POLICE BRUTALITY Just Crossed Another Line: Black Woman Committed to Psych Ward

Why are the police going crazy … literally!

SOTN Editor’s Note:
Clearly, there is something VERY wrong with law enforcement throughout the USA.

Whether it is by design, or circumstantial in nature, or both is difficult to say.  However, the reactions of police department administrators across the nation to acts of blatant police brutality tells part of the story.  That the police chiefs routinely look the other way and fail to discipline and/or fire rogue officers reveals a hidden and quite dark agenda.

How do those police chiefs justify this flagrant abuse of power?  They can’t!  Therefore, they are being emboldened by the “system”.  Whether it is the Department of Homeland Security or the state governments or the White House itself, a very powerful entity is empowering law enforcement agencies to act with virtually complete impunity.

This unspoken and unwritten policy of police brutality goes way beyond race.  Although, minorities seem to get abused — and killed — much more often than whites ON A PER CAPITA BASIS.  Black men and women, in particular, are frequently shown a level of disrespect and cruelty in confrontations with the police that are both shocking and unacceptable by any standard.

It has often been said that early America’s plantation system was merely replaced by a prison system after the Civil War.  That so many black women have been jailed — and sometimes dying in a jail cell — for doing absolutely nothing is especially telling.

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‘Not your BMW!’: Woman sues NYC after being forced into psych ward by police, injected with drugs

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RT.com

A black New York woman is suing the city and a hospital after being injected with heavy drugs and forced to spend eight days in a psych ward – all because police did not believe she owned a BMW. She was slapped with a $13,000 hospital bill upon release.

In her first on-camera interview since the incident, the 32-year-old African American banker, Kamilah Brock, told PIX 11 the whole ordeal was a “nightmare.”

Brock was pulled over by police on September 12, 2014, while waiting at a red light in Harlem, according to the lawsuit. An officer asked her why her hands were not on the steering wheel.

She responded: “I was dancing, I am at a light.” She was asked to get out of the car and then taken into custody.

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After arriving at NYPD’s 30th precinct, Brock was held for several hours and then released without charge, but was told she could only pick up her 2003 BMW 325Cl the following day.

However, ensuing events totally spiraled out of control – once Brock returned to ask for her car back, police officers refused to believe that the black woman could be the owner of such a luxurious vehicle.

“I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar,” Brock told PIX 11. “They put me in handcuffs and said they just need to put me in handcuffs to take me to my car. And I said OK, whatever it’s gonna take to get to my car.”

“Then EMS approached me. And they said we’re gonna take you to your car. And I’m like, in an ambulance? I’m going to my car in an ambulance? I was just so confused.”

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Her next destination, however, turned out to be the psychiatric ward at Harlem Hospital, where medical records revealed she was forced to take lithium and injected with powerful sedatives.

“He held onto me and then the doctor stuck me in the arm and I was on a stretcher and I woke up to them taking my clothes off, specifically my underwear,” Brock said. “Then I went back out again. When I woke up the next day, I felt like I was in a nightmare. I didn’t understand why that was happening to me.”

During her eight-day stay, hospital staff tried to force her to deny that she owned the car, that she was a banker, and that US President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter – all true facts.

To make matters worse, Brock was sent a $13,000 medical bill after she was released.

Brock has filed a suit against the City of New York and the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) seeking unspecified damages. She claims that her constitutional rights under the Fourth and 14th Amendments were violated, and that she suffered “unwanted and unwarranted intrusion of her personal integrity, loss of liberty [and] mental anguish.”

Police claim that Brock was “acting irrational, she spoke incoherently and inconsistently, and she ran into the middle of traffic on Eighth Ave,” according to new filings by the city.

According to Brock’s lawyer, Michael Lamonsoff, race played a big part in the case.

“If a white woman was trying to reclaim her BMW impounded by police, would she have been made a victim?” he told the Huffington Post. “Would she have been questioned? Would she have been subject to sarcastic comments? Would she be made to justify who she was in order to ask for help? I don’t think so. I do think race played a part in this.”

http://www.rt.com/usa/315229-police-bmw-woman-psych-ward/

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