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Silence of the Press: US media turns blind eye to RT crew arrest
An RT crew was locked up in a U.S. jail for 32 hours after filming a protest against a controversial military training facility in Georgia dubbed the School of Assassins. Reporter Kaelyn Forde described her treatment as ‘brutal’ and international organizations condemned the use of police violence against members of the media. But despite all the outrage, American mainstream media has remained silent. RT’s Gayane Chichakyan reports.
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Cop Lets a 11 year old girl die with Asthma
First it was the puppy throwing girl, Now a Cop letting a 11 year old die? wtf is going on with this world and people?
I honestly hope that the cop is found and he can experience what dying is like!
update:
An 84th Precinct cop was suspended without pay on Tuesday after apparently failing to assist an 11-year-old girl dying from an asthma attack as her panicked mother scrambled to get her to Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill.
Investigators confirmed on Wednesday that Police Officer Alfonso Mendez, a five-year veteran of the NYPD, had confronted mom Carmen Ojeda after she had sideswiped another vehicle near Kane and Henry streets in Carroll Gardens while driving the wrong way down a one-way street in a mad dash to get her choking daughter, Briana, to the Hicks Street medical center.
The frantic mother reportedly told the cop that her daughter had had an asthma attack while playing in Carroll Park and that she was trying to get her to the nearest hospital for treatment.
That’s when, according to Ojeda, Mendez claimed that he didn’t know CPR — even though all NYPD officers are trained in the life-saving technique at the police academy. Mendez then tried to give Ojeda a ticket for the car accident as her daughter gasped for air.
Ojeda continued to plead for help and Mendez ultimately escorted her to the hospital, but by then it was too late.
Briana, who was about to enter the sixth grade at St. Francis Xavier School on President Street in Park Slope, died in the emergency room.
Mendez left after escorting Ojeda to the hospital, prompting a brief search for the cop.
“He could have put my daughter in his car. He could have performed CPR,” an outraged Michael Ojeda, Briana’s father, told reporters this weekend. “I hope to see him one day so he can explain to me why.”
Hundreds of mourners, all dressed in white at Carmen Ojeda’s request, filled the St. Francis Xavier church on Wednesday. To the last, Briana was treated as a princess: Her coffin was brought to the cathedral in a horse-drawn carriage.
At first, NYPD officials claimed that the man in uniform who confronted Ojeda may not have been a cop. But by Monday, Mendez had been identified as the phantom officer as the search expanded to precincts neighboring Carroll Gardens.
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Yet Mendez remembers the incident differently.According to sources, he told Internal Affairs investigators that he had just finished gassing up his car at the 76th Precinct stationhouse on Union Street and was heading to Boerum Hill when he came across the car accident.
As he got closer, he noticed that someone was already performing CPR on Briana. The girl was also receiving oxygen from a tank that Ojeda always kept handy in the event of an attack.
He did confess to his claim about not knowing CPR, but said he didn’t need any prodding to escort Ojeda to the hospital.
“[Mendez] did what he could for Briana,” the officer’s family told reporters. Mendez refused to comment.
Calls to the 84th Precinct were directed to NYPD headquarters, where a spokesman would only confirm that Mendez had been suspended.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did add that Mendez wasn’t facing criminal charges. District Attorney Charles Hynes’s office confirmed that no one in his office is currently investigating the incident.
By Thomas Tracy http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2010…
From the news:
A sobbing father said it was definitely an NYPD cop who fatally delayed his 11-year-old asthmatic daughter’s desperate dash to a hospital — but police cast doubt on the grieving family’s claims.
Michael Ojeda said yesterday his daughter, Briana, died after a uniformed officer in a police cruiser tried to box in a car driven by his wife, Carmen, as she tried to rush to Long Island College Hospital.
“He was NYPD from the 76th Precinct. It was right on the side of the car,” Ojeda told The Post.
But police showed photos of all the officers in the precinct to Carmen Ojeda and other witnesses, “and none has been picked out,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
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California Cops Taser Senior Citizen in His Own Home
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 2, 2010In America, now officially a police state, you will be tasered in your own home if you lip off to the police.
Senior citizen Peter McFarland of Marin County, California, discovered this after he fell down the stairs outside his home last year. On June 29, 2009, McFarland tumbled down the stairs and after his wife called paramedics the cops showed up. They entered McFarland’s home and tasered him because they claimed he was suicidal.
Full Story:
http://www.infowars.com/california-cops-taser-senior-citizen-in-his-own-home/
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Police camera move away as officers beat suspect
Denver officials clash over police discipline after brutal video released
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_15772710?source=commented-
Denver officials are deeply divided over the proper level of punishment for a police officer who was seen on video tackling and beating a 23-year-old man who was doing nothing but talking on a telephone outside a LoDo nightclub.
The video of Officer Devin Sparks repeatedly hitting Michael DeHerrera of Denver with a department-issued piece of metal wrapped in leather, picking him up roughly and slamming a car door on his ankle has prompted Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal to push for the firing of Sparks and Corporal Randy Murr.
Rosenthal, who monitors police internal investigations, maintains Sparks and Murr are unfit for the force because they didn’t tell the truth about the April 4, 2009 incident. Rosenthal also believes the use of force by Sparks was excessive. The Denver City Council earlier this year agreed to pay $17,500 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by DeHerrera alleging excessive force.
DeHerrera, in interviews, has described police as beating him unconscious. He said he woke up in a hospital bed, with stitches in his head, and a swollen head. He said he later was diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome.
“The video was so important because it showed everything that happened, regardless of reports or what’s filled out,” DeHerrera said in an interview. “The video speaks more than any of those words can.”
He added: “I don’t swing. I don’t blade. I’m on the phone. The only thing I hold onto is my phone. When I go down, I’m out, and that’s when he continues to ‘get my compliance.’”
The incident was filmed by the police department’s own High Activity Location Observation video surveillance system. Video released to the news media by the department shows DeHerrera doing nothing but talking on his phone with his father, a sheriff’s deputy in Pueblo.
Rosenthal, in a report to be released on Monday, labels as “pure fiction” the police report from Sparks that describes his force as justified because DeHerrera “spun to his left attempting to strike me in the face with a closed right fist.”
Police Camera Pans Away As Officers Subdue Suspect
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/24624599/detail.html#
Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal is recommending that the officers be fired, but Denver new Manager of Safety Ron Perea only disciplined the officers for filing an inaccurate police report about the April 4, 2009 incident.
There are also questions of whether the police H.A.L.O. camera was attempting to cover up the incident since it panned away as the officers were subduing the man, identified as Michael DeHerrera of Pueblo -
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Police abandon cars at G20 protests amid $1 billion security clampdown
Many in Canada are furious with the world leaders gathered there. Thousands marched through Toronto to protest over the G8 and G20 summits.
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YouTube – Police abandon cars at G20 protests amid $1 billion security clampdown
Many in Canada are furious with the world leaders gathered there. Thousands marched through Toronto to protest over the G8 and G20 summits.
oh my gosh I can’t even believe this story. What is wrong with humanity. If my daughter were having an Asthma attack I would be driving down any street to get her to the hospital. As society we have lost all compassion, only looking out for ourselves. It’s horrible.