Police Brutality

#TamirRice #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.17
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#TamirRice #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.17

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How To Fix The Broken Police Culture

By Xena

 

Police culture. The first time I heard that term was in an article written by Brian Willis titled “7 reasons the police culture is broken (and how to fix it)”, published on policeone.com. Brian Willis is Deputy Executive Director for the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), He was once a full time police officer from 1979 to 2004 with the Calgary Police Service. He also has a website.

 

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Staff disciplined after jailed Florida teen’s death #AndreSheffield

July of 2011, 18-year-old Eric Perez died of a cerebral hemorrhage, records said, after a guard dropped him on his head during horseplay — and other staff failed to act as the teen’s condition worsened. One guard, a report said, was convinced Perez was “faking it.” He told a colleague it was not worth the required paperwork to send Perez to a hospital. Perez’s death, like that of Omar Paisley, prompted an agency housecleaning: Nine employees were fired, including the lockup superintendent.

 

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A guard dropped him on his head, then staff gave him no care.

#PoliceBrutality #DeathByPolice Tweets 6.15
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#PoliceBrutality #DeathByPolice Tweets 6.15

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.12
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.12

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Suicide note from a 19-year-old mother imprisoned at Karnes with her baby

English translation:

I write this letter so you know how it feels to be in this damn place for 8 months you don’t understand that people’s lives has no price a you don’t have a heart for anybody you just lie and humiliate all of us who have come to this country for the second time if I do this is because only God knows what I have suffered in my country I come here so this country can help me but here you’ve been killing me little by little with punishment and lies in prison when I haven’t committed any crime

 

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#LatinosAreHuman

#EzellFord #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.10
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#EzellFord #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.10