WASHINGTON Cheap Dodgers Hats , May 25 (Xinhua) -- When Cleveland white police officer Michael
Brelo walked out of the courtroom on Saturday without any conviction for his
role in the 2012 shooting spree by 13 officers at two unarmed black motorists,
an eerie sensation of witnessing a hideous serial with almost duplicate plot
line inevitably descends on you.
Inside the courtroom, Brelo cried apparently out of relief and hugged his attorney who later called the prosecution "ruthless". Outside the courtroom,
relatives of the slain couple, Timothy Russell, 43, and Malissa
Williams Cheap Dodgers Hoodies ,
30, cried out of despair and outrage and protests were once again ignited.
"No justice, no peace," protesters chanted, brandishing fists in front of police in riot gear.
Ever since the killing of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white officer Darren Wilson last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, the chant "no
justice Cheap Dodgers Shirts , no
peace" continues to ring out in protests across U.S. cities.
Last month in Baltimore, Maryland, in the wake of the death of 25-year-old black man Freddie Gray who died in police custody, Xinhua reporter asked
protesters what the slogan meant to them.
"We want change. Not small changes, but radical ones for the criminal justice system," one student from Towson University in Baltimore told Xinhua. "I feel
like (the criminal justice system) is rigged against us, it's like value of our
lives is not the equal of theirs (the whites)."
Less than one month after the exclamation Cheap Dodgers
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issued a hotly worded statement shortly after the courtroom announcement that
cleared Brelo of all charges, in which she said the acquittal was "a stunning
setback on the road to justice" for the slain couple and people in Cleveland.
"Today we have been told -- yet again -- our lives have no value," she said.
"The decision may not be what we want but our march for justice continues. We still have a long way to go toward racial equality and justice on Ohio, and in
the United States of America," she concluded.
As in the death of Brown Cheap
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of the New York peddler Eric Garner, who allegedly died from a chokehold by
white officer Daniel Pantaleo last July, the death of Russell and Williams and
the acquittal of Brelo is doomed to soon sink into obscurity as new cases of
police brutality, which most likely will end up with either no indictment or not
guilty verdict for white officers, emerge elsewhere.
According to an analysis report by the U.S. daily The Washington Post and researchers at Bowling Green State University in April, only 54 officers have
been charged among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since
2005.
No database of police-involved deadly shooting exists since the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation does not require police department nationwide to report
office shootings.
"...even in these most extreme instances Cheap Sandy
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resolved have not been convicted," said The Post analysis.
According to The Post, extreme instances usually have factors including "a victim shot in the back, a video recording of the incident, incriminating
testimony from other officers or allegations of a coverup."
Philip Stinson, a researcher taking part in The Post analysis, said that to charge an officer in a fatal
shooting Cheap Maury Wills
Jersey , "it takes something so egregious, so over the top that it cannot
be explained in any rational way," said The Post report.
The most recent case that conveniently qualifies as an " egregious" one happened in North Charleston, South Carolina on April 7, in which white officer
Michael Slager was filmed by a bystander during his killing of an unarmed black
man after a traffic stop.
In the video footage, Slager shot Walter Scott in the back as the latter tried to run away. Eight shots were fired.
Though Slager was arrested on a murder charge the same day the video was handed in, progress on Slager's trial has slowed to a slog. No date for his
first court appearance has been set yet.
"Police officers know that it's very unlikely that they'll be punished even when they knowingly use excessive force against
citizens Cheap Kirk Gibson
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following Slager's arrest in April. "If they thought there was a realistic
chance that they would be investigated and prosecuted, that would be an
effective deterrent."
Unfortunately, the deterrent does not exist yet, and the bizarre serial of police killing will continue to stay on display.
MADRID, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Spanish BBVA Primera Liga side Valencia are waiting anxiously to see if they will have to travel to Kiev on Wednesday to
play their Europe League tie against Dinamo Kiev on Thursday.
Valencia are due to fly to the Ukraine at around 13.00 hours local time, but the game has been put in doubt by the latest outbreak of protest which has seen
over 20 deaths in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and riot police
on the streets of Kiev.
The Spanish club has been in constant contact with UEFA and with the Spanish Embassy in the Ukraine regarding the situation.
As things stand Valencia are continuing as if the game will go ahead and coach Juan Antonio Pizzi has named his 18-man squad for the
game Cheap Babe Herman
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and the safety of any of the club's fans who could travel to watch the game.
UEFA had said at the start of February that the game would go ahead as planned and emitted a message saying the security around the game was
guaranteed, however, the last 48 hours have seen the situation deteriorate
considerably, although the incidents are mainly concentrated in the Independence
Square.
UEFA has had a team of observers working in Kiev for the past week, where they are monitoring the situation,
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