Police Board President: Officers Struck Me 5 Times With Their Batons

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David Fahrenthold Retweeted

BREAKING: Hours after he praised police for their restraint, an officer struck Police Board President Ghian Foreman 5 times with a baton at a protest
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[beachbumbob]

1. KARMA, you gotta love it

[mopinko]

3. this

[samnsara]

2. woopsie...

[guillaumeb]

4. The new head of the Chicago Police Union is currently suspended due to excessive force complaints.

What is needed are rules changes that would allow for a quicker process. The current process is far too weighted toward favoring the word of the police over civilians, and ignoring actual evidence such as videotapes.

Plus the command structure has shown that it covers up for unqualified officers.

In one court case, the then Mayor admitted that there was a culture of cover up, even when the conduct was illegal. And this has cost the City, and the taxpayers, over $500 million dollars in court settlements.

[47of74]

5. I'm to the point where I think some departments should be disbanded and rebuilt from the ground up

Some departments are just too far gone. Minneapolis certainly comes to mind here, and Chicago looks to be shaping up to be the same.

Personally I wouldn't go to disbanding right away but would say to departments get clean in a fucking hurry or your department is grass and I'm the fucking industrial strength salad shooter.