Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr (c. 1943-2011), a former Marine, was an unarmed 68-year-old black man with a heart condition shot dead by police early on the morning of November 19th 2011 in the New York suburb of White Plains.
The police lies were dutifully printed by the White Plains press: that Chamberlain was an emotionally disturbed person out in the street who came at the police with a butcher’s knife. The police ruled the killing justified: “warranted use of deadly force”.
What the police apparently did not know at the time was that the whole thing was caught on audio tape, n-word and all. There is even some video.
The family’s story matches that of neighbours and of the tape – not that of the police:
- Chamberlain never left his house – it was five in the morning. Instead the police broke down his door.
- Chamberlain on the tape does not sound “emotionally disturbed” – he sounds like he is in fear for his life. A fear that was extremely well-founded.
- Far from going after the police with a butcher’s knife video shows him standing with his empty hands at his side.
What brought the police to his door was his medical alert pendant. It accidentally went off in the night. The medical alert company asked if he was all right. When he did not answer they sent an ambulance. As is common in these cases, the police came with them.
The medical alert company, which kept an open telephone line throughout, recorded the audio. A security camera outside the door of his flat and the camera on the Taser gun recorded some of the video.
The police came to his door, pushing aside his niece. Chamberlain told the police he was all right. The police said they wanted to see him for themselves to make sure. Chamberlain refused, saying they would kill him. When he said he was a Marine (he had served six years) and said “Semper fi!”, the Marine Corps motto, the police said, “Hoo-rah, hoo-rah,” sarcastically. They said they needed to use his bathroom to pee. Then they told him to open the fucking door, calling him a nigger.
As they were breaking open his door he told the open telephone line:
This is my sworn testimony. White Plains officers are coming in here to kill me.
After the police broke through the door there he stood, alone, in his boxer shorts. The police Tasered him, despite his bad heart, and then shot him twice in the chest. The waiting ambulance took him to the hospital, where he died.
Four months later the killer cop is on “modified assignment”.
- He has not been arrested.
- He has not been fired.
- His name has not even been made public.
The case goes to a grand jury hearing in April 2012.
See also:
- Eleanor Bumpurs
- Rekia Boyd
- Trayvon Martin
- Ramarley Graham
- Troy Davis
- Aiyana Jones
- Oscar Grant
- Sean Bell
- Gary Graham
Abagond 
What the F&@# is going on? These people are Psychiatric Murders hidding behind badges. I am so happy the Monitors taped that call,
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It’s so sad. This situation didn’t have to happen. How ironic the police checked to see if Mr. Chamberlain was okay, and eventually, ended up killing him. I do hope there is enough evidence with the audio tape and the video footage to put that killer cop behind bars where he belongs and the police held accountable. This has to stop. Enough is enough already. *smh*
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How many people do the cops kill by gunfire in the US, every year? In the Netherlands it seems to vary between one and seven, three on average, OK it is a larger country but stil….
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Where are Randy and Dave?
*crickets*
Oh right, there isn’t any way that this can be misconstrued to support their racist views.
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I posted the DemocracyNow! coverage of this in the Rekia threat yesterday – however I didnt have much time to comment further. I was devestated by both at the same time. I woke up and checked Abagond’s site and there she was. I get to work turn on the show and there Mr. Chamberlains son was talking about his father’s death and I just couldnt generate words.
Thank you Abagond for creating a post about this.
@Wong Chia Chi, I do think the absense (so far) of the Great Derailers is interesting…
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you should forward this to CNN. It has been kept quiet. Trayvon Martin was killed in February, it was 2nd week in March before I heard of it. This is probably happening all over, and is covered up by lying cops!!
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This is about the seventh one in a row you’ve written about. Take it easy Abagond, it can be draining. Trust me.
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So is it normally this common for police to kill black people or has it kicked up a notch since the elections are starting to close in?
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@satanforce
While the subject matter is important to know, you have a point. Even the best have to take breaks every so often. I’d say if there was a collective report on global police brutality, spontaneous combustion would commence behind keyboards…LOL!
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Wow…I hadn’t heard about this incident.
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@ satanforce
It is important that Abagond and other bloggers write about this. If it were not for the emotion suscited on the net, I’m not sure a lot of people would still be talking about Trayvon Martin’s murder today. Do you trust mainstream US media to give such cases the attention they deserve? Think about it: Mr. Chamberlain was killed 4 months ago. I wonder how many of Abagond’s readers (including those living in the USA) heard about it before it was mentioned in Rekya Boyd’s thread…
@ Wong Chia Chi
Don’t underestimate them.
Just wait and see…
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I posted this on the other thread, but it makes more sense to go here.
A petition from Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. to the District Attorney asking for transparency, and to ensure that the audio and video tapes are played to the grand jury.
http://signon.org/sign/justice-for-kenneth-chamberl.fb1?source=c.fb&r_by=3551236
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I was wondering when you were going to notice this. This sort of misbehavior by police is extremely disturbing. It’s almost as if there’s an attempt to condition people as to accept this kind of behavior en masse. From this example to OWS, I wonder why the police in this country are going off the rails so often these days.
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@ Tea, Earl Grey, Hot:
Thank you for the link. I signed the petition.
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Not that I hate cops or anything. In fact, I want to like them, they do a hard and dangerous job for little money, but acts like this are destroying my goodwill. Earlier today, I heard a lecture by someone about how the fascist movement within the Christian right (who, remember, were once a big part of the anti-integration movement) was attempting to infiltrate military and police. While the military’s infiltration has had some light shined on it, the same has not happened to the police. Around 44 minutes in this lecture:
http://fora.tv/2007/03/30/American_Fascists#fullprogram
Do you really think they’ve given up on this belief in segregation? Not up at the top, I’d bet. They know how unpopular it would be, even among their own people.
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“I wonder why the police in this country are going off the rails so often these days.”
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Isn’t it obvious? Law enforcement is moving towards becoming a militarized police state. A police force that strikes fear and terror to form a more docile and controllable population. This isn’t just indigenous to America (land of the so-called free). Police everywhere on the globe are behaving more and more this way.
There used to municipal/city “civilian” review boards to keep police in check. Maybe they went away because of budget cuts?? Now it’s a strong “brother-hood/cult” of cops who will cover each other’s back, no matter if they kill for fun, sport, error or whatever. These clowns know that they are above the law.
Law enforcement in America has always been corrupt – and very selective.
We’re not seeing anything new here. What we are seeing is more and more of this abuse of police power being exposed and revealed
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A Chris Hedges fan. Here’s my part.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8117853208483879448
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Dahoman X said:
“This is about the seventh one in a row you’ve written about. Take it easy Abagond, it can be draining…”
Sharing important information is never draining, especially when it is a matter of life and death. Clearly, it is a matter of life and death.
“…Trust me.”
The 2 most misleading words spoken, right before a stab in the back.
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The old man thought the police were going to kill him before he even opened the door. Its not out of the question that he brandished a weapon or tried to fight them once they burst in, if he believed his life was in danger. Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were simply psychos who didn’t need any excuse.
Even if he did brandish a knife, in the most extreme scenario, once they had tasered him, there was no reason to kill- murder- him, so I’m not excusing the police in any way.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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..This is really sad. I am also still amazed at how it is always defaulted as “justified” whenever a police officer kills a civilian even when the civilian is unarmed.
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abagond,
Who watches the Watchmen?
R.I.P Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr.
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Abagond:
The US has a serious problem, law enforcement in this country is out of control. Racist cops, drug-dealing cops, concealing evidence cops, raping female drivers and prostitutes cops, no search warrant cops, and so forth. There is no such thing as a good cop anymore, because, police departments and those in government protect and defend rogue cops with impunity. Again, those at the top are the source of the problem, meaning, mayors, city managers, councilmen, councilwomen, etc. As black people, we should always focus on “The Source” of the problem. Racist cops are “Useful Idiots” and “Tools” of those in power. Wickedness in law enforcement is tolerated because the primary aim of policing is to protect the white majority from others, and that means us. Protecting black folk from crime is not what police departments focus on. “White Fear” is the root of this insanity. As a race, whites have done so much dirt on this planet. They feel that x amount of black males would do bodily harm to them if possible, in comes the gated communities in the suburbs. Racist white and other non-black cops can behave as they do because white society gives their blessing…Bottomline! If white folk were as evolved as much as they claim to be, Why would they tolerate racist cops running around killing innocent black people? I don’t see a lot of outrage among white folk. All whites are racist, because, all of them benefit from the bull****, directly or indirectly. How many white males have been killed by black cops in the same way they kill black women and men? This is why i laugh at whites who claim to be colorblind. It’s easy to be utopian when the gun is not pointed at you, Real Easy! Abagond, a lot of us have been in denial about race in this country. Treyvon Martin is just one of many sistas and brothas who’ve been executed by klansmen with a badge, wannabe klansmen, etc. I believe we should care about all of our people that have become victims of this wickedness. If Treyvon Martin is the spark that brings us together as black people to fight “The Beast” that is hatred and envy of african people on this planet, So Be It!!!
Tyrone
MindScape
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@ Satanforce
My next post will be on something completely different. I promise.
On the other hand it is extremely hard to read about this stuff and NOT write about it. It is highly upsetting. And with the Trayvon case it is all coming out of the woodwork.
In the old days you would just know about the cases in your own city and only where the family was able to pull off a protest a la Sharpton – because it was not like the daily white press was covering it. The Internet and particularly Twitter have changed the game. It seems. I hope.
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Wow.
If this is the true and complete story, I don’t understand how there isn’t a riot going on in NY right now.
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Wake up, O Israel. They have always hated us. They have terrorized the globe every since they left Europe. The world was better when they were safely ensconced in their own lands and warring with only each other. They hate everyone not like them but they reserve a special hatred for the Black man and woman. We are their biggest biological threat because for all their social dominance, our genes remain dominant. This is a war at a genetic level. Like another poster said, “When do we quit turning our cheeks and start demanding an eye for an eye?” God damn Amerikkka. And god damn those with our innocent blood on our hands. If Amerikkka was person, it would be a sociopathic, psychopathic, homicidal and racist with blood on their hands and up to their knees. There are “certain” people I wouldn’t want to stand anywhere next to on Judgment Day. Sorry, but this is too much. I am to pissed off. I’ll return later when my mood calms.
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Oh, don’t think I don’t have my own problems over here to deal with.
http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-27/news/31245890_1_police-killings-police-shootings-police-violence
https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/jamaica-must-tackle-shocking-wave-police-killings-2012-03-08
With the last of the Ghetto Gunfighters migrated, or taking up desk jobs, the police force has become a mess.
My main thing is that the Internet trades in information,not knowledge. Knowledge of an event gets you a Civil Rights movement. Information about a movement gets you naive slacktivism (KONY2012), and its equal cynicism and pessimism.
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I just heard about this last night.
I’m honestly speechless about the whole thing. This open season on the black body seems to be escalating. Either that, or the reports on these kinds of murders are surfacing more. Either way, one can not deny there this nation has a serious problem with black people.
One thing that I can not afford to ignore is that it could happen to any of us, including myself. Not to say that I fear for my life, but that is a possibility I and other black people have to face. Our lives can be taken in an instant and society’s in-justice system won’t bat an eye, not that I expect them to.
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Yeah, right…because everyone knows that non-whites are just too emotional and can’t control their impulses, I’m sure. 🙄
[sarcasm off]
Just had to point out the obvious, racist stereotype from the latest troll who keeps up the pretense of reason…
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@instantfutures
Black people should not fall into the trap of thinking it’s about party. Both parties have blood on their hands, as it relates to this issue. Democrats claim to love black folk so much, but they condone black-on-black violence and non-black on black violence without shame. They only care if the victim is non-black and the suspect is black. Democrats have a lot of clout in the judicial system as well. A lot of judges in the federal and state system are democrats, because, they controlled the vast majority of government in this country for a long time. As to prosecutors, not all of them are republicans as is assumed by most people…it’s an even split. As to police officers, not all of them are republicans either, contrary to conventional wisdom…50/50 at best. It’s important that we not fall into the trap of thinking all cops are the same ideologically speaking. The biggest problem that i see within the profession is the corrupt influence of Internal Affairs, The Blue Shield, and Police Unions who protect and defend rogue cops with impunity. Republicans believe in law and order, therefore, they blindly support the institution of law enforcement. Who doesn’t support law and order, most rational human beings want to stay alive…Ditto! However, staying alive by any means is a “Danger Zone” that a lot of conservative folk fall into. Being white, they have an irrational fear of “Black Anger” dropping on their doorstep. Whites live with this paranoia as a consequence of what their forefathers did hundreds of years ago and are still doing today…It’s Real Ya’ll! “White Fear” is the reason Treyvon Martin is dead right now. White liberals condone crime among blackmen because it’s genocide. Slavery couldn’t kill us, KKK couldn’t kill us, but we can do the job ourselves. And, conservatives have mistakenly believed that placing a fence around themselves will protect them from the realities of the world…Wrong! A fence can’t protect white power and wealth, racist cops can’t either. Maintaining a corrupt system, is it that important to white folk on this planet? I want folk to understand this fundamental point, black people will not be mental slaves forever, blackmen will not continue to hate themselves, each other, and blackwomen forever. I can’t give any specific date, but, the bullcrap will and must cease…Bottomline!!!
Tyrone
MindScape
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@ MinneB
No, he didn’t.
You’re confusing me with somebody else.
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Just as planned………
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I see nothing has been mentioned yet about Melissa coon. Can’t say I’m surprised.
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@ Brothawolf
America has had a problem with blacks since they built the first ship.
The problem exploded when they realize that soon they will no longer be the majority. Add Obama to that equation and you’ve got an atom bomb.
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@truthtobetold:
You may be on the right tracks. A black man in the White House is very heavy symbol. The times are changing again. And just like last time, in the 60’s and early 70’s, cops are on it again. Just wait to see who of black leaders will be shot down like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King. This is truly a deja vu, it is eerie. Creepy. Haunting.
@matari:
you are absolutely right. Cops are gearing up all over the place. No more the neighbourhood cop whom you knew, good or bad, on the beat. Now it is riot police dressed up like samurais of old, tear gas, commando squads, armored vehicles, assault rifles and grenades, unknown guys on patrol cars with guns and tasers and pepper spray instead of the old club or rubber baton.
I wonder were the old coppers tuffer guys than these macho posers of today. They faced tuff situations too: just remember the labour riots of 1920’s and 30’s, machine gun wielding bootleggers, bank robbers, election sluggers and bombers etc.
These guys shoot old pensioners who have been tased unconsicious. What a crap.
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@ Sam
My mom was the first to predict a race war.
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Very sad.. I have no words right now…
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@Tyrone
You have definitely made some good points. Thanks
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Why so much hostility towards an elderly man? And he was a veteran at that. I find this even more disturbing.
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@DahomanX-
My apologies. I stand corrected.
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@Icarumba Wow, I just looked up the story. I’m sure the boys that did that to her son (Ms,Coon) will be captured charged and convicted. That part from her 5 year old son was really sad…
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@ Icarumba
“I see nothing has been mentioned yet about Melissa coon. Can’t say I’m surprised.”
Give me some time! I just heard about it this morning.
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listen to the words
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@ Dave
Wow, way to contribute to the discussion. Basically by saying we should all sing kumbabya. I’ll give you credit where credit is due, At least you didn’t try to defend the actions of the police officers, by saying Chamberlain brought it on himself somehow, this time anyway.
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How did that get so out of hand? There has to be something missing in the description of the event as it actually happened. Did Mr. Chamberlain pull out a gun? I’m not understanding.
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The police claimed he was emotionally disturbed and pulled a knife on them. But the family’s attorny Mayo Bartlett watched the video tape (the taser had a video camera on it) and said “Mr. Chamberlain, when I saw the videotape, did not have a knife when he was in his apartment. You see a 68-year-old man with no shirt on and boxer shorts and his hands down at his sides. And I didn’t see any weapon in his hands there.”
And if he was emotionally disturbed, why forceably enter his home against his will? And why ignore his niece, who lived upstairs and was right there in the hallway at the time.
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Btw, the quote was from the democracynow interview http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/29/killed_at_home_white_plains_ny, transcript here http://www.alternet.org/story/154757/racially-motivated_killing_the_media_missed_ny_police_called_out_on_medical_alert_shoot_dead_68_year_old_black_veteran?page=entire
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The police are supposed to be trained in how to deal with the emotionally disturbed. Threatening to break down their door or otherwise putting them in fear is not considered a good way to do it.
When the NYPD determined that Adrian Schoolcraft was EDP (an emotionally disturbed person) they used that as an excuse to beat him up and then put him some psych ward in Queens without telling his family. If he were black he would probably be dead.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/adrian-schoolcraft/
There does seem to be more to the Chamberlain story than what we know. He did work in law enforcement and, like Schoolcraft, perhaps was threatening to expose them. The police wanted him dead and he knew it.
The police are trained in when and how to use force and here they completely sidestepped all of that – as if they intended to kill him from the start. This was not a case where things tragically got out of hand.
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The London police isn’t looking too great today either. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/30/police-racism-black-man-abuse Last summer, a man who was being arrested recorded a conversation with on his phone:
….Man: You tried to strangle me like a mug.
Unidentified cop: Nah I did strangle you.
…. Man: Why did you strangle me?
Unidentified cop: Because you’re a c**t.
…later..
PC MacFarlane: The problem with you is, you’ll always be a n*****. That’s your problem.
“The CPS initially said charges should not be brought against MacFarlane because the remarks did not cause the man harassment, distress or alarm. However on Thursday, the service said it would review the file after lawyers for the man threatened to challenge the decision in a high court judicial review. MacFarlane has been suspended.”
Cos those remarks aren’t alarming or distressing at all. Right. 😮
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(that was meant to be a shocked face but the emoticon looks more like a grin)
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….”The police are trained in when and how to use force and here they completely sidestepped all of that – as if they intended to kill him from the start. This was not a case where things tragically got out of hand….”(abagond)
Nope. Something, is rotten in ‘Denmark/America’. My brother, had an altercation with the police several years ago:
1. They cornered him in an alley
2. They dragged him, where he received severe pavement burns
3. A white female officer said, ‘I’ve always wanted to hit a n___ger. (he had no reason to lie; he told this to the judge)
4. They broke, both of his arms. kept him in jail, for a year, until the pavement scars, and the broken arms healed, then….took him to court. and dropped the charges against him.
I’m just saying…..
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There has been a link between the KKK and the cops. The cops are just klan members in police uniforms. They shoot black men because they can get away with it.
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I am so saddened by this story, that’s all I’ll say….and may justice prevail.
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@abagond:
“There does seem to be more to the Chamberlain story than what we know. He did work in law enforcement and, like Schoolcraft, perhaps was threatening to expose them. The police wanted him dead and he knew it.”
That would explain why Chamberlain knew how it was going to go down no matter what. There has been several cases in US where cops have gone really bad, not just simply racist or their typical bad, but all out criminal bad.
If I remember correctly years ago in Philadelphia some +30 cops were convicted when their crime organization was exposed. In NY Brooklyn almost the whole precint (71st,77th??) was kicked out and many convicted after it was found out that they were in fact a criminals with badges. Then there were the mafia cops who were actually working for the Lucchese mafia family as hit men and spies. And we all of course rememer Serpico case and SIU case from the past.
In Chicago the situation has been bad since the days of Al Capone: Mayor Cermak used the police as his personal enforcement troops and thugs, and even had a killer squad in the police force back in early 1930’s. Ad that was the mayor running the show.
Add racism into this mix and we have a really dangerous organised crime indeed.
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Its done Abagond, I am really sorry about that, because its been cronic now. Because of my horrible computor, Open Thread takes a long time buffering up, so , while waiting I go to another thread and forget that I left Open Thread , you can delete all this
Im going to try hard to not let that happen again, please bear with me, I absolutly apreciete very much you giving me a chance to come back on . Let me know if I ever get close to going off topic or abusing the posting .
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If the facts so far as they are known support what you say then clearly the cop who shot him should be tried.
However why is it you don’t link a single news story??? Why don’t you link several? Where are you getting your info? Why don’t you say?
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@doug1111
http://wwwl.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video800.php?set_size=1&v=wshhN3nds7z7E0Dkn8Cd
There you go.
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I haven’t heard anything about this story. How is that? Well, I think I know. This is a travesty. I hear something like this as a black person and think it could have been me or someone I love. My father is the same age as Mr. Chamberlain was and he is a Vietnam veteran. I never thought my generation would have to live in fear and endure the type of racism as my Dad’s generation. I never thought we could go back.
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You got that right – case in point:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Groups-speaks-out-against-Frashour-decision-145702455.html
“Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses…”
Rage Against the Machine – “Killing in the Name”
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From: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/2/headlines/white_plains_mayor_apologizes_for_police_killing_of_kenneth_chamberlain
White Plains Mayor Apologizes for Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
The mayor of White Plains, New York, has finally apologized to the family of a 68-year-old veteran fatally shot by police in his own home. Kenneth Chamberlain, an African-American former marine, was killed after police responded to a false alert from his medical pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. That was on November 19th. On Friday, more than four months later, White Plains Mayor Tom Roach issued a statement offering “condolences” to Chamberlain’s family. The move came one day after Chamberlain’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., publicly criticized Roach and other city officials for staying silent about the case for so long. Chamberlain’s killing is expected to go before a grand jury in the coming weeks.
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@ Doug
I am a blogger, not a scholar. If it is stuff anyone could find out from a half hour Google search, then I see no reason to source it. I do not have any inside dope on this one nor have I spent months researching it, like for a book. If you think this story is unbelievable then you have lived a sheltered life indeed.
Seek and ye shall find.
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[…] a lot of talk about all of the police murders of African Americans this year. Since the year started at least 29 Black people have been killed by […]
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Hey guys, CNN picked this story up tonight. I hope there will be something done for Mr. Chamberlain. May he rest in peace.
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The grand jury cleared the killer cop of charges:
NY Daily News:
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/trial-white-plains-shot-marine-article-1.1072003#ixzz1u4jy36Oa
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We are not even safe from the people that are supposed to protect and serve. God help us…
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What has happened here is beyond disheartening. This is an absolute travesty. It’s DISGUSTING! So let me get this straight. The police break into this old man’s home. The old man said he was okay, and yet they murder him? And no one is held responsible. Wth?!?! Omg, that is so screwed up. *smfh*
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I signed it. Let the jury hear all the evidence. For crying out loud, this is America, not some police state.
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Cover-up, murder … is not new. Amerikkka IS A POLICE STATE. It always has been where non-whites are concerned. Now it will soon engulf whites as well.
Welcome to the New World Order – where government sanctioned murders are no longer committed under the cover of darkness but in broad daylight, and in your face.
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@ Matari – Now hold on there. Let’s not go overboard. America is still the land of the free. It may take some pushing and shoving now and then, but Americans still believe in justice and liberty for all, whites and blacks.
There’s a few bad apples here and there, but that never stopped anyone from speaking there minds, and seeking the truth.
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“Now hold on there. Let’s not go overboard. America is still the land of the free.”
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JackintheBOX – COME OUT of your box/false paradigm.
How can a “free” place also be a home to a racist society that breeds racism .. and has done so for centuries?
Why would a so-called free country be so invested in hiding all sorts of truth from its people?
Freedom like that is an illusion … a mind tricked into believing in something that isn’t.
You and I probably have two very different ideas of what being “free” means.
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@ Matari – There’s no perfect non-racist society. People will discriminate based on nose size, weight, or height even. If one talks funny or walks with a limp. That’s always been the way people are.
Freedom cannot be taken for granted. It is a daily, hourly battle to keep our rights to freedom and justice.
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“People will discriminate based on nose size, weight, or height even. If one talks funny or walks with a limp. That’s always been the way people are. ”
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Jack – are you a white person?
Personal preference as far as individual features go has nothing to do with people being systematically singled out for oppression and mistreatment (AND being told BS in a myriad of ways that they’re inherently primitive, criminal, unintelligent, lazy, ape-ish, unattractive, etc) based upon their melanin content.
Some people may prefer taller folks, but I’m not aware of any global systemic oppression against those who are short, talks funny or walks with a limp. Are you?
The point is Mr Chamberlain (like other black/brown people) was murdered by an agent of a racist government entity (police force), a political strong-arm entity that uses increasing violence against it’s own population to further its agenda of domination and control – the antithesis of true freedom.
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No, I’m not white. The African ethnic group Hutu committed acts of genocide against the Tutsis based on physical differences.
Tutsis were classified as anyone owning more than ten cows (a sign of wealth) or with the physical feature of a longer nose, or longer neck.
What happened to Mr. Chamberlain is not systematic, but an isolated incident. If things were as you described, there would be rioting in every city.
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@ Matari
You spoke oh so much truth just then! I don’t truth the government; democrat, republican, left, right, whatever… I just don’t. Jack in the Box, all I have to say is: must be nice living in that fair and fancy free world of yours…
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“What happened to Mr. Chamberlain is not systematic, but an isolated incident.”
Are you serious?
An isolated incident?
Are you new, or from some place far away??
White supremacy has been systematically murdering/killing black/brown people in the US since Africans were kidnapped and brought here in chains 400 years ago.
Your comments can’t be serious.. first you say this:
““Now hold on there. Let’s not go overboard. America is still the land of the free.”
But then you state this:
“Freedom cannot be taken for granted. It is a daily, hourly battle to keep our rights to freedom and justice.”
So I’ll now ask you this: If one lives in a *truly* free country, shouldn’t freedom be taken for granted??? If freedom can’t be taken for granted, then the freedom isn’t real, and if it isn’t real, it’s not freedom, but a falsehood/theatrics/make believe mantra spoon fed to an increasingly dumbed down population growing more incapable of knowing/recognizing what true freedom is.
You’re entitled to have your beliefs and opinions. We’ll simply agree to disagree.
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The truth is still the truth, even though a minority of one.
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White supremacy has been systematically murdering/killing black/brown people in the US since Africans were kidnapped and brought here in chains 400 years ago.
And yet black and brown people are doing everything they can to migrate to the US. How strange.
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Cleonette
Yup, most governments, especially Western ones, are corrupt, dangerous and evil!
And for anyone who doubts or can’t see this fact, I’ll simply say that *The Internet (NOT THE TV) Is Your Friend!*
SW6 – You’re right. Thank you.
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Everybody migrated here at one point. hush dude. Most of us were born here. This thread is not about immigration. Stop derailing. The government is screwed up.
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It was a year ago that Kenneth Chamberlain was murdered by the police.
R.I.P.
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[…] police failed to find it when they searched him before putting him face down on the ground.2011: Kenneth Chamberlain – shot dead when he threatened armed policemen with a butcher’s knife. The knife, of […]
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[…] 2011: Kenneth Chamberlain – shot dead when he threatened armed policemen with a butcher’s knife. The knife, of course, being a Phantom Negro Weapon, did not appear on the video recording. […]
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[…] Kenneth Chamberlain (2011) – Officer Anthony Carelli, white. No charges. […]
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[…] Allen (New Orleans, LA)2011: Alonzo Ashley (Denver, CO)2011: Jimmell Cannon (Chicago, IL)2011: Kenneth Chamberlain (White Plains, NY)2011: Kenneth Harding (San Francisco, CA)2011: Raheim Brown (Oakland, CA)2011: […]
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[…] Allen (New Orleans, LA) 2011: Alonzo Ashley (Denver, CO) 2011: Jimmell Cannon (Chicago, IL) 2011: Kenneth Chamberlain (White Plains, NY) 2011: Kenneth Harding (San Francisco, CA) 2011: Raheim Brown (Oakland, CA) 2011: […]
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[…] Allen (New Orleans, LA) 2011: Alonzo Ashley (Denver, CO) 2011: Jimmell Cannon (Chicago, IL) 2011: Kenneth Chamberlain (White Plains, NY) 2011: Kenneth Harding (San Francisco, CA) 2011: Raheim Brown (Oakland, CA) 2011: […]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html?emc=edit_na_20161031&nlid=59850509&ref=cta
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[…] Allen (New Orleans, LA) 2011: Alonzo Ashley (Denver, CO) 2011: Jimmell Cannon (Chicago, IL) 2011: Kenneth Chamberlain (White Plains, NY) 2011: Kenneth Harding (San Francisco, CA) 2011: Raheim Brown (Oakland, CA) 2011: […]
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[…] Allen (New Orleans, LA) 2011: Alonzo Ashley (Denver, CO) 2011: Jimmell Cannon (Chicago, IL) 2011: Kenneth Chamberlain (White Plains, NY) 2011: Kenneth Harding (San Francisco, CA) 2011: Raheim Brown (Oakland, CA) 2011: […]
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Dirty F€>|€| can’t believe their STILL murdering the innocent and getting away with it, he should have been put to death for this hate crime ABSOLUTELY unbelievable. Yah again I ask that you deal with all parties involved accordingly, I’m so outraged at the foolery that continues to happen to us for generations please stop these folks at once and what they wish on us let their children inherit.
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I guess you all who are failing to see the FACTS missed the information about them using in appropriate language while on a active call. Yeah ya missed that and WE the people know why. He fought for a country that ended his life
DISGRACEFUL/MORAL-LESS
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