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Two Inmates Dead After Prison Riots In Nebraska

Two inmates were found dead Monday at a maximum security prison in southeast Nebraska after a wild uprising.

Inmates took control of at least part of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution Sunday during an incident when two staff members and two inmates were injured, according to the state Department of Correctional Services.

Staff members were attempting to break up a large gathering of inmates in front of a housing unit when the disturbance began, James Foster, a department spokesman, said in a statement.

Foster said officers regained control of the facility that houses 11 death row inmates on Monday. The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the deaths.

There were no reports of any escapes.

Smoke rose from two housing units on Sunday and driveways to the prison were blocked, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. But prison officials said the exterior of the facility was secured by Sunday evening and all staffers were accounted for.

Early Monday, no more smoke could be seen and employees were being allowed into the facility.

The Journal Star reported it received a call from inmate Jeffry Frank just before 11 p.m. Sunday via a case manager’s office phone.

“We’ve pretty much taken the whole prison,” Frank told the newspaper.

He said that no prison employees were inside the housing unit and described the scene, saying: “The ceilings are fallen. There’s drywall on fire. There’s cameras torn down,” according to the Journal Star.

Foster told the Omaha World-Herald that inmates had gained access to an office with a phone.

The 960-bed Tecumseh State Correctional Institution opened in 2001 in Johnson County, about 60 miles southwest of Lincoln.

The Associated Press

Comprehensive Studies Show That Blacks And Hispanics Are More Likely To Get Ticketed By Police

Well here’s an absolute no brainer!

According to a comprehensive survey performed out in Connecticut, “Blacks and Hispanics more likely to be ~~targeted~~, ticketed, ~~arrested and murdered~~ by the cops”

The real injustice here is that there is no need for a “comprehensive” survey to arrive at this conclusion.

The evidence speaks for itself…

but I’ll let you be the judge.

Join the discussion.

The most comprehensive survey ever conducted of police stops in Connecticut continues to show that black and Hispanic motorists who commit moving violations are more likely to be ticketed than are white drivers pulled over for the same offense. –Bossip

A Courant analysis of data collected as part of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project shows that for the most common moving violations — speeding, traffic-light violations and stop-sign violations — black and Hispanic offenders statewide are 11 to 41 percent more likely to end up with a ticket than are white offenders stopped for the same offense.

Among more than 150,000 speeders, for example, 51 percent of white motorists stopped by police received a ticket, compared with 63 percent of black drivers and 66 percent of Hispanic drivers.

For drivers caught running a stop sign, 29 percent of white drivers were given a ticket for the offense, compared with 34 percent for blacks and 41 percent for Hispanics.

The disparity was stark for a variety of equipment-related issues as well, including defective lights, license-plate problems and tinted windows. For equipment violations collectively, white drivers were ticketed in 9 percent of stops, while blacks and Hispanics were ticketed in 15 percent and 18 percent of stops, respectively.

Douglas Fuchs, the police chief in Redding and a past president of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, warned that a statewide analysis of post-stop data does not give a true picture of policing in Connecticut.

“There’s so many different factors that one has to take into account, that the only really fair way to do this analysis is ultimately to drill down to the officer level,” Fuchs said. “Absent that level of analysis, there’s too many anomalies, there’s too many policies, there’s too many rates at which we police differently to look at anything as a whole.”

UPDATED: Atlanta Sheriff Shoots A Woman And Walks Free Without Answering Any Questions

victorhill — Atlanta sheriff, Victor Hill is being investing for the shooting of an Atlanta woman.

A Clayton County (GA) sheriff claims he “accidentally” shot a woman in a model home in Atlanta. To top off things off, the police let him walk scott free without even giving a statement on what happened! — Imagine that!

The woman who was shot is in critical condition and as of now, can’t speak.

Police said that the sheriff is “semi-cooperating” with the investigation.

* UPDATED*

Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill charged in shooting

THE DAILY BEAST– He apparently wanted to be Georgia’s own Batman.

On his first day in office, Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill terminated 27 deputies and put snipers on the office roof—just in case the disgruntled cops acted out. Then he used tax dollars to repaint squad cars with his name and deployed a military tank on drug busts.

As his county’s first black sheriff, he proudly dons a shiny gold star on his lapel and has long extolled the virtues of defeating the bad guys. He once requested assault rifles and night-vision goggles in an effort to turn his suburban Atlanta agency into a “paramilitary organization.”

In one 2012 campaign commercial, a suited actor rushes into the fictional mayor’s office and says, “We’re in a state of emergency,” before advising, “Victor Hill is the only sheriff that criminals fear.” The mayor pulls out a big red button and quietly commands, “Do it,” and Hill’s own version of the Bat-Signal flashes in the sky.

“My favorite thing as a kid was to play cops and robbers,” Hill told Atlanta Magazine in 2006, a year after being elected. “People pretty much know what they’re gonna do when they’re children … What we play as kids, ultimately, we end up playing on the stage of life for real.”

Hill’s colorful history is the stuff of made-for-TV movies, if not superhero fantasy. But now he appears less avid crime-fighter and more Clown Prince of Crime.

On Sunday evening, the sheriff accidentally shot real estate agent Gwenevere McCord, 43, inside a model home. The incident has attracted national scrutiny as authorities say Hill is trying to dodge their efforts to discern what happened. McCord, who has had two surgeries, is unable to speak, police say, and Hill hasn’t fully cooperated, according to police outside his jurisdiction.

“He refused to cooperate and give any statement,” Gwinnett county police Sgt. Brian Doan said Monday.

Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter added Tuesday, “I guess he’s semi-cooperative is the best way to put it.”

McCord—who took a bullet in the abdomen, according to police —is in critical condition. Her father, Ernest McCord, called the situation a “freak accident.” “They’re good friends,” her dad told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He’s always been a perfect gentleman with us. He’s always shown concern for us and for her.”

No charges have been filed and the investigation continues.

Hill broke his silence Tuesday afternoon. “As reported … I was involved in a tragic and heartbreaking accident,” Hill wrote in a statement posted on the sheriff office’s Facebook page.

“Gwenevere McCord, who is very dear to me, was critically injured in this accident. Please understand that for the past 48 hours, I have been entirely focused on Gwenevere and her family.”

Investigators don’t appear to buy his account completely. “There are circumstances of this that are questionable and make me question the idea that it was purely an accident,” Porter told the Gwinnett Daily Post.

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