NYC PIGS are at it again. Unamrmed Black teen killed

[FreshABM]

The cheers of fellow cops for her unarmed son’s killer stung Constance Malcolm as cruelly as the bitter tears in her eyes.

“That’s how they work,” the heartbroken mom said Wednesday after Officer Richard Haste was sprung on $50,000 bail in the Feb. 2 shooting of Ramarley Graham. “You see it every day.”

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Malcolm and her husband, Franclot Graham, sobbed throughout the Bronx Criminal Court hearing where Haste softly pleaded innocent on his 31st birthday. The weeping Graham faces Father’s Day without his son.

Yet the assembled cops still applauded their brother in blue, who faces up to 25 years in prison, in a salute that struck the Graham family like a slap in the face.

“There is nothing to cheer here,” said Graham family lawyer Jeffrey Emdin. “A young man lost his life, and that is the man who took that life.

“It puts salt in the wounds.”

Courthouse protesters infuriated by the Bronx killing offered a vocal counterpoint to the clapping by taunting the four-year NYPD veteran.

“NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?” the demonstrators chanted at Haste, who appeared in court on crutches after a recent motorcycle accident.

Prosecutor Donald Levin, during the arraignment, said Haste’s decision to fire a single fatal shot into Graham was “neither reasonable or justifiable.”

In the most detailed description yet of the fatal encounter, Levin said Graham and Haste were just a few feet apart inside the cramped second-floor bathroom.

Haste “stood face to face with Ramarley Graham,” his weapon pointed directly at the teen, whose grandmother and 6-year-old brother were nearby, Levin said.

“Ramarley Graham was boxed in the bathroom. He had nowhere to go,” the prosecutor continued, using his hands to pantomime the shooting. “Ramarley was looking at the barrel, the muzzle of the gun.”

It was the last thing the teenager ever saw.

“Then Officer Haste consciously and deliberately pulled the trigger, shooting Ramarley Graham and causing his death,” said Levin.

Haste, an ex-Marine who had never previously fired his weapon on duty, showed little emotion during the Bronx Criminal Court hearing.

He spoke only once, delivering his plea in a quiet voice: “Not guilty.”

Once bail was posted, Haste climbed into a waiting black sedan and drove away from the courthouse with the protesters’ shouts still echoing.

Defense attorney Stuart London insisted Haste believed he was about to die when he pulled the trigger
“When he woke up that morning, he had no intention to fire his weapon at all,” said London, adding that Graham ignored orders to show his hands. “He had no choice but to fire.”

Haste slipped into the courthouse through a side door to face arraignment on manslaughter charges. One side of the courtroom was filled with police officers and unions reps, while the other held the Graham family and their supporters.

The latter group made a dramatic courtroom entrance, gripping one another’s shoulders to form a human chain as they marched silently through the hallway.

Icy glares were directed toward the NYPD presence during the morning hearing. Outside the courtroom, Graham’s father said he was still stunned by the killing.

“I keep asking, ‘Why? Why? Why did he kill my son?’ ” Franclot Graham said through sobs. “Eighteen years old. He did nothing to deserve this.”

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said the police turnout was intended only as a show of support for Haste.

“Anyone that loses a child or a family member has that grief, and we respect that grief,” said Lynch.

Haste’s past NYPD record was clean, although a pending suit accuses him in connection with the beating and wrongful arrest of a Bronx man.

The single cop has a steady girlfriend and was honorably discharged from the Marines after an injury during a training exercise.

Haste chased Graham into his apartment after hearing reports via police radio that the teen drug suspect had a gun in his waistband, police said.

While cops contend Graham ran when ordered to stop, surveillance video showed him walking inside his home before plainclothes cops tried to kick their way into the apartment.

Haste claimed that he fired once after identifying himself as a police officer and mistakenly thinking that he saw a weapon — but no gun was found.



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Read more: Cops cheer NYPD Officer Richard Haste, charged in death of teen Ramarley Graham - NY Daily News




I HATE COPS

 

[Pool_Shark]

NEW YORK -- A week after police shot to death an unarmed 18-year-old in his grandmother's Bronx apartment, questions continue to swirl around the aggressive police tactics that led to the fatal confrontation.

Ramarley Graham died last Thursday after Richard Haste, 30, a New York police officer, entered his grandmother's apartment and shot Graham in the chest while he attempted to flush a bag of marijuana down the toilet. Graham was unarmed and police did not have a warrant to enter the home.

Graham's death has sparked street protests in Wakefield, a low-income neighborhood with a large African-American and Caribbean immigrant population, with many decrying the police actions as brazenly illegal.

"They had no business kicking down the door. They went too far," said Tyrone Harris, 27. "They need to go to jail just like any other citizen."

Jeffrey Emdin, an attorney representing Graham's mother, also called the police tactics unlawful. "They illegally entered the home," Emdin said. "They had no right to be inside. They had no right to use force."

Many linked the shooting to the NYPD's aggressive street policing program, called "stop-and-frisk," which predominantly targets low-income minority neighborhoods. In 2011, the program stopped and searched more than 500,000 New Yorkers, 85 percent of them black or Latino. The searches contributed to a record number of misdemeanor marijuana arrests last year.

"The public has every reason to question whether this shooting was the product of the NYPD marijuana arrest crusade, or whether it's the product of their hyper-aggressive stop-and-frisk program," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.


"This isn't just the collateral damage of policing in a big city," Lieberman said. "The NYPD has adopted certain policies that are off the charts."

The NYPD did not respond to several requests for comment. But at a press conference last week, police Commissioner Ray Kelly expressed concern over Graham's death. "At this juncture we see an unarmed person being shot," he said. "That always concerns us."

The Bronx district attorney's office is investigating, with plans to present evidence to a grand jury for potential criminal charges. In the meantime, the shooting officer and his supervisor have been relieved of their weapons and placed on restricted duty, police said.

Whether charges are brought against officers will hinge on details investigators glean about the events surrounding the shooting.

Police officials said that members of a street narcotics squad broadcast over their radios that they saw the butt of a gun in Graham's waistband as he left a convenience store, under observation for suspected drug activity. The young man then fled up the block to his home after two plainclothes officers in an unmarked squad car told him to stop, officials said.

Footage from private surveillance cameras shows Graham walking into his grandmother's apartment building, a three-story home on a residential street.

Police officers, guns drawn, quickly follow and attempt to kick down the front door after finding it locked. In the back of the building, other officers swarm in through a rear apartment. The cameras do not capture what transpired inside, but officers quickly entered Graham's grandmother's apartment on the second floor. They did not have a search warrant.

The large number of officers at the house indicated that Graham wasn't likely to escape and that officers could have waited to obtain a warrant before storming the apartment, said Emdin, the Graham family's attorney.

"They can't take matters into their own hands like this and violate the Constitution," Emdin said.

John Wesley Hall, a criminal defense attorney in Little Rock, Ark. who has argued cases involving police searches before the Supreme Court, said a police suspicion that Graham might be carrying an illegal handgun was insufficient justification for entering the home without a warrant.

"If they thought he had a gun, they should have stopped him on the street and not waited for him to go inside," Hall said. "Any reasonable officer would have known that they needed a warrant to get into the house."

The most crucial question facing Haste, the shooting officer, will surround his actions inside the apartment.

Haste's partner told investigators that Haste identified himself as a police officer, told Graham to "show his hands" and then yelled "gun, gun" before firing, Kelly said.

But Graham's grandmother maintains that officers did not announce their presence entering her home and that Haste did not say anything to Graham before shooting him, Emdin said.

"I asked her if they said 'police' when they entered," Emdin said. "She says 100 percent no."

Emdin also questioned an initial police account describing the shooting. In statements to reporters the day of Graham's death, chief NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne said that Graham "struggled" with Haste in the bathroom before the fatal shot.

But at a press conference the next day, Kelly, the NYPD commissioner, answered 'no' when asked whether investigators still believed a struggle had taken place.

"Who told them that? Why did they retract that one day later?" Emdin said.

The NYPD did not respond to emailed questions regarding department policies on warrantless searches, or inconsistencies in the police account of the shooting.

The New York Daily News, citing an anonymous police source, reported Thursday that Commissioner Kelly recently ordered a "high level review" of the Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit, responsible for the deadly raid.

The officer who shot Graham hadn't been trained in street-level narcotics work or plainclothes work, the paper said.

Ramarley Graham, Unarmed Teen, Illegally Killed By New York Police, Lawyer Says

For people not familiar with the case.

fukk the pigs

 

[FreshABM]

For people not familiar with the case.

fukk the pigs

Real shyt. How can any cop defend this dude? Cops be taking shyt too far. Like really your telling me no cops have kids that smokes weed?? They can't atleast have some sort of sympathy that this could of been one of their own?? Any black cop that can stand up for this fuccing devil is a c00n. Unarmed over some fuccing weed

 

[the cac mamba]

Real shyt. How can any cop defend this dude? Cops be taking shyt too far. Like really your telling me no cops have kids that smokes weed?? They can't atleast have some sort of sympathy that this could of been one of their own?? Any black cop that can stand up for this fuccing devil is a c00n. Unarmed over some fuccing weed :damn:

not to derail the thread but i always thought that smiley was comedic lol

but damn this shyt is awful. these dudes need to lose the right to hold that gun ever again, in every case like this. period

 

[Malta]

I hate cops, nothing else.

 

[jackswstd]

He was flushing weed that makes him a fukkin sociopath career criminal just like Trayvon. SMH at this shyt man.

 

[FreshABM]

not to derail the thread but i always thought that smiley was comedic lol

but damn this shyt is awful. these dudes need to lose the right to hold that gun ever again, in every case like this. period

I hear you, I could of used a better smiley. I was being lazy but I salute your response. This shyt is fukked up but ppl gotta let their voices be heard. We stand by while this bullshyt happens all the time. Im ready to ride out on the bum ass cops plz believe that. My part of brooklyn is ight but I'm just tired of being harassed by the police cuz im black. I've had that same shyt happen to me that happened to Ramarly. I can be in front my crib the boys will drive down my block and might jump out and try and harass me. Even tho i might not have shyt on me I still dip in the crib like Fucc yall.I can be driving down the block because I gotta babyface the boys see me in my Acura(no tint) and act like im driving a fuccin Lambo and stay fuccing with me. This shyt gotta stop tho, we gotta do something about this racial profiling the statistics are out there.

 

[FreshABM]

everyone who comes in this thread and says some real shyt will get a dap from me. Motherfuccz chasing some bytches they dont know while we gotta war on our hands. Real shyt Black vs blue

 

[Angel On The Rag]

just doing his job brehs

 

[blackzeus]

I hear you, I could of used a better smiley. I was being lazy but I salute your response. This shyt is fukked up but ppl gotta let their voices be heard. We stand by while this bullshyt happens all the time. Im ready to ride out on the bum ass cops plz believe that. My part of brooklyn is ight but I'm just tired of being harassed by the police cuz im black. I've had that same shyt happen to me that happened to Ramarly. I can be in front my crib the boys will drive down my block and might jump out and try and harass me. Even tho i might not have shyt on me I still dip in the crib like Fucc yall.I can be driving down the block because I gotta babyface the boys see me in my Acura(no tint) and act like im driving a fuccin Lambo and stay fuccing with me. This shyt gotta stop tho, we gotta do something about this racial profiling the statistics are out there.

Cops gonna start a war soon enough if they keep pullin' this sh*t. The fact that he entered without a warrant alone should have been at least a dishonorable discharge, THAT IS ILLEGAL!!! I think if it was a citizen, that would be called ARMED INVASION!. Nikkaz need to carry weapons for real, to defend themselves from cops. The sad thing is the real dope boys don't even get touched like that, cops know better, because that would start something they AINT ready for. Just look at Jamaica and Dudus. It's little kids and small timers they wanna harrass so they can feel big F*ckin' fairies

 

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coppers

 

[FreshABM]

Cops gonna start a war soon enough if they keep pullin' this sh*t. The fact that he entered without a warrant alone should have been at least a dishonorable discharge, THAT IS ILLEGAL!!! I think if it was a citizen, that would be called ARMED INVASION!. Nikkaz need to carry weapons for real, to defend themselves from cops. The sad thing is the real dope boys don't even get touched like that, cops know better, because that would start something they AINT ready for. Just look at Jamaica and Dudus. It's little kids and small timers they wanna harrass so they can feel big F*ckin' fairies

Real Post right here. Cops ain't doing shyt but harassing people living their lives and make a living.This is just another way to get our finger prints. I was watching msnbc and if I recall right about 2% of all stop and frisk are caught with anything major. 2% out of 800,000. They're harassing more young african american than we have in NYC combined. In places that are majority white, the majority getting stopped are black. If that doesn't scream racism idk what does.

 

[Strapped]

it's a black family ,no one gives a

 

[FreshABM]

it's a black family ,no one gives a

You don't have enough coli bread to have a convo with me lil homie

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and you in the red

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[No1]

You don't have enough coli bread to have a convo with me lil homie

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and you in the red

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I doubt he was making the point that it is swept under the rug because the family is African-American.