Black Lives Matter

Cop Who Killed Jordan Edwards Fired

  • August 4, 2017
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Ex-officer Roy Oliver was fired three days after he shot and killed the unarmed teenager. On Saturday (April 29) an officer of the Balch Springs Police Department shot and killed unarmed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Now, that officer has been identified and fired from the force, which operates in a suburb of Dallas. Ex-officer Roy Oliver was the shooter. He is White. Edwards was Black. “From our policies, which I went by, there were violations. I acted on them,” Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber told press yesterday (May 2). Haber did not detail Oliver’s violations. The Dallas Morning News reports…

Chris Hedges | The Origins of Our Police State

Elizabeth, New Jersey – JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N.J. LaPierre had 10 glass vials of crack cocaine—probably what the cops were hoping to find—and he hastily swallowed them. He halted and faced the two officers who emerged from the cruiser. “We are tired of you niggers,” he remembers one of the officers saying. “We’re tired of all this shooting and robberies and…

The great American whitelash claims new victims every day

Lingering in the deepest corners of our national soul is the idea that this is and will always be a white nation. And we pay for this idea with our blood O ur times are exceedingly dark. No matter what pundits or politicians – even so-called progressive ones – may say, racism remains a central feature of this society, and this fact isn’t simply about the victimization of black people. Consider Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old freshman from the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, who is now dead. A policeman shot him in the head with a rifle and offered an account…

Police shooting of Texas teen in moving car violated federal guidance

Chief says killing of Jordan Edwards also violated department’s ‘core values’ and changes official account, saying teens were driving away at time of shooting When a Dallas-area police officer fired shots into a moving car on Saturday night, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, the officer did so in direct violation of federal guidance and widespread police department best practices. Moving targets US police have fatally shot 30 people in moving vehicles this year, despite federal guidelines advising them not to. Why have police departments pulled the trigger on drivers rather than reform? Read more According to the officer’s police chief, he…

Anklage im Misshandlungsskandal in der Flüchtlingsunterkunft Burbach

  • March 24, 2017
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Der Misshandlungsskandal in der Flüchtlingsunterkunft Burbach hatte bundesweit Entsetzen ausgelöst. Jetzt hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Siegen Anklage gegen 38 Personen erhoben, unter anderem wegen Freiheitsberaubung und Misshandlung. Nach rund zweieinhalb Jahren Ermittlungen zum Misshandlungsskandal in der Flüchtlingsunterkunft Burbach hat die Staatsanwaltschaft Siegen Anklage erhoben. Die Staatsanwaltschaft bestätigte am Dienstag, dass beim Landgericht Siegen Anklage eingereicht wurde, lehnte weitere Auskünfte aber ab. Nach einem Bericht der in Essen erscheinenden Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung wird 38 Beschuldigten unter anderem Freiheitsberaubung durch Unterlassen und die Misshandlung von Flüchtlingen vorgeworfen. http://www.migazin.de/2017/03/23/staatsanwaltschaft-erhebt-anklage-im-misshandlungsskandal-burbach/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MiGAZIN+Newsletter

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