Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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Why Doesn't White Amerikkka Send Us Back To Africa?
Friday, September 11, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Police Chief Thinks Calling Freddie Gray Settlement 'Obscene' Matters
Freddie Gray settlement 'obscene,' police union chief says
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the other four members of the city's Board of Estimates unanimously approved the deal, which covers the city, police department and the officers included in wrongful death claims brought by Gray's family.
Rawlings-Blake stressed that the settlement was in no way related to criminal proceedings involving the six police officers charged in connection with Gray's death.
"The purpose of the civil settlement is to bring an important measure of closure to the Gray family, to the community and to the city," Rawlings-Blake said after the vote. "And and to avoid years and years of protracted civil litigation."
"I thank you and your colleagues for your leadership in making sure Freddie Gray did not die in vain," Murphy said.
Gray, 25, was critically injured during or immediately after his April arrest and died one week later. The city exploded in violence, and protests were held in cities across the nation. The tragedy was one in a series of cases nationwide involving the death of black men at the hands of police.
New York City agreed in July to a $5.9 million settlement with the family of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died in a confrontation with police. That deal was struck months after a grand jury in Staten Island declined to indict any officers in Garner's death.
Announcement of the Baltimore deal Tuesday had brought an angry response from Fraternal Order of Police president Gene Ryan, who urged the Board of Estimates to reject it. He said the settlement would damage efforts to return to "pre-riot normalcy" – and the relationship between the city and its police officers.
“To suggest that there is any reason to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene,” Ryan said.
Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday that she was "baffled" by Ryan's statements.
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"All this settlement does is remove civil liability from the six officers," she said. "It ensures that the end of the criminal trial is the end (of litigation) for those officers. ... There will be closure."
She said that, if she were Ryan, she would be thankful for the deal. She added that each officer has the right to opt out of the settlement and take their chances in civil court.
David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, told the Associated Pres that lawyers for the officers will almost certainly raise the settlement issue in seeking to move the trials out of Baltimore.
"They tell us it’s by no way an admission of fault by the police officers,” Harris told AP. “If I was an attorney for a defendant I’d be revising my (venue) motion right now to say the settlement was made to persuade the jury pool that the officers did something wrong.”
Police said the confrontation with Gray began April 12 in a high-crime area of the city after he and another man spotted officers and started running away. Gray, arrested after being pursued on foot, was handcuffed and restrained inside a police vehicle. He suffered a severe spinal injury and died a week later.
An autopsy report revealed Gray died of a "high-energy injury" that likely happened when the police van suddenly slowed down.
Gray's death and investigations that followed ultimately led to the firing of Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.
“I want to extend my most sincere condolences to the family of Freddie Gray,” Rawlings-Blake said. “I hope that this settlement will bring some measure of closure to his family and his friends.”
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Could Have Been 776 Police Killed But 776 Were Killed By Police
776 People Killed By Police So Far in 2015, 161 Of Them Unarmed
But, just 25 police officers have died from firearms-related violence in the same period.
By Mint Press News Desk | September 1, 2015
St. Louis County Police arrest people along West Florissant Avenue, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson was a community on edge again Monday, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was punctuated with gunshots.
St. Louis County Police arrest people along West Florissant Avenue, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo.
MINNEAPOLIS — So far in 2015, U.S. police killed 776 people, 161 of whom were completely unarmed at the time of their death.
The data was compiled by The Guardian for a project called “The Counted,” a continuously updated, interactive database of police killings in the United States. Based on their figures, police have killed, on average, about three people per day so far this year. The Counted database is the most comprehensive information available on police killings, since no U.S. government agency maintains a similar listing.
Police killings in America have sparked a national movement for police reform, especially since the death of Mike Brown last year in Ferguson, Missouri.
Based on The Guardian’s statistics, police killed more white people than any other race this year. A total 385 white people have been killed by police this year, and 66 of them were unarmed at the time of their death.
However, activists like the members of the Black Lives Matter movement argue that police kill blacks at a rate disproportionate to their total percentage of the population — an assertion supported by The Guardian’s statistics. Police killed almost five black people per every million black residents of the U.S., compared with about 2 per million for both white and hispanic victims.
The vast majority of those killed — 745 — were men.
People were killed by police at all ages and in every state except Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont, three of the country’s least populated states. Certain cities stand out as more dangerous than others: The most police by killings occurred in Los Angeles (14 dead), Houston (11), Phoenix (9), New York (7) and Oklahoma City (7).
Shooting was the most common cause of police-related death, at 680. Of the 161 unarmed individuals, 71 were shot by police. The second most common cause of death found in the study were Tasers, which led to the deaths of 39 people, followed by being struck by police vehicles (26). Twenty-eight people died in police custody, according to The Guardian, but this figure does not include victims like Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail under conditions many describe as suspicious, although suicide was listed as her official cause of death.
Of the 582 people who were armed at the time of their death, 374 were carrying firearms and 107 were armed with knives. Of course, the numbers also cannot account for whether those killed were actively threatening police with their weapons versus those who were not, like Paul Castaway, the Native American man killed July 12 in Denver while holding a knife to his own neck.
Although police advocates claim the frequent use of force is necessary to protect officers from a highly dangerous job, the statistics don’t seem to back this up. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reported that 25 officers were killed by gunfire so far in 2015, with the Officer Down Memorial Page noting that two of those deaths came from accidental discharge of their firearms.
Further, Bureau of Labor Statistics released last year show that being a police officer is not even among the country’s 10 most dangerous professions. Indeed, those statistics show that loggers, roofers, pilots and farmers are all more likely to be killed on the job than police.
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Man in LaPlata Maryland Arrested For Tweeting...Kill All Whites
Friday, September 4, 2015
White denial will not save you from judgement
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The high-profile killings of police officers in Texas and Illinois have come at a time of strained relations between law enforcement and Black communities, as the #BlackLivesMatter movement demands an end to police violence against Black bodies. Now, voices from the right are focus
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
McDonald's Boss Heard Telling Worker She Can't Get Hours Cuz S's Black
McDonald's Boss Heard Telling Worker She Can't Get Hours Cuz S's Black
McDonald's Boss Heard Telling Worker She Can't Get Hours Cuz S's Black
McDonald's Boss Heard Telling Worker She Can't Get Hours Cuz S's Black
McDonald's Boss Heard Telling Worker She Can't Get Hours Cuz S's Black
McDonald's Boss Heard Telling Worker She Can't Get Hours Cuz S's Black
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
A White Supremacist Dedicates Life To Being Fake
A White Supremacist Dedicates Life To Being Fake