Watch the disturbing result when a young black man drives at night into a white residential neighborhood on Long Island. (nine minutes)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
DWB Experiment
Watch the disturbing result when a young black man drives at night into a white residential neighborhood on Long Island. (nine minutes)
Police procedures in racial profiling
A national story regarding an allegation of racism is prompting a nationwide discussion on racial profiling.
Racial Profiling Caught On Video
Cops follow then frame black family after he racially profiled them. This video is a shortened version of the the one hour and forty five minute version.
You can refer to http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/23/family-says-harassment-at-traffic-stop...
and
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/montgomery-race-case-118299974.html
Do Police Use Racial Profiling?
The arrest of a black professor from Harvard by a white police officer has sparked debate in the United States over relations between members of minority groups and the police. Sergeant James Crowley said the professor was belligerent. Professor Henry Louis Gates said he was a victim of racial profiling, and was arrested for his skin color not his actions. U.S. President Barack Obama, the first African-American to hold that office, has invited the two men to the White House for an informal meeting Thursday intended to ease racial tensions. VOA's Chris Simkins has more on "racial profiling."
'African-Americans victims of US police'
The unlawful killing in the US of a young unarmed black teenager by police has raised concerns over aggressive tactics driven through the police enforcement system.
Press TV has interviewed Dr. Randy Short, Dignity Human Rights & Peace Organization in Washington over serious concerns about the systemic aggression in the US police force taken out against the civilian population where time and again police officers are exonerated for the killing of members of minority groups such as blacks and Latinos.
Chicago Police Torturing More than 100 African American Men
This man spent 23.5 years in jail for a crime that he did not do because he was tortured and forced to give a false confession by sadistic and barbarous cops. These pigs were not only sadistic but racist and perverted social deviants; they used electric shocks on this mans testicles and put a shotgun in his mouth. No one listened to the hundreds of victims of this torture that went on for many many years.
The mayor of Chicago was told but instead of arresting the officer in charge he promoted him and allowed him to continue to terrorize the black community.
THIS IS POLICE TERRORISM!!!
When people say that police did one thing and police say another you CAN NOT AUTOMATICALLY SIDE WITH POLICE they have a looong history of brutality, sadism, abuse, corruption, torture, falsifying statements, racism you name it.
The whole damn city of Chicago (Mayor Daly, his subordinate police leaders) should be indicted for conspiracy to deprive these men of their human rights, and every other charge that can be found out there. That is how they have been treating minorities so they need a dose of their own medicine.
Check out the trailer for new documentary that covers these issues!
http://www.blockreportin.com
http://youtu.be/s3WZV3Dg9Vc
Cops Torture Black Man -- Kyle Bird -- Philadelphia
Philadelphia police officers took it upon themselves to violently assault Kyle Bird into unconsciousness because a civilian falsely accused him of a crime. Mr. Byrd was slammed into a police car nine times, tortured with a baton, kicked and punched, and sprayed in the eyes with Mace. Mr. Byrd suffered a concussion, broken arm, lacerated eye, and edema in his chest. Police waited hours before calling an ambulance. He was hospitalized for three weeks in intensive care. Mr Byrd was acquitted of false resisting arrest charges. None of the cops who perpetrated this violent crime were disciplined, and certain have since been promoted.
2 of 2 Omaha Police Handcuffing Many Blacks on 03-24-2012
Omaha Police Handcuffing Many Black Males on 03-24-2012 because one gun was in the grass at a park. Is it standard operating procedure to have all men within dozens of yards of where a gun is found in the grass, on the ground, to be handcuffed, searched and forced to lay on the ground?
GARDENA POLICE ACCUSED OF BRUTALITY
GARDENA, Calif. (KTLA) -- The Gardena Police Department is under scrutiny for an alleged case of police brutality involving an African-American motorist.
24-year-old Perry Alexander now faces felony charges for resisting arrest and assault on a police officer.
The incident happened off Redondo Beach Boulevard in Gardena around 3:30 a.m. on March 16.
Police questioned Alexander because he was illegally double parked.
Alexander insists he cooperated with police.
"In this case, they have charged the wrong person with the crime," Alexander's attorney, Alison Triessl, told KTLA.
Triessl says three Gardena police officers brutally assaulted Alexander.
The beating was caught on camera. Alexander's girlfriend also says she witnessed the incident.
"His entire shirt was drenched in blood," she told KTLA. "I saw him when he was transferred from one police car to another, and his face was really swollen, his eyes were swollen [and] he had a really big knot in the middle of his head."
Alexander has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
"They know what they did," he told KTLA. Just be honest, please."
"It is the police whose conduct needs to be criminally scrutinized, not Mr. Alexander," Triessl said. "He has done nothing wrong."
The Gardena Police Department has issued a statement saying: "... we believe that our officers acted appropriately given the actions of Mr. Alexander, and we expect that the criminal case will result in Mr. Alexander being held responsible for his actions."
KTLA spoke to Gardena Police Chief Edward Medrano, who said the department has completed a use of force investigation, as is standard protocol.
Medrano also said the investigation was completed before the videotape of the incident was viewed.
"Our officers wrote the report prior to any videotape being viewed," Medrano said.
"In fact, they had no knowledge of the videotape that was produced by Mr. Alexander when they wrote their report. And what shows on that videotape is consistent with what they wrote on their report. We have nothing to hide" - 28 October 2011.
Ramarley Graham Tribute Unarmed Teen Killed by Police
BRONX — Hundreds packed a Bronx church Saturday morning for the funeral service of Ramarley Graham, the Bronx teen gunned down by police inside his home earlier this month.
Family and friends stood at the 18-year-old's rose-covered casket at the Crawford Memorial United Methodist Church to say a final goodbye to the teen, who was dressed in a white suit and green tie.
"There is no reason for us to pretend, even in our sorrows, that we're here under a natural act," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who received a standing ovation at the service.
"This is an unnatural and inexcusable occasion because this young man was killed in an unjust way," he added. "The reason we are outraged is if he is not safe in his bathroom, none of us are safe."
Police were investigating a report of a drug deal when they chased Graham to his East 229th Street apartment on Feb. 2. Officers believed they saw a gun in the teen's waistband and entered the building before breaking through the door of his apartment, where they chased him into the bathroom and shot him in the chest. A single bag of marijuana was the only thing recovered.
Local Councilman Larry Seabrook asked why Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly did not attend the funeral amid accusations of "murder" by the NYPD.
"Now the question should be, 'Where is your humanity?'" Seabrook said of Bloomberg and Kelly's absence. "Where is the respect of this city?"
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz said contacting Graham's mother to speak about her son's death was the most difficult call he's ever had to make.
"Something is wrong. There are questions that need to be answered," Diaz said, asking why officers entered his apartment without a warrant and why police said Graham ran from cops when a surveillance video does not appear to show him running.
"Mr. Mayor, Police Commissioner, District Attorney — you have to answer these questions."
Others described Graham's death as a example of racial stereotyping by police officers.
"Are you going to arrest everyone and shoot everyone whose pants are sagging?" said Iman Abdul Hafeez Muhammad, minister of Muhammad Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, the New York City headquarters of the Nation of Islam,
''He didn't display a gun. He didn't fire a gun. No gun!" he added. "A black man can't stand on the corner anymore."
During Graham's eulogy, speaker Kirsten John Foy from Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's office charged police with acting maliciously in shooting the teen.
"You killed one of us. You should have to answer for murder," he said, adding he sees young men and women thrown up against walls regularly by police. "Our community cannot stand by and allow others to crucify us."
Later, Graham's family remembered him as a handyman who was always there to help out around the house.
"He was our go-to guy. He is our go-to guy," said his sister, Leona Brown. ''If we needed a light bulb to be changed, that's him. Need a stereo hooked up, that's him. If we needed the garbage taken out, that's him too."
The teen's stepmother, Yvette Graham, described him as "kind and loving."
''Ramarley was like a son to me," she said. "There was never a dull moment when he was around — lots of laughter and fun."
After the service, some in the crowd yelled at NYPD community affairs officers stationed across the street from the church, calling them "murderers."
Rosemary Melbourne, 52, held up a sign that read ''Stop terrorizing and traumatizing our kids!''
"The police force sometimes do not think before they act," she said. "We appreciate the police and we want them here, but at the same time we want the same respect they give other communities."
His father, Franclot Graham, stroked his son's hair and bent down to kiss his forehead, whispering some last words into the young man's ear.
The grieving for Graham — who was unarmed when police shot and killed him in his Wakefield apartment earlier this month — turned to anger Saturday when local leaders discussed the circumstances surrounding his death.
Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120218/woodlawn-wakefield/ramarley-graham-funeral-dr...
Long Beach Police Murder Another Unarmed Black Man, May 16
Long Beach Police Murder Another Unarmed Black Man In Long Beach, CA
on May 16th, 2008. Is this another in a long line of racial murders, or is it a justified murder?
TERMINALLY ILL MAN CLAIMS POLICE BRUTALITY
Maryland cancer patient who wanted to die with dignity walks out of hospital and says policeman who found him beat him up - 13 July 11.
Police Beat and Torture Innocent Man --- Askia Sabur
Police terrorism in PA.
More disgusting police conduct by members of the Philadelphia police department. We give cops too much power to abuse us.
My question for all of you that will defend the police officers behavior is... When is it ok for someone to defend themselves from police that are killing them?
Are we supposed to just allow police to beat us to death, allow police to beat our friends and family to death? is self defense never ok when it is police that are killing you?
if a group of people on the street attacked someone and started beating him to death that person would have the right to fight back and justifiably kill those perpetrators. But when police are the ones doing the assaulting what are we to do?
That cop is trying to kill that man. period. attempted murder? the police never police themselves but are quick to throw that book at people on trumped up charges.
This is police terrorism.
Check out the trailer for new documentary that covers these issues!
http://www.blockreportin.com
http://youtu.be/s3WZV3Dg9Vc
Timothy Stansbury Jr.
Shot “accidentally” by police on a Brooklyn rooftop as he was trying to go to his friends house.
Abner Louima
Mr. Louima suffered torture at the hands of NYPD officers after being arrested, beaten, and finally sodomized with a toilet plunger.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/abner_louima/index.html
On Aug. 9, 1997, more than three years into Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s first term, a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested and brutalized by a white police officer inside the restroom of the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. The attack became a national symbol of police brutality and fed perceptions that white police officers in New York were harassing or abusing young black men as part of a citywide crackdown on crime.
One officer, Justin A. Volpe, admitted in court in May 1999 that he had rammed a broken broomstick into Mr. Louima’s rectum, and then had thrust it in his face. He said he had mistakenly believed that Mr. Louima had punched him in the head during a street brawl outside a nightclub, but he acknowledged that he had also intended to humiliate the handcuffed immigrant. He left the force and was later sentenced to 30 years in prison. The commanders of the 70th Precinct were replaced within days of the assault.
Amadou Diallo
The 23 year-old, unarmed, New Guinean was shot and killed February 4, 1999 after NYPD officers fired 41 shots at him when he attempted to pull out his wallet.
Rodney King
Mr. King’s beating by the LAPD was one of the first to ever be caught on camera, and the riots that ensued from the Police acquittal helped America understand that “justice for all” was just a dream.
Danroy Henry
Henry was killed on October 17, 2010 when a police officer shot him through the windshield of the car after being asked to pull away from a fire lane.
Amateur cell phone video captures the chaos in the aftermath of the Pace University student's fatal shooting by police.
Behind the death of Timothy Thomas
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4703574/ns/dateline_nbc-dateline_specials/t/behind-death-timothy-thomas/
By John Larson
Dateline NBC
April 7, 2001 was an unseasonably warm spring night in Cincinnati, Ohio. Late that night, around 2 a.m., in a neighborhood called “Over the Rhine,” a young man walking down the street is spotted by an off duty police officer outside “The Warehouse,” a local nightclub. As the officer approaches the man runs and a chase is on.
Radio officer: “Ah we have a suspect, male, black, about 6 foot, red bandana, last seen east bound on east 13th. He has, ah, about 14 warrants on him...”
Other officers quickly join the pursuit.
Radio dispatcher: “Okay cars in the area copy on that. Chasing a subject with open warrants, approximately 14 of them, male black.”
A 27-year-old Cincinnati police officer spots the suspect as he runs into a dark alley. As a police car approaches, its camera rolling, the officer runs towards the alley and almost immediately a shot rings out. A single bullet fired from the officer's gun pierces the suspect's heart. He's pronounced dead at 3:02 am. The officer later tells investigators he thought the suspect was reaching for a gun – but no gun was ever found. By dawn, the identity of the suspect comes to light. The man was 19-years-old, a young father with an infant son. The man'sname was Timothy Thomas.
For many of Cincinnati's African Americans, Thomas, the latest in a growing number of black men to die at the hands of Cincinnati police, felt like the last straw. Within 24 hours, the anger and mistrust the African-American community felt towards its police exploded on the streets. Riot police marched through the streets, firing tear gas and rubber bullets. Days of civil unrest followed, painful for the city to endure.
But while it was the death of Timothy Thomas that enraged many in the city, it was the story of what happened to Thomas months before his death that would raise the most disturbing questions. Those questions would launch Dateline on a 14 month investigation revealing new information on racial profiling.
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Our search began with something as simple as a traffic ticket.
Angela Leisure (Thomas’s mother): “One day Tim came in the house, and he was like, ‘Mom, I got two tickets… it's like two tickets, Mom, for the same thing." Later on that same day he got two more tickets for the same things, in the same area, from different police officers.”
Dateline obtained traffic records that show beginning in February of 2000, as Timothy Thomas drove his friend's car, Cincinnati police began pulling him over, and ticketing him at an astounding rate. On March 10, Thomas is ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt and driving without a license. Later that same day, Thomas is pulled over again by a different officerand ticketed for driving without a license.
In fact, in just more than two months, Thomas was pulled over 11 times by six different white officers and four black officers. They cited Thomas for 21 violations, almost all of them for the exact same things -- not wearing a seat belt or driving without a license. Driving without a license is a criminal offense and can be dangerous -- which is why the law requires people to take a test to get their license.
John Larson: “Was there ever a point where you just said, "’You know Timothy, get your license? Wake up?’"
Angela Leisure: “There was a point where we had conversations like that. It was actually several points in time we had conversations like that.
Larson: “Nothing should have cost him his life that night, and at the same time I know people will also be thinking, if he had just gotten his driving license, if he just hadn't run, he'd still be here.”
Leisure: “But what did you do when you were 19? Did you always think? Regardless of what your parents taught you, how they brought you up, did you always think first?”
While it is clear that Thomas broke the law, repeatedly driving without a license, the reason his tickets may be an indication of something larger is this: Driving without a license is a non-moving violation that police can only detect after they've pulled you over, It's not a moving violation, like running a red light, something police can see as you drive by. And driving without a seat belt is an infraction police must look very closely to spot. So the question is, if Thomas was being ticketed for infractions that were impossible or difficult to see, why was he being pulled over in the first place?
Larson: “A mother may be the last person to ask this to, but any way, shape and form you think your son might have been hooked up with the drug trade?”
Leisure: “Oh no.”
Larson: “I mean if he was a drug dealer…”
Leisure: “He was the broke-est one you would ever meet.”
Legally, police must have a justifiable reason to pull someone over. The officer who tried to stop Thomas the night he was shot said he recognized him after ticketing the young man a year earlier. Dateline asked Roger Webster, who was then the head of the Cincinnati Police Union, why he thought Thomas had been pulled over and given so many non-moving violations.
Roger Webster: “It's generally a cop trying to be a nice guy and say, ‘Well, I'm not going to cite you with running that stop sign. I'll just give you a seat belt violation or I'll give you a no driver's license. You get you driver's license, take it to court, and it'll be over and done with.’ And that's generally what it is.”
Had 10 different officers all really just been nice guys, pulling Thomas over for running a stop sign or speeding, but only once issuing him a moving violation, or was something else going on?
Larson: “Was this guy being profiled in some way?”
Webster: “It’s very hard to tell the color of the driver of the car at night.”
Larson: “A lot of these are the middle of the day.”
Webster: “A lot of them are the middle of the day. And again, it's hard to see into a vehicle in the daytime and tell what color the driver is in a split second to say, ‘Well, there goes a black guy. I'm going to stop him. He probably doesn't have a driver's license." You know, I can't see an officer doing that.”
But Timothy's brother, Terry, says officers routinely pulled over Timothy, for the same reason they pull over most of the young men in the neighborhood -- because they are black and, he says, police view them with more suspicion.
Terry Thomas: “They figure they out there selling drugs, and this and that. I mean yeah, there's a few drug dealers but you can't just point them out and say, yeah, he’s a drug dealer. “If you ‘aint seen it or know he doin' it, you can't just point him out. But that's what they was doing. They was just picking you out the crowd, like. And Tim got picked out a lot of times. But they didn't have no reason to pick him out.”
It is a charge the Cincinnati police vehemently deny.
Webster: “Not in Cincinnati.”
Larson: “Ever.”
Webster: “Ever. You know, it's suspicious behavior to say that a guy is stopped because he's one color or another color. I don't think so, I don't believe so, I don't believe we've done it. And I don't know of anybody that's out there that's doing it. Look at the total picture of what's going on, before we go out and accuse the cops of racial profiling."
Look at the total picture? Fair enough. Dateline began one of the most ambitious statistical projects of this kind ever undertaken. Before our investigation was over we would gather, sort, and analyze more than 100,000 traffic tickets in Cincinnati and more than four million tickets in major cities across the country. We were looking for new, conclusive answers to the question: Are black drivers routinely being racially profiled, pulled over because they're black?
Black Policeman Shot 28 Times by 4 Chicago Cops and Lived
Officer Howard Morgan was shot 28 TIMES by 4 white Chicago District 10 police officers at 19th and Lawndale, Chicago, IL on February 21, 2005. He was accused of going the wrong way on a one-way street. He was charged with 4 counts of first degree attempt murder and three counts of aggravated battery and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm. Officer Morgan was shackled to his hospital bed for over 6 months. He was taken to Cook County Corrections where he slept on the floor until he was released on a 2 MILLION dollar bond.
After his first trial he was found NOT GUILTY for FIRING HIS WEAPON and 2 counts of aggravated battery.
Now the court is attempting to RETRY Officer Morgan AGAIN. But how can it be attempted murder if he is found NOT GUILTY for firing HIS GUN??????? The DOUBLE JEOPARDY LAW APPLIES!!! The story is trying to be hid from the public eye! We must get the word out!!! Help me STOP this INJUSTICE NOW because if it happen to him it can be easily happen to you!!!!
Police taser man 13 times
CCTV footage shows an unarmed man being tasered 13 times by police at the East Perth watch house.
HALIFAX POLICE TASER A DISABLED BLACK MAN TO DEATH
A 61 year old man from Halifax County, North Carolina, was tasered by cops and died Tuesday after they were called to the scene by an onlooker who saw the man fall off his bike in a parking lot and feared he was drunk.
When the police arrived, Roger Anthony was riding away on the bike. Anthony did not respond to the officers' requests for him to stop so Officer John Turner used a stun gun on him, causing Anthony to once again fall off his bike, reports wral news.
Family members told the press that when Anthony arrived at the local hospital shortly afterwards, he was declared brain dead.
Scotland Neck Police Chief Joe Williams told the media that the officer had seen Anthony "take something out his pocket and put it into his mouth," and had therefore taken the decision to taze the man.
Anthony's sister, Gladys Freeman, told wral that her brother was disabled, hard of hearing and suffered from seizures.
Anthony's brother-in-law, Milton Freeman told reporters "Why would you (use a stun gun on) a man on a bike? He didn't do any crime. He wasn't trying to escape. How (was) he going to escape on his bicycle?"
The police have refused to comment further on the incident pending an investigation. Officer Turner, who had only been on active duty for a month, has been placed on leave - 24 November 2011.
Beaumont Texas Police Beating A Black Man With Wooden Club and Taser
Beaumont Texas cops beat a black man [Derrick Newman]and tasered him while using excessive force on his friends during a recent traffic stop. [[ http://www.kfdm.com/news/see-33851-video-.html]] for more on this story.
White Cop Shot Himself, Said Black Man Did It
A white Philadelphia police sergeant made up a story about being shot by a black man while on patrol last month and actually intentionally shot himself for unknown reasons, the city's police commissioner said. (May 12)
73-Year Old Black Man Shot By 2 White Police--Accused of Racism & Planting a Gun (Part 1 of 2)
Massive investigation (FBI, US Dept of Justice, Louisiana State Police) of the 2/20/09 shooting incident of 73-year old, Throat Cancer Victim, Bernard Monroe in Rural Northern Louisiana (Homer, population: 3800) where there are accusations that racism was involved with the shooting and that the officers involved planting a gun on the dying Monroe.
6-Police & the Hunting Down of Black Men- FInal Destination of Racism
David Billings, antiracist historian, speaks to the social arrangement that taught white men to deeply internalize fear of the black man and to defend themselves, their family and communities.
BRONX MAN RELEASED ON BAIL AS AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE ALLEGED POLICE BRUTALITY
A Bronx teen who was captured on video being beaten by police officers was released on $10,000 bail Monday.
Police officials say Jateik Reed, 19, was resisting arrest when video contained in the clip above was taken. He faces assault, robbery and drug charges.
The four officers involved have been stripped of their guns and badges as the district attorney's office investigates allegations of brutality.
Reed's lawyers requested a special prosecutor in the case but were denied - 6 February 2012.
Police Officers Beat and SPIT on (at the 3:05 mark) Unarmed Black Man Equals Business as UsuaL
I want to thank the original poster of this content. this is more evidence of police terrorism. This is too common, and of course only happened because it was video taped.
Check out the trailer for new documentary that covers these issues!
http://www.blockreportin.com
http://youtu.be/s3WZV3Dg9Vc
Rev Jesse Jackson Speaks at North Side Meeting Against Police Brutality
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to North Chicago residents about the killing of Darren Hannah by North side police. He holds a press conference to point out the disturbing national trend of black men being killed and no one being brought to justice for the crimes. Ministers and concerned citizens gather to organize a petition drive to call for the firing of the seven police officers involved in the murder of Darren Hannah.
Police brutality caught on tape in Harlem
Just days after Dr. Cornell West stood in front of a NYPD station in Harlem to protest the city's controversial "Stop and Frisk," this video captured on November 8, 2011, shows NYPD using excessive force while arresting a Black man in broad daylight.
POLICE BRUTALITY IN U.S. HAS REACHED ITS ALL-TIME HIGH
US police are investigating the suspicious death of a black university advisor who died after being arrested for allegedly acting irrationally.
Police in Maryland shackled Patrick Raphael Toney on Friday and sent him to hospital with a hood over his head. They said Toney was acting strangely near his parked car at an intersection when he was arrested.
On the way to hospital, the academic stopped breathing but medics managed to revive him. On Wednesday, the hospital notified police that Toney had died.
He had been arrested on April 12 on child abuse charges and released on bail just hours before he was arrested on Friday.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Randy Short, who is with the Baltimore Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to further talk over the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: I like to get your take on the specific case of Mr. Tony, specifically before we get into the entire issue of racially-motivated police abuse in the United States.
Short: In defense of a man who is not alive to speak for himself, I actually knew Patrick Tony; I worked for Bowie University for exactly one year and everybody loved this man.
I found him to be wonderful to work with, a collegial kind caring person that students and the faculty alike loved.
So I am saddened and wounded that this has happened and feel that the families and the students all need prayer and support to deal with this shocking activity that has occurred.
Having said that, to me, we have not seen full evidence that the police, in my view, did not do some things that could have contributed to him dying.
For instance, they are saying that he acted irrationally while there is a thing called a dash cam. That needs to be produced so we can see what happened during the arrest.
There has been a pattern across the country of police either hiding or not showing what the dash cam records.
We do not know how he was restrained; we do not know their ways that you can touch someone or restrain them that could cause injury.
This happened to a friend of mine who is also a professor who was attacked by police at Delaware State University; they dislocated his shoulder in such a way that she would not notice that.
So I am not convinced that there was not excessive use of force in restraining the man. As well, if you perceive someone is having a psychological problem, why did not they immediately get some psychological support? They have to have the capacity to do that.
Press TV: Dr. Short, this case obviously comes in the back of the much spoken case of Trayvon Martin and many other cases in the United States.
How are things looking right now for African-Americans in the United Sates and other minorities as well?
Short: Well, I am going to focus on my own people and simply say that we tend to be indices for how everyone else is treated.
Police brutality is at an all time high. I was at a conference in Chicago for the international human rights association of American minorities to have a talk with lawyers and academics for how we can go to the United Nations to begin to bring up police departments and in fact, this government on its human rights violations against the African-Americans.
To give an example of how bad it is, the former mayor of Chicago, Mayor Daley has to give testimony in the upcoming weeks because he was part of covering up a system of torture, abuse and cruelty to hundreds of blacks in the city of Chicago where they had an electrical device that they would attach to people' sexual parts and ran electricity through them to force them to confess to crimes that they did not commit.
There are still people in jail. I mean, this is a mayor of a city; this is a person who literally controls in the most important states politically in the country in on allowing this kind of gross human rights violation where they had a thing called a 'Negro Box', where they would crank electricity into people used cattle prod on peoples' scrotums.
This is the second or third largest city in the country allowing these things to happen where as many as 30 men are still in jail, if not more, and hundreds of people were tortured and it took the UN's intervention for people to even acknowledge that there were a group of rogue, brutal, fascistic cops in Chicago and detectives that were torturing, beating and framing people for crimes and everyone knew no one would do anything about it. I do not think it is Chicago; I think it is a nation and not show, we are 40, 50, 60 million people - 26 April 2012.
Seattle Cops out of control, beat young Black men and threaten to make up charges
A case involving two young Black males who were abused by officers leads to more questions about how the Seattle Police lost thousands of videos from dashboard cams that they are supposed to keep on file.
Police Brutality? Protect-n-serve? 125 St. Harlem NYC 7-29-20
8-10-11 Just in: The man who was arrested in this video was released the next morning with No Charges according to one witness to the event Christopher (seen in this video) who was greeted and thanked by the gentleman the day after who also thanked GWETV and all those who reported the incident to the Police Department! No future information is available at this time.
July 29, 2011 - Pedestrians cry "misconduct" by police at 125th Street Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Avenue) in Harlem NYC. A GWETV camera was on the scene to capture the footage as the event took place. Residents of Harlem say police who don't reflect the neighborhood should be transferred out of the neighborhood and replaced with officers who have better training and also reflect the neighborhood. 34 seconds into this video there appears to be an unconcealed folding knife (size to be determined). As the witness who is recorded at the end of this film said, had this man been questioned properly giving the benefit of the doubt by the arresting officer this may have ended peacefully. Was this apparently non-violent man a carpenter, Camper, Mountain Climber, Fisherman, or other which would explain why he was carrying what appears to be an unconcealed folding knife? Would this have happened if he was a Caucasian? Is it appropriate to ask an officer why he is stopping you, and how should you ask? Is the officer correct for grabbing the man, and under what circumstances is it proper for an officer to grab a pedestrian? Was this one of those justifiable causes to treat this man the way he was treated? Do you feel that the man was aggressively resisting arrest or dangerous to the community, himself, or the arresting officer? Why didn't the police remove the knife from his back pocket, or did they? Was it a knife? Join in the discussion, post comments. We want to know what you think? If anyone has any information regarding the outcome of this case please post that information here under the video.
Bronx man talks NYPD harassment and police brutality
Andre: "Im not a thug, I'm not a hoodlum, I'm well educated." But because he's a black man, the NYPD harass and threaten him. Andre describes one incident where police officers illegally searched his car and threatened to shoot him.
Andre is a father and a professional photographer.
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AUDIO REVEALS U.S. POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK MAN
A newly released tape recording has further implicated North Chicago city police in a cover-up in connection with the killing of an African-American back in November, Press TV reports.
In the audio, the 45-year-old Darrin Hanna is heard begging for his life during a brutal beat-down by the police.
"Put me down! Put me down! Please! I'm about to die! I was down. I was down...They killing me," he said.
Hanna died just days after the altercation.
An autopsy of the victim's body found six wound in his face and 11 taser marks on his back.
The officers involve in the beat-down, however, mention no more than the fall on the floor, two punches and only two or three "attempts" to taser.
The Lake County coroner prosecutor also refused to charge the officers in question, citing an Illinois State Police report that concluded officers acted reasonably and appropriately.
The victim's family played the audio before the Chicago city council on Monday and called for the dismissal of the policemen.
"What are you going to do with the six officers that beat my son?" Darrin's mother, Gloria Carr questioned.
"We have a police report that describes a totally different scenario than what they said," the Hanna family's attorney Kevin O'Connor said. "They said this man was coming at them, that he's the aggressor."
The incident does not seem to be isolated just to this instance with the city now investigating 88 other similar cases.
A protest march is planned to the North Chicago Police Station and City Hall on April 21 against the police brutalities and their use of excessive force.
Meanwhile, the death of Hanna and those of several other African-Americans at police hands have raised questions the motives behind the killing, with many saying the shooting was racially motivated - 13 April 2012.
Boston Police Brutality
On 10-22-10 at Roxbury Community College in Boston, MA, a 16-year old African American male was attacked by several Boston Police officers who clearly used excessive force.
Police Brutality Caught On Tape Officers Beat Black Suspect in Western Massachusetts!
Police caught on tape terroristically beating a black man and then arresting his mate.
Police brutality!! White police man takes down two black males
This white police officer takes down two black males with extreme force which was not needed because if you look closely you can see the suspects were not resisting arrest or fighting at all.
Police Handcuff GA Kindergartner Salecia Johnson For Tantrum (Raw Video)
Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action.
The girl's family demanded Tuesday that this central Georgia city change policy so that other children aren't treated the same way. They say the child was shaken up by being put in a cell at the police station.
Salecia Johnson, 6, was accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture in an outburst Friday at Creekside Elementary School, Macon television station WMAZ-TV (http://on.wmaz.com/HPb7nr ) reported. Police said the girl knocked over a shelf that injured the principal.
The school called police. The police report says when an officer tried to calm the child in the principal's office, she resisted and was handcuffed. The girl was charged with simple assault and damage to property.
Police Chief Dray Swicord says the department's policy is to handcuff people in certain situations.
"Our policy states that any detainee transported to our station in a patrol vehicle is to be handcuffed in the back and there is no age discrimination on that rule," Milledgeville Police Chief Dray Swicord told WMAZ.
The girl's aunt, Candace Ruff, went with the child's mother to pick her up from the police station. She Salecia was by herself in a holding cell and complained about the handcuffs.
"She said they were really tight. She said they really hurt her wrists," Ruff told the Associated Press. "She was so shaken up when we went there to pick her up."
Officials at Creekside Elementary did not immediately return calls Tuesday.
"We would not like to see this happen to another child, because it's horrifying. It's devastating," Ruff said.
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