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http://boingboing.net/2012/04/03/black-marine-veteran-68-shot.html
For all the talk about Trayvon Martin, this story may well be even more horrific.
The Trayvon Martin story remains in national headlines this week, but little media attention has been paid to a similarly troubling case: that of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old Marine vet killed in his home last November by police officers in White Plains, NY.
The officers were responding to a false alarm accidentally triggered by Chamberlain's medical alert pendant while he slept. Instead of helping the man, who had a heart condition, they broke down his front door, tasered him, reportedly called him the "n-word" and mocked him, then shot him dead.
Audio throughout the incident was recorded by his medical alert device. .... The officer is believed to currently be on duty, still working for the White Plains police.
also
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/5/exclusive_cop_in_fatal_shooting_of
The alleged shooter, Officer Anthony Carelli, is due in court later this month in an unrelated 2008 police brutality case. He is accused of being the most brutal of a group of officers who allegedly beat two arrestees of Jordanian descent and called them "rag heads." We speak to Gus Dimopoulos, attorney for Jerry and Sal Hatter. "We allege that the police officers, while in the custody of the White Plains Police Department back at the station, you know, severely beat Jerry while being restrained by handcuffs. They hit him in the face with a nightstick, they kicked, they punched, they punched him, and then essentially charged him with a crime," Dimopoulos said.
The guy pulls bullshit like that, they let him back out on the street with a gun and a badge, he straight up murders an innocent old man, and he's still on duty??? There are no words.
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I used to live in White Plains
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What a sensationalized title
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What a sensationalized title
what about it is inaccurate?
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Maybe we should allow guns just in case that the people with guns (cops) decide to screw us over one day. I mean just in case.
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so, what exactly is there to discuss about this case? the DA is holding a grand jury.
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On April 06 2012 06:19 Kojak21 wrote: What a sensationalized title
How?
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On April 06 2012 06:17 awesomoecalypse wrote:http://boingboing.net/2012/04/03/black-marine-veteran-68-shot.htmlFor all the talk about Trayvon Martin, this story may well be even more horrific. Show nested quote +The Trayvon Martin story remains in national headlines this week, but little media attention has been paid to a similarly troubling case: that of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old Marine vet killed in his home last November by police officers in White Plains, NY.
The officers were responding to a false alarm accidentally triggered by Chamberlain's medical alert pendant while he slept. Instead of helping the man, who had a heart condition, they broke down his front door, tasered him, reportedly called him the "n-word" and mocked him, then shot him dead.
Audio throughout the incident was recorded by his medical alert device. .... The officer is believed to currently be on duty, still working for the White Plains police.
also http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/5/exclusive_cop_in_fatal_shooting_ofShow nested quote +The alleged shooter, Officer Anthony Carelli, is due in court later this month in an unrelated 2008 police brutality case. He is accused of being the most brutal of a group of officers who allegedly beat two arrestees of Jordanian descent and called them "rag heads." We speak to Gus Dimopoulos, attorney for Jerry and Sal Hatter. "We allege that the police officers, while in the custody of the White Plains Police Department back at the station, you know, severely beat Jerry while being restrained by handcuffs. They hit him in the face with a nightstick, they kicked, they punched, they punched him, and then essentially charged him with a crime," Dimopoulos said. The guy pulls bullshit like that, they let him back out on the street with a gun and a badge, he straight up murders an innocent old man, and he's still on duty??? There are no words.
Could you link 2 more articles with any less information. Maybe there aren't any yet, but still, those articles seem really biased and lack any information or evidence.
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On April 06 2012 06:19 Kojak21 wrote: What a sensationalized title
What about it is sensationalized?
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On April 06 2012 06:21 Blasterion wrote: Maybe we should allow guns just in case that the people with guns (cops) decide to screw us over one day. I mean just in case. So we can shoot the sheriff in self defense?
There has to be more to this story than what those two articles are showing.
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the cops should at least be suspended and under investigation...
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On April 06 2012 06:27 Demonhunter04 wrote:What about it is sensationalized?
Calling someone a Murderer before they are guilty? Nothing sensational about that ; )
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Can we have a link to the recording?
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For those questioning the articles in the OP, here's the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/fatal-shooting-of-ex-marine-by-white-plains-police-raises-questions.html
Somehow the uncle, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a former Marine who had heart problems and wheezed if he walked more than 40 feet, triggered his medical alert system pendant. The system operator came on the loudspeaker in his one-bedroom apartment, asking: “Mr. Chamberlain, are you O.K.?” All of this is recorded.
Mr. Chamberlain didn’t respond. So the operator signaled for an ambulance. Police patrol cars fell in behind — standard operating procedure in towns across America. Except an hour later, even as Mr. Chamberlain insisted he was in good health, the police had snapped the locks on the apartment door.
They fired electric charges from Tasers, and beanbags from shotguns. Then they said they saw Mr. Chamberlain grab a knife, and an officer fired his handgun.
Boom! Boom! Mr. Chamberlain’s niece Tonyia Greenhill, who lives upstairs, recalls the echoes ricocheting about the hall. She pushed out a back door and ran into the darkness beneath overarching oaks. He lay on the floor near his kitchen, two bullet holes in his chest, blood pooling thick, dying....
His son recalls hearing his father say on tape: “This is my sworn testimony. White Plains officers are coming in here to kill me.” A few minutes later, a bullet tore through his rib and heart. The ambulance took him to White Plains Hospital, where he soon died.
So the officers are insisting he grabbed a knife...which doesn't exactly sound likely, given that he was 68 years old and they shot him with tasers and beanbags out of a shotgun first...nor does that answer why several cops think they would be justified in entering an old man's home in response to a medical altert, guns drawn, and then when he's spooked and confused, mock him and then assault him with tasers and beanbags.
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Disregard due to posting of the times article.
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+ Show Spoiler +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EoqjzaasRI
RIP Hopefully this will be investigated properly.
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its unfortunate that there are members of police that are like this and make it so I don't trust any police officers and I consider them collectively as a gang dressed up in blue and black
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On April 06 2012 06:19 Kojak21 wrote: What a sensationalized title
Agreed, using the word "murder" assumes intent, without having been proven guilty yet. It's not a question of if it was murder or not, it sure looks like that on the surface of course, but the title shifts your perspective before you read the article.
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I wonder how this will all work out? I'm sure they will say they were following procedure/He had deadly weapon and the world will gloss over the fact that they broke into a mans house brutally assualted him with a variety of weapons. Man cops make the scariest bad guys.
I want to hear audio.
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On April 06 2012 06:47 tw!tch wrote:Agreed, using the word "murder" assumes intent, without having been proven guilty yet. It's not a question of if it was murder or not, it sure looks like that on the surface of course, but the title shifts your perspective before you read the article.
Did you even watch the video? There is an audio recording from his medical place that when the police knocked on the door he said he was fine, and then they busted the door down.
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