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Suicides, resignations hit New Orleans police department There may be no better way to explain the desperation on the city's ravaged streets than this: In the past few days, two police officers took their own lives and dozens have turned in their badges....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:40am PDT
Taser Saga Continues as Chicago Teenager Suffers Near-Fatal Ventricular Fibrillation... Apparently, the only reason the teenager survived was that he received immediate medical attention. Dr. Wayne H. Franklin, a pediatric electrophysiologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago (and a second doctor), claimed that an electrocardiogram confirmed that the boy did, in fact, suffer fibrillation....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:56pm PDT
Five men shot by New Orleans police At least five people have reportedly been shot dead by police in the US city of New Orleans, where a massive effort is underway to aid hurricane survivors.
The five were part of a larger group of people crossing a bridge carrying weapons, police official WJ Riley said.
The US government earlier announced it had restored order in New Orleans, six days after Hurricane Katrina brought flood waters and anarchy to the city....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 5:28pm PDT
9/7 Boyd Family's First Hearing Before the Police Commission Next Wednesday, September 7, 2005, please join us at the Police Commission for the first Hearing on charges brought against the Officers who killed or tried to kill Cammerin. We will hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall at 4:30 p.m. just before the hearing....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:14pm PDT
Policing the Poor amidst Flood Disaster The official response to Louisiana's flood disaster has been dominated by policing the state's poor black population while thousands more are still waiting to be rescued....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:47pm PDT
Shocker! Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans “This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting.”...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 10:34am PDT
narrow escape from martial law A true story about last minute escape from flooded city of new orleans from a friend via email...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:52pm PDT
Red Cross not allowed into New Orleans by government after reading dKos and the other blogs all week and seeing over and over again comments that that FEMA and the NG were no where to be seen from the people on the ground in NO, I was wondering where the Red Cross was in all this. They were never mentioned. It was like they didn't exist. And, after yesterday's drama at the convention center, the Brown and Chertoff lies, the Red Cross was still MIA. Then, earlier today, I saw a note that the Red Cross was not allowed to enter NO. Hmm, that's doe...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Public Hearing Wed Sept 7 will extend isolation torture - the power of a crowd is needed The California Department of Corrections (& Rehab what a joke) has called for public comments this one day only on extending ad seg (the hole) review times from 30 days to 90 days for some offenses and even to 180 days for other offenses. It means more time in the hole and it especially punishes the mentally ill and children as they are cut off from phone calls, visits and canteen, we are talking about increased isolation torture at stake...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 10:47pm PDT
Update from ADC 1) CANCELLED EVENT: Gaza Reflections La Pena 7 Sept. @ 7:30
2) ACTION ALERT: Please call your State assembly member and demand that they support SJR 10- civil rights resolution....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:19pm PDT
USW Interview's Pelican Bay SHU prisoner The following interview gives a first hand account of the arbitrary use of long term isolation in California prisons. There is a large movement that has declared the SHU to be torture and they will be building that struggle at the upcoming Unlock the Box conference in San Francisco on October 8, 2005....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:16am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
8-31-2005, Another Young Man Dies In CYA's Brutal Youth Prison CHAD A third young man died at the California Youth Authorit's brutal Chaderjian facility last night. Joseph Daniel Maldonado, 18, of Sacramento, hanged himself at 6:30 PM last night. In the last year two other young men died at Chad - one death is still unsolved, the other was the result of poisoning....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 11:07pm PDT
Former Black Panther Jailed for Not Testifying at State Grand Jury! A judge has jailed a former member of the Black Panther Party for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the killings of two San Francisco police officers in the early 1970s....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 5:47pm PDT
BARBARIANS Woman arrested for owning a dog.
Belgrade, Serbia – Home of the 2005 European Basketball Championship....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 4:33pm PDT
Reports of rogue New Orleans police This is from a blog. It confirms my father's experience living in New Orleans in the mid 60s when the police are notoriously corrupt. When a new mayor came in and cracked down this corruption, the crime rate appeared to go up because citizens felt more comfortable actually calling the police when they were victimized.
. . . The Iberville Housing Projects got pissed off because the police
started to "shop" after they kicked out looters. Then they started
shooting at cops. When t...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 1:03pm PDT
Iraq resumes executions Iraq has executed three convicted murderers, the first time the government has carried out the death penalty since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, government spokesman Laith Kubba said....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:44am PDT
New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered nearly the entire active police force in the flood-ravaged city to abandon rescue operations Wednesday night and focus on efforts to halt looting. The decision came in response to mounting pressure from sensationalized media coverage which is increasingly placing emphasis on the property damage done by looters, suggesting that it has become nearly as significant a social problem as the virtual destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:47pm PDT
Guantanamo detainees in protest fast Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees have started a new hunger strike at the US detention centre and at least one has written a will in anticipation of starving to death, human rights lawyers say....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 7:39pm PDT
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