Month: August 2014

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Nobody Knows How Many Americans The Police Kill Each Year

I have to repeat this because it’s TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE: nobody knows how many people the police kill each year

Source: fivethirtyeight.com

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Henry Davis

 

Henry Davis (c. 1957- ), an American welder, was beat up by the police in Ferguson, Missouri in 2009. After that they charged him with “damage of property” for getting blood on their uniforms.

Davis is not from Ferguson. He pulled off the road there in the middle of the night to wait out bad weather. It was raining so hard he could barely see.


The police approached his car. They took his phone from his hand, put on hand cuffs and took him to the police station. They did not say why.


At the station the police found out that he was the wrong Henry Davis – the one they were looking for had a different middle name.

Instead of letting him go, they threw him in jail and beat him up while hand-cuffed. Then they charged him with bleeding on their uniforms:

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

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Exonerated Man Jabbar Collins Reaches $10 Million Deal With New York City

 

“After three years of litigation, Jabbar Collins, a man who spent 16 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, has reached a $10 million settlement with New York City.”

 

Source: goodblacknews.org

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SD Police Say Tazing 8-Year-Old Native Girl Was Justified, Family Sues

 

The family of an 8-year-old Native American girl who was tazed by police in October is suing while the Pierre Police Department say it was justified.

 

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Source: indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com

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Police Kill Yet Another Civilian in Ferguson

 

Just a few short miles from where police officer Darren Wilson publicly executed 18 year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, police officers have shot and killed yet another Black man dead in the street.

 

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Source: ushypocrisy.com