“Django Unchained” actress Daniele Watts defended her refusal to show her ID to Los Angeles police before they handcuffed her last week.
Source: www.cnn.com
What happens if we left our id at home?
Is it a crime to not have your ID with you?
How long can a person be detained when they don’t have their ID on them?
A family says three police officers tackled and pinned a high school student to the floor for using her cell phone.
Source: www.cnn.com
What do you think? Should students be allowed to have smart phones in school?
Customs and Border Protection’s acting Internal Affairs chief said Friday that he is unaware of any Border Patrol agent or CBP officer being formally disciplined for killing someone through the use of force since at least 2004.
Source: www.azcentral.com
Can Moms Demand Action do to gun extremists what MADD did to drunk drivers?
Source: www.motherjones.com
Women fixin’ to get some sh*t done.
A man impersonating a police officer pulled a weapon on a teenager, chastising him for the way he was riding his bike, police said Friday.
The incident happened about 4 p.m. Sept. 5 as two teenage boys, both high school students, rode their bikes in a bike lane on Channing Avenue near Rhodes Drive.
They heard a voice on a public-address system in a car behind them ordering them to ride single file instead of side by side. When they looked back, they saw a car with no police markings, but assumed it was an unmarked police vehicle.
The teens complied with the stranger’s demands and separated at Greer Road.
That’s when the man followed one of the youths and again used the PA system, this time ordering the boy to stop, police said.
“When the student looked back, he saw flashing police-style lights emanating from inside the car,” police said.
The teen stopped his bike and the man pulled up alongside him, displayed a badge and “proceeded to angrily lecture him about his riding habits,” police said. The man then pointed either a stun gun or handgun at the roof of his car so the student could see it before driving away.
Police released a sketch of the man, described as a white male in his 60s with balding, short gray hair. He was about 5-foot-10 with a heavy build and wore a light blue collared shirt, similar to a uniform shirt.
The badge he displayed was silver but had a color design on it, with a green tree in the center. The man’s car was a cream-colored, four-door sedan with radio antennas on the roof.
Anyone with information is asked to call Palo Alto police at (650) 329-2413.
Source: blog.sfgate.com
When President Eisenhower left office late in the 1950s he said, “The biggest threat to our country is the military industrial complex.” This means feeding the beast!
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John Crawford is dead because ONE paranoid white man and his wife decided he was a threat to public safety and called 911. The story he originally gave police is falling apart because — SURPRISE! —- there are security cameras, so now he’s changed his tune.
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Source: soletstalkabout.com
“Prosecutors say Officer Daniel Holtzclaw made a mistake after a series of sexual assaults on black women in Oklahoma City — he profiled the wrong woman. His family says he’s a victim of “solicited testimony” from women who have “personal motives” to lie. BuzzFeed News reports from the Oklahoma County courtroom where, Wednesday, prosecutors described a pattern of sexual harassment and assault.”
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Source: www.buzzfeed.com
Chaumtoli Huq was arrested while standing in front of the Times Square Ruby Tuesday, court papers show.
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Source: www.dnainfo.com
The screen shot below is only a small part of Shaun King’s story.
Please read his whole story here, then cut and paste his quote along with the URL and share to your social networks.
“I want to share a painful, ugly story with you and then connect it to the police murder of John Crawford last month in Wal-Mart.” -Shaun King
http://thisiswhiteprivilege.tumblr.com/post/97235258163/poldberg-while-there-is-a-lot-of-appropriate
John Crawford