Denver Police caught telling key lies about their fatal shooting of Native American

Paul-Castaway

On this past Sunday, Paul Castaway, a 35 year old Native American, was brutally shot and killed by Denver Police. This much we know.

Castaway's mother, Lynn Eagle Feather, says she called the police for help on Sunday after her son threatened her with a knife, telling cops he was mentally ill. Police allege Castaway charged at them with the knife, but according to witnesses and a surveillance video seen by a local reporter, Castaway was holding the knife to his own neck when he was shot four times.

Speaking to Indian Country Today, Eagle Feather said the police shooting was racially motivated.

"I want justice for my son. I want those cops to be reprimanded. These Denver cops love to kill Natives. They love to kill people of color here,” she told the network.

Immediately after the shooting, though, police began telling key lies about what happened that have already been proven not to be true.

First off, we have this.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/15/1402528/-Denver-Police-caught-telling-key-lies-about-their-fatal-shooting-of-Native-American-Paul-Castaway?detail=facebook#

I've been talking to women about Hillary Clinton,

Middle aged, middle class women of both parties and many of them all say the same thing... that they would not vote for her because she did not dump Bill. Some Men too, but not as prevalent.


My mom was that way too, she thought she wasn't a strong women because she kept Bill around, yet my Dad cheated on her all the time. So in her mind that made her seem as she was, a woman who was not strong.

I think that is weird but I am hearing it all the time, twice today, in fact.

Alswrongly started this thread in GD and it got locked... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026977202

Now this guy is a Rock Star......

Occupy Wall Street just won

The leaderless, agenda-less, amorphous blob that camped out in New York and Washington and various other cities before disappearing without a trace had become a symbol of how not to achieve political change. Until it won.

It was a movement born out of frustration and idealism and eventually wore out and was swept out of its soggy civic encampments by the municipal broom. There it was, and then there it wasn’t.

It was criticized for its lack of agenda items, and if you visited it while it was around, it was all a little vague as to what was going on. It was essentially there as a witness, to an idea. The idea was that economic and social inequality were getting out of hand, and that financial and corporate power were running away with the game.

They did achieve one thing in their not-all-that-brief moment in the sun and not-so-sunny, and that was to put the idea of the 99% into the public discussion.

And now, with Hillary’s latest speech where she followed Bernie Sanders into Occupy turf, we have the Occupy worldview dead center in a presidential election campaign. Not a bad day’s work for hippies.

MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2015/07/15/occupy-wall-street-just-won/

Why Serena Williams Is So Important

For two decades, Williams has dominated an overwhelmingly white sport, a powerful statement on black womanhood.

On Saturday morning when I dragged myself out of bed to watch Serena Williams compete for her 21st Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, I sent my mother a simple text: “Tennis?” More than a thousand miles away and one time zone behind, Mama texted back, “Yes!”
This has been our ritual since I left home nearly half a lifetime ago, just around the time it became clear that Williams Sisters were a force that would not go away quietly. My mother and I spent many lazy summer weekends watching greats like Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. I vaguely remember watching Arthur Ashe play, and my mother always took care to point out Black players like Zina Garrison and Malivai Washington. Unlike basketball, which I also loved back then, in the heyday of Michael Jordan, tennis was an overwhelmingly white sport.

Then came the Black girls—sisters from Compton with beads and braids, playing “power tennis.” That is how sportscasters like Mary Carillo, Pam Shriver and Chris Evert derisively referred to the Sisters’ monster serves and walloping forehand winners down the line way back then. A few months younger than Venus, and a few older than Serena, I was instantly protective and proud of these young sisters the same age as me, who had entered an all-white world and dominated white women with such consistency and force, and so unapologetically, that white women’s heads spun on a regular basis.

MORE HERE: http://www.alternet.org/gender/world-only-has-ugliness-black-women-why-serena-williams-so-important?sc=fb

Hundreds of sex toys dangling from power lines in Portland, Oregon

Hundreds of phallic sex toys have been seen hanging in recent days from power lines across Portland, Oregon, provoking laughter, blushing and lots of photos.

The large white and bright orange dildos appear to have been strung together in pairs, and have prompted numerous reports to the Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement, department spokeswoman Lisa Leddy said on Monday.

A spokesman for public utility Portland General Electric said he did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard.

In online forums, Portlanders posted photos of dildos swaying in the wind above a number of major commercial streets, and speculated about their origins.

Portland resident Lucila Cejas Epple said she first encountered the phalluses at a neighborhood street fair over the weekend.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/13/us-usa-oregon-sextoys-idUSKCN0PN2JK20150713?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

I've been talking to women about Hillary Clinton,

Women of both parties and many of them all say the same thing... that they would not vote for her because she did not dump Bill. Some Men too, but not as prevalent.


My mom was that way too, she thought she wasn't a strong women because she kept Bill around, yet my Dad cheated on her all the time. So in her mind that made her seem as she was, a woman who was not strong.

I think that is weird but I am hearing it all the time, twice today, in fact.

Peace with Iran Could Limit Ability to Bomb It, Warns McCain

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Shortly after world powers successfully negotiated a nuclear-framework agreement with Iran, Sen. John McCain warned that a lasting peace with the Middle Eastern nation “could greatly limit our ability to bomb it.”

“President Obama is hailing this framework as something that could enhance the prospects for peace in the Middle East,” McCain told reporters at the United States Senate. “For those of us who have looked forward to bombing Iran for some time now, that would be a doomsday scenario.”

“The Iranians know well and good that if they abandon their nuclear program exactly the way we’ve asked them to, we can kiss bombing them goodbye,” he said, shaking his head ruefully. “It’s a damn shame.”

read more satire: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/peace-with-iran-could-limit-ability-to-bomb-it-warns-mccain

The Gardena police shooting video that city officials didn't want you to see

Ricardo Diaz Zeferino fidgeted but appeared to keep his hands up for most of the tense encounter as multiple Gardena, California, police officers aimed their guns at him on June 2, 2013. But when he took off his baseball cap and briefly held down his hands, police opened a hail of gunfire — killing the unarmed man and wounding Eutiquio Acevedo Mendez, who was standing near Zeferino.

A new video obtained by the Los Angeles Times shows the grisly dashboard camera footage, which the city of Gardena fought to keep secret in court. The shooting had resulted in a $4.7 million settlement for the relatives and family of Zeferino and Mendez, but media argued the footage was in the public interest.

Warning: graphic footage of the shooting: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/15/8970407/gardena-police-shooting-video

"I can't breathe".... here we go again, unarmed male choked to death by Mississippi cop....

State officials in Mississippi are investigating the death of an unarmed black man who was killed in a physical struggle with a police officer while saying “I can’t breathe”, according to his attorney.

Jonathan Sanders suffered “some kind of asphyxiation” during an altercation with white officer Kevin Harrington on Wednesday night, in the small town of Stonewall, in the eastern part of the state, said the attorney, J Stewart Parrish.

Sanders, 39, was a father of two children including a one-year-old, according to his family.

Parrish told several local media outlets that Harrington pulled Sanders from a horse and choked him to death with a flashlight. Parrish told the Guardian on Friday that allegation had come from relatives who live beside the site of the struggle and witnessed it.

READ MORE: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/10/mississippi-death-unarmed-black-man-jonathan-sanders