If You Are Doing Nothing Wrong You Have PLENTY to Fear – 30 Examples

[thekingsmen]

Orginally from this site but had to keep it short.
If You Are Doing Nothing Wrong You Have PLENTY to Fear – 30 Examples


I give you several examples.

1. Niakea Williams went to her son’s St. Louis-area elementary school one day to pick up her son, who has Asperger’s. The school was put on lockdown and Mrs. Williams was escorted out in handcuffs.

2. Adrionna Harris was almost expelled from her middle school in Virginia Beach after taking a razor blade away from a fellow student who was trying to harm himself.

3. Read what Houston police did to this man who gave 75 cents to a homeless person.

4. A little known Denver parking ordinance can get you a $25 fine even if you haven’t exceeded the two-hour limit.

5. Police in Iowa City, Iowa, seized $50,000 from this couple without charging them with a crime.

6. Alberto Willmore lost his teaching job in Manhattan over a totally bogus marijuana arrest. Even though he was never convicted of anything, he was unable to get his job back.

7. Norman Gurley was arrested in Lorain County, Ohio, because a compartment in his car could have been used to transport drugs.

8. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed 80-year-old Eugene Mallory in his own bed during a meth raid. No meth, or any other illegal drugs, was discovered.

9. Paul Valin contacted police to report that he found a backpack full of what he believed to be meth-making equipment 15 miles from his home near Des Moines. As a result, the DEA placed his house on its list of meth labs.


Ryan Holle

10. Ryan Holle of Pensacola, Florida, lent his roommate his car on night in 2004. As a result, Holle is currently serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for pre-meditated murder.

11. New York police seized Gerald Bryan’s cash in a nighttime raid in 2012. Even though Bryan was cleared of any wrongdoing, the stolen cash was deposited in the NYPD pension fund.

12. Robert Duncan is currently serving two years in a California prison, even though the business in which he worked was legal in California.

13. Jordan Wiser spent 13 days in jail after Jefferson, Ohio, police found a pocketknife during a warrantless search of his car.

14. During a school lockdown in Clarksville, Tennessee, David Duren-Sanner gave police permission to search his car as he had “nothing to hide”. Police found a fishing knife. Duren-Sanner, who previously had never been to the principal’s office, was suspended for 10 days and then sent to an alternative school for 90 days.

15. Look what happened to these parents in Napa, California, even though the medical marijuana prescriptions they had were completely legal.


Eileen and Brandon Bower

16. Eileen Ann Bower of suburban Pittsburgh had her newborn child taken from her for 75 days because of a false positive drug test.

17. Jerry Hartfield of Bay City, Texas, has spent the majority of his life in prison, even though his conviction was overturned in 1980.

18. Jason Dewing of update New York was found guilty of violating a law that did not exist.

19. Don Miller of Waldron, Indiana, had his home raided by FBI agents who seized hundreds of cultural artifacts from around the world. Miller was neither arrested nor charged with anything.


Fedcoats raid Don Miller’s house.

20. This San Diego couple was pepper-sprayed and tasered by police who had erroneously identified their vehicle after being stolen.

21. The good news is that Brian Aitken of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, had his prison sentence commuted. The bad news is that he was originally sentenced to seven years behind bars for possessing two legally purchased guns.

22. This special needs student in McDonald, Pennsylvania, was charged with felony wiretapping for recording other students who were bullying him mercilessly.


Abner Schoenwetter

23. Abner Schoenwetter of Miami served over six years in prison for – you can’t make this stuff up – violating Honduran fisheries law.

24. Read what happened to John Filippidis of Hudson, Florida, when he was pulled over by state police while driving unarmed through Maryland.

25. In a case of mistaken identity, Lewis James of Durham, North Carolina, “was handcuffed and later jailed under a $1.425 million bond” after he had contacted the police to notify them of a dead body in the middle of the road. As someone put it on Facebook, “Don’t call the cops. Ever. Even if you find a dead body. Just don’t ever call the cops.”

26. Read what happened to Diane Avera of Meridian, Mississippi, when she went to Alabama to buy Sudafed, even though she did not know that this was illegal.


Andy Johnson and family.

27. Andy Johnson of Uinta County, Wyoming, faces EPA fines of $75,000 per day for building a pond on land that he owns.

28. Douglas Zerby of Long Beach was shot and killed by police while watering his lawn because some idiot neighbor thought the hose nozzle was a gun.

29. Darien Roseen was arrested and had his vehicle searched by sheriff’s deputies in Payette County, Idaho, simply because his Colorado license plates led them to believe that he could have been carrying marijuana.


Brian Banks was a high school All-American linebacker whose career and life were interrupted by a false rape conviction. The Atlanta Falcons gave Banks a tryout in 2013.

30. Brian Banks of Long Beach spent five years in prison and five more years as a registered sex offender as a result of a rape conviction. And then his accuser changed her story.

These are not “isolated incidents.” There are no doubt countless other examples of people who were doing nothing wrong, yet were harshly punished.

 

[Dooby]

Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeere should be a lot more black people on that list

 

[thekingsmen]

Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeere should be a lot more black people on that list

There are no doubt countless other examples of people who were doing nothing wrong, yet were harshly punished.

 

[Kritic]

should check this documentary out

http://www.thecoli.com/posts/8465082/

 

[Crakface]

Laws are for poor people and people without muscle.

 

[tmonster]

St. Louis County mother furious after being arrested for consoling son |
KMOV.com St. Louis
She got to her son’s classroom and immediately started to console him. Then the school principal informed her she was violated school policy by not signing in.

“I didn’t sign the book, but I had to check on my son. You can bring me the book, She said oh no, I’ve already called the police. You called what,” said Williams.

good she should have signed the book...the principal had no choice, the book was not signed, when will black people learn to follow the rules

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

This is the kid that got arrested for reporting a dead body in the road to the police.



'NewBlackMan (in Exile)' blog post on Lewis Little's case
Durham, N.C. — A 20-year-old sophomore communications major at North Carolina Central University, Lewis James Little sat in the Durham County jail for nearly a month last year after he did what he says he thought was the right thing.
He and several friends had been visiting the home of a childhood friend on Melbourne Street in east Durham on the night of June 20, 2013, when, he says, they discovered 25-year-old Michael Lee dead in the middle of the road.
"I called the police – when none of the other guys were even thinking about it – trying to do the right thing, and it pretty much started from there," Lewis said.
Twenty minutes after officers arrived, he was handcuffed and later jailed under a $1.425 million bond on burglary, kidnapping and several other criminal charges in connection with a break-in at a nearby home.
"You can do good your whole life and like that, (you're in jail under) a million-dollar bond," he said. "It was kind of like a dream. I kept waking up, like, 'I can't believe I'm in here.' I kind of felt defeated."
Then, on July 15, a corrections officer told him he was free to go. The Durham prosecutor working the case dropped the charges and apologized to Little.
A witness in the home invasion had identified Little as one of three men who broke in, but statements to police called into question that identification, authorities say.
"You can assume a lot just from looking at my face and dreads. I was in basketball shorts and flip flops," Little said. "Something like that happening to them – I can kind of understand that maybe they would jump to conclusions."
Arrest's stigma continues for Little
Little had been wrongly accused, and even though the case was dismissed, the damage was already done. Since then, he says, he has had issues finding both housing and employment.
The stigma continues for Little. All he just has to do is search for his name on the Internet, where his mug shot and numerous stories about his arrest show up, including one on WRAL.com.
"I feel ashamed about it, because I don't want to be known like that," he said. "It's up there, and there's no taking it back."
Knowing what he knows now, Little says that if he had to do it again, he would have ignored the dead body in the street.
"I felt like it was the right thing to do (by calling police)," Little said. "I did, and I suffered from it."
Little's experience not uncommon
Irving Joyner, a law professor at North Carolina Central University, says Little's experience isn't unlike that of other black people's encounters with police.
"His resemblance to the person who actually did it or what information was provided to the officer was probably a catalyst in what happened to him," Joyner said.
That's partly why, he says, people won't report crimes, cooperate or answer police questions.
"They don't want to run the risk that they'll end up being the target of an investigation. It's a valid fear that people have," Joyner said. "People often have this notion that, if it is an African-American young person, it is highly likely that they participated in the crime, if they were anywhere physically close to it."
Little wants to keep moving forward
But Joyner says there aren't many legal options for Little and that any kind of lawsuit against police would likely fail.
"The opportunities for redress are limited in these situations," he said. "The law protects police officers. The theory is you don't want to have police subject to lawsuits every time they do something."
A more successful option would be for Little to get his record expunged, and while he is considering the option, Little says he doesn't think the burden should be on him to clear his name.
While what happened angers him, Little says, he isn't going to let it cloud his vision for the future.
"Holding onto the anger every day doesn't get you anywhere, so most definitely, I'm mad, but I still have other stuff going on," he said. "So, I have to balance that, and keep moving forward."

Read more at NCCU sophomore mistakenly jailed for 'doing the right thing' :: WRAL.com

 

[Serious]

This is the kid that got arrested for reporting a dead body in the road to the police.



'NewBlackMan (in Exile)' blog post on Lewis Little's case
Durham, N.C. — A 20-year-old sophomore communications major at North Carolina Central University, Lewis James Little sat in the Durham County jail for nearly a month last year after he did what he says he thought was the right thing.
He and several friends had been visiting the home of a childhood friend on Melbourne Street in east Durham on the night of June 20, 2013, when, he says, they discovered 25-year-old Michael Lee dead in the middle of the road.
"I called the police – when none of the other guys were even thinking about it – trying to do the right thing, and it pretty much started from there," Lewis said.
Twenty minutes after officers arrived, he was handcuffed and later jailed under a $1.425 million bond on burglary, kidnapping and several other criminal charges in connection with a break-in at a nearby home.
"You can do good your whole life and like that, (you're in jail under) a million-dollar bond," he said. "It was kind of like a dream. I kept waking up, like, 'I can't believe I'm in here.' I kind of felt defeated."
Then, on July 15, a corrections officer told him he was free to go. The Durham prosecutor working the case dropped the charges and apologized to Little.
A witness in the home invasion had identified Little as one of three men who broke in, but statements to police called into question that identification, authorities say.
"You can assume a lot just from looking at my face and dreads. I was in basketball shorts and flip flops," Little said. "Something like that happening to them – I can kind of understand that maybe they would jump to conclusions."
Arrest's stigma continues for Little
Little had been wrongly accused, and even though the case was dismissed, the damage was already done. Since then, he says, he has had issues finding both housing and employment.
The stigma continues for Little. All he just has to do is search for his name on the Internet, where his mug shot and numerous stories about his arrest show up, including one on WRAL.com.
"I feel ashamed about it, because I don't want to be known like that," he said. "It's up there, and there's no taking it back."
Knowing what he knows now, Little says that if he had to do it again, he would have ignored the dead body in the street.
"I felt like it was the right thing to do (by calling police)," Little said. "I did, and I suffered from it."
Little's experience not uncommon
Irving Joyner, a law professor at North Carolina Central University, says Little's experience isn't unlike that of other black people's encounters with police.
"His resemblance to the person who actually did it or what information was provided to the officer was probably a catalyst in what happened to him," Joyner said.
That's partly why, he says, people won't report crimes, cooperate or answer police questions.
"They don't want to run the risk that they'll end up being the target of an investigation. It's a valid fear that people have," Joyner said. "People often have this notion that, if it is an African-American young person, it is highly likely that they participated in the crime, if they were anywhere physically close to it."
Little wants to keep moving forward
But Joyner says there aren't many legal options for Little and that any kind of lawsuit against police would likely fail.
"The opportunities for redress are limited in these situations," he said. "The law protects police officers. The theory is you don't want to have police subject to lawsuits every time they do something."
A more successful option would be for Little to get his record expunged, and while he is considering the option, Little says he doesn't think the burden should be on him to clear his name.
While what happened angers him, Little says, he isn't going to let it cloud his vision for the future.
"Holding onto the anger every day doesn't get you anywhere, so most definitely, I'm mad, but I still have other stuff going on," he said. "So, I have to balance that, and keep moving forward."

Read more at NCCU sophomore mistakenly jailed for 'doing the right thing' :: WRAL.com

 

[thekingsmen]

good she should have signed the book...the principal had no choice, the book was not signed, when will black people learn to follow the rules

Your comment is not amusing. Troll somewhere else.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

good she should have signed the book...the principal had no choice, the book was not signed, when will black people learn to follow the rules

She needed to sign the book. Go to the school, sign in, see your kid. You can't help your kid, if you're an emotional wreck yourself. She has a case if other parent's haven't signed the book before and were given clemency, though.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Then, on July 15, a corrections officer told him he was free to go. The Durham prosecutor working the case dropped the charges and apologized to Little.
A witness in the home invasion had identified Little as one of three men who broke in, but statements to police called into question that identification, authorities say.

Was the witness white or otherwise non-black?

Univesity of Dayton (excerpted from: John P. Rutledge, They All Look Alike: the Inaccuracy of Cross-racial Identifications , 28 American Journal of Criminal Law 207-228, 211-214 (Spring 2001)(173 Footnotes Omitted)): Why are Cross-Racial Eyewitness IDs Especially Unreliable?

 

[Suicide King]

Laws are for poor people and people without muscle.

Just soulless lawyers and politicians. I don't know how white people look at themselves in the mirror.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Just soulless lawyers and politicians. I don't know how white people look at themselves in the mirror.

A lot of the people in the examples are also white, though, which is probably why @Dooby made his comment about there probably needing to be more black people on that list. If it's that bad for white people....

 

[Suicide King]

A lot of the people in the examples are also white, though, which is probably why @Dooby made his comment about there probably needing to be more black people on that list. If it's that bad for white people....

You can't use blacks, no one has sympathy for us.