This happened today on my way to the post office. The kids were 12. They had supposedly pushed one of their classmates down. However when the victim was asked, he said those weren't the guys. They were still taken away. 12. Years. Old. Sarah Doneghy
Friday, December 19, 2014
Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice Was Deemed Unfit For Duty 2 Years Ago
"The Cleveland police officer who fatally shot a 12-year-old holding a replica gun in November was deemed unsuited for police service two years ago, newly released documents show.
Timothy Loehmann, now 26, was employedby the City of Independence Police Department in Independence, Ohio, for six months in 2012, the Guardian reports. In an internal memo from that November, Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak criticized Loehmann’s behavior during a firearms training .” *
St Louis PD Posts Horribly Insensitive Tamir Rice Facebook Post
“Thursday, the St. Louis County Police department in Fenton decided to weigh in on the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland.
The status message, entitled “Kids will be Kids?” was posted to the Fenton police department’s Facebook page.
Fenton is near Ferguson and also a part of St. Louis County. The status post didn’t focus on the actions of the officer in the Rice shooting but instead directed its attention to the role children may play."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Ferguson Marchers Challenged With Fried Chicken & Watermelon
"In video taken as the group passed through the tiny town, marchers appeared to keep their heads high as the hostile protesters--one of them wearing something akin to a KKK hood--yelled obscenities and told them to get back to work.
I've been brought up to know how to deal with people like that,' marcher Cheyenne Willis told the Missourian. 'I ignore them and keep moving forward...The comments that we saw are pure ignorance.'” *
Racist Text Messages Gets Cop In Trouble
“The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department revealed this week that five deputies were under investigation for allegedly sending racist text messages while on duty.
In a statement on Tuesday, Sheriff Phil Plummer said that two of the five deputies — Sheriff’s Capt. Thomas J. Flanders and Detective Michael J. Sollenberger — had been placed on indefinite paid administrative leave starting on Dec. 1. ” *
Another Unarmed Black Man Shot By A Cop
"The deadly shooting of a black, unarmed drug suspect by a white Phoenix police officer who mistook a pill bottle for a gun demonstrates the challenges law enforcement agencies face at a time of unrest over police tactics.
Phoenix police say the officer feared the suspect was armed during their struggle, but some critics say the officer went too far. Despite the department's efforts to be transparent with information, protesters marched Thursday night against the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon.
About 150 took part in the march through the streets of downtown Phoenix to police headquarters, while also calling for an end to what they say is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Another Unarmed Black Man Shot By A Cop
"The deadly shooting of a black, unarmed drug suspect by a white Phoenix police officer who mistook a pill bottle for a gun demonstrates the challenges law enforcement agencies face at a time of unrest over police tactics.
Phoenix police say the officer feared the suspect was armed during their struggle, but some critics say the officer went too far. Despite the department's efforts to be transparent with information, protesters marched Thursday night against the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon.
About 150 took part in the march through the streets of downtown Phoenix to police headquarters, while also calling for an end to what they say is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Cop Mistakenly Shoots Man, Instead Of Dialing 911, He Texts His Union
"While Akai Gurley was dying in a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn housing development, the cop who fired the fatal bullet was texting his union representative, sources told the Daily News.
Right after rookie cop Peter Liang discharged a single bullet that struck Gurley, 28, he and his partner Shaun Landau were incommunicado for more than six and a half minutes, sources said Thursday.
In the critical moments after the Nov. 20 shooting, the cops’ commanding officer and an emergency operator — responding to a 911 call from a neighbor and knowing the duo was in the area — tried to reach them in vain, sources said."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Tim Wise Educates on black Jesus/Santa!! MUST WATCH
Mel Robbins, Time Wise, Rochelle Oliver debate on CNN's Out Front, Fox News' Megyn Kelly's statement of a white Jesus and white Santa.
Derek Williams in the police car before he died -WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
Woman to sue police after her boyfriend was filmed dying in back of patrol car and was left gasping for air for eight minutes before being given CPR
Black teen dies in police custody
Investigators in Tennessee are looking into how an 18-year-old man died while in police custody. The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro reports that Andron Reed died after officers arrested him Friday night.
American Cops Kill With Startling Frequency Compared To Other Nations
"Michael Brown’s death was part of a tragic and unacceptable pattern: Police officers in the United States shoot and kill civilians in shockingly high numbers. How many killings are there each year? No one can say for sure, because police departments don’t want us to know.
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, in 2013 there were 461 “justifiable homicides” by police — defined as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.” In all but three of these reported killings, officers used firearms.
Eugene Robinson writes a twice-a-week column on politics and culture, contributes to the PostPartisan blog, and hosts a weekly online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s Style section.
The true number of fatal police shootings is surely much higher, however, because many law enforcement agencies do not report to the FBI database. Attempts by journalists to compile more complete data by collating local news reports have resulted in estimates as high as 1,000 police killings a year. There is no way to know how many victims, like Brown, were unarmed.
By contrast, there were no fatal police shootings in Great Britain last year. Not one."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Mike Brown Shooting & The War on Black America
Michael Brown was wrongfully targeted for execution in order to antagonize the black population in Ferguson to riot and create "Unrest" in order to further racial divide. Why did the Ferguson "incident" happen just days away from the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots?; Black Boule Cape Crusaders & FBI's War on Black America
Couple Mocks Chokehold That Killed Eric Garner On Live TV
"As thousands marched on Midtown Manhattan last night in protest of a Staten Island grand jury's decision to not indict the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, two compassionate Americans walked into WPIX's live broadcast, noticed the camera, and mimed Daniel Pantaleo's chokehold that killed Garner.”
Motorist Hits Protestors, Waves Gun, Is Chased, Arrested & Still Alive
“St. Louis police took a man into custody on Wednesday for driving his minivan into a group of protesters and then waving a handgun at them.
According to the St. Louis Dispatch, activists were preparing for a “die-in” demonstration, which includes lying in the street, in Maryland Plaza at around 8 p.m. to protest the decision not to charge the officer whose illegal use of a chokehold resulted in the death of Eric Garner.
“As they did, a man driving a Town and Country minivan drove through the intersection and accelerated through the crowd,” the paper reported. “One woman was seen crouching on the hood of the minivan as the van continued forward. She fell off as the vehicle rounded a curve.”
After a short chase, protesters were able to stop the driver. In photos taken by the Post-Dispatch‘s David Carson, a male white driver in his 50s can be seen brandishing a semiautomatic handgun. Reports said that protesters broke the man’s window at one point."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Police brutality? Man shot himself in the chest while handcuffed in the ...
Police brutality? Man shot himself in the chest while handcuffed in the back, Louisiana coroner says
PROOF CHARLES SMITH WAS HANDCUFFED AND UNARMED WHEN POLICE EXECUTED HIM
A Savannah, Georgia, police officer killed a handcuffed, and armed, man as he tried to bust out of a patrol car. - LoneWolf & The Three Muskadoggies Please...
CHARLES SMITH 29 YEAR OLD BLACK MAN FROM SAVANNAH,GEORGIA WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE HANDCUFFED BY POLICE IN THE BACK SEAT OF A POLICE CAR. VIDEO FOOTAGE .
Police say a Savannah, Georgia, police officer killed a handcuffed, armed man Thursday as the man tried to break out of a patrol car, a shooting that stirred.
New Tape Of Eric Garner Killing Shows Him Cuffed & Lifeless
"It’s the second Eric Garner video that made me cry.
Not the one where Officer Daniel Pantaleo chokes Garner for 15 seconds before smashing his head into the sidewalk for 10 seconds as other cops hold down and cuff Garner, ignoring the pleas he issued with the last air in his lungs:
“I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.”
It’s the video shot minutes later as Garner lies dying among men and women in uniforms, men and women who seemed not to give half a damn, that broke me down."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Ferguson Prosecutor Bob McCulloch: Corrupt or Incompetent?
"Ferguson reminds us that we still have a race problem in America. But the face of this problem is not Darren Wilson's. It's Bob McCulloch's.
Wilson, the Missouri police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, is the target of most public ire. But no responsible person thought Wilson's killing of Michael Brown was premeditated. Even if prosecutors tried him on lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter, they might well have come up empty, and most people would have accepted that result of a fair trial.
What causes the outrage, and the despair, is the joke of a grand-jury proceeding run under the auspices of McCulloch, the St. Louis County prosecutor. In September, I wrote that it appeared he wasn't even trying to get an indictment; he had a long record of protecting police in such cases, and his decision not to recommend a specific charge to the grand jury essentially guaranteed there would be no indictment.
"* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.
Cops Sue After Firing 137 Times, Killing Unarmed Black Couple
"Nine Cleveland police officers involved in a high-speed car chase that left two unarmed black people dead have sued the city’s police department for racial discrimination.
The November 2012 chase, which left two people dead after police fired 137 shots, prompted considerable scrutiny of the Cleveland police department’s use of force. Both those killed were unarmed. Criticism was renewed last week after officers shot dead a 12-year-old boy, Tamir Rice, who was carrying a replica gun.
Eight white and one Hispanic officer are plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit. They claim the police department has repeatedly punished non-black officers more harshly than black officers in incidents involving shootings of black people."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Charles Barkley: Where ignorance and arrogance collide in one misguided...
Charles Barkley has said a lot these days about the cases of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Most of his remarks haven't made much sense, but they are nationally-televised nonetheless. Part of the reason that Barkley gets to keep his platform is not because of his intellectual prowess, but because he makes for good entertainment for white people.
Barkley provides an interesting mix of ignorance and arrogance that is often seen in someone who doesn't understand something, but somehow feels that his wealth and fame make him a defacto expert on things he knows nothing about. The problem with Barkley firing his mouth off like a water hose is that real people are affected when he is called upon as a representative of the black community on critical social issues. In that regard, Barkley is both dangerous and irritating to those who are seeking meaningful racial progress.
These are my raw thoughts on Barkley, and I excuse my profanity on the matter. But there are times when you just have to be honest about how you feel and with this man, I have no interest in holding back.
NYC council members express solidarity with anti-racism protests
Protests continue throughout New York City, in response to the killing of Eric Garner, who was strangled to death by police officers. Police have used Pepper spray, and over three hundred protesters have been arrested.
Before proceedings began at City Hall, a number of council members symbolically blocked traffic, showing support for the protests. After blocking traffic, the council members proceeded into city hall, joined by clergy and anti-racist activists.
Did White People Learn From Eric Garner What They Didn’t From Michael Brown
"An NYPD investigation into the police-custody death of Eric Garner has begun, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday.
The city’s top cop told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the department began interviewing police officers Friday who were involved in the July arrest when Garner died. Bratton said the NYPD could not interview those cops during the criminal investigation, which resulted in a grand jury declining to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who placed Garner in an apparent chokehold.
Bratton said the NYPD investigation will take “upwards of three to four months,” but will likely be wrapped up well before the Department of Justice’s civil rights probe, which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week."* The Young Turks hosts John Iadarola (TYT University), Ben Mankiewicz and Wes Clark Jr break it down.
Gut Wrenching Audio About Eric Garner Case
"Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday night the Department of Justice would proceed with a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict the NYPD officer who put Garner in a fatal chokehold.
After the grand jury’s decision was announced Wednesday, Holder released a statement saying now that the local investigation is complete, the DOJ will investigate potential federal civil rights violations surrounding Garner’s death and will review all material gathered during the local investigation.
Eric Garner, a 43-year-old unarmed black man, died July 17 after a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, put Garner in what appeared to be a chokehold, an action NYPD strictly prohibits. The incident was caught on cellphone camera. During the video Garner, who suffered from asthma, could be heard shouting, “I can’t breathe” at least eight times. The medical examiner had ruled Garner’s death as a homicide. Charges that could have been filed against Pantaleo ranged from murder to reckless endangerment."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Cop Gets Away With Punching & Seriously Injuring Handcuffed Woman
"Federal prosecutors say they will review an incident in which a Seattle police officer punched and seriously injured a handcuffed, intoxicated woman, after King County prosecutors said Friday they won’t charge the officer.
Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes, said her office will look at the June 22 incident involving Officer Adley Shepherd for a possible federal criminal civil-rights violation.
The decision comes after King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced that his office would not seek a state felony charge against Shepherd, 38, a nine-year department veteran, for punching Miyekko Durden-Bosley in the back of his police cruiser.” *
White people try to hide black history. Blacks civilized the world. Anthony Anaxagorou
History hidden to justify atrocities committed against black people, in the common era.
White Man tells the Ignored Truths of Black History
The documented facts about Black history and also the facts about the true and false Israelites and why its so aggressively hidden from people of African descent. Research it for yourself
The Debate - US Police Brutality (P.1 &2 ) (12.13.2014)
PART 1
PART 2
Thousands of people converge on the US capital, Washington, to demand justice for black men who have killed by white police officers. Similar protests are expected in New York and elsewhere, the latest in weeks of demonstrations across the US against police brutality against racial minorities. At a time of heightened tensions over the race issue, specifically African-Americans, in this edition of the Debate we'll ask if such marches will be enough to get Washington's politicians moving on the issue of an unjust system, seemingly stacked against African Americans. Why does 6 decades after the African-American Civil Rights Movement which sought to end racial discrimination against black Americans, the goal remain farfetched in the eyes of many Americans?
4 Year Old Girl Cries After Being Rejected By A Classmate Because She Is Black
A video of 4-year-old London James in tears has nearly 8 million views on Facebook. The Missouri child is crying on camera saying a girl doesn't want to be her friend because she's black. This experience is something black people must face in this nation.
FBI probes hanging death of black teen in N Carolina
In the US, the FBI has launched an investigation into the hanging death of a black teenager in North Carolina months after it was declared a suicide.
17-year-old Lennon Lacy was found hanging from a swing set in the rural predominately white town of Bladenboro, where racial tensions run high. His mother said he had showed no sign of suicidal thoughts or depression. However, four days after his death, police claimed that he took his own life. Lacy's family and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called the death suspicious for months, especially after Lacy's grave was desecrated only a few days after his burial. The FBI will now probe the case, after authorities raised doubts about the initial findings.
UPDATE!!! LYNCHING OF 17 YEAR OLD IN NORTH CAROLINA
Lennon Lacey was found hanged back on August 29th. Due to the actions of local officials after his death and how the investigation is being handled, it is clear that this was a lynching. The FBI is now involved.
Meathead Cop Whines That Cops Are The Victims In Tamir Rice Shooting
"The president of the Cleveland Patrolmen's Association on Monday refused to back down from criticizing a Cleveland Browns player as "pathetic" for wearing a shirt calling for justice for two unarmed black males who were killed by police officers in Ohio.
Cleveland Patrolmen's Association President Jeffrey Follmer on Sunday issued a statement criticizing Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins for wearing a shirt saying, "Justice For Tamir Rice and John Crawford," before the team's game. Tamir Rice, 12, was shot to death by Cleveland police last month while carrying a pellet gun. Crawford, 22, was killed by police officers in August while holding a toy rifle in a Walmart in Dayton, Ohio.
"It's pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law," Follmer said on Sunday. "They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium and the Browns organization owes us an apology."
After Hawkins explained on Monday that he wore the shirt thinking of what could happen to his 2-year-old son, Follmer refused to back down."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Key Ferguson Shooting "Witness 40" Exposed As A Fraud
"The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him “like a football player, head down,” is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a “complete fabrication,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
In interviews with police, FBI agents, and federal and state prosecutors--as well as during two separate appearances before the grand jury that ultimately declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson--the purported eyewitness delivered a preposterous and perjurious account of the fatal encounter in Ferguson.
Referred to only as “Witness 40” in grand jury material, the woman concocted a story that is now baked into the narrative of the Ferguson grand jury, a panel before which she had no business appearing."
Read more from The Smoking Gun here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236
Black People: Does the Earth Belong To Blacks? Have They Been Invaded? - David Wilcock
Take a listen to one man's opinion on whites, aliens, and Race, stating that Blacks seems to be the only race that originated and evolved with the Mother Earth. What do you think?
Assata Shakur: What Does New U.S.-Cuba Pact Mean for Exiled Black Panther Wanted in New Jersey?
http://democracynow.org - Authorities in New Jersey have said they hope a historic warming of ties between the United States and Cuba will help them capture and imprison Black Panther Assata Shakur. "We view any changes in relations with Cuba as an opportunity to bring her back to the United States to finish her sentence for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper in 1973," said State Police Superintendent Colonel Rick Fuentes. The encounter left both the officer and a fellow Black Panther, Zayd Malik Shakur, dead. Shakur has said she was shot by police with both arms in the air, and then again from the back. She was sentenced to life in prison but managed to escape and flee to Cuba, where she has lived since 1984. What will happen to Assata now? We put the question to two attorneys: Michael Ratner and Martin Garbus.
Watch more coverage of the Assata Shakur case and hear her speak in her own words
KKK Murders Black Teen Jason Smith 2012
KKK Murders Jason Smith, a 14 year old black male teen from Louisiana, in 2011 and his family wants justice.
George Stinney, 14, Executed In Vile Act Of Injustice, Exonerated 70s Ye...
Published on Dec 18, 2014
"Calling it a “great and fundamental injustice,” a South Carolina judge on Wednesday vacated the 1944 murder conviction of 14-year-old George J. Stinney Jr., the youngest person executed in the United States in the last century.
Judge Carmen T. Mullen of Circuit Court did not rule that the conviction of Mr. Stinney for the murder of two white girls in the town of Alcolu was wrong on the merits. She did find, however, that the prosecution had failed in numerous ways to safeguard the constitutional rights of Mr. Stinney, who was black, from the time he was taken into custody until his death by electrocution.
The all-white jury could not be considered a jury of the teenager’s peers, Judge Mullen ruled, and his court-appointed attorney did “little to nothing” to defend him. His confession was most likely coerced and unreliable, she added, “due to the power differential between his position as a 14-year-old black male apprehended and questioned by white, uniformed law enforcement in a small, segregated mill town in South Carolina.”"* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here:
New video shows NYPD officer beating 12-year-old black kid
Published on Dec 19, 2014
Another case of US police violence against African-Americans: An unidentified white officer has allegedly struck a black 12-year-old boy in New York City.
Video footage shows a plain-clothed officer punching the boy repeatedly as he was being handcuffed by four other officers. A second 12-year-old boy was also handcuffed. The kids had supposedly pushed one of their classmates in school. New York police department's internal affairs bureau is currently investigating the incident. Public awareness has grown about unwarranted police violence against blacks in past months after the killing of three black men this summer at the hands of police. However, no officers have been indicted, arrested or formally charged for the deaths.
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