Sorry to interrupt celeb talk or fap schedules but LAPD just killed a man (Vol. Blacks Aren't Target

http://www.dailynews.com/general-ne...-los-angeles-shoots-and-kills-him-in-struggle



LOS ANGELES — A pedestrian Los Angeles police tried to stop for questioning was fatally shot by an officer in a struggle, authorities said today.

The shooting occurred about 8:20 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of West 65th Street, police said. The man’s name was unavailable this morning.

Why police wanted to question the man was not made available.

Second Story

http://ktla.com/2014/08/12/man-hospitalized-after-being-shot-by-police-in-south-l-a/

A 24-year-old man has died after being shot by police during an encounter in the Florence neighborhood of South Los Angeles, officials said Tuesday.

The incident began at 8:12 p.m. when officers responded to a report of a shooting at the intersection of West 65th Street and South Broadway (map), said Lt. Ellis Imaizumi of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Eight minutes later, at 8:20 p.m., the officers stopped a man who was walking in the 200 block of 65th, authorities said.

“A struggle ensued” and police opened fire, according to a statement from the Police Department.

The man was transported to a hospital where he underwent surgery, according to Officer Sara Faden, spokeswoman for the LAPD. He later succumbed to his injuries. No officers were hurt in the incident.

It is unknown if the suspect has any gang affiliations, police said.

A woman who said she was the deceased man’s mother identified him as Ezell Ford.

Tritobia Ford said her son was lying on the ground and complying with the officers’ commands when he was shot.

An investigation into the shooting is underway. Anyone with information is asked to call the LAPD’s Force Investigation Division at 213-486-5230.

OH BTW THIS MAN IS THE "HEAD" OF THE LAPD
http://olaasm.wordpress.com/2014/05...ck-an-indictment-of-five-years-of-lapd-abuse/

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Shortly after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck submitted formal notification of his intent to serve another, 5-year term atop the United States’ third largest police force, the sycophantic, Los Angeles media – long-storied and ever-faithful propagandists to the city’s powerful interests – began churning out glowing hagiographies of him. Observing that Beck had “not been embroiled in any major controversies,” the Daily News’ Rick Orlov intimated at the failure of LA’s access-obsessed journalists themselves to hold Beck accountable for the many controversies that a less power-beholden media might have blown wide open.

Controversies – the brazen favoritism, longstanding “blue line” unaccountability, wanton brutality and institutionalized corruption that have long plagued the LAPD – still fester like old sores just behind the highly-polished facade of Beck’s department. That shiny veneer, however – much like the edifice of the sparkling, police headquarters that reflects a crooked City Hall – remains sadly unscathed by the journalists we still mistakenly rely on to do real, investigative digging.

In short: if there has been little more than“friction” during Beck’s first term, it may be because today’s journalists – and even our own Civil Rights leaders – are too busy parroting talking points spewed by Eric Rose – of the high-powered-and-well-connected PR firm Englander, Knabe and Allen – than actually challenging power. As Tom Hayden has said of former LAPD Chief William Bratton, Beck’s predecessor and model, “the cooptation of his critics… eroded a once-aggressive civil rights community.” When even Civil Rights legends Connie Rice, John Mack and Earl Hutchinson are too dizzied by the public relations spin to see the truth behind the same old, LAPD lies – what chance do the rest of us have?

After all, even when local journalists make an effort to expose systemic police abuse – as Los Angeles Times reporter, Joel Rubin, once did by revealing the way LAPD statistics are used to mislead the public – the results are often so decontextualized they don’t lend themselves to broader, systemic critiques for all but the most attentive readers. So while Rubin had written about police manipulation in 2012, it remained beyond his ken as a writer to tie his more recent story about an ambush of the LAPD that never happened or to a subsequent op-ed where Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) President Tyler Izen promulgated the non-ambush within a larger, more purposefully fallacious narrative about“a trend that shows an increase in attacks on police officers,” a narrative that is easily dismissed by facts. The truth, that cops in the United States today are safer from firearms than they have been since 1887 – and safer from any “in the line of duty” fatality than they have been since 1959 – is sadly something you have to do your own research to know.

So who will make the case against Beck? It’s up to the people. It’s up to us.

“Good old boy” Charlie Beck, considered a “cop’s cop” who “has not changed one bit as chief” and who – as the son, husband and father of cops – is about as fully inculcated in the noble lieof institutional policing as anyone alive, is the embodiment of our “new” LAPD. “A natural actor,” Beck has been perfectly cast as LAPD Chief in a post-Bratton era where “public relations” are exalted as the essence of reform – and no matter what the police do – ‘cum hoc ergo propter hoc’ propagating media lackeys will uncritically hail falling crime rates as incontrovertible proof of Beck’s success. As Uzma Kolsy observed of Beck in The Nation shortly after 2013’s crazed, bloodlust-inspired LAPD manhunt for Chris Dorner ended:

“Upright, self-deprecating, and with a gentle face one can’t help but trust, Beck has strived to wear a uniform of a more honorable hue. Beck has committed to weeding out corruption and racism, increasing transparency and, most ambitiously, admitting when his police force makes a mistake.”

In that sprawling-but-far-from-comprehensive piece, however, Kolsy presciently continued:

But as comforting as Beck’s [public pronouncements] sounded, a closer look at other accusations of police brutality at the time rendered his message hollow.

A year after Kolsy’s article, Beck’s hollow messaging would again echo through his media mouthpieces after the LAPD’s pro forma “investigation” into the multiple, mistaken assaults on civilians by police during the Dorner pursuit itself concluded. As we noted then, despite the absurdity of “an officer [who] mistook the sound of [a newspaper] hitting the pavement for gunfire” and sparking 7 other officers to fire 103 rounds at two unarmed women, Beck maintained he had “confidence in their abilities as LAPD officers to continue to do their jobs.” None of the officers involved in that attempted murder were disciplined or even publicly named, let alone charged for nearly killing the women who were spared only by poor, panicked shooting.

Long suspected to be “a pacification gift to the LAPPL,” however, failing to follow up after “admitting when his police force makes a mistake” with any actual accountability has been the hallmark of Chief Beck’s first term. While Beck may seem contrite before cameras, that contrition rarely translates to substantive accountability. In fact, the LAPD’s “policing for the camera” strategy itself was exposed when Commander Andy Smith, Beck’s ranking public relations officer, accidentally hit ‘reply all’ on an internal email that urged officers to “make a few arrests for illegal animal purchasing so we can avoid negative coverage.“ At this point, even good old boys would probably call Beck’s tenure “all hat no cattle.” But there’s far more…

Despite the“political motivation in order to please the cameras” that Ron Kaye described as “dangerous” in the Smith incident and that plainly guides Beck’s LAPD across the board, on the long list of high-profile police abuse incidents in Los Angeles under Beck, very few have resulted in a criminal prosecution. To list a few of them:

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March 25, 2008 -Mohammad Usman Chaudhry, an autistic man, was shot and killed by LAPD Officer Joseph Cruz. While the shooting took place before Beck’s ascension to Chief, in the Federal lawsuit against Cruz that followed, “both the LAPD and the city attorney’s office helped defend Cruz and vouched to the jury that his account of the shooting should be believed”despite knowing Cruz “had made false statements to investigators during [an unrelated] inquiry and [The LAPD had] fired him for dishonesty,” even “stating that Cruz had no credibility.” Chief Beck’s “blue line,” it seems, was always thick.

View media item 1128428November, 2009 – Allen Harris, a partially paralyzed man, was “maliciously” handcuffed by LAPD Officer Alex Tellez so tightly that he suffered nerve damage. Particularly troubling about the case, however, was the “unforthcoming testimony of Tellez and the nine other officers who took the stand during the [civil] trial,” and that – rather than abiding by the verdict – Chief Beck responded to the judgment of the court that he was “disappointed by the verdict and the monetary award” and supported plans by the city attorney’s office to appeal. So much for Beck’s lip service about “weeding out corruption,” right? [Update: Harris' lawyer informed me that Officer Tellez was recently promoted to "training officer."]

View media item 1128429March, 2010 – Steven Eugene Washington, an autistic man, was murdered by LAPD Officers Allan Corrales and George Diego – who shot and killed the unarmed man from inside their police cruiser. The usually obeisant LA Police Commission was eventually forced to overrule Beck’s clearly erroneous determination that the murder was “justified,” and the city later settled a lawsuit by Washington’s mother for $950k.

View media item 1128431October 22, 2010 – Aibuidefe Oghogho, a college student,was beaten and tased by the LAPD outside of a Hollywood nightclub. Luckily, the brutality was captured on video – one of the few things that ensures Beck’s lipservice “accountability” translates into any kind of restitution.

December, 2010 – Officer Jorge Santander “shocked a handcuffed woman with a Taser stun gun while joking with other officers at the scene.” Further, Santander “then appeared to lie about the December 2010 incident repeatedly in written reports. The three other LAPD officers who witnessed Santander stun the woman all corroborated his version of events when first questioned and failed to tell supervisors that one officer had recorded a video of the encounter.” None of the officers involved were charged with any crime.

RIP to all of the victims .

More info:

http://ktla.com/2014/08/12/man-hospitalized-after-being-shot-by-police-in-south-l-a/

Business as usual 

Our lives are not valued out here 

LAPD is the worst police force in the country. They have been blatantly prejudice for decades and continue to get away with it

Elpablo21 said:

Business as usual 

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Exactly.

beh235 said:

Our lives are not valued out here 

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Worse yet, it's almost like some people are rewarded and protected for killing black men and it isn't even hidden. Remember Chris Dorner's letter? Dude was a nut, but he made some good points. Just wish he would've kept his fight on paper and on video rather than shooting folks.

AZwildcats said:

LAPD is the worst police force in the country. They have been blatantly prejudice for decades and continue to get away with it

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They have a rich history and culture of keeping black people "in their place". It's no accident.

http://www.policestateusa.com/

^ Bookmark this site. Up to date news and actually does a good job of posting prevalent information on the bottom of the articles called "accountability check"

This one article pissed me off...

Family pet shot in the head by plainclothes cops searching at wrong address
"I stated that I was going to call the police, and that's when they said, 'We are the Erie County Police.'"

ERIE COUNTY, NY — (EXCLUSIVE) — A family was traumatized when gun-wielding police officers walked onto their quiet property and shot their dog in the head while looking for a man who did not live there.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/justice-for-lady-erie-county-ny/

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-reg...r-going-to-wrong-house-for-a-suspect-20140810

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Brolic Scholar said:

 

Elpablo21 said:

Business as usual 

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Exactly.
 

beh235 said:

Our lives are not valued out here 

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Worse yet, it's almost like some people are rewarded and protected for killing black men and it isn't even hidden. Remember Chris Dorner's letter? Dude was a nut, but he made some good points. Just wish he would've kept his fight on paper and on video rather than shooting folks.

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Yup. He did make good points, but the coverage didn't want to shed to much light on that aspect of the story. Not condoning what he did at all, but they wanted to keep the focus on him being a monster. 

No words

   just   

beh235 said:

Yup. He did make good points, but the coverage didn't want to shed to much light on that aspect of the story. Not condoning what he did at all, but they wanted to keep the focus on him being a monster. 

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The sad part was he did it to himself and played right in to their hands. Of course the message was going to get buried. The powers that be didn't want that to be the story.

It was more like "see we told y'all these ******* are crazy and y'all need to be protected from them".

Brolic Scholar said:

 

beh235 said:

Yup. He did make good points, but the coverage didn't want to shed to much light on that aspect of the story. Not condoning what he did at all, but they wanted to keep the focus on him being a monster. 

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The sad part was he did it to himself and played right in to their hands.

Of course the message was going to get buried. The powers that be didn't want that to be the story.

It was more like "see we told y'all these ******* are crazy and y'all need to be protected from them".

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Sadly, yes. I want to know what he knew. If only he was in his right mind to properly go about exposing the wrongdoing. It still would have been an uphill battle for him even going that route. 

RavageBX said:

My first thought is "what the hell is going on smh." My second thought is, "I know exactly what the hell is going on smmfh." 

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Crazy how this story isn't gettin much traction at all

this world man

Military-styled police trucks on the bridge, completely blocking any traffic. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/QPfkyUlenl
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BREAKING: Shots fired; Oakcrest Ave. Jennings, MO. Black male laying in the street. (#Ferguson Police Scanner)
— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) August 13, 2014

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MORE BREAKING: Shooting on Magnolia and Virginia. Confirmed via Tower Grove East Facebook Page. #Ferguson
— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) August 13, 2014

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MORE SHOTS: Shots fired, Crownpoint and Chambers in the rear of the apartment complex. #Ferguson
— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) August 13, 2014

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These are all from Anon Twitter who is the same group who outed the name & address of the chief and his family.
These reports are directly off the scanner which you can listen too here
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/17648/web

This some ole bull

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it seems the police are purposely trying to force an outcome. 

SunDOOBIE said:

http://www.policestateusa.com/

^ Bookmark this site. Up to date news and actually does a good job of posting prevalent information on the bottom of the articles called "accountability check"

This one article pissed me off...

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From the link you posted, . We are all in the wrong ******* business, what other job can protect their employees the way the police dept does?

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/oakland-officer-robert-roche/


That story about the family dog is so disgusting . I hate the fact that there is no accountablilty for anything these men do. They can just come and bust down your front door off a bad tip, guns drawn no explanation nothing. If you as the owner,renter even move to protect yourself or your family you risk getting killed and it would be considered justified. Every time something happens, and people say he/she should have just listened or should have kept their mouth shut it is another example of the power they have, and how little we have.

I don't have any words...which feels like a first.