Tag: police brutality
Suspect shoots, wounds at least six ‘people of color’ in Italian city amid tensions
A man draped in Italy’s tricolor flag wounded at least six “people of color” in a drive-by shooting in a central Italian city on Saturday before being detained, authorities said. The suspect had been a candidate for the anti-immigrant Northern League party in municipal elections last year, according to a party spokeswoman.
The suspect’s motive in the shootings in Macerata was not known, but a young Italian woman was gruesomely murdered in the city this past week, allegedly by a Nigerian immigrant, prompting a wave of anger in a nation where many were already seeking to reduce the entry of migrants.
The attack’s connection to the Northern League was likely to unsettle Italy as it approaches national elections on March 4. Far-right groups have been gaining in the polls, and the Northern League looks as though it may have a chance to govern as a junior member of a coalition with other right-wing parties.
A police spokesman said that 28-year-old Luca Traini was detained near Macerata’s central war memorial early Saturday afternoon. A handgun was in the suspect’s car, and the green-white-and-red flag of Italy was tied around his shoulders, the official said. Traini admitted his guilt as he was arrested, added the spokesman, who declined to be publicly identified under ground rules set by the force. The five men and one woman who were shot were expected to recover, Macerata Mayor Romano Carancini said.
Local news outlets said that the man was detained after he stepped out of his black Alfa Romeo 147 near the memorial, gave a fascist salute, and shouted “Italy for the Italians.” It was not clear whether the victims were Italian citizens.
After the attack, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni called on political leaders on all sides to stop a “cycle of violence.”
“Let’s stop this risk, let’s stop in now, let’s stop it together,” he said in a nationally televised statement from his residence, the Palazzo Chigi, in Rome. “Hate and violence won’t be able to divide us.”
Large numbers of migrants began sailing across the Mediterranean toward Italy after Libya plunged into lawlessness and civil war following the 2011 downfall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi. More than 620,000 migrants, many of them African, have arrived in Italy since the beginning of 2014, contributing to a growing sense among Italians that the country was taking in far more people than it could handle.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has become a main theme in the campaign leading up to next month’s elections. Northern League leader Matteo Salvini has vowed to expel 150,000 immigrants from Italy and close the country’s borders to most new arrivals.
The murder in Macerata this past week of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro drew national attention to the city of 43,000 and added fuel to the debate on migration. On Wednesday, her dismembered remains were found packed into two suitcases. A 29-year-old Nigerian man, Innocent Oseghale, was charged with her murder.
“What was this maggot still doing in Italy? He wasn’t fleeing war, he brought war to Italy,” Salvini wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
The suspect in Saturday’s shooting ran as a Northern League candidate last June for a seat on the municipal council of Corridonia, a town of 15,000 people just south of Macerata, according to a Northern League spokeswoman who spoke on condition that her name not be used. She said that the party was conferring about how to respond to the news.
Eric Garner’s daughter in coma after suffering heart attack
Erica Garner — whose father Eric Garner became a symbol of police brutality when he died after being placed in a chokehold —was in a coma Sunday night after suffering a heart attack, family members said.
“So my sister had another heart attack last night and she’s in critical condition,” Erica’s sister Emerald Snipes wrote on Facebook.
“I just left the hospital and it’s not looking good…I pray she makes it she has two little ones to live for.”
Garner, 27, became an activist after her father’s untimely death in 2014.
The woman’s Twitter account asked supporters to pray for her.
via: https://nypost.com/2017/12/25/eric-garners-daughter-in-coma-after-suffering-heart-attack/
Protests Begin After Another Police Officer Is Acquitted On Murder Charges
Protesters incited police agitation Friday night in St. Louis after the acquittal of a white former police officer who was charged with murder last year for fatally shooting a black driver after a car chase.
“Many of the demonstrators were peaceful. However, after dark, many agitators began to destroy property and assault police officers,” St. Louis police chief Lawrence O’Toole said in a joint video statement with Mayor Lyda Krewson.
About 1,000 protesters swarmed to the mayor’s home, throwing rocks and breaking windows, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. They were met by about 200 police in riot gear who tried to disperse them with tear gas.
Pregnant woman pulled over, officer gives help instead of a ticket
As I sit and read this “feel good” story about this supposedly compassionate and caring Officer I can’t help but to think of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Walter Scott, Sam Debose, Sandra Bland….
Until we can get these superficial, mentally disturbed, deranged, girlfriend or wife beatin’ over zealous quick draw to kill my unarmed black;brown brotha and sistahs. When we as a people can CONVICT and SENTENCE these killer cops, when we can rebuild the justice system, when the GOOD COPS like Officer Jimmy Allen of the Seattle WA Police Department who stopped to helped a 9 month pregnant woman of color put her license plate on her brand new car can STAND UP AND STEP UP to their OWN; when our white folk start talking openly with PoC about race and how their white privilege is effecting our nation and HOW THEY CAN HEAL THE WOUNDS that has oppressed and still is oppressing the oppressed, when we can STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, when white folk CAN acknowledge that #ALLIVESMATTER DON’T MATTER if you see BLACK LIVES killed, beaten and bruised just for the color of their skin then you may say #ALLIVESMATTER (FOR NOW #BLACKLIVESMATTER) when white folk can have EMPATHY and sympathy for our my people of color only then can we TRULY feel good moment for this heartwarming story.
Source: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/pregnant-woman-pulled-over-officer-gives-help-inst/nnBKj/