Colin Flaherty commentary Video "Black people in N.J. say they're more likely to be punched, kicked by cops. Now, data backs that up." "Las Vegas police looking for 5 suspects in violent robberies" "Where shall we wail? Kenyans in Minnesota, USA decry rapes of own daughters" "Fight erupts at Philly Hip Hop Awards at the Trocadero"
https://www.nj.com/expo/news/erry-2018/12/69f209781a9479/black-people-in-nj-say-theyre.html
By Disha Raychaudhuri and Stephen Stirling | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com | Posted December 16, 2018 at 01:05 AM | Updated December 17, 2018 at 10:48 PM
Lydia Couch feels like an enemy in Millville, not someone police are sworn to protect.
Altaif Hassan was raised learning how to avoid police confrontations, yet still ended up with an officer's assault rifle trained on his back in October at Rowan University.
And Aprille Smith will not call the Maplewood police, even if she's in trouble.
All three of them are black, and all three see police as an obstacle — or worse, a danger — in their lives. It's all they know.
In communities across New Jersey, generations of black residents have believed police focus more on them, are more likely to stop and question them, and more likely to get aggressive and handcuff them.
That increasingly frustrates officers who say they go where the crime happens, regardless of skin color, and that they, too, are under enormous scrutiny. They say they just want to lock up criminals, keep people safe and get home at the end of the day.
Many people criticize such calculations based on population, however, saying they don't account for the fact black people are more likely to be arrested. But if you rerun the numbers based only on people arrested, it's still unequal: Black people were 41 percent more likely to face force than whites.
"We have to look at interactions, right?" said Barnegat Police Chief Keith Germain. "If, if I interact with a group at a certain rate, do I use force at a greater rate? That's the only way to get the true number. And again, you can't do that and I can't do that because we don't have that interaction breakdown."
As part of The Force Report, a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, the news organization filed 506 public records requests and collected 72,609 forms covering every restraint, punch, kick or other use of force by local police and state troopers from 2012 through 2016, the most recent year available.
The resulting database provides hard evidence of racial disparities in police use of force across New Jersey.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/robberies/las-vegas-police-looking-for-5-suspects-in-violent-robberies-1551025/
By Katelyn Newberg / Las Vegas Review-Journal
December 13, 2018 - 11:30 pm
Surveillance footage released by police Thursday showed a woman physically fighting an employee inside what appears to be a convenience store, and another woman and man throwing a “wet floor” sign and a cash register.
http://saharatribune.com/where-shall-we-wail-kenyans-in-minnesota-usa-decry-rapes-of-own-daughters/
Posted by admin on November 30, 2018 in KENYA NEWS,
A number of Kenyan men have been arrested and charged with raping their daughters. There have also been cases of wife battery and killings. These incidents have outraged Kenyans and immigrants from other countries, as well as indigenous Americans.
https://6abc.com/fight-erupts-at-philly-hip-hop-awards-at-the-troc/4911982/
By Christie Ileto Monday, December 17, 2018 04:59AM
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A fight broke out at the Philly Hip Hop Awards at the Trocadero Saturday night and video of the melee has gone viral.
