14 December 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Britain’s Michael Browns and Eric Garners

source: IRR News
published: 11 December 2014

Not for the first time, our outrage at American racism goes hand in hand with complacency about Britain’s own history of institutional racism and its manifestations in police violence.

The surging protest movement in the US centres upon two cases of black men killed by the police: Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager from Ferguson, Missouri, who was shot dead by police in August, and Eric Garner, the Staten Island man killed in July in a chokehold by New York Police Department officers, who had arrested him on suspicion of selling cigarettes.

12 December 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police officer who killed Ethan Saylor won’t be indicted

source: LifeNews.com
published/archive: 12 October 2014

In 2011, Ethan Saylor died after police deputies tried to forcibly remove him from a Maryland movie theater. Saylor, 26, had Down syndrome and went to the theater with his heath aid to see Zero Dark Thirty.

The incident occurred when the movie concluded and Saylor said he wanted to see it again. The theater employees approached him and asked him to leave since he hadn’t purchased a second movie ticket. However, Ethan didn’t want to leave so three police deputies came in to resolve the situation.

18 November 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Cleveland woman with mental illness died after police used takedown move

source: Cleveland.com
published: 13 November 2014

A 37-year-old bipolar and schizophrenic woman died after police slammed her to the pavement outside her family’s home, her brother said.

Tanesha Anderson was pronounced dead at Cleveland Clinic early Thursday after an altercation with officers nearly two hours earlier on the 1300 block of Ansel Road.

“They killed my sister,” her 40-year-old brother Joell Anderson said with welling eyes in his living room Thursday night. “I watched it.”