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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 9, 2021, 1:23 pm
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Police Are Killing Protesters In Colombia
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> 37 people have been killed by the police during protests in
Colombia and over 1,700 cases of police brutality have been
reported, says a rights group. The tax reform bill that started
the protest was withdrawn on May 2, but massive systemic issues
such as inequality, health care and police brutality have kept
the protests going.
> #Colombia​ #ColombiaTaxProtest​
#PoliceBrutality​
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAP0c6UDFI
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 9, 2021, 11:50 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/kansas-city-police-made-racist-100000497.html
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> Kansas City police made racist challenge coin with image of
pimp: ‘It was repugnant’
>
> On one side, the coin was to feature a cartoon image of a
1970s pimp with a biracial complexion, dressed in platform shoes
and a wide-brimmed hat.
>
> On the other: a silhouette of a woman in a sexually suggestive
pose, and a set of handcuffs attached to a pair of brown hands.
> ...
> “This is yet another disturbing example of the severity of
systemic racism inside the KCPD,” said Gwen Grant, president/CEO
of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. “The very fact that
such a coin could be designed and promoted among the rank and
file is unconscionable.
>
> “Chief Smith is responsible for the culture inside the KCPD,”
Grant said. “He has nurtured a culture that ridicules,
dehumanizes and demonizes Black people. Smith is culpable. The
fact that he intervened to stop production of the coin does not
meet our threshold for absolution.”
> ...
> Police officials declined to say whether anyone was
disciplined.
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#Post#: 6305--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 11, 2021, 11:35 pm
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Harrowing footage of ex-PC hitting vulnerable teenage girl with
baton seen by relative
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> We start with a harrowing case of violence by a police officer
towards a vulnerable teenage girl.
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> Tonight this programme has spoken exclusively to one of her
relatives - on condition of anonymity - who's seen video footage
of the attack.
>
> PC Benjamin Kemp was dismissed after hitting the 16-year-old
more than 30 times with a baton, as well as spraying CS gas in
her face.
>
> Her family are calling for the CPS to reconsider its decision
not to bring criminal charges against him.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqoIOFPt30
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 12, 2021, 11:37 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/probe-vermont-police-endangered-black-203545799.html
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> Probe: Vermont police endangered Black state legislator
> ...
> In a 54-page report, the Vermont Human Rights Commission found
that the Bennington Police Department endangered the safety of
Morris, a Black woman, by withholding critical information about
a white supremacist who had been targeting her on social media.
> ...
> “I distrust law enforcement and have lost confidence in that
institution and its representatives to act with integrity,”
Morris said. “I feel less secure now with the passage of time
and the well-documented escalation of racialized incidents since
our departure there.”
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Morris is correct to distrust the entire institution rather than
continue to believe the problem can be solved by internal
review. The real question by now should be: how many police
officers remain who are not racists, and how long before they
are removed by the racists in charge?
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 14, 2021, 4:27 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/san-diego-police-investigating-officers-010232588.html
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> San Diego police investigating after officers seen repeatedly
punching Black man during arrest
> ...
> "I see him around all the time. He's harmless. He's just
homeless," the woman, Nicole Bansal, 34, of La Jolla, said
Thursday. "He's very easy to recognize, because he always has a
big orange life vest on."
> ...
> The man was taken into custody and taken to a hospital, police
said. Once he was released from the hospital, he was booked on
charges of resisting arrest and battery of a police officer.
>
> The officers have not been publicly identified.
>
> Bansal said she saw two officers get out of a police cruiser
and approach the man, who is Black. She said she grew uneasy,
took out her cellphone and recorded the encounter for more than
4 minutes from her driver's seat.
>
> "They did not try to de-escalate. ... If they had just
approached the situation calmly and tried to de-escalate, we
wouldn't be here," she said. "That man didn't go out to take
those guys down. The cops went there with that intention to take
him down ... and the resulting fight is what ensued."
> ...
> The video shows an officer punch the man in the face and head
at least three times. The same officer also strikes him with his
forearm. A second officer punches the man in his legs about a
half-dozen times. Officers are heard repeatedly yelling "stop
resisting" and "put your hands behind your back."
> ...
> "These people are meant to serve and protect the community.
They have a right to also serve and protect that man. He's a
member of this community," Bansal said.
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So why didn't you protect him by shooting the racist police
officers?
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 15, 2021, 10:40 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/genetic-trait-black-people-police-164259549.html
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> When they carried the body of a 32-year-old Black man named
Lamont Perry out of the woods in Wadesboro, North Carolina,
there were no protests over his sudden death in police custody.
>
> No reporters camped at the scene. No lawyers filed suit.
>
> Instead, the final mark in the ledger of Perry’s life was made
by a state medical examiner who attributed his death in large
part to sickle cell trait, a genetic characteristic that
overwhelmingly occurs in Black people. The official word was
that he had died by accident.
> ...
> He had swelling of the brain, and a forensic investigator
reported that he had an open fracture of his right leg. He was
covered in dirt, and residents of a nearby housing complex told
his family that when the officers emerged from the woods, their
shoes and the bottoms of their pants were spattered in blood.
>
> Perry’s case underscores how willing some American
pathologists have been to rule in-custody deaths of Black people
accidents or natural occurrences caused by sickle cell trait,
which is carried by 1 in 13 Black Americans and is almost always
benign.
> ...
> The New York Times has found at least 46 other instances over
the past 25 years in which medical examiners, law enforcement
officials or defenders of accused officers pointed to the trait
as a cause or major factor in deaths of Black people in custody.
Fifteen such deaths have occurred since 2015.
>
> In roughly two-thirds of the cases, the person who died had
been forcefully restrained by authorities, pepper-sprayed or
shocked with stun guns. Scattered across 22 states and Puerto
Rico, in big cities and small towns, the determinations on
sickle cell trait often created enough doubt for officers to
avert criminal or civil penalties, the Times found.
>
> K.C. Cage-Singleton, a 30-year-old landscaper and father of
four, was walking in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in October 2009
when two officers approached him because they thought his
clothing resembled that of an armed robbery suspect. Records
show they chased him into an apartment complex, shocked him with
a stun gun and beat him with a baton. The coroner cataloged a
slew of injuries, including abrasions, lacerations and broken
teeth, but said the manner and cause of his death were
“undetermined,” citing “probable” sickle cell trait. The
officers were not charged.
>
> Army Sgt. James Brown, 26, had completed two tours in Iraq and
was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder in July 2012
when he turned himself in to the El Paso, Texas, jail to serve a
two-day sentence for drunken driving. Authorities said he became
violent, and he died after five jailers in riot gear piled atop
him, pulled a mesh mask over his head and bound him in a chair.
The medical examiner ruled that he had died a natural death
caused by sickle cell crisis, and a grand jury declined to bring
charges.
>
> Gamel Brown, a 30-year-old property maintenance supervisor,
cut his hand on a broken mirror at his home in a Baltimore
suburb in January last year, prompting a call to 911. The police
who responded said he became “extremely combative,” and they
jolted him several times with a stun gun. After he died at a
hospital, the medical examiner said that the manner of his death
was undetermined — and that it was caused in part by sickle cell
trait. The state’s attorney filed no charges.
>
> In three cases, deaths linked to sickle cell trait that were
deemed natural or of indeterminate cause were later ruled
homicides — as occurred when Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died at
the hands of his jailers at a northwest Florida juvenile
detention camp in January 2006.
>
> “You can’t put the blame on sickle cell trait when there is a
knee on the neck or when there is a chokehold or the person is
hogtied,” said Dr. Roger Mitchell Jr., the former chief medical
examiner for the District of Columbia and now chair of pathology
at the Howard University College of Medicine. “You can’t say,
‘Well, he’s fragile.’ No, that becomes a homicide.”
> ...
> In none of the deaths examined by the Times did the person
have actual sickle cell disease, though there were instances
when imprecise language by medical examiners left the false
impression the trait and the disease were the same.
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They might as well say that the victims died because of Vitamin
D deficiency due to their skin colour!
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> Many said they suspected some sickle cell determinations might
reflect a pattern of bias or conflicts of interest among medical
examiners and police officials.
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Duh!
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> David Campbell, 25, stopped breathing in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, in October 2011 after resisting his jailers’
efforts to remove his clothing and put him on suicide watch.
They responded by dousing him with pepper spray, jamming knees
into his back and leaving him tied to a chair, according to a
lawsuit brought by his family.
>
> While the results of Campbell’s autopsy were pending, emails
show, the head of the Lehigh County Corrections Department sent
the coroner a video of the arrest of a Florida man whose death
was attributed to “excited delirium”
> ...
> The coroner’s ruling in the case stated “excited delirium
complicating sickle cell trait, dehydration and abnormalities of
the cardiac conduction system during restraint.” Manner of
death: “undetermined.”
> ...
> Sickle cell trait alone cannot cause death, said Dr. Swee Lay
Thein, a hematologist at the National Institutes of Health who
has studied the condition. “It has to be something else, and
something quite extreme,” she said.
> ...
> In 2008, Baron Pikes, known as Scooter, died after being
shocked with a stun gun at least eight times by a police officer
in Winnfield, Louisiana, while handcuffed and lying on the
ground. The coroner ruled the death of Pikes, 21 and Black, a
homicide, and the officer, Scott Nugent, was charged with
manslaughter.
>
> Still, at the criminal trial, Wetli testified that “the cause
of death was exertional sickling due to sickle cell trait.”
>
> Nugent was acquitted.
>
> The Times found other medical examiners invoking the trait as
early as the 1970s.
>
> In May 1979, Los Angeles pathologists blamed “massive
intravascular sickling” in the death of Jerry Eugene Wright Jr.,
a 20-year-old Black man whom police officers had mistaken for a
drug user. In fact, he had been the victim of a violent robbery;
they handcuffed him, put him facedown on the ground and ignored
bystanders who warned that he was struggling to breathe.
Wright’s family was later awarded $2.1 million after suing for
wrongful death.
>
> A panel convened by a coroner outside Augusta, Georgia,
concluded that Larry Gardner, 33, had died of cardiopulmonary
arrest caused by sickle cell trait in August 1984 after
authorities arrested him on marijuana and shoplifting charges.
Gardner’s death led to rioting after it was said that he had
been beaten in custody.
> ...
> The death of Anderson, the 14-year-old Florida boy, shows the
potential pitfalls when medical examiners rush to blame sickle
cell trait.
>
> An autopsy deemed Martin’s death to be natural, saying the
trait was why he had suddenly stopped breathing in January 2006.
But a later inquiry found that he had died after drill
instructors at a Bay County, Florida, juvenile detention center
punched and kneed him, pinned him down, pressed their fingers
into pressure points and covered his mouth while forcing him to
inhale ammonia.
>
> Seven guards and a nurse were charged with manslaughter. All
were acquitted
> ...
> The case of Derek Williams, who died in Milwaukee in July
2011, offered another cautionary tale.
>
> The police saw Williams, 22, on a street corner and arrested
him on suspicion of robbery after chasing him into the yard of a
nearby home. He stopped breathing in the back seat of a patrol
car. The police told the county medical examiner that he had
been taken into custody “without incident,” and the medical
examiner, based solely on that account, ruled that he had died a
natural death caused by sickle cell crisis.
>
> After being confronted with information reported by The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which showed, among other things,
that officers had piled onto Williams during his cuffing and did
not immediately respond to his pleas as he gasped for air, the
county reversed itself and declared his death a homicide. Still,
none of the officers were charged.
> ...
> The urge to elevate sickle cell trait over other factors was
evident in more recent cases, too, the Times found, including
when the police arrested Darren Boykin in Texarkana, Texas, in
2019.
> ...
> In August 2019, a Texarkana College employee saw him walk into
an administration building and became suspicious, thinking he
resembled a suspect in burglaries on campus. She called the
police, who chased Boykin for about one-third of a mile before
an officer tackled him from behind. Boykin struggled as the
officer tried to handcuff him, records show, and another officer
joined to subdue him.
> ...
> The medical examiner noted abrasions on Boykin’s shoulder and
bruising on his back, the autopsy report shows, but ruled that
he had died of complications of sickle cell trait, citing the
short distance he had run and the hot weather.
>
> The manner of his death: natural.
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Yes, as we have always claimed, racism is natural behaviour for
"whites".
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 18, 2021, 12:52 am
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It's OK to be "white" while urinating:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-city-councilman-says-footage-180343603.html
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> An Elizabeth City councilman says he has captured footage of
what he says is a deputy urinating on his funeral home property
— an act he considers retaliation for his outspoken views about
Andrew Brown Jr.’s shooting death last month.
>
> Brown, 42, was shot and killed April 21 when Pasquotank County
deputies arrived at his Elizabeth City home to serve search and
arrest warrants based on a yearlong drug investigation. The
state Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death, and
three deputies are on leave.
>
> Councilman Gabriel Adkins, who is Black, said a uniformed
deputy or deputies came to his business on North Road Street on
both Friday and Saturday nights, urinating at night while in
sight of his surveillance camera.
>
> Adkins posted the Saturday night video on his Facebook page.
It appears to show a white officer in a tan uniform exiting a
vehicle and urinating on a shed near the carport where Adkins
parks his hearses.
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 19, 2021, 10:36 pm
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In regards to the post above, isn't it interesting that 'public
urination' is an arrest worthy crime in many states, and I have
known someone who got arrested for it in California, yet you
just know deep down in your subconscious that police must do it
all the time.
I've also heard that a 'public urination' arrest can read like a
sex offense arrest in many states in the U.S., meaning you could
actually get killed for it when you get to prison, depending on
how it reads on your paperwork....
Anyway:
Black Cops BREAK With Racist Union For Reforms
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> Philadelphia's Democratic primary for District Attorney is
tomorrow, and progressive reformer Larry Krasner is on the
ballot.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQSvZcvWlMs&list=TLPQMjAwNTIwMjGmtRZarutpYQ&index=4
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 20, 2021, 1:22 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-delayed-wealthy-california-town-151940488.html
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> DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Two fatal shootings by the same police
officer in a wealthy San Francisco suburb have cast a spotlight
on what criminal justice activists are calling a case of delayed
justice and its deadly consequences.
>
> Felony charges were announced last month against Officer
Andrew Hall, of the Danville Police Department, for fatally
shooting an unarmed mentally ill man in 2018.
>
> The April 21 announcement of charges came more than two years
after the shooting of Laudemer Arboleda, and one day after a
jury convicted Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin of
killing George Floyd.
>
> It also came six weeks too late for Tyrell Wilson, who was
shot and killed by Hall in March.
>
> “Why did it take so long for the DA to file charges?” asked
Wilson’s mother, Diane. Just a few weeks sooner, Hall would have
been off the streets and, she said: “Tyrell would still be here
with us now.”
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Why? Because it's OK to be a "white" police officer.
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> Was the officer held accountable? And did racism play a role
when Hall, who is white, shot nine bullets into Arboleda, an
unarmed Filipino man, in 2018, or when he fired a single shot to
the head of Wilson, a Black homeless man?
> ...
> Civil rights attorney John Burris is representing both
families and lobbying the California attorney general and U.S.
Department of Justice to examine the shootings to see if they
show a pattern of misconduct and racism by Hall.
>
> “All I know is a Black man and a Filipino man were both killed
in a town that is predominantly white,” said Burris. The two are
the only police shootings in Danville in at least a decade.
“This man should be prosecuted, and like Chauvin, he should be
in handcuffs for what he did.”
> ...
> It was not the first time Hall was investigated and exonerated
by the sheriff’s office. In 2014, Hall was accused of “brutally
attacking” an inmate at a county jail in the city of Martinez.
The inmate, identified as a 6-foot-3 Black man, said Hall rammed
him face-first into a door while he was handcuffed and
repeatedly punched him in the face and side. The inmate was
treated for a fractured eye socket and needed stitches in his
lip. A probe by the sheriff’s office found no evidence of
unreasonable force.
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 20, 2021, 10:19 pm
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A Black Man Begged For His Life, Police Still Murdered Him
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6r5j8Dhyg
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