No, he didn’t provide first aid; he pulled out his cellphone and texted his union rep, according to the New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/exclusive-texted-union-rep-akai-gurley-lay-dying-article-1.2034219 Ah well, the Daily News is a tabloid, and who knows, mayb[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
December 8th, 2014 - 10:02 pm § in America
What a cop did after shooting an innocent person by mistake
December 8th, 2014 - 9:44 pm § in America
Did a prosecutor improperly instruct Ferguson grand jury?
While most of the media focus in the Ferguson case has been on Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, crucial parts of the prosecution case were presented to the grand jury by an assistant prosecutor named Kathi Alizedah, who told grand jurors just prior to Officer Darren Wilson’s testimony to ignore what [...]
December 8th, 2014 - 9:18 pm § in America
St. Louis black ex-cop describes his city’s white cop culture
An ex-St. Louis cop, who now works for the NAACP’s Ethics Project, describes in a Washington Post op-ed what it was like to be a black cop in St. Louis. Be forewarned: He uses the term “racist” to describe his department’s culture and how he saw police treat people in his com[...]
December 8th, 2014 - 2:00 pm § in America
Are cops escalating situations?
We spend a lot of tax money on training and equipping police officers to protect us from crime and deal with dangerous situations. It’s not asking too much to expect them to use these resources to resolve potentially violent situations in a peaceful manner if at all possible. That’s why [...]
December 7th, 2014 - 12:04 pm § in Misc.
What’s wrong with grand juries?
After George Zimmerman’s controversial acquittal, one of the jurors expressed her opinion in a TV interview that he was “guilty of murder,” but said the jury’s hands were tied by the instructions they were given. More recently, we’re seeing a pattern of grand juries fai[...]
December 7th, 2014 - 10:21 am § in America
Why the protests against police violence don’t stop
Night after night, demonstrators pour into the streets of cities across America to ventilate their frustration with out-of-control police violence against citizens, with no end in sight. And there shouldn’t be an end to the demonstrations. There should be no letup until the system gets off its[...]
December 5th, 2014 - 6:02 pm § in America
Westlake mall cop won’t be charged for macing innocent bystander
On August 9, a shirtless white guy stood outside Westlake Mall in downtown Seattle spitting on people, uttering racial epithets, and trying to pick fight with pedestrians and bystanders. So a private security guard yanked out his pepper spray and maced a black pedestrian. The Stranger reports the Se[...]
December 5th, 2014 - 2:13 pm § in America
Cops speak their minds about Eric Garner
Cops don’t seem to be very good at public relations. (See, e.g., the St. Louis white police union’s whining about football players siding with protesters against police brutality.) Maybe that helps explain why their public image sucks. (How they treat citizens may have something to do wi[...]
December 5th, 2014 - 12:55 pm § in Misc.
The Real Problem With Death by Cop is not the Cop’s Race.
The major issue is the lack of a mechanism to charge police with the crime of abuse. Efforts to paint the problems in Ferguson or New York as race seem to me to be besides the point. Like occupying forces in Iraq/Afghanistan, the American police have a legal system that protects them. Our judi[...]
Cop shot man in back
Charlie James from FB Cop Block with Luis Alberto Lopez Herrera The autopsy results are in… and they PROVE that Dontre Hamilton was shot IN THE BACK and as officer STOOD OVER HIM, firing round after round. Do you think there will be an indictment in THIS case? – MBD[...]