US: Black man 'shot by police' while helping patient Video emerges showing moments before Charles Kinsey was shot by Florida police as he lay in a street helping a patient.
Thousands of activists marched across US cities Friday night, demanding justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, black men who were shot dead by police officers earlier in the week.
The largest number of arrests was made in Rochester, New York, where protesters blocked downtown streets after a crowd began to gather from around 9:45pm.
Half an hour later, Rochester police in riot gear started to move people out of the intersections. The officers began to arrest people after the mob of more than 400 people began to surround police lines and throw rocks at them, RPD said.
"At this point ... there were 74 arrests for disorderly conduct. There were also two charges for resisting arrest," Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli said at a news conference on Saturday. No one was injured.
While the situation "escalated a little bit", police refrained from using force, and did not "deploy any weapons, any Tasers," Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren told journalists.
Louisiana State Police said that arrests had been made mostly for obstructing a highway and inciting people to riot. At one point the situation got tense enough for an officer to pull his handgun on protesters. The incident has been caught on video, and police are now reviewing the footage.
"It's difficult to tell why the officer pulled his weapon. We are working to identify this officer so we can better understand the reason he might have done this," Baton Rouge Lt. Johnny Dunham told NBC News. "After the Dallas murder of five officers at a protest the night before officers are very cautious and on the lookout for any threat. Tensions were very high last night on both sides. But in the end cooler heads prevailed."
Louisiana State Police also confirmed reports that frozen water bottles were at troopers during the rally.
Protests were demanding that officers, who killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling on Tuesday in Baton Rouge, face murder charges. The incident involving two officers was recorded by multiple bystanders, with the footage showing the shooting to have happened at point-blank range.
Another big rally took place in downtown Atlanta, Georgia with over 10,000 people in attendance. Traffic downtown was brought to a standstill after activists started marching from the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
While the march proceeded peacefully, Georgia State Patrol said three people were arrested.
In Phoenix Arizona police responded with pepper spray and tear gas to disperse crowds, when protesters tried to take over the freeway as authorities cordoned off 10 ramps. Three people were arrested and six were injured by the end of the night, police confirmed.
If not just dare to say the word " AL- Akabar" before public in USA. From that point on, they will then let you know the bits and pieces of the police state.
If not just dare to say the word " AL- Akabar" before public in USA. From that point on, they will then let you know the bits and pieces of the police state.
The Worst country under the this SUN is the USA, no human right no democracy. Dude! never play with police there, the like you
If not just dare to say the word " AL- Akabar" before public in USA. From that point on, they will then let you know the bits and pieces of the police state.
DeRay Mckesson, Arrested While Protesting in Baton Rouge, Is Released
By YAMICHE ALCINDORJULY 10, 2016
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Document: Charging Document for DeRay McKesson
Sunday night, Mr. Mckesson said once he was taken into custody he was put in a van with dozens of others and was able to use another person’s phone to text people about what happened. He was eventually taken to East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. There he was at times housed with some 50 other men who took turns sitting on packed benches and sleeping on the floor.
“Not everybody could fit,” he said. “Some of us had to stand. I, like many other people, slept on the floor or didn’t sleep at all because there just wasn’t enough room.”
After hours, Mr. Mckesson and others were then told to change into prison-issued jumpsuits and were fed a breakfast of orange juice, oatmeal and pastries. While inside, Mr. Mckesson was able to make several calls to his lawyers and friends to strategize how to be released.
Mr. Mckesson, 31, a public school administrator turned activist, first gained national notice with his blunt critiques on Twitter of the police response in Ferguson, Mo., after the death of Michael Brown in 2014.
He ran for mayor of Baltimore, his hometown, this year, ultimately losing the Democratic primary in April to Catherine E. Pugh.
Mike McPhate contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on July 11, 2016, on page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: Activist Condemns His Arrest as Unlawful.
Chicago police officer who shot black teen 16 times charged with murder
State’s attorney says officer Jason Van Dyke’s actions as seen in video of shooting of Laquan McDonald ‘were not justified or the proper use of deadly force’
Laquan McDonald, the 17-year-old who was shot 16 times by officer Jason Van Dyke on 20 October 2014. Photograph: Courtesy of the family Zach Stafford in Chicago and agencies
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A white Chicago police officer has been charged with murder over the shooting death of a black teenager, just one day before a deadline by which a judge has ordered the city to release a squad-car video of the incident.
Veteran officer Jason Van Dyke was indicted on Tuesday on a first-degree murder charge after shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. The officer was denied bail at a hearing in Chicago’s main criminal courthouse hours after the state’s attorney, Anita Alvarez, announced the charges against him.
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. Photograph: Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office/Reuters
City officials and community leaders have been bracing for the release of the video, fearing an outbreak of unrest and demonstrations similar to what occurred in Ferguson, Baltimore and other cities after young African American men were killed by police. The judge ordered the dash-cam recording to be released by 25 November after city officials had argued for months that it could not be made public until the conclusion of several investigations.
At a press conference before the video’s official release, Alvarez said the officer’s actions “were not justified or the proper use of deadly force by an officer”.
“I have absolutely no doubt that this video will tear at the hearts of Chicagoans,” she said.
Documents filed in court describe the video’s contents, in which the teen is said to be shown walking away from officers on a Chicago street. As McDonald turns away, Van Dyke takes one step towards the teen and begins to fire his gun, the description says.
For 14 to 15 seconds, according the documents prepared by the state’s attorney’s office, the officers unloads his entire gun into the teen, who spends 13 seconds laying face down on the pavement with his arms and legs jerking from the shots making contact with his body. Three clouds of smoke appear during the incident that indicate shots hitting the pavement, according to officials.
Of the eight or more officers on the scene, Van Dyke is the only one to have discharged his weapon.
“With release of this video,” Alvarez said, “it’s really important for public safety that the citizens of Chicago know that this officer is being held responsible for his actions.”
This undated autopsy diagram shows the location of wounds on the body of Laquan McDonald. Photograph: AP
Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, said in a statement that Van Dyke violated “professional standards” and also the “moral standards that bind our community together”.
“Rather tahn uphold the law, he took the law into his own hands and it’s up to the justice system to hold him accountable,” Emanuel said. “But his actions are in no way a reflection of the dedication and professionalism that our police officers exemplify every day and that our residents expect throughout our city.”
Van Dyke is the first on-duty officer to be charged with murder while working for the Chicago police department in nearly 35 years.
Since the death of McDonald, the Chicago police union and the lawyer representing the officer have maintained that he felt that McDonald presented a serious danger to Van Dyke and other officers.
“I can’t speak to why the [other] officers didn’t shoot,” the lawyer representing Van Dyke, Daniel Herbet, told reporters on Friday, according to the Chicago Tribune. “But I certainly can speak to why my client shot, and it is he believed in his heart of hearts that he was in fear for his life, that he was concerned about the lives of [other] police officers.”
Since the incident, Van Dyke has been on paid desk leave while both federal and state investigations into the incident took place.
According to a freedom of information request by the Chicago Tribune, the veteran officer has had at least 15 complaints filed against him while working in high-crime neighborhoods, for accusations including using racial epithets and pointing a gun at an arrestee without justification.
In 2007, the officer was involved in a traffic stop in which he and his partner were found to have used excessive force on a man with no prior convictions, leading to a $350,000 award for damages in the case, the Tribune reported.
Chicago police also moved late on Monday to discipline a second officer who had shot and killed an unarmed black woman in 2012, in another incident causing tensions between the department and minority communities. Superintendent Garry McCarthy recommended firing officer Dante Servin for the shooting of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd, saying Servin showed “incredibly poor judgment” even though a jury had acquitted him of involuntary manslaughter and other charges last April.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel called together a number of community leaders on Monday to appeal for help calming the emotions that have built up over the McDonald shooting.
The Term POLICE STATE IS FUNDAMENTALLY A POLITICAL SCIENCE QUESTION.
It would be very awkward inferring that Tanzania is a POLICE STATE merely by clinging on the Procedural Definition put up by the Oxford Dictionary.
I don't know if its just Paranoia, but this country is far away from becoming a A POLICE STATE.....
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Arrests made in Baton Rouge protests; Atlanta protesters in standoff with police on highway
