Day: September 16, 2014

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Politics shooting

Utah Police Officers Shot Dead Another Black Man In The Back

Photograph: Jocelyn Hansen

Another story to add to our ever-growing folder on excessive force and police brutality.

A Preliminary autopsy states that the young man was shot in the back corroborating eyewitness’ account that the man was running away from police. You wanna know what was the Police account of the shooting? They said the young man was coming towards them with a sword, so they shot him in the back?

Huh? How… wa… I don’t… *sigh*

ThinkProgress reports that last Wednesday, 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot dead by police in Saratoga Springs, Utah, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.

For three days, police said nothing about the cause of the shooting while witnesses reported that he was running away as officers shot outside a Panda Express. On Saturday, police issued a brief statement saying he lunged at them with a sword. But Hunt’s lawyer says an independent autopsy shows Hunt was shot in the back and not in the front, and his mother Susan Hunt says the “sword” was a blunt-edged vanity version of a Japanese “Katana” sword he bought at an Asian gift shop.

“Those stupid cops thought they had to murder over a toy,” Susan Hunt told the Associated Press. The family’s lawyer, Randall K. Edwards, declined requests from the Los Angeles Times to provide the name of pathologist who performed the alleged autopsy, or to provide a copy of the autopsy.

Hunt told the Associated Press that she returned to Utah recently after separating from her husband and fleeing an abusive relationship, to start a new life with her children. She said Darrien was coping with the separation and looking for jobs in Saratoga Springs

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Featured Politics Sarah Palin

Bristal Palin “Was Quite, Quite Violent” In Recent Family Brawl – Eye Witness

Roberta Thompson told TPM that she was present at the home where the drunken brawl by mama grizzly Sarah Palin and the rest of the Palin family took place.

“It was just so shocking,” Roberta Thompson said.

She mostly confirmed what her husband told multiple news outlets last week, saying that the two of them were right next to each other during the incident. But she provided her own take on how the events unfolded, including a portion that she said involved the eldest Palin daughter, Bristol Palin, and the owner of the house, Korey Klingenmeyer.

“What I saw was two girls run past and run towards Korey,” Roberta Thompson said. “And then I just saw Bristol Palin start punching him in the face.”

“It was quite, quite violent,” she added.

She said Klingenmeyer was clearly upset about what was happening but maintained his composure.

“She kept punching him and then he just said, you know, ‘You need to go,'” Thompson said.

Klingenmeyer escorted the Palins around the corner from there, Thompson said, and she did not see what happened after that.

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Featured

Republican Nut Bryan Fischer – America is a Christian Nation Because we Sell Bacon

Pure Insanity! I have no more words for these folks. If he was really a Christian and this is the argument he wanted to make, am I to believe that Fischer couldn’t come up with something better than bacon? Bacon?!?

Listen to Bryan Fischer as he discussed bacon and Christianity on his radio show.

“You want one single item of proof that America is a Christian nation and not a Jewish nation and not an Islamic nation?” he asked. “One single bit of proof is all you need: we freely allow restaurants and grocery stores to sell and to serve bacon. That can only happen in a Christian country.”

“So the sheer fact that we freely allow the sale and consumption of bacon,” he said, “is absolute proof that we are, in fact, a Christian nation”

I am totally speechless. It is amazing that these people have a following, both Religiously and politically. There are people in this nation genuinely looking for some sort of guidance, but Bacon is all the likes of Bryan Fischer and his conservative media friends can afford. Bacon is all they are able to bring to the table.

Bacon in, Bacon out! That should be the Republicans mantra!

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Racism

See The Display that Forced a Black Dentist to Resign


Meet Dr. Misee Harris, the only black Pediatric Dentist in an all white practice. She made the unthinkable mistake of posting the picture above on her “private” Facebook page, but was reprimanded by her boss for the post. Read Harris’ story below.

On Thursday, September 4th, Dr. Misee Harris (the Black Bachelorette) was called into an unannounced meeting at the dental practice where she has worked as a Pediatric Dentist and was recently offered a partnership in the practice. Dr. Harris, the sole African American dentist in the practice, has worked tirelessly with underprivileged young patients on Medicaid to ensure their smiles remain healthy, and the quality of Dr. Harris’s work has never been called into question. Once in the meeting, Dr. Harris was ambushed and presented with screenshots from her private Facebook page. Being that Misee had blocked work colleagues from accessing her account, it was explained to Misee that a doctor who is a partner at the office, and who led the meeting, had been having a friend spy on Misee’s Facebook page. Screenshots were taken of Misee’s Facebook posts and were sent to the doctor who led the meeting. Misee was then told that some of her Facebook posts about recent racial issues in America were “unprofessional.” The biggest bone of contention to the partners was a cartoon (see graphic below) related to the recent police murders of several innocent African-Americans across the nation. The partner held up the picture and asked Misee “Do you think we (meaning Misee’s white colleagues) are all like this?”

Dr. Misee Harris composed herself and asked the partner if she had any idea what was going on in black America, namely regarding the murder of Michael Brown. The partner did not know the name Mike Brown, nor did she seem to understand Misee’s outrage at being attacked for her personal views. Dr. Harris’s racial discrimination concerns voiced on her personal and private Facebook page was meant solely for the eyes of her friends and family whom Misee thought she could trust. Misee was then told flat out that she would have to choose between her “style of social media communication” and her job as a pediatric dentist in their practice.

Misee felt unable to continue working under such conditions and decided to quit the dental practice on the spot, much to the dismay of her bosses. They assumed Misee would simply promise to stop voicing her opinions on social media about racial injustice. In a nutshell, Dr. Misee Harris feels she has been discriminated against as the sole African-American member of her now former dental practice. Dr. Harris believes she has been pushed out of her job for simply being a black woman in America.

h/t Crooks & Liars

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