Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Update: Black Man shot 46x by 6 Police Officers firing squad style
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Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife. Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas said later that the squad of police confronting him opened fire "because apparently, at this point in time, he was threatening to assault police." Thomas' office and the Michigan State Police are investigating Hall's death. Saginaw Police Chief Gerald Cliff said Hall was "known to be an assaultive person" with "a long history" of contacts with law enforcement, "not only with police from our department but with the county.
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Homeless man Milton Hall was gunned down by policeman with 46 bullets, after refusing to put down a knife in a Saginaw, Mich., parking lot. On Wednesday, prosecutors overseeing the shooting made a controversial decision to clear the six policemen of all charges, according to CNN.
On July 1st, after refusing to pay for coffee and other items at a convenience store, the clerk reportedly called police, saying Hall was also rude and combative. Soon after, Hall was surrounded by officers and a police dog as he wielded a knife. When officers ordered him to put down the knife, Hall argued with them, saying, "I'm not putting sh*t down!"
The 49-year-old then proceeded to introduce himself, "My name is Milton Hall. I called 911. My name is Milton and I am pissed off." At one point, observers said Hall went in to a "karate stance." Moments later, Hall would be mowed down by 46 rounds, with six of the eight officers firing their weapons even though they also reportedly had stun guns.
When asked whether she believed that the police acted appropriately, Tabitha Perry, one of the witnesses at the scene, said she believed the police overreacted, "No, I don't, because what they did, there was a better way to do it. I believe their judgement was off."
And Hall's mother, Jewel, agreed, "Emotionally, I have a lot of pain. And I'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots. i just don't understand that."
Still, Saginaw's prosecutor contends that after 10 weeks, they have decided that criminal charges against the cops aren't necessary.
CNN reports: Saginaw County Prosecutor Mike Thomas told reporters that investigators had reviewed police reports, several pieces of evidence — including audio recordings of phone calls made to police — and interviewed several witnesses at the scene. Criminal charges aren't warranted, said Thomas, noting that the officers had not acted with criminal intent on July 1 when they opened fire on Milton Hall.
Police have attempted to justify the killing further by saying that Hall had a long history with law enforcement, and while Hall's Mother does confirm this, she also says that Hall was involved in a number of minor offenses and vagrancies.
Of the news that the police officers are cleared, Jewel, who is conducting a separate investigation with her lawyer, released this statement: [I am] disappointed in the prosecutor's report finding that the actions of the six Saginaw police officers who so brutally shot and killed my son, Milton Hall, were justified.If there is any benefit to come from Milton's tragic death, we would hope that it would be to raise awareness of the challenges confronting the Saginaw Police Department and Saginaw elected officials, she said in the statement. The challenges are serious, systemic, wide-ranging and deeply rooted.
As Jewel attempts to find justice for her son, one has to wonder how many more times police will continue to be given a pass for abusing their authority.
Why is it OK for police to shoot someone repeatedly when it is clear that 1) they have numbers that are far greater than the perceived threat, 2) they had the choice to use a stun gun rather than a firearm, and 3) they were clearly familiar with Hall and had to have known that he had never posed a real threat in the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAAM4TXPdw
"Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife. Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas said later that the squad of police confronting him opened fire "because apparently, at this point in time, he was threatening to assault police."
Thomas' office and the Michigan State Police are investigating Hall's death...".* Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz break it down on The Young Turks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAAM4TXPdw
"Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife. Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas said later that the squad of police confronting him opened fire "because apparently, at this point in time, he was threatening to assault police."
Thomas' office and the Michigan State Police are investigating Hall's death...".* Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz break it down on The Young Turks.
Cops kill another black man
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We've suffered too long. It's time to make a stand. It's time to take back the power. These are our communities. Let's stop all these power hungry police before none of our youth feel safe on the walking down the street.
Sheriff Deputy Hits 19-year-old in Head with Gun, Video Shows Vicious Attack
BRENTWOOD, Md. -
Fox 5 has obtained surveillance video of a February 3rd incident involving a Prince George's County police officer that seems to dispute his story about why his gun discharged.
A Cottage City 19-year-old spent nearly 4 months in jail after Corporal Donald Taylor claimed Ryan Dorm assaulted him and the gun went off as Taylor struggled with him. The surveillance video is from a business on Perry Street near Rhode Island Avenue in the Brentwood area. Attorney Jimmy Bell, who represents Dorm, says the video shows Taylor out-and-out "lied" when he wrote up a report supporting assault charges against his client.
The incident started when Dorm and a friend say they went to the "Lowest Price" gas station convenience store late that night to buy snacks. Dorm says his friend was wearing a ski mask because it was cold, but two police officers thought he looked suspicious and were going to rob the store. Ryan says he wanted to avoid any trouble, so he left.. But he says Taylor and a second officer followed him. The video shows Dorm being approached from behind, then smacked in the head with a gun. The video shows the flash from the gun as Dorm was being struck.
Taylor has been indicted and faces a trial in November. Bell has filed a $10 million dollar civil lawsuit in the case.
Lynchings in 2004 & 1958, Georgia & Louisiana
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Bernard Burden was found hanging from a tree in Grantville, GA in 2004. The death was ruled as a suicide. His mother feels differently. In 1958 William Gundy, Sr. was shot 10 times by police in Tulula, LA. The police ruled the shooting justifiable. Full documentary on lynchings coming soon. Feel free to comment, rate and subscribe.
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Dorothy and Roger Malcom, Mae and George Dorsey, and Harry McFadden are believed to have been lynched in 1946 and 1978 respectively. Dorothy and George were also brother and sister. Two events occured in Walton County, Georgia: Roger Malcom stabbed a white man in the torso nearly killing him (it is rumored that the white man was "taking advantage" of Dorothy Malcom, which is why her womb was slit open to reveal the ethnicity of her unborn 7-month fetus), and decorated World War II veteran George Dorsey had "relations" with local white women.
Some 30 years later in Aiken, South Carolina, Harry McFadden was found hanging from a tree whereby the local Black mortician said that "he could have easily stood on his toes." Though married with family and a newborn, McFadden, too, is reported to have committed suicide. In both communities, hardly anyone cooperated with local authorities.
This is real time and the perpetrators are still among us: bring these killers to justice. There's even a $35,000 reward for information leading to convictions in the Walton County murders. Now that you know, what will you do?
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Police Brutality: Unarmed Legless Man in Wheelchair Tasered and Exposed
A legless unarmed man suspected of domestic abuse and charged with resisting arrest was Tasered by the City of Merced. After effectuating this arrest the report states the police left the man nude from the waist down for several minutes in front of a small crowd. No explanation was given of what the arrestee did that made the police fear for their own safety or the safety of fellow officers. The person arrested is a 40-year-old double leg amputee.
He said Williams was stunned once for less than five seconds, causing him to release his grip on his wheelchair so that officers could handcuff him. Andrade called it "unfortunate" that Williams' genitals were exposed to his neighbors and said officers didn't mean to humiliate him.
The Taser device can release up to 50,000 volts of electricity.
Man shot and killed by the police - Police brutality Video
This is an extreme over use of force from the police and clearly police brutality. The protestors where angry, but where unarmed and gave the police absolutely no reason to shoot them.
Police Brutality: Cop Tasers Teen Then Runs Him Over Killing Him!
PENSACOLA, Florida - The Pensacola Police Department has banned the firing of Taser guns by officers from moving vehicles following the death of a 17-year-old.
The teenager died this month after a patrol officer fired the stun gun from his cruiser. The teen then fell from his bike and the officer hit him with his cruiser, according to witnesses. The
officer had ordered Victor Steen to stop after spotting him at a vacant construction site early on the morning of Oct. 3.
The officer is on paid leave while authorities investigate. The death has prompted community protests and vigils.
On Friday, Assistant Pensacola Police Chief Chip Simmons said officers would no longer be allowed to fire Tasers from their cruisers.
Cops get caught planting dope on suspect after being pulled over
Cookeville TN Cops get caught on dash cam planting dope on a person pulled over for a domestic charge.
Former Police Officer charged with murders of Charles Moore & Henry Dee
LINK TO VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPaWYy-5jis
One of the more disturbing moments in the civil rights struggle in the South came on July 12, 1964, the twenty-first day of the search for civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi.
By that time, more than 400 sailors had joined the FBI in searching Southeast Mississippi woods, rivers and swamps. On July 12, when the brutalized corpse of a man was discovered across the state in an offshoot of the Mississippi River on the Louisiana side, there was early conjecture that it was one of the civil rights workers.
The next day, a few miles south, the river yielded another body, also brutalized, raising the possibility that a second civil rights worker had been located.
Then came the shock: The bodies were two altogether different men, both black, who had been missing since early May in Meadville, Mississippi. With that news came the awful realization that a search of any river or swamp in South Mississippi might reveal the vile extremes to which the Ku Klux Klan would go to preserve white supremacy.
The three civil rights workers would be found buried on the 44th day; they would be memorialized in movies, music and every history of civil rights. But what of the other two men, identified as Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore?
It took more than 40 years for the story hidden behind the murders of Dee, a 19-year-old sawmill worker, and Moore, a 20-year old college student, to be discovered and made public. When Klansman and former police officer James Ford Seale was finally arrested in connection with their murder in 2007, it was only because journalists, particularly filmmaker David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., investigated the case and dug out the incriminating information.
After Dee and Moore’s bodies surfaced in 1964, the FBI conducted a substantial investigation. The agents learned that several Klansmen had picked up the two men hitchhiking and taken them deep inside Homochitto National Forest 25 miles from Natchez. While Seale held a gun on the young men and interrogated them, other Klansmen beat them with whip-like bean poles and tree limbs until, gashed and bloodied, they were clinging to life.
Some Klansmen left while others, including Seale's brother, Jack, stuffed Dee and Moore into the trunk of a car, then drove them into Louisiana. There, the Seale brothers and another Klansman chained Dee and Moore to an engine block and train rails, then threw them into an oxbow lake formed by the Mississippi River. They were still alive.
In 2005, Ridgen and Charles Moore’s brother, Thomas Moore, drove to Mississippi with a van, video-camera equipment and a trove of unredacted records from various law enforcement agencies, including the FBI. Their pursuit would become an award-winning television documentary, Mississippi Cold Case.
When Ridgen and Moore arrived in Mississippi, the prevailing wisdom was that both the Seale brothers had died. But they found James Ford Seale very much alive. They also found Charles Marcus Edwards, who had participated in the abduction and beating. Although he was in the group that left Homochitto and never saw Seale and the other Klansman throw Dee and Moore in the river, Edwards later overheard Seale discussing the details of how they finished off the young men.
When Ridgen arrived with his camera, Seale and Edwards displayed raw hostility toward the filmmaker and Thomas Moore. Both had lived with their secret for more than four decades and had lied to FBI and congressional investigators from the beginning. Ridgen’s camera also was rolling when the U.S. Attorney pledged to prosecute the case if he could get the evidence.
Ridgen and Moore responded. They found archival video that helped prosecutors establish federal jurisdiction. They discovered the only photographs known to exist of Dee dead (from his autopsy) or alive. They produced a racist letter Seale wrote days after the attack. And they found a former FBI agent who had heard Seale make self-incriminating remarks in 1964. Ridgen’s film was shown to the jury during the trial.
When federal prosecutors came offering Edwards immunity if he would testify against Seale, Edwards did so, first to a grand jury, then at trial.
Edwards testified that he was the one who had identified Dee as a target because “he fit the profile of a Black Panther. He wore a black bandana on his head all the time. It seemed to me that would be the profile of a Black Panther.” Neither Dee nor Moore had had any involvement in civil rights activism.
After he wrapped up his trial testimony and the jury was out of the courtroom, Edwards asked the federal judge for permission to say something else. “I want to speak to the families of Mr. Moore and Mr. Dee,” he said.
“I can’t undo what was done 40 years ago, and I’m sorry for that,” he continued. “And I ask you for your forgiveness for my part in that crime. That’s exactly what I wanted to say to you.”
The jury convicted Seale. Still unresolved is why it took prosecutors—federal or state—more than four decades to bring charges, and what official pressure was brought on them to ignore the case.
Thomas Moore later met Edwards and forgave him. In a powerful scene Ridgen captured on video, Edwards apologized again.
Moore responded, “I believe in the same God that you believe in. In the 18th chapter of Matthew, Peter asks, ‘How many times should you forgive your brother?’ And he answered, I will forgive seven times. But Jesus Christ said, ‘No, not only seven times…’”
Edwards spontaneously joined Moore in finishing the story: “…but seventy times seven."
They shook hands. “So you are forgiven,” Moore said.
“I appreciate it,” Edwards replied. “God bless you.”
“God bless you too, brother.”
James Ford Seale was tried for the 1964 kidnapping by members of the Ku Klux Klan of two African American young men. Under Federal law there is no statute of limitations for capital offenses. Other felonies carry a five year statute of limitations. In 1964 kidnapping was a capital offense. While it is a capital crime now if it results in murder for most of the time between 1964 and the present it was not a capital crime. Thus the question that the Fifth Circuit asked the Supreme Court is whether the 1964 statute of limitations applies or the 2007 statute of limitations.
Former State Trooper Accused Of Excessive Force Facing Another Lawsuit
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — WFTV has learned that a former state trooper already accused in one lawsuit of excessive force is facing a second lawsuit.
WFTV's Daralene Jones asked the Orange County Sheriff's Office why it hired Michael Harman despite the accusations.
A representative with the sheriff's office said it's unclear what they knew about the trooper's past before he was hired.
WFTV uncovered dash cam video that shows former state trooper Harman tackling Kim Brookins. He allegedly pulled her over for not using a turn signal.
Harman said he felt threatened when she walked toward her car, after she voluntarily gave up her driver's license.
Brookins is suing in federal court, alleging excessive force.
"That was an over-reaction. The woman was no match," said attorney Desiree Bannasch.
Since our report on Tuesday, WFTV uncovered Harman is now an Orange County deputy.
Personnel records show he resigned months after this incident, but he was also in the midst of a racial profiling investigation.
Bannasch wonders how he got the job, because she also has a federal lawsuit pending against Harman and the Florida Highway Patrol.
Harman arrested Bannasch's client, 50-year-old Melvin Scott for allegedly trafficking cocaine, just a few months before he arrested Kim Brookins.
When Scott pulled over, the trooper searched his car and found a box of baking soda under the seat. The trooper wrote in this report that it tested positive for cocaine.
"The same substance tested at the FDLE lab tested negative for drugs," said Bannasch.
Prosecutors dropped charges, but Scott had already spent eight months in jail because he couldn't afford the $50,000 bond
In Harman's three years with the sheriff's office, he's been under investigation 11 times for issues related to use of force, bad behavior toward suspects and violating investigative procedures.
But he's never been disciplined because he was exonerated in all cases.
"Is this someone who should be on the streets patrolling?" Jones asked Bannasch.
"I would be concerned about that. I would think his superiors at the Orange County Sheriff's Office would be concerned about that," said Bannasch.
A sheriff's office spokesperson said because of what we've uncovered they'll be looking to figure out what Harman knew about his past at the time he was hired - 17 February 2012.
Fired officer quickly lands another job
The Santa Fe police officer who was fired for beating up a handcuffed teen was hired onto the Cuba Police Department, the Cuba police chief confirmed Tuesday.
COP: I SHOT YOUR DOG BECAUSE IT BARKED
Police shoot and kill family's 12 pound dog after it barks at officers
Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. - Top High-school Football Recruit: A Questionable Death
Billey Joe Johnson, Jr., a star running back for the George County High School football team, was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the head on December 8, 2008. According to the Grand Jury's report, his death was an "accidental suicide". A march is being planned for March 25th when Billey Joe would have been 18 years old. This video was filmed on location in Lucedale, Mississippi. As always, feel free to comment, rate and subscribe. More info at www.DrMikeWeaver.com.
Killings by Police in Chicago, June 2008
2008 unofficial homicide totals: Chicago 508, New Orleans 179, Newark 104, Philadelphia 332, Baltimore 234, Detroit 344, Washington, DC 186, and Boston 63. There's been a rash of private citizens killed by police in Chicago. 39-year old Shapel Terrell was one of six killed by the police in a ten-day period. He leaves behind six children, including a 4- and 5-year old. Approx. 30 spent shell casings were found at the scene on Chicago's infamous southside. This film is based on an eye-witness account. Upcoming documentary on urban youth, drugs, violence and their dreams due soon. Subscribe for updates.
THE ROOTS CRIED OUT- Drugs, Violence & Dreams of Black Men
A documentary detailing the destructive cycle of drug activity among young Black males, while showing their hopes and aspirations. Focus groups were held during the times when "the block was hot" in 9 southeastern states in the U.S. Find more info at www.TheRootsCriedOut.com.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America's Homes & Attics
A vid from BBC's Documentary tells the story of a boy who was lynched and burned alive in Texas in 1916!
"Without Sanctuary is a photo document of proof, an uncartiring of crimes, of collective mass murder, of mass memory graves excavated from the American conscience. Part postal cards, common as dirt, souvenirs skin-thin and fresh-tatooed proud, the trade cards of those assisting at ritual racial killings and others acts of mad citizenry. The communities' best citizens lurking just outside the frame. Destined to decay, these few survivors of an original photo population of many thousands, turn the living to pillars of salt", said James Allen.
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Rare Live Footage of one of the first songs of anti-racism songs.
Brutality: Police Tases Black Woman Who Is 8 Months Pregnant!!! [Video]
This is a damn shame. She and her baby daddy were tased and arrested after calling cops on a white man who hit their car.
Here’s a little info about the incident via FoxIllinois:
A woman who is eight months pregnant was tased by Springfield Police after she reported a car accident in the parking lot of Best Buy on Saturday. The woman in question is 29-year-old Lucinda White. Her boyfriend, 31-year-old Frederic Thomas was also tased and taken to jail for assaulting a police officer. Was it excessive force — tasing the pregnant woman — or did Springfield Police act accordingly?
Thomas and White were released from the Sangamon County jail on Sunday evening. His bond was $350 according to the couple. She paid nothing. While they are both looking to put this situation in the past, there is still the question of who exactly is the victim here. Is it the expecting couple or officers who say the two just wouldn’t follow their instructions? We have to wait for any surveillance video and for an actual police report of the incident but not for their accounts of what happened.
“I’m pulling on my daughter’s father. I did not touch a police officer. I know not to touch a police officer,” White said.
Hell broke loose after the man she accuses of hitting her car at Best Buy denied it, and Springfield Police were called to resolve the situation.
“I was face down in the pavement after being tased– that’s when I seen my daughter’s mother–knees in her back, stomach all in the concrete–face down,” Thomas said.
Springfield Police say the couple’s behavior warranted officer restraint.
“She was– her and her boyfriend were both actively fighting with an officer and they used the force that was necessary to affect the arrest,” Deputy Chief Cliff Buscher with the Springfield Police Department said.
We found out about the incident from Paul Newton who works here at ABC Newschannel 20. He happened to be there, and watched it unfold on Saturday.
“They told her get down on the ground face down, and she’s trying to plead with them I can’t get on the ground, I’m pregnant. I can’t do that and they told her once again. And she– she’s just trying to plead with them and then right away they hit her with the taser,” Newton said.
He explains that from his perspective Thomas appeared to get more aggressive when officers threatened to tase his pregnant girlfriend.
“I thought she was trying to comply with them, but I– it sounds like she was worrying about her pregnancy and she didn’t want to get face down on the ground,” Newton said.
What is the policy of Springfield Police when considering using a taser on a pregnant woman?
“We would try to avoid it if at all possible mostly because… not the taser itself but the secondary, the fall. We don’t want somebody falling and hurting their self or their baby,” Buscher said.
He explains that officers “drive stunned” White and Thomas– meaning any pain should have been localized to the place the taser touched their bodies. On the pregnant woman police say that place was her thigh.
We spoke with the “Taser” company by phone. Springfield Police did use the weapon properly according to their standards, but they also warn about secondary injuries like falling because it could impact pregnancy.
We expect to get a copy of the police report on Tuesday. We’ve also expressed interest in any video surveillance of the incident, though we have not yet made the request in writing. White tells us she could feel her baby shaking for several hours after the tasing, but Springfield Police say she refused EMS treatment on the scene. White visited Memorial Medical Center on Monday. She says a doctor there told her – the baby seems to be okay. The couple tell us they are expected in court May first.
Once police were on the scene we see no reason why they needed to use a taser. They only escalated the situation.
Read more at http://bossip.com/752854/brutality-dirty-one-time-tases-black-woman-who-is-8-months-pregnant-video/#eGyukKqMpvE0zvfi.99
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