Showing posts with label police violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police violence. Show all posts

Friday, 22 May 2009

Police beat 62 years old lady


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Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Two Toledo police officers are caught on tape beating 14 year old boy

Two police officers of Toledo are caught on tape beating up a 14 year old boy Trevor Casey. Family of boy calls it brutality of police force maintaining the case obtains a national attention.

Mother of boy classified a complaint with interior matters today. The chief of police force says that the incident is being studied. Family of adolescence boy says that video speaks it for itself.
The video of telephone can or can not prove violence



A police force brings back states Friday evening to the houses of Whitlock of mark, Casey stopped in before a police car and made a dance. Rapport indicates that the police force saw Casey and three others strolling on somebody the 'porch of S and ordered them to leave.

The police force claims Casey was giving a kick and trying to break freely but they regained the order. The video shows leaders fighting with Casey in a corner.

Today, room of Stephen of activist of community, which 's also functioning for the municipal council, called this an injustice. It is not an exit of race but an exit of the injustice and abuse of power and police brutality

Trevor Casey may way about 120 pounds, if that. Yet, in the video footage it is clear that the two officers in question may way over 200 pounds...there is no justifiable reason why these officers conducted themselves in the manner that they did. Ward states, “This is beyond a tragedy. I understand the moral of the Toledo police may be low, and their stress levels elevated due to the recent layoffs. However, police are to protect and serve the citizens. This is another time in which the trust and respect between the police and citizens have been breached.”




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Saturday, 16 May 2009

Police officer kicks the suspects in head and high fives with an other officer!


The dramatic car chase in Los Angeles ends with a policeman kicking suspect in the head.
A 23-year-old man, linked to a notorious street gang in Los Angeles, tried to run from the police.

The dramatic chase lasted about 30 minutes and took place in suburban El Monte and Whittier in the American metropolis.
After a violent crash with a parked car, 23-year-old man jump out of the car and continues the journey on foot. When he has run a few hundred meters he stopped by big fence. He decides to give up the escape attempt.

23-year-old lie down on grass with arms and legs out and wait for the police to come to arrest him.
The first policeman to arrive kicked the suspect's head. The second one that came hit the suspect with a flashlight several times.
After arresting and beating suspect, police officers give each other “high five”

According to police 23-year-old not to have been seriously injured in the incident.



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Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Austin police shoot and kill 18 years old guy and injured 20 years old man.

A man died in a police shooting last two run-ins with the law, but despite the problems of their parents, said it was a "good kid."
He died of 18 years, Nathaniel Sanders II. -1-twenty years, Sir Lawrence Smith was injured.
The Austin American-Statesman reports flight Sanders was charged with assault, a second-degree felony punishable by 20 years in prison.
He sent $ 8000 on Friday for bail and was released from jail in Travis County.
The shooting happened in the police investigate allegations were fired in the air from a car.

Speaking from her home in South Austin yesterday, Nathaniel Sanders Yulonda and share their grief and anger, saying that his son raised in the church and was, quote, "a good child - not one to throw the baby."

Austin police officer Leonardo Quintana (Kwin-TAH'-Nuh) will be placed on administrative leave in connection with the shooting.
Austin Eight officers suffered minor injuries when some people threw stones and bottles and riot police on hand were about 100 people gathered.

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Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Russian police torture a football fan

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Tuesday, 28 April 2009

8 police officers beating 1 guy at student protests in Serbia



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Baltimore police officer attacked teenage skater


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Police brutality and violence on young girl

Member of special unit against riots in Germany, unknown police officer has shown his cold blooded brutality on a young girl during arrest. He beat her with his hands, kicked her, and used a police stick ,then took her hair and pulled her around on the street. Other cops did not try do stop him. Police officer can use force only if his life is in danger or if arrest without force is not possible.

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Monday, 27 April 2009

Police shot a father in his house after he called 911 for help

A man broke into a house in Phoenix. The house owner Tony Arambula who is a registered gun owner got his weapon and held the intruder at gunpoint. He did this because he wanted to protect his wife and two boys who was with him in the house.They called 911 as soon as possible, but when officers arrived , they shot Tony Arambula in the back by mistake. "If you can imagine being shot, it's a whole lot worse than you think. It literally feels like they're pulling a sledge hammer through your body," said Arambula. "I was pretty sure I was going to die." Phoenix police said Officer Brian Lilly shot Tony. Tony’s wife says that the police is only covering the whole case up and still doing it. A spokesperson for the Phoenix police said in an interview that ”the home owner was mistaken for the armed suspect and shot”. The intruder, Angel Canales, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and weapons charges.
Tony Arambula now asking the city and its police department to settle the case for $5.75 million.

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Friday, 13 March 2009

NY PD attacking a bicyclist

A rookie cop - the son of a highly respected New York City detective - has been stripped of his badge and gun after being caught on video viciously attacking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration. Police officials say Patrick Pogan was dismissed last week. He was suspended last year after pleading not guilty to criminal charges of filing false paperwork.
His lawyer, Stuart London, says his 23-year-old client resigned and expects to be vindicated at trial.
Pogan is accused of knocking Christopher Long off his bicycle without justification on June 25 during a group-organized bike ride.

Pogan had arrested Long, saying the cyclist blocked traffic and steered his bike into an officer, but charges were dismissed after the video appeared on YouTube.


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Monday, 9 March 2009

A 12-year-old autistic boy got tased for making trouble at school

A 12-year-old autistic boy was shot with a police stun gun outside Hawthorne middle school. It all started when the boy, that’s also an African American, didn’t want to line up for his photograph during a photo day at school. He started running around the school with a school’s security guard chasing him and trying to rush and detain him. Police lieutenant Michael Ishii said that the boy assaulted a security guard and kicked a police officer. The school called the boy’s family, but when his sister wanted to interrupt she was pushed back by the police, though they claimed that she spoke to him and couldn’t calm him down, so they decided to shoot him with a 50 000 volt Taser. "To watch my brother shaking on the ground, it was very traumatic," the sister said. "He wasn't the same for days afterward." The boy urinated himself and was immediately taken to a medical center to have two electrode darts removed from his back. The issue of using Tasers on children has become controversial in recent years and more research is needed to determine the health effects of shocking small children, still the Hawthorne police chose to use it on the autistic boy. The attorney said that if the boy successfully completes a counseling program, a criminal case will not be filed against him.
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Friday, 6 March 2009

Justice for Mike Brennan, US teacher beaten by Austrian police

“As soon as I got off I got hit. Before I could even see what happened I was on my back, my backpack still on. My head hit the concrete, and there was a guy on top of me, throwing punches. He didn’t say a word.”

This is how Vienna International School (VIS) teacher and black American Mike Brennan describes the end of what should have been a routine subway journey; except that this time – around 2:30pm on Wednesday, – Brennan was jumped as he stepped off the train, he says, pinned to the ground and beaten repeatedly by two men he’d never seen before. The alleged assailants would later turn out to be plain-clothes police officers, and Brennan is now seeking justice for what he sees as an unprovoked act of police brutality and racism. Vienna’s Chief of Police, however, views the incident as a mix-up rather than mistreatment, and has allowed the officers to carry on working as normal. The Public Prosecutor’s Office continues its investigations.

It has been over three weeks since the events at Spittelau station in Vienna’s 9th District, and Brennan, a normally athletic ex-football professional, still cannot get around without the support of crutches. The blows he sustained that afternoon put him in the hospital and left him with two broken vertebrae (L1, L2), a sprained wrist, and injuries to his head and neck. Originally diagnosed with a bruised spine, the hospital found the first broken vertebrae after two and a half weeks, and the second one after three and a half weeks. The injuries he received will keep him out of work for three to four months. He takes medication for the pain, will be starting physical therapy in the next week, and still suffers headaches. “And I never had headaches, ever,” he says. Despite this he remains calm and patient as he describes what happened that afternoon as the train he was traveling in approached its destination.

“I was sitting at the front of the train, and after a few stops two black guys came from the back of the train and sat in front of me, facing the same direction as me. Then two white guys came from the back of the train and sat directly in front of them. It felt weird – I got a bad feeling inside – so I sent my girlfriend an SMS, then got up and called her on the phone, and went and stood by the doors at the back of the train,” explains Brennan. “The train stopped, I was still talking on the phone, and as soon as I stepped out – as soon as I turned – I was on my back.”

Brennan recounts a man on top of him “going crazy.” Realising he was under attack he tried to defend himself, when a second man came at him “from the side,” jumped on him and began punching too. According to Brennan the attack lasted some three or four minutes minutes, and the two men stopped only when the teacher’s girlfriend of two-and-a-half years – a white Austrian – arrived at the scene and intervened. “Polizei, polizei!” shouted one of Brennan’s alleged assailants, briefly flashing his badge at her as she dialed the emergency services. This was the first time either man had identified himself, or even uttered a word, says Brennan. It later became clear that both men were undercover agents for Vienna’s drug crime prevention squad, and that they had confused Brennan with a suspected cocaine dealer.

Unfortunately, the officers’ aggression didn’t stop after the attack, says Brennan. They then pulled him to his feet, searched his bag and took his phone, and demanded identification. Brennan handed over his VIS identity card, which was never returned. He felt an excruciating pain in his back and sunk to the floor, demanding to be taken to a hospital or allowed to contact the U.S. Embassy. One of the officers replied by telling him to “stop crying” – the only words said in English and addressed directly at Brennan during the whole incident, he says. The officer, referring to Brennan, then told his girlfriend in German that “they always act like this.”

Brennan’s girlfriend called an ambulance, and he was taken to hospital for treatment and released later that day. He returned to the hospital the following weekend due to the continuing pains, and was kept there two nights.
As news of the incident spread, sympathy for Brennan and outrage at his alleged mistreatment grew among friends and colleagues, as did concern that the case would not be taken seriously by the police. “The school community, parents, teachers and students were shocked to hear what had happened to Mike,” says Joseph O’Rourke, a teacher at the VIS and colleague of Brennan. “As first news of the incident reached us we believed this was an assault by members of the public. When it was later established that two police officers were responsible it made the news all the more sickening and caused a great deal of additional concern.” Campaigns organised by friends of Brennan soon sprung up online, including a “Justice for Mike Brennan” group on Facebook and a blog, and by the end of the first weekend following the events at Spittelau, both the national and international media had become engaged.

By this time, the police had already initiated an internal inquiry into the incident through the Büro für Besondere Ermittlungen (Office for Special Investigations), while the Public Prosecutor began investigating the possibility of criminal proceedings. Nevertheless, fears that the case will be swept under the carpet persist, heightened by what many deem as an unsatisfactory reaction by the authorities.

Brennan received no apology for the injuries sustained during the incident, despite police claims that several attempts had been made to contact him. “My girlfriend got a telephone call the next day from a lady who apologised and said that ‘this has never happened before’, apart from that I’ve heard nothing,” he says. Regarding the incident itself, the police issued a press release on Monday, Feb. 16th calling it a “regrettable mix-up,” and stating that Brennan had been confused with a suspect with a near identical personal description. Many feel such explanations avoid the real issue.
“Given Mr. Brennan’s accusations concerning the police operation, we cannot accept that the police apologises for having mistaken him for someone else,” says Sonja Fercher of ZARA, an organisation that campaigns against racism. “It has been established that he was mistaken for another person because of the color of his skin. But in fact this is not the point. He says that the police did not identify themselves as policemen, and that they attacked him without any reason. If that is true, the problem is not the color of his skin, but the legality of the police operation itself that is in question.”
By the end of the following week, however, it became evident that the officers involved would be challenging Brennan’s account of the events. Brennan’s lawyer, Wilfried Embacher, had an opportunity to look at the written statements given by them after the incident. They contradict starkly with the events as described by Brennan.
“They say they called out ‘stop, police!’ in English several times and that he did not stop,” says Embacher. “So they grabbed his jacket and tried to bring him down to the ground.” Brennan then lost his balance, according to the police reports.

“There is no way in the world they had time to do that,” says Brennan in response to the claims made that the officers identified themselves and told him to stop. “As soon as I stepped off the train, I was on the ground.”

The police remained tight-lipped over the next days – refusing to comment on an ongoing investigation – until an hour before a Feb. 25th press conference held by Mike Brennan in conjunction with Radio Afrika and Africa.net at Vienna’s Presseclub Concordia. In an interview with Wien Heute, Vienna’s Chief of Police, Gerhard Pürstl, stated that an interim-report issued by the Büro für Besondere Ermittlungen had shown that the police had acted in accordance with regulations, had identified themselves, that Brennan had resisted the officers and defended himself prematurely. Eyewitness accounts did not confirm Brennan’s version of events, and therefore there was no reason to consider the incident anything more than a mix-up, said Pürstl, stating that the two officers would remain on duty. During the Presseclub Concordia conference a reporter pressed Brennan with Pürstl’s comments.


“That’s totally incorrect information. I’m upset with the statement, but it’s not true at all,” replied Brennan. “I have witnesses, and I’m a witness of what happened also. Hopefully justice prevails.”
In the absence of surveillance footage showing the incident, and the apparent lack of witnesses who observed the events from the start, it appears at the moment to be a question of one person’s word against another’s. While Brennan and his campaigners continue to appeal for anyone who was at the scene to come forward, the conclusions of the Public Prosecutor are eagerly awaited.

Justice for Mike OfficeMax blog justiceformikebrennan.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009

8 police officers shoot and kill homeless man

Inglewood police say eight officers involved in the death of a homeless man were not involved in the department's three previous fatal shootings.
The department released the officers' names on Friday, one day after the City Council announced the officers had been suspended pending further training.
Police say the officers fired as many as 47 times on Sunday when Eddie Felix Franco appeared to reach for a gun in his waistband.The gun turned out to be fake.
Some of the bullets injured a pit bull and grazed the head of a passing motorist.
Police say they are "responding aggressively" to the City Council's order to review training within the department.
The council also suggested that police consider recruiting from other law enforcement agencies until improvements are made.
The council also ordered a review of the entire department to decide whether all officers need similar direction.
Inglewood officers have killed four civilians in the last four months, prompting a congresswoman and several advocates to call for an investigation into the department.
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Sunday, 1 March 2009

15 year old girl brutally beat by cops Seattle, Washington Police

CCTV footage of a US police officer apparently beating a 15-year-old girl has been released. The pictures show the sheriff's deputy kicking, punching and pulling the hair of the teenager before throwing her to the floor of a jail cell. Prosecutors released the footage during the assault case against Deputy Paul Schene, who is accused of using excessive force. The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree assault and has told prosecutors his actions were to "prevent another assault", by the teenager.



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Ohio Federal agent shoots unarmed women in the neck

A tearful Sara Vandeneynde said yesterday that she narrowly escaped death after being shot in the neck by a U.S. deputy marshal, who had been hit by a car driven by a wanted man.
Deputy Marshal Rodney Hartzell stopped a vehicle driven by Terry Moll, 33, of 18 City Park Ave., Apt. 45, at East Broadway and Starr Avenue about 6 p.m. Wednesday and ordered him out of the car at gunpoint, authorities said.
Moll fled and struck Mr. Hartzell with his car. Ms. Vandeneynde was in the passenger's seat.
The federal officer then fired a shot through the driver's side window, striking Ms. Vandeneynde in the neck, authorities said.
"I felt like I wasn't going to make it," Ms. Vandeneynde, 22, said from her hospital bed at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, where she remained in fair condition last night.
Mr. Hartzell hurt his knee when he was knocked to the ground by the car. He was treated at St. Vincent.
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Friday, 13 February 2009

2 Mexico special police force officers beating suspect

After arresting a suspect in Mexico City, two special force officers with masks on beat the man brutally while he was lying on the ground. They recorded the whole incident on a cell phone. No charges were made and suspect’s medical condition is unknown.



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Police Brutality world wide video compilation


1) 15 Philadelphia officers beating 3 innocent black guys
2) Police kill a football fan in Brazil
3) Police broke arm on 15 years old boy in Turkey
4) 2 Mexico special police force officers beating suspect
5) 8 police officers beating 1 guy at student protests in Serbia
6) Russian police torture and beating a woman in station
7) Police dump disabled man out of his wheelchair, Florida, USA
8) Russian police beating people in casino caught on tape Read more!

Friday, 30 January 2009

Police shoots a 15 year old mental disabled kid

A 15-year-old student at Garfield Park, a private school for children with emotional or behavioral disorders, was shot twice after he threatened the police with a pair of scissors. The incident happened in front of the school. The boy was first threatening some school employees and also some students, before he ran out on the parking lot where he pointed two scissors at a police officer. He was asked to put his weapon down, and a witness said that she heard how they yelled ”put it down, put it down!” before the sound of two gunshots being fired. She said she went out to see what was going on and there she saw the victim lying on his side clutching his stomach. The officer that shot the boy, William Smith, was not injured. The shooting will be investigated according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. The boy was reported in critical but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital, Camden. Carol Dunn had a similar incident with the police in New Jersey, where her son was shot by an officer outside a church because he refused to let go of the knife he was holding. "I think police should take every necessary step to save lives. This should be included in their training," she said. "Are they interested in taking lives or is the state of New Jersey interested in saving lives?"

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Friday, 16 January 2009

Police arrest and handcuff 8 year old autistic girl

An autistic 8-year old girl, Evelyn Towry, was arrested in Kootenai Elementary School because of accusations that she was assaulting school's staff. What happened was that she had been refused entry into a school Christmas party because she refused to take off her beloved cow costume that was a hoodie with cow ears and a tail. Evelyn was put in a separate classroom away from the party, but when she tried to leave, the teachers told her to stay put. When Evelyn protested, the adults physically restrained her. She was very scared so she reacted in a violent way to the physical restraint. Evelyn got bruises on her legs, and is tormented by memories of the incident. The staff immediately called the police who put handcuffs on Evelyn and took her to the station.
First after a couple of hours her mother was allowed to take her home. The Towry family is considering legal action against the school. At a hearing on the case the prosecutor said that he didn't think at this time it would be beneficial to pursue it because of Evelyn's age and her condition.

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Police brutality in Sofia

More than 2,000 people, including students, farmers and green activists had protest in front of Bulgarian parliament against corruption in government.
Protesters demanded from government to solve economic problems and shouted "Resign" and "Mafia".
"We are fed up with living in the poorest and most corrupt country," the protest organizers said.

The police then used excessive force to disperse the protesters.Students, farmers, green activists and older people were brutal beaten and serious hurt as you can see on video.

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