‘No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations,’ David Von Spreckelsen…’
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The persistence of segregation.
New York
New Yorker who died after apparent chokehold during arrest is mourned
http://thebeginningfarmer.com/single-sport-athletes-err-farmers/ The mourners trickled slowly into the crowded church. Inside, a huge man lay in a white casket topped by white and yellow flowers — a man who in life was known to few outside his Staten Island neighborhood.
In death, though, Eric Garner has become a symbol of http://smragan.com/2011/11/ policing gone awry: He was videotaped as he was put into an apparent chokehold by police officers. His case has jolted a city that began the year with a new mayor, Bill de Blasio, and a new police commissioner, William J. Bratton, vowing better lives for people such as Garner: black men living far from the glassy skyscrapers and shaded brownstones of the well-heeled.
Civil rights leaders and other New Yorkers say Garner’s death July 17 shows the need for faster change in the New York Police Department.
“People in all five boroughs are fired up. They’re fired up right now because we don’t like this,” said Isaac L. Mickens, a pastor, community activist and friend of Garner’s family. “We need action.”
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Source: www.latimes.com
New Yorker who died after apparent chokehold during arrest is mourned
The mourners trickled slowly into the crowded church. Inside, a huge man lay in a white casket topped by white and yellow flowers — a man who in life was known to few outside his Staten Island neighborhood.
In death, though, Eric Garner has become a symbol of policing gone awry: He was videotaped as he was put into an apparent chokehold by police officers. His case has jolted a city that began the year with a new mayor, Bill de Blasio, and a new police commissioner, William J. Bratton, vowing better lives for people such as Garner: black men living far from the glassy skyscrapers and shaded brownstones of the well-heeled.
Civil rights leaders and other New Yorkers say Garner’s death July 17 shows the need for faster change in the New York Police Department.
“People in all five boroughs are fired up. They’re fired up right now because we don’t like this,” said Isaac L. Mickens, a pastor, community activist and friend of Garner’s family. “We need action.”
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Source: www.latimes.com
Hamill: Cop who put man in chokehold and others who watched should be off the force
No way can you look at that video of Garner being yoked in a chokehold from behind by a plainclothes coward without saying this guy belongs in an orange jumpsuit.
Source: www.nydailynews.com
This City’s Police Kill More People Than the NYPD — And That’s Just the Start of the Story
The police department’s excessive force and rewards program has led to a de facto “bounty system.”
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Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Plague Brooklyn | Man Beaten
A stranger screaming homophobic slurs attacked a man walking his dogs on a Williamsburg street early on Thursday morning, breaking his face, according to the…
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Police Plant Drugs and Frame an Innocent African American Shop-Owner in New York [VIDEO]
“ColorLines today carried a local news report from Schenectady County in New York of a local police department using undercover agents to purposely plant crack-cocaine in the shop of an African American business owner, with the intention of hauling him off to prison for up to seven years for a crime he did not even commit.”
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Community Village‘s insight:
I wonder how many prisoners are incarcerated due to drugs being planted on them?
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