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Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill quotes a report from The Daily Dot: Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government's servers have been hacked and 50,000 city police records leaked including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker that goes by the name @ox2Taylor claimed responsibility for the breach, which was confirmed by security intelligence analyst at Patch Penguin, Jamie-Luke Woodruff. He told the Daily Dot that the administrators of the website had failed to implement proper security measures. When the hacker first announced the hack, he accompanied the tweet with three hashtags revealing the motivation: #AltonSterling, #Hacked, and #BlackLivesMatters. "The reason i did it is because of what that officer did to alton sterling," Taylor told the Daily Dot in a private message. "i'm sick of seeing police abuse their power and all the killings."
Police kill far more innocent civilians than civilians kill police. 42 police were killed by civilians in 2015. 1,134 people were killed by police. Of them, about 1/5 actually fired at the police.... And at the other end lf the spectrum 1/5th werent armed at all. The problem is their training. They're being trained to shidt all the risk off of themselves and onto the public. Protect themselves above all else. That's just not the mentality a poloce officer needs to have.
Karma applies to everyone and Alton Sterling was hardly a stand-up, do-right kind of person.
The man was pinned to the ground and incapable of anything more than a token fight.
The video clearly shows the officer pull his gun, point it at Sterling, and after a delay of a few seconds, he shot the man in cold blood. This officer is guilty of 1st degree murder, plain and simple. There is pretty much no way you can misinterpret that video. The officer used deadly force with absolutely no good reason to do so. Sterling was effectively subdued, and the officer had no remotely justifiable reason to pull the trigger. A good cop would have cuffed Sterling right then. A murderer does what this guy did.
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This officer is guilty of 1st degree murder, plain and simple.
You don't actually know what 1st degree murder is, plain and simple.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The man was pinned to the ground and incapable of anything more than a token fight.
I disagree.
If you read the story, Mr. Sterling had been stunned twice and *was still standing.* Wow! That guy is a tank! So the officers physically took him down. One officer pinned Mr. Sterling's left arm, while the other officer was unable to pin his right arm because of the car in the way. From the store's video camera view, we see that Mr. Sterling's right arm was reaching down to his side. After the shooting, the police remove a gun from his right side.
So I see:
* Man refuses to stand down when verbally asked.
* Man stands-up to two stuns.
* Man is still struggling after being pinned to the ground.
We can stop here: at this point, they might well legally be able to shoot him. They have exhausted all other options. What else could they do? Stun him 50 more times? Hope another officer arrives and that 3 people can take him down? I'm seriously interested in hearing what the next escalation level is that doesn't involve a gun.
* Man has a gun.
I am no lawyer, but I am pretty confident that NOW they can shoot him. At this point, even if he laughed and said "Sorry guys, I just was messing around, let me up and we can chat about this" they might still be room to shoot him. He demonstrated that he is willing to use force, that he is strong as hell, and he isn't giving up. Now he has a deadly weapon too?
* Man is reaching for a gun.
No brainer. Done.
The police shot a man that was in no position to fight back.
No, they used force to stop a 6'-4", 300 pound guy that WAS fighting back, and who they did not have under control. And they knew he had a gun. They showed up there BECAUSE he had been threatening people and waving a gun around, and they had to get physical with him because he was fired up and refused to do what they said, they couldn't taze him into submission, and he was fighting with them. While armed. You don't actually know what the word "murder" means.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The AR-15 isn't an assault rifle? What do you think the AR stands for, Einstein? Assault Rifle model 15 is what it stands for but don't let names screw with ya. I'm 100% certain that you didn't comment in any of the Tesla threads bitching about them using the name "autopilot", now did you? Unpossible!
On the off chance that this isn't a troll, Google is your friend, I am not. The AR stands for Armalite, the company that designed the rifle. The 15 is just the type. There is also an AR-5 (smaller caliber), AR-17 (shotgun), and an AR-23 (pistol). If AR stood for "assault rifle", why would it be used in the case of the AR-17/23 which are not rifles? Do some research, you sub-average cretin.
1. He was a thug for his entire adult life. That is justified by his record. You can read 46 pages of his previous activities here It's at the top of the page, but takes a moment to load since it's from disqus.
2. There is no reason whatsoever that this career criminal wouldn't have continued being a violent thug. Obviously 2-1/2 years of hard labor didn't change him, so jail isn't the answer.
3. There is absolutely zero objective evidence that the world would be a safer place with him, but there's plenty that the world wasn't when he was alive.
If you read elsewhere, I go into detail about the particulars of this incident; the shooting was justified, and the 2nd video proves it. Even after being tazed and dragged to the ground, he was still fighting back and refusing to be cuffed. The video also proves that the cops knew he had a gun in his pocket - they took it out without having to search for it.
So, aggressive armed perp, what would you do if you're on top of him and you can't control him? You know he has a gun and that he's probably not going to hand it over peacefully. You'd shoot, or be shot. Take your pick, but most of us aren't willing to be martyrs.
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