WCCO 4 (CBS) Television fails in journalistic integrity with “edited and spliced” tape of the Minneapolis Police Beating of Ira Stafford…rating F-
People that like honest and factual reporting can watch the full un-edited squad car video of the Minneapolis Police beating of Ira Stafford on Sunday, March 7, 2010 on the Black Focus Show hosted by Ron Edwards on channel 17 (Minneapolis Television Network) at 5 p.m. – this broadcast of the real tape will prove that WCCO 4 is nothing more than a self-masturbating, fluff station that obstructs viewers from factual data when it comes to the Black community. CBS needs to change the content manager at the station (and a few reporters).
Minneapolis (IBNN)…At 4: 22 a.m. on August 14, 2009 Ira Stafford, a resident of north Minneapolis was stopped by Minneapolis Police Officers on Lowry and Bryant north for his brake lights not working. (On 10/08/09 charges against Mr. Stafford were dismissed.)
Squad 425’s camera show’s a different account of what happened to Mr. Stafford then what WCCO channel 4 showed to its viewers at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
WCCO has posted their version on the WCCO.com website titled, “Mpls. Police Officials Investigate Traffic Arrest,” as reported by Caroline Lowe. We want to remind readers that this is the same reporter who was given “leaked” information about the Minneapolis police overtime controversy who squashed any public reporting of the heinous administrative practices of the MPD.
The fact is, WCCO 4 downplayed what really happen on the night of August 14, 2010. The video that will be played Sunday on Black Focus from squad car 425 shows that Mr. Stafford’s taillights and brake lights clearly were in working order. The tape will also show a Black man who was beaten, tasered and yelled, “Why are all you White police man beating me,” – and answered, “There’s a Hmong officer here too!”
WCCO Channel 4, a CBS wholly owned station continues show only parts of the story. By “downplaying” and obstructing factual data to its viewers WCCO 4 again has been rated by African-Americans (and Friends) Against Mainstream Media F- on reporting in and about the Black community and its continued effort to address police brutality to include the murders of Quincy Smith and Fong Lee.
WCCO 4 Television makes it easy for news items in the Black community are stuffed under a rug without any fairness in reporting or journalistic integrity. I guess that’s why they make the big bucks… Read more
Michael Jordan won’t be reappointed as civil rights director for Minneapolis. Are we suppose to like Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak now?
This video tells the “whole” story!
“The Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights has not been a community player since 1998. The investigators have a high sense of “southern stratification” and frown on serving the poor and misrepresented in Minneapolis.”
From the murder of Fong Lee to the taser death of Quincy Smith by the Minneapolis Police Department, the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights “leadership” and “investigators” barley lifted a finger until R.T. Rybak and Betsy Hodge’s proposed cut of the MDCR Investigative unit. Cases that automatically should have been on the radar of the MDCR went ignored.
“LEADERSHIP.”
On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 as reported by Steve Brandt, Michael Jordan won’t be reappointed as civil rights director for Minneapolis.
Under Michael Jordan’s “leadership,” the department has seen a rise in inner-office relationships; promotions for the least qualified – but most cooperative, and a long series of “oversights” by the departments lack of wanting to assist the community.
“Most of the time I walk in there, they (the investigators) look at me like I’m a germ. They treat me like I’m stupid and have always made it very hard for me to file my case,” says Terry Drakes of Minneapolis.
Mr. Drakes was one of the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights cases that IBNN alleges was mishandled, under handled and for the most part given to someone to work on with no experience – like the Fong Lee case.
Terry, who was an employee at the Rainbow Foods on 26th and Lake Street in Minneapolis who’s job was to push the shopping carts from the parking lot back into the store was injured on the job. During his tenure at Rainbow Foods it became evident to Mr. Drake that the company wanted him out. A long time Rainbow Foods shopper reported to the manager that Terry cut her off in the parking lot with his row of carts. The shopper spit in Mr. Drakes face and called him a Nigger. Terry reported this incident to management and things got worse.
Co-workers accused Drakes of waiting in his car with a gun planning to shoot a co-worker. The fact is – Mr. Drakes hasn’t owned a car or driven for over 20 years.
Rainbow released Mr. Drakes.
Mr. Drakes filed a claim over 4 years ago with the MDCR – he’s been hit with “by the book tactics” and a less than cooperative investigation staff.
58-year-old Terry Drakes is a disabled man. On one visit to the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights, Drakes was escorted by City Hall security to the civil rights office and then escorted out. The next morning, Minneapolis Police arrived at Mr. Drakes house and arrested him for “terroristic threats” against the MDCR investigators.
Mr. Drakes was released from the Hennepin County Jail with no charges. Mr. Drakes was set up by MDCR Investigative employees – remember, Drakes was escorted by security in and out of the building, there was no threats made.
Drakes said, “I asked the guard: did I threaten anyone?” Drakes said the guard told him “no.”
Sources tell IBNN that Michael Jordan made the call to have him arrested to “get rid of him” from bothering the investigators.
Terry says, “It’s been real hard for me. I’ve been trying to get someone to listen to me for more than 4-years. I have been eating oatmeal everyday for the last month and I’m getting ready to lose my apartment. What Michael Jordan and those ladies did to me was wrong. All I wanted to do was work and they made my life a living shit hell.”
This is just one of many examples of the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights Investigative Units intended over-sights under the leadership of Michael Jordan and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak.
For Terry Drakes: His case was found to have “no probable cause.”
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