A police officer involved in apparent chokehold incident in Queens has been suspended without pay, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said on Sunday.

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Former officer Garrett Rolfe faces 11 charges including felony murder after the district attorney reviewed evidence from bodycam, dashcam and cellphone video

Man who witnessed Rayshard Brooks shooting addresses media

Melvin Evans and a second witness to Rayshard Brooks’ shooting death will appear at a news conference today in Atlanta, Georgia. Evans’ car was hit by a bullet while at the Wendy’s drive-thru.

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Officials in Buffalo, New York, want an investigation into the firing of a black police officer who intervened when a white colleague had a suspect in a chokehold.

The incident happened in November 2006. At the time, Officer Cariol Horne had served 19 of the 20 years needed to receive her pension, a spokesperson for Horne told CNN.
But Horne was fired for intervening and did not qualify for her pension, the city said.

“The message was sent that you don’t cross that blue line and so some officers — many officers don’t,” said Horne in an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar.

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Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying “I can’t breathe” before he died at a hospital.

In the May 20, 2019 footage, released this week by the Oklahoma City Police Department, three officers are seen restraining the man, Derrick Scott, 42, who can be heard asking repeatedly for his medicine and saying that he can’t breathe.

“I don’t care,” one of the officers, Jarred Tipton, can be heard replying at one point. “You can breathe just fine,” another officer can be heard saying a couple of minutes later.

Scott, who appears unresponsive several minutes into the footage, was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. An autopsy obtained by NBC News lists his cause of death as a collapsed lung.

Dying Oklahoma man told police “I can’t breathe” during arrest last year. Officer responded, “I don’t care”

Oklahoma City police have released body-camera videos of an armed black man who died in police custody last year after telling arresting officers “I can’t breathe.” One of the officers can be heard responding, “I don’t care.” The footage of the May 2019 arrest of 42-year-old Derrick Elliot Scott, also known as Derrick Ollie, was released late Monday.

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Police Attacking Journalists Covering George Floyd Protests

Opinion | Police attacks on journalists covering George Floyd protests echo Trump’s war on press

Police Unions Support Trump

OPINION: Many Police Unions have openly supported Trump, who behaves like a bully, authoritarian wanna-be dictator who calls the Press the “Enemy of the People”, who has violated his Oath of Office in numerous ways such as Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Justice, Obstruction of Congress, Emoluments Violations, admitted to sexually abusing women on Access Hollywood tape, accused of sexually abusing women by numerous women and engages in the most outrageous, despicable, & UN-Presidential conduct ever seen by a POTUS. Trump has also been condemned by top United States military leaders.

OPINION: It’s clear, the reason Trump hates the press is because they expose his LIES and outrageous behavior.  According to fact checkers, Trump has made over 16,000 false or misleading statements since becoming President so he has ZERO credibility…. NOTHING he says can be believed.

Police who has been attacking the Press with rubber bullets and pepper-spray may be doing so because they are Trump supporters, and because the Press has been reporting Cops violence and despicable behavior at George Floyd Protests.

People who call the Press “Fake News” have been brainwashed into believing Right-Wing propaganda. The Mainstream News Media must be truthful or they will be called out by other news reporting sources.

How Trump Has Been Acting Like a Dictator | Op-Ed

As shown in videos on this page, police fired DIRECTLY at journalist, pepper sprayed them and arrested them for no good reason. They appeared to exhibit hatred, echo by Trump’s war on the press. There seems a connection in the violence directed towards journalists and Trump’s calling the press “The enemy of the people”.

Also, videos all over the internet show Police taking action to ILLEGALLY stop people from videoing them when they are engaging in reprehensible, and in some cases illegal, lawless activity.

Police who attack journalist (and bystanders)…take action to stop them from videoing are exhibiting totalitarian “Police State” authoritarian behavior. This is a threat to democracy and must not be tolerated.

OPINION: I think every Journalist who was wrongfully attacked or arrested should SUE. Videos on this page would stand up in court as evidence.

More than 100 attacks on journalists by US police during George Floyd protests

As police crack down on the George Floyd protests in the US, journalists have also found themselves being targeted.
DW’s correspondent Stefan Simons was shot at with rubber bullets in Minneapolis at the weekend. In a second incident, Simons and his crew were shot at again as they tried to drive away from police. Simons says he has been harassed by police several times while reporting on the protests.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has insisted that journalists must be allowed to do their job reporting on the unrest in the US.

CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests

Some on-air journalists have become the target of attacks while covering clashes between police and protesters following George Floyd’s death.

Journalists Covering Protests Are Being Attacked By Police Across America

“I am press,” they said. It didn’t matter. Journalists across America are being attacked by police while covering the nationwide protests.

Baltimore police officer confronts CNN reporter

A Baltimore police officer confronted CNN’s Miguel Marquez about where the media could stand while reporting on the city’s curfew and the arrests of protesters.

Minneapolis police shoot at, threaten to arrest DW reporter

Reporter shot with pepper bullets on live TV during Louisville protest over death of Breonna Taylor

As protests over the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in her apartment, continued for a second night in Louisville, Kentucky, the demonstrations once again escalated, with police clashing with protesters and journalists.

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Maurice Gordon, 28, of Poughkeepsie, NY, died May 23, 2020 after being being shot by State Police Sergeant along the Garden State Parkway in Bass River

Maurice Gordon’s interactions with N.J. State Police before being fatally shot on the G.S. Parkway

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“I’m Going To…Choke You Out” – Body Camera Shows Fatal Arrest

Officer on video saying he’ll ‘choke you out’ before man dies is charged with manslaughter

Body camera footage obtained Sunday shows a New Mexico police officer telling a man he’s going to “choke you out” before allegedly causing his death with what authorities described as a “vascular neck restraint.” The officer, Christopher Smelser, was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the Feb. 29 death of Antonio Valenzuela.

In video footage obtained by NBC affiliate KOB, Smelser can be heard telling Valenzuela, “I’m going to f*** choke you out, bro.” Valenzuela can be heard gasping for breath.

Body camera footage obtained Sunday shows a New Mexico police officer telling a man he’s going to “choke you out” before allegedly causing his death with what authorities described as a “vascular neck restraint.”

The officer, Christopher Smelser, was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the Feb. 29 death of Antonio Valenzuela. On the same day, the Las Cruces Police Department filed a letter of intent to fire Smelser.

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White cop arrested after body cam catches him repeatedly tasering and kneeling on unarmed black man

Per the CNN article below; “A police officer in Fairfax County, Virginia, faces up to three years in prison in connection with his arrest and use of a stun gun on a black man who cried out, “I can’t breathe.”
Fairfax County police released bodycam footage of the incident, which appears to show Officer Tyler Timberlake using a stun gun on the man without provocation.

In a news conference Saturday night, Chief of Police Col. Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said the footage — dated Friday, June 5 — showed the officer violating the department’s use-of-force policies and committing “criminal acts” that “violate our oath of office” and “ignore the sanctity of human life.”

A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man who cried, ‘I can’t breathe’ | CNN

A police officer in Fairfax County, Virginia, faces up to three years in prison in connection with his arrest and use of a stun gun on a black man who cried out, “I can’t breathe.” Fairfax County police released bodycam footage of the incident, which appears to show Officer Tyler Timberlake using a stun gun on the man without provocation.

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