That's How Racist White People Do: White NYPD Cops Stood Over Black Man Having Asthma Attack [for 10 minutes] Failed to Give CPR & Watched Him Die

From [HERE] A surveillance camera at Yankee Stadium caught the startling actions of responding NYPD officers who stood over a Black man for 10 minutes as he lay unconscious after a severe asthma attack. All the officers appeared to be white. 

Moments later, 25-year-old Barrington Williams went into cardiac arrest and was later pronounced dead at Lincoln Medical Center. Last year, Williams’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the NYPD. The suit names Officers Joel Guach, Agenol Ramos, and Robert O’Brien as defendants, according to the New York Daily News.

Jason Leventhal, the family’s lawyer, reviewed the tape once investigators turned the video evidence over.

“For 10 minutes the officers were indifferent and apathetic to Barrington’s life, and those 10 minutes can be the difference between life and death,” said Leventhal.

Williams was caught selling MetroCard swipes on September 17, 2013 and ran from the police. He was eventually tackled to the ground and restrained by handcuffs at 1:57 p.m., according to the surveillance footage.

At 2:08 p.m., a medic arrived and administered chest compressions on Williams’ unconscious body. But the family was troubled that for 10 minutes in between the time he was handcuffed and the chest compressions, officers did not administer CPR.

Karen Brown, Williams’ mother, says her son dealt with asthma since the age of 12.

“I don’t believe he should have died for a MetroCard swipe,” she said.

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[maybe his spine & neck broke by itself??] Latest Token Prosecution Fails: Another Baltimore Cop Acquitted in Murder of Freddie Gray: Black Man "Folded Like a Crab"

In Racist System of Unequal Power Cops Can Kill You Anytime, Anyplace. Governors, attorney generals, chiefs of police, other white cops, prosecutors, jurors, judges, and the mainstream white media will support, finance and ultimately uphold the cop's decision or "right" to kill you. 

From [HERE] A judge on Thursday found the sole officer charged with murder in the death of Freddie Gray in police custody not guilty of all charges, leaving prosecutors without a conviction for the third time in the high-profile case that engulfed the city in riots and unrest last year.

The verdict in the trial of Caesar Goodson Jr. is the second acquittal handed down by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams in the case. The judge last month acquitted the second officer who went to trial in Gray’s death. The first officer’s trial ended in a hung jury.

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Goodson, 46, drove the van that transported Gray through West Baltimore the morning of April 12, 2015, when the 25-year-old was arrested. Gray suffered a severe neck injury in the back of the van and died a week later.

Over and over again when reading his ruling Thursday, Williams said the state did not have evidence to prove Goodson acted criminally. Prosecutors did not show Goodson gave Gray a “rough ride,” that Goodson knew Gray needed immediate medical care or that Goodson meant to harm Gray by failing to put him in a seat belt.

“There has been no credible evidence presented at this trial that the defendant intended for any crime to happen,” Williams said. [MORE]

Study of 2 Million Hours of Police Activity Shows that body cameras Do Not Reduce Violent incidents between police and community [Police Brutality is Caused by White Supremacy. White Supremacy is Racism]

From [HERE] San Francisco’s police department is the latest embattled law enforcement agency to pledge to equip its officers with body cameras in response to charges of widespread police brutality against racial minorities. The city is joining an international chorus of advocates who are convinced that body cameras will reduce violent incidents between police and community members. But a mammoth new study shows that cameras can have precisely the opposite effect.

The study, which was led by Barak Ariel of Cambridge University, integrated the findings of 10 experiments in which police in different cities were randomly assigned to use a body camera during different shifts. Remarkably, the study captured the behavior of over 2,000 police officers and more than two million hours of law enforcement activity. The dismal result: Body cameras had no overall effect on how often police used force and was correlated with a statistically significant increase in assaults on police officers. Although violence between suspects and police went down in a few of the 10 study sites, these benefits were more than cancelled out by other sites where cameras made no difference or made violence more common. [MORE]

“This was like a mafia shot.” Latino Man's Family Say White Gangster SF Cops Shot Homeless Man in the Head While He Was Sitting Down

From [HERE] Luis Góngora, the Latino homeless man shot by San Francisco police on 7 April, was killed by a shot to the head from above, lawyers for his family alleged at a press conference as they announced the filing of a claim against the city and county of San Francisco for excessive force and wrongful death.

“This was like a mafia shot,” said Luis Poot Pat, Góngora’s cousin, who attended the press conference on Friday. “I can’t believe in the beautiful city of San Francisco this can happen.”

Attorneys for the Góngora family presented video and photographic evidence that they say shows that police officers shot Góngora from above, while he was either sitting down or lying prone. Photographs from a private autopsy show that Góngora was shot in the top of his head, as well as in the back, both arms, and the abdomen.

“The officer can be seen shooting down at the wounded man, with a handgun in one hand and a shotgun in the other, in a scene reminiscent of a gangster movie,” the claim states. The claim is a precursor to a lawsuit.

The lawyers played an enlarged, slow-motion version of surveillance video, previously released by the San Francisco Chronicle, that provides a partial view of the shooting. One of the officers can be seen firing three rounds.

“If you slow down this clip, you will witness that the officer who initially had the shotgun is pointing downward,” said Adante Pointer, one of the attorneys. “Mr Góngora was already down on the ground when this officer decided to pump three shots into his body.”

Racist suspects, Sgt. Nate Steger and Officer Michael Mellone were identified as the killer cops. 

Pointer also told the Guardian that the absence of stippling or tattooing on Góngora’s body shows that police were more than arms-length away from Góngora when they shot him.

“They shot him to pieces,” Pointer said. “It’s ridiculous.”

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White Prosecutors Block Release of Video of White Hartford Cops Allegedly Beating Latino Men with Batons after Chase

From [HERE] The two Latino men whose arrests prompted an excessive force investigation by the Hartford Police Department are considering their legal options. [yes the police investigating themselves]

Ricardo Perez, 34, and Emilio Diaz, 38, were arrested earlier this month following a stolen car chase through Hartford and into West Hartford. They are represented by attorney Corey Brinson to represent them in a possible civil lawsuit against the police departments after being injured during their arrests.

Hartford Police announced their investigation earlier this week, after command staff questioned the men’s apparent injuries seen in their mug shots. Officers noted their facial injuries were inconsistent with what would have been caused in the crash that ended the chase and led to his arrest. The June 4 crash occurred on Flatbush Avenue, just over the city line into West Hartford.

Brinson told FOX 61 he visited the two men in jail Thursday, and plans to file a notice of intent to sue the cities of Hartford and West Hartford for excessive use of force. “We have to send a message back to the police departments that they can't get upset in the heat of the moment and take matters into their own hands,” said Brinson.

Perez is accused of driving a stolen car, fleeing from police and injuring a detective by almost running him over. The police report claims officers “violently struggled” while arrested Perez. Police say they had to use a Taser and punch Perez in the body to get him in handcuffs after he refused to get out of the car or submit to being arrested.

Perez described a different series of events to Brinson.

“Police shattered his window with a baton. They continued to use that baton to strike Mr. Perez in the head and he was also dragged to the ground, kicked and beaten and continued to be struck,” said Brinson.

Diaz was in the passenger seat, and officers say they struggled with him as well. The police report calls his injuries “minor,” but it is apparent in his mug shot he needed stitches. Brinson said he was hit in the face with a Taser, punched, tased, and beaten.

“Mr. Diaz was crying, crying on the ground and then was told if he continued to cry, ‘I'm going to continue to beat you.’ That really resonated with me when I sat with them today,” said Brinson.

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Dozens of Chicago Police Brutality Videos Released to the Public

IPRA Chicago Video Portal [HERE] and [HERE] and [MORE] and [MORE]