22-year-old black man fatally shot by Sacramento police in his own backyard was carrying a cell phone, not a 'tool bar,' when he was shot, department admits #StephonClarksacbee.com/news/local/cri…
22 years old.
Father of 2.
Unarmed.
In his own backyard.
2 cops – neither of whom identifies himself as a police officer – fired 20 shots at him.
"About 6 minutes after the shooting, after backup arrives, an officer can be heard telling another officer, “hey mute.”
Sound then cuts out as cops apparently turn off their microphones"
If this f*ckery surprises you, you're not following @greg_doucette.
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"Officers muted body cameras in Stephon Clark shooting. Why?"
Because after shooting #StephonClark 20 times, handcuffing his dying body and searching his backyard in vain for 7 minutes, the police realized they killed an unarmed man.
(ht @4everNeverTrump) cnn.com/2018/03/25/us/…
A lack of transparency and accountability creates a culture of impunity for police misconduct. #StephonClark
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Mass murderers Dylann Roof and Nikolas Cruz were arrested without a scratch.
#AltonSterling was selling CDs outside of a convenience store and was killed by police in less than 90 seconds.
"A day after #AltonSterling’s death prompted outrage and protests, an officer in Minnesota shot and killed #PhilandoCastile, a school cafeteria worker, during a traffic stop."
That officer was found not guilty on all counts.
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#StephonClark was shot eight times, mostly in his back, according to autopsy requested by his family.
So how did police legitimately fear for their lives? wapo.st/2E7YUKt
"He received seven gunshot wounds from his back .. All seven of these bullets could have been fatal on their own."
"He was not facing the officers” when he was killed."
This was murder.
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"The autopsy concluded that #StephonClark’s death was not instantaneous, taking an estimated 3 to 10 minutes, raising questions about why he was not given more immediate medical care after the shooting."
Cops too busy cutting the audio on their bodycams. nyti.ms/2uAaSNC
It's not about disobeying orders.
It's not about not showing your hands.
It's not about advancing towards the officers.
It's not about resisting arrest.
"Don't f*cking move or I'll shoot your f*cking ass, bitch! Put your f*cking hands on the car! Put your hands on the car or I'll shoot you in your f*cking head, you understand me? Don't you f*cking move, you hear me?"
Johnnie Rush was trying to get home from a long shift at Cracker Barrel.
Then he got stopped for jaywalking — an encounter with Asheville NC cops in which an officer punched him multiple times, used a stun gun on him & put him in a chokehold on the ground washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…
"The officers should have known him well enough to not simply shoot him to death" .. Police did not answer questions about whether officers had said anything to #SaheedVassell before firing 10 shots at him"
After Sacramento police killed #StephonClark, new videos show police muted their body cameras at least 16 times. Officers handcuffed and searched Clark before responders began first aid — 6 minutes after police shot him washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…
“What are you doing?” Clemons asks.
“I’ll break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do,” an officer says."
Police wrestled a black woman to the ground, exposing her breasts in restaurant after a dispute over plastic cutlery, video shows @AlexHortonTXwapo.st/2vBXY22?tid=ss…
"Police did not charge the golfers, but did inform them that Grandview was cancelling their memberships"
Former Police Chief David Brown, a central #BacktheBlue figure, on the killing of #DianteYarber: “You can't defend putting over 30 rounds into a car full of people with no weapons"
(h/t @MeritLaw) gma.abc/2J9IC6X
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Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Interpol president Meng Hongwei reported missing after trip to his native China; his wife hasn't heard from him since he left France at the end of September nbcnews.com/news/world/int…
"China has not commented officially on Meng Hongwei's disappearance & there was no mention of him in official media"
French police investigate disappearance of Interpol chief, place his wife under protection after receiving threats by phone & social media irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
"The initial working assumption of Western investigators was Mr Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result."
American Bar Association reopens evaluation of #Kavanaugh's "well-qualified" rating, based on his unhinged performance during a Senate hearing last week pbs.org/newshour/polit…
"A report by Washington Economics Group, whose clients include businesses like Nascar, projected that automatic restoration of voting rights would lead to $365 million/year in gains for Florida's economy, from lower prison costs and increased productivity"
Amazing statistic: the recidivism rate for people who had their voting rights automatically restored under Gov. Crist is 12.4%, vs a state average of 30%.
Also noteworthy: Charles and David Koch's network has declared support for Amendment 4.
.@nycsouthpaw: When career prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asked #Kavanaugh about his drinking & the July 1 party where Judge and Smyth were in attendance – a key date that aligns with Ford's account – Republican senators then came to his rescue and benched her yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh…
Trump says he rejected a one-on-one meeting with Justin Trudeau at the #UNGA, threatens tariffs on Canada auto exports: "We're going to tax the cars coming in, and we'll put billions and billions into our treasury .. Canada has treated us very badly"
Aside from his economic illiteracy (Americans pay the tariff, not foreign exporters), his personal animus towards Trudeau and Canada – neighbors, close allies, brothers and sisters – is senseless and destructive.