POLICE KILLING BLACKS

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Here are some terrible  statistics about people being killed by the police in 2019.

• 10 shootings by off-duty cops
• 21 vehicular deaths
• 6 people who died from asphyxiation or being restrained
• 6 people who died from beatings or bludgeoning’s
• 5 medical emergencies while in police custody
• 31 tapering
• 1 man (John Watson III) who was shot by police in 2019 but died in 2020.

After I sorted through the data, here are some other startling facts about 2019’s officer-involved killings:

• A black person was three-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by cop than a white person.
• A Hispanic person was one-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a white person
• An unarmed black person with no gun was three times more likely to be killed by police than a white person  An unarmed black person fleeing the scene was six times more likely than a white man.  

In all, there were 1,112 non-suicide-related deaths at the hands of the police in 2019

Since 2015, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) had been trying to pass a piece of legislation. Named after one of his constituents who was infamously shot by police officer Michael Slager, the Walter Scott Notification Act would simply require every law enforcement agency in America to report all police shootings and deaths to the federal government. According to the bill, any state which refused to report would face a 10 percent reduction in federal law enforcement grants and funds. The information required by each state would include:

• The victim’s name, race, age, and sex
• The officer’s name, race, age, and sex
• Whether the victim was armed or not
• A description of the weapon used by law enforcement
• A detailed description of the event
• The finding from law enforcement as to whether the shooting was justified or not

Scott tried to pass the proposal as a standalone bill, to no avail. When he attempted to attach it to funding legislation, it failed. So, in a last-ditch attempt, as the First Step Act worked its way through the Senate in December 2018, Scott attempted to slide his much-needed idea in as an amendment to the groundbreaking criminal reform bill. But police unions whispered in the ears of his fellow legislators and once again, the Walter Scott Notification Act fell by the wayside.

For now, we must depend on the press to report how many people die at the hands of cops every year. All I know is, it’s more than you think. Even though the most-cited source is increasingly flawed, it’s all we have until the United States finally solves this problem of police shootings and other forms of killings by police officers. 

A North Carolina state trooper shot and killed 29-year-old Daniel Harris — who was not only unarmed, but deaf — just feet from his home, over a speeding violation. According to early reports from neighbors who witnessed the shooting. Harris was shot and killed "almost immediately" after exiting his vehicle. He appeared to be trying to communicate with the officer via sign language.

"They should've de-escalated and been trained to realize that this is an entirely different situation," neighbor Mark Barringer said. "You're pulling someone over who is deaf, they are handicapped. To me, what happened is totally unacceptable. I remember reading about a deaf man reaching in his pocket to pull out his ID showing that he was deaf and was shot dead  by a cop when the deaf man’s ID was in his hand.

There is no doubt in my mind that there are really rotten police officers everywhere even though the vast majority of cops  are dedicated  police officers and should not be painted with the same brush of indignation that should be plastered on the rotten  cops.

On July 15, 2017, Justine Ruszczyk, also known as Justine Damond, a 40-year-old Australian-American woman, was murdered by Mohamed Noor, an American Minneapolis Police Department officer, after she had called 9-1-1 to report the possible assault of a woman in an alley behind her house. Noor was ultimately arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder following an eight-month investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. In April 2019, Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter and sent to prison.

A CNN crew covering the ongoing protests in Minneapolis was arrested while they were providing a live report on television re the protests because of the murder of a black man by a police officer.  The CNN men were soon after released.  According to CNN, correspondent Omar Jimenez, producer Bill Kirkos and photojournalist Leonel Mendez were detained at approximately 6 a.m. near the 3^rd  Police Precinct that was set ablaze on the night before, Obviously, the police officers that arrested them didn’t concern themselves that the men arrested had a First Amendment  right to be where they were standing.

It’s also important to note that a white reporter doing the exact same thing at the exact same time in the exact same area somehow wasn’t detained.  The CNN men were not white.

The rioters in Minneapolis should be content that the police officer who killed 46-year-old George Floyd (a black man) has been fired and charged with third degree murder and second degree manslaughter. Of course he can only be convicted of one those crimes.

Third-degree murder in the State of Minnesota is proved if it is established that the defendant killed a human being with a depraved mind, without regard for human life. The crime is punishable by a maximum of 25 years' imprisonment.

The punishment for involuntary manslaughter in Minnesota is ten years in prison.  

The victim died after begging the cop to stop pressing his knee on his neck He didn’t die of suffocation. He had a had   a heart  attack and died from that attack. The officer, Derik Chauvin heard his prisoner telling him that he couldn’t breathe. The officer’s indifference caused the death of his prisoner.  Because of his indifference, he is faced with third degree murder ( a depraved without regard for human life ) the penalty for third degree murder is  25 years in prison.

Derek Chauvin the officer who killed George Floyd, already had 18 formal complaints on his record prior to this current event  and had a reputation of abusing his power. The wife of arrested ex-cop Derek Chauvin, is filing for divorce, according to a statement from a family law firm

George Floyd did not deserve to be killed. He cried out that he couldn't breathe. The cop had put his knee on his prisoner’s neck even though he wasn't resisting since his hands were handcuffed behind his back while  he laid on the cold suffering from a fatal heart attack.   The three other cops standing next the man heard the victim crying out. “I can’t breathe. 

The cop” had his knee on the part of Floyd’s neck where his carotid artery was, more than likely restricting proper blood flow to his brain. That would cause Floyd to have a heart attack.

This isn’t the only time that ignorant cops killed someone.

The three cops standing nearby did nothing to stop the other cop from keeping his knee on the victim’s neck while the victim was dying. They were subsequently fired. They are now charged with the offence of aiding and abetting second degree murder which  is punishable between 25 to 40 years in prison. 


Tis isn't the only time a dop placed his nee om a suspect's neck. 

A vidio showed an Edmonton police officer using his knee to restrain Jean-Claude Rukundo during an arrest in 2018. 0:11

Seeing George Floyd die after being pinned under the knee of a police officer brought back bad memories for Jean-Claude Rukundo.

The Edmonton man was speaking out after his wife recently posted a video of his own arrest in July 201 The 14-second recording shows Rukundo face down and pinned to the ground by two officers as he is being handcuffed.

In the recording, the words "fucking Taser" can be heard, before one police officer drops his knee on the back of Rukundo's neck. He said,  “ "I couldn't even breathe," recalled Rukundo in an interview Wednesday, as his wife, Sifa Ngeze, stood by his side, both wearing matching Black Lives Matter T-shirts.

" even mentioned on the video 'I can't breathe.' You can see it. He used force and he used force in his knee to drop on my neck.

"That day, I feared for my life. I was worried for my kids. I'm the only one bringing in the money for them."

I can easily understand the frustration that the black population in the United States have about police abuses but rioting accomplishes nothing but contempt in the minds of decent citizens who are legitimately protesting the wrong doings by rogue cops.

I  would be remiss if I didn’t mention that more whites are killed by police than blacks in the United States  That is probably because there are more whites in the United States than there are blocks.

I do not condone riots and destruction of property during protests. Those who commit these crimes should be arrested and punished with imprisonment and banned for life from entering those places ever again. That will discourage rioting.

Breaking into stores and stealing goods from the stores and setting fires in the stores and setting fires to cars on the street is deserving of very harsh penalties. such as stealing goods from the store (five years imprisonment) and setting fires to the stores and cars, (ten years imprisonment,)  including life-long ban from that area.  Protests is a right. Looting and arson is not.

Many years ago when I was still practicing law, I represented a young woman who was one of a thousand protestors on a major street in Toronto.  A police officer closed onto her and yelled in her face, “Move on you fucking bitch.”  She spit in his face. He arrested her and she was charged with assaulting a police officer.

What that ignorant cop didn’t know was that the woman’s friend was standing nearby and she had taped  the event and I later got a copy of the tape. I showed it to the prosecutor and after he watched what had happed, he said. “Oh Shit!” He then with a red pencil wrote in capital letters CHARGE  WITHDRAWN and then he gave me the tape back.