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April 21st, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Tambrasha Hudson has filed a lawsuit citing that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Police Accountability Task Force (PATF) found systemic racism within the police department, along with evidence that proves a long-standing history of racism that has resulted “in the unjustified deaths of people of color”.
PATF stated the “police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color” which is proven by statistical data showing that of the 404 police shootings between 2008 and 2015, 74% of the victims were African American.
In the death of 16 year old Pierre Loury, the suit states that the officers involved conspired to create a false narrative complete with “misleading and incomplete versions”.
Andrew Smith, attorney for the Loury family said: “This 16-year-old lost his young life because of the unreasonable and lethal use of force. These situations continue to happen.”
The circumstances of Loury’s death involve a foot chase that ended with the police opening fire in the street, shooting the child to death. The cops involved said the 16 year old had “pointed a gun” at him, but the truth is that this boy and the cop who shot him knew each other.
In the preliminary investigation, the cop though Loury was a gang member which is why he shot the boy in the chest.
Police brutality in connection with racism targeting minorities in communities like Chicago were highlighted in a 2015 report produced by the Black Youth Project (BYP) at the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (SRPC) at the University of Chicago (UC).
The authors of the report explained that this data “reflects our commitment to knowledge, voice and action. We create knowledge by detailing the real life experiences of young Black people and identifying how these experiences distinguish them from their peers. We help amplify their voices by providing platforms and opportunities for young people to weigh in on the issues most important to them. We hope the data and findings in this report will contribute to a call to action to bring about change rooted in the ways Black millennials experience contemporary America.”
When it comes to policing, gun ownership, and the legal system at large, there are different temperaments with regard to race because of how they are treated.
According to the BYP report, 71% of African American millennials still believe that police are there to protect them.
And yet, 22% of black youth say they know someone who was the victim of gun violence within the last 12 months.
When it comes to being arrested, 38% of millennials in general agree that African Americans are not fairly treated by the American legal system.
Perhaps not surprisingly, 26.8% of black millennials view the US legal system as fair for all races; however there is still a sense that change through politics will provide the solution.
When 71% of black youth look to participation in politics as a pathway to change, it may not be such a far off concept.
With a growing pattern of targeting killings by cops, the US Supreme Court has has made it easier for police to use excessive force with impunity by making it harder to sue a cop for using deadly force against fleeing suspects; “unless it is ‘beyond debate’ that a shooting was unjustified and clearly unreasonable.”
Justices argued that officers must be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to a situation that might turn deadly or dangerous; however the fact that the shooting officer was not in actual danger did not apply to this decision.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out that the ruling was “sanctioning a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to policing.”
And in the case of Tamir Rice, we see that this Wild West reaction technique comes without repercussions. Local clergy and activists had filed affidavits with the court, asking that Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine find probable cause to arrest Officer Timothy Loehann and accompanying officer Garmback “on aggravated murder, murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, negligent homicide and dereliction of duty charges.”
Adrine ruled back in June of 2015 that there was probable cause to charge Loehann with murder, manslaughter and reckless homicide in the shooting death of Rice.
In the end, neither of these cops were charged with the death of Rice.
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