Police Brutality

1. Police beat unarmed man to death in California
   David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old father of four small children between the ages of 2 and 10, was beaten to death by as many as nine police officers in Bakersfield, California.
   
   
   911 Caller  “There’s a man laying on the floor and your police officers beat the shit out of him and killed him. I have it all on video camera.I am sitting here on the corner of Flower and Palm right now and you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Sheriffs. The guy was laying on the floor and eight Sheriff’s ran up and started beating him up with sticks.  The man is dead laying right here, right now.”

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original article: http://rochester.indymedia.org/node/98871

On May 1st, 2013, Benny Warr was waiting for the bus in his wheelchair at the intersection of Bartlett St. and Jefferson Ave., near his home. As he was waiting for the bus, a Rochester police cruiser rolled up to the intersection. The officers exited the car and according to Warr, asked him what he was doing.

By Joe McEvoy, Editor WWH/CJE – Cy Vance, the Manhattan DA ,through his office announced that he will not prosecute the NYPD officer who pepper sprayed Occupy Wall Street protesters without provocation.

Inspector Tony Bologna, did receive a slap on the wrist though. He  was disciplined by the NYPD for violently assaulting with pepper spray, two women who were held behind mesh police netting during a OWS demonstration in 2011.  The department docked him 10 vacation days and reassigned him to Staten Island, to abuse others out of site of video cameras, no doubt.

Violent criminals like Inspector Tony Bologna, are not loose cannons, bad apples in an orchard of fine fruit or a minority in law enforcement here in the good ole” USA. Violent criminals like Inspector Tony ‘ the woman beater’ Bologna and Inspector Johnny Cardona, (Johnny ‘the punk’ Cardona sucker-punched a protester without provocation in full view of the press during an Occupy Wall Street march in October 2011.) are the enforcers for the corrupt politicians, bankers, rich, and connected in this country.

“Love em’ later… Stop them first” JM

On February 12th Berkeley Police murdered Kayla Moore. Kayla Moore lived
with "mental illness" and has been described by friends and family as a
Transgender person who "passed as a woman."

Former Black Panther Angela Davis speaks to a standing room only theatre at Laney College in Oakland California. 

By John Konopak.CJE – What was the first US city to undergo an attack from the air?

No, not NYC, 2001. And it wasn’t Honolulu, 1941, either.

No, it occurred during what was probably the worst, bloodiest, deadliest and most destructive “race” riot in American history occurred in 1921: in the “Black” neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Greenwood. The Governor of Oklahoma ordered military aircraft to attack the Greenwood district of Tulsa with incendiary bombs and sniper fire on Sunday, June 1, 1921, to suppress a “Negro Rebellion.”

"In 2012, Bay Area police have killed at least 12 Black and Brown people. 

Only 1 officer has ever been convicted of killing a Black or Brown person; Johannes Mehserle, who killed Oscar Grant, served only 11 mos in prison and now wants to return to a law enforcement job.

END RACIAL PROFILING! END STOP & FRISK!!

We will march from 14th & Broadway in Oakland to Oakland Police Department, thru West Oakland neighborhood and back to 14th & Broadway (~ 2 miles). 

Alan Blueford, an 18-year-old African American student from Skyline High School, was shot and killed by Oakland Police Officer Miguel Masso on May 6, 2012. The Blueford family and JAB coalition strongly condemn the DA's report and reject all attempts to cover up their son's murder. We demand Masso be fired and prosecuted, 
and all racial profiling practices, including stop and frisk, be stopped immediately!

Alan's mother, Jeralynn Blueford, "This is a march in honor of my son and others that has suffered police brutality. We are for change not violence and vandalism."

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Produced by: Don Carpenter (nunyaman), Nigel Parry, Kayla Sykes and Helen Gerhardt

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This short film chronicles the events of the past week in Spain where hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the government and an end to police brutality. Many of the protests ended in clashes with the police. Since the stand off began on September 25th , the images of police brutality have travelled the world over, shocking and inspiring people across Europe and leading to an international day of action on September 29th. This film tells the story of why so many people took to the streets and follows these events as they unfolded.

One year ago a small group of predominantly Anarchists sparked a horizontally organized movement to level the playing field in the game of Corporations -vs- The People of the United States.  Today we celebrated our success and contemplated our future.  We licked old wounds and created new ones.  We turned a critical eye to the process that has guided us and acknowledged it's short comings so that our second year of existence will be one of effectiveness even if it means dropping the verb.  To Occupy.

500 or more Occupy revelers march from Washington Square Park to their former home in Zucotti to kick off the Occupied Anniversary Party. 26 were arrested mostly through snatch and grab terrorist tactics.    Those arrested had done nothing wrong, were walking peacefully on the sidewalk with their friends. Squads of terrorists pushed through the peaceful crowd to man handle and steal people. 

People across the nation are outraged after finding out that the Anaheim Police Department killed an unarmed man, Manuel Diaz, on Saturday, July 21st, then randomly began shooting into a crowd of women and children with non-lethal rounds, and unleashing a K-9 dog on a woman and a baby, and then killed another man the following day. On Friday, July 27th, Austin joined with cities across the nation to come together in peaceful protest against the violence of the Anaheim Police Department, and against the violence of police departments across the nation. Back Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeyv6-FlzU Other cities holding rallies : Dallas Harlem Oakland Portland San Francisco Riverside Filmed at the downtown police station in Austin, Texas. Produced for Austin Indymedia. Video Produced/Edited by Jeff Zavala. Videography by Meg Seidel. A ZGraphix Production. http://zgraphix.org

it's late, or very early in the morning. i can't sleep. i'm heading to tampa soon as an activist and an independent journalist. for the first time i'm armed with a press pass, and a camera, and my computers. we're to cover the conventions, for this, the great election cycle of 2012. the end of the mayan calendar, the beginning of a whole new world, the zombie apocalypse upon us. the democrats and the republicans have spent a total of 50 million dollars a piece on security for their respective conventions, and the air is brittle with the anticipation of mayhem in the streets. it's gonna be a shit show, folks, with homeland security, militarized police, trapwire, and animosity aplenty, toward anyone who dares to say no to the political machine and the police state that is slowly and silently gnawing with their rotten teeth on the tongue of our free speech.

this is the summer of "solidarity & mobilization," where convergences on emergency action in an attempt to restore environmental sanity to a crazy, overheated, world are taking place. this past weekend was chock full of extraction awareness trainings and action campaigns, from the tar sands blockade training in east texas, to the "stop the frack attack" teach-in and rally in dc, and the ramps "mountain justice mobilization" in west virginia. all in all, thousands of concerned citizens and environmental activists gathered for these events. 

the "stop the frack attack" campaign drew thousands of concerned citizens who descended upon the capital from across the nation and the world, to protest the use of hydraulic fracturing as a method to extract natural gas and oil from shale beds and abandoned coal mines. this method includes drilling through the earth's crust, smashing up rocks in a dormant well site and capturing the vapors. it has been known to make water so toxic it can literally be set on fire while streaming out of the taps. it is also believed that it destabilizes bed rock to the degree that it creates small earth quakes in areas where fracking is practiced. 

1. Rodney King RIP 2. The Mighty Pigs 3. Mining for Resistance 4. Burning Barricades 5. Red Square Army 6. No lock for chilean cops 7. The Cleveland 4 8. Cascadia FBI Attack 9. Rap Al Despertar 10. School's out for Autumn

Austin activists gathered on Saturday to rally against the Austin Police Department's use of force and the racist criminal justice system. 147 years after the first Juneteenth celebration and the plight for Black people has remained the same, and for our sons and brothers, it has gotten worse. Activists from the Austin Center for Peace and Justice, International Socialist Organization (UT student branch), and Royal Civil Rights Society come together to demand justice for Byron Carter Jr. and Travon Martin; victims of the racist police system. The event was sponsored by Austin Center for Peace and Justice, International Socialist Organization (UT student branch), and Royal Civil Rights Society. Produced, filmed and edited by Grace Alfar. Directed by Jeff Zavala. A Zgraphix Production. http://ZGraphix.org Austin Indymedia http://austin.indymedia.org