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And, if he hadn't resisted arrest, there would have been no problem. I do believe there was excess force used in this specific case, but I also consider the award to be much too high.

The family of Mike Brown is trying to sue the city of Ferguson. They shouldn't get one penny and, if anything, they should owe something for the damage done by their thuggish son.

Did you read this part at all? Did you see the whole trial? What are you basing your opinion on?

“In our civil courts, which are charged with the important responsibility of assessing liability and imposing damages in these types of cases, families are only awarded damages based on calculable, provable facts, such as indisputable misconduct, past earnings and conscious pain and suffering,” Mullins wrote.
 
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Did you read this part at all? Did you see the whole trial? What are you basing your opinion on?

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“In our civil courts, which are charged with the important responsibility of assessing liability and imposing damages in these types of cases, families are only awarded damages based on calculable, provable facts, such as indisputable misconduct, past earnings and conscious pain and suffering,” Mullins wrote.

I did read that part. Garner's income to date and his future income would be nowhere near 5.9 million and the "pain and suffering" in his case would have been minor. I believe there was police misconduct but I also believe Garner should bear some responsibility.

This is strictly my own opinion.

I am assuming you were referring to Garner and not to Mike Brown.
 
I did read that part. Garner's income to date and his future income would be nowhere near 5.9 million and the "pain and suffering" in his case would have been minor. I believe there was police misconduct but I also believe Garner should bear some responsibility.

This is strictly my own opinion.

I am assuming you were referring to Garner and not to Mike Brown.

Yes, because Garner's case is over. Again, did you see the entire trial?
 
Unarmed Mississippi man died after 20-minute police chokehold, witnesses say

I didn't put up this when I first saw it a few days ago, but now that there is more info, thought it relevant.

Witnesses have told Mississippi state investigators that an unarmed black man died after being kept in a chokehold by a police officer for more than 20 minutes and denied CPR, according to his family’s attorneys, who said an autopsy confirmed he was fatally strangled.

There are still some unanswered questions about just what happened at the start but, the story was corroborated by three witnesses.
 
'You Can't Speed on a Horse'

July 15, 2015

#Sanders himself seemed to be experiencing antagonism with the police before he encountered Officer Kevin Herrington on the night of July 8. Attorneys for Sanders' family say that before his death Sanders complained of police harassment.

#J. Stewart Parrish confirmed to the Jackson Free Press this week that he was representing Sanders in a forfeiture case, which he explained this way: "A forfeiture action is when the government comes in and says they want to take your stuff because they believe you are selling dope."

#Parrish declined to discuss the case in detail and referred other questions to attorneys with Lumumba & Associates, the Jackson firm representing Sanders' family.

#In 2003, Sanders was convicted of selling cocaine and had several other arrests over the years. Public records show that he was discharged from probation for the cocaine conviction in May 2007.

#At the time of his death, he had no active warrants, however, his lawyers told the Jackson Free Press.

#Other black citizens in Stonewall have similar complaints about harassment by white police officers. One woman, who asked that we not print her name, told the Jackson Free Press in a message that once, while driving in a car with her fiance, a Stonewall police officer pulled them over. The officer declined to issue a ticket, but did follow the couple for about a mile to their home, she said.

#Stonewall Police Chief Michael Street said receiving a call from the Jackson Free Press was the first time he'd heard that some people in the community are afraid to file complaints against officers, but that his department has an open-door policy.

#Still, the Sanders family's attorneys, Chokwe A. Lumumba and C.J. Lawrence, recently described to the Jackson Free Press a series of events that started with what they believe was Herrington unnecessarily following Sanders.

#"You can't speed on a horse," Lawrence said. "What crime could you have committed that would require a violent takedown?"

#A Mystery Companion

#The attorneys told the JFP that around 10 p.m. on July 8, Sanders, who was sitting in a buggy being pulled by a horse, observed Herrington speaking with a man Sanders knew at the Cefco gas station in Stonewall.

#The attorneys say when Sanders rode by, he told Herrington to leave the man alone. The lawyers declined to identify the man at the gas station, except to say that he is white.

#Based on the testimony of other witnesses who live near where the scene played out, Herrington caught up with Sanders down the road and flashed the blue lights of his squad car. Sanders' horse reared up, presumably frightened by the lights, knocking Sanders from the buggy and causing the headlamp he was wearing around his head to fall around his neck. The horse started to run off, and Sanders ran after him.

#According to the lawyers, witnesses say Herrington chased after Sanders, grabbing at the headlamp around his neck and pulled him to the ground, which the attorneys believe could be where early false reports came from about Herrington using a flashlight to subdue Sanders. From there, Herrington spun Sanders around and applied a headlock, they said.

#Witnesses told the lawyers that Sanders was face down with his hands underneath him; Herrington was on his knees in front of Sanders, they said. By then, several neighbors had gone outside, including a witness who told Herrington that Sanders would not be able to breathe with his face buried in the tall grass.

#The attorneys say that Herrington had a female companion with him in the police car, who was not an officer. As Herrington applied a chokehold, attorneys say, the officer instructed the female companion to remove his gun from its holster so that Sanders could not reach it; however, the woman could not unholster the weapon, but one of the witnesses was able to tell her how to remove it.

#Witnesses told the attorneys that Sanders said at least twice that he could not breathe, attorneys say. Another witness went home and got a mask that would enable them to perform CPR just in case it was needed.

#Attorneys say Sanders never fought the officer and did not move throughout the incident. Herrington did not let the witness perform CPR and maintained the headlock until backup and emergency-medical technicians arrived as much as 30 minutes later, the attorneys for the Sanders family say.

#The attorneys, Lumumba and Lawrence, said Sanders had no active warrants and cannot understand why Herrington would follow Sanders.

#It Was Shocking'

#Eventually, EMTs placed Sanders in an ambulance, but the lawyers are unclear on the time of death. They have yet to see the autopsy report, which was not released by press time. Sanders' body was returned to Clarke County for his funeral services this weekend, July 18 and July 19. Lawrence, one of the attorneys, said the autopsy information is necessary in order to put Sanders, the father of two children, to rest.

#"His mom is obviously hurt. She's a strong woman," Lawrence said. "She's trying to manage."

#The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is handling the case. Warren Strain, an MBI spokesman, said the same team that investigated the shooting deaths of Hattiesburg police officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate is handling the Sanders death probe.

#A community meeting took place Tuesday night in Stonewall. Speaking to the Jackson Free Press before the meeting, Kirksey, the NAACP leader, said he would attend but that the meeting was unlikely to ease tensions.

#Asked if he was surprised by the incident, Kirksey said: "I think the surprise was that it had never happened before. It was shocking that it happened in that way."


http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/jul/15/violent-takedown-stonewall/


July 14, 2015

STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Authorities are pleading for patience in a small Mississippi town as they investigate why a black man died following a physical encounter with a white police officer.

#The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation says it is too soon to discuss how Jonathan Sanders died on the night of July 8, while he was exercising a horse on a two-wheeled buggy.

#Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Jackson lawyer who is representing Sanders' family members, says Officer Kevin Herrington is at fault.

#Clarke County District Attorney Bilbo Mitchell, though, told a crowd of about 60 gathered Tuesday at Stonewall's town hall that it is too soon to say.

#"I assume there may be some who may be wondering why there hasn't been an arrest," Mitchell said. "That's because the investigation isn't complete."

#Over the weekend, hundreds of people gathered in Stonewall to honor Sanders' memory and protest his death.

#"I just felt it wasn't right," said Sanders' cousin Lon McCoy, who helped organize a march Saturday and a trail ride Sunday.

#During the meeting, attendee Carol Doby repeatedly questioned Mitchell, who limited his comments to the procedural elements of the investigation.

#"We just want answers and want to know why," Doby said.

#Mitchell said the case would be presented to a Clarke County grand jury, possibly as early as September, but maybe later. He said he has presented fewer than 15 cases involving a death caused by law enforcement to a grand jury during his 28 years as district attorney of four counties, and can't recall an officer ever being indicted.

#In order to arrest the officer under Mississippi law, Mitchell would have to prove probable cause to a judge because Herrington is a government employee.

#Stonewall Police Chief Michael Street said he has turned the inquiry over to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, as is typical when a police officer is involved in someone's death in Mississippi. Warren Strain, the spokesman for MBI, said an autopsy has been completed and that Sanders' body has been returned to his family. He said MBI has notified the FBI, which he described as "offering support."

#Strain said autopsy results are being analyzed and he can't release a cause of death. Street and Mitchell said MBI is likely to hold a news conference in coming days to discuss the autopsy's findings.

#Strain described the encounter between Herrington and Sanders as a physical "altercation."

#Stonewall police don't currently have video cameras mounted on police cars or worn by officers. But there are multiple witnesses to Sanders' death in a residential neighborhood, including the officer's wife, who was riding in the police car, Strain said. Lumumba's firm is representing multiple additional witnesses, Lumumba and Strain said.

#Stonewall's two-block downtown is dominated by the decaying hulk of a red-brick cotton mill that drove the town's economy for more than 100 years before closing in 2002 and laying off more than 800 workers. Now many residents work in Meridian, 20 miles to the north. As in surrounding Clarke County, about a third of Stonewall's residents are black, while two-thirds are white.

#The police department comprises Street and nine part-time officers, with one to three officers typically on duty, the chief said. He said Herrington is on unpaid leave, because as a part-time employee, he is only paid for hours worked. Herrington had been a Stonewall officer for more than two years.

#Local authorities said protests have been peaceful.

#"We cannot be more proud of our community, in the way we conducted ourselves," Street told the meeting Tuesday.

#Lumumba said a funeral is scheduled Saturday in Quitman, the Clarke County seat

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/jul/14/jonathan-sanders-killing-stonewall-pleading-patien/

Unarmed, dead, but was no angel... ( again, again, again...)

The Guardian reported that Chief Street said "Sanders had no active warrants against him and that Harrington did not know who he was when the confrontation took place."

However, that didn't stop Jackson's local daily newspaper, the Clarion-Ledger, from using Sanders' mugshot (most other media outlets chose a picture of the victim warmly smiling with family members or with his horses; see below) and devoted the end of its story to talking about his rap sheet, writing:

"Sanders had crossed paths with authorities before. Circuit Clerk Beth Jordan said Sanders was out on bond from an April arrest for possession of cocaine, and that he had been convicted on charges of sale of cocaine in 2003."

The paper went on to point out: "MDOC Communications Director Grace Fisher said Sanders was given five years to serve with five years probation. He was released on May 23, 2007. Sanders' arrest record also shows arrests dating back to 2001 for disturbance of the family peace, sale of a counterfeit substance, domestic violence, and some traffic violations.

Several dozen commenters took the paper to task. Said one woman in the comments section: "Never fails; the weaponless dead victim is always prosecuted in the media to deflect how they ended up dead at the hands of police. Shame on the Clarion-Ledger."

As for the officer, the C-L made a point of noting that Herrington, according to Chief Street, "has never received any complaints of abuse of force or even any written complaints for anything else" and is on administrative leave.

An autopsy of Sanders' body is under way here in Jackson.

Update: The Sanders family has hired the Jackson-based law firm of Lumumba & Associates as legal counsel and to serve as official spokesmen to the media. The attorneys handling the case, Chokwe Antar Lumumba and C.J. Lawrence, said in a letter that an official statement would be forthcoming pending the family's approval.

Lumumba is the son of late Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba; Lawrence worked on the late mayor's communications staff and last year earned national media notoriety for starting the Twitter hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, which criticized mainstream media character assassinations of black victims of police violence -- such as the recent Clarion-Ledger story about Jonathan Sanders.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/web...an-sanders-story-clarion-ledger-he-was-no-an/
 
I was wondering if the person in the car at the gas station was white.

#Asked if he was surprised by the incident, Kirksey said: "I think the surprise was that it had never happened before. It was shocking that it happened in that way."

Telling
 
Sandra Bland was stopped by Texas police for a lane change and ended up dead in a jail cell

Bland, who was outspoken about racism and police brutality, had just gotten a new job at her alma matter, Texas Prairie View A&M, and was on her way from the Chicago suburb of Naperville to her new home near Houston when she was stopped by police for failing to signal during a lane change on Friday afternoon, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The simple traffic stop escalated, according to video of the arrest that has emerged. Officers can be seen on top of her as she cries out that they had slammed her head into the ground and were being too rough with her. An officer is seen telling the person shooting the video to leave.

“You just slammed my head into the ground,” Bland yells as she is being arrested. “Do you not even care about that? I can’t even hear!”

She was arrested for assaulting a police officer, according to news reports. On Monday morning, jailers found her dead, and officials attributed it to self-inflicted asphyxiation, ABC News reports.

Doesn't everyone hang themselves rather than cop to a misdemeanor?

“I do not have any information that would make me think it was anything other than just a suicide,” Waller County D.A. Elton Mathis told the news station.

Texas justice, I guess.
 
Niggers need to stay clear of cops. But the prisons are fulla the mother fuckers.
 
WATCH: Arizona cops illegally barge into home of showering woman and handcuff her while she’s naked

Elmerelda Rossi was showering when two Chandler police officers arrived at her home to investigate a domestic disturbance call because Rossi had an argument with her estranged husband, ABC 15 reports.

Rossi told ABC 15 she was in the shower when her daughter told her the officers were at the door. She grabbed a towel and slung it around herself before answering. She told the officers to wait at the door so she could get a cell phone to record the encounter, and closed it behind her.

“I start to walk into my living room, I probably get maybe five steps in, and all of the sudden I just hear boots running in after me, telling me, ‘stop or I’ll arrest you,'” she told the station.

“Don’t take the attitude with cops, because we don’t play,” he says as she sobs. “When a cop shows up, you’re not the one in charge. I don’t care if this is your house. You understand me?”

Well cops are always right, right?
 
Officer Freindly and Officer Unfriendly

Captured on his cell phone-

"Why are you arresting me ?"

“Because I feel like arresting you,” the officer, who the American Civil Liberties Union identifies as Officer Rod Webber, replies in the short video.

This exchange happens after Webber calmly threatens Jeylani, who does not appear to be offering any resistance whatsoever. “Plain and simple,” Webber tells Jeylani, “if you fuck with me I’m going to break your legs before you even get a chance to run.”

According to the ACLU, Jeylani and four of his friends — all of whom are black teenagers — were pulled over after making a U-turn in a parking lot in South Minneapolis. The four young men had been playing basketball at a YMCA. Despite Officer Webber’s statement that Jeylani was arrested because the cop felt like arresting him, the police claim that they suspected the four youth of stealing the car they were driving."

The color of the car and the make of the stolen car, did not match the car of the teens they arrested.

Blue Honda Civic was stolen, the teens were in a blue Toyota Camry.
The teen had all of his registration,insurance, and license under his name.

False premise, good excuse, but false.

Bullying, plain and simple.

http://policebrutalityagainstblackm...05/cops-friendly-sentence-sums-up-police.html
 
Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland violated police policies: investigators

The trooper who made the arrest violated procedures and the agency’s courtesy policy, the Department of Public Safety said.

“At the conclusion of this investigation, any violations of protocols will be addressed,” it said in a statement that gave no further details.

I'll bet the give him a severe dressing down before he goes back on duty too.
 
Single mom arrested for ‘abandoning’ her kids at food court while interviewing for job 30 feet away

Where you ask?
Houston Texas.

Laura Browder said she took her 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son with her to a mall for a suddenly scheduled job interview because she didn’t have enough time to line up child care. According to Browder, she bought the children lunch at the McDonald’s in the food court and sat them at a table approximately 30 feet away and well within sight while she interviewed.

Browder was taken into custody by police when she went to claim her kids, after someone at the mall called police saying the children had been left there crying.

Texas Cops suck at their job.
 
Colorado cop brutally slams woman to the floor in hospital hallway, knocking out her teeth

Colorado dick.

Describing himself as 6’3″ tall and approximately 210 pounds — and noting Acker is only 5’4″ and 110 pounds, — Walker stated he was “able to easily physically control Ms. Acker out of the house,” before taking her to Memorial Hospital where the altercation took place.

According to Acker’s attorney, “She has injuries that will be permanent. Not only the dental, the jaw. She has a head injury. I think she is still with her doctors trying to get to the bottom of what that is.”

According to KKTV, Walker is is the son of the former Deputy Chief of Police, Rod Walker.

She kicked at his leg, so he slams he face down on the floor? Watch the video at the bottom.
 
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WTF is up, with his two officer buddies and their Square dance, after her face is smashed into the floor ? Peek-a-boo, behind the partition curtain ?

Are the police officers suffering from roid rage ?
A clear example of over- reacting.
 
WATCH: NYPD officers beat young black man who had his hands up over allegedly-stolen pizza

grocery store surveillance video shows a young black man holding his hands up in surrender before two New York police officers start pounding him in the head over the suspected theft of a $3 slice of pizza.

Thomas Jennings, 24, can be seen in the surveillance camera video leaning on the counter at a grocery store in Brooklyn on July 7, when NYPD officer Lenny Lutchman approaches from behind and immediately starts shoving him in the chest and grabbing his wrist. Jenning appears surprised and raises both hands in surrender.

Suddenly, Lutchman’s partner Pearce Martinez runs in and without breaking his stride or saying anything, rains down a full-force right hand punch to Jennings’ head. He continues to pummel him and Lutchman joins in, hitting Jennings with his baton. During the beating, Jennings remains curled over the counter and doesn’t fight back.

While Martinez handcuffs Jennings, Lutchman continues striking him, even though Martinez is facing no challenge from Jennings, who appears to helpfully put his hand behind his back.

They missed the "Public Courtesy" class apparently.
 
Sandra Bland died because she was ‘arrogant from the beginning’

Says a retired NYPD cop. Obviously a different view from the other guests.

CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck argued on Tuesday that a Texas woman would not have died in police custody if she had not been “arrogant from the very beginning.”

Disturbing dashcam video released on Tuesday shows a Texas trooper pulling Sandra Bland over for failure to signal, but the incident quickly escalates when she refuses to put out a lit cigarette, prompting the officer to remove her from the vehicle. The 28-year-old black woman was found dead in a county jail cell three days later under suspicious circumstances.
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“An officer does have the choice to bring anyone out of the vehicle when he stops them for his own safety,” Houck told CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday. “The whole thing here is that she was very arrogant from the beginning, very dismissive of the officer, alright?”

CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill pointed out that Bland did not have a legal responsibility to “kiss the officer’s butt.”
 
One day after Sandra Bland’s death, 18-year-old Kindra Chapman was found dead in jail

Just one day after Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell in Texas, another young black woman, Kindra Chapman, was found in eerily similar circumstances in a jail cell in Alabama.

The 18-year-old was arrested July 14 on accusations she stole a cell phone, according to AL.com. She was booked just before 6:30 p.m. and found unresponsive in her cell at 7:50 p.m. Like Bland, authorities have blamed Chapman’s death on suicide by hanging. Like Bland, Chapman’s family said the teen had a full and happy life and do not believe she committed suicide. Like Bland, Black Lives Matter activists have joined her family in demanding answers.

WTF?
 
Denver police shoot and kill a mentally ill Native American man holding a knife to his own throat

It not just a southern problem.

enver police shot and killed a Native American man earlier this month after his mother called for help during a mental health emergency.

Paul Castaway, a Rosebud Sioux Tribal Citizen, had battled schizophrenia and drug and alcohol addiction for years.
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His mother, Lynn Eagle Feather, said she could usually calm her son down when he had a crisis, but she sometimes needed help from police — as she did July 13 when Castaway threatened her with a knife.

Police said he got “dangerously close” to them with the weapon, and officers opened fire — killing the 35-year-old Castaway.

But witnesses and surveillance video tell a different story.

“I actually saw the surveillance video that shows the shooting,” reported Tammy Vigil, a local reporter for KDVR who saw the video shortly after the shooting. “[You see Paul Castaway] with the knife to his own neck the whole time — then police shoot him.”

The manager of a nearby mobile home park has the video, which he showed to the TV reporter and some of Castaway’s relatives, and he said the recording shows Castaway walk through an iron fence and then around a wooded fence to a dead end.

The housing manager said Castaway turned around and walked toward a street — with the knife held to his own throat — and police shot him.

“He was probably trying to figure out a place to run, and they didn’t let him go,” said cousin Rick Morado. “They trapped him like a mouse and they killed him.”

Native Americans were killed by police at a higher rate than any other racial group in the country between 1999 and 2011, according to an analysis by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice analysis of Centers for Disease Control.
 
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