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117 Countries Slam American Police Brutality At UN Human Rights Council
Critics across the board urged improvements in training methods and legislation and included goals to eliminate racism and end excessive force.
By Claire Bernish | AntiMedia | May 13, 2015

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A police officer throws an object at protestors, Monday, April 27, 2015, following the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van.
(ANTIMEDIA) In what could hardly be called a surprise, the UN Human Rights Council chastised the USover its epidemic of police violence, discrimination, needless killings, and general neglect, following through with recommendations made in its first review in 2010.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) takes place every four years to scrutinize the human and civil rights practices of each of the UN’s 193 member nations. Delegates from 117 countries took the opportunity to lambaste the US’ record of civil rights violations exacted by its brutal and racist police forces.

In an attempt to fend off the inevitable, James Cadogan, a senior counselor in the Department of Justice’s Human Rights Division, said the US must “rededicate ourselves to ensuring that our civil rights laws live up to their promise,” listing several “tragic deaths” that sparked numerous demonstrations and wide-scale unrest across the country. However, he seemed to be blind to the fundamental basis for such outrage saying the US wishes to “identify and address potential policing issues before they become systemic problems,”, even asserting a fictitious good record for holding violators accountable. As Mary McLeod, acting legal adviser to the US Dept of State, put it, “We’re proud of the work we’ve done since our last UPR.” Most would disagree.

What the US representatives touted as improvements, actually do more to highlight the systemic issue they claim to be on the lookout for. Cadogan cited 400 instances in the past six years in which charges were brought against law enforcement officials, but this doesn’t figure in the disproportionately light punishment that often results from prosecution of police officers. Even his own preemptive statement, naming Michael Brown and Eric Garner as examples, speaks far more to police impunity than accountability — and is hardly reflective of the totality of incidents. Over 400 people have been killed by police in 2015 alone.

“Chad considers the United States of America to be a country of freedom, but recent events targeting black sectors of society have tarnished its image,” said Awada Angui, the delegate from that country.

The representative from Namibia, Gladice Pickering, echoed the general consensus saying the US needs “to fix the broken justice system that continues to discriminate against [marginalized communities], despite recent waves of protest over racial profiling and police killings of unarmed black men.”

Critics across the board urged improvements in training methods and legislation and included goals to eliminate racism and end excessive force.

“I’m not surprised that the world’s eyes are focused on police issues in the US,” said Alba Morales of Human Rights Watch. “There is an international spotlight that’s been shone [on the issues], in large part due to the events in Ferguson and the disproportionate police response to even peaceful protesters.”

A federal investigation was launched on Friday to determine if police in Baltimore have instituted a pattern of discrimination following reports from residents of brutal abuse before and after Freddie Gray was killed in police custody. Such investigations are often too little, too late for victims and their families, who see them more akin to the cynical joke; “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”

Martinez Sutton, whose 22-year-old sister, Rekia Boyd, was shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2012,observed from the sidelines. He feels that her killer’s acquittal three weeks ago is frustratingly typical: “I do not expect them to do anything because – I mean: Let us be real, it has been going on for years and what has been done? As I stated before, they say the guilty should be punished. I want them to show us instead of tell us. My sister was innocent, so why isn’t anybody paying for her death?”

The UN will issue its report on the review along with recommendations on Friday, though its contents probably won’t be of much consequence considering the US “largely failed” to implement any of the 171 changes suggested in the previous report.

There isn’t much comfort to be found in an atmosphere where calling the cops for assistance could potentially be your own death sentence. But if our own government doesn’t see a problem with its policing policies, at least 117 other countries around the world are starting to ask questions.

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Reverse Drug Stings: The Latest Tool For Creating Criminals In The War On Drugs
"The time has come to remind the Executive Branch that the Constitution charges it with law enforcement — not crime creation,” one California judge writes in a damning indictment of the practice, while another describes agents as “trolling poor neighborhoods.”
By Derrick Broze | May 13, 2015

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FORT WAYNE, Indiana — Since Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement in the United States has undergone a dangerous transformation from protecting and serving the American public to enforcing Orwellian laws under the guise of national security. American law enforcement agencies have become heavily militarized, and they’ve been granted previously unseen levels of authority when it comes to the use of confidential informants in pursuit of criminals.

The militarization can be seen on television screens and social media feeds around the nation. Instances of police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri; New York; Ohio; Baltimore and countless other cities have made police militarization and violence a national conversation. The YouTube generation has helped video after video of police brutality and aggression go viral, as they are seen by millions of impressionable minds. Through the federal 1033 Program, local and state law enforcement agencies are granted access to excess military equipment. According to the U.S. Government’s Defense Logistics Agency’s Law Enforcement Support Office, the program has transferred $4.3 billion worth of property from military to local law enforcement to date.

The militarization has been accompanied by an increased use of confidential informants (CIs) to catch both “terrorists” and “violent criminals” accused of attempting to commit robberies on so-called “stash houses.” In both cases, individuals have been approached by undercover government or other law enforcement agents, who encourage them to participate in acts of terrorism or to rob houses where drugs and weapons are allegedly stashed. Then, those individuals are arrested once they express the slightest interest in those activities.

When it comes to catching these supposedly dangerous criminals, the FBI seems to have perfected the technique. The mainstream media has even noticed something amiss with the bureau’s use of CIs to, essentially, manufacture terrorism. Rolling Stone’s Rick Perlstein questioned the motives of the bureau in a 2012 piece. In an Opinion piece for The New York Times in April 2012, David Shipler, author of “Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America,” wrote:

“This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps.”

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has also taken advantage of the tactic over the past decade as a tool in the “War on Drugs.” Known as “reverse-stings,” the tactic involves undercover ATF agents working with CIs to find individuals willing to participate in committing robbery on stash houses loaded with drugs and weapons. But these drugs and weapons do not exist, and neither do the houses. In fabricating these details, the ATF hopes to catch what it believes to be dangerous criminals.

Critics say the agents are walking a thin-line between catching legitimate criminals and creating the crimes themselves. Brad Heath, a journalist with USA Today, has done extensive reporting toward shining a light on the use of reverse-stings by the ATF. Heath reported in June 2013 that the ATF had locked up more than 1,000 people through reverse-stings, and it’s “more than quadrupled its use of such drug house operations since 2003.”

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he ATF exclusively looks to lock suspects up for both drug and weapons charges that will guarantee they receive mandatory minimum sentences, starting at 15 years. Weapons charges alone do not guarantee long sentences, but a weapons-gun charge combination can significantly extend sentences.

USA Today examined court records and found that at least 484 people have been been convicted as a result of reverse-stings, with more than two-thirds receiving at least ten years in prison. Although the drugs are not real, the higher the amount the suspects agree to steal from the imaginary stash house, the higher their sentence.

Indeed, in the race to apprehend criminals via reverse-stings and jack up sentences, the ATF and other agencies are employing controversial undercover tactics and making questionable arrests.



From freedom to prison in under 24 hours
“The ATF made the decision, two months after my 25th birthday, that I was trash, unfit to be a contributing member of society,” Melvin Taylor told MintPress News. “They threw away a guy that didn’t have any felony record, misdemeanor or so much as a parking ticket.”

Taylor was living in Gary, Indiana, nine years ago. He was going to school part-time and working at an auto repair shop. Up until that point, Taylor had never been arrested, let alone convicted for drugs or anything resembling a violent crime. This changed, however, when he was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine for his alleged involvement in planning a robbery of a stash house.

He is currently serving a 20-year sentence for possession of narcotics. Despite the charges and lengthy sentence, Taylor’s involvement in the robbery lasted less than 24 hours, and he never once saw a weapon, a drug or the stash house — which didn’t ever really exist.

Taylor’s case, like many of these cases, involves the ATF seeking out minorities in low-income situations and enticing them with the possibility of “get-rich-quick” schemes. Taylor’s only involvement in the planned robbery was through his friend, Marlyn Barnes, who was living in Fort Wayne and preparing to move back home to Gary. He was working at a retirement home, struggling to make ends meet. A friend of Barnes’s had recently been arrested and turned informant for the authorities. In an effort to keep himself out of a long stretch behind bars, Barnes’s friend agreed to help the authorities catch someone else.

He introduced Barnes to an undercover ATF agent, who posed as a disgruntled courier for drug dealers, sick of sub-par payment from his bosses and ready to rob them. The undercover agent said all he needed was a little help from a crew. For several months the friend/CI and the courier/undercover attempted to bring Barnes into the deal. Despite many discussions, Barnes never fully committed to the robbery. Realizing that Barnes was about to move out of town, the CI and the undercover agent tried one more time to get Barnes and friends involved in the scheme.

Barnes could no longer afford to pay his rent, so he was spending his last few days in town at a motel. He was saying goodbye to friends at his motel when the CI and agent stopped in to promote their fake robbery one more time. Taylor also decided to drop by. After minimal discussion on what was supposed to take place, the CI and the agent left the motel. Court records show Taylor asked only a few questions.

Yet all six men would be arrested the following day for planning to rob a house that did not exist, which was filled with drugs and guns that did not exist. Barnes would be sentenced to 30 years for his involvement, and Taylor received a 20-year sentence for his participation. The other men would agree to testify against Barnes and Taylor in exchange for deals for less prison time.

Taylor told MintPress that at no point did he see any drugs. He was arrested carrying a pistol he claims he had a license for. He says prosecutors told the other four men that what they were alleging took place did not match the government’s version of events. They warned that attempting to fight the case would result in a lengthy sentence, but also pointed out that they could cut a deal if the crew’s version of events aligned with the government’s version. The version of events the government told in court conflicts what Taylor says took place. Indeed, there seems to be a patchwork of recanted statements and changing stories.

Taylor refused to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, and the government scored another “victory” in the war on drugs. The danger in these reverse-stings lies in the promise of ending the illicit drug trade by locking up petty criminals, who were not actually increasing the amount of drugs on the street. In Taylor’s case, the prosecution struggled to define the amount of drugs the men should be charged with attempting to steal. Since the drugs did not exist, the prosecution could only speculate on the size of the loads of fake drugs based on the size of a fuel tank they were supposed to be hidden in. This caused further controversy when Barnes and Taylor were sentenced under the premise that they were attempting to steal 40 kilograms of cocaine, while the other co-defendants were sentenced under 5 to 15 kilograms.

Taylor says it was revealed during the trial that law enforcement had been recording video and audio of the conversations that took place in the motel room. He says the prosecution refused to play the court the entire recordings, which show Taylor and Barnes discussing their skepticism of the operation. Taylor says the men all thought the idea was “crazy” and never really bought into the scheme. During his trial, one of the men, Vernell Brown, even recanted his original statement, admitting that Taylor had barely known of the plot. Still, Melvin Taylor was found guilty and sits behind bars.

 

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Backlash against reverse-stings
Over the past year reverse-stings have become a contentious topic of debate among judges, defense attorneys and prosecutors defending the government’s tactics. In March 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles issued a damning ruling against the ATF’s stings. Judge Wright’s order threw out charges against Antuan Dunlap, who was facing charges for his involvement in another robbery of a fake stash house.

Judge Wright’s order to dismiss Dunlap’s indictment begins:

“Lead us not into temptation,” Judge Noonan warned. United States v. Black, 733 F.3d 294, 313 (Noonan, J., dissenting). But into temptation the Government has gone, ensnaring chronically unemployed individuals from poverty-ridden areas in its fake drug stash-house robberies. While undoubtedly a valid law-enforcement tool when employed to target or prevent demonstrated criminal enterprises, reverse stings offend the United States Constitution when used solely to obtain convictions.”

“The time has come to remind the Executive Branch that the Constitution charges it with law enforcement — not crime creation. A reverse-sting operation like this one transcends the bounds of due process and makes the Government the oppressor of its people,” Wright stated.

The judge said authorities lacked evidence that Dunlap had previously been involved in similar robberies or was planning to commit such a robbery in the future. Wright was also critical of the government for creating crime. “That’s the problem with creating crime: the Government is not making the country any safer or reducing the actual flow of drugs,” he wrote.

However, in December 2014, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Wright’s ruling and assigned the case to another judge. The appellate panel expressed questions about the tactic but admitted that previous court rulings forced them to overturn the ruling. Dunlap was finally cleared of three of the four charges against him last month. A jury found him not guilty for drug conspiracy, gun usage and firearm possession charges, but could not reach a decision on the robbery charge. He could potentially face that charge in a new trial.

Judge Wright was not the first to recognize issues with the reverse-stings. In 2012, Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago issued a ruling that the stings lead to “an increased risk of entrapment because of ‘the potential for the extensive use of inducements and unrealistic temptations to encourage the suspects’ criminal conduct.’”

In January this year, The Associated Press reported on several other instances of charges being dismissed based on shady practices by agents of the government.

 

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The problems with reverse-stings extend beyond the creation of crimes. Records reviewed by USA Today show that 91 percent of people locked up under these stings were racial or ethnic minorities. The large majority were black or Hispanic. Melvin King, ATF’s deputy assistant director for field operations, denies the agency is profiling individuals. He says they target “the worst of the worst,” specifically looking for violent criminals using firearms to conduct illegal activities.

Despite these assurances, critics are working to force the Department of Justice to release its records on how reverse-stings are conducted and how targets are selected. U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo ordered the government to produce information related to the stings in 2013. The Justice Department continues to fight the order.

A federal appeals court in Chicago said the operations “seems to be directed at unsophisticated, and perhaps desperate, defendants who easily snap at the bait.” In California, a federal judge said the ATF agents were“trolling poor neighborhoods” and dismissed charges against three men. Yet judges have still been reluctant to call the operations entrapment.

The fight against the stings is not only being fought by the judiciary, but by inmates across the country, who have begun to connect and share stories of their imprisonment. Melvin Taylor is one of those inmates.

In 2013, Taylor began working with another inmate, Daniel “D-Block” Egipciaco, to spread awareness about reverse-stings. Egipciaco has been incarcerated since 2005 on charges relating to another fake stash house robbery.

“I founded ReverseSting.org with my friend, Danny, because I decided our voices needed to be heard,” Taylor told MintPress. The two men run ReverseSting.org, from within different prisons, with the help of family and friends.

“ReverseSting.org wants to abolish the use of Reverse Stings to help lessen the burden of these overcrowded prisons on taxpayers,” Egipciaco told MintPress.

Both men say they want to free themselves and the countless others who are currently imprisoned after falling into the ATF’s reverse-sting trap. Despite their present conditions, both men express hope for the future.

“I did not willingly choose to be a victim of this ‘cultural genocide’ known as reverse stings,” Taylor said. “We did not choose to be martyred by the justice system, but we can choose to not lay down.”

 

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Police Wouldn’t Do It, So Kidnap Victim’s Family Kicked Down Door and Killed Abductor
May 11, 2015 12:14 pm·


The police simply weren’t moving fast enough for a man looking for his abducted cousin. In spite of the fact that officers had been called, they were not taking the kidnapping seriously enough for the family of the victim. That’s when they decided to find her themselves.

That’s why the victim’s cousin kicked in the back door of an abandoned house where his kidnapped relative had been taken and shot and killed her kidnapper, according to law enforcement representatives in Louisiana.

Detectives on the case, now after the fact, say that the shooting has been ruled a justifiable homicide by the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Department.

While that’s great news for the victim and the hero who rescued her, it has left many in the community wondering why it took a citizen to do the job that police claim to be there to do.

So far, the sheriff’s department says they do not want to release the name of the shooter, so we have been unable to contact him for specific comments or further information.

What we do know from the police is that he claims to have heard screams coming from the abandoned house where his cousin was being held.

Sheriff’s Capt. Kip Judice says that he broke the door down and saw the kidnapper stabbing his 29-year-old cousin Bethany Arceneaux. Unable to wait for police any longer, he drew his legally-owned handgun and fired several shots.

The kidnapper turned out to be Scott Thomas, someone who Arceneaux unfortunately knew very well. Arceneaux had a restraining order out against him, after the two had parted ways years ago.

Arceneaux was injured from the initial stab wound that Thomas inflicted before being shot. She has been hospitalized but is expected to recover, according to the sheriff’s captain.

It’s important to understand just how long Arceneaux was missing. She had disappeared Wednesday night, and Thomas’ car was found the same name abandoned behind a cane field.

Police claimed to be “doing all we can” during the search. Indeed they did search the area around the cane field with bloodhounds, but beyond that they seemed to have little interest in searching surrounding areas and neighborhoods.

That’s when the family decided to canvas the area themselves Thursday and Friday, looking around abandoned buildings where the kidnapper might have taken her: something the police should have thought of and taken the initiative to do.

Still, Judice admitted that “The cousin was at the right spot when he heard the screams,” something that would have gone unnoticed if he would not have taken the initiative that the police had not, to find his cousin.

 

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Pregnant Woman Jailed, Forced To Give Birth In Solitary Confinement, Baby Dies In Cell
May 26, 2014 3:27 pm·


Could you imagine being kept in solitary confinement in an isolated jail cell? As bad as that might be, a Texas woman was forced to endure not only that, but also giving birth alone in her solitary jail cell. To make matters worse, this resulted in the death of her newborn baby.

Nicole Guerrero is now suing the police. According to a federal lawsuit she filed, Nicole Guerrero explains that “Wichita County denied [her] access to reasonable medical care … ignored her obvious signs of labor and constant requests for medical assistance, failed to conduct aphysical examination … when she began to display obvious signs of labor, left [her] unattended in a solitary cell while she was obviously in labor, failed to transport [her] to the hospital for safe delivery, which ultimately caused [her] to deliver her baby alone in the solitary cell, and resulted in [her] suffering severe and likely permanent, physical and psychological injuries.”

So far, the Wichita County has refused to comment on the case.

“We are prohibited [from talking] about pending litigation in Texas because we are representing the county in this case,” the Wichita County District Attorney Maureen Shelton said of himself and officers.

The U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas released to the document which names as defendants Wichita County, the Sheriff’s Office, registered nurse LaDonna Anderson, and Correctional Healthcare Management, Inc., Anderson’s employer.

It all started when Guerrero had been arrested on drug possession charges back on June 2, 2012. By June 11, she was told by a doctor who had been assigned to treat her for an infection, that unbeknownst to her, she was eight and a half months pregnant.

The warden and prison guards were informed about this, but she was kept in solitary confinement nevertheless. But soon she began experiencing pain and cramping, so she asked for help.

A nurse came and said she was not in labor, so guards returned her solitary confinement, where she suffered for hours, crying out for help, finally giving birth.

By 5 a.m. on June 12, a detention officer walking by saw that her cries were real, and that she was in fact in labor. He helped her deliver the baby, but because no help had come sooner, the umbilical cord had been wrapped around its neck.

CPR was performed on the baby but it was too later. The lawsuit accuses Anderson and Correctional Healthcare Management of medical malpractice. It says that there was a violation of Guerrero’s due process rights under the 14th Amendment as she was deprived of access to reasonable medical care


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Off The Grid: DEA Can Confiscate Your Cash Without Charging You With A Crime

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  • The Washington Post, the agent didn’t believe him, even when Rivers called his mother, who corroborated the story.
    
    There was nothing in Rivers’s bag to suggest he was involved in anything illegal or related to the drug trade, but the DEA agent confiscated all of the $16,000 anyway.
    
    To this day, Rivers was never charged with a crime or given any logical reason why the DEA took the cash.
    
    Rivers has since hired a lawyer, but it’s doubtful that he’ll ever recover any of his money.
    
    How is this legal? Well, the Washington Post reports:
    
    There is no presumption of innocence under civil asset forfeiture laws. Rather, law enforcement officers only need to have a suspicion -- in practice, often a vague one -- that a person is involved with illegal activity in order to seize their property. On the highway, for instance, police may cite things like tinted windows, air fresheners or trash in the car, according to a Washington Post investigation last year. Once property has been seized, the burden of proof falls on the defendant to get it back -- even if the cops ultimately never charge them with a crime.
    
    A DEA agent summed it up like this: “We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty. It’s that the money is presumed to be guilty."
    
    Not surprisingly, asset forfeiture is extremely lucrative for the DEA. According to their latest notification of seized goods (updated last week), agents have seized well over $38 million dollars' worth of cash and goods from people in just the first few months of this year.
    
    Some of these goods may be directly related to ongoing criminal investigations, but most of them are not.
    
    In fiscal year 2014, Justice Department agencies made a total of $3.9 billion in civil asset seizures, versus only $679 million in criminal asset seizures.
    
    In most years since 2008, civil asset forfeitures have accounted for the lion's share of total seizures.
    
    So to put this in perspective, what happened to Joseph Rivers isn’t an isolated incident. In fact, people like Joseph Rivers account for the majority of funds the DEA seizes, not drug criminals.
    
    

 

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http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/02/cop-sits-on-pregnant-womans-belly/
Cop Sits On Pregnant Woman’s Belly, Beats Her Until She Has Miscarriage
February 12, 2015 12:37 pm·


A new lawsuit, filed by a Georgia woman, claims that Albany police officers beat her so badly, and sat on her noticeably pregnant belly that it caused her to have a miscarriage.

Lawyers for Kenya Harris filed the case in federal court recently, according to Courthouse News. Harris explained that the incident happened when she went to the Albany Police Department back in May of 2011. She was there to pick up her son – a minor – after he had been arrested.

After waiting five hours for her son, Harris told Officer Ryan Jenkins that it had been an extremely long time, and she needed to return homesoon to take care of her other children.

“Defendant Officer Jenkins stated that he did not appreciate the tone in which she was communicating with him, and further stated that if she continued he would take her head and ‘put it to the floor,’” Harris charged in the lawsuit.

She reiterated that she needed to take care of her other children. That’s when Officer Jenkins made good on his threats and decided to use force against the obviously pregnant woman.

“Defendant Officer Jenkins, without provocation, grabbed plaintiff, who weighs less than one hundred twenty (120) pounds, by her neck and slammed her to the ground,” the lawsuit explained.

“Plaintiff momentarily blacked out and came to with defendant Officer Jenkins sitting on her back, and with his knee on her arm. Plaintiff was pregnant at the time.

“Defendant Officer Jenkins put handcuffs on plaintiff and slammed her against the wall. Plaintiff was placed into an interrogation room after she was beaten and handcuffed.”

In utter agony, Harris begged for medical attention, but every officer she spoke to refused her request.

For her troubles, she was charged with obstruction, and spent the night in the Dougherty County Jail.



Harris contends that the beating, including having her stomach sat on by the officer, caused her miscarriage shortly after the incidence. She also had injuries to her knee, neck and bruising all over her body.

The federal lawsuit specifically names Officers Ryan Jenkins and Richard Brown, Jr., Police Chief John Proctor, and the City of Albany.

“With malice, defendants Officer Jenkins and with the compliance of Officer Brown, repeatedly slammed Ms. Harris, causing her severe physical harm and the loss of her baby, when less force was required and should have been used,” the lawsuit said.

(Article by Reagan Ali; image via Jerry Lai Photography)

 

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St. Louis Police and Mayor Don’t Want You To See This Brutal ‘Before Ferguson’ Video

February 20, 2015 3:02 pm·

The St. Louis Police and city officials don’t want you to see this video from four months before the Michael Brown shooting and Ferguson protests.
Back on April 10, 2014, another unarmed 18 year old, Cortez Bufford, found himself pulled over by police in St. Louis for allegedly “making an illegal u-turn.” Over the course of the next few minutes, a major scandal was borne, which the mayor has tried to cover up every since.
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The police originally charged Cortez Bufford with a bizarre lengthy list of crimes that were later dropped…
They said that Bufford was a suspect in a local shooting; that he had marijuana on him; that he owned an illegal gun; that he assaulted officers and resisted arrests… oh yeah, and there was that illegal u-turn as well. Police eventually dropped that charge too.
At about the 6:00 mark in the video, officer force Bufford out of his vehicle and begin beating him, tasering him and yelling that he should “remain still” and “stop resisting” all the while.
By 7:51 in the video, Officer Kelli Swinton approaches fellow officer Burkemper’s patrol car, as she loudly yells: “Hold up. Hold up, y’all. Hold up. Hold up, everybody, hold up. We’re red right now, so if you guys are worried about cameras, just wait.”
That’s when the audio cuts out, and the video abruptly ends only eight seconds later.
City Counselor Winston Calvert released this video a week ago, on Friday, along with video from other dash cams.​

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Bufford’s lawyers say that their client was brutally beaten once all of the cameras were off. For over 10 months now, the mayor of St. Louis and the St. Louis police have tirelessly worked to conceal this video footage and distract us from what happened at that traffic stop.

Dropping the charges against Bufford was part of that. They have been hoping that this would all just go away, and indeed, for a while, it seemed that the events surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown and the Ferguson protests were going to help them keep this buried.
But now the videos are seeing the light of day, and it’s up to all of us to help spread the word so this ends up as headline news!
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Off The Grid: Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Her

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  • Journal of Applied Psychologydetermined power doesn’t corrupt; it heightens pre-existing ethical tendencies. Which brings to mind another maxim, from Abraham Lincoln: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
    
    Well, we've given police unlimited power over us. And they've been abusing that power for years, without any consequences. It's clear that at some point, they will be held accountable for their actions. Because it's not our word against theirs anymore: we have video on our side.
    
    Here's just another example of what the pigs do because they have the power and can do whatever the hell they want to the citizens they took an oath to serve and protect.
    
    Countercurrent News reports the following:
    
    When Kim Nguyen called a cab after a few drinks, she thought she was on the right side of the law. But in spite of her best efforts, the 27-year-old pharmacist explains she was thrown from a police cruiserafter Los Angeles police officers kidnapped and sexually assaulted her while she was waiting for that cab.
    
    Part of the assault on Nguyen was captured on camera, as the young woman was filmed tumbling from a moving LAPD cruiser after being handcuffed and kidnapped while waiting for the cab she called.
    
    Nguyen was just trying to get home in the early morning hours of March 17, 2013, but that’s not where her story ends. More on the latest developments in a minute. First, let’s make sure you understand just how serious her allegations against the LAPD are.
    
    
    
    
    
    You can watch local news coverage of Nguygen being thrown from the police car here.
    
    Back in 2013, Nguyen explains that officers confronted her along with two male friends outside of a downtown Los Angeles restaurant at 2 am.
    
    The group had been drinking and they knew they shouldn’t drive home. They were trying to do the right thing, making sure not to drink and drive.
    
    But while waiting for the cab, officers told the men to leave them with Nguyen or they would be arrested. Once the men left, the rogue cops kidnapped Nguyen and assaulted her.
    
    In the deposition taped last month it is alleged that the officer in the back of the cruiser with Nguyen had grabbed her left inner thigh. She resisted, but he forced her legs apart.
    
    Then the officer grabbed her chest, and when she tried to push away, he grabbed her by the ear. In the struggle to get him off over her, she explains that officer negligence led to her being ejected from the vehicle at high speeds.
    
    As a result of this, Nguyen spent two weeks in the hospital. Injuries sustained included having to have her jaw wired shut. She also lost all of her teeth from the impact on the street which was caught on video, after she was ejected from the cruiser.
    
    Now, Nguyen has filed a lawsuit against the LAPD, alleging that officers failed to secure her with a seatbelt or lock her door properly. This, her attorney says, is what led to her being ejected from the car.
    
    Nguyen’s attorney, Arnoldo Casillas was able to obtain surveillance footage of the incident. The video of the incident clearly shows Nguyen sprawled on the ground with her dress removed from the waist down.
    
    The video (above) shows the patrol car speeding through a green light. “The video shows that the statement that the police officers gave the paramedics is an unabashed, unequivocal lie,” Casillas said during the press conference.
    
    The LAPD say that they are “investigating,” but that investigation has never concluded. Still, the department says they “will ensure that Ms. Nguyen is made aware of the outcome of the investigation related to this incident,” whenever they finally conclude it.
    
    In spite of all the evidence, there has been relatively little coverage of this lawsuit in the mainstream media.
    
    Help us get the word out about this important issue. The more we remain quiet about these rogue cops, the more they will continue to take advantage of people like Nguyen!
    
    
    
    For a timeline of events, go to KoreaTown News
    
    This is an enhanced, paused video of Kim Nguyen a few moments after she “fell” from the LAPD patrol car. Her left bra strap is broken and top of her dress is pulled down to her waist.
    
    
    
    
    
    Her jaw was shattered, she lost most of her front teeth, and she had to be put in a medically induced coma because of bleeding to her brain. When she awoke days later, she found bruising on the inside of her thighs.
    
    This is what she looked like two hours before her encounter with LAPD officers David E. Shin and Jinseok Oh of Olympic Division.
    
    
    
    
    
    The LAPD denied everything until Nguyen's lawyer was able to secure the video footage from a bank surveillance camera. Unlike most other low-income residents in the Koreatown area, Miss Nguyen had enough resources to pursue legal suit.
    
    Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones take on the rise of the police state in this all-new episode of "Off The Grid":
    
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http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/...enseless-restrained-dog-threatens-to-gut-her/
Police Officer Slits Throat Of Defenseless, Restrained Dog, Threatens To ‘Gut’ Her
June 24, 2014 1:47 pm·


A Baltimore police officer is now facing felony animal cruelty charges after he slit the throat of a restrained shar-pei dog. Another officer, as well, has been suspended for helping him commit the crime.

According to witnesses, officer Jeffrey Bolger also threatened to “gut” the dog.

“I’m going to [f–king] gut this thing,” Bolger said as he got out of the police vehicle, according to witnesses, documented in the charging document.

The dog was relatively small and unintimidating to all who knew her. 7-year-old shar-pei named Nala had escaped from her home at Sarah Gossard’s house on Saturday. She made her way out of an accidentally open gate after Gossard had let her out in the backyard.

When a nearby resident Sandy Fleischer found Nala she tried to check the dog’s tags, but the frightened Nala nipped at her, causing a wound that was tiny, and superficial by all standards.

“The dog was more scared of not knowing where it was and being thirsty and disoriented. The dog bit me out of fear because I tried to touch it, which was my fault,” Fleischer said in an interview with local WBAL-TV. She added that Nala was not even remotely aggressive.

But when Fleischer called police, officers from the Southeastern District responded and corralled the dog in an empty lot, then capturing Nala with a long dog-control pole.

What happened next shocked everyone who witnessed it. Bolger pulled out a knife and slit Nala’s throat while Officer Thomas Schmidt held her down.

“One police officer said, ‘Let’s get the noose on the dog,’ and you could see the police officer twisting and hurting the dog, bringing it to the ground to the point where the dog’s face is on the ground. You could hear the dog screaming and crying in pain,” she said. “I did see one officer that had been extremely aggressive that did have his knee into her chest that was tightening the noose. It seemed (they were doing it) relentlessly and unnecessarily.”

Police spokesman Eric Kowalczy said agreed the killing was unnecessary, as the dog was contained.



“It was a complete violation of protocol. It’s not often police speak out against one of their own, but we are all truly appalled.”

BPD Deputy Commissioner Dean Palmere said this was “outrageous and unacceptable” and that “officers were appalled by what they saw, as were other citizens,” he said.

“We have no words to describe this. To say they’re were appalled at the allegations I think is an understatement.” Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said. “As we stand here before you the officer is being arrested for a felony charge.”

“She was already restrained. It wasn’t necessary at all. It was just an act of cruelty. That’s what it was,”Gossard told WJZ. “I never thought in a million years the police would show up and cut my dog’s throat.”

Police also said that Bolger’s knife was not department-issued. His trial is expected to begin July 28.

(Article by James Achisa)

 

[dannydionne1983]

http://www.ora.tv/offthegrid/article/grid-smart-
The national average IQ score for police officers is just a little above average. If you score high on the IQ test, don't expect to get hired.

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Off The Grid


May 04 '15

• ABC reports the police force has found that candidates "who scored too high" on the test "could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training." Therefore, to avoid high turnover rates, anyone with an above average IQ is disqualified.
  
  Robert Jordan sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.
  
  “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else,” Jordan explained.
  
  According to the U.S. District Court, New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover, and everyone who participated in taking the IQ test was held to the same standard.
  
  Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test. Apparently, his IQ, which is 125 (and is classified as superior) didn't hold him back.
  
  Jesse Ventura sounds off on police brutality and other law enforcement concerns in this #OffTheGrid clip:
  
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http://alternativemediasyndicate.com/2015/04/30/justice-for-hector/
Unarmed Teen Shot By Police, Cried For His Mother As He Died: ‘Mommy, Mommy, Please Come’
POSTED ON APRIL 30, 2015



As Hector Morejon was dying, after being shot by California Police, he cried out with final desperate words to hismother: “Mommy, Mommy, please come, please come.”

Those words now haunt Lucia Morejon, Hector’s mother. She tells us that Long Beach police thought the 19-year-old was in possession of a firearm. They were wrong. But this alone seemed cause to the Long Beach officers to open fire and kill Hector on Thursday afternoon.

Lucia Morejon’s attorney says Hector was clearly unarmed, and had nothing that resembled a firearm when police unloaded on him.

Hector’s final words to his mother came as he was being placed into an ambulance, the attorney alleges. They desperate cry was a response to police refusing to allow Lucia see her dying son before the ambulance drove away.

“He was reaching for her – reaching out to her for help,” Sonia Mercado, the lawyer for the family told The Huffington Post.

“She identified herself as his mother, expecting to ride with him to the hospital, but they refused to let her in.”

Now, Lucia says she hears these dying words of her innocent son, every day, echoing in her mind: “Mommy, Mommy, please come, please come.”

“It’s a tough thing to live with as a parent,” Mercado added.

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The family’s attorney continued, saying that Lucia is so unbelievably distraught that she has been unable to give anyinterviews herself. Her son was innocent of any wrong-doing that would have justified the police use of lethal force, and naturally “she is deeply in shock.”

For their part, the Long Beach Police Department claims that the shooting happened while they were investigating reports of trespassing and vandalism.

“The officer observed [Morejon] turn towards him, while bending his knees, and extending his arm out as if pointing an object which the officer perceived was a gun,” a press release from the Long Beach Police Department attempted to rationalize.


“At this point, an officer involved shooting occurred,” the statement continued, in noting the obvious.

All in all, Friday’s press release said nothing of any substance or value. The police have made it clear that they will protect their own, even when they gun down innocent, unarmed teenagers.

Police admit: “a weapon was not recovered from the scene.”

The family attorney notes that “the only thing [they police have said] is the same worn out excuse – ‘I thought I saw a gun,'” Mercado explained.

Now, the family is requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice conduct an independent investigation into the shooting and the Long Beach Police Department.

Mercado said that police investigating themselves is “clearly a conflict of interest.”

“We often find in these cases that evidence was lost or destroyed,” Mercado said.

“The public is entitled to know how this happened,” she continued. “Therefore, this investigation should go to an independent inquest by the Department of Justice or another police department. The family is very concerned and wants justice and accountability.”

 

[dannydionne1983]

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/03/audito-cop-college-student-for-speaking-disrespectfully/
Audio Released of Cop Shooting and Killing College Student for Speaking Disrespectfully
March 30, 2015 10:25 am·


In spite of shooting Robert Cameron Redus, a 23-year-old student at the university, Corporal Christopher Carter was not arrested, indicted, nor even fired. The San Antonio officer was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the shooting of an unarmed andstudent.

Since the late-2013 shooting, Corporal Carter kept his job, until he very recently chose to leave the department on his own. A court has once again just cleared him, even while they released the audio of the incident, which proves Redus was essentially shot for being sarcastic.

Redus was shot and killed by officer Carter at 2 am after making a sarcastic remark toward the campus cop who followed him well outside of the boundaries of his campus jurisdiction, finally pulling him over, for allegedly “speeding.”

Local KSAT News says that witnesses claim the officer “emptied his gun” into Redus with no provocation.

“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know?” one witness recalled, “I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting. He emptied the gun on him… Boom, boom, boom.Six shots — five or six.”

 

[dannydionne1983]

An open records request by KENS 5 forced the Alamo Heights Police Department to release the recording that Redus’ family fought for over the course of over a year.

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Carter: Stop it (yelling). Stop (yelling). Stop (yelling).
Redus: You’re (expletive) choking me dude.
Carter: Stop (yelling). Stop (yelling).
Redus: You just tried to (expletive) choke me.
Carter: Stop (yelling). Stop (yelling). Or I will shoot (yelling). Stop (yelling).
Redus: You’re going to (expletive) shoot me?Carter: Stop or I will shoot (yelling).
Redus: You’re going to (expletive) shoot me.
Carter: Stop (yelling).Redus: For trying to make you not choke me right now?
Carter: Stop (yelling). Don’t put your leg up (yelling). Stop resisting (yelling).
Redus: Are you going to shoot me?

Cameron Redus Shooting Death


Mohammad Haidarasl saw it all go down. He said that Redus’ final words were “Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?”

Haidarasl added that the officer kept saying “Stop resisting, stop resisting,” even though Haidarasl saw no physical resistance at all.

Redus lived below Haidarasl, who says that he was “the nicest guy.”

Other classmates said that Redus was “kind, intelligent, compassionate and well-loved within the community.”

“He was not an aggressive person at all, so the story doesn’t make sense,” said another anonymous student.

Carter claims that “a struggle ensued” between Redus and himself. An official University statement claims that Carter has “an extensive law-enforcement background,” and has been employed for “several years” at the school.

The San Antonio Express-News, however, clarifies that he has only been on the job for two-and-a-half years, and that he has been jumping from department to department before that.

The Redus family responding to a coroner’s report, proving that Redus was shot at close range and in the back, recently released a statement, as follows:

“We are stunned to learn that Cameron was shot in the back from very close range. The report also shows that the shot to his eye was delivered at a downward angle, again from very close range. That knowledge coupled with information from the earlier police report indicating that Cameron died on his back with his legs underneath him has left us heartbroken and shaken to the core.”

If you believe this story should be front page news, nation-wide, help us SPREAD THE WORD and hold these killer cops accountable!

(Article by Jackson Marciana and M. David; image used for illustrative purposes, via the Associated Press, from Roseville, California)

 

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http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/...face-while-she-is-playing-in-fenced-backyard/
Cop Shoots Elderly Dog In Face While She Is Playing In Family’s Fenced Backyard
February 23, 2015 1:11 pm·


Recently a New York family’s elderly dog was shot in the face by a Suffolk County Police officer. The cop had responded to a call that claimed a dog was tied to a tree in the bitter cold, according to CBS New York.

That dog was not tied up, and had only been allowed outside for short durations to relieve itself and run around for a few minutes before being let back in.

The dog is named “Black” and had been playing with a ball in her fenced-in yard when the officer came on to the private property and shot her in the face.

A local friend of Black’s owners, Darell Baldwin, saw the whole thing because he was dog-sitting at the time. Baldwin said that when he ran outside, the female officer claimed: “Your dog attacked me, I had to let off a round.”

After the dog was shot in the face she ran into the house, whimpering. Not only was she not tied to a tree, the back door had been cracked for her to enter as she pleased.

The dogs owners explain that now “she needs a wire put in her jaw, she has to have all her back teeth on her left side removed and that’s going to cost about another $6,000,”

“My house is so quiet without her, my house feels broken.”

Do add insult to injury, the officer responding should have realized that there was not even a single tree on the property in question for the dog to be tied to. Still, instead of investigating with the property owners, or simply leaving, the officer decided to shoot an elderly dog in the face.

Police tell us an investigation is underway.

Tweets from the family show Black doing much better than might be expected… in spite of the brutality and recklessness she faced from the officer who shot her.






If you agree that this police officer had no right to open fire on Black, then help us spread the word. Police accountability needs to extend to abuse of animals as well as humans!

(Article by M. David and S. Wooten)

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Been up and down their block many times over the years as I grew up just across the expressway from them. The Five actually played at a couple of dances and clubs in Gary,including my HS before they made it big. They had a nice hit on a Gary label called "Big Boy" that got some local airplay. Back then, the lads played mostly Motown and James Brown cover stuff. You knew that little Michael had "it" even back then.

What a great story! That's terrific. We would drive past Gary on our way to Chicago. There were tons of smokestacks running. It always struck me as a real hardworking industrial town similar to what I'd see in PA/Ohio when driving through there on route 80. What was the main business there if you don't mind my asking?

 

[Toby Smart]

steel mills, refineries, foundries, taverns, more taverns, even more taverns. Make no mistake about it, Gary was a rough place but the churches held it all together from erupting into complete chaos as best they could. Then came the '60s and all hell broke loose.

 

[cgvr]

steel mills, refineries, foundries, taverns, more taverns, even more taverns. Make no mistake about it, Gary was a rough place but the churches held it all together from erupting into complete chaos as best they could. Then came the '60s and all hell broke loose.

Thank you. It appeared to be a massive industrial complex. Work hard, play hard....tough stuff.... I am betting that there are tons of local legend athletes that never got the shot....

 

[Toby Smart]

Tony Zale, Glenn Robinson, Fred Williamson, Dan Plesac, Ron Kittle, Gerald Irons, Bob Kuechenberg, Tom Harmon, Brandon Moore, LaTroy Hawkins, Lloyd McClendon, Alex Karras, Hank Stram just off the top of my head. The one and only Tony Roberts did radio play by play of Gary HS football and basketball games, though he was known as Tony O'Hara back then.

 

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http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/aiyana-stanley-jones/
Charges Dropped For Cop Who Fatally Shot Sleeping 7-Year-Old Girl
November 30, 2014 12:08 am·


In all of the melee resulting from the shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, the media has overlooked a number of other very important shootings of unarmed civilians by police officers. One of the most egregious offenses is that of Officer Joseph Weekley’s fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones.

Officer Weekley recently saw manslaughter charge dropped against him, for shooting the 7-year-old while she slept.

The Detroit police officer had been on trial for involuntary manslaughter for shooting and killing the young girl during a 2010 police raid.

But early in October, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway granted a motion which Weekley’s attorney had filed, arguing for the dismissal of the felony charge he faced in the young girl’s death.

The trial was brought to an end while the Michigan Court of Appeals reviewed an emergency appeal of the ruling.

Presiding Judge Michael Talbot issued the order to deny the appeal and allow the judge’s dismal to stand.

“Although I find that the trial court erred in form and substance in granting defendant’s motion for directed verdict, we are barred from reviewing that decision,” Talbot wrote.

The shooting happened just after midnight, back on May 16, 2010.

A SWAT team had conducted a raid to search for a murder suspect. Weekly ended up being first through the door.

There was even a film crew on hand to film for a reality show about murder investigations. Weekley says that another SWAT member had thrown a flash-bang grenade, which temporarily blinded him. That’s when he fired the shot that killed Aiyana who was asleep on the couch in the front room of the house.

Doubling down on this claim, in court he actually testified that Aiyana’s grandmother had somehow “touched” his gun, which made him fire the shot. But he failed to explain how he could tell she had done this when he claimed he couldn’t see anything at the time.

The prosecution noted that even having his finger on the trigger of his submachine gun was improper. “He could have avoided injury if he had followed his training,” Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran explained.

“He didn’t, and as a result of him not following his training and not following the mandates of ordinary care, someone was killed.”

But ultimately, the arguments and reason didn’t win out.

Roland Lawrence, the chairman of the Justice for Aiyana Committee, issued a statement after the court’s decision was announced.

“Surely, the death of a baby by a well-trained police force must be deemed unacceptable in a civilized society,” Lawrence said.

Steve Fishman, Weekley’s attorney, claimed that even though he did not dispute that his client pulled the trigger and killed the girl, “there is absolutely no evidence, none, that’s in the least bit credible, that Officer Weekley knowingly created a danger or, more importantly, intended to cause injury.”

After the dismissal, the only charge Weekley faced, was a relatively minor misdemeanor charge of “careless discharge of a firearm causing death.”

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Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
December 9, 2014 9:43 pm·


The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community.

Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was “a danger to herself,” requiring them to taser her.

But her mother says that the officers should have used non-violent means to neutralize the threat they believed the 70-pound girl posed.

It all happened back in October of 2013, but since then family members have obtained attorneys Dana Hanna and Patrick Duffy and their tribe has released public statements against the incident of irrational police brutality.

“Within seconds,” the officer’s electroshock weapon discharged snares into the chest of the 70-pound girl, the lawsuit reads.

“The force of the electricity shot through her body, lifted her, and threw her against a wall. After the officers had stunned (the girl) into high voltage submission, they pulled the fish-hook like Taser darts from her chest, gave her emergency medical attention, bandaged the holes left by the razor-sharp hooks, and called the ambulance.”

Pierre Police Chief Bob Granpre, however, says that the police acted properly, and a two-month long investigate claims the same thing (PDF).

Attorney Dana Hanna recounts the incident, saying that the “four trained police officers surrounding a 70-pound, 8-year-old Indian girl,” should have used tactics that were less violent and not so risky to the young girl’s health and possibly life.

“One distracts her, another grabs the girl’s arm. That’s what they should have done,” Hanna continued.

“She had a kitchen paring knife, but hadn’t cut. She was a kid throwing a tantrum. They should have made an attempt to grab the kid, not use a weapon to throw her into a wall. A Taser’s not meant to kill, but it does kill. Many people have died after being hit by a Taser by cops. It never should be used on a little child. She certainly wasn’t presenting a danger to officers.”

The girl’s father, Bobby Jones added, “I don’t fault for the police being there because they were called. They were there. But what happened while they were there is why I’m upset,” in an early interview he did with local KSFY.

Hanna says that the girl, “L.M.J.”, is currently receiving mental and emotional counseling from a child counselor, as a result of the trauma she experienced at the hands of police. We’ll keep you updated on how the lawsuit proceeds.

 

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[URL]http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/12/justice-for-corey-kanosh/[/URL]
Police Killing of Unarmed Native American Continues To Receive Little Media Attention
December 7, 2014 5:14 pm·


The tragic case of Corey Kanosh, 35, has received very little media attention, in spite of the growing outrage over police shootings of unarmed, innocent citizens. In Corey’s case, we are not dealing with an African American man shot by white cops, but an unarmed Native American man who was suspected of crimes that he was later proven innocent of, who was given only seconds before police opened fire onhim.

Corey was a member of the Paiute Tribe of Utah. In spite of the historical injustices committed by the State against Native Americans, his story has received virtually no national attention. Now, his friends and family have been pushing to move the legal process forward, but so far they have only raised a tiny amount of money.

“The hold up on progressing has been due to lack of money to fund the oh so dreaded legal process,” they explain. “We need your help. Please help us on our way to get this case back up and ready. It’s time to take on the unwilling non-cooperative Millard County Sheriffs Department.”

Corey was shot by a Millard County sheriff’s deputy after he was wrongly suspected of car theft.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Lindsay Mitchell explained that a 911 call was made about the theft of a car from the Kanosh Paiute Indian Reservation. But Corey had nothing to do with that.

Watch the report in the video below…


Police claim that Corey tried to fight off the deputy who attempted to handcuff him for crimes that he never committed. This raises the question of when self-defense is acceptable against police who attack us without probable cause. Was Corey justified in trying to defend himself? Do you believe the official story?

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Fundraiser and help us SPREAD THE WORD!

(Article by Moreh B.D.K. and David Adawehi)

 

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http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/...en-more-jail-time-than-cop-who-john-crawford/
Beavercreek Protester Given More Jail Time Than Cop Who Murdered John Crawford
May 15, 2015 2:17 pm·


The City of Beavercreek, Ohio and Greene County have decided that the officer who shot and killed John Crawford was guilty of no crime whatsoever, in spite of the fact that the unarmed African American had broken no laws and was under no legal obligation to even so much as identify himself to law enforcement.

The obvious travesty of justice in this case is highlighted by the fact that a protester for John Crawford was recently locked up on a 90 day sentence, for the “crime” of blocking police officers from driving an SUV into a crowd of demonstrators.

That protester, along with three others, was arrested during a December 2014 “die-in” in the pet food aisle at the Walmart where John Crawford was shot and killed.

Well, that’s an open and shut case, right? He was arrested for trespassing, right? The police cuffed him laying down in the aisle, right?

Wrong.

Beavercreek Police Chief Evers told Counter Current News reporters that he had advised Walmart to allow the die in to take place. Walmart agreed and no arrests were made… yet.

But once the protesters had moved outside, a couple of police cruisers had begun advancing on the crowd that was singing and chanting on their way to their vehicles.

The Walmart location had already been closed. There were no shoppers there, only protesters at this time. When the police had told them to leave, the crowd began to cross at the pedestrian crosswalk. That’s when the police SUVs began driving into them – albeit slowly – using vehicles for crowd control, in spite of the fact that this is both against department policy and completely illegal.



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Two brave individuals sat down and blocked the police SUV cruisers from doing this. Ironically enough, as soon as they were arrested, the actual police SUV they were placed in then backed into the fourth protester they arrested that day – apparently arresting her for asking why an African American protester was being singled out for arrest.

READ MORE >> “Beavercreek Police Single Out Walmart Protester: ‘I Am Being Arrested For Being Black and Loud’”

Today, Benjamin Virnston, 25, was booked into the Greene County Jail to begin serving his 90-day jail sentence for sitting down and preventing the illegal use of a vehicle for crowd control.

Sandra King, 56, the woman who was backed into, was fined $150 and ordered to serve 16 hours of community service, along with a sentence of 30 days in jail, with all but one day suspended.

There are still jury trials scheduled for the African American man who was singled out: Elias Anthony Kelley, 27; and Matthew Raska, 24,who joined Ben in blocking the police SUV cruisers.

What can you do?

Benjamin Virnston is in jail RIGHT NOW because he had the courage to SIT DOWN in front of a police SUV cruiser that was threatening to run into protesters – which DID run into a protester after they had arrested him and Matt Raska!

CALL the Greene County Jail NOW at (937) 562-4840 and speak with someone or leave them a message, standing up for Ben and the OBLIGATION of citizens to stand up to illegal police acts of violence against non-violent protesters.

Then CALL Judge Beth Root (937) 754-3040 tell her to FREE BENJAMIN NOW! Then help us SPREAD THE WORD!

UPDATE: Please write to Ben as well. Send him letters and books.

Greene County Adult Detention Center
Courtesy of Benjamin Seth Virnston
2295 Greeneway Blvd.
Xenia, OH 45385

Letters may not have stamps, they must be metered mail, that means they must be mailed directly from the post office.

(Article by M. David; image via Virgil Vaduva of the Greene County Herald)

 

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Cops Slam Unarmed Woman On The Pavement, Killing Her In Front of Family
November 16, 2014 3:23 pm·


Cleveland police officers recently killed a 37-year-old African American woman who died after police slammed her head on the concrete, just outside of her family’s home.

Her brother explained that Tanisha Anderson was pronounced dead at Cleveland Clinic after the assault by the Ohio cops. The pronouncement came early Thursday about two hours after the police “take down” caused Anderson to bash her head on the concrete outside of her home.

“They killed my sister,” Joell Anderson, Tanisha’s 40-year-old brother said as he fought back tears. “I watched it.”

Officers came to the house after a call from a family member who thought the police could calm the bi-polar Tanisha down, during an argument.

Police came, responding to the situation as a “disturbing the peace” call. It seemed that everyone agreed Tanisha should undergo an evaluation at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, police sources told us.

But what happened next is described very differently by police and family members.

“As the officers escorted Anderson to the police vehicle, she began actively resisting the officers,” police spokesman Sgt. Ali Pillow claimed to the local Cleveland publication, The Plain Dealer.

Tanisha changed her mind about the evaluation after police slapped cuffs on her. She believed she was within her rights to decide whether she went for a voluntary evaluation. But police, at this point, argued that it was up to them.

“The woman began to kick at officers,” Pillow said. “A short time later the woman stopped struggling and appeared to go limp. Officers found a faint pulse on the victim and immediately called EMS.”

But Tanisha’s brother Joell gives a very different account than what the police claim.




“She was more of a danger to herself than others,” he explained.

Two male officers escorted Tanesha Anderson, who was prescribed medication for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, to the police cruiser. She sat herself in the backseat but became nervous about the confined space and tried to get out, Anderson said.

As Tanisha called out for her brother and mother, an officer used a “Judo” take down move after having pressed her head down repeatedly in the backseat in what seemed to be a “smothering” manner, Joell Anderson said.

Joell says that after she hit her head on the concrete, and the officer placed his knee on her back, she never opened her eyes or spoke another word.

To add insult to injury, Joell says that his sister’s sundress was lifted above her waist, where it remained as officers refused to administer any aid to the unconscious woman. Joell says that he was forced to go over and use his own jacket to cover her naked lower body, because police would not, even when he asked them to.

“She was outgoing, silly, always joking,” Joell said of his sister. “She just wasn’t doing very well that day.”

The Cleveland Police Department tells us that their Division of Police Use of Deadly Force Investigation Team is “investigating” the case. No officers involved have been fired, reprimanded, nor placed on leave.

(Article by Jackson Marciana; special thanks to The Plain Dealer)

 

[dannydionne1983]

‘Good Cop’ Physically Stops Bad Cop From Abusing Handcuffed Man
January 11, 2015 7:35 pm·


As the nation has been torn apart by police violence and abuse, many citizens have begun to wonder whether there are any good cops at all. Critics have suggested that if there are “good cops,” they should be out there stopping the bad cops from abusing their power.

So where are these legendary “good cops”?

Right here, in the video below, it would seem…


We can see from the video that the arresting officer repeatedly tries to pull up the suspect by his restrained arms, contorting and twisting his shoulder joints in a way that was causing him sheer agony.

But another officer comes to the suspect’s aid, not once, not twice, but at least three times physically stopping the arresting officer from abusing the suspect.

If you think that all cops SHOULD take a stand like this, then help us SPREAD THE WORD!

(Article by Reagan Ali)

 

[SALittleGiant513]

This thread really didn't need to get revived but way to nuke it man.

 

[dannydionne1983]

lol ty much appreciated from the sheeple who are being lead to the slaughter by their LEADERS

 

[dannydionne1983]

I WILL VOTE FOR A REAL BUSH IN IN YOUR FRONT YARD THAN YOUR FALSE MESSIAH HOMOPHOBE RACIST BUSH

 

[SALittleGiant513]

AUTO?

 

[dannydionne1983]

O I AM SORRY T HE LTTLE SHEEPLE RACISICTS CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH ABOUT WHATS REALLY GOING ON IN PERFECT LITTLE MERIICA I WAS IN THE NAVY LEFT AS A E5 MASTER OF ARMS WILL SAY WHATEVER THE SHEEP NEED TO HEAR TO WAKE THE F UP

 

[cgvr]

Tony Zale, Glenn Robinson, Fred Williamson, Dan Plesac, Ron Kittle, Gerald Irons, Bob Kuechenberg, Tom Harmon, Brandon Moore, LaTroy Hawkins, Lloyd McClendon, Alex Karras, Hank Stram just off the top of my head. The one and only Tony Roberts did radio play by play of Gary HS football and basketball games, though he was known as Tony O'Hara back then.

That's terrific. "Gary tough." There is a lot of pride and accomplishment in that list. I am betting that summer league hoops was off the charts. Are there any parks that are legendary? NY had/has some great summer leagues Rucker, Riis, Hickey Field LI.....

 

[Toby Smart]

Actually, the park that had the best players from NW Indiana was in neighboring Griffith, Indiana. Many parks in Gary have taken the rims down because of problem gang activity. The Gary high schools way back when used to have what they called "summer gym". The high school gyms would open for everyone to play during the day. Now, only one Gary public HS remains while another has been taken over by the state. All the rest have been closed.

 

[cgvr]

Actually, the park that had the best players from NW Indiana was in neighboring Griffith, Indiana. Many parks in Gary have taken the rims down because of problem gang activity. The Gary high schools way back when used to have what they called "summer gym". The high school gyms would open for everyone to play during the day. Now, only one Gary public HS remains while another has been taken over by the state. All the rest have been closed.

So sad..... it sounds like it was very vibrant when the gyms were open. "Those were the days...."

 

[SALittleGiant513]

O I AM SORRY T HE LTTLE SHEEPLE RACISICTS CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH ABOUT WHATS REALLY GOING ON IN PERFECT LITTLE MERIICA I WAS IN THE NAVY LEFT AS A E5 MASTER OF ARMS WILL SAY WHATEVER THE SHEEP NEED TO HEAR TO WAKE THE F UP

Wut r U talkin bout man