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enhanced_deficit
02-11-2014, 11:10 PM
Won't be surprised if name "Miriam Carey" became a globally famous name like Annie Frank.



Police slaying of unarmed mom goes global

Even brutal, repressive regime sees rights violation

Published: 02/02/2014 at 6:39 PM Garth Kant (http://www.wnd.com/author/gkant/)


http://www.wnd.com/files/2013/12/miriam-carey-1213.jpgMiriam Carey

WASHINGTON – While most Americans still would not recognize the name Miriam Carey, the unarmed black mother gunned down by police in the streets of the nation’s capital after apparently making a wrong turn near the White House, the case is getting international attention.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has cited the incident, now the subject of a $75 million lawsuit by Carey’s family, as an example of human-rights abuses taking place in the United States.
The report (http://media.farsnews.com/media/Uploaded/Files/Documents/1392/11/07/13921107000410.pdf) by the Basij paramilitary organization says the United States is “one of the main violators of human rights” in the world, something with which many Americans would not agree.
However, the Iranian media are doing something the Western media are not: Calling attention to a potentially serious human-rights violation, right on the doorstep of the U.S. Capitol.
The Iranian report cites a litany of familiar accusations of human-rights violations, frequently made by such groups as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, that the mainstream media dutifully report:


Accusations of torture at the Guantanamo Bay prison;



Accusations of torture by solitary confinement in U.S. prisons;



NSA spying;



The Trayvon Martin case;



And accusations of rampant racial discrimination in American society.

The one exception that the Iranians cite, but the Western media are not reporting, is the ongoing Miriam Carey case.
The attorney for the Carey family, Eric Sanders, commented upon the Iranian report, telling WND, “We are very judgmental in this country. We criticize other countries about their record on human rights yet, our own liberties are trampled upon just as Miriam’s.”
Constitutional law expert John Whitehead, president and founder of the nonprofit civil-liberties organization the Rutherford Institute, agreed, telling WND, “I think they (the Iranians) are absolutely correct.” And, considering the source, Whitehead added, “What an indictment.”
Having chronicled numerous cases of police abuse, Whitehead went even further, claiming, “They (the Iranians) recognize something a lot of Americans don’t – that we live in a police state.”
http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/02/miriam-carey-family-600.jpgMiriam Carey, on far right, was shot dead by Capitol Police under mysterious circumstances.

Whitehead is one of four leading experts (http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/legal-experts-from-left-to-right-d-c-cops-murdered-woman/#cWsHyRJSIzoyaZFC.99) in civil liberties and law enforcement that previously spoke to WND about the Carey case. Another one of those, famed journalist Nat Hentoff, had told WND, “[T]his is a classic case of police out of control and, therefore, guilty of plain murder.”
Citing violations of due process and other constitutional rights, Sanders informed WND Thursday that he has filed a $75 million claim against the U.S., the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Capitol Police for “numerous intentional, grossly negligent and reckless actions of police officers, supervisors, managers and other related employees.”
Carey was shot to death Oct. 3, 2013, by federal officers after a car chase that began at the White House and ended about a block from the Capitol.
Sanders said that after months of waiting for the release of the official investigation and after an exhaustive review of all publicly available data, the Carey family has concluded the shooting was not justified.
No one has been charged in the deadly shooting of the 34-year-old mother and dental hygienist from Connecticut.
The suit maintains Carey was still alive after she was shot numerous times by officers then taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Carey was mortally wounded by gunfire during the chase, according to the suit. But out of panic, she continued driving until she finally came to a stop and was taken from her car, a few blocks away from the initial shooting.
The suit said the incident began because Carey “mistakenly drove past the first guard post at the White House entrance because the entrance was negligently maintained, covered and supervised by police officers, supervisors, managers” and others, and then tried to make a lawful U-turn to leave.
However, according to the claim, “for some inexplicable reason,” instead of simply allowing Carey to leave, a police officer “without provocation or legal justification, inconsistent with his or her police training, negligently and recklessly threw a bicycle rack at the vehicle, striking it.”
The suit goes on to maintain that Carey had not violated any law, and, therefore, police had “no legal basis to stop her or use any amount of physical force against her.”
Sanders claims it is officers who endangered Carey’s safety, not the other way around. He contends the ensuing car chase also endangered the public, outweighing “the benefit of investigating a harmless mistaken entrance through the White House entrance gate.”
The Carey family’s attorney said the young mother loved life, and her greatest joy was spending time with her child, family and friends.
Sanders has filed the wrongful death claim on behalf of Carey’s mother, Idealla, Carey’s estate and her 1-year-old daughter, who was in the backseat of the car during the chase and, apparently, during the shooting. The suit will seek $25 million for each claimant.
Sanders said the suit is to compensate the family for their “great loss of a daughter, mother, friend and confidant.” But he insists the case is about more than the death of just one woman. He says it represents a threat to the rights of all Americans.
“Somehow, the Bill of Rights did not apply to Miriam. Miriam’s life did not seem to be so important. Thus far, Miriam’s death is being treated as simple collateral damage in the government’s zeal to protect itself from terrorism,” said Sanders.
He said that zeal should not eclipse the importance of human life.
“The framers of the United States Constitution fought for, died for and demanded it. We should expect no different in today’s society, either,” he said.
Sanders, a former New York Police Department officer, has told WND numerous reasons why he insists officers should never have shot at Carey.


Media reports claimed Carey tried to ram a White House gate or barrier with her car, but the initial police report did not mention an attempt to ram anything;



The police report said Carey tried to make a U-turn after arriving at a White House checkpoint;



She apparently broke no laws until fleeing after being confronted by heavily armed guards;



Police justified the shooting out of fear Carey might be a terrorist, but Sanders pointed out, if officers feared Carey had a bomb, that would be reason not to shoot at her;



Additionally, WND found information that officers would have known within minutes that Carey was not a terrorism threat;



Sanders and law enforcement experts also told WND that the policy of most major police departments is to never shoot at moving vehicles;



Non-lethal means, such as tire spikes, apparently were not used to try to stop the car.



Non-lethal means, such as pepper spray or a Taser, apparently were not used to subdue Carey before officers shot her to death;



Video showed officers shooting at Carey in a crowded public space at least seven times after officers inexplicably failed to block her car at a traffic circle.

In announcing the $75 million lawsuit, the Carey family apparently grew tired of waiting for the release of the official investigation conducted by the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police.
That investigation has been turned over to the U.S. Attorney at the Justice Department for review, which, the department tells WND, is standard practice for investigations that include officer-involved shootings.
When two months had passed, Sanders told WND it was not an unusual length of time for such a multifaceted investigation, involving more than one law enforcement agency. But now that four months have passed, the family apparently has exhausted its patience.
“The Carey family calls for immediate identification and termination of all police officer, supervisors, managers and other related employees’ involved in this matter who failed to order the immediate termination of pursuing Miriam and failed to establish firearms control; thereby, collectively causing the avoidable death of Miriam,” said the attorney.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/police-slaying-of-unarmed-mom-goes-global


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Christian Liberty
02-11-2014, 11:19 PM
Iran really, really needs to NOT be stupid here.

enhanced_deficit
02-11-2014, 11:21 PM
Iran really, really needs to NOT be stupid here.

Luke 6:31 blowback? US had also attacked Iranian government for human rights abuse of Iranian humans.

Christian Liberty
02-11-2014, 11:23 PM
Luke 6:31 blowback? US had also attacked Iranian government for human rights abuse of Iranian humans.

Believe me, I know. But if Iran attacks the US, the neocon talking head idiots will be like "Iran hates us for our freedoms", we'll be stuck in another war, and we'll be royally screwed.

Much as I'd frankly want to apologize to the Iranians and promise to leave them alone if that happened, that's not what would happen.

Iran attacking the US would seriously undermine virtually every good thing Rand Paul has done since he's been in the senate.

Luke 6:31 would indeed be applicable. It would still suck if it came around NOW.

Thor
02-11-2014, 11:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23kmhc3P8U

enhanced_deficit
02-11-2014, 11:32 PM
Believe me, I know. But if Iran attacks the US, the neocon talking head idiots will be like "Iran hates us for our freedoms", we'll be stuck in another war, and we'll be royally screwed.

Much as I'd frankly want to apologize to the Iranians and promise to leave them alone if that happened, that's not what would happen.

Iran attacking the US would seriously undermine virtually every good thing Rand Paul has done since he's been in the senate.

Luke 6:31 would indeed be applicable. It would still suck if it came around NOW.

First, US neocons or anyone in SWC droneking regime would be afaraid to even touch such a news story.. because then they will have to talk about issue of an unarmed black mother's execution for driving too close to White House.

Secondly, you realize that "attack" here means "criticism" and not literal attack? Then how this could have anything to do with Rand Paul??

It's one religious police state critcisizng back at a secular police state. At least in case of Iran, they don't claim to be a modern civil rights based state.

Christian Liberty
02-11-2014, 11:34 PM
@enhanced deficit- I was more telling Iran not to physically attack the US, which I doubt they will. I don't expect them not to verbally attack us... we definitely deserve that. I just hope they recognize we aren't all supporters of the tyranny:p

Mani
02-11-2014, 11:34 PM
I think the word attack is referring to verbal attack, like a criticism.


Iran is not going to attack the U.S. like an actual battle with troops and missiles and such.

Christian Liberty
02-11-2014, 11:37 PM
I think the word attack is referring to verbal attack, like a criticism.


Iran is not going to attack the U.S. like an actual battle with troops and missiles and such.

Yeah, I understand. I assumed that, but kind of didn't pay enough attention to it when I posted and was warning Iran not to do anything rash.

enhanced_deficit
02-11-2014, 11:43 PM
@enhanced deficit- I was more telling Iran not to physically attack the US, which I doubt they will. I don't expect them not to verbally attack us... we definitely deserve that. I just hope they recognize we aren't all supporters of the tyranny:p

lol Iran is not known to attack others first and its last war was against invasion from neocon supported Saddam of Iraq.

But I can understand instinctive mixup of meaning as we are living in the world of physical attacks all over the world thanks to too many "hawks" around.

Mani
02-12-2014, 01:24 AM
lol Iran is not known to attack others first and its last war was against invasion from neocon supported Saddam of Iraq.

But I can understand instinctive mixup of meaning as we are living in the world of physical attacks all over the world thanks to too many "hawks" around.



You wanna see a gleam of ecstasy across the eyes of many of those hawks in Washington, if Iran actually did try to attack/invade someone, I can't even imagine how giddy they would be.


http://awesomegifs.com/2011/07/im-so-giddy-i-cant-contain-myself/

or maybe:

http://awesomegifs.com/2011/12/the-seinfeld-happy-dance/

DFF
02-12-2014, 10:05 AM
Accusations of torture by solitary confinement in U.S. prisons;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Incarceration_rates_worldwide.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/US_incarceration_timeline-clean-fixed-timescale.svg/693px-US_incarceration_timeline-clean-fixed-timescale.svg.png

Origanalist
02-12-2014, 10:18 AM
Seeing that woman's bright beaming face, and then thinking about the whores "representing" us standing up and cheering for her execution literally makes me ill.

enhanced_deficit
02-12-2014, 04:38 PM
That is some strong,un-PC language Origanalist.. and very telling graphics by DFF.

DamianTV
02-12-2014, 04:52 PM
Would that graph be any different if it were calculated to include Public School Students as Incarcerated?

Occam's Banana
02-12-2014, 06:13 PM
Seeing that woman's bright beaming face, and then thinking about the whores "representing" us standing up and cheering for her execution literally makes me ill.

Dammit, Bryan! The clicky-thingy with the "I approve" button isn't working again ...


You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Origanalist again.

enhanced_deficit
07-26-2017, 10:30 PM
Although DGP is out and Trump is in, some degree of societal tensions continue over people killed by police. This article about the killing of Justin Damond last week by a cop is creating controversy. Caution, graphic language:



I Understand Why Some Black People Couldn’t Care Less About Justine Damond (http://www.theroot.com/i-understand-why-some-black-people-couldn-t-care-less-a-1797189837)

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SW4vtqzV--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_80,q_80,w_80/ovgl32y6aodwilwvxhhq.jpg

Terrell Jermaine Starr
Tuesday 9:00am


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Good Morning America screenshot
Fuck you. Fuck your humanity. Fuck your children. Fuck your life.

That is the cruel, loud echo black people hear reverberating out of America’s criminal-injustice system every day when police officers get away with shooting, choking, raping and slamming the life out of our bodies. If we’re lucky, our deaths trend on Twitter and evoke outrage. Then comes the exploitive media spectacle of black mothers wailing before television cameras capturing the agony overwhelming their tear-streaked faces. GoFundMe pages go live to raise funds for families who can’t afford funeral expenses.
Protests, if you’re a black man, may follow; we’d be fooling ourselves to suggest that our people march for black women with the same energy and vigor they show for black men. Generally, black people killed by cops barely register in the national press. Their passings, with the exception of loved ones and the coroner who tags their toes at the morgue, go by as if they never lived at all.
That’s a painful reality to live with as a black person in America.
The weight of it all can numb our spirits and harden our hearts. Living in a society that hates you that much can make you hate it back. White supremacy brings out the worst in the criminal-injustice system, but it can also harden black people to the point of stealing our compassion, including for white people who are killed by the same white supremacist police state.
That’s why I empathize with some black people who say, “Fuck Justine Damond.”

I understand the frustration in Son of Baldwin’s recent piece (https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/i-dont-give-a-fuck-about-justine-diamond-1e60003ee961) when he said the following:


I’m going to say this and I mean — down to my subatomic particles — what I say. And I actually don’t care what anyone might think about it:
I don’t give a FUCK about Justine Damond (http://www.theroot.com/attorney-justine-damond-is-the-most-innocent-victim-1797113109) and what happened to her.
I don’t give a fuck because most white people didn’t give a fuck when police murdered seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/aiyana-stanley-jones-joseph-weekley-trial_n_5824684.html) as she lay on a couch, sleeping. What most white people — and some black people — did was blame Aiyana’s family.
I don’t give a fuck because a black woman (or a Native woman) in the identical situation Justine was in (http://abc7chicago.com/news/no-charges-for-cop-in-fatal-shooting-of-bettie-jones-quintonio-legrier/1748388/) wouldn’t garner support or sympathy from most white people. No. What most white people would do is look for reasons that might justify why the police officer “had” to kill the black woman.

....


http://www.theroot.com/i-understand-why-some-black-people-couldn-t-care-less-a-1797189837






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