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it is not a shooting, its a hit
Police are Killing Native Americans at Higher Rate than Any Race, and Nobody is Talking About It
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it is not a shooting, its a hit
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I'm not saying that racism does not exist in America it does and in a big way, Both ways.. But when it comes to police brutality i dont think there is color involved in it.. it's color blind.. just that at most times the lower strata of the societies where gang violence and crimes happen to be largely inner city area's with proportionately high black, Latino and other minorities are concentrated.. Thats just the way it is.
As for the OP issue on native American killings.. I think as many pointed out it's highly unlikely to have any racial connotations what so ever
As for the OP issue on native American killings.. I think as many pointed out it's highly unlikely to have any racial connotations what so ever
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Native Americans Get Shot By Cops at an Astonishing Rate
So why aren’t you hearing about it?
—By AJ Vicens
| Wed Jul. 15, 2015 6:57 PM EDT
Nearly 100 people demonstrated in downtown Denver earlier this week after police there shot and killed 35-year-old Paul Castaway on July 12. Police said the man was coming towards an officer with a knife, but his family and witnesses on the scene dispute those claims and say he was pointing the knife toward himself.
The shooting comes a little more than a month after two Denver Police officers were cleared in the shooting death of Jessie Hernandez, a 17-year-old girl killed in January when the officers fired into a stolen car she was supposedly driving toward them in an alley.
According to his mother, Castaway struggled with schizophrenia and alcoholism. Witnesses say he was holding a knife to his own throat and didn't threaten officers,according to the Denver Post. Castaway was shot four times and died later that night. Denver Police Department spokesman, Sonny Jackson, told the Post that the department is reviewing the incident, and that the officers involved will be named soon.
Castaway was a Lakota Sioux. His death brings up a rarely-discussed aspect of the ongoing conversation around police brutality in the United States: Native Americans are more likely than most other racial groups to be killed by police. Indian Country Today noted that according to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, a nonprofit organization that studies incarceration and criminal justice issues, police kill Native Americans at a higher rate than any other ethnic group.
The center's analysis relied on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics. It found that Native Americans, making up just .8 percent of the population, are the victims in 1.9 percent of police killings. When the numbers are broken down further, they reveal that Native Americans make up *three of the top five top age-groups killed by law enforcement:
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
"This is a reflection of an endemic problem in the perception of non-white people when it comes to the administration of justice," Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project in South Dakota, told Mother Jones. The group put out a report called "Native Lives Matter" in February discussing various ways the justice system disproportionately impacts Native Americans. He said the US Department of Justice needs to address police violence against Native Americans and that Castaway's death is only the most recent example of the problem.
"You can tell they're shooting out of fear," he said. "If it's not out of hate, for some reason they're pulling the trigger before determining what the situation actually is. Something does need to happen. Somebody does need to take a look and we need help."
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The Police Are Killing One Group at a Staggering Rate, and Nobody Is Talking About It
The end of 2014 was a bloody time for Native Americans.
Even as protesters rallied against the police killings of unarmed black people like Michael Brown and Eric Garner in December, Rapid City police fired five bullets into Allen Locke, a 30-year-old Lakota man living in South Dakota.
In a tragic bit of irony, it was later revealed that Locke had been at a demonstration against police killings of indigenous people just one day earlier. Yet while devastating for his family and community, Locke's death illustrates a much bigger problem: From 1999 to 2013, Native Americans were killed by law enforcement at nearly identical rates as black Americans, tying them for the most at-risk populations in this respect.
The difference is that almost no one is talking about them.
There are 5.1 million American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. as of 2011, significantly fewer than the country's 45 million black Americans (as of 2013). But like black Americans, indigenous people are killed by law enforcement officers at rates that far outstrip their share of the population.
While #BlackLivesMatter evolved into a national rallying cry for racial justice over the summer, a largely overlooked #NativeLivesMatter movement has been quietly galvanizing activists as well. Few mainstream outlets report on it, but the indigenous blogosphere and Twitterverse abound with horror stories, not the least of which is that six Native men and women were killed by police in November and December alone.
"We protest, we take to social media, we get as many stories and Native American voices as we can into news media," Simon Moya-Smith, a journalist and editor with Indian Country Today Media Network, told Mic in an email. "[But still] we're not entirely on [the mainstream media's] radar – maybe for Indian mascots, but for police brutality? Barely, if at all."
In some of these cases, including Allen Locke's, the victims were allegedly armed when killed. But this designation doesn't always tell the whole story. In cases like that of John T. Williams in 2010, for example, the knife the victim held that prompted Seattle police to take his life was a carving instrument, folded shut at the time of his shooting.
Williams' death set off a string of protests in early 2011. Although the officer who shot the 50-year-old resigned eventually, he was never charged with a criminal offense. It's a sad but familiar story for anyone who watched grand juries fail to indict Officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo for killing Brown and Garner, respectively.
Source: Ted S. Warren/AP
Some of the factors that affect these altercations result from a long history of American legal meddling into Natives' affairs, including disproportionate rates of poverty, substance abuse, suicide and lowered access to education, employment and health care prospects. And officials' inability to properly address these disparities has resulted in the continued criminalization of indigenous people, exacerbated by the combined forces of systemic substance abuse, mental health issues and unemployment.
Take the following incidents as examples: Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket, 18, was shot seven times in Custer County, Oklahoma, in 2013. And 34-year-old Benjamin Whiteshield was shot through the mouth and killed in Clinton, Oklahoma, in 2012. Both were experiencing episodes of mental illness when police killed them.
Meanwhile, Christina Tahhahwah was arrested during a bipolar episode on Nov. 13 and died after she went into cardiac arrest in a Lawton, Oklahoma, police holding cell. The details surrounding Tahhahwah's death are dubious, to say the least. Native News Online reports she'd been handcuffed to her cell door "for unknown reasons," and that the 37-year-old's parents weren't notified of her transfer to the hospital — where she was pronounced dead — until many hours after the fact. Meanwhile, her fellow inmates claim she'd been "tased repeatedly" for refusing to stop singing Comanche hymns (Lawton Police have since denied the allegations).
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I agree. Killings are probably more class related than race.
So why aren’t you hearing about it?
—By AJ Vicens
| Wed Jul. 15, 2015 6:57 PM EDT
Nearly 100 people demonstrated in downtown Denver earlier this week after police there shot and killed 35-year-old Paul Castaway on July 12. Police said the man was coming towards an officer with a knife, but his family and witnesses on the scene dispute those claims and say he was pointing the knife toward himself.
The shooting comes a little more than a month after two Denver Police officers were cleared in the shooting death of Jessie Hernandez, a 17-year-old girl killed in January when the officers fired into a stolen car she was supposedly driving toward them in an alley.
According to his mother, Castaway struggled with schizophrenia and alcoholism. Witnesses say he was holding a knife to his own throat and didn't threaten officers,according to the Denver Post. Castaway was shot four times and died later that night. Denver Police Department spokesman, Sonny Jackson, told the Post that the department is reviewing the incident, and that the officers involved will be named soon.
Castaway was a Lakota Sioux. His death brings up a rarely-discussed aspect of the ongoing conversation around police brutality in the United States: Native Americans are more likely than most other racial groups to be killed by police. Indian Country Today noted that according to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, a nonprofit organization that studies incarceration and criminal justice issues, police kill Native Americans at a higher rate than any other ethnic group.
The center's analysis relied on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics. It found that Native Americans, making up just .8 percent of the population, are the victims in 1.9 percent of police killings. When the numbers are broken down further, they reveal that Native Americans make up *three of the top five top age-groups killed by law enforcement:
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
"This is a reflection of an endemic problem in the perception of non-white people when it comes to the administration of justice," Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project in South Dakota, told Mother Jones. The group put out a report called "Native Lives Matter" in February discussing various ways the justice system disproportionately impacts Native Americans. He said the US Department of Justice needs to address police violence against Native Americans and that Castaway's death is only the most recent example of the problem.
"You can tell they're shooting out of fear," he said. "If it's not out of hate, for some reason they're pulling the trigger before determining what the situation actually is. Something does need to happen. Somebody does need to take a look and we need help."
***
The Police Are Killing One Group at a Staggering Rate, and Nobody Is Talking About It
The end of 2014 was a bloody time for Native Americans.
Even as protesters rallied against the police killings of unarmed black people like Michael Brown and Eric Garner in December, Rapid City police fired five bullets into Allen Locke, a 30-year-old Lakota man living in South Dakota.
In a tragic bit of irony, it was later revealed that Locke had been at a demonstration against police killings of indigenous people just one day earlier. Yet while devastating for his family and community, Locke's death illustrates a much bigger problem: From 1999 to 2013, Native Americans were killed by law enforcement at nearly identical rates as black Americans, tying them for the most at-risk populations in this respect.
The difference is that almost no one is talking about them.
There are 5.1 million American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. as of 2011, significantly fewer than the country's 45 million black Americans (as of 2013). But like black Americans, indigenous people are killed by law enforcement officers at rates that far outstrip their share of the population.
While #BlackLivesMatter evolved into a national rallying cry for racial justice over the summer, a largely overlooked #NativeLivesMatter movement has been quietly galvanizing activists as well. Few mainstream outlets report on it, but the indigenous blogosphere and Twitterverse abound with horror stories, not the least of which is that six Native men and women were killed by police in November and December alone.
"We protest, we take to social media, we get as many stories and Native American voices as we can into news media," Simon Moya-Smith, a journalist and editor with Indian Country Today Media Network, told Mic in an email. "[But still] we're not entirely on [the mainstream media's] radar – maybe for Indian mascots, but for police brutality? Barely, if at all."
In some of these cases, including Allen Locke's, the victims were allegedly armed when killed. But this designation doesn't always tell the whole story. In cases like that of John T. Williams in 2010, for example, the knife the victim held that prompted Seattle police to take his life was a carving instrument, folded shut at the time of his shooting.
Williams' death set off a string of protests in early 2011. Although the officer who shot the 50-year-old resigned eventually, he was never charged with a criminal offense. It's a sad but familiar story for anyone who watched grand juries fail to indict Officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo for killing Brown and Garner, respectively.
Source: Ted S. Warren/AP
Some of the factors that affect these altercations result from a long history of American legal meddling into Natives' affairs, including disproportionate rates of poverty, substance abuse, suicide and lowered access to education, employment and health care prospects. And officials' inability to properly address these disparities has resulted in the continued criminalization of indigenous people, exacerbated by the combined forces of systemic substance abuse, mental health issues and unemployment.
Take the following incidents as examples: Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket, 18, was shot seven times in Custer County, Oklahoma, in 2013. And 34-year-old Benjamin Whiteshield was shot through the mouth and killed in Clinton, Oklahoma, in 2012. Both were experiencing episodes of mental illness when police killed them.
Meanwhile, Christina Tahhahwah was arrested during a bipolar episode on Nov. 13 and died after she went into cardiac arrest in a Lawton, Oklahoma, police holding cell. The details surrounding Tahhahwah's death are dubious, to say the least. Native News Online reports she'd been handcuffed to her cell door "for unknown reasons," and that the 37-year-old's parents weren't notified of her transfer to the hospital — where she was pronounced dead — until many hours after the fact. Meanwhile, her fellow inmates claim she'd been "tased repeatedly" for refusing to stop singing Comanche hymns (Lawton Police have since denied the allegations).
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I agree. Killings are probably more class related than race.
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They are doing genocide!
Native American activist dies mysteriously in 'Mississippi Burning' jail one day after Sandra Bland
Native American activist dies mysteriously in 'Mississippi Burning' jail one day after Sandra Bland
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The presumption is correct. The U.S. was founded as a nation on the very foundations of racisms.
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80% of police officers are a joke to mankind here and also the police union makes matters worse than ever. Apart from that cops here don't give a fu €k who you are there own mentality accounts for there interaction. If you as an individual put your self in a catagory of assumption for a well hospitality, than you shall always be held accountable for your actions.
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Trying walking down the street while being a minority in India, China, UK, France, Japan or Germany for a comparison.
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Trying walking down the street while being a minority in India, China, UK, France, Japan or Germany for a comparison.
the moral of the news is the "united Sanctions of america" prides itself as the land of the free and the "greatest" country in the world and on top of that it publishes and condemns the annual listing of countries with human rights infringements and even on top of that its overt and covert operations around the world with attempts to overthrow a government blaming poor human righs records, undemocratic governments blah blah as excuses for uSa intrusions
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Indian casinos set new revenue record, topping $28.13 billion | Las Vegas Review-Journal
By HOWARD STUTZ
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Three years after the nation’s Indian casino industry experienced its only annual gaming revenue decline in the 24 years since figures have been kept, the market is on an upswing.
For the second straight year, Indian casinos nationwide combined for a new annual gaming revenue record, topping $28.13 billion in 2012.
By HOWARD STUTZ
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Three years after the nation’s Indian casino industry experienced its only annual gaming revenue decline in the 24 years since figures have been kept, the market is on an upswing.
For the second straight year, Indian casinos nationwide combined for a new annual gaming revenue record, topping $28.13 billion in 2012.
American police arent racist, they just have a high proportion of useless untrained men who are never taught to use physical restrain, not even a tazer, they are taught to just go straight for the gun. There is plenty of great police to who work hard for their community and try to make positive impacts on peoples lives, they are of course never mentioned, the same way when white kids get killed in strange circumstances with the police its never mentioned. The officers involved in that girls "suicide" last week were mostly black, in another 1 or 2 incidents of black kids being killed last year the cops were all black and in a few others it was a mix, yet its always somehow race related when the real problem is law enforcement.
Always the same with these black kids to, they were such good students, had such a great promising life ahead of them...yeah thats why most of them killed were committing crimes, they were not innocent but they certainly didnt deserve to die though, I just have a problem with the innocent face they try to paint on every killed person, they were criminals, did they deserve to get shot to death, of course not. Why is it always shot 10 times etc aswell, if your so weak you resort to using your gun then just pop off 1 or 2 shots, fucking so many terrible police in the US force.
Always the same with these black kids to, they were such good students, had such a great promising life ahead of them...yeah thats why most of them killed were committing crimes, they were not innocent but they certainly didnt deserve to die though, I just have a problem with the innocent face they try to paint on every killed person, they were criminals, did they deserve to get shot to death, of course not. Why is it always shot 10 times etc aswell, if your so weak you resort to using your gun then just pop off 1 or 2 shots, fucking so many terrible police in the US force.
Not sure where this happens. The Native Americans have taken the most horrors during the formation of America but these days they run the Casino Business which really keeps them rather happy. In addition, their faces and traditions adorn everything from states to stadiums to military equipment.
Not sure where they are any less underprivileged than any other race... There is a problem.. but that problem is much less than what minorities in other countries face.
Not sure where they are any less underprivileged than any other race... There is a problem.. but that problem is much less than what minorities in other countries face.
