This blog stays updated with cases of Police Brutality against Black Men and the Black Community. These are just the cases that we are fortunate enough to hear about. But, there are several "unsung victims" whose story has never been told or videotaped. Infamous cases such as Rodney King and Oscar Grant are not isolated incidents. They exist amongst a corrupt system of impunity. Who am I? I am a “Concerned Member of the Black Community.”
"Iconic film director Quentin Tarantino believes that US drug policy, and the subsequent mass incarceration of African Americans, is comparable to pre-Civil War slavery. In an interview about his latest movie—Django Unchained, which documents the story of a freed slave, played by Jamie Foxx—Tarantino points out that the hierarchies of racial injustice have shifted but not wholly improved. "This whole thing of...this 'War on Drugs,' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the black male population," says the filmmaker. "It's slavery...it's just slavery through and through, and it's just the same fear of the black male that existed back in the 1800s."*
Quentin Tarantino, director of "Django Unchained" compares the war on drugs to slavery, saying it recreates an atmosphere of a fear of the black male.
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Ernesto Duenez Jr. was killed on June 8, 2011 by police officer James
Moody DA's office: Moody was justified as he thought Duenez had a
throwing knife but Duenez family's attorney says he was unarmed and is
now fighting for murder charge against officer Moody who is now back on
active duty. CLICK HERE TO HELP http://www.facebook.com/justiceforernest police
officer has been cleared of wrongdoing this week in a deadly shooting
caught on tape. A day later, an attorney has released the video and is
asking for a larger investigation into the shooting.
In June
2011, Manteca Police had dispatched information to their officers that
Ernest Duenez Jr., was a parolee-at-large, and was armed and dangerous
after incidents earlier in the day.
The graphic dash cam video
shows an officer pulling up behind a pick-up truck, and Duenez getting
out. The officer tells him to put his hands up, then fires off about a
dozen shots, hitting Duenez.
While a man and woman remain in the
truck, a woman, later identified as Duenez's wife, comes out from the
house and becomes very emotional at the scene.
Eventually, the
other people in the truck get out, and other officers arrive on scene.
Duenez is given medical aid, however the shooting was deadly.
An
investigation into the shooting says Duenez had a knife in his hand when
he was getting out of the truck. The officer who fired was cleared by
the San Joaquin District Attorney this week, the report stating the
officer was justified in his use of lethal force.
However, an
attorney representing Duenez's family says the knife was in the bed of
the pickup truck. He also states Duenez's foot was caught in the
seatbelt, preventing him from getting out of the truck. The dash cam
video shows officers having to pull Duenez from the sideboard of the
truck. He released a copy of the dash cam video to youtube this week.
The
attorney has filed a lawsuit against the City of Manteca, the police
department, at least two officers, and others claiming excessive force,
malicious conduct and wrongful death. They are also asking the U.S.
Justice Department to investigate the shooting and file murder charges.
"A mother of two who was fatally shot by a deputy after she was suspected of shoplifting at Walmart didn't deserve to die, her family said.
Harris County Sheriff's deputies said Tiasa Andrews, Yolanda Craig, and Shelly Frey were stealing from a Walmart Thursday night. They said the women ran off when Louis Campbell, an off-duty deputy, confronted them. Campbell, a 26-year veteran of the force, works security at the store located at the 10400 block of the North Freeway."*
Yolanda Craig was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy working security after shoplifting from Walmart. The officer, Louis Campbell, fired at Craig who was in her car with 2 children. Is this a show of excessive force? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss what happened and what sort of force should have been used on a shoplifter.
Video released
by the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday confirms that an officer
delivered a violent punch to a suspect's face in October while he was
pinned to the hood of a patrol car.
Video from the Oct. 6
incident shows hit-and-run suspect Leo Etherly refusing to give his name
to Seattle Police Officer Eric Faust.
When Etherly resists being
handcuffed, Faust places his hands on the suspect's throat and then
pins him to the hood of the police cruiser as two other officers hold
his arms. At one point, Etherly seems to spit in the direction of the
officer and Faust responds by pounding his fist into the side of the
man's face.
