The 'Crime' Of Walking While Black.....the DEADLY consequences for a 16 year old.

[Peter Lemkin]

The death of a homeless woman in St. Louis, Missouri, last year is now drawing national scrutiny over revelations of how she died in police custody. Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Brown had gone to the hospital seeking emergency medical treatment for leg pain. When she refused to leave the emergency ward, she was carried to jail by her arms and ankles and left on the floor of her cell. Within 15 minutes, she had stopped moving and was soon after pronounced dead. The officers who arrested her reportedly suspected she was at the hospital seeking drugs. But an autopsy later revealed she had had blood clots in her legs and lungs and had no drugs in her system. The St. Louis police never announced Brown's death. Her story only came to light six months later after an anonymous caller tipped off the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. Brown, who was African American, was the mother of two children. Her family is reportedly considering bringing a wrongful death suit against the hospital and police.

Full story with video of Anna Brown and her arrest/death.Too sad.....

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime...e9677.html

The family will win the suit. I used to do ultrasound back in the day. It doesn't take much to get a venous ultrasound out of the ER with people complaining of leg pain. Clots are very easy find. I once saw a clot waving in the blood. I quite right there; called the radiologist; I wheeled her to her hospital bed where we gently lifted her. That family is going to get a lot of money.

I hope you are correct, but they'll never get their loved one back and the police and hospital personnel will very likely go unpunished and do the same the next time. Its the mentality [or lack of it] that makes America what it has become and is disintegrating into further. Not that it was ever a paragon of virtue.......

[Keith Millea]

The family will win the suit. I used to do ultrasound back in the day. It doesn't take much to get a venous ultrasound out of the ER with people complaining of leg pain. Clots are very easy find. I once saw a clot waving in the blood. I quite right there; called the radiologist; I wheeled her to her hospital bed where we gently lifted her. That family is going to get a lot of money.

This is exactly how my mother died.Although thankfully,NOT ON A PRISON CELL FLOOR.....

[Peter Lemkin]

AMY GOODMAN: Juan, you have an important follow-up piece in the Daily News, as you have been crusading in the last days, finding out more information on the death of 68-year-old former Marine Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., November 19th, 2011. His medical alert button went off. Maybe he rolled over it in the middle of the night. The company couldn't reach him, so they called the police to help him, said it was a medical emergency, not a criminal one. They came to the door. He woke up. He said he was fine. The police broke down his door, and as he told them, "I am fine, you can go way," they shot him with a taser, and then they shot him dead. Juan, in today's piece in the New York Daily News, tell us what you have found.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, the mostthe new evidence is we finally were able to get a photo of the police officer, who we revealed yesterday in the Daily News, who fired the two shots that killed Kenneth Chamberlain. His name is Anthony Carelli. And more importantly, the police union came out, the White Plains police union, blasting the release of his name, even though authorities have tried to keep the identity of all the cops involved in this incident secret now for more than four months. So the police union blasted the release of that evidence and said, "We are very disappointed that anybody would release the name of this officer during an ongoing investigation."
And they also said, "Officer Anthony Carelli has numerous commendations and has been an excellent police officer, both on and off the job, and he deserves the right to a fair and impartial inquiry." And Kenneth Chamberlain's son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., yesterday said he absolutely agrees that Officer Carelli deserves a fair hearing, but heand said, "Let the facts speak for themselves. But," he said, "did my father get a fair hearing? No, he (Carelli) played judge and executioner right then and there." And so, there's been a back-and-forth between the union and the family.
More importantly, I had an interview with the niece of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., who was in the building the night of the incident, actually lived upstairs. And she gave new details of what had happened that night, that she had come down. Her mother had called her on the phone, because the mother, who was the sister of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., had received a call from the LifeAid company, thatand so the mother said, "Can you go downstairs and check on your uncle?" And when she went down the stairs in her pajamas, she saw the four policefive police standing in front of the door. And she said, "I'm his niece." And they totally ignored her. When she ran back upstairs to get a coat to cover her pajamas, she came back down, and now, she says, the police had their guns drawn. All the while, she said, her uncle kept yelling, "I'm OK. I didn't call you. Please leave me alone." But the police continued to ignore her.
Most importantly, she called her mother on the cell phone, and the mother then asked to speak with one of the policemen. So the sister of Chamberlain actually spoke with one of the policemen on the phone. Still, they did not seek any kind of family intervention to try to help defuse the situation. And then it was sometime later that the niece, Tonyia Greenhill, heard two booms, and she asked one of the firemen at the time, she said, "Have they shot my uncle?" And a few moments later, the medics pulled his body out in the stretcher and rushed to the hospital, where he died later. So that it's clear that theif the police had sought to defuse the situation, they could have asked some of the relatives to intercede or try to talk to Mr. Chamberlain in his house before taking off the door and bursting in with the tasers and eventually shooting him.
AMY GOODMAN: And for people who want to see a full discussion of what took place, with Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., we had him on our broadcast yesterday as well as last Thursday, as well as his attorneys. And the reason they know as much as they do about what took place on that fateful night, on November 19th, 2011, is because the LifeAid company, that has a box in his father's apartment so they could talk to him if there was a problem, if the medical alert pendant went off, also not only sends all audio back to the LifeAid's offices, but records everything that took place. Also, on the taser gun was a video, until they turned it off before they killed Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr.
On that audio tape, which Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., and also his lawyers have been able to listen to, though it hasn't been released publicly and they are calling for that, they hear one of the people outside, one of the officers, refer to Kenneth Chamberlain as a racial epithet. They also hear when he sayswhen he says, "It is clear that the police are going to kill me," and you hear this on the audiotape, "Semper fi," because he was a Marine. He was also a retired corrections officer. The officers outside saying, "Hoorah, hoorah," mocking him. That is when Ken Chamberlain, Jr., on Democracy Now!, broke down, saying, "mocking my father's military service to his country." There is a grand jury that's been convened.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes, the grand jury is expected to begin hearing testimony next week. And, of course, we also revealed in the Daily News that the same officer, Anthony Carelli, who fired the fatal shots, is about to go to trial in a separate federal civil rights complaint case, a $10 million complaint, over his alleged beating of two young Jordanian men during an arrest in 2008.
AMY GOODMAN: Jordanian-American men.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Jordanian-American men, where he calledaccording to them, he called them "rag heads" as he beat them in the White Plains police headquarters.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, that's a $10 million lawsuit that's going forward at the same time as this grand jury hearing.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Right, and that comes to trial, startsthe trial starts April 23rd.
AMY GOODMAN: So, Trayvon Martin, the grand jury investigation into his death is April 10th. The grand jury investigation into the death of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., is April 11th. And the civil rights lawsuit trial will take place against White Plains Police Officer Anthony Carelli, who shot Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., dead in this call to his home for a medical emergency, will begin on April 23rd.
JUAN GONZALEZ: April 23rd, that's correct.

[Peter Lemkin]

Police in Newport, California, drew their guns on all-star Major League Baseball player Torii Hunter outside his own home on Wednesday. The police arrived after an alarm had accidentally been activated at the home of the African-American player. Hunter tweeted, "They didn't believe I lived here in Newport Coast so they walked me upstairs at gunpoint to get my ID." Soon after, one of Hunter's teammates tweeted, "That's racist." Hunter responded, "LOL ... Now you know I can't say that." Hunter is a winner of the Branch Rickey Award for service and a two-time finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award, which recognizes players for community involvement and sportsmanship.

[Magda Hassan]

Neo-Nazis patrolling Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed

By CYNTHIA R. FAGENLast Updated: 5:03 PM, April 7, 2012Posted: 2:27 PM, April 7, 2012

A heavily armed troop of Neo-Nazis are goose-stepping around the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed.
Members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement are patrolling Sanford, Florida proclaiming they're prepared for violence in case of a race riot, its commander Jeff Schoep told the Miami New Times.
"We are not the type of white people who are going to be walked all over." he said.
"Whenever there is one of these racially charged events, Al Sharpton goes wherever blacks need him. We do similar things. We are a white civil rights organization."
He said the patrols will protect "white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety."
Schoep cited that a group calling itself the New Black Panther Party put up a $10,000 reward for the citizens' arrest of George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter.
"But if we called for a bounty on someone's head, I guarantee we'd be locked up as quick as I could walk out of my house," he said.
Martin was killed Feb. 26 by Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who claimed he fired in self defense under Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law. He has since gone into hiding.
The neo-Nazi patrols are comprised of 10 and 20 locals and "volunteers" from across the state, including some from Miami.
Schoep said he wasn't taking sides in the shooting.
"I think there is some confusion going on. A lot of people think that this guy who shot Trayvon was white, but he's half Hispanic or Cuban or something. He certainly doesn't look white to me."
"You can either be prepared or you can be blind-sided. This way, if something were to touch off a race riot, we'd already be in the area."
A Martin family spokesman blasted vigilantism from both sides.
"The family has consistently voiced their opposition to anyone on either side of this issue taking the law into their own hands. This is simply about a family's quest to find lawful justice for their son," Ryan Julison told The Post.




Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ne...z1rQ0qJaCR

[Peter Lemkin]

Neo-Nazis patrolling Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed

By CYNTHIA R. FAGENLast Updated: 5:03 PM, April 7, 2012Posted: 2:27 PM, April 7, 2012

A heavily armed troop of Neo-Nazis are goose-stepping around the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed.
Members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement are patrolling Sanford, Florida proclaiming they're prepared for violence in case of a race riot, its commander Jeff Schoep told the Miami New Times.
"We are not the type of white people who are going to be walked all over." he said.
"Whenever there is one of these racially charged events, Al Sharpton goes wherever blacks need him. We do similar things. We are a white civil rights organization."
He said the patrols will protect "white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety."
Schoep cited that a group calling itself the New Black Panther Party put up a $10,000 reward for the citizens' arrest of George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter.
"But if we called for a bounty on someone's head, I guarantee we'd be locked up as quick as I could walk out of my house," he said.
Martin was killed Feb. 26 by Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who claimed he fired in self defense under Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law. He has since gone into hiding.
The neo-Nazi patrols are comprised of 10 and 20 locals and "volunteers" from across the state, including some from Miami.
Schoep said he wasn't taking sides in the shooting.
"I think there is some confusion going on. A lot of people think that this guy who shot Trayvon was white, but he's half Hispanic or Cuban or something. He certainly doesn't look white to me."
"You can either be prepared or you can be blind-sided. This way, if something were to touch off a race riot, we'd already be in the area."
A Martin family spokesman blasted vigilantism from both sides.
"The family has consistently voiced their opposition to anyone on either side of this issue taking the law into their own hands. This is simply about a family's quest to find lawful justice for their son," Ryan Julison told The Post.




Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ne...z1rQ0qJaCR

Sadly, by Florida's insane gun laws these neo-Nazi protectors of the White 'mastermice' are likely allowed to carry guns and use them if they feel 'threatened'. Farther forward into the PAST goes my country! That Zimmerman is still free, after killing a child is sick! Vile! Antithetical to Justice!...but then the Nation sets the example of injustice and violence with impunity with its own governmental policies and actions, time and time again! The most prolific purveyor of violence on the Planet now.....the citizenry is now, apparently, allowed to follow the example the Nation sets, as long as they don't 'mess' with the Big Boys in control.

[Albert Doyle]

And Leah Bolger gets 6 months for speaking the truth to the war pigs...

[Peter Lemkin]

Washington, April 8 (ANI): The US police, including the FBI, are hunting for a gunman, who has shot five African-Americans, killing three and injuring two, in a bloody shooting spree in Tulsa.

According to the New York Post, the authorities are looking for a white man driving an old white Chevy pickup truck who was spotted around the attacks at 3 am on Saturday.

Tulsa City Councilor Jack Henderson said that the gunman would drive up to pedestrians, ask for routes and later killed them after they turned away.

Police are not ruling out the possibility of a hate-fueled rampage.

"Obviously if that's where our investigation takes us, that's where we'll go," Tulsa Police Department Officer Jason Willingham said.

The shootings occurred within three miles of each other in Tulsa's predominantly black north side.

Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Walker said that the investigators do not have the results of forensic tests of the dead yet, but the police believe the attacks were linked because they happened around the same time in the same general area and all five victims were out walking when they were shot.

Black community leaders met on Friday evening in an effort to calm unrest in the area and provide safety.

NAACP Tulsa president, Rev. Warren Blakney Sr., told the Tulsa World that someone appeared to be "targeting black people".

North side residents were worried about the possibility of an armed extremist roaming on the streets to target them.(ANI)

[Albert Doyle]

It's important to cite the contempt and lawlessness of the Bush administration in precipitating this as well as nascent Republican right-wing politics.

[Peter Lemkin]

Prosecutor: No Grand Jury for Trayvon Martin Shooter George Zimmerman

The special prosecutor investigating the shooting death of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has ruled out using a grand jury in the case, meaning her office alone will decide whether to charge shooter George Zimmerman with a crime. The decision means Zimmerman will not be charged with first-degree murder a serious charge that would indicate the crime was premeditated and would require the convening of a grand jury in Florida. The special prosecutor, Angela Corey, said her decision "should not be considered a factor in the final determination of the case."

George Zimmerman Launches Defense Website

George Zimmerman, the alleged killer of Trayvon Martin, has launched his own website in an attempt to raise money for what he described as his "living expenses and legal defense." The website contains photos of pro-Zimmerman slogans, including a sign at a rally by Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones and a photo of a vandalized black cultural center at Ohio State University where someone spray-painted the words "Long Live Zimmerman." Every page on Zimmerman's website includes this quote from Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Fox Criticized for Calling Neo-Nazis a "Civil Rights Group"

In media news, a Fox affiliate in Florida is facing criticism after it referred to a neo-Nazi group as a "civil rights group" in a report about Trayvon Martin's killing. Here is part of the Fox report that includes an interview with Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement.

Anchor Jennifer Bisram: "There's another civil rights group in town: the National Socialist Movement."

Jeff Schoep: "A lot of people in the community, in the white community down there, had been contacting us out of concern for their safety just because of racial tensions."

Anchor Jennifer Bisram: "Racial tensions after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is claiming self-defense and has been in hiding now for weeks."

Jeff Schoep: "We're a white civil rights organization, and we go into areas where we're needed and where white citizens need our help."

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Socialist Movement has its roots in the original American Nazi Party. It is now one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the country. The group openly idolizes Adolf Hitler and calls for the deportation of every non-white person in the country,

Police: White Shooters Confessed to Killing Black People in Tulsa

Two white men accused of shooting five black people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing three of them, have reportedly confessed to authorities. Tulsa police say 19-year-old Jake England has admitted to police that he shot three of the victims, and 33-year-old Alvin Watts has said that he shot two others. Police said the suspects drove through the streets of north Tulsa, a predominantly black neighborhood, and randomly shot pedestrians. Both men were ordered held on bail of more than $9 million during their first court appearance on Monday.
Chicago: Lawsuit Launched over Shooting Death of Unarmed Woman by Off-Duty Cop


The family of a 22-year-old woman who was fatally shot last month by an off-duty police officer in Chicago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. A lawyer for the family of Rekia Boyd said Detective Dante Servin shot Boyd and a man she was with after getting into an argument with the man, 39-year-old Antonio Cross. The lawyer said neither victim was armed. Police originally claimed Cross had pulled a gun, but no gun was found at the scene. Boyd was shot in the back of the head and died a day later.

Lawyer: Autopsy Shows Kenneth Chamberlain Did Not Have Weapon

There is a new development in the case of the police killing of 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, the former Marine who was killed in his own home in White Plains, New York, after a medical alert. According to an autopsy report obtained by Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News, Chamberlain died from a single bullet that entered his right arm and ripped through both lungs. A lawyer for Chamberlain's family said the autopsy contradicts the police account of his death. Police say Chamberlain was holding a butcher knife when police officer fired two shots to stop him. But an attorney for Chamberlain's family said the trajectory of the fatal bullet suggests Chamberlain was neither facing the police nor holding up a weapon.