Unarmed Black 14-Year-Old Shot 7 Times by Police Officer in New Jersey

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A New Jersey teenager was shot seven times after running from police last week, according to a lawyer for the teen’s family.

Radazz Hearns, 14, was shot five times in the right leg, once in the left leg, and once in the pelvis where a bullet is lodged. The teen is in stable condition at the Capital Health Regional Medical center in Trenton, according to Anyan.

"He's lucky to be alive," said attorney Samuel A. Anyan Jr.. "We'll be seeking justice. This appears to be an unjustified shooting."

On Aug. 7, two state troopers and a Mercer County Sherriff’s officer were responding to reports of shots fired at the Prospect Village Apartments in Trenton when they saw three males walking along Louise Lane. The officers said they got out of their vehicle to question the group before the 14-year-old ran off.

Witnesses say they saw the teen reach for his waistband before one of the troopers and the sheriff’s officer opened fire, according to the office of the Attorney General which is investigating the shooting.

A.22-caliber handgun was recovered underneath a car in nearby Calhoun St. 12 hours after the shooting.

Witness Rhonda Tirado, who was not questioned by police about the shooting, said she was sitting outside her home when she saw officers get out of an unmarked, grey minivan to question three teens across the street before Hearns ran. She said she didn’t see the teen carrying a gun, but saw him reach for his waist to keep his red sweat pants from falling down.

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"Those police were amped and they didn't give that little boy a chance,'' Tirado said according to NJ.com. “There was no room for no chase. They just shot that little boy right there."

Peter Aseltine, a spokesperson for the state Attorney General’s office, said he would like to talk to Tirado or any other witness to the incident.

Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson is urging his city’s residents to avoid speculation about the case and to remain patient as the investigation unfolds.

 

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SWAT camp outside of grade schools waiting to ambush "criminals" and execute them on the spot.

 

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Funeral of U.S. black teenager draws over 1,000, racism back in focus
English.news.cn 2015-08-16


WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,000 people on Saturday attended the funeral of the black Texas teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a contentious burglary incident, as U.S. racial divide exposed in the tragedy and similar incidents gained renewed attention.

Christian Taylor, a Texas college football player and a 19-year-old black, was remembered at a church in the northern Texas city of Arlington.

Taylor's teammates from Angelo State University where he played football said he was a person full of energy who had much to offer.

Former Arlington police officer Brad Miller was fired for his poor judgement in shooting unarmed Taylor, who was said to have broken into a car dealership and vandalized cars.

The 49-year-old white had no police experience before joining the department last September after graduation from the police academy in March that year. He fired his weapon four times after an altercation with Taylor and killed him at scene.

On Tuesday, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said Miller made a series of bad decisions in communicating with fellow officers and approached Taylor alone with no intention of arresting him.

Among five other officers who were at scene, Miller's training officer Corporal Dale Wiggins tried to use a Taser to contain the suspect, said Johnson, adding that the police department is preparing a criminal case against Miller.

Taylor's death came on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Ferguson unrest trigger by the killing of a black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman.

The both obvious and latent racism that has not stopped even after the United States elected its first black president is probably the ugliest and most embarrassing face the world's richest country refrain from displaying to the rest of the world.

The one-year Ferguson anniversary, coupled with Taylor's death, helped spur what is called the "Black Lives Matter" movement.

The victim's brother Adrian Taylor, tears welling up in eyes, described Christian as "a competitor and a fighter who did not want to be left behind."

Related:

Hundreds gather in nothern Texas to protest white policeman's brutality

HOUSTON, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of people in a northern city of Texas took to streets on Monday to protest against white police's brutality, local media reported.

The demonstration occurred in McKinney, after a video showed, the 41-year-old white police officer David Eric Casebolt pushed a young black girl in a bikini to ground outside a pool and pointed his gun on other unarmed young black teens on Friday, according to local ABC13 TV reports. Full story

 

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Deputies Killed Suspected Murderer and Target of 2-Week Manhunt - Official

21:26 16.08.2015Get short URL

Following an 18-day manhunt across a mountainous swath of central California, law-enforcement officials believe they fatally shot a man suspected of murdering a retired dentist, wounding two SWAT team members, and kidnapping three people.

Kern County Officials say the suspect Benjamin Ashley, 34, was killed near a convenience store after deputies received reports that he had been there. Two deputies caught up to him and shot him after Ashley brandished a handgun, according to Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt.

Ashley is accused of kidnapping three men and holding them hostage for an hour before they escaped on July 28 after the men had alleged Ashley squatted on their cabin property. Ashley is also accused of killing retired dentist David Louis Markiewitz, whose body was found on July 30. Authorities say Ashley attacked and wounded two SWAT team members on Aug. 1 after they entered a mobile home where he was hiding.

Kern County Sherriff Donny Youngblood told the Bakersfield Californian newspaper that it was “really incredible” that Ashley had evaded capture for as long as he did even as “everywhere he turned, there was a cop in the mountains.”

During the manhunt which involved more than 150 law-enforcement officers, two local elementary schools and a middle school were closed. County residents were also told to lock their doors and stay inside for as long as they could during the search.

“Our biggest concern, our primary concern throughout this entire operation was that someone else would get hurt before we found this person and took him into custody,” Pruitt told the Bakersfield Californian. “That’s why we’ve worked night and day, 24/7.”

The chase came to end this weekend after the suspect walked into Brady’s Mini Mart. The store’s manager Gray Welfl recognized the man walking in with three duffle bags, a backpack and a walking stick. Welfl then texted his sister to call 911 and made small talk with the man to buy time.

An autopsy would be preformed to properly identify the body.

“I’m confident that it’s him,” Youngblood said.

 

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US police shoots everyone no matter how young or old. Everyone seems to be a target for US police, this is definitely another sign of the decline of US.

 

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WATCH: 14 Cops Take Down Homeless Amputee in San Francisco

03:23 18.08.2015

In a shocking incident caught on camera by a witness, 14 San Francisco police officers were seen arresting a homeless black man armed with crutches because he only has one leg.

The incident took place on August 4, and was caught on camera by Chaédria LaBouvie, a reporter for Medium who happened to be passing by the Twitter HQ- ironically on her way to a meeting regarding a story she was working on about police brutality.

Witnesses explained to her that the police had been called as the man was waving “sticks,” which turned out to be his crutches.

“From my vantage point on the shore of 8th street, I could see the man reluctantly hand over his crutches. The man, it turned out, only had one leg; the other was a prosthetic. It is often twisted and backwards in the video,” LaBouvier noted.

“An officer can be seen at the 5 second time-mark stomping on the man’s prosthetic leg. In further efforts to subdue a man already on the ground with four people on top of him, they stood on his leg, held it, and twisted it around even after they had cuffed him and pinned him to the piss-stained concrete.”


She wrote that she watched as the man was held down for nearly a half hour, and often half naked as his clothes were shifted around, on one of the busiest streets in San Francisco.


“What are you doing this for?” the man asks as he is pinned to the ground.

“These are my crutches. I use these to walk,” he explains.

Around 3:55, LaBouvie stated that the man was saying “they’re going to shoot me.”

A witness replied, “They ain’t gonna shoot you man, that’s why we have these cameras out here.”

 

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WATCH: 14 Cops Take Down Homeless Amputee in San Francisco

03:23 18.08.2015

In a shocking incident caught on camera by a witness, 14 San Francisco police officers were seen arresting a homeless black man armed with crutches because he only has one leg.

The incident took place on August 4, and was caught on camera by Chaédria LaBouvie, a reporter for Medium who happened to be passing by the Twitter HQ- ironically on her way to a meeting regarding a story she was working on about police brutality.

Witnesses explained to her that the police had been called as the man was waving “sticks,” which turned out to be his crutches.

“From my vantage point on the shore of 8th street, I could see the man reluctantly hand over his crutches. The man, it turned out, only had one leg; the other was a prosthetic. It is often twisted and backwards in the video,” LaBouvier noted.

“An officer can be seen at the 5 second time-mark stomping on the man’s prosthetic leg. In further efforts to subdue a man already on the ground with four people on top of him, they stood on his leg, held it, and twisted it around even after they had cuffed him and pinned him to the piss-stained concrete.”


She wrote that she watched as the man was held down for nearly a half hour, and often half naked as his clothes were shifted around, on one of the busiest streets in San Francisco.


“What are you doing this for?” the man asks as he is pinned to the ground.

“These are my crutches. I use these to walk,” he explains.

Around 3:55, LaBouvie stated that the man was saying “they’re going to shoot me.”

A witness replied, “They ain’t gonna shoot you man, that’s why we have these cameras out here.”

Wow 14 cops against one unarmed man, such act is for sissies.

 

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Judge deals SFPD disciplinary setback over racist text messages - SFGate

The text messages, which contained racist and antigay remarks calling African American people “monkeys” and encouraging the killing of “half-breeds,” were uncovered during the federal investigation of former police Sgt. Ian Furminger.

 

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This is American style freedom，Free to hunt down blacks by police.

 

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Tennessee Teen Jailed for Calling Police 'Pigs'

23:15 18.08.2015Get short URL

A 19-year-old from Tennessee found himself in jail after calling police officers “pigs” on Friday while the officers were engaged in a traffic stop.

While typically yelling “pig” or even flipping off cops is protected under the First Amendment, William Reece, the teenager in question, made a terrible mistake which experts say rules his arrest constitutional.


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Instead of rolling down his window to yell at the Newport Police Department patrolmen, he cracked open his rear-passenger door. This error gave the police the excuse they needed to arrest him "due to creating a hazardous condition that served no legitimate purpose."

“If the arrest had occurred for shouting through an open window, it probably would have been unconstitutional,” Vanderbilt University Law School professor Christopher Slobogin told US News.

Due to the vehicle being in motion when he opened the door, according to the Whren v. United States Supreme Court ruling, his arrest was legal “even if there is good reason to believe the real reason an individual is arrested is because of an exercise of First Amendment rights or animus toward the arrestee, probable cause for a traffic violation immunizes the arrest from constitutional challenge.”

The only exception to this would be if it involved racial discrimination Slobogin told the website.

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“If Reece really opened the door of a moving vehicle traveling about 35 miles per hour to yell 'pigs,' then the arrest is based upon Reece's conduct rather than his speech,” Calvert says. “Rolling down a car window to yell 'pigs' would be protected by the First Amendment, but not opening a moving car's door, which could create a hazard for other vehicles.”

The police reported that there was also an 18-month-old child in the backseat with the teenager at the time of the incident.

Reece was released on $500 bond the same day.