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The Rodney King Beat Down-20 Years Later…Did We All Just Get Along?

March 3, 2011

  20 years ago today, the world was captivated by the brutal videotaped beat-down of troubled human being Rodney King, by the out of control and rogue element in the Los Angeles Police department.(Source) The incident was caught on tape by private citizen amateur photographer George Holliday who awoke to the sounds of police sirens outside his […]

San Francisco Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Man In Wheelchair In The Groin Area!?!?…Is This A Case Of Excessive Force,Or Not?

January 5, 2011

Does shooting a man in a wheelchair who is holding a knife constitute the use of excessive force?(CBS News) The AP is reporting that San Francisco police say a knife-wielding man in a wheelchair stabbed an officer before the attacker was shot. The suspect and wounded officer are in the hospital with non life-threatening wounds,which is […]

Wrinkles The Dog Survives 2 Gunshots To The Head,Found Alive!!!…Amazing Will To Live!@

November 3, 2010

Wrinkles the dog just did not want to die! After being cruelly shot in the head no less than two times, dumped in a ditch, and left for dead,Wrinkles the dog amazingly ,after four long days of being missing without a trace, was found alive,in that ditch, by his owners, still clinging to his last […]

Oakland Police Kill Arthritic Dog For Barking At Them After They Forced Their Way In To Her Home…Another Sad Case Of Police Brutality.

October 1, 2010

I once had a good friend who was the son of a respected friend of our family who was murdered by the Oakland Police department for no reason in the 90’s, and I have refused to go to that city ever since, because I have not gotten over it. Today, comes a report out of […]

Oscar Grant’s Murderer Found Guilty Of ONLY Involuntary Manslaughter?@!?…When Will Black Men’s Lives EVER Be Worth Anything?

July 9, 2010

When will a black man’s life be treated on the same level as a white mans life in our courts system? Certainly not in this day and age, as today’s verdict in the Oscar Grant B.A.R.T. murder trial demonstrates to all of us!!! [picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=oscar+grant&iid=3455535″ src=”http://view1.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/3455535/funeral-held-for-police/funeral-held-for-police.jpg?size=500&imageId=3455535″ width=”234″ height=”159″ /] Johannes Mehserle, 28, a […]

7-Year-Old Girl Murdered By Detroit Police Wildly Shooting While Raiding A House Full Of Children…

May 17, 2010

The Detroit police department shot and killed little 7-year-old Aiyana Jones while she slept comfortably under a Disney princess blanket, on the living room sofa.(VIDEO) [picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=detroit+police&iid=7113853″ src=”f/b/d/e/Detroit_Mayor_Kwame_063c.jpg?adImageId=12890603&imageId=7113853″ width=”234″ height=”209″ /]Assistant Police Chief Ralph Godbee said that Aiyana Jones was hit in the neck by a bullet and died at a hospital. The […]

Seattle Police Officer Apologizes For Beating,Dehumanizing,And Shouting Racial Slurs At Innocent Latino Man….Disgraces The Badge!!!

May 15, 2010

The FBI says it has launched an investigation into the controversial beating of an innocent man by a Seattle police officer.(VIDEO) A freelance photographer caught on tape, officer Shandy Cobane ,on the night of April 17 in Lake Union,  using racial slurs against the detainee and kicking him in the head, and another officer stomping on […]