The New York Police Department Settles Lawsuit Filed Against Them By The Family Of Eric Garner For $5,900,000

Eric Garner being put in a fatal chokehold by police (right)

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has settled a police brutality lawsuit filed by the family of Eric Garner, who was killed last year while being arrested. Garner's family is being paid $5,900,000 in compensation over his death. Garner was killed due to a chokehold administered by police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, while he and fellow officers swarmed him on a sidewalk.

  

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Cleveland Cops Put On Administrative Leave After Racist Text Messages Surface With Them Stating They 'Hate Ni*gers'

  

Michael Sollenberger (left) and Thomas Flanders (right)

The Cleveland Division of Police is currently embroiled in a scandal, regarding the shooting death of 12-year-old black boy, Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy gun in the park, when officer, Timothy Loehmann, abruptly opened fire on the child. Two days later, Rice died in the hospital of his injuries. Shortly after, news of Loehmann's dismal personnel records surfaced, indicating he was forced out of another police squad, due to serious deficiencies in his performance as an officer and a troubled mental state.

A new scandal has emerged, as text messages between Cleveland police officers, Michael Sollenberge and Thomas Flanders, were packed with racial slurs. One of the text messages states, "I hate ni*gers." Another text stated, "'What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees."

This comes at a time when the public (black, white, Hispanic, Indian and Asian) are protesting flagrant cases of police brutality and excessive force in America, in the fall out of the Eric Garner killing in New York, at the hands of New York Police Department officer, Daniel Pantaleo and Mike Brown's shooting death by officer Darren Wilson.

It is clear some, not all police officers have racial issues concerning minorities. People have the right to like or dislike whomever they choose, even if it is based on race. However, when it starts to interfere with your job as a public servant and you begin to treat people differently based on their race, especially in a deadly manner, this is wholly illegal and unethical. Something must be legally done within the scope of the law to stop police brutality, which is unquestionably on the rise in America, as evidenced by a number of high profile cases (some of which were covered on the Judiciary Report yesterday).

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'I hate N******. That is all': Police officers who were caught 'exchanging racist texts' placed on 

administrative leave while full investigation is carried out

Published: 11:41 EST, 4 December 2014 | Updated: 12:48 EST, 4 December 2014 - Five deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Ohio are under investigation for allegedly sending racist text messages. Two officers, Capt. Thomas Flanders and Detective Michael Sollenberger, have been placed on paid administrative leave while the other three – who are as yet unnamed – remain on the job while the investigation continues.

The accusations came to light after an anonymous source passed on hundreds of pages of the messages to the Dayton Unit of the NAACP. The texts, which contain a barrage of racist slurs and insensitive jokes aimed at African-Americans, were exchanged between November 2011 and January 2013 on personal cell phones. 

After conducted a three-month-long investigation to ensure their authenticity, Derrick Forward - the civil rights organization’s local president - turned the messages over to Sheriff Phil Plumber last week. The texts were exchanged between November 2011 and January 2013 on personal cell phones between the employees during working hours.

They contain a barrage of racist slurs and insensitive jokes aimed at African-Americans. One text said, 'I hate N******. That is all.' One deputy 'joked' to another: 'What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees.' Another read: 'We stopped at a Walmart in Birmingham, there are a lot of Black people in Alabama. It's all Martin Luther Kings fault.'...

 

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New York Police Officers Put Pregnant Black Woman In A Chokehold And Called Her Husband A 'Nig*er' (Videos Of NYPD Attacks On Pregnant Women Of Color)

"NYPD Cop Puts Pregnant Brooklyn Woman In CHOKEHOLD For BBQ GRILLING Outside!!"

Mayor of New York, Bill Deblasio, has spoken out against the use of illegal chokeholds by police. Incidents regarding New York officers engaging in police brutality and excessive force have made their way onto You Tube and various news channels in America. The public has been protesting these acts that have brutalized blacks and Latinos in New York, in the wake of the local grand jury refusing to indict police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, for killing unarmed man, Eric Garner, via the use of an illegal chokehold. 

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 Another incident saw officers from the New York Police Department NYPD, put a pregnant woman in a chokehold and beat her husband, calling him a "nig*er" because they were barbequing in their front yard in Brooklyn.

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Another case involves the NYPD beating a pregnant woman they put in a chokehold. Despite her please warning them she is pregnant and they are going to "kill" her "baby" the police brutality continued.

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In another case a pregnant woman was thrown to the ground, put in a chokehold and tased. A woman in the neighborhood tried to help the unarmed pregnant woman and another police officer, violently pushed her to the point she fell several feet away and sustained a broken arm.

Man And His Wife Arrested In Separate Incidents After Filming The Killing Of Eric Garner By New York Police Officer (Video)

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Ramsey Orta, 22, filmed the killing of unarmed asthmatic, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo. Garner was killed by an illegal chokehold Pantaleo administered. Orta has since been arrested on weapons possession charges, regarding a gun he states he does not own and was not in his possession. Orta also states police have been showing up at his wife's place of employment, as a form of harassment.

Ramsey Orta

His wife, Chrissie Orta, stated he is being targeted over the mobile phone video he filmed and uploaded to You Tube showing Garner's death that was a direct result of police brutality and excessive force. The video has since been viewed 900,000 times on the You Tube page Orta placed it on and several million more times on other pages that have reposted the video. The video then hit mainstream news channels all over America, creating an even larger scandal.    

Chrissie Orta

In a strange twist, Chrissie Orta was recently arrested by the same police force for allegedly attacking someone outside a store on Bay Street in Staten Island, New York. In her interview with PIX11 in New York, Orta spoke about her ordeal. She stated police began driving by their place and shining squad car lights in their window disturbing them at late hours as a form of harassment over the video exposing Garner's death at their hands. Orta also questions why police, who are trained in first aid, did not resuscitate Garner and left handcuffs on him, even as paramedics arrived on the scene and loaded him into an ambulance. Garner's pleas were ignored and he was allowed to die.

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Racial tensions among police and the public continue to worsen in America, as another white police officer has been allowed to escape without answering in a court of law, in the death of an unarmed black man. Last month it was police officer Darren Wilson the grand jury let escape scot-free in Ferguson, Missouri, regarding the shooting death of unarmed black teen, Mike Brown. Wilson shot Brown 6 times in cold blood. 

Eric Garner (right)

This month it is unarmed black man, Eric Garner, who has been denied justice in death. New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, put Garner in a chokehold. Despite the defenseless man's protests that he cannot breathe, the pile on of officers continue for several minutes, with Pantaleo essentially choking Garner to death. 

Eric Garner being put in a fatal chokehold by police (right)

A New York grand jury cleared the officer of any wrongdoing, despite the fact a medical examiner stated the chokehold and compressions killed Garner. This is an injustice. The chokehold was unnecessary. To further ignore a man's pleas for air for minutes, while you choke the life out of his body, via excessive force and police brutality, is murder. 

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No indictment for NYC cop in videotaped chokehold death of black man

8 hours ago - A white New York City police officer was cleared Wednesday in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes - a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. 

The decision by the Staten Island grand jury not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo added to the tensions that have simmered in the city since the July 17 death of Eric Garner. In the neighborhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chants of "Eric Garner." 

His father, Benjamin Carr, urged calm and said the ruling made no sense. "It's just a license to kill a black man," he said, calling the justice system "not worth a damn." Jennie Chambers works nearby and saw Garner daily. "Cold-blooded murder!" she said. "We saw it on TV, it's on video. The whole world saw it. Ferguson, now us."...

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