Ferguson

[TexanStar]

Milwaukee said officers justified in shooting of unarmed black man, new video destroys that story

This stuff is so infuriating/disgusting/horrifying/etc. I feel traumatized by having to watch these kinds of videos. I *hate* seeing people get shot / murdered like this... the sheer disdain for human life. But I feel like I have a civic duty to keep myself informed about the stuff these pigs are doing.

I don't condone retaliatory attacks against police officers, and I would never commit them myself, but you watch these vids and you understand where some people get that in their head.

 

[Chrysippus]

I feel traumatized by having to watch these kinds of videos. I *hate* seeing people get shot / murdered like this...

Gee, you sound just like Trump...

 

[TexanStar]

Gee, you sound just like Trump...

 

[TexanStar]

Florida police chief gets three years in prison for framing innocent black men

Wow... a whole three years... how many years combined for all the innocent black men arrested at this man's direct instruction?

 

[Chrysippus]

Ooooooh! The Pope of Fort Worth sent me a selfie from the Cow-Flop texas vatican!
You look angry, Your Hollowness!

 

[Chrysippus]

Can’t let it go, can you, sweetie?

 

[b.c.]

Gee, you sound just like Trump...

I can't see who you're responding to, but if if sounded just like Trump, it MUST have been a WINNER.

 

[b.c.]

'Good Samaritan' Samir Ahmed arrested after helping drunk man get home - The Washington Post
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"A black man who was arrested in Silver Spring earlier this month after helping his intoxicated neighbor said he thinks his race was a factor in the incident — and police said they are reviewing the circumstances surrounding it.

Samir Ahmed, 23, was arrested the morning of Nov. 17 outside his home. After safely dropping off his neighbor, who was drunk and repeatedly falling down, Ahmed said he noticed several cars and firetrucks gathered near his driveway.

Someone had called emergency services to aid the drunk man, Montgomery County police told him. Ahmed explained he’d already walked the man home. An officer then asked him for the man’s exact address, and Ahmed was reluctant to share it, telling The Washington Post on Tuesday that he felt the situation had already been resolved.

That’s when things escalated. In an 18-minute video of his arrest shared to social media — where it was reposted by comedian D.L. Hughley and has since gone viral — Ahmed is seen facedown on the hood of a car with his hands behind his back."

 

[TexanStar]

Ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger indicted on murder charge in Botham Jean shooting

A former Dallas police officer who walked into an unarmed man’s apartment on Sept. 6 and shot him while wearing her police uniform has been indicted on a charge of murder.

The Dallas County grand jury began hearing the case against Amber Guyger, 30, on Monday. Guyger was originally charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean. She was released from jail on a $300,000 bond about an hour after turning herself in.

District Attorney Faith Johnson said Friday of the decision to elevate the charge to murder, “We presented the evidence and explained the law.”

She said her office had a “very spirited conversation” with the Texas Rangers, the lead investigators in the case.

“They chose to file this case as manslaughter. We did our own investigation,” she said.

 

[TexanStar]

Home health nurse claims she was racially profiled by officer looking for 'suspicious' person taking care of patient

 

[b.c.]

Banking while black: Ohio man tries to cash paycheck, ends up in handcuffs after teller calls 911
"In an exclusive interview, McCowns tells a Cleveland CBS affiliate that all he was trying to do was cash his first paycheck from a new job.

McCowns... attempted to cash [a] payroll check at the Huntington Bank, inside a grocery store in the west-side inner-ring suburb of Brooklyn. As a non-customer of the bank, McCowns was required to present two forms of identification. He did so—his driver’s license and his Social Security card. Next, he was asked for a fingerprint—again, McCowns complied.

That’s when this became A Whole Thing. Multiple tellers appeared and began “challenging the transaction.”

According to McCowns, bank employees started looking at the computer screen and questioning the transaction.

“They tried to call my employer numerous times. He never picked up the phone,” he said.

The Huntington tellers handed McCowns the check back, refusing to cash it, so he went on his way, without the $1,082.24 that he had earned. As McCowns got in his truck, he was stopped by Brooklyn police in a squad car and ordered out of his truck. He was handcuffed and placed in the back of the cop car.

Why? Because some Huntington teller called 911 on him."


And in other news:

Facebook Let Russia Target African Americans. Now the NAACP Is Calling for a Boycott. – Mother Jones

 

[b.c.]

Portland hotel calls cops on black guest making a phone call in the lobby.

 

[TexanStar]

Blind British bus passenger told to get off as 'guide dogs can't be black'

People even racist against black dogs :O

 

[b.c.]

"Justice" enfeebled:

Chicago Cop Convicted of Murdering Black Teen Gets [ONLY] Seven Years in Prison – Mother Jones
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"Jason Van Dyke, the white former Chicago police officer who was convicted of second-degree murder in October for killing... Laquan McDonald in 2014, has been sentenced to 81 months, or nearly seven years, in prison.

The decision Friday concludes a yearslong legal battle, which included a separate trial for three officers who were alleged to have conspired to cover up the shooting. (The officers were acquitted Thursday.)

Van Dyke was sentenced on the second-degree murder charge, which carried a lesser sentence than the aggravated battery with a firearm charges he was also facing. With good behavior, Van Dyke could be out in a little over three years from now.
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Although the sentence is relatively short, it’s still notable. Since the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown in 2014 and the subsequent national outrage over police killings of black people, very few cops involved in such shootings have been convicted, much less sentenced to substantial prison time.

According to a New York Times analysis of 15 high-profile police shootings that occurred between 2014 and 2016, only three resulted in convictions."


...as for those charged with conspiracy to COVER IT UP... NADA:

Judge acquits 3 Chicago cops of covering up Laquan McDonald's killing

 

[deleted15807]

Blind British bus passenger told to get off as 'guide dogs can't be black'

People even racist against black dogs :O

No one believes this but the data is there that black dogs and black cats have the hardest time getting adopted. My neighbor and I used to take in a lot of rescue dogs and yes most were black. People would ask us "why are all your dogs black?". We would look at them and say "because the shelter is full of them". The term is Black Dog Syndrome.

 

[b.c.]

Activist On Jason Van Dyke Sentence In Laquan McDonald Murder: 'Slap In The Face' | HuffPost

"After an Illinois judge sentenced former police officer Jason Van Dyke to just over six years in prison for the 2014 murder of teenager Laquan McDonald, some community residents are calling it a “slap in the face.”

Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan sentenced the ex-officer on Friday to nearly seven years in prison. He was convicted last year of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm – one for every bullet he fired at 17-year-old McDonald.

Friday’s announcement means Van Dyke could be released on good behavior in less than three and a half years, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors wanted Van Dyke to serve at least 18 years in prison; his attorneys sought for him to be released on probation.

William Calloway, a Chicago community organizer, told reporters on Friday that he and fellow community members were “devastated” after learning about Van Dyke’s sentencing. The activist was instrumental in helping to release the police dashcam video in 2015, that showed the white officer shooting the black teenager 16 times, including after McDonald was on the ground.

“He deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars,” he said. “That’s something that’s a consensus among the activist community, the black community and most Chicagoans at large.”

He added that Van Dyke’s sentence of 81 months is “a slap in the face” to the community that has protested McDonald’s killing.

“And a slap on the wrist [for Van Dyke],” he continued.

Rev. Marvin Hunter, McDonald’s great-uncle, said the sentence reduced McDonald’s life to “a second-class citizen” status, the AP reported."

 

[StormfrontFL]

Is there someone who wants to once again claim the GOP doesn't tolerate racists or racism?

GOP lawmaker who said KKK wasn't racist but 'kept law and order' given top committee post

 

[b.c.]

Is there someone who wants to once again claim the GOP doesn't tolerate racists or racism?

GOP lawmaker who said KKK wasn't racist but 'kept law and order' given top committee post

I guess not, Storm. No response from the denials and apologists. Cat got their tongues.....

AND IN OTHER NEWS:

Portland Police Sergeant To Precinct: If A Homeless Person Is Black, Just Shoot Them | HuffPost

"Sgt. Gregg Lewis was fired last year for reportedly making several racist comments to his precinct in Portland, Oregon. Lewis’ comments were not publicly shared until this week when his termination letter was released by the Portland mayor’s office.

Lewis told about 20 other cops during a roll call meeting on Feb. 12, 2017, that if they come across a black homeless person to “just shoot them,” according to many meeting participants who were quoted in the letter obtained by Oregon Live."

 

[b.c.]

The Ferguson Effect a slate.com podcast

Protesters organized into a grassroots campaign to unseat a seven-term incumbent and replace him with the first black St. Louis County prosecutor.

"There’s a new prosecutor in St. Louis County, Missouri, taking on decades of racial injustice. How will Wesley Bell, buoyed by the political movement after the death of Michael Brown, deliver on his progressive promises?"

 

[TexanStar]

SC cops defend keeping cash they seize: 'What's the incentive' otherwise?