Victims without a protest, national media coverage, or justice...

Sonoma County Sheriff's deputies stop Petaluma man in fatal car mix-up

KTVU

WARNING GRAPHIC: Sonoma County Sheriff body camera video shows deputy Charlie Blount and Jason Little trying to get David Ward of Petaluma out of his Honda. They thought he stole it. Turns out, it was his car. Ward died after his head was slammed into his car and he was Tased multiple times and put into a neck hold. This video is upsetting and contains graphic detail.



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Unarmed man begs for life, shot by police

CNN

Newly released bodycam footage shows former Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford shoot and kill unarmed Daniel Shaver at a hotel in Arizona. Brailsford says he shot Shaver after he reached for his waistband and was acquitted of murder charges.



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Hope Steffey Stripped, Molested By Stark County Cops

Operation Nation

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For more on this story, visit:
http://operation-nation.com/?p=274



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Dash cam video of Officer Jon Crowder battery

THV11

Officer Jon Crowder with the North Little Rock Police Department was arrested and charged with misdemeanor Battery 3rd.

Read more: https://on.kthv.com/3204cF0



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Unarmed Mother Cindy Hahn Brutally Attacked by Multiple Carlsbad Police Officers

GeragosTube



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"When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law. Just a fight for survival." -- Billy Jack



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When police break the law, there is no law.



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7-6-20 ADDITION:






Cops Vs. Cameras: The Killing of Kelly Thomas & The Power of New Media

ReasonTV
 

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Full, unedited Kelly Thomas confrontation video (35 min.)

Officers on Trial in Killing of Kelly Thomas


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Gairethinx

In the book 'The Lombard Laws' (Fischer Drew; 1973), footnote 43, on page 245; it states regarding the "thinx":

"The thinx was, properly speaking, the public assembly, ding, of the Lombards. After the settlement in Italy, however, the wide scattering of the Lombard people would have made such a general assembly impossible.

Hence the witnessing of contracts--an important function of the assembly--was transferred to a smaller group of witnesses. "The gairethinx ("spear assembly") name remained, however, and from this word the shorter form thinx was often used to refer to the formal contractual procedure of gairethinx, or even to the gift, the object of the transfer, itself."


Gairethinx (from Wikipedia):

The gairethinx was a Lombard ceremony in which edicts and laws were affirmed by the army. It may have involved the entire army banging their spears on their shields. It may have been a much quieter event.

It is etymologically related to the Thing of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons and the Althing of Iceland.

Women in Langbard

I am currently examining the footnotes of the book 'History of the Lombards'. Although the book was written by Paul the Deacon, it was edited by Edward Peters. More than in most books, I find myself disagreeing with both of them. Rather than using a lot of text explaining why, which I may cover some other time, I wanted to just look briefly at an issue that I saw on one open set of pages (pgs. 194-195), in the footnotes.

On page 194, Edwards is commenting on the advance of the Catholic Church in Langbard (the Lombards were either Arian Christian or "heathen" (some form of Wotanism most likely). He writes "The conversion of the Langobards to the Catholic faith was prompted by their intermarriage with Roman wives."

This is a clumsy statement based on the easy concept that everyone living on the Italian peninsula before the Langobards was "Roman." However, this concept is not used for Roman citizenry outside of the peninsula. Also, the population were no longer "Roman citizens," but some still attach an easy, catch-all "Roman" ethnic title to the entire population. Most of the population, at least north of Etruria, was either Alpine Euganean or Celtic Gaul, with some old Etruscan or later Germanic genes admixed. Therefore, when a Germanic Lombard married a culturally Romanized ethnic Celt, it became Edwards "intermarriage with a Roman wife."

On page 195, Edwards is discussing Lombard Law, and states "Rothari Edict was published Nov. 22nd, 643. It was composed of 388 chapters. Although written in Latin, the greater part of this Edict was of purely Langobard origin." After giving some examples of this law, he gets to the treatment of women in Langbard, and writes "'If anyone should "place himself in the way" of a free woman or girl or injure her he must pay nine hundred solidi (540 pounds sterling). If any one should "place himself in the way" of a free man he must pay him twenty solidi .....' These provisions indicated the high estimation the high estimation in which the free women were held."

For thousands of years, in both Wotanist and Wicca-like faiths, women not only were often equal, but actually held much power in many instances. Often in matters of faith, though not nearly as much in politics. I'm not sure about pre-Christian Etruscan society and spirituality.