The kid in the park was not armed with a knife. He never threatened anyone with it. He was using the perfectly legal tool for a utilitarian purpose when the busy body next door to the park, went out of his way to harass him and then called the police under false pretenses. The kid only tried to explain, but cops never listen to reason. A complaint is all the justification the Joint Terrorism Task Force believe they need to shoot an innocent civilian.
Okay, so what do we really know about the death of Dane Reister? Will there be a police investigation? Was there a suicide note? Had Reister already become homeless, or is that what he was afraid of becoming? He knew how the police continually, harass and brutalize the homeless, and he knew that the homeless knew who he was. He was a chickenshit pack dog, no longer one of the pack. Every private security company that he might have applied for work at, might have found him too controversial, and any other company where he might have applied for work at, probably didn't trust him. For one thing, his reasoning ability was more than questionable, and for another, once a cop, always a cop. Most companies have lots of shit they don't want the police to know about. Reister was destined to become one of the ones like whom he victimized. Also, he might have been pissed off about being fired, and was going to the press about police corruption, in retaliation. He might well have been murdered to shut him up. I would call for an FBI investigation, but The Joint Terrorism Task Force might have been what Reister was going public about. Maybe the United Nations can investigate for crimes against humanity? How about getting the Vatican to weigh in on this? The Jesuits seem to have a lot of clout over the Masons and the US Government.
If the Merc were a real news paper, they would do some investigative journalism, and go talk to friends, family, and ex-coworkers of Dane Reister, to see if he were blackmailing the PPD or if he had gone to the Fascist media with his story and they not only didn't print and air it, but rather they tattled to the Mayor about it, instead. Somebody knows something about this.
See, when the Federal government subverts local law enforcement through the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and when Homeland Security centralizes the CIA, NSA, and other spook agencies under one their authority, there are no more checks and balances, just as when as we now have ninety percent of the media controlled by six corporations who are also the advertisers and are also the major financial contributors to politicians.
Tomorrow, Senator Rand Paul intends to single handedly force the PatRIOT Act to expire, in order to clear the way towards a bipartisan solution to security, pursuant to The Bill of Rights.
No rent plus free maid service when you leave? Time to break out the tents.
The city should make the penalty for littering one month to one year (or more) in jail based on how much and what you littered. Then give them the option to cleannup after themselves (like even preschoolers are expected to do). Time to grow up Portland.
Littering is actually an example of an infraction which might in fact truly be a crime, as there is physical damage, similar to a lesser form of vandalism, unlike sleeping on dogshit in the park, where the dog owners are the criminals, but the homeless get punished twice.
Keep pushing them east, Hales. Everyone knows Portland stops caring once you pass 82nd, on the way to Gresham.
See, when the Federal government subverts local law enforcement through the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and when Homeland Security centralizes the CIA, NSA, and other spook agencies under one their authority, there are no more checks and balances, just as when as we now have ninety percent of the media controlled by six corporations who are also the advertisers and are also the major financial contributors to politicians.
Tomorrow, Senator Rand Paul intends to single handedly force the PatRIOT Act to expire, in order to clear the way towards a bipartisan solution to security, pursuant to The Bill of Rights.
The city should make the penalty for littering one month to one year (or more) in jail based on how much and what you littered. Then give them the option to cleannup after themselves (like even preschoolers are expected to do). Time to grow up Portland.
"Police did not say what the officers were commanding the suspect to do, or if the officers ever saw a knife"