“Cameras are game changers, It’s a non-lethal weapon. The average rational person, when you tell them you’re filming them, will act more rationally,” Smith said.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
Author: Oppression Monitor
Jury awards $8M to family of black man who died after being choked by police
The Los Angeles Times reports that a civil court jury has awarded $8 million to the family of a man who died while struggling with L.A. Sheriff’s deputies.
Source: thegrio.com
HT @TheObamaCrat2
#BlackLivesMatter
We were sleeping when I shot my wife, Georgia police chief says on 911 tape
Peachtree City, Georgia, police chief says he shot his wife while moving a gun in the bed, according to a 911 tape released Friday
Source: www.cnn.com
Why would someone have a gun in their bed?
Cop assaults man who had hands UP. Dashcam Footage Shows Cops Assaulting Him, Cops Indicted.
February 24, 2014
Evidence from a dashboard camera on a police cruiser ended a nightmare for a New Jersey man facing false charges of eluding police, resisting arrest and assault.
Prosecutors dismissed all the criminal charges against Marcus Jeter, 30, of Bloomfield, N.J. and instead indicted two Bloomfield police officers for falsifying reports and one of them for assault after the recording surfaced showing police officers beating Jeter during a traffic stop, according to WABC of New York. A third has pleaded guilty to tampering.
Jeter’s defense attorney requested all recorded evidence, but the police failed to hand over a second tape until additional evidence surfaced of a second police car at the scene. The tape showed Jeter complying with police, even as one punched him in the head repeatedly.
Without the tape, prosecutors had been demanding a five-year prison sentence.
The video below is graphic and blood boiling. The cops used the common tactic of yelling “stop resisting” so it could be said that they were threatened, as they pummeled an innocent and non-threatening man.
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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
If there was no dash cam footage, this man would have a felony conviction and 5 years in prison.
Note, the police do not always turn on the camera.
More protections for citizens need to be in place.
Redundant cameras need to be required by law. If one camera malfunctions, we need alternative footage.
Witness Says NJ Man Killed by Police During Traffic Stop Had Hands Up
Tahli Dawkins was taking out his recycling and witnessed the fatal shooting.
“He had nothing in his hands,” Dawkins told NBC10. “He had his hands up trying to get out of the car, one on the door was getting out like this and he just started shooting him.”
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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
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#HANDSUPDONTSHOOT
#SHUTITDOWN
Woman terrorized with ‘Move N****r Now’ and rocks thrown through windows [VIDEO]
An Alabama woman’s New Year’s Eve celebrations were cut short when she heard a crash as three windows in the front of her house were broken with rocks.
Terry Turner and her granddaughter slipped out the bedroom window after calling 911 — they were afraid someone was in the house.
When police arrived, they discovered the rocks thrown through the windows and the spray-painted garage door with a message that said: “Move N***** now.”
Terry has lived in the neighborhood for eight years and heard the slur shouted at her but never imagined things would escalate this far. Still, she holds no hatred in her heart for whoever did this.
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Source: thegrio.com
Those rocks could have killed her or her granddaughter!
More domestic terrorism that the media will not call terrorism.
Anderson Cooper’s Interview With Four Mothers Of Unarmed Black Men Slain By Police Spotlights Racial Injustice
On Friday evening, four mothers came forward to tell the story of how they buried their children, a story that no parent should have to tell. Speaking with Anderson Cooper, the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice came together to discuss the horrific reality of police brutality in America, and its disproportionate effects on black bodies. The interview marked the first time that all four women came together on national television, highlighting the growing national discomfort with an insidious trend of violence towards black, brown and minority men and women at the hands of law enforcement officials, and the insufficiency of a legal system that seems unconcerned with their existence.
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Source: www.bustle.com
Understanding the racial bias you didn’t know you had
Despite our best intentions, implicit associations affect us every day.
Source: www.vox.com
Mentall ill Ezell Ford (age 25) Autopsy Shows He Was Shot Three Times, Once In The Back
LOS ANGELES — The official autopsy report for Ezell Ford, an unarmed, mentally ill black man shot to death by Los Angeles police in August, was released by the county coroner’s office Monday after the Los Angeles Police Department lifted an investigative hold that had blocked the report from public view for over four months.
The coroner’s investigation ruled Ford’s death a homicide by multiple gunshot wounds.
Ford, 25, was killed by LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas, both on gang enforcement detail, shortly after 8 p.m. on Aug. 11 in the Florence neighborhood of South LA. The report provides the first detailed account from authorities of his injuries.
According to the autopsy report, Ford was shot three times, resulting in two fatal wounds and one nonfatal.
The skin around the fatal wound in Ford’s back had a “muzzle imprint,” which suggests that the shot was taken at close range. The second fatal wound was in Ford’s side abdomen. A third wound, ruled nonfatal by the coroner’s investigation, was on his right arm.
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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#iCantBreathe
#NotOneMore
#ShutItDown
High School Bans ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-Shirts
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words “I Can’t Breathe” during warmups.
The athletic director at Fort Bragg High School informed his counterpart at Mendocino High School this week that neither the boys nor girls team would be allowed to participate in the three-day tournament hosted by Fort Bragg High starting Monday, Mendocino Unified School District Superintendent Jason Morse said.
The boys were reinstated after all but one player agreed not to wear the shirts inspired by the last words of Eric Garner, the New York man who died after an officer put him in a chokehold, while on the Fort Bragg campus during the Vern Piver Holiday Classic tournament, Morse said. Too few girl players accepted the condition for the team to field a tournament squad, he said.
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com