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According to the New York Post, 50 people were arrested Wednesday night -- including Gray's sister. Knefel noted a "particularly tense stand-off between a female demonstrator and a male police officer," which, he reported, "began with the cop telling her to get on the sidewalk, and her responding, "Or what, you'll shoot me?" The officer, whose helmet had the number 7987 on it, said, 'No, but I'll slap you.'"

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Tishana King, a local resident who came forward as a witness, told the New York Daily News that she had a “bird’s-eye view” of the fatal police shooting. “I’m certain he didn’t have anything in his hands,” said King. Meanwhile Police Commissioner Ray Kelly maintained at City Council hearing Tuesday that "there's nothing to indicate that this shooting, at this time, was outside the guidelines." As Devereux wrote, "King gave a tape recorded interview to the NYPD hours after the shooting and never mentioned the teen possessing a firearm. A .38-caliber Rohm's Industry revolver was found at the scene."  King's testimony promises to further fuel anti-police sentiment stoked by Gray's shooting.

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During a City Council hearing earlier that day Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "There's nothing to indicate that [Kimani Gray's] shooting, at this time, was outside the guidelines."

Councilman Jumaane Williams, whose district includes East Flatbush, responded to the police chief that the demonstrations on Monday night were not just about Gray's death, but about years of frustration with police."People are angry," he said according to NY1. "I feel it. I hear it. I know it. And it sucks when you are trying to tell the people who can actually do something about it, and they're refusing to listen."

Original post: There was a debate on Twitter Monday night as to whether a riot or a protest was going on in Brooklyn. Although questions of when an event gets labeled a "riot" or a "protest" are interesting (is race a factor? window-breaking? the presence of riot cops?), there are no determinate answers, and what's more important, and certain, is this: Anger at the NYPD following the fatal shooting of another teenager is once again boiling over and manifesting in New York's streets.

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That innocent people get shot by cops who think their own safety is paramount, whose actions show they value their own lives more than those of people they are sworn to protect, is part of a major problem in America that has not abated much despite decades of efforts to make policing more professional and less brutish. It is the policy of police departments that police cannot kill innocents to save themselves, in effect, that sometimes your sworn duty is to die. But, on the streets, it is far too often another story entirely.

The victims of this Feb. 7 police violence bore no resemblance to Dorner or his vehicle. The deranged Dorner drove a gray Nissan Titan pickup, while LAPD fired a fusillade into a bright blue Toyota Tacoma pickup from behind, while minutes later Torrance, Calif., police rammed a black Honda Ridgeline pickup and then fired three shots.

Dorner was a large, even hulking, black man. In the blue truck were two Hispanic women. Torrance police shot at a surfer, a white male slight in stature.

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The number of officers around the young man then increases to seven, and a number can be seen delivering punches and kicks to the restrained suspect. According to the New York Post, police arrested Jackson and charged him with obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest, unlawful possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct. But Jackson is taking his case to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. His lawyer, Jacques Leandre, said he wants the charges to be dismissed because his client is “an innocent victim of police brutality.”

According to HuffPo, "photos released to the press show a gruesome, crescent-shaped wound that the 19-year-old sustained in the incident as his left cheek was ground into the cement sidewalk."

Warning, the video below includes graphic content:

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Another former Los Angeles police officer, Joe Jones, has now posted his own online manifesto flagged by HuffPo Tuesday. Jones wrote, "The first thing I would say to [Dorner] is, I feel your pains!" but urges, "Don't kill anymore innocent people!"

Jones, 48, a patrol officer who retired in 1998, like Dorner stressed "the injustices of Police Corruption, Scandal, Lies, Deception and Brutality." Jones claims that he had his "Civil Rights violated on several occasions" by the LAPD, had himself been falsely arrested at gunpoint, and lost so much trust in the police department while an officer that he could "no longer wear the Uniform." His manifesto, which was originally posted to his Facebook page (since removed) and then circulated Tuesday, directly addresses "unethical LAPD and all agencies":

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In the image to garner the most viral attention to date, a muscular black man buying groceries is featured wearing a grey T-shirt inscribed with the words "Not Chris Dorner, Please Do Not Shoot." In another image, a pickup truck displays a handwritten sign reading, "Don't Shoot! Not Dorner, Thank You." It's a direct jab at the LAPD after two pickup trucks similar to Dorner's vehicle were shot at by police while innocent passengers were inside. Printed bumper stickers and shirts with the same message are now available for sale on eBay.

The lawyer of a man driving one of these pickups told the Los Angeles Times, "I don't want to use the word 'buffoonery' but it really is unbridled police lawlessness ... These people need training and they need restraint."

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However, according to the Los Angeles Times, when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge examined the case a year later in 2010 as part of an appeal filed by Dorner, he was "uncertain whether the training officer kicked the suspect or not." The judge nonetheless upheld the panel's ruling.

Based on police records, the Los Angeles Times detailed the events leading up to Dorner's dismissal:

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Police are searching for Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33: "a former U.S. Navy reservist, Dorner was fired in 2009 for allegedly making false statements about his training officer," the LA Times reported. In his online manifesto, Dorner equates being dismissed from the force to his "death" and says that "shocking actions" he has taken are a "necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."

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Writing in the Guardian, Ryan Devereaux details the contents of the Graham family lawsuit:

At over 100 pages in length, the Graham family lawsuit paints a picture of a chaotic scene the afternoon Ramarley was killed. It alleges that after forcing his way into the Graham home, Haste shot the unarmed teenager in the chest in his bathroom, as his six-year-old brother and 58-year-old grandmother, Patricia Hartley, looked on.

"Why did you shoot him, why you killed him?" Hartley cried out after Haste fired, the suit claims. "Get the fuck away before I have to shoot you, too," Haste is said to have replied as he shoved Graham's 85-pound grandmother into a vase, the suit alleges.

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As the Guardian's Patrick Kingsley noted from Egypt:

The video shows Hamada Saber, reportedly a 50-year-old unemployed laborer, lying on the ground outside the presidential palace in north-east Cairo, with his trousers around his ankles, being beaten with batons and fists before being dragged into a police van.

The scene is reminiscent of the "woman in the blue bra" – a protester stripped and beaten by soldiers during protests against military rule in December 2011, whose plight became a lightning rod for opposition dissent.

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The incident was flagged by Independent Monitor Robert Warshaw, who is responsible for auditing the OPD's progress in complying with a Negotiated Settlement Agreement to resolve allegations of police misconduct. According to Warshaw's most recent report, the OPD's compliance decreased for the second quarter in a row. As well as highlighting the police department's failure to investigate Occupy Oakland complaints, Warshaw's report briefly mentions a troubling incident:

[D]uring a search warrant, two officers pointed their firearms at a sleeping 19-month-old child who, of course, posed no immediate threat to the officers or others. The crime being investigated, according to the reports, involved a misdemeanor offense.

The report also notes that in the past quarter, five incidents reportedly took place in which Oakland police pointed their guns at citizens when no crime had been committed.

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21-year-old Ehud Halevi was beaten and pepper sprayed, as security camera recordings show, spent four days in prison and faced a string of charges including felony assault on a police officer -- charges which were later dropped when the district attorney reviewed the disturbing video. This week, Gothamist reports, Halevi filed a federal lawsuit against the NYPD with the help of famed civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel. Siegel, the former director of the NYCLU told the Gothamist that he is confident Ehud will be awarded compensatory damages. He told the site:

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According to the NYCLU who brought the class action suit against the NYPD, police had regularly carried out unlawful searches during sweeps of "Clean Halls" apartment buildings in the Bronx. Operation Clean Halls, established in the 1991, gives police permission to stop and search individuals in and around New York apartment buildings in high crime areas. In 2011,  according to the NYCLU , police stopped 1,137 of the 1,857 "Clean Halls" residents in the Bronx.

Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the NYPD must immediately stop carrying out trespass stops outside the private buildings in the program, unless officers have reasonable suspicion, "a legal standard that requires officers to be acting on more than just a hunch," noted the New York Times.

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Of course, it’s impossible to say with certainty which actions "Anonymous" actually pulled off, since its membership is ill-defined and anyone can claim association, not to mention that sometimes Anonymous hacktivists act alone or as part of a subgroup.  Even when Anonymous has put out one of its quintessential videos claiming responsibility for a hack or DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service—shutting down a website by flooding it with requests) attack, it hasn’t always turned out to be true.

Given that, below are Anonymous’ “Top 20” for 2012. With its widening arsenal and focus, one can only imagine what these Internet denizens have in store for 2013.

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Officer Larry Deprimo, the cop who gifted the boots and reportedly told the recipient, "I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let’s put them on and take care of you,” showed the sort of human kindness worthy of sharing online and "IRL" (in real life). Little wonder the NYPD would use the photo of Deprimo as an image boost over social media. There is, however, something galling about the viral celebration of the image as something representative of NYPD's attitude toward the homeless when there is an ongoing battle by homeless advocates in New York to combat mistreatment by cops. Equally, it's worth noting that images of severe police brutality get far less online attention. Meanwhile, reporters and citizen journalists have repeatedly in the past year been physically prevented from filming NYPD aggression.

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The LA Times reports:

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On Tuesday, a federal court condemned the police "code of silence" that had protected the offending cop. The court awarded the plaintiff -- the assaulted bartender, Karolina Obrycka -- $850,000 in damages. The Chicago Tribune called it "one of the most embarrassing incidents in the police department's history" when a tape of the vicious beating was made public:

The shocking videotape showed off-duty Chicago police Officer Anthony Abbate throw a female bartender half his size against a wall in the Northwest Side tavern, slam her to the floor and pummel her with frenzied punches and kicks.

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Officer Chris Webb was attending "career day" at Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School when he sent 50,000 volts of electricity into the child's chest on the playground. The young boy blacked out and has, according to his legal representative, been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder ever since; the officer faces a civil suit.

According to the complaint, Webb shot his Taser at the child (referred to only as "R.D.") after he said he did not want to join fellow classmates in cleaning the officer's patrol car. Courthouse News reported:

"Defendant Webb responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, 'Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.'"

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