Susan Candiotti reports on what many perceive to be an alarming increase in the use of excessive force amongst police
Source: www.cnn.com
Have police always been like this, but now we are learning due to cell phone videos?
police brutality
Witness: Cop stomped on suspect’s head – CNN.com Video
Bystanders say they captured video of a NYPD officer stomping on the head of a suspect while making an arrest.
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New Yorker who died after apparent chokehold during arrest is mourned
The mourners trickled slowly into the crowded church. Inside, a huge man lay in a white casket topped by white and yellow flowers — a man who in life was known to few outside his Staten Island neighborhood.
In death, though, Eric Garner has become a symbol of policing gone awry: He was videotaped as he was put into an apparent chokehold by police officers. His case has jolted a city that began the year with a new mayor, Bill de Blasio, and a new police commissioner, William J. Bratton, vowing better lives for people such as Garner: black men living far from the glassy skyscrapers and shaded brownstones of the well-heeled.
Civil rights leaders and other New Yorkers say Garner’s death July 17 shows the need for faster change in the New York Police Department.
“People in all five boroughs are fired up. They’re fired up right now because we don’t like this,” said Isaac L. Mickens, a pastor, community activist and friend of Garner’s family. “We need action.”
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Source: www.latimes.com
New Yorker who died after apparent chokehold during arrest is mourned
The mourners trickled slowly into the crowded church. Inside, a huge man lay in a white casket topped by white and yellow flowers — a man who in life was known to few outside his Staten Island neighborhood.
In death, though, Eric Garner has become a symbol of policing gone awry: He was videotaped as he was put into an apparent chokehold by police officers. His case has jolted a city that began the year with a new mayor, Bill de Blasio, and a new police commissioner, William J. Bratton, vowing better lives for people such as Garner: black men living far from the glassy skyscrapers and shaded brownstones of the well-heeled.
Civil rights leaders and other New Yorkers say Garner’s death July 17 shows the need for faster change in the New York Police Department.
“People in all five boroughs are fired up. They’re fired up right now because we don’t like this,” said Isaac L. Mickens, a pastor, community activist and friend of Garner’s family. “We need action.”
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Source: www.latimes.com
Inside the final minutes before 13 year old Andy Lopez’s murder
Moments before 13-year-old Andy Lopez was fatally shot by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy who mistook his replica AK-47 pellet gun for a real rifle, a man in a truck drove by the boy and felt a surge of worry.
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Source: www.sfgate.com
Police shoot teenage special-needs girl within 20 seconds of arriving to ‘help’
HALF MOON BAY, CA — Acommunity is outraged after a call for help turned into a hasty death sentence for a disgruntled teenage girl with special needs.
Source: www.policestateusa.com
Eric Garner
Eric Garner (1971?-2014), an American street vendor, beloved husband and 43-year-old father of six, became yet another unarmed Black man killed by the New York City police (NYPD) on July 17th 2014. His crime: selling untaxed cigarettes.
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The police have taken officers Pantaleo and Justin Damico off the street. They took Pantaleo’s badge and gun. No charges, no arrests.
The hospital takes it a bit more seriously: the four ambulance workers are suspended without pay.
Mayor de Blasio finds the Garner case “very troubling” and promises a “thorough investigation”.
The coroner has yet to report the official cause of death.
There have been at least two protests so far.
Today is his funeral.
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Trigger Warning – Unseen Video Of Eric Garner Death – Over 7 minutes handcuffed not breathing NYPD chokehold AFTERMATH
Eric Garner laying on ground not breathing for over 5 minutes, no resuscitation, he is placed on stretcher and taken into ambulance.
AT 6:56 The Officer Who Put Him In A Chokehold Waves At The Camera
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Choke Holds Are Intended To Kill – Eric Garner; Ethan Saylor
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King. I’m reading the news about Eric Garner and it causes me to ask questions while getting that sick feeling in my stomach…
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Hamill: Cop who put man in chokehold and others who watched should be off the force
No way can you look at that video of Garner being yoked in a chokehold from behind by a plainclothes coward without saying this guy belongs in an orange jumpsuit.
Source: www.nydailynews.com