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NYPD Road Rage: Cops Shoot, Kill Unarmed National Guardsman for Cutting Them Off

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:50:13 -0400

NYPD Road Rage: Cops Shoot, Kill Unarmed National Guardsman for Cutting Them Off:

A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off two police trucks on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, the authorities said.
The shooting, which occurred at 5:15 a.m., was the latest in a series of episodes in which police officers fatally shot or wounded civilians

Police state: Korean War veteran, 79, gets 30 days jail for junk on property

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:49:48 -0400

Police state: Korean War veteran, 79, gets 30 days jail for junk on property :

Johnny Ramsey, the 79-year-old Korean War veteran who collected and sold junk to pay for medications for his ailing wife, said just minutes before court Thursday evening: “If I have to go to jail, I guess I am ready.”
An hour later, Ramsey left a Clover courtroom in shackles – sentenced to 30 days in the York County jail for not cleaning up his yard eight months after a judge ordered him to get rid of the junk.

thepeoplesrecord: UN: US drone strikes ‘could be war crimes’...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:40:04 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

UN: US drone strikes ‘could be war crimes’ & set risky precedent (photo)
June 22, 2012

The use of drone strikes by the US to combat terrorism flouts international law and may encourage other nations to follow suit, a UN rapporteur says. He stressed that some of the attacks may constitute war crimes.

Christof Heyns, the UN special investigator on extrajudicial killings told a UN conference in Geneva that the US needs to be held legally accountable for the use of armed drones.

“Are we to accept major changes to the international legal system which has been in existence since World War Two and survived nuclear threats?” he said.

He also requested that the Obama administration publish statistics on the number of civilian deaths caused by strikes on suspected terror leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.

“I don’t think we have the full answer to the legal framework, we certainly don’t have the answer to the accountability issues,” he told reporters at the UN Human Rights Council meeting.

He underlined the fact that recent US drone strikes threatened the rule of international law in that many “targeted killings take place far from areas where it’s recognized as being an armed conflict.” Heyns added that drone strikes may be legally justifiable in conflict zones such as Afghanistan.

He went on to say however that if “there have been secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping [the injured] after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime.”

Lampooning the US stance that targeted strikes are a legitimate response to the 9/11 attacks orchestrated by Al Qaeda he said “it’s difficult to see how any killings carried out in 2012 can be justified in response to [events] in 2001. Some states seem to want to invent new laws to justify new practices.”

The US argues that its drone strikes are highly effective at combating insurgency abroad and do not violate international law. However, Washington has come under fire recently for multiple drone incursions that killed dozens of civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Both China and Russia issued statements to the UN Human Rights Council this week condemning the US use of drone strikes.

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Here are the before and after photos of Kelly Thomas, a 37 year...

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:58:50 -0400

Here are the before and after photos of Kelly Thomas, a 37 year old homeless man who was beaten in Fullerton, CA on July 5, 2011. He passed away 5 days later. The entire incident was videotaped and today this video was watched in court to determine whether it was the police officers or medics to blame for his death. His family continues to bring his story to light.

'Help Me', Homeless man begs as cops fatally beat him to death in videotaped incident in California

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:55:02 -0400

'Help Me', Homeless man begs as cops fatally beat him to death in videotaped incident in California