NIGERIANS TAKE NOTE!…AMERICAN POLICE HAVE KILLED AT LEAST 2,611 PEOPLE SINCE FERGUSON!

Killing another Black Man by US Police Sparks Protest, Probe in Louisiana

Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and Freddie Gray are just three of at least 2,611 people killed by police since August 9, 2014, the day of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

Fatal Encounters, a nonprofit, has tracked these killings by collecting reports from the media, public, and law enforcement and verifying them through news reports. Some of the data is incomplete, with details about a victim’s race, age, and other factors sometimes missing. It also includes killings that were potentially legally justified, and is likely missing some killings entirely.

Vox’s Soo Oh created an interactive map with data from Fatal Encounters. It shows some of the killings by law enforcement since the Brown shooting:

A huge majority of the 2,611 deaths on the map are from gunshots, which is hardly surprising given that guns are so deadly compared with other tools used by police. There are also a lot of noticeable fatalities from vehicle crashes, stun guns, and asphyxiations. In some cases, people died from stab wounds, medical emergencies, and what’s called “suicide by cop,” when people kill themselves by baiting a police officer into using deadly force.

The FBI already collects some of this data from local and state agencies, but as Vox’s Dara Lind explained, that data is very limited. Reporting homicides for participating agencies is mandatory, but reporting the circumstances of homicides is not. So we might know that thousands of people die in a certain state, but we won’t always know why those homicides happened and whether they involved police. Participation in the FBI reporting programs is also voluntary, making the number of reported homicides in the federal data at best a minimum of what’s going on across the country.

Since the historical data is so bad, it’s hard to gauge whether these types of killings are becoming more common. But the Fatal Encounters database is much more complete than the FBI figures, giving perhaps the best context we have for the wide range of police use of force — especially as the issue continues to capture national attention in the aftermath of Brown’s death.

Police shootings and brutality in the US: 9 things you should know

1. American police shoot and kill far more people than their peers in other countries
2. There are huge racial disparities in how US police use force
3. Cities across the country have been riddled with accusations of police abuse
4. There’s no good data on how many people police kill each year
5. Police can use deadly force if they merely perceive a threat
6. Cops are almost never prosecuted and convicted for use of force
7. Killings of police officers on duty are near record lows
8. The federal government has helped the militarization of police
9. Reforms have focused on community policing and accountability — but that may not be enough

http://www.vox.com/a/police-shootings-ferguson-map

MOTHER HIDES COCAINE IN HER BABY’S DIAPER

Mercedes Williams

A mother was arrested on charges of child abuse after being caught hiding cocaine inside her baby’s diaper, police in Florida said.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said that they arrested 24-year-old Mercedes Williams, after being accused of shoving a bottle of cocaine into the baby’s diaper during a traffic stop.

The police officers at the scene said that they could smell the drugs emanating from vehicle as it drove through a police cruiser.

While questioning the driver of the vehicle, Williams was allegedly caught with her hand in the baby’s diapers. Police officers at the scene opened the baby’s diaper and found a small bottle of cocaine.

While booking Williams into jail, officers found a package of heroin in her bra. Williams was charged with child abuse, drug possession and introducing contraband into a jail.

The driver of the vehicle, 28-year-old Reginald Hadley, was charged with driving without a valid license and possession of drugs.

FATHER CHRISTMAS DID NOT RAPE ANY CHILD IN LAGOS… LETS PUT A STOP TO MISUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA!

DOES THE STORY BELOW SHOW ANY SANTA RAPIST  IN LAGOS?

At a Christmas party or­ganized by a nursery and primary school in the Ojodu-Abiodun area of Ogun State,the joyful event turned awry after
a five-year-old pupil from the school complained that the Father Christmas dipped a finger in her vagina and blood came out when she went in for her gift.
The matter was reportedly incidented at a police station in the area following which the said Father Christmas was arrested penultimate Friday and later released on bail. He was thereafter mandated to report to the station last Monday.
When Sunday Sun visited the police station where the matter was reportedly handled, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) denied knowledge of the case, saying that no such matter was brought before him.

However, investigations showed that the matter was actually reported at that station. A petty trader around the police station told Sunday Sunthat the matter did not involve a Father Christmas, but a Barney brought to the party by the party organizers hired by the school for the event.
She explained that it was even the owner of the business that was arrested and not the culprit as he could not be traced after the incident. She said that she knew about the matter when she saw a pregnant woman by her shop (who she claimed was the wife of the man arrested) crying while the man was detained at the police station.
Although the woman argued that the man on the run was innocent of the charge, she could not explain why the said offender disappeared following the report.
It was her view that the par­ents of the girl were not telling the whole truth, as they were alleged to have taken the child to a hospital as far as Ogba, in Lagos, for test that would ascer­tain the truth of the matter.
According to her, they claimed that it was their family hospi­tal. She believed that the police were in the bestposition to decide where the test should have been done.
“I know the man that was ar­rested. He runs a party organizing outfit, which the school hired. When people rent the Barney costume, anybody can then wear it. When someone rented it in my compound, it was even my son that wore it. Anybody can wear it. The person who wore the costume during the party allegedly dipped his finger in the girl’s vagina, and then ran away. They have not seen him till now,” she explained
Meanwhile, another respon­dent, a woman who lives next door to the school confirmed the story to Sunday Sun, saying it was actually a man in Father Christmas costume that com­mitted the offence. The school, a two-storey building, is adjacent to her house.
She, however, explained that the parties had settled matter.
“They were having the party up­stairs when the thing happened; they have a hall where they hold parties upstairs. But they have settled it.”
She even assured the reporter who she believed was an intend­ing patron, that the school was a very good one. “It is just that one (referring to the incident). I am a teacher myself, and I can tell you that the school is very good.”

http://tphamerockcity1.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/bad-santa-father-christmas-arrested-for-defiling-5-year-old-schoolgirl-in-lagos/