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Police have been using choke holds without repercussions for many years. And being incredibly arrogant about it. Here's an astonishing story from Portland Orego
by PhantomGremlin 12y ago
Police have been using choke holds without repercussions for many years. And being incredibly arrogant about it. Here's an astonishing story from Portland Oregon, albeit 29 years old[1]:
On the day the dead man, Lloyd D. Stevenson,
a father of five and a Marine Corps veteran,
was buried in Willamette National Cemetery,
two Portland police officers were suspended
for selling T-shirts with the message:
''Don't Choke 'Em. Smoke 'Em.'' In police slang,
''smoke'' means shoot to death.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/us/blacks-protest-choke-hold-death-in-oregon.html http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/us/blacks-protest-choke-ho...