“When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.” TakenStreetsBallsPolicePathetic Author:Wayne Rooney
“You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?” IfsTodayRememberUsedAudienceTakenSeeingExcitingPoliceRisingArrestedWagonsPaddyScorpios Author:John Waters
“Absolutely, it's a Sunni area. So the key here, once Ramadi is taken that you have the Sunni tribal fighters, Sunni police in there patrolling the city.” CitiesTakenKeysAreasPoliceFighterPatrolling Author:Tom Bowman
“How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think that as regards democracy everything is settled now in America? If this were so, there would be no Ferguson issue, right? There would be no other issues of similar kind, there would be no police abuse. Our goal is to see all these issues and respond to them timely and properly. The same applies to Russia. We also have a lot of problems.” IfsThinkingKindLongStatesProblemWould BeAmericaProcessGoalUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyIssuesTakenAbusePoliceRegardDemocraticRussiaTimelyDemocratic ProcessFerguson Author:Vladimir Putin
“The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMomentsLevelsTakenWifeColorHusbandWindowPoliceVideoInteractionDisturbingHigh LevelComplianceKeithCharlotte Author:Chris Hayes
“The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.” PeopleMenMeanCountryFacesWhiteTeachSupportTakenDogKingsPoliceClubsBeastWhite ManLutherCaptivityDefenselessReverends Author:Malcolm X
“A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.” MenYearsStillsUseTodayUsedWhiteTakenDogHundredYears AgoPoliceUniformsSheetsWhite ManBloodhounds Author:Malcolm X
“I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.” PeopleMayDifferentWarSometimesActionDifficultViewsTakenWiseProtectMajorsWeakPoliceScriptureVulnerableJustifiedPreoccupationVery WiseWise PeopleDifferent ViewsDifficult Questions Author:N. T. Wright
“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"” ThinkingMenKindDifferentMomentsReadingBlackTakenPoliceSlaveWanderBlack WomenCountrysidePolice Officer Author:Titus Kaphar
“Russian police force, fortunately, so far, do not use batons, tear gas or any other extreme measures of instilling order, something that we often see in other countries, including in the United States. Speaking of opposition, let us recall the movement Occupy Wall Street. Where is it now? The law enforcement agencies and special services in the US have taken it apart, into little pieces, and have dissolved it.” CountryTakenSpecialTearsWallPoliceGasLaw Enforcement Author:Vladimir Putin
“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.” TryingHandsHurtTakenBrokenPoliceLoved OnesWornWorn OutSobbing Book:Dreamland Source: Dreamland
“My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have got control of the oil and they are exporting it, and they have stripped a government that was 90% state owned and they are privatizing it. ... They have taken a country that was self defining and self developing and is now an impoverished prostrate devastated country where people will line up to work for slave wages or become members of the police or army because it's the only job they can get and serve as adjuncts to U.S. imperialism.” PeopleWantSelfCountryStatesGovernmentJobsPoliticalLinesTakenPolicyMembersArmyPoliceSlaveIraqOilDevelopingWorking ItWagesImperialismDefiningDevastatedExporting Author:Michael Parenti
“When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like a bit of an outsider who had somehow taken over but didnt really belong in this nice palace. I secretly wondered if the real mayor would come back from vacation one day and call the police.” IfsRealFeltBitsTakenNiceWeekOne DayPoliceVacationOutsidersPalacesMayorsNashville Author:Phil Bredesen
“They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.” Has BeensHateTakenRightsMediaApproachMiraclePoliceCreditCampaignsIntenseViciousConstitutional Rights Author:Ernst Zundel
“I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.” PeopleWritingPlaySongTakenStreetsRocksPoliceJailRock And RollBeatenHappiness And LoveThese Streets Author:Wesley Willis