Yeah if you guys wanted to know they has a protest downtown yesterday and marched down w broad st. Went to the Siegel center (vcu stadium) and laid there for 11 minutes to represent how many times he said I can't breathe
Cop Who Killed Eric Garner Got Off
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Fart Knocker
Superstar
ive heard glenn beck, bill oreilly, and now George Bush come out against the grand jury's findings. i know these guys are still racists who hate us, but the fact that even they take issue with what happened is pretty telling
Rapmastermind
Superstar
New York showed the world how this is done. We shut the city down the last 2 days. I think this is the case that finally will get Police Brutality to congress. It's sad that it took this long and this many deaths but when George Bush even says Eric Garner got a raw deal, you know what up, lol.
loyola llothta
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Dog they killing us with no repercussions. I cant believe majority of black people don't care or trying not see it.EXCLUSIVE: Rookie NYPD officer who shot Akai Gurley in Brooklyn stairwell was texting union rep as victim lay dying
In the six and a half minutes after Peter Liang discharged a single bullet that struck Gurley, 28, he and his partner couldn't be reached, sources told the Daily News. And instead of calling for help for the dying man, Liang was texting his union representative. What's more, the sources said, the pair of officers weren't supposed to be patrolling the stairways of the Pink Houses that night.
BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , OREN YANIV
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, December 5, 2014, 2:30 AM
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BRUCE COTLER FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSProtesters rally for justice in the death of Akai Gurley, fatally struck by a cop's bullet in the pitch-black stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project.
While Akai Gurley was dying in a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn housing development, the cop who fired the fatal bullet was texting his union representative, sources told the Daily News.
Right after rookie cop Peter Liang discharged a single bullet that struck Gurley, 28, he and his partner Shaun Landau were incommunicado for more than six and a half minutes, sources said Thursday.
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In the critical moments after the Nov. 20 shooting, the cops’ commanding officer and an emergency operator — responding to a 911 call from a neighbor and knowing the duo was in the area — tried to reach them in vain, sources said.
FACEBOOKAkai Gurley, seen with 2-year-old daughter Akaila in center photo, was killed by rookie cop Peter Liang's bullet in the Nov. 20 shooting.
“That’s showing negligence,” said a law enforcement source of the pair’s decision to text their union rep before making a radio call for help.
“The guy is dying and you still haven’t called it in?”
To make things even worse, the officers were uncertain of the exact address of the building in the Pink Houses they were in, according to their text messages, the sources said.
ALEX RUD FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSBlood is seen on the stairwell the day after the shooting. Sources say Liang texted his union representative instead of calling for help as Gurley lay dying.
The explosive details of the immediate aftermath following the shooting of Gurley are at the center of an investigation by Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson — who is poised to present evidence to a grand jury as early as the end of this month.
AKAI GURLEY'S PARENTS SPEAK FOR FIRST TIME SINCE HE WAS KILLED: 'I NEED JUSTICE FOR MY SON'
The police shooting case is certain to command extra scrutiny after a Staten Island grand jury Wednesday declined to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleofor the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
THEODORE PARISIENNE FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSThe two cops involved weren't supposed to be patrolling the Pink Houses' stairways that night, sources say.
Adding to the tragedy surrounding Gurley’s death, the officers involved were not supposed to be doing a patrol in the stairways, the sources said.
Deputy Inspector Miguel Iglesias, then the head officer of the local housing command, ordered them not to carry out such patrols, known as verticals.
He opted instead for exterior policing in response to a spate of violence at the East New York housing project.
“They’ve done verticals before,” a police source said of the two officers.
“But Iglesias’ philosophy was, ‘I want a presence on the street, in the courtyards — and if they go into the buildings they were just supposed to check out the lobby.”
Another source said the commander was furious after the shooting, raging, “I told them not to do verticals.”
CHASE GUTTMAN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSBrooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson is investigating.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton characterized the incident as an “unfortunate tragedy” and an accident. Officials said Liang was holding a flashlight in his right hand and a Glock 9-mm. in the other when he opened the door to the eighth-floor landing.
One bullet flew out and apparently ricocheted into the chest of Gurley, who was on the seventh-floor landing and taking the stairs with his girlfriend Melissa Butler, 27.
The victim stumbled down to the fifth floor and Butler knocked on a woman’s door on the fourth floor, pleading for help. That woman called 911, a source said.
THEODORE PARISIENNE FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSThe building's superintendent had reportedly asked NYCHA to fix the lights months earlier.
When Liang and Landau finally resurfaced on the radio, they reported an accidental discharge, added the source. Authorities have said they didn’t immediately know anyone was struck with the bullet.
The stairwell was pitch-black because the lights were out. The superintendent had asked NYCHA to fix the lights months before the fatal encounter. The problem was finally resolved hours after Gurley died.
While the shooting may have been a mishap, the cops’ subsequent conduct can amount to criminal liability, court insiders said.
ALEX RUD FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSThe officers were supposed to be policing the exterior of the East New York development, says a police source.
“I would be surprised if it is not at least presented to a grand jury,” said Kenneth Montgomery, a lawyer for Gurley’s parents. “It’s a debacle and it speaks of criminal negligence.”
DA Thompson had called the shooting “deeply troubling” and promised “an immediate, fair and thorough investigation.”
A spokeswoman for his office had no comment Thursday. The NYPD also declined comment.
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Gurley’s mother, Sylvia Parker, and stepfather, Kenneth Palmer, are scheduled to make their first public statements Friday morning, ahead of their son’s wake.
Gurley will be laid to rest Saturday.
They always leave us to die
loyola llothta
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Exactly. They come to neutralize the movements with anti government (we all the world shyt).
loyola llothta
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y'all know what Interstate 95 is right?
Miami-Dade County
Miami protesters shut down traffic on I-195
Protesters rallying in Miami Friday as part of a national outcry over police-related killings in New York and Ferguson marched through the streets of Midtown and onto Interstate-195, shutting down the highway and the Julia Tuttle Causeway.
http://www.miamiherald.com/#storylink=cpy
Goddam
Amandla
Rookie
This is nothing new. Im not disappointed.
Me and my people were talking about how at Akai Gurley's (his wake was yesterday
) rally at Pink Houses, how the community showed up but it got little to no media coverage. Of course they wouldn't
provide Charles Barron a platform, that unfiltered ETHER would be too much to bear. Anyway,
I see you City people laying down for the cause in Grand Central and Macys. Now if only y'all could get to that fukking Rockefeller Xmas Tree
...and expect Fukkery for New Years Eve; you'll see
..
) rally at Pink Houses, how the community showed up but it got little to no media coverage. Of course they wouldn'tprovide Charles Barron a platform, that unfiltered ETHER would be too much to bear. Anyway,
I see you City people laying down for the cause in Grand Central and Macys. Now if only y'all could get to that fukking Rockefeller Xmas Tree
...and expect Fukkery for New Years Eve; you'll see
..
Rell84shots
Veteran
That's why i
the brothas & sistas who kept countering with the "black lives matter" chant whenever they tried chanting that "all lives matter" bullshyt.
Airtrack360
All Star
What are you talking about? Where did I say I loved America? When did I say people can't leave America? But go ahead and do you. But when you tell your African or Caribbean brothers you left America for a better life. They gonna look at you like you lost your damn mind. That's just real...
Think about it. What will leaving America really do for you..
You think racism only exist in America, you think injustice only exist in America, you think inequality only exist in America? Wake the fukk up. This is the world we live in. Now we can do our best to try and change it. But I got no sympathy for mother fukkers that are trying to run from it.
Nomad1
Tupac KONY and GOAT
Daniel Pantaleo Sued Before — 3 Times — by Black Defendants
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/daniel-pantaleo-sued-before-3/2014/12/05/id/611399/
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/daniel-pantaleo-sued-before-3/2014/12/05/id/611399/
I know the justice dept picked up the case, Holder and them need to get this dude locked up.
http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/b...ic-kin-advice-garner-family-article-1.2035829
Have faith in the feds.
That was the message to Eric Garner’s grieving family from a Bronx mom whose son was killed 20 years ago by a cop using a chokehold — and who knows from bitter experience that justice can be elusive.
“It’s a different menu with the federal government, that’s what I learned,” 69-year-old Iris Baez told the Daily News. “Their questions are not the same.”
Baez’s son, Anthony, was killed after he ran afoul of a city cop named Frank Livoti.
Angered when the football Anthony Baez was tossing around with his brothers hit Livoti’s police cruiser, the furious officer placed the 29-year-old victim in a chokehold and squeezed the life out of him.
Unlike Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Garner with a chokehold on July 17, Livoti was indicted by a Bronx grand jury. But a judge acquitted the officer in 1996 of criminally negligent homicide.
“I was numb for a couple months,” Baez recalled. “My kids were yelling and crying.”
Livoti was ultimately convicted in federal court in 1998 of violating Anthony Baez’s civil rights and sent to the slammer for seven years.
The move Livoti used to subdue and kill Anthony Baez was banned by the NYPD. In an eerie twist, both Livoti and Pantaleo have the same lawyer, Stuart London.
The Baez family received a $3 million settlement from the NYPD in 1998 and their street was renamed Anthony Baez Place. And every Dec. 22, Baez holds a candlelight vigil in memory of her slain son.
“Christmas for us is gone,” Baez said. “We don’t celebrate like everyone else, nice and happy. I can’t celebrate Christmas because Anthony loved Christmas.”
The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation Wednesday after a mostly white Staten Island grand jury refused to indict Pantaleo, who also is white, of killing Garner, a black, 43-year-old father of six.
Margarita Rosario, whose 18-year-old son Anthony was shot dead by police in the Bronx just weeks after Anthony Baez was killed, said she wished the feds had taken her case.
“I almost fainted,” she said, recalling the meeting when Mary Joe White, then-U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, told her they weren’t taking the case.
“She said bluntly and clear — the meeting was over in 10 minutes — that they didn’t feel the cops did anything wrong and they weren’t going to proceed with the charges,” she recalled.
Rosario, 60, said she had her first panic attack on the subway ride home.
“We had to get off the train because I was hyperventilating,” she said. “I started getting anxiety attacks after that.”
The U.S. attorney’s office declined comment on Friday.
Rosario, a family assistant for the Department of Education, refused to give up. She sued the NYPD and the city and won a $1.1 million settlement. She also forged a tight bond over the years with Baez as they both battled police brutality.
“Families need to keep fighting,” Rosario said.
http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/b...ic-kin-advice-garner-family-article-1.2035829
Have faith in the feds.
That was the message to Eric Garner’s grieving family from a Bronx mom whose son was killed 20 years ago by a cop using a chokehold — and who knows from bitter experience that justice can be elusive.
“It’s a different menu with the federal government, that’s what I learned,” 69-year-old Iris Baez told the Daily News. “Their questions are not the same.”
Baez’s son, Anthony, was killed after he ran afoul of a city cop named Frank Livoti.
Angered when the football Anthony Baez was tossing around with his brothers hit Livoti’s police cruiser, the furious officer placed the 29-year-old victim in a chokehold and squeezed the life out of him.
Unlike Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Garner with a chokehold on July 17, Livoti was indicted by a Bronx grand jury. But a judge acquitted the officer in 1996 of criminally negligent homicide.
“I was numb for a couple months,” Baez recalled. “My kids were yelling and crying.”
Livoti was ultimately convicted in federal court in 1998 of violating Anthony Baez’s civil rights and sent to the slammer for seven years.
The move Livoti used to subdue and kill Anthony Baez was banned by the NYPD. In an eerie twist, both Livoti and Pantaleo have the same lawyer, Stuart London.
The Baez family received a $3 million settlement from the NYPD in 1998 and their street was renamed Anthony Baez Place. And every Dec. 22, Baez holds a candlelight vigil in memory of her slain son.
“Christmas for us is gone,” Baez said. “We don’t celebrate like everyone else, nice and happy. I can’t celebrate Christmas because Anthony loved Christmas.”
The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation Wednesday after a mostly white Staten Island grand jury refused to indict Pantaleo, who also is white, of killing Garner, a black, 43-year-old father of six.
Margarita Rosario, whose 18-year-old son Anthony was shot dead by police in the Bronx just weeks after Anthony Baez was killed, said she wished the feds had taken her case.
“I almost fainted,” she said, recalling the meeting when Mary Joe White, then-U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, told her they weren’t taking the case.
“She said bluntly and clear — the meeting was over in 10 minutes — that they didn’t feel the cops did anything wrong and they weren’t going to proceed with the charges,” she recalled.
Rosario, 60, said she had her first panic attack on the subway ride home.
“We had to get off the train because I was hyperventilating,” she said. “I started getting anxiety attacks after that.”
The U.S. attorney’s office declined comment on Friday.
Rosario, a family assistant for the Department of Education, refused to give up. She sued the NYPD and the city and won a $1.1 million settlement. She also forged a tight bond over the years with Baez as they both battled police brutality.
“Families need to keep fighting,” Rosario said.
Me and my people were talking about how at Akai Gurley's (his wake was yesterday
provide Charles Barron a platform, that unfiltered ETHER would be too much to bear. Anyway,
I see you City people laying down for the cause in Grand Central and Macys. Now if only y'all could get to that fukking Rockefeller Xmas Tree
...and expect Fukkery for New Years Eve; you'll see
..
This would all be so much more potent in NYC if there weren't so many damn non-whites...Don't lie I know its making you sick too..and I dont think it means Blacks are less serious about the issue compared to the ones in Ferguson...I just think the annoyance of hipsters in NYC is on another level....its like Ground Zero for hipsters....I can foresee a beautiful classic historical moment on New Years Eve or days before Christmas where they disrupt festivities....then I look up and see a bunch of pink faces........
By the way these events in the East and MidWest is history's way of balancing out the South's bad reputation in the previous generations and shutting up people who thought the North could not be like this....
great migration our people was like lets all move to the North .....
now its all lets move back to the south and we gonna keep finding reasons not to go back to africa
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/us/cleveland-justice-department-police-excessive-force/index.html
"Justice Dept.: Cleveland police has pattern of excessive force"
it ain't just cleveland...
"Justice Dept.: Cleveland police has pattern of excessive force"
it ain't just cleveland...