Protests erupt in Denver after surveillance video showed the police narrative of why they killed a man to be false.
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Man Left Paralyzed After Police Filled Him With Bullet Holes for 8 Ounces of Weed
A South Carolina man sold a plant to willing customers, so armed agents from the state broke into his home and shot him, leaving him paralyzed.
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Family Suing After NYPD Asked Bodybuilder to Help Break Down a Door and then Killed Him
The family of body builder, Rafael Laureano has filed a $25m lawsuit against the NYPD for shooting their father in the back of the neck as he helped them during a raid.
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No broadcaster, now no hosts. Cheryl Burke and Thomas Roberts withdraw from Miss USA pageant. http://t.co/m38BaP4yOr pic.twitter.com/Z7suDf6Chu
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 30, 2015
— Team Justice (@Justice4Darrin) June 30, 2015
Obama’s migrant detention centers are cruel repeat of WWII Japanese American internment camps http://t.co/tGiuQGDhl8 pic.twitter.com/qk1LpgQDyN
— Think Mexican (@ThinkMexican) June 30, 2015
In Case You Missed It: Manuel Díaz’s Mother Says Calling for Peace Was a Mistake https://t.co/AgI9v0FNnu #Anaheim
— Think Mexican (@ThinkMexican) June 30, 2015
24~Days Now & My Brother is still in jail. #JusticeforJoseVelasco #SalinasPD #SalinasPolice #831Justice @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/3lqgMF2YpC
— Antoinette Ramirez (@CaliLuv_831) June 30, 2015
@getgln PBSO/Bradshaw promotes deputy who shot, paralyzed unarmed bicyclist http://t.co/UH3KLCAnbF pic.twitter.com/TIGjxxht9g #DontrellStephens
Thousands Dead, Few Prosecuted
Of the resolved cases, most officers were cleared or acquitted, a Post analysis found.
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Grand Jury Indicts Michael Slager For Killing Walter Scott
by Xena
A grand jury has indicted former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of unarmed Walter Scott.
The April 4, 2015 killing was captured on video by a bystander. It showed that Slager fired 8 times at the 50-year old Walter Scott as Scott’s back was turned, running away from Slager.
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Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed 20-Year-Old Debate Team Student in Need of Medical Attention
Longbeach police shot and killed 20-year-old Feras Morad after he jumped through a window and severely injured himself.
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Another unarmed person shot by police. America.
Report: Police Fatally Shot More Than 2 People A Day So Far in 2015. Here’s The Breakdown
Statistics about fatal police shootings are notoriously hard to come by, so the Washington Post started counting this year. The result is an analysis of 385 fatal police shootings — more than 2 per day — around the nation during the first 5 months of 2015. Reports the
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About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred.
And if you’re wondering if any of those fatal shootings produced charges against an officer, here’s what the newspaper found: only 3 resulted in an officer being charged with a crime — less than 1 percent of the total number of cases nationwide.
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No Charges for Atlanta Police Officers Who Shot Detained Mother Dead in the Back of Police Vehicle
By Caleb Gee
Head over to Color Lines to read the mind-boggling account of Alexia Christian’s murder by two Atlanta police officers in the back of a police vehicle after she allegedly attempted to shoot them. How she managed to get ahold of a gun from one of the officers seated in the front seat while she was handcuffed and restrained in the back is anyone’s guess. This follows an array of supposed back-seat “suicides” in the back of police vehicles within the past 3 years in which detainees are alleged to have shot themselves using somehow undetected weapons while their hands are cuffed tightly behind their backs. In one such case, that of Victor White III of New Iberia, Louisiana, an autopsy proved he died from a gunshot to the chest. Yet somehow authorities continue insisting he committed suicide and the maintain that the cops who undoubtedly shot him are “innocent” in the eyes of the law.
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Cop Shoots Unarmed Boy with Down Syndrome, Says He “Feared for His Life.” Video Shows He’s Lying
The cops lied, the prosecutors covered it up, case closed. Until now….traffic cam footage proves that the deputy lied about fearing for his life.
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