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Chicago Cop Shot 28 Times By White Officers Freed From Prison

 

After a years long battle, Howard Morgan (pictured), a Chicago cop shot by White officers, was freed last week after outgoing Ill. Gov. Pat Quinn commuted the 40-year prison sentence, MSNBC reports.

 

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Source: newsone.com

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Must see Tweets 1.17 #BlackLivesMatter

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Must see tweets 1.15 #BlackLivesMatter #Oscars #SFBart

#BlackLivesMatter protest shuts down Massachusetts highway

#BlackLivesMatter protest shuts down Massachusetts highway

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Charlie Hebdo: Free Speech for Whom and to Say What?

 

Introduction
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Western media has wasted no time tooting its own horn regarding the value of “free speech” in our liberal societies.
But what should we think about this defense of “free speech”?

 

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Source: anti-imperialism.com

 

The U.S. claims free speech but goes after whistle blower Edward Snowden.

 

 

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NYPD To Reform Stop And Frisk In NYC Public Housing

 

New York City has agreed to reform stop and frisk police procedures in NYCHA public housing, the New York Daily News reports.
The agreement stems from Davis v. City Of New York, a class action lawsuit that NYCHA residents filed against the city over questionable stops and arrests in housing projects by NYPD officers five years ago.
Per the decision, a court-appointed federal monitor will supervise a training manual and procedure overhaul for cops patrolling public housing.
Now, officers who stop people in NYCHA properties must files reports documenting and justifying the encounter. However, the agreement does not discuss whether officers can use their weapons during the stop.
The ruling comes less than a month after a rookie cop accidentally shot and killed Akai Gurley in East New York’s Pink Houses. Officer Peter Liang was patrolling a dark stairwell in the area when he claims Gurley startled him coming down.

 

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Source: goodblacknews.org

 

Sounds like progress. I don’t know how the harassment was allowed in the first place.

 

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Whistle-blower officer files lawsuit against Batts, BPD

A former Baltimore police officer who blew the whistle on misconduct is suing the agency and its commissioner, alleging that they failed to protect him from retaliation.

Source: www.baltimoresun.com

 

HT @deray & @nettaaaaaaa

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Darrien Hunt lawsuit filed

 

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune)

 

Susan Hunt, left, is joined by her sisters Barbara Houston, second from left, and Cindy Moss as they listen to attorney Robert Sykes as he details a lawsuit he is filling against Saratoga Springs for the shooting death of Susan Hunt’s son Darrian Hunt. Sykes was speaking from his law offices in Salt Lake City, Friday, January 2, 2015.

 

Source: www.sltrib.com

 

Someone please tell me.

Is it illegal to carry a sword?

 

‘Cause there is a whole group of teens who practice moves with real swords in a park near me.

 

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Attorney for family: Missoula police shot suspect ‘execution style’

An attorney for the family of a man who was shot and killed by a Missoula police officer said Saturday he has significant issues with the official version of events

Source: missoulian.com

Again, no dash camera footage or lapel camera footage (so far).

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The Tarnished History and Image of Police Departments

Long before there was a police force in America, there were sheriffs. The office of sheriff has its roots in 9th century England. According to the National Law Enforcement Museum, the early policing system was modeled after the English structure, which incorporated the watch, constables, and sheriffs (derived from the British term, “shire-reeves”) in a community-based police organization. The British system developed from “kin policing” dating back to about 900 A.D., in which law enforcement power was in the people’s hands, and they were responsible for their families or “kin.”) Early law enforcement was reactionary, rather than pre-emptive—the watch usually responded to criminal behavior only when requested by victims or witnesses.

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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

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‘Selma’s Missing Epilogue: The Recent Dissolution Of The Voting Rights Act

The final scenes of the 2014 film Selma, which depicts Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans in the South, leave viewers applauding, content with our nation’s civil rights progress after witnessing a concrete example of how a protest effected meaningful national change. But what the movie doesn’t provide is an update — a scene that flashes forward almost 50 years to show how the exact rights granted to blacks who marched across Alabama in demonstration have recently been eroded by our highest court and then by states across the country.


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Source: kstreet607.com

Do you think we will every be able to vote from home to avoid all this voter ID mess and votes getting thrown out because someone has the same name?