Racist Miami Police Officer Alters Photo of Black Man Killed by Cops

Miami Police Killed 7 Black Men Over an 8 Month Period. [MORE]

From [HERE] and [HERE] A Miami commissioner said an e-mail sent by a Miami Police officer is "racist" and "unacceptable." Commissioner Richard Dunn received an e-mail of an altered photo of 24-year-old Durrall Miller. 

Miami Police sergeant and Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Javier Ortiz admitted to doctoring the photo. In the photo, Miller’s eyes were colored blood-red and his teeth were made cartoonish and jagged.

Miller is a Black man who was shot and killed in Miami Gardens by Miami-Dade police two weeks ago after police said he answered the door and threatened them with an AK-47. The shooting ended a four-day manhunt for the man alleged to have shot a police officer in the foot during a standoff in south Miami-Dade. CommissionerDunn said it is “the most racist thing I’ve seen in my life. Ortiz said the picture was intended for the view of union membership, not for public consumption.

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Former Mayor dropped from Police Brutality suit Against Lawrence Police for Beating of Unarmed Latino Man

Lawrence Police Has a History of Brutality Against Latinos  [MORE] 

LAWRENCE — Two weeks before the federal trial is scheduled, former Mayor Michael Sullivan was dropped as a defendant in a brutality lawsuit involving fired Lawrence police officer Kyle Wilcox (left). Eusebio Alicea sued Sullivan, Police Chief John Romero, the police department and the city after his Jan. 6, 2007 arrest in South Lawrence.

Alicea alleges Wilcox beat him wearing "special metal-knuckled gloves" and that the officer, in a "malicious and sadistic" manner, used hot water to wash pepper spray out of Alicea's eyes after his arrest.

Wilcox was "convicted of criminal assault and battery of two other detainees three weeks prior to the alleged assault" on Alicea, Stearns noted. Wilcox was also named in "numerous civilian complaints and lawsuits alleging the excessive use of force" against Latinos and the chief is also responsible for overseeing the department's use of force policy, Stearns added in his decision.

Wilcox was fired in 2007 for use of excessive force and convicted a year later of beating two Lawrence brothers while they were in Lawrence police custody. Stearns, in his decision, noted Wilcox is also named in four other pending brutality cases against the city.

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NY Delegation Hears Testimony of Police Abuse of College Students in Puerto Rico

From [HERE] NEW YORK - A delegation led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will travel to Puerto Rico next week to hear testimony on the civil liberties violations carried out against students, very little of which has been reported in the media in the United States.

Anthony Romero, director of the ACLU in New York, told this newspaper that the purpose of the visit is to "understand better what is happening in Puerto Rico, whether there were violations of fundamental human rights against the right to demonstrate, to express yourself as you want and police abuse. These are some of the issues we care about. "

The delegation, which will remain for two days on the island, consists of popular actress Rosie Perez, former baseball player Carlos Delgado, Juan Cartagena, director of the Latino Justice PRLDEF, Angelo Falcón of the National Institute for Latino Policy, and businessman Sam McVity.

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