Chicago Man Shot 28 Times By Cops Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison

April 5th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

huffingtonpost.com
April 5, 2012

A 61-year-old Chicago man who was shot 28 times by Chicago police officers in 2005 — and lived to tell his side of the story — was sentenced Thursday to serve 40 years in prison, essentially a life sentence.

Howard Morgan, himself a former Chicago police officer, was sentenced on an attempted murder charge Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

NBC Chicago’s Michelle Relerford tweeted from the sentencing that Morgan said, “I am in God’s hands” as he awaited Judge Clayton J. Crane’s decision. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, according to Relerford, was also on hand at the scene.

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That must be a world record.
From Chicago Sun-Times:

MARY MITCHELL: Chicago has its own Trayvon Martin-like scandal

At a time when the shooting in Florida of Trayvon Martin is drawing supporters from across the country, Chicago has its own shooting scandal.

Like the Trayvon case, nothing about the 2005 shooting of Howard Morgan makes sense. Chicago police officers shot Morgan 28 times during an alleged traffic stop. However, it was Morgan who was charged with attempted murder, among other offenses.

But unlike the Trayvon case, Morgan’s wife and supporters have had a difficult time getting the media to pay attention to the case even though it involved a volatile mixture of cops and race.

Morgan is African-American. All of the police officers involved in the shooting are white.

my comment: The police say that he shot at them first. The Jury was deadlocked. Is the timing of this case just a strange coincidence? Will Barack Obama say, “This could have been my father?”
- Shut the fuck up ‘Wells.’
  
  Who gives a shit what the mainstream media has to say.
  
  Who gives a shit what you have to say…
- Thanks Wells didn,t know that and paulshit go to anger management classes.
He wasn’t a former Chicago Police Officer, he worked for the railroad as a “detective”.
If he gets out of prison he could become a rapper. After being shot 28 times and doing time to boot I’m sure he’d appeal to the masses.

On a serious note, this justice system is a bad joke. There may be more to this story I don’t know, but I wouldn’t doubt if this was the meat and potatoes of the whole matter. The police are mostly a joke. There’s a few good ones left, but they’re a dying breed.
This is shocking. I lived in Chicago for about a year in 1968-69. My husband (white) was stopped a few times by the police for a traffic violation. He told me he would just give money to the policeman who stopped him and they would let him go without giving him a ticket.

A relative of mine became a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. He resigned after only a few months after witnessing police brutality among fellow police officers. (This was a long time ago–30 years or so ago.)
is not being shot 28 times punishment enough, we all know that cops lie, they are all cops, they all may have been lying,

if the dude was white we would not be having this discusion

justice may be blind but in justice is not blind… it sees as clear as day.
Probably best if we ignore the crap that Huffpo puts out…
Why is Infowars linking to ‘Huffington Post’?

Regarding the main story, I’m guessing he was hit by a shotgun from a distance. 28 pellets= being shot 28 times maybe….?

It’d be nice to shoot the latest issue of ‘HUFFPO’ with a ’357 loaded with hollow points SIX times.
“They have juries that would convict a salami sandwich if they are told to” -Alex Jones
i’m speechless on this one
rEVOLution
MORE BLACK ATTACKS:

It was six against one.

Six juveniles — the youngest 11, and the oldest 17 — nearly boxed in Dallas Watts, a 78-year-old man from East Toledo.

Mr. Watts was on his way home from the nearby Gas Express Mart at Starr Avenue and White Street about 4:45 p.m. Saturday when the boys approached him.

One pointed at Mr. Watts and said, “take him down,” the victim recounted in an interview Monday.

Mr. Watts, carrying home two small bags of pork rinds to dole out as treats to his three dachshunds, looked at the youth and said, “Why you picking on me?” Mr. Watts recalled. “Remember Trayvon. Why you picking on me?”

The boy, again, allegedly told his friends to “take him down.”

Toledo police charged two children — the 11-year-old and a 17-year-old — with robbery, Sgt. Roy Kennedy said.

The boys on Monday were ordered held in detention at the Lucas County Juvenile Justice Center, prosecutor Lori Olender said.

The 17-year-old also faces a felonious assault charge from an unrelated shooting, Ms. Olender said. The teen allegedly shot Mark Bolling, 24, in the 600 block of Leonard Street in East Toledo on March 18.

Mr. Watts said one of the boys delivered a single blow to the back of his head during the incident Saturday, knocking the victim to the ground.

At one point, the victim recalled being lifted from the ground so one of the boys could “drop-kick” him in the chest.

One boy, he said, put his foot on the back of the victim’s neck, with another shouting, “Kill him.”

While Mr. Watts was down the boys kicked him, over and over, shouting, “[Get] that white [man]. This is for Trayvon … Trayvon lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man],” according to a police report.

The boys fled when a man shouted at them, according to the report.

Mr. Watts said it’s possible the assault was retribution for the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch captain in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26. Mr. Zimmerman has said he fired in self-defense and has not been charged with any crime.

For investigators, it’s unclear whether the assault was motivated by an attempt to avenge the Martin youth’s death or whether Mr. Watts’ “Remember Trayvon” message was misinterpreted as threatening or racist.

“It’s still up in the air who started the verbal confrontation,” Sergeant Kennedy said, adding that stories given by the suspect and the victim conflict and the investigation is ongoing.

When asked about the Trayvon remarks, Mr. Watts said, “All I meant by saying ‘remember Trayvon’ is to remember what happened to him, don’t duplicate it here,” suggesting that he was minding his own business as he walked home.

“The only reason I mentioned Trayvon, that was my defense,” Mr. Watts said. “Don’t pick on me. I am not your enemy.”

The assault occurred only a few hours after a peaceful rally, near the Thurgood Marshall Building, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., to show support for the Martin family.

At his home Monday, Mr. Watts said he has never allowed weapons inside and that when his four children were growing up, they were not allowed to play “cops and robbers, to kill the Indians.”

During the Vietnam War, Mr. Watts, who served in the military from 1950 to 1961, refused to let his boys play GI Joes.

There would be no more killing, he said.

But now, Mr. Watts says he plans to buy a gun and obtain a permit to carry it.

“What happened to me … down here on the corner, that changed my perspective on humanity,” Mr. Watts said.
At 03:08 a small child is pepper sprayed by Santa Monica cops:

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Is it just me or does this story stink of “Oh! Come On!”
28 times?
28 fucking times?
What does that mean, the cops need more money to go to marksmanship classes?
WTF?
No, I don’t think so, HUFFPO!
You gotta wonder: who’s gonna win the race . . . ?
What? No police car video footage to support the case? No convenient store footage? No eye-witnesses?

How did they convict in the first place?
- Chicago is notoriously corrupt.
Another feather in the hat of speedy trial protagonists, huh? The timing of this ruling is impeccable. Let me guess. Chicago, right? Shocking. Bet Rev. Jackson was there, too. Another shock.
Yea!!!! More racial potential to add to the momentum of the Race war coming Summer 2012!!!!
This story is lacking so much information I don’t know where to begin.