OT Black Man In Minnesota Dies After Cop Kneels On His Neck/ Portland Riots

The cops just watched? Why am I not surprised? If the BLM protests were armed the police would not have been standing around watching.

 

Horrifying moment man shoots and critically injures protester who attacked him with a skateboard as violence broke out during bid to tear down Spanish conquistador statue in New Mexico

• Officers in Albuquerque said on Tuesday they arrested Steven Baca, 31, and charged him with shooting and critically wounding Scott Williams
• Williams had been seeking the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador
• Protest outside the Albuquerque Museum began peacefully before activists took a pickaxe to the 'La Jornada' sculpture on Monday night
• Members of the heavily armed New Mexico Civil Guard stepped in to protect the statue of Juan de Oñate, notorious for massacring natives
• Baca allegedly threw a woman the ground before Williams and another man intervened
• At this point he is said to have fired a gun several times at Williams' torso
• The critically injured victim was taken to hospital while Baca remains in custody

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-leaving-critical-condition-New-Mexico.html

 

My God

 

White woman, 52, is shot dead by police after 'walking down the street with a gun and a bottle of wine while warning of a race war' before opening fire on cops

• Sandra Lee Harmon, 56, was seen strolling the streets of Half Moon Bay with a shotgun on May 5; she reportedly told one witness to prepare for a 'race war'
• After a police officer approached a motor home to question witnesses, Harmon reportedly appeared and began firing her shotgun
• The cop then shot Harmon; a second officer - who had his body camera switched on - rushed to the scene and also fired in Harmon's direction
• She died from injuries sustained in the shooting; the two policemen have now been placed on leave pending an investigation

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ad-police-walking-street-gun-bottle-wine.html

 

Justified.

 

Revealed: officer who killed Rayshard Brooks accused of covering up 2015 shooting

The Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks was accused of covering up an earlier shooting he and other officers participated in, according to a judge who reviewed the case.

Garrett Rolfe was fired by the Atlanta police department following what officials called the “unjustified” killing of Brooks on Friday. Rolfe shot Brooks twice in the back as Brooks ran away after a scuffle with officers when they attempted to arrest him. It was among a recent spate of killings of black men by white police officers, which have ignited a national uprising against police brutality and racism.

In August 2015, Rolfe and two other officers opened fire on Jackie Jermaine Harris, who they chased after he was caught driving a stolen truck, the Guardian can reveal after reviewing court documents on the incident.

However, the shooting was not reported by the police involved. Harris, like Brooks, is African American.

Harris rammed a police vehicle and officers shot at him several times inside the truck, striking Harris once and collapsing his lung. Harris survived and later pleaded guilty to charges including theft, property damage, fleeing arrest and damaging a police vehicle.

Judge Doris L Downs, during a 2016 court hearing, called the case a “disaster” and said “it’s the wildest case I’ve seen in my 34 years here.”

Downs said she was so troubled by officers failing to report the shooting that she wanted the matter investigated.

“None of the police put in the report that they shot the man – none of them. And they sent him to Grady [Memorial Hospital] with collapsed lungs and everything, and the report doesn’t mention it,” Downs said.

“I am ethically going to be required to turn all of them in.”

Downs even suggested state and federal authorities get involved.

She said: “What the police did was wrong, and they will have to answer for what they did.”

It is unclear if any action was taken. Downs could not be reached for comment.


The Atlanta police department and Fulton county district attorney’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it did not investigate the shooting, according to a spokesperson.

Harris echoed the judge’s concern about the officers’ conduct at his court hearing.

“I just don’t want them to get away with what they did to me,” said Harris, who was sentenced to time served and one year’s probation.

Rolfe was apparently not disciplined, according to a personnel file released by Atlanta police on Tuesday, which listed the 2015 incident only as a “firearm discharge” but did not say how the department addressed the incident. Rolfe could not be reached for comment.

Harris’s attorney Serena Nunn said police admitted in their report that Harris had been injured during the incident – but not that police shot him.

She said: “Being shot in the back and ultimately having your lung collapse is something more than an injury that was caused during the incident.”

“We do expect officers to uphold the law. I cannot think of a plausible reason as to why they would have omitted that information [about the shooting],” Nunn told the judge.

The prosecutor could not say why the shooting was not in the report.

Han Chung, who was then a Fulton county assistant district attorney, said: “I’ve heard some plausible reasons why this may have occurred. Now, I don’t know how credible those plausible reasons may be, and I haven’t heard it from those officers first-hand.”

Rolfe was the subject of four citizen’s complaints during his six years on the force, none of which were sustained by police. The department disciplined him for three other incidents, including once for “use of force” involving a firearm, a year after the Harris shooting.

In a letter to Downs sent from an Atlanta jail, Harris said the public would not be safe as long as Rolfe and the other officers who shot him continued to patrol the city.

“Not only have I been wronged, but society as well [has been wronged] by allowing this officer to continue to patrol our streets of Metro Atlanta,” Harris wrote.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ce-officer-cover-up-accusations-garrett-rolfe

 

Atlanta officer who shot dead Rayshard Brooks is charged with felony murder as it's revealed he kicked the father-of-four as he lay dying on the ground after putting to bullets in his back

• Arrest warrants have been issued for officers Garret Rolfe, 27, and Devin Brosnan, 26, in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks
• Brooks was shot twice in the back by Rolfe on June 12 in Atlanta
• Rolfe has been charged with 11 counts including felony murder, a charge that carries a possible sentence of life without parole or the death penalty.
• Brosnan faces three charges including aggravated assault
• The medical examiner declared Brooks' death a homicide on Sunday, citing the cause as organ damage and blood loss caused by the gunshot wounds
• Rolfe was fired immediately after the shooting and Officer Brosnan has been placed on administrative duty pending an investigation
• Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced the charges in the highly controversial shooting at a press conference this afternoon

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eath-Rayshard-Brooks-learn-charges-today.html