Security Guard Brutally Assaults Student In Wheelchair [VIDEO]

"A special needs student in a wheelchair was allegedly beaten by a school security guard in California -- and much of the incident was caught on video.

"He slapped me. He hit me so hard, it threw me out of my chair. I hit the floor with my chin first. I had a scar right here," Oakland High School student Francisco Martinez told KTVU, pointing to his chin.

The security guard was identified as 23-year-old Marchell Mitchell."* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) break it down.

*Read more here from Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/student-in-wheelchair-beaten_n_5415867.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

Judge Assaults Disabled Black Man While Shouting "Run Ni%ger Run"

2 Men Accuse Police Officer Of Groping Their Genitals During A Search

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/05/two-men-claim-they-were-groped-by-pgpd-officer-103587.html

(WJLA) - Glenn Davis and Rashod Bryant say that on Tuesday night, they were talking outside Bryant’s apartment in Laurel when a Prince George’s County police officer pulled up in his cruiser.

"It happened so fast and it was crazy how it all went down," said Davis.

The officer reportedly got out of the vehicle and began accusing them of wrongdoing -- calling them dealers and accusing them of selling drugs.

But Bryant says he works as a juvenile counselor, and Davis is an electrician.

"We asked him what we did...He would not give us an explanation on what we did," explained Bryant.

They say the officer ordered them to hand over their ID’s, and while conducting a pat down search, touched the men inappropriately.

"He took his hands, went down into my boxers, and grabbed by private area," claimed Bryant.

"I'm standing here the whole time and that's when he groped me. And I'm like, what am I supposed to do right now?" said Davis.

"I feel sexually violated. It made me feel less than a man out here," added Bryant.

The men say several minutes later, a neighbor picked up her cell phone and got video of a second pat down. Bryant, on the far side, says the officer again touched him inappropriately – but this time from the outside of his shorts.

The two men say that after the incident the officer didn’t charge the men with any crimes – but told them they were loitering.

Police have since confirmed that soon after learning about these complaints, they reached out to the men, and that investigators with Internal Affairs are looking into the allegations leveled against the officer.

Only moments after we left the apartment complex to put our story together, Bryant called us. He said the officer was back, and once again questioning them and yet another resident about loitering.

100 Seattle Cops File Lawsuit Saying They Have CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT To Brutalize Citizens

Race Matters: NYC Still Making Racially-Targeted Herb Arrests Despite Promised Policy Changes

NYPD Continues Low-Level Marijuana Arrests

Mayor DeBlasio promised that forces would no longer focus on low-level mary jane violations and prevent cops from pulling “stop & frisk” searches that clearly target minorities. But an NY congressman is pointing out that it’s all business as usual in NYC, and it’s sending more Blacks and Latinos to jail than anyone else. 

Via HuffPost:

At a press conference outside One Police Plaza in Manhattan on Tuesday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) pointed to recent data showing that thousands of New Yorkers are getting arrested for possessing pot, most of them minorities.

“The new administration promised change, but instead we got more of the same,” Jeffries said, referring to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign pledge to lower arrests for possessing small amounts of marijuana.

Data released earlier this month from the New York state Division of Criminal Justice Services shows that from January to March, more than 7,000 individuals were arrested in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana, and 86 percent of them were black or Latino. That number of arrests, Jeffries said, puts New York City on track to have just as many low-level marijuana arrests in 2014 as it did in 2013, when nearly 29,000 New Yorkers were busted for low-level marijuana possession.

The number of arrests in the first three months of 2014 are higher than they were in either of the last two three-month periods of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration in 2013.

The vast majority of marijuana arrests in New York City are for the lowest misdemeanor charge — criminal possession in the fifth degree — in which the arrestee either possessed less than two ounces of marijuana, or had the drug “in public view.”

Since 1977, possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana — a little less than an ounce — has been decriminalized in New York state. Under the law, those caught with such a small amount of weed are subject to a $100 violation for a first offense.

However, since the late-1990s, NYPD officers have been asking the hundreds of thousands of people they stop on the streets each year empty their pockets. In 2013, 85 percent of those people were black or Latino.

When pot comes out of the pocket, it becomes “in public view,” thus allowing police to make an arrest for misdemeanor criminal possession in the fifth degree. Arrestees can face up to three months in jail, and a criminal record.

SMH! Yes marijuana is illegal…but this system seems to be in place specifically to place (and keep) Black and Brown people in the justice system over trivial nonsense. What are your thoughts?

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Judge Smacks Mentally Disabled Man, Yelling 'Run, N***er, Run!"

Published on May 27, 2014

"A Mississippi judge was accused of striking a mentally disabled black man and yelling, "Run, n-gger, run."

The family of 20-year-old Eric Rivers filed a complaint against Madison County Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger in connection with the May 8 incident at the Canton Flea Market, reported the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

The executive director of the state Judicial Commissioner said, if the allegations are true, Weisenberger would have violated multiple canons of the Judicial Code of Ethics."* Ana Kasparian, Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) and Gina Grad (Gina Grad Show, Pretty Good Podcast) break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/26/ms-judge-accused-of-smacking-mentally-disabled-black-man-yelling-run-n-gger-run/

African-Americans and Latinos Make Up 30% of Population But 60% of Prisoners

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/02/african-americans-and-latinos-make-up-30-of-population-but-60-of-prisoners/

An article published in Mother Jones on Monday pointed out some stark statistics about both the racial makeup of America’s overall prison population and private vs. public prisons. The article notes that African-Americans and Latinos make up 30 percent of the U.S. population but a whopping 60 percent of the country’s inmates. As it turns out, it gets even worse from there.

A study from the University of California at Berkeley shows that minorities are more likely than whites to serve out their sentences in private prisons, which has its own set of consequences, including more violence and an increased rate of recidivism.

The study, which looked at minority inmates in nine states, found more people of color in private prisons, which is important when one considers that private prisons are focused on profit as opposed to rehabilitation. One reason for the disparity has to do with the fact that fewer prisoners over 50 are housed in private prisons since health care for those prisoners can lead to higher costs. But there is also a higher likelihood that prisoners over 50 are white.

So private prisons make money from housing young minority inmates, while passing on the older inmates to government prisons, so that the taxpayer can foot the bill. This leads to the conclusion that private prisons aren't lowering costs by being more efficient, but by choosing inmates who are more likely to be healthy:

Private prisons claim to have more efficient practices, and thus lower operating costs, than public facilities. But the data suggest that private prisons don't save money through efficiency, but by cherry-picking healthy inmates. According to a 2012 ACLU report, it costs $34,135 to house an “average” inmate and $68,270 to house an individual 50 or older. In Oklahoma, for example, the percentage of individuals over 50 in minimum and medium security public prisons is 3.3 times that of equivalent private facilities.

In that sense, private prisons are being set up to make a profit off the backs of minority youth, whereas government prisons, and taxpayers, are being set up to pay more. It’s quite the con game.

Police Caught on Camera Breaking Mentally Disturbed Teen’s Arm

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/02/police-caught-on-camera-breaking-mentally-disturbed-teens-arm/

Many in the African-American community have been warning for years that police officers overstep their bounds, but it seems that the impact of rogue officers is just now reaching the mainstream.

The family of a 16 year old teen have filed a $1 million dollar lawsuit against the city of Rotterdam, New York after police officers were caught on camera breaking the teen’s arm.

The incident began after police were called on Jacob Gocheski because a school bus driver didn’t want the mentally ill teen on the bus due to “threats that the student made in an aggressive manner.”

By the time the incident took place, the bus was in Gocheski’s driveway, but the teen refused to leave the bus. Video shows the teen sitting in his seat, looking down and despondent. When the officers began to wrestle the teen out of his seat and put his hands behind his back, you can hear Gocheski’s arm begin to break in half.

“There was clear and obvious use of excessive force,” said Kevin Luibrand, attorney for the teen’s family. “They placed his arm in a position where they locked the arm and proceeded with significant force to break the arm between the shoulder blade and elbow, creating a displaced fracture.” Luibrand also says that the officers threatened to “hog tie” Gocheski and “exerted enough force to snap one of the strongest bones in the human body.”

Gocheski was charged obstruction of governmental administration, all for refusing to leave a school bus.

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St. Louis Mom Arrested at School for Comforting Her Special Needs Son

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/03/st-louis-mom-arrested-at-school-for-comforting-her-special-needs-son/

A St. Louis mom went to her son’s school to pick him up because he was in distress, but somehow she ended up being carted off to jail like a common criminal.

After receiving a call from her son’s school on Thursday alerting her that he was upset, mother Niakea Williams rushed to Walnut Groves Elementary School to pick up her son.

“I was lying in bed when I received a frantic phone call from the teacher, Michael was panicking,” Williams told local affiliate KMOV.

Her son Michael has Asperger’s syndrome.

After she was buzzed in by school officials, Williams was apparently so concerned about her son that she rushed past the school’s front desk, but not before telling a teacher why she was there.

“I saw a teacher and she said Ms. Williams what is wrong? I said something is wrong with Mikey and proceeded to go straight to my son,” said Williams.

While she was consoling her son, Williams was informed by the principal that she had violated school policy by not signing in.

“I didn't sign the book, but I had to check on my son. You can bring me the book, She said oh no, I've already called the police. You called what,” said Williams.

The school was placed on lockdown and a call was placed to local police reporting an “unauthorized entry to a school”, even though Williams had been buzzed in by school administrators.

“They escorted me away from my son, who already has emotional distress. Four officers told me to turn around and put my hands behind my back, I was under arrest,” said Williams.

Williams said school officials knew who she was and they'd called her to come see about her son, so she doesn't understand why she was arrested on trespassing charges.

She says she feels that she got arrested for being a mother who was concerned about her child.

Cop Who Gunned Down 16 Year Old Kimani Gray Awarded “Cop of the Year”

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/05/cop-who-gunned-down-16-year-old-kimani-gray-awarded-cop-of-the-year/

“Cops give a d@mn about a Negro, pull a trigger, k¡ll a n¡gga he’s a hero..” -2Pac

One of the officers who gunned down 16 year old Kimani Gray has declined to accept a “Cop of the Year” award due to community pressure, reports ThinkProgress.

Gray was fatally wounded in 2013 when two plainclothes NYPD officers opened fire on him. Officers alleged that Gray pulled a revolver on undercover cops, but no gun was ever found. Gray was shot 7 times, including three bullets to the back. 

Witnesses also disagreed about the sequence of events, with one eyewitness saying the teen was “running for his life” when he was gunned down: “He was running for his life, telling the cops, “Stop,” said witness Camille Johnson. "They really are, seriously, walking around, shooting little kids.” Another eyewitness said Gray was adjusting his belt at the time he was shot: 

Sgt. Mourad Mourad, one of two officers involved in the shooting, was named “Cop of the Year”  by the NYPD Muslim Officers Society, but declined to accept due to public pressure.

“He’s done a lot of work taking down criminals and taking a lot of guns and drugs off the street,” Lt. Adeel Rana told the New York Daily News when first asked why he'd been chosen for the award.

“It’s an insult to the family and the community,” said former city council member Charles Barron, who is close to the Gray family. “There has been a pattern in the Police Department to reward cops who killed our Black youth.”

In addition, the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, Linda Sarsour, said the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition contacted both the Muslim Officers Society and Sgt. Mourad directly to protest of the award.

Two Mississippi Inmates Are Still Awaiting Trial After 7 and 8 Years

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/04/two-mississippi-inmates-are-still-awaiting-trial-after-7-and-8-years/

The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to a speedy trial, but two men in Mississippi are still waiting for trials after 7 and 8 years.

The two inmates, Marktain Kilpatrick Simmons, 43 and Lee Vernel Knight, 47, both have mental issues and have been waiting years for a their day in court.  Both Simmons and Knight are being held at the Hinds County Detention Center.

Simmons was arrested for killing Christopher Joiner in 2006 and has yet to stand trial. Witnesses claim Simmons demanded money from Joiner, who was standing with a friend in a complex parking lot,  before stabbing Joiner.

Simmons was denied bond in 2006 after Judge Bill Gowan said he wanted more information about the accused man’s mental issues, reports The Clarion Ledger.

Knight was arrested in 2007 after having been arrested for stabbing his brother on Christmas day. Knight, a paranoid schizophrenic, was ordered in 2013 to be housed in a mental institution, but there have been no beds available.

District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith says defense attorneys have dropped the ball.

“First of all they need adequate representation, and secondly they need someone who can give a mental evaluation that’s final and conclusive, because we can’t prosecute someone if they do not have a final mental evaluation or the results of that evaluation,” Smith said. “So someone who’s just there waiting for their mental evaluation is something that the defense attorney has to bring to the attention of the court and to our attention. We don’t know whether or not the person has that mental illness conclusively until we receive the medical information from the defense attorney.”

In total, 130 inmates have been in the detention center for a year or more without trial.

Alabama Inmates Say Strike is Last Resort Against “Slave Empire”

Melvin Ray (Credit: Free Alabama Movement)

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/04/alabama-inmates-say-strike-is-last-resort-against-slave-empire/

In an interview with Salon, Alabama inmates say they are engaging in a strike this weekend as the last resort against what they're describing as a modern form of slavery.

“We decided that the only weapon or strategy … that we have is our labor, because that’s the only reason that we're here,” Melvin Ray, inmate at the St. Clair correctional facility and founder of the prison-based group Free Alabama Movement, told Salon. “They're incarcerating people for the free labor.”

The Alabama state Senate recently passed a bill which allows private companies to use prisoners for agricultural work, and as it stands, prisoners already do laundry, kitchen, chemical work, and license plate production.

Ray says in January, a majority of the 1300 St. Clair inmates and 1,100 of Holman’s engaged in a work stoppage, while a Department of Corrections spokesperson downplayed the January work stoppage, saying that only a few inmates actually went on strike and others were prevented from working due to other unrelated concerns.

Ray feels as if this weekend’s strike will be even larger than the last one, but says prison officials are working to stop it before it even begins by thwarting communication and threatening organizers with solitary confinement if they persist.

Asked to describe the living situation, “It’s a hellhole,” he said. “That’s what they created these things for: to destroy men.”

Ray says he has to get inmates to understand that they don't have anything to lose.

“We have to get them to understand: You're not giving up anything. You don't have anything. And you're going to gain your freedom right here.”

He has previously used banned cell phones to document horrid conditions in the prison, such as “unsafe beef, broken fire exits and exposed wires.”

Ray said the strikers want rehab and an end to “the free labor system.”

“There is not even the pretense of doing anything about ‘corrections,’” Ray said. “They're running a slave empire.”

In 1998 Exiled Black Panther Assata Shakur Predicted That Prisons Would Become New Slavery

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/04/in-1998-exiled-black-panther-assata-shakur-predicted-that-prisons-would-become-new-slavery/

Law enforcement is still on the hunt for one black woman who stood up to white supremacy, one who was likely wrongly accused of killing a New Jersey police officer. That the hounds are on the trail is no surprise. Anyone who stands up for black people anywhere on the planet may as well emboss a brightly colored bulls eye directly onto their own forehead, which is why Obama never will never stand up, which is why Assata Shakur was added to the FBI’s most wanted list, during the first black president’s tenure.

Still, those like Shakur, who fought white supremacy and were exiled or executed for their trouble, were prescient. Thanks to Michelle Alexander’s diligent and unending mission to educate the public on mass incarceration, and Dr. Boyce Watkins’ work to broaden the base of those who support an end to mass incarceration, the issue has begun to resonate, even among semi-conscious blacks. In 1998, Shakur saw the writing on the wall and predicted that prisons were becoming the new slavery:

"Prisons are big business in the United States, and the building, running, and supplying of prisons has become the fastest growing industry in the country. Factories are being moved into the prisons and prisoners are being forced to work for slave wages. This super-exploitation of human beings has meant the institutionalization of a new form of slavery. Those who cannot find work on the streets are forced to work in prison."

We do have our own people who have their finger on the pulse of white supremacy. They know which way the wind is blowing. They are our weathervane. We'd be better equipped to protect ourselves if only we heard them, incorporated their teachings, and took seriously their warnings. But as an aspirational people, we are not, as a group, prone to gravitate toward the Assata Shakur's of our tribe.

White supremacy demands that we be exquisite in our assimilation, meaning more like white people. So we straighten our hair (or, if you're a man, cut the naps clean off), pull up our pants, buy 10 blue suits, and pick leaders who are pleasing to whites (Obama is so clean, remarked Senator Harry Reid), and discard our true weathervanes. So in the end, we are left with Barack Obama, who released the might of American law enforcement on Assata Shakur.

Second Grader Handcuffed at School for Misbehaving

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/05/second-grader-handcuffed-at-school-for-misbehaving/

There was once a time when a misbehaving child was placed in time-out as punishment. Times have obviously changed because one Kansas City boy says he was treated like a common criminal when caught yelling at school.

“Some of the kids were messing with me,” second grader Kalyb Primm said, according to local affiliate KSHB 41.

The boy says he began yelling after some kids decided to taunt him, but he never got physical. When a teacher tried but failed to calm Kalyb down, the boy says he was handcuffed by a security officer and taken to the principal’s office.

“We were halfway down the hall, he put handcuffs on and twisted my wrists a little,” Kalyb said.

“I don’t think any 7-year-old should be in handcuffs unless he was armed with a weapon, or vi?lent,” said Kalyb’s mother Tomesha Primm.

Kalyb’s father says when he arrived at the school, his son was in handcuffs.

A spokesman for the school said handcuffing second graders is the proper procedure and the security officer did nothing wrong.

Kalyb’s parents can’t understand why their young son was treated like a common criminal for merely yelling and neither can Kalyb.

“Criminals, robbers, bank robbers, stealers,” Kalyb said. “Because kids are not that bad.”

Kalyb’s parents want the school to review its policy for dealing with these types of incidents. They are also planning on moving their child to another school district where he won’t be traumatized by security officials.

Rikers Inmate “Baked to Death” in Overheated Cell

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/05/rikers-inmate-baked-to-death-in-overheated-cell/

A mentally ill inmate at Rikers passed away in an overheated cell just one day after officials at the prison had requested repairs for the heating problem.

The Associated Press reports that two requests for repairs were made on February 14 but delayed due to a holiday weekend. Since the following Monday was President’s Day, the request for the repairs wasn’t received until the following Tuesday.

Former Marine Jerome Murdough, 56, had been arrested one week before his death for trespassing onto a Harlem public housing project while seeking shelter from the cold. Authorities at Rikers found him dead in a pool of his own blood and vomit on February 15 with a body temperature of 103 degrees.


From the Associated Press:

One official who spoke at the time on the condition of anonymity described him as having “basically baked to death.” The mayor has called his death “very troubling,” and it prompted Department of Correction officials to suspend a correction officer, reassign a warden and transfer a mechanics supervisor.
Maintenance workers fixed the problem after Murdough’s body was found.

“To learn that Jerome Murdough died as a result of the city’s failure to remove him from a dangerous environment shows how senseless and avoidable his death was,” said family attorney Derek Sells, who is filing a lawsuit on behalf of the family. “Alma Murdough, Jerome’s mother, is beside herself at this news of how the city failed her son and wants to hold those responsible for his death accountable.”

Brutality: Officers Avoid Charges After Scalding Mentally Ill Black Inmate To Death With Hot Water Until His Skin Peeled

This man was tortured beyond belief…

Officers Not Charged After Burning Black Inmate To Death With Hot Water

The family members of a mentally ill Miami prisoner who was serving a 2-year sentence for drug possession are livid after learning that the officers who tortured him to death by with scalding hot water will face no punishment for their actions.

via Breaking Brown

A mentally ill inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution near Miami, Florida was tortured to death by prison guards, but investigators determined that there is not enough evidence to charge the guards.

Darren Rainey was serving a two year sentence for cocaine possession when he was forced into a locked shower by prison guards as punishment for defecating in his cell, says one inmate. Once Rainey was inside the shower, guards blasted him with scalding hot water as he begged for his life.

According to The Miami Herald, an inmate housed on the floor above the shower heard Rainey’s cries for help.

“I can't take it no more, I'm sorry. I won’t do it again,’’ Rainey shouted, the inmate said.

Saddest of all, Rainey was only a month away from the end of his sentence when guards turned the hot water to the highest setting and boiled him to death in the shower.

A report by Dade Department of Corrections Inspector General Jeffrey Beasley determined that Rainey was locked in the shower by prison guard Roland Clarke at 7:38 pm two years ago. By the time Rainey’s body was found, his skin had began to peel away from his body.

The state has still not completed Rainey’s autopsy, causing investigators to call off the inquiry.

SMH. Prisoners definitely don’t deserve top-of-the-line treatment, but this sounds like a clear cut case of blatant brutality.

- See more at: http://bossip.com/970740/brutality-officers-avoid-charges-after-scalding-mentally-ill-black-inmate-to-death-with-hot-water-until-his-skin-peeled/#sthash.PXVYLU3k.dpuf

White Officer Shoots Hispanic Man In The Head In Broad Daylight: Officer Involved Shooting - Salinas, CA 05/20/2014

The California Latino community is rightfully in an uproar over the fatal shooting of an Hispanic man by a white police officer earlier this week. According to Aljazeera reports, officers were responding to a 911 call where a woman claimed that a male intruder had entered her home, tried to kill her dog, and exposed his genitals.

The officers reportedly encountered the suspect on the street carrying gardening shears and claimed that they fired after a failed taser attempt when he “lunged at them” while refusing to stop walking when instructed. However, the video footage above tells a slightly different story.

- See more at: http://bossip.com/969076/race-matters-community-outraged-after-white-officer-shoots-unarmed-hispanic-suspect-in-the-head-in-broad-daylight-graphic-video/#sthash.fZrnFMWr.dpuf

Beckel: 'Not Sure' Condoleezza Rice Should Be 'a Symbol' for Black People

Here we go again with white folks trying to determine who should and shouldn’t be a “symbol” for black people.

According to National Review:

Given Condoleezza Rice​’s middle-class upbringing, black children in the inner cities should probably not look to her for inspiration, argues Fox News Democratic commentator Bob Beckel.

Contrasting Rice’s 2012 Republican National Convention speech with Eric Holder’s commencement speech over the weekend in which he warned students about enduring racism, Beckel said on Monday’s The Five that he saw “a lot of truth” to Holder’s remarks, including his 2009 “nation of cowards” comments. While “we have made a long and determined road away from Jim Crow,” Beckel said racism still exists.

“Let’s also keep in mind: She grew up in a middle-class black family, and we’re talking here about people in the inner city,” Beckel said on Monday. “I’m not sure Condoleezza Rice​ is the person I would necessarily turn to as a symbol for these people who live in the ghetto.”

http://bossip.com/967917/fox-news-democratic-strategist-condoleezza-rice-is-not-the-right-symbol-for-black-people-in-the-ghetto-video/

Do you agree with this guy??? Well Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros did NOT and got with him during the segment…watch more below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVz-D7E2nrk

Ruth Hull: Santa Ana Police Department Takes Payoffs to Jail the Innocent

Residents demand an end to corrupt contract between Santa Ana PD and I.C.E. (Photo: Ruth Hull)

In Santa Ana, real criminals never need fear arrest as police get money to arrest law-abiding fathers, brothers, sisters, and children who have committed no crime except for failing to have their proof of citizenship. Do you have yours?

In Santa Ana, crime victims are rarely able to obtain assistance from the police when it’s needed. Police routinely ignore bruises, broken windows, and evidence of extreme violence.. Policemen laugh as girls report child sexual abuse. Officers watch as elderly victims of torture are carried into ambulances. After the victims are removed, these officers allow violent intruders to occupy their homes. (Orange County case files: 30-2011-00503154-CU-PO-CJC) Residents have been stunned by the lack of police support for actual crime victims in Santa Ana. But now the puzzle has been solved.

The Santa Ana Police Department is taking payoffs from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to pick up law abiding people, fitting a racial profile, who have misplaced their identification or documents. Former Police Chief Paul Walters stated, “We treat [the jail] as a business,” Often these people, mostly Latinos, are legal citizens or residents. Has your driver’s license ever been missing? If so, there could be a cell in Santa Ana for you. But only if you fit the profile.

Roughly two thirds of the nation’s immigrant detainees are being held in local jails. Santa Ana has created two special dormitories for the purpose of housing undocumented residents.

70% of those picked up for the ICE holds have never violated any law. Of the remaining 30%, most of the violations are infractions – like speeding. In exchange for warehousing law-abiding people, the City of Santa Ana receives $87/day under a contract with ICE. It was estimated that payouts had been over $55 million in 2008 and roughly $57 million in 2009. The idea behind the SAPD contract with ICE was to make up for a budget shortfall. Eventually the detaiinee may be deported - even if he is a U.S. citizen.

Families have been broken up. Children have been orphaned. Neighborhoods have been thrown into tragedy by these racist tactics, reminiscent of the American roundups of Asians during World War II. Here, the incarceration is worse than the re-location of the 1940’s. The immigrant detention facilities in Orange County are among the nation’s worst.

Fed up with the Santa Ana Police Department’s racist incarcerations for $$, residents of Santa Ana came out in mass to the Santa Ana City Council meeting of May 6, 2013. Some people came to the meeting to speak on other issues and found themselves using their time to speak out against the ICE contract.

One of the most touching speakers was Villamar Ortiz, accompanied by her nine year old daughter Madeline Peralta. Though Madeline is a U.S. Citizen, like her mother, her father Marco was taken by the Santa Ana Police Department on February 15, 2013 and is still being held while the police rake in $87/day for his incarceration – even though he committed no crime.

Christian Larsen pointed out that victims of domestic violence don’t dare speak out as speaking out will get them held and deported. As a domestic violence victim, myself, I know that it is very common for batterers to take the identification of their victims. Women who fit SAPD’s profile for immigrants will find themselves in a different kind of prison if they try to leave their violent abusers.

Scott Sink gave a scholarly speech about how NAFTA and the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has destroyed the livelihood of Mexican farmers. We force undocumented workers up here and then local police lock them up for profit as part of the prison industrial complex.

It was pointed out that Barack Obama’s deportation of almost two million immigrants, has broken up families and created a climate of fear across America. Later, even City Counsel members spoke on the need to discuss reform of federal policies.

Former Police Chief and former City Manager Paul Walters, who ushered in the policy of corruption, was fired earlier this year. Other problems relating to the city management by Walters included discrimination against the elderly, the disabled and crime victims. At the December City Council meeting, it was pointed out that crime victims were being charged for services rendered to perpetrators of crimes against them. Later the utility services of crime victims were cut if they could not pay the perpetrators’ bills. The corruption was more extensive than that.. The city continued to bill crime victims large sums for services not received at their residents for dates after the services were terminated and not even offered. To increase the losses to crime victims, the city fined them for not have having the services which the city had terminated. This problem has continued and was brought up at the May 6th meeting in the hopes of abating this discrimination against helpless crime victims.

In her comments, city Councilwoman Michelle Martinez expressed her concerns about the ICE contract and asked for an evaluation of the impact of terminating it. A resolution was being prepared by City Attorney Sonia Carvolho, who was present at the meeting. Mayor Miguel Pullido asked that one of the members add the issue of the ICE contract to the agenda for the next meeting.

It remains to be seen what steps Santa Ana will take to end discrimination against immigrants, the elderly, crime victims and the disabled in Santa Ana. The discussion at the end of the meeting provided some hope that there would be change.

Ruth Hull is an activist and writer whose career has included work as a criminal defense attorney, a licensed private investigator, and an educator. She is a regular contributor at Digital Journal.

Obama Called N-word By Unapologetic Police Commissioner

"I believe I did use the 'N' word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse," Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who is white, said in a recent email to his fellow commissioners, according to the Associated Press. "For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."

Video of cop kicking student during arrest prompts investigation

PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=041ItKgLhnk

Published on May 9, 2014

Police Officer in Boynton Beach goes too far when he chokes a child as he brings him off of a school bus. Later in the second part of this incident he trips the child causing him to hit his head hard on the ground. 

Video of cop kicking student during arrest prompts investigation: Youtube video by Takashi Katsu.

Black High School Student beat up by Multiple NYPD Cops

Once again the notorious street gang known as the NYPD has been caught on video mercilessly beating up a teenage child already on the ground and not going anywhere. The police are not struggling to handcuff the teen but instead are slamming his head on the sidewalk while others punch, kick,knee and poke him with a flashlight. 

They obviously want to hurt this kid bad and are not even taken into consideration he may be suffer from a mental illness and can not comprehend what is happening to him.

In the wake of the recent mass shooting at a Newton Connecticut school some people are calling for police to be in the schools, for minority children and the poor this could prove harmful or even deadly to students. 

For the American people to give up their right to be armed in exchange for police protection would prove to be the most disastrous mistake we could ever make. We would be leaving ourselves at the mercy of abusive thugs in uniform that believe they are empower to do whatever they want to anyone.

The police operate like mindless brutes eager to hurt citizens rather than protect them, they should by no means have exclusive rights to be armed over law abiding citizens who do not have a mandatory ticket and arrest quota which has led to the abuse and extortion of countless citizens.

Hidden Colors 3: The Rules Of Racism (Trailer)

The highly anticipated documentary film Hidden Colors 3 will be in select theaters around the country on June 26th 2014. Go to http://hiddencolorsfilm.com for more details.

North Korean Media Publishes Racist Obama Attack

"The White House — which often ignores the rhetorical excesses of the North Korean regime — suggested that the new comments from the Korean Central News Agency were especially repugnant.

The tirade declared, "It would be perfect for Obama to live with a group of monkeys in the world's largest African natural zoo and lick the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators."

NEW Donald Sterling Audio Tape Says HE was Jealous (Racists or Black Penis Envy?)

Yesterday, Donald Sterling’s reaction to his racism scandal was heard for the first time, as he insisted “I’m not a racist,” on RadarOnline.com’s bombshell secret audio tape.

Now, in an explosive second recording, the Los Angeles Clippers owner reveals what he says is the true reason for his hateful comments — He wanted to sleep with his assistant and rumored mistress, V. Stiviano. Only RadarOnline.com has the jaw-dropping recording of Sterling as he tries to explain away his vile words with empty excuses and crude sexual comments.

As Radar has reported, Sterling lavished his personal assistant Stiviano with luxury gifts for years, but sources insist she never slept with him in return. And according to the new recording acquired by Radar, he was trying to change that when he launched into his racist rant during a phone conversation with Stiviano.

Now, in an explosive second recording, the Los Angeles Clippers owner reveals what he says is the true reason for his hateful comments — He wanted to sleep with his assistant and rumored mistress, V. Stiviano. Only RadarOnline.com has the jaw-dropping recording of Sterling as he tries to explain away his vile words with empty excuses and crude sexual comments.

As Radar has reported, Sterling lavished his personal assistant Stiviano with luxury gifts for years, but sources insist she never slept with him in return. And according to the new recording acquired by Radar, he was trying to change that when he launched into his racist rant during a phone conversation with Stiviano.

In that tape, “I’m talking to a girl. I’m trying to have sex with her,” Sterling explains to a long-time friend in the recently recorded phone conversation obtained by Radar. “I’m trying to play with her. If you were trying to have sex with a girl and you’re talking to her privately and you don’t think anybody’s there, you may say anything in the world!”

- See more at: http://bossip.com/962204/gtfohwtbs-donald-sterling-admits-his-racist-rant-was-fueled-by-jealousy-of-the-black-schlong-audio-43081/#sthash.ldAipJ47.dpuf

Deputy charged in deadly basketball fight

VIDEO: Deputy charged in deadly basketball fight: First at ten tonight, deadly basketball fight. A Hinds County deputy is under arrest and charged with murder.

RELEASE US - a short film on police brutality by Charles Shaw (feat. Random Rab

500 innocent Americans are murdered by police every year (USDOJ). 5,000 since 9/11, equal to the number of US soldiers lost in Iraq. 

In 1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus Cold War era military equipment to local police departments.

In the 20 years since, weaponry designed for use on a foreign battlefield, has been handed over for use on American streets...against American citizens.

The "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror" replaced the Cold War with billions in funding and dozens of laws geared towards this new "war" against its own citizens.

This militarization of the police force has created what is being called an "epidemic of police brutality" sweeping the nation.

RELEASE US

a short film by Charles Shaw

featuring the track 'RELEASE" by Random Rab

and excerpts from the films

"THE EXILE NATION PROJECT" by Charles Shaw

Drug Sting Ends With Cops Jamming Object Down Teens Throat, Killing Him

"The mother of a 17-year-old boy has filed a federal lawsuit against the Huntsville Police Department claiming that officers killed the boy by tackling him to the ground, breaking his ribs, pepper-spraying him, and shoving a sharp object down his throat.

In March, the boy's mother, Nancy Smith, filed the claim for assault and battery, wrongful death and excessive force.

The young man, whose first name is not mentioned in the lawsuit, was allegedly set up in a drug bust. When plainclothes officers -- who did not identify themselves as officers -- approached Smith, he fled."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

Teen Dead After Alabama Police Cut Throat Open To Retrieve Drugs

Read more at: 

http://libertycrier.com/teen-dead-alabama-police-cut-throat-open-retrieve-drugs/#ZvlAXe9g5F50Rl2R.99

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

A mother claims her 17-year-old son died at the hands of Huntsville Police. Nancy Smith filed a federal lawsuit in March claiming assault and battery, wrongful death and excessive force among other things.

In the suit, Smith alleges her family has not been interviewed by Huntsville Police and that she had been refused a copy of her son’s autopsy report.

The cause of death was ruled undetermined, according to an autopsy performed by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. The autopsy report stated the findings included blunt force injuries and anoxic/hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, which is when the brain does not receive enough oxygen.

The lawsuit claims Smith’s son was set up in a drug sting by Huntsville Police using an 18-year-old confidential informant. The lawsuit states that at some point an officer in plain clothes ran towards Smith’s son without identifying themselves. According to the court documents Smith son ran. The documents went on to say an officer threw him to the ground, cuffed him and pepper-sprayed him. The autopsy report also stated the teenager’s neck was restrained.

The lawsuit claims police told paramedics the 17-year-old swallowed a bag of drugs. Smith and her lawyers contend a bag of drugs was never found in his stomach. The autopsy report also does not indicate anything unusual found in the teen’s stomach.

In an effort to retrieve the alleged bag, the lawsuit claims police had to shove a sharp object into the teen’s throat.

The autopsy report stated Smith's son was about six feet tall and weighed about 150 pounds.

The Huntsville Police Department and the Huntsville city attorney have not commented on the case.

You can read the full lawsuit in PDF format here.

Donald Sterling Showed Off Players' 'Beautiful Black Bodies'

"Former Clippers executive Elgin Baylor, who once sued Donald Sterling alleging discriminatory treatment, believes NBA commissioner Adam Silver did the right thing by imposing a lifetime ban on the disgraced Clippers owner, who was caught on tape making a series of racist remarks.

"Justice has been served," Baylor said in an interview with CNN. "Look at it that way. They know what Donald is like. The things I said before about Donald are absolutely true."

Baylor, 79, was an 11-time All-Star during his Hall of Fame career with the Lakers. After retiring in 1972, Baylor briefly pursued a career in coaching. In 1986, he was hired by the Clippers as GM and he remained in that position until 2008. The following year, Baylor sued Sterling for wrongful termination and initially accused Sterling of age and racial discrimination."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

Report on botched Oklahoma execution reveals Clayton Lockett was shocked with stun gun, injected in groin

"The botched Oklahoma execution of Clayton Lockett was largely due to a collapsed vein during the lethal injection, and the needle was inserted in the groin area instead of the arm after prison officials used a stun gun to restrain him, a prisons report said on Thursday."

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks breaks down the story and discusses reactions from Donny Deutsch, Senator Tom Coburn and Senator James Inhofe. 

"Pressed on "Morning Joe," Senator Tom Coburn conceded that the episode raises questions "about the death penalty and whether or not that, in and of itself, is appropriate and whether you can do that humanely." But Coburn said the number of botched lethal injections is "very, very small." "Humans make errors," Coburn said.

Read more from Politico here:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/tom-coburn-oklahoma-executions-106228.html#ixzz30W8LybWi

Read more from Reuters here: 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/01/usa-execution-oklahoma-idUSL2N0NN1TK20140501

http://www.newsmax.com/US/stun-gun-botched-execution-restrain/2014/05/01/id/569032/

Prison officials in Oklahoma inserted lethal drugs into an inmate's groin after failing to find a vein elsewhere during an execution that went wrong.

They took 51 minutes to find a suitable vein and did not realise the one they chose in his groin had collapsed.

Clayton Lockett succumbed to a heart attack 10 minutes after his execution was stopped, as he writhed and mumbled.

The corrections department disclosed new details of his last moments in a letter to the state governor.

It shows that Lockett fought with guards attempting to remove him from his cell on the morning of his execution.

He was subsequently shocked with a stun gun and taken to a prison infirmary, where a cut said to be self-inflicted was treated.

17:27 - Lockett restrained on execution table

17:27 - Doctor begins looking for a vein

18:18 - Insertion in groin complete, covered with sheet

18:23 - Sedative administered

18:33 - Doctor declares Lockett unconscious, second and third drugs injected

18:42 - Lockett is restless, shades lowered

18:44 - Vein collapse discovered

18:56 - Execution halted

19:06 - Lockett dies from a heart attack

All times local - Central Time

The intravenous line was placed in Lockett's groin and covered with a sheet, according to prisons director Robert Patton's letter to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, which included a detailed timeline.

It became dislodged and was not discovered until 21 minutes after the execution began and all the lethal drugs had been administered.

"The drugs had either absorbed into tissue, leaked out or both," Mr Patton wrote.

"The director asked the following question, 'Have enough drugs been administered to cause death?' The doctor responded, 'No.'"

The doctor detected a faint heartbeat and Mr Patton halted the execution but it was too late to save Lockett's life.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (left) has called for 

a review into the execution of inmate Clayton Lockett

Charles Warner's execution was initially rescheduled for 13 May, but Ms Fallin said on Thursday she was open to issuing a 60-day stay if need be.

"If it does require more time, then yes, I think they should take more time," she told US media. "We need to get it right."

Ms Fallin also ordered an "independent review" of the state's execution protocols, saying the state's department of public safety would lead the inquiry.

Her call for a review was echoed by Mr Patton in his letter.

Lockett was sentenced to death for shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999.

Ms Neiman and a friend had interrupted the men as they robbed a home.

The problems surrounding Lockett's execution come amid a wider debate over the legality of the three-drug method and whether its use violates guarantees in the US constitution "against cruel and unusual punishment".

US states have encountered increasing problems in obtaining the drugs for lethal injections, amid an embargo by European pharmaceutical firms.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/oklahoma-clayton-lockett-tasered-before-botched-execution

Clayton Lockett, the death-row inmate who was the subject of a botched execution by the state of Oklahoma, was Tasered by prison staff and had cut his own arm on the day of the failed procedure, according to a timeline released by the state's corrections chief on Thursday.

The document released by the director of the corrections department, Robert Patton, shows that medical staff could not find a suitable vein on any of his limbs in which to inject the lethal drugs intended to kill him, and had to use his groin instead. Lockett died, apparently from a heart attack, 43 minutes after his attempted execution began and 10 minutes after it had been called off.

Patton recommended an indefinite stay of executions in Oklahoma until procedures for judicial killings in the state are completely rewritten and staff retrained. The execution of another inmate, Charles Warner, also due to have been carried out on Tuesday, has already been postponed.

“It will take several days or possibly weeks to refine the new protocols,” Patton wrote in a letter to the Republican governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin. “Once written, staff will require extensive training and understanding of new protocols before an execution can be scheduled. I recommend asking the court of criminal appeals to issue an indefinite stay of execution.” Patton said he supported an “external investigation” of Lockett's death.

Fallin said on Thursday that she had the authority to grant a 60-day moratorium before the attorney general would petition the appeals court for an extension. “We need to take as long as possible to get the answer right,” she told reporters.

Alex Weintz, a spokesman for Fallin, said the state “will not proceed with any executions until department of corrections protocols can be reviewed and updated, and staff then trained to implement those new protocols.”

The timeline published by Oklahoma details a chaotic scene in the death chamber before and during the failed execution, as staff struggle to place an intravenous line into Lockett, report that he was unconscious, but then did not spot that the IV connection had failed because they had covered Lockett groin with a sheet, to prevent that area of his body from being seen by witnesses.

The document is notable as much for what it leaves out as for what it reveals: there is no mention of the three minutes in which witnesses saw Lockett thrashing violently on the gurney and attempting to speak, despite having been declared unconscious. Neither does it say anything about what happened in the ten minutes between the procedure being called off and the moment Lockett died.

Lawyers, state officials and journalists from media groups including the Guardian witnessed the first 16 minutes of the attempted execution before officials drew the blinds that separated the viewing room from the death chamber. For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.

Oklahoma corrections director Robert Patton addresses the media about the execution of Clayton Lockett. 

Photograph: John Clanton/AP

Lockett was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of a 19-year-old, Stephanie Neiman, during a home invasion the previous year. She survived the initial assault, and Lockett ordered two accomplices to bury her alive. He also raped one of her friends. His accomplices are serving life sentences.

Neiman had graduated from high school only two weeks before her death. Her parents, Steve and Susie Neiman, supported Lockett's sentence. After his death on Tuesday, the Neimans issued a statement, saying: “We are thankful this day has finally arrived and justice will finally be served.”

The timeline released by Patton shows that just after 5am on Tuesday, Lockett had refused to be restrained when officers arrived to take him for X-rays. A correctional emergency response team (Cert) was called to use force on him, and he was Tasered at 5.50am. Three minutes later he was found to have a self-inflicted cut on his arm. At 8.15am, the wound was determined not to be serious enough to require sutures.

Oklahoma's timeline also goes into detail about what happened before and during the attempted execution. At 5.22pm, Lockett was restrained on the execution table, but a suitable vein could not be found anywhere on his body in which to insert an intravenous line. Veins on his legs and arms were rejected before a doctor examined his neck, and then finally his groin.

The timeline reveals that the insertion point was covered by a sheet “to prevent witness viewing of the groin area”. The execution began at 6.23pm with the injection of the first of a cocktail of three drugs, but the intravenous line – covered by the sheet – was only checked after 6.44pm, when the blinds between the execution chamber and the viewing room were lowered.

The report says: “The doctor checked the IV and reported the blood vein had collapsed, and the drugs had either absorbed into tissue, leaked out or both. The warden immediately contacted the director by phone and reported the information to the director.”

According to the timeline, Patton asked if enough drugs had been administered to cause death, to which the doctor replied “no”. The director then asked if another vein was available to complete the execution, and if so, were there enough drugs left. The doctor answered no to both questions, the timeline reveals.

The doctor reported a “faint heartbeat”, and at 6.56pm, Patton called off the execution. The timeline does not detail what happened between then and 7.06pm, when Lockett was declared dead.

At an open meeting of the board of corrections on Thursday, Patton refused to answer a question from the Guardian about whether any attempts were made to revive Lockett, and walked out of the room.

Fallin was asked later whether she believed that what happened to Lockett was constitutional. “That will be answered by the courts and by those that are in authority,” the governor said, adding that she did not know if any attempts had been made to resuscitate Lockett after the execution was called off.

Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin. Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP

Attorneys for Lockett and Warner had challenged Oklahoma's secrecy about the source of death penalty drugs, which is permitted under a state law enacted in 2011. The state used a cocktail of drugs in Tuesday's procedure in dosages that were untested in American executions. But the timeline appears to indicate that problems with the execution could be attributed to the failure even to inject the drugs properly.

Madeline Cohen, a lawyer for Warner, the second of the two inmates due to have been put to death on Tuesday, agreed with Patton's conclusion that an indefinite suspension of executions was necessary.

“As the Oklahoma department of corrections dribbles out piecemeal information about Clayton Lockett's botched execution, they have revealed that Mr Lockett was killed using an invasive and painful method – an IV line in his groin,” she said. “Placing such a femoral IV line requires highly specialised medical training and expertise.

“Furthermore, the timeline the department of corrections has released strongly indicates that the femoral IV was never properly inserted, and the drugs were injected into Mr Lockett's flesh, rather than his veins,” she said.

Specialists expressed particular alarm that the final minutes of the attempted execution were obscured from public view. “It’s abysmal that they had the gall to close the curtains at a time when transparency was essential,” said one expert familiar with drugs used in Oklahoma’s botched execution of Lockett, who declined to be named. “That’s when witnesses were most needed to report back what happened to the rest of the country.”

The expert said that it should have been possible to save Lockett’s life once the execution had been called off and even after the drugs had been administered. Medics could have very likely saved Lockett by deploying a breathing tube, placing him on a ventilator, and applying tourniquets to his arms to prevent the drugs reaching his heart, the specialist said.

Cohen expressed concern about the failure by the timeline released on Thursday to account for what happened in the ten minutes between the suspension of Lockett's execution and his death. “We need so many answers,” she said

On Wednesday, Fallin directed the Oklahoma department of public safety to review what happened to Lockett. Lockett's body was moved overnight to the Southwestern Institute for Forensic Science in Dallas, which will carry out a postmortem examination.

Lockett's attorneys expressed doubt that the review would be independent. The commissioner of the department of public safety, Michael Thompson, is a Fallin appointee and was in the execution viewing room on Tuesday night. Fallin “did not assign this duty to a neutral, third party with independent interests”, said Dean Sanderford, an attorney for Lockett.


“Instead, she has charged the commissioner of the department of public safety with the job. The DPS is a state agency, and its commissioner reports to the governor. As such, the review proposed by governor Fallin would not be conducted by a neutral, independent entity. In order to understand exactly what went wrong in [Tuesday’s] horrific execution, and restore any confidence in the execution process, the death of Clayton Lockett must be investigated by a truly independent organisation, not a state employee or agency.”