Police Use of Force: Recent Episodes
Michael Fortune
Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force are black.
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A Las Cruces man who is alleging Las Cruces police officers shot him 90 times while unarmed is suing the police department. Jonathan Strickland and his attorney John Burris announced the federal civil rights lawsuit at a press conference on Wednesday
Strickland's wife had made a false abuse complaint to the Las Cruces police that she later recanted."I never threatened any of the officers I was unarmed never threatened any of them and I never did any of the things that woman accused me of," said Jonathan Strickland
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Police Department announced Friday that five officers were fired. Each one was involved in a traffic stop and the subsequent “excessive force” death of Tyre Nichols, according to the agency. The terminated officers were identified as Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith. They are accused of using unlawful force against Nichols, who reportedly fought and fled from officers after he was stopped for reckless driving on Jan 7,
A Butler Twp. A police sergeant has been placed on leave after a video surfaced of him punching a woman during an arrest at a local Mcdonalds'. The customer's order was wrong, a dispute occurred with a worker and she s given a refund. Management of Mcdonald's calls the police to have the customer cited for trespassing.
When you are white and you do wrong, you can use your white privilege not to get terminated.
Tempe, Arizona - A cop was informed by hotel staff that the suspect was a white male wearing a black shirt, but Officer Kerzaya pulled EVERY black person he encountered. He later tazed a black man holding his child and enters his home without probable cause. Rather than being charged with a criminal offense, he gets his license to be a police officer pulled after several other incidents of misuse of his position come up. Mind you this took several years to reach a conclusion that should have been reached earlier
Sayce Holmes-Lewis was assaulted by the Metropolitan Police at age 14, and since then he has been stop-and-searched over 30 times.
Holmes-Lewis speaks to Insider about his experiences and the racism within UK policing. He now runs training sessions for police officers to change how they interact with the public. He is the founder and CEO of Nativity, a mentoring organization for young people.
The Grand Rapids Police Department released video Wednesday of the fatal police shooting of Patrick Lyoya. He was shot in the back of his head.
Delaware County's district attorney announced charges against three officers in connection with the death of an 8-year-old girl and the wounding of three others after a football game on August 27, 2021.
It was a dream wedding day, until a 911 call came in that a guest was physically assaulting other guests. When cops arrived, they ended up fatally shooting the man, who turned out to be the bride's uncle. Now, the heartbroken newlyweds and other family members are speaking out. It happened when Janisha and Gionni Paul were celebrating their nuptials at a popular venue outside Orlando. Janisha insists her 39-year-old uncle was not out of control at the wedding, and the shooting was unjustified.
In a special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on how local pressure and a damning video forced the resignation of Rochester’s chief of police and other command staff. Melber puts the police killing of Daniel Prude in the wider context of other police reports that proved to be misleading or false – which undercuts some recent claims by Pres. Trump and A.G. Barr deferring to police accounts in arrests -- and explores how these cases inform approaches to police reform. We can see false narratives coming from police in an effort to hide the truth. A great example is the Amed Abury case in Georgia started with a false narrative.
To be stopped and handcuffed and made to stay on the ground for 2 hours is excessive use of force and authority for the notion that the car, they were driving was stolen because they were black. There was no probable cause for the stop from the get-go, just another illegal stop, and arrest.
Two Ohio police officers harass a lawyer on his own property, another officer tased a child, and a third tried to run someone out of their town. The driving force behind all three encounters? Prejudice.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is investigating a deadly-officer involved shooting Thursday afternoon on Interstate 65 in South Nashville. The shooting happened around 2 p.m. on I-65 between Harding Place and Old Hickory Boulevard. Metro Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron said a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper responded to a man sitting on a guardrail on the side of the interstate and offered him a ride home.
The 37-year-old man, later identified as Landon Eastep, pushed away from the THP trooper and was observed to be armed with the box cutter. An off-duty Mt. Juliet Police officer driving by the scene stopped to help and talk to Eastep.
Situations where the police were out of control and out of line and did not represent what law enforcement should stand for.
Cop fired for using his taser on a man in a wheelchair and lied on his report indicating that the man was violent. His body wore camera suggested a different story.
Five Miami Beach police officers will face criminal charges in a rough arrest that took place last week at a South Beach hotel, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced Monday
Officer Harry Dunn describes being "absolutely scared" while watching rioters invade the government building on Jan. 6. This was an attempt to disrupt democracy.
Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd identifies himself for the first time and shares his perspective on the events of the Capitol attack, where he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt. He shares his personal and professional thoughts about the situation through his lens of what occurred. The shooting was cleared as being justified,
There was no mention of people being charged with any hate crimes or any indication that previous complaints or allegations were tied to any actions that were taken by the officers engaged in this activity other than discipline or terminations.
Jenn Budd is a former senior U.S. Border Patrol agent turned migrant rights activist. She spoke to Dena Takruri about what she calls a racist, sexist and corrupt culture inside the agency.
Here we have two cases, one bomb threat where the suspect told an officer he had a bomb and the officer saw what he thought was a detonator present and no shots are fired. In a contrast case, a man who happens to be black was asleep at the wheel, with a gun in his waistband and his foot on the brake, officers close in and a white officer with a ballistic shield shoots at a moving vehicle and kills the driver. Which poses the greatest threat, a man with hand on a detonator or a man sleep with a gun in his waistband?. If your white you live, if your black you die.
Finally, a law enforcement officer has been charged with shooting an unarmed black man for whom he had some initial contact prior to this shooting. You could clearly hear the dispatcher ask did he have a gun with and his response was no. He was on the phone with the dispatcher when he was shot by the deputy.
This is a small compilations of stories where cops have gone bad. They stopped the wrong victims for crimes that they did not even commit. Being Black in America is illegal. In some cases the stops were illegal from the beginning to end and in one case the officer admits on video that he should not have stopped the guy and knows he is going to get sued.
Police are still out of control ranting and stopping people without probable cause leading to officers being fired for the lack of professionalism as well as civil rights violations judgements. Despite the George Floyd verdict the beat goes on with the same behavior that citizens are calling for it to stop and reform.
Who polices the police. Them seem to be bias when investigating themselves. What good are bodycams when they refuse to release the information to the public for which they serve. Its useless and cast doubt about policing.
There are situations where the use of deadly police force is justified. In a recent case in Ohio a teen was attempting to stab another with a knife clearly in her hand making a thrusting movement to stab another is clearly a justifiable use of force. Police are trained to hit the center mass of a person. Trying to shoot a leg or arm in the heat of the situation is not effective or practical. The situation determines what use of force is appropriate rather it be non lethal force or lethal
It seems there is a pandemic of cops who lie to justify there actions when using excessive force against black Americans. The officer in the George Floyd case says that he followed departmental policy when using force, where in fact he did not. The officer who shot a black man running away in his back said that he was trying to use his stung gun against him, when in fact he did not because a brave citizen was filming the incident which clearly suggested that what the officer said in his report was a lie, The Chief of Police backed the officer's story until the video surfaced. When will equal justice begin, who knows if it will ever.
Do the police act like gangsters. One has to wonder with the lack of prosecution and accountability that continues in America and all across the world. We will explore the possibilities that police do act like gangs.
Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of force — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force are black.
Racism exist in the system of Justice in America especially when the victim is black and the offending officers are white with an all white jury deciding the case. This is a case where an uncover black officer of the same police department, gets beaten by white officers of the same department. White Supremacy reigns and justice turned into injustice. The only relief the officer got was a 5 million civil suit, but that does not address the issue of racism within the St Louis Police Department as well as outside the department. It's a national problem in America.
Those who are sworn to protect us are turning into bunch of legal thugs brutalizing those that they are sworn to protect. We need reform today for the sake of civility. After 911 police departments were equipped with military type assets that were intended to fight terrorist but in reality they are using that equipment and technology against law abiding citizens exercising their first amendment rights.
The use of force amounts to brutality in a number of cases cited in the podcast. Only 3% of police are convicted of killing, in most cases unarmed Black US citizens despite many of the incidents are captured on video. When will justice be equal for people of color in America.
In spite of George Floyd, Michael Brown and others, Black Men, who are clearly unarmed are still be killed by police. Then they wonder why people want to defund or reform police departments around the country. When are Black Men going to start being treated as human beings. When will there be more convictions and accountability. We have paid the price in lives, it has got to stop.
The Killing of George Floyd clearly has not resonated among police departments in the US with just another shooting of an unarmed black man in Kenosha Wisconsin seven times in his back. There is no way in hell the shooting is justified. Following someone with a gun out on them while unarmed, does not follow basic police protocol. the officer in question should be arrested and fired.
Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force is black.