This subject is horrific to read about. I've never been able to do it justice. It's like reading about the Sand Creek Massacre, or any of hundreds of other massacres of Native Americans by Euro-Americans. So I'm just forwarding The Washington Post's story. Here it is. This is superb writing by DeNeen L. Brown, and …
Meet Charleston County Sheriff's Sgt. Lindsay Fickett and Detention Deputy Brian Houle. The sheriff's deputies are proud patriots, and they support the Constitution of These United States. They were fired for fatally brutalizing Mr. Jamal Sutherland, a Black man in their custody, on January 5, 2021. You can tell that Fickett and Houle are good …
A Minnesota judge has ruled that probable cause exists to support the charge of second-degree manslaughter against former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter, pictured above, in the killing of Daunte Wright. AP. Source: NPR, May 17, 2021. Mr. Dante Wright was "accidently" killed by "training officer" Kim Potter, 19-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, …
Meet Bristol, Virginia Police Officer Jonathan Brown, indicted for murder. Source: WJHL News 11, May 5, 2021 This story from AP via the Star Tribune of Minneapolis: Police officer who shot man in car is charged with murder By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press MAY 4, 2021 — 4:01PM A police officer in Virginia has been indicted on …
The surprise verdict came after city officials had cleared the cop. Meet Huntsville police officer William Ben Darby, convicted murderer. William Darby, Huntsville AL cop and convicted murderer. Source: The New York Times, May 7, 2021. The officer, William Darby, who had been strongly defended by the Police Department and cleared of wrongdoing by a …
Plus a bonus indictment against Chauvin - same misconduct, different victim. A federal grand jury has indicted four former Minneapolis cops for depriving Mr. George Floyd of his civil rights during his murder. Derek Chauvin and his three side-kicks, Tou Thao, 35, J. Alexander Kueng, 27, and Thomas Lane, 38, are charged with willfully depriving …
We're cops. We don't have to be honest. Timothy Loehmann, then-rookie Cleveland cop, shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014. He was fired in 2017 for lying on his employment application, and now wants the Ohio Supreme Court to reinstate him. The Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association is helping him to get his job back. …
Here's an excerpt from The Washington Post: Chauvin’s ‘particular cruelty’ to George Floyd should mean harsher sentence, Minnesota attorney general argues By Timothy Bella May 1, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. PDT The Minnesota attorney general is seeking a harsher prison sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin due to the “particular cruelty” he showed in the murder …
Not because he tried to shoot them. Not because he threatened to shoot them. Just because he had a gun. On March 29, 2021, Chicago Cops shot Anthony Alvarez, 22, in the back, killing him as he ran away from them. Have gun, will kill. Their excuse this time: same as the last time. He …
When Derek Chauvin murdered Mr. George Floyd on Memorial Day, 2020, the first public statement made by the Minneapolis Police Department was an official lie. Naturally, that lie made cops out to be 'just doing their duty,' and George Floyd as an 'unfortunate' victim of a coincidental "medical incident" that, they implied, he brought on …
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