Stop Police Brutality

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There is something terribly with policing in America. Our fellow citizens, in particular African-Americans, are being denied their basic rights on a regular basis. This is unacceptable.

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Officers Shoot, Kill Man Who Pointed Pipe at Them in Brooklyn: NYPD

Police shot and killed a man holding a pipe in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon after callers reported a suspect pointing what appeared to be a gun at people on the street.

He said after the officers shot Vassell, one of them walked up to him and poked his chest with the weapon.

"It's almost like they did a hit," Hinds said. "They didn't say 'freeze,' they didn't say 'put your hands up,' they didn't say 'stop for a minute.' They just started shooting."

Other witnesses said Vassell was well-known in the neighborhood. They added that he had a mental illness but was not dangerous.

"He talks to himself," said one person. "He shouldn't be shot."

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'What's this world coming to?' Mom arrested while trying to see dying son at hospital

When she tried to get in, a police officer told her to back up. She said she just wanted to see her son. She was told to leave, she said. And when she went to help her mother, who suffers from respiratory illness and uses a walker, climb the hill from the parking garage to the emergency department, the police arrested her.

Her fiancé, Lamar Sistrunk, asked the officer what she was being arrested for. "She just lost her son," he said. The officer told him to back up.

Sistrunk asked the officer, "What if that was your son in there?"

The officer replied, according to Sistrunk, "My son wouldn't be in that predicament."

Rankins said, "I just wanted to see him. It felt like somebody stabbed me in the chest."