#policebrutality: #Settlement mandates that #NYPD refrain from crowd control tactics like kettling & implement a new response system that deemphasizes #police presence at #protests, deescalate...
#AbolishQualifiedImmunity #GeorgeFloyd #CopAGanda #HumanRightsViolations #StateSanctionedViolence
Activist’s toddler is at center of LAPD Commission controversy https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-03/activists-toddler-at-the-center-of-lapd-commission-controversy
The problem isn’t #PoliceBrutality: It’s bringing a toddler to hearing where #commissioners ignore a string of recent shootings.
body-worn #cameras showed Greene being dragged, kicked and punched while he was #restrained on the roadside. #Police originally attributed Greene’s #death to his car crashing into a tree, but #forensic examinations would later #refute that claim.
#AbolishThePolice #AbolishQualifiedImmunity #WitholdingEvidenceIsACrime #BrokenTaillightPolicing #unarmed #CarCrash #SouthernTrafficStop #NoPoliceAccountability
Investigators allowed those misstatements — and others — to stand, despite having nearly a half-hour’s worth of body #camera footage that disproved them. latest in a string of cases where the FID seemed to ignore #evidence that was potentially damaging to #officers who killed people in the line of duty.
#AbolishQualifiedImmunity #AbolishTheFilibuster #abolishthepolice #ExpandTheCourt
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-mulkeen-friendly-fire-body-cam-footage
After pledging a “thorough” investigation, the NYPD cleared the officers involved in the 2019 shooting. But new records show that investigators allowed police misstatements to stand, despite having body-camera video to disprove them.
#abolishthepolice: a #Kenosha officer punching a #Black man the officer mistakenly believed was involved in a hit-and-run crash.
#AbolishQualifiedImmunity #ReformTheMedia #PoliceGangs #statesanctionedviolence #PriveledgeWitness
Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have launched an internal investigation after a video posted to social media appears to show an officer punching a Black man the officer mistakenly thought was involved in a hit-and-run crash. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the crash happened on July 20. Police said witnesses told them two men and a woman carrying a child fled toward an Applebee's restaurant. A restaurant employee directed officers toward a man holding a baby. An officer appears to punch the man as officers arrested him. Police then discovered the people responsible for the crash hiding in the restaurant's bathroom.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/9/michael_jenkins_eddie_parker_police_torture
#AbolishThePolice: the “Goon Squad,” have pleaded #guilty to raiding a home and #torturing two #Black men, on #falsecharges, earlier this year, after first trying to #coverup their actions.
#AbolishQualifiedImmunity #ReformTheMedia #OnTheCourthouseLawn #StateSanctionedViolence
Six white former police officers in Mississippi who called themselves the “Goon Squad” have pleaded guilty to raiding a home on false drug charges and torturing two Black men while yelling racist slurs at them, and then trying to cover it up. We speak with Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker about how, on January 24, six deputies in Braxton, Mississippi, raided the home they were staying in and attacked them, and how they are speaking out to demand justice. Meanwhile, the deputies have been linked to at least four violent attacks on Black men since 2019, in which two of the men died. We also speak with civil rights attorney Malik Shabazz, who is representing Jenkins and Parker in a federal lawsuit against the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. Shabazz asserts that the majority-white Rankin County, which is 20 miles away from majority-Black Jackson, Mississippi, is “infested with white supremacists” who “have decided 'Rankin County is for whites'” and seek to enforce it through state-sanctioned violence and torture, overseen and covered up by Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey. “We demand that Bryan Bailey step down,” says Shabazz. Parker adds, “We want justice for everyone that has gone through this with Rankin County.”
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct: community members are urging residents to #elect #leaders who will #protectBlacklives
#EnforceThe15th #michaelbrown #abolishthepolice #AbolishQualifiedImmunity #transparency
Wednesday marks the ninth anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s killing by a white police officer in Ferguson. Now, local officials and community members are urging residents to elect leaders who will protect Black lives.
#abolishthepolice #AbolishQualifiedImmunity #SCOTUStermlimits
The Washington Post launched its Police Shooting Database in 2014, after police in Ferguson, Missouri shot #MichaelBrown, 24; before then, such specific #data was #inaccessible to the #public. We now know that U.S. police shoot roughly 1,000 people per year—the highest rate among “developed” nations—and Black Americans constitute at least 25 to 50 percent of victims, despite comprising only 12.4 percent of the U.S. population.
Gladwyn d’Souza
