Police violence

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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets #FreddieGray #DontrellStephens #ErvinEdwards

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Cop Handcuffed 12-yo Boy to Basketball Goal, Beat & Tased Him in Front of Horrified Neighbors

When this mother asked a deputy to come and talk to her son, she never thought that he would publicly torture this 12-year-old boy. Luckily for the boy, neighbors called for help.

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

Never call the cops for help.

 

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Indian Grandfather Nearly Paralyzed After Police Encounter in Alabama – [VIDEO]

 

Police in Madison, Alabama—a growing town just west of Huntsville—say they were responding to a call about a “suspicious person” walking around looking in home garages. That’s when they found Sureshbhai Patel, a 57-year-old grandfather with permanent residence status in the U.S. who was visiting from India. What happened next left him nearly paralyzed.

Patel, who doesn’t speak much English, was being questioned by officers who wanted to search him when, apparently, he tried to walk away. He was then thrown to the ground and eventually taken to the hospital where he’s being treated for fused vertebrae.

The incident isn’t necessarily isolated. South Asian Americans Leading Together, or SAALT, says that what happened to Patel illustrates the inequities communities of color face when dealing with the police.

“This incident is part of a pattern of racial profiling, surveillance, and violence that South Asians often face at the hands of law enforcement and part of the broader reality of police brutality in this country directed against Black and Brown communities,” says SAALT’s Suman Raghunathan via e-mail. The group says it’s echoing the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement to change the way that policing is done.

Here is graphic VIDEO of the BRUTAL take down posted on CNN (Trigger Warning)

UPDATE: Alabama Cop Fired After Video Slamming Indian Grandfather to the Ground -COLORLINES

UPDATE: FULL VIDEO shows Grandfather was not looking into garages.

– Also click through for the news coverage VIDEO –

Source: colorlines.com

People, STOP calling the police on Black and Brown people.

Calling the police on Black and Brown people is often a death sentence.

The police are always armed and they will shoot anyone who reaches for their waistband, or is carrying anything black, or that looks like a gun or looks like a knife, or if they feel that they are in danger.

 

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Tanisha Anderson was restrained in prone position; death ruled homicide

Tanisha Anderson, 37, died suddenly after she was restrained in a prone position in a confrontation with Cleveland police Nov. 13. Her death was ruled a homicide.

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Her family called police twice on Nov. 13 to report the 37-year-old woman was disturbing the peace, police said. They eventually agreed to let police take her to St. Vincent Charity Medical Center for a mental health evaluation.

Police said Anderson began to kick at the officers as they escorted her to a police car, and went limp during the struggle. But Anderson’s brother, Joell Anderson, told Northeast Ohio Media Group that Anderson got nervous after voluntarily getting into the back of the police car.

She left the cruiser, and a police officer performed a take-down move, placed his knee on Anderson’s back as she lay face-down on the pavement and handcuffed her before she stopped moving, according to Anderson’s family.

The department’s Use of Deadly Force Investigation Team continues to probe the incident. Investigators have not yet determined if the officer’s use of force was justified, but Anderson has become one of the faces of a 58-page Justice Department reportthat found, among other things, many Cleveland police officers are not properly trained to handle encounters with residents with mental illnesses.

Specifically, the report found, officers often do not practice proper deescalation techniques to keep a situation from getting out of control and wind up using cruel and excessive force against the mentally and medically ill.

It’s unclear if the officers involved in Anderson’s arrest were among the department’s 400 certified crisis intervention officers. The family has publicly called for the department to require every Cleveland police officer to receive 40 hours of special training given by the Cuyahoga County Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services.

The officers are on restricted duty, police spokeswoman detective Jennifer Ciaccia said Friday.

Mauvion Green, Anderson’s 16-year-old daughter, said she hopes her mother’s death will be a catalyst for change.

“I am hoping for a change in the police system,” Green said. “If they have a job to protect people, that’s what they should be doing.”

– Click through for more –

Source: www.cleveland.com

Again. Still no lapel video or dash cam video. 

#BlackLivesMatter 

#NotOneMore 

#ShutItDown 

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Lawyer identifies St. Louis officer who killed VonDerrit Myers Jr. : News

Photo: Jason H. Flanery, from Instagram


ST. LOUIS • A lawyer for the family of VonDerrit Myers Jr., who was killed by an off-duty police officer, publicly disclosed the patrolman’s name this week and said his comments on social media show political and racial biases that reflect upon the shooting.


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The family said witnesses told their investigator that Myers, who was black, had no weapon and died begging the white officer for his life.


Source: www.stltoday.com

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WATCH this St. Louis police officer assault this handcuffed man. Found NOT GUILTY