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tulipsandroses's JournalRacism is going to get expensive. Fed ex employee that mocked George Floyd's death fired
FRANKLINVILLE, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A FedEx worker has been terminated from his job and a New Jersey Department of Corrections Officer has been suspended after a video allegedly shows them involved in an offensive display during a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Franklinville, New Jersey.
As Russell Sampson marched in the peaceful protest in his hometown Monday, he captured a video of one man kneeling on the back of another's neck, imitating the way in which George Floyd was killed.
[link:https://6abc.com/franklinville-nj-protest-black-lives-matter-george-floyd/6241313/|
Dave Chappelle stops being funny to school his audience on police brutality, racism
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|Its worth the listen. His interaction with an officer who gushed over meeting him, who would go on to be the police officer who would kill one of the many unarmed black men that we know of today. .
APD officer charged in Tasing of students also tied to death of man shot 76 times by police
This piece of shit is now suing the mayor and city for firing him after his disgusting attack on those students in their car.
ATLANTA — One of the Atlanta police officers charged in the Tasing of two college students during a protest is under investigation for a 2016 shooting that left a mentally-ill man dead.
Jamarion Rashad Robinson, 26, was killed in August 2016 after federal authorities say they went to serve a warrant on him in his girlfriend’s East Point apartment. They believed he fit the description of someone who had pointed a gun at Atlanta police officers days earlier.
Autopsy reports show Robinson was shot 76 times by members of federal task force. According to court filings it is still unclear whether Robinson was armed, and none of the officers were using body cameras.
“There’s no evidence there was a gun,” said Monteria Robinson, Jamarion’s mother. "We know that was their narrative,” she told Channel 2 Action News investigative reporter Nicole Carr.
Robinson had no criminal history, and was a former Clark Atlanta student. At the time of his death, he was a student-athlete at Tuskegee University. His family said he was schizophrenic.
“Do I believe my son was the person they were looking for? No I do not. I don’t know if you all recall — on the scene, they showed my mother and two brothers a photo of the person they were looking for and it was not my son.”
][link:https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/apd-officer-charged-tasing-arrest-auc-students-under-investigation-2016-deadly-shooting/G57HRV7YQFFFLAQABN3C2O23BY/|
[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/prosecutor-accuses-doj-blocking-investigation-death-student-shot-59-times-n952816|
Meanwhile - if you read the joke of a report-it says that before they got to the apartment, they were briefed about their suspect. Including the fact that he was mentally unstable. I'm not sure if they put that in there to justify their actions.It actually makes them look worse. You needed sub machine guns to take a mentally ill man into custody?
Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet that included racist photo
Nearly three dozen black Liberty University alums denounced him last week
RICHMOND, VA. —
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologized Monday for a tweet that included a racist photo that appeared on Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page decades ago.
“After listening to African American LU leaders and alumni over the past week and hearing their concerns, I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor’s racist past I actually refreshed the trauma that image had caused and offended some by using the image to make a political point,” he tweeted Monday.Falwell, a stalwart backer of President Donald Trump and the son of the late evangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell, said he had deleted the tweet and apologized “for any hurt my effort caused, especially within the African American community.”
Falwell’s apology came after nearly three dozen black alumni denounced him last week, writing in a letter that his rhetoric has “repeatedly violated and misrepresented” Christian principles. They said they would stop urging students to attend Liberty, would no longer donate to the university and would urge fellow people of faith to avoid speaking at the school unless Falwell changes his behavior or steps aside.
][link:https://www.ajc.com/news/jerry-falwell-apologizes-for-tweet-that-included-racist-photo/lPXhi0EW7hdlDhul9LkYjL/|
WHO Says Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus 'Very Rare,' But Experts Raise Questions
The World Health Organization made noise Monday when the head of its emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, said during a briefing that transmission of the novel coronavirus by asymptomatic carriers is "very rare."
Citing data WHO has collected, Van Kerkhove said spread from asymptomatic and presymptomatic people does occur, but recommended focusing on tracing and isolating symptomatic people to better attack the outbreak.
While the comments drew questions from experts on Twitter, it may simply be an issue of semantics, with Dr. Isaac Bogoch and Dr. Allan Detsky of the University of Toronto previously pointing out the misuse of the term "asymptomatic" when referring to "presymptomatic" patients.
[link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/06/08/who-says-asymptomatic-spread-of-coronavirus-very-rare-but-experts-raise-questions/#5d0e0a3643d0|
Conservative: I'd take Obama over Trump in an instant
Conservative: I'd take Obama over Trump in an instant, especially after the day we just had
Criticizing Obama was like calling fouls in a basketball game. Criticizing Trump is like calling 911 to report a crime spree. There's no comparison.
John J. Pitney Jr.Opinion contributor
The contrast between the 44th and 45th presidents in a single day could not have been more dramatic. Barack Obama on Monday published a carefully reasoned article about police violence and mob violence, advising his fellow Americans how to restore peace and justice. Donald Trump, meanwhile, ranted at the nation’s governors by phone. He said most of them were “weak” and urged them to use the military to “dominate” the protesters.
Like other conservatives, I voted for John McCain and Mitt Romney and I criticized President Obama. But if I had to choose between him and his successor, I’d take Obama in a nanosecond.
The two presidencies are not even in the same category. Criticizing Obama was like calling fouls in a basketball game. Criticizing Trump is like calling 911 to report a crime spree.
[link:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/01/trump-attacks-governors-pals-around-with-putin-column/5311227002/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=exchange&utm_content=opinion|
George Floyd was not the 1st. Another man died in similar circumstances
This was standard practice.
[link:MINNEAPOLIS — Years before the nation heard George Floyd’s haunting words – ‘I can’t breathe’ – Minneapolis police officers were accused of improperly restraining another man.
They were accused of pinning him face down – with an officer’s knee on his back – for approximately four minutes.
“That’s exactly what happened in the Smith case – and David Smith died as a result,” said Jack Ryan, a 20-year veteran police officer in Rhode Island who served as an expert witness in a 2010 police misconduct case filed against the City of Minneapolis and two of its officers.|
][link:https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/kare-11-investigates-earlier-minneapolis-police-restraint-death/89-dff25e6f-5697-491b-a5d5-661f37abb131|
Minneapolis' Third Precinct served as 'playground' for renegade cops
Even before George Floyd was killed, the south Minneapolis precinct had a reputation for being home to police officers who played by their own rules.
Long before former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, the Third Precinct in south Minneapolis had a reputation for being home to police officers who played by their own rules.
One officer kicked a handcuffed suspect in the face, leaving his jaw in pieces. Officers beat and pistol-whipped a suspect in a parking lot on suspicion of low-level drug charges. Others harassed residents of a south Minneapolis housing project as they headed to work, and allowed prostitution suspects to touch their genitals for several minutes before arresting them in vice stings.
These and more substantiated incidents, detailed in court records and police reports, help explain a saying often used by fellow cops to describe the style of policing practiced in the Third: There’s the way that the Minneapolis Police Department does things, and then there’s the way they do it “in Threes.”
Between 2007 and 2017, the city paid out $2.1 million to settle misconduct lawsuits involving Third Precinct officers. Judges have thrown out cases for “outrageous” conduct of the officers, and prosecutors have been forced to drop charges for searches found to be illegal, according to court records.
The brand of aggressive policing on display in the Floyd video has long been standard practice for some Third Precinct officers when dealing with suspects of nonviolent, low-level crimes, often involving people of color, said Abigail Cerra, a commissioner for Minneapolis’ Police Conduct Oversight Commission
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“My clients were constantly getting anal searches,” said Cerra, who also has been a public defender. “Not at the hospital. At the Third Precinct.”
][link:https://www.startribune.com/third-precinct-served-as-playground-for-renegade-cops/571076562/|
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