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As of late Tuesday, the U.S. death toll for Afghanistan in August stood at 56 three-quarters of them in the second half of the month as the Taliban fought back against U.S.pressure in southern and eastern strongholds.

American losses accounted for more than 70 percent of the 76 fatalities suffered by theentire NATO-led force.

Until the late-month spike, it appeared the August death toll would be well below themonthly records of 66 in July and 60 in June.

Morelands Coleman Among SoldiersKilled In Afghanistan

Pfc. Chad Derek Coleman

August 31, 2010 By Elizabeth Richardson, The Times-Herald

Private First Class Chad Derek Coleman, a soldier from Moreland, was killed Fridaywhen a command-wired improvised explosive device was detonated near his vehicleduring convoy operations in the Paktiya province of Afghanistan.

Coleman, 20, was a cavalry scout assigned to B Troop, 1st Squadron, 33rd CavalryRegiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at FortCampbell, Ky.

Also killed in the attack was Pvt. Adam J. Novak, 30, of Prairie du Sac, Wisc.

Coleman entered the Army in October 2008 and arrived at Fort Campbell in March 2009.Coleman is survived by his father, Brian P. Coleman, and his mother, Shanon C.Coleman, both of Moreland.

Family friend Sonja Dobek said Tuesday Coleman was a great kid who was also verydetermined in his military career.


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He was an only child and was loved very much, said Dobek. He had the best sense ofhumor. You never saw him where he didnt have a smile on his face. This is just hard tobelieve.

His parents, who were originally from Wisconsin, received the news of their sons deathon Friday. Colemans body was returned to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware onSunday. Funeral services will be announced later.

Coleman attended Newnan High School from August 2005 to the spring of 2009.

On Tuesday, Newnan Principal Dr. Douglas Moore recalled his experiences withColeman while he was a student.

Moore remembers Coleman as a fun kid who also happened to be challenging fromtime to time.

Coleman loved to wear his baseball cap and had to be reminded on a number ofoccasions to remove it while at school. Moore said hed always remove it with a yes,sir.

He made his presence known, said Moore. He didnt just fit into the fabric.

Moore said he wasnt surprised by Colemans career track.

It doesnt surprise me he went into the military and volunteered for scout duty thats just part of his personality, said Moore. He wasnt part of the status quo. He stood upfor what he wanted.

Moore recalls that he socialized with a group of close friends that were genuine, down-to-earth, good kids.

Chad warmed up to us, said his former principal. He didnt like moving to Georgiafrom Wisconsin, but it did eventually become home to him, I think.

Moore said he had conversations with Coleman about what was important to him. Hefondly recalled that Coleman always had strong opinions and defended them.

He had a strong personality, but he was just a good kid. I was sorry to hear the news.

Leslie Merriman, the executive director for the Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity,said Colemans class at the Central Educational Center volunteered during a couple ofHabitats home builds. She spoke with him once regarding his decision to enlist in the

military.

I may not come back alive, but Im not afraid of dying, he told her.

Tom Barnett was Colemans construction teacher at CEC for at least two semesters.

The one thing that stands out about him was his desire to serve his country, saidBarnett. He talked about his plans on an ongoing basis with me both personally andwith the class, and looked forward to finishing school and enlisting.


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about 11 years before he and his family moved back to Wisconsin in 2008, Richardssaid.

Novak is survived by his wife, Celeste Stuessy Novak, of Prairie du Sac; his mother, SueBlock, of Prairie du Sac; two sisters; and two brothers

Novak came home one day and told his family he had joined the Army, Block said. WhileNovak didnt discuss his decision with his family beforehand, Block added that he didntdiscourage his stepson from enlisting.

"We worried about him every day, but I think the military is good for some people, andIm a believer in the cause. We gave him our blessing and kept our fingers crossed,"Block said.

Richards said Novaks mother is devastated and noted his brother Logan Novak, 23,also is serving in Afghanistan.

Block said Logan had arrived in Afghanistan just a week ago, and was sent home afterthey got the news. Block said he didnt want to talk about the prospect of the olderbrother returning to Afghanistan after the funeral.

Funeral arrangements were pending.

Richards said Adam, who worked on military trucks, had a lot of connections in FergusFalls, in part because he was involved in Boy Scouts and played soccer in thenorthwestern Minnesota town.

"He was a very kind, loving boy," Richards said. "He always thought of others, always."

Richards was Novaks Sunday school teacher in Fergus Falls.

"He was a dream kid to teach, very intelligent, he caught on," she said.

Adams father died in 2002. After his mother remarried the family moved back toWisconsin, where Adam finished his senior year of high school, Richards said.

After taking a year off, Adam enlisted in the Army. He was "really pumped about it andproud to do it," Richards said. Logan joined shortly afterward.

Adam Novak met his future wife while completing his basic training. They got married inMarch, surprising his family, Richards said. They had planned to hold a formal weddingceremony in November when Novak was scheduled to return to Wisconsin.

"He was very respectful," said Richards, who said she drove all night to visit Adamsmother in Wisconsin after the family was notified of his death. "Hes the kind of personyou want for a best friend."


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Afghanistan Is More DangerousThan It Has Ever Been During This

War, With Security Deteriorating InRecent MonthsLarge Parts Of The Country ThatWere Once Completely Safe Now

Have A Substantial TalibanPresence

With One Attack After Another, TheTaliban And Their Insurgent Allies HaveDegraded Security In Almost Every Part

Of The CountryLast month, ISAF recorded 4,919 kinetic events, including small-arms fire,bombs and shelling, a 7 percent increase over the previous month, and a 49percent increase over August 2009, according to Maj. Sunset R. Belinsky, an ISAFspokeswoman. August 2009 was itself an unusually active month for theinsurgency as it sought to disrupt the presidential elections then.

September 11, 2010 By ROD NORDLAND, The New York Times [Excerpts]

KABUL, Afghanistan Even as more American troops flow into the country,Afghanistan is more dangerous than it has ever been during this war, with securitydeteriorating in recent months, according to international organizations and humanitariangroups.

Large parts of the country that were once completely safe, like most of the northernprovinces, now have a substantial Taliban presence even in areas where there arefew Pashtuns, who previously were the Talibans only supporters.

As NATO forces poured in and shifted to the south to battle the Taliban in theirstronghold, the Taliban responded with a surge of their own, greatly increasing theiractivities in the north and parts of the east.

The number of insurgent attacks has increased significantly; in August 2009, insurgentscarried out 630 attacks. This August, they initiated at least 1,353, according to the


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Good News For The Afghan Resistance!!

U.S. Occupation Commands StupidTactics Recruit Even More Fighters To

Kill U.S. Troops

A U.S. Marine puts his hands on the body of an Afghan boy without the knowledge orconsent of his family in Deevelak village in Helmand, Afghanistan September 11, 2010.REUTERS/Erik de Castro

Afghani boys have no right to resist body touching by occupation soldiers from the USA.

[Fair is fair. Lets bring 94,000 Afghan troops over here to the USA.

[They can kill people at checkpoints, bust into their houses with force andviolence, bomb and butcher their families, overthrow the government, put a newone in office they like better and detain anybody who doesnt like it in a militaryprison endlessly without any charges being filed against them, or any trial.

[Those Afghans are sure a bunch of backward primitives.

[They actually resent this help, have the absurd notion that its bad their countryis occupied by a foreign military dictatorship killing them wholesale, and considerit their patriotic duty to fight and kill the soldiers sent to grab their country.

[What a bunch of silly people.

[How fortunate they are to live under a military dictatorship run by BarrackObama. Why, how could anybody not love that? Youd want that in your hometown, right?]


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WELCOME TO THE LONELY SIDE OF HELL:ALL HOME NOW!

US soldiers prepare for a patrol in Kandahar province, August 14, 2010.(AFP/File/Volatile Yuri Cortez)

U.S. marines from 1st Light Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion patrol Taghaz village inHelmand September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Erik de Castro


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U.S. Marines from 1st Light Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion, Alpha Company patrolan area in Taghaz village in Helmand, Afghanistan September 9, 2010. REUTERS/Erikde Castro

A U.S. army soldier from Task Force 1-66 provides security during a patrol on the hill,

over looking his units temporary base in Arghandab River valley, Kandahar province,September 10, 2010. REUTERS/Oleg Popov

SOMALIA WAR REPORTS


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Insurgents Attack Mogadishu Airport9 Sept. (AKI)

Insurgent group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack Thursday atMogadishu airport. At least 13 people were killed and scores were wounded when twoexplosives-filled vehicles blew up at the gates of Aden International airport, according toreports.

The spokesman for the African Union peacekeeping mission AMISOM could not beimmediately contacted to establish if peacekeepers were amongst the dead.

Al-Shabab is in the third week of an offensive aimed at toppling the weak Western-backed government after years of bloody stalemate.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.


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Frederick Douglass, 1852

Hope for change doesnt cut it when youre still losing buddies.-- J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time totime that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.-- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787

One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or aso-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizenof Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions.

Mike HastieU.S. Army MedicVietnam 1970-71December 13, 2004

The Nixon administration claimed and received great credit for withdrawing theArmy from Vietnam, but it was the rebellion of low-ranking GIs that forced thegovernment to abandon a hopeless suicidal policy-- David Cortright; Soldiers In Revolt

September 13, 1858:Truly Heroic Action:

Armed Abolitionists RescueCaptured Ex-Slave:

The Group Wanted To ProceedNonviolently, But When The Kentuckians

Refused To Surrender Price, TheResponse Was We Will Have Him

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These were twenty of the thirty-seven citizens from Oberlin and Wellington who werecharged with breaking the law by helping John Price escape from slave catchers in thefall of 1858. The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue and subsequent trial caught the eye of thenation as escalating tensions over slavery raised the prospect of civil war. (Courtesy ofOberlin College Archives)

I must take upon myself the responsibility of self-protection; when I come to beclaimed by some perjured wretch as his slave, I shall never be taken into slavery.

Carl Bunin Peace History September 8-14

A group of the citizens of Oberlin, Ohio, stopped Kentucky slavecatchers fromkidnapping John Price, a black man.

Shakespeare Boynton, son of a wealthy landowner had lured Price with the promise ofwork. Oberlinians, black and white, from town and from the local College, pursued thekidnappers to nearby Wellington at word of his abduction.

The group, led by Charles Langston, James M. Fitch, bookseller andsuperintendent of the Oberlin Sunday School, and John Watson, a grocer, wantedto proceed nonviolently, but when the Kentuckians refused to surrender Price, theresponse was we will have him anyhow.

They rushed the door guards of the Inn and theology student Richard Winsor took Priceto safety, hidden for a time in the home of Oberlin College President James Fairchild,later helped across the Canadian border to freedom.

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Oberlin was a uniquely tolerant community in the early nineteenth century.

Founded in 1833, Oberlin College pioneered co-education and in 1835 broke newground by admitting students regardless of their race. Many residents were abolitionistsand over two hundred people joined together to form the Oberlin Anti-Slavery Society in1835.

The society was dedicated to the immediate emancipation of the whole coloredrace within the United States:

The emancipation of the slave from the oppression of the master, the emancipation ofthe free colored man from the oppression of public sentiment, and the elevation of bothto an intellectual, moral, and political equality with the whites.

Over the next generation, Oberlinians supported the antislavery cause by helpingfugitive slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

After the federal government passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Oberlin abolitionistsgrew increasingly concerned about the threat posed by slave catchers hired to recoverslaves who had stolen themselves from their masters.

Under the 1850 Act, federal marshals received rewards for the arrest and return ofalleged fugitive slaves, and anyone caught helping a freedom seeker could be jailed andfined. Antislavery activists throughout the nation denounced the law as immoral andHarriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to rally public opinion against themeasure.

Most Oberlin residents were proud of the towns reputation as a major station on theUnderground Railroad and were more ready than ever to safeguard the escaped men,

women, and children seeking aid in their community.

John Price was a young man who had escaped from his Kentucky slave owner in themid-1850s.

He had been living and working in Oberlin for about two years when, in the fall of 1858,slavecatchers Anderson Jennings and Richard Mitchell conspired to kidnap Price andbring him back to his Kentucky master. With the help of a few locals (not everyone inOberlin was an abolitionist), on September 13, 1858 the slave catchers lured Price out ofOberlin with the promise of work.

Armed with weapons and a warrant, Mitchell, federal marshal Jacob Lowe, and his

assistant Samuel Davis forced Price into their carriage. They then drove him eight milessouth to Wellington, Ohio to catch the 5:13 p.m. southbound train.

News of John Prices kidnapping spread quickly in downtown Oberlin as townspeople,students, and professors rallied together in response.

They have carried off one of our men in broad daylight, and are an hour on their wayalready! shouted one outraged citizen.


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The Kidnapping Of John Price And The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

Side view of Wadsworths Hotel in Wellington, Ohio (Courtesy of Oberlin College Archives)

White and black Oberlinians hurried the eight miles to Wellington in wagons,buggies, carriages, and some even on foot to rescue Price from slavery.

When John H. Scott went to his neighbor, Mrs. Oliver P. Ryder, to borrow a horse shetold him, If necessary, spare not the life of my beast, but rescue the boy.

John Watson, a black store owner in Oberlin, arrived in Wellington first.

Soon between 200 and 500 men crowded the streets around the Wadsworth Hotelwhere the slavecatchers held Price.

The crowd began to shout back and forth with the captors, disputing the legality of thecapture and demanding to hear from Price himself.

Many in the crowd were determined to free Price, whatever the law orconsequences.

Charles Langston, a black school teacher, moved through the crowd trying to calm thearmed protesters.

When the southbound train arrived, the situation grew urgent and the crowd began toforce their way into the hotel.


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In the confusion that followed, Price escaped with the help of men who had been tryingto negotiate with the captors. Energized by the success of the rescue, Oberlin residentsparaded back from Wellington, shouting, singing, rejoicing in the glad results.

Price first hid in the home of James Fitch, but then moved because Fitch was a knownagent of the Underground Railroad. Fitch and Professor James Monroe approachedOberlin College professor James Fairchild, who was known as a more conservative, law-abiding citizen. Fairchild disapproved of slavery and agreed to house Price until he wasable to continue north.

As the rescuers had hoped, no one came to search Fairchilds home. With the help ofothers, John Price probably made his way into Canada. Unfortunately, the story of hislife after the rescue is lost to us today.

The Trial Of The Rescuers

Jubilant spirits in Oberlin dimmed when thirty-seven of the Rescuers, both black andwhite, were charged with breaking federal law. Twenty-five of the men were fromOberlin and twelve were from Wellington.

Ever defiant and trusting in the right of a higher law, many of the accused and theirwives attended a Felons Feast on January 11, 1859. Sixty-four guests dined while theOberlin String Band played. The night was filled with speeches, toasts, spirited criticismof slavery, and a few jokes as well.

The town had less to cheer about in the following months as the lengthy trials began andthe Rescuers were remanded to jail for their refusal to post bond. They had little chanceof escaping legal punishment with a Cleveland-based jury entirely formed of Democratswho opposed abolition.

Their lawyers used the trial to speak about the horrors of slavery and to persuade peopleto support the Republican cause. Two of the defendants sold 5,000 copies of theirnewspaper The Rescuer from inside the jail.

Rescuers Simeon Bushnell and Charles Langston were eventually convicted of violatingthe Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Bushnells sentiments likely matched those of his fellow prisoners when he wrote,They may do their worst, & when I am again out, I will rescue the first slave I get achance to rescue.

On May 24, 1859 thousands of people crowded into Clevelands Public Square tosupport the Rescuers.

Court costs continued to mount and the legal tangle intensified when the Rescuerssupporters arranged for the arrest of the slave catchers on kidnapping charges in LorainCounty. A deal was finally negotiated and the Rescuers were released on July 6, 1859,eighty-three days after being imprisoned.


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John Scott was an Oberlin harness and trunk maker and one of twelve black men who werecharged with breaking the law by participating in the Rescue. (Courtesy of Oberlin CollegeArchives)

Most Oberlin residents were proud of their participation in the Rescue and the continuedreputation of the community as a safe haven for all men and women, regardless of color.So strong was their belief in a higher law that many were surprised when Bushnell andLangston were found guilty. They saw the trial as a sham and moral outrage, and largenumbers of their fellow Northerners agreed.

However, others in the North as well as the South felt the arrests and trial had been justified. By harboring fugitive slaves, Oberlin residents had been breaking the law foryears.

What would happen if everyone began disobeying the laws of the state or nationbecause they followed a higher law? While Oberlin residents saw themselves asunwaveringly in the right, many outsiders thought they were arrogant idealists who werepushing the nation towards war.

For the black men and women living in Oberlin, free and fugitive, abstract debatesover the law mattered less than the immediate necessity of ensuring their ownsafety and the safety of their families and friends.

Yet they also recognized that fundamental principles were at stake.

After being tried and found guilty, Charles Langston gave a speech to the court thateloquently expressed his belief in universal human rights:


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I must take upon myself the responsibility of self-protection; when I come to beclaimed by some perjured wretch as his slave, I shall never be taken into slavery.

And as in that trying hour I would have others do to me, as I would call upon myfriends to help me, as I would call upon you, your Honor, to help me, as I wouldcall upon you (the prosecuting and defense attorneys) to help me, and upon youand upon you, so help me God! I stand here to say that I will do all I can for anyman thus seized and held!

. . . We have all a common humanity, and you all would do that; your manhoodwould require it, and no matter what the laws might be, you would honor yourselffor doing it, while your friends and your children to all generations would honoryou for doing it, and every good and honest man would say you had done right!

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Nothing New Here:Another Citizen Executed By Seattle

Scum In Blue:"In What Moral Universe Does A ManCarrying A Piece Of Wood And A Three-Inch Fishing Knife Find Himself Stopped

By Police And, Without Any ApparentProvocation, Get Shot Dead On The

Spot?"

KATU

September 8, 2010 By Amy Smith, Socialist Worker [Excerpts]

A HOMELESS Native American man named John T. Williams became the latest victim

of the brutal Seattle police when an officer shot him four times on August 30, killing himon the spot.

In what the Seattle Times called "an unusual cluster of recent incidents in which police inthe region have shot suspects," Seattle-area residents had six violent encounters withpolice in a six-day period spanning the end of August and beginning of September--andfive times, the incidents turned out deadly.


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Seattle police officer Ian Birk says that when he saw John Williams holding a knife andpiece of wood on the corner of Boren Avenue and Howell Street downtown, he stoppedhis car, switched on his emergency lights and stepped out to confront the man. Aftertelling Williams to drop the knife three times, Birk fired four rounds at Williams fromapproximately 10 feet away, killing the homeless man. The entire reportedly incidentlasted about a minute.

On the day of the shooting, Seattle Police Department spokeswoman Renee Witt said,"The male stood up and made advances toward the officer. The officer yelled very loudcommands for the gentleman to stop and to drop the knife, at which point he did not."

But witnesses tell it differently.

"When I heard that story, I was really upset because it was just total counter to what Iwitnessed," one onlooker told King 5 News.

According to this witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Thomas,Williams was actually walking away from Officer Birk.

Thomas reports that the bullets must have gone into Williams side and back because henever turned around. Another witness, Gregory Reese, remembers seeing Williamsturn, but said that he didnt move toward the officer or pose a threat.

FRIENDS, FAMILY and acquaintances of Williams have all come forward in the pastweek to say that Williams may not have even heard the officers demands.

"I wonder if the officer knew he was hard of hearing; he told me he could not hear out ofone ear," said a local business owner acquainted with Williams. "If it was my guess, Iwould just say he was standing there and the officer was trying to get his attention andJohn didnt hear him."

In addition, Williams had a drinking problem, which often made him slow to respond orunderstand what was going on.

The weapon that allegedly posed such a threat to Officer Birk was a knife with a three-inch blade that Williams used to carve wood.

Williams was a Ditidaht member of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations, a native group thatforms a small community on the west coast of Vancouver Island. He was a regular atthe Chief Seattle Club, a nonprofit group that provides meals and services to NativeAmerican and First Nations people.

Williams was also a seventh-generation carver--thats why he was carrying theknife and the wood.

He often carved miniature totem poles that he sold to buy food, and sometimes alcohol--but also to buy food and gifts for his friends. According to friends of Williams, the day hedied, he was on his way to sell his art at Pike Place Market.

Immediately following the shooting, an unnamed homeless man approached Williamsbody, clearly upset, angry and frightened.


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Other police officers on the scene ordered the man to show his hands, and when hedidnt move fast enough, they wrestled him to the ground and arrested him.

The people of Seattle have responded to this terrible act committed by the police.

On September 2, more than 200 community members turned out for a candlelight vigil tocelebrate the life and mourn the loss of John Williams.

In a news conference the next day, Native American and Canadian First Nations leaderscalled for a full investigation into the shooting, and also demanded that the departmentchange the way it relates to Native American communities.

"This tragedy should never have happened," Jenine Grey, director of the ChiefSeattle Club, said. "We are worried about our most vulnerable communitymembers who suffer regular harassment and abuse on the streets of Seattle."

Grey added that, in a city named for an Indian chief, it was incredible that a NativeAmerican man carving wood could be perceived as a threat.

"In what moral universe does a man carrying a piece of wood and a three-inch fishingknife find himself stopped by police and, without any apparent provocation, get shotdead on the spot?" asked Tim Harris, director of Seattles homeless newspaper RealChange. "A universe in which the lives of the very poor have little to no value."

Harris concluded, "In Seattle today, to be poor, to have no social status, is to live in fear;to have ones own utter expendability pressed up against ones nose."

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS has been true for a long time, and the use of excessive forcehas become the norm for the Seattle Police Department (SPD).

In June, video was released of a Seattle police officer punching a 17-year-oldAfrican American woman in the face during a stop for jaywalking.

In April, Seattle police officer Shandy Cobane was filmed stomping on a MexicanAmerican man and telling him that he was going to "beat the fucking Mexican pissout of you, homey. You feel me?" while other officers watched.

Shortly afterward, the officers realized that the man being detained wasntconnected to the assault that the police had allegedly stopped them for.

These incidents are just the most recent and notable incidents committed by a police

force that is violent and racist to its core.

A look at who is arrested in Seattle exposes the SPDs targeting of racial minorities.According to a report by the Marijuana Policy Review Panel, African American menrepresented 57 percent of all marijuana suspects in a city that is only 8 percent Black.

And an investigation by the Seattle Post Intelligencer reported that AfricanAmericans in Seattle are arrested for "obstructing an officer" eight times as oftenas whites.


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"At this time, our community seems to be in an abusive relationship with lawenforcement," Seattle/King County NAACP President James Bible told the SeattleMedium. "Were living in a hostile environment for people of color, and a hostileenvironment for people in poverty."

Unnecessary violence committed by Seattle police is increasing--and affecting morepeople. The American Civil Liberties Union reports a clear trend in reports from the Cityof Seattles Office of Professional Accountability:

It is distressing to see how many of the excessive force complaints begin withminor street confrontations: over jaywalking, possible impound of a car, or even,in one case, refusal to show an officer a "receptacle" for disposing of dog waste.

Citizens often do not show officers respect or attention when confronted over suchminor offenses. When they verbally challenge or disregard orders given, it often leadsofficers to respond more harshly than warranted. I made comments about theseunderlying situations in 10 different cases.

In four of them, the physical situation developed with witnesses, rather than or inaddition to, suspects.

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