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What Happens When Police Confront Belligerant People Who Aren't Black
Arizona investigators have released dashcam footage of a recent brawl between Christian street performers and the police that left one person dead.
The encounter, which took place in the parking lot of a Walmart last month, involved Cottonwood police asking the Gaver family about an alleged assault of a Walmart employee. There were four cops and roughly eight members of the family present.
Needless to say, things escalated, and a fight broke out. One of the officers was hit by a bullet and another was put in a headlock. David Gaver was shot in the stomach and 21-year-old Enoch Gaver was killed.
According to the police chief, Enoch Gaver had taken an officer’s gun and shot him, and another officer tried to hit him with a baton, but when that didn’t stop him, he just shot Gaver with his gun.
White guy actually SHOOTS cop. Other cop's first response? Use baton.
If those "Christians" had been black, they'd all be dead, the incident having lasted 20 seconds.
WaPo: Thousands Are Killed By Cops, Who Are Rarely Prosecuted
Among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since 2005, only 54 officers have been charged, a Post analysis found. Most were cleared or acquitted in the cases that have been resolved.On a rainy night five years ago, Officer Coleman “Duke” Brackney set off in pursuit of a suspected drunk driver, chasing his black Mazda Miata down rural Arkansas roads at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. When the sports car finally came to rest in a ditch, Brackney opened fire at the rear window and repeatedly struck the driver, 41-year-old James Ahern, in the back. The gunshots killed Ahern.
Prosecutors charged Brackney with felony manslaughter. But he eventually entered a plea to a lesser charge and could ultimately be left with no criminal record.
Now, he serves as the police chief in a small community 20 miles from the scene of the shooting.
Brackney is among 54 officers charged over the past decade for fatally shooting someone while on duty, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and researchers at Bowling Green State University. This analysis, based on a wide range of public records and interviews with law enforcement, judicial and other legal experts, sought to identify for the first time every officer who faced charges for such shootings since 2005. These represent a small fraction of the thousands of fatal police shootings that have occurred across the country in that time.
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Ice T is on record saying that, when he was growing up in the hood, the cops were The Ultimate Gang, because they could gun you down with no legal consequences.
Pope to mark 100th anniversary of Armenia WW1 killings
Source: BBC News
Pope Francis is to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under Ottoman rule in WW1 at a church service in Rome.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will be attending the ceremony which is being held to honour a 10th century Armenian mystic.
The mass deportation of Armenians in 1915 remains a highly sensitive issue.
Turkey denies Armenian claims that up to 1.5 million people were killed and that it constituted an act of genocide.
The dispute has continued to sour relations between the two countries.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32272604
Olberman: Jonathan Banks On Washington NFL Nickname
In whick Banks eviscerates Dan Snyder's hypocrisy!
Gap remains in video record of fatal SC police shooting
Source: The Associated Press
By JEFFREY COLLINS and MICHAEL BIESECKER
Apr. 11, 2015 12:05 AM EDT
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the minutes in between that led the polite officer to become a killer.
The dash cam footage released by state police on Thursday showed North Charleston Officer Michael Thomas Slager pulling over black motorist Walter Scott for a broken brake light last weekend. Slager, who is white, has been charged with murder in Scott's death.
Saturday's traffic stop opens like so many others as Scott was stopped in a used Mercedes-Benz he had purchased days earlier, footage from the patrol car showed. At the outset, it's a strikingly benign encounter: The officer is seen walking toward the driver's window, requesting Scott's license and registration. Slager then returns to his cruiser. On the dash cam video, Slager never touches his gun during the stop. He also makes no unreasonable demands or threats.
The video also shows Scott beginning to get out of the car, his right hand raised above his head. He then quickly gets back into the car and closes the door. After Slager goes back to his patrol car, minutes later, Scott jumps from his car and runs. Slager chases him.
What's missing is what happens from the time the two men run out of the frame of dashboard video to the time picked up in a bystander's cellphone video a few hundred yards away. The cellphone footage starts with Scott getting to his feet and running away, then Slager firing eight shots at the man's back.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b54f3d3df3cd43e98f0ff3449e70c298/gap-remains-video-record-fatal-sc-police-shooting
What's missing is the common sense to realize that this was an execution by cop, plain and simple.
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