A Sickness that dwells within the sub-military police force

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08/09/2013

Sadistic joy in watching young men suffer, results in death

Hernandez's friends Felix Fernandez and Thiago Souza said they were serving as lookouts when he was spotted by police.
They told WSVN officers shoved Hernandez against a wall, then high-fived as he lay motionless.

“He was on the ground and the cops were making jokes,” said 19-year-old Thiago Souza.

"That made me feel terrible inside. These cops are gruesome, and they don't really care," Fernandez said.

Tracy West, a parent who knew Hernández-Llach well, said he was a “fantastic person and artist.” He was very thin,
almost fragile, she said, hardly capable of posing a threat to police.

“He had been warned before by police that if they caught him again they would beat the s--- out of him,’’ West said.
“He could not have done anything. All he thought about was art.’’

Good Morning America reports the police were laughing about how Henandez's body stiffened from the taser.

They tortured him to death. They changed their story, again. GMA reports that they did it because he was running toward them.

Israel Hernandez-Llach, just turned 18 years old. Killed for creating art on an abandoned building.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/07/3548779_p2/graffiti-artist-dies-after-tasering.html

What did they promise, before the police were given tasers to use ?

 

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08.08.13

Welcome to Miami

On Thursday evening, a crowd of about 100 people gathered at 71st and Collins to remember Hernandez-Llach. They spray-painted
“R.I.P. Israel’’ on the boarded-up building where he had painted his last tag — “Reefa’’ — and chanted “No Justice, no peace.’’

Hernandez-Llach’s last mural, on a shuttered McDonald’s at 71st Street and Collins Avenue, now mirrors his unfinished life,
one his art teachers say was filled with promise.

At five-foot-six and 150 pounds, Hernandez-Llach hardly posed a threat to anyone, friends said.

Policeman on scene was overheard, he said- ‘you should have seen how funny it was when his butt clenched when he got Tased’

Souza and his friend Felix Fernandez were taken to the police station, where officers seized their cellphones and questioned them.
Eventually, their phones were returned. Souza said he was too afraid of police to take photographs or video of the incident.

“This is the latest in a long, tragic series of incidents in which the Miami Beach Police Department appears to have used excessive,
disproportionate or lethal force.’’

“Unfortunately, the Miami Beach police also have a troubling track record of a lack of transparency after such incidents.’’

- Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/08/3551642_p2/miami-beach-cop-put-on-leave-after.html