Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 45: Southern View Police Chief Roy Maki is a worried about BLACKS "a RIOT/LOOTING" in response to the death of Sonya Massey

Former Sangamon Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson was charged with 1st Degree Murder for the unlawful killing of Sonya Massey.  

In the early morning of July 6th, Sonya Massey was shot to death inside her unincorporated Springfield home after she had called the police for a possible intruder.  The family has viewed the body camera footage but, as far as I know nothing has been released to the press or been improperly leaked.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker reacted to the charges.

"I am enraged that another innocent Black woman had her life taken from her at the hands of a police officer," Pritzker said. "I'm grateful to the Springfield State's Attorney's office for bringing the appropriate charges in this case. May Sonya Massey's memory be a blessing, and may it fuel our work to build a system of justice in this country that truly protects all of its citizens."

In case you didn't know members of The Thin Blue Line don't like Governor Pritzker because he doesn't support them...

In response, the Police Chief of Southern View, Illinois Roy Maki released this ridiculous SAFETY ALERT to his constituents.  Because???  Because black people of course...  

Have you ever heard of Southern View, Illinois?  I had not.  It is a little hamlet of 1600 people abutting Springfield, Illinois at the intersection of 55 and 72.  It's just north of the Illinois State Police recruit Academy.

Sheriff Maki is greatly a-feared of "a RIOT/LOOTING and DESTRUCTION of PROPERTY" from the "Shooting of the Female subject".  First, of all this isn't the Queen's English, no one in America is a "subject".  Victim is the correct title but why is Shooting and Female capitalized?  But, despite placing his phone number for any questions the Sheriff's Office has not responded to press questions of why he felt it necessary to respond to said questions.  I'm reminded when the Cook County Sheriff's Intel Division released a memo about the 30,000 strong ANTIFA army that was going to descend upon Gettysburg for the 4th of July in 2020.

And why would there be RIOT/LOOTING despite all protests being peaceful at this point thus far and that Southern View may not even be involved?  Why because black people of course... 

The Springfield City Council wasn't to pleased with Chief Maki's ridiculous letter,

“I think it was very offensive and unprofessional to say we’re going to be looting and rioting businesses,” said Springfield Alderwoman Lakeisha Purchase. She and fellow city council member Shawn Gregory were at the Wednesday protest to show support for the family and community. She said that there had been no disruption from any of the protests.

Lakeisha?  Well, as Chief Maki would no doubt note, with a name like that she's black and you know how those people are, with the RIOT/LOOTING at all.  No matter how far we've come it always comes back to this; it's an unforgivable crime in this country to be black and no matter what mistreatment, injustice, or extrajudicial killing you face, for some White People it's always 1964 and you people are protesting wrong and just obey the police.

Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 42: Carol Stream Police invade an apartment and shoot a black person

Just last week I wrote about a work friend wanting to disccuss Harvard Professor Roland Fryer's, interview with Bari Weiss concerning his 2016 study which PROVED!  BEYOND QUESTION!  there is no Racial Bias in Police Shootings... and then dumb old reality just had to butt in and disprove his theory.

If I were a more jaded person, I might overlay Fryer’s faulty and ridiculous claims over the body cam footage from Carol Stream.  But, I am not a ghoul. 

The Carol Stream Police Department had an Officer-involved shooting.  As always, I want you to understand that Police advocates have fought for years for this semi-blameless language to be used in official proceedings and in news reports because language is the first line of defense and weapon to be used to exonerate the Officers involved.

The case in Carol Stream involves a misdemeanor domestic battery.  The victim was out of the apartment.  Her injuries, while not reported in detail, did not necessitate hospitalization.  Inside the apartment was the suspected offender Isaac Goodlow.

When making a warrantless entry there are 3 exceptions; Consent, Hot Pursuit, Exigent Circumstances.

“Hot Pursuit” is obvious you’re chasing someone whose committed a crime and they attempt to defeat arrest by hiding in a house

“Exigent Circumstances”  is the immediate need to protect someone’s life (e.g. someone screaming for help or seeing a house on fire.)

She provided “Consent” for the Officers to go into the apartment where the suspect Isaac Goodlow was but, she did not have the right to make authorization as she did not live there and therefore the entry does not fall under the Search Warrant exceptions.

Officers may in good faith believe she has authority but, simply taking her word for it is not enough fact-checking.  Especially, when the victim of the crime is not in harm’s way and there is no on-going emergency which would lead the Officers to believe they had to apprehend the offender immediately.

Carol Stream Police Chief Donald Cummings gave a statement about the Officers attempts to get Goodlow to come out of the apartment before getting the maintenance man to open the door to the open gaining the Officers entry.  At this point, someone in the CSPD needed to say stop why don't we get a warrant to enter; this would have a two-fold effect of lowering the Officer's emotions and further provide Goodlow the opportunity to surrender.  But, instead the Officers went in.

6 officers went inside the residence.  From the "stack", it certainly looks like they wanted to do a SWAT style building entry, a maneuver which is en vogue, with training and tactics these days.  One Officer has a ballistic shield, another Officer has a Taser ready, and at least two had guns drawn.  

I think I know what happened with the first shot.  Everyone in that group is jazzed.  And I think the Officer had his finger on the trigger.  And as they entered the room with auditory exclusion, tunnel vision, jittery hands, and adrenaline pumping up his heart rate, he got startled, and the sympathetic nervous system gave the “Startle Response” and he squeezed the trigger.  The next shot and Taser deployment where in response to the first shot.

And like that Goodlow was shot and killed.

The Police Chief which listed off all the steps that will and must be taken to investigate this shooting and give full due process to the Officers involved.  Now, juxtapose this with the scant due process given to the dead man Isaac Goodlow.

"The totality of the video, including the events that occurred before and after the shooting, will be released at a later date pursuant to the completion of the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office review. Once the investigation is completed by the Public Integrity Team, the State’s Attorney’s Office will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of all forensic evidence, witness accounts, and officer statements to make a determination regarding the actions of those involved."

Due Process, you see is only available, to inherently good people who find themselves in an unfortunate situation.

For instance, right now, a cult of martyrdom is growing around Derek Chauvin to turn him into the American Nelson Mandela.  And while this is part of the broader rightwing attempt to undermine Law&Order and replace it with their Fascist White Power Fundamentalism understand the Chauvin Cultists and people who support each and every police shooting of black people can never be swayed with reality, facts, medical documentation, or even due process and court proceedings.

But, and this is the point with each and everyone of these incidents, a depressingly large swathe of White society does not question the extrajudicial killing of black people.  And a vile segment encourage and reveal in these killings and then, with malicious glee, use the deaths as on-line content fodder and incitement amongst their rightwing drones against the dead black person, black society in general, and of course, DemocRAT controlled cities. 

The basic paradigm which is understood and still taught is black people are inherently criminal and a priori guilty and therefore any time they have an interaction with Police its’ understood their deaths at the hands of Police are entirely their fault.  Whereas, white people (as long as the adhere to the tenets of rightwing white supremacy) are inherently good and must somehow have been caught up in a bad situation and therefore their interaction with Police they must be afforded due process above and beyond what is called for under the color of law.

I could go through the entire litany of cop jargon and lawfare that Police use to cover up such incidents, but the plain facts and what the American society has just seen is another unarmed black man shot to death inside his residence.

Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 40: More Police Training is not the answer especially not "Street Cop Training"

Reform the Police, a refrain as old as Police themselves.  But, we will never get the proper answer until we understand the question?  "More Training" has been the Panacea to combat Police brutality and misconduct but, can the Police as currently conceived, designed, organized, and utilized be retrained?

More than a decade ago I became aware of the grotesque David Grossman and his On Killing / Warrior Cop police training, a course of instruction designed to turn even well-adjusted LEOs into sacred trigger happy panicked shooters and affording psychotic Police Officers the justification they needed to gun down any black man they saw.

Grossman's "Killology" training wasn't a bizarre outlier from a weirdo who never saw combat but, a highly touted and widespread methodology which had been taught to thousands of cops and merely the most visible of the Let's make police into brutal abusers philosophy. 

Sadly, it seems a vast swath of politicians were never aware of this training until it had already wrecked an entire generation of Police Officers in a similar way the Joe Rogan/Andrew Tate/Jordan Peterson toxic masculinity has warped and deluded the young generation of Zoomer boys these days.  The general approach was to simply allocate the money for "More Training" and let the departments pick and choose.

Therefore, in this Post-Ferguson era, we still see toxic training being sold to Officers and the content provided by these so-called trainers containing vulgar, rude, discriminatory, unconstitutional methods, demeaning misogynoy, and toxic masculinity.  

Street Cop, founded in 2012, is a private law enforcement training vendor that conducts business in the State of New Jersey. The founder and CEO of the Company is Dennis Benigno, a former law enforcement officer who worked with a municipal police department in Middlesex County, New Jersey, until 2015. 

Benigno claims to lead “one of the largest, if not the largest, police training providers in the United States,” impacting approximately 25,000 to 30,000 law enforcement officers nationally on an annual basis. In New Jersey alone, the Company conducts 40 to 45 courses annually, training in “excess of 2000 state and local law enforcement officers.” Included in the New Jersey course offerings is a case law class “tailored specifically to New Jersey,” which Benigno himself instructs.

Among other things, OSC found:

• Instructors at the Conference promoted the use of unconstitutional policing tactics for motor vehicle stops;
• Some instructors glorified violence and an excessively militaristic or “warrior” approach to policing. Other presenters spoke disparagingly of the internal affairs process; promoted an “us vs. them” approach; and espoused views and tactics that would undermine almost a decade of police reform efforts in New Jersey, including those aimed at de-escalating civilian-police encounters, building trust with vulnerable populations, and increasing officers’ ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with New Jersey’s diverse population; and
• The Conference included over 100 discriminatory and harassing remarks by speakers and instructors, with repeated references to speakers’ genitalia, lewd gestures, and demeaning quips about women and minorities.

The New Jersey Office of State Comptroller has a detailed report of the vile bullshit and borderline criminal misconduct taught at a 6 day seminar in Atlantic City in October 2021.  And what did The Founder of Street Cop, Dennis Benigno with his synthol oil muscles, and his instructors teach?  Why the same tired Reactionary Crap of Warrior Cop hyper-vigilance.  The repetition of the US and Them, Kill or Be Killed, Treat Everyone Like a Dirtbag Criminal and you might just go home alive.

I've been to a lot of training over the years and immediately steer clear of the hard-chargers who come in festooned in street tactical 5.11 clothing, wearing their duty/off-duty pistol in their low leg holster... 

What we always find with this type of training or an institution like Street Cop; is the classic reductive stereo-types which have been repeated since Joseph Wambaugh and Clint Eastwood invented them 60 years ago.  Righteous god fearing white christian police beset by the savage hordes of blacks, hispanics, queers, and others while namby-pamby bleeding heart liberals tie the Police hands instead of letting them do the righteous work.  Of course, the foundation stretches back even further to the lies Wyatt Earp and Tom Mix sold Hollywood of the lone lawman fighting for Law&Order over a 100 years ago.

Even today, right now, the Republican Party and rightwing propagandists continue to propagate this bullshit, the stereotype that if only "Our" Police were unshackled, if only the crime-coddling Democrats got out of the way, if only the media didn't broadcast Chauvin's extrajudicial killing of George Floyd crime wouldn't be out of control.

Never forget the people that say this are the ideological descendants of those who gave Nixon and Regan the free reign to use draconian methods in the "War on Drugs".  And were absolutely fine when the fucking terror was rained down upon poor and minority communities.  Back then Police didn't raid and bust ever rich white frat house at Dartmouth now did they?  But, once the War on Drugs began to impact little "Maddie & Connor", well then white society demanded leniency and counseling and treatment instead of incarceration and a life-long sentence which fucked millions by giving them a criminal record.

Do you know why the Republicans in Congress like Major Traitor Greene and that Coward Josh Hawley are still so mad at the Capitol Police?  Because Republicans expected the Police to aid them, and their rightwing paramilitary terrorists on January 6th in overthrowing the Government.

Remember the issue isn't just Reforming the Police or finding/fixing/removing the few bad apples it's also dealing with the bad faith efforts of conservatives to undermine solutions while demonizing the efforts in order to obtain political power.  Recall how Republicans and their compliant corporate media stenographers told the American populace that #DefundthePolice was the official policy of Joe Biden and every Democrat office-holder.  Then couple that with the Republican predilection of axiomatically defending every extrajudicial killing of a minority in America and you have the right ingredients for the Modern Reactionary Police.  A Police Force that will readily stomp on the faces of anyone who hinders the White Power Christian Fascist Nation the Republicans seek to turn the United States into...

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 36: Kim Foxx not gonna Run so instead Let's Go Brandon

Kim Foxx announced she will not seek reelection in 2024 after serving two terms as Cook County state's attorney.

“At the conclusion of my term, November of 2024, I will be stepping down as State’s Attorney. I will not be on next year’s ballot, by my choice,” Foxx told the room. “I became State’s Attorney to deliver safety, justice and equity. I feel that I have made my mark, so I’m ready to let new leadership step forward,” Foxx said in a written statement following today’s speech. “Over the next year and half, my office will continue to work diligently for the people of Cook County and uphold the values of a fair and just legal system.” 

If there was one thing that pissed Police off in Chicago and Cook County it was Kim Foxx.  Because Kim Foxx is guilty;  Guilty of the crime of being a black person of America.  This is the most unforgivable offense in the United States; past, present, and future.  As State's Attorney Kim Foxx instituted reforms to cash bail, expunged cannabis arrests (which of course, overwhelmingly targeted minorities), and helped overturn numerous wrongful convictions, resulting from Police misconduct.

Now, if you ask Police why they hate her the responses will no doubt include the ridiculous Jussie Smolett incident and Foxx's unforced error in intervening in the investigation.  But, overall the claim will be that Foxx did not allow the Police (and Cook County ASA's) to do their job; which is arresting and incarcerating minorities.  Standard refrains from Officers when asked about Chicago crime revolved around, 'What do you expect? It's Cook County!' and 'Kim Foxx won't do anything about this or that crime' and it's 'Kim Foxx is stopping us from charging criminals'.  Much of this was a thin veneer to cover for slipshod police work.  But, always remember Police don't arrest innocent people...

Now, remember what we are running into is not the Thin Blue Line but, the wall of Whiteness.  White people are inculcated from an early age to love Police but, also fear them.  This is most often seen when a white parents chastise their very young child's behavior by saying, 'Now!  Little Aiden don't do that or the Policeman will come take you away!'

The reason you do this is so white people learn to understand as long as they toe-the-line and support police they will be protected good standing members of the Congregation.  But, those congregants who transgress earn the sobriquet "Mopes".

As Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve noted in her book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court,

In the vernacular of court culture, defendants are identified by vulgarities: "scum," "piece of shit," "bad guys" - even "banana suits" (which refers to the jail jumper that defendants in custody must wear in court).  One term predominates among these epithets.  That term is "mopes," used mostly to refer to defendants but sometimes used to describe professionals as well.  The meaning inscribed in this term is central to the moral rubric applied to defendants by courtroom professionals.

Work ethic, competency, and motivation are central elements of court culture.  Efficiency and speed of disposition provide daily evidence of the court professional's work ethic.  Not surprisingly, plea bargains rather than trials define this proverbial machine of efficient justice, and judges and prosecutors pride themselves on efficiency. 

"Mope" is shorthand for a person who violates these values.  Professionals find it difficult to regard a defendant as anything but a mope.  

As we see with the Sinister Six Injustices in the Supremacist Court, the Law, Officials, and Courts in America has morphed into a quasi-religion, the new Priesthood, and Church of America.  For decades now, we've been treated to numerous TV shows which demonstrate the sublime perfection of the Mystic Legal Religion, as Cops always get there, Judges are humble, impartial arbiters of immutable Holy Script, and the Prosecutors follow the god-given tenets of law to achieve absolute truth.  While defendants attempt to wiggle free.  In many courtrooms across the land certain people are rushed through the system and incarcerated whilst others enjoy the long, slow process, multiple appeals, delays, motions, and extended mysteries of the courtroom.   

The role of Police is to be the first line enforcing this Mystical Legal Religion (which has all the hallmarks of White Supremacy); now every Officer I know would (and has) immediately balked and become defensive or dismissive of this when I point it out for a variety of personal reasons or unexamined assumptions but, this is often because they can not or will not see the systematic Institutional Racism which undergirds American society.

Because Police Officers are terrible lawyers and should not be trusted when it comes to their opinion on the charging of crimes.  So Cook County makes Officers call Assistant State's Attorney's for background and approval when charging felonies.  But, I've never met an Officer who didn't think every single arrest he made was a lock solid certainty and the defendant 100% guilty.  Now, I never made an arrest when I did not believe I had probable cause, but I've never gotten mad at not "winning" in the Courtroom.

In this system, blacks and Hispanics are always a priori considered "mopes" until proved otherwise and white people are presumed to have been raised in the spirit of holy Justice to uphold the white supremacist ideals that the Court enforces.  But, by interfering in the fast disposition of defendants, Kim Foxx became Queen Mope to Officers working in Chicago and Cook County, who took to routinely blaming Foxx for all the woes and all crime in the City and Cook County.  Of course, this is total nonsense.

Incidentally, this is why every Republican, every rightwing tv station and every internet propagandist is mad about the revelations of extreme corruption, cartoonish criminality, and highly unethical behavior of the Ettins of the Supreme Court; Clarence and Ginni, John Roberts and his wife Jane Sullivan, Sammy di puzzi Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Boofer O'Kavanugh, and Amy Coathanger Barrett.  Since they are the High Mullahs of America their whims are infallible and their dictates (much like those of Kacsmaryk or the podunk goober Judges in down state Illinois) are received from on-high and are actually the transmittals of the Idealized Pure Law and thus unimpeachable.  Also, conservatives will be apoplectic if Dick Durbin gets off his ass and abolishes the outmoded and fascist friendly blue-slip Senate rules because conservatives have stolen the Judiciary fair and square!

However, now that Kim Foxx is gone, rightwingers and asshole Reactionary Cops have lost their satan whom they could blame for any of their lazy fuck-ups in building a case, sloppy detective work, and for all crime everywhere in Cook County.  But, thankfully white supremacy in Chicago is saved because in April Brandon Johnson won the Chicago Mayoral Election against Paul Vallas and before the final vote was even tabulated rightwingers had a downtown incident which was 100% Brandon Johnson's fault and which 100% showed what the rightwing wurlitzer will do going forward. 

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 34: Suicide by Cop

 Do you know who understands Guns are metaphysical danger and a unique contributor to suicide in this Nation?  Police Unions.

Guns Save Lives?

MAP (Metropolitan Alliance of Police) Rap Sheet magazine 2023 Volume 1 has an article Protective Factors Against Suicide.  Here's a picture of the final step it recommends for its members (i.e. Cops), "firearm safe storage is critical to reducing officer suicide rates.  Studies have demonstrated that in the general population the mere presence of a firearm in the home significantly increases the risk of completed suicide." 

Understand the NRA and gun nuts have successfully divorced rational thinking about guns with the actual real world impact.  Suicide using a firearm kills 25,000 Americans a year and almost every time someone uses a gun to kill themselves they succeed.

But, gun nuts, Republicans, and Firearms Manufacturing shills like to ignore this as not "real" gun deaths because they are "suicides".  Pliant Corporate Media have gone along with this disingenuous framing separating suicides by firearms from the yearly gun violence death and mayhem and grouping it in with suicide in general as opposed to properly counting this as part of the gun culture of America.

"Gun violence,” Mark Bryant founder of Gun Violence Archive correctly notes, is still accurate when describing the damage bullets do to bodies — and families, and communities. “If you don’t think shooting yourself is gun violence, you need to take a strong hard look at the results of it,” he said. “And I’m not just talking about the splatter on the walls. I’m talking about the wives and the mothers and the children that experience the aftereffects of it. And there’s nothing not violent about that.”

But, suicide is lumped or dumped into the National Mental Health crisis which Republicans mention at every mass shooting and then studiously avoid doing anything about when the news cycle moves onto the latest Elon Musk Twitter Files dump.

Panty Sniffing Ron DeSantis is taking a break from fucking up Florida to invade Illinois

Ron DeSantis has been invited to Illinois by supreme scumbag John Catanzara.  Perhaps you'll recall Dirty John Catanzara has been forced to resign from the Police Force after years of being a criminal cop.  Or perhaps you will remember when Catanzara enthusiastically endorsed the Jan6th Insurrection.  Well, DeathSantis is planning on speaking on President's Day...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is planning to come to Elmhurst on Monday, according to the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police.

On Thursday, the organization invited members to see the Republican governor at a yet-to-be-disclosed site in Elmhurst. Doors are set to open at 3:30 p.m.

According to the invitation, the location will be revealed 48 hours before the "Back the Blue" event. The invitation said DeSantis would speak about law enforcement.

DeSantis is just the type of vile vicious asshole who appeals to Catanzara.  But, even worse High School Girl humping Ron, as he gears up for his Presidential Run in 2024, is seeking to bolster his support amongst dirtbag Officers who adore his Quasi-Fascist policies.  I am aghast but unsurprised at the hold Ron DeSantis has over white suburbanites. They love him because he hurts the people they want hurt.

They love him because he provides them The Show they want, the results are irrelevant and incidental, but the pomp and circumstance, the tweets by Christina Pushaw, the made for TV arrests, and press conferences in which he #OwnstheLibs and announces another Anti-Woke program or Anti-LGBTQ pogrom fill the dark evil need wypipo have in the depths of their inhumane souls.

DeSantis' background details hardly matter. Because on the surface he's everything white people venerate. A Veteran!!! Do white people care his Bronze Star is literally without the "V" for Valor? No. In fact it's important to them that DeSantis got his award for defending and implmenting torture on "TERRORISTS".

Do rightwingers care about his creepy parties with high school girls as their cool teacher plying them with booze?  Fake News!!!

Do conservatives care about Ron's DeathSentence for over a 100,000 residents in Florida by his Covid denialism and lies?  No, that was Ron being strong and not bowing down to Fauci and the Killer Jab!

Do they care about the legality of those 20 "voter fraud" arrests?  Doubtful, since Racist Ron targeted the Blacks with his task force.  Do Floridians care about panty sniffing Ron wanting to track and maintain a database of their little girls menstrual cycles?  Well... I guess they care a little bit since they pushed back but, High School Stalker DeSantis is no doubt looking at Governor Glenn Youngkin in Virginia as the way to ensure Florida has a giant database on every teenage girl and their periods by claiming Law Enforcement needs to track every little girls menstruation for criminal reasons.

DeSantis has an intoxicating allure for a certain segment of America.  That allure is the promise to unleash America's white power on those who deserve to be put back in their place or eliminated.  Conservatives see in DeSantis the unfulfilled promise of Trump.  Cops especially...

The Revenge of The Thin Blue Line 31: Covid didn't kill those Cops Conservative Propaganda did

"Why do we assume that the body’s natural immune system isn’t the marvel that it is? Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?" Senator Ron Johnson (R- Moscow)

For the 3rd straight year, Covid is the prime killer of Police Officers in the United States.  I know Coppers everywhere want to claim that they are facing here-to-fore unprecedented dangers on the job but, the truth is Police Officers are so incurious, so reactionary, so petulant that they would rather die of a illness which a few small steps could prevent just to Own the Libs all while slavishly adhering to the Propaganda Campaign of Faux News and the rightwing internet;

A new report released Wednesday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund looked at preliminary data and found that 226 federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers died last year while in the line of duty. Of those deaths, 70 can be attributed to COVID-19. However, this is an 83% decline compared to the 405 officers who died from COVID-19-related complications in 2021. 

Jab Jab Jab!

281 Officers died of COVID-19 complications in 2020.  Meanwhile, Officers continue to fantasize about Fentanyl poisoning and delude themselves that BLM Thugs are around every corner waiting to murder them.  In reality, suicide and heart disease are the biggest killers of Police Officers and white men in America.

Conservatives don't actually care about Law Enforcement.  Blue Lives Matter has always been naught but, a rhetorical cudgel to Bash the Left.  When it comes to a macro respect for Law & Justice conservatives have shown time and time again that they believe the Law exists to afflict, constrain and punish women, LGBTQ, minorities, Democrats, and anyone who doesn't know their place and role in their White Supremacist Society. 

Understand the Right (in America and elsewhere) is now fully invested and in full agitprop attack mode that the Covid Vaccine causes myocarditis, blood clots, and is killing thousands of people daily because they can not admit they were wrong about Covid, they were wrong about mitigation factors like masking and social distancing, and they are wrong about the efficacy and protective nature of the Vaccination protocol.  Too admit any of that would be to admit the entire edifice of their political and personal belief systems are rotten and untenable. 

The Died Suddenly Twitter account, which boasts an authoritative blue check mark it received after paying $8 a month, memorializes a long list of people who, we are led to believe, died of the vaccine, including the voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, who very recently passed away from intestinal cancer. Except that scrolling through these names, it becomes apparent the list includes anyone who died suddenly, who died after a short illness, who died after a long illness, who died of cancer or of an immune condition or of a viral infection. Their vaccination status is often not even known. Basically, everybody dying after the vaccines were rolled out has now been killed by the jab.

It started with deliberately lying about the VAERS reporting in 2020, continued throughout the ridiculous magnetism and 5G microchip claims of lunatic rightwingers and has now coalesced into an international well-funded and powerfully motivated campaign.  Expect the misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies, to continue to grow and spread because The Killer Jab and DIED SUDDENLY narrative gives great power over peoples' lives to Rightwingers and that is what the Global Right wants; the Power to control you and the power to kill you. 

And if a few dozen Police Officers die?  Well their Thin Blue sacrifice is the price the Authoritarian Right is willing to pay in the quest to create their Fascist Dystopia.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 29: Trespass not against Me! I Trespass against You!

Police Officers are usually poor lawyers. Now, this isn't a question of smarts, but of the lack of attention to details and general belief in their own superior understanding of laws even if they haven't read them. Back in the Marines I used to call this thinking "Barracks Lawyering", it's an ardent belief in something you once heard or some guy once heard in reference to a rule or procedure.

To wit: The Illinois SAFE-T Act has changed trespassing to a ticket! Poor people are going to set up campsites on your front lawn! Even, a cursory reading of the law indicates there are several provisions in the body of the reworked language which gives the officer a significant amount of latitude to arrest the person and remove them from the "Real Property" instead of ticketing them and leaving. Not to mention other laws like Obstruction of Peace Officer, in which a Peace Officer can lawfully order a person to leave a property.

But! But... that gets to the crux of the issue. A significant number of police officers chafe and become petulant when faced with direction, supervision, and accountability. The exact things the SAFE-T act was designed to address. And underlying this is a lack of self-awareness, reflection, and an absolute inability to place themselves in the shoes of another.

Reading various additions to the ILCS, Officers scoff and proclaim well I would never do this or that, and refuse to believe this or that is happening elsewhere.

For instance, this addition was made to the Use of Force,

(c) The authority to use physical force conferred on peace officer by this Article is a serious responsibility that shall be exercised judiciously and with respect for human rights and dignity and for the sanity of every human life. 

Of course, grumble the almost all white Officers policing almost all black communities. But, I read that addition not as superfluous but as the I was just following Orders addendum. You see no Officer wants to believe they could possibly be the bad guys, that they would act as storm troopers, that they would simply follow inhumane orders. That events would overwhelm their natural instincts and moral code as the engage in indiscriminate unlawful use of force.  That they, would be the Nazis.

Yet, what did we see in Philadelphia during the 2020 protests? Officers indiscriminately using force on everyone they saw.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 27: BLM? Ha! The Police also kill lotsa Whites too!

Don't worry Cottonmouth, after Trump goes to jail You and Your Ilk is next...

White America, especially the rabid reactionary trolls who infest comment sections, will never, ever, ever question the seizure of a black man in America.  In rightwing America, every black person is a priori guilty of something and hence every contact with Police is an opportunity to determine if that black person should be arrested or killed.

Of course, one of the major problems of the internet age has been the replacement of shoe-leather reporting for on-line browsing.  Rightwing liars fervently believe their own bullshit that by opening a Faux News link or listening to some rightwing radio provocateurs rant, that they know what happened.  This is how we ended up with the 'I did my own Covid Research' which led to more than a million deaths.

But, even more hypocritical is that conservatives who proclaim you can never trust the government indubitably always believe Police briefings and reports which wholly exonerate the Officer, every time.

One of the things which was supposed to address the inappropriate escalation of force by Police Officers and curb violence and extrajudicial killings of minorities was the adoption of Body Cameras.  But, much like squad car mounted cameras years ago all the Body Cameras are doing is showing Police Officers violence and unlawful uses of force and unequal application of law.

But, again white righting America doesn't care.  When President Obama correctly stated the Cambridge Police acted stupidly for arresting Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates outside his own home in Harvard, rightwing media pounced and white America howled, beat their breasts, and rent their hair.  President Obama tried to minimize the white fury by calling it a "teachable moment" but, Faux News knew they had a winner because racist conservatives love lies and hate when their bigotry is pointed out.

So, there are no teachable moments when Police interact with persons of color.  As the Childersburg Alabama Police demonstrated by arresting black Pastor Michael Jennings for the crime of... well for the crime of being an unforgivable black person, calling his infraction, "obstructing government operations.

Disingenuous racist assholes invariably descend upon comment sections rabidly stating, don't resist, just comply, or don't run as they always blame the person of color for their mistreatment by Police and of course, this is asserted in bad faith by white men who give shit to Cops all the time (e.g. when they are drunk driving, beating up their wives, acting like drunk ripe assholes at bars or beaten Capitol Police Officer while trying to overthrow the US Government) it's just whites feel absolute impunity to act like jag-offs because Police should be rousting minorities somewhere and not hassling white dudes for just smacking their mouthy girlfriends around.

So... the pattern continues...

Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio

Rob Adams in San Bernardino, California.

Nykon Brandon in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Watching the overweight Nykon Brandon "running" around in large white boxers the first question which comes to mind is; why are you running up to him and grabbing at him?  Follow him, see what he does, walk up to him, see how he reacts.  Instead of charging him and going hands on for crime of him "stealing" a beer from a Brewery.  It's also no doubt Brandon was trying to get beer to self-medicate and even the 911 caller could tell this was a mental health crisis and requested they send someone specifically to handle it as such.  But, instead the Officer induced escalation immediately led to a wrestling match, wherein additional Officers piled on Brandon holding him face down, controlling his head, and restricting his breathing, leading directly to his death.

On Ausgust 30th, in Columbus, Ohio Police executed a 0230 hour arrest warrant which ended in the death of the black man, Donovan Lewis in his bed.  Lewis was wanted for domestic violence and some sort of Ohio UUW, and being black white conservatives absolutely unequivocally support his summary execution because of the subjective fear the Officer experienced upon breaching the door and locating Lewis.  Listen to Alonzo Bodden dismantle this white woman's claim the shooting was reasonable because of the reasonable fear the Officer had being reasonable and reasonably being wrong about his reasonableness. 

Conservative America absolutely supports every extrajudicial killing of a person of color.  George Floyd's death din't change this.  Previous deaths of black men didn't change this.

Here in Illinois alleged Pig Fvcker Darren Bailey is using racist fear mongering about the Safe-T Act to attack Governor J.B. Pritizker because Bailey and his racist rightwing devotee Dan Proft know white America can be roused to support fascism by scare tactics about crime 

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 25: Phony Fainting from Fentanyl finds familiar Fox News fibbers flogging falsehoods

Renee Parsons' body "went completely numb" from 
touching a fentanyl dollar.  As a conservative
Renee's numb from the neck up already.

One of the best old time YouTube videos I've ever seen was this Let the Bodies Hit the Floor mocking of Benny Hinn and his faith healing con.  The ridiculous undulations of people supposed infused with the Holy Spirit coupled with the pilfering of the wallets should have been the tell.  It's absolutely clear the people are either play acting as they writhe upon the ground or go flying backwards as though they've been hit by a Benny Hinn Hadouken or they are in on the con.

Nowadays, Police Officers soooo misunderstood and mistreated by the society they ostensibly Protect & Serve, want to get on the racket; hence the ridiculous play acting and panic attacks Officers are engaging in after they supposedly touch a scintilla of Fentanyl.

Fentanyl has been around for 50 years and lacing heroin with it is not new either, but has been going on for a couple decades at least.  But, in the last couple of years Police Officers have taken to proclaiming they have been overdosing and almost dying from casual contact with suspect fentanyl.  

According to reporting by Peter Andrey Smith of The Washington Post in 2021, 

By my count, more than 200 police officers, first responders, nurses and guards at correctional institutions have claimed to have suffered adverse reactions based on incidental contact with fentanyl. (Other researchers put the total number of such reports even higher.) 

What the fuck is going on?  Well, the most likely explanations are deliberate lying or suffering from a folie à plusiers (a shared mass psychotic disorder).  The deliberate fakery could come from any number of reasons; for instance malingering which wasn't just invented for military members who deliberately shirk their duty, or a desire to convince people of the "real" dangers facing police officers, and a psychological need/desire to be lauded for your sacrifice.

I think a lot of this goes back to the demonization of certain out groups of people.  Fentanyl right now is associated with "bad people" i.e. illicit drug users and sellers and Cops are the "good guys" and you always need to update the reasons for the War on Drugs and et voila now we have another reason to throw those people in jail.  And make no mistake all of this is target to get white people back in line with puritanical hatred of drugs.

Drugs are the greatest invention/discovery for mankind.  Misuse of drugs is a problem but, it's a problem which needs to be treated medically.  Indeed this is the only way to effectively, safely, and humanely deal with drug addiction.  But, not in America!  No in America you go to jail for using drugs.

You see for a while now, during the Opioid epidemic, white people's trained fear and hatred for the "criminal" drug using community (hippies and blacks) has been waning as families across the USA suffer the effects of drug addiction and thus have garnered some empathy for other people.  Conservative and Republican leaders can not allow such tolerance and empathy to take hold.  Imagine if Americans declared no more sending people to prison for drug addiction!

Because there is HUGE Money to be made from jailing people.  Now, I'm not claiming these lying Officers are involved in a massive conspiracy to benefit the Prison Industrial Complex intentionally but, they sure as fuck are helping it and affording lying white rightwingers the opportunity to go onto Faux News to declare white liars to claim fentanyl overdosing from touching a dirty drug users dollar almost killed her and required her husband to have to drive 100mph to get overdose treatment.  Utter bullshit.  Rightwing dangers of drugs agitprop.  And all because Copaganda and the lying Thin Blue Line which buttresses such bullshit.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 23: The Practical Guide for Investigating the Crime of Abortion

Well, now that Abortion is illegal in many states, Police just increased their workload.

First off, Fascists like Puzzi Alito and Coathanger Barrett implement laws and decrees which are often unworkable and leave it to people to try and craft solutions in accordance with those vile and capricious declarations.  Fascists do this without a care and in bad faith because they know diligent, hard-working and honest people will attempt their best to come up with a way to accomplish them.  Either way the Fascists don't care what happens because either the people accede to their whims or they wrack themselves with worry and guilt at being unable to accomplish these Laws.  The Sinister Six are anathema to a functioning Democracy and have destroyed the farce that the United States is a Nation of Laws; it isn't.  The United States is a Nation under the Imperial Theocratic control of 6 Judges; a Supreme Injustice.

Now, I know right off that the point of the Abortion bans is that conservatives want women (and anyone else thinking of aiding women) to know that at any time the Awesome Power of the State can be brought to bear upon them.  That, at almost any moment they can be declared under investigation and subject to all the vicissitudes of a wholly immoral coercive pressure campaign.  So, what 4th Amendment protections are going to be in place?  Because being charged with a crime is an incredibly life-altering moment.  I ask this knowing the Roberts Unjust Court has narrowed 4thTrump. and 5th Amendment protections for many years now and as Justice Ginni Thomas stated in her concurring solo opinion it's time to look at rolling back other liberties, freedoms, and protections for Americans that conservatives do not consider human beings. 

So what other police tactics will be employed to control and punish women?

Repurposing DUI and seatbelt compliance checkpoints to check on the menstrual status of all the females in the vehicle?  Checkpoints at state borders where questions are asked about where the driver and occupants are going?

I expect Republicans are counting on Doctors, Nurses, and Hospital Administrators as their most important assets.  Certainly, there will be collaborators in the Health services who will be more than happy to call the Police every time a woman shows up having suffered a miscarriage.  But, more than that I expect "The People's Representatives" will instruct Judges to issue blanket orders that any woman entering a Hospital consents to having a pregnancy test prior to receiving any and all treatment and that Hospital's are expected to turn over pregnant women's paperwork as a standard operating principle.  So, that a Detective or States Attorney can follow up and see how her mandated pregnancy is proceeding.

It's going to be a shit show of a nightmare for Hospital staff when Officers show up to arrest women.  Of course, a Governor like Tate Reeves, will not blanche at the thought of creating a Police Uterine Division (PUD) and there are a gaggle of Reactionary asshole Cops eager and waiting to be put on some special Vaginal Inspection Task Force.  Assuredly, Republican Attorney's General will readily create teams of Assistant Prosecutors and Investigators tasked with identifying pregnancy terminations and interrogating women about the monthly cycles.

Plus there are legions of men out there who will drop a dime on this or that bitch who dumped them or didn't even fuck them.  Also, any data, tracking app or on-line shopping which might give a clue to a woman's pregnancy status is going to find it's way to the authorities, legally or not.

So the fascists will have their eager enforcers but, in order for this to work properly, it's the rest of those in Police Departments and prosecutorial offices that need to tacitly acquiesce to this madness.  If a regular patrol officer who self-identifies as apolitical and doesn't "have an opinion" about abortion, willingly takes a report and gathers as many facts as possible because he's just doing his job and following orders than we are truly fucked.

The Assassination of 21 Uvalde residents by the Coward Texas Police Officers (Defund the Police)

"If they are going to start this, they cannot expect us to sit silently while they try to strip our Second Amendment rights," In response to the latest Gun Massacre in America, Florida Republican Representative Randy Fine justifies threatening to assassinate President Biden as Republicans continue to descend into Pure Fascism.

The Copaganda Narrative of Uvalde has fallen apart.  The timeline of events does not correspond at all with the bullshit narrative Police, Authorities, and Texas Republicans first presented.  This whole thing is fucking unbelievable.  The shooter was outside firing rounds for 12 minutes prior to entering the school.  The Officers saw him enter and followed but were repulsed by superior firepower.  At this point once you have eyes in the shooter or once you know his location from the gunfire you are receiving you must maintain contact to keep his location fixed.  Yes, I'm sorry Boys you're going to get shot at with rifle rounds.  But!  Don't fret!  I hear from gun nuts on-line all the time that an AR-15 is just a 22!  A pea-shooter!  

Instead the Officers retreated, lost containment and waited an hour for the more heavily armed QRF to respond.  A fucking hour! 

The entire incident appears to be a mixture of sheer incompetence and pure cowardice.  The stories coming out of dithering, of handcuffing parents, of other Texas Deputies going into the school and retrieving their children, of incompetent attempts to reach students hiding and exposing them to the school shooter.

David Simon said in the film The House I Live In, that the War on Drugs and the Police State associated with it, could claim to be worth it if, we also had safety and security but, we don't.  So, instead we get the dehumanization of America from the War on Drugs in addition to the tyrannical authoritarianism of a fascist internal police.

The same is true with the bloated Police budgets and obsequious fealty Police Departments demand.  It might be worth it, to bow and scrape, and pay police exorbitant overtime pay for safety and security but, instead Police Budgets take away from other more vital services which can better address the issues facing society and because of the Republican policy of flooding the Nation with 400,000,000 easily obtainable firearms we have no safety and no security.

And I'm not even talking about the payouts for egregious violations of law and misconduct just the amount of money dedicated to keep the precious feeling of The Cowardly Thin Blue Line from being hurt when Police are criticized for gross misconnection, law breaking, and violations of rights.

40% of Uvalde's city budget goes to the Police Department.  They have a SWAT equivalent team.  This would be a great time to talk about Defunding the Police, but right now rightwing media would love nothing more than to change the subject to violence in Democrat Run cities and disgusting Republican slobs like Sarah Suckabee Sanders could get on Faux News and say Chicago Chicago Chicago!!!

"I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn’t helped there." Suckebee Sanders after the Las Vegas Mass Shooting in 2017

And I haven't even mentioned the concerted conservative on-line disinformation campaign by Candeath Owens and other rightwing influencers. using random pictures of innocent Transgender women "Sam" from Georgia and others to deflect, distract and, delay in order to run out the clock on gun control efforts and stoke the fires of anti-trans bigotry which conservatives will employ for the next mass shooting.

I know Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ken Paxton, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn are shameless and have no compunction about giving these petulant interviews oozing bad faith and uncaring sarcasm but how can Texans, tough talking, god-fearing, giant belt buckle wearing, self-reliant frontier folk vote for these slimy fucks?  Has the non-stop GOP rhetoric and propaganda worked that fucking well?  That these doughy, wide-waisted, flabby-assed, cowards are the epitome of Texas?  How can you look at Ted Cruz and go Yep! that's who I want as a Senator!

The Truth is Greg Abbott and the Texas Republicans don't care.  They don't fucking care.  They don't fucking care about this latests mass shooting with Kids and Teachers blown to pieces.  Just like they didn't care about the last mass shooting in Texas.  And just like they won't fucking care about the next mass shooting in Texas.  And why should they?  Playing tough guy, helping to flood Texas with guns, and ignoring gun violence has made them rich and powerful.  They get to talk tough and scream at Beto O'Rourke and then laugh at Liberal Tears because of Guns.

The sad truth is I expect the Faux News spun propaganda and righting on-line discourse to turn to those cowardly Cops failed to do their job!  If those Cops had done the easy brave thing, this never would have happened, and our theory of Guns making people safer would still be 100% correct.  Also anyway the Democrats are to blame! 

Additional:

I understand why Republicans like Randy Fine, threaten the President of the United States in service to their masters the NRA (the need the power, influence, and money of the NRA to win elections) but why does Mitt Romney with his bullshit holier-than-thou sanctity of life not break with the Gun Lobby?  He doesn't need their money.  Why doesn't Susan Concerned Collins break and support Gun Control?  She doesn't need the rightwing propaganda machine to win elections.  No, what the lock-step Republicans deference and obedience to the NRA shows is there are NO Moderate Republicans.  The Republican Party is a wholly Fascist Organization which rapidly advancing on the prospect of subjugation and wholesale murder of millions of Americans.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 19: Buffalo Officers, won't you push an Old Man to the Ground Tonight, Push an Old Man to the Ground Tonight!

Besides butchering the spirit of the original quote by Terry Pratchet it draws a distinct blue line between Justice and the Police and clearly indicates Police don't provide Justice.  Because in the United States, we don't have a Justice System we have a Legal System, and that system is geared to over protect rich and their property and indemnify the Guards of the System. 

In 2020, protests over the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd erupted across the country.  These were peaceful, but they were also an expression of left-wing agitation and the United States does not allow left-wing agitation so Police were called out in force and all manner of egregious violence was meted out on protestors.

Right-wing agitation, on the contrary, is coddled and encouraged in the Nation as witnessed by the two domestic terrorists who planned to kidnap and murder Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer were acquitted and the other two were given mistrials.   

So, when 75 year old Martin Gugino was shoved to the ground by two Buffalo New York Police Officers (dressed in their best Judge Dredd gear and flanked by 50 other similarly festooned Officers) and began bleeding from the ears after suffering a fractured skull, it became another chance for right-wingers across the Nation to invent and concoct outlandish conspiracies of radio jamming to justify the egregious misue of force, which is exactly what fascist Twitter and Traitor-in-Chief Trump did.

Well, as these things go, the two Officers were cleared today of any policy violations by an arbitrator and of course, a Grand Jury last year declined to indict either officer.

The arbitrator Jeffrey Selchick's written opinion is ludicrous of course,

"Upon review, there is no evidence to sustain any claim that Respondents (police officers) had any other viable options other than to move Gugino out of the way of their forward movement."

Gotta push that solitary old man over instead walking around him because he was trying to zap the digital radios of the Riot Police with his special 5G vaccines!  The attorney for Gugino is continuing with the lawsuit against the City of Buffalo but, the Police Commissioner planned to reinstate the two Officers today.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 13: Murder, Someone Wrote, but we don't know Who

His only option is to question as many people as possible, to believe those who deserve belief, and to be a good judge of what he hears. - Polyibus, The Histories Book 12 Chapter 4c

Solving crimes is what most people believe the Police should be doing.  Murder is, of course, the worst crime and occupies its' own classification in the Illinois Criminal Code.

Unfortunately, over the past 40 years the clearance rate for homicides has steadily dropped.  From a high of about 75% solving a murder is now a 50/50 shot.  Now, this is bad in the aggregate but, it might not be as bad as the data and graphs seem to illustrate.  

Because for a long time clearance rate was simply based on the making of an arrest and unfortunately old school Police tactics were unethical and borderline criminal, besides the outright heinous crimes of the infamous Chicago Officer John Burge.

I'm not going to say solving a murder is ever "easy", but departments do have a wider array of diagnostic kits, greater investigative tools, and superior evidence collection at their disposal than ever before.  But, the most important aspect of investigating crimes remains face-to-face investigations.  Known for a long time as "shoe leather" detective work.  Have investigation skills, interview techniques, attention to details, critical thinking lapsed since the old days?  I doubt it.  The dismal clearance rate for murder is instead a direct reflection of a lack of trust of Police Officers and Departments by society.  

Due to constant bad actions (and I don't mean just spectacular crimes like Chauvin's) and the proliferation of information Police Departments have also lost moral authority.  Because of this people know who is responsible for many murders they just don't want to tell Police the information.

That's bad and it strikes at the core problem facing Policing going forward and right now.  #3 of Sir Robert Peel's nearly 200 year old 9 principles of Policing; The police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain public respect.  Those 9 maxims still stand as basic guidelines for Policing in the United States and Western liberal Democracies. 

Can Police get the trust and cooperation of society back? Not now.  I don't know what it will take to regain trust.  If it is even possible.  Defund?  Reformation?  Police reform has been a catch-phrase and running theme for decades.  Police reform is only accomplished when a new generation with a new way of thinking takes over and the problem with Policing was identified by Raymond Chandler a century ago; 

The Revenge on the Thin Blue 11: The Art of Self-Defund starring Candace Owens

One of the saddest things about the on-going Covid Pandemic is how easily misinformation, rightwing memes, Faux News propaganda, and outright lies have so readily been absorbed by Police Officers across the Nation.  It's simple and insidious.  And it's led to Police Officers defunding themselves by dying of Covid.  

Having been conditioned for years to discount the LIEbral Media and place outsized trust and support in Republican liars and rightwing talking heads, Police Officers have allowed themselves to be duped and misled.  Every rightwing antivaxxer social media is festooned with dank memes by Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, Faux News, OAN and any of the other low-level rightwing grifters.

This has lead to Police Officers across the Nation dying from Covid.  Looking at the Officer Down Covid page all I can do is shake my head and plead with fellow Officers to get vaccinated instead of posting the Babylon Bee CDC seatbelt gotcha meme and then dying.

One of the amazing feats of research by reddit shows a high correlation of retweeting Candeath Ovens (Candace Owens) and then dying of Covid.  Obviously her most ardent fans retweet Candace because they believe her being black immediately and forever indemnifies them from charges of racism.  But, because of her incessant, non-stop tweeting of anti-vaxx lies, I must conclude Owens is actually a #BLM paid employee or #ACAB sleeper agent getting Cops and whitey to off themselves.  Candace is the grim reaper for fat-faced white dudes with gray goatees.