Florida Cops Kill Black Man Who Pulled Over With Car Trouble — And Then Refuse To Tell Family Why

[harry knucklez]

I'm pretty sure they'll dig his background and find something to paint him as the ruthless aggressor to justify his murder, like an unpaid parking ticket from 10 years ago or tardiness in elementary school.

 

[cannonspike1994]

White people ain't shit.

 

[A Talented One]

This gives a fuller picture of what happened.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-killed-by-plainclothes-officer/?tid=pm_pop_b

They are conspiring to get their story straight right now as we speak.

Edit: His family said that he had a gun and a permit.

 

[A Talented One]

One of his band mates:

 

[5th Letter]

Let me guess he resisted arrest? Maybe he reached for the officers gun? He charged at the cop? He mistook an object in Corey's hand as a weapon?

 

[Lurkristocrat]

So when we gon start killing random crackas

Obvious fed is obvious

 

[Preach2Teach]

The plan is to get rid of the police then bring in the feds as the main dictatorship, if that ever happens then America will be truly fucked, don't let em fool you, for all we know this could be another false flag? don't get angry at me, just throwing it out there.

 

[Shizlansky]

The plan is to get rid of the police then bring in the feds as the main dictatorship, if that ever happens then America will be truly fucked, don't let em fool you, for all we know this could be another false flag? don't get angry at me, just throwing it out there.

America will truely be fucked?

We worrying about black America that already truely fucked.

Sit your ass down.

 

[Ajackson17]

Cop in plain clothes and unmarked vehicle? Anyone would be worried about someone coming to you in the dead of the night. Cops ain't shit.

 

[iron man1]

Not safe to be black anywhere day or night smh.

 

[bamnboy7]

So when we gon start killing random crackas

So the answer to an innocent man being murdered is to go and kill more innocent men? why do it random? is it because you ain't got the balls to step to the cop in question, so instead attack a random person like a coward instead?

They attack us at random

That nigga ain't do nothing to get killed

 

[bamnboy7]

I know what we should do, we should get together and walk down the streets with candles and signs and beg the white massa to not kills us no mo

Silly ass niggas

Naw we should have community meeting and talk about the injustice going on in this country

Yea thatll show em..........that always works.......

 

[Kwan Dai]

They are searching all of his social media and internet activity for something to use against him.

A picture with his middle finger up is, forthcoming.

 

[texas409]

Yous know that eventually we're going to have to stand up..

Whether you want to or not,

this war is bound to happen..

They killing BLACK men, women, and children left and right,

and they beating the cases with no remorse or repercussions..

I hate to say but its bound to happen if something doesn't change quickly.

 

[texas409]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/source-corey-jones-had-gun-but-may-not-have-known-/nn564/

Source: Corey Jones had gun, but may not have known shooter was a cop

PALM BEACH GARDENS — A source with knowledge of the incident said Corey Jones had a gun, but the altercation might have been a misunderstanding because Nouman Raja was in plainclothes and driving an unmarked car.

“The assumption is that the guy didn’t know he was a cop,” said the source, who asked not to be named since the incident is still under investigation.

The source said Raja was working burglary surveillance in the area when he confronted Jones, and the incident unfolded within seconds.

Coward source didn't want to be named meaning they made this story of him being plain closed up. And so the cop shot him because he seen a gun? Same story different victim smh

 

[Ol Jay's]

and niggaz still don't want to protect their 2nd Amendment rights? SMH

i don't get the point of this post, the deceased had a gun

 

[illedout]

Is This the End of the 2nd Reconstruction?

This has been a bruising time for the African-American community—as bruising as any in recent memory.

The tragic deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney and the other eight victims in Charleston, S.C.—as well as others too numerous to name,

but whose lives and sacrifices matter no less—shocked us all.

My concern is that the end of the Second Reconstruction is upon us now, or that there are too many in power who are trying to achieve that pernicious end. W.E.B. Du Bois said of the beginning and end of the first Reconstruction, “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. The whole weight of America was thrown to color caste. The colored world went down. ... A new slavery arose.”

Following the first Reconstruction—that decade after the Civil War in which the Union was to become whole again, the slave was to become free and property was to become citizen—the economic relation of slave to master was essentially reconstituted through sharecropping and disenfranchisement mounted mischievously in fits and starts, and then confirmed and maintained as the law of the land. As Du Bois again put it:

The most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of ten million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent into the new-found Eldorado of the West. They descended into Hell; and in the third century they arose from the dead, in the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution. ... [But] we fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future.

The legacy of the ending of Reconstruction, the redemption of the Confederacy, was a debilitating blow to the status of the newly freed slaves and their descendants: sharecropping, convict lease (both actually forms of neo-slavery), Jim Crow and lynch laws, poll taxes and literacy tests, and the scandalous sanctioning of separate but equal as the law of the land by the U.S. Supreme Court. These are just some of the items in the catalog of horrors that kept the majority of black people systematically separate and decidedly unequal throughout the first half of the 20th century. Still, miraculously, many of our ancestors persistently rose, and stories of success were beacons of hope and a promise of better days to come.

The brilliant strategies of leaders such as Du Bois and Ida B. Wells, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White and Charles Hamilton Houston, Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer, Vernon Jordan and Constance Baker Motley, Stokely Carmichael and John Lewis, Malcolm X and, of course, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (among many others), worked in their various ways to get us, in the mid-1960s, to what many scholars call the Second Reconstruction, ushered in by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Affirmative action would follow, and the numbers of black people entering the American middle class swelled and educational opportunities increased, such that people of my generation were able to matriculate at historically white colleges and universities. And it seemed that, finally, we were poised as a people to arrive on the threshold of full American citizenship, with all of the rights and responsibilities that entails.

We know that this isn’t the full story. As this Second Reconstruction of rights and opportunities in the late 1960s and early 1970s began to take off, work disappeared from urban centers, as my colleague William Julius Wilson has so cogently demonstrated, and black unemployment rose, the black achievement gap widened, the incarceration of black men became massive, public schools became increasingly segregated, and discriminatory practices in the workplace and on our streets continued to affect countless black lives, at the level of both macro- and microaggressions.

Still we rose—and still we could vote, thanks to the Voting Rights Act. And eventually that glorious night that neither our ancestors—the “many thousands gone”—nor we, their heirs in faith and struggle, could ever imagine living to see: We—the American people—elected an African-American president, a black man. And now he and his lovely family so gloriously and elegantly occupy the White House, for all the world to see!

See Also

Help! I’m Baffled by My Neanderthal DNA Test Results

When Did My Black Ancestors First Arrive in Washington, DC?

Were My ‘Free Mulatto’ Ancestors Ever Enslaved?

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But what has changed—and what is most frightening—is that we see our legislative and judicial branches of government slowly and methodically chipping away at the rights that were so hard-won (the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County v. Holder [pdf] comes to mind). And in our viral world of social media, we hear of unarmed black people being brutalized by some members of our police forces in ways that call to mind images of the violence wreaked upon protesters in the worst days of the civil rights movement, just as we witness the stubborn persistence of black-on-black homicide.

So as we find assaults on the Second Reconstruction proliferating, we still have to stand boldly, and say loudly and proudly that our history of struggle in this country matters; that the defense of voting rights matters; that the right to a job with a livable wage matters; that the right to decent housing in integrated neighborhoods matters; that the right to a superior public school education matters; that the right to access to affordable health care matters; that the right to live in safe neighborhoods free from the threat of random murder matters ... that, indeed, black lives will always continue to matter.

Editor’s note: This article was adapted from remarks made by Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremony at Harvard University Sept. 30, 2015.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also chairman of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

 

[Kwan Dai]

FOH with this he had a gun excuse. Why the hell are states allowing gun sales, and issuing licenses if, cops are just going to fucking shoot at the sight of a gun?

If this swine was plain clothed why not take extra care at identifying himself as an officer? So, either way this muaffucca was profiling and rolled up on the brother on a slow creep.

And fuck it. I feel like venting.

Also, the forthcoming argument of why don't Black people get this upset when another Black kills another Black is going to force me to knock a mafucca out. For real. I told this white dude I work with straight up. Look, you cool and all but don't approach me with that bullshit when you don't give two fucks about my people, my community and what we do in our communities.

The bottom line is, you fuccing washitchu's and coons, Blacks hate other Blacks out here killing, and committing crime. We know and label them as criminals who are hurting our communities. Thus, the US prison population being over 50% Black. That's why we stay working to improve our communities without the help of these fuccing racist washitchu's who have destroyed our communities with predatory lending practices, school budget cuts, Black communities not equally funded to build civil and social infrastructures to that of white communities, Racists business practices that pay Black Men and Women at lower rates of their white counter parts who have equal education and experience. I could go on and on but why? These wachitchu's don't give a fuck because, White supremacy, racism and white privilege benefits them. And you coons need to wake the fuck and learn about what Black folks are doing in their communities.

 

[mc317]

Bitch give me that kidney

 

[stringer bell]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...dead-by-plainclothes-police-officer/74260810/

Kin demand answers after cop kills church drummer

Relatives and friends are demanding answers after a Florida church drummer who was waiting for assistance after his car had broken down was shot and killed by a plainclothes police officer.

The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department says that the dead man, Corey Jones, was armed and confronted the officer, who had stopped to investigate Jones’ car because he thought it was abandoned.

Jones’ family, meanwhile, says that the 31-year-old was a “gentle spirit” who was non-violent.

“We taught him a few things about life and about being a gentleman,” his uncle Kenneth Terry Banks told CBS News. “We really just need to get more information."

And a band mate, Boris Simeonov, told the local Sun Sentinel newspaper that he was in disbelief. "Something seems really wrong here," he said.

The incident occurred, according to local media, after a gig with a band, the Future Prezidents, in Jupiter early on Sunday morning. As he was traveling to his home in Boynton Beach, Jones’ SUV broke down near an interchange on I-95. He called a band mate for help, who then called roadside assistance after being unable to get the vehicle started.

In a statement on Facebook, the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department said, "Nouman Raja, on duty in a plain clothes capacity, in an unmarked police vehicle, stopped to investigate what he believed to be an abandoned vehicle. As the officer exited his vehicle, he was suddenly confronted by an armed subject. As a result of the confrontation, the officer discharged his firearm, resulting in the death of the subject."

Thirty-eight-year-old Raja, who joined the force in April, was not wearing a body camera, and none of the department's squad cars are fitted with dashboard cameras.

An aunt, Serena Banks, told the local Palm Beach Post newspaper that she was shocked to hear the police account of how the shooting occurred, saying it “wasn’t in Corey’s character to be confrontational.”

“Anyone that knew Corey knew that he was a very meek person,” she told the paper. “That’s why we don’t understand why anyone would mess with Corey. If he was a bad child, I would say so, but he was a good person with good judgment.”

Banks told the Post that she believed Corey had a gun permit and a gun, but would never use it.

The Sun Sentinel reported that police haven't specified what type of weapon Jones had and other details about what led to the shooting haven't been disclosed, pending an investigation.

Meanwhile, local TV station WPTV reported that officials have declined to say whether a gun was found at the scene.

According to the Sun Sentinel, Jones' family is well-known and respected in Boynton Beach, partly because of their involvement with the Bible Church of God, where Jones' grandfather Sylvester Banks is a bishop and Jones was a drummer.

Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University, told the paper that the incident may not have occurred had the Raja not been in plain clothes and an unmarked patrol car.

Jones may not have known "if someone was approaching to rob or mug him," Jarvis said. In such encounters, it could be that "the person doesn't realize that they're being approached by a cop."

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting, the Sun Sentinel reported, and Raja has been placed on paid administrative leave.