The Lives of Black Women | Fault Lines
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Rekia Boyd was only 22 when she was killed. An off-duty police officer named Dante Servin fired five shots and one of the bullets struck Boyd in the head. She was unarmed.
When he was questioned, Servin told investigators that Boyd's friend pointed a gun at him, and that he fired in self-defence. But the gun that Servin says he saw was never recovered. Boyd's friend Antonio Cross said he actually had a mobile phone in his hand.
But Servin told Fault Lines that it doesn't matter if it was a cellphone or a gun - it was pointed at him and he believed in that moment that he was being threatened. That's all that was important.
Three years later, in 2015, Servin was charged with involuntary manslaughter, but cleared of all charges the same year. Judge Dennis Porter ruled that Servin was tried for the wrong crime. He suggested that a murder charge would have been more appropriate.
In the US, black women are being killed by police at a rate of one a month. One in four are unarmed. Their stories have often gone untold.
"People don't care about black women, they just don't. We're in the way in the case of Rekia Boyd. We're angry black women. Or we're just too angry and too black and too womanly in the case of Sandra Bland. We're either too x or we're invisible," says Page May, teacher and organiser of Assata's Daughters, a nonprofit organisation for young black women in Chicago
"At best we're taken for granted, at worst we're abused. And we see the manifestation of that on the mainstream, in the erasure of our deaths, our suffering, and of our resistance," she adds.
Months after Dante Servin's trial ended, an explosive video was released to the public: It showed a Chicago police officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald - 16 times. The shooting led to widespread protests and the eventual removal of Chicago's police chief and the state's attorney.
While the city reeled from this scandal, police shot and killed a black woman in the doorway of her home. Bettie Jones was 55 - a mother of five, and a grandmother of nine.
"They don't talk about women that much when they get killed by the police. They barely talk about women. Why is that? It's crazy because you see that even in death women play the second role," Martinez Sutton, Boyd's brother says.
Fault Lines investigates the lesser-known stories of black women who have fallen victim to police violence in the US and ask why black women are left out of the conversation on police brutality.
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Police saying that they need to be predators and act like predators is disgusting.
Ara shni. That's what they learn at the Academy.
+Huey Freeman education really is key to everything.
He was saying cops have to be pro active and think like a criminal to catch criminals. But, the predator term is a very poor metaphor to use, especially when an innocent person is involved. Police should be there to protect and serve but this expectation of perfection is unrealistic. American cops have millions of interactions with civilians every year there's going to be tragedies in such a violent highly armed society. But the cop here seemed a bit too emotional maybe a tad unhinged.
the disgust on the judges face is sickening smh he was never in favor of Rekia #WeMatterForever
Not one white person was arrested for Black Wall Street Massacre. 100 years later and black America still think justice will come.
Who else is here in 2020 when the system still hasn’t changed??
Who was the cop hunting? What crime had the girl and her friend committed that involved him, who happened to be off duty? Why wouldn't you call police while off duty? What's the explanation of never finding the so called gun that made the cop feel so threatened? See how none of this makes sense to me and others who have watched this? I didn't see or hear one iota of an apology for an innocent life taken. I don't see where the young lady and her friend were criminals, but people seem to think this shooting was justified. This system of things will be ending sooner than everybody thinks. R.I.P. to everyone unjustly killed. God makes the final judgement. ☝☝☝
To the person who commented on my comment, I was trying to read more of your comment, when I accidentally hit 'Report this comment'. I can't undo it and I'm mad at myself because you had some very interesting things said in your comment. I'm so sorry because now I can't even see what you wrote. 😱
I COMPLETELY AGREE!! HE MURDERED THAT WOMAN IN COLD BLOOD PERIOD!!!😡😡
Pray ... for black lives... they do matter. Be blessed thank you.
Simple, the line that justice won't cross revenge will.
The police is the real gangsta of every city in America the devil never sleeps.
R.I.P, little Rekia you were and are an angel,as for your killer he knows what is coming his way......
Peace and love to all the families worldwide that suffer unjust occupation.
Moor than a name What, kind of psycho babble is that ?
I'm at work listening to this as if it was a podcast and I almost like spontaneously burst into tears when she said that Rekia's brother goes back to the alley way just to say her name...I thought I was numb to this stuff.
why is U.S.A keep tellling Philippines to observe Human rights of each individual when they themselves don't observe human rights. Before asking to clean their environment, clean your encironment first.
So you are just assuming our police go around shooting black people? Is that the narrative? maybe actually do some research on each police case before guzzling down leftist bullshit.
Hows Duterte working out for you?
If that happened to me, I could not bear the pain. I would be devastated and probably so full of pain and being so angry. I would need a long, long coma, or I would get out of this painful life. I couldn't handle it, it would break my heart and it would never be easier. I should be glad that I am not black. It must be very disturbing to live like a black male under that pressure ALL the time. The cliff between cops and blacks is so great, how can that be made better? It all has to come out in the open and action must not be covert up. It must get better.
i admire your ability to humanize others. i also admire your willingness to have empathy for other humans usually divided and set apart by racial ideology. that alone gives hope for the future. good post.
A policer officer is suppose to PROTECT and SERVE BUT Dante said become a predator to catch a predator.😒 This sounds like a criminal mentality. That is not normal. Being out there fighting crime for 24 years has warped his mind. Very sad. Guilt is eating him up. He can't admit this but his heart it screaming at him. God has a way of breaking a person by their own pride and denial.
My heart goes out to those who lost their lives.
Absolutely unbearable hearing what any of the white men in this documentary had to say.
I hope he truly has nightmares every night for the rest of his life
+Tiffany, they don't care about black people. Don't forget, in 2016, a white woman falsely accused black men of rape. They were innocent and eventually proven of it. Nothing was done to her. Broken system. Smh.
He killed someone for no reason. He’s a straight coward. God lay heavens kingdom to these poor innocent women who are murder victims.
I would have liked to know more about the cases. Especially Rekia.
the first guy who killed the girl and shot another in the face (saved by his cellphone), obviously unstable nutcase with seriously anger management problems. He calls cops because of some noise in a park (early evening) and then confronts them himself with a gun anyway, because cops probably have more important things to do and don't respond. He shot out of anger and low impulse control. Where as the victims brother and then the other black family in the church seem like the most relaxed peaceable people alive. I like America and will travel there for the second time in two years soon (fro New Zealand), but Jesus their are so many angry unstable people there. All the drugged out zombies roaming LA and San Fran having crass outbursts in public in front of young children (no shame), all the stressed and angry people in NYC, the working poor, riding the subway.
Department of Justice, has to step in and prosecute this man... This dirty cop... When I heard about this case I knew this cop was going to get off with murder... This cop did a straight up drive by shooting no different than the way gang bangers would do... Even White/Italian/Jewish, gang bangers in the 1930's would do a drive by shooting the same way... The cop straight up shot over his shoulder like a thug. He knew he would cause great bodily harm or death to a person firing his weapon (gun). This is not only a MURDER, it was a racist lynching with a bullet...
So a protest equates a bank robbery?
This is to sad for me Ive been having nightmares about it
This hate crime can only be stopped by having a similar ´Truth and Reconciliation Commissio´, like they had in South Africa after apartheid. The perpetrator is also a human, but he or she has to hear and feel what the victim´s family has to say what they went through.
BLM why can't you organize March and protest with the enthusiasm and intensity, determination when it comes to clean up your neighborhood and city. If you really want to make a change for the better you have to initiate the change.
Robert Bullock The same reason why you guys can’t treat people as if they’re human. it’s not in you. whites move out the neighborhoods and property value goes down. The city doesn’t take care of the neighborhood like they used to. why don’t you mind your business and stop acting as if you can tell people anything. clean up white on white crime
The leaders are too busy buying the most expensive houses with corporations and peoples money donated to them.
TO hunt! really? Gee and here I thought that police were to protect & to serve isn't that what it says on squad cars. That cop is a punk. Yeah I judge him he took the life of a unarmed black woman.
thank you, Al Jazeera
23:38 wow his analogy- poor
might turn away from the world
Black lives don’t matter to other blacks so stfu
You don't call 911 to "complain about the noise" for Gawds sakes. You cant change the culture of a community. Those places will always be loud at midnight, you will never change that. You don't like it, move.
I think is about time to fit cops with cameras while on mission
Chicago.
Seems like a few bad apples at most.
This didn’t age well
You complaining and protesting about a out of duty police officer killed a black woman but if it was a black man shut at her and killed her you don't say or do nothing about it. The murderer will even attend the funeral .
When it comes to black killing black you say BLACK LIVES MATTERS but it black killing black you keep SILENCE.
I wish I could like this more than once don't care what professor black "truth" and Uncle Phil as well Tariq says.
WITH THE COMPUTER AGE WHY NOT PUT CAMERAS IN HOODS THAT BELONG TO THE PEOPLE ,,, KEEPING CAMERAS ON THE PIGS,,, WATCH THE PIGS DRIVE IN THE STREETS ,,WALK YOU BLOCK ECT ,,, U KNOW WHAT I MEAN,,, LIVE STREAMING BY THE PEOPLE 4 THE PEOPLE.. ITS YOUR PRIVATE HOUSE OUT YOU OWN WINDOWS
Mardi Strong yeah that's an idea. I think there is footage of people being wrongly killed by cops and the cops still get off. Not sure if private surveillance will help anything.
I get it's a different era but sometimes I wonder how come Americans don't fight fire with fire the way they did way back in the day like 1800's- early 1900's type ish? Not saying that's a better thing to do or that two wrongs make a right. I just know early America wld fight back with the same aggression met by them. I shld be content with Non violent protest being better. Just doesn't always seem effective. 😐 idk
It's okay if I get bashed for this comment. I'm really just pondering out loud. Nothing seems to change.
If black people done ilegle works should funish r live them?