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Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 3:03 a.m. No.9631028   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1032 >>1037 >>1042 >>1056 >>1174

https://outline.com/UTDRXh

 

James Comey June 08, 2020

My advice to police officers on handling criticism

 

It’s hard to both care what people think and not care, but it is essential, especially in a public-trust business such as law enforcement.

 

I think of it as a window. I can’t open it all the way or the hate will overwhelm me. But I have to open it some to let in thoughtful voices of criticism because I could be wrong (and because it is so easy to convince myself I am right). Law enforcement has a tendency to slam the window shut under pressure.

 

And I understand that instinct to slam. There is a sense of frustration that the job is hard and thankless, and that cops aren’t the root cause of the underlying problems but still get blamed for them. Context is frequently missing, and an entire group gets judged by anecdotes, not data.

 

Second, leadership is frequently weak, because police chiefs are often afraid of their political masters and afraid of their rank-and-file officers, in the sense that the labor unions can really make their lives difficult.

 

Third, the pressure to conform in law enforcement is extraordinary. The reasons make sense. Cops depend upon each other, often for their very lives. It is like the bond among members of a sports team, but magnified because the season never ends and the stakes are much higher than just losing a game. And when the world is hating you as a group, your group gets tighter, even when getting tighter is self-defeating.

 

Still, the best cops will find a way to keep the window open. Because there is a lot that needs improvement in policing. The things I see: Bad cops just moving to a new department; cultures of lying in many places; overuse of SWAT; low pay; bad leadership; de-escalation seen as weakness; and poor fitness, which makes all encounters ratchet quickly to weapons and other tools. I’m sure your list is longer.

 

I’m concerned about a culture that has emerged among some cops suggesting they are warriors standing as the last line of defense in a battle between order and chaos. I see the “sheep dog” tattoos and stickers suggesting the job is to protect us from wolves; I see the bumper stickers on off-duty cars of “The Punisher” comic book hero, who brings miscreants to violent justice. You aren’t fighting a war; you are serving a community.

 

I understand the sense of unfairness that good cops feel about being grouped with the worst among you — and being assigned responsibility for problems you can’t solve. Law enforcement has improved dramatically in the past five years in its use of force in general; then come four Minneapolis police officers, and their videotaped actions help undo in a moment any perception of progress.

 

And “defunding” the police makes sense only if it means relieving the cops of responsibilities they shouldn’t have — such as truancy, mental health interventions, homelessness and substance abuse. If people want to pay for someone else to handle that, and leave the police to the business of law enforcement, it would be a blessing.

 

The really hard problem? Relations between police and the black community. The relationship has long been troubled. Crime in some communities is real, enduring and heartbreaking. That’s a legacy of 400 years of America mistreating black people. Policing was part of the way we did that, but fully enlightened policing today will not solve the underlying problems.

 

I don’t know what to do about that, except try to frame it both positively and negatively. Law enforcement will be better in five years as a result of this (just as Ferguson more than five years ago spurred improvement). But many problems faced by the black community likely will not be, which leaves me very sad.

 

Policing is experiencing a perfect storm, and the combination is uniquely toxic: unprecedented pandemic anxiety, economic pain, an appalling visual record of police misconduct, political polarization, historically low crime rates and horrific national leadership. The combination feeds the focus on cops in a way we have never experienced.

 

I’m sure a lot of cops are thinking: “Okay, let crime explode and let good people flee law enforcement, and then they will appreciate us.” That would be a terrible attitude for a profession built on serving others.

 

So my advice is to keep the window open, find ways to improve and resist cynicism. Cops are never going to be appreciated fully. So what? You don’t become a cop to hear applause. You become a cop because you want to do hard things that make a difference. Please stay with it; all communities need good cops now more than ever.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 3:41 a.m. No.9631140   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1153

>>9631134

>“The shooting tonight was a tragic, outrageous and unacceptable act of violence and it has no place in our city,” the mayor, Tim Keller, said in a statement. “Our diverse community will not be deterred by acts meant to divide or silence us. Our hearts go out to the victim, his family and witnesses whose lives were needlessly threatened tonight. This sculpture has now become an urgent matter of public safety.”

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:03 a.m. No.9631218   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1281 >>1448 >>1481

>>9631213

>https://outline.com/P2ZBrH

Chaos in Dijon after armed gangs face off against police in fourth day of violence

 

Police faced off against armed gangs in a fourth day of violence in the historic French city of Dijon on Monday night.

 

Dozens of men armed with iron bars and handguns burned cars and rubbish bins and destroyed CCTV cameras in the Grésilles neighbourhood, in what police said was a reaction to violence by members of the city's Chechen community over the weekend

 

In one incident, a team of journalists from France 3 was attacked by men who stoned their vehicle. By 8.30 pm, at least 100 police officers were deployed to deal with the crowd. Four people were arrested, police said.

 

Dijon has been rocked by violence over the weekend, with several hundred people from France's Chechen community descending on the city to avenge an assault on a local teenager on June 10.

 

One of the men who took part in the violence confirmed to a local newspaper that an attack on a community centre on Friday was a revenge attack after a local drug dealer assaulted a 16-year-old Chechen youth.

 

On Saturday night, around 50 Chechen men returned to the Grésilles district, where a local manager of a pizza restaurant was shot. On Sunday, as many as 200 men took to the streets in the district.

 

Bernard Schmeltz, the region's prefect, said that the disturbances on Monday night were believed to be revenge attacks for the violence of the previous three evenings.

 

"We have not identified any external presence, they are people from Dijon," Schmeltz said.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:04 a.m. No.9631224   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>9631213

>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-dijon-idUSKBN23N0OE

Armed French police deploy in Dijon to quell ethnic gang violence

 

PARIS (Reuters) - Armed police were deployed in part of Dijon, eastern France, after violence erupted between rival gangs for a fourth night running.

 

Cars were torched and wheelie bins set alight late on Monday before several dozen police managed to restore order, authorities said.

 

The unrest stemmed from “a settling of scores” between ethnic Chechens and local residents of Gresilles, a low-income district with a heavy North African immigrant population, said local prefect Bernard Schmeltz.

 

Regional radio news station France Bleu quoted Dijon prosecutor Eric Mathias as saying he had opened an investigation into attempted murder by an organised group and incitement to violence.

 

Mathias said Chechens had allegedly used social media to issue a France-wide call for vengeance over an attack on a member of their community by people from the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa.

 

Videos, whose provenance Reuters could not immediately authenticate, circulated at the weekend showing dozens of hooded Chechen men, some wearing balaclavas and brandishing handguns or knives, out in the streets of the Dijon suburb.

 

“We’re no longer in a (functioning) Republic when that is how things play out,” Dijon mayor Francois Rebsamen told BFM TV, denouncing a lack of police resources.

 

Interior Security Minister Laurent Nunez was due to travel to Dijon on Tuesday.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:04 a.m. No.9631227   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>9631213

>https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/clashes-dijon-injure-10-prompt-french-govt-intervene-71270706

Clashes in Dijon injure 10, prompt French govt to intervene

 

PARIS – The French government sent police reinforcements and a top official to the Dijon region to quell four nights of clashes between rival groups.

 

The unrest began last week after a teenager from France’s Chechen community was attacked by local drug dealers, according to local broadcaster France Bleu. Members of the Chechen community called on social networks for revenge and fighting broke out Friday.

 

After tensions continued through the weekend, the interior minister ordered police reinforcements to the area and announced Monday that the government would take over management of the situation.

 

Junior Minister Laurent Nunez is heading to the area Tuesday and an investigation is under way into what unleashed the violence.

 

The local administration, or prefecture, says at least 10 people have been injured.

 

The unrest comes amid tensions between French police and the government. Amid protests around France over racial injustice and police brutality, the government said last week it would ban police from using chokeholds to subdue people. But the government backed down Monday after police themselves protested. France is experimenting with expanding the use of stun-guns as a potential alternative.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:09 a.m. No.9631243   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1246 >>1257 >>1308

>>9631211

>https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/rep-ilhan-omars-father-dead-at-67-of-coronavirus/

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s father dead at 67 from coronavirus

 

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s father died on Monday from complications of coronavirus, the congresswoman announced.

 

The Minnesota Democrat released a statement that said Nur Omar Mohamed had passed earlier in the day after battling the virus which has sparked a worldwide pandemic. He was 67-years-old.

 

“It is with tremendous sadness and pain that I share that my father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passed away today due to complications from COVID-19,” Omar’s statement read.

 

“No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him. My family and I ask for your respect and privacy during this time,” the statement continued.

 

As of late Monday, the novel coronavirus has infected over 2.1 million people in the US and claimed more than 116,000 lives, according to statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

 

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1272729952086044673

 

Is her brother gonna be at the funeral?

Awkwaard.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:26 a.m. No.9631309   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1359

https://www.voanews.com/episode/who-are-antifa-4324666

 

Who Are Antifa?

 

As protests spill into the streets of a number of U.S. cities, some officials are blaming the violence seen during some rallies on Antifa, or anti-fascists. President Trump has even said he wants to label the group as a terrorist organization. For VOA, Anush Avetisyan reports.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:38 a.m. No.9631350   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>9631342

>I couldn’t of done it without the shills.

 

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:44 a.m. No.9631391   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>9630811

>Up out of Ben Gurion Airport in Yagel Israel we have a US registered 2016 GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORP GVI(G650ER), tail number N720LF, who hides their flight plans on Flight Aware and hides aircraft ownership behind a blind trust through a US Aviation law firm.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:47 a.m. No.9631415   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1448 >>1481

>>9631404

>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-idUSKBN23N0ZU

India says three soldiers killed in 'violent faceoff' on border with China

 

Indian government sources said no shots were fired but a physical fight broke out between the two sides with soldiers using batons and throwing stones, which resulted in the casualties.

 

China blamed India for the clash on Monday and editor of the government-controlled Global Times said the Chinese military had also suffered casualties.

 

India and China have been locked in a standoff in the Galwan valley in western Himalayas for weeks with both accusing each other of trespassing into the other’s territory.

 

Talks to pull back hundreds of troops deployed in the remote region have been held over the last ten days but no breakthrough had emerged.

 

“During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with casualties on both sides,” the Indian army said in a statement.

Anonymous ID: da75d8 June 16, 2020, 4:48 a.m. No.9631422   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1490 >>1509

>>9631417

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy. (16 June)