Please watch this video and share it widely. There is never a time for this - ever. the victim's death is the real reason you must see it to understand why you need to reblog this. This man was murdered by Police in Fullerton California - and the police are still on the job. No charges have even been filed against them in this outright murder. that is why the feds are now being asked to investigate this case.
What we should be asking is Why Does it take Anonymous to bring this to our newscasts ?
Kelly Thomas Is You - He Died five days later from the effects of being Homeless; Tasered and Beaten to death by cops. He Was Murdered. There is no way to dismiss the behaviour of these cops. just as there is no way to dismiss the way society makes people disposable.
Notable claims:
One officer supposedly beat Kelly Thomas with the butt of his Taser until blood started coming up all over the officer’s arms and hands.
Another officer supposedly drop kneed Kelly Thomas’ nose and throat with the full force of his body weight multiple times, crushing the victim’s throat.
This happened while Kelly Thomas was not moving or resisting.
Homelessness has risen more than 500% in the past 10 years. many of the working poor are too poor to get a home of their own. they live in cheap motels, or shelters when they can't. they work minimum wage jobs when they can find them, and they die the slow death of social disinfranchisment. this is why America needs to see this video on every newscast.
If you don't believe that this is common in America - spend a few moments with a homeless person and ask them. they will clarify the situation for you.
Remember This Could Be You - anytime, anywhere in America,
Today we are so sad it's taken us two days to ask this question - Jamaica Blackberry nah feed unnu; but pure coppershot yuh reap - Why ?
Murder seems to be the season in Jamaica this January. unfortunantly many of those who are cut down are innocent victims of violence a yard. Just like this nice likkle yute Copper Cat.
Listen to his message - pure peace, and love even at 8 years old
How Come Dem murda him right infronta mi gate? I don't understand dis atall. copper dont get into nuttin, mi don't get into nuttin wit nobody.so why dis happen, right in front of Mi Gate - I don't understand dis at all ?
Richie Stephens talking about the murder of His Artist/Son Demar "Copper Cat" Graham on the doorstep of his home - for a blackberry phone. 01/28/2011
Did you think that Gaga could push the envelope any further ?
It's Not Safe For Work Friday and This video is Not Safe for Kids or Work so use good judgement when watching please. You Should Be 18 or older to watch this video. rated r (n,s,v,k)
Tonight when speaking with a film producer colleague, he remarked that this latest Lady Gaga video - Telephone, is basically Soft Porn. Gosh ? Then I remembered that I'd yet to watch it for myself. So I went out and found it in the Internets. Ohhhhh My My.. That's honestly the first thing that I said when it came up on the screen. It opens with Gaga in jail. We are mesmerized as the guards walk her to her cell, and then strip her - tossing her onto the bed and exiting the cell. one of the guards says - "See I told You She didn't have no dick" the other responds, "Too Bad". Next You see Gaga Nude - climbing onto the bars of the cell,. it's filtered gauzy in a crotch obscured shot that leaves you wondering because you can't see either way. Let the mind games begin.
WOOOOOO Clutch The Pearls Babies
This video is a whole lotta things all wrapped up in one. There's a planned mass murder; girl on girl prison yard sex; wild high fashion; high tech phones on hats; a police chase in a hot ass tricked out truck called "The Pussy Wagon"; and of course multiple lucrative fast product placements at various spots in the six minute thematic video. Wow, all of the classic elements of a good soft porn flick working together; he remarked.
Theres' no doubt this will open doors for Gaga in film. Someone is going to watch that scene of her menage a tois on the prison yard, and have a light bulb moment. I just hope that she's really ready for the big time. Her fashion sense is getting wilder all the time. Notice that in the prison yard sequence the glasses are smoking. Yes the cigarettes on the glasses are apparently lit. Wow now that's a unique effect I don't think I've ever seen before. The music itself doesn't start until the 2:55 mark when Gaga gets a call from Beyaki. She answers and starts singing into the phone on the wall. that's where the music and dancing begins.
Film uses all types of elements to pull a story together, and this one employs them all; with razor sharp precision. It's really more of a short film at nearly 9 plus minutes. Much in the vein of the Michael Jackson theatrical videos like Ghost. It actually spends so much time on the film aspects, that you forget about the dancing and singing for a moment. That is a huge step forward for Gaga, since her vids have been previously Panned as mostly fluff; centered around her crazy fashions.
The strange on film relationship between Gaga and Beyaki has gained a whole new fan base, no doubt. This is how artists cross over from market to market; and in the process make a substantial amount of money doing it. The amount of advertising in this video is record. That alone will make it a record cash earner. I think this is a hit for both Gaga and her advertisers. Innovation is a difficult road to travel for new concepts. Good Work Lady Gaga.
It Looks Like the Pussy Wagon will be rolling for a while,
This is a real crime in more ways than we can describe.
Steven Green, 24, is to serve five consecutive life sentences for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family near Baghdad in 2006. While A US Soldier
First off if the 911 hoax hadn't happened - this man wouldn't have been in Iraq to do this. maybe he would have been arrested for doing it closer to home - which would have been less of a stain on the military. but eitherway he is a badman; he did it; and he knows he did it with evil in his heart.
there is no way this man should ever set foot on the same ground that I walk on ever again. he didn't fight for anyone's freedom, and most certainly made everyone elses jobs harder. why not use the UCMJand Hand Him Over to the Iraqii's to handle his incarceration. that would be the real answer. if you commit a crime against a civilian when you're in the military, you should serve your time in the country where you committed the crime, under their laws in their jails.
You Did The Crime - So STFU and Do The Time BABY RAPIST/MURDERER,
Steven Green was considered the ringleader in the rape and murders
A former US soldier convicted of rape and murder while serving in Iraq will spend life in prison, a judge in the US state of Kentucky has confirmed.
Steven Green, 24, is to serve five consecutive life sentences for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family near Baghdad in 2006.
Green was convicted in May but the jury could not unanimously agree a sentence and he was spared the death penalty.
Four other soldiers are serving time for their roles in the crime.
Three received life sentences, while the fourth was jailed for 27 months for acting as a lookout. Green was considered the ringleader.
International outrage
District Judge Thomas Russell on Friday confirmed that Green would have no chance of parole. In 2006 Green and three other soldiers entered the home of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi near Mahmudiya, 30km (20 miles) south of Baghdad.
Steven Green on operations in Mullah Fayed, Iraq, in December 2005
They shot dead her mother, father and sister, then raped Abeer before shooting her and setting fire to her remains.
The crime was planned while Green and the other soldiers drank whiskey and played card games at a traffic checkpoint where they were stationed.
The court heard that Green was seen by army mental health professionals after he had talked about a desire to kill Iraqi civilians.
He was sent back to his unit with medication to help him sleep after a nurse concluded he would not act out his thoughts.
The defence argued there was a lack of military leadership in the 101st Airborne Division.
The BBC's Imtiaz Tyab in Washington says that when details of the killings were revealed months after they took place, they sparked international outrage and led to the retaliatory killing of several US soldiers by Iraqi insurgents.
Green was discharged from the 101st Airborne before the case came to light.
He was the first ex-soldier to be charged under a US law that allows prosecution for crimes committed overseas.
Jacquline McClelland poses with a photo of her son Brandon McClelland, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, in Paris, Texas. Brandon, a black man, was on a late-night beer run across state lines to Oklahoma with two white friends last month and ended up dead on a rural Texas road. Authorities say he was run over by a pickup and then dragged as far as 70 feet beneath the truck. Two white men have been charged with murder in the case. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
"I truly feel that race played a part in it," said the victim's mother, Jacquline McClelland. "It is a racist town, and Paris has always been a racist town."
The city is perhaps best known for its 70-foot Eiffel Tower replica topped by a giant red cowboy hat. Paris, which is 73 percent white and 22 percent black, was in the news last year after ablack girl was sentenced to up to seven years in a juvenile prison hundreds of miles from her home for shoving a teacher's aide at school, while a white girl was sentenced by the same judge to probation for burning down her parents' house.
At the town square, decorated with pumpkins and hay bales for Halloween, the mother of the black girl said Friday that she began to feel Paris was a racist town after moving there from Oklahoma.
"There's a certain amount of fear that is pressed into black people when they live in Paris," said Creola Cotton.
According to court papers, Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley, both 27, told police they left the dry town to get beer in Oklahoma, and on the way back, the three men, all apparently drunk, argued about who was sober enough to drive. McClelland, an unmarried maintenance worker, decided to walk home, taking some beer with him, the men told police.
Finley's estranged wife and one of his friends said they had been told by the two defendants that Finley began to bump McClelland with the front of his truck until McClelland fell, and Finley drove over him, according to court papers. Crostley and Finley then allegedly drove to a car wash to clean off the blood.
This is the Look of a Mother Who Has Lost a Child.. to Murder, – This is Jacqueline McClelland; the mom of Brandon McClelland who was murdered by these two snots below.
a Blackman’s life ain’t worth a Whitemans life in Paris Texas. apparently, since the two whitemen who dragged a blackman to death in 2008 were released free. Why ?
“A Black man’s life is still not worth a white man’s life in Paris, Texas,” said activist Anthony Bond. “I am 55 years old and I know racism when I see it. Paris, Texas, is eaten up with racism.”
Bond was among 300 people who protested June 8 at the courthouse in Paris after the special prosecutor suddenly dropped murder charges against two white men accused of murdering a Black youth last September.
Above we see the victim Brandon McClelland's Mom - Jacqueline McClelland, as she speaks to a rally at the courthouse. She is surrounded by members of the New Black Panther Party, Nation of Islam, Tarrant County Local Organizing Committee and the NAACP.The New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality organized the rally.
Brandon McClelland’s mangled body was found on Sept. 16, 2008, on a country road. Authorities estimated that it had been dragged more than 70 feet.
McClelland’s family and members of the Black community who attended the protest stressed that the dismissals were the real injustice, and another example of racial inequality in Paris, a town with a long history of violent racism.
Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley, the two white men who had been arrested for McClelland’s murder, walked out of jail on June 4 with no restrictions.
At the courthouse rally, where a monument to the Confederacy dominates the lawn, McClelland’s mother and father spoke to the crowd through tears. Jackie McClelland said the dropped charges show that the justice system treats Blacks and whites in Paris unequally.
“I said from the start they were going to sweep this under the rug,” she said. “And nine months later, that’s exactly what happened. This was a hate crime. We couldn’t even have an open casket for my son.”
“What if it was your son? Would you fight for your kid?” said Bobby McCleary, McClelland’s father. “I miss that one word my son used to say: Pops. He didn’t call me Dad. He called me Pops.”
Rock Banks, who said he was a “grand titan” in the East Texas Ku Klux Klan, angered the crowd during the rally. He held up a small patch displaying a Nazi-era Iron Cross. After a near confrontation, he was forced to leave.
Activists vowed to get the Department of Justice to take an interest in the case. They have begun writing letters to the White House and Attorney General Eric Holder. “It’s going to be a huge campaign to get the attorney general involved,” said Deric Muhammad of the Nation of Islam in Houston. “They released two killers on a maybe. They released two killers on a might be. They released two killers on an if.”
The district attorney released Finley and Crostley after defense attorneys suddenly produced a truck driver who said he may have accidentally hit McClelland. The district attorney had given the truck driver immunity for his statement.
Protesters carried signs saying, “We Want Justice,” and “Where is the Justice for Brandon?” Using a bullhorn, organizers led chants of “Black Power,” and “No Justice, No Peace.”
A national rally to protest the dragging death of McClelland is planned for July 21, the day that the murder trial had been scheduled to begin.
Paris also made national news in 2007 when an African-American student, Shaquanda Cotton, was sentenced to seven years in a Texas Youth Commission jail for pushing a teacher’s aide. Months earlier, the same judge had given a white teen probation for burning her family’s house down.
Cotton was finally freed after a national campaign on her behalf.
Paris is located in East Texas, known for its long history of racism and Ku Klux Klan activities. In 1998 another Black man, James Byrd Jr., was dragged to death in Jasper, 200 miles south of Paris.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Paris was the site of one of the country’s most notorious “spectacle” lynchings in 1893, when 10,000 people gathered to watch the torture and burning of Henry Smith, a Black man who was accused of killing the 3-year-old daughter of a white policeman.
Smith had fled to a small town near Hope, Ark., but was caught and brought back to Paris by train. Word traveled that he had been brought back and spectators came from miles around, using “special excursion trains” to travel from Dallas.
Smith was placed on top of a wagon and paraded around the town square, then taken to a prairie south of the Texas & Pacific railroad depot, where scaffolding had been built for the occasion.
Ida B. Wells cited this case in “The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States,” printed in 1895, which documented her research on and campaign against lynching.
Three decades later, in 1920, a Paris mob killed brothers Herman and Irving Arthur, Black sharecroppers, who were accused of killing their white landlords.
The brothers, who claimed self-defense, were taken from the Lamar County Jail to the fairgrounds where, according to the Dallas Morning News, they were chained to a flagpole and burned. The mob then dragged their bodies through the Black neighborhood of Paris.
New Black Panther Party organizer Sister Krystal Muhammad told Workers World the group is getting endorsers and organizing around the state for the demonstration on July 21. “We will not stop organizing until there is justice for Brandon. Racist murderers cannot be allowed to kill with impunity!”
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
"I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive," Jeffrey is quoted as telling Wright. "That son of a b*tch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything."
- Michael Jeffrey; Jimi's Former Manager. Who should be remembered clearly as "The Fuck Who Murdered Rock and Roll legend the great Jimi Hendrix".
Somehow reading this news from so long ago, gives me Deja Vu. it's just like the rumors from all those decades ago - who killed Jimi..
well now it appears we have an answer
Jimi Hendrix on the Dick Cavett Show
this Jeffrey clown should've had his mouth stuffed with a combo of Oxycontin, Vicodin and Laxatives; afterwhich he should've have a Fentanyl Patch applied to his neck near his spine - so he felt it slowly choking him to death.
By His Own Admission, It was his self prescribed cocktail; that cost us one of the greatest musicians in history -Jimi Hendrix.
This is Jimi Hendrix playing a jam/Hear My Train A Comin' in Royale Albert Hall 1969. He is a True Bluesmaster, and made us all recognize that Rock and Roll is nothing but the baby of the Blues. it includes ashort shot of Jimi Hendrix as he gets upset with Mitch Mitchell - the drummer; for coming in too early.
Make Sure to Check this Video out ^
If You Love Music, this is 10 mins of PURE JIMI HEXDRIX BLISS
I don't know where you were when you heard it, but I remember where I was and what I was doing. I was in my first semester of high school; and someone said "Hey Jimi Hendrix OD'd"..
WHADDDDDD ???? NO Fricken Way...but yes it was true.
when I got home from school and looked at the news that evening, it was the headline story. Along with the rest of the world, I was overwhelmed and boo hoo'd for days.
1970 Jimi Hendrix: "Machine Gun" This is right before he was murdered - in London, in 1970; he is in fine form and this is a rare early video of him playing live
it was just like when Koko Taylor died last week. I'm still feelin that pain deep in my heart. it's hard to loose a legend; but to murder.. OHFN. This clown needed to stop by my house on the way to his rewards. I promise you his remains wouldn't have been enuff to pick up and void.
Listen to Jimi talking about his music in October 1968
Read This Sad Piece of Shit Story for the Worlds' Greatest Guitarist:
( from eurweb.com) Musician's former roadie says manager confessed to giving him overdose of pills on purpose. (June 2, 2009)
*A new book written by a roadie for Jimi Hendrix claims the late rock icon was actually murdered by his manager, Michael Jeffrey, who told the author he plied Hendrix with pills and alcohol in order to kill him and collect on the guitarist's life insurance.
In his book "Rock Roadie," James "Tappy" Wright claims that Jeffrey made the confession to him in 1971, two years before he was killed in a plane crash.
"I can still hear that conversation, see the man I'd known for so much of my life, his face pale, hand clutching at his glass in sudden rage," writes Wright in the book, according to Yahoo News.
Hendrix died in September 1970. His body was found in a room at London's Samarkand Hotel booked by Monika Dannemann, whom Hendrix had known for a matter of days. At the time of Hendrix's death, a coroner recorded an open verdict, stating that the cause was "barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit."
Jeffrey is quoted by Wright as telling him: "I was in London the night of Jimi's death and together with some old friends.. we went 'round to Monika's hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth...then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe."
The manager was allegedly worried that Hendrix was about to fire him. He had recently taken out a life insurance policy worth $2 million, with Jeffrey as beneficiary, reported Britain's Mail On Sunday.
"I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive," Jeffrey is quoted as telling Wright. "That son of a b*tch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything."
Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Diann Rust-Tierney Posted: May 14, 2009 06:12 PM
The 132nd Death Row Exoneree: Implications for the Troy Davis Case Now comes the case of Troy Anthony Davis, where the high court will again be presented with a strong claim of innocence.
Troy Anthony Davis was sentenced to death in Georgia in 1991 for the murder of police officer Mark Allen MacPhail- a crime for which there is no physical evidence linking him to the shooting, in which seven of nine witnesses who named him as the killer have since recanted their testimony, saying in sworn affidavits that they were coerced or pressured into implicating Davis, and for which no murder weapon has been produced.
Davis, like House and Herrera, has been fighting for years for a new trial through which to prove his innocence. Last month the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that effort, saying that the affidavits from the witnesses who recanted were introduced "too late" in the process. In her dissenting opinion, Circuit Court Judge Rosemary Barkett wrote, "To execute Davis, in the face of a significant amount of proffered evidence that may establish his actual innocence, is unconscionable and unconstitutional."
If there is any lesson that should be learned from these cases it is that our capital punishment system has some serious flaws. Not the least of which is a sufficiently adequate process for assuring that no innocent man or women is executed. The route to safety is too obscured by technicalities.
The Troy Anthony Davis case presents another test for the system. We must be as determined as the lawyers and other advocates who worked tirelessly to save the life of Paul House to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. While it should not be true -- it is -- it will take an extraordinary effort to prevent a miscarriage of justice here.
The Paul House case is a chilling reminder of just how often the system makes mistakes.
It should strengthen our resolve in the Davis case.
(A Global Day of Action in support of Davis has been organized by Amnesty International USA for May 19th. For more information on scheduled events of that day, and what can be done to obtain clemency for Davis, visit http://www.aiusa.org./troydavis.)
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May 19, 2009: Day of Action for Troy Davis!
WE Are going to devote the next two days to Troy Davis, because we know this fight is one that needs every hand on deck.
Listen to Troy Davis speaking about the wrong and why we need to get the killer off the street, now.
Troy Davis has not received Justice. There is NO Physical Evidence Against Him. yet He sits on Death Row. It's time to right the wrong before Troy is Executed for a Crime He Did Not Commit. Won't You Join us in our Support of Troy Davis, by participating in this day of support on Tuesday May 19th, 2009. Show the World that You Support Truth and Justice -
Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. Nearly two decades later, Davis remains on death row – even though the case against him has completely fallen apart. » Learn more about Troy Davis
Troy Davis, a man who may well be innocent, has a 30-day stay of execution that is about to expire. No court has yet held a hearing on the new evidence of tainted testimony, yet they are willing to end his life. On May 19th, every person can help make a difference by participating in any activity, event or creative action that calls attention to the injustice of his case.
Please do not contact the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles directly right now, as doing so could be detrimental to Troy's case. Instead, we encourage you to contact Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.
