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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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Police officers who murdered 92 year old Kathryn Johnston's plead to manslaughter charges today · 481 days ago
Today the two police officers implicated in the shooting death of 92 year old Atlanta, Georgia resident Kathryn Johnston plead guilty to manslaughter charges. They killed the elderly victim while performing a no-knock raid on her house. During the investigation one of the officers told federal investigators that one of the members of unit lied to him when he was told that the officer bought crack at Mrs. Johnson’s residence, a lie that was used to obtain the warrant.
Via TalkLeft:
Two Atlanta police officers made a second appearance in court today to plead guilty to felonies in the fatal shooting of a 92-year-old woman in her home. Officers Gregg Junnier and Jason R. Smith made their second stop Wednesday afternoon to plead guilty to violating the civil rights of Kathryn Johnston by killing her during a botched drug raid at her home Nov. 21. 2006.
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Hundreds protest police shooting of Sean Bell · 607 days ago
From Reuters
Leaders of New York’s black community have vowed protests until they see justice for Bell and have already held two rallies, including a march by several thousand people down Fifth Avenue on Saturday.Organizers said another protest was being planned for the
United Nations headquarters in January.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said it was “unacceptable or inexplicable” that 50 shots were fired, while Kelly has set up a panel to review the police department’s undercover operations and policy.
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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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Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang
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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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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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Rev. Calvin O. Butts II wants NYPD reform · 612 days ago
Does Rev. Butts really think anything will get done? I wish him luck, but it doesn’t seem like he has enough inertia behind him to get anything done. Bloomberg is only pretending to care, and for some reason Al Sharpton was standing there with Butts yet the article is quoting Butts instead of Sharpton. Sharpton has clout on a national level, so why wasn’t he the figurehead for this call for reform in the New York Police Department if they really think it’s going to accomplish anything?
From The New York Times:
The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, one of New York’s most prominent and moderate black clerics, demanded yesterday that the city rein in rogue members of the Police Department whom he described as “ignorant savages who continue to prey upon our people as if we have no respect by virtue of our humanity or our citizenship.”The surprisingly sharp comments by Mr. Butts were made at a news conference outside City Hall that was called to announce a march for today to protest the killing of an unarmed man, Sean Bell, on Nov. 25 by the police.
At yesterday’s event, political and community leaders said they planned to challenge Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to adopt a list of proposed changes in policing including several that were presented after Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, was killed by police officers in 1999. For Mr. Butts, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the pointed remarks represented a marked change.
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Already a rap song called "50 Shots" · 625 days ago
I was in Queens when this shooting took place. As I walked through the city the next morning, I saw newspaper headlines about it in every newspaper box. This is one of the most ridiculous and sad stories of police brutality I’ve heard in a while. Fifty shots fired at suspects who had no weapons, and were under investigation by a vice crime squad? I don’t care what kind of drug/prostitution crime they were potentially involved in, emptying their clips into the car when no shots were ever fired back is outrageous. Even Michael Bloomberg, mayor of the city, is calling this one like it is. Brooklyn rapper Papoose released a track called “50 Shots” which aired on rap station Hot 97 this weekend.
From Newsday.com:
Between gunshot sounds and samples from soul singer Sam Cooke’s civil-rights-era classic “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Papoose takes aim at the police.“If your reason was you thought he carried a gun / That means you killed him for nothing because he ain’t had one,” he raps.
But Papoose has some temperate praise for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at least in comparison to his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani: “He got some better manners / But let’s see if we get some better policy.”
UPDATE: Lyrics and mp3 now available.
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