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Cleveland pays $375,000 settlement: White Cop Shot Unarmed, Surrendered Black Man Lying on the Ground & Then Put Gun Into His Mouth

From [HERE] Cleveland has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed white Cleveland police officer, Sgt. Timothy Patton [racist suspect in photo] shot and wounded an unarmed black man who was trying to surrender while lying face down in a garage.

Court documents show that a settlement was reached Thursday in the federal lawsuit filed by 29-year-old Kipp Holloway after the May 2014 shooting.

A city spokesman couldn't be reached for comment Sunday about the settlement. The city denied the allegations in a motion after the lawsuit was filed in May 2015.

According to the lawsuit and Holloway's attorney, Terry Gilbert, Holloway had gotten a ride from two acquaintances who picked him up while he was shopping. He sat in the backseat. After a short while the men noticed that they were being followed by a white man in a red pickup truck. At that time the acquaintances told Holloway that they had robbed the main tailing them. The driver of the car crashed after a high-speed pursuit on city streets and Holloway ran to a dilapidated garage where he hid behind a motorcycle, the lawsuit said. The other two men fled away on foot.

Holloway was lying on his stomach on the garage floor when heard a police radio and an officer approaching, prompting Holloway to call out that he was black, not armed and that he had his hands up, the lawsuit said. He was lying face down down with his hands and arms extended on the ground, over his head. That's when Sgt. Timothy Patton fired a shot "without any warning and no provocation," the lawsuit said. The shot went through Holloway's right forearm and ricocheted off the floor into his chest.

Patton then "yanked" Holloway to up his knees by the collar and placed the barrel of a gun into his mouth while asking where his "boys" were, the lawsuit said. He also asked him why Holloway made Patton chase him.

"Holloway was consumed with fear," the lawsuit said. "He thought the police were going to kill him."

Holloway v. City of Cleveland by sandydocs on Scribd

The lawsuit said Patton and other officers provided no first aid despite the fact that Holloway was in obvious pain and bleeding profusely, they handcuffed him and forced him to walk to an ambulance.

As Holloway writhed in pain the police mocked him and made disparaging comments to him. An unnamed officer in eh suit told him "if it were up to me I would let you bleed out." The same cop rode in the ambulance with Holloway and threatened to "blow his brains out." The cops also wanted him to be taken to a a hospital out of the area so that his injuries would be prolonged.

Holloway underwent surgery at a hospital. He was jailed after being released and remained there for nearly 8 months until his trial on charges of breaking and entering and possession of criminal tools in September 2014. A judge dismissed both charges in the middle of Holloway's trial.

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Austin Cops Wearing Ski Masks Arrested Black Man for Improper Use of their Crosswalk & Claimed he Slipped Out of Cuffs - So They Beat Him Down on Side of Building

From [HERE] After the video of a Black man's arrest went viral -- causing Austin police to investigate responding officers' use of force -- an affidavit has revealed new details surrounding the case.

Video which shows part of the arrest was posted to Facebook, garnering more than 1 million views. The Austin Police Department is now investigating the arrest and some of the officer's attire.

According to the affidavit for the man at the center of the video, officers were patrolling the area of the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) Dec. 12 to investigate narcotic-related crime in the area. At around 5:20 p.m., an under-cover officer noticed Jason Donald, 37, making brief contacts with people in the area. The officer suspected that he may be involved in dealing narcotics in the area. 

The officer watched Donald as he slowly crossed the 900 block of Red River Street, causing several vehicle to abruptly stop to avoid striking him, the affidavit said. He had not used the designated pedestrian crosswalk, and allegedly noticed oncoming cars, but "did not seem to care," police said. [so he had to go!]

Police said Donald then walked into the Shell convenience store located at the service road of 900 North Interstate 35. That's where an officer placed Donald in handcuffs and escorted him out of the store for "Crossing at Point Other Than Crosswalk." While walking in the parking lot, police said Donald began walking in different directions and leaning backward and refusing to walk forward.

Police said that at some point, Donald removed his left wrist from the handcuffs and began turning and trying to break away "from the now three officers holding onto him," the affidavit said. All three officers lost their balance, causing them to fall to the sidewalk and pavement. 

While on the ground, officers said Donald repeatedly reached toward his waistband, which caused them to fear that he was reaching for a weapon. Police said they responded by deploying their stunning device, striking him in the chest. Eventually officers were able to gain control of Donald and get him back in handcuffs.

After searching Donald, police said they found a large wad of folded cash in both front pockets, a white plastic package of synthetic marijuana and a bag of crack cocaine. 

UN Expert: US Govt Has Made Political Decisions to Exclude Certain People & Not Provide Resources Ensuring a Decent Standard of Living

Only in Black People's Dreams Does Voting Heavily for Black & Friendly White Politicians Equate into Black Power

No Choice. The Black votary expressed a preference for the only human being in the Alabama Senate race on Tuesday. Now what? Is Mr. Jones interested in developing a program for the economic emancipation and empowerment of the Black community and is he committed to neutralizing White supremacy?

voting power - an oxymoron. 2) a transitory form of illusory power. 3) the appearance of power without the juice. [MORE] As explained by Dr. Blynd,

"When we learn to vote with our own "money" and control the systems wherein economic power is wielded, political voting will be seen for the wholesale fraud and sham that it really is so that you may one day respect yourself the morning after voting.

Voting without having economic rights and control of substantive rights is voting fraud." [MORE]  

Mistaken Identity or just White People Practicing Racism? During Search for 40 yr Old White Woman, White Cop Unlawfully Handcuffed & Detained 11yr Old Black Girl @ Gun Point

When white journalists are bothered by police brutality they generally are concerned with the morality of the incident - as they should be. But whether authorized "law enforcers" are engaged in unlawful conduct, such as using too much force or unconstitutional violations of Black or Latino's people's rights, such as stopping, searching, seizing, detaining or murdering them or destroying their property on behalf of the Government is an after thought to the white media in the racist system they also serve.

The Supreme Court has ruled that In order for the police to stop you the 4th Amendment requires police to have a reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in that activity. The Supreme Court has ruled that in order for cops to frisk you or touch you they must have independent, reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you (a cursory patdown of outer clothing for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.[MORE] This is obviously meaningless hypocrisy on paper to non-whites in a system of racism/white supremacy. 

From [HERE] Police were scouring a neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Mich., for a 40-year-old attempted murder suspect. Instead, in a moment that has cast a harsh spotlight on the western Michigan city, a white officer ended up pointing his gun at — then handcuffing — a screeching 11-year-old Black girl.

The 45-second video clip from an officer’s body camera, made public by the city’s police department this week, was full of outrage-inducing elements: a petrified preteen who started shrieking when she heard the click of handcuffs; a police use of force with racial overtones; a law enforcement agency already criticized in March after an officer pointed a gun at black youth who had done nothing wrong.

The most recent incident happened Dec. 6 on the northwest side of Grand Rapids, according to Grand Rapids NBC affiliate WOOD.

Officers were searching for a woman named Carrie Manning, who was suspected of stabbing her younger sister. Instead, at a nearby home, they encountered Honestie Hodges — the suspect’s niece —  who was walking out the door on the way to the store with her mom and another aunt. Manning is a 40-year-old white woman, according to the news station. Honestie is an 11-year-old black girl.

The officers asked the two women and Honestie to approach separately, then handcuffed and questioned them all. But the most controversial clip involves officers’ treatment of the girl.

The video released by police picked up as Honestie approached a pair of officers with her arms raised. One pointed a gun at her.

She appeared to be coming too fast for the officer’s liking: He began to tell her to put her hands on her head, then instructed her to turn around and walk backward toward him.

Her mother, in the background, yelled for the officers to stop: “That is my child!” she screamed. “She’s 11 years old.”

The moment intensified when Honestie reached the officers. One told her to “put your right hand behind your back” and ratcheted open a pair of handcuffs.

Honestie began whining, then screaming in terror: “No. No. No! No!”

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Federal Appeals Ct [believes whatever white cops say] Finds No Issue with Cop "Forgetting" to Turn Dash Camera Back On After He Purposefully Turned it Off During Search of Black Man's Car

From [HERE] If cops have the ability and opportunity to record a traffic stop, should it be held against them when they don't? Arguments have been made to that effect for a few years now. Dashcams have been in wide use for at least a couple of decades. Law enforcement agencies all over the US are issuing body cameras to officers. But it seems whenever something questionable happens, footage is nowhere to be found, or what there is of it is almost useless.

Unfortunately, years of discussion by (mainly) defense lawyers hasn't resulted in policy changes. Worse, it hasn't budged the judicial needle much. In rare cases, the absence of footage is used against officers, but in those cases, it mainly seems to be because efforts were made to destroy footage already captured.

In this case [PDF] US v. Darrell Hunt reviewed by the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court, no effort was made post facto to destroy footage. Instead, an officer proactively prevented footage from being created by disabling the dashcam recording the traffic stop. 

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Liberal Neuropean Gentrifiers Seek New Noise Law for Undercover Negro Removal in Downtown DC

White Presumacy. This NBC article found by Vincent Brown was entitled "Downtown DC Residents Beg for Relief From Street Musician Noise." lol. Rich whites beg for nothing from their puppeticians in their system of racism/white supremacy! And only rich whites can afford to live in downtown DC. Only victims of racism/white supremacy engage in beggar politics; elite whites change laws overnight, which is what this stupid piece above is about. In the past few years under the political leadership of the City Council and servant, black probot Mayor, the city's commitment to affordable housing has reached new lows. [MORE]

Information conveniently not included by the racist suspect reporter in the above video are the facts that; 95% of the "street performers" are Black and 95% of the persons attracted to them are also Black while 100% of the "concerned" residents are white Neuropeans. His reference to "bucket bands" is a crude description of "go-go" music, a brand of funk unique to the DC area. Outside of DC hardcore, what, if any, contributions to popular arts or culture have racist suspects in DC made to humanity?  

The D.C. City Council is 100% liberal. White liberals shun overt racism and prefer more sophisticated forms of deception, the primary tool of racism/white supremacy - something easily forgotten during this temporary Trump regression of racism/white supremacy.

Gentrification or "Racial Dislocation" is a symptom of the problem of racism/white supremacy It "is an Integral, Ongoing Part of White Supremacy.' - Neely Fuller. Victims of racism may pretend like they have a say in all this but they don't - and that in and of itself is the major problem caused by a white over Black system of vast unequal power and unequal conditions. Racism cannot be integrated. It can only be practiced or not practiced. According FUNKTIONARY

Neuropeans - (Neurotic Europeans) - neurotic, ignorant, narcissistic and self-deluded white supremacist Caucasians operating at the mythic and rational levels of consciousness only. [MORE]

Suffering from the disease of constant comparison racists and their make believe beliefs, [imagining themselves to be a part of a hierarchy wherein persons unable to produce color & lacking melanin are supreme; imagining themselves to be higher than whatever they imagine you to be] have made their minds a prison. Maybe if they were struck by lightning they would be alive. They are zombies, seeking to kill anything living, like the funk.

"Killing All the Funk & the Fun but Swear they Hip." - Vincent Brown.

Neely Fuller explains that an otherwise fine law or policy becomes a "non-law" when it is used by racists in such a manner as to promote injustice. It is the application of policy or laws by racist citizens, prosecutors, jurors and judges that creates injustice for non-whites.  At any rate, most laws are created and funded by white legislators, administered by white Government workers, enforced by white prosecutors and remedied by white jurors and judges [& their Black & Brown Clones] - the same racist suspects who participate, perpetuate and/or benefit from this system of white domination and control. 'Laws in and of themselves will not and do not protect us.'

Anything innocuous, such as a noise ordinace or a law banning the possession of alcohol in public in the hands of racists can be used as a tool of white supremacy. The plain meaning of such laws is not racist. For example, "Stand your ground" is a self-defense, defense raised at trial by a criminal defendant that allows for the use of deadly force when it is reasonable for a non-aggressor/victim to do so. In states which have variations of this law a person does not have a legal duty to retreat before using self defense to defend themselves under life threatening conditions that are reasonably apparent to the victim. Most states, including D.C. have a version of the law. [MORE] And what is wrong with defending yourself against someone trying to substantially harm you? Yet racist civilians, judges, jurors, prosecutors and police have used these laws to justify murdering Black people. Similarly, zoning laws, pedestrian laws and traffic codes have been co-opted by cops for years to target Black people everywhere. [MORE] and [MORE].

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The "Blight House" Now Minus One Token Sambo: The Mo-tea-suh Tribe Stunned After Step & Fetchit Coordinator Omarosa's Exit

More Tea Sir? "I'm the only African-American woman who sits at the table," Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former "Apprentice" contestant and departing White House senior staffer said in an interview Thursday morning. Indeed, "the only" as in token. She functioned as the official WH step and fetchit coordinator. Wednesday's announcement that the controversial aide was leaving her White House post has brought with it new questions about diversity — or lack of it — in the Trump White House.

Omarosa, along with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, were the only black voices among more than 30 Cabinet secretaries and senior staff members around President Donald Trump. Though the position is not Cabinet level, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, an African-American, has been serving massah since September. [MORE] They are the final token SNiggers. 

According to Dr. Blynd in FUNKTIONARY

The Moteasuh Tribe - the miseducated coin-operated buck dancing, sole-shuffling, politically dis-appointed kneegrows who pander to Massah's agenda - Mo' Tea Sir? This tribe of sorry ass kneegrows follow the dictates and even orchestrates the marching bandits of racism white supremacy as spewed forth from the mouthpieces of political power within the borders of the Witches Castle. It's the Condi-Clarence-Powell complex - that is, those who do Massah's bidding as if you weren't kidding yourself that you were doing otherwise. Keep your eyes on the lies, the liars, and the disguise. (see McNegro). 

Sambo - a self-loathing Negro lacking self-knowledge. "A willing slave gets upset if you refuse to acknowledge his or her master. Usually when people say 'act responsibly,' what they mean is: 'cowtow to the conforming lies we call truths.'" -George Battailles. The old saying still holds true: "The value of a dollar, will never, ever drop as low as the standards of some miseducated self-hating Negroes to obtain it." (See: Sniggers, Mentacide, Self-Hate & Slavery)

Self-hatred - absence of knowledge of Self. 2) a projected walking corpse that appears as one's rejected sense of self, culture and ancestral heritage—acting as a mirror and a constant reminder of what one despises in his or her own colonized mind. Self-hatred is a feeling that should be dead—though un-tombed as an apparition—still haunts both our imagined selves as well as the imaagined selves of "others." Self-hatred is a mental disease—a falsification of cultural consciousness. Whoever loves his disease must be cured of love to be cured. (See: Black-on-Black Crime & Narcissistic Projection).

shenanigger - a Negro (neo-lawn-jockey) who carries out Step-n-Fetchit type activites/actions (shenanigans) for the dominant immoral majority (the psychopathic white power semi-organism), i.e., the Rhodes, Rothschild, Anglo Saxon Zionist power clique, unknowlingly at the expense of him/herself and knowlingly at the expense (sell-out/buy-out) of his people and culture. (See: McNegro, Coin-Operated, The Moteasuh Tribe, Sambo & SNigger).  

Criminal President Trash calls for murder for anyone who murders a police officer

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[Death Penalty is Not Punishment but Revenge] 90% of all Murders by the State in 2017 may have involved people who were innocent or had disabilities

Proof that Man is Still Living in the Barbarian Age. The death penalty is a crime committed by the society against a single individual, who is helpless. I cannot call it a penalty, it is a crime. -Osho Rajneesh [MORE]

From [HERE] and [MORE] New research shows significant evidence of mental illness, brain damage, intellectual disability, severe trauma, or possible innocence in nearly 90 percent of capital punishment executions carried out in 2017, according to a report compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.

The report found a continued overall decline in the use of the death penalty and approval of the death penalty in 2017 — however, the DPIC noted red flags in 20 of the 23 cases that did result in the death penalty. According to the DPIC’s year-end report, six people executed had significant evidence of mental illness, 10 had significant evidence of brain injury or brain damage, and 18 had evidence of serious childhood trauma, neglect or abuse. Several had evidence of multiple impairments.

Additionally, the report found that five of the 23 people who were executed this year had received “glaringly deficient legal representation” or were denied substantial judicial review.

“If you’re going to have a death penalty, you want it to be administered in a way that’s fair, and if you believe that there should be a death penalty, it should be reserved for the worst of the worst cases and the worst of the worst defendants,” DPIC executive director Robert Dunham said in an interview with ThinkProgress Wednesday. “That’s not who was executed. The death penalty appears to be carried out not on the worst of the worst, but the most vulnerable.”

The report also found that whether or not a person is sentenced to death has more to do with where the crime was committed than the crime itself. Seventy-four percent of the executions carried out in 2017 took place in just four states: Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and Alabama.

“We’ve been saying for years that the death penalty is an arbitrary lottery,” Dunham said.

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Calling Out Doggy's American Illusion: UN Investigation Points to Massive US Inequality, Poverty

From [HERE] “The American Dream is fast becoming the American Illusion.”

That dire warning was issued today by Philip Alston, a United Nations independent expert who just completed a two-week tour examining what he called America’s “great poverty and inequality.”

Alston’s report examines US poverty from many angles – from its “gendered nature” and racial disparities, to the plight of children born into poverty and the suffering of people unable to access basic health care. But it’s also a scathing indictment of US government efforts to roll back poverty and mitigate its worst human rights impacts. He slams the country’s “confused and counterproductive” drug laws and their impact on the poor, accuses state and local governments of relying on criminalization not only to “conceal the problem” of poverty, but also to raise revenue off the backs of the poor. The tax plan working its way through Congress is likely to, “stake out America’s bid to become the most unequal society in the world,” he warns.

Poverty, and the government’s role in addressing it, generates considerable political debate in the US, but there is rarely any reference to the idea that poverty and inequality are human rights issues. The US has not ratified the international treaties that enshrine many of the rights most directly impacted by extremes of poverty and wealth, like education and health. It clings to the Cold War fixation that human rights encompass only the civil and political, and not the economic, social, and cultural entitlements that are just as central to the idea of human dignity as expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

US law reinforces these gaps instead of helping to bridge them. The US Supreme Court has held that there is no constitutional right to an education, let alone a quality one, and has never held that there is a right to health care either. Alston describes the US as being almost alone in, “insisting that while human rights are of fundamental importance, they do not include rights that guard against dying of hunger, dying from a lack of access to affordable health care, or growing up in a context of total deprivation.”

One of the most frustrating things about Alston’s report is its pointed reminder that there already exists a legal framework – bolstered by decades’ worth of practical guidance – that describes how governments should address problems affecting peoples’ health, education, and overall well-being. The US has so far steadfastly refused to take advantage of it, but as Alston notes, “denial does not eliminate responsibility.”

Torture Used by US Military at Guantanamo Bay Despite Being Banned UN Says

From [HERE] The use of torture has persisted at the U.S. military-run Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba despite it being banned by both U.S. and international law, according to information obtained by a top United Nations human rights investigator. 

On Wednesday, Nils Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said he's encountered evidence Ammar al-Baluchi—an alleged co-conspirator in the 9/11 attacks—continues to be subjected to practices that constitute torture. 

“Mr. al-Baluchi has been held in isolation at a severely restricted-access facility at Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade," Melzer said in a statement. "In addition to the long-term effects of past torture, noise and vibrations are reportedly still being used against him, resulting in constant sleep deprivation and related physical and mental disorders, for which he allegedly does not receive adequate medical attention."

These allegations come nearly a decade after the U.S. banned so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques"—torturous practices approved by the George W. Bush administration in the wake of 9/11. Torture also remains illegal by international law, which Melzer was careful to note in his statement. 

"This is one of the most fundamental norms of international law, and its violation is listed among the most serious international crimes, including crimes against humanity and war crimes," Melzer said. "No circumstances, however exceptional and well argued, may be invoked to justify torture."

Melzer claimed the U.S. is in "clear violation" of international law for "failing to prosecute the crime of torture in CIA custody," adding, the U.S. has sent "a dangerous message of complacency and impunity to officials in the US and around the world."

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US Racism Department [DOJ] Will Back Racist "Patriot" [Joe Arpaio] in Appeal to Erase Criminal Contempt Verdict

President Trash called Arpaio a patriot. He is a Neuropeon soldier for racism/white supremacy. Undeceiver Dr. Blynd defines patriotism  - the degree of voluntary servitude evinced, the result of one successful treason- until the next one is necessary. [MORE]

From [HERE] An Arizona federal trial judge should have erased sheriff Joe Arpaio’s criminal contempt verdict and other rulings after President Donald Trump granted a pardon, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday in a statement to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Arpaio is a racist. 

The Justice Department’s statement was a response to an earlier court order that directed the government to say what position, if any, prosecutors would take in Arpaio’s appeal.

Main Justice took no position on whether the appeals court should appoint a friend-of-the-court to defend the judge’s ruling from October. The appeals court will likely appoint a lawyer to advocate in defense of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton of the District of Arizona.

Bolton in October said the president’s pardon of Arpaio, although valid, “does not erase a judgment of conviction, or its underlying legal and factual findings.” Bolton earlier found him guilty of violating a court order that commanded he stop certain immigration-related law enforcement practices. Arpaio was awaiting sentencing for contempt at the time the president pardoned him.

“The court found defendant guilty of criminal contempt. The president issued the pardon. Defendant accepted. The pardon undoubtedly spared defendant from any punishment that might otherwise have been imposed. It did not, however, ‘revise the historical facts’ of this case,” Bolton wrote in her order.

The Justice Department in the trial court had urged Bolton to vacate her earlier orders. The government will continue that advocacy in the Ninth Circuit appeal. Arpaio is represented in the Ninth Circuit by racist suspects at the Phoenix firm Wilenchik & Bartness.

“There is no case law directly addressing whether vacatur is appropriate under the circumstances at issue here—when a presidential pardon moots a criminal prosecution after a finding of guilt but before a judgment of conviction is entered,” John Keller of the DOJ’s public integrity section, wrote in court papers in September.

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Pinellas Suspends White Cops for 'Endangering Themselves' But Jumping on Compliant Black Man's Back, Striking Him w/Handcuffs, Pulling His Hair & Choking Him During Unlawful Arrest Was Not Excessive

From [HERE] and [HERE] Two white Pinellas County Deputies were suspended Wednesday afternoon following an excessive force investigation. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said their suspensions, however, were not related to the use of excessive force.

The sheriff handed down 15 days to Deputy Alexander Edge, who Gualtieri said behaved recklessly by jumping on the back of Jimarez Donshay Reed while he was face-down on the ground during the May 25 incident.

Edge was disciplined for violating policies governing the custody of arrestees and conducting proper investigations.

Deputy Jason Fineran, who responded to the scene after Edge, was given a five-day suspension after investigators found he disabled the audio on his dashboard camera after arriving at the arrest scene.

The investigation was sparked by an internal affairs complaint filed by Pinellas-Pasco Public Defender Bob Dillinger after he watched dashboard camera video that appeared to show deputies beating Reed.

The incident in question happened on May 25 when the Sheriff’s Office received a call that Reed was refusing to leave a gathering at a home near Pinellas Park. On Edge’s way to the call, he was told Reed may have a weapon. Reed was properly licensed to carry a firearm. 

Deputy Alexander Edge and Deputy Jason Fineran responded to 7171 79th St. N. Deputy Edge was advised that Jimarez Reed was seen with a firearm in his hand. Gualtieri says Reed did not initially comply with verbal commands.

At Fineran’s command, Reed puts his empty hands on top of the car, then lay flat on his stomach on the pavement. The deputies, still under the impression Reed was armed, mistakenly thought he had put the gun in his waistband. Instead of communicating and properly positioning himself with Fineran, the sheriff said, Edge approached Reed from behind and jumped on his back.

Deputy Edge then struck Reed's head seven times once he was on the ground, and Deputy Fineran who also responded, hit him once with a closed fist in the head.

Fineran also participated in the struggle, striking Reed with his handcuffs and hitting him five times in the face. Edge is also seen on dash cam video pulling Reed's hair and grabbing his neck. 

A third deputy on scene, Deputy Martinez used his Taser to stun Reed twice, at which point Deputy Fineran hit him five more times in the head.

Reed suffered a laceration above his left eyebrow as a result of the use of force.

Reed turned out to be unarmed. Two guns, including the .45-caliber handgun, were found in his car and he was arrested that night. But on Oct. 26 the State Attorney’s Office dropped a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, saying "further prosecution is not warranted." in other words, he was falsely arrested by white cops because he was properly licensed to possess firearms and had not committed any crimes in the presence of the cops. The cops could have very easily checked whether he was licensed to carry but instead detained him in violation of his so-called 4th Amendment rights after beating him down. 

The force used by deputies to subdue Reed was lawful, Gualtieri said, but they could have avoided engaging in a struggle if Edge followed procedure. The deputy will also have to undergo additional use-of-force training.

“We don’t know what was said because the microphone was turned off so we don’t know if deputy Edge was yelling at him cursing at him saying ‘I’m going to kill you,’” Michele Rayner, Reed’s attorney said. Rayner said her client was complying with demands and had his hands on the hood.

“You see him willingly put himself on the ground,” Rayner said. 

 
The Sheriff made it clear the suspensions were not for striking Reed, but for violating other department policy.

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