Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴
"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." #police https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/
County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability: "A failure of democracy"

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas.

CBS News
May 23, 2024 at 3:32pmWeb
Show threadTom Bellin May 23, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss Sheriffs are the worst. #asab
Show threadDanaBlankenhornMay 23, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss Every police badge is a license to kill with qualified immunity
Show threadKevin LeecasterMay 23, 2024

@DanaBlankenhorn @Nonya_Bidniss
Jackson, Mississippi is no stranger to the doctrine of qualified immunity, which immunizes state and local officials from most federal civil rights lawsuits. Its origins can be traced back to the 1967 case Pierson v. Ray, where the Supreme Court established it in ruling against a group of priests who sued Jackson police officers who had arrested them on spurious grounds at a civil rights protest

This judge just took on that SCOTUS ruling: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24674613/green-v-thomas.pdf

Show threadmiket330May 23, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss Maybe why Bob Marley "SHOT the Sheriff, but he did not shoot the deputy"
Show threadJenniferMay 23, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss a couple years ago I was driving to a hike south of Huntsville and was going through Danville, AL which is just a dot on the map. I saw one of those urban combat vehicles probably recycled from Iraq with "Danville, AL" stenciled on the side. That town does not need urban warfare equipment. It seems to me like police are now trained to be soldiers instead of people to protect citizens. When I saw police decked out in riot gear in 2020 it seemed like they were enjoying it.
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴May 23, 2024
@Jennifer Police have been trained an equipped like soldiers for ages. A couple of decades at least. And they love it. They fantasize about killing people and being in an unaccountable army.
Show threadJenniferMay 23, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss yeah the serve and protect thing has always been selective. I didn't know that growing up since I'm white and lived in the suburbs.