From [HERE] Oakland has agreed to pay $225,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the parents and daughter of an East Oakland Black barbershop owner killed by police officers who said they mistook a scale he was carrying for a gun.
Derrick Jones, 37, was killed Nov. 8, 2010, on Trask Street, a block from his store, by Officers Eriberto Perez-Angeles and Omar Daza-Quiroz. The officers used excessive force against an unarmed Black man, said a suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by Jones' parents, Nellie and Frank Jones, and his young daughter. The City Council voted in closed session last week to approve the payout. A lawsuit filed by the slain man's widow, Lanell Monique Jones, is still pending.
The officers were dispatched to a 911 call from a woman who said Derrick Jones, a parolee, had choked and beaten her near his Bancroft Avenue barnbershop. Jones' relatives said the woman had harassed him after he spurned her romantically and had armed herself with a knife during the encounter. Jones ran when the officers arrived and he reached for his waistband when they caught up to him, police said. Perez-Angeles fired two shots, and Daza-Quiroz fired seven, authorities said.
The officers said they thought Jones had been reaching for a gun, but he actually had a small silver-colored scale, officers said. Police also said he had marijuana in a jar in his pocket and was legally drunk. None of said information was revealed after the shooting. [MORE] The officers, who were involved in a previous fatal shooting, were cleared of criminal liability by Alameda County prosecutors.
From [HERE] On one page, comedian Dave Chappelle appears as Tyrone Biggums, the stumbling junkie with crack residue around his month. On other pages of an official North Chicago police handout, one smiling African American is handcuffed in an orange prison jumpsuit and another is portrayed as bug-eyed and slack-jawed in a mugshot. The handout — given to participants of the new North Chicago Citizen Police Academy last week — was intended to illustrate trial procedures. It had a much different effect.
Waukegan activist Ralph Peterson called the handout “outrageous.” NAACP Lake County Branch President Jennifer Witherspoon said the handout reinforces “every negative stereotype blacks as a people have been fighting against.”
Also in the brochure: Bumbling TV cop Barney Fife, Judge Judy and Lindsay Lohan. On the cover: Lake County State’s Attorney Mike Nerheim opposite Tom Cruise as a military defense attorney from “A Few Good Men.” Nerheim called the handout “incredibly disturbing.”
Apparently the purpose of the brochure is designed to teach officers on how to testify in criminal trials against defendants, who are disproportionately non-white. The white supremacist material mocks the criminal justice system. To these outlaw cops, the best liar wins in court. At best they view their participation in the process like a game show contestant, matching wits with defense attorneys - at worst they simply practice racism (deception) in court. Their goal no doubt is the greater confinement of non-whites. Prosecutors who do not see this reality are in a bullshit utopia.
Cops in Court - Lying isn’t the exception, it’s the rule.
In the context of futile attempts to suppress evidence obtained unlawfully by police in court, criminal defense attorney Kevin Mahoney, who is white, explained the following, [HERE],
"Police recruits are not taught to lie at the Police Academy, and while there is no shortage of unethical prosecutors, I believe only a minority of prosecutors directly instruct police officers to lie. Prosecutors encourage the practice all the same by doing little or nothing to discourage testilying, or, worse, by asking leading questions with winks and nods. Rather than directly and formally encouraging these recruits and officers to commit perjury, these academies and prosecutors teach the upstarts to view defense counsel as lying scoundrels. Cross-examination is a contest, and the outcome is presentation determinative—in other words, the best liar wins.
The real training is done off the official police grid. More experienced officers teach the newly minted officers how “real” police work is done, how order is maintained on the front lines and how to keep the bad guys off the street. To the experienced officers, perjury is no different from any other tool available to them—whether it be their firearm, their cruiser, or their badge—to combat crime. While no one has admitted as much, at least not to me, I’m convinced that before a hearing on a motion to suppress on an important case with “problems,” the police witnesses meet to map out their testimonies.
From [HERE] Video of the incident on Conti Street in the French Quarter has outraged many and prompted calls for the FBI and the City Council to investigate the actions of plain clothes law enforcement as they took down two young Black teens on February 10th. FOX 8 obtained a copy of the police report, written by Detective Bret Mathes of the NOPD. Mathes was the only NOPD officer who was part of the plain clothes detail, which included eight undercover State Troopers.
According to the police report, one of the State Troopers observed the two young men in the 700 block of Conti and they appeared to be in violation of the city's curfew laws.
It says the officers displayed their law badges and verbally announced themselves as police officers as they approached the two subjects. Detectives Mathes states that one of the subjects attempted to flee. Only a racist/white supremacist suspect could believe such nonsense (when you hear the sound of hooves do you think of horses or unicorns?).
The video speaks for itself. The officers approach quickly as the boys appear to have their backs turned to the white men. All the officers are wearing jeans and other casual attire - one has on a backwards baseball cap, another has beads around his neck. Why would such violent force be used simply to investigate a non-violent offense? [white supremacy]
From [HERE] The local branch of the NAACP on Thursday called for federal and state investigations into the actions of nine State Police troopers and one New Orleans police officer after a local TV station aired a video Wednesday night showing the plainclothes officers -- all of them white -- allegedly tackling two young black men in the French Quarter. The incident happened on Sunday in the 700 block of Conti Street amid Mardi Gras 2013 celebrations.
"The major issue is whether or not excessive force was used, and whether or not the civil rights of the young men were violated," said Danatus King, president of the New Orleans chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "There is a great concern that had those young men been white, they would not have been treated the same way."
The video, which was aired on WVUE-TV and lacks audio, shows 17-year-old Sidney Newman and 18-year-old Ferdinand Hunt standing against a wall. Suddenly, a group of plainclothes officers approaches. Some of the officers tackle the teenagers to the ground and then pounce on them.
One of the officers is shown swinging Hunt (who weighs 130lbs) around forcefully. That cop was a State Police trooper, according to a police source familiar with the incident. Later on in the video, a uniformed NOPD officer approaches the group. She reportedly tells them she is Hunt's mother, and the officers shortly let both men go with her. The teens were unarmed and did not reisist arrest.
State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson (racist suspect in photo) said he takes the allegations "very seriously," adding that he personally initiated an internal investigation into the incident on Monday morning. He said investigators would take statements from everyone involved and determine what happened within 60 days.
Edmonson denied that race was known to be a factor in the incident. He said the undercover task force was largely enforcing juvenile curfew, weapons and drug laws. This is deception/racism. In the video, the police approach quickly and do not to appear to ask questions or identify themselves.
Not a way to check for curfew as far as the 4th Amendment is concerned. (In order for the police to stop you or to even touch you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. The reason must be particularized). - BW
From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black family of five has filed a complaint with the city's Office of Internal Affairs after a brawl with police that resulted in the 52-year-old father getting shot with a stun gun and police kicking down doors to arrest the entire family. Police Chief Joseph Gaudett (white man in photo) said he sees no need to place Oficer Rivera, Carrano or Sgt. Sean Lynch, who fired the stun gun, on administrative duty for the following conduct:
The incident began after brothers Dennis and Eric Jennings went outside in the frigid temperatures for a cigarette break at their parents' Pleasant Street home Jan. 23. As they stood in front of their house, Police Officers David Rivera and John Carrano drove by and told them to stop hanging out. Horace Jennings, the father, said the officers only stopped and approached the men because they were black males standing in a Black neighborhood. But police said they pulled over to tell the Jennings to move along and stop "blocking free passage on the sidewalk" in front of the gate of the house.
In their account of the fracas, the family claims Rivera and Carrano were hostile from the moment they approached Bernard, 29, Dennis, 27, and Eric, 23, and ordered them off the sidewalk. "We weren't causing any problems," Bernard Jennings said. "We didn't commit any crime."
But in his report, Rivera said Dennis Jennings cursed at the officers when they asked them to move. The officers grabbed Dennis, who was already inside the gated property by that point (complying with the officer's request), when he moved toward the home and refused to approach them when asked, police said.
This prompted the family members to come out of the house cursing and yelling, and the officers to call for backup, police said. Then, as Rivera apprehended Dennis, Eric Jennings ran inside to get his parents.
At that point, Horace Jennings was shot at close range in the back by Sgt. Sean Lynch with a stun gun after police said he grabbed Rivera's shoulder and reached for the electric gun in the officer's holster.
Horace, who works for the state Department of Motor Vehicles, said he didn't see the police report until Thursday afternoon; he said he was outraged he was accused of grabbing a police officer. He said the lies in the report are the reason Blacks and Latinos in Bridgeport don't talk to police.
"The same ones supposed to be protecting you are no good," he said. "When it comes to white people, it's protect and serve. But when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, it's track and hunt."
Eric Jennings said when he saw his father lying on the ground, he called 911. "Bernard said to me, `Why are you calling the police? They're the ones out there,' " he said. "And I said, `Yeah we need a new batch.' "
Police said they arrested Margaret Jennings -- the mother -- for taking items out of her husband's pockets despite police protests. She said she was searching for her husband's keys because by then there were dozens of officers at the scene and they were threatening to break down her front door.
She claimed she was arrested for looking defiantly at Rivera when the officer who had used the stun gun on her husband asked his fellow officer, "He tried to grab you, right?"
"The officer couldn't lie because I was looking him right in the face," she said. "Next thing I knew, I was handcuffed, going to a police car and thinking, `Is this really happening to me?' " She is now worried the arrest will give the city a reason to fire her after 17 years on the payroll with the Bridgeport Board of Education. "I've never hurt anybody," she said. "I don't want my life destroyed by lies."
From [HERE] A Latino man seen on a video being beaten by three Bridgeport police officers has filed a $1 million lawsuit, while NAACP leaders are calling on police officials to arrest and fire the officers.
The graphic video of the May 20, 2011, police beating that was posted Jan. 18 on YouTube showed police officers Elson Morales and Joseph Lawlor violently kicking a motionless Orlando Lopez-Soto as he sprawled on the ground. The video continues with Officer Clive Higgins jumping out of his cruiser and running over to join in with his own powerful kick, even as the suspect was being restrained and stomped by the other cops. The video garnered nearly 185,000 views.
Attorney Kretzmer said her client's family only recently learned about the video, which was taken with a cellphone camera from about 50 feet away in Beardsley Park.
On the video, recorded May 20, 2011, Lopez-Soto, 27, is seen running from the right side of the frame when there is the electrical sound of a stun gun. Lopez-Soto falls face down motionlessly in the grass and officers Joseph Lawlorand Elson Morales run up to him and begin kicking and stomping on him. Officer Clive Higgins then pulls up in his patrol car, gets out, and leaning on Morales for support, also begins kicking and stomping Lopez-Soto. He was unarmed.
Lopez-Soto was taken to the hospital after the incident, but only for being shot twice with the electric stun gun, according to the police report. There is no mention in the report of the kicking and stomping by the officers.
More than 100 officers, including SWAT teams, were driven Friday in glass-enclosed snow machines and armored personnel carriers to hunt for Dorner, the alleged author of the so-called Manifesto, "The Last Resort."
Whitewash of Evidence. Christopher Jordan Dorner is a former Black LAPDpolice officer and ex-United States Navy reservist who was a named suspect in the 2013 Southern California shootings, which left three people dead and two others wounded. He was alleged to have killed Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence, a couple recently engaged in Irving, CA. and a white Riverside Officer Michael Crain in Riverside, CA. No LAPD officers were killed. Said murders were the basis for the manhunt. (The fourth murder attributed to Dorner occurred before his alleged death during the chase into the cabin). The large organized manhunt spanned four U.S. states (California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico) and Mexico.
Police and U.S. marshals accompanied by computer forensics specialists used a search warrant to remove about 10 paper grocery bags of evidence from his mother's single-story house in the Orange County city of La Palma on February 8, 2013. Dorner's mother and sister cooperated with the search, a police spokesman said.
No One Heard Gunshots or Saw Shooting of Couple. No ID Made. No Video from Parking Lot. No Forensic Match
Two of the victims, Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence (both non-white), who recently got engaged, were found shot to death inside Lawrence's car last Sunday night in the parking garage of the Avenue One condominiums in the 2100 block of Scholarship around 9:10 in Irvine. She was the daughter of retired LAPD Capt. Randal Quan.
Police said Lawrence and Quan appear to have been shot where they were found, in the car in the open-air top level of the structure. However, the time of their death remains unclear - it was obvious, police said, that they had been dead for some time. It did not appear that they had been robbed. Apparently no DNA match was found on shell casings and a beanie found near the car where the couple was allegedly killed [MORE]
The Orange County coroner said each died of multiple gunshot wounds. Jim Amormino, a spokesman with the Orange County Sheriff's Department said "No further information will be released at this time." He would not elaborate on the cause of death, or give information about how many times the engaged couple had been shot and where on the bodies the wounds were , citing the ongoing investigation.
No one called 911 or reported hearing the gunshots at the condominium complex where they lived in the upscale Walnut neighborhood (Irvine is considered to be one of the safest cities in America). A passerby called police after seeing Lawrence's body slumped over in the car, police said.
Entry into the parking structure requires a key-code and there are security cameras throughout the complex, a resident said, adding that some spaces are allocated for overnight guests. [MORE] No video or photographs have been released.
No One Saw him Shoot Riverside Cops. No ID Made. No Other Evidence.
Riverside police said two of its officers were shot in an ambush at Arlington and Magnolia avenues in Riverside (in photo) last Thursday at 2AM. Officer Michael Crain died, the other was taken to a hospital. Although, Police claimed Dorner did it, there were no witnesses. The request for an arrest warrant for Dorner submitted to the court on February 7 by a U.S. Marshal said that Riverside officers "were fired upon by an unidentified assailant while they were in their police vehicle at a red light." [MORE] No details or other facts have emerged to support this assertion. [MORE]
Police learned of the shooting when a "Good Samaritan" picked up a police radio and made a distress call on behalf of the wounded officers, Riverside police say. No one reported hearing gunshots. No other evidence of his involvement in the Riverside killing was presented to the media. It seems unlikely that a detached Judge would find probable cause for his arrest in either of the alleged shootings. [MORE]
La Palma Police Officers check a vacant home near Dorner's mother's La Palma home as FBI computer recovery task force investigators armed with a search warrant go through a computer on Friday February 8, 2013. Various agencies have arrived to lend assistance at the home.
What Manifesto?
The LAPD believes Dorner implicated himself in the couple's killings in the manifesto posted on Facebook. They claim he was the one who wrote it because there were details in it only he would know. [MORE] and [MORE]. Like what? The LAPD has presented the media with no proof that Dorner authored the so-called Manifesto.
In court, authenticating an item of evidence means showing it is what the proponent claims it to be. Courts, prosecutors and police cannot ordinarily takes things at face value - it applies across the board to physical evidence and to everything else but live testimony. There must be facts to support a finding that an item of evidence is what it is claimed to be. [MORE]
Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory investigators at Dorner's mother's home on Friday February 8, 2013.
This letter or manifesto has not been authenticated as actually belonging to Dorner. Apparently no one saw him write it or had heard about it or heard him talk about it. No corroborating letters or statements to other people were revealed. Apparently the police either did not obtain Dorner's computer or their search efforts of the computer were fruitless. Anyone can create a facebook page, anywhere. No proof was offered that a computer was found that he had access to during the time the alleged page was created and that the computer had been used to log onto facebook. The manifesto appears to be rank hearsay from an unknown speaker. Without more, it would not be admissible at trial and it should not be the basis of an arrest warrant.
The police and the FBI did extensive searches at his mother's home (which is where the media claimed he lived and did his personal computing?) in La Palma, CA. and at "his home" in Las Vegas on February 8. The FBI and police did not reveal that anything implicating Dorner was found at either location [MORE] and [MORE].
U.S. Marshals and La Palma Police stand with weapons ready outside of Dorner's mothers house.
Irvine Police Lieutenant Bill Whalen said that Dorner’s personal computers were the focus of the search warrant. “We are going to take our time and to gather as much potential evidence as possible here today,” Whalen said. [MORE] Apparently, nothing linking him to the manifesto was found.
Officers said it appeared no one had been at the Vegas home for a few weeks. [MORE]. No information concerning his alleged authorship of the manifesto resulted or was released to the media from the searches (said searches also may have been unlawful as there appears to be no probable cause for his arrest in the 3 murders - a generic online posting claiming that you committed unlawful acts does not give police a legal basis - probable cause - to search your home or arrest you).
Police investigate the home of the mother of the alleged triple-murder Christopher Dorner in La Palma, California on February 8, 2013. White passerbys look away.Christopher Dorner owned a home in the southwest part of the Las Vegas valley. Police searched it and said he had not been there for weeks.This notice was posted on the outside of Dorner's Vegas home.
From [HERE] A Queens grand jury on Thursday declined to bring criminal charges against a white New York Police Department detective who shot and killed an unarmed Latino motorist following a chaotic highway chase last year.
The grand jury made the decision regarding the death of 22-year-old National Guardsman Noel Polanco after meeting nine times over five weeks, according to a statement by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, who is white (in photo). Because grand jury action is secret, Mr. Brown said he could not "provide the factual and legal basis for the grand jury's decision."
Mr. Polanco was shot along a stretch of the Grand Central Parkway near LaGuardia Airport on Oct. 4 by Det. Hassan Hamdy, but the circumstances surrounding the incident are in dispute.
An attorney for the detective, a 14-year veteran who was assigned to the elite Emergency Services Unit, said Det. Hamdy fired the single shot because he believed Mr. Polanco was reaching for a weapon underneath the seat of his Honda Fit. There was no weapon in the car, but police said they recovered a small mechanic's drill from beneath the driver's seat (to drill him to death from across the passenger seat).
Diane Deferrari, a friend of Mr. Polanco's who was riding in the front seat, said in interviews that Mr. Polanco had kept his hands on the steering wheel the entire time after he was pulled over and said the officers had been experiencing "road rage" after being cut off repeatedly by Mr. Polanco as they had given them the finger during the chase.
Once the car was stopped, Hamdy approached the Honda from the passenger side, where he shot Polanco through the open passenger-side window. Hamdy’s lawyer, Philip Karasyk, said that Hamdy believed Polanco was reaching for a gun. ButDeferrari, who was seated in the passenger’s seat, said that the oficer fired without giving Mr. Polanco a chance to comply with his orders to put his hands up and that his hands were still on the steering wheel when he pulled the trigger."Had I moved an inch, it would probably have been me.'' [MORE]
A second passenger, also an NYPD officer who is a friend of Ms. Deferrari's (code of silence, don't get Dornered), claimed to be asleep in the back seat of the car during the high speed chase and said she was jarred awake by the sound of the bullet being fired.
From [HERE] Oxnard police today released the names of the nine officers involved in the October fatal shooting of two Latino men in La Colonia. Police identified the nine as Senior Officer John Brisslinger and officers Ernie Orozco, Don Ehrhardt, Jess Aragon, Rocky Marquez, Pedro Rodriguez, Ryan Lockner, Zack Stiles and Matthew Ross.
Rodriguez and Ross were also part of the June fatal incident involving Robert Ramirez, who died of asphyxia while being restrained by police.
The shooting occurred Oct. 13 in the 100 block of North Garfield Avenue in Oxnard’s La Colonia neighborhood.
Alfonso Limon, 21, of Oxnard was mistaken for a suspect after a police chase and shootout. One of the suspects, Jose Zepeda, 24, of Oxnard, also was killed by police.
Lawyers for the Limon family allege in a claim filed against the city that witnesses saw multiple officers surround Limon and fire at him even as he put his hands up and yelled “don’t shoot, don’t shoot.”
The deaths of Ramirez and Limon sparked allegations of police brutality and harassment. Marches, vigils and demonstrations at City Council meetings were held in the months following the fatal shooting.
From [HERE] The char-broiled remains found in the ashes of a Southern California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said Thursday. He was a Black man. The fire burned for over several hours. Dorner's dental records were used to make the identification, said spokeswoman Jodi Miller.
An official briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press that a wallet with a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner has been found in the rubble of a cabin, [MORE] beside his remains. [MORE] It was made of plastic but it did not burn. Apparently, police did not release photographs of the license or display it to the press.
One week ago (2/6), San Diego police said a person found Dorner’s wallet, LAPD badge and photo identification in the street near Lindbergh Field and turned it over to a shuttle bus driver, who turned it over to police. [MORE]. According to court documents requesting an arrest warrant [here] his so-called wallet and identification cards were also found near the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday (2/11). [MORE]
A cause of death or time of death was not provided.
Missing Evidence Rule. Police still have not provided any additional information connecting him to the death of the Riverside Officer (no ID (court document says "fired upon by an unidentified assailant" [more], no particularized lookout description of "Dorner" in the area, no physical evidence, no photographs) or the couple in Irvine (no ID, no photo or video despite garage surveillance, no physical evidence, no one heard the alleged 8-10 gunshots in the upscale condo at 9pm and apparently no DNA match was found on shell casings and a beanie found near the car where the couple was allegedly killed [MORE], police stated the bodies had been dead for hours [MORE]). Said crimes and an unauthenticated "Manifesto" were the basis of the witch hunt.
To the extent that racists in the media had anything to do with selling you the idea that this so-called "manifesto" belonged to anybody it is your obligation as a non-white person to critically analyze it. Such information could have been rigorously tested at trial. The info about the manifesto came from the police, many of whom you know are white supremacist/racist. White supremacy is carried out by deception and/or violence. [theCode]
In the history of modern law enforcement it was the first time a Black officer had ever killed a white officer.
Sheriff John McMahon, a racist suspect, said Wednesday that his deputies "did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out."
Housekeepers No More. The cabin's owners, Jim and Karen Reynolds, said they, not two housekeepers as widely reported, were the real victims who had discovered Dorner when they visited their unoccupied apartment unit Tuesday morning.
The racist suspects held an "impromptu press conference" that they entered one of the units just before noon and were confronted by Dorner.
"We happened to walk in on him,'' Karen Reynolds said Wednesday night. "He tried to calm us down, saying very frequently he would not kill us.'' He said "he just wanted to clear his name."
They were declared ineligible to collect the million dollar reward.
Racists function as psychopaths in their relations with non-white people. [MORE] Speaking at a news conference like a robot, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday afternoon that the fire was not set on purpose. "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out," McMahon said. However, McMahon said one type of tear gas used was "pyrotechnic" and acknowledged that it "does generate a lot of heat." McMahon said the fire "erupted" after police launched the pyrotechnic canisters, which are called "burners," into the cabin.
(To the extent that there were no racists involved with "Dorner" being volcanoizedto death, its an ancient white secret that things that burn do not necessarily catch fire = a white supremacist revelation sandwich). Please recall that 11 Black people died in the MOVE standoff with police in Philadelphia in 1985 after tear gas canisters set a residence occupied by activists on fire (those "motherfuckers" also got burned up). See Waco, Tx.
Unclear as to whether Police referred to him as "motherfucker" or to the cabin as "this motherfucker." In the police audio, which was broadcast on CBS affiliate KCAL-TV police said "Burn it down" or "Burn him out," while another officer shouts, "F***ing burn this motherf****r!" In another recording, an officer says "we're gonna go forward with the plan, with the burn ... Like we talked about."[MORE] Scroll down page for more.
(The media is quick to point out that the LAPD had absolutely nothing to do with "burning this motherfucker" down - explaining to sheeple that this was the San Bernardino County Sheriff's war [MORE]. If you beleive that, then you are listening to too much Maybach music or watching far too much television (a necessary illusion or utopian place where white people do not function as psychopaths in their relations with non-whites) and your mind shampoo is complete.)
Evidence? Are You Talking about Evidence? Can an executive (here, the LA Mayor who oversees the LAPD) claim the power to unilaterally kill an American in America without a trial?" Well that is what Senator Rand Paul was asking today in regards to drones and the nomination of the CIA director [MORE]. He probablydid not have Dorner in mind and probably was unaware that the LAPD used a drone to target Dorner.There appeared to be little actual evidence of Dorner's involvement in the killings he was hunted for. Except for "his" unauthenticated manifesto, of course.
No evidence was of no consequence to police, who had already made up their minds. According to London's Express, Dorner was the first target of airborne drones on U.S. soil. A senior police source told the Express, “The thermal imaging cameras the drones use may be our only hope of finding him. On the ground, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.” A drone killing would have been an extra-judicial killing. [MORE]. Killing a non-white person without any judicial determination of guilt is repugnant to the Constitution and an example of unjust white supremacy. No high tech lynching was necessary.
Denver's chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday urged the city's Manager of Public Safety to discipline three Denver police officers involved in the beating of a man in 2009.
"Clearly, they abused their authority and violated Mr. Landau's civil
rights. Their actions were indicative of Jim Crow era police brutality," Lewis said in a statement. "At this juncture, the Manager of Safety must adhere to his civic duty and do what is morally right by disciplining the Officers involved in this travesty."
Manager of Safety Alex Martinez has said he wants to be able to review the Justice Department's investigation before making a decision about whether to punish Cpl. Randy Murr and Officers Ricky Nixon and Tiffany Middleton. The police department's internal-affairs bureau completed its investigation into Landau's allegations, but leaders delayed a discipline decision in light of the federal probe.
"The Manager of Safety will do what is morally right, not by reaching a pre-determined result, but by considering all the evidence fairly and without bias," Martinez said in email provided Wednesday morning by his spokeswoman, Daelene Mix. "At this point, we are waiting for the opportunity to review any witness statements or other materials resulting from the DOJ investigation."
The Jan. 19, 2009 incident started as a traffic stop. Landau said in a federal civil lawsuit that the officers hit him with a radio, fists and a flashlight and called him a racial epithet.
Police, however, said he had reached for Middleton's gun during the traffic stop. The federal lawsuit ended in 2011 with a $795,000 settlement.
From [HERE] and [HERE] After members of the New York Police department arrested an unarmed Black teenager allegedly for "spewing profanities" and "ignoring requests to show his hands" outside a Queens youth center, a lawyer for the young man claims that he is an "innocent victim of police brutality", the New York Daily News reports. Robert Jackson was forced to the ground by police in a Jan. 8 incident outside the Flushing YMCA. In a press conference Tuesday, Jackson said that his arm was pinned underneath him during the arrest. Photos released to the press show a gruesome, crescent-shaped wound that the 19-year-old sustained in the incident as his left cheek was ground into the cement sidewalk.
Footage of the arrest that was posted to YouTube Jan. 9 shows at least 10 additional officers respond to the scene, pouncing, kicking and punching him while he is on the ground - Matrix style. All outlaw cops appear to be white.
In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. In order to frisk you the Supreme Court has ruled that the police must have independent reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you (a cursory patdown for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion. Clearly, these rules are only intended for white people. [MORE]
From [HERE] and [MORE] The American Civil Liberties Union recently challenged the FBI over a secret racial and ethnic mapping program, which allegedly gathers intelligence on specific American communities. Nationwide, the FBI is gathering reports on innocent Americans' so-called “suspicious activity” and sharing it with unknown numbers of federal, state and local government agencies. According to the ACLU, the program profiles Muslims and Arab-Americans in Michigan, African-Americans in Georgia, Chinese and Russian-Americans in California and broad swaths of Latino-American communities in multiple states.
Nusrat Choudhury, a staff attorney at the ACLU National Security Project, spoke about the program in a segment on HuffPost Live.
"What we've uncovered through over 15,000 documents from 34 states around the country already shows, as you mentioned, that communities of diverse backgrounds -- racial, ethnic and religious communities -- are being targeted for intelligence collection and investigation, based on nothing more than bias and stereotypes about what communities have a propensity to commit certain crimes," she told host Ahmed Shahib-Eldin.
From [HERE] Police were heard on Los Angeles TV and over LAPD audio yelling to burn down fugitive ex-cop Chris Dorner’s cabin, revealing a deliberate, considered plan to torch the building in which Dorner was believed to be hiding. After the incident police claimed that "Dorner" had either set the fire himself or were unaware of how the blaze started. [MORE]. No fire crews were present. No real time news was allowed.
Local news channel Kcal9 has played a recording in which police were heard to yell “burn this mother*****r down,” and another shouting, “f*****g burn this mother*****r,” as a man alleged to be Dorner was barricaded inside his hideout.
The news followed an LAPD audio recording in which a police officer is heard to say, “Alright, we're gonna go ahead with the plan with the burners,” and continued, saying,“we are going to go forward with the plan, with the burn, like we talked about,”as his colleague confirmed he is in agreement.
(In general, killing cops is an unintelligent reaction to white supremacy/racism (as is protesting, complaining, crying, begging, and singing; practices which have not led to justice for non-whites or solved the myriad of problems caused by racism/white supremacy. At least this episode has helped to reveal the true nature of the racist LAPD) but when white officers intentionally kill a non-white person and then lie about it; it is unjust murder. These officers have received the full support, financial and otherwise, of the white media, police chiefs, mayors and prosecutors of all the jurisdictions involved. Such is the nature of white collective power in a white supremacy system. White supremacy is maintained by violence & deception. [theCode]
There was scant evidence that "Dorner" had committed the alleged killings; apparently no ID was made in the LA couple or Riverside officer killing; no physical evidence linked him to those crimes and the so-called manifesto was unauthenticated and apparently no one had any first hand knowledge about it. It also unclear whether he was ID'd before "he" was allegedly burned to death by police. Of course, there will be no trial -bw) .
("Just moved the couch to vacuum here at headquarters and you'll never believe what we found! Chris Dorner's wallet!"[Anonymous]) Remember, he left his drivers license and badge near Lindbergh Field in San Diego on 2/7! [MORE] ButPolice claimDorner Drivers License was found in the remains of the cabin which was burned to a crisp in a fire that burned out by itself after "several hours"?Sounds like more deception/violence = white people practicing racism)
I can't go into re-living the emotions of what I went through so I will say this. I had my home viciously attacked by a gunman with my family and myself inside the house. No arrests were made and my family and I Received very little support. I had my Civil Rights violated on several occasions. I was falsely arrested at gunpoint by the Sheriffs as an Officer who ID'd himself and was conspired against by both LAPD and the Sheriffs when my Civil case went to Trial. I was falsely accused on more than one occasion and simply placed in a position that the trust was so compromised that I could no longer wear the Uniform. Also know there were many more episodes. All of these issues are well documented and I present them not to be a Whistle blower, However to hope that one would not assume that all of what is being said is Lies as presented by Dorner. I don't know him, But I know me. I will say from my experience, If a person knows they were wrong it is easier to move on without anger. Seems that Dorner obviously could not move on... Could I just be content and move on with my life and not say anything? Yes...Then I would feel that I for once had my chance to speak on something that hurts me to this day and I did nothing to arouse thought or provoke reform. This is what I hope comes from this whole situation:
On February 8th, 2013 at 3:50 pm a drone was sighted hovering above a neighborhood in West Oakland. There didn’t seem to be a focus, it just maintained it’s position above properties near a highway. It is not known at this point what agency or individual was operating the craft. But regardless of who was in control of the drone, it is the type of thing we can expect to see in the future of we don’t act now.
Berkeley Copwatch won an award this week for halting the Berkley Police Department’s attempt to purchase a Bearcat (an armored personnel vehicle) without public input. Copwatch was only able to defeat Berkeley Police’s attempt by mobilizing with others. So it is upon all of us to have these discussions and continue to collectively organize against such police strategies.
Alameda Sheriff’s recently released their intended policies around the use of drones and it’s clear that search and rescue missions are not their intended purpose.
LAPD 'Doing it Well' From [HERE] Alongside the police shooting on two separate incidents of innocent individuals in the manhunt for alleged cop-killing ex-cop Christopher Dorner, the frenzied search has also introduced the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) to seek a target on U.S. soil. According to MSNNow, “their use was confirmed by Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Ralph DeSio, who revealed the government’s fear that Dorner will make a dash for the Mexican border.”
A number of news sources, MSNNow included, stated that this was the first instance of airborne drones targeting a human target within the U.S. Not so: Among a handful of instances, police in North Dakota used a Predator drone (unarmed) in 2011 to track down the Brossart family — anti-government separatists who refused to return cows that had wandered onto their land.
As Gizmodo’s Eric Limer noted, the drones employed to search for Dorner are also “presumably” unarmed. “Should armed drones actually be authorized to fire on Dorner, then it would be a first, and frankly a terrifying precedent,” wrote Limer.
A source named only as a “senior police source” reportedly told the U.K.’s Daily Express: “The thermal imaging cameras the drones use may be our only hope of finding him. On the ground, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.” Asked directly if drones have already been deployed, Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz, who is jointly leading the task force, said: “We are using all the tools at our disposal.”
The LAPD and the media believe that Dorner is responsible for killing a Riverside Police officer and a couple. There seems to be little evidence that Dorner actually committed the three murders. (see story below). Nevertheless, today Prosecutors filed a capital murder charge against Dorner for the killing of Riverside police officer Michael Crain,that could bring the death penalty -- assuming he has a trial and they actually prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's 'that type of guy.' The charges do not involve the slayings of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence. [MORE] He was also charged with the attempted murder of three other officers. [MORE]
As Congress takes up comprehensive immigration reform, House Republicans have insisted the U.S. needs increased border security before even considering earned citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
However, arrests at the border have dropped dramatically in Arizona to their lowest level in 19 years, even though more agents are deployed there than ever before:
The agency reported that apprehensions dropped to 124,631, a drop of more than 43 percent in the past two years and more than 82 percent since the highest mark in 2000.
Meanwhile, the number of agents stationed in Arizona rose to its highest level, with more than 5,100 in the state:
There is no clear relationship between the 21,000 agents patrolling the border and increased security. While the U.S. spends $18 billion on immigration enforcement, border crossings are at a 40-year low with net undocumented immigration at or below zero.
The Arizona Daily Sun recently warned against sidelining immigration reform with too many prerequisites for border security, arguing, “it is no longer justifiable to hold immigration reform hostage to an undefined “secure” border because of federal inaction.” The Arizona Republic wrote, “The plan devotes a great deal of emphasis to border security, promising more resources for an effort that already has seen years of extensive expenditures on infrastructure, technology and Border Patrol agents.”
Even Republicans, like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), admit that the border is more secure than ever before. Meanwhile, there is more than enough economic and historic evidence for why the debate needs to focus on citizenship, and not border enforcement.
Christopher Jordan Dorner (born June 4, 1979) is a former LAPDpolice officer and ex-United States Navy reservist who is a named suspect in the 2013 Southern California shootings, which left three people dead and two others wounded. He is currently the subject of a large organized manhunt now spanning four U.S. states (California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico).
Dorner's manifesto?
The strongest evidence linking him to these shootings is his online manifesto. Before embarking on a series of alleged shootings and eluding police, Christopher Dorner is purported to have posted a detailed communication discussing his history, motivations and plans. [MORE] This letter or manifesto has not been authenticated as actually belonging to him and apparently no one saw him write it or had heard about it.
No One Heard Gunshots or Saw Shooting of Couple at Fancy Condo. No Video from Parking Lot.
Two of the victims, Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence (in photo) - who recently got engaged to be married - were found shot to death inside Lawrence's car last Sunday night in the parking garage of the Avenue One condominiums in the 2100 block of Scholarship around 9:10 in Irvine.
Police said Lawrence and Quan appear to have been shot where they were found, in the car in the open-air top level of the structure. However, the time of their death remains unclear - it was obvious, police said, that they had been dead for some time. It did not appear that they had been robbed.
The Orange County coroner said each died of multiple gunshot wounds. Jim Amormino, a spokesman with the Orange County Sheriff's Department said "No further information will be released at this time." He would not elaborate on the cause of death, or give information about how many times the engaged couple had been shot and where on the bodies the wounds were , citing the ongoing investigation.
Witnesses did not hear the gunshots or call 911 at the upscale condominium complex where they lived (Irvine is considered to be one of the safest cities in America). A passerby called police after seeing Lawrence's body slumped over in the car, police said.
Entry into the parking structure requires a key-code and there are security cameras throughout the complex, a resident said, adding that some spaces are allocated for overnight guests. [MORE] No video has been released.
No One Saw him Shoot Riverside Cops
Riverside police said two of its officers were shot in an ambush at Arlington and Magnolia avenues in Riverside (in photo) early Thursday morning (according to his alleged manifesto he is mad at the LAPD - not Riverside cops). Officer Michael Crain died, the other was taken to a hospital. Although, Police claimed Dorner did it, there were no witnesses. Riverside police said they believe Dorner drove up to the officers' vehicle, which was stopped at a stoplight, and fired at the officers with a rifle. No details or other facts have emerged to support this "belief." [MORE] Crain had been on the Riverside force for 11 years, according to Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz.
Police learned of the shooting when a "Good Samaritan" picked up a police radio and made a distress call on behalf of the wounded officers, Riverside police say.
In photo, slain officer, Michael Crain. In the history of modern law enforcement there has never been a single instance of a Black police officer shooting or killing a white police officer.
Dorner is the recipient of the following military awards:
