A lawsuit in federal court found that the city used excessive force and violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
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And let me guess, it had zero consequences for any of the cops involved?
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"Attention MOVE: This is America. You have to abide by the laws of the United States." They were given 15 minutes to come out.
Police used more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition. At 2 p.m., Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.
Ramona Africa said that police fired at those trying to escape.
They also reportedly blocked fire trucks from getting to the fire and are still tying up litigation claiming that they shouldn’t have to pay for the damage to the rest of the destroyed block from the resulting fire.
They also refused to release the remains of the people killed, denying they retained any. Eventually, the University of Pennsylvania admitted to retaining some of the remains of 12 year old Delisha Africa and returned them to her family, in 2021.
also this: "The court decided that the plaintiffs did not have a Fourth Amendment claim against the city because there was no seizure when the defendants dropped explosives on the plaintiffs' buildings, and that city officials and police officers had qualified immunity"
I'm so tired of living in this white supremacist shit hole.
Every time I learn more about this it somehow gets more horrific.
Just as they did in Waco.
Defiance of the US regime has to be made into an example and crushed in the most violent way.
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Also worth noting that any owner-occupied homes that were destroyed likely received nothing from insurance because most insurance policies specifically exclude damage caused by military or law enforcement action.
This also came up when police destroyed someone's home trying to apprehend a thief who'd broken in to try to escape the police. They literally rammed a police vehicle through a wall of the home for example and the homeower was forced to sue their own police department to try to recoup any of the costs they created for them
If your home is badly damaged or destroyed by an event not covered by insurance you can be due tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs, it may not be occupiable until it is repaired, and you still have to pay your mortgage and taxes while you're trying to figure out where to find a hundred thousand dollars to fix it on top of your new expense of renting some place to crash while the work is completed. Oh and replacing any belongings that were destroyed in the process too of course
Yes, the police have always been the enemy of the people, doubly so for minorities.
I learned about this in school and it broke the little trust I had in cops (I was raised sheltered and white). Any lingering trust was broken when I talked to my mothers (now ex) cop friend. Spiteful shitty person she was.
Most Statesians lose their faith in cops/country in a similar way. There's a reason US high schools don't teach recent history. If it's far enough back like the early 1900's or 1800's then you can rationalize it with platitudes like "it was a different time back then" or "we hadn't evolved as a society yet". Lot harder to rationalize away when it was only 40 years ago.
Or 4
So they no longer teach recent history? Sucks. I think I'm now at an age where I can go terrorize a school board. My mother will be delighted!
I never learned about the Tulsa race massacre, and I live in state. I was much older when I learned about it.
Civic engagement is always good. Some high schools will have some things in the textbooks but class curricula never get that far, preferring to leave off around WWII or the second red scare at latest if they even touch the 1900's.
Weird. I know we went up to the then current Desert Storm stuff. Well. Almost current. And watched American History X in class.
Scarring as it should be.
Then I remember that was twenty years ago and get very sad.
It sounds like your high school was better than most. That's hope-inducing.
This was a old ass Dollop from 2014
https://overcast.fm/+AA3AMVQ5uHg
Mostly terrifying, for a comedy show
Shit.
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