Month: December 2014

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Mentally Ill Man Refuses to Take Medication So SWAT Shows Up and Kills Him

Midland, TX — Rosendo Gino Rodriquez, 49, was shot dead in an altercation Monday while Midland Police were conducting a routine welfare check. The Midland County mental health unit was conducting a regular welfare check at a home on the 2700 block of Washington Street, when things went sour.

 

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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

Did the swat team, ask Rodriquez to toss the machete out the window? If not, why not?

 

Do U.S. swat teams not have patience to let the person fall asleep and then taze them if needed?

 

US police are quick to use deadly force when there is no need for it.

 

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Cop Fired for Beating a Non-violent, Handcuffed Man On Video, Gets Job Back AND Back Pay

 

Owasso, OK — Owasso police officer, Mike Denton, was fired after body cam and surveillance footage showed him stomping on a handcuffed man’s head and then repeatedly elbowing him in the face.

 

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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

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On Being a Black Male, Six Feet Four Inches Tall, in America in 2014

Just like Michael Brown, comedian and commentator W. Kamau Bell is six feet four inches tall. And he knows it.

Source: www.vanityfair.com

 

In a heavily armed country like the U.S. men, and boys need to watch every move they make. Where their hands are, what color is the object in their hand, how suspiciously are they walking, too fast, too slow.

 

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Austin shooter belonged to an ultra-conservative Christian hate group, police say

 

Comment by Glenn Robinson

There may be less hate groups, or they may be more hidden. Regardless of the quantity – it only takes one hateful person to do massive damage.

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Lisa Bloom takes Ferguson prosecutors to task

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She Says It Was Rigged And How. After This, You’ll Have A Clearer Picture Of Ferguson’s Failings.

She also calls McCulloch a “defense attorney dressed up as a prosecutor.”

Source: www.upworthy.com

 

Note by Glenn Robinson

 

Lisa Bloom also wrote an excellent book about the failures in the Trayvon / Zimmerman case, called Suspicion Nation.

 

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When Force is Hardest to Justify, Victims of Police Violence Are Most Likely to be Black

 

A Pew study found that 63% of white and 20% of black people think that Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Darren Wilson is not about race.

Those people are wrong.

African Americans are, in fact, far more likely to be killed by police. Among young men, blacks are 21 times more likely to die at the hands of police than their white counterparts.

 

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Source: thesocietypages.org

 

This diagram is depicting a slow moving genocide against Black Americans, and this graph does not take into account the over-incarceration of Black Americans.

 

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In a Fit of Road Rage, Houston Cop Shoots Woman In The Head

Houston, Texas – Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6 has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after shooting a woman in the head during a fit of road rage. The officer was reportedly driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago, when he cut off a 20-year-old…

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com