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POLICE BRUTALITY – Florida Cop Beats Up Handcuffed Female Strip Club Worker

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The 31-year-old woman shown on video being struck multiple times by a rookie Jacksonville police officer while awaiting booking into jail spoke to News4Jax from the hospital, saying she was “extremely mortified by the whole thing.” On Thursday, Akinyemi Borisade, 26, was arrested on a charge of battery and fired by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Police also released the video showing Borisade hitting Mayra Martinez Wednesday afternoon while she was handcuffed just outside the jail. Sheriff Mike Williams said the jail surveillance video was key to making a quick determination of the facts, and the additional video that surfaced is also being reviewed. “We made our decision based on what we saw on the jail video and, obviously, that first video gives me a lot of concerns, as well,” Williams said. “There is an investigation going on now surrounding the first video.” What Williams called the first video, with a Wednesday time stamp, appears to be shot by a dashboard camera in a parking lot in front of Scores, an adult club on University Boulevard at Philips Highway. That’s the same day and location where Martinez was arrested.and charged with trespassing and resisting police. Martinez texted photos to the I-TEAM — including one that was taken just outside Scores, where she was starting a new job. According to the police report, they were called to the bar to escort her from the property because she was drunk and belligerent after quitting work on her first day. “I am a yoga teacher. I utilize the bar industry to help me make ends meet, and I want and need that known,” Martinez texted. “I am extremely mortified by the whole thing, and especially the type of person I’m being made to look.” News4Jax crime and safety analyst Gil Smith, a former JSO officer, reviewed the dashcam video. “As the camera comes closer to the two police officers, they already have her on the ground,” Smith said. “They said that she’s biting them, but I really can’t tell that from the video because the video’s not great quality. And that’s one thing about video, you’re not always going to get the full picture. He mentions that she’s fighting, that’s she’s biting, and he says, ‘We have to strike her in the back several times,’ and that’s consistent with the report.” According to the arrest report, Martinez continued to kick and fight in the patrol car and was placed in more restraints, the report said. She resisted their efforts to handcuff her and tried to kick and bite the officers, the report said. While waiting to be booked into the jail, Martinez can be seen on the video kicking Borisade in the leg, and Borisade retaliates by hitting her several times. Corrections officers who witnessed the incident reported it to their supervisors, and the JSO Integrity Unit investigated it. In the jail video released by the JSO, the corrections officers stand and watch before one steps forward and puts his hand on Borisade. Undersheriff Pat Ivey said that because Borisade is a probationary officer, he can’t appeal his firing, but he can ask for a name-clearing hearing with JSO. If he passes that he would regain the ability to be an officer with another agency. This is not Borisade’s first brush with the law. In 2008, when he was 19 years old, reports show he took items into a dressing room from a store at the Regency Square Mall and came out without them and tried to leave the store without paying. The report shows he admitted to doing it. He later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor property crime. According to JSO’s website, officers can’t have been convicted of any felony, or misdemeanors involving false statement, perjury or domestic violence. http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/ja...

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Trans teen physically removed from Ted Cruz rally—here is the 16-year-old’s excellent response

The New Civil Rights Movement reported on James’s story a few hours after the rally. 

​James says he and his mother had tickets to the event. He had the transgender flag draped around his shoulders, but was not disruptive or disrespectful. Despite that, Cruz staffers asked them to leave, and did so physically, he says.

James on his Facebook page said that staff members repeatedly “grabbed” him and ultimately “pushed” him “out of the venue.” He says they called him “ma’am,” and told him he was “trespassing.”

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VIDEO: Cops Unload Weapons on #RodrigoGarcia Because They Mistakenly Thought He Ran Over Officer

Albuquerque, NM – The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) released bodycam footage showing 10 officers firing at a man driving an SUV after they cornered him in a yard. The cops involved in the shooting told investigators they thought the driver, 20-year-old Rodrigo Garcia, had run over their lieutenant when, in fact, she had been knocked over by a falling fence.

48 rounds were fired at Garcia, with seven striking him, including one in the head that required part of his brain to be removed. Doctors said his injuries will severely affect the quality of his life.

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#RodrigoGarcia #LatinosAreHuman #DisarmCops 

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Cops Intentionally Let Three Black Teen Girls Drown

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One cop says “I hear them yelling I think” at about 25 seconds into the video.  

 

Note the edit in the video. Why did they edit the video at that spot?

Stop the genocide of Black people. 

A slow genocide is still a genocide. 

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Former New Orleans cops plead guilty to bridge shootings

New Orleans police killed 17-year-old James Brissette, 40-year-old Ronald Madison, and wounded four others in the days following Hurricane Katrina. All of the victims were African-American. All were unarmed. Madison was shot in the back.

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White officer gets probation in black driver’s shooting

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police officer who was charged with a felony for shooting and killing a black driver at the end of a chase took a plea deal Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation. Justin Craven, 27, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor misconduct in office, multiple media outlets reported. A prosecutor wanted the North Augusta police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter, which carries up to 30 years in prison, but a grand jury refused to indict Craven. He was later charged with a different felony. Craven’s plea comes amid a nationwide debate over the use of force and how white police officers treat black people, fueled by high-profile incidents including the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddie Gray’s death after he was injured in a Baltimore police van. The death of 68-year-old Ernest Satterwhite was captured on video from Craven’s dashboard camera. The Associated Press requested the footage nearly two years ago and eventually sued the State Law Enforcement Division, which refused to release the video until after Craven’s plea Monday. The footage shows Craven run to Satterwhite’s car after the man stops at his home and stick a gun and both arms into the driver’s open window. A black arm is seen pushing back, and Craven pulls the weapon out of the window and fires several shots. Craven feared for his life because Satterwhite was trying to grab his gun, Craven’s lawyer Jack Swerling said after the plea hearing. “His mistake in judgment was approaching the car and getting too close. He had to make a split-second decision instead of like now, when everyone gets all the time they want to analyze it,” Swerling said. Police experts recommend officers don’t charge into an unknown situation but instead stay behind cover in case a suspect is armed. No weapon was found in Satterwhite’s car. Others who have seen the video think Satterwhite might have been stunned that the officer pointed his gun at his head and just was swiping his arm in surprise. “What he did was murder this man, and the judicial system just let him get away with it,” said state Rep. Joe Neal, a black Democrat from Hopkins who saw the video and has spent decades speaking out against racism in law enforcement and demanding accountability through data and police cameras. A lawyer for Satterwhite’s family did not return a phone call. North Augusta paid the family nearly $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit. The shooting happened after a 13-minute chase after Craven tried to pull Satterwhite over for drunken driving, chasing him from North Augusta all the way to Satterwhite’s home on a dirt road in adjoining Edgefield County. Satterwhite drives through a Wal-Mart parking lot and is seen swerving at times into oncoming traffic and off the side of the road. He hits at least two cars, although no other injuries were reported. Swerling said the chase did reach 100 mph at one point and Satterwhite’s erratic driving was placing people at risk. State police said Satterwhite had a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent — nearly twice the legal limit to drive. Police records show Satterwhite had been arrested more than a dozen times on traffic violations during his life, including three times for fleeing police. However, there is no evidence he ever physically fought with officers. Judge Frank Addy told Craven he was giving the officer probation because he could understand how the shooting happened after a long chase, the Aiken Standard reported. Addy said the shooting wasn’t similar to other high-profile police killings like in North Charleston, where white officer Michael Slager is awaiting trial on a murder charge for killing an unarmed black man as he ran away from a traffic stop. Neal said the video shows him a “gun happy” officer. “He runs up and opens fire. How is that different from North Charleston? It is exactly the same thing,” Neal said. Prosecutor Donnie Myers, himself facing a driving under the influence charge, got a different grand jury to indict Craven on a felony charge of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. If convicted of that charge, Craven could have faced up to 10 years in prison. Instead, Myers accepted the plea deal to a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in jail. He did not return a message from The Associated Press. Swerling said Craven regrets that Satterwhite died in the shooting and has no plans to be a police officer again. ___ Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/jeffrey-collins

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#ChristopherTorres Shot in the Back Three Times by Albuquerque Police

One day in April 2011, Stephen and Renetta Torres rushed home after receiving a call from their neighbours about a large police presence – mobile crime lab, SWAT team, armoured cars – at their Albuquerque, New Mexico, residence.

The police were looking for their 27-year-old son, Christopher, who had been home on his own. The officers claimed that they had come to serve an arrest warrant on Christopher about a road rage incident months earlier.

Christopher, who suffered from schizophrenia, refused to speak to the officers, so they moved in on him, jumping a fence and entering the Torres’ backyard. According to court documents, from that point, only a few minutes elapsed before Christopher was shot in the back three times by CJ Brown, a plainclothed police officer at the scene.

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