OLD CONTENT contd.
www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/black-college-athlete-unlawfully-arrested-and-detained-frightening-roadside-incidentJaylan Butler, an innocent college student and the only Black member of the Eastern Illinois University swim team, was wrongfully arrested alongside an Illinois highway, held face down on the snowy ground with a gun to his forehead, and threatened by a group of police officers without justification. These facts are contained in a new lawsuit filed by Mr. Butler in federal court.
Even when police officers realized they were mistaken in arresting Jaylan, they continued to detain him before forcing him to produce an identification card. Throughout the process, officers refused to identify themselves or give him any information about his arrest that would assist him in filing a formal complaint.
“My dad taught me at a young age what to do when you are stopped by police officers – stop instantly, put your hands up, drop anything you are holding, and drop to your knees,” said Jaylan. “I hoped I would never have to use this advice in my life, but all that changed in seconds.”
On February 24, 2019, Jaylan was travelling with his swim team by bus from a college championship tournament in South Dakota. Shortly after 8:00 p.m., the bus pulled over on a frontage road off Interstate 80 near East Moline, Illinois. Jaylan and several teammates left the bus to stretch their legs. One of Jaylan’s coaches asked if he would take a photo of a roadside sign for the team’s social media account. Jaylan took the photo and began walking back to the bus.
Suddenly, several law enforcement vehicles raced up, and officers exited the cars with their guns drawn. They began yelling and swearing at Jaylan. Surprised and confused, Jaylan instantly followed his father’s advice and stopped, put his hands up, dropped his cell phone, and dropped to his knees.
Police officers swarmed around Jaylan with their firearms pointed at him, and pushed him facedown onto the snowy ground. Jaylan had no idea why the officers had appeared. While one officer handcuffed him, other officers pinned him to the ground by pushing a knee into Jaylan’s back and pressing down on Jaylan’s neck. Another officer then held his gun to Jaylan’s forehead and threatened to “blow his [expletive] head off” if he moved. The team bus driver and Jaylan’s coach were alarmed and exited the bus to tell the officers Jaylan was part of the EIU swim team.
The officers quickly realized that Jaylan was not the suspect they were looking for and had done nothing wrong, but instead of releasing him and apologizing, the officers searched his pockets and placed him – still cuffed – in the back of a police vehicle. After several more minutes, the officers released him, but only after forcing Jaylan to provide photo identification.
“What happened to Jaylan is an example of the harmful police interactions that people of color experience far too often, but which receive much less attention. These officers forcibly arrested and searched Jaylan without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or any other lawful justification. They never told Jaylan why he was being arrested, even after they realized their mistake. Instead, it’s clear they based their decision to arrest and harm Jaylan on the fact that he was a young Black man,” said Rachel Murphy, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Illinois.
Just another day in Western civilization.....
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Yes, the victim is "non-white":
www.yahoo.com/news/body-cam-captures-6-olds-190352242.htmlORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A police officer's body camera shows a 6-year-old Florida girl crying and begging officers not to arrest her as one fastens zip ties around her wrists at a charter school.
The video Kaia Rolle's family shared with the Orlando Sentinel and other media outlets Monday shows the girl being arrested in September for kicking and punching staff members at her Orlando charter school.
Compulsory schooling itself is the initiated violence, against which she was justly retaliating.
“What are those for?” Kaia asks about the zip ties in the video.
“They’re for you,” Officer Dennis Turner says before another officer tightens them around her wrists and Kaia begins weeping.
Turner was fired shortly after the arrest. Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon said at the time that Turner didn't follow department policy of getting the approval of a watch commander to arrest someone younger than 12.
“Help me. Help me, please!” Kaia pleads through tears.
As she is being walked to the vehicle, she cries, “I don’t want to go in a police car.”
The second officer, who has not been identified, responds, “You don’t want to? ... You have to.”
“Please, give me a second chance,” Kaia says.
The video shows the officer lifting the sobbing girl into the back seat of the police vehicle and putting a seat belt around her.
A short time later, Turner returns to the office to talk to Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy administrators, who appear dismayed by what they have witnessed in the school office.
The officer tells them that the juvenile detention center where Kaia was headed is “not like you think.” Turner tells the administrators he has made 6,000 arrests, including a 7-year-old.
When school employees tell the officer that Kaia is 6, not 8 like he thought, he replies, “Now she has broken the record."
Officials have said that Turner also arrested a 6-year-old boy at another school on the same day as Kaia's arrest for misdemeanor battery in an unrelated incident. However, the boy’s arrest was halted by superiors before the child made it through the full arrest process.
State Attorney Aramis Ayala said last September that she was dismissing misdemeanor battery charges against both children.
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www.yahoo.com/news/help-outrage-over-aggressive-police-141900738.htmlA video of an aggressive police arrest of a black man in New York has sparked outrage after an apparent undercover officer refused to say what crime the man had committed.
In the video, a man claiming to be an undercover police officer stopped a member of the public near a playground in the Canarsie neighbourhood of Brooklyn at approximately 7:50pm on Wednesday night.
The black man, whose name is unknown at this time, repeatedly asked what he had done wrong as he was held against a metal fence by the officer, who appeared to be threatening him with a gun.
“What did I do? I did not do anything … can you answer my question? Look me in the eyes, I’m talking to you,” the man said.
“What crime did I commit? Tell me, what crime did I commit?”
About 90 seconds into the video, multiple officers in New York Police Department (NYPD) uniform ran towards the man and wrestled him to the ground.
The man, who said he was unarmed, could be heard repeatedly screaming “help me” as he was tackled and forced down by multiple officers.
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“It was all unnecessary. And the fact that the cop would not identify himself in his street clothes when using police force and would not answer him when he asked what crime he committed is a complete abuse of power.”
www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/03/cleveland-police-chief-issues-no-discipline-to-officer-accused-of-wrongdoing-in-detaining-tamir-rices-sister-after-deadly-police-shooting.htmlCLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams issued no discipline to a supervisor accused of wrongdoing in her handling of Tamir Rice’s sister in the moments after a rookie police officer fatally shot the girl’s 12-year-old brother.
Williams dismissed the civilian complaint Monday against Sgt. Janell Rutherford, Cleveland Fraternal Order of Police President Brian Betley said.
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The civilian complaint was filed in 2015 by Tamir’s sister, Tajai Rice.
She was inside the Cudell Recreation Center at the time of the Nov. 14, 2014 shooting. Her brother was outside near the gazebo when she heard gunshots and saw her brother on the ground. Tajai Rice rushed to her brother, but was confronted by officer Frank Garmback, who drove his partner Timothy Loehmann to the scene. Loehmann shot Tamir in less than three seconds after arriving.
Tajai Rice wrote in her complaint that officers knocked her to the ground, placed her in handcuffs less than 10 feet from her dying brother and detained her in the back of a police cruiser for 64 minutes.
A grand jury declined to charge Garmback and Loehmann. Garmback was suspended 10 days for driving the car too close to Tamir, but an arbitrator later halved that punishment.
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“Samaria Rice is no longer shocked by the unwillingness of the police chief to hold anyone accountable,” Rice family attorney Subodh Chandra said in a statement. “But she is disappointed.”
Being disappointed changes nothing. Being a Second Amendment person is more effective.
It will not stop until the victims understand that it can only be stopped with our own firearms.
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When the chosenites train your police, you can only expect a herder-cattle relationship to develop between what should be a guardian-citizentry relationship.
electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-trained-police-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth
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us.yahoo.com/gma/police-chief-orders-probe-handcuffing-black-miami-doctor-023000688--abc-news-topstories.html
An African American doctor, who has been battling the coronavirus pandemic in his hospital and on the streets of Miami, was detained and handcuffed in front of his own home by a police sergeant as he loaded up his van with supplies he says he planned to take to the homeless.
Dr. Armen Henderson, an internal medicine physician at the University of Miami Health System, said his biggest concern about the up-close encounter was that the Miami-Dade police sergeant was not wearing a protective mask when Henderson says the sergeant got "all up in my face," Henderson told ABC News on Sunday.
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"He put me at risk," Henderson said. "No
w I feel like I should get tested, honestly. Most likely I will because he definitely was spitting in my face. I could feel it while he was yelling at me."
Henderson alleges the sergeant detained him because he is black.
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Police did not release the sergeant's name, but video footage of the encounter taken by a security camera outside Henderson's home shows the sergeant did not seem concerned about social distancing and appeared to get face-to-face with Henderson while pointing his finger at the doctor's face.
Doxxing required.
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us.yahoo.com/huffpost/rancho-cordova-police-officer-beating-14-year-old-boy-132352192.html
Politicians, including former Democratic presidential candidates Julián Castro and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), decried the Sacramento County deputy’s violent handling of the teenager as “sickening” and “horrific,” and demanded accountability.
The video, first posted to Twitter by a person who identified herself as the boy’s sister, shows a white officer hitting the boy, who is Black, as he attempts to detain him. The officer, who is much bigger than the teen, appears to strike the boy repeatedly with a closed fist, push his face into the ground and yank him roughly by the arm.
In a follow-up tweet, the Twitter user said the teen has “a serious heart condition that could be triggered very easily by being hit in his chest/back! He’s a kid and has never been in any kind of trouble with the law!”
Was the sister carrying a firearm, or even a knife? If not, why not? If so, why did she not use it to defend her brother? Only retaliatory violence can stop initiated violence.
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This is why the Second Amendment exists.
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www.yahoo.com/news/asleep-while-black-family-seeks-justice-for-breonna-taylor-killed-in-her-bedroom-by-police-210858395.htmlBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker in Louisville, Ky., was shot in her bed after midnight on March 13 by three police officers serving a “no-knock warrant,” becoming another statistic in the long list of African-Americans killed at the hands of police. What makes the case unusual is that Taylor was a woman.
And, of course, she was asleep.
The incident is still being investigated and Taylor’s family is suing Louisville Metro Police Department Officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankinson and Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly alleging wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence. According to the suit, the police fired more than 20 rounds in the apartment. Taylor was hit eight times and pronounced dead at the scene.
The officers were looking for a drug suspect who lived 10 miles away and was already in police custody, according to the Courier-Journal.
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Politicians and journalists, including Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Jemele Hill, have also taken up Taylor’s cause on social media, calling for answers.
“Breonna Taylor’s family deserves justice,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday. “It is so dehumanizing that Breonna’s family & many others must launch public campaigns just to have victim’s lives recognized & given the dignity of due process.”
“Have any of the police been arrested or charged?” Hill tweeted. “I think you already know.”
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