Harris Didn't Care About Police Brutality
July 2012: Anaheim police fatally shoot unarmed, fleeing Latino man; cuff him. A crowd—men, women, kids—forms nearby. More cops arrive, meet the crowd with bean bags, pepper spray, & a dog. DA clears cops. AG Kamala Harris doesn’t independently investigate.https://t.co/JoFk6bzmXe pic.twitter.com/Eb8nV01BmU
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) February 28, 2019
When Kamala Harris Turned a Blind Eye to Police Brutality
“They just started shooting everyone,” a woman sobs. “They shot at little kids too.” The video, from a July 21, 2012 report by CBS News affiliate KCAL, shows Anaheim police firing bean bag shotguns into a crowd of men, women, and young children that had gathered earlier in the day after one of the officers shot and killed an unarmed Latino man from the neighborhood during a chase. At one point, a police dog rushes into the fray.
At the time, Kamala Harris—now a favorite in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary—was California’s Attorney general. Despite public outcry and growing unrest, her office did not conduct an independent investigation into the events of that Sunday nor into the events that followed.
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It all began shortly before 4 p.m. Two Anaheim police officers, on patrol in the heavily Latinx neighborhood around the 700 block of North Anna Drive, received an anonymous tip that men were loitering in a nearby alley. They arrived on the scene to find 25-year-old Manuel Angel Diaz leaning into a car window. Suspecting a drug deal, the officers ordered everyone to stop what they were doing. Diaz took off running. Officer Nick Bennallack briefly gave chase before drawing his gun and fatally shooting the fleeing man as he turned to look behind him—once in the buttock and once in the back of the head. Bennallack would later testify in court that he saw Diaz throw an object he thought was a weapon, but only a cell phone was found nearby. As Diaz lay dying, the officers reportedly cuffed him and called for backup. They did not immediately administer first aid. Diaz was later pronounced dead at the hospital.The shooting took place in the courtyard of an apartment complex and it wasn’t long before a crowd of angry residents began to gather at the scene. A confrontation ensued, resulting in more violence. Protesters allegedly threw rocks and bottles at police and set a dumpster on fire. Police responded with pepper spray and non-lethal rounds.
The footage is difficult to watch. Screaming and sobbing can be heard as officers coolly aim their weapons into the crowd. A series of loud pops ring out as they fire. A police dog attacks a mother with her baby and bites a boy before an officer rushes over to control the animal. Police would later say that the dog’s involvement was accidental and that it had escaped an unmanned cruiser.
The next day, protests continued and Anaheim police officers killed another man, Joel Acevedo, during a foot chase. He too was shot in the back of the head. Acevedo’s death marked the year’s fifth police killing and the sixth police shooting.
That same day, Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait held a press conference at police department headquarters and called on Harris’ office to conduct an investigation. “Transparency is essential,” he said, promising that “whatever the truth is, we will own it.” Angry protesters swarmed the lobby.
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Five days later, on July 30, activists delivered a petition to Harris’ office with roughly 18,000 digital signatures, demanding that she conduct an independent investigation. A representative for her office told KABC that Harris intended to wait for the Orange County DA’s office to conclude its investigation before deciding whether or not to look into the matter. Nothing came of it. A public information assistant with the Attorney General’s office told Paste that there was no record of press releases related to any such investigation surrounding the Diaz killing. A subsequent formal public records request yielded nothing when the AG’s office took an extension and then missed their own deadline. Harris’ campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.Ultimately, the Orange County DA would clear the officers of any wrongdoing, no charges would be filed, and nobody was fired. Even after that, Harris chose not to start an independent investigation. Officer Bennallack is, to this day, on the force. However, in 2017, a federal jury found that he had used excessive force and awarded Diaz’s family $200,000 in damages.
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Harris’ inaction in these matters could be written off as not wanting to interfere with an ongoing investigation by the Orange County DA’s office, but it’s important to note that she didn’t act even after that investigation concluded (and prompted another public outcry). Nor was this refusal an isolated incident; indeed, it was a feature of her time as AG. Although she did oversee the creation and implementation of an implicit bias and procedural justice training program for California law enforcement officers, she notably opposed legislation that would have required her office to independently investigate police shootings like the ones in Anaheim. She also spoke out against another proposal to mandate officer body cameras. “I as a general matter believe that we should invest in the ability of law enforcement leaders in specific regions and with their departments to use … discretion to figure out what technology they are going to adopt based on needs that they have and resources that they have,” she explained.
We watched as Obama stayed silent when the police brutally broke up OWS protests all over the country. When cops in Ferguson brought out the militarized police to deal with peaceful protesters including the military type trucks and other equipment and went so far as putting snipers on top of buildings. When the cops at the DAPL protests were under control of the private mercenary company CrowdStrike and they brought police dawgs to it and let them bite people who weren't doing anything wrong. Obama watched as those forces brought in water trucks and sprayed people with water even though the temperature was below zero.
Do we really want another Obama who won't hold police accountable for their actions? Or the bank CEOs when they crash the global economy again? Will Harris go after Trump for his crimes against humanity against the children who were separated from their parents and put in detention centers where they were physically and sexually abused by the guards who were never properly vetted?
Do we?
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Kamillary was weak on prosecuting cops
and bank CEOs like Mnunchin whose bank foreclosed on an elderly woman's home because she owed less than $.30 on her property taxes. Even though she paid the delinquent amount and fine, her home of many decades was yanked away from her. Kambama did think that warranted looking into.
But she also went after poor people by prosecuting the parents when their kids were truant from school. One person wrote about why it was good that Kambama went after truant kid's parents. Apparently it was a way to find out if kids were being abused or if there were some other issues that kept them out of school. I agree that would have been a great thing to do, but that wasn't why Kamillary did it. People say that no one went to jail for that, but that isn't true. One woman spent 180 days in jail for not paying her fines for her kid's truancy. But even if no one went to jail how many lost their jobs because they were going to court to deal with it? How many people lost access to social programs because they had an arrest record? How many rich kid's parents did Kambama's office go after because their kids were truant? Or smoked some weed or did anything that got poor people and blacks thrown into prison? This is the type of "progressive" we want as president? Nun uh. Not me.
I go back and forth on what I call Kamalla because she has traits of both Hillary and Obama. I guess I could have called Hillary Hillama since she would have continued doing the same things that he did only probably much worse.
If you want a good laugh read this OP where this guy tries to excuse the things that Harris did during her tenure as attorney general.
OMG! He can't seriously believe that she would be better than Bernie
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Uhg,
couldn't make it to the third paragraph. Talk about apologist.
Glad I stocked up on popcorn. . .
and other things.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Once there was a thing called rhetoric
And people learned how to make statements that could persuade. This fellow is weak on this point. Starting off by calling people he disagrees with "lazy intellectually ...and dishonest" is a fine way to lose your audience.
I couldn't finish it either. It had a nasty tone to it.
As much as I dislike someone
Would any current candidate go after trump for this?
Maybe obummer?
Even if you could prove that statement true, nobody would be prosecuted. It's been going on for decades.
Your assignment, if you accept it, is to prove it true.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
I was always wondering why Kamala Harris
always laughs so much and has a big smile engraved in her face. So, when she looks serious and is not laughing, what is she then?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Star Trek Computer Voice 009
"automatic defense procedures initiated"
heh, I was searching for Majel Barret saying in her Star Trek computer voice, "Searching..." but this instead. lol Number two in the playlist is also good I think:
The Picard Video High Definition Remaster 1080P HD (The Picard Song)
live long and prosper
Kamala Harris will say or do just about anything to get elected. star of the show