Black Judge Learns he Has No Power in Backseat of Cop Car: Assaulted by UCLA Police after Stop for Seat Belt Violation

White over Black System. According to the Code, 'the very existence of white supremacy automatically eliminates the possibility of any non-white person being so-called "upper class" or "middle class" in his or her relationship to any person, any place. Non-white people are all in "subject class", and or the "powerless class." [MORE] Victims of white supremacy have no power and are rarely in a position to make demands- defense attorneys, civil libertarians and Black public officials should keep this in mind: 

From [HERE] and [HERE] A prominent Black Los Angeles Superior Court judge has filed a complaint against the University of California, Los Angeles police squad for excessive force after a stop for a traffic violation. Judge David S. Cunningham III was stopped over the weekend leaving a gym where he says a UCLA officer roughed him up for not wearing a seat belt. Cunningham is also a former LAPD Commissioner. [MORE] 

According to the complaint Cunningham buckled his seat belt when he was stopped and approached by a pair of officers. After providing his driver’s license, the judge was asked for his registration and proof of insurance, but he could not find them.

While reaching for the documents, according to the complaint, an officer began to yell at him not to move and then a prescription bottle of high blood pressure medicine rolled out. One of the officers asked the judge if he was running drugs, alleges the complaint. Cunningham couldn't find the paperwork in the glove compartment and told officers he thought it might be in the trunk. According to the complaint Cunningham got out of the car to search his trunk for the documents when Officer Kevin Dodd slammed him against his car. 

Cunningham, 60, said the officers locked him in the back of their police cruiser and told him he was being detained for resisting arrest. Douglas said the judge was tossed into the back of the police cruiser with such force that his feet flew up in the air. The second officer, identified as James Kim, accused the judge of "kicking," Douglas said. Cunningham suffered nerve damage from handcuffs placed too tightly on him - and was humiliated and demeaned on the street as a crowd was gathered to see what the police were doing. 

A Los Angeles Police Department sergeant arrived and allowed Cunningham to go free after about 10 minutes. The sergeant who treated the Judge humanely was Black. Douglas raised the possibility of race being at issue at the stop, stating in a Los Angeles Times report, “”Do you think this would have happened if he was a white judge?”

No Power. To the extent that you might be dealing with a racist police officer, attempt to comply with orders. In face to face confrontations with police, white supremacy is your reality. All of your so-called rights may be dealt with later in court - should they allow it. Nevertheless, avoid incriminating yourself or participating in your own oppression.

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"It's a Whitewash." No Grosse Pointe Cops Fired After Making Videos of Black Men Forced to Sing & Dance 'Like Chimps'

Like racist Disney animation, no actors were involved in these films. Is there any police training that can cure the psychopathic racial personality? [MORE] 

From [HERE] Five white Grosse Pointe Park police officers have been suspended for abusing their authority by forcing a mentally retatred Black man to sing and dance like an animal. The demeaning, racist abuse was captured on video by the officers themselves and then shared between them and their families. One white officer has been removed from duty pending an investigation after admitting he shot a demeaning video of a mentally-challenged African American man.

According to the blog, Motor City Muckraker ,which broke the story a few weeks ago, there are several other videos in which Black men are told to sing or “dance like a chimp.” All the Black men apparently had been stopped by police and ordered to engage in demeaning conduct. Some of the subjects are even in the back of police cars. 

Grosse Pointe Park police have refused to release the name of the officer who admitted to filming one of the episodes. (If a Black police officer forced white men to sing and dance and then shared the images for amusement do you think we would know his identity by now? Racism is carried out through deception. The blog, Motor City Muckraker named only Mike Najm as an officer who may have taken some of the images and videos. [HERE] and [HERE]) 

Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety Director David A. Hiller confirmed that five of the department's 36 police officers will be suspended between 24 hours and 60 days, although he would provide no further details. None were fired.

The punishments come after a week-long investigation into the origin and disbursement of the videos. Multiple videos were taken of Michael Scipio, 55, a mentally retarded Black man. Hiller said the videos were recorded in March of 2012 and all of the officers involved worked on the same shift. 

Minister Malik Shabazz, founder of the New Marcus Garvey Movement, called the press conference a "pep rally" that was "not in the spirit" of the closed door meeting he had with Hiller after a protest last week. "An African-American man was humiliated," Shabazz said. "It's a whitewash... The officers are wrong... I'm not satisfied."

City officials invited four black residents of Grosse Pointe Park to illustrate the diversity that exists in Grosse Pointe Park, which according to the 2010 U.S. Census is 10.5 percent black and 85 percent white. The black residents spoke highly of the police department. The Grosse Pointe Police Department has no black officers and one female.

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Black People as the Enemy. Cleveland Sued for the Wrongful Death of Unarmed Black Couple Executed by Police: Shot at 137 Times

"Keep your protest signs because this will happen again." [MORE] White supremacy is war against Black people in general. [MORE]"   

From [HERE] The estates of two Black people shot and killed by Cleveland police during a chase that involved more than 60 squad cars and 137 shots fired sued the city, its police department and officers in federal court Thursday in a wrongful death lawsuit. 

The suit in U.S. District Court in Cleveland filed on behalf of the families of driver Timothy Russell, 43, and his passenger, Malissa Williams, 30. claims officers used excessive force, supervisors failed to rein in officers during the chase and top administrators provided inadequate supervision and training to officers regarding the department's policies and practices.

Elizabeth Goodwin, the administrator for Williams' estate, and Debra Bodnar, the administrator for Russell's estate, are seeking an undetermined amount of money, plus reforms in the police department. Though the court was closed on Thanksgiving, attorneys filed the suit electronically.

Police Claim they heard a Gun Shot & Saw a Gun Thrown Out of a Window: Attorney General Mike DeWine Found Car was Prone to Loud Backfiring from Muffler. No gun or gun residue was found after an exhaustive search.  [MORE]

Russell was shot 23 times and Williams was shot 24 times one year ago.

The lawsuit identifies a number of city officials, including Mayor Frank Jackson, Police Chief Michael McGrath and Safety Director Martin Flask, and police officers involved in the chase and shooting. The lawsuit is the latest chapter in year-long legal saga that seeks to determine what took place when 60-some police cruisers (more than a third of on-duty officers participating) chased Russell and Williams for more than 20 miles to the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and the gunfire that followed. The suit says the pair did not have a gun with them during any part of the pursuit. 

The civil complaint not only addresses the individual officers' conduct, but also the systemic failures of the police department. For instance, according to a report by the Attorney General many of the officers were told to disengage from the pursuit and either did not hear the command or ignored it. [MORE]

The Nov. 29 chase began downtown after officers believed someone had fired a gun from Russell's 1979 Chevrolet Malibu SS. In fact, the suit claims, it was not a gun shot but the car backfiring.

During the pursuit, officers believed the gunfire had continued and, at one point, they reported that the car had rammed a police cruiser. The chase zigzagged through Cleveland for 25 minutes, reaching speeds of 120 miles-per-hour, before ending in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School. Russell ended up on a dead-end access road to an East Cleveland middle school. 

Once at the East Cleveland school, 13 Cleveland officers converged on the Black man's car and fired 137 bullets at Williams and Russell. 12 of the 13 Cleveland officers involved were white. [MORE] One officer, Michael Brelo (racist suspect interviewed in video below) fired so many rounds, he had to reload his weapon at least once, according to documents and interviews.

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4th Amendment for Whites Only? Michigan State Troopers Use Flint Sidewalk Law to Stop & Frisk Black Men

Don't Blame the Sidewalk Law. The operating system (OS) of White supremacy is the cause and effect of white people's genocidal conduct towards non-whites - not stop & frisk laws, stand your ground self defense laws or here, sidewalk ordinances in Flint used by State Troppers to stop Black men. It is the application of such laws by racist citizens, police, prosecutors, jurors and judges that creates injustice for non-whites.

Neely Fuller explains that a "non-law" is any law that is used in such a manner as to promote injustice. It is deception or delusional to believe that the elimination of such laws  will have an affect on the way in which white people (including law enforcement) relate to non-whites. [MORE] and [MORE] If you don't understand the context of white supremacy/racism you will only be confused by these issues. 

From [HERE] Non-white people walking in the street instead of using available sidewalks in residential Flint neighborhoods are being stopped -- and in at least some cases searched -- by state police, sparking complaints from some defense attorneys who claim it amounts to racial profiling.

Fenton-based attorney Steven Shelton dubbed the practice "walking while black" and is one of four attorneys arguing that the stops are not justified, although no formal complaints have been lodged against the practice.

In at least three recent court cases, black men have been stopped while walking in the roadway in northside neighborhoods and subsequently arrested because police allegedly found the men in possession of guns or drugs.

Shelton claims troopers have no legal authority to stop and search people because they are walking in a residential street, even if there is a sidewalk -- an argument that one Genesee County Circuit judge agreed with in a ruling.

"If you are young, black and in Flint your constitutional rights are almost worthless," said defense attorney Frank J. Manley, who said he has fielded complaints from residents who were stopped while walking in the street.

While the legitimacy of the stops has been questioned in three court cases, Shelton said there is no way of knowing how many, if any, other residents have been stopped for walking in the street. "We only see the cases where they actually find something," said Shelton.

Michigan State Police Capt. Greg Zarotney, chief of staff for the police agency's director, who is white, said that walking in the street when a sidewalk is available is a violation of law and that the stops are justified. Zarotney specifically cited a state law that prohibits pedestrians from walking on highways in places where sidewalks are provided. He also denied that race has been a factor in any stops. State police policies specifically ban the use of race as a reason to stop and question someone.

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Minimum Sentence (4 yrs) Recommended for White Oklahoma Police Captain in Manslaughter of Unarmed Black Teen: Shot in the Back while Retreating with hands Up

From [HERE] An Oklahoma jury Tuesday convicted a white veteran police captain of first-degree manslaughter in the death of an unarmed Black teenager who was running away after scuffling with the officer.

Del City Police Capt. Randy Trent Harrison shot Dane Scott Jr. in the back on March 14, 2012, following a high-speed chase that began when Harrison tried to pull over Scott's car. Harrison had previously arrested Scott on drug violations, and prosecutors said his pursuit of the teenager crossed the line from professional to personal. The defense portrayed Scott as a drug dealer and said Harrison believed the teen was reaching for a second weapon after the officer took one gun from him during a scuffle that followed the police chase.

The jury announced the verdict and recommended the minimum four-year prison sentence after deliberating for about 11 hours over two days. Harrison showed no emotion when the verdict was read. He was handcuffed by sheriff's deputies and led to the Oklahoma County jail.

According to a police affidavit filed in the case, "Scott was unarmed and was not posing a threat of death of great bodily harm to the officers or any other person."

In the affidavit, Del City police Capt. Jody Suit said Harrison took a gun away from Scott during a struggle before Scott ran off, the affidavit shows. Officer Steve Robinson, one of the officers at the scene, testified that he didn't see anything in Scott's hands after the teen scuffled with Harrison. Robinson said he fired his stun gun at Scott. "He didn't make a move or turn toward me," Robinson said.

A utility worker also testified that he saw a police officer wrestle the gun away from Scott and saw Scott run before he was shot by the officer. As Scott ran away, Harrison fired three times and missed, but a fourth shot struck Scott in the back according to court documents. Witnesses to the shooting claim Scott Jr. was running away from police officers with his hands in the air when police fired at the teen. A clerk at a nearby convenience store reports hearing “about 4, 5, 6” shots. The clerk states, “It was like being on a firing range.” [MORE] and [MORE]

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Appeals Court upholds Stop & Frisk Ruling [Stopping, Frisking, Demanding Id & Detaining Non-whites for No Valid Legal Reason is still Unlawful]

From [HERE] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday upheld [text, PDF] a lower court ruling that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) [official website] stop and frisk program [text] program was carried out in a discriminatory manner. The court refused to throw out the lower court ruling written by Judge Shira Scheindlin simply because she was removed from the case. In the ruling, the three-judge panel reasoned the city would be able to pursue their issues with Scheindlin's ruling on appeal. The court also addressed claims by Scheindlin that there was not enough in the record to support her removal ruling the appeals panel reviewed all relevant facts in coming to the decision. This ruling effectively ends Mayor Bloomberg's [official website] attempts to vacate [JURIST report] the changes to the program. This means Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio [official website] will be tasked with addressing the issue.

In a white supremacy system will racial targeting ever stop? That this law allows cops to stop, frisk, demand identification and detain non-white people is deception. Police will find another way. The operating system (OS) of White supremacy is the cause and effect of white people's genocidal conduct towards non-whites; recent incidents are part of this observable pattern. Neely Fuller explains that a "non-law" is any law that is used in such a manner as to promote injustice. Stop and frisk is such a law or policy. It is non-law and a non-issue; the Supreme Court ruled decades ago that police may not stop anyone on the basis of skin color. Here, it is the application of Stop & Frisk by racist cops with the support of a racist suspect Mayor and racist suspect white citizens (poll) that creates injustice for non-whites. 

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Do Cameras Stop White Supremacy? Black Man Stopped 258 Times by Cops in Store where he works: Miami Gardens Police caught Targeting Black People

From [HERE] Miami-area police have been accused of racial targeting after stopping and questioning a young black man 258 times in four years. They reportedly also arrested him 56 times and searched him more than 100 times. The USA Today reported the most serious charge Earl Sampson, 28, has been convicted of is possession of marijuana.

Miami Gardens police have arrested Sampson 62 times for trespassing at the 207 Quickstop. Sampson works as a clerk at the convenience store, the USA Today reported the Miami Herald stated. Owner of the store, Alex Saleh, 26, said he wants to know why that for more than a year Sampson, as well as other 207 Quickstop customers and employees have been stopped and frisked repeatedly by Miami Gardens police. He reported most of those have been poor and black. Saleh said some have been stooped up to three times in one day.

Earl Sampson, an employee of 207 Quickstop in Miami Gardens, exits the store to take out the garbage. After he walks back inside, he is arrested -- for trespassing. [MORE]

The New York Daily News reported Saleh plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the mayor of the city and the police department. He says he has installed cameras in the store to monitor police activity both inside and outside of his store. 

"They ask him, 'What are you doing here?'" recalled Saleh. "He said, 'I work here.' The clerk said he works here. I said, 'I'm the owner, let him go. I work here.' The officer said, 'Yeah right.'

"So he has more power than me!" According to Saleh, it doesn't stop there.

In addition to video appearing to show Sampson being grabbed by an officer while taking out the trash and at another time searched against a wall, Saleh accuses them of searching throughout his store without a warrant.

A Miami Gardens police officer who asked to use the bathroom searches around the back room without permission.

The Daily News reported that nobody returned calls immediately to the Miami Gardens Police Department, including Chief Matthew Boyd and Deputy Chief of Police Paul Miller, requesting comment.

The police department did release a statement to the Miami Herald, however, stating "the department is committed to serving and protecting the [white] citizens and businesses in the city."

An employee is working at 207 Quickstop when an officer strides in, grabs him and takes him away. Owner Alex Saleh says his customers and employees are routinely arrested for trespassing by Miami Gardens police. He installed video cameras to prove his point.

"There is just no justifying this kind of behavior," police policy consultant Chuck Drago commented to the Herald. "Nobody can justify overstepping the constitution to fight crime."

According to newshour24.com, when Saleh told police they did not have a search warrant, he was told the law enforcement officers would open an investigation. One reportedly told him, "it's been 15 months. " [MORE]

White Cop to Black Man, "Who the Hell Do You Think You're Talking to?" Nine (9) Months Later Eunice Police "investigate" Videotaped Assault on Unarmed Black Man

From [HERE] Eunice Police Chief Ronald Dies (in photo below) said an investigation by outside agencies into a dashcam recording of a white police officer appearing to use excessive force on a Black man could begin as early as Monday.

Dies said Wednesday he would bring in Louisiana State Police and the FBI into his own investigation of the videotaped assault of an unarmed, handcuffed Black man. Archillus Hebert, 24, was eventually charged with driving while intoxicated, no driver’s license, no proof of insurance and resisting an officer (how many lies will be acceptable to a jury?).

The video, which surfaced in media reports Wednesday, shows a Feb. 10 (as in 9 months ago) traffic stop initiated by Officer Richard Abadie. The officer pulled over Hebert, 24, in his white ’90s-model Oldsmobile Cutlass at 1:15 a.m. after he observed him swerve several times as he drove down U.S. 190. It was recorded using the camera mounted to the front of Abadie’s police cruiser. There were no passengers in the car. 

Abadie, after telling Hebert he smelled alcohol on Hebert’s breath and noticed his bloodshot eyes, ordered Hebert exit his car for a sobriety test. After Hebert stood behind his car as he was ordered, he raised his right arm as if shielding his eyes from the police car lights or inserting something in his mouth. Abadie and two other officers wrestled Hebert to the ground and, after a struggle, handcuffed him after he did not surrender whatever he was apparently holding.  That is, he did not say or do anything to threaten the white officers before he was slammed down to the ground. 

After cuffing Hebert, Abadie stood him up and began frisking and asking him incriminating questions (no Miranda given) . He repeatedly ordered him to say what he had put in his mouth or was holding. After Hebert said, “No, I ain’t had nothin’ in my hand, sir!” Abadie immediately grabbed him by the neck and slammed his head against his car.

“Quit yellin’ at me! You understand?!” Abadie shouted. “Who the hell do you think you’re talkin’ to?!”

One of the officers assisting in the arrest can be heard telling Abadie to “chill out” at that point. None of the other officers present did anything to intervene. Abadie brought Hebert into his police cruiser after that.

Hebert, having failed a subsequent breathalyzer test, was arrested on driving while intoxicated, no driver’s license, no proof of insurance and resisting an officer charges. He bonded out of Eunice City Jail shortly after the arrest.

He was unarmed. No drug charges were filed. No drugs or drug paraphernalia were found in the car and officers did not report smelling any drugs in the car or on Herbert's clothing. If officers reasonably believed Herbert was on drugs they could have given him a urine or blood test to detect drug impairmant instead of the breathalyzer -BW.

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Warrantless Search: White Chicago Police Officers Sued for "Raping" Iraqi-American Man

From [HERE] ABC7 Eyewitness News had an exclusive interview with an Iraqi- American man accusing the Chicago Police Department of excessive force and a hate crime. Wasim Rashan's attorney says his client was essentially raped by officers. Six Chicago police officers are named in this federal lawsuit. It alleges they targeted Rashan because he's Muslim and his Middle Eastern background. The lawsuit also claims some of the most troubling allegations happened inside this building.

It's a disturbing allegation. Rashan says police officers brought him to Area Central in May and searched his anal cavity for drugs.

"Without any lubrication or anything, he puts both his fingers in my butt. He had gloves, but he didn't have any lubrication," said Rashan. "These officers committed a hate crime, they violated him, and it's tantamount to a rape," said Michael Oppenheimer, plaintiff's attorney.

So Rashan's lawyers have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging it's a hate crime because he's Iraqi-American. "They said, 'Go back to where you're from, you don't belong here,'" said Rashan.

Rashan says that day he was on his way to an auto parts store in Bronzeville when police stopped his car a few blocks away. He says they searched him on the street, and then later threatened to Taser him if he didn't do the anal cavity search.

"State law requires that if you're going to do a body cavity search there are very, very, strict guidelines that include getting a warrant, which was absolutely not done here," said Oppenheimer.

When Rashan was released, his mom brought him to Norwegian American Hospital.

"I could see all the bruises in his chest and I have to take him immediately to the emergency room," said Imam Hussein, plaintiff's mother.

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The Penalty for Shoplifting at Walmart? Photos of Black Teen Taken after Arrest Raise Questions - But Not for White Prosecutor

White supremacy/racism is carried out through violence and/or deception. From [HERE] A picture of a 14-year-old’s bruised face taken after a recent shoplifting arrest is raising questions as to whether officers brutally assaulted him or if he sustained the injuries from a bad fall while escaping from them, Philly.com reports.

Authorities arrested Joseph Williams (pictured) for shoplifting at a Walmart in Bucks County, Pa., last Tuesday. He managed to escape from custody while still in handcuffs. During the arrest, one of the officers shot him with a stun gun; one of the barbs struck the boy in the face.

Williams’ mother posted the picture of her son on Facebook Friday, believing he was a victim of police brutality. ”The picture speaks 1,000 words. They brutally beat him,” Marissa Sergeant said. She refuted claims the bruises were caused by Williams falling face first. The photo has been shared more 53,000 times.

“If he did fall on his face, why does he have scrapes and bruises all over his whole face, everywhere. Why is his nose broken? Why is his nostril lifted off his face? Why is both of his eyes black and swollen?”

“I’m left with a child who’s going to be physically damaged for the rest of his life,” she added. The boy says he is so embarrassed by his injured face that he covers it up when he goes outside. “Everywhere I go, everyone is staring at me,” Williams said.

Bucks County DA David Heckler (racist suspect in photo) said he believes the officers acted appropriately in this instance. ”He should have stopped when police told him to,” Heckler said.

He also explained how the face-first theory is plausible.

“You take off running at a full clip and someone pulls your legs out from under you, and you’re cuffed from behind, you’re going to break your fall with your face,” he said. “I could well believe that you’d have fairly substantial bruising, cuts and scrapes.”

Heclker shared that there are eyewitnesses and police dash cam footage his office may look through. When informed of Heckler’s explanation, Sergeant rebuked, ”That’s impossible. Did he get up and fall 15 more times?”

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