POLICE BRUTALITY – Florida Cop Beats Up Handcuffed Female Strip Club Worker

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The 31-year-old woman shown on video being struck multiple times by a rookie Jacksonville police officer while awaiting booking into jail spoke to News4Jax from the hospital, saying she was “extremely mortified by the whole thing.” On Thursday, Akinyemi Borisade, 26, was arrested on a charge of battery and fired by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Police also released the video showing Borisade hitting Mayra Martinez Wednesday afternoon while she was handcuffed just outside the jail. Sheriff Mike Williams said the jail surveillance video was key to making a quick determination of the facts, and the additional video that surfaced is also being reviewed. “We made our decision based on what we saw on the jail video and, obviously, that first video gives me a lot of concerns, as well,” Williams said. “There is an investigation going on now surrounding the first video.” What Williams called the first video, with a Wednesday time stamp, appears to be shot by a dashboard camera in a parking lot in front of Scores, an adult club on University Boulevard at Philips Highway. That’s the same day and location where Martinez was arrested.and charged with trespassing and resisting police. Martinez texted photos to the I-TEAM — including one that was taken just outside Scores, where she was starting a new job. According to the police report, they were called to the bar to escort her from the property because she was drunk and belligerent after quitting work on her first day. “I am a yoga teacher. I utilize the bar industry to help me make ends meet, and I want and need that known,” Martinez texted. “I am extremely mortified by the whole thing, and especially the type of person I’m being made to look.” News4Jax crime and safety analyst Gil Smith, a former JSO officer, reviewed the dashcam video. “As the camera comes closer to the two police officers, they already have her on the ground,” Smith said. “They said that she’s biting them, but I really can’t tell that from the video because the video’s not great quality. And that’s one thing about video, you’re not always going to get the full picture. He mentions that she’s fighting, that’s she’s biting, and he says, ‘We have to strike her in the back several times,’ and that’s consistent with the report.” According to the arrest report, Martinez continued to kick and fight in the patrol car and was placed in more restraints, the report said. She resisted their efforts to handcuff her and tried to kick and bite the officers, the report said. While waiting to be booked into the jail, Martinez can be seen on the video kicking Borisade in the leg, and Borisade retaliates by hitting her several times. Corrections officers who witnessed the incident reported it to their supervisors, and the JSO Integrity Unit investigated it. In the jail video released by the JSO, the corrections officers stand and watch before one steps forward and puts his hand on Borisade. Undersheriff Pat Ivey said that because Borisade is a probationary officer, he can’t appeal his firing, but he can ask for a name-clearing hearing with JSO. If he passes that he would regain the ability to be an officer with another agency. This is not Borisade’s first brush with the law. In 2008, when he was 19 years old, reports show he took items into a dressing room from a store at the Regency Square Mall and came out without them and tried to leave the store without paying. The report shows he admitted to doing it. He later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor property crime. According to JSO’s website, officers can’t have been convicted of any felony, or misdemeanors involving false statement, perjury or domestic violence. http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/ja...

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#DedricColvin After saying “It’s not real, it’s not real” 13yo CHILD shot by Baltimore plainclothes cop.

So @BaltimorePolice fired bean bags at a white man with a bomb but a black boy with a toy got hit with live rounds. #DedricColvin #Fox45

— D (@Delo_Taylor) April 28, 2016

Any black child who encounters police knows their life is jeopardy. For #DedricColvin & others running is an act of self-preservation.

— D (@Delo_Taylor) April 28, 2016

The Black Lives Matter Founders Are Among the World’s Greatest Leaders

The Black Lives Matter Founders Are Among the World’s Greatest Leaders

How nonviolent resistance movements have shaped the 2016 elections https://t.co/ZyBVx8bopk

— Vox(@voxdotcom) April 19, 2016

The Black Lives Matter Founders Are Among the World’s Greatest Leaders https://t.co/adCT7e0tfu

— arshadfilms(@arshadfilms) April 17, 2016

Cleveland agrees to pay $6M to family of Tamir Rice

Cleveland agrees to pay $6M to family of Tamir Rice

Trans teen physically removed from Ted Cruz rally—here is the 16-year-old’s excellent response

The New Civil Rights Movement reported on James’s story a few hours after the rally. 

​James says he and his mother had tickets to the event. He had the transgender flag draped around his shoulders, but was not disruptive or disrespectful. Despite that, Cruz staffers asked them to leave, and did so physically, he says.

James on his Facebook page said that staff members repeatedly “grabbed” him and ultimately “pushed” him “out of the venue.” He says they called him “ma’am,” and told him he was “trespassing.”

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VIDEO: Cops Unload Weapons on #RodrigoGarcia Because They Mistakenly Thought He Ran Over Officer

Albuquerque, NM – The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) released bodycam footage showing 10 officers firing at a man driving an SUV after they cornered him in a yard. The cops involved in the shooting told investigators they thought the driver, 20-year-old Rodrigo Garcia, had run over their lieutenant when, in fact, she had been knocked over by a falling fence.

48 rounds were fired at Garcia, with seven striking him, including one in the head that required part of his brain to be removed. Doctors said his injuries will severely affect the quality of his life.

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#RodrigoGarcia #LatinosAreHuman #DisarmCops 

But we will change this country one day. I swear.

But we will change this country one day. I swear.

“They treat us like we're not all equal.” #BlackLivesMatter protesters march one year after Freddie Gray's death.https://t.co/Td05TnKA0d

— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 17, 2016