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speedythefirst@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

‘I had to change where my kids sleep’: Man shares terrifying experience, says Amarillo officer tracked him 78 times

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‘I had to change where my kids sleep’: Man shares terrifying experience, says Amarillo officer tracked him 78 times

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speedythefirst@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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An Amarillo father is speaking anonymously after learning former APD Officer Christian Eder systematically tracked his vehicle 76 times through the city's FLOCK surveillance cameras and ran his background twice through TLOxp under false pretenses.
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    1. spend a week doing suspicious shit
    2. find a location that has no cameras
    3. lure psycho to location
    4. do it
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    I’m always so amazed to read these stories and then see absolutely zero response from Americans

    This single story alone should cause people to protest in the streets until at least the prosecutors are fired for corruption and this guy jailed

    Yet, crockets, this is just another day in another town in the USA

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    They taught us police,

    Supposed to serve and protect,

    They abuse and kill

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    Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.

    Prosecutors are part of the problem

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      ACAB includes prosecutors

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      DA’s protect shitty cops all the time.

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      especially the DA, wants to be re-elected, having campaign funds. prosecutors are likely in the same sitiautions, want to advance thier careers, needs police support/police donor support.

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    An internal audit revealed Eder used police databases to monitor the victim over a five-month span.

    Eder turned himself into the Potter County Jail and was released on a single, $4,500 bond for all 78 charges combined.

    $4500 for 78 charges?? People get higher bail for selling weed.

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      cop= discount jail scentence, and discounted fines.

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    off-duty access of active body cameras was not an unusual practice within the department.

    Why the hell not?

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    Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.

    Typical, they are looking out for their own.

    Because of that legal classification, the victim said the county attorney’s office initially told him it would be difficult for him to access standard victim advocacy services.

    WTF??

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    Flock is not going to be meaningfully regulated until a cop deletes a whole family in a public way.

    I would not be surprised if a cop had already done so privately and it’s just been covered up.

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    Flock should be pushing for new regs here and for this guy to be prosecuted. It would make everyone more comfortable with the cameras.

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      flock had no intention of doing that other than providing surveillance tech which feeds to palantir AI.

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      Flocks only part in this abomination was that it alerted police after scanning the plate. If the cop had entered the plate manually, the outcome would have been the same.

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      They should fuck off and cease to exist

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      Just an FYI, if a company is ever actively pushing for regulation where they are a part of the equation, you should be suspicious. Like in your example, they wouldn’t actually care about the regulation beyond the PR of “look look we think this shouldn’t be allowed either!”

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      Flock’s actual response.

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-camera-ceo-asks-americans-132811636.html

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        Compromise on our security for your profits? Get bent!

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          I think stronger language might be called for here. 🤔

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            Oh, oh. I’ve seen this one before!

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    It’s coming. The first case where somebody kills a cop in self defense.

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      99.99% sure that’s happened before, 99.99% sure it will happen again, 99.99% sure the other guy won’t survive. Or will get 50 years in jail (along with the six people closest to him).

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        Three Generations punishment like in NK

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      Ummmmmmm

      • ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip
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        What’s my take away from this comment supposed to be?

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nathan_Heidelberg

          Oil company exec was acquitted

          https://reason.com/2023/11/21/marvin-guy-who-shot-a-cop-during-a-no-knock-raid-is-found-guilty-of-murder/

          However, when you’re not an oil exec, you get convicted of murder

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            A little different than the scenario I had envisioned. One of these days the death won’t be a mistake.

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          It has happened.

          • frongt@lemmy.zip
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            When? I’m not aware of any cases. No cops were killed when they shot and killed Breonna Taylor.

            There’s the Wilson shooting in Texas, but that guy was reckless, it wasn’t really self defence.

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              https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/father-shot-2-officers-who-mistakenly-served-warrant-at-his-home/54589/

              Here’s one example although the cops lived. I do recall at least one or two other stories but can’t find them on Google and wouldn’t be surprised to learn they were buried intentionally. I thought one was in CO or somewhere in the Midwest from several years ago where a man shot a few cops who were at the wrong address.

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              You dont hear about it. The people who killed in self defence are then killed by the backup.

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                You’re 3 comments into a conversation on the topic and none of us have actually heard anything about them.

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                  Exactly, they murdered a cop. You will not be told that it was self defence.

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    Shocking but not unexpected :( I hope he’s able to find justice.

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      Justice against a cop in America? LMFAO

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