Tag: Corruption

REPORT: Alabama Police Framed Innocent African Americans For Decades 

  
The police force Dothan, Alabama has been blasted in a new report that digs into nearly 20 years of discrimination and false imprisonment of Black citizens. 

A new report has exposed a cover-up of an internal affairs investigation that proved that officers in the narcotics investigation squad have routinely planted drugs and weapons on young Black men to secure charges against them since the mid 90’s — motivated by the squad’s affiliation with a racist neo-Confederate group.

Via Henry County Report: 

The Alabama Justice Project has obtained documents that reveal a Dothan Police Department’s Internal Affairs investigation was covered up by the district attorney. A group of up to a dozen police officers on a specialized narcotics team were found to have planted drugs and weapons on young black men for years. They were supervised at the time by Lt. Steve Parrish, current Dothan Police Chief, and Sgt. Andy Hughes, current Asst. Director of Homeland Security for the State of Alabama. All of the officers reportedly were members of a Neoconfederate organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “racial extremists.” The group has advocated for blacks to “return” to Africa, published that the civil rights movement is really a Jewish conspiracy, and that blacks have lower IQ’s.

The documents shared reveal that the internal affairs investigation was covered up to protect the aforementioned officers’ law enforcement careers and keep them from being criminally prosecuted.

Several long term Dothan law enforcement officers, all part of an original group that initiated the investigation, believe the public has a right to know that the Dothan Police Department, and District Attorney Doug Valeska, targeted young black men by planting drugs and weapons on them over a decade. Most of the young men were prosecuted, many sentenced to prison, and some are still in prison. Many of the officers involved were subsequently promoted and are in leadership positions in law enforcement. They hope the mood of the country is one that demands action and that the US Department of Justice will intervene.

The group of officers requested they be granted anonymity, and shared hundreds of files from the Internal Affairs Division.

Honestly, there are no surprises here! Sadly.

Source| Bossip 

Rosa Parks Set It Off: Police Report 

  
60 years ago Ms. Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus Dec. 1, 1955. It lead to a bus boycott and became a signal moment in the Civil Rights movement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center shared an image of the police report written about Parks on the 60th anniversary of her act of ‘civil disobedience’.
   

  

Salute the Beautiful, Fearless & Brave Rosa Parks! 

Photo: Facebook 

 

UPDATE: Russell Simmons Says He Will Finally Address RushCard Holders

RushCardEarlier this month it was reported by Bossip that Russell Simmons was in a lot of hot water after his shady Rushcard company was stealing money from cardholders.

The hip hop mogul now says he’s ready to address the distressed card-holders according to The Wrap:

Russell Simmons says the technical issues plaguing his pre-paid debit RushCard are over. But the hip-hop mogul’s problems are just beginning.

“He should be very worried right now,” Joe Valenti, director of consumer finance at the Center for American Progress, told TheWrap. “Reputation is a hard thing to build, but easy to lose.”

Another expert said that Simmons had done a grave disservice to the African-American community who he was purporting to help.
“Russell Simmons has lied to the African-American community for years telling people that RushCard helps you build credit,” Ryan Mack, financial expert and contributor to Financial Juneteenth, a site dedicated to empowering the black community, told TheWrap. “This is a business of greed and exploitation of ignorance.”

Simmons continued his damage control blitz across social media this week, telling cardholders that the RushCard fiasco is fixed.

“We can announce today that all major functionality, including 2 day advance direct deposits and card-to-card transfers, is restored,” Simmons posted on Twitter, Instagram and the RushCard Facebook page Monday. Although he admitted people may have to wait until October 30 to access government benefits directly deposited into their RushCard accounts, including Social Security and veterans benefit payments.