Police Brutality

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Border Patrol’s use of deadly force criticized in report

 

“Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers and have fired in frustration at people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border, according to an independent review of 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.

 

The report by law enforcement experts criticized the Border Patrol for “lack of diligence” in investigating U.S. agents who had fired their weapons. It also said it was unclear whether the agency “consistently and thoroughly reviews” use-of-deadly-force incidents.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Imperialist invaders shoot sovereign people on their own land.

See on www.latimes.com

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Sheriff’s Report on Migrant Killing Raises Concern About Impartiality

 

“San Diego: On Tuesday, February 18 at approximately 6:40 AM, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 41 year-old Jesus Flores-Cruz, a Mexican national, while in a rural area of San Diego County about 5 miles north of the Otay Mesa border crossing. The name of the Border Patrol agent has been withheld.

 

The San Diego County Sheriff’s press report on the homicide describes the person killed as the “suspect” and the person who killed him as the “victim.”

 

In response, Pedro Rios, the program director for the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego, issued the following statement on behalf of the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC):

 

“We are concerned that the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is predisposing this investigation to bias by identifying the person shot and killed as a suspect at the initial stages of the investigation. This positioning endangers the impartiality in this case and our coalition has asked the Department of Justice to intervene to ensure a thorough and impartial investigation. The Justice Department is now reviewing the incident.”

 

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See on soboco.org

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Update On Howard Morgan

 

“This is a case where the jury acquitted Morgan on counts of firing a firearm and counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, but deadlocked on charges of attempted murder.  At the retrial, the judge denied the jury knowledge of the acquitted charges, and the second jury convicted Morgan of attempted murder.  His attorneys have argued double-jeopardy because it was only possible for the jury to convict upon finding that Morgan fired a gun — a charge in which he was acquitted.

 

Tomorrow, February 26, 2014, a rally recognizing 9 Years of injustice against Officer Howard Morgan is being held in Chicago.

 

Time: 12pm – 1pm
Location: James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL

 

Hosted by: Attorney Benjamin Crump

 

The Free Howard Morgan Campaign has a website where it also provides a petition.

 

http://www.freehowardmorgan.com/

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

U.S. Police are shooting people as if they are in a war zone.

Howard Morgan was shot 28 times

See on blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

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Video Showing Savage Attack by Brute Cop on a Severely Restrained Inmate Surfaces a Year Later

Many are asking why the Judge in whose courtroom this vicious attack took place simply watched with indifference as a helpless inmate was beaten before her very eyes.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

This is the sick racist system of the U.S.

 

The judge doesn’t want to get on the bad side of the cops so he allows the man to be humiliated, rammed into a post and yelled at right in front of him and he doesn’t say a mumbling word to stop it.

See on ushypocrisy.com

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Border Patrol agent shoots, kills migrant who threw rocks

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has shot and killed an apparently undocumented migrant who allegedly threw rocks at the agent, striking his face, near San Diego.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

U.S. / Mexico border news sounds a lot like Palestine / Israel border news.

See on www.cnn.com

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Black In America: Open Letter To All My Sons (in memory of the young Black men murdered without cause)

 

“What you hate, change it. What you value, share it. What you love, cultivate it. ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

There’s a line in this letter that says “This country has never loved us…”

 

I explained what the country does love in the comments.

See on theangriestblackmaninamerica.wordpress.com

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Unarmed Black Men and Children shot by police

 

KIMANI GRAY

Sixteen-year-old Kimani was shot four times in the front and side of his body and three times in the back by two New York City police officers as he left a friend’s birthday party in Brooklyn on March 9, 2013. The only publicly identified eyewitness is standing by her claim that he was empty-handed when he was gunned down.

 

See on www.theroot.com