$10 Million Lawsuit Filed for Unarmed Black Man Killed by Sacramento Police - Walking Home from K-Mart Shot 18 Times by Cops

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From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of a man shot and killed in February by a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy sued the county and Sheriff Scott Jones on Thursday, seeking more than $10 million in compensation for alleged Constitutional violations. "All I want is justice for my son," said mother Annie Harmon. "Anytime a 47-year old can't walk the street from a store where he left without getting killed, there's something wrong with the system.". 

That night, Lamont Harmon bought some items at a mini-mart then took a short-cut through a K-Mart parking lot heading to his mother's home. That same night, Sacramento police were looking for a suspected car thief. Deputies assisting police officers stopped Harmon during his walk.

The lawsuit says Harmon answered questions when stopped by deputies but then turned to walk away. Deputies fired a Taser gun. Harmon feared for his life and ran. The lawsuit goes on to say deputies pulled out their guns, firing 18 shots killing him. "Why was deadly force used on a man who was not armed and had a bag of potato chips and soda?" said Dewitt Lacy, the family's attorney.

Lacy says police had already arrested a suspect in the stolen car case when they stopped Harmon.

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$1.6 Million - Jury Finds LAPD Liable for Violating Civil Rights of Unarmed Disabled Black Man - Police Pretend Incident did not happen

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From [HERE] In Harris v. City of Los Angeles et al., CASE NO. BC 45188, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found that a Los Angeles Police Department officer violated the civil and constitutional rights of Allen Harris, a disabled man who suffered a stroke in June of 2009, resulting in semi-paralysis of his left side. LAPD Officer Alex Tellez was found liable based on evidence that while serving a search warrant based on the mistaken belief that Mr. Harris’ son was involved in a robbery, he forced Mr. Harris semi-paralyzed arm behind his back despite Mr. Harris and his sons explaining that he had a stroke and his arm could not go behind his back.

Nonetheless, the evidence at trial showed Officer Tellez forced the injured arm behind Mr. Harris back, clamped the handcuff on his left wrist so tight as to cause nerve damage, slammed him into a wall and refused to loosen the handcuff on his left wrist, despite Mr. Harris plea of pain. Mr. Harris suffered a reopening of a clavicle fracture he suffered in September of 2009 when he was mugged and permanent nerve damage in his wrist.

 The Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $1,596,000 in compensatory damages to the Plaintiff for medical bills, physical pain, and mental and emotional harm.

 The jury’s verdict restored my client's faith in the justice system after 10 LAPD officers testified in court that this incident essentially never happened.    If the LAPD could badly injure a stroke survivor with a semi-paralyzed arm, who is next? The truth prevailed in Court despite the LAPD’s cover up. ” Stated Attorney V. James DeSimone.

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Seattle Gets $34,000 Bargain Settlement: 3 White Officers Violently Attacked Defenseless Mentally ill Black Man - on Video

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From [HERE] The city of Seattle has paid $34,000 to settle a federal civil-rights lawsuit filed by a mentally disturbed man who was beaten with fists, batons, flashlights and shocked with a Taser by Seattle police after he had been mistakenly released from jail.

The videotaped arrest of Daniel Macio Saunders in the foyer of the Police Department's evidence room in Georgetown in June 2009 was among the incidents cited by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington in requesting a Department of Justice civil-rights investigation. The investigation determined that officers routinely used excessive force.

A police-surveillance camera showed Saunders inside the small foyer when a police officer arrived and tapped on the glass of the door. Saunders got up and walked over and opened the door for the officer, who rushed in and tried to grab Saunders, who backed away.

He was taken to the floor as two more officers quickly followed. For the next three minutes, the video shows the officers struggling with Saunders while they repeatedly hit him with their fists, batons and a flashlight.

The officers, in court documents, said they used a Taser on him at least four times. The video shows him being taken away on a stretcher. He was unarmed and had made no threatening movements or statements toward police.  He was treated for bruises, abrasions and a forehead cut that required numerous stitches, Saunders and Andrew Magee, his attorney, said in a 2010 interview.

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South African Police May Have Placed Weapons Beside Miners' Corpses After Marikana Strike

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From [HERE] Evidence revealed this week shows that police may have placed weapons next to corpses in order to make their fallen adversaries look more threatening than they actually were.

On Monday, two photographs were presented to the investigative committee. In one, it is daytime and the corpse of one striker lies on the ground. In another photo of the same body, night has fallen and the scene has changed. A machete now rests next to the outstretched hand, making it look like the man was wielding a weapon.

George Bizos, a lawyer for the strikers, told reporters that the photographs were a turning point in the pivotal case.

"The evidence clearly showed there is at least a strong prima facie case that there has been an attempt to defeat the ends of justice," he said, according to the Guardian. "Changing the evidence is a very serious offence."

 

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Witnesses say Durham Police Forced their way into Home, Break Nose, Fracture Face of Unarmed Black Navy Woman who Asserted her Rights

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From [HERE] A Navy veteran claimed police brutality during a scuffle in Durham, but police said the woman was resisting arrest. Some of the incident was captured on cell phone video and could shed light on what really happened. Although the video is dark and blurry, friends of the alleged victim are heard on the video yelling for the officer to stop.

"Don't hit her man, don't hit her, come on bro, that's a female."

Twenty-five-year-old Stephanie Nickerson said the incident started when police showed up at her friend's home early Sunday morning. The police were called about a disturbance and wanted to search the house. Nickerson said she told her friend that she didn't have to let police in, and that's when things escalated.

"He was like put your arms behind your back, and I jerked my arm away and said no I haven't done anything wrong. And immediately after I jerked my arm back he threw me on the ground, he held me by my neck, and punched me repeatedly in my face and head," Nickerson said.

Meanwhile her friends said they stood by, watching helplessly. "He was hitting her with all his force. I could see him going all the way back, hitting her as hard as he could, and there was nothing I could do," eyewitness Tahveya Platt said.

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In 25 years, no Criminal Charges Against Police Officers recommended in Milwaukee "Inquests": Expect Only Racism in Custodial Death of Derrick Williams

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In photo, white men who practice racism, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm (right) and Milwaukee police Chief Edward Flynn discuss the in-custody death of black man, Derek Williams and the revised ruling in the case on Sept. 24. Williams suffocated to death while handcuffed, naked from a strip search, in the back of a police car. He repeatedly told white police officers he couldn't breathe for at least 15 minutes between the time of his arrest and his death. They repeatedly ignore him as he suffocated to death. It is captured on graphic video which was released last month. (graphic video below, no sound for first minute) From [HERE] In more than 25 years, no Milwaukee County inquest jury has recommended criminal charges against a police officer involved in a fatal shooting or in-custody death.

From the time he took office in 2007 until last month, District Attorney John Chisholm had never ordered an inquest - largely because he didn't want to give families false hope that officers would be charged.

Last fall, when Chisholm first reviewed the July 2011 death of Derek Williams in Milwaukee police custody, he employed the same philosophy: He met with Williams' family members and their attorneys, showed them the squad video that captured Williams' pleas for help and struggle to breathe, and explained why he believed the officers involved acted professionally and in accordance with the law. He would not give them a copy of the video. And he refused to call for an inquest.

But now, after a revised finding from the medical examiner and a public outcry, he's changed his mind.

"There are some cases where a public inquest is appropriate, and this is one of those cases," Chisholm said last week. "There was a change in the medical finding and there needs to be public scrutiny of the entire process, and I do not have a problem with that."

 

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$10 Million Lawsuit Amended against PG County Cop who Assaulted Black Man working in store - Customer Overcharged $5

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From [HERE] A Prince George's County officer who died in a high-speed police chase in August is at the center of an ongoing police brutality lawsuit. Officer Adrian Morris, who was killed in the line of duty while chasing a stolen vehicle on Interstate 95, and the Prince George's County government were sued in April by a tire store employee who claims Morris beat him without provocation in June 2011.

Glen Burnie resident Derrick Thomas is seeking at least $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages from the county, which Thomas claims "permitted and tolerated a pattern or practice of unjustified, unreasonable, and illegal excessive force and brutality," according to court records. Morris is accused of violating Thomas' constitutional rights and committing assault and battery.

The lawsuit claims Morris beat Thomas after an angry customer called officers to Tire World in Laurel after being overcharged $5. Thomas said the officer threw him onto a vehicle so hard the car’s roof was dented.

“He picked me up by the collar,” Thomas said. “And my head snapped back.” [MORE] Morris refused to give information, including his badge number Tire World’s store manager witnessed the alleged assault.

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District Heights (MD) Police Sergeant Indicted for Attempted Murder - Unarmed Black Man, Handcuffed, Shot in the Back by Officer, Paralyzed

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From [HERE] and [HERE] A District Heights police officer who shot a handcuffed Black man in the back as he fled from the officer’s custody was indicted Thursday on attempted murder in connection with the shooting, Prince George’s County prosecutors said. Sgt. Johnnie Riley, an eight-year department veteran, also faces misconduct in office and assault charges stemming from the September shooting that paralyzed 26-year-old Kalvin Kyle from the chest down. The shooting unfolded in front of a daycare when parents were picking up their children.

According to District Heights police, Sgt. Riley had arrested Mr. Kyle after he was stopped on a stolen motorcycle in the 6200 block of Foster Street. Mr. Kyle was placed in the back of a police cruiser but escaped and was shot in the back as he fled, said his attorney, Christopher Griffiths. “The police officer had removed his shoes and handcuffed him and searched him, so he didn’t have a weapon,” Mr. Griffiths said. “All the officer had to do to stop him was to grab him.”

A bullet struck Mr. Kyle in the back, paralyzing him from the chest down. He remained in a hospital undergoing physical rehabilitation until Wednesday, when he was able to return home for the first time since the Sept. 6 shooting, Mr. Griffiths said.

A woman who does not want to be identified tells 9News that "the officer got out grabbed the young guy by the hair, which he had dreads, and threw him on the ground." She says she saw the shooting through a window "He threw a baton, the baton missed, he pulled out his gun and three shots went off. He fell to the ground, face down." [MORE] 

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LAPD Shoot Latino Man Lying on Ground in Lower Back - Officer claims 'he did could not tell Garcia was handcuffed'

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From [HERE] The LAPD is under fire after officers reportedly shot a suspect who was lying on the ground handcuffed. Kennedy Garcia, 23, was shot by two officers after fleeing from an alleged graffiti incident. On Oct. 13, Garcia was with other men when they were first stopped by police, the LAPD reported. Garcia fled and officers went looking for him. They were told he was armed and noncompliant. They eventually spotted Garcia hiding under an SUV on S. Westlawn Avenue and shot him twice in the lower back.

“The officers who were involved in the shooting had no idea he was handcuffed. What they saw was a man who they had reports had a gun, refusing to comply with directions, they saw the flash of steel, late night and they reacted to it,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.

An LAPD press release failed to mention Garcia was handcuffed when he was shot. CBS2/KCAL9 reporter Amy Johnson asked Beck why it appears the agency held out some of the details.

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$61 Million Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Stanislaus County Deputy Shooting of Unarmed Mentally ill Latino Man, Denied Medical Treatment

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In photo, Jorge Ramirez, father of George Ramirez (32) who claims his son was not resisting arrest when he was killed by cops in his own home. From [HERE] Family members of a Keyes man who was killed in a deputy-involved shooting in April have filed wrongful death claims against Stanislaus County, each seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages. The claims filed Oct. 11 charge that deputy Art Parra Jr. used unreasonable deadly force when he shot George "Jorge" Ramirez after responding to a 911 call to the family's home in Keyes. The family alleges that the deputy and Sheriff's Department did not render medical attention to Ramirez after he was shot.

According to the family, the 32-year-old Ramirez had been suffering from mental health problems. He died at Doctors Medical Center at 5:45 p.m. on April 16, an hour and 10 minutes after the shooting.

In April, sheriff's officials said that Parra responded to the home after a report of a family fight. According to the family's account, detailed in the claims, George Ramirez Sr. attempted to talk with Parra when he responded to the 4:20 p.m. 911 call to explain in more detail what had happened. But Parra did not talk with him about the reasons for the call, the claims said. After the deputy was given Jorge Ramirez's location inside the home, he entered and found Ramirez in the family room, sitting on the couch watching TV. He was not armed, the claims said.

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Undercover Chicago Police Officers Caught on Video Assaulting Black Men Working in Store

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From [HERE] Two Chicago police officers are being investigated by the FBI and the Independent Police Review Authority, after beating two brothers at a South Shore storefront. The officers have been relieved of police powers, pending the outcome of the investigation. Surveillance footage obtained by our CBS shows a two-officer tactical unit move in at a store. They are handcuffing people, including Jecque Howard, who worked at the store. “I’m getting a gun pointed at me and punched in my face and kicked in my ribs,” said Jecque Howard.

Howard said the officers never even said why they were there. He said Officer George Stacker was the first to approach him. “He came to the front and said ‘you work here?’, and I said, ‘yes’. He said ‘well not after today, you’re fired,’” explained Howard. Howard’s brother, Paul Neal, was working outside the South Shore shop at the time. As the brothers watched the tape, they said they were still in disbelief about what happened next.

“That’s Aldo Brown,” they said in unison, while watching the video as Officer Aldo Brown approached Jecque in the store. “He told me to drop my pants, to take off my pants,” said Howard, who did not want to strip, but did lower his pants before the situation got worse.

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$10M Suit Claims South San Francisco Police Officer Murdered Black Teen

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From [HERE] The family of a 15-year-old boy shot and killed by a South San Francisco police officer has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city. The lawsuit accuses Officer Joshua Cabillo of being motivated by prejudice when he shot Derrick Gaines at a gas station on June 5. Gaines was African American.

The San Mateo Daily Journal reports that the suit was filed this week in federal court. Cabillo was cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting by San Mateo County prosecutors.

According to the police investigation, Gaines ran and was struck in the back of the head with a gun by Cabillo after Cabillo tried to detain him. Investigators say Cabillo shot Gaines after Gaines reached for a gun upon falling to the ground. An officer approached two teens who they said appeared to be “acting suspiciously.” Then, the police say, one of the teens – Derrick – ran, drew a gun from his waistband and pointed it – at which point the officer gunned him down.

Eyewitnesses tell a different story of events that night. They say that Derrick never drew a weapon and was instead shot down by an officer who brutalized and restrained him first – throwing him to the ground with such force that a shoe was knocked off his foot. [MORE] 

Gaines' mother, Rachel Guido told the Daily Journal, “They didn’t even come to my house and tell me he’s dead,” she said about police. The friend who was with Gaines that night, Remy Carrillo, told her that her son had been shot, Guido said.

Guido also stated that although she would never condone the action of the boy she helped raise, she said Gaines would not have been reaching for the gun because he knew it did not work. The gun was not loaded nor did it have a firing pin. [MORE] 

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Family of Black Muslim Leader Sues Federal Agents: Officers Put Dogs on Unarmed Black Man who had Surrendered - Shot him 21 Times

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From  [HERE] and [MORE] The family of a Black Muslim leader in Detroit shot to death in a raid at an east Dearborn warehouse in 2009 is suing the FBI, claiming that his rights were violated. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit alleges an unarmed Imam Luqman Abdullah was shot 30 times as he tried to protect himself from a police dog, according to the Free Press.

The claims stem from the affidavit of Muhammad Abdul Salaam, a Detroit man who witnessed the raid and shooting. Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas, was shot at least 21 times by FBI agents during a raid at the warehouse at 5171 Miller Road, just north of Michigan Avenue, just after noon Oct. 28, 2009. An FBI dog was shot twice in its neck and also died. A house on Tireman in Detroit also was raided.

The suit, filed Oct. 26 in U.S. District Court in Detroit, maintains that Abdullah did not display a gun; government reports written in the incident’s wake claim he fired a pistol.

The FBI was investigating the sale of stolen truck parts. Twenty-nine agents were in the warehouse, which was under the FBI’s control on an undercover basis, when Abdullah and four counterparts arrived; 66 agents were involved in the operation. Dearborn police were not part of the tactical operation or shooting.

Abdullah and the four others were loading boxes at a loading dock when FBI agents set off noise and flash bang devices and ordered the five men to get on the ground. The suit said that all five immediately showed their hands and got face down with their arms stretched in front of them. “Abdullah and the four men did not pose a threat to the unidentified FBI agents’ safety,” the suit said.

An FBI dog named Freddy “repeatedly attacked and mauled Abdullah,” the suit says, and Abdullah rolled onto his right side, grabbing the dog. The dog attacked his face, breaking his upper jaw, the suit said. When he was struggling with the dog, the agents fired the 21 shots, striking Abdullah’s chest, abdomen, hip, leg, groin and back, “causing his painful death,” the suit said.

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Philadelphia School Police Officer who Beat Unarmed Black Student Gets Job Back

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From  [HERE] A SCHOOL POLICE officer who was fired by then-Superintendent Arlene Ackerman for pummeling a Frankford High School football player in 2009 is working again for the district. Officer Aaron Branson was manning metal detectors at the entrance to Horace Furness High School in South Philadelphia on Friday. He was unavailable for comment, the principal, Daniel Peou, told the Daily News.

Branson got his job back through an arbitration proceeding "subject to certain personnel conditions . . . [that the district] cannot further discuss," according to a statement from spokesman Fernando Gallard. Branson returned to his $42,918-a-year job in September, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. He had been fired in late 2009 or early 2010.

Branson and another school police officer were caught on camera in October 2009 beating Jeffione Thomas, then a 17-year-old running back for the Frankford High Pioneers, after he arrived at school a few minutes late. He was held down by one officer and beaten by the other. The beating landed him in the hospital with a black eye, broken blood vessels in his left eye, cuts to his lips and several loosened teeth.

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NAACP Questions St. Paul Police Fatal Shooting of Black Man (yet another unarmed Black Man allegedly ramming a police car)

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From [HERE] The St. Paul NAACP has questions and concerns about officers fatally shooting a 41-year-old man in the city this week. Police killed Victor Terrance Gaddy as officers were trying to stop the St. Paul man during a drug investigation Tuesday, Oct. 23.

A criminal complaint filed Thursday against a passenger in Gaddy's car said Gaddy "accelerated rapidly toward one of the police vehicles, striking it and nearly pinning a St. Paul police officer between the suspect vehicle and the police vehicle." It also said Gaddy reversed and rammed another police vehicle. The police cars were unmarked.

The civil rights group said the damage shown in a photograph of Gaddy's car doesn't appear consistent with the police version of what happened in the shooting, the St. Paul Pioneer Press (http://bit.ly/RXHF1l ) reported.

"Their whole decision-making was on the pretext that this vehicle was looked at as a weapon," said Jeff Martin, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter. "To justify taking this person's life, I would at least want to see some damage to the vehicle. To use lethal force on someone, I would think they would want to try other avenues first rather than executing the gentleman."

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Lawsuit Filed by Black Man Savagely Beaten by Allegheny County Jail Guards

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From [HERE] and [HERE] Allegheny County Jail officials may be liable for allegedly beating a would-be escapee so viciously that the inmate soiled himself, a federal judge ruled. Gary Barbour says jail officials searched for him for three hours during his attempted escape on April 6, 2010, and eventually found him in the ventilation system. Complaint is here [PDF]

Though Barbour allegedly did not resist capture, the officials had allegedly decided beforehand that they would "physically batter him as punishment."      Sgt. August Smarra allegedly removed Barbour from the duct and threw him through an opening in the ventilation panel, causing him to drop three feet to the concrete floor in a mechanical room.     

Smarra then pushed Barbour into the walls and bounced him off nearby equipment, according to the complaint. Barbour says he eventually fell atop an iron doorframe, and that Smarra then kicked him in the back. The kick allegedly caused Barbour to soil himself.     

After other guards forced Barbour to his knees, Major James Donis told the inmate, "I'm your worst nightmare," and then began hitting him in the face, according to the complaint.     

Soon, all of the guards took turns punching him in the face, landing at least 40 punches and ultimately breaking Barbour's nose, the complaint states. Barbour says one guard was recording the incident on a camera. As the guards marched Barbour through the jail, one allegedly repeatedly kicked him in the groin from behind. After shoving Barbour into walls and doorframes for some of the walk, the guards brought him out of the view of jail surveillance cameras and kneed him in the face, according to the complaint.     

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St. Louis Co. Settles over Police Beating Death of Black Man

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From [HERE] St. Louis County will pay nearly $50,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit involving a man who died after struggling with police.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( http://bit.ly/VN1OwS) reports that Audrey Elkins filed suit over the death of her son, 31-year-old Craig Foster. He suffered from heart disease and asthma and died of complications from those conditions after his arrest by county police in 2008.

Police were seeking to serve a search warrant when they saw Foster run. It took seven officers to handcuff Foster, a suspected dealer in crack cocaine.

The lawsuit alleged that officers kicked Foster's head while he was handcuffed. An autopsy found evidence of bruising on Foster's head.

An internal investigation found the use of force was justified. None of the officers involved were disciplined.

Family of Unarmed Black man shot to death by Dallas Police sues city and police officer in federal court

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From [HERE] The Black families of a man shot and killed by Dallas police in 2010 as well as a teenager who was grazed by a bullet in the incident are suing the city, the police chief and the officer who shot them.

The suit was originally filed against the city in Dallas County district court in October 2011 by Jacqueline Collins, the mother of Xavion Collins, who was shot in the arm while walking to get a soda at the Cedar Garden apartment complex. The suit was changed in July to add as defendants Police Chief David Brown and Officer Matthew Tate, who shot and killed an unarmed Tobias Arthur Mackey, 25, during a sweep of the apartment complex. The change also added Mackey’s family members as plaintiffs. Also in July, the suit was transferred to federal court. Tate claimed he shot Mackey because he thought he was reaching for a gun. A Dallas County grand jury cleared Tate last year of any wrongdoing. That decision angered Mackey’s family, who said the officer had no reason to open fire.

The suit claims that after being shot, Mackey said: “Why did you shoot me? I don’t have anything.” Tate then shot him again, at close range, the suit alleges. He was shot a total of nine times, according to the lawsuit. The family states in the lawsuit that Tate had a propensity for harassing and “jacking” people in lower income areas. It alleges unnecessary and excessive force and seeks wrongful death damages.

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Justice or White Supremacy? No Jail Time for White San Juan County Sheriff's Deputy for Unprovoked Metal Flashlight Beating of Native American Man - on video

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From [HERE] A former San Juan County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an American Indian suspect he beat with a flashlight. The assault raised concerns about the treatment of American Indians by police in towns that border the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation, tribal officials said. Dale Frazier will be on probation for three to five years after Wednesday's plea in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. He could have received up to 10 years in prison.

The Farmington Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/VqScCr ) the 57-year-old was captured on his patrol car's video camera striking Donovan Tanner with a flashlight in March 2011.  He had detained Tanner and his brother as they walked away from a Farmington brewery where they had argued with a group of men.

The video released by the sheriff's office after the incident shows Frazier ordering Tanner, now 24, and his brother to stand near Frazier's patrol car and answer questions about the argument.

Frazier can be seen pinning Tanner to the hood of his car. He first uses the metal flashlight to choke Tanner and then starts forcefully hitting him in the head, neck and body. Frazier continued hitting him after he fell to the ground, while a Farmington police officer and another sheriff's deputy watched.

Tanner was arrested and charged with disarming a police officer, but the charges were later dismissed. Tanner filed a lawsuit against the county and settled for $250,000, said his lawyer, Arlon Stoker.

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Ohio State University Students Claim Columbus Police Falsely Arrested & Assaulted Black College Student

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From [HERE] and [HERE] An honor student from The Ohio State University plans to fight a series of misdemeanor charges against him after his attorney tells ABC6/FOX28 the arresting officers used excessive force.  Joseph Hines, 20, was charged with resisting arrest and underage drinking among other charges August 30th after police stopped him at High Street and East 13th Avenue just before midnight.  According court documents, police say Hines "pulled away from them and attempted to flee."  They also wrote, Hines "fought on the ground causing cuts" to the arresting officer's legs and hands.

According the the Fraternal Order of Police, the arresting officers admitted to using force in arresting Hines by taking him to the ground and spraying him with mace.  Officers with internal affairs said they're also investigating the incident but would not comment further. Now students want to know why they weren't notified to what they're calling police brutality by the university. 

 

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