20 Year Old ‘executed’ by police [was] unable to hear orders

US Armed Policesource: The Free Thought Project
published: 13 August 2014

Dillon Taylor, 20 years old, was ‘executed’ by the Salt Lake City Police around 7pm, Monday night for failing to comply with officers orders. The young man was reportedly wearing headphones and likely couldn’t hear the officers.

Taylor, his brother, and cousin were at 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake City when cops began searching the area for a suspect who was allegedly waving a gun in the general vicinity.

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Eric Garner and the plague of US police brutality against black men

Eric Garner
Eric Garner

source: VICE United States
published: Jul 18 2014

If you haven’t heard about Eric Garner yet, let me fill you in. He was a 43-year-old father of six who lived in Staten Island, and he died in the street on Thursday after as many as four New York police officers choked him and slammed his head on the ground.

The NYPD told the Associated Press that they stopped Garner because he was selling untaxed cigarettes, something he’d been arrested for before. However, witnesses who spoke with local news website Staten Island Live have basically said that’s bullshit.

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CCTV captures violent arrest which left man with shattered eye-socket

Mohaib Qurban - CCTV captures violent arrestsource: Birmingham Mail 
published: 24 June 2014

A West Midlands Police officer is facing a misconduct hearing after shattering the eye-socket of a man during a violent arrest. Mohaib Qurban was told by medics that he was lucky not to have lost his sight after he was seriously injured by the officer in Dean Street, city centre.

Some of the shocking incident was captured on CCTV cameras near Birmingham Markets and appears to show the officer punching down towards Mohaib as he lies prone beside the wheels of a parked car.

The footage, which has been obtained by the Birmingham Mail, then zooms in and shows him lifted into view before the same officer is clearly seen delivering two violent knees to his head whilst his arms and legs are pinned by a further three police.

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