A Mississippi grand jury has indicted Judge Bill Weisenberger for “simple assault on a vulnerable adult,” a felony carrying up to a $1,000 fine or 5 years in prison, or both, for his actions at a flea market on May 8, 2014. In that incident, Eric Rivers, 20, an autistic black youth, wa[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
February 17th, 2015 - 3:00 pm § in Uncategorized
Racist Mississippi judge indicted for assaulting disabled black youth
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 16th, 2015 - 8:13 pm § in Uncategorized
Mosque catches fire; fireman says ‘let it burn’
After an arson fire caused more than $100,000 damage to an Islamic community center in Houston Friday morning, a guy named Dustin Herron and claiming to be a “Firefighter EMT at Crystal Beach Fire & EMS” — an unincorporated Gulf Coast community near Galveston — posted the[...]
February 15th, 2015 - 5:55 pm § in Uncategorized
This man wants to build memorials to America’s lynching victims
Among states, Louisiana was the epicenter of America’s dark era of lynchings; but more people were lynched in Phillips County, Arkansas, than in any other American county. The Deep South’s lynching body count is mapped here. Lynchings were employed as a form of social control to keep bla[...]
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 - 11:36 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[...]
February 13th, 2015 - 11:04 am § in Uncategorized
Video of stupid, racist white guy being a jackass
So a black guy is sitting in a car with his nephew talking about a car they’re considering buying. The white guy assumes they’re dealing drugs (you know, because they’re black), and comes out of his house with a gun, calling police on his cellphone. The black guy tells him off, and[...]
February 13th, 2015 - 12:49 am § in Uncategorized
LAPD shoots black teen in the back
Someone’s fibbing. Police claim Jamar Nicholson’s friend pulled what looked like a real gun, took up a shooting stance, and pointed it at the officer. Nicholson says he never saw the fake replica gun; his friend was merely borrowing a bottle of cologne from him as they were cutting throu[...]
February 12th, 2015 - 6:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Alabama cops paralyze man for being from India, having dark skin, and not speaking English
An Alabama police department today fired and arrested a cop who severely injured a man from India who was simply walking in the neighborhood and had committed no crime. Sureshbhai Patel, 57, visiting his son in Alabama, was taking a walk last week when he was stopped and frisked by police inv[...]