LAPD Officer Mary O’Callaghan, who kicked Alesia Thomas to death in the back seat of a patrol car, was convicted of “assault under color of authority” by a Los Angeles jury today. “A dashboard camera in a police cruiser captured O’Callaghan kicking the handcuffed Thomas[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
June 3rd, 2015 - 12:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Prosecutor gets Tamir Rice case
“The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio handed its investigation into the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice to prosecutors on Wednesday,” CNN reported today. No word on whether the cop who shot Rice has finally been interviewed; the sheriff’s terse announced simp[...]
June 2nd, 2015 - 8:35 am § in Uncategorized
Facts about police shootings
Journalists at the Washington Post and Guardian have recently conducted extensive studies of police shootings in the United States. The story is reported by Mother Jones here. A summary of their findings: 1. Police killed twice as many suspects as FBI figures indicated — about 2.5 per day on a[...]
May 29th, 2015 - 9:55 pm § in Misc.
Tamir Rice’s rap sheet
If 12-year-old Tamir Rice had survived, this is what the cops would have charged him with: Crimes: Inducing Panic, Aggravated Menacing Victims: The cops who killed him (Click here for source) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 28th, 2015 - 9:26 pm § in Uncategorized
NYC Housing Authority acts to protect employees from cops
The New York City Housing is requiring its employees to wear orange vests, ordering them to wear ID tags, and giving them special training to reduce their chances of being shot by police. Read the story here.[...]
May 28th, 2015 - 8:26 am § in Uncategorized
Chicago PD didn’t want you to see this photo
It’s a Polaroid snapshot ca. 1999-2003 of two cops posing with rifles over a black guy wearing antlers. It was released this week by a Chicago judge over police officials’ objections, according to CNN (click here for story). Neither of the cops, Tim McDermott and Jerome Finnigan, is stil[...]
May 23rd, 2015 - 8:37 am § in Uncategorized
Protests erupt in Cleveland after judge acquits killer cop
Demonstrators took to the streets in Cleveland this morning after a white judge acquitted a white police officer who killed the unarmed black occupants of a vehicle by standing on the hood and firing through the windshield. Police had chased the car after hearing a backfire noise they thought was a [...]
May 15th, 2015 - 2:25 pm § in Uncategorized
Black Monopoly
“Black Monopoly” is a version of the board game in which all the players are black and go to jail no matter which square they land on. It was invented by the Miami Beach police department. I don’t know if they’ve applied for a patent. (Click here for story.)[...]
May 11th, 2015 - 6:32 pm § in Uncategorized
This isn’t legitimate policing.
An ACLU lawsuit on behalf of Lateef Dickerson and a federal judge’s order compelled the Dover, Delaware police department to release this police dashcam video after two years of stonewalling, and the release of the video resulted in a second grand jury indicting Dover police officer Thomas Web[...]
May 6th, 2015 - 5:10 pm § in Uncategorized
This man is a torturer
… and he cost Chicago taxpayers millions. His name is Jon Burge. He was a cop. He tortured people, most of them blacks, to coerce confessions from suspects, including innocents. Today the City of Chicago — which has already paid over $100 million in legal expenses and settlements for pol[...]