A black man is recov­er­ing from mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds after being shot in the back by police dur­ing a traf­fic stop, but his fam­i­ly and attor­neys are ques­tion­ing why cops even stopped him in the first place.
The Columbus Division of Police released the body cam­era video of the cow­ard­ly shoot­ing of 66-year-old Michael Cleveland in the back in Columbus, Ohio, on Feb. 5. Officer Joshua Ohlinger shot Cleveland as he ran away at about 3:05 p.m. Cleveland ran after the police pulled him over near Wilson and Stanley Avenues. His attor­ney says he may nev­er walk again. “One of those shots hit him in his spinal cord…and he’s unlike­ly ever to walk again,” said attor­ney Sean Walton.

In this case, a crit­i­cal piece of evi­dence is that at about the 1:06 stage of the video, the cops fig­ured out who was dri­ving the black pick­up truck.
One cop remarked, “Oh, it’s that fuck­ing Michael Cleveland.”
The oth­er cop responds, “Oh, is it”?
Material evi­dence that they both knew who Michael Cleveland was. That the shoot­ing was a pre­med­i­tat­ed case of attempt­ed murder.
After Ohlinger approached Cleveland, Michael Cleveland ran into an alley­way; Ohlinger gave chase.
At around the 1:19 mark in the video, Ohlinger pulls his taser, then puts the taser back and pulls his ser­vice weapon about a sec­ond later.
At about the 1:25 mark, Michael Cleveland, with his back turned to Ohlinger and in full flight, drops what cops say was a gun upon which Ohlinger fires a series of six shits, strik­ing mis­ter Cleveland in the back as he fled.
No ratio­nal jus­ti­fi­ca­tion exists in any coun­try gov­erned by the rule of law for police offi­cers to shoot some­one flee­ing from them. Worse yet, a per­son who had com­mit­ted no crime as far as the cop knew when he decid­ed to approach the individual.
Regardless of Michael Cleveland’s his­to­ry, no cop can be giv­en carte blanche to shoot a per­son down like a rabid dog.

As soon as he parked in a lot behind a build­ing, Cleveland exit­ed his truck and ran between two build­ings, prompt­ing Ohlinger to say, “Hey, sir? Hey, sir?” before chas­ing him.
A few sec­onds lat­er, Ohlinger yelled, “Hey, hands up,” and imme­di­ate­ly unloaded six shots into Cleveland. After shoot­ing Cleveland, Ohlinger yelled, “Show me your hands! Hands Up!” Cleveland replied that he couldn’t. Ohlinger then asked, “Where’s the gun.” “It wasn’t what we expect­ed to see, like my dad falling straight for­ward. We didn’t know if he was dead or alive,” said LaKeya Cleveland. In a slow-motion ver­sion of the video, Cleveland could be seen drop­ping an object on the right side of his body. The police said the item was a gun. 

Ohlinger also shot a 17-year-old boy run­ning from a traf­fic stop last August. He was not pros­e­cut­ed for that crime but was allowed back onto the streets to cause more may­hem in the black community..
NBC4 report­ed that the teen and his 18-year-old pas­sen­ger were both armed and ran from the back seat of a vehi­cle dur­ing the stop. The teenag­er sur­vived and is report­ed­ly sta­ble. Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said that Ohlinger was on leave for three months fol­low­ing the shoot­ing, which would mean he’d only been back on duty for a few months before shoot­ing Cleveland. Court records showed that Cleveland had a Sig Sauer .40-cal­iber pis­tol on him and was charged with hav­ing a weapon while under disability.
Definition of hav­ing a weapon while under disability.
The Law pro­hibits cer­tain per­sons like fugi­tives from jus­tice, drug depen­dent per­sons, men­tal­ly incom­pe­tent per­sons etc, from acquir­ing, hav­ing, car­ry­ing, or using firearms. If a fugi­tive from jus­tice car­ries firearms, he or she is said to have a weapon while under dis­abil­i­ty.
Example of a state statute (Ohio) on hav­ing weapons while under disability.

(A) Unless relieved from dis­abil­i­ty as pro­vid­ed in sec­tion 2923.14 of the Revised Code, no per­son shall know­ing­ly acquire, have, car­ry, or use any firearm or dan­ger­ous ord­nance, if any of the fol­low­ing apply:

(1) The per­son is a fugi­tive from justice.

(2) The per­son is under indict­ment for or has been con­vict­ed of any felony offense of vio­lence or has been adju­di­cat­ed a delin­quent child for the com­mis­sion of an offense that, if com­mit­ted by an adult, would have been a felony offense of violence.

(3) The per­son is under indict­ment for or has been con­vict­ed of any offense involv­ing the ille­gal pos­ses­sion, use, sale, admin­is­tra­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, or traf­fick­ing in any drug of abuse or has been adju­di­cat­ed a delin­quent child for the com­mis­sion of an offense that, if com­mit­ted by an adult, would have been an offense involv­ing the ille­gal pos­ses­sion, use, sale, admin­is­tra­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, or traf­fick­ing in any drug of abuse.

(4) The per­son is drug depen­dent, in dan­ger of drug depen­dence, or a chron­ic alcoholic.

(5) The per­son is under adju­di­ca­tion of men­tal incom­pe­tence, has been adju­di­cat­ed as a men­tal defec­tive, has been com­mit­ted to a men­tal insti­tu­tion, has been found by a court to be a men­tal­ly ill per­son sub­ject to hos­pi­tal­iza­tion by court order, or is an invol­un­tary patient oth­er than one who is a patient only for pur­pos­es of obser­va­tion. As used in this divi­sion, “men­tal­ly ill per­son sub­ject to hos­pi­tal­iza­tion by court order” and “patient” have the same mean­ings as in sec­tion 5122.01 of the Revised Code.

Bryant avoid­ed ques­tions about why Cleveland was stopped in the first place. She said that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was inves­ti­gat­ing while not­ing some­times such cas­es could take up to three years. Cleveland’s fam­i­ly wants the offi­cers to be removed from street patrol until the inves­ti­ga­tion into the shoot­ing is com­plete. “Again, BCI has this inves­ti­ga­tion,” she said. “We can’t inter­view the offi­cer, we can’t talk about this, this is all part of their actu­al inves­ti­ga­tion. All we can do is actu­al­ly show you what we actu­al­ly saw on the video, so that’s all I can go into right now.” According to a report from ABC6, Cleveland was charged with a weapons vio­la­tion, and pros­e­cu­tors have agreed to pur­sue an indict­ment. His fam­i­ly is call­ing for a probe by the U.S. Department of Justice.
So the man who gets six bul­lets placed in his back will be pros­e­cut­ed for hav­ing a weapon in a coun­try with over four hun­dred mil­lion guns, but the attempt­ed mur­der­er is not charged.
The inves­ti­ga­tions into his clear-cut attempt to kill a man run­ning away is like­ly to take up to three years before a deci­sion is made that he act­ed appropriately.
How can any­one have faith in a sys­tem so fun­da­men­tal­ly cor­rupt and inher­ent­ly racist?
Corrupt judges and pros­e­cu­tors are things I talk about as I delve into America’s police vio­lent and mur­der­ous rampage.
Corrupt Prosecutors and Judges con­tin­ue to shield police on the belief that the peo­ple they bru­tal­ize and mur­der are col­lat­er­al dam­age, worth­while casu­al­ties in their so-called war to main­tain order.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

Imagine sit­ting in your car in a strip mall on New Year’s eve, talk­ing to your fans and sub­scribers on social media. Imagine being glad that you end­ed the year and being excit­ed about the prospects for what the new year, mere hours away, will bring. When sud­den­ly, you have a gun point­ed dead in your chest and some­one threat­en­ing to put a bul­let dead in your chest if you as much as move.

If you have nev­er looked into the busi­ness end of a gun, it may be easy for you to shrug and move on. However, this was no sim­ple mat­ter for a young Los Angeles Rapper Darral Scott, also known as Feezy Lebron, on New Year’s at about 5:45 p.m. as he sat in his car on the 14900 block of Crenshaw Boulevard in Gardena.
The sad thing about what hap­pened to the young man is that civil­ian thugs did not approach him. He was approached by uni­formed thugs paid with [his] tax dol­lars. They threat­ened to end his life for absolute­ly no rea­son if he dared even to move.

“I was scared to death,” Scott said dur­ing a press con­fer­ence, “I did­n’t think I was going to make it home to see my kids. The L A Sheriff’s depart­ment is already a cesspool of crim­i­nal­i­ty, includ­ing the unlaw­ful mur­der of count­less inno­cent unarmed and even men­tal­ly inca­pac­i­tat­ed indi­vid­u­als. Additionally, the morass is report­ed to have crim­i­nal gangs of deputies who com­mit all kinds of crimes against cit­i­zens and then brag about them. Some reports indi­cate deputies wear tat­toos iden­ti­fy­ing them­selves as gang mem­bers with­in that sher­if­f’s department.

The depart­ment, in response to the inci­dent, said deputies had not­ed there was a miss­ing license plate on the vehi­cle, but body cam­era footage released by the depart­ment shows the inci­dent quick­ly esca­lat­ed, with one deputy point­ing his hand­gun into the car while Scott had his hands raised. Video shows one deputy reach­ing into the car to pull Scott out. The sec­ond deputy then approach­es the dri­ver’s side of the car and starts to shake a can of pep­per spray. “All right, I’m just gonna spray him, dude, watch out,” he tells his part­ner. “Get out or you’re get­ting sprayed.” “Get out for what?” Scott is heard ask­ing repeat­ed­ly. The deputy then pulls out his hand­gun and points it at Scott, accord­ing to the footage. “You take off in this car, I’m [gonna] shoot you,” the deputy said. “I’m going to make it super easy on you. You put this car on dri­ve; you’re get­ting one to the chest. I don’t care what you got, I don’t care if you got bull— on you but, guess what bro, now you got­ta deal with it.” Scott is hand­cuffed and detained. He was released with a tick­et for a miss­ing license plate.

Imagine approach­ing a car miss­ing a license plate, with no under­stand­ing of why the plate was miss­ing, and your first default is to draw your weapon and threat­en to shoot some­one you have nev­er seen and who has com­mit­ted no crime as far as you are aware.
The thug­gish ani­mals who threat­ened to kill the unarmed young man did so, know­ing full well that their body cams were on. Imagine the lev­el of con­fi­dence they must feel, know­ing that noth­ing will be done to them.
The way these depart­ments are run one would think L A res­i­dents are liv­ing in Mexico and not in the United States. This Sheriff’s depart­ment is a ver­i­ta­ble crim­i­nal enterprise.
According to the New Yorker, whis­tle-blow­ers say that a group called the Banditos func­tions as a shad­ow gov­ern­ment with­in local law enforce­ment. The for­mer sher­iff Alex Villanueva lied that there was no such gang in his department.
“According to a law­suit filed by eight East L.A. deputies and the A.C.L.U., the Banditos gang “con­trols the East Los Angeles sta­tion like inmates run­ning a prison yard.” Leaders, known as “shot-callers,” deter­mined deputies’ hours, pro­mo­tions, even days off. On patrol, they oper­at­ed in the gray areas of law enforce­ment. Gonzalez said that they per­pet­u­at­ed “the code of silence, the cul­ture of the ghet­to gun­slinger.” She added, “What makes East L.A. so unique is it’s embed­ded with­in the Hispanic machis­mo cul­ture and the Hispanic street gangs.”
That infor­ma­tion came from deputies who were shocked at what they saw there.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

By Nora Neus

An autop­sy report clas­si­fied the death of Gershun Freeman in a Memphis prison last fall as a homicide.

The death of a Black man in a Memphis jail after a fight with cor­rec­tions offi­cers has been clas­si­fied as a homi­cide, accord­ing to a just-released autop­sy report.
Gershun Freeman, 33, died at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis on October 5, 2022. The autop­sy report, con­duct­ed by the coun­ty med­ical exam­in­er and released Thursday, says Freeman “had a car­diac arrest” after the alter­ca­tion, which end­ed in offi­cers restrain­ing him. “CPR was ini­ti­at­ed,” but unsuc­cess­ful. Freeman was pro­nounced dead at the scene. The Shelby County District Attorney’s office is now review­ing his death.

The case is attract­ing atten­tion in a city still com­ing to terms with the vio­lent police beat­ing death of Tyre Nichols on January 7. VICE News has con­firmed that the Nichols’ fam­i­ly attor­ney, Benjamin Crump, will also rep­re­sent the fam­i­ly of Gershun Freeman. Crump’s local co-coun­sel, Jake Brown, told VICE that he has watched sur­veil­lance video of the inci­dent inside the jail. “The video began with Mr. Freeman in an iso­la­tion cell, naked,” Brown said. “And he was shout­ing at the cam­era that was in the cell… there were no sounds and [we] couldn’t make out what he was say­ing, but he was very agi­tat­ed about some­thing, pos­si­bly hav­ing some sort of psy­chot­ic episode.” The autop­sy report not­ed a his­to­ry of psy­chosis. “Not long after, the cam­era switched to one out­side of the cell, and you could see sev­er­al offi­cers come to his door and open it. And it’s not clear why they opened it,” Brown told VICE. “Mr. Freeman ran out of his cell.” At that point, Brown said a group of offi­cers arrived and appeared to try to appre­hend him, “but they were also strik­ing him repeat­ed­ly with batons, fists… at least one offi­cer struck him on the head with what appeared to be a pep­per spray container.” 

“There was pro­nounced strik­ing, [and] I’m not an expert on this but it seemed to be that there could have been more effi­cient ways to get ahold of this guy and sub­due him rather than just strik­ing him. But that’s what was hap­pen­ing,” Brown said. According to Brown, the sur­veil­lance video then shows Freeman run­ning out of the unit, called a “pod,” through mul­ti­ple open doors, and up an esca­la­tor to an upper floor. “When he got to the upper floor, he was sort of sur­round­ed and then sort of set upon by at least three or four deputies, who had him face down on the ground, they were on top of him. And they stayed on top of him for sev­er­al min­utes at least.” Brown said the video shows med­ical per­son­nel in scrubs even­tu­al­ly arriv­ing, and attempt­ing to ren­der treat­ment, but when they picked up Freeman’s body, it was limp and there was a pud­dle of blood under where he had been lying, espe­cial­ly around his head. The autop­sy found Freeman’s cause of death to be exac­er­ba­tion of “car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease due to phys­i­cal alter­ca­tion and sub­d­ual.” The autop­sy clas­si­fies the death as a homi­cide, but notes that it is “not meant to defin­i­tive­ly indi­cate crim­i­nal intent.” The autop­sy also not­ed mul­ti­ple con­tu­sions on Freeman’s body, scalp lac­er­a­tions and mul­ti­ple hem­or­rhages in his head and neck. Brown says one of those hem­or­rhages, a 7 by 3 cen­time­ters on the large mus­cle in Freeman’s neck that runs par­al­lel to the carotid artery, sug­gests con­sis­tent pres­sure applied on Freeman’s neck.

“What we’re look­ing at now is try­ing to deter­mine the like­li­hood that that was the result of a knee on the neck or some kind of choke hold used,” Brown says. His team has com­mis­sioned an inde­pen­dent autop­sy by a foren­sic pathol­o­gist based in Little Rock, Arkansas, which has not yet been com­plet­ed. Freeman had only been booked into the Shelby County jail four days ear­li­er, on charges of aggra­vat­ed kid­nap­ping and domes­tic vio­lence. His bond was set at $75,000. In a state­ment, the Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy says upon learn­ing of the death in October, he “imme­di­ate­ly called in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to inves­ti­gate.” But after receiv­ing the autop­sy report on Wednesday evening, his office announced that its own Justice Review Unit will “review” the TBI’s inves­ti­ga­tion and make a rec­om­men­da­tion to DA Mulroy once com­plete. In a phone call with VICE News, the Shelby County Sheriff’s office declined to com­ment on the case, not­ing that it was an active inves­ti­ga­tion. Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr. is cur­rent­ly a can­di­date for may­or of Memphis. The elec­tion is sched­uled for the one-year anniver­sary of Freeman’s death, October 5, 2023. Brown said Freeman’s fam­i­ly wants answers and account­abil­i­ty from the Sheriff’s depart­ment. “They are try­ing to come to terms with the fact that their son went into the Shelby County Jail on his own two feet and, the way his moth­er puts it, he came out with a toe tag.”

Ladonna Paris, 70, a great-grand­moth­er and Black woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, filed a civ­il rights law­suit against the police, the city, and Mayor G.T. Bynum. Alleging that she was attacked and arrest­ed while she was hav­ing a men­tal health cri­sis, Paris said she was ter­ri­fied at the time of the October incident.

“I was mocked, taunt­ed, and bru­tal­ized,” Paris said dur­ing a Tuesday news con­fer­ence and that the video gave her a sur­re­al feel­ing. “It was like watch­ing some­body else, and I would say to myself when they were doing these things, ‘Oh poor Ladonna,’” Paris said.

The inci­dent took place at Phillips Theological Seminary, where Paris was attend­ing grad­u­ate school when wit­ness­es called 911 to report con­cerns over her men­tal state. Upon an ambu­lance arriv­ing, Paris drove to a near­by store where she locked her­self in a bath­room and refused to leave after police arrived, accord­ing to the lawsuit.

“Amid a bipo­lar man­ic episode, which includ­ed para­noia and delu­sions, Ms. Paris was afraid the offi­cers would kill her, so she locked her­self in the bath­room and would not come out,” the law­suit states. According to attor­ney Damario Solomon-Simmons, Officer Ronni Carrocci, who is white, is seen on police video bang­ing on the door to the bath­room where Paris was inside. “You want to get tased … I love my job,” Carroci said as she turned toward the camera.

“She’s so 85,” Carrioca lat­er, and still on video, said using the police code for a per­son need­ing men­tal health treat­ment, accord­ing to Solomon-Simmons.
“She (Carrioca) did all of this on video, know­ing she was on video,” Solomon-Simmons said. “She was so gid­dy about it; it was dis­gust­ing.” Being made aware of the law­suit, the city declined to com­ment on pend­ing lit­i­ga­tion. The law­suit was filed in Tulsa County District Court and alleges 14 civ­il rights vio­la­tions, includ­ing exces­sive use of force, ignor­ing Paris’ med­ical needs, ignor­ing train­ing, and assault.

Paris seeks jus­tice and account­abil­i­ty by the city and police for the offi­cers’ actions, and more than $75,000 in actu­al dam­ages and unspec­i­fied com­pen­sa­tion for puni­tive dam­ages and legal fees, accord­ing to Solomon-Simmons. “We want a judge to say this is not con­sti­tu­tion­al polic­ing; this is unac­cept­able,” Solomon-Simmons said. (Essence​.com)

Read Trevor Aaronson’s insight­ful and reveal­ing Article on what the FBI con­tin­ues to do to the Black com­mu­ni­ty as black peo­ple fight against racial injus­tice in the United States.
Christopher Wray still heads the FBI, even as these star­tling rev­e­la­tions come to light and the Republicans on the House weaponiza­tion pan­el attempt to paint a pic­ture that makes it appear that there was a plot against right-wing activists.
While Donald Trump and the FBI were busy attempt­ing to frame ordi­nary black pro­tes­tors as ter­ror­ists, it is impor­tant to rec­on­cile that white provo­ca­teurs were actu­al­ly engaged in vio­lence and arson.
White provo­ca­teurs were try­ing to get peace­ful demon­stra­tors to com­mit crimes through entrap­ment to pro­vide evi­dence to bol­ster Donald Trump’s lies.
It is impor­tant to process Aaronson’s work with the knowl­edge that the great­est threat to nation­al secu­ri­ty is white supremacy/​white nationalism.
The FBI, which has nev­er had a Democrat head­ing the agency and has been report­ed to be a hotbed of con­ser­vatism, is now accused of being par­tial to the left.
Republicans pro­ject­ing !!! (mb)

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Agents sus­pect­ed these demon­stra­tors could fit into a domes­tic ter­ror­ism ide­ol­o­gy the bureau had defined dur­ing the first year of the Trump admin­is­tra­tion as “Black Identity Extremism”: a con­tro­ver­sial, wide­ly crit­i­cized catchall label for any domes­tic extrem­ist ide­ol­o­gy that drew a Black fol­low­ing. (The FBI has since aban­doned the term in favor of a new cat­e­go­ry called “Racially Motivated Violent Extremism,” which com­bines white suprema­cist vio­lence with so-called Black Identity Extremism.)
What’s been pub­licly known about the fed­er­al government’s activ­i­ty dur­ing the sum­mer of 2020 is aston­ish­ing: The Justice Department charged hun­dreds of peo­ple for their roles in First Amendment-pro­tect­ed demon­stra­tions; the Department of Homeland Security deployed more than 750 agents, dressed in mil­i­tary-style uni­forms, to Portland and abduct­ed demon­stra­tors in unmarked vans; and the Drug Enforcement Administration, using sur­veil­lance pow­ers intend­ed to stop drug run­ners, spied on more than 50 racial jus­tice groups nation­wide, among them a peace­ful group that held a vig­il on a pub­lic uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus in Florida.
Read the arti­cle here.…..https://​thein​ter​cept​.com/​2​0​2​3​/​0​2​/​0​7​/​f​b​i​-​d​e​n​v​e​r​-​r​a​c​i​a​l​-​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​-​p​r​o​t​e​s​t​s​-​i​n​f​o​r​m​a​nt/

Alonzo Harmon, a Black man who works as an HVAC tech­ni­cian in Golden Valley, Minnesota, is out­raged after his client called the police on him, sobbed hys­ter­i­cal­ly while speak­ing with the oper­a­tor and claimed that he’s threat­en­ing her. Harmon record­ed the woman as she was cry­ing on the phone, then post­ed the video on TikTok.

The post-Minnesota Woman Calls Police On Black AC Technician While He’s Working, Sobs Uncontrollably And Claims To Be Threatened appeared first on Blavity.

Standing out­side the garage as the woman was call­ing 911, Harmon lis­tened to her claims and strug­gled to believe what was hap­pen­ing to him.

“He says I’m rude, and he just threat­ened me right now,” the woman said on her call. ”

While he con­tin­ues to record the video, Harmon asks the woman to tell him what threat he made. But she ignores his ques­tion and pro­ceeds to talk on the phone.

“Please, please, please! I’m so scared right now!” the woman yells on the call. “I’m shak­ing right now! Please, please! …I’m so scared!”

Let’s be clear about polic­ing in the United as it relates to polic­ing; it is not bro­ken. It works exact­ly as it was designed, i.e., police offi­cers are giv­en over­whelm­ing pow­ers over cit­i­zens large­ly with­out consequences.
With an under­stand­ing that on the exe­cu­tion end, those pow­ers would be uti­lized against Blacks and Native people.
The only snag in that con­struct is that cell­phone cam­eras have brought the grue­some­ness of what police have been doing to black peo­ple for cen­turies front and center.
Though nau­se­at­ed by the behav­ior of the police after decades of watch­ing their actions, see­ing vivid video evi­dence of their actions, and doing the nec­es­sary read­ing and research, I refuse to give all of the blame to them.
Police are the low­est on the totem pole. Police are the last in line, those who exe­cute the devi­ous poli­cies enshrined into laws designed to con­tin­ue the prac­tice of white suprema­cy and sub­se­quent sub­ju­ga­tion of blacks in America.
It is a [sys­tem] that oper­ates like a well-oiled machine begin­ning with state and fed­er­al leg­is­la­tors, judges, pros­e­cu­tors, police, and oth­er cogs in the wheel of injustice.
One of the more frus­trat­ing aspects of the social jus­tice fight has been the intran­si­gence of the courts to cor­rect the behav­ior of police by rul­ing in a straight­for­ward way that leaves no doubt about what police offi­cers can get away with.
From the high­est fed­er­al court to the low­est town court, jus­tices and judges have cast aside the con­sti­tu­tion of the United States to cre­ate judi­cial immu­ni­ty for cops.

The most infu­ri­at­ing aspect of this mur­der­ous sys­tem in the United States that pass­es for law enforce­ment is the total bull­shit they feed the pop­u­la­tion when police mur­der inno­cent unarmed civilians.
With every case that stretch­es the bound­aries of creduli­ty, they stretch the ratio­nale for what is jus­ti­fied for police use of force.
But that is only the begin­ning of it; with what we are wit­ness­ing today, it is laugh­able that uncor­rob­o­rat­ed police tes­ti­mo­ny would be accept­ed by a court to con­vict an individual.
Regardless of the num­ber of cops that tes­ti­fy to an event, their tes­ti­mo­ny should [not] be used to con­vict with­out sub­stan­tial inde­pen­dent cor­rob­o­ra­tion. It is unfor­tu­nate, but that is where we are as a soci­ety. They are a bunch of liars, plain and simple.
The sad real­i­ty is that far too many Americans are mis­in­formed, con­sumed by racial hatred, or both. As such, the anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic forces that require a police state for its legit­i­ma­cy and sur­vival con­vince them that the bar­bar­ic mur­der of some cit­i­zens is nec­es­sary for their well-being and survival.
It is the domes­tic equiv­a­lent of the Islamic ter­ror­ist boogey­man and what they fed the nation to jus­ti­fy wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, “if we don’t fight them over there, we will have to fight them over here.”
There is no out­right war against Islamic Terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, so the black com­mu­ni­ty is pub­lic ene­my num­ber one.
They have con­vinced them­selves and the nation that mur­der is jus­ti­fied even when there is no crime, and no vic­tim, as long as the police deem it warranted.(mb)
How is this dif­fer­ent than what was done to George Floyd or Tyree Nichols?
Let us wait to see if these white killers will face imme­di­ate ter­mi­na­tion and crim­i­nal indict­ment as the black­ones in Memphis.

police release body camera video in arrest of man who died after tasing

The city of Raleigh released body cam­era, dash cam­era and sur­veil­lance video Friday show­ing the January arrest of a man who died after police offi­cers tased him three times. Darryl “Tyree” Williams died after being tased with stun guns three times by two Raleigh police offi­cers on Jan. 17. He was 32 years old. Officers J.T. Thomas and C.D. Robinson were patrolling on Rock Quarry Road when they saw Williams in a car out­side a sweep­stakes par­lor, accord­ing to a report police issued after the fatal encounter. In the videos Thomas calls for back­up, and Officer D. L. Aquino lat­er arrives. Thomas approach­es Williams’ car and finds two peo­ple, one in the driver’s seat and one in the passenger’s.
The videos show Williams get­ting out of the car as an offi­cer asks him mul­ti­ple times to sit on a curb. He repeat­ed­ly asks offi­cers why he is being stopped and why he is being asked to sit on the curb.
While offi­cers search the vehi­cle, the videos show Robinson find­ing and remov­ing a fold­ed, dol­lar bill from Williams’ pants pock­et con­tain­ing what police have pre­vi­ous­ly described as “a white pow­dery sub­stance con­sis­tent with the appear­ance of cocaine.”
Police offi­cer J.R. Scott arrives soon after.

Four offi­cers attempt to take Williams into cus­tody, but he “con­tin­ued to resist their efforts and was able to over­pow­er and pull away from them,” the police report states. Officers warn Williams to “stop or you are going to get tased,” the videos show. “Mr. Williams con­tin­ued to active­ly resist the offi­cers by push­ing them and refus­ing to place his hands behind his back,” the report con­tin­ues. “At this point, Officer Robinson deployed his Taser, tem­porar­i­ly stop­ping Mr. Williams and caus­ing him to fall to the ground in front of one of the busi­ness­es in the area.” During the exchange, Williams was pushed into garbage. The report says Williams man­aged to break away and run. When offi­cers caught up with him, both Thomas and Robinson deployed their stun guns on Williams’ body. Two offi­cers on the video are seen on top of Williams, all with tasers drawn. After the sec­ond time he was tased, Williams told the offi­cers he had a heart condition.

“I have heart prob­lems. Please … please,” Williams cries to the offi­cers. Williams was tased twice while he was on the ground with mul­ti­ple offi­cers on top of him. “Relax man, relax,” one of the offi­cers is heard say­ing on the videos. EMS was called to the scene after Williams seems to have lost con­scious­ness. “Is he breath­ing?” one of the offi­cers asks. “I don’t feel a pulse.” Several more offi­cers arrive while the offi­cers debat­ed Williams’ phys­i­cal con­di­tion. For sev­er­al min­utes they ques­tioned if Williams had a pulse and if he was breath­ing. Eventually, offi­cers deter­mined he was not breath­ing and did not have a pulse and began CPR while EMS was en route. Around 2 a.m., Williams was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal for his injuries. He was pro­nounced dead at 3:00 a.m.