Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.
A sweeping government investigation uncovered a host of civil rights violations by the police force in the nation’s fifth-largest city. Investigators found stark racial disparities in how police enforce certain laws, like low-level drug and traffic offenses.
The Justice Department found that Phoenix police shoot at people who do not immediately pose a threat, and continue to fire their weapons after any threat has been eliminated. Police also routinely delay medical care for people in encounters and use excessive force on wounded people, officials said.
The POLICE are doing this? Whaaaat.
Say it ain’t so.Phoenixpolice have pattern of violating civil rights and using excessive forceShocked Pikachu
Plot twist: this Pikachu was brown, “loitering,” and subsequently tased.
Jokes on them, Pikachu would probably like being taxed.
So what will be done about this?
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Why they just singling out Phoenix? Throw a dart at a US map, you’ll find a corrupt department.
As an ex-resident, they are doing exactly what the suburban public expects. It isn’t a coincidence one of the cop neighborhoods are in Debi Lesko’s district.
Phoenixpolice have pattern of violating civil rights and using excessive forceLogged into the wrong account?
There’s too many words in that headline, but you can fix it if you just omit the first one.
It’s like we can’t trust a single one of them…
It’s time we have an entire city’s police department prosecuted and goes to jail.
