"Somethings gotta be done man." White West Memphis Police Officers Beat Handcuffed Black Man 'crying for help'

From [HERE] People in a South Memphis apartment complex say they were eyewitnesses to police brutality. The handcuffed Black victim was crying for help, bleeding and even passed out, all at the hands of three Memphis police officers. Witnesses say police kicked in a door to get Roger Williams out, and bloodstains on the grass shows exactly how badly he was beaten.

“He came up with his hands up. He didn’t say nothing to them! He came up with his hands up,” said Latosha Gardner, who lives in the apartment where police pulled Willams from. “The black officer was just standing back. The three white officers were beating him. So what does that look like?” asked Francia Celstin.

“Repeatedly beating him. They busted his head. They busted his face open,” said Cordarious Pearson, who says he saw the beating through his window.

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911 is a joke 2: New Rochelle Police Kill Bipolar Puerto Rican Artist After Wife Calls for Help

From [HERE] and [MORE] On May 26, Elsa Cruz called 911 because she was worried her husband, Samuel Cruz, had stopped taking his medication for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Police from New Rochelle, New York, soon arrived. By the time they had left, Cruz had been shot dead. Police claimed he lunged at officers with a knife. Cruz was a 48-year-old artist from Puerto Rico. The Cruz family is filing a lawsuit against the New Rochelle Police Department today. We speak to Elsa and her attorneys, Mayo Bartlett and Randolph McLaughlin, both longtime civil rights attorneys.

911 is a joke: NYPD Kills African Student Inside Home After Moms Calls for Ambulance

From [HERE] Elsa Cruz filed a federal lawsuit in New York this week, months after police shot her husband dead. Last May, Cruz called 911 asking for help with her husband, Samuel. She feared he hadn’t taken his medication while she was on vacation in her native country, the Philippines. Eight months, almost to the day, before Cruz was killed, not far away in Harlem, Hawa Bah called 911 to ask for medical help for her son, Mohamed. Rather than getting medical help, Mohamed Bah was confronted by the New York City Police Department. Within hours, he, too, was shot dead by police, hit eight times, once in the head. Mohamed’s sister, Oumou Bah, is suing the City of New York and unnamed police officers. While neither lawsuit will bring back the dead, they may prevent future deaths by forcing the New Rochelle Police Department and the NYPD to adopt an increasingly mainstream police practice for dealing with emotionally distressed people, called “The Memphis Model.”

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Barneys & NYPD Collaborate to Promote White Supremacy: Another Black Shopper Targeted, Detained & Searched

yes, its good to boycott racist stores. From [HERE] Less than 24 hours after the news that Barneys and the New York Police Department are being slapped with a discrimination suit by 19-year-old college student Trayon Christian, the luxury store and the police department are being accused of racial profiling yet again.

Kayla Phillips, a 21-year-old nursing student from Brooklyn, told the Daily News that she was stopped by police after purchasing a $2,500 Céline bag at the store on February 28. After buying the luxury item with the money from a tax return, the woman left the Madison Avenue store. Three blocks away, she says she was surrounded by four undercover police officers -- two white, one African American and one Asian -- at a nearby subway station.

“There were three men and a woman. Two of them attacked me and pushed me against a wall, and the other two appeared in front of me, blocking the turnstile," Phillips told Daily News.

White supremacists/racists control everything in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war) - 24/7 worldwide.  

Phillips says the white officers, a male and female, questioned her for 20 minutes, inquiring where she lives, why she was in Manhattan and how she was able to purchase such an expensive bag. The mother of one, who is now expecting her second child, told them she was in the borough to shop, showed them her receipt and the card she used. Phillips' debit card was a temporary replacement card, but after showing them her ID and the new, re-issued card she had received that morning in the mail and was carrying in her purse, the officers let her go.

Nevertheless, Phillips has filed a $5 million notice of claim with the city informing them of her intention to sue the NYPD. An additional civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD and Barneys is also pending according to Kareem Vessup, Phillips’ attorney.

While Barneys has tried to distance itself from the accusations with a statement claiming no involvement, these instances have ignited criticism around Jay Z's partnership with the retail store. Jay Z is a "showcase Black" in the system of white supremacy. [MORE]

(But do not blame or hate on showcase Blacks. Blame the white supremacists/racists who control the show. Showcase Blacks are not showcasing themselves, they are being showcased by white supremacists. [MORE])

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Florida's Lax Oversight Enables (white supremacy) Systemic Abuse At Private Youth Prisons

From [HERE] Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.

One guard had fractured an inmate’s elbow after the boy refused instructions to throw away a cup, according to incident reports. Another guard had slammed a boy’s head into the floor after an argument. The prison was infested with ants and cockroaches, toilets were frequently clogged and children reported finding bugs in their meager portions of food.

“From day one, it was hell,” said Jerry Blanton, a former monitor with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, who was then tasked with inspecting Thompson Academy.

Conditions appeared so foul and perilous that he told his supervisors that he “emphatically recommended that the facility be closed,” according to a memo about the discussions.

What happened next speaks to how Youth Services International has managed to forge a lucrative business running private juvenile prisons in Florida and 15 other states even amid mounting evidence of abuse. The company used connections with state officials to complain that Blanton was intimidating staff. Less than a week later, the state removed him as monitor of the facility. Two months after that, he was fired.

Thompson remained open, and Youth Services International retained its contract to operate it. In the nine years since, the company has won an additional eight contracts in Florida, bringing 4,100 more youths through its facilities, according to state records. All the while, complaints of abuse and neglect have remained constant. [MORE]

ACLU asks Justice to probe Targeted surveillance of Muslims (non-whites) by NYPD

From [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate efforts by the New York City Police Department to conduct surveillance in Muslim communities.

In a letter signed by 125 state and national organizations, the ACLU and the other groups urged the Justice Department’s civil rights division to open a probe of the “unlawful religious profiling and suspicionless surveillance of Muslims in New York City and beyond.”

“Putting a class of Americans under surveillance based on their religion is a clear violation of our Constitution’s guarantees of equality and religious freedom,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project. “The NYPD’s surveillance program has stigmatized Muslims as suspect and had deeply negative effects on their free speech, association and religious practice.”

Citing NYPD documents and a series of investigative articles on the NYPD’s secret intelligence operations by the Associated Press, the ACLU said that New York police have sent paid people to infiltrate mosques, student associations and other places to take photos, write down license-plate numbers and keep notes on people because they are Muslim.

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Oakland Using anti-terrorism funding to build a massive surveillance network - to watch You

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Lawmakers in Oakland intend to spend millions of dollars awarded to the California city in a federal grant to a police dragnet that promises to examine surveillance footage, riling critics who assert the intention of the grant was to stop terrorism.

When the new program debuts in approximately one year police will be able to track drivers as they travel through tolls, scan license plates with the roughly 3,000 surveillance cameras placed throughout the city, and monitor social media platforms to learn about crimes before they occur. 

The Oakland program, officially referred to as the Domain Awareness Center, according to the New York Times, comes at a time when police departments across the US are using federal money to launch similar surveillance efforts modeled after the New York Police Department. The NYPD, which operates within New York City as well as far outside, has used federal grants to build a massive surveillance network capable of linking cameras and license plate readers to criminal and suspected terrorist databases. 

White LAPD Officer Charged with Felony Assault in Custodial Death of Black Woman - Stomped on Genitals while arms & legs restrained

Officers who Stood by and Did Nothing Not Charged. From [HERE] and [HERE] A white Los Angeles police officer was charged with assault Thursday for allegedly kicking a Black woman, Alesia Thomas, 35, seven times in the groin, abdomen and upper thigh during an arrest in which the woman ultimately died, her attorney said.

According to reports a witness heard the officer threaten to kick the Black woman in the genitals if she did not comply with police orders and then the officer allegedly stomped on the Black woman's genital area. The Black woman was handcuffed and her ankles had been restrained in a “hobble restraint device.” [MORE] The incident was partially captured by video, which has not been released to the public. 

Officer Mary O'Callaghan, an 18-year veteran, was charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with felony assault under color of authority, lawyer Robert Rico said. O'Callaghan, 48, faces arraignment Tuesday and has been relieved of duty without pay pending an administrative hearing. So far, the media has not shown any pictures of O'Callaghan. 

“I am sad it has taken this long. I am sure Charlie Beck (in above photo) saw this video long ago. I would like to see that video,” said Thomas' mother, Sandra Thomas. “They are charging that officer, but what about all of the officers involved? They did nothing to stop this," she continued. "They didn’t intervene to stop her kicking. They broke the law … maybe they didn’t care just like the officer who kept kicking.”

White prosecutors declined to file a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing insufficient evidence to prove that the conduct caused Thomas' death, according to the district attorney's office. The assault charge is punishable by up to three years in state prison, prosecutors said.

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Six Against One. Unarmed Black Man Beaten to Death by Riverside County Cops after he allegedly Refused to Get Out of Car @ Burger King

From [HERE] and [HERE] Raymond Johnson, 41, was confronted by six or seven Riverside County Sheriff's deputies at 6 p.m. on Friday in the drive-thru exit at a Burger King in Moreno Valley. Investigators told ABC 7 that Johnson was agitated and throwing food and money in and out of the car, and he refused to get out of the car.

Johnson died Friday night, Oct. 11, after he struggled with police and was handcuffed and placed under arrest. ABC 7 obtained video of the struggle that saw six or seven deputies try to get Johnson out of the car while hitting him with what looked like a baton and kicking him. It also appeared that deputies were jumping up and down on Johnson.

Witness Daniel Calderon, who was working nearby, recorded the incident on his cellphone video, KABC-TV said, “We were working and next thing you know we hear yelling and struggling,”  Calderon told the station. “You know, 6 or 7 cops on one guy,” said Calderon.

Johnson died at the hospital. The coroner will determine the cause of death (white supremacy/racism) including if drugs or alcohol were involved.

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Study Finds that LAPD Use Police Dogs Only on Blacks & Latinos

From [HERE] A report by the Police Assessment Resource Centre (PARC), a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization, found that in the first six months of 2013, all 17 Los Angeles Sheriff Department (LASD) K-9 unit dog bites were inflicted upon African American and Latino individuals. The report mentioned that between the years of 2004 and 2013, Latino individuals bitten by LASD canines rose 30 per cent (39 individuals bitten), while African Americans bit were increased by 33 per cent (12 individuals bitten).

The report mentions that  the large "minority" populated areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood, and South LA and Lennox incur more dog bites than the all the other 21 districts that the LASD patrols combined.

The US Department of Justice found that in the areas patrolled by the LASD, “African Americans, and to a lesser extent Latinos, are more likely to be stopped and/or searched than whites, even when controlling for factors other than race, such as crime rates.” A report in 2008 by the Los Angeles Times found that “For every 10,000 residents, about 3,400 more black people are stopped than whites, and 360 more Latinos are stopped than whites. Stopped blacks are 127% more likely to be frisked — and stopped Latinos are 43% more likely to be frisked — than stopped whites.”