Hacker News with Generative AI: Police Brutality

Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived (nytimes.com)
“It’s the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction. In the video, which Khalil’s wife recorded, she asks for the names of the men in plainclothes who handcuffed her husband.
Police Brutality, Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Journalism
40 points by tastyface 23 days ago | 7 comments
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived (nytimes.com)
“It’s the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction. In the video, which Khalil’s wife recorded, she asks for the names of the men in plainclothes who handcuffed her husband.
Police Brutality, Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Argentina
15 points by quantified 24 days ago | 2 comments
Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists (thetimes.com)
Police Brutality, Activism, UK News, Quakers
158 points by petethomas 26 days ago | 105 comments
Alabama police department put on leave after grand jury recommends its abolition (nbcnews.com)
The mayor of a city in Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, a day after officials announced that a grand jury had recommended the small department be abolished, saying it had “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency” and is “an ongoing threat to public safety.”
Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, Grand Jury, Alabama
81 points by geox 64 days ago | 16 comments
Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home, Kill Innocent Man over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater (atlantablackstar.com)
Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.
Police Brutality, Misconduct, Law Enforcement, Kentucky, Criminal Justice
43 points by pseudolus 110 days ago | 23 comments
Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime (cbsnews.com)
Police across the U.S. are illegally selling firearms, CBS News investigation finds
Police Brutality, Crime, Law Enforcement, Gun Control
11 points by coloneltcb 142 days ago | 1 comments
Court rejects bid for compensation after police raid damaged Texas woman's house (amylhowe.com)
The Supreme Court declined on Monday morning to hear the case of a Texas woman seeking compensation for damage to her home inflicted by a SWAT team pursuing a fugitive.
Law, Police Brutality, Texas, Supreme Court, Compensation
7 points by speckx 152 days ago | 1 comments
Las Vegas man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home (bbc.com)
A 43-year-old man was fatally shot by police in Las Vegas after he called 911 for help while fighting off an intruder in his home.
Police Brutality, Crime, Las Vegas
18 points by tartoran 156 days ago | 18 comments
Missouri Cops Accused of Pulling over Women and Searching Their Phones for Nudes (gizmodo.com)
In two separate legal cases, former police officers in Missouri have been charged with pulling women over and then searching their cell phones for nude pictures.
Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, Missouri, Privacy, Sexism
23 points by colinprince 159 days ago | 4 comments
Mapping Germany's 'Dangerous Zones' and Police Overreach (netlify.app)
Germany, Crime, Police Brutality, Data Visualization
21 points by agragra 180 days ago | 3 comments
Cop Who Lied to Justify Drug Raid Says He's Not Responsible for Resulting Deaths (reason.com)
This week, nearly six years after Houston cops killed a middle-aged couple falsely accused of selling heroin, a jury began considering the murder case against Gerald Goines, the former narcotics officer who instigated the deadly raid.
Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, False Accusations, Justice System
8 points by pseudolus 225 days ago | 0 comments
When Facial Recognition Helps Police Target Black Faces (thewalrus.ca)
Facial Recognition, Racial Bias, Police Brutality, Technology
5 points by pseudolus 287 days ago | 0 comments
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into police detainees (apnews.com)
Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, Health Risks, Sedatives
67 points by cempaka 363 days ago | 84 comments