Can jiu-jitsu limit violent arrests?

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Opening Statement October 22, 2021

 

Edited by Andrew Cohen

 

 

Pick of the News “Comfort with closeness is all we're really teaching.” Police officials are pushing cops to train in jiu-jitsu to avoid resorting to excessive force when trying to subdue suspects. What police consider an option to de-escalate potentially deadly situations is a trend that started in Marietta, Georgia, and has spread to other departments around the country. Civil rights advocates and others worry that training officers in martial arts will just encourage cops to be more confrontational when dealing with civilians. In collaboration with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, TMP’s Jamiles Lartey has our story. The Marshall Project “Where I’m meant to be.” Sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years as a teenager, Fred Weatherspoon never expected to live free. But he was released from prison in 2018, at 42, and now he’s back in Chicago mentoring young people at a local nonprofit. Weatherspoon says he’s mostly hopeful when he sees the promise in the kids he helps. He also sees the peril that surrounds them. “I worry that they don’t understand that what happened to me — and other people in our community — can happen to them,” Weatherspoon told TMP’s Lakeidra Chavis. Here is the latest in our “Life Inside” series. The Marshall Project Now what? The House of Representatives voted to send a criminal referral to the Justice Department seeking to hold Trump advisor Steve Bannon in contempt for refusing to respond to a congressional subpoena seeking information about his role in the Capitol riot. The Washington Post U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland remained publicly non-committal Thursday about how federal prosecutors will proceed with the referral. CNN More: “Every insurrection needs a headquarters.” Politico Related: Experts worry that the Capitol riot defendants are becoming radicalized while jailed and awaiting trial in Washington, D.C. VICE “I’m really sorry this happened to you.” Federal asylum officers wrote hundreds of reports from 2016 to 2021, detailing abuse against asylum-seekers at the border. Some migrants were threatened with rape if they did not sign paperwork. Others were physically assaulted during confrontations with border agents. Homeland Security officials say they are now conducting a review of the allegations that were made public because of a public records request by Human Rights Watch. The New York Times System failure. Prosecutors are supposed to use so-called Brady lists to prevent police officers with histories of misconduct or deception from testifying for the government at trial. But the lists are rarely used, and often not even updated. In many instances, police officer unions and prosecutors fight to keep the information secret from defense attorneys and judges. The Associated Press TMP Context: Some prosecutors, on the other hand, take their Brady lists seriously. The Marshall Project More: A long-running police protest case in St. Louis has evolved into an argument over the conduct of the officers involved. Riverfront Times N/S/E/W The FBI says that human remains found in Florida are those of Brian Laundrie, considered by law enforcement officials to be a “person of interest” in the murder of his fiancée Gabby Petito earlier this year. Orlando Sentinel The focus of the investigation now centers on a notebook found near Laundrie’s body. CNN “I get nervous, like, every day when I wake up. I just pray that I just make it home.” Students have returned to Michele Clark High School in Chicago, Illinois, ready to resume in-class learning, but nervous about the gun violence all around them. The New Yorker “You can get in really bad trouble.” Life as an earnest football coach in Washington, D.C. — where the players, children as young as 11, try to learn lessons about the game and life amid the gun violence that threatens them all. The Washington Post Mohamed Noor, the former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Damond in 2017, was resentenced on Thursday to 57 months for manslaughter. It’s a shorter sentence after the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out his murder conviction last month. USA Today Colorado has a problem with racial bias in its child welfare system. In 2020, for example, Black teenagers were more than three times as likely as those of other races to age out of foster care. Colorado Sun Scammers using fraudulent debit cards allegedly stole nearly $700,000 from the commissary accounts of prisoners at the jail in Dallas County, Texas. The investigation is now being led by the FBI. Dallas Morning News Commentary Qualified immunity is a fraud for many reasons. Including this one: “Unequivocal proof that officers are not notified of the facts and holdings of cases that clearly establish the law for qualified immunity purposes.” University of Chicago Law Review Shame on police and prison guard unions for failing to promote the public good. You can’t preach public safety and then refuse to get vaccinated for a deadly virus. Boston Globe Social workers must stop policing. They “have not only enabled vast racial disparities in the family regulation system, but have been the very instruments of state violence.” Filter Magazine The Supreme Court, hypocrisy, abortion rights and the death penalty. “The same court that evinced no concern for whether the women of Texas could exercise a well-established constitutional right suddenly demonstrated exquisite concern for a purported right” to have a spiritual advisor at an execution. The New York Times Old school. Photographing the police in New York City as officers went about their work in the 1970s. The New Yorker Etc. Still more evidence of the Oath Keepers’ infiltration into elected office: More than 400 people signed up for membership or newsletters “using government, military or political campaign email addresses, including candidates for Congress and sheriff...” ProPublica Tanks for the memories. Police are increasingly citing threats caused by global warming to try to justify their requests for old military gear from the Pentagon. HuffPost TMP Context: See what your local agency received from the military. The Marshall Project Good news for Asadullah Haroon Gul. A federal judge this week ruled that the Afghan man held at Guantánamo Bay since 2007 was not a member of al-Qaida and therefore cannot continue to be legally detained at the military base. The New York Times TMP Context: Haroon Gul believed he had a chance at freedom. Then came Trump. The Marshall Project Way to go, Joe. President Biden has already surpassed President Obama when it comes to nominating former public defenders to the federal bench. NBC News Planting after prison. At the aptly-named Benevolence Farm in North Carolina, the formerly incarcerated are welcomed to begin their life after prison by helping raise crops. Civil Eats/The Crime Report

 

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