In 2012,Saginaw police investigating a minor altercation at a neighborhood store surrounded a mentally ill, homeless man named Milton S. Hall. After a police dog began snarling and lunging at him, Hall produced a small pocketknife to protect himself. Hall wasnt a threat to the officers, who were standing several feet away from him and were armed with semiautomatic rifles and pistols. But when Hall took two steps toward the dog that was snapping at him, the seven officers fired more than 45 shots at Milton Hall--hitting him a reported 14 times and killing him on the spot. The Saginaw County prosecutor refused to press charges against any of the cops. The U.S. Justice Department refused as well, claiming earlier this year that there was no sufficient evidence of willful misconduct by the bloodthirsty officers. In a country where white mass shooters like James Holmes are taken alive, the DOJ saw nothing wrong with a firing squad dumping 14 slugs into a homeless, mentally ill black mans body over threatening a dog with a small knife. Halls killing was an outright violent crime. The governments response was nothing less than a miscarriage of justice. Yesterday, one of our attorneys presented the case of Milton Hall to the world, going before the Organization of American States to decry his senseless killing and to remind the world of the continuing threat that racist law enforcement in this country poses to black men. Below is a copy of the video that was used in his testimony. Let it stand as a reminder that we still live in a vicious, white supremacist nation where the dehumanization of black people remains standard operating procedure and where the descendants of the Africans kidnapped and shipped here still have no rights -- not even a right to life -- that the nation were expected to call home feels bound to respect... https://youtube/watch?v=2Iigvm5iPkU
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:33:34 +0000
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