By Batya Ungar-Sargon
...With an initiative (click here) that includes a civilian review board and a scholarship program, Knowles hopes to increase the number of black officers and make the police force more reflective of the community (Ferguson is 60 percent black)....
I am impressed, both, by the civil lawyers i
nsistence on finding the truth and the Baton Rouge Police Department for being able to have such strict discipline among their officers, no one spoke about the truth. Amazing.
CLEAN HOUSE. It is time to remove the hierarchy that protects their officers when they should not. Clean House! Get rid of the culture.
His death was brutal. Deepest sympathies to all those involved in raising the truth from the grave. It is one thing to lose a loved one, but, to have lies be told for 2 years afterward is mental cruelty. The family and community had no peace.
Alton should not be dead today, but, he is. What is an African American man supposed to say to police? What are you arresting me, for is a legitimate statement. These men don't know what to do when police arrive. They automatically believe there isn't anything they can do or say that will save their lives. Not prevent arrest. They might be arrested for a legitimate reason, but, they are trying to save their lives.
This is a death sentence by police officer. When is this going to stop?
March 31, 2018
By Nick Valencia
Paul said Howie Lake II, the other officer involved in the July 2016 incident, will be suspended for three days without pay for losing his temper during the incident.
The four videos that were released include a convenience store surveillance video, two police-worn body camera videos and a video recorded by the dashboard camera in one of the police cars....
It is another cover up. This is the strategy now? Everyone linked to police shootings including the coroner, is covering up the truth. This is another strategy handed down by who? All of a sudden the country is faced with cover-ups regarding the illegal deaths of Americans by police.
Same thing here, it is time to end the culture and clean house. When this level of corruption is exposed there should be automatic investigations of the police themselves with the hierarchy removed. This level of corruption in a police force doesn't happen without high ranking officers knowing it is going on. This is pervasive now in American police cultures.
I can hear it now, "But, but, no one will work as a police officer if we aren't 100 percent on their side."
March 21, 2018
By Kathryn Palmer
Sacramento - Protests continue in Sacramento (click here) for the fifth day following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Stephon Clark, by two Sacramento police officers.
Former Kings player and Sacramento native Matt Barnes led the rally in downtown Sacramento Saturday afternoon, and was joined by community leaders, Clark family members and Rev. Shane Harris of National Action Network, among others.
The rally began at noon at Cesar Chavez Plaza.
People at the rally renewed calls for justice in the police shooting death of Stephon Clark, and expressed outrage over independent autopsy results that concluded Clark was shot in the back. The results challenge the police department's statement that Clark was approaching officers when he was killed....
It is another cover up. This is the strategy now? Everyone linked to police shootings including the coroner, is covering up the truth. This is another strategy handed down by who? All of a sudden the country is faced with cover-ups regarding the illegal deaths of Americans by police.
Same thing here, it is time to end the culture and clean house. When this level of corruption is exposed there should be automatic investigations of the police themselves with the hierarchy removed. This level of corruption in a police force doesn't happen without high ranking officers knowing it is going on. This is pervasive now in American police cultures.
I can hear it now, "But, but, no one will work as a police officer if we aren't 100 percent on their side."
March 21, 2018
By Kathryn Palmer
Sacramento - Protests continue in Sacramento (click here) for the fifth day following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Stephon Clark, by two Sacramento police officers.
Former Kings player and Sacramento native Matt Barnes led the rally in downtown Sacramento Saturday afternoon, and was joined by community leaders, Clark family members and Rev. Shane Harris of National Action Network, among others.
The rally began at noon at Cesar Chavez Plaza.
People at the rally renewed calls for justice in the police shooting death of Stephon Clark, and expressed outrage over independent autopsy results that concluded Clark was shot in the back. The results challenge the police department's statement that Clark was approaching officers when he was killed....
