Posts Tagged ‘video’

The Beating of Derryl Jenkins

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Derryl Jenkins, 43,  was cruising about 15 mph over the speed limit last February in North Minneapolis where he was pulled over by a single officer, Richard Walker.

Walker’s squad car was equipped with a dashboard camera which captured the brutality and violence that followed.

As seen on the video, Jenkins and Walker become involved in a scuffle.

Going simply by what the raw video shows, Jenkins simply stepped out of his car and it was Walker that made the initial attack and was clearly the aggressor from the beginning of the incident.

Although Jenkins had plenty of opportunity to resist and fight back, he seems more interested in defending himself from the irrational attack by the pig oppressor.

Walker is seen calling for backup (2:30) before he effectively subdues Jenkins by bringing him to the ground and sitting atop him while awaiting the responding pigs.

While Walker might have been acting like a total asshole, he was mostly acting to restrain Jenkins, the half dozen pigs that responded to his distress call reacted with the violence that the oppressive institution known as the Minneapolis Police regularly dish out to our citizens.

Transcripts obtained by Jenkins lawyer, Paul Edlund, showed that one of the responding pigs called this “a good fight”  ….

North Star Republic will attempt to find names and photos of these officers so we can expose them as enforcers of class oppression and brutal enemies of the people.

If you have any information concerning this incident or similar stories of police brutality, coercion,  or wanton violence  we want to hear from you.

“The Ascendancy of Obama…and The Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation: A Dialogue Between Cornel West & Carl Dix”

Friday, August 14th, 2009

An in depth discussion of the presidency of Obama and the need for revolutionary work and organization to not only continue but to kick into high gear!

Republic of Lakotah

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Here is a video that looks inside the third world conditions on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, and the secessionist movement that seeks to empower and liberate the Lakotah people by asserting their rights as a sovereign nation as defined by treaties between Lakotah elders and the United States government.

The Republic of Lakotah has declared it’s independence from the United States and we at the North Star Republic extend our solidarity.

Slap on Wrist for Cop Who Rammed Minivan Full of Kids

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

So here is the scenario, Sargent Carrie Rindal of the Minnesota Highway Patrol is flying down Interstate 94, blasting her rock music, when she notices a minivan switch lanes without using a turn signal. The officer proceeds to put on her sirens and the minivan promptly slows down looking for a safe spot to pull over. However this being Minnesota, a particularly icy and snow filled wonderland, the driver of the minivan was unable to find a safe spot to stop and proceeded at a sluggish pace to the nearest ramp. This apparently wasn’t good enough for Sargent Rindal, who proceeded to ram the minivan, not once but twice!

so why was the driver of the minivan concerned about pulling over on an icy shoulder, well besides the risk he himself would have undertaken, he also happened to have his three young children (2, 3 and 6 years old) in the car.

After ramming the minivan, Rindal goes ahead and whips her gun out, handcuffs the man, arrests him in front of his kids, and impounds the damaged vehicle (1500$ damage). On top of that he gets 37 hours in jail and a 130$ ticket in the mail, even though the prosecutors didn’t end up charging him with a crime.

ok, so what happened to Sargent Carrie Rindal …. well she was made to appear before an internal review board and surprise, surprise, what do you know, the board agreed with her decisions to both ram the minivan and shove her gun in the guys face for trying to protect his family (in a related matter the board disproved of her butch dyke haircut).

any punishment for the cop? nope, merely a note in her police file that mentions the incident for future refrence.

the whole incident took less then a minute, but it will be a minute the family never forgets.

Fascist Cops brutalize 15 year old girl

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

So checking the news today I ran across this video, released after the pigs defense attorney attempted to have it prevented from being seen by the public. Since the judge decided to deny that request we can see with full clarity the way in which this instrument of state repression (the police) is used to violate and abuse citizens in their care. The video shows the absurdity of the assertion that the fifteen year old girl had actually assaulted the officer by kicking her shoes at him violently, as if having shoes kicked at you would be grounds for striking a 90lbs girl multiple times in the face, throwing her onto the hard cement floor, and then lifting her up by only her hair.

even more sickening is that the other officer, who pretty much idly stands by, is the assaulting officers trainee. When police have officers like this as trainers it is no wonder that police brutality has become so widespread throughout the country.

We all need to be vigilant against acts of police brutality and the constant violation of our rights by so called “officers of the law”.