Police Brutality California: It Takes 9 Stockton Officers To Arrest 1 Teen For Jaywalking [VIDEO]



A jaywalking arrest attempt by police in the California city of Stockton escalated to the use of force on a black teenager. Video posted Wednesday to YouTube shows a Stockton police officer hitting the teen several times with his baton before several other officers get involved.

Witnesses told a Russia Today reporter that the unidentified cop was telling the teenager to sit down -- possibly to write him a ticket for improperly crossing the street to catch a city bus. But when the teenager continued walking to his bus, the officer grabbed him and took out his baton.

The footage begins with the officer restraining the young man and then starting to beat the teenager with a baton. “It’s a [expletive] kid!” a woman watching the encounter shouted to the officer, as a group of onlookers gathered. “Get off him! He’s been jaywalking! Leave him alone, he didn’t do anything wrong!”


http://www.ibtimes.com/police-brutality-california-it-takes-9-stockton-officers-arrest-1-teen-jaywalking-2101693

After a tense confrontation Friday, sheriff’s deputies responding to a domestic disturbance near San Antonio shot and killed a man seconds after he appeared to raise his hands in surrender.

Video recorded by a student named Michael Thomas and aired in part by a local ABC News affiliate shows a pair of deputies and a shirtless man moving about the front yard of a home in Bexar County, Texas. Thomas was too far away for his camera to pick up any of what was said between the three men. KSAT12 News decided to freeze the video just before the deputies fired two fatal shots.

Law enforcement officials say the deputies made multiple attempts to subdue the man using tasers and riot shields but were unsuccessful. The officials said deputies arrived on the scene to find a woman bleeding from her head and “holding a baby who appeared to possibly have been injured,” KSAT12 reports.

The video shows the three men striding back and forth in front of a home, the shirtless man occasionally disappearing from view behind a parked law enforcement vehicle. The three then stop in a loose triangle formation, and the shirtless man raises his hands above his head. At this point, the news station freezes the video, but two faint gunshots are audible in the video package it aired on Friday evening.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/29/3696815/bexar-county-texas-police-shooting/

New Jersey Cop Shoots Unarmed Teen Seven Times as Gun Mysteriously Appears on Scene Following Day


On Friday evening, a New Jersey State Trooper fired 10 rounds of gunfire at a 14-year-old boy, seven of which hit the child.

Now, witnesses, including one who works in law enforcement, are questioning the official story.

Police shot the young teen, Radazz Hearns, in the legs and buttocks around 10:20 p.m. during a short foot chase. Cops were on the scene responding to a report of gunfire in the area.


The department claimed that a weapon was found at the scene of the incident, but did not specify if the child actually had possession of the gun at any time. What is even stranger, is that no weapon was found at the scene Friday evening, only mysteriously appearing in the middle of the street near an intersection the following day.


http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/08/new-jersey-cop-shoots-unarmed-teen-seven-times-as-gun-mysteriously-appears-on-scene-following-day/

Does water district’s dam blocking salmon violate state law?

Gary Flanagan is a retired sheriff’s deputy, so he knows all too well what’s supposed to happen when someone breaks the law.

This spring, state fisheries officials sent a letter to the Nevada Irrigation District alleging it was in violation of two sections of the state’s Fish and Game Code over a small dam near Lincoln that blocks fall-run Chinook salmon as they migrate up Auburn Ravine Creek.

After years of trying to pressure the irrigation district to build a fish passageway at Hemphill Dam so the Chinook could pass upstream to spawn, Flanagan and other salmon advocates saw the letter as confirmation of what they long suspected: The Department of Fish and Wildlife was taking it easy on the water district – to the salmon’s peril.

At a public meeting in August, the Placer County fish and game commissioner let his frustrations be known as he confronted a state wildlife official. “Where is the teeth other than saying, ‘Pretty please’ … year after year after year after year?” Flanagan said. “You’ve got a Fish and Game Code violation that’s either a criminal violation or a civil violation. When do you take enforcement action … for not showing good faith?”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/article35835900.html#storylink=cpy

Nazi soldiers were high on meth-like drug, new book claims


It's no secret Adolf Hitler relied heavily on drugs, and now it looks as if the Nazis' interest in pharmacological helpers resulted in the mass drugging of German soldiers before major attacks.

In a new book, "The Total Rush," author Norman Ohler says that soldiers were given Pervitin, which contained a form of methamphetamine, similar to today's crystal meth.

Pervitin was invented in 1937 and used in a German energy drink intended to rival Coca-Cola before the war.

In an interview with Deutsche Welle. Ohler says the German army put it to mass use when the war came.


http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nazi-soldiers-were-high-much-of-the-time-new-6508806.php

Woman accused of faking kidnapping, boyfriend file claim against Vallejo


Citing a “continuous pattern of malicious and unlawful conduct,” the Vallejo woman whom police accused of faking her March kidnapping has filed a claim against the city.

The claim, seeking unspecified damages, was filed Thursday and accuses the Vallejo Police Department of negligence, injury to reputation and other charges. If the claim is rejected by the city, the couple represented by Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, would be free to file a lawsuit. The city, citing the likelihood of a lawsuit, declined to comment.



In July, the FBI revealed that Orangevale attorney Matthew Muller was in custody for Huskins’ kidnapping and was suspected in at least one other incident.

Also named in the 22-page claim is Denise Huskins’ boyfriend Aaron Quinn. The claim alleges police took DNA samples from Quinn, forced him to take a lie detector test and interrogated him for several hours.







Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article35742624.html#storylink=cpy

The Politics of Income Inequality









The years from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not the most egalitarian in American history. Robber barons roamed the economy, living off lavish rents generated by powerful cartels and industrial monopolies.

The richest 1 percent of Americans reaped nearly one in five dollars generated by the economy and amassed almost half its wealth; at the other end of the scale, wage earners lost ground to inflation. It was the era of the Haymarket riots and Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.” Workers staged 1,500 strikes in 1886 alone.

Ultimately, though, the disparities in wealth and income led to an age of ferment that came to be known as the Progressive Era.

Women got the right to vote. Congress passed the Sherman Act. Chicago’s Beef Trust and John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were taken down. In 1914, Henry Ford decided to raise wages to $5 a day, doubling at a stroke most of his workers’ pay.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/business/economy/the-politics-of-income-inequality.html?_r=0

Don't blame the Fed for widening inequality. Blame Congress


Yes, income inequality is a major problem, one that was worsened by the Great Recession and the sluggish recovery


And yes, the Fed's response to the crisis -- unprecedented amounts of easy money -- did boost the stock market. That, in turn, made many rich Americans even better off.

But those arguing that the Fed intensified inequality miss the boat: The Fed was the only game in town in 2008 because Congress didn't act more forcefully to save the U.S. economy. And if the Fed didn't step up to the plate, income inequality would likely be far worse today.

"Given the fiscal policy we had, what could the Fed do? I think they did the best thing they could," said Dean Baker, co-head of the left-leaning Center for Economic Policy and Research. "We wouldn't be happier with fewer jobs and a lower stock market."

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/02/news/economy/income-inequality-federal-reserve/