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What is Collective White Power? From [HERE] and [MORE] The federal criminal trial of a Fresno police sergeant and three former officers ended abruptly Friday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked 9-3 to find the defendants not guilty of charges of police brutality and obstruction of justice. The panel's vote was a devastating blow to the prosecution, which convinced three Fresno police officers to testify against their own. The jury had one or two people who appeared to be Hispanic. The rest were white. [MORE]
(What kind of white people (racist suspects) were on the jury? There are whites who:
- are practicing racism against non-whites at a particular moment
- are not practicing racism at that moment but have practiced it at a previous time, or will practice it at a later time
- are not practicing racism at that moment, but say and do nothing to stop those who are
- are not practicing racism at that moment, but have no problem with other whites practicing racism (don’t care)
- are benefiting from the crime of racism even if they are not practicing racism at that moment
- refuse to tell WHO is practicing racism; HOW racism is being practiced; and refuse to help the victims with the information they have
- oppose racism by exposing and opposing whites who practice it [MORE])
It's unclear whether prosecutors will retry the case. Suspect Rolando Celdon was punched and kicked, bit by a police dog, shot with a stun gun and blasted several times with a bean-bag shotgun in October 2005. He did not testify as he was deported as a result of the underlying criminal case.
"What a waste of taxpayers money," said attorney Marshall Hodgkins, who defended former Fresno officer Sean Plymale.