested during a demonstration on Ben-Gurion Boulevard, after police claimed [that] they were "chanting slogans against Israel and its actions that could disturb public order."

At the time, police stated that the protesters ignored officers’ instructions and disregarded the declaration that the protest was illegal. Last June, Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav said that anti-war protests should not take place in Haifa.

In conversation with local journalists, Yahav said, "I don't think freedom of expression should be exercised in Haifa. These are political protests, and their place is in Israel's capital."

Following a Haaretz inquiry, police stated that "the commander of the Coastal District instructed officers to review the issue of protests and the proper implementation of freedom of expression within the framework of the law."

According to the police, they "will not permit demonstrations that incite against Israel or IDF soldiers, and will not allow behavior that may disturb public peace, security, or public order."

Berlin (Quds News Network) — Jewish psychoanalyst and activist Iris Hefets was arrested […] in Berlin. German police detained her over a protest sign that read “Jews Against Genocide ✡” — a sign [that] they claimed resembled a “Hamas triangle” inside the Star of David, according to journalist James Jackson.

Hefets, a 56-year-old member of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace, has been arrested multiple times since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza in October 2023. She describes today’s arrest as “more violent than others.”

Journalist James Jackson, who spoke with Hefets, said she was detained because her Star of David included a triangle, which police claimed mimicked a “Hamas symbol”.

Hefets was first arrested in Berlin shortly after the genocide began, for holding a sign that said: “As a Jew and Israeli, stop the genocide in Gaza.” At the time, German police cited a ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations. “I didn’t think I would get detained for that — I was naïve,” Hefets told Al Jazeera.

She was arrested again on November 10 for “inciting racial hatred” while holding the same sign. Authorities later dropped the charge. In another incident, she was detained for displaying a sign that read “Zionism kills.” Though released, her sign was confiscated.

Hefets has faced repeated arrests for her outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal policies in Gaza. Despite being Jewish […] herself, German police have treated her as a threat.

Germany has faced growing criticism over its harsh crackdown on pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activism. Authorities have banned protests, detained activists, and targeted Jewish dissenters like Hefets who oppose Israeli crimes.

UN experts and human rights groups have condemned Berlin’s suppression of speech. Critics say [that] Germany is weaponizing antisemitism laws to silence pro-Palestine activism.

The […] genocide in Gaza has killed over 54,000 people and displaced millions. Yet in Germany, calling it a genocide can get you arrested.

Feds shooting an unarmed civilian who was trying to return to her apartment.

Shooting a reporter while her back is turned.

Police horse trampling unarmed civilian.

Los Angeles sheriffs pushing forward and firing less lethals at a small group even further down in Whittier.

Federal immigration truck ramming a vehicle of three people in Boyle Heights. According to security footage shown to someone, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are U.S. citizens according to the wife.

LAPD pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters. You can also hear someone grunt when police shoot the victim in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.

LAPD forming a line before charging at protesters and firing at them.

Riot cops intimidating the press.

Hitting a camera operator in the head.

Detaining a CNN reporter.

This video shows what happened to Sen. Padilla after the feds forcibly removed him from Kristi Noem’s press conference. He got orders from the officers that would cause him to smash his face, then pushed to the ground and handcuffed.

LAPD charge protesters with horses while others fire munitions.

CHP Officers new LAPDHQ firing stun munitions above a crowd, alongside a few blasts of pepper balls. Oddly, they also fired in the direction of a line of LAPD officers.

Cop shoots unarmed civilian in the head and refuses to accept responsibility for it.

If you link me more videos, I shall post them here.

Former Glenn County deputy arrested for grand theft and embezzlement STOLE MONEY FROM THE HOMELESS... BUT THEN..................................

A former Oroville police officer and Glenn County deputy has been booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges of grand theft and embezzlement.

According to the Glenn County Sheriff's Office, John Sanzone was booked into the Glenn County Jail following a self-surrender under a warrant issued for his arrest.

Ex-deputy in California repays $3,500 in cash he stole from homeless man Felony charges dismissed but John Sanzone banned from serving as peace officer in state after covering up theft

A former sheriff’s deputy who stole $3,500 from a homeless man he arrested in California has been permanently banned from serving as a peace officer in the state, while felony theft charges against him were dropped, authorities said.

John Sanzone, a former deputy with the Glenn county sheriff’s office, arrested a homeless man who had been carrying $3,500 – money the man had been saving for urgent dental work.

Sanzone took the money and later tried to cover up the theft when the man attempted to reclaim it after his release.

“Sanzone went so far as to drive the homeless man to another county,” reads a statement by the Glenn county sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.

In May 2023, authorities announced that Sanzone had surrendered to the Glenn county jail under an arrest warrant. He was charged with grand theft by embezzlement and later released after posting bail.

Officials said on Friday that Sanzone has since repaid the $3,500 and surrendered his peace officer certification, effectively barring him from law enforcement in California.

In exchange, felony charges against him were dismissed. People on social media did not take the news lightly.

“So a cop steals 3500 and gets let off with no charges lol wow only in glenn county,” one Facebook user commented.

“Just shows the actual level of corruption in this county when a cop steals from a homeless man and walks free,” another wrote.

The Glenn county sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sanzone was previously named in a lawsuit against the Oroville police department alleging racial discrimination within the department

TWO COPS allegedly stole thousands from an arrestee. They say they didn’t do it but, the LIE DETECTOR says different.

COP ARRESTED for something pertaining to something he did with his computer, and also DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!

SILENCE IS VIOLENCE - 7 cops arrested at once! They are said to have been defective and derelict in their duties.

Another Domestic Violence Related Cop is on trial for his alleged deeds. He’s indeed a bad apple.

LASTLY is the ghastly SHERIFF who has been ARRESTED for being a typical corrupt no talent lunatic cop.

Be careful watch out for the gangbangers.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/manhunt-underway-for-former-police-chief-imprisoned-for-murder-and-rape/

All Corgis Are Bastards

Experts on antisemitism and civil liberties say the training reinforces a police culture that treats Palestinians (and Arabs and Muslims more broadly) with suspicion, while doing little to curb antisemitism. “They are actively conflating any care for Palestinian humanity or rights—and in some cases, Palestinian existence itself—with antisemitism,” said Dove Kent, the US senior director for Diaspora Alliance, a group that fights antisemitism and its weaponization. “None of this does anything to increase Jewish safety.”

Instead, the trainings serve to worsen a situation where “law enforcement is on the front lines of violent anti-Palestinian repression—beating student protesters, surveilling them, and raiding them both on and off campus,” said Dylan Saba, a staff attorney at Palestine Legal (and a contributing editor for Jewish Currents). “With this training, police are being fed a description of pro-Palestinian students that, merely on the basis of their political expression, categorizes them as a security threat.” (The NYPD, the New York City mayor’s office, CAM, and POE did not return requests for comment.)

Video.

Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Judge Chavi Toker approved the warrant for the raid on the bookshop despite the fact that the Police never sought permission from the prosecution, which is required by law to open an investigation into suspected incitement.

Hence at the bail hearing they changed their suspicions to "undermining the public's safety" The most damning evidence they produced was a colouring book for children "From the River to the Sea,"

Although another Magistrate's Court judge, Gad Ehrenberg, rejected the police's request to keep Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna in gaol for 8 days he decided to keep them in jail for another day so police could continue their investigation. This despite the illegality of the whole operation.

Jerusalem District Court Judge Eli Abravanel reprimanded the police for not obtaining permission to open an incitement investigation, but still allowed the decision to keep the two men in gaol for 2 days. After all they are Palestinians, so what is there to complain of?

Protesters outside court in Jerusalem on Monday. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

Ha’aretz, which the Police also took exception to, commented in an editorial:

Due to the police's aggressive and undemocratic behavior and the judges' cowardice or naïveté, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna spent two nights in jail. This is even more absurd given the fact, which emerged following their release on Tuesday, that the police never even bothered questioning them again, despite keeping them in jail.

The bookshop however isn’t an anonymous back street shop.

There is no diplomat, journalist or scholar of Jerusalem who isn't familiar with the store and its intellectual treasures. Evidence of this is the fact that the bail hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court was attended by diplomats from nine countries, plus the European Union.

Mahmoud Muna inside a branch of the Educational Bookshop chain in July 2024. Photograph: Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Ha’aretz’s editorial observed that

The raid and the arrests show how deeply the rot has propagated within the police and the legal system. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara must tell the police that their behavior was illegal, and that if they want to open an incitement investigation, they can find thousands of calls for mass murder, obliterating the Gaza Strip, starvation and many other incitements for war crimes on social media, in interviews with politicians and in rabbis' sermons.

Which entirely misses the point of course. Incitement to violence and death against Palestinians is not a crime [under apartheid] but any manifestation of Palestinian identity, culture or history is a crime. That is why Israel today is a fully-fledge police state as far as Palestinians are concerned, even for those who are Israeli citizens.

Annnnnnndddd… then they lost all of this evidence. First, they had to have a reason to accost Easter at his home and “smell” the “marijuana” they used to obtain the search warrant. The arrest warrant used to initiate this is apparently nowhere to be found for reasons that are both inexplicable and literally unbelievable.

They said they don’t keep proof of valid warrants once served. You know how much paperwork we’re required to keep at my work because we have to have proof after the fact? C’mon.

The Be'er Sheva District Court approved the police's request to extend the detention of activist Andrei Khrzhanovsky, who filmed himself placing a Palestinian flag sticker near a memorial honoring a fallen soldier in the [...] city of Sderot.

The decision on Sunday followed a ruling by the Ashkelon Magistrate's Court on Friday to release him under restrictive conditions, but police had requested a delay in his release.

In the appeal filed by the police, it was argued that his detention should be extended because he might "pose a risk to public safety."

As a result, despite the earlier decision to release him, Khrzhanovsky will remain in custody longer than initially requested by the police.

District Court Judge Yaakov Danino criticized the decision of Judge Sabine Cohen from the Ashkelon court, who ruled that the police had failed to present evidence that the sticker placement posed a public safety risk, as stated in the arrest extension request.

Judge Cohen noted, "An expression of opinion is just that – an expression of opinion. It must be treated as such. This is the essence of democracy and freedom of expression."

Khrzhanovsky was arrested on Thursday at a café in Tel Aviv after he recorded himself attaching the sticker bearing the Palestinian flag. The officers arrested him aggressively, claiming he had attacked them upon their arrival.

Footage obtained by Haaretz shows Khrzhanovsky resisting the arrest, but he asserts his resistance was due to the violence of the police.

Danino emphasized the alleged assault on the officers, stating, "Anyone who dares to raise their hand against law enforcement officers entrusted with maintaining public order and safety undermines the most basic conventions of a democratic society."

On Sunday, the police confirmed that Khrzhanovsky's arrest was partly due to a request from Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf. Haaretz also learned that police commissioner Danny Levy's office exerted pressure to carry out the arrest.

Khrzhanovsky had filmed himself two weeks ago placing the sticker near the memorial for Captain Shilo Cohen, who was killed in battle in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023.

In the arrest extension request, the police stated that he was suspected of vandalizing public property and engaging in behavior that could disrupt public peace.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23219665

from #TheIntercept
Akela Lacy
December 3 2024, 7:33 p.m.

Australian police stopped a man because his car had 'anti-Semitic' material on the window. When the driver queried what the anti-Semitic material was, the dejected-looking officer replied 'the small watermelon'. The incident is emblematic of how solidarity with Palestine is policed in countries like Australia, the U.S. and Europe, where the individuals tasked with enforcing the law often have very little knowledge about Gaza, Palestine or Israel.

German police beat a Gaza solidarity protester unconscious and then denied a medical team access to treat them. Protesters gathered in Berlin to highlight the plight of women in Gaza, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

“Israel has not achieved any of its declared aims, either in Gaza in Lebanon in, in Iran or anywhere else,” Bresheeth said in his speech.

“What has it achieved? Murder, mayhem, genocide, racism, destruction, this is what they’re good at,” Bresheeth said. “But they cannot fight the resistance, they have lost every single time.

“They cannot win against Hamas, they cannot win against Hezbollah, they cannot win against the Houthis. They cannot win against the united resistance to the genocide they have started.”

The police spokesperson said that the force is engaged in a “constant balancing act” and that it was acting to “prevent intimidation and serious disruption to communities.”

Bresheeth was released without charge on 2 November, after spending a night in custody, but remains under investigation.

The Jewish academic's arrest follows a series of raids and arrests targeting pro-Palestinian activists and journalists under anti-terror legislation.

In October, counter-terrorism police raided the home of journalist Asa Winstanley as part of an investigation under the Terrorism Act into his social media activity.

On 15 August, journalist Richard Medhurst was detained under section 12 of the Terrorism Act on arrival in the UK, allegedly in connection with his reporting on Palestine.

Less than two weeks later, pro-Palestine journalist Sarah Wilkinson was arrested by masked counter-terrorism police in a dawn raid on her home for allegations relating to content she had posted online.

Any use of force by police, especially deadly force, was entirely unprovoked. During her conversation with police, Massey got up to move a pot of boiling water off of the stove. Sean Grayson, the white racist cop who killed her, falsely claimed that she “came at him with boiling water”.

This was a blatant lie, as the bodycam shows her place the boiling water on the counter as instructed, and she was shot a split second later. Police continued to yell “drop the pot” after she had already done so.

Grayson, who killed her, also did not turn his bodycam on until after the killing occurred, so the only footage available is the angle from the other cop that was present. The two cops then stood around while she lay bleeding on the floor, refusing to render medical aid.

The police can be heard on the footage saying, “I’m not even gonna waste my medical stuff on her.” Not one bit of remorse or concern for her was shown by any member of the sheriff’s department in the half hour that followed the killing.

Grayson was fired and indicted on charges of murder by the Illinois grand jury, but this can hardly be considered justice. He had previous DUI convictions and has worked for at least six different police departments just since 2020.

If this were an issue of “bad apples” and not a whole rotten racist system, Grayson would never have been given a badge and gun in the first place. These killings would not be a daily occur[e]nce. Yet thousands of Black people, including those with disabilities like Massey, meet the same fate at the hands of the police.

Police in the U.S. treat Black people with the same dehumanization and ruthlessness that the [Imperialist] Occupation Forces subject Palestinians to. Both U.S. and [neocolonial] police as well as military forces operate as colonial occupying armies in colonized communities. Both commit unfathomable acts of violence on camera for the world to see, with little to no accountability.

Indictment is not enough. Justice can only look like a wholesale dismantling of the racist police and prison system as a bare minimum.