Bad to be Black in the world's richest nation
Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 04:50PM
TheSpook
I guess it has never dawned on them that they need to look at their own human rights violations first before they can even open their mouth. The last two years alone have seen numerous counts of pure brutality that cannot be wished even on one's worst enemy. There was the case in Cincinatti were the police shot a young black man for eluding them, claiming he had 14 warrants of arrest but not bothering to mention that the warrants were merely for unpaid tickets by the same cops. Then there was the Ingelwood California case where a handcuffed black teenager was slammed on the hood of a car and punched in the face by four police officers, who were surprisingly acquitted. [more]
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