A Fitting End: The Death of John Timoney
▻http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2016/08/30/a-fitting-end-the-death-of-john-timoney
A Fitting End: The Death of John Timoney
▻http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2016/08/30/a-fitting-end-the-death-of-john-timoney
New #Wikileaks Revelation Exposes Big State Department Lie, This Time in Bahrain
▻http://www.policymic.com/articles/81325/new-wikileaks-revelation-exposes-big-state-department-lie-this-time-in-ba
#John_Timoney has a face like a fist and a CV out of The Departed. He’s been a cop in New York, Miami and Philadelphia. And now he’s advising the Bahraini government on policing matters.
That’s the Bahraini government, the one that gases, tortures and kills protesters as their preferred method of public order policing. And that’s Timoney, who’s been called “the worst cop in America” and faced hundreds of complaints over his violent approach to public order policing in the U.S.
The State Department has always insisted Timoney’s appointment in Bahrain has nothing to do with them. The distancing is deliberate — human rights groups are scrutinizing the repressive regime closely.
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An email has turned up on Wikileaks ▻http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=85406 showing the job opportunity that Timoney eventually took when he was promoted by an American “Regional Security Officer” who was stationed at the Bahrain Embassy five months before Timoney was appointed.
Policing Bahrain : the long arm of the British | openDemocracy
▻http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/john-horne-john-lubbock/policing-bahrain-long-arm-of-british
Un article sur les liens indéfectibles entre le régime bahreini et l’ancien colonisateur britannique, symbolisé par le fait que le jour de la fête nationale à #Bahreïn ne correspond pas à celui de l’indépendance vis-à-vis des Britanniques, le 14 Août (1971), mais au jour de la prise de "pouvoir" par le père de l’actuel roitelet, le 16 Décembre (1961).
L’article se focalise sur la participation- sous couvert de "formation"- du Britannique #John_Yates (et en passant celle de “#America’s_worst_cop” #John_Timoney), ex-flic de haut rang dans son pays, dans la répression à Bahreïn.
(John Yates avait été impliqué dans le scandale des écoutes illégales du tabloïd News of the World.)
On August 14th, many Bahrainis will celebrate the day in 1971 when the country gained its independence from Britain. The Bahrain government and its ruling family, however, will not, preferring instead to commemorate “National Day” on December 16th, marking the date the current King’s father began his rule in 1961. King Hamad recently went so far as to say, “for all practical and strategic purposes the British presence has not changed and it remains such that we believe we shall never be without it.” The celebrations on August 14th will thus take the form of protests demanding self-determination, democracy and human rights.
To many opposition activists, the contemporary face of British “practical and strategic purposes” in Bahrain is John Yates, the former Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner hired as an advisor to the Bahrain Ministry of Interior (MOI) in December 2011. Yates is the latest in a long line of British advisors to Bahrain, including the notorious Colonel Ian Henderson CBE who oversaw horrific torture during his tenure heading the country’s security apparatus between 1966 and 1998.
A specialist in brutality goes to Bahrain | SocialistWorker.org
JOHN TIMONEY, until recently chief of police of Miami and, before that, Philadelphia, formerly of New York City, where he was also a high-ranking cop, is heading to Bahrain to train the cops there, according to the Associated Press.
If you happen to know anybody from Bahrain who might be thinking that hiring this New Yorker could be a step in the direction of less massacre-oriented policing policies, this might be a good time to relieve them of any such illusions.
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Because they were peacefully blocking roads, they were violently attacked by thousands of cops with massive amounts of tear gas and other weapons. In another part of town (Nike Town), a couple hundred people destroyed corporate property, were declared to be violent anarchists and got massive amounts of media attention. The police chased them around, but could never seem to catch them. Nobody got hurt in Nike Town other than the violent anarchists.
►http://socialistworker.org/2011/12/06/specialist-in-brutality
Et maintenant, les États-Unis exportent la démocratie à Bahreïn : Even Bahrain’s use of ’Miami model’ policing will not stop the uprising | Matthew Cassel
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/03/bahrain-miami-model-policing
In 2003, as a photography student in Chicago, I travelled to Miami to cover protests by trade unionists and other activists at a meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. I had just returned from witnessing the repressive tactics of the Israeli army against Palestinians – invasions, curfew, violent crackdown on unarmed protests – but never expected to see them deployed at home in a US city.
I was shocked when I reached Miami and found it similar to a West Bank town under occupation. The city was largely empty save for police vehicles speeding in every direction and helicopters hovering above. Once the protests began, it was impossible to move more than a few feet in any direction without confronting the police and their brutality. The thousands of police dressed in full riot gear and armed with teargas, rubber bullets, batons, electric tasers – all of which were used against protesters and journalists – were everywhere around Miami.
The “model”, as Miami public officials called it at the time, was the brainchild of police chief John Timoney. After leading the head-bashing of protesters as Philadelphia’s police commissioner during the Republican party’s national convention in 2000, Timoney was hired by Miami and given more than $8m to introduce a level of police brutality unlike any we had ever seen in the US.
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Now the Miami model is coming to Bahrain. The Associated Press reported on Thursday that Timoney has been hired by the kingdom’s interior ministry “as part of reforms” following the release of a report last week by a government-sponsored fact-finding commission.