Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)

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Update on The Kendrick Johnson Case: altered videos

"Kendrick Johnson Update:Feds seized GYM MAT from sheriff AND audio of 911 calls and more video. JUSTICE IS COMING!#justice4kj#optitletown "

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Umaara E.‏@UmaaraIynaas
they're always trying to cover stuff up RT@1Sade_ Look y'all#KendrickJohnson

 

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Remember this?

When Rolling Stone going to put Eric Garner, or Tamir Rice, or Lennon Lacy, or Trayvon Martin, or Mike Brown, or Kendrick Johnson, or Aiyana Stanley-Jones, or one of the countless others on the cover?

 

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Millions March LA Phase 1 (Pt. 1)

 

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Jordan Baker

Unarmed Man Shot And Killed By Houston Cop For Wearing A Hoodie While Black

by Rania Khalek on January 26, 2014


Jordan Baker (Source: ABC 13)


Jordan Baker, a 26-year-old Houston Community College student and father, “took his last breath in a trash-strewn alley behind a Northwest Houston strip center” on Thursday, January 16, all because he was a black man wearing a hoodie.


Houston police officer J Castro, an 11-year veteran who was moonlighting as a security guard for the strip mall that night, was on the lookout for hoodie-wearing armed robbery suspects. Castro says Baker, who was unarmed, matched the description and he shot and killed him as a result.


The police version of events, as reported by the local ABC affiliate, follows the predictable “he wasn’t cooperating and the cop was scared for his life” script:


According to police reports, an off-duty officer working security at the strip center, which is at the intersection of Antoine Drive and West Little York Road, Thursday night when he saw Jordan Baker riding his bike through the parking lot and peeking into businesses. When the officer asked Baker for an I.D., he said there was a scuffle, and a footchase, with the officer finally cornering Baker in the alley. The officer told investigators Baker charged toward him, and that’s when he fired his gun.


In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, before Baker was even named as the victim, police falsely told reporters that their officer had killed the man behind the robberies.


Castro, the only witness to the incident, has since been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, as is routine in police-involved shootings. But if Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland’s statement to KHOU 11 News is any indication, Castro’s actions are likely to be deemed justified.


Though McClelland admitted that investigators “found no weapons,” he added that “any police officer’s decision and justification to use deadly force is not absolute on whether the suspect is armed with a weapon.” He continued, “There is no federal, state law nor police training that requires a suspect to be armed. The justification to use deadly force is based on the officer’s perception given the specific circumstances surrounding the incident.”


It seems that in Houston, being black and wearing a hoodie is plenty justification for police to open fire, whether one is armed or not. As community activist Quanell-X put it, “He was guilty of only two things –being a young African male wearing a hoodie at night,” adding “He wants everyone to believe that Jordan rushed him unarmed with no weapon in his hand, with a cop with a gun in his hand. This don’t make no sense at all.”


According to his mother, Janet, Baker was a student at Houston Community College and leaves behind a 7-year-old son, also named Jordan.




Screenshot of Janet Baker speaking with ABC 13 news while surrounded by friends and family.


“He’s not the way they portrayed him. He’s a father. He’s grandson. He’s a son. And he was just taken away,” Janet told ABC 13. As for the police report about what took place that night, “I don’t believe that’s what occurred,” said Janet. “I think that’s [the police chief] trying justify the outcome of what happened.”


“[Jordan] did everything right,” she added. “He’s a college student, he was working part time. He does everything for his son. His son is his life.”




Jordan Baker (ABC 13)


It’s worth mentioning that the police justification for shooting Jordan—that he was wearing a hoodie just like the robbery suspects—is identical to George Zimmerman’s reasoning for murdering Trayvon Martin.


Zimmerman claimed he was protecting his gated community from a potential thief following a series of burglaries and insisted that because Trayvon, a young black male in a hoodie, matched the description of the suspects, he had every right to hunt him down and kill him, an absurd and racist argument that only a bigot would support. But unlike Trayvon’s murder, Jordan’s is unlikely to elicit nationwide protests demanding Castro be brought to justice because, like most police shootings of unarmed black men, when the killer has a badge, racist rationalizations become far more acceptable. So we have to ask ourselves, why is it less reprehensible when a cop does it?

 

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Don’t forget: Ms. Tanya Brown, Brandon Tate-Brown’s mother, will be rallying at the site of his death on Frankford Ave, right in front of John Fanelly’s Podiatrist, across the street from the TD Bank.

The address is: 6650 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa 19135

Please come out to support this amazing woman.

 

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LAPD Puts 'Investigative Hold' On Release Of Ezell Ford Autopsy

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Police Department has delayed the release of a pending autopsy report for Ezell Ford, the 25-year-old unarmed black man with mental illness who an officer fatally shot last week in a South L.A. neighborhood.

"Pending further investigative and forensic analysis, the LAPD Force Investigation Division investigators have requested that The Los Angeles County Coroner place an investigative hold on the pending autopsy report," read an LAPD press release issued Monday.

LAPD Commander Andrew Smith told Southern California public radio station KPCC that investigative holds are common in cases that are currently ongoing and and in active investigations, in order to keep witness testimony from being tainted.


“They could use information from the autopsy to give credibility to their story,” Smith said.
Ed Winter, the assistant chief of investigation at the coroner's office, told The Huffington Post that he didn't know how long the hold would last.

The delay on the Ford autopsy report comes after two autopsy reports were released regarding the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. The autopsy revealed Brown was shot six times.

Brown, who was unarmed, was killed on Aug. 9. More than a week of unrest hasrocked the St. Louis suburb following his death.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of civil rights community forum the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, questioned the LAPD's decision to delay the report, and linked Ford's killing to Brown's.


"The blocking of the autopsy report of Ford comes on the heels of the release of the autopsy report on Michael Brown which contradicted the police version of how Brown was killed," Hutchinson said late Monday. "The blocking of the release Ford autopsy report further fuels suspicions about the LAPD's version of the Ford killing."

LAPD says that on Aug. 11, shortly after 8:10 p.m., two anti-gang officers shot Ford after a struggle ensued during an"investigative stop" and Ford tried to grab one of their firearms.


Eyewitnesses, neighbors and family dispute the police department's story. An eyewitness told KTLA that Ford's mental state was well-known in the neighborhood and to the police.

"They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing mentally, he has complications. Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that -- that this child has mental problems," the man said in an interview with the local network. "The excessive force ... there was no purpose for it. The multiple shootings in the back while he's laying down? No. Then when the mom comes, they don't try to console her ... they pull the billy clubs out."

Another eyewitness told The Huffington Post that he heard a police officer shout"shoot him" before three bullets were unloaded into an unarmed Ezell, who was already on the ground.

Ford's mother told The Huffington Post on Friday that he showed signs of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

No officers were injured during the incident, according to the LAPD. The Force Investigation Division is currently investigating the case.

On Monday evening, about 50 protesters marched in the Florence neighborhoodwhere Ford died, demanding justice for the young man.

Police have yet to identify the officers involved in the fatal shooting.

 

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Sketch from #EzellFord autopsy shows #LAPD shot him twice in front, then once in his back. He was unarmed. Ford was killed 8/11/14. His family didn’t receive autopsy results until today & only following an order from the Mayor. #EndPoliceBrutality #BlackLivesMatter

 

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Dec. 29

• Ferguson Officer Timothy Zoll on unpaid leave after admitting that he initially lied about referring to Mike Brown’s memorial as “a pile of trash” (x) (x)
• How women are leading the #BlackLivesMatter movement (x)
• Civil rights leaders at odds as Ferguson protests grow
• Ferguson business owners take boards down, hopeful for future
• Arrest made in murder of STL police officer
• Is it legal to crack down on #BlackLivesMatter protest leaders?
• The Root names 2014 the Year of the Protester

 

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Dec. 29 Part 2

• 2014: The year of Mike Brown
• Why 2014 could be a turning point for America’s racist criminal justice system
• It’s time to fix grand juries
• On racial issues, America is divided both black and white and red and blue
• 5 reasons why white people can’t really feel black pain
• The NY Police Union’s vile war with Mayor Bill de Blasio
• How the NYPD uses social media to put Harlem teens behind bars
• "I can’t breathe" shirts get California high school teams uninvited from tournament
• Family searches for answers after Sheneque Proctor dies in police custody. Petition requesting federal & state investigation.
• Brandon Tate-Brown’s mother calls on Police Commissioner to enforce use-of-force policies
• Mall security guards who killed unarmed McKenzie Cochran in January won’t be charged

 

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Update on The Kendrick Johnson Case: altered videos




Umaara E.‏@UmaaraIynaas
they're always trying to cover stuff up RT@1Sade_ Look y'all#KendrickJohnson

Holy shyt about fukking time. Hope that cac and his fakkit ass fed dad go down.

 

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December 29

Ezell Ford’s autospy has been released

 

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Holy shyt about fukking time. Hope that cac and his fakkit ass fed dad go down.

For them to go so hard to cover it up, that take strong hate

 

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Dec. 30

• The viral claim that a black person is killed by police every 28 hours is not entirely accurate
• Bob McCulloch has no regrets
• STL Post-Dispatch staffers’ year end review of Ferguson
• Silent march through STL ends loudly at Arch, closes monument
• Quiet protest at STL Cathedral on Christmas Eve. Police show up in riot gear.
• NYPD officer condemns colleagues for turning backs on mayor
• KKK loses lawsuit on handing out pamphlets to drivers in Missouri town. Court documents.
• Understanding the racial bias you didn’t know you had
• Assata Taught Me t-shirts in kid sizes
• Ezell Ford autopsy: shot in back, side, arm by LAPD
• What we can learn from Ella Baker