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POLICE SHOOT DEAD 22 YEAR OLD UNARMED BLACK MAN ON TRAIN PLATFORM

January 8, 2009

This news story was brought to my attention two days ago, but I held off from watching the video footage. I could not face it up until now. 22 year old Oscar Grant III was shot dead by Oakland police on New Years Day in California, while laying face down and handcuffed on a train platform. Details leading up to his arrest and subsequent MURDER are still sketchy. However Grant, unarmed, was cooperating with officers before his death….   Johannes Mehserle, the police officer responsible for Grant’s death has since resigned and […]

UK NEWS: FACEBOOK WATER FIGHT EVENT ENDS IN VIOLENCE

July 31, 2008

Girl sprays man during water fight organised on Face Book Man chases her   Then slaps her to the ground Photographs: The London Paper This is the shocking moment a water fight organised on the internet descended into chaos in Hyde Park. A teenage girl was chased and knocked to the ground by a thug who she upset during the mass water fight arranged on Facebook. The attack happened at around lunchtime yesterday near the Serpentine in front of horrified tourists. It […]

BLACK PEOPLE WILL BE BANNED FROM ENTERING BARS DURING THE BEIJING OLYMPICS

July 20, 2008

Black people will be banned from going into bars in Beijing during the Olympics, it was claimed yesterday. Chinese bar owners say police forced them to sign secret pledges – two weeks before the games. One, who asked not to be named, said: “The police told me not to serve black people or Mongolians as they consider them drug dealers and pimps, so don’t let them in.” (Source) Well isn’t that great. Even in 2008 we are still being banned from entering certain […]