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Federal Charges for Chicago Officer in Shooting Caught on Video

September 17, 2016
By: Admin

A Chicago police officer is facing federal criminal charges for shooting two black teenagers in 2013, when he fired into a stolen car that was moving away from him in an incident that was recorded on video. An indictment filed on Thursday and made public on Friday charges Officer Marco Proano with two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law, each one carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Both of the teenagers who were shot survived. Video of the encounter, captured by a dashboard camera in the officer’s squad car, became public last year as…

Inspired by the U.S., West Africans Wield Smartphones to Fight Police Abuse

September 17, 2016
By: Admin

DAKAR, Senegal — The YouTube video shows a grim scene from Ivory Coast: An unarmed man lies on a street with his arms up. A police officer fires a shot that appears to strike him. The man, a theft suspect, squirms on the road as the officer kicks and hovers over him, firing his weapon several times near his head, bullets hitting the ground just inches away. The officer then aims directly at the man’s forehead and pulls the trigger, killing him. The video, recorded by an onlooker using a cellphone camera, spread widely across social media this summer, attracting…

Heidelberg: Ruhestörung endet mit massivem Polizeieinsatz

September 5, 2016
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Heidelberg. (pol/eka) Wegen einer Ruhestörung wurden Beamte des Polizeireviers Heidelberg-Süd bereits am späten Freitagabend in das Mörgelgewann nach Kirchheim gerufen. Bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt machten einige der zur Ruhe Ermahnten einen alkoholisierten Eindruck und verhielten sich uneinsichtig, so die Polizei. Als die Ordnungshüter kurz nach Mitternacht erneut wegen einer Ruhestörung ins Mörgelgewann gerufen wurden, eskalierte die Situation: Eine 49-jährige Frau war derart aufbrausend und aggressiv, dass sie von den Beamten zur Seite genommen sollte. Daraufhin gingen die restlichen Anwesenden gegen die Polizei vor. Es kam zu tumultartigen Szenen, die nur mit massiver Polizei-Unterstützung in den Griff zu bekommen waren. Am…

Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone—police did

August 23, 2016
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A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.On July 8, 2012, as the summer sun rose over the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, police hauled a distraught 19-year-old named Tevin Louis away from a murder scene. The victim was Louis’s best friend, Marquise Sampson. The shooter was a veteran police officer, Antonio Dicarlo. For the previous five years, Louis and Sampson had been inseparable, drawn together by rough childhoods marked by foster care and poverty. In good times, Sampson made Louis laugh….

“Protecting” the Police: The Legislative Attack on Black Lives Matter

August 23, 2016
By: Admin

“There is a phenomenon in this country that we need to examine and it’s just not in New York,” NYPD Commissioner William Bratton told reporters in May, after addressing a national conference of police chiefs at the Times Square Marriott Marquis. “This has become very serious. I would almost describe it as an epidemic.” Bratton, who announced his retirement on August 3 — much to the delight of Black Lives Matter demonstrators who set up an encampment at City Hall calling for his resignation one day previously — was not speaking of zika or ebola. He was talking about civilians…