A Nashville Pig killed a black man by shooting him in the back. The pigs then lie about the details…

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http://www.wral.com/video-shifts-initial-view-of-fatal-nashville-police-shooting/16529143/
Video shifts initial view of fatal Nashville police shooting

By JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn.

Newly obtained surveillance video has caused Nashville police to revise their account of a traffic stop on Friday that ended with a white officer shooting and killing an armed African-American man.

Police say footage first made available Tuesday shows there was no initial physical confrontation between Jocques Scott Clemmons and Nashville Officer Josh Lippert right after Clemmons ran a stop sign and they both exited their cars.

Based on a different video, police first believed Clemmons "abruptly charged at Officer Lippert, making full contact with his body."

Instead, the latest video angle shows Clemmons ran toward Lippert to get around him, stopped short of the officer, and then turned around and ran in the opposite direction, police said.

In a follow pursuit by the officer Clemmons, 31, refused orders to drop the loaded pistol before Lippert fired at him, police said.

The new information comes amid outcry from Clemmons' family questioning the police's claims and the officer's actions. A protest march through downtown Nashville is planned for Tuesday evening.


"As part of the full and accountable investigation into this matter, it is important that the community know of this new development," Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said in a news release. "The investigation is active and progressing. We are engaging with the FBI. Citizens have my assurance that the investigation will be fair, objective and complete."

Police were initially depending on a surveillance tape from Friday that was filmed further away and from a different angle that "created the impression of contact" between the two men.

Surveillance video released by police appears to show that, after a scuffle, Clemmons was moving away with his back turned to Officer Lippert when Clemmons was shot. Clemmons appeared to be trying to get in between two parked cars. He was shot in the back and died at the hospital Friday.

Lippert has been suspended 20 days over his five years as a Nashville officer. Some of those were in incidents where he used force, according to his personnel file.

Lippert used physical force to take a person out of a car during an October 2015 traffic stop, earning him an eight-day suspension, records show. Lippert's decision to use force "unnecessarily escalated the encounter when the motorist had indicated he was willing to voluntarily step from the car if a supervisor was present," a disciplinary report states.

In June 2013 outside a Nashville bar, Lippert punched in the face and pepper sprayed a ? man who had begun fighting with him after Lippert decided to switch out the handcuffs on the man.

Lippert's "actions created the necessity to use force against an intoxicated subject," according to a disciplinary report that suspended him for three vacation days.


The shooting death of Clemmons has heightened calls from the NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union for quick action on implementing city plans to equip Nashville police with body cameras. Mayor Megan Barry plans to ask for $12 million for the cameras in the 2017-18 budget.

Additionally, ACLU of Tennessee is asking for the formation of "an independent civilian review board, with robust power to investigate and hold law enforcement accountable."

U.S. Attorney David Rivera has said his office will work with the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in monitoring the case.



http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/02/14/what-we-know-investigation-into-jocques-clemmons-death/97886482/
Who's involved in the investigation?

The office of District Attorney Glenn Funk is investigating and the FBI is monitoring the Metro Nashville Police Department's ongoing investigation into a deadly officer-involved shooting on Friday at Cayce Homes. The FBI will come to their own conclusion about the investigation independently of Metro Police.

“The investigation is active and progressing. We are engaging with the FBI," Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson said in a statement on Tuesday. "Citizens have my assurance that the investigation will be fair, objective and complete."

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee and the NCAAP Nashville the Nashville Branch of the NAACP have both called for the investigation to be immediate and transparent investigation. Additionally, the NAACP called for body cameras for Metro police, which Mayor Megan Barry committed to funding in October of 2016.
What we know of the incident

At 12:55 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 10, Lippert approached Clemmons after a failure to observe a stop sign. Clemmons, driving a gray SUV, pulled into a parking lot on South Sixth Street in front of the James A. Cayce Homes parking lot. Lippert, driving in an unmarked police car, pulled into the parking lot driveway behind the SUV.

Police said the uniformed patrol officer walked up to Clemmons, who was stepping out of his SUV, to talk to him about the traffic violation. Citing MDHA footage, Police initially said Clemmons body-checked officer Lippert but footage released by police on Tuesday shows Clemmons attempting to run past the officer and doubling back and running the other way with Lippert in pursuit.

The new video was not available to police until Monday due to a broken Metro Development and Housing Agency computer server, police said.

The new, which video shows Clemmons go toward Officer Lippert and stop just short of him, then try to run around him, according to police. The new video was not available until Monday due to a broken Metro Development and Housing Agency computer server, according to police. Jaime Cardenas / Tennessean / Wochit

Police said Clemmons appeared to be holding something in his waistband during the chase. When the officer caught up with his suspect, the two struggled again, and a fully loaded .357 Magnum dropped onto the concrete.

At one point, Clemmons had a gun in his hand and refused to drop it when Lippert told him to, police said. Lippert believed he was in danger and opened fire, police said. Clemmons was struck twice in the lower back and once in his left hip, police said. He later died in surgery.

The entire incident lasted just over one minute.

In a statement, police speculated that, since it's illegal to carry a weapon after being convicted of a felony, Clemmons may have tried to run because he was on probation.
Nashville NAACP President Ludye N. Wallace:

"We value the efforts of police when they are serving and protecting, however, we will not standby and allow disproportionate violence against African Americans. We need an immediate and transparent, complete and expedient investigation that is led by the district attorney and even, if necessary, federal agencies."

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  • stringer bell
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    http://fox17.com/news/local/justice-for-jocques-march-blocks-broadway-intersection
    Justice for Jocques' march blocks Broadway intersection

    The 'Justice for Jocques' march blocked a Broadway intersection Tuesday night.

    Organizers brought the group together in response to the deadly officer-involved shooting Friday night that killed 31-year-old Jocques Clemmons.

    The Facebook page for the march reads:

    "Mayor Megan Barry and Metro Nashville Police Department have prided themselves in saying that Nashville, the "It City", is not like other cities blatantly ignoring the cries of black Nashville residents saying that Nashville is no different. It's been WAY too quiet in Nashville in response to Jocques' murder. It's time to turn up in the city and say until we get justice there will be NO PEACE."

    The march began at the corner of 6th & Shelby Avenue, across the street from where Clemmons was shot. The group began with a moment of silence followed by a remembrance of Clemmons.

    "Too many people gathered here today have been saying for entirely too long that Nashville is one bullet away from a hashtag," said one organizer. "And here we are."


    The group then marched through Nashville to City Hall, crossing the pedestrian bridge.

    The crowd blocked the intersection of 3rd Street and Broadway with the crowd chanting "justice for Jocques." The group made a circle around the intersection, held a moment of silence for Clemmons and chanted.

    Metro Police monitored the march throughout the evening.

    Police reported the marchers left the courthouse, moving along the Woodland Street Bridge.

    As of about 8 p.m., the march was still ongoing.









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    I knew it was coming in tha Ville eventually. Smh
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    I wonder if this is the friend of the fam my ex told me about...
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  • stringer bell
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    http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2017/02/17/report-lipperts-stop-and-search-history-shows-bias/98072030/
    Metro police records of officer Joshua Lippert's stop and search practices during 2016 show he stopped black drivers at disproportionate rates and searched more drivers than all of his fellow patrol officers, a Nashville-based advocacy group says.

    Gideon's Army, a nonprofit that seeks to guide children away from the prison pipeline, used the same MNPD traffic stop database analyzed in their "Driving While Black" report released four months ago.

    The new report seeks to make public Lippert's work history, saying stopping black motorists at higher rates is part of a larger departmental problem. Gideon's Army argues that a culture of biased policing contributed to Jocques Clemmons' decision to run away from Lippert, and ultimately, to Clemmons' death.

    Lippert fatally shot Clemmons, a 31-year-old Nashville resident, in a James A. Cayce Homes parking lot after a traffic stop and pursuit last week, according to police. Clemmons ran a stop sign and pulled into the parking lot, according to police, which released surveillance video showing Clemmons running the stop sign. Lippert pulled in behind him. When Clemmons got out of his SUV and saw Lippert, he bolted. Police say he was carrying a gun.

    Lippert is currently on routine administrative duty pending the outcome of the shooting investigation, which the TBI has taken over. His lawyer, John M. L. Brown, said he is focused solely on what happened Feb. 10.

    "Officer Lippert’s vehicle stops in 2016 had nothing to do with the facts and circumstances of that tragic incident, which remains very much under investigation," Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said. "The (report) fails to state that Mr. Clemmons, despite Officer Lippert’s commands, refused to surrender or leave the gun on the ground."

    According to the group's report, 90 percent of the stops Lippert made were of black drivers, a rate that is disproportionate to the black population of any of the census tracts he patrolled. The report finds that Lippert’s rate of stopping black drivers was high even in predominantly white neighborhoods and was 20-50 percent higher than other officers who patrolled the same areas.

    He conducted searches five times more often than officers patrolling the same census tracts, according to Gideon's Army.

    In a response to the report, Metro police argued the advocacy group's analysis of the data is flawed.

    "The MNPD does not assign officers by census tracts," said Metro police spokesman Don Aaron in an email. "Officers are assigned to zones of varying size – and often specific areas within a zone – based on a number of factors, certainly including crime issues, calls for service and traffic issues."

    Aaron said the MNPD has not yet had a chance to analyze the same data.

    U.S. Census tracts take a closer look at neighborhood demographics in Nashville, making the data more reliable than overall census data. Vanderbilt University researcher and statistician Peter Vielehr, who worked with Gideon's Army to produce the report, said using Census tracts allows researchers to better understand racial disparities in context of the neighborhood in which they take place. And it isn't possible to measure population by police zone, he argued.

    "Comparing to Census data cannot show in any individual stop whether an officer used race as the sole reason for a traffic stop, which is the policy definition of biased policing," Vielehr said. "However, persistent disparate racial impact across multiple outcomes, including disciplinary infractions and reports from community members, shows that bias is likely."

    The officer joined the department five years ago and has received several awards for catching dangerous criminals and helping to save lives. But according to police and his personnel file, Lippert also has a history with excessive use of force.

    A year and four months before last week's officer-involved shooting, Lippert pulled over a man named De'Anton Gipson just two blocks away from the incident that led to Clemmons' death.

    Gipson said he was driving home from a relative's Cayce Homes residence when the officer stopped him for failing to turn into the correct lane.

    "It was pleasant in that moment," Gipson said. "I gave him my information. He went back to the squad car. Everything was OK."

    According to police records, Gipson checked out. He didn't have a criminal history and his vehicle was in order. Lippert told him he was in the clear, but he still wanted to search the car.

    Gipson declined consent. Lippert asked him to get out of the vehicle. Gipson, who said he didn't understand what was going on, said no. He said he would get out if Lippert called a supervisor to the scene. Several other patrol officers responded to the scene and they argued with Gipson, records show.

    "They began opening my doors and tried to extract me from my vehicle," Gipson said.

    He fought to stay in his car, which records show had nothing to hide. Gipson knew the officers had neither probable cause nor consent to search his vehicle.

    He said he eventually told them to stop, that he would get out on his own if only they wouldn't slam him on the ground. But, he said, they tackled him anyway.

    "His wrists had cuts due to the handcuffs being too tight," a report of Gipson's statement at the time says. "Officers put shackles on his ankles. Officers slammed his face on a trunk of a police car and searched him."

    He reported the officers, including officer Wesley McClelland, used profanity and racial slurs.

    McClelland fatally shot a man in September last year.

    When Lippert's supervisor was asked afterward what was troubling to him about the incident, he said Lippert should have told Gipson he was free to leave and then asked for consent, but he "pulls the guy out of the vehicle after requesting consent because he thinks that we can pull anyone out of a vehicle.

    "That's pretty much my biggest concern," Metro police Sgt. Gene McCollum said. "The traffic stop had ended and here we are trying to pull someone out and put him on the ground."

    When Gipson heard about Nashville's most recent officer involved shooting, he thought he recognized Lippert but wasn't sure until he read his name.

    "I feel like something should be done. Not just in Tennessee, but across the states in general. We are not treated like American citizens," he said. "We have officers in our neighborhood who are supposed to police us and who may hate us. And I feel like that’s not right."

    In early January, Gideon's Army presented the report to Metro Council’s Public Safety Committee and the Metropolitan Minority Caucus. Metro police were also there to respond.

    There, some criticized Metro police for failing to collaborate with Gideon's Army.

    The more than 200-page report released in October analyzed traffic stop data collected voluntarily by the Metro Nashville Police Department, as well as 22 statements from African-Americans about their interactions with officers.

    Among several findings, the report concluded black and Latino people are stopped more frequently than whites and at disproportionate rates.

    The group has called for the end of the department's Operation Safer Streets program, saying it targets vulnerable communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, and denounced the city's recent $1 million purchase of ballistic armor as a betrayal of a promise not to militarize the police force.

    Operation Safer Streets, a program that is also criticized by the Black Lives Matter movement, is described as a weekend anti-gang enforcement program.
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    Sadly we know how this movie will end.