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The demand was later included in a petition that urged a sentence for Burge that was commensurate with his underlying crimes and accounted for his refusal to accept responsibility for his serialized torture. Statutes of limitations on torture have prevented Burge and the detectives under his command from being prosecuted for torturing at least 100 people, nearly all African American men, between 1972 and 1991. After being detained, suspects were subjected to horrific abuse including electric shocks to the genitals and other body parts, suffocation, mock executions and beatings – all of which often accompanied by racial slurs, hurled by all white detectives. You are not being boarded. If the SCPD or other law enforcement agenies are going to infiltrate a silly little NY’s parade, think about what they might do to disrupt real, longterm, effective grassroots efforts in Santa Cruz. Both individual men and “patriarchal structures” are in the frame, and while I find the former quite plausible, I always find blaming vague shape-shifting structures a little lazy. “We needed top quality people down there,” the former JAG recalled, cryptomaniaks.com money fraud adding that DeSantis was described to him by his superiors as a “sharp, good guy”. As the year wore on, other activist groups, including Project NIA and We Charge Genocide, joined the coalition that led the campaign to get the reparations ordinance passed, adding new and creative leadership, including Mariame Kaba and Page May, energetic youth and a strong infusion of young people of color.

The city’s Public Safety Committee will look into this, but so far at least on the surface, there is no reason to think that the Police were doing anything other than attending a public meeting to get logistical information related to public safety (e.g. potential car and pedestrian conflicts) concerning an announced demonstration in the streets downtown in which the planners of the event refused to talk to the police about their plans or apply for a permit. In your letter, you said, “there is no reason to think that the Police were doing anything other than attending a public meeting to get logistical information related to public safety concerning an announced demonstration in the streets downtown in which the planners of the event refused to talk to the police about their plans or apply for a permit.” The Last Night planners did not refuse to talk to the police. As chair of the Public Safety Committee, I have already asked the Police Chief to present a report on the incident at our meeting on February 27th, 4pm in the Courtyard Conference Room behind the Council Chambers at City Hall.

You are answerable first to the people, second to city administrators. Thanks Steve, for clarifying the First Amendment violation which occurred. It appears that the 4th amendment protections do not apply to “naked eye searchesâ€? It has been established by Congress in the 1970’s that it is illegal for police agencies to infiltrate peaceful organizing groups when there is no evidence of a crime having been committed, that it violates first amendment gaurantees of the US constitution. Once again, an overly broad reading of the Fourth Amendment in one place (presumptively requiring all searches to be supported by probable cause or something like it) creates hydraulic pressure to weaken the Amendment in another place (by denying that naked-eye surveillance is even covered by the Amendment at all). And while the parade represented a broad cross-section of the community, how did Deputy Chief Vogel come to this conclusion? A male guard taunted him while a female guard took off her clothing.

The NCIS investigators did not formally interview the senior medical officer on duty that night, nor did they talk to the soldiers from a military intelligence unit in the guard towers with a clear sight of the camp, and whose version of events was quite different from the NCIS account. Slahi was accused of terrorism because he had once supported al-Qaeda during the 1980s Afghanistan insurrection but after several years of physical and psychological torture at the prison camp, Hollander helped him to win a ruling of unlawful detention by the US government. The Mauritanian does portray some of the harsh treatment he experienced but as soon as torture enters the narrative, the audience is transported into Slahi’s memories of his life before his detention. All of us can relate to having an imaginary friend from our childhood days, only with this series the little friend comes back to life and follows this sexy adult woman around in life to help her make choices. Latinx folklore, who I argue issues from what Emma Pérez has named the decolonial imaginary. This whole story is a little vague to me, and frankly a bit unbelievable without a NAMED source.