NYC to pay settlement of $4M to Black family of Akai Gurley [No Jail Time for Shook NYPD Cop Convicted of Manslaughter - community service & pay $25k]

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NYPD Cop Entered Housing Project with 9mm Drawn on "Routine Check" From [HERE] NYC has agreed to pay over $4 million to settle a wrongful death claim filed by the family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a cop in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project, the Daily News has learned.

The city and NYCHA are both contributing to the settlement — and the ex-police officer who escaped jail time for Gurley’s death in the Pink Houses is paying a price too.

Former cop Peter Liang, will pay $25,000 to Kimberly Ballinger, the mother of Gurley’s young daughter Akaila.

The city’s on the hook for $4.1 million and the New York City Housing Authority is paying $400,000.

The money will be put into a fund for Akaila which can’t be touched without court approval until she is 18. But the money will be invested in rock-solid annuities that will actually provide the girl with an estimated $10 million over the course of her lifetime.

Gurley, 28, was a resident of the Louis Pink Houses in East New York. The night he died, he’d gone to the seventh-floor home of friend Melissa Butler.

The two of them decided to go out, and because the elevator wasn’t working, took the stairs to the lobby.

Liang and Landau, both 28, were performing a vertical patrol in the building and entered the pitch-dark stairwell one floor above Gurley and Butler.

Liang had his gun out (a 9-millimeter semiautomatic) and his finger on the trigger which is a violation of NYPD procedure.

Liang testified that he accidentally fired one shot that ricocheted off the wall and struck Gurley in the chest.

The mortally wounded man staggered down to the fourth floor where he collapsed.

Liang was convicted in February by a Brooklyn jury of manslaughter, but Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun reduced the charge to criminally negligent homicide and sentenced the ex-cop — the rookie was fired upon being convicted of a felony — to 800 hours of community service.

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LA Officials Admit Race Soldier SWAT Cops with Armored Vehicle & Automatic Rifles Gunned Down the Wrong Black Man

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From [HERE] and [HERE] The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department acknowledged last week that a deputy shot and killed a black man who was mistakenly identified as a suspect in a carjacking, again bringing into question the appropriateness of a police agency's use of deadly force.

 It was not yet dawn when the armored vehicles, black and hulking like Batmobiles, rumbled into the residential neighborhood in Compton, Calif. A carjacker had stolen a vehicle in Los Angeles, exchanged gunfire with sheriff’s deputies and then ditched his prize, disappearing on foot into a dense patchwork quilt of pink houses.

The armored vehicles — and the heavily armed deputies inside them — were there to find and capture the armed carjacker.

Instead, they found a different black man, Donnell Thompson.

As the carjacker hid in a house several blocks away, Thompson slept in a stranger’s yard. He was 27 years old but possessed the mental faculties of a much younger man. He was unarmed.

From inside one of the armored vehicles, however, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies knew none of this. When Thompson allegedly didn’t respond to commands, the deputies detonated flash-bangs. When he still didn’t move, they hit him with foam bullets.

And when he allegedly ran toward them, a deputy atop the armored vehicle opened fire with an assault rifle, striking Thompson twice in the torso.

Thompson died. At almost the same instant, the real carjacker was arrested.

That was July 28. For almost two weeks, the Sheriff’s Department insisted that Thompson was a second suspect in the carjacking.

On Tuesday, the department admitted it had killed an innocent man.

“No question this is a terribly devastating event,” Capt. Steve Katz [in photo] said during a news conference. He said there was “no physical evidence” connecting Thompson to the carjacking or shootout and promised a “thorough” and “complete” investigation into the shooting, according to the Associated Press.

Thompson’s relatives said they wanted more than an investigation, however. They wanted charges for the deputy who killed Thompson.

“I wouldn’t treat an animal this bad,” his sister Matrice Stanley told the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, according to the AP. “How is this justifiable?”

The incident raises questions about the militarization of law enforcement, as departments across the country increasingly use armored vehicles and assault rifles to fight crime [which is at historic lows nationwide].

“In a civilian neighborhood, they bring an urban assault vehicle,” Brian Dunn, an attorney representing the Thompson family, told the Huffington Post. “The BearCat, it’s like a tank. Their response to this situation was so aggressive. Their tactics were so aggressive.”

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Black Probot Prosecutor Hooks Up LAPD Cop with No Jail Felony Plea After Kicking Restrained Black Man's Head Like a Football During Unlawful Stop

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Black Probot Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey Serving Her Masters Well. From [HERE] and [HERE] You’re riding your bike down the block and the cops creep up along side you. They begin to ask questions because you fit the description of a suspect who committed a robbery. All of a sudden you get violently ripped off your bike and thrown to the ground.

While you’re on the ground police officers beat you nearly to death, you did nothing but vaguely fit the description of someone, no evidence at all?  Last October in LA, 22-year-old Clinton Alfred Jr. went through this senseless and painful ordeal. Clinton was delivered what is being called a horrific beating from numerous officers in the LAPD.

Officer Richard Garcia 34, had his officers hold Clinton down while he kicked him in the head numerous times, shocked him with a stun gun and beat Clinton until he was unconscious.  The video is so violent that the LAPD will not even release it to the public. Garcia’s kicks were compared to a football player kicking a field goal.

The videotaped assault was so alarming, one Los Angeles police official called it “horrific.” 

All About the Appearance of Justice. The LAPD and the civilian Police Commission [gave the appearance they] came down hard on Officer Richard Garcia, saying he violated department policies when he kicked and punched Clinton Alford Jr. during an October 2014 arrest in South Los Angeles. The district attorney [gave the appearance that she] came down even harder, taking the rare step of filing a felony assault charge against an on-duty officer. 

Garcia faced up to three years in jail if convicted. Then the case quietly came to an end.

Under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors this spring, Garcia pleaded no contest to the felony charge as part of a deal with prosecutors that will see him avoid jail time if he completes community service and donates $500 to a charity by late May 2017. Under the agreement, Garcia would then be allowed to enter a new plea to a misdemeanor charge that would replace the felony and would be placed on two years of probation, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office said. 

Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, whose office never publicly announced the [secret] plea, defended her office’s decision to settle the case without any jail time, saying she felt the agreement was appropriate.

She declined to detail the reasons for the plea, but said prosecutors generally look at a range of information including the seriousness of the victim’s injuries, whether the defendant has a prior record and the credibility of the witnesses. Video, she cautioned, “doesn’t tell the whole story sometimes.” Right, especially when the victim is Black.

Spinning more deception, Lacey, said that she believed filing the felony charge against Garcia signaled to both police officers and residents that “people will be held accountable.”

“I do think it sends a strong message to any law enforcement officer who is thinking about violating the law,” she said. “If you talk to any officer about a felony on their record gotten in the course of their job, I don’t think anyone would see this as light at all.” [Right. Right. And if you believe this crusty nonsense you probably also believe in unicorns or you want to be deceived. In most urban locals a civilian would be charged with aggravated assault or assault with a deadly weapon ("shod foot") - major felonies. A person with a greater duty of care to the public such as a police officer should be subjected to harsher penalties and should certainly not be eligible for a diversionary dismissal. Remember that Black probots are programmed to speak the opposite of truth - just like their racist governmental masters.]    

But others disagreed. Mac Shorty, the chair of the Watts Neighborhood Council, said the outcome was too lenient and another example of Lacey not holding police officers accountable during a time of increased scrutiny of how officers use force, particularly against African Americans. 

“That’s not justice,” he said. “If I do something wrong, I face prison time. It’s not fair to the community that anybody coming into the community mistreats someone and gets a slap on the wrist.” 

Garcia, who has been with the LAPD for about a decade, is awaiting what is known as a Board of Rights hearing, where a three-person panel decides disciplinary cases for officers who usually face termination or lengthy suspensions. Don't hold your breath in a racist system. 

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What is White Collective Power? White Seattle Police Chief says she Can't Fire White Cop who Punched Restrained Latino Man 14 Times in the Face After Unlawful Traffic Stop. White Prosecutors Decline to File Charges

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What is White Collective Power?  When white police officers beat an unarmed, restrained Latino man and their fellow officers, the police chief, internal affairs, the union, jurors, prosecutors and the white media support, defend, and finance the officers “right” to do so. [MORE] Traffic stop begins @:50 seconds.

From [HERE] A white Seattle police officer has been suspended for 10 days without pay over a 2010 video-recorded incident in which he punched a restrained Latino man in the face 14 times in rapid succession. The officer, David Bauer, also delivered an unwarranted kick to the man, Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole found in a disciplinary report that concluded Bauer used excessive force and violated department policy on lawful conduct.

“Your actions were inappropriately aggressive and unnecessarily increased the violence of the interaction, and were a gross misuse of the power police officers are afforded by those we serve,” O’Toole wrote. 

 

O’Toole, who became chief in 2014, wrote that she would have fired Bauer had the incident “taken place during my tenure or under the department’s current Use of Force policy, which requires officers to use de-escalation tactics.”

The department’s internal findings came after federal and King County prosecutors [racist suspect in photo below] declined to bring felony charges against Bauer. No misdemeanor charge can be brought against him because of a two-year statute of limitations. [MORE]

Bad Black Cops are Disposable & Easily Replaceable to NYPD: Cop Fired After Stomping on Black Man's Head

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From [HERE] A NYPD cop who vowed to fight a court order to resign from the force for stomping on a suspect’s head has officially been given his walking papers, officials said Wednesday.

The NYPD terminated Police Officer Joel Edouard’s employment after a departmental trial, officials said.

Edouard, 38, was convicted of misdemeanor assault after he was caught on video stomping on Jahmi-El Cuffee’s head on Malcolm X Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant in July 2014.

Had he been convicted of a felony, the 10-year NYPD veteran would have been fired immediately. Since he was convicted of a misdemeanor, the law allowed Edouard to keep his job.

Yet Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Alan Marrus added an unusual condition to his sentence to two years’ probation on June 23: resign from the force if Police Commissioner Bill Bratton didn’t fire him in the next 24 hours. [MORE]

Powerless Class. Who To Call When You Need Help in Racist System? A black woman called 911 because she was afraid of a White Cop in Houston. A violent arrest followed.

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No matter how much money or what position a Black person has, he/she is a member of the Powerless Class in a system of racism/white supremacy. From [HERE] Nervous and distraught, Earledreka White did the only thing she thought she could to allay her fears after being stopped by a police officer in Houston: She called 911 to report the traffic stop and asked for police backup.

White’s voice was so shaky that she stuttered when trying to give the emergency dispatcher their location, a medical plaza parking lot outside the Loop 610 near downtown Houston. Next to her stood an officer with Houston’s Metro Police Department, waiting while she made the call in the doorway of her sedan.

“He’s saying I crossed over a solid line and I did not,” White told the dispatcher. “I got out of the car to ask him what the offense was. He raised his voice at me and threatened to arrest me. So I’m really confused. And I would like another officer to come out here.

“My heart is racing. I’m really afraid.”

White then tells the dispatcher she is being “harassed.” At that point, according to the combined audio and video, the officer grabs her and tries to pin her arms behind her back, unleashing a minutes-long struggle with White screaming for him to stop.

“This man is twisting my arm,” she tells the dispatcher. “Please get your hands off of me. What is wrong with you? … Why are you doing this? I haven’t done anything.”

She eventually can be heard breaking down into sobs.

“Oh my God, oh, my God,” she says. “Stop. Please, stop. Can you stop doing this?”

The Metro Police Department has cleared the officer of any wrongdoing and said his actions were valid. 

“He’s the one that caused the confrontation and then he claims resisting arrest,” Fertitta said. “Yes, she did get out of her vehicle, which I would advise against anybody ever doing. However, it’s not a crime to get out of your vehicle at a traffic stop.

“It’s not as if she was on a roadside. She was in a parking lot. She had her hands clearly visible. There was nothing in her hands. There was no danger for this officer. And she immediately got back in her car.”

White spent two days in jail on a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest and was released on a $1,000 bail.

Lawsuit Filed Against South Carolina "Disturbing Schools Law." Black Teen Unlawfully Arrested after Challenging "Officer Slam" While he Abused Defenseless Black Child in Classroom

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Because We Said So Nigger. Obey. From [HERE] and [MORE] One day last fall, Niya Kenny was sitting in her math class at Spring Valley High School in Richland County, South Carolina, when a police officer came into the classroom. A girl in her class had refused to put away her cell phone, and the teacher had summoned an administrator, who called on the officer assigned to the school. 

Niya thought the officer was bad news — his name was Ben Fields, but he was so aggressive that students knew him as Officer Slam. As soon as he entered the room, she called out for other students to record him.

Three different students made cell phone videos of what happened next. Fields picked the girl up, flipped her in her desk, and then grabbed an arm and a leg to throw her across the room. Niya stood up and called out, she recalled later. “Isn’t anyone going to help her?” she asked. “Ya’ll cannot do this!”

Fields yelled at Niya to sit down and be quiet. She was so scared that she was yelling and crying. As Fields handcuffed the other girl, he turned toward Niya and told her she was going to jail, too. 

Niya was arrested, taken to jail for the day, and released with criminal charges of “disturbing a school.”

Today she’s fighting back. On her behalf, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against South Carolina to challenge a law that makes “disturbing a school” a criminal offense. 

White Media says Relax Milwaukee: Black Man [with gun permit?] was Killed by a Black Cop, So It Couldn't Be Racist Right? [Another Black on Black Crime in Service of White Domination]

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From [HERE] The Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot an armed suspect Saturday is black, sources have told the Journal Sentinel. The Sentinel blasted the news out as "BREAKING." If this generic detail was so crucial to them why did cops keep it secret for 24 hours?

[Elite whites and their media hope you will buy what they work so hard at selling - that Black on Black violence and any other Black on Black hate going on in other contexts has nothing to do with white supremacy/racism. In reality, 'the black on black criminal is a white racist in black skin - a person who has internalized white racist attitudes and has identified with his victimizers and expresses his victimization by victimizing other black people. His behavior reflexts the absence of an appropriate black and african identity.' [MORE]. Black on black violence is a result of white supremacy. In all contexts a black probot programmed in service of white domination is just as dangerous as a racist.] [MORE]

The man shot by police was 23-year-old Sylville Smith, police sources and Smith's family told the Journal Sentinel. Naturally, the white media has moved to trash Smith because he was charged with first-degree recklessly endangering safety and with witness intimidation previously. But all the charges were dismissed, court records show. Nevertheless, having no actual prior adjudications of guilt [felony record] are meaningless to white folks; Black men are guiilty by their existence. In the context of White American domination there is no innocent Black male, just Black male criminals who have not yet been detected, apprehended or convicted. [MORE] 

According to Smith’s mother, he had a conceal-carry license for a gun. [MORE] Hmm, could the cop tell it was stolen by just looking at it through the car window?

What exactly happened during the traffic stop? Why was the car stopped? What made the car "suspicious" to police? What did police say on their radio run and in their police reports about the stop? Why is such information secret? If a case had been filed against Smith (had he lived) everything would be avaialble to the public and to the defense for his arraignment. How does the public benefit from concealing such facts?  

BooHoo. Poor Police Victimized Again by Powerful Blacks. The Milwaukee Police Association, the local police union, issued a statement Sunday defending the officers' use of force and calling the unrest "terrorist-like" and denouncing the suggestion that there is racism in its ranks.

"Our ranks are broad and diverse. ... These officers deserve respect and support ... which must begin with leadership," union President Mike Crivello said.

He called the people who set buildings on fire and fired weapons "thugs" and "terrorists" and said they "must be held accountable." BW does not condone mindless violence against police. It is amusing that after killing, beating, degrading, humiliating and treating Black people with contempt on a regular basis while occupying our communities, these so-called public servants actually think they have a right to feel safe around us! 

Crivello said the police department is understaffed and called on the department to permanently institute the two-man squads, which were implemented temporarily after a recent police shooting. He has been pushing this agenda for a while - see video from above. 'Crime is down but give us a bigger budget and hire more morons like me.'

"Our family deserves to know their loved one has a fighting chance to come home after each tour of duty."

Racist Suspect Milwaukee Cops Suspiciously Provide No Details about Traffic Stop of "Suspicious Vehicle" Leading to Fatal Police Shooting of Black Man and Violent Unrest in City

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Perhaps more detail, transparency would have calmed tensions? From [HERE] A crowd threw rocks at Milwaukee police officers and set a patrol car on fire late Saturday night in the neighborhood where an officer shot and killed a fleeing armed man earlier in the day, the police said.

Officers, some in riot gear, confronted the crowd, which had as many as 100 people at one point, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. It also said that the crowd attacked its reporters and a photographer.

Arrests were being made as officers tried to disperse the crowd, the police said on Twitter. The clash comes after a series of tense episodes in Milwaukee involving residents and police, including one just before the Fourth of July weekend near Sherman Park.

The violence erupted after the police said an officer killed an alleged armed Black suspect. The police said two uniformed officers stopped two people in a car at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. The police did not provide details on why the car was stopped. Mayor Tom Barrett simply said the police stopped a "suspicious vehicle" but did not provide any details about why it was suspicious.  

According to cops, both occupants ran from the car. During the pursuit, an officer shot one man, who was armed with a semiautomatic handgun, the police said. The gunman, described by the police as a 23-year-old Black man died at the scene. His name was not released. The police did not share any details from any police reports created about the incident. The police did not say what happened to the other man. 

Milwaukee Police Assistant Chief Bill Jessup told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel newspaper it wasn't clear if the gun was pointed at the officer [which would mean the gun was in the dead man's hand?].

"Those additional facts will come out in the coming days," Jessup said. He told the paper, "That officer had to make a split-second decision when the person confronted him with a handgun." [MORE]

However, during his midnight press conference, Mayor Barrett said the officer pursuing the 23-year-old man ordered him to drop his gun. The man didn't and the officer fired several times, the mayor said.

The man was hit twice, once in the chest and once in the arm. He said police determined there were 23 rounds in the man's gun.

The handgun was taken in a burglary in March, the police said. The officer was not named, but officials said he was 24 and had been an officer for three years. He was placed on administrative duty. [MORE]

Barrett said the officer had a body camera and Barrett said he believes the body camera was operational at the time of the shooting. Cops have not released any video. 

Racist Suspect Chicago Cops Unlawfully Tackled, Arrested & Strip Searched Fasting Muslim Woman. Hypocritical White Prosecutors Charged Her With "reckless conduct" & "obstructing justice"

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From [HERE] A non-white muslim woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the city of Chicago and six of its police officers after she said the officers profiled her based on her religious garb and assaulted her outside a CTA train station last year.

On July Fourth, Itemid (Angel) Al-Matar, who was observing Ramadan, was trying to catch the train home so she could break fast at sunset. As she was walking up the stairs to the CTA "L" stop at State and Lake streets, police officers grabbed her, unprovoked, and threw her down on the landing, the suit alleges.

According to court records, Al-Matar, 32, moved to Chicago from Saudi Arabia two years ago to study English.

A CTA surveillance video shows Al-Matar climbing the stairs alone toward the platform when a group of five officers approaches her from behind. One of the officers grabs her by the shoulder and brings her to the ground, where the police huddle around her and appear to search her.

At a news conference Thursday, Al-Matar's attorney, Gregory Kulis, claimed police ripped off her religious headwear, a hijab and niqab. He said they exposed her midriff while she was handcuffed on the ground.

Al-Matar was arrested and charged with reckless conduct and several counts of obstructing justice. In June, a Cook County judge dismissed the first charge and found Al-Matar not guilty of the other counts.

"If they felt that there was some concern, the initial approach would be like every one of us on the street: 'Excuse me, sir, excuse me, ma'am, can I just ask you a question — what's your name and where are you going?'" Kulis said.

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The suit cites Mayor Rahm Emanuel's acknowledgment in December of a prevailing "code of silence" among police and claims the department's failing to investigate and discipline officers is a contributing factor in Al-Matar's incident.

Kulis said the police incident report included information that somebody indicated she was a "lone wolf suicide bomber."

The suit — which alleges use of excessive force, false arrest, unlawful search, malicious prosecution and violation of Al-Matar's right to freedom of religious expression — will continue conversations about Islamophobia in the U.S., said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of Chicago's Council On American Islamic Relations.

Rehab said "Policing ought to protect us from unlawful activity and crimes. It should not be in the business of attempting to protect us against people who look different," he said.

Rehab noted that because Al-Matar was jailed the night of the incident, she was unable to break her fast for another day.

"There is a human at the center of this case. ... under this simple piece of cloth is a full and complex heart-beating human," said Rehab. "We understand that for many people she may look like someone they that they are scared of. But that does not excuse dehumanizing or demonizing her."

Because of the pending litigation, Al-Matar — who goes by the name Angel — spoke only a few sentences at the news conference Thursday. She said she did not leave home this Fourth of July, her second in the U.S.

"I don't want that nightmare to happen again," she said.

[do you need statistics from white folks to validate your existence or is your own personal experience enough?] Justice Dept "Finds" Systematic Bias in Baltimore Police

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[knowledge (information) vs. Knowing (your experience/being)]. The NYT writes, "As a black man and a lifelong resident of this city, Ray Kelly has been stopped by the police more times than he can count. And as a community organizer who tried to document police bias after the death of Freddie Gray, Mr. Kelly, 45, had always expected that an investigation by the Justice Department would uncover a pattern of racial discrimination.

Even so, the department’s findings — a scathing indictment that includes detailed data on how Baltimore police officers have for years systematically stopped, searched and arrested black residents — gave him a jolt. “Hearing the actual numbers, like on the traffic stops, is blowing my mind,” Mr. Kelly said. [nigger please]. 

In one stark statistic after another, the department’s report, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times on Tuesday, has helped validate the experiences of Mr. Kelly and countless others in poor African-American neighborhoods who regard the police as an occupying force. The report, over 160 pages long, was to be made public on Wednesday at a news conference at City Hall.

In Baltimore, a city that is 63 percent black, the Justice Department found that 91 percent of those arrested for discretionary offenses like “failure to obey” or “trespassing” were African-American. Blacks make up 60 percent of Baltimore’s drivers, but they account for 82 percent of traffic stops. Of the 410 pedestrians who were stopped at least 10 times in the five and a half years of data reviewed, 95 percent were black.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the police commissioner, Kevin Davis, appeared Wednesday morning with Vanita Gupta, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to discuss the findings. The report will form the basis for the first steps toward reaching a negotiated settlement, known as a “consent decree,” in which police training and practices will be overhauled under court supervision. 

Wait for Change Niggers. At the news conference, Mayor Rawlings-Blake said the city would move as quickly as possible to make changes in the department. But meaningful change, Mr. Davis said, will take time, commitment and trust. [MORE]


[cameras do not stop white supremacy/racism they just record it - until they erase it] Liar White Cops Automatically Create a Narrative in Melodramatic Murder of Paul O'Neal: "He was shooting at us right?" "Stop Resisting." "Did you get the gun?"

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[Your Government is Corrupt] Liar White Cops Know What to Say & What to Erase. All videos are [HERE] but Chicago Police Can’t Explain Why Their Body Cameras Failed at The Moment Of Unarmed Black Teen’s Death From [HERE] A series of videos released Friday shows Chicago police firing repeatedly at a car as it careens down the street, then handcuffing the mortally wounded black teenager who was at wheel after a chaotic foot chase through a residential neighborhood.

None of the nine videos show the suspected car thief getting shot in the back. Moments later, when Paul O'Neal is on the ground, blood soaking through his T-shirt, an officer can be heard angrily accusing him of firing at police. Another officer asks, "They shot at us too, right?" suggesting police believed they had been fired upon and that they did not know how many suspects were present.

No gun was recovered from the scene.

It was the city's first release of video of a fatal police shooting under a new policy that calls for such material to be made public within 60 days. That and other policy changes represent an effort to restore public confidence in the department after video released last year showed a black teenager named Laquan McDonald getting shot 16 times by a white officer. That video sparked protests and led to the ouster of the former police superintendent.

The police department invited some community leaders to see the videos before they were made public, including Pastor Jedediah Brown.

“You could see clearly, nobody in that room felt good,” he said. “It was very, very, very, very, very terrifying to watch.” 

On the latest body camera videos, an officer can be heard saying that he shot at the vehicle, explaining, "He almost hit my partner. I (expletive) shot at him." Another officer who apparently fired his weapon laments that he was going to be on "desk duty for 30 (expletive) days now."

Before the gunfire broke out, the 18-year-old suspect sideswiped one squad car and then smashed into another.

The moment of the fatal shooting isn't seen on any of the videos released Friday because the officer's body camera was not recording at the time, police said.

Ja’Mal Green, a community activist and spokesman for O’Neal’s family, said the family couldn’t stand to watch all of the video footage, but is frustrated by the gaps.

“These cameras should’ve been working at all times, every camera. We should have been able to see the whole incident,” Green said. “But instead, we get to see everything around it.”

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the department and the police review authority were trying to determine why the body camera was not working. He said it is likely because the officer was unfamiliar with how to properly use the camera he only received or because the camera malfunctioned.

"We don't believe there was any intentional misconduct with body cameras," he said.

But for Brown, the footage suggests something else.

“When you look at this video, you hear all of the officers screaming out things that try to create a narrative, automatically,” he said. “Chicago police have learned what to say when they want to get away with, I believe, excessive force and malicious policing.”

Attorney Michael Oppenheimer, who represents O'Neal's family, said the video showed officers taking "street justice into their own hands."

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stripped three of the officers of their police powers after a preliminary determination concluded they had violated department policy in the July 28 shooting. Authorities have not said specifically what policy was broken.

Sharon Fairley, the head of the Independent Police Review Authority, the agency that investigates Chicago police misconduct, also called the footage "shocking and disturbing."

The president of the Chicago police union, who is also white, complained about the release of the videos, saying it is unfair to the officers, could turn public opinion against them and even jeopardize their own safety.

"These guys live in the neighborhoods. Their kids go to school, and their photos will be all over the internet," he said. "It doesn't mean they did anything wrong, but someone may see it and perceive the officers should not have taken the actions they did." [What is White Collective Power? When a white police officer shoots a Black man and their fellow white officers, white police chief, white run union, white jurors, white prosecutors, white lawmakers and the white media support, defend, and finance the officers “right” to kill a non-white person. [MORE] and [MORE]]

[mostly black] Jury Recommends Only 2 Years of Jail for "Frightened" White Portsmouth Cop [untrained in nigger teen combat] who Murdered Unarmed Black Teen by Shooting Him in Face after alleged "shoplifting" stop @ walmart

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From [HERE] A Virginia jury convicted a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, William Chapman, who was accused of shoplifting. The jury recommended he serve two-and-half-years in jail.

A Virginia jury has convicted a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, William Chapman, who was accused of shoplifting.

The former Portsmouth police officer, Stephen Rankin, shot Chapman, 18, in the face and chest outside a Walmart store last year, after a security guard reported a theft from the store.

Rankin was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Thursday and now faces between one and 10 years in prison. The sentencing phase of his trial began immediately. The jury recommended two-and-a-half years behind bars. 

“I think this is a terrible tragedy. I wish it had never happened. I wish none of it had every occurred,” Ranking testified after being found guilty, reported Associated Press. “I can’t begin to fathom how much pain that family is going through. I wish I could have done more to keep him alive.” [more here on the psychopathic racial personality] 

No video exists of the killing that took place on April 22, 2015, and testimony conflicted on the details, but most witnesses said Chapman had his hands up.

Prosecutor Stephanie Morales said the officer could have used non-deadly force.

Rankin was trained in mixed martial arts during a five-year stint in the US Navy, but he argued in court testimony that he “wouldn’t have been able to win an unarmed fight” against the teen. At 5’8”, Chapman was two inches shorter than Rankin. He weighed 187 pounds with his clothes on, and Rankin said he weighed 160 pounds at the time. [160 pounds butt naked. But 200 pounds including his loaded belt of weapons, radios & other high tech race soldier doodads. But he was never trained in Nigger teen combat so naturally he pulled out his automatic and shot the teen in the face]. 

The officer “brought a gun into what is at worst a fist fight,” Morales told the jury, which deliberated for nearly two days before returning its verdict.

The jury, eight black and four white, did not convict on the first-degree murder charge prosecutors had sought.

Rankin testified that he calmly approached Chapman to discuss the shoplifting accusation and was preparing to handcuff him when the teen refused to comply with his orders, and a struggle ensued. He said he used his stun gun on the teen, but Chapman knocked it away. They then faced each other from a short distance.

Rankin said that was when he drew his gun and commanded Chapman to “get on the ground.” He claimed Chapman said “shoot me” several times before charging at him. Rankin said he experienced “tunnel vision” at that point, and fearing for his life, fired twice to stop him.

“I had no reason to think he was going to stop attacking me,” said Rankin. “I was scared.”

Gregory Provo, the Walmart security guard, testified that Chapman never charged the officer, but did say Chapman raised his hands boxing-style and said, “Are you going to f**king shoot me?” before Rankin fired at him.

This was not the first fatal shooting for Rankin. The Guardian reported that four years before his confrontation with Chapman, Rankin was cleared of wrongdoing when he fired 11 times at an unarmed burglary suspect, Kirill Denyakin. In that incident, Rankin claimed the man charged at him while reaching into his waistband with his hands.

Trial prosecutors were barred by the judge from telling the jury about Denyakin.

When Rankin was indicted on the second shooting, he was fired from Portsmouth police.

[Keep the Inside of Your Car Clean] Dumbass Orlando Cop Detained White Man 10 Hours After Mistaking Donut Crumbs for Meth with Fake Roadside Test

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From [HERE] Ignorant, bored [crime is low, watch your back] Orlando cop: "I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the idiotic officer wrote in her report.

The white driver let her search the car, and she found more chunks, which two roadside tests showed were crystal methamphetamine.

Daniel Rushing was arrested, charged with possession with a weapon, strip-searched and jailed in December.

The 64-year-old Orlando man told officers he’d never done drugs in his life, and the crumbs were from his Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Weeks later, a state crime lab proved him right.

“I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth," Rushing told the Sentinel. [MORE]

White Prosecutors Claim Baltimore Cops Sabotaged Freddie Cases

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From [HERE] After a string of high-profile defeats, the prosecutors who were unable to win convictions of police officers in the death of Freddie Gray defended themselves on Thursday and sharply accused the city’s Police Department of undermining them.

At a news conference the day after their boss, Marilyn J. Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, announced she was dropping charges against the three officers who still awaited trial, the lead prosecutors — both seasoned lawyers — said the police had failed to serve search warrants for the officers’ personal cellphones. The lawyers also echoed a charge made in court that a detective assigned to the case was sabotaging it. 

They disputed a contention by critics that they rushed to bring charges, and said they never doubted their theory of the case — or whether they had the evidence to win. 

“There was sufficient evidence for a rational juror to convict,” Michael Schatzow, deputy chief state’s attorney, told reporters crowded into a conference room in Ms. Mosby’s downtown suite. “We believed in these cases, and we were prepared to fight very hard for these cases.” 

The appearance by Mr. Schatzow and Janice Bledsoe, a deputy state’s attorney, was the first time the prosecutors — who like all the lawyers, defendants and witnesses had been subject to a strict rule of silence imposed by the judge — spoke publicly, outside the courtroom, about a case that has torn apart this city and drawn national attention.

The two appeared worn out and at times exasperated — “When it comes to frustration, I plead guilty,” Mr. Schatzow said — but offered a remarkable look into their thinking, and the potential conflicts between the police and prosecutors who usually work together. 

It is “extraordinarily unusual” for prosecutors to publicly criticize the police, said David Jaros, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. He said the trials highlighted the need — as Ms. Mosby suggested at her news conference on Wednesday — for independent investigators and prosecutors to handle police misconduct cases.

“There is something problematic,” Mr. Jaros said, “when police officers are asked to investigate themselves and when local prosecutors are involved in these highly politicized, high-profile prosecutions.” [MORE]

[Some racist cops are sophisticated, masterful liars] Black Teen Shot in the Back in Fort Wayne While Running Away from White Cop who "thought he saw a [unfound] gun" after the chase started

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"The Mystery Surrounds [your belief in] the Gun." An experienced trial attorney will tell you that it is very difficult to get a judge to believe a cop is lying. The "inaccurate statement(s)" almost have to be totally outrageous before most judges will go there. A better strategy, especially if the defendant is Black, is to get the judge to believe the cop is incompetent in some way or just mistaken. Reality or anything too real (such as racism) in court is simply unbelievable to judges in the fake world created in court. Many racist cops are sophisticated, masterful liars who are taught how to testify and create persuasive, detailed police reports. Mixing actual facts with nonsense sounds & looks real in court. White prosecutors and the white media are also eager and programmed to believe anything foul cops say about Blacks. In a case involving a "missing" weapon and no video, like this one, the evidence would simply consist of a credibility contest between a sworn white police officer and a Black teenager[s]. Prediction: in this case, a white jury or judge will believe that a gun existed - though not a single detail about the gun will be provided. Why would a cop make it up? Because they will believe it.

From [HERE] A Black mother has sued a white Fort Wayne police officer in federal court, alleging he used excessive force when he fired at her 17 year-old son as he chased him and two other Black teens last month on the city’s south side.

Gina Dodson filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana on Wednesday. The suit names Officer Robert Hollo as an individual and claims he used excessive force “in violation of the U.S. Constitution” when he fired off four shots at the boy just before 1:30 p.m. June 21 in the 2800 block of Smith Street, near the Whitney M. Young Early Childhood Center at East Pontiac Street.

Hollo said he was investigating reports of gang activity in the area, in an unmarked car, when three teenagers approached the vehicle. As the teens walked up, Hollo reportedly got out of the squad car.

At that point, Hollo reported the teens noticed he was an officer, and they ran off. As Hollo chased after them, Police Chief Garry Hamilton said witnesses heard him order them to stop repeatedly and they did not comply.

At some point then, Hollo said he thought he saw a gun on one of the teens. He then fired four shots, one that struck the teen in his lower back. The other two teens ran off.

No gun was found on the teen, who has not been named. He was seriously hurt.

Right Right. First of all running away from the cops when you are not under arrest or legally stopped is not a crime. In most jurisdictions, flight alone from police without any other circumstances is not a basis for a valid Terry stop. However, flight along with other specific factors may imply consciousness of guilt. So far, no other circumstances exist in this case.  

1) Here, the teens began running when they saw the cop. Prior to them running they had not been stopped by the cop. When this white cop encountered them he had no information that any of them had committed any crime at any time. When he first encountered them they were not under arrest and there was no particularized, reasonable suspicion to stop them.

Apparently, the cop began chasing them simply because they were running. He was unaware of any crimes that any one of the teens had committed. 2) The white cop then ordered them to stop. Yet they had committed no crime and he had no reasonable, artuclable suspicion they had done so. At this point a stop would have been unlawful (at least as the 4th Amendment applies to white folks) and no alleged gun had been seen before he yelled stop. 

3) Next, the white cop claims he saw a gun. Which one had the gun? Did he describe each teen? No details were provided as to how far away the cop was when he saw the gun (he obviously was not close enough to catch them) or how he observed the teen holding the gun and where the gun was. Remember, he did not see a gun at first -- so did the cop witness the teen pull the gun out as he ran? What part of the gun did the cop see? It was broad daylight so he should have some information. No details were provided about whether this cop saw the teen discard the gun - of course such detail would mean the cop knew the teen was not armed though when he shot him. Then the cop shot the teen in the back. Did he fire at all three? Like the white reporter said, "the mystery surrounds the gun?" or your own belief in the gun based on what the white cop said. Don't worry about the deceivers, they will always find suckers - just drop the belief.  

Hamilton said the gun police said was found at the scene was inside a car that pulled up next to the squad car after the incident unfolded. The driver of that car admitted he had a gun in the car and had come to the scene after he heard gunshots, Hamilton said. [this irrelevant information is used by the white media to confuse. Read it again.]

Hamilton said he held the press conference Wednesday to remain fully transparent with the public.

['the criminalization of Blacks is prelude to murder'] Liar White Cop in Austin Body Slams Black Woman Teacher, then says 'blacks have 'violent tendencies'

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Eyes filled with thoughts. According to the Austin police chief, Ms. King [112 lbs] was pulled over for driving 15 mph over the speed limit [MORE]. Speeding 15 mph is not a criminal infraction or an arrestable offense and carries no jail time. Traffic codes are used to target Blacks & Latinos. [MORE] The average traffic cop generates an annual average revenue of $200,000 for the government he serves. [MORE] and [MORE]. Here we have an unreasonable reaction from a white public servant. What kind of service can you provide to people you have contempt for? In the presence of Blacks, racists always feel inferior and can be easily overwhelmed by their lower selves. See "inferiority complex" in the Funktionary]

Question: Should I always comply with maniac cops? Answer: Should you always wear a raincoat? Question: [Like salmon approaching a bear] What stories were put inside Ms. King's head that enabled her to believe that she could have an arms-length conversation and make demands upon a white cop in a system of white supremacy? 

Labelling you Criminal to Justify Treating You Criminally. From [HERE] Officials in Austin are investigating the violent arrest of a black elementary school teacher who was body-slammed by a white police officer during a traffic stop. The investigation comes after the emergence of police video footage showing not only the June 2015 arrest but also a scene afterward, when another white officer told the teacher that officers are wary of blacks because of their "violent tendencies" and "intimidating" appearance.

"Ninety-nine percent of the time. . . it is the black community that is being violent," the white officer tells her in the video. "That's why a lot of white people are afraid. And I don't blame them." White prosecutors said they will likely present the case against the cops to a grand jury. [don't hold your breathe!] [MORE] 

In reference to racists Amos Wilson has explained, "projection is the ultimate put-down. Through projection the projecting party demotes and degrades his projective target as he enhances his own self-perception and self-image." Always endeavoring to undeceive, Dr. Wilson offers the following: 

"THE CRIMINAL IS one to whom an opprobrious label has been successfully attached. Labeling not only prescribes the behavior of others toward the one labeled criminal, or only negatively seeks to characterize him. It also tends to transform his self-concept and behavior in such ways that incarnates or substantiates the criminal appellation.

If to be criminalized, especially when the objective basis for such a designation does not exist, is to be dehumanized and to be related to as such by "significant others," then the criminalization of the African American male can be arguably said to have begun with the need of White Americans to justify their enslavement of Africans, and continues concomitant with their need to capitalize on unending African politico-economic subordination.

The cursing (a form of labeling) of another is tantamount to his dehumanization. It is usually a ritualistic prelude and justification for the other's subordination, or assault, or murder of another. The criminalization of Black people, particularly of the Black male, is a prelude for the rationalization of his economic exploitation, and ultimately, a prelude to the Eurocentric murder of the African population.

The American Dilemma

In its oppression of Black America, White America faces a major dilemma. The White ruling class seeks to project a self-image and public image which are liberal and nonviolent. It wishes to assume the appearance of being faithfully committed to protecting the constitutional and civil rights guarantees of all residents — regardless of race, color, creed, or condition of previous servitude — and to be perceived by them as inherently humane. At the same time the ruling class wishes to retain its power to rule, to maintain its tremendous wealth, power, hegemony and privileges. Thus it is confronted with a major contradiction: it cannot actualize its projected image and commitments without destroying the bases of its identity and power. Since this class is not committed to its own destruction we must logically infer that its projected self-image, public image, and sociopolitical commitments are false and hypocritical. Social equality and privilege across classes and ethnocultural groups cannot exist simultaneous with White American sociopolitical and economic dominance. Class privilege and advantage require the subordination of other classes and groups. For these reasons, American institutions operate in opposition to their publicized missions when dealing with the underclasses and subordinated groups. Consequently, the major social institutions which seek to project an image of objectivity and neutrality, in actuality operate in the oppressive interests of the society's ruling groups and against the interests of its subordinate groups. [MORE]

Providence to Pay $210k in Mendonca Case: White Cop Free & Won't Pay a Penny After Beating Handcuffed Latino Man into Coma with a Flashlight

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From [HERE] The city of Providence, Rhode Island has agreed to pay $210,000 to settle a police brutality lawsuit filed by a Latino man who was beaten in 2009 while in handcuffs and left in a coma.

WPRI-TV reported that the City Council Committee on Claims and Pending Suits met briefly before approving the payout to Luis Mendonca. It was publicized Tuesday.

The beating by white Providence police Det. Robert DeCarlo was caught on video. The lawsuit singles out DeCarlo for allegedly violating Mendonca’s civil rights and assault and battery. DeCarlo claims he used necessary forced to subdue Mendonca, because he was resisting arrest. He said he did not know he was handcuffed.

The grainy, black-and-white video shows a gang of white police officers struggling with Mendonca in a parking lot off Benefit Street on the city’s East Side while he is lying on the ground near a parked car.

It shows the officers dragging Mendonca from under the car and into the center of the parking lot, after he has apparently been handcuffed. The video then shows DeCarlo entering the fray, kicking Mendonca and following up with a number of blows to the victim’s head with a flashlight.

During his criminal trial, prosecutors argued that DeCarlo, 46, attacked Luis Mendonca deliberately and out of anger, knocking the 22-year-old unconscious with a flashlight blow to the head. Mendonca had run from police after he was stopped on the night of Oct. 20, 2009, on suspicion of theft and trespassing at the Rhode Island School of Design. He struggled with officers when they caught up to him in a nearby parking lot but was ultimately detained.

The video, which has no sound, ends with a visibly limp Mendonca being dragged by police officers up a flight of stairs leading to Benefit Street.

Mendonca was knocked unconscious and suffered a severe gash in his head that was closed with eight staples. He was in a coma for two days following the incident. 

After the attack by police his attorney said, "he's suffering from a lot of headaches. He's throwing up. His vision is still not there and he's having a difficult time seeing," said attorney Alberto Aponte Cordona. "A guy is beaten by police, brought into the hospital, his family can't get in to see him for several days. The police put him under a pseudo name. It's not that difficult to add one and one. [MORE] and [MORE] 

DeCarlo was convicted in 2011 of assault but that was later overturned by a white judge. He ultimately pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and resigned.

Two public safety officers at the Rhode Island School of Design were also named in the suit. RISD will pay $45,000.

Provocative White Cop Tasers Black Man in the Back During Illegal Arrest on 4th of July in Arizona

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Arizona Code 13-2412. Refusing to provide truthful name when lawfully detained; classification A.

It is unlawful for a person, after being advised that the person's refusal to answer is unlawful, to fail or refuse to state the person's true full name on request of a peace officer who has lawfully detained the person based on reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime. A person detained under this section shall state the person's true full name, but shall not be compelled to answer any other inquiry of a peace officer.

Under Arrest for What? White Cop had no warrant to arrest and no warrant to enter Black Man's apartment. At the time of his arrest he had committed no crime so he was under no legal obligation to give white cop his name under Arizona law. The silly cop says "Give me your name because I'm probably gonna end up doing theft charges on her behalf." Your meditation must be strong to deal with a provocative white person in a prolonged racial situation [see full video below]. No magic phrases (legal or otherwise) will help you under such circumstances. 

From [HERE] and [HERE] In a lawsuit filed this week, a white Blytheville police officer is accused of using excessive force against a black man on the Fourth of July, including subduing him repeatedly with a taser as he lay on the ground.

Attorney James W. Harris filed the case Wednesday in Mississippi County Circuit Court on behalf of Chardrick Mitchell, who faces charges of obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct and refusal to submit to arrest.

The lawsuit states that on July 4, Mitchell denied his ex-girlfriend re-entry into his apartment to retrieve what she said was clothing left inside, prompting the woman to call police. Apparently her name was not on the lease and she did not live there. 

A responding officer later ordered that Mitchell allow his ex-girlfriend to get her left-behind belongings and to show his identification — requests that Mitchell “politely refused,” according to the document.

The Blytheville police officer, Stephen Sigman, became increasingly provacative and threatened to charge Mitchell with obstruction.

The lawsuit accuses Sigman of later using a taser when Mitchell walked toward the apartment's front door, with Sigman telling Mitchell that he was under arrest “either at the moment the [taser] was fired or just as the [taser] was striking Mr. Mitchell in the back.”

"At no time did Mr. Mitchell resist arrest, especially since he had already been [tased] when he was first told he was under arrest, even though he had at that point committed no possible criminal act," the document reads in part.

Harris said the incident was recorded on Sigman’s body camera and that a written report from police does not match the video evidence.

"I am appalled at the actions of Officer Sigman, as well as the inaction of Chief [Ross] Thompson in correcting this officer's gross misconduct," Harris said, adding that Sigman remains on the police force. The full video is [HERE] 

Maybe an "Ex-Military/Dead Terrorist" Broke Freddie Gray's Spine or Did He Fold Himself Up Like a Crab? Only "Imagined" Proof that White Cop Murdered Black Man

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Yet Another High Powered, Super Aggressive and Relentless, Hard Fought Prosecution Fails. If Blacks & Latinos were prosecuted with this lack of zeal then the prison population would probably be cut in half! (think of the limp wristed prosecution of George Zimmerman. White prosecutors go after Black kids who snatch I-Phones like their lives depended on it!). Nevermind What You See & Hear on Video. Just Believe Whatever the White Media & Cops Tell You. Repeat over & over. 

From [HERE] and [HERE] Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case, with Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges related to Gray's arrest and death.

The prosecution “failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was the defendant’s failure to seatbelt that led to the death of Mr. Gray,” said Judge Williams, methodically dismantling the case against the officer, Lt. Brian Rice, as he read his decision calmly and quietly from the bench in his cavernous downtown courtroom. “Failing to seatbelt a detainee in a transport wagon,” Judge Williams said later in his ruling, “is not inherently criminal conduct.”

Lieutenant Rice, 42, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct while in office. It was he who first called in the foot chase after Mr. Gray, who had fled after he saw Lieutenant Rice while he was walking with friends in downtrodden West Baltimore. And it was he, prosecutors said, who climbed into the van with Mr. Gray but failed to secure him with a seatbelt, which they said set in motion of chain of events that led to Mr. Gray’s death.

“Lieutenant Rice was on notice that he was to seatbelt a prisoner,” Ms. Bledsoe said. “He was on notice that you had to use extreme caution.”

“If he had broken that chain, taken one small measure of compassion or humanity, Freddie Gray would still be alive,” said Janice Bledsoe, a prosecutor, during closing arguments here last Thursday, who argued that Lieutenant Rice’s high status in the department meant that he should have been aware of rules about transporting prisoners.

Judge Williams said prosecutors failed at several levels to prove its allegations. The prosecution wanted the court to presume Rice had read a general order mandating that officers seat belt prisoners, Williams said, but failed to prove it. There was also no evidence that Rice was aware that failing to seat belt a prisoner might result in injury or death, the judge said.

And while the prosecution was able to prove that Rice made the decision to shackle Gray, and to transport Gray to the police department's Western District rather than central booking, the state presented no indication as to why.

"There are a number of possibilities the court could entertain, some that are innocent and some that are not. However, the burden of proof rests with the state, and the court's imaginings do not serve as a substitute for evidence," the judge said. Like the 'imagined evidence' in the Dallas and Baton Rouge episodes played out in the court of mainstream white media? No proof necessary with "dead terrorists" who confess to their murders prior to the crime and post online accounts of their criminal plans.