Unarmed Black Man Killed By Deputy After Allegedly Shoplifting Detergent

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Deputy Kills Unarmed Black Man After Alleged Shoplifting From Houston Dollar General: Footage show deputy chasing the man, pinning him down and hitting him with a stun gun before shooting him in the back.

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Unarmed Black Man Killed By Deputy After Allegedly Shoplifting Detergent
Footage shows a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy chasing the man, pinning him down and hitting him with a stun gun before shooting him in the back.
10:17 PM · Aug 2, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roderick-brooks-shooting-fatal-houston_n_62e18fb0e4b09d14dc3ef013

The sheriff’s department in Houston released body camera footage last weekend that shows a deputy holding down a Black man and fatally shooting him at close range after receiving 911 calls about an alleged shoplifting and assault at a Dollar General store.

Sgt. Garrett Hardin of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office pinned Roderick Brooks to the ground on July 8 after a foot chase and shot him, the video shows. Sadiyah Evangelista Karriem, an attorney for Brooks’ family, told HuffPost that the deputy shot the 47-year-old near where his head and neck met.

Brooks’ family has alleged police brutality and misuse of force, and on Tuesday called for the Texas Rangers and U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the shooting.

They believe the law enforcement footage tells only part of the story. Demetria Brooks-Glaze, Brooks’ sister, said witnesses told the family that the officer hit Brooks several times and that it was not shown in body camera footage released by the department.

“The world needs to see what they are doing. In this case, they are not showing everything,” she said, calling the shooting a “racist act.”

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[SunSeeker]

1. Fucking sickening.

They manage to arrest white mass killers armed with AR-15s without harming a hair on their head. Nope, this is not poor training. This is racism.

[Grasswire2]

2. for a dollar general bottle of detergent

Insanity.
Racism.

[electric_blue68]

3. Murderous Brutally!!!! NO Excuse!

[uponit7771]

4. Pinned to the ground shot in the back is an execution ... my fuckin God, if we had a government

... to protect us these events like this would be investigated to the nth degree like it was a terrorist attack and people put in jail

Folk don't even give a fuck ... damn

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Will we ever get the racist Nazis out of law enforcement?

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Hitler learned a hell of a lot from US jurisprudence.

How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow

To craft legal discrimination, the Third Reich studied the United States.

BECKY LITTLE, MAR 26, 2021: AUG 16, 2017

In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. Together, these were known as the Nuremberg Laws, and they laid the legal groundwork for the persecution of Jewish people during the Holocaust and World War II.

When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish citizens, they weren’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air. They closely studied the laws of another country. According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States.

“America in the early 20th century was the leading racist jurisdiction in the world,” says Whitman, who is a professor at Yale Law School. “Nazi lawyers, as a result, were interested in, looked very closely at, [and] were ultimately influenced by American race law.”

In particular, Nazis admired the Jim Crow-era laws that discriminated against Black Americans and segregated them from white Americans, and they debated whether to introduce similar segregation in Germany.

Yet they ultimately decided that it wouldn’t go far enough.

“One of the most striking Nazi views was that Jim Crow was a suitable racist program in the United States because American Blacks were already oppressed and poor,” he says. “But then in Germany, by contrast, where the Jews (as the Nazis imagined it) were rich and powerful, it was necessary to take more severe measures.”

Continues…

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow