Laquan McDonald, 17, was shot by a Chicago cop 16 times, including 9 times in the back, in October 2014. He died at the scene. Afterward, police were given access to a nearby Burger King’s security camera system, and the next day investigators discovered 86 minutes of video during the period [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
June 11th, 2015 - 2:54 pm § in Uncategorized
Cleveland judge rules Tamir Rice’s killer should face murder charges
A Cleveland judge ruled today there’s probably cause to charge Police Officer Timothy Loehmann with murder for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Loehmann opened fire on Rice, who was playing with a toy gun in a public park, moments after exiting hi squad care. Just months earlier, Loehmann [...]
June 11th, 2015 - 2:24 pm § in Uncategorized
Little Rock cops attack blind man
Click here for story. Comment: Being a police officer requires a modicum of personal courage, and if these guys are terrified of a blind guy with a talking clock in his back pocket, they should be in some other line of work. [...]
June 11th, 2015 - 2:00 pm § in Uncategorized
McKinney pool casualties mount …
1. The cop has resigned. 2. The woman who started the pool fight has been suspended from her job. 3. A Florida school principal who praised the police response has been demoted and reassigned. 4. A Texas teacher who ranted against black people on Facebook has been suspended from her teaching duties.[...]
June 11th, 2015 - 1:34 pm § in Uncategorized
The citizen who called the cops about black kids in the pool is …
“The man who called 911 to complain about a group of black teenagers at a pool party in Texas, and defended the controversial police response as a ‘good amount of aggression,’ is a convicted felon who spent time in jail for violent behavior and torturing animals,” according [...]
June 9th, 2015 - 9:24 am § in Uncategorized
Citizens arrest
The police, prosecutor, and judges are distrusted by Cleveland’s citizenry perhaps more than almost anywhere else in the U.S. The investigation of the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a trigger-happy cop dragged out for months. Now, the prosecutor says he’s going to hand over the cas[...]
June 8th, 2015 - 3:58 pm § in Uncategorized
Another racist cop attack
Sometimes I get the feeling cops look for excuses to attack black people. https://youtu.be/TI0U1qKkOGo[...]
June 8th, 2015 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
UPDATE: South Carolina cop indicted in death of black man shot in back
This an update to a story on TA about North Charleston, a town North of Charleston, SC. This town has been run for two decades one (white man) and has a town government that is all white. The Mayor has taken great credit for taking action is firing the cop. This is also the town […][...]
June 8th, 2015 - 9:49 am § in Uncategorized
Update: Killer cop indicted
A South Carolina cop caught on video shooting a black man in the back, and then planting his taser on the body to make it look like the victim tried to grab a weapon, has been indicted by a grand jury for murder. South Carolina, which flaunts its Confederate heritage, ironically has taken the lead [[...]
June 7th, 2015 - 3:41 pm § in Misc.
Texas cops kick black kids out of whites-only pool
“A white police officer in McKinney, Tex., has been suspended after a shocking video emerged Saturday that shows the officer manhandling, arresting and drawing his gun on a group of black children outside a pool party,” the Washington Post reports. The video also shows the cop using prof[...]