Newly discovered (click here) witnesses to the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown are corroborating other witnesses' comments that Brown was taking a conciliatory stance when a police officer fired at him, according to new reports.
Two contractors standing about 50 feet from the shooting scene in Ferguson, Mo., and captured on cell phone video told CNN that they heard one gunshot and another then saw Brown, 18, staggering and saying, "OK, OK, OK." Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson kept shooting and Brown's hands were up, the witnesses said....
There is no results in Albuquerque. When do police finally get charged with murder?
September 10, 2014
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Less than three weeks (click here) before Michael Brown's fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo., opened a national debate on the use of deadly force by police, city and federal authorities here set forth a plan to transform a local law enforcement agency with a stunningly violent reputation.
In some ways, the experience could serve as a lesson for Ferguson.
Since 2009, according to city records, Albuquerque Police Department officers have been involved in 47 shootings, 32 of which resulted in deaths — a body count that Police Chief Gorden Eden said has called attention to a "systemic failure in our ability to track employee misconduct.''
Civil lawsuits have cost the city millions of dollars. More than that, a Justice Department review of at least 20 of those civilian killings concluded earlier this year that a "majority ... were unconstitutional.''
Though municipal officials have acknowledged deep-rooted, institutional problems, Eden bluntly warned that a fix will not be easy....
The accounting of 'justifiable homicide by police isn't even complete. This study represents a small percentage of those citizens killed by police and of those dead there are disproportion of African Americans.
August 15, 2014
The report, (click here) compiled by the FBI, recorded 'justifiable' police killings between 2005 and 2012. While the database is incomplete — only 750 out of 117,000 local police organizations contributed to it — the undercounted figures show that two black people are killed by a white officer every week.
Of the so called justifiable homicides how many were armed?
...Of the documented cases, nearly a fifth — 18% — of blacks killed were younger than 21 years old. Only 8.7% of whites included in the report were under 21....
Two contractors standing about 50 feet from the shooting scene in Ferguson, Mo., and captured on cell phone video told CNN that they heard one gunshot and another then saw Brown, 18, staggering and saying, "OK, OK, OK." Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson kept shooting and Brown's hands were up, the witnesses said....
There is no results in Albuquerque. When do police finally get charged with murder?
September 10, 2014
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Less than three weeks (click here) before Michael Brown's fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo., opened a national debate on the use of deadly force by police, city and federal authorities here set forth a plan to transform a local law enforcement agency with a stunningly violent reputation.
In some ways, the experience could serve as a lesson for Ferguson.
Since 2009, according to city records, Albuquerque Police Department officers have been involved in 47 shootings, 32 of which resulted in deaths — a body count that Police Chief Gorden Eden said has called attention to a "systemic failure in our ability to track employee misconduct.''
Civil lawsuits have cost the city millions of dollars. More than that, a Justice Department review of at least 20 of those civilian killings concluded earlier this year that a "majority ... were unconstitutional.''
Though municipal officials have acknowledged deep-rooted, institutional problems, Eden bluntly warned that a fix will not be easy....
The accounting of 'justifiable homicide by police isn't even complete. This study represents a small percentage of those citizens killed by police and of those dead there are disproportion of African Americans.
August 15, 2014
The report, (click here) compiled by the FBI, recorded 'justifiable' police killings between 2005 and 2012. While the database is incomplete — only 750 out of 117,000 local police organizations contributed to it — the undercounted figures show that two black people are killed by a white officer every week.
Of the so called justifiable homicides how many were armed?
...Of the documented cases, nearly a fifth — 18% — of blacks killed were younger than 21 years old. Only 8.7% of whites included in the report were under 21....
