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Denver Inmate’s Death Ruled A Homicide

January 10, 2016 Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate!, Resist! killed by police, Police abuse

By Ryan Grenoble for Huffington Post. The man, 50-year-old Michael Marshall, was originally arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and trespassing at a motel where he had been staying. Now, nearly two months after the fact, Marshall's death has been ruled a homicide. A report released Friday by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner concludes that Marshall died from "complications of positional asphyxia to include aspiration pneumonia due to being physically restrained by law enforcement during an acute psychotic episode." In other words, Marshall vomited during the incident, and law enforcement officers restrained him in such a manner that he choked on it, going without oxygen for 10 to 15 minutes, his family members told ABC7. Marshall also went into cardiac arrest.

Pursuing Murder Indictment For Cop Who Killed Unarmed Vet

January 8, 2016 Jamiles Lartey and Ciara McCarthy, www.theguardian.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Georgia, killed by police, Police violence

By Jamiles Lartey and Ciara McCarthy for The Guardian - A prosecutor in Georgia is to seek two indictments for murder against a police officer who shot and killed Anthony Hill, an unarmed black man who was naked when he died. DeKalb district attorney Robert James said he would ask a grand jury to indict Officer Robert Olsen of the DeKalb County police department, accused of shooting Hill on 9 March last year while responding to a call of a man behaving erratically outside a suburban Atlanta apartment complex.

Office In Sandra Bland Case Fired After Indicted For Perjury

January 7, 2016 Staff, www.bigstory.ap.org Resist! killed by police, Police abuse, Racism, Sandra Bland

By Staff of Associated Press - HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland after a contentious traffic stop last summer was fired Wednesday after being charged with perjury for allegedly lying about his confrontation with the black woman who died three days later in jail. Trooper Brian Encinia claimed in an affidavit that Bland was "combative and uncooperative" after he pulled her over and ordered her out of her car. The grand jury identified that affidavit in charging Encinia with perjury, special prosecutor Shawn McDonald said Wednesday night.

NAACP In Ohio Seeks Grand Jury Docs In Tamir Rice Case

January 7, 2016 Staff, www.bigstory.ap.org Resist! killed by police, Police abuse, Racism, Tamir Rice

By Staff of Associated Press - CLEVELAND (AP) -- The local NAACP wants to see documents from the grand jury that decided not to indict two Cleveland police officers in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who had a pellet gun. Members of the Cleveland NAACP are seeking transcripts of witness testimony before the grand jury that heard evidence in the 2014 shooting. WJW-TV reports the group voted Tuesday night to push for the documents' release. Members say they want to see and analyze everything that grand jurors heard in the case.

Top Chicago Lawyer Lied In Police Killing Trial, Resigns

January 6, 2016 Vishakha Sonawane, www.ibtimes.com Resist! Chicago, Corruption, Courts, killed by police, Police violence

By Vishakha Sonawane for IBT - Chicago’s top lawyer resigned Monday after a federal judge accused him of concealing evidence in a civil case about a fatal police shooting during a traffic stop in 2011. U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang’s remarks against Jordan Marsh came while the former dismissed a jury’s April 2015 verdict, which justified the police shooting. During trial, officers Raoul Mosqueda and Gildardo Sierra said they stopped Darius Pinex, a black man, because his car fit the description of a vehicle suspected of involvement in an earlier shooting. They said they shot Pinex after he did not follow orders and put his car in reverse.

Crowd Protests Fatal Police Shooting In Dearborn

January 6, 2016 Mark Hicks and James David Dickson, www.detroitnews.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Michigan, Police violence

By Mark Hicks and James David Dickson for The Detroit News - Dearborn — Chanting “no justice, no peace” and hoisting signs with messages such as “Black Lives Matter,” more than 100 demonstrators strode through Dearborn on Monday night, protesting the death last month of a Detroit man who was shot by a Dearborn police officer. Bundled against the frigid air, they marched past traffic and raised their voices alongside drumbeats to protest the death of Kevin Matthews as well as police practices they believe have contributed to other such deaths.

Tamir Rice’s Mother Calls Out ‘Corrupt’ Criminal Justice System

January 5, 2016 Lilly Workneh, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Courts, killed by police, Police violence, Racism, Tamir Rice

By Lilly Workneh for The Huffington Post - Samaria Rice said she is "mad as hell" over a grand jury's decision not to indict two Cleveland cops involved in the fatal shooting of her 12-year-old son Tamir. “Due to the corrupt system, I have a dead child. I felt as if breath has been taken out of my body once again," she told MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Saturday."It's a struggle." Rookie patrolman Timothy Loehman shot Rice on Nov. 22, 2014 near a Cleveland recreation center. Rice, who had been playing with a toy pellet gun, died moments later.

Mumia Commentary On The Killing Of Tamir Rice

December 29, 2015 Mumia Abu Jamal, www.fsrn.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Courts, killed by police, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Racism, Tamir Rice

By Mumia Abu Jamal for Prison Nation on Free Speech Radio: Cleveland officials announce no charges to be files in the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death, the killing, of a child. When a child dies the natural order is torn, the stars weep and the earth quakes. We have become so accustomed to this system we suppose it is natural instead of a human imposition. Politicians in the pocket of so called police unions bow before bags of silver and blink away the death of a child – especially if a black child. This should inspire movements worldwide to fight like never before. For something vile has happened before our eyes. A child has been killed, and in America – because it’s a black child – it means next to nothing.

Tamir Rice: No Indictment Of Police Officers

December 28, 2015 Cory Shaffer, www.cleveland.com Educate! Courts, Grand Jury, killed by police

By Cory Shaffer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Cuyahoga County grand jury on Monday elected not to bring criminal charges against the two Cleveland police officers involved in last year's fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The decision not to indict officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback brings to an end a months-long criminal investigation into the high-profile shooting. Monday's decision comes more than 13 months after the shooting, which catapulted Cleveland into the national debate about police use of force. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty's oversight of the grand jury process drew criticism. Officer Garmback drove the police cruiser into the park toward the gazebo where Tamir had been sitting. The boy approached the car with his hands toward his waist. Loehmann jumped from the passenger side of the cruiser and fired twice. The entire interaction, captured by a city-owned surveillance camera, lasted less than two seconds. Loehmann wrote that he shouted four times for Tamir to show his hands before he opened fire.

Grand Jury Could Still Snare Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland

December 27, 2015 Michael McLaughlin, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Courts, killed by police, Police abuse

By Michael McLaughlin for the Huffington Post. A Texas grand jury next month may consider whether the state trooper who threatened Sandra Bland with a stun gun during a routine traffic stop last July should face charges related to the incident. After the same grand jury chose this week not to indict any officials from the sheriff's department or county jail where Bland died, her family's attorney, Cannon Lambert, called on federal prosecutors Tuesday to seek charges against the trooper. The special prosecutor handling the case said that trooper Brian Encinia's conduct during the violent altercation could be the focus of the grand jury when it meets again next month. Encinia, who is white, was filmed on his patrol car's dashcam threatening Bland, an African American, with a stun gun during her arrest on July 10. Bland's family and supporters called Tuesday for federal charges against Encinia.

Chicago Cop Shoots Dead Teen, 55-Year-Old Woman

December 27, 2015 Sebastian Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Chicago, killed by police, Police abuse, Racism

By Sebastian Murdock for Huffington Post. A Chicago officer responding to a domestic disturbance call fatally shot a teenager being treated for a mental illness, along with a 55-year-old woman. Officers responded to the call at an apartment complex early Saturday, after the father of 19-year-old Quintonio Legrier called police to say his son was acting erratic and carrying a metal baseball bat. "He was having a mental situation," Legrier's mother, Janet Cooksey, told ABC 7. "Sometimes he will get loud, but not violent." The officer, who has not yet been identified, fatally shot Legrier seven times, the teen's family said. “We’re thinking the police are going to service us, take him to the hospital," Cooksey told the Chicago Tribune. "They took his life.” A second victim, who has been identified as 55-year-old Bettie Jones, was a downstairs tenant and bystander. Her daughter, Latisha Jones, told the Tribune she found her mother dead with a gunshot wound to her neck. “She wasn’t saying anything,” Latisha Jones told the publication.

#BlackLives Matter MN At Mall Of America, Transit & Airport

December 23, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Minnesota, Police abuse, Racism

By Staff, Popular Resistance. Black Lives Matter Minnesota raised its voice in multiple locations December 23rd, disrupting shopping, the metro system and the airport to protest the November killing of Jamar Clark, a black man by Minneapolis police. Their demands: -#ReleaseTheTapes of his killing -Prosecute the police involved without a grand jury by a special prosecutor -Federal domestic terrorism charges against white supremacists who shot 5 protestors -Institute a safety plan to protect our communities from Police violence -Disinvest from police and reinvest in Black futures There was litigation by Mall of America, which feared a repeat of last year's Black Lives Matter protest. While media reports were confused the court did not block a protest at Mall of America.

How One Of The Deadliest Police Forces In The US Stopped Shooting People

December 6, 2015 Daniel Hernandez, www.qz.com Educate! killed by police, Police violence

By Daniel Hernandez for Quartz. Experts would cite both of these cases as examples of “poor training, a lack of clear policies, and an unwillingness to discipline problem officers” in a six-part investigative series titled, “Deadly Force: When Las Vegas Police Shoot, and Kill,” by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Now, five years later, the department is a model for police reform. Despite an uptick in violence directed toward Vegas cops, there were zero deadly force incidents involving unarmed suspects in 2014. The number of officer-involved shootings has dropped significantly as well. In recent months, members of the NYPD, Baltimore police, as well as law enforcement agencies from Utah, Massachusetts, Albuquerque and even Australia have visited Metro to study its new training and accountability regimes. Here’s how Las Vegas police halted a trend in excessive force. Beyond that, the ACLU is cautiously optimistic that Las Vegas’s police reform effort is succeeding. “I think what happened in the police department here is they said, ‘This is it. This can’t go on anymore. We’re under the spotlight and the community is fed up so we have to do something different.’ That’s the path we’re on now.”

The Story Of The Deadliest Police Force In The U.S.

December 4, 2015 Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland, www.theguardian.com Educate! killed by police, Police violence, Racism

By Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland for the Guardian. In all, 13 people have been killed so far this year by law enforcement officers in Kern County, which has a population of just under 875,000. During the same period, nine people were killed by the NYPD across the five counties of New York City, where almost 10 times as many people live and about 23 times as many sworn law enforcement officers patrol. The deaths span from January to the early hours of last Sunday morning, when a man accused of firing at officers during a foot chase in downtown Bakersfield was shot and killed. One senior Bakersfield police officer has been involved in at least four deadly shootings in less than two years. Another officer separately shot dead three people within two months in 2010. Other law enforcement officers in Kern County have meanwhile been involved in deadly beatings of unarmed men, sex crimes against women and reckless car crashes resulting in criminal convictions. “They have some fine officers here, but unfortunately they have some bullies and thugs who often run the show,” Henry Mosier, who worked for the county as a public defender for a decade before his recent retirement, said in an interview.

Trial Of First Freddie Grey Officer Begins, Protesters Return

November 30, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Baltimore, Freddie Grey, killed by police, Police violence

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. On Monday, November 30th, the trial of William G. Porter the first Baltimore police officer in the Freddie Grey killing began with jury selection. The Washington Post reports and other news reports all said that inside the courtroom protests could be heard/ The Post writes: "Chants from protesters standing outside in the cold, light rain filtered into the marbled courtroom: “We won’t stop until killer cops are in cell blocks.” Protesters were outside the courthouse in the morning and in the evening when court finished. The trial is expected to continue through mid-December. Protests are likely to occur throughout the trial. The Post reports "Sharon Black, 66, a retired registered nurse, stood among the demonstrators holding a yellow banner that read, 'No police terror; black lives matter.' She said that her group has been at the courthouse during each major development in the case. 'We’ve been out here, primarily to keep the pressure on.

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