Posts Tagged ‘police brutality’
Feds Probe “Alleged” Yonkers Police Brutality
11:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Justice|New York|Women · 2 Comments
29 Jun 2008
I love when a woman can show up looking as she does in the picture and people can still say that something “allegedly” went down. Pictured is Irma Marquez, who was shown on a surveillance videotape, being bodyslammed, facedown, by Yonkers, NY police officer Wayne Simoes.
“Several officers stated that, based on their training and experience, Simoes’ use of force against Marquez was unreasonable and excessive,” FBI Agent Kristina Norris wrote in a criminal complaint against Simoes filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains.
Federal prosecutors yesterday charged Simoes, 38, of Yonkers, with criminally violating the civil rights of Marquez in the March 3, 2007, arrest at La Fonda Restaurant. Simoes, an eight-year veteran of the Police Department who was paid $126,604 last year, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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.
FBI to investigate LAPD beating of Latino man
6:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Controversia|Internet|Los Angeles · Comments Off
13 Nov 2006The power of YouTube continues to amaze us. The brutal August 11th beating of William Cardenas by the LAPD was caught on tape and put out there for the world to judge. And public opinion says it doesn’t think the LAPD has changed much over the past decade. You judge for yourself:
Thanks to the video’s viral popularity on the internet, the FBI is looking into the matter, reports BET:
The footage prompted federal investigators to open a civil rights inquiry into the Aug. 11 incident, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.The involved officers, who did not know they were being recorded, have been assigned to administrative duties while the FBI investigates. The LAPD’s internal affairs division is also investigating the arrest, the department confirmed Thursday.
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