Protests erupted in Charlotte last week after another black man was gunned down by cops. Police claim he pulled a gun, but can’t back that up. The police chief refuses to release dash and body cam videos to news media or the public. The man’s family complains they were shown only 3 minut[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
September 27th, 2016 - 5:40 am § in Misc.
“Gypsy” cops and police unions
“Gypsy cops” are bad cops who are able to stay in police work, and continue abusing citizens, by moving from one department to another. Reform advocates trying to reduce police abuse want to force these repeat-offender cops out of police work permanently. For example, the Justice Departm[...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 1:10 pm § in Uncategorized
GOP congressman explains Charlotte riots
Black people protest white cops killing black guy. White Republican congressman responds, “they hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” Actually, I suspect it’s more about white cops killing black people and getting away with it. Should we clue him in, or [...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 12:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Where’s the gun?
For three nights Charlotte, North Carolina, has experienced riots in the wake of a police killing of a black man named Keith Lamont Scott. The cops say he refused to obey commands to drop a gun. His family says he was unarmed. Earlier this week, the police chief said he would show video from police [...]
September 20th, 2016 - 10:39 am § in Misc.
Fire these cops!
“The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what seems like an unlikely stroke of cosmic karma, the recording came about after a camera belonging [...]
August 13th, 2016 - 6:47 pm § in Uncategorized
Police wouldn’t have shot this guy if he’d been white
Last month, on July 28, L.A. sheriff’s deputies searching for a carjacking suspect (who, unknown to them, had already been arrested) shot and killed Donnell Thompson, 28. They found him laying in a front yard. He was unarmed. He hadn’t committed a crime. But he suffered from development [...]
July 11th, 2016 - 9:51 am § in Uncategorized
From the protests, an iconic image
“This is the work of God. I am a vessel.” — Ieshia Evans She was arrested and spent the night in jail. Read story here.[...]
June 18th, 2016 - 3:53 pm § in Uncategorized
Is Georgia’s “stand your ground” law for whites only?
Jessie Murray, a black man, is charged in Georgia with murder. On Feb. 15, 2016, Murray met his estranged wife in a bar to discuss their marriage. After a few drinks they drifted to a pool table, where a tipsy white man, an ex-cop named Nathan Adams, stumbled into Mrs. Murray and knocked her down. [[...]
June 8th, 2016 - 5:48 pm § in Misc.
Judge frees black kid railroaded by dishonest cops
Davontae Sanford was released from prison today after serving 9 years for 4 murders he didn’t commit. Sanford, who is developmentally disabled, was only 14 when he was arrested, interrogated without an attorney, and coerced into confessing. Even though a drug dealers’ hit man confessed t[...]