People protexting the goverment .
Truckers protesting gas prizes in Reykjavik Iceland.
On the 23rd of april 2008
Duration : 0:2:51
Feb
25
Jan
24
Police Brutality: PEKIN Three Tazewell County jailers accused of using excessive force against a female inmate last fall have been absolved of the administrative charges against them and ordered reinstated with back pay.
But Tazewell County Sheriff Bob Huston said Tuesday that he will fight that ruling in circuit court in an attempt to have correctional officers Jeffrey Bieber and Justin Piro and Sgt. Richard Johnston permanently removed from their positions at the jail.
All three have been on administrative leave since October, when Becky Behm was brought to the jail after her arrest on drunken driving charges in Creve Coeur shortly after midnight Oct. 17.
By 5:30 a.m., she had been swung into a concrete wall head-first by Piro, punched in the face by Bieber and pepper sprayed on Johnston’s order.
The incidents have been the subject of hearings before the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Merit Commission since late last year, though those hearings didn’t begin in earnest until May. Huston wanted the commission to allow him to terminate the jailers.
Attorneys for the officers were scheduled to begin presenting evidence for their clients Tuesday morning, but instead asked the commission to make a direct finding of not guilty and reinstate the jailers to their jobs with back pay.
The commission unanimously agreed.
“I felt after the prosecution was done that they didn’t prove their case – any of it,” commissioner Harvey Richmond said. “We all felt – what we saw in (the video), she would not do anything that they told her – they used only the minimal force that was needed to control her.”
Richmond, a former deputy, said the commission didn’t need to hear testimony presented by the officers’ attorneys to find them innocent of the charges leveled against them by the sheriff because of Behm’s behavior.
“If she at any time would have complied, she would have been out of there in half an hour,” Richmond said. “If I would have seen something that I think was way out of line with the situation, I would have gone the other way, but I didn’t see it.”
Richmond said the 30-minute portion of the video shown during Behm’s testimony in May needed to be examined very closely and in the context of the several hours before that footage to better understand the situation officers were trying to control.
But Huston maintained Tuesday that the 30-minute segment, which he released to media outlets after the ruling, was enough to justify the officers’ termination. In the first couple of days after the incident, he called it the worst case of unnecessary force he’d seen in a decade as sheriff.
“I can not understand how anyone can watch the video of that incident and just let them all go,” Huston said after the ruling Tuesday. “I believe that officers should be held to a high standard of conduct, but not to impossible or unattainable standards. Today, the merit commission refused to hold them to even the lowest standards of conduct or even to basic human dignity.”
Attorneys for the jailers couldn’t immediately be reached for comment later Tuesday.
Behm, who testified before the commission in May, said she couldn’t recall most of the night at the jail and had no specific recollection of the beatings in a segregation cell in the A-block of the jail.
She said she had drank four or five beers at Behmer’s Dugout, the Peoria bar she owns, over the course of about five hours before her arrest by a Creve Coeur police sergeant on suspicion of drunken driving.
Piro and Bieber claimed in their testimony before the commission that Behm was extremely intoxicated and belligerent and had to be transferred to the segregation cell to maintain order in the usual holding area.
Piro eventually swung Behm head-first into a concrete wall but testified that he was attempting to execute a sanctioned “takedown” technique and lost his balance. Bieber punched Behm in the face, but he claimed she attempted to leave the cell and lunged at him.
The merit commission’s rejection of Huston’s charges is the second such outcome for a high-profile Tazewell County case. The commission in December vetoed Huston’s request to fire Deputy Jeff Bass for neglecting his duties and intimidating his superiors, though Bass was found guilty of those offenses.
Huston said he will appeal Tuesday’s decision because he believes he was denied a fair hearing and the result was contrary to the evidence.
Duration : 0:2:45
Jan
11
Iran has postponed a visit to Tehran by MEPs who were going to meet Iranian opposition activists and Majlis (parliament) members this week.
The MEPs’ visit had been planned for 7-11 January. Tehran said a new date would be set “by mutual agreement”.
The EU delegation head, a German Green politician, accused Tehran of trying to avoid a focus on Political Unrest, following a spate of clashes in Iran.
Barbara Lochbihler MEP said Tehran saw the visit as “a risk not worth taking”.
The cancellation was “another sad illustration of how much the Iranian leadership opposes any discussion of the major unresolved problems in the country,” she said.
Meetings with Iranian foreign ministry officials and business representatives had also been planned, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday Iran banned its citizens from co-operating with foreign organisations it says are trying to destabilise the government, state media reported.
The 60 blacklisted groups include human rights groups, Iranian opposition websites and media groups such as the BBC and US broadcasters.
Iranian security forces have cracked down on opposition protests since June’s disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arresting dozens of activists.
Jan
11
Police Brutality: How does a law-abiding mom driving home with two kids end up being Tasered, handcuffed and arrested — while her children are left alone for 40 minutes in the car, waiting for someone to come get them?
Thats a question that Audra Harmon hopes will be answered by a lawsuit she has filed against the Onondaga County (N.Y.) Sheriffs Department. In the process, she and her attorney told TODAYs Meredith Vieira Friday in New York, they hope to spur a debate over whether police should be carrying Tasers at all.
The suit, seeking unspecified monetary damages on an array of charges including false arrest and police brutality, has been filed, said attorney Terrance Hoffman, to bring awareness not only that anybody can be a potential victim, but also awareness to the police officers who have the Tasers to be a little more judicious and think it out a little more before they use this kind of device. Then the overall picture is whether or not Tasers should be used in law enforcement.
See the whole story here:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32414436/ns/today-today_people/
Duration : 0:5:28
Dec
12
Hooligan gets hemmed up on the field. *A PRIVATE security force BEATS him. Crowd doesn’t like it.
Duration : 0:0:50
Dec
10
Police Brutality montage set to the music of Disturbed
Duration : 0:4:18
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Dec
5
Stupid announcer but disturbing footage.
Nov
25
Props to Mr Moore for putting the NYPD’s racist cops on blast. You gotta love it.
Duration : 0:7:13
