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Officer “Robocop” Wins Appeal In Sentence For Floyd Dent Beating

April 15, 2016April 15, 2016 Asa J 2711 Views #ICantBreathe, Accountability, appeal, assault, assault by strangulation, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, beaten, Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, bleeding profusely, Boot Camp, boot camp program, Brutality, brutally excessive, choked, Chokehold, civil lawsuit, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, dash cam video, detroit, Drug war, excessive force, falsifying reports, film the police, Floyd Dent, Inkster, Inkster Police, Inkster Police Department, Judge Vonda Evans, Justice System, Kym Worthy, Mayor Hilliard Hampton, Michigan, Michigan Court of Appeals, misconduct in office, Officer “Robocop”, Officer William Melendez, planting evidence, Police brutality, Police State, PoliceStateDaily.com, polygraph test, Prosecutor Kym Worthy, RoboCop, stealing seized cash and property, tased, tax hike, tax hike to pay police settlement, Traffic stop, video, Wayne County, william melendez

In a move that prosecutors are calling “outrageous,” a cop infamously known as “Officer Robocop,” has won an appeal in Michigan

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Officer “Robocop” Sentenced To Up To 10 Years In Floyd Dent Beating

February 2, 2016 Asa J 1659 Views #ICantBreathe, 10 years in prison, Accountability, assault, assault by strangulation, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, beaten, bleeding profusely, Brutality, choked, civil lawsuit, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, dash cam video, detroit, Drug war, excessive force, falsifying reports, film the police, Floyd Dent, Inkster, Inkster Police, Inkster Police Department, Mayor Hilliard Hampton, Michigan, misconduct in office, Officer “Robocop”, Officer William Melendez, planting evidence, Police brutality, Police State, polygraph test, RoboCop, stealing seized cash and property, tased, tax hike, tax hike to pay police settlement, Traffic stop, video, william melendez

A Michigan cop infamously come to be known as “officer Robocop,” has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for the beating,

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Family Files Federal Lawsuit In Police Hogtie Death Of Troy Goode

January 15, 2016January 16, 2016 Asa J 1823 Views #ICantBreathe, Accountability, attorney Tim Edwards, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Brutality, Civil rights, civil rights violation, copblock, copblock.org, cops hogtie man, death, Desoto, District Attorney John Champion, dog bites, Eric Garner, excessive force, federal lawsuit, Goodman Road, hogtied, k-9, K-9 attack, LSD, Mayor Darren Musselwhite, Mississippi, Mississippi State Medical Examiner, police accountability, Police brutality, police murder, Police State, rights, Southaven, Southaven police, suffocation, tased, Tennessee, Troy Goode, Update, Widespread Panic, wrongful death

The family of an asthmatic Tennessee man is alleging in a federal lawsuit that their loved one died during a

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“Who Gives A F***?”: Man Dies After Telling Cops He Can’t Breathe

December 5, 2015 Asa J 978 Views #ICantBreathe, Accountability, appeal, attorney Al Gerhardstein, attorney John Bacevice Jr., Brutality, cardiac arrest, circumstantial evidence, Civil rights, Cleveland, cleveland police, cleveland police department, copblock, copblock.org, deliberate indifference, driving with no headlights, elbowed in neck, EMS, Eric Garner, Eric Harris, excessive force, I Cant Breathe, Judge Karen Nelson Moore, Justice System, lawsuit, medical condition, medical need, no victim no crime, Ohio, Police State, Rodney Brown, Shirley Brown, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, stun-gun, Tasers, Who gives a fuck?, wrongful death

In echoes of Eric Garner and Eric Harris, a battle is ongoing in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals involving

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Officer “Robocop” Convicted In Floyd Dent Beating – Faces 10 Years

November 19, 2015 Asa J 1207 Views #ICantBreathe, 10 years in prison, Accountability, assault, assault by strangulation, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, beaten, bleeding profusely, Brutality, choked, civil lawsuit, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, dash cam video, detroit, Drug war, excessive force, falsifying reports, film the police, Floyd Dent, Inkster, Inkster Police, Inkster Police Department, Mayor Hilliard Hampton, Michigan, misconduct in office, Officer “Robocop”, Officer William Melendez, planting evidence, Police brutality, Police State, polygraph test, RoboCop, stealing seized cash and property, tased, tax hike, tax hike to pay police settlement, Traffic stop, video, william melendez

You may recall the story of Floyd Dent – A Michigan man beaten, choked, and tased after police pulled him

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Asthmatic Concert Goer Dies After Being Hogtied By Police

July 20, 2015February 28, 2016 Asa J 1838 Views #ICantBreathe, asthmatic, attorney Tim Edwards, Baptist Memorial Hospital, chemical engineer, choke hold, concert, copblock, copblock.org, Eric Garner, Goodman Road, Hogtied By Police, jackson, K-9 patrol car, Mississippi, nypd, Southaven Mississippi, Southaven police, Troy Goode, Widespread Panic

A 30-year-old asthmatic man died Saturday night after Mississippi police hogtied him and positioned him face-down on a stretcher when

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Video Shows Man Arrested For Sneezing At #NoNewNYPD Protest

June 26, 2015February 28, 2016 Asa J 1654 Views #ICantBreathe, #NoMoreNYPD, 300 new officers, and harassment, arrested for sneezing, City Hall, copblock, copblock.org, Daniel Aguilar, disorderly conduct, first amendment zone, free speech zone, Gracie Mansion, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, nypd, obstructing government administration, over-aggressive policing, police protest, resisting arrest, union square

Video has surfaced showing a man being arrested for sneezing at a peaceful protest against New York City’s decision to

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