May 15, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
The...[cops] didn't count on us not believing their bullshit.
- Norma Rodriguez
The Lion and the OxA leader of the rights movement for sex workers in India and a[n epidemiologist] known for his contribution to the prevention of HIV in the country, Smarajit Jana, passed away due to COVID-19 related complications in Kolkata on [May 8 th]...He was 68 years old. Dr. Jana founded and spearheaded the first rights-based HIV intervention programmes in India by collectivising the sex workers of Sonagachi and setting up the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) in Kolkata in 1995...Jana was instrumental in setting up a cooperative bank for sex workers...He was a member of a Supreme Court-appointed panel in Budhadev Karmaskar vs State of West Bengal, which in its report in 2016 recommended legal recognition for sex workers through the issuing of ration and voter identification cards, and decriminalising of sex work...
FACT: Young woman in illegal casino. CONCLUSION: "sex trafficking"!
Torture Chamber[San Antonio cops oink] they believe they have found the largest gambling operation in the [universe], while possibly also finding human trafficking evidence..."[We] found a bit of narcotics, we've also discovered a 16-year-old young lady that at this point we don't know if she was a victim of any sort of trafficking, but we do suspect it," [Sheriff Javier] Salazar said...
For a change, this story doesn't refer to torture as "correction":
To Molest and RapeThe Collin County [Texas] medical examiner ruled Marvin Scott III's death a homicide...more than a month after he [was murdered by screws] at the Collin County jail...Sheriff Jim Skinner fired seven jailers and another resigned after [the murder]...One of the jailers was reinstated last week through the civil service process, a decision Skinner has said he disagreed with...The sheriff has refused to release the names of the [murderers]...But The Dallas Morning News obtained...the names...Blaise Mikulewicz...Austin Wong...Justin Patrick...Rafael Paradez...James Schoelen...Alec Difatta...Andres Cardenas...and...Christopher Windsor...
Rapist cops are often rewarded with paid vacations, but this is extreme even by cop standards:
RCMP...Co[p] Justin Harris...paid [for] sex...[with an indigenous woman known as CC, but then raped] her...four [times]...Less than one month [after she reported him], on April 1, 2007, CC died from natural causes. In a matter of weeks, the RCMP dropped their case, lifting Harris' suspension...instead...Harris segued from a paid suspension to paid sick leave for psychological issues he [blames on]...the force's [trying to prosecute him for his behavior]...His lawsuit against the force, filed in 2008, has stalled while the RCMP attempts to medically discharge him-a lengthy process now in its seventh year. In total, he has been paid-but not working-for close to 17 years...
Lockdowns are to keep people SAFE!
A Broker in Pillage (#1068)A [cop] in Honduras was arrested and charged...for the murder of a young woman...in February inside a jail cell...police...[had until now] claimed that Keyla Martínez, a 26-year-old nursing student, had committed suicide within hours of being [abduct]ed [by cops] for a pandemic curfew violation...
Nobody will be safe until this odious, contemptible practice is recognized as unconstitutional:
To Molest and Rape (#1134)Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey... signed a package of civil forfeiture reforms that will make it substantially harder for [cops] to [steal] people's stuff by [pretend]ing that it is connected to criminal activity...property can still be seized [if a cop claims]...it was used to commit a crime or represents the proceeds of illegal activity. But now the government can complete the forfeiture only after convicting the owner...Arizona is the 16th state to require a criminal conviction for some or all forfeitures...[and] the 14th...to require that the government prove an owner is not innocent rather than making the owner prove that he is...
It's not unusual for fired cops, even child rapists, to simply move elsewhere:
An Alabama state trooper arrested [in April because] he raped an 11-year-old girl had been kicked out of the FBI amid a string of sexual misconduct allegations but was hired by the state agency with the apparent help of a fake bureau letter that scrubbed his record clean...Christopher Bauer was suspended without pay and stripped of his security clearance in the FBI's New Orleans office in late 2018...[after] he raped...[a co-work]er at knifepoint. But Alabama...state police...[somehow managed to overlook aggravated rape in its] "full and thorough" investigation into Bauer's background when he applied to be a trooper in 2019...
