Why Black Lives Still Matter

This one is almost comical when the facts are that police shoot and kill more unarmed innocent blacks and whites.

It's so common, they have many videos on it.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=police+killing+of+unarmed+innocent+in+america&qpvt=police+killing+of+unarmed+innocent+in+america&FORM=VDRE

You "more" statement is so nebulous as to be utterly void of any real facts...it is historical opinion based solely on ten second sound bites.

It takes a fraction of a second to kill an innocent person.

Putin is a millionaire, besides no money she has no support.

Black Students Say They Were Harassed With Bananas At American University

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american-university-racism-banana_us_57df5313e4b08cb1409679e8?section=&

“I wouldn’t let people drive me out, but it’s kind of sad that this kind of thing still happens.”
09/19/2016 03:13 am ET

Ed Mazza Overnight Editor
Carolyn Kaster/AP
Two black students at American University in Washington D.C. say they were harassed.

Students at American University in Washington D.C. have condemned the school over what they said was an inadequate response to racially-charged incidents on campus this month.

In one case, a rotting banana was left at the door of a black student’s dorm room. In addition, someone drew a penis on a whiteboard attached to her door.

“I wouldn’t let people drive me out,” Neah Gray, the freshman who found the banana, told the newspaper. “But it’s kind of sad that this kind of thing still happens.”

In another incident, someone threw a rotten banana at a black student, according to the American University Black Student Alliance. The organization said that the actions were part of a pattern of behavior at the university; last year, racist epithets were written on the dorm doors of black students.

The university described one of the incidents as “not characterized as bias related,” and announced that “conduct charges” were taking place through the “Student Conduct process.” It was not clear which incident the university was referring to.

On Friday, the administration also announced plans for a town hall meeting to be held that very night.

That response didn’t sit well with many students, who said they weren’t given enough notice to attend the meeting.

“Black women are under threat on campus ― they are being used as target practice,” Jada Bell, the Black Student Alliance’s outreach coordinator, told BuzzFeed. “We’re literally being attacked and assaulted on campus, and there’s nothing being done about it by the administration.”

As a result, the university’s student senate issued a resolution late Sunday not only condemning the incidents, but also the school’s response.

American University student Ryan Shepard said signs were later posted around campus:

Recently Black women at @AmericanU had bananas & other items thrown at them. Today, students responded. More to come pic.twitter.com/unKgrdevBv
— Ryan M. Shepard (@ryanmarques__) September 16, 2016

The university’s public safety department quickly removed the signs, Shepard said on Twitter.

Students are planning to protest on Monday afternoon.



(h/t LawNewz)

Family Sues After 7-Year-Old Gets Handcuffed At School For Crying

The child stood less than 4 feet tall and weighed less than 50 pounds.
09/15/2016 06:17 pm ET
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Rebecca Klein Editor, HuffPost Education

Kaylb Wiley Primm was in second grade in Kansas City when he started crying in class because he was being bullied. Within minutes, the child found himself in handcuffs. Two years later, his life is just getting back to normal.

The incident began when a school-based police officer happened to walk by Kaylb’s classroom and hear him crying and disrupting other students, according to a lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Kaylb’s family. When Kaylb continued to cry and yell in the hallway, against the officer’s requests, the officer put the child in handcuffs and brought him to the main office, where he sat until a parent arrived.
Tomesha Primm
Kaylb with his mother, Tomesha Primm.

Kaylb’s life was upended as a result of the incident. His mom, Tomesha Primm, took him out of school out of fear for his safety. She said he started having nightmares and wetting the bed. Now the family has filed a lawsuit in hopes that the school district will better train its police officers to work with kids and provide compensatory damages.

“To put it simply, [Kaylb] was terrified. School is supposed to be a safe place for kids where they can go and learn to be themselves and learn more generally,” said Anthony Rothert, legal director of the Missouri ACLU. “It quite understandably made him feel unsafe and afraid to return.”

The lawsuit, which names Kansas City Public Schools as well as a school principal and police officer as defendants, is based in part on the police officer’s incident report. According to the police officer’s account, the child had been “out of control in his classroom and refused to follow my directions.” Still, the officer violated Kaylb’s right to be free from unreasonable seizures and excessive force, according to the lawsuit.

At the time, Kaylb was just 7 years old, less than 4 feet tall and less than 50 pounds. His mother often volunteered at the school. She was shocked to learn that handcuffs were used to calm her child.

“I couldn’t believe it because I couldn’t imagine they were allowed to do anything like that, or I would never have put him in there,” said Primm. “He knew he didn’t do anything wrong. He didn’t know if the man was going to take him to jail.”

Primm didn’t want her son to be in any further danger, so she withdrew him from school and taught him at home for two years ― even though it meant she “missed out on an income.” Though Kaylb prefers not to talk about the incident, Primm knows it weighs on him. He went back to a traditional school this year, although not the same one as before.

“He’s laid back, he’s like the easiest kid,” Primm said. “I think his maturity level is high versus kids his age ... He opens the door for me all the time. He runs to get the door. He’s such a gentleman.”

The lawsuit contends that the police officer violated Missouri rules when he handcuffed Kaylb. Policy from the Missouri Department of Education says that kids should only be restrained in response to “emergency or crisis situations.”

A statement from the district says police officers are not beholden to department of education policies.

“Contrary to reports that KCPS security officers violated certain [Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education] regulations, all KCPS officers are commissioned by the Kansas City Police Department in accordance with state law. This important distinction alters the parameters of their capacity to act in certain situations,” says the statement, “Notwithstanding the expanded scope of their authority, the school system’s present administration is taking numerous steps to ensure that our security officers are focused on de-escalation, conflict resolution, trauma intervention and relationship building.”

Beyond that, the statement says the district cannot comment on lawsuit specifics, but “Kansas City Public Schools strives to maintain a safe, secure and equitable environment that is welcoming and nurturing.”

Rothert sees the incident as part of a larger pattern of unfair school discipline practices. Data shows that black students often receive harsher punishments than their white counterparts.

“There needs to be a discussion about why black students are receiving discipline while white students who do the same thing do not receive discipline,” said Rothert.

Even though it hurts Primm and her son to rehash the incident, she is speaking out because she hopes what happened to her son won’t happen to another child.

“No schools should be handcuffing little kids. I want it to stop,” said Primm. “Someone needs to step up and speak up. Unfortunately, I’m not a media guru. This is, to a certain point, embarrassing. But if this is what it takes to help people recognize it’s not OK,” she added, she’d be willing to do it.

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Rebecca Klein covers the challenges faced in school discipline, school segregation and the achievement gap in K-12 education. In particular, she is drilling down into the programs and innovations that are trying to solve these problems. Tips? Email [email protected].

Hmmm. Hard to find fingerprints on old bananas, but maybe on that sign they tossed..

Your comments are not based in fact they're hysterical 10-second sound bites that you Garner from the media whose purpose is to inflame the idiot masses to further their liberal agenda and you seem to suck it up with a straw

Actually the fact that there were no fingerprints is taken as circumstantial evidence of guilt. Also if fingerprints were no problem than why didn't they bring a more typical apple or pear"? Because these retain fingerprints. But they craftily brought bananas. Only the guilty arrange to look not guilty.

This could make a mystery book - not to make light of the subject; the acts are creepy. I bet there are others who know something about it. Perps wanna talk.

Have you seen Hillary and Donald debate on the juice media?

Tulsa police release footage of officer killing unarmed black man with car trouble

The videos seem to contradict the department’s initial explanation.
CREDIT: Tulsa Police Department



Dash cam videos released Monday show Tulsa Police Department officers killing an unarmed 40-year-old black man who had his hands raised.

Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by police shortly before 8:00 pm on Friday night. He was unarmed and apparently seeking police assistance because his car had broken down. Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan confirmed Monday afternoon at a press conference that Crutcher had no weapon, and hinted that his department is treating his death like a crime.

The videos, including three from police cars and a fourth from a helicopter, are disturbing. None captures the entirety of the interaction between Crutcher and Officer Betty Shelby, who shot and killed him.

But all of them show him with his hands raised, walking back to the side of his car, while Shelby follows with her gun raised. Another officer arrives, and fires his Taser at roughly the same moment that Shelby shoots Crutcher.

The department did not release video from Shelby’s own cruiser. A department public information officer told ThinkProgress that none exists, because Shelby had not turned her camera on manually and never switched her roof lights into the mode that automatically activates the camera.
Police Said They Shot A Man Because He Pointed A Gun At Them. Video Shows He Had His Hands Up.

Another black man was shot and killed by police in Texas early Saturday morning.
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She was initially the only officer on the scene. Turnbough appears to have been second to arrive. He had been out of his car for less than 30 seconds when Shelby shot Crutcher.

Jordan called the videos “very disturbing” and “difficult to watch,” according to local news reporters. They also appear to contradict the officers’ initial description of what happened.

TPD initially told the public that Crutcher had ignored officers when they told him to raise his hands and reached back into his car, prompting Officer Shelby to shoot and Officer Tyler Turnbough to fire his Taser. Shelby shot Crutcher once, and he was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

But the videos show Crutcher with his hands above his head, walking slowly back to the driver’s side of his truck, when he is suddenly tased and shot. The helicopter footage includes an officer murmuring that Crutcher “looks like a bad dude,” while another acknowledges that Crutcher’s hands are up but says he doesn’t seem to be complying with Shelby’s commands.
Everything The Police Said About Walter Scott’s Death Before A Video Showed What Really Happened

On Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Thomas Slager was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting…
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Shelby has been with TPD since 2011. Before joining the city force, she was a deputy with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office from summer 2007 through fall 2011, the local Fox affiliate reports. Shelby is approximately 42 years old and previously served in the Oklahoma Air National Guard for five months, excerpts from her Sheriff’s Office personnel file provided to ThinkProgress indicate.

Over the weekend, the department showed the videos to Crutcher’s family and to local leaders, including pastor Rodney Goss.

“His hands were in the air from all views,” Goss told the Tulsa World. He added that the videos showed Crutcher approaching officers near his truck, which had broken down, and then returning toward the vehicle again slowly, and being shot down.
‘**** Your Breath’ — Video Shows Cop Mocking Unarmed Man As He Dies From Police Bullet

Video released by an Oklahoma sheriff’s department on Friday shows an unarmed black man named Eric Harris fleeing…
thinkprogress.org

“It was not apparent at any angle from any point that he lunged, came toward, aggressively attacked, or made any sudden movements that would have been considered a threat or life-threatening toward the officer,” Goss told the paper.

Crutcher’s twin sister Tiffany has said she wants Shelby charged. While Chief Jordan declined to answer specific questions about Crutcher’s killing Monday, he indicated his department is treating his death as a crime.

“This is a criminal investigation. If you really expect me to carry this forward the way the community is asking and the way my oath says I will, I can’t discuss it further,” Jordan said. Federal investigators have opened their own separate investigation into whether or not Crutcher’s civil rights were violated, the Associated Press reported Monday afternoon.

https://thinkprogress.org/tulsa-police-release-footage-of-officer-killing-unarmed-black-man-with-car-trouble-f1c05e2ba570#.ralxxfpoz

Freaking horrible.

Fear in action, or hate in action.

How would you define the rest of us? Misinformed?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37426031

Another case of suicide by cop.

This man purposely disobeyed orders of the police. This new approach where you raise your hands but still disobey the orders of the officer in order to get close to your vehicle and try to reach for a weapon is more than enough justification for the officer to employ deadly force... especially as in this case where non-lethal Force i.e. the taser was ineffective and the individual still reaching into his vehicle.

The fact that no weapon was found is immaterial. We do not expect our Law Enforcement Officers to have to wait until someone shoots at them to employ deadly force that's just bullshit. Either he was retarded or he is absolutely sponsible for his own death. In either case the officer is not responsible; the officer has a right to go home alive at the end of her shift . He has 2 guns pointed at him and he's refusing to comply what did he think was going to happen when he kept trying to reach in his vehicle.

And people like those who post this crap in an effort to inflame the black community are nothing more than race bating pimps.

DALLAS COUNTY
Man records Dallas traffic stop on Facebook live

Rebecca Lopez , WFAA
14 hours ago


Dominique Green recorded his traffic stop on Facebook live

DALLAS — When Dominique Green was pulled over by a police officer on September 10 in northwest Dallas, he did what others are doing during traffic stops.

He went live on Facebook.
"So I'm getting pulled over for sitting in a parking lot in the Auto Zone because I didn't use a turn signal 100 feet," he said.
Green said he didn't commit an offense.

"I did not commit no offense."
Tuesday, he talked to News 8 from jail.

“Basically, I felt like I was being profiled," he said.
During an exchange with the officer, Green got angry and demanded to see a supervisor.
"Where's your sergeant, bring your sergeant here," he told the officer. "I'm not talking to you anymore."

Green refused to identify himself or get out of the vehicle when the officer asked him too.
State law requires you identify yourself when pulled over.
"Because I felt like it was harassment," he said of why he refused to identify himself.

What surprised people the most was the fact that Green admitted live on Facebook he had drugs inside his car.
"I do have some **** I got to hide," he said. "I got some stash."
“Because I knew they were going to trip over that stuff," he said of why he disclosed that information to the officer.

According to an arrest affidavit, Dallas police found "a Pyrex pipe that smelled of burnt marijuana" and cocaine.
He also had a suspended license and no insurance.
At one point, he joked about being shot but the officer remained calm.

Eventually, a supervisor arrived and while Green was talking to him, the initial officer opened the door and pulled him out of the car.
“Man, you are just going to open the door," he said to the officer.
Police say after Green was out of the car he spat on the officer and shouted, "When I get out I'm going to hunt you down; I’m going to kill you and your wife."...

...Green said he never threatened the officer and claims he's the one who was afraid.

But, police say this is the kind of behavior they have to deal with day in and day out.

Green was charged with 11 offenses.
Copyright 2016 WFAA

I was wodering how you'd rationalise it rather than acknowledge it. You didn't disappoint.

And then to post the facebook guy NOT being shot as a rebuttal? You have issues that aren't going to be resolved on this forum.

Rationalize(correct spelling)???I don't rationalize I state the facts...if he had complied he'd be alive today. There is no way you can say different because that the fact is inescapable.