Leaked documents reveal that an Alabama police department planted drugs and guns on innocent black men for years, and prosecutors helped cover it up.
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Tamir Rice Shooting ‘Unreasonable,’ Experts Find; Officers Release Statements
By Kaitlyn D’Onofrio
On Tuesday evening, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty made public the statements made by the two police officers involved in Tamir Rice’s death. This release comes days after two new reports concluded that Rice’s death was completely avoidable.
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6 Phrases With Surprisingly Racist Origins
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If we speak English the way most people speak English, we will automatically be acting out racism.
Mom Calls 911 for Mental Help With Her Son, Cops Show Up, Taser Him to Death While He’s Restrained
“They dragged him out of the car like a dead dog.” Calling 911 is more dangerous than dealing with your current situation – especially during mental episodes.
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After Video Surfaces, Innocent Man is Exonerated for Assault on an Officer
Boston, MA — A violent cop, who beat an innocent man in front of fellow officers, and then charged him with assault, pleaded guilty to battery last week, but only after video of the incident surfaced.
Officer Felix Rivera, Jr. 34, of the Chelsea police department, responded, along with several officers, to a call about a man with a gun on September 26, 2014. The victim, who was 20-years-old at the time, was not the man with a gun.
When multiple officers showed up at the victim’s location, he is dragged from the doorway, and the supervisor on the scene told his fellow officers to place the man in protective custody as he appeared to be intoxicated. However, the ‘custody’ was anything but ‘protective.’
According to Rivera’s police report, the victim pushed another officer and was taken to the ground, where his multiple injuries would occur. The victim was then arrested and brought to jail.
After three days in jail, the victim was arraigned on Sept. 29, 2014, on charges of assault and battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. He was then released on his own recognizance to face the false charges later that year.
Had an anonymous witness not come forward, this innocent man would have likely been convicted on all charges.
Luckily for the victim, however, the anonymous witness was filming. What the video shows is the exact opposite of what Rivera claimed. The man was placed in handcuffs with no resistance. As he was being escorted from the scene, Rivera began to repeatedly bash in his face and then knocked him to the ground for no reason.
The victim suffered cuts to his face, malalignment of the jaw and still suffers from blurred vision because of this attack.
After the video was shown to prosecutors, all charges were dropped, and Rivera was placed on administrative leave.
An investigation found that none of the other officers hit the victim, and one, in fact, tried to stop Rivera. However, after watching their fellow cop assault an innocent young man and then lie about it, not one of the officers dared to cross the blue line and report their fellow brother.
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Mississippi Man Shoots Waffle House Waitress After She Tells Him To Put Out Cigarette
A Biloxi Waffle House employee is dead after telling a customer not to smoke at the restaurant.
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Deadly Force – When Las Vegas Police Shoot, and Kill
Search the Review-Journal’s database of officer-involved shootings since 1990 by location, circumstances and characteristics of the officers and subjects involved. It will be updated periodically.
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Why Do American Cops Kill More People Than in Other Countries?
Historic rates of fatal police shootings in Europe suggest that American police in 2014 were 18 times more lethal than Danish police and 100 times more lethal than Finnish police, plus they killed significantly more frequently than police in France, Sweden and other European countries.
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A U.S. cop spends almost 20 times as many hours’ training in using force than in conflict de-escalation.
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This article explains from many perspectives why the large disparity if civilians killed by police in the U.S. vs police in Europe.
Robert Lewis Dear
Robert Lewis Dear (1958- ), a White American “lone gunman”, shot 12 people, killing three, at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Friday November 27th 2015.
Among his victims, he shot six police officers, killing one. The police, instead of “fearing for their lives” and quickly gunning him down, as they do with Black males as young as 12, talked him into surrendering after a five hour stand-off.They took him alive.
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#LaquanMcDonald : Why I Stopped Talking About Injustice and Started Fighting It | xoNECOLE
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By Niama Malachi
“In that moment, I asked myself what in life are you so passionate about, that you would be willing to risk it all.
My answer, humanity.”
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