This morning, I shared an email I received the other day from a man who started a petition on Signon.org. His father was killed by police, and no one seemed to care….
On November 19, 2011, my father, 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., was shot and killed in his home in White Plains, New York.
My father was a 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections and proudly served the United States of America as a Marine. He stood about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and he suffered from a heart condition.
The events that led to his killing began around 5 a.m., when his medical alert device was accidentally set off, sending a call to the City of White Plains Department of Public Safety. Everything that happened after that was recorded by an audio device installed in my father’s home as part of his medical alert system.
When the police arrived at my father’s home, he and the staff for his medical alert service told them that there was no medical emergency and asked them to leave. And yet they insisted that my father let them into his home, banging loudly on my father’s door for over an hour. On the recording, the police can be heard calling my father a “nigger.”
Ultimately they broke through his apartment door and first shot him with a Taser. He was wearing nothing but boxer shorts when the police began their assault against him. Shortly after that, he was shot with two 40-caliber rounds and killed.
My family is asking the Westchester County District Attorney to bring a criminal indictment, and we call on the United States Department of Justice or the New York State Attorney General to prosecute this as a hate crime.
Will you sign our petition? Click here to sign and please share with your friends:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=273615&id=38418-17230067-2KioFrx&t=3
Unbelievable, huh? But the bullets keep on coming.
My pal Cliff Schecter – pundit, author, columnist, pr and media maven (WeActRadio) joined me to discuss the sad trend. We talked about Trayvon Martin and yesterday’s tragic shooting spree near Oakland, in which seven people were shot dead by a disgruntled former student. Cliff wrote about the horrific tragedies in his latest piece for Al Jazeera English, “Unarmed and Dangerous?”
If it’s Tuesday, it’s GottaLaff from The Political Carnival. Today, she brought us these gems…
VIDEO- Trayvon Martin BLUNT: Noyz in the Hood
That’s what SHE said: Ann Romney re: Mitt Romney being “stiff”, “We better unzip him…”
VIDEO- WRONG, Rick Santorum: “Seven or eight of the CA system of universities don’t even teach an American history course.”
VIDEO: Justice Scalia reciting GOP talking points during “Obamacare” argument
Reaction to Current TV’s firing of Keith Olbermann
Federal authorities open investigation into Wisconsin activities of Herman Cain’s chain-smoking pal, Mark Block
GOP Rep. Aaron “hottest congressman” Schock accused of using campaign funds on workout DVDs
“Dire predictions of ‘rampant signature fraud’ and ‘floods’ of phony signatures have been proven false” in Wisconsin recall
New Low- Deadbeat Dad Rep. Joe Walsh insults veteran Tammy Duckworth: “Female, wounded veteran … ehhh.”