Officials entered a video recording of the shooting of Darius Simmons, 13, as evidence Tuesday in the trial of John Spooner, 76, who is accused of killing the youth last year.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
UK police caught racially abusing man: "You will always be a nigger"
A man arrested in the week of the London riots has described how he was subjected to racial abuse, which he says he recorded on his mobile phone.
The 21-year-old man, who has not been identified, told journalists the police used racial epithets and said his mother was a "whore".
Michelle Alexander: "Zimmerman Mindset" Endangers Young Black Lives With Poverty, Prison & Murder
"Justice for Trayvon" protests are planned in more than 100 cities this weekend as activists seek federal charges against George Zimmerman and the repeal of "Stand Your Ground" laws in Florida and dozens of other states. We speak with Michelle Alexander, a law professor at Ohio State University and author of the best-selling book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Alexander says the biases that led to Martin's death and let his killer go free are deeply embedded in U.S. society and in the criminal justice system itself:
"The [Zimmerman mindset] that views black men and boys as a perpetual problem to be dealt with has infected our criminal justice system, infected our schools, has infected our politics in ways that have had disastrous consequences, birthing a prison system unprecedented in world history, and stripping millions of people of basic civil and human rights once they have been branded criminals and felons. It's this mindset that some of us defined largely by race and class are unworthy of our basic care and concern and to be dealt with harshly, written off with impunity."
Trayvon Martin's Unpunished Shooting Death Among 100+ Extrajudicial Killings of Unarmed Blacks
According to a recent study, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer is not unique. In "Operation Ghetto Storm," the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) found at least 136 unarmed African Americans were killed by police, security guards and self-appointed vigilantes in 2012. Overall, one black person was killed in an extrajudicial shooting every 28 hours.
We speak with Kali Akuno, a long-time MXGM organizer and author of "Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities." "This speaks to the mindset of criminalizing blackness," Akuno says. "We see it systematically throughout this country and really we have to get at the heart of it and have a much deeper conversation. I think the mass movement which is taking place in response [to the Trayvon Martin case] is an opening shot to have that conversation."
Rodney Lino Police Brutality Case
Two men are claiming a gross case of police brutality and alleging that the cops doled out some outlaw justice on them. Rodney Lino and Patrick Menzies were leaving the Princess on Sunday morning between 3:30 and 4:00 - which is when Lino bumped into a female. He says he apologized, but one of the men accompanying her - who turned out to be a police officer in civilian clothes - didn't take too kindly to it - 8 Jun 2011.
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