Mistrial Declared On Hate Crime Charges

http://ashmann.uk/tag/flume

where to purchase prednisone Three students were charged in a high-profile 2013 hate crime case at San Jose State University. They were also charged with battery for putting a bike lock around the neck Donald Williams Jr. a Black freshman. All three were found guilty of misdemeanor battery. They can serve up to six months in jail.  One has escaped conviction on the hate crime charge, and the jury hung on deciding the fate of the two others. A fourth student has been charged as a juvenile in the case. There is no available information on that case.

 

Continue reading and for [VIDEOS]

Sourced through Scoop.it from: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

Days After 3 Young Muslim Americans Shot ‘Execution Style,’ Indiana Governor Still Silent

Three Muslim American young men were found dead in Fort Wayne, the victims of multiple “execution style” gun shots at a local hangout spots.

 

Continue reading

Sourced through Scoop.it from: thinkprogress.org

Shocking Dashcam: Cops Walk Up to a Man for “Looking Suspicious” and Kill Him on the Ground

Seattle, WA — Che Taylor, 46, was no stranger to the police. He’s been in and out of jail on numerous occasions. However, none of his crimes ever warranted a death sentence — but on Sunday afternoon, that’s exactly what he got.

 

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/shocking-dashcam-cops-walk-man-looking-suspicious-kill-ground/#fkQdx4daDAY2Mix2.99

Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com

#CheTaylor #SayHisname

Cops Raid Wrong House and Kill an Innocent Young Man – Steal Witness’s Phone for Filming It

police brutality, police murder, wrong house

Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com

#EdgarCamacho-Alvarado #SayHisName

Wrongly Jailed over a Dream, Newly Free Clarence Moses-EL on Ending His 28-Year Nightmare

Clarence Moses-EL has walked free after 28 years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit. In 1989, Moses-EL, who is African-American, was sentenced to 48 years in prison after a woman said she dreamed he was the man who raped and beat her in the dark. Moses-EL has always maintained his innocence. The police threw out a rape kit and any possible evidence, like bed sheets and her clothes. Then in 2012, another man confessed to the attack. But Moses-EL remained behind bars until this week, after his conviction was overturned. In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Clarence Moses-EL joins us to discuss his newfound freedom and how another person’s dream became his nearly three-decade nightmare.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.democracynow.org

Hear final words of #KellyGissendaner

Kelly Gissendaner makes a final statement, apologizing for her crime and saying goodbye to her family, before being executed by lethal injection.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.cnn.com

U.S. culture created Kelly Gissendaner, then the U.S. killed Kelly Gissendaner.

 

#SayHerName

Because they Lack Crucial Training, These Cops Severely Beat a Blind Autistic Teen Unconscious

“I don’t want autism to be a crime, I don’t want people that have it to think that it is a crime,” explains the boy’s mom after her son was beaten by cops who couldn’t recognize autism.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com

The cops almost killed him.

23 Cents an Hour? The Perfectly Legal Slavery Happening in Modern-Day America

If you thought slavery was outlawed in America, you would be wrong. The 13th amendment to the Constitution states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

In plain language, that means slavery in America can still exist for those who are in prison, where you basically lose all of your rights.  (You don’t gain a lot of your rights back when you get out of prison, either, but that is a different story.) So, given the country’s penchant for rapacious capitalism, it may not come as a surprise that there is much of the American prison system that exploits American prisoners much like slaves.

In fact there is large-scale exploitation in American prisons benefiting American corporations and the military-industrial complex. UNICOR, better known as Federal Prison Industries, or FPI, is a government-owned corporation that employs inmates for as little as 23 cents per hour, to provide a wide range of products and services under the guise of a “jobs training program.” In theory, this is supposed to give inmates skills that will prepare them for the workforce upon release.

 

Continue reading

Sourced through Scoop.it from: prisonreformmovement.wordpress.com

Why crime statistics cannot be trusted – in two charts

AKA: Racism is not dead – in two charts: Black Americans use marijuana a bit more than Whites: Yet are way more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession: Also notice that the rise in arrest r…

See on abagond.wordpress.com