#deathincustody — Public Fediverse posts
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This is the #4Corners program that revealed the #Bluetooth vulnerability of #Axon policing products (#Taser and #BodyCams). Aside from the taser-caused death allegations and the vigorous means by which the Axon company defends their products, I am also concerned about the bodycams our armed forces wear on deployments. Are they also #hackable?
Watching S2026 Taser Tactics in iview
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H012S00 -
This is the #4Corners program that revealed the #Bluetooth vulnerability of #Axon policing products (#Taser and #BodyCams). Aside from the taser-caused death allegations and the vigorous means by which the Axon company defends their products, I am also concerned about the bodycams our armed forces wear on deployments. Are they also #hackable?
Watching S2026 Taser Tactics in iview
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H012S00 -
This is the #4Corners program that revealed the #Bluetooth vulnerability of #Axon policing products (#Taser and #BodyCams). Aside from the taser-caused death allegations and the vigorous means by which the Axon company defends their products, I am also concerned about the bodycams our armed forces wear on deployments. Are they also #hackable?
Watching S2026 Taser Tactics in iview
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H012S00 -
This is the #4Corners program that revealed the #Bluetooth vulnerability of #Axon policing products (#Taser and #BodyCams). Aside from the taser-caused death allegations and the vigorous means by which the Axon company defends their products, I am also concerned about the bodycams our armed forces wear on deployments. Are they also #hackable?
Watching S2026 Taser Tactics in iview
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H012S00 -
Month of March at The Cage
Bands: Long Nights Spit for Athena Skeleton Party Shattered Badge Cloud Rat State Attention Span Death in Custody Everything is Ruined Rotten Wood Moon Dust from 1000 Years The Perish Choose Your Poison Krang Venue: The Cage -
The medical examiner in El Paso, Texas, has ruled that Geraldo Lunas Campos's death was, in fact, a homicide. Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at the Camp East Montana site at Fort Bliss in El Paso. He's the one who ICE claimed was trying to commit suicide, so the staff at the facility restrained and ultimately killed him to stop him from killing himself. So even if he did want to commit suicide, that would only mean that he died anyway, but with more pain, less agency, and less dignity.
I'm curious what the consequences will be for the medical examiner, but regardless, I do know that there's no way this administration is going to take action to stop people from dying at disproportionate rates at Camp East Montana unless they're somehow forced to. Maybe the courts can do that, but it's just as likely that they can't or, if they can, that it won't be until after the camp has claimed even more lives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/
#ICE #FuckICE #ElPaso #FortBliss #CampEastMontana #DeathInCustody #necropolitics #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood
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A coalition of organizations in the Southwest is demanding the closure of Camp East Montana following three different deaths in custody there in recent months.
From the article:
Diaz died on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Camp East Montana. He was pronounced deceased at 4:09 p.m., and his death was a presumed suicide, according to ICE. However, the official cause of his death remains under investigation.
The announcement of Diaz’s death comes just days after The Washington Post reported last week that 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos’ death — the second detainee who died at the detention center — could be ruled as a homicide.
The coalition said that Lunas Campos “died from asphyxiation after guards choked him to death, and that federal authorities subsequently are threatening to deport key witnesses to the incident, raising grave concerns about accountability and efforts to suppress evidence of abuse at the facility.”
Additionally, Francisco Gaspar Cristobal Andres was the first detainee held at the Fort Bliss immigration facility to die. The 48-year-old man from Guatemala was taken to the hospital on Nov. 16 and died on Dec. 3 of “suspected natural causes.”
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Oury Jalloh - Das war Mord!
Die Gedenkdemonstration für Oury Jalloh wurde in diesem Jahr nicht mehr von der Oury Jalloh Initiative, sondern von der „Oury Jalloh Family Campaign“ organisiert. Der Bruder von Oury #Jalloh, Saliou Diallo, hat die Gruppe ins Leben gerufen. Auf der Demo sprachen Vertreter von Initiativen für den 2025 ermordeten #Lorenz und Rooble #Warsame. Der Bruder von Mouhamed #Dramé entzündete ein Kerzenlicht auf dem Gedenkstein für Alberto #Adriano, der im Jahr 2000 hier von #Neonazis im Stadtpark ermordet wurde. Vor der #Staatsanwaltwaltschaft gab es eine ergreifende Rede einer Angehörigen über den Tod eines 32jährigen Mannes, der am 3. Oktober in der JVA #Uelzen um Leben kam. Die Schwester berichtet, dass ihr Bruder trotz einer chronischen Nierenkrankheit wegen einer Geldstrafe eine Haftstrafe in der JVA antreten mußte ohne die notwendige ärztliche Versorgung: „Wir haben befürchtet, dass er irgendwann an einer Überdosis stirbt, nicht aber, dass man ihn elendig in einer videoüberwachten Gefängniszelle verrecken lässt“.
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Weiterlesen auf trueten.de
#RassismusToetet #Rasismus #DeathInCustody #Polizeigewalt #Polizei #Dessau
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The parents of Ismael Ayala-Uribe, who died of sepsis in ICE custody last September, have filed a wrongful death suit against the agency. They also name the owner of the private prison where he was held and the health care contractor they brought in as defendants.
The lawsuit alleges that, for weeks, Ayala-Uribe complained of “intense and progressive physical pain, including abdominal pain, severe buttock pain, persistent fever, chills, extreme weakness, and continuous intestinal internal pain related to internal bleeding” and that all he ever got was a "cursory assessment" and some over-the-counter pain meds.
ICE, classy as ever, issued a "Detainee Death Report" that leads not with the circumstances of Ayala-Uribe's death, but rather with his crime of being born in the wrong place and the fact that he had a couple of DUI convictions, most recently six years earlier, as though these make a slow, painful death in their custody seem reasonable.
#FuckICE #ICE #ReneeGood #fascism #Necropolitics #DeathInCustody
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Doug Martin: Ex-NFL Star's Death Follows Mental Health Crisis, Police Custody
#deathincustody #DougMartin #mentalhealth #NFL #tampabaybuccaneers
https://blazetrends.com/doug-martin-ex-nfl-stars-death-follows-mental-health-crisis-police-custody/?fsp_sid=153000 -
Prisoners beaten to death by guards in prisons in New York (State)
As recently as March, a shackled prisoner was beaten to death by prison guards in New York. Another victim of lethal state violence, whether in the USA, Germany or elsewhere.
Only in December, in another prison but in the same town, another prisoner was beaten to death by officers.
Again, friends and famillies who have to mourn a loss. In one of the New York cases, the unusual thing is that guards are being punished for the murder, partly because there is incriminating video footage. However, guards had tried to obstruct justice.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/us/former-prison-guard-guilty-plea-messiah-nantwi-death
https://apnews.com/article/robert-brooks-death-new-york-jail-video-9d3ecf26888dde32859497f3d6c36db0
#prison #prisoner #screw #murder #manslaughter #officer #newyork #usa #ny #humanrights #crime #law #repression #gefangnis #mord #knast #deathincustody
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...und im Jahresbericht des Polizeibeauftragten:
Im Falle des 64-Jährigen Kupa Ilunga Medard #Mutombo, der nach einer polizeilichen Kniefixierung starb und zu dessen Tod ein Verfahren seitens der Staatsanwaltschaft gegen die Polizei zweimal eingestellt wurde, heißt es im Bericht: »Da die Staatsanwaltschaft #Berlin dem Polizeibeauftragten keine Einsicht in die Ermittlungsakten gewährt, kann dieser den Fall nicht weiter aufklären.«
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1190778.ueberwachung-von-polizei-und-behoerden-der-berliner-polizei-auf-die-finger-schauen.html
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Human Rights report
New report the group is launching
April 2025
Amnesty began by focusing on human rights in other countries. This was probably based on the belief that rights in the UK were secure, we had after all, the Magna Carta, a justice system and things like torture ended several centuries ago. The UK was a key player in introducing the Universal Declaration in 1948. With the arrival of the European Court, it soon became clear that not everything in the UK human rights garden was rosy. The Birmingham Six case was a classic example of a failure to treat the six defendants fairly. The police fabricated evidence, the six were badly beaten in custody, the courts and judges manifestly failed, the forensic evidence was a nonsense. Eventually they were released – not because the justice system worked to correct its mistakes – but because of the dogged work of Chris Mullins, an MP and journalist.
In the recent decade and a half, there has been a long-lasting campaign, largely led by some newspaper groups, to denigrate the Human Rights Act and to claim that it is a ‘terrorist’s charter’ and allows serious criminals to escape justice because of allegedly spurious arguments provided by their human rights. This has been echoed by the Conservative party who have variously claimed to want to abolish or reform the act. We can remember the nonsense claim by Theresa May that a Chilean man could not be deported because of his cat.
Human rights therefore are by no means secure in the UK. Legislation introduced by the last Conservative government limiting the right to protest and increasing police powers, together with the remorseless increase in the use of surveillance technology, shows no sign of being annulled by the current Labour government.
Hence we feel the need to focus on our rights here in the UK and the slow but steady attempts to limit or curtail them.
Funding for victims of trafficking
The High Court has declared that denial of Exceptional Case Funding to four victims of trafficking to access legal advice to prepare an application for criminal injuries compensation breached their rights under Article 6 ECHR.
Military Misogyny
A coroner has concluded that the UK government may have breached a young soldier’s right to life by failing to protect Jaysley Beck from a sexual assault by a more senior colleague and from sustained unwelcome sexual attention from her line manager.
Deaths in custody
More than 100 relatives of people who have died after contact with the police in the UK since 1971 have joined plans for a class action lawsuit in pursuit of compensation and justice. At the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, bereaved families presented evidence to a panel of international experts on how their relatives died and the long-term impact this has had on them. The findings and conclusions of the event will form the basis of a first-of-its-kind legal action directed at police officers, police chiefs and government departments involved in the deaths.
Economic, Social, Cultural Rights
Claims by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch state that the UK faces a cost-of-living crisis which has yet to be addressed by policies that safeguard the economic, social and cultural rights of people from low-income households, particularly their rights to food, housing and social security.
Freedom of Expression
Following last year’s criticism of the UK by the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, the High Court concluded that anti-protest measures introduced in 2023 – allowing authorities to clamp down on any protests deemed ‘more than minor’ disruptions – unlawfully restricted protest. The Labour Government has yet to repeal these repressive laws and is choosing to continue the legal challenge against the High Court ruling brought by the previous government.
Environmental Protest Sentencing
Gaie Delap (pictured), retired teacher, Quaker and climate protester has finally finished her sentence.
Her detention was notoriously extended when prison authorities could not equip her with a curfew tag bracelet. She said: “I think around 80% of the women I met should not have been in prison. Help with problems such as mental health, addiction and housing would have been more useful.”
This week the Court announced its ruling to uphold most of the harsh sentences of the ‘Walney 16’, jailing the group for a combined total of 35 years (originally 41) for peaceful protest. Global Witness say that the UK is at risk of becoming one of the world’s most repressive governments when it comes to policing climate protest, arresting campaigners at three times the global average. Lawyers for the protesters, backed by campaign groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, argued that the sentences were disproportionate and violate the UK’s obligations under human rights law, including articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and article 3(8) of the Aarhus Convention.
On 25 March prescriptive policing led to the arrest of six Youth Demand members as they met in a London Quaker House. The civil disobedience group has protested new oil expansion and UK arms to Israel. Quakers (not allied with the group) have protested at the police raid on their premises.
Open Justice
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data, citing powers given to it under the Investigatory Powers Act. After reluctantly pulling ADP from the UK, Apple has now launched legal proceedings against the government who argued it would damage national security if the nature of the legal action and the parties to it were made public. However a judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.
Sources: BBC News; The Guardian; Global Witness News; Doughty Street Chambers; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty.
#deathInCustody #freedomOfExpresson #HumanRights #LabourParty #openJustice
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Human Rights report
New report the group is launching
April 2025
Amnesty began by focusing on human rights in other countries. This was probably based on the belief that rights in the UK were secure, we had after all, the Magna Carta, a justice system and things like torture ended several centuries ago. The UK was a key player in introducing the Universal Declaration in 1948. With the arrival of the European Court, it soon became clear that not everything in the UK human rights garden was rosy. The Birmingham Six case was a classic example of a failure to treat the six defendants fairly. The police fabricated evidence, the six were badly beaten in custody, the courts and judges manifestly failed, the forensic evidence was a nonsense. Eventually they were released – not because the justice system worked to correct its mistakes – but because of the dogged work of Chris Mullins, an MP and journalist.
In the recent decade and a half, there has been a long-lasting campaign, largely led by some newspaper groups, to denigrate the Human Rights Act and to claim that it is a ‘terrorist’s charter’ and allows serious criminals to escape justice because of allegedly spurious arguments provided by their human rights. This has been echoed by the Conservative party who have variously claimed to want to abolish or reform the act. We can remember the nonsense claim by Theresa May that a Chilean man could not be deported because of his cat.
Human rights therefore are by no means secure in the UK. Legislation introduced by the last Conservative government limiting the right to protest and increasing police powers, together with the remorseless increase in the use of surveillance technology, shows no sign of being annulled by the current Labour government.
Hence we feel the need to focus on our rights here in the UK and the slow but steady attempts to limit or curtail them.
Funding for victims of trafficking
The High Court has declared that denial of Exceptional Case Funding to four victims of trafficking to access legal advice to prepare an application for criminal injuries compensation breached their rights under Article 6 ECHR.
Military Misogyny
A coroner has concluded that the UK government may have breached a young soldier’s right to life by failing to protect Jaysley Beck from a sexual assault by a more senior colleague and from sustained unwelcome sexual attention from her line manager.
Deaths in custody
More than 100 relatives of people who have died after contact with the police in the UK since 1971 have joined plans for a class action lawsuit in pursuit of compensation and justice. At the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, bereaved families presented evidence to a panel of international experts on how their relatives died and the long-term impact this has had on them. The findings and conclusions of the event will form the basis of a first-of-its-kind legal action directed at police officers, police chiefs and government departments involved in the deaths.
Economic, Social, Cultural Rights
Claims by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch state that the UK faces a cost-of-living crisis which has yet to be addressed by policies that safeguard the economic, social and cultural rights of people from low-income households, particularly their rights to food, housing and social security.
Freedom of Expression
Following last year’s criticism of the UK by the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, the High Court concluded that anti-protest measures introduced in 2023 – allowing authorities to clamp down on any protests deemed ‘more than minor’ disruptions – unlawfully restricted protest. The Labour Government has yet to repeal these repressive laws and is choosing to continue the legal challenge against the High Court ruling brought by the previous government.
Environmental Protest Sentencing
Gaie Delap (pictured), retired teacher, Quaker and climate protester has finally finished her sentence.
Her detention was notoriously extended when prison authorities could not equip her with a curfew tag bracelet. She said: “I think around 80% of the women I met should not have been in prison. Help with problems such as mental health, addiction and housing would have been more useful.”
This week the Court announced its ruling to uphold most of the harsh sentences of the ‘Walney 16’, jailing the group for a combined total of 35 years (originally 41) for peaceful protest. Global Witness say that the UK is at risk of becoming one of the world’s most repressive governments when it comes to policing climate protest, arresting campaigners at three times the global average. Lawyers for the protesters, backed by campaign groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, argued that the sentences were disproportionate and violate the UK’s obligations under human rights law, including articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and article 3(8) of the Aarhus Convention.
On 25 March prescriptive policing led to the arrest of six Youth Demand members as they met in a London Quaker House. The civil disobedience group has protested new oil expansion and UK arms to Israel. Quakers (not allied with the group) have protested at the police raid on their premises.
Open Justice
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data, citing powers given to it under the Investigatory Powers Act. After reluctantly pulling ADP from the UK, Apple has now launched legal proceedings against the government who argued it would damage national security if the nature of the legal action and the parties to it were made public. However a judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.
Sources: BBC News; The Guardian; Global Witness News; Doughty Street Chambers; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty.
#deathInCustody #freedomOfExpresson #HumanRights #LabourParty #openJustice
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Change the conditions - living & working & do it now... or let any prisoner not accused of violence against another person out, Out now! Ridiculous conditions that penalize the poor & those without surety. 70%+ on remand. Rich &/or established & you will not be in jail. It is an unfair system and it needs eliminated as it is. 2020 (COVID) prisoners sent to hotels & there was only one breech in months!
#AbolitionNow #abolition #prison #jail #DeathInCustody #suicide
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Inzwischen hat
Berlins Bürger- und Polizeibeauftragter Alexander Oerke den Fall von Kupa Ilunga Medard #Mutombo eigenständig untersucht und einen Zwischenbericht veröffentlicht. Ergebnis: es wurden Fehler auf Fehler begangen.
#Berlin #deathincustody https://taz.de/Ungeklaerter-Polizeieinsatz/!5967716/
https://www.berlin.de/buerger-polizeibeauftragter/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung.1360848.php -
@thomas Inzwischen hat
Berlins Bürger- und Polizeibeauftragter Alexander Oerke den Fall von Kupa Ilunga Medard #Mutombo eigenständig untersucht und einen Zwischenbericht veröffentlicht. Ergebnis: es wurden Fehler auf Fehler begangen.
#Berlin #deathincustody https://taz.de/Ungeklaerter-Polizeieinsatz/!5967716/
https://www.berlin.de/buerger-polizeibeauftragter/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung.1360848.php