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Philly Cops Didn’t Know they were On Camera as a Dozen of them Tore Into Tyree Carroll

East Germantown, PA — Multiple Philadelphia cops are under investigation after a video surfaced this week that shows at least a dozen of them waylaying a man lying facedown in the street.

Tyree Carroll, 22, was stopped in April by three Philly Cops. According to his family, Carroll was riding down the street on his bicycle the wrong way, and this prompted the police to stop him. His family also said that at a preliminary hearing one of the officers testified that he stopped Carroll because he just spoke with two men, and they suspected him of buying drugs.

The video picks up after Carroll was allegedly complying with officers to stop and get off of his bicycle. However, according to Jasmyne Cannick, an LA-based blogger, police quickly escalated the situation and Carroll found himself in a struggle with three armed attackers.

 

The video shows the officers repeatedly pummelling Carroll. He’s struck multiple times by all three officers just as more cops arrive to inflict more pain.

“Here I come! You’re getting f**king tasered!” Screams the officer arriving on scene, seemingly excited to get there to enact his violence.

They too join in on the beating.

Then, even more cops show up, and they join in as well. At this point, one of the officers can be heard screaming, “He f**king bit me!”

According to Cannick, Carroll admitted to biting at an officer’s hand saying that he had to because he was unable to breathe.

During the struggle, the officers can be heard yelling “tase the motherf**ker” and one of them called him a “piece of sh*t.”

Also during the struggle, Carroll can be heard screaming for his grandmother Nancy Carroll to come to the door.
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Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby (1937- ), a Black American comedian and television actor, is best known for “The Cosby Show” (1984-1992), a Black family sitcom where he played the beloved father, Dr Cliff Huxtable. It was a huge hit with both Blacks and Whites, arguably one of the best American television shows ever. But in 2015 it is being pulled from television: dozens of women have come forward accusing him of rape and sexual assault, reporting cases that took place between 1965 and 2008.

 

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I Know an American ‘Internment’ Camp When I See One

By Satsuki Ina, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento

 

Last summer, the Obama administration announced its plans to open new immigrant family detention centers in response to the wave of women and children fleeing violence in Central and South America and seeking asylum in the United States. The ACLU  and other advocacy groups quickly opposed the White House’s policy because of the harm it would inflict on already traumatized women and children.

 

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Mexico ‘a death trap for migrants’ one year after new border program launched

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Honduran migrant Gerardo Cruz never saw the face of the man who pushed him off the train’s ladder as he rode through Chontalpa, Mexico. But through the black of that March night, 20-year-old Cruz said he could make out the white lettering of “Policía Federal” or “Federal Police” on the man’s dark blue uniform.

When Cruz fell, he said, his left arm landed on the tracks and the train’s wheels severed his limb.

“The government officials were the cause of this problem,” Cruz said of his injury, speaking in Spanish. “There should be compensation because this is a crime.”

Mexico’s Southern Border Program was launched in July 2014 in response to an influx of Central American migrants crossing through Mexico, creating a crisis that included tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors arriving at the US border. The program was designed to manage Mexico’s 750-mile border with Guatemala and Belize while protecting migrants settled in the country or en route to the US.

Yet abuses against migrants by both criminal gangs and authorities are actually spiking, according to humanitarian organizations working in Mexico.

“The Southern Border Plan was created — supposedly — to give security to the people coming from countries in Central America, but that’s not true,” said Chiapas-based immigration lawyer Elvira Gordillo.

“Instead of ensuring the safety of migrants, much more violations of human rights in all forms are being committed,” she said to a delegation of activists, religious leaders and lawyers from Los Angeles as they gathered in Tecun Uman, Guatemala.

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Cop Caught on Video Threatening to Kill Innocent Boy, Call Him and His Mother Pieces of Sh*t

This aggressive Texas cop had no idea he was on video when he grabbed a 14-year-old boy around the neck and threatened to kill him.

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What Does it Mean to Come to Terms With the History of Slavery?

Nick asks:
“But what are the future implications for society’s coming to terms with slavery?”

 

Does it matter whether or not we acknowledge the past so that we can ensure a more just future?

Does coming to terms with slavery mean historians should be advocating for policy reforms and other collective actions like peaceful protests?

 

What can I say and not say as a professional historian in uniform speaking on behalf of the federal government to the public?

 

Continue reading to see Andrew Pegoda’s response

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The U.S. still enslaves people through the prison industrial complex.

 

What are we gonna do about that?

 

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23 Cents an Hour? The Perfectly Legal Slavery Happening in Modern-Day America

If you thought slavery was outlawed in America, you would be wrong. The 13th amendment to the Constitution states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

In plain language, that means slavery in America can still exist for those who are in prison, where you basically lose all of your rights.  (You don’t gain a lot of your rights back when you get out of prison, either, but that is a different story.) So, given the country’s penchant for rapacious capitalism, it may not come as a surprise that there is much of the American prison system that exploits American prisoners much like slaves.

In fact there is large-scale exploitation in American prisons benefiting American corporations and the military-industrial complex. UNICOR, better known as Federal Prison Industries, or FPI, is a government-owned corporation that employs inmates for as little as 23 cents per hour, to provide a wide range of products and services under the guise of a “jobs training program.” In theory, this is supposed to give inmates skills that will prepare them for the workforce upon release.

 

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South Carolina Senate Votes to Remove Confederate Flag From State Capitol Grounds; House Vote Still Needed

This is a developing story…

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Weeks after a gunman shot nine people in a racially fueled attack on Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME church, South Carolina lawmakers are set to debate whether to remove the Confederate battle flag from State House grounds, or leave it flying high.

The debate to remove the flag was sparked after photographs of accused AME gunman Dylann Roof holding the storied and hurtful reminder surfaced. Days after the shooting, Gov. Nikki R. Haley called for the flag’s removal.

In a weekend interview with NBC’s Today Show, Haley said the removal would be an action of respect.

 

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Federal Judge Admits Drug War Is Tearing The Country Apart, Regrets 80% Of Rulings

“This is a war that I saw destroy lives.” A Federal Judge has become aware to the brutal reality that is kidnapping, caging and killing people for their personal choice. She is taking action to reverse it.

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People Shot and Killed while holding TOY gun

People shot and killed while holding TOY gun

#TamirRice age 12, Black
#AndyLopez age 13, Latino
#JohnCrawford age 22, Black

People not shot while holding REAL gun

#BryanWolfinger age 25, White