“Go back home, you n***** lovers.” Those were the first words Steve Marlo, now 87 and living in Marysville, heard when he arrived at the Birmingham airport in March 1965. They were spoken by a burly sheriff’s deputy and would be repeated many times by other men wearing police uniforms in t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
January 16th, 2015 - 12:24 pm § in Uncategorized
Miami cops use mugshots of blacks for target practice
“A South Florida family is outraged at North Miami Beach Police after mug shots of African American men were used at a shooting range for police training.” Because a National Guard member who visited the shooting range for training with her unit found a bullet-riddled picture of her brot[...]
January 16th, 2015 - 12:30 am § in Misc.
NY’s rebel cops face public backlash
It appears that New York’s pushy police unions and rebellious cops have overplayed their hand. Overwhelmingly, the public is behind the mayor, not them. Attacks by the New York City police unions on Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) may have backfired. New York City voters across racial lines disappro[...]
January 13th, 2015 - 6:55 pm § in Misc.
Albuquerque cops shoot a cop
“The Albuquerque Police Department has been under scrutiny from the Justice Department for the high number of police shootings of unarmed suspects, and using excessive force. But it still seems no one is safe from Albuquerque PD’s excessive use of lethal force not even members of the A[...]
January 12th, 2015 - 6:05 pm § in Misc.
D.A. charges Albuquerque cops with murder, but is it a cynical charade?
New Mexico district attorney Kari Brandenburg has filed murder charges against two Albuquerque police officers in the high-profile case of James Boyd, 38, a mentally ill homeless man who was gunned down while apparently trying to surrender to police in March 2014. But is she serious about convicting[...]
January 10th, 2015 - 8:25 pm § in Misc.
1 Cop, 2 Years, 2 Bodies
If the same cop kills two unarmed citizens in two years, maybe something is wrong with the cop? Billings, Montana, police officer Grant Morrison killed James Shaw on January 7, 2013, and killed Richard Ramirez on April 14, 2014. Both incidents occurred during routine traffic stops. Neither victim wa[...]
January 8th, 2015 - 10:00 pm § in Uncategorized
After killing Tamir Rice, the cops attacked his sister.
Tamir Rice, 12, and his sister, 14, did nothing wrong. These children had a right to be where they were, doing what they did: Playing in a public park. They broke no laws, committed no crime. Yet Tamir is dead, and his sister was violently tackled and thrown to the ground by a burly police […[...]
January 6th, 2015 - 4:09 pm § in Uncategorized
Another police union goes ballistic against anti-racism protests
Pittsburgh’s police union is outraged because their chief posed with a protester’s anti-racism sign (see photo). Union president Howard McQuillan told the media, “The chief is calling us racists. He believes the Pittsburgh Police Department is racist. This has angered a lot of officer[...]
January 5th, 2015 - 8:52 pm § in America
Lying cops and flawed legal system sent innocent teens to death row
In 1975, a white man was murdered on a Cleveland street corner by black robbers. Ricky Jackson, 18, and two friends, brothers Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman, were convicted and sentenced to death. Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman ended up serving 39 years in prison; Ronnie Bridgeman was paroled in 2003[...]