Disband the BART Street Gang
When Noble first showed me the Corpus Clock and Chronophage, I was delighted and horrified at the same time.
I wasn’t the only one who found this creepy as hell. One person said it was the “root of all evil”. Someone else said it was “the most hideous thing I’ve ever seen”. And “I find the creature very frightening”.
I didn’t know it till I watched this next one but it gets even creepier: the sound when it strikes an hour is supposed to be the “chain falling on your coffin lid”.
Yes it’s creepy. I remember being similarly horrified by Claude Shannon’s “Ultimate Machine”. Which is why it’s so awesome!
I want that. It would be a piece of cake to make a smaller version of this. You know, to put in your house. I wonder what room I would put it in?
…As soon as Michael and Oscar stepped off the train, they were hammered. Pirone lunged at Michael, grabbed him by his dreadlocks, and slammed his head, face down, on the concrete, leaving a large cut on the bridge of his nose. Michael’s friends started to yell, “why are you doing that?” “What did we do?” Then Pirone grabbed Oscar and hustled him to a wall. Soon other cops came and threatened more youth with their tasers, yelling “nigger” at the young men, calling them “motherfuckers.”
When three of Oscar’s other friends got off the train they too were held against the side of the train by Officer Marysol Domenici who thrust a taser at each one, tapping one between the eyes with it.
Videos also show that neither Mehserle nor any of the other six police were “stressed out,” horrified, or regretful about having murdered Oscar. As Oscar’s friends, still handcuffed, yelled for the police to help Oscar, the cops told them to “shut the fuck up” and said if they weren’t silent, they would not call an ambulance. No cop moved to administer first aid.
Instead a video clip shows them flipping Oscar over, jerking him up and down, handcuffing him, and leaving him to bleed out on the platform.
The cops were not in shock or disarray: they immediately began a cover up. No cop radioed that a shooting had occurred. Pirone ordered the train operator to leave the BART station, taking all the witnesses away (instead of getting their names). As the train departed, Domenici ran after people, threatening them and trying to grab their phone cameras.
After the shooting, five of Oscar’s friends were detained in the BART police station for more than five hours. Sources close to the families say that the youth heard BART police laughing, saying, “We got a good one tonight.”
All this points to the reality that such brutality is ROUTINE for these pigs, including trying to cover it up afterward, and that murdering one of the people can be a cause for laughter and celebration. —Indybay: by Revolution writers
Shortly after these disgusting events, I had wondered aloud to Noble if anybody had heard radio chatter. “Where’s the radio chatter?” Surely someone heard something, maybe even recorded it. This article of course answers that question. There was no radio chatter. The fuckers didn’t radio it in. They didn’t radio it in because they were already in cover-up mode. They made that switch seamlessly, almost as if it were second nature. I agree with the writer of the article, that this—and other events—does seem to show that this is more routine than most ppl would allow themselves to entertain.
These are cold, bloodless, aconscience people. I’ll take my chances with a serial killer before I’d call 911. At least with a serial killer I might have a chance at getting mercy.
Abusive cops are costing already cash-strapped cities across the U.S. millions of dollars in settlements, but civil rights activists and attorneys warn that the payouts will continue unless the criminal justice system begins to prosecute its out-of-control officers.
Rafael Perez, a member of the CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) Gang Unit, testified as a police informant that he and other officers often falsely accused and framed gang members for crimes.
In Chicago the mayor has put city employees on unpaid leave to help fill a budget shortfall. But a little over a year ago, Chicago officials agreed to pay $19.8 million to four men who suffered police torture under then-commander Jon Burge. Some $30 million has been spent to settle assorted lawsuits connected with the case, which stretches back to abuses during the 1980s and 1990s.
The $30 million payout doesn’t count millions of dollars spent defending Burge after he was fired by the police department in 1993…
Current budget problems might cause taxpayers to take a look at how their money is spent, but in Chicago $18 million was paid to the family of LaTanya Haggerty, a black woman shot to death by police in 1999. In 1995, a New York Times editorial noted that in the “cash-starved” Big Apple, brutality settlements and court judgments cost the city $87 million over five years.
See entire article at Frost Illustrated.
Highlights from part 2:
Haddad said that in a 2004 lawsuit he filed in Oakland, the police chief acknowledged a longstanding pattern of improper strip searches of people on the street. After four years, his firm uncovered some 40 victims of the strip searches. In 2008, although a federal judge ruled that the policies were unconstitutional, the city has not revised the policy and continues to use it.
…it takes at least $50,000 to even bring a civil rights lawsuit alleging police brutality. Such cases are difficult to win because police officers are protected by the principle of qualified immunity…
…police officers have strong police unions that put a great deal of pressure on police chiefs, district attorneys and whoever they feel is a threat to cops who step out of line…
Click here for Part 2 in its entirety.
I’m still collecting info on the Oscar Grant case:
Did a cop affair spark the murder of Oscar Grant?
Burris, attorney for Oscar Grant’s family, thinks maybe.
Burris’ complaint, aside from alleging the affair, contends that this female officer “got in the face of the young men and repeatedly pointed her Taser at them, threatening to tase them in the face”.
Later in the article Burris says he will provide their names if asked.
Well. We already have one of their names: Anthony/Tony “Punchy” Pirone. We know this because in his defense he stated he was trying to protect a female coworker. That’s what Punchy Pirone’s lawyer, Bill Rapoport, is using as Punchy’s defense. In that defense, Rapoport claimed that the female in question was Pirone’s partner.
(If you saw the footage you’d know that there’s no way this is factual. But the claim itself does reveal what Burris called “misplaced chivalry”. I prefer to think of it as the histrionics of a puerile idiot.)
Anyway. So—get the name of Pirone’s female partner and we know her name, too. Her name should be known: after all, she also contributed to this unnecessary murder.
Hope you two weren’t married to other ppl. You know. Wouldn’t want your lives to be ruined over such blasé events in your lives such as terrorizing and murdering citizens.
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I’ve got no problem believing that they shoved crack up his ass. That is not as hard to believe as the actual shooting. Dave Chappelle was right… they just sprinkle some crack on them.
It’s not been proven though—that they shoved crack up his ass. That’s its beauty! They know that their supporters are so irrational that they’ll grab onto anything to be able to continue saying that Oscar somehow deserved his fate.
Glad to know that ppl’s fates can be determined on the street, by cops. I guess the cop-groupies don’t really like the justice system like they contend. Otherwise they’d demand its use. Yes, even by cops.
Cophood trumps all. Thanks for the reminder.
Who could deny, now, that we’re living in a police state and have been for quite some time? These goons are true American Nazis.
(That’s not hyperbole. Where do you think the Nazis got their ideas from? We were the originators of those ideas. We already know that Joseph Goebbels was deeply influenced by Edward Bernays—who created our nations first “Public Relations” office, cleverly avoiding the bad word “propaganda”, since the Germans gave it such unpopular connotations. Even Bernays admitted it’s the same thing, relabeled.)
These cops aren’t mentally stable. They’re crazy. Knowing this, how can we protect ourselves from them? I’ve watched the vid repeatedly to see if there were anything, anything at all, that Oscar could have done to save his own life. I can’t see a thing.
That’s scary. Because if that’s the situation—and there is no doubt of that—I’ll die or be beaten to a pulp no matter what I do. And so would you. Even those of you who’ve stupidly defended the criminals with such logic as “he deserved it”—they’d get you too. And ppl just like you would be saying that about you.
And no—I don’t consider twitching as you’re being beaten viciously and choked by the knee of the goon who just punched you so hard that your head bounced off the fuckin’ wall to be anything remotely akin to “resisting”.
“Punchy Pirone”…
Great post about cop mobster Tony (AKA “Punchy”) Pirone. Kudos, Packratt. Also what a great moniker. That’s what I’m going to call him from now on.
SF Examiner published some interesting observations:
BART’s initial probe into the fatal shooting New Year’s Day of an unarmed passenger by a transit agency police officer is under fire after recently released footage of the incident shows another officer punching the Hayward father in the head prior to the shooting. That’s after BART announced it had completed its internal investigation into the death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III and police Chief Gary Gee said only the shooter, former Officer Johannes Mehserle, was being investigated and that the other officers involved had followed proper police procedure.
Well now. Isn’t that interesting.
And, Gary Gee gets named their “Dim Bulb of the Week”:
What: Chief Gee was already under fire for the botched BART Police investigation of former officer Johannes Mehserle’s fatal shooting of an unarmed 22-year-old passenger, which sparked destructive riots across Oakland. Now Gee has cluelessly sent a memo on his own letterhead instructing rank-and-file officers how to send money, food, books and letters to Mehserle at Santa Rita Jail where he is being held on murder charges.
Why: This latest tin-eared episode surfaced at the same time as a previously unseen cell-phone video showing a second BART officer apparently hitting an unresisting Oscar Grant III just before the shooting — contradicting the BART internal report that all other officers at the scene behaved professionally.
Fallout: Attorney John Burris, representing the dead man’s family in a $25 million claim against BART, said Grant’s mother was “appalled” by the memo. She has every right to be.
Meanwhile, Punchy Pirone’s lawyer Bill Rapoport is so desperate that he’s actually going to argue that Punchy was provoked. And that Punchy was trying to protect his partner, a female officer.
It is contrary to our own eyes. Several men, including Oscar Grant, were seated with their backs against the wall, surrounded by cops. Out of the blue, and for no apparent reason, Punchy Pirone can be seen marching into the frame from the lefthand side. He’s pointing at a seated Oscar Grant. You can clearly see Punchy directing speech, seemingly toward Oscar Grant, along with the pointing.
You can clearly see Oscar responding to what might have been an order. After all, if you were seated on your ass, with your back to the wall, surrounded by cops… and a big, burly cop comes aggressively toward you, pointing at you and directing his speech at you… you’d probably stand up as well. Maybe you were told to stand up. Or maybe you were standing up to try to be polite, a trained social reflex: officer addresses you, you sit up straight and comply with orders.
See, once Punchy Pirone arrives in the immediate area (which had been controlled before his immediate presence), he physically assaults Oscar Grant and is screaming at him.
Watch the video again. Closely.
How any sane person can say that it was necessary for anyone’s safety, that Punchy Pirone walk up onto a controlled scene, and assault someone? Turning it, ultimately, into a murder scene?
As Oscar was seated, surrounded by officers, he could not have been assaulting Punchy’s female partner. It is scientifically impossible. How can you do both at the same time? Unless we’re talking about theoretical quantum physics or something, where… in this universe Punchy Pirone will be rolling up on and then punching and screaming at an unarmed man sitting on the floor, but in another universe Punchy Pirone will be walking up to Oscar to give him a bouquet of roses and ask for his hand in marriage—and yet in another universe Punchy Pirone will be wearing a tutu and spinning ’round and ’round in a lovely pirouette. And so on.
It’s not possible. We’ve seen the videos. We know. We cannot unknow, after having seen it with our own eyes.
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