Kishon Thomas, Albuquerque man, was shot dead after police escalated the situation, experts say

What started as a routine check of Kishon Thomas, a 27-year-old black man who was asleep, drunk, in his green Camaro at a gas station in Albuquerque ended when cops fired 16 shots and killed him. The three policemen who shot that day claimed They saw Thomas carrying a revolver that was later found in his cabin with a single bullet in the room. Police can be seen retrieving a weapon after the shooting in the body cam footage of the episode. They also shared photos of an additional magazine…

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Porter Borks died in Detroit in Hail shot despite intervention in the police crisis

It took about three seconds for five Detroit officers to kill Porter Borks as he advanced toward them in the midst of a mental health bout on Sunday. Along the way, they’ve raised new questions about whether even those cops who aim specifically to help people in a crisis do anything at all to reduce the likelihood of people of color dying in a barrage of police bullets. Police say Burks, a 20-year-old black man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was carrying a knife around 5 a.m. Sunday when they responded to…

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Alex Villanueva, the sheriff of Los Angeles, gets reprimanded for the last crusade

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Foot Soldiers hunt down his enemies in what critics describe as his most brazen crusades yet. It might explode in his face. A day after Los Angeles Police Department investigators searched the homes of a county superintendent, the local transportation authority, and a member of the Sheriff’s Civic Oversight Committee, a local judge ordered the agency to halt part of its search. Supreme Court Justice William Ryan wrote late Thursday that the department must immediately halt its search for computers seized from the D.C. Transportation…

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Netflix’s Athena has one of the best opening series in movie history

As with his first two films There will come a day for us And the the world is yoursRoman Javras Athens It’s a work whose style trumps substance – but what a wonderfully intimidating style it is! A French drama of sharp, instant intensity that begins with one of the most gritty tracking shots in contemporary cinema history, and then manages to maintain that finesse as it descends into a chaotic mess, Javras’s third feature (September 9 in theaters; September.23 on Netflix) is explosive in every sense. Word. An expression…

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Brandon Combs shooting revealed in brutal video of North Carolina cop Timothy Larson

A new video highlights the shocking last moment when North Carolina Police Officer Timothy Larson shot 29-year-old Brandon Combs through the windshield of a Larson Police SUV. The video — which the Combs family’s attorney shared with The Daily Beast ahead of what the City of Concord said will be its public release Thursday — provides an undisturbed view of what former Caparros County District Attorney Roxanne Vannikoven recently concluded was not a crime. Instead, the attorney general said the shooting was a reasonable use of force by a police…

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Donovan Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, angry with Columbus police after shooting, video shows

While a new video offers a fresh perspective on the murder of Donovan Lewis, a 20-year-old black man who was shot by a Columbus police officer in bed last month while likely clutching a vape pen, the murdered man’s family has issued a new call for justice. “I want to see real action,” Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, said during a press conference Thursday outside Columbus City Hall, noting that she was “a little bit at a loss.” “There’s the slang saying, ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it.’ Let’s see…

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Georgia cop in Atlanta charged with terrorizing a black family with gun, racial slurs, and N-Word

A former Atlanta policeman has been criticized on multiple criminal charges for pointing a gun and yelling racial slurs – while in military uniform – at a black couple and their children who were stopped at a traffic light. Atlanta police initially told a local outlet WSB-TV Atlanta That officer Robert Malone, who is white, was placed on paid administrative leave after the disturbing May incident, then confirmed that Malone had submitted his resignation in July. On May 5, Courtney Harris said she, boyfriend Quinton Rogers and their three children…

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Viral video captures Stevenson Michigan High School students mocking George Floyd’s death

A group of Michigan high school students sparked outrage when they jumped in the direction of TikTok, as they created a brutal police video inspired by and apparently mocking the death of George Floyd. “I can’t believe kids are doing this,” parent Jimmy Nassif told local media Fox 2 Detroit. “I think it’s absurd and totally unacceptable.” According to Fox 2, the video was recorded during an off-campus breakfast in August of players from the Stevenson High School football team. In the video, it was reposted to Instagram earlier this…

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LA cops shot Jermaine Petty after realizing he didn’t have a gun, Bodycam footage shows

Immediately after Los Angeles police officers shot a 39-year-old black man multiple times in the back, the department claimed its officers believed he was carrying a gun. However, in the body cam footage of the July 18 incident, released on Wednesday, an officer can be heard saying, “It’s not a gun, brother,” as they chase him on foot. A 911 caller alerted law enforcement to a man walking around the area brandishing a “black semi-automatic pistol,” according to the audio of the call. Responding officers encountered Jermaine Petty, who partially…

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Donovan family’s lawyers Louis Columbus tear up the ‘barbaric murder’ of an unarmed black man

The family of Donovan Lewis, the 20-year-old black man who was shot in bed Tuesday by a Columbus police officer while possibly holding an e-cigarette pen, are demanding answers and justice after the latest act of police brutality in a city with an ugly history. . “He was treated like an animal,” Rex Elliott, an attorney for Columbus, who represents the family, said after showing body camera footage at a Thursday news conference. “There was no excuse – let me be clear – there was no excuse for the officer…

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