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Jury Hears Closing Arguments In Freddie Gray Trial

December 15, 2015 Stephen Janis, www.therealnews.com , , ,
By Stephen Janis for The Real News - This is Stephen Janis reporting from the Real News Network in Baltimore. We're outside Mitchell Courthouse where closing arguments in the case of William Porter, the first officer being tried in the death of Freddie Gray, have just concluded. Our reporter Jaisal Noor has been inside the courthouse during the arguments, and is here with an update. So give us a little bit of outline of what first the prosecution said in closing. JAISAL NOOR, TRNN: I'd say that the prosecution provided a much more compelling closing argument. Jan Bledsoe, who presented the closing argument, she had the seatbelt that Freddie Gray was not buckled in

Justice Department Probes Chicago Police For Civil Rights Violations

December 13, 2015 Kim Bellware, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Kim Bellware for The Huffington Post - The Justice Department will investigate the Chicago police for possible civil rights violations, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday morning. Later Monday, NBC and CBS reported that Constantine "Dean" Andrews, the Chicago Police Department's chief of detectives, had resigned from his post. As the second largest force in the nation, Chicago's will be the biggest city department the Attorney General's office has ever investigated (Puerto Rico's was the largest one overall).

Protests Continue In Chicago Day After Citywide Walkout

December 11, 2015 Staff, www.nbcchicago.com , ,
By Staff of NBC Chicago - Protesters descended on Chicago once again Thursday, the day after hundreds of demonstrators gathered in a citywide walkout that shut down several major streets in the city’s downtown, calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation. The first event happened around 8 a.m., when dozens of medical students from several organizations staged a "die-in" in front of City Hall. The group said it was protesting a "public health crisis of excessive police violence and complete lack of accountability by city leaders in the killing of Laquan McDonald."

Mass Walkout Of Schools & Work In Chicago Calls For Mayor To Resign

December 10, 2015 Staff, www.takepart.com , , , ,
By Staff of RT - Protests in downtown Chicago are growing, with more and more demonstrators calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation and an investigation into his administration. Protestors are blocking traffic on Michigan Avenue and entrances to major stores. Mayor Emanuel delivered an address to Chicago city council Wednesday morning, vowing to fix Chicago police practices. In response, about 200 demonstrators gathered at City Hall and called for the mayor’s resignation, saying that one speech can’t fix decades of police corruption of the kind that culminated in 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s death.

Fourth Precinct Protests Drew National Names, Ordinary People

December 7, 2015 Libor Jany, www.startribune.com , , ,
By Libor Jany for Star Tribune - There’s no room for protest anymore at the Fourth Precinct police station in Minneapolis. Concrete barricades topped with fences line the sidewalk, blocking the yard. Cars once again roll down Plymouth Avenue N. But for 18 days, it was the epicenter of demonstrations that sprouted from the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark. With people coming and going at all hours of the day and night, it grew into a bustling tent city with hot food, portable toilets and something call the “Justice Hut.” Some people slept in shifts, going home only to shower and change clothes.

Bayview Crowd Calls For Police Chief To Quit Over Death

December 6, 2015 Vivian Ho, www.sfgate.com , , ,
By Vivan Ho for the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, CA - A community meeting erupted into outrage Friday night as San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr attempted to explain the shooting death of a man by police in the Bayview neighborhood that drew ire nationwide after video of the incident was widely circulated on social media. (The video.) unnamed (6) Police Commission President Suzy Loftus (left), San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr and Bayview Station Capt. Raj Vaswani listen to the combative crowd at the town hall meeting. Dozens of community members packed a room at the City College of San Francisco southeast facility, calling for Suhr’s resignation as he told the crowd that officers fatally shot Mario Woods, 26, “in defense” of both themselves and bystanders at the scene. Woods died shortly after at least five officers fired at him about 15 times in the Bayview neighborhood about 4:30 p.m.Wednesday.

US Cop Charged With Murder May Have Covered Up Another Killing

December 5, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is accused of helping his fellow cops avoid justice over the killing of a 23-year-old janitor. The white police officer charged with murder for shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is also involved in a possible police cover-up in the brutal police killing of Emmanuel Lopez in 2005, court records reveal. Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke made no attempt to conduct an independent inquiry into the police killing of Lopez, reported the Chicago Tribune, citing records released as part of an ongoing court case against the city.

Police Charged With Murder, Manslaughter Triples In 2015

December 5, 2015 Don Babwin, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Don Babwin for Associated Press - CHICAGO (AP) -- The number of U.S. police officers charged with murder or manslaughter for on-duty shootings has tripled this year - a sharp increase that at least one expert says could be the result of more video evidence. In the past, the annual average was fewer than five officers charged. In the final weeks of 2015, that number has climbed to 15, with 10 of the cases involving video. "If you take the cases with the video away, you are left with what we would expect to see over the past 10 years - about five cases," said Philip Stinson, the Bowling Green State University criminologist who compiled the statistics from across the nation.

Mumia’s New Pamphlet On Organizing To Abolish Police Violence

December 5, 2015 Suzanne Ross, www.blackagendareport.com , ,
By Suzanne Ross for Black Agenda Report - The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has weighed in on the debate over how to control the police. The former Black Panther “uses the Marxist analysis of the police as the enforcers of the will of the ruling class, and “how that role continues in the post-slavery period to this day.” Economic exploitation and police repression are also racial in character, with the police playing a role not much different from the KKK.”

Mpls. Police Clear Out 4th Precinct Protest Site

December 5, 2015 Jon Collins, Tim Nelson, and Matt Sepic, www.mprnews.org , , , ,
By Jon Collins, Tim Nelson, and Matt Sepic for MPR News - Minneapolis police cleared a protest camp and arrested eight people outside the city's 4th Precinct station early Thursday morning. A few hundred protesters reacted by occupying the rotunda of Minneapolis City Hall for a couple of hours in the afternoon. The peaceful demonstration at City Hall moved into the street with around 100 marchers heading up Hennepin Avenue and across the river. Several groups of protesters including Black Lives Matter converged on a restaurant and bowling alley in northeast Minneapolis.

MD Officer Convicted For Putting Gun To Black Man’s Head

December 4, 2015 Taryn Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com ,
By Taryn Finley for Huffington Post - Prince George's County Police Department in Maryland posted a video on its blog Wednesday, after an officer was convicted of assault for pinning his gun to a man's head. The officer, Jenchesky Santiago, was found guilty of first and second-degree assault, misconduct in office and the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence. In May of 2014, Santiago approached William Cunningham, who was sitting in a car parked in front of his cousin's house with his cousin in the driver's seat. Santiago told them that they had parked there illegally. Cunningham later testified in court for an investigation into Santiago's actions that they had parked in that location on earlier occasions.

Baltimore Jury in Freddie Grey Trial Reflects Racial Makeup Of City

December 3, 2015 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - BALTIMORE -- A majority black jury will ultimately decide if William Porter can be found guilty in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, a black man who died after a “rough ride” in a police van in April. Court officials announced Wednesday that eight black and four white jurors will decide the fate of Porter, one of six Baltimore police officers charged in Gray’s death. Porter, who is black, has been charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. A lot is hinging on the outcome of the case. Legal experts claim an acquittal couldset the tone for the other five trials.

Protecting Killer Cops Is A Chicago Prosecutorial Tradition

December 3, 2015 Bruce A. Dixon, www.blackagendareport.com , , ,
By Bruce A. Dixon for Black Agenda Report - If there's any justice the political career of Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez will end with the November 2016 election. But we should remember that Chicagoans threw Cook County States Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan out of office over the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton, and not much else changed. It will apparently take more than running candidates in elections to overthrow the Chicago tradition of prosecutors enabling and abetting its killer cops. The city of Chicago yesterday released a video it had held for 400 days of a police officer apparently murdering a young man with a knife walking away from him.

Laquan McDonald Shows Black Lives Matter Is Right To Target Dems

December 2, 2015 Joy-Ann Reid, www.thedailybeast.com , , ,
By Joy-Ann Reid for The Daily Beast - When Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted Democratic presidential candidates, liberal Democrats hemmed and hawed. Why protest your political allies, many asked, rather than target your foes? Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy. And today, for the vast majority of African Americans, the politicians in the best position to move policy for people of color, particularly at the local level, are Democrats. Democrats run most of the big cities where black people live, and they often lead the county and state prosecutors’ offices covering smaller, Republican-run cities like Ferguson, Missouri.

Mpls Protesters Refuse Calls To End 4th Precinct ‘Occupation’

December 2, 2015 Staff, www.mprnews.org , , ,
By Staff of MPR News - Minneapolis officials and community leaders on Monday called on protesters to end their "occupation" of the street outside the 4th Precinct police station, saying it had become a public safety hazard. Protest leaders, however, responded with a firm "no," setting the stage for a potential clash between police and those outside the precinct building who've been demonstrating since the Nov. 15 police shooting of Jamar Clark. The standoff came on the same day the Hennepin County Attorney's Office unveiled charges tied to the Nov. 23 confrontation near the precinct station that left five wounded.
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