Police don’t feel like cuffing unarmed man, shoot him dead instead

Questions are swirling after video surfaced of state troopers killing an unarmed hitchhiker 20 miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.

D’Andre Berghardt had been walking down the highway trying to hitch a ride when police approached him. His behavior was erratic, and eventually he tried to climb inside a police vehicle — at which point he was shot dead.

There was an assault rifle inside the vehicle, and police couldn’t take the chance that he would reach for it, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

What is baffling to people who watched the video, however, is the fact that the cops didn’t restrain Berghardt when they had the chance.






Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/19/police-dont-feel-like-cuffing-unarmed-man-shoot-him-dead-instead/#ixzz2z5IjlvVi

Just did my taxes and I feel ashamed

The more I make the less I pay

I'm fretting getting a return of what some people would call their annual. Its just plain wrong that with my position in life where a home healthcare, retirement are not of a concern because I have all those - the people struggling to get by - whom don't even make enough to worry about those things

PAY A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THEIR EARNINGS TOWARDS TAXES then I do

Don't get me wrong - I was there once - I know the reality of what its like living check to check, working tons of over time and still having to make decisions "Rent or Food" or my children wanting new clothes for school or even something nice to open on Christmas morning

Its just not right and I'll be the first to say it

The Rich are Fucking America

Man acquitted of murdering wife on Battered Spouse Syndrome

Attorney: Georgia police shot an unarmed teen

Evidence in police shooting raises questions

Police shoot man in the back with both hands held High

UNFUCKING BELEIVABLE

and we all know they will claim "I was in Fear" and be cleared of all wrong doing

Kill Unarmed Man First, Ask Questions Later: Anaheim Cop Lawyer

Kill Unarmed Man First, Ask Questions Later: Anaheim Cop Lawyer


An unarmed, 25-year-old man not wanted for any crime was exercising his constitutional rights to move away from Anaheim Police Department (APD) officers when 20 seconds later one of the cops, armed with a semi-automatic Glock, decided without warning to kill him with shots to the buttock and back of the head.

That's the story Dale K. Galipo, an attorney for the estate of Manuel Diaz, told a jury of six men and two women in his Feb. 25 opening statement at the excessive force and wrongful death trial inside U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna's Santa Ana courtroom.



"Mr. Diaz had nothing in his hands," Galipo said. "He was no threat when he was shot [in the buttock]. As he was going down to his knees, there was a second shot to his head . . . Diaz landed face down. The officers handcuffed him, patted him down and didn't find a weapon. They never found a weapon."

Steven Rothans, a Los Angeles-based lawyer that specializes in defending law enforcement agencies and cops in police brutality cases, told jurors that officer Nick Bennallack, had every right to kill Diaz because, even though he never saw the man holding a weapon, he "reasonably" assumed he had one in his waistband and might have been preparing to shoot.


http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/02/anaheim_manuel_diaz.php

The Public Eye: Confidential documents cite interference in prison death review

Source: The Sacramento Bee

As California prison officials began looking into the September death of a breathing-impaired inmate who had been pepper-sprayed by a guard, they found themselves facing unusual interference and oversight from above, according to documents from an internal corrections investigation obtained by The Sacramento Bee.

A corrections psychologist whose duties included a review of the Sept. 7 death of 35-year-old Joseph Duran complained she was told to delete information she had obtained about the death and, in one instance, to remove a reference to the use of pepper spray, according to transcripts of interviews conducted in recent weeks by internal affairs investigators with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The transcripts, labeled confidential because they are part of an internal affairs probe, show that at least three prison guards are under investigation for “dishonesty” in connection with Duran’s death, including the officer who pepper-sprayed Duran on Sept. 6. That officer reported that he had done so from a distance of 6 feet, but later changed his story to say he had done so from 2 to 3 feet, the transcripts show.

The transcripts also disclose details about how the guard used the pepper spray after seeing his sergeant silently nod at him, and how a nurse who found the inmate unconscious hours later called for help from guards but could not get them to immediately open the cell so she could try to revive Duran.



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/16/6161803/confidential-documents-cite-interference.html

Did the Gender Wars start when the Hilary Hopefuls came back

Is this what we have to look forward to all through the primary season

Is China's pollution causing California's 500 year Drought

This is UC Berkley's imagery of China's pollution hitting the West Coast of the USA





and now here is the ridge of High Pressure that has been blocking California's normal storm pattern coming off the pacific