Look, he is really stressed out from shooting this guy ok
Look, he is really stressed out from shooting this guy ok
It really takes a lot out of you. I mean, all these people are mad at him and stuff and saying mean things to him. I mean, how does a fella cope?!
Originally Posted by bowieluva
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...421-story.html
In approving the action, the county acknowledged no wrongdoing.
His lawyer needs to tell him to shut the hell up and blame it on the police department he should've never been there they did not give him proper training blah blah blah pony show... Probation.
Then he's a free man and he can disappear Jimmy Hoffa style at the bottom of the lake swimming with the fishy's.
TRUE JUSTICE! but a.... I digress lol
The man beaten for stealing a horse ( it was caught on chopper camera) has settled for 650,000.
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/...-deputies.html
Damn, they are beating the crap out of him. I admit he got up after the first time but when they started wailing on him, he put his hands behind his back.
If only there was no helicopter they could have pinned that shit on Mr. Ed!
They could try
the popular phrase at my bar regarding this horse thief is: back in the day, stealing a horse would have gotten him strung up. he's lucky to get away with just a beating.
(CNN)It feels like every week, a name is added to the list: another man, often black and unarmed, has died at the hands of police.
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Jason Harrison, Walter Scott, Eric Harris, Freddie Gray, to name a few.
The headlines make it feel as if the country is experiencing an unprecedented wave of police violence, but experts say that isn't the case. We're just seeing more mainstream media coverage, and for a variety of reasons.
Let's be clear: That's just each expert's sense of things. We rely on hunches because real numbers don't exist, likely because no one thought it important to keep a tally until recently.
Chat with a publisher or editor at one of the country's African-American newspapers, and she or he can tell you they've been covering these cases for a long time.
How long?
"We've been in business for 130 years," said Robert Bogle, president and CEO of The Philadelphia Tribune, without a hint of sarcasm.
"What is being exposed nationally is something that's been troubling us in Philadelphia as African-Americans," he said. "Yes, we have written about it. We've talked about it. This is the African-American experience, and for some reason non-African-Americans don't believe it."
Sea change?
They're starting to believe it, thanks to cell phones, said Cedric Alexander, the DeKalb County, Georgia, deputy COO of public safety and president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
"Black and brown people have been making these complaints for years, but they fell on deaf ears because no one wanted to believe some officers would act that way," he said.
After video of Cleveland police killing the 12-year-old Rice outside a recreation center, New York police choking Garner as he cried "I can't breathe" and Scott being repeatedly shot in the back as he fled an officer, the public's skepticism is waning, he said.
People are realizing, "Wow, they really did shoot this guy in the back. Wow. Oh, s**t, there's some truth to this," Alexander said.
Black newspaper executives feel the videos lend credibility not only to black victims' versions of events in specific situations, but also to their versions of events historically. Where a victim's race could affect a story's perceived veracity, video permits no such prejudice.
Alexander concurred, citing a common dilemma for inner-city kids: "If police say that's what happened and you don't have something to prove otherwise, you're screwed."
Had there been no video of Scott's shooting, Bogle said, the public might have believed Officer Michael Slager's story that he'd been attacked and had no choice but to fatally shoot Scott.
The video, though, taken by a bystander who happened upon the incident, showed Scott running as Slager shot him in the back. Slager now stands charged with Scott's murder.
"When you have clear evidence that would contradict a different story, it's difficult to engage in denial," Bogle said.
Added Publisher Tracey Williams-Dillard of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, another African-American newspaper: "Things are being recorded by others. There's now no way it can be disputed."
Where are the numbers?
Today, it seems like there's a stat for everything.
Want to know the most common offense for which people are incarcerated? No problem. Need to know the percentage of fatal plane crashes caused by pilot error? Easy. The score of every Monday Night Football game since 1990? A breeze.
But if you want to know how many times a police officer has killed someone in the line of duty, you're out of luck.
"It's really ridiculous we don't have that count," said David Klinger, an associate criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. "For whatever reason, the powers that be that collect data for the feds ... decided that how often police kill people doesn't matter."
Despite that the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 required the government to keep "data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers," no such database exists. A study published 14 years ago sought to nail down numbers, but its author conceded to CNN that only 564 of the nation's 18,000 law enforcement entities participated.
The closest thing to a statistic is the FBI's assertion that police were responsible for about 400 "justifiable homicides" annually between 2008 and 2012.
Even if there were an accurate count, Klinger said, we'd still be "missing a huge part of the picture when it comes to deadly force." Cops tend to shoot to kill -- and gunfire is the predominant means by which police kill suspects -- so more illuminating would be knowing how many times police opened fire, period, he said.
more at link
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/20/us/pol...des/index.html
A top sheriff?s official resigned on Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where an unarmed man was shot and killed earlier this month by a volunteer reserve deputy who says he mistook his gun for his Taser.
Sheriff Stanley Glanz announced the resignation of Tim Albin, the undersheriff. A 2009 internal review obtained by NBC News found that Albin had asked employees to modify reviews and training documentation for the volunteer deputy, Robert Bates.
The same review found that Albin told people who raised concerns about Bates to keep their mouths shut.
The sheriff said he accepted the resignation ?as we look as a community for answers to the situation which put Mr. Bates and Mr. Harris on that fatal path.?
Bates shot and killed Eric Harris, a suspect in an undercover gun sting, on April 2. Bates has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter. In an interview on TODAY earlier this month, Bates said the shooting was the biggest regret of his life.
Just a week ago, Albin spoke during a news conference where Glanz deferred to him several times to answer questions from reporters.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/eric-harr...-albin-resigns
Triple...
The Medical Examiner?s office in Denver, Colorado, is ruling the death of a 17-year-old female teenager who was shot and killed by police as a homicide.
The report, released on Friday, states that Jessica Hernandez had four gunshot wounds at the time of her death on January 26th. Police say Hernandez was driving a stolen car toward a Denver police officer when that officer and another opened fire on the vehicle. Hernandez was struck twice through the left side of her chest, once in her pelvis, and once on her right thigh, according to the Medical Examiner?s report.
One of the two bullets passing through Hernandez?s chest struck her in both lungs and her heart. In the document, Denver?s Chief Medical Examiner/Coroner, Dr. James L. Caruso, concludes ?With the information available to me at this time, the manner of death, in my opinion, is homicide.?
?The Denver District Attorney has not prosecuted a police shooting case since 1992.?
Statement from the Hernandez family's lawyer
In a statement to NBC News, the family?s attorney said, ?The report shows that Jessie was shot from the driver?s side of the car and not from close range. These facts undermine the Denver Police Department?s claim that Jessie was driving at the officers as they shot her.?
The family is also renewing their call for an independent federal investigation into the teenager?s death, and the lawyer?s statement claims, ?The Denver District Attorney has not prosecuted a police shooting case since 1992.?
The Medical Examiner?s report also states that Hernandez had both marijuana and a negligible amount of alcohol in her system when she died.
The death of Jessica Hernandez has caused protests against police and vigils in the community. A friend and schoolmate of the teen told NBC News last month, ?We?re angry about it. It?s another life taken by another cop.?
But retired Colorado police chief, Dan Montgomery ? who is also a use-of-force expert ? cautioned against using this report to make any iron-clad conclusions in the case. Montgomery told the Associated Press, ?It?s like putting a giant jigsaw puzzle together, and we?ve got two tiny little pieces right now.?
The police account of events is reportedly being contested by one of the other passengers who was in the car when police shot and killed Hernandez. Speaking anonymously, a person identified as one of the passengers told the Associated Press that officers approached the vehicle from the back, did not give any verbal commands, and fired their weapons four times into the driver?s-side window. The Associated Press reports that this person identified as a witness said that the car may have struck one of the officers only after Hernandez was shot and lost control.
The Denver Police Department has previously said that two officers, Gabriel Jordan and Daniel Greene, found the stolen car in an alley with Hernandez behind the wheel and four others inside. According to police, the officers gave several verbal commands telling the teens to get out of the vehicle and fired only after Hernandez sped towards them.
The family?s lawyer claims after Hernandez was shot, ?She was then dragged out of the car, dropped onto the ground, and handcuffed.? Witness accounts back up these claims, according to the Associated Press.
A call to the Denver Police Department by msnbc was answered, but a representative for the police said it would be ?inappropriate? to comment at this time.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/d...ruled-homicide
http://www.trueactivist.com/117-coun...ights-council/
117 Countries Slam American Police Brutality At UN Human Rights Council
(ANTIMEDIA) In what could hardly be called a surprise, the UN Human Rights Council chastised the US over its epidemic of police violence, discrimination, needless killings, and general neglect, following through with recommendations made in its first review in 2010.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) takes place every four years to scrutinize the human and civil rights practices of each of the UN?s 193 member nations. Delegates from 117 countries took the opportunity to lambaste the US? record of civil rights violations exacted by its brutal and racist police forces.
In an attempt to fend off the inevitable, James Cadogan, a senior counselor in the Department of Justice?s Human Rights Division, said the US must?rededicate ourselves to ensuring that our civil rights laws live up to their promise,?*listing several ?tragic deaths? that sparked numerous demonstrations and wide-scale unrest across the country. However, he seemed to be blind to the fundamental basis for such outrage saying the US wishes to ?identify and address potential policing issues before they become systemic problems,?, even asserting a fictitious good record for holding violators accountable. As Mary McLeod, acting legal adviser to the US Dept of State, put it, ?We?re proud of the work we?ve done since our last UPR.? Most would disagree.
What the US representatives touted as improvements, actually do more to highlight the systemic issue they claim to be on the lookout for. Cadogan cited 400 instances in the past six years in which charges were brought against law enforcement officials, but this doesn?t figure in the disproportionately light punishment that often results from prosecution of police officers. Even his own preemptive statement, naming Michael Brown and Eric Garner as examples, speaks far more to police impunity than accountability ? and is hardly reflective of the totality of incidents.Over 400 people have been killed by police in 2015 alone.
?Chad considers the United States of America to be a country of freedom, but recent events targeting black sectors of society have tarnished its image,? said Awada Angui, the delegate from that country.
The representative from Namibia, Gladice Pickering, echoed the general consensus*saying the US needs ?to fix the broken justice system that continues to discriminate against [marginalized communities], despite recent waves of protest over racial profiling and police killings of unarmed black men.?
Critics across the board urged improvements in training methods and legislation and included goals to eliminate racism and end excessive force.
?I?m not surprised that the world?s eyes are focused on police issues in the US,? said Alba Morales of Human Rights Watch. ?There is an international spotlight that?s been shone [on the issues], in large part due to the events in Ferguson and the disproportionate police response to even peaceful protesters.?
A federal investigation was launched on Friday to determine if police in Baltimore have instituted a pattern of discrimination following reports from residents of brutal abuse before and after Freddie Gray was killed in police custody. Such investigations are often too little, too late for victims and their families, who see them more akin to the cynical joke; ?we investigated ourselves*and found we did nothing wrong.?
Martinez Sutton, whose 22-year-old sister, Rekia Boyd, was shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2012,observed from the sidelines. He feels that her killer?s acquittal three weeks ago is frustratingly typical:*?I do not expect them to do anything because ? I mean: Let us be real, it has been going on for years and what has been done?* As I stated before, they say the guilty should be punished.* I want them to show us instead of tell us. My sister was innocent, so why isn?t anybody paying for her death??
The UN will issue its report on the review along with recommendations on Friday, though its contents probably won?t be of much consequence considering the US ?largely failed? to implement any of the 171 changes suggested in* the previous report.
There isn?t much comfort to be found in an atmosphere where calling the cops for assistance could potentially be your own death sentence. But if our own government doesn?t see a problem with its policing policies, at least 117 other countries around the world are starting to ask questions.
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Have we got this yet?
This douchebag thinks he's above the law, he always has. There used to be an entire thread about him, but I can't find it. Anyway, He broke the law and he's not happy he got caught, so now he's trying to get people to fund his attorneys fees. I hope he gets jail time and has to eat his own green bologna.
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/15/sher...nally_go_down/
"...Jeffrey Dahmer... actually confessed and accepted his punishment. Had real remorse for the sick things he did. It's pretty bad when Jeffrey Dahmer is a better person than you are." ~Justice11 (re: Jodi Arias)
It'll be a happy day when that guy finally gets knocked off his throne.
I really can't wait for it. He's such an asshole narcissist.
"...Jeffrey Dahmer... actually confessed and accepted his punishment. Had real remorse for the sick things he did. It's pretty bad when Jeffrey Dahmer is a better person than you are." ~Justice11 (re: Jodi Arias)
Not sure if it as ever updated with here or not... I looked but couldn't find anything but this post with my lack of search skills suck... but here's the cop-cam thing footage of the incident.
Just a heads up, it's VERY graphic.
Sorry if it's a repost, it came across my FB feed today, please delete if so!
Saw this today and had a debate with a friend that thought this was justified *rolls eyes*
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
This guy looks dead from the second he hits the ground. Very bloody, did not watch the end. Did they find anything on him?
Mommy to: Misty-Allison-Elliot-Sebastian-Quinn
And our newest rugrat MISS MARLEE!!!
At first glance I was like holy crap they straight up murdered that guy.
Then I read the rest of the story. Someone called 911 and said three guys matching these descriptions are walking around and brandishing weapons. First place after arrives the one that shot him and watch him from across the street to back up comes. During this Time The three suspects approach a car in from with the police officer can see starts making a scene throwing their hands in the air ( apparently in actuality they knew the guy in the car and we're saying hello ?) so no unit shows that but the guys walk into 7-Eleven and they don't want to approach possibly armed suspects inside the store so the wait for them to come out.
This is where gets tricky they walk out the cops pull up in all three make eye contact with the police officers two put their hands up but the other guy walks away ( we later found out he had a warrant out for his arrest for parole violation and had posted about getting caught on Facebook ) so he started to walk away and his hands in his waistband. Family says he could not hear the please yelling at him because he and iPod and you definitely see headphones when he hits the ground but you can't tell from the video whether they are in his ears or not either way he definitely saw the police pull up in the first place and he knew they were there. At some point he turns around and starts to take his hands out of his pants and that's when they shoot him.
They were found not guilty because of the 911 caller the fact that they didn't go straight for him they watched him for a little bit and he walked away with his hands in his pants. It also did not help that he posted on Facebook that he would never go back to Jail and spend his life there and he be dead soon. The thing that irks me the most is as soon as he shot the guy he told his partner that man had no pulse but once he realized the guy did not have a weapon on him he starts talking to him all hang in there you're going to make it come on buddy... The guy is laying in a gallon of blood... He has not moved at all. You pull out a little tissue and hold it over a gaping wound? I definitely felt like he was just trying to cover his ass on the camera at that point .
Mommy to: Misty-Allison-Elliot-Sebastian-Quinn
And our newest rugrat MISS MARLEE!!!
*sigh*
Not gonna even. Because in HER world, what this guy did justifies a DEATH SENTENCE. He KILLED the dude. For not complying. For not following orders. That's all it takes to deserve death these days according to you?
Well YOU have broken the law to an even higher degree than this guy. So can I shoot you now? Make sure you jot down that I was justified. Mmmmmmkay.
ETA: Note the mention of the parole violation. Of course this makes KILLING HIM Okay.
Last edited by Boston Babe 73; 06-05-2015 at 12:32 AM.
You can take those Fleets and shove them up your ass
Man, the amount of effort he put in to trying to find an excuse for why he shot the guy instead of trying to help him was fucked.
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