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COPS HATE BLACKS..THEY KILL BLACKS FOR NO REASON AT ALL..WHY?
In the five weeks since Mark Anthony Barmore was gunned down by police officers in an Illinois daycare center, answers remain elusive. By all accounts, the 23-year-old African American man was unarmed when police officers Oda Poole and Stan North approached him in a church parking lot. Although Barmore was only wanted for questioning in a domestic dispute, officers pursued him with guns drawn, even after he ran into the church’s daycare facility. Minutes later Barmore was dead. The police shot him three times in the back as the center’s terrified children looked on. The brutal, public nature of this killing has thrust the city of Rockford into the spotlight, and posed disturbing questions about accountability and the use of excessive force. While the official police report claims Barmore was shot after he reached for an officer’s gun, witnesses tell a different story. They say Barmore had already surrendered; that he was shot after emerging from a storage closet with his hands up. One witness, a teenage girl, says she was threatened by police if she did not change her story to conform to the official report. It may be tempting to view this story exclusively through the prism of race, and, truth be told, many elements of the story indicate that race probably played a role in the decisions that were made that day. But the fact remains that police violence can happen to anyone, regardless of color or ethnicity. According to Department of Justice figures, national incidents of police use of violence and deadly force has increased since the late 1990s nationally. While police misconduct has long been an unfortunate hallmark of some police departments in black and Hispanic communities, that reality is also found in some poor white communities. When malfeasance is not brought under control and good law enforcement rewarded the problem can grow. Cheye Calvo, the white mayor of an affluent, predominantly white suburb of Berwyn heights, Maryland, learned that lesson last year when his house was stormed by police and his dogs shot in what law enforcement later admitted was a mistake. Berwyn Heights is part of Prince Georges County where complaints of police abuse against minorities were longstanding and rarely resolved. Several weeks ago, an unarmed double-leg amputee was tasered and jailed for nearly a week in Merced, California. This past summer, a white great-grandmother in Texas was tasered after failing to sign a ticket. After his ordeal, Calvo wrote, “a pattern and practice of police abuse treated with utter indifference rips at the fabric of our social compact and virtually guarantees more of the same.” In Rockford, this was not the first shooting incident for either of the officers involved. In fact, one officer, 37-year-old Oda Poole, had already, shot three other people – one fatally – in his five short years with the Rockford police force. Mark Barmore’s tragic story has as much to do with negligence in oversight as it does with racial discrimination. For this reason, the NAACP has formed a partnership with the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Amnesty International to bring attention to this tragedy. This weekend, we will gather in Rockford to march in the name of justice for Mark Barmore’s family. We are demanding that there be counseling provided for the young children who are showing symptoms of post traumatic stress after being forced to witness the horror of his death. Importantly, we will also be marching for systemic changes as well. It is hard to believe, but the United States remains the only country in the Western world without national standards for the use of police force, or with ongoing federal training for officers. This lack of uniformity is one of the core factors behind the Rockford tragedy and far too many other police shootings across the nation. There are as many use-of-force policies as there are law enforcement agencies, and as many interpretations of those policies as there are law enforcement officers. Later this year, Congressman John Conyers will reintroduce the Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act, which would mandate official standards for the use of force for every law enforcement agency from federal marshals to rank and file cops on the beat. We believe that the bill will help reduce the number of police tragedies like the death of Mark Barmore. 26 comments from 11 users
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posted by
timec
on Oct 21, 2009 at 09:41 AM
I did not post this to argue...I just want everyone to be informed on what is going on outside of Kern County. posted by
TurkeySandwich
on Oct 21, 2009 at 10:37 AM
apparently from your story they also hate white people
posted by
ricktracy
on Oct 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM
The fact is that he struggled with the officers. If I was you I would change your heading on this story.
posted by
learnem
on Oct 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM
the new law should be you run................youre done sad list of events listed by the blogger, with no link to who wrote it, where it appeared, etc posted by
timec
on Oct 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Change the heading ....for what? posted by
drilnliftcrude
on Oct 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM
They need a beer summit with the Nobel laureate. posted by
randomfactor
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
They need a beer summit with the Nobel laureate. Couldn't hurt. That Cambridge cop hasn't screwed up *AGAIN* since Obama called him to White House, has he? posted by
witbee
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM
He didn't screw up at all. posted by
learnem
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
posted by
learnem
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
He didn't screw up at all.
yeah he did, he should have shot that professor for not following orders posted by
timec
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM
I can't find the website now ...but it is all over the internet. posted by
randomfactor
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
yeah he did, he should have shot that professor for not following orders Learnem, you can't shoot black people for not doing what you tell them to anymore. Except in New York, of course. Yeah, the cop in the Cambridge case screwed up big-time. He knows it, too. *YOU* know it. posted by
drilnliftcrude
on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM
The race baiting "professor" hasn't got himself arrested since being called to the White House. Apparently, he learned not to badger the police while they are doing their job. Good job, Lord Barack! posted by
drilnliftcrude
on Oct 21, 2009 at 01:09 PM
Mr. Barmore was actually delivering ice creams to all the kids at the daycare that he bought with his own money even. He was only running because the ice cream was melting. See, he was really a great guy. If only all mothers would raise their children like the mothers in the hood do, to never obey and always distrust the police, then the hope and change utopia for Amerika will finally be within our grasp. posted by
Ray_Harwick
on Oct 21, 2009 at 01:36 PM
no link to who wrote it, where it appeared, etc HufPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.c... Written by Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and Chief Exec. Officer of the NAACP also posted at: RaceWire.org http://www.racewire.org/arc... Pretty tragic story. posted by
ricktracy
on Oct 21, 2009 at 01:46 PM
Thanks, Ray. Some things were left out in the story above. It was made to fit into racial mold. posted by
learnem
on Oct 21, 2009 at 02:08 PM
i bet the guy had a criminal record. i laugh every time i watch cops, the police women of broward county, or jacked "no man, thats not my car.....i borrowed it for a friend" "whats your friends name?" "i dont know" lol or when they find drugs in their pants, "those aint mah pants, i found them in the street officer." "so, you werent wearing pants when you found THESE pants?" lmao
posted by
ricktracy
on Oct 21, 2009 at 02:54 PM
or they say that they just bought it at the thrift store and they didn't know there was a crack pipe in the pocket. Too funny. Learnem, watch the "Bait Car" cop show on Tru. Its funny. Who me?????
posted by
AudreyB
on Oct 21, 2009 at 03:01 PM
I did not post this to argue...I just want everyone to be informed on what is going on outside of Kern County. With all due respect, Timec, how do you expect people to respond when you word the title of your blog with inflamatory language and scream it using large fonts. I can't help but think you're looking for a fight. And if that's the case, you're not doing Marc Anthony Barmore any service. posted by
timec
on Oct 21, 2009 at 03:04 PM
All I did was copy and paste..... posted by
AudreyB
on Oct 21, 2009 at 03:06 PM
OK timec. I do that occasionally too. ;-) posted by
timec
on Oct 21, 2009 at 03:07 PM
No Audrey .....not this time. I was just trying to give it a catchy title. And if that's the case, you're not doing Marc Anthony Barmore any service. He's dead. I am sure he doesn't mind. posted by
AudreyB
on Oct 21, 2009 at 03:15 PM
Correction You're not doing your cause any service by ratcheting up the anger level. It's extremely counterproductive. posted by
goldilox
on Oct 21, 2009 at 03:16 PM
~ Cops Hate Criminals, Period. (and so do i) posted by
animalluvr
on Oct 22, 2009 at 04:55 AM
Cops shoot Hispanics, whites, and any race it doesn't even matter to them. I see all of the time and who always complains about it gee i wonder who. I say quit complaining and just listen to them at all times. That's why "people" get shot at all of the time, because they get nervous and move to much or they don't like to listen to the cops when they tell you to put your hands up or something. Now don't get me wrong sometimes cops do go overboard and do the wrong things but that's just because there are a very few dirty cops out there imo. posted by
animalluvr
on Oct 22, 2009 at 05:05 AM
Also it said that he ran, from the cops, why did he run in the first place. That's a mistake a lot of people make before they get killed by cops. People should just comply with them right away so then the cops wouldn't have no excuses for having to shoot. Either way i think that is a sad story and there should be a full investigation.
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