Police Officer Omar Edwards and Son Both the nomination of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice and the murder of a plain clothes, Black police officer Omar J. Edwards by a white police officer, Andrew Dutton, occurred last week.
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Judges, Black Cops and Sub-humanity
Tuesday, June 2nd, 20092nd NYPD Police Brutality Videotape in One Week
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Here are the facts that I have so far. The arresting officer, Michael Harrington, who is on the videohitting Mr. Cephus contends that Mr. Cephus was drunk and hadpreviously struck the officers and lunged at them with an umbrella.Mr. Cephus contends that he hadn’t been drinking and thathe didn’t swing the umbrella. The first allegation [...]
NYPD and Sean Bell on My Mind
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Last night, at about 10pm, I remarked to Filthy how quietthe block was. He responded saying that the playoffs wereon and that it isn’t unnatural for the streets to hum a bit more quietlyduring that time.I was responded with a lip smack, saying, “the kids watchingthe game too?” We were in Crown Heights. (That neighborhood [...]
