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blackmattersus:

March 17 was a regular workday for Brooklyn, N.Y., mail carrier Glenn Grays, 27, until he was almost hit by an unmarked police car carrying plainclothes police officers, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said in a Tuesday press conference, according to Bed-Stuy Patch. Grays apparently didn’t realize that the men were cops and allegedly mouthed off at them—"as any New Yorker would do,“ Adams said.

A passerby quickly pulled out a cellphone to record the incident.

After the cops jumped out of their vehicle, they demanded Grays’ identification, which he told them was in the U.S. Postal Service truck.

“My ID’s right there on the side of the truck,” Grays said.

“Let’s go get your ID,” an officer said.

Grays told the officer that he had mail to deliver, and that’s when they began to handcuff him.

As for me, this is just one more evidence of a police state. This is the American STASI and the NAZI at work in the land of the free. one set of state agents oppressing another state agency worker who was only doing his job.
How much more evidence does one need to prove that we are living in a police state?

https://blackmattersus.com/5382-nypd-cops-arrest-mail-carrier-after-nearly-running-him-over/

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bisexualjew:

deathtodickens:

Some white women are mad about intersectional feminism the same way white men are mad when something of great importance to someone else has little or nothing to do with them.

why I hate white feminism #560

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memoirsofaimperfectblackgirl:

Omg 💕

My prezs.

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floozys:

you can’t watch this without also watching this

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thisiseverydayracism:

maybebeyoncewillbeouralways:

bitterbitchclubpresident:

captain-melonhead:

THIS SHOULD ALSO MAKE YOU ENRAGED.

POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK WOMEN EXISTS.

BLACK WOMEN (ESPECIALLY TRANSGENDER) ARE GETTING MURDERED, RAPED, AND BRUTALIZED BY THE POLICE AND ARE BEING BLAMED FOR **THEIR** ACTIONS.

DON’T SLEEP ON POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK WOMEN.

Her name is Miyekko Durden-Bosley and she’s 23.

The cop punched her in the face while she was in handcuffs and fractured her orbital bone.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/12/no-felony-charges-for-seattle-police-officers-bone-breaking-punch-of-handcuffed-woman/

chillona , her name is in this version

Her actual orbital fracture was not enough up charge the officer involved, but Darren Wilson’s imaginary orbital fracture was a good enough reason to put bullets in an unarmed black man’s head?

Tell us again how white privilege is not real. Tell us how we’re supposed to trust you demonic crackers.

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swagyoulater:

Couldn’t have said it better myself

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4mysquad:

Family Assaulted by Cops for “Suspicion of Breast Feeding,” Dad Arrested for No Reason

Juley Harris pulled into a Maryland gas station with his family and pumped some gas before stepping into the station’s convenience store and heating up a pizza.

When he stepped out, a Charles County sheriff’s deputy was demanding his identification, accusing him of driving with an unrestrained baby in the front seat.

Harris, 29, a hip hop artist who goes by DC Prophitt, denied the allegation, pointing to his one-month daughter who was restrained in the back seat.

Charles County sheriff’s deputy Gass insisted that Harris’ girlfriend placed the baby in the seat after they pulled into the station. He also accused Shanita Simms of breastfeeding the baby in the front seat, but that is not illegal in Maryland.

Gass claimed he spotted all this when they pulled into the station where he was parked. Harris told him his girlfriend only had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders.

Nevertheless, Gass began writing a ticket as a female deputy pulled up. Sensing that his rights were being violated, Harris asked the deputies to call a supervisor.

But that just made things worse.

“At first, (the supervisor) acted nice, but when I tried to explain things to him, he jumped in my face”

Harris became upset and began cussing. Simms pulled out her phone to record, capturing deputies arresting Harris after threatening to taser him. Harris’ 3-year-old daughter, who was in the backseat along with the baby, started crying.

Then they confiscated her phone, claiming they needed it as “evidence” – even though it has long been established the police do not have the right to seize cameras.

In fact, the United States Department of Justice made that clear in 2012 when it sent the Baltimore Police Department a detailed statement explaining that police can only seize cameras under “exigent circumstances” – meaning they suspect the evidence may be destroyed – which is exactly what Harris accuses them of doing.

Despite the obvious Constitutional violations against Harris, he was convicted Tuesday of disorderly conduct, failure to obey a lawful order and driving with an unrestrained child in the front seat.

He said the evidence used against him was his girlfriend’s video, which was edited to remove the portion where a deputy climbed into his car and confiscated her phone – which they still have not returned.

Harris also said that all three deputies testified that their dashcams were not working at the time.

Three patrol cars. Three dashcams. Not a single one working.

They also claimed the surveillance from the gas station was not working either, a video Harris tried to obtain the day after his arrest, only to be told he had to go through corporate, who, in turn, told him he needed to get a court order.

The employees at the Dash In also told him Charles County deputies had already obtained the footage, apparently not having to go through such hurdles.

And even though it took ten months for his trial, deputies did not provide his public defender with the footage they planned to use against him until Monday, the day before the trial.

Harris was sentenced to 120 days in jail, but that sentence was suspended, so he ended up with two years probation and community service.

And although his public defender led him to believe deputies would be returning his phone during the trial, they told her they didn’t have it, refusing to provide any further information on how to obtain it.

So apparently they expect him to just forget about it, seeing how they are above the law in that county.

But it must be stressed. They had no right to seize it in the first place. And they should be sued for it.

The only legal way deputies could have seized Simms’ camera without a warrant is if she was using it in during the commission of a crime such as child pornography where the camera becomes a tool of the crime, not just a tool to document whatever alleged crime may have occurred.

After all, the USDOJ points out, a camera could very well include evidence of police misconduct, which thanks to YouTube, we now know is a daily occurrence in this country.

The fact that Harris was arrested for disputing a citation indicates that deputies did have something to hide, which is why the supervisor, Sergeant Smith, felt the need to confiscate her phone after arresting her boyfriend.

“I was still videotaping him and he told me to give him my phone because it was his evidence,” Simms said.

“I sat in the car and started crying and he put all his weight on me. I was leaning over on the drivers seat, trying to keep my phone away from him but he took it.”

And once he seized her phone, a Samsung, he demanded her passcode, but she refused to give it to him.

“He said, ‘we have ways to get into it,’” she said.

Meanwhile, Harris is sitting handcuffed in the back of the patrol car watching the sergeant seize her phone.

Harris said they later tried to retrieve the video through auto backup, which is a cloud service used by Samsung, but by then, everything had been wiped out.

In their complaint, deputies claimed that Harris had become so disorderly, that a crowd gathered around to watch, which is how they were able to convict him of disorderly conduct.

And in their testimony, deputies estimated the crowd to be about 20 people.

But the video shows there was not more than three people in the gas station, all of them tending to their business, pumping gas into their cars.

However, none of that mattered to Judge Cooper who said Harris was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on all charges.

But the only thing that was proven during his trial was that the system is broken. Beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Love how the shithead cop tells him that he needs to argue it in court, and not there. Sweet, so they write all the bullshit tickets they want, and it’s up to us to waste our own personal time to fight a fucking made-up ticket costing hundreds of dollars.

Look at the power trip that tin star goon sergeant is on. Look at all of the false charges he’s willing to pin on this man simply for nothing more than contempt of cop. I’m pretty sure that’s oppression under the color of law, coercion & duress, illegal detainment, kidnapping, false arrest, assault.
What was it the driver did?

#Maryland #Cops #Police #Abuse #Wild Cops #WarOnCops #BlackLivesMatter

#StayWoke

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americasnexttopwaffle:

@catherinemurray

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thetallblacknerd:

micdotcom:

Kamilah Brock spent 8 days in a NY mental health facility because she owned a BMW 

Kamilah Brock, a former New York banker, has filled a suit against the city after she was detained for eight days in a mental health facility against her will. Brock says she was committed after trying to pick up her BMW, which skeptical police did not believe she owned. To add insult to injury, Brock was then charged a hefty sum by the hospital.

Disband the nypd

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sabaism-lights:

sleptonshawt-e:

krxs10:

Unarmed, non-violent 14-year-old, shot 7 times by New Jersey police, but survives

TRENTON - A Trenton teen, Radazz Hearns, 14, was unarmed when he was shot seven times by police officers Friday night while attempting to run from the officers, a lawyer for the teen’s family said Wednesday.

Hearns remains in stable condition at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton after being shot five times in the right leg, once in the left leg and has a bullet lodged in his pelvis, said the lawyer Samuel A. Anyan Jr.

Two State Police troopers and a Mercer County sheriff’s officer were responding to a report of shots fired at the Prospect Village apartments when they encountered three males and say they got out of their vans to “question them.” 

Rhonda Tirado, one of the witnesses, was in sitting front of her Trenton home Friday around 10:20 p.m. when she saw an unmarked gray minivan abruptly stop across the street and three police officers got out to question the trio of teens.

She saw Hearns run from the officers, and then the gunfire erupted.

“Those police were amped and they didn’t give that little boy a chance,” Tirado said Wednesday, while re-enacting the shooting where the encounter started. “There was no room for no chase. They just shot that little boy right there.”

As he turned and ran, Tirado said she saw him grab his red sweatpants to keep them from falling.

“I don’t think those little boys had no clue what was going on,” Tirado said. “I think they was at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

The police, not really having another story to concoct, pretty much state that this is indeed what happened—except, of course, they claimed that when they shot Hearns, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, they thought he was reaching for a gun in his waistband.

Except, when they got to him, he had nothing. 

The attorney for Radazz Hearns has stated that not only did police roll up in an unmarked vehicle, they weren’t in uniforms when they got out of the vehicle late at night.

Like magic, though, a full 12 hours after they shot Hearns seven times, police claimed to find a .22-caliber handgun underneath a vehicle on another street.

Right…..Whatever the case, it’s all garbage and this young man should’ve never been shot in the first place.

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#StayWoke

why would you need to shoot anyone 7 times, I really just don’t understand this at all.. are you kidding me? 

this is my backyard.

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weirdbuzzfeed:

If you don’t unmute this you’re missing out on 6 seconds of pure joy.

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therealstarfire:

Fuck Miley. Fuck white feminism. Fuck the simultaneous commodification & hatred of black women’s bodies & voices.

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kvyotiic:

4mysquad:

Yesterday, 32-year-old Philadelphia police officer Matthew Zagursky was caught on a video extorting a driver and his passenger whom he had stopped for a traffic violation.

“Either you buy these or I take your car,” 

Zagursky said.

Officer Zagursky informed the drivers they could either buy two $10 tickets for a police department fundraiser or have their car towed for outdated registration. After the driver agreed, Officer Zagursky gestured to the passenger, upping the extortion amount to $30.

“Let him buy one too, or I’ll take your shit,” 

Zagursky said in the video.

Yeah. Extortion. Does it again prove that cops are the real gang? - I think it does. They kill us, they steal our money (i don’t mean our taxes, they really DO steal money from people and business) they extorting… Well i guess it’s not that “protecting n serving” we need. 

#Cops #Police #Extortion #Philly #Abuse

#StayWoke

I’m so interested in what bullshit the people who ride so hard for cops are gonna say to excuse this shit.

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