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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

Links

Deeper than Atlantis

Entries from February 1, 2013 - February 28, 2013

Tuesday
Feb192013

Mardi Gras Terrorism: Video Shows 9 White Plainclothes Officers Attacking 2 Unarmed Black Teens - no basis for the stop 

From [HERE] The local branch of the NAACP on Thursday called for federal and state investigations into the actions of nine State Police troopers and one New Orleans police officer after a local TV station aired a video Wednesday night showing the plainclothes officers -- all of them white -- allegedly tackling two young black men in the French Quarter. The incident happened on Sunday in the 700 block of Conti Street amid Mardi Gras 2013 celebrations.

"The major issue is whether or not excessive force was used, and whether or not the civil rights of the young men were violated," said Danatus King, president of the New Orleans chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "There is a great concern that had those young men been white, they would not have been treated the same way."

The video, which was aired on WVUE-TV and lacks audio, shows 17-year-old Sidney Newman and 18-year-old Ferdinand Hunt standing against a wall. Suddenly, a group of plainclothes officers approaches. Some of the officers tackle the teenagers to the ground and then pounce on them. 

One of the officers is shown swinging Hunt (who weighs 130lbs) around forcefully. That cop was a State Police trooper, according to a police source familiar with the incident. Later on in the video, a uniformed NOPD officer approaches the group. She reportedly tells them she is Hunt's mother, and the officers shortly let both men go with her. The teens were unarmed and did not reisist arrest. 

State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson (racist suspect in photo) said he takes the allegations "very seriously," adding that he personally initiated an internal investigation into the incident on Monday morning. He said investigators would take statements from everyone involved and determine what happened within 60 days.

Edmonson denied that race was known to be a factor in the incident. He said the undercover task force was largely enforcing juvenile curfew, weapons and drug laws. This is deception/racism. In the video, the police approach quickly and do not to appear to ask questions or identify themselves.

Not a way to check for curfew as far as the 4th Amendment is concerned. (In order for the police to stop you or to even touch you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. The reason must be particularized). - BW 

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Sunday
Feb172013

Bridgeport Cops Terrorize Black Family - Overseers (officers) Assault brothers in front of home, Arrest parents & Conduct Warrantless House Search 

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black family of five has filed a complaint with the city's Office of Internal Affairs after a brawl with police that resulted in the 52-year-old father getting shot with a stun gun and police kicking down doors to arrest the entire family. Police Chief Joseph Gaudett (white man in photo) said he sees no need to place Oficer Rivera, Carrano or Sgt. Sean Lynch, who fired the stun gun, on administrative duty for the following conduct: 

The incident began after brothers Dennis and Eric Jennings went outside in the frigid temperatures for a cigarette break at their parents' Pleasant Street home Jan. 23. As they stood in front of their house, Police Officers David Rivera and John Carrano drove by and told them to stop hanging out. Horace Jennings, the father, said the officers only stopped and approached the men because they were black males standing in a Black neighborhood. But police said they pulled over to tell the Jennings to move along and stop "blocking free passage on the sidewalk" in front of the gate of the house. 

In their account of the fracas, the family claims Rivera and Carrano were hostile from the moment they approached Bernard, 29, Dennis, 27, and Eric, 23, and ordered them off the sidewalk. "We weren't causing any problems," Bernard Jennings said. "We didn't commit any crime."

But in his report, Rivera said Dennis Jennings cursed at the officers when they asked them to move. The officers grabbed Dennis, who was already inside the gated property by that point (complying with the officer's request), when he moved toward the home and refused to approach them when asked, police said.

This prompted the family members to come out of the house cursing and yelling, and the officers to call for backup, police said. Then, as Rivera apprehended Dennis, Eric Jennings ran inside to get his parents.

At that point, Horace Jennings was shot at close range in the back by Sgt. Sean Lynch with a stun gun after police said he grabbed Rivera's shoulder and reached for the electric gun in the officer's holster.

Horace, who works for the state Department of Motor Vehicles, said he didn't see the police report until Thursday afternoon; he said he was outraged he was accused of grabbing a police officer. He said the lies in the report are the reason Blacks and Latinos in Bridgeport don't talk to police.

"The same ones supposed to be protecting you are no good," he said. "When it comes to white people, it's protect and serve. But when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, it's track and hunt."

Eric Jennings said when he saw his father lying on the ground, he called 911. "Bernard said to me, `Why are you calling the police? They're the ones out there,' " he said. "And I said, `Yeah we need a new batch.' "

Police said they arrested Margaret Jennings -- the mother -- for taking items out of her husband's pockets despite police protests. She said she was searching for her husband's keys because by then there were dozens of officers at the scene and they were threatening to break down her front door.

She claimed she was arrested for looking defiantly at Rivera when the officer who had used the stun gun on her husband asked his fellow officer, "He tried to grab you, right?"

"The officer couldn't lie because I was looking him right in the face," she said. "Next thing I knew, I was handcuffed, going to a police car and thinking, `Is this really happening to me?' " She is now worried the arrest will give the city a reason to fire her after 17 years on the payroll with the Bridgeport Board of Education. "I've never hurt anybody," she said. "I don't want my life destroyed by lies."

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Sunday
Feb172013

$1 Million Lawsuit Alleges Bridgeport Cops Kicked & Stomped Motionless Latino Man over a Dozen Times - on video

From [HERE] A Latino man seen on a video being beaten by three Bridgeport police officers has filed a $1 million lawsuit, while NAACP leaders are calling on police officials to arrest and fire the officers.

The graphic video of the May 20, 2011, police beating that was posted Jan. 18 on YouTube showed police officers Elson Morales and Joseph Lawlor violently kicking a motionless Orlando Lopez-Soto as he sprawled on the ground. The video continues with Officer Clive Higgins jumping out of his cruiser and running over to join in with his own powerful kick, even as the suspect was being restrained and stomped by the other cops. The video garnered nearly 185,000 views.

Attorney Kretzmer said her client's family only recently learned about the video, which was taken with a cellphone camera from about 50 feet away in Beardsley Park.

On the video, recorded May 20, 2011, Lopez-Soto, 27, is seen running from the right side of the frame when there is the electrical sound of a stun gun. Lopez-Soto falls face down motionlessly in the grass and officers Joseph Lawlorand Elson Morales run up to him and begin kicking and stomping on him. Officer Clive Higgins then pulls up in his patrol car, gets out, and leaning on Morales for support, also begins kicking and stomping Lopez-Soto. He was unarmed. 

Lopez-Soto was taken to the hospital after the incident, but only for being shot twice with the electric stun gun, according to the police report. There is no mention in the report of the kicking and stomping by the officers.

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Friday
Feb152013

The Hollywood Shuffle: Still Searching for Evidence of Rambro's Guilt. The Bogus Witch Hunt for Dorner & the So-Called "Manifesto"

More than 100 officers, including SWAT teams, were driven Friday in glass-enclosed snow machines and armored personnel carriers to hunt for Dorner, the alleged author of the so-called Manifesto, "The Last Resort."

Whitewash of Evidence. Christopher Jordan Dorner is a former Black LAPD police officer and ex-United States Navy reservist who was a named suspect in the 2013 Southern California shootings, which left three people dead and two others wounded. He was alleged to have killed Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence, a couple recently engaged in Irving, CA. and a white Riverside Officer Michael Crain in Riverside, CA. No LAPD officers were killed. Said murders were the basis for the manhunt. (The fourth murder attributed to Dorner occurred before his alleged death during the chase into the cabin).  The large organized manhunt  spanned four U.S. states (California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico) and Mexico. 

Police and U.S. marshals accompanied by computer forensics specialists used a search warrant to remove about 10 paper grocery bags of evidence from his mother's single-story house in the Orange County city of La Palma on February 8, 2013. Dorner's mother and sister cooperated with the search, a police spokesman said.

No One Heard Gunshots or Saw Shooting of Couple. No ID Made. No Video from Parking Lot. No Forensic Match 

Two of the victims, Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence (both non-white), who recently got engaged, were found shot to death inside Lawrence's car last Sunday night in the parking garage of the Avenue One condominiums in the 2100 block of Scholarship around 9:10 in Irvine. She was the daughter of retired LAPD Capt. Randal Quan.

Police said Lawrence and Quan appear to have been shot where they were found, in the car in the open-air top level of the structure. However, the time of their death remains unclear - it was obvious, police said, that they had been dead for some time. It did not appear that they had been robbed. Apparently no DNA match was found on shell casings and a beanie found near the car where the couple was allegedly killed [MORE

The Orange County coroner said each died of multiple gunshot wounds. Jim Amormino, a spokesman with the Orange County Sheriff's Department said "No further information will be released at this time." He would not elaborate on the cause of death, or give information about how many times the engaged couple had been shot and where on the bodies the wounds were , citing the ongoing investigation.

No one called 911 or reported hearing the gunshots at the condominium complex where they lived in the upscale Walnut neighborhood (Irvine is considered to be one of the safest cities in America). A passerby called police after seeing Lawrence's body slumped over in the car, police said.

Entry into the parking structure requires a key-code and there are security cameras throughout the complex, a resident said, adding that some spaces are allocated for overnight guests. [MORE] No video or photographs have been released.

No One Saw him Shoot Riverside Cops. No ID Made. No Other Evidence. 

Riverside police said two of its officers were shot in an ambush at Arlington and Magnolia avenues in Riverside (in photo) last Thursday at 2AM. Officer Michael Crain died, the other was taken to a hospital. Although, Police claimed Dorner did it, there were no witnesses. The request for an arrest warrant for Dorner submitted to the court on February 7 by a U.S. Marshal said that Riverside officers "were fired upon by an unidentified assailant while they were in their police vehicle at a red light." [MORE] No details or other facts have emerged to support this assertion. [MORE

Police learned of the shooting when a "Good Samaritan" picked up a police radio and made a distress call on behalf of the wounded officers, Riverside police say. No one reported hearing gunshots. No other evidence of his involvement in the Riverside killing was presented to the media. It seems unlikely that a detached Judge would find probable cause for his arrest in either of the alleged shootings. [MORE]

La Palma Police Officers check a vacant home near Dorner's mother's La Palma home as FBI computer recovery task force investigators armed with a search warrant go through a computer on Friday February 8, 2013. Various agencies have arrived to lend assistance at the home.

What Manifesto?

The LAPD believes Dorner implicated himself in the couple's killings in the manifesto posted on Facebook. They claim he was the one who wrote it because there were details in it only he would know. [MORE] and [MORE]. Like what?  The LAPD has presented the media with no proof that Dorner authored the so-called Manifesto.

In court, authenticating an item of evidence means showing it is what the proponent claims it to be. Courts, prosecutors and police cannot ordinarily takes things at face value - it applies across the board to physical evidence and to everything else but live testimony. There must be facts to support a finding that an item of evidence is what it is claimed to be. [MORE

Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory investigators at Dorner's mother's home on Friday February 8, 2013.

This letter or manifesto has not been authenticated as actually belonging to Dorner. Apparently no one saw him write it or had heard about it or heard him talk about it. No corroborating letters or statements to other people were revealed. Apparently the police either did not obtain Dorner's computer or their search efforts of the computer were fruitless. Anyone can create a facebook page, anywhere. No proof was offered that a computer was found that he had access to during the time the alleged page was created and that the computer had been used to log onto facebook. The manifesto appears to be rank hearsay from an unknown speaker. Without more, it would not be admissible at trial and it should not be the basis of an arrest warrant. 

The police and the FBI did extensive searches at his mother's home (which is where the media claimed he lived and did his personal computing?) in La Palma, CA. and at "his home" in Las Vegas on February 8. The FBI and police did not reveal that anything implicating Dorner was found at either location [MORE] and [MORE]. 

U.S. Marshals and La Palma Police stand with weapons ready outside of Dorner's mothers house.

Irvine Police Lieutenant Bill Whalen said that Dorner’s personal computers were the focus of the search warrant. “We are going to take our time and to gather as much potential evidence as possible here today,” Whalen said. [MORE] Apparently, nothing linking him to the manifesto was found. 

Officers said it appeared no one had been at the Vegas home for a few weeks. [MORE]. No information concerning his alleged authorship of the manifesto resulted or was released to the media from the searches (said searches also may have been unlawful as there appears to be no probable cause for his arrest in the 3 murders  - a generic online posting claiming that you committed unlawful acts does not give police a legal basis - probable cause - to search your home or arrest you). 

Police investigate the home of the mother of the alleged triple-murder Christopher Dorner in La Palma, California on February 8, 2013. White passerbys look away.Christopher Dorner owned a home in the southwest part of the Las Vegas valley. Police searched it and said he had not been there for weeks.This notice was posted on the outside of Dorner's Vegas home. 

Friday
Feb152013

No Charges against White NYPD Overseer (Officer) who Killed Unarmed Latino Army Reservist - Never Given a Chance to Comply 

From [HERE] A Queens grand jury on Thursday declined to bring criminal charges against a white New York Police Department detective who shot and killed an unarmed Latino motorist following a chaotic highway chase last year.

The grand jury made the decision regarding the death of 22-year-old National Guardsman Noel Polanco after meeting nine times over five weeks, according to a statement by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, who is white (in photo). Because grand jury action is secret, Mr. Brown said he could not "provide the factual and legal basis for the grand jury's decision."

Mr. Polanco was shot along a stretch of the Grand Central Parkway near LaGuardia Airport on Oct. 4 by Det. Hassan Hamdy, but the circumstances surrounding the incident are in dispute.

An attorney for the detective, a 14-year veteran who was assigned to the elite Emergency Services Unit, said Det. Hamdy fired the single shot because he believed Mr. Polanco was reaching for a weapon underneath the seat of his Honda Fit. There was no weapon in the car, but police said they recovered a small mechanic's drill from beneath the driver's seat (to drill him to death from across the passenger seat).

Diane Deferrari, a friend of Mr. Polanco's who was riding in the front seat, said in interviews that Mr. Polanco had kept his hands on the steering wheel the entire time after he was pulled over and said the officers had been experiencing "road rage" after being cut off repeatedly by Mr. Polanco as they had given them the finger during the chase.

Once the car was stopped, Hamdy approached the Honda from the passenger side, where he shot Polanco through the open passenger-side window. Hamdy’s lawyer, Philip Karasyk, said that Hamdy believed Polanco was reaching for a gun. ButDeferrari, who was seated in the passenger’s seat, said that the oficer fired without giving Mr. Polanco a chance to comply with his orders to put his hands up and that his hands were still on the steering wheel when he pulled the trigger."Had I moved an inch, it would probably have been me.'' [MORE

A second passenger, also an NYPD officer who is a friend of Ms. Deferrari's (code of silence, don't get Dornered), claimed to be asleep in the back seat of the car during the high speed chase and said she was jarred awake by the sound of the bullet being fired.

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Friday
Feb152013

Oxnard names 9 officers involved in "Mistaken Identity" Fatal Police Shooting of Surrendering Latino Man 

From [HEREOxnard police today released the names of the nine officers involved in the October fatal shooting of two Latino men in La Colonia. Police identified the nine as Senior Officer John Brisslinger and officers Ernie Orozco, Don Ehrhardt, Jess Aragon, Rocky Marquez, Pedro Rodriguez, Ryan Lockner, Zack Stiles and Matthew Ross.

Rodriguez and Ross were also part of the June fatal incident involving Robert Ramirez, who died of asphyxia while being restrained by police.

The shooting occurred Oct. 13 in the 100 block of North Garfield Avenue in Oxnard’s La Colonia neighborhood.

Alfonso Limon, 21, of Oxnard was mistaken for a suspect after a police chase and shootout. One of the suspects, Jose Zepeda, 24, of Oxnard, also was killed by police.

Lawyers for the Limon family allege in a claim filed against the city that witnesses saw multiple officers surround Limon and fire at him even as he put his hands up and yelled “don’t shoot, don’t shoot.”

The deaths of Ramirez and Limon sparked allegations of police brutality and harassment. Marches, vigils and demonstrations at City Council meetings were held in the months following the fatal shooting.

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Thursday
Feb142013

A Black Man was Lynched Yesterday: Official Cause of Death White Supremacy. Another Wallet Found, Housekeepers Missing.

From [HERE] The char-broiled remains found in the ashes of a Southern California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said Thursday. He was a Black man. The fire burned for over several hours. Dorner's dental records were used to make the identification, said spokeswoman Jodi Miller.

An official briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press that a wallet with a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner has been found in the rubble of a cabin, [MORE] beside his remains. [MORE] It was made of plastic but it did not burn. Apparently, police did not release photographs of the license or display it to the press.

One week ago (2/6), San Diego police said a person found Dorner’s wallet, LAPD badge and photo identification in the street near Lindbergh Field and turned it over to a shuttle bus driver, who turned it over to police. [MORE]. According to court documents requesting an arrest warrant [here] his so-called wallet and identification cards were also found near the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday (2/11). [MORE]

 A cause of death or time of death was not provided. 

Missing Evidence Rule. Police still have not provided any additional information connecting him to the death of the Riverside Officer (no ID (court document says "fired upon by an unidentified assailant" [more], no particularized lookout description of "Dorner" in the area, no physical evidence, no photographs) or the couple in Irvine (no ID, no photo or video despite garage surveillance, no physical evidence, no one heard the alleged 8-10 gunshots in the upscale condo at 9pm and apparently no DNA match was found on shell casings and a beanie found near the car where the couple was allegedly killed [MORE], police stated the bodies had been dead for hours [MORE]). Said crimes and an unauthenticated "Manifesto" were the basis of the witch hunt.

To the extent that racists in the media had anything to do with selling you the idea that this so-called "manifesto" belonged to anybody it is your obligation as a non-white person to critically analyze it. Such information could have been rigorously tested at trial. The info about the manifesto came from the police, many of whom you know are white supremacist/racist.  White supremacy is carried out by deception and/or violence. [theCode]  

In the history of modern law enforcement it was the first time a Black officer had ever killed a white officer. 

Sheriff John McMahon, a racist suspect, said Wednesday that his deputies "did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out."

Housekeepers No More. The cabin's owners, Jim and Karen Reynolds, said they, not two housekeepers as widely reported, were the real victims who had discovered Dorner when they visited their unoccupied apartment unit Tuesday morning. 

The racist suspects  held an "impromptu press conference" that they entered one of the units just before noon and were confronted by Dorner.

"We happened to walk in on him,'' Karen Reynolds said Wednesday night. "He tried to calm us down, saying very frequently he would not kill us.'' He said "he just wanted to clear his name."

They were declared ineligible to collect the million dollar reward.

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Thursday
Feb142013

Nigger had to go. Manifesto said so. 'We are Heroes.' 'We Definitely, Definitely Did Not Intentionally Burn the "Mother Fucker Down." No More Questions at this time. 

Racists function as psychopaths in their relations with non-white people. [MORE] Speaking at a news conference like a robot, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday afternoon that the fire was not set on purpose. "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out," McMahon said. However, McMahon said one type of tear gas used was "pyrotechnic" and acknowledged that it "does generate a lot of heat." McMahon said the fire "erupted" after police launched the pyrotechnic canisters, which are called "burners," into the cabin.

(To the extent that there were no racists involved with "Dorner" being volcanoized to death, its an ancient white secret that things that burn do not necessarily catch fire = a white supremacist revelation sandwich). Please recall that 11 Black people died in the MOVE standoff with police in Philadelphia in 1985 after tear gas canisters set a residence occupied by activists on fire (those "motherfuckers" also got burned up). See Waco, Tx. 

Unclear as to whether Police referred to him as "motherfucker" or to the cabin as "this motherfucker." In the police audio, which was broadcast on CBS affiliate KCAL-TV  police said "Burn it down" or "Burn him out," while another officer shouts, "F***ing burn this motherf****r!" In another recording, an officer says "we're gonna go forward with the plan, with the burn ... Like we talked about."[MORE] Scroll down page for more. 

(The media is quick to point out that the LAPD had absolutely nothing to do with "burning this motherfucker" down - explaining to sheeple that this was the San Bernardino County Sheriff's war [MORE]. If you beleive that, then you are listening to too much Maybach music or watching far too much television (a necessary illusion or utopian place where white people do not function as psychopaths in their relations with non-whites) and your mind shampoo is complete.)

Evidence? Are You Talking about Evidence? Can an executive (here, the LA Mayor who oversees the LAPD) claim the power to unilaterally kill an American in America without a trial?" Well that is what Senator Rand Paul was asking today in regards to drones and the nomination of the CIA director [MORE]. He probably did not have Dorner in mind and probably was unaware that the LAPD used a drone to target Dorner. There appeared to be little actual evidence of Dorner's involvement in the killings he was hunted for. Except for "his" unauthenticated manifesto, of course.  

No evidence was of no consequence to police, who had already made up their minds. According to London's Express, Dorner was the first target of airborne drones on U.S. soil.  A senior police source told the Express, “The thermal imaging cameras the drones use may be our only hope of finding him. On the ground, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.” A drone killing would have been an extra-judicial killing. [MORE]. Killing a non-white person without any judicial determination of guilt is repugnant to the Constitution and an example of unjust white supremacy. No high tech lynching was necessary. 

Wednesday
Feb132013

NAACP Urges Denver police to Fire Racist Denver Cops in Brutal Beating of Black College Student: "Jim Crow era" brutality

DenverPost

Denver's chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday urged the city's Manager of Public Safety to discipline three Denver police officers involved in the beating of a man in 2009.

Rita Lewis, president of the NAACP-Denver Branch, said the organization is disappointed that the Justice Department has opted not to charge the officers with civil-rights violations in the case of Alexander Landau, 23, who said they tried to cover up the beating that left him scarred and suffering neurological damage.

"Clearly, they abused their authority and violated Mr. Landau's civil

rights. Their actions were indicative of Jim Crow era police brutality," Lewis said in a statement. "At this juncture, the Manager of Safety must adhere to his civic duty and do what is morally right by disciplining the Officers involved in this travesty."

Manager of Safety Alex Martinez has said he wants to be able to review the Justice Department's investigation before making a decision about whether to punish Cpl. Randy Murr and Officers Ricky Nixon and Tiffany Middleton. The police department's internal-affairs bureau completed its investigation into Landau's allegations, but leaders delayed a discipline decision in light of the federal probe.

"The Manager of Safety will do what is morally right, not by reaching a pre-determined result, but by considering all the evidence fairly and without bias," Martinez said in email provided Wednesday morning by his spokeswoman, Daelene Mix. "At this point, we are waiting for the opportunity to review any witness statements or other materials resulting from the DOJ investigation."

The Jan. 19, 2009 incident started as a traffic stop. Landau said in a federal civil lawsuit that the officers hit him with a radio, fists and a flashlight and called him a racial epithet.

Police, however, said he had reached for Middleton's gun during the traffic stop. The federal lawsuit ended in 2011 with a $795,000 settlement.

Wednesday
Feb132013

Stop & Frisk & Brutalize: Gang of White NYPD Cops Assault Unarmed Black Teen - Matrix Style 

From [HERE] and [HERE] After members of the New York Police department arrested an unarmed Black teenager allegedly for "spewing profanities" and "ignoring requests to show his hands" outside a Queens youth center, a lawyer for the young man claims that he is an "innocent victim of police brutality", the New York Daily News reports. Robert Jackson was forced to the ground by police in a Jan. 8 incident outside the Flushing YMCA. In a press conference Tuesday, Jackson said that his arm was pinned underneath him during the arrest. Photos released to the press show a gruesome, crescent-shaped wound that the 19-year-old sustained in the incident as his left cheek was ground into the cement sidewalk.

Footage of the arrest that was posted to YouTube Jan. 9 shows at least 10 additional officers respond to the scene, pouncing, kicking and punching him while he is on the ground - Matrix style. All outlaw cops appear to be white. 

In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. In order to frisk you the Supreme Court has ruled that the police must have independent reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you (a cursory patdown for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion. Clearly, these rules are only intended for white people. [MORE]

On January 23, a white judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Tuesday lifted an order [opinion, PDF] that previously required the New York Police Department (NYPD) to stop using a "stop-and-frisk". [MORE]

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