"This Wouldn't Happen to White People. This is Racism" - 9 Arrested in Anaheim Police Protests, Unarmed Latino Men Killed by Cops

From [HERE] and [HERE] More than 200 activists gathered outside the Anaheim Police Department's headquarters Sunday to protest the two recent officer-involved slayings of unarmed Manuel Angel Diaz, 25, and 21-year-old Joel Acevedo and to call for peace.

Chanting "Whose streets? Our streets!," the vocal group started marching toward Disneyland, but a police line stopped the group a half-mile away. The blockade, which temporarily closed several traffic intersections, caused the demonstrators to head away from the resort.

"What's going on here in Orange County is symbolic of a problem with the system," Eduardo Perez, a 21-year-old student, told the Register. "This wouldn't happen to white people. This is racism, simple as that."

The other group was dressed in white and remained silent as part of their call for peace. They walked five-people across, shoulder to shoulder, some carrying messages such as "We are Anaheim" and "Peace begins with us." City Councilwoman Kris Murray and state Sen. Lou Correa, a Democrat who represents Anaheim, were among the marchers.

At least nine people were arrested, Police Sgt. Bob Dunn said. It was the ninth consecutive day of protests against police. The demonstrations occurred hours before an evening memorial service for Manuel Diaz, a 25-year-old man who was shot dead July 21.

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"He's Still Alive!", Police Do Nothing. Video Emerges of Immediate Aftermath of Anaheim Police Killing of Manuel Diaz

From [HERE] The Weekly has obtained a video recorded in the immediate moments following the Anaheim Police Department shooting to death unarmed Manuel Diaz. The source (who requested anonymity) was on the scene, and audio from the video confirms what eyewitness accounts have confirmed but which police refuse to do: that Diaz was shot in the head.

The most harrowing part of the video, however, is the fact that Diaz was alive--and police stood there for over three minutes and did nothing. Instead, they seem more concerned with pushing witnesses away from the scene, the better to diminish the video quality of the footage, when they weren't actively trying to block the source from recording.  Diaz is visibly twitching at the very beginning of the video. It's not until about 3:13 into the video that police finally turn over Diaz, whose head is bloodied beyond belief. See the video for yourself: [HERE] 

Citizens Collect Signatures, Demand For State Probe of Anaheim PD

From [HERE] Orange County activists have collected approximately 17,000 signatures for a petition demanding the State Attorney General conduct a full investigation into the Anaheim Police Department following two deadly shootings and subsequently violent protests. KCAL9′s Louisa Hodge reports the signatures collected by Presente.org were set to be handed over to the California State Attorney General Kamala Harris on Monday. On Sunday, more than 200 people protested recent officer-involved shootings in Anaheim and at times threatened to take their demonstration to Disneyland.

Police arrested nine people, including one woman accused of assaulting two people at a gas station. Sunday’s demonstration was one of several protests held last week in reaction to the fatal shootings of two men by Anaheim police.

Family Wants Autopsy

The family of an unarmed man who was fatally shot by Anaheim police is seeking an independent autopsy of his body. The Orange County Register reported Monday that the family of 25-year-old Manuel Diaz wants to determine where he was shot for legal purposes. The police union says Diaz, a known gang member, ran from officers and was holding some kind of object in front of his waist with both hands that officers feared was a gun. Witnesses have said that Diaz was shot in the back of the leg and then in the back of the head after he fell. [MORE] 

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White Jury Set to Hear White Police Officers Explanation for Brutally Beating Unarmed Black Student

From [HERE] Two more Pittsburgh police officers are expected to testify in their own defense at the federal civil rights trial of a lawsuit brought by a young black man who claims he was wrongfully beaten and arrested in January 2010.

Officers Richard Ewing and David Sisak are expected to testify Monday. Those officers as well as Michael Saldutte (sal-DOO'-tee), who testified last week, have acknowledged using force to arrest Jordan Miles, who was then an 18-year-old senior in the city's performing arts high school, but deny it was inappropriate.

Miles has sued claiming he was stopped for no reason then beaten when he ran away and struggled with police. But Miles says he did that only because the white plainclothes officers didn't identify themselves as police and he thought he was being robbed. Today, the nearly all white jury (1 black man, no Latinos) were told that Moutain Dew bottles look like guns and his braids were not pulled out by cops but came out when his hair hit snow covered bushes. This could only make sense to a racist mind. Please believe if a 17 year old white girl or boy was beaten to the point of brain damage by black cops it would be game over. The mainstream media is playing it out of course. White police , white prosecutors and white jurors... should we expect white supremacy or justice? Silly media accounts follow...[MORE]  

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NYC Settles Suit for $225,000: NYPD Punch Black Woman in Face after Bogus Stop & Frisk

From [HERE] The city has paid $225,000 to a young woman whose jaw was broken by an NYPD cop after she called him a "rookie" when he prepared to arrest her for riding her bike on the sidewalk, the Daily News has learned. The settlement came last week as a jury was about to be empaneled in Jessica Williams’ civil suit charging Officer Desmond Nichols for using excessive force in the 2008 incident.

According to Williams, the then-17-year-old was stopped by Nichols for riding on a sidewalk in Bedford-Stuyvesant — but the routine stop quickly took a violent turn. The officer asked Williams for ID, but she said she didn’t have any. That’s when she complained that Nichols was only hassling her because he was “a rookie.” In a pre-trial deposition, Nichols said that he decided to arrest Williams after she disparaged him as a “rookie.” He ordered her to put her hands behind her back, but claimed that she cocked her elbow as if she was going to strike him.

The officer said he acted in self-defense, hitting Williams in the jaw with a force that he described as “lightly medium.” Regardless of his definition of the blow, it was enough to bloody Nichols’ mouth and break her jaw, which had to be wired shut. She spent eight days in a hospital, handcuffed to the bed, court records show. "I still don't understand why he did it and why they still allow him to be on the police force," Williams told The News.

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Anaheim Calm Like a Bomb in Wake of 3rd Police Shooting in 6 Days; Anonymous Unleashes its own Dogs on Police

From [HERE] and [HERE] and [HERE] As Anaheim braced for more demonstrations protesting recent officer-involved shootings, the city's police Friday morning were involved in the third such incident in less than a week. The latest incident occurred six days after police fatally shot an unarmed man during a brief foot chase, a case that has sparked days of protests and unrest on the city's streets.

Authorities said the most recent shooting occurred when officers responded to a burglary alarm about 3:15 a.m. at a clubhouse in a residential area near Water and East Olive streets. They found a man running from the building with what looked to be stolen property, Sgt. Bob Dunn of the Anaheim Police Department told KTLA.

Police chased the man on foot as he ran toward a car, and the driver of the vehicle then tried to run over an officer, Dunn said. The driver got away, and officers were unsure if he had been hit by gunfire, he said. Police said they were looking for a dark pickup truck with a utility rack. The other suspect was caught by a K-9 unit as he was hiding in some bushes, Dunn told reporters. He said the man is a paroled burglar and was treated for a bite from a police dog. Dunn told the Associated Press that it was unclear if anyone was hit by the gunfire in Friday morning's confrontation, but he said no one had showed up at a local hospital with wounds that would be linked to the case.

Anonymous unleashed its own dogs on the Anaheim PD [MORE] Protest organizers are planning various events during the weekend. Police have said they will not tolerate more violence.  Hacker group Anonymous came through on its promise to target Anaheim police today by publishing not only the home address of Chief John Welters but, more embarrassingly, his MySpace page info.

Today the group released a statement that says, in part: To the police force in Anaheim, CA - we have witnessed your brutality and aggressive methods at stifling freedom of speech. We know about how you executed an unarmed man, shooting him in the back of the head while he was on his knees. We have witnessed you putting innocent women and children in danger, these actions are unforgivable. [MORE] and [MORE]

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White Stamford Cop Goes too Far in Arrest at Carryout - Attacks Unarmed Latino Man

From [HERE] A police officer from Stamford, Connecticut is under fire for a controversial arrest. The suspect is charged with resisting arrest and marijuana possession but the officer is now accused of going too far while trying to take him into custody, and it was all caught on camera. It was on Tuesday afternoon at China Express on Selleck street in Stamford that off-duty police officer James Comstock was talking to employees to investigate a robbery in the parking lot.

But when he was there he sees 20-year-old justin medina who was issued a warrant back on July 9th. On Tuesday, police say, Officer Comstock pulled 12 bags of marijuana from Medina's pockets along with $200, and because he was off-duty, and without handcuffs or a radio, he was trying and struggling, to make the felony drug arrest. He discovered the marijuana pursuant to a search done - after he had beat the Latino man down and pulled a gun on him. 

"It's just a constant wrestling match, he's trying to get out and he's trying to flee," said Tim Shaw with Stamford Police. No it's not. On the video you never see medina actually flee, in fact, in some shots, his hands are in the air. "He was outrageous, the behavior was outrageous, he knows my client's mother for years," said Median's attorney, Darnell Crosland.

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Feds and Seattle police settle over excessive force allegations against persons of color

From [HERE] The Justice Department and Seattle announced a settlement Friday over long-simmering allegations of excessive force by police officers.

The agreement calls for a federal court-appointed monitor who will resolve disputes that might arise over the next several years, according to officials. The monitor will also be able to order changes in the reforms announced Friday, if necessary. "This agreement represents a blueprint for reform," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the nation's chief civil rights official, who flew to Seattle to join city officials for the announcement. A series of allegations by minority groups that police were quick to resort to force in several instances prompted the Justice Department to launch an investigation.

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LA County Sheriff Lee Baca faces commission over jail abuse allegations

From [HERE] Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and his top aide are scheduled Friday to face a county commission created to examine allegations of abuse inside the department's jails. Baca has been accused of neglecting his lockups and ignoring direct warnings about rampant excessive force and gang-like deputy cliques. His second-in-command, Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, has been accused by current and retired sheriff's supervisors of openly encouraging a climate in which deputy misconduct went unchecked.

The commission was created by the county Board of Supervisors after it was revealed that the FBI was investigating allegations of abuse inside the Sheriff's Department lockups, the largest jail system in the nation.

In hearings over the last several weeks, the commission has already heard dramatic testimony from advocates and former prisoners. The most notable testimony, however, has come from past and current sheriff's supervisors, who have been given clearance to speak candidly before the commission. At the panel's last meeting, a current sheriff's supervisor testified that a former Men's Central Jail captain allowed misconduct to go unchecked by jailers. He said at one department Christmas party, Capt. Daniel Cruz joked about force on inmates during his speech, toasting to "not in the face," an apparent allusion to blows on inmates that don't leave marks.

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Racist NYPD Caught on Video Body Slamming Unarmed Latino Man - 4th Amendment Rights of Non-whites Vanishing

From [HERE] and [HERE] In a video posted on YouTube, a police officer violently lifted a 19-year-old Latino man he had detained and then dropped him onto a subway platform floor—pulling a subway poster down with him. Sean Pagan had allegedly been "seen writing graffiti in a restricted area of the station". The cop's action is very excessive - he acted like no one was watching. He was wrong. 

The video shows a police officer striding toward a young man standing on a platform at the 45th Street subway station in Brooklyn. A few seconds later, the officer pats him down. Shortly afterward, the officer slams him to the ground, ripping a subway ad from the wall in the process. The officer slams him down again, then puts the young man in a headlock and handcuffs him. That scene was captured by David Galarza, a local activist, who said he recorded it last Thursday night. At a news conference on Thursday in Brooklyn, Mr. Galarza and other local activists said the officer’s confrontation with the young man, Sean Pagan, 19, was another example of the police’s mistreatment of Latinos and Blacks.

“These are young people of color who are victimized many times, and this kind of excessive force, sometimes it’s captured, sometimes not,” Mr. Galarza said before screening the video for reporters at a Latino community center in Sunset Park. “There was an arrest of a young man, but not of the officer who did the groping, and who did the choking.” The 4th Amendment rights of people of color are vanishing in NYC and around the country. The mainistream media has been preparing the public to accept the identification of Blacks and Latinos as enemies. That is, a substantial part of the population is ready to consider it desirable or normal that Blacks & Latinos can be detained, searched, isolated or killed. The tone of this NY Times article for instance is not of outrage but weak neutrality. The writer even suggests that because "the young man appears to fidget against a wall" after he is slammed into it that the officer may have had some justifiable reason for this assault - despite there being no articlulable reason to believe that Pagan was armed and dangerous during this graffiiti or failure to pay subway fare stop/arrest. No reason except that he is not white. NYC Stop and Frisk and Arizona's SB 1070 are precoditions to genocide.

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