This Powerful Idea Could Prevent Future Police Killings [View all]

[libdem4life]

I've been hoping for a Civilian Oversight Group, and this is already going. Hope it gets a lot of publicity. From further down in article: http://wecopwatch.org/

http://news.yahoo.com/powerful-idea-could-prevent-future-police-killings-180915258.html

This Powerful Idea Could Prevent Future Police Killings

David Whitt recalls being beat up at the age of 18 in the back of a police cruiser, then dropped off in an unfamiliar neighborhood in a suburb outside of Washington, D.C. He stands by his story to this day: He didn’t have a weapon when police officers arrested him and a couple other young black men months before the beating. The police accused the trio of weapons possession, but the charges didn’t stick. When Whitt crossed paths with those cops again, he bore the brunt of their belief that he had gotten off lightly. Bleeding and stranded, Whitt, who is black, found a payphone and tried to call his mother to pick him up, but realized he didn’t know what neighborhood he was in. A white man approached him and tried to help, ultimately giving his mother directions over the phone. Whitt was grateful, but afraid to tell him about what had happened with the police.

“People don’t even believe that cops do stuff like this,” Whitt, now 35 told TakePart. “He probably wouldn’t have believed me, or helped me, if I had told him.”