“Gregory Gilbertson [director of the criminal justice program at Centralia College in Centralia, Wash] also explained that the lateral vascular neck restraint, the name of the chokehold used to restrain Frank, is typically a last resort. Because of its potential to restrict airflow, Gilbertson said it is typically used when deadly force is the only option.”
On Monday night, 15-year-old James Means was reportedly shot and killed by a man he “bumped into” outside of a Dollar General store in Charleston, West Virginia.
Means, a black teenager, was said to be unarmed.
That same night, police arrested William Pulliam, 62, in connection with the shooting. Pulliam had gone to dinner after the shooting.
Pulliam was white and carrying a gun, despite no permit to own a firearm due to a previous conviction for domestic violence
Pulliam reportedly “admitted” to fatally shooting Means, telling police, “The way I look at it, that’s another piece of trash off the street.”
119 times. yet cis people won’t share a bathroom with a transgender person bcs they think they’re a threat..
Her name was Dee Whigham. Rest in peace.
”The violence against our community of transgender women seems to be really just over the top, and angry and horrible. Usually a transgender woman is not just punched, or beaten up, or even just murdered with a gunshot. There are transgender women who are shot with machine guns until they’re just pieces of meat, until they are unrecognizable. There are women who are stabbed 30, 40, 50 times! Then set on fire. If you can just imagine physically the time it would take to stab someone 40 times…” -
Calpernia Addams
On February 16, 2014, Yvette Smith, a 47-year-old mother beloved by her family and community, was shot and killed on the spot by local police as she opened the front door of her home. A full 18 months later, as her case finally came before a jury, it’s disturbingly clear that the police lied, repeatedly, in an attempt to cover up their murder of Smith.
On the day of her murder, Smith called 911 for help because two men in her home were arguing over a financial dispute and she felt it was getting out of hand. She had nothing to do with the dispute and was an innocent bystander—a victim, even. When the police showed up, both men were already in the front yard and it appeared that the dispute was settled. This should’ve been case closed, but it wasn’t.
The lies and the coverup began immediately. The entire department was involved.
What you need to know:
Police claim she was holding a firearm and they acted in self-defense. This is a lie. When Sheriff Terry Pickering issued the statement, he was fully and completely aware that Yvette Smith wasn’t armed. No weapon was found on or near her. He knew this. The officers on the scene knew this, but Sheriff Pickering issued that statement anyway. It sounded better.
Knowing that the evidence and scores of eyewitnesses saw that she was unarmed, police later retracted the statement, but have given absolutely no answers or held anyone responsible for the earlier lie—which was the primary reason given for shooting Smith in the first place.
Officer Gaskamp literally admitted that he made the whole damn thing up. He also stated that he couldn’t remember telling this lie to the lead investigator, until they played him the recorded interview where he stated the lie over and over again.
It was discovered that the officer who shot and killed Smith was found incompetent by another police department. The evaluation said the police officer who killed Yvette Smith struggled with “common sense,” but was hired by a neighboring department anyway.
This is a cause that concerns all of us and it’s really sad how little we care honestly it starts from showing at least the slightest bit of fucking interest or concern. No single community should be getting murdered at this rate, period, let alone without anyone even batting an eyelid.
6 year old baby had suicidal thoughts? Had the strength to hang herself? Had the knowledge to tie a rope around her neck? Knows suicidal tactics at this age?
Does she look unhappy to you?
Her name is Kendrea Johnson and she was only 6 when she was lynched and blamed for it by local police officers and the media.
UGHHHHHH PROTECT OUR BABIES!!!!
Rest in peace and power baby :(
WTF!!! If you’re not outraged I don’t know what to tell you. My heart is crying. Rest peacefully baby girl.
This poor baby girl… Why are they killing us? Our youth need to be protected. My heart is breaking.
On July 4, Icarus Randolph woke up in a bad mental place.
The 26-year-old Marine veteran had served in Iraq and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, his family says.
That afternoon, he became a casualty on his mother’s front lawn when a Wichita police officer shot him in front of his family. It was supposed to be a good day at the family home on East Clay, near Rock and Lincoln. Randolph’s mother planned a cook-out. But when Beverly Allen returned from the store, her son’s eyes told her he was upset. She knew it was serious enough to call for help and ended up talking to a 911 dispatcher.
The purpose that day, his family says, was to get help for him. Instead, they say, the two police officers sent to the home allowed the situation to escalate.One officer – the one who fired the shots – spent crucial minutes arguing with the family in the small front yard when he should have been trying to diffuse things before Randolph came out of a door, says his older sister, Ida Allen.
The family disagrees with the police account, saying Randolph didn’t run or charge at the officer, but walked.It is the latest shooting by a Wichita police officer to raise questions about how police respond to mentally ill people.
When Randolph’s mother moved forward, the officer “aimed his gun at her and said, ‘Get back, or I’ll shoot you too.’”
Although “a knife was reportedly found near” Randolph’s body, the claim says, “none of the family saw it in his hand when he came out of the house before he was shot.”
July 4 is Ida Allen’s birthday. Now, it is the day that she saw her brother get shot.
“The irony of it all,” she said, “is now we all suffer from PTSD. …
“That didn’t have to happen the way it did that day.” /source/
I am 100% sure that the cops completely guilty for what happened. Firstly, for what fuck they started to argue with the family, who asked them for help? Second, they were taught how to deal with mentally ill people, not to harm them, but these morons ignore all this. Because the cops do not care for the safety of us, as citizens, they only care about their own safety. That’s disgusting … It is totally unfair …
I do not give a FUCK about this terrorist’s home situation, perfect attendance at school, degrees, pet dog, community service, blood donations, the bike he gave a homeless kid when he was 10, his senior portrait, the school play he was in, the clubs he was involved in at college, the positive accounts of those close to him, what his hobbies included, or anything else YALL will use to decriminalize this terrorist’s actions in the eyes of the public. He’s a fucking murderer of 9 people who left 1 alive to tell the tale, he doesn’t get to have his positive background exploited. He has no positives. He has no “redeeming qualities”. You better not say a motherfucking thing about it.
A British man who went to fight with the Kurds against Islamic State has claimed the terror group fed a desperate mother a meal of meat and rice before revealing she had eaten her own son. Yasir Abdulla, 36, from Yorkshire said that the woman had appealed to IS to release her son when they tricked her.
Adbulla told The Sun the woman was offered a seat at IS headquarters, then given a drink along with cooked meat and rice. At first she thought they were being generous, but when she finished the meal they revealed the cooked meat was the flesh of her son, whom they had murdered earlier.
Mr Adbulla said: “I hate IS because of what happened to an old Kurdish woman from a nearby tribe. Her son was captured by IS fighters and taken as a prisoner to Mosul.
“She was determined to find her son and went to IS headquarters and asked to see him. The IS men told her to sit down because she had travelled a long way and said she should have some food before they took her to meet her son.
“They brought her cups of tea and fed her a meal of cooked meat, rice and soup. She thought they were kind.
“But they had killed him and chopped him up and after she finished the meal and asked to see her son they laughed and said, ‘You’ve just eaten him’.”
One week ago, Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore for no apparent reason. While in police custody, he was beaten so severely that his spine became 80% severed from his neck. He died in the hospital this morning.
