Suicide or not, police are responsible for Sandra Bland’s death
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LAPD Officer Sentenced To 3 Years For Excessive Force on #AlesiaThomas
Los Angeles Police Department officer Mary O’Callaghan was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Thursday after being convicted of assault caught on her police cruiser dash cam, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The 35-year-old victim, Alesia Thomas, died after the altercation, which began when officers went to Thomas’s home to investigate claims that she had abandoned her children, says The Guardian.
As you can see on the video, O’Callaghan kicked Thomas in the crotch and struck her with an open hand. Thomas then lost consciousness and fell to the ground, as O’Callaghan apathetically smoked a cigarette. The surveillance shows the officer assaulting Thomas both outside of and as she was entering the vehicle.
As Thomas is taken to the back of the car by the officer, she can be seen on the video, saying “I can’t breathe. I can’t move.”
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The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive
The Guardian is counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies this year. Read their stories and contribute to our ongoing, crowdsourced project
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Are any politicians concerned about this?
#SandraBland ‘s Family Interview talking about her Injury #SayHerName
Horrific Excessive Force on #RachelGraham
Surveillance video shows the jailer, Rachel Graham, slamming a handcuffed Wells to the floor face first on July 2, 2011. Wells has filed an excessive force federal lawsuit against Graham and is now talking about the incident.
“That is not the way to correct a person that is in handcuffs with no self-defense. I didn’t even have my hands to break the fall. It could have been a lot worse. At one point, I thought I was going to die,” said Wells.
She says she was left unconscious, bleeding with her teeth knocked out. Moments before she was dropped to the ground, Wells was being booked for a DWI arrest. Cameras inside the booking area of the jail capture Wells step over the red line, which she had been instructed to stand behind. The jailer reacts by extending her leg and slamming Wells to the ground.
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Why the deaths of Latinos at the hands of police haven’t drawn as much attention
Kris Ramirez never saw police as a threat. Growing up, his body didn’t tense with us-versus-them dread when police cruisers drove through his Southeast Los Angeles neighborhood.
“If someone is wearing a uniform,” Ramirez said, “you show respect.”
Then last year, four days before Halloween, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed his brother, Oscar Jr., along railroad tracks near Paramount High School. Deputies said the 28-year-old didn’t comply with orders and moved his arm in “a threatening manner.” Ramirez was unarmed.
Police killings of Latinos in L.A. County since 2000
The Ramirez family marched in front of the Paramount sheriff’s station and held vigils, but they struggled to find wider support for their cause. As the family grieved, the national Black Lives Matter movement picked up energy, bolstered locally by the fatal shooting of Ezell Ford, a mentally disabled black man, by LAPD officers.
Watching the protests over Ford’s killing, Kris Ramirez felt frustrated: “Why can’t we get that same type of coverage or help?”
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We know #OscarGrant, unarmed, was shot in the back by Bart police, but did you know #OscarRamirez, unarmed, was shot in the back by police?
#LatinosAreHuman #BlackLivesMatter
US border patrol violated agency rules in deporting thousands of children
US Customs and Border Protection deported unaccompanied children from Mexico and Canada without documenting how they knew minors would be safe
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$20 million settlement in labor trafficking cases of exploited Indian guest workers
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California cheerleaders win right to be paid and treated like regular employees
A new law just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown gives employee rights to professional cheerleaders, including the right to receive at least minimum wage and to be paid for all practices and appearances.
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This took way to long. Shameful history.
Requiring cheerleaders to work without pay? Seriously!? With all the money that sports brings in!? Female indentured servants.#WomensRights
Obama: Inmates made ‘mistakes’ like I did – CNN Video
President Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit a federal prison and told reporters some of the inmates he met made “mistakes” like he did.
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