NYPD Cops Handcuff and Detain 7 year old Latino boy, over missing $5: Interrogated for 4 Hours

From [HERE] This kid was no killer — but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one.

Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal’s office, a terrified 7-year-old Latino boy was hauled out of class, handcuffed like a hardened criminal and “interrogated” by police for a grueling 10 hours — all over a playground dispute involving $5, his family is charging.

Officers showed up at PS X114 on Dec. 4 at about 10:20 a.m., and handcuffed and held Wilson in a room there for four hours. They then hauled him off to the 44th Precinct station house for another six hours of interrogation and verbal abuse, according to a $250 million claim against the city and the NYPD.

According to the family's attorney, the responding officers intimidated, verbally assaulted, and threatened the youth for the duration of his stay. The NYPD denies such treatment happened. A department spokeswoman claims the boy was only restrained at the precinct for four hours and forty minutes.

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East Haven Officers' Civil Rights Trial to Start in April: White Cops Accused of Targeting Latinos

Racism/White Supremacy = Collective Color Inferiority + Numerical Inadequacy. Racism is a strategy for white genetic survival. [MORE]  Following an investigation by the FBI, four East Haven police officers were arrested and accused of abusing Latinos in the working class community of 28,000 people which was nearly predominately white a generation ago. In the middle of the 2000s, the demographics of East Haven began to shift. The Latino population grew from 4 percent of the city’s residents in 2000 to 10 percent in 2010. For some white residents, the changes felt like an existential threat.[MORE] (Gun control for victims but not cops? In photo, East Haven cop David Cari, a racist suspect facing jail time).

Racial Targeting or Racial Targeting is a police officer or a person in authority who uses his authority to harass, intimidate, or arrest non-whites (practice racism). In many cases, racial profiling is condoned by city officials (such as East Haven Mayor Maturo in photo), to send a messsage that non-whites are not welcome to live, work, shop or even drive through ceratin white areas. It is also used as a psychological tool to remind non-whites that they are not due the same rights that whites take for granted in a white supremacy system. [Anon]

Last year the Department of Justice issued a 23-page report which said, "our finding that EHPD officers have engaged in discriminatory policing against Latinos is based on the following: 1) EHPD targets Latinos for discriminatory traffic enforcement and treatment; 2) EHPD abuses its authority by retaliating against individuals who criticize or complain of EHPD's discriminatory conduct; 3) EHPD fails to take corrective action following judicial findings of discriminatory customs and practices within EHPD, including a deliberate indifference to the rights of minorities in East Haven; and 4) EHPD willfully disregards basic and common procedures used by police agencies and mandated by state law to prevent biased policing. Our evidence therefore shows that EHPD singles out Latinos for discriminatory treatment."

The DOJ noted "serious concerns that EHPD engages in unlawful searches and seizures and the use of excessive force. In addition, we are concerned with reports that members of EHPD have created a hostile and intimidating environment for persons who wished to cooperate with our investigation."According to the report, EHPD employs approximately 50 uniformed officers, only one of whom is fluent in Spanish. [MORE]

Mayor Maturo said, "I don't believe these charges at all," and "I stand by these officers."The day of the arrests, when asked by a reporter what he was planning to do for the Latino community that night, he replied, "I might have tacos when I go home."[MORE] In November, the town signed an agreement to reform the police force and avoid a federal lawsuit. Making a reference to slavery, Maturo said with a laugh, before signing the document “as I’m signing this, should you put a whip behind me?” [MORE]   

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'No Public Confidence': Attorney Claims White Prosecutors Hid Information to Protect White Mt. Pleasant (NY) Officers in Shooting of Black College Student

After Fatally Shooting Danroy Henry Police Handcuffed him & Delayed Calling 911 From [HERE] The first police account of an officer's fatal shooting of a Black college student was purposely misleading and served as a faulty "script" for the investigation, a lawyer for the student's parents said Thursday. The lawyer, Michael Sussman, alleged that the district attorney's office was in on the deception. And he said the episode demonstrated the need for a special state prosecutor's office to investigate every time police use deadly force.

"No one in the public should have any confidence" that district attorneys can fairly investigate the police departments they work with, Sussman said at a news conference.

He said his claims were based on "shocking details" in depositions he has taken during a federal lawsuit filed by the parents of Danroy Henry Jr., the victim in the 2010 shooting.

Henry, 20, was shot through the windshield of his car as he drove away from a disturbance outside a bar in Thornwood. Earlier in the day, he had played for Pace University's football team on Homecoming Day. The Pleasantville police officer who shot him, Aaron Hess, said Henry was driving toward him and wouldn't stop. He fired from the hood of Henry's car.

Another officer, Ronald Beckley of the Mount Pleasant police force, also fired. But Beckley said in his deposition that he was firing at the person on the hood, not knowing it was Hess and believing it was "the aggressor."

Both officers testified before a grand jury and were cleared of wrongdoing. Hess is among those being sued by the Henrys.

Sussman alleged Thursday that Beckley's depiction of Hess as the aggressor was known within hours to Mount Pleasant police Chief Louis Alagno, the chief investigator, and to the district attorney's office.

Alagno's press release the next day, however, depicted Beckley as shooting at the car, not at the officer on the hood. That was "a knowingly false statement by a person who is still a police chief," Sussman said. He suggested it should have disqualified Alagno from running the investigation.

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Video Shows White San Francisco Police Officers Slamming Unarmed Black Man's Face into Gutter

From [HERE] The following footage, captured by YouTube user Griz415, shows two cops on motorbikes arresting an unarmed Black man at 24th and Mission in SF on Thursday.

Nelly Fuller: When Racists are not violating their victms [non-white people] through the use of deceit, they violate them through direct physical abuse. It is incorrect to expect a Racist to be humane. It is correct to expect them to be deceitful and/or violent - either directly or indirectly. It is correct to expect them to be this way all the time. [the Code]  

NYPD Allowed to Resume 'Stop and Frisk' Policy. White Collective Power = White Judge and White Prosecutors Support, Defend and Finance NYPD's "right" to Practice White Supremacy

4th Amendment Not Real for Non-Whites. The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although only one sentence long, protects people against unjustified detentions by the government. It reads: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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. Non-whites are stopped and then frisked because they are Non-white. This does not happen to white folks. It happens to all non-white people regardless of income, education, political affiliation or skin color. As stated by the Judge in the first opinion 'the NYPD has been stopping and questioning Blacks & Latinos first and then developing reasonable suspicion later.  The maintenance of white supremacy requires this result  - as Judge Shira Scheindlin's, a racist suspect reveals in her decision below. 

From [HERE] 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) [official website] to stop using a "stop-and-frisk" practice outside of apartment buildings in the Bronx. Though she previously ruled the practice unconstitutional, Judge Shira Scheindlin ultimately agreed with city lawyers that complying with the former order would place an undue burden on the NYPD to train thousands of officers and their supervisors, and that "it may be difficult to say where, precisely, to draw the line between constitutional and unconstitutional police encounters." The "stop-and-frisk" policy developed as part of the city's Trespass Affidavit Program (TAP) [Manhattan DA backgrounder], which allows property managers in the program to ask officers to patrol their buildings and arrest trespassers as a means of combating drug dealing in the public areas of such buildings.

Only two weeks ago, Judge Scheindlin declared the NYPD's "stop-and-frisk" policy unconstitutional [JURIST report] on grounds that it violates the protection against unreasonable search and seizures of the Fourth Amendment [text; Cornell LII backgrounder]. There, she reasoned that officers were not first meeting their requirement of developing a reasonable suspicion to stop and frisk supposed trespassers.

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FBI Report: There were More Arrests for Drug Possession than Violent Crime in 2011 (the War on Drugs is a War on Black Males)

From [HERE] Public support for liberalizing marijuana laws is at an all-time high, and as of the November election, 18 states have legalized the drug, either for medical or recreational purposes. Law enforcement, however, seems unmoved by the legalization movement. According to a new FBI report, police arrested more people for marijuana possession than for violent crime in 2011.

In 2011, marijuana possession arrests totaled 663,032 — more than arrests for all violent crimes combined. Possession arrests have nearly doubled since 1980, according to an FBI report, while teen marijuana use recently reached a 30-year high. President Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, have stressed on numerous occasions that the federal government would not waste resources on prosecuting marijuana users who comply with their state laws. Yet Obama’s Justice Department continue to crack down on medical marijuana distributors at a rate far higher than his predecessors.

Drug possession convictions comprise almost half of the nation’s exploding prison population. These arrests are dramatically skewed against people of color; 31 percent of those arrested for marijuana possession are black, even though African Americans make up just 14 percent of marijuana users.

Police Car as Coffin. Do Not Expect Justice in Inquest of Milwaukee Officers who Ignored Dying Black Man - In 25 yrs. No Criminal Charges Ever Recommended against Cops

Expect White Supremacy. "Special" prosecutor considers felony charges against white Officers who Crushed Derek Williams and then Watched him Die in their cruiser - on Video. He suffocated to death while handcuffed, naked from a strip search, begging for their help for 15 minutes from the time of his arrest as he went limp and then after officers dragged him and placed him in their cruiser. His death is captured on video which was released in September 2012. (graphic video above, no sound for first minute). [MORE]  

From [HERE] and [HERE] A special prosecutor is considering felony charges in connection with the death of a Black man while in Milwaukee police custody of white officers. That's according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (http://bit.ly/10aEx4A ), which obtained documents filed Friday in Milwaukee courts.

The special prosecutor, John Franke, (in photo - a former Milwaukee County Circuit Judge) plans to ask jurors to consider charges of first- and second-degree reckless homicide and failure to render aid by law enforcement after he presents five days' worth of witnesses during an inquest into Williams' death, scheduled to begin Feb. 11. 

Those witnesses will include independent medical experts who will likely discuss a cracked bone in Williams' neck and sickle cell crisis, a controversial condition Assistant Medical Examiner Christopher Poulos blamed for Williams' death. But in more than 25 years, no Milwaukee County inquest jury has recommended criminal charges against a police officer involved in a fatal shooting or in-custody death, a Journal Sentinel investigation found.

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'40 Years Ago there were No Black Cops' - You were driving 26 mph!

From [HERE] (video stars actual PG County Police) Expect racism from racist suspects (white people). If they are not racist be pleasantly suprised. Do everything to avoid being put into "Greater Confinement." Please  - comply with police. You never know if you are dealing with a white supremacist. It is nearly impossible to tell. [MORE]

People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice. [MORE] Have a nice weekend! 

Lawsuit Filed Claims "Conscience Shocking Misconduct" by Mississippi Law Enforcement that led to Wrongful Convictions of 3 Innocent Black Men in Murder of White Woman

In photo, Phillip Bivens. He has been free since a judge set aside his conviction Sept. 16, 2010, and now is living in New Orleans. While in prison, he contracted hepatitis, which has led to medical problems, including liver cancer. From [HERE] and [HERE] A federal lawsuit filed yesterday alleges Forrest County law enforcement officers beat and/or threatened three African-American men to get false confessions out of them in a 1979 murder and rape of Eva Gail Patterson. A Mississippi judge cleared the three in 2010 after DNA testing secured by the Innocence Project New Orleans proved their innocence and pointed to the real perpetrator.

Phillips Bivens, Bobby Ray Dixon and Larry Ruffin together spent 82 years behind bars in Mississippi for a crime they didn’t commit. Ruffin was accidentally electrocuted in prison in 2002. He had been ordered to fix a fan in a prison office, despite a lack of training in electrical repair. Dixon died in November 2010 just months after his release because he was dying of lung cancer. 

Bivens and Dixon pled guilty to the crime and testified against Ruffin in exchange for life sentences. They recanted shortly after, saying they had been beaten and forced to implicate Ruffin.

DNA testing pointed to the involvement of Andrew Harris, who was already serving a life sentence for a separate rape committed two years after the 1979 crime. Harris was indicted for the crime two months after Bivens and Dixon were exonerated. According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg, authorities received the name of the true perpetrator during the investigation but ignored it.

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Oklahoma County to pay $275,000 to Black Woman Beaten & Made to Crawl by Detention Officers after DUI Arrest

From [HERE] Oklahoma County has agreed to pay $275,000 to a Black woman who was beaten up by jailers while being booked on a complaint of driving under the influence in 2003. Attorneys representing the county and Sheriff John Whetsel agreed in December to pay the money to Dionne A. McKinney. In exchange, she agreed to stop pursuing punitive damages for the incident. The settlement amount was officially filed at the court clerk's office on Tuesday.

McKinney alleged in court papers she was beaten without provocation by female officers in May 2003 while being booked into the Oklahoma County jail. Jurors found that she was assaulted by several officers after she asked to use the restroom.  McKinney, according to court papers, was placed in a holding cell and was taunted by officers. They ignored her requests for medical aid and made her crawl from her cell to a holding room on her hands and knees, the attorney said during the weeklong trial.

The officers slammed McKinney's head against a concrete wall and then threw her to the ground and kicked her. Her attorney said one of the officers rubbed McKinney's genitals when she was changing into orange coveralls, and then the officers made McKinney crawl from her cell to a holding room on her hands and knees.

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