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Fatal Shooting of Black Teen (age 18) by White Officer in Berkeley, Missouri Sparks Clashes [VIDEO]

 

A white police officer shot a black teenager to death at a gas station in the city next door to Ferguson, Missouri, touching off clashes early Wednesday between demonstrators and law enforcement.

The mayor said that video from the confrontation, in the city of Berkeley, appeared to show the teenager pointing a gun at the officer, and police said a handgun was recovered at the scene. Police said the officer feared for his life.

“This was not the same as Ferguson,” Mayor Theodore Hoskins said.

He took pains to say that the shooting could not be compared to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson or to the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York. The mayor, who is black, pointed out that the Berkeley police department is majority-black.

He promised a thorough investigation but said that the video showed it was not a police officer going off “half-cocked.”

“Everybody don’t die the same,” he told reporters. “Some people die because the policeman initiated. Some people die because they initiated it. And at this point, our review indicates that the police did not initiate this, like Ferguson.”

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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Milwaukee ex-officer not charged in shooting mentally ill Black man 14 times

12-22-2014

 

“MILWAUKEE — A white Milwaukee police officer fired after killing a mentally ill black man in April won’t face criminal charges, the top county prosecutor said Monday, a decision that prompted the U.S. attorney to later announce a federal investigation of the incident.”

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Manney shot Hamilton, 31, after responding to a call of a man sleeping in a downtown park. Manney said Hamilton resisted when he tried to frisk him. The two exchanged punches before Hamilton got hold of Manney’s baton and hit him on the neck, the former officer has said. Manney then shot Hamilton 14 times.

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Flynn fired Manney in October. He said then that Manney correctly identified Hamilton as mentally ill but ignored department policy and treated him as a criminal by frisking him.”

 

 

Source: www.msn.com

 

Another case of a criminal wearing a police uniform and getting away with murder.

 

#NoJusticeNoPeace

#BlackLivesMatter

#iCantBreathe

#DontreHamilton

 

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FBI investigates suspicious death of North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy

Lennon Lacy, 17, was found hanging from a swing set. Authorities called the death a suicide.

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“It’s just hard to accept that a black youth would hang himself given the history of ‘strange fruit.’ The facts don’t add up.”

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“Black and white get along great,” she said, wryly smiling. “We just don’t get invited to their houses or the other way around.”

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His family thinks he also wore his new gray Air Jordan sneakers — because the shoes seem to have disappeared.

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More than 4,700 lynchings occurred between the 1880s and 1968, mostly of black men, according to Tuskegee University in Alabama.

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The white sneakers remain unexplained. His mom insists that he didn’t own the particular model of blue belt found around his neck. Weeks later, she found her son’s blue canvas belt in her glove compartment. He didn’t own two blue belts, she said, so where did the other one come from?

 

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Source: www.washingtonpost.com

 

HT @WesleyLowery

 

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Cop Brutally Slams Latino boy Face First into Sidewalk

 

Phoenix – While in recent weeks it has become all too apparent to the public that police are rarely held accountable for their actions. This case highlights exactly why many citizens dislike cops and the public as a whole is losing respect for them at a rapid rate.

 

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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
This officer is a criminal in uniform. He harasses this 16 year old Latino kid. Treats him like a dog, then intentionally trips him while holding his arms so that he cannot break his own fall and swings him face first into the concrete sidewalk.
#ChildAbuse

#ICANTBREATHE

#LATINOLIVESMATTER

 

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Indianapolis newspaper alters, then deletes racist Thanksgiving cartoon following complaints

 

Responding to criticism that a cartoon depicting undocumented immigrants coming through a window to share Thanksgiving dinner with a white family was racist, an Indiana newspaper edited out the stereotyped housebreaker’s mustache, ostensibly to make the cartoon seem less racist.

 

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Source: www.rawstory.com

 

This is what #xenophobia, #racism and white supremacist patriarchy look like – the cartoonist and the white family in the cartoon.

 

The dad is holding the turkey as if he did all the cooking.

 

And Instead of inviting Latino guests or Native Americans to their dinner, they the cartoonist depicts that Latinos are breaking into their house – because, you know, all Latinos are criminals.

 

The doctrine of white supremacy does this. It always flips the script to make white people appear as the norm and the law abiding while making people of color appear as invaders and law breakers.  And Euro-Americans do all this while living on Amerindian land.

 

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Celebrate the Life of Mike Brown

 

No one really knows how many people are killed by police because the feds refuse to compile and reveal that information. If the Malcolm X Grassroots Movements is right, a black person is killed extra judicially every 28 hours. That a complete disregard for Black life.
Even in Latino communities lots of value is placed on whiteness over blackness. We need to talk about anti-blackness within Latino communities, so as part of a #DigitalAltar for Dia De Los Muertos we want to celebrate Black life and Mike Brown.


Will you share this on social media and celebrate Black Life today?


Celebrate the life of someone close to you today using #DigitalAltar.

 

Source: act.presente.org

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Marine Suspected In Death Of Transgender Filipino Woman May Be Charged This Week

A U.S. Marine suspected in the killing of a 26-year-old transgender woman in the Philippines may be charged with murder as soon as Wednesday, Reuters reports.

Jennifer Laude, 26, was found naked with her head in a toilet and signs of strangulation…

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Study Finds Asian American Voices Missing From Sunday Talk Shows – NBC News

 

In a study of “The Big Five” Sunday television news shows, Asian-American think tank,ChangeLab, found that Asian Americans are simply missing from the conversation, even when the shows are discussing issues that are of interest and relevance to Asian Americans.

 

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Source: www.nbcnews.com

 

Asian Americans are 5.3% of the U.S. population.

 

The other group missing from talk shows is Native Americans who are 1.2% of the U.S. population.