"I have things ta doo" [MORE]. How long have the cop's people been on this planet?
NYPD Cop to Black Man: "Don't Make Me Have Fear for My Safety" [code for "I have justification to kill you"] From NYC Resistance. What is white supremacy/racism? [MORE]
More on communicating with Overseers [officers] above from the original real film, 12 years a slave by Gordon Parks.
In a system of racism is there a way to determine which white people are racist and which white people are not racist? No. As long as white supremacy exists, every person classified as "white" should be suspected of being Racist (White Supremacist). That is what "racist suspect" means. They should remain on your racist suspect list until you decide otherwise. [MORE] If you are dealing with a white cop should you assume you are dealing with a racist? Of course. To a racist/white supremacist cop there is no innocent Black or Latino male, just non-white male criminals who have not yet been detected, apprehended or convicted. [MORE] Why take any chances gambling against white supremacy in a life or death situation. What is the difference between a racist white cop and another overly aggressive, bad cop? [MORE]
From [HERE] Floyd Dent was protecting himself from being beaten and choked when he was arrested in January by white Inkster Police. Inkster is a Detroit suburb, that apparently has an army of very bored, race soldier cops.
"I can't even watch the tape of them beating me, because I get upset," Dent told WDIV this week. "I want them locked up. That would be justice." Charges of resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer were dropped, but Dent is due in court April 1 on a charge of possession of cocaine. According to his attorney, one of the officers admitted to racial profiling Mr. Dent. Saying that 'he was a Black man in cadillac in a drug area.' See video.
Accounts of the incident from Dent and from police — all of whom are white — are wildly different:
'I am like so super sorry about our policy of ripping Black men out of their Cadillacs when they don't come to a total, complete, 4 wheel stop at a stop sign when no traffic or pedestrians are around at night time. I mean alleged stop sign violation.' [White supremacy/racism is carried out by deception and/or violence. MORE]
A judge dismissed all of the charges involved in the physical confrontation with police after watching the video obtained by WDIV. Dent's lawyer said he was offered a plea deal resulting only in probation on the cocaine possession charge, but Dent turned it down, telling the station he wouldn't plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit.
One of the officers involved was reassigned to administrative duties pending an internal investigation that is already under way, Inkster Police Chief Vicky Yost said Wednesday. In addition Michigan State Police are conducting an independent investigation, she said. "This is a high priority for us," said Yost, who said "appropriate action" would be taken if the investigations found the cocaine possession charge to have been manufactured. [MORE] [Don't hold your breath in a system of white supremacy]
Nigger is what is being done to You. Racism in super white, liberal SF? Most whites hate Blacks because they are not white. If you understand that about them then their actions may not be so confusing to you. From [HERE] A slew of racist and homophobic text messages exchanged between San Francisco police in a fellow officer’s corruption case has forced prosecutors and defense attorneys to review an estimated 1,000 criminal convictions for potential bias, officials announced Tuesday.
The messages were revealed in a motion by the U.S. attorney’s office opposing bail for Ian Furminger, a former San Francisco police officer who was recently sentenced to 41 months in prison on various corruption-related charges and was scheduled to surrender next month pending an appeal.
The texts, sent between 2011 and 2012, allegedly involved four other officers and denigrated non-whites and gays.
“In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past ten years where these officers were involved,” said San Francisco Dist. Atty. George Gascon in a statement.
Public defender Jeff Adachi on Tuesday estimated that could amount to at least 1,000 cases among the five officers. Officials identified more than 120 in just the last two years, he said.
“We pride ourselves on being a progressive city, yet we have active officers who are engaging in not only racist banter, but they were talking about killing people, referring to an African American as a ‘savage,’” Adachi said. “A person does not become a racist overnight. These were officers who in some cases had over a decade of service. We need to look at all of them.”
Nigger Means Victim of White Supremacy. From [HERE] The City of York is now facing two unrelated federal lawsuits alleging white police officers used excessive force while making arrests of 2 black people.
In one case, a man alleges a group of officers from several departments tased and beat him after he did not answer the door of his hotel room. In the other, a woman claims she was thrown to the ground and falsely arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after leaving a corner store with her fiancé.
The lawsuits were filed on March 4 and Wednesday, respectively, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Along with the city, one of the lawsuits names officers from three other police departments as defendants.
In the lawsuit, Louis Grayson, 38, of Mims, Fla., alleges that on Sept. 6, 2013, he was tased at least four times and then beaten by a group of officers from the York City, York Area Regional, Springettsbury Township and Spring Garden Township police departments. [In video above racist suspect police chief 'is troubled because he can't find any qualified non-whites to be cops.']
Grayson was a suspect in a robbery. When he did not answer the door at his room in the Budget Host Inn on Haines Road in Springettsbury Township, the group of at least eight officers tried to unlock the room with a key. They then threatened him with a police dog, according to the lawsuit. Grayson also alleges he was dragged off the ground by his handcuffs, and that, at one point, two officers pushed him down the stairs. While Grayson was on the ground, the lawsuit alleges, officers shouted an expletive as well as a racial slur at him. Grayson is black, according to court records.
Officers offered to drop the robbery charge against him if he agreed not to file a lawsuit, the complaint alleges. And, while in jail, Springettsbury Township and York City police tried to get him to submit to an interview without a lawyer present — something Grayson refused to do, according to the lawsuit.
From [HERE] On an autumn night last year a 16-year-old high school student, Thai Gurule, was crossing a street in Portland, Oregon, accompanied by his older brother and a few friends. No one was breaking the law, being disruptive, or acting suspiciously. Yet the black teenager would soon be stopped by police officers without probable cause, illegally detained, shoved off his feet onto the ground, punched multiple times in the torso, kneed in the stomach, grabbed by the hair, and Tased.
He would later be charged with assaulting a public safety officer, resisting arrest, and attempted strangulation, per the narrative of the cops who wrote the police report.
Here's how the police saw it, or at least how they claimed to see it after the fact: they approached a group that fit the description of people reported to be creating a disturbance. A 16-year-old started walking away from their attempts to question him. He also talked back. They grabbed him and wanted to cuff him, but he struggled, threw punches, and put one of them in a headlock. So he got Tased.
In most cases like this the teen would be convicted handily based solely on police testimony, even though the initial stop was found to violate his rights. An innocent cannot raise the illegality of an arrest as a defense against the charge of resisting it. Thus the cases in which people with no intention of breaking any laws wind up with serious criminal records due to their reaction to unjust police aggression.
But thanks in part to bystanders who captured video of this teen's encounter with police, Judge Diana Stuart acquitted him last week. After being illegally stopped, her ruling acknowledged, the youth did tense his arms, struggle to stay on his feet, and flail around with his limbs. But he did so to protect himself from "senseless and aggressive" violence that "a reasonable person would have felt was excessive force," she found, adding that police misrepresented parts of the encounter in their report, which she did not find credible after reviewing the video evidence.
Like Trying to Make a Mirror Out of a Brick: If You are Still Attempting Moral Suasory on Racists then You Have Missed the Point [MORE]. From [HERE] A Black junior at the University of Virginia trying to celebrate St. Patricks Day was beat down by a gang of white cops over an alleged fake ID.
The student, Martese Johnson, sustained “a head injury requiring 10 stitches,” according to a statement released by the Black Student Alliance. The BSA release states that a “mass of University students bore witness to the officer’s animalistic, insensitive, and brute handling of Martese. He was left with his blood splattered on the pavement of University Avenue.” The group also released a photo of Johnson after the incident. [MORE]
Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper, obtained video of some of the incident. In the video, Johnson, after being beaten, can be heard yelling at the cops, “I go to UVA! You fucking racists!…How did this happen?."
Most white college kids are given diversion for false ID arrests. That is, after a brief detention and booking, if [white] prosecutors decide to "paper" the case (charge them) then the white children are given an opportunity to perform community service or pay a fine - upon completion of which the case is dismissed. What usually happens to similar situated non-whites?
According to a statement from a lawyer representing Johnson, Daniel P. Watkins, he was charged with “obstructing justice without force” and “profane swearing and/or intoxication in public.” Johnson, according to his lawyer, was not charged with possessing false identification.
During Nazi Germany, Germans who classified themselves as white or pure white functioned as an auxiliary police force; monitoring, arresting and watching Jews (German Jews were classified as 'not pure white' - the Jews were not considered to be white people or aryans [MORE]), This "watch" of the Jews enabled Nazi control because Jews vastly outnumbered them. In photo, George Zimmerman (a white man who the white media classified as a "neighborhood watch captain") is warmly greeted by white folks at a gun show in Florida last year. He killed Trayvon Martin in his own gated community. Then he had a fake trial.
From [HERE] Michael Youlen stopped a driver in a Manassas apartment complex on a recent night and wrote the man a ticket for driving on a suspended license. With a badge on his chest and a gun on his hip, Youlen gave the driver a stern warning to stay off the road.
The stop was routine police work, except for one fact: Youlen is not a Manassas officer. The citation came courtesy of the private force he created that, until recently, he called the “Manassas Junction Police Department.”
He is its chief and sole officer. He is a force of one. He is white.
And he is not alone. Like more and more white Virginians, Youlen gained his police powers using a little-known provision of state law that allows private citizens to petition the courts for the authority to carry a gun, display a badge and make arrests. The number of “special conservators of the peace” — or SCOPs, as they are known — has doubled in Virginia over the past decade to roughly 750, according to state records.
The growth is mirrored nationally in the ranks of private police, who increasingly patrol corporate campuses, neighborhoods and museums as the demand for private security has increased and police services have been cut in some places [white folks].
The trend has raised concerns in Virginia and elsewhere, because these armed officers often receive a small fraction of the training and oversight of their municipal counterparts. Arrests of private police officers and incidents involving SCOPs overstepping their authority have also raised concerns.
The Virginia legislature approved a bill Friday increasing the training and regulation of SCOPs. The private officers would now be required to train for 130 hours, up from 40 hours — less than the state requires for nail technicians, auctioneers and security guards.
From [HERE] The Denver Police Department has fired a white officer for inappropriate force against a female prisoner in a police department holding cell last July. The department announced the firing of Officer James Medina last Wednesday.
“Clearly his actions taken as a whole are not in line with the values of the police department,” said Cmdr. Matt Murray. Medina is appealing his termination which his attorney calls a “knee jerk reaction.”
The 4th Amendment is a Joke for non-whites. From [HERE] and [HERE] and [HERE] The 19-year-old black man who was shot dead Friday during a confrontation with a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, was unarmed, police said Saturday.
He was identified as Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., a graduate of Sun Prairie High School, a family spokesman and authorities said. The shooting took place Friday at about 6:30 p.m., Madison police said, and sparked protests, including a sit-in at Madison City Hall.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said police responded to a call about of a person "jumping into traffic" [does this mean calls about playing in traffic or jaywalking from whites?] A second call to police said the man was "responsible for a battery," Koval said. [Looking for all Blacks? any other details? such as height, weight, sex, age, hair style, race or complexion? Was the battery corroborated?]
Kenny went to Robinson's apartment and forced his way inside after hearing a disturbance. That is, the door was closed and the cop broke his way in for unrevealed reasons. Once inside, Koval said the officer was assaulted by Robinson, and then fired at him; Koval said he couldn't say how many shots were fired because it is part of the investigation.
Sounds Like Bullshit Buddy. Koval also said the officer "followed the man" to his residence where the alleged battery took place. When Kenny, the responding officer went to the apartment, he heard some commotion and forced his way in, he said. "Once inside the home the subject involved in this incident -- the same one allegedly out in traffic and that had battered someone -- assaulted my officer," Koval said. It wasn't clear whether Robinson was alone in the apartment or what the commotion was.
The police did not have a warrant to enter the apartment and the police did not describe any emergency basis for entering the premises without a warrant. The police did not say that Robinson consented or allowed the cop to enter with his permission. The police did not explain the reason they did not attempt to get a warrant. Cops did not say that Robinson fled from the police.
It is unclear whether the police corroborated that Robinson was the same person suspected of the alleged assault. For instance, whether or not he was ever subsequently identified by the 911 caller or the alleged victim of the assault. Or how the police confirmed this information about the dead Black man. Officer Kenny apparently did not witness Robinson violate any laws. The police did not explain the circumstances of the alleged battery.
[The white media could care less about such details. They are more interested in letting us know that the cop rode horses, was probably gay, had received some cop awards (from other white people) in the past and that Robinson had a white mother. MORE]
Grant Zimmerman, a neighbor of Robinson's, said Robinson would run between his apartment and his roommate's mother's house across the street "all the time, even in the middle of traffic." [MORE]
Kenny has been put on paid administrative leave [vacation] as the state Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation conducts an independent probe into the shooting.
Kenny, 45, had been involved in a previous officer-involved shooting of a Black man with a pellet gun, but was exonerated in that case, Koval said. [do not expect justice in a system of racism/white supremacy]
The 4th Amendment is a Joke. From [HERE] and [HERE]
Meanwhile The Black Captain America Appears at Town Hall Meeting to Lecture Blacks about Respecting Cops. From [HERE] In the midst of public outcries against the racism and violence of the criminal justice system in the United States, police departments are trying to repair their images with the same lack of grace as Bill Cosby’s Far From Finished comedy tour.
“It’s not the race or ethnicity, it’s the behavior,” Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland said when asked why people of color had their vehicles searched at disproportionately high rates. [McCelland is a Black Android who fights for whitey (programmed in service of white domination.)]
While speech like this is not uncommon in police departments, the McClelland’s choice of venue was questionable, as his voice filled the auditorium of Texas Southern University, a historically black college located at the center of a historically black community currently being ravaged by gentrification.
The event was billed as a town hall meeting, implying that police would be listening to the concerns of the community. Town meetings became commonplace in 17th century New England as an outlet for communities to make democratic decisions on legislation and policy.
Communities were able to be engaged and have their voices heard, which made the Houston Police Department’s latest stunt so disingenuous. District Attorney Devon Anderson, Chief Charles McClelland, and members of HPD senior staff even sat in a panel in an effort to appear accessible.
Inside the auditorium, police officers outnumbered community members, lining the aisles and standing in the back of the theatre once the first five rows of reserved police seating were filled. Outside, more police stood on guard against the anti-racism protest at the University’s entrance in case fire hoses were needed.
Early in the program, protesters entered the auditorium, chanting with raised arms. University President John Rudley shushed them and had them removed them like Canadian hecklers.
In order to more concretely demonstrate to the audience how intolerant the police are when confronted with nonviolent protest, Rudley dismissively said, “Thank you ladies, we’ve heard you, goodbye.”
The purpose of the town hall was not to listen to the community, but instead to say sorry not sorry for racism. “Our officers have even dated interracially,” Chief McClelland said of Houston Police at one point, weakly trying to defend diversity in the department.
“This is a system. It doesn’t matter if it’s a black police officer or a white police officer, it is a system of policing that is killing us!” yelled one participant, frustrated at how the chief evaded questions of policy. “What we want is for you guys to stop shooting us, stop judging us, stop hassling us! When black youth, brown youth, queer people are standing together trying to fight against a system of brutality, police officers are still killing us!”
“Thank you for your comment,” McClelland responded flatly, clearly hoping to move on to an easier question.
Far from listening, the department merely wanted to create the illusion of an open door policy while letting excess public anger pour itself into a microphone pointed at intentionally deaf ears.
After patiently standing in line for over an hour, a member of the New Black Panther Party spoke up, saying, “I came to look you in your face and look into your heart, to ask you a serious question, chief. Is this some kind of joke? You come into this community and tell people it’s as simple as filing a complaint. We’ve been filing complaints for over four hundred years!”
As the applause died down, he continued, “We were filing complaints while we were floating over here on the slave ship Jesus while they were having church on the top deck!”
Chief McClelland’s face sunk as he looked away from the speaker.
“You want to sit up here and talk about crime? Go home and play Monopoly with your children. Start off with no money at all and see what you end up with.” The Chief shifted his posture uncomfortably, once again looking away. “People out here are trying to survive right now. You won’t even look at me, Chief!”
“You’re gonna come in here today and act like Captain America and tell us everything is ok?”
The chief responded by explaining that the department is not perfect and that cases like the tragic death of Jordan Baker are normally handled by the FBI.
McClelland then proudly explained that, “Not one single time since I have been police chief have the FBI [or] Attorney General Eric Holder come back and issued an indictment in any of those cases. Not one single time.”
When Chief McClelland parades statistics like these around, it is worth remembering that the FBI also cleared Houston Police of wrongdoing after an officer executed a wheelchair-bound double amputee.
Through all of these boasts, the community will not be holding its breath in expectation of change under current leadership as the administration is far from finished.
Fusion Investigation of 5 cities finds body cameras usually help police. (The Company Getting Paid off Taser Guns is now Profiting from Police Body Cameras). From [HERE] A three-month Fusion investigation that reviewed hundreds of pages of records from five police departments with body camera programs reveals that the way body cameras are used usually serve police more than citizens charging misconduct. And in the data from two cities provided to Fusion, there was little evidence police body cameras reduced police involved shootings or use of force incidents.
One key problem: officers control the record button. They decide when to turn on and off the cameras and have little to fear when violating department policies about recording, Fusion’s analysis found. In many use of force incidents, camera footage doesn’t exist, is only partially available, or can’t be found. And when body cameras are turned on, the footage usually favors the officer’s account, according to police, law enforcement experts and public defenders we spoke with.
“This is one of our biggest concerns – the promise of this technology as a police oversight mechanism will be undermined if individual [racist] officers can manipulate what is taped and what isn’t,” ACLU Senior Policy Analyst, Jay Stanley told Fusion.
“There needs to be very strong policies that make very clear when police officers are expected to be recording and back that up with strict enforcement,” he said.
This has relevance in light of President Obama’s plan, announced in December, to get more body cameras onto the vests of police officers nationwide. Michael Brown’s family has demanded that all police officers wear cameras. [how many witnesses & cameras were on Oscar Grant [below] or Eric Garner?]
Black Lives Don't Matter to Racists: If You are Black or Latino You Can be Legally Executed by a White Cop Anytime, Anyplace in Front of Cameras and Witnesses. [MORE] and [report].
In other news, the DOJ says that the nearly all white Ferguson Police Department "Targets" African Americans in general - but none of that "targeting" was going on when Darren Wilson encountered Michael Brown and left him dead in the street. (Ferguson is 67% Black - there are only 3 Black police officers on the force. [MORE] and [MORE])
Even Nancy Grace says White Cop's Story Sounds Like Complete Bullshit
White Media Message: All Black Men are Guity of Something so... From [HERE] and [Fox] More useless information/damage control from the white media is coming out to justify the cop murder of a homeless Black man shot and killed by white cops in Los Angeles in broad daylight on Sunday, including that he was a convicted bank robber who took over a French man's identity 15 years ago in order to gain entrance to the United States. [gasp! so he had to go]
"He fooled a lot of people, including us, years ago," French consul general Axel Cruau told the Los Angeles Times. He said that the man, identified by the LAPD as Charley Saturmin Robinet, stole the identity of the real Robinet in the late-1990s. The man calling himself Robinet was convicted of a bank robbery in 2000, and Cruau said that French officials let the United States know that Robinet had assumed someone else's identity and was not a French citizen. The actual Charley Saturmin Robinet is still alive and living in France. And there's more...
CNN has now revealed that the dead black man was probably a drug dealer because someone told them he was probably selling drugs before cops arrived and he messed up another homeless person's tent about 30 minutes before the cops got there. So, somebody had to stop him - he definitely had to go [no drugs were found or analyzed]. CNN also noted that he was homeless but "he didn't want any help." So, he was one of those self-made type of homeless guys in a way. At any rate, none of this was caused by societal factors such as racism/white supremacy.
According to CBS, the poor white cops involved are the real victims here. They have been "targeted" since the murder incident- victims of what authorities called “doxxing." Someone posted the officers’ private information online, including names, addresses and details about their kids’ schools. CBS assured the public that they would not do that. In fact, like most white media outlets they make sure to keep white cops' photo from ever being seen by the public - showing only photos of the victims and their families. [MORE]
Bodycams. Isn't that what the liberal white media has been selling us as a solution to "restore trust in cops" and to produce justice? Where is the bodycam footage from the 2 cops who had on bodycams? and where is the footage from the 12 City cameras referenced by Chief of Police Charlie Beck yesterday at his press conference? Like Eric Garner said 'don't hold your breath in racist system.'
This coverage by racist suspect journalists echoes the nonsense about Tamir Rice's father published one day after his 12 year old son was killed by white Cleveland Cops. The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper and Cleveland.com smeared Tamir's father by discussing his criminal record and publishing his mug shot. Mr. Rice was not present during the police shooting of his son and had nothing to do with the incident or the investigation of it. Nevertheless, a white writer, Brandon Blackwell started his article by stating, "Tamir Rice's father has a history of violence against women." [MORE] This is racist distraction from the white media. It has no substance.
'Most Blacks and Latinos are not mindful of the fact that the American press and mass media are privately owned, profit-making, White elite-controlled corporations. One of their major goals is to make white dominance and control over everything seem natural.' [MORE]
What is white collective power? when white cops fatally shoot an unarmed black man, his fellow officers, the police chief, internal affairs, the union, the white media, the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury will support, defend, and finance that white police officer’s “right” to shoot (murder) an unarmed black person. [MORE]
Suit Alleges Black Man was Suicided by White Cop From [HERE] A Black woman has filed a wrongful-death suit in federal court against Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal (racist suspect in photo) and the deputy who arrested her child’s father, Victor White III, the night he died from a single gunshot wound to the right side of his chest while handcuffed in the backseat of the deputy’s car.
In a 15-page complaint filed Friday on behalf of White’s toddler, Shandell Bradley’s attorneys allege Ackal fails to adequately train his deputies and tolerates excessive uses of force and unreasonable searches, which resulted in White’s death a year ago on March 3, 2014.
The suit also claims Cpl. Justin Ortis, who arrested White that night, beat him and was negligent in failing to protect White’s safety while he was in custody.
White died in a Louisiana hospital, the victim of a gunshot that police said White fired after being frisked twice, handcuffed and placed in the back of a New Iberia police cruiser. That is, the white cops claim that while he was handcuffed in the backseat of the cruiser he shot himself with an undected handgun - magically like Houdini or David Copperfield.
Cops: "Not on Our Property." The family of Victor White III held a rally on March 2, 2015 to commemorate the first anniversary of Victor's death. The Iberia Parish Sheriff's office heard about the planned rally and warned White's father that if they entered the Sheriff's property, they would be arrested.
Ortis arrested White, 22, while he and an unnamed friend were walking home from a convenience store where a fight had just occurred. According to the suit, Ortis stopped the two men shortly before midnight and searched White twice before arresting him for drug possession.
What happened after has been detailed only in a statement released by State Police the same date as White’s death.
“Once at the Sheriff’s Office, White became uncooperative and refused to exit the deputy’s patrol vehicle,” it reads. “As the deputy requested assistance from other deputies, White produced a handgun and fired one round striking himself in the back.”
In August, although the facts supported the determination of a homicide, the Iberia Parish coroner ruled White’s death a suicide, and State Police said the gun that fired the fatal bullet was not a type used by the Sheriff’s Office.
But the agency has not released additional details about its report, submitted in September to the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. That agency stepped away from the case when the U.S. Justice Department began conducting its own review .
From [HERE] amd [MORE] It has been a little more than a year since 20-year-old Black man, D'Andre Berghardt was fatally shot by two white federal rangers in a confrontation as he walked along State Route 159 near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area .
Investigators revealed new information on Monday at a Las Vegas "Fact Finding review hearing" about the events leading up to an officer-involved shooting. Fact-finding reviews are held when a police-involved shooting results in a death and after the Clark County district attorney's office decides officers will not face criminal charges. An ombudsman represented the public and the family of the victim. The district attorney's staff presented evidence and witnesses, but only for "information."
New footage shown at the hearing and released to the media for the first time shows four different angles of the incident, including dash cam video.
Of course, the white district attorney, Steve Wolfson (racist suspect in photo) did not file any charges against any of the white cops. A wrongful death suit has been filed by Berghardt's mother, Tracy Meadows. The complaint claims that BLM rangers violated her son's constitutional rights. Her lawyer is Jacob Hafter.
Berghardt was reported to be disoriented and tried to stop a few bicyclists to ask for help. Multiple 911 calls were made to seek help for him, according to documents. Cops insisisted that they were investigating an assault claim. Bicyclists and joggers told reporters that Berghardt had been seen walking on the paved shoulder of the highway with a rolling suitcase, a backpack and a bedroll. [MORE]
The BLM rangers then approached Berghardt and eventually a confrontation ensued. The lawsuit states that the NHP officer did not see a justification for lethal force, but the rangers attacked the victim. The lawsuit says Berghardt was not trying to get a police rifle, but trying to escape the attack by the rangers.
Dash cam video, showing the final moments of Berghardt's life, was at the center of the hearing. Berghardt's mother watched the video for the first time as she sat in the audience.
Investigators said things turned violent when the BLM officers tried to question Berghardt, and he was uncooperative. According to hearing testimony, two BLM officers claim they tasered him four times after he refused to listen to commands. At one point they say he pulled a screwdriver out of his pocket, leading to the first taser being used. Cellphone video then shows a struggle, and the BLM ranger then delivered two rounds of charges from the taser, before Berghardt turned away and reportedly tried to get into several (police?) vehicles stopped on the road.
That's when an NHP trooper arrived on the scene with his dash cam rolling. That trooper used his taser to deliver two more electric charges, while one of the BLM officers hit Berghardt over the head five times with his baton. Police claim that he acted with superhuman strength but the toxicology report further revealed the only drug in Berghard's system was marijuana. [MORE]
At that point, investigators said Berghardt got into the NHP vehicle. The camera in the patrol vehicle shows what investigators say is Berghardt's hand on the barrel of the AR-15, followed seconds later by gunfire. Eight or nine shots can be heard. Apparently, however, no cops actually saw him touch a gun. Berghardt Jr. was unarmed. The cops said they thought he was going to start the vehicle up and then run them over or get the rifle and shoot at them.
The family's attorney, Jacob Hafter, called into question whether the use of force was justified, saying the officer's claims were false.
Detective Matthew Gillis of LVMPD relayed the officer's statement to the audience, saying, "He's thinking Berghardt is about to get control of the vehicle, he's about to get control of the firearm."
Hafter said of that statement, "His [the officer's] own witness statement, that's part of the record, says he never saw Mr. Berghardt reach for the gun, he never saw the AR-15." Instead, Hafter says the two men who shot Berghardt had an intent to kill. "The BLM agents were overzealous, underexperienced, and they just wanted to get their pound of flesh in at the time," Hafter said.
From [HERE] and [HERE] More than a month after her fatal shooting at the hands of Colorado police, an autopsy has revealed that 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez was shot four times, two of which were fatal.
The teenager’s death was also ruled a homicide, according to a medical examiner’s report released Friday. The examination, performed by Denver Chief Medical Examiner James Caruso, shows that two gunshot wounds were located in Hernandez’s pelvis and right thigh, possibly from the same bullet. Hernandez was also shot two times in the left side of her torso — the bullets pierced the heart and both lungs, killing her.
“There was no evidence of close range discharge of a firearm associated with any of the entrance wounds,” Caruso said in the report.
Two bullets entered through the left side of her chest and traveled right through her body. Her family's attorney, Qusair Mohamedbhai, said that shows she was shot from the driver's side of the car.
"These facts undermine Denver Police Department's claim that Jessie was driving at the officers as they shot her," Mohamedbhai said in a statement. "The wound path and trajectory of the bullet that likely killed Jessica Hernandez undermines the version of events as indicated by the Denver Police Department."
Denver police Chief Robert White has said the officers found Hernandez and four other teenagers inside the stolen car in an alley. White said the officers told the teens several times to get out of the vehicle. Officers Gabriel Jordan (racist suspect in photo from Westworld) and Daniel Greene fired after Hernandez drove toward one of them.
A passenger in the car, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of safety concerns, has disputed the official account, saying officers came up on the car from behind and fired four times into the driver's-side window.
The passenger also said the officers did not yell any commands before they fired, and that the car may have struck the officer after Hernandez was shot and lost control of the vehicle.
From [HERE] and [MORE] Last week a $1 million settlement was reached in Georgia in a Taser death suit. The Black man who the civil lawsuit was filed on behalf of, Gregory Towns, died after East Point police shocked him with a Taser. His family's lawyers negotiated the settlement by taking East Point's insurance company to the city's policy limits, which is $1MM. East Point's city insurer settled the case, covering the city of East Point as well as the two officers involved. The case was settled for the full maximum available, resulting in a $1MM settlement for the victim's family.
The 24-year-old man died following an arrest in which the police used Taser devices on him up to 13 times, according to the wrongful-death suit against the Atlanta suburb of East Point and two of its former officers.
The family of Gregory L. Towns Jr., who was arrested on April 11 after he fled on foot from officers who wanted to question him about a domestic dispute, said in the lawsuit that police officers in East Point had “acted with malice and a deliberate intent to cause grievous bodily injury, pain and death” to Mr. Towns.
The lawsuit contended that officers abused and eventually killed a handcuffed Mr. Towns after his arrest by using Taser devices on him up to 13 times in a 29-minute period. Towns, who weighed over 300 lbs was exhausted after the foot chase by police. Nevertheless, cops insisted that quickly comply with their commands to quickly walk to a police cruiser after he was arrested and placed in handcuffs. Towns also did not have any pants on. It is not clear whether the cops took them off or not.
The lawsuit charges that Weems and Eberhart violated the East Point police department’s stun gun policy, which says stun guns should not be used on anyone who is handcuffed, nor should be used to escort or prod someone, nor should be used on someone passively resisting police.
The episode began when the police wanted to speak with Mr. Towns about a domestic dispute and he tried to elude officers. The authorities apprehended Mr. Towns after a chase they said stretched nearly a mile, and Mr. Towns, saying the pursuit had exhausted him, said he was unable to walk immediately to a police car.
The LA “Safer Cities initiative" = a Safer City for Whites and White Cop Immunity for Murdering Blacks. From [HERE] and [HERE] LAPD cops have shot and killed a homeless Black man during an altercation in central Los Angeles, in an incident caught on cell phone video. The graphic film shows a violent struggle between the man and several white officers in the city's Skid Row area. Two of the officers had body cameras - but that footage has not been released by the police. LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck said there are also "dozens, literally of stationary cameras at 5th and San Pedro [the location of the incident) and we are reviewing all of that video." [MORE] [Don't hold your breath waiting for that in racist system. Bodycams and bodybags do not stop white supremacy/racism].
Cops claim that three officers opened fire after the man tried to grab a gun from an officer. Witnesses said the dead man was known as Africa and had been homeless after treatment for mental illness. The police refused to release info about his identity.
The LA police department claimed officers had been responding to reports of a robbery and had attempted to use a Taser to subdue the suspect but he had "continued fighting and resisting". [MORE]
The fatal police shooting shines a harsh light on the downtown neighborhood that contains the highest concentration of homeless people in the US, and a controversial city program that was supposed to clean the area up. In photo, protest t-shirts available for $21.99 at Amazon. Expect racism in System of White Supremacy. Like Neely said, stock up on your protest supplies for signs, candles and teddy bears because it will not stop until we deal with the Cause and not just the effect. End circular thought and you will stop walking around in circles. To end police brutality end racism. To end racism neutralize white power. [MORE]
Skid Row has a long history of homelessness. The area has attracted “hobos, aimless rail riders, transient workers, and people running away from past lives” since the 1880s, as charity Union Rescue Mission explains. A 1975 city policy that moved most social services for the homeless to the area made it a permanent destination for some of these people.
“The cops don’t want us here,” Ernie Soto, 34, who lay in a blanket near where the shooting took place, said Monday morning. “They tried to make an example out of him.”
“This is Skid Row,” said Mr. Soto, who said he had lived on the streets of Los Angeles since losing a job eight years ago. “This is for the homeless. I wish I could have a home, but it didn’t work out that way.”
The officers involved in the shooting were part of a city government plan called the “Safer Cities Initiative,” first introduced under former police chief William Bratton in 2006. The initiative added 50 police to the area, tasked with the “broken windows” approach to policing, which holds that harsh punishments for small offenses stop more serious crimes from being committed. [MORE]
“Here’s a situation where you have an unarmed homeless man and you have six police officers, by my count, who came to apprehend the suspect,” Mr. Jones said. “This is another senseless death of another unarmed black man at the hands of police.”
Bruce Naivi, 37, a homeless man living near where the shooting took place, said he was not surprised by what had happened.
“I do not feel that the police are here to protect me,” he said. “I feel more like they have a badge to kill.”
LAPD Police Chief and white media put on show about the "justifiable homicide" of another non-white person. “It appears to me that the officers acted compassionately up until the time that force was required,” Chief Beck added. “These are very difficult situations.” Beck, was pressed to note that a Black officer was also involved - inferring that this definitely was not racial. [MORE]
From [HERE] Lawyers representing the family of a Black boy fatally shot by white cops expressed outrage Monday after the city of Cleveland said Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of an officer — who mistook the airsoft pellet gun he was holding for a real firearm — was caused by the 12-year-old’s “failure … to exercise due care to avoid injury."
The city had made the remarks Friday in a court filing, responding to a federal lawsuit filed by Tamir’s family accusing Officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann of acting recklessly and failing to provide first aid (PDF) during the Nov. 22 incident or attempt. The suit also names the city of Cleveland as a defendant, and says police failed to attempt to resuscitate Tamir, who died the following day.
"[The] plaintiffs’ decedent’s injuries, losses, and damages complained of, were directly and proximately caused by the acts of plaintiffs’ decedent, not this defendant," the city said in its response to the Rice family's complaint (PDF).
Cleveland police said that Garmback and Loehmann were responding to a 911 call about an individual who possibly was carrying a gun at a city playground. They said Tamir did not respond to commands from the officers, as they approached in their police cruiser, to show them his hands before Loehmann opened fire.
Surveillance footage released by police showed Tamir, who had been holding an airsoft gun that shoots nonlethal plastic pellets, being shot less than two seconds after the officers' car stopped near him.
'Mind is a very subtle game. A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to that belief.' [pdf] White folks see what they want to see when [Blacks are in sight] they watch the video. [Whites view Blacks as inherently criminal and engage in various forms of self deception when they are in the presence of people of color.]
However, [in reality] all that matters is what was visible to the cops when they arrived at the park. It is paramount that none of the information from the police dispatch call was corroborated when they arrived at the scene [police do not listen to 911 calls, they get information from the fire/police dispatch]. That is, 1) No "guy" or grown adult man was present - only a 12 yr old child. 2) There were no people around - the child was alone. So, no public danger. 3) No gun was visible - apparently the toy gun was in the child's pants and out of site when police arrived. In other words, when the cops arrived no crime was being committed in their presence and no visible danger was present. As such, there was no 4th Amendment basis to stop and seize (pulling out their loaded weapons and pointing them at him in the first place). No valid reason to kill. When they arrive they see a Black kid, alone. To them all that mattered was that he was Black.
Surveillance video released by police shows Rice being shot less than two seconds after the patrol car stopped near him. Officer Timothy Loehmann told the boy to put his hands up, but he didn't comply, according to police.
The police chief said there was no confrontation between the boy and the cops and he did not threaten the officers with the gun or otherwise. After the white cops shot the boy they refused to provide medical aid.
From [HERE] and [HERE] The US Department of Justice and embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called “CIA or Gestapo tactics” at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian.
Politicians and civil-rights groups across the US expressed shock upon hearing descriptions of off-the-books interrogation at Homan Square, the Chicago warehouse that multiple lawyers and one shackled-up protester likened to a US counter-terrorist black site in a Guardian investigation published this week.
As three more people came forward detailing their stories of being “held hostage” and “strapped” inside Homan Square without access to an attorney or an official public record of their detention by Chicago police, officials and activists said the allegations merited further inquiry and risked aggravating wounds over community policing and race that have reached as high as the White House.
Caught in the swirl of questions around the complex – still active on Wednesday – was Emanuel, the former chief of staff to Barack Obama who is suddenly facing a mayoral runoff election after failing to win a majority in a contest that has seen debate over police tactics take a central role.
Emanuel’s office refused multiple requests for comment from the Guardian on Wednesday, referring a reporter to an unspecific denial from the Chicago police.
The Guardian reported on Tuesday that police in Chicago detain suspects at Homan Square without booking them, thereby preventing their relatives and lawyers from knowing their whereabouts, reminiscent in the eyes of some lawyers and civil-rights activists of a CIA black site.
While people are held at Homan Square, which lawyers described as a process that often lasted between 12 and 24 hours, several attorneys said they had been refused access to the facility, and described entrance to it as a rare occurrence. One man interviewed by the Guardian said that ahead of a Nato protest in 2012, he was handcuffed to a bar behind bench for 17 hours inside Homan Square and refused a phone call before police finally permitted him to see his attorney.
In an interview Wednesday, another Nato protester, Vic Suter, offered a similar account of close shackling and an estimated 18 hours without access to an attorney.
“You are just kind of held hostage,” Suter told the Guardian. “The inability to see a lawyer is a drastic departure from what we consider our constitutional rights. Not being able to have that phone call, the lack of booking, makes it so that when you’re there, you understand that no one knows where you are.”
A third person, Kory Wright, came forward to the Intercept in a story published Thursday. He described spending six hours at Homan Square without being booked or having access to a lawyer, as well as being zip-tied to a bench “like a cross” - in an intentionally overheated room without access to water or a bathroom, eventually giving false statements to try and end his ordeal. [MORE]
Wright’s friend, Deandre Hutcherson, told the Intercept that he, too, was held at the facility, without either of the men being read their Miranda rights.
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