White Lynwood Cop on Video Assaulting Handcuffed Black Man in Police Station

From [HERE] A video shows a white Lynwood police officer assaulting a handcuffed Black suspect inside the south Chicago suburb’s police station, perhaps knocking him out cold.

The prisoner, 25-year-old Randolph Holmes, sustained a concussion and a broken nose from the ordeal, according to medical records, police documents and interviews.

The video shows a handcuffed, staggering Holmes — just after being cold-cocked by an officer — seemingly dragged into a Lynwood police vehicle. He was driven to a neighboring police department for fingerprinting, and only later, perhaps three hours later, was taken to a hospital where his injuries were treated, according to interviews, police documents and hospital records provided by Holmes.

Meanwhile, despite knowledge of the incident and the video, Lynwood officials kept the officer on the street until July 14, when he was put on paid administrative leave. That move followed the hiring of a new police chief in June, and repeated media inquiries.

The office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez had been aware of the incident and video from almost the start but hasn’t pursued criminal charges against the officer, according to interviews, and Lynwood police records obtained by the BGA under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

No initial reports mention Holmes was struck or even injured — though a supplementary report written just in the last few days does, suggesting there was an effort in Lynwood to hide what occurred.

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Since 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Cops have Killed at least 40 people [all non-white] - Not One Cop has been Convicted

“Oh, man. I hope I don’t get convicted for this.” According to a witness Officer Agent Taylor Poiteven made that statement after he fatally shot Juan Mendez Jr., 18, in his back and sides as he was running away from him. Above a diagram from Juan Mendez Jr.'s autopsy shows his bullet wounds. [MORE]

From [HERE] Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have killed more than 40 people since 2005, according to government records and statistics kept by civil rights groups. The violence recently has accelerated – more than half of the killings have occurred in the past four years. A half-dozen of those more recent deaths involved teenagers like Juan Mendez.

The deaths have resulted from agents shooting at people throwing rocks from Mexico, confrontations with smugglers and, in one bizarre case, an incident in which an agent shot a Taser dart at a car that burst into flames with the driver inside. Among the dead are foreigners and U.S. citizens, Anglos and Latinos, old men and boys, criminals and one of the Border Patrol’s own. No agent has been convicted of any crime related to a death in any of the 40-plus incidents.

After shooting Mendez in the back, Taylor Poitevent faced no serious repercussions, despite his immediate worry about being convicted of killing an unarmed fleeing man. Nearly four years after the Oct. 5, 2010, shooting, he has not faced criminal charges. He went on administrative leave and eventually transferred to another Border Patrol station in South Texas, where he still works today.

Poitevent did not respond to requests for comment made to his family members. 

The Justice Department declined to prosecute the agent. Investigators from the FBI closed their investigation in 2011, followed by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general in early 2012. The local district attorney concluded that he couldn’t prosecute a federal agent, and there was insufficient evidence to charge him anyway.

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One Month Later White Prosecutor Still Can't Figure Out if there was Probable Cause in Michael Brown Murder

What is White Collective Power? When a white police officer shoots an unarmed, surrendering Black man and their fellow white officers, white police chief, internal affairs, white run union, white jurors, white prosecutors and the white media support, defend, and finance the officers “right” to kill a non-white person. [MORE] and [MORE]

In St. Louis, for what reason did White prosecutor, Robert McCulloch (above) choose to use a mostly white grand jury to decide whether white cop Darren Wilson should face charges in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown - instead of just using his direct power to file a criminal complaint himself? [racism is white supremacy]. McCulloch is the son of a St. Louis police officer who was killed in the line of duty when McCulloch was twelve years old. [MORE] If a Black cop killed a surrendering white teen in front of white witnesses do you think he would still be at home chilling? Expect white supremacy. 

From [HERE] More than one month after a police officer fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the case continues to provoke public unrest and remains far from settled. The white police officer's shooting of the unarmed black teenager in the St. Louis suburb is being robustly debated and investigated.

Where does the criminal investigation stand?

So far, there have been no charges filed, but the investigation is ongoing. The mostly white St. Louis County grand jury is investigating and hearing testimony into Brown's killing and whether Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson should be charged or not.

The grand jury will look at two issues: was a crime committed and is there "probable cause" that the accused person -- namely Wilson -- committed that crime.

The grand jury, which meets in secrecy, consists of nine white people (six men and three women) and three black people (two women and a man), court officials said. So far, county prosecutor Robert McCulloch [racist suspect in photo] has convened a grand jury to hear the evidence against Wilson without telling the jurors which charges he thinks should apply.

Grand jurors began meeting last month, and their progress on reaching a decision isn't public information, though it's expected to take two months.

Probable cause is a Low Standard. More likely than not a crime occurred and more likely than not defendant so-and-so committed it - that's all. All day long all across the country it is used to arrest, detain and then charge Black folks.

"Probable cause is a plastic concept whose existence depends on the facts and circumstances of the particular case. It has been said that "`[t]he substance of all the definitions' of probable cause `is a reasonable ground for belief of guilt.'" Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175, 69 S.Ct. 1302, 1310, 93 L.Ed. 1879 (1949). Much less evidence than is required to establish guilt is necessary. Draper v. United States, 358 U.S. 307, 311-312, 79 S.Ct. 329, 3 L.Ed. 2d 327 (1959). The standard is that of "a reasonable, cautious and prudent peace officer" and must be judged in the light of his experience and training. Bell v. United States, 102 U.S.App.D.C. 383, 387, 254 F.2d 82, 86, cert. denied, 358 U.S. 885, 79 S.Ct. 126, 3 L.Ed.2d 113 (1958). The police must have enough information to "warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief" that a crime has been committed and that the person arrested has committed it. Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 162, 45 S.Ct. 280, 288, 69 L.Ed. 543 (1925). See also Henry v. United States, supra, 361 U.S. at 102, 80 S.Ct. 168. A finding of probable cause depends on the "practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act." Brinegar v. United States, supra, 338 U.S. at 175, 69 S.Ct. 1310." [MORE]

Lawsuit says Syracuse Cops Suckered Punched & Battered Black Man who called 911. Then Cops Lied about it - 62 Times

"This is not who we are in America. This is Nazi Germany kind of style. We have policies and procedures that we have to follow under the Constitution." - attorney. [white supremacy/racism is carried out by violence and/or deception. If you can avoid it, don't call the police on your people]

From [HERE] and [HERE] All charges against Alonzo Grant, the Black man who has claimed police brutality in his arrest by Syracuse Police, have been dropped. Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick announced Wednesday that the resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and harassment charges against Grant have been dismissed.

Grant, bloodied during an encounter with the Syracuse police, also accuses the two white officers of telling outright lies in their description of the charges filed by the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office. Grant, 53, filed a notice of claim with city officials today as part of a police brutality lawsuit. His lawyers counted 62 lies they say officers documented to justify their actions.

Due to being struck repeatedly by officers, Grant suffered a broken nose, concussion, split lip, cut on his eye, a twisted arm, numerous cuts and serious post-concussive syndrome, including nightmares flashbacks and fear of the police department, his claim stated. His attorney, Charles Bonner also said Grant also suffered brain damage. 

The incident started after Grant called police to report an argument between his daughter and a neighbor in the front yard. But when officers arrived, the dispute had ended.

An officer ordered Grant out of his house to talk to another officer. As he left, Grant opened (prosecutors say "punched") the screen door. That appeared to trigger officers to bring Grant under arrest (breaking his own screen?). "Almost immediately following Mr. Grant's action, the police decided to arrest for him disorderly conduct," the DA's office stated.

According to his attorney, Charles Bonner, Grant started walking down his front steps, an officer behind him violently, without warning, charged Mr.. Grant from behind and flung him viciously across his wrought iron railing face down to the ground.  He says the second officer put on his black leather gloves, dropping his knees on Mr.. Grant's back.  During the scuffle, Bonner claims one of the officers held Grant in a choke hold, pulled back his arm and struck him repeatedly in the face.

Here are five lies that Grant claims police told, in their own words:

1. Police Officer Damon Lockett: "Grant was extremely upset, he went back up the stairs and began yelling and flailing his arms violently at (his wife) S. Grant and said, "I don't care. I don't want that (expletive) here any more. I don't care about the police, I'll go to jail."

Grant says he was not yelling. "I was talking to my wife about taking care of the house," he explained later. His wife, Stephanie Grant, agreed: "We were talking. He was not yelling. Alonzo has a loud voice."

2. Police Officer Paul Montalto: "...We observed that Grant appeared highly agitated. Grant stated, 'We don't need the (F-word) police my daughter is gone....'"

Grant says he was not yelling and did not swear at police. Another witness, Corey McMullin, said: "Alonzo was tellin' them his daughter was gone and they didn't need them no more. If I'm not mistaken his wife yelled the same out the window." A fourth witness, Sharon Hayes, corroborated that account in an interview with Grant's lawyers.

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White Denver Cop Fired for "Cruel & Unusual Punishment" - caught Choking Black Man on video [$3.25 million settlement]

From [HERE] and [HERE] Denver's Department of Safety announced Tuesday the termination of Deputy Thomas Ford and Deputy Edward Keller. Both are white. Deputy Keller was terminated for his assault on Mr. Jamal Hunter, a Black man and his willful disregard of the guiding principles to provide for the care, safety, and security of inmates," officials said in a statement.

The case led the city to pay $3.25 million to former jail inmate Jamal Hunter in what became the largest lawsuit settlement in Denver's history. Hunter sued alleging widespread brutality and corruption in the Denver jail and witness intimidation by police. 

Documents filed in the case portray Denver's jail system as out of control, a place where deputies allowed inmates to administer beatings to other inmates, let inmates brew alcohol from fruit smuggled into cells and told gang members about their rivals in the jail.

The deputies didn't provide protection, former inmate Darnel Anderson testified in a sworn affidavit.

"Rather, they encouraged inmates to go after one another. ... They opened the closets for fights," he said. "They knew about the altercations because they could hear everything. They would let fights go on." [MORE]

Inmates attacked Hunter in a cell in Pod 3A of the Downtown Detention Center known as the "Terror Dome." Minutes after his return to his pod from a court hearing, deputy Gaynel Rumer turned the lights off with most inmates already locked in their cells. Deputy Rumer allegedly knew inmates were going to attack Hunter after the deputy told them Hunter was a snitch. Other inmates have said Rumer was angry at Hunter for belittling the deputy for drinking on the job.

Hunter had returned to his cell and had just washed his face when another inmate wrapped his arm around Hunter's neck from behind. While the first man held him, another inmate pummeled him in the face with his fist. Hunter's nose broke, and he began to bleed profusely. The inmates told him to take a shower to clean up the blood. Hunter showered, and when he returned to his cell, the beat-down resumed. Now there were four attacking him.

Deputy Rumer gave one of the attackers a plastic garbage bag, Hunter said. While Hunter was unconscious, inmates put the bag over his head and were suffocating him when one inmate warned that if Hunter died, they'd all face first-degree murder charges.

"It was supposed to be a murder," Hunter said.

Instead, his attackers poured two scalding cups of 200-degree water on his genitals. Other inmates testified that they heard Hunter screaming, but jail video shows no reaction from Rumer, who is seen walking his rounds.

Hunter was taken to the Denver Health Medical Center for treatment. Eight days later, he asked another deputy to contact a nurse to examine his genitals to prevent infection. Jail video cameras recorded a noncombative Hunter being choked by sheriff's Deputy Edward Keller. [MORE]

The lawsuit alleged that Deputy Gaynel Rumer was friendly with the attackers, encouraged and enabled the attack, and ignored Hunter's screams for help. Other deputies did nothing to help and ignored his screams for help. 

In the video, Hunter is immediately thrown down on his bunk by Deputy Keller. Keller can be seen placing his hands around Hunter's neck as he violently chokes him. At least 5 other deputies then swarm his cell and begin to restrain, beat and Taser him.

Keller told investigators that Hunter was an annoying inmate who complained and whined to officers and often played the race card toward white officers, according to the disciplinary letter.

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Civil Suit Filed Against Chicago Commander for Shoving a Gun Deep Down a Black Man's Throat

From [HERE] A 24-year-old Black man has sued the city of Chicago and a Chicago police commander who has since been relieved of duty, accusing the commander of shoving a gun in his mouth and threatening to kill him last year. Ricky Williams’ allegations already have led to criminal charges against Cmdr. Glenn Evans, a Black man who was removed from duty at the Harrison District on the West Side last month.

“I’ll tell you what: this man [Williams] was courageous. How many other times do you think this happens to people on the street?” attorney Antonio Romanucci said.

Evans has been charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct. Cook County prosecutors said, after spotting Williams allegedly holding a gun on a street corner on Jan. 30, 2013, Evans and other officers chased him into an abandoned house, where they found him hiding in a closet, but without a gun.

Evans allegedly shoved a gun “deep down” Williams’ throat, pressed a stun gun against his groin, and threatened to kill Williams if Williams didn’t tell him what he’d done with the pistol. Romanucci said that gun did not exist. indeed no gun was ever found.

Earlier this year, DNA evidence from Evans’ gun was matched to Williams, prompting the criminal charges. Prosecutors have said a backup at the Illinois State Police crime lab was to blame for the long delay in processing the DNA evidence.

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Poll finds that Only 28% of Black Voters have confidence that Police give equal treatment to Whites and Non-Whites

From [HERE] Race plays a major role in how Americans view the police, a new Wall Street Journal poll shows.

Four out of every five white voters express some level of confidence that police officers in their community do a good job enforcing the law, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. That drops to 58% among black voters.

The racial split is even greater on the question of whether the police treat whites and blacks equally, the poll found. Some 69% of white voters expressed confidence that law enforcement officials gave equal treatment to people of both races, while just 28% of black voters held that view. Instead, 69% of black respondents expressed “just some” or “very little” confidence that police officers treat whites and blacks equally.

The shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., touched off a national conversation about police treatment of African Americans across the country. The shooting spawned protests that drew national media attention and fueled the debate about racial profiling, the use of force and whether local police departments are too heavily armed.

The Journal poll of 1,000 registered voters, conducted Sept. 3-7, showed a big difference in opinion on the use of force question between black and white respondents.

White voters were more inclined to express some level of trust that police do not use excessive force, by a margin of 70%-27%. Black voters were less charitable in their views about the police, with 40% expressing some level of confidence that police don’t use excessive force and 56% expressing more skepticism.

The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3.5%. [MORE]

NYPD Disproportionately Tickets [targets] Blacks & Latinos in White NYC Neighborhoods

From [HERE] A Daily News analysis finds blacks and Hispanics are far more likely to be ticketed in low-crime, primarily white neighborhoods, with 32 of the city's 75 police precincts showing a disparity of 20 percentage points or greater.

Critics of the NYPD's aggressive policing of quality-of-life offenses to prevent more serious ones — a strategy known as "broken windows" — say it has created a tale of two cities, one primarily populated by whites, where minor infractions like drinking on a stoop or smoking a joint are rarely punished, and another, primarily populated by blacks and Hispanics, where walking down the street could be cause for interrogation.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has said the disproportionate number of summonses for low-level offenses doled out in minority communities are a result of cops concentrating their efforts on "the most problematic areas of the city," riddled by crime and quality-of-life complaints.

But a new analysis by the Daily News has found this tale of two cities seems to follow Blacks and Hispanics wherever they go. Not only do the communities where they are the majority get slapped with far more summonses — they are also far more likely to be ticketed in low-crime, primarily white communities.

The disparity in summons activity is highest in the 24th Precinct (Upper West Side - North), where blacks and Hispanics make up just 34% of the population but received an estimated 84% of the summonses, and the 84th Precinct (Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO), where they made up 28% of the population but received 78% of the summonses — both a spread of 50 percentage points.

That's followed by the 20th Precinct (Upper West Side - South) with a 48-point spread, the 19th Precinct (Upper East Side - South) with a 43-point spread, and the 13th Precinct (Gramercy) with a 42-point spread.

The analysis also found blacks and Hispanics received the vast majority of summonses for scores of common offenses, such as disorderly conduct (88%), loitering (89%), spitting (92%) and failure to have a dog license (91%) — even though the Health Department estimates that less than 17% of dogs citywide are licensed.[MORE]

White NYC Teachers Show Support for [white supremacy] NYPD After Chokehold Execution of Eric Garner

Lesson #1: "Most white people hate Black people. The reason that most white people hate Black people is because whites are not Black people. If you know this about white people, you need know little else. If you do not know this about white people, virtually all else that you know about them will only confuse you." -Neely Fuller

From [HERE] In response to a decision made by their union to stand with organizations calling for justice for Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man who was violenty killed by an NYPD chokehold, a group of racist suspect New York City schoolteachers moved last week to show their support for the NYPD in the classroom.

One image, culled by the New York Post from Facebook, shows a group of teachers from PS 220 in Queens posing in a classroom — all donned in gray NYPD shirts, reportedly, supplied by a teacher whose boyfriend is a police officer with the department.

“The [United Federation of Teachers] contract specifically says there is no dress code. They can’t tell us what to wear,” one teacher told The Post. [MORE]

[Believe it or Not Cops Lie and Steal too] Aggressive Cops take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes

A State of Defense: When the police ask you if they can search your car, the first words out of your mouth should be: “I am sorry officer. I won't allow you to search my car without my lawyer.” Validly obtained consent justifies a cop in conducting a warrantless search, with or without probable cause. If the cop discovers evidence during a valid consent search, he may seize it without a warrant pursuant to the plain view doctrine. 

From [HERE] After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security on America’s highways.

Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice spent millions on police training.

The effort succeeded, but it had an impact that has been largely hidden from public view: the spread of an aggressive brand of policing that has spurred the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from motorists and others not charged with crimes, a Washington Post investigation found. Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back.

Behind the rise in seizures is a little-known cottage industry of private police-training firms that teach the techniques of “highway interdiction” to departments across the country.

One of those firms created a private intelligence network known as Black Asphalt Electronic Networking & Notification System that enabled police nationwide to share detailed reports about American motorists — criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop.

Many of the reports have been funneled to federal agencies and fusion centers as part of the government’s burgeoning law enforcement intelligence systems — despite warnings from state and federal authorities that the information could violate privacy and constitutional protections.

A thriving subculture of road officers on the network now competes to see who can seize the most cash and contraband, describing their exploits in the network’s chat rooms and sharing “trophy shots” of money and drugs. Some police advocate highway interdiction as a way of raising revenue for cash-strapped municipalities.

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