Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.youtube.com
Author: Oppression Monitor
VIDEO — Cops Raid Women’s Restroom, Assault and Drag Lesbian Out Thinking She’s a Man
Jaw-dropping footage shows cops raid a public bathroom and forcefully remove a woman they thought was a man.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com
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.”
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.dailykos.com
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.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com
#RodrigoGarcia #LatinosAreHuman #DisarmCops
Cops Intentionally Let Three Black Teen Girls Drown
Police release video of pond after three teen girls drowned Police release video of pond after three teen girls drowned Police release video of pond afte
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.youtube.com
One cop says “I hear them yelling I think” at about 25 seconds into the video.
Note the edit in the video. Why did they edit the video at that spot?
Stop the genocide of Black people.
A slow genocide is still a genocide.
Former New Orleans cops plead guilty to bridge shootings
New Orleans police killed 17-year-old James Brissette, 40-year-old Ronald Madison, and wounded four others in the days following Hurricane Katrina. All of the victims were African-American. All were unarmed. Madison was shot in the back.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.dailykos.com
White officer gets probation in black driver’s shooting
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police officer who was charged with a felony for shooting and killing a black driver at the end of a chase took a plea deal Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation. Justin Craven, 27, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor misconduct in office, multiple media outlets reported. A prosecutor wanted the North Augusta police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter, which carries up to 30 years in prison, but a grand jury refused to indict Craven. He was later charged with a different felony. Craven’s plea comes amid a nationwide debate over the use of force and how white police officers treat black people, fueled by high-profile incidents including the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddie Gray’s death after he was injured in a Baltimore police van. The death of 68-year-old Ernest Satterwhite was captured on video from Craven’s dashboard camera. The Associated Press requested the footage nearly two years ago and eventually sued the State Law Enforcement Division, which refused to release the video until after Craven’s plea Monday. The footage shows Craven run to Satterwhite’s car after the man stops at his home and stick a gun and both arms into the driver’s open window. A black arm is seen pushing back, and Craven pulls the weapon out of the window and fires several shots. Craven feared for his life because Satterwhite was trying to grab his gun, Craven’s lawyer Jack Swerling said after the plea hearing. “His mistake in judgment was approaching the car and getting too close. He had to make a split-second decision instead of like now, when everyone gets all the time they want to analyze it,” Swerling said. Police experts recommend officers don’t charge into an unknown situation but instead stay behind cover in case a suspect is armed. No weapon was found in Satterwhite’s car. Others who have seen the video think Satterwhite might have been stunned that the officer pointed his gun at his head and just was swiping his arm in surprise. “What he did was murder this man, and the judicial system just let him get away with it,” said state Rep. Joe Neal, a black Democrat from Hopkins who saw the video and has spent decades speaking out against racism in law enforcement and demanding accountability through data and police cameras. A lawyer for Satterwhite’s family did not return a phone call. North Augusta paid the family nearly $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit. The shooting happened after a 13-minute chase after Craven tried to pull Satterwhite over for drunken driving, chasing him from North Augusta all the way to Satterwhite’s home on a dirt road in adjoining Edgefield County. Satterwhite drives through a Wal-Mart parking lot and is seen swerving at times into oncoming traffic and off the side of the road. He hits at least two cars, although no other injuries were reported. Swerling said the chase did reach 100 mph at one point and Satterwhite’s erratic driving was placing people at risk. State police said Satterwhite had a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent — nearly twice the legal limit to drive. Police records show Satterwhite had been arrested more than a dozen times on traffic violations during his life, including three times for fleeing police. However, there is no evidence he ever physically fought with officers. Judge Frank Addy told Craven he was giving the officer probation because he could understand how the shooting happened after a long chase, the Aiken Standard reported. Addy said the shooting wasn’t similar to other high-profile police killings like in North Charleston, where white officer Michael Slager is awaiting trial on a murder charge for killing an unarmed black man as he ran away from a traffic stop. Neal said the video shows him a “gun happy” officer. “He runs up and opens fire. How is that different from North Charleston? It is exactly the same thing,” Neal said. Prosecutor Donnie Myers, himself facing a driving under the influence charge, got a different grand jury to indict Craven on a felony charge of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. If convicted of that charge, Craven could have faced up to 10 years in prison. Instead, Myers accepted the plea deal to a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in jail. He did not return a message from The Associated Press. Swerling said Craven regrets that Satterwhite died in the shooting and has no plans to be a police officer again. ___ Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/jeffrey-collins
Sourced through Scoop.it from: bigstory.ap.org
3 charged in Flint water crisis
The man who supervised Flint’s water treatment plant has been charged, along with two state environmental officials, in connection with the city’s water crisis.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.cnn.com
Cops Lose It — Beat Man to a Bloody Pulp With their Flashlights in Front of Walmart
Witnesses watched in horror as cops repeatedly doled out blows to a man’s head with their flashlights.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: thefreethoughtproject.com
#ChristopherTorres Shot in the Back Three Times by Albuquerque Police
One day in April 2011, Stephen and Renetta Torres rushed home after receiving a call from their neighbours about a large police presence – mobile crime lab, SWAT team, armoured cars – at their Albuquerque, New Mexico, residence.
The police were looking for their 27-year-old son, Christopher, who had been home on his own. The officers claimed that they had come to serve an arrest warrant on Christopher about a road rage incident months earlier.
Christopher, who suffered from schizophrenia, refused to speak to the officers, so they moved in on him, jumping a fence and entering the Torres’ backyard. According to court documents, from that point, only a few minutes elapsed before Christopher was shot in the back three times by CJ Brown, a plainclothed police officer at the scene.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.aljazeera.com