Friday, December 1, 2017
"Gentrys 'Keep On Dancing'"
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
"AA-12 Fully Automatic Shotgun!!!"
Me want. I''m 1/2 Russian, so I'll only be half as professional.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Friday, March 31, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Sunday, March 19, 2017
"Sugar"
From Racine County Corruption:
This is a blog entry from Racine County Corruption in its entirety:
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/family-rattled-after-dog-killed-during-warrant-execution/article_87f58cda-064a-5c9e-9a88-b3cc1be023e5.html
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/police-say-actions-justified-in-dog-shooting/article_00f970ba-7ea4-5b3d-b07a-04f050c25013.html
This is a blog entry from Racine County Corruption in its entirety:
Warning
Contents of this blog's images may be deemed
offensive and disturbing to readers.
On or about January 16th, 2017, RCC filed an open records request into the City of Racine Police Department.
RCC received approximately 42 pages of documents and 77 pictures on a disc. Included in the documents was a 4 page "in house" Weapons Discharge Review.
The public records request focused on the actions of police during a no-knock search warrant executed in the 2000 block of Kearney Avenue in the city of Racine on November 30th. 2016.
During the execution of the search warrant, a dog named Sugar was "dispatched" by police.
According to the documents obtained from the public records request; The City of Racine Police executed the no-knock warrant at 5:03 am on Wednesday, November 30th, 2016. seeking an unidentified .40 caliber firearm (handgun).
This no-knock search warrant was based on an ongoing investigation of an attempted homicide on 11-15-2016 that took place in the 1700 block of Washington Ave.
Racine Police along with SWAT, SIU, COP, Gang Unit, FBI Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Gang Task Force and an MPPD officer executed the warrant.
The target of the search warrant was a .40 caliber handgun which was allegedly used by a 17 year old juvenile in an attempted murder. The 17 year old was a suspect in several shootings involving a dispute among rival street gangs, including the Dirty P gang, of which the suspect was alleged by Racine Police to be a member.
The search warrant yielded two suspects, both juveniles who were found in the basement. Authorities apprehended the two suspects and held them for questioning.
Evidence collected during the search included the following;Apple I-pad,
Apple I-phone
ZTE brand touch screen cell phone with shattered face
LG brand touch screen cell phone with shattered face
2 DNA Buccal swabs.
Out of approximately 15 officers involved in the executed search warrant, only one officer in the documents referenced marijuana and stated the following;
"Immediately upon entry into the residence I detected an odor of burnt or freshly-smoked marijuana throughout the entire residence". This officer (Sergeant %%%) was the SWAT team leader.
Throughout the reports, there is no mention of any drug evidence collected during the search, nor was the target .40 caliber handgun located during the execution of the search warrant.
Whether any data was collected from the confiscated phones or I-Pad is unknown to the writer at this time.
Here are a few excerpts from the reports:
"the team breacher forced entry to the front door. I immediately announce in a clear, loud voice "Police. Search Warrant." I made my way inside to the living room and immediately saw a large white dog jump from the couch and run through a threshold to my left."“It is common knowledge that persons involved in illegal activity own large, vicious dogs to not only guard against rival criminals but also to impede law enforcement should they be a target of a search warrant”."The dog had a delivery system for utilization of the weapon(functioning legs to advance on the entry team,working jaws which was evident by the dog's K-9 teeth which were displayed, no obstructions between SWAT operator Sergeant ### and the dog"."The dog presented an "imminent threat" to SWAT operator Sergeant ### and the entry team as a whole""My assignment was the #1 position in the first cell on the entry team. I was armed with my department issued M4 rifle and dressed in full SWAT police uniform and body armor"( Sergeant ### who "dispatched" Sugar)According to information gleaned from the reports about the dog; When police forcefully entered the house, the dog jumped off of the living room couch and ran away thru a hallway into a bedroom.
A SWAT officer fully equipped with body armor and an M4 assault rifle followed the dog thru the hallway and entered the threshold of the bedroom. The dog was trapped with no other avenues of escape.
The dog growled, displayed its teeth and moved towards the SWAT officer. The SWAT officer (Sergeant ###) fearing an imminent threat "dispatched"(executed) the dog, discharging 5 rounds from his M4 assault rifle at the dog.Racine Police conducted an "in house" review of the incident and found the actions of the SWAT team to be appropriate and justified.(the "in house review" was conducted by the team leader of SWAT, Sergeant %%%)For additional information concerning this incident;
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/family-rattled-after-dog-killed-during-warrant-execution/article_87f58cda-064a-5c9e-9a88-b3cc1be023e5.html
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/police-say-actions-justified-in-dog-shooting/article_00f970ba-7ea4-5b3d-b07a-04f050c25013.html
Now for RCC's take on this event and the police
"in house review".
We hardly consider a dog to be an
imminent threat to a fully attired SWAT officer complete with body
armor. That argument is both ludicrous and just plain laughable.
Understanding the dynamics of a high
intensity no - knock search warrant may help us in assessing the
decision the officer made when he shot the dog. Before the dog was shot, the room had yet to be secured, so there was a possibility others could have been hiding in the room waiting for the right opportunity to do harm.
The "dispatching" officer stated in his report:
"the animal showed its teeth,
growled and charged in my direction. Fearing an imminent threat for my
safety and the safety of my teammates, I fired three rounds from my
rifle as the animal then turned away from me. I could tell I struck the
animal 1-3 times. The dog out of view behind the bed, then jumped on the
bed and came toward me again. Fearing an imminent threat for my safety
and the safety of my teammates, I fired one round which had an
immediate effect, stopping the animal and its advance towards me. the
dog was laying on the bed incapacitated but breathing heavily with its
eyes open. I was under the impression that, although the animal was
fatally wounded , it was potentially suffering. As a humane measure, I
approached and fired one last round in the animal's head which stopped
its movement altogether".
A dog friendly(smarter) officer may have
used a less than lethal tactic by using his M4 assault rifle to blunt,
block or lightly batter the dog to thwart and discourage any possible
attack from the dog.
The M4 is a durable weapon and the choice of most of the U.S. armed forces. When the M4 used like a bō, it can be used to block, thrust and strike a dog to deter or thwart its aggressive behavior
So the officer made the choice to
"dispatch" the dog instead of using "less than lethal tactics" when one
clear choice was available.
To compound the issues:
The Racine Police Department "in house" Weapons Discharge Review was conducted by the same SWAT team leader
(Sergeant %%%%) who led the SWAT team during the incident.
In his "in house" report to Racine Police Deputy Chief John Polzin, Sergeant %%% determined that the actions of SWAT were appropriate and justified.
He got to investigate himself
In his "in house" report to Racine Police Deputy Chief John Polzin, Sergeant %%% determined that the actions of SWAT were appropriate and justified.
He got to investigate himself
HOW CONVENIENT IS THAT?
Sunday, March 5, 2017
"Patti Smith Looks Back on the Album Where It All Came Together"
From The Shepherd Express:
Punk's poet laureate speaks of 'Horses,' creative control and Milwaukee memories
Punk's poet laureate speaks of 'Horses,' creative control and Milwaukee memories
Patti Smith changed plans for her Milwaukee concert when I
reminded her of the date. “March 9—that’s the day I met Fred!” she says
excitedly. “Oh my gosh.” And as a result, at her Thursday, March 9
show—her first in town in 38 years—Smith promised to perform a “Fred
trilogy,” as she calls it, comprised of the three songs she wrote in the
’70s about her late husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith: “Because the Night,”
“Dancing Barefoot” and a number rarely performed in recent years,
“Frederick.”
Milwaukee was one of the first cities outside Smith’s New
York home base where her music was widely embraced. Much of that
attention resulted from the single-minded efforts of DJ Bob Reitman, who
was already talking Smith up even before her debut album, Horses. On the night of Horses’
release in the winter of 1975, Reitman played the LP on the air in its
entirety. Most of us had never heard anything like it. Raw as an open
wound and yet broad in human sympathy, Horses was a head-on
collision of high-octane rock with modernist poetry. Not unlike William
Carlos Williams and other early 20th-century poets, Smith melded
literary and colloquial influences. Arthur Rimbaud inhabited the lyrics
of “Land” alongside ’60s dance crazes such as the Watusi and the Mashed
Potato.
In the years since Horses, Smith accepted the Nobel
Prize for Bob Dylan, sang at the Vatican for Pope Francis, was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won the National Book Award for
her memoir, Just Kids, and saw her photography exhibited in museums. But Horses
was what lifted her from the pre-gentrified Bowery into the
international spotlight. Caught up in the scene that gathered in the
tiny bar called CBGB’s, Smith endowed punk rock with a dimension beyond
simple assertions and three chords.
“I didn’t start as a musician and I’m not a musician, really. I started as a poet,” Smith says about the origin of Horses’ songs.
“Birdland” and “Horses” began as poems. The line that famously opened
the album and framed her radical reinvention of Van Morrison’s
“Gloria”—“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine”—came from a poem
she’d written in 1970. “Horses was a culmination of my evolution from poetry to performance; it all coalesced on that album,” she continues.
The
Patti Smith Band performs Thursday, March 9 at 8 p.m. at the Milwaukee
Theatre, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave. Tickets are available from ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
I was first introduced to Patti Smith's work as a poet, by a fellow poet, Jeff DeMark. He said to me, "You gotta read this stuff," and gave me one of her books.
I was first introduced to Patti Smith's work as a poet, by a fellow poet, Jeff DeMark. He said to me, "You gotta read this stuff," and gave me one of her books.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
"Happy Hippie Presents: 'Don't Dream It's Over' (Performed by Miley Cyrus & Ariana Grande)"
This is usually one of my favorite songs, but I'm not sure about the sleepwear.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017
"Man Tased And Beaten By Police"
Published on Aug 25, 2015
"Racine,
WI - Joshua J. Ammon was accused of stalking/threatening his former
girlfriend. When police finally caught up to him, several officers took
him down and begin tasing and beating the man. At one point, the K9
officer let the dog bite the man, just for the fun of it."
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Thursday, January 19, 2017
"Talking Racine - Asking For Open Records"
Labels:
Dogs,
Justice 4 Angel,
Police,
Racine,
Sugar,
Talking Racine,
Video
"Police say actions justified in dog shooting"
From The Journal Times.com:
CARA SPOTO cara.spoto@journaltimes.com
"RACINE — The police shooting of a dog during a search warrant operation late last year was justified, according to a Racine Police Department administrative review.
"Released to The Journal Times on Wednesday evening, the findings of the review also found that the actions taken by police did not violate department policies, Racine Police Chief Art Howell stated.
"Police reviewed the Nov. 30 incident, which occurred at a residence in the 2000 block of Kearney Avenue, after the dog’s owner, Sara Harmon, reached out to The Journal Times, saying police shot her dog, a 2-year-old English bulldog named Sugar, for 'no reason.'
"'On a personal level, as a dog owner, I have compassion and empathy for anyone who has known the trauma of losing a pet,' Howell wrote in an email Wednesday. 'As tragic as the outcome was in this case, the review process revealed no wrongdoing or malice in the actions taken.'
Read more: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/police-say-actions-justified-in-dog-shooting/article_00f970ba-7ea4-5b3d-b07a-04f050c25013.html
Labels:
Dogs,
Journal Times,
Justice 4 Angel,
Police,
Racine
Friday, January 13, 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017
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