Two white Hartford officers are accused of criminal wrongdoing after they pepper-sprayed, clubbed and handcuffed an unarmed Black man they found naked and disoriented inside his own home in May 2010. It wasn’t until after Burwell had been handcuffed and dragged outside naked except for a blanket that police confirmed he owned the home and released him.

Burwell is a Dartmouth College graduate and former track athlete at the school. He owns a gym in Lebanon, where his clients over the years have included hundreds of high school and college students. [MORE] 

From [HERE] A white federal judge has dismissed a Black man’s claims that he was subjected to excessive force by Hartford police officers because he was black, saying there was insufficient evidence to support his contention that officers were motivated by racial bias.

While much of Wayne Burwell’s lawsuit against Hartford police remains active, Judge Christina Reiss (in photo) recently threw out his most incendiary allegations — that he had been discriminated against because of his “race and color.”

More than two years after police were called to his townhouse on an erroneous report of a possible burglary, Wayne Burwell accused officers of a slew of civil rights violations when they brandished firearms and struck him with a baton after finding him naked, unresponsive and sitting on his toilet while in a comatose state.

“When police entered that bathroom, if they saw a white guy sitting there comatose, they would have assumed a medical emergency,” said Orford attorney Ed Van Dorn, whose firm represents Burwell. “But because they saw a black guy sitting there, they assumed burglar and criminal activity.”

The judge said that Burwell did not provide enough evidence that moved his claims “across the line from conceivable to plausible” — the claim was based on the assertion that police officers knew Burwell was black before deciding to handcuff him. (Smoking gun evidence such as racial slurs, white kkk hoods and pronouncements by the police such as, "I'm assaulting you because you are Black" is what the court was looking for. The court's fake search for tangible evidence from the mind of a bigoted decision maker ignores white supremacy as a system of oppression- is done only for show and will rarely result in justice for the victims of white supremacy.This is the refinement of white supremacy.

Here, white collective power is on display: white cops beat an unarmed Black man & accuse him of robbing his own house and his fellow white officers, the police chief, the judge and the prosecutor (in photo, Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell who cleared the officers of criminal wrongdoing in December 2012) support, defend, and finance the white officers “right” to beat him. [MORE]) 

Hartford police cruiser cam May 30, 2010 - police assault on unarmed diabetic Black Man in his house.