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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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
Related
(http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/police-slaying-of-unarmed-mom-goes-global/#ZgHS1HOTMwYgkqgA.99)
Entire House Of Reps Gives Standing Ovation To Cops After Killing Unarmed Mother (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?429504-Entire-House-Of-Reps-Gives-Standing-Ovation-To-Cops-After-Killing-Unarmed-Mother/page26&)