Memo to Police

"I was only following orders" -the Nuremberg defence- was ruled No Defence at the Nuremberg Trials and it is no defence today.
Police officers globally should consider whether following their superiors orders are legal and ethical . If you do not consider those orders ethical or legal your duty is to disobey.
Police Brutality in NSW is a growing community concern. Uncharged cops have got off scot free even on the taser killing of Brazilian student Robert Curti

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch is gaining an unenviable reputation for being Commander Johnny on the spot in incidents where there is excessive police violence. Yes, he was officer in charge of Policing the 2013 Sydney Mardi Gras. Aside from the infamous bashing of the teenager which has gone viral, we have been made aware of several other incidents of police thuggery. One deaf person unceremoniously smashed into a pole. He turned to see a row of smug cops smirking at him.Bystanders explained to his shocked friends that a cop had called in his direction prior to this incident.Several other incidents of blatant police thuggery reported give lie to the fast spreading public view that police are reverting to their old thugforce mindset. A police officer who participated in the policing of Mardi Gras 2013 privately expressed disquiet also saying that there was a strained relationship with the crowd compared to recent Mardi Gras.We hope that the problem is Who is in command rather than a wider systemic issue. Occupy Sydney call for an independent investigation of all Operations and Commands directed by Murdoch and his immediate  suspension from any frontline duties for the safety of the public and other police officers.
  On October 23 2011 at about 5-30am NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch lead over 100 Riot Cops in a premeditated attack on peacefully sleeping Occupy Sydney Protesters. Under his command and on his orders Riot and other police arrested many Occupiers for alleged infringement offences. These offences do not provide police with the option of arrest. Yet arrests occurred. What were Police orders? Why did they so blatantly disregard and exceed the laws they are paid to uphold? Why are many Occupiers still subject to bail today?

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A creation of Occupy Sydney Stalwart Bernice The Occupy Sydney Zine is the GA endorsed weekly Occupy Sydney publication.

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Guide to staying overnight – Occupy Haikus – ALEC, Big Phama and the Medicalisation of Poverty – Occupy DnD

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How Police subvert the judiciary – General Strike

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City Talks – Meditation at a riot – Tax

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COCA – Why the system isn’t broken – Story of your enslavement

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15-M – Inequality - Monsanto - GMO

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Police brutality – Iceland – Free school – Activist self-care

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Montreal - Lizards Revenge – World’s largest open cut uranium mine

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Free School – Mic-Check Party – Occupy the Courts – Police Brutality

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Building blocks of Freedom, Solidarity with Honduras, Julia Gillard’s criminal history

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Sat May 12 : Stop Stateterrorism :RALLY Stop NSW Police Killing & Shooting & Terrorising non Anglos

 Occupy Sydney participants are supporting a call to Rally to Stop Police Brutality, Shootings , Taserings and Killings outside Kings Cross Police Station this Saturday at 2.30pm.
 Recent shootings of an aboriginal youth and young man by and the taser killing of a Brazilian man are just the latest in a long chain of NSW and Australian Police killings and shootings of an overwhelmingly   
  The overarching message NSW Governments of Labor and Liberal persuasion have delivered via Racist Police over many years is "the whiter you are, the righter you are". The message is ritually reinforced almost nightly with officers unconstrained by the parameters of legality nightly applying psychological terrorism as a weapon against youth particularly of Asian Polynesian Arabic appearance -or those who might come from modest economic backgrounds as defined by their appearance. These incidents are so common and widespread that they go largely unreported.


 Research of NSW Police taserings shootings and killings show that the victims are overwhelmingly non anglo.A high percentage had diagnosed mental health issues. Not One Police Oficer has been charged or convicted in relation to these incidents. In fact the liberal stress leave available to NSW police officers who kill is regarded by many as an incentive to kill, safe in the knowledge that "we look after our own" when investigations happen.


 The following is a Rally call from Indigenous Social Justice Action republished in full: (we suggest copying printing & circulating the following as an A5 flyer.)

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Stop Police Brutality

Stop Police Investigating Police

Ban The Tasers 

We Demand:

1. NSW Police be made answerable to the people by setting up Police Citizens Review Boards similar to those of the USA and some european countries. The members of those Boards to be voted on by the people of NSW.
2. For an independent Investigative Unit to be formed by properly qualified professionals who have no connection to any police member past or present.
3. Remove the Tasers from all Frontline Police.Full and open Public Inquiry to be held into their use and who should use them.
4. Review of the use of Glock handguns, requirements for in depth training, including psychiatric assessment of all officers, and finally who should be issued with such a deadly weapon.
5. We demand the full facts related to the Kings Cross shooting not just the government / police media "Facts". 

We will be holding another Rally on Saturday 12 May at 2.30pm outside Kings vross Police Station. JOIN US and support this campaign.

more information Ray Jackson 0450651063 or Raul Bassi 0403037376 

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