Protests – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:27:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Off Duty Officer Shoots at Children Causing Protests to Erupt https://www.melanoidnation.org/off-duty-officer-shoots-at-children-causing-protests-to-erupt/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/off-duty-officer-shoots-at-children-causing-protests-to-erupt/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:53:52 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=3938 By Amy Lukau

Yesterday, Wednesday February 22, 2017 in Anaheim, California video went viral of an off-duty police officer firing a gun during a scuffle with a child after the adolescents walked on his lawn according to reports.

The young teen at the center of the incident has been identified as a 13-year-old boy named Christian.

The videos shows the off duty officer firing a single round during a physical altercation with Christian. The teen’s friend then steps in and tries to break the officer’s hold on Christian. During the same time another teen rushes the officer, where he loses his balance and stumbles, still holding Christian in his grip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSMv4wbHK-A

The route where the altercation occurred is used to go to and from school by local children attending three schools in the area.

Christian was booked at Orange County Juvenile Hall for criminal threats and battery. The 15-year-old friend was arrested for assault and battery and was released to his parents.

Meanwhile, the unidentified off duty police officer was placed on administrative leave while the incident is being investigated said the LAPD.

Demonstrators gathered outside the home of the unidentified off duty police officer and then took the streets of Anaheim blocking traffic near Disneyland for several hours. It was then that the Anaheim police advised the public to avoid the area as officers in riot gear were sent into the area.

As of this morning, 24 people have been arrested, six of them juveniles, on suspicion of misdemeanor charges for failing to disperse, resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer, according to Anaheim police.

Anaheim’s mayor, Tom Tait said “Anaheim is committed to a full and impartial investigation. Our city will move forward without delay.”

“The case will be presented to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office when it is completed. The names of the involved parties are not being released at this time,” the statement said.

Jennifer Rojas, a policy advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, told NBC Los Angeles the organization is “deeply disturbed” by reports and demanded “a full explanation of why, in an altercation between the police officer and youths, the youths were arrested but not the officer who fired his gun.”

 

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Violence Erupts in Baltimore After Suspected White Supremacists Provoke Peaceful Protesters https://www.melanoidnation.org/violence-erupts-in-baltimore-after-suspected-white-supremacists-provoke-peaceful-protesters/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/violence-erupts-in-baltimore-after-suspected-white-supremacists-provoke-peaceful-protesters/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:22:14 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=1532 Thousands of protesters took to the streets Saturday in the largest Freddie Gray rally yet, and after hours of peaceful demonstrations, pockets of protesters smashed out police car windows and storefronts after they were provoked by suspected white supremacist sports spectators who were in the area for a baseball game.

Racial tensions  are already high over the death of an innocent,unarmed Black man named Freddie Gray. Gray died April 19 after suffering a fatal spinal injury while in police custody. Authorities have not explained how or when Gray’s spine was injured. Police have said Gray should have received medical attention at the spot where he was arrested before he was put inside a police transport van handcuffed and without a seat belt, a violation of the department’s policy.

The protest Saturday over the death of Gray turned violent,and the mainstream media made a point to focus on the Black protestors who caused property damage. By they did failed to mention that the protestors were initially peaceful until they were antagonized by suspected white supremacists.

One person on Facebook who was allegedly part of the protests reported:

“We were peaceful. We walked thru 3 miles of Baltimore’s worst neighborhood and nothing jumped off. Black non protesters were using their cars to block traffic. No police were there when we were in the hood, and no violence happened. Once we got downtown and the police were on every corner, the whites were calling us niggers, calling the white protestors nigger lovers, trying to plow us with their cars, and in turn they got drug out their cars and their cars were damaged. My son and I were pushed by white men. As I was about to taze em, a group of black men came up and handled them. Yet we are labeled as the animals. Yes it did turn chaotic but only after outsiders instigated. ”

 

Below is a video of some of the civil unrest caused by  the white race soldiers who caused the death of Freddie Gray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yktyADnCg8

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