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Attica Prison Guards Plead Guilty in 2011 Inmate Beating Case

By Tom Robbins

 

ATTICA, N.Y. — Three guards accused in the brutal beating of an inmate at the state prison here in 2011 each pleaded guilty on Monday to a single misdemeanor charge and agreed to quit their jobs in a last-minute deal that will avert a trial but spare them any jail time.

The case was the first time that any state corrections officers had been criminally charged with a nonsexual assault of an inmate, officials said.

The plea arrangement was announced in State Supreme Court in Wyoming County just as the guards were to have gone on trial on charges of gang assault, filing false reports and evidence tampering.

 

Instead, the three guards, Sgt. Sean Warner, 39, and Officers Keith Swack, 39, and Matthew Rademacher, 31, pleaded guilty to official misconduct, a misdemeanor. As part of the agreement, according to Norman Effman, one of the defense lawyers, the guards agreed to resign from their jobs to avoid jail time.

 

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Source: www.nytimes.com

 

This is one of the most horrific beatings I’ve heard of in my life, and the officers will serve no time in jail.

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Public Policy and Blaming Poor Black Communities For Their Own Poverty [VIDEO]

On the 50th anniversary of the Moynihan Report (The Negro Family: The Case For National Action), john a. powell of the Haas Institute discusses the economic and political struggles faced by black communities today

Source: therealnews.com

 

Powell explains:

 

  • Segregation was [and is] about separating access to opportunity.
  • The War on Drugs is really a war on Black people.
  • We may have a plutocracy now. Rule by the rich.
  • White people don’t see Black people as being part of the country, as being legitimate members.
  • We bailed out banks, and GM with billions of dollars, but we did not bail out Detroit to help the African-Americans who live there.

 

 

#BlackLivesMatter Must See Tweets – LAPD Kills Homeless Black Man
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#BlackLivesMatter Must See Tweets – LAPD Kills Homeless Black Man

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Deadly LAPD shooting of homeless man is caught on video

 

By Gale Halland and Jack Dolan

 

In a dramatic confrontation caught on video, Los Angeles police shot and killed a homeless man in the heart of downtown’s bustling skid row Sunday.

A video of the incident posted on Facebook (contains foul language) shows a group of officers getting into a scuffle with a man standing on a sidewalk littered with tents and other debris.

During the struggle, one officer drops his nightstick, which is picked up by a woman on the street. Two officers handcuff the woman.

The man continues to scuffle with four of the officers, even after he’s wrestled to the ground. What appears to be one of the officers is heard saying “Drop the gun. Drop the gun.”

 

 

Then, at least one of the officers opens fire on the man, who remained on the ground with at least two officers near him.

Five gunshots are heard on the recording.

 

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Source: www.latimes.com

 

U.S. police are out of control. Murdering people left and right.