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13-year old Baltimore girl left bleeding after officer attacks her with a baton, uses pepper spray on other students

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:18 UTC
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A 13-year-old Baltimore girl needed 10 stitches in her head after a police officer hit her with a baton in an altercation caught on video, WBAL-TV reported.

The video, released today, shows the encounter between the officer and the girl, identified as Diamond. A photograph taken after the incident last October shows a bandage on Diamond's head and bloodstains on her Vanguard Middle School shirt. Two of her relatives, who also attend Vanguard, were also involved. The name of the officer involved in the incident has not been released.

Footage shows Diamond's cousin, identified as Starr, talking to the officer after walking down a stairway. The officer then grabs her by the arm and pushes her against a wall and seems to hold her by her hair at one point.

"The officer was hollering at her and said, 'Little girl, get down here,'" Starr's grandmother, Vanessa Ward, told WBAL. "And so Starr said, 'My name is not little girl, it's Starr.' Starr came on down the steps, and Starr said that's when the officer grabbed her."

Starr's sister is then seen approaching the scene and arguing with the officer after finding out that Starr was involved. Diamond is then seen trying to step between the officer and Starr.

The officer lets Starr go and begins chasing Diamond. The officer then draws her baton and hits Diamond, who is backed against a wall with her hands up.

Neals said that the school did not tell her that her daughter had been hurt by the officer. Instead, she said, she found out from paramedics. The officer was also seen using pepper spray against the other two girls as they were being restrained by a school official. All three girls had to be hospitalized.

"The officer kind of comes from behind and reaches around and sprays them multiple times in the face with pepper spray," the family's attorney, Jared Jaskot, said. "It's disgusting."

Comment: It is absolutely jaw-dropping to see how these so-called officers have become complete thugs. They have free license to terrorize these children and aren't held accountable. These violent events are escalating and bear all of the hallmarks of living a police state.

See also:
America's Children: The trials of growing up in a police state

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Man kills his boss just before she can report him stealing thousands from charity

Sean Carlin
ABC News
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:39 UTC
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An assistant director at a child advocacy organization followed and shot his supervisor as she waited at a bus stop so she couldn't report him for stealing about $40,000 from the organization, police said Monday.

After the slaying last month, Randolph Sanders told a television station that he was "stunned" by the death of 56-year-old Kim Jones, a mother of two.

"She was incredibly happy," Sanders said in the interview with WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. "So this is - this is just disturbing."

But over the weekend, authorities say, he confessed to shooting Jones once in the back of the head in what homicide Capt. James Clark described as "a premeditated assassination-style" killing.

Jones suspected Sanders was stealing from Turning Points for Children, and Sanders was worried he might lose his job. Fearing Jones would report him, Sanders stalked her for more than an hour before shooting her at the bus stop Jan. 13, Clark said.

Police don't know why Sanders might have stolen, and he didn't say why in his confession, Clark said.
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Cops hold 11-year-old girl down at gunpoint at her home after burglary alarm was accidentally activated

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:30 UTC
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Two Florida police officers are accused of forcing an 11-year-old girl to the ground at gunpoint after responding to a burglary call at her home.

The child was watching television in bed when the officers let themselves into her family's Groveland home with their weapons drawn after the burglary alarm was accidentally activated, reported WFTV-TV.

She said one of the officers pushed her to the ground and held here there with his knee while the other officer pointed his gun at her. "I was very scared and didn't know what to do," she said.

The officers asked if she was the homeowner and then went to her father's room down the hall. "Someone should get fired for doing something like this," said the girl's father, Jean Guirand.

Groveland police launched an internal investigation after the TV station called seeking comment. The two officers, James Festa and John Rigdon, are three-year veterans with previous disciplinary actions in their personnel files. Festa was reprimanded in December for botching a child abuse investigation and was suspended in 2013 for sleeping on the job.

Rigdon was suspended in May, demoted from corporal in 2013, and reprimanded in 2011 - each time for filing false police reports. The police chief said the department takes the allegations seriously, and officers were scheduled to speak with the girl Monday.

Watch an interview with the girl posted online by WFTV-TV:


Comment: What is wrong with police that they feel the need to violate a harmless child in her own home? Is there any common sense left in the police force, or has it all been replaced by senseless, violent behaviors?

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Pocket Knife

Nice, France: Three soldiers attacked outside Jewish center


RT
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:05 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Valery HacheSecurity Police Forces cordon off the area where three soldiers, patrolling outside a Jewish Community Center as part of the country's Vigipirate security measures, were attacked by a man with a bladed weapon, on February 3, 2015 in downtown Nice, southeastern France.
At least two soldiers guarding a Jewish community center have been wounded by a knife-wielding attacker in Nice, in southern France, police say. The country has suffered a spate of hate crimes in recent months.

AP reported that the attacked pulled out a 20 cm blade, and struck one of the guards on the chin. As two others tried to interfere, he swiped at them, hitting one on the forearm, and another on the cheek. None of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening.

The suspected attacked then attempted to flee by foot, but was quickly stopped and detained. Mayor Christian Estrosi told local television that an ID card with the name Moussa Coulibaly, a common West African surname, had been found on him, and said that a search has been started for potential accomplices.

Comment: Things are really heating up in France.

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Devout police supporter has change of heart after being arrested by NYPD on bogus charge

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 05:24 UTC
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A common meme amongst those in the police accountability movement is that it is only a matter of time before an entirely innocent person crosses paths with the wrong cop and gets a hefty dose of police state USA.

All too often we hear the ridiculous statement from the apologist crowd saying, "If you don't break the law, you have nothing to worry about."

However, that statement couldn't be further from the truth.

Former NSA official William Binney sums this myth up quite accurately, "The problem is, if they think they're not doing anything that's wrong, they don't get to define that. The central government does."

Attorney Harvey Silverglate argues that the average American commits three felonies a day without even knowing it.

In reality, there are too many cases to count of innocent people, some who've been recognized as pillars of society, being attacked and imprisoned by a system which claims to protect them.

When people assert that not breaking the law protects them from police abuse, those of us with our finger on the pulse of this corrupt police state, answer back by stating, "it's only a matter of time before they are proven wrong."

As a point of clarification, it is important to state the difference between hating cops and holding police accountable.
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Phoenix

Williamsburg, Brooklin storage fire still burning, may have destroyed sensitive docs

Serena Dai
DNAinfo
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:14 UTC
More than 70 firefighters were still working to extinguish a blaze on the Williamsburg waterfront Monday after a storage facility caught on fire over the weekend, potentially burning sensitive documents ranging from court records to financial information, officials said.
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The CitiStorage facility at 5 N. 11th Street was still smoldering Monday, more than two full days after the fire broke at the building, which was filled with paper documents, FDNY officials said.

The firefighters were there to monitor the blaze and minimize "hot spots," an FDNY spokesman said. Officials had no estimate on how long it would take for the fire to die down. The smell of smoke still hung in the air and even in some L train cars Monday.

Comment: What an interesting coincidence, that almost at the same time another fire that burned millions of unique documents happened in Moscow.

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Mother with learning disability facing forced sterilization

James Rush
The Independent
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:46 UTC
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Authorities say the woman has physical health problems which could put her life in danger if she became pregnant again

Comment: In this article, a number "authorities" mention this women's life being in danger as being a reason to force sterilization, a horrendously intrusive procedure, on her. But, that should be her choice. Whether she has the mental capacity to make that decision should be decided by a psychiatrist, not "health authorities" and social services. Imagine the precedent this sets, to force someone to undergo a procedure robbing them of the right to give life. This is a decision that health and social services should stay out of, not be intimately involved in.


A mother-of-six with learning disabilities could be sterilised after health authority and social services bosses asked a judge for permission to force entry into her home, restrain her and take her to hospital.

The woman, who is in her 30s, has had her children removed from her care and authorities say she has physical health problems which could put her life in danger if she became pregnant again.

A judge at the Court of Protection in London examined the case last week at a two-day public hearing. Mr Justice Cobb, who told lawyers he was dealing with a case of "enormous gravity", is due to deliver a ruling soon. Authorities have said the moves are in the woman's best interests.

Barrister John McKendrick, who represented a health authority, hospital trust and council involved in the case, said the rulings sought were "extraordinary" and would involve serious interference with the woman's basic human rights, but he said they were necessary.

They say the woman could be at "grave" risk if action is not taken, while specialists say she lacks the mental capacity to make decisions about treatment.

Lawyers appointed by the court to represent the woman's interests have backed the plan put forward by health and social services officials. They have agreed the woman "lacks capacity" because her mind is impaired. Mr Justice Cobb, who has ruled that no-one involved can be identified, received details of the issues in written legal submissioms.

The judge has given permission for a reporter who attended the court hearing to be given access to documents.
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Pepper-sprayed teacher: Efforts to curb police brutality 'met with more force'


RT
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:32 UTC
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Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher who was pepper-sprayed by a police officer in an unprovoked attack, says that what happened to him is reflective of the police brutality that is rampant across the United States.

Hagopian - an activist promoting black causes in the Seattle area - was pepper-sprayed by a police officer after speaking at a Black Lives Matter rally on Martin Luther King Day. He was walking away from the gathering, on a sidewalk, when he was suddenly pepper-sprayed in the face.

He has decided to sue city authorities and the police for $500,000 in damages.


Comment: Good for him. If police are going to indiscriminately cause harm to innocent people and the authorities do nothing to to stop them, then perhaps suing the city will force them to do something about the rampant police brutality. It's gotten way out of control, and people are being hurt for doing nothing other than walking down the street.


In video footage of the incident - which was filmed by a bystander, and where Hagopian is clearly visible - a small crowd is standing on the sidewalk and in the road.

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Insanity! School suspends 9-year-old for pretending he had Hobbit 'ring of power'


Counter Current News
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 08:43 UTC
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Aiden Steward had just watched the third Hobbit movie with his family and he wanted to pretend that he had a ring that could make people disappear, just like Bilbo Baggins. But when he brought the toy ring to school, it ended up getting him suspended.

The ring he brought may not have been the true ring of power, but the Kermit, Texas, school where he attended said the pretend Tolkien "one ring" was used in a "threat" against a classmate.

When Aiden told a student that he could make him disappear since the plastic ring was forged in fictional Middle Earth's Mount Doom, the school accused him of "threats of violence" against classmates.

"It sounded unbelievable," Aiden's father, Jason Steward, said in an interview with the Daily News. But Jason said his son "didn't mean anything by it."

He explained that their family had just watched The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies that week, and the elementary school boy was just pretending he had a ring like in the movie.

"Kids act out movies that they see. When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly," Steward explained.

"I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," Aiden's father continued. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back."

Comment: The slow death of fun, imagination, and inspiration in today's society.

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Stormtrooper

Cop pulls gun on teens having snowball fight

Jackson Marciana
Counter Current News
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:39 UTC
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A disturbing new video was recently uploaded that shows a New York police officer holding a number of teenage kids at gunpoint for nothing other that throwing snowballs at each other.

New Rochelle's Talk of the Sound uploaded the video that shows the teens scared out of their minds, as an officer points his weapon at the kids who can bee seen kneeling on the ground.

The cowardly officer can be heard telling them "Don't f*cking move, guys!"

The officer the frisks with one hand and aims the gun with the other.

"They were having a snowball fight," the eye-witness who filmed the encounter explained.

"This group of guys was having a snowball fight and now a cop has a gun on them."

Comment: Police are now unable to determine any normal human behavior. Every incident requires a gun, or force.

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