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The Ferguson/Palestine Connection
AS THE UNREST CONTINUES, THE ST. LOUIS POLICE COLLABORATION WITH ISRAEL UNDERSCORES CONNECTED STRUGGLES
The St. Louis County Police Department that killed Michael Brown and initially placed Ferguson on siege, has trained with the Israeli military. Former County Police Chief Timothy Fitch was one of 15 American officials to participate in a weeklong training in Israel three years ago.
St. Louis County Police Chief Timothy Fitch.
http://archive.ksdk.com/news/article/251178/147/Chief-Fitch-visiting-Israel-for-counter-terrorism-
http://dc.adl.org/national-counter-terrorism-seminar-in-israel/
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs...ice-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth
NYPD Opens Branch in Israel
The New York Police Department opened its Israeli branch in the Sharon District Police headquarters in Kfar Saba. Charlie Ben-Naim, a former Israeli and veteran NYPD detective, was sent on this mission.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/01/09/nypd-kfar-saba-branch-new-york-p.html#
The April 2011 National Counter-Terrorism Seminar (NCTS) was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It brought together leaders from the largest American police departments, the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with members of the Israeli National Police, Israel Defense Forces and other intelligence organizations.
"NCTS enables Israel's counterterrorism experts to share their knowledge and lessons learned, to help American law enforcement better protect America, and prevent us from having to learn the same lessons the hard way," an ADL press release said.
A spokesperson for the police department was unable to provide information about the trip's influence on subsequent operations in the county. The ADL was unavailable for immediate comment.
Over 9,000 American officials have trained with Israeli police and military units on responding to civilian protests and terrorism. These operations reflect failure to distinguish between the apparent duty of police to protect civilians and military responses to war. This fusion has had life-costing implications for Americans, specifically black, Muslim and Arab people.
In 2006, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnson was shot and killed by Atlanta police, who had participated in an exchange program with Israeli soldiers on counterterrorism and drug enforcement. The Oakland police who used tear gas and rubber bullets against Occupy Oakland protesters in 2010 were fresh off a joint training exercise with Israeli and Bahraini police forces. An NYPD official reported that the department's now-disbanded "Demographics Unit," which spied on Muslim and Arab citizens, was modeled on Israel's practices in the West Bank.
LAPD executives took a trip to Israel in 2013 to learn about drones and other surveillance mechanisms.
"We are much more alike than dis-alike," said the LAPD's head IT person during the trip. "As civilized nations, we are all confronted with, in many cases, the same enemy: The ever-growing threat of terrorism and other major criminal elements."
The LAPD added drones to its cache of equipment in May.
While the Los Angeles drones are not Israeli-made, Israel is the world's largest drone exporter. Outside of the US, the drones have been used by governments from Canada to Australia and Brazil, where their intended purpose is for internal security and the war on crime.
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http://www.ebony.com/news-views/the-fergusonpalestine-connection-403#axzz3G5zTQOC7
What America’s police departments don’t want you to know
By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer December 1 at 8:42 PM
Police in riot gear march towards protestors, who were demanding justice for Michael Brown, near the Edward Jones Dome, the site of an NFL football game between the St. Louis Rams and the Oakland Raiders, in downtown St. Louis, Missouri November 30, 2014. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
Michael Brown’s death was part of a tragic and unacceptable pattern: Police officers in the United States shoot and kill civilians in shockingly high numbers. How many killings are there each year? No one can say for sure, because police departments don’t want us to know.
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, in 2013 there were 461 “justifiable homicides” by police — defined as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.” In all but three of these reported killings, officers used firearms.
The true number of fatal police shootings is surely much higher, however, because many law enforcement agencies do not report to the FBI database. Attempts by journalists to compile more complete data by collating local news reports have resulted in estimates as high as 1,000 police killings a year. There is no way to know how many victims, like Brown, were unarmed.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...edcb00-7998-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html
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