Wed, 1 July 2015
This is the final segment of the AikiCast special 3 part series addressing the difficult and highly charged topic of police brutality, police killing of unarmed citizens, and the standards by which police investigate themselves in use of force incidents. Blaine covers a vast number of topics in this 3 part series which includes busting 3 of the biggest myths surrounding the profession of policing, taking a critical look at several of the most recent killings of unarmed citizens by police officers, discussing the rules under which police officers conduct themselves and discussing how martial arts should be taught and used by law enforcement individuals as a force for good and for saving people, not for doing damage to more people. Topics covered in the 3 part series includes: the police murders of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Dillon Taylor, Oscar Grant, Jonathan Crawford III, Tamir Rice, the tactics utilized by police officers around the country, the myth of the good cop, the myth of police protection, the myth of the danger of policing, Graham V Connor, Warren V District of Columbia, Joseph Lozito and Maksim Gelman, Officers Jesse Kidder, Bron Cruz, Timothy Loehman, Johanes Mehserle, Terrance Howell, and Daniel Pantaleo, the difference between a guardian and a warrior and the myth of the sheepdog protecting the sheep from the wolf. Show Notes and links: Law Enforcement Sites http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf http://www.copblock.org/128554/full-body-cam-video-released-utah-police-killing-dillon-taylor/ http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/dec/04/i-cant-breathe-eric-garner-chokehold-death-video http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/nov/26/cleveland-video-tamir-rice-shooting-police http://digg.com/video/wal-mart-surveillance-video-of-john-crawford-iii-shooting http://www.mediaite.com/online/video-shows-police-cruelly-lying-to-john-crawfords-girlfriend-after-killing-him-at-walmart/ http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/04/ohio-police-officer-jesse-kidder-takes-down-murder-suspect-without-firing-a-shot/ Police Accountability sites: http://www.copblock.org/129940/those-who-cant-fight-kill/ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/how-police-unions-keep-abusive-cops-on-the-street/383258/ http://blog.simplejustice.us/2015/06/01/the-other-white-meat-police-unions/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rao33ZYlrq4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._Connor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia |