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'I hate Black people:' Woman evicted from apartment after hurling racial slurs at Fort Bragg soldier
Evicted in the middle of a pandemic because you stoopid
Evicted in the middle of a pandemic because you stoopidLorena Delaguna: New York woman charged with hate crime for allegedly throwing bottle at jogger, using racial slur - CNN
A 53-year-old Queens woman has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly throwing a glass bottle at a passing jogger and using a racial slur last month, the Queens County district attorney announced Tuesday.
A 53-year-old Queens woman has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly throwing a glass bottle at a passing jogger and using a racial slur last month, the Queens County district attorney announced Tuesday.
'I hate Black people:' Woman evicted from apartment after hurling racial slurs at Fort Bragg soldier
And who told these mofo's that we love 'em
Not sure if this counts..
Philadelphia to Pay $9.8 Million to Black Man Exonerated After 28 Years in Prison for Murder. Apparently, This is Happening a Lot in Philly
Zack Linly
Thu, December 31, 2020, 1:11 PM EST·4 min read
It appears that for years and even decades the Philadelphia criminal justice system has shown a pattern of locking up Black men for crimes they didn’t commit based on the work of corrupt police officers and conviction-happy courts that never really consider that a Black defendant might be getting railroaded despite a glaring lack of evidence to support their guilt. Obviously, the worst part of these false convictions is that Black people are having enormous chunks of their lives stolen from them all because America is racist and its justice system reflects that, but the convictions are also a burden on taxpayers who end up footing the bill for settlements because they live in cities where law enforcement cares more about forcing guilty verdicts than they do about actually solving crimes.
Philadelphia officials said Wednesday that the city will be paying out $9.8 million in one of the largest wrongful-conviction settlements in the city’s history to a Black man who spent 28 years in prison for a murder the district attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit now says it was “near impossible” that he committed.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Chester Hollman III was 21, with no criminal record and a job as an armored-car driver, when he was pulled over in Center City one night in 1991 and charged with the fatal shooting of a University of Pennsylvania student in a botched street robbery. A judge ordered him released last year at age 49, citing evidence that police and prosecutors built their case on fabricated statements from people they coerced as witnesses and later withheld evidence pointing to the likely true perpetrators of the crime.
The agreement announced Wednesday is the latest in a string of seven-figure settlements stemming from claims of misconduct by city police in the late 1980s and ’90s. Those cases have led to more than a dozen exonerations in recent years and have cost the city more than $35 million since 2018.
His payout is just $50,000 short of the record for settlements of its kind in the city — a distinction held by the $9.85 million agreement the city struck in 2018 with Anthony Wright, a man who served nearly 25 years of a sentence for a 1991 rape and murder that DNA evidence proved decades later he did not commit. Several of the same investigators who worked to convict Wright were also involved in Hollman’s case.
But unlike in Wright’s case, which was settled on the eve of a civil trial, the agreement in Hollman’s case came before he had even filed suit.
His attorney Amelia Green said the evidence supporting Hollman’s innocence — which garnered media attention first in the form of a 2017 report in The Inquirer and, in April, an episode of the Netflix series The Innocence Files — put pressure on city officials to resolve the case swiftly, though neither they nor police admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement deal.
“There was irrefutable evidence that Chester was innocent, is innocent and has always been innocent and would never have been wrongfully convicted aside from extraordinary police misconduct,” Green said.
According to the Inquirer, Hollman’s attorneys said he was targeted by police only because he was a Black man driving a white SUV that matched the description of the one seen fleeing the scene of a shooting that killed Penn student Tae-Jung Ho in August 1991. There was no evidence linking Hollman to the shooting and the two witnesses who identified him later recanted and said they were coerced by police to give their false testimonies. One witness was threatened with arrest and the other was promised help on his own pending criminal case in exchange for falsely implicating Hollman.
“There are no words to express what was taken from me,” Hollman said in a statement after the settlement was announced. “But this settlement closes out a difficult chapter in my life as my family and I now embark on a new one.”
Earlier this month, The Root reported that another Black man, 45-year-old Termaine Hicks was exonerated of rape after spending 19 years in a Philadelphia prison. An officer—who along with his complicit partner is still currently on the force—first shot Hicks three times while he was pulling out a cell phone to call for help for the rape victim. Hicks was then charged with the rape and later exonerated after the Conviction Integrity Unit found that the case was “built on lies” possibly to cover up the unjustified shooting and that forensic evidence easily cleared Hicks who should never have been arrested let alone convicted of the rape.
Philadelphia Man Shot by Police and Falsely Convicted of Rape Exonerated After 19 Years in Prison
According to the Inquirer, since 2018, 17 defendants have been exonerated in cases involving many of the same officers who led the investigations into Hollman’s and Wright’s cases. Most of those officers have since retired—as opposed to firing, charges or any semblance of actual accountability—but some, like those involved in Hicks’ case, remain on the force and have even been promoted.
Philadelphia to Pay $9.8 Million to Black Man Exonerated After 28 Years in Prison for Murder. Apparently, This is Happening a Lot in Philly
Zack Linly
Thu, December 31, 2020, 1:11 PM EST·4 min read
It appears that for years and even decades the Philadelphia criminal justice system has shown a pattern of locking up Black men for crimes they didn’t commit based on the work of corrupt police officers and conviction-happy courts that never really consider that a Black defendant might be getting railroaded despite a glaring lack of evidence to support their guilt. Obviously, the worst part of these false convictions is that Black people are having enormous chunks of their lives stolen from them all because America is racist and its justice system reflects that, but the convictions are also a burden on taxpayers who end up footing the bill for settlements because they live in cities where law enforcement cares more about forcing guilty verdicts than they do about actually solving crimes.
Philadelphia officials said Wednesday that the city will be paying out $9.8 million in one of the largest wrongful-conviction settlements in the city’s history to a Black man who spent 28 years in prison for a murder the district attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit now says it was “near impossible” that he committed.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Chester Hollman III was 21, with no criminal record and a job as an armored-car driver, when he was pulled over in Center City one night in 1991 and charged with the fatal shooting of a University of Pennsylvania student in a botched street robbery. A judge ordered him released last year at age 49, citing evidence that police and prosecutors built their case on fabricated statements from people they coerced as witnesses and later withheld evidence pointing to the likely true perpetrators of the crime.
The agreement announced Wednesday is the latest in a string of seven-figure settlements stemming from claims of misconduct by city police in the late 1980s and ’90s. Those cases have led to more than a dozen exonerations in recent years and have cost the city more than $35 million since 2018.
His payout is just $50,000 short of the record for settlements of its kind in the city — a distinction held by the $9.85 million agreement the city struck in 2018 with Anthony Wright, a man who served nearly 25 years of a sentence for a 1991 rape and murder that DNA evidence proved decades later he did not commit. Several of the same investigators who worked to convict Wright were also involved in Hollman’s case.
But unlike in Wright’s case, which was settled on the eve of a civil trial, the agreement in Hollman’s case came before he had even filed suit.
His attorney Amelia Green said the evidence supporting Hollman’s innocence — which garnered media attention first in the form of a 2017 report in The Inquirer and, in April, an episode of the Netflix series The Innocence Files — put pressure on city officials to resolve the case swiftly, though neither they nor police admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement deal.
“There was irrefutable evidence that Chester was innocent, is innocent and has always been innocent and would never have been wrongfully convicted aside from extraordinary police misconduct,” Green said.
According to the Inquirer, Hollman’s attorneys said he was targeted by police only because he was a Black man driving a white SUV that matched the description of the one seen fleeing the scene of a shooting that killed Penn student Tae-Jung Ho in August 1991. There was no evidence linking Hollman to the shooting and the two witnesses who identified him later recanted and said they were coerced by police to give their false testimonies. One witness was threatened with arrest and the other was promised help on his own pending criminal case in exchange for falsely implicating Hollman.
“There are no words to express what was taken from me,” Hollman said in a statement after the settlement was announced. “But this settlement closes out a difficult chapter in my life as my family and I now embark on a new one.”
Earlier this month, The Root reported that another Black man, 45-year-old Termaine Hicks was exonerated of rape after spending 19 years in a Philadelphia prison. An officer—who along with his complicit partner is still currently on the force—first shot Hicks three times while he was pulling out a cell phone to call for help for the rape victim. Hicks was then charged with the rape and later exonerated after the Conviction Integrity Unit found that the case was “built on lies” possibly to cover up the unjustified shooting and that forensic evidence easily cleared Hicks who should never have been arrested let alone convicted of the rape.
Philadelphia Man Shot by Police and Falsely Convicted of Rape Exonerated After 19 Years in Prison
According to the Inquirer, since 2018, 17 defendants have been exonerated in cases involving many of the same officers who led the investigations into Hollman’s and Wright’s cases. Most of those officers have since retired—as opposed to firing, charges or any semblance of actual accountability—but some, like those involved in Hicks’ case, remain on the force and have even been promoted.
Black civic leaders in Oregon heard the alarm bells early in the pandemic.
Data and anecdotes around the country suggested that the coronavirus was disproportionately killing Black people. Locally, Black business owners had begun fretting about their livelihoods, as stay-at-home orders and various other measures were put into place. Many did not have valuable houses they could tap for capital, and requests for government assistance had gone nowhere.
After convening several virtual meetings, the civic leaders proposed a bold and novel solution that state lawmakers approved in July. The state would earmark $62 million of its $1.4 billion in federal Covid-19 relief money to provide grants to Black residents, business owners and community organizations enduring pandemic-related hardships.
“It was finally being honest: This is who needs this support right now,” said Lew Frederick, a state senator who is Black.
In creating the Oregon Cares Fund, lawmakers took the rare step of explicitly naming a single racial group as the beneficiary, arguing that Black residents have been subjected to unique discrimination that put them at a disadvantage during the pandemic.
But now millions of dollars in grants are on hold after one Mexican-American and two white business owners sued the state, arguing that the fund for Black residents discriminated against them.
A Covid-19 Relief Fund Was Only for Black Residents. Then Came the Lawsuits.
Data and anecdotes around the country suggested that the coronavirus was disproportionately killing Black people. Locally, Black business owners had begun fretting about their livelihoods, as stay-at-home orders and various other measures were put into place. Many did not have valuable houses they could tap for capital, and requests for government assistance had gone nowhere.
After convening several virtual meetings, the civic leaders proposed a bold and novel solution that state lawmakers approved in July. The state would earmark $62 million of its $1.4 billion in federal Covid-19 relief money to provide grants to Black residents, business owners and community organizations enduring pandemic-related hardships.
“It was finally being honest: This is who needs this support right now,” said Lew Frederick, a state senator who is Black.
In creating the Oregon Cares Fund, lawmakers took the rare step of explicitly naming a single racial group as the beneficiary, arguing that Black residents have been subjected to unique discrimination that put them at a disadvantage during the pandemic.
But now millions of dollars in grants are on hold after one Mexican-American and two white business owners sued the state, arguing that the fund for Black residents discriminated against them.
A Covid-19 Relief Fund Was Only for Black Residents. Then Came the Lawsuits.
How are these police officers not in jail.Not sure if this counts..
Philadelphia to Pay $9.8 Million to Black Man Exonerated After 28 Years in Prison for Murder. Apparently, This is Happening a Lot in Philly
Zack Linly
Thu, December 31, 2020, 1:11 PM EST·4 min read
It appears that for years and even decades the Philadelphia criminal justice system has shown a pattern of locking up Black men for crimes they didn’t commit based on the work of corrupt police officers and conviction-happy courts that never really consider that a Black defendant might be getting railroaded despite a glaring lack of evidence to support their guilt. Obviously, the worst part of these false convictions is that Black people are having enormous chunks of their lives stolen from them all because America is racist and its justice system reflects that, but the convictions are also a burden on taxpayers who end up footing the bill for settlements because they live in cities where law enforcement cares more about forcing guilty verdicts than they do about actually solving crimes.
Philadelphia officials said Wednesday that the city will be paying out $9.8 million in one of the largest wrongful-conviction settlements in the city’s history to a Black man who spent 28 years in prison for a murder the district attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit now says it was “near impossible” that he committed.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Chester Hollman III was 21, with no criminal record and a job as an armored-car driver, when he was pulled over in Center City one night in 1991 and charged with the fatal shooting of a University of Pennsylvania student in a botched street robbery. A judge ordered him released last year at age 49, citing evidence that police and prosecutors built their case on fabricated statements from people they coerced as witnesses and later withheld evidence pointing to the likely true perpetrators of the crime.
The agreement announced Wednesday is the latest in a string of seven-figure settlements stemming from claims of misconduct by city police in the late 1980s and ’90s. Those cases have led to more than a dozen exonerations in recent years and have cost the city more than $35 million since 2018.
His payout is just $50,000 short of the record for settlements of its kind in the city — a distinction held by the $9.85 million agreement the city struck in 2018 with Anthony Wright, a man who served nearly 25 years of a sentence for a 1991 rape and murder that DNA evidence proved decades later he did not commit. Several of the same investigators who worked to convict Wright were also involved in Hollman’s case.
But unlike in Wright’s case, which was settled on the eve of a civil trial, the agreement in Hollman’s case came before he had even filed suit.
His attorney Amelia Green said the evidence supporting Hollman’s innocence — which garnered media attention first in the form of a 2017 report in The Inquirer and, in April, an episode of the Netflix series The Innocence Files — put pressure on city officials to resolve the case swiftly, though neither they nor police admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement deal.
“There was irrefutable evidence that Chester was innocent, is innocent and has always been innocent and would never have been wrongfully convicted aside from extraordinary police misconduct,” Green said.
According to the Inquirer, Hollman’s attorneys said he was targeted by police only because he was a Black man driving a white SUV that matched the description of the one seen fleeing the scene of a shooting that killed Penn student Tae-Jung Ho in August 1991. There was no evidence linking Hollman to the shooting and the two witnesses who identified him later recanted and said they were coerced by police to give their false testimonies. One witness was threatened with arrest and the other was promised help on his own pending criminal case in exchange for falsely implicating Hollman.
“There are no words to express what was taken from me,” Hollman said in a statement after the settlement was announced. “But this settlement closes out a difficult chapter in my life as my family and I now embark on a new one.”
Earlier this month, The Root reported that another Black man, 45-year-old Termaine Hicks was exonerated of rape after spending 19 years in a Philadelphia prison. An officer—who along with his complicit partner is still currently on the force—first shot Hicks three times while he was pulling out a cell phone to call for help for the rape victim. Hicks was then charged with the rape and later exonerated after the Conviction Integrity Unit found that the case was “built on lies” possibly to cover up the unjustified shooting and that forensic evidence easily cleared Hicks who should never have been arrested let alone convicted of the rape.
Philadelphia Man Shot by Police and Falsely Convicted of Rape Exonerated After 19 Years in Prison
According to the Inquirer, since 2018, 17 defendants have been exonerated in cases involving many of the same officers who led the investigations into Hollman’s and Wright’s cases. Most of those officers have since retired—as opposed to firing, charges or any semblance of actual accountability—but some, like those involved in Hicks’ case, remain on the force and have even been promoted.
How does the police force gloss over stuff like this then expect black people to trust them?
Two Black Men Who Spent Nearly 18 Years in a Michigan Prison for a Crime They Didn't Commit File $160 Million Lawsuit
Zack Linly
Tue, January 5, 2021, 4:00 PM PST
It’s not always easy being a writer whose main focus is documenting racism and racial injustice in America. It’s a job that consistently requires the covering of sad and often infuriating stories. Among the hardest stories to cover are those that involve Black people spending years and even decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit due to criminal police misconduct and apathetic courts—and we at The Root find ourselves writing these stories over and over and over and over again on a regular basis.
Last April, The Root reported that two Detroit-area Black men, 37-year-old Kevin Harrington and 49-year-old George Clark, were wrongly convicted of a 2002 murder for which they spent nearly 18 years behind bars. On Monday, the two men filed a lawsuit against in federal court, arguing that their constitutional rights were violated by Inkster police who, as we previously reported, were found to have allegedly coerced witnesses into lying about what they saw.
From the Associated Press:
Harrington and Clark insisted they were innocent and were finally cleared last spring by a special unit in the Wayne County prosecutor’s office, which found a “disturbing pattern of behavior” from a detective, including threats against witnesses.
Harrington faced four trials; two ended without a verdict. There was no physical evidence against the men.
Harrington and Clark were “seized without probable cause, charged with crimes they did not commit, wrongfully convicted and deprived of their liberty,” attorney Wolf Mueller said.
A message seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday by the Inkster mayor.
The men are each seeking $80 million in the lawsuit. Separately, they’re seeking $50,000 for each month spent in prison under a Michigan law that compensates the wrongly convicted.
“People might say, ‘$160 million, that is a crazy amount of money,’” Wolf Mueller, the attorney representing Clark and Harrington, told the Detroit Free Press Tuesday. “That is a lot of money. So is the harm of putting two people in a cage for 18 years for something they didn’t do.”
According to the Free Press, both men spoke in their attorney’s office about their time in prison and what it cost them. Clark, who said he never gave up on being cleared of the murder of Michael Martin in Inkster, Mich., because he “always knew I was innocent,” talked about how, throughout all of his time in prison, he tried to hide his conviction from his mother in order to keep her alive.
“She was elderly, and she wasn’t in the best of health,” he said. “I told the family, ‘Do not tell her what this case is.’ But, lo and behold she got wind of what was really going on, and at that point, she stopped taking her medicine and she gave up.”
Clark is a father of seven and now a grandfather who missed seeing his children grow up and have children of their own.
“I can’t make up for it,” he said. “But from this point on, I do the best I can.”
Meanwhile, Harrington said that for nearly 18 years prison robbed him of his chance to start a career, marry and have a family of his own, but none of that was going to make him confess to a crime he didn’t commit.
“I got crazy faith,” Harrington said. “I was going to stand up for what was right.”
This is what makes these stories so hard to cover. You end up looking back at all the life you experienced and imagining spending that time in lock-up for something you didn’t do. And that stress is nothing compared to that of those who suffered that reality.
I hope both men get everything they’re suing for and more. No amount of money will be enough.
Let’s get it
