Erik Ljung has a video with the Times piece with compelling footage of community outrage against recent police killings of Paul Heenan (Schenider, The Capital Times) and Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. in Madison, Michael Bell in Kenosha (2004), and Dontre Hamilton in Milwaukee (Luthern, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel; Mal Contends).
Killer cops in Madison, the most liberal city, notes Paul Gottinger in CounterPunch.
Writes Gottinger:
Since 1976 there has been 1,403 people convicted of a crime, sentenced to the death penalty, and then executed. This number is only slightly larger than the number of Americans killed by cops LAST YEAR ALONE.Acclaimed former Madison Police Chief David Couper (ret) has been writing about the police assaulting the citizenry as enemies residing in the occupied territories for decades. Stop the Killing—Now, writes Couper in a particularly incensed recent piece.
Imagine if ISIS, or Black gangs were killing at this scale. What would the country’s reaction be?
Now we’re told to wait for the investigation of Robinson’s murder by the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation.
Blind faith in outside law enforcement investigators (the Wisconsin Department of Justice led by a Republican with a history of corrupt political action) gathering evidence on police killings is what we have now.
Considering the investigation into the police killing of Tony Robinson under 2013 Wisconsin Act 348, why not a new law mandating an investigative agency with subpoena power composed of civil liberty activists, retired law professors, legal journalists and other academics?
The reason is murderous police would not stand a chance.
Being Police gives police a license to kill, and prosecutors a (qualified) license to lie.
The Times piece asks: "As this Times video explains, it would be the first case to test how effective the new law is. Could it help provide a new faith in the justice system?"
No, no faith.
The law, 2013 Wisconsin Act 348, the Times cites is indeed on trial, but the verdict is in.
There won't be a prosecution.
Don't blame Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne for this, Ozanne can't make up evidence that won't be presented to his office.
The law needs to be expanded and police killings considered in an objective sphere of justice and truth.
The Wisconsin DoJ will present the results of its investigation into the Tony Robinson killing within two weeks.
Consider that Wisconsin and the nation will never get the facts from the tainted Wisconsin DoJ whom adults know are playing politics every bit as much as 'law enforcement' in what passes for a criminal justice system.
In America, lives and liberty are cheap in the eyes of police and The Prosecutor, as the jurist Robert Jackson noted some 75 years ago.
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