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HOMER, LA Two police officers crashed a family cookout to harass a man who was not wanted or suspected of any crimes, then shot the mans elderly father and allegedly planted a gun on him, according to numerous witnesses.
This incident took place in the town of Homer, home to only 3,800 residents. The poor, northern Louisiana town had made it a priority for its 8-cop roster to get tough on drugs.
In doing so, Homer Police officers were instructed to stop and question young black males without cause, and to go after certain individuals for targeted harassment. One of these specific targets was 38-year-old Shaun Monroe.
Shaun Monroe was not wanted for any crimes and had no warrants for his arrest. There was no tangible or legal reason that the police should have been harassing him, yet officers were told that if they ever saw him carrying a black bag, that they should stop and search him because the bag probably contained drugs. On the afternoon of Friday, February 20th, 2009, two officers intruded upon a family cookout for exactly that reason.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/bernard-monroe/#prettyPhoto
struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Since when does this come under the context of "Police Work"
iandhr
(6,852 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)is not solely a southern thing.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Michigan that are almost as bad, but the south (where I have lived my whole life so I know of what I write) is full of this crap. Our urban areas like Austin and Atlanta are like sanctuary islands in a sea of insanity. If you come down south, stick to the big cities.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Excellent advice for any of us. Regardless of race, gender or sexuality.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)at all as comfortable as I was years ago.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Most of inland Cali, in fact, is bright red, and voted overwhelmingly for Prop. 8. Note I said most, not all.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Some think CA is all liberal, I don't think they have ever been around CA much. I mentioned that to one of my friends once, they had been to San Francisco and Marin county, and were just determined to think all of CA was similar. I found along the coast, for the most part, it was rather liberal, but go inland much in some areas and sometimes that changes, a lot. Some people think ALL of the southeast of the US, for example, is totally red neck, but I've been/lived in some other parts of the US that are worse IMO.
I think a lot of it is caused by the hatred spewed by some MSM 7x24. I never felt it as strongly as a kid, but back then, for the most part, most MSM was rather bland. If one has the propensity now to want hatred and RW rhetoric, all they need to is look for it on radio/tv/internet and there it is, plenty to reinforce their hatred of whatever.
Nay
(12,051 posts)away from how it was 30 years ago. Jesus. The Fox talking points, the hostility, obnoxiousness, is very evident among a population that, 30 years ago, actually knew how to interact with neighbors with civility. It's appalling.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)some up in the northeast mountains miles from most people and in small villages. We all got along, I never heard the hatefulness one hears today. Friends, neighbors, family, relationships, we all sort of got along. Today, people seem to come armed with hatefulness and hostilities for no reason at all. It is deplorable what hate-jock MSM and other sources have done to the US. Most people seem to wear hatred on their shoulder it seems. When I grew older, I always wanted to retire to a rural area, but not anymore. There is just too much quirkiness in many rural areas today IMO.
Nay
(12,051 posts)petty squabbles, drunks, Fox spouters, sorry. It ain't ever gonna happen unless he just goes by himself.
We don't live in a blue state, but damn, at least there's enough ppl in the city so you don't feel totally surrounded, plus you get the decent amenities -- big libraries, excellent doctors, decent law enforcement (one town near our place in MT is about to have its total police force removed and replaced by staties because it is so corrupt!), YMCAs, etc.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I live in a medium-sized Southern city and it's blue.
In fact, despite Tennessee's deep red rural areas and gerrymandered districts, all our major cities are blue.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)<snip>
"New York's arrest-free search policies are well known. Less well known is the Florida city that's used quotas to stop and frisk 11-year-old boys and centenarian retirees56,922 people in all, half the population. A new investigation finds how deep Miami Gardens' excesses really go."
<snip>
"The city's scandal, which first came to light last year when the Miami Herald reported on one black man who had been stopped 250 times, including 62 times at the same convenience store, has already brought down a police chief. But no one knew the complete depth of the problem until now.
Between 2008 and last year, Miami Gardens police officers performed 99,980 "field contact" reports in which innocent people "were stopped, written up and often identified as 'suspicious'" without being arrested or held. Nearly 57,000 of those included body searches. The neighboring city of Miami, which has a population four times that of Miami Gardens, recorded 3,753 stops in that same time. The purpose of the city's zeal, Brennan says, was "to control the population... and gather data."
Who's getting stopped? Virtually everyone and anyone. But two Miami Gardens police officers who blew the whistle to Fusion said specific groups were actively being targeted in order to make astronomical quotas. "The target to stop in Miami Gardens: he wants all black males stopped between the ages of 15 and 30 years old," the cop said of his supervisor."
http://gawker.com/meet-miami-gardens-the-stop-and-frisk-capital-of-ameri-1583348024
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)dealers hanging out in front of the pawn shops, liquor stores and check cashing stores. I lived right next to Miami Gardens, in Miami Springs.. right across the street from the Miami International Airport. I could literally throw a rock from my diveway and hit a plane inside the fence at the airport! I've lived all over Dade County and parts of Broward at one time or another. Glad to be out of there and up in the Foothillls of the Great Smoky Mountains now!
Peace,
Ghost
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)I'm still in Miami-Dade (Miami Lakes) dealing with the daily monsoons and sauna like heat.
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)in the 80's when it was first built?? They had the little shopping plaza with the "Steve's Pizza" and I think a "Chic-fil-a"? Don Shula and Bob Griese had bought places in Miami Lakes when the whole place was still under construction. Mercury Morris got busted for selling cocaine. Bob Kuechenberg had retired and was running a small furniture shop in a warehouse off of Ives Dairy Road. He runs a construction supply business in Ft. Lauderdale now. Larry Csonzka, Jim Kiick, Garo Yepremian and Larry Seiple were family friends. I remember when Garo opened a tie shop in the Midway Mall (later renamed The Mall of the Americas) right off of Flagler Street and the Palmetto Expressway (Hwy 826).
Lots of old memories from back then...
Peace,
Ghost
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I'm waiting for a case where the cops decide to just kill EVERYONE so there's no witnesses.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)n/t
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)One of these days the public is going to give these thugs a REASON to call for backup.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)... when he gets around to it. We just have to understand that he's a busy man, and pot-smoking cancer grannies pose a far greater risk than an out of control, abusive, and militarized police force.
<sarcasm> , for the benefit of habitual alerters.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)community and started investigating graft and corruption.....
http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.wordpress.com/about/bernard-monroe-homer-louisiana/
http://www.justice.gov/usao/law/news/wdla20130212.html
Lots of things have happened as a result of this shooting. You should keep up.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Your first link is a 4 year old story about the local investigation. Has Holder done anything in the ensuing 4 years? What, pray tell, are the "lots of things have happened"?
Your second link has no relationship with the shooting whatsoever, its about theft in the town housing authority. Do you even read your own links?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Since you've already been proven demonstrably incorrect...it is now up to you to prove your claims.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)LOL! Damn, I'm impressed on your keeping up by a 4 year old link. Whats next? A road map of Moscow? There's story after story about rogue cops... dropping flash grenades in baby cribs, shooting 93 year old ladies... a good question is Where is Holder? And a 4 year old link that doesn't mention Holder is supposed to "show me up"? Thanks for the laugh, moonbeam.
And BTW, please explain how a link to a story about stealing from the housing authority has anything to do with the shooting. This will be another gem, I'm sure <rolleyes>
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)efforts in Homer and investigations into that shooting and other incidents of racial violence. Another link showing you the resulting investigation into the conditions that perpetuate racial violence.
Yeah....you asked where Holder was. Well...the DOJ came to Homer.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Several years after the shooting, the DOJ came to Homer and investigated theft at the housing authority. Obviously Holder is really on the ball. Why, the next thing he'll do is clamp down on voter suppression by arresting jaywalkers.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)link indicates. Further, the DOJ marched with Rev. Sharpton through Homer, and started an FBI investigation.
Tim Cox's grand jury refused to indict him, although the LA state and FBI indicated that this was not a justifiable shoot.
The DOJ didn't leave Homer....they stayed, investigating graft and corruption. The police force was disbanded. SPLC got a settlement from the town for the family. Justice? Hardly....but to say that Eric Holder did nothing is incorrect.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Because some where during all the Killer Cop apologizing here some one missed that point - and it wasn't me
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)and LA state should have prosecuted Tim Cox. Mills belongs behind bars.
Beaverhausen
(24,466 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)msanthrope
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Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)and making it all about imaginary hurt feelings.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Hate the cops.
Hate people who support cops.
Hate people who support the people who support cops.
Find every story, even a four year old one that can be told to put a cop in a bad light. Spin the story, tell the story, use the story to try to whip up hatred for cops. Then throw some hatred at the people who refuse to drink the haterade.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)and is murder really what happened, or is that how somebody is telling the story? Somebody who wants people to hate cops.
Even if it was murder, the FBI tells me there is a murder in the US every 35.4 minutes (or was in 2012). So out of about 59,000 murders in the last four years, THIS is the one to get upset about now and to say "fuck the people who do the same job as this murderer" about?
Here's a plumber who killed four people (35 years ago) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19790806&id=M6UyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bucFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6516,1086037
Should we all say "fuck the plumbers"?
Here's one who killed somebody presumably by being incompetent.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9209302/Plumber-jailed-after-boiler-killed-millionaires-daughter.html
Oh, and for more statistics. In 2011, 72 police officers were murdered and 54,774 officers were assaulted - 14,578 with injury.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)"Is murder really what happened"? They shot an unarmed grandfather. Does the fact he was black somehow make him seem less innocent than otherwise?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)This guy just has a hard on for cops..
Wonder who he calls when robbed, burglarized?
b.durruti
(102 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)indepat
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PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)Sounds like they all had too much time on their hands.
Though nothing will bring their father back, I hope the family received some type of justice in the years since this happened.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Most of them incidents from some years ago.
Recently wrongfully arrested? Wife leave you for a cop?
Certainly a personal little vendetta you got going here.
Just curious.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)13yr old boys - mentally impaired little Girls
Seems Cops have no shame