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African-American Superior Court Judge Files Complaint Against UCLA Police
Posted: 11/26/2013 5:40 pm EST | Updated: 11/26/2013 11:13 pm EST

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After a series of instances of racial discrimination including retailers profiling African-American customers and police misconduct, the latest incident involves a complaint against the University of California, Los Angeles police.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a prominent African-American judge has filed a complaint against the university police, alleging that they used excessive force when they stopped him for not wearing a seat belt.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham III, said officers handcuffed him, shoved him against his car and locked him in the back of their squad car, telling him he was resisting arrest.
The 60-year-old, who is a former Los Angeles Police Commission president, said he was leaving L.A. Fitness at about 10 a.m. Saturday when the officers pulled him over in his Mercedes. According to the complaint he filed, Cunningham said he was in the process of fastening his seat belt when he was stopped, and when he asked why he had been pulled over, the officer informed him it was because Cunningham began buckling his seat belt when he saw the authorities.
Cunningham said he showed the officer his drivers license, and when he reached into his glove compartment for his registration and insurance documents, the officer "yelled at me not to move." When he was unable to find the documents, he told officers he thought they may be in the trunk.
"When I go [sic] out of the car to search my trunk, Officer Dodd shoved me against my car, told me I was under arrest for resisting and locked me in the back seat," Cunningham wrote in the complaint, which was first reported by NBC News.
Cunningham's lawyer, Carl Douglas, said the judge began to fear for his safety and called for help.
"He lost his cool," Douglas said. "He began yelling about police brutality and about being a 60-year-old man slapped in handcuffs in the back of a patrol car for not wearing a seat belt. A crowd was gathering and he demanded they call a watch commander."
After 10 minutes, a UCLA police sergeant arrived at the scene and Cunningham was released. UCLA police provided limited information about the incident, reporting Cunningham was stopped at 10:05 a.m., "temporarily handcuffed during the course of a traffic stop," was cited with failing to wear a seat belt and released.
The UCLA police issued the below statement on Monday:
During the course of the traffic stop, police officers instructed the driver to stay inside the vehicle and returned to their patrol car to run a routine license and registration check. Despite these instructions, the driver left the vehicle — an escalating behavior that can place officers at risk.
The driver stood in the roadway and refused instructions to get back in his car. As a result, the driver was temporarily handcuffed. He was released at the scene shortly thereafter with a citation for failing to wear a seatbelt.​

The statement goes on to say that authorities are conducting an internal investigation and reviewing video from the police video.
Although Cunningham's complaint does not attribute his experience to his race, his attorney said it clearly played a factor in the officers' behavior.
"Do you think this would have happened if he was a white judge?"





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Teens Arrested Allegedly For Waiting For Bus
By Simon McCormack Posted: 12/02/2013 2:32 pm EST

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Three high school teens in Rochester, N.Y., were arrested while they waited for a bus, but authorities claimed the trio was obstructing the flow of other pedestrians on the sidewalk.
On Wednesday morning, Raliek Redd, 16, Wan'Tauhjs Weathers 17, and Daequon Carelock, 16, said they were cuffed before they could board a school bus to a basketball game, according to WHEC.
"We tried to tell them that we were waiting for the bus," Weathers told the station. "We weren't catching a city bus, we were catching a yellow bus. He didn't care. He arrested us anyways."
The Rochester Police did not immediately return a call for comment from The Huffington Post. But a police report obtained by Rochester Homepage said the teens, who attend Edison Tech, were obstructing "pedestrian traffic while standing on a public sidewalk...preventing free passage of citizens walking by and attempting to enter and exit a store."
The report also said the officer who arrested the teens made "clear and concise orders for the group to disperse and leave the area without compliance."
The teens were apprehended in a part of downtown Rochester where business owners have complained about teens loitering and fighting near their stores.
The boys' coach, Jacob Scott unsuccessfully tried to convince the officers to let the players off the hook.
He said an officer told him, "If you don't disperse, you're going to get booked as well,'" Scott said. "I said, 'Sir, I'm the adult. I'm their varsity basketball coach. How can you book me? What am I doing wrong? Matter of fact, what are these guys doing wrong?'"
The teens face disorderly conduct charges, according to a previous report by Rochester Homepage.





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Kalief Browder, NYC Teen Jailed For Years With No Conviction, Says Rikers Guards 'Starved' Him
The Huffington Post | By Christopher Mathias Posted: 12/02/2013 6:26 pm EST | Updated: 12/03/2013 1:42 am EST



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In March of 2012, Kalief Browder says he ripped the sheets off his bed inside a jail cell at Rikers Island, and fashioned a noose from the ceiling. According to Browder, just as he was about to hang himself, New York City Correction officers stormed into the cell and grabbed him, tackled him to the bed, and punched him repeatedly.
Browder, who joined HuffPost Live for an interview Monday, says he was punished for the suicide attempt, one of five or six such attempts during his three-year stay at the notoriously violent New York City jail. Correction officers "starved" him, he says, withholding up to four meals at a time while he languished in solitary confinement.
And all for a crime for which he was never convicted.
In 2010, a complete stranger accused Kalief Browder, then just 16 years old, of robbing him. Browder was walking home in the Bronx from a party one night when police officers stopped and arrested him. Browder says officers told him he'd probably be freed later that night. Instead, Browder would go on to spend three birthdays on Rikers.
This past January, Browder was offered a deal: Plead guilty and be sentenced to time served, or plead not guilty, and if convicted, face another 15 years in jail. Browder, who has always maintained his innocence, refused to plead guilty, and in June, charges against him were suddenly dropped.
"This happens every day," he told host Marc Lamont Hill Monday of his harrowing ordeal, and of the painful decision not to plead guilty. "It's gotta stop."
In October, Browder filed a civil lawsuit against the NYPD, the Bronx District Attoney, and New York City Department of Corrections, among other state-employed individuals.
Watch Browder describe his time in jail to HuffPost Live above and the full interview below.
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Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD Has Been Charged With Assault Because Bullets Hit Bystanders

by Rania Khalek on December 5, 2013
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35-year-old Glenn Broadnax (Ken Murray / New York Daily News)
Glenn Broadnax, a 35-year-old black man from Brooklyn, was unarmed on the night of September 14 when NYPD officers shot at him in the middle of Times Square, striking two bystanders.

Instead of apologizing, the New York Times reports that the city has charged Broadnax ”with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders.”
Broadnax was emotionally disturbed and dodging cars in the middle of the street when officers say he reached into his pocket to grab what they believed was a weapon, prompting them to open fire. His lawyers says he was reaching for his wallet.
So, because the NYPD is made up of trigger happy, crappy marksmen who fire at unarmed black people with impunity, Broadnax might spend up to 25 years in prison on trumped up assault charges, which the Manhattan district attorney insisted on:
Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney’s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.”
“The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,” said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey.​
Meanwhile, the two cops who did the shooting are on desk duty pending an investigation. If the past is any indication, that means they will be back on the streets in no time.



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Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD Has Been Charged With Assault Because Bullets Hit Bystanders

by Rania Khalek on December 5, 2013
shoot17n-1-web.jpg

35-year-old Glenn Broadnax (Ken Murray / New York Daily News)
Glenn Broadnax, a 35-year-old black man from Brooklyn, was unarmed on the night of September 14 when NYPD officers shot at him in the middle of Times Square, striking two bystanders.

Instead of apologizing, the New York Times reports that the city has charged Broadnax ”with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders.”
Broadnax was emotionally disturbed and dodging cars in the middle of the street when officers say he reached into his pocket to grab what they believed was a weapon, prompting them to open fire. His lawyers says he was reaching for his wallet.
So, because the NYPD is made up of trigger happy, crappy marksmen who fire at unarmed black people with impunity, Broadnax might spend up to 25 years in prison on trumped up assault charges, which the Manhattan district attorney insisted on:
Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney’s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax “recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.”​
“The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,” said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey.​
Meanwhile, the two cops who did the shooting are on desk duty pending an investigation. If the past is any indication, that means they will be back on the streets in no time.



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Omugosh, I can't even...

Are they serious??? Boy oh boy, this country here...:confused:
 

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