“At the beginning of this video, you hear a prison guard shouting, “”Get down! Just get down! Get down! Get down!” presumably to the other prisoners. That exclamation is followed by, “Oh (inaudible) guy over there with his hands hitting him … and a damn hammer!”
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Police corruption
Four cops strip woman naked
An Illinois woman is suing the LaSalle County Police Department over what she feels was an illegal strip search.
Community Village‘s insight:
These videos explain why people are afraid of police.
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Video raises police brutality questions – CNN.com Video
Jason Carroll reports on a video that is raising questions about force used by the Atlantic City Police Department.
200 stitches needed after K9 bites him open
Community Village‘s insight:
Attorney Jennifer Bonjean says that this is one of the most egregious examples of excessive force and police brutality that she has ever seen.
She must be out of touch with the world. YouTube is full of African Americans and Latinos getting beat and / or shot DEAD by police: Oscar Grant, Ramarley Graham, Ramses Barron-Torres, Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, Munique Tachiquin Alvarado
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What is … the Prison Industrial Complex?
BREAKING NEWS: Held in Solitary Confinement for 42 Years, Judge Orders Herman Wallace’s Release
Last month The Atlantic article ‘Did the Wrong Man Spend 40 Years in Solitary Confinement?’ asked the question ‘ a sham trial in Louisiana says about the U.S. court system’. Andrew Cohen explains …
Community Village‘s insight:
Herman Wallace is dying, so he is not really free. His life is over.
How many European-Americans have been held in solitary confinement for anywhere near this long?
Solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment.
This story is further evidence that the U.S. does not apply punishment equally across racial lines.
In the U.S. we often hear about human rights violoations in other countries, but how often does the U.S. address our own human rights violations?
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Listen to a U.S. Citizen’s Story of Being Detained By Immigration Enforcement – COLORLINES
WNYC reporter Sarah Abdurrahman is detained at the border along with multiple family members, and is now filing an official complaint
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Women Sue for Humiliating Vaginal Search From State Troopers (Video)
UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FVZEpYiLI “A Texas woman and her niece are suing a pair of Texas state troopers and the director of the Texas Depart…
Community Village‘s insight:
Like Cenk Uygur says, what’s the greater violation, being felt up and raped or possessing a joint of marijuana?
The is another example of the “freedom and liberty” we have in the U.S.
The police have the “freedom and liberty” to violate citizens.
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Police beating caught on video
A Long Beach Police officer seen beating an unarmed man remains on duty while the department looks into the incident.
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Police Plant Drugs and Frame an Innocent African American Shop-Owner in New York [VIDEO]
“ColorLines today carried a local news report from Schenectady County in New York of a local police department using undercover agents to purposely plant crack-cocaine in the shop of an African American business owner, with the intention of hauling him off to prison for up to seven years for a crime he did not even commit.”
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Community Village‘s insight:
I wonder how many prisoners are incarcerated due to drugs being planted on them?
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