Killer Rabbit 90Guess #Ohio has something to hide. "Ohio Puts Police Bodycam Footage Behind a Paywall" https://theintercept.com/2025/01/03/police-body-camera-footage-ohio/ #Ohio #police #OhioPD #bodycam #ipaywall #CivilRights #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #PoliceExcessiveForce
Herman Whitfield's Family Called for Help During a Mental Health Crisis. Cops Killed Him Instead http://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/11/herman_whitfield_iii_indianapolis #Indianapolis #PoliceMurder #MentalHealth #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceExcessiveForce
Herman Whitfield’s Family Called for Help During a Mental Health Crisis. Cops Killed Him Instead
We continue our look at the tragic deaths of two Black men who were killed while experiencing mental health crises. Award-winning piano virtuoso Herman Whitfield III died in 2022 after he was repeatedly tasered, handcuffed and pinned to the ground by Indianapolis police officers. Whitfield’s family had called 911 to ask for help as their son experienced a mental health crisis in their home, but instead of sending an ambulance as requested, police officers showed up and attacked Whitfield, even as he said he couldn’t breathe while being restrained. Whitfield’s death was ruled a homicide, but on Friday a jury acquitted the two Indianapolis officers. “Herman was killed in our home right in front of us,” says Gladys Whitfield, Herman’s mother. “In a case where an individual is having a mental health crisis, the officers are supposed to take time, try to negotiate, talk to the person, use persuasion and just try to deescalate.” Whitfield is also a former public interest law attorney and a current federal administrative law judge.
This Is What Happens When We Flood the Subway System With Police https://theintercept.com/2024/09/16/brooklyn-subway-fare-shooting-police-violence/ #NYCity #PoliceExcessiveForce #SubwayShooting
"Tragic Beyond Proportions": Attorney Ben Crump on Sonya Massey's Killing and Police Cover-Up http://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/24/ben_crump_sonya_massey #Illinois #PoliceMurder #PoliceExcessiveForce #SonyaMassey #JusticeForSonyaMassey #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceRacism #PoliceCoverUp
“Tragic Beyond Proportions”: Attorney Ben Crump on Sonya Massey’s Killing and Police Cover-Up
The family of Sonya Massey is demanding justice after they say authorities tried to cover up her fatal shooting by a sheriff’s deputy in Springfield, Illinois, by initially claiming it was “self-inflicted.” Police body-camera footage showed this was a lie. The 36-year-old mother of two was shot dead in her own home on July 6 after she called 911 for help. “This is the worst police shooting video that I’ve seen. It is so senseless,” says Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the family. “[Massey] needed a helping hand. She did not need a bullet to the face.”
"Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied": Video Shows Hotel Guards Kill D'Vontaye Mitchell, Yet No Arrests http://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/24/dvontaye_mitchell_ben_crump #DVontayeMItchell #BlackLIvesMatter #PoliceMurder #Milwaukee #PoliceExcessiveForce #PoliceRacism #PolliceBrutality
“Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied”: Video Shows Hotel Guards Kill D’Vontaye Mitchell, Yet No Arrests
D’Vontaye Mitchell died last month in Milwaukee after he was violently pinned to the ground by four security guards outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel, just a few minutes from where the Republican National Convention would take place. Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney who is representing the family, says that the killing is “just inexplicable,” with nobody charged for Mitchell’s death so far. “You have a video of a man being killed. You have witnesses who have given statements. But yet you’re saying you still have to investigate? Why is it different when it’s a Black victim laying dead on the ground?”
The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home http://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/13/roger_fortson #FloridaPD #PoliceExcessiveForce #PoliceMurder #DefundThePolice #PoliceEthics #LockThemUp #BlackLivesMatter #POC
The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home
We speak with civil rights attorney Ben Crump about the police killing of Roger Fortson, a Black 23-year-old Air Force member who was fatally shot by a Florida police officer mere moments after opening the door of his apartment. Fortson’s family says the police had arrived at the wrong home and that Fortson had grabbed his legal firearm as a precaution. Police body-camera footage shows Fortson answered the door with his gun at his side, not posing an imminent threat to the officer, who immediately shot Fortson six times. “The Second Amendment applies to Black people, too,” says Crump, who has represented victims of police violence in many high-profile cases. The police claim that officers were responding to a domestic dispute is contradicted by the fact that Fortson was home alone, Crump says. “They need to go ahead and admit that it was the wrong apartment and quit trying to justify this unjustifiable killing.”
NYPD Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life http://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/13/win_rozario #NYPDSenselessKilling ##NYPDMurder ##DefundThePolice #PoliceEthics #PoliceExcessiveForce #MentalHealth #POC
<span class="caps">NYPD</span> Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life
The police fatal shooting of Win Rozario, a 19-year-old Bangladeshi teen who lived in Queens, New York, has set off protests and demands for justice from the family. Rozario had called 911 in late March asking for help as he experienced a mental health crisis, but two New York police officers who arrived at the family’s home shot him at least four times within minutes after entering the Rozario residence. The NYPD claimed Rozario “came at” the officers with a pair of scissors when they fired at him, but police body-camera footage shows he was standing on the other side of the kitchen, several feet away from the officers, as his mother desperately tried to shield her son. “He needed help, and what they did instead was kill him,” says New York City Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who represents the city’s 39th Council District. She also discusses progressives’ ongoing efforts to pass a ceasefire resolution at City Council to demand an end to the war in Gaza, as well as Mayor Eric Adams’s crackdown on asylum seekers.
KennethJust a reminder that a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel. More evidence that we need systemic reform if we hope to address #police #violence and misconduct.
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NYPD to Pay Largest Protester Settlement Ever For Abuses During George Floyd Uprising https://theintercept.com/2023/07/20/nypd-protester-settlement-george-floyd/ #NYPD #PoliceExcessiveForce #PoliceAbuse #BlackLivesMatter #activism
A Black Teacher Died After Being Tased 4 Times. Ex-Cops Say It Didn’t Need to Happen. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgyjk4/keenan-anderson-death-tased #LAPD #KeenanAnderson #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceExcessiveForce #PoliceMurder
