Police Officer Yelled N****r before Killing Unarmed Black Marine in his Home In photo, prosecutor Janet DiFiore. From [HERE] The shooting death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. by city police answering a medical aid call “was totally justified,” according to an analysis by a team of criminologists commissioned by the city days after a grand jury voted not to indict anyone in the 68-year-old former Marine’s death.

The 83-page study, obtained Wednesday by The Journal News, says the “shooting of Mr. Chamberlain was totally justified and took place only after negotiations and all nonlethal means were unsuccessful and Mr. Chamberlain came at a police sergeant with a knife.” The city commissioned a review and analysis of the Police Department after a Westchester County grand jury in May voted not to indict anyone in Chamberlain’s death.

In July, Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. filed a $21 million wrongful deathlawsuit in federal court.  Chamberlain, 68, was shot dead by White Plains Officer Anthony Carelli, who is white, following a two-hour standoff at the door of his apartment in the Winbrook Public Housing complex. The encounter was recorded by audio and video devices.Police went to his residence because his medical alert device accidentally went off. When they arrived Chamberlain told police he did not need any help through his front door. Nevertheless, police demanded he open up his own door. Transcripts from the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office of audio recordings reveal Officer Steven Hart as the officer who said to Chamberlain, “Stop, we have to talk nigger” before police broke down his door. The suit claims that cops taunted the 68-year-old Chamberlain for more than an hour before breaking down his apartment door. 

From [HERE] Police Lt. Brian Fitzgerald testified Thursday that his fatal shooting of Frederick McAllister will live with him for the rest of his life.

Fitzgerald, who shot the unarmed McAllister in the back in 2008, took the stand as the defense opened its case in the civil trial against the city before Judge Dale Radcliffe.

The lawsuit, filed by McAllister's family, contends Fitzgerald was not in danger and violated Police Department procedures when he shot the 33-year-old McAllister at the Success Village housing complex on Jan. 31, 2008. The city and Police Department are at fault in McAllister's death for failing to properly train Fitzgerald, according to the suit.

"If a police officer shoots an unarmed, misidentified man in the back, they must tell the truth and take responsibility for the death they caused," Antonio Ponvert III told the jury of three men and three women as he began his case in the civil trial. "We trust our police to serve and protect us, but here, they killed an innocent man, and now they are trying to avoid taking responsibility for what they did."

From [HERE] A Philadelphia cop who punched a woman in the face — in an assault that was caught on video — was suspended for 30 days.

When the 30 days are up, Lt. Jonathan Josey will likely be fired, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. Josey was the commanding officer in a group of cops conducting a traffic stop Sunday during a street festival that followed the city’s Puerto Rican Day parade.

In the video, someone flings water from a bottle at the officers. Josey turns around and punches Aida Guzman in the face, then handcuffs her. Another officer leads her away as her mouth drips blood.

Cops said she was cited for shooting silly string at the cops, though it’s not seen on the video. Guzman was charged with disorderly conduct, but the charges were dropped Wednesday, WCAU-TV reported.

From [HERE] Police Department will no longer comply with requests from federal immigration officials to detain illegal immigrants arrested for low-level crimes and wanted for deportation, the Los Angeles Times reports Police Chief Charlie Beck has said. Beck has said that federal immigration policies unfairly target non-violent offenders who are illegal immigrants, the Times reports. The move would affect about 4,000 arrests a year of illegal immigrants who are wanted for deportation, according to the Times.

At a morning news conference, Beck said he hopes to have the new policies in effect by the end of the year, the Times reports. A civilian oversight board must first approve them, according to the news organization. In some arrests, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency asks LAPD to put a 48-hour hold on detainees in order to give the agency time to start deportation proceedings, the Times reports.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Two Prince George's County police officers are facing accusations of police brutality from a D.C. police officer. After completing his Saturday shift,  D.C. officer Richard Merritt was outside the Ebony Inn, located in Fairmount Heights, when he was approached by two Prince George's County police officers. Merritt said the officers ordered him to stand against the wall. 

Officer Richard Merritt, a 23-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, said police officers used “excessive force,” striking him in the legs with their batons as they attempted to get him to lay on the ground and punching him several times in the face after he was restrained, according to a civil lawsuit filed in Prince George’s County Circuit Court. He said it wasn't until they retrieved his wallet and saw his badge that the beating stopped.

"When he retrieved my ID, he said, 'You [expletive] D.C. police. You [expletive]...threw it to the left side of my face," Merritt continued. Merritt was cited for having an open alcohol container and resisting arrest.

Officers Lied & Claimed he Swallowed Drugs From [HERE] The state medical examiner has determined that an East Baltimore man's death in police custody last month was a homicide caused by blunt force trauma, an account that conflicts with earlier assertions that he died from choking on drugs.

A copy of the autopsy report provided by the family of Anthony Anderson, 46, showed that he suffered fractures to eight ribs, contusions to his left lung and a ruptured spleen.

Witnesses who saw the arrest have reported that he was slammed on his head by a plainclothes officer wjo approached him from behind.. “Picked him up and slammed him on his head,” one witness explained. “Guy never looked back or anything. He didn’t even see the police coming,” Keith Johnson, who witnessed the arrest, said.  Last Friday afternoon, witnesses say Anderson was leaving a bar on Biddle Street, walking across the lot when he was confronted by plainclothes police.

"Tthey grabbed him they pinned his arms to the side, and they came straight up, and slammed him on his neck, collar-bone like,” said Dereck Jackson of East Baltimore. Other witnesses have given similar acounts of Anderson being slammed down on his head. [MORE]. They say he went limp, and believe he already was dead when an ambulance picked him up. [MORE] 

From [HERE] Police said Valeria “Munique” Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, struck the agent Friday as she pulled the car away from the curb. A second agent reached into her Honda to remove the keys from the ignition, and she pulled forward and struck the first agent again, this time driving with him on the car’s hood.

The agent, fearing for his life, yelled “Stop!” and then pulled out his gun, firing several rounds to halt the car, officials said.  The information from police provides the first detailed look at how the incident unfolded, and aimed to address the questions of family members and residents who doubted the Border Patrol’s initial account.

Based on new details released, at the time she left the apartment she had not committed any crime, she was not the subject of the warrant, not under investigation and there was otherwise no legal basis for police to stop, detain or block her in. As such, she was within her rights to leave. 

From [HERE] More than 13 years after the police shooting of Amadou Diallo, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has agreed to restore a service weapon to one of the four New York City officers involved, a decision that Mr. Diallo’s mother characterized as a betrayal.

Mr. Kelly had indicated “that he was not going to give back the gun,” Kadiatou Diallo said in a phone interview from her home in Maryland. “Now he has turned around and given back the gun. We want to know why. Why did he change his mind?”

The police fired 41 shots, killing Mr. Diallo as he stood in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx on Feb. 4, 1999. Although the officers said they believed he had a gun, Mr. Diallo was unarmed.

The Police Department offered no official explanation on Tuesday about restoring a gun to the officer, Kenneth Boss. But a law enforcement official familiar with Mr. Kelly’s reasoning pointed to the recent exoneration of another officer, Michael Carey, who fired 3 of 50 bullets shot at Sean Bell, who was killed on the morning of his wedding outside a Queens nightclub in 2006.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Nearly a year and a half after a Eutawville man died in what’s been called an officer-involved shooting, the man’s family, concerned clergy and others are demanding answers in the case.

Both the State Law Enforcement Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have probed the shooting of 54-year-old Bernard Bailey. The case has since been turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice for what has been called the “lengthy process” of review.

 A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed for the shooting death that involved Eutawville's former police chief. Bernard Bailey's widow filed the suit for the death that took place back on May 2 of 2011.

Investigators have said Combs shot Bailey, but have not released any details about what may have led up to the shooting. Combs was put on administrative leave and a new chief was appointed to the department in November. The lawsuit filed is against former Eutawville Police Chief Richard Combs, the police department and the town.

Residents said that Bailey came to the town hall to pay a water bill and to inquire about a traffic ticket that his daughter had gotten. They say after that, the deadly shots rang out.

An eyewitness claims to have seen the reverse lights on Bailey’s Chevrolet truck come on. The witnesses said when the officer reached the truck, a struggle ensued at the driver’s side door. Apparently, Bailey got out of the car and a confrontation ensued. All indications are that Bailey was unarmed.  

In photo, award winning officer Frank Pobjecky. From [HERE] and [HERE] Claiming excessive force and a failure to provide basic medical care, the family of a Black teenager shot and killed by an off-duty Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputy Oct. 1 as he foiled a robbery at Marie’s Pizza today filed a civil lawsuit in federal court.

Michael Sago Jr., 16, was shot and killed by Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Pobjecky as the officer stopped an armed robbery at the Charles Street restaurant. Pobjecky also shot and wounded Lamar Coates, Desmond Bellmon and Brandon Sago during the incident.

There is no evidence Sago Jr. even knew the restaurant was going to be robbed before he was shot in the back three times and killed while trying to run, the family’s lawyer Bill Foutris said.

"Were it not for the gross misconduct of Frank Pobjecky, Michael Sago, Jr. would be alive today," said Foutris. "Michael was an unarmed minor who was running from the scene. He was a 16-year-old who was shot in the back not once, but three times even though he did not present a threat to Pobjecky," explained Foutris.

The six-count lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages from Pobjecky, as well as compensatory damages from the other defendants.

"Officers Did a Good Job" From  [HERE] “They call me the pitbull around here,” Sandusky police Officer Sean Orman can be heard saying to suspect Juan Recio Jr. on cruiser video. “Well you sure bit the (expletive) out of me,” Recio replies.

“No hard feelings. I just couldn’t see what you had in your hands,” Orman then says. “I got to do, what I got to do.” [MORE] Police in Sandusky believe seven officers acted properly in subduing a suspect, September 21st. 

The suspect, a Black man, was tasered, punched and kicked during an arrest.  A police spokesman told Fox 8 news the suspect, Juan Recio, Jr., was stopped because of traffic violations. Lt. John Orzech said the driver then lead police on a chase that lasted about a mile. The suspect then exited the vehicle and fled. Police tracked him down in a driveway and that’s where the incident escalated. Dashcam video shows the suspect being repeatedly and violently punched, kicked and stomped. He was also tasered. Spokeman Orzech said early indications are that the officers involved did not violate policy.

“Our officers have to keep themselves safe, when somebody is reaching into their pocket in a foot pursuit there’s no good coming out of that so our officers had to take steps to keep themselves safe and that was done in this incident,” he said. The video speaks for itself. A gang of seven (7) officers are standing over Recio and are violenting attacking him - he is not resisting arrest and appears helpless. He was unarmed. 

From [HERE] Memphis Police Officer Margaret Taylor will face a judge today after being  arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault. Taylor has been removed from her job due to the charges that involve children. The incident happened Saturday evening at approximately 7:30. According to the affidavit of complaint, 13-year-old Kelvin Hall, 10-year-old Derriona Jones, and 16-year-old Collins Moore were going through the neighborhood asking people if they wanted their lawns mowed.  That's when the children say the off-duty officer got angry.

"We just walked on her porch and knocked on the door and asked if she wanted her yard cut, but she got an attitude so we just walked back up off the porch" said Kelvin Hall.     "She just kept hollering she a police, she a police.  That's when I told them come on let's go" said Collis Moore, a second victim.

The children say while they were in the area of Tutwiler and Stonewall, a car later pulled up next to them, the officer got out of the car and started cursing at them.

According to the children, the confrontation became physical and Taylor slapped 13-year-old Kelvin. "She had slapped me in my face on this side and then she threw a cigarette at me" said Kelvin.   Taylor also allegedly threatened the teens by showing them a handgun and advising them that she would harm them.

"She said if you come back on her street, she was going to kill us" said Kelvin.

From [HERE] Police have launched an internal investigation after a video was posted online that shows an officer striking a woman twice in the face at a neighborhood party associated with Philadelphia's annual Puerto Rican Day parade. The 36-second video uploaded to YouTube and titled "Philadelphia Police Brutality" shows the woman crumpling to the ground after being struck Sunday in north Philadelphia. The woman appears to be bleeding from the mouth as she is led away in handcuffs. In the video the officer comes up from behind her and as she turns and looks at him he hits her with his right fist. She drops to the street - other officers watched. Was this technique in the police training manual? 

Moments before the woman was hit, the video shows someone else throwing a liquid toward the officers. The woman was also seen spraying something from a can. The woman, whose name was not released, was cited for disorderly conduct, said Officer Tanya Little, a police spokeswoman.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Anthony Anderson is laid to rest days after his mysterious death. Now, people in his East Baltimore neighborhood are rallying for a thorough investigation and justice. Police say the 46-year-old died during a routine drug arrest, but witnesses say his death came as a result of injuries during what they call a violent arrest.

Late night on September 21, Baltimore City police say Anthony Anderson was stopped on suspicion of drug possession. During the arrest, they say he tried to get rid of the pills. “The officers indicated they witnessed him putting what they belief to be drugs in his mouth during that time,” Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department, said.

Police claim Anthony Anderson choked. But witnesses who saw the arrest, including family members, say that’s not how it happened. “Picked him up and slammed him on his head,” one witness explained. “Guy never looked back or anything. He didn’t even see the police coming,” Keith Johnson, who witnessed the arrest, said.  Last Friday afternoon, witnesses say Anderson was leaving a bar on Biddle Street, walking across the lot when he was confronted by plainclothes police.

Originally, authorities had said Mount Pleasant police officer Ronald Beckley fired at Henry's car after it hit Pleasantville officer Aaron Hess and headed toward Beckley.

But in Beckley's deposition, taken Tuesday and released by Sussman, he said he heard gunshots at the Thornwood Shopping Center that night and fired at Hess, not at Henry's car. Beckley said he did not realize Hess was a police officer because the area was dimly lit.

Henry, who had been in the bar earlier, was sitting behind the wheel of his Nissan in a parking lot fire lane when Hess knocked on the driver's-side window, prosecutors have said. Police said Henry sped off; his family contends that he drove away at reasonable speed, believing the officer was telling him to move. Officer Hess has alleged that he was struck by the car and thrown on to the hood, suffering a broken knee cap in the process.

Beckley said in his deposition that he was about 30 feet away from Hess. He heard the first shot, saw Hess mount the car and saw the gun in Hess' hand. He then heard three or four shots and fired at Hess, and believed he had struck Hess' knee, he testified. The car then careened past Beckley and came to a stop.

"The vehicle came to a rest. The person on the hood rolled off and came to rest at a curb ... he was in a foetal position, holding his knee," Beckley testified, according to the deposition. "And Officer Hess said his knee was shot." Sussman said Mount Pleasant officials' statements after the shooting presented a "radically different story" than the events of that night.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Some eyewitnesses to a shooting Friday by a plainclothes Border Patrol agent, who claims he was forced to open fire on Valeria Alvarado (aka Valeria Tachiquin), 32, behind the wheel of her car, are contradicting the federal officials' version of events. Border Patrol authorities said that the woman rammed a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a car Friday on a residential South Bay road, hurling him onto the hood of the vehicle and prompting him to fatally shoot her through the windshield in self-defense, authorities reported.

The lawman was in southwestern Chula Vista with other undercover personnel to serve a felony arrest warrant when the dark-green Honda Accord struck him in the 600 block of Moss Street about 1 p.m., according to police and federal officials. Alvarado was not the subject of the warrant.

"The agent ... was hit by the vehicle and carried several hundred yards on the hood before, fearing for his life, (he) did discharge his weapon to get the vehicle to stop," Border Patrol Deputy Chief Rodney Scott told reporters. The suspect was armed with a vehicle, and literally ran our agent down."

Some eyewitnesses to the incident have contradicted the Border Patrol's account of the shooting. Witnesses said they saw Alvarado slowly driving in reverse as the agent opened fire on her at least six times.

"As the car was backing up the officer was in the street walking toward the car, and discharging. The officer never got struck by the vehicle," recalled witness Prince Watson.

"The vehicle was actually moving in reverse." Area resident Hector Salazar told NBC 7 San Diego "I just saw an agent with a gun walking toward the car and yelling," he said. "But the person inside didn't respond."

Black Man Murdered by Cops in Front of his Kids. Police Refuse to Release Dashcam Video(s). From [HERE] and [HERE] An Orange County sheriff's deputy has been cleared in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black Marine Corps. Sergeant who'd crashed his car at San Clemente High School earlier this year.

In a 13-page letter to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens released Friday, prosecutors said Deputy Darren Sandberg, a 15-year veteran of the department, acted reasonably and with sufficient force given the circumstances of the predawn incident in which Manuel Loggins Jr., 31, was shot in a school parking lot after he refused to follow Sandberg's orders. "Consequently, although this incident ended tragically, and in hindsight may have been preventable, we find there is insufficient evidence to prove that Deputy Sandberg's conduct violated criminal law," the prosecutors wrote.

It was an early February morning when Loggins drove with his two young daughters to the high school for a workout on the track and bible study. Driving his Chevy SUV he crashed through the school fence. He exited the car while his two daughters remained inside. He then walked onto the athletic field. He returned within minutes and walked to his car.

When the deputy approached Loggins, he saw something in his hand he couldn’t make out. When Sandberg asked Loggins to put his hands up Loggins ignored him, and then tried to drive away. He shifted the vehicle into drive, whereupon the deputy fired three shots at him. The deputy stated he was in fear for the girls' lives, thinking Loggins would flee recklessly. His daughters 9 and 14, were in the backseat. They were not shot.  A toxicology report done on Loggins after his death found no drugs or alcohol in his system. That object that Loggins was holding in his hand turned out not to be a weapon. It was a bible.

From [HERE] and [HERE] and [HERE] The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the identity of a Memphis Police officer who reportedly shot and killed 15 year old Justin Thompson on Monday night. The TBI says 28-year-old Terrance Shaw is on paid leave while it investigates the shooting

Police Director Toney Armstrong asked the TBI to take over the investigation since an officer was involved, and all they’ve released is one statement saying Officer Terrance Shaw was at the scene when Thompson was shot.  The Mayor`s office says Shaw was the apparent victim of a robbery and the TBI is looking over evidence to see if the two knew each other or had ever talked before.  Other than that we know nothing about the crime. 

Apparently Thompson was chased and shot to death by Officer Shaw. Police have refused to provide details of the shooting to the public. A neighbor said that before the boy collapsed in her yard he stopped running and asked her to call an ambulance for help because he had been shot. Witnesses said they saw Justin get into a black car minutes before they heard the gunshots. They said Justin was running through their yards telling them to call an ambulance.

graphic video: Psychopathic Police Refuse Medical Care

From [HERE] and [HERE] The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office has revised its ruling on the death of Derek Williams, who died in Milwaukee police custody in July 2011, from natural to homicide, according to the district attorney's office.

The decision came after the Journal Sentinel alerted an assistant medical examiner to newly released records - including a video of a suffocating Williams pleading for help from the back of a squad car - and also made him aware of a national expert who said Williams, 22, did not die naturally of sickle cell crisis.

In making his initial determination of natural death more than a year ago, Assistant Medical Examiner Christopher Poulos did not review all of the police reports or a squad video recently obtained by the newspaper. The video shows a handcuffed Williams, his eyes rolled back, gasping for breath and begging for help in the back seat of a Milwaukee police car as officers ignore his pleas. The police reports include key details about Williams' arrest that the medical examiner didn't know.

During the arrest Officer Ticcioni "ended up on top of Williams with the suspect facing down," according to a police report. Williams, first made the complaint that he could not breath as he lay facedown, Ticcioni pressing a knee across his back. "As soon as he released pressure, Williams began squirming, as if trying to break free, and reached around his right side to his right waistband (while still in handcuffs)," according to the report. Ticcioni worried that Williams was trying to grab a gun and "reapplied pressure with his right knee to prevent any further movement from the suspect," the report says.

They got him to his feet, and "Williams immediately went limp," the report says. Ticcioni "laid him on the ground on his back and observed that he was breathing hard." "He felt Williams was playing games and directed him to stop messing around," the report says.

A few minutes later, as officers Ticcioni and Coe were helping Williams walk toward the car, Coe left Williams' side to move a "for sale" sign that was blocking the sidewalk. When he did, Williams "pulled forward and fell face forward into the grass," the report says. Ticcioni believed Williams was dragging his feet to make it difficult for the officers to get him to the waiting squad car, the report says. He was then placed in the police car and the video begins  - full version is here.

Wife Said Police Did Not Knock & Announce that they were Police

From [HERE] A 61-year-old Black man was shot to death by police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug raid on the wrong house.

Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed to the death of John Adams Wednesday night. They intended to raid the home next door. The two officers, 25-year-old Kyle Shedran and 24-year-old Greg Day, were placed on administrative leave with pay.

“They need to get rid of those men, boys with toys,” said Adams’ 70-year-old widow, Loraine.

John Adams was watching television when his wife heard pounding on the door. Police claim they identified themselves and wore police jackets. Loraine Adams said she had no indication the men were police.

“I thought it was a home invasion. I said ‘Baby, get your gun!,” she said, sitting amid friends and relatives gathered at her home to cook and prepare for Sunday’s funeral. Police say her husband fired first with a sawed-off shotgun and they responded. He was shot at least three times and died later at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Loraine Adams said she was handcuffed and thrown to her knees in another room when the shooting began.