This is a battlefield, a war zone—if you will—governed by martial law and disguised as a democracy.

From [HERE] “Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”—Kristian Williams, activist and author

September 11, 2014 “ICH” – “Rutherford Institute” - If you don’t want to get probed, poked, pinched, tasered, tackled, searched, seized, stripped, manhandled, arrested, shot, or killed, don’t say, do or even suggest anything that even hints of noncompliance. This is the new “thin blue line” over which you must not cross in interactions with police if you want to walk away with your life and freedoms intact.

The following incidents and many more like them serve as chilling reminders that in the American police state, “we the people” are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”

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90% of the World Could be Pulled Over by Racist Cops in Arizona under SB 1070. Because 90% of the World is non-white

Stopped because you look undocumented (brown person). In photo, non-white person, Roy Helu. He is a running back in the NFL. Race Soldier cops probably would target him as an undocumented person because of his skin color. From [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today in federal court in Phoenix on behalf of an Arizona woman who spent five days in the custody of immigration authorities after a Pinal County Sheriff's deputy "cited and released" her following a traffic stop, then instructed another sheriff's deputy to transport her to a nearby Border Patrol station. The lawsuit brings a Fourth Amendment claim against the deputies for prolonging her detention solely based on a suspicion that she was an undocumented immigrant. At the time of her detention, the woman, Maria Cortes, had a pending U-visa application stemming from her status as a victim of domestic violence.

"When the officer who stopped me asked if I had a visa, I offered to show him a copy of my pending U-visa application that I keep in the glove compartment of the car but he said he wasn't interested in that," said Ms. Cortes. "They put me in the police car, never told me why they were taking me or where I was going, which really worried me because I didn't know what would happen to my children — the five days I spent detained were a nightmare for me."

The incident occurred on September 29, 2012; Ms. Cortes was granted a U-visa less than a year later.

Since the "show me your papers" provision of Arizona's anti-immigrant law SB 1070 went into effect two years ago, the ACLU has documented numerous cases of racial profiling and illegal detentions by law enforcement officials throughout the state. In Tucson alone, the ACLU has filed several "Notices of Claim" alleging that law enforcement officers regularly engage in racial profiling and illegal detention as a result of the law. This is the first federal lawsuit to challenge application of the "show me your papers" law in Arizona. Today's case challenges the actions of two deputies of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, which is headed by Sheriff Paul Babeu. Along with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sheriff Babeu has been among the most outspoken law enforcement supporters of SB 1070.

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Shot him because he was Black: Dashcam Video Shows White South Carolina State Trooper Shooting an Unarmed Black Man after Seat Belt Stop

From [HERE] A white South Carolina state trooper's dashboard video shows an unarmed Black driver being shot just seconds after he was stopped for a seatbelt offense — and the trooper, who was fired last week, has now been charged with assault.

As Levar Jones cried in pain waiting for an ambulance, he repeated one question: "Why did you shoot me?"

"What did I do? . . . I just got my license, you said get my license."

The 31-year-old former trooper is charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison. He was released after paying 10 percent of a $75,000 bond. Jones is recovering at home after being hospitalized for the injury. [MORE] and [MORE]

The Psychopathic Racial Personality. In their relations with non-white people, most racist suspects (white people) function as psychopaths. According to Dr. Bobby Wright, "the psychopath is an individual who is constantly in conflict with other persons or groups. He is unable to experience guilt, is completely selfish and callous, and has a total disregard for the rights of others.

Behavioral scientists generally agree that the outstanding characteristics of the psychopathic personality are the almost complete absence of ethical or moral development and an almost total disregard for appropriate patterns of behavior. This characteristic has led to a misunderstanding of the psychopath as someone who does not know the difference between right and wrong. This belief is not true; psychopaths simply ignore the concept of right and wrong. By ignoring this trait in the White race (the lack of ethical and moral development) Blacks have made and are still making a tragic mistake in basing the worldwide Black liberation movement on moral suasion. It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting to use moral suasion on a people who have no morality where race is the variable.[MORE

If a Black Cop Pinned a White Woman Down & Punched her in the Face Over & Over Again, would Criminal Charges be filed? Black Homeless Woman to get $1.5 Million from California Highway Patrol - but still No Charges vs White Cop

White Cop Punched her in Face Over & Over "to stop her from going into traffic." From [HERE] "Marlene Pinnock, the 51-year-old homeless Black woman seen in a video being punched in the face over and over by a white California Highway Patrol officer, has agreed to a settlement in her civil case against the agency. Pinnock will receive $1.5 million, according to KTLA. In addition, the Associated Press reports that Officer Daniel Andrew will resign - because despite his egregious conduct that went viral worldwide he has not been fired yet. He will most likely still collect his pension. 

The July 1 altercation generated national attention after a video shot by a passing motorist surfaced.

It shows a white uniformed CHP officer pinning the Black woman to the ground and repeatedly punching her, landing at least nine blows. Pinnock is not resisting arrest or fighting back. 

The CHP has said the officer was trying to keep the woman from walking into traffic- and that's why he had to punch her over and over. CHP logs state that she ignored commands and became "physically combative."

But Pinnock said in an interview last month that she did nothing to provoke the officer. Pinnock said she was walking to a place to sleep that night when the officer came up behind her. She said that as she then screamed, he "pulled me back and threw me on the ground."

Pinnock was hospitalized after the incident and placed on "a mental-health hold" - poor folks get their treatment/detention on an inpatient basis. 

"He grabbed me, he threw me down, he started beating me, he beat me," Pinnock said when when later describing the incident to the AP. "I felt like he was trying to kill me, beat me to death."

Earlier this month, a CHP investigator said that Pinnock resisted arrest by pushing Andrew, who was trying to keep her away from oncoming traffic.

What will the Black D.A. Do? A Major Difference between Criminal Punishment and Civil Punishment is the moral condemnation of the criminal. Sending a message of what will not be tolerated by the community. What community and whose interests does the District Attorney of Los Angeles County Jackie Lacey (in photo) really serve?  

Prosecutors apparently are still confused about whether to charge Andrew in connection with the July 1 incident. Based on the video it is clear that probable cause exists to charge the cop with a variety of offenses and prosecutors have broad discretion to choose among a menu of options here, such as: simple assault, felony assault, aggravated assault, attempted murder etc. So far they have failed to do anything to address these crimes against the public. Who's really in charge? 

Last month, the CHP announced that the cop had been stripped of his duties and could face "potentially serious charges."

Pinnock's attorney, Caree Harper, said there were two conditions that were key to the negotiations: That her client be taken care of "for life," and that the officer who hit her lose his job.

Farrow added that the agreement "establishes a special needs trust for Ms. Pinnock to provide a mechanism for her long-term care." [MORE]

Civil Trial begins in the Deliberate Death of Homeless Black Man Beaten and Suffocated by 5 Denver Cops at Jail

White Supremacy is carried out by violence and/or deception. From [HERE] and [HERE] Five Denver sheriff's deputies followed the rules when they used a sleeper hold, nunchucks, handcuffs and a taser to restrain a small, homeless Black man who died in the downtown jail, a defense attorney said Monday.

The comments by Denver attorney Thomas Rice came during opening statements in a federal civil trial involving the deputies accused of using excessive force in connection with the death of Marvin Booker.

The 5-foot, 135-pound inmate died in July 2010 after deputies subdued him in the booking area of the jail.

The trial comes amid calls for a federal investigation of the department over other high-profile abuse cases. Sheriff Gary Wilson resigned in July as the city agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle another federal jail-abuse lawsuit by a former inmate over a jail beating.

Inmates told investigators the struggle began when Booker was ordered to sit down in the jail's booking area but instead moved to collect his shoes, which he had taken off for comfort.

Video shows Booker, who was barefoot, approaching Deputy Faun Gomez, who was seated at a desk. She gets up after a few moments and approaches him, and he slaps her hand away. The other deputies rush in and bring Booker down.

Gomez "escalated" the incident from a verbal exchange to force, Newman said, and then deputies became far more aggressive than necessary to subdue the 135-pound Booker.

"He was a frail, homeless man" who suffered from emphysema, an enlarged heart, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and mental problems, she said.

When they got him down, one lay on top of him, bringing his full weight onto Booker's back. Another used a carotid chokehold to subdue him, Rice said. Deputies cuffed him, and used a type of nunchuck to control one of his legs. Then they tased him.

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Black Judge says Criminal Cops Lacked "courage to do what was right": Six White L.A. Deputies Sentenced to Prison in Conspiracy to Stop Inmate Abuse Probe

From [HERE] and [HERE] A federal judge Tuesday gave six white Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies an earful in sentencing them to prison for obstructing a federal investigation into misconduct at the Men's Central Jail. All six were convicted of conspiracy and obstructing justice for conspiring to foil a federal probe into deputy violence against inmates in county jails.   

U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson said the deputies lacked "courage to do what was right" and that none of them showed "even the slightest remorse."

A jury on July 1 found the defendants, including two lieutenants, attempted to influence witnesses, threatened an FBI agent with arrest and concealed an FBI informant who should have been turned over to federal authorities. The conspiracy began in 2011 when sheriff's officers learned that a Black inmate was an FBI informant and was cooperating in the federal investigation of corruption and civil rights violations at the jail.  

"Blind obedience to a corrupt culture has serious consequences," Judge Anderson told them as he sentenced them to terms of 21 to 41 months.  

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Federal appeals court: Stop using SWAT-style raids for Minor, Non Violent Offenses [barbershop raids]

From [HERE] On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a ruling on the sort of issue you’d hope a federal appeals court would never need to rule on — whether the government should be allowed to use SWAT-style tactics to perform regulatory inspections.

At issue were a series of police raids on barbershops around the city of Orlando. The raids were basically fishing operations for drug crimes and to recruit confidential informants. All of the raided shops were black- or Hispanic-owned. The problem is that, because they were fishing expeditions, the police didn’t have enough evidence to obtain a warrant. Instead, the police asked an occupational license office to send along an inspector. Voila! These were no longer drug raids. For the purposes of the Fourth Amendment, they were now officially licensure inspections that just happened to include armored cops storming the businesses as if they were harboring an ISIS sleeper cell.

 

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[nothing is how it should be in this Racist System] White Arkansas Cop Orders Asian Man to get ID. Then Lights him Up with Taser for reaching for ID. Asian Man Arrested for APO

Video is [HERE] A routine traffic stop takes a dramatic turn when a white Arkansas County Deputy tases an Asian man through a car window.

Jonathan Nguyen and his friends were pulled over for running a stop sign on September 15th. Nguyen claims he was simply following the officers instructions by getting his ID out of his wallet. Sheriff Bill Mills says his deputy felt threatened when Nguyen reached in his pocket. Nguyen, who did nothing to the oficer now is charged with APO, assaulting a police offcer. 

Black Man Shot Multiple Times in the Back while Laying on the Ground: Ezell Ford’s Family Files $75 Million Lawsuit Against LAPD for 'Sadistic and Malicious Execution'

From [HERE] More than a month after Ezell Ford was fatally shot by officers, his family announced Wednesday that they have filed a $75 million wrongful death lawsuit [PDF] against the Los Angeles Police Department.

Ford, described in the lawsuit as being “mentally challenged,” was shot to death in South L.A. near 65th Street and Broadway on the evening of Aug. 11.

The unarmed man was walking in the area when he was approached by two police officers who asked him to “lie on the ground,” according to the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court.

“Within moments, defendant Officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas intentionally and/or negligently fatally shot unarmed decedent Ezell Ford, multiple times, with their firearms,” the lawsuit stated.

The “use of excessive force” against Ford was “sadistic and malicious and did not further any legitimate legal purpose,” the complaint said, describing the shooting as “despicable conduct.”

Ford’s family members said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit Wednesday that the the mentally disabled young man may not have understood police orders during the fatal incident. They previously stated he was complying with officers and was lying on the ground when he was shot in the back.

Additionally, they contend that the defendants knew that Ford was mentally challenged.

“Ford … was unarmed, posed no threat to anyone, including defendants, was cooperative with the officers, and had committed no crime,” the complaint stated.

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Gang of White NYPD Cops Intimidate and Attack Unarmed Latinos at Sunset Park Street Fair

From [HERE] A New York City police officer has been suspended after a video surfaced of a street fair altercation in Sunset Park, according to an Associated Press report.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said that the officer in question has been stripped of his gun and badge pending an investigation in a case of alleged excessive police force in Sunset Park on Sunday,  according to The AP.

"Bratton said the fair was supposed to end at 6 p.m. but it was still going a half hour later," The AP reported. "Officers tried to clear the street for traffic." When the vendors resisted leaving right away, the police began assalting, pushing and gang tackling and kicking unarmed Latino residents. [MORE] See for yourself. White supremacy is carried out through violence and/or deception. 

Another Mostly White Jury Assembled for re-trial of Detroit 'Race Soldier Cop' who Killed 7 Year old Black Girl with Submachine gun: 9 of 14 jurors are White [Detroit is 90% non-white]

From [HERE] and [HERE] Another mostly white jury was seated this afternoon in the trial of a white Detroit police officer, Joseph Weekley, charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Black 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was shot during police raid more than four years ago. Weekley is a member of an elite Detroit police unit or "Special Response Team." 

The panel — made up of 10 women and 4 men, five of whom are African American — will hear opening statements in Joseph Weekley's retrial Thursday morning in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. Two of the jurors eventually will serve as alternates. This trial begins 15 months after Weekley’s first trial ended with the mostly white jury [11 white] unable to agree on a verdict. [MORE]

Lawyers for both sides and Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway agreed on the jury after the dismissal of 68 potential jurors over three days of jury selection, including 25 dismissed today.

Weekley, 38, faces charges of involuntary manslaughter, a felony and careless discharge of a submachine gun causing death, a misdemeanor, in the fatal shooting of Aiyana. [MORE]

The night Aiyana Jones was killed, Detroit police's Special Response Team were searching for murder suspect, Chauncey Owens, who was engaged to Aiyana's aunt, in connection with the May 14, 2010, murder of 18-year-old Jerean Blake. Weekley was a member of this SWAT unit. After obtaining a search warrant, police kicked in the front door of the home on Lillibridge, where Owens was thought to be hiding. 

They threw a flashbang grenade into the downstairs flat of a multi-family home about 12:40 a.m. and Weekley was accused of firing the bullet that struck and killed the girl, who was sleeping on the couch in the front room of the home. The "flash-bang" light-emitting grenade was meant to distract suspects. 

Weekley was first through the door, with a shield in one hand and a gun in the other. He claims he accidentally pulled the trigger when Aiyana’s grandmother, Mertilla Jones, grabbed his submachine gun. She denies that she interfered in any way.

During Weekley’s first trial, a fellow officer, Shawn Stallard, testified that he did not see anyone struggle with Weekley. He said Detroit police are trained to push away anyone who tries to grab an officer’s gun or to move the weapon in a “J’’ shape to keep control of it.

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White Judge Gives White Prosecutor 60 Day Extension for Mostly White Grand Jury to Decide Whether there is Probable Cause to Charge White Cop with Murder of Unarmed Black Teen [Michael Brown]

What is White Collective Power? White supremacy is racism. It is the only functioning form of racism there is- as there is no place in the world where non-whites dominate whites or are operationally superior to white people. Understand that racism is not primarily about individual bigotry, minor inconveniences, mean words and disrespect. Rather it is about the superior, dominate position of whites and the institutions that maintain vast unequal power and resources in order to keep Blacks subordinate. [MOREand [MORE]

From [HERE] A judge has given an extension of 60 days to the grand jury considering whether to indict Darren Wilson, the white Ferguson, Mo., police officer who killed Michael Brown, 18. The jury must decide by Jan. 7 whether Officer Wilson, who is white, will be criminally charged in the death of Mr. Brown, who was black and unarmed.

Edward Magee, a spokesman for the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, said Tuesday that the grand jury was still hearing evidence, but “we don’t believe it’s going to take” until January for the jury to decide.

The grand jury’s regular term expired last Wednesday, leaving it with only Mr. Wilson’s case to consider. The jury is hearing evidence in that case “when all 12 of them can get together,” Mr. Magee said.

Robert P. McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney, who has been the county's elected prosecutor for more than two decades, could have filed charges himself but chose to take the case to a grand jury. He also put together the grand jury whcih is mostly white with 9 white people and 3 Blacks. [MORE]

McCulloch's father was a police officer killed in a shootout with a black suspect, and several of his family members are, or were, police officers. His 23-year record on the job reveals scant interest in prosecuting such cases. During his tenure, there have been at least a dozen fatal shootings by police in his jurisdiction (the roughly 90 municipalities in the county other than St. Louis itself), and probably many more than that, but McCulloch’s office has not prosecuted a single police shooting in all those years. At least four times he presented evidence to a grand jury but — wouldn’t you know it? — didn’t get an indictment.

One of the four: A 2000 case in which a grand jury declined to indict two police officers who had shot two unarmed black men 21 times while they sat in their car behind a Jack in the Box fast-food restaurant. It was a botched drug arrest, and one of the two men killed hadn’t even been a suspect. McCulloch at the time said he agreed with the grand jury’s decision, dismissing complaints of the handling of the case by saying the dead men “were bums.” He refused to release surveillance tapes of the shooting. When those tapes were later released as part of a federal probe, it was discovered that, contrary to what police alleged, the car had not moved before the police began shooting. [MORE]

Mentally ill Black Veteran's Death in Overheated Rikers Cell is Ruled Accidental [was charged with trespassing]

From [HERE] The death of a mentally ill Black veteran in an overheated cell at Rikers Island this year was accidental, the New York City medical examiner’s office ruled on Friday in a case that drew scrutiny to abusive conditions at the jail complex.

The inmate, Jerome Murdough, died on Feb. 15, when temperatures in his cell in a mental health unit at Rikers climbed to over 100 degrees.

Mr. Murdough, 57, died of hyperthermia caused by exposure to the heat, said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. The heat’s interaction with an antipsychotic medication he was taking for a schizoaffective disorder contributed to his death, she said.

Ms. Bolcer said she could not comment on whether the ruling had any legal consequences, adding that only medical considerations were taken into account.

Even so, the ruling that the death was accidental raised questions about culpability.

Mr. Murdough’s death provoked outrage among the city’s elected officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, and focused media attention on the conditions at Rikers Island, where inmates frequently endure severe abuse and neglect. Last week, the family of another inmate who died at the jail, Bradley Ballard, sued the city, claiming that he had been locked in a cell for seven days last year and denied food, water and medication he needed to control his schizophrenia and diabetes.

On Monday, the city announced that it had hired a management consulting firm [more white people], McKinsey & Co., to recommend changes to improve Rikers.

Mr. Murdough was arrested a week before he died and charged with trespassing after a police officer found him in the stairwell of a public housing building in Harlem. He told the officer that he had sought shelter there from the cold. [MORE]

Video: White Albany Cop Tasered Black Teen Surrendering on his knees - [100 mph police chase b/c headlight was out]

From [HERE] and [HERE] A police video released Tuesday shows an Albany County sheriff's sergeant firing a Taser at a Black teenager who was kneeling in front of police officers with his hands on his head at the end of a high-speed chase across two counties.

The video, taken from a dashboard camera in a police cruiser, prompted Sheriff Craig Apple to suspend Sgt. Vincent P. Igoe Jr. last month and launch an internal investigation into the sergeant's use of force. The video shows Igoe firing his Taser through the smashed back window of the vehicle as the 16-year-old suspect, Kelijah Fink, huddles in a back seat of the car and refuses to get out. The first shot missed. Igoe then quickly reloaded his Taser and fired a second time at the teenager after he had emerged from the vehicle and dropped to his knees. Apparently, both shots were unjustified. 

The stun gun's second shot struck Fink, who became briefly paralyzed by the electrical shock and was quickly handcuffed.

Igoe's use of force was also scrutinized four years ago when he fatally shot a Latino man while on patrol near the Albany International Airport. The man was walking alone in the dark and Igoe said he opened fire as the man threw a chunk of concrete at him. On Tuesday, DeNigris said Igoe, a 12-year veteran, had used a Taser only twice in his career before last month.

Just Comply. To the extent that you might be dealing with a racist cop - you must comply with their just and unjust commands. Legal truths aside, if you are Black or Latino your reality is white supremacy and your main goals should be to avoid death, injury and greater confinement. If you want to do something about this unjust system that has made us powerless that is fine - but it won't be tonight, on the side of the road, in a one-on-one encounter with an armed racist suspect.  

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LA School Police Department (LASPD) has obtained 61 (sixty one) M16 assault rifles, three grenade launchers and even a mine-resistant armored vehicle (MRAP)

[No Guns in School really means No Guns in White Schools] From [HERE] The branch of the Los Angeles police assigned to securing the city’s schools is deployed with an almost military-grade arsenal, recently disclosed documents have revealed. Under a Defense Department program known as the 1033 Program that provides police with surplus military gear, the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) has obtained 61 M16 assault rifles, three grenade launchers and even a mine-resistant armored vehicle (MRAP).

The LASPD’s haul wasn’t the only one by special school police forces, though it was the largest by a wide margin. San Diego’s school police have their own MRAP, while the LA suburb of Baldwin Park picked up three M-16s.

The weapon acquisitions, first revealed by the site MuckRock, were apparently made all the way back in 2001, although the MRAP was obtained this past summer.

Steve Zipperman, chief of the LASPD, told the Los Angeles Times that the assault rifles, originally capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute, had been converted into semi-automatic weapons used for training in the event of a school shooting, and that the MRAP was intended for a possible crisis situation where police would have to move groups of children.

Zipperman also tried to assure citizens that the department had no plans to use the grenade launchers, whether for firing explosives or non-lethal weapons like tear gas. The launchers, he said, are available in case the LASPD is called upon to assist the LAPD during emergency situations, though he said such a request has never been made.

Following the public disclosure of the the weapons’ existence, Zipperman has indicated the department is rethinking its possession of them.

The increased use of military equipment by domestic police departments has come under increased public scrutiny in recent months, in particular following protests in Ferguson, Mo., over the shooting death of Michael Brown. Police in Ferguson were subjected to widespread criticism over their use of military gear, armored vehicles, and heavy weapons to contain rioters in the city.

NYC Prosecutors Seek Only Probationary Sentence for Cops who Beat Black Teen in Bronx Alley

Just do what you're told brother. The refinement of white supremacy requires the use of racial shadowboxing, wherein Black people programmed in service of white domination are put in high places to do the work of racists. In the criminal justice system, the deceptive result is the appearance of justice. Here, Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson stands behind racist suspect Raymond Kelly. Recently, brother Johnson also sought no charges for guards at Rikers Island who strapped 2 inmates to gurneys, took them to a clinic in a mental health unit and beat them so badly "that blood splattered the walls" and witnesses described feeling sick to their stomachs. [MORE]

From [HERE] Two police officers were convicted on Monday of misdemeanor attempt assault in the 2011 beating of a Black teenager in an alley near their Bronx police precinct station house, the district attorney’s office said. The two officers, Jose Ocasio and Joseph Murphy, were seen on surveillance video punching and kicking the teenager, Tyre Davis, in the head, face and body shortly after 3 a.m. on Feb. 18, 2011.

The video, uncovered in the course of an Internal Affairs Bureau investigation into the assault, helped lead to the conviction of both Officer Ocasio, 31, and Officer Murphy, 29, on charges of attempted assault, a misdemeanor, and harassment, a violation.

The Bronx district attorney, Robert T. Johnson, will ask for probation for the officers at their sentencing next month, his office said.

Earlier on the night of the assault, Mr. Davis, who was 17 at the time, had been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct stemming from "blocking street traffic", prosecutors said.

Inside the 46th Precinct station house, near the Grand Concourse, Mr. Davis argued with both Officer Ocasio, who arrested him that night, and Officer Murphy, who prosecutors said had had contact with Mr. Davis the week before.

After Mr. Davis was given a summons and released, the officers followed him down the block and around a corner into an alley at 210 East 181st Street. It was there that a surveillance video camera recorded the assault, which left the teenager with swelling and abrasions to his face and head. He returned home and told his mother about the attack; she reported it to the police.

His lawyer in his civil lawsuit claims the officers beat the teen "with a level of viciousness and bodily disregard that most people would not use against a dog." [MORE] The teen said, one punched him in the right ear, the other in the forehead. He said he fell and hit his head on a brick wall during the 30-second attack. "I thought I was going to die," he said. [MORE]

Baltimore Cop on Video Sucker Punching Black Man in Bogus Arrest for Loitering - $35 Million lawsuit filed

From [HERE] and [MORE] Kollin Truss, a Black man is seeking $35 million after he says a Baltimore police officer, Officer Vincent Cosom beat him up for no reason at all.

The video tape shows the victim being punched in the face repeatedly. The officer throws looping haymaker blows that land to the face or head of Truss. Apparently, the two had words in a liquor store after the cop asked him to leave the store. The officer waited for him outside and shortly thereafter approached him and sucker punched him. The officer claim he had probable cause to arrest Truss for loitering.

In a statement of probable cause, when Cosom asked him to leave, he says Truss stated `[expletive] you. I will see you when I get outside.”  

Truss was charged with misdemeanors, including assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and alcohol intoxication. The charges were dropped. [MORE]

Using the Ferguson Grand Jury to Run for Cover, White Prosecutor has not prosecuted a single police shooting in 23 Years

Expect Racism [white supremacy] From [HERE] One might give racist suspect St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCulloch the benefit of the doubt, if not for his background. His father was a police officer killed in a shootout with a black suspect, and several of his family members are, or were, police officers. His 23-year record on the job reveals scant interest in prosecuting such cases. During his tenure, there have been at least a dozen fatal shootings by police in his jurisdiction (the roughly 90 municipalities in the county other than St. Louis itself), and probably many more than that, but McCulloch’s office has not prosecuted a single police shooting in all those years. At least four times he presented evidence to a grand jury but — wouldn’t you know it? — didn’t get an indictment.

One of the four: A 2000 case in which a grand jury declined to indict two police officers who had shot two unarmed black men 21 times while they sat in their car behind a Jack in the Box fast-food restaurant. It was a botched drug arrest, and one of the two men killed hadn’t even been a suspect. McCulloch at the time said he agreed with the grand jury’s decision, dismissing complaints of the handling of the case by saying the dead men “were bums.” He refused to release surveillance tapes of the shooting. When those tapes were later released as part of a federal probe, it was discovered that, contrary to what police alleged, the car had not moved before the police began shooting.

McCulloch apparently hasn’t learned from that. His spokesman, asked by The Post’s Wesley Lowery about those remarks, said the slain men “should have been described as ‘convicted felons’ rather than ‘bums.’ ”

Lowery gained national attention last month when he was unjustly detained by Ferguson’s out-of-control police while covering the demonstrations. He has since asked McCulloch’s office for a list of cases in which prosecutors pursued charges against a law enforcement official. McCulloch’s office ultimately came up with only one case over 23 years that The Post could verify of the prosecution of a white officer for using inappropriate force against a black victim, and it wasn’t a shooting.

But if McCulloch lacks credibility, he apparently has political clout. This could explain why Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon — like McCulloch, a Democrat — is refusing to appoint a special prosecutor. This could also explain Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s statement in support of McCulloch.

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White Detroit SWAT Race Soldier Cop to face Retrial for Killing 7 year old Black Girl [11 whites on jury last time]

From [HERE] A member of an elite Detroit police unit is set to stand trial again for killing a seven-year-old girl during a 2010 raid on her house that was captured on video by a reality TV crew.

Nobody alleges that Officer Joseph Weekley intended to kill Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who had been sleeping on a couch near the front door when officers burst through around midnight in search of a murder suspect. But prosecutors charged him with involuntary manslaughter because they believe he handled his submachine gun recklessly, causing the girl’s death. Weekley is white and Jones was Black.

Jury selection starts on Monday in Wayne County court, 15 months after Weekley’s first trial ended with the mostly white jury [11 white] unable to agree on a verdict. [MORE]

The night Aiyana Jones was killed, Detroit police's Special Response Team were searching for murder suspect, Chauncey Owens, who was engaged to Aiyana's aunt, in connection with the May 14, 2010, murder of 18-year-old Jerean Blake. Weekley was a member of this SWAT unit. After obtaining a search warrant, police kicked in the front door of the home on Lillibridge, where Owens was thought to be hiding. 

They threw a flashbang grenade into the downstairs flat of a multi-family home about 12:40 a.m. and Weekley was accused of firing the bullet that struck and killed the girl, who was sleeping on the couch in the front room of the home. The "flash-bang" light-emitting grenade was meant to distract suspects. 

Weekley was first through the door, with a shield in one hand and a gun in the other. He claims he accidentally pulled the trigger when Aiyana’s grandmother, Mertilla Jones, grabbed his submachine gun. She denies that she interfered in any way.

During Weekley’s first trial, a fellow officer, Shawn Stallard, testified that he did not see anyone struggle with Weekley. He said Detroit police are trained to push away anyone who tries to grab an officer’s gun or to move the weapon in a “J’’ shape to keep control of it.

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