Mostly White Jury Lets White Detroit Cop Walk in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed 7 yr old Black Girl

From [HERE] and [HERE] A mistrial has been declared after a mostly white jury said they won't continue deliberating in the trial for a white Detroit officer charged in the 2010 shooting death of a 7-year-old Black girl. The jury sent a note Tuesday to Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway saying no significant progress had been made toward a verdict in their three days of deliberations. Nearly two hours later, that was followed by another note that said the jury was unable to reach a verdict.

The jury was composed of 11 whites and one African-American. The "Justice for Aiyana Jones Committee" stated “from the start, we (JAJC) had no confidence in this jury that had only one African-American juror from a county that is over 42 percent African-American.

White police officer Joseph Weekley (in photo) was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was Black. He killed the child during a 2010 raid that was being filmed for a reality cable TV show. 

Also indicted in 2011 was Allison Howard (in photo), an A&E producer for "The First 48" TV crew following police during the raid. She was indicted on charges of perjury during an investigative subpoena and obstruction of justice. She is also white. She pled guilty yesterday. Howard will serve 1 1/2 to 2 years' probation in Massachusetts. [MORE] 

The night Aiyana Jones died, Detroit police were searching for murder suspect, Chauncey Owens, who was engaged to Aiyana's aunt, in connection with the May 14, 2010, murder of 18-year-old Jerean Blake. After obtaining a search warrant, police kicked in the front door of the home on Lillibridge, where Owens was thought to be hiding. 

They threw a flashbang grenade into the downstairs flat of a multi-family home on Lillibridge about 12:40 a.m. and Weekley was accused of firing the bullet that struck and killed the girl, who was sleeping on the couch in the front room of the home. The "flash-bang" light-emitting grenade was meant to distract suspects. 

Aiyana's family, represented by Geoffrey Feiger in a pending civil case, claims police attempted to cover up the fatal mistake from the very beginning.

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Fresno Police Sued in Coma Beating Death of Unarmed Latino Man - Hogtied & Drowned in front of kids

From [HERE] Fresno police drowned an unarmed Latino man by Tasering and hogtying him, then sticking a garden hose "onto (his) face and mouth" when he pleaded for water according to a lawsuit filed against the City of Fresno. A federal civil-rights case will examine whether Fresno police officers and Fresno County sheriff's deputies used excessive force in connection with the death of a domestic-violence suspect two years ago.

The family of Raul Rosas Jr. has sued the city of Fresno and Fresno County in U.S. District Court for wrongful death, negligence and police brutality. The lawsuit alleges a wild series of events immediately after law enforcement caught Rosas on June 5, 2011:

After an altercation with a John Doe officer, police pepper-sprayed Rosas and then Tasered him a "countless number of times," the complaint states.He was tasered "for eight to ten more minutes," then he was "hogtied with his ankles tied to his handcuffs behind his back."

Police officers then slammed his face into a table in the backyard of a southeast Fresno home. Rosas began losing consciousness when an officer put his knee into Rosas' back.

 "Decedent stated that he couldn't breathe and that he needed water; an officer ran water from a hose onto decedent's face and mouth to the point of making it more difficult for decedent to breathe. Decedent tried to move his mouth away from the water and gasp for air. A witness yelled 'He can't breathe, you're drowning him,' but the officer continued running water over decedent's face.

"After turning the water off, the Doe Officer(s) continued to press his knee against decedent's back and continued to put pressure on it. Witnesses repeatedly asked officers to let decedent get up because he couldn't breathe, but their cries for help were ignored. "By now there were in excess of 15 deputies and officers on the scene.

"After some time passed, decedent had clear spit bubbles coming out of his mouth. "Witnesses yelled at officers that decedent was not breathing and pointed to the clear spit bubbles but again were ignored. Doe officer claimed decedent was 'faking it.'" [MORE]

His lips turned purple. He was later revived but quickly lapsed into a coma and never recovered. He died July 2, 2011. "They killed him," Rosas' brother, Christian Rosas, said Friday. "And for what reason?" [white supremacy/racism] 

Hundreds Demand Justice for Latino Man Killed by White Manteca Police Officer (keep your protest signs, it will happen again)

"You Should expect to be killed in the name of racism anytime, any place. You have been marked as an enemy because you are [non-white]. Keep your protest signs because this will happen again" - Nelly Fuller on the radio 12/12/12. [MORE]

From [HERE] More than one hundred people marched through Manteca Sunday, protesting the controversial death of Ernesto Duenez, fatally shot 11 times by a Manteca Police Officer during an altercation 2 years ago this week. Protestors from all over the state marched from Flores Avenue to the Manteca Police Department.

“We will never stop searching for justice,” Duenez’s sister told FOX40. “He is our loved one, we fight for his life and for his death. The officer who killed my brother needs to be behind bars.”

Manteca Police told FOX40 Sunday the department stands by the officer’s decision. The officer now works in the special investigations unit at the Manteca Police Department.

White prosecutors in the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office concluded that California Police Officer James Moody had been legally justified in shooting 34-year-old Ernesto Duenez Jr., but the video might bring the case back to court. 

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Video captures White Jasper (TX) Cops Beating Black woman like an Animal

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... 

To spend time doing anything other than trying to produce justice by eliminating the Status Quo is to waste time. [the Code]