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Michael Edward Bell: Police brutality facts · 352 days ago
Michael Edward Bell was a 21 year old man who was unarmed when fatally shot by Kenosha, Wisconsin police officers in the head. His mother and sister witnessed most of the altercation and also the shooting right in front of their faces, right outside of their house. Hear Michael’s sister’s version of the story here .
Less than a year after this horrific incident, participating officers Erich R. Strausbaugh, Erich R. Weidner and Albert B. Gonzalez were cited for performing within the realm of duty and showing great courage, ability and devotion to public service.
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Being nude and hostile in public leads to death sentence without a trial · 609 days ago
I’m not sure I understand why it’s department policy in Lafayette, LA for an aggressive, unarmed nude man to be considered enough of a danger to officers that they could have used a gun on him. Whether this man was mentally ill or under the influence of drugs, I think a more reasonable department policy would be for police officers to restrain unarmed suspects without the use of firearms or Tasers. Would these officers have seriously shot the man 20 years ago, prior to the introduction of Tasers? How can four officers be unable to restrain a man without the use of a weapon?
From The Daily Advertiser:
Four officers were called to the Waffle House, and when the male employee freed Enard, he once again became combative toward officers, who unsuccessfully attempted to restrain him.Francis said the officers then opted to use the Taser, but it appeared to have no effect on him despite officers using it more than once.
“That’s the state this guy was in,” he said.
Officers finally were able to subdue Enard, and he was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition. He died at 9 p.m. Sunday.
It still is unclear why Enard’s condition had deteriorated to critical by the time he reached the hospital.
Enard’s apprehension and subsequent death is reminiscent of an October 2004 incident in which police used a Taser to subdue Dwayne Anthony Dunn, whose death was attributed to a cocaine overdose.
In August 2004, police allegedly tasered a suspect upwards of 17 times while trying to force him to cough up drugs they believed he swallowed. That incident ended in an out-of-court settlement worth more than $80,000.
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Papoose - Change Gon' Come (50 Shots) lyrics and mp3 download · 610 days ago
Listen to more of Papoose’s music!
Download Papoose – Change Gon’ Come (50 Shots) MP3
Thanks to Prefix Magazine for supplying the mp3.
Lyrics to Papoose – Change Gon’ Come (50 Shots):
RIP to Sean Bell
RIP to Kathryn Johnston
RIP to Amadou Diallo
The list goes on
Change gon’ come
No justice, no peace
Another black man shot dead in the streets
Make the whole hood feel sad, its sadness
But we feel mad, its madness
Mike Oliver said his gun jammed, he the main one
12 year veteran and dont know how to use a gun, think we dumb?
If ya clips was loaded to the top, and your gun jammed, how ya fire 31 shots?
Say you shot at the man, cause you thought he was strapped
But you killed a man cause you thought he was shooting back
Black America, what type of garbage is that
The police academy arming these fools with gats
If your reason was, you thought he carry a gun
That mean you killed him for nothing, cause he aint have one
Im sick and tired of being sick and tired son
Hope change get here before the revolution come!
Patrick Lynch is an asshole, he siding with the cops
He said they wasn’t wrong for firin’ all ‘em shots
He said if they felt a threat they ‘posed to pop
and they should continue shooting until the threat stop
The nerve he got, another word said, they should continue shooting until Sean Bell was dead
Bloomberg spoke, but we expect him to
He said 50 shots was unacceptable
And he said nobody know how to feel and be another race
They don’t respect that, they call it haemoth disgrace
Press conference infront of everybody, he responded faster than his predecessor Mayor Giuliani
Some say he spoke it illogically, he got some better manners
but lets see if we get some better policy
Don’t fall for it, its all tricknology
Hope the change get here, before they try to body me
The law states a cop is not permitted to shoot at a moving car
It don’t make a difference if its coming straight at him, cause if they shoot the driver a 4000 pound car could cause more drama
But when i heard Charles Barron speak, I believe
he said, “If we gotta bleed, then others gotta bleed”
Five cops placed on administrative leave
But they murdered a father, left behind two seeds
Why was the cops in the club, drinkin’ a bottle?
Why was the 41 shots shot at Diallo?
John Podhoretz from the New York Post
Wanna know why Bloomberg and Al Sharpton still close
I read his article, he question it
Why was Bloomberg surrounded by African-Americans?
I guess the loss of a life was imagined
Called Sharpton a race-hating-cop-hater
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United States police brutality cases continues to increase · 611 days ago
An article by Black Press USA claims police brutality cases are on the rise in the US. I for one believe this is true, but sadly the article lacks any serious statistics to back the claims up.
From New American Media:
Fifteen years after the Los Angeles police videotaped beating of Rodney King sensitized America about police brutality, some civil rights advocates say cops are still out of control in Black neighborhoods and the violence appears to be increasing with the institution of anti-terror measures.‘‘The heightened so-called war on terrorism I think that is fueling police aggression,’‘ says Diop Kamau, a former Hawthorne, Calif. police detective and executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Police Complaint Center.
‘‘I think that the president’s choice with regards to torture, the attack on habeas corpus, the kind of things that we’re doing overseas, I think, are actually impacting domestic police policies.
‘‘I think the green light with regards to spying and everything else, what it has done is elevated the role and the public’s regard for law enforcement to the attitude that says, ‘Those are our protectors. We need to take the gloves off and give them the room to do what they need to do,’ Well, they’re not always fighting terrorists, and they’re not always arresting bad guys. More often than not they’re dealing with regular people for small and minor incidents.’‘
And they’re disproportionately Black.
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Federal judge finds that California lethal injections are unconstitutional · 612 days ago
Press release issued by
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Phone 510-938-2033
Fax 510-235-3112
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Groups Opposed to Executions Respond to Ruling on Lethal Injection
Activists agree that the procedure is broken but disagree that the
execution process can be fixed.
Oakland, CA, December 15, 2006:
Anti-death penalty activists spoke out Friday in response to the
ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel stating that the State of
California’s lethal injection protocol may be unconstitutional.
The lethal injection process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment,
according to Crystal Bybee, the California Coordinator of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. “We have been saying that lethal injection is cruel and unusual,” said Bybee. “The hearings that Judge Fogel conducted showed the serious issues involved and the possibility of prisoners being conscious during the painful procedure. But the bigger picture is that no matter what the mix of chemicals, all executions are cruel and unusual. Judge Fogel is right that the lethal injection process is broken, but is wrong in thinking that it can be fixed.”
Individuals who have witnessed executions attest to the fact that
these executions are not simple, painless procedures. Barbara Becnel,
advocate for Stanley Tookie Williams, witnessed Williams’ execution on December 13, 2005. The execution, which Becnel calls “torture-murder,” took 35 minutes. The State has admitted that it was botched. “I know the truth, I know what I saw,” said Becnel after hearing Judge Fogel’s decision. “I saw Stanley Tookie Williams tortured to death. The anniversary of the execution was marked by a reenactment in Berkeley, CA just this week. Becnel added, “What they did to Stanley Tookie Williams was tragic and awful. But now the truth about executions has been shown to the world.”
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty plans to step up its efforts
after this decision. One key activity is supporting death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, who has an appeals hearing on January 9th, 2007. The group will join other anti-death penalty and human rights
organizations in a press conference to support Cooper and also
continuing to push for an end to the death penalty in California.
— SWAT Team
Lawsuits don't bring back dead people · 612 days ago
Hanif Haskeem wrote a touching personal story about a police shooting from his perspective as a friend of the victim. He’s right in that the police almost never admit their own responsibility in these tragedies. The media hears that they can’t comment on ongoing investigations while the story is current news, and unless the officer(s) are convicted the media never follows up on the story. The victims’ families usually win their lawsuits but the officers are still out there enforcing the law despite their obvious inability to enforce the law in a reasonable manner.
From New American Media:
It reminds me of the rape/molestation cases in the Catholic church. The powers that be in the church knew for years, decades even, what was going on with those priests but chose to pay off the families of the victims and kept quiet about it. The police here are committing atrocious crimes and then paying off the victims’ families to keep quiet and not getting punished for their acts. It’s not okay to molest kids but it’s just fine if you beat down, shoot and kill civilians as long as you give some chump change to their families! That’s the reality we’re looking at!Money does not bring back the dead. Money does not restore the pride or self-respect ripped away from the victims of police brutality. In my opinion, if some form of order is not implemented to keep these cops honest in the line of duty eventually all hell will break loose in the streets… and finally the powers that be will pay real, authentic attention to the epidemic of police brutality not only in San Francisco but all over this place we call America.
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Pinochet dies and protestors clash with Santiago police · 618 days ago
Augusto Pinochet died today without having ever been prosecuted for the atrocious crimes he committed against his fellow Chileans. While he was in power, at least some 3,197 people were murdered by death squads to suppress political dissent, and 1,000 are still missing. Good riddance! Pinochet seems to me like the kind of guy Richard Nixon would idolize.
Both opponents and supporters of Pinochet took to the streets to celebrate, mourn, or express their outrage that he was never punished. In the capital, Santiago, 23 police officers were injured in clashes with rioters.
Here are some of the better pictures I found on Flickr:
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Columbus police claim Taser didn't kill dead suspect · 624 days ago
He refuses to leave a hotel bar, they taser him, claim the taser never worked, then he dies of a heart attack…
From The Columbus Dispatch:
Tonight, the Columbus City Council heard legislation to buy 110 more Tasers for Columbus police to add to the 205 already on the street. The City Council could vote next Monday on whether to buy the X-26 Tasers, including training cartridges and street-use cartridges, for $140,975, from Vance’s Outdoors.
Parks died after police fired a Taser at him and wrestled with him inside The Columbus, a Renaissance Hotel, on Sunday night.
Parks resisted when police tried to arrest him after he swung a cane at a security guard, police said.
An officer fired Taser probes, which are connected to the gun by wires. One of the probes hit the man’s coat and the other probe missed entirely, police spokesman Sgt. Kevin Corcoran said. Both probes have to hit the body, creating a circuit, for 50,000 volts of electricity to fully stun the person, Columbus Public Safety Director Mitchell J. Brown explained.
Police said Parks went into cardiac arrest in the hotel lobby and died at Grant Medical Center.
He had refused to leave Bar 41, which is in the lobby of the hotel at 50 N. 3rd St.
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Pinochet Has Heart Attack · 624 days ago
From The Guardian:
Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s former dictator, was in a stable but serious condition last night after being rushed into surgery following a heart attack. General Pinochet, 91, had bypass surgery and was given the last rites as doctors considered further surgery. “He is stable, but of course serious,” said Juan Ignacio Vergara at the hospital of the Chilean armed forces.Dr Vergara said that Gen Pinochet had arrived at 2am yesterday, local time, after complaining of breathing problems and severe stomach pain. At one point, further surgery looked necessary, but doctors were trying to avoid this because of the risk.
The former dictator, who celebrated his birithday last week, has multiple health problems including diabetes and has had a series of strokes.
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