@gamer00 Has Offered Me 1000 Steem if I Can Post 1000 Stories About Racist Policing in the U.S.

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Obviously, he is a privileged white guy that doesn't even live in the U.S. If he were an American, especially if he were a black American, he would know better than to make such a bet.

I am going to start posting 100 cases a day. Here is the first set.

  1. 25 December 1951: Five Hispanic men and two white men were severely beaten by members of the Los Angeles Police Department, in an incident known as the Bloody Christmas. Eight officers were indicted for assault, and five were found guilty.
  2. 2 March 1991: Rodney King was beaten with batons and kicked by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. The four officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and found not guilty, prompting riots in Los Angeles. The four officers were tried again in a federal court, and two of the officers were found guilty of violating King's civil rights.
  3. 22 December 1994: Anthony Baez was fatally choked by New York Police Department officer Francis Livoti in the Bronx, following an altercation with him. In June 1998, Livoti was convicted in a federal court on charges of violating Baez's civil rights, and was sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment.
  4. 4 September 2005: Danziger Bridge shootings. Two unarmed civilians were killed and four others were wounded by New Orleans, Louisiana police officers. Five officers were found guilty in the deaths, and received sentencings ranging from 6 to 65 years of prison.
  5. 7 March 2006: Unarmed Joseph Erin Hamley was fatally shot by an Arkansas State Police trooper. The trooper was convicted of negligent homicide
  6. 21 November 2006: Kathryn Johnston was fatally shot in her house by three Atlanta, Georgia undercover police officers, during a drug raid. One of the officers planted marijuana in her house. Three officers were convicted of manslaughter and were sentenced to five to ten years imprisonment.
  7. 7 September 2006: Eugene Ejike Obiora, a Nigerian-Norwegian student, was killed during an arrest where Obiora had behaved aggressively toward personnel at the social services office in Trondheim. Obiora died en route to a hospital after a police officer held him in a stranglehold. The case made headlines and three officers were accused of racism and excessive use of force, but they were cleared by police investigators and the chief prosecutor.
  8. 1 January 2009: Oscar Grant was fatally shot by BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, U.S. Grant was unarmed and laying on his stomach as he was shot. Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to two years of prison, and served 11 months.
  9. 30 August 2010: John T. Williams, a deaf woodcarver, was fatally shot by Seattle, Washington police officer Ian Birk. Williams was walking away from Birk with a carving knife in his hand, and was shot four times. Birk was not charged by county prosecutors in Williams' death, and the Seattle Police Department's Firearms Review Board ruled that Birk was unjustified in shooting Williams and violated the department's policy. Birk resigned from the department.
  10. 5 October 2010: Danny Rodriguez, 29, was shot twice in the chest and killed by Phoenix, Arizona officer Richard Chrisman. Rodriguez was holding a bicycle as he was shot, and police were called to his family's home in response to a domestic dispute. Chrisman was found guilty of manslaughter, assault, and animal cruelty.
  11. 12 December 2010: Douglas Zerby was shot twelve times and killed by two Long Beach, California police officers. Police were called in response to Zerby holding a garden hose nozzle, which police claimed to have mistaken for a handgun. Zerby's family was awarded $6.5 million after a jury found the Long Beach Police Department to be responsible for Zerby's death.
  12. February 2012: Patricia Cook was fatally shot while in her SUV by Culpeper, Virginia officer Daniel Harmon-Wright. Harmon-Wright was convicted of voluntary manslaughter
  13. 22 July 2012: Alecia Thomas was kicked and punched by Los Angeles Police Department officer Mary O'Callaghan during an arrest, and later died in police custody. O'Callaghan was found guilty of assault, but not guilty of causing her death. She was sentenced to three years imprisonment.
  14. 29 August 2013: John Geer was fatally shot by officer Adam Torres in Springfield, Virginia, as his arms were raised up and a gun was on the ground away from him. Torres pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
  15. 5 September 2014: Levar Jones was shot and injured by South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert after Groubert asked Jones to get out his license. Groubert was fired, and pleaded guilty to assault and battery.
  16. 14 September 2014: Bryce Masters, 17, was Tasered for 23 seconds by Independence, Missouri officer Timothy Runnels, during a traffic stop. Masters suffered from brain injuries as a result. Runnels pleaded guilty to violating Masters' civil rights, and was sentenced to four years of prison.
  17. 12 October 2014: Jack Jacquez, 27, was shot in the back and killed by officer James Ashby in Rocky Ford, Colorado. Jacquez was in his mother's kitchen and was unarmed as he was shot. Ashby was found guilty of second degree murder.
  18. 20 November 2014: Akai Gurley was fatally shot by New York City Police Officer Peter Liang, as Liang and another officer were patrolling an unlit stairwell in a housing project. The shooting was considered accidental by Liang and prosecutors, and Liang was convicted of criminally negligent homicide.
  19. 28 December 2014: Michael Johansen was burglarizing a convenience store, and Baltimore Police Department officers arrived on the scene. Johansen reached into his waistband area, and officers shot and injured him. As Johansen was on the floor, officer Wesley Cagle shot him. Two officers were cleared in the shooting, but Cagle was charged and convicted of assault.
  20. 22 April 2015: William Chapman II, an 18-year-old shoplifting suspect, was shot in a Wal-Mart parking lot by Portsmouth, Virginia police officer Stephen Rankin. According to witnesses, Chapman had his fists raised in the air, and was standing at least six feet away from Rankin before Rankin fired two shots, striking Chapman in the face and chest. On 4 August 2016, Rankin was found not guilty of first-degree murder, but guilty of voluntary manslaughter
  21. 25 November 2015: Andrew Thomas, 26, was driving drunk and crashed his car, killing his wife. Thomas emerged out of his car, and Patrick Feaster, a Paradise, California police officer accidentally fired his gun once at Thomas, hitting him in the neck. Thomas died from his injuries in December 2015. In October 2016, Feaster was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
  22. Kendrec McDade , who was unarmed, was shot 7 times by police officers at point blank range, then handcuffed.
  23. 19-year-old Ramarley Graham was profiled, chased to his grandmother’s house by the NYPD, and then murdered in the bathroom.
  24. Fulton County, Ga., Union City police office Luther Lewis killed 19-year-old Ariston Waiters, who was shot in the back twice.
  25. 15-year-old Chad Holley, whose vicious beating by police officers was captured on video. The result? All of the officers were charged with misdemeanors
  26. Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man standing in a New York City doorway, was gunned down by officers who erroneously thought he had a gun.
  27. Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014
  28. Alton Sterling was killed by police for hawking CDs in front of a convenience store.
  29. A Minnesota officer fatally shot a man — identified by relatives as 32-year-old Philando Castile — while he was in a car with a woman and a child in Falcon Heights, a St. Paul suburb.
  30. Manuel Loggins Jr. was shot by an Orange County sheriff's deputy in a parking lot at San Clemente High School.
  31. The Danziger Bridge shootings were police shootings that took place on September 4, 2005, at the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana. Six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department killed two civilians: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All of the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back.
  32. Kendra James was a 21-year-old African-American Oregonian mother of two, who was shot to death by police on May 5, 2003.
  33. Sean Bell's murder took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States, on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot a total of 50 times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers. Sean Bell was killed on the morning before his wedding, and two of his friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, were severely wounded.
  34. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in what has been described as a chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office attributed Garner's death to a combination of a chokehold, compression of his chest, and poor health. NYPD policy prohibits the use of chokeholds.
  35. George Zimmerman, an armed self-appointed neighborhood watchman, killed Trayvon Martin.
  36. Las Vegas, NV: The U.S. Marshals were conducting surveillance on the Keith Childressand requested help from Metro when he fled. When police caught up with him, they claimed he had an "unknown object" in his hand. Assuming it was a gun, they shot him dead. The object turned out to be a cellphone.
  37. Chicago, IL: Chicago police shot Bettie Jones in the neck "accidentally" while trying to help a neighbor deal with a domestic disturbance involving his son, Quintonio Legrier. The neighbor said he called police when his son tried to break his door down early in the morning, and that Jones was shot when she opened the door to direct officers when they arrived.
  38. Dearborn, MI: An officer pursued Kevin Matthews, who was reportedly wanted on a misdemeanor warrant, authorities said. The officer attempted to subdue Matthews with pepper spray and shot him during a struggle when Matthews reached for his gun, police said. Family members identified Matthews after the shooting and said he was being treated for schizophrenia.
  39. St. Martin, Louisiana: Michael Noel, 32, was having a psychological breakdown and his mother requested an order of protection. Police said that when they arrived, Noel resisted arrest and could not be subdued after two Taser deployments. Noel's aunt said he was then shot in the chest. Two witnesses have said Michael Noel was unarmed with one handcuff around one wrist when he was shot.
  40. Palmdale, CA: Deputies say Leroy Browning, 30, fled when they were attempting to arrest him for a DUI. They claim he put deputies in a "bear hug" and reached for a firearm before being shot by deputies.
  41. Hayward, CA: Hayward police responded to a report of a man needing an emergency mental health evaluation. After arriving, officers determined Roy Nelson needed an involuntary psychiatric hold and put him in the back of a police car. On the way to the hospital, police say Roy tried to kick out the car's rear window. The police forced Roy into a leg restraint, after which Roy died.
  42. Yonkers, NY: Miguel Espinal, 36, was shot and killed by NYPD officers in an incident that started with a traffic stop in the Bronx. Espinal fled the stop, prompting a police chase that ended in a wrong-way crash.
    After the crash, Espinal left the vehicle and ran to the surrounding Tibbetts Brook Park, where police killed him.
  43. Barstow, CA: Nathaniel Pickett, 29, allegedly jumped a fence and "became uncooperative" when a deputy stopped to question him, police said. When the deputy tried to handcuff Pickett, they claim a fight broke out ending when the deputy shot Nathaniel.
  44. Portage, IN: A Hammond police officer killed Tiara Thomas, who was the mother of three of his children.
  45. Opa-locka, FL: Police said they shot and killed Cornelius Brown after he hit the windshield of a patrol car and ignored commands from police. He was unarmed.
  46. Minneapolis, MN: Two Minneapolis police officers shot Jamar Clark, claiming he "interfered" with emergency responders helping an assault victim. Activists and witnesses maintain that Clark was unarmed and handcuffed when he was shot.
  47. Oakland, CA: Oakland police were towing vehicles near 90th Ave. and Bancroft Ave. when they claim Richard Perkins, 39, approached them and "pointed a firearm in their direction." They shot Richard multiple times. Police later revealed Richard's "firearm" was actually a toy gun.
  48. Denver, CO: Michael Lee Marshall, a 50 year old mentally ill man, apparently posed no physical threat when three sheriff’s deputies restrained him into unconsciousness at the Denver jail. He died after nine days on life support.
  49. Washington, DC: Alonzo Smith, 27, died while handcuffed in the custody of DC special police officers. Special police officers are armed security guards licensed by the city.
  50. San Diego, CA: A San Diego Harbor officer claimed he confronted Anthony Ashford, 29, after seeing him "looking into cars" near Nimitz Boulevard. After being tased, police claim Ashford reached for the officer's gun before being shot and killed.
  51. Riverside, CA: Dominic Hutchinson was shot by officers responding to a domestic disturbance. He had binoculars in his hand. No other details have been released by authorities.
  52. San Diego, CA: Police say Lamontez Jones, 39, was "causing a disturbance" downtown and ran when police approached him. Police shot Lamontez multiple times, claiming he aimed a gun at them. Police later revealed that the gun was a toy.
  53. Chula Vista, CA: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot and killed her boyfriend Rayshaun Cole, 30, in their Chula Vista apartment, telling police that she was defending herself and he had hit her.
  54. Richmond, VA: An off-duty police officer shot and killed Paterson Brown, 18, claiming he got into the officer's car at a gas station and began driving it while the officer was waiting for it to be washed. A witness told reporters that the officer identified himself as a police officer and ordered Brown to get out of the car. The officer claims Brown "made a sudden movement", before the officer shot him.
  55. East Cleveland, OH: Christopher Kimble, 22, was struck and killed by a police cruiser while crossing the street. The cruiser was speeding on its way to a reported car crash.
  56. North Miami, FL: Junior Prosper crashed the car he was driving, a cab, on the highway and allegedly began to run away. An officer chased Junior, claiming Junior bit his finger before the officer shot and killed him.
  57. Reisterstown, MD: An employee at a pharmacy called police to report that Keith McLeod had tried to use a fake prescription. The responding officer spotted McLeod in a parking lot near the pharmacy and fatally shot him after claiming he reached "around to the small of his back and abruptly [whipped] his hand around and [pointed] it toward the officer, as if with a weapon," according to police. He 19 years old and unarmed.
  58. Lathrop, MI: A Lathrop police officer was grilling in his backyard when Wayne Wheeler, his 44 year old neighbor, allegedly jumped the fence. The officer fought Wayne and struck him in the head, knocking him down. Wayne was pronounced dead at the scene by a medic.
  59. Durham, NC: Durham police received a call about an "armed suicidal male." Authorities said they began firing at Lavante Biggs once he started walking toward the officers. He was carrying a toy gun.
  60. Virginia Beach, VA: Navy Veteran India Kager was in a vehicle with her 4 month-old baby and Angelo Perry, who was being followed by unmarked police vehicles. When India parked at a 7-Eleven, the officers also parked and approached the car. Officers claim Angelo shot at them before they shot over thirty times at the vehicle. Angelo and India were killed, while the baby was unharmed. Kager's mother disputes the police narrative. “It was very clear to me that India was not part of the police investigation based on the responses I got from police. She had nothing to do with it. She was totally innocent,” she told the Washington Post. “Did they find any weapons on India? Did she pose a threat? Why did [police] shoot into a car with a baby and woman who had nothing to do with their investigation? I’m devastated because she should still be alive nursing her son, my grandson,” she explained. “We’re talking about a very beautiful soul that should still be here. She was unarmed, she was completely innocent. They shot indiscriminately.
  61. Newark, NJ: Officers responded to a carjacking involving juvenile suspects. When the vehicle was pulled over and passengers got out of vehicle, Tyree Crawford was hit by the front end of an oncoming police vehicle, killing him.
  62. Cincinnati, OH: Police claim they saw James Carney, 48, assaulting a woman in a car at an ATM. They tased James twice, causing him to die from his injuries.
  63. New York, NY: Felix Kumi, 61, was an innocent bystander during a sting operation. He was shot by an undercover NYPD officer while allegedly standing near a suspect.
  64. Spauldings, MD: Officer saw Asshams Manley, 30, fleeing a car crash. The officer chased Manley and shot him, claiming Manley reached for his gun. A second officer arrived and stunned Manley with a Taser, then a third officer arrived forcibly restrained him. Manley died soon after.
  65. Arlington, TX: Christian Taylor, 19, entered a car dealership after hours and can be seen in security surveillance footage jumping on cars and smashing the windows of several vehicles. Six Arlington police arrived and Brad Miller, a rookie cop, fatally shot unarmed Christian. Has since been fired from his station.
  66. Decatur, GA: Police claim Troy Robinson, 32, ran from an officer after a traffic stop. The officer deployed his Taser, causing Robinson to fall from an eight-foot wall, sustaining fatal injuries.
  67. Las Vegas, NV: After speaking to police who were investigating a beating of one of his neighbors, police claim Brian Day went into his apartment and returned with a toy gun. Two officers shot and fatally wounded him.
  68. Texarkana, TX: Police sprayed Michael Sabbie with a chemical agent while in jail, causing him to become unresponsive and die soon afterwards.
  69. Houston, TX: A police officer claims Billy Ray Davis threatened him. The officer reportedly called for backup, they restrained him and called paramedics. Davis became unconscious and died while being transported to the hospital.
  70. Cincinnati, OH: Police initially said that an officer pulled Samuel DuBose over for a routine traffic stop which escalated into some type of altercation, and that DuBose dragged an officer with his vehicle for a distance before the officer fired. That account was later disproven by body camera footage released by Cincinnati prosecutor Joseph Deters.
  71. Memphis, TN: Darrius Stewart was stopped by police for a broken headlight. Authorities said he was placed in the back of a patrol car, unhandcuffed, while officers ran his name. When the officers returned to handcuff Stewart and take him into custody for outstanding warrants, police said he became "combative" and struck an officer with the handcuffs. The officer then drew his gun and fired. Stewart's mother told local news that her son had never been arrested and that the warrants were for someone else with the same name.
  72. Orlando, FL: Albert Davis, 23, was shot and killed by an Orlando police officer who had been called after reports of a fight in the area involving five men. The officer deployed his Taser and then fired his gun, after an alleged 'struggle' with Davis. Despite police saying Davis was 'very, very violent' towards the officer, the officer did not sustain any injuries.
  73. Waller County, TX: Sandra Bland, 28, was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, which the deputy quickly escalated by removing Sandra from the vehicle and physically restraining her. She would later die in a jail cell under dubious circumstances.
  74. Plantation, FL: Police claim that 36 year old Salvado Ellswood, who was released from prison less than a month earlier and was homeless, struck an officer and shook off a Taser before being fatally shot.
  75. Stonewall, GA: Police were called to a Stone Mountain home after a caller said George Mann was irate and locked in a garage. Officers claim they attempted to negotiate with Mann before tasing him. The 35-year-old became unresponsive and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
  76. Stonewall, MS: Jonathan Sanders, 39, was in a buggy pulled by horses in Stonewall when Officer Kevin Herrington pulled up behind him. The lights apparently scared the horses and Sanders was trying to calm them when Herrington choked Sanders with a flashlight.
  77. Covington, GA: Police said Freddie Blue grabbed at what appeared to be a pistol in his lap after police pulled over the car in which he was riding. The item turned out to be a BB gun.
  78. Jacksonville, FL: Victo Larosa was shot after tripping and falling to the ground while fleeing officers following an undercover sting operation against drug deals, according to the sheriff's office. The officer alleged that he opened fire because Larosa reached into his waistband. No weapon was recovered from the scene.
  79. Owings Mills, MD: Police responding to a domestic call early Thursday entered a condominium after hearing arguing inside and fatally shot Spencer McCain, claiming they believed he had a gun. McCain was later revealed to be unarmed and died at a nearby hospital.
  80. Baton Rouge, LA: Police responding to calls of two men fighting tased 31 year old unarmed Kevin Bajoie after they claim he "tried to attack officers". Bajoie later died at a nearby hospital.
  81. McAllah, AL: Zamiel Crawford, 21, was chased by Leeds police and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies, ending when his vehicle rammed a deputy's vehicle. He was unarmed and police tased him, but police have yet to say exactly what killed him.
  82. Vero Beach, FL: Deputies responding to a disturbance call claim they found Jermaine Benjamin, 42, acting erratic. A deputy subdued Benjamin by putting his knee into the back of Benjamin's neck and keeping his face pressed against the ground. "By the time they turned him back over, he was gone," Benjamin's cousin, Lateesia Jordan, told WPBF 25 News.
  83. South Lake Tahoe, CA: An officer responding to a domestic disturbance fatally shot Kris Jackson, claiming to see the 22-year-old man climb through a back window at a Lake Tahoe motel. Jackson’s family questions whether the officer followed proper protocol. Jackson’s girlfriend, who was at the scene, did not hear a command to stop from the officer. She also questions whether Jackson was a threat. “He was shot while climbing out a window,” Laskin wrote. “Does that sound like he posed a threat?”
  84. Trenton, NJ: Kevin Higgenbotham, 47, called police to report a trespasser and subsequently was beaten and put into a coma by responding officers. He died months later.
  85. Dallas, TX: Police claim Ross Anthony was banging his fists on the hood of an ambulance and got into another person’s vehicle when they arrived. Officers claim they attempted to talk Anthony out of the car, choosing to reach in and grab him when he opened the door. When he allegedly resisted, the officer tased Anthony, which ended up killing him.
  86. Rochester, NY: Richard Gregory Davis drove into a truck and a church before leaving his vehicle. Police and firefighters confronted Davis, who returned to his vehicle and locked himself inside. He then left his vehicle and ran at responders. Officer Thomas Frye shot him with a stun gun, causing him to die soon afterwards.
  87. Huntsville, AL: Officers responded to the scene after Curtis Jordan's wife called police to report that he was making threats. Police allege he threw coals at them. Then police fought with him. Jordan was unresponsive after the struggle and died several days later.
  88. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Deputies were called to a robbery at an Exxon gas station on Northwest 27th Avenue. When they arrived, deputies found Markus Clark struggling with one of the clerks. Deputies fought Clark. Clark was brought to the hospital before he died.
  89. Spokane, WA: While en route to jail, police said Lorenzo Hayes began kicking on the back of the patrol car. Jail staff took him into the booking area while he was handcuffed. Lorenzo died soon afterwards, while jail staff prepared to place him in a restraint chair.
  90. Jacksonville, FL: Two Jacksonville police officers fatally shot De'Angelo Stallworth at a Westside apartment complex. Stallworth allegedly pointed a gun at an officer, then dropped the gun and ran away. Officers shot him as he was running unarmed, claiming they thought he still had a gun and he turned and faced them.
  91. Silver Spring, MD: Police respond to a disturbance call about a man on the street acting erratically. When police approached Dajuan Graham, they claim he continued to stand in the middle of the street with his hands in his pockets. According to police, officers asked Graham four times to remove his hands from his pockets, but he "refused to comply" and “assumed a threatening stance.” Police tased Graham in the stomach and right, upper thigh, then arrested him. After Graham arrived at the hospital, police removed his handcuffs and once again restrained him after he allegedly assaulted an officer and security guard. Graham died a few days later.
  92. Los Angeles, CA: Brandon Glenn was allegedly panhandling outside a bar in Venice when a customer complained that he was harassing customers. He wound up in a scuffle with a bouncer and two officers, one of whom shot and killed him. After viewing unreleased tape of the incident, LAPD police chief Charlie Beck said: 'Any time an unarmed person is shot by a Los Angeles police officer, it takes extraordinary circumstances to justify that. I have not seen those extraordinary circumstances.'
  93. Ridgefield Park, NJ: State police officers engaged in a high speed pursuit crashed and killed two pedestrians, Jason Champion and Nuwnah Laroche.
  94. Sylvester, GA: 30-year old Bryan Overstreet was run over by a Worth County deputy in the middle of the street.
  95. New York, NY: David Felix, who was a schizophrenic living in a home for the mentally ill, was said by police to have "involved them in a struggle", in which officers shot him to death.
  96. Houston, TX: Terry Lee Chatman was struck by a Houston police vehicle while on a bicycle heading southbound on MLK. The impact killed Chatman.
  97. Portsmouth, VA: A Walmart security called the police about a shoplifter. Police found William Chapman in the parking lot. Officer Stephen Rankin pulled his taser out, and claims the taser got knocked out of his hand during a "tussle". The policeman pulled out his gun and claims William took off his shirt as though he was ready to fight. The officer opened fire, killing William.
  98. Beacon, NY: Samuel Harrell, 30, was involved in a confrontation with corrections officers at the Fishkill Correctional Facility, during which up to 20 officers repeatedly punched and kicked him while he was handcuffed on the ground, according to a New York Times report. The Orange County medical examiner ruled Harrell's cause of death as homicide 'following physical altercation with corrections officers'.
  99. Baltimore, MD: Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained during a prolonged ride in a police van while handcuffed and shackled on the floor. He was arrested after catching the eye of a police officer and running away.
  100. San Antonio, TX: Police were called on a report of a family disturbance and found the subject under the influence of "some sort of narcotic." Police claim Norman Cooper was "uncooperative" and wouldn't be escorted out so police fired a Taser at him. Police claim Norman pulled the probes of the Taser out and a second Taser was fired at him. Shortly after, Norman became unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene.

I will put up 100 more tomorrow.5652d62c5818cd46fca9280ff01d9d2f--political-satire-racist.jpg

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I didn’t read all of the cases, but good job on proving your point! I look forward to seeing the rest of your post on this subject, and if he pays up.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

A question:

How are you going to prove each and every instance on your list is racially motivated as the term "white supremacist police" would indicate?

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In many of these cases even Wikipedia doesn't go as far as to describe them as racially motivated, so I doubt the court documents do either. And in those cases where there is clear racism it is indeed stated, but reading through some of these I really don't get the vibe that all of them are.

Also, are these all "unarmed blacks"? The first one has 5 Mexicans and 2 white dudes, no blacks. Are all Mexican and Caucasian Black too?

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It is also worth mentioning that even if you want to pick through all of these cases, and find the ones that you refuse to see the racially motivated elements involved, I can easily replace it with another instance even more egregious than the one you refuse to recognize. If I can find a thousand cases, I can find 500 more.

You do that. If your full list does not comply with the stated rules the deal is off.

The rules of the bet (again, just that you don't forget):

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Let me be clear, these (above) were the rules:

  1. 1000 individual cases (no doubles)
  2. proven misconduct of racist motives (court cases do verbally confirm racial motives when there are such)
  3. white officer(s)
  4. black victim(s) (no white or mexican)
  5. victim must be unarmed

Be sure every case fits these, otherwise the deal is off. You took my offer, you accepted my terms.

Since "white supremacist" was of your own description, I am hesitant to drop the rule, but I'll give you this one for it is indeed hard to prove: The perpetrator doesn't need to be a "white supremacist", but they have to be white (no Jews, Hispanics, Blacks or Asian or other ethnicities), otherwise the deal is off.

Anyway, as "White supremacist" was your own description of these people, I will uphold the need to a full disclosure of the racial motivation, which most definitely can be found in the court documents.

Even with all of your prerequisite conditions, I can still find a thousand cases. Go ahead and pick out whichever cases don't meet your rules, and I can still replace each and every one of them.

Let's not forget it was your job to present them to me first. If your list doesn't comply with the rules... Oh let me quote myself for you:

Don't find a thousand individual cases, I will call your bullshit.

I didn't say I would debate them with you, I didn't say I would accept "corrections" at a later date or anything like that. I said I would call your bullshit. The rules were clear enough to follow.

I have most definitely found a thousand cases. I actually found over three thousand cases of police involved lynchings just doing a little research this weekend.
I honestly never expected you to pay it out, or even to admit you were wrong. I just want it out here for everyone to see. I will keep posting these cases. I will keep exposing you as a liar.

You provide me with a thousand cases that are not all about white supremacist police officers attacking black unarmed victims which was the bet.

Sorry, you lost.

The bet was "I can find you a thousand cases..."
I can still find you a thousand cases. Actually I already have. If you refuse to read them, debate them, or even acknowledge them, you are obviously just trying to weasel out of paying.

Aside from being able to easily find replacement cases for each instance that doesn't meet your ridiculous standard of what constitutes proven racism, I will also gladly debate each individual case with you. The Bloody Christmas incident was racially motivated. The wikipedia article makes several references to a long record of racial tension between LAPD and the Hispanic community. Anyone looking at this article, and refusing to see where it clearly indicates racially motivated violence, is simply refusing to acknowledge reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Christmas_(1951)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

The wikipedia article makes several references to a long record of racial tension between LAPD and the Hispanic community.

Which it doesn't. It mentions tension, but not "racial tension", and it mentiones "racial profiling" once. In fact the whole word "race" is there once as in "racial profiling".

ridiculous standard of what constitutes proven racism

I mean the courts documenting "racial slurs" like in the case of the Danziger Bridge Shooting. These things can be proven. You just want to be lazy and conflate everything as racism.

I wanted proven cases, not hearsay.

I can actually pull up over three thousand cases of lynchings in which police were complicit and involved. There are court documents, newspaper articles, and a mountain of evidence showing police complicity and participation in the lynchings of over 3000 African Americans. Learn your American history before making such moronic statements and bets.

Did you follow the rules the first time?

No.

Why should I believe your claims now?

Police participating in over 3000 lynchings of African Americans? You are proposing another bet?

Your American history, not mine. I'm an outside observer.

Do the 3000 lynched African Americans not count towards the thousand cases? Even if only a third of them had proven involvement by courts and police, that would be enough to prove a thousand cases of white on black racist policing. Stop trying to deflect to a new bet. I'm still trying to hold you accountable for the first bet you made.

The first one was about blacks and you gave me Mexicans. Do you think I'm going to accept a blatant switch to "hey but there was this time in history america was really racist"?

Go ahead if you want but that's not a bet I'm going to accept. I'm sure there is a sore spot in every country's history.

When you said you can provide video evidence, I assumed you were talking about relatively recent history. Are you going to provide me with video and court evidence of each lynching of those alleged 3000 cases? No I didn't think so.

The Bloody Christmas case was rooted in racial tension between the LAPD and the hispanic community. If you actually read the article, you would know that.

Of course there is no video evidence, but there are court documents and newspaper articles.
Anyone reading this can see you moving the goalposts to avoid paying out. It's pretty obvious.

That's the trick isn't it? How do you actually prove someone is a white supremacist? There is no actual legal precedent. You asked me to prove the misconduct. There has been disciplinary action, settlements, and convictions in all of these stories. That means that misconduct has been proven in a court of law. In every case, the misconduct was against a person of color. You can't literally prove someone is a racist. It would be ludicrous to expect that. You asked for proven misconduct. Here it is.

"White supremacist" was your own description of the perpetrators. Are you weaseling out?

Funny how folks like you like to accuse their adversaries of that which they are most guilty of themselves. If anyone here is trying to weasel out of something, it is most definitely you.

No these were your exact words:

I could post a thousand articles and videos of police misconduct by white supremacist officers

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You are doing exactly as I predicted. You are refusing to read each individual story, and you are avoiding and dismissing the evidence that shatters your claims.
If you think a white sheriff handing over a black man to a lynch mob is somehow not white supremacy, than you are obviously ignoring solid evidence and dismissing legitimate information.

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I read as far as I could until I noted that your cases were not all about white officers assaulting on black victims. Edit: and mostly it is not clear if there's a racial motive.

Like I said, we can debate each case, or I can even just get a replacement case where the racism is egregious enough to meet your insanely tilted standards.
The fact of the matter is, it can be done. I could have found a thousand cases a month ago, and every day new cases are opened and closed. Had I actually believed you were sincere in your statement regarding this bet, I would have started this project a lot sooner.