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Death Visits Ferguson, Missouri in the Guise of Darren Wilson

I'll keep this short as I've been told by commenters, as well as friends that I post too much about police brutality, the problem though isn't me, it's the increasing frequency of murder by cop. I deliberately had stopped posting on this subject but it keeps happening, it seems every day.
In the case of Michael Brown, the cop, of course, Darren Wilson claims that Brown was trying to take his gun and had "beat him up" in the attempt. But frankly, even if that's true, all it shows is that he was a coward who killed Brown out of pique or revenge, as Brown was unarmed, and no where near Wilson when murdered. 
If I, or anyone else without a badge, i.e. a cop, had been beaten up, allegedly, and then had shot his alleged attacker, emptying the gun a minute or so later, they'd have been locked away no question. So why hasn't Wilson? Or any one of the thousands of other perpetrators of murder by cop? Why is all they get the proverbial slap on the wrist, if they get anything at all, and then go on as though nothing ever happened, while their victims, and the families of their victims, don't get to go on at all?
End of lecture.

Lee Murray


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Death Visits New York City In The Guise Of A NYC Cop

NY police accidentally shoot shop worker to death

By ALEX KATZ and TOM HAYS | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago

 

 

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NEW YORK (AP) — A police officer shot and killed a convenience store worker who plowed into him on a sidewalk while frantically fleeing an armed robbery early Friday, a sudden encounter that the police department called a tragic accident.

Three men taken into custody at the shop after the shooting were charged with murder, robbery and weapons possession, prosecutors said.

Dramatic security video released by police shows the uniformed officer, his gun drawn, positioned outside the Bronx shop's front door moments after a 911 call. In a flash, the store manager rushes out the door. Closely behind with his head down is Renaldo Cuevas, who runs full speed into the officer, sending both men tumbling to the sidewalk.

A pool of blood appears to form on the ground the instant Cuevas lands on his back. The officer is kneeling and pointing his semiautomatic at Cuevas when the video clip ends.

Investigators believe the impact of Cuevas running into the officer caused him to fire one round, striking the 20-year-old victim in the left shoulder, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a news conference. Cuevas died later at a hospital.

Though the death appeared to be an accident, the officer was placed on desk duty pending an investigation, a routine practice for all New York Police Department shootings. Officials refused to release the name of the seven-year veteran of the police force.

There was no sign that the shooter and other officers at the scene mishandled the situation, Kelly said.

"The tragedy here of course was that Mr. Cuevas was shot, but I see nothing wrong with the procedure," he said.

Added Kelly: "We want to extend our deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Cuevas for their loss."

The fatal police shooting, one of two in the city on Friday, came two weeks after two police officers wounded nine people by shooting a total of 16 rounds at an armed murder suspect, leaving him dead in the shadow of the Empire State Building. The bystanders all were struck by police gunfire, ricochets and fragments.

In the second police shooting Friday, officers were summoned to contend with a man holding a knife to his neck in a Queens home. Officers repeatedly ordered the man to drop the knife, but he refused and began approaching an officer while holding it in the air, police said. The officer fired once and hit the man, who was taken to a hospital and died Friday evening, police said.
Felix Mora, the manager of the Bronx convenience store that was robbed earlier Friday, told reporters he was closing up with Cuevas, the shop owner's nephew, well after midnight when the three men barged in and one pointed a gun at them. One warned, "Don't move. I will kill your son if you move," he said, explaining that they thought Cuevas was his son.
"I was so scared. I was just praying for the cops to come," the 43-year-old Mora said.
A passer-by called police at about 2 a.m. to report the holdup. When officers arrived, they looked through a window and saw Mora and Cuevas being held hostage at gunpoint, police said.
Another security video shows a masked gunman hitting the manager with a pistol as he pushes both men to the floor. It also shows one of the bandits peering out the window, then, apparently realizing police were there, bolting to the back of the store, giving the victims a chance to slip away.
Mora told investigators he had heard one of the men yell in Spanish, "Policia! Policia! Policia!" meaning, "Police! Police! Police!"
After the shooting, one of the robbers quickly surrendered, police said. The two others retreated to the basement and remained inside until police threatened to send in a dog, Kelly said.
One of the men emerged around 5 a.m., claiming to be a victim. Police found the second man tied up inside as part of the ruse, police said.
Police said they found a .32-caliber handgun, which was never loaded, and the robbers' backpack, which contained $718 in cash, cigarettes and scratch-off lottery tickets.

Across the street from the bodega, Cuevas' friends set up candles and put up hand-drawn posters on the wall that included messages reading, "RIP Reynaldo" and "We want justice."

Mora called Cuevas "a good kid, a hardworking kid, a happy kid."

Death Visits White Plains New York In The Guise Of At Least Three White Plains, NY Cops

A couple of months ago a man, 68 years old with a bad heart was murdered by a cop who answered a medical alert call by LifeAid Alert to simply go by and check on him after his device had allegedly gone off as he slept and being asleep apparently didn't hear them trying to contact him through the base unit in his apartment. THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH A CRIME, they were there for no other reason that to verify he was ok. For this reason only, White Plains cops showed up apparently by the dozens, in full body armor, prepared and eager to blow the door off it's hinges, then assault the subject of the medical alert with a tazer, a bean bag shot from a shotgun and finally killing him, not a criminal or possible criminal, a medical alert, another innocent victim of rampant murder by cop.
This is an evil that's existed as long as there's been police in one form or another, but it seems to have become more and more common in this day and age. It seems that police brutality and murder of innocent victims was more commonly directed at blacks and Hispanics in the past, but it's now something that can and does happen to anyone, no matter race, sex, whatever.
The murderer who fired the shots, has been identified by the White Plains pd, after months of outright refusal to release the name of their murderous cop who brutally shot Kenneth Chamberlain.  Surprise! It turns out he's the same officer involved in another police brutality case that a local Eyewitness News has been looking into where he brutally beat a man who was  restrained in handcuffs. White Plains Police finally admit that the murderer is Officer Anthony Carelli, a cop and bully, for 8-years, who shot and killed Kenneth Chamberlain. Who knows just how many cases of murder and torture, how many beatings and instances of brutality there really are? Is this cop on the take? Is he a wife beater? Who knows? Anything is possible, apparently he's capable of any crime.
Mr. Chamberlain was a former Marine, and a retired corrections officer, so this murderer, this murderous cop, did what calls for the Death Sentence in NY, he killed a cop, a co-worker, at least that's how I see it, probably he doesn't.  When this happened the pd called it a "good shoot" which isn't really surprising. Every pd calls every shooting no matter how egregious or obvious it's bad good, they're all good shootings. Even in the Kelly Thomas murder the Fullerton pd called it good, within guidelines.

Of course the murderous cop wasn't alone, there were other uniformed criminals, at least two. One who tazed Mr. Chamberlain, who they knew suffered from a bad heart, and another who shot him with a beanbag. These cops were also there allegedly because they wanted to find out if Mr. Chamberlain was ok. He had committed NO crime, he was in his own apartment, unarmed and just aroused out of sleep in the middle of the night by someone, he didn't know who was pounding, and pounding and pounding on his door. They claimed to be police, even assuming he believed that, they demanded that he open the door and let them in. He said no, that he was alright and he didn't want them to come in. Chamberlain told them through the door that he was alright, one of the cops was recorded responding, “I don’t give a f**k, n****r, open the door."  So they "took" the door off it's hinges, probably blowing the hinges with a shotgun or something similar. Mr. Chamberlain's son says audio and video which the District Attorney gave him access to, shows his father was in undershorts with his arms hanging at his sides hands empty, he had no weapon, when police broke into his apartment, brutalizing him with tazer and beanbag shot from a shotgun and murdering him.
Mr. Chamberlain somehow knew, how we don't know that he was going to die at Carelli's hands. He was recorded saying as these White Plains, NY "police officers" were breaking into his home, "My name is Kenneth Chamberlain.This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me." Somehow he knew, and he was right. 
Interestingly, I was watching an episode of Twilight Zone today about a kid with a radio on board an airliner, who finds he can hear what others think through the headphones connected to his radio. He discovers a man on board who has a bomb, planning to blow up the plane, because he lost his young daughter in a plane crash, and believes the only way to force safer planes is to blow up this one. The kid manages to put his headphones on the bomber and he hears what the others are thinking, the fears and regrets of the other passengers. Suddenly he realizes that he's destroying people not just an airliner. That his act goes beyond just him and his loss, it impacts other people and they're innumerable, not just the other passengers but their families, friends, and others unknown to them. 
The point being, that while you wouldn't necessarily expect a criminal about to kill to realize the concept that his act of murder or violence impacts many people beyond his victim. But you would expect a police officer to realize it and therefore to act in such a manner that he tries to never put himself or anyone else in that position. While it's true that a police officer may have to kill someone in the performance of his job, there are many, very many, who've never drawn their gun. This is true today as it was in the past. But it seems that recently there are more and more, every day that use any excuse to murder, then use the flimsy excuse of being in fear of their lives. In my opinion, if they're that afraid they shouldn't be cops. The truth is that they're looking for an excuse, any excuse, to shoot something or someone. They murder fearlessly not facing any consequence of their crime, for the simple reason that all cops, their departments, their unions, their cities, and even the district attorneys that should be punishing them become accomplices after the fact, finding any reason to call the crime as no crime at all. Which means that there are no good cops, police depts, court officers, etc., none at all. Either they're criminals, or accomplices to the crimes.
Finally, as a veteran of the Marine Corps, Mr. Chamberlain's murder should be noticed by the Corps. As a friend who brought this to my attention pointed out you'd think the Marines would object to one of their own being murdered, especially by a cop, who shot him unarmed and helpless in his own home. Then adding insult to injury by lying about it and trying to cover it up. I agree they should but won't, simply because the saying "once a Marine, always a Marine," is a saying from times far past. It may even be true that some of those White Plains cops, possibly even the two that assaulted him and the murderer, were Marines. If so, they made fun of another Marine, yelling insults through the door. Marines or not, all of these cops should be ashamed, and they should all be dismissed never to be police again. As to the three who assaulted and murdered Mr. Chamberlain, they should be sent to prison, if there were any justice in this world. But there is no justice where criminal cops are concerned, there is a double standard instead.   
 
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White Plains Cop Identified
 
DA Said To Be Weak On Charging Police With Criminal Actions
 
Still Another Article About The Murder