Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Policeman Arrests Woman for 'Illegally' Recording Traffic Stop
See the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHb44IGkt0
Couple Calls Police for Help With Unwanted Guests But Cops Brutalize Husband
YAKIMA, Wash.-- A man beaten during a police response. His wife claims brutality; police say he wouldn't cooperate. A picture of the aftermath wound up on the KIMA Facebook page.http://www.kimatv.com/home/video/Woman-claims-police-brutality-police-respond-259150441.html
It's a startling image sent to KIMA on our Facebook page: a man beaten up and bloodied after a struggle with police. He's Russell Anderson, and his wife, Joey, is still angry about it.
"My husband stood right here watching everything that was transpiring that night," Joey Anderson said.
It happened one night in late April. The Andersons called police for help to get some unwanted guests off their property. At one point, Joey says Russell grabbed a machete before police got there.
According to the incident report, Russell was inside when officers arrived. They told him to come outside.
"He was unarmed," Joey said. "He had my cell phone in his hand. That's the only thing that he had in his hand."
"Did he stop when they asked him to stop?" KIMA asked.
"He was still proceeding to the first officer," she responded.
When he wouldn't stop, police records indicate officers took him to the ground. Police say he was resisting, which is why the situation escalated.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Cops Throw Cooperative Man to the Ground Head First As He Entered Newly Rented Home
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - A Clayton County man filed a claim against the police department after he says they brutalized him outside his home earlier this month.
Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, 69, says he’s still suffering the after affects of the injuries he claims he received from the officers.
Cell phone video has been released of Clayton County Police appearing to slam Bin-Wahad to the ground on his own front porch. His attorneys think police response was unjustified.
Bin-Wahad tells FOX 5 he was in the process of moving into his newly rented home on West Downing Drive. He was on the second floor when he spotted officers approaching the home with their guns drawn.
They were searching for Bin-Wahad. He complied with everything the officers asked, but he says it wasn’t enough. They handcuffed him and the situation got worse.
According to Bin-Wahad, they threw him into the ground head first.
FOX 5 has obtained statements from the officers and they said Bin-Wahad was ‘uncooperative and verbally abusive.’
Read more: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/25540213/man-claims-police-officers-assaulted-him-outside-his-home#ixzz32KI5fXM6
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Houston Baytown Police Storm House Without Search Warrant on Loud Music Complaint, Taser Grandmother 10 Times
After receiving a noise complaint, Texas police raided a Baytown house and perpetrated several shocking horrors against the family celebrating a birthday party inside — including the repeated use of a taser on a 54-year-old grandmother and the use of pepper spray with young children nearby.
The partygoers — a Mexican family and friends — were apparently playing music too loudly. When the police showed up, they decided to enter the premises through a back gate and storm the house. Horror ensued.
Video footage of the raid shows officers with the Baytown Police Department tackling multiple people, punching and kicking them, and repeatedly using tasers. Video can be found at the KPRC-TV, Local Two News website.
The family claimed that a 54-year-old grandmother was shot with a taser five times as she sat in a chair doing absolutely nothing wrong. The woman does not speak English, and did not understand what police wanted from her.
Also disturbing: 10 small children were inside the house at the time of the raid, and some complained of pepper spray in their eyes.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2a_1399928568#lfErW4X1o8H8Hl2K.99After receiving a noise complaint, Texas police raided a Baytown house and perpetrated several shocking horrors against the family celebrating a birthday party inside — including the repeated use of a taser on a 54-year-old grandmother and the use of pepper spray with young children nearby.After receiving a noise complaint, Texas police raided a Baytown house and perpetrated several shocking horrors against the family celebrating a birthday party inside — including the repeated use of a taser on a 54-year-old grandmother and the use of pepper spray with young children nearby.
The partygoers — a Mexican family and friends — were apparently playing music too loudly. When the police showed up, they decided to enter the premises through a back gate and storm the house. Horror ensued.
Video footage of the raid shows officers with the Baytown Police Department tackling multiple people, punching and kicking them, and repeatedly using tasers. Video can be found at the KPRC-TV, Local Two News website.
The family claimed that a 54-year-old grandmother was shot with a taser five times as she sat in a chair doing absolutely nothing wrong. The woman does not speak English, and did not understand what police wanted from her.
Also disturbing: 10 small children were inside the house at the time of the raid, and some complained of pepper spray in their eyes.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2a_1399928568#lfErW4X1o8H8Hl2K.99
The partygoers — a Mexican family and friends — were apparently playing music too loudly. When the police showed up, they decided to enter the premises through a back gate and storm the house. Horror ensued.
Video footage of the raid shows officers with the Baytown Police Department tackling multiple people, punching and kicking them, and repeatedly using tasers. Video can be found at the KPRC-TV, Local Two News website.
The family claimed that a 54-year-old grandmother was shot with a taser five times as she sat in a chair doing absolutely nothing wrong. The woman does not speak English, and did not understand what police wanted from her.
Also disturbing: 10 small children were inside the house at the time of the raid, and some complained of pepper spray in their eyes.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2a_1399928568#lfErW4X1o8H8Hl2K.99
May 12, 2014 2:35 PMhttp://www.kvoa.com/news/baytown-tx-police-tazer-54-year-old-woman/Baytown, TX police tazer 54-year-old woman
Dozens of angry protesters marched on Texas' Baytown Police Department Sunday calling it's officers criminal and abusive toward Hispanic people.
The complaints coming in the wake of a birthday party last weekend.
Party-goers captured multiple video clips showing officers shoving people to the floor, tasing people with Taser guns and pepper spraying participants at the party, all based on a routine call about loud music at the house.
Community activist Quannel X calls the video clear evidence of police brutality and abuse aimed at people of color.
"The Baytown Police Department has a notorious record of violating the civil rights of Mexicans and Blacks", Quannel says.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
New York Police Recruiting Muslims to Spy On Other Muslims in Mosques. Churches Next?
New York police have been interrogating Muslims who have been arrested for minor crimes in an attempt to continue to recruit informants in the midst of post-9/11 fears, according to The New York Times.http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/05/11/new-york-police-use-questionable-tactics-recruit-muslim-informants/
Over a decade has passed since attacks shook the nation back on Sept. 11, 2001, but the fear of more terrorists’ attacks still lives on.
The Muslim community in the United States bares much of the weight of post-9/11 fears as they are often stereotyped and discriminated against. But their problems in America have extended beyond religious profiling from everyday strangers.
Muslims in New York who had been arrested for small crimes say that police interrogated them after their arrests.
The citizens said they were not asked about the crimes they allegedly committed, but instead they were asked about their religious beliefs, what mosques they attend and what their prayer habits were like.
Eventually, they said the police would finally ask if they would be interested in becoming an informant for the New York Police Department.
While the New York police claim these questions were merely a part of casual conversations, the Muslim citizens who were being interrogated said they certainly did not feel as if they were merely having a conversation.
Moro Said, a 57-year-old limousine driver who had been arrested in Queens, recalled police telling him that if he was able to help them out then “everything will be OK.”
“He said, ‘You just go to mosque and the café and just say to us if somebody is talking about anything, anything suspicious,’ ” Said told The New York Times.
Said also said he found it coercive that the police would bring up the offer to be an informant when he was in custody.
NYPD Ends Controversial Surveillance of Muslim Communities
April 16, 2014
The new administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is making its presence felt in New York City, as the New York Police Department announced that it was disbanding a controversial unit that monitored the actions of the city’s Muslims under the guise of fighting terrorism.
The existence of the unit—first revealed in stories by the Associated Press—had been the focus of lawsuits and angry protests by the Muslim community and civil libertarians.
In published reports, Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, indicated that she and a group of Muslim advocates met last week with police brass and were told by John Miller, the department’s new intelligence chief, that the Zone Assessment Unit was no longer viable.
While she was pleased by the news, Sarsour told the AP she was still concerned about the NYPD using informants to infiltrate mosques without specific evidence of crime.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/04/16/nypd-ends-controversial-surveillance-muslim-communities/
Federal Judge Rules Surveillance of Muslim Community by NYPD is Justified
February 21, 2014
In a decision that is sure to outrage many who value civil liberties, a federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department over the surveillance of Muslim-Americans, claiming the monitoring was justified because police were trying to find terrorists hiding among law-abiding Muslims.
“The police could not have monitored New Jersey for Muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the Muslim community itself,” Judge William Martini, a President George W. Bush appointee, wrote in his controversial decision. “The motive for the program was not solely to discriminate against Muslims, but rather to find Muslim terrorists hiding among ordinary, law-abiding Muslims.”
Martini went further by writing that any harm suffered by the Muslim community was not the fault of the police but of the Associated Press, which broke the story about the surveillance program, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for the series.
According to the AP stories, after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, the NYPD made maps of local Muslim communities, spied on Muslim student organizations, and monitored Muslim businesses, all without evidence of a specific crime or intent to commit one. After all that activity, an NYPD official admitted that the program never resulted in a single investigation.
The lawsuit was initiated by a Muslim civil rights group and the Center for Constitutional Rights. But Martini dismissed the suit, partly hinging his ruling on a 2009 Supreme Court decision dismissing a lawsuit against federal officials over the detention of Arab Muslim men after Sept. 11.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/02/21/federal-judge-rules-surveillance-muslim-community-nypd-justified/
Friday, May 9, 2014
Man Calls Cops to Help With 93 Yr Old Aunt, Cop Kills Her Instead
A group of angry residents on Thursday marched to police headquarters in the Texas town of Pearlie_GoldenHearne to protest an officer who fatally shοt 93 year old Pearlie Golden. The mayor of the small town came outside and informed the protesters that he’d be recommending that the officer who gunned down the elderly woman be fired.
Golden was shοt three times on Tuesday night by Officer Stephen Stem after he responded to a 911 call about a woman carrying a gun. News 3 reports that Golden’s nephew called 911 because he was trying to take away the 93 year old woman’s keys when she got upset and pulled a gun.
In a statement Hearne police said the elderly woman brandished a gun once Officer Stem arrived at her home.
Stem was initially placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.
Robertson County District Attorney Coty Siegert confirmed on Thursday that Golden had been shοt twice in the body and grazed by a third bullet.http://www.yourblackworld.net/2014/05/black-news/texas-mayor-wants-cop-who-gunned-down-93-year-old-woman-fired/
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