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Officer #MichaelBrelo Charged With Two Counts of Voluntary Manslaughter #TimothyRussell #MalissaWilliams

By Xena

 

“The incident, as determined by a federal investigation.involved 37 percent of the Cleveland Police Department, consisting of 62 police vehicles and more than a hundred officers. One however, now faces trial for two counts of voluntary manslaughter because he stood on the hood of an unarmed suspect’s car and fired 49 shots using his Glock 17.”

 

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Horrifying Video Shows Two Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Pregnant Woman

Despite the department providing crisis intervention training to deal with the mentally ill, neither of the officers who killed this pregnant mother of 3, had taken the course.

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

The cops are killing us y’all.

 

It is legal to carry a knife – yet they still shot her dead giving her only 14 seconds to drop the knife.

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Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory [VIDEO]

Let us not forget that over the last year more people of color [black people] have been killed by the police indiscriminately than at anytime in recent memory. Some compare it to “lawful lynchings” only through the use of a gun. More than six months after Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson, the youth-led protests in Ferguson continue to fuel a national movement against police brutality. #blacklivesmatter

“Part of the struggle for us in Ferguson is to break a four-hundred-year belief that black people are not human,” says St. Louis native and activist Rev. Osagyefo Sekou.

 

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The appalling story of a California prison guard #ScottJones who committed suicide: ‘The job made me do it’

By Christina Sterbenz

 

After years of alleged harassment and abuse at his job at a California prison, Scott Jones committed suicide in 2011. A note inside his truck, parked near his body, read: “The job made me do it.”

On Friday, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit that Jones’ widow, Janelle, brought against California’s department of prisons, as well as a warden and two other high-ranking officials.

That lawsuit alleges wrongful death and a violation of Jones’ First Amendment right to be free from harassment and retaliation.

In 2006, Jones’ employer High Desert State Prison sent him to work in the “Z-unit,” which houses the most dangerous inmates, according to the suit. There, he allegedly witnessed an array of horrific behaviours by officers — including
strip-searching inmates in the snow, provoking fighting among the inmates, preventing them from showering, and failing to stop contraband trading, according to his widow’s suit.

Jones’ widow alleges he was relentlessly harassed for reporting these behaviours as well as other violations of federal and state law and that he was pressured to violate the rules himself. At one point, a superior officer allegedly coerced him to file a false workers compensation claim after Jones hurt his knee while “horsing around on duty.”

To ensure his quietness about the incident, Jones speculated, the same officer allegedly pepper sprayed him at close range in 2007.

“Does that mean you’re going to rat me out now?” the officer said afterward, according to the suit.

 

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Source: www.businessinsider.com.au

 

US prisons are horrific. They unleash brutal abuse beyond any penalty written into law.

 

#ShutitDown