Cops
shoot black man: Houston police say man was armed, release video of shooting
death
Houston police have released video showing the controversial, fatal shooting
of Alva Braziel, a 38-year-old black man, on July 9.
After news of
Braziel’s death spread across the country, many took to social media claiming
that police unnecessarily shot the man, who they said was unarmed. But police
continually said Braziel was holding a handgun while standing in the middle of a
street.
The released video included a recording from a convenience store
surveillance camera and several police body cams. The surveillance footage
showed Braziel walking in the distance as two police vehicles approached.
Shortly after, Braziel could be seen falling to the floor.
Police said
they thought Braziel was flagging them down, but after shining a light on him
they said they realized he was armed.
There’s been a lot of talk about the lack of unity at this year’s Republican
National Convention, but there’s one issue that enjoys overwhelming support
among Democrats, Independents, and even Donald Trump supporters in Cleveland:
closing loopholes in our laws that allow criminals, suspected terrorists, and
the dangerously mentally ill to buy weapons without a background check. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a record number of national Republicans
break ranks with the gun lobby to support legislation that will make us safer,
and Gabby and I expect that the next Congress will be even more receptive than
the current class to vote for change. But there is one person who can put a halt to all of the progress we’ve made
and expect to make in November, and that’s the man speaking from the big stage
tonight, Donald Trump. Gabby and I are going to spend the next few months doing everything we can to
elect a Congress and a president that will work to make our communities safer,
but we can’t do it alone … we need you with us in this fight. And that’s why I
am asking: Can
Gabby and I count on you to make a $3 contribution to Americans for Responsible
Solutions PAC today as a way of saying you will do everything you can to stop
the one man who can derail the work to change our gun laws, President Donald
Trump? Donald Trump has very powerful allies in this fight. The gun lobby has
already spent millions of dollars to support his campaign and unite Republicans
around him. They know the stakes in this election. But I know that if we continue to stand together and continue to challenge
the gun lobby’s influence in Congress and state capitols across the country, we
are going to win. And winning means saving lives. That’s
why your contribution today, the day Donald Trump accepts the Republican Party’s
nomination, is so important. Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination for the Republican Party, pledging, "I'm with you -- the American people." But just weeks earlier, he made a different pledge to the NRA's chief lobbyist while accepting their endorsement, "I will not let you down." The truth is, Trump's already broken his promise to the American people. Throughout his campaign, he's sold the NRA's reckless "guns everywhere" agenda as a solution to reducing gun violence in our communities. And this week, he let politicians bought and paid for by the NRA push their deadly agenda in prime time at the RNC. We need to show Donald Trump that any politician who puts the NRA ahead of the American people won't be our president. Chip in $25 or more right now to help expose Trump's dangerous vision for our country.
We have a different vision, Don, one that includes common sense gun safety laws that keep guns away from dangerous people and protect American families. And we have a candidate who is willing fight for that vision -- Hillary Clinton. We need to make sure that every American hears our message loud and clear: More guns in more places will not make us safer. If that was true, America would be the safest country in the world. Instead, Americans are 25 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than people in other developed countries. We can't afford to sit back and allow Trump and his extremist allies to distort the truth and double down on the NRA's dangerous vision for our country. Over the next week, we're going to raise the voices of survivors of gun violence and gun sense champions in order to share our vision -- a vision of an America free from gun violence. If you disagree with Trump and the NRA's deadly vision for America, chip in $25 or more right now to help us fight back. By standing together, we'll make sure Donald Trump regrets standing with the NRA instead of the American people.
Pit
bull gets shot by AR-15: Cop shoots dog to death during kid’s birthday party
A child’s pet pit bull was shot to death after police say the canine
“viciously attacked” an officer investigating an old warrant.
According
to Fox 25, Eli Malone was celebrating his fifth birthday with friends and family
at his Wynnewood, Oklahoma home recently when an unnamed officer came to the
house.
That officer was serving a warrant at the Malone’s address when
police say Opie, Eli’s pet dog — a pit bull, American bulldog mix — lunged at
him through the fence. However, the warrant the officer was investigating was
from ten years ago, and for a person that no longer lives at the Malone’s
address.
The cops claim the dog attacked the officer after it came
running around the corner of the house. Police say the officer tried to kick the
dog off him before shooting him. But the Malones say that doesn’t line up with
footage captured after the shooting of a barely alive Opie near the gate inside
the enclosure.
North Miami police shot and injured an unarmed therapist on Monday as he tried
to calm an autistic patient who had run away from a group home.
Police
responded to a report that a man with a gun was standing on a North Miami street
threatening to kill himself, WSVN reported. In fact, the man was a 23-year-old
autistic patient holding a toy truck.
Health worker Charles Kinsey, 47,
was trying to guide the patient home when police arrived. Kinsey followed police
orders to lie on the ground and put his hands in the air.
Video footage
showed the health worker keeping his hands aloft as he tried to convince the
autistic man to lie down on the ground.
A police officer armed with a
rifle then fired three shots, hitting Kinsey in the leg.
Police
handcuffed Kinsey and rolled him onto his front. The injured therapist then lay
bleeding, face down on the ground for 20 minutes before emergency services
arrived, WPLG reported.
Fatal
police shooting: Video shows police shooting Oklahoma City man on bus
Oklahoma City police released a video showing a deadly shooting involving
a police officer that occurred on a city bus on June 24.
Miguel
Chavez-Angles was shot and killed by Officer Daniel Carli last month, after what
authorities say was a kidnapping and an attempt to grab another police officer’s
gun.
Chavez first encountered police at 12:33 p.m. on June 24 at the St.
James Catholic Church, according to KFOR.
Church staff told authorities
that Chavez was upset about his potential divorce and was reportedly banging his
head on the floor.
Chavez agreed to go to St. Anthony’s Hospital for an
evaluation after an officer spoke with him, KFOR reported.
He was taken
to the hospital around 1:35 p.m. and discharged about two hours
later.
Police say that after he was released, he got into a car with two
women and told them to drive.
Black
man rants about #policelivesmatter after Baton Rouge shooting that left cops
dead
Hours after the officer shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a man
posted a live, uncensored rant on Facebook condemning the killing of law
enforcement.
Terrence Williams, a black man, said he was “pissed off” and
“sick of this ghetto shit,” when he heard about the shooting. He asked Facebook
users, “What the hell we gonna do without the police?”
He
continued:
“Who the hell we gonna call on? The damn Ghostbusters? You
can’t call on me! What we gonna do without the damn police if y’all gonna try to
kill all the damn cops in America!” he continued. “Who you gonna call at 3 in
the morning when your husband wakes up and decides to bust your damn throat? Who
you gonna call? Your momma? Me? Your brother? Cause you ain’t gonna be able to
call me, I can guarantee you that, because I ain’t waking up to that shit!”
Cornel
West: Justice and Accountability Necessary to End Tension over Killings by
Police
We discuss the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent
nationwide protests against police brutality with Cornel West. Cornel West is a
professor at Union Theological Seminary. "When I hear the authorities call for
peace," West says, "I say, yes, but it’s not the absence of tension. It’s got to
be the presence of that justice and accountability."
Three
Police Officers Shot Dead in Baton Rouge Two Weeks After Officers Killed Alton
Sterling
In Baton Rouge, three police officers were killed and three others were
wounded in a shooting rampage on Sunday following more than a week of protests
against police violence that were sparked by the fatal shooting of Baton Rouge
resident Alton Sterling by police. According to reports, the officers were
responding to a 911 call of shots fired when they were ambushed by a gunman.
Officials identified the gunman as Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri. Long,
who was African-American, served in the Marines from 2005 to 2010, reaching the
rank of sergeant. He deployed to Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009, according
to military records, and was awarded several medals, including one for good
conduct, and received an honorable discharge. We go to Baton Rouge, where we are
joined by LaMont Cole, city councilmember for District 7 in Baton Rouge, the
area where Alton Sterling was killed by police this month.
One-in-a-billion-shot:
Colorado deputy fires a bullet into suspect’s gun barrel
A letter from prosecutors revealed the details of an attack of an
off-duty Colorado sheriff’s deputy in January, which ended with the deputy
firing a ‘one in a billion’ shot.
Off-duty deputy Jose Ramon Marquez was
walking in an apartment complex parking lot in Aurora on the evening of January
26 when two men approached him.
One of them suddenly pulled out a gun,
and as Marquez also drew his weapon, the man opened fired 12 shots at
him.
Marquez returned fire four times, with one bullet hitting the
suspect’s leg. Another bullet reportedly went directly into the barrel of the
attacker’s gun, hit the cartridge and disabled the weapon.
Marquez was
badly wounded from the shooting, with bullets damaging his intestines, colon and
liver. He is still recovering from the injuries.
Hours after the head of Cleveland’s police
union pleaded with the governor to suspend Ohio’s open-carry laws during the
Republican National Convention, Donald Trump’s spokesperson told ThinkProgress
she is “not nervous at all” that people are walking around the city with assault
weapons...(read more)
Baton
Rouge ambush described
Officials
in Louisiana have painted a picture of “chilling, sheer brutality” in the way
black separatist Gavin Long set about ambushing and killing three police
officers on Sunday. “He was in shape,” said Col Mike Edmonson of the Louisiana
state police. “He was concentrated, he was articulate in all manners of
engagement.” Long, 29, had apparently travelled from Missouri to Louisiana to
expressly kill police. One of the three officers wounded in the attack remains
in critical condition.
Gunman
who killed three police officers named as former marine Gavin Long; Republican
national convention opens in Cleveland; Nasa warns of Amazon fires
Police officers attend a vigil after a fatal shooting of Baton Rouge policemen,
at Saint John the Baptist Church in Zachary, Louisiana. Photograph: Jeff
Dubinsky/Reuters
Baton
Rouge gunman named
The
killer of three Louisiana police officers was named on Sunday as Gavin
Long, a former marine who served in Iraq and who used an online alias,
“Cosmo Setepenra”, to rail against perceived injustices against black people.
“You gotta fight back,” Long, 29, urged viewers in a video recorded a week ago.
He described the shooting dead of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, on 7
July as “justice”.
Man
shoots teen through front door, now faces murder charges in Massachusetts
A 15-year-old boy shot in the abdomen Saturday has died and a
42-year-old homeowner who shot him has been arrested, according to
MassLive.
Jeffrey Lovell has been charged with murder. He is being held
in the Chicopee Police Department jail without right to bail, said Michael Wilk,
public information officer for the Chicopee Police Department.
Lovell is
accused of shooting the teenager through the front door of his house at 120
Boucher Circle at around 12:56 p.m. on Saturday.
Police initially
received a breaking and entering call from Lovell’s house. When they arrived on
scene, they found the teenager on the ground with a gunshot wound to his
abdomen, Wilk said.
According to the police, three teenagers went to
Lovell’s house because they mistook it to be their friend’s home. The victim was
banging on the outside door when the homeowner shot through the door, striking
the male, Wilk said.
Baton
Rouge shootings: Ex-Marine Gavin Long kills 3 cops and injures 3 others in
shooting
Three Baton Rouge police officers were killed and three
others injured when a former U.S. Marine went on a shooting spree on Sunday
morning.
The gunman was killed in an exchange of gunfire with responding
officers. He was named by police as Gavin Long, 29.
Police were called
to a convenience store off Airline Highway in Baton Rouge after receiving a
report about a man armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, Reuters
reported.
Officers appear to have been caught off-guard by Long when he
began shooting.
Baton Rouge police named those killed as city officers
Montrell Jackson, 32, and Matthew Gerald, 41, and Sheriff’s Deputy Brad
Garafola, 45.
Retired Marine sergeant Long reinvented himself as a life
coach after he was honorably discharged from the military in 2010, according to
the Daily Caller.