CBS News reports, “The city of Cleveland is arguing in court documents that 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by police while holding a pellet gun last November, was responsible for his own death. … In a court document filed Friday, the city … states that the family&#[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
March 1st, 2015 - 12:00 am § in Uncategorized
Cleveland blames 12-year-old boy for being shot by trigger-happy cop
February 26th, 2015 - 3:47 pm § in Misc.
LAPD settles shooting for $5 million but the cops won’t be prosecuted although they may get fired
Three Los Angeles cops who killed Brian Beaird, 51, a disabled veteran, on live TV in December 2013 won’t be prosecuted even though news helicopter video proves he wasn’t reaching for a weapon after stumbling out of his crashed Corvette as they claimed. The video shows his hands in plain[...]
February 25th, 2015 - 2:05 pm § in Misc.
Today’s police abuse report
There’s so much police abuse of citizens in this country, it’s easier to stack the incidents in a pile on my desk than write separate stories about them. In this video of a traffic stop, cops in the Florida Keys are recorded by a tourist tasering an elderly man with his hands up and not [...]
February 20th, 2015 - 2:44 am § in Misc.
Innocent Seattle man shot 16 times by cops gets $5.5 million
Dustin Theoharis is damned lucky to be alive. In 2012, he was shot 16 times at point-blank range in his own bed by a King County cop and a Washington state corrections officer. He wasn’t a criminal, hadn’t done nothing wrong, the cops busted into the boarding house where he lived looking[...]
February 19th, 2015 - 11:07 pm § in Misc.
Seattle pays $70,000 to man beaten by police for ‘contempt of cop’
“If not for an in-car video, Isaac Ocak might be known as a violent criminal instead of a victim of excessive force. Now 23, Ocak says he would’ve been forced to live his life with an assault conviction except that a video of his violent 2010 arrest countered allegations that he attacked s[...]
February 17th, 2015 - 2:40 pm § in Uncategorized
$25 million lawsuit against Pasco police alleges “racial animus” against Hispanics
Last week brought America’s latest high-profile police slaying of a minority person, in this case a Hispanic man killed by Pasco, Washington, police — a department whose officers have killed several people in just the past few months. Antonio Zambrano-Montes wasn’t innocent. Distra[...]
February 17th, 2015 - 1:25 pm § in Uncategorized
“We’re red now,” cop says turn off the police camera
We want to respect our police. Most cops are decent and hard working professionals who protect our communities, and do a job that’s often stressful and sometimes dangerous. But rogue cops abound now, and that’s causing a policing crisis in America. When ordinary law-abiding citizens fear[...]
February 13th, 2015 - 8:40 pm § in Uncategorized
Pasco coroner plans inquest; says ‘We don’t want a Ferguson here’
Well, they’ve got one. And it isn’t the first time; Pasco cops are in the habit of mistreating people of Mexican descent. The Seattle Times reported today that Governor Inslee has gotten involved in Tuesday’s police killing of a 35-year-old Mexican immigrant by Pasco police, and th[...]
February 13th, 2015 - 11:57 am § in Misc.
The killer mentality afflicting America’s police and our leaders’ failure to do anything about it
While police shootings (I’ll get to them in a minute) dominate news coverage and gather the most attention, there are several big issues with how America’s police are doing their jobs. A. A cavalier attitude toward human life; B. Racism and profiling (does anyone believe police don’[...]
February 13th, 2015 - 11:36 am § in Uncategorized
Pasco cops killed a Hispanic man this week for throwing rocks
This disturbing video shows Pasco, Washington, police fatally shooting a rock-throwing man earlier this week. What’s a human life worth to trigger-happy cops? Damned little, especially if he’s a migrant worker from Mexico with a history of drug use and previous run-ins with the police. I[...]