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If Bratton Returns to NYC, Latinos Need to Remember the Blood on his Hands
11:03 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City · 1 Comment
8 Aug 2009
For the past few days I have been reading that current LAPD Comish and former NYPD Comish, William Bratton is coming back to the big mango. He’s coming to head up a private security firm but hasn’t ruled out retaking his old position running NY’s (a-hem) finest.
Now that former NYPD commissioner William Bratton is leaving his post as LAPD commissioner to be CEO of a NYC security company, there’s plenty of speculation that he could return to the public sector—even back as NYPD commissioner. Bratton told the Daily News, “Oh sure. I’m only 61. That’s a possibility down the line. Those that know me know I never close any doors. Well with some exceptions: I’ve closed the door on politics to show my sanity. I’m not crazy.”
Regardless of the capacity, Bratton’s return to NYC should capture everyone’s attention in the city, especially in the Latino community given the vicious police violence that the NYPD, under his hand, unleashed.
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14 Years Later NYC Police Brutality Case Gets A Chance in Court
9:42 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City · 3 Comments
17 Mar 2009
Bronx Civil Court is not the ideal venue for Margarita Rosario to seek justice for her son, Anthony Rosario, and nephew, Hilton Vega. Civil court won’t send the killers to jail and it certainly will not return her family to her. Pero when a grand jury declines to indict the and federal investigations reportedly reviewing the case seemingly lead nowhere, you take what you can to speak the truth.
14 years ago (January 12, 1995), the lives of the 18 and 21 year old Puerto Rican young men, were violently taken from them thanks to Detectives Patrick Brosnan and James Crowe of the 46th precinct.
The details of the case are gruesome and show the levels of depravity that racist police violence can reach. Brosnan and Crowe, who at one points in their careers were bodyguards to once NYC Mayor and presidential wannabe Rudolph Giuliani, shot Rosario and Vega execution style. Independent pathologists and an investigation by the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) showed that all the bullets were fired from behind the victims; that both Rosario and Vega had bullets entry wounds under their arms, indicating that their hands were raised; and that they had sustained wounds to the backs of their heads, torso and back. Rosario was shot 14 times and Vega was shot 8 times.
The CCRB found that the detectives had used excessive force, but when its report was sent to the police commissioner, he ignored the CCRB’s substantiation of the charges. This undermined the CCRB by exposing its lack of power. Detective Brosnan was allowed to retire – without facing departmental charges – with benefits, including a disability pension after he claimed hearing damage suffered during the shooting of the young men.
The Rosario-Vega case happened under Giuliani time, which for many families of color in NYC meant mourning time as more and more of their young people were killed. Anibal Carasquillo, Yong Xin Huang, Anthony Baez, Frankie Arzuaga, Aswan Watson and on and on. Pero out of that mourning came organizing and community building led by the mothers of those who were killed.
Now Anthony Rosario’s mother needs support. She is reliving the pain of losing her son and nephew and hearing the lies put forth by the police.
Those interested in court support please contact justicecommittee@ gmail.com and/or call 212-614-5343
More information on the case is available at: Reality Films-Justifiable Homicide and the Justice Committee .
Driving While Black or Latino in NYC is Risky
12:02 pm By Maegan La Mala · New York City|race|society · Comments Off
16 Jan 2009
Driving While Black or Driving While Brown has always been somewhat of a hazard, and depending on in what part of the country one happens to be driving, non-white drivers run the risk of getting stopped by cops. But where the stats on police stopping black or Latino drivers seems to be off the charts is our beloved New York City:
From 2005 to 2008, 80 percent of all traffic stops of New Yorkers involved black and Latino drivers, according to the report by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). That’s shocking, considering blacks and Latinos only account for 25 percent and 28 percent, respectively, of New York City’s population, CCR reported.By contrast, only 10 percent of traffic stops involved white drivers, who are 44 percent of the city’s population.
MSNBC reports that the arrest and summons rates for these drivers is extremely low “which suggests black and Latino drivers aren’t doing anything wrong at a higher rate than whites to justify being eight times more likely to get stopped.”
What do you think? Have you or anyone you know ever been stopped for DWB?
Via / MSNBC
Rally Mañana for Imam Morales : Mentally Ill Man Tasered to his Death by NYPD
9:46 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City · Comments Off
11 Jan 2009
A few months ago, we wrote about, Iman Morales, a mentally ill man, was killed by NYPD officers on September 24th, 2008. Mr. Morales was tasered while standing on the ledge of a store front awning 10 feet high without an air bag to break his fall. The officers ignored his mother’s cries for an airbag, and made no attempts to catch Mr. Morales who fell to his death after being tasered.
“He was a good son. He didn’t deserve this. It shouldn’t happen to anyone else. All he needed was a little help, which the NYPD didn’t give him,” Olga Negron, mother of Iman Morales.
Don’t Say I didn’t Warn You : NYPD Arresting Children in School
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · children|crime|Education|Justice|New York City|race · 1 Comment
9 Oct 2008
Years ago, when the then NYC Board of Education School Safety Division was swallowed by the New York City Police Department, I, working in coalition with other activists, warned that this would step up the criminalization of young people, especially students of color. Since then, it’s been one I told you so moment after another, with children being illegally searched and arrested for “acting out” in class.
New York State law prohibits children younger than 16 from being arrested for minor, non-criminal violations like loitering. If a child commits a minor infraction at school, he may be disciplined, but the Family Court Act prohibits police from arresting the child. But according to NYPD data obtained in a Freedom of Information Law request, between 2005 and 2007, approximately 300 New York City public school students were illegally arrested in or on school grounds for non-criminal violations. And when the children were arrested, they were handcuffed, forcibly removed from school and taken to police precincts.
VL Follow Up : NYPD Officer Involved in Taser Death Commits Suicide
10:19 am By Maegan La Mala · Health|New York City · 1 Comment
2 Oct 2008
Last week, we wrote about Iman Morales, the man having a mental health crisis and instead of being helped by the New York City Police Department, he was tasered and fell to his death.
Yesterday, Morales was buried and early this morning, Lieutenant Michael Pigott, who gave the order to shoot Morales, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The NYPD quickly admitted that Emergency Service police should not have used a Taser on him while he was on a ledge, and two cops were disciplined.
On Wednesday, the Lieutenant had said he was “truly sorry for what happened” to Iman Morales, who was stunned with the Taser as he teetered on a building’s ledge. The 50,000-volt shock caused him to topple 10 feet, headfirst, into a sidewalk. He died a shortly after from fatal injuries.
NYPD Attacked Father Taking His Daughter to School and Now He Faces Charges
9:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|crime|Dominicans|Family|Justice|New York City|Politics · 4 Comments
17 Sep 2008
Imagine you are walking your daughter to school. It’s a common scene. The last thing you expect is to be attacked. The last thing you expect is to be attacked by the New York City Police Department. Yet, that’s exactly what happened to Jesus Bracero.
In May 2007, 56-year-old Jesus Bracero was attacked in Washington Heights by NYPD officers while dropping his 15-year-old daughter off at school. The catalyst? Bracero not complying immediately when asked for id. This is where people will say to themselves, why did he not just follow the police order? The answer is simple. In the words of Bracero: “I had not done anything illegal.” This was enough to unleash the NYPD choking and beating him.
They dragged Bracero out of his car with a chokehold on his neck. Bracero says he was assaulted by many police, who handcuffed him and repeatedly banged his head on the ground.
Latino Radical Hip Hoppers Rebel Diaz Attacked By the NYPD
9:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Justice|Music|New York City · 1 Comment
23 Jun 2008Last Thursday, independent, radical, revolutionary, activist Hip Hoppers Rodstarz and G1, two brothers known musically and in the movement as Rebel Diaz, were walking in the Bronx, NYC when they witnessed an all too common occurrence. Police officers from the 41st Precinct were in the middle of a sting against street vendors, aggressively confiscating the fruit and vegetables of a street vendor. What happened next was a mix of the sadly uncommon and the everyday threat that is faced in many of our communities. Rodstarz and G1 didn’t walk by quickly or quietly, watching their extended community being attacked. They approached the officers to ask why the vendor was being treated in that manner and asked for their badge numbers. The police, who aren’t exactly keen on the idea of being monitored by the very same community they allegedly serve, turned their aggressions on the duo. After beating them and arresting them in front of over a dozen witnesses, they were taken to the 41st Precinct.
More Info on NYPD Shot Dogs than People
7:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Justice|New York City|race · Comments Off
15 May 2008With Sean Bell fresh in the minds and hearts of people, and immigrants in Iowa being held in cattle yards, people of color have already gotten the message that we are viewed as animals or even as less than animals. So it should be no surprise that the New York City Police Department keeps better records on the dogs they shoot than the people they shoot.
Last week, the NYPD gave the City Council nine years’ worth of previously confidential detailed reports on the department’s shooting incidents.
But members of the council’s Public Safety Committee, which ostensibly oversees the NYPD, were barking up the wrong tree if they thought these long-sought-after Firearms Discharge Reports were going to reveal anything about the racial makeup of the people shot by New York’s cops.
On the other hand, among all the statistics and analyses were detailed breakdowns of the breeds of dogs shot by cops.
Machine Guns On NYC Subways
8:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|New York City · 1 Comment
25 Apr 2008
I ride the NYC subway system nearly everyday with children. So why do I not feel safer with the announcement that the New York City Police Department will be patrolling the major subway stations with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs? The program is called Operation Torch and this new anti-terror effort is thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant. The program’s complete cost? $151 million.
I feel safer already.
Via / CBS News (local tv)
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