saheed vassell shooting
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In the Latest Example of Arrested While White, an Unruly Charlottesville Knife-Wielder Was Somehow Detained Without Being Beaten, Shot or Killed
While it’s not a secret that there’s a significant contrast in how black people are treated by police in comparison to our white counterparts, it doesn’t make the end result any less frustrating. Especially since police prove time and time again that they are entirely capable of demonstrating proper decorum and restraint as long as…
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#SaheedVassell Mentally Spiraled After NYPD Gunned Down His Best Friend 10 Years Ago
In a most stinging irony, Saheed Vassell slid into a worsening depression after his best friend, Ortanzso “Marlon” Bovell, was shot and killed by police in 2008. The mental stress of experiencing such personal heartbreak most likely played a role in Vassell’s meeting the same fate—death by cop—on those same Brooklyn, N.Y., streets almost a…
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NYPD Releases Video, 911 Transcripts Related to Shooting of Saheed Vassell
Video released by the New York City Police Department on Thursday shows 34-year-old Saheed Vassell pointing a metal pipe at several people as if it were a gun on Wednesday before he was shot and killed by police officers in the Crown Heights area of the city’s Brooklyn borough. Police also released the transcripts of…
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NYPD Officers Kill Mentally Challenged Black Man They Say Aimed a Metal Pipe at Them Like a Gun
New York City police officers in the Crown Heights section of New York’s Brooklyn borough shot and killed a man Wednesday afternoon after mistaking a metal pipe he was wielding for a gun. (The “we feared for our lives” excuse is already past its prime like spoiled milk. Watch how they work this.) According to…