National Bar Asso Open Records Request - 25 Cities

Look, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin Memphis' records will be examined by the National Bar Association. I suppose they will omit their secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal again. They always do omit his name. The USDOJ allowed Memphis officials to do that repeatedly - even in the jail's release hearings. In 2008, Vice President Dick Chaney and former Attorney General Antonio Gonzales were indicted for deliberately withholding federal investigations into inmates' murders in exchange for prison stock and other good and valuable consideration in Wallacy County, TX. I think it is traditional for subsequent U.S. Attorney Generals to hide the sins of previous administrations.

I will send the Bar Association a certified letter and let them know that Shelby County, TN Gov. has been excused by the USDOJ from giving any accountability for Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder. I will let you know how valid this interest in justice shown by the National Bar Association really is after they respond or fail to respond to my correspondence. It seems to me that the entire USA is in on Larry Neal's murder cover-up. The problem is that so many people have participated in his murder coverup by now (eleven years later), that everyone has a conflict of interest in promoting justice in his case. See the press release below, and be sure to contact the Nat. Bar. Asso. about the 23 deaths by Memphis Police that happened between 2012 and 2013. If not, Memphis is sure to hide some. You know how they are in Bluff City.

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National Bar Association
August 25, 2014

communications@nationalbar.org

NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS TO 25 CITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES

Washington, DC — Pamela J. Meanes, President of the National Bar Association, announces the top 25 cities that the organization will send open records requests in an effort to end nationwide police misconduct and brutality cases that result in the deaths of unarmed individuals.

On September 1, 2014, the National Bar Association will begin filing open records requests in 25 cities that have been identified as having an alleged history of police misconduct and brutality cases. The open records requests will seek information regarding the number of individuals who have been killed, racially profiled, wrongfully arrested and/or injured while pursued or in police custody.

The cities that have been identified include: Birmingham, AL, Little Rock, AR, Phoenix, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; San Jose, CA; Washington, DC; Jacksonville, FL; Miami, FL; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Louisville, KY; Baltimore, MD; Detroit, MI; Kanas City, MO; St. Louis, MO; Charlotte, NC; Las Vegas, NV; New York City, NY; Cleveland, OH; Memphis, TN; Philadelphia, PA; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX and Milwaukee, WI.

In addition, the National Bar Association will send a “Preservation of Evidence” notice to all necessary entities requesting that they preserve all police officers' raw notes of statements, observations and data collected from the scene of an incident. This request will also require information on the officer specifically involved and all responding officers, as well as the officers’ detail logs from the crime scene, and video and photographic evidence related to any alleged and/or proven misconduct by current or former employees.

The National Bar Association will release its findings to the public and will submit copies to the Department of Justice. More importantly, the organization will demand the Department of Justice launch a full investigation and request a federal oversight of the cities that have been identified with problems.

The organization will also begin to host various seminars for the public next month entitled, “Know Your Rights, Because It Could Save Your Life”. These seminars are aimed to educate the public on their rights when encountering police.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
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Memphis Police Brutality

Duanna Johnson refused to answer to, "Hey, he/she, come here." The transgender person was savagely beaten in 2008 and sprayed with toxins in the intake area of Memphis Shelby County Jail. Her abuser threatened to sue over his bruised hand, where he claimed receiving an on-the-job injury "subduing" Duanna. A few months later, Duanna was murdered execution style right before the time expired to file her police brutality lawsuit. That is the jail where mentally challenged Larry Neal was secretly arrested for 18 days until his secret death. Police seemingly have low tolerance for anyone "different" in Memphis. Police Beating A TG Who Was Murdered

For people who read my articles and wonder how it was possible for Memphis police officers to kidnap a lifelong mentally ill heart patient named Larry Neal in 2003, hold him in jail for 18 days while denying to his family that he was in custody, then kill him without accountability, please observe the attitude of the police officers who watched Duanna's abuse. If the cops had decided to kill her right then (rather than later?), would any of the other officers have cared or intervened? See Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com for the website about my brother.

Below is an email from JoNina Ervin, acting chairperson of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, a police oversight organization. She writes regarding recent police killings in Memphis, including a man who was fatally shot while sleeping in his car.

Hello,

The two white Memphis cops who shot a 24-year-old black man to death on Jan. 17 of this year after he had fallen asleep in his car will not be prosecuted and have returned to active duty.

The autopsy report on Steven Askew and the Memphis Police Dept.'s internal affairs report of his death were released last week to the news media--seven months after Askew was killed while sleeping in his car waiting for his girlfriend to come home from work. In a blatant effort to discredit a lawsuit that the Askew family is expected to file against the MPD, the medical examiner claims that at the time of his death, Askew was legally drunk, had marijuana in his system, and pointed a gun at MPD officers Ned Aufdenkamp and Matthew Dyess, who shot Askew to death. Askew had a permit to carry a gun.

It is important to know that Aufdenkamp and Dyess were called to the apartment complex where Askew's girlfriend lived to investigate a disturbance. The cops admit Askew was asleep, so it's unlikely he was the cause of the disturbance. Why then did the cops bother him?

What exists in Memphis is a clear-cut pattern of conspiracy between the MPD and the medical examiner's office to discredit the character of people shot to death by the police in order to cover up the true circumstances of their deaths and to discourage the families of the victims from suing the police.

The cover-up of Steven Askew's death is at least the third time in a year that the MPD and the medical examiner's office have engaged in this kind of conspiracy and cover-up. Lorenzo Davis, 28, was beaten to death by MPD officers on July 3, 2012. After family members of Davis questioned the circumstances of his death, the medical examiner released an autopsy report claiming that Davis died of a cocaine overdose, which caused him to resist arrest and sustain injuries from the police.

On April 5, of this year, George Golden, 42, died from injuries he sustained on March 27 after he was shot, kicked and beaten by two Memphis police officers who claimed he was shoplifting from a Walmart store. After Golden's family hired a lawyer and threatened to sue the cops, the medical examiner released an autopsy report which alleged cocaine "intoxication" was a major cause of Golden's death.

The only way to get at the truth of the deaths of Steven Askew, Lorenzo Davis and George Golden is for coroner's inquests to be held in each of the three cases. At an inquest, the police who killed these three men can be required to testify under oath. In Tennessee, two people who believe a person died under suspicious or questionable circumstances may ask for a coroner's inquest. The people requesting an inquest can be, but do not have to be related to the deceased. You do not have to be a lawyer to ask for an inquest.

Anyone who is interested in getting coroner's inquests into the deaths of any of the 21 people killed by Memphis police since February 2012, may contact the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation at (901)674-8430 or email
organize.the.hood@gmail.com.

Peace and love,
JoNina Ervin, Acting Chair
Memphis Black Autonomy Federation

Four (4) References:

http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

http://youtu.be/-IAPTk69XPo

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/aug/12/internal-affairs-report-details-fatal-shooting/

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/aug/09/district-attorney-will-not-prosecute-memphis-in/

If JoNina Ervin and others really think inquests and a federal investigation would curb police violence in Memphis, they apparently have not been reading my articles. Larry Neal was secretly arrested and killed AFTER the jail was already investigated by the feds, found wanting, and put under the United States Department of Justice's direct oversight. Rather than rendering justice, the applied solution has been to censor and terrorize my family and me - for ten years and counting.