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Video Shows Police Shooting Eddie Irizarry While He Sat in Car

Ezra Grant — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:27:37 +0000

Originally, police tried to justify the shooting by saying the victim, 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry, exited his car and came after them. But two days later, Police Commissioner, Danielle Outlaw corrected that original report telling reporters that the victim was actually shot while sitting in his car. Surveillance video showed that happened. Video shows an officer […]

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Atlanta Police Chief Resigns, after yet another Black man dies at the hands of Police

Ezra Grant — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 02:56:52 +0000

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Kerry Washington’s “Rant” about Recent Police Shootings

Ezra Grant — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:55:00 +0000

After giving birth to her second child and thanking well wishers, the ‘Scandal’ star took to twitter to “rant” about the recent police killing of Deborah Danner, the 66-year-old woman with schizophrenia, killed by a New York police officer. “It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. So, a few things I wanna get off my chest…,” she started. […]

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Charlotte Police Chief Will Not Release Police Video of Keith Lamont Scott’s Killing – Video

Ezra Grant — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:10:40 +0000

So much for transparency. After yet another police shooting of yet another black man, this time in Charlotte North Carolina, the chief of police decided to keep the video showing the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott a secret. Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer why he chose not to release the video, Chief Kerr Putney said that […]

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We Need to Calm Down

Robert I. Grundfest — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:52:49 +0000

If we need anything now, it’s to stop talking and let the investigations into the tragedies of the past week move forward. After all, in the overwhelming number of big news stories, the early information is usually the least reliable, but that’s the information that becomes the narrative. Then when we get contradictory evidence, it’s […]

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Sarah Palin Says Black Lives Matter is a “Farce”

Ezra Grant — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:28:23 +0000

It is sickening to think that there are people in this nation who supported Sarah Palin. And it is even more sickening to think that someone like Sarah Palin was considered to be our vice president. Oh wait! We now have Donald Trump and he wants to be President!!! Black people in this country have […]

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Newt Gingrich – White People “don’t understand being black in America” – Video

Ezra Grant — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 03:08:23 +0000

In his conversation with Van Jones, former Republican House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, came to the shocking truth that black Americans live with every day – black lives do not matter to white America and white Americans could care less about blacks being gunned down every day by police. “It took me a long time, and […]

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Jeb Bush say Grand Jury Correct in Tamir Rice’s Killing – “There’s No There There” – Video

Ezra Grant — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 04:55:14 +0000

First of all, Jeb Bush did not know who Tamir Rice was. After the reporter asked him if he thought the grand jury was correct in refusing to bring charges against the two police officers who killed the 12-year-old boy in Ohio, Jeb began his answer saying something about Chicago. The reporter had to tell […]

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An Emotional Antonio LeGrier Breaks Down While Talking About His Son’s Murder – Video

Ezra Grant — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:50:26 +0000

He called 911 looking for help with his son from the Chicago police but instead of getting that help, the father of Quintonio went on CNN today and shared his emotional story, telling the network how Chicago police shot and killed his 19 year old son over the weekend. During the CNN interview, Antonio LeGrier struggled on […]

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Police Shooting of Quintonio LeGrier

Ezra Grant — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:48:10 +0000

The father of Quintonio LeGrier, the teenager fatally shot by Chicago police over the weekend, has taken legal action against the city of Chicago, CNN reports. On Monday, Antonio LeGrier filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging the officer shot his son without justification, used excessive force and failed to provide […]

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Tamir Rice’s Killer Goes Free – No Indictment

Ezra Grant — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:19:44 +0000

Twelve year old Tamir Rice is dead and gone. The little boy was shot and killed by an Ohio police officer in 2014. Today however, over a year after Rice was killed, a grand jury stated that the officer was absolutely correct and within his right to pull up on Tamir Rice and killed the […]

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Police Shooting in Chicago left Two Citizens Dead, One Critically Injured

Ezra Grant — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:05:49 +0000

A 55-year-old mother of 5 and a 19-year-old college student were both shot and killed by Chicago police Saturday morning. And another person was shot and critically wounded by police. The police involved shootings all happened within a 12 hour time period. According to reports, the father of 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier called police saying his […]

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Mentally Ill Man Shot and Killed Seconds After Police Arrived On Scene – Video

Ezra Grant — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:21:35 +0000

Are you getting used to this yet? Police officers taking it upon themselves to decide who deserves a death penalty and then enforcing that death penalty on American citizens? You’ve seen numerous examples of this. You should be used to it by now. But I’m not. Although I’ve seen countless videos of people being gunned […]

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Police Shooting – Black Man Shot Dead while Walking Away from Police – Video

Ezra Grant — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 01:52:44 +0000

Eye witnesses say the man, a 28-year-old, was walking with a gun and “shooting rounds into the air.” Police say their commands for the man to drop the gun were ignored, so they fired multiple rounds at the man as he walked then crawled away from them, killing him. According to the Los Angeles County […]

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New Report – Police Could Not See Gun When They Killed Tamir Rice

Ezra Grant — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:31:48 +0000

According to a new investigative report, 12 year old Tamir Rice did not have a gun or even a pellet gun in his hand when police pulled up and gunned him down at a recreation center in November 2014. And the various reports that said Rice was killed 2 to 3 seconds after police arrived […]

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San Francisco Man Dies After Barrage of Bullets from Police – Video

Ezra Grant — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 03:00:14 +0000

Warning! The video below is graphic! San Francisco police responded to a report of a stabbing and met this man on the sidewalk with a knife. The man, a 26-year-old named Mario Woods, is seen on the video surrounded by six police officers, still holding a knife in his hand. Police say the man refused […]

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Dashcam Video of Laquan McDonald’s Murder Released – Video

Ezra Grant — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:18:13 +0000

It took a year! I’ll say that again, the Chicago police sat on this video for a year under the guise that they were conducting an internal investigation. But now, following the orders of a judge, the video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald is released. Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is credited with […]

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Video of Laquan McDonald’s Shooting Could be Released Pending Judge’s Ruling

Ezra Grant — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:42:38 +0000

Chicago police may be forced to release video that is said to show an officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, WGNTV reports. A Cook County judge is expected to decide Thursday whether to order police to release dashcam video of the October 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Police have said McDonald refused to […]

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Report – Father Had His Hands Up When Police Killed His 6-Year-Old

Ezra Grant — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:43:11 +0000

Why am I not surprised. Police body camera video shows the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy had his hands up and posed no threat as police opened fire into his car, severely wounding the motorist and killing his son, the man’s lawyer said Monday. “This was not a threatening situation for the police,” said […]

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Black American Seeking Refuge in Canada Because of Police Brutality – Video

Ezra Grant — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:48:00 +0000

It has come down to this! Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, crossed into B.C.’s Lower Mainland in early September of 2015, telling border agents that he was here to visit and take photographs, but once in Vancouver decided he would apply to remain as a refugee. “I’m in fear of my life because I’m black,” he […]

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Officers Charged with Second-degree Murder in Killing of 6 Year Old

Ezra Grant — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:19:52 +0000

The 6 year old was shot 5 times and died. And the two police officers responsible for his death were charged with second degree murder. Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Derrick Stafford, 32, were charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the shooting in the city of Marksville on Tuesday, Col. Mike Edmonson […]

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Youngest Victim of Police Shooting – A 6 Year Old Killed, Shot 5 Times by Police

Ezra Grant — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 23:33:32 +0000

As of Thursday morning, at least 834 people had been shot and killed by American police officers so far this year, the Washington Post reports. Six-year-old Jeremy David Mardis is the youngest among them. The autistic first-grader was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car being driven by his father, Chris Few, in Marksville, La., […]

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Fox News Contributor – BlackLives Matter “Will Join Forces with ISIS”

Ezra Grant — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:23:56 +0000

He is a regular face on Fox News especially when Fox is looking for a black person to talk bad about other black people. And he has called the BlackLivesMatter movement all sorts of names in the past. So him saying “Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being [SIC] down our legal […]

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Church Drummer Killed by Police as he Waited for Help on Highway

Ezra Grant — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:58:17 +0000

It was early Sunday morning when his car broke down at the side of the highway. As he waited for help to arrive, he was shot and killed by a police officer. For this story let’s go back to Florida. Just hours before the fateful encounter, 31 year old Corey Jones – a well […]

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Texas Officials to Rename Road – Sandra Bland Parkway

Ezra Grant — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:43:45 +0000

Arrested on the most minor of charges and found dead in her jail cell days later, Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman who was thrown in jail after being stopped on a minor traffic infraction, is now getting a road in Texas named after her. Justice??? The City Council in Prairie View, Texas, voted Tuesday […]

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Missouri Police Union Announced “Darren Wilson Day” on Anniversary of Mike Brown Shooting

Ezra Grant — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:44:04 +0000

One year later, as unrest and protest returned to Ferguson Missouri marking the first year anniversary of the shooting of Mike Brown, the police union in Missouri is apparently having its own celebration. The union has taken to Facebook and proclaimed Brown’s death as Darren Wilson Day. You remember Darren Wilson right? He is the […]

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Acting Stupidly Would be an Improvement

Robert I. Grundfest — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:12:22 +0000

Remember the halcyon days of 2009, when the country was embroiled in the first racial controversy of the brand new Obama presidency? You know, when the Cambridge, Massachusetts police thought that the world-renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for essentially breaking into his own house because the front door was stuck? Those […]

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Police Officer Indicted in Shooting of Unarmed South Carolina Black Man

Ezra Grant — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:30:21 +0000

In this case the video existed, and it showed the final moments of Walter Scott’s life as he ran away from the officer who ended up shooting him in the back. Earlier this week, the grand jury in South Carolina indicted officer Michael Slager on a murder charge. Mr. Scott was originally pulled over on […]

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Report – Cleveland Police Charged 12 Year Old Tamir Rice with “Aggravated Menacing”

Ezra Grant — Fri, 22 May 2015 00:50:11 +0000

Tamir Rice was cut down, killed by Cleveland police before he turned 13 years old. The 12-year-old was shot and killed by police in less than 3 seconds after they encounter the minor in a park. And now, months after they killed the boy, it is being reported the Cleveland police filed charges against Tamir […]

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Two Police Officers Shot and Killed in Mississippi

Ezra Grant — Sun, 10 May 2015 13:10:41 +0000

CNN is reporting that two police officers were shot dead in Mississippi late Saturday. It was the first time in 30 years that an officer was killed in the line of duty in Hattiesburg, the mayor said. Officers Benjamin J. Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 24, were making a traffic stop when they were shot, […]

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