#police-brutality

#police-brutality

Guards at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday. The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami's Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge's order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands. The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for freedom after one received news a relative had died, according to the outlet. A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.

Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 raid that caused the death of Breonna Taylor.

Brown suffered the first of many seizures in Santa Rita Jail when she was 20. During her incarceration, she'd passed out in her cell dozens of times, lost the use of her legs and repeatedly begged to go to a hospital.

Today's legacy of video documentation against injustice continues as Latino organizers utilize smartphones to document ICE raids and family separations, serving as critical evidence and resistance.

This brutality included beating and kicking prisoners; gouging eyes; grabbing testicles; smashing faces into the ground or wall; deploying Taser guns, pepper ball guns, and other chemical agents; and order K9s to menace and bite prisoners.

The incident has sparked community outrage, with Erin's family demanding accountability and transparency in the police's use of force during the arrest.

Dominik Moll's 'Dossier 137' effectively highlights the consequences of police brutality in France, using a gripping narrative focused on the investigation of a protest-related injury.