Gun Violence

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Remembering Black Lives Unjustly Lost

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Chilling new audio uncovered from SC shooting tape

New audio from the chilling dash-cam tape of a South Carolina state trooper shooting an unarmed man has prompted even more questions. Chris Hayes examines the mindset of the now-former trooper with psychology professor Phillip Atiba Goff.

No Justice – Ferguson on FIRE
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No Justice – Ferguson on FIRE

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) November 25, 2014

In Memoriam – Mike Brown
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In Memoriam – Mike Brown

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What If The Killing In Ferguson Was Reversed

 

Modified a little from original post:

 

The Ferguson shooting in reverse:
A young white kid is walking down the street. A black policeman approaches him and tells him to get the F**K out of the street. The cop pulls off, then backs up, almost hitting the white kid. A confrontation occurs, shots are fired with several white neighbors witnessing it. The black cop exits the vehicle and begins to fire on the unarmed white kid who is running away. The white kid turns around and puts his hands in the air. The black police officer continues to shot at the white kid, shooting him in the eye and top of the head as he is slumping down from the previous shots.

Source: thoughtprovokingperspectives.wordpress.com

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Can Border Patrol be fixed?

Border Patrol’s use-of-force problem wasn’t just that agents shot people too often. It was that the agency either supported its agents, or didn’t care about addressing the public’s concerns. In spring 2014, an American Immigration Council report analyzed over 800 complaints filed about Border Patrol misconduct — most of which were about use of force — over the past few years. What they found was alarming,


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Source: www.vox.com

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The Green Monster – How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency


This is the story of how the Green Monster came alive.


The irony of New York’s Statue of Liberty is that the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on its base at its dedication in 1886, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,” marked almost precisely the moment the nation’s borders began to close to new immigrants—especially the tired, the poor and the huddled masses.


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Source: www.politico.com

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Border Patrol killings face renewed scrutiny

He was shot eight times in the back by a U.S. border patrol agent who fired from behind this fence.

“What were they doing?” a Mexican dispatcher asked.

“They were throwing rocks,” a border patrol agent told her.

But other witnesses said Rodriguez was just walking by.

Since 2010, 28 people have died at the hands of border patrol agents.

Jim Tomsheck
 CBS NEWS

Reviewing those fatal force cases was part of Jim Tomsheck’s job as head of internal affairs for Customs and Border Protection

“I am familiar with several incidents where the persons appeared to be fleeing and were shot in the back or the side at some distance from the border patrol agent when the shots were fired,” said Tomsheck.
 

He calls seven of those shootings “highly suspect.” But he told CBS News his bosses ignored his concerns and he did not have authority to punish agents. He was reassigned in June.

“There were certainly many cases where border patrol agents or certainly CBP officers engaged in excessive use of force or abuse of migrants at the border that should have resulted in discipline where it did not,”

Tomsheck says.

Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot eight times in the back by a U.S. border patrol agent.

One of those not disciplined is the agent who shot Rodriguez. He remains on the job.
 

Rodriguez was one of 12 reportedly unarmed people shot by border agents. Autopsies on three of them show they were shot in the back, or the back of the head.

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Source: www.cbsnews.com

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Does race shape Americans’ passion for guns?

 

You can’t talk about guns in America without talking about race, scholars say

 

Source: www.cnn.com

 

The fear of men of color with guns started early in America with the slaughter of Native-Americans and the oppression of enslaved Africans.