Alfred Olango (1986?-2016), a cook at Hooters, fled to the US from Gulu, Uganda, where Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army used to spread terror – only to be shot dead by US police in the parking lot of a suburban shopping centre. That was yesterday, September 27th 2016, in El Cajon, California, a suburb of San Diego. He was unarmed.
At about one in the afternoon, he was not acting like himself. He was apparently walking in traffic. His sister called police:
“I called three times for them to come help me. Nobody came; they said it’s not priority.”
After 50 minutes they arrive. She tells them he is unarmed. They gun him down in front of her.
She was screaming:
“I called for help, I didn’t call for you guys to kill him! Oh my God, you killed my brother!”
and wailing:
“Why couldn’t you guys Tase him? Why, why, why, why? Why couldn’t you Tase him? I told them he’s sick.”
When police get a call like his sister’s, a 5150, the policy is to bring the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) to prevent just this sort of thing. They did not.
The police, instead, by their own account, gave him commands. When he failed to follow those commands, they drew their guns on him. When he in turn drew an “object” on them – they fired. They recovered the “object”. They say it was not a gun, but will not say what it was. Why not?
Seizure: More than one witness said he was having a seizure. The police say they saw no sign of that. Instead they called his behaviour “erratic”. Even now, the police are not sure whether Olango was having a mental health crisis of some kind.
Video: The El Cajon police do not wear body cameras. The ACLU received reports that after the shooting the police took people’s mobile phones, which is against the law. The police deny that and say they have only one mobile phone, given to them willingly. Either way, they are apparently now in possession of all video of the shooting. They say the video backs their story, yet will make public only one still picture from it, one that fits their story:
Eyewitnesses give a different account. For example:
“I see a man, I see a black man surrounded by officers with their guns out … black man with his hands up … he’s jerking, he’s confused, he runs this way. As soon as he runs this way, they discharge boom, boom, boom … five shots.”
One witness said the police did not even give any orders:
“I didn’t hear any command ‘Halt,’ ‘Stop’ or ‘I’ll shoot,’ I didn’t hear any command or yelling. I didn’t hear the man say anything. Next thing I see, ‘Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow’ – five shots.”
Protests followed at the scene of the crime, later outside the police department and again this morning (pictured below).
The killer cop has not been named or arrested.
– Abagond, 2016.
Sources: Heavy, The Root, New York Daily News, Al Jazeera, San Diego Reader.
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When I voted for Obama in 2008 I thought it was like me becoming president. I was so, so, SO, so wrong. He is QUITE COMFORTABLE with this shit.
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I am horribly disappointed in him.
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“We are born to die nigga
You’ve been dyin’ for 400 years
Niggas know how to die
Niggas don’t know nothin’ else, but dyin’
Niggas dream ’bout dyin'”
– N.W.A. (Real Niggaz Don’t Die)
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The real question is what does the police lynching of Black people accomplish for the oligarchs who run this country? Diversion or distraction?
Second question: why are any Black people still calling the police for mental health crises?
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“The real question is what does the police lynching of Black people accomplish for the oligarchs who run this country?”
@Afrofem
Anarchy, chaos, mayhem … all eyes OFF of the the elites (diversion for) when the economy collapses. Race war or not, Martial Law ensues as society descends into the pit resulting in greater/total federal control of population like in Orwell’s 1984. In this case blame of society’s downfall is squarely placed on Black scapegoats.
None of these cop killings are mere chance. It’s by design and purpose.
A terrorist who blows up a chunk of lower Manhattan and injure people can get taken alive, but suspicious, yet unarmed, Black men are mowed down repeatedly and consistently in racist Amerika.
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@ Afrofem
The police are the ones who most need psychiatric help — they are sociopaths.
Violent, murderous sociopaths.
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I wonder when the cops are in the academy do they give them some type of hypnotic suggestion when they encounter black people? Because they treat all black citizens the same shot to kill. When whites are dealt with they are not killed on sight like black people are. I am starting to believe they are violent, murdering sociopaths.
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*shoot*^^^ typo
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@Fan
In the autumn of 2008, as the housing bubble collapsed and the banks were teetering on the edge of disaster, I was talking to a veteran Black activist. I said well at least they can’t blame this on Black people, this is clearly a problem White bankers created. He laughed bitterly and said to me, “don’t worry, they will find a way to pin this on Black people.”
Within months of Obama twisting arms in the Congressional Black Caucus (before he was elected), columnists in major newspapers were tying the near collapse of the global financial system to “unsophisticated” (as in stupid) Black people buying houses they couldn’t afford. According to these columnists, the banks were compelled against their better judgement to give “liar’s loans” and NINJA (no income, no job) loans to these Black people because of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
They parroted rightwing Senator Phil Gramm , who called the CRA, “a vast extortion scheme against the nation’s banks”. All of this to cover the massive criminal swindles of whole communities by predatory lenders of all types. Black people lost homes and the wealth those homes represented to the tune of millions of dollars. The victims were cast as perpetrators and the criminal bankers depicted as sacrificial lambs to an unjust system.
They really poured on the vitriol when the banks started to move beyond Black people and Latinos to snatch the homes of low income White people. A lot of angry people and they needed someone to blame. Black people got pinned again. We lost our homes, our assets and now our lives…because of decades of lies and blame shifting.
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@Solitaire
“The police are the ones who most need psychiatric help — they are sociopaths.”
It is easy to blame the police since they are visible and do the dirty work. However, focusing on them can blind you to who they truly “serve and protect”. I think it is important to consider who enables and supports them in their actions against Black people, Latinos (as in Border Patrol), Native Americans and the disabled.
Who are those people at the top of the society that unleashed the police and rewards them for brutality, terror and murder? What do they gain from the current state of affairs? What is the endgame?
It is pretty scary to think about, but if you just get stuck at the police violence level, you can miss the big picture. Without a clear view of the big picture, you can’t see a way to stop the violence. Their violence can be stopped only if people know which levers to work to affect their enablers——who are also sociopaths.
Even sociopaths have weak spots.
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Damn, damn, damn!!! Unless and until they are made to pay (one way or another, this shit will never stop!
@ Abagond…“When I voted for Obama in 2008 I thought it was like me becoming president…He is QUITE COMFORTABLE with this shit”
And he always has been, Brother. I cast my protest vote for Cynthia McKinney in 2008 because his rise was never about anyone else but himself. When then-Senator Obama gave the keynote speech at the DNC convention back in 2004, I knew the powers-that-be were grooming him as a symbol with no substance — for us. As Fan said above, “all eyes OFF of the elites (diversion for) when the economy collapses.” And he was more than willing to be groomed.
I began researching his whole “community-organizer” bullshit. The more I dug, the stinker his shit smelled, but MOST of the mainstream media (the propaganda arm of the oligarchy) just kept brushing it all under the rug. I’ll never forget this piece that came out in the Boston Globe about Grove Parc:
http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full
And what the whole Grove Parc thing was about — was this: http://lets-be-clear.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-royalty-fools-no-one-at-ioc.html
It’s one thing to learn their “games” so you can recognize them when you see them, so you can at least plan a way to counter them for the good of you and yours. It’s a whole ‘nother damned thing when you learn them, become them, and use it against your own, for your own benefit. That’s what he did, Family — he disgusts me.
I just don’t know what it’s going to take for folk to see that our thirst for “firsts” is merely the oligarchy allowing us to play to provide yet another avenue for them to suck us dry. SMDH
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@ Everyone
http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fkilledbypolice.net%2F&h=rAQEeMAyC
I’m not saying black people are not at all being targeted but there seems to so many other circumstances not brought to attention by the media. Media trying to reinforce the black ‘criminal’ police interaction stereo-type maybe? So don’t let the media tell you what to think until you do some more research.
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Black lives obviously do not matter. Someone has to take this issue up with the UN Human Rights Commission.
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@Joe
The UN is well aware. Recently a panel affiliated with the UN Human Rights Council issued a report saying reparations are justified for racial terrorism, including police violence, against people of African descent: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/183/30/PDF/G1618330.pdf?OpenElement
This follows similar reports and a host of public statements by UN officials condemning human rights offences in the US. But just like Israel, the US government only cares about what the UN says when it’s in the US government’s favour.
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@Deb
@ Abagond…“When I voted for Obama in 2008 I thought it was like me becoming president…He is QUITE COMFORTABLE with this shit”
And he always has been, Brother.”
I wasn’t on the Internet at the time. If I had been I probably would have seen thru him too. They really did a good PR job of selling him in the MSM, which was the only news source I had, Even so, I wasn’t buying Obama. I was going with John Edward, or whatever his name was. He was for healthcare reform. Seemed to be genuinely for it, unlike Obama and Clinton. They honey trapped him out and then only Obama and Clinton was left. I thought I’d go with the lesser of two evils. But damn! I did not anticipate the immensity of the evil I was voting for. With the advent of my access to the Internet, 2009, I quickly came to understand what a odious fraud Obama was.
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Guys, this is terribly alarming. It feels like a daily occurrence and I just cannot comprehend why something really serious is not being done.I can see why Obama doesn’t care, his term is coming to an end and he doesn’t have anything to lose so why would he bother, but, in the run up to a Presidential election one would think that it would be in the interest of both Clinton and Trump to be taking a stand. The fact that neither of them seem to give 2 flying fucks is completely disturbing, whichever gets elected wont need to do anything knowing they have been voted in by a public who don’t expect them to take action against a renegade police force.
It must be so frightening to be a black American right night where the police have been given the red flag to shot at will. 😦
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“The fact that neither of them seem to give 2 flying fucks is completely disturbing, whichever gets elected wont need to do anything knowing they have been voted in by a public who don’t expect them to take action against a renegade police force. ”
exactly so. that’s why we can’t vote for either of these racists. Clinton is just going to continue Barack’s not so benign neglect. Or worse. She’ll crack down on blacks the way Trump is feared to do.
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@Zoe Jordan
“It must be so frightening to be a black American right night where the police have been given the red flag to shot at will.”
It has always been dangerous to be an American of African descent. The police and their predecessors have always had a green light to murder Black people at will and with total impunity.
What has changed is that their actions are a lot more visible due to technology and social media. When I was growing up, everyone in the community knew someone who had been harassed, beaten or murdered by police. Black owned newspapers often featured front page stories of police violence, complete with gruesome photos of the victims. However, since there was no video revealing the encounters, White and some Black people would question the honesty of the victim and deny police violence.
In a country where documentation and statistics are almost a religion, no government agency bothered to track the frequency of police attacks against Black people or run a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly tally of the beaten or dead. It wasn’t until the groundbreaking 2012 Malcolm X Grassroots Network Report, “Operation Ghetto Storm”that many understood the frequency and the magnitude of police violence. The report pointed out that a Black person was killed every 28 hours in the US by police, security guards and vigilantes.
Click to access new_all_14_11_04.pdf
The use of technology and social media has increased transparency of police actions. Many Black people are clear about police actions. Many White Americans still deny video evidence and support police killings of African Americans for their own reasons.
As scary as current conditions are, I draw strength from the example of Black people of the past who endured similar conditions or worse. They organized and fought for their rights and that is what Black Americans will have to do in the present moment to survive.
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http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/07/first-kind-study-shows-55400-people-hospitalized-us-cops-single-year/
To add to what Afrofem is writing about this articale documents the scale of police violence in the U.S. While this blog keeps track of the number of unarmed Black men killed by the police, this study includes the number of people beaton, tasered, pepper sprayed resulting in a hospital visit.
54,000 interactions with the police resulted in violence. It is those kind of numbers that represent a low intensity conflict that is hidden from the public eye. One in every 129 stops results in violence. Almost 10% of the homocides that occur in the U.S. are from police guns. The study shows that non whites are four times more likely to be stopped and profiled and in some communities the ongoing harassment results in the over policing of the same citizens at rates far higher then whites experience in predominantly white areas.
The study also shows that once the stop occurs the likelihood of violence remains the same whether the person is white or not. This shows I think psychopathic behavior. Even though more victim’s are profiled because of race the propensity towards violence remains the same.
The history of violence against Blacks goes back to the beginning of America. I believe there has a been a shift where Supremacy is beginning to cannibalize its own so that the level of violence whites have been experiencing has slowly increased each year since 9/11 even though crime itself has remained steady or declined. It is this increase in violence across the board along with cell phone videos that has brought awareness because once white people start dying only then did people start paying attention.
A lot of this violence must originate within police culture itself. As a police officer they become part of a new tribe that has super protections and privileges. There is also the need for funding thus the stress for ticket quotas and the search for asset forfeiture. For the first time in the U.S. the amount of private property confiscated by the police was greater then the amount of property stolen through crime. So we begin to see who the real cartels are and we know who they work for.
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@ Afrofem
You are so right, it is an atrocity of epic proportion and it needs to end.
In the past I guess it was even worse but what is frightening now is that although the world is watching nothing is being done still, nothing is changing. There’s 2 sides to social media; one that shows what is happening and then the propaganda that changes it around. I guess people see what they want to see. A lot of white people need to wake up and see the reality and support their fellows. It hurts me to say but it is a fact. Its not just about black people fighting, it needs to be that black people (and other people too) don’t need to fight because no one is oppressive to others in our countries. The key for white people, the police and other institutions is education and the eradication of discrimination.
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@resw
Thanks for the info. Afro American groups like Black Lives Matter should still target the UNCHR. I have read somewhere that the US cannot be taken to the International Court at the Hague for war crimes. Its a joke when you hear white Americans talk fearfully about a “New World Order”. Can anything be worse than what we have now? Usrael?
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@michaeljonbarker
Thanks for sharing that link. That article exposed a level of violence that is pretty sickening.
There has been a steady criminalization of behavior that a generation or two ago would have been tolerated or ignored. The various Wars on…Crime…Drugs… and other countries have created a militarized and violent society where everyone is a suspect.
Another effect of constant war making is the shift of tax funds from public goods like education, roads, bridges and hospitals to weapons systems and soldiers. The revenue sharing that the federal government used to do with states and cities has dried up, leaving police and court personnel extorting money from local populations to fund their own jobs. They target people who have the least ability to fight their theft.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/lawsuit-charges-13-st-louis-suburbs-extorting-black-drivers-n625666
You made a good point when you wrote:
A lot of people don’t see that Black people and Latinos are used as test populations. If authorities can get away with abuses toward those members of the public, they will grow comfortable treating the White population in the same abusive manner.
What holds all of this together is a media system that ignores abuses and aids the police and the courts in their abuse of the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. How often have we seen local and national newscasters blame a police murder victim for their own death?
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@Deb
Thanks for that link regarding Grove Parc in Chicago. Not too surprised by what was written. Just the same disgust I’ve had for years.
I have learned that the words “public-private” partnership actually means wealthy companies and individuals jostling at the taxpayer funded trough for freebies. (snort, squeal, chomp, chomp)
Some people call it “crony capitalism”——-I just call it theft.
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“… wealthy companies and individuals jostling at the taxpayer funded trough for freebies. (snort, squeal, chomp, chomp)
Some people call it “crony capitalism”——-I just call it theft.”
Afrofem,
Why not call it what it really is? WELFARE!
Crony Welfare – that sort of hidden pork congressmen and senators add into legislation that favor their district/constituents while the rest of the country is programmed to believe that it’s Black people who are nickel-ling and dime-ing the country’s economy to death via welfare, section 8 and food-stamps.
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When your house is on fire, you call for firemen.
When the toilet is clogged, you call a plumber.
When there’s a crack in your sidewalk, you call a contractor.
Now, here’s a tough one: who do you call when someone is sick and needs immediate care?
If you thought “an ambulance “, you can see the how and why things went wrong so quickly.
Cops are for robbers, rapists and other degenerates, NOT FOR SICK PEOPLE! If someone is having a health related “episode” (especially in relation to mental health), idiots with guns are not the right solution! You dial 911, request an ambulance, then let the professionals handle the job. Not. Cops.
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@Afrofem…“Some people call it “crony capitalism” — I just call it theft.”
@Fan…“Why not call it what it really is? WELFARE!”
You’re both right!😆😆😆
But of course, those words are reserved only for the things WE do. And by continuing to deftly pit all of us “Others” against each other — they can “snort, squeal, chomp, chomp” at that same trough till kingdom come.
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There is an American TV serial ‘Most Daring’ showing on cable TV in India. You sometimes see real life incidents involving white people and the police. Having looked at the Abagond site for some years now, I would say that black people are shot by cops in incidents that are nothing in comparison with those involving white people. Its a terrible situation!
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Murder. I’m posting it but I haven’t watched it. It’s just too much.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/10/06/watch-texas-man-dies-after-pleading-i-cant-breathe-as-jail-guards-pile-on-top-of-him-pepper-spraying-him/
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