Black Lives Don't Matter to Racists: If You are Black or Latino You Can be Legally Executed by a White Cop Anytime, Anyplace in Front of Cameras and Witnesses. [MORE] and [report].
In other news, the DOJ says that the nearly all white Ferguson Police Department "Targets" African Americans in general - but none of that "targeting" was going on when Darren Wilson encountered Michael Brown and left him dead in the street. (Ferguson is 67% Black - there are only 3 Black police officers on the force. [MORE] and [MORE])
Even Nancy Grace says White Cop's Story Sounds Like Complete Bullshit
White Media Message:All Black Men are Guity of Something so... From [HERE] and [Fox] More useless information/damage control from the white media is coming out to justify the cop murder of a homeless Black man shot and killed by white cops in Los Angeles in broad daylight on Sunday, including that he was a convicted bank robber who took over a French man's identity 15 years ago in order to gain entrance to the United States. [gasp! so he had to go]
"He fooled a lot of people, including us, years ago," French consul general Axel Cruau told the Los Angeles Times. He said that the man, identified by the LAPD as Charley Saturmin Robinet, stole the identity of the real Robinet in the late-1990s. The man calling himself Robinet was convicted of a bank robbery in 2000, and Cruau said that French officials let the United States know that Robinet had assumed someone else's identity and was not a French citizen. The actual Charley Saturmin Robinet is still alive and living in France. And there's more...
CNN has now revealed that the dead black man was probably a drug dealer because someone told them he was probably selling drugs before cops arrived and he messed up another homeless person's tent about 30 minutes before the cops got there. So, somebody had to stop him - he definitely had to go [no drugs were found or analyzed]. CNN also noted that he was homeless but "he didn't want any help." So, he was one of those self-made type of homeless guys in a way. At any rate, none of this was caused by societal factors such as racism/white supremacy.
According to CBS, the poor white cops involved are the real victims here. They have been "targeted" since the murder incident- victims of what authorities called “doxxing." Someone posted the officers’ private information online, including names, addresses and details about their kids’ schools. CBS assured the public that they would not do that. In fact, like most white media outlets they make sure to keep white cops' photo from ever being seen by the public - showing only photos of the victims and their families. [MORE]
Bodycams. Isn't that what the liberal white media has been selling us as a solution to "restore trust in cops" and to produce justice? Where is the bodycam footage from the 2 cops who had on bodycams? and where is the footage from the 12 City cameras referenced by Chief of Police Charlie Beck yesterday at his press conference? Like Eric Garner said 'don't hold your breath in racist system.'
This coverage by racist suspect journalists echoes the nonsense about Tamir Rice's father published one day after his 12 year old son was killed by white Cleveland Cops. The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper and Cleveland.com smeared Tamir's father by discussing his criminal record and publishing his mug shot. Mr. Rice was not present during the police shooting of his son and had nothing to do with the incident or the investigation of it. Nevertheless, a white writer, Brandon Blackwell started his article by stating, "Tamir Rice's father has a history of violence against women." [MORE] This is racist distraction from the white media. It has no substance.
'Most Blacks and Latinos are not mindful of the fact that the American press and mass media are privately owned, profit-making, White elite-controlled corporations. One of their major goals is to make white dominance and control over everything seem natural.' [MORE]
What is white collective power? when white cops fatally shoot an unarmed black man, his fellow officers, the police chief, internal affairs, the union, the white media, the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury will support, defend, and finance that white police officer’s “right” to shoot (murder) an unarmed black person. [MORE]
Suit Alleges Black Man was Suicided by White Cop From [HERE] A Black woman has filed a wrongful-death suit in federal court against Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal (racist suspect in photo) and the deputy who arrested her child’s father, Victor White III, the night he died from a single gunshot wound to the right side of his chest while handcuffed in the backseat of the deputy’s car.
In a 15-page complaint filed Friday on behalf of White’s toddler, Shandell Bradley’s attorneys allege Ackal fails to adequately train his deputies and tolerates excessive uses of force and unreasonable searches, which resulted in White’s death a year ago on March 3, 2014.
The suit also claims Cpl. Justin Ortis, who arrested White that night, beat him and was negligent in failing to protect White’s safety while he was in custody.
White died in a Louisiana hospital, the victim of a gunshot that police said White fired after being frisked twice, handcuffed and placed in the back of a New Iberia police cruiser. That is, the white cops claim that while he was handcuffed in the backseat of the cruiser he shot himself with an undected handgun - magically like Houdini or David Copperfield.
Cops: "Not on Our Property."The family of Victor White III held a rally on March 2, 2015 to commemorate the first anniversary of Victor's death. The Iberia Parish Sheriff's office heard about the planned rally and warned White's father that if they entered the Sheriff's property, they would be arrested.
Ortis arrested White, 22, while he and an unnamed friend were walking home from a convenience store where a fight had just occurred. According to the suit, Ortis stopped the two men shortly before midnight and searched White twice before arresting him for drug possession.
What happened after has been detailed only in a statement released by State Police the same date as White’s death.
“Once at the Sheriff’s Office, White became uncooperative and refused to exit the deputy’s patrol vehicle,” it reads. “As the deputy requested assistance from other deputies, White produced a handgun and fired one round striking himself in the back.”
In August, although the facts supported the determination of a homicide, the Iberia Parish coroner ruled White’s death a suicide, and State Police said the gun that fired the fatal bullet was not a type used by the Sheriff’s Office.
But the agency has not released additional details about its report, submitted in September to the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. That agency stepped away from the case when the U.S. Justice Department began conducting its own review .
From [HERE] amd [MORE] It has been a little more than a year since 20-year-old Black man, D'Andre Berghardt was fatally shot by two white federal rangers in a confrontation as he walked along State Route 159 near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area .
Investigators revealed new information on Monday at a Las Vegas "Fact Finding review hearing" about the events leading up to an officer-involved shooting. Fact-finding reviews are held when a police-involved shooting results in a death and after the Clark County district attorney's office decides officers will not face criminal charges. An ombudsman represented the public and the family of the victim. The district attorney's staff presented evidence and witnesses, but only for "information."
New footage shown at the hearing and released to the media for the first time shows four different angles of the incident, including dash cam video.
Of course, the white district attorney, Steve Wolfson (racist suspect in photo) did not file any charges against any of the white cops. A wrongful death suit has been filed by Berghardt's mother, Tracy Meadows. The complaint claims that BLM rangers violated her son's constitutional rights. Her lawyer is Jacob Hafter.
Berghardt was reported to be disoriented and tried to stop a few bicyclists to ask for help. Multiple 911 calls were made to seek help for him, according to documents. Cops insisisted that they were investigating an assault claim. Bicyclists and joggers told reporters that Berghardt had been seen walking on the paved shoulder of the highway with a rolling suitcase, a backpack and a bedroll. [MORE]
The BLM rangers then approached Berghardt and eventually a confrontation ensued. The lawsuit states that the NHP officer did not see a justification for lethal force, but the rangers attacked the victim. The lawsuit says Berghardt was not trying to get a police rifle, but trying to escape the attack by the rangers.
Dash cam video, showing the final moments of Berghardt's life, was at the center of the hearing. Berghardt's mother watched the video for the first time as she sat in the audience.
Investigators said things turned violent when the BLM officers tried to question Berghardt, and he was uncooperative. According to hearing testimony, two BLM officers claim they tasered him four times after he refused to listen to commands. At one point they say he pulled a screwdriver out of his pocket, leading to the first taser being used. Cellphone video then shows a struggle, and the BLM ranger then delivered two rounds of charges from the taser, before Berghardt turned away and reportedly tried to get into several (police?) vehicles stopped on the road.
That's when an NHP trooper arrived on the scene with his dash cam rolling. That trooper used his taser to deliver two more electric charges, while one of the BLM officers hit Berghardt over the head five times with his baton. Police claim that he acted with superhuman strength but the toxicology report further revealed the only drug in Berghard's system was marijuana. [MORE]
At that point, investigators said Berghardt got into the NHP vehicle. The camera in the patrol vehicle shows what investigators say is Berghardt's hand on the barrel of the AR-15, followed seconds later by gunfire. Eight or nine shots can be heard. Apparently, however, no cops actually saw him touch a gun. Berghardt Jr. was unarmed. The cops said they thought he was going to start the vehicle up and then run them over or get the rifle and shoot at them.
The family's attorney, Jacob Hafter, called into question whether the use of force was justified, saying the officer's claims were false.
Detective Matthew Gillis of LVMPD relayed the officer's statement to the audience, saying, "He's thinking Berghardt is about to get control of the vehicle, he's about to get control of the firearm."
Hafter said of that statement, "His [the officer's] own witness statement, that's part of the record, says he never saw Mr. Berghardt reach for the gun, he never saw the AR-15." Instead, Hafter says the two men who shot Berghardt had an intent to kill. "The BLM agents were overzealous, underexperienced, and they just wanted to get their pound of flesh in at the time," Hafter said.
From [HERE] and [HERE] More than a month after her fatal shooting at the hands of Colorado police, an autopsy has revealed that 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez was shot four times, two of which were fatal.
The teenager’s death was also ruled a homicide, according to a medical examiner’s report released Friday. The examination, performed by Denver Chief Medical Examiner James Caruso, shows that two gunshot wounds were located in Hernandez’s pelvis and right thigh, possibly from the same bullet. Hernandez was also shot two times in the left side of her torso — the bullets pierced the heart and both lungs, killing her.
“There was no evidence of close range discharge of a firearm associated with any of the entrance wounds,” Caruso said in the report.
Two bullets entered through the left side of her chest and traveled right through her body. Her family's attorney, Qusair Mohamedbhai, said that shows she was shot from the driver's side of the car.
"These facts undermine Denver Police Department's claim that Jessie was driving at the officers as they shot her," Mohamedbhai said in a statement. "The wound path and trajectory of the bullet that likely killed Jessica Hernandez undermines the version of events as indicated by the Denver Police Department."
Denver police Chief Robert White has said the officers found Hernandez and four other teenagers inside the stolen car in an alley. White said the officers told the teens several times to get out of the vehicle. Officers Gabriel Jordan (racist suspect in photo from Westworld) and Daniel Greene fired after Hernandez drove toward one of them.
A passenger in the car, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of safety concerns, has disputed the official account, saying officers came up on the car from behind and fired four times into the driver's-side window.
The passenger also said the officers did not yell any commands before they fired, and that the car may have struck the officer after Hernandez was shot and lost control of the vehicle.
From [HERE] and [MORE] Last week a $1 million settlement was reached in Georgia in a Taser death suit. The Black man who the civil lawsuit was filed on behalf of, Gregory Towns, died after East Point police shocked him with a Taser. His family's lawyers negotiated the settlement by taking East Point's insurance company to the city's policy limits, which is $1MM. East Point's city insurer settled the case, covering the city of East Point as well as the two officers involved. The case was settled for the full maximum available, resulting in a $1MM settlement for the victim's family.
The 24-year-old man died following an arrest in which the police used Taser devices on him up to 13 times, according to the wrongful-death suit against the Atlanta suburb of East Point and two of its former officers.
The family of Gregory L. Towns Jr., who was arrested on April 11 after he fled on foot from officers who wanted to question him about a domestic dispute, said in the lawsuit that police officers in East Point had “acted with malice and a deliberate intent to cause grievous bodily injury, pain and death” to Mr. Towns.
The lawsuit contended that officers abused and eventually killed a handcuffed Mr. Towns after his arrest by using Taser devices on him up to 13 times in a 29-minute period. Towns, who weighed over 300 lbs was exhausted after the foot chase by police. Nevertheless, cops insisted that quickly comply with their commands to quickly walk to a police cruiser after he was arrested and placed in handcuffs. Towns also did not have any pants on. It is not clear whether the cops took them off or not.
The lawsuit charges that Weems and Eberhart violated the East Point police department’s stun gun policy, which says stun guns should not be used on anyone who is handcuffed, nor should be used to escort or prod someone, nor should be used on someone passively resisting police.
The episode began when the police wanted to speak with Mr. Towns about a domestic dispute and he tried to elude officers. The authorities apprehended Mr. Towns after a chase they said stretched nearly a mile, and Mr. Towns, saying the pursuit had exhausted him, said he was unable to walk immediately to a police car.
The LA “Safer Cities initiative" = a Safer City for Whites and White Cop Immunity for Murdering Blacks. From [HERE] and [HERE] LAPD cops have shot and killed a homeless Black man during an altercation in central Los Angeles, in an incident caught on cell phone video. The graphic film shows a violent struggle between the man and several white officers in the city's Skid Row area. Two of the officers had body cameras - but that footage has not been released by the police. LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck said there are also "dozens, literally of stationary cameras at 5th and San Pedro [the location of the incident) and we are reviewing all of that video." [MORE] [Don't hold your breath waiting for that in racist system. Bodycams and bodybags do not stop white supremacy/racism].
Cops claim that three officers opened fire after the man tried to grab a gun from an officer. Witnesses said the dead man was known as Africa and had been homeless after treatment for mental illness. The police refused to release info about his identity.
The LA police department claimed officers had been responding to reports of a robbery and had attempted to use a Taser to subdue the suspect but he had "continued fighting and resisting". [MORE]
The fatal police shooting shines a harsh light on the downtown neighborhood that contains the highest concentration of homeless people in the US, and a controversial city program that was supposed to clean the area up. In photo, protest t-shirts available for $21.99 at Amazon. Expect racism in System of White Supremacy. Like Neely said, stock up on your protest supplies for signs, candles and teddy bears because it will not stop until we deal with the Cause and not just the effect. End circular thought and you will stop walking around in circles. To end police brutality end racism. To end racism neutralize white power. [MORE]
Skid Row has a long history of homelessness. The area has attracted “hobos, aimless rail riders, transient workers, and people running away from past lives” since the 1880s, as charity Union Rescue Mission explains. A 1975 city policy that moved most social services for the homeless to the area made it a permanent destination for some of these people.
“The cops don’t want us here,” Ernie Soto, 34, who lay in a blanket near where the shooting took place, said Monday morning. “They tried to make an example out of him.”
“This is Skid Row,” said Mr. Soto, who said he had lived on the streets of Los Angeles since losing a job eight years ago. “This is for the homeless. I wish I could have a home, but it didn’t work out that way.”
The officers involved in the shooting were part of a city government plan called the “Safer Cities Initiative,” first introduced under former police chief William Bratton in 2006. The initiative added 50 police to the area, tasked with the “broken windows” approach to policing, which holds that harsh punishments for small offenses stop more serious crimes from being committed. [MORE]
“Here’s a situation where you have an unarmed homeless man and you have six police officers, by my count, who came to apprehend the suspect,” Mr. Jones said. “This is another senseless death of another unarmed black man at the hands of police.”
Bruce Naivi, 37, a homeless man living near where the shooting took place, said he was not surprised by what had happened.
“I do not feel that the police are here to protect me,” he said. “I feel more like they have a badge to kill.”
LAPD Police Chief and white media put on show about the "justifiable homicide" of another non-white person. “It appears to me that the officers acted compassionately up until the time that force was required,” Chief Beck added. “These are very difficult situations.”Beck, was pressed to note that a Black officer was also involved - inferring that this definitely was not racial. [MORE]
From [HERE] Lawyers representing the family of a Black boy fatally shot by white cops expressed outrage Monday after the city of Cleveland said Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of an officer — who mistook the airsoft pellet gun he was holding for a real firearm — was caused by the 12-year-old’s “failure … to exercise due care to avoid injury."
The city had made the remarks Friday in a court filing, responding to a federal lawsuit filed by Tamir’s family accusing Officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann of acting recklessly and failing to provide first aid (PDF) during the Nov. 22 incident or attempt. The suit also names the city of Cleveland as a defendant, and says police failed to attempt to resuscitate Tamir, who died the following day.
Cleveland police said that Garmback and Loehmann were responding to a 911 call about an individual who possibly was carrying a gun at a city playground. They said Tamir did not respond to commands from the officers, as they approached in their police cruiser, to show them his hands before Loehmann opened fire.
Surveillance footage released by police showed Tamir, who had been holding an airsoft gun that shoots nonlethal plastic pellets, being shot less than two seconds after the officers' car stopped near him.
'Mind is a very subtle game. A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to that belief.' [pdf] White folks see what they want to see when [Blacks are in sight] they watch the video. [Whites view Blacks as inherently criminal and engage in various forms of self deception when they are in the presence of people of color.]
However, [in reality] all that matters is what was visible to the cops when they arrived at the park. It is paramount that none of the information from the police dispatch call was corroborated when they arrived at the scene [police do not listen to 911 calls, they get information from the fire/police dispatch]. That is, 1) No "guy" or grown adult man was present - only a 12 yr old child. 2) There were no people around - the child was alone. So, no public danger. 3) No gun was visible - apparently the toy gun was in the child's pants and out of site when police arrived. In other words, when the cops arrived no crime was being committed in their presence and no visible danger was present. As such, there was no 4th Amendment basis to stop and seize (pulling out their loaded weapons and pointing them at him in the first place). No valid reason to kill. When they arrive they see a Black kid, alone. To them all that mattered was that he was Black.
Surveillance video released by police shows Rice being shot less than two seconds after the patrol car stopped near him. Officer Timothy Loehmann told the boy to put his hands up, but he didn't comply, according to police.
The police chief said there was no confrontation between the boy and the cops and he did not threaten the officers with the gun or otherwise. After the white cops shot the boy they refused to provide medical aid.
From [HERE] and [HERE] The US Department of Justice and embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called “CIA or Gestapo tactics” at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian.
As three more people came forward detailing their stories of being “held hostage” and “strapped” inside Homan Square without access to an attorney or an official public record of their detention by Chicago police, officials and activists said the allegations merited further inquiry and risked aggravating wounds over community policing and race that have reached as high as the White House.
Caught in the swirl of questions around the complex – still active on Wednesday – was Emanuel, the former chief of staff to Barack Obama who is suddenly facing a mayoral runoff election after failing to win a majority in a contest that has seen debate over police tactics take a central role.
Emanuel’s office refused multiple requests for comment from the Guardian on Wednesday, referring a reporter to an unspecific denial from the Chicago police.
The Guardian reported on Tuesday that police in Chicago detain suspects at Homan Square without booking them, thereby preventing their relatives and lawyers from knowing their whereabouts, reminiscent in the eyes of some lawyers and civil-rights activists of a CIA black site.
While people are held at Homan Square, which lawyers described as a process that often lasted between 12 and 24 hours, several attorneys said they had been refused access to the facility, and described entrance to it as a rare occurrence. One man interviewed by the Guardian said that ahead of a Nato protest in 2012, he was handcuffed to a bar behind bench for 17 hours inside Homan Square and refused a phone call before police finally permitted him to see his attorney.
“You are just kind of held hostage,” Suter told the Guardian. “The inability to see a lawyer is a drastic departure from what we consider our constitutional rights. Not being able to have that phone call, the lack of booking, makes it so that when you’re there, you understand that no one knows where you are.”
A third person, Kory Wright, came forward to the Intercept in a story published Thursday. He described spending six hours at Homan Square without being booked or having access to a lawyer, as well as being zip-tied to a bench “like a cross” - in an intentionally overheated room without access to water or a bathroom, eventually giving false statements to try and end his ordeal. [MORE]
Wright’s friend, Deandre Hutcherson, told the Intercept that he, too, was held at the facility, without either of the men being read their Miranda rights.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 04:34PM 
