John Antoine, an 86 year old man from Brooklyn, is suing the city after he was wrongfully tasered by the NYPD responding to a call about a suicidal man in his 20s. Via NY Daily News: “It is scary to think that our police force has such a lack of …
January, 2016
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23 January
Loretta Lynch on police misconduct: “We’re at a point now similar to 50 years ago with the civil rights movement”
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the highest law enforcement official in the United States, spoke out on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She compared the public’s involvement in stories of police misconduct with the brutality of the Civil Right’s Movement. “The televising of the police dogs and …
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22 January
Grand Jury Indicts Officer For Murder Of Unarmed Naked Man
A grand jury in Atlanta indicted a white police officer for felony murder and other criminal charges related to the fatal shooting of Anthony Hill, who was naked and unarmed at the time of his death. Hill, a US Air Force veteran suffering from bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), …
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20 January
NYPD Officer Peter Liang will stand trial for death of unarmed Akai Gurley
Via HuffPost Crime: ‘The manslaughter trial of a New York City police officer who fired the bullet that killed an unarmed black man in the darkened stairwell of a housing project is due to begin on Thursday. Officer Peter Liang is also charged with reckless endangerment, official misconduct and other …
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20 January
Texas DPS director says the officer alone is responsible for escalation in Sandra Bland’s arrest
On Tuesday Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw was asked who was responsible in the escalation of events from traffic stop to arrest in the case of Sandra Bland. McCraw responded: “It’s always on the trooper. We’re accountable for every stop. And the citizen has a right to be objectionable …
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20 January
Not A Single State Defines How And When Police Can Use Deadly Force
2015 was a year marked, among other political and social issues, by widespread discussions on the intersection of race and law enforcement. It also saw the continued increase of video footage exposing what many saw as double standards and racial bias from police forces. The rise of the Black Lives Matter …
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19 January
Cop in St. Paul tells drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protestors on Facebook, tells them not to worry because they will win in court
A police officer, identified as Sgt. Jeff Rothecker in St. Paul, Minnesota, is under investigation for a Facebook post he made on Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday which suggest drivers encountering Black Lives Matter protestors on January 15 shouldn’t “slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the …
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18 January
VIDEO: Protestors block traffic from Bay Bridge into SF in Anti-Police Terror protest
Video footage shows protestors chaining their cars to the Bay Bridge to block westbound traffic into San Francisco. They have a banner reading “Black Health Matters” and have built a shrine to the victims of police shootings. Another protest group currently blocks an I-80 onramp. KTVU reports: “Police have begun …
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16 January
Family sues over death of Tenn. man left hog-tied in police custody
July of last year Troy Goode of Memphis attended a rock concert with his wife in Southaven, Mississippi. As the wife, Kelli Goode was driving her LSD-intoxicated husband home and made a stop, a woman saw him acting erratically and notified police. According to the charges Mrs. Goode is bringing against …
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15 January
Three Baltimore police officers accused of assaulting hospital juvenile
Accusations are surfacing that officers Duane Williams Jr., Bijay Ranabhat, and Lonnie White Jr. assaulted a juvenile at Sinai hospital in Baltimore a year ago. All have been suspended while Williams was the only official taken off the job without pay. Indictments were issued to two of the officers Wednesday …
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14 January
Police Officer Beats Wife To Death Because ‘She Lost Her Sex Drive’
A decorated police officer accused of murdering his wife because ‘she lost her sex drive’ is in court today. Adrian Goldsmith – commonly known as Otis – has been accused of bludgeoning his wife on the porch of their home which, ironically, is located next to the police station where …
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14 January
Exposed: Video Captures Unarmed Car Passenger Fatally Shot
In what has been described as “an absolutely unreasonable shooting” by legal experts, a new video has been released showing the final moments of Cameron Massey before he was fatally shot by officers from the town of Eufala, Alabama. Massey, 26 and unarmed, is seen in the video sitting in …
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13 January
Are Baltimore Prosecutors Intentionally Mishandling/Delaying The Trials Of Freddie Gray’s Alleged Killers?
We’ve consistently seen our criminal justice system behave much more benevolently when the defendants are law enforcement officers: Are the Freddie Gray trials just the latest example? Via Slate: Jury selection in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was allegedly killed, lasted …
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13 January
NY Daily News/Shaun King: American police killed, brutalized so many people that it’s hard to keep up
At what point do we as a society look in the mirror and realize that progress isn’t inevitable? At what point do we realize that direct actions are needed to bring about real, lasting change for all Americans brutalized by our criminal justice/law enforcement systems? Immediately, we can only hope… …
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12 January
Fatal shooting of 12-year-old girl during family’s Pennsylvania eviction
Far too often, we see the use of force exert fatal consequences on innocent bystanders. Are we prepared to work towards substantive reforms in law enforcement? Via Raw Story: A 12-year-old girl was reportedly shot to death as police in Duncannon, Pennsylvania were supervising the eviction of her family. According …