The RPD pointed out that an attorney for the Abbouds had released home security footage of the raid online, which the police said made releasing the body camera footage redundant. At the same time, the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might expose confidential information about search warrant execution or damage officers’ reputations.
You busted in a door and pointed an AR-15 at a baby. Your reputation should be fucking damaged.
Raleigh police “wrongfully executed a ‘Quick Knock’ warrant”—meaning they kicked in the door before the Abbouds had a chance to open it[…]
This is just a no-knock raid. Let’s not pretend knocking on a door a half second before pulling out the battering ram is some magical third category of warrant: no-knock raids should be banned, and whatever the fuck these cops did should be considered a no-knock.
Somehow the “your honor, the evidence will damage my reputation” seems to be work quite well when you’re a cop or millionaire.
I went to their Facebook page and nobody in Raleigh seems to even know this happened.
Can confirm. I live in Raleigh, and this is the first I’m hearing about this.
Every time we make a rule they make up some new bullshit to keep doing the things we banned.
Blame the Supreme Court. THEY are the dudes making up rules that let cops (and government officials) off the hook. Rules that don’t apply to you.
“If you don’t have anything to hide, what are you afraid of?” ;)
Man, the world has gotten to the point where obvious logical inconsistencies don’t even register as surprising anymore. Somewhere in my brain I still know that they should but I’m so desensitized to them that I can’t even laugh about how absurd they are.
Living in a fucking fascist nation.
Nobody has written a hit song called “Fuck the Fire Department!”
They did, but - if you listen to it, you’ll find that your point still stands. :D
(I suspect the song is not actually about the Fire Department.)
Heh. There’s been case studies of that literally happening, but it’s always been one member likes fire too much, not systemic.
“This is fine…” absolutely killed me.
Thanks for this. It’s on spotify too :)
I said a “hit song”.
If you’d listen to it, you’d find I wasn’t disagreeing with you.
Lol made me imagine firemen standing next to a burning house and drenching the one next to it with their hoses.
Firefighters pull up to a black family’s home, burn it down, and charge them with arson.
“We can’t release the footage, it would be dangerous.”
But the family agreed to release it.
“Not dangerous for them, dangerous for me!”Whole thing seems like a poorly written SNL skit.
And how the fuck can this judge decide “it has no public interest?” That shouldn’t be something one person gets to decide.
Dangerous for their ability to keep their jobs and reputation.
Skill issue + ACAB
It’s very dangerous for them to expose their complete and repeated incompetence to the public. One of these days the public might even think that cops might be capable of doing something wrong.
Serves no interest to the public who pays for these bodycams. Yeah right.
Yep. Dangerous. For them. Color me shocked
the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might damage officers’ reputations.
RPD attorney Sherita Walton said that the raid was “valid on its face” and insisted that none of the officers did anything wrong.
State Bureau of Investigation agents confused Abboud with a neighbor who is also of Arab descent—the police refused to pay for the damage
Man, these cameras sure sound dangerous.
I mean, what are the poor police supposed to do? Not be a bunch of cunts? That’s not why they got into this job!
“Releasing the footage might harm their reputations.”
Don’t you just station your troops in a different district and call it a day?
abolish the police. We don’t need these gangsters breaking down our doors like that in our community
It’s one step from abolishing the police to opening up your door to thieves and asking them to shoot up your house
Funny thing is that cops have told people to give into thieves making an already shitty argument even more moot.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10359055/leave-car-keys-the-front-door-to-avoid-home-invasion-toronto-police/
So if one dude in Toronto recommends that having your car stolen is better than having your house trashed, it means that cops in general tell you to give in to all the thieving?
It’s more a systemic thing, where they refuse to do their jobs but try charge you if you do it for them, they act more like a protection racket than a police force.
yes as it was the police rep.
And when has police prevented thieving? At best they come after the fact.
They show up four days after the crime is committed, then blame it on you.
Yea, but there’s gonna be a lot more of them if cops are out of the question.
My town is a frequent target of ne’er do wells, as the police do not have any real coverage here. My car was pilfered again just 2 days ago and the police do nothing as of now. I know at least two of my neighbours who would take shots at these thieves if not for the police. As it stands people here don’t fear the criminals but the police, the ones stealing know they are more likely to be protected by the police then their victims.
We live in clown world, and the cops are holding up the big top.
less, usually.
Tell me you’ve never seen a real B&E without telling me you’ve never seen a real B&E.
It’s figurative language
it will be fucking dangerous, yes. Professional suicide, even! And I like being the law, cuz it means you ain’t.
