White Baton Rouge Cop Text Message: "I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out. I hate looking at those African monkeys at work...I enjoy arresting those thugs with their saggy pants."

"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] and [HERE] A white Baton Rouge police officer resigned Thursday after he allegedly sent racially-charged text messages to another person, Baton Rouge Police Cpl. Don Coppola confirmed Thursday. Michael Elsbury reportedly submitted his letter of resignation Thursday afternoon. The officer works out of the Fourth District near Southern University. It covers a predominantly African American community.

In text messages obtained by WBRZ, Elsbury allegedly sent a message that read: "They are nothing but a bunch of monkeys. The only reason they have this job is the nigger, nigger in them." [A nigger is a victim of white supremacy.]

Another string of texts Elsbury allegedly sent read: "I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out. I hate looking at those African monkeys at work...I enjoy arresting those thugs with their saggy pants."

Coppola said Elsbury has been on the force for nearly 15 years. In his resignation letter, Elsbury did not discuss the ongoing investigation of his text messages.

The text messages were allegedly sent to someone outside of the police department.

Genesee County pays $630,000 for Cops who Acted Like Criminals: Latino Inmate Beaten Unconscious by Gang of White Cops

From [HERE] Genesee County has agreed to pay $630,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit stemming from an incident between a Latino inmate and multiple deputies at the county jail, all were white. 

Jail inmate Fernando Davis filed the lawsuit claiming he was beaten and pepper sprayed after being lodged at the Genesee County Jail for suspicion of drunken driving. He was represented by attorney David Blake of the Pleasant Ridge-based Romano Law firm. U.S. District Court records show the case was dismissed Aug. 27 after the settlement was reached.

Davis filed the lawsuit in March 2011 claiming he was severely injured when multiple deputies allegedly beat him and sprayed him with pepper spray inside the jail after being transported there March 24, 2009, by the Michigan State Police.

The deputies claim that Davis was resisting them and they had to respond accordingly to obtain compliance, according to arguments made by their attorneys in the case.

Jail surveillance video recorded the altercation at the center of the legal battle, which allegedly began after a shoe Davis was wearing was sent in the direction of deputies. [MORE]

The Albuquerque Police, which introduced body cameras in 2010 and has more cameras than any other department in the country, continues to have the county’s highest rate of officer-involved shootings that result in deaths, topping NYC, LA, Chicago & Miami

From [HERE] Gordon Eden is the third chief to head the Albuquerque Police Department since 2010 when it became one of the first agencies to issue body-mounted cameras to its officers.

Ever since a Ferguson police officer gunned down 18-year-old Michael Brown, prompting weeks of civil unrest, citizens, journalists, activists and even police departments are calling for more police departments to issue body-mounted cameras to officers.

After all, they say, a camera would have put to rest the debate whether Brown was shot while on his knees with his hands in the air as multiple witnesses reported or if he really did come charging at officer Darren Wilson, causing the officer to fear for his life, as police and a dozen mythical witnesses insist.

However, the Albuquerque Police Department, which introduced lapel cameras in 2010 and has more cameras than any other department in the country, continues to have the county’s highest rate of officer-involved shootings that result in deaths, topping New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.

So shouldn’t the cameras hold these trigger-happy officers accountable if the footage determines the shootings were unjustified?

They would if the footage actually exists, but many times the officers claim the cameras were not turned on or even if they were, they somehow did not capture the incident. Or many times, they just won’t release the footage.

That was the case again Tuesday when KOAT reported that none of the footage it requested from a police shooting in July that left a man dead shows the actual shooting, despite the fact there were multiple officers on the scene.  However, they did release lapel camera footage that captured the moments after Robertson was shot.

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Poll Finds that Most Black New Yorkers Don't believe [the hype] that "Police action improves the quality of life"

How can people who have racist contempt for you "raise your quality of life?" From [HERE] Police issuing summonses and making arrests for low-level offenses improves the quality of life in a neighborhood, 56 percent of New York City voters say, while 35 percent say these police actions add to tensions in a neighborhood, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. 

Police action improves the quality of life, say 49 percent of black voters. That is, 51% or most do not believe that police action improves the quality of life. But at the same time, nearly three-quarters of voters say police brutality is a serious problem, the highest number in more than a decade.

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Amos Wilson: Black Perceptions of White Law Enforcement

From [HERE] and [HERE] The contradictions discussed above are further complicated by the fact that many African Americans justifiably perceive the police force principally as an alien, hostile, colonial/imperialistic constabulary deployed against them. The force's reasons for being in the African American community is seen as that of maintaining the racist status quo through intimidation of the local Black populace, reinforcing stereotypical racist attitudes, prerogatives, and power, protection of property (particularly that owned by alien landlords and merchants), rather than people. It appears more concerned with containing crime within the African American community rather than preventing it. Many African American communities suspect the police of corruptly cooperating with certain criminal elements, particularly drug dealers and petty racketeers, of being "on the pad" to those elements as well as sponsoring those elements directly thereby abetting the criminality they are allegedly there to eradicate.

When police personnel demonstrate racist contempt for the people, they are supposed to protect — whose servants they are supposed to be — it is not difficult to imagine their lack of zealous and unbiased enforcement of the laws. A racist police force is vulnerable to corruption by local criminals whose activities are seen by it as only impacting on a race and population they care very little for, if not hate: a race and population they view as essentially subhuman, criminal, and not worthy of respect. Under these circumstances the police and the African American community perceive each other as the enemy. Their relationship becomes characterized by acrimony and mutual distrust.

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Black Police Sergeant says he was Assaulted by 7 Philly Cops and Claims the City Encourages Cops to Lie in Arrest Reports & in Court

From [HERE] and [HERE] On August 25, Brandon Ruff, a sergeant with the Philadelphia police department’s 16th precinct,  filed a lawsuit claiming that he was assaulted by seven officers in Philadelphia’s 35th District when he entered the precinct to anonymously turn in three handguns, reports Philly.com. He is a Black man. 

Ruff claims that he suffered “two sprained wrists and two sprained shoulders” and says that the acts were “committed willfully, wantonly, maliciously, intentionally, outrageously, deliberately and/or by conduct so egregious as to shock the conscience.”

Ruff is an 8-year veteran with the force.

The City of Philadelphia, he said in his civil suit, encourages and is deliberately indifferent to the abuse of police powers. Among other accusations, Ruff claims the city tolerates officers who misrepresent facts in order to establish probable cause, and allows officers to have persons falsely arrested or maliciously prosecuted. He also asserts the city permits the continued employment of officers who are psychologically or emotionally unfit to serve.

In his suit, Ruff said a friend asked him to turn in three firearms the friend had bought from neighbors “in a proactive attempt to stop violence.”

Ruff, who was off duty, checked to make sure the guns were unloaded and then drove to the 35th District station at Broad Street and Champlost Avenue. When he arrived at the precinct, he told an officer he wanted to turn in some firearms. The officer asked who owned the guns. Ruff – who refused to identify the owner — said he was turning them in under a “no-questions-asked” policy and asked to speak to a supervisor, the suit states.

But according to a police spokesman, a “no-questions-asked” policy does not exist outside of periodic gun-amnesty programs.

“Can you drop them off like a baby? Typically, no,” said Lt. John Stanford, a department spokesman. “That’s only done when we do buybacks.”

Ruff was allegedly threatened with a Taser during the incident and held for 6 hours. He was treated for his injuries at a local hospital.

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"I'm Just Going to Pick up My Kids!" Victim of White Supremacy Forgets [Reality] that he is not in a Racial Utopia - Tased & Arrested by White St. Paul Cops on Video

[MORE] He says the "problem is I'm Black." Does he really believe this? Who is this powerless victim crying out for help to? The same white people who are oppressing him? Is he really trying to [survive] avoid death, injury or greater confinement here and [seek justice] live to fight another day? Or just playing pretend "I'm not in a white supremacy system" with racist suspect cops?