Tag Archives: police brutality
Miami police kill teenage graffiti artist with Taser
At 6:15 a.m., an hour after the police first spotted him, Israel Hernandez-Llach, a former Miami Beach High School student and a Colombian immigrant, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The teenager was in medical distress after being shocked by the Taser and paramedics were called. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/us/seeking-answers-after-youths-death-in-police-stop.html?hpw On Thursday, Mr. Hernandez-Llach’s parents held a […]
CA cops beat man to death, confiscate video
A half-dozen Kern County sheriff’s deputies were across the street beating a man with clubs and kicking him. A witness whipped out her mobile phone and began to video the episode, announcing to the officers what she was doing. For about eight minutes, the man screamed and cried for help. Then he went silent, making […]
ICE confinement amounts to abuse
The United States has come under sharp criticism at home and abroad for relying on solitary confinement in its prisons more than any other democratic nation in the world. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/us/immigrants-held-in-solitary-cells-often-for-weeks.html?ref=us&_r=0 Immigration and Customs Enforcement places its jailed immigrants in solitary, this practice is startling because those detainees are being held on civil, not criminal, charges. […]
Police drag person behind truck until dead
South African police tie citizen to truck bumper and drag him to his death while onlookers record video. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/world/africa/outrage-in-south-africa-after-police-drag-man-behind-truck-and-he-dies.html?hp A lonely female voice uttered, “look at what is happening to God’s children.”“They killed one of our brothers like he was a dog,”In 2005-2006, South African police shot 281 people dead. Within three years the number […]
Dirty Babylon 